Project 03

Typography Design

Orange Shift

A typographic system for Roskilde Festival — a display face that bends, blurs and shifts, aligned with the festival’s environmental mission.

DisciplineType Design, Visual Identity
ClientRoskilde Festival (concept)
Year2024
DeliverablesDisplay typeface, poster system, identity
Orange Shift — festival main stage at dusk, flags & crowd

The system

A typeface that shifts — like a crowd, like weather, like change.

Orange Shift began with a single idea: a letterform that never quite settles. Built on a strict modular grid, each glyph is then distorted, smeared and re-shifted, so the alphabet reads as a system in motion rather than a fixed set of shapes.

The face anchors a full festival identity — posters, schedules and wayfinding — and carries Roskilde’s sustainability message in its very logic: nothing is fixed, everything can change.

Display face — Shift · two cuts

Cut 01 — Organic FontABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
Cut 02 — Classic FontABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

Orange is
people power.

Orange · Roskilde
Orange Shift — Orange is People Power festival poster
Line-up07
Orange Shift — orange & green dot collage, festival crowd
People power08
Orange Shift — raised hand with festival wristbands, bunting
Details09

Lockups

One mark, four moods.

The “Orange Roskilde” lockup flexes across black, orange, mono and photographic backgrounds — proof that an identity can stay recognisable while constantly shifting context.