Calligraphy

Abdul Manan
[Belove Studio (or: Takiy)]

Abdullah Tasci

Born in 1945 in Kayseri, Turkey, Abdullah Tasci entered the Fine Arts Academy in 1967 and graduated from the Graphic Department in 1972. In 1982 he became Assistant Professor at Mimar Sinan University, and retired in 2000. In retirement, he designed font families such as Tasci Kursiv (2000, calligraphic), Tasci Kufi, Tasci Calligraphy and Nokta. Kufiz (2000, Latin) was influenced by the engravings of the Ottoman art and Rumi ornamentations. Tasci Kufi (2009) is constructivist. In 2010, he created the Tasci Sans, Serif and Tasci Condensed families. Tascinorm was published in 2014. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Abhilasha Jaiswal

Varanasi, India-based designer of the modular Latin typeface Elegance (2016). During her studies at IIT Jabalpur, Abhilasha Jaiswal designed the compass-and-ruler monoline rounded sans typeface Gol (2016) for Devanagari. She drew a textured set of zodiac symbols, a blackletter alphabet, and a Latin poster alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿

Abraham Beltran
[Bran (or: Fractal Eye)]

Absonstype (was: Haksen Graphic, or: Haksen Letters, or: Haksen Studio)
[Sarwo Edhi Prayitno]

Edhi Sarwo or Sarwo Edhi Prayitno or Edhi Prayitno. Magelang, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1982, who set up Haksen in 2017 and Absonstype in 2021. He designed Ballete (2018), Metteora (an irregular script) (2018), Philbrook (2018: a tall sans), Romantic (2018: a connected monoline script), Anonim (2018), Rumetes (2018), Polythem (an upright script) (2018), Brooklyn (2018, a dry brush font), Amellia (2018: a swashy script), The Immortal (2018), Arpeggio (2018), Saint Petersburg2 (2018), British Columbia Serif (2018), Balutteli (2018), Balutteli Serif (2018), Belleson (2018), Hello Pretty (2018), The King (2018), Angry+Hungry, (2018), Busset City (2018: a monolinear rabbit ear script), Muttung (2018: a rustic script), Saint Petersburg (2018), Niken (2018: script), The Chocolate (2018), Delicious (2018), Adellina (2018), Antique Balutteli (2018: Serif and Script), Sweet Girls (2018: curly script), Katty Pretty (2018), The Wormies (2018), Mellisa (2018), Stylistic Sign (2018), Bestalia (2018), Lincoln (2018), the upright script Paulo Pacito (2018) and the italic script Willona (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Please (roman caps), Hamburg (a rabbit ear calligraphic script), Angellyne (script), Big Bang (script), Ballado (an extended sans), Bello (a calligraphic script), Roberts (a bold brush signage script), Babyhome, Hellena, Mottion, Albero (an all caps vintage sans), Alberobello, Cnossus, High Dreaming, Dreaming, Blame (all caps; sans and serif), Great Authorized (a vernacular script), Ambyar, Sikatch, Berash, Romeo Fans (a dry brush script), Right Female, Attention (font duo), Babylon, Soulmate (calligraphic), World Pressure, Senada, Rothena, Masha, Blade, The Brandy, Arkana, Southeast (a dry brush typeface), Angela Aiglory (a rabbit ear script), Beauty, Love Heart (a Valentine's day font), Anyone, Stones, Dragon, Karyland, Radiga, Rumero, Mylord, Pinnocio, Black Cat, Melburn, Bumblebee, Black Forest (font duo), Saturday, Biscuit, Amuba, Angela, Amy, Washington, Hasella, Grusel (dry brush).

Typefaces from 2020: Lamborte (techno), Tobelord (a flared all caps display sans), Challenge (inky script), Elmore, Twice Spoiler (a dry brush script), Effingham (wild script), Billystory, Mangosteen, Morning Girls, Millenial Script, Tittowest (described as a futuristic serif), Millestones (brush), Monsterio (futuristic, slab serif), Oldbrothers, Thunderboss (an octagonal sports font), Father's Entreaty, Bunny Story, Coding Sign, Botanical Flourish, Soulwave, Hello Crafter, Pretty Night, Megatura (a decorative serif), Into Paradise, Netherland Cracker, Mango Salsa, Beauty Mermaid, Secret Admire, Standing Classy, Athena, Retanglez, Heartbright (a script), Bunny Story, Withyou, Alligattory, Anandya, Coding Sign, Jasmine Sheffield (a wild script), Millenial Script, Morning Girls, Secret Admire, Netherland Cracker, Mango Salsa, Eiffel Shine, Sweety, Big Stomach, Piano Teacher, Romantic Chicago, Donkey Casting, Falling Love, California Dolphin, Meritoriously (a scrapbook font), Honey Moon, Really Distinct, Sandblast, Ferments (a scrapbook script), Lovely Unicorn, Austria Memories, Birama (a dry brush script), High Billion, Believe (a clean wide sans), Consistance (an inky signature script), Matrixoid (in the Saul Bass style), Paris Helen (a romantic script), Mostly Bonny (script), Westony (a wild inky script), The Fresh of Onion (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2021 at Haksen: Really Distinct (script), Sandblast (a brush script), Big Stomach (a scrapbook font), California Dolphin (a scrapbook script), Falling Love (a scrapbook script), Piano Teacher (script), Donkey Casting (a scrapbook font), Nostrud, Austria Memories (script), High Billion (a font duo), Honeymoon (a dry brush script), Romantic Chicago (a brush script), Elmore (script), Mostly Bonny (script), Alberobello Serif (a display serif), Big Bang (script), Antagonist (bold and flared), Megatura (a decorative serif), Thunderboss (techno), Santa Fe Spring (script), Funboldies, Hastag (a rabbit ear script), Mattiass (a dry brush script), Mottion, Beby Asia (a wild script), Angellyne, Babyhome, Feeling, Senada, Hellena, Rothena.

Typefaces from 2021 at Absontype: Greatelo (a free techno font), Beillonei (a display typeface), Rottering (a thin fashion mag serif), Andromeda, Restore, Barcelona (a monolinear display sans), Alteron (a bold display sans), Rescueto (spurred), Avemon (a display serif), Kagestone (a display serif), Rectoba (a squarish display typeface), Teritone (a squarish typeface), Demora (a 6-style squarish sans).

Typefaces from 2022: Efiles (a display typeface given the psychedelic treatment), Netherland Cracker (a bold upright scrapbook script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Aburayyan
[JR Letter]

Abzari Jafar
[McJer Studio]

Aceh Design (or: Mild Studio)

Studio in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Creators of the Arabic simulation typeface Alkhalam (2015), the calligraphic Cobully Script (2016), Aventurine Script (2016), the handcrafted Skyfall (2016, marker pen style), Gondez (2016) and Asaina (2016), and the brush script typeface Sikula (2016). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Achmad Hanif Ulinuha
[Madhaline Studio]

Acitya Adyana
[Adyana]

Acra Koh

Born in Singapore, Acra is a brand designer based in Tokyo specializing in typography, calligraphy and letterforms. In 2017, she attended Torinoumi Osamu's one-year Japanese Type Design Program, Mojijuku (a Japanese type design course) where she created her first Japanese font for Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. In 2019, she participated in the Type@Paris intensive course, and that resulted in the friendly serif typeface Companion, which was designed for use in small sizes, and, in particular, for typesetting information in food labels.

In 2020, she joined Neil Summerour's Positype Flourish foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿

Acute Studio
[Diana Ovezea]

Born close to the Black Sea coast in Romania, Diana moved to Austria as a child, where she attended the American International School. After graduating from the New Design University in St. Pölten, she worked as a graphic designer, mainly on book and corporate design projects. In 2013, she graduated from the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag. Some time later, she set up Acute Studio in Amsterdam under the motto: We like sharp outlines, tight curves, and edgy designs.

Creator of the hairline face Opium (2010) characterized by teardrop terminals. Creator of Paige (2011), developed at the tipoRenesansa 3rd international type design workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This is an attractive and bouncy papercut display face. Marge (2011) is edgy and highly legible even at very small sizes---it was developed at the tipoRenesansa 2nd international type design workshop. Paige Italic (2012) was done at tipoRenesansa 4 and TypeClinic 5 (2012).

Her KABK graduation typeface was Editura (2013), a a type family for serious publications, magazines, as well as non-fiction books.

At The 8th International Typeclinic in 2014, she continued work on an untitled text typeface. At Die Gestalten, she published Paiper, an extraordinarily balanced and readable 6-style text family with angular flared glyphs that are genetically related to folded paper strips.

In 2014, Diana collaborated on the design of HF Stencil with Bold Monday and Studio Thonik. Made for Holland Festival, HF Stencil is based on Glaser Stencil.

In 2016, Diana published Equitan Sans and Equitan Slab at Indian Type Foundry, marrying industrial era rustiness with modern functionality. In 2017, she designed Tiny Sans and Albert Samuels Clock Type.

Codesigner in 2017 with Samo Acko and Sabina Chipara of the typefaces Passenger Display (2017) and Passenger Serif (released in 2019: a Clarendon). Passenger Display is a high-contrast didone-style font family. It is intended for use in headlines, signs, or posters. Passenger Display is a high-contrast didone-style font family. It is intended for use in headlines, signs, or posters. In 2019, Diana Ovezea and Samo Acko added Passenger Sans, which is characterized by horizontal and vertical terminal strokes and small apertures, and delivers a relaxing read in long texts.

With Sabina Chipara, she co-designed the 8-weight simplified sans family Bega at Indian Type Foundry. Diana Ovezea also published the sharp-edged 14-style Matteo in 2017.

At Future Fonts, she published Bizzarrini (together with Sabina Chipara) and Silverspoon, ca. 2018. She writes about the wonderful Bizzarrini: Though the idea originates from a Stefan Schlesinger ad sketch for a Paris couture house, we straightened up this typeface and made it seem engineered and sharp. It gets its name from the Bizzarrini Manta, a wedge-shaped concept car designed in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Bizzarrini has extremely long wedge serifs. Following Schlesinger's sketch, it features very tall capitals with an out-of proportion middle-line (very big heads on S, B and R). Silverspoon is a contemporary take on Copperplate Gothic.

In 2019, she released the connected monoline sans script Akin (done with Sabina Chipara) and the geometric sans family Matteo at Indian Type Foundry.

Typefaces from 2020: Silverknife (a tall and skinny version of Silverspoon), Capra (a headline typeface with a bouncy baseline. This project started as a one-day challenge to recreate a piece of lettering on the Glass Menagerie poster designed by David Klein in 1958).

At Fontshare, Diana Ovezea and Sabina Chipara released the free calligraphic script Britney.

In 2021, Barbara Bigosinska, Rafa Buchner and Diana Ovezea set up Blast Foundry. At Blast Foundry, she published Granblue, a great experimental typeface family for boxing titles.

Typefaces from 2022: Duplet (a 14-style geometric sans with a techno vibe; by Diana Ovezea and Rafal Buchner at Indian type Foundry), Duplet Rounded (also 14 styles), Duplet Open (the 14-style companion of Duplet).

Home page. Behance link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

AcuteType
[Stirling H. Alexander]

This outfit used to sell and give away fonts made by Stirling H. Alexander until it closed in 1996. Based in Orinda, California, they also were into custom handwriting and custom calligraphic fonts. Free typefaces included Lingbats and Ling Print Brush. Alexander made a dozen fonts in all. Acutetype morphed into a porn site and then another site since 1996, but Stirling H. Alexander has nothing to do with that. [Google] [More] ⦿

Adam Fathony
[AF Studio]

Adam Jagosz

Aka Iorveth Aen Seidhe. Katowice, Poland-based designer of Slowglass (2017: a stocky 30-style geometric semi-serif sans family with vast language coverage that includes Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese), the rune simulation font Pertho (2016) and the penis font Semi (2016). He also made several interesting calligraphic pieces.

In 2019, he designed the 62-style sci-fi typeface family Ares (+Ares VF), the condensed Latin / Greek / Cyrillic sans Rywalka, the creamy stencil typeface Aromatron and the leafy Aromatron Ornaments.

Typefaces from 2020: AJ Quadrata (a revival of Textura Qadrata).

Aka Quadratype. Devian Tart link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

ADB Studio
[Antonio Del Bino]

Florence, Italy-based designer of the free calligraphic typeface Perale (2016) and the fun Peignotian typefaces LH Stan and LH Ollie (2017), where LH stands for Laurel and Hardy.

In 2017, he published the text typeface family Audrey H. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Adefa Studio
[Symon Adam Abdullah]

Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia-based designer of these script and calligraphic typefaces in 2019: Shabira Bloom, Adinda Script, Script Mothers, Ramadhan Kareem, Rosenesya, Mother Love, Bointang Cifoy, Sambilan, The Playing, Eisha Script, Sugartina Font Signature, Romantina Font Script, Herawati Signature Font, Bintang, Hand Boys, Betania, Blangku, Mangifera, Happy Berry, Beatrice, Almaida, Elmaira. [Google] [More] ⦿

Adi Marwah
[BBA Key (or: Marwah Store, or Arwah Studio, or Art Design)]

Aditiyo Dwi Putranto
[Creaditive Design]

Aditya Bayu Perdana

Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of these local language fonts in 2014-2015: Prayara (for Kawi), Godhong (for Javanese), Kamo (for Javanese), Ngrawit, Palataran (for Balinese), Liwet (for Sundanese), Lontara and Lontaraq (for Buginese), Wijaya (for Kawi), Mulawarman (for Pallava), Pustaha (for Batak), Lilitan (for Balinese), Aturra (for Javanese), Wulang (for Javanese; based on the 19th century calligraphic handwriting of Serat Jayalengkara Wulang), Tantular (a humanist sans for Latin, Balinese, Batak, Bugis, and Kawi).

Designer of the multiscript Bodoni typeface Kasira (2015), which covers Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Balinese, and the Javanese fonts Nawatura (2016), Bangil (2016) and Makara (2016).

Typefaces from 2017, designed during his studies at Parahyangan University in Bandung: Nakea (Javanese), Pustaka (Javanese).

Typefaces from 2018: Batangan (Javanese), Kavali (Sundanese), Jogjakartaip (Javenese), Salapa (for Lontara script), Pustaka Bali (Balinese), Nawatura, Istaka, Dioharudin (Cirebonese script).

Typefaces from 2019: Merpat (for Balinese), Kataruman (for Sundanese). [Google] [More] ⦿

Adrian Bach

Adrian Bach (Essen, Germany) created the calligraphic typeface Broken Hand Regular (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Adrian Caldwell

Designer of the calligraphic script typeface Simplicity (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Adrian Williams
[Club Type]

Adriana Arias

During her studies in Tijuana, Mexico, Adriana Arias created a display typeface (2014) with calligraphic roots. [Google] [More] ⦿

Adriana Perez Conesa

Adriana Perez Conesa is a Spanish graphic and typeface designer, currently based in Barcelona. She studied art and graphic design at the University of the Basque Country. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2020. Her typefaces:

Subs and Stuff (2020). These are her graduation typefaces at Reading. Subs n Stuff. Subs uses squarish letterforms with low contrast, large x-height, generous apertures, pixel-traps and clear shapes, all to help reduce the chances of misrecognition and increase legibility. Subs contains two different styles: Micro, intended for low-resolution screen and small sizes, and Text, for high-resolution screens and bigger sizes. Text is also variable in the weight axis. Stuff is a variable subfamily that covers weight and optical size axes. Both typeface families are accompanied by an italic style and support Latin and Arabic scripts.
A revival of Augereau Gros Romain (2020).
Rockera (2018-2019). Rockera was designed during a four month Typography Design post-graduate course at EINA (University School of Design and Art of Barcelona).
Essone (2018). A didone.
Aurum Sans (2018). Her graduation project at the University of the Basque Country. Aurum Sans is a geometric typeface in which she combined rationality with humanism.

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Adrienn Pajger

Budapest, Hungary-based designer of the calligraphic script typeface Amelia (2017). This typeface was finished during her studies at KREA Contemporary Art School. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ady Suhar
[Asahar Studio]

Adyana
[Acitya Adyana]

Designer of the script typeface Adyana (2019), which is advertised as a modern dancing font. Adyana also designed Vougoat (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

AEN Creative Studio
[Agung Eko Nugroho]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer, of the script typefaces Christmas Gift, Hamuna (2019), Sandwell (2019), Kelly Leevan (2019), Driana (2019), Lattiefa (2019: monoline), Naella (2019) and Valerine (2019).

In 2020, he released the script typefaces Janiella, Valenttiena, Cute Butterfly, Sarilla Script (a rabbit ear calligraphic script), Sweet Allita, Christmas Surprise, Sallsa, The Spooky Night, Amillina (an upright script), Lovely Autumn, Benillia, Monallesia, Monallesia Script, Giette, Hello Shilla, Allesia (a wide signature script), Benilla, Allitta Calligraphy, Leytta, Selly Calligraphy, Lathi, Barbara Calligraphy, Brillia Calligraphy, Gietta, Selitta, Lattiefa, Sweet Charlie, Ravenna, Solleno and the monoline script typefaces Benalla and Faritta.

Typefaces from 2021: Christmas Combine Script (a tall stylized sans), accompanied by a brush script Stunning Christmas Monogram, Cute Christmas Monogram (an alphading font by Agung Eko Nugroho), Christmas Chic (a hand-drawn slab serif), Pattia (a round hand-crafted typeface), Aterline (a monolinear slab serif), Marqana (an elegant informal sans), Halloween Script, Creepy Halloween Monogram, Bat Boo, Halloween Festival, Chic Cat (hairy letters), Spooky Place (a brushed Halloween font), Creepy Ghost, Autumn Ceria (hand-printed with leafy attachments), Conmersa (a headline sans), Amalligna (script), Sweet Flower Monogram (a Valentine's day script), Anttine (script), Kellvin (an informal monolinear typeface), Sweet Butterfly (a romantic or scrapbook script), Summer Story (a non-connected script), Sunny Brush (a brush script), Demillina (a heart-themed Valentine's Day script), Summer Calling, Niliya (script), Aynilla (a curly script), Melline (script), Miatta (a connected calligraphic script), Romantic Spring (a script), Aurona (script), Easter Joy (hand-printed), Alessea (script), Pretty Valentine (script), Valentine Cute.

Typefaces from 2022: Amanilla (a scrapbook font), Easter Sweet (a Valentine's Day font), Mellviana (a scrapbook font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Aerotype
[Stephen Miggas]

Aerotype is a foundry in Camarillo, CA (formerly in Glendale, CA). It sells the typefaces of Stephen Miggas. Many types were designed around 1998, and most were rejuvenated and updated in 2005. A list of Aerotype's typefaces typefaces:

Pixel fonts: Airlock, AirlockWebDings, Fronteer One, Fronteer Two, Microtooth, Microtooth Web Dings, No Biggie One (+Bold), No Biggie Two (+Bold).
Old typewriter fonts: Obsolete (+Bold, XBold, Light, XLight).
Handwriting or informal scripts: Fave (2019), Arbordale (2014, calligraphic), Bountiful, BountifulBold, Khaki (2007, fun script), Khaki Alternate, Mission, Sanscripta (+Heavy), Siesta, Southbee, Stay True (2011, tattoo-inspired), Turbinado (2018), Boundless, Chillin, Angeleno, Game Street, Jumpshot.
Stencil typefaces: Expedition Stencil (+Heavy, +Thin), Hogwild (2010).
Blackletter: Octoberfest, Kingshead (+Alternate, Alternate Gothic, Alternate Light, Gothic, Light), Ladybat (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Light), Ravenwood One (+Bold, Condensed), Ravenwood Two (+Bold, Condensed), Wilhelmschrift, Ravenwood, Octoberfest (blackletter), Gothicus (2006, after Rudolf Koch's Maximilian), Dractura, Dracena.
Destructionist: Derailer (2016), Americanus (2016, emulating 1800s newsprint type), Dogjaw (2009), Thunderhouse (2009), Sluicebox (2008), Americanus, Conquistador Medium, Derailer (2006), Fiesta, Indigo Medium, Rebound (+Bold, Light, Super, XLight), Coldsmith, Blackstock, Boilerplate, Geoduck, Ghost train.
Techno: Durandal (+Black, Flat, FlatBlack, FlatLight, Light, Recycle.
Octagonal typefaces: Expedition (+Heavy, Thin, Super, StencilSuper), Protocol (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Alternate Bold, Bold, Light).
Dymo label simulation typefaces: Recycle Alternate, Recycle Alternate Reverse, Recycle Reverse, Recycle Standard), Public Works.
Display typefaces: Pacifico (2009), Rebound, Roughneck, Fiesta (Mexican style), Mediterano, Pitchfork, Serendipity.
Western style: Buckboard (2009), Bootstrap (2010, a estern wood-inspired slab serif), Planchette, Protocol, Leadville (Egyptian), Saloon After, Saloon Before, Boxwood, Caboose, Copperjack (2006, Egyptian), Silverton (Egyptian).
Pre 1999 typefaces that have been discontined or renamed: Clique Serif, Bevel-Broken, CliqueWedge, Vector, Corrode, Looneywood.
Dingbats: Antique Macabre Ornaments (2007).
Wood type: Coldsmith (2016), Sluicebox (2016, letterpress style), Applewood (+Alternate, 2009), Blackstock (2015).
Brush scripts: Zooja (2016).
Script typefaces: Fave (2019-2020).
Calligraphic typefaces: Duende (2016), Meritage (2014, a contrast-rich brush face)), Keepsake (2012, also advertised as a tattoo script typeface family), Spindrift (2012).

Creative Market link. View Stephen Miggas's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

AF Studio
[Adam Fathony]

Adam Fathony (or Adam Fathoni Haris; AF Studio, Bandung, Indonesia) created the vintage typeface Grandesa (2014), the signage typeface Magnifika (2014) and the Victorian typeface Marema (2014).

In 2015, he published the connected swashy script typeface Octavia Script, the brush scripts Carbonera and Shallom, the hand-lettered Vanilla Daisy Script and Mightype, the watercolor script Hollycakes, and the connected Brayden Script (and Sans).

Typefaces from 2016: Drustic Daily, Karlberg Script, Ecosmith Script, Halosense Script (calligraphic), Lunar Cone (connected layered script), Clarkson Script, Salvador Script, Salvador Serif, Salvador Condensed, La Venice Script (retro signage lettering).

Typefaces from 2017: Clarkson Script (brush lettering), Bignord Vintage (with Fauzan Rafhy), Douglas Collection (12 fonts: Aaronade Script, Ancaster Script, Burlington, Calgury, Montreal Rounded, Morphic 60s, Norwood Old, Ogdensburgh, Palmeira, Rutland Extended, Wolves Sans, Wolves Serif), Almost Lover, Rhythmic Dances (rough script), Sevastian (layered font set), Rustling Trees (dry brush), Little Karla Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Figuera Variable (a late Victorian, early art nouveau typeface family; variable font format), Brignola (a calligraphic penmanship script), Eastside Brush (a brush signage script done with Angga Kristiandri), Marshfield (a retro cursive typeface by Adam Fathoni Haris and Renov Olivian), C'est La Vie (font duo), Chivels (a vintage typeface done with Angga Kristiandri at Abbassy Studio), Sevastian (a layered font family), Drustic Dialy (weathered; with Angga Kristiandri), Elli Bellie (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2019: Scottsdale Serif (at Typeverything), Scottsdale Desert (an opentype feature-laden display serif), Norfolk (Narrow, serif), Tiverton (Sans, Serif, Script: by Adam Fathony Haris and Angga Kristiandri), Havard (a layerable athletic lettering set of 12 fonts), Gorga Grotesque.

Typefaces from 2020: Auvelle (a hairline sans), Windsore (a font trio), Howli (layerable, rounded; sans, serif and script), Genty (a creamy retro signage script typeface by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathoni Haris), Burnest (a vintage typeface by Adam Fathoni Haris and Renov Olivian), Glaw (a psychedelic font by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathoni Haris), Oliviar Sans (28 styles and a variable font), Budge (a layerable retro signage script by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathoni Haris), Stanlow, Muray House (a bold swashy bathroom towel typeface by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathoni Haris), Esteric (a playful tapered font by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathony).

Typefaces from 2021: Alstera (an oblique serif), Monvar (a layerable Cooper Black style typeface by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathoni Haris), Rische (a 6-style display serif with huge counters and an enormous x-height; by Ilham Herry and Adam Fathoni Haris), Ottenthic (script and serif), Mionic (a reverse contrast slab serif by Adam Fathoni Haris and Angga Kristiandri), Matchbox Font Collections (a set of vintage fonts based on lettering on matchboxes; it includes substyles called Linea, Lettre, Deco, Scriptura, Ornato, and Graso).

Typefaces from 2022: Balide (a 70s style display typeface), Norsy (a 21-style and variable flared font family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Afri Giani
[Gian Studio]

Afridah Ciputra
[Etig Letters (or: Beauty Beth)]

Afrizal Hidayat
[Ejhaa]

Aga Silva

Aga Silva (aka Mme. Ping) is an ex-architect/urban designer, who now lives in Krakow, Poland. Creator of the Glitter family (kaleidoscopic, star-shaped, and possibly of use as snow fonts), Stars Promo (2012), Ivy Tiles (2012), Lillius (2012, floral and froggy dingbats), Maya Tiles (2012), Ballpen (2012, hand-printed), Mickey Script (2012), and Nillie's Love Letters (2012).

In 2011, she designed Grand Duchess (script face), Rosette110621 (kaleidoscopic dingbats), Brasserie (connected script), Marker Script, Skarpa LT (an avant-garde hairline face), Skarpa Regular, Skarpa Bold, Auld Magick (blackletter), Two Am, and Fantasy Dingbats.

Typefaces from 2013: Monmica (an upright copperplate script), Skarpa 2.0, Trufla (English round hand, copperplate script), Trufla Words (calligraphic), Calissa (copperplate script), Calissa Words.

Typefaces from 2014: Mavblis, Lavenda (a connected copperplate script), Roicamonta (connected script).

Typefaces from 2015: Skarpa Round, Nistiver (calligraphic script), Lavenda (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2016: Lidaxid (connected script), Hinzatis (calligraphic script), Roicamonta Basic (an upright connected calligraphic script), Monmica Fancy, Bisalir (heavy script), Piambis (thick signage script), Piambis Round, Piambis Sharp.

Typefaces from 2020: Skarpa (a revised version of her 2011 typeface), Skarpa Condensed.

Typefaces from 2021: Timernis (a 9-style humanist sans based on 1940 stone engraving commemorative plaque). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Agathe M. Joyce
[Cataleya Butcher]

Cataleya Butcher (aka Agathe M. Joyce) is a Mauritius-based designer, b. 1983. She created Waving at Christmas (2018, a textured script), Beauty in the Ordinary (2018), the calligraphic script typeface Black Sneakers (2018), Strike Your Path (2018), Smile of the Ocean (2018), Harmonious Calendar (2018), Ladybirds (2018), Cherishing Moments (2018), Delicious Adventures (2018), Beautiful and Openhearted (2018), The Championship (2018: sports signage script), Mysterious Elegance (2018), Gentleman in the Shadow (2018), Miraculous Christmas (2017), Athena of the Ocean (2017), Mechanic of the Heart (2017), Heartbeat in Christmas (2017), Fascinating Celestina (2017), Enchanting Celebrations (2017), Refreshing And Softening (2017), Mauritian Vibration (2017), Laughing and Smiling (2017), Pictorial Signature (2017), Blueline Paradise (2017), Special Valentine (2017), Chocolate and Delight (2017), Elegant and Sensational (2017), Sleeping in Castleland (2017), Children of the Starlight (2017), Sweetheart Birthday (2017), Fire on the Mountain (2017), Motherland (2017), Back From The Dead (2017), Dancing in the Rainbow (2017), Saturday be like Madness (2017), Painting in the Sunlight (2017), Bread & Cheese (2017), Margueritas (2017), Capinella ou Beaujolais (2017), Quantum of Mechanic (2017), Ombeline Ludolphides (2017), Jeans & Fashions (2017), The Night Creatures (2017: vampire script), Agua de Jamaica (2017), Surfing Kiteboarding (2017), Champion Shipmate (2017), Marchand de Venise (2017), The Black Pearl (2017), Matador de Nimes (2017), Jardin Des Bermudes (2017), Stranger Back in the Night (2017), Marguaritas (2017), Soulmaker in the Mountains (2016), Ornament of Archaeological (2016), Fontaine de Diamant (2016), Atelier du Machiniste (2016), Heart Romance (2016), Sanctuaire du Machiniste (2016), Midnight Legend (2016), Valentina de Queensland (2016), Seduction of Cristabelle (2016) and Alexandra Orléans (2016), the signage scripts Rocking Season (2016) and Acceleration Reaction (2016), the rough typeface Road of Deal (2016), the plump typeface Docteur Tacotac (2016), and the vampire script Castle Octopus (2016). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Agathe Richard
[Lettres Vagabondes (or: Fonts by Holyrose)]

Ageless Type (was: Crop Studio, or: Juniors 94)
[Rahmat Syaputra]

Or Rahmat Syahputra. Ingin Jaya, Kabupaten Aceh Besar, Aceh-based designer, b. 1994, of these brushy calligraphic typefaces in 2017: Gerhana, Bintanghu, Geulayang (upright ronde script), Syalty, Kookaburra, Pugter, Flalkner, Iolana, Aneishie.

Creator of the monoline script typeface Nagata (2018), the upright script typeface Berkarya (2018), the signage script typeface Hunkydory (2018), and the calligraphic script typefaces Rughetta (2018), Oliverra (2018), Kenshington (2018), Robertortiz (2018), Rodanthe (2018), Kristopher (2018), Serendipity (2018), Whitening (2018) and Matthew (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Fantastic (script), Armadilla (upright script), Aurelia (curly script), Firgia Gia (calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

Agfa -- Monotype Sackers

The Sackers family (Monotype, and before that Agfa) is a vintage typeface family. Its members:

As a whole, this is an elegant but curious collection. There are few clues as to its origins, which may be a bit louche because we can easily recognize Engravers Gothic in the Sackers Gothic, for example. All typefaces look like they originate in the 19th century, and started probably out as engraved (copperplate) lettering.

View the sackers typeface family. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Agung Eko Nugroho
[AEN Creative Studio]

Agung Syaifudin
[Vuuuds]

Agus Zamroni
[Jroh Creative (was: JROH Communications)]

Agustina Buerba

Buenos Aires-based designer of a calligraphic alphabet (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ahmad Jamaludin
[Dharma Sahestya (or: Dharmas Studio)]

Ahmad Ramzi Fahruddin
[Arterfak Project]

Ahmad Riqi
[Ride Studio]

Ahmad Rofingi
[Kokok Studio]

Ahmad Sha'ath

Arab calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ahmad Syarif Afandi
[Letterafandi Studio (was: Letterafa Studio, Peterdraw, Delapan Studio)]

Ahmad Zulfikar Ali
[Zet Design (or: Afredo.fk, or: Seventype)]

Ahmed Maged

Lebanese calligrapher. Designer of Hisham (Linotype, 1993), a strong sans typeface for Latin and Arabic.

Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ahmed Mirza Jamil

Pakistani calligrapher who developed the calligraphic Urdu script Noori Nastaliq in the 1970s. It was sold by (Agfa) Monotype but since 2009, copyright and trademark of the font has returned to Tariq Jamil Mirza / Ahmed Mirza Jamil. He has been awarded with TAMGHA-I-IMTIAZ by the government of Pakistan in 1982. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ahmet Altun
[Aatype]

Ahya Agawiss

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Blasty (2017), Sweet Saturday (2017) and Bianglala (2017), and the calligraphic typeface Dandelion Script (2017). Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Airotype Design

Bojonegoro, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of Maretha Chellia (2019: calligraphic), Melly Thoughtie (2019), Kalimera (2019: a monoline script), The Chief (2019), Blackboard School (2019, +Awesome), Starglass (2019), Rosaline (2019), Lafentha (2019), Kilimanjaro (2019: a monoline script), Mephistica (2019), Sweet Corn (2019), Humming Affection (2019), Tetris Hollow (2019), Gabriello (2019: script) and Affection (2019: a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2020: Sabanita, Lakeisha, Coffee Milkshake, Mylea, All Alyssa (an upright script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Aiyari
[Ricky Rinaldi]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of the modular display typeface Kurawal (2013) that is based on compositions of curly brackets. In 2015, he designed the angry brush typeface Violence, the connected creamy script Nurture (2015), the handcrafted sans typeface Imperiosa (2015), the connected Fabulous, and the watercolor brush script Sweetiest.

Typefaces from 2016: Holiday (17-script family), Dreadful (a layered Halloween typeface family, with dingbats), Casual Brush, Lucidity (signage script), Euphoria (Victorian), The Painter, Minority (very condensed hand-lettered typeface), Thunderstorm.

Typefaces from 2017: Tjikapoendoeng Script (formal calligraphic script by Ricky Rinaldi and Juru Aksara), Lovadelic (psychedelic), Neptunian (dry brush), The Moonlight (comic book script), Savath (a horror font), MacLaurent (tattoo font).

Typefaces from 2018: Lucidity (an expansion of his 2016 version, including Psych, Expand, Extras: psychedelic / art nouveau trio), Winter Is Coming (a beatnik font), The Beardy, Dreadful (a layered horror movie font), Saturday Night (a great retro disco poster typeface family with a particularly striking interlocking style).

Typefaces from 2019: Spooktacular (a Halloween font), Spooky Sans.

Typefaces from 2020: Tropika Island (a great tiki font), Swettiest, Laguna Vintage.

Typefaces from 2021: Ayr Blufy (a puffy supermarket signage script).

Typefaces from 2022: Ayr Thrope (a weightlifter's font).

Dafont link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Akbar Muzrien
[Riverside Type Foundry]

Akemi Aoki

Designer at MvB Design of these fonts: AcmeAnimals (1993), AcmeDinosaurs (1993), AcmeExpressions (1993), AcmeGreenGarden (1994), AcmeSportsGames (1993), AcmeWhatever (1995), Aunt Mildred (1995-2008), MVB Fantabular and MVB Fantabular Sans (2002, a monospaced typewriter family), the HotsyTotsy family (1995-1996, with Mark van Bronkhorst), MVB Pedestria Pict (2002, dingbats), MVB Pedestria (2002, sans family), MVB Grenadine One and Two (2003, sans families).

View Akemi Aoki's typefaces. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Akhmad Reza Fauzi
[Reza Design (or: Silverstein Design)]

View Akiro Kobayashi's typefaces.

Akifatype Studio

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of script typefaces. The Studio's fonts from 2018: the signage script typeface Merciana Script, the curly Maitlyn Script, Dallastic Script, Fantabulous Script, Hinella Script, Dealova Script, Funtastic Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Instory (a dry brush script), Atlantic Script, Fallefi Script (a great upright calligraphic script), Mithana Script, Azzury Script, Molianty, Twenty One, About Loving, Farmfresh Script, Wonderfully Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Mordibella (a dry brush script), Bastian (a fat finger font), Kailash (a dry brush font), Baver Brush, Holmeria, Anther Brush, Matteona (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Kynthia Script (upright and stylish), Asbatun (Arabic emulation), Qaboos (serif), Bollofora (a dry brush script), Fabulous Signature, Aprilous (a fat finger font), Shalleh (an Arabic emulation typeface), Abrupt (a dry brush script), Gibrella (a fat finger script).

Typefaces from 2022: Bertone (a scrapbook brush script), The Brayland (a retro signature font), Rumbia (hand-crafted). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Akira Kobayashi

Born in 1960 in Niigata, Japan. Studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. He also studied calligraphy at the London College of Printing. He became a freelance designer in 1997. Akira Kobayashi, who was based in Tokyo prior to his move to the Franfurt area, is an accomplished type designer who has created numerous typefaces for Sha-Ken, Dainippon Screen (where he made the kanji font Hiragino Mincho), TypeBank (from 1993-1997), ITC and Linotype, where he is Type Director since 2001. Interview. His numerous awards include the Type Directors Club awards in 1998 (ITC Woodland), 1999 (the art deco styled ITC Silvermoon, and ITC Japanese Garden), and 2000 (FF Clifford), the 1999 Kyrillitsa award for ITC Japanese Garden, the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library (for the informal and quirky 4-style Linotype Conrad (1999): Linotype states that Kobayashi took his inspiration from a print typeface of the 15th century created by two German printers named Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz), and the 5th Morisawa International Typeface Competition (in which he received an Honourable Mention for his typeface Socia Oldstyle). CV at bukvaraz. Interview in 2006. His typefaces:

Helvetica Neue eText Pro (2013).
Dainippon Screen: the kanji font Hiragino Mincho.
ITC: ITC Scarborough (1998), ITC Luna, ITC Silvermoon, ITC Japanese Garden, ITC Seven Treasures (1998), ITC Magnifico Daytime and Nighttime (1999), ITC Vineyard (1999), ITC Woodland Demi (1997).
Adobe: Calcite Pro (sans-serif italic at Adobe, in OpenType format).
Linotype: Akko Sans and Akko Rounded (2011; Akko Rounded is situated between DIN, Isonorm and Cooper Black, while Akko Sans is an elliptical organic sans related to both DIN and Neue Helvetica), Akko Condensed (2015), Akko Pro Condensed (2015), Akko Pan-European (2015), Eurostile Next (2008, after Aldo Novarese's original), Eurostile Candy and Eurostile Unicase, Cosmiqua (2007, a lively didone serif family based on 19th century English advertising types, and in particular Miller&Richard's Caledonian Italic), Metro Office (2006, a severe sans after a family of Dwiggins from the 20s), Neuzeit Office (2006, modeled after the original sans serif family Neuzeit S, which was produced by D. Stempel AG and the Linotypes design studio in 1966. Neuzeit S itself was a redesign of D. Stempel AG's DIN Neuzeit, created by Wilhelm Pischner between 1928 and 1939), DIN Next (2009, based on the classic DIN 1451), Times Europa Office (2006, modeled after the original serif family produced by Walter Tracy and the Linotypes design studio in 1974. A redesign of the classic Times New Roman typeface, Times Europa was created as its replacement for the Times of London newspaper. In contrast to Times New Roman, Times Europa has sturdier characters and more open counter spaces, which help maintain readability in rougher printing conditions. Times Europa drastically improved on the legibility of the bold and italic styles of Times New Roman.), Trump Mediaeval Office (2006), Linotype Conrad (1999), Optima Nova (2002, a new version of Optima that includes 40 weights, half of them italic), Linotype Avenir Next (2003, 48 weights developed with its original creator, Adrian Frutiger, and to be used also by the city of Amsterdam from 2003 onwards), Avenir Next Rounded (2012, in conjunction with Sandra Winter), Avenir Next Paneuropean (2021: 56 styles), Zapfino Extra, Palatino Sans and Palation Sans Informal (2006, with Hermann Zapf; won an award at TDC2 2007). Frutiger Serif (2008) is based on Frutiger's Meridien and the Frutiger (sans) family. Diotima Classic (2008, with Gudrun Zapf von Hesse) revives Gudrun's Diotima from 1951. In 2008-2009, Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace unified and extended Trade Gothic to Trade Gothic Next (17 styles). Neue Frutiger (2009, with Adrian Frutiger) has twice as many weights as the orifinal Frutiger family. Later in 2009, the extensive DIN Next Pro, co-designed with Sandra Winter, saw the light. I assume that this was mainly done so as to meet the competition of FontShop's FF DIN (by Albert-Jan Pool).
Fontshop: Acanthus (2000, large Fontfont family), FF Clifford (gorgeous text face!). In 2009, he and Hermann Zapf cooperated on Virtuosa Classic, a calligraphic script that updates and revives Zapf's own 1952-1953 creation, Virtuosa.
Typebox: TX Lithium (2001, The Typebox).
Oddities: Skid Row (1990), Socia Oldstyle.
Suntory corporate types (2003-2005), developed with the help of Matthew Carter and Linotype from Linotype originals: Suntory Syntax, Suntory Sabon, Suntory Gothic, Suntory Mincho.
In 2014, Akira Kobayashi, Sandra Winter and Tom Grace joined forces to publish DIN Next Slab at Linotype.
Alexey Chekulaev and Akira Kobayashi (Monotype) won a Granshan 2014 award for the Cyrillic typeface SST.
In 2016, Akira Kobayashi and Sandra Winter co-designed Applied Sans (32 styles) at Monotype. It is in the tradition of vintage sans typeface such as Venus and Ideal Grotesk and competes with Rod McDonald's splendid Classic Grotesque (2011-2016)..
Member of a type design team at Monotype that created the Tazugane Gothic typeface in 2017. Designed by Akira Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yamada and Ryota Doi of the Monotype Studio, the Tazugane Gothic typeface offers ten weights and was developed to complement Neue Frutiger. It is the first original Japanese typeface in Monotype's history. Followed in 2018 by the more restrained Tazugane Info. Variable fonts published in 2022: Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable.
SST (2017). A set of fonts for Latin, Cyrillic, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic and Japanese.
DIN Next Stencil (2017). Developed together with Sabina Chipara.
DIN Next Decorative (mostly textured styles such as Rust, Slab Rust, Stencil Rust and Shadow).
Univers Next Cyrillic and Univers Next Paneuropean, both released in 2020, extending Adrian Frutiger's Univers.
Shorai Sans (2022) and Shorai Sans Variable (2022). A 10-style Latin / Japanese sans by Akira Kobayashi, Monotype Studio and Ryota Doi, designed as a companion typeface to Avenir Next.

At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he ran a Linotype student type design workshop.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Rounded sans in Japan.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Eurostile Next review. Linotype link. Monotype link. MyFonts interview in 2017. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Akmal van Roem
[Van Roem Studio]

Akmal Yusar
[Picatype Studio]

Akufadhl (was: Alternatype, or: Akutype, or: Alterna Type foundry)
[Fadhl Waliy Ul Haqq]

Cairo, Egypt-based designer, who hails from Surakarta, Indonesia, b. 1996. Akufadhl, or Fadhl Waliy Haqq, or Fadhl Waliy Ul Haqq, started Alternatype, then Akutype, then Akufadhl, and finally Eyetype.

Creator of the free brush typeface Bruss (2015), the handcrafted Talisman (2015), Labours (2015) and Summer Time (2015), the vintage sans typeface Manufactur (2015), the vintage titling typeface Kertayasa (2015), the marker typeface Halfway (2015), the watercolor brush face Hale (2015), the free display typeface Biliru (2015), the handcrafted Supreme (2015), and the spurred display typeface Travelo (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Amarylis, Protea, Geda Brush (thick and inky), Tarquin AT (+Stencil), Macaron (elegant handcrafted style), The Falcone, Supreme (handcrafted), Rolade (rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2017: Labours (handcrafted poster font), Rolade (a rounded condensed sans), Karmilla (upright didone script), Egalite (slab serif).

Typefaces from 2018: Kruda Handcrafted Sans, Serafina (a calligraphic script, attributed to Insannita Muthiahs), Kertayasa (a layered and textured typeface family), Naratif Condensed.

Typefaces from 2019: Generisch Mono, Macaron (a playful take on the blackboard bold genre), Generisch Sans, Hailgen (a reverse contrast text typeface), Genia, Crude Sketch Sans.

Fontspace link. Creatice Market link. Behance link. YWFT link. Creative Market link for Alterna Type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Al Mack

American lettering artist whose book Lettering: Brush&Pen in the Single Stroke inspired Nick Curtis in 2006 to design the connected script typeface Got That Bling NF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Al Zanetti

Renowned New Jersey-based calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alam Syahril
[Realtype (or: Earning Type Co)]

Alan Ariail

American Letterer, aka the Alphabetguy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alan Blackman

Alan Blackman has a BA in anthropolgy and sociology from Queens Collede, NY (1950) and a BLitt in social anthropology from Oxford University, England (1957). He graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s. He was a letterform instructor at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. His first typeface, Galahad (Adobe, 1995), is calligraphic, elegant and rough-edged.

In 2012, he published the smilie alphading typeface Say Cheese at Linotype.

Linotype page. Adobe page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alan Meeks

Prolific type designer, b. London, 1951. Alan started working in 1970 for Graphic Systems as a lettering artist. In 1975, he joined Letraset as the Senior Type Designer and Studio Manager where he was responsible for all the artwork produced by the Letraset studio. During his tenure at Letraset, he designed over 40 popular typefaces, including Bramley, Candice, Bickley Script and Belwe. Most of these typefaces also showed up in the Scangraphic collection. Together with type director Colin Brignall, Alan contributed to the success of Letraset. All the original typographic artwork produced at Letraset was produced by hand cutting the fonts in Rubylith, a highly-skilled technique known as stencil cutting. Alan was responsible for training the entire Letraset studio in this art. Most of the original Letraset artwork has now been archived at St. Brides Printing Library, London. Today, Alan works independently, specializing in all facets of corporate identity including type design, typography, packaging, and development of logos and symbols.

His oeuvre (sold via MyFonts) includes:

Letraset: Aardvark (with Colin Brignall, 1969). Also see Aargau (Softmaker).
Font Factory: Chalfont (2003: similar to Antique Olive), Brigade (classic roman), Fairway (curly sans), Copacabana (italicized roman).
Elsner&Flake fonts: Bramley, Cabaret, Candice, Chesterfield, Einhorn (1980, Scangraphic, a revival of a 1931 typeface by Heinrich Maehler called Salut), Frankfurter (1978-1981, with Nick Belshaw and Bob Newman; for digital versions, see Farnham by Infinitype and F821 Deco by SoftMaker), Galadriel (1975; specimen; another specimen), Glastonbury, Knightsbridge, Plaza, Princetown (athletic lettering font done in 1981 based on Princetown by Dick Jones at Letraset), Rialto, Shelley, Tarragon (1981, art nouveau).
ITC fonts: Algerian Condensed, Ambrose, Belwe Mono, Bertie, Bickley Script, Burlington (1985), Cabaret, Campaign (stencil), Cancellaresca Script (1982), Champers, Claude Sans, Dynamo Shadow (1977), Fashion Compressed (1986, Letraset: a fashion mag didone typeface), Flamme (1993), Follies (1991), Frankfurter (1978-1981, with Nick Belshaw), Glastonbury (1979), Inscription, Jazz, Lightnin' (1994), Limehouse Script (1986), Locarno (1986), Malibu (1992), Plaza, Ragtime, Regatta Condensed, Savoye, Shelley, Tannhauser (1988), Varga (1991), Waterloo Bold (1987).
Letraset fonts: Aachen, Ambrose (1985), Belwe Mono (1989), Bertie (1985, a Mexican simulation face), Bickley Script, Burlington (1985), Campaign, Champers, Claude Sans (1988), Fashion Compressed, Flamme, Follies, Inscription, Jazz (1992, art deco), Lightnin, Limehouse Script, Locarno, Malibu, Ragtime, Regatta Condensed, Savoye (1992), Tannhauser, Varga, Waterloo Bold.
Linotype fonts: Aachen, Algerian, Belwe Mono, Bertie, Bickley Script (1986), Bramley, Burlington, Cabaret (1980), Campaign, Cancellaresca Script, Can dice, Champers (1991), Chesterfield, Claude Sans, Dynamo, Einhorn, Fashion, Flamme (script), Follies, Frankfurter, Galadriel, Gill Display Compressed, Glastonbury, Inscription (1994), Jazz (1992), Kestrel (1985, a connected signage script at Letraset based on Commercial Script; Ralph Unger's 2011 typeface Faulkner Pro is based on Kestrel; see also Kestrel Script (2010), Meeks's own digital version, its informal version Falcon Script (2013), and Subflux's Ballpark Weiner), Knightsbridge, Lightnin, Limehouse Script, Locarno, Malibu, Plaza (1975), Plaza, Ragtime (1987), Regatta Condensed, Rialto, Savoye, Shelley, Tannhauser, Tarragon, Varga.
Typefaces from 2011: Dublin (a Celtic typeface), Chalky.
Typefaces from 2014: Pinot Grigio Modern (a modern rounded multi-style update of Peignot, originally designed in 1937 by A. M. Cassandre), Falcon Script.
Typefaces from 2015: Park Lane (a classicitalic roman).
Typefaces from 2017: British Empire (a colonial typeface).
Typefaces from 2018: Arequipa (a titling font), Independence Script (a cursive script loosely based on the Declaration of Independence; co-designed with calligrapher Satwinder Sehmi), Witchcraft. A classic roman.
Typefaces from 2019: Aquitania Script (calligraphic).
Typefaces from 2020: Bodoni Elegant. An 8-style family in Bodoni's style with oh so slight curves thrown in.
Typefaces from 2021: Pantomime (a heavy monolinear script).
URW++ revivals: Glastonbury (2009).
Allan Meeks collection (Cedars, PA): Astoria (2006, miniserifed family based on Gill Sans), Astoria Sans (2011), Astoria Classic (2016), Astoria Classic Sans (2017, with a Peignotian feel), Brigade (2003, serif family), Copacabana (2004, based on Goudy Old Style Italic), Vatican (2005, a calligraphic typeface characterized by the sharp edge style of Arthur Baker), Colosseum (2008, a sans based on Trajan roman and influenced by Friz Quadrata), Chalfont (2003, a News Gothic style typeface with thinned strokes near the bottom---strange and somewhat unattractive), Fairway (2003, a quirky sans), Chalfont Roman (2020), Spartacus (2014), Winterfell (2019).
Custom type: Benson&Hedges, Lilt, The Woolmark Company, Somerfield, Tarmac, Clearstream.

Galadriel, Kornelia and Sparky are floating around freely in cyberspace.

FontShop link. Linotype link.

View Alan Meeks's typefaces. Yet another page with Alan Meeks's typefaces. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alandya Type Foundry
[Cut Nurfajarlia]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1986) of the (mostly) script typefaces AT Bountys (a ten-style unicase sans) (2022), Shera Display (2021), Gyro (2021: a flared typeface with sharp vampire fingernails), Konsecta (2021: a great display typeface with deep incisions), Fragilers (a bold display typeface) (2021), Gleams Sans Display (2021), Gleams Serif Display (2021), Dolphins (2020: a curly display serif), Hommy Land (2020: script), Destacy (2020), Brayhonest (2020: a brush script with some contrast), Champagne (2019), Strongheld (2019), Enthrall (2019), Shakeglow (2019), Family Time (2019), The Sky (2019), Champagne (2018), Anne de Marie (2018: a heavy calligraphic script), Dealissha Script (2018), Sky High (2018) and Meikayla Script (2018), and the monoline script typeface Beloved (2018). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alanna Munro

Graduate of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, class of 2013. During her final year in the communication design program at Emily Carr, Alanna Munro created the dot matrix typeface Pig (2012).

In 2016, at Lost Type, she designed the 8-weight sans typeface family Tofino, which is advertized as a West Coast Swiss. I hope that the name will stick, but surely, Greg Nicholls (designer of an earlier typeface called Tofino) and the foundry Tofino Type in Kelowna, BC, can't be too thrilled.

Designer of the stencil typeface Sahlia (2020).

Designer of the calligraphic typeface Avona (2020) and the text typeface Avona Serif (2021): The Avona family of fonts are inspired by fantasy games and calligraphy. Avona Serif is intended for flavourful user interfaces. Avona Serif draws inspiration from Carolingian letter forms and aims to captured the calligraphic round, wide structure.

Typefaces from 2021: Formulate (a rounded sans typeface family that inludes dotted outlines for youngsters learning to write).

Cargocollective link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Albert J. Kim
[Reference Type Foundry]

Albert Nolan

Type designer for PhotoLettering Inc in the photo type era. His type designs include Akimbo 2, Akimbo 3, Brush Bold, Brush Animated Condensed, Brush Expanded 7, Brush Upright 9, Brush Upright Condensed 8, Brush Upright X Condensed 8, Brush Upright X Condensed 10, Caslon Schoolbook, Caslon Schoolbook 7, Caslon Schoolbook Italic 4, Cartoon Medium, Classic Script, Flamingo 2, Flamingo 5, Flight, Frolic Bodoni, Frolic Medium, Knockout, Marionette, Nolan Roman, Rodeo, Rodeo Script, Rumba 7. Vagabond Condensed. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alberto Carnero

Graphic and type designer, and calligrapher, in Madrid. In 2012, he published Publia Text, a wedge serif newspaper text and headlines typeface during his postgraduate type design studies at the European Institute of Design in Madrid. Publia Text was published by Comando Cran.

Liebe Lorraine (2012) is an alchemic typeface. Espina (2012) is a spurred caps-only typeface. Mum Italic (2012) is in the planning stages.

New web page since 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alberto Casagrande

Italian lettering artist, illustrator and calligrapher. As a member of the Italian open source font cooperative Collletttivo, Alberto Casagrande designed the decorative typeface Mazius Review (2019).

The 24-font Casagrande was designed in 2020 by the Italiantype Team (Manuel Alvaro, Valentino Coppi and Mario De Libero), working in close collaboration with Alberto Casagrande, and with help from the Zetafonts Team (Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). The final product has six display families with styles varying from the thirties-inspired Antifascista and Deco, to the modernist Casabau, to the geometric Grind, to the vintage script families Reclame and Casatiello. The collection is complemented by a two-color icon set font, Casagrande Ornaments. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alberto Manzella

Photographer and graphic designer in Monza, Italy. In 2014, he designed the calligraphic blackletter typeface AM Gotisch. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alberto Pedro Di Santo

Creator of these typefaces at the Spanish type foundry Eurotypo:

The rounded hexagonal typeface Klipa (2013).
The chancery script typeface Alfina (2014). Its bold version is Alfina Notte (2016).
The art nouveau typeface Oblonga.
The chancery cursive script Donna Lena (2014).
Vicentina (2014). The ductus of the gothic cursive calligraphic Vicentina has been derived from the documents redacted by Master Domenico Dominici from Vicenza, while most of the inspiration comes from books preserved in the archives of Orvieto Cathedral (Archivi dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto).
Nova Caere (2015), an urban calligraphic typeface.
Ottocento (2015, Eurotypo) is a crisp elegant chancery cursive, derived from XIXth century Italian calligraphic sources.
Pieve (2015). A great calligraphic typeface.
Andovai (2016, Eurotypo). A modern cursive typeface family.

[Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alberto Valencia

Calligraphy and typography teacher in Veracruz, Mexico. Creator of Carabali, Mercedes (sans), the top or bottom half-only alphabet font Mocha (2004), Cartel Extendida and Border, mentioned here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alcode
[Sukjana Almunandar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) who specializes and excels in formal calligraphic typefaces. Creator of the thin calligraphic typefaces Yesterday (2017: upright) and Jazzi Script (2017), and the swashy formal calligraphic typefaces Peaches (2017), and Sinday College (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Malikon, The Duality, Karmila Script (a signature font), William Duke (a great formal calligraphic script), Differenlight (Spencerian calligraphic), Stipa Willington (formal calligraphic), Gatlik Saphir (formal calligraphic), Lile Dahliya (formal penmanship calligraphy), Bulgattie (copperplate calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2019: Laront Monoline, Claristy, Graceful (a thin Spencerian script), Beduga (a signature script), Desirable Calligraphy (Spencerian), Fantera (a baseball script).

Typefaces from 2020: Colfige (a fashion mag typeface), Claristy, Dalgond Script (formal calligraphic), The Duality (a formal calligraphic script), Peaches (a penmanship script), Imagine (calligraphic), Willmaster Calligraphia (a Spencerian penmanship script), Quntas Script (a hairline calligraphic font), Kota Datoma (wild calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2021: Betting Soker (a brush script), Tugafy (fashion mag font), Mole Display (a distorted font), Avole (a hipster fashion mag font), Qanthorely Castigra (a wild Tree Frog genre script), Bolgifam (a triptych of stylish typefaces including a formal copperplate calligraphic style), Matilost Wikly (script), Silta The Farming (a brush script), The Kaluge (a feminine display typeface), Silta The Farming (a brush script), Tylaco (an art nouveau typeface), Dofta (a high-contrast decorative typeface), Dofta (a high-contrast decorative typeface), Batick Rodist (a wild script in a font duo), Blosta (a fashion serif and a copperplate calligraphic script), Piguet Script, Migueto (a fashion mag typeface), AvOle Serif (a fashion mag typeface; identical to Migueto).

Typefaces from 2022: Roti Brown (an elegant wild script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alde Design
[Alde Saputro]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of Faradilla (2018: calligraphic), Travel Soulmates (2018, +Weight, +Signature), Everything (2018: calligraphic), Beckman Demons (2018: signature script), Dialova (2018), The Attention (2018), Billortte Two (2018), Billortte One (2018), American (2018: a signature script), Iwanbanaran Weight (2018), Gulya Script (2018), Letternisa (2018, a calligraphic script), Khatmadu (2018: calligraphic), Via Vallen (2018: calligraphic), Jean Jingga (2018, monoline script), Georgia (2018), Middletown (2018), Jonas Beckman (2018: a signature font), Srikonitta Script (2018: smooth brush), Asgar (2018), Banggar (2018: a great signature font), Ectomorph (2018), Brainlove (2018), Vanilla Mermaid (2018), Charlotte Calligraphy (2018), Annisa Script (2018), Ubur Ubur (2018), Good Egg (2018), Pink Script (2018) and Ma Fille (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Melamar (script), Brattica (script), Magic Anomali, Beauty Boutique, Danke Linda, Anything Script, Raregold Script, Anything Okay, Wisdom Merry, Bendina Sambat, Malibbie, Birmingham Signature, Dinila Script, Potter Alaska (a heavy script), Random But Perfect (script), England Reality, North Blue, Mattosa Script, Barista Script, Anthem of Narasi (fat script), Arellia, Maharlotte (script), Anggelica Merona, Butter Mellow, Mollaroid Signature, Refillia Calligraphy, Diamante Signature, Everything Calligraphy, Latter Slant, Darling Suttine, Baropetha Signature, Behavior Indihome, Enthusiast Behavior, Eden Hazard, Farrina, The Capone Gang Bege, Ninja Julietta, Black Mamba, Charlotte Paraline, Babes & Bridal, Fantasy Hollow, Yussan, Marrisa, Riding Monday, Landing Surely, Elyn Alina, Choco & Chips, Singapore Landscape, Almond Latte, Blueno Chocolate, Chocolatte, Insta Story.

Typefaces from 2020: Anggie Maggie, Arrafah (a monoline script), Anggelica Merona (a brush script), Kimilove, Millea Leonee, Aughlesia.

Typefaces from 2021: Final Destination (a calligraphic script), Archipelago International (a wild calligrapic script), Braderia (calligraphic), Winterante (a calligraphic script), Premiere Christmas (a calligraphic script), Stigma Halloween, Cardigan Christmas (calligraphic), Higher Wevil, Spooky Strikes (a pixel font with a spooky texture), Thug Life (a pixel font), Higher Wevil (a pixelish textured Halloween font), Beauty Dina (a fat finger script), Break Walkout (script), Butter Mellow (script), Chapter Eight (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2022: Hidup Tenang, Anti Valentines Day (script), Flawless Valentines (a calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alde Saputro
[Alde Design]

Aldiraya Pradipta
[Graphix Line Studio]

Aldy Sidik
[Epiclinez (was: Studio Epiclines, or: Letterbaja)]

Alejandro Paul
[Sudtipos]

Alejandro Paul

Designer who lives in Buenos Aires and who teaches graphic design and typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has worked as an art director in prestigious Argentina-based studios, handling high-profile corporate brands such as Arcor, Marta Harff, Morph, SC Johnson, Danone, and Movicom. He runs Estudio Paul. Professor at Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Co-creator, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Usenet (2000), FontCop I through IV (2000) and the pixel font family Cayetano. Published the dot matrix font Stardust with T-26 in 2000. Designed the gorgeous font Elektora in 2000. He developed with Michael Lynch a 17-font Tennis set of grid-based pixel fonts. At Typeworx, he published Reflex (2002), a commercial 6-style unicase font family. Another web site by Alejandro. Cofounder of DAS, a design studio in Buenos Aires.

Cofounder of Sudtipos (2003), where he does custom work and creates new typefaces.

His work there includes Tierra (a titling face), Latinaires (2003-2018: originally called Latina Sans), Reflex, Downtempo (2003), Stardust and Mosaico (1999, pixel face).

Still at Sudtipos, he digitized the beautiful handwriting/calligraphic typefaces by Angel Koziupa called Alma (2005), Murga, Habano and Tiza, which together with his script typeface Argenta (2004), Oxida (2005), the medieval script typeface Mama Script (2004, designed with Alfredo Graziani), Divina (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), and the sans family Kautiva (2004) can be bought via Umbrella Type.

For children's orthography, he developed Estrada Hand, on commission for Editorial Estrada. He was working on the serif family Libertina (2004).

Herencia (2004, a handwriting typeface done with Diego Giaccone), Grover (2004, slab serif), Milk Script (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), Mama Script (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), Politica (2004, a techno typeface with a very thin Thin weight) are at Sudtipos.

The Bluemlein Scripts (2004-2005, Umbrella and Veer) are based on the calligraphic renderings of Charles Bluemlein, shown in a 1943 ink catalog: Miss Le Gatees, Mr Rafkin, Mr Keningbeck, Mr Lackboughs, Lady Dawn, Mrs Von Eckley, Mr Sheppards, Mr Dafoe, Mr Canfields, Mr Stalwart, Mr Sandsfort, Mr Leopolde, Mr DeHaviland, Mr Blaketon, Miss Stanfort, Miss Packgope, Miss Fajardose, Mrs Saint-Delafield, Mrs Blackfort, Mr Sopkin, Mr Sheffield, Miss Lankfort, Herr Von Muellerhoff, Dr Sugiyama, Dr Carbfred. (Note: Soft Horizon's Lainie Day (1993) is an earlier free font in the style of Lady Dawn and Mr Lackboughs). In 2011, that series was made available at Google Web Fonts.

Sudestada (2005, Sudtipos) is a handwriting script developed with Diego Giaccone. Cuisine (2005, Umbrella Type) is an informal bold script. Mousse Script (2005, Sudtipos) is based on Glenmoy, a 1932 Stephenson Blake typeface. Suave Script (2005) is a 4am jazz bar script. Ministry (2005) is related in style but less funky, Chocolate (2005) is for sales ads, and Cenizas (2005, with Angel Koziupa) is straight from an old manuscript.

Whomp (2006, Umbrella) was based on a partial sign-painting font by Alf Becker (1930s), and so was Buffet Script (2006, Sudtipos). Affair (2006, Umbrella) is swashy and calligraphic, while Candy Script (2007) and its italic version Sugar Pie (2011) are based on Argentina's market lettering. Galgo Script (2007) is a brush calligraphic font based on a design of Angel Koziupa.

Burgues Script (2007) is an ornate calligraphic script based on the lettering of calligraphy teacher Louis Madarasz (1859-1910) (award at TDC2 2008). Burgues Script, Adios Script (2008: it won an award at TDC2 2009), Feel Script and Sugar Pie all won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008.

Sinfonieta (2006) and Buffet Script are fifties style connected scripts. Feel Script (2007) is based on lettering that calligrapher and logo designer Rand Holub created in 1950 and that was subsequently captured in Intertype's typeface Monterey (1958). Some letterforms were redrawn from vintage American magazine ads (some by Holub himself), Cuisine (2008, food advertising script), Pronto (2008, comic book style, by Alejandro Paul and Angel Koziupa), Grover (2004, rounded sans family), Grover Slab (2004). Burgues Script, Adios Script, Feel Script and Sugar Pie all won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. Calgary Script (2008, Umbrella) is a pure signpainting job.

Accolades from all typophiles for his calligraphic wunderkind, Compendium (2008).

The 2009 haul: Sugar Pie (signage font), Bravissima Script, Theorem (upright semi-script).

Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City.

The year 2010 starts off with a bang, five awards at Tipos Latinos 2010: a grand prize for Brownstone Sans, and four standard awards, for Semilla, Kewl Script (for food packaging and store windows), Calgary Script, and for Business Penmanship.

Typefaces from 2010 include the baseball lettering typeface Fan Script and the tattoo script face Piel Script (piel=skin), which was influenced by Burgues Script and more remotely by showcard lettering by B. Boley (1930s, Sign of the Times Magazine). Piel Script won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.

In 2011, he and Koziupa made the fat signage typeface Aventura and Viento (a grunge version of their earlier 2004 face, Brisa).

He added one retro connected signage font to the Filmotype collection in 2012, called Filmotype Kitten (original from 1955). Filmotype Zephyr (2012) is an italic roman formal script. Filmotype Yukon (2012) is inspired by the classic Palmer style of penmanship.

Storefront (2012) is a swashy signage typeface based on an incomplete alphabet by Alf Becker.

His signage script typeface Hipster Script won an award in the TDC 2012 competition and at Tipos Latinos 2012.

Typefaces from 2013: Rolling Pen (a connected script that recalls the business penmanship genre), Bellissima Script (based on a copperplate calligraphic alphabet from Bellezas de la Caligrafía by Ramón Stirling, 1844).

In 2014, he helped Panco Sassano, a lettering artist and illustrator from Mar del Plata, who designed the wide connected semi-calligraphic handwriting typeface Horizontes Script (Horizontes subsequently won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016). Still in 2014, he published the fat packaging or signage script Bowling Script, which is based on Freely Drawn Italic, a non-font alphabet by Ernst Bentele (1953).

In 2015, Alejandro Paul, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari combined forces in the signage script typeface Quotes (Script+Caps) (2015, Sudtipos).

Merengue Script (2015, with Panco Sassone) is a fun creamy script, ideal for pastry shops, tea rooms or supermarkets.

Steak (2016) is a connected vintage signage script based on an Alf Becker design.

Envelove (2017) is a script typeface family consisting of Script, Icons, and Caps, designed at Sudtipos by Yani Arabena, Guille Vizzari, and Alejandro Paul. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Envelove.

Still in 2017, Guille Vizzari and Alejandro Paul co-designed the great Moleskine notebook-inspired typeface family Proprietor. Proprietor comes in Script, Icon, Deco, Wide, Open and Roman styles. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018.

Rigatoni (2017): A skyline didone based on mid-20th century example by Eugen Nerdinger.

Bibliophile Script (2017). A pair of copperplate calligraphic typefaces.

Fixture (2018: a 72-font grotesk family published by Sudtipos).

Newbery Sans Pro (2018). A simple workhorse sans typeface family that is inspired by German industrial design and the lettering of Eugen Nerdinger.

Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Tennis Set, Bibliophile Script, French Bulldog, Envelove, La Taqueria, and Speakeasy Set (a collection of (copperplate) script, sans, modern, flare and gothic substyles).

From 2019: Hot Salsa (a retro brush script; with Ximena Jimenez), Old Letterhand, Clockmaker (arts and crafts style), Steak Script (inspired by an old alphabet by Alf Becker), Address Sans Pro (a sans family inspired by Butti and Novarese). In 2019, Alejandro Freitez and Claire Menager, under the art directoship of Alejandro Paul, designed the multistyle wood type look / Western / Victorian / reverse stress / hyper-decorative Presley Slab.

Typefaces from 2020: Apothicaire (a wonderful quaint serif family in the frivolous didone genre; three variable fonts, 16 styles in all), Inglesa (a penmanship script), Dilemma, Dilemma Serif (Dilemma is a sans/serif type system with 42 styles; it is inspired by the anonymous Polyphème, Cyclopéen and Extra Condensé designs from the early 1900s at the Peignot Fonderie; two variable fonts are included), Sporty Pro (a large sports / athletics font family).

Typefaces from 2021: Plethora (an 18-style family and two variable fonts that build on Julius Herriet's Old Style Ornamented for Bruce Type Foundry; Alejandro added various frills, ligatures, weights, exaggerating in true Victorian spirit), Magari (a fat face or Normande; Alejandro likens it to Italian classics of the 19th century though), Regional (27 styles, plus variable styles).

Typefaces from 2022: Wienerin (a revival and expansion of Olympia (1929) by Carl Otto Czeschka, one of the members of The Wiener Werkstätte). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Aleksandar Glisic

Illustrator and graphic designer in Belgrade, Serbia, who created the retro decorative sans typeface Zavrzlama (Latin, Cyrillic) and the great calligraphic typeface Manufaktura in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Aleksandra Korolkova

Graduate of Moscow University of Printing Arts in 2006 where she studied under Alexander Tarbeev. She teaches type design and typography there. In 2007, her book for Russian students on typography was published (English title: Alive Typography). She received many awards for her work and is a frequent speaker at type design conferences. In particular, she received the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot in 2013. After that she became Type Director at ParaType in Moscow.

Designer of the beautiful Cyrillic serif family Leksa (a winner at Paratype K2009) and the accompanying Leksa Sans family from 2004 until 2007. This was followed by equally gorgeous families such as Fence (2009, an ultra-fat artistic beauty). Skoropix is an experimental pixel typeface done with FontStruct.

She also made Belladonna (2008, a stunning modern typeface for Latin and Cyrillic; a winner at Paratype K2009 and Grand Prize winner at Granshan 2011), Skoropix (with FontStruct), and the experimental typeface Cless (2009). She spoke about Cyrillic at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Fourty-nine face. Alternate URL.

At MyFonts, one can buy Gorodets [2009: a Russian decoration typeface based on traditional wood-painting style from the town Gorodets on the Volga river, Russia], Leksa and Leksa Sans], Blonde Fraktur (2010: written with a quill by Alexandra Korolkova and prepared in digital form by Alexandra Pushkova), Airy (2010, a curly script), Airy Pictures (2010, animal and plant dingbats), Bowman (2010: a blackboard children's script), PT Serif (2011, Paratype's superfamily of 38 fonts, co-designed with Vladimir Yefimov and Olga Umpeleva; Open Font Library link), PT Circe (2011, a geometric sans family with a neat Thin weight; Third Prize for Cyrillic text typefaces at Granshan 2011), and Cless (2010: ultra fat and counterless).

Together with Isabella Chaeva, she made PT Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts and Open Font Library).

In 2012, Vasiliy Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the Christmas dingbat font Gingerbread House, together with a plump display face, Gingerbread.

In 2013, Vasily Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the soft roundish sans typeface Kiddy Kitty (link).

In 2014, she cooperated with Maria Selezenava on a revamped Journal Sans typeface at Paratype, called Journal Sans New (Latin and Cyrillic). This geometric sans in the style of Erbar Grotesk and Metro Sans is a major extension of the Journal Sans typeface (1940-1956, SPA, in metal form, and 1990s in digital form). Still in 2014, she co-designed Stem, a geometric large x-height Latin / Cyrillic sans serif with optical sizing, with Isabella Chaeva and Maria Selezeneva at Paratype. This was followed in 2015 by Stem Text.

In 2015, she and Alexander Lubovenko co-designed Circe Rounded, which is an extension of her earlier Circe typeface (2011), both published by Paratype. In 2018, Paratype extended that family with Circe Slab (by Alexandra Korolkova and Olexa Volochay). Still in 2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko published Aphrosine at Paratype, a typeface based on pointed pen script and situated somewhere between handwriting and calligraphy. Many alternatives and smart OpenType features help Aphrosine look like real handwriting.

Codesigner of Kudryashev Display (2015, Isabella Chaeva, Alexandra Korolkova and Olga Umpeleva). Kudryashev Display is a set of light and high-contrast typefaces based on Kudryashev text typeface. In addition to Kudryashev Display and Kudryashev Headline typefaces, the type family includes also two Peignotian sans-serif typefaces of the same weight and contrast, with some alternates. The serif styles were designed by Olga Umpeleva in 2011, the sans styles were created by Isabella Chaeva in 2015 with the participation of Alexandra Korolkova.

In 2016, she designed FF Carina, a delicate and absolutely stunning decorative didone.

In 2018, Alexandra Korolkova and Manvel Shmavonyan designed Fact at Paratype. Fact (2018) is based on Frutiger. The Fact type system contains 48 upright styles with variations in width and weight and eight italics of normal width. At the end of 2018, Alexandra Korolkova, Alexander Lubovenko, and the Paratype team finished Six Hands, which is a collection of six handcrafted typefaces: Black, Brush, Chalk, Marker, Condensed and Rough.

In 2019, Vitaly Kuzmin and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the free sans serif typeface Golos Text at Paratype. It was originally commissioned by Smena (AIC Group) for state and social service websites.

Typefaces from 2020: Sber (the type system for Russia's Sber Bank; by Korolkova and the Paratype team), Tupo Vyaz (a free modular closed sans serif font with very simple design and some elements from the northern variant of Vyaz slavonic calligraphic hand), Grrr (at Paratype, with Dmiry Goloub; a techno family characterized by an oversized lower case f).

MyFonts interview. Kernest link. Klingspor link.

View Alexandra Korolkova's typefaces. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alena Belokonova

Florence, Italy-based designer of Albe Font (2014, imitating calligraphy), and a few experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alesia Lund Paz

Graphic designer, teacher and calligrapher in Lima, Peru, who created some calligraphic alphabets in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alex Camacho Studio
[Alex Camacho Pizarro]

Graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona who has an MA from Central Saint Martins, and works in London since 2009. His typefaces:

Origen (2018). A blackletter typeface that won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.
Excritura (2013). A calligraphic script influenced by the work of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.
Die Modularität (2012).
De Palo (2011).
Scriptura (2011). A connected calligraphic script.
Variable (2010).
A triangle/circle based modular type.
GoodBye. An experimental type based on Barcelona's night lights.
A geometric custom-designed typeface for the Aroy Restaurant in Barcelona.
Mares (2018). A wildly psychedelic unicase typeface.
Kenza (2020). A 6-style angular display typeface described as big and bold poster block movanble type.
Berona Stripes (2022). Bilined.

Cargo collecive link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alex Camacho Pizarro
[Alex Camacho Studio]

Alex Etewut

Moscow-based artist who created these typefaces in 2016: Buena Onda, Londa (a connected script), Foie Gras (signage script), Fuego, Cama (a thick connected script), Blackthorn, Savoiardi (connected monoline script), Savoiardi Sans, Savoiardi Display, Zimbra (a zebra stripe font), Signal, the Vincent Van Gogh-inspired Absinth, the Russian fairy tale font Anchor, the handcrafted Swan, the weathered Cliché Font, the constructed extraterrestrial font Structure, the geometric solid typeface Forma, the semi-calligraphic Absinthe and Glasgow, the calligraphic oriental brush typeface Yakudza, and the brush typefaces Augenblick and Barbada.

Typefaces from 2017: Curator (a curvy decorative didone), Gluck (a rounded monoline sans family with outlined and double outlined styles), Laser Dots, Zarathustra (a soft blackletter typeface family), Pedrera and Pedrera Script, Hooley (advertized as a party font), Forma (free counterless typeface), Fuego (calligraphic script), Arc Boutant (a vintage ballpoint-laden text typeface), Moloko (script), Etalon (a 33-style organic sans family), Molodos All Caps, Click (Stripes, Black), Geometry Pair, Venzel (an interesting experimental deco typeface), Batllo (inspired by Gaudi), Pluma (handwriting).

Typefaces from 2018: Pistoletto (a jelly or toothpaste script inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein and Michelangelo Pistoletto), Lento (a monoline script family), Rajomon (a dry brush typeface), Solomonk (an inky script), Ma Tilda, Warka, Abudabi (connected script), Lunar, Tilda (a monoline sans with character), Jeunes (connected script), Danken (a textured all caps typeface family), Salud (a hand-drawn slab serif, with some interesting sketched and arched styles), Hoochie, Brutto (stencil with alyering and coloring potential), Hvala, Mafond (slab serif), Tadaam, Liberal (a simple monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Etewut Serif, Etewut Sans, New Lobster (sigange script).

Typefaces from 2020: Vulgary (a glistening oily font family), Spiro 2020 (a rounded sans), Chakra (script), Baker ST (spurred, all caps), Geraldica (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2021: Domosed (sci-fi), Riley Wow (a round oily font for emulating glows).

As Etewut Graphics in Florence Italy, he published Pronto (2018, a monoline sans) and Allora (2018).

Typefaces from 2022: Domosed Slab Serif. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alex Ivanov
[Vates Design]

Alex Moseley
[Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts]

Alexander Bobrov
[Indian Summer Studio]

Alexander Lubovenko

Talented Russian graphic and type designer who works for ParaType in Moscow. His typefaces:

In 2015, he and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed Circe Rounded, which is an extension of the Circe typeface (2011), both published by Paratype. Circe is named for the circular nature of many of its glyphs.
In 2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko published Aphrosine at Paratype, a typeface based on pointed pen script and situated somewhere between handwriting and calligraphy. Many alternatives and smart OpenType features help Aphrosine look like real handwriting.
Carol Gothic (2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko, Paratype) is a traditional blackletter face closest to Linotype's Old English.
Liberteen (2015) is a playful tongue-in-cheek take on 19th century slab serifs, including Clarendons. For Latin and Cyrillic, from Thin to Black. Dessert Script (2015, Paratype). A smooth-outlined advertising script for Latin and Cyrillic.
In 2016, Alexander Lubovenko and Manvel Shmavonyan co-designed the 30-style Latin / Cyrillic workhorse sans typeface family Mediator which was followed in 2017 by Mediator Serif. Later in 2016, Alexander Lubovenko designed the heavy slab serif family Bombarda.
Hypocrite (2017, Paratype).
He created some additional styles for Zakhar Yaschin's Mojito script font.
in 2018, he designed Clincher at Paratype, a set of monospaced and duospaced fonts that were specifically developed for program coding and user interface design.
Wak (2018). By Aleksander Lubovenko and Viktor Fitzner.
Journal Sans New (2018).
Six Hands (2018). This is a collection of six handcrafted typefaces: Black, Brush, Chalk, Marker, Condensed and Rough, by Alexandra Korolkova, Alexander Lubovenko, and the Paratype team.
Stapel (2020, Paratype). A 57-style Latin / Cyrillic sans family with a sci-fi look and thin stroke joints.
Vast (2021, Paratype). A 56-style sans family, and three variable fonts, by Manvel Shmavonyan and Alexander Lubovenko. Choices are from thin to black and regular to extra wide.
In 2021, Paratype designers Isabella Chaeva, Vasily Biryukov and Alexander Lubovenko created DIN 2014 Rounded, an extension of the industrial sans serif DIN 2014. The six-style typeface supports all European languages based on Latin, Cyrillic, and Asian Cyrillic (Tatar, Kazakh and Kyrgyz) and has a variable version.

Paratype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alexander Nesbitt

Author of Decorative Alphabets and Initials and History and technique of lettering (1957, New York). Digital fonts based on his work include Swan Song (2006, Canada Type) and NesbittDecoCaps (2006, David Kettlewell). [Google] [More] ⦿

Alexander Ricachov

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Art Font (2016), Rustica (2015, calligraphic alphabet), Rust Cursiv (2015), Antiqua Cvadrato (2015), Capitalis Roman (2014, a calligraphic alphabet), Futurista (2015). In 2016, he designed the hand-drawn typeface Krita. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alexander Tiunov
[Besttypeco]

Alexandr Bakanov

Artist and illustrator in Kazakhstan. Specializing in decorative caps typefaces, he created Isometric (2015, 3d caps), Funny Cartoon (2015), Mechanical (2015), Headline Serif (2015), Funny Summer (2015), Cartoon Robot (2015), Cartoon Colorful Robot (2015), and Headline Bold Serif (2015). In 2016, he designed the vector format typeface Aweseome Script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alexandr Galuzin
[Alexandr Galuzin (was: Tangramus)]

Alexandra Leopoldovna Gophmann

Alexandr Galuzin (was: Tangramus)
[Alexandr Galuzin]

Pavlodar, Kazakhstan-based designer (b. 1987) of the medieval calligraphic typeface Square Capitals (2014, Latin and Cyrillic), the uncial typeface Uncial (2015) and the Trajan typeface Capitalis Monumentalis (2015). In 2015, he designed the angular and angry straight-edged typeface KZ Kirpich, the tangram-inspired German expressionist typeface Tangramus, and the Latin / Cyrillic deco typeface Kvadrat.

In 2015, he set up the commercial type foundry Alexandr Galuzin. His first commercial typeface is Golovolomka (a modern blackletter).

In 2017, he designed the fat stenci typeface Growling.

Typefaces from 2020: AG Bambook (a condensed sans family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Russian designer of typefaces who collaborates with Ivan Zeifert and specializes in revivals, cyrillizations and beautiful digitizations, some of them done with Anatole Gophmann. There have been complaints about her practice of borrowing fonts from type designers without asking. One typophile writes: I have cracked open fonts she claims as hers, Bolero, Bickham and others, she has copied and pasted glyphs, copyright data, added Cyrillic and changed the copyright string. As an example, Angelica is a copy of Alejandro Paul's Miss Fajardose. Alejandro has drawn the numerals in his font in 2004 to accompany the letters found in an old catalog of alphabets. There is no other source of the numerals, and Angelica has them. Michael Clark writes: I initiated a battle with the illustrious Alexandra "Bitch" from Russia who has renamed Pouty (FontBureau) and copyrighted [it as] Bolero. She and her partner Anatoly shithead. Available on Fonts101.com for anyone who wants it free. The ass's site, Jagdesh, is in Pakistan and we cannot touch him. 260+ viewings and 140+ downloads. Let's see that is 1400$ I will never see! Others have complained as well about her practice of taking and extending fonts without permission. Anyway, her "fonts" are:

A: Adine_Kirnberg (2005, the Cyrillic version), Advokat Modern (2008), Afisha, Afisha Cap, Agatha-Modern, AlexandraScript, Amadeus, American Text C, American-Retro (2008), Ametist [based on Lorelei] (2008), AmpirDeco, Andantino-script (2008), Andantinoscript, Anfisa Grotesk (2008), Angelica, Annabelle, Antikvar (2008), Antikvar Shadow (2008), Antonella Script (2008), Antonella Script X (2008), Antract, Aquarelle, Ariadnascript, Ariston-Normal, Arkadia (2008), Arkhive, Arlekino, Art-Decoretta (2008), Art-Decorina (2008), Art-Metropol, Art-Nouveau Initial (2008), Art-Nouveau1895, Art-Nouveau1895-Contour, Art-Nouveau1900, Art-Nouveau1910, Art-Victorian (2008), ArtNouveau-Bistro, ArtNouveau-Cafe, Artemis Deco (2008), Artemon (2008, psychedelic), Arthur Gothic, Artist-Modern, Astoria Deco (2008), Atlas Deco A (2008), Atlas Deco B (2008), Auction, Augusta One, Augusta Two, AvalonMedium.
B: Ball-Point Pen, Bankir-Retro, Barocco Floral Initial (2008), Barocco Initial (2008), Baron Munchausen, Batik Deco (2008), Belukha, BelukhaCapital, BickhamScriptAltFour, BickhamScriptAltOne, BickhamScriptAltThree, BickhamScriptAltTwo, BickhamScriptOne, BickhamScriptThree, BickhamScriptTwo, Birusa (2008), Bodoni Initials (2008), Boleroscript, Bonapart-Modern, Briolin, Brokgauz&Efron, Brokgauz&Efron-Italic.
C: Caberne, Cafe Paris C, Calligraph-Medium, Campanella (2008), Capitol Deco (2008), Carmen, Carolina, Casanova (art nouveau) (2008), Cassandra, Castileo (2008), Certificate of Birth (2008), Chocogirl (2008), ClassicDecor (ornaments), Classica-One (2008), Classica-Two (2008), Cleopatra (2008), Conkordia (2008), Cordeballet, Corinthia, Corleone, CorleoneDue.
D: Dama Bubey (grunge) (2008), Debut (art deco in the style of Broadway) (2008), Decadance Cursiv (2007), Decor Initial (2009: decorative caps, a Cyrillic extension of a typeface by Pampa Type), Decor Line (2008), DeutschGothic (blackletter), Donaldina (2008).
E: Edisson (blackletter), Egipet-Bold, Ekaterina_Velikaya_One (2005), Ekaterina_Velikaya_Two (2005), English Rose (2008), EnglishScript, EseninscriptOne, EseninscriptTwo, Evgenia Deco (2008).
F: Fairy Tale (2008), Fantasia (2008), Fata Morgana, Favorit, Favorit Grotesk (2008), Flamingo (2008), Fortuna Gothic FlorishC (2009, blackletter).
G: Geisha (2006), Gertruda Victoriana (2008), Globus (2006), Gloriascript, Goudy Decor InitialC (2009, ornamental caps), Goudy Decor ShodwnC, Goudy OrnateC, Graceful Mazurka (2008).
H: HeatherScriptOne, HeatherScriptTwo, HeinrichText, Hogarth_script (2005).
I: Isabella-Decor, Italy-A (2008), Italy-B (2008), Izis One (monoline sans), Izis Two.
K: Kabriolet Decor (2009), Kamelia (2009, Victorian face), Kareta-A (2007), Kareta-B (2008), KarnacOne, KarnacTwo, Konkord-Retro, Konrad-Modern (2008), Konstrukto-Deco (2008) (2008), Kot Leopold (2008), Kumparsita.
L: Lastochka (2008), Le Grand, Leokadia Deco (2008), Lombardia, Lombardina One, Lombardina Two, Lombardina-Initial-One (2008), Lombardina-Initial-Two (2008), Lombardina-One-Roman (2008), Lombardina-Two (2008), Ludvig_van_Bethoveen (sic) (2005).
M: Majestic X-2, Majestic-, MajesticX, Malahit-Bold, Margaritascript, Marianna, MarkizdeSadscript, MartaDecor One and Two, MartaDecorTwo, Martina Script C, Masquerade (2008), Matilda, Matreshka, Maya (2008), Medieval English, Melange Nouveau (2008), Menuetscript, Metro Modern, Metro Retro B (2008), Metro Retro C (2008), Metro-Retro A (2008), ModernistNouveau, ModernistOne, ModernistThree, ModernistTwo, ModernoNouveau, ModernoOne, ModernoThree, ModernoTwo, Modestina (Victorian), Mon Amour Two (both jointly copyrighted with David Rakovsky) (2008), Mon Amoure One (2008), Monte-Carlo, Monte-Kristo, Monti-Decor A B, Moonlight, Moonstone, Moonstone Stars, Morpheus, Moulin Rouge (2008).
N: Nocturne (2005), Nostalgia (2008).
O: Old Comedy, OldBoutique, Olietta-script-BoldItalic (2008), Olietta-script-Lyrica-BoldItalic (2008), Olietta-script-Poesia-BoldItalic (2008), Orpheus, Ouverture Script (2004, calligraphic).
P: Parisian, Picaresque One, Picaresque-Two (2008), Pilotka (2008), Plimouth, Port-Arthur (2008), Poste Retro (2008), Postmodern One, Postmodern Two, Promenad Deco (2008), Prospect-Deco (2008), Pudelina (2008), Pudelinka (2008).
R: Red Sunset, Regina Kursiv (2008), Renaldo Modern, Rochester, RochesterLine, RockletterSimple, RockletterTransparent, Romantica Script, Romashka Deco (2008), Romashulka (2008), Rondo Ancient One (2008), Rondo Ancient Two (2008), Rondo Calligraphic (2008), Rondo Twin (2008), Rosa Marena, Rosalia (2008), RosamundaOne-Normal, RosamundaTwo, Rotterdam, Rubius, Rurintania (sic) (2005).
S: Samba DecorC (2006), San Remo, Sapphire C (2008), Scriptorama (a clone of Scriptina), Secession-Afisha, Sevilla Decor X, SevillaDecor, Sladkoeshka (2008), Stereovolna (2008), Stereovolna Black (2008), Stradivari Script (2008), Stradivari Script [the Latin part copyrighted by Grosse Pointe Group] (2008), Stravinski Deco (2008).
T: Taverna, Teddy Bear [Latin by House Industries] (2008), Telegraph, TelegraphLine, TelegraphShodwn, TelegraphSmall, Terpsichora (2008, psychedelic), Theater (2009, Victorian), Theater Afisha, Topaz, Trafaret Kit (2008), Trafaret Kit Hatched (2008), Trafaret Kit Transparent (stencil) (2008), Traktir-Modern, Traktir-Modern3-D, Traktir-ModernContour, Turandot.
V: Valentina (2008), Variete (2008), VenskiSadTwo-Medium, VenskisadOne-Medium, Vera Crouz, VeronaGothic (blackletter), VeronaGothicFlourishe (blackletter), Veronica-script-One (2008), Veronica-script-Two (2008), Victorian-Gothic-One (2007), Victorian-Gothic-Two (2008), Victoriana, Vizit (2010, engraved face).
W: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2005), Wonderland (2008), Wonderland Star (2008).
Z: ZanerianTwo, [Google] [More] ⦿

Alexandra Turner

Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Briant (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Alexandre Resende Aletribow

Oliveira de Azem&eacite;is, Portugal-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Platonic (2014) and of the curly typeface Orta (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Alexey Potapov
[Doffdog]

Alfab
[Bruno Bernard]

French type and graphic designer (b. 1974) who lives in Asnières-sur-Seine and works in Paris. Educated at Ecole Estienne, Paris, and ANRT, Nancy, he designs custom-made typefaces and has released several commercial fonts including Adso and Mihaly. He co-founded BAT foundry in 2009 and set up Alfab in 2019. His typefaces:

Acheminé: for the French railway, the SNCF.
Adso: a hookish family done at the ANRT, and published at BAT Foundry in 2010.
Anima (2013).
Chanson: a serif revival from the 19th century.
Departure: a dot matrix face.
Dinette: commissioned by the graphic design studio Malte Martin.
Mazette (2013). A high-contrast stencil typeface.
Mgetine: for the corporate identity of MGET.
Mihaly Display (2019) and Mihaly (2013). A fine geometric sans family originally created for the Mihaly exhibition.
Montille: a formal calligraphic typeface for the Domaine de Montille.
Piccolo (1998): for the Figaro newspaper.
Posthume: a set of nice symbols for the Side One Posthume Theatre.
LFDJ (2010): a corporate organic all caps sans typeface for La Française des Jeux, art directed by Anja Krohne.
Quadrile (2013). A semi-stencil typeface for the visual identity of Quadrant.

At ATypI Montreal 2017 Bruno Bernard spoke on Excoffon Book, the last typeface by Roger Excoffon? [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alfaraby Studio
[Faizal Alfarabi]

Calang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) of the calligraphic typefaces Shanella (2019), Undestand (2019: upright script), Quick Start (2019), Maillane (2019), Shanetha (2019), Holliday (2019), Claudia (2019), Chilldranety (2019: monoline), Changda (2019), Marsellina (2019), Calysta (2019), Khumaira Brush (2019), Thaanderley (2019), Brigadil (2019), Barbarella (2019), Labang Donya (2019), Bagadang (2019) and Culture (2019), and the script typeface Break Out (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Alfaraby, Amania, Billabang, Capacity, Cattaya Rusty, Chimahy, Chokellate, Coralina, Faradila Love, Girl Love, Holliday, Mandala, Realistica, Ronald, Rossalle.

Typefaces from 2021: Sallenda (an upright monoline script), Girl Love (a swashy script), Karephia (a bold rhythmic script), Realistica (a scrapbook font), Draghile (formal calligraphic), Lenkina (a signage script), Chandiluna (formal calligraphic), Fathan (a brush script).

Typefaces from 2022: Natalia Smitt (a scrapbook script), Calliagona (a swashy serif), Blustella (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alfiyan

Aka Logo Labs. Tangerang, Indonesia-based designer of the signage typeface Ready For Fashion (2016), the handwriting font Marseille (2018), Swag Marker (2017), and the futuristic / techno typeface Hermes (2017).

In 2018, he designed the free script typeface Billie Harley and the signature font family Sam & Sally.

Typefaces from 2020: Marmoreal (calligraphic), Herschel (font duo), Gorga, Diandra (a signature font), Fringland (calligraphic), Chasmophile (calligraphic), Behofeel (calligraphic), Candelion (calligraphic), Avital, Bandakala (script), Andamar (sans), Andamar Script (a signage script), Anaximander (a display serif), Almerian (a monoline script), Jansky (a signage script), Raya (vintage), Milestone (a signage script), Malbrouck (a penmanship script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Alfredo Callistini
[XXI Creative]

Ali Firman
[Elcode Type (was: Aku Jomblo, or: Hermestype)]

Ali Hamidi
[Brithos Type]

Alias
[Gareth Hague]

Alias is a type foundry and graphic design agency founded in 1996 by David James and Gareth Hague. It is based in London. Their fonts can be bought through T-26, ITF and/or FontWorks UK. They also did substantial corporate type design work.

Partial font list: AES (1995, David James), August (1996, a fifties font by Gareth Hague), Caustic (2012, calligraphic script family), Elephant (1994-1995, Gareth Hague), Enabler (1995, David James), Factory, Granite (1995, Gareth Hague), Harbour (1998, Gareth Hague), Intimo (2000), Jackdaw (1997, Gareth Hague), Jude, Key, Klute (1997, Gareth Hague), Mantis (1996, Gareth Hague), Metropolitan (1996, Gareth Hague), Metsys, Sister (1995, Gareth Hague), Text (1995, Gareth Hague).

Typefaces from 2015: AnoStencil, Capo (a pinched sans family), Sabre (an incised wedge serif).

Corporate typefaces include Prada Candy (2012).

Old link.

View the Alias typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alien Valley

Studio in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Creator of the curly script typeface Violet Night (2015) and the poster typeface Hornhill (2016, Sans and Serif).

Typefaces from 2019: Whitefield, Alterwave (a sans family), Greenmark (Peignotian), Günterhaus (a didone), AfterOne, Bluristy, Archelaos, Finnmark, Quinlee, Glitterino, Commodus, Exophis, Klausen (inspired by Trajan caps0, Osmund (a clean bold gemetric sans), Multiberry, Helmwick (a signature script), Benfield (wild calligraphy), Clocksmith (a piano key typeface), Westboy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alif Ryan Zulfikar
[Sakha Design]

Alison Argento
[Dear Alison]

Alison Carmichael

UK-based letterer. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alissa Mazzenga

Calligrapher and type designer in Seattle, WA, who is associated with Great Lakes Lettering. Feast (2014) is a calligraphic typeface designed by Alissa Mazzenga and produced by Dathan Boardman at Great Lakes Lettering. In 2015, she and Dathan Boardman published the calligraphic hairline typeface Marguerite.

In 2017, again with Dathan Boardman, she designed the calligraphic typeface Queen Anne Hill. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alit Design (or: Gurita Hitam)
[Alit Suarnegara]

A graduate of Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasar Bali who is based in Denpasar, Bali, Alit Suarnegara (Gurita Hitam, b. 1986, Denpasar) created these typefaces:

2022: Psychofun (psychedelic), Lhont Down (a bouncy baseline serif), Spidro Marley (a flared display serif), Bellyman (an art nouveau boutique serif), Hulahoy Typeface (a formal reverse stress script), Bulone (a display serif with curved stems and terminals), Mankey (glyphs with wavy kinks), April Blossom (a scrapbook script), Soka (a 28-style display sans), Mollyn (a 14-style casual sans), Mongek (a 13-style display serif with funky curves), Round Saetan (a ribbon typeface), Putrey (a 9-style display grotesk), Rosehot (a display serif), Maglony (a 9-style font with sharply cut edges and terminals), Nillota (a 13-style display serif), Romans Lovers (a 12-style decorative serif), Maboth Typeface (blackletter), Belong Faith (a spurred tattoo (?) blackletter), Hello Mytoys (a modernized blackletter), Belligoes (blackletter), Boiller (a 14-style Peignotian sans).
2021: Mybook Again (a great swashy calligraphic script meant for romantic events), Radja Lover (a calligraphic font with hairline connectors), Brohoney (a 13-style text family), Two Race (a race car font family), Piersob (a very wide display sans reminiscent of the old Porsche logo font), Black Mild (Victoriana), Decondor (a 14-style delicate mini-serif), Gathell (a 13-style fashion mag serif), Hero Beam (spurred, Victorian), Vaclice Script, Nokarin (a bold calligraphic script), Horseboy Boots (Western, with terminals that emulate hooves), Mokgech (blackletter), Sutray (a rather formal upright script), Mister Honey (Tuscan), Nandola (a fine calligraphic script), Bungker (a layerable hand-drawn slab serif), Brolimo (a 14-style Peignotian sans), Takashimura (a Japanese emulation font), Bunker (a layerable marquee font family), Dronefly, Miloner (a 14-style fashion mag serif), Mono and Friends (handcrafted and rounded), Roby Soho (a simple flared display sans in 12 styles), Saihat (emulating Arabic calligraphy), Gofienda (a calligraphic script), Rusty Store (Victoriana), Chalk and Friend (a sketched typeface), Grunge Decade (art nouveau), Kenoky Coffekan (a 15-style decorative sans and script duo), Botaky and Botaky Script (a wavy display font), Hidrofont (vintage), Roller Alika, Mistic (a decorative serif), Burgie (14 styles: an ink-trapped swashy and inky display serif), Hand Real (a thin monolinear script), Assox (a reverse contrast Tuscan typeface), Balian (a textured typeface that is based on Balinese carvings), Handy Quomte (calligraphic), Brohillo (a display serif).
2020: Karmila, Shary (a 52-style sci-fi sans font that could also be useful in sports), Brave Eighty One (techno, squarish), Mollas (a decorative serif), Crying, Milk and Balls (a 28-style display typeface with rhombic tittles, wedge serifs and razor blade edges---the connection with milk or balls will forever remain mysterious), Boiling, Mallent (brush script), Bemalla (script), Marons (a script/serif hybrid).
2019: Black Quality (inline, vintage), Caibojog (watercolor brush), Bonillo, Balimoon, Mofita, Nahye, Pintgram, Subscriber, Lovina Script , Bolehdong (script), Zamrack, Melloner, Melloner Fun, Beautiful Lovina, Localghost (a signature script).
2018: Controwell (a Victorian script and text collection), Raustila, Rollete Qaku (dry brush), Norffo, Nermola Scripcy Font, Braton Composer.
2017: the script typefaces Rumble Brave Script (as part of the vintage typeface Rumble Brave), Mellony (2017: dry brush script), Raph Lanok (brush style), Jandys, Jandys Dua, Billy Ohio (2017: dry brush), Localghost and Valledofas, and the vintage tattoo typeface Young Heart.
2016: the thin connected script typeface Mooglonk, the signage script Altoys, the decorative didone Florva, the connected script typefaces Asfrogas, Rofitaste (brush style), Qarvic (a sans), Qarvic Icon, Morva (a decorative didone), Young Heart (a free vintage typeface with spurs), and Brushgyo.
2015: Bromello (brush script), Vroffloow (in script and sans styles), Godfeem, Mooglonk, Floren (a display serif), Lawasth, Mooglonk Serif, the brush typeface The Faino, the tattoo font Alitide, the watercolor brush typefaces Roomfer and Norffo, the connect-the-dots typeface Circle Line, and Kemayu.
2014: the beveled typeface Piramid.
2013: the spurred signage typeface Starck.

Creative Market link. Another Creative Market link. Dafont link. Graphicrier link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alit Suarnegara
[Alit Design (or: Gurita Hitam)]

Aliv Pandu
[Sehat Co (or: Duasatu)]

Allmo Studio
[Muhammad Nur Alamsyah]

Designer in Wonogiri, Indonesia, b. 1987. In 2018, he published the free script typefaces Hailuna and Anthemie. His commercial typefaces include the excellent retro signage script Bohemian Melody (2018), the signage script Avangarde (2018) and the handcrafted Mentawai (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Vignettic (a heavy retro signage script), Basuki Script, Agradian (script), Adonessia (wild calligraphy), Black Hummer (brush script, identical to Bellarsky), Ethiopia, Starlight (script), Giorello (a signature script), Ducky Manly, Mohica (a license plate font), Realistica (a brushed signage font), Mondella (a ronde script), Bellarsky, Thunder, Thunder Rough.

Typefaces from 2020: Pottery Crafting (a brush script), Manhattan (a dry brush script), Retrophilia, Castlefire (a circus font), Ebullience, Humanely, Resemhary.

Typefaces from 2021: Vignettic (a wonderful creamy retro signage script), Mohan (a decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Rattani (a hyper-inktrapped display typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Allouse Studio
[Fachrizal Yusuf]

Allouse is a three-man design studio in Kebumen, Indonesia. In 2022, one of its designers, Fachrizal Yusuf, released Elfeylasting (thin, monolinear, hand-crafted), Mariangelica (a scrapbook script), Musegrallty 9a bold script), Shallifronthe (a tall signature script), Aokahori (a Japanese brush emulation font), Hometheater, Magnolin Deliciousy (a scrapbook script), Ninetys Starfox (hand-crafted), Pathway Artistry (a brush script), Queensouthy (script), Leroyce (an urban / mural font), Originthink, Amrinnatica (a monoline script), Silentclaire (monoline, hand-crafted), Malpicamoln (a monoline script), Urban Fest (an urban street font), Comickes (a 4-style comic book family), Skeptisgraph (script), Wadezix (a cartoon font), Minescript (a scrapbook script), Trilogi Materialism (a bold upright signature script), Sophia Honey (a scrapbook script), Bittle Almond (hand-crafted), Fachristar (a scrapbook font), Transcript (a scrapbook script), Ghouline (a monoline script), Skeptisgraph (a free script), The Old Falcons (a crayon font), Galih Ratna (a scrapbook script), Quimil (a scrapbook script), Myth Smiley (an inline hand-printed font), Marlrock (a creamy all caps supermarket font), Placepage (a thin monolinear script).

Typefaces from 2021: Jaqartall (script), Luckymoon (a scrapbook font), Midspicy (a tall hand-printed font), Smelly Peach (counterless), Social Melinda (a fat finger script), Soulyouth (a fat finger script), Hidebeast (bold letters, perhaps emulating graffiti), Hokia (for graffiti), Rumini Namamu (hand-crafted, counterless), Timegoing (graffiti), Throostle (a Saul Bass style typeface), Cinemair (a dry brush font), Eastlovely (a scrapbook script), Shibalady (an upright monilinear script), Qarllottey (script) Miqueltan (a scrapbook script), Highfilm (an unconnected dry brush script), Moviecal (a brush font), Creamy Garden (a fat finger font), Jolystmas (a scrapbook script), Val Edeline (script), Greathy (an unconnected script), Maestrography (a calligraphic script), Morpline (script), Manly Signature, Chicola Smoothy, Eiffel Story (script), Sprinkle Magical (a textured scrapbook font), Renitha (script), Christmas Scriptty (a scrapbook script), Gecko Moria (a Halloween font), Guardian Snowing (a scrapbook script), Mealky Winter (a scrapbook font), Spooky Whisper, Joynoted, Kreasi Literasi (a scrapbook font), Quichflour (a fat finger script), Apricotsy (script), Gloomy Mummy, Haypearl (script), Steally Grace (a fat finger script), Bleakfall (a horror font), Grindline (script), Ottama (an inline script), Christnolan (script), Magnolia Sparkling (a free upright monolinear script), Wildwick (a graffiti font), Blue Season (a dry brush script), Chunky Hulrey, Oyscake (script), Hummer Miller (a semi-formal script), Spicy Garlic (a scrapbook script), Sticky Buttercup, Honey Waffles (a scrapbook font duo), Summer Lightning (script), Goodness Cakes (a scrapbook script), Bigsby Hills (a brush script), Welluxx (a dry brush font), Happiness Machine (a dry brush script), Millions Journey (a fat finger script), Orleymore (a dry brush script), Alafyou Swirly (script), Neug Asia (a decorative serif), Grimnotes (a marker pen font), Meowtalk (a counterless hand-printed typeface), Ganghoods (a motorcycle gang blackletter), Moonlily (a fat finger font), Mandy William (a monolinear signature font), Raya Feast (a monolinear script), Uhudscript (a monolinear script), Bankai (a typeface emulating the Japanese brush style), Melly Honney, Star Whisper (a scrapbook font), Sunny Bunny (a scrapbook font), Deardorf (a graffiti font), Jimmy Collins (a graffiti font), Soul Doubt (graffiti), Yel Yeah (a scrapbook font), Adelaide + Georgie (a scrapbook font), Little Comet (a scrapbook font), Golden Motion (emulating handwriting), Antiokhia (a quirky watercolor typeface), Youth Richfield (a grungy marker pen script), Already Broken (a scratchy font), Mykilove, Omniface (an upright brush script), Quarts Pachino (a vernacular script), Realitta (a monoline script), South Paris (a signature script), Alesantria Mane (a creamy script), The Wild Chaos, Twist Jelly (a scrapbook font), Alesantria Mane (a creamy script), The Wild Chaos, Twist Jelly (a scrapbook font), Asher Punk, Greater Delight, Han Le Tours (a dry brush script), Petter Secret, Burnfolk (a brush font), Bluehonest, Kikyo (a fat finger font), Mayrisand, Owbeirak and Mandalaz Sensei.

Typefaces from 2020: Itadakimase (a dry brush script), Quesited, Mythical Christmas (a script), Tokyosign (a script), Cologics, Elfira (a monolinear script), Bennington Glow (a monoline script), Jee Wish (a wide signature script), Standard Jeglek (script), Onigashima (an oriental emulation brush font), Good Sunset, Butter Tropical, Diola Gonel (a monolinear script), Kagomechan (a monolinear hand-printed typeface), Rayleigh, Sydney Tears (a fat finger font), Ancukaseyo (a wide upright signature script), Aprillia Wijaya, Catarina Devon (a handcrafted blackboard bold font), Cosmos Logic, Democrasweet, Fake Nice, Jannatta, Qunka, Emerald Cole, Hapsary, Kutilang, Manadis Deadly, Sing Buneng Bae, Naofumi (a dry brush script), Orion Chalk, Signaday, The August (a fat finger font), Thinna Bell (a fat finger font), Goodbye Anjing, Morning Glow, Nurani and the graffiti font Amperas. Free fonts include Jannatta (a signature font), The August, Signaday, Thinna Bell, Heartcraft (script), Hildaquin (an upright script), The Goblick (a wide signature script), Byemalkan (an upright monolinear cursive font), Catastrophist (a traditional tattoo typeface), Catastrophist (a traditional tattoo typeface), Elvishwild (a tattoo font), Her Song (a tattoo font), Cayed (uncial), Xwisth (calligraphic), Oceanic Cocktail (script), Brandy Coffee, Hogback (Japanese brush), Masmuseh (emulating Japanese), Herojuana (a brush font), La Maison Brush (a dry brush font), Batistar (script), Ocean Sunshine, Quiet Sickless (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ally Heart
[Lisa Campbell]

Rob Leuschke's bio. Klingspor PDF.

Almeera Studio
[Rinto Dwi Nugroho]

Or Rinto Dewangga. Kedu, Temanggung, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1985, of these script typefaces in 2018: Twinkle, Zetetic, Oklahoma Script, Stela, Santa Fe, Wall Street (a luxurious signature font), Lambretta, Kongo, Blackbeard, Sinister Brush, Zimphony.

Typefaces from 2019: Halycoon (for signage), Magenta, Qiara (font duo), .

Typefaces from 2020: The Boldstyle (a creamy upright signage script), Morrissley (wild, calligraphic), Sefilya, Milkshake Scriptsweet, Dorithy, Applezack, Floristya Script (swashy, calligraphic), Crusty Breads, Fairytales, (a Valentine's day script), Wonderlove Monograms, Floral Split Monogram, La Foonte, Vanquish, Sanbrush, Cool Baby, Helen Paris, Froogstones, Droop Sheep, Betterlove, Pinapples (sic), Rectoversa, Magic Winter, Romantic Rhapsody, Royale Amoure Font Duo, The Rollingstar, Srinthile Script, Northland, Wonderia, Artisoul Signature (a monoline signature script), Bilderberg (a bold display serif typeface), Beauty Gadish (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2021: Astralie (an angular calligraphic serif), Astralie (a display serif), Galeoge (a circle-based monolinear art deco sans), Marvella Typeface (a display serif), Billiers (a display serif), Metaphora (a fat swashy script), Mongbeach Script (a wild calligraphic script), Monasha Script, Babylone Script, Sefilya Script (a scrapbook script), The Northland + Southland Combinations (a vintage sans and script duo), Gloomy Saturday (a font duo), Abraghen (an experimental serif), Sallenas Grandes (a display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alpaprana Studio

Indonesia-based designer of display, scrapbook and handcrafted typefaces. In 2021, he published these fonts: Aesthetic, Angelic Smiles, Another (architectural lettering), Asgerion (stencil), Baby Mermaid, Baby Sparkle, Barley, Bathiora, Beacon (futuristic), Beauty Hearts, Best Valentine, Bigdino Park, Blackout (futuristic), Boost Display, Claresta, Clatterson, Committing, Creamy Buttermilk, Darling, Devany, Felicity, Gelato, Getting Better, Gia Cristine, Giordan (calligraphic), Golang, Grandia, Halmera, Haster, Hazelnuts, Hello Snowy, Hello Viktoria, Hunting, Katracy, Kingham, Kingston Signature, Komon, Latterday, Life Hacks, Love&Thunder, Magderyna, Magretta, Memphis, Merkisa, Midnight Shadows, Mighty Kingdom, Modena, Momy & Marsa, Northing, Perky Dream, Pumpkin Party, Radiants, Ralynda, Rastella, Ratcliffer, Replay Time, Spider Homes, Sweet Puppy, Thom Rodger, Wakanda, Western. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alpha Bento
[Rinaldi Novianda]

Indonesian designer Rinaldi Novinda founded Alpha Bento in 2020. In 2021, he released Bentara Script (formal calligraphy), Generale Script (a formal penmanship script), Putteri Script (calligraphic) and the script / sans / doodle triplet Hello Master.

Typefaces from 2022: Berlianda Script (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alpha Design

Chinese studio that made the Latin script typefaces Agile Script (2015), Belle Script (2015), Lovepen (2015, connected), Smooth handwriting (2015), Caligraphy (2015), Golf (2015), Fancy Signature (2015), Vina (2015, fashion mag headline sans) and Candy Sticks (2014). In 2015, they made Sickle Blade, Bigoo, Bubble (display type), Pipe (art deco), Shuimu (hand-printed typeface), Begade (display type), Guilloches (a textured wavy op-art decorative typeface), Pio, Graffito (a painted graffiti font), Dome (a thin techno sans), and Hemiyong (a script typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Dorae Script, Agile Script, Happly Script (connected), Quick Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Notetail Script, BrushWork, Alisa Serif (swashy), Wedding Script, Jasmine Script, Signature. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alphabet Soup (or: Michael Doret)
[Michael Doret]

Michael Doret is a commercial hand lettering artist in Hollywood, CA, but born in New York in 1946. A graduate of The Cooper Union, he was interviewed by MyFonts in 2011. He worked at PhotoLettering as an assistant of Ed Benguiat. Klingspor link. Behance link. Veer writes: A graduate of the Cooper Union, Michael has run his own design studio for many years - first in New York City - and currently in Hollywood. An eight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award, Michael is a specialist in logos and letterforms. His unique typographic vision blends elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. The inspiration for his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various other artifacts of this great land of ours. Although for much of his career he executed his work in traditional media, he now works almost exclusively in a digital format. In 2006, he set up his own foundry, Alphabet Soup.

Fonts sold by MyFonts. Behance link. FontShop link.

His typefaces:

Dark Angel (2013). A gloomy black blackletter hybrid.
Deliscript (2009): an upright connected script with accompanying slanted version. It was inspired by neon signs in from of Canter's restaurant in Hollywood. Winner at TDC2 2010. And a winner in the Type Design category, CA Magazine's Award of Excellence in their 2011 Typography issue.
Deluxe Gothic (2010), a Bank Gothic style face. DeLuxe Gothic was also the name that Intertype used for their version of Bank Gothic. Images: i, ii), iii.
Dynascript (2011). Patrick Griffin did the Opentype programming. Dynatype (2012) is the upright, slightly more formal cousin of Dynascript.
Grafika (2009): a gorgeous 1930s art deco typeface originally designed for the credits of the movie Savages. Doret calls it extreme deco.
Metroscript (2006, Alphabet Soup): a connected retro script.
Orion (2003): an upright, linear script, based on an enameled sign (probably of 1930s vintage) that designer Michael Doret picked up at a Paris flea market.
Power Station (2006): a 3-d athletic lettering and beveled family, with styles such as Block, Wedge, Block Low, Block High.
Steinweiss Script (2010): a 2200-glyph curly script typeface called Steinweiss Script (2010), which captures a lot of the spirit of Steinweiss's album covers from the late 1930s and 1940s. (Opentype programming help by Patrick Griffin).

Creative Market link. View Michael Doret's typefaces. The typeface libray at Alphabet Soup. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alphabetica.com

A page that showcases the work of some of the finest calligraphers. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alphabytes
[Rob Leuschke]

St. Louis lettering artist Robert Leuschke (who grew up and lives in St. Charles, MO) has made some 250 calligraphic fonts for greeting cards, including many for Hallmark Cards, of which about 80 are commercially available: ITC Arid (1997), a flowing handwriting [see also here], ITC Chivalry (2003), Saliere (1997), Love (2003), SendFlowers (1988), Whisper (2003), RugeBoogie (2004, supercurly script), Ambiance (2004, an informal calligraphic design for Bitstream), and a handprinting font, Roelandt BT (2002, Bitstream). The IRC Chat Font (smilies) is free.

In 2003, he found an outlet for his work through P22 and published P22Corinthia, P22ImperialScript, P22OhLey [simulating Mexican writing], P22Petemoss and P22Ruthie.

He also made RUSerius (2007, curly handwriting), Alex Brush (2003), Cherish Font (2003), ChildrenPlay ROB (2003), Ephesis (1988), Inspiration (2003), JackieO (2003), Licorice (2003), OoohBabyROB (2004), TheNautiGal (2006), Gideon (2009, roman), Corinthia (2009, calligraphic), Puppies Play (2009), Monte Carlo (2011).

MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alqawoms
[Muhammd Aby]

Muhammd Aby (Alqawoms, Aceh Besar, Indonesia) created the script typefaces Marabella (2016: brush script), Yolanda (2016: calligraphic), Bougainvillea (2016: calligraphic), Panthers (2015) and Breakout (2015, brushy).

Typefaces from 2016: Annabelle (formal script), Beautification (connected script), Better (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Alt Desain

Despite the scary name---anything with Alt as a prefix---, Alt Desain, located in Jakarta, Indonesia, created these fonts in 2018: The Queenz (a semi-calligraphic cursib=ve typeface), Fungky Town. [Google] [More] ⦿

Alte Schriften
[Susuanne Ulmke]

German page advertising a CD with nice old writing samples (in tiff, not ttf!!!). Mostly decorated initials and Fraktur. R.G. Arens' Sütterlin font can be downloaded from this site, which is run by Susanne Ulmke in Arnsberg, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿

Aluyeah Studio (or: Cupcake Std)
[Linggar Sundoro]

Indonesian designer of Al Lebaker (2019), the octagonal industrial typeface Al Valenciaga (2019), the interlocking display sans Le Porsche (2019---and amazed that the auto maker has not complained about this name), the monoline script Aaleyah (2019), the display sans typeface Al Chevrola (2019), the fashion mag typefaces Al Veshion (2019) and AL Nevrada (2019), and the script typeface Vigrand (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Nevrada Neue (decorative serif; like Veshion), Embryotic, Muberry (artsy), Roshella (brush), AL Valenciaga (octagonal, mechanical), AL Lebrush, Olla Julietta, Qristalla, Shlasa Bella, Michellate, Allietta, Mother Vanilla, Mishella, Amstallova, Bostvina (a fashion mag typeface), AL Hermaiona (a formal calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2021: Al Boldest Enough, Al Crushider (a dry brush script), Al Bizantheum (a stylish display serif), Al Murberry (a stylish unicase font), Al Motherva (a display serif), Al Marshland Beauty (a display serif), Al Evagrande (a display serif), Al Embryotic (a decorative serif), Al Crystasea (a sharp-edged wedge serif display typeface), Bavista Soulvare, Al Black Emerald (a decorative serif), Al Britania Ligatura (a decorative serif), Al Brachella Drumal (a vintage all caps serif), Al Magensburg (a swashy decorative serif inspired by ethic arches).

Typefaces from 2022: Al Mangsi (a notched display serif), Badlooking Brush (a dry brush font). Blogspot link.

