The foundry has launched with a clear framework and ambition from Koto – to fill a gap in the market for typefaces that are shaped by how brands are operating in 2026. “Koto comes at typography from the reality of execution,” says Jowey Roden, chief creative officer at Koto. “We’re not just looking at type in isolation. We’re seeing how it behaves inside global brand systems, on websites, in motion, in campaigns, in products, on billboards, everywhere. CCType is built from that experience.”
The launch of CCType comes at a time when the number of surfaces a typeface needs to cover digitally is constantly on the rise and the production of branded content is changing at speed with the use of AI. From Koto’s point of view, traditional licensing models have remained costly, restrictive and unnecessarily complex, so the new foundry seeks to shake this existing structure up by introducing a straightforward one-time purchase model for its typefaces, to make its crafted fonts more accessible to freelancers, independent studios, larger agencies and brands directly.
The foundry’s plans for its new fonts is not to skip out on innovation in the type space, but to focus on stretch testing intelligent type systems so that everything that comes out of the foundry doesn’t break under pressure of contemporary branding systems. “There’s incredible experimentation happening in independent typography”, ends Joey, “but sometimes there is less confidence around scale and execution. At the other end, some of the largest players feel increasingly standardised. We saw an opportunity in the middle: highly considered, contemporary type systems built to perform in the real world.”
CCType has launched with CC Timeline available through the CCType website.