How it all began
"As a kid, I was always drawing stuff. My dad is a civil engineer with a passion for architecture, so by the time I was ten, I was designing houses as well as cars. When he brought home a Letraset catalog one day, I was hooked, and I realized that I had more fun lettering the captions than drawing the illustrations. I started to draw typefaces for my school's newspaper and hand-letter posters for my band. I was going to be a graphic designer, specializing in typography. I had no concept that type design could be an end in itself: I simply designed type because as a graphic designer, I had no access to proper production means. Later on, I designed type because at the beginning of the desktop publishing era, there was only a severely limited amount of fonts available. Still later, I found myself designing type because all available fonts seemed to be overused or inappropriate. In all cases, I made typefaces for my own work, not necessarily with the intent of publishing them."

Nevertheless, FontHaus is pleased to have contracted with Jens for exclusive distribution rights to his Amoebia, Blindfish, Cornwall and Gagamond type families. These typefaces are marketed under Jens's 'Radar Design' font foundry name.