Creative Fabrica link. Dafont link for Aluyeah Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

AM Studios
[Amirul Isra]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the upright connected script font Gangster Berdury Monoline Script (2016) and the calligraphic typefaces Bosline (2016), Auliyana (2016), Brillion Shella Script (2016), Misfadiella (2016), Martino Script (2016, a great swashy calligraphic script), and Israquella (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Sammer Lesson (script), Sammer Lesson Sans, Butlsr, Sweet Girl, Amirra Script, Brownight (brush script), Shafira Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Fantiyella (swashy calligrapgic), Vabrietta Script (calligraphic), Boesty, Exaller (dry brush), Mifone (brush script), Resti Script (Treefrog style), Geristy, Minosha, Blythe (brush script), Butlsr.

Typefaces from 2019: Cimberleigh (calligraphic script), Landing (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Amanye Tenceli: Tengwar Calligraphy
[Måns Björkman]

Tengwar calligraphic page by Måns Björkman from Sweden. Free fonts made by him include Sarati Eldamar (2005), Valmaric Eldamar (2006), Tengwar Scribe, Tirion Sarati (2002), Tengwar Parmaite. Plus many calligraphic notes. He explains: This page is dedicated to the beautiful writing systems that in Tolkien's works derived from the continent of Aman. They are often collectively called Tengwar, although strictly speaking this is wrong, Tengwar being the name of Feanor's writing system (Feanors Tengwar) but not of the Sarati, Rúmils script (the Tengwar of Rúmil). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿

Amar Lettering (or: Kamaruddin, or: Just Lett)
[Muhammad Takiyuddin]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of the calligraphic script typefaces Shellia Script (2016), Kalisha Script (2016), Mahsetta Script (2016), Austina Script (2016) and Artilla Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Bentley Script, Katrina Script, Fabulous Script, Galatia Script, Princella Script, Eritta Script, Delight Script, Desyanti Script (calligraphic), Madelina Script, Astereiska Script, Humble Script, Challista Script, Challista Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: Javelyn, Sandwich, Katlyne, Hendryan, Gethania, Leisha Script, Thatcher, Catherine, Diantha, Haleigh Script, Rasella Script, Shelter, Sallita, Melinda Script, Ranuella, Humble (calligraphic script), Princella Sans, Bitthai Script, Histeria Script (formal calligraphy), Mansfield, Rasendrya, Kimberly.

Typefaces from 2019: Happy Christmas, Pruistin, Astone Blood (brush script), Minthas Script, Nightwear Script, Ranfield Script, Shooting, Reading, Halley, Something, Nightmare, Bellisa, Berlian, Geralyn, Leighton, Courtney, Bertilda Script, Kinsley, Laneisha, Delany Script (calligraphic), Last Night, Seabright, Litesha, Hamster (script).

As Just Lett in 2019, he released the script typeface Anatonym. In 2020, he released Batta Quath, Bertilda, Charlize, Glasi Collection, Lotherday, Plankton, Sterling Script, Matterhorn, Redesey, Sterling, The Caldwell, Happy Christmas, Chartha (an upright script), Misteria, Heart love, Berrylina, Valentine, and Dantalia.

Typefaces from 2021: Britta Connie (a scrapbook script), Mulidey (an upright script), Chattey (a rabbit ear calligraphic font), Maryellen (formal calligraphic). Graphicriver link. Aka Kamaruddin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Amber Catford

Graphic designer in Innsbruck, Austria, who created the warm calligraphic teardrop-themed script typeface Vigna in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

Amélie Bonet

French graphic and type designer who graduated from Ecole Estienne in 2005 with a thesis entitled La cancellaresca, L'âge d'or de la calligraphie italienne.. She also studied visual communications at Ecole Duperré in Paris. She has an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Polydom, which covers Latin, Greek and Devanagari. Her other typefaces include Groe (2010), We Folk (2010, caps only), Operetta (a cancellaresca based on Tagliente's lettering), PSA (an iconographic and sans type system for Peugeot and Citroen), and Gustan. She lived in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2010, she joined Dalton Maag in South London as a type designer.

At Dalton Maag, she helped out with Nokia Bengali, which won an award at Granshan 2014.

Roxane (2011, Rosetta Type) covers Latin and Devanagari.

Typecache link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ameerazan Studio (was: Mamplanglaut)
[Asep Sunandar]

Cianjur, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1987, of the rabbit ear script typefaces Gardenia (2020), Almeera (2020) and Beauty (2019). Other script typefaces include Dealova (2020), My Heart (2020) and The Rain (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

American Greetings Corporation
[Courtney Kent Rhodes]

In 1996, the American Greetings Corporation company issued a number of mostly script and blackletter fonts, whose names all start with CAC. These can now be found on many font archives. A partial list: CACCamelot, CACChampagne, CACFuturaCasual, CACFuturaCasualBold, CACFuturaCasualBoldItalic, CACFuturaCasualMedItalic, CACKrazyLegs, CACKrazyLegsBold, CACLaskoCondensed, CACLaskoEvenWeight, CACLeslie, CACLogoAlternate, CACMoose, CACNormHeavy, CACOneSeventy, CACPinafore, CACSaxonBold, CACShishoniBrush, CACValiant, Care-Bear-Family, ShishoniBrush.

Founded in 1906 and based in Cleveland, American Greetings Corporation no longer develops or sells fonts.

Some web sites report that AGC, in cooperation with AGI, published these fonts in 2011: Erin B Regular, Handwriting, Hucklebuc, Lady Script, Lasko Medium, Lovebirds, Milli, Moonstruck, Otto Matic Sans Regular, Pigpen Two Plain, Sage Script Regular, Wild Bill Bold.

Six of the CAC fonts were designed and produced by graphic designer and Vietnam veteran Courtney Kent Rhodes (b. 1949, Rochester, IN) from Westlake, OH, who worked for AGC from 1988 until 2003. He is a graduate of Indiana University, class of 1977, and is principal of Courtney Rhodes Design since 1980.

Dafont link [removed]. Archive of most of the CAC fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Amin Abedi

Tabriz, Iran-based designer (b. 1990) of these typefaces:

The paperclip typeface First Shine (2016).
The outline typeface AAR (2017).
The programming font Cherry (2017).
The calligraphic typeface Perfection (2017).
The monoline Arabic/Latin typefaces Estedad (2017-2018) and Mikhak (2018).
The monospaced sans typeface AzarMehr Monospaced (2018). For Arabic and Latin. It has a great arched background font.
The fancy Persian font Fandogh (2017).

Github link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Amin Maryono
[Aminmario Studio (was: Mario Studio)]

Aminmario Studio (was: Mario Studio)
[Amin Maryono]

Known as Amin Mario and Amin Maryono, b. 1985. Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of Amarillo (2018: calligraphic script), Long Liner (2018) and Gwen Handwritten (2018). He also made the script typefaces Scotlandis (2019), Freaks (2019), September (2019), The Strength (2019), Starlights (2019), Under Grounds (2019), The Crown (2019), Surender (2019), Squad Jumps (2019), Blender Brush (2019), West London (2019), Angel Signature (2019), Septy Notes (2019: monoline), Indonesia Island (2019), High Techno (2019), Aladina (2019), Romy & Jules (2019), Alexander Lettering (2019), South Boston (2019), Gladiators (2019), The Dance Signature (2019), The Himalaya (2019), My Mecca (2019: upright script), Alesana (2019: a signature font), Ladybug (2019: a monoline script), and Oh Candy (2019).

Other typefaces include Rock Brush Pro (2019), Love-and-sweet-massage (2019), Tour de France (2019), Abrakadabra (2019), Planets Signature (2019) and the slab serif Clutsy (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Lestagina, Bedontes, Boba Lova, Evertone, Howard Jades, Cutie Botie, Big Shine, Rachels, Lovadea, Monique, Star Love, Sunday Monday, Lovely rainy, Melisa, Love Mama, Give Love, Corona Brush, Parasite, pandemic, Wash Your Hands, Wuhan Brush, Masker Brush, Social distance, Lockdown Brush, Lock Down, Sttay At Home, Unlock, Goodbye, Distnacing, Death, Death Brush, Black Virus, Dark Night, Spray Brush, Death Virus, Beatrice Script, The Ballpoint (an inky script), Interind Diary, Adexline Lettering, Covid Virus (dry brush), Instalove Diary, King Kong, Monkey King, Gingers, Yesterday, Angel Fire, Riverstock, Enemy, Destroya, Ernesto, Alterbreak, Xtreem, Stereo Ville, Wonderkid, Monstera, Virginia, Magical, Dreaming, Monogram AtoZ, Highlander, Blackburn, JungleToJungle, Silverfang, Iron Ranger, Charly, La Vista, Hello, Highway Shredded.

Typefaces from 2021: Butter Notes (a scrapbook script), The Bellonte (a signature script), Thunder Shutter (a monoline script), Open Heart (a scrapbook script), Ivory Coast (an inky script), Humanity (a wild script), Monita Signature (a fine inky signature font), Antomades (an inky script), Stockhand (an inky script), The Skytripe (script), Aulendorf (an inky script), Sendertime (script), Maitland Script, Amatya Signature, Tangerang (script), Moline, Bedontes (a dry brush script), Lestagine (a dry brush script), Signature Zetterd (an inky script), Millestone (an inky script), Theory Of Signature (a fine inky script), Hunterland (an inky script), The Planeta. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Amir Subqi Setiaji
[Blank Sub (or: Subqi; or: Blankids; was: Bombas Type)]

Amir Subqi Setiaji

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of Raitons (2017: signage script), The Crumble (2017, script), Batallion (2017, script), Deadly Phyton (2017), Loguetown (2017, signage script), Axettac Script (2017) and Cadass (2017: baseball or signage script).

Typefaces from 2018: Avant Grande (dry brush), Ematodas (brush), Rattem Hullax, Wiltasso (script), Battams, Rassain, Phyton, Bloomy Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Resshoir (dry brush script), Guzttass, Katteline Rumadhon, Sholaria (a formal calligraphic script), Bathagor (a heavy signature script), Crumble.

Typefaces from 2020: Hzoland (a fat finger font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Amirul Isra
[AM Studios]

Amok Ink

Tomsk, Russia-based calligrapher and lettering artist. In 2018, he published the wonderful Cyrillic ink splatter typeface Hazrskij. [Google] [More] ⦿

Amri Mauludin
[Arima Type]

Behance link. Creative Market link. Cargo Collective link. Behance link for Try and Error Studio. Creative Market link for Amtypefoundry. Creative Market link for Type Wolves. Behance link for Type Wolves. Creative Market link for Amtypes. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Amtypes (was: TypeWolves, Amtypefoundry, or Try and Error)
[Angga Mahardika]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the angular signage typeface Lawson (2014), the Victorian signage typeface Houden HTN (2014), the paint brush typeface Valerie (2014), and the ironwork typeface Pipeburn (2014).

In 2015, Angga made the hand-painted typeface Hellous, the handcrafted Belion, Haste, Seafool and Teaters, the brush typefaces She Lovely, Stay Bold and Rainfall, the great rough brush typeface Harvest, the calligraphic (wedding script?) Judy, the brush face Tropica Island, and the script typeface Callera.

Typefaces from 2016: Badhorse, Burtons Script, Heats, East Coast, Happy Boys, Bird House, Sailor (a vintage rounded letterpress emulation typeface in solid and rough versions), Alloha (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Cinamon (brush script), Blackships (Victorian), Explode (a fresh all caps sans layered typeface), Black Gate, Cup Cakes, Wildest Script, Buffalo.

Typefaces from 2018: Hellios (a signature script), Haste, Sunborn Sans, Sunborn Script, Bright, Sweet Belly, Cortez (octagonal), Silver Stone (a vintage Western font), Sumo Book.

Typefaces from 2019: Masquerouge.

Amy Ellks
[The Pen & Brush]

Ana Babii

Irkutsk, Siberia-based designer of Simple Ink (2016, brush script), Double Ink (2016), Grunge Dry Brush (2016), Sponge (2016, a high-contrast calligraphic script), Christmas Snowy (2016), Grunge Stamp (2016), Simple Handdrawn (2016), Grunge Display (2016: a dry brush font), Grunge Display Formal (2016), Rhubarb Pie (2016), Yndina (2016, script), Boriska (2016, watercolor grunge), 3D Sketch Font (2016), Blooming Sally (2016), Pride & Prejudice (2016), Ribbon Display (2016), Melted Font (2016), Leaves Display Font (2016, a floral decorative caps typeface), Concept Round Font (2016), Quick Handwritten Font (2016), Snabbyshoe (2016, grungy handcrafted typeface), the Latin typeface Old Typewriter (2016), Old Destroyed Typewriter (2016), Retro Typewriter (2016), and Heart Font (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Grunge Dry Brush (an extension of her 2016 typeface), Ink Brush, Bold Brush, Bold Grunge Display, Dry Brush, Bold Dry. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ana Dorado
[Tipos en red]

Ana Marija
[Inky Jar Design Studio]

Ana Rita Almeida

Porto, Portugal-based creator of the calligraphic typeface Violeta (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ana Sanfelippo

Argentinian illustrator, calligrapher and graphic designer based in Buenos Aires. Creator of the part calligraphic part Lombardic text family Almendra (2011, free at Google Web Fonts). Almendra, which has been suggested by Ana for use in children's books, won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012 in the typeface family category. It was her graduation typeface at FADU-UBA. In 2012, Google Web Fonts published Almendra Display and Almendra Small Caps. CTAN page for TeX support.

Ruluko (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a free typeface created by Ana Sanfelippo, A. Díaz and M. Hernández. Google: Ruluko is a typeface designed to aid those learning to read. The shapes you see are related to the handwriting typically used at schools in Argentina. The concept is that those who have learned to read this handwriting style may recognise this type style more easily than other typefaces often used in this context. But as a warm and stylish sans serif text type, you may use Ruluko for any purpose. Ruluko won an award in the text category at Tipos Latinos 2012.

In 2012, Ana Sanfelippo and Alejandro Inler published the fashion mag didone typeface Elsie at Google Web Fonts. It was accompanied by Elsie Swash Caps.

Yoshimi Regular won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

Fontsquirrel link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Anand Patel

Web and graphic designer in Navsari, India, who created the calligraphic typeface Liscio (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Anass Qara
[Qaratype]

Anastasia Dimitriadi
[DimitriAna]

Anatoliy Vasilyevich Shchukin

Anastasia Kuznetsova

Anapa, Russia-based designer of a curly connected Latin / Cyrillic script typeface and of the sketched Chalk Cyrillic in 2016. Aka Inky Owl.

Typefaces from 2022: Kit Cloudkicker (in a child's hand), Paperboard (a paper cutout font), Pumpkin Magic (a brush font), Sunny Citrus (a bold grungy font), Hocus Pocus (a paper cutout font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Anastasia Larina

Russian poet who designed the handwriting fonts 47 (2008) and Denistina (2007). Aka X-tina and as Christina-S. Dafont link, where the designer is called Chrissette. [Google] [More] ⦿

Anastasia Musinova

Moscow-based designer of the formal calligraphic typeface Hertsgard (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Russian type designer, b. 1906, Moscow, d. 1994, Moscow. He was also a graphic artist. He designed type and was project manager at VNII Polygraphmash. His typeface oeuvre either as a designer or project manager:

The extensive Cyrillic/Latin didone family "New Standard", based on the text typefaces of the late 19th and early 20th centuries of the Obyknovennaya ("common") group. The digital version was developed at ParaGraph in 1996 by Vladimir Yefimov. ParaType explains: Initially designed for a collection of works by Lenin, this typeface was widely used in Soviet Union for technical and scientific books, both for text and display. Maxim Zhukov pointed out its popularity in Russia: Series No 27 (Neo Didot) had a Cyrillic version. I don't know when it was developed. A lot of books in the USSR and world-wide were set in Neo Didot. Neo Didot was so popular that around 1940 its Soviet clone was developed, Obyknovennaya Novaya Garnitura (Ordinary New Typeface). It was custom-designed for the 4th edition of Lenin's Collected Works (its 1st volume was printed in 1941, and the last one, 39th, in 1967). That typeface was later released for general use. It is now offered in digital form by ParaType, under the name New Standard.
Latinskaya (1936, later Literaturnaya). The 1937 version of Literaturnaya is attributed to Schchukin, T. Breyev and G. Bannikova. For a free digital version, see Literaturnaya (2017, Marath Salychow).
Paratype Journal Sans and Paratype Journal Sans Cyrillic (1940-1956). Paratype writes: The typeface was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1940-56 (project headed by Anatoly Shchukin) based on Erbar-Grotesk typeface of Ludwig & Mayer company, 1929 by Jakob Erbar, and on Metro typeface of Mergenthaler Linotype, 1929 by William A. Dwiggins. A sans serif of geometric style. For use for text and display typography. In 2014 designer Olexiy Volochay made some corrections in original digital data and extended character set. The family was rereleased in ParaType in 2014. In 2014, Maria Selezeneva cooperated with Alexandra Korolkova on a revamped Journal Sans typeface at Paratype, called Journal Sans New (Latin and Cyrillic). This is a major extension as explained by Paratype:
The Journal Sans typeface was developed in the Type Design Department of SPA of Printing Machinery in Moscow in 1940-1956 by the group of designers under Anatoly Shchukin. It was based on Erbar Grotesk by Jacob Erbar and Metro Sans by William A. Dwiggins, the geometric sans-serifs of the 1920s with the pronounced industrial spirit. Journal Sans, Rublenaya (Sans-Serif), and Textbook typefaces were the main Soviet sans-serifs. So no wonder that it was digitized quite early, in the first half of 1990s. Until recently, Journal Sans consisted of three typefaces and retained all the problems of early digitization, such as inaccurate curves or side-bearings copied straight from metal-type version. The years of 2013 and 2014 made "irregular" geometric sans-serifs trendy, and that fact affected Journal Sans. In the old version curves were corrected and the character set was expanded by Olexa Volochay. In the new release, besides minor improvements, a substantial work has been carried out to make the old typeface work better in digital typography and contemporary design practice. Maria Selezeneva significantly worked over the design of some glyphs, expanded the character set, added some alternatives, completely changed the side-bearings and kerning. Also, the Journal Sans New has several new typefaces, such as true italic (the older font had slanted version for the italic), an Inline typeface based on the Bold, and the Display typeface with proportions close to the original Erbar Grotesk. The new version of Journal Sans, while keeping all peculiarities and the industrial spirit of 1920s-1950s, is indeed fully adapted to the modern digital reality. It can be useful either for bringing historical spirit into design or for modern and trendy typography, both in print and on screen.
Roublennaya (1947). Digital revivals include Superstar Grotesk (2022, Ilja Pazderin) and GT Eesti (2015-2016, by Reto Moser at Grillitype). Moser writes: It is a free-spirited interpretation of the Soviet geometric sans serif Zhurnalnaya Roublennaya, first released in 1947 and designed by Anatoly Shchukin.
Akademicheskaya (1941).
Schkolnaya (1962).
Ladoga (1968, Polygraphmash): emulation of flat nib writing. Digitized and extended by Viktor Kharyk in 2005-2006 at ParaType.
Rukopisnaya Korobkovoy (1953) and Rukopisnaya Zhihareva (1953): calligraphic typefaces.

FontShop link. Paratype link. Typo Mania link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Anderson Kleber

Brazilian codesigner with Fábio Henrique, Leonardo Rosa Borges and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿

Andhi Yulianto
[Great19]

View the typefaces designed by Andinistas.

Andinistas
[Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero]

Bogotá-based Colombian graphic design studio and type foundry Andinistas was founded in 1998 by Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero, Lennyn Salinas, Mariangeles Valero, Juan Carlos Valero, Jorge Alexander Camargo Guerrero, Rafael Rincón, and Jordi Teres. It was first located in Caracas, Venezuela, but moved in 2003 to Bogotá, Colombia. New names in its organization include Alexander Moreno. Many of its designers are Venezuelan.

Among their typefaces: Nikona, Magola (2008, puffy script), Angelita, Pepelepu, Zerotipo, Skuke, Retro, Radio Bemba, Pumarosa, Pr1, Oficia, Nativa, Mongol (free), Lirrot, Leroy (1999-2008, computer screen stripes), Leroy Dingbats (1998-2008), Hiroformica, Hibrida, Guerilla, Guerilla Outline, Gruada, Gancho Petare, Escuedra, Esbelta, DSNett, dia-D, Download, Denego, Cristal, Codiga, Codiga Icon, Codiga Destroy, Codiga Codec, Chacao Petare, Cazon Gothic, Boa, Biol, Ave-cedario, Anaira.

Cazon (2007, Camargo Guerrero) is a family of calligraphic origin consisting of 7 styles: Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Dingbats A and B and is based on the paintbrush letters found in the popular markets of La Guaira, Caracas. This family won an award in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2008. Lirrot (2007) is a 6-style grunge handwriting typeface bordering on the psychotic, and comes with Lirrot Dingbats. It too won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008.

PP Lepu (1998-2008) is pixel grunge. Josefina (+Dingbats1) is a curly script also made in 2008. Navaja (2008) and Diad are collections of grunge fonts with grungy dingbats. Lucrecia 1 through 3 (2008) is a fat connected script family ranging from clean to splattered.

Telesforo (2008) radiates anger from its brushy grungy limbs. Telesforo Black won an award at Tiupos Latinos 2012. Ninja 1 and Ninja 2 (2008) are script fonts, and are accompanied by Ninja Dingbats (2008). Dsnet (2008) is a 6-style bare-bones rounded squarish family. Flaminia and Flaminia Dingbats (2008) are useful for food-related signage. Modelia (2008) is thick, informal, and looks like it was brushdrawn. Modelia won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. Filomena (2008) is a brush family with a goth theme and an accompanying goth dingbats. Obdulia (2008) and Floro (2008) are extreme mural grunge fonts. Marimonda (2009) is grunge calligraphy.

Typefaces from 2012: Demetria (a hellish script), Ciclope (army stencil), Meteora (a sturdy weathered family), Kamuy (a grunge typeface, with dingbats, that links to Asian comic style lettering, and Japan in the Pacific War), Naturalia (an informal sans family).

In 2013, he made Gluten (a poster typeface family), Bengala Script (a distant relative of Mistral), Chef Script (a large signage script influenced by Ross F. George's Speedball lettering manual (1957)), Chef Script Dingbats (hilarious restaurant dings and fists), Sumergible Script.

Typefaces from 2014: Citronela (cartoon or Caribbean hotel signage font family), Bemol (a set of script fonts in craftsman style), Nemocon (creamy script), Acustica (a calligraphic Acustica Script, with didone Acustica Caps, and a decorative Acustica Dingbats), Cereal (+ Script (a vampire script), Skin and Dingbats).

Typefaces from 2015: Draw (which includes a gorgeous calligraphic Draw Script), Coffee Break (signage script family, +dingbats), Solar (a set of seven handcrafted styles).

Typefaces from 2016: Enjoy (Script, Caps).

Typefaces from 2017: Warhol (irregular scripts), Makeup (a crayon font by Carlos Guerrero and Carolina Suarez).

Typefaces from 2018: Bechamel (a delicious curly brush script), Bechamel Roman (based on the unicase letterings of the movie Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory), Stevia (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Bleak (an experimental layerable font inspired by wood type, Piet Zwart, Lissitzky and van Doesburg), Nutcake CatchWords.

Sonora won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. Combine Script and Combine Caps (layerable colorable fonts), and Nemocon, won awards at Tipos Latinos 2016. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 for Clothing, a titling typeface published at Andinistas by Camilo Zamora and Carlos Fabian Camargo.

Typefaces from 2020: Cherrypie (a food packaging script), Rapsodia (a decorative all-caps family with curl, spurs, Victorian details, and decadent frills).

Typefaces from 2021: Visible (an inky script family), Caribe (Script, Caps, Shields).

Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Andre Bima Falah Rabbani
[Atharuah Studios]

Andrea Arques

During her graphic design studies in Barcelona, Andrea arques created the tattoo font Rocker Slab (2014) and Christmas Icons (2014). In 2015, she created the modular typeface Avelli, which was inspired by the calligraphy of Pedro de Madariaga, Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti, and Torio de la Riva. [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrea Cerboneschi
[Monofonts (or: Monocromo Creative Factory)]

Andrea Chopp

Graphic designer and typographer in Ferndale, MI. She did some type posters (e.g., on the Arts and Crafts Movement), and some calligraphic work. She also designed some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrea Kulpas

Or Deia Kulpas. Sao Paulo, Brazil-based designer who studied in Buenos Aires.

Co-designer, with Juliana Moore, of Muzza Sans (2014). Her typeface Leluja (2015) won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016 and at Bienal de Design Gráfico da ADG.

Andrea's fun vernacular or food packaging typeface Olar won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

André-Michel Lubac

French type designer, b. 1955, who drew the calligraphic Le Griffe in 1973 (Letraset).

Fontshop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Andreas Seidel
[astype.de (or: Astype)]

Andrei Burdin
[Live Pen]

Andreia Marques

Graphic designer in Lisbon. Creator of the curly script Le Mariage (2011), a wedding invitation font. [Google] [More] ⦿

Andres Brun

Spanish penman who produced two writing books between 1583 and 1612. A facsimile of these was printed by Mardersteig (Officina Bodoni) for The Pegasus Press in Paris in 1928, in a 32-page book edited by Henry Thomas and Stanley Morison: Andres Brun, Calligrapher of saragossa, Sme account of his Life and Work, with a Facsimile in Collotype of the Surviving Text and Plates of his two Writing Books, 1583-1612. [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrew Holmes
[Dick Pape]

Andrew Holmes's Calligraphic Art inspired Dick Pape to make six decorative typefaces in 2009, all called Andrew Holmes Art. Download page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrew Martin
[Thumbnail Designs]

Andrew van der Merwe

A self-proclaimed beach calligrapher from Cape Town, South Africa, who developed an origial technique for carving in the sand. Home page. One of his works is entitled Futura On The Beach (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrey Belogonov

Russian type designer. His typefaces:

Nerpa (2014, with Yana Kutyina).
Kalimantan (2012-2013: an award-winning calligraphic typeface designed together with Yana Kutyina)> It is unclear if this was a joint project or if Yana did this by herself.
Powerview (2010, with Yana Kutyina), a scanbat font with portraits of Bush, Castro, Gorbachev, Osama Bin-Laden, Reagan, Martin Luther King and other leaders.
Brusque (2008, Paratype: a brutalist face). Brusque was originally named Rouble and under this name it was awarded a first degree diploma of the Typefaces nomination at the Graphite Graphic Design Festival, 1999, and a diploma at the ATypI International Type Design Contest Bukva:raz!, 2001.
Astera,
Cliche,
FastFingers,
Vataga (2008, Paratype, with Yana Kutyina). A really funny dingbat face.
In 2016, Yana Kutyina and Andrey Belogonov cooperated with Valery Golyzhenkov on the great vintage typeface system Triplet in Erste, Zweite and Dritte styles. Triplet won an award at Granshan 2017.

Andrey Font Design
[Stephanus Prabowo]

Andrey Design is run by Stephanus Prabowo, who also uses the name Andrean Prabowo. Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) of these (mostly script) typefaces in 2020: Christmas Story (a wild calligraphic script), Welcome Santa Claus (script), Vennesia (a wild script), Black Venom, Hope (a script font for monograms), Good Day, Stay at Home, Bekah Dalem, Bubble Cute (a bubblegum font), Valentina, Asem, Aqua.

Typefaces from 2021: Good Father (a display typeface on the theme of religious crosses), Hello Dark (a dripping blood font), Shine Himawari (a romantic script), Thanks Bunny (a scrapbook font), Rathya (a wild calligraphic script), Love Valentina (a romantic curvaceous script), Love Baby (a Valentine's Day script), Sheyla (a swashy script), Resonance Love (wild calligraphy), Christmas Thania (a hyper-curly script), Holy Christmas Tree (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Andrey Martynov

Ekaterinburg, Russia-based calligrapher. Creator of a Latin Kanzlei-style blackletter alphabet (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrey Sharonov
[Aurora Type Co]

Andri Kurniawan
[Struggle Studio]

Andrian Dehasta

Designer of the handcrafted and sometimes swashy calligraphic typefaces in 2018: Dhitha, Charline, Thisay, Yuliya, Abilya, Arinda, Goday, Seelyn, Motira, Ginta, Stika, Binar, Hilona, Mungkin, Dahasta, Ingat, Klapjo. Ascota.

Some of his typefaces are published at Situjuh Nazara's 7NTypes: Motira (2018), Veni (2018), Still Loving (2018), Milgun (2018), Anglena (2018), Briany (2018), Candire (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Andrie Nugrie
[Nug's Project]

Andy Lethbridge
[Hand Foundry]

Aneuk Muda
[Muhammad Edward]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of the rounded sans typeface Brustoni (2020), the display typefaces Woles (2020), Sultan (2020), Qurban (2020), Simphoni (2020: spurred, vintage) and SkinerScort (2020), the script typefaces Marlina (2020: calligraphic), Maisarah (2020: calligraphic), Opera (2020) and Wogtasiye (2020: swashy calligraphy), and the handcrafted typefaces Sundayenjoy (2020), Love Baby (2020), Kids Creative (2020), and Monters (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

Angel Koziupa

Argentinian lettering artist who worked for 35 years for McCann Erikson and has produced freelance works for other major agencies like Interbrand, Futurebrand, and others. Veer wrote: The talented Angel Koziupa has been lettering, creating type and designing logos for the past 40 years. His handiwork is behind nearly every important packaging logotype in Argentina. He worked 35 years for McCann Erikson and has produced freelance works for other major agencies like Interbrand, Futurebrand, and others.

Koziupa designed a number of alphabets in cooperation with Alejandro Paul of Sudtipos, who created digital typefaces out of them.

His typefaces include Jugo Script (2014), Avellana Pro (2012), Bayoneta Pro (2012, an angular typeface), Machete Pro (2012, related to Bayoneta Pro), Aventura (2011), Coche (2011, a signage face), Aguafina Script (2009, free at Google Web Fonts and at OFL), Primavera (2008, a signage face), Angelus (2008), Felipe (2009), Amarinda (2004, Sudtipos), Argenta (2004), Biographer (2009, an upright almost connected script), Bravissima Script (2009), Bubblegum Sans Pro (2011), Cenizas (2008), Chocolate (2008, a market sign family in weights called Amargo, Caliente and Dulce), Condiment (free at Google Web Fonts), Cupcake (2010, a food signage face), Murga (2003), Tiza (2003), Galgo Script (2007, rough-edged calligraphic script), Kilo (2010, signage face), Koziupack (2008), Kozmetica Script (2011, a delicate wedding script or make-up brand script), HabanoST (2003), Argenta (2003), Malbeck (2003), Alma (2005), MobleySans (2003), Malambo, Oxida (2005), Inoxida (2009), Piedra (2010, grunge; free at Google Web Fonts), Pinguino (2005, condensed brush face), Platinus Script Pro (2012, a wedding font), Ricotta Script (2011, a true signage face), Romy (2007, graffiti script), Voyeur (2011), Almond Script (2007), Candombe (2007, a brushy script with an African theme---the Pro version is from 2013), Amorinda (2007), Cafelatte (2006, signage face), Matogrosso Script (2009), Uplink (2009, upright connected script), Aladin (2009, an art nouveau-meets-Arabic face; free at Google Web Fonts and at OFL), Delight Script (2011: a 1950s signage face, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012), Diplomatic (2009) and MobleySerif (2003) were created by Alejandro Paul based on his letters. They can be purchased at Umbrella Type. Also at Umbrella, Paul and Koziupa made the casual script typeface Brisa (2004; its grungified version is Viento, 2011), and the script typefaces Chocolate Caliente, Amargo and Dulce (2005), Felipe (2005), Cooked (2006, rough-edged), Chicle ST (2007, bubble gum wrapper type, free at Google Web Fonts), Lombriz (2005), Bakery Script (2006, for signs in stores), and the frizzy Cenizas (2005).

Bilined deco scripts such as Festival Script Pro (2013: a winner at Tipos Latinos 2014), Tanguera (2007), Aranjuez (2012), Bellas Artes (2007, doubly-lined script), Heraldica Script (2013), and Evergreen (2014, a leafy script).

Angelina Santos

For a project at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Angelina Santos created a couple of pixelish typefaces in 2015. She also drew a calligraphic alphabet, Alpha a Zema (2015) and designed an iconographic typeface, AlphaBetumZ (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Angelo Konofaos

Cambridge, UK-based designer of the calligraphic brush script typeface Inkinity (2017) and the handcrafted typefaces Handflow (2017), Norsanda (2017) and Bustille (2017). Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Angga Mahardika
[Amtypes (was: TypeWolves, Amtypefoundry, or Try and Error)]

Ania Leonova

Illustrator who studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow in 2012. She created several beautiful lettering posters. [Google] [More] ⦿

Animour Studio

Istanbul-based designer of the nice connected calligraphic / signature typeface Sharpen Script (2016) and the handcrafted Charming Sans (2016), Charming (2016), and Ladybug (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Anmark
[Anna Markovets]

Homel, Belarus-based type designer. In 2017, she released the handcrafted typefaces Arumit, Poplava, Jopsy, Spaigo, Sputra, Munigva, Nimbostratus, Millennials, Tatima and Scopanik.

Typefaces from 2018: Magic Ivy (a floral font), Queenly (a signature font), Forgotten Melody (script), Autumn Embrace, Le Jardin (floral), Quaint Garden, Gentle Whisper (calligraphic, woith a Floral style), Odour (a calligraphic font with floral caps), Jubilation, Limerence (a free calligraphic typeface with floriated caps), Snip (a paper cutout typeface), Cranberry Jam, Seascape Script, Imperfect, Herbarium, High Spot, Malanko (a geometric color font).

Typefaces from 2019: Melancholie (a great handwriting font), Quaint Garden, Magic Ivy (a leafy decorative script), Star Dust, Deja Vu (Clean, Ink), Allure And Grace, Melancholie (a signature script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ann Pope

Ann Pope is a freelance calligrapher/custom type designer in Washington, DC. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ann Way
[Blossom]

Anna Markovets
[Anmark]

Anna Ronchi
[Ronchi Tubaro Thom]

Anna Safitri
[Runsell Type (or: Runsell Studio, Studio Runsell)]

Anna Simons

Scribe, calligrapher and teacher (1871, Mönchengladbach-1951, Prien). From 1896 until 1903, she studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and was a student of Edward Johnston in 1900. She taught at Weimar from 1908-1914 and collaborated with the Bremer Presse from 1918 on. She created the initials for "Dante" (Berlin: Rowolth 1930) and for "Augustinus" (München: Bremer Presse 1924). Jakob Erbar was one of her students. The Bremer Presse published Anna Simons Titel und Initialen für die Bremer Presse in 1926. The book blurb: A portfolio of titles and initials designed by Anna Simons for the Bremer Presse. Along with Graily Hewitt, Eric Gill, and Percy Smith, Simons was one of Edward Johnston's star pupils at the Royal College of Art in London, and she has inscribed this copy to him on the title-page in black ink. It was after studying with Johnston, whose Writing&Illuminating,&Lettering she translated into German, that Simons in 1918 went home to Germany to work at the Bremer Presse. During her time at the Presse, she would design many titles and initial sets for them, and in 1926 this portfolio was issued to showcase her work. Each sheet in the portfolio is headed by one of Simons' Bremer Presse title designs, including her titles for the Divine Comedy, Fichte's Reden an Die Seutsche Nation, Chansons d'Amour, Albii Tabulli Elegiae, and others. The titles are followed by the initials she cut for the work. [Google] [More] ⦿

Annas Alam Yahya
[Letteralle]

Anne Hassing

During her graphic design studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Anne Hassing created a calligraphic typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Annie Cicale

Calligrapher and letterer who occasionally designs logotype and specializes in fine hand lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

Anonime Poet

Valencia, Venezuela-based creator of the calligraphic script typeface Le Couper (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Anthonie Van Hayu
[ARToni]

Anthony James

Anthony James (Manchester, UK) is a talented British type designer. iHis typefaces, in chronological ordr:

Kaiju (2014). A dashing art deco typeface. Kaiju II followed in 2015.
Chase (014). A free monoline sans.
QG (2014). A minimalist free typeface.
Argö (2014). A commercial decorative fashion mag didone typeface.
Global (2014). A slender ball terminal-laden typeface meant for magazine titling.
Goku (+Regular, +Stencil; 2014). A multilingual didone fashion mag typeface, initially designed as a stencil font for the Basel & Geneva Watch Launch Event for Watches of Switzerland.
Giza (+free Stencil; 2015). A fashion mag didone. It was unfortunately named, as David Berlow's famous Egyptian typeface is also called Giza. After I wrote this in June 2015, I noticed that Giza became Giaza in July 2015.
Kingston (2016). A fashion mag typeface derived from didones.
Jitzu (2016). A multilingual high-contrast fashion didone in ten styles.
Osgard (2017). A swashy blackletter.
Ghost Cove (2017).
Indulge Script (2017). Formal calligraphy.
Kenjo (2018). Fashion mag headline type.
Omega Sans (2018).
Solar Vesta (2018). A font duo.
Qavo (2018). A sharp-edged monoline all caps sans.
Mojita (2019). A geometric display typeface, inspired by Japanese art deco, as well as Aztec & Mayan pattern design.

Facebook page. Buy his commercial typefaces here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Anti Mainstype
[Muhajir Oesman]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces:

2017: Chalky Voyage Brush Script, Sweet, The Pade, Maccarony (sic), Comely Dulcet (thin dry brush script).
2016: The vintage typeface Boston, Cantique Script (a hyper-curly calligraphic beauty), The Elevate, Chalky Voyage Brush Script, Last Light Calligraphy Script, Hollidays (sic), Zerica Script, and the thin connected script typeface Anastasia (calligraphic).
2015: The thin connected script typefaces Grandymaa and Feminisme, Steady & Silky, The Creeps and Vintageos Vain.

Behance link. Behance link for Muhajir Oesman. [Google] [More] ⦿

Antoine Gelgon

Graduate of ESAD Valence. French designer of the free font Autopia (2014) that can be downloaded from Open Font Library: This project was initiated during the Summer School of OSP in August 2013. The particularity of this fonts is in the process of developing its shape. The skeleton was generated through Autotrace Program (a program that converts bitmaps to vector graphics). Calligraphic forms were drawn with Python Fontforge's code. Github link.

In 2015, he released Career.

In 2019 he designed the free typeface Meta Old French using the Plancton font editor, based on Luuse's Hershey Old French (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Anton Drachuk
[Jimi-neko]

Anton Hurski

Minsk, Belarus-based designer of the free hipster (vector format) typeface Cosmic (2017). He also designed three free gorgeous Latin calligraphic brush typefaces in 2017. Designer of the handcrafted Handic (2017), the athletic lettering font Hardcore (2017), Stencil (2017, which, remarkably, is not a stencil font), the brushed Graffitist (2017), the display sans Interface (2017), the vintage typeface Old Time (2017), the brush script typeface Drive (2017) and the brushed calligraphic typefaces simply called 1, 2 and 3 (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Anton Scholtz
[Scholtz Fonts]

Antonello Bertozzi

Padova-based calligrapher who produced some calligraphic alphabets, ca. 1604. See also his Book on lace with Sebastian Zanilla, also 1604. Examples: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. [Google] [More] ⦿

Antoni Halim
[Halim Studio]

Antonia Schön

At Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden, Germany-based Antonia Schön designed Morsch (2018), an interesting typeface that combines the angularity of blackletter with the primitive nature of wood type. [Google] [More] ⦿

Antonina Zhulkova

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Celestina (2017, Piñata), a brush script typeface, Disruptors Script (2018) and Gentlemens Script (2018).

Typefaces from 2020: TT Octosquares (an octagonal superfamily by Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva; TT Octosquares comes with a 3-axis variable type option), TT Runs (a 20-style sports sans by the TypeType team in cooperation with Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Philipp Nurullin).

In 2020, she co-designed TT Lakes Neue, a 91-style sans family by Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Kseniya Karataeva at TypeType. Tt is a functional sans-serif that draws inspiration from Finnish signs of the functionalism era. TT Lakes Neue is an almost monolinear sans, with ovals in the form of rounded rectangles, reminiscent of Nebiolo's Microgramma. It comprises a useful variable font.

In 2021, Antonina Zhulkova and Yulia Gonina designed TT Autonomous, a 25-style wide brutal technological sans family that includes a monospaced subfamily and a trio of variable fonts. Later in 2021, Antonina Zhulkova, Pavel Emelyanov and Yulia Gonina (aided by Radik Tukhvatullin and Marina Khodak) co-designed the 32-style geometric sans TT Fors which comes in standard, display and variable versions. In 2021, Zhulkova designed TT Ricordi Allegria (a sleek and elegant flared all caps yet contemporary Florentine sans for Latin and Cyrillic that was inspired by the half-erased lettering in Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence) and TT Globs (+Variable), a 3-style Latin-only typewriter-style slab serif.

Typefaces from 2022: TT Fellows (a monolinear sans with 18 static fonts and one variable font; by Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and the TypeType team). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Antonio Cerri
[CRR TNN]

Antonio Del Bino
[ADB Studio]

Antonio Schiratti

Italian scribe from Perugia, who published Opera Dianto Nella Quale Vedrete Molte Caratteri di Lettere ca. 1600-1615 in Perugia. See also Columbia University's site. Scans: I, II. [Google] [More] ⦿

Antonio Sinibaldi

Late fifteenth century Italian renaissance era calligrapher who was based in Florence, and who was famous for his florentine style of antiqua and cancellaresca. His alphabets inspired many typefaces, such as Petrarch (ATF), Sinibaldi (1926, Raffaello Bertieri) and Bologna (1946, Stephenson Blake).

Digital typefaces based on his work:

1480 Humanistica (2010) by Klaus-Peter Schäffel.
Antonio, Sinibaldi and Magnifico (Maria Chiaro=i Fantini, 2021). In 2021, Fantini embarked on a project to create a font based on Antonio Sinibaldi's calligraphic material in Libro d'Ore di Lorenzo de Medici, now in possession of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze. Her first rough font was called Antonio. She also studied Raffaello Bertieri's Sinibaldi font done in 1928 at the Nebiolo Type Foundry when she designed her own digital version of Sinibaldi (2021). The latter font was regularized and smoothed in her final typeface in this project, Magnifico (2021).

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Antonio (Tony) DiSpigna
[Thinstroke]

Antonio Vignali
[RM WD]

Anugrah Pasau
[Lafontype (pr: tardiexwas: Pixifield, Elementype, Fontliner Studio)]

Apostolos Syropoulos

Xanthi, Greece-based designer of the Greek type1 font family Phaistos (2004, with Stratos Doumanis). He also created the "oinuit" system, a set of Lambda (Omega LaTeX) typesetting tools for the Inuktitut language which comes bundled with the type 1 family Inuit (2002). In 2007, he published the Philokalia package, which includes a free Philokalia OpenType font developed with Ioannis Gamvets. It was specially made to print the Philokalia books. The UM Typewriter font family (2008, for OpenType fonts) is a monospaced font family that was built from glyphs from the CB Greek fonts, the CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts ("LH"), and the standard Computer Modern font family. Epi-Olmec (2008) is an Aztec dingbat font. In support of the Open Font Library, he created the rune font Icelandic (2008: this font includes most "magical" staves that have been used in Iceland. Original drawings from the Museum of Sorcery&Witchcraft). He also made Asana Math (2007), which references Young Ryu (2000) and Claudio Beccari (1997-1999).

In 2016, Pablo Garcia Risueño, Apostolos Syropoulos and Natalia Verges launched the free package SVR Symbols. The glyphs of this font are ideograms that have been designed for use in Physics texts. Some symbols are standard and some are entirely new.

Still in 2016, he designed the calligraphic Greek font Frederika2016 as an attempt to digitize Hermann Zapf's Frederika font. The font is the Greek companion of Virtuosa by the same designer.

Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Apostrophic Laboratory
[Fredrick M. Nader]

One of the most dynamic foundries from 2000 until 2003. The "Lab" was run by Apostrophe (Fredrick Nader) and was based in Toronto. The name Apostrophe comes from a Frank Zappa song. It has produced well over 1000 original free fonts, in all formats (type 1, truetype, and opentype, PC and Mac), and nearly all fonts have full character sets. Many have character sets for extended European languages and Cyrillic as well. It was for a few years the only active producer of multiple master fonts. Download site at Typoasis. Original URL, now being reworked. Highlights:

Miltown (from the Matrix movie).
Fluoxetine (old typewriter).
Desyrel (handwriting, Dana Rice).
PicaHole-1890Morse font.
Ritalin has almost 500 glyphs, and is a family designed for Latin, Greek, Turkish, eastern European, Cyrillic and Baltic.
The 3-axis multiple master ImpossibleMM (of Mission Impossible fame).
Carbolith Trips (letters from cuneiforms).
Diehl Deco (revival of 1940 lettering by Wooster Bard Field; with Marley Diehl).
Textan (with Rich Parks or Richard D. Parker; inspired by the Chinese Tangram).
Poultrygeist (horror comic font).
Hard Talk (an R-rated font by Slovenian Marjan Bozic).
Independant (with Phynette; a faithful revival of a 1930s font by Collette and Dufour for Maison Plantin in Belgium---a fantastic Art Deco font family).
Metrolox ("Enemy of the State" font, with Karen Clemens; a Unicode font with 567 glyphs for over 20 Latin-based languages and some math symbols).
Komikaze, Komikazba, Komikahuna and Komikazoom (comic book fonts: 1280 glyphs for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Baltic, Turkish, East-European, with dingbats and Braille).
Republika (a 300-font techno family; read about it here).
ChizzlerMM (3-axis multiple master, a reworked version of Graham Meade's Chizzler).
Street (a 87-font family by Graham Meade).
Amerika (fantastic Armenian-look font series, with support for Greek, Cyrillic/Russian, Baltic, Turkish and Central European).
The dingbats Eyecicles and Texticles, both with Graham Meade.
Insula (2001, a Celtic/uncial font with Cybapee).
Komika (2001, 50 comic book fonts designed with Vigilante). A spoof on Comic Sans, this family includes Komika Hand and Komika Text.
Labrit (a great Fraktur font, with Graham Meade).
Frigate (a Roman-kana font by Melinda Windsor).
Scriptina (an unbelievable calligraphic font by Apostrophe, 2000-2001). In 2010, CheapProFonts published an extension, Scriptina Pro.
Freebooter Script (an equally unbelievable calligraphic font by Graham Meade, 2001).
Choda (a display font like none you have seen before; Apostrophe and Meade, 2001).
Endor (with Meade, a Gothic font; 2001).

The list of designers and their fonts:

Apostrophe [dead link]: Day Roman (2002, the first digitization of Fr. Guyot's "Two Line Double Pica Roman", designed in the early 1600s), Bombardier (2002), Propaganda (2002), PropagandaCyrillic (2002), PropagandaGreek (2002), Contra (2003), Ergonome (2002), Ergonomix (2002, techno dingbats), Alfabetix (2002), SoMM (2002, a multiple master font), Templo (2001, a pixelish font), Zoloft, Miltown, Witches Brew, Celexa, Labrat, Effexor, Fluoxetine, Tralfamadore, Halcion, RxMM, Paxil, Valium, Fight This, Ritalin, Xanax, Maskalin, PicaHole, ImposMM, MiltownII, Carbolith, Komikaze, Komikazoom, Komikahuna, Diogenes, Komikazba, MistressScript, Sledge, Mary Jane, Republika, StarBat, Merkin, Erectlorite, Halter, Estrogen, Steinem (based on Dalton Maag's British Steel typeface), Lab Mix, Mary Jane II, Amerika, Masque, Konfuciuz, Mastodon, Broad, Amerika Sans, Scriptina, Karnivore, Cholo, Sedillo and Reprobate (all three based on Mike Sedillo's handwriting, 2001), Templo (screen font family, 2001).
Marjan Bozic and Apostrophe: Hard Talk.
Karen Clemens and Apostrophe [dead link]: Wellbutrin, Metrolox, Jagz.
CybaPee and Apostrophe [dead link]: Cyclin, Lady Ice, Insula.
CybaPee [dead link], Graham Meade and Apostrophe: Yellowswamp, Lady Ice revisited.
Steve Deffeyes: Loopy.
Marley Diehl and Apostrophe: Diehl Deco.
Fleisch and Apostrophe: Colwell, Hadley.
Steve Graham: Hypnosis.
Frank Guillemette and Apostrophe: Ankora.
Jeri Ingalls and Apostrophe: Paxil.
Neumat Ick and Apostrophe: Icklips, Powderfinger.
Keya Kirkpatrick: Extasy
Keya Kirkpatrick and Apostrophe: Kimono.
Jeff Lan: Healthy Alternative, Haven Code.
Su Lucas and Apostrophe: Barbarello.
Brigido Maderal and Apostrophe: Lab Bats.
Graham Meade: Quastic Kaps (8-weight family, 2003), Quixotte (2002), Mechanihan (2002), Kameleon (2002), Lady Ice Extra (2002), Gizmo (2002), Zillah Modern (2002), Wazoo (2002), JamesEightEleven (2002), Equine (2001), Street Corner (2001), Freebooter Script, Street (31 font sans and slab serif), Bipolar Control, Lane, Street, Street Slab, 2nd Street, Kronika, Thong, Whackadoo Upper, Charrington, Lady Copra, Zebra, Extra Meade Pack, Control Freak, Dekon, Asenine, Heidorn Hill (a Fraktur font), Castorgate, Troglodyte.
Graham Meade and Apostrophe: Moondog (2001), Choda, Futurex, Duralith, Epyval, BooterMM, Pamelor, Sabril, Erinal, Karisma, Whackadoo, Bicicles, Drummon, Primary Elector, Youthanasia, Grunja, Prussian Brew, ChizMM, Luciferus, Labtop, Gilgongo, Labrit, Kandide, Brassiere (which became the commercial typeface Ipscus in 2009), Eskargot, Endor, Labag.
Graham Meade and Rich Parks: Luteous, Luteous II.
Link Olsson and Apostrophe: Librium, Severina, Poultrygeist, Extrano, Komikandy.
Rich Parks and Apostrophe: Textan, Glaukous, Textan Round, TexSquareMM, TexRoundMM.
Alejandro Paul and Apostrophe: Fontcop, Usenet, Cayetano, Elektora.
Evelyne Pichler: Sindrome.
Evelyne Pichler and Apostrophe: 1910 Vienna.
Phynette and Apostrophe: Independant.
Peter Ramsey and Apostrophe: Distro, Futurex Distro (2001).
Dana Rice and Apostrophe: Desyrel, Lilly.
Wayne Sharpe: Ovulution I and II.
Jessica Slater: Wiggles.
Jessica Slater and Apostrophe: McKloud.
Derek Vogelpohl: Phosphorus, Florence sans, Plasmatica, Covington, Avondale, Phosphorus II.
Melinda Windsor: Plastic, Frigate.
Robby Woodard: Ashby (2001).
WolfBainX and Apostrophe: Tribal, Komika.
Yol: Traceroute.

Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Aqeela Studio

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the following script or signage typefaces in 2018: Refadhiana Lajuba (calligraphic), Annjelina (calligraphic), Willdiyana (calligraphic), Mollgarete, Dino Party (a children's book font), Sweet Dream, Sweet Sweet (a curly script), Milena Hymes Script, Aggie Marder Script, Musche Moulton Script, Marshabella (calligraphic), Cathleen, Angelica, Bella Madelyn, Michelle Stine, Alissa Thomas, Angies Luis Script, Krusyida, Ossellany Script, Austria Script, Motesia (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2019: Varelisa, England (a wild script), Sarllina, Amilya (a curly script), Fartos Benofa, Sinta Script, Leone Moliss, Davina Sichelle, Molin (a softly curved serif), Berlin Script, Antonio, Bilges (a display didone), Sarmytos, Mortyni, Beldon, Goliyana (a formal calligraphic script), Mellysa, Osella Estin (a signature font), Mellionery, Antilira, Amerthyna.

Typefaces from 2020: Autelan (a baseball script), Martonisa (wild calligraphy), Megilan (an upright formal connected script), Modusa (a stylish display serif), Mastura, Mollisa, Agestin, Will Shortz, William (script), Chery Santos (a wild script), Eilee Smith, Cathie Glas (an inky calligraphic script), Coletta Davis, Botterill Signature, England Signature, Brittany Coleman, Douglas, Arabela, Agatha (an open upright script), Melistoria, Michelle Stine, Qorlyna Script, Refadhiana Script, Molisa (script), Gabrina (script), Gogles, Gracelina, Amrelia, Rostina (an upright calligraphic script), Sicheli (a brush script), Amidah (an upright ronde script).

Typefaces from 2021: Alhirah (a rabbit ear script with heart-shaped tittles), Aulyana (calligraphic), Rosnila (a curly script), Marcha (an upright script), Ellastia (a thin script), Bitsaylen (an inky signature script), Sastica Nora (a hairline rabbit ear script).

Typefaces from 2022: Batmeton (an elegant formal retro script).

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AQR Typeface
[Azra Qaireen]

Medan, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typefaces Andara Script (2016) and Sareeka Script (2016). In 2017, Azra designed Sensational (a signature script), Asyiela (calligraphic script), Kaktoes (signage script), Blackout (vintage signage script), Adreena Script, Zaheera, Lanara Script and Nazeefa Script (free at Dafont).

Typefaces from 2018: Sakage (signature font), Antara Script, Raisa Lovers (font duo), Sydnee (calligraphic), Anastacia Signature, Aurellia Script, Outside Collection, Nicole White.

Fontspace link (for free downloads). You Work For Them link (for commercial downloads). Dafont link. Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Arabic calligraphy

General site with links. Check also here. [Google] [More] ⦿

aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)
[Azelea Rodgers]

aRc was established in 2008 by Azelea Rodgers (b. 1974, The Philippines). It is located in Lathrop, CA.

A graduate from Skyline College, she created the alphabet tracing font Kerp (2008) for kids in pre-kindergarten. She also made Rosebud (2008, letters composed of thorny rose stems), Asvet Mono (2009, a playful stencil), Azelea (2009), Edil Script (2010), Laureen (2010, a calm calligraphic script), Alexy (2011, a ribbon script), and Lelet Script (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Archive Type
[Matevz Medja]

Slovenian foundry which specializes in old typefaces found in old prints, books and samples. Typefaces are reproduced as they appeared in print. In order to preserve the original feel of typefaces, no additional characters were added to originals therefore most of fonts consist just of basic character set. Upper case letters, lower case letters, numerals and basic punctuation. It was set up in 2000 by Matevz Medja. Engraving style typefaces: Kludsky (2006), Garfield (2005), Copperplate Head (2005), Western Iron (2005), Cider (2005), French Shaded (2005), Tilt (2005). The blackletter typefaces: School Text (2005), Harlem Title (2005), Copperplate Text (2005), Black Title (2005), Chased Black (2005), Tinted (2005), Steeler (2005), Blackcap (2005). Calligraphic typefaces: Petite Script (2005), Autograph Script (2005), French Script (2005), Penman Script (2005), Magnolia Script (2005), Roundface Script (2005), Roundhand Script (2005). Other typefaces: American Shadow (2005), Lightface Extended (2005), Grotesque Shaded (2005), Gothic Ornate (2005), Antique Extra Condensed (2005), Antique Extended (2005), Ironlace (2005), Atlantique (2005), Mann (2005), Old Style Condensed (2005), Ribbon (2005), Salisbury Script (2005), Black Title Text (2005, blackletter), German Text (2005, blackletter), Archive Hands (2006, pointing fingers), Archive Woodchild (2006). Distressed typefaces: Archive Tale (2006), Archive Egipt Compressed (2006). In 2011, he published the Archive Garamond family, which is closer to the unpolished originals. The 2010 catalog has three parts:

The Archive 40: Archive Western Iron, Archive American Shadow, Archive Antiqua Extra Cond, Archive Antique Extended, Archive Atlantique (avant garde sans), Archive Autograph Script, Archive Black Title Text, Archive Black Title, Archive Blackcap, Archive Chased Black, Archive Cider (engraved; a vintage money font), Archive Copperplate Head, Archive Copperplate Text, Archive Egipt Compressed, Archive French Script, Archive French Shaded, Archive Garfield (2005), Archive German Text, Archive Gothic Ornate, Archive Grotesque Shaded, Archive Harlem Title, Archive Ironlace, Archive Kludsky, Archive Lightface Extended, Archive Magno Script, Archive Modern II Open, Archive Modern II, Archive Old Style Condensed, Archive Penman Script, Archive Petite Script, Archive Ribbon, Archive Roundface Script, Archive Roundhand Script, Archive Salisbury Script, Archive School Text, Archive Steeler, Archive Tale, Archive Tilt, Archive Tinted.
Archive Americana: Archive American Shadow, Archive Steeler, Archive Tilt, Archive Grotesque Shaded, Archive Black Title (blackletter), Archive Mann (an industrial 3d typeface), Archive Autograph Script, Archive Tinted, Archive Harlem Title (blackletter).
Archive Western: Archive Egipt Compressed, Archive French Shaded, Archive Western Iron, Archive Antique Extended, Archive Copperplate Head, Archive Ribbon, Archive Gothic Ornate, Archive Oldstyle Condensed, Archive Lightface Extended, Archive Ironlace.

Creative Market link.

View Archive Type / Matevz Medja's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ardyana Putra
[Ardyana Types]

Ardyana Types
[Ardyana Putra]

Bali-based designer (b. 1989) of Neon Absolute (2018: Sans, Script), Brusthy (2018: a brush script), Rafttel Script (2018), Tiffany Script (2018), Tiffany Sans (2018), First Script (2017), Jovanka (2018) and Hamilton (2018, a signature script).

Typefaces from 2019: Kallimata Script, Himsomnia, Hollows (a dripping paint horror font), Doogle (a fat finger font), Moonline or Moonllime (a heavy monoline script), Sweet Candy (a monoline script), Domillion Brush, Rosewell Font Collection (script, black, standard, mono), Rapha Talia, Hamillton Two, Just Do It, Bosthon Brush, Fontania (brush), The Brown Wall (cursive script).

Typefaces from 2020: Fomtage Script, Holla Monday (a marker pen font), Paper Works (an all caps cartoon font), Lover Bunny, Bana Chiips, Cathrine, The Domillion, Hello Bunny, Mount Hotham, Lovely, Molitha, Naughty Monster, Romello.

Typefaces from 2021: Fontanio (a 7-style psychedelic font family with reverse stress), Ropers (a warm bold serif in the Windsor genre), Eleganto Sans (a 6-style fashion mag sans), Pumpkin Island (a Halloween font), Classical Romance (a 12-style decorative serif with many swashy alternate glyphs), The Sunmora (a decorative serif with elephant feet; 12 styles), Arabilla Signature, Boldoy (a bold decorative typeface), Moontok (a vernacular script), Breadley Serif, Breadley Sans (a Peignotian sans), Balivia (a 13-style display serif), Kintamani Script (formal calligraphy), Rolling Bold.

Typefaces from 2022: Negaroa (an 8-style slightly wavy display serif), Crabs (a 9-style chunky sans), Austen Aesthetic (an 8-style decorative serif with flared terminals), Ottine Slab. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Area Type (was: GType)
[Dhan Ghete]

Brazilian or Indonesian designer, known as Dan Ghete, Dhan Ghete, Ambia Ambia and just Ambia. His/her foundry was first called GType but changed its name to Area Type. At that time, the Creative Market page started mentioning that the designer is from Indonesia and not Brazil.

Designer of the Victorian typefaces Broser (2015), Romant (2015) and Moyers (2014). In 2015, he made the connected script typefaces Madelina Script, Smoothline Script (calligraphic), Adediala and Adamenya, the poster typeface Wolder, the connected brush script Sannie, and the hand-lettered typefaces Alastrina and Quintessa.

Typefaces from 2016: Sheraton Script (calligraphic), Mahogany Script (calligraphic), Monisa (calligraphic script), Strongman Script, Natalia Script, Agustine (script), Amberland (calligraphic script), Mallicot Script (calligraphic), Sifrand Script (brush), Chamelia Script, Moodnight Script, Flowerroom Script (curly script), Ismelda Script (calligraphic script), Charissa Script (brush script), Shartica Script, Morenthya Script, Aintzane (connected script).

Typefaces from 2017: Wasatch Brush (dry brush), Shanti Script, Hottemp Brush, Darling Harbour, Matterhon Script, Blishfully, Motisan Script, Anindita Script, Authentic Script, Sentosha Script (a great wild calligraphic (wedding) script), Heritage Script, Strengthen Script (calligraphic), Redheads Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Anthony Script, Lucinda Script (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2020: Charissa Script, Sifrand Script (a dry brush script), Salbatora Script, Natalia Script, Platipus Script, Moodnight Script (a dry pen script), Electrophorus (script), Amelina Script, Hilsa (a great dry brush script), Bignay (wild calligraphy), Motherly Script, Black Line, Chaliya Script, Highland Script, Darling Harbour (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Majors (a stylish serif with wind-swept ascenders and descenders), Maroon And Black (a swinging display typeface), Morissa (a delightful display serif with a didone skeleton), Mitogen Display (a display serif), Bigbone, Flower Rose (a brush script), Mustang Script, Marsya Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ari Budi Setiawan
[Hamizan]

Ari Fadli
[Debut Studio]

Aridi Computer Graphics: Digitizations by Dick Pape
[Dick Pape]

Aridi Computer Graphics is known for its initial caps and ornamental typefaces and ornaments. In 2008, Dick Pape digitized these typefaces: AridiArabesqueDesignsI, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIIa, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIIb, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIa, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIb, AridiArabesqueDesignsIV, AridiArabesqueFrames, AridiArabesqueMasterpieces, AridiArabesqueMasterpiecesA, AridiArabesqueMasterpiecesB, AridiArabesqueOrnaments, AridiArabicCalligraphyArt, AridiArtNouveauA, AridiArtNouveauB, AridiBusinessGraphics, AridiCalligraphiaA, AridiCalligraphiaB, AridiCalligraphicaI, AridiCalligraphicaII, AridiCrests&Ribbons, AridiElaborateFrames, Aridi Fiesta 1 and 2, AridiInitials1Blister, AridiInitials1Gothic, AridiInitials1Nabel, AridiInitials1Regal, AridiInitials1Spring, AridiInitials1Wind, AridiInitials2Digital, AridiInitials2LubnaHollow, AridiInitials2NapoliHollow, AridiInitials2Romantic, AridiInitials2Royal, AridiInitials2Stone, AridiInitials3Cherubs, AridiInitials3Fantasia, AridiInitials3FantasiaBold, AridiInitials3Masselle, AridiInitials3Rosette, AridiInitials3RosetteRevers, AridiInitials3Victoriana, AridiInitials3Vincente, AridiInitials4Cinderella, AridiInitials4Federal, AridiInitials4Ginger, AridiInitials4Marquesa, AridiInitials4Renaissance, AridiInitials4Tuscani, AridiOldWorldFramesA, AridiOldWorldFramesB, AridiOldWorldFramesC, AridiOldWorldFramesD, AridiOldWorldFramesE, AridiOldWorldFramesF, AridiOldWorldFramesG, AridiOldWorldOrnamentsA, AridiOldWorldOrnamentsB, AridiOrnamentalDesigns, AridiOrnamentalFrames, AridiPrinterOrnamentsD, AridiPrinterOrnamentsSingle, AridiPrinterOrnamentshA, AridiPrinterOrnamentshB, AridiPrinterOrnamentshC, AridiPrinterOrnamentsvA, AridiPrinterOrnamentsvB, AridiRibbons&Banners. Download page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Arie Design

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Afilla (2018) and Afiqa (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Arief Munandar
[Dot HK Studio]

Arief Setyo Wahyudi
[Typia Nesia]

Arif Dwi
[Inopatype (or: Kotak Kuning Studio)]

Arif Gunawan
[Natural Ink]

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Arima Type
[Amri Mauludin]

Amri Rizki Mauludin is an Indonesian graphic designer. In 2021, he released Domestica (a straightened sans, in 16 styles), Dagota (a dry brush font), Klipspringer (a condensed blackletter font), Revelio (a vintage flared display font with elephant feet), Stellar Moon (a thorny-serifed display typeface), Gerando (a calligraphic pen font), Stagnan (a 16-sttyle sans with humanist traits), Kaila (a stylish typeface), Marca (a 14-style octagonal typeface), Nayanika Slab (a 14-style slab serif family) and Leonore (a bold condensed sans).

Typefaces from 2022: Kaligane (an 18-style display sans), Monema (a 14-style serif with extreme contrast and plenty of ball terminals), Monema (a 14-style serif with extreme contrast and plenty of ball terminals). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Aring Typeface
[Måns Grebäck]

Måns Grebäck (Aring Typeface, Örebro, Sweden) is a prolific Swedish designer (b. Lindesberg, Sweden, 1990), who lives in Borlänge, Sweden. Måns Grebäck has a bachelor's degree in graphic design from the University of Dalarna (2012). In 2010, he went commercial, and started selling fonts through MyFonts. In 2011 he started Mawns Design. In 2013, that was renamed to Aring Typeface. In 2011 he already had over seven million downloads of his fonts, which were featured at websites such as Dafont and Myfonts. He also does custom type work. His typefaces, both free and commercial:

Acryle Script (2014).
Actonia (2016). A monoline script.
Adielle (2018).
Aerofoil (2017). A vintage bottom-heavy script.
Airways (2016). A signage script.
Akayla Script (2018). Calligraphic.
Aliey (2021). A 4-style Victorian copperplate serif.
Aliment (2018). A sharp geometric sans.
Amertha (2020). a fat finger font.
Amplify (2013). A signage script.
Angars Runes (2019: medieval, with gothic cathedral curves).
Angilla Tattoo (2013). A connected spurred tattoo typeface. Followed by Angilla Script (2020).
Antlers (2012). A calligraphic script.
Aquate Script (2019).
Arachnids (2011, graffiti face)
Artely Inks (2016).
Artisual Deco (2021). Pure art deco.
Artographie (2020). An all caps art deco typeface family.
Atelas (2015). Signage type, baseball script.
Atures (2018). Futuristic and monoline.
Autograf (2015) and Autografia (2021). Signature typefaces.
Ave (2016) in styles called Ave Utan, Ave Betwan and Ave Fedan. A family of baseball scripts.
Avelana. A connected script.
Backpack (2014). A thick signage script typeface.
Backyard (2016). A blackletter typeface.
Barkants (2011, elegantly hand-printed family).
Barley Script (2017). A signage script.
Baystar Script (2021).
Beautiful Trouble (2012). A rabbit-eared upright connected script.
Beaked Tyrant (2014). A copperplate calligraphic script.
Beckasin (2011, signage face)
Before The Rain (2011, calligraphic) Before The Rain Arabic (2016).
Belladio (2021). An urban script.
Bellino (2018).
Bezar (2020). A script.
Billion Dreams (2020, by Mans Grebäck and Rangga Subekti). A heavy signage script.
Billion Stars (2013). A tattoo script font.
Bira (2012). A retro connected brush / signage script.
Blaak (2019).
Black Fox (2014). A sirupy brush face.
Black Signature (2021). A bold signature font.
Black Larch (2016) and Dark Larch (2016).
Bloc Boy (2016). Like handwriting.
Blockography (2011). A sketched typeface.)
Block Talk (2011, with Zaydek Michels-Gualtieri)
Blods (2011, a great blotty brush face)
Blueberry Script (2017; with Noah Kinard).
Botanink (2011)
Bouncy (a cartoon font).
Bourdos2022). A script typeface.
Brannboll (2011, baseball signage face), Brannboll NY (2013), Brannboll Connect (2020), Brannboll Stencil (a baseball script) (2020).
Bready (2011). A retro signage script with art nouveau aroma.
Brev Script (2014). A connected secretary hand from the 19th century.
Bronze Script (2014).
Brother Tattoo (2012).
Bumblebees (2012). A plump curvy script.
Bunya (2016). A geometric slightly deco sans typeface family.
Calendary Hands (2012).
Caligraf (2020).
Canela Bark (2015, co-designed with Luis Miguel).
Caneletter Sans and Script (2013). Upright unconnected and connected scripts.
Cantona Script (2019).
Canyon (2021). A wide elliptical sans in 18 styles, featuring a coathanger lower case f.
Capoon (2018). A ten-style sans family.
Caprica Sans (2014) and Caprica Script. A plump script.
Caravela (2020). A pirate map script.
Casat Cap (2017). An all caps brush typeface family.
Caster (2019). A heavy poster script.
Castro Script (2012).
Catchland (2021). A retro baseball script.
Celebrater (sic) (2012). An oily font.
Cellos Script (2013).
Centeria Script (2012).
Channel (2011, connected upright script)
Chapel Script (216). For signage.
Characteristic (2011).
Chavenir (2011).
Chinal (2018).
Choko (2011, released in 2016). Chocolate and cream-themed decorative typeface.
Christmas Miracle (2018), Christmas Reign (Tuscan, all caps) (2020), and Christmas Sparkle (2018).
Chrysante (2020). A monoline flowing pen script.
Clear Line (2012). A fat finger / signage typeface.
Clipper Script (2011).
Clothe (2017).
Coneria Script (2012). A connected script.
Conture Script (2018). Elegant, classical, and with exaggerated capitals.
Crackin (2011).
Crunchy (2016). An upright connected script.
Cruz Quaste (2020). A handcrafted blackletter typeface.
Cubest (2021). A squarish monospaced techno family.
CutScript (2011, connected script).
Danbury (2022). A speed-emulating sans.
Dark Crow (2020). a dry brush script.
Dollie Script (2013).
Ebbing (2018).
Echinos Park Script (2012).
Ederson (2018). A vintage signage script.
Ekologie Hand (2012).
Ekorre 2021). Aa vintage decorative serif.
Elaya Script (2019). A creamy signage script.
Electronics (2017). A retro signage script.
Elevate (2016).
Emiral Script (2017). A baseball script.
Encina Script (2016). A thin calligraphic typeface.
Enlighten (2011)
Delinquente (2012).
Denigan (2011, hairline)
Equal Sans (2012).
Espesor Olas (2011, fine hand-printed calligraphic family)
Esplanade Script (2015, by Mario Arturo).
Ethernal (2017). A connected script.
Europe Underground (2010, geometric sans with a hairline weight).
Fabulous (2017) and Fabulous Gold (2017). Signage script.
Falkin Sans (2016), Falkin Script (2016), Falkin Serif (2016).
Faltura (2011, constructivist), Faltura Alien (grunge), Faltura Guerra (grunge)
Faltura Animals (2011)
Feathergraphy Decoration (2011, calligraphic).
Duera (2016). A variable width sans typeface family.
Fargo (2021). A cursive script.
Fat Wandals (2018). A graffiti font.
Feathergraphy Clean (2011).
Fibography (2013). A caps typeface composed of fibers.
Filbert Brush (2012), Filbert Color (2013, a soft brush font).
Finition (2017). A connected brush script.
Fireplace (2020). A connected script.
Firstly (2020). A flowing calligraphic signature script.
First Lyrics (2011).
First Reign (2022). A medieval typeface. Second Reign (2022), Third Reign (2022) and Fourth Reign (2022) are further medieval typefaces.
Flighter (2018). A retro airplane font.
Fondy Script (2018).
Frankentype (2013). An all-caps brush typeface for signage.
From Skyler (2016).
Funkygraphy (2011, fat and counterless).
Gecko (2015, a fine creamy signage script).
Geza Script (2017). A great angular almost Arabic-looking script.
Ghang (2011, graffiti family).
Gingo (2020). A script.
Goatskin Brush (2015). A great brush typeface.
Golden Hopes (2021). A signature script.
Gonzi (an 31-style sans). Published in 2021.
Graced Script (2016). A wide calligraphic connected brush script.
Grandi (2016). A ten-style display sans.
Gready (2021). A fat signage script.
Greback Grotesque (2012). The Thin is very very thin.
Gretoon (2011, cartoon family)
Griphite (2018). A rough brush typeface.
Guld Script (2015).
Habanero (2016). A fat signage typeface.
Handtalk (2010, silhouettes)
Harbell (2013).
Hard Block (2011, Western slab face).
Hastafi (2022). An 8-style sharp-edged display serif.
Haydon Brush (2016).
Heavy Rain (2021). Decorative initials, and an all caps wedge serif.
Hemicube (a wide squarish all caps sans) (2020).
Hemmet (2013). A signage script.
Hierograf (2016). A layered textured handcrafted poster typeface family.
Hitalica (2011).
Honeymoon (2017). A connected script.
Housegrind (2013, connected script).
House of the Dragon (blackletter). Published in 2021.
Hoyle (2020). A slab serif.
Hundred Miracles (a signage script). Published in 2021.
Impregnable (2013). A connected script.
Indiana Script (2017). A baseball script.
Inked Bones (2019). a hand-painted blackletter font.
Intrique Script (2013). A baseball script.
Isle Body (2019), Isle Headline (2019).
Jacked Eleven (2011), Jacked Eleven Highlight (2011), Jack Pirate (2020: a tattoo blackletter typeface), January Script (2013).
Jaymont (2018). A sharp-edged wedge serif typeface family.
Jengotan (2021). A dry brush script.
Jumper (2021). A 13-style sans. Free download for personal use only.
Kandira (2018). A sleek sans family.
Kanvas (2020). A script typeface.
Kerater (2011, sans)
Lace 2.0 (2012). A thin connected script co-designed with Matteo Milazzo.
Lacosta (2020). A signage script.
Kompar (2018).
Krinkes (2015, baseball script). A connected swashy signage script.
Kurri Island (2020).
Lakesight (2014). A connected script.
Larch (2016). A crisp script typeface.
Largelake (2021). A signage script.
Las Enter (2013). A neon light script.
Leaders (2020). A blackletter font.
Ledare (2021). A 14-style bold and expressive sans.
Letric (2021).
Let Me Ride (2011)
Levitee (2011, a lively connected script).
Lighthouse (2013). A bold high-contrast script face.
Lina Script (2012). A tattoo script done with Vicky Mardian.
Lourino (2018).
Low Casat (2017) and Low Casat Fat (2017).
Lyrics Movement (2011, tall-ascendered hand).
Lyster (2020).
Mandoul Script (2021) and Mandoul Black (2021: a brush script).
Mainland (2018). A sans family.
Mainstream (2017). Graffiti style.
Manofik (a 4-style warm retro serif with a coathanger lower case f; for Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic). Published in 2021.
Martyric (2014, brush script),
Masteries (2013). A connected formal script.
Mastoc (2014).
Mauritz Caps (brushed) and Mauritz (a great wild script family), both published in 2021. Followed by Mauritz Sans (a brush script with a strong personality and a cartoon vibe) in 2022.
Mean Casat (2018).
Medish Script (2018). A great calligraphic handwriting typeface.
Together with Noah Kinard, he designed the calligraphic typeface Melay Script (2016).
Middle Ages (2019). A Lomardic blackletter in Regular and Deco styles.
Milasian Circa (2015) and Milasian. A connected script.
Merry Christmas (2015). A retro script in Flake and Star styles. Followed in 2017 by the color script font Merry Christmas Color.
Milkyway Hotel (art deco sans).
Miraikato Hand (2022) and Miraikato Script (a rustic script) (2022).
Mistuki (2015). An oriental brush simulation font.
Mochary (2016). A signage or tattoo script.
Molly Sans (2019). Caps only.
Monsta Tag (2013): a graffiti font.
Motion Picture (2013). A heavy connected retro script.
Mount (2012).
MAWNS Graffiti (2010) and MAWNS Serif (2010)
MAWNS Handwriting (2010).
Made With B (2011, sketched face).
Mardian (2012). A calligraphic tattoo script done with Vicky Mardian.
Markera (2011, marker pen family)
Many Weatz (2011)
Mawns Rock (2011)
Monoment (2011). A fat upright connected script.
Moneymachine (2022).
Monosphere (2012-2016). A futuristic monospaced typeface.
Murality (2022). A readable graffiti or mural typeface.
Myteri Tattoo (2021) and Myteri Script (2021: a calligraphic script).
Nacinth (2020). A script.
Nino Script (2018). A tattoo font.
Nobella (2021). A retro baseball script.
Normale (2014). A set of distressed typewriter fonts.
Notera (2014). A connected handwriting font. Followed by Notera 2 in 2018.
Odenburgh (2020). A medieval calligraphic typeface.
Optien (2011, techno face)
Ordinatum (2011, a severe sans).
Original Black (2021). A fat blackletter typeface.
Ornamental Versals (2011, ornamental caps)
Painter (2016). A sign painting script.
Patched (2021).
Pennybridge 1563 (2010, blackletter)
Pharmount (2014). A calligraphic connected script.
Phraell (2013). A great italic formal calligraphic script with optional swashes.
Pigeon (2016).
Pineapple (2012).
Plates Napery (2015).
Plicata (2016).
Pligo (2016). A balloon or cartoon font.
Preside (2017).
Prime Script (2012).
Prognostic (2011)
Qaskin (2015). A semi-formal connected script typeface with Black and White (outlined) styles.
Qhuman (2021). A 6-style Victorian serif.
Qraxy (2016). Quache Variable (2020) and Quache (2020). A 28-style flexible sans family.
Quanton (2022). An 8-style angular serif.
Querino Sans (2019). A very bold sans. Followed by Querino Script (2019).
Quickier Pro (2012). A swashy calligraphic script face.
Quincho Script (2016).
Quintal Script (2021). A retro signage font.
R-2014 (2011, LED face).
Rabento (2021). A 6-style condensed display slab serif.
Race Fever Pro (2015, in Brush and Pen versions) and Race Fever Brush (2015).
Radio 187.5 (2010, techno family)
Rakoon (2014). A creamy ultra-fat upright script. Followed by Rough Rakoon in 2016.
Rangly (2017-2018). A paint roll font.
Raspberry Script (2017).
Recorda Script (2013). A formal calligraphic script.
Reditum (2014). A decorative script.
Reeler (2014, with Noah Kinard).
Remachine Script (2013). Retro signage script. In 2020, Mans added Remachine Script Arabic.
Respective (2011, calligraphic script, +Swashes).
Respondent (2021). A script.
Rider (2011, a 30-style "versal" sans family)
Ringer (circle and arc-based sans)
Ristella (2017). A baseball script.
Rivera 2022). A narrow sans in 10 styles.
Rodrigues (2021). A script typeface.
Roona Sans (2018: modernist and organic curves).
Ropest (2018). A rope font.
Roskrift (2011, calligraphic; + Roskrift Clean).
Rougant (2021). An organic display font.
Roughen (2020).
Rurable (2015).
Ruthless Wreckin (graffiti typefaces), Ruthless Drippin' (dripping paint family)
Safir Script (2016). A fat baseball script.
Saker Sans (2017).
San Andre (2021) and San Andreas (2021), the free version. A baseball script.
Santa Claus (2019). A blackletter typeface, accompanied by Santa Claus Deco, a snow crystal font.
Scantype (2016).
Sculptor's Hand (2011, connected chancery hand).
Second Lesson (2022). A wide script.
Second Lyrics (2011, Treefrog-style handwriting)
Sequal (2020). Graffiti style.
Sicret (2020) and Sicret Mono (2020). An all caps family.
Servin' for Salute (2011)
Shaded Larch (2016).
Sharpe (2019). A sharp-edged high-contrast serif typeface family. See also Sharpe Variable (2020).
Shenandoah (flowing signage script).
Shimes (2015).
Shipped Goods (2011). A copperplate calligraphic script.
Shortbrush (2011)
Signerica (2011, connected flowing hand)
Sketchica (2011, sketchy face)
Skyzhi (2016). An advertising headline typeface.
Society Editor (2013, connected script).
Snacker Comic (2013).
Snowstreet (2013, an octagonal typeface) and Snowy (2013).
Some Weatz (2011, calligraphic, copperplate; +Swashes)
Sonika (2018).
South African (2014). A movie poster brush typeface.
Southern Aire (2013, connected script face).
Specify (2016). A 40-style sans family. Download, free for personal use.
Spoken (2019). A graffiti font.
Sponger (2021). In the VAG Round genre.
Square Worm (2011)
Stackyard (2015). A script.
Stainy (2013). A signage script.
Starella Script (2019) and Starella Tattoo (2019).
Starge (2019).
Starkey (2020).
Stormland (2021). A wide monoplinear sans.
Stormline (2021). All caps, wide and outlined.
Strawberry Script (2017).
String Lines (2018).
Stroke Dimension (2011). A 3d typeface.
Struck Base (2021). A baseball script.
Suecos Locos (2011---yummy!).
Sultan Cafe (2014). An interlocking poster typeface.
Sunny Sam (2020). A script typeface.
Sverige Script (2012). Calligraphic wedding font.
Tall Casat (2018).
Tamoro Script (2014).
Taylor Hand (2020). A signature script.
Tevegraphy (2011, elliptical)
The Hills (2017).
The World is Yours (2011, quaint)
Throwupz (2011)
Toley Hand (2019).
Tipbrush Script (2011).
Tomino (2016).
Top Comic (2013). A very fat cartoon bubble face.
Treehouse (2011, upright connected script; +Snowhouse for a snow-covered version)
Tusch Touch 1 (2011)
Two and Three (2011: a tattoo parlor blackletter family)
Typographic Onedalism (2011, graffiti simulation face).
Undergone (2014). Decorative and calligraphic.
Unthrift (2015). A pen script.
Vacer Sans and Vacer Serif (2016). The latter is a slab serif.
Validity Script (2020, with Misti Hammers).
Ventography (2013). A bold signage script.
Vinho De Amora (2021). A vintage all caps wedge serif and a stencil version.
Waiter (2017).
Walk Da Walk One
Wandals (2018). A graffiti font.
Wankstaberg Battles (2010, a tall fat script)
White Dream (2021). A retro script.
White Larch (2016). A connected script typeface.
Wholecar (2021). An unerground train graffiti typeface family.
Wild Growth (2011).
Wildline (2021).
Winfield Script (2019).
World Series (2021). A baseball script.
Xtreem (2012) and Xtreem2 (2014).
Yanty, Yanty Big, Yanty Script, and Yanty Script Big (2012).
Yaquote Script (2014).
Yaty (2019).
Yoghurt (2011).
Zoney (2021).

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Ark Dizajn

Polish calligrapher, b. 1984. Creator of the experimental typeface Typo Prooba (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿

Arkrist Letter
[Harjuno Kristanto]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the ECG-emulation typeface Heart Rate (2020). In 2021, he released Athafia (a dynamic script), Arrany (a soft bold display font), Christmas Sleigh (script), Hellya (a wild script), Shivanya (script), Sincere Valentine (an upright rabbit-eared calligraphic script), Spooky Witch and Thectro (a rounded squarish techno typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Arman Chairanza

Riverside, CA-based designer of the calligraphic Orris Root (2017), the bush script Light Butterfly (2017), the hairline calligraphic typeface Bounderas Script (2017), the calligraphic script Pink Coyotes (2017), and the Treefrog brush script Moodellyna (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Aron Jancso

Extraordinary Hungarian design talent based in Budapest, 1986-2015. I can't find enough superlatives to describe his work or find appropriate words to express my sadness when I learned of his death due to a bicycle accident on September 4, 2015. He was best known for his experimental type projects. He published the masterful Ogaki in 2009, the high contrast didone typeface Sensaway Pro (2010, Die Gestalten), the calligraphic Caligo (2013), the freestyle jazz high-contrast typeface Qalto (2012) and the fat counterless Dubwise Pro (2010) at Die Gestalten. Other typefaces include Milen Serif (2009, organic), Minimalstile (2008), Minimalca (2008, organic), Fade Away and Fancy Fence (2009, geometric blackletter), Muzikal (2010), Type #32 (2010).

Typographic poster examples: A, B, C, D, E, F, G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q. Examples of typographically great bike posters: A | B | C.

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Art and Fonts by Sean (aka The BlackBox)
[Sean Moldenhauer]

Free fonts by Sean Moldenhauer of Michigan City, Indiana, a graduate of the Art institute of Chicago who apprenticed with Donna Karen. Sean has beautiful Japanese calligraphic prints (shodo style) as well as fonts based on carefully researched historical typefaces. Examples: JapaneseZenSampler1 (2001), TheTombwinterandspring1 (1997, "heavily inspired by the incised letters from the tomb of Henry III, Westminster Abbey, about 1272"), Thorns (1997), VampyresGarden (1997, initial caps inspired by a copy of the Romant de la Rose from the beginning of the 16th century), HoursintheRain (1997), SevenWavessighsSalome (1997, caps). Very nice gothic and medieval style creations. He showcases great Arab, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Art and Sign Unlimited
[Jerry Berg]

Jerry Berg (Art and Sign Unlimited) created these signage typefaces in 2014: Zipper, Quick Script (calligraphic), Maverick, Poster Script, Longhorn, Empire (spurred, Victorian), Backfire, Cascadia, Casino (Victorian), Casino Fancy.

In 2015, he created Shop Casual, Hamilton Grand (flowing formal script), Muy Bueno (a regular monoline script font), Rough Draw, Gambit and Tradition. In 2015, he designed Ale House (a slab serif done with Lavonne West).

Typefaces from 2016: ASU Stingray Regular (a casual rhythmic hand), Dragonfly (Victorian octagonal style), California Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Tramp (signage script).

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Art Design

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designer of these predominantly script typefaces in 2018: Love Malia, Hipnotis, Amanda, New Lettering, Maulydia, Astiola, Sophia, The Distro (brush), Love Cindy, Goodbye (upright), Angelina, California Beach, Bellagia. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Arterfak Project
[Ahmad Ramzi Fahruddin]

Ahmad Ramzi Fahruddin (aka Ramzehhh and as Ramz Fahruddin, b. 1993) established Arterfak Project in 2015. He is the Palembang, Indonesia-based designer of the display typefaces Aidah (2015, spurred), Temenyut (2015, spurred), Basenglah (2015, a geometric solid typeface), Local Genius (2015), Oropitem (2015, blackletter), Cakmacak (2015), Maeninaja (2015), Yagitudeh (2015, a free doodle font), Cagar (2015, free), Pletakrutuk (2015) and Beguyur (2015), the free experimental techno typeface Semravut (2015), the lava lamp typeface Cagar (2015) and the free spurred vintage typeface Outromoro (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Anehena (a beveled ornamental typeface), Bongoknian (spurred), Sebasengan (sketched, arched, stitched, textured, eroded and embossed substyles), Sekatoon (Victorian), Bekelakar (Victorian), Sambeltigo, Wayawaya (free bilined art deco), Geroboktuo, Bedengkang, Ringam, Cindo Kato (spurred Victorian typeface), Ngopi Doken (a layered handcrafted typeface family), Bedesau (Victorian), Temenyut (spurred Victorian style), Sirugino (a spurred tattoo / blackletter type), Buyanbengak (spurred), Geradakan (dry brush type).

Typefaces from 2017: Martinez (Tuscan), Hughoney, Rockrace, Monabelia (Victorian), Philosophiya, Love Quake, Childwood, Circulat Decorative Frames, Dakmodal, Yasaman, Bsakoja, Meringam, Besigetz (Victorian), Bedempank, Ngamboel (a modern inline), Jemahok (an inline typeface), Sirunian (decorative blackletter), Belinjangan (brush style), Cerudikan, Kanjian (Victorian deco).

Typefaces from 2018: Mirandah (monoline, vintage), Subversia (Victorian), Bertha (a free display family that includes Shadow Line, Sans and Spurred substyles), Quickers, Marchelle (art deco), Lourena, Mellynda, Leophard (octagonal), Wishteria, Slashback, Katheryna, Febiolla, Tropicane, Maretha (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2019: Requeiro (a spurred inline vintage font), Mourich (an all caps display typeface), Newston (a tall condensed news headline typeface family), The Black Sugare (blackletter-inspired), Magnies (an elegant stencil), Hermona (a spurred vintage label font), Bronzier (a sports font), Mayhena (a monoline script), Amnestia (a vintage all caps typeface), Highrush (font duo), Humeira (for children's books), Montheim (retro signage font), Hodgeson (a slab serif family), Delaroca, (a spurred black metal band font) Banda Niera, Bargers Distressed (spurred, Victorian), The Realita, Newston (a compressed skyline-style font), Ariestha Script, The Black Square, Requiem (Victorian or rococo inline caps), Invasible, Ferguson (an almost monoline slab serif family), Mirenath (a rounded vintage monoline typeface), Afolkalips (a tribal painted font inspired by the Papuan culture), Mellandry, Masterson (a slab serif western font), Marsheila (art deco), Kanjian, Belinjangan, Sirunian (a decorative spurred typeface), Quickers, Marcheile (slightly art nouveau), Marcheile, Monabelia, Nourishe (a fashion mag sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Trashbone, Burgery (a monolinear all caps children's book font), The Brande and Lotaline (a decorative serif), Rimba Andalas (a tribal font), Bronela (a decorative serif), Wonder Night (a beatnik font), Malinsha (a signage script), Marones (spurred, vintage, all caps), Katenila (a fat finger font), Meliana Script (a brush script), Romelio (sans / script pair), Bondrians (a vintage label font), Black Ravens (a dry brush font), Shinkoya (vernacular lettering), Brothership, Novante (stylish caps), Almatine Script (a flat pen calligraphic script, with perhaps a touch of Arabic script emulation), Almatine Sans, Wargate (a military stencil font family), Bragley (a cartoon font), Varino (a rounded unicase sans family), Ranille (a bold display serif), Neilvard (a vintage label font family), Nagietha, Khodijah (an Arabic emulation font), Sometimes Rough, Savaneta (a vintage all caps typeface), Valmera (a Peignotian sans), Hargalia (classic calligraphy), Cherione (a unicase font), Revans (a display sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Larantuka (an informal font with a dancing baseline), Bolandes (a weathered monoline sans), Delauney (a formal art deco typeface), Chieezy Burger (grungy, vernacular), Ranmor (a vintage slab serif), Andalia (a signage script), Insiders (a dry brush script), Granesta (a dry brush font), Abigral (a Peignotian serif), Suzanstein (a dripping blood font), Broken Console (a retro video game pixel font), Naluka (a tiki or nature park font), Lovatine (a scrapbook script), Rushen (vintage caps in curvy, regular, distressed, stencil and shadow versions), Siegra (futuristic), Komersie (a bold supermarket font), Borensa (a reverse stress font), Rashavine (a dry brush font), Blankone (a brush font), Montagna (a monolinear script), Hadnich (a heavy signage script), Sallomae (a scrapbook font), Vankours (a dry brush font), Wonderful Melanesia (a decorative serif), Albertson (a Tuscan font), Rantika (a bold brush script), Rusthack (a stylish brush typeface), Mustopha (an upright typeface in arabesque style), Marviona (a marker pen font), Marviona (a marker pen font), Niquitta Mirzani (script), Shikamaru (emulating a Japanese brush), Mortend (a 5-style expanded all caps sans), Barlock (an all caps and spurred varsity font), Northash (stencil), Motteka (a beatnik font), Sharely (a brush font), Rompies (a condensed titling sans), Beardsons (a vintage label font), Broken Crush (dry brush).

Typefaces from 2022: Bradrock (a vintage semi-Tuscan Western font), Market Written (a fat finger font), Almalik (Arabic emulation), Vanitha (a brush script), Rambors (prismatic caps with four parallel lines), The Last Shuriken (emulating Japanese), Warzone (an all caps echno / sci-fi font), Kalidony (calligraphic with heart-themed tittles), Lemands (a stocky condensed display typeface).

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Artful Bodger

"Creator" of the calligraphic typeface Cygnet Round (1996). Cynet Round is a knock-off of Roundhand BT (Matthew carter, Bitstream), which in turn was inspired by penman Charles Snell. [Google] [More] ⦿

Arthur Baker
[Arthur Baker Designs (or: Glyph Systems)]

Arthur Baker Designs (or: Glyph Systems)
[Arthur Baker]

American calligrapher in Andover, MA, who worked for many foundries, and ran several studios. He ran Glyph Systems in Andover, MA, and before that, Alpha Omega and Maverick Designs. Baker grew up in Berkeley, CA, and attended school on the West Coast and New York City. After serving in the U.S. Army, he studied under calligrapher Oscar Ogg and had private lessons with George Salter and Tommy Thompson. Some of Baker's earliest designs were made available through Photo-Lettering Inc., and his first widely-available commercial typeface was published in 1965. Baker's first book was published in 1973. Arthur Baker died in 2016 at the age of 86. Tribute by Allan Haley. His typefaces were all calligraphic:

Amigo (Adobe), Amigo (Linotype). Designed by Arthur Baker in 1989 for Agfa Compugraphic, Amigo is based on spontaneous pen lettering and an exaggerated calligraphic look.
Arrows (Arthur Baker). Made in 1995.
Baker Signet (Monotype), Baker Signet (Bitstream), Baker Signet (Adobe), Baker Signet (Linotype). Originally designed as a photo type in 1965 for VGC, it was Baker's first commercial design. Baker Signet features in the word Coke on the Coca Cola bottles. Halley writes: Tall ascenders and angled weight transfer show a subtle foundation in late 15th century typefaces. Baker Signet can also be found at VGC as Baker Argentina No 1 (1976) and Baker Danmark One (1976). Baker Signet, in its display text weights, was at the basis of Sigvar (Softmaker).
Calligraphica (Arthur Baker), Calligraphica (IHOF). Created in 1995.
Cold Mountain (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Collier Script (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Daybreak (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Duckweed (Arthur Baker), Duckweed Sans (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Feathers (Arthur Baker), Fishface (Arthur Baker), Florettes (Arthur Baker), Flowery (Arthur Baker), Hands (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Hiroshige Sans (Arthur Baker), Hiroshige (Adobe). Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth of AlphaOmega Typography, Inc. The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many impressionist artists. Hiroshige Sans (Arthur Baker) followed in 1995.
ITC Tiepolo (ITC), ITC Tiepolo (Adobe). Tiepolo was designed at AlphaOmega Typography for the International Typeface Corporation in 1987.
Kigali (Arthur Baker), Kigali (Adobe). Designed by Arthur Baker in 1994 for URW, Kigali is a wide-bodied display type with bold, uneven pen-drawn strokes that taper dramatically downward. There also is a textured version called Kigali ZigZag.
Marigold (Monotype), Marigold (Adobe). Marigold was first released by Agfa Compugraphic in 1989.
Mercator (Arthur Baker), Mercator (IHOF). Designed in 1995. Based on the lettering of Flemish map maker Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594).
The Maverick Designs Collection (1994): New Amigo (Arthur Baker), New Marigold (Arthur Baker), New Oxford (Arthur Baker), New Pelican (Arthur Baker), New Visigoth (Arthur Baker).
Oakgraphic (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Oxford (Adobe). Designed for Agfa Compugraphic in 1989. It is a robust and lively non-connecting script with several bi-form characters.
P22 Matador (IHOF). P22 Matador (2007) is a contemporary Roman font based on the manuscript tradition (digitized by Michael Clark).
Pelican (Linotype), Pelican (Adobe). Released by Agfa Compugraphic in 1989.
Plumes (Arthur Baker). Designed in 1995.
Sassafras (Arthur Baker), Sassafras (Adobe). Designed for URW in 1995, Sassafras is based on the natural inline effect created when writing with a split-metal nibbed pen.
Swirls (1994), Swooshes (1994). Ornaments.
Visigoth (Adobe), Visigoth (Linotype). Visigoth was created in 1988 by Arthur Baker for AlphaOmega Typography. He designed it specifically for setting the text of A Dante Bestiary published in 1989 for Ombondi Editions in New York.

Some explanations by Freddy Nader: The Baker Argentina and Danmark typefaces were variations on his Signet. Baker originally made Signet for Headliners International in the 1960s, where he worked full time. In 1972 he was approached by VGC and told that they would pay him royalties as well if he made the same typeface for them. Royalties were a relatively new thing back then - Tommy Thompson was the very first person to ever earn royalties in type (in 1944 for his Thompson Quill script for Photo Lettering Inc), and he wasn't a type designer per se, he was a calligrapher. Lured by the idea of royalties coming his way from two different directions for the same face, Baker did a Signet for VGC. When Bob Evans, owner of Headliners, found out, he threatened to sue VGC for trademark infringement (copyright for typefaces was unheard of at the time - every major photo type house had "similar" fonts, and whenever someone got exclusives made by outside designers under a royalty program, it was only a matter of weeks before they were knocked off and changed slightly by other type houses, big and small). So in order to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit, VGC called their typeface Baker Signet, instead of just Signet, and went further by asking Arthur Baker to make a lighter version and a condensed version. The lighter version was called Baker Argentina, the condensed version was called Baker Danmark. The "Number One" prefix was added to both so that when the inevitable knockoffs happened, type buyers would know which type was made first. About Baker Sans, Freddy writes: The Baker Sans was a knockoff of Helvetica. It was a massive family of a lot of fonts, rendered very ugly by camera stretching and slanting. Eddie Bauer used it as their corporate typeface for a long time in order to avoid the expensive fees of licensing Helvetica. Tim Ryan ended up digitizing it for Arthur Baker in the mid 1990s for a lot of money. That digital version is now being sold by ITF under one of its many companies (either Arthur Baker Design, or Arthur Baker Designs, or maybe Maverick Designs).

MyFonts link. Klingspor link. View Arthur Baker's typefaces. Linotype link. MyFonts page. Another MyFonts page. And still another MyFonts page. FontShop link. View Arthur Baker's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Arthur Ilin

Russian designer of these script and calligraphic typefaces in 2019: Dreamlike, Umbrella, Wild South, Adelmo, Aromutta. [Google] [More] ⦿

Arthur Ilyin
[Quothron (was: TJ Creative)]

Artimasa
[Muhajir]

Artimasa (Banda Aceh, Indonesia) designed the calligraphic typeface Prada in 2013.

In 2014, Artimasa added Aliva (connected signage script), Thander (heavy signage script), Sherina (thin script), Adelia (signage script), Steady (a signage script), Advena (a monoline script), Authentica (vintage script), Brandall (connected script), Graceful (script), Felisha (a creamy script), Zelda (connected script), Bulgary Script (a swashy connected wedding script), Heyzilla (connected script), Nabila (signage script), Hipsteria (connected script), Zakia (script) and Baliho (signage script), and the free 60s signage or baseball script typeface Streetwear.

Typefaces from 2015: Balqis (calligraphic script), Debby (free brush script), Lettuce (calligraphic), Fadilla (connected calligraphic script), Steelheart (calligraphic script), Shaqila (signage script), Hamster Script (free), Cherrybelle (brush script), Hillwood (connected signage script), Snatchy Script, Harlott (a free connected brush script), Endless Sorrow (funky lettering), Atlantika, Oldways (free modular typeface), Winterfell (a connected calligraphic script), Fairy Tales, Foreplay, Bad Mood (vintage signage script), Delisa.

Typefaces from 2016: Klasik (a free rounded display sans typeface family), Equable (free handcrafted retro typeface), Sweet Sorrow (a free retro signage script), Cutie Star, Playlist (free).

Typefaces from 2017: West Side (a free). [Google] [More] ⦿

Artiqlogy

Indonesian type designer. His catalog in 2021 showed these typefaces: Befano (an organic monolinear sans), Beristan (a monoline script), Besthany (script), Bodine (an organic stencil font), Elanob, Helina (a calligraphic script), Heyosan (a heavy slab serif), Lenolove (bilined), Marchey, Maron Rose, Martend, Meylina, Paulend, Questy, Quick Browel, Serona (Sans, Signature), Shebae, The Ground (sans), The Ruttmey (art deco), Tuned Rompies (a retro signage script), Vellary, Weny Mesy, Wiylona, Zebros. [Google] [More] ⦿

Artisan Studio (or: Artisans)
[Roiyani Teungku]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based studio associated with Nava Abel and/or Roiyani Teungku and/or Teungku Dibale. Designer of these typefaces in 2015: the calligraphic signage typeface Antero, the calligraphic typefaces Elastic, Braveheart, Midnight and Lettuce, and the creamy brush script typefaces Aqualita and Scylla.

In 2016, he designed Metafora (a fresh upbeat script), Worker, Asly Brush, Mallow Script, Arnetalia and Wholler (connected calligraphic typeface)

Typefaces from 2017: Manifesto, Good Night, Best Lottre.

Typefaces from 2018: the upright script typeface Sumantry (which is by Roiyani Teungku), the signage script typeface Plants, Solange (font duo), Angelica (inky script), Nathalia, Chica Maravilla, Handwriting (a signature font), Mighty Girl (font duo).

Typefaces from 2019: Smoothen, Olivera, Story Fresh (a fine brush script), Martoni (a thin script), Hortense (wild calligraphy), Magnison (vintage font duo), Ringstone (a rhythmic signage script), Vectory.

Typefaces from 2020: Gonero (an 81-style unkerned sans family), Segments (a signature script), Quanika, Hand Sworth (a signature script), Black Stanky, Brandy (formal almost copperplate calligraphy), Mostyn (a retro signage script), Polites (a slab serif).

Typefaces from 2021: Roy Smith (script), Arnetalia (calligraphic), Beby Asia (a wild script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

ArtOne CreativeWorks (was: Locomotype)
[Arwan Sutanto]

ArtOne Digital (formerly Locomotype) is the type foundry of Arwan Sutanto, a graphic designer in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, who also owns ArtOne Creativeworks. Arwan created the elliptical sans face Fonquero (2014), the free brush typeface Belepotan (2014, +Italic), Fonesia (2014), Fonesh (2014), Fonia (2014), and the free outline typeface Fonarto XT (2014; updated in 2019 to Fonarto v2). Fondian (2014) is a commercial rounded Comic Sans style typeface. Fonago (2014) is a vintage font. Tinta Script (2014) is an upright script.

Typefaces from 2015: Fonesia, Cemara (brush script typeface), Garris (monoline script), Fonstyle, Fonari, Fonderful, Fonjava (a rhythmic script), Fonjazz, Fonino (brush script).

Typefaces from 2016: Om Telolet Om (free), Sumptuous (sans), Sumptuous Light, Boldero Brush (inspired by graffiti art), Hotline (a monoline connected signage script), Jogjakartype, Jogjakartype Logos.

Typefaces from 2017: Endeavora, Bahagia (signature script), Windtalker, Asalasik, Fonalux, Fonquero Sedo, Wolesbro, Morning Dew, Eufoniem (upright connected script), Delicy, Matahati (script).

Typefaces from 2018: Hokyaa, Jankador, Dephion (font duo), Bakso Sapi, Lemoo.

Typefaces from 2019: Crimstone (a weathered octagonal typeface), Noiry (script), Bonega (an all caps inscriptional sans), Pantura (a playful casual font), Kaftice, Redsniper (Victorian), True Happiness, Harmona (Script, Sans), Pestapora, Lendiga (a monoline script), Zoelander, Wkwk, Romantick, Sweet Pancake (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2020: Reffort (a fourteen-style sans showing emotion in its counters), Sandega (a stencil font), Halokia (a condensed monoline connected sans), Shelda, Nilakandi (an upright script), Bakso Sapi, Komikula, Antario (a stylish sans), Giga Sans (an 18-style geometric sans), Toska (squarish).

Typefaces from 2021: Gunterz (a macho all caps hardware store techno typeface), Filarion (a polygonal typeface in the style of Ben Shahn), Kanzaki (a 10-style playful script).

Typefaces from 2022: Bradia (a condensed Victorian typeface).

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ARToni
[Anthonie Van Hayu]

Kabaro, Soppeng and/or Labokong, Indonesia-based designer of the squarish typefaces Fino (2019), Kardust (2019) and Kardust TS Condensed (2019), the monoline geometric sans typeface Shadeerah (2019: a display sans in three weights), the calligraphic typeface Khaleefa (2019), and the cursive fonts Lambola (2019) and Syifa (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Finto (a techno typeface inspired by jet airplanes), Nellyana Script (monoline).

Typefaces from 2021: Yesslyn (a tall upright script), Kindheart (a monolinear signature script), Ratched (an inky script), Stitka (a rhythmic signature script with tall ascenders), Fionetta (a graceful calligraphic script), Heartway Signature (an upright signature script with personality), Safiya (a semi-formal calligraphic script), Olimate (a molecular typeface), Quakeland (a display font), Khaleefa (a calligraphic font that emulates Arabic), Syafiqa (an informal monolinear typeface), Maghfirah (calligraphic), Maghfirah Two (a bold calligraphic typeface), Hidayatullah (Arabic emulation), Cruisader II (a casual font), Cruisader (a speed font), Aeroblades (futuristic; or for emulating speed), Sketter (a speed font).

Typefaces from 2022: Azteria (a retro blackletter-inspired script), Nearly Brush (a creamy brush script), Lillyberry (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Artsy Lady's Home Page
[Betty Cook]

Betty Cook (b. 1952) is the "Artsy Lady", a New Jersey designer who created ALBabyNewYearAH, ALCinderella (calligraphic caps), ALConscienceAH, ALCrossStitchHearts, ALPlaceSettingsDings (2001), ALPlaceSettingsLetters, ALPrincessJasmine, ALPrincessSnowWhite, ALSnowmen, BabyGeniuses, BabyGeniuses2Normal, CruiseLine, Dreidl (2000, art nouveau), KittyKatLove, LeprechaunHats, Patriot, PilgrimHats, Polywog, Tramp, Untitled2. Mostly alphadings. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Artur Frankowski
[FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)]

Arwah Studio

Designer of script typefaces Holliday Script (2017), Santhia Script (2017), Ellisa (2017), Kila Katana (2017), Clara Script (2017), Alone Script (2017), Datanna (2017).

Designs from 2018: Beautiful, Silvagia Script (calligraphic), Gladiolus, Camera Shop, Learning, Bristhday, Sandra. [Google] [More] ⦿

Arwan Sutanto
[ArtOne CreativeWorks (was: Locomotype)]

Arys Design
[Iordache Ionut]

Graphic designer in Dublin, Ireland. His typefaces in 2014 include Tipsy Script, Sketch Up, Woods Woods, Chiply Script, Exuber (a condensed didone), Coplex, Adelaide, Denise, Amalia (a condensed formal script), Paradise (a ronde script), Aberdeen (a vintage handmade typeface) and the extensive typeface family Vernon Sans.

In 2015, he created Broondy Serif (a didone typeface with wedge serifs), Volare (vintage family), Ellington, Adamina Script (a sturdy connected signage script). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Asahar Studio
[Ady Suhar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these calligraphic or handcrafted typefaces in 2017 and 2018: Anggita, Sketsa Leo, Delight Script, Ameila Script, Umbrella, Melly Love, Bregede Love, Meilalya, Braiden, Raihan, Bergila. [Google] [More] ⦿

Asbak Lab

Designer of these mostly calligraphic script typefaces in 2017: Ambasaj (swashy), Queen Nasov, MombeR, Coffe Khoop, Shafia. [Google] [More] ⦿

Asd Studio (or: Ash-Shiddiq Studio; was: Qanita Studio)
[Ghazi Humam Fauzan]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1997, of the script typefaces Mella Nissa (2019: brush), Lemon Juice (2019), South (2019), Anita Jane (2019), Sientta (2019), Ancient (2019), Marioline Barnard (2019), Mawar Merah (2019), Broken Heart (2019) and Aleysia (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Winny Beatrice, Band of Brothers, Sandy Antoniuss (a fat finger font), The Imaginationsi (a Treefrog script), Hillary Beauty Script, Automobile Contest, Before Sunday, Qimberly, Brownies Cake, Amiela (a whirly script), Juliette Michel (wild calligrahy), Qillsey Einstein (a dry brush script), Rossi Mithori (script), Laurels Qeylla, Jenifer Malvia, Minimallistic, Ordinary.

Typefaces from 2021: Lemonilla (a scrapbook script), Summer Children (a scrapbook script), Capcay Spicy (a scrapbook font), Creamy Orange (a scrapbook font), Melted Cheese (a scrapbook font), Lovely Sunday (a wonderful inline calligraphic script), Bouncy Manuscript (a monoline script), Hudiya Script, Hi Ashoka (a bold brush script), Making Signature (a signature script), Mollen Crispy (a bold scrapbook script), Amirtha (a wild script), Lesthary, Cute Smile (a creamy vernacular script), The Bride (signage script), Mellina Nidda (a dry brush font), Super Banana (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Incredible Friday (a dry brush scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Asep Sunandar
[Ameerazan Studio (was: Mamplanglaut)]

Ashley Gardner
[Printable Wisdom]

Associazione Calligrafica Italiana

Asli Narin

At the Unıversty of Bilken, Ankara, Turkey-based Asli Narin designed an inky calligraphic alphabet (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Assami Studio (or: Sammy Studio)
[Teuku Asrul Sami]

Indonesian designer of the formal calligraphic cript typeface The Singers (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Mishella, Rowley Script, Amelia Kanny (script), Artline (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2021: Benthura Script (an upright calligraphic script), Vintage Fonta (a formal calligraphic script), Gastine Script (a wild calligraphic script), Hello Annabetta Script (a curly calligraphic script, also called Aristone Script), The Donya (a formal swashy calligraphic script), Maguero Script (a swashy formal calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Association for Insight Meditation (or: Aimwell)
[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Bhikkhu Pesala, a Buddhist monk based in London, designs free fonts. His original we page was called Aimwell (Association for Insight Meditation). On that site dedicated to Pali fonts, there was a file with Bhikkhu Pesala's free fonts. Most of Pesala's fonts have well over 1000 glyphs, cover Latin, Vietnamese and Greek, and have an enormous set of symbols including chess symbols and astrological signs.

The present list of fonts, with some older ones removed:

Acariya (2016): a Garamond style typeface derived from Guru, but with suboptimal kerning.
Akkhara (2006). Derived from Gentium.
Balava (2014): a revival of Baskerville derived from Libre Baskerville.
Cankama (2009). A Gothic, Black Letter script.
Carita (2006). An all caps roman.
Garava (2006). Designed for body text. It has a generous x-height and economical copy-fit. The family includes Extra-Bold and Extra-Bold Italic styles besides the usual four. Typeface Sample
Guru (2008). A condensed Garamond style typeface designed for economy of copyfit in Buddhist publications. 100 pages of text set in the Pali typeface would be about 94 pages if set in Garava, or 92 pages if set in Guru.
Hari (2016): a hand-writing script derived from Allura by Robert E. Leuschke, released under the SIL license.
Hattha (2007). A felt marker pen typeface.
Jivita (2012): an original sans typeface for body text.
Kabala (2009). A sans serif typeface designed for display text or headings. Kabel?
Lekhana (2008). Pesala's version of Zapf Chancery.
Mahakampa (2016): a hand-writing script derived from Great Vibes by Robert E. Leuschke.
Mandala (2007). A geometric sans designed for decorative body text or headings. Has chess symbols.
Nacca (2016): a hand-writing script derived from Dancing Script by Pablo Impallari.
Odana (2006). A calligraphic almost blackletter brush font suitable for titles, or short texts where a less formal appearance is wanted.
Open Sans (2016): a sans font suitable for body text. Includes diacritics for Pali and Sanskrit.
Pali: Pesala's version of Hermann Zapf's Palatino.
Sukhumala (2014): derived from Sort Mills Goudy.
Talapanna (2007). Pesala's version of Goudy Bertham, with decorative gothic capitals and extra ligatures in the Private Use Area.
Talapatta.
Veluvana (2006). A heavy brush style. The Greek glyphs are from Guru. Small Caps are greater than x-height.
Verajja (2006). A Pali word meaning "variety of kingdoms or provinces." It is derived from Bitstream Vera.
Verajja Serif.
Yolanda (2008). Calligraphic.

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Astigmatic One Eye
[Brian J. Bonislawsky]

Astigmatic One Eye (AOE) has lots of nice original fonts by Brian J. Bonislawsky (b. 1973, Pittsburgh, PA). Many are free, others are not. AOE joined Font Brothers Inc in 2006. Brian Bonislawsky currently lives in Las Vegas, NV.

Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link.

A partial list of the AOE fonts made in 2011: Engagement (2011, a free brush script at Google Web Fonts), Fascinate (2011, an art deco typeface at Google Web Fonts; +Inline), Original Surfer (2011, a free Google Web Font inspired by a vintage advertisement for the "California Cliffs Caravan Park"), Smokum (2011, a Western / Italian face), Yellowtail (2011, signage face), Redressed (2011), Special Elite (2010, a free old typewriter face), Aclonica (2011).

