Bohéma × Designiq
“Five thousand. That’s how many words the average Czech uses every day”, says the Bohéma website about a collection of T-shirts celebrating our native language. Six Czech typographers were invited to participate in the “5,000 Words” charity project, and all six T-shirts can be purchased at the Bohéma store on Palackého Street in Prague or at mojebohema.cz🔗.
Photo by Greta Blumajerová
“I designed a T-shirt with a pangram, a sentence that contains most of the letters of the Czech alphabet and highlights the role that diacritics play in Czech”, says Filip Blažek, the author of the motif. The typeface used was designed in the turn of the 1950s and 1960s by typographer Stanislav Maršo. The entire family was carefully digitized and released in 2025 by the Briefcase Type Foundry under the name BC Vega🔗.
Kája Nová and Eliška Neubergerová from Bohéma invited Kristina Fišerová, Barbora Kramná, Petra Dočekalová, Rostislav Vaněk, Martin Pecina, and Filip Blažek to participate in the “5,000 Words” project. Part of the proceeds from the sale of T-shirts will be donated to the Ozvěna🔗 fund and the non-profit organization Tichý svět🔗, which helps people with hearing and speech impairments.