The stories we live by, communication as a craft and the friction of exchange all shape our visual culture. As a graphic and type designer, I am constantly exploring the part I want and have to play in this. Technically I’m offering to talk, to think and to express through diverse media and tools, drawing on a decade of experience with many inspiring fellows and friends, I feel lucky to have met. Practically I am happy to share time with people rather than algorithms so feel free to contact or connect.
(Picture from the Manifest Manifesto workshop with Radim Peško. MA Type Design ECAL 2023)
Graphic and Type Design Cologne
© 2025
Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Experiments on Scale. Master Diploma Project, supervised by Prof. Julia Born & Radim Peško. ECAL 2025
Gradual Typeface
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Gradual Exhibtion Catalogue
In collaboration with the artist Pai Litzenberger & the designer duo Scinema (Lei Karina Gómez Montoya, Tonda Budszus).
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Done together with Pai Litzenberger, the poster explores visibility, identity, and presence through layered handprints and silver overprints.
Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Gradual Poster
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
A remix of Ladislas Mandel’s Galfra and Adrian Frutiger’s Roissy, which reverses their original scale of habitat.
Gradual Specimen
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
A contemporary interpretation based on François Guyot’s Ascendonica. Mentored by Prof. Alice Savoie. ECAL 2024
Arc Display Typeface
6 / 14
Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Short moments of rotation with the writing tool leave traces of the body that produced the visible character shapes, making Arc uncannily familiar, yet different.
Arc Display Specimen
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Potential Worlds Exhibition Catalogue
An alternative catalogue designed for the exhibition Potential Worlds. With feedbacks by Prof. Marie Lusa. ECAL 2023
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
A custom font for the catalogue design of the exhibition Potential Worlds.
Lucid Stencil Typeface
9 / 14
Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Orbris Display & Text Specimen
A custom typeface for the fictional Orbital Debris Disposal Corporation realised in Prof. Kai Bernau’s optical sizes course. ECAL 2024
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
A custom typeface for the fictional Orbital Debris Disposal Corporation realised in Prof. Kai Bernau’s optical sizes course.
Orbris Display and Text Typeface
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Orbris Display and Text Specimen
A custom typeface for the fictional Orbital Debris Disposal Corporation realised in Prof. Kai Bernau’s optical sizes course.
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Tools make shapes Renderings
A custom tool to create a stroke width contrast through rotational expansion. In collaboration with Stephanie Wilson, Nir Zabari Yenni & Jamie Michiki. Supervised by Prof. Kai Bernau. ECAL 2023
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Bronze Typeface
A digital typeface based on the handwriting of the artist Edy Rameyanto. Mentored by Prof. Alice Savoie. ECAL 2024
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Graphic and Type Design Cologne
Chan Sperle completed his BA in Integrated Design at KISD, including a semester abroad at ZHdK studying visual communication. He then specialised in type design as part of his MA at ECAL. After five years working at Studio für Gestaltung as an art director, he now works as a freelance graphic and type designer on collaborations and commissioned projects. He’s currently living in Cologne.
The designs presented on this website are subject to the copyright of Chan Sperle. Use beyond pure viewing and internal evaluation is not permitted without express written permission. This includes, but is not limited to, reproduction, public disclosure, editing and commercial use.
(Website WIP)
© 2025
The stories we live by, communication as a craft and the friction of exchange all shape our visual culture. As a graphic and type designer, I am constantly exploring the part I want and have to play in this. Technically I’m offering to talk, to think and to express through diverse media and tools, drawing on a decade of experience with many inspiring fellows and friends, I feel lucky to have met. Practically I am happy to share time with people rather than algorithms so feel free to contact or connect.
(Picture from Manifest Manifesto
w/ Radim Peško. MATD ’23)
Gradual Typeface
ECAL
Experiments on Scale.
Master Diploma Project, supervised by Prof. Julia Born & Radim Peško.
1 / 14
2025
ECAL
Gradual Exhibition Catalogue
In collaboration with the artist Pai Litzenberger & the designer duo Scinema (Lei Karina Gómez Montoya, Tonda Budszus)
2 / 14
2025
Done together with Pai Litzenberger, the poster explores visibility, identity, and presence through layered handprints and silver overprints.
3 / 14
ECAL
Gradual Poster
2025
A remix of Ladislas Mandel’s Galfra and Adrian Frutiger’s Roissy, which reverses their original scale of habitat.
5 / 14
ECAL
Gradual Specimen
2025
A contemporary interpretation based on François Guyot’s Ascendonica. Mentored by Prof. Alice Savoie.
6 / 14
Arc Display Typeface
ECAL
2024
Arc Display Typeface
ECAL
Short moments of rotation with the writing tool leave traces of the body that produced the visible character shapes, making Arc uncannily familiar, yet different.
7 / 14
2024
Lucid Stencil Typeface
ECAL
A custom font for the catalogue design of the exhibition Potential Worlds.
8 / 14
2023
Potential Worlds Exhibition Catalogue
ECAL
An alternative catalogue designed for the exhibition Potential Worlds. Supervised by Prof. Marie Lusa.
9 / 14
2023
Orbris Display & Text Specimen
ECAL
A custom typeface for the fictional Orbital Debris Disposal Corporation realised in Prof. Kai Bernau’s optical sizes course.
10 / 14
2024
A custom typeface for the fictional Orbital Debris Disposal Corporation realised in Prof. Kai Bernau’s optical sizes course.
11 / 14
Orbris Display & Text Typeface
ECAL
2024
A custom typeface for the fictional Orbital Debris Disposal Corporation realised in Prof. Kai Bernau’s optical sizes course.
12 / 14
Orbris Display & Text Specimen
ECAL
2024
ECAL
Tools make Shapes Visualizations
A custom tool to create a stroke width contrast through rotational expansion. In collaboration with Stephanie Wilson, Nir Zabari Yenni & Jamie Michiki. Supervised by Prof. Kai Bernau.
13 / 14
2023
ECAL
Bronze Typeface
A digital typeface based on the handwriting of the artist Edy Rameyanto. Supervised by Prof. Alice Savoie.
14 / 14
2024
Chan Sperle completed his BA in Integrated Design at KISD, including a semester abroad at ZHdK studying visual communication. He then specialised in type design as part of his MA at ECAL. After five years working at Studio für Gestaltung as an art director, he now works as a freelance graphic and type designer on collaborations and commissioned projects. He’s currently living in Cologne, Germany.
The designs presented on this website are subject to the copyright of Chan Sperle. Use beyond pure viewing and internal evaluation is not permitted without express written permission. This includes, but is not limited to, reproduction, public disclosure, editing and commercial use. ©2025
(Website WIP)