About

Briefcase offers original Czech productions by authors, who may not wish to set up their own type foundry for the purpose of publishing their fonts. It profiles itself as an independent type foundry, which is be able to offer a wide range of unique fonts, thanks to its extensive author portfolio. Briefcase digitises original font designs, offer original fonts by young authors and help publish older, previously unreleased fonts, created by typographers and graphic designers. The project is a logical extension of the traditional Suitcase Type Foundry, which offers technical excellence of its fonts as its core value.

Briefcase Type Foundry team

Contact 
mail@briefcasetype.com

Instagram & Twitter
@BriefcaseType

Address
Maiselova 25/4
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic

Tomáš Brousil, partner
Tomáš devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. He graduated at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (Type Design and Typography, MgA. 2009) with the project of 96 typefaces of the Tabac typeface. He founded his own Suitcase Type Foundry serving as an outlet for his creative work. He is serving as a pedagogue at the Type Design and Typography department of the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. He is also a member of editorial and design team of the TYPO9010 book.

Radek Sidun, partner
Radek Sidun (1980) devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. His graduation thesis at the UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design dealt with the issue of diacritics in world languages. As a result, he is a sought-after consultant to font designers and type foundries worldwide. He’s served as a pedagogue at the Type Design and Typography studio of the UMPRUM Academy in Prague. He lectures on contemporary typography and its recent history at the same institution.
Together with Tomáš Brousil, he founded Briefcase Type Foundry in 2012. He has received several awards for his projects, such as a Gold Medal at the European Design Awards 2013 and, lately, the Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2014 by the Type Directors Club for BC News, which he designed and edited. He is a member of the editorial team of the award-winning book TYPO9010 (2015), co-author of the book Jaroslav Benda 1882-1970: Typographic Design and Typeface (2019) and author of the publication Manual of Diacritics: Case studies of newly designed accents for contemporary typefaces (2021).
He regularly lectures at international and domestic design and typography festivals.

Petra Dočekalová, partner
Petra finished her PhD studies on Fostering Increased Appreciation for Handwriting, Penmanship, and a Personal Handwriting Style at the Type Design and Typography studio at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2020. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Briefcase Type Foundry. She is focused on editorial work such as the Typo 9010 book. TYPO9010 book, which won several global awards, or the Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970, for it’s English Edition she hit a successful Kickstarter campaing in 2020. She is also a letterer, type designer, sign painter, and lettering artist, working on new digital scripts. Petra received the TDC Award of excellence for her diploma project dealing with Czechoslovak calligraphy and new hand lettering forms.

Authors of Briefcase typefaces:

Petr Babák (Prkno, Řezan, Šijan, Trhan)
Matyáš Bartoň (Minim)
Jana Horáčková (Rebecca)
Filip Kraus (Mikser)
Matyáš Machat (Brief, Eric Machat)
Aleš Najbrt (Reflex, Thomas & Ruhller)
Jan Novák (Falster Grotesk, Liguria) 
Šimon Matějka (Baseliner)
Viktor Mizera (Retroduktor) 
Marek Pistora (Novatica, Merkur, Sklonar, Reflex, Vafle)
Jakub Samek (Reformulate) 
Jakub Spurný (3018)
Marek Čuban (Ludva)
Radek Sidun (Alphapipe)
Tomáš Brousil (Figural, Monument, Novatica, Parlament, Unciala, Vajgar)
Petra Dočekalová (Figural, Monument, Parlament, Unciala, Vajgar)
Briefcase Team (Barell, Orion)

Awards

2023 ED Awards, Gold – The Heritage of Oldrich Menhart 
2022 ED Awards, Silver – Eric Machat 
2022 The Most Beautiful Czech Books, 2nd place – Manual of Diacritics
2019 The Most Beautiful Czech Books, 2nd place – Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970 Book
2017 TDC Typographic Excellence 2017 – Petra’s diploma project
2016 ED Awards, Bronze – TYPO9010 publication
2016 ED Awards, Bronze – Mikser 
2016 CA Communication Arts, Award Of Excellence – Mikser
2015 TDC62 Typographic Excellence – Mikser
2015 TDC62 Typographic Excellence – Typo9010 book
2015 CA Communication Arts, Award Of Excellence – Kakao
2015 ED Awards – Briefcase Type Foundry project
2014 TDC61 Typographic Excellence – News 01
2014 Czech Grand Design – 2nd award

Press 

Slanted Prague Isuue
Yearbook of Type
Yearbook of Lettering
Type Thursday London
Idea
365Typo
Étapes
Font
Elle
Dolce Vita
Identifont
Dude
Futu

Type Talks & Presentations

2023 ATypI Paris – The Heritage of Oldřich Menhart 
2022 AIGA Seattle – Television Typefaces
2022 TYPE Paris – New Lettering Forms
2022 TYPE A’DAM – Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970
2021 Encontro De Tipografia 11 – Fostering of Handwriting / PhD
2019 ATypI Tokyo – New Lettering Forms
2019 TypeCon Minneapolis – Introducing Jaroslav Benda 
2019 TypeCon Minneapolis – Manual of Diacritics 
2018 TypeCon Portland – Television Typefaces
2017 TypeCon Boston – The Scripts for Shop Windows 
2016 TypeCon Seattle – TYPO9010 

Credits
Design of specimens: Radek Sidun, Olga Benešová, Anna Guignard, Ilja Bazhanov
Photos: Michal Šeba, Peter Fabo, Michal Ureš
Translation: Dan Děvečka, Elizabeth Spacilova, Douglas Arellanes
Texts: Martin Pecina, Petra Dočekalová, Radek Sidun, Karel Haloun, Jaroslav Tvrdoň, Adam Štěch
Programming: Slonline