Award-winning foundry Pangram Pangram has launched a new online platform to elevate its type collection and foster a thriving community centred on design storytelling.
Pangram Pangram has unveiled a new website that aims to do more than simply sell fonts. The Montreal-based type foundry, known for its modern and meticulously crafted typefaces, has rebuilt its platform from the ground up, prioritising a smoother, more intuitive user experience while letting the fonts themselves take the spotlight.
While Pangram Pangram’s previous site attracted awards and praise for its striking design, Matt Desjardins, founder of the foundry, explains it had outgrown its purpose. “Even though our old site had its moment – it won awards, people loved the look – it just didn’t keep up with where the foundry was heading,” Matt says.
As Pangram Pangram’s library expanded, the community consistently raised feedback that, while the old site looked beautiful, it was tricky to navigate and test the growing range of styles. The redesigned website addresses this head-on, rethinking how people discover, test, and license fonts in a way that feels as premium and considered as the typefaces themselves.
“The goal was to completely rethink how people explore fonts, learn about them, test them, and ultimately license them,” Matt explains. “It had to feel just as premium and crafted as the typefaces themselves.”
At first glance, the site feels pared back and elegant, yet still distinctly Pangram Pangram. That balance was crucial to the design process. “The idea was: let the fonts speak,” Matt says. “So the site needed to be minimal and unobtrusive, no clutter, no distractions, but still feel like us.” Subtle moments of personality – from playful transitions to micro-animations – create just enough warmth without overshadowing the type.
Matt references Dieter Rams’ philosophy of “as little design as possible” as an anchor for the creative approach. By reducing visual noise, the new site becomes a canvas that allows Pangram Pangram’s fonts to shine, drawing users deeper into the foundry’s world.
Interestingly, the redesign also draws from unexpected sources beyond pure digital design. Matt points to editorial influences as a key reference, blending modernist grid systems with a magazine-inspired sense of rhythm and hierarchy.
“There’s a rhythm to the layout that reflects that,” he says. The result feels sophisticated, borrowing from high-end branding and product storytelling to create a curated, almost gallery-like feel.
From a functionality perspective, Pangram Pangram has put a real emphasis on usability. The browsing experience is now more robust and scalable, with enhanced filters, search tools, view modes, and sorting capabilities to help users navigate the expanding library with greater ease. Font pages themselves have been fully reimagined, showcasing far more detailed specimens, alternate glyphs, features, and inspiring usage ideas.
Testing fonts has also become far more dynamic and interactive, thanks to upgraded previews and better live rendering – even for variable fonts – giving designers a much clearer sense of how type will perform in context. When it comes to licensing, Pangram Pangram has introduced simpler, clearer options alongside an expanded Font Starter Pack, offering a generous commercial licence for smaller projects and a bigger suite of fonts and mockups.
The evolution doesn’t stop at functionality, though. The new site also strengthens Pangram Pangram’s mission to nurture a wider design culture. Its growing Journal, now called the Academy, is positioned as a space for storytelling, inspiration, and education.
“Fonts are tools, yes, but they’re also part of a much bigger conversation,” Matt says. Through the Academy, Pangram Pangram can explore designer stories, behind-the-scenes processes, and wider cultural conversations around typography.
Alongside this, the expanded Fonts in Use section celebrates work from across the creative industry that leverages Pangram Pangram typefaces, serving up a fresh dose of community inspiration. As Matt puts it, the aim is to build a true platform, not just a shop window: “We want Pangram Pangram to be more than just a place to buy fonts. It should be a platform for education, inspiration, and community.”
For a foundry whose typefaces already feel thoroughly contemporary and accessible, the new website feels like a natural next step: a place where creative minds can not only discover great type but also take part in a wider, evolving conversation about design. Pangram Pangram has set out to build a more meaningful bridge between its craft and its community, and with a platform as thoughtfully designed as its fonts, it’s well on its way.
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