Paul Shaw designed the Kolo family. It was inspired by the lettering of Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Roller, and other members of the Secession, Vienna’s turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau movement.

Kolo’s family variants, narrow, regular, wide, and alternates, can stand alone as display styles or be used to pack text creatively as characterized by many Secession-period graphics.