Typefaces from 2008 or before: Horseplay AOE (2008, Western style), Cake and Sodomy AOE (2008), Good Eatin AOE (2008), Paradiso AOE (2008, inspired by logotype of the Paris Resort and Casino in Las Vegas), Montelago AOE (2007, a script inspired by the logotype of the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas), Jack Chain AOE (2007), Henhouse (2007), Schnitzle (2007), Luxurian AOE (2007, inspired by the logo of the Luxor Hotel&Casino in Las Vegas), Digital Disco AOE (2007), Mighty Tuxedo AOE (2007), Makeshift AOE (2007), Clarity AOE (2007, slab serif headline; + grungy version), Red Pigtails AOE (2007), Run Tron 1983 (2002), Eyeliner AOE (2006, Tekton-like), Mother Hen (2007), Gloversville (2007, comic book style), Mighty Tuxedo AOE (2007, condensed sans), Quick Handle AOE (2007), Surfing Bird (2007), Hydrogen (2004), Hardliner (2004, fifties diner style), Big Ruckus (2004), SS Antique No. 5 (2004), Europa Twin (2003), EuroMachina (2003, techno), Lord Rat (2003: papercut sans), Love Anxiety (2003), BuzzSaw (2003), Skullbearer (2003, skull dingbats), Beatnick Blue (2002), Geisha Boy (2002), Mardi Party (2002), Midcrime (2002), Ocovilla (2002), Ruthless (2002), Saltie Doggie (2002), Whiskers (2002), Royal Gothic, Family, Eggit, Jericho, Wild Monkeys (2002), 5FingeredGothSW, AlienArgonautAOE, AlphaMackAOE, AmphibiPrint, AngiomaAOE, AntiChristSuperstar, AntiChristSuperstarSW, AstigmaSolid, BigLimboAOE, BigLimbodOutAOE, BoneRollAOE, BoneRollAOEBold, BoundAOE, BrailleAOE, BulletBallsAOE, ButterflyChromosome, ButterflyChromosomeAOE, ButtonButton, ButtonButtonAOE, CType, CTypeAOE, CelticLionAOE-Bold, CelticLionAOE-BoldItalic, CelticLionAOE-Italic, CelticLionAOE, CharailleAOE, ChickenScratch, ChickenScratchAOE, ClunkerAOE, ClunkerAOE-Bold, CropBats, CropBatsAOE, CropBatsIIAOE, DarkNightAOE, DeadGrit, DeliveryMatrixAOE, DetourAOE, DigitalDiscoAOE, DigitalDiscoAOEOblique, DingleBerries, DoggyPrintAOE, DraxLumaAOE, DungeonKeeperII, DungeonKeeperIIBold, DungeonKeeperIIItalic, EggItAOE, EggitAOE-Italic, EggitOutlineAOE, ElectricHermes, ElectricHermesAOE, ElectricHermesAOECharge, FearAOE, FilthAOE, FishyPrintAOEOne, FishyPrintOneAOE, FishyPrintTwoAOE, FutharkAOE, FutharkAOEInline, FutharkAOEInline, GateKeeperAOE, Ghoulish Fright AOE (2006), GlagoliticAOE (1999, grungy glagolitic), GorgonCocoonAOE, Gotik, GreyAlienSW, HAL9000AOE, HAL9000AOEBold, HAL9000AOEBoldItalic, HAL9000AOEItalic, HandageAOE, HandageAOEBold, HauntAOE, HybridLCDAOE, IDSupernovaSW, IslanderAOE, JokerWildAOE, KillMeCraig, KillMeCraigAOE, Kinderfeld, KittyPrint, KittyPrintAOE, Kornucopia, KornucopiaAOE, LinusFace, LinusFaceAOE, LinusPlayAOE, LinusPlaySW, Lochen, LovesickAOE, Manson, MasterPlan, Mervale Script Pro (2012: a brushy script based on the 1940's Fawcett Publications Mary Marvel comic), Microbe, MooCowSW, MotherlodeLoadedAOE-Italic, MotherlodeLoadedAOE, MotherlodeStrippedAOE-Italic, MotherlodeStrippedAOE, MysterioSWTrial, NightmareAOE, OrnaMental, Pantera, PapaManoAOE, PenicillinAOE (described as a bacterial stencil typeface), PixelGantryAOE, PixelGantryAOEBold, PixelGantryAOEBoldItalic, PixelGantryAOEHeavy, PixelGantryAOEHeavyItalic, PixelGantryAOEItalic, PixelGantryHiliteAOE, PixelGantryHiliteAOEItalic, PoppyAOE, PoseidonAOE, Prick, QuiltedAOE, QuiltedAOEBlack, QuiltedTrial, RippleCrumb, RippleCrumbUltraCon, ROCKY, ROCKYAOE, RustedMachineSW, SSExpAntiqueAOE, Schizm, Schrill, SchrillAOE, SchrillAOEOblique, Scrawn, ScrawnAOE, ScrawnCyrAOE, ScrawnKOI8AOE, ScrewedAOE, ScrewedAOEOblique, ScrewedSW, SeaweedFireAOE, SenthAOE, ShampooSW, ShottyTransferTrial, SkinnerAOE, SlurCrumb, SpatCrumb, SpikeCrumbGeiger, SpikeCrumbSwizzle, SpikeCrumbSwollen, SteelcapRubbingTrial, StruckSW, StrutterAOE, SunspotsAOE, SurferComicTrial, TRANSHUMANALPHABET10, TRANSHUMANKATAKANA20, TannarinAOE, TannarinAOEOblique, TibetanBeefgardenAOE, TibetanBeefgardenAOE, TouristTrapAOE, TransponderAOE, TransponderGridAOE, UglyStickAOE, VanguardIIIAOE-Bold, VanguardIIIAOE-BoldOblique, VanguardIIIAOE-Oblique, VanguardIIIAOE, Ventilate, VentilateAOE, Y2KPopMuzikAOE, Y2KPopMuzikOutlineAOE, YoungItchAOE, ZeichensSW, ZenoPotionAOE, Zombie, BeatnikBlueAOE, BeatnikBlueFillAOE, GeishaBoyAOE, MardiPartyAOE, MindCrimeAOE, OcovillaAOE, PolynesianTouristAOE, RuthlessAOE, SaltyDoggieAOE, SpruceAOE, WhiskersAOE-Oblique, WhiskersAOE, WhiskersAltCapsAOE-Oblique, WhiskersAltCapsAOE (2002), Habitual, Automatic (techno), Bitrux, Filth (an eerie brush script), Cake&Sodomy, Gulag, Bad Comp, Detour, Alien Argonaut, Dark Night, GateKeeper (Halloween font), Gargamel Smurf, Invocation, Neuntotter, Geisha Boy, Saratoga Slim, Gobe, Stingwire, Lavatype, Tapehead, Islander, Clunker, Digelectric, Gargamel, Krulo-Tag, Krelesanta, SurferComic, Bound, Culture Vulture, Intruder, Cavalier, Anoxia, Synchrounous (IBM logo style lettering), Luna, Data Error, Lunokhod, Jericho. There are many techno and gothic fonts. Kill Me Craig is the first 26 death scene dingbat font (scenes by Craig Dowsett). KittyPrint takes the LinusFace font concept to more realistic cat head dingbats. Krelesanta (not free) is a funky font inspired by the band Kreamy Electric Santa. The free ButtonButton is useful for making buttons. Lovesick AOE is a scrawly, lovelorn typeface, i's dotted with hearts. Strutter AOE is based on the KISS logo. Senth AOR is a runic font. Charaille is one of the many dot matrix fonts. Cavalero is inspired by the logotype of the Chevy Cavalier.

At Bitstream in 2001, AOE published Cavalero, Stingwire and Tannarin. And in 2002, he published the comic book font Big Limbo, Euro Machina BT and Islander there. Bio at Bitstream.

In 2005, Bonislawsky and Sandler realeased 500 fonts, via Bitstream and MyFonts, under the label Breaking The Norm.

In 2006, Astigmatic published their typewriter collection, which includes Military Document, Bank Statement, State Evidence Small Caps, State Evidence, Urgent telegram, Library Report, Overdrawn Account, Customs Paperwork, Incoming Fax and Office Memorandum.

From the bio and various pieces of information, one is led to believe that Brian was born in Poland, and now lives in Miami, but that may be wrong.

In 2010, he placed a free font at the Google Directory, Syncopate. Along the same lines, we find the derived square serif typeface Stint Ultra Condensed (2011, Google Web Fonts) and Stint Ultra Expanded (2012).

In 2011, several other typefaces followed there, like Ultra (fat didone), Maiden Orange, Special Elite (2010, a free old typewriter face), Just Another Hand, Crushed, Luckiest Guy (comic book face), Aclonica, Redressed, Montezuma (a curly connected upright script), Devonshire (brush script), Fondamento (calligraphic lettering), Yellowatil (connected retro script), Righteous (free at Google Web Fonts: inspired by the all capitals letterforms from the deco posters of Hungarian artist Robert Berény for Modiano), Ribeye and Ribeye Marrow> (cartoon and/or tattoo style lettering---free at Google Web Fonts), Spicy Rice (2011, free festive display typeface at Google Web Fonts).

Contributions in 2012: Marcellus (2012, Trajan, flared roman, at Google Fonts and CTAN), Eagle Lake (a free calligraphic font at Google Web Fonts), Uncial Antiqua, Jim Nightshade (2012, free at Google web fonts), Dynalight (2012, a retro script inspired by a vintage luggage tag for the Southern Pacific 4449 Daylight steam locomotive), Yesteryear (a retro script loosely based on the title screen from the 1942 film The Palm Beach Story), Parisienne (Google Web Fonts: casual connected script based on a 1960s ad for bras), Shojumaru (Google Web Fonts: an oriental simulation typeface inspired by a poster for the Marlon Brando movie Sayonara), Berkshire Swash (Google Web Fonts), Audiowide (Google Web Fonts), Romanesco (Google Web Fonts: a narrow calligraphic style), Galindo (Google Web Fonts), Oregano (Google Web Fonts: based on cartoon style lettering of calligrapher and logo designer Rand Holub. This style of hand lettering adorned many retro brochures and advertisements of the late 40's through the 1960's), Peralta (Google Web Fonts: an Egyptian comic book face), Eagle Lake (Google Web Fonts: calligraphic), McLaren (Google Web Fonts: comic book style alphabet), Freckle Face, Hanalei Fill, Hanalei [Polynesian bamboo or tiki lettering], Purple Purse, Margarine, Risque, Clicker Script [image], Stalemate [a gracious script, by Jim Lyles for AOE], Mouse Memoirs, Quintessential [Google Web Fonts: chancery hand], Bigelow Rules, Englebert [Google Web Fonts: from the title screen of the 1930's film titled Der blue Engel, starring Marlene Dietrich], Sacramento [Google Web Fonts: connected script].

Typefaces from 2013: Freckle Face (grunge), Grand Hotel, Purple Purse (Purple Purse draws its inspiration from a vintage Ivory Soap ad from the 1950's. Somewhat of a cross between Bodoni and Pixie, this font finds that it never truly takes itself seriously).

Stiggy & Sands is the American type foundry of Brian Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles, est. 2013. Their first commercial typefaces, all jointly designed, are Luckiest Guy Pro (a fat comic book font based on vintage 1950s ads) and Marcellus Pro (a flared roman inscriptional typeface with both upper and lower case, originally published in 2012 by Astigmatic).

Typefaces from 2014: Franken Jr AOE Pro (inspired by the title screen from the 1966 Hanna Barbera cartoon Frankenstein Jr), Good Eatin Pro AOE (inspired by the title screen from the 1942 Warner Bros. cartoon Dog Tired), Ghostkid AOE Pro (comic letter style).

Typefaces from 2015: Shanks Antique 5 AOE (after the newspaper typeface Memorial (1865, Stevens, Shanks & Sons)), Reliquaire AOE (a somber blackletter typeface inspired by Memorial (1881, Boston Type Foundry)).

Typefaces from 2016: Mailuna Pro AOE (a gothic sans), Kentish AOE Pro (art deco). Reardon AOE (a digitization of a film typeface called Joyce Black by LetterGraphics), Berkmire AOE (1970s style robot-inspired techno font), Blackheath Pro AOE (this typeface started as a digitization of a film typeface called Roberts Square by LetterGraphics), Delaware Pro AOE (art deco), Rutland AOE (a futuristic font that is a digitization of a film typeface called Maccaro by LetterGraphics). In 2016, Brian J. Bonislawasky and Jim Lyles published the rugged octagonal mega typeface family Tradesman at Grype. In 2017, they added the art deco typeface Cowling Sans AOE (which is based on alphabet from "Lettering for Commercial Purposes" by Wm. Hugh Gordon). In 2018, they published the letterpress emulation typeface Prison Pro, Pink Sangria (50s style movie font), Manic Tambourine, Motenacity (a Martian cartoon font), the old typewriter font Office Memorandum Pro, and the Flintstone font Strongman.

Typefaces from 2021: Klutz AOE Pro (a condensed all caps beatnik font), Data Error AOE Pro (based on early dot matrix printers), Customs Paperwork AOE Pro (based on the NuMode Type No. 61 vintage typewriter), Rinzler AOE Pro (a great stencil font that revives LetterGraphics' Caren), Restraining Order AOE Pro (an old typewriter font), Brazarri AOE Pro (an Aztec emulation font based on MacKeller, Smiths and Jordan's Bizarre from 1884).

View Astigmatic's typeface library. View the typefaces made by Brian Bonislawsky.

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astype.de (or: Astype)
[Andreas Seidel]

Astype.de is a German foundry started in 2003 by illustrator and type designer Andreas Seidel (b. 1975, bad saarow, near Berlin, Germany). He lives in Cottbus, Germany. In 1998, he obtained a Masters degree in business administration. In 2007, he and Ingo Preuss set up The German Type Foundry. In 2017, he joined the initial crew at Fust & friends. The typefaces:

One of his first typefaces was Crayfish (originally a URW font, but withdrawn by Seidel from URW in 2002). Crayfish is a display type originally designed for an American Football club. The Crayfish typefaces are sold as Thunder Bold and Titan Bold.
Check his nice weather symbols (not a font).
He finished Ornaments Thanksgiving and the great ASTYPEOrnaments-WineGrape A (2004).
He is working on 14th century initials (2003).
He created Sattler (2003): Joseph Kaspar Sattler, one of the great German art nouveau artists created these nice initials in 1897 for the famous royal monumental book project Die Nibelunge for the Reichsdruckerei Berlin. Only 200 exclusive signed masterpieces were printed in four years from 1900 till 1904. Joseph Sattler was the art director, type designer and designer in one person. The Reichsdruckerei showed samples of the unfinished work in 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris to advertise the high craftsmanship of the German presses.
He made Heraut (2003), an art nouveau lettering typeface based on a 1901 design of Hermann Hoffmann called Herold Reklameschrift.
He created Sveva AS Versal (2003, art nouveau).
About Missa Solemnis, he writes: Solemnis was designed by Günter Gerhard Lange and first cut in metal 1953 (this is the date he quotes himself, other sources mention 1950 or 1952). It seems to be one of his earliest typeface designs that he had done as a freelancer for H. Berthold AG in Berlin. [...] Missa Solemnis AS is a new, remastered and extended version of Mr Lange's typeface. The font is available in the OpenType format and comes in two styles: 1953 and 2003. The 1953 style contains all characters of the original metal type, as well as a few additions. [...] The 2003 cut is more delicate and makes extensive use of the OpenType format. It contains over 650 glyphs, covering Roman-based languages of Western and Central Europe. His Solemnis inspired Simeon AS (2003), a 650-glyph uncial style face.
In 2004, he created Missale Incana, an interpretation of a typeface from Herbert Thannhaueser.
Still in 2004, he created ASTYPE Ornaments Christmas A2 and ASTYPE Ornaments Christmas A. These were followed in 2005 by ASTYPE Ornaments Christmas B.
He made Missale Lunea (2004). This has astroligical symbols, moon phases and medieval characters.
In 2005, the exquisite calligraphic script typeface Gracia was added, consisting of Gracia No. 44, 45, 54 and 55 (graceful calligraphic script), and Gracia Solo.
Paola is a redesigned, new interpretation of a brush typeface from Carl Rudolf Pohl.
He made Adana (2005): The roots of Adana going back to the year 1930, to the Berlin-based German graphic designer Wilhelm Berg. His typeface can be interpreted as an answer to Lucian Bernhards Schönschrift. The Initials are nearly close to the original drawings but the Circular typeface was changed dramaticly. Excentric, unusual forms and loops were changed to fit todays needs. Due to the lack of a corresponding Roman letter form, the Regular version was designed including small caps, fitting the contrast and swinging shapes of Adana Circular. Both typefaces play well together in all kinds of adverts, as well with designs like Bodoni or Didot.
Alea AS Initials (2005) is a floral faced based on the drawings of Maria Ballé.
Taiko (2006). A revival of Otto Arpke's Arpke Antiqua (1928, copperplate).
ASTYPE Ornaments Accolades A (2007), and ASTYPE Ornaments Accolades C (2011).
GTF Toshna Std (2008, German Type Foundry) is a garaldic type family in three optical weights, after a 1955 family called Tschörtner-Antiqua by Hellmuth Tschörtner that was very popular in the DDR.
Secca (2009, German Type Foundry) is a simple sans family rooted in early German grotesque type designs. See also Secca Soft (2014) and Secca Stencil (2015).
Nepos (2010) is an experimental modular type kit consisting of ready-made typefaces and a set of special BUILD fonts to build your own letters and ornaments. These BUILD fonts can be used on layers with different colors and overprinting for special effects. The effects like Antiplex can be considered as kitchen tiles. There are also color inversions and stencil types.
Secca Saloon (2011) is a versatile ornamental Western family.
Popsil (2011) is a white-on-black hand-printed poster face.
Ademo (2011) is a classic shaded layered 3d caps face, based on two typefaces designed by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt that were published in 1931-1932 by Schriftguss AG.
Wood Bonnet Antique No.7 (2012) is based on real vintage wood type blocks from Switzerland.
VTG Stencil US No. 4 (2012) is based on plate US No. 4 from New York Stencil Works. This revolving stencil-plate was invented by Eugene L. Tarbox and patented in 1868. The military stencil fonts VTG Stencil US No. 2 (+Ornaments), VTG Stencil US No. 51, VTG Stencil UK No. 76, VTG Stencil Germany No. 101 (2014, modeled after historic blackletter stencil plates from Bavaria), and VTG Stencil US No. 72 followed in 2014. In 2016, he added Vtg Stencil DIN.
VTG Stencil Germany No. 1 (2013) is a set of nicely executed didone stencil typefaces based on real models used in Germany from 1871-1918 and later. There is a Sketch style.
Wood Poster Eight (2015) is a free wood type slab serif.
Alea Initials (2017, floriated caps).
Wood Bonnet Grotesque No 4 (2017).
The Vtg Stencil France series (2017) in substyles Vtg Stencil France No1, Vtg Stencil France No3 and No. 5.
The expressionist typeface Alarm (2017, Fust & Friends), which is based on an old design of Heinz König also called Alarm (1928, at Trennert).
Presto (2017, Fust & Friends), a revival of a script by Helmut Matheis (1970).
Vtg Stencil Italy No2 (2018).
Rocaie (2018). Decorative caps base on antique rococo letters from a gilding workshop.
Wood Heinz No.4 (2019). Wood Heinz No.4 offers up to four printed look variations of all the Latin base letters and figures. An OpenType letter rotator is programmed into the fonts to emulate the randomness of wood type printing. Also: Wood Heinz No.2 (2019).
Missale Solis (2019). An uncial typeface that overhauls Missale Lunea (2004).
Vtg Stencil UK No2 (2019).
Vtg Stencil Marsh (2020). Based on one inch stencils, cut by a Marsh machine. Marsh was an American stencil machine maker in the 1920s.
Bonnet Grotesque Narrow (2020). A condensed grotesque family.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Fust & Friends link. Klingspor link. Home page. See also here.

View Andreas Seidel's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Atasi Studio (or: Atasi Type)
[Rizka Prayuda]

Medan, Indonesia-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Winter Girl (2018), Clawblood (2018), Beauty Pearl (2018), Yellow Honey (2018) and Lonic (2018), and the modular typeface Musk Night (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Cumisans, Kaperta, Cosans (font duo), Hasiant, Elliana, Brushill, Shakila Yasmin, Rockbrush, Kazasttan (calligraphic), Zafira (script). Behance link for Atasi Type.

Typefaces from 2020: Ceuphoria (a magic mushroom font), Gensino (a soft serif), Genorict (display serif), Hot Cream, Gillphong, Black Milk, Mack Wilson, Kancaqu, The Meshroom (groovy, handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2021: Heylova Script, Adyta (an elegant display typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Atatamita
[Qaila Sa]

Qaila Sa is also known as Atatamita. Indonesian designer of these connected calligraphic typefaces in 2017: Bulgaria, Botak, Erlitha, Sulanga, Nazla, The Lover, Masyitah, Sintiya, Hebalita Script, Sistelow. Still in 2017, he also designed the script typefaces Camelia, The Rockstar, Seulanga, Selayar, Modena, Atlantic Script, Dilema Script, Khunza, Verza and Lilly Mae, the marker pen fonts Love Me and House Story, the copperplate titling typeface Alequa, the dashed line font Avisto, the display sans typeface Rosinate, the brush fonts Love Me and Qoidar, the techno typeface Apelio, and the speed-themed font Speedes. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Atelier Laia
[Santos Bregaña]

Spanish type foundry, est. 2013. One of its founders, Santos Bregaña, writes: Of Croatian origin, Santos Bregaña is born by chance in the city of Pamplona in 1965 on the very day that Le Corbusier drowns in Cap Martin. After studying architecture in San Sebastian and Barcelona he launches the Laia Atelier in 1996 where he focuses on interior design, and on graphic and industrial design projects associated with the culinary culture and business. In 2008 he receives, along with co-creator Anne Ibañez Guridi, the Art Director's Club of New York Sphere Award for their body of work for the restaurant Mugaritz. He leads Tabula, a publishing house dedicated to the spread of culture and gastronomy, and is a speaker on public forums and seminars related to high cuisine. His porcelain designs and his O! Luna, Tabula, and Linneo collections have received international praise and are in many of the best restaurants and hotels in the world.

In 2013 Atelier Iaia published the calligraphic Iturzaeta-inspired typeface Lamia, a joint effort of Santos Bregaña, Julen Cano Linazasor and Maore Sagarzazu: The Lamia font is inspired by the work of the most famous calligrapher of the Basque Country, Jose Francisco de Iturzaeta Eizaguirre (Getaria, 1788-Madrid, 1853). His writing method was compulsory in Spanish schools since 1835. His "unpolished Spanish font" tried to be more effective than the more commercial English version by avoiding embellishments and excessive rear tearing. More akin with the liberal values imported by the French, his offerings sought uniformity, speed and efficiency to ensure that those in the less-favored echelons of society had an effective communication tool. From his "General collection of characters of European Letters" published in Madrid in 1833, we have chosen the "lower case pancilla reformed" represented in one of the prints. We have tried to reinterpret it by keeping its essence but also ensuring that it is viable for potential contemporary uses which, thanks to its good readability and effectiveness in longer texts, basically means as a decorative or display font. The upper case was generated using the lower case as a reference.

Waskonia (2013, Santos Bregaña) is inspired by Basq gravestones from the 8th century.

Earlier work of Santos Bregaña includes the Kai (Basque) typeface family (199701999, with Mikel Enparantza) at Garagefonts.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Atharuah Studios
[Andre Bima Falah Rabbani]

Indonesian designer who founded Atharuah Studios in 2017. His typefaces from 2021: Gastonica (a wild script), Historya (a fat finger font), Rustic Darling (a wild script), Rimrocks (a wild script), Balmonte (script), Rockingham (a bold script), Glory Mathilda (a dry brush font), Belladonna (script), Brittania (a formal calligraphic script), Delmon Delicate (a Peignotian sans), Rough Motion (a headline sans), Greatest Fortune (a script), Wished Lovely (a srapbook family consisting of Regular, Script and Doodles).

Typefaces from 2022: Naturaliya (a thin script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Atlanta Friends of the Alphabet

The Atlanta Friends of the Alphabet is a collection of calligraphers, typographers and people who love the alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ato Yigezu Bisrat

Born and died in Addis Ababa, 1926-1979. Educator (at Addis Ababa University), author, and calligrapher, who was frequently called upon by Emperor Haile Selassie for calligraphy and lettering. His Gothic Goffer (blackletter-style) characters were extended into a font by Abbas Alamnehe (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿

Atom (or: Letteratom)
[Eko Kurniawan]

Semarang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of the dry brush script Loutters (2019), the wild calligraphic script Aromi (2019), the rough brush fonts Darkside (2019) and Conundrum (2019), the monoline marker font Ramphox (2019), the lively upright script typeface Alberth (2019), the font duo Godhand Athens (2019), the fat brush script Never Settle (2019), the regular brush script Southern (2019), the monoline script typefaces Sweet Youth (2019) and Ink Line (2019), the script typefaces Ottmar (2019), Grades (2019) and Scriptys (2019), the handcrafted Crazer (2019), and the free script typefaces Exotico (2019) and Machis (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Make No Sense, Fineture, Melancoline (all caps, brush), Awesome Quote (a marker or fat finger font), Lets Go Green, Larosa (a wild calligraphic script), Saint Onki (script), Gros (a fat dry brush type).

Typefaces from 2021: Lineart, Pelana (script), Ink Line (a monoline script), Mella (an inky script), Ramphox (a marker pen font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Attract Studio
[Muammar Kadafi]

I thought that he had died in 2011, but no, there is an actual Muammar Kadafi in Aceh, Indonesia (b. 1995) who designs type. He has no relationship with the respected Libyan role model, Muammar Gaddafi.

Designer of the script typefaces Ayrton Pight (2020) and Bella Riosa (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Bagoni Type (a clean and visually elegant font inspired by the serif typography used in editorial media in the 80s), Justina Duo (calligraphic), Gradia (a 6-style display serif), Ronsley Font Duo, Kimberlie Display (a display serif), Best Girl (a scrapbook font), Kastela (a semi-formal script), Bastrid Script, Lady July (script), London History (font duo), July Girl (script), Babyface (a script), Justine Garden (a scrapbook script), Abiyah Script (an upright script), Angel Paradise (script), Matcha Latte (a curvaceous upright script), Candylove (a scrapbook script), Hontana (a bold script), Stay Line (a monoline script), Lovely Nathalie Script Duo, Gladista Script (an almost upright script), Hello Cartel Story Script Duo, Bromley Hatch, Brittensy, Dourcha, Oraghon Script, Sandria Script (calligraphic), Baby Dualistic.

Typefaces from 2022: Sarlotte (a swashy teardrop serif), Dealoras Font Duo (a delicate display serif), Holen Vintage (a soft retro display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Attype Studio
[Fadli Ramadhan Iskandar]

Bogor, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1996, of the script typefaces Sign of Love (2018), Guyona (2018), William (2018), Merry Sugar (2018: monolined), Winter Spirit (2018), Yumina (2018), Signattured (2018), Holy Mollyn (2018, monoline), Merry Sugar Snow (2018), Anchorage (2018), Ahora (2018), Oska (2018), Gevano (2018), Thankful Sunday (2018), Warm Snow (2018), Roody Last (2018, dry brush), Spala Mars (2018: rounded sans), Moon Knight (2018: rounded sans), Thanksgiving Cooker (2018), Allira (2018), Athenia (2018), Funny Duck (2018), Beauty One (2018: monoline script), Christ Type (2018, Sans and Script), Monoline Script (2018), Monoline Brush Font (2018), Delfoo (2018), Reed Hop (2018), Ourlastt (2018), Mudica (2018) and the vintage typeface Bromoto (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Anttalla (a calligraphic script), Rotove, Rogue One (monoline script), Southea (a monoline script), Halloweb (a Halloween font), Kiddo Sketch, Retro One (monoline), Rose Malow, Bunny Hopper (+Ear), Eggy Bunny (+Ear), Happy Clover (+Display, +Leaf Display), Luvky Green, Lovely Jeanne (font duo), Sansitype Script, Handa (all caps sans), Nosa, Wonder Scribble, Sattori.

Typefaces from 2020: Bella Notes, Aberana (a fat finger font), Aroha, Athenia, Beagle Sign, Beauty One, Betti, Bone Master, Bromoto, Browny Joy, BunnyEars, Ceylonia, Cookies Party, Delfoo, Devil Tail, Fine Spring, Good boy, Halloweb, Handa, Happy Clover, Harry Sunday, Hello Spider, Hollow Mummy, Kiddo Sketch, Le Genoss, Lemon Press, Love String, Lovely Jeanne, Lucky Green, Maple Memories, Merry Sugar, Nona Diana, Oska, Ourlastt, Patchi Patchi, Pineapple Party, Pinky Cupid, Polar Press, Pumpkin Face, Pumpkin Web, Qartiant, Reed Hop, Ring Bells, Rogue One, Rose Malow, Rotove, Sansi, Siestha, Smelly Blood, Southea, Spooky Hill, Summer Splash, Summer Square, Sweet Maple, Sweet Night, Thankful Sunday, Winter Bells (alphadings), Winter Spirit, Yumina, Tabby, Little Love, Yilactha, Anaira, Frostine Snow (a plump hand-printed typeface), Moliantha, Fugel, Qinzy (a vintage layered font), Ginger Biscuit (a layerable font), Wellbotth, Tyloos Signature (a monoline script), Baby Snowman (a scrapbook font), Riana Star, Hallo White, Qartiant (a sans adorned with ball terminals), Shiny Unicorn, Beagle Sign, Anattis, Browny Joy, Harry Sunday (a refreshing sword-edged script), LE Genoss (all caps, dry brush), Devil Tail, Hollow Mummy (with a mummy-themed texture), Maple Memories, Smelly Blood (a Halloween font), Spooky Hill, Pumpkin Web (a Halloween font), Cookies Party, Ceylonia, Bone Master, Sun Pride, Lemon Press, Siestha, Yellow Party, Summer Splash, Summer Square, Fine Spring, Patchi Patchi, Good Boy, Love String, Southea, Pinky Cupid, Nona Diana, Polar Press, Betti.

Typefaces from 2021: White Malla (a fat finger font), Yalindha (an elementary script), Tallove (script), Halaman (a scrapbook font), Mithin (a monoline script), Winter Dairy (a starry layerable display font), Anigira (a starry hand-crafted font), Cutey Patchy, Sense Egg (with scrambled egg outlines), Cutey Patchy, Sense Egg (with scrambled egg outlines), Alunta (a layerable comic book font), Bloody Ichor (a horror script), Agfolan (a fat finger font), Monatha (script), Midnight Union (a dripping blood font), Yasminda (script), Balsoon (a dry brush script), Sulatty (a display sans), Orange Leafy (a fat finger font), Battina (a retro signage script), Calli Cat (a fat finger font), Dussa (a great handcrafted inline display typeface), Niathory (script), Hot Ruby (handdrawn), Wild Grook (script), Blathe (script), Qicka (script), Powlina Theater (script), Wave Path (wavy, almost intestinal, letters), Geshana (a script), Olivia Bloom (a fat finger font), Sweetie Summer (a scrapbook font), Pana Summer, Rhiledia (script), Intima Politha (a scrapbook script), Raffadyn (script), Black Thone (an informal typeface with interlocking letters), Diolitha (a monolinear script), Denala (script), Niagato (a Japanese-style brush script), Hiany Lau (a Chinese brush font), Heland (script), Luna Love (a marker pen font), Amalitha (a brush script), Unicorn Fold (a scrapbook font), Crafty Saturday (a scrapbook script), Hearty Chintya, Pinky Style (a scrapbook font), Viyona (a brush script), Pinky Sunday (a Valentine's Day script), Pinky Sunday (a Valentine's Day script), Gontela, Purple Rosallia, Tuesday Jingle (hand-drawn), Diana Crush.

Typefaces from 2022: Ashito Japanese, Birani (a children's brush font). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Atypic Co (was: Argo Typo)
[Jonathan Cuervo Cisneros]

Jonathan Cuervo (Atypic Co, Mexico City, and before that, Argo Typo) designed these typefaces:

The blackletter display typeface Febrile (2014), which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.
Corvus (2010-2012). A gorgeous blackletter roman hybrid in Antiqua, Kursiv, Fraktur and Initialen styles, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010.
Mayahuel (2013). A curvy display typeface influenced by Gabriel Martinez Meave's style.
Cygnus (2012). A blackletter-inspired script.
Eskema (2014). A calligraphic outline font that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
Acanto (2016) won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016 and at TDC 2016.

August Calligraphy

Designer of the calligraphic typefaces Valentine (2019), Hello (2019), Boulevard (2019), Welcome (2019) and August (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Aulia Al Farabi
[Incools Design Studio (or: Aol Scrachtzo)]

Aurélie Lenglet

Parisian graphic designer who created the calligraphic typeface Joe in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿

Aurora Type Co
[Andrey Sharonov]

Donetsk and Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the bubblegum / cartoon font Balloon (2015), the brush typefaces Adelina Script (2015) and Supertramp (2015), and the free signage typeface Candy (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Americus (a weathered sign painting emulation font), Legend (Script, Serif, Sans Serif), Makers (brush), Heartland.

Typefaces from 2017: Bourbon House, Aurora Script (formal calligraphic script), Bjola (an informal children;s book font full of joie de vivre).

Typefaces from 2018: Gastro Kultura (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2019: Amoresa (a vintage calligraphic script), Special Place Script, Palmer Script, Palmer Sans, Bonita Melodia.

Typefaces from 2020: Migura Sans (an 8-style fashion mag sans), Delirian (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2021: Reika (a soft signage script), AS Palmer (a retro script), Acris (a stylish typeface with Cruella-style long fingernails).

Typefaces from 2022: Brokson (a vintage set of fonts that includes signage scripts and serif fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Authentic
[Julius Wiescher]

German foundry, est. 2009 by Julius Wiescher (b. 1991), who is the youngest son of famous type designer Gert Wiescher. His font Thin Pen (2009) is based on an ancestor of the German DIN-Schrift. The font was traced with a plastic template on transparent paper, scanned and worked over carefully to keep the handmade, authentic touch. Other fonts by him: DonJulio and Donna Julia (2008, Autographis, calligraphic script fonts made with Gert), Flatpen (2008, Autographis, with Gert), Norm Pen (2011, based on an ancestor of DIN Schrift), Bold Pen (2011, bold version of Norm Pen), Groucho (2011, a high-contrast flowing script), Authentic (2011, a connected copperplate script), Oldhand (2011, shaky handwriting), Holz Caps (2011, an irregular wood type simulation face), Poing (2011, a flowing calligraphic script), Cri Cri (2011, slab serif comic book face).

Creative Market link. Creative Market link for Bourbon Lettering. Creative Market link for Beck McCormick. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Autographis
[Gert Wiescher]

München-based foundry, est. 2008 by Gert Wiescher, whose main font foundry is Wiescher Design. Myfonts link. Specializing in handwritten scripts and rough fonts, they created Obsession A through F (2012, a penmanship typeface family), Pigalle Swing (2012), Amaro (2011, a signage script family; + Amaro Block, +Amaro Fleurie), Obsession (2011, a calligraphic family), Astara (2010), Golden Love (2010), Homer (2010, a comic character script), Moon Love (2010), Perfecto (2010), Nikita (2009, upright connected script), English Lazy Bird (2009), Script Hand (2009), Angel Eyes (2009), Cheap Thrill (2009), Viva Maria (2009), True Love (2009), WildThing (2009), Doria (2009), Verena (2009), Astria (2009), Chloe (2009), Bea (2009, brush), Xan (2009, rough Japanese-style script), Fat Sally (2009, comic book face), Wally (2009, calligraphic), Ysadora (2009, calligraphic), Zoe (2009, calligraphic), Joyosa (2009), Ulissia (2009, hand-drawn slab serif), Querida (2009), Riana (2008), Quiana (2008), Quirina (2008, calligraphic), Naomi (2009, calligraphic; based on his Nana), Don Julio (2008, calligraphic), Donna Julia (2008, calligraphic), Novita (2008, calligraphic), Novido (2008), Flatpen (2008, a rounded sans face), Kato (2008), Leona (2008, brush script), Tina (2008, fat brush), Maeva (2008, calligraphic script), Oona (2008, like Maeva), the brush script Paula (2008), the upright cursive typefaces Grazia (2008) and Greta (2008), the brush script Juliana (2008), the comic book style typefaces Carina (2008), Isara (2008), Kiki (2008), and Fanny (2008), and the calligraphic script typefaces Dalia (2008), Elisara (2008), Simona (2008), Helenia (2008), Annabella (2008), Brigitta (2008) and Constanza (2008). Gert writes about himself: I went to Paris when I was very young, just for the sake of art. That caused many a sleepless night to my beloved mother, but she accepted my decision. Once I met Salvador Dalí, but he did not take me very seriously. To this day I dont know why! After some years I decided to start a serious life. I got married and studied graphic design at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Making detours, once more to Paris, then to Barcelona, where I designed the OECD pavillion for the Osaka World Expo at the office of Harnden&Bombelli, I reached South Africa. Grey and Young advertising got to know me! I had to fiddle around with Agfa cameras and films, Epol dog-food, several kinds of toilet paper, unbelievable insurance companies and I-dont-know-what. Sometime on a holiday in Munich I stayed there. Someone made me an offer I did not want to refuse. DFS&R-Dorland bought me out of South African slavery! I now became an art-director for Paulaner, CMA, Phillip Morris, and Peugeot. Being a young adventurous man, I changed to the Herrwerth&Partner agency, which at that time was supposed to be the most creative outfit in town. Mister Herrwerth taught me to think simple. I was allowed to introduce IKEA into the German market. Afterwards I became Creative Partner with Lauenstein&Partner. That was OK, til someone discovered his love for horses! Thats when I rented my own office in 1982! Since then I design some typefaces per year, I guide a couple of nice young people (apprentices) along to designer stardom. I write a couple of books and newspaper articles about design, computers, food, drink and crime! As a graphic designer I have nothing but happy clients! I am open to every challenge! [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Autumn Lane Paperie
[Beck McCormick]

Or Rebecca McCormick. Californian designer of some handcrafted typefaces.

Typefaces from 2022: Tiramisu Sans (a scrapbook font), Delvey Modern Serif Font (a boudoir font).

Typefaces from 2020: Duchess Script, Moxie, Sanibel, Bitte, Brioche.

Typefaces from 2019: Angeleno Brush Script, Tropical Trail Script, Waterssong Brush Script, Key Larrgo (brush script), Homebrewer, Wild Children, River Road, Dear Journal, Catalunya Script, Sassfras, Azusa sans, Fall Ember (wild calligraphy), Blossomberry, Souls Wuld (font duo), Inverness, Beach Say Script, Bolabos Script, Wyldling Script, Unbridled Script, Delish, Reynolds Square, Jamjar Script, Globetrotter (signature script), Mardi Gras, La Boheme Script, The Glen Brush (a Treefrog script), Boogie Down, Fete Casual Script, Resfeber Script, Salt and Sea, Barcelona Nights, Farmhouse Country, Friday Vibes Script, Katiekate Font Duo, Ethanol Sans, Kirsteny Sans, Lilykins Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: You Are Capable of Amaz, Sweet Tea Always, Welcome to our Home, Gypsy Soul, Salt and Sea, Be a Pineapple, May Your Coffee Be Strong, Adventure Awaits, Seas The Day, Ocean Child, Beach Daze, Sunday Funday, Barcelona Nights, Save Water Drink Wine, Sasshole, Keep Calm and Craft On, Flipflops and Tanlines, Salty Hair Don't Care, Cardio is Hardio, On wednesdays We Drink, All You Need Is Love And tacos, Sunshine and Tanlines, Beach Hair Don't Care, Farmhouse Country, As For Me and My House, I Run on Vitamin Sea, Cruise Hair Don't Care, Sunrise Sunburn Sunset, Flipflop Tribe Handlett, She's Whieskey in a Teacup, The Snark is Strong with this one, Friday Vibes, The Sass is Strong With This One, Shady Beach SVG, Resting Beach Face Hand, Remember Who You are, Home is Where the Heart is, Fresh from the farm SVG, Motivated Handlettered, Bride, I Need a Hug, Ethanol Sans, The hangover is Strong, Slay, Good Vibes Only, Momboss, Wildflowers, Pinot, Ink-Credible, Mother of Girls, You Had Me At Merlot, Love Herat, Whiskey Makes Me Frisky, Team Mom, Need More Tattoos, Maybe Swearing, Y'All, This Girl, Queen of Caffeine, Island Girl, Watch Me Sip Chardonnay, Sugar Spice Cocktail, Namastay, Sassy Handlettered SVG, Made with Love, That Wife Life, Socially Awkward, Katiekate Inline, Auttie, Ampersand Mania, Sugar Love, Party dress, Dream, Springbreak, Whiskey Girl Script, Irton Inline+Solid, Patisserie Script.

Earlier typefaces: Warmth (2017), The Island Sans (2018), Parkchester Script (2017), Backyard Garden (2017), Just Daring Hearts (2017), Lush sans (2017), Conquistador Serif (2017), Oh Savannah (2017: signature font), Plumeria Brush Script (2017), Orange Grove (2017), Cherokee Rose (2017: calligraphic script), Sweet Jasmine (2017: calligraphic), Florida Girl (2017), Florida Girl Sans (2017), Magnolia Plantation (2017), Breakwater (2017), Miami Vibes (2017), Coquina Clam (2017), Sugar Dumplin Sans (2017), Sea Breeze (2017), Chicken & Waffles (2017), Da Beach (2017), She Sells Seashells (2017), Bless Your Heart (2017), Buttermilk Biscuit Sans (2017), Lovely Nirvana (2017), Just Darling (2017), Croissant (2017), Summer Market (2017), Rose Bud (2017), Spring Market (2017), Amazeballz Brush (2015), Auttie Girl Hand (2015), Stabby Penguin (2015, dry brush script), Giraffy (2015), Smirk (2014), AJ Normal (2014, children's hand emulation) and Beck Callig (2014).

AV Type

Sukabumi, Indonesia-based designer of these script typefaces in 2019: Alisa, Fall in Love, Bestia, Caligar, Credible, Sajad, Basket Culture, The Barber, Australia.

Typefaces from 2020: Mianty (calligraphic script), Casking Cream, Buttey Honey (script), Dark Light, Bellany, Chiesty.

Typefaces from 2021: Rasida, Rebeca, Pasile, Jakarta Signature, Green Hostel, Metta Dahlia, Baleno Handi, Pinky Budy, Elegant, Lemon Spark, Lovely, Super Boom (a cartoon font), Kitchen Home, Dessert Sugar. Bifonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ava Liu

Graduate of the School of Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. East Billerica, MA-based designer of the calligraphically-inspired Plumeria (2015) and Plumeria Sans (2015). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Avalon Design

Studio in London. In 2016, they designed these typefaces: Opal, Emery Sans, Nova Display, Chopsticks (asian look), Holiday, Game Over (squarish), Pumpkin (Halloween font), Neons Display, Styllo (art deco, fashionable), Lans Sans Serif, Greenvine, Unfinished, Indigo Handcrafted (calligraphic blackletter), Audovera (techno; organic sans).

Typefaces from 2017: Roadtrip, Samara, Glowe, Easy, Corona, Fibo Serif, Pablo (handcrafted), California, Jules Sans Serif, Pisano, HappyB. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Awami Nastaliq
[Peter Martin]

In 2017, SIL International released version 1.000 and in 2019 version 2.000 of the free Awami Nastaliq font. They write: Awami is an Urdu word meaning "of the people". It is an Arabic script font specifically intended for a wide variety of languages using the Nastaliq style of southwest Asia. This font is specifically aimed at minority language support. Lesser-known languages often require more vowel diacritics than Urdu. They may use a different set of base characters and diacritics, and the base characters often include more nuqtas to represent sounds that are not present in Urdu or standard Arabic. This font includes all the vowel diacritics and base characters (that we are aware of) required for languages using the Nastaliq style of Arabic script. This makes it unique among Nastaliq fonts. Nastaliq is considered one of the most beautiful scripts on the planet. Nastaliq has been called "the bride of calligraphy" but its complexity also makes it one of the most difficult scripts to render using a computer font. Its right-to-left direction, vertical nature, and context-specific shaping provide a challenge to any font rendering engine and make it much more difficult to render than the flat (Naskh) Arabic script that it is based on. As a result, font developers have long struggled to produce a font with the correct shaping but at the same time avoid overlapping of dots and diacritics. In order to account for the seemingly infinite variations, SIL's Graphite rendering engine was extended just to handle these complexities properly. Awami Nastaliq uses the Graphite rendering technology. This is the only freely-available font to provide an authentic Nastaliq style with kerned calligraphic segments. Because of the complexities in supporting lesser known languages, we have not implemented OpenType support in Awami Nastaliq.

Awami Nastaliq was designed at SIL by Peter Martin. Github link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Axel André

French calligrapher who designed some (mostly hand-drawn) typefaces in 2011-2014. These include Utah (2011), Les Caves Populaires, [Google] [More] ⦿

Aya Phoen

Aka Utopiabrand19. Indonesian designer at Axara Type of Elliza Script (2019), Collyna (2019: a calligraphic font, shown elsewhere as Coollyna), Romario (2019), Djulia (2019), Alaysa (2019), Lapendos Stripes (2019), London Handlettering (2019: monolinear and elegant) and Mottingham Elegant Calligraphy (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ayi Teiry

Indonesian designer of the brush script typeface Bandet (2017, Eyetype) and the all caps sans typeface Befoil (2019, Eyetype). In 2020, he released the signature script Welliams, Kentrell Scripts and Elegantly Modest.

In 2021, he released the wild calligraphic typeface Jamaika.

Typefaces from 2022: Armando (a great inky script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Azelea Rodgers
[aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)]

Azra Qaireen
[AQR Typeface]

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

Azzam Studio
[Muhammad Fajri]

Indonesia-based designer of calligraphic and script typefaces. In 2022, his catalog showed Adeline, Alisha Nahwa, Brungkhoi, Diliya, Ealina, Hidayah, Jamally, Marline, Ronalld Font Duo, Washington, and Wonderful. [Google] [More] ⦿

BA Graphics
[Robert Alonso]

Bob Alonso (b. Bronx, NY, 1946, d.2007), the founder of BA Graphics in 1994, was a prolific American type designer. With 33 years of experience at NewYork's Photo Lettering, he specialized in calligraphic script typefaces, but not exclusively so. BA Graphics was located in Chester, NY, and later in Toms River, NJ, and now sells its fonts through MyFonts. Many of its fonts published after Alonso's death in 2007 were completed by John Bomparte.

John Bomparte wrote this obituary: Throughout his career at the legendary Photo-Lettering, Inc. (one that spanned four decades), Bob created original typefaces and tailored type by modifying, revising and filling out families, fashioning pieces of type for hand-lettered jobs, as well as being involved with the updating of a number of well-known logotypes. Bob was blessed with natural teaching abilities; and those in social and professional circles who had the good fortune to know him considered him not just a type designer but a mentor and a friend. As one such person close to him put it, he was a graphic technician [...] back when computers were not even in site for graphic arts, he would take on any intricate&complex graphic project that others would shy away from and come up with a solution that achieved a masterpiece. I'll always remember someone saying "this can't be done" and Bob saying let me see it and a short time later, there it was---done&perfect. I would like to think that attitude rubbed off on me. Along with this gift for teaching and explaining the complex, Bob exhibited a level of professionalism that was unsurpassed. A number of years ago when the need came to make the transition from the traditional to digital way of creating fonts, he rose to the challenge admirably. Towards the last few years of Photo-Lettering, Bob played a vital role in the conversion to digital, of many of the typefaces within the collection, notably those fonts that carry the prefix PL. More recently, Bob Alonso released several fonts through ITC, Adobe and his independent foundry, BA Graphics. Bob was on the cutting edge of his best work, and in the circumstance of his untimely passing, left a measure of unfinished designs. However, the spirit of his typographic talents and his fine sense of humor lives on through the many much-loved, and popular fonts he has left us: fonts such as Cookie Dough, Equate, Elephant Bells and Pink Mouse, to name a few.

Alonso created these typefaces:

Alex (1996). A child's hand script.
Alexandra Script (1996). A beautiful formal wedding / calligraphic script.
Allure.
Alons Antique.
Alons Classic.
Alonso Flair (2008). A flared pants typeface fnished after his death by john Bomparte.
Angular.
Animated Gothic.
Bad Boy.
Barnboard.
Beaches and Cream (1996). A sans turned into a connected scrip).
Bedrock.
Black Rising (2006). A black military style face.
Blog (2007). A 1890's style display egyptian).
Bodoni Roma (1993).
Brawn.
CEO Roman (2007).
Cabernet Sauvignon (2007). Atake on Didot---I can't believe BA Graphics trademarked this name!
Cafe Aroma. A formal script.
Calafragalistic (1992).
California Sans.
Caslon Manuscript (1992).
Cedar Key.
Champ Ultra (1995). A Western billboard font.
Chardonnay.
Chicken Feet (2007).
Chicken Soup (1993).
Chunky Monkey.
Clearmont.
Coffee Black.
Cookie Dough.
Crackers.
Crescent.
Damage Control (1993). Grunge.
Deco Inline.
Deep Rising (2006). Constructivist.
Dime Store.
Down Under.
Elegante.
Elephant Bells.
Ellington Manor.
Equate (1993).
Extreme (1996). A chalk writing font.
Fashion Didot (1994).
Felicity Script.
Flix.
Fools Gold. An inline typeface.
Footloose (2015). A dynamic script typeface that was unfinished when Alonso died. John Bomparte finished it.
Fraggle.
Freaky Friday Extreme.
French Vanilla.
Galactic.
Geo (2000).
Grandeur.
Granny Smith.
Gusto Black (2003).
Happy Trails.
Hatari.
Headline Gothic.
Hey Dude (2016). Hand-crafted.
High Intensity.
ITC Aftershock (1996). A linocut font.
ITC Outback (1997).
ITC Serengetti (1996).
ITC Ziggy (1997).
Island Sans.
Italian Didot.
Jr High (1994). Sports lettering.
Ka Boink.
Ker Pow.
Key West.
Klingon.
Kresson Black.
Linear Gothic.
Lorraine Script (2000). Originally named Gonzales Jeanette and designed by Francisco Gonzales for Photo-Lettering in the early 70s. Jeanette was based on Brandywine. Similar fonts are Italian Script (Bitstream), Gaston, Candice, Julia Script and Benguiat Charisma.
Malibu Heights.
Manchester.
Mango Gothic (1991).
Mardi Gras.
Mega (1993). A fat mini-spurred didone.
Metro Gothic.
Milano (2004). A didone typeface.
Mission Hills.
National Gothic.
Nightmare.
Nine One One BA (2007). Grunge.
Oh Sweet Pea.
PC Gothic (2005).
Paladium Gothic (2007). A sans typeface.
Pecos.
Pimento (1998).
Pink Mouse (1992). Psychedelic.
Queen Of Hearts (1991). a script typeface.
Radiance Brush (1997). A casual brush script.
Rancho Grande (1995).
Range Gothic.
Ravenwood.
Red Dawg.
Relaxed Fit.
Richmond Hill.
Road Gothic (1996).
Robertson.
Rust Bucket (1994).
S+L Gothic.
Sahara Bodoni (1996). One of his most popular typefaces.
Senegal.
Serendipity (2006).
Shadow Gothic.
Shangrala.
Shazam.
Shooby (1992).
Shore Bodoni.
Sign Gothic Bold Condensed.
Slam Dunk.
Sleepy Hollow.
Sleezy.
Snaggle.
Snip Tuck (1994). A headline typeface.
South Beach.
Spice.
Squat (2011). A stunted black wood style face.
Steel Magnolias (1995). Blackletter.
Steeplechase (1992). A Wild West saloon font..
Sugar Shack (1995). A curly script.
Summer Nights (1993).
Swank Gothic.
Tequila (1992). A bouncy play on Didot.
Thats Amore.
Title Gothic Light.
Torino Modern.
Triple Condensed Gothic.
Triumph Gothic.
Vinchenso Regular (2003).
Wackado.
Waimea (1992). A poster font..
Wall Street Gothic.
Wonka (1996). Named after Willy Wonka..
Yakety Yak (1994).
Zany.
Zipty Do.

View Bob Alonso's typefaces. View the BA Graphics typeface collection. An alphabetic listing of Alonso's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bálint Koczman
[Magique Fonts (was: Cpr. Sparhelt)]

Baldericus van den Horick

Bal Studio (or: Balstudio)
[Iqbal Amsar Hidayat]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of the calligraphic typefaces Ladies Style (2018), Maybeline Script (2018), Authenia Script (2018), Cottina Script (2018), Beach Girl (2018), Aurelia (2018), Mustika (2018). Typefaces from 2019: Angelonia (script), Love Bird (slightly wild calligraphy), Weisshorn Brush (a dry brush script), Sugardent Script (formal calligraphy), The Red Devil Script, Vallentino.

Typefaces from 2020: Nahira Script, Brenday, Vallentino (a signature script), Lovers Brush (a dry brush script), One Heart, Hill Stone (a dry brush script), Ballingtone, Start Brush.

Typefaces from 2021: Beach Girl Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Author of the calligraphic master scribe book entitled Schreibmeisterbuch für Herzog Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1600s). See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Balevgraph Studio
[Iqbal Paj]

Known as Iqbal Paj and Iqbal Pauji. Winong, Indonesia-based designer of predominantly script typefaces. His catalog as of 2021: Astara, Astevy, Avotte (sans), Befano (a thin condensed organic sans), Bellanda (a fat finger script), Bellanov, Bellina (a monolinear script), Beristan (script), Betrand (script), Bettasand, Beyllan, Bodine, Brittney Westone (a monolinear script), Brittwey (script), Bulgatty Signature, Bullaina (a monolinear script), Dejuno, Dellimun (a brush script), Fanteo (a futuristic stencil typeface), Farwell (a script font), Frichilla, Ganbate Script, Geminy, Gerillas, Hargetus (a stencil font), Helina (a flowing signature script), Helliya Signature (a monolinear signature font), Hevana, Heyosan (a round hand-crafted slab serif), Jellahy (script), Kanttelaz, Lenolove (bilined), Maron Rose (a luxury serif), Martend (a calligraphic sans), Montey, Nesthy, Pelytta, Prebuga Signature (a monoline signature script), Rachetty (script), Rahella (a signature script), Rallynda (script), Renytta, Rethobie, Rolland, Rookey, Samdwoz (a tape font), Satreva (a thin all caps sans), Satreva Neue (a monolinear titling sans), Serona (a 5-style caps typeface for logos or displays), Serona Signature, Southampton (a tall brush script), Southwell (a monoline script), Suttiq, Swelly, Swesty, The Ground (a monolinear geometric sans), The Ruttmey (an art deco sans), Tuned Rompies (a retro display typeface), Wyllona.

Typefaces from 2022: Pareson (a distinguished single-weight all caps sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bangkit Tri Setiadi
[Blankids Studio]

Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay

Barbara Galinska

Calligrapher in Warsaw, Poland, who created various calligraphic alphabets in 2015-2016. [Google] [More] ⦿

Portland, OR-based handwriting consultants and authors of Portland State University's handwriting book Write now: a complete self-teaching program for better handwriting (Portland, OR: Continuing Education Press, Portland State University, 1991). Earlier, they also published Italic letters: calligraphy and handwriting (1984, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co). [Google] [More] ⦿

Barland
[Barmawy Muchtar]

Aka Barmawi. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of these (mostly free) typefaces:

Brush scripts: The Theatre (2016).
Calligraphic brush typefaces: Kissita (2016), Hollic Brush (2016), Hellifa Script (2016) and Sand Brain (2016).
Calligraphic typefaces: Mistletoe (a Christmas script and dingbat font), Honilad Script (2017), Prospect.
Sans: Honilad Sans (2016), Kaiyila Sans (2016).
Connected script fonts: Dwi Heart (2015), Sadhira (2016), Bekafonte (2016) and Yulinda (2016).
First Font.
Thick brush scripts: Positif, Winter Brush (2016) and Amulhed Brush (2016).
Upright script: Kaiyila Script (2016).
Dingbats: Honilad Ornament (2016). Accompanied by Honilad Sans (2016) and Honilad Calligraphy (2017).

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Barland Studio (or: Creative Lafont)
[Barmawy Muchtar]

Aceh Utara, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of these typefaces:

In 2016: Amulhed (hand-painted), the thick brush script typefaces Winter Brush and Mabotim Brush, and the script typefaces Sadhira script, Mottona Script, Ahattom Script and Womits.
In 2017: Brittania (script), Sand Brain (brushed sans), Hollic (brushed), Yulinda Script, The Theatre, Bekafonte (monoline script), Hellifa Script, Kaiyila Script (upright calligraphic script), Honilad Script (script, sans), Kissita Script, Oqagies Brush, Mudhisa Script, Mistletoe and Hiyida Script.
In 2018: Pamithais Script, Mindline Script.
In 2020: Hillania, Honduras Script, Rixilline Script.

Dafont link. Behance link. Latest Behance link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Barmawy Muchtar
[Barland Studio (or: Creative Lafont)]

Barmawy Muchtar
[Barland]

Barnhart Bros. Spindler Type Founders: Book of Type Specimens, 1907

Trying to fit this 1000-page book into one web page, with discussion of many types. It's impossible, but I tried it. Download link for Book of type specimens: Comprising a large variety of superior copper-mixed types, rules, borders, galleys, printing presses, electric-welded chases, paper and card cutters, wood goods, book binding machinery etc., together with valuable information to the craft. Specimen book no.9. Another download link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Baron WNM
[Rahmad Mulyadi]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based architect, b. 1987. Designer in 2020 of Darkness (a blackletter or death metal font), Chalysta (a wide signature script), Rhomantics (a handcrafted sans), Hillusy, Qeuliner (an oblique techno / sports font), Comicbon (a comic book font) and Dhaique (a tall monolinear sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Aront (mixing art deco with the rounded sans genre), Jabirah, Redmarch (a hairline signature script), Mane (a techno / speed font), Channe (a fashion mag font), Engrave (an upright calligraphic script), Whitegone, Good Monday (script), Culpa (a fat finger font), Kutaraja (a great upright inky script), Vorticella (an inky script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bart Blubaugh

Type designer, letterer and calligrapher located in Willoughby Hills, OH. Ex-student at the University of Reading (2003) who designed Owyhee (2003). In 2008, he created Cora, a 6-style corporate-look sans with a large x-height.

In 2011, he did Katie's Font.

MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bartek Nowak
[GRIN3]

Baseline Fonts
[Nathan Williams]

Foundry in Wichita, KS, founded in 1999 by Nathan Williams (b. Concordia, KS, 1973), formerly from the University of Kansas Art Museum Library. Its motto: The goal of the foundry is to provide uninterpreted revivals of type samples generated through disappearing printing methods, and create new fonts for dissemination in the type community. Order through MyFonts.Com or Union Fonts or Creative Market. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

Fonts:

The Rodeo family of wood type fonts: 66 Rodeo, 57 Rodeo, 58 Rodeo (2003), Rodeo Rope, Rodeo Rope Superchunk.
The Tuscan family: Tuscan (2003, a wild west face). To this group we can add the Tuscan typeface Circus KS (2006).
Egyptians: Grit Gothic (2013), Grit Sans (2013), Heirloom Artcraft (2013), Worn Gothic (2013), Stately GG (2013), Grit Egyptienne (2005, grunge Egyptian family), Rough Egyptienne (2005).
Grunge typefaces: Antimony (2005, grunge), Dryden (distressed handwritten face).
Old typewriter fonts: Slab American Regular (old typewriter), Slab American Titling, Slab American Titling Heavy (2002). Slab American has 55 styles.
Art nouveau typefaces: Old Paris Nouveau (2003).
Pixelish typefaces: Base PXL7, 80s PXL Bold.
Display Sans: Maxime (2004, having support for most European languages; Maxime Shadow is available at FontShop), Woodgrit Thin (based on 19th century American letterpress fonts), Woodgrit Medium, Woodgrit Heavy, Pippen (squarish).
Calligraphic: Roundhand Regular.
Victorian: Boback.
The Grit family: Grit History (2003-2004), Grit Primer (2003), Grit Egyptienne, Grit Typesorts (2006, free).
The Old Times American family (+Italic, +Titling).
Pia Regular.
Kandt: the handwriting of legendary designer and art director James Kandt; 4 styles.
Chitchy.
AVI Sans.
Country Fang (2003, with Brian Miller).
Craft Roman
Licious Script.
Luxe (2003, casual).
Momentum (2002).
George Gibson (handwriting from mid 1800s).
Dingbats: Megaflakes 2010 (2010) and Megaflakes 2011 (2011).
Sketchwriter (2011).
Dusty Circus (2011) is a five-layer stacking display face designed to be infinitely morphed. It is a prototypical member of that old western circus font genre.
Bobbi Bee (2013). A connected script.

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BBA Key (or: Marwah Store, or Arwah Studio, or Art Design)
[Adi Marwah]

Aka Alexe Crisna. Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1990 or 1991, of the calligraphic script typefaces Kayla Script (2018), Amazon (2018) and Angeline Bba Key (2018), and the script typefaces Andalan (2018), Marketing (2018), Love Malia (2018), Hipnotis (2018), Melinda (2018), Alifa (2018), Quantum (2018), Amanda (2018), Santiago (2018) and Midnight (2018).

Script typefaces from 2019: Love (heart dingbats), Cindy Love (script), New Lettering (a calligraphic script), Rembulan, Manohara Pro, Winters, Rachidah Script, Charline (script), Jamilah, Mountain, Wilona, Christopher Pen Brush, Yamada (script), Nakeisha (formal calligraphy), The Distro, Brush, Amanda Art Design (a free calligraphic script), Contania (a dry brush script), Widia Hand Brush (a dry brush script), Beuton (rounded sans), Glaudiana, Michela, Alone Forever (calligraphic), Contania (brush), Mellinde (upright), Bellagia (a creamy script), Melodie (upright script), Chocolate (creamy script), Odelette (script), Qualio (a monoline sans), Beatiful (sic), Cangkhoi, Marilatte, Glemada (upright, calligraphic), Hatachi.

Typefaces from 2020: Nurhalifa Bold Script (a formal calligraphic script), Nurhalifa Script, Nurhalifa Italic, Salsabila (script), Welliana, Johnson Black (wild calligraphy), Mahendra (a rhythmic script), Rhonda.

HB Fonts link.

Typefaces from 2021: Maudhia (a formal script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Beata Kurek

Beata Kurek graduated from Poznan Fine Arts University. As LoveLetters Studio, she designs fonts and lettering based on calligraphic writing. She also teaches lettering in workshops. Creator of the connected large x-height script typeface Polacy (2012), a school project at the Typography Studio of the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. In 2013, she designed Rock, a script typeface.

In 2016, as part of Warsaw Types, she designed the traditional calligraphic typeface Bajaderka and writes: Bajaderka is inspired by lettering of the small signage tablets found in Warsaw shops. The letters feature details typical for traditional calligraphy, with visible brush strokes, referring to the charming style of Warsaw's sign painters. Bajaderka is free. [Google] [More] ⦿

Beck McCormick
[Autumn Lane Paperie]

Bee Art

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typefaces Eighty Three (2016), The Shallow (2016), Stainless Doft (2016), Alva Romeo (2016), Kethy Violette (2016), Cittroen (2016), Escalade (2016), Holdenisty (2016) and Exquisite (2016), the scratchy Archiline (2016), the brush script Chevelle Brush (2016), and the handcrafted typeface Mondix (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Soul Sister (delicate calligraphy), Butterflies (formal calligraphy). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Begüm Bahcecik

Istanbul-based designer of the calligraphic Latin typeface Cavalllucci (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Behydezell

This Photobucket collection has many incunabula. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bejeletter
[Eddy Mahfud]

Indonesian architect, b. 1989. Designer of Grookey Shawn (2020), the curly script Neo Osaka (2020), Syakaila Script (2020) and the kawaii script font Baby Nasha (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Rolling Story (a rhythmic script), Roxy Vp (stencil), Comicartoon (a cartoon font), Comicartoon (a cartoon font), De Gozaru (a swirly calligraphic script), Gv Time (a creamy signage script).

Typefaces from 2022: Secret Mango (18 styles), Archipad Pro (a 36-style sans and slab serif family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Belen Cierra

During her studies at FADU UBA (Buenos Aires), Belen Cierra created the swashy calligraphic typeface Amantina (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Belle Lettere

Belle Lettere is the hub for calligraphy in Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Belove Studio (or: Takiy)
[Abdul Manan]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of the script typeface New York (2019), Satriana (2019: a formal calligraphic script), Saleng (2019: a display sans), Larisa (2019: wild calligraphy), Capture (2019: a monoline typeface), Golden Sea (2019: a calligraphic typeface), Worn Path (2019), and Bradlay (2019),

In 2020, he released Wongsolo, Jahannam Balla, Giatang Collection, Batta Quath (formal calligraphic), Corolla, Quigt (a monolinear and bold sans), Fablus, Satarina, Malika (a heavy script) and Moons (a rounded sans).

Many of these fonts are also at Takiyuddin's sites, but the connection between the sites is blurred. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ben Aalbers

Extraordinary Dutch calligrapher, who writes in an oriental style. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ben Shahn

American lettering artist, painter and social realist, b. Kovno, Lithuania, 1898, d. New York City, 1969. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. Author of Love and Joy about Letters (1963) and of The Alphabet of Creation: An Ancient Legend From the Zohar (1954, reprinted in 1972, Shocken Books, NY).

In 1995, Maurizio Osti reconstructed and redesigned Ben Shahn's Folk Alphabet, which was originally created as lettering in 1940, with the consent and approval of Bernarda Shahn, Shahn's second wife, and the Estate of Ben Shahn, under license from VAGA (New York). FF Folk (2003, Marizio Osti and Jane Patterson) is the only authorized and officially endorsed digital version of Shahn's well-known protest poster lettering. In the same style, we also have the fonts Bensfolk (2000) and Bensfolk Condensed (2000) by Harold Lohner.

Jean Evans's Hatmaker (1996, Agfa Creative Alliance and later ITC) consists of two all caps typefaces, one of which was inspired by Ben Shahn's hand-constructed alphabet.

Nick Curtis's Outgribe NF (2011) is a rough, raw typeface that is based on the lettering in Ben Shahn's iconic poster protesting the execution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927. That same poster also inspired Daniel Pelavin in his Book Country (2010).

Charles Leroux created the Tuscan typeface Rendezvous GRP (2008) based on Ben Shahn's cover of Rendezvous with Destiny.

At Esos tipos de la UTEM, one can download Nahueltoro (2007), an exceptionally beautiful comic book style headline face by Santiago Toro, based on the credits of the movie El Chacal de Nahueltoro by Vicente and Antonio Larrea, and on Ben Shahn's lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

Beni Pantona
[MissinkLab Studio]

Bens Creative (or: Ben Scheller)

Bennardino Cataneo

Writing Master at the University of Siena, Italy, ca. 1544-1560. The only known surviving exemplars of his writing are twenty vellum leaves bound in a manuscript copybook, dated 4 February 1545, dedicated to Edward Raleigh, an Englishman (Signor Odoardo Ralyg Gentilhuomo). Handwriting instructions (by James Pickering) based on Cataneo's work. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pekanbaru, Indonesia-based designer (b 1996) of the sloped calligraphic typeface Delberg (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿

Beril Karabulut

During her studies in Ankara, Turkey, Beril Karabulut created the calligraphic typeface Caligrazon (2014) and the Sarus Icons (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Berk Solmaz

Istanbul, Turkey-based student-designer of Anatomy (2018) and Bork (2018: a nibbed calligraphic typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿

Bernard Arin

Ex-director of Scriptorium de Toulouse, calligrapher, teacher and typographer. Michael Levy took these pictures of him in 2004: Arin drawing, sketching a Trajan typeface on a stone. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bernd Montag

Limbach-Oberfrohna (Saxony)-based designer (b. 1987) of the calligraphic roman display typeface Chantelli Antiqua (2007) and the sans family Sansation (2008-2009) [poster of Sansation by Flavia Schreiber].

In 2013, he published the black titling sans typeface Majoris.

Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. Fontspace lunk. [Google] [More] ⦿

Berthold Ludewig

German teacher and typographer who created the calligraphic metafont Suetterlin, which can be found here. This font can be used for writing in the so-called Schwell style. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bertram Kaiser
[Kaiser Type]

Best Font Studio (was: Bald Creative, Asry Lab)
[Rifan Asri]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of these typefaces:

In 2017: the calligraphic typefaces Letty Script, Risalah (a signature font), Dullan Script, Alangkah Script, Yolanda Brush, Ferdreges (+Italic), Fulan, Sanjana, Yolanda, Kevila, Boper Script, Jandaku, Tiehaga, Juah That (brush font), Sekuntum, Shyta Script, Bara Api, Emiliya, Beha, Lestari, Adytia Script, Spirit, Noermala Script and Sthephanie Script, the handcrafted typeface Meugeutek and the brushy typeface Pilox.
Typefaces from 2018: Rindaya, Millenial Script, Cantona Slant, Pentagon, Bellya Vaky, Julykeh, Alleka Script, Badeuk, Dakotta, Khasanah, the thin script font The Bellaria, the inky brush script Showety Brush, the fat finger font Balalak, and Glatang Script.
Typefaces from 2019: Chillout (script), Jandle, Inthai, Jellyfish, Flashback, Mahligai, Wulan, Hellowen, Kallithea.
In 2020: Shitta, Filsafat, Hista, Eagle.

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Besttypeco
[Alexander Tiunov]

Perm, Russia-based designer (b. 1986) of mainly script typefaces. Creator of the brush script typefaces Mushrooms (2017), Kangary (2017), Loveit (2017), Boronic (2017), Wildlife (2017), Fully Flared (2017), School of Rock (2017), Seek & Destroy (2017), Secret Service (2017: a free monoline script), Sileighty (2017: brush script), Kashtanka (2017), Mandarina (2017), Mistery (2017), Custom Craft (2017), Darkstar (2017), Kalmaros (2017), Stereo Type (2017, dry brush), Karateka (2017), The Buster (2017), Blackned (2017), Mantoya (2017: calligraphic), Momentus (2017), San Antonio (2017), Mishanya (2017), Dimanga (2017), Kenstein (2017), Malifisenta (2017), Samanta (2017), Kerala (2017), Roselita (2017), Sagaya (2017), Strider (2017), Joline (2017), Misled Youth (2017), Sixpounder (2017), Wildchild (2017), and Tormentor (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Rasty King, Stone Soul, Beauty Script, Quake Love, Mashroom, Kansai, Monstermash, Freedom, Wire, Enjoy, Transmitter, Claster, Camsay, Stronger, Parabellum, Jiguliny, Youthful, Lucky Station (monoline script), Solitary (signature script), Salt Lake, No Limits, Amber Rose, Batallion, Best Choice, BlackLabel, Blitz, Brighton Beach, Buttery, Candyman, Ceremony, Cinthia, Coliseum, Crimson Thunder, Desert Strike, Fresh Bakery, Friendship, Glam Rock, Great Wall, Hardwired, Health, High Way, Holy Cow, My Darling, Hey Kent, Instance, Jennifer, Lazer, Master of Horror, Mengano, Muggle, New Wave, Power of Love, Prince Charming, Pure Love, Quake Love, Rock Star, Sanctuary, Santy Fergason, Satori, Special Blend, Stereotype, Sun Light, Amsterdam, The Love, Malorry, Sterling, Venture, Welcome to the Jungle, Wondery, Zero Style, Berzeker, Equestrain, William, Salto, Solitude, Satirically, The Strokes, Home Sweet Home, Wondery (Treefrog style), Special Blend, Black Label, Felicita, Heart of Stone (Treefrog style), Golden Palace, Silvia One Love, Mr. Jester (signature script), Handsome Devil, Twilight Zone, Mature, Stay Clean, Paranoid (slab serif), Dogmatic (signage script), Stayer, The Mercury, Maranta, Scary Stories.

Typefaces from 2019: Velomo CB, Bounty, Dreaming (a dry brush font), The Queen (a free calligraphic script), The Sangria, Islanders, Impulse, Raconteurs, The Black Hawk, Scream Team, Bon Voyage, Bryan Herman, Sanitary, Last Factory, Solited, Wimmer, Beauty, Showtime, Moorland Lovely Star.

Typefaces from 2020: Predators, Gilbery (an old typewriter font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Betty Cook
[Artsy Lady's Home Page]

Betty Nane

Berlin, Germany-based designer of tthe calligraphic script typeface Gingertea Script (2016) and Vintage Stamps One (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Bexxtype
[Syahputra]

Kutacane, Indonesia-based script typeface designer, b. 1993. In 2017, Bexxtype published the calligraphic typefaces Amelisa Script, Dicella Script, Hello Violetta Script, My Darling Script, Mellitta Script, Junitha Script, Yullisa Script and Faranisa Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Mettadilla, Sabena, Elistabeta, Mandailing, Adiescode, Cerilleta, Maqella Script, Ellic Script, Qatielia Script, Magella Script, Sakira Script, Fantastic, Hypatia, Namilla.

Typefaces from 2019: The Revolution (upright script), Mallona (a rabbit ear script), Adiline, Melda, Jackpot, Ningsih Script, Letterbest, Restyla (script), Eiffela, Notalistic, Crafters Flowers, Haertbel Script, Undella, Wostella, Delthami Script, Migdale, Andayani, Chetlie, Richardine, Flashlight.

Typefaces from 2020: Melliste, Feedback (a monoline script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bhargava Ganti

Designer of the free calligraphic script font Ravali (2015, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿

Bhavika Malhotra
[The Ink Affair]

Bhikkhu Pesala
[Association for Insight Meditation (or: Aimwell)]

Bhima Bagaskara
[Goldlake Graphic]

Biljana Stankovic
[Bistatype]

Bogidar Mascareñas Vizcaino

Bill LaFever

Bill LaFever studied art and calligraphy at St. Ambrose College (which was run by famous calligrapher and liturgical artist Fr. Edward Catich), class of 1970. From 1970 until 2008, Bill worked at Hallmark Cards as a calligrapher, lettering artist and graphic designer. Bill currently designs fonts out of his home in Prairie Village, Kansas.

In 2017, he published the script typeface Feverish at Veil of Perception. While only published in 2017, this typeface has a history, as explained by LaFever: Feverish was a font borne out of perceived need in the marketplace. Hallmark retired font designer and master letter designer Myron McVay first approached Bill LaFever to collaborate on a project to design a semiformal calligraphic script that could be set as text copy with a large variety of swash and alternative characters and small caps. Bill penned the initial forms and Myron did the digital conversions and initial technical work. After Myron passed away, Terry Lee, a protégé of Myron's at Hallmark---also retired---took over and the project was completed. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Billy Argel

Brazilian graphic designer and prolific creator of free typefaces, which often combine calligraphy, retro signage, and grunge.

Fonts from 2019: Talk Sing, New Garden Two (a circle-based sans), Hearts Garden, Garden Black, Adalgisa, Mellissa, Mattisse, Universal Sans, Universal Script, The Light, Campesina, Babeface, Soulstice, Movements, Love Empure, No Stress (grungy sans), Flowers (script), Magical Day, North Shore (a weathered slab serif), Theodora, Amandita, Brilhant, Alamoana, Palomita, Superworld, Black Rose, Mistical, Rocks (grungy), Marvelous, Dinasty, Magic Touch, Hot Jacket (brush script), Simplicity (beatnik face), Ibiza Crystal, Mystical Eyes, Allicia, Misterios del Amor, Sugar Kisses, Gonna Getha (weathered sans), Valentine Day, Secretss, Honey Lips, Got to be real, Afternoon in Stereo, Hotel Costes, Wall Paper,

Fonts from 2018: Children's Party, Music Magic, Awesome Season, Lavelle, Wonderful Night, Chapter One, Atmospherica, Lost Sunset, Claudina, Run To The Hills, Placid Pool, New Balance, Euphoria, Claudia, Barbecue, Salsa Parrilla, Pilsen Extra, Morphine, Love is the Law, United Forces, Smell a Daisy, Allegratta, Hamburguer, Gingerale, Anette, Marshmallow, Bunch of Flowers, Cinderela, Antonine, Sepetiba, Anastasia Script, Alliance, Mustard, Superstar, Makeup, Flowers of Summer, Honeybe, Mirella, Fantastic (signage script), Inked Skin, Girls Got Rhythm, Dirty Queen, Ipanema, Antidote, Galaxie, Moving Star, Miraflor, Beredith, Allessa, Worldwide, Andorra, Single case, Carpenters, Monster Party (eerie font), Dontchastop, Love Strong, The Hills, Romantica, Attraction, Burning Heart (monoline script), Local Motion, Summer Daisy, Pumpkins, Space Jam, Sweet Movements, California Sun, Body & Soul, Choppers, Magical Waste, Over The Seas, Vegan Yummy, Glamour Girls, Flower Power, Quick Kiss, Star Light, Costa Rica, Nuclear Boots, Amore Mio, Lovely Summer, Roses Everywhere, Love Is The Antidote, Wisdom Words, Limousines, Mysteries of Passion, Moving Pictures, Blackberry Jam, Movie Poster, Beauty Mountains, Bunch Blossoms, Flora, Inked Angels (tattoo font), Loveland, Beautiful Lovers, Belle et Belle, Cherry Blossom, Let It Be, Casual Chance, Caranda, Aromabar, Capable of Loving, Miss Daisy, Mardi Gras, Last Frontier, Nouvelle Vague, Travel Light, Mind Rescue, Bella Fashion, Amarula, Sweet Easy, Indian Strength, Everlast, Megan, Hello Beauty, Vegan Style, Andaluzia, Ambar Pearl, New Era, Candice, Hometown, Sunrise Place, Lemon Jelly, Nature Beauty, Natural Beauty, Black Pearl, Tan Pumpkins, Acid Label II, Thrasher, Inked Babes, Ribbons in the wind, Calligraphy (inky), Amsterdam, Sweet Sixteen, Sunset Beach, Star King, Countryside, Crazy Love, Little Sister, Creature, House Queen, Dr Phibes (beatnik style), Moskitoes, Nirvana (script), Iceland, The Cure, Mr. Fink (beatnik style), Sea Balance, Hot Dog, Blow Up, Blow Me (crayon font), Sunrise, Joes Burguer, Splatted, Moonbeam, Tomatoes, Beautiful People, Hamsters, Vacations in Paradise, Lover Artefacts, School Days, Traffic, Campus (weathered athletics font), Universidad (weathered athletics font), Sundance, Siberian, Rich The Barber, Aurora, Dove of Peace, Clipper, The Quick Fox, Daisy Days, Dieselpower (grungy texture), Progress, Loud and Clear, Generator, Wannabees, Ripmonsters, Shity Chats, Death Before Chocolate, Karmacoma, Clever Couple, Astrovegan, Clarification, Breakfast on the beach, Graceland (signage script), Beauty Bright, Atlantida (letterpress grunge), Cassandra, Gene Loves Jezabel (brush), Great Cities, Crackerdown, Lost Ages, Bite Chocolate (script), Sunflowers (script), Mon Cherry (script), Lovely Day (heart font), Miracle Place, Ebony Eyes, Skywalker, Zabritzkyes, Black (grungy octagonal slab serif).

Fonts from 2017: Waiting a Silver Moon, Master of Comics, Millenia, Fantastic Reason (signage script), Varukers (dry brush), Awakening (grunge), Majestic (signage script, Emotional Rescue, Misstral, Elements, Alouette, Cure of Pain (ink splash type), Farenheight (octagonal), Peacemaker (upright retro script), Altavista (creamy script), Ananda (script), Alexandra (script), Paper Rib (script with paper rib outlines), Honeymoon (script), Gotcha (heavy headline type), Christmas Day (signage script), Clarice, Orange (signage script), Indiana (baseball script), Magnificent (blackletter), Sketching Summer (signage), September Five, Cross Town (weathered), Saturday Nights (signage script), Blessed (baseball script), Blobbers (baseball script), Jam Sessions, Moon Walker (dry brush), Drawing Nature, Sketching Stars, Lone Wolf, Cubika Script, Bonneville Co, Walk (wide wood type), Rio Black (counterless), Secret Agent, Trouble (blackletter), Trouble II (blackletter), Living Colours, Crystal, Sepia (letterpress poster font), Rainbow Bridge, Black Diamonds (signage script), Candy Shop, Enthrall (sharp-edged retro signage script), Movie Makers (script), Sunshine Boulevard, Black Napkins (grungy), Brush Stroke, Carolina Mountains, South Gardens, Calling Angels, Cherry Kisses (candy script), Messenger Pigeons (script), Shine, Carolina Hills, Shave The Whales (tattoo script), Diamonde (baseball script), Yananeska, Black Ball, Miss Hanna (signage script).

Fonts from 2016: Sweet Sensations, Breeze (brush script), Christmas Time (script), Propaganda Sight, Modern Stencil, Eyes Wide Open, Bella Donna, Safira Shine, Heaven Matters, Electricity (fifties script), Maccrap Asphalt (textured), Blockhead Dude (beatnik style), Weekend Flower Hunters, Sunset Clouds (tattoo script), Bikinis, Chedelparedon (scartchy font), Dattermatter (connected script), Granada-Blues (connected script), Mistery-Curse (connected script), Walking-Stones (calligraphic), Moderata, Spring Time (calligraphic), Desert Queen, Marriage Moment (wedding script), Angel Tears Neue, Germanika (blackletter), Great Day, Sunday Morning, Texas Tango (weathered Western font), Stenciled, Casablanca Noir, Brasileirinha, Carioca, Asphaltic Grain, Asphaltic Scratch, Nova Stamp (grungy), Bananas (brush script), Enjoy, Reminiscent Drive, Bananas (signage script), Mandela Script, Altamonte (baseball script), Landscape, Landscape Land, Old Type, Sedex, Good News, IA Type, Satisfaction (heavy creamy signage script), Sebastiana (baseball script), Urgh Type (grunge), Texas Tango (spurred Western font), Factory (textured), Rio Glamour (sans), Like (Italian style Western font), Heaven Gate (connected script), Colt (Western font).

Fonts from 2014: BackStab (metal band blackletter font), Strongbox (concave Western font), Goiabada, Bonesoup, Blanc Chateau (tattoo script), Botas Sujas (grungy letterpress font), Bigbobs (cartoon face), Yukathin N Conte Smile, Sambahollyc, Cherry Jam, Cacha (grunge), Rubber Stamp, Yukafont (hand-printed), Cabriolet (brush script), Sweet Correction Roth (tattoo script).

Fonts from 2011: Tabu, Caribbean Tool (roman caps face), Pijamas (hand-printed 3d outline face), Nova Solid (Nova Regular and Bold are from 2014), Chocolate Dealer, Happy Family (dingbats), Save The Mini, Tosca Zero (grunge), Epidemia (grunge), Skt and Destroy (grunge), High on fire, Manabu, Masterplan, Thrashline (multiline), Triumph Rewind, The Dreamer, Why, Uranium Mafia, Blessed Day, Caribbean Tool (floral caps face), Lost Winner, Dove Love (curly valentine's Day font), Safe Iodine (texture face), Easy Trouble, ArgelFont, BUTECO (sketch font), DIAMONDDUST, Dropping, Ink In The Meat (tattoo font), NORMAL, Popcorn (a great grunge hand-drawn Futura Black), POPCORNSKETCHSKETCH (a sketched face), ROCKETAIR, ShitHappens-Cursive. Panhead (grunge Western face).

Fonts made in 2010: Thrashline, Dotled (a fuzzy texture face), Refurbished, PUNKBABE, CANDYINC, GreenPillow, DIRTYBAGBOLDTRIAL, LEDLIGHT, MAJORGUILTY, Network Vampires, NEWESTTRIAL (Western face), VATOS, Billy Argel Font (calligraphic), ACIDLABEL, BeyondSky-trial, HURTMOLD, TOSCAZERO, TABU (grunge), EASY TROUBLE, BOMBFONT (puffy letters), BILLYARGELFONT (calligraphic), Soap Store (grunge), ANGELTEARS (calligraphic), BUTOXQUEEN-trial, ELECTRICHANDS (cursive hand), FLOWERFLOW-trial, HAPPYFAMILY-TRIAL, HEARTQUAKE (grunge), MSKITOKILLA (grunge), NIGHTSTALKER-TRIAL (grunge), RAINFOREST (handwriting with rough edges), ROADMOVIE, ROSE TATTOO (an outlined hand-printed beauty), TWINPINES (brush), WANNABEME (sketched), WEDDINGNIGHTMAREStrial (calligraphic), BEERNOTE, GREENMIND (grunge), PORNFASHION, MASTERPLAN (grunge), SNIPERSHOT.

Fonts from 2009: COOLECTOR, BODYHUNTER-Bold (grunge), CLUBHAUS-Bold (ultra black, mechanical/octagonal), MAKEMEALPHA (grunge), NewGardenLight, TRIUMPHREWIND (grunge), Nachos and TV, Oxidisaster, Helloween, Lemon Day Semibold (a sketch font), Tosca Zero, Outlaw (Western face), Gangland (scratchy brushy face), B Side (vertical stencil).

Fonts from 2008: Plastic Pill (fat art deco face), Bedspread Assassin, A Bite (grunge), Dirty and Classic (grunge calligraphy), Gas Mask (grunge stencil), PANHEAD (grungy Western billboard font), My Turtle, Cubiculo Gallery (created for the Cubiculo Gallery in Sao Paulo), Ginga (grunge calligraphic--think award-winning grunge!!!), Wallrider, TOY_SOLDIERS-Bold (grunge), Abite (grunge), ACIDLABEL, Bulldozer, Cheap Stealer, DONOTEXIST, HANGUP (3-d bouncy letters), HYERBA (Far West font), LAZYDAY (hand-printed outline caps face), LEDLIGHT, Mon Bijoux (ornamental), MANABU (futuristic), PEIXEFRITO, Positiv-A, Killed DJ (multiline grunge), Sniper (grunge), Black Oak (smudged face), ShAnKed,

Fonts from 2007: Olho de Boi (a great scratchy handwriting font inspired by the first Brazilian postage stamp which was released on August 1, 1843), Skull TS2 (skull dingbats), REBOARD, Hurtmold (rounded octagonal face), PDRPT (grunge), the Soma family (modern stencil), Caatinga (2006, artsy display face), Santos Dumont (handwriting: free at DaFont).

Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bilt Fonts (or: Aruban Font Foundry)
[George Ryan]

Established in 2003 by George Ryan in Arlington, MA, Bilt Fonts (Aruban Font Foundry) sells revivals and original designs through MyFonts. Typefaces include Pietin, Geo Sans, Netto, Rescue, Jingle, Geo Tablet, Lottsa Lotta, Big Stuff, Rainman, Depth Charge, Sansand, Bulla Bulla, Kappa Nappa, Kappa Sappa, Sarabella (2004, calligraphic), Marcus Texus (fun informal), Marcus Displaeus, and Spio Beo. George Ryan held senior positions at Linotype and Bitstream since 1979, where he has been involved in the production of over 2500 fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bistatype
[Biljana Stankovic]

Bistatype is founded by Biljana Stankovic, a font designer and calligrapher from Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts Department of Graphic Design, with a master's degree in type design and typography. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Applied Arts and Design. Currently, she is an assistant professor of Typeface Design and Typography at the Department of Applied Arts at the Faculty of Arts in Nis, Serbia.

In 2022, she released the formal calligraphic 6-style script typeface Minea for Latin and Cyrillic including the Serbian version. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Black Cats Media
[Mihaela Serbanescu]

Designer of the swashy calligraphic typefaces Berson Dream (2018), Beradon Script (2017) and Enyssala Script (2016), the Victorian ornaments typefaces Beradon Frames (2017) and Vondey Ornaments (2017), the script font Amastery (2017), the prototypical Victorian typefaces Vondey (2019) and Troemys (2018) and the signage typeface The Trickster (2016).

Typefaces from 2019: Sorinka (a handcrafted party font), Biosha, Rebetha, Corisa, Bohema, Divine Light. [Google] [More] ⦿

Black Lotus
[Riska Kurniawan]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these sometimes eerie display typefaces in 2019: Neo Thomasy, Queen of Sahara, The Jungle, The Viper Stone (a vampire script with a monogram style), Droidlady, Soulring, Braxica Lily, Arch Diary, Avenomous, Oscar, Neptunes (octagonal, sci-fi, stencil).

In 2020, he designed Berliana Elemixia (a scriptish display typeface) and the rustic spurred Victorian typeface Asteric Vintage.

Typefaces from 2021: Sweet Honey (a scrapbook script), Fathiyya Script (calligraphic), Atjeh Night (a lava lamp typeface), Holy Mordigan (cursive; with calligraphic undertones), The Stacy (an upright retro signage script), Arcandias Downtown (a decorative serif), The Florest (floriated caps). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Black Studio
[Riza Haitami]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 2002) of Beatrice Script (a rhythmic calligraphic script), Love Diery (2020: a script with lofty ascenders), Barnette (2020), Wistina Script (a calligraphic script) (2020), Sinthya Script (2020: calligraphic), Sweet Lady (2020), Audacity Script (2020: calligraphic script), Brightness (2020: script), and Amellia Script (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Gibson Serif (a wide and stylish serif), The Lastone (a luxuriuous display font), Hey Greysia (a scrapbook script), Hello Girlfriend (a scrapbook script), Lonely Heart (an upright script), Graziella Script (an upright script), Gloritta Script (a perky typeface in the erect script genre), Glorisa (a 7-style display serif), Hello Night (an upright rabbit ear script), Faithfull (a formal calligraphic script), Blackers (a display serif in six styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Blackmoon Foundry (was: La Letteria, or: Anatole Type Foundry)
[Elena Albertoni]

Elena Albertoni (Blackmoon Foundry, and before that, La Letteria, and before that, Anatole Type Foundry, est. 2005) is an Italian type designer (b. 1979, Bergamo) who studied at ESAD Amiens and the Ecole Estienne in Paris, before taking a position as type designer at FontFabrik in Berlin, where she still lives. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez. La Letteria is located in Berlin. In 2011, Elena cofounded LetterinBerlin, a studio dedicated to handmade and digital design, with a special focus on lettering and type-design.

At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters.

Her typefaces:

The connected script typeface Dolce (2005), which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.
Dyna (2009). A connected feminine script. Review of Dolce & Dyna.
Kigara.
Scritta (connected calligraphic script). Followed by Scritta Nuova (2011): a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s.
Helene (squarish face).
Valora.
Schneider.
Gregoria. A Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007.
Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010). An eight-style sans family of great utility, co-designed with Fred Bordfeld; Cyrillic included.
Acuta (2010). An all-purpose type family.
Nouvelle Vague (2011). A connected display script along the lines of Mistral.
Spinnaker (2011). A sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship.
The plump and curvy script typeface Molle (2012, Google Web Fonts).
Kiez (2016, The Blackmoon Foundry).
Vidal (2018). A wide sans with low contrast and medium-to-tall ascenders.
Coast (2018). An almost monoline sans inspired by enamel signs from the 1920s.

Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Blambot!
[Nate Piekos]

Blambot Comics Fonts was founded in 1999 by graphic designer and illustrator, Nate Piekos, and is located in East Providence, RI. Blambot has a huge number of original free comics fonts and balloons by Nate Piekos (East Providence, RI, b. RI, 1975). Comic Lettering is an alternate URL, where you can also order logo designs, custom fonts, and custom lettering. Fontspace link. The fonts:

2021: Collect Em Now BB (a comic strip font), Spinner Rack Pro BB.
2020: Out of Line Pro BB, Ready for More BB, Nightmark BB, Tight Spot BB, Budrick BB, Flannel Shirt BB (a sans family).
2019: Tire Swing BB, Ready For Anything BB.
2018: Invulnerable BB.
2017: Collect Em All BB, Spinner Rack BB.
2016: Friend Or Foe Tall BB, Friend Or Foe BB, Astrogator BB, Out Of Line BB.
2015: Susurrus BB (sans family), Inkcantation BB (slightly creep jhand-drawn serif font), Blambastic BB, Brushzerker BB.
2014: Hundredwatt BB, Piekos Toons BB, Beelzebnrush BB, Astounded Round BB, Astounder Squared BB, Sleuth Serif BB, Crypto Creep BB, Wretched Remains BB (brushy Halloween font), Mech Effects 1 BB, We Come in Peace BB, Manga Master BB.
2013: Unearthed BB (Celtic), Always Angry BB, Sequentialist BB, Might Makes Right BB, Fight To The Finish BB, Palooka BB, ManlyMen BB, Trash Cinema BB, Bulletproof BB, Ticking Timebomb BB (LED font), Potty Mouth BB (dingbats), Vengeful Gods BB (Greek simulation face), Blowhole BB (fat finger font family), Shrunken Head BB, Perihelion (+Condensed: elliptical sans).
2012: Dungeon Dweller BB, Mark of the Beast BB (Halloween font), Monsterific BB, Tough as nails BB, Longbow BB (a rough-edged blackletter), Gamma Rays BB, Inkslinger BB (a true comic book style family), Saucer BB (sketch font), Smells Like Tacos BB, Mutant Academy BB, Destroy Earth BB, Mandroid BB, Fundead BB, Stupid Head BB, Spellbreaker BB, Elevations BB (2012, a blueprint typeface), Revenger BB (angular family).
2011: Silver Bullet BB (a fat hand-drawn blackletter face), Shallow Grave BB, Imaginary Friend BB, Highjinks BB, ShallowGrave BB, Quahog BB (angular, calligraphic), Mumble Grumble BB, Action Figure BB, Piekos FX Rough BB, ChainsawzBB, Heavy Mettle, Billy The Flying Robot BB, Longbox BB.
2010: Ninjutsu BB, Protest Paint BB, Rock Steady BB, Ladylike BB, Protest Paint BB (grunge), Tone Deaf BB, Clown Teeth BB, Irish Stout BB (beer label face), Sans Sanity BB, Straight To Hell, Unmasked, Piekos FX BB, Hometown Hero BB, Piekos Professional; BB, Big Bad Bold BB, Crash Landing, HoneyMead BB, Secret Origins (2010).
2009: Dragonbones BB, MeanStreets BB, Two Fisted BB, RedStateBlueState BB, Scream Queen, Fresh Meat BB, Gone Fission BB, Black Hole, Life Form, Crimewave BB, Firepower BB, Artists Alley BB, Stronghold BB, Village Idiot, Raging Red Lotus (2009, oriental simulation), Dwarven Axe BB, Silver Age BB, Flyboy BB (2009, techno), Giant Sized Spectacular BB (2009).
2008: Snake Oil Salesman (old typewriter face), Earthman and Earthman Extended (a nice 12-style retro sans family), Clairvoyant BB, KrakHead BB [one of my favorites], Blambot FXPro BB, Sangre BB, Dearly Departed BB, Boogers, Bada Boom BB, Old Crone BB (2008, bewitched style).
2007: Fire Fight BB, After Dark BB, Post Mortem BB, Fold and Staple BB (with Brandon J. Carr), Dunce Cap BB, DeathRattle BB, Potty Mouth BB, Dominatrix BB (grunge), Shore Leave BB (based on sailor tattoos), Cloudsplitter BB, Drawing Board (inspired by Tekton), Warhorse BB, Warmonger BB.
2006: Duty Calls BB, Hellfire BB, AveAveBB, Indie Star, Blamblam BB, Braaains BB (dingbats), Musashi BB, Atland Sketches, Double Life BB, SkinDeep BB, SkinDeep Swashes BB, Newsflash.
2005: KeelhauledBBBold, KeelhauledBB, MainframeBBBold, MainframeBB, Alter Ego BB, Entrails, Mastermind BB, Zooom BB, Whitechapel BB (handwriting), Sucker Punch, Crimefighter, 10c Soviet, CyranoBB, Praetorium, Spectre Verde, Hired Goons, Afterlife BB (2005, tall ascendered face), Seven Monkey Fury (oriental simulation face), Spectre Verde, FeedbackBB.
2004: Atland, Creative Block, Midnightsnack BB, Bloody Murder BB, Seven Swordsmen, Webletterer, Rackum Frackum, Oh Crud, CatholicSchoolGirlsBB, Antihero, Dark Arts, Bearded Lady BB, BottleRocket, Streetcred, Lowrider, Extra pickles (2004).
2003: Square Jaw BB, Shinobi, Bar Brawl, Holy Mackerel (2003, Craterface BB, Zombie Guts, Knuckle Sandwich, Workingman, Fat Stack BB, Santa's Big Secret, ArrMatey, Tokyo Robot, JackLanternBB, Perils of Piekos, Turntablz, Wicked Queen (2003, free), Golden Oldie, Badaboom, OhCrap, Whoop Ass, Damn Noisy Kids, Paperboy, Armor Piercing, Radioactive Granny, Sidekick International, Digital Strip, Mighty Zeo, Arcanum, Zud Juice, Ale&Wenches, Bar Brrawl, Bar Brawl BB, Armored Science BB, Blamdude, Shinobi, Man of Science, Sidekick BB (2003).
2002 and earlier: AndroidNation, Blambot-Custom, Blambot-Standard, Captain-Spandex, Casket-Breath, Concetta, Dupuy-Bold, Edible-Pet-II, Edible-Pet, Edible-PetInternational, Enchilada, Evil-Genius, Flat-Earth-Scribe, Gunhead-Chick, Lovecraft's-Diary, Mouth Breather, Mighty-Tomato, MonkeyChunks, Monkeyboy, Mummy-Loves-You, Mutant-Supermodel, Nate's-Choice, PiranhaSexual, Red-Right-Hand, Roboshemp, Space-Pontiff, Squeezy-Cheez, Urinetoast, Voodoo-Doll, YellaBelly, Zartz!, TwelveTonFishstick, TwelveTonSushi, A.C.M.E.-Explosive!-Bold, A.C.M.E.-Explosive!, GrungeUpdate, Mothership, Twelve-Ton-Goldfish, Whoop-Ass, WickedQueen BB, Winter-in-Gotham, 13 O Clock, ACMEInternational, ChroniclesofaHero, ChroniclesofaHeroBold, FanboyHardcore, KidKosmic, LetterOMatic, MangaTemple, GorillaMilkshake, Caeldera, Belizarius, Bottix, ChatteryTeeth, OrangeFizz, OrangeFizzItalic, Pythia, SpiritMedium. Direct access.
Commercial fonts: Knuckle Sandwich, Utility Belt, Tentacle Jones, Rocketboy, Seargent Six-Pack, Secret Identity, Edible Pet 3, Piekostype, LintMcCree Mysteries, Doc Seismic, Mike Allred's AAA, AAARGH, Allred's Aliens Invade, Asteroids for Lunch, Action Away, Allred's Amazing Stupendous, ArmorPiercing, Mars Police, Irezumi, Holy Macxkerel, Hudson VC, CreepingEvil, BlambotPro (great), Creeping Evil, Rooftop Run, AAA Redmeat, Eurocomic, Comic Geek, Jack Armstrong (nice), Rivenshield (useful), Howard Bros (nice), Mighty Zeo, Cajun Boogie, Betty Noir, Sand Diego '02, Wrecking Ball, Miskatonic, Roswell Wreckage, WizardSpeak, Glass Jam, BucketOBlood, Three Arrows, Damn Noisy Kids, Humbucker, Oh Crap, Caveman, Blambot Casual, 10CentComics, BettyNoir, BigBlokeBB, BlamDudeBB, BlamDudeBBItalic, CajunBoogie, DetectivesInc, Irezumi, IrezumiItalic, SpiritMedium, VanHelsing.
Over 1000 free fonts here: 10CentSoviet, 10CentSovietBold, ACMEExplosive, ACMEExplosiveBold, ACMESecretAgent, ACMESecretAgentBold, ACMESecretAgentItalic, AleandWenchesBB, AleandWenchesBBBold, AndroidNation, AndroidNationBold, AndroidNationItalic, AnimeAce, AnimeAceBold, AnimeAceItalic, Arcanum, ArcanumBold, ArcanumItalic, ArmorPiercing, ArmorPiercing20BB, ArmorPiercing20BBItalic, ArmorPiercingItalic, ArrrMateyBB, BadaBoomBB, BattleLines, BettyNoir, BigBlokeBB, BlamDudeBB, BlamDudeBBItalic, BlambotCustom, Bottix, BottleRocketBB, BottleRocketBBBold, Caeldera, CajunBoogie, CatholicSchoolGirlsBB, ChroniclesofaHero, ChroniclesofaHeroBold, CreativeBlockBB, CreativeBlockBBBold, CrimeFighterBB, CrimeFighterBBBold, DamnNoisyKids, DarkArtsBB, DetectivesInc, DigitalStrip, DigitalStripBold, DigitalStripItalic, DwarfSpiritsBB, EvilGeniusBB-Bold, EvilGeniusBB, FanboyHardcore, FanboyHardcoreBold, FanboyHardcoreItalic, FatStackBB, FeastofFleshBB, FeastofFleshBBItalic, FeedbackBB, FeedbackBBItalic, FlyboyBB, GorillaMilkshake, GorillaMilkshakeItalic, Irezumi, IrezumiItalic, JackLanternBB, KeelhauledBB, KeelhauledBBBold, KidKosmic, KidKosmicBold, KidKosmicItalic, LetterOMatic, LetterOMaticBold, LetterOMaticItalic, MainframeBB, MainframeBBBold, MangaTemple, MangaTempleBold, MangaTempleItalic, MarsPolice, MarsPoliceItalic, MightyZeo20, MightyZeo20Bold, MightyZeo20Italic, MightyZeoCaps20, MightyZeoCaps20Bold, MightyZeoCaps20Italic, Miskatonic, MouthBreatherBB, MouthBreatherBBBold, NewsflashBB, OhCrap, OhCrudBB, OrangeFizz, OrangeFizzItalic, PraetoriumBB, PsiphoonBB, Pythia, RagingRedLotusBB-Italic, RagingRedLotusBB, RoswellWreckage, SanitariumBB, SantasBigSecretBB, SergeantSixPack, SevenMonkeyFuryBB, SevenSwordsmenBB, ShockTherapyBB-Italic, ShockTherapyBB, SpectreVerdeBB, SpectreVerdeBBBold, SpiritMedium, SwingSetBB, TurntablzBB, TurntablzBBBold, TwelveTonFishstick, TwelveTonSushi, Umberto, Vampiress, VillageIdiotBB, WarmongerBB, WebLettererBB, WebLettererBBBold, WhoopAss, WickedQueenBB, WizardSpeak, WizardSpeakWorn, Yoshitoshi, YoshitoshiBold, YoshitoshiItalic, ZudJuice, ZudJuiceBold, ZudJuiceItalic.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link.

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Blank Sub (or: Subqi; or: Blankids; was: Bombas Type)
[Amir Subqi Setiaji]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based type foundry set up in 2017 by two independent foundries, Blankids (Bangkit Setiadi) and Subqi (Amir Subqi Setiaji). Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the Victorian typefaces Sacred Bridge (2017: co-designed by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji) and Barakah (2017), the script typeface Alyssum Blossom (2017), and the signage typeface Mattoa (2017, co-designed by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji).

In 2018, he designed Headster (signage type), Hondurhas and Black Drama (a free Victorian typeface, with Bangkit Setiadi).

Typefaces from 2019: Sholaria (luxurious calligraphy), Hophus Roghus (a Victorian typeface by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji), Crumble, Hondurhas (a vintage typeface family by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji), Hungry Beast (a Victorian typeface by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji).

Typefaces from 2020: Alstoria (a decorative serif by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji).

Typefaces from 2021: Royal Grande (an old English blackletter with a variable font option), Rotten Banquet (a 19th century / Victorian display typeface), Kovanov (a 14-style serif), Bilgosia (a display serif family), Rosvard (a layerable vintage all caps font by Amir Subqi Setiaji and Bangkit Tri Setiadi). Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Blankcraft (was: Fallen Type, or: Fallen Graphic)
[Vava Aryanto]

Karanganyar, Indonesia-based designer of the upright script typefaces Lettering Script (2018), Rosalinda (2018), Roxxette (2018) and Allabama (2018), the handcrafted Minnesotta (sic) (2018), and the grungy typefaces Xsodux (2018), Stikers (2018) and Kaze (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Quitgan Script (signage script), The Spooky Time (a beatnik font), Sunday (bold sans), Bythemis Quertas (script), Elegant, Voques (all caps), Brongline Presiom, Summer Tropical, Alarate Script, Letterhear (calligraphic) Frayhord Monoline, Situgintu, Rubinetto (a signage script), Rottrydam Wargna, The Hartes, Mosgrade, Fashion Script, Charllie (upright script), Originality Script, Friday Worst Letters, Silhouette.

Typefaces from 2020: Bogies Bird, Tilmans (a fine decorative serif), Goovy Modice (a psychedelic serif), Revitale (a Victorian display typeface), Former Broston, Choges (a creamy serif), Youth Cow, Boxes Dream, Follio Cooper (a creamy script), Cats Style, Minoila, Ameliya, Hummingbird, Loveline, Hisyam, Brightlast (a retro script), The Heglio (a formal script), Monthella, Motgan (weathered textured caps), Bronxi (a flared all caps sans), Revolage (a vintage sans serif and monolinear script pair), Quentes Fleur (spurred, Victorian), Midnight Story, Hella Mella, Daylight, Xiolien, Flawless, Tails Mermaid, Havana, California Sunrise, Range Orange, Mallaba, Banbos (a dry brush script), Anattalia (script), Bright Sunkiss (script), Rattaullie (a beatnik typeface), Imagine Dreams, Schuttezerg Script, Makgraf Script (for signage), Sweet Duck, Theyriad Script (signage script), Hilgreds Script (a nice fat signage script), The Matesih (a plump signage script), Othersight Script, Roquero (an octagonal athletics font).

Typefaces from 2021: Kinderly (a signature script), Red Ribbory (a spurred Victorian typeface), Red Ribbory (a spurred Victorian typeface), Muriely (a warm if not mischievous display serif), Amigo (a script), Thinkers (a dry brush script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Blankids Studio
[Bangkit Tri Setiadi]

Nengtak, Bangunjiwo, Kasian, Bantul, Semarang and Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of Marchell (2017: copperplate calligraphic script), Bluesky (2017), Kallisa Script (2017: brush), the signage typeface Mattoa (2017, co-designed by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji), Blandes (2017: brushed signage font), Slender (2017: signature font), Sacred Bridge (2017: co-designed by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji), Wildcats (2017: vintage signage font), Alentine (2017, brush style), Black Django (2017), Rockaboy (2017, signage), Raidand (2017, brush signage script) and Conjure (2017, Victorian).

Typefaces from 2018: Flanella, Clarissa, Kallisa (dry brush), Funkies (signage script), Monthelo (a retro signage script), Chomolatte, Anthemis (a heavy signage script), Northead (a vintage display typeface), Quiska, Fresty, Old Finlander (Victorian), Black Drama (a free Victorian typeface), Blackjack (sign painter font).

Typefaces from 2019: Sagesta, Hayline, Old Finlander (a blackletter vampire font), Streamzy (a great graffiti font), Questario, Heatting, Bubble Boom (defined by graffiti and comic books), Brigherdz, Black Night (a horror font), Sporter (octagonal), Orlande (brush script), Dayland (formal calligraphy), Birallina, Stonekids (a layerable signage script for children's books), Beautiful Roses (a swashy calligraphic font duo), Butchery, Heykido, Queenline (monoline, swashy), Letter Marker, Frenda (a monoline retro signage script), Rockadelic (signage script), Bresley (a signature font), Brayles (a brush signage script), Hondurhas (a vintage typeface family by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji), Hungry Beast (a Victorian typeface by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji).

Typefaces from 2020: Anelise, Andrea Belarosa, Signatria, Happy People, Deckled, Beatney, Blezer, Bomber Squad, Lodstay (a graffiti font), Right Strongline, Westerion (spurred), Tuberosa, Lodstay (a graffiti font), Restown, Black Squad (an ominous slab serif), Graffiti Rebel, Rastelay (a brush script), Bros Rover, Hardsign, Street Hipster, Cripsy, Madelia, Paisley Cupcake, Miracle Day, Hello Valentica, Romantic Crafty, Strabela Moisty, Stay Girly, South Beast, Monstora (a playful scrapbook font), Alstoria (a decorative serif by Bangkit Tri Setiadi and Amir Subqi Setiaji), Belyard (a signage script), Barlen, Brendy-Berly, Cincha (a cartoon font), Everline (a bilined script), Feelista, Femina (a calligraphic signature script), Lemon-Squash, Lovely-Creamy, Milko-Denilo, Pretty-Yellow, Romie-Shine, Samberia, Belsmont, Bembies, Baby Monkey, Amdoly Cokie, Craptons, Danilena, Benchey, Cuty Tubby, Beirnite, Bilber Bread, Sweety Cats (a cartoon font), Andrea Bilarosa, Balgeris, Aperly, Adora Chalie, Beauty Angel.

Typefaces from 2021: Broly (a creamy blocky font that looks at first like a Hebrew emulation font), Blood Blaster (a cartoon font), Brenza (an urban mural brush font), Aloha Dance (a tiki font), Gresta (a chunky supermarket script font), Black Blast (a super-fat cartoon font), Star Blast (a fat cartoon font), Stone Ocean (beatnik vernacular lettering), Berlion, Vampire Zone (a horror font), Brockers (a graffiti font), Bomber Throw (a bubblegum font), Helsky (a playful font), Scream Zombie, Ageoline (a sign painting script), Airneo (a graffiti font), Cristone (a tattoo blackletter font), Square Spray (ultra-fat), Street Lord (inspired by murals), Rosvard (a layerable vintage all caps font by Amir Subqi Setiaji and Bangkit Tri Setiadi), Loving Kitten (a scrapbook font), Urban Rebel (a plump graffiti font), Bolgen (a sketched font), Mondeline (a signature script), Bomber Squad (a graffiti font), Algeline (a wild script), Hello Almeida (a fat finger font), Northead, Belgetha (handwritten), Hello Valentica, Romantic Heart, Street Urban (a plump graffiti font), Bondy Quirky (a scrapbook font), Slenderline (a signature script), Diamonda (handwriting), Biber Beard (an all caps children's book font), Morthena (a copperplate script), Deliosa, Almeida Script, Hello Nightmare, Rough Letterline, Wildcats (a signage script).

Typefaces from 2022: Smack Boom (a cartoon font).

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Blessed Print
[Dmitrii Mikitenko]

Dmitrii Mikitenko (Blessed Print, Chisinau, Moldova) created the connected brush script typefaces BetterFly (2015) and Miletta, and the calligraphic (wedding) scripts TheSecret and Flamingo in 2015. Other early typefaces include Draft Cheese, Graficx, Holiday, Kiss Me, Linella, Masterink, Modern Script, Patteson, Rotundio, Shrifton, Sunse Fun, TheSecret, Trajan, and Zippy.

Typefaces from 2016: Mozart Script (formal calligraphic or wedding script), Blessed Script, Blessed Appetite Sans, Blessed Mamaliga Condensed Serif, Amelia Script.

Typefaces from 2017: The Wedding Script (Spencerian), The Creative, Sophia Script (a great swashy calligraphic typeface family), Dorotthy Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Betterfly, Cardinal (a great weathered medieval calligraphic script), Charlotte (free script font).

Typefaces from 2019: BP BlackWhite (a copperplate calligraphic script typeface by Dmitrii Mikitenko and Sabina Aliyarova), Outstanding Victoria (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2020: Creative Vintage (in the orbit of Cooper Black).

Typefaces from 2021: Ecatherina (a 15-style copperplate calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bloom XXVI

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the brush typefaces Flow Oil Paint (2017, OpenType SVG format), Thinks (2017, OpenType SVG format), Heady Rough (2017, dry brush, SVG), Matthew Rough (2017), Velowley (2017), and Discovar (2017), the sans typeface Carbon (2017), Salvathore (2017, pure Victoriana), the handcrafted poster typeface Majestic (2017) and the calligraphic typefaces Nuvaticia (2017) and Olwas (2017).

Typefaces from 2018 include Charles Swarel, Floatwod (Victorian), Scarletto, Harbour, Jamsuit, Macquina, Bouquet (flowery caps), Phelovetica, Beverley (a signage script), Phelovetica (a feminine script), and Nuvaticia (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Blossom
[Ann Way]

Designer of the stylish Belluno (2016), the thick brush typeface Comely (2016), the thin Verona (2016) and Florence (2016), the textured Valencia (2016), the blackboard bold typeface Lucca (2016), and the high-contrast roman typeface Adelaide (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Misano Adriatico, Genova, Siena, Palermo, Lavanga (script), Ostuni (a sketched font), Colibri (connected script), Ravello, Marble, Todi, Adelaide, Sam, Rimini, Olbia, Sanremo (curly script), Andria (calligraphic), Simple (sans), Empoli (upright script), Pavia. [Google] [More] ⦿

Blue Studio
[Winarno]

Semarang, Jawa Tengah-based designer (b. 1979) of the script typefaces Polarise (2018), Naila (2018), Anjellic (2018), Anjellic Sans (2018), Yello Lemon (2018), Bettrish (2018, +Italic) and Little Heart (2018), the signature script typeface Shellomita (2018), the calligraphic script Chelosia (2018), and Gellato (2018: all caps headline typeface), Black Pepper (2018: rounded sans) and Bucharest (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Collega, Strings, Miss Catlyne, Herlyna (a signature script), Salika, Grand Junction (a signature font duo), Romantic Couple (script), Vanilla Twilight (+Script), Bonita (script), Tropical Summer (dry brush script), Tropical Summer Signature, Phillips Muler (font duo), Carllitos (calligraphic script), The Wave, Silenter (a great formal calligraphic typeface), The Bronkids (dry brush), Mugello (a formal calligraphic font), Sabyan, Insta Story (Sans, Script, Signature), Crasher (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2020: England, Real Love, Saritha, Callina, Delima, Scribble Child.

Typefaces from 2021: Kinteland (an inky script), Mood Boosters (a monoline script), Roasting (a dry brush script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Blue Vinyl
[Jess Latham]

Blue Vinyl (est. 1997) has free and commercial designs by Jess Latham (b. 1974, Birmingham, AL).

The early typefaces (before 2003): Grumble (1999, grunge), Hot Fudge (2003), Dia De Los Muertos BV (2003, Halloween-style dingbats), Delorita BV (2003), Dance Craze (2002), Redford (2002, black display font), CharmsBV (2002, dingbats), LearningCurve BV (for children), HornyDevils, Princess (girls stuff dings), TurnTable (2001), Vinyl Smooth (2001), StereoLab, 60sChic, Airwave, Cafe Noire, Lucky Charms, Punk Rock, Chains, Slasher, Blue Melody, Sugar Coma (1999, junk food dingbats), Metal on Metal, Hearts, Crushed Out Girl, Nuwave, Deco Cafe, Screen, Rock Star (dingbats), Gothic Ultra Trendy, Film Star, Mary Jane, Turning Japanese, Lushus, Rockabilly, (my favorite thick display letters) Moma Grape, Modular 2000, Cyber Phonic, Comic Zine (3d), Grrlz Stuff, Retro Bats, Terrible Nervz, Pop Up, Moonbow, Tropicana (Luau dingbats), Tiki Tooka, That 70's Ding, Karaoke Superstar, Pippi, Pocket Calculator, Kool Ding, Kool Ding 2, LittleTroubleGirl, Grumble, SeeingStars, AllStarBV, Awesome80sBV, HellcatsBV, HotRodGangBV, Stereolab, SweetHeartsBV, BumbleBeeBV, CandyStoreBV, CHAINSColorFill, ComicZine, CHAINS, EeronautsBV, Charms, Film-Star, JimmyDoodles, LooseCruseBold, LooseCruse, MODULAR, MonkeyWrench, OneTrickPony, PubertyStrike, PUNKROCKColorFill, PUNKROCK, Plexifont (see-through letters), SeeingStars, SooperDooper, TerribleNerves, Pandamonium BV, TrickorTreatBV, WebstarBV, Sonic Reverb (2003), Jacks (2003), Rodeo Girl BV (2003, handwriting), Jacks BV (2003, free), Majorette, Albedo, Retroclassics (two dingbat fonts), Westmore BV, KnockOut, Spellbound (2000), Speedway, Chocolate Mint Surprise, Pinky, Sparky, Glamorous, Bohemian Garden Party (1999), Fashionista (brush), Pink Martini, ValentinesBV, Macrame BV One (2002, single, double and triple-lined commercial font), Macrame Super Triline (2002), Redford BV (2002), Charms, Wedding Wishes (2002, dingbats), Bric A Brac BV (2002), Meringue BV (2002, handprinting), Retro Classics 3BV (2002, dingbats), Roller Baby BV (2003).

2004: Swan Song (calligraphic), Shimmer (connected cursive handwriting), Spin Cycle, Rock Star 2.0 (dings), Gros Marqueur (marker pen typeface).

2005: MyScars, My Bleeding Scars, Azuki (Japanese brush simulation), Taroca, Taroca Extras.

2006: BV Sans (2006), PrintClearly (2006, children's orthographics).

2007: Save Her (ecological dingbats), Confection (fancy script), Parsley Script, Pointed Brush.

2008: Synthetique (dot matrix), Lavender Script (calligraphic), Giant Head (ultra fat signage face), Synthetique (thin dot matrix), Print Clearly, Dashed and Bold (simple sans), Disko (comic book style).

2010: Darlena (a swashy didone), Italian Hand (a connected script), Love Romance (Valentine's day dingbats), Patchouli Display (2009-2010), Secret Admirer (connected script).

2011: Fancier Script (signage face), Garden Brush (a flowing brush script).

2013: Blue Vinyl (signage script). Barmbrack (a decorative, almost sign-painted typeface).

2014-2015: Felt That (connected marker script).

2016: Relation (connected retro brush script).

2017: Head Turn (handwriting), Said In Script (handwritten cursive script).

2018: Enticing Script.

2020: Fudge Sauce.

Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. Klingspor link.

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Bo Berndal

Swedish designer born in 1924 in Stockholm. He says of himself: Compositor, Linotype operator, teacher of typography. Type designer in a small matrix factory 1950-51. Calligrapher, book designer, author, lecturer and trade mark specialist. Now retired, but does type design as a hobby and to special orders for museums, ad agencies, companies and even to private persons. His typefaces:

Art Gallery (Monotype).
Batory (T4).
Batoswash (T4).
Belltrap (1995, ITC).
Benedict (uncial).
Beowulf (uncial).
Berndal (2003, Linotype).
Boberia (1994, Linotype). A formidable didone text family with an antique bouquet.
Boscribe (2005, Monotype).
Bosis (1991, Monotype). A sans.
Botobe (2011, T4). An informal script.
Brigida (Monotype).
Buccardi (1998, Monotype).
Byngve (2004, Linotype). In the style of 15th century Italy.
Caballero Script (2011, T4). Inspired by Spanish handwriting from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Carl Beck Script (1992 Monotype).
Cartesius (2006, T4). A beautiful 5-style family done at T4 in a mix of garalde and Venetian fashions.
Linotype Dala (2002, Linotype). A Fraktur, accompanied by Linotype Dala Pics and Linotype Dala Borders.
Eknaton (T4).
Esseltube (Monotype).
Euclides.
Exlibris (1998, ITC).
Frisans (2005, Monotype).
Geometra (2011, T4).
Gertrud (2006, T4). Based on 16th century calligraphy).
Gianpoggio (1992).
Golota (1998, Agfa).
Grafilone (1994, Linotype). An avant-garde family that is almost illegible.
Grantofte (1995, Monotype).
Hagalind (2011, T4). A calligraphic connected script. Linotype Hieroglyphes One and Two (2002).
Jerrywi (1994).
Johabu (Monotype). A blackletter typeface.
Lacko (Monotype)
Lebensjoy (1994, Monotype).
Logoform (Monotype).
Magellan (1993, Monotype).
Maricava (Monotype).
Mixtra Roman (T4).
Mixtra Sansserif (T4).
Mixtra Slabserif (T4).
Moorbacka (Monotype).
Naniara (1998).
Nordik (1992, Monotype). A revival of Genzsch Antiqua or Nordische Antiqua (1906, Genzsch & Heyse).
Olaus Bandus and Olaus Magnus. Medieval scripts.
Ornabo dingbats.
Palekin (1994, Monotype).
Pelegotic (2006, T4). An art deco inspired but minimalist sans.
Picadyll (2011, T4). Art deco.
PocketType (1994).
Promemoria.
Ringlingje.
Sabellicus (1997, Monotype).
Sergel (T4).
Siseriff (2003, Linotype).
SpaceKid (Monotype). Runes.
Swing Bill (Monotype).
Trotzkopf (1998).
Tyma Garamont (T4).
Unotype (1997, Monotype). Monospaced.
Vadstenakursive (1989, Monotype). a blackletter typeface with almost Lombardic-looking capitals.
Viger Spa (runes).
Linotype Zurpreis (Linotype).

