Damien is a contemporary serif typeface family especially designed for editorial typography. Thanks to its straightfoward forms with sharply cut details and pointy triangular serifs, it comes with great authority and vigor. This strictness is most evident in the Display styles, which are intended for headlines and other larger applications. They are characterized by a higher contrast, a tighter spacing and more compact shapes in comparison to the Text version. The five upright Display weights, ranging from Light to Bold, with stylistic alternates for diamond-shaped dots and punctuation, offer a variety of options for creating eye-catching typographic gestures.

While studying catalogs designed by Willem Sandberg for the Stedelijk Museum, Berton Hasebe noticed frequent use of small sizes of Annonce Grotesk, a very wide and bold sans serif, for running feet, headers within text, and other small navigational elements. Unable to think of a contemporary typeface able to do this job as capably, he was inspired to adapt Druk Wide for small sizes. Druk Text Wide is designed to be useful for structural elements, clarifying typographic hierarchy without forcing dramatic changes in scale on the page. It can also be used sparingly for short blocks of text, but it is primarily intended for display use at small sizes, maintaining its legibility all the way down to 6pt.