MaRKR – Creating Fonts and Typefaces
Director Kai Sehr visits MaRKR, a Swiss graphic design studio that has spent more than fifteen years working under the motto "Small City. Big Design." The film follows the studio's process of turning a hand-drawn pen stroke into a full digital typeface, tracking the project from first sketches through the technical work of spacing, kerning, and testing letterforms on screen. Sehr's camera stays close to the designers at their desks and light tables, watching how a single mark gets refined, redrawn, and digitized until it becomes a usable font. There is no outside narration pushing an argument; the studio's own working method carries the film, showing how a small team balances craft instincts with the exacting rules of type design. It is a compact look at a niche corner of graphic design, built around one concrete project rather than a general history of typography, and it gives viewers a sense of how much repetitive, patient work sits behind a typeface most people never think twice about.