Pelle Anderson interviews Bo Berndal. Bitstream write-up. Agfa/Monotype write-up. Author of Typiskt typografiskt (Fisher and co, 1990). MyFonts page. Linotype page. MyFonts interview. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Bo Berndal's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Editorial and graphic designer in Barcelona, b. 1990, who studied at Elisava in Barcelona (2008-2012), the Cooper Union in New York (2014) and the Typemedia program at KABK, class of 2016. In 2018, he joined the faculty in the Masters of Type Design program at Elisava in Barcelona.

He designed a macho poster headline face in 2012. His graduation typeface at KABK is Lanka. Lanka uses stencil effects in calligraphy, and is inspired by Francisco Palomares's book Arte nueva de escribir (1776). He produced several stencil and text styles for an attractive and highly original ensemble.

In 2019, he released the curvy stencil family Laima at TypeTogether. Laima won an award at 23TDC. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bolt Cutter Design (or: Mahoney Fine Arts)

Creators in 2008 of a series of detailed free fonts: Eutemia (connected calligraphic script), Deborah Extra Ornaments, Prozac Buzz (grungy and neurotic), Phat Grunge Bold, Metal Macabre (scary), Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinKiev, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinStarets (all Cyrillic simulation typefaces), Deborah Fancy Dress (saloon font), Deborah (1880s style).

Full list, at the end of 2008: AngstRidden (angst-ridden handwriting, dated 2002 under the label Mahoney Fine Arts), Bolt-Cutter-Light, Bolt-Cutter-Nasty, Bolt-Cutter, CSAR-Italic, CSARVESTMENT (illuminated caps), Bloody Irish Bastard or Congeal (2001), Deborah (Western), DeborahCondensed, DeborahExtrasOrnaments, DeborahFancyDress, Dominatrix, EutemiaI-Italic, EutemiaII-BoldItalic, EutemiaIII-BoldItalic, EutemiaOrnaments, GeneticEngine, GideonPlexus, KREMLINMINISTRY-DemiBoldItalic, Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, Kremlin-Soviet-Italic, Kremlin-Tsaritsa-Italic, Kremlin, KremlinAdviser, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinComrade, KremlinCzar, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmperor-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinImperial, KremlinKiev, KremlinKommisar, KremlinKourier-II, KremlinKourierII-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-BoldItalic, KremlinMinister-Black, KremlinMinister-Bold, KremlinMinister, KremlinMinisterBlack3D-Bold, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinPravda-Italic, KremlinPravda, KremlinPremier, KremlinStarets, KremlinSynod, MarquisDeSade, MarquisDeSadeAlternates, MarquisDeSadeOrnaments, Kremlin Chairman, Metal-Macabre, NewSymbolFont, ODINS-SPEAR-HOLLOW (2002, runes), ODINS-SPEAR (runic), OurSacredRights-Bold, PhatGrunge-Bold, Precious (calligraphic), StarmanCrusader, TEK-HED-AGGRESIVE (the TEK (techno) series is from 2003), tEK-HED-ANGRY, TEK-HED-BOLIMIC, TEK-HED-LAZY, TekHedRegular, ThorsHammerCarved (2008, chiseled look), csar, csarparadedress. Fonts from 2009: Vlad tepes II (creepy).

Fonts from 2010: Sarcophagus.

Fonts from 2012: Baris Cerin (a bastardized Garamond caps face).

Fonts from 2013: Precious (connected formal script).

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Bonjour Type
[Rara Voenna]

Aka Rachma BT. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the connected calligraphic script typefaces Starheart (2015), Sitimerry (2015), Boboiboy NewYork (2015), Milagros (2015), Khanza (2015) and Laurence (2015), and Cute Baby Script (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Cinderella (watercolor brush), Stand Book (connected script), Sepatik Script, Yusniar Script, Feel Script, Hangout, Letter Girls, Starheart, Long Shine Script, Feedback Script (high-contrast calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2017: Kimberly, Mariesa, Murano, Paradiso, Camsia Script, Author, Siesta, Asmila Script, Goodies, Kayla Script (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Endless, Canadia, Miraluna.

Typefaces from 2019: Wattever, Outlander, Ellisa, Girlboss, Love Surely, Blueberry.

Typefaces from 2020: Imstory, Relaxme, Beauty Green, Mindlove (a fat finger font), Geysha Script, Ashley Jarrow, Bobolboy, Artlove.

Typefaces from 2021: Andara, Long Shine Script (a fluid calligraphic typeface), Bownjax (a fat finger font), Artlove, Blackmate (a dry brush script), Canadia (a fat finger font), Alphard, Jungoat. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bonnie Clas

Bonnie Clas has completed her B.F.A. and M.F.A. at Savannah College of Art and Design as a major in Graphic Design with a minor in Drawing. She has been developing her career by taking positions as a designer, illustrator, and letterer for SpotCo, Rodrigo Corral Design, and Hsu+Associates in Manhattan. She lives in New York City. Creator of TWD Sans (2011, semi-blackletter), Mecano Neue (2011), Kule Script (calligraphic, for a clothing brand), Kule Slab (2011, didone), Lady Chatterly (curly fashion mag face), Lacie (curly typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), Methodenstreit (2011, arts and crafts face), Habana (2011, Lost Type), Feverish (2011, experimental), Burlesque (art deco). She also did the lettering for tens of projects. [Google] [More] ⦿

Boondox
[Michael Sharpe]

Free package in 2011 maintained at the CTAN TeX archive by Michael Sharpe from UCSD, who writes: The PostScript fonts in this package were derived from the STIX OpenType collection, with regular and bold weights of calligraphic, fraktur and double-struck (aka blackboard bold). The font names: BoondoxCalligraphic-Bold, BoondoxCalligraphic-Regular, BoondoxDoubleStruck-Bold, BoondoxDoubleStruck-Regular (blackboard bold style), BoondoxFraktur-Bold, BoondoxFraktur-Regular. Still in 2011, he published Dutch Calligraphic, a reworking of Elzevier's free math calligraphic font ESSTX13. Another CTAN download site. [Google] [More] ⦿

Boris Kahl

Born in 1975 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Kahl graduated in 2001 from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim. Boris Kahl is Art Director of the German advertising agency MAGMA (Büro für Gestaltung) since 2001. He cofounded the German type and design weblog Slanted. His type designs are published at Volcano Type (Karlsruhe):

Athletic lettering: Sports (grungy, with Lars Harmsen), Sports Skinny.
Blackletter: Frakturbo, Fraktendon (=Fraktur+Clarendon, co-designed with Harmsen)
Dingbats: Mr. J. Smith Eye, Mr. J. Smith Head, Mr. J. Smith Mouth, Mr. J. Smith Nose, and Mr. J. Smith Wanted are experimental dingbat typefaces by Nikolaii Renger, based on an idea of Lars Harmsen, and digitized by Ulrich Weiss and Boris Kahl. These won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. Multigenic are a collection of black and white boxes and rectangles (free).
Dot matrix typefaces: C64 (original Commodore 64 font), Doublepoint (five styles), Monopoint (three styles), Rollerblind, Rollerblind Grid
Grungy: Mud (free), Psycho, Poke
Hand-drawn: Decomic Oblique
LED style: Digibeck, Strichcode (a family co-designed with Harmsen).
Kitchen tile typefaces: Bus, Bus PI.
Patriot family, done with Lars Harmsen: Saddam, Commander Robot, Fidel, Slobbodan, Osama, George.
Pixel typefaces: Amiga, Screeny, Pixel, C64, Fette Pixel
Script typefaces: Filou (free, three styles)
Techno typefaces: DigiBo, Teckbo (2002. Boris Kahl writes: Retro-Avant-Garde for Club-Flyer-Honks and Plastic-Pussy-Chicks)
Uncial: Chaucer

free fonts at Dafont include Filou Medium (2010, calligraphic).

View Boris Kahl's typefaces.

Klingspor link. Dafont link. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bosstype Studio
[Mu Fazzal]

Indonesia-based designer in 2021 of Sophia (a 4-style serif with terminals on the ascenders that look like tilted inverted umbrellas), Magdesa (an upright scrapbook script), Hello Georgia Script (an upright script), Fantasy Script (a bold upright script), Holly Jolly (a script), Pretty Sweet (a scrapbook script), Girabella (formal calligraphic), Glamour Script (calligraphic), Briliana (a romantic script), Hello Bella (calligraphic), Baby Morgana (a script), Baby Girl (a scrapbook script), Belarisha (a script) and James Sophia (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2022: Antonella (a scrapbook script), Jealousy Heart (a scrapbook script), Aftermath (a 40-style geometric sans), Remesterad (an upright signature script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

BoyBeaver Foundry
[Ignacio Frances]

Foundry with one freebie, Irene Frances Italic Caps. All fonts in type 1 and TrueType, Mac and PC. Commercial fonts: the great subdued calligraphic Turbayne Collection, the Morgan and Morgan Sticks display font, and the stylish Deco font Habana Moon stand out. Other fonts: AbeAbeAbeAbeAbe, Berngard, BoyBeaver Koloss, Granma, Granma Bones, Runninghand, ZigZagBoy, Randi. I guess all fonts are made by Ignacio Frances. Irene Frances is Ignacio's mother. [Google] [More] ⦿

Brady Clark

Logo designer who did some nice lettering, including the logo for "Pleasure Box" (great!!!) and "Suck" (a satiric publication). [Google] [More] ⦿

Bran (or: Fractal Eye)
[Abraham Beltran]

Mexican graphic designer, b. 1986, who lives in Hermosillo. He created a number of typefaces, some of which are free. Also known as Fractal Eye.

The list of fonts, all made between 2006 and 2008: Tulip, Fragments of Eter (2007, upright connected paperclip script), Next Level (display sans), Ironbeauty, Esquizofrenia (grunge), Nü, Yellow Move (a great art deco sans), The King and Queen (2007, grunge medieval calligraphy), Foelia (dot matrix), Ank (2007, grungy sketch face), Nü Creactivo 2008 (spurred Western face), Further, One and Four, Quiñók (2007, experimental), Defekto (2007, gothic), Mondula (more calligraphic grunge).

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Brenda Walton

Northern Californian illustrator and calligrapher. She designed ITC Cancione (1997), which includes some floral ornaments and tendril-like flourishes. Straight from the wineries in Napa Valley.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Brian A. Jaramillo
[LetterCult]

Brian J. Bonislawsky
[Astigmatic One Eye]

Brian Kindle

Paris-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Victor Hugo (2013), New Man (2013, textured and stylish), Candylicious (2013), the vintage condensed typeface Orient Express (2013), and the wood log typeface Wonder of Yosemite (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Bright Ideas Fonts
[Rick Hutchinson]

A foundry which made over 500 fonts, mostly in 1998-1999, and was located in Carlsbad, CA, where Gail Conwell edited their Bright Ideas Magazine at that time, and Rick Hutchinson is listed as one of the directors / managers / owners. Dafont link. Another URL. Font Squirrel link.

Typefaces in alphabetical order with a few additional fonts mentioned separately later: Abraham, Accumulation, Adderley, Aerosol, Akimbo, Alexander, Amadeus-Regular, Amadeus, Amadeuz, Anderson, Arkitex, Arthur, Ashley, Asphalt, Asphalt'Wicker', Avante, Aztecan, Backlit, Balcony, Banshee, Barbarian, Barnaby, Barney, Beanbag, Bender, Bicycle, Billie, BlackRose, Blanchard, Blazed, Blossom, Bodkin, Bogsley, Boingo, Bonham, Botica, Bradley, Braxton, Brittany, Brownie, Bubbly, Bullwinkle, Bumper, Bunker, Butterscotch, Cajalco, Camelot, Candles, CandlesChrome, Candy, Canterbury, Cappuccino, Capsule, Carbiner, Carousel, Carrington, Carson, Casanova, Catfish, Cathedral, Catnip, Cecily, Ceremony, Challenge, Chamberlain, Chance, Chantilly, Cheetah, Chilled, Chocolate, Chopstick, Chump, Conniption, Corrigan, Corrosion, Crawford, Cyborg, Daffodil, Dakota, Danferno, DantesInferno, Darcie, Daytona, Delineator, Dementia, Diamondhead, Donika, Donnah, Dribble, Einstein, Elizabeth, Energy, Espresso, EspressoBI, FabreseDemi, Fairytale, Fallbrooke, Fiancee, Fido, Fionah, Fontana, Fonture, Fortress, Framed, Frankie, Frazier, Freddy, Frederick, Frizbee, Funhouse, Futana, Gapetto, Gatsby, Gemini, Gershaw, Gobbledygook, Godfrey, Goliath, Gonzales, Gonzo, Gothica, Graphitti, Grasshopper, Grendel, Griffin, Groovy, Habibe, Hannah, Hansel, Haskel, Havisham, Hawthorne, Henderson, Hendrix, Higgins, Highland, Holmes, Horton, Humphry, Hutchinson, Incense, Independence, IndependencefromBrightIdeas, Interpret, Invisible, Jacinda, Jacoby, Jaddarack, Jagger, Jamboe, Jangazoo, Jeremy, Jigsaw, Jokester, Joplin, Joseph, Joshua, Jubilee, Junior, Kaboom, Kamden, Karissa, Katherine, Kaufman, Kayleigh, Kendra, Kennedy, Khaki, KhakiBold, KhakiBoldOblique, KhakiOblique, Khakiripp, Khakiwrink, Kilcher, Killian, Kincade, Kingdom, Kinison, Klinker, Komodo, Kramer, Kromeon, Kryski, Kurrajong, Kyanna, Labrador, Leallie, Leland, Licorice, Limousine, Lindsy, Liquitek, Lockleer, Lockwood, Londonderry, Loyalty, Machine, Maddox, Madman, Magazine, Magellan, Maggie, Magician, Majesty, Malachite, Malone, Mandolin, Margarita, Marilyn, Marley, Marmalade, Marquardt, Martin, Mascara, Masters, McMahon, Mckinsey, Mechanizm, Meddler, Michelle, Milano, Millenium, Moccasin, Mongrel, Monolyth, Monster, Montey, Montoya, Moonstar, Morgan, Morrison, Morteza, Moteefe, Muskrat, Mustard, Napkin, Neolite, Newlywed, Nirvana, Noodles, Nouveau, OldWood, Oliver, Omicron, Pajama, Palooza, Panache, Paperclip, Papercut, Parbuckle, Parkinson, Paschico, Patches, Patriot, Patton, Payton, Pebbles, Pegasus, Perkins, Phantom, Picante, Picasso, Pickles, Pigeon, Pinhead, Pirouette, Platinum, Poodle, Pugsly, Quantum, Quentin, Radford, Ragetta, Ramirez, Rampart, Ramsey, Rapunzel, Rathskeller, Ravage, Ravish, Razor, Rebecca, Recess, Rediculous, Reefrash, Remeus, Revenge, Rhackoon, Rhodes, Ricksha, Riesling, Rockafella, Rockford, Rockola, Romance, Romulus, Rookie, Rutger, Ruxton, SMCChicago, SMCHollywood, SMCMiami, SMCMonteCarlo, SMCPhoenix, Sabien, Sampson, Samurai, Sangrial, Sapphire, Sapporo, Sawyer, Scarab, Scarlet, Scirocco, Scorpio, Scratch, Scrubblack, Scrubbold, Scrubcle, Scrublight, Sebastian, Seymour, Shakah, Shardee, Sheela, Skatty, Sketcher, Skyline, Skywalker, Snoozie, Snowboard, Squared, Stacker, Starsky, Stencil, Stencilla, Stiltskin, Sublime, Sundance, Surkle, Surrender, Swashed, Swingreg., Tagger, Tamarin, Tamborine, Tanner, Tantrum, Tarzana, Taylor, Teriyaki, Thompson, Thrash, Thrust, Tiddwell, Trapeze, Trident, Trinket, TrujillietXtra, Tuolumne, Twinkle, Tybette, Urbana, Vargas, Ventolin, Ventura, Vitrono, Vulmere, Waynne, Weiland, Whitney, Windsong, Winslow, Winton, Wonton, Wookie, Zargon, Ziggie.

Additional fonts not in the list above: Andrew, Boogie, Fracas, Mandrel, Sinclair, Tuxedo, Varsity.

Annotations:

Accumulation: a hacker font.
Amadeus: music-themed letters.
Boingo: a beautiful curly script.
Griffin: bewitched letters.
Moteefe: an art deco typeface modeled after Marcia Loeb's 1972 alphabet.
Riesling: an ornamental hairline display face.
Windsong: calligraphic script.

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Brigitte Foissac

Belgian designer (b. 1978, Brussels, based in Brussels) of fonts at Garagefonts, including the swash/calligraphic handwriting font Mockingbird (2000), which was published at Garagefonts in 2010.

Brigitte Schuster

Brigitte Schuster is a graphic designer, calligrapher and lettering artist who graduated in 2008 from Concordia University in Montreal (only one block away from Luc's house...). She wrote about herself: I am an independent Art Director (Graphic Design), Print Artist and Photographer practicing in Montreal, Canada. I am currently teaching typography and photography courses in the Graphic Design department of a college in Montreal. After attending a three-year graphic design program in Munich, Germany, I spent a few years working there both as an employee for print and web agencies, and as a freelancer. In 2005, I completed a Bachelor in Fine Arts, with a specialization in painting from the Italian Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Italy. [...] I moved to Canada in 2005 where I continued working in and for the graphic design industry. In 2008 I completed the Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice at Montreal's Concordia University. In my graphic design practice I ideally work in editorial design, also corporate branding, with a focus on typography. Over the last year or two, I developed a great interest in type, which I express in my calligraphy and lettering work and type design research. Graduate of the Masters program in type design at KABK, 2010. Author of Brush calligraphy with a tree branch (2009) and Book Designers from the Netherlands (2014). In 2013, she founded the imprint Brigitte Schuster Editeur. Presently, she lives and works in Bern, Switzerland.

Her typefaces:

Canella (2010): a book ad magazine family with the angular necessities required for small print. Part of her Masters project at KABK.
Life Sans (2008).
A revival of Monotype Plantin (2010).
Cardamon (2015 Linotype). Cardamon is an old style serif design with large x-height and a sturdy look. Its proportions are inspired by 16th century punch-cutters Hendrik van den Keere and Robert Granjon.

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Brithos Type
[Ali Hamidi]

Brithos Type was co-founded in 2020 by Ali Hamidi and Abdullah, and is located in Indonesia. Designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2020: Christmas Mint, Xet-hand Script, Briasantika, Roustel, Aremoin, Jandella, Preitysweet (formal calligraphy), Holly Jolly Christmas (alphadings), Astronauta script, Junior Prince, Xambdoria, Romansh, Hoho Christmas, Lord Spirit (a signage script), Owl Cute (a fat script), Stay and Shine (an oily typeface), Christmas Mint, Xethand Script, Halloween Fright, Little Witch (a prototypeical vampire script), Rosacfild (a script font), Sellfresh (all caps), Maribast (an upright script), Arbinova (slab serif), Sreilack (a dry brush script), Fuiraqui (upright script), Saulifriend (a breezy connected script), Quirthy, Forestland, Winter Forest, Blue Dolphin, Rounstac, Duadog, Cute Miaww, Wolland, Auntie, Be Great Fontsa, Jasdiara, Autumn Garden, Junior Prince, Romansh, Xambdoria, Yummy Ice Cream, Fatefulness, Bray Notes, Baby Names, Anissa, Downhill, Sonja Longford, Boniceta, Cuby Fox, Buble Fish, Be Great Fonsa, Jasdiara, Claria, Germaint, Marvind, Sea Horses.

Typefaces from 2021: Argufy (a chunky typeface), Gray Light (hand-printed, scrapbook style), Handy Organizer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bro Luthfi
[Mysunday]

Brody Neuenschwander

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 Roehampton 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.

Codesigner with Maciej Polczynski of Ozzy (2019, Laic). Described as calligraphic funk, this typeface cannot be properly classified.

John Berry's report of a presentation. His presentation at Sonoma State University. John Berry's report of a presentation. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Brumale
[Stefano Giliberti]

Salerno, Italy-based designer of these typefaces in 2018: Sonica (a rounded techno sans), Giordano (a geometric sans), Sauro (techno family), Deciso (octagonal / mechanical / brutalist: free), Adita (sans), Partita (a free outlined pixel font family), Marmo (slab serif), Denso (sans), Apice (a free sans), Altero (titling sans), Parco (a rounded octagonal multilined typeface family), Mani (a free set of hand icons), Sagoma (bilined), Serico (a free semi-calligraphic display typeface), (Altero (caps only sans), Animosa (free), Voluta (rounded sans, with a handicapped lower case e), Stoica (a fine monolinear sans), Anodina (free), Mandorlato (a free display typeface with almond-shaped glyphs).

Typefaces from 2019: Osmica.

Typefaces from 2021: Desta (a squarish family in 18 styles, with some styles branded neon), Agosto (a dry brush script with calligraphic roots). Blog.

Typefaces from 2022: Valerio (a high contrast boutique serif). [Google] [More] ⦿

Bruna Ferreira

Caldas de Sao Jorge, Portugal-based designer of the calligraphic font Laquie (2014-2015) for a school project. In 2016, she designed the display typeface Olivatype. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bruno Battistel

Based in Caballito, Argentina, Bruno Battistel created the Haiga Serif typeface and the calligraphic Ministry Script in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bruno Bernard
[Alfab]

Bruno Ulbatt

Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Wedding Joy (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿

Brush Lettering

Brush Lettering is a tutorial book written by Eliza Holliday and Marilyn Reaves. [Google] [More] ⦿

Bung Letter
[Muhammad Nazar]

Sigli, Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of swashy and flamboyant calligraphic typefaces. In 2020, he released Baby Gatera (script), Georgia Delina (script), Belgin (an upright calligraphic script), Hello Springbet (font duo), The Austin (a calligraphic script), Austin, The Briantone (swashy calligraphic), Adeviya Adewiya, Dayton Script (for which Bungletter credits Daniel Saracheco, Monotype Studio, Phil's Fonts and InkaFont without saying why or who did what), Stephen, Yollina Script, Belgia and Hephiya. Non-calligraphic typefaces from 2020 include Myhoney (textured), Hello, and Springtime (a script font).

Typefaces from 2021: Holiday Meladine (a swashy calligraphic script), Nervani Romantic (an 8-style hand-crafted sans), Best Sinthya (script), Gadista Script, Hello Banthen (a swashy calligraphic script), Salgitha (a dazzling wild inky calligraphic script), Andita (a thin swashy monoline script), Hanitha (a script), Aston Ranger (an upright script), Baby Hosthin (script), Blossom (a starry script), Hello Ketiy (an upright script), Adelia Rehan (a rabbit ear script), Adeviya Adewiya (calligraphic), The Piraglen (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2022: Village Rabigen (a scrapbook script), Hilender Rhapsody (a scrapbook Valentine's Day script), Sophia Honey (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Burhan Afif
[HansCo]

Burhanul Jauhar Arifin
[Shakatype]

Burntilldead
[Eric Kurniawan]

Eric Kurniawan (or Burntilldead, b. 1986) is located in Bali, Indonesia. He created the vintage script typeface The Goldsmith Vintage (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Lazarus (a brush font), Bestters Supply (signage script), The Wild Hammers, Ramblin Script, Ramblin Sans, Angeline Vintage (brush typeface), Victorian Deco (more Victoriana), Steelworks (letterpress), Angeline (swashy brush script), La Petitenget, Azarus (brush style), Victorian Parlor (Victorian).

Typefaces from 2017: Dandeleon, American Whiskey, Vulturemotor (with Gusti Ngurah Widiantara), Sandglow (signage script).

Typefaces from 2018: Renaissance Garden (vintage), Victorian Fonts Collection (which consists of King Edward (Edwardian) and Queen Victoria (Victorian)), Billyforges (weathered letterpress style; with Ade Meida and I Gusti Widiantara).

Typefaces from 2019: Victorian Decade (18 fonts: +Gradient, +Outline, by Eric Kurniawan and Ade Meiada).

Typefaces from 2020: Alocasia (Sans, Script and Serif), Victorian Supremacy (an 11-style ornate Victorian / blackletter typeface family), Galactus (sci-fi), Prestissimo Classy (Serif and Script: the Script features copperplate calligraphy), Historium and Historia (a weathered vintage typeface), Sportage (a squarish sports font).

Typefaces from 2021: Mashbro, Barones (a vintage label font), Arterium (a vintage Victorian label font family), Veinline (a vintage script font), Bonitalia (script), Alota (funky and groovy 1970s font), Energize (techno), Metalsmith (a weathered all caps typeface), Bower (an early computer emulation font), Broto, Celestic (a decorative partly psychedelic serif), Dellucion (an art nouveau serif), Glitcher (a great art nouveau typeface), Greta, Lazarus, Racer Boy (a techno family), Silly Kids, The Sitcom (a retro script).

Typefaces from 2022: Mooners (a spurred Victorian liqueur font), Morvem (an 18-style psychedelic typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bustami Harun
[Genesis Lab]

Bykineks
[Dede Kurniawan]

Sukabumi, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1998) of the angry signage script typeface Zarra (2020). In 2021, he designed Wakaba (an ink bleed script). In 2022, he released Gin (blackletter calligraffiti) and Agasthiya Rococo (a spurred rococo script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Byuly Ayika

Designer in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, who created a few script typefaces in 2015, including Angelista, Free Your Mind, Victoria, Culinera, Shapely, Distro, Ulyana and Relaxing.

Typefaces from 2016: Kimberlay (calligraphic script), Free Your Mind (handcrafted), Hysteria Sans, Hysteria (calligraphic script), Magenta, Ghisella (calligraphic script), Rosaline, Angelista, Axellaria, Smileheart (calligraphic script), Ambassador (formal connected script), Comely (flowing script), Fashionista (brush style), Prestige, Brightlight, Catherine (connected calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2017: Misgaretha (calligraphic), Magnificent (formal calligraphy), Synthesia (calligraphic), Angelique (calligraphic), Wellthington (calligraphic), Mainstream, Mystified (calligraphic), Exellentia (calligraphic), Kayleight (calligraphic script), Juliane (script), Carlington (calligraphic), Bellagio (connected script), Shinelight (calligraphic), Cornelia (calligraphic), Spotlight (script). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cahaya Noer

Pasar Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of some calligraphic script typefaces in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calamar Art (or: Calamar Studio)
[Oksana Petrenko]

Lviv, Ukraine-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: Buenos Dias (brush script), Gillian (brush script), Wisteria (irregular script), Bellamy (doodle brush script), Holly Jolly.

Typefaces from 2018, mostly calligraphic: Creamy, Ambrose, Saint Amour (calligraphic script), Montpellier (a signature font), Galanthia (a great thin script), Giselle Script (calligraphic), Laster, Better Letter, Roselyn Script, Amelie Script, Stream, Bubbles, Dessetum (brush style).

Typefaces from 2019: Euphoria, La Roche.

Typefaces from 2020: Modernist (calligraphic), Wildflower (hand-printed), Crystal Noir (art deco caps), Solange (a decorative serif), Olivie Font Duo, Edith (elegantly flared), Le Major (a fashionable all caps typeface), Ms Claudy (formal calligraphy), Jadore Vous, Modern Symphony (a connected script), Desert Song (a wild script), Wonder Garden, Le Grand (a fashionable serif), Monologues.

Typefaces from 2021: Saint Viet (calligraphic, for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Calli Art

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] ⦿

Callie Hegstrom
[MakeMedia Co]

Calligraphic drawings: XVIIth century

Callifonts
[Kirby Lee Gosnell]

Located in Dallas, TX, Callifonts is run by Kirby Lee Gosnell. It sells a 75-font package of calligraphic, medieval and blackletter typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Callig Information Site

Main calligraphy jump site, maintained by Jim Martin and Michael Whittington. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraffia

Australian calligraphy blog. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphia
[Christophe Badani]

Christophe Badani's French site dedicated to calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphic comment
[Peter Gilderdale]

Calligraphy blog in Auckland, New Zealand. [Google] [More] ⦿

Samples of calligraphic penmanship: a devil, a dog, an emu, a half-man. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphic metafont

Calligraphic metafont. No further information. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphics
[Paul Veres]

Calligraphics is Paul Veres' outfit in Berkeley, CA. Paul Veres was born in 1944 in Budapest, and started out as a calligrapher and graphic designer. He is the creator of Caterina (1999-2004, Psy/Ops; a calligraphic sans used in some places by movie director Francis Ford Coppola), and of Linotype Banjoman Roman (1996, an avant-garde font) and Linotype Aperto at Linotype (1995-1996: a lapidary typeface).

Fonts at Calligraphics: Caterina (1998), Aperto (1995, a stressed sans family), Harmonica (2005, script), DemiTasse (2001), Gargoyle (2001, a rounded informal script) and Espresso (2001).

FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. View Paul Veres's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy Centre

Lettering artists interested in promoting the hand-written word. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy Designs by Julia

Julia has a calligraphy service in New York City. She also seems to have some calligraphic and other handwriting fonts, and makes custom handwriting type. Font names on her site: Iva, Ethan, Beverly, Zachary, Laura, Pearl, Keifer. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy Fonts

Indonesian designer of these calligraphic or script typefaces in 2020: Dovetail, Holters Script, Amerilatte, Yestermoon, Ameralda, Yellowish, Kids way, Batherly (monolinear), Westerlies, Beyours, Leathering, Labiorious, Darkloose, Daylighted, Ballerinas, Undertones (upright), Shotflick, Jalousie (upright), Holdsmith, Dinernighty, Shailendra. Other typefaces from 2020 include Holters Sans, Intenci (blackboard bold), Blessed Eid (brush pen calligraphy), Aulion (a vintage serif) and Backoff (a brush font).

Typefaces from 2021: Cupink, Wildboard, Midline, Rellative, Salvations, Roundtable, Georgerithe, Celistyne, Ravenously, Quillbacks, Workday, Thundering, Betterboxes, Adrenalines, Gengar, Rustte (a signature script), Butterlies (a signature script), Glow Overload, Midline Regular, Plularius, Dreamy Loly Sans Serif, Richness, Rutinitas, Vineland, Catcalling, Neitherly, Breakpass, Fieldstone, Neitherly Script, Souther, Edline. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy mailing list

Send an email with the Subject: subscribe. Leave any Cc, Bcc, and Attachments information blank. Managed by Jim Martin, this list discusses calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy Shop

Daniel Quinn's calligraphy shop in Firenze shows nice examples of these hands (names in Italian): Onciale, Maiuscola Insulare, Minuscola Insulare, Carolina, Gotico Antico, Textura Quadrata, Capitali Gotiche, Beneventana, Rotunda, Capitali Rotunda, Bastarda Cancelleresca, Batarde Français, Fraktur Tedesca, Capitali Bastarde, Cadel, Capitali Longobarde, Foundational. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy&Lettering Arts Society

CLAS is located in London. [Google] [More] ⦿

Callig.ru

Russian calligraphic blog. Russian type and calligraphy glossary and links. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cami Alama

For her final project at EASD Valencia in Spain, Cami Alama created the Dutch Krulletter typeface Krullcoplate Script (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Camila Errea

Buenos Aires-based designer of a calligraphic typeface (2015) and of the art deco font 461 Fabil (2015), which is a hybrid of Helvetica and Code Light. [Google] [More] ⦿

Camila Escobar

During her studied at the University of Buenos Aires, Camila Escobar (Lomas de Zamora, Argentina) designed a striped money font (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Canada Type
[Rebecca Alaccari]

Foundry in Canada, est. 2004 by Rebecca Alaccari in Toronto, and run by her and Patrick Griffin. Interview with Rebecca. Her typefaces can be bought via MyFonts: Storyville (2015, a curly script), Centennial Script (2007, a revival of an 1874-1876 high-contrast calligraphic script by Hermann Ihlenburg), Valet (2006, superb art deco face), Freco (2006, an art deco typeface loosely based on designs and letters of Fré Cohen), Silk Script (2006, based on 1956 Helmut Matheis script called Primadonna), Dominion (2006, based on an early 1970s film type called Lampoon), Johnny (2006, an art nouveau poster typeface that revives the Harem/Margit typeface by Phil Martin, 1969), Guillotine (2007), Mayfair (2006, a calligraphic typeface based on Mayfair Cursive by Middleton, 1932), Happy Birthday (2006, script), Geronimo (2005, brush style poster font), Rostrum (2005, a revival and expansion of a type called Oleander, designed in 1938 by Julius Kirn for the Genzsch&Heyse foundry in Hamburg), Apricot (2005; based on A.R. Bosco's Romany for ATF, 1934, but a major extension with many ligatures), Heathen (2005), Cougar (2004, a digital version of Martin Wilke's 1968 handwriting typeface Konzept), Puma (2004, brush typeface based on Herbert Thannhaeuser's 1954 Kurier), Big Brush (brush), Diva (connected script), Odette (a high ascender display typeface after the Morris Fuller Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman), Crucifix (2004, a severe octagonal face), Fore (2004, a bullethole face), Formula, Gamer (2004), Formula (2004), Kofi, Platoon (2004, a stencil face), Verso (2004), Secret Scrypt (2004, a handwriting face), Bluebeard (2004, blackletter by Patrick Griffin), Bolero (2004), Janice (2004, psychedelic), Jimi (2004, also psychedelic), Scroll (2004), Dominique (2004, upright script), Moxie (2004, a fat display family which includes a stencil), StockA (2004), StockB (2004, a fat stencil face), Stalker (2004, a destructionist face), Scroll (2004), Jonah (2005, a hippie typeface based on an early 1970s film type from Franklin Photolettering called Urban). MyFonts page. Phil Rutter and Patrick Griffin made Coffee Script (2004), the digital version of R. Middleton's Wave design for the Ludlow foundry, circa 1962. Phil Rutter and Rebecca Alaccari designed Almanac (2004), a script typeface based on Imre Reiner's London Script (1957) (and Rebecca did a subsequent redigitization in 2007 that led to Reiner Hand), Tiger Script (2004, based on Georg Trump's wild brush script Jaguar done in 1967 for C. E. Weber), and Ali Baba (2004), an Arabic simulation typeface originally designed by Georg Trump as Palomba (1955, C.E. Weber foundry). Patrick Griffin made Leather (2005, after Imre Reiner's 1933 blackletter face), Secret Scrypt (2005), Skullbats (2005), Slang (2004, a blood scratch face), Bluebeard (2004), Expo (2004, an octagonal family), and Dancebats (2004). Simone Wilkie designed Boyscout (2004) after the handwriting of her son. Helmut Matheis' Contact (1963, flowing script/brush) was digitized by Rebecca in 2004 as Bruschetta. Rebecca also made Steiner Special (2007, a revival of Swing, a film type by Peter Steiner, 1974), Genesis (2007, a digitization and extension of Grayda, a 1939 calligraphic script of Frank H. Riley at ATF), Evolver (2006, futuristic family), Redwood (2007, a calligraphic script based on Willard T. Sniffin's Raleigh Cursive (1929, ATF)), Orotund (2005, after the 1970s typeface Eight Ball; this was extended again in 2006 in her art nouveau typeface Huckleberry, which is a revival of the 1973 typeface of Gustav Jaeger called Mark Twain), Pendulum (2005, a fantastic flowing script based on Nebiolo's Americana, 1945), Jojo (2005, a flower child typeface after Spring, by Bernard Jacquet), Mascara (2004), Gala (2004, after Neon (1935, Giulio da Milano at Nebiolo)) and Bella Donna (2004, after a script made by Alessandro Butti in 1948, called Rondine).

Typefaces made in 2005: Jazz Gothic (Patrick Griffin), Showboat, Hunter (a revival of Imre Reiner's brush script Mustang, 1956), Quanta (stencil), Quiller (a script typeface based on J.J. Sierke's 1964 typeface Privat), Rhino (revival of Mobil, a 1960 typeface by Helmut Matheis for Ludwig&Mayer), Dominique (donated to FontAid), Secret Scrypt (donated to FontAid), Jackpot (2005, Western typeface remotely based on Cooper Playbill which in turn is related to Cooper Black, but it also has hippy 1968 influences), Sincerely (handwriting typeface based on Karlgeorg Hoefer's 1968 Elegance), Fontella (a digitization of Novarese's calligraphic script Elite), Boondock (digitization of Imre Reiner's Bazaar from 1956), Gumball (digitization of Papageno, a 1958 bubblegum font by Richard Weber for Bauer), Runway, Gamer, Dominique (OpenType handwriting face), Sterling Script (2005, by Alaccari and Griffin: a 7-weight digitization and extension of Stephenson Blake's 1952 clean copperplate script Youthline Script), Vox (2007, a 24-style monoline sans family done with Patrick Griffin), Vox Round (2013, a softer version), Swan Song (2006: a calligraphic typeface based on the hand of Alexander Nesbitt. A later document states that it is based on work by British artist Rachel Yallop from 1986), Evolver (2006, a 9-style futuristic family), Ambassador Script (2007, an Alaccari-Griffin revival of the angle-reduced calligraphic script Juliet by Nebiolo, 1955).

In 2005, Philip Bouwsma joined Canada Type, and designed a great calligraphic blackletter-inspired family, Torquemada. He designed many other typefaces for Canada Type in subsequent years.

VIP (2007, Rebeca Alaccari) is a humanist sans serif uppercase (and figures) combined with a freshly redrawn revival of the classic VGC Constanze initials originally designed by Harry Brodjian in 1970, and even further back, the Constanze Initials by Joachim Romann (1954-1956, Stempel). Chopper (2007, by Rebecca Alaccari) is a revival of Venture (a 1972 typeface for VGC by Harry Villhardt). Walter (2007, Rebecca Alaccari) is a digitization of Heritage (1952, ATF, a calligraphic script by Walter H. McKay). Celebrity (2007, Rebecca Alaccari) revives and extends the retro/techno typeface Latus (Willy Wirtz, 1971). Sympathique (2008, Alaccari) is an ultra-thin and ultra-tall typeface in the mold of Bernhard Fashion and other era poster or film typefaces (they say that it is rooted in the film typefaces Hairstreak and Mossman). Mullen Hand (2008) is a revival of Repro Script (1953, Jerry Mullen, ATF).

Filmotype Giant (2011, a condensed sans) and its italic counterpart, Filmotype Escort (2011) were both co-designed with Patrick Griffin.

In 2020, they released the variable informal sans typeface Bananas: Bananas was sourced from multiple American film era faces, all from 1950s and 1960s, when the casual sans genre was at its popular peak. Headliners' Catalina and its very similar cousin, Letter Graphics' Carmel, served as initial study points.

Catalog of its typefaces.

Candelaria Espeche

Buenos Aires-based designer of Tolkien (2013), a calligraphic typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿

Canoute
[Canoute Creative]

Canoute Creative
[Canoute]

Calang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1986) of these calligraphic typefaces in 2020: Christmas, Blustella, Chandiluna (formal and swashy), Wondelight, Draghile. Other typefaces from 2020 include Butterly Script, Athena (a bold signage script), Helo Hanna (signature script), Corraline (a display typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿

Caoca Studio (or: Heroglyphs)
[Olivia Theresa]

Bandung, Indonesia-based type designer specializing in scrapbook fonts.

Typefaces from 2021: Jingle Cookies, Halloween Time, Alpaca Rain, Dingo Nursery, Cheese Sandwich, Charming Winter, Dashing Christmas, Magic Blooms, Dear Love.

Typefaces from 2020: Prune Blossom, Author Junior, Party Festival, Thankful Cookies Font, Christmas Valley, Warm Noodles, Your Summer, Happy House, Back To School, Pink Unicorn Font, Pink Beach, Rolling Film, Chill Time, Holiday Season, The Merry Holiday, Winter Holidays, Chocolate Cheese, Holly Jolly, Some Time.

Typefaces from 2019: The Rudolf Sleigh, Christmas Glee, Pumpkin Halloween, Automono (a rounded monolinear monospaced sans family), Summer Break, Milky Unicorn, Merry Bright, Brain Wash.

Typefaces from 2018: Altocumulus, Great Heart, Jolly Christmas, Winter Story, Romantica Script, Orange Juice, Black Shadows, Baby Seal, Adabame, Ericlaire, Uniquely, Sunday Hawaii, Summer Seas, Pool Party (monoline), The Lettering Font, The Great Circus, Brain Wash, Parents Greet, Monday Lovers (athletic lettering), Moms Note (handcrafted), Meidy, Maldisa, Historia, Laborations (sans stencil), Magic Trick, Kajika, Little Edelweiss, Hello Alpha, Hairmusk (brush), Gallerina, Father and Son (sans), Summer Peach, The Patriot (all caps sans), Vaganza (spurred), The Harison, Twigs (brush script), Valery (vintage), Torberta (spurred), Sants (squarish sans), Out Hill, Super Slayers, Sun Street, Summery, Summer Nude, Retros, Keripik (fat marker font), LaVonn (sans), Happy Valentine's Day (dingbats), Valentine's Edition Dingbats, Irish Green, The Stoothgart, Tying The Knot, San Barley (horizontally hatched), Easton (monoline sans), Pop Fist (condensed sans), Oracles (all caps sans), Pandoura, Popera, Loverstruck.

Typefaces from 2017: Right Brush, Spooky Tricks (halloween font), Treasure Script, Summer Joy, Brave Hearted (outline font), Father And Son, Super Slayers, Earth and Sky, Almondia, Hello People (comic book script), Northern, Looking, Parents Greet, Baker Sweet, Avocados.

Typefaces from 2016: Ineffable (regular and grunge), Saqanone, Salmonberry, Huckleberries, Mongli (a sharp-edged sans), Retros (inline), Andrade (brush style), Amecas (squarish), Queenata (signage script), Ranania (script), Paradise (calligraphic), Valery, The Mastiff, Little Edelweiss (curly informal typeface), Loverstruck, Calamandria, Pulsate (stencil), Peanut, Sedalia (brush script), Delaboean, Rhapsody (blackletter), Chiqarine (connected script), Berretti (a Broadway style art deco typeface), Cupello Sons (a geometric serif), Quella (brush script), Hello Alpha, Historia, Desmosedici. In 2014, during her studies in Bandung, Indonesia, Olivia Theresa created the frilly ornamental caps typeface Sambasa (2014), which was designed on a Georgia skeleton.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Behance link for Olivia Theresa. Creative Market link for Heroglyphs. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cara Buchalter

Hebrew calligraphy expert. [Google] [More] ⦿

Carine de Wandeleer

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.

Kycka (2011) is a hand-printed slab serif family designed for children's books. Karty (2011, Eurotypo) is a blackboard bold pair of typefaces inspired by Baskerville. Marilyn (2011, Eurotypo) is an informal bouncy heavy sans face. Natalie (2011) is a condensed slab serif face.

In 2012, she published the connected script family Gilda, the informal cursive typefaces Zanya, Miss Seshat (Eurotypo) and Belha, the script typeface Lirio (Eurotypo), the hand-printed Pimpin, and the fat finger family Souffle.

Typefaces from 2013: Aleka (a vampire script in the style of Bombshell Pro), Mots (a light feminine script), Vernaccia, Eydis (connected script), Bonna (a successful calligraphic family), Rocha (funky cartoon style), Mussa (a curly children's book font), Onna (multiline script), Blondy (curly signage script), Gemma (connected script), Gemmadonati (another connected script), Lavinia (signage script), Ameglia (seductive upright flourished vernacular script).

Typefaces from 2014: Juliette, Urbis (curly script), Tansy (a charming connected script), Flamenca (connected script), Mde Sade (flowing wedding script), Nubila, Gardeny (script), Eroli (connected calligraphic script), Andria (script), Kumma (script), Tout, Tout Web Icons, Tout Restaurant Icons.

Typefaces from 2015: Parisi (calligraphic script), Scintillae Script, Santa Rita (signage script), Kira (brushy font), Amorino, Aprilis (signage script), Redbird (brush script), Muscari (connected script), Ambar (connected script with a roman caps set called Ambar Serif).

Typefaces from 2016: Lyllo, Redmoon Basic, Sond (brush script), Nuit (an informal typeface based on hand-printing), Wildly (brush type), Bloem (Script and Sans), Brun (brush typeface), Joias, Scriptum (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Halley, Brighten (brush script), Decize (an ornamental didone), Tapa (a sharp-serifed text family), Serenus, Pasteque, Galia, Mikha, Mikha Sans, Junius.

Typefaces from 2018: Anemos (a powerful retro signage script), Bernyck (retro script), Mathylda Script (a calligraphic signature font), Cinefile, Stanffords (a brush script paired with Stanffords Sans), Clauques Script and Sans (a signature script), Jacine (Sans+Script), Pial, Mont Rose (based on examples published in Script Lettering (1957, M. Meijer)), Barcares, MyBella (a casual calligraphic script), Skyr Pro (handcrafted), Gageac (a decorative didone), Atmosfera (a glamour sans based on didone contrast), Waylom (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Novata, Violant (a medieval script), Manises (inspired by a text written on a 16th century tile), Mostaza (a signage script), Trauville (calligraphic), Magie, Magie Slim, Beauville Script (a retro script), Bovary (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2020: Turer (all caps, in the Tekton or Koch Antiqua genre), Indalo (a casual script), Rhodes (a calligraphic typeface), Calinda, Aulas (a decorative serif), Raspail (copperplate calligraphy), Calagio (a casual script), Clichy (a casual sans), Colomby (copperplate round English handwriting), Rembord (an inclined script), Montigny (emulating an 18th century roundhand script).

Typefaces from 2021: Verbum (a casual bold script), Grao (a casual script), Tarnese (a calligraphic script), Real Blues (script), Brabon (a heavy signage script), Escaut (a wide inky script).

Typefaces from 2022: Cockcrow (a connected sans), Castagna (a calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Carine Farhat

Designer (b. 1992) of a psychedelic font in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Carl Crossgrove
[Terrestrial Design]

Carl Rohrs

Commercial lettering artist, scribe, teacher and sign painter in Santa Cruz, CA, since 1977. Rohrs has been teaching lettering and typography since 1984 at Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz extension. His mentors included Father Edward Catich, Hermann Zapf and Karlgeorg Hoefer.

Codesigner at Wolfram Research of some Mathematica fonts, such as Math5, Math5Bold (1998).

Since 2015, editor of Alphabet, the quarterly journal of San Francisco's Friends of Calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Carl Seal
[Little Red Circles (or: LRC Type Foundry)]

Carla Paola Torres

Graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, class of 2012. Graphic designer and lettering artist in Austin, TX. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Carlo Buffa

Padova-based graphic designer, teacher of advertising art at the Istituto Statale d'Arte Michele Fanoli in Cittadella Padova, Italy. Organiser of the international calligraphy award Belle Lettere (1997). The resulting publication Belle Lettere won the Fedrigoni Prize for graphic excellence. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about two fonts he created: The font Ritratti (1999) was extracted from an Aldina edition and traces the cursive writings drawn and inscribed by Griffo at Venice, so as to imitate the original handwritten text. The font was created for Carlo Mazzacurati and Marco Paolini's three films about the most important modern-day Venetian writers, Mario Rigoni Stern, Andrea Zanzotto, and Luigi Meneghello. The font Anno Mil le was used in another Mazzacurati film, La lingua del Santo, and graphically reinterprets the light-hearted and fluid feel of medieval capital letters. These two fonts highlight the roughness and imprecision typical of ancient print and the heterogeneous nature of letters written loosely by hand. Home page. Biography. Logo. Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero
[Andinistas]

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero

Venezuelan graphic and type designer (b. San Cristóbal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela, 1977). He studied Graphic Design between 1995 and 1998 in the Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Antonio José de Sucre (IUTAJS) Extensión Mérida, Venezuela. He runs the design studio Andinistas in Bogotá, Colombia, which he set up in 1998 with a few others. Creator of the beautiful typeface Cazon (1999-2007, a grunge script in 7 styles that includes Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Dingbats A and B) and of Escuadra (2003), Biologia (2003), Denedo (2003; the discussion by typophiles centers around how interesting this 3d font is experimentally---a bit like the type version of M.C. Escher's drawings, full of impossibilities), Modelia (2006), Nikona and Nikona Dual (2006, octagonal, with Rafael Rincón), Avecedario, Btamax (1999-2008, comic book style and grunge), Día D, Nativa, Codiga Icons (dingbats), Codiga (1999-2007, an 8-style octagonal family including Codiga Stencil and Codiga Dingbats), Codiga Pura (octagonal face), Pepelepu, Gancho petare, Guerrilla, and Hirofórmica (grunge). His calligraphic script family Panamericana (2007) comes in many grungy and experimental flavors: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis and Dingbats. With María Angélica Estrada Cano, he designed the hand-drawn font families Makika (2007) and Lita (2007; in five styles---Gris, Negra, Humo, Molis, and Dingbats). His blog. In the area of combat-ready explosion-inspired letters and dingbats, check his eight-weight family Hiroformica (2007, Andinistas; for a free version, see DaFont). In 2007, he created the calligraphic grunge family Rosadelia, and the grunge lettering and crow dingbats family Gancho Petare. In 2008, he published Heleodora (beautiful scratchy hand), Magola (Negra, Supra Negra and Stencil), Navaja 1 through 4 (a collection of grunge fonts with grungy dingbats), Lucrecia 1 through 3 (a fat connected script family ranging from clean to splattered), Pomarosa (irregular hand) and Pomarosa Dingbats, Bochalema (+Dingbats, a comic book family), and Alcira 1 through 3 (nice scribbly grunge scripts).

In 2020, he designed Man Ray (a wild and weathered calligraphic font, and a pirate era weathered caps typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Carlos Santos

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Leonardo Rosa Borges of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿

Carmel Type (or: Just Lucky)
[Drew Melton]

Drew Melton (Carmel Type and Just Lucky, Los Angeles, CA) is a graphic and type designer, letterer and occasional illustrator. He has worked for a wide range of clients including McCann, Saatchi & Saatchi and Penguin Books. Many of his typefaces are exquisite.

He created the vintage shaded typeface Lastra (2014, improved in Lastra Display in 2015), Westward Numerals (2014), Steel Cut (2014, numerals), Chisel (2014, numerals), Show Stopper (2014, a signage typeface), Ballpoint Script (2014; released in 2019 at Typeverything), Awning Display (2014), Brite Script (2014, Ten Dollar Fonts), Handsome Script (2014, a calligraphic copperplate script), the signage typeface Sideshow (2014) and the Tuscan typeface Magnifique (2013, +Inline, +Shadow).

Typefaces from 2015: Numerals (Book Club, Butcher Block, Chisel, Chisel Shadow, Chisel Fill, Elegante, Elegante Fancy, Yuma), Dolcetto (a stunning swashy calligraphic copperplate script for stately occasions), Lumber Co (an Italian Western wood style font family at The Designers Foundry; together with Jason Carne), Rubber Boots (a text typeface with considerable contrast), Stockpile (numerals), Luxus Gothic (blackletter), Yuma Numerals. In 2015, Jason Carne and Drew Melton co-designed the large condensed titling typeface family Skyward and wrote: Robust, towering, and geometrically refined, Skyward is a surefire classic cocktail of equal parts utility and elegance. Stuffed Crust, bold and loud, will be a hit too. Drew writes: Big and greasy never looked so good.

Typefaces from 2016: Boulangerie (a Tuscan typeface by Drew Melton), Motor City (by Drew Melton and Jason Carne; an industrial strength slab serif; the name Motor City was already taken by Casey Cole in 2012, so we'll wait and see if there will be a name change in the works).

Creative Market link. Behance link. Ten Dollar Fonts link. Carmel Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Carmem de Andrade

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based designer of the printed calligraphic typeface Amelia (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Carol Kemp

Freelance lettering designer from Sussex, UK, b. 1965 Rustington, Sussex. In 1987, she graduated in typography and hand lettering at the Exeter College of Art and Design. Since 1987, Carol has worked as a freelance lettering designer, producing hand-drawn and digital lettering, calligraphy and type designs for hundreds of companies worldwide. She created these fonts:

The clean food dingbat font Delectables (1994).
Party (1993, a dingbat font for Letraset).
Gastropub (a blackboard typeface done for Marks and Spencer).
ITC Jiggery Pokery (1998).
ITC Zinjaro (1994, Mexican-style letters).
WacWakOoops (comic book face, Agfa Creative Alliance).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Carson Ellis

Lettering artist, painter and drawer. [Google] [More] ⦿

Carsten Strinkau

Graduate of Kunstschule Wandsbek in Hamburg, Germany. Designer at URW++ of FontForum CSPaket, CSCourtHandD (medieval calligraphy based on the handwriting of monks in the 16th century), CSFuzzyLogD and CSTakahashiD (oriental simulation, a hommage to the Japanese Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo and his character/figure Takashi from the Akira-Manga). His fonts are sold under the name CS Fonts, and through URW++, and through MyFonts.com. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Casady&Greene (Fluentlaserfonts)
[Terry Kunysz]

Casady&Greene, Inc. started out as two separate little companies, CasadyWare and Greene, Inc. CasadyWare, which was founded by Robin Casady in August 1984, began producing Fluent Fonts, which were bitmapped typefaces for the Macintosh. The 1984 set of fonts have copyright lines that mention Richard A. Ware. As soon as PostScript fonts appeared, CasadyWare got hold of the first version of Fontographer and produced the first downloadable PostScript fonts, even beating Adobe, the originators of PostScript, to the punch. These were marketed as Fluent Laser Fonts (FLF) out of Carmel, CA.

The FLF series includes Abilene (Western), Alexandria (1986, slab serif family), Black Knight (1991, blackletter), Bodoni FLF (1986), BodoniUltra (1986, a fat didone), Bonnard (art nouveau), ButtonHighlight, ButtonPlain, Calligraphy (1986), Campanile (a great didone face), Checkbox, Chicago FLF (free at OFL), Collegiate (1988, sports lettering), Coventry Script (calligraphic), Cutouts FLF (1992, cargo stencil), Desperado, Dorovar Carolus (1988, Carolingian; see also D790 at Softmaker and Carolingia (1991, William Boyd)), DryGulch, Epoque (art nouveau), FattiPatti, Fletcher Gothic (1992, art nouveau), Galileo (1987, didone), Gazelle (1988, calligraphic script), Gatsby (1986, pure art deco), Giotto, Gregorian (1986, English Gothic style blackletter), Harlequin FLF (1990), Highland Gothic (1992), Jott, Kasse (1992), Kells (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), KeyCaps, La Peruta, Meath (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), Michelle (1992, art deco, marquee face), Micro, MicroExtend FLF (1986, like Microgramma), Monterey (1986, Peignotian), Moulin Rouge (1992, an art nouveau typeface by Richard A. Ware), Nouveau (1990, art nouveau), Paladin (1988, blackletter), Pendragon (1991), Phoenix Script FLF (1990), Prelude (1986, connected script), Regency Script (1986, calligraphic copperplate script), Right Bank (1986, art deco), Ritz (1986, art deco in the style of Broadway), Rocko (1992, rounded like VAG Round), SansSerif FLF (1986, a large geometric sans family), Sedona Script (1990, connected, calligraphic, semi-psychedelic), Slender Gold (1992, script), Vertigo (1992, condensed monoline sans), VertigoPlus, Zephyr Script (1986, brush script).

Many fonts were digitized by Richard Ware, and some were designed by Mike Wright. The contact was Terry Kunysz in Salinas, CA.

On July 3, 2003, Casady&Greene closed it doors permanently. However, one of its designers, Mike Wright, writes: I believe that all the fonts that were developed by the company are now in the public domain. Robin Casady and I are thinking of putting up a site with free downloads of all of the old C&G public domain fonts--mainly as a way of attracting Mac users to see iData 2.

Robin Casady in 2003: I founded Casady Company in 1984 to publish fonts for the new Macintosh. The name changed with incorporation to CasadyWare, Inc. Around this time I met Mike Greene who was looking for a software project to do after SpellsWell. I talked him into doing a program that became QuickDEX. Later CasadyWare, Inc. merged with Greene, Inc. and became Casady & Greene, Inc. Over the years, my role in management reduced as my interests in other areas developed. In the last ten years I have had no official management duties at C&G. About a year ago I removed myself from the Board of Directors.

Some fonts could be found at TypOasis [defunct link]. Fontex link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Casualized
[Muhammad Farid]

Indonesian designer of the heavy calligraphic font Velocitti (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿

CAT Design Wolgast
[Peter Wiegel]

Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts:

In 2019: Kufi Pattern.
In 2018: Aurach Tri (a trilined typeface), Googee (monoline circle-themed sans), Gianna (medieval script), Hamburger Schwabacher.
In 2017: Eyechart (heavy slab serif), Border Control (inline), Espresso Dolce (rounded sans), Gotisch Weiss, Halt (a dry brush typeface after Walter Hoehnisch's Stop from 1939), Kanzler, Llewie (rounded sans), Schulze Werbekraft (expressionist, after Arthur Schulze, 1926).
In 2016: Ronaldson Gothic (after a MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Co original), Vorgang (a great 1920s geometric sans), 5by7 (LED pixel font), BP 12-22 (industrial sans), u DIN 1451 Mittelschrift, Flubby, Gaeilge (Irish / uncial), Junior CAT (after Hans Heimbeck, 1936), CAT Liebing Gotisch (after Kurt Liebing), Tippa (an old typewriter font based on Adler Tippa 1).
In 2015: Nuernberg (blackletter), CAT Schmalfette Thannhaeuser (blackletter), Offenbacher Reform (a revival of Offenbacher Reform, a blackletter typeface by Roos & Junge), Autobahn (blackletter), Barloesius Schrift (after Georg Barloesius's Barlösius Schrift, 1906), CAT-Franken-Deutsch (after Alfons Schneider, 1936), Fuckin Gwenhwyfar, CAT Kurier (a script after Herbert Thanhaeuser's Kurier from 1939), CAT Linz, CAT Rhythmus (a sharp-edged black grotesk after a Schriftguss AG original), DIN Schablonierschrift (DIN-based stencil), CAT North Licht, Feronia, Fette National Fraktur (after Walter Hoehnisch, 1934), Grobe-Plakat-Fraktur, CAT Childs (fifties style cursive typeface), Jena Gotisch (decorative caps), Kabinett Fraktur (after Johann Friedrich Unger, 1793-1794), Wattauchimma (heavy hipster sans), Friedolin (blackletter), Lorem Ipsum, Symphonie (a calligraphic script, reviving Imre Reiner's Symphonie (1938), also called Stradivarius (1945)), Power (a retro techno typeface), Krugmann Brush, Omega.
In 2014: BernerBasisschrift1, BernerBasisschrift2 (school script), Berolina, Brausepulver (after Brause & Co., 1912), Fette Mikado (psychedelic style oriental look), Germanica, Gloria, HentimpsCirclet (blackletter), Hofstaetten (blackletter), Kleinsemmering, KuenstlerGotisch (blackletter), LacledeCAT (psychedelic), NeptunCAT, Neue Zier Schrift (a mischievous curly script), Pommern Gotisch, Reclame, CAT Report (retro brush script), Rueck-Italic, Rueck, RueckLeft, RueckLicht, RundschriftCAT (hairline ronde), Standard Graf (German expressionist and hexagonal typeface), Teutonic, VerzierteFavorite, VictoriaCAT, AdmiralCAT (a retro script), Dynamo (poster font), Des Malers Fraktur, Kanzleyrath (blackletter), Ober-Tuerkheim (art nouveau), PopplFrakturCAT (blackletter), Rundkursiv, Modeschrift (fifties script), Biedermeier Kursiv, Ehmcke Federfraktur (after a 1935 font by F.H. Ehmcke), Wernicke Schwabacher (after an original by Emmi Wernicke), Gotische Missalschrift, Hand Textur (after a 1935 font by F.H. Ehmcke), Renata (after a 1914 bastarda by Bauersche Giesserei), Rundgotisch Rauh (possibly after a Schelter & Giesecke design from 1903), Offenbacher Schwabacher (after Kurt Wanschura's bastarda from 1900), Incopins Clusters (multilined typeface), BadGong, Bernardo Moda (Bold, Semibold, Moda, Contrast: modeled after Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard fashion), CAT-Hohenzollern (after a 1902 art nouveau font by Bauersche), CATNorth, CATNorthLicht, CATNorthShadow, CAT Zentenaer Fraktur UNZ1 (a blackletter after a 1937 original by F.H.E. Schneidler), Coggers-Tariqa, EirikRaude, Fabrik (a geometric sans), Grobe Deutschmeister (German expressionist face), Harry Piel (or Piehl--a tattoo font), Kanalisirung, Klaber-Fraktur, Peter Obscure, Rumburak (a fat retro script), Flottflott (retro script), Indira K, Regent UNZ (a Schwabacher), Postamt, TGL 0-1451 Engschrift (a DIN-like font).
In 2013: Spartakus (+Round), Cut Me Out (white on black sans), 5by9 (dot matrix face), Tartlers End (high-contrast ball terminal face), Alpha 54 (rounded flared script face), Chunk Five Ex (slab serif; he writes: With permission of Meredith Mandel, the original author of the ASCII-Font Chunk Five, I have extended Chunk Five Ex to a full featured unicode font with all figures used in Latin and Cyrillic writing), Simple Print (simple sans), Fette Bauersche Antiqua (a didone fat face), Manuskript Gothisch (after Manuskript Gotisch (1899, Bauersche), which was modeled after Wolfgang Hopyl's 1514 Textura), Quast (hairy font).
Still in 2013, he published a number of school scripts, including Neue Rudelskopf, Deutsche Normalschrift, Imrans School, Rastenburg (German school font), and Bienchen.
In 2012: Hardman (connected fifties script), Immermann (a quaint slab serif), Quast (grunge), Fundamental Brigade (sans family), DiffiKult (a bilined face), Men Nefer (a Memphis lookalike), Fette Unz Fraktur (like Fette Fraktur), Mutter Krause (for the reconstruction of the 1929 silent movie "Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück", where it is used for intertitles, that where missing. The font is redrawn from the original intertitles), Youbilee (a font with laurels).
In 2010: Alfabilder (dingbats), Gondrin (athletic lettering with a 3d effect), Helvetia Verbundene (making Helvetica into a school script? The original typeface was by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt 1901), Proletarsk (a grotesk face), Vis-à-vis (great idea--a double-storied serif face), ApolloASM (Victorian), BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Doergon-Regular (license plate font), DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, Eureka (Victorian, ornamental face), GoeschenFraktur (1880-style Fraktur used in Sammlung Göschen books), Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, StrassburgFraktur, TGL0-16 (same as DIN 16), TGL0-17 (same as DIN 17), TGL0-17Alt, Tank (emblems of gas companies), EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular (typewriter), ErikaOrmig, Fibel Vienna (2012, a high-legged sans), GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift (German Schreibschrift), Midroba-Regular (a strong mechanical octagonal face), MidrobaSchatten, MMX2010 (futuristic), Präsent60, Rotunda Pommerania (blackletter), TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe.
In 2009: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrent-Regular, 18thCenturyKurrentAlternates, German writing from the 18th century), CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, Cöntgen Kanzley Regular (blackletter), Cöntgen Kanzley Aufrecht (2009), ElficCaslin, H1N1, Loxembourg1910Shadow (an art nouveau-influenced stencil face), Luxembourg1910, Tschichold, VarietScala (an art deco sans family), Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift (blackletter), MoradoFelt-Regular (upright connected script), MoradoMarker (2009), MoradoNib, PreussischeVI9 (DIN-like family), PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Stage (art deco), Ring Matrix (dot matrix), Nathan, Amptmann Script (2009, upright connected script), Cat Shop, Blankenburg (blackletter), Murrx (arched face), Schwaben Alt (1988, bastarda), Vrango, 14LED (Regular, Phattt-Heavy, Rised-Black), 24LED (+Bright, +Grid, +Modul), DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, FibelNord (basic sans family with an architectural twist), FibelSued (family), PaneuropaBankette, PaneuropaCrashbarrier-Black, PaneuropaFreeway, PaneuropaHighway, PaneuropaRoad, PaneuropaStreet, PaneuropaWrongWay, Quirkus (family), RingMatrix (dot matrix family), RingMatrix3D, RingMatrixTwo, DiscipuliBritannica (connected script), GruenewaldVA-Regular (connected school script), Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, WiegelLatein (connected school script), WiegelLateinMedium (2009), Morado, Moebius Bicolor (art deco), Elbaris (sans), ElbarisOutline, Nomitais (multiline face), RostockKaligraph, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent (traditional German school script), WiegelKurrentMedium, XAyax, XAyaxOutline (2009), Kaufhalle (squarish), Quimbie (art deco), CasaSans-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, MeyneTextur (blackletter), Yiggivoo, TGL 31034-1 (futuristic sans), Beroga (a simple organic sans).
Before 2009: Xayax, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3 (2006, a severe sans), Utusi Star (1989, very condensed all-caps face), Avocado (2006, script face), CbeNormal (2006, script face), Leipzig Fraktur (+Bold) (2006), Berlin Email (2006, a condensed sans family, followed in 2009 by Berlin Email Serif), MaassslicerItalic (2006, a futuristic typeface made for Rudolf Maass + Partner GmbH), Powerweld (a gorgeous avant-garde typeface made for OPTI Pumpen und Technik GmbH), WolgastScript (2005), WolgastTwo (2006, connected script), WolgastTwoBold, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular (2006, traffic dingbats), Djerba simplified (Arabic font, Computer and Technologie, Hamburg, 1995; it can be downloaded here), Titus FrakturBaltic (1998), TITUS FrakturEast Normal (1998), and TITUS FrakturWest Normal (1998) [which used to be downloadable here; these fonts were retired and the Titus name dropped; most of the glyphs made it to Schwaben Alt].

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The list of his truetype and opentype typefaces as of 2011: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrentStart, 18thCenturyKurrentText, Alfabilder, AlteDIN1451Mittelschrift, AlteDIN1451Mittelschriftgepraegt, AmptmannScript, ApolloASM, Avocado, Barnroof, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, BerogaFettig-Bold, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A, BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Blankenburg-Regular, BlankenburgUNZ1A-Italic, BlankenburgUNZ1A, CasaSans-Regular, CasaSans, CasaSansFettig-Bold, CatShop, CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, ChunkFiveEx, CntgenKanzley-Regular, CntgenKanzleyAufrecht, DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, DiscipuliBritannica, DiscipuliBritannicaBold, Doergon-Regular, DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, DoergonWave-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Elbaris, ElbarisOutline, ElficCaslin, EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular, ErikaOrmig, Eureka, FibelNord-Bold, FibelNord-BoldItalic, FibelNord-Italic, FibelNord, FibelNordKontur, FibelSued-Bold, FibelSued-BoldItalic, FibelSued-Italic, FibelSued, FibelSuedKontur, GoeschenFraktur, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A, Gondrin, GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift, GruenewaldVA-Regular, GruenewaldVA1.Klasse, GruenewaldVA3.Klasse, H1N1, HelvetiaVerbundene, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A-Italic, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A, LeipzigFrakturBold, LeipzigFrakturHeavy-ExtraBold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Bold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Normal, LeipzigFrakturNormal, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Bold, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-BoldItalic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A, Luxembourg1910, Luxembourg1910Contur, Luxembourg1910Ombre, MMX2010-Regular, Maassslicer3D, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, MaassslicerItalic, Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, MeyneTextur, MeyneTexturUNZ1A-Italic, MeyneTexturUNZ1A, Midroba-Regular, MidrobaSchatten, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A-Italic, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, MoradoFelt-Regular, MoradoMarker, MoradoNib, MoradoSharp-Regular, Murrx, Nathan-CondensedRegular, Nathan-ExpandedRegular, Nathan-Semi-expandedRegular, Nathan, NathanAlternates-CondensedRegular, NathanAlternates-ExpandedRegular, NathanAlternates-Semi-expandedRegular, NathanAlternates, Nomitais, Nomitais, Numikki, Numukki-Italic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeVI9, PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, Proletarsk, Prsent60, Quimbie, Quimbie3D, QuimbieShaddow, QuimbieUH, Quirkus-Bold, Quirkus-BoldItalic, Quirkus-Italic, Quirkus, QuirkusOut, QuirkusUpsideDown, RostockKaligraph, RotundaPommerania, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A-Italic, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A, Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Schulfibel-Nord-Linie-2, SchwabenAlt-Bold, SchwabenAltUNZ1A-Italic, SchwabenAltUNZ1A, Stage, StrassburgFraktur-Regular, TGL0-16, TGL0-17, TGL0-17Alt, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, TGL31034-2, Tank, TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, TitilliumMaps29L-1wt, TitilliumMaps29L-400wt, TitilliumMaps29L-800wt, TitilliumMaps29L-999wt, TitilliumText22L-1wt, TitilliumText22L-250wt, TitilliumText22L-400wt, TitilliumText22L-600wt, TitilliumText22L-800wt, TitilliumText22L-999wt, TitilliumTitle20, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, VarietScala, Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, Via-A-Vis, Vrng, Waschkueche, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelLatein, WiegelLateinMedium, WolgastScript, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, WolgastTwoBold, XAyax, XAyax, XAyaxOutline, XAyaxOutline, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, YiggivooUnicode3D, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenDreihundertAlt, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenHundertAlt, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundertAlt, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech, kaufhalleblech, moebius.

His type 1 fonts as of 2011: Avocado, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, CasaSans, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, Quimbie, QuimbieUH, RostockKaligraph, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech.

A list of typefaces in alphabetical order, with descriptive comments provided by Reynir Heidberg Stefansson from Iceland: 18th Century Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded), Alfabilder (Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet), Amptmann Script (Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings), ApolloASM (Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin), Avocado (Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style), Berlin Email (Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Berlin Email Serif (Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Beroga (All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope), Berthold Mainzer Fraktur (Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Blankenburg (Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Casa Sans (Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing), CatShop (Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone), cbe Normal (Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform), Centre Claws (Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway), Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley) (Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding), DiffiKult (Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines), DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936 (The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font), Discipuli Britannica (UK school handwriting), Doergon (Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule), CAT Eckmann, Elabris (Elbaris) (Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift), Elb-Tunnel (Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg), Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon, Elfic Caslin) (a Caslon for the Queen Galadriel), Erika Type (Erica Type) (Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter), Eureka (Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil), Fibel Nord (2009, sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Sued (2009, sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Vienna (Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer), Fundamental Brigade (Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures), Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur) (Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Gondrini (Gondrin) (Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter), Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift (Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding), Greifswalder Tengwar (Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style), Gruenewald VA (Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding), H1N1 (Heavy display typeface made of parallel wavetrains), Hardman (Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters), Helvetia Verbundene (Swiss handwriting), Immermann (Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding), Kaufhalle (Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype), Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift (Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Leipzig Fraktur (Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding), Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A (Fraktur for bread text), Luxembourg 1910 (Sans-serif, Jugendstil display typeface from old spice drawers), Maass Slicer (Maassslicer) (Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype), Makushka (Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable), Men Nefer (Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding), Midroba (Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal), MMX2010 (Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel), Moderne Schwabacher (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Möbius (moebius) (Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)), Morado (Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen), Murrx (Heavy display typeface made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis), Mutter Krause (Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel), CAT Neuzeit and CAT Neuzeit Schatten (2012-2014), Nathan (Slab-serif, hand-drawn.), Nomatais (Nomitais) (Elabris with multiple levels of outlines), Numukki (Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks), Powerweld (Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule), Präsent 60 (PI font with various East German logos), Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3) (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3), Preussische VI 9 (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2), Proletarsk (Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark), Quast (Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline), Quimbie (Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia), Quirkus (Sans-serif), Ring Matrix (LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow), Rostock Kaligraph (Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda), Rotunda Pommerania (Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded), Rudelskopf deutsch (Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms), Schwaben Alt (Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.), Stage (Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway), Strassburg Fraktur (Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding), Tank (PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos), TengwarOptime (Optima for Tengwar), TGL 0-16/0-17 (East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types), TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2 (East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types), Utusi Star (Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk), Varieté (Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps), Vis-A-Vis (Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle), Volk Redis (Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941), Vrångö (LED matrix type like Ring Matrix), Waschküche (Serif, resembles Antykwa Torunska), Wiegel Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting), Wiegel Latein (Latin-style handwriting), Wolgast Script (Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen), Wolgast Two (Latin/Cyrillic handwriting), XAyax (Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule), Yiggivoo Unicode (Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel), Youbilee (PI font with various jubilee laurels), Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen) (PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)), Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt) (PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)).

Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. CAT Fonts link. Fontesk link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cataleya Butcher
[Agathe M. Joyce]

Cathe Holden

Creator of a calligraphic alphabet in 2010. She lives in Petaluma, CA. [Google] [More] ⦿

César Puertas
[Typograma]

Cecilia Billoch

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the curly script typeface Filografía (2009), in the style of the Sudtipos scripts by Koziupa and Paul. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cecilia Payseur

Graphic designer in Charlotte, NC, who during her internship with Arzberger Stationers, created some caps typefaces in 2011; Flora (floriated), Suzy (oriental simulation), Caroline (calligraphic), Sassie (Victorian), and a blackletter face. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cek Creative

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of several script typefaces in 2017, including Atmosfera, Arragon, Feromika, abd Missgivelove. [Google] [More] ⦿

Celebrity Fontz
[Jose Jimenez]

Specializing in celebrity signature fonts, this Arcadia, CA-based foundry (est. 2008) is run by Jose Jimenez (b. Costa Mesa, CA, 1963). MyFonts link. It sells the following typefaces: Nursery Rhyme Initials (2004), Hire Me (2009), American Presidents (2008: a collection of all 44 U.S. Presidential signatures including Barack Obama), Signers of the Declaration of Independence (2008: a collection of all 56 signers of America's Declaration of Indepdendence).

In 2009, they added Tough Dude (childish handwriting), Western Americana (famous signatures), and Coulant Classique (calligraphic).

In 2010, he created a mix of calligraphy and brush in Classic Cool, as well as an ordinary hand-printed Wet Pussycat, and the all caps typefaces Snowflake Drop Caps, Crumpled Parchment (grunge), Mauro Poggi Ornamental Caps, and Flowery Drop Caps. Lil'Punk (2010) is a grungy hand-printed face. 20th Century German (2010), Maurice Dufrene Initials (2010, art nouveau) and Sassa Mixed (2010, inspired by Swiss art from 1939) are ornamental caps typefaces.

First Ladies (2011) consists of signatures of first ladies. Parisian Ornamentals (2011) is an ornamental shadow caps typeface modeled after an alleged 1810 design by J. Gillé [ahem, Gillé died in 1789...]. Other 2011 designs: Landscape Alphabet, Hollywood Stars (signatures), American Revolution (signatures), American Authors.

In 2012, he published Cartoon Characters Vol. 1, Medieval Times (illuminated caps), Pretzel Dough, Cats (alphadings), Bellflower (Victorian caps), Florid Renaissance (floriated caps), Victorian Ornamentals, Griffith Initials, Mother's Hand, Art Deco Flowery Initials (which are Victorian or art nouveau, and not really art deco in my view), Santerini Initials (inspired by Italian hand-etched designs dating back to 1839), 19th Century American Initials (art nouveau ornamental caps), Godfrey Sykes Initials (inspired by the decorations of Godfrey Sykes, whose work was greatly influenced by that of Raphael and Michelangelo), Alphabet of Death (a series of Northern-Renaissance-style woodcut letters based on the work of Hans Holbein the Younger), Lombardia Illuminata (Lombardic ornamental capitals), Straight Angles, Body Art (silhouettes), Italian Gothic (a full set of decorative initials inspired by 16th-century Italian calligrapher Giovanni Battista Palatino), Letters And Lace (ornamental caps), 26 Flowers (floriated drop caps), Brushwork (oriental brush face), Sfondo Fiorito (flourished caps).

Typefaces from 2013: English Monarchs (signatures of British monarchs), Kitchen Utensils (ornamental caps), Devilish, Papillon Woodcuts (a digital revival of an ornate alphabet by French engraver Jean-Michel Papillon dating back to 1760).

Typefaces from 2015: Kids at Play (ornamental caps).

Celeste McKeon

Celeste McKeon (Austin, TX) created Hairy Font (2011) and Ribbon Font (2011, script face). [Google] [More] ⦿

Cerchio Perfetto

Italian calligrapher who drew a few calligraphic and brush alphabets in 2013.

Châteaux Celtes et Chimères

Ch. Engel

Barcelona-based lettering artist. An example of his craft. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marie-Louise Pépin's page on medieval resources and "enluminures". Has a Heraldic (uncial) truetype font for download. Medieval resources in Québec. Addresses and links. [Google] [More] ⦿

Chad Roberts

Creator of the beautifully handlettered logo and meus for The Mermaid Inn (2009). Chad specializes in sign lettering out of his office on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Chaidir Gata
[Gatype (or: Chairul Art)]

Chairul Ashar
[Hiro (or: ashar1802)]

Charles Percival Bluemlein

Charles Bud Braman

Lettering artist and typeface designer, who worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for 26 years, retiring in 2002. He lived from 1938-2004, and created many calligraphic script letterforms and typefaces. Jill Bell writes: Scarcely a soul outside of the Hallmark lettering and typography department is aware of the large body of lovely, skilled typographic work you have done because the fonts are proprietary. And Bud was a quiet sort of guy. Bud had hoped to produce fonts of his own when he retired but unfortunately the grim reaper quickly arrived. Quite unfortunate for the type world. I know the Hallmark lettering and type department really misses having Bud's talents and knowledge available to them because they truly understood what he contributed and appreciated it." And Calvert Guthrie wrote: "Bud was enormously generous with his understanding of font design and I know no one who had a better grip on making script ligatures work. Bud was doing it elegantly back in the days we were setting up linking ligatures for film fonts on Linotype VIP. We only had 18 increments for spacing refinement and this was made even tougher by script's particularly small x-height. His caps and his card captions were outstanding. Many of the short cuts we still use these days here at Hallmark were first developed by Bud Braman. Some of his work appeared in Michael Clark's Scripsit last year [2003].

Some of his typefaces at Hallmark include TwizotHmk (1999, with John Dawbarn), HogwartsWizard (2002, based on style by Connie Smiley, commissioned by Warner Brothers).

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Charles Paillasson

French engraver, penman and calligrapher, 1718-1789. Author of Notice historique sur les hommes célèbres de toutes les nations de l'Europe, qui depuis la renaissance des sciences et des arts, se sont distingués dans la configuration des caractères qui composent les diverses Ecritures, which appeared in J. H. P. Pouget, Dictionnaire des chiffres et de lettres ornées à l'usage de tous les artistes (Paris, 1767).

In 1796, Charles Paillasson wrote L'arte di scrivere: tratta dal Dizionario d'arti e mestieri dell' Enciclopedia metodica (Padova, Appresso Niccolo Bettinelli). The date, 1796, is a bit puzzling, but The Getty Research Institute writes: The text is a separate publication of the section on handwriting from an Italian edition of the Encyclopédie méthodique, originally published in Geneva by C.J. Panckoucke, 1783-1790. The 15 leaves are copies of those first published in: Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Recueil des planches, v. 2. Paris, Chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1763. The engraved leaves consist of 2 leaves showing position of the hand and writing posture, and 13 writing samples, engraved by Pasquali. Local download. [Google] [More] ⦿

Charles Pearce

Calligrapher and painter, b. 1943, Birmingham, UK. He made several calligraphic fonts: Cantabria (first developed at Camberwell School of Art and loosely based on the work of poet and artist, David Jones), Daniel, Fiorentina, Helena, Penkridge, Ullswater (brush script), Umbria (classic calligraphy). Corporate/custom typefaces: RKO Century Warner, Guinness (Cranks Health Foods font redesign). Author of these books:

Calligraphy, The Art Of Fine Writing (1975). Published by Cumberland Graphics division of British Pens as part of the Penstyle Calligraphy Set.
Lettering, The Art Of Calligraphy (1978). Published by Platignum as part of their Lettering Set.
Italic Writing (1979). Published by Platignum as part of their Italic Handwriting Set.
A Young Person's Guide to Calligraphy (1980). Published by Pentalic as part of A Young Person's Calligraphy Starter Set.
A Little Manual of Calligraphy (1981). Published by Wm. Collins (worldwide) and Taplinger (USA).
A Calligraphy Manual for the Beginner (1981). Published by Pentalic as part of the Pentalic Introductory Calligraphy Course.
The Calligraphy Sampler (1985). Published by Wm. Collins.
The Anatomy of Letters (1987). Published by Taplinger.

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Charles Percival (or just Percy) Bluemlein (b. 1891) served in the 346th Infantry in World War I. In 1920, he married Mildred Vanderbilt and settled in Brooklyn, NY. He died in 1944 and is buried in the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY. Famous for his scripts and penmanship, his best known book is Script and Manuscript Lettering (1947, Higgins Ink Co, Brooklyn). Earlier editions are from 1943 and 1944 and have Bertram Cholet and Dorothy Sara (1943 edition only) as co-authors.

Modern revivals of his scripts include

KolinskySable SG (Jim Spiece, 2004), based on a 1944 brush design called Mr. Ronald G. Sheppards.
Bender Script (2008) by Alison Argento. She writes: Would you hire one of the top hand lettering artists that worked for companies like Max Factor for your designs? Of course you would! Chas Bluemlien passed away many years back, and you couldn't have afforded his services anyway, but his lettering prowess which graced many advertisements, primarily cosmetic ads, has been pulled together from numerous samples to make this font.
Alejandro Paul's Bluemlein Scripts (2004-2005, Umbrella and Veer) are based on Bluemlein's alphabets from the book cited above: Miss Le Gatees, Mr Rafkin, Mr Keningbeck, Mr Lackboughs, Lady Dawn, Mrs Von Eckley, Mr Sheppards, Mr Dafoe, Mr Canfields, Mr Stalwart, Mr Sandsfort, Mr Leopolde (and later, Mr. Leopolde Pro), Mr DeHaviland, Mr Blaketon, Miss Stanfort, Miss Packgope, Miss Fajardose, Mrs Saint-Delafield, Mrs Blackfort, Mr Sopkin, Mr Sheffield, Miss Lankfort, Herr Von Muellerhoff, Dr Sugiyama, Dr Carbfred. In 2011, that series was made available at Google Web Fonts. Al;ejandro writes: From the early 1930s through World War II, there were about 200 professional hand letterers working in New York City alone. This occupation saw its demise with the advent of photo lettering, and after digital typography, became virtually extinct.
Soft Horizon's Lainie Day (1993) is an earlier free font in the style of Paul's Lady Dawn and Mr Lackboughs.
In 2012, Intellecta Design got into the act and promised to digitize the entire series under the name Bluelmin instead of Bluemlein. They created Bluelmin Kisaburo, Bluelmin Ralph (2012), Bluelmin Ronald (2012), Bluelmin Sandsfort (2012) and Bluelmin Benedict (2012).

Credits: Several of the images below, as well as some biographical information, are courtesy of Charles's grandson, David Musgrave. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Charles S. Wilkin
[Prototype Experimental Foundry]

Children's handwriting fonts

Charlotte Collombet

Creator of Alphabet Gothique (2013), a calligraphic alphabet, during her studies at ECV in Lille, France. I wonder if she is also not Charlotte Cosmoa, who created an unnamed blackletter calligraphic alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿

Chasim

Sragen, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of the calligraphic typeface Batousai (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿

Cheryl Warrick

Boston, MA-based fine artist, illustrator and surface designer who created the calligraphic brush script typeface Ellie Mae in 2015. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Charles Sartwell (Knoxville, TN) explains where to find children's handwriting fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Chinese handwriting gallery

Helen Li's Chinese calligraphic handwriting collection. [Google] [More] ⦿

Christian Gollwitzer

Software and TeX specialist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, who designed AuriocusKalligraphicus (2004), a calligraphic type 1 handwriting font. In 2006, these fonts were added: Lukas Svatba (originally called AmiciLogo for the group Amici Musicae Antiquae in September 2004, this was changed, after adding Czech and Slovak diacritics for the wedding of Lukas Palatinus and Ludmila Nyvltova in the Spring of 2005), Jana Skrivana. Alternate URL. From the readme file: Each font features oldstyle digits and (machine-generated) boldface and slanted versions. Lukas Svatba is provided in a variant with a long s with the same input convention as in fraktur.sty by Matthias Mühlich. [Google] [More] ⦿

Christian Verchery

Frenchman Christian Verchery has been making school fonts, with and without lines for elementary school education in France. Some reported to me that Christian Verchery died in 2000. His fonts include the Plum (PlumBAE, PlumBAL, PlumBDE, PlumBDL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL, plumNDE, plumNDL), Seyes (SeyesBDE, SeyesBDL, SeyesNDE, SeyesNDL) and Crayon (CrayonE, CrayonL) series, some with lines as for first graders.

Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Dafont link. Another link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Christine Hartmann

Author (b. 1938) of Kalligraphie. Die Kunst des schönen Schreibens (1986-1989, with Christian Scheffler). In that book, she drew several alphabets, including an Antiqua Versalien, a Fraktur, a Humanistische Kursiv, a Schwabacher, and a Schwung Kursiv. She studied with Karlgeorg Hoefer at the Offenbacher Kunsthochschule. [Google] [More] ⦿

Christoph Schütz

Austrian type designer. In 2018, Michael Hochleitner, Christoph Schütz, Simon Liesinger and Franziska Weitgruber co-designed Gretel Script at Typejockeys. This optically sized three-style typeface is based on the hand of calligrapher Natascha Safarik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Christophe Badani
[Calligraphia]

Christopher Hammerschmidt

Christopher Haanes

Oslo-based Norwegian who was born in Cheltenham, UK, in 1966. Haanes teaches calligraphy, lettering and typography, and is a freelance calligrapher, book designer and typographer. He designed many alphabets, which are mostly calligraphic, but he has also drawn some old Roman lettering and blackletter alphabets. His blog (in Norwegian) has interesting typographic threads, such as this educational comparison between Antiqua typefaces like Brioso, Adobe Jenson, Bembo, Adobe Garamond, ITC New Baskerville and Linotype Didot. This thread looks at sans typefaces. He designed a calligraphic alphabet specifically for Cappelen Damm in 2008, which was digitized by Sumner Stone as Litterat. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graphic designer in Curitiba, Brazil, who created the book type Capitolina in 2015 (under the guidance of Marconi Lima of the Typefolio foundry). He also did some noteworthy calligraphic work, including copperplate calligraphy.

Capitolina won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿

Christopher Jarman

Download the (free) Acorn handwriting font. Also, instructions on improving handwriting. JarFont, also free, is not a font but a simulation of the Christopher Jarman cursive handwriting as seen in the handwriting scheme for schools, see e.g., "The Development of Handwriting Skills" by Christopher Jarman now published by Stanley Thornes Ltd, Cheltenham, UK. Now four PC fonts made in 1998: Jarman, Jardotty, Jumper (by Christopher Jarman), Jarsphere.

See also here. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Christopher Laughlin

American graphic and type designer who created Semester (a curly almost Victorian script) and Joseph Venetian (almost blackletter) in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿

Chuck Davis
[Letterhead Fonts]

Cititype
[Siti Saribanon Nurjannah]

Aceh Besar, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1979) at Cititype of the handcrafted typefaces Preston Signature (2022), Carolline (a great inky upright script) (2021), California Starlight (a thin script) (2021), Zagreb (an inky signature script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah) (2021), Shanghai Signature (2021), Androgino (2021: an inky script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Wordwalker (a marker pen font by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah for Cititype) (2021), Longbeach (a brush script) (2021), Reghina (an inky script) (2021), Yamatoshi (2020: an inky script), Appetizer (2020: a fat finger font), Michigan Signature (2020), The Pallace (2020: a great natural inky signature script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Jakarta (2020: a flowing inky script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Portiere (a fat finger font) (2020), Sandstone (a signature script) (2020), Rhode White (a great signature script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah) (2020), Hagia Signature (an inky script) (2020), Pureline (a monolinear fat finger script) (2020), Rollingtime (2020: a brush script jointly designed by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Aliman (2020), Alejandro (a heavy unconnected script), Beach Party (2020: inline), Anzylna (2020), Serif Sketch (2020, by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Smart Chameleon (2020: a handcrafted typewriter font by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Hoffelized (2020), Beau Chat (2020), The Bounde, Kioves (2020), Blocky Shape (2020), Cardhonie (2020: a fat finger font), Savourer (2020), Bashirah (2020), Anzylna (2020: a fat finger font), Blugie (2020: a fat finger font), Rizkia Aisha (2020, imitating children's hand-printing), Quickly Freehand (2019), Ghoust (2019, with Muhammad Ridha Agusni) and Utrecht (2019, with Muhammad Ridha Agusni). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Clara Cha

Singapore-based designer of the calligraphic alphabet IPad Pro Procreate (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Clara Saubidet

Clara Saubidet (Buenos Aires, Argentina) mixed Futura Md BT and The King And Queen Font during her studies at FADU/UBA to create a hybrid script font in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿

Claude Médiavilla

French type designer (b. 1948) who was born in the South of France. He studied typography, calligraphy and painting at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse. He received the Prix Charles Peignot in 1982. In 1992, the President of France invited him to design the inscriptions for the royal tombs in the Basilique Saint Denis in Paris. He published Calligraphie (Imprimerie Nationale, 1993). Author of Calligraphy (Wommelgem, Belgium, 1996) and Histoire de la calligraphie française (Albin Michel, 2006; examples here). In 2009, with the help of Atelier des Signes, he created a typeface for the signage at Chateau de Fontainebleau. Additional URL. In 2010, Mediavilla cofounded Media type Foundry with Sonia Da Rocha and Joel Vilas Boas in Paris.

His typefaces:

Galba: an elegant roman titling face, done at Mecanorma in 1987.
Media Script (Mecanorma, 1985).
Mediavilla (CCT, 1976).
Mediavilla Script (Graphitel, 1986).
Palazzo (Mecanorma, 1984).
Tory (1991).

Examples of calligraphic alphabets drawn by him and shown in his Histoire de la calligraphie française (2006): Bastarda, Cancellaresca, Carolingian, Cursive gothic 1410, Luxeuil, Roman Capitals, Roman cursive 1st century, Roman cursive 4th century, Rustica 1st century, Textura 14th century, Textura 15th century, , Tourneure 15th century, Uncial 4th century.

Claude Pelletier

Quebec-based typographer and type designer (aka Diogene) who specializes mainly in revivals of obscure or old typefaces.

Dafont link. Yet another URL. Abfonts carries many of his fonts. Fontspace link.

His typefaces:

Aerolite C Pone (2013). A calligraphic connected copperplate script.
Angelica CP (2011). After a Fotostar font, Angelica, ca. 1960.
Banner Star (2012). An American flag-themed display typeface.
Barrio CP (2011). An inline face based on a Neufville original.
BeansCP (2010, after a font found on page 10 of Art Deco Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo).
Bienetresocial (2003), BienetresocialBold (2003).
Bizarre and Bizarrerie (2010; based on Edwards and Inland, both designed in 1895 by Nicholas J. Werner at the Inland Type Foundry; renamed in 1925 by BBS)
Bloque Demo (2011). Experimental.
Bold (2008)
Bolina (2015). A copperplate calligraphic script after Dan X. Solo's alphabet shown on page 12 of Dan X Solo. Script and Cursive Alphabets (1987, Dover).
Bonte Divine (2017).
Carre (2009, athletic numerals).
Caslon CP (2012, based on Caslon 223 Bold).
Champignon (1999-2009, a formal calligraphic script)
Chartrand (2010, Victorian)
Chomage (2009)
Chopin Script (1999-2010, calligraphic; after Polonaise by Phil Martin)
Constanze Initials (2010). After Constanze Initials by Joachim Romann (1956).
Crayonnette (2000-2001). Same as his earlier font Derniere (1999).
DeClaude (2010, patterned and named after DeVinne)
Dojo CP (2011)
Dynamic CP (2010, based on page 48 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as Dynamic Deco)
Ebony (2011). Based on a Marder&Luse design from 1890. Ebony is on page 38 of 100 Ornamental Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and also on page 43 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
Embrionic 85 (2012, +Swash Caps) and Embrionic 55 Swash (2012): an ink trap sans display family modeled after Robert Trogman's Embrionic in the FotoStar collection.
Essai (2003)
Euclid CP (2011): based on an 1880 typeface at Central Type Foundry.
Fancy Text (2004, blackletter)
Fantaisie1 (1999)
Gourmandise (2013), an exquisite Normandian-style didone display typeface.
Grandee CP (2014). Claude says that it is based on T.H. Grandee, but that is too cryptic for me...
Haricot (2010, a fat modular typeface based on Beans in the Dan Solo catalog)
Humeur (2001-2002, funny smilies)
IEC5000 (2011). A symbol font with electrical and other icons.
Initiales Medium (2011).
Jeux Cache (2016). A boxed letter font.
JohnHancockCP-Medium (2010, bold didone)
Landi Echo (2011). A remake of Landi Echo by Alessandro Butti (1939-1943).
La Tribune (2011). A newspaper type.
Le Golf or Le Trou (2010, art nouveau typeface by Antoine Szczebanski, digitized by Claude Pelletier; also on page 71 of the Solotype catalog)
Les Etoiles (2013): an inline typeface
Les Tuyaux (2018). A great slinky font.
Lionel CP (2010, a multiline typeface inspired by Letraset's 1973 typeface Stripes)
Louisa CP (2015). A free calligraphic copperplate script. Louisa CP is Louisa on page 56 of Script and Cursive Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo.
Malvern (1999)
Manquis CP (2012). A roman typeface.
Maratre (2013). A delicious connected copperplate calligraphic script that revives (or is almost identical to) François Boltana's Aurore (1993).
Monterey Wide (2011). A Tuscan ornamental face, based on a showing on page 22 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
Motscroises (1997)
Niaisage (2012). A lachrymal caps only typeface.
Oxford CP (2010, a multiline face, based on the 1960s typeface by Christine Lord)
Pasdecourbe (2003)
Pasdenom (2001, no punctuation)
Peak CP (2020). A revival of VGC's photo font Peak.
Pepinot (2012), an art nouveau typeface based on Coral Inline on page 190 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
Pistilli Roman (2011, after the original by Pistilli)
Postface (2012). A bold signage script face.
Rita Smith (2012). After Primavera by Rita Major.
Rogers, Rogers2 (1997). He says that it is not his font---that he just rearranged the glyphs. According to Claude, can be found in the book Treasury of Authentic Art Nouveau Alphabets, ed. Petzendorfer, Plate 23. It was made in 1902 by A.V. Haight for Inland Type foundry.
Salamandre (2012). A tall 19-th century style slab typeface based on Iguana, a design of Sally-Ann Grover.
Simplement (2011) is Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
Stylie Stymus (2012).
Threshold (2014).
TriangleETcircleShadow, TriangleETcircleShadowed (2010, 3d iron work style face)
UptightC (2010, multiline face).
Whitin Condensed Black (015). Whitin Condensed Black is Whitin Black Condensed on page 151 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
YagiUHFNo2 (2012).
Zenith CP (2016). A free connected calligraphic (wedding) script typeface.

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Claudia B. Kirsamer

German calligrapher who made a stunning cover in 2003 for the blackletter magazine Die deutsche Sprache. Short bio. [Google] [More] ⦿

Clément Nicolle
[Stereotype (was: Zone Erogene, or Dasklem)]

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

Clément Perret

Belgian penman. 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---some sources mention Brussels though). [Google] [More] ⦿

Club Type
[Adrian Williams]

Original typefaces designed by Rosemary Sassoon and Adrian Williams (b. Bridgwater, Somerset, 1950), an English advertising typographer and type designer. Located in Red Hill, Surrey, Club Type was founded in 1985 by Williams and Sassoon. Before that, Williams had been been converting many established metal designs for the new filmsetting devices in 1969, and continued with conversions into the digital era. This led to the production of custom made fonts for Renault, Marks&Spencer, Jaguar Cards and Foster's Lager among others. Wide font services. Sassoon worked on scripts with joined letters. She is most famous for her Sassoon Primary font family (primary school writing). Adrian Williams designed the following families: Admark (1990), Bulldog (1999, a grotesque family based on 1870 Figgins), Bulldog Slab (2009), Bulldog Hunter Std (2010, another slab version), Club Type (1998-2002: his inspiration was the lettering used for cartoon captions in the Mercurius Aulicus, England's first regular newspaper, from 1642 to 1647), Club Type Script Pro (quill pen script), Column (1992), Congress Sans (1992), Eurocrat (1991), Leamington, Mercurius (1989, a bouncy typeface inspired by the lettering used for cartoon captions in the Mercurius Aulicus, England's first regular newspaper, from 1642 to 1647), Monkton (1990: incised, with a bit of Trajan, and a bit of gravestone type), Monkton Aged (2020), Monkton Book Condensed (2020), Monkton News (2020), Monkton Incised (2020), Poseidon (1991), Raleigh (1977, with Carl Dair and Robert Norton; see Softmaker's R651 Roman and Raleigh Serial, and Bitstream's Calligraphic 631), Rileyson (2010, humanist sans family; +Great, +Teen, +Parent), Seagull, Stratford [see Stratford SH, Scangraphic], Veronan and Worcester Rounded and Worchester.

Typeface library. View Adrian Williams's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cochocib (was: Weasel Foundry)

Indonesian designer (b. 1998) of mostly handcrafted or script typefaces, ca. 2017. Their typefaces, by style:

Formal calligraphy: Chantiago, Whiplash, Glass Script, Steakfull, Fazlodia, Amfibi ScriptC, Siediffa Script, Humairah Script, Diffrenlight.
Hand-crafted: Candy Night, Pumpkins Candles, Bettels Fox, Magosteen.
Halloween fonts: Sound of Screaming, My Hunter.
Brush script: Mutiara.
Connected scripts: Barbeque, Haxaface Script, Elisa Script, Roullet (or Roulletes).
Signature font: Miyamma Script.

Columbia University: Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Coen Hofmann

Born in Amsterdam in 1939, Hofmann started out as a typesetter, and then morphed into a calligrapher and an author on calligraphy, and finally into a type designer.

Designer at URW++/Fontforum of

Admira (2019). A revival of the striped all caps money font Admira (1940, Schriftguss).
Altrincham (2003).
Caxtonian Black (2012). A blackletter.
Globus Cursive (2015, +Cyrillic). This cursive font is a revival of a font by Friedrich Hermann Wobst (1932, D. Stempel AG).
Gothic Initials (2015). After an original from 1821 by Firmin Didot's foundry.
Holland Gothic (2012). A blackletter.
Jason Uncial (2012). A unicase uncial design.
Perugia Cursive (2003). A gorgeous calligraphic script based on the 19th century "Scrittura Rotonda Francese" and "Scrittura Italiana" developed by Italian calligrapher Cesare Silvestrini.
Pinel Pro (2014). A revival of a didone from 1899 by Joseph Pinel called French 10pt No. 2. URW++ writes: Coen Hofmann digitized the font from a batch of very incomplete, damaged and musty drawings, which he dug up in Altrincham. He redrew all characters, bringing up the hairstrokes somewhat in the process.
Ramona (2004). A shaded typeface.
Revis (2011). A formal script based on Daphne, a typeface that was originally designed by German type designer Georg Salden. For some reason, that typeface was withdrawn from the URW++ library some time later.
Romeo (2004). A 3d beveled shadow face.
Sax (2008). A didone typeface family.
Seizieme Pro (2013). Based on the 1905 font Série 16 by Peignot, which was mainly used for scientific publications.
Signpainters Script (2013). A connected copperplate script.
Silvestrini (2003). A gorgeous Gando-style ronde. Based on the 19th century "Scrittura Rotonda Francese" and "Scrittura Italiana" developed by Italian calligrapher Cesare Silvestrini.
Sirius and Sirius Caps (2003). A garalde family developed together with British type designer Neville Brown.
Technotype (2011). A revival of Herbert Thannhaeuser's 1952 slab serif family Technotyp.
Thomas Schrift and Thomas Versalien (2015). Based on Friedel Thomas's Thomas Schrift and Thomas Versalien from 1956-1958.
URW Akropolis (2016, URW++). A revival of the cigar box open typeface Acropolis designed by the Ludwig Wagner foundry in Leipzig in 1940.
Pergamon (2016, URW++). A wonderful 10-style didone typeface family that revives, extends and modernizes Pergamon Antiqua first designed in 1937 at Ludwig Wagner in Leipzig by Alfons Scheider.
Marli (2016). A revival of the cursive typeface Korso by F. Schweimanns (1913).
Moewe (2017). An open typeface in the blackboard bold genre that revives Möwe (1929, Heinz Beck for Genzsch & Heyse).
Golf (2017). Golf was originally designed by Henry Reinhard Möller in 1935 for Schriftguss KG. Coen Hofmann redrew the capitals and then added lower case letter and Cyrillic alphabets.

Klingspor link. View Coen Hofmann's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Collectype Studio

Indonesian designer, b. 1997, of the monoline typeface Youjelly (2019) and the script typeface Syahilla (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Chinthya (a Valentine's day calligraphic font), Chalister (a monolinear organic sans by Toni Setiawan), NCS Rogueland (ten styles, squarish or techno; by Toni Setiawan), Laughs Qhuan (an upright calligraphic script), Cristhyna Signature, Chuterolk (a display sans family; by Toni Setiawan), Marchellia (all caps, Peignotian sans; by Toni Setiawan), Micolesther (a minimalist monolinear sans; by Toni Setiawan), Callihgra (calligraphic), Trellacote (display style; by Toni Setiawan), Thrainly Sellier (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Revisthond (script), Constaller (an inky script by Toni Setiawan and Eep Apringga), Fall In Love (script), Harland Roselyn (an upright brush script), Race Sport (a speed sans), Arinttika Signature, The Coastal (an inky Treefrog script).

Typefaces from 2022: Collingethon (a signature script by Toni Setiawan and Eep Apringga). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Many images here of medieval and renaissance era scripts. [Google] [More] ⦿

COM4t (or: Communicate by Four Typeface; was: Font Factory Field)
[Hideki Katayama]

COM4t (which was FFF or Font Factory Field) has some nice free fonts in all formats, by Hideki Katayama: COM4t Ascripta (2008, connected upright script), COM4t Ongac Script (2008, connected), COM4t Nuvu Regular (2008, upright script), COM4t Fine (2006), Melton (2005), EXCEEDMediumOblique (2002), EXCEEDMedium, EXCEEDNormalOblique, EXCEEDNormal, FamilianElderOblique, Elder (2003), FamilianElder, Familian (2001), FamilianOblique, Familian Son Oblique, Familian Son (2002), MaximumLine Speeder (2002), OLDNEW, Axis (2002, slab serif), OLDNEWSlider, QuillineScriptThin (2004, calligraphic handwriting), Spirequal Light (2003), COM4tSansMedium (2005). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Computer Aided Calligraphy -- George Thomson

George Thomson is developing slightly randomized handwriting fonts. He has taught calligraphy and has a beautiful gallery of examples. [Google] [More] ⦿

Constanza Corvalán Fierro

Chilean graphic design student. She created the calligraphic typeface Estival (2009, Tipos de Cartagua) while studying type design at the University of Chile. [Google] [More] ⦿

Contrafonts (or: Frutitype; was: Sindicato de la Imagen, or: Cooperativa de Fundicion Tipografica)
[Joaquín (jko) Contreras]

Or Joaquin Contreras Soto. Santiago, Chili-based type cooperative where some free fonts have been produced: CNI (2004, a scary pixel typeface named after the Central Nacional de Información, the notorious Chilean intelligence bureau), CFT Maestro Rosamel, Masapunk (grunge, available from Latinotype), Jara (pixel face, Latinotype), Themo.

Contreras won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008 for Romances (an exquisite calligraphic family) and Epístola. Other typefaces: LTT Jara, LTT Ferretería.

He wrote a thesis at the Faculty of Architecture of the University in Chile in 2007 entitled Diseño de fuentes tipográficas, basadas en los libros integramente caligrafiados por Mauricio Amster en Chile.

In 2011, he cofounded Los Andes Type, and published the octagonal typeface Fierro (2011) there.

Typefaces not mentioned above include TCL Suma (2011), La Chimba (2010) and Nomono (2011, after an alphabet designed by Chilean illustrator Cristobal Schmal).

He founded Contrafonts. Promptly, the medieval / uncial wedge serif all caps typeface CF Santiago won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018.

In 2020, Joaquin Contreras and Miguel Hernandez Montoya set up Archetypo.xyz from their new base in Germany. They co-designed AA Actual Mono (2020: monospaced, in 10 styles).

In 2021, Contreras set up Frutitype in Germany. At Frutitype, he released Cobre (a sans) in 2021.

Old URL. Navajo.org site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cooldesign Lab
[Kurniadi Saputra]

Indonesian designer of Angella Script (2016), Agustina (2016, a connected script), Joshan (2016), Mr. Night Script (2016), Luciana Script (2016), Biancca (2016, calligraphic script), Robert Brush (2016) and Bubble Kids (2016, a bubblegum font).

Typefaces from 2017: Pauline Script (calligraphic), Momenttion, Melisca, Resolusi Script, Fanesia Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Irlandia Script, Robert, Martine Script, Charmington, Starlive Script, Chandelle Signatures Script, Chandelle Display, Chelline Script, Harland, Bridget Script, Melinda Script, Letterline, Miersha Script, Charmington Script, Safaraz Script, Rustine Script, Coolline, Brightday, Alexandra, Michella.

Typefaces from 2019: Blackstar (a swashy calligraphic font), Mackenzie (a calligraphic script), Charliez Script, Brightday (a thin script), Morris (a fine calligraphic script), Nicolette, Mistery Font, Cataline Script (calligraphic), Restiany (formal calligraphy), Claretta (a squarish typeface).

Typefaces from 2020: Olella (a calligraphic script), Moenna, Hanisha Lovely, Megona (a display serif), Quinshia Script (a clean script), Chandello, Carliste Script, Anchoe (a decorative serif), Casemiro, Southern Hills, Standbury Script (a signage script), Fadello (a monoline script), Katie Findlay Script (calligraphic), Southern Hills.

Typefaces from 2021: Devinno Script, Delinda Script, Stairway (calligraphic), Lovetina (script), Cheliya (calligraphic), Earline (wild, calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2022: Asgaria (a stylish display seif), Qellina (a calligraphic script), Selestyna (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cora Castagna

Calligrapher and illustrator in Buenos Aires, who drew several calligraphic alphabets in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿

Corazone Studio (or: Owllines; was: Prof Pungguk)
[Hilmawan Qisthi]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the rough brush script typeface Corazon Brush Script (2016), Vinsmoke (2016), and the more calligraphic Rosinante (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Baratie Script, Mihawk.

Typefaces from 2019: Doflamingo (handcrafted), Kyros (dry brush), Acasia (calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

Corinne Carbonell

Designer in Barcelona, who created the calligraphic typeface Ellethwen (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Cornelis Dirckszoon Boissens

Dutch letterer and calligrapher, 1568-1634 (or 1635). He published the calligraphic masterpiece Gramato graphices in Amsterdam in 1605. This book has several blackletter and chancery alphabets proposed by Boissens. Teaser web site by yours truly. [Google] [More] ⦿

Corradine Fonts
[Manuel Eduardo Corradine]

Manuel Eduardo Corradine Mora was born in Bogotá in 1973. He graduated from the School of Graphic Design of the National University of Colombia in 1996, and became a graphic designer. He started by custom-designing fonts and by making typefaces for his own company, Casa Papelera El Cedro (The Cedar Papermaking House), for printing invitation cards. With other designers like Carlos Fabián Camargo, John Vargas and César Puertas he formed Tipográfico in 2007 to strengthen the type discipline in Colombia. Corradine Fonts is Manuel Corradine's own foundry in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2006. Today, he is one of Colombia's principal type designers. He also teaches at Universidad Piloto de Colombia in Bogota.

Fonts from 2007: Kidwriting (a family which includes Kidwriting Dingbats 1 and 2), Garabata (a fantastic handwriting face), Garabata Dingbats, Hexagona Digital, Quadrat (grunge), Quadrat Old (grunge), Quadrat Dirty (grunge), Quadrat Broken, Quadrat Ugly, Neogot (experimental, 8 styles).

Fonts from 2008: Mucura (handwriting), Prissa (handwriting), Salpicon (a script), Cuento Serif (a bouncy hand-printed family), Memoria (brush script), Charco, Happy Day (comic book family with Happy Day Dingbats), Espectro (a swinging script with swashes and a Dingbats style), Furia (handwriting), Candelaria (based on house signs in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá), Old Village (1600's style), Old Village Ornaments, Rapidda (a successful simulation of quick handwriting), Hueca (an outline children's script), Antigua (an old swashbuckler family), Colegial (a great-looking hand script), Pincel (a fantastic paint brush family with accompanying splatter dingbats), Trazo (Corradine's handwriting), Arcos (a techno family), Caveman (a primitive stone-look type family), Rumba (two styles; an elegant flowing brush script), Parche (graffiti family), Elegance Monoline (a greeting card script typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Abuelito (script).

Fonts from 2009: Helga (flowing script), Mussica (+Swash, +Antiqued: a delicate Victorian typeface; followed in 2017 by Mussica Italic), Guarapo (hand-printed), Toxic (futuristic stencil), Emotion (comic book face), Bloque 3D, Rock and Cola, Betco's Hand, Telefante (comic book family), Nancy's Hand (more comic book hand-printing), Alambre (multiline/paperclip), Sensual (calligraphic hand), Zape (in the style of Tekton), Antrax Tech (grunge), Masato (handwriting), Hu Kou (oriental simulation).

Fonts fgrom 2010: Miel (a curly script), Oferta (a signage script), Corradine Handwriting (and Corradine Handwriting Italic, 2015), Alberto (connected hand), Changua (hand-printed).

Fonts from 2011: Plebeya (2011, connected hand), Mimi's Hand Connected, Legendaria (an extensive connected calligraphic family).

Fonts from 2012: Tecna (a techno family co-designed with Sergio Ramirez), Neuron (a fantastic 16-style rounded elliptical sans family created together with Sergio Ramirez), Bucanera Soft (blackletter), Bucanera Antiqued (grungy blackletter), Official (a simple monoline sans family), Almibar (a connected calligraphic Spencerian script), Eterea (a roman all-caps family), Eterea LC (the lower case set), Canciller (an italic roman, done with Sergio Ramirez), Quarzo (2012, a formal copperplate script done with Sergio Ramirez).

Typefaces from 2013: Neuron Angled (still with Sergio Ramirez), Alianza Slab (a great-looking slab family), Alianza Italic and Alianza Script (a packaging font), all made jointly by Manuel Eduardo Corradine and Sergio Ramirez.

Typefaces from 2014: Whisky (a large blackletter family with inlines and fills for layering co-designed with Sergio Ramirez; related to German expressionism, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016), Whisky Italics, Beauty Script (with Juan Sebastian Rincon), Emblema and Emblema Headline (tall-legged art deco sans family by Duvan Cardenas), Wild Pen (a 1200-glyph set of typefaces that can be used to simulate handwriting thanks to smart replacements in Opentype), Sinffonia (a thin informal typeface with oodles of choices for swashes).

Typefaces from 2015: Be Creative (a vintage display typeface), Typnic (a varied handcrafted layered and script typeface family; rhymes with picnic), Typnic Headline Slab.

Typefaces from 2016: Naugles (thick display face based on the Naugles logo), Scrans (a modern signage script), Bloque (heavy slab family), Bloque Italic.

Typefaces from 2017: Cristal (layered, triangulated and beveled font family, including exquisite Cristal Dingbats and Cristal Frames), Almibar Pro (connected calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2018: Tierra Script, Pueblito (rustic style).

Typefaces from 2019: Austera Text (a comfortable workhorse serif).

Typefaces from 2020: Kidwriting Pro.

Klingspor link. Behance link. Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Fontspring link. Font Squirrel link.

View Corradine's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Correspondence Ink
[Debi Sementelli]

Correspondence Ink was set up in 2007 by Brian Bonislawsky (b. 1973, Pittsburgh, PA) and Debi Sementelli (b. Erie, PA). Together, they created the formal calligraphic family Belluccia (2011). Belluccia Ornaments has plenty of wedding invitation dingbats to accompany the font. Belluccia Bold was published in 2014.

Typefaces from 2012: DomLovesMary (a wedding script family) is named in memory of Dominic and Mary Sementelli, Debi's in-laws.

In 2015, Brian Bonislawsky and Debi Sementelli co-designed Fratello Nick.

In 2013, Debi Sementelli started Debi Sementelli Type Foundry.

Creative Market link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini

Born in Firenze in 1969. Cofounder with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti of the Italian design firm in Firenze called Studio Kmzero. He co-designed some typefaces there such as Arsenale White (2009). In 2002, Pancini developed Targa, TargaMS and TargaMSHand (for comic books?), basing his design on the peculiar sans serif monospace typeface with slightly rounded corners and a geometric, condensed skeleton that Italy had been using for its license plates. In 2022, Francesco Canovaro redesigned this font into a versatile multi-weight typeface, Targa Pro, which includes Targa Pro Mono (which keeps the original monospace widths), Targa Pro Roman (with proportional widths), both in five weights plus italics, the handmade version Targa Hand, and Targa Pro Stencil.

The handwriting of Lord Byron led Pancini to develop the brush script typeface Byron (2013, Zetafonts).

MyFonts credits him with the rounded avant garde sans family Antipasto (2007), but elswhere we read that this typeface is made by Matteo di Iorio, so there is some confusion. It was extended in 2017 by Pancini as Antipasto Pro.

In 2014, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro co-designed Amazing Grotesk (+Ultra). He also designed the calm bold geometric rounded sans typeface Cocogoose (2014; replaced by Cocogoose Pro in 2017) and the stylish deco font Offensive Behaviour. Cocogoose Letterpress is free. Cocogoose is part of the Coco Gothic family, a collection of twelve typefaces each inspired by the fashion mood of every decade of last century, named after fashion icon Coco Chanel. Cocogoose is Coco Gothic for the 1940s. See also Coco Gothic Pro (2021).

In 2015, Pancini published the grand family Coco Gothic. This Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface family features a small x-height and sligghtly rounded corners to make the avant garde and geometric sans typefaces in vogue in the 1970s come alive again, ready for 21st century fashion magazines. It comes with substyles that recreate many moods, including art nouveau and arts and crafts (Cocotte), Italian propaganda style and Italian deco (Cocosignum), hipster style (CocoBikeR), or Bauhaus (Cocomat). Coco Gothic was initially developed as a corporate font for Lucca Comics & Games Festival 2013. The rounded geometric sans family Cocomat (by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Deborah Manetti and Francesco Canovaro) was inspired by the style of the twenties and the visions of Italian futurists like Fortunato Depero, Giacomo Balla and Antonio Sant'Elia. Updated in 2019 as Cocomat Pro.

