31st October, 2023 by Rob Keller

Let’s party 🥳 Mota Italic is celebrating 15 years in the font game!

Now seems like an opportune time to share a chronicle of all our ups and downs, all the adventures we had between founding in Berlin in 2008, to relocating to India for six years, to moving back to Berlin in 2020… a lot has happened along this amazing journey.

But we are better at drawing letters than using them 🤪 So instead of a proper memoir of our escapades, we will focus on just two specific things:

1) A huge thank you is in order for all our amazing customers & clients. It’s because of you, licensing our fonts and entrusting us with your projects, that we get to keep doing what we love. With the exception of some teaching gigs, we’ve been fortunate enough to sustain ourselves entirely through type design for a whopping 15 years. This is truly our dream career, and it wouldn’t be possible without you!

2) We have compiled a few stats regarding our work. It was personally very interesting to discover these numbers – hopefully you will also find them fascinating 🤓

Retail Families

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Fifteen retail families are for sale

Our typefaces are available here, at I Love Typography, or at Future Fonts!

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Six families are currently in their beta phase

This means that they aren’t done done, but are already commercially available. These works-in-progress are already quite far along, are totally usable, and are sold at a fraction of the price of the final families. License now, and get all future updates for free! Check them out!