In the words of design researcher Jan Middendorp: “They’re a loosely-knit collective of independent individuals, each with their own activities as graphic designers, writers and teachers. They have been making and publishing fonts since the early days of desktop type design and pioneered digital techniques that are now commonplace. Their fonts represent an approach that is, perhaps, typically Catalan: simultaneously adventurous and serious, witty and well-conceived.” Although Type-Ø-Tones mainly publishes their own designs, they also value collaboration with many other typographers and type designers.