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| Bram Vermeyen's blog and electrtonic mag about design and typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Licht Punt (2010) is the geometrically precise custom typeface used in the Sky High project for the Radisson Blu hotel in Hasselt, Belgium. In 2011, she published the art deco family Rosetta, and wrote: Rosetta font was designed by Alexandra Mendes for an upcoming branding project. The typeface design is inspired in all things lovely and luscious of the female intimate universe: lingerie, lace, blush powder, négligé, bustier, lip gloss and other lavish niceties. Should feel as a flirt, the subtle wink of the eye, a roseate glow. Rosetta is a coquette who flirts with life, winking her eyes, batting her lashes, flicking her hair, leaving her scent behind as she passes on the street, turning heads, with her whispering lips and waddling feline walk. Teasing and feigned disinterest to test the reliability of her admirers. Tall slenderizing lines and delicate curves shape the form of Rosetta. The typeface look is minimal and contemporary but reminiscent of a certain "je ne sais quoi" of Art Deco. There's a pure linear geometric symmetry to the font, to create a look of elegant modernity, that exudes a flair for glamour. Rosetta is a font family set composed by the styles: Rosetta, Rosetta Blush, Rosetta Bloom, Rosetta Bud. Images of Rosetta: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ameet (or Aimé) Tavernier (b, Bailleul, French Flanders, between 1522 and 1526, d. 1570) was a Belgian punchcutter and typefounder. He made a type which we shall call the Tavernier Civilité. Some claim it was made independently of Robert Granjon's Civilité (1556). However, Dr. Maurits Sabbe and Marius Audin in their wonderful 17-page treatise, Les caractères de civilité de Robert Granjon et les imprimeurs flamands (1921) (see also Die Civilité Schriften (1929), the German translation published by Herbert Reichner, Vienna), doubt that claim. They note that surely, Tavernier must have seen Plantin's Civilité. Besides, Tavernier's Civilité is first seen only in 1559 in La civilité puerile distribuée par petitz chapitres et sommaires ... traduictz par Jehan Louveau en Anvers chez Jehan Bellere (Imprimerie Aimé Tavernier). Considering that Sabbe was director of the Plantin Museum in Antwerp, and Audin a well-known type historian from Lyon, it is likely that they were right in their conclusion that Tavernier had indeed seen the Plantin version. Tavernier became well-known and started making type for export to neighboring countries. Unfortunately, he died very young in 1570. Plantin said in 1574 that after the death of Tavernier and François Guyot, his land had no outstanding typefounder left, but that there were some in Germany, but that he would not recommend the Germans because they were "irrgläubig". He said of Tavernier that he was the last good typefounder of the sixteenth century. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian artist, thinker and autodidact, b. 1954, Antwerpen. The DITT writes this about him: André is an adult dyslexic. Formerly working in the arts, he is now working on a monologue entitled The Illusionist. He researches the interface between psychology and physics. His "act" (a sort of humorous lecture) gives insight into his findings, interests, and himself as an illusionist. At Bridges 2009, he presented an experimental typeface on which he had been working since 1975, under the title Zen Art. In 2007, he created another experimental geometric face, Alphabet Candy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PhD student (b. 1983) at Leiden University and Hasselt University, who lives in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. In 2011, she finished the Expert Type Design Class with Frank Blokland at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, and created the typeface Matilda. Matilda was specially designed to help make kids make the transition from reading simple type forms to more complex ones. Her PhD is about the design of a font that can reduce the reading problems of children with low vision. She speaks regularly about legibility. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Peer, Belgium, who created some typefaces in 2012: Sirco is a display type with concave terminals, while her second typeface, still unnamed, consists of roman capitals. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1940, De Vylder teaches at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, Belgium. He started De Diamant Press in Herentals, and is a typographer. The Dutch Type Library is working on his type family, DTLRosart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
AP Fonts
| Paris-based type foundry set up in 2006 by Thierry Charbonnel, Nicolas Hoffmann and Michel Welfringer as a commercial outlet for Les Designers Anonymes (Hoffmann&Welfringer) and Autre planète's fonts (Charbonnel). Hoffmann and Welfringer designed Normale (2006) and Edibulle (2006). Charbonnel created Digital Planet (2006, futuristic) and Oups (2006, ink splashes; with Antoine Doury). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Brussels. Behance link. He has done some interesting typographic work, such as Noah (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arne Meganck | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Dirtyfax. Arne lives in Kontich. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian type site. Atelier Typografica is located at 133a Ducpétiauxlaan 1060, Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Petite histoire de la typographie (1886, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, Paris). This delightful book contains great historic accounts from the fifteenth century, including a section in which he "deals with" the myth of Coster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Book on typewriter type (edited by Philippe Ernotte&Claude Stassart) with contributions by Fernand Baudin, Hubert Nyssen, Patrick Rogiers, Marcel Moreau, Jean-Pierre Verhegen, Pierre Bergounioux, Nicolas Ancion, Daniel De Bruycker, Veronika Mabardi, François Bon, François Clarinval, and Serge Kribus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bart Claeys Font Design
| Link disappeared. Exclusive donationware (mostly grunge, graffiti and grunge) fonts by Bart Claeys (Belgium) at Fontasia International: Antiphun BC, Barrow Irregular BC, Brockx Normal BC, Colloquial Prickle BC, Heamorrhage BC, Phlox BC, Probe BC, Prolix BC, Stoneware BC, Thrill BC, (the nice grunge font) Zoophyte BC, Chemical Symbols BC, Zodiac BC, Smart BC, Kosovo BC, Navis BC (ships), and the animal dingbat font Founa BC. In the 1990s, he ran Fontasia International by BarClaey [dead link] and called himself Maestro Cicero. It was a very useful and thickly packed font jump page, that included lists of ITC fonts [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. He created the experimental typeface RLF (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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After ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, Lucas De Groot sent a desperate Twitter message, asking about the decline of Dutch type design---only three Dutchmen attended the meeting, while there were four from Belgium. Shock is a better word. My Dutch brothers and sisters should not have to worry---Belgium is not taking over any time soon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antwerp, Belgium-based designer of the beautiful free musical symbols font Euterpe (2007). Alternate URL. He is also involved in the management of the DejaVu free font family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Benoît Bodhuin (aka Ben Ben) lived in Tournai, Belgium, but seems now to be in "chti" country, i.e., in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. He studied mathematics and graphic design. Freelance graphic designer since 2004. In 2011, he set up Benben World at MyFonts. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Behance link. Designer of the pixel fonts Logotix (2004), Latham and 5x7 Negatie Moyenne. In 2010, he made the paperclip face La Pipo, which was published in 2011 by Die Gestalten. He created the commercial angular sans face S-L (2006) which was originally made for the University of Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai. Commercial faces include S-L Bold (2012, a hexagonal face based on his design at St. Luc in 2006), Zigzag (2012, Volcano Type; a font originally made for the Vivat theater). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Open every day except Sunday, 9-5: Mont des Arts, Boulevard de l'Empereur 4, 1000, Bruxelles. They have a good old book collection, but only a rather minimal collection of books on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young Belgian designer of DA Pistols (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Leuven, Belgium, Bram Vermeyen developed an architectural font based on the architectural forms of Stéphane Beel. He is also working on Phatboy (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian web designer and creator of Sprawl (2004), a free typeface inspired by geographic density maps of Belgium. Cuppens was born in 1977 and works in Hasselt. Since 2003, he is also working on a Master in Graphic Design at the Karel De Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Brody Neuenschwander was born in Houston, Texas in 1958. He studied art history at Princeton University and the Courtauld Institute, London, receiving his PhD in 1986. He studied calligraphy at Roehamp-ton Institute under Ann Camp and then became assistant to Donald Jackson. Since 1988 he has worked as a free-lance calligrapher, first in Wales and now in Bruges, Belgium. Clients have included the U.S., UK, and Belgian governments, the BBC, Time-Life Books, and the Royal Mail. He has worked with director Peter Greenaway on several films, including "Prospero's Books" and "The Pillow Book." Brody is currently working to install trilingual signage in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. Brody got the Belle Lettere Award in 1997. John Berry's report of a presentation. His presentation at Sonoma State University. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sans family designed in 2006 by Eric de Berranger for the STIB, the Société des Transports de Bruxelles. This six-weight legible and lively family is not for sale. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian outfit grouping many Flemish calligraphers, such as Paul Bortier, Anna van Damme, Joke van den Brandt, Lieve Van Kerkhove, Linda Truyers, and Margreet Wanst. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kycka (2011) is a handprinted slab serif family designed for children's books. Karty (2011, Eurotypo) is a blackboard bold pair of faces inspired by Baskerville. Marilyn (2011, Eurotypo) is an informal bouncy heavy sans face. Natalie (2011) is a conensed slab serif face. In 2012, she published the script typeface Lirio (Eurotypo) and the fat finger family Souffle. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Caroline de Pont | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Overlap, an exercise on overlapping Bezier curves. Caroline lives in Antwerpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Catapult is the graphic design studio of Anton De Haan and Philippe Pelsmaekers in Antwerp. Other people involved in Catapult include Karen Van Puymbroeck, Tom Vanwelkenhuyzen, Omar Chafai and Luk Mestdagh. For the house style of Zonienwoud, they designed Son Grotesque and Son Grotesque Stencil in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Namur, Belgium-based designer of Brasero (2011), an experimental typeface.She also created an upright connected school font family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian typefounder in Brussels, about whom John A. Lane writes in Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum: Little is known about the Joniaux foundry and the possibly related foundry of Charles-J. de Mat, both in Brussels, and their history cannot be written without research in the Brussels archives and a comparison of the few specimens known to survive. This goes beyond the scope of the present catalogue, but I present what little information I can to encourage further study. I have found no record of Joniaux's foundry beyond the information in the present 1828 specimen and the directories for 1830, 1832, 1833 and 1851-1870. The directories for 1826 and 1840 record no foundry bearing Joniaux's name or at the adress he used from 1828 to 1833. The directory for 1833 and type specimens of 1833 and 1837 record C.J. de Mat&Cie, all on Rue de la Batterie, where Joniaux appears in the directories for 1851 and later (though the house number changes several times). This scanty information allows no certain conclusion, but perhaps the foundries of Joniaux and De Mat merged to form De Mat&Cie sometime in the years 1837 to 1839, and De Mat withdrew sometime in the years 1840 to 1850 so that the foundry then continues under the Joniaux name. Since the nature of the relationship between the two firms, if the were related, remains uncertain, I include the De Mat foundry's names and adresses in the chronology above, even for the period before it became De Mat&Cie. De Mat operated a printing office and at least in 1837 also called himself a bookseller and paper maker [boekverkoper volgens mij vanaf 1825!], so the foundry may have taken on a subsidiary role around that time. I know of no specimens by either firm after 1837/38. The present specimen explicitly states that some of its types were cut by Termonia in imitation of Didot's, but I have found no other reference to a punchcutter of this name. The name appears to [be] Belgian, and may come from the area around Hasselt in the province of Limburg. I have not found it in Brussels, so the foundry may have acquired the punches from a punchcutter residing elsewhere. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charlie S. Romeo | Belgian (?) designer of the free face Lame Bee (2010) and the free face Wild Cat Stencil (2011), a typeface based on a custom font for Puma lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Utrecht in 1921, Chris Brand lived in Breda, and died in 1998. Studied calligraphy in 1940, and worked in Brussels from 1948-1953. He taught design at various academies until 1986. Known for book cover jackets. Brand created the clean serif face Albertina in 1964-1965 (Monotype). This face was first used for a catalogue of Stanley Morison's work exhibited at the Albertina Library in Brussels in 1966. DTL Albertina saw the light in 1987. Brand also created Veerle Uncialis (1991) but it is unclear whether this font is his or a reworking of a face by the Parisian typefounder Fournier. Finally, he made the coptic font Draguet (1968). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Dynamic (1998). Heylen lives in Rijkevorsel, Belgium. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
The Plantin face was created in the 1570s. The modern day version at Bitstream is called Aldine 721. Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Britannica entry. Biography. The Golden Compasses The History of the House of Plantin-Moretus (Leon Voet, 1969, 1972) is freely downloadable. Books on Christoffel Plantijn (in Dutch). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fellow Belgian Christophe Vermijlen (Hasselt) created an experimental 3d tyeface called Tilting Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Clément Perret | Clément Perret published the first writing manual in the low countries: Exercitatio alphabetica nova et vtilissima, varjis expressa linguis et characteribus, raris ornamentis, umbris&recessibus, picture, architecturaeque, speciosa (1569, Antwerp). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian designer (b. 1962) who lives in Brussels and whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Billes (1995), Boulbar (1995), Boules (1996), BubbleBath (1996), Craaac (1996) Caaarc (1996), Design, Douff, Graphic, Handex (1995; an alphading based on fists), Inbetween (1996), Lines (1994), Lolo (1992), Minimex (1996), Modern (1996), Perles (1995), StencilFull (1997), StencilFullBraille (1997). Avant-garde geometry in the letter shapes. Look also for fonts at ITC. Clotilde Olyff lectures on graphic design and typography at the National Visual Art School of La Cambre, Belgium. But she is most famous for her fonts Alpha Bloc (1994), Alpha Geometrique (1994). Bio in a list of bios by Porchez of French typographers. I just wonder since when Belgium became a part of France. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Corina Cotorobai | Corina obtained a Masters in type design at the KABK in Den Haag. Today, she is a partner at OurType in Belgium, the foundry of Fred Smeijers. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Corinne Lavaerts | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Estippo 55. Corinne lives in Hove. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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D. Stiasteny | Typefounder in Brussels. His work can be found in Épreuve des caractères de la fonderie de D. Stiasteny (Bruxelles, Rue de Cerf, no 23, son 1re. 1841). This book, sloppily put together, shows didone influences, typical of the epoch. No full type showings though. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
pleaseletmedesign is a duo of Belgian graphic designers comprising Pierre Smeets (b. 1981) and Damien Aresta (b. 1979). They set up their own graphic design studio in 2004 after graduating from Saint-Luc Higher School of Arts in Liège (Belgium) and spending almost a full year in ERG (Graphic Research School) in Brussels (Belgium). The projects of pleaseletmedesign range from graphic design, books, posters, identities and stationnery to exhibition design, signage, titles sequences, and website in cultural sectors as diverse as music, architecture, cinema and advertising clients. Toyota Belgium used a car to design the outlines of an upright script called iQ (2009). Free download. The font was made by Pleaseletmedesign. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DBS is a multidisciplinary visual design studio based between Brussels, Paris and Bordeaux. They are selling three commercial typefaces, Harring Stone (2011, squarish modernist), Aert Deck (2011, Victorian), and Qlacic (2011, more Victorian fare). Qlacic is attributed to Tom Haas. | |
Daniel Jean Mensing | Belgian typefounder (b. Antwerp, 1815, d. Rotterdam 1864). He worked as a typefounder in Rotterdam from 1857 until about 1864, running the foundry D. J. Mensing&Co. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian (b. 1978) who lives in Brussels, aka Dasmuse. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the robotic dingbat fonts PolyFace, robo, robo2, LostRobo and BlocFace. Alpha 63 (2008) is a fat, futuristic face. In 2009, he added Monsterz and trubik77 (ultra fat techno face). Creations from 2010: SayTwo (a gorgeous horizontally striped 3D face; free here), GenzzTop, GenzzBottom, PixyRobo (alphadings), Unik (2009), Unik2 (2011). In 2012, he made Changaa. Dafont link. Behance link. David Is Creative site, also run by him. Another URL. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Site run by David Glaude. Archive with over 300 Cyrillic truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer, b. 1987. He made the handwriting font King Dirt Royal (2009), Fantasta (2009), the ransom note font Krooked (2009, Fontcapture), Officer Down (2009, grungy; Fontcapture), the handprinted Something Olde (2009, Fontcapture), the children's hand Not Really (2009, Fontcapture), the printed outline face Whypo (2009, Fontcapture), the counterless fat face Comic Dandy (2009), and the grungy Parents Suck (2009, Fontcapture). He lives in Hoeselt. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
De Passe&Menne
| Dutch foundry from 1842-1856, bought by Nicolaas Tetterode in 1856. Formerly, De Passe&Cie in 1841. Jean Baptist De Panne (b. Brussels, ca. 1806, d. Amsterdam, 1844) was a Belgian who had been a foreman of Firmin Didot in Paris. Kornelis Elix, an Amsterdam based typefounder, asked him to come to Amsterdam, where De Passe worked for him from 1837 on. In 1841, De Passe created his own foundry, only to die in 1844, a year after his first specimen was published. That specimen derived mostly from the Th. Lejeune foundry in Brussels, which was active there from 1836-1838. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
deFUNKT
| deFUNKT is the design company of Stijn De Lathouwer from Lier, Belgium. He created the black display face Cardboard (2003). Myfonts page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Denis Jacquerye is involved in language technology, software localization and font engineering. He was among the leaders of the DejaVu Font project for a few years and is working with the African Network for Localization (ANLoc) to remove language limitations in technological applications. Denis currently lives in Brussels. He designed the open license font family Molengo (2010, sans), which is part of the Google open font directory. He also participated in the GNU Freefont project, where he added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) and IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) ranges. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Page in French by Denis Liégois on unicode polytonic (classic) Greek fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye | Denis Moyogo Jacquerye is the Belgian co-leader of the DejaVu font project (free fonts based on Bitstream Vera), the default GUI for fonts on several Linux OS distributions. He is working on extending various Open Source fonts to support African orthographies in Latin script. He is collaborating with a network of experts in African languages localization as part of the Pan Africa localization Network. Denis, with a Bs.C in Computer Science and a minor in Linguistics from McGill University, has experience in the Language Technology industry, Open Source software, Font Engineering and Unicode software support for African language. Speaker at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg on African fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Derek Brouwers | Belgian typophile. Interface builder and designer at i-Merge. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Thanks to Google books, I learned that Devroye, possibly one of my Belgian ancestors, was the king's printer (imprimeur du roi) in Brussels in 1858. Other books from that printer date from the period 1844-1859. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Didones
| A list compiled by Ludwig M. Souzen, a typographer and printer in Bertem, Belgium:
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Belgian designer of Androgyne (2009), Qlassik (2007), Raspoutine (2006, a clean face), Gauntlet (2006) and Edifice (2006). Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Distype
| Distype is a small Belgian pixel typeface foundry in Antwerp that specializes in both functional and aesthetic pixel typefaces for online and mobile use. Types made by Nicolas Deslé in 2004 include Forma, Norma, Nova, NovaBold, NovaExpanded, NovaExpandedBold, Supra7, Supra7Bold, Supra7Expanded, Supra7ExpandedBold, Supra8, Supra8Bold, Supra8Expanded, Supra8ExpandedBold, Supra9, Supra9Bold, Supra9Expanded, Supra9ExpandedBold, Croma, Dura, Plura. The company is related to the Antwerp-based design company Dislogic. A renewal took place in 2008, with many new typefaces, such as DT Lectrum (legible text family), DT Quartz, DT Corsa, DT Ciny, DT Courriel, DT Domo, DT Punta, DT Libra, DT Ampla, DT Crypt, DT Modula, DT Roma, DT Recta and DT Meta. Some are free, others are not. In 2011, Deslé went commercial at MyFonts. Behance link. His commercial fonts include Love Supreme (2011, minimalist sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dominic Somers | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, who lives in Edegem. Creator of the hookish font Mics. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dr. Lex's fonts
| Alexander Thomas at the University of Leuven, Belgium, created these freeware fonts: DigitalDisplay, Eurosign, AntiqueGerman. Truetype, PC and Mac. Email contact. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in the early part of the 20th century, and author of Antwerpsche Druckerye (Brussel, N. V. Standaard-Boekhandel, and Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen en Zoon, and Antwerpen, J. E. Buschmann, s. a.), a 153-page book on foundries and printers in Antwerp. Coauthor with Marius Audin of Die Civilité-Schriften des Robert Granjon in Lyon und die flämischen Drucker des 16 / Jahrhunderts (Wien, Bibliotheca Typographica, Herbert Reichner, 1929). That last book is a German version of Les caractères de civilité de Robert Granjon et les imprimeurs flamands (1921). Some of the findings in that beautiful book are reported here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian creator of the free counterless constructivist typeface Semi-Russian (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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His fonts have perfect rhythm, and were published by FontShop in the FontFont collection. View Dung van Meerbeeck's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian creator of the pixel face MsPain (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Els Bauwelinck | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental pixel font Metric, and the font Metround. She lives in Temse. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian designer of Re-Venge and Mallarme (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Els Leclercq | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental handwriting font Somethingels, an interesting overlap of thick and thin strokes. She also made Elsans. Els lives in Bornem. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Family of printers in the 16th and early 17th century in Leiden, The Hague, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The first one, Louis (1540-1617), was the son of a Belgian printer in Leuven and established a print shop in Leiden in 1580. They were operational until 1712. The name "Elzevir" is used to describe typefaces not unlike those made by them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based designer who studied at the University of Minnesota in 2008. Home page. Creator of Three Sided Square (2008), a caps font based on a triangularization of the outlines of letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer of Pix Chicago (2006, pixel font). Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eve Kuypers | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the hookish experimental font Naeve Groovy. Eve lives in Pulle. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian graphic designer, b. 1991. She created the art deco family Caberino (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Evi Leuridan | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Roller. Evi lives in Gistel. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian typographic expert and writer (b. Bachte-Maria-Leerne, 1918, d. Grez-Doiceau, July 16, 2005), and author of "How Typography Works (and why it is important)" (New York: Design Press). This is a translation of La Typographie au Tableau Noir (Retz, Paris, 1984), a book entirely written by hand! Uitgeverij de Buitenkant published "Fernand Baudin, typograaf, typographiste, book designer". Baudin wrote "L'Effet Gutenberg" (1974, Editions du Cercle de la Librairie). He was active in the Rencontres de Lure, the ATypI, and was instrumental in the creation of the curriculum of the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp. Another reference. Exposition Fernand Baudin from April 14 until May 27, 2000 at the Royal Library of Belgium. In 2004, he received the Laureate Honoris Causa award from the Plantin Society's Institute of Printing and Graphic Arts. CV (doc file in French). CV (txt file in French). Elly Cockx-Indestege et Georges Colin wrote Fernand Baudin ou La typographie au service du lecteur (2000, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Esperanto, South-European fonts. Latin-3 encoding. Page run by Roland Rotsaert from Brugge. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Supposedly a big archive. Browsers need Macromedia's Flash3 Plugin in order to access, though. Maintained by Kenny Van Bogaert. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonderie Normale
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In 1914, Enschedé republished it with a foreword that tells the story of the Fonderie Normale: i, ii, iii. Some sample pages from that book: Ecriture, Ecriture, Fantaisies, Gothique, Gothique Ornée No. 1489, Grec, Romain, Didot. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian foundry in Antwerp, which was active since the 16th century. They published "Fonderie typographique Plantin, S. A.; caractères de texte modernes et classiques, ornements, filets en cuivre, initiales et vignettes. Supplément au catalogue général", a 116-page book, in Brussels in 1935. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonderie typographique Van Loey-Nouri
| Fonderie typographique Van Loey-Nouri was Henri Van Loey's foundry in Brussels around 1900. They published Spécimen des caractères (1905). One of their art nouveau faces from 1900 was digitized by Dan X. Solo as Welcome 1 (Solotype). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonderie Vandeborght | Belgian foundry. They published a 297-page book called Spécimen (Bruxelles). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font Constructor
| A free standalone Mac application for building fonts in an intuitive way. By Frederik Berlaen of TypeMyType in Belgium. The only thing I can say is wow. It is a small tool, but the speed with which one can create outlines is fantastic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontasia
| Bart Claeys reserved this domain name. He will start some type pages here. But that was promised back in 2002... In the meantime, the domain name has been hijacked by the internet sharks. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontcaster
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FontPage v2.0.3
| David De Groot's Belgian outfit (BlueFive Software) gives away FontPage, a font viewer and manager. Free! Alternate site. Alternate site. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts of Chaos
| Free and commercial font foundry by Brussels-based Belgian David Alexander Slaager (or: David is Creative): The Giant Cowboy Army (2012, a skeletal bone font), Pink Cell (2012, a pixel type), Opium Roadie (2012), Grand Quatre (2011), Vampirr, Unik2, SayTwo, Alpha63, Trubik77, Genz Top&Bottom, Vhia (2011). Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French punchcutter who lived in the first part of the 16th century. In 1539, he became a resident of Antwerp, and from 1558 until his death in 1570, he delivered letter types to Plantin in Antwerp. His creations were used all over Europe and even in Asia. In his day, he was one of the greatest punchcutters. Day Roman (2002, Apostrophe) is described as follows by its designer: Day Roman, is a digitally redrawn version of what has come to be historically known as the "Two Line Double Pica Roman", a typeface designed by 16th century French punchcutter François Guyot, and used in numerous books between 1535 and 1570, most notable of which are J. Steelsius's printing of The Bible (1541) and Frisius (1551), Gillis Coppens van Diest's printing of Erasmus (1544), Georgius (1544), Serlio (1550) and Horatius (1552), and Rotarius's printing of Livius Brechtius (1549). The type was also used extensively by H. Dunham, and later J. Day, in London (the name Day Roman is simply a reference to J. Day having used the type). Original matrices of Guyot's roman type are now in the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. A 1782 "Sale Catalog&Specimen of the James Foundry" shows a reproduction of that same type under the name "Two-Line Double Pica Macilent". Some specimens from unknown English printers dating back to circa 1650 also show the same typeface, but no proper references were given. The last recorded reference to Guyot's type can be found in "Type Specimen Fascimiles, vol. 1, No. 1-15," by John Dreyfus et al, printed in London circa 1963. See also here. In 2003, Frank Heine published Tribute at Emigre as a creative revival of a 1565 face by Guyot. I received this email from a typographer: Did you see Frank Heine's Tribute font at Emigre? They're claiming that it's a Guyot! What a slaughter! I don't know what he was thinking when he made the A, V and W there... and why use a Century Q in a Garalde?. Bill Troop calls Tribute a Frankenstein of a font: see here or here. He supports Apostrophe's interpretation of the Roman and Frank Blokland's interpretation of the Italic. The lower case letters of the italic of DTL VandenKeere are based on Guyot's Ascendonica Cursief of 1557. Sample of his Ascendonica Romaine (Gros Parangon). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fre Lemmens (Zolder, Belgium) made the custom font family SKDR in 2012. His typographic work for Apotheek Gijsenbergs is also noteworthy (and beautiful). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian graphic designer and software specialist who is assiocated with the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium. He designed various experimental types at these workshops. Speaker at the ATypI meetings in 2004 and 2005 in Prague and Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FUNDP: Tablinum
| Nikos Goulandris's modern Greek font Ismini was adapted by Paul Pietquin at the Département de Langues et Littératures Classiques des FUNDP (University of Namur, Belgium), which led to the Greek fonts Isminipc and SuperIsmini. Mac and PC. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian creator of the pixel face Typo pixel (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Garaldes
| A list compiled by Ludwig M. Souzen, a typographer and printer in Bertem, Belgium:
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Digital artist and motorcycle enthusiast in Verviers, Belgium. His first font, Cafe Racer (2012) is an art deco beauty with a blackboard bold style called Cafe Racer Alternative. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georges Lemmen | Belgian who worked with Henry Van de Velde. He was born in 1865 in Schaerbeek, and worked as a painter and designer. He died in 1916 in Ukkel. Creator of Argos (1908, W. Drugulin, an art nouveau alphabet). For a free digital version, see Rick Mueller's Argos. For a commercial digital version, see David Nalle's Bucephalus (1993). Dan Solo calls it Argos George. Berthold AG's phototype collection has it as Georges Lemon. However, the original name, according to Klingspor, is George-Lemmen-Schrift. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Flemish cartographer, b. Rupelmonde (as Gheert Cremer), 1512-1594. Educated at the University of Leuven, the alma mater of Luc Devroye, he lived in Duisburg (now Germany) from 1552 and is remembered for the Mercator chart named after him. Author of Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas cursorias que vocant, scribendarum ratio (1540), which contains some beautiful alphabets, and teaches cursive writing [see Cursiv Latein]. A full scan of Gerardus Mercator's 1595 cosmographic atlas. Portrait. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based designer of the free font Stargate Atlantis Glyphs (2007). He also has a Star Wars / Sci Fi font archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gody Laplanche | Gody recently posted a great common sense advice to type designers: if i would create a font, i would like to be respected in this way:
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Fantastic Greek font page by Professor Marc Huys from the University of Leuven, Belgium. This page had (has?) Supergreek (copyright Payne Loving Trust) and many other Greek fonts, and an extensive discussion on Greek fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bart van Beek from the KU Leuven provides a thorough list of links for Greek fonts. In Flemish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Griet Welters | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, who lives in Putte. She designed the gothic/Klingon face Tribe. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Guillaume Benhamou (aka Zmo) was born in Marseille, France, and studies Graphic design and Typography at E.R.G. in Brussels. In 2010, he created a monoline face in which each letter was made with one stroke, called D'un trait. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian printer who printed proofs for Théodore Simon Gando in 1828 in Brussels. Gando was French but operated out of Brussels in that year (rue Notre-Dame-aux-Neiges). Remy was located in the rue des Paroissiens in Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hendrik D.L. Vervliet | Prolific Belgian type expert who was librarian at the University of Antwerp and professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history. Author of
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Graduate of HGB Leipzig. German designer of the Lirico family at OurType in 2008. This family is slightly organic and is characterized by triangular serifs. It won an award at TDC2 2009. His thesis Kursiv has been published by Niggli Verlag in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Henri Felix Borremans | Belgian typefounder (b. Brussels, 1812, d. some time after 1861). He lived in Breda in 1840, worked for some time for Tetterode in Rotterdam, and set up his own foundry in Rotterdam in de Groote Kipstraat in 1857. It lasted about ten months--at the end of 1857, he returned to Brussels to work at the Brussels typefoundry Crabbe&Borremans, 1859-1861. Some specimen at the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Henric Pieterszoon Lettersnijder | Aka Henric Pieterszoon. Dutch letter cutter ("lettersnijder"), d. ca. 1511. He made a textura some time before 1492, which was digitized by Hoefler 7 frere-Jones as English textura. Sixteenth Century Printing Types of the Low Countries (H.D.L. Vervliet, 1968) mentions that he was from Rotterdam, and cut letters. Occasionally, he printed as well, in Antwerp from 1496-ca. 1500, in Rotterdam from 1504-1509, and in Delft from 1508 until some time after 1511. It is estimated that he cut a third to half of all the type used in the Low Countries at that time. These typefaces, including the Textura, remained popular there from 1492 until about 1550-1560, when they were superseded by the blackletter type of Ameet Tavernier and Hendrik van den Keere. His son was Cornelis Henricszoon Lettersnijder, who also cut type, starting out in Delft. Digitizations: Oude Hollandse (2012, Alter Littera; after Henric Pieterszoon "Lettersnijder"'s 1492 typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian graphic designer, typographer and type designer, and a professor at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) and at the Institute for Graphic Arts of the Plantin-Genootschap, also in Antwerp. He designed three experimental fonts and many book covers and posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hugo Puttaert | Hugo Puttaert was born in Brussels in 1960. He studied art and worked as an artist before starting his own design studio, visionandfactory which was set up in 1990. He is also responsible for graduation projects in Sint Lucas Antwerp (art department Karel de Grote-Hogeschool), where he teaches typography and graphic design. He was also in charge for the Citype Conferences in Antwerp (1997,1999). Speaker at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
International Council of Graphic Design Associations, based in Brussels. Publishes once in a while a feature article on typography. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry/printer in Liège, rue de la Commune, 15, around 1930. Specimen book (80p.) printed in 1932 available at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ine Beerten | Graphic design student in Antwerpen, Belgium, who made this gorgeous faux Hebrew and faux Arabic typeface in 2004. Hrant Papazian raves about it, and calls its competitor, FF Falafel (Per Jorgensen, 2002), unsatisfying. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ink Magazine
| Design magazine. Graphical concept by Patrick Lallemand and Pierre Delmas Bouly. They designed the random modular font Minimal Bloc (2007, Superscript): here modularly decomposed letters can switch between various geometric forms. This was followed in 2008 by Basics, another modular design. Superscript is located in Lyon. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian designer of the free dingbat font Botarosa (1999-2000). Louette lives in Chaumont-Gistoux, and is affiliated with Roseraie communale de Terre Franche. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jan Brito | Jan Brito was born around 1415 in Pipriac (Brittany) and moved at a young age to Bruges, the Venice of the North and cultural capital of Europe at the time. There he lived his life and printed in French and Flemish. His publications included the poems of Jacob Van Maerlant. In the 19th century, M. Gilliodts published a thesis that would put Brito's first mobile metal characters around 1445, about ten years ahead of Gutenberg, but that thesis was refuted later on, and the date was changed to 1464. The first printer is probably Johannes Genfleisch (aka Gutenberg) in Mainz, but the Dutch claim it is Laurent Coster from Haarlem. Work by Brito can be found in Kortrijk, Brugge, Edinburgh and the national library of France. Brito died in Bruges in 1484. There is a Musée Jan Brito in Pipriac. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch (Belgian?) author (b. 1568, Amsterdam, d. 1623, Rotterdam) of the writing manual Spieghel der Schriftkonste (1605, Haarlen). Samples of his engravings: Duytsche Exemplaren (1622). Sample of his calligraphy on paper, done in Antwerpen in 1622. His work is extended---modernized---in the extensive ligature-laden Jan van den Velde Script type family by Intellecta Design (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Michel Verbeeck (Konstruktiv, Mol, Belgium) made the experimental font Konstruktiv (2010) which he says can be downloaded here (but I could not find it). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Pierre Lacroux (1947-2002) had a wonderfully informative site with tons of useful links, many to French sources, and many concerned weith orthotypography. Subpages: Bibliography on pens, paper and writing. Bibliography on ancient and modern typography. Sadly, on November 12, 2002, Lacroux passed away. His pages remain on the web, a testimony to the many hearts he touched with his kindness. A tribute entitled Typographique tombeau de Jean-Pierre Lacroux (148 pages, 2003, PDF file) was published under the editorship of Thierry Bouche and Éric Angelini. Look for Lacroux's principle: the minimal typographic quality of a text is inversely proportional to its literary value. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jelle van Garderen (Bilzen, Belgium) created Jelle (2012, experimental typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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680+ archive of truetype fonts collected by Jeroen Toelen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
J.L. de Boubers | One of the two main typefounders in Brussels in the late 18th century. Fernand Baudin and Netty Hoeflake write in "The Type Specimen of J.F. Rosart": "This descendant of a family of printers at Lille, after a setback in 1766, had obtained, in 1768, an exemption and the permission to set up a typefoundry in Brussels. In Hellinga, we find in 1776 the address 'Au bas de la rue de la Magde- laine', and in 1177 'Rue de l' Assaut, pres de Ste Gudule'. In the foreword to his Specimen Book of 1776 De Boubers summarizes the types cut by Gillé, in Paris, and by Matthias Rosart against the numbers of the examples. In the Specimen Book of 1777 the names of the punch-cutters are printed at the bot- tom of the showings. De Boubers further informs us that he had punches cut 'exactly the same' as Baskerville's. In 1779 he issued another specimen book, some time later followed by a Premier supplement, and by a second supplement in 1781. One may read in an advertisement in the Gazette de Liège dated 19 September 1781: 'J. L. DE BOUBERS, Printer-Bookseller and Typefounder at Brussels, has just issued to the public the second supplement to his Foundry Catalogue, containing all known types, such as French, Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, music, fleurons, and in general all that concern this line of business. He also casts Tarot for playing-cards. He is not afraid to claim that his foundry is one of the finest and largest in Europe', etc. J. L. de Boubers was very different from J. F. Rosart. He was a businessman on a grand scale. In a very short while he compelled recognition as printer and publisher as well as founder and paper-maker. He also enjoyed the favour of the government (see: A. Vincent, op. cit., P.I9). One should not fail to recall here that he printed the handsomest edition known of the works of J.- J. Rousseau and that he had it illustrated by Moreau Le Jeune. He, too, expected to become the greatest typefounder in Europe." He died in 1804, and his widow carried on until 1821. His work can be seen in Premier supplément aux Épreuves des caractères de la fonderie de J.L. de Boubers à Bruxelles (1779) and Épreuves des caractères de la fonderie de J.L. de Boubers (1777). In the foreword of the last book, he brags about the material strength of his metal faces, which are "as strong as those used in Holland and Frankfurt, stronger than those in France". He continues: "jaloux de rendre ma Fonderie la plus belle de l'Europe, j'ai associé à mes travaux les plus célèbres artistes ...". Some of the type shown is by M. Rosart, fils, and Gillé. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian type designer (b. Brussels, 1974) who lives in Kessel-Lo. For his M.A. in Reading in 2004, he designed Lungta (2004), an unbelievably gracious bicephalic typeface with Latin text serif and Tibetan components. He says that the design was influenced by Dwiggins. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about Tibetan letterforms. In 2009, he obtained his doctoral degree from Reading on a topic entitled Tibetan Typeforms: from their inception in 1738 up to the present day. He currently teaches at St Lucas Art School in Brussels and at Reading. His typefaces besides Lungta: Wiels (2008, a sans face designed for the Centre of Contemporary Art in Brussels, Belgium), Construct (an experimental geometric typeface in which the initial lowercase letters were extended with a horizontal headline as in Devanagari: graduation project at St Lukas College of Art and Design, Brussels), and Elegant Contemporary (2009, a 4-style grotesque done for an arts center in Nottingham, inspired by Hans Möhring's Elegant Grotesk, 1928). Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin: The Javanese typefaces of Johannes Enschedé en Zonen and Lettergieterij Amsterdam voorheen N. Tetterode. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on The Mongolian script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer in Schaerbeek (b. 1970) who created the beautiful brush / charcoal face Holmes Titling (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian-German copper engraver (b. Liège, 1561, d. 1623), who worked most of his life in Frankfurt am Main. His vast oeuvre includes a human figure alphabet [see also here], which appeared in his book "Alphabeta et characters" (1596), and shows many influences of similar alphabets of Peter Flötner in Germany. In 1595, he published a thick "Alphabetbuch" (1595), in which we find elaborately ornamented caps. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic artist in Gent, Belgium. Designer of Gasbangers (2002), Theo & Phil (2000)), Blind Liddy (2003), Zulma (1997), Cakewalk (1999), and Plowboys (1996). These typefaces appeared in A homage to typography by Pedro Guitton (2009, Index Book, Barcelona). Other fonts by Bekaert include Archie Teck, Rasor Dina and Bettsie-X. Many of his fonts have a Kafkaesque slightly threatening look. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1984, Joke Gossé is Professor at Sint Lucas Antwerp and KDG Hogeschool, and graduate of type design at Reading, 2007-2008. She has her own type blog, and lives in Antwerp. For her Masters at Reading, she created Melville (2008), a contemporary book face for Latin and Cyrillic, which models the oblique axis structure of oldstyle faces. She also designed Nostalgia, an art deco all caps face based on stone inscriptions done by an architect in 1939 on a house in knokke on the Belgian coast. Nostalgia (2009-2010) was intended for the cover of a book on glorious past of restaurants and hotels at the Belgian coast. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Some scans courtesy of Peter Van Lancker who researched Lambrecht's work: Bastaard Mediaan (1548), Grieks Mediaan (1536), Italiek Bourgeois (1536), Italiek Mediaan (1541), Romein Augustijn 91543), Romein Mediaan (1536), Schwabacher Augustijn 91550), Textura Augustijn (1539), Textura Bible (1541), Textura Gros Paragon (1551), Textura Gros Romain (1541), Textura Mediaan (1541), Textura Moyen Canon (1539). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian (?) FontStructor in 2011 of Wine Gums, Chuck Barry (kitchen tile face), Jungen Werther (pixel face), Chicago Shootout, Contagious Basterds, and Kwartel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jozef Peeters | Lettering artist in Antwerp. A postcard handlettered by him in 1923 led to the constructivist face Comrade (1998) by Jim Parkinson for Font Bureau. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fourth generation Didot dynasty member in Paris, 1794-1871. Son of Pierre Didot. Jules Didot is famous for his invention of round-edged initials, to take the place of the sharp-edged ones. In 1825 he took his printing plant to Brussels and founded the Royal Printing House there. Relevant here isthe publication Specimen des caractères de la fonderie normale à Bruxelles, provenant de la fonderie de Jules Didot et de son père Pierre Didot (Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1914). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian of a very experimental minimal face called Modular (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer (b. 1978) of Lazy Sunday (2007, octagonal, mechanical) and SNC Bishop (2007, grunge). Dafont link. Goes under the alias Magic Chicon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
KalliCulator Automatic Calligraphy
| Software tool for calligraphy developed in 2007 by Frederik Berlaen (Belgium) as his final project at the TypeMedia program of KABK. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kalligarfie 't Veertje
| Fantastic Belgian site on the history, teaching and understanfing of calligraphy. Run by Godelief Tielens in Halen. Three subpages worth visiting include Humanist Cursive, Anglaise/Copperplate, and Uncial. The pages are in Flemish. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Based in Elewijt, Belgium, van der Waarde is an editor of Information Design Journal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and (hilarious) illustrator in Riemst, Belgium. She made Triangle Font (2011), Gradient Font (2011) and Circle Font (2011). Later in 2011, she made an untitled multiline display face. Typefaces from 2012: Hurumufu (paperclip face). | |
Belgian designer of Katz (2005, handwriting), Katz (same name) (2005, handwriting), GewoonFont (2005), Krobb (2005, handwriting), and Love Font (2005, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Katleen Vander Waeren | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, who lives in Tielt. Creator of Part. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Katrien Van de Vyver | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed Maddic. Katrien lives in Borgerhout. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kim Matthé | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font mbrace (letters made from pieces of braces), and Dr. Style. Kim lives in Rijkevorsel. The Typolis is a virtual project of his while he was a student. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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In 2009, he added Terence Kill (blackletter), Cellophone, Amanerd (texture face), Drenama, Poster Classic, Midnight Diner, Sunburst, Signo, Multiverse (Basic, Striped, Alaska, Couch), Pointless Task, Broadway (dotted outline), Mostly, Terence Kill (blackletter), Pole Position (dot matrix), Antares 37 (Startrek font), Figure Collection Part 1 (dingbats), and College Pornmag. In 2010, he made Motown Motel, Olympic Spirit (dot matrix outlined), Cyclobe Pro (octagonal), Gappy, Burtonesque. In 2011, he FontStructed the gorgeous face Vuvuzela, Dance (dancing men), and Zapotek (elliptical face), Legendary (eleven movie stars). Based in Recklinghausen, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp has a graphic design program in which typography, book design and type design are taught. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zedelgem, Belgium-based designer (b. 1984) of the handprinted faces Geschrift (2012) and Pleej (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Broken link. Kristoffel Boudens is the youngest of five children of Belgium's most famous calligrapher, Jef Boudens. Two of his siblings are calligraphers and two are lettercarvers. He studied fine arts and painting in Ghent and the writings of American painter Ad Reinhardt kept his thoughts busy for seven years. In the meantime he decided to "earn an honest living." He followed in his brother Pieter's footsteps and became fascinated by designing and carving letters by hand. After an apprenticeship with Pieter, Kristoffel studied with Gaynor Goffe&Tom Perkins and was influenced by the French lettercarver Jean Claude Lamborot. Since 1989, he has been running his own workshop, first in Antwerp, where he also taught lettering at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and now in Bruges. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristophe Swaans | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, who lives in Turnhout. Creator of Groovy. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kurt Cornelis | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the curly (octopussy?) experimental font Octopus. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
L' Imprimerie Paul Daxhelet
| Paul Daxhelet's printing shop in Hannut, Belgium. Paul designed the striped currency typeface Ecuyer DAX. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Located in Brussels, this is the main place in Belgium for studying typography. The teachers are Claude Stassart, Clotilde Olyff, Sophie Bertot, Aimé Radermaekers, and Donald Sturbelle. Also called Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
La Veuve Decellier | Successor of the foundry of J.-F. Rosart in Bruxelles after his death in 1777. In December 1779, we find an "Epreuve de la Fonderie de la Veuve Decellier, successeur de Jacques-François Rosart. Troisième édition augmentée. A Bruxelles, rue ditte Vinckt, près du Marché aux Grains.", which reproduces all typefaces and fleurons of J.-F. Rosart. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brussels-based Belgian art student. Creator of the modular font Eko (2005) (no downloads, just a jpg). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian graphic designer from Huy. Some of his posters, such as Typographisme Escher and Al Capone, are typographically interesting. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian. Organizer of Animalphabet (2007), a typographic project and a collaboration between 26 artists: Steven Harrington (US), Lisa Jeannin (BEL), Jan Kruse, Human Empire (GER), Mike Perry (US), Christopher Davison (US), Andy Rementer (IT), Rui Tenreiro (NO), Stuart White (UK), Maja Sten (SWE), Geoff Mcfetridge (US), Megan Whitmarsh (US), Chris Hopkins (JP), Misaki Kawai (US), Evan B Harris (US), Luke Best (UK), Espen Friberg, Yokoland (NO), Sara Nilsson (SWE), Joseph Hart (US), Nan Na Hvas, Sofie Hannibal (DK), Kristoffer Busch (SWE). Each participant is in charge of one glyph. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ghent, Belgium-based creator of Mawe (2012), a font used for readability experiments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Louis François Clément | Typefounder in Ixelles, Belgium, active ca. 1838. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian typographer (b. 1929) and member of the board of directors of the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, Belgium. He lives in Hove. The book Louis Van den Eede: een halve eeuw typografie in Vlaanderen (Antwerpen: Mercatorfonds, 1999) by Pierre Delsaerdt and Tonia Dhaese describes his contributions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian graphic designer who made a grotesk logotype called Black Balloon (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian graphic designer (b. 1955) whose typefaces may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. His creations include Almost Twelve, a jagged font at any point size. He teaches at the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium, and at the Plantin Genootschap. At ATypI 2004 in Prague and the ATypI 2005 meeting in Helsinki, he spoke about experimental typeface design workshops. He organized several in Finland (Lahti98, Lahti99, Lahti00, Lahti02, Lahti03, Lahti04), Belgium (ETS00, Outlaws, rawhide, Re:) and Ireland (Dublin), accled . Tens of experimental typefaces resulted from these workshops. A sampling:
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Born in Besançon, France, in 1983, Ludivine graduated from Ecole Estienne in Paris in 2006 and now lives and works in Brussels as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator for the Speculoos agency. Font creations include the handwritten Alphajet (2005) and the Ethiopian/Latin/Turkish/Hebrew mixed experimental font Kassidy. In 2008, she made NotCourier Sans (Open Font Library, a free typewriter family based on Nimbus Mono; Cyrillic glyphs added by Valek Filippov). Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of 100 Alphabets Publicitaires Dessinés par M. Moullet (1946, Editions Caboni, Bruxelles). Alphabets from that book include Letters in relief, Fancy Character, Ornamental Antique (art deco), Fancy Antique (multiline art deco), Fancy Antique 2 (a different style altogether), Pochoir (stenciled). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian-born Paris-based designer and painter whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: LeScript, Manosk (1995, irregular hand), Marker, Maria's Font, Napoléon, Vintage Gothic. His work for Swatch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Marcel Cros | I will take a wild guess and say that Marcel Cros was a Belgian illustrator and/or poster artist. In 1937, he did the lettering of an airline timetable "Sabena 1937 horaires et tarifs du 5 Avril au 9 Octobre" for (now bankrupt, thanks to our Swiss friends) Sabena Airlines. That beautiful poster led Nick Curtis to design his Sabrina Zaftig NF font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Aka Maria von Burgund, or Maria duchess of Burgundy. Born in Brussels in 1457, she died tragically in Brugge in 1482 when she fell off her horse, which fell on top of her. Only daughter of the duke Karl of Burgundy. The so called Gothic Alphabet of Marie de Bourgogne is shown in a Dutch manuscript, ca. 1480, that is found in the Louvre (collection Rothschild), and is dedicated to the duchess. On this French calligraphy site, there is speculation that the author of that book/alphabet would not be Nicolas Spierinc (known in the period 1450-1499), a talented Flemisch scribe employed by the house of Burgundy. Spierinc was a student of medicine in 1455 at the University of Leuven. From 1460-1470 onwards, he collaborates often withthe famous illuminator Lieve van Lathem. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Sint-Lukas Academy in Brussels in 2011. For her Masters project in 2011, she created Minimal, a type family in which parts of glyphs are omitted without jeopardizing legibility too much. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marieke Deckers | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the squarish experimental font Construct. Marieke lives in Meerhout. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian designer at FontShop in 1993 of the FUSE font TV27. Born in 1971, he studied at St Lukas in Gent, and works as a freelance designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mart Van Elzen | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, who lives in Kontich. Creator of If, a very interesting font that might be considered a simulation of Cyrillic. She also made Ana. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student in Hasselt, Belgium, who was inspired by a World War I monument when he created the typeface 1948 (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). He designed the DIN-like corporate typeface Belgie (2012) for Kunstencentrum Belgie, which is based on Bebas. Diano (2012) is a blackletter typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian creator of Grunge (2009, Fontcapture). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matthias Rosart | Matthias, or Matthieu, Rosart is the son of J.F. Rosart, who carried on with his father's foundry in Brussels after his death in 1777. Before that, he had a rough relationship with his father, lived for a while in Amsterdam, and even worked for a competing typefounder in Brussels, J.L. de Boubers starting in 1772. In 1789, Matthias Rosart published his specimen book, Epreuve des caractères. There he announces that he can supply all the fonts and fleurons to be found in the catalogue of his father. This seems to indicate [according to Baudin and Hoeflake] that the foundries of de Boubers and J.F. Rosart in Brussels joined. Indeed, in December 1779, we also find an Epreuve de la Fonderie de la Veuve Decellier, successeur de Jacques-François Rosart. Troisième édition augmentée. A Bruxelles, rue ditte Vinckt, près du Marché aux Grains, which reproduces all typefaces and fleurons of J.-F. Rosart. On page 12 of "Blackletter" (Peter Bain and Paul Shaw, 1998), Matthias Rosart is credited with Gros Romain Civilité (1777, Brussels), one of the most readable Fraktur fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian writer and typographer (b. Antwerpen, 1900, d. Antwerpen, 1982). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer of the high contrast face Uptight (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ghent (Belgium)-based digital photographer and type designer. His type creations include Cool (2009) and Z (2009): both are ultra-fat and have digestive problems. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based designer who made some fonts, which include Ressasser (2007, experimental), Typo Training (2007, many handprinted or hand-drawn types), Bolt (2007, a pixel font family), Culbuto (a pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian art director who created an experimental typeface using only two shapes (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer, who graduated in 2008 from the AKV St Joost in Breda, The Netherlands, and is now at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp. At St. Joost he wrote an interesting thesis (in Dutch) on type revivals. Alternate URL. An excerpt from his thesis on Garamond revivals: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael C. Place (founder of Build, a graphic design studio in London, in 2001) who used to represent Designer-Republic, shows this ultra ultra black face designed for the Computerlove International Graphic Design Exhibition, November 2003, Brussels. He created B-HMMND (2008) for the covers of the Faber Finds books (elsewhere the font is attributed to Corey Holms). Creator in 2001 of B-FUQ 01 and B-FUQ 02. Typedia link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mieke 3000 | "Free fonts, 3D-alphabets, animated fonts!" 1st lines, Xlines, MikTik, Warts, Avelgem, Hands, Mikbol." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Monobrauw is a type foundry est. in 2010 by Jorge Páez, a student of graphic design at CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico. Behance link. He made a typographic phot reportage of Bruges in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Morgans&Wilcox Mfg Co.
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Museum in Ghent, Belgium, dedicated to the industrial revolution, and many of its aspects, including the recent history of printing and typesetting. They have a fine collection of antique presses. In July 2007, Peter Van Lancker, Erik Desmyter, Patrick Goossens, Gilbert Decorte and Jos Pastijn organized a spectacular event, called Fata Morgana, in which over 1000 newspapers were printed of The Bornhemsche Gazet of 1831, in letter types of the era (Monotype Modern Extended, specially founded by Gilbert Decorte for the event) on a Perreau&Brault stop cylinderpress, which, for the occasion, was restored by volunteers at the MIAT. Video of the Perreau&Brault in action. Peter Van Lancker's videos of this event. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer and typographer in Belgrade and Brussels. She created some counterless experimental typefaces in 2009 such as FullMetalTypo. The experimental (2d and 3d) face CF followed in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nele Reyniers | Belgian codesigner (with Mark van Wageningen) of Leonora Gagarin and Magda Gagarin (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
StarTrek font archive run by "Nestra" out of Belgium. One font zip file of almost 3MB will help your Startrek font collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French calligrapher, engraver and type founder, d. ca 1767. He acquired the types of Claude Lamesle: Épreuves générales des caracteres provenants de la fonderie de Claude Lamesle, lesquels se trouvent présentement dans celle de Nicolas Gando, l'aîné (Paris, Cloître S. Julien le Pauvre, 1758). See also Epreuves des caractères de la fonderie Gando, père et fils (Paris, Cloître Sc Julien le Pauvre, 1760). His son is Pierre=François. He was involved in music typography and wrote an angry response "Observations sur le traité historique et critique de M. Fournier" (1766) as a reaction to accusations of plagiarism made by Pierre-Simon Fournier in 1765 in "Traité historique et critique sur l?origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l?impression de la musique". A 170-page specimen book was published in 1810: "Specimen des caractères de la fonderie de N.P. Gando à Paris et de son fils TH. S. Gandon à Bruxelles." [facsimile reprint in 1992 by Lane and Lommen] This shows that his son, Th. S. Gando, had set up shop in Brussels. He is often associated with upright connected script style. For example, French 111 (Bitstream, by Hans-Jörg Hunziker and Matthew Carter---this face was first called Gando Ronde in 1970 by Linotype, and after the big tansatlantic heist, it "became" French 111 at Bitstream) is based on Gando's ronde. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Niko Geens | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Grid. Niko lives in Sint-Katelijne-Waver. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
N.J. Brassart | Typefounder in St. Joost ten Noode, Belgium, active ca. 1838. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Belgian designer (b. 1992). She created the handwriting font Kat (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A project started by Open source supporters in Belgium (Pierre Huyghebaert, Harrisson, Philip May, Nicolas Maleve and Femke Snelting) and executed by Paulo Silva in Portugal in the form of the free typeface OpenDinSchriftenEngshrift (2009), which is based on the master drawing of DIN for the Prussian Railways. They state: In the coming year, we will be working on a new digital rendering of the classic DIN font with the aim to release it in the public domain. We chose DIN (often referred to as "the German Autobahn typeface") as a starting point for a few reasons. First of all, because it is one of the rare typefaces that was released into the public domain from the moment it was designed in 1932. While the original drawings remain freely available, various type foundries have copyrighted digital renderings (such as FontShop's FF DIN). Secondly because its particular history brings up many questions about standards, their political implications and relations to use. In 1936 the German Standard Committee decided DIN should be employed in technology, traffic, administration, and business, with the idea to facilitate the development of German engineering and industry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Open Source Publishing (or: OSP)
| Free software project based in Belgium and run by four people (and I quote from their web page):
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On April 9, 2011, the people at OSP, an open source foundry in Brussels, sent an open letter to Monotype in which they ask for permission to use the digital data of Gill Sans to make a reiniterpretation called Sans Guilt. See also here. We are all waiting for Monotype's reply. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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FontShop link. Author of Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now, London, Hyphen Press, 1996, and Type Now: A Manifesto. In February 2001, Smeijers received the (second) Gerrit Noordzij Award 2000 (an initiative of the post-graduate department Type&Media at the Royal Academy in The Hague in cooperation with the Museum Meermanno). Author of Type Now (2003, reviewed by John Berry). OurType's offices are in DePinte, Belgium. Speaker on historical stencil forms at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Currently he also is professor of digital media and Dean at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Père J.-Laurent-M. Perquy | Author of "La typographie à Bruxelles au debut du XXe siècle" (1904, Oscar Schepens, Bruxelles). This book describes the situation of the printing business in Brussels around 1830, and has virtually no information regarding typefounding or type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Peter Vanroose (University of Leuven, Belgium) made a metafont program that produces simulated handwriting. The font is called "Script" (1992). We also learn that he made the copperplate calligraphic face Calligra15 (1992, metafont), with modifications by S. Dachian in 1999. In 2011, this font was released in type 1 format at CTAN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian typographer, about to graduate from La Cambre in Brussels. He designed the font Hybride at 2Rebels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Located in Antwerp, Belgium, this typographical society offers seminars, and a two-year program of courses in typography at its School of Graphic Arts, which is located in the Plantin-Moretus Museum (in Flemish). Starting in 2010, Frank Blokland teaches an expert type design class---ten lecture days spread out over the year at a cost of 1200 Euros for the entire course. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Antwerp, Belgium, this typographical society offers seminars, and a two-year program of courses in typography at its School of Graphic Arts, which is located in the Plantin-Moretus Museum (in Flemish). Starting in 2010, Frank Blokland teaches an expert type design class---ten lecture days spread out over the year. Graduates in 2011: Ann Bessemans (who made Matilda, a typeface to help children in their reading), Henrik Kubel (who made the Antwerp text family), Jan Neyens, Anne Verlent, Stijn Cremers, Peter Van Lancker, Mario Schellingerhout, and Jeroen Visser (who made Remi Serif). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, and its interactive CD ROM. James Mosley's description: The house and printing-office of Christophe Plantin (died 1589) and his successors became a museum in 1876. The collection of typefounding materials comprises 4,477 punches, 15,825 justified matrices and 4,681 strikes. Among the punchcutters whose work is represented are Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon, François Guyot, Pierre Haultin, Ameet Tavernier, Guillaume I Le Bé, Hendrik van den Keere and J. M. Schmidt. There are 62 moulds from the original collection; another 200 were added in 1956 from the Van der Borght foundry of Brussels. An English-made pivotal caster was acquired for casting new type. The punches and matrices were sorted and catalogued in 1954 and succeeding years. References:
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Pleaseletmedesign
| pleaseletmedesign is a duo of Belgian graphic designers comprising Pierre Smeets (b. 1981) and Damien Aresta (b. 1979). They set up their own graphic design studio in 2004 after graduating from Saint-Luc Higher School of Arts in Liège (Belgium) and spending almost a full year in ERG (Graphic Research School) in Brussels (Belgium). The projects of pleaseletmedesign range from graphic design, books, posters, identities and stationnery to exhibition design, signage, titles sequences, and website in cultural sectors as diverse as music, architecture, cinema and advertising clients. Toyota Belgium used a car to design the outlines of an upright script called iQ (2009). Free download. The font was made by Pleaseletmedesign. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Prepressure
| Laurens Leurs' page, with special attention paid to PostScript errors. It contains a database of known PostScript errors and offending commands, including tips on how to get rid of the errors (if possible). Also included is a brief history of the world's 30 most important typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ive Heyvaert's Belgian archive of 240 freeware and shareware fonts. Had a very very nice presentation of the font samples! Alternate URL. Is this the same as Fontation? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Red Kitten
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Belgian design blog run by Renaud Huberlant, who teaches at Erg in Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer in Bruges. He created the shaky hand face Inky (2009) with Fontforge. Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman Liturgy
| Pierre François (who runs Roman Liturgy and lives in Amsterdam) made a 4-symbol font for religious documents, which he called Liturgy (2003). Since his download buttons do not work, here you have the TTF file, the PFB file and the AFM file. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of Aldo (2005) and Spastika (2006, octagonal) at the Trypo foundry in Brussels, which he set up with Gilles Pegel in 2005. Both graduated in 2005 from the ERG (Ecole de Recherche Graphique Brussels) and were born in Luxembourg. In 2006, he created the dot matrix-style face Calix (free), which is inspired by Arabic culture and pixel grids. It was intended for a cybercafe named prog, located at La Maison du Citoyen, Schaerbeek, Brussels. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antwerp-based creator (b. 1990) of the handprinted Tuscan face Lullaby (2010), the oldtimer signage family Frizton (2011), the retro signage brush script Gasoline (2011), the crazy wood-style face Board Contest (2011). Web site. He started Gravual in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the organic typeface Olifont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sara De Bondt is a London-based Belgian graphic designer who has been running her studio since 2003. Before that she worked for Foundation 33 and studied graphic design at Sint-Lukas, Brussels (B), Universidad de Bellas Artes, Granada (ES) and Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (NL). She has given workshops/talks at Beckmans college Stockholm, Ecole des Beaux Arts Lyon, Ecole de Recherche Graphique Brussels, deSingel Antwerp, Jan van Eyck Akademie Maastricht and Laus Symposium Barcelona. She teaches at The Royal College of Art and co-curated the The Form of the Book conference at St Bride Library in January 2009. In 2008, she designed the dingbat face FuturaET. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Saskia Neirinckx | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the futuristic font Flyer. She lives in Beveren-Waas. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Additions in 2010: Christmas Tuscan (a modular Tuscan), Masonic Lodge, Mook (a retro, unicase, bubble font), Toothpaste 2, Gaden Sans (organic monoline face that includes a hairline weight), Sizemore (all caps slab headline face), Quickscript (signage face), New Wave. Fonts designed in 2011: Brag Pro (like Brag, a Cooper Black alternative), Brag Stencil Pro, Chestnut (curly, handprinted), Brag (a fat round face in Cooper Black style), Gelato Script (a connected signage face), Brag Stencil (2011), Streetscript (2011, brushy signage face). In 2011, he created a quanit text family, Vulpa, with quirky foxtail terminals. Showcase of Schizotype's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Belgium, he created the Coral serif family as a student at KABK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based creator of Polsku Regula (2010, Open Font Library). He also made Reglo (2012, free at OSP). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian creator of Seppefont (2011, rounded squarish face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based Belgian, b. 1963. Home page. Designer of the handwriting face Selus (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A commercial piece of Mac software by FreeSoft (Limal, Belgium) for converting bitmaps and images into vecor format, and for editing figures and outlines. It exports EPS files. This could be used to make the outlines for glyphs of a font, assuming one has a font editor that imports EPS files. A few free trials when you download. Developers: Jean-Christophe Goddart and Renaud Pattyn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Smile Graphic Design
| Belgian illustration and graphic design outfit run by Georges Close (b. 1978). He created the free sketchbook face Kraboudja (2008), inspired by Hergé's Tintin series. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Société Typographique Belge | Belgian foundry in the nineteenth century. Specimen des caracteres letters de fantaisie, vignettes, fleurons et ornaments typographiques (1846) is their catalog. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian computer scientist, hopefully not related to the corrupt Lippens family that has fattened itself off the banks of Belgium and the citizens of Knokke. At FontStruct, he made Dropacha (2009) as a possible Captcha font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free font at this Belgian site: CasesaremplirRoman (2004, boxes and cases needed to fill out forms), the utimate bureaucratic dingbat font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Steven Soers | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the Japanese-inspired font Manga. He lives in Lint. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Steven Wittens | Belgian designer of the fat psychedelic display face ExtraLard (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Stijn Druyts | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Television. Stijn lives in Minderhout. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian printing house which has launched a typographic series called t. The first book in this series is "Femmes&métiers du Livre" (Jef Tombeur, 2004). It also offers "Typographique tombeau de Jean-Pierre Lacroux", which is a joint effort of people like Éric Angelini, Thierry Bouche, Jef Tombeur and Alain Hurtig. Located in Soignies, the house is managed by Michel Bourdain. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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The SciFi World
| Star Wars and Sci Fi font archive run by Gilles Nuytens from Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Theodor de Bry (1528-1598, Johanns father) had been a goldsmith in Liège (in present day Belgium). As a Protestant, he was forced to leave that catholic city in 1570. After living in Strasbourg for several years, he moved to Frankfurt in 1588, where he established himself as a bookseller and publisher. Many of his volumes were illustrated with engravings by his own hand. He was aided in this by his sons Johann Theodor (1561-1623) and Johann Israël (ca. 1570-1611). The de Bry firm issued almost two hundred books, including a renowned series of illustrated accounts of the Americas, emblem-books, and the mystical&alchemical works of Robert Fludd and Michael Maier. He designed the intricate set of caps New Kunstliches Alphabet (1595). De Bry together with his sons created many non-Latin alphabets as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas Baert (Deluxe Graphique), is from Kortrijk, Belgium. At Graphic River, one can buy Deluxe Bold (2008, pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Lier, Belgium, who made an expressive and hilarious type poster that features Didot and Helvetica (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tom Besters | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the grunge font Dyslexic. Tom lives in Borsbeek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian graphic designer and software specialist who is assiocated with the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium. He designed various experimental types at these workshops. On his web site, you can find the (free) Panda truetype font made by his associate, Tom Van Iersel. He also made Pixie, a handwriting OpenType face (2004) that looks different each time. Speaker at the ATypI meetings in 2004 and 2005 in Prague and Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tom Lukacs | Antwerp, Kortrijk and now Oostende, Belgium-based desktop publisher. Designer of the connected upright script and dingbat face Candyland (2006), the connected 50s roadster font Coeliakie (2007), the pixel face Micropolis (2007), the stencil and comic book face Pragmatica Nimbus (2006), this simple wide sans face (2007) and the paperclip and neon sign face Shananigan (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Belgian graphic designer who created the free truetype font Panda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Trypo
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Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
An annual exhibition organized by the design studio Catapult in Antwerp, Belgium. The first five focused on (1) Gerard Unger, (2) J.F. Porchez, (3) Fred Smeijers, (4) Pierre Di Scullio, and (5) Belgian type designers Jo de Baerdemaker, Joke Gossé and Omar Chafai. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type Destroyers
| Project of Christina Bee (Darmstadt, Germany) and Frederik Berlaen (Ghent, Belgium). Types designed by them include Dottie (dot matrix), Schrottie (grunge), Sucks (grunge), and Shoottie. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type Jamming
| Gent-based foundry led by Stéphane de Schrevel who developed a typeface specially for use with Macromedia Flash. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Typografix
| Typografix is run by Belgian (?) Michel Welfringer, a graduate from La Cambre in Brussels. He designed Robotnik at Typograsfree. His own page showcases experimental typography. He also designed Normale (2005, with Nicolas Hoffmann) as a logo and titling font for the magazine BAM. With Nicolas Hoffmann, he set up AP Fonts in 2006. At AP Fonts, with Hoffmann, he designed Normale (2006) and Edibulle (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typolis (Belgian version) | Not to be confused with the German Typolis site, Typolis was a Belgian group of type design students with exemplary web pages. It sold fresh fonts made by young Belgian typographers. Typolis was set up by design students from the Karel De Grote Hogeschool in Antwerpen, but its site disappeared in 2004. The designers included: Els Bauwelinck, Tom Besters, Kurt Cornelis, Marieke Deckers, Caroline de Pont, Stijn Druyts, Yves Faes-Dupont, Niko Geens, Eve Kuypers, Corinne Lavaerts, Els Leclercq, Evi Leuridan, Kim Matthé, Arne Meganck, Saskia Neirinckx, Steven Soers, Dominic Somers, Kristophe Swaans, Mart Van Elzen, Katleen Vander Waeren, Katrien Van de Vyver, Veronique Verbraeken, Griet Welters. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Verein Schweizer Straßenfachmänner Foundry | Swiss foundry which made SNV Extra Condensed (1972), a font later distributed commercially by URW. This is a license plate font used by various U.S. states and Canadian provinces. Not only is this font family quite ugly, it is also quite unreadable. A Ralf Herrmann explains that i can still be found on older Swiss traffic signs and also in Belgium where it is still the main font on road signs. Since 2003, the swiss use a new font called ASTRA Frutiger, which is based on Frutiger 57 Condensed with slight changes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Veronique Verbraeken | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the wonderful experimental font Nix. She lives in Lint. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at Sint Lucas in Antwerp, Belgium. Creator of the counterless modular typeface Petit Beurre (2012, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Using iFontMaker, Willem&Nienke or Willem Driebergen (Belgium) created 3Bergen (2011, fat finger face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Willem Silvius | Publishers of the earliest known type specimen book in the low countries: The Leyden "Afdrucksel" (1582). A facsimile with an introduction and notes by Paul Valkema Blouw was published at Terlugt Press, Leyden, 1983. See here. Willem Silvius was a printer in Antwerp around the midde of the sixteenth century. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian institute where one can study calligraphy. Teachers include Yves Leterme, Brody Neuenschwander, Ann Degeyter and Veronique Vandevoorde. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create a striped display face called Structica Stripes, which is based on his Structica. He also made Structica Black and Cloudy, as well as Squrbed, Squrbed2 and Squrbed Rounded. Anotherone and Anotheronebis are heavy octagonal faces, with the latter being a slab serif version of the former. Fatty is an ultra-fat face following the 2007-2008 trend in such faces. Fonts from 2009: Pixel Grotesque, Structica (+Black), AnotherOne, AnotherOneBis (octagonal, mechanical), Yet Another Pixel Font, You Finish It (outlined, athletic lettering). Additions in 2010: Oekaf (+Mono, +Slab), Px (pixel family, with Slab, Uni, Sans, Nrrow), Minimalist, FFF Lettertype, Ptit Sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shareware Windows font manager by Peter and Fanny at Blacksun Software in Turnhout, Belgium: X-Fonter is a user friendly Font Viewer, Font Manager and 3D Graphic creator. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yves Faes-Dupont | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Wireframe, the happy font Zirco, and the pixelish font Square. Yves lives in Antwerpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Based in Gent, Yves is a Belgian type expert, who is a regular at several type forums such as Typophile and Typographica. He is much appreciated for his insightful type critiques as well as his type identification skills. Owner and typographic designer of Don Q Design, and art director and typographic designer at Magelaan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Typographer and graphic designer. He created the free web font 
Belgian designer (b. 1978, Brussels, based in Brussels) of fonts at 
Carine de Wandeleer was born in Argentina to a French-Belgian immigrant family. She studied fine arts and graphic design at University of Buenos Aires, but lives and works in Spain. 