Still in 2015, Cosimo and Zetafonts published the connected creamy baseball script Bulletto, the grungy handvetica Neue, and the calligraphic wedding typeface Hello Script. In 2015, at Zetafonts, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed CocoBikeR (2015) to celebrate the hipster and bike cultures. CocoBikeR (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) is part of the successful Coco Gothic typeface family. In 2017, Pancini designed the 1930s Italian art deco typeface families Cocosignum Maiuscoletto and Cocosignum Corsivo Italico. In 2021, he published the 48-style (+variable) font family Coco Gothic Pro. This is a redrawn and expanded set of fonts: Inspired by a biography of Coco Chanel and trying to capture the quintessential mood of classical fashion elegance, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed Coco Gothic looking for the effect that the first geometric sans typefaces (like Futura, Kabel or the italian eponyms like Semplicita) had when printed on paper. The crisp modernist shapes acquired in printing charme and warmth through a slight rounding of the corners that is translated digitally in the design of Coco Gothic. [...] A distinguishing feature of Coco Gothic Pro is the inclusion of ten alternate historical sets that allow you to use the typeface as a true typographic time machine, selecting period letterforms that range from art deco and nouveau, to modernism and to eighties' minimalism. Equipped with such an array of historical variants, Coco Gothic Pro becomes an encyclopedia of styles from the last century. There is also attention to Darkmode and there is coverage of Cyrillic and Greek.

Typefaces from 2016: Adlery (a curly brush script), Kitten (Fat, Swash, Swash Monoline, Slant, Bold: signage script family), Adlibitum (a blackletter typeface by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro), Morbodoni (a display didone by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro).

In 2016, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, Giulia Ursenna Dorati and Andrea Gaspari co-designed the 1940s vintage brush script typeface Banana Yeti, which is based on an example by Ross George shown in George's Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual. The Zetafonts team extended the original design to six styles and multilingual coverage. The ExtraBold is free. Still in 2016, Pancini designed Calligraphunk, an experimental typeface that mimicks polyrythmic calligraphy, by alternating two sets of lowercase letters to emulate handwriting.

In 2016, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Matteo Chiti, Luca Chiti and Andrea Tartarelli co-designed the retro connected brush script font family Advertising Script, which is based on an example from Ross George's Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual.

Beatrix Antiqua (2016, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). This humanist sans-serif typeface is part of the Beatrix family (Beatrix Nova, etc.) that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model. Its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in Florence's Santa Croce Cathedral. Beatrix keeps a subtle lapidary swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif, similar to Hermann Zapf's treatment in Optima.

Amazing Grotesk (2016) is based on a logo designed by Francesco Canovaro.

Studio Gothic (2017, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli) is an 8-style geometric sans family based on Alessandro Butti's geometric sans classic, Semplicita.

Hello Script and Hello Sans can be used for layering and coloring. The Christmas-themed version is Hello Christmas.

Pancini designed the 64-strong typeface family Body Grotesque and Body Text in 2017-2018, together with Andrea Tartarelli. It was conceived as a contemporary alternative to modernist super-families like Univers or Helvetica.

In 2017, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli co-designed the sans typeface family Kabrio, which gives users four different corner treatment options.

Anaphora (2018). Anaphora is a contemporary serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro (roman), Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini (italic) and Andrea Tartarelli. It features a wedge serif design with nine weights from thin to heavy. Its wide counters and low x-height make it pleasant and readable at text sizes while the uncommon shapes make it strong and recognizable when used in display size. Anaphora covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Canovaro's Arista served as a basis for the 29-style monolinear rounded sans typeface family Aristotelica (2018) by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli. See also Aristotelica Pro (2020).

In 2018, he designed the italics for Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini's Domotika typeface family. Between 2018 and 2021, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli developed the 8-weight humanist sans typeface Domotika for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, further into the 18-style Domotika Pro (2021).

In 2018, he published Radcliffe, with Andrea Tartarelli, a Clarendon revival with Text and Casual subfamilies. Radcliffe (a Clarendon revival by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli), and added the layerable condensed Cocogoose Narrows to the Cocogoose family. Codec (2018) by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli is a geometric sans typeface family in which all terminal cuts are horiontal or vertical. See also Codec Pro (2019).

His Double Bass (2018) is a jazzy 4-style typeface family that pays tribute to Saul Bass's iconic hand lettering for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm film title sequence and other movies, Bass's vibrating, almost brutal cut-out aestethics, and the cartoonish lettering and jazzy graphics of the fifties.

In 2018, he published the sharp wedge serif typeface Blacker to pay homage to the 1970s. In 2019, that was followed by Blacker Pro (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli, who write: Blacker Pro is the revised and extended version of the original wedge serif type family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli in 2017. Blacker was developed as a take on the style that Jeremiah Shoaf has defined as the "evil serif" genre: typefaces with high contrast, oldstyle or modern serif proportions and sharp, blade-like triangular serifs). Still in 2018, he designed the swooping polyrhythmic calligraphic typeface Calligraphunk.

In 2018, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli designed Holden, a very Latin cursive sans typeface with pointed brush aesthetics and fluid rhythmic lines.

In 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli published the monolinear geometric rounded corner amputated "e" sans typeface family Cocogoose Classic, the sans family Aquawax Pro, and the condensed rounded monoline techno sans typeface family Iconic.

In 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini at Zetafonts published a slightly calligraphic Elzevir typeface, Lovelace.

In 2019, the lapidary typeface family Beatrix Antiqua (Francesco Canovaro) was reworked by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini together with Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini into a 50-style type system called Monterchi that includes Text, Serif and Sans subfamilies. Monterchi is a custom font for an identity project for a famous fresco in Monterchi, developed under the art directorship of Riccardo Falcinelli.

Tarif (2019) is a typeface family inspired by the multicultural utopia of convivencia---the peaceful coexistence of Muslims, Christians and Jews in tenth century Andalusia that played an important role in bringing to Europe the classics of Greek philosophy, together with Muslim culture and aesthetics. It is a slab serif typeface with a humanist skeleton and inverted contrast, subtly mixing Latin zest, calligraphic details, extreme inktraps, and postmodern unorthodox reinvention of traditional grotesque letter shapes. The exuberant design, perfect for titling, logo and display use, is complemented by a wide range of seven weights allowing for solid editorial use and great readability in body text. Matching italics have been designed with the help of Maria Chiara Fantini and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, while Rania Azmi has collaborated on the design of the arabic version of Tarif, where the humanist shapes and inverted contrast of the Latin letters find a natural connection with modern arabic letterforms.

Late in 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini released the fun typeface family Hagrid at Zetafonts, which writes: Crypto-typography---the passion for unknown, weird and unusual character shapes---is a disease commonly affecting type designers. Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini has celebrated it in this typeface family, aptly named Hagrid after the half-blood giant with a passion for cryptozoology described by R. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books. Extreme optical corrections, calligraphic counter-spaces, inverted contrast, over-the-top overshoots: all the inventions that abound in vernacular and experimental typography have been lovingly collected in this mongrel sans serif family, carefully balancing quirky solutions and solid grotesque design.

In 2020, Pancini released Stinger (2020, a 42-style reverse contrast family by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini) and Boring Sans (a typeface family designed along two variable axis: weight and weirdness). As part of the free font set Quarantype (2020), Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed Quarantype Embrace, Quarantype Hangout, Quarantype Hopscotch, Quarantype Joyride, Quarantype Sackrace, and Quarantype Uplift (with Maria Chiara Fantini).

In 2020, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Mario De Libero revived Nebiolo's Carioli (1928) as Cairoli Classic and Cairoli Now at Italian Type / Zetafonts. They extended the original weight and width range and developing both a faithful Classic version and a Now variant. The Cairoli Classic family keeps the original low x-height range, very display-oriented, and normalizes the design while emphasizing the original peculiarities like the hook cuts in curved letters, the high-waisted uppercase R and the squared ovals of the letterforms. Cairoli Now is developed with an higher x-height, more suited for text and digital use, and adds to the original design deeper inktraps and round punctuation, while slightly correcting the curves for a more contemporary look. Cairoli Variable has a weight and width axis.

In 2020, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Mariachiara Fantini---with the help of Solenn Bordeau---released Erotique at Zetafonts. Erotique evolved from Lovelace, an earlier Zetafonts typeface. Zetafonts describe this evil serif as follows: it challenges its romantic curves with the glitchy and fluid aestethic of transmodern neo-brutalist typography. Late in 2020, they added Erotique Sans, the sans version of Erotique, also designed by Cosimo Pancini and Maria Chiara Fantini.

Late in 2020, he co-designed the 46-style font family Eastman Grotesque together with Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli. This monolinear sans with a tall x-height comprises an interesting Eastman Grotesque Alternate subfamily with daring and in-your-face glyphs. The typeface evolved from Zetafonts' earlier Bauhaus-inspired typeface Eastman (2020). Later fonts in this family include Eastman Condensed (2021, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli).

In 2020, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero drew the 60-style Cocogoose Pro Narrows family, which features many compressed typefaces as well as grungy letterpress versions.

Sunshine Pro (2020, Zetafonts) was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Solenn Bordeau expanding the original Sunshine design by Francesco Canovaro, part of the Quarantype collection (2020), which in turn was designed as a typeface for good vibes against Covid-19. Sunshine Pro is an experimental Clarendon-style font with variable contrast along the weight axis---contrast is reversed in light weight, minimized in the regular weight and peaks in the bold and heavy weights.

Coco Sharp (2021) is a 62-style sans feast, with two variable fonts with variable x-height, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.

Co-designer of Heading Now (2021), a 160-strong titling font (+2 variable fonts) by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero that provides an enormous range of widths.

Keratine (2021, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero). A German expressionist typeface that exists in a space between these two traditions, mixing the proportions of humanistic typefaces with the strong slabs and fractured handwriting of blackletter calligraphy. Pancini, its main designer, writes that it explores the impossible territory between antiqua and blackletter.

Geppetto (2021) is a frivolous Tuscan font that started out as a revival of a condensed Tuscan wood type family appearing in the 1903 Tubbs Wood Type catalog and which was probably derived from an 1859 typeface by William Hamilton Page. Pancini built a variable font on top of it and calls it a font for fake news.

In 2021, Pancini added Coco Tardis as a variable font with a time travel slider to the Coco Gothic family.

Millard Grotesque (2021) is a true "grot" in the Akzidenz Grotesque sense of the word. This typeface family was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.

Pancini's Descript (2021) is a variable script font with two axes, slant and speed of writing.

Milligram (2021) is a very tightly set grot by Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cotbada Studio
[Nicolas Isfani]

Bireuen, Indonesia-based designer of the swashy script typefaces Restafi Script, Marchelina Script, Malika and Agus, the signage script Aqlima, Angelines, and the curly Ragetti Script in 2017.

Typefaces from 2018: Sofiebestin, Gallisia Design Script, Jodie Badiston Script (a signature font), Crolinesy Daggaes Script, Chalifor Dalsatic (an SVG script), Mottingham Script, Mathanifo Script, Dhanikans Signature, Sophier Rotties.

Typefaces from 2019: Julie Brious, Rollgates (monoline sans), Rollgates Luxury, Rollgates Victoria, Rollgates Fabulous, Bernitha, Angelica Berkeley (script), Cartines Script, Betharia Script, Mark Rasford (a signature font), Young Love, Sanger, Proper Lady, Mexabetto, Happy Monday, Genjutsu (a comic book font), Gasttula, Funbold, Deep Feeling, De Califortia, Blongoc Script, Kaget Botalies Script, Romans Rexamples (font duo), The Blagious Bold Script, The Bextrias Script, Alessa Beilaire (a calligraphic signature font).

Typefaces from 2020: Gabrielly (Regular, Script: for fashion mag applications).

Typefaces from 2021: Streamline Moderne (a vintage display typeface), Yipes (a display sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Counterpoint Type Studio
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

Established in 2013 by Hollywood, CA-based Jason Walcott (formerly operating as JAW Fonts and as Jukebox Type), b. 1971, Michigan, Counterpoint Type Studio started marketing fonts in that same year. The first batch included India Ink (2013), Raspberry Jam (a delightfully curly vampire script), Profiterole (a feminine pastry shop script), and Califunkia (pure psychedelia), and Domani CP (a faithful digital revival of an old photo-typositing typeface called ITC Didi. Originally designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnese, Domani brings to life a font that has been somewhat neglected by the digital era until now).

In 2014, he added Swashington.

In 2015, he designed Plectrum CP (a Peignotian sans typeface family with very large x-height). Later in 2015, he set up Jukebox Collection.

Typefaces from 2016: Schmalfette CP. He writes: SchmalfetteCP is the result of another collaboration between designers Jason Walcott and Rob King. King suggested that Walcott revive this wonderful and somewhat forgotten sans serif typeface from the mid 1950s. Originally designed by Walter Haettenschweiler in 1954, Schmalfette Grotesk was used for many years in the German magazine Twen. The typeface was notoriously hard to acquire at the time and graphic designers in the USA often resorted to cutting letters from the Twen magazines and reusing them in their own designs. Later, when digital type came along several typefaces very similar were created that claimed to be digital revivals of Schmalfette Grotesk. However, they are actually only loosely based on the original. The proportions are different and in some cases a lower case was added. The original font was all caps. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Courtney Kent Rhodes
[American Greetings Corporation]

Cove 703 (was: ComicVector 703)
[Cundrawan Tan]

Denpasar, Bali-based designer of the curly handcrafted typeface Kerithing (2015), Baline Script (2016) and the watercolor brush typeface Amarill (2016). Typefaces from 2017: The Naturel (woodblock printing style), Balistroke, Rosedita Script (calligraphic), Maheera, Ringotube (2017).

Typefaces from 2019: Tony Bhages (dry brush), James Stroker, Ricky Lhambert, Cleopharta (dry brush), Hardy Blow (dry brush script), Morgan Chalk, Cherry Angela, Christopher Done, Chrusty Rock, Willy Brothers, Zuka Doodle (3d, sketched), Yasmine Rothem, Qinyana Signature, Firyana Beauty, Olivia Dhorgent, Wyntex Brasco, Charlie Zonk, Agnesa Kyoto, Mickey Steward, Becky Tahlia, Boldywolf, Paul Signature, Happy Sunday, Just Mandrawn (sketched), Ghiya Strokes (a dry brush typeface), Jocky Starline, Billy Scriptian, Rose Katrinah, Nugie Romantic (Victorian), Nadia Sofia (bold italic), Golden Ranger, Dharko Gilbert, Kestoy Selfie, Falling Button (a fat finger font), Richie Brusher (dry brush), Rhyanie Lane, Sheila Crayon, Anthem Nasney, Melodya Chatrina, Sandra Belhock, Duck in Shipah, Monster Game, Robert Barack, Hot Restaurant (monoline script), Funshop, Katrine Holland, Shark Ready, Heidy Indigo, Takashi Minta, Ballet Harmony, Knight Jacker (blackletter script), Michael Jackpot (brush font), John Bulgarry (script), Roshida Valentines, (script) The Naturel Txt (a dry brush or wood texture emulation font), Jungle Boy, Shitoberry (script), Baline Script. Creative Market link. Dafont link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dutch designer in Ede of Le Font (2013, hand-printed), Strepper (2013, a blackboard bold font), Notey (2013, a hand-printed typeface) and Curia (2013, a calligraphic font).

Creative Lab (or: MS GO, or: Musafir Lab)

Craig's Calligraphy

Craig Taylor's calligraphy. Big font archive (truetype). [Google] [More] ⦿

Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts
[Alex Moseley]

Wonderful 16-th century (commercial) fonts from this Manchester, UK-based foundry, including:

Bastard Secretary
Black Cat Letter. A blackletter font used in the Harry Potter films.
Chancery Hand
Formal Text Hand
Hand of the Court of the Common Pleas.
Italic Hand
Parchment Print & Italic. From the Harry potter films.
Rustic Capitals (2005).
Secretary Hand
Seventeenth Century Print and Italic
Uncial
Wizard Runes and wizrdings. From the Harry Potter films.
Written Square Caps (2005: roman inscriptional caps).

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Creaditive Design
[Aditiyo Dwi Putranto]

Indonesian designer who released the script typefaces Sparkling Winter (a scrapbook script), Black Manta Brush, Dopetta (a wide calligraphic script), Heavier (a bold marker pen font), Mommy and Baby (for scrapbooks), Gabriel Auste (an inky script), Ladies, Easter Bunnytail (a scrapbook script), Ladylove (a Valentine's Day script), Berthalia and Still Love in 2021. He released Cute Bubble (a playful font), Cartoon Town, Blood Scratch (a dry brush horror script), Chistmas Joyful (alphadings), Kallisty (an inky and wild calligraphic script), Spooky Flames, Spooky Halloween (a horror font), Realtime Gamer (an all caps font for video games), the script typeface Aqille and the floral typeface Aqille Monogram in 2021. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Creative Great

Indonesian designer of calligraphic script typefaces. In 2019, they released Love Demont, Charlotte, Anisha, Darling, Love Monday, Melinda, Wedding Party, Callingtone, Beautiful, Achiela, Darling, Mighty Love, Cilupha (monoline) and Clarity. [Google] [More] ⦿

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of these script typefaces in 2017: My Heart Script, Majestic. In 2018, he designed the script typefaces Cataleya, Delleya Script, Autines Script, Hillah Script, Manda Script, Natural Script, Beloved (curly and calligraphic), Eaglese Script, Cadosa Script, Hello Sarrah Script, Malinda Script, Hearted Script, Angellie Script, Hiters Script, Cintya Script, Calega (monoline script), Ailand Script, Angelic, Sauvage, Lady Steady, Marsya, Mentally and Vegas Style.

Typefaces from 2019: Espresso, Loving, Heart, Leadent Script, Breather, Adeline, Callisa Script, Hunting, Gentleman (textured), Feeling, Cardina, Marvelous, Deliya, Heartbeat, Thunder, Andiney, Sallma, Elizabeth Script, Steady, Alista, Wedding Script, Blessed Script, Adrenaline, Sweety Script, Mylove Script, Adventure Script, Handley, Eaglese Pro, Greatest Script, Shaila Script, Hearty Script, Isabella Script, Marria Script, Marcela Script, Aseline Script, Mellow, Issabeta Script, Leontine Script, Alliana Script, Emeley Script, Aleria Script, Nayla Script, Maisara Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Mueband, Bosque (a curly decorative serif), Monkey, Mullia Script, Cuttering (a paper cutout font), Mellow, Adrenaline (a tape font), Alligator (a signage script), Soulties (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Creative Media Lab
[Kadek Adi Mahardika]

Bali, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1983) of Baruna (2018: vintage decorative font), Brotherley (2018), the hilarious Chef Characters Icons (2018), the sans typeface Drupadi (2018), the ball terminal typeface Cameo Sweet Gothic (2018), the handcrafted typefaces Miyake Signature (2018), Kiddo Handwriting (2018), Puralova Script (2018) and Children Alien (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Jollin, Jollin Family, Popstick (an ultra-smooth popart style rounded sans), Yellost (blackletter), Chalk and Pamor, Little Pea, Tropiello (Tuscan, Victorian), Pink Shark, Molga, Othelie (swashy and medieval), Brume, Little Pea, Kuashe (monoline), Lordish (blackletter), Blue Angel, Black Cameo (spurred), Puralova, Milova (a great calligraphic typeface).

Typefaces from 2020: Zolina (a decorative sans, with a variable font added), Black Mango (a chic 10-style display sans with some flared stems; +a variable font), Mesdag, Prettywise (a decorative serif), Loubag (an elegant short-ascender vintage display typeface in ten styles), Kooka (a variable width stylish exaggerated wedge serif family), Belle Story (a high contrast display serif), Losta Masta (a decorative serif), Matterdi (a fashion mag family with an extremely large x-height), Popstone (psychedelic, with a variable font), Carpellon (a tattoo font), Dorris (a swirly psychedelic font), Losta Masta, Mavera (a modular display font), Rajjah Famillia (a blackletter), Allaina (a Victorian serif), Kaoly (a stylish bold serif), Cattedrale (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2021: Losta Bonita (psychedelic), Black Mango (Kadek Mahardika) (display sans), Naskle (psychedelic), Reggy (psychedelic), Losta Frida (a curvy display serif), Parka (a decorative saber-edged stencil typeface in nine styles), Missy Voya (a decorative serif), Greyst (a fashion mag display typeface), Skinny Joe (revisiting the bell bottom 1980s in a wonderful wide display family), Morgy (intestinal), Magrit (an ultra-fat high-contrast display typeface), Pretty Boy (a decorative serif family), Catavalo (a 6-style fashion mag typeface), Voire (a swirly lachrymal serif family consisting of 18 fonts), Viva Kaiva (an intestinal and perhaps psychedelic typeface), Pink Crestelle (a ten style display typeface, and a variable font), Benoa (a 7-style decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Losta Nova (11 styles), Mango Style (10 styles; a stylish wide display sans with straight terminal endings: +a variable font), Cobya (a variable fashion mag family in 28 styles, influenced by ocean waves and liquids), Missy Voya (a stylish display serif), Losta Nova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Creative Smart

Designer of the brush script font families Bandet (2017, by Ayi Teiry) and Just True (2017), and the formal calligraphic typeface Violeta (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Creativeqube Design
[Lucy Chugg]

Hamilton, Victoria, Australia-based designer of Torquay Hotel (2015, a great dry brush typeface), Tropical Nights Script (2015), Blitzen (2015, a scribbly outlined typeface), White Snowfall Script (2015), Third Storey (2015, +Brush, +Regular, +Marker), Twisted Willow (2015, a connected exaggerated script), Saltywaters (2015, an attractive brush script), Operation 22 (2015), Sideline Bold (2015), Sideline Hollow (2015), Juicy Brush (2015), Blushingly (2015, a brushy wedding script font), Thystle Leaf (2015), La Bambiny (2015: painted Treefrog style script), Sweet Dreamer Script (2015, children's hand), the fat brush typeface Coalface (2015) and the curly fat brush scripts Wonderlicious (2015) and Rumpledrop (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Boltis, Tantrums, Favoured (rough brush), Goatfish, Odd Socks, Passion Fruits, Boom&Farrow, Blissfully, Snowblown (a chunky marker font), Loganberry, Roll Off, Shakeoff (dry brush), Grainger, Irish Brogue, Saltie Sea, Gorgeously You, Yellow Gold, Seriously Rad (brush font), Sorrella Script, Woodend retro, Roamfest Brush Script, Doctors Scrawl script, Needle & Thread, Rabbit Fur (brush type), Moonlit harvest, Quickly Script, Multiculture, Lusciously, Listless, Lemony Zest, Liberty & Love, Lemonade Fizzo, Illabarook Script, Humongous, Hot Chips, Going Slow, Aberfoyle Park Script, Strike One, Lovers Avenue, Glen Thompson, Sing Aloud, Berry Shortcake, Yellow Taxi, Shopwreck (dry marker font), Faithful True, Flattering, Zombie Zone, Feathertop, Jellybeans, Show+Tell, Swizzlesticks, Label Marker, Hello Journal, School Blackboard, Life+Laughter, Holiday Chaos, Silverwaves, Bjorn Rider (marker font), Affectionate Brush (crayon font).

Typefaces from 2017: Soundbound, Trescott, Tyndust Script, Wallower Script, Berry Merry, Beautiful Lights Script, Song of the River Script, Oh Mistletoe Script, Holiday Joy, Jingle Joy, Holiday Coffee Script, Cheerful Elf Script, Journey's Inn (brush), Ice Castle, Frosted Cupcake, Oh Surrender Script, Moonlight Sailing Script, Justify Brush Script (dry brush), Just Maria Script, Falling Pumpkins Script, Bright Soul Script, Blossomie Script, Joy Flight Script, Loving Saskia (watercolor brush), Blue Liquid, Lemons Soda Script, Southerner (dry brush script), Theodoria Script (tall swashy calligraphic typeface), Highline, Southfall Script (formal calligraphy), Serial Catch, Travelling Abroad, Warrenson Script, Saturday Rock, Indulgence Script, Cottage Gardens Script, Spoonfull Script, Pattersonville Script (signature font).

Typefaces from 2019: Abiding Love, Lightheartedly (a signature script), Bright Glow Script, Bloom of Life, Enjoying Life, KindSoul SVG Script & Serif, Quest, Roverback, Route Nine Script, Cozi Glow, Consequat, Quick Scrawl Script, Abiding Love, Darling Rosie (font duo), Fernando Willow Heart, Gather Collector's Edition, Greater Things, Isle of Skye Script, Oakwood Beach Script, Ross Creek (a dry brush script), Santiago Vincent, South & North, Studio Baked, Surfers Paradise, Terminal Four Modern, Wonderful Time Script.

Typefasces from 2020: Vintage Stylist.

Typefaces from 2021: More Aloof (psychedelic), Bourdeilles France (script), Ello (+floral patterns), Emilia-Romagna Script, Olive Branch, Quanta La Oranj (an ink bleed display serif), Rainger Serif. [Google] [More] ⦿

Creatype Studio (or: Taro Creatype, Crella Marketplace, Rahardi Creatype)
[Mohamad Rian Rahardi]

Depok and/or Bangka Belitung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1979) of these script typefaces in 2018: Guthenberg (signage script), Rampage Monoline, Chicago Script (baseball script), Entreaty (signage script), Striped King, Rathyland, Banshee (brush script), Aksana (brush script), Just Signature, Granite (brush), Wakanda, Halimun (signature font), Jacklyn (signature font), Winchester (signature font), Jelytta, Bulgatti, Southampton, Little Jack.

Typefaces from 2019: Barcetto, Butterly, Huttely, Qrownly, Questa White (a monoline script), Oklahoma, Guthenberg Bold, Estylle Madison, Thankfully, Mistrully, Sophia Christie, Attemptyon, Maghody, White Angelica, Gilligan Shutter (monoline script), Ballystic, After Sunset, Barcelony, Brittany Signature, Cervanttis, Clattering, Estrela, Endestry, Guttenbay, Hello Santtiny, Herdrock (brush style), Hey Lucky, Kasting Script, Billystuck, Porcelain, The Gwathmey.

Typefaces from 2020: Death Rock (dry brush), Gwyneth, Kamilya, Kids Now, Lemony, Mandaly, Mossley, Ondyne, Wildrock, Hello Sunny, Hurtley, Magnolia, Myrwala, Priscyla, Rockys, Skulrock, Summer Beach, Yearbook, Montrelo (a rounded interlocking sans), Kingstyle, Starshy, Kastyle, Scarletty, Thransty, Quinttor, Breaker The Brush, Jattayu, Lazy Jumps (dry brush), Besties Matthew, Gesthyla, Ganttlets (dry brush), Estelly, Oklahoma, Blastyes, Stadella, Twister, Gistesy, Broadway (art deco), Brittanya Goldenite, Monttrela, Estrela (a rabbit ear script), Alesandra, Eleanor, Evangeline, Masticusy, Sydhartta, Jumps Steady, Bandage Kroasty, Hanastly, Retylle Solyta, Rampage Monoline, Estylle Madison, Halmahera, Hypebeast (spurred, caps), Whisholder (spurred, caps), Cristabella, Mallorie, Baquette, Crocky, Gadroons, Halymoon, Magdalyn, Raysha.

Typefaces from 2021: Agatha Christy, Anastasya (a monoline script), Antipathy Stamp, Anttelope, Aquawave, Attena (calligraphic), Aurelye, Babyque, Ballantik, Barcelona, Barthony, Bedtime Story, Bellagio Chic, Black Diamond, Brandon Matthews, Brittany, Broadway, Brokllyng, Broster (a weathered vintage slab serif), Brotherhood Brush, Brownies, Bryan Kimberly, Bucherry, Cherly Blossom, Connecticut, Coutline (stencil), Creamy, Cristabella, Dellyssion, Doodleland, Dorothy, Edward, Elisabeth, Endless Loveness, Enternal, Enternity, Essperanza, Eugellyca, Fioretta, Franchisca, Fruiti Juicy (a cut-out typeface), Gading Retro (a retro signage script), Garry Shelby, Gaston & Jacklyn, Gebrush, Ghostily Spooky, Gisella Anistasy, Goldisyle, Gorock, Graffity, Hamston, Hancoke Adventure, Hardbeat, Hattrick, Hello Sunny, Helloo Gladiattor, Heredittary, Hurtley, Jabottabeck, Jealousy, Jordan Dunk (script), Judthing, Juliette, Junkies, Kalemanja (Greek emulation), Kalistra (a bold monoline sans), Kallisoka (a display serif), Karllina, Kattalyna, Kidos Park, Kidstation, Kingstyle, Klassik Style (a retro signage script), Komika (a cartoon font), Komsiyochi (a signature script), Kulldesak, Lamorry, Layttona, Lazzy Dog, Little Queen, Lord of Scotland, Mackyloo, Magnifyco, Magnolia, Mallorie, Manchester Signature, Marleigh (a chunky display serif in the Windsor genre), Megaloman, Misrelly, Moanster, Modest (stencil), Monstera, Montrelo, Moonview, Myrwala, Peachy, Priscilla, Priscyla, Quickly Sustain, Quinlliyk, Rattiar, Rontrelan, Rowytta, Rustty, Sabertooth (a dry brush font), Sachssy, Sacramento, Samanthy, Scratchy, Shutterland, Skulrock, Sophiaticha Handwritten, Southwell, Sticky, Sugena Rawuh (a monoline script)m Summer Beach, The Brands Quest, The Brown Fox Stylish Marker, The Quest, The Rocky, Therhog, Tropikana, Vegawanty, Vinttadge, Western Wildler, Westlynn, When Modern Meet Vintage, Wintter, Wyaletta, Wyattiky, Wyattruly (calligraphic script), Gwyneth, Death Rock (a dry brush font), Yearbook, Rockys, Ondyne, Mossley, Lemony, Kids Now, Wildrock, Mandaly, Kamilya, Hanessy, Crocky, Raysha, Magdalyn, Halymoon, Gadroons, Baquette, Searghy, Marlyne, Grunge!, Bryshty, Jacklyn Blands, Sunquish.

Typefaces from 2022: Brittany Signature. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Crow Studio
[Efe Gürsoy]

Crow Studio consists of Efe Gürsoy, Suat Tuna and Yasir Ekinci. During his studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Efe Gürsoy created these typefaces:

Night Flight Marker (2017).
Blomming (2016). A brush script typeface.
The great brush script typefaces Emily Smiles (2016), Ragtime (2016; +Ragtime Marker), Fashion Hustle (2016: a free watercolor brush font family), Ravishing (2016), Night Blue (2015), Botanic (2015), Mox (2015, with Joseph Stone), Maxi (2015, with Joseph Stone), Boutique (2015: script), Boutique Paris (2015: calligraphic), Smithen (2015; also claimed as "his" by Yasir Ekinci), Rockabilly (2015), Frida (2015), Amelia (2015), Jack (2015), Fast Script (2015), New Royal Italic (2015), Royal (2015), Moonlight (2015), Aqua (2015, a curly watercolor brush face), Vabukle (2015, a connected watercolor brush script), Isabell (2015), London (2015), and Gabriel (2015).
The calligraphic typefaces Harmony King (2015), Gravity (2015, with Joseph Stone), Jack Summer (2015), Leyla (2015) and Istanbul (2015).
Signage script typefaces: Amelia's Blue (2015, with Joseph Stone).
We find his fonts Bedesten Script and Biplo, both designed in 2015, as being designed by Mucahit Gayiran at Mockup Zone, so that either Mucahit Gayiran or Efe Gürsoy or both are aliases.
His Majestic Lettering package (2015) contains ten script fonts: Salt, Storm, Summer, Sugar, Young, Hanger, Angelic, Jasmine, Samurai and Butterfly.
Sunlight (2017). Brush font duo.
Mandolin Script (2017).
Taksim (2017), Strike (2018) and Tropical (2018). Brush scripts.
Lucky Fashion (2018). A script.
Mustang Brush (2018).
Rockstar Script (2018: free), Radikal (2018), and Skyfall (2018). Crayon or dry brush scripts.
Festival (2018). A free dry brush script.

Behance link. Creative Market link for Efe Gürsoy. [Google] [More] ⦿

CRR TNN
[Antonio Cerri]

Antonio Cerri (b. 1972, Catania, Italy) freelances in web, graphic and motion design from San Giovanni La Punta, Sicily. He created some typefaces in 2010, such as the futuristic CRR NTN (+Outline).

In 2011, he made Labyrinthus, a multilined all caps family: inspect each glyph and note that there is one point of entrance and one exit. Still in 2011, the decorative family Atlantide and the futuristic all caps typeface Silver Chisel appeared.

In 2012, he designed the techno family Steel.

Typefaces from 2013: Firebird (techno, automotive, speed font family).

In 2014, he made Luna Crescente, a layered multicolor 3d typeface.

Typefaces from 2016: Xandra (script), Xova (a 5-layer techno/logo font), Xova Rounded, Maria Script (heavy signage script).

Typefaces from 2020: Bilya Layered, Xova Layered, Labyrinthus Rounded.

Typefaces from 2021: Astralys (futuristic caps), Labyrinthus Pro (labyrinthine).

View Antonio Cerri's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cruz Fonts
[Ray Cruz]

Cruz Fonts was established in Oakland, NJ, in 2004 by Ray Cruz, who has been a designer of custom lettering and custom typefaces to major ad agencies, publishers and corporate clients in the New York City area for almost 30 years. He has created many display typefaces for Agfa/Monotype, Bitstream, Phil's Fonts and Garage Fonts. Presently Ray Cruz is working as Type Director at Y&R NY, and is an adjunct professor at FIT and Kean University teaching type design. Bio at Garagefonts.

His oeuvre:

Garagefonts: Cruz Grafica (1999), Cruz Grafica Inline, Troubadour.
Agfa/Monotype: Bandolera, Bandolero, Cruz Handy (2001) and Cruz Swinger. Swinger, in fact, was produced in film type for the John Schaedler Studio in New York in the 1970s. Also, Elegante, Romantica (didone).
Bitstream: CruzCanteraBT (2003, a stylish informal sans family), Homeland BT (2004, a text typeface with a large x-height), Vera Cruz (2003, a playful display serif), and Fat Albert (2004).
Cruz Fonts: Satchmo (2016), Cruz Handy (2004), Troubadour (2004), Cruz Stencil (2012), Cantina, Bandolero, Cruz Swinger (fat semi-psychedelic signage face), Bandolera, Romantica Pro (2013, a condensed didone), Dot Script (2013, dot matrix face), Cruz Script Pro (2013: original from 2005), Bouncing Checks Layers (2014, octagonal and layered; includes 40 dingbats by Seymour Chwast).
P22: P22 Cruz Ballpoint, P22 Cruz Calligraphic, P22 Cruz Brush.
BarracudaPlain.
Custom typefaces for Camel Cigarettes, Estee Lauder (1994), New York Life Insurance, The NFL Detroit Lions, Pella Windows, USPS, and Xerox.

Bio at Garagefonts. P22 link. FontShop link. PDF catalog.

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Cruzine
[Peter Olexa]

Peter Olexa (Bratislava, Slovakia, b. 1978) created the (typically retro / vintage) mostly commercial typefaces Slow SVG (2020: a brush font), Hurley (2020), Royal (2020: vintage caps), Wagoon (2020), Snow (2020: a 3d color SVG font), Venomous (2020: spurred, grungy), Behofeel (2020), Chasmophile (2020: formal calligraphy), Angelic (2019: dry brush), Boutique Paris (2019), Umbrella (2019), Cellica Bold (2019), Abigaile (2019), Ragtime (2019: a brush font), Ragtime Marker (2019), Futu (2018), Kiko (2018), Pineapple (2018), Urban (2018: inline), Plasma (2018), Evolve (2018: inline), Hallowen (sic; 2018), Phantom (2018), Palam (2018), Alter (2018), Chrome (2018), Rhino (2018), Giant (2018), Valeria (2018), Ruas (2018), Strife (2018), Giant (2018), Atari (2018), Octopus (2018), Green Light (2018), Atlantis (2018), Maroon (2018), Secure 3D (2018), Cube (2018), Billionaire (2018: art deco), Savana (2018: bejeweled), Castile (2018), Starla (2018), Brodo (2018), Nomos (2018), Brisk (2018, art deco), Tron (2018), Jewel (2018), Forest (2018), Noxa (2018), Ama Deust Inline (2018), Goliath Inline Grunge (2017), Arbatosh (2017: Victorian), Momoco (2017), Heyro Fun (2017), Calliope Fun (2017), Steampunk Gears (2017), Ponds (2017: Victorian), Zahra (2017: inline grunge), Green Light (2017: inline grunge), Jordan Bold Grunge (2017: inline), Metalic 3D (2017), Mecha Grunge (2017), Buffalo (2017), Queen (2017), Lacoste Inline (2017), Ollie (2017, sans family), Nomos (2017), Blue North (2017: spurred), Murray (2017), Atlantis (2017), Montana (2017, outlined), Speedhunter Line (2017), Star Black Inline (2017), Gatsby Inline (2017: art deco), Jibril (2016: spurred), Hallowen (sic) (2016), Kiko (2016), Sailor (2016, tattoo font), Annabel (2016), Zalora (2016), Geno (2016), Marin (2016), Starship (2016), Mozza Shadow (2016), Meravin (2016), Venomous (2016), Amora Inline Grunge (2016), Rocket Shadow (2016), Hydrant (2016), Boston Inline Grunge (2016), Skywalker (2016, art deco), Ocela (2016), Columbus (2016), Raven (2016), Nomura Grunge (2016), Stella (2016), Salada (2016), Vultron (2016), Majestic (2016), Napoleon (2016), Temu (2016), Rodeo (2016, Western style family), Brooklyn (2016), Thunder (2016, Victorian label typeface family), Murray Inline Grunge (2016), Opera (2016, Victoriana), Flamingo Shadow (2016), Blue North Inline Grunge (2016), Montana Bold Outline (2016), Monophone Fancy (2016, retro style), Marin Victorian (2016), Westwood (16-style Western font family), Mozza (2016, +Inline, +Shadow, +Grunge), Speed Hunter (2016), Metro Grunge (2016), Annabel (2016, Victorian), La Forest (2016, blackletter), Star (2016, decorative caps, with outlined and inline versions), Phoenix (2016, a spurred typeface), Gatsby (2016), Bureno (2016, a Victorian display typeface), New York (2016, letterpress emulation), Capella (2016), Almanac Italic Grunge (2015), Anabel (2016, roman caps), Regolith (2015), Chocoleta (2015, hand-printed), Sailor (2015), Turmeric (2015), Ultimatum (2015), Heyro (2015, a rough brush font), Calliope (2015, a rough brush), Glass Beads (2015), Red Paprika (2015), Greenkitchen (2015), Artistico (2015, grungy), Brush Shop (2015), Graceful (2015, irregular script), Brush Wall (2015), Nickainley (2015, connected script), Harloft (2015, a warm brush script), Detective Typewriter (2015), Not Perfect (2015), Good Vibes (2015), Cool Story (2014), Get Coffee (2014), Think Happy (2014), Say Less (2014), Let's Do This (2014), Just Be Cool (2014), Brooklyn Coffee (2014, a spurred poster typeface), Bronx Shoes (2014), Nevermind (2014), RockNRoll (2014), Bluegrass (2014), Memento (2014, spurred Victorian face), Melody (2014) and Grazioso (2014). He runs Dealjumbo.

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Crystal Kluge
[Tart Workshop]

CT Studio

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic and/or script typefaces Garuma, Authente, Tarligeta, Bomesta, Califah, Menogat, Anehgane, Hatinella, and Caaliftha in 2020. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cucu Supriyadi
[Seventh Imperium]

Cui Xianren

The story of Cui Xianren gives hope. I am quoting the original report: A street beggar who draws beautiful calligraphy with a chalk held precariously between the only movable fingers of his handicapped hands has finally signed a contract with a font company to produce original fonts of Chinese characters. The 49-year-old Cui Xianren is a native of Huiqi Manchu Ethnic Town, Wangkui county, of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. His hands and typeface were severely burnt when a diesel barrel exploded during an accident in October 1993, leaving him with movement in only his index and ring fingers. Burdened with a family to feed, Cui was forced to beg on the streets. He would bend on a long sheet of plastic for several hours writing neat and beautiful Chinese characters with his injured fingers. Cui practiced for about ten years to master the feat following the accident. A microblogger posted a photo online of Cui begging and writing on the street of Qingdao city, in east China's Shandong province on October 9. The photo quickly became an Internet sensation, prompting Founder Font, a company under the Peking University Founder Group which specializes in the development of Chinese Fonts, to post a notice on its official microblog to locate the author. Staff from the company finally located Cui on a street in Qingdao on October 12. The two parties signed a working contract on Friday after Founder Font made clear the terms to Cui. Founder will cover the expenditure for Cui's artistic creations and provide him with 50,000 yuan in advance for his livelihood. Cui was asked to first work on a list of 1,000 Chinese characters and send the finished works to the company, which will then incorporate them into its font library after making necessary adjustments. Cui will exclusively enjoy any profit made from commercial development of the fonts within a 50-year time frame. Founder Font said Cui's chalk calligraphy, with its classic beauty, will have huge potential for the designing and advertisement market. Cui had related to the media that during his years practicing the art, he would choose traditional Chinese characters from a dictionary and transform different parts of the characters to make them look like a picture. Cui, who has only three years of primary education, has become the first grass-roots calligrapher to sign with Founder, the company said, adding they would name the fonts after Cui's given name, Xianren.

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Cundrawan Tan
[Cove 703 (was: ComicVector 703)]

Cuong Truong Van
[iTypeface (or: Exfont)]

Cut Nurfajarlia
[Alandya Type Foundry]

Cyberstudy Online Calligraphy workshops

C.W. Jones

Jones lived in Brockton, MA. Author of Alphabets for Practical and Ornamental Engrossing (1914), Lessons in Engraver's Script (1914), American Method of Business Writing, and Ninety-five Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship (1914). The second book contains one full formal calligraphic alphabet by Jones himself. [Google] [More] ⦿

CybaPeeCreations (or: Typoasis)
[Petra Heidorn]

CybaPee is the nom de plume of Petra Heidorn who lives in Hamburg. She has created many typefaces (listed below) between 1997 and 2005 and has cooperated with several type designers on interesting projects. She is undoubtedly best known for her successful web site Typoasis (discontinued in 2016), where one could download her own creations, and those of her many friends. Petra was also heavily involved in several attempts to revive blackletter fonts, in cooperation with Manfred Klein, Dieter Steffmann, Paul Lloyd and others. She organized several revivals of the typefaces of Rudolf Koch and Ernst Schneidler. She also managed the extensive web presence of Manfred Klein.

In 2016, she allowed me to host her fonts on my site. Download page. Download all her fonts in one zip file.

Her typefaces:

AlphanatismConHeads (2001). Stamped style.
ArabDancesMediumItalic (2002). An Arabic simulation typeface done with Manfred Klain's assistance.
Azimech (1999).
Bauernschrift (2004). After a 1911 typeface from Bauersche Giesserei.
Bayreuth (2003). A nice scan-version of Bayreuth Fraktur by Ernst Schneidler for C.E. Weber in 1932.
Bibelschrift (2004). Codesigned with Manfred Klein, Bibelschrift revives a Fraktur from 1926-1928 used by the Bremer Presse, est. 1911. The Bremer Presse was bombed by the Americans in 1944.
BirthdayGreetz (1999).
Brahms Gotisch (2005). A blackletter typeface co-designed with Manfred Klein. It is a revival of a 1937 Genzsch&Heyse typeface designed by Heinz Beck.
Burte Fraktur (2003). After Christian Heinrich Kleukens for the Mainzer Presse, 1928.
CalliBrush (1999).
Camouflage (1999). Textured.
Chaos-Theorie (2000). A Halloween or vampire font.
Charon (1999). An angry and / or scary typeface.
Crystopian.
CursedKuerbis (1999).
Cyclin (2000). An ironwork font.
DecoCaps (1999). Ornamental caps.
DeutscheDruckschrift (2004). A revival of Heinz König's 1888 blackletter typeface for Genzsch&Heyse.
DeutscherSchmuck (2004). Codesigned with Manfred Klein, this ornamental dingbat font is a revival and extension of the Schmuck für Deutsche Druckschrift by Eduard Ege, Genzsch and Heyse, 1922.
DiamondDreams (1999). A pearly all caps typeface.
Ellipsoideogram (2000). An italic headline sans.
Epitough (1999). A sans.
Extemplary (1999).
Funtastique (1999). An exagerrated, almost bubbkly, art nouveau typeface.
Gondoliere (2000). A light-hearted poster typeface.
Gotika (2005). After Reiner's 1933 blackletter typeface for Bauer.
Greex (1999). A Greek emulation typeface.
Hans Sachs Gotisch (2005). Based on a typeface by that name of Albert Auspurg, 1911, Genzsch&Heyse.
Hartwig-Schrift (2005). A blackletter typeface that revives Hartwig Poppelbaum's Hartwig Schrift from 1927-1928.
Hasenchartbreaker (1999). A handcrafted typeface.
Heimat (2005). After Wilhelm Weimar's Heimat from 1917, Genzsch&Heyse.
HelvAssim (1999). A naughty take on Helvetica to needle Linotype.
Hohenzollern (2004). Based on Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt's blackletter typeface for Bauersche Giesserei, 1902.
HollandGotisch (2005). Designed together with with Manfred Klein, this is a revival of the textura typeface Nederduits (aka Fleischmann Gotisch) by Johann Michael Fleischmann, ca. 1750.
InkyDinky (1999).
IsleOfTheDead (1999). An angular handcrafted typeface reminiscent of the movie titling of Dr. Caligari.
Jaecker-Schrift (2005). Revival of the 1912 blackletter typeface by Wilhelm Jaecker for D. Stempel.
Kleukens-Fraktur (2004). A Schwabacher based on a design by Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, 1910.
KrasniFellows (1999). An old Slavonic emulation typeface.
KuehneRevised (2003). A blackletter typeface.
LadyIce-Italic, LadyIce-SmallCaps, LadyIce, LadyIceRevisited, LadyIceRevisitedUpper. An organic monoline sans typeface family developed together with Apostrophe.
Leibniz-Fraktur (2003). A Schwabacher typeface based on a house font at Genzsch & Heyse, 1912.
LeontineLoew. A warm and plump informal typeface.
LightBats (1999). Dingbats.
Lupinus (1999).
Lurzing-Initials (1997). A decorative caps typeface based on a 1908 typeface by Karl Lürzing that depicts naked figures.
Manuskript Gotisch (2004). A revival of a 1514 Textura typeface by Wolfgang Hopyl, which was a house typeface at the Bauersche Giesserei in 1899.
ModerneSchwabacher (2005). After a ca. 1900 typeface by the Otto Weisert foundry called Moderne Halbfette Schwabacher.
MonkeyHouseParty (2001).
MothproofScript (1999). A calligraphic typeface. The name is a take on frostmoth, one of Petra Heidorn's early aliases.
MuseAsis (2002). Artsy fartsy.
Napapiiri (1999).
Neudeutsch (2004). After a 1900 original by Otto Hupp for Genzsch&Heyse.
NeueFraktur, NeueFrakturExtraBold (2004). Revivals of typefaces by Johannes Wagner Schriftgiesserei in 1927.
NinjaLine (2000). An outlined graffiti typeface.
Nordland (2005). Based on a typeface by Heinz Beck for Trennert&Sohn, 1935.
Oetztype (1999). German expressionist. Named after the Tyrolian Iceman, Oetzi.
Oktoberfest (1999).
Pachyderm (1999). A nice ultra-fat typeface.
PeesCelticItalic, PeesCelticPlain, PeesCelticOutline (1999). Ornamental Celtic caps.
Pegypta, Pegyptienne (1999). Hieroglyph-inspired typewriter fonts.
PostmoderneFraktur (1999).
Rammstein (1999). A tall condensed typeface.
ResPublica (2000).
RoteFlora (1999). Garffiti style typeface.
RoyalGothic (1999). A swashy set of initials.
SadLisa. A kitchen tile font designed to support Lisa Jenkins in a copyright battle.
Sagittarius (1999). An arrowed typeface.
SailingJunco (1999). A stencil typeface.
Scalper-Bold, Scalper, ScalperInk (2001). Grunge style.
SchmalfetteGotisch (2004). Codesigned with Manfred Klein, this semi-Textura typeface is based on a type of Ernst Schneidler.
SchneidlerInitialen (2004). After F.H.E. Schneidler.
Schneidler Schwabacher (2004). After F.H.E. Schneidler.
SchwabachDeko (2005). This is Verzierte Schwabacher by Carl Kloberg, Leipzig, 1891. In 2005, Petra co-designed a similar revival of Verzierte Schwabacher with James Arboghast, simply called Verzierte Schwabacher. Her SchwabachDeko attempted to be as close as possible to the original.
Scoglietto (1999). A text typeface.
SerpentisBlack (2004). Digitization of a typeface by E.W. Tieffenbach for Officina Serpentis, 1913. This in turn is based on a Gotico-Antiqua by Peter Schoeffers (Mainz, 1462) which was refined in the late 15th century by Creussner and Koberger.
SlimlinerMicro (1999).
Smoke-Rasterized-Medium (2001). Degraded and textured.
SoftAutumn (1999).
Stoertebeker (1999). A mediaeval typeface with a rough outline.
SunnySide (2000).
Symphonie (2005). A digitization of Imre Reiner's Symphonie from 1938 (renamed Stradivarius in 1945).
TaraType (1999). A lapidary typeface named after Petra's friend, Sabine Taranowski.
Teutonia (2004). Based on a typeface by Roos & Junge, ca. 1900.
TipTop (2004). Based on a typeface from Schriftgiesserei Julius Klinkhardt, Leipzig, ca. 1900. Virtually identical to Teutonia.
ToolTime (1999). Dingbats.
TypesourceFanclub (2001). A heavy semi-slab serif.
Urdeutsch (2004). A rounded blackletter typeface based on Urdeutsch (1924-1925, Adolf Heimberg for Genzsch&Heyse).
Vogeler Caps (2002). Based on Heinrich Vogeler's decorative blackletter caps typeface Jugendstil Initialen (1905).
Weiss-Gotisch (2004). A revival of E.R. Weiss's typeface by that name, published in 1936 at the Bauersche Giesserei.
WelcomeY2K (2000). A casual typeface.
XmasTerpiece, XmasTerpieceSwashes (2001). A Fraktur font based on Rhapsodie by Ilse Schuele.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

CyberScribes!

Internet calligraphy discussion group. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cyberscribes

Calligraphy mailing list managed by Margaret Amoss. Subscribe by using the format: subscribe callig your-email-address [Google] [More] ⦿

Cyndi's List - Handwriting and script

Cyndi Howells's great list of links related to handwriting and handwriting history. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cynscribe Calligraphy
[Cynthia Garinther]

Calligraphy link site maintained by Cynthia Garinther in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿

Cynthia Batty

Cynthia Batty (formerly, Cynthia Hollandsworth) was born in Washington, DC in 1955 (MyFonts) or 1956. She studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA, and managed the department of type design and development at Agfa Compugraphic in Massachusetts. She was President of AlphaOmega, a design studio dedicated to typeface development. She was also the Director of Typeface Development at High Technology Solutions, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Currently (?), she is the vice-presdident of Simon&Schuster in New York. For a few years, she was Executive Director of ATypI, involved, in particular in the ATypI meetings in Vancouver and Prague.

Her typefaces show calligraphic influences:

Hiroshige (1986). Versions sold by Linotype and Adobe. Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth at AlphaOmega Typography, Inc. The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many impressionist artists.
Pompeii Capitals (1995). Designed by Philip Bouwsma for ITC. It is unclear what Cynthia Hollandsworth's role was in the design.
Synthetica (1996). With Philip Bouwsma at Agfa.
ITC Tiepolo (1987). By Cynthia Hollandsworth and Arthur Baker at AlphaOmega.
Vermeer (1986).
Agfa Wile Roman (1990). Marketed by Monotype as Agfa Wile Roman and simply Wile.

Bio at ATypI. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Cynthia Garinther
[Cynscribe Calligraphy]

Cyrus Highsmith
[Occupant Fonts]

D. Sandi Sjahputra
[Winston Type Co.]

Dabah Faulkner

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Little hand (2019) and Sir Porther (2019: wild calligraphic style). [Google] [More] ⦿

Dafne Martinez

Letterer and designer in Mexico City. In 2017, she designed the text typeface Tessitura especially for small print sizes. Co-founder of the Tipas Type type foundry in Mexico City together with Monica Munguia (who by 2020 has left the studio), and Sandra Garcia. Dafne Martinez studied graphic design at Facultad de Artes y Diseño, UNAM, and has a Masters in typography from Centro de Estudios Gestalt. She specializes in calligraphy and lettering. In 2019, Dafne Martinez, Monica Munguia, and Sandra Garcia co-designed the roundish informal children's book typeface Xantolo and the wood type / slab serif typeface Xihtli. In 2019, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia designed the copperplate calligraphic typeface Especial for a common Mexican beer brand

Member of the Sic Typus Creatus Est team (Dafne Martinez, Jorge George, Leonardo Delgado, Iordan Evair and Federico Biagioli) that designed Calmadita in 2020 for the Torneo tipografico competition. Calmadita is an angular slab serif meant for Ipads and Kindles.

In 2021, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia published Achtli (Book, Didactic), a rounded sans typeface for early readers. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dai Foldes

Painter turned type designer in Baltimore, d. 2021. Creator of Velocipede Stencil (2011), an art deco typeface made for a bike shop in Baltimore. At Lost Type Coop, he published the humanist remaissance italic typeface Pigeon (2011) and the calligraphic script Cylburn (Lost Type): Cylburn is a semi-connected script, structurally based on Roundhand but written with a pointed brush and restrained tension that separate it from its traditional roots.

In 2014, he created the commercial signage typeface Globe Script, which was renamed Eubie Script (dedicated page). Eubie Script draws from the many lettering styles of Harry Knorr, an artist at Globe Poster for over 50 years.

In 2016, Dai Foldes and Laura Worthington designed the connected script typeface family Adorn Garland Smooth. Fairwater (2016), co-designed by Laura Worthington and Dai Foldes, has Script, Sans, and Serif subfamilies, as well as several sets of Ornaments. The Serif subfamily conjures up tattoo lettering, but also mathematical blackboard bold style and art deco. And still with Laura Worthington, Dai designed Renata (2016), a connected calligraphic script.

He started the Spencerian calligraphic typeface Kadabra, which was finished and released by his partner, Victoria Rushton, at Future Fonts in 2021, a few months after Dai's passing. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Daisy Alcock

Phototype designer for Photo Lettering Inc in New York. Her typefaces there include the uncial / medieval style family Alcock, which includes Alcock Roman, (+Inline), Alcock Light Italic and Alcock Versal. [Google] [More] ⦿

Damelev Studio (was: Logo Labs, Tanziladd, Rawi Project)
[Nyapa Tanzil]

Yogjakarta, Indonesia-based type foundry, est. 2016, whose designer is Nyapa Tanzil, who also used the alias Tanzil Adduha (b. 1991), who operated as Logo Labs before changing the name to Damelev Studio.

Their first typefaces include Fadillah (2016, brush script), Raya (2016, spurred Victorian style), and Cabe Brush (2016). Typefaces from 2017: Candelion, Audrey Script, Mentkent (monoline connected script), Jansky Script (signage brush font), Bandalaka Script (connected brush script).

In 2018, he designed Malbrock (or Malbrouck Script: a classic calligraphic penmanship script), Nayland Script, Avital (font duo), Windpeak Script, Andamar (Script, Serif), Montante (calligraphic), Adamantine, Caernarfon, Diandra (signature script) and Quinshawna.

Typefaces from 2019: Behofeel (a gorgeous crisp calligraphic script), Marmoreal (formal calligraphic), Munchen Script (script font), Chasmophile (a formal calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2020: Daizen Script, Alqaisumah Script (formal calligraphy), Brandoneir Signature, Elika Gorica, Bornice (a decorative serif), Broger Display (hipster meets arabesque, The Herera (a baseball script), Roberston Display (intestinal style), Armies Display, Dalglish (a display serif with clean lines), Anaximander (a condensed swashy fashion mag wedge serif typeface), Herschel (font duo), Gorga, Fringland (calligraphic), Almerian (a monoline script), Milestone (a signage script).

Typefaces from 2021: Naguboty (art nouveau), Bayanaka, Noeran (a dashing display serif with exaggerated ink traps), Avaunt, Merson, Claude, Rokurou, Reinhart Script, Monfem, Gunsan Serif and Script (an art nouveau-inspired font duo), Northway (a dramatic bold display typeface), Ardmore Display (psychedelic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Damien Raymond
[Stereo Type France]

Dan Cotton

Signpainter and letterer who worked for Hallmark in Kansas City, then in Denver, CO, and is now based in Boise, ID. In 2015, he was working on the signage typeface Krapp Jelveeto. In 2016, he published the soft rounded signage typeface Organic Cotton.

In 2017, he created the brush script typeface Shavano (+Rough). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dan X. Solo
[Solotype]

Dana Font Co
[Muhammad Alkaf]

Beureunuen, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Brigattin (2020), Ramozact Script (2019), Blueprint (2018), Angie's Dean (2018) and Anna Marie (2018). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dana Tanamachi

Lettering artist from Texas who is based in Brooklyn, and specializes in chalk lettering and shop signage. [Google] [More] ⦿

Danafont

Indonesian designer of the formal calligraphic typefaces Anna Marrie (2018) and Blueprint (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Danas Paris

Great calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dani

Indonesian designer of the script typeface Funnis (2018), the calligraphic typeface Chalisa Oktavia (2018), the hand-crfated typeface Care Around (2018, +Dingbats), and the monogram typeface Monorow One and Two (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Daniel Guillermo

Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. He designed interesting typographic identities such as for the Publican Brewing Company. His calligraphic book covers for texts by Gabriel Garcia Marquez are also remarkable. [Google] [More] ⦿

Daniel Lyons
[Lyons Type]

Handdrawn portrait of Ames found in "Real Pen Work" (1881, Knowles and Maxim). [Google] [More] ⦿

Daniel Riche

Medieval calligraphy practiced by Daniel Riche. [Google] [More] ⦿

Daniel Rodríguez Valero

Daniel Rodríguez Valero received his PhD in Arts in 2006 from University of Barcelona, where he also got a Postgraduate in Digital Typography. He teaches Typographic Design and Digital Typography in the Arts Faculty (University of Barcelona) since 1999, and Graphic Design in Advertising studies (University of Alicante) since 2002. He teaches Digital Typography at the máster ibérico em design, Oporto (Portugal). He has created a new system for type design called Constructor in collaboration with Marc Antoni Malagarriga I Picas, a programmer. Constructor is a glyph editor based on calligraphic curves, which he presented at TypeTech, ATypI in Brighton in 2007.

He writes: Constructor is a new tool for type design, open source and cross-platform, based on a calligraphic heritage that provides new possibilities. It can be combined with production tools like Fontographer or FontLab, because its finality is to construct outlines extrapolating some instructions or parameters given by the user. It works with only one master and produces different letterforms that can be copied/pasted to a font editor. It will help to design quickly a complete family, so the benefits of this new system for type designers are tremendous. He claims to be inspired in part by Gerrit Noordzij's theory of type design as explained in The stroke of the pen. [Google] [More] ⦿

Daniel T. Ames

American penman. Author of Compendium of Practical and Ornamental Penmanship (New York, ca. 1883) and Ames' Guide to Self-Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1884). The latter book contains some explicit alphabets: Roman, Italic Roman, Gothic, German text, Old English, Church Text, Medieval, Egyptian, German Round Hand, Marking and Rustic (elaborate caps). One of the initial caps in that text led Robert Fauver to create the free font Dirty Ames (2006).

In 1890, Ames wrote Ames' Book of Flourishes.

Daniela Musse

Graphic design student in Buenos Aires, who created the swashy calligraphic Special Script in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿

danti 0107

Designer of the calligraphic typefaces Olive (2019: a monoline script), Oldtrafford (2019), Maxleon (2018), Sully (2018), Selvia (2018), Witter (2018), Gianetta (2017), Supercup (2017), Oldstrafford (2017), Sigarillos (2017, swashy), Blodeyn (2017), Wallaby (2017), Olive (2017), Chinchilla (2017), Chathalia (2016), Waterbug (2016), Alzelvin (2016), Wood Row (2016), Elephant Park (2016), Magnum (2016), Delightful (2016), Rasyhanda (2016), Commando (2016), Chameleon (2016), Bluebonnet (2016), Barbarella (2016), Lavender (2016) and Harmony (2016).

Other typefaces include Blackjack (2017), Mamalialia (2017, with substyles called Love, Family), Monster. [Google] [More] ⦿

Darly Ospina

Medellin, Colombia-based designer of the formal calligraphic typeface Elda Maria (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Darwin Huayan Harahap
[Royaltype]

Data Village

Data Village list of links to calligraphic sites. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dathan Boardman
[Open Window]

Dav Studio (or: Dimas)
[Dimas aji Virgiawan]

Purwakarta, Indonesia-based script font specialist. Designer (b. 2000) of the upright script typeface Belliache (2019), the tall script Dalmantina (2019), and the thin script typeface Eilisia (2019). In 2020, he released Suneater, Cotton Candies, La Estroma, Sagiarius, Postless, Bonafis, Canasita, Rastyin, Camigata, Pantole, Shine Brighter, Bluster, Romantica, Dollamin, Cotton Candies, Suneater, Malucas, Pleasent (sic), Rastyin, Las Palmas, Dashinta, Casilla, Cosette (wild calligraphy), Estillon, Lovely Tongue, Galastone (an inky script), Huston, Bartholomeo, Balistic.

Typefaces from 2021: The Rickon, Pantole, Heritage, Dalmantian (wild script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dave Crosby

Moderator at High Logic, located in Enoch, UT. His creations include the free calligraphic typeface Roundhand (2007) and Yolanda (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿

Dave Rowland
[Eclectotype (was: Schizotype)]

Dave Simpson
[Sign DNA]

David A. Hobbs
[David A. Hobbs, Inc.&Tolley Studios]

David A. Hobbs, Inc.&Tolley Studios
[David A. Hobbs]

David Hobbs (b. Midland, MI, 1943) worked for and with William E. Tolley, a noted Engrosser, the son of A.B. Tolley, the White House Calligrapher for several presidents. He opened his own studio in 1976, and says that he "has done work for kings and presidents". David A. Hobbs, Inc.&Tolley Studios in Washington DC provides calligraphic lettering services. They have developed their own in-house fonts, like Engravers Script, Gothic, Readable Text, Cursive, Old English, Simplified Old English, Roman and Stump Script. He has developed Hobbsian Script (Based on Zanerian script), Hobbsian Stump Script, Hobbsian Old English, Hobbsian Roman Cap and Hobbsian Readable Text. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Bergsland
[Hackberry Font Foundry (Was: NuevoDeco Typography, or: Bergsland Design)]

David Conceição

Design student at the School of Fine-Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal. Designer and illustrator. Creator of the calligraphic typeface Illustrissima (2012) and of the grungy Civitas (2012).

Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Davitt

Graduate of CE Gestalt in Veracruz, Mexico, who has published some nice lettering pieces on Facebook. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Engelby
[David Engelby Foundry]

David Engelby Foundry
[David Engelby]

Copenhagen-based creator (b. Jutland, Denmark) of the four-style serif typeface Ingleby (2006-2008). In 2011, he added Engelberg (pixel face), OnO Display, ServusTextDisplay-Display, and ServusTextDisplayItalic-display (an angular text face). All of these typefaces were free.

In 2013, he set up the commercial David Engelby Foundry. The first typeface there was the text family Ingleby II. This was followed by OnO Display Pro (2013, a calligraphic typeface) and Onward (2013).

Ruth Pro (2014) is a magazine typeface family inspired by ITC Mendoza and Stone Serif.

In 2015, Engelby published the free three-style Copenhagen Grotesk, which was influenced by the rich history of German grotesques. It was followed in 2019 by Copenhagen Grotesk Nova.

Typefaces from 2016: Leducation (a didone family combined with a touch of European decadence).

Typefaces from 2017: Verger (inspired by William Morris's Golden Type), Verger Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: Space Show (an atractive rounded sans for clear and big display typography including wayfinding, infographics and posters), Comic Tantrum (free demo), Verger Book, Kiks, Gothic Tantrum, Jutlandia Slab (which was redesigned in 2020 as Jutlandia Pro).

Typefaces from 2019: College Tantrum (an octagonal athletic shirt font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

David Fernando Espinosa Martínez
[Type Sailor]

David Fleming Nalle
[Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)]

David Galasse

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian Portuguese creator from Portugal, of Dora (2012, calligraphic caps). He also made a series of unnamed display typefaces in paperfold, ocragonal and gridded styles.

In 2013, he made Joy, a bespok typeface for Brazilian furniture maker Artesian.

David Harris

British lettering artist based in Exeter who specializes in the medieval versal cadel (or cadeau) letter. He created these typefaces:

Alexei Copperplate (1982, Letraset). A copperplate calligraphic script.
Chromium One (1983, Letraset, and later ITC). A decorative neon-light all caps typeface.
Becka Script (1985, ITC).
Julia Script (1983, psychedelic).

Author of The Art of Calligraphy (Dorling Kindersley), Calligraphy: Inspiration, Innovation, Communication (Anaya), and The Calligrapher's Bible (A&C Black).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

David Kasidi
[Silverdav Studio]

David Lance Goines

San Francisco-based poster artist and writer, b. 1945, d. 2023. Author of A Constructed Roman Alphabet, a Geometric Analysis of the Greek and Roman Capitals and of the Arabic Numerals (David R. Godine, Boston, 1982). Each character of his roman alphabet is described using compass and ruler in the style of the romain du roi. Wonderful! He also wrote An Introduction to the Elements of Calligraphy (3rd ed. 1968; reprint, Berkeley, California: Saint Heironymous Press, 1975).

In 2017, he designed an art nouveau poster based on a 1921 poster by Jugendstil artist Leopold Forstner. Wikipedia page. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Levine
[1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera]

David Masson Allaire

Aka Malre and Malre Deszik. Melun Val de Seine, France-based designer (b. 1976) of the free handcrafted typeface Metrique (2014), which is based on China ink lettering done with a Rotring pen. In 2015, he created the grungy typeface Internet and the icon font Webs. In 2017, he published the rungy calligraphic typeface Gyiest Old.

Typefaces from 2018, all free: Typochok, Louizede, Absortile, LodisZit, Guasmally, Feedjique, Matea 3, Valiere 4, Wattafont Gras, Smartryck (grunge), Destruck (grunge), Schuwmatik (a fun take on Excoffon's style from the 1950s), Surprise (grunge), Thao Sao (retro comic book script; with Hung Lan Nguyen).

In 2020, he released Plastik (a handcrafted typeface), Plastik Deco, Umberto (a fat brush face), Vefirdix, and the grungy typeface Destruck V1. Home page. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Parr
[Fontwright Design]

David Seadon

Graphic Design student at Newport University, South Wales, Class of 2012. He created a calligraphic alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Tessier

Creator of the free semi-calligraphic script typeface Jeannette (2015), named in honor of David Tessier's grandmother. [Google] [More] ⦿

David Westwood

Born in the UK in 1949. He trained in the UK, worked for EMI Records and Saatchi&Saatchi and later moved to Southern California, where he started his own illustration studio, the David Westwood Studio for lettering (brush style, wood style). Designer of the lino-cut effect font Westwood (Letraset, 1991).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

David Wood

Australian type designer. He co-designed Beanwood Script (1997) with Russell Bean at Type Associates, a calligraphic script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

D'Avignon

Author of the penmanship and calligraphic script manual L'Écriture Américaine, published in Paris in the nineteenth century. [Google] [More] ⦿

Davis Andi Pradana
[Ribeth Studio (or: Fonthana Studio)]

DcLab

Indonesian outfit that created these typefaces in 2016: Lady Rose (brushy connected script), Glory of Love (painted typeface), Ray Paterson (squarish sans). [Google] [More] ⦿

De Aesthetische Dienst
[Jeroen Koning]

Graphic designer, sign painter and letterer Jeroen Koning (De Aesthetische Dienst, Amsterdam) started work on DTL VandenVelde in 2015. This typeface will be inspired by the work of the famous calligrapher Jan Van den Velde (1568-1623). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

De Amsterdamse Krulletter
[Ramiro Espinoza]

In English, Amsterdam's curly letter. While doing a revival / interpretation of this style in his Krul typeface (2012), Ramiro Espinoza tells the story of this style, so I will reproduce excerpts:

Krul is a typographic interpretation of the lettering style created by Dutch letter painter Jan Willem Joseph Visser at the end of the 1940s, which decorated the traditional brown bars of Amsterdam. In the beginning, these letters were strongly associated with the pubs connected to the Amstel brewery, given that Visser was the company's official painter. As the years passed, the style became increasingly popular, and various business owners in Amsterdam and other Dutch and Belgian cities also commissioned its use. In the 1970s and 1980s, Leo Beukeboom, another talented letter painter, continued and expanded this lettering tradition while employed under the Heineken brand. Much of his work can still be found in the Jordaan and De Pijp neighborhoods in Amsterdam.

The Amsterdamse Krulletter, or Amsterdam's curly letter, is strongly inspired by the calligraphic works of the 17th century Dutch writing masters, of which Jan van den Velde was a central figure. However, distinct characteristics of this style, for example, its unusual and beautiful "g" originate from a model that was published by Johannes Heuvelman in 1659, which J. W. J. Visser referenced.

Typographic circles have somehow overlooked the Amsterdamse Krulletter and its heritage. The Dutch calligraphic hands preceded and influenced the formal English penmanship which has inspired numerous typefaces in the Copperplate style. In contrast, the models from van den Velde, Heuvelman, and Jean de la Chambre, among others, are a missing chapter in Dutch typographic history, and had never been turned into typefaces until now.

He continues about his own typeface Krul: Conscious of the cultural and identity issues that arise in reviving a unique style, and concerned about the speed with which the lettering style was disappearing, Ramiro Espinoza focused the project of designing Krul on digitally recreating the calligraphic complexity of these beautiful letters. Created through several years of research, Krul is not a direct digitization of the Amsterdamse Krulletter, but instead, an interpretation that incorporates numerous alternative characters absent in the original model, and improves upon details where necessary, resulting in an optimal performance on the printed page. The typeface is presented in Open Type format, with an abundance of intricate ligatures, fleurons, and swashes, which permit the creation of numerous calligraphic effects. The very high contrast and rhythm of the strokes in this typeface make it especially suited for media applications conveying a sense of elegance and sophistication. Designers of feminine magazines, advertisements, and corporate identities within the fragrance and fashion industries will find in this typeface to be an extremely useful and appropriate resource. The great Amsterdamse Krulletter is finally back, and we are proud to make it available to you. Krul can be purchased at ReType.

At ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, Ramiro explained his work on the Krulletter. Still in 2013, Rob Becker and Ramiro Espinoza coauthored Amsterdamse Krulletter. In 2015, they published The Curly Letter of Amsterdam (Uitgeverij Lecturis, Eindhoven and Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿

Dead Image Design
[Gregory W. Jacobson]

Greg Jacobson is a print designer and poster artist in Los Angeles. He founded Dead Image Design and does custom font design (besides many other things). He made Millesime (2008), an old style typeface with weathered outlines. It can be downloaded at Chank's place. Other fonts (without downloads): DID Alexius Script (connected, calligraphic), DID Crunk Deco, DID The Skinny, Jascha Hand, Gadoosh (hand-printed), Marquee Slop, Garbanceras. [Google] [More] ⦿

Deadlock Studio
[Rhega Juliandy]

Rhega Juliandy (Deadlock Studio, Bandung, Indonesia; b. 1991) designed the rhythmic brush script Nailika (2015), the calligraphic Sweet Holiday (2015), the flowing script typeface Vallerie (2015), the beautiful brush script typeface Nailika (2015), the curly display typeface Milady (2015), the free fat marker typeface March (2015), the wonderful connected brush script Allenois (2015), the logotype Voltus (2015), the thin calligraphic script Theodore (2015), the script typefaces Sweet Holiday (2015) and Rose (2015), and the script typeface Anke (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Humphrey (a sans headline family), Diamor (monoline packaging script), Mallena, Everlasting Script, Clockwise (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Flattery (retro signage script).

Typefaces from 2018: Friday Vibes, Bouvardia, Roland Emerald (Victorian and layerable).

Typefaces from 2021: Baerst (art deco), Cerelina (a decorative serif). [Google] [More] ⦿

Dear Alison
[Alison Argento]

Travel writer based in Cherry Hill, NJ. Designer (b. Augusta, ME, 1977) of the children's scribble font Urly Lurnin (2008), and of Smiley (2008, comic book face), and of the informal handwriting fonts Pickled Sans (2008), Slim Pickens (2008), Smokehouse (2008) and Gladly Mailed (2008).

Bender Script (2008) is a brush script developed from an incomplete script drawn by Charles Chas Bluemlein.

Barnstormer Script (2010) is a sign painter typeface. Gonte (2013) is a sketchbook script typeface. Saskya (2015) is a rough chancery script.

Glade (2015) is a formal calligraphic copperplate script in five widths.

In 2016, she designed the architectural lettering typeface Robard, the brush script typeface Beckford Script and the ballpoint pen script Generous Hospitality.

Typefaces from 2020: Postale (a monoline gas pipe sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dear Type
[Veneta Rangelova]

Dear Type is run by Bulgarian type designer Veneta Rangelova, who is based in Sofia. In 2015, she created the creamy signage typeface, the accompanying Lifehack Sans, Lifehack, the casual script typefaces Hello Headline and Brunette, and the bold brush script Renovation.

Typefaces from 2016: Blooms, PhotoWall (casual connected script), BeachBar (a large signage script family), Amberly (a connected script), Amberly Sans, Guess (a connected script set accompanied by an all caps geometric sans family, Guess Sans).

Typefaces from 2017: Galiano (Text, Serif and Regular: the Text is italic, the Regular is a swashy script, and the Serif is a didone), Odds (a casual sans and dingbat family), Moments, Timeout.

Typefaces from 2018: Karlie (script and serif duo).

Typefaces from 2019: Roosk, Fits.

Typefaces from 2020: Romper (rounded, monoline, handcrafted), Skate (a cursive typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Binomic (a monospaced sans with typewriter slabs for some letters and a swan-shaped lower case ell.

Behance link for Veneta Rangelova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Debi Sementelli
[Debi Sementelli Type Foundry]

Debi Sementelli
[Correspondence Ink]

Debi Sementelli Type Foundry
[Debi Sementelli]

Debi Sementelli (b. 1973, Erie, PA) started out as a lettering artist for wedding services. She set up her own type foundry in 2013 in Carrollton, TX. Before that, she cofounded Correspondence Ink (in 2007) with Brian Bonislawsky. Together, they created the formal calligraphic family Belluccia (2011). Belluccia Ornaments has plenty of wedding invitation dingbats to accompany the font. Belluccia Bold was published in 2014.

In 2012, they published DomLovesMary (a wedding script family), which is named in memory of Dominic and Mary Sementelli, Debi's in-laws.

In 2013, Debi Sementelli created the lively invitation script typeface Cantoni (+Flourishes, +Ornaments), which came on the heels of the hugely successful Bombshell Pro by Emily Conners.

In 2017, she published the connected calligraphic script Cinque Donne.

In 2020, she released the calligraphic typeface Hello My Love Pro and Hello My Love Ornaments.

Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. I Love Typography link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Debut Studio
[Ari Fadli]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of the brush script typefaces Georgia (2016) and Chelsea Brush (2016), the handwriting font Delima (2016), Go Doodling (2016, +dingbats), and of the brush typefaces Arigato (2016), Ardina Script (2016) and Ordinary (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Justin (brush script), Alex Dirte (ink splash brush), Alexandria (script), Mainstream Script, Love Story, Priscillia Script, Rachael Script, Hello Dina Script, Rock n Doll, Strike Alone Script, Mighty Eagle, Middle Class Script, Revolution, Nagita Script (swashy calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Abbasy Calligraphy, Michali Script, Handletterink, AusthinaBrushCalligraphyScratch, Merci Heart (dry brush script), Glitter, Bright Script (signage script), Zeloya (a flattop font), Hey Sunset (brush), Michelle (hand-lettered), Levo (a layerable sans), Coquin (handcrafted), Arrival, Kaliber, Nichole Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Diamonds, Braydon Script (dry brush script), Rhinatta Script, Dhaniel, Blondy (brushed and speckled), Cream Peach (brush script), Amel Brush, Holidays (brush script), Beatley (brush script), Blastimo (brush), Blastimo Sans, Aprilea, Sophiet (dry brush), Brittney (dry brush), Astrokids, Astrokids Doodle, Panterick (brush script), Matilda (script), Delimax (brush script), Authentic Script, Berlin Script, Mountain Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Debutan Brush Script, Dalgona (script), Dinalima Script, Bestania.

Typefaces from 2021: Cream Peach, Love Story, Alexandria script, Hello Spring, Retromax (a reverse stress script), Monicha, Platina Script (for signage), Hinterland, Kashina, Calligra Marriage, Monstera, Southernia, Minneapolis Script.

Creative Market link. Creative Market link for Debut Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

DecaType (was: Decavantona, or: Contra Studio or Panton Labs)
[Raban Panton]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer who first went under the name Leonardo Decavantona, and later Raban Panton, b. 1983. Creator of the watercolor brush typefaces Cinderella (2015) and Never Die (2015), the calligraphic script Letizia (2015), the connected Awesome Darling Script (2015) and Qeyla Script (2015), the angular typeface Bruce Lee (2015) and the handcrafted Cagok Letter (2015: angular style) and Matthew Jason Kid's (2015). They also designed the brush script typeface Melbourne Night Sky (2016), Tong Brush (2015), Ashley Jarrow (2015) and Boboiboy Hand (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Goodies, Camsia Script, Murrano Script, Asmila Script, Blueberry, Geysha Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Melodia, Author (brush script), Hello Creator, Paradiso (German expressionist).

Typefaces from 2018: Kentucky.

Typefaces from 2020: Bonjour. (Old, dead) Creative Market link for Contra Studio. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dede Kurniawan
[Bykineks]

Dede Mulyadi
[Harder Type Foundry]

Deduk Suandana
[Made Deduk]

Dedy Saputra

Designer of Sweet February (2016, a handcrafted typeface) and Lovely Fabulous (2016, calligraphic script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Deffeyes Design
[Steve Deffeyes]

Steve Deffeyes from Fairfax, CA, is the designer of free fonts such as Sabon Sans, Kells (uncial/Celtic), Gondola SD (2001, calligraphic), Ramsey SD (2001, uncial), MarkerSD (1999), Roman SD (1999), Loopy (2001-2009, Apostrophic Labs [dead link]), Futurex Arthur (2009). His Oblivion family (2003) is here, here and here. Here, we find the artificial language families Dwemeris (2004) and Oblivion (2003). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

DeLonzo Pope

San Francisco-based designer of this calligraphic cursive script (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿

DeMeyere Design Incorporated
[Ross DeMeyere]

Ross DeMeyere's handwriting font. There are free fonts for Shavian called Androcles and Ghoti. [Google] [More] ⦿

Denis Serebryakov
[Serebryakov Type Foundry (or: Serebryakov TF, S TF; was Onetypethree Foundry, or: Dzianis Serabrakou)]

Denise Chan

Hong-Kong-based designer of Aerofoil (2007, calligraphic script), Ampersand (2005, hand-printed) and Cataclysmic (2005, handwriting). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. She used Fontifier to create a handwriting face, Skribble (2004). See also here. Alternate URL. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Deniz86 (was: Atadroe, Rt Creative, Blue Eyes)
[Rahmat Hidayat]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1986) of the script or calligraphic typefaces Absolut (2021), Salwaty (2021), Beautiful Calligraphy (2021), Flalkner (2021), Angela (2021), Belanttara (2020), Sarahfadhilla (2020), Despacito (2020), Everything (2020), Nauwra Beauty (2020), Qualyty (2020), Brazilian (2020), Xanderella (2020), Matthiew (2020), Beauty Maheyrah (2020), Wittering On (2019), Amirul (2019: an upright script), Lazortha (2019), Jordan River (2019), Ageless (2019), Cempalakuneng (2019: an upright script), Nayla (2019), Quixotic (2019), Evergreen (2019), Magnificent (2019), Ladies First (2019), Azelia (2019), Dughter (2019), Glitter (2019), Guitarist (2019), Boutique (2018), Margarita (2018), Lovellyana (2018), Mighty (2018), Songstar (2018), Monica Script (2018), Angelica (2018, an upright script), Bauthicia (2018), Nantiya (2018), Bottle (2018), Battle Day (2018), Mom Love (2017, brush script), Nutellia (2017), Mantan (2017), Jacktifour (2017), Mr. Satan (2017), Bastille Day (2017), Scooter (2017), Glorious (2017), Markisha (2017, calligraphic), Magdalen (2017), Dughter (2017), Robusta (2017), Simbad (2017, calligraphic script), Guanabana (2017), Cabbage (2017, calligraphic), Dolphin (2016), Salwa (2016), Zinnia (2016, upright connected calligraphic style) and Megaibeilya (2016).

Rt Creative also operates as Blue Eyes. Behance link. Graphicriver link. Creative Fabrica link. Fontdaily link. Fontbundles link for Atadroe. [Google] [More] ⦿

Denny Subagja
[Formatika Studio]

Derek Long

Derek Long (b. Wilmington, DE) made the high-contrast ball-terminal calligraphic typeface Long Script (2011) in his Advanced Typography class at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Now based in Washington, DC. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Design 23
[Jennifer DeAngelis]

Design23 is a multi-disciplinary design studio in Morristown, New Jersey, started ca. 2012 by Jennifer de Angelis Gunn.

Creations from 2012: Wed Dings, Wed Dings City, the white on black tiled typeface Inthabox, Esther (art deco typeface), Nagi Tanka Regular (poster face).

Creations in 2013: Harper (a sketched all caps face), Gunn (a beveled typeface), Homsley (a Tuscan typeface).

Typefaces from 2014-2017: Wintery Mix (dingbats), Olive, Earhart, Matter. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Design by Laney
[Laney Ruddell]

Design by Laney (Denver, CO) began as a calligraphy firm in 2015, and evolved into stationery and graphic design. Designer of the calligraphic Sapphire Script (2022). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

DEsign--Moscow
[Evgenij Dobrovinskii]

Russian foundry. Evgenij Dobrovinskii designed Faktor, Inessa Cyrillic (calligraphic handwriting) and Magister Cyrillic (book) there. Mac fonts. A. Kustov's Aksent (TypeMarket, 1993) was based on a design of Dobrovinskii. [Google] [More] ⦿

Desinglabs (sic)

Designer odf these script typefaces in 2019: Justlyne, Aulita, Valent, Bolton (monoline script), Maysha, Wanitha (calligraphic), Yumaidia. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dex Astawa
[I Made Astawa]

Dexsar Harry Anugrah
[Majestype]

Dhan Ghete
[Area Type (was: GType)]

Dharma Sahestya (or: Dharmas Studio)
[Ahmad Jamaludin]

Aka Dharmas. Malang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1998) of the handcrafted and script typefaces Serenity (2018: monoline script), Monatia (2018), Real Kindly (2018), Just Sunday (2018), Olivia (2018: a monoline script), Roselyne Script (2018), Youthness (2018), Effort (2018: calligraphic), Aprils Sans (2018: free), Rhesmanisa (2018) and Shefilla (2018). Other fonts include the monoline display typeface Brotherhood (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Average (a sharp-edged text typeface), George, Simplicity Angela, Bottomland, Pamella, Audrey and Reynold (calligraphic, as for weddings), Rotterdam, Grandiose (script), The Britney (calligraphic), Germany Script, Germany Sans, Magenta (a signature font), Effort (calligraphic script), Aprils, Calorie, Setting Fires (a monoline script by Dharma Sahestya).

Typefaces from 2020: Cyrano (all caps, art deco), Mattire (a stylish bold display typeface), Margin (a chubby serif font), Just Sunday (a lively upright script), Bargie (a chubby decorative serif), Transcity (a swashy display serif), Senja Mentari.

Typefaces from 2021: Nambya (a display typeface with angles reminiscent of Gothic cathedrals), Etnyca (a groovy reverse stress display typeface), Gunydrops (a groovy psychedelic typeface), Nighty (a plump display typeface), Bright (a display serif), Bon Foyage (a decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Kelpo (a groovy retro typeface), Stager (a boudoir font), Salty Mussy (intestinal), Seraya (decoration gone wild, with an unrecognizable lower case f). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dharma Type
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Yet another foundry of Nagoya, Japan-based designer Ryoichi Tsunekawa, who also runs Flat-It, Prop-A-Ganda, and Holiday Type. The first download is the industrial grotesk typeface Bebas Neue (2010), which was followed in 2014 by Bebas Kai, in 2018 by Bebas Neue Semi Rounded and Bebas Neue Rounded, and in 2019 by Bebas Neue Pro. Bebas Neue can now be had for free at Open Font Library and at FontFabric, where new weights and a Cyrillic were added. Bebas Neue v2 is free at Github and Google Fonts. Dedicated web site.

The connected signage typeface Sneaker Script and the 19th century set of ornaments Gothic Extras followed in 2012 and 2011, respectively. Great Victorian (2012) follows the prototypical Victorian style.

In 2015, Dharma Type published the great ultra-black creamy signage script Piepie. In 2016, he published the powerful layered Mighty Slab.

Typefaces from 2017: Pansy Bo (calligraphic), Nothing (script), Daisy Lau (calligraphic), Banana (script), Lily Wang (calligraphic), Calling Code (monospaced programming font), Commuters Sans (elegant wide sans), Mighty Slab, Rigid Square (octagonal), Taro (sans), Concrete Stencil.

Typfaces from 2018: Victorian Orchid (a transitional text typeface characterized by a Victorian era A and a frolicking lower case g), Dr Slab (an extraordinary layerable and colorable rounded slab poster typeface), Code Saver (a condensed monospaced programming font), Sometype Mono (a free programming font family; MyFonts link).

Typefaces from 2019: City Boys Soft, City Boys (sans), Slow Tempo (a relaxed sans family), Baby Baby (an experimental layerable font), Dharma Gothic Rounded. Like Dharma Gothic, it is an antiqued condensed sans serif designed inspired by 1800s-style wood type. It comes in 42 styles.

Typefaces from 2022: Debugger (a 6-style octagonal monospaced programming font).

Dafont link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Diana Dobrut

During her studies in Poznan, Poland, Diana Dobrut created Liszka (2014, a calligraphic script typeface), Hot Pepper (2014), and Snow Fat (2014, a creamy script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Diana Ovezea
[Acute Studio]

Dick Pape
[Andrew Holmes]

Dick Pape
[Aridi Computer Graphics: Digitizations by Dick Pape]

Diego Giaccone

Argentinian graphic designer and recent docent in graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. He graduated in 1991 from the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in graphic design. He worked at Arcor, and after a brief sabbatical in London at Interbrand Newell and Sorrell during 1999, he returned to Argentina, where from 2000 on, he is the Director of Design at Interbrand Avalos&Bourse. His fonts:

Plumero Script (2002). A typeface completely made with a calligraphic pen.
MisterGiacco (2003). A sans serif font, available from Sudtipos, which he cofounded. See also Mister Giacco Pro (2019).
Herencia (2004, Sudtipos). A handwriting typeface done with Alejandro Paul.
Sudestada (2005). A handwriting script developed with Alejandro Paul.
La Portenia (de la Recoleta, de la Boca) (2005, Sudtipos). A script developed with Angel Koziupa and Alejandro Paul.

View Diego Giaccone's retail typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Digital Typeface Studio (was: Evas Unique Fonts)
[Eva Barabasne Olasz]

Aka Eva Barabas, and as Digital Studio. Ireland-based designer of Zenfyrkalt (2015, decorative textured caps), Papyrus EBO (2015), and Cirkus (2015, curly font).

In 2016, she designed Kristaly (connected script), Rubican (connected script), FlypFlop (thin connected script), Dingfleur (floral dingbats), Dingsprinkle (ornaments), Lacy (textured), Coalpen, Digi Stamps One (flowery ornaments), the textured typefaces Leaffy (decorative caps) and Hyppolit, the ornamental typeface Zending, Karykas, the curly script Pyktor, Symca, Dood Leafs, Pypats, the textured typeface Zensyrom, Doodlowers, Doodletters, Woodys, the stylish display typeface Lynzer, the curvy Roucorns, the sans typeface Dyane, the pendant typeface Proxanys, the display typeface Chowes, the bubble-themed Amydor, the textured typefaces Sanzen and Bubbles, the sketched typeface Stone Story, the handcrafted Clarissa, Cally Script and Sanlabello, the mask dingbat font MaskbyEBO, the curly decorative all caps typefaces Zsylett and Zsynor, Rythmus and Popcorn.

Typefaces from 2017: Maudlyn (script), Hakyt (script), Atyla (script), Welga, Bynda (script), Kylets (script), Martyn (script), Balton (handcrafted), Zengo (ornamental caps), Chyga (Victorian, curly), Geryta, Leafyction, Edyra (textured caps), Simpla (textured caps), Digidon (textured caps), Trefay (calligraphic script), Fonix (textured caps), Haloven (Halloween font), Sylabus, Icing Cookies, Clarissa, Floryan (floriated caps), Flory Anna, Nebulo, Storyteller (floriated didone), Mandings, Zenyth, Beadwork, Eszty (calligraphic), Divat, Kahir (exquisite decorative caps), Zen3, Moaren (sketched), Moare (fingerprint texture), Stone Story (textured), Stampy, Wyllam, Dyane (sans), Manuell (a heavy display didone), Labrint (textured), Zenone (textured decorative initial caps), Zensyrom (textured caps), Marmelad, Filigran (a textured didone), Chamylle (leafy font), Balloony (comic book style), Bemydor (textured caps), Eggshell Mosaic (textured caps), Portabell (textured caps), Stampy Light (outlined shadow typeface), Tendrils (textured caps), Retrograph (textured caps), Digizen (textured all caps typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Lamor (heart-themed textured caps), Zentyp (decorative textured initials), Square Frames, Seamless Patterns, Tiptak, Adetar, Seryfan, Blysher, Katalyn, Agrifan, Bokretan, Hebydia (calligraphic), Westyler (script), Pepitas, Sthencyl (script), Bykars (curly), Hegran (Victorian, with curls), Monogram Framer, Grafyk, Orhydea (upright script), Denka (textured caps), Dathyn, Agrish, Olyber, Sayes Script, Layers (with snowy TV screen texture), Dafodyl, Rubynt, Ofaly, Gudlak, Natyl, Vytorla Mix (curly script), Gaby, Kiraly, Meybi (heart script), Sofye, Emryt, Vytorla, Sybelia, Alyfe, Bigdey, Amagh.

Typefaces from 2019: Gitar, Feba, Arthegos (script), Quilty (script), Trinyta, Lyra (textured caps), Astoria, Judyth, Artopyl, Stokyt, Janzen (tribal texture caps).

Typefaces from 2020: Storyk (script), Pegro Stencil, Framed Monograms, Beprity Stencil (a script), Direkt Stencil, Dings, Sati, Hapyster, Stager, Lathyn, Welga, Agrifan, Atyla, Hegran (curly Victorian), Orhydea (a rabbit ear script), Dyobar (a stencil font), Cytar, Valtin (decorative caps for Valentine's day). Creative Market link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Diki Hermawan
[Letterflow Studio (or: Typestory)]

Dima Pole
[Slovolitni de Grande Tartaria]

Dimas aji Virgiawan
[Dav Studio (or: Dimas)]

Dimas Ardhi
[Glyph Style]

Dimas Prasetyo
[DM Studio (or: DM Letter)]

Dimas Wahyu Ismanto

Operating as dimindie, Dimas Wahyu Ismanto (Indonesia) designed the brush script typefaces Clark Rhio Script (2017), Savera (2016) and Compling (2016), and the calligraphic Molino Script (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

DimitriAna
[Anastasia Dimitriadi]

Athens, Greece-based designer of the free Latin / Greek handcrafted poster typeface Sunday (2014, Fontfabric) and the commercial poster typeface Silhouette (2014).

In 2015, she and Iordanis Passas created the gorgeous Finos, which was inspired by Greek retro cinema (buy it here and check the free demo). Her second typeface of 2015 is the equally impressive deco script typeface family Magellan (in Deco and Script sub-styles). Marpesia (2015) is a connected calligraphic script typeface. Charming (2015) is a free spurred vintage tattoo typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Adalberta (2015) is a great connected script typeface.

Typefaces from 2016: Sketchbook Script (+Pro), Old Harbour (vintage lettering collection consisting of Blue waves, Blue waves striped, Captain's pipe, Captain's pipe Sans, Sailor's tattoo, Sailor's tattoo Sans, Old Ship, Old Anchor, Old Lighthouse, Seashells, Starfish, Old Harbour dingbats), Juvenile.

Typefaces from 2017: Lady Marmalade (a textured, almost painted, coffee shop lettering font), Footbridge (brush script), Novaturient (Latin / Greek; a wild calligraphic font), Thirsty Heart.

Typefaces from 2018: Hayao's Letters (fantastic drop caps that pay tribute to Hayao Miyazaki and his magical films), Chalky Letters (a multilayered font collection).

Typefaces from 2020: French Armoire (a formal calligraphic typeface), Patmos Sans, Patmos Serif (an old Slavonic emulation typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2021: Folk Zodiac Signs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Din Studio (or: Doni, Ditatype)
[Donis Miftahudin]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of these script typefaces in 2018: Radicalis (script), Blacktail (layered, spurred, Western), Aniyah (formal calligraphic script), Angelina Script, White Star, Better Saturday, Volaroid, Gravity Handwritten, Wellington (Sans), Mister Froggie, Amadora (upright script), Brilliant, Portland, Adora Queen, Fox Tail, Deliciously (+Sans), Breaking Down (brush-lettered), Welcome Home.

Typefaces from 2019: Smooth Fantasy, Le Jour (font duo), Kafina, The Stranger (dry brush), Rolling Back, Marline, Blue Rose, Better Summer, Lemonday, Rottely (a decorative serif) (by Muhammad Romzul Khoir?), Monday Vacation (a dry brush or chalk font; +Sans), Brilliant Soulmate (a signature font), Perfect Redemption (dry brush), Redemption (dry brush), Andasia, Saturday Lovers, Pondspell (a free dry brush font), Sailing Heart (dry brush script), Calling Loves Script, Just Calling, Zingakon (a brush font), Anastik, Miracle Script, Camellia, Blueberry, Lovely, Gulali (a heavy monoline script), Boga Bogi, Bigtime (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Bright Angels, Blaster Timers, Hawken (a sharp-edged display typeface), Lemonlove (squarish and interlocking), Darknight (a dystopian typeface), Kickout (a sports font), Vintage Melody (a vintage signage script), Anyva (a formal calligraphic script), White Pigeon (a heavy retro signage script), Ayalena, Gamerock (squarish, dystopian), Marrline (an upright monoline script), Black Bones, Westlake (a bold display serif), Anzilam (a regular script with a beheaded lower case f), Among (a condensed monolinear sans), Black Indie, Blue Rose, Kanetin (a sans), Menthol Signature, The Fox Tail (a lava lamp script), Willson (all caps, slightly flared), Kasdio, Lovely, Miftah, Shall Blossom (a dry brush script), Striker (squarish, modular and characterized by square counters), Waranty (a display serif), Aiytha (formal calligraphic), Blastine (a fine inky script), Sporten (squarish; a sports font), Vantely (a one-style monolinear sans), Atteron (a refined decorative all caps typeface), Carade (a decorative serif), Esporte (constructivist), Kafina (a decorative serif), Netraly (a condensed bold organic sans), Regular Brush (a dry brush script), Jafrine, Watterline, Redkits (a dry brush script), Feel Better (a dry brush font), Maraton (a blackboard bold font), Hellomind (a monoline script), Rodwick (a sports font), Norwill (a sports font), Kaithryn (an inky script), Ventralie (blackletter), Kingroad (a blackletter or tattoo font), Hunterlife (a blackletter font), Lovera (a display serif with tall x-height), Rankfine (a formal script), Slashmine (a calligraphic blackletter font), Blackside (a blackletter or tattoo font), Fiosthic (an inky script), Calvera (squarish), Revillia (a decorative serif), Aniyah (formal calligraphy), Better Saturday, Gacor (sans), Bright Rainbow, Dellons Signature, Le Jour, Mister Jacky (brush script), Panama (brush script), Roaster Brush (a dry brush script), Speedline, Sawah (a wide techno logo font), Finest Butter, Garetha (a decorative serif), Rithem (a dry brush script), Vintage Rotter (a monoline script), Amelliyo (a dry brush script), Okinawa (a dry brush script), Rostave (futuristic), Voyntea (calligraphic), Montheylin (a formal calligraphic script), Soage (all caps, mini-serifed), Avalors (a sci-fi font), Mister Sally, Razor Bland (all caps, a heavy razor-sharp sans), Request, Halvert (layered, all caps, vintage), Jasson Gillen (script), Mertalion (a vintage all caps mini-wedge serif), Black Bones (a dry brush script), Halleyo (a dry brush script), Pitchey Bloom, Rocklay (a smooth brush script), Black Arcade (Tuscan), Blaster Timers, Batteny, Bettermind Signature, Castrade (a thin architectural sans), Brown Sunflower, Slash Signature, Chyali, Rockel (squarish, techno, cybernetic), Best Quotes (a brush script), Sweet Fig, Remind (a heavy decorative serif), Stradas (spurred, Victorian), Neon Planet (a neon or paperclip font), Neon Planet Script, Malion (a display serif), Akserant, Akserant Display, Moderrat (a 7-style wide tuxedoed sans family), Pretty Queen, Cybero (a techno / cyberpunk typeface), Sisterhood (a dry brush script), Qeskile Voyage, Breathing (a dry brush script), Fogie (a ten-style display serif), Feeling Passionate, Bella Vista (a thin monoline script), Spring Sunday, Bogota (a display serif), Marcelo (an all caps train font), Montaseli (Sans, Script), March (a display mini-serif font family), Crowded (a vintage font), Grown, Gellatio (a dry brush font), The Poisoned Heart (an art nouveau style script), Costa Rica (script), Brightwall (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Valiety (an 8-style display serif), Lafayette (a dry brush script), Margita (an 8-style cultured sans), Steamy Miracles, Smiling Lovely (a dry brush script), Grandift (a squarish typeface), Writable Story (an inky script), Beach Vibes (a brush font), Bigruns Brush (a horror brush font), Blimps (a dry brush script), Yellow Palette (dry brush script), Hysteria Rollers (a brush script font duo), Wild Month (a chubby flared all caps typeface), Denlia, Mirava (an 8-style geometric sans, from hairline to bold), Medyan Script (a bold retro signage script), Morning Vintage (a heavy reverse stress retro script), Misslena (a decorative serif), Boldy Vintage (a bold retro signage script), Finest Vintage (a creamy retro signage script), Reverse Vintage (a reverse stress script), Brave Gates (a dry brush font), Retro Vibes (a signage script), Angella White (a dry brush script), Carloti (a stylish all caps sans), Fitriyah (a decorative, almost painted, serif), Stay Retro (a signage script), Arthur Keith (a brush script oozing personality), Beauty Satine (script), Handoyo Signature, Lost Monday (a heavy monoline script), Vintage Round (a vintage signage script), Vintage Lander (a fat script), Sending (a dry brush script), Sweet Moments (a dry brush script), Vilane (a 7-style geometric sans), Windey Signature (calligraphic), Wonderful Branding (a dry brush script), Glory Signature (upright), Basking (a decorative serif), Billie Sight (an inky script), Finding Beauty, Antique Heritage (a rounded monolinear upright script), Fancy Matter (a monoline script), Safira March (a display serif), Beauty Swing (a decorative serif), White Space (a decorative serif), Billion Miracles (a signature script), Kickoff (a squarish font), Skater Squad (a graffiti font), Streetbomber (graffiti), Streetfire (graffiti), Streetlife (graffiti), Bomber Dreams (graffiti), Bosskids (graffiti), Bostero (a graffiti font), Urban Blocker (a fine bulky graffiti font), Bomberboy (a graffiti font), Billionary (a 7-style slab serif), Magelo (a thin-slabbed serif; seven styles), Miguel (a tuxedoed mini-serif typeface in seven styles), Chicago Makers (a fine vintage decorative serif; eight styles), Feeling Steady (a dry brush script), Flatlion (a monolinear script), Javyer (a thin script), Romely (a 7-style fashionable Peignotian typeface), Billastim (a thin and wild script), Universe (futuristic, octagonal), Wertign (a thin and wild script), Boomber Rockstar (a graffiti font), Vintage Rovery (a plumpish decorative serif), Starstone (squarish, modular), Portaly (a rounded monolinear sans), Spaceline (a sci-fi font).

Din Studio spun off Vintage Division in 2021, where it published their vintage fonts. The initial collection in 2021: Big Flask, Black Arcade, Blacktail, Boosters, Carlingthon, Cravery, Crowded, Dracolas, Fieldstone, Finest Vintage, Lastones (art deco), Lostcowboy, Medyan Script, Mertalion, Monoline Fighter, Morning Vintage, Mostlatest, Reverse Vintage, Royale Dreams, Stay Retro, Vintage Bridge, Vintage Feeling, Vintage Lander, Vintage Melody, Vintage Rotter, Vintage Round, Vintage Rovery, Western Brother.

Typefaces from 2022: Stainger (a 16-style display sans), Rakeny (a 7-style sharp-edged display serif), Billstone Signature. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dino dos Santos
[dstype]

Dirtyline Studio
[Hendra Maulia]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Humblle Rought (sic) (2015), Nirmana (2015, brush type), Cecilia Script (2015), Stay High (2015, graffiti influence), Gracias Script (2015), Bowlist (2015), Miguella Script (2015), Islander Brush (2015), Zailla Script (2015), Funkiess (2015), Scarlet (2015), Amanda (2015, calligraphic), Natasya (2015, a creamy signage font), Violla Script (2015), Seulanga (2015), Cornish (2015), Butller (2015), Twice (2015), Evelyn (2015), Steelmond (2015), Humble (2015; also spelled Humblle with two l's), Swirlesque (2015) and Jeumpa (2015). Aka Dirty Line Type.

Typefaces from 2016: The script typefaces Tendencia, Bull Stander (+Slab), Black Pearl Sans, Befolk, Wild Heart, Kick Hornet (brush style), The Beard, Drama Queen Script, Valiente Brush, Beautiful Dreams, Tropical (2016, in Brush Script, Brush, Brush Caps, Sans and Monoline styles), Rising Script, Rising Brush, Be Grateful, Sweetline, Lightening Sript, Zailla Script, Adorabelle Script, The Luxury, Harbour (brush type). In addition: Mortuguais, Black Heat (Victorian), Sweetline and Neptern (a Saul Bass style font).

Typefaces from 2017: Significent, Lindsey Smith Script (signature font), Axewell, Matchstic (retro signage), The Booster (baseball script), Cursive Script, Kindness Typeface (signage brush), Conquer (dry brush), Significant, The Boundaries (signage script), Blinded (fat brush script), Maldives Script, Mind Blowing (brush), Skywalker (brush script), Reshuffle Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Specta Retro Script (2018, a signage script by Hendra Maulia and Aulia Rahman), Hype Beast (brush font), Shockwave (SVG brush font), Humblle Rought (sic), Brewery (SVG font), Shanders (brush script), Hoodson (signage script), Emberblaze (brush font).

Typefaces from 2019: Blackink (a tattoo font), Hatch (brush script), Matao Serif (a decorative didone typeface done with Aulia Rahman), Black Theory (brushed), Magnison Script (signage script), Hoodson Script, Hyperflow, Baby Boomer, Hereditary, Stereohead (dry brush), Metafora, Metafora Sans (free).

Typefaces from 2020: Dx Sitrus (a 12-style display family), DX Rigraf (a 55-font sans, with a variable typeface on the side; the i and f are slab serif glyphs though), Hedgehock (a signage script), Hatch Brush (a dry brush script), Skywalker (a brush script), Matriver (a dry brush script), Adolle Bright (a quill pen script), Emerat (a heavy script), Nagaiya (a 15-style display sans (+a variable cut) characterized by sharp spurs; by Aulia Rahman and Hendra Maulia), Balecimo (a wild script), Scalter (a 42-style sign lettering typeface with Serif, Sans, Script and Variable options), Hazzard (script), Casta (a display serif in 55 styles; with a variable font), Cynthia Blooms (a signature script), Baby Boomer, Significent, Aliva Brush Script, Reshuffle Sans, Ancient Zurich, Rustler Barter (a display font done with Aulia Rahman), Neue Metana (a wide display sans by Aulia Rahman and Hendra Maulia), Mabrick Serif, Mabrick Signature.

Typefaces from 2021: Wagon (an 18-style sharp-serifed typeface family with a dancing baseline), Dx Gaster (a 15-style display or headline serif, with two variable fonts tossed in the mix), Magtis (a 10-style retro fashion mag serif by Aulia Rahman and Hendra Maulia), Scalter, Harmond (a 47-style display serif family with art nouveau charm), Cigra (a decorative serif by Aulia Rahman and Hendra Maulia).

Type department link.

Typefaces from 2022: Garcia (a Picasso-esque display typeface by Aulia Rahman and Hendra Maulia), Consta (an 8-style display serif by Aulia Rahman and Hendra Maulia). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Diwan Mishafi
[Hamid Al-Saadi]

A calligraphic Arabic typeface with over 3000 glyphs, by Diwan Software. "Mishafi contains more than three thousand shapes, making it possible for the first time to compose proper Quranic calligraphy with all their shapes, markings and recitation symbols. It is also most suitable to compose traditional text of Hadith and commentary texts in respectable form. Both classic and modern Arabic poetry can be presented by it in clear and elegant formats." The typeface was designed by the acclaimed Iraqi calligrapher Hamid Al-Saadi (b. Baghdad, 1955), and won the Type Directors Club 2000 award. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dixie's Delights
[Michelle Dixon]

This used to be a wonderful page, but Michelle Dixon seems to have retired from the font making business. There used to be five shareware dingbats fonts: African Ornaments One, Cave Painting Dingbats One, Mayan Dingbats, Pre-Columbian Ornaments One, and Printers' Ornaments One (Mac PS), plus about 45 other original fonts (not shareware). In her wonderful collection, the following of Michelle Dixon's creations stand out: Arrighi Copybook, ItalianMosaicOrnaments, Beautiful, LondonHouse, Love Letter Typewriter, Gaudy Medium, Rusty Nail-Medium (the last four are all old typewriter fonts), and the display fonts Isla Bella (art nouveau), La Negrita, Arty Nouveau, Victorian, Art Nouveau Fonts, Bad Dog-Black, Berlin, Caslon Frenzy, Dixon's Vixens Caps, AntiqueMonoTW, DangerousTypoWriter, Elegant Nouveau Initial Caps, Fruitbasket, Matador, Manhattan, Modern Scribe, Ovid, Spillage, Tacos, Tolstoy, Typewriter, Love Letter, Basketcase, ChiliPepperDingbats, Postage Stamps, Garish Monde, Taco Modern, and Beautiful Ink. All fonts are between 5 and 30 dollars a piece, but often there are four fonts per face. In August 98, the absolutely gorgeous calligraphic font Beautiful Ink became available as a 10USD shareware font in Windows TrueType. Many designs are by Blake Haber, who is Michelle Dixon's husband. Located in Santa Barbara, CA.

Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿

Diyos
[Yus Wardi]

Yus Wardi (Diyos) is the Indonesian designer of these typefaces:

2015: The script typefaces Eagle and Ashokaya.
2016: Shafia (or Shaphia: an über-curly script), Sielvie (calligraphic), Frizal (textured), Artika, Answer (an art nouveau style typeface), Nowela (script), Flora (floral font), and Hawana (handwriting font).
2017: Viona (conneced script), New Sofia (curly script).

D.M. Rachmath
[DMR Studio (or: Aksaratype Industries)]

DM Studio (or: DM Letter)
[Dimas Prasetyo]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of script typefaces. These include Bravalor (2018), St. Genoa (2018), Skelie Dancie (2018: a Halloween font), Lovely Puppy (2018), Pretty Pumpkin (2018), Gobbie Gobble (2018), Brioche (2018), The Graveyard (2018: Halloween font), The Royale (2018: an unconnected calligraphic script), Mister Boosty (2018: a children's book font), Swan Tales (2018), Chiko and Owlie (2018: another children's book font), Myrtle (2018), Unconnect (stencil), Arabica Vine (2018: free), Romanttica (2018: brush script), Brunella, Qlinsey, Camellia, Morning Glory, Gallant London, Gotmads, Gallant, Mary Quincy. He also designed the display sans typeface Trevor (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Cooless, Hear Memory, Ramstay Script, Simplicity, Cllarin, Spring Whisper, Lemon Torte, Ronallatie, Swally, Mistletoes, Parfait (brush script), Blocky, Bang Bang (signature script), Sparkling Bright, Spooky Webbie, Janethville, Omarta, Rawhill, Dead Skull, Gratefully, Bubble Mint, Ruthyne, Brightside, Sugar Bomb (a cartoon font), Cutie Monster, The Witch (a vampire font), Skellington Hollow (a Halloween font), Melted Monsters, Sethidy, St. Genoa, The Nightmare, Menzanine (speckled texture), SkitCut (scissor-cut letters), The Salvator (flared caps), Road Shot (Tuscan caps), Lodeh (blackletter), Stranger, Bloem Garden, Panacota, Ramtul (a signature font), Beauty Signature, Stone Age, Estella, Hellena, Katalia, Bigbang, Dream Unicorn, Hariston, Unicorn Magic, Bonjour, Madeleine, Fleur Bleue, Hikaru, Hippie Unicorn, Honey Lemon, Sour Crunch (comic book or supermarket sale style), Alamode, Puppy, Angry Monsta, Cutie Bunnie, Melvick (sans), Rosemary, Gothix (dry brush script), Amavos, Serenita, Graveyard Dingbats, Jelly Berry, Slubby Slurpy, Primrose, Spring, Saxophone, Beauty, St. Genoa, Bambang, Romanttica, Sanggria, Honey Beezy, Unicorn Magic, Sugar Bomb (beatnik style), Queeny, Bavalor (a weathered sans), Snow Deer, UnConnect, Tokyo Bay, Cupid Love, Hunny Bummy.

Typefaces from 2020: Sushi Moshi (a cartoon font), Joyfull Summer, Happy Loves, Almond Caramel, Wild Hazelnut, Sugar Dream, Night Glow, 1000 Wishes Origami, Sophisticated Signature, Heart Memory, Omarta, Love Monday, Roasted Coconut, Spring Whisper, Sethidy, School Mania (3d, handcrafted), Sweet Bless, Aloha March, Blocky, Parfait, Secret Love, Heart Love, Delighted, Mistletoes, Hey Charlie, Mango Sticky, Sweet Lollipop, Brightside, Corgy Puppy, Monas, Hachiko, Spring Garden, Eighties, Modesty Script, Summer Llama, Wedges (a rounded handcrafted sans), Secret Love, Heart Love.

Typefaces from 2021: Sparkling Bright, Shade Blue, Silky Smoke, Wonderful Magic, Winter Wishes, Best Jolly, Amigos, Spooky Webbie, Dead Skull, Scary Zombie, The Nightmare, Bubble Pink (textured), South Pond, Secret Nature, Pear Leaves, Snowy Night, Thanks Autumn, Hello Catto, Sunshine Wishes, Sunset Story, Scary House, La Rosie, Party Story, Lovely, Love Dream, Lost Island, Little Foxie, Rusty Lemon, Matcha Latte, Mister Rocky, Maple Honey, Meow Paw, Sakura Blossom, Jolly Dream, Gobbie Gobble, Flying Home, Dear Emily, Messy Berry, Gold Shine, Ruthyne, Purple Hope, Playful Delight, Sunday Beach, Cutie Shark, Crispy Corn, Chunky Bear, Jelly Party, Cookie Crisp, Chill Blood, El Cabestor (Tuscan, inline), Rosa (Peignotian), Gracias, Ronallatie, Wild Romance, Light Shade, Lemon Sorbet, Lemon Crush, Autumn Sunset, Blush Lovely, Artsy, Block Note, Sachlette Signature, Bambang Signature, Rock Boy (beatnik), Happy Pumpkins (alphadings), Gobbie Dingbats, Autumn Dingbats, Holland Dingbats, Carletone.

Dmitrii Mikitenko
[Blessed Print]

Dmitriy Annenkov

Perm, Russia-based designer of the retro signage fonts Beauford (2015) and California Dreaming (2015), the connected script typeface Jennifer's Flowers (2015) and the heavy calligraphic typeface Magnificent (2015).

In 2016, he designed the retro signage script fonts Hollywood and Berry Juice. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dmitriy Chirkov
[Media Lab (or: Dima Evans)]

Dmitriy Shchetinskiy

Russian type designer who made the calligraphic greetings typeface Gala 72 (2012) and Congratulatory (2010: Latin and Cyrillic) and the curly psychedelic all-caps typeface Lemonchello (2011). More greetings typefaces were added in 2015: Congratulatory 2.0, Congratulatory Happy Birthday, Congrats 36, Congratulatory New Year And Christmas, Congratulatory Womens Day. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dmitry Arakelov
[Fontop]

DMR Studio (or: Aksaratype Industries)
[D.M. Rachmath]

DM Rachmath, also written D.M. Rahmath and Rahmat (DMR Studio, Cianjur / Bandung, Indonesia), designed the hipster typeface Parantina (2017), the Balencha family of display typefaces (2017), the stencil typeface Beklon (2017), the vintage logo font Kalalua (2017), the hipster typeface Terazcho (2017), the layered Western textured typeface Baroschi (2017), the spurred typefaces Elago (2017) and Elagonian (2017), the free vintage display typefaces La Pontane (2016-2017) and La Pontane Deconia (2017), and the Victorian typeface LHF Sorangeun (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Morowali, Kaliandra, Diantos, Jailolo (a rebel or sports font family), Persib Sasm (octagonal sports font; free demo), Veranomata (multishade font), Bieliko (prismatic), Nonami (great-looking athletic lettering fonts), Nonamiako, Naratas (athletic lettering), Kamarita (a logo font family), Axina (stencil), Hasya d'Ellena (formal calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2019: Beklon, Vietara, Tiaso (an athletic shirt typeface), BRQ (shadow typeface), Gharisan (octagonal).

Typefaces from 2020: Sima Maung (an octagonal athletic lettering font family that includes a few shadow styles), Leafco (floriated, textured), Pentacone (molecular, prismatic), Pollenca (script), Floresque (a multiline caps typeface), Garbello (a shadow font), Elago (a sports font), Boyana (a monoline script), Scada (a shadow font), Romansha (a display type), Nevota (an all caps sans), Mamberamo (a creamy script), Manawi (a creamy script).

Aka DMR Studio and DMR Art Studios, and as Aksaratype Industries). Home page of Aksaratype Industries. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dobi (was: Toxic Type)
[Rob Dobi]

Site of prolific designer Rob Dobi from Fairfield, CT, who made many freeware/shareware fonts. Some fonts are grungy, but many have a strong calligraphic influence (Killigraphy and Arthur for example). The list: Apocalypse1, Arthur, AssCrack, BallstotheWall, Blasphemy, Bubblegum Superstar (1998, more a brush font than a bubblegum font), Catch22, CrappyCrap, Cringe, CriticalMass, Depraved, DobiType, Doober, DroopyPoopy, Duchess, Dumbass, Entropy, Failure, FluxCapacitor, Geriatric, GreenAppleSplatters, Guillotine, HeavyRotation, HongKongFistFuck, HyperKinetic, Immoral, InKsolBitch, Incest, KaBlooie, Kemuri, KillgraphyBold, Killigraphy (1998), Misconstrued, Misfortune2, MisterSinister, Nicole, PessimisticLines, Piledriver, Plastered, Puke, Salvation, Snot, Splooge, Static, StoneCold, Suicide, TheDrips, Vein. Another site has additional fonts such as Pitty. Toxicomania, Ocular and Pileliner have disappeared.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Doehantz Studio
[Abduhan Fikhri]

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) of the bold signage script typeface De Hafia (2019), the script typefaces Hey Keysha (2019), Saitama (2019), The Rotterdam City (2019), Estonia (2019), The Sweetheart (2019) and Azkadina (2019).

