Our company, Sinterit, founded in 2014 in Krakow, Poland, produces 3D printers that solidify nylon particles by heating them with a laser. This process is known as sintering. Compared to the familiar FDM 3D models, our printouts are more precise, flexible, reliable, and elaborate.

When a friend of ours who is a fan of Knuth told us about the exercise, we took up the challenge. The typeface we chose for the labels is Palatino, designed by professor Knuth’s friend, Hermann Zapf. Here is how the icosahedron looked like before we shipped it: