Duolingo is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps and provides language certification.

Headlines use Feather Bold, a custom typeface designed by Krista Radoeva at Fontsmith as part of Duolingo’s new identity developed by Johnson Banks in 2019. The Duolingo app below uses DIN Next Rounded.

The common face of the Brighton Festival since the Johnson Banks rebranding in 2013.

“Dimensions is an exhibition and display company that has three key products, D2, D3 and D4. We simply ran the numerals across the letters to create an unusual optical effect.” – johnson banks

“Angel is a drug advisory service in North London. We didn't want to go overboard with their almost too perfect name — so just a few feathers on the lower case 'g' seemed about right.” – johnson banks

“Swanswell seemed like a terrible name for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation service, until we realised that the 'well' at the end of their name could be very useful.” – johnson banks

“The famous homelessness charity had changed what it did, but no-one had realised. They were now concentrating on the bad housing that wrecks lives, hence the pitched roof on their 'h'.” – johnson banks

“Think London was the replacement brand for what was previously named the London First Centre. Its job was to persuade businesses to see London as a viable potential home.” — johnson banks

A local typeface was used for this local project, Bliss by Jeremy Tankard of Cambridge, UK.

Poster printed in a limited edition of “precisely two”, by Michael Johnson for the D&AD/50/Auction.

From the johnson banks blog:

We spent a lot of time over the summer thinking of great examples of creativity, and how that could come together in a design. Eventually we realised that describing great examples of creativity was, in a way, more interesting than merely showing them.