We are proud to present something completely different! Today we release the first single Hey Girl from the long awaited Cape Arcona Love Band. Listen now!
Update: visit our myspace site too (yes, we have one!)
From November 5th to 7th, Stefan Claudius will be holding a workshop at the 12. Tage der Typografie in Düsseldorf, Germany. The theme is music packaging and handmade typography. Find out more here.
Oh my, Cape Arcona is following a trend.
We are on facebook!

We made some small updates in our „Font in use“ section. Have a look!

The King of Cape Arcona, Thomas Schostok aka {ths} will hold two lectures this month:
Spieltrieb
Thursday, May 20, 2010, 6:00pm
Aula, Fachhochschule Dortmund/Fachbereich Design, Germany
More information
Art and Typography: On Beauty, Ugliness, Not Only in Typography
Saturday, May 29, 2010
galeria Design — BWA Wrocław, ul. Świdnicka 2–4, Wroclaw, Poland
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Due to actual circumstances, the lecture has been canceled. Thomas wasn’t able to get another flight to Poland. The lecture will be postponed to a date in mid may. We will inform you when we get a new date. We are very sorry for any inconvenience.

„Art and Typography“:
On Beauty, Ugliness, Not Only in Typography
The King of Cape Arcona, Thomas Schostok aka {ths} will hold a speech about typography, design and art. To him the classical borders that are drawn between commercial and non-commercial art are blurred. The three disciplines are strongly influencing each other, so that one couldn’t exist without the other. Whatever {ths} is working on, he is looking for the beauty of imperfection. Every typeface and every design needs a certain amount of ugliness to become interesting and beautiful in a deeper and more touching way than superficial beauty could be.
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:00pm — 10:00pm
galeria Design — BWA Wrocław, ul. Świdnicka 2–4, Wroclaw, Poland
Some more information: outofsth.org

Finally it’s here! CA Texteron™ made by Stefan Claudius is now available at Cape Arcona.
CA Texteron™ is a modern text-font family to cover the most common typographical needs with a minimum of weights. It is aiming for a serious but unconventional look, which is achieved by combining round and edgy forms in the same font, often in the same glyph, and by using “humanist” and “modern” form-principles at the same time. It merges classical type-design with an experimental spirit. CA Texteron combines elements of the dynamic renaissance principle with the static neo-classic style, which makes it hard to classify. The result is a post-modern hybridization.
CA Texteron™ got the European Design Award in Bronze – Hail to awards!
You might think, that we at Cape Arcona lost a little bit our favor for extraordinary typefaces? Naa, come on. We still have the rock ‘n’ roll, baby. This leads us to the next point, which is CA Sivle™. Uhh, what a font. It’s the craziest baby in town, and yeah, it’s FREE. Sivle<>elviS?

A new year, a new typeface. This time we have something very special for you. Our President of Cape Arcona, Mr. Stefan Claudius made this wonderful text typeface: CA Normal™.
CA Normal™ merges influences from European grotesques and American Gothics, breeding an experimental mongrel. The underlying concept stays in the background, giving the design a great self-evidence. Although it is doubtful if there can be such thing as neutrality, CA Normal™ comes pretty close to what people mean when speaking of a neutral font. Nevertheless it’s not faceless, anonymous or confound able. It’s just that the charm comes from subtle details rather than obvious design features. CA Normal™ comes in 15 fonts with 5 weights and 3 styles and featuring small caps, ligatures, oldstyle and lining figures.
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Stefan Claudius will reveal super secret background information on the the making of his new typeface CA Normal. Come over to Gasteig Black Box, Rosenheimer Straße 5 in Munich at 19.30h on tuesday 26th of january 2010 to get a brief but deep insight on typedesign and why the font looks the way it does. Afterwards there will be a lecture of inc.fish. Find out more at the tgm website.