In 2020, he released the script fonts Marsella, Ezkialova, Misterlove, Mozarella, Override, Angelic, Kiara, Elok, Angelic, Nabilla, Roadstay, Everloved and Credentials, and the frilly typeface Midnight Tales.

Typefaces from 2021: Softrock (blocky textured caps), Authenticity (a rabbit ear script), Aidil Fitri (a creamy upright calligraphic script), Little Bosquee (a squarish all caps sans), Harder (a well-behaved script), The Flourish (a formal calligraphic script with elegant flourishes). Gumroad link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Doel Creative (or: Masterpiece Art)
[Fajri Yandi]

Aka Masterpiece Art, Bardol and Doel. Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1992, of the cursive script Rashfeng (2018) and the connected script typefaces Happy New Year (2018), Valentine Love (2018), Rosalinda (2018), Romantina (208), Merry Christmas (2018), Anatomia (2018), Amelia (2018: calligraphic), Athum (2018), Beindog Gite (2018), Kaeshum (2018), Romtthing Girl (2018), Bardeng or Bartdeng (2018), Cintella (2018), Anatomia (2018), Mountain Script (2018), Graf Call (2018), Grafiteg (2018), Washington Signature (2018), Madania (2018), Teiqulato (2018). Creative Fabrica link. Dafont link for Masterpiece Art. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Doffdog
[Alexey Potapov]

Voronezh, Russia and/or Berlin, Germany-based designer of the (Latin) tattoo typeface Old School (2016).

In 2017, he designed the calligraphic brush typeface Roseline.

Typefaces from 2018: Girl Power, Vision, Marker Tag, Ink Master (tattoo font), Stay True.

Typefaces from 2019: Violet (brush script), King of Rock, Metal, Lisa.

Typefaces from 2020: Big Fish DD (a handcrafted typeface that screams mental health breakdown).

Typefaces from 2021: Monster DD (a grungy serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dois Debe
[Typofabric]

Dominic Martin-Manning

London-based designer of a calligraphic alphabet called Hybrid (2012).

Donald Day

Writer and calligrapher. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Donald Jackson

Calligrapher from Lancashire, b. 1938. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Donald Stevens

Designed the calligraphic font Aristocrat (1978, Letraset).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dondon Nillo
[Onyx Font Foundry]

Doni Purwoko
[Zeenesia Studio]

Donis Miftahudin
[Nathatype]

Donis Miftahudin
[Din Studio (or: Doni, Ditatype)]

Donya Design
[Teuku Muslyawan]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1984) of Misyalli (2019), Standing Script (2019), Stavol (2019: brush script), Gorgeous (2019: calligraphic), Lembayoung (2019), Floas Script (2019), Naylla Script (2019), Mettona Script (2019), Brokang (2019), Armelya Script (2019), Peachy (2019: a signature font), Kenichi (2019: dry brush), Saljuk (2019), Vertigo (2019), Monte Carlo (2019: signature font), Bentrok (2019: script), Herochin (2019: calligraphic), Hambuger Script (2019) and Regards Script (2019).

TYpefaces from 2020: Neradila, Candyland, Esteh (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Mendulang (a stylish signature font with lots of personality).

Typefaces from 2022: Harvest Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

DooType
[Eduilson Wessler Coán]

Curitiba-based Brazilian digital type foundry, est. in 2008 by the successful and talented type designer Eduilson Wessler Coan (b. 1983, Curutiba). Myfonts link. Coan joined Fabio Haag Type. Their fonts:

Estado Serif (2006), co-designed with Ericson Straub (Straub Design) and Fabio Augusto for use in the Jornal O Estado do Paraná.
DooSans (2006): custom design for the magazine abcDesign.
Ninfa (2006-2008), an organic serif face. He calls it a modern semi-serif. Whatever. Ninfa won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text typeface category. Ninfa Serif followed in 2012. Ninfa Serif won an award in the typeface family category at Tipos Latinos 2012.
Encorpada Black (2011) is a fat didone display face. It was extended to Encorpada Pro in 2012. Encorpada Classic was published in 2013. Encorpada Classic and Encorpada Pro won awards at Tipos Latinos 2014. In 2014, he published Encorpada Essential. In 2015, Eduilson added Encorpada Classic Compressed and Encorpada Classic Condensed.
Fluence (2012) is a calligraphic typeface family. Fluence won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
Tres Tres Chic (2012) is a very thin geometric fashion mag headline face.
Maestra (2012) is a calligraphic copperplate script. Gorgeous, mouthwatering, heavenly, just about the perfect font. Future brides and grooms need look no further than this for wedding invitations.
Niks Sans (2012).
dT Delicatta (2012, revised in 2017) is a formal connected calligraphic script face, destined to win many awards.
Unimed Sans, Unimed Slab and Unime Serif (2013) is a bespoke typeface family done for a Brazilian health insurance company, Unimed.
Typefaces from 2014: Bommer Slab and Bommer Slab Rounded. Bommer Slab won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. Accura (2014, a sans typeface created together with Thiago Bellotti).
In 2015, he designed the techno sans family Sica (+Expanded, +Condensed) with Volnei Antonio Matrté Coan at DooType. Sica won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
Bommer Sans (2016). A Latinized (i.e., curvy) humanist sans.
dT Jakob (2017). This typeface started out in 2007 as a revival by Gustavo Soares in Paul van der Laan's class at KABK of Jakob Erbar's grotesk from 1927. It was refined and completed in 2017 at dooType with the help of Eduilson Wessler Coan. In 2018, Gustavo Soares and Eduilson Coan developed the variable inline and shadow font dT Jakob Variable Concept.
dT Ampla (2018). A sans with some warmth.
Salva (2021, Fabio Haag Type). A versatile workhorse sans family: Eduilson Coan was the lead designer. He was assisted by the Fabio Haag Type team of Henrique Beier, Ana Laydner and Fabio Haag himself.
Seiva (2021, by Henrique Beier, Eduilson Coan and Fabio Haag). A distant relative of Didot, this exotic sans family is partitioned into Text, Display and Poster subfamilies, and welcomes variable font technology.

Klingspor link. Creative Market link. Behance link. MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dos Diez Type

Creator of the curly decorative all caps typeface Estaviejo (2017), and the connected Icenomina Script (2017). Estaviejo is based on an alphabet template given as a promotional material by a sewing thread company in Goggingen, Germany in the 1800s. [Google] [More] ⦿

Dot HK Studio
[Arief Munandar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of Voetter (2019: an octagonal typeface), Channelley Script (2019), Redesey (2019: a brush font), Octopus (2019: a dry brush script), Caldwell (2019: a dry brush font) and Matterhorn (2019: an octagonal slab serif).

Typefaces from 2020: Greylock (a connected script), Happy Birthday, Blithen (script), Chinthia White (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Silver Silk (display serif), Chatherin (a calligraphic script), Ethylene (a typeface halfway between script and cursive), Bentley Script, Garnita Script (a wide connected calligraphic script), Hamidey (a thin script), Banteng (brush script), Greather (script).

Typefaces from 2022: New Culture (a retro dancing baseline font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dotzeem
[Hazim Mujahid]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Adiwangsa (2021: Regular, Outline, Script) and Narapati (2021: a calligraphic blackletter typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Douglas Vitkauskas

Brazilian resident who specializes in original grunge designs. His typefaces are mostly free. Some commercial typefaces are available via Creative Market.

Typefaces from 2020: VTKS Beleza Pura (calligraphic script), Classical Hit, Lovecure, VTKS Smile (modular), VTKS Blocketo (a pixel font).

Typefaces from 2019: VTKS Dracena (a dirty brush script), VTKS HyperBoldi (all caps, grungy), VTKS Amplexus (dancing letters), VTKS Dynamic (grunge), VTKS Unamour.

Typefaces from 2018: Vtks Rockino v2, Vtks Bela Vista (a treefrog script), Vtks Core Reason, Vtks Hand Made, Vtks Blacqui Letter (a decorative inline blackletter), Vtks La Prensitcha, Vtks Brilhante, Vtks Beautizinea, Vtks The Dark, Vtks Lettering, Vtks Urbanizart, Vtks Textones, Vtks Autorized, Vtks BoldCool, Vtks Sportage, Vtks Relpius, Vtks Escape, Vtks Demolition (grunge), Vtks Challenge (weathered), Vtks Propriedade, Vtks Cafezito (coffee klatsch font), Vtks Propaganda (grunge), Vtks Lightness, Vtks Success.

Typefaces from 2017: Carbo 753 (grunge), RokiyoSan, BlowUp (splashy brush), Madalena, Mural, Heavy Duty (grunge), Krueza, Azeitona, Mindfulness, Carruagem, VTKS Sal Grosso, VTKS Realm (grunge), Mercado, Dreamland 223, Dreamland 777.

Typefaces from 2016: Vtks Colored Soul, Vtks Lombriga, Vtks Karmapolis, Vtks Katiassa, Peacemakers (art nouveau), Vtks Gran Moda (brush), Vtks Obscena (curly font), Vtks Zamioyn (childen's script), Vtks Long Time (painted letters), Vtks Solaris (hand-drawn), Vtks Zuadinha, Vtks Peace and Love, VTKS Shine (brush script), VTKS Kacilds (children's script), VTKS Friaka, VTKS MockUp, VTKS Amarelli, VTKS Perereca, VTKS Raladeira, VTKS Rough Col, VTKS Integral, VTKS Voluntario (brush script), Vtks Burning (curly and bewitched), Vtks Simplex Beauty (ornamental caps), Vtks Raladeira, VTKS Black Hair (a fun irregular brush script), VTKS Felicidade (script).

Typefaces from 2015: VTKS Love U, VTKS Mockup, VTKS Academy, Family, Poster (grunge caps), Hunt, VTKS Articles (Treefrog-style script), VTKS Sonho (Treefrog), Lounge Set, Vacancy, Red Line, Old Mobile, Raining, Happiness Always, Good Day, Nicely, Desgaste (spurred), Basic Lines, Water Lily.

Typefaces from 2014: VTKS Painel (brush), VTKS Motor (handcrafted), VTKS Super Funny, VTKS Tender Love (vampire script), Limpeza (signage script), Delicious, VTKS Hotel, Propolis (brushy script), VTKS Rash (irregular hand), Pedra Azul (vampire script), MRD 67 VTKS (grunge), VTKS Samanbaia (Treefrog-style script), VTKS Channels, VTKS Dreamer, VTKS Money, VTKS Belinha (inky script), VTKS University (striped typeface), VTKS Classicuda, VTKS Authentic, VTKS Burning, VTKS Modern Look, VTKS Beta, VTKS Bandoleones, VTKS Pedra Bruta (rough brush script), VTKS Recover MB 1, VTKS Simplex Beauty, VTKS Dirty Letters.

Typefaces made in 2013: VTKS Rust, VTKS Easy Work, VTKS New One, VTKS Old Tee, VTKS Free Soul (Victorian), VTKS Have A Nice Day (grunge), VTKS University, VTKS Piscina, VTKS Divertida, VTKS Modern, VTKS Lovely, VTKS Back To Basics, VTKS Sujinha, VTKS Inked, VTKS Grungy, VTKS Thanks You, VTKS Love Is Everything (curly font), VTKS Dura 3D (showboat Western), VTKS Youth Spirit, VTKS Lightness, VTKS Premium, VTKS Authentic (a calligraphic brush script), VTKS Rafia, VTKS Have A Nice Day, VTKS Classical Hit, VTKS Lumina, VTKS Dirty 2, VTKS Good Day (Treefrog-style hand), VTKS Boutique, VTKS Storm 2 (grunge).

Typefaces made in 2012: VTKS Street Vision (graffiti font), VTKS Show, VTKS Lounge Set, VTKS Total Flux Disturbed, VTKS Total Flex Clean, VTKS Love Love, VTKS Ballerina, VTKS Contrast, VTKS Friendly, VTKS Orbital, VTKS Exame (dirty stencil face), VTKS Future (stencil face), VTKS Fresh, VTKS Laundry, VTKS Curumin, VTKS Citrino (a spurred inline face), Vtks Squizita (grunge), Vtks Blank, VTKS Broadband, VTKS Logic (grungy texture typeface), VTKS Expert (grunge), VTKS Worker, VTKS Chalk 79 (chalk font), VTKS Vinte e Cinco, Good Vibration, VTKS Bagacao, VTKS Message, VTKS Keystorm (texture face), VTKS Scratch, VTKS Minus, VTKS Fail, VTKS Busseta (dymo label font), VTKS Assign, VTKS Carrier (grunge), VTKS Lovers Italic, VTKS Good Vibration 2, VTKS Encounter (grunge), VTKS Natural, VTKS Seven.

Typefaces made in 2011: VTKS Message (grunge), VTKS Lovers (frilly), VTKS Carrier (grunge), VTKS Contact (texture typewriter face).

Designs from 2010 include VTKSSIGNOFTIMES, VTKSSIGNOFTIMESbold, VTKS Unidade, VTKS Scream, VTKS Personal, VTKS Noise (texture face), VTKS Mint, VTKS Legal (Treefrog-style hand), VTKS Fresh Mint, VTKS Ink, VTKS Study (a sketch face), VTKS Morning Rain (+3D, +Bold), VTKSEMBROIDERY, VTKSLowRider, VTKSLowRiderBox, VTKSREVERSO, VTKSREVERSOOPTIONB, VTKSURBANTIME, VTKSURBANTIME3d, VTKSURBANTIMEbold, VtksBeautifulDreams, VtksVictory, vtksRudeMetalshadow, vtksarmy, vtksarmy3d, vtksshow, vtkssolution, vtkssolution3d, vtkssolutionbold, vtkssuper, vtkswhitepage3d, VTKSCOMIC, VTKSHIGHLIGHT (2010, a sketched face), VTKSHIGHLIGHT2, VTKSHIGHLIGHT3, VTKSXtra, vtkscrazytime, vtksmorningrain, vtksmorningrain3D, vtksmorningrainBOLD, VTKS Trunkset, VTKS Control, VTKSCURVE, VTKSDOWNTOWN (chalk or brush face), VTKSLOVEANDPEACE, VTKSSOLUOCRIATIVA, VTKSSOLUOCRIATIVADOIS.

In 2009 he designed vtks Water cristals, vtksControl, vtkskeystorm, vtkstrunkset, VTKS Distress (grunge), VTKS Deja Vu, VTKS Giz, VTKS Sunny Day, VTKS Mercearia, VTKSRASURADA (grunge), VTKSSABONETE (grunge), Vtksespinhuda (grungy), and vtkssbadodechuva (grungy).

In 2008, he created VTKSSKULLS, VTKS Focus (curly letters), vtksRascunhoErrado (hand-printed), vtksanimal2 (brush/paint), VTKSFLOWERSINOURSOUL, VtksRelaxingBlaze (double script), Quadrada e Gordinha, VTKS Velhos Tempos (great scratchy script face), Squizita, Mural, VTKS Revolt, VTKS General Use, VTKS Good Luck For You, VTKS-BEAUTY, VTKS-CHIP-SET, VTKS-CHOICE, VTKS-CORE, VTKS-No-Name, VTKS-SKULLZ-ME, VTKS-SummerLAnd, Vtks-Blank, Vtks-FININHA, Vtks-Hardness, Vtks-Noba, vtks-alcalina, vtks-caveirada, vtks-squares, vtks-syndicate, VtksCapsLoco (all caps), VtksEntulho (grunge), VtksSonho (elegant scratchy script), vtksalcalina, vtkscaveirada (grunge), vtkstrutagem (grunge), VTKS Encantar (grunge).

In 2007, he designed VtksDesgaste, VtksWineLabel, VtksWineLabelTwo, VTKSBlackLabelNormal, VTKSBlackLabelNormalFilete, VtksBlack, VtksBlackLabel, VTKS Untitled (grunge), VTKS-News-Label, VTKS-ROCK-GARAGE-BAND, VTKS-SCRUBBED, vtks-REPORT-erRoR, VTKS Clean, VTKS Easy Way (informal outline lettering), VTKS Hardness (grunge), VTKS Mural (scratchy script), VTKS Alpes, VTKS No Name (ornamental caps), VTKS Beauty (ornamental caps), VTKS Refused (grunge), VTKS Gore, VTKS Estilosa, VTKS Bandana, VITKS Furious, VITK Colagem, VTKS36, VTKSDearLove (curly lettering), vtks38 (double-lined hand), vtksLemonDrop (comic book face).

Fonts made in 2005 include D_OLD_MODERN, D_OLD_MODERN2, Scretch (scratchy face), Busseta, D Old Miner, Assign (handwriting), Fail (grunge) and Minus (scratchy face).

Pay fonts include Beautiful Dreams, Black, Black Label, Bronze Age, Desgaste, Design Pencil, Embroidery, Funny Lines, Good Vibrations, Keep Your Mind Clean, Low Rider, Mixed Job, Natural Style, Number Zero, power Age, Sexy Lines, Shadow, Urban art, Victory, VTKS V2, Warrior, Wine Label, Xtra.

FADU-UBA link. Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Old URL. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Doyald Young
[Doyald Young: Logotypes and Letterforms]

Doyald Young: Logotypes and Letterforms
[Doyald Young]

Graphic designer, typographer, type designer, author, teacher and lecturer, born in 1926 in Holliday, TX. He died on February 28, 2011 due to complications following a heart operation. He attended Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Trade Technical Jr. College, and Art Center College of Design where he has taught for 27 years and holds the honorary title Inaugural Master of the School. Doyald drew characters, often of a calligraphic or handlettered nature. He was deeply influenced by his mentor, Hermann Zapf.

Steve Heller writes: When digital programs like Fontographer made it easy for anyone with a computer to create typefaces, many of them purposefully inelegant, he advocated a high level of craftsmanship that he believed had been lost. In so doing, Mr. Young challenged a new generation to reject so-called grunge design in favor of precision. When the American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded Young its 2009 Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Marian Bantjes wrote Taste. Practicality. Formality. Understated prestige. The combination of those qualities forms as perfect a descriptor of Young's work as any you are likely to find, both in the process and the result. Although he is widely known for his elegant curves and scripts, he has never been a showy designer---there is not a trace of ego in his work. The range of letterforms able to flow at any time from his hand is great, and there is no way to particularly define Young's mark unless you have seen the hand-drawn comp. That is where his work is unmistakable: perfect letterforms drawn in pencil at a surprisingly small size without so much as a mark of hesitation or awkwardness. The style varies but the fluidity and perfection do not.

Links and media: Scott Erickson's movie on Doyald Young. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Short obituary and video. Longer video about his life. Steven Heller's obituary in the New York Times. Obituary by Marian Bantjes for AIGA.

He was adored and respected for his craft and gentleness. Portrait. Another portrait (credit: Louise Sandhaus). Author of several influential texts:

Logotypes and Letterforms (1993, Delphi Press). Review. It includes the corporate typefaces and original and revised logotypes he created for General Electric, Sony, Hilton International, John Deere and other businesses. Steve Heller: It was well received by designers for its defiance of fashionable trends.
Fonts&Logos (1999, Delphi Press, and 2000, Sherman Oaks). A book of examples, it includes many logos designed by him for the cosmetic, fashion and entertainment industries. Review. Bette Midler logo (2002). Grammy Awards logo (1988). Prince, The Hits Collecton, cover (2000). Sinatra, The Man and his Music TV Special (1981). Logo for Apex Engraving (1974).
The Art of the Letter (2003, Smart Papers, Hamilton, Ontario).
Dangerous Curves Mastering Logotype Design (2008, Delphi Press). Delphi Press was his own company.

His typefaces include the extra bold condensed sports scripts fonts Home Run Sanscript (1999) and Home Run Script (1999, a connected bold retro signage script), Young Gallant (2010, a formal calligraphic script based on the alphabets his teacher, Leach, trained him on), ITC Eclat (1985, 1992, fat script face, which was used for titles by Comedy Central and the Queen Latifah movie Beauty Shop), Young Finesse (2003, an Optima-inspired thin headline typeface used in his book, Fonts&Logos), Young Finesse Italic (2006), Guts (1976, VGC), and Young Baroque (1984, 1992, Letraset; calligraphic Spencerian copperplate script; this is copied by Castcraft as OPTI Yen Script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Drew Melton
[Carmel Type (or: Just Lucky)]

D-Studio (Moscow)
[Nikolay Dubina]

DStudio, or Design Studio, is run by Nikolay Dubina, a prolific type designer. He is also a graphic designer, book designer and journalistic writer. He also runs the educational web site ProDTP. Their original Latin/Cyrillic fonts are of the highest quality, and include: Werewolf (2003), Werewolf NU (2003), DS Cosmo, DS Yermak, DS Eraser, DS Showbill, DS Poster Pen, DS Progress, DS Podd Cyr, DS Down Cyr, DS Comedy Cyr, DS Japan Cyr, DS Standart Cyr, DS Zombie Cyr, NewDeli, Stylo, Scrawl, the wonderful DS Nadejda, and DS OlymPix (2001, a pixel font), DPix8Pt (2003, pixel font), DS-Diploma-Bold, DS-Diploma, DSArmyCyr, DSBroadBrush, DS Brushess, DSComedyCyrBold, DSCyrillic, DSDiploma-Bold-Outline-DBL, DSDiplomaArt-Bold, DSDownCyr, DSEraserCyr, DS Initials (ornamental caps), DSJapanCyr--Normal, DSKolovrat, DSMechanicalBold, DSMotterHo, DSMotterStyle, DS Nova Black, DSPixelCyr, DSPoddCyrLight, DS Poster, DSPosterPen, DSProgress-SemiBold, DSRada, DSRussiaDemo, DSSharper, DS Sholom (Hebrew simulation), DSStain, DSStampCyr, DSStandartCyr, DSUstavHand, DSVTCoronaCyr, DSZombieCyr, InavelTetkaCyr, NadejdaBold, NewDeli (great display font!), Scrawl, SeedsCyr-Medium, Stylo-Bold.

Direct access. More direct access. Some fonts are here. DS Century (2000).

Dafont link where one can find DS Goose, DS Motter, DS Arabic and DS Stamper. Old URL. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

dstype
[Dino dos Santos]

Established in 1994, dstype used to offer free fonts but has gone commercial now. It is run by Dino dos Santos (b. 1971, Oporto) from Oporto, Portugal. He graduated in Graphic Design at ESAD, Matosinhos. He received a Masters degree in Multimedia Arts at FBAUP, Porto. MyFonts place. In 2006 he won the Creative Review Type Design Competition in the Revival/Extension Family. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about Portuguese lettering since 1700. Interview in 2007. Klingspor link. Author of A Letra Portuguesa, a book about Portuguese calligraphy. Dino created these typefaces:

Access (1997).
Acta, Acta Display and Acta Poster (2011, +Poster swashes). A didone fashion mag family. First designed for Chilean newspaper La Tercera in 2010, DSType's Acta family is a clean information design type system. It includes Acta Symbols, an extensive dingbat family. Acta Var (2020) has two axes, weight and optical size.
Acto (2012). Acto is a type system designed as the sans serif counterpart of the previous released Acta. Both type families were designed in 2010 for the redesign of the Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
Andrade Pro (a modern) and Andrade Script Pro: based on the calligraphy of Andrade de Figueiredo, ca. 1722.
Anubis (2003): a unicase face.
Aparo (2013). A plumpish elegant high-contrast script face.
Apice (2022). A highly structured calligraphic typeface with five optical sizes.
Apud and Apud Display (2010): a high-contrast serif family.
Aquila (2004).
Ardina (2016). Done with Pedro Leal, this text typeface family has three optical sizes.
Boldina (2004). A fat informal poster family with 18 weights and styles.
Braga (2011, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal). This is a layered font design family. Dino writes: Braga is an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colourful typographic designs.
A type system from 2014: Breve News, Breve Display, Breve Slab Title, Breve Sans Title, Breve Title, Breve Slab Text, Breve Sans Text, Breve Text. The Breve system includes modern design elements in the skeleton and ball terminals, transional elements, almost wedge-serifs in the serifed styles. As with most of dos Santos's typefaces, even the sans and slab styles exhibit Latin warmth and exuberance.
Capsa (2008): a family that was inspired by, but is not a revival of the Claude Lamesle types Gros Romain Ordinaire and Saint Augustin Gros Oeil.
Ception (2001): a futuristic sans family.
Cimo (2017). A distinguished condensed sans.
Cultura, and its improved version Cultura New (2013), a text book typeface family.
Decline (1996).
Denso (2019). By Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal: a great condensed variable font with weight, serif and optical size axes.
Digno (2022). A fuzzy text typeface family.
Dione (2003): a sans; redone in 2009 as Dobra at TypeTrust. See also Dobra Slab (2009).
Enorme (2020). Ultra massive and modular 3000-glyph mastodont of a constructivist font, by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos.
Esta (2004-2005): extensive (transitional) text and newsprint family.
Estilo (2005): a gorgeous and simple art deco-ish geometric headline face. This was accompanied by Estilo Script (2006), Estilo Text (2007, a 6-style rounded sans family), and later, Estilo Pro (2010, +Hairline).
Ezzo: a sans family.
Factor (1997).
Finura (2009): this typeface has hints of University Roman.
Firme (2014). A geometric sans for corporate use.
Fragma (2003): squarish techno family.
Girga (+Italic, +Engraved, +Banner, +Stencil) is a strong black Egyptian family designed in 2012 together with Pedro Leal at DS Type.
Glosa (2008): Glosa is a meaty multi-style didone family. Glosa Text and Glosa Headline all followed a bit later in 2008, and Glosa Display in 2009.
Hades (2012). A yummy and free blackletter typeface.
Hypergrid (2002): octagonal.
Ines (2015). A classic 7-style text typeface.
Isento and Isento Slab (2017). Both are loosely based on ATF's Times Gothic.
Lucius (Sans, Serif) (2022). The Lucius type family began as an attempt to reproduce the Principios Methodicos para as Letras Aldina e Roman---Typo Portuguez, but went went way beyond that in its multi-faceted execution.
The Quase family (2017): Quase is a very free interpretation of the types found in the Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon from 1785. We wanted to start with Caslon and then transform it into an editorial typeface, hence the increase of the x-height and the radical reduction of the ascenders and descenders. Subfamilies: Quase Headline (12 styles), Quase Poster, Quase Display, Quase Text.
Idem and idem Display (2021).
Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal published Jules in the summer of 2015---a fat fashion mag didone 45-style family inspired by several plates from Portuguese calligrapher Antonio Jacintho de Araujo; it comes in Big, Colossal and Epic. They followed up in 2017 with Jules Text.
Kartago (2005): based on Roman inscriptions from Cartago.
Keiss (2017) and Keiss Text (2021). A Scotch roman with a lot of contrast. Keiss Text comes in twelve styles and features short descenders and ascenders, along with three very distinct optical sizes. It was designed with contemporary newspapers in mind. In 2021, he added Keiss Title, Keiss Condensed, Keiss Big (14 styles) and Keiss Condensed Big.
Large (1999) and Large Pro (2006).
In 2020, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal designed Larga, which was inspired by the typefaces shown in the specimens of the Fundiçãao Typographica Portuense from 1874. Larga is a wide all caps family and comes with a variable opentype format.
Leitura, Leitura Headline, Leitura News, Leitura Sans, Leitura Symbols, Leitura Display (2007): the 31 styles were all made in 2007.
Logica (2016). A classical text typeface.
Maga (2012). A text family.
Methodo (2005): calligraphic penman typefaces.
Missiva (2004).
Monox and Monox Serif (1998-2000): a monospaced family.
Ni Sans, Ni Slab, Ni Serif (2018).
Musee (2006): a transitional family with ornaments and borders.
Nerva (2004). A subdued Trajan typeface with flaring.
Nitida (2017). A 114-font family with five optical sizes.
Nyte (2012). A serifed text family.
Otite (1995).
Outside (1996): grunge.
Parco (2021). A compact headline typeface with large x-height.
Plexes (2003). See also Plexes Pro (2006).
Pluma (2005): a series of three exquisite calligraphic flowing scripts called PlumaPrimeyra, PlumaSegunda and PlumaTerceyra). Inspired by the typographic work of Manuel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722: "Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida a Augusta Magestade do Senhor Dom Jao V, Rey de Portugal".
Poesis (1999).
Pratico UI and Pratico Slab UI (2022).
Prelo (2008): A sans family for magazines, it has styles that include Hairline, Hairline Italic, Extra Light, Extra Light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Semi Bold, Semi Bold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Slab and Prelo Condensed.
Priva Pro (2006): a sans family that includes Greek and Cyrillic).
Prumo (2011-2012). A 92-font family originally created for the redesign of the Argentinian newspaper La Nacion. Released to the public in 2013, it covers low and high contrasts, and has slab serif styles as well as Scotch Roman styles. So, it is more a type system or type collection than one single typeface: Prumo Banner, Prumo Deck, Prumo Display, Prumo Poster, Prumo Slab, Prumo Text.
Quadricula (1998).
Quaestor and Quaestor Sans (2004). Roman inscriptional typefaces.
Recita (2019). A sturdy oldstyle text typeface family.
Resea (2004) and Resea Consensed: Bank Gothic style typefaces.
Solido (2012) is a versatile type system with five widths: Solido, Solido Constricted, Solido Condensed, Solido Compressed and Solido Compact. In total there are 35 fonts. In 2020, a variable font was added to Solido. Codesigned with Pedro Leal.
Synuosa (1999): an experimental typeface showing only the top half of the characters.
Tecla (2018). After Printype, a typeface developed in the early twentieth century for the Oliver Typewriter.
Terminal (1996).
Titan and Titan Text (2003).
User (2012), User Upright (2012), and User Stencil (2012). Monospace type families.
Velino (2010): an extensive family including Velino Text, Velino, Velino Condensed, Velino Compressed, Velino Poster, Velino Sans, Velino Sans Condensed, Velino Display (+Compressed Display, +Condensed Display). This didone superfamily is sure to win a ton of awards.
Ventura (2007): based on the calligraphy of Portuguese calligrapher Joaquim José Ventura da Silva, ca. 1802, who wrote Regras methodicas para se aprender a escrever os caracteres das letras Ingleza, Portugueza, Aldina, Romana, Gotica-Italica e Gotica-Germanica in 1820. It had a "Portuguese Script". Do not confuse Ventura with Dieter Steffmann's font by the same name made many years earlier. Ventura won an award at TDC2 2008).
Viska (2015, by Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal) is designed for small print.
Volupia (2005): a connected advertising face.

DS Type also has typefaces by other type designers, such as Pedro Leal. They worked with leading companies, world scale events and well-known design agencies including: Appetite, Banco CTT, Banco Economico, BBDO, CondéNast, CTT Correios de Portugal, Electronic Arts, Errea Communicacion, Erste Bank, ESPN, Expo 2020 Dubai, Fifa World Cup 2018 Russia (the Ducha typeface), Garcia Media, Gatorade, Gruner + Jahr, Hearst, Innovation, King Games, McCann-Erickson, Meredith, Palmer Watson, Pentagram, Sagres, Starbucks, The New York Times (the Nyre typeface), Vox Media and Wolff Olins.
View Dino dos Santos's typefaces. DS Type's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

DTP Types Limited
[Malcolm Wooden]

DTP Types Ltd was launched in 1989 by Malcolm Wooden (b. London, 1956) from Crawley, West Sussex, England. Wooden worked at Monotype for over 20 years just before that. Malcolm Wooden joined Dalton Maag early 2008 to work on font engineering and production. DTP Types does/did custom font work, and sells hundreds of retail fonts.

In the Headline Font Collection (50 fonts), we find reworked and extended designs (Apollo, New Bodoni (1996-2002), Camile, Engravers, and so forth), as well as fresh typefaces (Hellene handwriting, Finalia Condensed, Birac, Delargo Black, Delargo DT Rounded (comic book family), Dawn Calligraphy).

In the Elite Typeface Library, there are type 1 and truetype typefaces for Western and East-European languages. For example, Elisar DT (1996, see also Elisar DT Infant) is a humanist sans family made by Malcolm and Lisa Wooden. Fuller Sans DT (1996) is a grotesk family by Malcolm Wooden. Greek and Cyrillic included. Other typefaces: Garamond 96, Pen Tip (Tekton-like).

Fonts distributed by ITF and MyFonts.com: Berstrom DT, Beverley Sans DT (2007, comic book style face), Birac DT, Century Schoolbook DT, Convex DT, Delargo DTInformal, Delargo DT Infant, Engravers DT (1990), Finalia DT Condensed, Garamond DT, Garamond Nine Six DT, Goudy Old Style DT, Graphicus DT (1992, a 24-style geometric sans family), Kabel DTCondensed, Leiden DT (1992: after Dick Dooijes's Lectura), Macarena DT, Modus DT (2007), New Bodoni DT (1992), Newhouse DT (1992, a large neo-grotesque family), Office Script DT (1994, copperplate script), Pelham DT (1992), Pen Tip DT, Pen Tip DT Infant, Pretorian DT (a revival of an old Edwardian font by P.M. Shanks done by Ron Carpenter and Malcolm Wooden in 1992; for a free version, see Vivian by Dieter Steffman), Solaire DT, Triest DT, Vigor DT (2000---a slab serif family).

Discussion: Something I don't get is that Vecta DT (2006) is based on Vecta (2005, Wilton Foundry)---same name, same sans family, what gives? Duet DT (2006, a calligraphic script) is by Robbie de Villiers of Wilton, based on his own Duet (2004). MyFonts page. The typophiles reserve harsh judgment: I recognize these designs by their original names. Slightly manipulating Times Roman, Optima, Icone, Franklin Gothic, Sabon, Tekton, does not make them new or original. Many of the designs are identical to the originals they're derived from (Carl Crossgrove), The DTP Types outfit sells the usual rip-off fonts under new and old names (e.g. Century Schoolbook DT, Engravers DT, Goudy Old Style DT, Kabel DT, etc.) (Uli Stiehl).

Typefaces from 2007: Rustikalis DT (after a phototype by VGC from the 1960s), Appeal DT (a revival of the Victorian typeface Apollo designed ca. 1900 by Aktiengesellschaft für Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau), Fatbrush DT, Kardanal DT, Pamela DT (semi-blackletter).

In 2008, DTP announced a new newspaper and magazine text family, Arbesco DT (PDF), based on a 1980s photolettering family (see also here), and a simple 24-style architectural sans family called Sentico Sans DT (elliptical). They also published the marker family Pen Tip DT Lefty in 2008.

In 2009, the calligraphic Trissino DT was published: it was named after Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478-1550) the Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian who was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as seperate letter sounds.

In 2020, he released Hastrico DT (a 13-style grotesque family), Hastrico DT Condensed.

View the DTP Types typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Dusko Joksimovic
[Fontex]

Dyana Weissman
[Kerns&Cairns]

Dysa Studio
[Yusup Saputra]

Indonesian designer of these tyypefaces in 2020: Badbad (a monoline script), Nofela (a dry brush script), Marida Cole (a rope font), Meiloly, Own Friday, Hantlay (a dry brush script), Castya, Maesha, Beslin, Catetin, Katika, Latton, Luloy (a brush script), and Mongoill (a signature script).

Typefaces from 2021: Summer Paradise (a plump slab serif for soft displays), Ralligant (a fashionable typeface), Claudia Alves (a fashion mag display typeface), Eligade (a stylish serif), Marithin (a ball terminal wedge serif), Playfulion (hand-printed), Renattosa (a monoline script), Pianka Brush (a dry brush script), Laceria (a stylish sans with hipster caps), Quilany (a modern display serif), Monka (a display serif), Belagoya (a thin display serif), Rotally (a stylish serif), Wonderplay (a monolinear comic book or children's book font), Maloya (script), Rallisaguen (a decorative serif), Pantai Bali (a signature script), Gladies (a stylish display serif), Actu (a notched display typeface), Amitha (a calligraphic script), Rawgly, Alems (a sharp-serifed display serif), Quensialy (a wide signature script), Mounlee (script), Luthfya (a fat finger font), Cannu, Gallient (a fashion mag serif), Manky (a decorative serif emulating ink spread). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Earlyfair Studio
[Fahmi Huzaini]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1990, of the monoline script typefaces The Essential (2019) and Heima (2019), the handcrafted typeface Vontana (2019), and the calligraphic fonts Lovia (2019) and Sinatra (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

eat
[Eduardo Aire Torres]

Born in Mexico in 1992, Eduardo Aire Torres graduated from Universidad Anahuac Mexico Norte in 2014 and followed the condensed type design program at the Cooper Unon in New York City in 2019, after have been formed in lettering and calligraphy by masters such as Gabriel Martínez Meave, John Downer and Brody Neuenschwander.Based in Mexico City, hHis typefaces include Musans Deco (2014), Malos Dingbats (2014) and the great Kanzlei-style ornamental blackletter typeface Blackletter Revolver (2014).

As a member of the Sans Nom team (Eduardo Aire Torres, Gabriel "Pulpo" Rivero Cruz, Isaias Loaiza Ramirez, Jorge Campos Sanchez and Mario Balcazar) that participated in the Torneo Tipograifico in 2020, he co-designed the display family SN Abbatia.

His graduation typeface at Type@Cooper was a slab serif, Paton (2020). Still in 2020, he designed the prismatic typeface Astripe Variable, inspired by Wyman's branding for the Mexico68 Olympic Games. [Google] [More] ⦿

Eccentric Iconoclast

FontStructor who made Erasian Calligraphy (2010), based on South Erasian calligraphy. He also made Mantipan Script (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿

Eclectotype (was: Schizotype)
[Dave Rowland]

Type foundry in Sheffield, UK, first called Schizotype, and in 2021 renamed Eclectotype because this is not a foundry that likes to stick to trends or expectations. Its designer, Dave Rowland (b. 1982, Chesterfield) grew up in Sheffield, UK, but was based in Japan, the Philippines, Liverpool, Surat Thani, Thailand, and Koh Samui, Thailand [where he presently lives]. MyFonts Interview.

He created these fonts in 2009: Quesadilla (signage type, Mexican simulation face), Quesadilla Shadow, Schizotype Scrolls, Quiff, Toothpaste, Astroboy (connected script), Decolletage (art deco), Kazumi Sans, Acid Haus, Dr. Black, Dr. Eric, Soyo Gogo, BMX radical (brush), Team, Miami Hopper, and Tubularis (multiline face), Sickle, Klique (futuristic display face), Uncle Eric (a cartoon face), Praline Smooth (connected script in the style of Mistral), Kwaktur, (blackletter typeface based on the logo of Belgium's Kwak beer), Blackball (another blackletter) and Modulogue (a modular display family).

Additions in 2010: Christmas Tuscan (a modular Tuscan), Masonic Lodge, Mook (a retro, unicase, bubble font), Toothpaste 2, Gaden Sans (organic monoline typeface 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, hand-printed), 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 quaint text family, Vulpa, with quirky foxtail terminals.

Typefaces from 2012: Margot (a rounded slab serif described as a lovechild of American Typewriter and Cooper Black), Range Serif (an angular typeface), Pastiche Brush (a brushy connected script inspired by the titles of the 1959 movie Imitation of Life (Wayne Fitzgerald)), Quayside (a bulbous baseball or signage script).

Typefaces from 2013: Alight Slab (hairline slab), Anultra Slab (a heavy bold slab serif), Ollie (a connected baseball or signage script), Urge Text (an extensive modern text family with ample language support and plenty of mathematical symbols, and large ball terminals).

Typefaces from 2014: Range Sans (a grotesque sans family with the quirky angular cutouts inherited from Range Serif), Samui Script (upright connected script), Streetscript Redux (signage script), Price Didone (created for setting elegant price tags).

Typefaces from 2015: Oldskool Script (a connected signage script; one of many quite different commercial fonts with the same name), Hazel Script (a great flowing calligraphic script designed around the time of the birth of his first child, Hazel; the name may create confusion as there is a famous BB&S metal font with the same name), Mastadoni (a fat didone for headlines and fashion mags), Kake (a great creamy sign-painting font), Bali Script (creamy signage script), Flat Sans.

Typefaces from 2016: Cinema Script (retro movie script), Chill Script (a retro non-brush signage script), Blanket (a soft cursive font, ideal for children's books), Schizotype Grotesk (a very original angry geometric grotesk, with bucketloads of pizzazz), Astrid Grotesk, Asterisk Sans Pro (a versatile humanist sans family for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic), Strelka Ultra (a retro space age typeface), Revla Serif (beatnik style, emulating randomly positioned handlettering).

Typefaces from 2017: Duckie (a bubblegum or creamy signage script), Tusque (a layered decorative Tuscan typeface), Ekamai (a tight non-connected creamy signage script), Quinella (seventies script), Delfino Script (retro signage script), Tchig Mono (a special, almost hipster monospace typeface family), Revla Sans (beatnik style), Revla Sans Text, Eroika Slab (a robust wedge serif family).

Typefaces from 2018: Aziga (descrived by Dave as a high (occasionally reversed) contrast, postmodern, deconstructed-reconstructed, serifless (mostly), fashion didone), Revla Slab (bouncy, beatnik), Galix (subdue futuristic sans family), Gelato Luxe (an update of his earlier Gelato Script), Engria (an angular brush-inspired text typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: Gelato Fresco (a warm flowing script), Amica Pro (a stocky part humanist part geometric workhorse sans), Galix Mono, Backstroke, Gigantic (an exercise in ultra-fatness).

Typefaces from 2020: Gelica (a 14-style retro soft serif family influenced by Cooper Black, Goudy Heavyface and Ludlow Black), Capsule (a reverse-stress high-contrast rounded sans-serif), Sausage (a friendly fat rounded typeface that is is unapologetically bold and bulbous. Influenced by magnetic fridge letters, hot dogs and 70s phototype fonts, it is retro, but not cloyingly so).

Typefaces from 2021: Revla Round (a child-friendly version of Revla Sans), Megumi (a formal hairline fashion mag script), Yink (a bulbous psychedelic experiment).

Klingspor link. Behance link.

Showcase of Schizotype's typefaces at MyFonts. Fontspring link. MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ed Creative
[Edy Suryadi]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of these mostly script typefaces in 2018: Melloe, Speedes, Avisto, Melliana, Dara, Opera Brush, Epiq, Little Garden (floriated font), Ramoon, Patraovila (font duo), Estadia, Ecuador, Dellia Script, Mystery, Sintiya. Typefaces designed in 2019:

The sans typefaces Meuligoe, Mellodi, Romance, Rangoe,
The swashy sans typefaces Salsa, Meulageum, Natural, Meulage, Historyal, and Adeliya.
The display typefaces Magfirah, Opiko, Qirana, Rangoe, Torta, Wellington, Florida, Qirana, Rossa, Rollex, Nurhaliza, Opiko, Sweet Chocoloate, and Little Garden.
The script typefaces Dasmita, Patraovila, Roman Care, Mulia, Donya, Merissa, Lovely Natasya (font duo), Rostman Nigeria, Celosia, The Law of Love, Omelet, Dotting, Melliana, Dara, and Epiq.
The handcrafted Ramoon, Bunyan Babe, Novita, America, Melloe, Kingdom, Mona, Opera.
The chalk typeface Evor.
The stencil typeface Avisto.

Typefaces from 2020: Ufaira (a brush font), Black Heart (didone), Dolittle (didone), Morelia (grungy), Massey, Astrakhan.

Typefaces from 2021: Bortolotto (a condensed monolinear display sans), Venesia (an all caps sans with tribal texture).

This place used to be called fontsme. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Eddy Mahfud
[Bejeletter]

Edric Studio
[Ega Nugraha]

Known as Edric Studio, Renata Insan C, M. Nouval, and Ega Nugraha. Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of mainly modular typefaces. He created these typefaces in 2017: Nine Tail, Meatballs (a layered signage script), Rohman, Roundfra (a modular typeface), the preppy handlettered typeface Mirinia, the brush font Hummer, the deco typeface Coet, the script typefaces Ghost (smooth and with high contrast), Ora et Labora, and Lisna, the handcrafted Sild, the marker font Winkdeep, the brush script Oppy Sahra, Cully Mac, Terry Bruce, Gliford, and the art deco sans typeface Allorta.

Typefaces from 2019: Ghost (a high-contrast script), Cully, Trumans Script, Rowland, Nairi Amber (Sans, Script), Qalin, Allorta, Rowland (sans), Flower Adaline, Rowland Caligraphy, Axton, Dezert, Kempton Serif, Kempton Sans Serif, Kempton Handwritting, Stanwick, Fornever, Victorisa, Anamelia, Oldwin Script, Old Excalibur, The Afford, Aldith, Bigboby, Victorisa Script, Aldith Script, Cully, Ethelyne, Allorta (an art deco sans), Atthia, Gladwin (a connect-the-dots font), Gladwin Script, Cyttah, Thiaga (a font duo), Neolion (sci-fi style), Trumans (Shadow, Stencil, Script), Qalin (Sans, Script), Stanwick (+Calligraphy), Holea, Livingston (Sans, Serif, Signature), Haston, Accelerare, Lionello (sans+script), Brian Worth, Kempton (font trio), Amorica (Sans, Script), Northcliff (slab serif, +Stencil, +Shadow, +Outline), Stella Alpina, The Lekker (spurred), Xharp (sci-fi), Joscelynn, The Champ, Mery Qolby, Twopath, Aldora (a monoline sans), Coet (rounded sans), Alfrida, Brian Worth (slab serif), Funny Samurai (oriental simulation font), Rohman, Zorgeous, Alaqua (rounded sans), Sam, Green Aila, Goldin Finance (sans), Saila Nurissalma, Fositif (monoline script), Twopath, Dezert, Louise Ann (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Acilla Tristan, Aftermoon (a lively script), Aghnesta Sans, Aghnesta Signature, Aghnesta, Aldira, Alican, Aneetha Sans, Aneetha, Angel Valley, Angemurphy Blackletter, Angemurphy, Anindya Meita, Ariesta Moon, Arsya Edelwiess (sic), Ashelynn Sweet Sans, Aslina Ohio, Ayesha Burns, B Luna Piena, Badass Holliday (+Sans), Barnetta, Because of You, Belagiana Flowers (+Sans), Bhalbino, Birdella, Black Suit, Blind Heart, Bolliver, Breezy Bolton (+Sans), Bufferly Serif, Burning Sun, Calderdale, Callion, Canvashead, Cardolith, Carllis, Catherina, Cattily, Cerys Everett, Chairmate, Chameeta, Charlyn Rushmoor, Cheeks Rosy Script, Cheeks Rosy, Chill Friend, Choerunnisa, Cifans Bell, Claressa, Crush on You, Daisy Facthory, Damiola, Daysave, Dazz Place Display, Delafinka, Denique, Devllin, Dewebeauty, Donellia, Doughnuts, Dreamy Melodies, During Dusk, Eberta Light, Exninja Caligraphy, Exninja, Explore Sky (Greek simulation), Extraordinary U (a signature font), Ezhilan Aliqua, Fangirliya, Feliciana, Flow Perfect, Fly Feather Script, Gamila, Gapbrooth, Garan Fox, Gemintang, Ghaniya Holmy, Ghivton, Ghostlike, Ginger Bread, Ginger Spice, Gladwin (a connect-the-dots font), Gloria Beauty, Gonlotus Fangwell Script, GonlotusFangwell Dry Brush, Goodselves, Goshty Doll, Great Devotion, Greatest Show, Great March, Greentler, Guritno Script, Guritno, Happy Nature, Happy Sweety, Hasita Hillary, Haston, Hatching Love, Hazelnut Smooth Handwriting, Heluzenut, Herist, Hilliard, Himponis (a signature script)Holla Hearth, Jellita, Jenoshark Feiya, Jillfester, Kandis Marsh Script, Kanya, Karllia, Kate Raymond Script, Kathreen Smith, Keira Dreamer (+Sans), Kelana Morris, Kellia Wakeup Script, Kellista, Kelsey Wilson, Kiarina, Lamish Caritta, Lauliya, Leading Role, Leonita, Lighten Up (upright script), Long Knive, Look Down, Lorieta, Lovic, Lovic, Machaela (monoline script), Mallisa, Maxwell Leonard, Meiriona, Meisya Emilia, Mile Green, Mind Notes, Mirinia, Modya Tea, Moody Star, Morachinno, Most Sense, My Illutions, Myron Hector, Naiyana, Naminasae, Neolion, New Gladish Fancy, Nhadiem Elans, Nicollia, Nicolls, Nielsen Owen Script, Night Feel (wild calligraphy), Nikeisha, Ninabell, No Offense (a signature script), North Mount Script, Nothan (stencil), Ogorphy, Ogowey, Only Friend (a signature script), Oppy Sahra, Orla Fiola Script, Orla Fiola, Oscar Wright, Overa, Pancake Batter, Peace Boy Serif, Peace Boy, Pep Talk, Photogenics, Plaza Avenue, Pubarash Lulu, Qailla Gloam, Quinnesha, Rainray Serif, Rainray, Rashean (a rough brush font), Raysha Moonly, Redalle, Reyburn (+Script), Right Attitude Sans, Right Attitude, Rottorant, Rubicela, Saeela Nuary Serif, Saeela Nuary, Sandwell (+Sans), Secret Feeling, Selfies Script, Sellby Ridge, Selvillia Dreamer (+Sans), Semiora, Sendayu, Serameyer (a signature font), Sevastyan, Shaimaa Script, Shamora, Sheinman, Sheira, Shimponia, Sillmy Sans, Sillmy, Simple Harmony, Snoorks, Squirrel Boys, Stay Big, Straight White, Sunaiko Haines, Sunny November, Swag Ghost, Syllia, Tantra (stencil), Tantra Script, Tantra, Telly Humble Sans, Telly Humble, Thalia Hillary Script, Thalia Hillary, The Billie Monlly Sans, The Billie Monlly, The Moyanka, Thiaga Script, Thifa, Think Dreams, Thipany, Timitty Sans, Treated Good, Vanellofa, Velasquis Tamyra Script, Velasquis Tamyra, Vender Rustime Display Grunge, Vender Rustime Script, Veronica Elena, Verwalter (a great modern rounded sans). Vlorens Flower Script, Vlorens Flower, Waringtons (+Script), Washllo, Wavaca, Wednesday Night, White Chunti, White Honey (+Sans), Within Life, Wolf Rubeus, Wolven Shevana, Wooslight, Wubby Kitten, Xabiya, Xander Bruce, Xenia Urshina, Yhasmeera, Yofanka (a brush script), Yoforia, Zainiver, Zakilla, Zeanica, Zephira.

Typefaces from 2021: Flower Leaf, Gladiator Arena (grunge), Hang Stick, Happy Rhino, Dalisha (script), Kinasih (a signature script), Cute Lovely, Cool Glasses, Simple Couple, Bright Summer (script), Battles Bridge (a spurred beer bottle font), Grand Estonia (script), Judicious, Brookville (calligraphic), Salisbury (script), Airframe (a monoline sans family by Widiyanti & Suci Anita), Hardenburg, Beechlands (a dry brush font), Racemate (a racecar font), Wedding Dream (calligraphic), Lifebest, Snowbare, Ice Breaking, Botanic, Seychelles (a monoline script), Juicely (script), The Empire, Monice (a rounded organic sans), Cartoonery, Beckley (brush script), Happy Moon, Rayesha Moony (a calligraphic script), Black Sting (a blackletter font), Triumphal, Strong Iron, Brockley, Chubby Toon, Super Shining (a signature script), For Kids, Rashyid, During Dusk, Rubicela, Gloria Beauty, During Dusk, Seaways, Close Distance, Yofanka, Pep Talk Script, Whether Fark, Lighten Up, Crush On You, Fairy Style, Ninabell, Aftermoon, Doughnutz, Great March, Goodselves, Extraordinary U, Dreamy Melodies, Canvashead, Mile Green, Colorful Glazed, Dazz Place Display, Treated Good, Night Feel, Plaza Avenue, Sheinman, Gingar Bread Script, Himponis, Semiora, Naminasae, Within Life, Stay BIG, No Offense, Only Friend, Black Suit, Zeanica, Krisward, Firlands House, Jazz One Script, Infinity Gown, Jazz One, Mighty Duck, Good Smells, Nice Tune, Nebula Starry, Social Trend, Slang Outfit, Leading Role, Eberta, Matchmaking, Lux Rose, Eberta Script, First Heart, Siblings Love, Mad Galaxy Script, Ghostlike, Mad Galaxy, Go Come Sans Serif, Go Come, Pink Tinge, Overall Deep, Pink Sun, Siblings Love Sans, Roxanne Elea, Young Boy, Thahiyat, Eleanor Satnight Script, Bardlove, Nadheva, Manly Dack, Khensin, Brusly Name Signature, Freakouts, Hermony, Blankspot, Stepballoon, Lansbury Goulding, Bevernice, Horror Type, Without Love (script), Crushing (font duo), Breaking Dawn, Sugar Roll, Hanry Potter (sic) (script), Bestnine, Fine Todey (sic), Havelberg (a monolinear script), Lushyana (an inky script), Catch You, Woolymood (calligraphic script), Seaways (a monoline script), April Dance, Hitz Girlz.

Typefaces from 2022: Hello Bhessy, Luvi Hollis, George Asher, Curly Planet, City Halle (script), Night Lover (a fashion mag typeface), Ivanka Rachel (a fat finger script), Fire Foxes, Captain Jerry (a cartoon font), Kathleen Tico, Clock Crown, Saturday Moon (font duo), West Houston (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Eduardo Aire Torres
[eat]

Eduardo Covarrubias

Guadalajara, Mexico-based designer of the cursive script typeface Serpentina (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Eduardo Recife
[Misprinted Type]

Eduilson Wessler Coán
[DooType]

Edward Catich

The late Father Edward Catich was a talented and productive calligrapher who has published several fine books on the making of Roman inscriptions. He researched the Trajan inscriptions on the Trajan column in Rome, and is known for his clear and classy calligraphic "Petrarch Script". [Google] [More] ⦿

Edwin W. Shaar

American type designer, designer, writer, b. 1906 or 1915. For some time he was assistant art director at Monotype and art director at Intertype. He made several phototype typefaces. His typefaces include:

1939: Czarin (lowercase only by him), done at Baltimore Type.
1939: Flash and Flash Bold (Lanston Monotype), a signage or supermarket script typeface of limited beauty. Linotype has a similar fat brush typeface called Okay. I assume it has the same genetic roots. See Slager (2012) and Falcon by SoftMaker, LTC Flash by Colin Kahn for LTC/P22, Flash SB by Scangraphic, and Flash EF by Elsner and Flake for a digital version of Flash, Brush Hand (by WSI), Brush Hand New (a free font by Keith Bates) and 0670 Script (also by SoftMaker) for a digital version of Flash and/or Okay. Mac McGrew: Flash is an informal brush-drawn script letter, cut by Monotype in 1939. It was the first typeface designed by Edwin W. Shaar, who designed Flash Bold the following year. The lighter weight is somewhat similar to Dom Diagonal, cut later by ATF. Also compare Balloon.
1940: Valiant (Lanston Monotype), a display face. Mac McGrew: Valiant is a vigorous thick-and-thin letter with the appearance of having been lettered quickly but well with a broad pen. It was designed by Edwin W. Shaar for Monotype in 1940, and is similar to Lydian Bold Condensed, though a little heavier. It is suggestive of Samson, but condensed.
1952: Futura Extra Bold (Intertype), followed by Futura Extra Bold Italic in 1955 at Intertype as well. For a digital version, see Function Script by SoftMaker.
1952: Nuptial Script (Intertype).
1954: Futura Script (Scangraphic). See Future Script EF by Elsner & Flake, and Function Script in the Softmaker collection.
1954: Imperial (+Bold, +Italic), done at Intertype, and called Gazette by Linotype in 1977. The New York Times uses Imperial for its text since 1967, but it is based on in-house scans of the old metal Imperial (an Intertype design from 1954), not on the digital versions from Intertype or Linotype. The typophiles discuss Imperial: Kent Lew states The New York Times text is Imperial. Has been for at least the last several years. Koppa points out that the NY Times Imperial designed by Intertype looks like an ATF Century Old Style rip-off. [...] I will stick with my opinion that the original, the metal Century Old Style, credited to M Benton, is better than the copy-cat Intertype Imperial and most definitely better than the copy-cat digital Imperial I saw on myfonts.com last night. Bitstream made a digital version of Imperial. Mac McGrew: Imperial was designed by Edwin W. Shaar in 1954 as a newspaper text face. Like most other news typefaces it has a large x-height with short descenders. but unlike most news typefaces of the time, it blends certain oldstyle and contemporary characteristics, and is a little narrower and more closely fitted. This gives a feeling of friendliness and warmth, but retains a high degree of legibility.
1960: Royal (+Italic, +Bold): a sans family that is easy to read in small point sizes.
1960: Windsor (+Bold) (Intertype, New York), a newspaper face.
Vogue Extra Condensed (Intertype).
1974: Satellite (+Italic, +Bold), done at Intertype. Mac McGrew: Satellite is a newspaper typeface designed by Edwin W. Shaar for Intertype in 1974. With large x-height and sturdy hairlines, especially in the bold version, it is designed for legibility under the rigors of high-speed newspaper production, but without sacrificing a stylish appearance.
Shaar Diane, a Photo-Lettering calligraphic face.

Linotype link. FontShop link. P22 link.

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Edy Suryadi
[Ed Creative]

Edy Type
[Ricardo Victor Rousselot Schmitt]

Ricardo Victor Rousselot is a calligrapher and type designer born in Argentina in 1936. He was trained in the sixties in Chicago in the studio Ficho&Corley Inc., which was led by a disciple of Frederic Goudy and Oswald Cooper, Carl Corley. After that, he returned to Buenos Aires, and in 1975, he settled permanently in Barcelona, where he teaches at the University of Barcelona.

His typefaces include Carlomagno (1997-2000) and Uncial Romana (1996), released by Neufville.

He sells his fonts nowadays through his foundry, Edy Type. For example, in 2010, Edy Type launched the lively connected handwriting font Despeinada, which, Ricardo says, tries to find the middle between Mistral and Zapfino. Chevronne (2010, not my favorite) is based on mediaeval / gothic forms but tries to be contemporary. Drumbeat (2011) is a calligraphic script face, and Bambola (2011) is a curly signage script.

Klingspor link Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Eep Apringga
[Namara Creative Studio (Collectype?)]

Ef Studio (or: Luthfi ef)
[Luthfi Fauzi]

Purwakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1992) of the script typefaces Creates (2018: a signature font), Sensitype (2018), Natalie (2018), Quebec (2018), Sathar (2018) and Roughsy (2018), the elliptical sans Kagura (2018), the curly script Little Edward (2018), and the free knife-sharp display typeface Arnietty (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Segatha (script), Cream Candy, Golden Dream, The Brands, Planolla, Sunberry (wild calligraphy), Glaston (formal calligraphy), Funky Signature, Balnes, Undercut, Aerotis, Rushtick, Belly Betty, Ferinitta.

Typefaces from 2020: The Artisan Marker (dry brush), Wildstripe, The Artisan (script), Pretty Hearty, Modernline (inky handwriting), Salmonpie, Hearty Morning (a monoline script), Hello Honey, Creampie, Mother Tongue, Hernitta, Hertine (a monoline script), Cream Cake.

Typefaces from 2021: Keukenhof (calligraphic script), Tint Shade (a brush font), Frasell (a dry brush script), Ingasm (an inky script), Donitta (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Modernline (an inky script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Efe Gürsoy
[Crow Studio]

EFI Home Page (Educational Fontware)

Sells handwriting-fonts designed to exactly replicate many educational handwriting styles. In particular, they have these:

D'Nealian: DN Cursive and DN Manuscript.
Zaner-Bloser: ZB Manuscript, ZB Cursive, OZ Manuscript, OZ Cursive.
A Beka: AB Cursive and AB Manuscript, based on the style shown in workbooks developed by A Beka Book, Inc.
Bob Jones University: CCU Cursive and CCU Manuscript, ugly fonts based on materials copyrighted by Bob Jones University.
DKL Cursive and DKR Cursive, patterned after the handwriting methods in the workbooks Cursive Writing Skills (Educators Publishing Service, Inc, 31 Smith Place, Cambridge, MA), by Diana Hanbury King.
Frank Schaffer: FS Classic, FS Contemporary, and FS Manuscript, developed using materials copyrighted by Frank Schaffer Publishing.
Getty-Dubay Italic: GDI Basic, GDI Combined, and GDI Cursive, a handwriting method developed by Barbara M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay at Portland State University, Continuing Education Press. EFI worked with Getty and Dubay to develop its GDI fonts.
Handwriting Without Tears: HWT Cursive and HWT Manuscript, pretty upright cursives and a hairline geometric sans. Handwriting Without Tears is a registered trademarked of Jan Z. Olsen.
Harcourt Brace: HB Cursive and HB Manuscript.
Loops and Groups: LG Cursive, based on the handwriting samples in the copyrighted Instructor's Manual Loops and Other Groups---A Kinesthetic Writing System by Mary Benbow.
McDougal, Littell: McD Cursive and McD Manuscript, based on materials copyrighted by McDougal, Littell&Company.
Palmer: Palmer Manuscript (simple hairline sans), Vintage Palmer and New Palmer, which include several variations of the cursive handwriting style that constitute the Palmer Method. Vintage Palmer is based on a 1923 workbook, and New Palmer on a 1987 workbook.
Pentime: PT Cursive and PT Manuscript, developed for use by the Amish communities, through workbooks rather than directly with computers. The fonts were created for JKL Services, who use the fonts to produce handwriting materials for the Amish community.
Peterson Directed Handwriting: PM Cursive, PM Block, and PM Slant.
Queensland: QM Cursive and QBA Manuscript, based on samples from workbooks by Horowitz Martin Education.
Russian: RU Cursive and Manuscript families (9 fonts) for Cyrillic.
Seattle School District: SSD Cursive and SSD Printscript, based on handwriting samples and methods developed by Patricia Heller and Elaine M. Aoki for the Seattle Public Schools. samples were found in a 1993 K-5 handwriting manual called Write It Right (Seattle Public Schools).
Steck Vaughn: SV Cursive and SV Manuscript, developed using materials copyrighted by Steck Vaughn Company.
Specialty Fonts: four Ball-and-stick and Dashes fonts, Braille 24 and Braille 24 Hollow, Clocks, EFI Count Dots on Numbers, EFI Direct Instruction, EFI Music Symbols, Emo-faces, Fingerletters (for American Sign Language), Lettersound Pictures, Morse Code, Phonetics Phont, POSTNET-16.

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Ega Nugraha
[Edric Studio]

Egi Ahmad Mufid

Bandar Lampung, Indonesia-based co-founder in 2020 of Typetemp Studio (with Haris Purnama Putra). Typefaces from 2020: Blanchope (script), Classy Brune, Classy Brune Sans, Klarinda Playful (a decorative serif), Hugolers Stylish Modern (a decorative serif), Casanova Serif Display (a decorative serif by Haris Purnama Putra and Egi Ahmad Mufid), Crimson Foam (a wild calligraphic font by Haris Purnama Putra and Egi Ahmad Mufid).

Typefaces from 2021: Eugusto (a stylish display serif), Aqala Display (at Typetemp Studio), Staywild Modern (a display serif with flared terminals), Eubergine (a display typeface), Coastine (stylish), RuthClair, Northern Worssley Ligature (a roman caps typeface), Oliver Blush (a wild and inky calligraphic script), Plumrose Signature, Rotterburg Stylish (a fashion mag caps typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ejhaa
[Afrizal Hidayat]

Meureudu, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989, of Valecia (2019: a calligraphic script), Morena (2019: formal calligraphy) and Violete (2019: watercolor brush script).

Typefaces from 2020: Pouri (a penmanship calligraphic script), Remedios (a formal calligraphic typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ekaterina Koroleva

Illustrator in Berlin, whose brush and pen lettering on fashion posters is distinctive and powerful. Of particular beauty are her Zodiac sign illustrations (2011) and her fashion drawings (2012).

Eko Bimantara
[Type Dish]

Eko Kurniawan
[Atom (or: Letteratom)]

Eko Setiawan
[Emyself Design]

El Arte de la Tipografia

Luis Misa's pages on typography (in Spanish), with a bit of history, lots of quotes and wisdom, and a bit of calligraphy thrown in as well. History of handwriting. Links. [Google] [More] ⦿

El Shaarani

Beautiful examples of Arab calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Elcode Type (was: Aku Jomblo, or: Hermestype)
[Ali Firman]

Indonesian designer (b. 1996) of the script typefaces Lovelyou (2020), Rosebondy (2020), Carolline (2020), Australians Winter (2019), When Love (2019), Autumn Elegant (2019: textured script), Autumn Script (2019), Rossithea (2019), Sallat (2019: font duo), Archie Websters (2019), Starlove (2019), Mellati (2019), Confidante (2019), Valentine (2018, +Valentine Vibes), History of Alabama (2018), Theella (2018), Alana You (2018), Willona Love (2018).

In 2017, he designed these script typefaces: Autumn Script, Autumn Elegant, Rossithea (calligraphic), Sallat.

He seems to be related to (or identical to?) Meutuwah over at Creative Fabrica. [Google] [More] ⦿

Electric Typographer
[Judith Sutcliffe]

Judith Sutcliffe (Audubon, IA) is the Electric Typographer (est. 1986, Santa Barbara, CA). She has made absolutely exquisite highly original typefaces, which are sold by many foundries and vendors, including Will-Harris.

Her typefaces: Abelard (1988, mediaeval), LeonardoHand (Da Vinci's handwriting--greeeeaaaat), Lutahline (clean hand-printed family), ArabiaFelix, Petroglyph (nice dingbat series), AuntJudy, BlockParty, PetroglyphHawaii, ItalianAElectric, TaglienteInitials (another great calligraphic font), TommysType (letters on a clothesline), Kiilani, and Troubador (1988-1989, mediaeval) and Troubador Initials (1989). Atomic Type sells her fonts. Other fonts: Petroglyph Hawaii (1993), Daylilies, Greene, GreeneGreene, Insecta, Leaves, OldstyleChewed, Finfont, Flourish, Hawaii Set, Maskerade, Santa Barbara Electric (1989, a Lombardic / uncial face; + Barbara Svelte, + Barbara Plump), Schampel, Electric Stamps, Daly Hand, Kiilani, Mesopotamia (1992). Emodigi site. At Will-Harris House, we find these fonts by Judith Sutcliffe: Catastrophe, Tommy, Daly Hand and Daly Text (based on the casual calligraphy of Pacific Northwest artist George Daly), Finfont (fish), Daylilies, Leaves, Flourish (calligraphic family), Greene&Greene (architectral lettering), a Hawaiian set consisting of Kiilani, Hibiscus (alphadings), and RockArt dingbats, Insecta (dings), Oldstyle Chewed, Leonardo (neat handwriting of DaVinci simulated), Petroglyphs, Schampel (blackletter), Serpent, Maskerade (masks), Tagliente (nice old-fashioned lettering and caps).

FontShop link. Another FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Elena Albertoni
[Blackmoon Foundry (was: La Letteria, or: Anatole Type Foundry)]

Elena Genova
[My Creative Land]

Elena Novoselova

Born in Ioshkar-oila in 1984, Elena Novoselova graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2006. She also teaches at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. From 2006 until 2011, she designed type and worked as a calligrapher at Art Lebedev Studio, where she made ALS Dereza (2010, a grotesk comic book style typeface for children's books), ALS Mezzo (2009, a flared sans), ALS Heino (2008, a decorative typeface with two styles that was inspired by a piece of lettering in an old magazine), ALS Klementina (2011, a calligraphic cursive typeface based on brush pen handwriting), ALS Bingley (2012, a wonderful transitional text face based on a tombstone script in Oxford), and ALS Mirta (2007-2008), a mild slab serif family that is easy on the eye. Co-designer with Ksenia Erulevich and Taisiya Lushenko of Yandex (2013), a corporate typeface done for Art Lebedev Studio.

She designed NWT Bodoni (2016).

MyFonts interview. Art Lebedev link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Eliabetta Giordana

Italian graphic designer and illustrator in London. She created Feather Sans (2011), a sans family with calligraphic influences. [Google] [More] ⦿

Eliud Quintero

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of the calligraphic Abecedario (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Eliza Gwendalyn
[Studioways]

Ella Mobbs

Illustrator in Brisbane, Australia. Creator of the grungy calligraphic typeface Anatomy (2012), which is a Queensland University of Technology Type Design Project.

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Elmo van Slingerland

Dutch type designer and lettering artist in Gouda (b. 1964, Rotterdam) who made DTLDorian (1994) at the Dutch Type Library. The calligraphic expertise of van Slingerland shines in this great text typeface family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Emanuela Krusteva
[Satin Studio (or: Satiné)]

Emil J. Klumpp

Lettering artist from New York. ATF sales manager and director of typeface design. He created the often-copied calligraphic Murray Hill (now available as Murray Hill EF) in 1956. Versions of Murray Hill are in different places, including most shareware archives. Commercial versions at SoftMaker (Melville Pro), ICG and Bitstream, for example.

Mac MGrew: Murray Hill and Murray Hill Bold were designed by Emil Klumpp for ATF about 1956. They are smart, free flowing, modern scripts, nearly vertical, and letters are not connected. Their refreshing informality has made them popular for advertising as well as for stationery and announcements, while their nearly complete lack of kerns has made them durable, practical, and easy to set. The name, incidentally, is said to have come from a New York telephone exchange, before the days of all-numeric dialing, serving an area of the same name in which many large advertising agencies were located.

He also made the informal script font Catalina (1955) as well as many photolettering typefaces. Catalina was digitized as Enamel Brush by Ray Larabie in 2009. His life and work are discussed in the link.

MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Emil Karl Bertell
[Fenotype]

Emily Conners
[Emily Lime Design]

Emily Lime Design
[Emily Conners]

Emily Conners (Emily Lime Design, Greenville, SC) has a BS in Biology from the University of South Carolina. Based in Atlanta, GA, she specializes in capricious scripts. Her typefaces include:

Logo Sans (2011). This has hairline weights.
Carolyna (2011, a calligraphic hand). And Carolyna Words (2011, connected script). And still later, Carolyna Pro Black.
Revel (2011, grungy).
Emmy (2011) and the outline typeface Emmy 3D (2011).
Emily Lime (2011, handwriting) and Emily Lime Frames (2011). There is a teaser called Emily Lime Words (2011).
Larou (2011) and Larou Words (2011).
Peoni (2012). A curly hand and accompanying Peoni Patterns.
Jacques and Gilles (2012). A connected handwriting font.
Bergamot (2012). A hand-drawn typeface inspired by vintage apothecary labels. Bergamot Ornaments (2012) is free.
Bombshell Pro (2012) is a connected calligraphic script that includes long connections between letters.
Filet (2019). A calligraphic script.
Sassafrassy (2019). And Sassafrassy Map Things.
Emily Lime Brush (2019).

Old home page. Some fonts or subsets of fonts can be had for free at Fontspace and Dafont.

MyFonts interview in June 2012, with this introductory paragraph: We've seen a few meteoric careers on MyFonts before, but the dazzling feats accomplished by the one-woman foundry called Emily Lime has left us seriously in awe. Based in Greenville, SC, this brand new font company managed to score one best-seller after another these past six months. The energetic Southern Belle in charge of the operation has made fonts in a range of styles, but capricious scripts are what she does best. Her peacefully named Bombshell Pro is at the top of our Hot New Fonts list as we speak. And while her alphabets are nonchalant and untamed, the underlying font technology is smart and nifty. Meet Emily Conners, a newcomer with a punch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Emily Spadoni
[Emily Spadoni]

Plainville, Massachusetts-based Emily Spadoni (b. 1979), runs her own foundry, simply called Emily Spadoni. She specilaizes in scripts, and in partucular, curly, frilly, mischievous scripts and vavoom vampire handwriting. In 2014, she made these hand-printed typefaces: Drawing With Markers, Peanutbutter Smoothies (curly), What I Want For Christmas, Sweethearts Love Letters (curly script), Strawberry Whipped Cream, Silver Bellybutton Ring (cute curly script), Betty, Pink Ladies and Peanutbutter (a curly teatime script), Tall Tulips, Doodle Dings 1 Birds Cages.

Typefaces from 2015: Storybook, Fashionista Black, Sophia (brush script, free), Ke Aloha (Hawaiian vibe script), Fashionista (calligraphic connected script), Annabella Calligraphy Script (a great calligraphic curly wedding script typeface family), So Lovely, Velvet Berries (curly script), Butterfly Waltz Script (curly script), Secret Garden Script, Lettres Douces, Starstruck, Berrylicious, Portabello Script, Smoothie Shoppe (free), Sweet Peony, Margherite, Mirabella Script, Lilly Belle, Sweet Pea, Ballerina Script (curly script), Tippy Toes, Doodle Dings 2 Retro Flowers, Ralphie Brown (curly script), Because I Am Happy (hairline script), Give Me Some Sugar (a lovely boudoir-curly typeface), Dandelion Soup, Noteworthy (a connected signature script), Gardenia (+flower ornaments), Country Chic, Clementine, Daydreamer, Tickled Pink (very curly), Sugar Plums Script, Abigail Brush, Hello Sunshine Script, Ink Blossoms Script, Carried Away, and Beautiful Day.

Typefaces from 2016: Lemons Mangos Sunshine (a swashy feature-laden script), Smoothie Shoppe (free), Romantic Script, Clementine Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Dandelion Soup, Peony Blooms.

Typefaces from 2018: Roseroot Cottage (a 22-style font collection).

Typefaces from 2019: Bottoms Up Love. [Google] [More] ⦿

Emily Spadoni
[Emily Spadoni]

English handwriting 1500-1700

Emin Barin

Turkish graphic and type designer, and calligrapher of both Latin and Arabic. He lived from 1913 until 1987. His calligraphy has led to some fine alphabets, including a blackletter and a flared Basque alphabet. Picture.

Bio (in Turkish). [Google] [More] ⦿

Emyself Design
[Eko Setiawan]

Denpasar, Bali-based designer of the connected script typefaces San Joaquin (2018), Lightober (2018), Lakeland (brush font), Winterskol (2018: formal calligraphy), Lofinight (2018), Faithless (2018: font duo), Anaheim Script (2018: free), Neira (2018) and Senja (2018), and the handcrafted typefaces Windasa (2018), Sarada (2018, a slab serif), Inku (2018, a slab serif) and Shinigami (2018: a haunting brush font). He also designed the blackletter typeface Fullerton (2018), the font duo Ourense (2018) and the flared terminal typeface Queenstown (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Kurashiki Brush, Yerington, De Ginkgo (a stylish serif), San Francisco (font duo), Blue Lagoon (a bold sans and a glitch style called Wave), Sunset Road (a rounded blackletter), Alma Toran (a rotunda), Furano Gyo (a condensed slab serif), Furano (a condensed serif), Desuka Slab, Reschensee (a Speedball font), Swampcity, Novodevichi (Russian emulation font), Bielefeld (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2020: ED Vitinia (blackletter), ED Ashglen Script, ED Northridge Sans (a 9-style sans), ED Lithosphere (a fashion mag serif), Candytuft (a thorny-serifed typeface), Bielefeld Next (blackletter), Black Orchid (blackletter), Balsamine Script, Lungwort (a text typeface), ED Celandine (blackletter), Cyrene Sans, Point Dume (a font duo), The Broads (a roman family), Failynn (thorny-serifed), Washboard (condensed), Fullerton Next (blackletter), Palmdale (a smooth script), Corbyn, Corbyn Serif (7 styles), Baliem (a blackletter), Kudoes, Logrono (a brush script), Silverdale, Pink Coast, Francoeur, Rosinweed, Nevers, Golden Cape.

Typefaces from 2021: ED Phoebe, ED Lavonia (a stylish calligraphic script), ED Muglins (a display serif), ED Bienova, (a condensed display serif), ED Bedivere (a 10-style sans), ED Begonia (a blackletter with flower petal terminals and a jogging capital K), ED Cerfoglio (a serif), ED Daffodil (a Schwabacher with smooth edges), ED Faliraki (a modern gothic), ED Vacaville Script, ED Fettle, ED Ocher, ED Fettle Serif (10 styles), ED Morrigan (blackletter), ED Randgrid (a display serif), ED Sonar (a cursive typeface), ED Eklutna (a didone display serif with Q-tip terminals), ED Muskrat, ED Brigid (Celtic, uncial), ED Cretheus (a display serif), ED Fayetteville Script (calligraphic), ED Floriane Serif.

Typefaces from 2022:

Type department link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Encolab
[Saiful]

Indonesian designer of the script typefaces Marteni (2020), Better Dreams (2020: calligraphic), Archery (2019) and Bayttrun (2019), and Encounter (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Madina Light, Rudilla, Audretta (script), Betania (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Encre et Lumière

French calligraphy blog. It has some nice examples of 14th through 16th century writing.

Commonplace book - Plimpton MS 276, England, 16th century.
Ms Coste 134, lettres cadeaux A and E (ca. 1399-1433), taken from the work of notaries Andreas Pererii, Johannes Pererii, Raymondus Pererii and Johannes de Bereysiaco, in Terrier de l'obéance du Grand Comtal du chapitre cathédral de Saint-Jean de Lyon.
Ms Coste 134: same reference, but letter P only.

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On-line course notes by Andrew Zurcher based on Martin Billingsley's The pens excellencie or the secretaries delighte (1818). In particular he categorizes hands as follows (table borrowed from his pages):

Book hands the hands found in books produced by scriptoria prior to the spread of printing; such hands are more accommodating of attempts at codification

Court hands general business/literary hands, including stylised hands in particular offices/professions which survive alongside Secretary (e.g., chancery hand, exchequer hand, etc.)

Secretary an offshoot of the court hands of the beginning of the C16 (early-, mid-, late-Tudor, Jacobean)

Italic created in Italy c. 1400 and popular with English Humanists from the early C16 on; only once the hand becomes widespread does it start to infect secretary and produce...

Mixed or hybrid/transitional hands, the next stage of the Italic conquest, leading to

Round hand mid-late C17 Italic: the hand we have inherited

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Enjoy Production

Designer of the calligraphic script typeface Camellias (2016) and the handcrafted typeface De Venuste (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Enluminures

French government site about illuminated initials. [Google] [More] ⦿

Enoch Noyes

Author of Noyes's Penmanship (1839, Jenks&Palmer, New York). Samples from that book: calligraphy, German text, hand exercises, Old English. [Google] [More] ⦿

Epiclinez (was: Studio Epiclines, or: Letterbaja)
[Aldy Sidik]

Indonesian designer of these display typefaces in 2019: Raw Entry (a dry brush font), Giannis Rising, Jay Boyd, Fortune Maker, Vulcanica, Frankenstainer, Joel, Storynight, Alnoor, Alshareef, Lovely Wife, Best Friend Forever, Happy Weight, Thicky Lines, King Billy, Clear Lines, Slim Bike, Everlights, Mounica (a clean sans), Vintage Sky, Giannis Rising.

Typefaces from 2020: Fruity Cake, Full Of Love, Sunkiss Cafe, Bubble Drink, Almond Cake, Mike Wick, Anti Gravity, Coffee First, Anthemic (a fat finger font), Winterlust, Bella Rosemary, Melody and Memory, Coastland (a brush script), Light Storm (a dry brush script), Farm Days Out, Peak Season, Blinked, Courtside, Stay Wild, Jess, Milk Bath, Night Blazer, Cold Desert, Happy Wednesday, Lemon Party, Make History, Other Side, Burswood, Holsworth (a brush script), Jack Smith, Life Mission, Lioness (a brush script), Love Castle, Star Blossom, Takeshimura (a brush font), Brown Sound, Just Style (a brush script), Love Castle, Star Blossom, Flowing Waltz (a monoline script), Lights Of Athena (a creamy script), Tiger Wong (an urban brush typeface), Pretty Lily (a brush script), Ultimate Victory (a brush script), Walks Of Life (a dry brush font), Ultimate Victory, Little Tokyo, Down River, Watershed, Beautiful Sky, Moonlight In Tokyo (a wild script), Thug Rose, Strong Enough, The Good Stuff (a thin signature script), Decorate, Margaret River, Jettro, Farm Days Out, Love in Space, Tweets, Steph, Wood Lover, Brave King, Queen Bella, Burswood, Otherside, Little Tokyo, Bomb Track, Thrive (display caps), Cats and the City, Imperfection, Avocado, Pink, Rope a Dope, Heavy Relic (a dry brush typeface), Life Story, Buzzer Beater, Vlogger, Motoride (a retro signage script), Livercool (a creamy script), Basketball Diary, Strong Enough (script), Thank You Kobe (a rough brush), King Billy, Epic Hello.

Typefaces from 2021: Wild Summer, Light Dance (an irregular script), Moon Rays (a liquid font), Spooky Town, Betthofen Script, Bali Sky (a scrapbook script), Endlessly (a scrapbook script), Lets Hoop, Fruity Mellow Sun (a scrapbook script), Stay Together, Lunch Show (a poster font), Pride And Joy, Wild Autumn (a scrapbook script), Spring Ride (a playful font), Tisha (a striking dry brush script), Vintage Summer (script), Classy Jazzy (handcrafted, with inflated stems), Dream Earth (a brush font), Loose Jeans (a fat finger font), Frozen Tree (a fat finger font), Satin Orange (a wild script), Erlissa (a wild upright calligraphic script), Barrlow (script), Sweet Farm Story, Fun City Life (a casual bold sans), Funky Rhythm (script), Lucky Night (a fat finger font), School Trip (emulating a child's writing), Early Hours (a scrapbook font), Happy Star (a bold high contrast script), Early Hours (a scrapbook font), Air Time (a marker pen font), Beachside (hand-printed and condensed), Candymore (hand-printed), Chili Chips (a fat finger font), Fruit Viesta (vernacular), Stay (an inky script), Fiery Sun (a paper cutout font), Silver Shark (dry-brushed caps), Testify, Bombtrack (an outlined and shadowed brush font), Katniss (a nice inky script), Bombtrack (an outlined and shadowed brush font), Katniss (a nice inky script), Scarfish (a dry brush script), Mountain Side, Purple Sky (a creamy script), Heart Spoken, Loving Heart, Countless Blessings (hand-printed), Dream Island, Love Flowers (script), Summer Crackers, Weeknight, Good Night Kiss, Charming Beauty.

Typefaces from 2022: Lily Stevan (scrapbook lettering), Steffi (a scrapbook script), Cisse (a scrapbook script), Come Alive (a fat finger font), Summer Quest (a marker pen font) Exquisito (urban), Dunk City (a dry brush script), Matteus (an irregular script), Heart Of Mine (a fat finger script), Pizza Mania (a fat finger font), Claudie (a wild script), Rivalries (a scrapbook font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ergibi Studio
[Riyadh Rahman]

Watampone, South Sulawesi-based designer (b. 1995) of the script typefaces Maghrib (2019), Westline (2019), Billistone (2019), Zakiyah Script (2019), BeaQueen Script (2019: monoline), Athika (2019), Holmes Signature (2019) and Claudya (2019), the dry brush typeface Grotters (2019), the monoline script American Lemon (2019), the creamy display typeface Quacker (2019), the vintage typeface Brattlies (2019), and the modular monoline display sans typeface Holmes (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Golden Ballpoint, Arfelick Feather (a heavy brush script), Dream Glory (a font duo), Fireclay, Nerut (a decorative all caps serif), Southmore (a wild script), Poetry Darling (wild calligraphy), Jushley Shine (a brush script), Spartwell (dry brush script), Roaring Jungle, Quacker (a creamy display serif), Patrick Cleo, Osaka Chips (a supermarket signage font), Leonardo da Vincen, Hazard (a brush font), Garloise (a vintage monoline script), South Signature, Peach Cuties, Chocolate Crispy, Cluisher Brush (a fantastic street art brush typeface), Vanrott Destroy, Sultan, Arfellion, Leonardo da Vincen, Hazard, Krasty (a creamy signage or baseball script), Vanrott, Emirose, Summer Sans, Mount Hills (a decorative display serif), Summer South (a font duo).

Typefaces from 2021: Mishelia (a fashion mag serif with hairline connectors), The Jagret (a rounded bold display serif), Zaystack (a dry brush script), Costyle (script), Luxury Modish (a wild inky calligraphic font), Callient (an inky script), Lostar (a wavy, almost intestinal, font), Vigran Maroll (an all caps decorative serif), Jungle Mask (a stylish flared decorative serif), Wangi (a stencil typeface with ball terminals), Bramz (intestinal art nouveau caps), Cheorcy (a monolinear unicase typeface), Glow Better (a font dup featuring interlocking and sword terminals), Brams (a psychedelic display serif), Quick Sillent (a brush script), Madinah Authentic (script), Hillshort (a vernacular brush typeface for supermarkets), Noctura Georgia (a brush script and sans font duo), North Zone (an urban brush), British Castilla (serif and script duo), Billbreak (a smooth brush script).

Typefaces from 2022: Brams (psychedelic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Eric Giovanola

Los Angeles-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Doyald (2004). He is working on this sans. [Google] [More] ⦿

Eric Kurniawan
[Burntilldead]

Eric Olivares

Author of Caligrafia inglesa. [Google] [More] ⦿

Erick de la Rosa

Mexico City-based calligrapher whose work includes body calligraphy (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Erik Lindegren

Erik Lindegren (Swedish calligrapher and typographer, 1918-1996) ran the Erik Lindegren Grafisk studio in Askim, Sweden, and is the author of "ABC of Lettering and Printing Types". [Google] [More] ⦿

Erlangga Suherman
[Erlos Design]

ES Typography (or: ES Fonts)

ErlerSkibbeTönsmann (and: Character Type)
[Henning Hartmut Skibbe]

ErlerSkibbeTönsmann is an agency for corporate, editorial and typeface design in Hamburg, Germany. Its main type designer is Henning Hartmut Skibbe, a German communications designer located in Potsdam and/or or Hamburg, b. 1979. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Science Potsdam and was a typeface design student of Luc(as) de Groot. Some time around 2019, Henning Skibbe set up Character Type and joined The Type Department. Skibbe's typefaces:

Arctic (2006). A headline font family. Arctic Black Basic is free.
Haptic (2008): a sans logotype that won an award at TDC2 2009). In 2015, Skibbe followed this up with the connected brush signage family Haptic Script. In 2019, HapticScript and Haptic Pro were rereleased at his own type foundry, Character Type.
Nautik (2004-2006). A free calligraphic take on Courier. Image by Francisco Baudizzone.
News Sans (2019). Ninety styles of pure newspaper and information design type.
Skibfont (2002-2003). A free calligraphic font.
Codesigner with Johannes Erler in 2009 of FF Dingbats 2.0, a redesign and update of FF Dingbats (1993). This was followed in 2014 by FF Dingbats 2.0 UI and FF Dingbats 2.0 Inverted UI.
The agency did the typeface design for Sueddeutsche Zeiting in 2011-2012. Its new corporate typeface, SZ (Serif, Sans, Sans Condensed, Text, 40 fonts in all), is described as follows by Henning's codesigner, Nils Thomsen: In 2011 and 2012 I participated on the corporate typeface for the German daily, "Süddeutsche Zeitung", at the office "Bureau ErlerSkibbeToensmann". Hand in hand with type designer Henning Skibbe and art director Christian Tönsmann the different styles and weights were carefully designed. The technical part was edited by fontshop.com. SZ Text is based on Excelsior (Chauncey H. Griffith, 1931). The new typeface got narrower and the capitals smaller and lighter. To this we added lots of new details, which worked better and made it overall more efficient in tight columns and line spacing. SZ Serif is based on SZ Text and replaced the "Times" (Stanley Morison, 1931). Higher contrast and slightly narrower letter shapes makes it more useful for headline typography. SZ Sans is designed for strong headlines and replaces "Helvetica" (Max Miedinger, 1957). Simple and silent shapes gives the right touch to the neutral character of "Süddeutsche Zeitung". SZ Sans Condensed is made for tables in the sport or economy segment. It replaces FF Unit (Erik Spiekermann & Christian Schwartz, 2003-2011).
In 2019, Skibbe published these four editorial design font families at Character Type: News Sans Compressed, News Sans Condensed, News Sans Extended, News Sans Wide. He writes: The News Sans family was designed to allow for a maximum range of visual shades when creating a typographic look, effortlessly ranging from loud and expressive, to subtle and reserved. The large x-height combined with low ascenders and descenders allows for tight and efficient designs. All sharp corners were trimmed off to add character and a nuance of extra space. NewsSans' strokes link humanist curves with American Grotesque details and solid square stems. Make no mistake, the w and other glyphs reveal fashionista hipster ideas from the 2010s, thus moving these families a bit away from old school American grotesques. In 2020, at The Type Department, News Sans was released under the new name New Sans (Compressed, Extended). Later in 2020, Skibbe released News Serif (20 styles, three optical sizes).

MyFonts page. Linotype page. FontHaus page. Behance link. URL for Skibbe. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Erlos Design
[Erlangga Suherman]

Bali, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) in 2020 of the fat finger fonts Monkey Puzzles and Screw Puzzles, the display sans Limosin, and the script typefaces Marshill, Kayama, Blanche (an elegant signature script), Ghadys, Fortnight, Marshill, Cashews (monoline), Tabina, Scarlett Seconda and Ballure.

Typefaces from 2021: Gorgeous Angels (script), Aiglon Drame (a fashion mag serif), Black Orchard (a bleeding ink display sans), Mooneyes (an all caps fashion mag typeface), Mollies (a stylish all caps sans), Croissant Lover (a dry brush script), Kamaniya (a scrapbook script), Bassy (a brush script), Blue Cheries.

Typefaces from 2022: Dreamy Sakura (a curly painted script), Grayphene (an inky signature script), Morpho (a modern display typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ernesto Aparicio

Creator of the slightly calligraphic script typefaces Apantasia (2008) and Apantasia 2 (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿

Erwin Indrawan

Indonesian graphic designer and calligrapher. Codesigner with Dexsar Harry Anugrah Dexsar (Majestype) of Bandung (2014, a flowing connected brush script typeface) and Kayto Script (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Outfit known for its formal script fonts (which all have "ES" in their names). A list of their typefaces: CenturionES (1998), CynthiaScriptES (1998), GrandPrixES (1998), Perplexity (2001), Augusta ES (1998), BeautifulCapsESSwashCapitals (1998), BeautifulES (1999), Cancellaresca-ES (1998), Helena Script-ES (1998), La-Jolla-ES (1998), Olde-European-ES (1998), Original-Script-ES (1998), Sorrento-Script-ES (1998), Splendid-ES (1998), Ville-de-Geneve-ES (1998), Wedding-Bliss-ES (1998), York-Script-ES (1998, calligraphic), Young-Love-ES (1998), Zenith-Script-ES (1998). Most (all?) of these are plain copies of other scripts: Augusta ES is Augusta Cancelaresca Schnurkl (1998, by Julius De Goede), Perplexity is Perpetua, Olde European is OPTI Venetian Script, Original Script is OPTI Original Script, Beautiful ES is Bickham Script, Sorrento Script is Agfa's Florentine AT Script, Ville de Geneve is AT Old Fashion Script (1992, Miles Inc), Wedding Bliss is Aristocrat LET Plain (1994, Letraset), York Script is Yorkshire (1990, Brendel Informatik), Young Love is Young Baroque LET Plain (1990), Zenith Script is Zither Script (1999, FontShop), and so forth. [Google] [More] ⦿

Espaciome -- Tipografía y caligrafía de Mendoza

Dead link. Type and calligraphy news site and blog located in Mendoza, Argentina. In Spanish. [Google] [More] ⦿

Estudio Calderon
[Felipe Calderón]

Felipe Calderón Arteaga is a graduate of the Academy of Professional Drawing in Cali, Colombia, who runs Calderon Design and Calderon Estudio Type Foundry. As an illustrator, calligrapher and graphic designer based in Cali, he won an award in the display type category at Tipos Latinos 2012 for Letrista Script (a signage script).

In 2013, he designed the signage script typeface Tulipan, which comes with Broken Caps (+pro in 2014) and several sets of ornaments.

Typefaces from 2014: Risotto Script (a calligraphic signage script with slightly rough edges), Planet Express.

Typefaces from 2015: Trendy (a brush script) and Hollie Script Pro, which won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. Trendy Script won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

Typefaces from 2016: Pistacho (a handcrafted font family for coffee shops), Ruth Script (a retro brush style signage script family influenced by signs in bars, billiard halls, motels and night clubs).

Typefaces from 2017: Melts Script (based on Colin Brignall's Harlow Solid; followed in 2018 by Melts Script Rough), Saltbush Rough, Saltbush (handcrafted script/sans pair).

Typefaces from 2018: Bordonaro Script, Bordonaro Spur (influenced by old beer labels and includes some serifs based on Frederic W. Goudy's Copperplate), Bordonaro Script Rounded, Bordonaro Spur Rounded, Fregata Sans (a playful solid and inline sans) and Fregata Script Inline (a rope font).

Typefaces from 2019: Vallejo Serif (a flared titling typeface inspired by the Stephen King's book covers), Vallejo Serif Rounded, Sussan (a handlettered typeface family, +Sussan Extras by Jhony Velasco).

In 2020, Felipe Calderon and Jhony Velasco co-designed the compressed typeface Compilation Grotesk. With Ritmo Estudio he designed the inscribed lapidary typeface RT Singular (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Sweep Poster (a 7-style sharp serif), Blunch (a vintage all caps typeface with flared terminals), Masantina (a meaty decorative sans, designed by Ritmo Estudio), RT Austin Plain (a retro beer label script).

Typefaces from 2022: Prody (a warm serif family in three styles inspired by Cheltenham, Belwe and Souvenir).

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Etcsupply

Indonesian designer of Get Holland (a regular retro connected monoline script) (2020), Glancing (a wonderful calligraphic rabbit ear script) (2020) and the monoline typeface Backtrack Script (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Etig Letters (or: Beauty Beth)
[Afridah Ciputra]

Medan and/or Jakarta and/or Bandung, Indonesia-based calligrapher and graphic designer called Frida. Designer of the script typefaces Kasttel (2019), Oh Twenty (2019), Montty Cregdie (2019), Besttea (2019), Beauty Beth (2019), Ganella (2019) and Audina (2019: monoline script). Typefaces from 2020: Bedley, Layla Brielle, Dallastown, Ideal Type, Antasilla, Evanston (a Treefrog script), Kabytha (calligraphic), Singgiata, Malaykat, Little Bluemy, Spring Park. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ettie Kim
[Ettie Kim Studio]

Catalog of Olcar Alcaide's typefaces.

Ettie Kim Studio
[Ettie Kim]

Ettie Kim Studio is the creative studio of Ettie Kim, a graphic designer and calligrapher based in Philadelphia, PA. In 2020, she created the calligraphic typeface Ettielier. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Eurotypo
[Olcar Alcaide]

Institute in Benalmadena, Spain (was: Santa Severa), where one can take 4-week courses at 1450 Euros a shot on the Etruscan alphabet, Trajan, Cuadrata and Rustic Roman Capital letters, and related subjects. They also organize lettering tours in Italy and guided tours in various musea. The teachers are Alberto Di Santo (Professor of the visual communication, Tor Vergata University, Rome; Professor of Graphic Design, Istituto Europeo di design, Rome; Professor of editorial design, La Sapienza University, Rome; Professor of Typography, C.F.P. Sinalunga, Siena) and Olcar Alcaide (b. 1952, Argentina, Professor of Graphic and Typography Design, University of Buenos Aires; Professor of Typography, University of Lanús, and Professor of Graphic Design, Marbella Design School, Spain). Type link jump page.

Eurotypo is also the foundry of Olcar Alcaide.

In 2010, he published the text family Antium and the warm signage typefaces Mijas Ultra and Lila Pro Heavy.

Typefaces from 2011 include Lila pro, Atenea (a humanist sans family), Agerola Script (a fat flowing signage face), Teja (signage face), Zalea (yet another signage face), and Nabu Pro (a connected signage script). Equalis (2011M, with Juan Lavalle) is a monoline slab typeface with a huge x-height and wide open counters. It was followed by Equalis Stencil (2011). Ravel (2011) is a fat signage script face. Atenea Egyptian (2011) is a solid slab serif family. Berta (2011) is a signage brush typeface with connected and unconnected versions. Optic Art (2011) is an ornamental typeface with building blocks that can be used for overlays. Creator of Eurotypo Bodoni Bold (2011).

Typefaces from 2012: Cubus (dingbats), Saxo Deco (art deco), Moliere (2012, an elegant didone family with outspoken ball terminals), Melon Script (a fat curvy signage script family), Riky (comic book family), Chipa (a signage and package design script), Heket (an expressive curly script), Lenga (a slab serif typeface family), Mikal (brush script). Duktus is a 1940s style script in the style of Donatello (1935, Wagner & Schmidt), Troubadour (1927, Wagner & Schmidt), Liberty Script (1927, Willard T. Sniffin), Trafton Script (1933, Howard Allen Trafton), and Coronet (1937, R.H. Middleton).

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Typefaces from 2013: Dignus (influenced by Bank Gothic and Eurostile), Bague (old Dutch style with little contrast, in the style of Jan Van Krimpen), Lugo (a heavy signage or advertising script), Brittes (copperplate script), Talis (contrast-rich sans family), Fiesole (display family with an awkward back-curled lower case d), C Duflos (after a bâtarde coulée by Claude Duflos, a French engraver who was acitve around 1690).

Typefaces from 2014: Talks (creamy signage script), Fiume (calligraphic script), Predy, Daevon (copperplate script), Beily (letterpress style), Ritts (a heavy script-like display family), Ritts Cursive (in the style of the brush signage scripts descending from Robert E. Smith's Brush Script for ATF in 1942).

Typefaces from 2015: Valentia (a semi-copperplate calligraphic script followed by Valentia Condensed in 2016), Stabia, Digatte Quill (connected script), Digatte (connected monoline cursive script).

Typefaces from 2016: Duero (signage script), Turia (calligraphic script), RRollie (a lapidary typeface based on the roman inscriptions), Valentia Nit (a copperplate typeface enriched with swashes and extensions).

Typefaces from 2017: Citix (a great calligraphic / penmanship script), Citix Two Condensed, Alfabetica (humanist sans), Merick.

Typefaces from 2018: Fortezza (a stiifened didone), Portoluce, Hotdogger (a cursive brush font family), Hotdogger Extras (dingbats), Favarotta, Vikive (a grotesque family), Aretino (a renaissance text typeface), Mirabella, Lectio.

Typefaces from 2019: Palio (a condensed tall didone), Fractus (blackletter), Blackduck (blackletter), Sgraffio (copperplate script).

Typefaces from 2020: Eolia A (a 12-style low contrast grotesque typeface), Breda (a 12-style geometric sans), Breda Two (six additional condensed styles), Marcus Traianus (in the Trajan style, with lowercase included as well), Eurotypo Sans, Eurotypo SII, Eurotypo BKL (a Baskerville-inspired family), Cannoli (a retro brush lettered signage script).

Typefaces from 2021: Zornale (a 7-style text family inpsired by the Zornale, an original manuscript that contains a daily record of the books acquired by the Venetian bookseller Francesco de Madiis, between 1481 and 1488), Alacant (a 14-style slab serif with elliptical shoulders), Tre Giorni (a carefully designed script in solid and outline styles), Due Giorni (a rhythmic calligraphic script), Sagasti (a text typeface with straight serifs), Calcis (a 10-style sans), Rufolo (an 8-style lapidary typeface influenced by Robert Hunter Middleton's Stellar (1929), William A. Dwiggins' Albertus (1932) and Hermann Zapf's Optima (1952)).

Typefaces from 2022: Zornale Title.

Creative Market link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Eva Aschoff

Book artist and calligrapher, b. 1900, Göttingen, d. 1969 Freiburg. She studied calligraphy with F.H.E. Schneidler at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart. [Google] [More] ⦿

Eva Barabasne Olasz
[Digital Typeface Studio (was: Evas Unique Fonts)]

Evgenia Yakimova

Russian designer of the calligraphic typefaces The earth (2020), Dandelion (2020), Style Collection (2020), Winter Holidays (2020), Valotte (2020), Joyfully (2019), Dinky Venice (2019), Darling (2019), Butterfly (2019: brushed) and Anna Maria (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Evgeniia Zakharova

Moscow-based designer of the creamy calligraphic typeface Burger (2016) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More] ⦿

Evgenij Dobrovinskii
[DEsign--Moscow]

Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky
[Robot Smith]

Based in Vladivostok, calligrapher Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky (Robot Smith, or ET Lettering Studio) created Braxton (2013, a brush script published by Fontfabric---one style is free), and Construct (2012, a constructivist experiment with geometric solids).

In 2014, he created the semi-connected vintage signage script (or marker script) typeface Suzee FY (Fontyou), the creamy script Kumiz FY (with Gia Tran, Fontyou), which is a renamed version of Maio FY (with Gia Tran, at FontYou).

In 2016, together with FontFabric, he designed the great free rough-edged script typeface Resphekt (Latin/Cyrillic).

Another alias is Robot Smith.

Behance link. Behance link for ET Lettering Studio. Dribble link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Evgeny Zotov

Russian designer of the elegant Latin / Cyrillic script typefaces Elza (2012, a revamping of Elzevir), and Cheldon (2010) and of a cyrillized version of Walbaum. Zotov lives in Krasnoyarsk. In 2014, he designed the signage / packaging font Label Food.

Excellence in Lettering&Typography

Lettering book edited by Kevin Horvath&Jerry Lobato (1988). [Google] [More] ⦿

Exebicha

Exebicha, or Alexander, is Russian. He made the futurismo font Futurism (2011, no downloads), and Calligraphy (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿

Experiment

Experiment, The Twentieth International Conference, a calligraphic event, was held at Sonoma State University, July 29-August 5, 2000. Check the outlines of the talks, and sample some of the calligraphic beauties. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fábio Henrique

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Leonardo Rosa Borges and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿

Fabian Fischer

Ravensburg, Germany-based designer of the vintage poster typeface Bearmountain (2016), the formal calligraphic script typeface Marlow Script (2016), and the handcrafted Lakewood (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Colorful Cleo (a hand-stamped color font), Stamped Stanley, Sunderland (monoline script), Old Brighton Typewriter, Declarity (eroded), Change The Channel (grungy), Southwell (monoline script). Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fabian Fornaroli

Calligraphy blog by Fabian Fornaroli, in Spanish. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fabrika de Typos
[Marcio Hirosse]

Fabrika de Typos is a Brazilian fondry run by Marcio Hirosse (b. 1969) in Sao Paulo. He made Destroyer (2007, splatter grunge), Helena (2007), Boogaloo (2006), Casual (2006), Expedito (2006), Impresso (2006), Club (2006), Qualque Coisa (2006), Pig (2006), Boogaloo, Casual, Error (2006), Sherley XXX (2006), Thailandesa (2006, Thai simulation face), Expedito, Impresso, Club (2006, stencil), Ferrugem (2006, grunge), Qualque Coisa (2006), Saco de Pao (2006, grunge), Clean (2006, experimental), Poesie Noire (2006, a great multiline calligraphic face), Fuck You Las Vegas (2005), Serial Killer (2004, bloodied Arial), Tragedia (2004), Font Macabra (2004), Font Abuso (grunge), Font Cartaz (2004, stencil face), and Font Mexicana. He created Ballom (psychedelic), Anarchy, Macabra, Cartaz, Crash, Tragedia, Abuso, Estragou de novo (1999), Sucata Special, Brother Bear, Floppy Disk, Punk Dingbats (2004-2005, destructionist typefaces), Swiss AntiNormal (2005), Jooy (2007, grunge), Deusdeti (2007, double script), Deux ex Machina (2007, blackletter-inspired), Comunista (2007, constructivist), BONDAGE-DEMO-VERSION (2007), CASULO-DEMO (2007), D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-R-D-E-M-O-V-E-R-S-I-O-N (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-BLACK---DEMO-VERSION (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Load (2007, grunge), LYSSA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), MUMIA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), OFF-SET---DEMO-VERSION (2007, grunge), Pig (2006, rough stencil typeface), PLEASURES-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Querencia-Army-DEMO-VERSION (2007), TETARIA (2007), FDT Sodomy (2008, blackletter), FDT Carreto (2008), all freely downloadable.

In 2017, he created the colored Memphis-style typeface Denoise.

Commercial typefaces: Circus de Terror, Rapariga (curly), Indiana, Hard Core, Iemanjai, Disorder, Joy, Deusdeti, Deux ex Machina, Comunista, Destroyer, Off Set, Pleasures Poesie Noire, Helena, Base, Clean, Casulo, Serial killer.

Creations in 2012: Big Pig, Suicidal Tendencies.

In 2015, he made FDT Wonderland.

Dafont link. Yet another URL. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

fabulous farookhian free fonts
[Farookh Bulzara]

Three beautiful free handwriting fonts by Farookh Bulzara: the gorgeous handwriting font Panzer, as well as Kwikfont and AssBackwards. He also co-designed Ammonia with Chank Diesel in 1996. His site went pornographic some time in 2001, so I am linking back to Chank's place, which offers Panzer (free). [Google] [More] ⦿

Fachrizal Yusuf
[Allouse Studio]

Fade Line (was: Director Fonts)
[Juni Fadil Putra]

Aka Director Fonts and Fade Line. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) of the calligraphic typefaces Khinta (2019), Chellaras Script (2017), Lemonsalt Sweet Script (2018), Meetha Script (2018), Rosetica (2017), Berlinsa (2017), Whitedove (2017), Naishila (2017), Parlinttons Script (2017), Menttion Script (2017) and Romantis Script (2017), the script typefaces Yolan Script (2017) and Hardwired (2017), and the vernacular typeface Mellow (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Humairah Script (calligraphic), Candy Night, Flash Script, Blade (horror font), Correa Script (calligraphic), Salma Alianda Script (a rabbit ear script), (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2019: DeLumary (a coffee mug font), Heycold, Candy Night, Shila Script, Peaknose, Maisharah Script, Naishila Dancing Script, Naishila Caps, Kelasik Handmade.

Typefaces from 2020: Chellaras Script, Pellony Kind (a wild script), Red Mignolet (a wonderful hand-drawn typeface), Blade Halloween, Ms. Jollie, Glowing BrushCalathea Script, White Dove Script, Blukade Script, Imata, Thamarind.

Typefaces from 2021: Jodith Gladyse (a fat finger font), Gracioso (a fat finger font), Merlandio (hand-painted), Salma Alianda Script (a rabbit ear script), Malovely Script, Lemon Salt (a rabbit ear script).

Typefaces from 2022: Walbert (a lively straight-edged typeface that emulates cutout letters), Milenium (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fadhil Aqsa
[Meutuwah (or: Hermestype)]

Fadhl Waliy Ul Haqq
[Akufadhl (was: Alternatype, or: Akutype, or: Alterna Type foundry)]

Fadli Ramadhan Iskandar
[Attype Studio]

Fahmi Huzaini
[Earlyfair Studio]

Fahri Rizal
[Mocca Letter (or: Fana Studio)]

Faisal Tanjung
[Sizimon Studio]

Faizal Alfarabi
[Alfaraby Studio]

Fajar Diansyah
[Jhoen Studio]

Fajar Gunawan
[Fargun Studio]

Fajri
[View Type]

Fajri Yandi
[Doel Creative (or: Masterpiece Art)]

Fajriadi Fajriadi
[Masinong (was: Pholetter, Fatype Studio)]

Fajry Al Fatih
[Panritype Studio (or: Panrita Studio)]

Fakhrul Razi

It is unclear who the person is behind the Naqya label---it could be either Fakhrul Razi, or Bandy Naqsya, depending upon the source. Pasar Lamno, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Wetting (2018), The Magic (2018), Shattuck (2018), Clarabella (2018), Michalline (2018: a signature script) and Almahira (2018). In 2019, he released the tall rabbit ear script Berliant. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Faldy Kudo
[Kudo Creative (or: XD Creative)]

Fanni Horvath

Illustrator from Sopron, Hungary. Her hand-drawn lettering on some moleskine posters is attractive. In 2010, she created the mosaic typeface Diafore. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fareed Abd Raheem Al-Ali

Kuwaiti calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fargun Studio
[Fajar Gunawan]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of The Overleys (2016, brush script), Ringtown (2016), Janesville Script (2016), Marcellina Script (2016, calligraphic), Granville Script (2016, calligraphic), Black Hawk (2016, connected script), Olivia Script (2016), Alexandria Script (2016), Nazhifa Script (2016) and Shameera Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Invictus (a wild brush script), Hellobello (a marker pen or comic book font), Victoria (script), Butterflies Script, Monalisa Script, Heathens Script, Heathens Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: Hanthem Script, Batrisyia Script (calligraphic), Monstterday Script, Camelia Script, Summertime Script, Quantum (brush script), Faradisa Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Quinton Script, Bridgers (a dry brush font), Angela Love Sans, Angela Love Script, Black Ocean (dry brush script), Invictus (a brush script), Mustafa Script, Scarlette Script, Betterday Script, Liontin, Hello Diandra, The Overleys (a signature script), Bellanaisa (a formal wedding script).

Typefaces from 2020: Joseph Sophia (script), Winter Glows, Winterflows (dry brush script), Hokagata Brush (dry brush script), Monotage (a monoline script), Quicken, Kembara Cinta Outline, Kembara Cinta, Summertime, Quantum, Historia Script (a signage script), Bethaney Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Sweet Dreams (a scrapbook script), Violette Brush (script), Cautions Brush (a scrapbook script), Rockless (script), Wulkie (a bold hand-crafted typeface), Better Rouge, Squeamish (script), Catchy Bellonia (script), Michel Elisha Script, Lovely Flowers (a signature script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Farhan Fuad

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typeface Bold Lovely (2018), Horror House (2018), Meusaneut (2018), The Lughokk (2018), and Bakk Trieng (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Farhan Ramadhika
[Abas Creative]

Farookh Bulzara
[fabulous farookhian free fonts]

Fateh Lab
[Wisnu Cipto Wibowo]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2019: Bahama (a rounded sans font for bistrots), Babylonia (a vintage font), Valerian (an all caps sans), Madison 01 (a college sports font), Madison 01 Script, Hailen Font Duo (monoline script), Wolf Gang (weathered font).

Typefaces from 2020: Bianca (font duo), Stribe (a supermarket signage family), Astenia, Stribe (a rounded supermarket sans), Le Brond (a heavy octagonal sports slab serif font), El Grosa (two wood type emulation typefaces and a Tuscan font, El Grosa West, Boldine (an all caps heavy sans), Qirate Mono (techno, typewriter style), Quinland (extra condensed), Quinton (extra-condensed).

Typefaces from 2021: Hub 191 (a 4-style casual family), Thyga (a 7-style condensed sans), Hugh (a super-fat and wide poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2022: Heliuk (an ultra-condensed sans), Heliuk Icon, Bhelt (a bold sans and dingbats), Southern Margherita (calligraphic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fatimah Dipi
[Kong Font (or: Gemes Font)]

Fatoni Nurman
[Toni Mous (or: Toni Mouse)]

Fauzi Hidayat
[Ojes Studio]

Fauzul Azmi
[Pojol Type]

Favete Art
[Olga Zakharova]

Moscow and/or Riga, Latvia-based designer of the pleasingly rough brush typeface Bronks Script (2015) and of the handcrafted typeface Marshmallow (2015). In 2016, she made the dry brush font Density (2016), the brush scripts Firecracker, Caricia, Pepper, Lady in Red (a fine brush script), Asparagus, Siberia (crayon style), Newport (marker font), Emerald and Haiti, Ambrosia Script, the wide calligraphic font Lancaster, the curly watercolor brush script typeface Candyland, Fallen Angel, the Treefrog-style script Lemon, Penelopa, Cutout, and the creamy brush script Marmaris.

Typefaces from 2017: Cutout, Mucho Gusto (Script+Doodles), Scandinavian (textured, patterned), Golden Boy, Rotterdam (dry brush font), Soft Spot (thick soft brush font), Kaleido (a spectcular brush script), Silentium, Big Brush, Sydney (brush), Woodland, Gizmo (marker font), Typetop (dry brush style). [Google] [More] ⦿

Federico Biagioli

Rosario, Argentina-based graphic and type designer, lettering artist and photographer. Creator of Beauty Script (2017).

Feliciano Type Foundry
[Mário Feliciano]

Feliciano Type was established in 2001 by Mario Feliciano. The foundry's main design studio in Lisbon, Portugal, with two additional offices, in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, and in The Hague, Netherlands. Mário Feliciano (b. 1969, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal). Feliciano studied graphic design at IADE, Lisbon, and began working as a graphic designer at Surf Portugal magazine in 1993, where he stayed as art director until 2000. In 1994 he founded the design studio Secretonix in Lisbon. He has been heavily involved in type design since. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village. John Berry reviews Mario's oeuvre. His gorgeous creations include the following:

Escrita ([T-26], a great calligraphic font), Gazz (1997, in Regular, Paint and Stencil styles), MexSans (1997, [T-26]), Aurea Ultra (1997, [T-26]), Bronz (1997, [T-26]), Cepo, Tpac family (1996, [T-26], under the name Mariachi Fontexperience), Strumpf (1994, comic book font family at Adobe), Caligrafia Debula (1997, PsyOps).
Geronimo (2010, Enschedé; not to be confused with an earlier 2005 font at Canada Type called Geronimo) was started in 1997. He says: Geronimo is a historical revival, a digital interpretation of the types cut by Geronimo Gil in Spain in the eighteenth century. In fact it is not only the first digital version, but as far as I can tell it is also the first typeface family ever designed using Gil's types as a model. Working in Madrid, Geronimo Gil produced an enormous collection of very interesting and idiosyncratic types that can be found in Muestras de los Nuevos Punzones y Matrices para la Letra de Imprenta executados por Orden de S.M. y de su Caudal destinado a la Dotacion de su Real Biblioteca, a specimen from 1787. It shows titling and text typefaces both in italic and roman styles. His typefaces are not only very Spanish but they are also very sophisticated when compared to the ones of contemporaries such as Eudald Pradell and Antonio Espinosa. Geronimo's typefaces have a sense of modernism but they are not modern in a Bodoni or Didot kind of way. Yet they are actually very old style---particularly the lowercase letters--but with reduced contrast and a generous x-height. Even in the bigger cuts, ascenders and descenders are not long but appear to be even shorter than in text sizes. This creates a kind of rolling effect while reading.
He is working on Espinosa, and Eudaldo (a typeface in the style of and apparently predating the successful Pradell by Andreu Balius Planelles).
MyFonts sells BsLandscope, BsMonofaked (octagonal), BsKombat (1998), BsLooper (stencil), BsArchae, BsRetchnov (constructivist), BsMandrax (octagonal).
Stella (2001, a humanist sans family with 26 weights). FTF Stella 2 is a 2005 upgrade of this family.
The 14-weight Rongel serif family (1998-2004, updated in 2005 as FTF Rongel V2) is his best work. Feliciano states: an interpretation of the types showed in eighteenth century's Spanish catalogue: "Muestras de los Punzones y Matrices de Letra que se funde en el Obrador de la Imprenta Real, Madrid, Ano de 1799", and titled with the name Rongel, whom I suppose, cut them. Another example of these types can be found in "Las Eroticas, y Traduccion de Boecio" by Villegas and printed by António de Sancha in Madrid, 1774.
Atanasia. Based on a 1771 example by Antinio Espinosa. That same semi-calligraphic example was also used by Carlos Winkow in his famous Elzeviriano Ibarra at Richard Gans's foundry.
Salustiana. Based on a 1772 type by Antonio Espinosa. Ibarra used that typeface to print Salustio in 1772.
Monteros (1998-). Based on a 1799 type at Imprenta Real in Madrid.
In 2003, he won an award for the extensive FTF Morgan family at the TDC2 2003 competition (subfamilies have suffixes Avec, Sans, Sans Condensed, Big, Poster, Poster Avec and Tower). Morgan Sans was originally developed in 2001 with 44 weights. Each version of Morgan has multiple weights as well---for example, Morgan Big (2001) is a 12-weight titling family. Avec denotes Slab Serif.
FTF Grotzec Headline Condensed (1998, created for Surf Portugal magazine), Grotzec More.
FTF Merlo (1998-2009): an interpretation of the 18th century Spanish types cut by Ismal Merlo.
FTF Flama (2002, a neutral sans in 50 styles). Flama is used, along with Greta Text and Sunday Times Modern, by the Sunday Times.
FTF Garda Titling (1998-2005): an exceptional caps only family with both serifed and sans inscriptional (Trajan) letters.
Eudald News (1998-2009, Vllg).
Sueca (2009): a new typeface for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, which writes: Sueca is a family of serif, slab, sans serif, text typeface and typeface for listing. The idea behind Sueca is to be able to talk with the same clear voice but be able to change the tone of voice in different section. During the work with developing Sueca, SvD had help from the design consultants Palmer Watson from Edinburgh, Scotland as the second opinion.
Villeneuve (2010-2017).
Marcin Antique and Marcin Typewriter (2017, Vllg). A slightly modulated contrasted, almost Peignotian, pair of typefaces, based on types shown in Gustave Mayeurs's 1894 and 1912 catalogs.
Mazagan (2019, Vllg). Mazagan gets its inspiration from Marocaines, a novelty type reproduced in the Fonderie Mayeur Type Specimen (Paris, 1912). The face is also featured in other specimen books of the same period, including the FTF (Fonderie Typographique Française) specimens that show a narrower version.
Crisol (2019). An art deco stencil influenced by Futura Black (1929) and Braggadocio (1930).
Parnaso (2019), classified as neo-Elzevir.
Optional (2020-2021). A contemporary elliptical high contrast sans serif available in five weights.
Hiper Sans (2021). A wide sans in four styles.
Korrodi (2020). A monolinear version of Otto Weisert's art nouveau typeface Arnold Böcklin (1904), named after Portuguese (Swiss-born) architect Ernesto Korrodi (1870-1944).
Miletus Grotesk (2021). A contemporary grotesque inspired by Standard Gothic (Keystone Foundry, circa 1906).
Parafina (2021). An art deco sans remotely inspired by a hand-lettered display-sized alphabet dating back to the mid-20th century by Spanish letterer Miguel Pedraza.
Penina (2021). A single weight elegant and delicate serifed typeface that is based on some of the work of William Hugh Gordon (1860s-1920). Penina comes in three contrast grades: Small, Medium and High Contrast, plus a variable font.
Rotep (2020; in Alvor and Bornes versions). A ten-style collection of all-caps typefaces inspired by the lettering used through the ROTEP (Roteiro Turistico e Economico de Portugal) map collection, a mid-century Portuguese map collection of almost 300 maps published for almost two decades.
Grosa and Grosa Mono (2020-2021). A 12-style modernist sans serif designed originally as the main typeface for Feliciano's website.
Sebenta (2020-2021). A take on bthe Clarendon genre.

Feliciano designed custom typefaces for the Portuguese weekly newspaper Expresso [a font called Expresso], for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet [a font called Sueca], for the Spanish newspaper El Pais [a font called Majrit] and for Banco Espirito Santo [a font called BesSans].

Klingspor link. FontShop link. MyFonts interview.

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Felipe Calderón
[Estudio Calderon]

View the Fenotype typeface library.

Fenotype
[Emil Karl Bertell]

Fenotype, a Finnish type foundry, has the original (often techno) designs of Emil Bertell (b. 1983, Helsinki) and his brother Erik Bertell and wife Kea Bertell. Emil has been studying graphic design at University of Art&Industrial Design in Helsinki since 2004. He designed most of his typefaces during 2001-2004, and works as a freelance illustrator. Behance link.

Typefaces made in 2002: Disco (prismatic), Lakmus, Valimo, FUTU, Test1, Foton Torpedo, Cheaptype, Personal Computer, Copycut, Unicode 0024, HKI Metro, HKI NightLife, Digital Kauno, Fenotravels (dingbats), Tivoli, Kosmonaut, 10124, JouluFonttiFenotype, Testi, 1laitos, 1120, 0629 (2002, a kitchen tile font), 0927, 0210, FTdingsprevi, Fenotypedings#lego3, Genotype, NeoPangaia, NeoPangaia 2, Nipponblocks, Pectopah, Personalcomputer, Pouttu, Samarin (2002, athletic lettering), Unicode0024, URALphat, URALthin, URAL, URAL3d (all Latin/Cyrillic fonts with incomplete punctuation though), Automania (multiline), Copycut, Halo, 222_2003, Tantor, Letters, Rikos, Lastu, ThreeTheHardWay, Bukkake, Halo. Emil's brother Erik designed Neon (paperclip face), Mama and Mama Round (paperclip typefaces). In private email, he calls himself Carl. The foundry evolved from 2theleft.

Fonts made in 2003: Military Dingbats, 08 02 03 Fenotype, Projectsfenotype, Rock-it.

Fonts made in 2004: Scandinavian Titan white, Scandinavian Titan, Acid Test 2, Acid Test (texture typefaces), 080203, Letters11, Linja, Projects, Rock it, Simpletype. Commercial typefaces: Sapluuna, Shortcut, Transeuro-Express, Omega-Uros, Fenotype Dings, Military Dingbats, Nippon Noodle. Typefaces made in 2004: Kolari, Kolari Light, FTfaces, Twisted Ontogenesis. Alternate URL.

In 2005: RoundAbout, Nihilist Philosophy, Boogie Monster, Chunky Hunk (Western), Diy Typeface (kitchen tile style), Futuretro (stencil-like), 3TheHardWayOverrun, Pedant Dilettante, FT Rosecube, FT Blockbuster, 3TheHardWayRMX, Adios Gringo (Western face), Helsingfurt (3d oil glow face), Cream Soda (liquid), Thashed Paper Bag, Big Medium.

In 2006: Rock It Deluxe (grunge), Cassette (dingbats), Kings Garden (Japanese trees as dingbats).

MyFonts link, opened in 2009, where one can buy 080203, 3 The Hard Way Overrun, 3 The Hard Way RMX, Adios Gringo, Depth Charge, FT Helsingfurt, FT Roundabout, FT Scandinavian Titan, FT Twisted Ontogenesis, Ice Cream Soda, Kings Garden, Kolari, Nihilist Philosophy, Old Note, Rock It, November Script, and Majestic Mishmash (ransom note caps), Digital Kauno (2002, upright script), 10.12, EB Vintage Future, Fenotype Dingbats, FT Forest, FT Funghis, FT Military Dingbats, FT Weapon of Choice, Motel Xenia, URAL, Valima.

Additions in 2010: Linguine (connected script), FT Telegraph (slab serif), FT Brush, FT Industry Machine, FT Giorgio, Killer Elephant (signage), FT Supervisor (ultra-condensed), FT Dead Mans Diary (scribbly), FT Grandpa Script (grunge calligraphy), FT Stamper (angular lettering), FT Tantor (fat, rounded), FT Bronson (fat display typeface with mustache dings thrown in), FT Master of Poster (bi-level display typeface with many ligatures and interlocking letters), FT Hidden Forest (tree dingbats), FT Mammoth (grotesque headline face), Rikos (futuristic), Squarendon Extra Bold (2010, a Clarendon), FT Moonshine Script (a Treefrog style face), Billboard (a hand-printed rounded caps family), EB Bellissimo Display (rounded monoline sans), Malamondo (an all caps display typeface with a large number of interlocking ligatures), Linja (2002 and 2010, a rounded ultra condensed family), Punavuori (2002 and 2010: a monoline sans family), Signor (2010, a rounded all caps family), Mrs. Lolita (connected script), Funghi Mania (mushroom dingbats), Funghi Mania Script, Darlington (very open upright connected script family), Archipelago (+Caps: an upright connected script), Tower (pieces that enable one to modularly construct towers when stacked; created as a school assignment at the University of Industrial Art&Design Helsinki in 2006), Monster (just as Tower but for monsters), Verna (informal face with ball terminals), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna).

Typefaces from 2011: Pepita Script (an upright connected script with small lachrymal terminals), Pepito (its nonconnected version), Barber (upright script family), Banzai Bros (a fat caps-only signage face), Mishka (an upright connected script with tear drop terminals).

In 2012, he created Salamander Script, Taiga (connected upright script), Mercury Script (a set of upright connected script typefaces), Slim Tony (a bubblegum retro signage face) and Mercury Ornaments.

Typefaces from 2013: No. Seven (a successful brushy signage or baseball script), Alek and Alek Ornaments (an upright signage script), Voyage (a vintage script), Barracuda Script (brushy signage face), Bonbon (signage script), Bonbon Ornaments, Scaramouche (a playful connected script).

Typefaces from 2014: Larry (sturdy connected script), Silver (upright connected script), Powder Script, Peaches And Cream (creamy signage or baseball script), In and Out (a connected retro signage script), The Carpenter (a script family in the style of Mercury Script).

Typefaces from 2015: HMS Gilbert (a collection of 14 hand-crfated vintage types), Lager (a signage script family with adaptable swashes and other opentype goodies), Vanilla Shot, Journey (a smooth and elegant vintage script family of four weights and a matching ornament set, packed with alternate characters, and, in Bertell's style, perfect connections between glyphs), Tea Biscuit (signage script), Skipper, Skipper (connected script), Frost (a signage typeface that is just right, a sure award winner), Monday (sign apinting typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Jazz Script, Fragola (sign painting font), Syrup (sign painting font), Cosmopolitan (monoline connected script), Bluebell (copperplate calligraphic script), Inkston (vernacular brush script together with the standard handcrafted sans and text styles), Beaujolais (brush script), Black Script (a heavy signage script), Beaujolais (an organic brush script), Cold Brew (signage script), Inkheart (tattoo style).

Typefaces from 2017: Camper (monoline script, accompanied by Camper Print), Aether Rain (thin script), Thang, Big Fish, Bolton (Bolton Script and Bolton Script, and the degraded Bolton Print pack), Vodka (Slab, Sans, Pen and Brush), Poster Brush, Fresh Press (signage style), Praktika (grotesk), Praktika Rounded, Blossoms, Kitchen (sign painting brush), Letterpress Studio, Takeaway, Aether Rain, Pitcher (baseball script), Karu (a workhorse sans), Bluebell (calligraphic), Roster (signage script), Dog Days, Catsy, Alfons (in Script, Display, Sans, Serif, Tiki, Extras and Ornaments subfamilies), Cosmopolitan (monoline script and sans pair), Snooker (retro signage script), Salty (a creamy brushed signage typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Aster Script, Audrey (a monoline script and sans duo), Galatea (a 48-style sans family by Erik and Emil Bertell), Double Porter (an 18-style font collection with scripts, sans, and grunge faces thrown in the mix), Matchstick, Fruitos, Corner Deli (a layerable set of fonts in script and sans styles), Bayamo (a brush script done for Monotype), Sidecar (a connected monoline neon sign script, and a matching sans), Ginger John, Brush Marker, Shirataki (monoline soft pen script), Ash (a crayon font), Breakfast Script, Dallas Print Shop (a display family by Teo Tuominen and Emil Karl Bertell), Capital (a sans and serif family by Teo Tuominen, Erik Jarl Bertell and Emil Karl Bertell). Elixir, Maestri (a classical connected scrupt by Teo Tuominen and Emil Karl Bertell), Popcorn (brush script), Cherry (signage script), Goodwater, Signature Script, Kingfisher (a beer botle signage script), Sonder (brush script).

Typefaces from 2019: Taurus (an all caps logotype family by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Ex Libris (a high contrast flared serif titling font), Riley (a retro sign painting script), Allison Script, Milky (a sign-painting brush script), Portland (a reverse contrast typeface by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Zeit (a transitional text typeface by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Boardwalk Avenue Rough (a monoline script and a weathered all caps sans), Avion (a sans family by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Yes Script, Gainsborough (script), Florian (a roman typeface with crisp edges and some contrast), Vogue Sans (a haute couture all caps contrast sans), Fabrica (a decorative frilly didone by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Chai (an expressive sans / serif hybrid), Rainmaker Script (monoline), Aequitas (a stylish sharp-edged roman typeface family), Tapas (by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen: a Serif, Sans, Deco and Script collection), Lawrence (a stylish roman typeface), Kallio Brush (a signage brush script), Morison (a great 32-style wedge serif typeface by Erik and Emil Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Felicity Serif (a juicy bold high-contrast serif), Las Palmas (Brush, Pen, Slab, Condensed), Honey Drops, Explorer, Boardwalk Avenue (a sans/script font duo), Skye (a heavy decorative didone), Leftfield (a retro baseball script), Steak And Cheese, Agile Sans (a humanist sans by Emil Karl Bertell, Erik Jarl Bertell, and Teo Tuominen), Punk Rocker, Silverline, Perfume (Pen, Brush and Sans), Hops And Barley, Allison.

Typefaces from 2020: Laurel (by Teo Tuominen, Emil Bertell and Erik Bertell: a 4 style sans with amnay wedge elements), Omnipop (Sans, Brush, Script), Paper Tiger (a Victorian Script accompanied by a condensed flared serif in two weights and a chunky sans serif), Resolve Sans (by Teo Tuominen, Emil Bertell and Erik Bertell: an extensive grotesk super family of 124 fonts: from compressed to extended, thin to black), Gambler (a 14-style display type collection), Rockford Sans (2020: an 8-style geometric sans with large x-height and slightly rounded corners; Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Slacker (a brush script), Grand Atlantic (a vintage display package), Magnolia (Brush, Serif), Walden (a heavy rustic serif typeface by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Klik (a geometric sans family with Bauhaus influences, by the dynamic trio of Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Rose Garden Deluxe (a font duo), Felicity (a heavyweight display sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Alonzo (a 24-style Peignotian sans by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Imagist (a 12-style sharp-edged serif by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Maine (a 12-style modernized book antiqua by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Briston (a bold creamy serif in the Windsor genre), Lagom (a 16-style slab serif with some Clarendon charm; by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Skillet (a chubby Cooper Black-genre typeface full of hedonism and joie de vivre), Kings Valley (a decorative serif), Shaker Script (monolinear), Wonder (a 12-style rounded serif in the style of Windsor; by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Ellie Script (a signature script), Dirty Sundae (a casual font), Grand Cru (a refined serif family with 36 styles; by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Kiosk (a 4-style vintage headline typeface family in Script and Sans versions).

Typefaces from 2022: Blood Orange (in the Cooper Black / Windsor / Souvenir genre), Tomato Ketchup (supermarket kitsch in the fat rounded Windsor genre).

Dafont link. Behance link. Creative Market link. MyFonts interview.

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Ferdian Syah
[Ijemrockart]

Ferdiansyah
[Point Lab]

Ferdinando Ruano

Vatican calligrapher who created Lettera Cancellaresca Formata. This inspired Raffaelo Bertieri at Nebiolo to cast the typeface Ruano in 1926. The chancery typeface was finally digitized in 2013 by Leonardo Di Lena as Flanker Ruano. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fereydoun Rustan

Creator (b. 1972, Kerman, Iran) of some free typefaces, such as the Ugaritic typefaces Khosrau (2011), Kakoulookiam (2011) and Zarathustra (2011). His typeface Havlova Austral (2012) is based on the calligraphy of Czech-Australian photographer Sonia Havlova Makac. Mobitale (2012) is a large squarish type family. Finally, Prince of Persia (2012) is an Arabic simulation typeface based on the logo of a game by that name.

Scriptus (2012) is a modification of Scriptina (Apostrophic Labs). Fereydoun explains the three differences: a more careful spacing, 2816 kerning pairs (Scriptina True Type has none) and soft hooks instead of large descender and ascender closed laces.

Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fernanda Cozzi

Or Fer Cozzi. Graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, who now teaches in the Master in Typeface Design program at that university. Based in Buenos Aires, she created the calligraphically-inspired typeface Kamchatka together with Cecilia Leone two days after Obama reopened diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2014.

Sincopa (2014) is an angular typeface family that has four sub-styles, Sarah, Nina, Billie and Ella, named after jazz queens. Nina Regular won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. In 2018, the latter three styles were published by Sudtipos.

In 2018, Fer Cozzi released Barbara (a flared serif typeface designed with the colombian outfit Bastarda Type).

In 2019, she published the display typefaces Rosalind (a modular typeface based on H. F. Henderson's book "Understanding Molecular Typography" and the work of other type designers on the systematization of the shapes in an alphabet), Gabriella (a wide display typeface) and the hip-hop-inspired Tomasa (at Typeverything, at Type Tomorrow, and at her own foundry, Fer Cozzi; the name is a tribute to the Chilean singer Tomasa del Real and the neoperreo dance movement).

Between 2018 and 2020, she designed the angular, almost sculpted, typeface Aimé.

In 2021, Fer Cozzi and Oscar Guerrero collaborated on the variable font family June (at Sumotype). Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fernanda Nuñez

Graduate of ORT in Montevideo, who now teachas digital design at the same university. She designed these typefaces:

The large x-height sans family Nuñez.
The playful Churritos (2007).
The hand-drawn typeface La Paz (2014, TipoType, and later Underground).
The poster typeface Carmencita (2015, TipoType, and later Underground).
The script typeface Salinas (2017, TipoType)
The calligraphic typeface Luisa and Luisa Inline (2018, TipoType).

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Fernando Forero
[Fernando Forero Foundry]

Fernando Forero Foundry
[Fernando Forero]

Fernando Forero (b. 1978, Tunja) ran EisartGraphic.com together with Weronika Kwiatkowska, and moved from Bogota to Kalisz, Wielkopolska, Poland, where he started Fernando Forero Foundry. He is now located in Warsaw, where he works as a graphic and type designer and illustrator.

Designer of Ishia Antiqua (2013, a cursive hand), Urbania (2013, a dusty face), Ilex (2012, hand-printed), Baltan (2012, a calligraphic script), Old Stamps (2011, scanbats), Boys and Girls (2011, dingbats), Aliovha (2011, a monoline elliptical sans), Old Nyleshina or Old Nyleshna (2010, roughened calligraphy), Vexa (2010, grunge), Ornamentus (2010, an interesting modular ornamental face), Melonella (2010, a medieval script), Cioran (2010, aged letters), Ornalia (2010), Selbst (2010, hand-printed caps), Nugg (2010, grungy), Feeda (2010, a curly face), Intuitiva (2010, grungy), Czarnulka (2010, script), Khamus (an earthy calligraphic face) and Últimos Ritos (a hybridization between the forms of the Cyrillic and Roman characters), two typefaces that won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. He also made the grungy Refaxed (2008) and Efficient Fax Font (2010), and the experimental Aleah (2010) and Ovhol (2010).

In 2014, Forero published the grungy letterpress emulation font family Asfalto.

Devian tart link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Klingspor link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fernando Haro

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Ampuero and Laredo, Spain-based designer (b. 1971) who set up deFharo. Creator of the monoline sans typeface Depez (2011), Fabada (2011), and the free monoline geometric sans typeface La Chata (2011). La chatte, in French? Maybe not.

In 2011, he made the monoline organic sans typeface Lerótica (free at OFL).

In 2012, he created Nabatea (stone chisel typeface), V de Vacia (a grungy outline face), Sabática (organic), the straight-edged data style typeface Gabardina, the grotesk typeface A Bebedera, the shadow typeface B de Bonita, D Puntillas, and the deconstructed Qebrada.

In 2013, he designed Yacarena Ultra, H.H. Agallas, Nacimiento (a dymo label font), J Airplane Swash (a psychedelic typeface named after Jefferson Airplane), CA Garrutas (grunge), CA Gatintas (grunge), I Am Telefono (the largest phone dingbat and scanbat typeface on earth), Wach Op-Art (kaleidoscopic icons), K.O. Activista, I Am Hueca, X Template (stencil), H.H.Samuel (rounded sans), U2 Metalona (a beautiful white-on-black display face), M F Plexus Italic, J.M. Nexus Grotesque (an "thin inline" fat grotesque), Wachinanga, Tabaquera, Pabellona (grunge), El Pececito (video game font), the poster typeface Hobby of Night (OFL), H2O Shadow (outline version of Fabada), Zabatana Poster (a didone-inspired poster font), Oaxaquena Tall, Yacimiento (wood style wedge serif), and Rabanera.

Typefaces from 2014: Babalusa Cut, A Cuchillada, Sabandija (a plump round display typeface), F2 Tecnocratica, F1 Secuencia Quad (pixel face), La Pejina FFP (bilined), Tabaiba Wild, Gabachita (ultra-condensed rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2015: Tabarra Pro (Swiss style sans family for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), A Sogra Ruth (ultra-condensed art deco), Gaban (an outline version of Tabardo), Tabardo (a heavy blocky font), Wacamoler Caps (a Tuscan typeface inspired opening credits of the Western movie Winchester '73 directed by Anthony Mann in 1950), Ubicada (condensed geometric sans), Rabiosa (neurotic font), Zacatecas (condensed shaded sans), F3 Secuencia Round, La Babaca (a powerful black condensed sans in the style of Impact), Obcecada Sans + Serif (condensed with almost disappearing descenders), Eacologica Round Slab (a nice commercial font with an incomplete set of numerals), Palim Script (curly), Vacaciones (signage face), de La Cruz.

Typefaces from 2016: Yugoslavia (calligraphic), Love Box (stencil), Cienfuegos (connected retro script named after the Cuban her Camilo Cienfuegos), Gaitera Ball (round fat script), The Black Box (a retro banner font), Durum Kebab (shadow sans), Jolgoria In Town (script), Yerbaluisa (signage script), Escobeta One (brush script), Posteratus Rex, Bastardilla (a cursive font), Rotulona Hand, The Juke Box (retro juke box lettering), Angelique Rose (connected monoline script), Promenades, Bucanera (a swashbuckle font), Lucemita, Panama Road (a casual calligraphic font), Deslucida, Disoluta, Sucesion Slab, Tabarra Pro Round, Qebab Pro Shadow, Monserga (white on black), Indulta SemiSerif.

Typefaces from 2017: Partizano Serif (a retro poster font; free demo), Jack Stanislav (a great condensed movie poster font), Fontanero (rounded fat sans), Yonky (fat slab serif), Zigzageo, Libertatus (manual serif fonts based on a Czech poster from 1935), Libertatus Duas (slab serif), Flamante Sans, Flamante Serif, Flamante (Round, SemiSlab, Stencil, Seca, Cairo, Roma), Seisdedos Dead (rough stencil fonts), Neo Latina (stencil), Carta Magna (blackletter), La Sonnambula (signature script), Bola Ocho (an eightball font), Clandestina (textured, layered), Acratica (signage script), Penitencia Inline, Autarquica (outlined vernacular style), Caminata One (shaded signage typeface), Sin Razon (wedge serif), Glotona Black and White (a layered tattoo style font duo), Glotona Dots (the textured versions of Glotona), 6th Aniversario, Tribal Box (squarish sans, with tattoo ornaments and a great environment for borders), Candy Pop (bubblegum font), Sargento Gorila (army stencil font), Libertinas + co (a curly calligraphic script; the free version has no numerals).

Typefaces from 2018: Gudariak (a free color SVG font: Vicente Ballester Marco (Valencia 1887-1980) was a graphic designer and Valencian poster artist affiliated with the CNT (Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo) who created political propaganda posters of clear modernist and post-cubist influence during the Spanish Civil War. The Gudariak typeface is inspired mainly by one of the posters he made for the Government of Euskadi and also in others where the author continues to explore this particular typographic style. ), Farisea Fraktur, Octuple Max (techno), Ordeal Eroded, Panfleta Stencil, Secuela (free), Fragua Pro (condensed sans family), Getho (a geometric semi-sans), Cowboya Tuscan (a curly Tuscan circus font), Txuleta Deco (a striped art deco typeface), Coltan Gea (slab serif), Getho Semi Sans, Cowboys (a Tuscan typeface), Drystick Geo Grotesk, Diezma, Grifa Slab, Coltan Gea (slab serif family), Paloseco (geometric and grotesk), Stoica (a color SVG font), Letrera Caps (a rounded square style layered and color font that pays homage to the sans serif inline genre), Enagol Math (a condensed rounded slab serif based on carefully applied mathematical ratios), Heptal, Velocista, Octagen Condensed, Octagen Black, Sextan Serif, Sextan Cyrillic, Quickat (signage script), Octagen (condensed sand with short descenders), Wolframia Script (flowing handwriting), Pentay Slab, Pentay Sans, Pentay Book, Cuatra, Judera (Flat and Ring: monospaced, unicase and totally sqaurish), Quotus (slab serif), Tripleta Grotesk (a 16-style geometric sans family).

Typefaces from 2019: Pervitina Dex (sci-fi), Megalito Slab, Obesum Caps, Jane Roe (sans), Icons Opentype, Felona (stencil: a variable font), Neo Fobia, Bocartes Fritos (food icons), Red Thinker (a squarish monoline sans), Pena Caldaria (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2020: Anoxic (a squarish monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Humato (a sturdy font for weightlifters), Probeta (a squarish techno sans family in 42 styles), Speeday (a speed emulation sans).

Creative Market link. OFL link. Behance link. Dafont link. Devian tart link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ferry Hadriyan
[FHFont (was: Feydesign)]

FHFont (was: Feydesign)
[Ferry Hadriyan]

Ferry Hadriyan (FHFont and before that, Fey Design, located in Indramayu and/or Cirebon, Indonesia) designed these typefaces in 2015: Milkytwins Modern Wave, Fantasia (a charming curly upright script), King City (calligrapghic signage script), Chocolate Heart Script, Adefebia (calligraphic wedding script font), Sexy Shout, Awesome Display (signage script), Love Mile (curly brush-painted font), Shakila (a vampire script), Hard Brush Ghost, Telena Brush, Slow Motion Script, Heaven Sky, Candy Sugar, Chocolate Heart (curly script), and Hard Brush.

Typefaces from 2016: Anniversa (wedding script), Point Break, Atlantis Heart (brush font), Hometown (a 15-style vintage letterpress-style family, +Clean, +Rough), Apple Tree (dingbats), Strawberry, Wild Zova (a free brush script), Beauty Heart, Devil East, Sexy Shout, Hometown Script (signage script), Awesome, Hunter Heart (free vintage titling font), Voltury, Wowangle Brush Script, Nightamore (free brush script font), Honeymoon Midnight (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2017: Peace Maker (script), Hunter Skyfar (dry brush), Wonderfebia (wedding script), Chocolate Milky, Soybeanut (upright script), Vertical Brushy, Firefly, Ambergris Script (calligraphic), Arthouse Display Pro (Victorian), Real Stones, Hard Stones Pro, Photograph (a formal calligraphic wedding script font).

Typefaces from 2018: Bloomy Script, Strongloves (dry brush), Break Stones.

Typefaces from 2019: Esmetralda, Pinkalova (a free brush script), Magentasia, Butter Swany, Butter Luchy, Caramello, Wondertime (dry brush), Mangotea, Simpletune, Pintenium Script (brush script), Pinkalova Script, Pentenium (brush script), Dragtime, Auntekhno Script (handlettered script style), Salute Riches, Shutten Reason, Young Blood Solid.

Typefaces from 2020: Festany (a dry brush script), Button Grinder (all caps, dry brush), Marijose (a dry brush script), Astro Jack, Browsa (a modular all caps typeface), Frigtona (a dry brush script), Ankerisey (dry brush script), Southwave, Vinegart (dry brush script), Brightsome, Bitten Amore, Artics Snow, Aimchestar (a brush script), Hello Beauty, Rightside (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Mount Light (despite the name, a bold script), Standgrow (a fat script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fien Robbe

Brussels, Belgium-based designer of the nibbed calligraphic typeface Exclipse (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Figuree Studio
[Icep Anwar Fadhil]

Ciamis, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989, of The Refano (2018), the bold sans Boldé (2018), Bolde Rough (2018), Aesthetic (2018), Hello Mozza (2018), Black Freeday (2018), Thankies (2018: a free cartoon font), the heavy cartoon typeface Meowza (2018), the techno typeface Raven MX (2018), the rough brush typeface Diavolo (2018), the futuristic font Xylene (2018), and the monoline sans typeface Gennaro (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Play Kidz, The Barethos (signage script), Monstorm (a vampire font), Mister Pumpkins Aged, Bratsy Script (a great fat signage script), Azkanio Script (calligraphic), Baby Boo, Ruckshack, Augustha, Nightfall Script, Rushing Nightshade (signage script), Rockidz, Unicorn Pop (a fat market signage font), The Gunslinger Waterdrop (a dripping paint font), Hello Spring, Rabbito (beatnik), Fontastique, Fontastique Carved, Kids Zone (cartoon font), John Austiney (a compact script), Viktoria Serif, Funkie Bunny, Alifia (monoline script), Forever Together (Script, Sans), Under The Snow (a monoline marker pen font).

Typefaces from 2020: Moonliona, Morning Sunshine, Black Magnet (hairy), Robo Briant (octagonal), Pluton (sci-fi), Summer Sunshine, Komix Eighties, Midnight Workers, Cocobels (curly), High Beasty, Metro Beardy, Magic Dreams, The Rughton Script, Khaleiyfa, Kiddie Land, Perfect Love Carved, Ignazio (a bold all caps sans), Anarchy Brothers, Qubiko (squarish, yet playful), Gabrietha, Death Markers (a dripping blood font), Glitter Lovers, Headlight, Brotherside Signature.

Typefaces from 2021: Midnight Workers (a potent display sans), Winter Dreams (a scrapbook script), Bombardies (a graffiti font), Eatboy (bold rounded supermarket font), Greatboyz (graffiti), Metro Beardy (a bold script), Realistic Theory (a brush script), Astroph (a vintage antiqued rounded slab serif), Rabbito (a children's book or cartoon typeface), Bigroads Script, Hardlighten (a signage script), The Baghtone Script (for signage), High Beasty (a powerful signage script), Ignazio (a bold all caps sans), Death Markers (a sign painting font), The Brother Hoops (a dry brush script), Run Child (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Magic Dreams (an all caps comic book font). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fikryal (or: Fikry Alif)
[Muhammad Fikry]

Kembang Kuning Jatiluhur, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1999) of the handcrafted typefaces Hazelnut Milk Tea (handprinted), Paris Van Java (a 6-style display sans), Seacoast (a fat finger font), Beautiful Tonight (2021), Beautiful Tonight (hand-crafted) (2021), Christmas Moments (a scrapbook script) (2021), Cinemathic Visualation (a Treefrog script) (2021), Soul Collections (a bold wild script) (2021), Brush Signature (2021), British Times (script) (2021), South Paradise (script) (2021), Heart + Salsa (hand-printed) (2021), Changer (a dry brush script) (2021), Choco Crunch (a creamy font) (2021), Portrait (a brush script) (2021), Charming Childish (2021), Lemon Tea (2021), Minimalistic (2021: monolinear), Secretoria (a fine script) (2021), Kathaline (calligraphic) (2021), Choco Chips (2021), Dearlove (script) (2021), Delight Candles (2021), Chriselda (2021), Shining Bright (a soft script) (2021), Rocket Rockers (2021), The Strong Signature (2021), Orange Blossom (2020), Pearl White (2020), Cherry Lime (2020), Cherlynda (a formal calligraphic script) (2020), Bridesmaid (wild calligraphy) (2020), Vanilla Baked (2020), Winter Creative (2020), Amartha (2020), Higheals (2020), Feel Love (2020), Your Song (a condensed script) (2020), Little Pumpkin (2020), Soul Signature (2020), Christmas Dancing (2020), Hello Snowflake (2020), Winter Romance (2020), Christmas Story (2020), Lovely Mother (2020), Winter Cloud (2020), Olive (2020), Persian (2020), Relevant (2019), Puncakes (2019), Creamy Corn (2019), Romanthica (2019), Sansino (2019), Ink Scale (2019), Cellestion (2019), Elleanor (2019), Blancha (2019), Beatrise (2019), Reacting, Stoner (2019), Palmaton (2019), Beholder (2019), Cellestial (2019), Silence Rocken (2019), La Pamalia (2019), Rilistered (2019), Canonatia (2019), Hastage (2019), Precious Soul (2019), Petri Plate (2019), Bethoven (2019), Estefin (2019), Le Festin (2019), Headland Script (2019), Guttenly (2019), Dantina (2019), Battalion (2019), La Paloma (2019), Siontins (2019), Milk&Honey (2018), Featrisse (2018), Monochrome (2018), Sevilla (2018), Montapallier (2018), La Lune (2018) and Jannet (2018). Fontdaily link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Filia Ika Syilviani
[mycandythemes]

Fine Fonts

A type foundry in Cheltenham, UK, started by Michael Harvey and Andy Benedek in 2001. Their output was sold through Faces, but is now marketed via MyFonts. The list of typefaces:

Aesop. Calligraphic.
Balthasar
Braff.
Fine Gothic. Blackletter.
Frieze
Marceta. Uncial.
Mentor Roman, Mentor Italic (2004). A type designer close to me said: The Mentor and Mentor Sans superfamilies were released last February by Monotype, and nobody even mentioned them. To me they look Michael Harvey's best ever masterpiece, and probably the best new superset to be released this millenium, but nobody's paying attention.
Quirky
Ruskin
Scorpio
Songlines
Tisdall Script
Victoriana

View the Fine Fonts typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Firdaus Moses Studio
[Firdaus Musa]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designer of the calligraphic script typeface Sterling (2019) and the font duo Cramella (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Firdaus Musa
[Firdaus Moses Studio]

Firman Suci Ananda
[Tyfo Mono (was: Ease Type, or: Cartel Deux or Koll Kolls or Arctic Co)]

Firman Syah
[Olexs Studio (was: Rabbit Type, Mr. Rabbit, and Olex Studio)]

View the digital typeface that are descendants of Deberny.

Flat-It
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, who also runs Bagel & Co, Dharma Type, HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda. Most of his work was done at Flat-It. His typefaces:

2021: Best Choice (a monospaced sans), Short Films (an art deco sans in twelve styles), Golden Decades (a 16-style sans that borrows from several sans genres).
2019: Mid Century Sans, Tamba Sans, Rama Gothic Rounded, Bio Sans Soft.
2018: Fairweather (clean sans), Kaneda Gothic (a basic severe condensed gothic), Vincente (a tall condensed display didone family).
2017: Calling Code (monospaced programming font), Commuters Sans (elegant wide sans), Mighty Slab, Rigid Square (octagonal), Taro.
2016: Bio Sans, Gomme Sans, Quiet Sans, Siro (sans).
2014: Pero (condensed rounded organic sans), Kiro (minimalist organic sans), Graphie (modern geometric sans), Compasse (semi-condensed sans), Como (rounded sans).
2013: Spoon (organic, rounded, monoline sans family), Antoinette Monogrammes (based on early 1900s embroideries by Janon Co; with frames), Clonoid (a sci-fi family that pays tribute to arcade game logos in 80s and 90s), All Round Gothic Demi (a sans based on perfect circles), Griffon (copperplate titling face), Antique Spenserian (based on Spencerian Script by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan).
2012: Geom Graphic (a retro sci-fi family that can be considered as a squarish version of Eurostile), Sheepman (modular), House of Cards, Space Colony (a lovely monoline futuristic techno family), Rama Slab (an antiqued wood-style slab serif), Rama Gothic. An antiqued sans serif family that recalls the wood type era), Diamond Ring (an art deco typeface inspired by Japanese cosmetics-packaging designs and posters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries), Controller (techno meets organic in this rounded squaris sans family), Revolution Gothic (an extended version of PAG Revolucion), 2008, which was inspired by retro propaganda posters and wallpainting in Cuba from the 60s to 80s; Revolution Gothic P followed in 2014), Diamond Ring (art deco).
2011: Yummo (monoline organic sans), Sheepman (based on the wood type No. 506 of William Page), Onick (2011, an art deco neojaponist fat display face done for Wordshape), Shiva (2011, hairline sans), Mocha Mattari (2011, grunge), Dharma Slab (2011, inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dharma Gothic (2011, +P), Rama Gothic (2011, also inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dimensions (2011, squarish), Design System (2011, a large family based on 70s style techno typefaces), Speedometer (2011, condensed piano key face).
2010: Stereo Gothic (2010: an extended all caps slightly techno sans family), Behrensmeyer Vigesimals (2010, a pixel format connected script), Civilite Vigesimals (2010, pixelized Civilite), Flat10 Arts and Crafts (2010), Flat20 Hippies, Flat10 Segments (2010), Flat10 Antique (2010), Flat20 Gothic (2010), Flat20 Streamer (2009, pixelized ribbon font), Flat10 Fraktur, Flat10 holy, Flat10 Holly, Flat10 Stencil, Flat20 Headline, Flat10 Artdeco, Word From Radio (2008-2010). Cigarette (2007, Bauhaus/Peignot-style).
2009: African Elephant Trunk (2009), Concrete Script, Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligraphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009).
2007-2008: Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Thousands (2007), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2007, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of typefaces), Yasashii (2007, a great geometric art deco Broadway-style family, famous for being used in Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the 2017 blockbuster movie), Lily Wang (calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arabic simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline typeface with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007, a soft blackletter), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement).
2006: Daisy Lau (calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Agedage Cancellaresca, Agedage Beneventan, Agedage Simple Versal (2006, Lombardic caps simplified), Amsterdam Modern (art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (a set of pixel typefaces), Machiarge (a heavy connected brushed signage script), Chic Hand (connected script), Double Dagger (geometric stencil family), Fault (an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (headline serif typeface with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (distressed), Boycott (distressed), Tokyotrail (futuristic techno family), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), El Piedra (letterpress emulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Bebas Kai (2014: free!), Bebas Neue (2010: free!), Bebas Neue Bold, Berlin89, Blackout (redesigned in 2011 as the ulta-narrow Dimensions), Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (a calligraphic family), Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso (grunge), Pusab (ultra round; one free weight), Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (a Celtic family of fonts). At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin.

MyFonts link. Fontsquirrel link for their free fonts such as Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Boycott, Gesso, and Pusab.

Typefaces from 2022: Senpai Coder, Madromit (a layerable futuristic font inspired by the early computer fonts), Tokyo Olive (art deco), Poipoi (a layerable 3d or bubblegum font).

YWFT link. Bagel & Co. link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Dafont link.

Interview.

View Ryoichi Tsunekawa's typefaces. Kernest link. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Florencia Suarez

Buenos Aires-based designer of a decorative Ampersand (2016). She also made a calligraphic poster, las estrellas de Pablo (Neruda). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Florin Florea

Romanian graphic designer (b. 1963, Timisoara) who lives in Cluj-Napoca, and graduated in 1992 from the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca. He teaches in the Design Department of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca.

Creator of these typefaces:

Columnion (2015). A free Greek column-inspired typeface designed together with Mihnea.
Kogaion SC FR (2011). Medieval lettering.
Friends (2009). A dandy serifed typeface.
The calligraphic brush script Manualito Flo (2011).
Archaic Romanesc and Archaic Cali. These typefaces are based on types found in Romanian calligraphy books from ca. 1930. See also ArchaicOrnamental (2009) which is based on a poster from 1975 by Aurelian Petrescu. Check also Alphabattle S (2010).
The Arhaic series, all Latin typefaces in the old Slavonic style: Arhaic Miron Costin, Arhaic Boier (2012), Arhaic Atanasie, Arhaic Arnota.
Manastirea Dealu.

Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. Wordpress link. Abstract Fonts link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fo Da
[Nohamad Foda]

Banha, Egypt-based designer of Calligra (2019: a serif font with calligraphic swashes), Rasoav (2019: a display or logo font), Roxon (2019: an organic rounded sans by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Hamis and Hamis Vol 2 (2019: a festive display typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Zamoka (2019: a deco typeface, done with Ahmed Eraqi), Luxury Home (2019, with Ahmed Eraqi), a Latin slab serif with lower case letters of unequal x-height.

Typefaces from 2020: Hamis Pro (a jazzy piano key typeface), Rigot (a modern fashion mag typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Tioxo Sans (a poster or logo font by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Stazin (a striking Arabic / Latin display typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), SolKing (an Arabic typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Viking Drink (an 8-style decorative didone, with accompanying blackboard bold; done with Ahmed Eraqi).

Typefaces from 2021: Foda Egypt (a 12-style serif by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Slab (2021: an Arabic slab serif by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Freestyle (an Arabic display font by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Sans (126 styles, for Latin and Cyrillic, by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Kufi (by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda).

Typefaces from 2022: Foda Display (a display typeface for Latin and Arabic by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer), Quta Rounded (by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer), Quta (a 10-style sans with a preference for 90-degree junctions in unusual places; by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fonderie Deberny&Peignot

The timeline of this French foundry of the 19th century and early 20th century:

Gustave Peignot's type foundry was taken over by his son Georges Peignot when Gustave died. Georges's son Charles took it over when Georges and his three brothers were all killed in The Great War.
1923: The foundry becomes Deberny&Peignot when the Laurent&Deberny foundry was purchased. Merger with Girard et cie.
1923-1960: Charles Peignot directed the creation of a series of original designs.
Phototype era: Starting in the late fifties, the company prepared the fonts for Lumitype, European Photon. In the sixties, Charles Peignot invested heavily in Lumitype, which used up some of the money to buy control of Deberny&Peignot, and let Charles go.
Deberny&Peignot closes in 1979 (some say 1972...), at which time the designs passed to the Haas'sche type foundry in Basel/Münchenstein. Haas in turn was merged into D. Stempel AG in 1985, then into Linotype GmbH in 1989, and is now part of Monotype Corporation. Starting in 1925, Deberny & Peignot types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association.

Their collection includes typefaces by:

A.M. Cassandre: Acier Noir (1936), Bifur (1928-1929), Peignot (1937), Touraine (1947, with Charles Peignot).
Bernard Naudin: Naudin (1911-1924). A set of open capitals that complement this typeface were sold in France as Champlevé and in the United States as Sylvan.
Robert Girard: Astrée (1921). The Stephenson Blake version is Mazarin (1926).
Georges Auriol: Auriol (1901-1904), Auriol Laberur, Auriol Champlevé, Française allongée, Française légère, Robur Pale (ca. 1912; variations are known as Royal Lining and Claire de Lune).
Marcel Jacno: Chaillot, Film (1934), Jacno (1950), Scribe (1937).
Imre Reiner: Contact (1952), Floride (1939).
Maximilien Vox: Eclair (1935).
Georges and Charles Peignot: Le Garamont (1912-1928). That is to say, from 1912-1914, they directed the development of this Garamond based on Jean Jannon's roman. The typeface was finished by Henri Parmentier in 1926.
M. Deberny: Sphinx (1925).
Henri Bellery-Desfontaines: Bellery-Desfontaines (1910-1912).
P. Roy and A. Marty: Cochin, Nicolas-Cochin (1912), and Moreau-le-Jeune (later copied by Ludwig & Mayer as Sonderdruck).
A. Giraldon: Giraldon (1900).
Eugène Grasset: Grasset (1898).
Adrian Frutiger: Égyptienne, Méridien (1957), Ondine (1954), Phoebus (1953), Président (1954), Univers (1957).
Rémy Peignot: Cristal Initiales (1955).
G. Vidal: Amethyste (1954), Bolide (1954).

They also published Banjo (1930), Baskerville (1916), Calligraphiques Noires (1928, see also Ludwig&Mayer), Compactes Italiques, Cyclopéen, Firmin Didot, (cut from the original punches), Fournier-le-Jeune (1913), La Civilit&eacutye;, Olympic (1937, also known as Slimblack), Pharaon (1933), Polyphème (1926), Romain Ancien (1899, an Elzevir), Série 16, Série 18, Style moderne (ca. 1903, sold today as Fantastic), the garalde typeface Ancien, and the didone typeface Gras Vibert [for a digital version of Gras Vibert, see Vibertus (2007, Latrs Yörnqvist)].

Many specimen books were published by them. For their vignettes, see Spécimen de vignettes typographiques (Paris, Rue Visconti, 17, près le Palais des Beaux-Arts, faubourg Saint-Germain. [1870]) and Vignettes typographiques: attributs mélanges armes, médales (Paris, 1886). Early work is shown in Les créations de la fonderie typographique Deberny et cie depuis 1878 (1889) and in Les nouvelles creations de la fonderie typographique Deberny&cie (1895). Fancy type is shown in Les caractères d'affiches. Extrait du Livret typographique (Paris, 1905). Older fleurons are in Nouvelle série des fleurons de la fonderie de Laurent et Deberny (ca. 1844). Other publications by them include Album de clichés et gravures (1934), Premières épreuves du Caractère Peignot dessiné par A. M. Cassandre (Paris: 1937).

Digital revivals include Sonderduck Antiqua (2008, Gerhard Helzel). Sphinx (1925) was revived by Steve Jackaman as Sphinx RR (1925), and by Douglas Olena as FFD Sphinx (1995).

Peignot foundry genealogy.

FontShop link.

References: Wikipedia. History of Peignot, by Georges Peignot's grandson Jean-Luc Froissart. Rochester Institute of Technology: History of Deberny et Peignot [dead link]. And finally, the book L'or, l'âme et les cendres du plomb. L'épopée des Peignot, 1815-1983 (2004, Jean-Luc Froissart: Paris: librairie Tekhnê). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fondue Fontes
[Juliano Augusto]

Marcelo Dante (b. 1965) and Juliano Augusto founded the 45Jujubas studio in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They offer these free fonts: Abrusquita (2010, calligraphic), Joana (2010, a Clarendon; +JoanaO, an outline version), Oferta (2010, a signage face). On their home page, we find illustrations, custom fonts, font posters and general graphic design. [Google] [More] ⦿

Font & Graphic Land

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designers of the script typefaces Luxurious Line (2015), Ramsteinz (2015: calligraphic), Gracias (2015, thick brush), Hello Listie (2015), Glytten (2015), Adelle Script (2015) and Loft Yian (2015), the display typeface Vardy (2015, film noir style), and the wonderful rough brush font The Mistie (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: De Black, Fortescue, Heart Signal, Hey Dory, Toretto, Honey Land (brushed calligraphic font family), Ravenclaw (Halloween font), Jaguar (dry brush), Champagne (an inky brush typeface), Sharktooth, Lovely Kenzie, Labyrinth (bilined), Cashy Allen (brush script), Joker (handcrafted), Coralie (curly script), La Viola (free thick brush typeface), Captain America (octagonal and interlocking), Brightscales (curly script), Chicksar, Typefloss (a nice dry brush font), Lovelight, Alexandria (Greek simulation font), Brushello, Cherry Blossom (a children's font), Woodpecker (wood plank typeface), Cataleya (free).

Typefaces from 2017: Luxurious Line, Camelone, Glamorous Silhouette, Russell, Vardy, Forester (vintage slab serif), Soeltin, Almera, Relevant, Mellany (script), Tomodachi Hiragana. Behance link. Another Behance link. Aka Voryu. [Google] [More] ⦿

Font Bundles

London-based font vendor who started in 2015 or 2016, and carries mostly brush script typefaces. They are mainly pushing their own work.

Typefaces from 2017: Treasure Script, Hastter Sontial script, Dealina (calligraphic script), Red Mist, Queen, Wishing Well, Highlights, Handy Man, Hey Betty, Polar Bear, Realtech, Golly Gosh, Magic Man, Ardina Script (by Ari Fadli), Rusty Bucket (dry brush), Dolly Script (calligraphic wedding script), Handstyles, Bouncy Hunter (spurred), Django (Western), Olivia Script, Questioned, Renegade, One Dance (calligraphic), Mammoth (script), Honey Bee, September Script (calligraphic), Amanda (calligraphic), Sandy Pro, Lilly Mae.

Typefaces from 2018: Squishy, Squishy Extras (sea life dingbats), Billie Harley, Origami, Arkinay, Moscow (a Cyrillic emulation typeface), Bindi, Felt Tip, Christina, Park Ranger, Rembulan, Catchy Script, Champagne (brush and ink splatter), Azalea, Loft Yian (script), Love Candy, Wisdom Script, Montage (signage script), Bristol, Stephanie Jane (brush pen font), Glamorous Silhouette (font duo), Sun City (sans), Crackers, Sliders Script, Jaquilane (upright script), Gladis (formal calligraphic script), Wheatbread (monoline sans), Monstera (a stylish serif typeface), Sailor (tattoo font), Comic Boom (cartoon font), Kely Rose, Radical, Granger (brush font), New Type (prismatic), Sugar Script, Aloha Big Man, Magical Unicorn, Chocolove, Gentle, Roseland, Queensland (copperplate calligraphy), Pink Grapefruit, Jingle Boo, Old Press, Michigan (outline slab serif), Boulder Holder, Angelica (a creamy signage script), Anchor, Freshca (upright connected script), Zimbra (zebra-striped, by Alex Etewut), Adele, AlyshiaScript, BackStitch, BirthdayScript, Brat, BringHearte, CherryBlossom, Eastland, ElhammerBrush, Enyssala, Florva, GloomyDay, HappyBirthday, Heavenfield, Herbie, Junitha, Kayleigh, Mirantie, Mountiane, Nattalia, Quance, QuickBrush, Rafifi, Reebiolla, Rockets, SandyBeaches, Springer, Strangelove, TheCharlotte, Valentino, VictorianMonogram, WinterTime, Zebra.

Typefaces from 2019: Radicals (signage script), Lovebird, Ridgeway, Lindale, Moscow, Anthem, Blackstar (blackletter), Maskoolin, Tatima, Hands Down, Monday Blues, September Script, Restuner, Mammoth, Hey Betty, Ciscopic, Hatterline, Jaiho Script, Diamonds, Indah Script, Amanda (calligraphic), Molyna, Mellow Line, Sandy, Renegade, Loveya Script, Angelina Script, Heilig, Dealicha, Allana.

Typefaces from 2020: Sleeplesson, Nostalgia Script, Fb Super Fun, Fb Lawnmower, Fb Lovehearts, Fb Leonardo, Fb Fancycorgi, Fb Bananasandwich, Fb Doodled, Fb Mighty Spiky, Quirkle, Toasted Cinnamon, Loveya Doodle, Neon Light (a marquee font), Cliche, Zipper, Fb Mainland, Fb Strawberry, Fb Many Mondays, Fb CountryGirls, Fb Caramelong, Sausages (a chunky script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Font Castle (was: Dataibayt, Rizal Castle)
[Salak Tung]

Originally from Seulimum, Indonesia, Salak Tung (aka Abie Gaza and as Rizal Aiyubi) started out as an oil painter and now works as a type designer based in Melbourne, Australia. Typefaces from 2020: Backwash, Salfgats (script), Aquiline, Arrowm Jins, Chris Pine, Egypt Queen, Sequin Tsar (a signature font), Themoon, Fabric, Robinson, Bright, Buppin, Cylindrica, Madaram, Opulent Script (formal calligraphy), Pandawa, Shigutto Bofon (brush script), Visually, Glitter Script, Mortgage Script, Culture (a creamy italic typeface). Home page.

Typefaces from 2021: Asoigeboy (a calligraphic script), Mousseline Pro, Bake Roll, Sunshine, Battalion, Glassy, Apple, Happiness, Hoogios (a signature script), Suins, Love Story. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Font Diner (or: Stu's Font Diner)
[Stuart Sandler]

Stuart Sandler (Minneapolis) runs six foundries: Font Diner (est. 1996), Sideshow, Breaking The Norm, the Tart Workshop, Font Bros (est. 2006), and Filmotype (est. 2006). He runs a handful of other companies and web shops as well, including Mister Retro (est. 2004). He is passionate about retro type. DaFont link for their free fonts. Fontspace link. Interview.

Catalog of the best selling Font Diner fonts. Images of Stuart Sandler's best-selling fonts.

Free fonts: Rickles (2007, script), AirConditioner (2002, fifties style upright script), BahamaSlim (2004), BlackNight (2002, blackletter), BlackWidow, BubbleMan, ChannelTuning, Corrupter, CreakyFrank, DecayingKuntry, FeaturedItem, FontOnAGrain, FontOnAStick, Fontdinerdotcom (one of the earlist beatnik style digital typefaces), FontdinerdotcomHuggable, FontdinerdotcomLoungy, FontdinerdotcomSparkly, Fontdinerdotcom Jazz Dark, Fontdinerdotcom Jazz Light, Hothead, KeeponTruckinFW, Leftovers (2002), MaverickBE (stencil face), Musicals, PickAx, Rickles (2009; upright script), RocketScript (2002, retro script), Schnookums, SinsofRhonda, Spacearella (2002), StencilGothicBE, ThatsSuper, Turnpike (2009), Witless, XerkerFW.

Commercial fonts: Continental Railway (1998, retro connected script), Anastasia, Chatty Cocktails (1998, art deco), El Nino, Guest Check, Hamburger Sandwitch (1998), Jumping Bean (1998, comic book style), Lionel Classic (1998, an art deco all caps face), Milwaukee, Motor Oil, and the greatest of them all, Coffee Shop (1998, exaggerated ascenders), a must! Other typefaces: Permanent Waves (1998, + Expanded: retro connected script), Yarn Sale (curlies), Fat Sam (not bad!), Etiquette, Taylors (1998, another great display font; co-designed with Dan Taylor), Kentucky Fried (1998, comic book / signage style), Beer Wip, Seuss, Jack Bisio and FinerDiner, Shivering, Dry Cleaners (2002), Singlesville Script (2002), Dripping Blood, Bowlorama, Action Is, Automatic, Chicken King (2002), CocktailShaker (2002, at Chank), Concurso Italian and Concurso Moderne (2003), DoggieBagScript, Johnny Lunchpail (2000, comic book style), Kitchenette (connected retro script), Lil Tipsy (2003), Milwaukee Neon (1998), Milwaukee Neon Shadow (1998), Motorcar Atlas (2000), Regulator, Stovetop (2002), Swinger (2002), WARNING (2002, rough stencil), BEBlob, BECROSS, DecayingAlternate, Decaying, EvilBrew, TheBlob, Insane Asylum, Creepy Crawly, Crossover, Fire Baaaad!, Rotten Teeth, Candy Good, EvilOfFrankenstein, HMan, HManPt2, PlasmaRain, Chicken Basket (2004), Chowderhead (2004), Cocktail Script (2004, upright), Country Store (2004, Western style), Dairyland (2004), Emblem Chief (2004, fifties diner script), Motel King (2004), Queen Rosie (2004), Sweet Rosie (2004, blackboard bold), Secret Recipe (2004), Square Meal (+Hearty) (2004), Bahama Slim (2004), Space Immortalizer, Matchbook and BE Streetwalker. Many font have a cool retro/fifties look. The InFlight Meal font set (2001) includes Al's Motor Inn, American Highway, Kiddie Cocktails, Lionel Text, Mosquito Fiesta, New York to Las Vegas, Pink Flamingo, Refreshment Stand, Starlight Hotel, Volcano King. The LasVegas font set: El Ranchero (2002), Hamburger Menu, Hamburger Menu Marquee, Holiday Ranch, International Palms, Lamplighter Marquee, Lamplighter Script, Las Vegas to Rome (stone chisel face), Leisure Script, Leisure Script Marquee, Mirage Bazaar (2002), Mirage Zanzibar (Arabic theme face), Mister Television, StarburstLanes, Starburst Lanes Twinkle, Vegas Caravan. At ITC, he published ITC Kiddie Cocktail (2003), ITC Mosquito Fiesta (2003), ITC Volcano King (2003).

In 2006, Font Diner acquired the Filmotype collection and its trademark, Filmotype. Sandler writes: Filmotype initially manufactured a simple manual phototype machine utilizing display typeface designs on 2-inch filmstrips. Additional films were sold to start-up typesetting companies in order to increase their product selection. Font Diner will create new digital versions of the Filmotype collection, recreating it to meet todays graphic design standards. [...] We intend to release the Filmotype library in OpenType format so the original designs can be fully realized with a dynamic feature set including alternate glyph forms and automatic substitutive ligatures.

In 2007, Font Diner started publishing digitizations of the collection: Glenlake (condensed Bank Gothic, by Mark Simonson), MacBeth (script), Alice (casual script), Zanzibar (calligraphic), La Salle (brush writing originally by Ray Baker in the 1950s, named after Chicago's LaSalle Street), Ginger (Mark Simonson; masculine headline typeface genetically linked to Futura), Austin (paintbrush), Brooklyn (hand-printed), Honey (handlettered script), Jessy (handwriting), Modern, Vanity, Filmotype Ford.

In 2010, Stuart Sandler published a book entitled Filmotype by the Letter, in which he details the company's history.

Free fonts on the Google Directory, dated 2010: Fontdiner, Swanky, Cherry Cream Soda, Permanent Marker, Homemade Apple, Schoolbell.

In 2012, David Cohen and Stuart Sandler published these typefaces at Neapolitan: Irish Grover Pro (2010, a bouncy face), Satisfy Pro (2011, a connected retro script face), and Slackey Pro (2010, a paper cut out style face). At the same place, he also published Crafty Girls Pro (2010, co-designed with Crystal Kluge). With Crystal Kluge, he also co-designed the flowing connected script typeface Aya Script (2012).

At Sideshow, he published the pen-drawn connected script Mister Brown (2013) and the retro signage script typeface Cocktail Sauce (2014).

View Stuart Sandler's typefaces.

Jolly Lodger (2012, Google Web Fonts) is an informal retro script.

Typefaces from 2018: Cherry Soda, Deviliette, Fat Sam, Doggie Bag Script, Cherry Soda, Deviliette, Fat Sam, Doggie Bag Script, Black Night (an eerie blackletter), American Cheese (retro display style).

Typefaces from 2019: Madelinette Grande (by Stuart Sandler and Crystal Kluge: created by hand with traditional pointed pen, it includes calligraphic penmanship and rustic styles).

Typefaces from 2021: Bon Marche (a curly vernaculat script by Stuart Sandler and Crystal Kluge), Los Angelino (a script by Stuart Sandler and Crystal Kluge), La Bohemienne deLuxe (a calligraphic script by Stuart Sandler and Crystal Kluge), Epicursive Pro (a script by Stuart Sandler and Crystal Kluge). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Font ZOO

Commercial type 1 and type 3 fonts, converted from metafont by Basil K. Malyshev. The package includes Blackboard (BBM, doublestroke), Calligraphic Fonts (Calligra, Script, Vacal, La, twcal, suetterlin), Math Fonts (StMaryrd, Wasy, YHMath, RSFS), Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical diagrams fonts (loggates, milstd), CMPica, Punk, CBGreek, Concrete fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format (The Concrete Roman fonts were designed by D. Knuth), Concrete Math fonts designed by Ulrik Vieth, European Concrete fonts designed by Walter Schmidt, Malvern fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format. [Google] [More] ⦿

FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)
[Artur Frankowski]

FontArte (est. 2004; ex: Magdart Fonts) is Artur Frankowski's foundry in Warsaw, launched in cooperation with Magdalena Frankowska. Frankowski is a Polish graphic designer, typographer, type designer and lecturer, b. 1965, Zamosciu. He taught typography at the Technical University of Warsaw and is professor of typography and design at the Faculty of Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2004 he finished his PhD thesis on legibility of type on cartographic maps at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2013 he presented a habilitation thesis on street lettering as an inspiration for a graphic designer. In 2015 Artur graduated from the Expert Class Type Design (EcTd) at the Plantin Institute in Antwerp. He has published type and visual communication-related articles in design&print magazines. Through FontArte he wants to preserve Polish typographic heritage, specially Polish Avantgarde and introduce new directions in Polish type design culture. Author of Typespotting Warszawa and co-author (with Magdalena Frankowska) of a book about Henryk Berlewi, a pioneer of functional typography.

He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Type on maps and at ATypI 2007 in Brighton on Designing a regional typeface. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on From Typespotting to Warsaw letters. Designer of several typefaces:

From the Magdart era: MF Ala i As, MF Norma 1 i 2, MF Trond, MF Multi Putli, MF Plazma, MF Towarowy, MF FCR, MF Proteza, MF Strzeminski.
FA Berlewi (2006): a stencil typeface based on poster lettering from 1924 by Henryk Berlewi. Together with Magdalena Frankowska, he wrote a book called Berlewi (2010). Henryk Berlewi was a Polish pioneer of typography and design.
FA Cindy (2002): shoe dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
FA Desiconz (2005): dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
FA Dropsy (2000)
Grotesk Polski FA (1996-2006): inspired by the first Polish typeface design---Antykwa Poltawskiego. Has sans weights, and one stencil style.
FA Domestic Godess (2005): domestic dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
FA Julian (2003): avant garde ransom face, based on Wladyslaw Strzeminski's lettering in the 1930 publication "Z Ponad".
FA Karaker: medieval script based on a scan.
FA Komunikat (2004): almost unreadable, an experiment in minimalism, inspired by Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1932).
FA Merz.
FA Modernista (2004): grungy sans based on Baccarat, an early 20th century typeface by the Polish foundry Jan Id'zkowski.
NASZ Stencil.
FA Norma (2000): destructionist.
Ozdoby Gardowskiego (2004): ornaments based designs by Ludwik Gardowski (1923).
FA Praesens (2004): great avant garde display face.
FA Prototyp (2007): minimalist unicase.
FA Relief (2006): pixelish.
Co-creator with Henryk Sakwerda in 2006 of Silesiana 2006 (see also here), a great calligraphic font whose development was supported by the Silesian Government.
FA Supersam (2003): dot matrix style.
FA Szczuka (2000): avant garde poster display typeface based on pixel type.
FA Zero One (2007): experimental pixel style type family.
Designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II.

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Fontastic Lab

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic script typeface families Bahama (2016), Pod Vader (2016), Vermaline (2016), Lovestone (2016), Santos (2016), Santerios (2016), Soulmates (2016) and Lonely Alone (2016). Other typefaces include the antiqued Lockers (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Black Cloud (brush script), Roaster Brush (brushed typeface family), Handson, Palmerston, Black Nero, Smith. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontdation Studio
[Gabriela Octavia]

Aka Gabriela Christine and as Miibeedrawing and as Fontdation Studio. Illustrator and designer in Bandung, Indonesia, who created these typefaces in 2016: Westmeath (free), Zombie Dust, It's Mine, Unreal, the display typeface Anomali, the hand-painted Zomblo and Oh Blazt, the fairy tale ornament-inspired Marguerite, the brush script font Quish, the calligraphic Awesome, the hand-painted Azra, Raquella (monoline connected script), Unreal, The Brownies (signage brush font), Jacinda (calligraphic), Aurella (calligraphic script), Antreas (rough brush), The Roxv, Alder Type (rounded sans), North High (art deco), Flamingo, Aberus, Djangart (artsy and oriental), Smoother, The Heater, Leath, Hadrea, The Beat, Rarodette, Sweeney, Pertiwi Script (crazy calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2017: Game On (marker pen font), Honey (hexagonal), Amoreiza, Mountain, Baangkarr, Great Again, The Brocker (grungy), Maallaang Bronks (spurred baseball font), Natarajasana (tall-ascendered script), Elkarnito (a handcrafted poster font), Carvino, Almondia (sans), Lovalicious (monoline connected script), Nunu (squarish sci-fi font family).

Typefaces from 2018: Signatra (a signage script by Fahrizal Tawakkal).

Behance link. Creative Market link. Their designs can be bought here. Blogspot link. Newest Creative Market link. Designs Net link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontdroe
[Mahdani]

Aceh, Indonesia-based outfit that made the connected script typeface Natural Script (2015) and the handcrafted Bosanity (2015) and Lovely Melissa (2015). In 2016, they designed the script typeface Shidea. Mahdani also designed the calligraphic typefaces My Sister (2019), Bluesmate (2019), Sweetgentle (2017) and Zially (2019).

Typefaces from 2021: Shidea (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fontex
[Dusko Joksimovic]

Foundry in Serbia, est. 2011 by Dusko Joksimovic. Fontex created Brillian (2011), a large Latin/Cyrillic semi-connected script family, characterized by two gigantic b counters. Boos (2012) is a casual typeface family. AJSHA (2012) is an oriental simulation face, inspired by Japanese swords, or katana.

Typefaces from 2013: Astrum (wedding script family for Latin and Cyrillic), Astrum Heart (calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fontforecast
[Hanneke Classen]

Fontforecast is a type foundry in the Netherlands that was set up by Hanneke Classen in 2013. Hanneke designed Graduate Script (2013, a connected script), Graduate Ornaments (2013), Bachelor Script (2013), Tyfoon Script (2013) and Tyfoon Sans (2013).

Her greatest work to date is the 16-font Chameleon family (2013). It includes Chameleon Basic (a calligraphic script that can be used for layering), Chameleon Pen, and Chameleon Sketch. This combination of poster styles was also seen in Laura Worthington's Charcuterie a few months earlier, so a trend seems to be developing. Santa's Pen (2013) is derived from Chameleon.

Typefaces from 2014: Wingman Brush and Wingman serif, Wallet, Perron (hand-drawn contrasting designs for use on posters).

Typefaces from 2015: Bambusa Pro (a great bamboo pen script collection), Mucho Sans (a 12-style geometric sans), Stylist Pro (a great dip pen connected calligraphic typeface), Salt & Spices Pro (a script family).

Typefaces from 2016: Dragonflight Pro (brush script, +Sans), Salt + Spices Mono (the monoline version of Salt & Spices Pro), Kinfolk Pro (brush script accompanied by many ornamental fonts containing arrows and flowers).

Typefaces from 2017: Somersault (a brush script duo), Delish Pro (brush script), Les Tulipes Pro (a layered calligraphic typeface family).

Typefaces from 2018: Sabbatical.

You Work For Them link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fontherapy (was: Typecoconut Studio)

Indonesian designer of the script typefaces Sweet Shine (2020: a fat finger font), Truw Way (2020), Mermaid Stories (2020), Callovia (2020), Madonna (2020: a signature script), Heartland (2020: drawn with calligraphic pens) and Catlove (2020).

Typefaces as of 2021: Aggel Heart, Arthemiz, Bellova, Blacksun Vintage, Bladekill Font, Blank Magic, Blinkwomen, Browman, Chalk Study, Dinofont, Dream of Heartland, FT Getcode Pro, Funwork, Glory Sunset, Great Friends, Hello Doctor, Hollow City, Hopes Letter, Hotel Sans (arts and crafts style), Making Bomber, Mallika, Me Amanda, Mermaid Stories, Modern Deluxe, Modiz (an all caps sans), Mommy and Baby, Plankiss, Remember Moment, Rollingtime, Rosemate, Southlove, Stargod, Sweet Shine, Sweetball, Sweety Craft, Winlove. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontmenu.com
[Michel Bujardet]

Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, and free demos in all formats.

A partial list of fonts:

Square Text (old English).
Block Letters (orthography for kids), Skryptaag (2001, educational).
Boulons (letters made from nuts and bolts).
Kindergarten (funny typefaces), Learning Handwriting (K2), Learning Cursive Handwriting (Grade 2-4), Japanese Hiragana-Katakana (Year 1).
Morse code.
Dictionary phonetic notation for pronunciation.
The calligraphic fonts Chancellerie Moderne (1998, chancery hand), Oncial, Rodolphe, Willegha.
The dingbat fonts Dinosotype, Matched Potato, Nahkt hieroglyphs, SilBooettes, Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans.
The monospaced fonts Bordofixed, Dactylographe (1997), Normafixed, Oloron fixed width screen font).
The mathy fonts Oloron program, Hexalist and Numberslist.
The handwriting fonts Charlotte, Louise, Mariette, Milko, Pierre, Quinze, Raoul, and Thibault.
The pixel font 8-PinMatrix.
The Bauhaus font BabyFace.
The Chinese simulation font Chinoiseries.
The LED fonts Diode, Cristolikid and Display.
The Greek simulation font Grecques.
The display fonts Zébrures (striped letters), Venitiennes, Ruban Dis-Moi, Parador, Osselets, Octogone, Metropolitain (art nouveau), Malabars, Halloween Match, Coulures, Chapou Relief, Candy Kane, Calebasse, Bujardet Freres and Big Bacon.
The MICR font MICR E13B.
The serif typefaces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co (art deco; +Heavy).
The sans serif typefaces Bordini, Boum-Boum, Halotique (a sans family), Junien, and Normographe.

Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fontmunkások
[Gábor Kóthay]

Gábor Kóthay (Fontmunkások) is a Hungarian type designer (b. 1962) who lives in Szeged. Gábor Kóthay's fonts include:

At T-26: Alphabet2, Alphabet4, Archetype, Axis No 1, Bacchus, and Tyrnavia in 2000, and the Roman inscription inspired family Minerva Modern, Minerva Display (a Roman family) in 2002. Also, Betabet sans, Betabet web, Gnosis (hairline italic), Oceanus (2004, hairline sans), Pelso (2004, hairline), Laureate (2004, hairline art deco), Picaresque (2004, irregular handwriting).
At FONTana: LaDanse, Y2K, Domino, QwertyRegular and Luxury, all in 1999-2000.
At P22: Driade (2005, Regular, Linea and Aged: calligraphic futuristic experiments), Zephyr (2001, curly; +Open Face), Schwarzkopf (2003, a Schwabacher face), La Danse (2001), Ambient (2001), the Schwabacher Fraktur font SchwarzKopf (2002), Caffe (2009: originally designed for the Artz Gallery Cafe in Budapest Hungary. The design is a contemporary handwriting style adapted from examples in lettering exercise books. It has been redrawn and expanded into six styles. The four weights were created by drawing the style using different mediums: Cappuccino in pen, Pastry in felt-tip, Lemonade in brush and Tobacco, the original, in pencil, and Poster and Poster Inline are additional styles).
At PsyOps: the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), SchwarzKopf (2002, Fraktur) and Plexo (2001).
At Job Art Studio (his own studio in Szeged, which he founded): Cats (free dingbats), Disasters (dingbats), Bubble (comic book font), 103 kék.
At Fountain: Zanzibar (2003, nice script face), Incognito (2007, a typical old map typeface), Dessau (2007-2008, a collection of eleven Bauhaus and Bauhaus stencil styles).
At Fontana: Zodiac, Tisza (2001-2007), a sans family. And Kinesis (2003), a sans typeface based on geometrically precise instructions.
At Cinqueterre Type Foundry: Eva (wedge serif; sample, another sample).
At Fontmunkások: Birdland (1999-2002), a minimalist face; Asphalt and Asphalt Signs (1996-2000), a slightly grungy set of fonts; Arcade (1999); Adagietto (2000); Flyer and Flyer Fossil (2002), a curly family.
Custom typefaces: Aqua Futurist (2008): a hairline unicase sans family with uncial influences. It is unclear if he had a hand in the typography of stockings, which I found on his site.

Blog.

Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontomania (or: Mordu's Graphics Collection)

Rohit Mordani's 100 font archive, specializing in calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontop
[Dmitry Arakelov]

Russian designer based in Turkey. Creator of these typefaces in 2017: Roadster Script, North Star, North Script, Phonema (a stylish display sans), Synopsis (a condensed fashion mag serif), Tropical Script (a gorgeous Treefrog style curly script), Okelani Script (another gorgeous Treefrog style curly script), Roadster (a decorative script), Follow Script (a wide connected calligraphic script), Construct (layered, beveled), Defocus.

In 2017, at YWFT, he published YWFT Sugar. He also designed Constructor (a layered, beveled typeface), Presto Script, Synopsist and Paramaribo (a delicate upright hand-lettered typeface) that year.

Typefaces from 2018: Cutcut (a party time paper cutout typeface), Bon Ami, Good Day (a delicate handcrafted coffeeshop typeface), Turkuaz (a comic book family), Episode (an ultra-condensed tall poster typeface), Skyscraper (a tallcondensed hexagonal typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: QSansPro (a workhorse sans), Legatum (a classical roman font inspired by the old inscriptions in Rome).

Typefaces from 2020: Avayo (a 9-style modern sans), Sansmatica (38 condensed techno fonts), Formatica, Ascent Pro (a geometric sans), Factum (a didone hybrid with high contrast styles culminating in some stencil types).

Typefaces from 2021: Uplift (a 6-style font characterized by mechanical notches and a certain blue collar appeal), Hygge Sans (a 34-style simple sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

FontsandFashion.com

Italian creator of Broken Depth (2015, a shadow font), Fuzzy (2015), Dark Place (2015, scary font), Whispers Calligraphy (2015), Vintage College Dept Worn (2015), Peacock (2015), the free handcrafted typeface Old Sydney (2015) and the vintage typeface Old Bob Junior (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Forever 7eventy (textured disco typeface), Daily, Matildas Grade School Hand (children's script), Dream American Diner (retro script), Gasoline (grungy), Nice Love The Simple Font, Manual (a grungy dymo label font), Charming Normal (script).

Typefaces from 2017: Merry Christmas (dingbats), Freaky Halloween (dingbats), Carpe Diem Mark (an inline typeface), carpe Diem Middle.

Typefaces from 2018: Carpe Diem Luxury (textured), Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Easter.

Typefaces from 2019: Matildas Back to School, Nice Picture (dingbats).

Typefaces from 2020: Comic Boom (Bubble, Elements). [Google] [More] ⦿

Fonts.org.ua
[Genadij Zarechnjuk]

Ukrainian font foundry run by Genadij (also spelled Henadij) Zarechnjuk (b. 1961) who lives in Lviv. Nice historically accurate free fonts made by him in the period 2000-2003: Abetka Kirnarskoho, Ancient Kyiv, Luchtein-Bold, Luchtein, LuchteinLight, NarbutClassic, NarbutNarrowContrast, NarbutWhirlSans-Serif, Narbut Abetka, Skoropys-XVII, SnarskyUstav, SnarskyjOldStyleNarrow, SnarskyjUstavNew, Traditional-Heavy, Yakutovych-Black. Chomenkivska (2007) is a semi-slab serif Cyrillic beauty.

In 2010, he created the art deco typeface New Hotinok 2D (2D Typo), together with Viktor Kharyk, as well as the nice calligraphic typeface Ukrainian Barokko 2D. Khomenkivska (done with Viktor Kharyk) is based on a 1965 design by Basil Khomenko (1912-1984). Baumans (2011, Google Web Fonts) is a geometric typeface for headlines. Its letterforms are inspired by Bauhaus typefaces and preconstructivist forms.

In 2014, Dmitry Rastvortsev, Lukyan Turetsky, and Henadij Zarechnjuk cooperated on the design of the free Latin / Cyrillic handwriting typeface Kobzar KS, which is based on the handwriting of Taras Shevchenko, a famous Ukrainian poet, artist and philosopher.

In 2016, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk designed Dnipro for Apostrof. The Cyrillic version of this font follows Ukrainian decorative traditions, initiaited by Georgy Narbut and Mark Kirnarsky in the 1920s and continued until the 1980s. The Latin part has an uncial character.

Homenko (2020) by Viktor Kharyk, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Konstantin Golovchenko is an update and extension of Vasyl Homenko's metal Ukrainian typeface from 1963-1967.

Open Font Library link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fontspert

Turkish designer of these typefaces in 2017: Fadime (script), Memoli (script), Mezitli (script), Manavgat (script), Kepez (grungy). [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontstage

FontStage is a group of independent Latin American type designers who create original fonts for the web and print industry. It includes Manuel Lopez.

Publisher of several free fonts at Google Web Fonts:

Fresca (2011). An informal sans.
Viga (2011, Oscar Yañez). A heavy angry macho sans.
Chango (2011). He/she writes: Chango is a display typeface based on letters drawn by Mexican illustrator Ernesto "Chango" García Cabral. It's big and heavy, ideal for head-line body sizes with a humorous touch.
Passion One (2011, Alejandro Lo Celso, Google Web Fonts). An Impact-like family.
Felipa (2012). A calligraphic typeface by Javier Alcaraz.
Vulgata (2013, Javier Alcaraz).

Old URL. Fontsquirrel link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fonts.tk (was: Blam Design)

Hans Presto's site about Lettering, Comics, Handwriting, Vintage Steel pen nibs and Calligraphy. Based in Stockholm. It has a subpage about stencil fonts, and includes a small stencil font archive. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontworld (Arabic)

Arabic Pagemaker. Includes four Arabic fonts plus a special calligraphy Arabic font supporting over 300 ligatures. Also available is Adobe Arabic PhotoShop. Also makes many Arabic and Persian fonts in PostScript, and does custom work. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fontwright Design
[David Parr]

American designer at Letterhead Fonts of Grindle (blackletter), Squeezebox (Victorian) and United Cigar (more Victorian fare). In 2014, John Studden and Dave Parr co-designed the Victorian display typeface family LHF Blackstone. Dave Parr's other typefaces at LHF and his own type foundry, Fontwright Design, include LHF Tributary (2014, a calligraphic blackletter; followed by LHF Tributary Distressed in 2016), LHF Ascribe (2014), LHF Heller's Script (with John Studden: a retro script), LHF Heller's Casual (2014), LHF Aledo (2014: a Western typeface), LHF Big Bob (2013, a sign painter's casual), Castlerock, Cedar Creek, Sanborn Thin (Victorian), FWD Egyptian Tower (2019: stackable), and Sheridan Script (fifties script).

Typefaces from 2022: FWD Zooks (a beatnik font).

Formatika Studio
[Denny Subagja]

Cibubur, Indonesia-based designer of these script typefaces in 2019: Santique Maeghan, Basselliost, Girl Passion, Sangit, Bastogne (a monoline script), Caroline (dry brush), Black Shine (dry brush). Other typefaces from 2019: Bonita (brush), Dark Fire (brush), Mona (a fat finger font), Patrick, Syamilla Marttine (formal calligraphy), Little Monster (for children), Kido (for children).

Typefaces from 2020: Batukayev, Chevrette, Despins. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fractal Font

Based on research by Professor Horace H.S. Ip and Dr. Helena T.F. Wong at the Department of Computer Science of the City University of Hong Kong, two approaches are followed for the generation of Chinese (and other) calligraphic fonts. In the first approach, a truetype font's features are detected using fractals, and this permits generation of characters using calligraphic pens. In a second approach, a (physical) brush model is able to capture the physical effects of the writing process due to brush geometry, brush orientations and motions, ink absorption and depositing by the brush hairs. Resulting papers:

Horace H S Ip, Helena T F Wong, Florence Y Mong, "Representing Oriental Handwritten Scripts Using Fractals", CPCOL, Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 1996, pp. 49-64.
Horace H S Ip, Helena T F Wong, "Generation of Brush Written Characters with fractal Characteristics from True-type Fonts", ICCPOL, 17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, pp. 156-161, Hong Kong, April 2-4, 1997.
Horace H S Ip, Helena T F Wong, "Calligraphic Character Synthesis using Brush Model", CGI'97, Computer Graphics International conference, pp. 13-21, Hasselt-Diepenbeek, Belgium, June 23-27 1997.
Helena T. F. Wong, Horace H. S. Ip, "Automatic Synthesis of Image Details based on Multiresolution Coherence", The Visual Computer Vol. 13, pp. 412-423, 1997.
Helena T. F. Wong, Horace H. S. Ip, "Virtual Brush: A Model-Based Synthesis of Chinese Calligraphy ", Computers&Graphics, Vol.24, No.1, 2000.

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Fragtype
[Rodrigo Fuenzalida]

Graphic and type designer from Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1981, who moved first to Buenos Aires and then to Santiago in Chile. While mainly a type designer, he also practices calligraphy. He was involved in and set up multiple type foundries, including Fragtype. Fuenzalida designed these typefaces:

The art deco faces Erre.
The experimental typefaces Tructura, Tangram, Sicodelica (multiline), SuperC (2009, tall condensed) and Pixid (2010, pixel face).
Concrete Stencil (2010). Stencil meets calligraphic script.
Fux (2010). A rounded monoline sans.
7Tees.
Aushaus: letters like music notes. This is also called Aubhaus.
Gerd (2009). An artsy stylish piano key font that used to be free.
LINE_A and K5 (multiline).
Cubo (aka Khubo, 2009, Die Gestalten). This 3d geometric family was a grand prize winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
Factur (2011) is an angular typeface.
Isosibilia. A 3d face. This typeface won an award winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
The connected upright script face Nedo.
The grunge typeface Belt.
The stencil Bodoni typefaces Giambo Stencil (2009, Die Gest alten) and Giam bat tista.
Titan (2011). A fat rounded poster face, downloadable from Google Web Fonts.
Fux (2010). A basic monoline sans family.
Poetsen One (2012) is a rounded signage sans typeface co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
Racing Sans (2012). A techno typeface that conjures up speed. Codesigned with Pablo Impallari, it is free at Google Web Fonts.
With Nicola Massi, he created the textura typeface Pirata+One (2012, Google Web Fonts).
Hermeneus One (2013, with Pablo Impallari) is a slab serif.
Tweegi (2013) is an elegant super-condensed serif typeface family.
Kardia (2014) is a rounded slightly elliptical warm-hearted sans family.
Libre Baskerville (2012, Google Web Fonts, Open Font Library, Github, and CTAN) was developed together with Pablo Impallari. It is based on 1941 ATF specimens, but it has a taller x height, wider counters and minor contrast that allows it to work on small sizes in any screen.
Libre Caslon (2012-2014). A free typeface family co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
Raleway (2010-2013). This popular free sans typeface family was started by Matt McInerney in 2010 and completed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2013. In 2017, it was extended to Rawline.
Libre Bodoni (2014) was developed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida based on Morris Fuller Benton's Bodoni types---they optimized the glyphs for use on the web. Github link. Google Fonts link.
Latina (2015) is a humanist sans typeface family developed with the Latinotype team. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Its headline styles have exaggerated humanist features, while its text styles are more subdued.
In 2016, Latinotype published the 32-style Corporative Sans Round Condensed, which was developed by Elizabeth Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, under the supervision of Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernandez.
Libre Franklin (Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida) is a revival of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic, Franklin Gothic. Created in 2015, it was only published in 2016 at Google Fonts. Github link.
Taberna (2016). A vintage copperplate style family based on design trends in bar signage, liquor packaging and street wear. Codesigned by Jorge Cisterna at Latinotype.
Letteria Script (2017, Latinotype). A signage script family.
Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Mixta (Joya Type Foundry).
In 2018, Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida enlarged the fat all caps slab serif Latinotype typeface Rita that was originally started in 2010.
Market (2018, Latinotype) is inspired by hand-painted grocery store signs.
In 2019, Latinotype published the great super-slab typeface Breton which was designed by Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
In 2018, he published Multiple at Latinotype. Partly geometric and partly humanist, it has Sans and Slab subfamilies.
In 2019, Alfonso Garcia and Rodrigo Fuenzalida released Utily Sans at Latinotype. Utily Sans is a slightly humanist take on Futura.
In 2019, Fuenzalida released Atenas through Los Andes. It emerged as a mixture of science fiction and calligraphy, with notable influences of Eurostile and Microgramma. There is a fully stocked stencil subfamily, Atenas Stencil.
Mixta (2020, Latinotype). A total of 54 typefaces with these subfamilies: Mixta Sharp, Mixta Pro, Mixta Didone. Includes weights from Hair to Heavy.
Spock (2020). A 48-style demi-sans and demi-slab family by Luciano Vergara, Cesar Araya and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
In 2020, he co-designed Ragtag (a ragtag of capitals) with Alexander Wright for In-House International.
Mixta Essential (or: Mixta Ess) (2020, Latino Type). A 12-style hybrid of a didone-inspired rectangle-shaped serif and a sharp wedge serif.
In 2020, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Alexander Wright and Michelle Benaim Steiner co-designed the exaggerated reverse stress (or: Italian) typeface Pata Slab at In-House International. All uppercase characters were built to fit precisely inside a square, so they are all the same width and height.
Mumford (2021). An 18-style display sans.
Outfit (2021, Google Fonts). Github link. This geometric font family was originally designed for the brand company Outfitio and On Brand Investments Pty Ltd. It includes a variable font.
In 2022, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright published the decorative angular typeface family Broker at In-House International.

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. Kernest link. YWFT link. Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Another Behance link. Google Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

François Boltana

French type designer based in Toulouse, b. 1950, d. 1999. He was an early graduate of Scriptorium de Toulouse (1972). In his lifetime, Boltana achieved a great deal of success, including the Morisawa Prize in 1990. From 1975 until 1997 he was also a freelance graphic designer. Brief CV. Read his article in Cahiers GUTenberg, Ligatures&calligraphie assistée par ordinateur (1995). Fontshop link. Frank Adebiaye wrote François Boltana et la naissance de la typographie numérique together with Suzanne Cardinal in 2012.

His fonts:

Aurore (1993): a calligraphic copperplate script typeface. For a free revival, see Claude Pelletier's Maratre (2013).
The typewriter font Capitole (1974).
Champion (1989): a wonderful copperplate calligraphic font inspired by the models of Joseph Champion (1754-1759).
Frédéric.
Geneviève (1969, Hollenstein Phototypo).
Girus.
Lineameca (1970, Hollenstein Phototypo).
Messager (1991); in two styles, Romain and Tradition.
Oscar.
Prosper.
Rabelais (1997): for this effort, he obtained the Meilleur Ouvrier de France en 1997 award.
Toscan.
Toulouse.
Stilla (1973): a modern psychedelic high-contrast ornamental didone display typeface with many ball terminals. In 1990, Elsner&Flake published Stilla EF. It is also in the Scangraphic collection as Stilla SH. Linotype too has a version of Stilla. Softmaker's version is called Salmon Pro. Stilla is often incorrectly credited to Middleton.

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François Weyren

French penman. Author of Cahier d'écriture fait par François Weyren, élève des Frères de l'école Chrétienne de la ville de Carpentras (Carpentras, 1838), a book that showcases calligraphic alphabets and includes penmanship drawings of birds. [Google] [More] ⦿

Francesco Mistico Canovaro
[Zetafonts (or: Studio Kmzero, or: ZeroFont)]

Francesco Periccioli

Italian calligrapher and scribe whose Cancellaresca moderna from 1610 in Sienna influenced 1610 Cancellaresca (2008, Gilles Le Corre). [Google] [More] ⦿

Francis John S. Villo
[Francis Studio]

Francis Stephen Lestingi
[Signs of Gold]

Francis Studio
[Francis John S. Villo]

Born in 2001 in The Philippines, Francis John (Francis Studio) designed the calligraphic script typefaces Amarillo, Lost in Wild, Starfish (curly) and Buttercup, the handcrafted Beauty and the Beast, and the brush script typeface Nightingale in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿

Francisco Lucas

Full name: Francisco Lucas Vezino De Sevilla. Spanish lettering master in the 16th century who wrote Arte de Escrevir (Madrid, 1571 [Paulo Heitlinger says that this is 1580, while others mention 1577]), in which he introduced the so-called Spanish Bastarda. He also published Arte de Escrivir (1608, Iuan de la Cuesta, Madrid). Local download.

Digitizations of his Griffo-style lettering in 1577 include:

Decimosexto NF (2006, Nick Curtis).
Francisco Lucas Llana Regular (2003). A chancery hand by Pia Frauss. She writes Written in Madrid in 1570, by a man called Francisco Lucas. He classified it as a Bastarda; but actually, it is a humanist cursive -- the type of writing that is mostly known under the name of Chancery.
Francisco Lucas Brioso Regular (2003, Pia Frauss). A chancery hand.

Scans: Grifa italica and Batarda, Redondilla (1570), Letra. [Google] [More] ⦿

Francisco Vivar

Communication Design student at Parsons the New School for Design in NYC in 2013. Creator of the calligraphic script typeface Forty Five (2013, Friday Fonts). [Google] [More] ⦿

Franciszek Otto

Polish type designer who teaches graphic design at the Secondary Art School in Bydgoszcz. Second prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library for the handwriting fonts Linotype Notec (1998) and JP2 (2008, based on the (shaky) handwriting of Pope John Paul II). Brda (2003, Linotype) is a fat display typeface that won an award at Linotype's Fourth International Type Design Contest---it was originally designed for the Powiat weekly. Waza (2008, Linotype) is a copperplate script revived from an etching by Wilhelm Hondius (Hondt), the Dutch court engraver for the Polish king, Ladislaus IV.

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Frank Heine
[UORG]

Frank K. Lüdicke

German type designer Frank K. Lüdicke designed Ramses, letters in the shape of hieroglyphs. He studied with Karlgeorg Hoefer (who would write with anything) and with Kurt Wolff (in Düsseldorf), and later learned Japanese calligraphic art. Ramses is now available from Elsner&Flake. At URW++, he designed the commercial dingbat font FunnyNature (1999) and the handwriting fonts Yoriko (2019: oriental brush emulation), Liaison (2015), FontForum Katie (2008) and Lüdickital (2002).

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Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect, artist and designer, b. Richland Center, WI, 1867, d. Phoenix, AZ, 1959. He was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. His lettering inspired many to create typefaces based on them. The Frank Lloyd Wright museum is near the University of Chicago. He lived in Oak Park, IL, two blocks away from Luc Devroye's daughter. A partial list of fonts related to FLW:

David Siegel made Eaglefeather (1994-1999) for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which owns various manuscripts with his beautiful lettering. P22 made a few typefaces based on his hand.
Christina Torre (P22) created P22 FLW Exhibition and P22 FLW Terracotta in 2000 (revival in 2018), based on alphabets by Frank Lloyd Wright published in 1931 and in 1896-1897 (in his book The House Beautiful), respectively.
Paul Hunt made the FLW Midway font family (2006-2018), comprising Midway One, Two and Ornaments. This set is based on the lettering found on the Midway Gardens working drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright---tall-legged and casual.
There are several free fonts. For example, swiftw5 created the typeface Hendrikus Wijdeveld (2010), based on a Hendrikus Wijdeveld poster entitled Architecture Exhibition / Frank Lloyd Wright from 1931.
Funky Lloyd Wright (2002) by Kristian Walker (Eurekaville) is an experimental font based on Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas.

FontShop link.

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Franziska Weitgruber

Based in Vienna, Austria, and/or Latsch, Italy, Franziska Weitgruber received her Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design with a focus on type from the New Design University (NDU) Sankt Pölten, Austria in 2014. She also studied in the Typemedia program at KABK in The Hague, class of 2016. She publishes her work mostly via Future Fonts and Fontwerk.

Franziska created the text typeface Porta Serif and the science journal text typeface Sphera in 2014. Her graduation typeface at KABK in 2016 is the expressionist Kaligari. It comes in six styles---in its genre, it is the best digital German expressionist typeface published to date.

In 2018, Michael Hochleitner, Christoph Schütz, Simon Liesinger and Franziska Weitgruber co-designed Gretel Script at Typejockeys. This optically sized three-style typeface is based on the hand of calligrapher Natascha Safarik.

Still in 2018, she published Gig at Future Fonts. Gig is monolinear retro felt pen script in the style of Roger Excoffon's Banco.

Typefaces from 2019: Antonia (a crisp variable headline text typeface by Franziska Weitgruber and Michael Hochleitner at Typejockeys; a 64-style font family with optical sizing from headline H1, H2, and H3 to Text, with a variable font added to the mix), Roba (a typeface family in which Franziska experiments with stress and counter-stress, form and counter-form), Nikolai (an elegant display family released at Fontwerk). Nikolai started out as a revival of Nebiolo's Jenson but became a sharp-edged hyper-modernized version of that Venetian type.

Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fraterdeus Web Log
[Peter Fraterdeus]

Web log about calligraphy and lettering run by Peter Fraterdeus. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fred Afrikyan

Aka Fred Africkian. Yerevan, Armenia-based architect, letterer and type designer who wrote The Art of Letter-Type by Fred Africkian. 120 Tables of Armenian decorative types (1984). See also here. Taboo (Canada Type) is a Latin typeface inspired by lettering from Africkian's book. Patrick Griffin of Canada Type writes: Virtually unknown in the West, Africkian was one of the most talented eastern block artists. Though mainly a calligrapher working with traditional tools, he embraced geometry on multiple occasions for the sake of drawing simple modern Armenian and Cyrillic alphabets. Though he normally tried to maintain in his work a certain homage to Mesrop Mashtots (5th century Armenian monk who invented the Armenian alphabet), his late 1970s experiments made use of so many modern elements that the results were hailed as "real art mingled with science." [Google] [More] ⦿

Fred Smeijers
[OurType]

Frederik Berlaen
[KalliCulator Automatic Calligraphy]

Fredrick M. Nader
[Apostrophic Laboratory]

Friedrich Groegel
[Fritz Grögel]

FTP archive of Tibetan characters

Friedrich Karl Sallwey

Type designer (b. Langen, Germany, 1918, d. 2005) who studied at Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach from 1937 until 1939 and in 1941 and 1942. Later he worked at the Bauersche Gießerei as Heinrich Jost's assistant. From 1951 onwards he was a freelance graphic artist in Frankfurt am Main. Sallwey designed fonts at Klingspor such as Information Breitfett (1958). At D. Stempel, he designed Present (1974-1989, now available from SoftMaker as P820 Script, from Varityper as Tracey Script, from Corel as President, and from Adobe and Linotype as Present or Present Roman). He also made (1979) and Roundy (1992-1993). These are all script typefaces with some calligraphic influences.

Klingspor shows various unplublished typefaces by Sallwey.

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Friedrich Neugebauer

Austrian scribe and calligrapher, born in 1911. Harald Suess wrote about him in die Deutsche Schrift in 1996: I, II, III. The story goes that as a prisoner of war in Egypt, he wrote with toothpaste when all else failed.

Author of The Mystic Art of Written Forms: An Illustrated Handbook for Lettering (Salzburg: Neugebauer Press, 1980), and Bibliophile, Buchgraphik, Schriftgraphik (Salzburg, Austria: Verlag Neugebauer Press, 1983).

Typefaces influenced by his style:

Avalon (1995), a calligraphic typeface family by Richard Lipton.
Frauen [Roman, Script] (2015, Lucas Sharp, Incubator). A calligraphic pair. The Roman is partially based on the calligraphy of Friedrich Neugebauer [on the cover of an almanac of Berlin debutantes published in 1945 titled, Die schönsten Frauen der Welt], and partly Lucas's own creation. Production assistance from Wei Huang.

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Friedrich Peter

Aka Fred Peter. We find the name Friedrich Peter at Monotype and most other foundries. Designer, visual artist and calligrapher (b. 1933, Dresden, Germany) who moved to West Berlin in 1950, where he studied lettering design, painting, graphics, typography and calligraphy at the Academy of Visual Arts. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 with his wife, and started teaching in 1958 at the Vancouver School of Art, which later became the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and this until 1998. He has many designs for postage stamps, coins and medals in Canada between 1980 and 1998. He is an all-round artist who is also famous for his contributions to calligraphy. His typefaces:

The formal script typeface Vivaldi (1966, VGC). This was later published by Letraset (1970). The following digital versions are available:
- Vivaldi (URW++),
- Vivaldi (Linotype),
- Vivaldi (Letraset),
- Vivaldi (ITC),
- Vivaldi (Mecanorma Collection),
- Vivaldi EF (Elsner+Flake)
- A "free" Cyrillic version is VivaldiD CL (1994), by a certain "Paul".
Vivaldi's designer is often incorrectly stated as Fritz Peters (such as by Phil's Fonts, Bowfin, Fontshop Austria, URW or Paratype).
The ornamental Magnificat typeface (which was partially cut by Philip Kelly). Magnificat was digitized by Flanker (2011) and Studio Di Lena.
Twelve other unpublished typefaces.

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Friedrich Poppl

German scribe and calligrapher (b. Soborten, Czechoslovakia, 1923, d. Wiesbaden, 1982), and designer of several text families, such as Poppl-Fraktur (1986), Poppl-Antiqua, Poppl-College (1981), Poppl-Exquisit (1970), Poppl-Nero (1982, his last face), Poppl-Laudatio (1982; see the clones OPTI Peach (Castcraft) and Poem Lavish (Softmaker)), Poppl-Pontifex (1974), and Poppl-Residenz (1977, classic calligraphy). These typefaces can be bought at Berthold.

Revivals: His neo-gothic typeface Saladin was later digitized and expanded by Patrick Griffin as Lionheart (2006, Canada Type). Hip Hop NF (2007) is a bouncy retro typeface based on Friedrich Poppl's Dynamische Antiqua (1960, Stempel). Elfort (2009, Iza W, Intellecta Design) is a calligraphic revival of work by Poppl. Poppl Stretto (1969) was at the basis of a revival by Canada Type called Wonder Brush (2012, Kevin Allan King and Patrick Griffin). Poppl Fraktur was revived and modernized by Ralph Unger as Parler Fraktur in 2018. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Fritz Grögel
[Friedrich Groegel]

Fritz Grögel (b. Wassertrüdingen, Germany, 1974) studied graphic design and typography at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. In his graduation work French Délice, he explored the history of French letterpainting. After several years of work as a corporate designer, he attended the TypeMedia master course of KABK The Hague where he researched the German letterpainting tradition. Together with Elena Albertoni, he founded the studio LetterinBerlin in 2011. The following year he conducted extensive research at Berlin's Kunstbibliothek on the history of German lettering which is the subject of his talk at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. That talk is based on the content of the book Karbid From lettering to type design (2013) by Verena Gerlach and Fritz Grögel published by Ypsilon Éditeurs and released on the occasion of the Amsterdam conference.

His project for the Masters in type design program at KABK in 2010 led to the signage family Hinterland (2010), and to Builderdyke (2010), a revival project with Paul van der Laan: a digital reinterpretation of Johann Michael Fleischmann's Mediaan Romein.

Other typefaces by him include Glupsisch (2010, is a round piano key typeface created with the help of Typecooker), Fritzskript (a flowing connected script that was done at the Ecole supérieure Estienne, Paris), and Estelita (a calligraphic hand that was inspired by the titles of a French art deco silent movie by Marcel L'Herbier called L'Inhumaine).

Flickr page. Old URL for Fritz Grögel. [Google] [More] ⦿

Frostmoth

Creator of the calligraphic pen typeface Mothproof Script (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿

FTP archive of linguistic data and calligraphic Tibetan texts (tiff and gif formats). The new archive is hosted by Valeriy "Uwe" Ushakov in St Petersburg, Russia. Cooperation from Don Stilwell (Tibetan OCR Project). [Google] [More] ⦿

Fuad Hasan
[Ketikata (or: Ojo Ngintype)]

Fuyuki Hashizume

Designer and art director in Tokyo. His Latin typefaces include Rail Line Alphabet Tokyo (2013, based on parts of the Tokyo subway map), and Cunard Proto (2013, a beautiful calligraphic typeface family). [Google] [More] ⦿

FYI Scripts: Calligraphic Fonts
[Ilene Strivzer]

Dead link. Ilene Strivzer introduced ITC's calligraphic fonts. This is not an article, but just advertising. The fonts: Riptide, Choc, Arid, Musclehead, Chiller, Ballerino, Humana Script, John Handy, Kick, Marguerita, Mistral, Braganza. [Google] [More] ⦿

Fype Co
[Muhammad Hasan]

Aka Fitiyawan, who seems to have many other identities as well. As "Fype Co" (est. 2019), based in Magelang, Indonesia, he/she designed these script typefaces in 2019: Justoma, Ameyasi, Balgona (formal calligraphic), Qimona, Beardcanye, Renate, Grimalkin, Amelia Nature (a monoline script), Baliany, HoneySome, Blacks, Sunday Sugar (signage script), Minerals Buble, and Panda Script. Other typefaces designed in 2019: Biosphere (a squarish industrial style condensed all caps sans), Nought (an experimental slab serif), Graveyard, Blackfire (a rounded all caps sans with arts and crafts influences), Dioxide, Pomiform, Sci Fi Bronze, Prestigious, Relaunch, Marginal (oriental simulation), Necked (a sports font), Dia de Martini (Tuscan), Charlie (art deco), Kingfish (a cartoon font).

Typefaces from 2020: King and Queen (a 23-style lachrymal serif family), Saodah, Rei Biensa, Lemenso, Hiluan Sea, Beard Canye, Pier Georad (a supermarket signage script), London Bridge (a wide geometric sans with a short-armed lowercase r and a spectacular ri ligature), Glover, Prestigious (a fashion mag typeface), Dioxide (an all caps wedge serif titling typeface), Relaunch, Bollent (fashionable, all caps), Cargiona (a stylish plumpish sans), Moilgo (a curvy display typeface), Kickers (a rounded vintage display serif family).

Typefaces from 2021: Mister Frogs (a funky font with a cartoon feel), Bloena, Boedimant (a weathered stencil typeface), Dogiesland (scrapbook font), Gostend, Kamaboko (a delightfully loony children's book font).

G. Deniz Yücel

Creator of the calligraphic typeface Dies Irae (2013).

Gábor Kóthay
[Fontmunkások]

Gabriel Landini
[The European Voynich Manuscript Transcription Project Home Page]

Gabriel Martinez Meave
[Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)]

Gabriel Silva Roza

Rio de Janeiro-based creator of the calligraphic script typeface Scribae (2012).

Gabriela Octavia
[Fontdation Studio]

Gaelleing

French creator of a large number of free typefaces, starting in 2012.

Typefaces from 2016: Ginumber1.

Typefaces from 2015: Happy New Year 2016, School, Gaelle Star, Oeillet (connect-the-dots typeface), Gifont, Happy New Year.

Typefaces from 2014: GaelleAbc (iFontmaker), GaelleDEF (iFontmaker), Gaelle Majuscule, Gaelle Number (+1, +2, +3, +4, +5, +6, +7, +8, +9), Clock, Gaelle 001, Enjoy, Gael 427, Gaelle.

Typefaces from 2013: the hand-printed typefaces October, Ellega, Gaelling Pates, Gaelle Fine, Manuscrite, Gaelle 2002, Gaelle 307, Plaque, Gaelle 2000, Gaellefont 403, Gaelle 203, Gaelleings Letter, Ecriture, MJ Letter (outlined), MJ Letter2, Funny, AZ (outlined caps), April, Lettre Classique, Relier Les Points (connect-the-dots), Plume, Shiver For You, Galfont, Sur Un Trait, Frissons, I Love You Forever, Stop Please, Pinceau, Collage, Once Upon A Time, Japanese Letter, Shiver For You, Trouverlecode, Brush, Contour de Lettres, Dessin 123, Elegantegaelle, Fleche, Frissons, Highlight, Les Lettres d'Adam, Paille, Pointcarre, Pointgaelle (dot matrix), More Letters, Numero1, Cupidon, Saint Valentin (letters in hearts), Je suis doublée, Lettre Etoile, Les Dunes, Filament (multiline face), Ameno (calligraphic face), Petite Boule, Helveti (fat finger font), Ecolier (children's hand), Cfun, Miss, Vague, Happy New Year 2013, Highlight, Bubblefont.

In 2012, Gaelleing created Trait Lettre (vertical striping), Beautiful, I Love You, Once Upon A Time, It's Beautiful, Papoune, Tournicoti (super-curly face), Double, Versaille, Love, Lettre Gaelle (fat finger font), Chouchou, Boule Noel (alphadings with Christmas balls), Inclined Letter, Elganoel, Gaelleing and Gaelleing2. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gaga Vastard
[Ganiia Hidayah]

Possibly an alias of Angga Mahardika. Bandung, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989, of the great calligraphic signature typeface Dattebayo (2018) and the condensed typeface Masquerouge (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ganiia Hidayah
[Gaga Vastard]

Gareth Hague
[Alias]

Garrett Boge
[LetterPerfect]

Gary Munch
[MunchFonts]

Gatype (or: Chairul Art)
[Chaidir Gata]

Chaidir or Khaidir is the Indonesian creator of the calligraphic script typefaces Fronds Getturing (2018, a brush font), Just Married (2017) and Wisteria (2017). Typefaces from 2019: Montine (calligraphic), Feraldine Script (calligraphic), Westonia (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Baby Angelonia, Fairy Tail (rounded, handdrawn), Andy Bear (a fat finger font), Melinda Script (wild calligraphy), Shafira (calligraphic), Gidget, Sakamoto (a comic book script), Braylen (calligraphic), Black Panther (a dry brush script), Anatomi (a fat finger font), Shadow (script), Andesia, Logika (a formal script), Whitney, Haydena (script), Irendy (script), Cristabel (a calligraphic script), Armorel Script (an upright script), Stepira (script), Dea Githa (a creamy script), Antemowa (script), Rachel (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Chicago Darling Serif (a curly condensed display serif), Gataline (script), Kurato (a creamy comic book font), Milk And Honey (a Windsor style bold serif), Steel Leg (a heavy dry brush script), Arkusi (script), Best Street (an unconstrained calligraphic script), Mordane (a wild calligraphic script), Love Rose (calligraphic), Hey Jintan (a rhythmic brush script), Bosterina (calligraphic), Hamidha Script, Love Moment (a wild script), Gentury (a wild calligraphic script), Ameston (script), Sugako (a smooth script), Sweden Love (a hybrid between calligraphic and signage scripts), Akira Rosty (a high-contrast rabbit ear script), Babylonia, Kadupul Flowers (wild calligraphy), Ratgohe (an informal calligraphic typeface).

Typefaces from 2022: Fadhillah Signature, Super Blaster (a rounded decorative hand-crafted typeface), Maliska Script (calligraphic), Miabella (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gaynor Goffe

British calligrapher. Designer (with the help of Akira Kobayashi) of the OpenType calligraphic script Hamada (2007, Linotype). This typeface has multiple variants for all letters. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gazoz

Istanbul-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Mutlu Ornamental (1999-2002). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gérard Mariscalchi

Montrealer who designed ITC Redonda (1998, an upright ronde script), Baylac (a psychedelic font fdirst done at Agfa, and then at ITC) and the Comic Strip family. Planned are the calligraphic font Herald (for Font Bureau), the protest font Infamy, and Robin Hood. He created the following Agfa Creative Alliance fonts: Evita (1998, now an ITC font: an organic roundisch script), Baylac, Link, Lineale, Iona, Marnie and Toots (1997, based on calligraphy by Villu Toots). He designed the great calligraphic font Scrivener in 2000 (I guess the Herald project at Font Bureau must be dead then).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Alternate link.

View Gérard Mariscalchi's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Geen Bitter
[Thom Janssen]

Geen Bitter (Den Haag, The Netherlands) consists of Thom Janssen (b. 1984, Maastricht), Jorn Henkes and Rogier van der Sluis. All three are graduates of the Graphic Design course at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands. Thom Janssen is a graduate of the TypeMedia program at the KABK in The Hague in 2017. The work of Geen Bitter has a strong typographical influence and covers designing typefaces, books, websites and identities, all with a typographic approach. Late in 2014, Geen Bitter disbanded. Thom currently works as a freelance type designer and as a researcher at PXL, Hasselt University, Belgium.

In 2013, they published Gewone letters Gerrit's early models. The blurb: A couple of years back, while cleaning the letterpress workshop at the KABK in The Hague, we had an amazing find. A package that hasn't been opened for some time. We opened it and found eighteen printing plates in mint condition. The printing plates, we soon found out, were made by Gerrit Noordzij and date back to the late 1960s. They contain a brief lesson about writing with the broad nib and, once familiar with this basis, writing and drawing some different techniques. Since it seemed the plates are never published before, we decided to do so and made a book containing prints from the plates. Next to the plates we asked former students if they still had old work and sketches with comments by Gerrit Noordzij. The result is a collection of sketches and material, together with five writings about the plates, Gerrit Noordzij and his contribution to the field of type and typography. The text has contributions by Albert-Jan Pool, Frank E. Blokland, Aad van Dommelen, Huug Schipper, and Petr van Blokland. It was published in 2013 by Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam.

Thom's graduation typeface in 2017 at KABK was Rikhard. He wrote: A variable font project with letter shapes inspired by English letter forms from around the 1780s, mainly Richard Austin, hence the name. With a weight axis for hierarchy in texts and an optical size axis in order to make small and larger text sizes look good. This project is an exploration in variable fonts. The goal was to learn about it, build workflow solutions, and have fun. This project is meant for typography on the screen. Browsers can take advantage of variable fonts, optical size can be automated and with CSS and JavaScript all the styles of the variable font can be accessed. One font, many styles: the future.

Their commercial typefaces:

Bex (2013). This sans typeface family is based on Thom Janssen's graduation project.
Cramp (2012). A casual hand-printed typeface by Rogier van der Sluis.
Herman (2013, Rogier van der Sluis). An elliptical monospaced signage typeface family with possibilities of layering and shadow effects. It is quite attractive and one of the finest typefaces in its genre.

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Gemma Pearce

Ormeau, Australia-based designer of Point To Point (2016, a graffiti font) and Strike (2016, a calligraphic font). [Google] [More] ⦿

Genadij Zarechnjuk
[Fonts.org.ua]

Genesis Lab
[Bustami Harun]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based creator of the cursive retro script typeface Archimedes (2015) and the calligraphic typefaces Dealova Script (2015), Austtria Script (sic) (2015), Paullina (2015), Wonder She (2015), Bebby Script (2015), Bebby Washington (2015), Bonterra (2015), Wallpalace Script (2015), Cherry Blossom (2015) and Cattleya Script (2015). They also made Kansas Brush (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Jonitha, Salmela Script (free brush script), Micheline, Damita, Holliston, Bostone (rough brush script), Salma (script), Karmela (a vintage font family that includes the money font Karmela Layer), Sparkle Brush, Charlotte (calligraphic script), Camica (a brush script), Nobita Script, Magenta Script, Latosha Script, Callove Script, Malisia Script, Sarinah, Salamanta (a great calligraphic script), Lovelia Script, Leontin (connected script), Fanatic, Madona (connected calligraphic script), Armstrong.

Typefaces from 2017: Planton Script, Bambia (calligraphic), Madinah, Maylad, Marline, Micheline, Malibu Script, Cabelita Script, Sahara Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Binggo Wood Display (a decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2021: Black Starsdust (a bold stylish display serif), Pradock Sans (an 18-style geometric sans, with a variable font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Genilson Lima Santos

Genilson Lima Santos is the Salvador, Brazil-based designer (b. 1985, Bahia) of Stilu (2015, sans), Jenelson (2006), the stroked font Styllo (2007), the brushy Carybe (2011), the all caps sans typeface Linna (2016), the display typeface Victorine (2016), the rounded sans family Baldini (2016), the high-contrast all caps Cellophane (2016), the text typeface Petralina (2016), the rounded Bauhaus-inspired sans typeface family Rosa Maria (2016), the multicolor layerable rounded poster typeface Buba (2016), the free wide unicase sans typeface family Urucungo (2016), and the semi-didone display typeface Salinas (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Hibiscus, Blackye (a delicious black rounded sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Somma (geometric sans), Tryal (formal calligraphic), Love Moon, Urbanpolis (sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Dynamo (a retro-futuristic typeface), Hellen (a revival of the flared classic Koch Antiqua from 1922).

Typefaces from 2020: Auster (a serif family), Giovanna and Giovanna Sans (a luxurious roman caps typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Yacht (a ligature-themed display serif), Milagre (by Edileno Capistrano Filho and Genilson Santos; a free party font based on text seen on azulejos [tiles] at Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado in Largo do Pelourinho, Salvador, Brazil, with text by writer James Amado, lettering by artist Floriano Teixeira and engraving on the tiles by ceramist Udo Knoff in 1987), Arienne (a frivolous all caps font), Mirabela (a fashion mag serif), Serafina (a decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Kolbo (a pure wedge serif display typeface), Amabella (a sharp-edged serif). [Google] [More] ⦿

Georg Herold-Wildfellner

Type designer based in Vienna, Austria. Codesigner with Marcus Sterz at FaceType of a Victorian type family called Ivory (2009). They state that Ivory is inspired by a beautiful typeface used in an illustrated compendium about pomology from 1882. I did not know what Pomology is but the Urban Dictionary defines a pomosexual (for postmodernism sexual) as an individual who challenges assumptions about gender and sexuality. Now, a pomologist is a fruit tree specialist---that's another thing altogether. He created Aeronaut (2009, FaceType), a textura based on Kirchengotische Schrift, a font that can be found in a German font book from 1879 entitled Vorlegeblätter f&uunl;r Firmenschreiber. Weingut Script (+Ornaments, 2011) is a flourished type family. Mr. Moustache (2011) is a neatly hand-trimmed condensed type family, complete with various sets of ornaments and dingbats.

Supernett (2019) and Supernett CN (2013, Facetype) are huge font families based on hand-drawn versions of Helvetica. They have 4700 glyphs and many opentype features.

In 2014, he created the hand-lettered poster series Pinto.

In 2015, Georg published the Opentype-feature-laden 2600+-character Mila Script Pro at FaceType.

Typefaces from 2017: Pinto No 2 (hand-drawn), Sofa Sans Hand.

Typefaces from 2019: Sofa Serif Hand.

Klingspor link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Georg Seifert
[Schriftgestaltung]

Georg Trump

A giant of German type design, b. Brettheim, 1896, d. München, 1985. Active with Berthold in Berlin from 1930-1935, and with C.E. Weber in Stuttgart from 1937 onwards. From 1934 until 1953, he succeeded Paul Renner as the Director of the Meisterschule für Deutschlands Buchdrucker in München. In 1982 he was awarded the TDC Medal. Ph. Luidl and G.G. Lange published "Hommage für Georg Trump" in 1981. Linotype link. FontShop link. His production:

At C.E. Weber: Mauritius (1967: his last typeface; revived in 2013 by Canada Type as Mauritius), Amati (1951, a narrow didone typeface with short ascenders and descenders; see Amati Pro (2010, Ralph M. Unger) and Amati AR (2011, Ari Rafaeli)), Codex (1954-1955; a calligraphic face; digital version by Linotype; see also Bitstream's Calligraphic 421), Delphin I (1951 at Weber), Delphin II (1955, at Weber), Forum I (1948, a 3d chiseled face: a digital version from 2007 by ARS Type is called Forum I-AR), Forum II (1952, also digitized by AR Types), Jaguar (1964-1965, a fun script with a wild African look, revived in 2004 at Canada Type as Tiger Script and again in 2010 as Trump Script), Palomba (1954-1955, an angular calligraphic script; revived by Ari Rafaeli in 2011 as Palomba AR and by Canada Type in 2004 as Ali Baba), Signum (1955, revided by Patrick Griffin at Canada Type in 2005 as Trump Gothic West; revived by Ari Rafaeli in 2011 as Signum AR, and again by Patrick Griffin in 2013 as Trump Gothic Pro and Trump Soft Pro), Time Script (+Light, +Medium, +Bold) aka Tioga Script (1956; digital versions by Linotype and SoftMaker), Trump Mediaeval (1954-1960; the Bitstream version is called Kuenstler 480; in 2010, Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva cyrillicized the Bitstream family under the same Kuenstler 480 name at ParaType). See also Trump Mediaeval Office.
At Berthold: City (1930-1937: a great slab serif, ideal for athletic lettering, 1930; the mager appeared in 1937). This typeface was marketed at Berthold as City BQ and City BE. The Bitstream version seems to be called Square Slabserif 711. Other digital versions: Centrum (SoftMaker), Commerce, Cyklop (Scangraphic), Cyclop (Scangraphic). At Berthold, he also did the blackletter typeface Trump Deutsch (1935-1936). Digital versions of the latter include Trump Deutsch (2011, Ralph M. Unger), Fette Trump Deutsch (2002, by Dieter Steffmann) and Trump Deutsch by Klaus Burkhardt.
At Wagner: Schadow Antiqua (1937, a slab serif). Schadow includes mager (1937), halbfett (1938), kursiv (1942), Werk (1942), schmalfett (1945) and fett (1952). It is almost a copy of Jakob Erbar's Candida (1936). Digital revivals include one at Bitstream, also called Humanist Slabserif 707. See also S671 Slab (SoftMaker), Schadow Antique (URW) and Sheridan (SoftMaker). The most recent effort based on Scahdow is David Jonathan Ross's Gimlet (2016, 112 styles).
He also designed Forum I (1948), Forum II (1952), Amati (1952), Signum (1955).
Stempel took over many German foundries. It shows these Trump fonts: Trump Mediaeval (1954-1962), Time Script (1956-1957), Trump Gravur (1960, revived in 1995 by Alan Jay Prescott as New Trump Gravur, 2006 by Ari Rafaeli, in 2007 by ARTypes as Gravur AR, and in 2011 by Ralph M. Unger as Jobs Gravure), Jaguar (1965, a script), Mauritius (1967).