Graduate of the 
Born in Saint-Avertin, near Tours, in 1514, died in Antwerp in 1589. He left France in 1555 and settled and worked in Antwerp, where he published many books that drew attention because of their beautiful typography. He often used types by Claude Garamond and Robert Granjon. He was the main catholic publisher of the counter-reformation, but he also published material for the protestants. One of his main achievements was the Biblia polyglotta (1569-1573), the eight-volume polyglot Bible in Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syrica, with text in parallel columns. For two years, from 1583-1585, he was the official typographer at the newly erected University of Leiden. After his death in 1589, his son, Jan Moretus (1543-1610), carried on his work. Plantin's press, Officina Plantiniana, survives in its entirety as the Plantin-Moretus Museum, sold to the City of Antwerp in 1876. This collection of 16th century typefaces (punches, matrices, the works) is a unique historical treasure. 
Bios of the main members of the Didot family: François Didot (1689-1757), François-Ambroise Didot (1730-1804), his son, Pierre-François Didot (1731-1795), the second son, Pierre Didot (1761-1853), the oldest son of François-Ambroise, and 
Belgian designer who has a bachelors in graphic design from St. Lucas, Gent (Belgium) and ArtEZ Arnhem (The Netherlands), and a Masters in the same area from both places. He lives in Gent and 
Vietnamese/Belgian designer (b. Saigon, 1958) who uses brushes and pens to create handwritten fonts in 1994 such as DuMathieu, 
Belgium-based Elsa Mersayeva is unique. She writes about herself: I'm all about typography, matryochkas, Paris, pirates, funny people, urban culture, Bukowski, red nails&messy hair, gangsters' bandanas, huge golden earings and unicorns. Her 
This is a gallery and a discussion of the fonts created by the students at ENSAD since 1997. A partial list: 
Brussels-based foundry operational in the early part of the 20th century. (Metal) typefaces by them include the art deco 
Foundry in Brussels, which published a specimen book entitled 
Swedish designer, born in 1965. He lives in Belgium and Sweden, and his foundry is called Fontcaster. 
Born in Gent (now Belgium) around 1540, and aka Henry du Tour, he died in 1580. He delivered letters to Plantin (and exclusively so between 1570 and 1580). His lettering was revived in 1994 by the Dutch Type Library as 
Belgian punchcutter and typefounder (b. Namur, 1714, d. Brussels, 1777). In 1740, he started out in Haarlem as a punchcutter, and published twelve type specimens in 1741, as well as 14 ornaments. From 1746 until 1752, he cut another thirteen different alphabets. In 1749, he cut several sets of musical characters. He had a contract with Enschedé, where he made the gorgeous shaded capital face Rosart in 1759, aka Enschedé no. 811. The 2-line great primer letters of that typeface were digitized by ARTypes in 2007 as 
Graphic design student at KASK, Gent, Belgium. At 
Joern Oelsner (b. 1981, Flensburg, Germany) is a German type and graphic designer based in Antwerp, Belgium. He graduated at the Design Factory International in Hamburg, Germany. While studying he worked for URW++, Hamburg. After graduation he worked in several graphic design studios in Europe. He mainly develops corporate typefaces. Some of his projects are the corporate typeface of Sport 2000 (in cooperation with URW++, Hamburg), the corporate typeface of the Andorra Telecom SOM and the corporate typeface of the National Television and Radio Spain RTVE (both in cooperation with Summa, Barcelona). His type designs at URW++ include 
One of the first Belgian printers and typefounders, who lived and operated in Gent, Belgium, in the early 16th century. Born in Gent in 1491, he died in Wezel (Wesel) in Germany in 1556 or 1557. 
Belgian graphic designer. In 2010, he created the typeface 
Belgian graphic designer and painter. With Dutch artist and graphic designer Joan Collette, he created the gorgeous ultra-fat art deco display face 
FontStructor who made a series of fonts in 2010 simply numbered in Flemish, Een, Twee, Drie, Vier, 
German designer of First Strike (2008, FontStruct) and First Strike Spaced, a grid-overlay of First Strike. Other FontStruct fonts from 2008: Canned Heat (dingbats), Guttermouth (slab serif), Guttermouth Spaced (dashed version), Guttermouth Bold, Bloc Party Outline Shadowed, BabyBaby (toy blocks), Possibly Winged Polepieces, Skylines, Canned Heat, Simplicity, Stadium, Brussels (inspired by the Atomium), Cardboarder (nice 3d face), Crazytown (a Western font, an hommage to Maurice de Bevere, creator of Lucky Luke, 1923-2001), Itallica, Orica*cut, Orica, Pavement, Moduli, Tinka, Tinka Filled, Moduli, Loreylane, FS United One, ariapenciroman (gorgeous sketched letters), babybaby, bellevue, bloc-party-outline-shadowed, brussels-contourized, elceedee, eurofiction, horrorhouse, plenum, scratch-me-if-you-can, simplicity, skylines, sophia---superlight (hairline), stadium, werkshalle (Ferrari lettering font?), schachmatt (stitching font).
Graduate of 
Creator of the web icon font 
American wood type manufacturer from the 19th century, set up in 1880 by William T. Morgans and H.K. Wilcox. The latter had taken over Young's shares at Young and Morgans Mfg Co., prompting a company name change. It was located in Middletown, NY. 
The main typefaces at MyFonts that are related to Plantin or Plantijn. [
Omar Chafai (b. 1977) graduated in 2009 with an MA in graphic design from KASK (the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium), with a thesis project entitled De ontwikkeling van het Arabische schrift in relatie tot het Latijns schrift. His graduation project involved the development of the very readable text typeface 
OurType is Fred Smeijers' web site and foundry established in 2002. The venture was started in cooperation with Rudy Geerarts of FontShop Benelux, and today also includes Corina Cotorobai. He is the Dutch designer (b. 1961) of many seminal type designs. Here is a list. 
Flemish web log about the history and mechanics of type, run by Belgian graphic designer Peter Van Lancker. There is a lot of information on the early printing and typefounding by 
Illustrator in Marseille, France, who graduated in 2003 from ESA Institut St. Luc in Brussels with a Bachelors degree in plastic arts. In 2011, he created a 
Timothée Génot (aka Red Kitten) is a Belgian freelance graphic designer who graduated from ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, 2002. He then moved to Minneapolis, MN, where he still works. 
Type foundry in Sheffield, UK. Its designer, 
Dysfunctional web page warning. 
Belgian design director Tom Muller (b. 1974) specializes in graphic design, typography, identity design, and illustration. Based in London, he is the creator of 
Foundry and type information site launched in Brussels in January 2005 by Sacha Rein and Gilles Pegel, two guys born in Luxembourg. Gilles created the Elite and Butter Unsalted typefaces (2005), and Sacha designed Aldo (2004). Both graduated in 2005 from the ERG (Ecole de Recherche Graphique Brussels). The stitching font 
Frederik Berlaen (TypeMyType) is a Flemish type designer, b. 1981, 
Ward Kuypers (aka Ward Zwart) is the Belgian designer of the free fonts Snacks (2011, grunge), 
Belgian calligrapher famous for gestural writing. Born in Ieper in 1959, he was first a teacher of classical languages in Bruges, but after calligraphy lessons from Nadine Lebacq, and a study period with Brody Neuenschwander, he became a successful freelance calligrapher and Prime Minister of Belgium. Just kidding---this Yves Leterme knows the difference between the Brabançonne and the Marseillaise. Examples of his work: 
