Touch Type changes the game
Schultzschultz of Germany offers a multi-touch typography tool for Chrome and Safari. This custom made browser-based tool is free to use and really fun to experiment with.
The touchscreen interface is like nothing else today. A Minority Report styled UX design that allows users to manipulate every aspect of a typeface into a customized experience.
omg.. this is next level..
— Aurelien (@Aurelien_Gz) April 12, 2025
typography meets scifi.. schultzschultz's tools feel like they’re from the future pic.twitter.com/I0AjwUP4fn
“Schultzschultz is a German design studio, that offers custom design solutions, with a focus on corporate design, type design and digital tool development, serving clients globally.”
Touch Type isn’t a commercial product; it’s a free demo you can try and use for any purpose you like. However, Touch Type’s creation did stem from Schultzschultz’s own realization that, in working with their own clients, the creative software of today is amazing, but also limiting. Their own creativity was being shaped by the tools they used.
This is not a new phenomenon, says Marc Schütz, creative director at the studio. As a type designer, he points out that even the design of letters has been long-shaped by the tools that draw them. The flowing forms of written Chinese are the result of drawing them with paint brushes, much like the Gothic writing of Medieval Europe was shaped by the downward strokes of broad pointed, ink-dipped bones and other writing utensils favored by monks who transcribed books of the era. Hundreds and even thousands of years later, these tool-based creative decisions still live with us in today’s digital fonts.
Look familiar?
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