View the typefaces made by Georg Trump. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

George Bickham

UK engraver and penman, 1684-1769, who wrote the manual The Universal Penman (published in parts from 1733 to 1741, reprinted in its entirety in 1743). The full title is The Universal Penman Or the Art of Writing Made Useful To the Gentleman and Scholar, as well As the Man of Business . . . Written With the friendly Assistance of several of the most Eminent Masters And Engraved by Geo. Bickham. That book also contains work by Bickham's collaborators, such as Joseph Champion, Wellington Clark, Nathaniel Dove, Gabriel Brooks, and William Leckey. Book cover. Other books by Bickham include Penmanship in its utmost Beauty and Extent (Overton & Hoole, London, 1731).

A free interpretation of the copperplate script styles of The Universal Penman can be seen in the monumental font Penabico (2010, Intellecta Design). Images: From The Universal Penman, Roundhand Script (ca. 1740), Greek Writing (1743).

Digital typefaces based on Bickham's scripts include 1739 Bickham (2010) and 1741 Bickham (2013) by Klaus-Peter Schäffel, Bickham Script (1997, Richard Lipton), Bickham Script 3 (2014, Richard Lipton), Penabico (Intellecta Design), and loose interpretations such as Poem Script (Sudtipos). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

George Ryan
[Bilt Fonts (or: Aruban Font Foundry)]

George Shelley

English writing master, 1666 (?)-1736 (?).

Author/editor of The Penmans Magazine. Author of Natural Writing in all the Hands, with Variety of Ornament (1709) and Alphabets in All the Hands (1715).

In 1730, he wrote several pages for Bickham's Universal Penman. English writing masters including George Bickham, George Shelley and George Snell helped to propagate Round Hand's popularity, so that by the mid-18th century the Round Hand style had spread across Europe and crossed the Atlantic to North America. The typefaces Snell Roundhand and Kuenstler Script are based on this style of handwriting. The famous Shelley Script is named after him. Linotype's version, also called Shelley Script, was implemented by Matthew Carter in 1972 at Letraset and was split into Allegro, Andante and Volante styles. The Bitstream "copy" is called English 111.

Sample of a copperplate alphabet done in London in 1709. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

George Studio (was: I M Studio, Logic Type, or: Biargabara)
[Ikhsan Maulana]

Beureunuen, Indonesia-based designer of Batton Rettan (a signature script) (2022), Hello Mellogia (a sharp-edged display serif) (2022), Kithen Mellogia (a monolinear script) (2022), Andesta (a scrapbbok script) (2021), Gothan (2021: a curly scrapbook script), Winter Beautys (sic; a swashy script from 2021), Raglen (2021: a display serif), Milkan Display Outline (a display serif) (2021), Abigan (a condensed display serif) (2021), Baby Megista (a scrapbook script) (2021), Hello Falisha (calligraphic) (2021), Baby Algutta Slant (2021: despite the name, this is a upright calligraphic script), Adsention (2021), Stay Gladin (2020: calligraphic), Wild Smilled (2020: a wild thin script), Almeliya (2020: formal calligraphy), Harler Mixgiter (2020: a display serif in the retro 70s style with balloon typography), Fanitiya (2020: a heart-studded calligraphic script), Hello Bellandia (2020: a calligraphic rabbit ear script), Authentica Script (2020: a swashy formal calligraphic script), Micheliya (2020: a calligraphic rabbit ear script), Bardella (a wild calligraphic script), Nathan Classic (2020: a curly font), Yaungtinai (2020: a formal calligraphic script with about 600 glyphs), Aureligena Script (2019), Calligraphy Stye (sic) (2019), Biargabara Script (2019), Delphyna (2019), Milde Maudie (2019), Hithergland (2019), Landovte (2019), Think Alongtime (2019), Anegalisa Design (2019), Ballerinha (2018: a curly calligraphic script) and Kattiney Script (2018).

MyFonts link for IM Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

George Williams

George Williams's site (now defunct) site was a discovery! George Williams (b. 1959) wrote spline-generating code and then went on to produce several fonts with his software between 1987 and 1998:

Art nouveau style: Carmen, Ambrosia (1989), Fantaisie Artistique, Baldur, Monopol, Parisian, Peignot, Bocklin, Edda.
Lombardic: Lombardic.
Victorian: Caprice, Ringlet.
Uncial: Uncial Animals, Roman Uncial Modern.
Ornamental caps: Versal, Decorative, Square Caps, Extravagant Capitals, Floral Caps, Morris, Andrade.
Display typefaces: Crystal, Flash, Cupola, Santa Barbara Streets (2013-2014; after the street signs in Santa Barbara, CA).
Blackletter: Rotunda (1998), Bastarda, Textura Modern, Fractur (a remake of Wittenbach).
Art deco: Piccadilly, Mirage (1999, prismatic).
Calligraphic: Humanistic.
Text: Caslon.
Slab: Monospace.
Sans: Caliban.
Bamboo Gothic (2007).
TIS620-2529 (a Thai font).

George Williams writes: I have been slowly working to provide free unicode postscript fonts for the three major groupings of styles used by European (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic anyway) type designs: serif, sans-serif and typewriter (or Times, Helvetica and Courier). Monospace is my approximation to Courier. Close examination will reveal that it is a bad copy of courier. Caslon Roman (1992-2001) is a serif font (designed by William Caslon in 1734), it's not a bad copy of Times, it's a bad copy of something else. Caliban is a bad copy of Helvetica. If Microsoft can call their version of Helvetica Arial, then Caliban seems appropriate for mine. Yet another URL.

George Williams is best known as the inventor and creator of FontForge, the biggest and best free font editor today. It made him the darling of the Open Software community. Interview with OSP.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Georgi Georgiev
[Jore]

Gerard Huerta
[Gerard Huerta Design]

Scan of a 1974 postage stamp by Noordzij. Klingspor link. Letterror link. Flickr group with Noordzij photographs. Interview by Robin Kinross, 2001. The Enschedé Font Foundry link. Video from 2014 by TYPO Berlin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gerard Huerta Design
[Gerard Huerta]

Lettering artist, b. 1952, head of Gerard Huerta Design in Southport, CT. Lettering and logos of Huerta were used by Swiss Army Brands, MSG Network, CBS Records Masterworks, Waldenbooks, Spelling Entertainment, Nabisco, Calvin Klein's Eternity, Type Directors Club, the mastheads of Time, Money, People, The Atlantic Monthly, PC Magazine, Adweek, Us, Condé Nast's Traveler, Working Mother, WordPerfect, Scientific American Explorations and Architectural Digest, as well as corporate alphabets for Waldenbooks, Time-Life and Conde Nast. Designer and vice-president of New York's Type Directors Club. Based in Southport, CT.

He made many famous logos and created several logo-fonts. Huerta worked for some time at CBS Records. His type designs include a custom Franklin Gothic in the late 1970s as part of Walter Bernard's redesign of Time Magazine. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gergely Bogányi

Graphic designer in Budakeszi, Budapest, Hungary, who cofounded Typogravity Studio with Tamas Ilsinszki. Creator of the extreme contrast display typeface Slash Pro (2011), and the multiline prismatic typeface Grand Avant Garde (2011).

In 2012, he designed Lineo Serif (thin geometric face).

In 2013, he created a fantastic set of graph-based experimental capitals called Regenerative. Georabic (2013) is a calligraphic Arabic simulation font completely based on the principles of Arabic font design, i.e., with beginning, medial and end forms for each letter. He writes: Georabic Typface is my diploma work at Hungarian University of Fine Arts / Graphic Design Department. During my Erasmus studies in Istanbul I had the chance to learn a bit of Arabic language and typography and I realized that the logic of Arabic writing could be used for a calligraphic Latin typeface too. I started with calligraphy to find the right way to create the glyphs and the connections. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gerhard Schwekendiek

South African designer of Greyton Script (1991, Letraset), an inline calligraphic (engraved) typeface. At Berthold in 1972, he published Gesh Export 233 (stencil), Gesh Introduction and Gesh Ortega Roman 275. For revivals of Gesh Export, see OPTI Gilpin 5 (by Castcraft) and the free font Stencil Expert (1993, Allen R. Walden). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gerrit Noordzij

Gerrit Noordzij (b. 1931, Rotterdam; d. 2022) was a Dutch graphic designer, typeface designer, author, teacher, calligrapher, and design artist who made drawings, wood and copper engravings, and postage stamps. From 1960 until 1990 he taught writing and type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. One of his many students there was Lucas de Groot. Noordzij has worked as graphic designer for various Dutch publishers. Since 1978 he has been the house designer for the publishing company Van Oorschot. His intellectual influence is matched by his physical heritage, in the form of two talented sons in the field of type design, Christoph and Peter Matthias. The Gerrit Noordzij Prize, a prize given to typographers and type designers for extraordinary contributions to the field, is named after him. He was also the first person to receive this prize in 1996. In 2013, Gerrit Noordzij reveived the TDC Medal at the ATypI in Amsterdam.

The influence he had on Dutch type design is based on a theoretical system he called The stroke of the pen, and his position as the main teacher of type design in the country for three decades. Books on his system include The stroke of the pen: fundamental aspects of western writing (1982), and De Streek: Theorie van het schrift (1985) (translated by Peter Enneson in 2005 at Hyphen Press in London: The Stroke: Theory of Writing). His point in his oeuvre is that letterforms are rooted in handwriting.

Other publications: Letterletter (Vancouver, Hartley&Marks Publishers, 2000), De Staart van de Kat (1988,GHM, Leersum), De Handen van de Zeven Zusters (with Willem Dijkhuis: Van Oorschot, Amsterdam, 2001), Das Kind und die Schrift (Typographische Gesellschaft, München, 1985).

His typefaces:

Gerrit designed what some consider the perfect font, Ruit, but it is nowhere to be had.
Dutch Roman (1980).
Batavian (1980).
Remer.
Ruse: a huge text family that started out based on Gerrit's own handwriting, published at TEFF, or The Enschedé Font Foundry. He writes: From 000 to 100 the family is divided into 11 variants of increasing contrast. Each variant contains four different kinds of figures (supplied in four font layouts - HgTb, HgTx, LnTb and LnTx) and a special version for ligatures (Lig). HgTb is a version that has old style figures with identical widths, HgTx has old style figures with individual widths, LnTb has lining figures with identical widths and LnTx has lining figures with individual widths. Any typesetting job for figures, whether it be in tables or plain text, can be carried out easily with Ruse. Each variant is available in roman, italic and small capitals. The complete family consists of 154 fonts.
The bastarda typeface Burgundica (1983, TEFF). He writes: The design of Burgundica emerged from analyzing the elongated version of the Burgundian Bastarda appearing firstly in manuscripts from the calligraphic workshop of Jacquemart Pilavaine in Bergen (Hainaut) in 1450. The Burgundian bookproduction of the time owed much of its splendor to this elegant script. In Burgundica I followed the shapes of the Burgundian bastarda rather closely. Of course, there was no use for the shapes of the bastarda in the roman and italic fonts of Tret; instead I adapted the spatial proportions of the calligraphic pattern to the shapes of that typeface. (Note: Tret is to be released by TEFF, currently in production). In the last quarter of the 15th century the first bastarda typefaces were cut in Bruges. Many similar typefaces followed that were founded on the typefaces by such predecessors as Caxton, Mansion and Brito. Contrarily Burgundica has its origin in the script itself.

In 2013, Geen Bitter (Thom Janssen, Jorn Henkes and Rogier van der Sluis) copublished Gewone letters Gerrit's early models at Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam. The text has contributions by Albert-Jan Pool, Frank E. Blokland, Aad van Dommelen, Huug Schipper, and Petr van Blokland. The blurb: A couple of years back, while cleaning the letterpress workshop at the KABK in The Hague, we had an amazing find. A package that hasn't been opened for some time. We opened it and found eighteen printing plates in mint condition. The printing plates, we soon found out, were made by Gerrit Noordzij and date back to the late 1960s. They contain a brief lesson about writing with the broad nib and, once familiar with this basis, writing and drawing some different techniques. Since it seemed the plates are never published before, we decided to do so and made a book containing prints from the plates. Next to the plates we asked former students if they still had old work and sketches with comments by Gerrit Noordzij. The result is a collection of sketches and material, together with five writings about the plates, Gerrit Noordzij and his contribution to the field of type and typography.

Gert Wiescher
[Autographis]

Gert Wiescher
[Wiescher Design]

Gestu
[Thiago Bellotti]

Brazilian type foundry, est. 2016 by Thiago Bellotti. The first typeface by Bellotti at Gestu is the calligraphic pointed brush script Acerola (2016).

In 2020, he released Closeby (ultra-condensed, rounded, italic) and Tocco (which is based on chunks of wood type; it includes a variable style) at Papanapa. Thiago also created the custom typeface Bib Sans (2021) at Papanapa. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Get Studio (or: Her Design)
[Herman Syah]

Herman Syah (Her Design and before that, Get Studio in Banda Aceh, Indonesia) created the signage script typefaces Selphia (2015), Unique (2015) and Maulina (2015), the watercolor brush typeface The Sweet Blooms (2015), the brush typefaces Native Land (2015), Bougenville (2015) and Dreamers Brush (2015, free), and the calligraphic script typefaces Amberlight (2015: in the wild calligraphy genre) and Rambies (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Hamish (a free fruity and milky script), Colatin (a very slanted script), Joyful Script, Twilight Script (rough brush script), Enchanted Brush, Remember Script, Fitalia Script (brush font).

Typefaces from 2017: Ameliana (a smooth relaxing script), Spectrum (brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Sherin (SVG brush font), Sprightful (brush script), Thunder Stone (Opentype SVG format).

Typefaces from 2019: Sittella, Nature, Gerniela, Hipetype (a painted, dry brush, SVG font), Hyldae Script, Princessa (a signature script), Sachie Script, Bolten, Melodiously Script, Quentin (dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2020: Stay Cool, Native Land (a brush script), Thunder Stone Script, Headey Script, Montana (a formal signage script), Everleigh Signature Script, Mauritania Script (a wild script), Swaziland (wild calligraphy), Roshelyn (a retro script), Anjaniya, Valentine.

Typefaces from 2021: Chalisha (a wet brush script), Thunder Stone Script, Melodiously (a dry brush script), Summer Glow (a groovy reverse stress typeface), Ampelas Brush Script (a dry brush script), Nola Tenley (script), Rhodesia (a plump display serif).

Aka Hermansy Man. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Getfont

Designer of the connected calligraphic typeface Formulir (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Getypes Studio
[Muhammad Rizaldi]

Acehm Indonesia-based type designer, b. 1996. As of 2021, his typefaces included Three Clover (blackletter), Salwa Script, Janetta Signature, Taslymah (calligraphic script), Angeliya (calligraphic script), Loisbeauty, Lostyle Script, and Focus Quotes. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ghazi Humam Fauzan
[Asd Studio (or: Ash-Shiddiq Studio; was: Qanita Studio)]

Ghuroba Studio
[Hasan Udin]

Lampung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of the script typefaces Silverstone (2019: monoline), Impossible (2019), Impressive (2019), Aisyah (2019: calligraphic), Marvelous Script (2019) and Julietta Messie (2019: brush), and the all caps sans typeface Marvelous Sans (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Something Sweet Duo Sans (a monoline script), Alayla (formal calligraphy), Humaira, Bill Smith (a dry brush script), Melon Slices (+Doodeds), Battaghorse (dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Handswell, Nada Qonita, Stunders. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gia Tran

Gia Tran is a self-taught calligrapher and type designer. He has worked for Dragon Rouge, 4uatre and A&Mcreative in Paris, as well as Saffron Brand Consultants in Madrid. Gia was the Type Director at the French foundry FontYou, which was founded by Gregori Vincens in 2013. He also teaches calligraphy and type design at various graphic design and visual communication schools such as Strate College Designer, Intuitlab and ESAV Marrakech. With Brahim Boucheikha, he founded the Paris and Casablanca-based design studio Babelfont.

Under the cover of Type Lovers and/or Fontyou in Paris, Gia Tran created the medieval typeface Court Hand (2012) and the blackletter typeface Gothic Fraktur (2012). He also did some great calligraphic pieces.

In 2013, together with Gregori Vincens, Alisa Nowak, Valentine Proust, and Elvire Volk at FontYou, Gia Tran created the monoline geometric sans typeface Younion FY. Younion One FY is free at Dafont. With Franck Montfermé, he co-designed the ball terminal beauty Squirrel FY. The letters of this ultra-fat didone reveal audacious geometric smoothness at large sizes.

Codesigner of Kaili FY (2013: an exotic typeface with crazy ligatures, inspired by Indian scripts, by Gregori Vincens, Bertrand Reguron, Gia Tran and Alisa Nowak) at Fontyou.

The EPS format display typeface Alice FY (2013) was co-designed by Alisa Nowak, Micaela Neustadt, Gia Tran, Bertrand Reguron and Valentine Proust at Fontyou. It was inspired by Adrien Genevard's lettering. Sub-themes are Alice in Wonderland and playing cards. The EPS format frilly script typeface Lullaby FY (2013) was co-designed by Alisa Nowak, Micaela Neustadt, Gia Tran, Bertrand Reguron and Valentine Proust at Fontyou. It too was inspired by Adrien Genevard's lettering. Exquise FY (2013) is a fashion mag didone co-designed by Bertrand Reguron, Alisa Nowak, Valentine Proust, Elvire Volk and Gia Tran at Fontyou. Gia Tran and Jason Vandenberg created the decorative typeface Ella FY (2013, Fontyou). Gia Tran, Alisa Novak, Micaela Neustadt, Bertrand Reguron and Grégori Vincens co-designed the curvy stressed elliptical sans typeface Bruum FY (2013).

Beaurencourt FY (2013) is a 19th centery secretary's hand co-designed with Jeremie Hornus.

Gregori Vincens, Gia Tran, J&eacxute;rémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the humanist sans typeface Klaus FY (2013).

At Fontyou, Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran and Julien Priez co-designed the hand-drawn typeface Brixton FY (2013). Not to be confused with two earlier typefaces called Brixton, one by Tom Chalky, and one by Luke Ferrand. Since two of the three Brixtons are commercial, I expect FontYou to change the name imminently.

In 2014, Gia Tran and Bertrand Reguron co-designed the zombie script Vidok FY (free at Dafont). Together, Elliott Amblard (France) and Gia Tran created the bold signage / retro baseball script typeface Paname FY at FontYou in 2014. Minuit FY (2014, by Jason Vandenberg and Gia Tran) is a beautiful angular angry calligraphic display typeface. The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.

Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier and Gia Tran co-designed the retro signage script typeface Coco FY (2014).

Alice Resseguier and Gia Tran co-designed the girly script typeface Lola Lola FY (2014). This typeface was forcibly renamed Chelly FY a few days after its first appearance, possibly because there already was a typeface called Lola by Laura Messeguer.

Codesigner with illustrator Quentin Vijoux of the hand-printed typeface Léon FY (2014).

In 2014, he published the modular kitchen tile typeface Dorum FY with Julien Thébault.

Benjamin Lieb and Gia Tran co-designed the 4-style retro display family Belleville FY (2014).

With Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky, he designed the creamy signage script typefaces Maio FY (2014) and Kumiz FY [Maio renamed].

Hansom Slab FY (2014, Gia Tran, Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak).

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Gian Studio
[Afri Giani]

Indonesian designer of Samuel (2019: a brush font), Sarlista Script (2019) and Avelon Script (2019: a formal calligraphic typeface).

In 2020, Giani released Andena (a script) and the calligraphic typeface Zathira.

Typefaces from 2021: Antares (a signature script), Samuel (a brush font), Bambe (all caps; dry brush).

Typefaces from 2022: Kriztina (a swashy formal calligraphic script), Asoka (a scrapbook script), Cattleya (a calligraphic script), Hello Anggela (a formal calligraphic penmanship script), Barna (a formal signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gianni Marcolongo
[TrueBlue]

Gie Studio
[Giwidodo Dodo]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1987) of the script or signature script typefaces Sunny Smile (2020), The Great Wall (2020), Chubby (2020), Quallien Cansta (2020), Masterpiece (2020: a swashy wild calligraphic script), Delicate1 (2020), Deanisa (2020), and Leganttis (2019). He also designed Little Pinky (2020) and Little Pinky Doodles (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Billiboldy (a stylish script), Anthea (a calligraphic script), Right Moment (a condensed script with a large x-height).

Typefaces from 2022: Best collections (handcrafted), Penthagon (script), Purple Orchid (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Giemons
[Oghie Novianto]

Or Oghi Novianto. Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the brush typefaces Mons (2015), Eyepic (2015) and Wild Nature (2015).

In 2016, he designed Spacethink, the grungy letterpress typeface Black Mask, the sketched typeface Baddest, the eroded marker typeface Lonsdale, the excellent poster typeface Brother, and the brush scripts Artur Script, Mars Attack, Flawless, Sekut, Bright Sight, Spacethink, Mighty, Blowing, Faithful and Damn Right, as well as the vintage handcrafted Antebellum.

Typefaces from 2017: Burnout, The Elders, Alora, Sisterfields Script, Badger, Brashed, Organic, Martabak, Brownies, Mighty, Beauty Script (watercolor brush), Society Script (monoline script), Feminim Script, Attack Attack (comic book lettering), Nobbler (vintage lettered typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Estoria Script (SVG font), Butter Sweet (a horror brush font), Postcard Script, Silence Good (font duo), Hellprint, Brought, Shining Bright, Boxer (an effective handcrafted fat slab), Southeast, MilkAndShake, Hangover Script (calligraphic), Awakening Script, Macbeth (a free opentype SVG dry brush font).

Typefaces from 2019: Be Bold, Paragon SVG, Dextone, Stars & Rabit Script, Fabrique SVG, Toast Bread Coffee.

Typefaces from 2020: Rice Bowl (oriental enmulation font), Buster (a chiseled or papercut typeface), Jack Reacher (eerie), Path Black, Hooked. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gilang Maulana
[Maulana Creative]

Gilar Studio
[Gumilar Pratama Adiatna]

Serang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of the free handwriting fonts Rafiosa (2019) and Hasta La Vista (2019), and the script typefaces Gilani Sign, Galinah (a rabbit ear script), Patlystic, Raline, Gilar Saleh, Aminarthie, Charlotte Bellamy, Gallillea, Hellowish, Hokie, Holiday Script, Isabela, Jhon Wick, Pandora, Riverlands Tully, Rudolp, Samudera, Santuy, Sella Callista, Shalitta, Starlight, Sunday Rully, and Taman Signature.

Typefaces from 2020: Fontana, Houston (inline caps), Goord (titling caps), El Fonte (all caps), Norland, Bonjour (condensed caps), Sigtia (calligraphic), Honney (calligraphic), Bigola, Axilia, Sunkisa, Santhin, Sulqata, Nagisha, Rithey, Rodelia, Betharia, Celya, Sonetha, Ruang Teduh, Reality, Jallu Salafi, Tagonda, Sigoda.

Typefaces from 2021: Bunny Flowers (a scrapbook font), We Are Allstar (a playful font, perhaps even beatnik), African Paradise (a beatnik font), House Easter (a scrapbook font), Nona Manis (a beatnik font), Anak Sultan (a scrapbook font), Luar Galaxy, Lovely Unicorn (a scrapbook typeface), Ikan Salmon (a beatnik font), The Crafty (a scrapbook font), The Funy Times (a scrapbook font), Lovely Unicorn, Fontena (an all caps arts-and-crafts sans), Amoselia (a wild calligraphic script), Bontour (a skyline font), Goordy (a classical roman caps typeface with unbracketed serifs), Hatolie (display wedge serif caps), Marisa, Cameta Cuttes (wild calligraphy), Hello Crimsons (blackboard bold), Chris Master (wild and calligraphic), Carilos (an all caps decorative serif), Budyloves (a romantic script), Valentina (an upright Valentine's day script), Berylover (a wild calligraphic script), Love Birdy (a wild calligraphic script), Loving Hearty (a lovers' script), Night City (a forceful script), Beach Loves (wild and inky calligraphy), Kity love (wild calligraphy), Love Angel (wild calligraphy), Lovely Valentine, Helo Xmas (wild calligraphy), Karoline (wild calligraphy), Looqie (a display font), Mettalian (a wild calligraphic script), Royante (a signage script), Verali (a wild calligraphic script), Quality Times (a wild script).

Typefaces from 2022: Collager (an 18-style display serif family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gilles Le Corre
[GLC --- Gilles Le Corre]

Giraldo Fernandes de Prado

Gina Serret Jove

Graphic designer, lettering artist and calligrapher in Sabadell, Catalunya, who was born in Barcelona. In 2011 she received her Masters in Advanced Typography at EINA (Barcelona). Since 2016, she teaches calligraphy, lettering and typography at several schools/art centres in Spain and France. Author of the brush calligraphy book Caligrafia con Pincel (2018, Ediciones Urano). She also teaches since 2019 at TypeParis.

Gina's typefaces:

Canica (2011). This is a typeface to be used in publications for children. It has been designed from shapes which are simple, clean, easy to distinguish, and pleasant to read. It was developed within the Eina Master's in Advanced Typography in Barcelona.
In 2018, at the Type Paris Summer Course, Gina developed the five-weight ancient shop sign font Girouette.
At Type Paris 2019, she developed Locomotora: Locomotora display type family, designed by Gina Serret, was inspired by the Catalan jazz band La Locomotora Negra (Barcelona, 1971). This band started out as a quintet, but later grew to an orchestra of eleven, and now it has a total of sixteen members. The band's style is strongly influenced by the most popular swing era musicians like Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. . Gina developed the full Locomotora typeface family based on a two-axis design space, with weight and width as variables.

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Giorgio Sellari

Calligrapher and writing master in Italy, who drew this and this in one stroke. [Google] [More] ⦿

Giovanantonio Tagliente

Or Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. Calligrapher and writing master, born in Venice, 1468-1527. Author of Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte de lo excellente scrivere de diverse varie sorti de litere (1524). Sample images from that penmanship book, which includes scripts for Latin, Hebrew and Greek: i, ii, iii, iv. Also: Chancery, Florentine, Florentine bastarda, Lettera bollatica, Lettera imperiale. Sets of ornamental capitals: Italian gothic Initials and Italian Renaissance Capitals. Picture of Tagliente's title page of his book in 1531. PDF of his work by Toni Pecoraro. Digitizations:

A scanfont based on his chancery is 1491 Cancellaresca Formata (2009, GLC).
Stanley Morison's metal Bembo (1929) is based on Tagliente's letters. Bitstream's Aldine 401 is the first digital take of Bembo, which is attributed jointly to F. Griffo and G. Tagliente. JY Aetna (1994) is Jack Yan's version. Other revivals include Bembo MT (Monotype), Bamberg Serial (Softmaker), Bergamo and Bergamo Osf (Softmaker), Bergamo (Infinitype) and Bergamo (FontSite).

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Giovanbattista Palatino

Or Giovanni Battista Palatino. Giovanbattista Palatino, b. Rossano, Italy, d. ca. 1575, Naples. The calligrapher's calligrapher, was the most prolific designer in the first half of the sixteen century. Palatino designed 29 different scripts, and also designed, not only Latin but, German, Hebrew, Chaldee, Arabic, Greek, Egyptian, Syrian, Indian, Cyrillic and several other alphabets. In 1540 he published a writing instruction and lettering book entitled Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere. In 1566, he wrote Compendio dl Gran Volume.

Palatino is also the name of a famous typeface designed in 1948 by Hermann Zapf at Linotype. Akira Kobayashi, the Palatino typeface family was expanded. Linotype released the Palatino Nova in 2005 and Palatino Sans and Palatino Sans Informal in 2006 as a joint effort of Hermann Zapf and Akira Kobayashi. Copies or near-copies of Zapf's Palatino include Book Antiqua (by Monotype, distributed by Microsoft---this typeface did not have Zapf's blessing and may well have led Zapf to resign from ATypI), URW Palladio L (on which Zapf collaborated), TeX Gyre Pagella (free), Zapf Calligraphic 801 (by Bitstream, approved by Zapf), Zapf Renaissance Antiqua (by Scangraphic), Paltus (URW), Palladium (Compugraphic), Palm Strings (Corel), Parlament (Scangraphic), Patina (Alphatype), pal (GoScript), Palladio (by SoftMaker), palazzo (by SoftMaker), and FPL Neu (based on URW Palladio L).

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Giovanni Tonso

Author of Modelli Di Calligraphia (1898). [Google] [More] ⦿

Or Giraldo del Prado (b. ca. 1535, d. Almada, 1592). Paulo Heitlinger writes about him in Cadernos vol. 16, 2010. De Prado was a painter, and acted as the calligrapher of the Teodosio II, the duke of Bragança. His home was in Guimaraes, but from 1580 on he lived in Almada. Author of the writing manual Caderno manuscrito de Caligrafia (1560, Lisbon). He seems to have been the first calligraphy specialist in Portugal. Heitlinger used Prado's examples to make his Lomabardian typeface Uncialis in 2009. Scans: Geometrically formed letters, Chancery hand (1560-1561), Another chancery hand (same year), And another one, Gotica rotunda (1560-1561). [Google] [More] ⦿

Gittype
[Sigit Nur Wicaksono]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2018, both free and commercial: Sail Tortuga (script), Revilo San, Andora Ardelion (wild calligraphy), The Standing Still, Picablo Fentier, Laila Ali (signature font), Oliver Quin (signature style), Rio de Janeiro (childish fat finger font), Alfa Delta, Tapagasmo, Gozber, Gozmer, Casey Neistat. In 2015, he designed the handcrafted brush typeface Folk (2015).

Typefaces from 2019: Oliver Quin (a signature script), Alfath (a connected monoline script), Alire (a creamy script), Royal Muffin, Morgan (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2020: Cofley, Redro (blackletter), Callidar (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2021: Tisk (blackletter). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Giuseppe Salerno
[Resistenza]

Giwidodo Dodo
[Gie Studio]

Gizem Kilic

Turkish designer specializing in wild scripts. In 2020, she published Ochre Script (wild calligraphy). [Google] [More] ⦿

GLC --- Gilles Le Corre
[Gilles Le Corre]

French painter born in Nantes in 1950, who lives in Talmont St Hilaire. His fonts include 2010 Cancellaresca Recens (inspired by a chancery type of Francisco Lucas from the late 16th century), 2009 Handymade (comic book style), 2009 Lollipop (chancery style), 2009 GLC Plantin, 2009 Primitive (2009, a rough-edged roman script), 2008 Script 2 (2008), GLC Ornaments One (2008) and 2008 Xmas Fantasy (2008: blackletter). In 2008, he started GLC -- Gilles Le Corre and became commercial. Creative Market link. He is best known for his historic revivals:

161 Vergilius (2010)
750 Latin Uncial (2010): inspired by the Latin script used in European monasteries from circa 5th to 8th, before the Carolingian style took over. The uppercases were mainly inspired by a 700's manuscript from Fécamp's abbey in France.
799 Insular (2010): inspired by the so-called insular style of Latin script that was used in Celtic monasteries from about 600 until 820.
825 Karolus (2009), and 825 Lettrines Karolus (2009).
1066 Hastings (2009).
1350 Primitive Russian (2012) was inspired by a Russian Cyrillic hand of Russkaja Pravda. It has rough-edged Latin charaters and many old Russian glyphs.
1420 Gothic Script (2008).
1431 Humane Niccoli (2010), after writings of Florence-based calligrapher Niccolo Niccoli (1364-1437).
1456 Gutenberg (2008, based on a scan of an old text). Followed by 1456 Gutenberg B42 Pro, which was based on the so called B42 character set used for the two Gutenberg Latin Bibles (42 and 36 lines).
1462 Bamberg (2008).
1467 Pannartz Latin (2009): inspired by the edition De Civitate Dei (by Sanctus Augustinus) printed in 1467 in Subiaco by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, who was the punchcutter.
1470 Sorbonne (2010) was inspired by the first French cast font, for the Sorbonne University printing shop. The characters were drawn by Jean Heynlin, rector of the university based on examples by Pannartz. It is likely that the cutter was Adolf Rusch.
1470 Jenson-SemiBold (2008).
1475 BastardeManual (2008, inspired by the type called Bastarde Flamande, a book entitled Histoire Romaine (by Titus Livius), translated in French by Pierre Bersuire ca. 1475, was the main source for drawing the lower case characters).
1479 Caxton Initials (2009): inspired by the two blackletter fonts used by the famous William Caxton in Westminster (UK) in the late 1400s.
1483 Rotunda Lyon (2010): inspired by a Venetian rotunda found in a 1483 book called Eneide printed in Lyon by Barthélémy Buatier (from Lyon) and Guillaume Le Roy (from Liège, Belgium).
1484 Bastarda Loudeac (2008).
1470 Jenson Latin (2009), inspired by the pure Jenson set of fonts used in Venice to print De preparatio evangelica in 1470.
1491 Cancellarasca Normal and Formata (2009): inspired by the very well known humanist script called Cancellaresca. This variant, Formata, was used by many calligraphers in the late 1400s, especially by Tagliente, whose work was mainly used for this font.
1492 Quadrata (2008).
1495 Lombardes (2008): a redrawn set of Lombardic types, which were used in Lyon by printers such as Mathias Huss, Martin Havard or Jean Real, from the end of 14OOs to the middle of 1500s.
1495 Bastarde Lyon (2008, based on the font used in the "Conte de Griseldis" by Petrarque).
1499 Alde Manuce Pro (2010): inspired by the roman font used by Aldus Manutius in Venice (1499) to print Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the well-known book attributed to Francesco Colonna. Francesco Griffo was the punchcutter. The Italic style, carved by Francesco Colonna, illustrates the so-called Aldine style.
1509 Leyden (2008; a Lombardic typeface inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae).
1510 Nancy (2008, decorated initial letters was inspired by those used in 1510 in Nancy (France, Lorraine) for printing of Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d'Austrasie ou France orientale[...] by Symphorien Champion; unknown printer).
1512 Initials.
1514 Paris Verand (based on initial caps that Barthélémy Verand employed for the printing of Triumphus translatez de langage Tuscan en François.
1522 Vicentino (2011). Based on Ludovico Vicentino Arrighi's 1522 typeface published in La Operina.
GLC 1523 Holbein (2010, after Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death.
GLC 1525 Durer Initials (2010). Sample R.
1529 Champ Fleury Pro and 1529 Champ Fleury Initials (2010): based on Geofroy Tory's original drawings and text face.
1532 Bastarde Lyon (2008, based on work by an anonymous printer in Lyon (France) to print the French popular novel Les Grandes et inestimables Chroniques du grand et enorme geant Gargantua).
1533 GLC Augereau Pro: inspired by one of Antoine Augereau's three roman typefaces: the Gros Romain size, used in 1533 to print Le miroir de l'&aciorc;me..., a poetic compilation by Marguerite de Navarre, sister of the French king François I.
1534 Fraktur (2009; inspired by the early Fraktur style font used circa 1530 by Jacob Otther, printer in Strasbourg (Alsace-France) for German language printed books).
1536 Civilité manual (2011). Based on a handwritten copy of Brief story of the second journey in Canada (1535) by French explorer Jacques Cartier.
1538 Schwabacher (2008, based on a font used by Georg Rhan in Wittemberg (Germany) to print Des Babsts Hercules [...], a German pamphlet against roman catholicism written by Johannes Kymeus).
1540 Mercator Script was inspired by an alphabet of Gerardus Mercator, who is known for his maps as well as his Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio (1540).
1543 Humane Petreius (2012) was inspired by the typeface used in Nuremberg by Johannes Petreius for De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, the well-known mathematical and astronomical essay by Nicolas Copernicus.
1543 German Deluxe (2009): a Schwabacher inspired by the sets of fonts used in 1543 by Michael Isengrin, printer in Basel, to print New Kreüterbuch, which is a book with numerous nice pictures, the masterpiece of Leonhart Fuchs, father of the modern botany.
1543 HumaneJenson-Bold (2008, after the typeface used in Vesalius' 1543 book De humani corporis fabrica).
1543 HumaneJenson-Normal (2008, same source).
1545 Faucheur (2011) is a rough garalde typeface that was inspired by the set of fonts used in Paris by Ponce Rosset, aka Faucheur, to print the story of the second travel to Canada by Jacques Cartier, first edition, printed in 1545.
1546 Poliphile (2009), inspired by the French edition of Hypnerotomachie de Poliphile ("The Strife of Love in a Dream") attributed to Francesco Colonna, 1467, and printed in 1546 in Paris by Jacques Kerver.
1550 Arabesques (2008, caps).
1557 Civilité Granjon (2010).
1557 Italique (2008, based on Italic type used by Jean de Tournes in Lyon to print La métamorphose d'Ovide figurée).
1565 Renaissance (2010), inspired by French renaissance decorated letters.
1565 Venetian Normal (2008, initial decorated letters that are entirely original, but were inspired by Italian renaissance engraver Vespasiano Amphiareo's patterns published in Venice ca. 1568).
1584 Rinceau (2008, a set of initial letters is an entirely original creation, inspired by French renaissance patterns used by Bordeaux printers circa 1580-1590).
1584 Pragmatica Lima (2011). Based on fonts used in 1584 by Antonio Ricardo to produce the first publication ever printed in Southern America.
1585 Flowery (2009): inspired by French renaissance decorated letters.
1589 Humane Bordeaux (2008, inspired by the Garamond fonts used by S. Millanges (imprimeur ordinaire du Roy) in Bordeaux ca. 1580-1590. The alphabets were used to reprint L'instruction des curés by Jean Gerson).
1590 Humane Warszawa is a rough-edged garalde typeface inspired by a font carved circa 1590 for a Polish editor.
1592 GLC Garamond (2008, inspired by the pure Garamond set of fonts used by Egenolff and Berner, German printers in Frankfurt, at the end of sixteen century. Considered the best and most complete set at the time. The italic style is Granjon's).
1610 Cancellaresca (2008, inspired by the Cancellaresca moderna type of 1610 by Francesco Periccioli who published it in Sienna).
1613 Basilius (2012) was based on the hand-drawn types used by Basilius Besler (Germany) for the carved plates of his botanical manual Hortus eystettensis.
GLC 1619 Expédiée (2015). A grungy Civilté.
1621 GLC Pilgrims (2010).
1634 René Descartes (2009), based upon his handwriting in a letter to Mersenne.
1638 Civilité Manual (2010). Inspired by a French solicitor's document dated 1638.
GLC 1648 Chancellerie (2011). Inspired by the hand-written 1648 Munster peace treaty signed by roi Louis XIV and Kaiser Ferdinand II.
1651 Alchemy (2010): a compilation created from a Garamond set in use in Paris circa 1651.
GLC 1669 Elzevir (2011) was inspired by the font typefaces used in Amsterdam by Daniel Elzevir to print Tractatus de corde, the study of earth anatomy by Richard Lower, in 1669. The punchcutter was Kristoffel Van Dijk.
GLC 1672 Isaac Newton (2012) is based on the hand of Isaac Newton.
GLC Morden Map (2011). Based on an engraved typeface used on a pack of playing cards published by Sir Robert Morden in 1676.
1682 Writhed Hand: very irregular handwriting.
1689 GLC Garamond Pro (2010): inspired by Garamond fonts used in an edition of Remarques critiques sur les oeuvres d'Horace by DAEP, published in Paris by Deny Thierry and seprately by Claude Barbin.
1689 Almanach (2009): inspired by the eroded and tired fonts used by printers from the sixteenth century to the early years of twentieth for cheap or fleeting works, like almanacs, adverts, gazettes or popular novels.
1695 Captain Flynt.
16th Arabesques (2008, an exquisite ornamental caps scanfont).
1715 Jonathan Swift (2011). An example of the hand of Irish poet and novelist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). It is a typical exemple of the British quill pen handwriting from about 1650-1720.
GLC 1726 Real Espanola (2012). Based on the set of typefaces used by Francisco Del Hierro to print the first Spanish language Dictionary from the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española, Dictionario de Autoridades) in 1726. These transitional styles are said to have been the first set of official typefaces in Spain.
1741 Financiere (2009): inspired by the Fournier's font Financière. While it appears handwritten, it was in fact carved in 1741 by Pierre Simon Fournier le jeune and published in his Manuel Typographique in Paris (1764-1766).
1742 Frenchcivilite (2008).
1751 GLC Copperplate (2009), a 6-style family about which Gilles says: This family was inspired by an engraved plate from Diderot&Dalembert's Encyclopedia (1751), illustrating the chapter devoted to letter engraving techniques. The plate bears two engravers names: "Aubin" (may be one of the four St Aubin brothers?) and "Benard" (whose name is present below all plates of the Encyclopedia printed in Geneva). It seems to be a transitional type, but different from Fournier or Grandjean.
1756 Dutch (2011).
1776 Independence (inspired mainly from the font used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of the Congress' Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America).
1781 La Fayette (2010): a formal bâtarde coulée script with caitals inspired by Fournier (1781).
1785 GLC Baskerville (2011). Le Corre explains: The Baskerville's full collection was bought by the French editor and author Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais who used it to print---in Switzerland---for the first time the complete work of Voltaire (best known as the Kehl edition, by the "Imprimerie de la société littéraire typographique"). We have used this edition, with exemplaries from 1785, to reconstruct this genuine historical two styles.
1786 GLC Fournier (2010), based on several books printed in Paris just before the Didot era set in. The Titling characters are based on hymns printed by Nicolas Chapart.
1790 Royal Printing (2009): inspired by various variants of Romain du Roy.
1791 Constitution (2011).
1792 La Marseillaise (2011). Based on the original manuscript of the French revolutionary song La Marseillaise which later became the French national hymn---it was composed in one night (April 25, 1792) by captain Rouget de Lisle.
1805 Austerlitz Script Light: a typical French handwriting style from that period, named after one of the few battles that Napoleon actually won.
1805 Jaeck Map (2011). Inspired by the engraved characters of a German map, edited in Berlin at the end of 1700s. The engraver was Carl Jaeck or Jaek (1763-1808).
1809 Homer (2011), a grungy typeface named after the "homer" message pigeons.
1815 Waterloo (2008): a handwriting typeface originating in Napoleon's government. Why do I feel that GLC is nostalgic for the era of Napoleon? Their own present dwarf-version of Napoleon is not exactly a huge success.
1820 Modern (2009) was inspired by a didone font used in Rennes by Cousin-Danelle, printers, for a Brittany travel guide.
1822 GLC Caslon (2010): inspired by a Caslon set used by an unknown Flemish printer from Bruges, in the beginning of 1800s, a little before the revival of the Caslon style in the 1840s.
1845 Mistress (2009): calligraphic script.
1848 Barricades Italic, a quill pen italic.
1859 Solferino (2009).
1863 Gettysburg (2008; inspired by a lot of autographs, notes and drafts, written by President Abraham Lincoln, mainly the Gettysburg address).
1864 GLC Monogram Initials (2011) was inspired by a French portfolio containing about two hundred examples of Chiffres---deux lettres, created for engravers and jewelers in Paris in 1864, and drawn by French engraver C. Demengeot.
1871 Victor Hugo (2011). Based on manuscripts from the final part of the life of Victor Hugo (1802-1885).
1871 Whitman Script (2008) and 1871 Dreamer Script (2008): inspired by manuscripts by American poet Walt Whitman. See also 1871 Dreamer 2 Pro (2012).
1880 Kurrentschrift (2010): German handwriting, based on late medieval cursive. It is also known as "Alte Deutsche schrift" ("Old German script"). This was taught in German schools until 1941.
1883 Fraktur (2009): inspired by fonts used by J. H. Geiger, printer in Lahr, Germany.
1885 Germinal: based on notes and drafts written by Émile Zola (1840-1902).
GLC 1886 Romantic Initials (2012).
1890 Registers Script (2008): inspired by the French "ronde".
1890 Notice (2009): a fat didone family.
1902 Loïe Fuller (art nouveau face).
1906 Fantasio (2010): inspired by the hatched one used for the inner title and many headlines by the popular French satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948).
1906 French News: a weathered Clarendon-like family based on the fonts used by Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper that ran from 1863 until 1937.
1906 Fantasio Auriol (2010), inspired by the set of well known Auriol fonts used by the French popular satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948).
1906 Titrage (2009): a didone headline typeface from the same newspaper.
Underwood 1913 (2007, an old typewriter font, whose commercial version is Typewriter 1913), and 1913 Typewriter Carbon (2008).
1920 French Script Pro (2010).
1920 My Toy Print Set, 1925 My Toy Print Deluxe Pro (2010): inspired by rubbert stamp toy print boxes called Le petoit imprimeur.
1968 GLC Graffiti (2009).
1917 Stencil (2009; with rough outlines).
2010 Dance of Death (2010): based on Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death.
2009 Primitive (2016).
2009 GLC Plantin Pro (2016).
2010 Pipo Classic: a grungy typewriter slab serif family.
2010 Cancellaresca Recens (2016).
2011 Slimtype (2011, +Italic) and 2011 Slimtype Sans (2011): an old typewriter typeface.

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Gleb Guralnyk

Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine-based designer of these typefaces in 2015: Odd Times (a vintage blackletter typeface), Brandy Label (a layered Victorian signage font), Smoking (a great Western layered poster font), Traveller, Letterhead (steampunk, vintage, Victorian), Age, Nataly Temper, Vintage Auto (a retro chrome automobile font), Golden Dust (a lava lamp font), Rusty Phoenix, Phoenix, the Victorian signage typeface Whiskey, Spirals, Biker (spurred inline font), the oily signage font Pin Up.

In 2016, he designed Far Kingdoms (Victorian), Brass Heart (steampunk / Victorian), Big City Light (a vintage movie theater typeface), Lostamp (a weathered vintage rough stencil script), Kexman (calligraphic script), Loftype (creamy brush script), Shoelaces (monoline script), Tobacco Box (Victorian), Humblest, Whiskey Label (a great vintage Victorian headline font), Insane Fear (spurred), Falchion Edge (Victorian display typeface), Inside The Box (techno), Amber Taste (a layered Victorian beer label font; see also Amber Taste Pro (2020)), One Thin Line (a paperclip font), Bald Eagle (Victorian), Autumn Feel (brush script), Dirty Cartoon, Magic Curls, Winery, Bite Hard (beveled caps), Lovebus (psychedelic style), Column (layered Victorian), Golden Brush, Marine Fairytale (Victorian), and Old Story (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2017: Goodwine, Daub (EPS format brush alphabet), Rusted Bevel, Dirty Cartoon (a layerable cartoon font), Bald Eagle (vintage), La Belman (Victorian; see also La Belman Pro in 2020), Bright (creamy calligraphic), Winery, Magic Curls, Black Queen (Victorian style), Little Mess (dry brush), Lovebus (psychedelic), Bite Hard, Fiver (prismatic style), Sweet Rum (vintage), The Freaky Circus (Western circus font), Biker New (spurred), Flex Wire, Agress (graffiti style), Old Story, Rusted Brushpen (dry brush), Mosaic Pool, Ranch (vintage style with layered textures), Golden Dust, Letter Head, Limber (dry brush script), Patina, Craft Beer (a layered beer label font), Droptune (Victorian), Chimera Tail, Hardwatt (dry brush), Megawatt (signage script), Jamish (a handcrafted blackboard bold typeface), Oak Lumber, Odd Times (blackletter), Gunshot (an art nouveau display typeface), Bootleggers (a vintage label typeface), Brandy Label (vintage layered font), Smoking Typeface (vintage Western style, with layering).

Typefaces from 2018: Shining Night (a marquee font), Scratches, Candy Shop (a multiline titling typeface), Nataly Temper (a crayon font), Anise Seeds, Lostamp (a great stamp font), Hicksons (retro signage script), Loftype (creamy script), Far Kingdoms (spurred vintage typeface), Predators Cuspid, Sweet & Fresh, Frantic (a vintage car typeface), Affair (Victorian), Falchion Edge (spurred vintage style), Lost in Space, Traveler (an interlocking vintage Tuscan display typeface), True Black, Late Frost, Inside The Box (an interesting double-width font), Magic Garden (curly style), Skater Girl (retro script).

Typefaces from 2019: True Black (Tuscan), Nature Force, Sweettooth (script: 2018-2019), Rusted Bevel, Rusted Bevel, Fishermans Knot (a vintage label font started in 2018), Skater Girl (a heavy upright script), Cidrella, Western Shooter, Little Mess (a dry brush calligraphic script), Spirit Board (pure Victoriana), Ranch Vintage (shadowed, textured, vintage), Forged Fence (an ironwork font), Long Ride (an octagonal license plate font), Chimera Tail Rough, Patina.

Typefaces from 2020: Sweet Ponch, Natural Heap (letters in laurels), Street Rush, Cally (a decorative Tuscan typeface), Sunny Bay, Harietta (a retro monoline script), Cheer Inside (a vintage font), Frizzy (a vintage label font), Asia Impact (simulating an oriental brush calligraphy), Exa Metline (an inline font), Hallie (a curly display typeface), No Rules, Parallax, Golden Treasure (a vintage ironwork font), Squidink, Bushman (an organic sans), Florry (a display sans), Propeller, Spirit Board (a layered circus font family), Lord Grayson (Victorian), Grayson (a tall gloomy monoline sans), Grayson Rough, Kaipara (a patterned all caps font), Classic Heritage (a Victorian or steampunk signage typeface), Anise Seeds (vintage softly spurred Tuscan caps), Candy Shop (vintage trilined caps), Plop, Practish (an experimental slab serif family), Everleigh (a stylish thin typeface), Everleigh Duo, Love Affair (vintage, perhaps art nouveau), Lost in Space (sci-fi), Sweet and Fresh.

Typefaces from 2021: Dusky Rough (a Western or saloon font), Dusky Pub (a Western typeface with Tuscan features), Dusky Slab (a reverse stress Western font), Humblest Pro (an all caps display sans), Giftbox (a vintage label font).

Typefaces from 2022: Simply Royal (layerable vintage caps with an engraved money look), Go Pop (pop art). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gliphmaker.com
[Ivan Zeifert]

Russian language site with an archive (specializing in calligraphic and display scripts), some original fonts by Ivan Zeifert of Ivan Zeifert Works, tens of free fonts by Alexandra Gophmann, and links to free and commercial font sites. Commercial scripts nearly all by Zeifert, and nearly all are cyrillicized versions of Latin typefaces. Free scripts: Cansellarist (2003, Ivan Zeifert, cyrillicized version of Cancellaresca Script Plain), ChampagneCyrillic (2005), Copyist (2004, Ivan Zeifert), Drakkar (2004), Figurny (2006, an exaggerated Victorian face, done with Anatole and Alexandra Gophmann), Flibustier-Thin (2005), HeatherScriptOne (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), HeatherScriptTwo (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), KabarettSimple-Thin (2004, a Showboat-style face, cyrillicized by Ivan Zeifert), KabarettDecorDEMO-Thin (2004), Marianna (2006), RockletterSimple (2005), RockletterTransparent (2005), RosamundaOne-Normal (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), RosamundaTwo (2005, Alexandra Gophmann). These are all by Ivan Zeifert: Flibustier-Thin (2005), Twin Brush (2006), Custodian (2006), Acquest Script (2006), Auric Script (2006), Calligraphist, ChampagneCyrillic (2005), Cansellarist (2003, cyrillicized version of Cancellaresca Script Plain), Chancellor, Chaplain, Chromium Plated, Connetable, Counterbalance, Copyist, Countess, Decree Art One and Two, Decree (Narrow, Thin, Wide), Drakkar, Engraver, Forest, Gissmonda, Kabarett Decorated, Kabarett Transparent, Languedoc, Maghreib, Medieval, Neon Italic, Patience, Rockletter Decorated, RockletterSimple (2005), RockletterTransparent (2005), Saloon, Splinter, Twin Brush, Whirlpool, Wooden Ship Decorated, Wooden Ship One and Two. News. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gluk Fonts
[Grzegorz Luksza]

Aka Grzegorz Luk and just Gluk, Grzegorz Luksza is a Polish type designer (b. 1973) who specializes in ultra-decorative and experimental typefaces.

Creator of the free artsy font Wanta (2008), of Resagnicto (2010), of Rawengulk (2010), of Rawengulk Sans (2011), of Reswysokr (2011), of the bold slab serif typeface Zantroke (2011), and of the free calligraphic typefaces Odstemplik (2009), promocyja (2008) and Konstytucyja (2008).

He published the elegant serif family Foglihten (2010), which includes the inline typefaces Foglihten No. 1 (2011), Foglihten Fr02 (2011), Foglihten No. 3 (2011) and Foglihten No. 4 (2012). The latter is inspired by the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. Foglihten Petite Caps Black (2012) and Foglihten Black PCS (2012) are high-contrast fat didone typefaces, minus the ball terminals. The series continues with Foglihten No. 6 (2012) and Foglihten No. 7 (2013).

Qumpellka No 12 (2011) is a flowing italic. Opattfram01 (2011) is a dingbat typeface with onamental patterns. The Okolaks family (2008) has a bit of an art deco feel. It covers East-European languages as well as Cyrillic. Sportrop (2008) is a neat multiline face. Gputeks (2008) is a delicate decorative face. Szlichta07 (2008) on the other hand is an experimental typeface based on tilting the horizontal edges about ten degrees up. Kawoszeh (2008) is a curly Victorian pre-art nouveau face. Spinwerad (2009) and Itsadzoke S01 (2010) and Itsadzoke S02 are display didones. Znikomit (2011) is an impressive lachrymal hairline slab face. See also Znikomit No. 25 (2012) and Znikomit No. 24 (2012; image by Benjamin Frazzetto).

Creations from 2012: Charakterny, Garineldo, Mikodacs (an Impact-like black display sans), Yokawerad (a didone headline face), Resagokr, Nikodecs, Garineldo SC.

Typefaces from 2013: Etharnig, Namskin, Namskout (a layered heavy display face), Prida 65 (spurred antique face), Ketosag, Prida 61, Gatometrix, Glametrix, Gallberik.

Typefaces from 2014: VECfont FogV4, EtharnigV (a bi-colored font), Risaltyp, Wabroye, Kleymissky, Sortefax (an outline font with engraved versions as on dollar bills), Dragerotypos (blackboard bold), Resamitz.

Typefaces from 2015: Prida 36, Sudegnak No. 3 (script), Vecfont Sudegnak (cartoonish), PridaEn (a vector font for color), Prida S4, Prida01, Prida02 Calt.

Typefaces from 2016: BroshN, Tofimpelik (+Candy), Prosh3, Digitalt, Agreloy (a lovely curly Victorian typeface), Gluk Mixer (ransom note font), Fogtwo No 5.

Typefaces from 2017: Prosh 4B (a variable color font), BroshK2 (an origami style color font, in OpenType SVG format), Fuetargio (a multiline bejeweled typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: BroshK, Rostef (all caps titling typeface), Fogthree.

Typefaces from 2019: ResotE, ResotE-Pastels (a color font), ResotYc (a decorative unicase font), Resot Yg, Liserif (a kinetic SVG font).

Typefaces from 2020: Digico M (a color font), Resotho (a wide all caps geometric sans).

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Glyph Style
[Dimas Ardhi]

Banyuwangi, Indonesia-based designer specializing in script typefaces. Creator of Serrem (2019: a melting wax font), Bridamount (2019), Brigham (2019: a signature script), Creata (2019: a brush script) and Hollen Amare (2019: a font duo).

Typefaces from 2020: Trackers (a brush font), Vanessia (script), Allea Sweet (a scrapbook font), Holligate Signature, Rochester Monoline, Gellardo, Centhiny, Hello Freeday, Aullia, Creattion, Black Angel.

Typefaces from 2021: Ashley + Mellisa (script), Oishigo (a wild script), Ashgabat (a pure signature script), Threva (a blackboard bold font), Gleamore (a creamy display typeface), Darlington Signature, Gothix (brush script), Mustine (script), Darlington Signature Script, Solastion (brush script), Holista (a calligraphic script), Justmine (a signature script), Mutine (script), Fostone (a signature script), Imoon, Eigha, Wishloved, Quetta Signature Script, Southam (an inky script), Mustica (a brush script), Lasthrue (a signature font), Signora (a signature font).

Typefaces from 2022: Eastory (an inline display font), Onthel (a race car font), Qramesy (for display). Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Godelief Tielens
[Kalligarfie 't Veertje]

View all typefaces by Paul Lloyd. Images of Paul Lloyd's best-selling typefaces. Greater Albion Typefounders: typeface collection. View Paul Lloyd's Victorian typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gokhan Cakir

Gokhan Cakir (Ankara, Turkey) designed the calligraphic typeface Callitic (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Gold Type
[Wahi Din]

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic script font Manstein (2022). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Goldlake Graphic
[Bhima Bagaskara]

Aka Goldlake Graphic. Bhima Bagaskara (Malang, Indonesia) designed the spurred display typeface GL Firstblood and the EPS-format brush typeface Steak Brush in 2013.

In 2018, he created the thin calligraphic typeface GL Roosy Script, and the brush typeface GL Steak Brush V2. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gottfried Pott

Calligrapher, born in 1939. He studied graphic design at the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden under F. Poppl. Since 1988, he is professor of calligraphy at the University for Applied Science and Art at Hildesheim/Holzminden, Germany. Bio. Well-known for the highly decorative bastarda typeface Duc de Berry (1991, Adobe, and later also at Linotype), for Karolina (1990, Linotype, in the style of the Carolingian Minuskel), for Arioso (1990, Linotype) and for Ruling Script (1992, Linotype, a calligraphic script). The Duc de Berry font was aped in Casual Tudor Script (SSi), Agincourt (Swfte) and Talleyrand (Scriptorium). In 2010, he made the sketchy brush face Potpourri (Linotype).

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Gottlieb Stalder

Gorgeous web page in which Gottlieb Stalder offers his calligraphic script "Gottlieb Stalder Schrift " in font format (truetype and type 1, Mac and PC): capitals and numbers only. [Google] [More] ⦿

Grafema

Book and calligraphic arts mag with some type design articles published by CEAAD, Centro de Estudos Albicastrenses Aplicados ao Design in Castelo Branco, Portugal. In Spanish and Portuguese. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graffiti Fonts (or: Highground Industries, or: Highground Graffiti Fonts, or: Fulltime Artists)
[Matthew Napolitano]

Matt Napolitano (b. 1977) runs Highground Industries (ex-Highground Graffiti Fonts, ex: Fulltime Artists) in Milpitas and/or San Jose, CA. The company also goes by the name Graffiti Fonts and is known as Rase One Full Time Artists over on Dafont.

Commercial graffiti fonts: first, there is a group of such fonts by Matt Napolitano, who runs the site (Dim Basic, Wild Style, Pilot Rase, RaseOne Original, RaseOne Outline, Human Rase, New Digital). There are free contributions by Ray Larabie (Funboy, Bomr, Degrassi, Graffiti Treat, Hawkeye, Yytrium), and Johan Waldenström (Writers, Writers2, writers3, Writers Bold, Writers Condensed, Homeboy, 08Underground, 5Cent, B-Boy, Subway).

Fonts from 2019: Rase Nicolous.

Fonts from 2018: Descent, Rase Grimm.

Fonts from 2017: San Jose (graffiti font), Strokes (dry brush style).

Fonts from 2014: Wild Style (graffiti).

Fonts from 2013: RapScript (graffiti), Olde Crilt (blackletter).

Fonts from 2012: Rase GPL (squarish, free at OFL).

Fonts from 2011: Gang Bang (2011, graffiti tag style), Scrawl (graffiti style).

Fonts from 2010: Stencil Font, Wild Style (tattoo or metal band font), New English (blackletter), Mad Props (brush), Graffick (futuristic), Olde Gangsta (blackletter), Back Spin, Ruckus, Pre Cursive (2007: lined school font; free at Open Font Library), Caption (brush), CaliCholo (brushy wall writing by LA gangs), Skin Art (an all caps tattoo family), Ballers (calligraphic brushy script).

Fonts from before 2010: Standard Cap (2007, brush face), Hardway (2005, graffiti), Burner (2006), Scraper (2007, caps only paintbrush face), Fresh Paint (2006, like Scraper), Street Artist (2008, tag font for graffiti), Rase Downe (2006, graffiti face), Tough Guy (2001, mechanical family; +Stencil College), Dafunk, Fatcap, Pilot Rase, Califas (2006), Califas Chisel (2013), Scrawler (2006), Wild Style (2006), Rase Tribals (2006), Uni Wide (2006, graffiti font), Rase One (2004), Magik Marker (2006), Paint Cans (2003), Rase Basic (2003), Same Gang (2004).

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GRAFICA

Italian site with the history of type, stone cutting and calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graham McArthur

Aussie hand lettering artist who made Chirico Light (2004, a sans). [Google] [More] ⦿

Granz Creative

Type foundry located either in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, or in Indonesia, est. 2020,depending upon the link. The (mostly script) fonts made by Granz Creative by 2021: Abessom, Abigate Desgo Stylish Serif, Acoustica Script, Adorable Script, Adrielle Script, Aftesto Modern Serif, Agatha Putri Signature, Agilia Script, Akila Modern Serif, Alexside Slab, Alika Minimalist Serif, Alisabela Brushley Brush Script, Alisha Gishela, Alishakey, Alishanty Monoline Signature, Alisteria, Allinda Light, Almonade, Almondita Signature, Alpinet Brush, Amallia and Ronaldo Script, Amantaria Beauty, Amarila Script, Amarylli Script, Amattera Million Calligraphy, Amertano, Amigate Endgame Modern Brush, Amigoste, Amorillan Orgendam Signature, Amsterdam Billionaire Signature, Amsterdam Bright Signature, Amsterdam Laviera Brush Script, Amsterdam Morning, Amsterdam Signature, Amsterdam Traveling Modern Script, Andalusia Signature, Andine Serif, Andylante Jhondyle Modern Script, Angelic Matilda Script, Angelinea Script, Angels Cookie Brush, Anthony Hartman Signature, Anthony Hunter Signature, Aprilia Marelo, Arletta Script, Artistica, Astriany Script, Auristtela Patricia Signature Script, Australia Beauty Brush Script, Australia Custom Signature, Austrian Script, Authentic Calisttera Script, Aventurine, Avigea Modern Serif, Baby Shower Quirky, Babycakes, Backhome Brush, Badger Delight, Baguette Brush, Baked Almond Bold YH, Balencia Lattive Modern Script, Balestic Brush, Balistica Modern, Balletica Script, Balloon Dream, Balmonde Monoline, Bartes Malaga Calligraphy, Basstian Signature, Bastian Richardo Calligraphy, Beach Lombok Serif, Bearline Signature, Beatrica Script, Beautica Script, Beautiful Garden Script, Beauty Brand, Beauty Nature, Belac Orlan Modern Brush, Belantica, Belgium Victory Modern Script, Belianty Elesha Elegant Serif, Belistaria Signature Monoline, Bellisha Smith Signature Script, Bentila Signate Signature, Beratone Emadre Brush, Bergante Classy Serif, Berline Spark Quirky, Berlishanty Calligraphy, Beterdam Smith Signature, Beternite Limited Signature, Better Lovely, Better Spine, Bettilda Ristta Wedding Script, Biograf Brush, Birdhave Signature, Birdlove Script, Birdside Script, Birdwatch Script, Black Brush, Blackbone Script, Blackfeast Signature, Blackswan Signature, Blandita, Blankside Script, Blendaria Modern Script, Blendstera Signature, Blinky Season, Bllad Sans Serif, Blondeta, BlueBird Quirky, Bodynote Brush, Boldman Script, Bolinger Minimalist Serif, Bontias Beautiful Serif, Boucik Script, Bouncy Display, Bounties Display, Boutique Signature Script, Bowhead Script, Branding Aliskaje Modern Serif, Brandon Smith Signature, Bratt Graner Brush, Breakbone Display, Bright Candy Calligraphy, Bright Fresh Signature, Bright Orchid YH, Bright Violet Script, Brilliant Castelo Signature, Brilliant Signature Signature, Britany Beautiful, Britany Lovely, Brittanyhustle Signature, Brother Brush, Brotherdam Signature, Brown Volky Stylish Serif, Brownie Buster Brush, Bubble Rainbow, Buckley Brush, Buffalo City Signature Script, Buffalo, Bulandari Calligraphy, Bulgeria Classy Serif, Bullgeria Signature, Butterfly Glorista Script, Butterfly Hellyna Script, Cailyn Boom Script, California, Caligature Hunters Modern Script, Callimba Serif, Calysta Rose Script, Camelleon Script, Camila Raindrop Script, Candy Dino Quirky, Candycane Display, Candyreins Script, Cantika Prilia, Cardrone Brush, Casterdam Belatica Signature, Castilla Script, Castle Begale Luxury Serif, Castlena Script, Casttelo Signature, Catalish Huntera Modern Script, Celosia Golden Script, Chalkier Display, Championa Display, Charming Holiday, Cheese Foodies Quirky, Chelon Classy Serif, Childish Script, Chilhood, Christian Heedlay Signature, Christina Signature Signature, Christopher Signature, Cinderela Brush, Citruslime Signature, Clarlisse Dawson, Classyday Signature, Claytona Script, Collinsaber Brush, Coltisho, Columbian Script, Cothelina Signature, Crafterdam, Creamy Sunset, Cristtina Delmonte, Crystal Angles, Cuningham Singleton Signature Script, Cutie Biscuit Script, Cutie Delina Quirky, Dahlia Regictik Serif, Daily Feather Script, Daily Planet Script, Dailymoon Script, Dancing Candy, Dancingdog Script, Dandelion Script, Danisha, Daretro Mandra Luxury Serif, Dashing Unicorn Display, Dattreon Smith Signature, Daydream Script, Dear Honey Quirky, Delashanty, Deligante Smithasa Signature, Delight Signature, Delighty, Delisha Glande, Delistha Signature Signature Script, Dellisa Roslytta Script, Delmona Script, Delmonte Absolute Signature, Delmonte Hunters Signature Script, Delmonteria Fidmonte Monoline Signature, Delrosa Holiday Quirky, Delynta Signature Script, Deraga Classic Serif, Derlantica Beauty Signature, Devitta Stylish Serif, Diamond Midnight Display, Diamond Sparkling Serif, Digofetto Brush, Dominic Laurence Calligraphy, Dominyte Signate Modern Signature, Double Diamond Script, Doubtless Brush, Drawing Kids Quirky, Dreameyes, Dreamline Monoline, Dreams Hunter Script, Dreams Kuliah, Eastern Hillside Script, Eastwood Script, Eclipse Cinema Script, Elegante Script, Elinga Classy Serif, Ellisha Script, Emely Days Quirky, Emelystta Wedding Script, Energetica Script, Entahlah Signature, Exciting Display, Exotic Necklace, Fadetta Signature Script, Fairy Lavender Monoline, Falinlove, Fallout Script, Fancy Delight Signature, Farmhouse, Farmhouse Morning, Fedattona Brush, Ferguson Hunter Script, Ferttigra Monoline Signature, Fighterland Script, Flash Light Signature, Florania Script, Flourissha Script, Fogsta Modern Serif, Forsty Candy Display Brush, Franky Toys - Display, Freyatina Pelgona Signature, Futerdam Knight Signature, Futuristic Rottesla Brush, Futuristic Signature, Futuristic Signature Signature, Futuristica Signature Script, Gabriel, Gabriela Ragile, Gabuters Brush, Galaksie Script, Galaxion Brush, Galaxy Sprinkle Script, Gallendo Brush Script, Gardenia Summer Signature, Gardenisa Luxury, Gashina Lattiva, Gashina Script, Gelyti Script, Geraldo Island, Get unlimited downloads, Ghisel Honey Bouncy Script, Gingle Snowland Signature, Girlish Brush, Gishella Morely Serif, Gisrida Classy Serif, Glamori Script, Glamour Karlina Beautiful Serif, Glamourn Display, Glittery, Golden Mind, Goldena, Goldie Blanket Script, Goldie Boxing, Goldie Rainbow Script, Goldmind, Goldside Brush, Goldstick Sans Serif, Goldwind Script, Goodvibes, Grand Royal Serif, Granite Script, Grovelane Brush, Guardian Circus Script, Gustavo Eastwood Script, Hageton, Hagona Classy Serif, Halingtone William Modern Script, Halittany Badela Signature, Halymah Script, Handmagic Signature, Handover Signature, Hand Script, Handscript Signature, Handwritten Dreams, Hartman Richard Modern Brush, Hartman Smith, Heatwood Signature, Hedonia, Hello Bird, Hello December Script, Hello Mandela, Hello Masha Script, Hemilton Script, Hendycroft Signature Script, Hercutes Brush, Heritage Script, Heroic Trouble Script, Hestteroid Brilliant Signature, Hiliana Signature, Hochagi Classy Serif, Hodeyday Modern Script, Holiday Connecting Love, Holiday Mantilda Signature, Holistica, Hometown Script, Howling Sinister Script, Hunterland Ontime Signature, Hustle Actlife Serif, Huttan Cerote Script, Icebold Dsiplay YH, Indonesia Ceriwise Script, Jacklin, Jacky Boys Quirky, Jacquelina Script, Janetha Hasley Script, Janji Cinta Signature, Jhollie Elisha Modern, Jhonathan Hartman Signature, Jingle Binder Brush, Joselyna Signature, Joyfield Darling Script, Julietano Calligraphy, Kagemasha Brush, Kailey Latief Calligraphy, Kakuro Classy Serif, Kalindaty Alintaria Wedding Script, Kalingtone Brilliant Script, Kampsite Monoline, Kasta Firald Serif, Kelvingi Rodrige Serif, Keylista Script, Khalasti Serif, Kidsfun Display, Kimberlly Lovely Script, Kissing Love, Kivaera Stylish Serif, Kolgimba Modern Serif, Krakatau Mountain Modern Script, Kristal Signature, Ladyday, Lamberta Signature Script, Lambodia Calligraphy, Lavineta Calligraphy, Lavineta Eisley Script, Laylarita Script, Lebagof Modern Serif, Ledgewood Lettering, Lemon Delight Quirky, Lemonte Buster, Lesley Lovely Script, License, Lightgraph, Lightshoot, Lilybud Calligraphy, Limited Edition Signature Script, Lombok Beach Quirky, Long Wish, Lovely Garden, Lovely Miles, Lovelyday, Lovelyta Monoline Script, Loving Paris, Luckangle Script, Madelief, Maghdela Connecting Love, Magic Clause Hand Brush, Magical Feather Calligraphy, Magicline Display, Magicpie, Magistral Honesty Premium Serif, Magnolin Script, Mahelisa Calligraphy, Majestic Bubble Script, Maledictus Script, Malistera Signature, Malyska Script, Manchaster Signature Script, Mantilda Edition Signature, Mantilda Kristine Signature, Manttilda Brush Signature, Manttulda Philliph Calligraphy, Mariogalo Calligraphy, Mastelo, Masteria Monoline Signature, Mastille Attedro Signature, Masvis Minimalist Serif, Mattiface, Medium Rosebud Script, Megistica Modern Serif, Melinda Amatha, Melinda daily, Melintyca, Melisa Modern Serif, Melisha Putri Script, Meliska Minimalist Serif, Meliska Script, Melisty Patria, Mellisa Disella Script, Melodicstar Script, Memphis River Script, Menttari Sparkle, Michigan Signature, Midletton Blenda Modern Script, Mignola Script, Milcandy Calligraphy, Minoline Script, Miracle Justice Script, Miracle Sunrise Script, Mistical, Misty Black Script, Misty Cloud Script, Misty Cotton Script, Momshine, Monoline Signature, Moonstar, More Categories, Morning, Mountain Brilliant Modern Script, Music, Mustard, Mysans M Sans Serif, Mysteries Monoline Script YH, Namashte Brush, Narifah Modern Serif, Natural Garden Script, Nature Violces Script, Nestone Signature, Nicholia Calligraphy, Nightjump, Noiseland Script, Northrow, Northwood, Nostalgic Script, Oakmint Script, Obladi Script, Oleandro Script, Olympica Brush, One Crayon Brush, Optimistic Signature, Optimistica Dreams Signature, Oriental Dream Script, Orlando Smith Brush Script, Painted Gallery, Palace Calligraphy, Party Rocky Quirky, Patria Vista, Patricia Signature, Patrick Hinton, Patterson Southern Brush, Pattricia Michella, Peachyday, Pelgona Stilman Signature, Perfect Garden Script, Perfect Island Script, Peteroy Brush, Pharllos Signature Script, Phoenix Island Script, Piglets Bold Script, Pixel Craft Display, Plasmatic Signature, Porto Qastelo Modern Sans Serif, Portofolio Brilliant Script, Prigille Hands Serif, Prilista Delrosa, Prilistale, Princes Gabriela, Princeska, Puspita, Qalistha Script, Qayla Script, Qelista Stylish Serif, Rafaela Grante Signature, Rafaella Signature Signature, Rafaesty Wigera Brush, Ragasta Minimalist Serif, Rastedral, Rawles Sans Serif, Rawless Brush, Raymont Qalimba Modern Script, Rebori Modern Serif, Rellathage Rough Monoline, Relliale Serif, Reltinatha Signature, Renathalia Signature, Renatta Signature, Renattha Signate Signature, Rentrick Kentack Modern Script, Restu Bumi Script, Rethaster Modern, Richard Hamilton Signature, Richard Signatera Signature Script, Richardo Flacky Modern Serif, Richardo Kenedy Calligraphy, Richela Script, Rintik Sendu Brush, Rockchild California Script, Rockidate Signature, Rocksider Script, Rocky Brush Brush, Rockystyle Signature, Rocttasil Script, Rodriguesta Signature, Rolasand Script, Rolingone, Romalian Script, Romantic Knight Script, Rosalinda Script, Roseday, Rostera Signature, Rosterdam Signature, Rotherdam Signature, Royal Mansion Calligraphy, Royalbean Display, Ruxtoni Script, Safira Beautiful Serif, Safira Brown, Saint Hilton, Salista Script, Salty Ocean Bold Brush, Sandershon Brush Script, Santa Robin Display, Satisfield Script, Saturday Bright Modern Script, Saylora Script, Scholastica, Seaside, Secretsoul Script, Selyna Avelyn Scrip, Senorita Signature, Seven Day Signature, Shadow Beamer Brush, Shadow Party Script, Silent Caroline Script, Silent Landfield Script, Silver Buttercup, Silver Midnight Script, Silverglow Calligraphy, Silverweed Script, Simphony Brushe Brush, Simplemind, Sisterhood Script, Sisterli Script, Skylake Script, Smilecake Script, Smilewave Script, Smiley Kitten, Snowbreak, Snowyland, Sofia Carolyn Script, Solitude, Sophitta Script, Starbeamer, Stephenson Brandon Script, Sticky Candy, Strongela Delmonte Signature Script, Stylish California Serif, Summer Beach Quirky, Summer Flowers Quirky, Sunday Bridge Script, Sunday Freedom Modern Brush, Sundaytime Monoline Signature, Sweet Lavender Calligraphy, Sweet Sophie Script, Syalitha, Symphony Calligraphy, Tametogde Brush, Tedy Brush Modern Brush, The California Hustle Brush, The Castle Elizah Serif, The Cralington Signature, The Helmunte Serif, The Historical Marliana Classy Serif, The Limited, The Magestica Signature, The Thesla Ohago Serif, Thinker Justice, Tomcat Likely Quirky, Tomihesta Brush Script, Tropical Orange, Tropicale Script, Twinkle Magic Script, Valerina Calligraphy, Ventta Watter, Victoria Script, Victory Gustina, Victory Landera Signature, Vifastev Caledon Modern Script, Violante Script, Violet Twinkle, Violetail Script, Volatile Signature, Warming, Washington Calligraphy, Washington Delmonte Modern Script, Washington Lifestyle Brush, Washington Signature Signature, Washington Yesterday, Whiteland, Wicked Dream Script, William Victory Calligraphy, Winter Candle Display, Winter Sprinkle Bod Script, Winterlady Script, Wonder Jasmine Script, Wonderful Rendola, Wonderline Script, Xandria Script, Xantegrode Signature, Xantorid Brush, Yesterday Delmote Signature, Yorkside Script, Yourladies Script, Zambrota Calligraphy, Zaniola Lavolce Calligraphy. 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Graphic Crew
[Muhammad Juanda]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) of the calligraphic script typeface Elizabeth Script (2017) and the handcrafted typeface Ashella (2017). In 2019, he released the script typeface Andalusya. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graphic Crews

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic typeface Elizabeth Script (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Graphic Press

Designer of these typefaces:

Calligraphic style: Armando (2018), Merry Hamida (2018), Veola (2018).
Scripts: Mogellos (2018), Roselle (2018), Bettylavia (2018), Justtrue (2018).
Display fonts: Bandet (2017, by Ayi Teiry).
Hand-printed sans: Elegantly Modest (2018), Mogellos Sans (2018).

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Graphicfresh (was: Sameeh Store, or Sameeh Media)
[Muhammad Husni Haikal]

Bireuen, Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces:

In 2022: Cagey (a gret bold poster font with a retro vibe).
In 2021: Mores (a playful minimalist sans), Middle Name (a hipster font that only uses circular arcs and straight lines), Saikon (handcrafted), Jadey (a flattop display typeface), Mages (a fashion mag typeface), Amibata (monoline script), Miyoshe (a thin inky script), Daesung, Almonde, Tamrin, Brown Carlson, Brown austin, Frost (SVG brush), Ribons (sic), Sally Garden (script).
In 2020: Barqon (handcrafted), Utera (with halftone texture), The Melsa, Arjona (for children's books), Ryden, Kenzira (a hand-drawn art deco font), Kionsa.
In 2019: Sketching (dry brush), Coklat Sunda (a formal monoline script), Oregano (a monolinear vintage rounded sans), Vetto Cosellza, Asmiyati (an inky "wild" calligraphic script), Green Narcu, Nastar (script), Cristik (a pixel typeface), Wolfer (a weathered vintage font), Roger (an all caps sans), Rehab (partially a hacker font), Ansbach, Antigua Presidente, Bersihkan (a free watercolor brush SVG font), Masculin (a signature script), Almeda, Aversa (SVG dry brush font), Cardus Brush (a dry brush SVG font), Faceback (SVG brush), Bellevue, Green, Muiden Castle, Vernal Park, Super, Crepes French (stone cut, existentialist), Corma, Atjeh, Hallo Schatz, Valued, Crops.
In 2018: Pray Hard Now (an SVG brush font), Ripon (font duo), Adenium (a floriated decorative caps font), Aamazing Boombs (brushy SVG font), Posey (weathered vintage type), Kamikaze (signature script), Shoot (SVG brush font), English (a high-contrast thick script), Calcio (a free ultra-condensed sans), Biren, Banda, Ankara (signature script), South Korea (font duo), Edmund (an all caps vintage sans), Rotterdam, Sweet Yell, White Apparel, Quick, Nastar Script, Brush Action.
In 2017: Luna (sans), Indonesia (slab serif), Texas, Original, Aglow, Aglow Serif, Madison, Ornexo, Rehab (hipster style), Caos (inline), Gope (bilined, all caps), Draw Yoour Brand, Sabang Island (sans), Norman (thick brush), Paradise (tall signature script), Must Have (handcrafted), Newark (an all caps block serif titling typeface), Emma (connected script), Bemand (modular, techno), Sweet Heart, Don't Lebay, Cristik (pixelish), Brand, Gorden (horizontally striped, filled and outlined versions).
In 2016: Oxigen (an all caps inline typeface), Serpong (graffiti font), Gunoc, Manuvers (a bilined titling sans), Houster Script, Aspal (all caps roman typeface), Ronies, Drawsans, Bezaen (hipster sans), Dotcom (sans), Zeky (a stylish sans), Nixmat (a rounded monoline logo typeface), Alaska, the handcrafted typefaces Mabroc (a great inline typeface), Mr Haikal, Brush Action, Hibernate, Spine, Our Serif Hand, Our Hand, Billiony, Rainday, Kerape and Banda, the deco typefaces Ambisi, Bigboz and Karomah, the stencil typeface Abang, the minimalist sans typeface Axon, the straight-edged Sakap, the blocky typefaces Box and Aucall, Newstyle, and the techno typefaces Magz, Newtype and Arabuwa.

Aka Ceo Haekal. Creative Market link. Personal web site. Graphicriver link. Graphicfresh home page. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Graphix Line Studio
[Aldiraya Pradipta]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1991, of Cartier (2018: a handwriting font), Jackie (2018: brush script), Summer and Summer Line (2018, monoline sans), and the handcrafted typefaces Beach (2018), Holiday (2018) and The Sunset (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Cocktails (font duo), Cocktail, Thank You (calligraphic script), Angeline, Everything, Sweet And Pretty, Derick Chetty, Leslie Dawn, Hello, Welcome, Dominick, Simphony (sic) (script), Lulu Lala (a mooline script), Simplicity, Restian (a signature font), Classic (octagonal), Signature (script), Company (octagonal wedge serif).

Typefaces from 2020: Gelato, Outside, Home, Yummy, Honey, Dahlia. Creative Fabrica link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graphx Edge Fonts

Lisa Johns from Orlando, FL, runs Graphx Edge Fonts, a foundry in Altamonte Springs, FL, offering "high quality pictorial fonts". Their 250-odd collection is surely not made from scratch, especially not their body, script and display fonts. One used to be able to find four great free dingbats here: GE Nautica, GE Zoom, GE Zodiac, GE Holiday Sampler. In the Font Services section, they will make custom pictorial, signature (10USD), or logo (20USD) truetype fonts. For 20 USD, get also packages of 20 fonts such as Absolute Fun Fonts, Absolute Dingbats (60 dingbats, 129USD) or Absolute Script Fonts. Now also called ScriptFonts.Com. Alternate site. Deco fonts, a collection of 4 dingbat fonts for 30 USD. Alternate URL. At this archive, you can find the following fonts: GEBanners, GEClipz, GEComedy, GECurviture, GEElegantScript, GEFiestaMarquee, GEFleet, GEFreeForm, GEFrills, GEGlob, GEHandyScript, GEMontage, GENervousTwitch, GERomanesse, GESheerScript. Partial list of dingbats: GEAngels (I to III), GECarouselHorses, GECelticArt, GEChineseArt, GEChristmasJoy, GEComicalChristmas, GECurviture, GEEdibles, GEEgyptianArt, GEElementsofNature (I and II), GEFloralStencils, GEHolidaySampler, GEIttyBittys, GEJapaneseArt, GEMerryChristmas, GENativeAmericanArt, GENautica, GEOutToSea, GEPennsylvaniaDutch (I and II), GESheerScript, GESnowmen, GESpringtime, GEStorybookTales, GEWhimsicalAnimals (I to IV), GEWildKingdom, GEZodiac, GEZoom. Another alias: Megadownloads. Another list of fonts: Fleet, Romanesse, Frills, Free Form and Comedy, Curviture, Elegant Script, Handy Script, Montage and Sheer Script, Fiesta Marquee, Nervous Twitch, Banners, Clipz and Glob. The list of fonts is long:

Dingbats: A Childs World, Angels I, Angels II, Angels III, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Barnyard, Birds, Bride & Groom, Carousel Horses, Celtic Art, Cherubs, Chinese Art, Clothing, Fun Christmas, Deco Animals, Deco Foods, Deco Music, Deco Traveler, Edibles, Egyptian Art, Elements I, Elements II, Food Basket, Floral Stencils, Grab Bag I, Grab Bag II, Halloween, Holiday Sampler, Itty Bittys, Japanese Art, Motion, Native American, Nautica, Out to Sea, Penn Dutch I, Penn Dutch II, Profiles, Reptibian, Santa Claus, Stylized Foods, Ships Ahoy, Snowmen, Stylized People, Springtime, Storybook Tales, Sweet Tooth, Teddy Bears, Toys, Velveteen, Victorian Art, Wedding, Whimsical I, Whimsical II, Whimsical III, Whimsical IV, Wild Animals I, Wild Animals II, Wild Animals III, Wild Animals IV, Women, Merry Christmas, Christmas Joy, Xmas Silhouettes, Zodiac.
Body fonts: Booker, Century, Chrome, Civilized, Civilized BI, Drover, Early Gothic, Ergonomic, Expression, Headline, Madhouse, Monograph, Novus Sans, Optical, Palladian, Penguin, Pilfering, Quartz, Rhythms, Romulus, Sultan, Timpani.
Script fonts: Adina, Afresco, Alluring, Amazonia, Arabesque, Arista, Ballantine, Basalt, Brand, Brush Stroke, Clipper, Coterie, Curviture, Cygnus, Darlah, Elegant, Esmeralda, Flair Brush, Fleurish, Formality, Freelancer, Handsome, Handy Script, Journeyman, Lara Script, Light Stroke, Martine, Memograph, Misty, Mona Lisa, Montage, NanoTech, Park Script, Primus, Quilt, Quintet, Ragged, Sentinel, Sepia, Sheer, Signature, Sonatta, Storybook, Travel, Twil, Twine, Twin Peaks, Vibrant, Vienna, Zebra.
Decorative fonts: Acorn, Army, Arroyo, Astarte, Bagel, Baliff, Banners, Barter, Dough, Buttress, Cadbury, Cameron, Clipz, Cobble, Comedy, Compo, Cortina, Croatia, Crystal, Decco, Delphin, Dimensions, Dipped, Distort, Enchase, Fiesta, Filigree, Firework, Fleurish, Florist, FlChild, Graffiti, Gravid, Greenway, Hawthorne, Ironwork, Ivy, Khevah, Letter Cut, Lollipop, Marble, Marquee, Meso, Milieu, Money, Nervous, Offshore, Oldwest, Saloon, Scroll, Serpent, Sidestep, Snowtop, Spooks, Spotty, Stone, Sunscreen, Sylvan, Bones, Timber, Time Warp, ToolTime, Tree House, Typography Caps, Vortex, Warped, Watershed Caps, Wedgie, William.

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Great Lakes Lettering
[Molly Jacques Erickson]

Great Lakes Lettering in Eau Claire, WI, showcases the type designs of Dathan Boardman and (Detroit, Michigan-based) Molly Jacques (formerly Molly Jacques Erickson). They jointly designed the illustrative handwriting font Frosted in 2012.

In 2013, they designed the script typefaces Asterism (Asterism Clean, Asterism Clean Bold and Asterism Monoline in 2015), Kailey Force (signage script in three styles, The Bold, The Brave, The Beautiful), Icing and Saint Agnes.

Typefaces from 2014: Brushy Mini, Helsing (a quirky serif inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and Edward Gorey's rendition of that story), Icing Blizzard, Frosted Blizzard.

Typefaces from 2015: Backlash (Molly Jacques Erickson, Dathan Boardman: the next step in gonzo splatter lettering scripts).

Typefaces from 2016: Kota Mini (brush), Butterskotch, Mon Voir (by Dathan Boardman, based on the calligraphic script of illustrator Jenna Rainey).

Typefaces from 2017: Tarot (beatnik style), Calla Script (with Dathan Boardman), Raindrop (a flirty handcrafted typeface family for editorial illustration).

Typefaces from 2018: Bon Voyage (based on the handwriting of Taryn Sutherland of Twinkle and Toast).

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Great Studio
[Mulkan Nazir]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1992) of these calligraphic script typefaces in 2017: Bronetto, Restful, Burnington Script, Symphony Script, Blessing Script.

In 2018, Great Studio designed Greenlight Script, Sagitarius Signature Font, Blinkstar, Bondan Regular (condensed sans), Angel Heart, Authemart (calligraphic), Kasandra Script, Molandika Script, Solidaritha Script, Saphira Script, Blussafir (script), Bestrong, Elise Dafisa Script, Staylisha (brush script), and Kingstoner Signature.

In 2019, he published Central Point, Riverstyle (a dry brush font), Winter Flowers, Anitasha, Restgold, American Favorite Script (Script+Serif), Espander (a dry brush typeface), Sundaris Script, Black Seashore (a retro signage script), the great copperplate calligraphic typeface Bettrisia Script, Hello Blushberry Script, and Kingstoner Font.

Typefaces from 2020: Le More Collection (a font duo), Kalista (a font duo), Blinkstar (calligraphic), Boston Angel (a decorative serif), Magister Script (a brush script), South Belgian (a soft vintage serif fnt), Solistaria Script (a hybrid copperplate calligraphic font).

Typefaces from 2021: Blacklist (a sharp-edged text family with 18 static and two variable styles), Bread Light (stylish caps), Contage (a 12-style display sans serif), Kelsy Fantastic, Bigola Display (a display serif), Mollie Glaston (a decorative ligature-rich serif), Colgent (a decorative serif). Creative Fabrica link.

Typefaces from 2022: Veronika Luxurious (a fashion mag sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Great19
[Andhi Yulianto]

Temanggung, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typeface Gracy (2016) and the vintage sans typeface Bolder (2016). In 2018, he designed the script typefaces Mochalate (a coffee shop script) and Adelline, Antiophie, the signature font Hampton, Hustle, and the free vintage all caps typeface Geratis Caps.

Typefaces from 2019: Beyond Magical, Radilant, Hanleth (a font duo), Butterly, Shinyday, Rockstar, Chamille (a weathered script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Greatbleast Mark

Creator of these handcrafted typefaces in 2018: Eurotrophya, Datten, Red Satanic (blood stain font), Secondmod, Michel Flow, Lorreine, Blade Cold (swashy calligraphic), Hellsici, Sun Surf, Highlove, Lostmytalk, London Road. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Greater Albion Typefounders (or: GATF)
[Paul James Lloyd]

Paul J. Lloyd's type foundry in Western Australia, est. 2008. Lloyd (b. UK) made over 100 free truetype fonts before that. He writes: What we will offer is new designs, replete with Edwardian Fun, Victorian distinction, or any other piece of elegance we can manage.

Edwardian creations from 2008-2010: Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Adantine, Goldbarre, Brosse, Crewekerne, Crewekerne Magna and Crewekerne Magister (arts and crafts face), Larchmont, Brissard, Brossard (slab serif), Bonavia, Bonavia Blanc, Clementhorpe, Veneribe, Chiara Script, Howlett, Svengali Roman, Bonning and Bonnington (1920's style families with ideas from University Roman), Absinette (2009, art nouveau), Bamberforth, Tumbletype, Vertrina, Bromwich, Great Bromwich, Fleete, Helenium. Chipping emulates the Edwardian 1920s. In 2012, he added the Bolton Commercial family (late Edwardian, early art nouveau).

Art deco typefaces: Oakland (2011, multiline typeface gleaned from a 1930s French car ad), Zenia (2010, trilined), Plebe (Plebia, 2008: a grotesk emulating the 1930s), Whitehaven (2008, an extensive art deco family with several shadow weights), Merry Fleurons (2008, Christmas ornament dingbats), Braxia (2008), Keynsia (fifties style art deco family with Peignot influences).

Other typefaces: Haymer is a large sans family made in 2010. Clunic (2008) is a blackletter face. Tectura (2008) is a handwriting font. Eldridge is a slab serif family. Aliqua (2009), Chipperly (2009) and Syondola (2008, Tuscan) are Wild West families. Terazza Tilings (2009) and Valentine's Fleurons (2009) are dingbat typefaces. Additions in 2009 include Lowndes (soft blackletter), Christmas Fleurons, Merry Snowmen, Cherritt (described as a Victorian era Courier), DoodleBirds, Halloween Fleurons, ButtonFaces, Sabio (neither slab nor sans), Daub (brush graffiti font), Sabinard (a modern swash face), Cullions (futuristic blackletter), Coronard (blackletter / roman hybrid), Easter Fleurons, Chapter Initials, Paveline (19th century calligraphic script), Mellin Sans and Open, Gildersleeve (evoking the 1920s Arts and Crafts movement), Stannard (a 1920's advertising inspired small caps face), Slattery (a horizontally shaded fun face), Slatterine (2009, more retro futurism), Spillsbury (2010, Victorian family), Cirflex (2010, geometric display typeface based on arcs of circles), Oxonia (2010, a classic roman family) and Vectis (classic Roman elegance, another small caps face).

Creations in 2010: Windevere, Albion's White Christmas, Paragon (a great didone display family with a wood type feel), Compton (slab serif family), Mexborough, Morover (Schwabacher family), Anavio (a classical roman family), Corvone (3d-effect font), Granville (Victorian), Corton (Victorian), Wellingborough (Victorian), Worthing (Victorian), Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Bonaventure (art nouveau), Federal Streamliner (1950s feel techno face), Deva (classical roman), Crucis Ornaments (crosses), Bronzino (a roman with Arts and Crafts roots), Bertoni (2010, a didone family), Pardon Me Boy (train dingbats), Woodruff (Open Face fonts with a wood type look), Jonquin (based on a WWI poster; +Incised), Luscombe (1920s display family; +Parva), Movella (futuristic from the 1950s), Magdalena Sans (2010: a clear monoline sans), Endymion (2010: Tuscan), Paget (a Tuscan experimental all caps face), Portello (Victorian).

Typefaces made in 2011: Admiral (art nouveau), Tuscaloosa (Tuscan face), Eccles (bombastic Victorian), Wolverhampton (pre-Victorian), Doncaster (Victorian family), Metropole (art nouveau family), Corsham (stone engraved lettering family), Leibix (casual), Albia Nova (an elegant futuristic organic face), Flapper (art nouveau face), Bertolessi (curly Victorian), Tulk's Victorian Banner (all caps banner face), Fitzgerald (Victorian all caps face), Cleveden (Victorian headline family), Spargo (an extensive set of early 20th century-look engraved typefaces for official documents and securities), Bettendorf (2011, based on a 1900s masthead typeface), Wolvercote (2011, similar to Bettendorf), Pittsburgh (2011, a Western-style engraved face), Chubbly (2011), Portmeirion No. 6 (2011, a Victorian / circus design), Bronzetti (2011; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi), Sophie J (hanprinted), Dem Bones (2011, glyphs made from bones), Stout (2011), Birmingham New Street (a Victorian family inspired by the hand lettered title on a 19th century railway map), Beckinslade (ornamental blackletter).

Production in 2012: Alfere Sans Stripes, Albion's Americana (Western stars and stripes face), Tudor Perpendicular (blackletter), Amici (rounded headline face), Amie (rounded sans), Wolverton Text (Edwardian family), Vinea (10-style display family), Par Avion (retro futuristic), AstroBats (retro sci-fi dingbats), Beeching (+Shadowed), Gondolieri (didone meets Tuscan), Penrose Slabserif (an Escher-like trompe l'oeuil 3d face), Haldane (art nouveau, Arabic look), Solidarius (chubby, fat felt-tip pen font), Bluebottle (angular display face), Merrivale (Victorian), Future Runes (runic simulation), Coliseo, Alfrere Sans (inspired by a 1950s television caption style), Tectura II (Lloyd's answer to Comic Sans), Secombe (Edwardian caps family), Milligan, London Court (Tudor-era caps family).

Typefaces from 2013: Speedblur, Belhampton (Edwardian), Merry Baubles (Christmas tree dings), Merry Bauble Letters (Christmas alphadings), Wroxeter (blackletter), Thurbrooke (+Banner, +Initials, +Black, +Reverso, all based on 19th century banner headings and engraved lettering), Bourne (a rounded type system), Henrician (a set of eight Tudor style display typefaces), Belle Jardin (art deco marquee face), Lavery (Edwardian), Baldione (a stylized didone), Chequers (a vintage poster face), Turvy Topsy (fat finger face), Merrivaux (faux medieval), Blout (German expressionist typeface), Easter Egg Letters, Isometrica (a banner typeface family), Valentine's Letters, Imperial Granum (roman titling face), Brollo (chunky display face).

Typefaces from 2014: Albions Very Old Masthead, Albions Engraved Black, Albions Old Masthead, Albions Incised Masthead, Albions Black Holly, Zanderley (pure Victoriana, +Initials), Landsdowne Commercial, Friendly Shaded Sans, Trivette, Wellmere Sans, Uncia Black, Henry VII, Greene and Rollins (layered Victorian typeface), Barollo, Alfrine, Alfrere Banner (+Incised), Lugano, Lanvier (1930s-style caps typeface family), Bonlivet (a hyper-decorative capitals alphabet from the late Victoian or early art nouveau era), Ames Text (a didone family with rounded brackets), Ames Roman (related to didones but with wedge serifs), Ames Weathered, Ames Shadow, Ames Shaded, Amersham (vintage signage family, 2013-2014).

Typefaces from 2015: Netherland Perpendicular (Victorian blackletter), Ledbury (Victorian), Ambergate (Edwardian poster face), Empyrean (futuristic, yet curvy), Flinscher (1920s script), Signwriter Standard, Display Hatched, Albions Marker No.1 (a charming outlined marker pen typeface inspired by Bembo and Caslon), Joyvrie, Kinver (Victorian), Nationale (Victorian), Doges Banner, Doges Darker (Victorian), Doges Delight (Victorian), Doges Venezia (Victorian).

Typefaces from 2016: Buntisland, Elmcourt, Allorette, Albion Sharp Italic, Deco Metro (art deco), SpeedSwash (blackletterish), Stridere (blackletterish), SpeedSketch.

Typefaces from 2017: Shervington, Cantebriggia 1207 (a weathered blackletter), Algreve, Alambart, Duquesne Dark Woodcut, Courtold Shadow, Athabasca (Wild West Tuscan), Fargo Tuscan, Millerstown (Western), Millerstown Races, Old Millerstown, Sasparillo (Tuscan), Sasparillo Fizz, Wylgate, Herald Banner.

Typefaces from 2018: Garstang Engraved, Halliwell Casual, Portculliard, Rotham Industria, Sombrieul (Edwardian), Shervington Engraved (a shaded typeface that appears hand-engraved on copper-plate).

Typefaces from 2019: Dewhirst Display, Rakia (retro futuristic), Eurobia (art nouveau style).

Typefaces from 2020: Draughtsman Engraved, Draughtsman Label Hand (Victorian), Civic Triline.

Typefaces from 2021: Albion Seventies, Portculliard Engraved (an engraved ultra-decorative blackletter).

Type announcements. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Font Squirrel link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link. Hellofont link.

Green Type

Not to be confused with Greshnev's Green Type foundry in Leningrad, Russia. Indonesian designer in 2019 of the calligraphic fonts Montens, Soniya, Andalica, Angelica, Angelove, Monday, and Wellcome. In 2020, Green Type released the script typeface Anisha. [Google] [More] ⦿

Gregory W. Jacobson
[Dead Image Design]

GRIN3
[Bartek Nowak]

A group of independent designers from Poland, heade by Bartek Nowak, and located in Staromiejska. Nowak has been designing typefaces since ca. 2000. Typefaces:

Inkaust (2011). A grungy face.
Uniwerek (2011). A sketched hand-drawn family inspired by college and university sportswear.
Galicya (2011).A hand-printed poster family.
Tygodnik (2011, Bartek Nowak) is a poster font inspired by logo of Polish magazine Tygodnik Powszechny.
Tentacle Szrift (2011, Bartek Nowak) is a blackletter family.
Stencimilla (2011) is an army stencil face.
Goniec (2011) is inspired by graffiti.
Pascal (2011).A brush script.
Machina G and Machina R (2011). A pair of grunge typewriter typefaces.
Nokian11 (2011). A gridded face.
Quattro Tempi (2012). A sketched typewriter face.
Centura Round (2012). A hand-drawn monoline sans family.
Kidorama (2012) is a hand-drawn script inspired by the calligraphic models used in Polish primary schools.
Revers (2012). A roughened slab serif.
Eight Zeta (2012). A casual hand-drawn typeface family.
Skurier (2012) is a hand-drawn font inspired by Courier.
Monosketch (2012) is a hand-drawn font inspired by monospaced fonts like Andale Mono. This sketch typeface can be layered.
Holy Roller (2012). A lively hand-drawn outline typeface.
Larsson (2012). A tall poster font.
Antidotum (2012). A stamp or eroded wood typeface in the style of Veneer or Anodyne.
Sahan (2012). An elaborate Arabic simulation typeface.
Martita (2012). A festive connected script.
Secesja Pro (2013) is a redesign of his earlier Secesja PL font. It is a revival of Hermann Ihlenburg's über-Victorian typeface Nymphic Caps (1889).
Astalamet Pro (2013) is a dot matrix typeface that evolved from Astalamet Pure (2001).
Engineer and Engineer Stencil (2013) is a rounded techno sans family based on Bartek's own TechnicznaPomoc (2001).
Collegium (2013) is an athletic lettering font.
Barme Reczny (2013) is a hand-printed typeface.
Splasher (2013) consists of nothing but ink, coffee and paint splashes.
Gwidon (2013) is a connected script typeface.
Athletico (2013) is a layered university sports lettering typeface family. See also Athletico Clean (2013).
Polina (2013) is a hand-drawn 3d shaded layered typeface system. Its original name, Dobra, had to be discarded because that name was already taken by Dino dos Santos.
Leitmotiv (2013) is a heavy calligraphic typeface.
Misterall (2013). An all caps brush typeface for posters.
Delegat (2014). A comic book lettering font inspired by handwritting of Frank Ching.
Procent (2014). Bold and hand-printed.
Gotyk Nr 7: a grungy blackletter typeface that evolved from Nowak's 2001 typeface Gotyk Poszarpany.
Suarez (2014). A vintage upright connected script. The dingbats are called Suarez Extra.
Kowalski (2014) and Kowalski2 (2014). A swashy typeface family.
Revers (2014) is a grungy slab serif typeface.
Pascal (2014, handwriting), Inkaust (2014, fat finger font).
Jasminum (2014). A connected script together with a flower dingbat font, Jasminium Extra.
Quattro Tempi (2014).
Athletico Clean (2014). Athletic lettering font.
Procent (2014). A shop signage typeface.
Charlize Script (2015). A connected curly script family.
Rossellina (2015). A connected calligraphic script font.
Giulietta (2015). A calligraphic script family.
Bellfort. A letterpress font family.
Elementarz Pro (2016). A monoline school font.
Dramaturg (2016). A brush script.
Ripley (2016). A connected monoline script.
Baltasar (2016). A brush script.
Jeremy (2017). A brush script.
Bridgewater (2018). A brush font.
Bellfort Draw (2018). A hand-drawn typeface family.
Nauticus (2019). A monoline script and an all caps sans font duo.
Vintage Fonts Collection (2019). This letterpress extravaganza includes the following fonts: VFC Besson, VFC Besson Press, VFC Fantomen, VFC Fantomen Press, VFC Fiesta, VFC Fiesta Press, VFC Jagan, VFC Jagan Press, VFC Morty, VFC Morty Press, VFC Ogar, VFC Ogar Press, VFC Rewizor, VFC Rewizor Press, VFC Ruiz, VFC Ruiz Press, VFC Sufler, VFC Sufler Press.
Boromir (2019). A layerable font family.

Aka Leitmotif. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. GRIN3 link. Old free font URL. Creative Market link. Home page.

Showcase of Bartek Nowak's commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Groen Studio (or: Jorse Creative, or: Jorsetype)
[Symon Adam Abdullah]

Aka Ay Terry, Ayi Teiry, Roy Yan, Jorse Creative, Symon Adam, Symon Adam Abdullah, Ront Beld, Groen Studio, Lage Jorse, Roiyani, Roiyani Teungku, Roy Yani, Ront Jorse, Groen Lagoe and Roy Jorse, b. 1979. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based creator of the connected retro signage script typefaces Exoticus (2015), Random Ink (2015), Catfish Script (2015), Umbrella (2015), Wolf Bane (2015: an upright connected script; a Pro version appeared in 2018), Bettaria Script (2015), Matador (2015), Melani Script (2015), Aslang Barry (2015, connected calligraphic script), Fameliya (2014, a connected wedding script), Olivera (2014), Mutiara (2014), Routine Script (2014), Bunthok (2014), Fretaliya (2014), Fatimma (2014), Cuplex Script (2014) and Semadome Script (2014). Ront also designed the brush typefaces Rocket (2015) and Fronte (2015), the more formal connected script typeface Monalisa (2014, renamed later to Montala, probably under pressure from Monotype, owner of ITC Mona Lisa), the calligraphic Amtenar (2015), the brush script Fire Vector (2015), the connected brush script typeface Standly (2015), the script font Maphylla (2015), Freestyle (2015), and the fun connected script typeface Emillia Script (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: the connected script typefaces Hermes, Beatrice, Bellati, Slowly and Elmaira, the sans typeface Asiach, the handcrafted typeface Country, and the brush script typefaces Astro, Getter, Metric, Brusher, Spontance, Fronte Script, Rocket, Arthands, Brokelly, Armant, Batagors (calligraphic dry brush style), and Almaida, the sans titling typeface Asiach, the connected script Spontance, the handcrafted Country Light, Twetter (swashy calligraphic style), Rantes, Lucue, Brusher (dry brush), Beetle (connected script), Freestyle, Notulen.

Typefaces from 2017: Herawati (signature font), Shabira, Bintang, Hand Boys, Sambilan, Betania (brush), Blangku, Valentina, Mother Love, Mangifera (calligraphic script), Happy Berry, Expant (dry brush script), Boston (brush script), Rosenesya (calligraphic script), Bonita (fat brush), Shabira, Amster (an elegant high-contrast signage script), Just Beauty, Justin, Blangku, Mother Love, Bettol, Anitha (calligraphic script), Settiya, Hello Sweety, Expant (dry brush), Boston, Bonita, Astro (brush script), Metric, Getter (dry brush script), Hermes, Arthands, Brokelly, Bellati, Country Family, Batagors (a great dry brush calligraphic script), Armant, Slowly, My Heart, Love & Heart, Heartless, Justin (rough brush script), Muthya.

Typefaces from 2018: Romantina, Solution (sans), Mellanie, Rocket, Fronte Script, Berlian.

Typefaces from 2019: Muctar (a signage script by Ront Jorse), Taranum (a calligraphic script), Delegation (Script, Sans; by Symon Adam Abdullah), Quintrell, Vortices, Wolfsbane (by Sai Poel), Wamelo.

Typefaces from 2020: Creative Signature.

Typefaces from 2021: Chayton (script), Osmont (a Treefrog script), De Monte (a 20-style geometric sans).

Behance link. Graphic River link. Yet another Creative Market link. Graphic River link. Newest Creative Market link. Fontspring link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Group Type
[Mark Solsburg]

Mark Solsburg's outfit located in Westport, CT. Before GroupType, Solsburg worked at ITC, which he left in 1989 to start FontHaus. Later he started TypoBrand and Grosse Pointe Group LLC. Solsburg headed the Type Directors Club for a few years. He is presently located in Ann Arbor, MI. He is President / CEO of DsgnHaus (1989-present), and partner in TypoBrand LLC (2004-present), a specialized typographic consulting firm founded by type designer, Mark van Bronkhorst; former type designer for Adobe, Linnea Lundquist, and Mark Solsburg. It seems that the FontHaus collection is now being marketed under the Group Type label at MyFonts. Group Type does technology consultation in the field of providing software and type typeface fonts for designers, publishers and typographers, related to the selection, purchase and use of design software and type typeface fonts for use in graphic, industrial, interactive and communications design. They specialize in revivals. Their fonts include

Aquiline. An absolutely wonderful 16th century script.
Arbor Brush (2012). A brush font that seems almost painted.
Aries. A 1995 revival of a lapidary typeface by Eric Gill.
Bank Gothic (1994). A revival of Morris Fuller Benton's original---see also Bank Gothic BT. Now also Bank Gothic Distressed.
Bristol (1994). In Adornado and Solid substyles. Based on a design by Stevens Shanks.
Broadway Poster.
Carpenter Script (1995). Revival of an old connected ATF script by James West.
Caslon Antique (1993). Based on an original by Bernd Nadall.
Cloister Initials (2006). A revival of an illuminated caps typeface by Goudy.
Cooper Poster.
Corvinus Skyline (1991). By Ann Pomeroy. A revival of a condensed modern family by Imre Reiner by the same name.
Craw Modern (2012). A revival of Craw Modern by Freeman Craw (1958, ATF).
Diane Script.
Fortis (2012), formerly Atlas. In the wood style of Latin Wide, with heavy sharp triangular serifs.
Girder Poster.
Gotico Black. A blackletter.
Grosse Pointe Metro (2006-2009). A great Bauhaus style sans family based on William Addison Dwiggins' Metro #2). See also Detroit Metro.
Grotesca (1995).
Laughin. Andrew Smith contributed his Laughin, which was earlier at FontHaus.
Maxim.
Ovidius Script. A medieval simulation script, dated 2006, designed by Thaddeus Szumilas. Comis in Light, Medium and Bold.
Poster Gothic.
Raleigh Gothic (1995). A typeface based on Morris Fuller Benton's design. See also Raleigh Gothic RR for a different revival.
Regular Joe (2006). An out-of-place childish handwriting font.
Ronde Script (2012). This ronde comes from the French side. Group ype says that it was modeled after Parisian Ronde by the Chappelle foundry in Paris, but its roots go back to Nicolas Gando.
Schneidler Initials (1995). Revival of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Trajan-style typeface.
Sitcom. Ann Pomeroy contributed Sitcom.
Spire. By Ann Pomeroy. A condensed didone family heavily based on Sol Hess's Spire (Lanston).
Stradivarius.

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Grow The Type
[Jordi Sempere i Vicedo]

Jordi Sempere i Vicedo (Grow The Type, an illustration, calligraphy and design studio) is the creator of the free condensed poster typeface Primma Handmade (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts).

Typefaces from 2016: Font Rodona (sans). [Google] [More] ⦿

Grzegorz Luksza
[Gluk Fonts]

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse

German calligrapher and type designer (b. 1918, Schwerin/Mecklenburg, Germany, d. 2019), who grew up in Potsdam. While studying bookbinding in Weimar, she took up lettering in 1934 and studied calligraphy with Johannes Boehland at the Berlin School of Graphic Arts in 1941. She lived in Frankfurt since 1946 and established her own bookbinding studio. Gudrun taught lettering at the Städel Art School from 1946 until 1954. She started working for Stempel in 1948, and married Hermann Zapf in 1951.

Author of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse: Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings.

Creator of Diotima Antiqua (1948-1952, D. Stempel), Ariadne Initials (1951-1954), Smaragd (1953-1954, D. Stempel), Shakespeare Roman and (1968, for Hallmark), Carmina (1986-1987, Bitstream), Nofret (1984, Berthold), Christiana (1991, Berthold), Alcuin (1991: a calligraphic text typeface done for URW), Colombine Script (1991, URW), and Diotima Classic (2008: a cooperation with Akira Kobayashi (Linotype) that revives Diotima).

In 1991, she received the Frederic W. Goudy Award of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Guguh Gumantoro
[Letter Stock (was: Gumacreative)]

Guild of Bookworkers

Bookbinding, printing, conservation, marbling, calligraphy, and papermaking. [Google] [More] ⦿

Guilhem Greco
[Herofonts (was: Hypefonts)]

Guillermo Vizzari
[Yaniguille]

Guisela Mendoza Puentes

Chilean type designer, aka Coto Mendoza, located in Concepcion, Chile. She created the cooking dingbat typeface Dans Le Cuisine (2011, Latinotype). She also made Printa (2011, inspired by Mandala symbols). Dans Le Cuisine won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.

Abel (2012, Latinotype) is a dingbat typeface that reinterprets the artistic expression of the Mapuche people in Chile, rescuing the handmade stroke they embodied to textiles and pottery, this time in a fresh way to use contemporary patterns. It has contemporary "mapuche" patterns.

Ride My Bike (2012, Latinotype) is a hand-printed headline typeface family that comes with a fun Dingbat style. The font was designed by her in bed while she was recovering from a bicycle accident.

The hand-printed Bon Appetit family (2012, +Dingbats) would be perfect to illustrate a breakfast with Agatha Christie in a remote British village.

Other typefaces from 2012 include the dingbat fonts Dans Le Jardin and Dans Le Noël.

Typefaces from 2013: In a Jar (hand-lettering, Latinotype), Four Seasons (handwritten, with Luciano Vergara), Dans Le Toilette (sic), Love Story (with Luciano Vergara, Latinotype: a hairline upright Valentine's Day script), Love Story Dingbats.

Typefaces from 2014: Macarons, DIY Time (hand-printed, with Luciano Vergara at Latinotype), Ride My Bike Serif.

In 2015, she made the 26-font typeface family Boho (Latinotype; in Script, Sans, Serif and Dingbats styles) and Go Gipsy (Latinotype: a wild calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2016: Touch Me (by Coto Mendoza and Luciano Vergara: in Script and Sans versions; the script is based on Coto's unique experimental calligraphy; she calls this one "tribal chic"), Bikini Season (Script and Sans, by Coto Mendoza and Luciano Vergara), Indigena (Latinotype: indigenous Chilean "mapuche" style dingbats).

In 2017, Latinotype published her swashy Namaste Script and accompanying all caps typeface Namaste Sans. Its motivation: Namaste is the perfect choice for wellness, healing and therapy oriented products. Its smooth shape and soft curves allow the user to create beautiful designs for essential oils, bath salts, quartz crystals, mindfoodness, candles, incense and aromatherapy products packaging.

Typefaces from 2018: Coiffeur (a fashion script by Guisela Mendoza and Luciano Vergara at Los Andes). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gulya Yeap
[Peach Creme]

Gumilar Pratama Adiatna
[Gilar Studio]

Author of these [free] books:

Gunnlaugur Briem

Briem is a fantastic Icelandic calligrapher and type designer. His typefaces:

Briem Akademi (1997-2002, Adobe).
Briem Gauntlet (1997).
Briem Mono (2001). A typewriter typeface.
Briem Operina.
Briem Script (Adobe). a multiple master font.
Briem Times (1990). This was the basis for Times Millenium, used by The Times. Read about the controversy at that page.
HS Headline (2015). He teamed up with Hasan Abu Afash for this fat calligraphic didone display typeface. Briem contributed the Latin part, while Afash took care of the Arabic, which is based on the simple lines of Naskh calligraphy.

Tenniel's Alice. The complete set of 92 illustrations for Alice in Wonderland (1866) and Through the Looking Glass (1870). by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), the most famous Victorian book artist. His drawings for the Alice books were engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, and are reproduced here in a 300-dpi resolution.
Briem at the Type Archive. Fifty pieces, reproduced in one-fourth of original size.
Briem in Tipoteca Italiana. Fifty pieces, reproduced in one-fourth of original size.
The Briem Report 2012 (2013). The book ranges from from pyrography to stonecarving. It deals with low-resolution hinting and handwriting therapy for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It contains over a hundred entries of work samples and notes by leading letterforms practitioners.
Cursive Italic News. The Barchowsky Report on Handwriting, Vol. 2 No. 3.
Handwriting Models. Handwriting Models is a facsimile of the first Icelandic copperplate copybook by Benedikt Gröndal. This is a brief instruction in a new style that was introduced in Icelandic schools in 1875. Blackletter cursive had been replaced by the documentary hand of the British Empire. Italic handwriting succeeded it in 1984.
Handwriting Repair.
Italic Persuasion.
Model Sheets for Arts and Crafts 1. Model sheets for Arts and Crafts: Johann Theodor de Bry's Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet, 1595 is a reprint of Vorlagen für das Kunstgewerbe, Herausgegeban von Carl Hrachowina. 1. Band. Künstliches Alphabet von J. Th. de Bry, Wien, Verlag von Carl Graeser, 1886.
Modern Alphabets. Facsimile copy of F. Delamotte's Examples of Modern Alphabets Plain and Ornamental, Crosby Lockwood and Son, London 1913. The book was first published in 1859.
Arrighi's Operina. Operina (1522) is a slim volume of 32 pages. Each page was printed from a separate woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, who is best known as a master of chiaroscuro engraving. The author, Ludovico Arrighi, was a copyist, papal scribe, publisher and type designer.
Russian Calligraphy. A lighthearted look at calligraphy and decades of teaching by Leonid Pronenko the author of Calligraphy for Everybody (in Russian). Many of his students at the Kuban State University in Krasnodar have gone on to successful careers in design and calligraphy.
We're doomed; what else is new? Briem's keynote address at ATypI 2011 in Reykjaví.

Keynote speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem
[The Icelandic Method]

Gustavs Andrejs Grinbergs

Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1943, he has mainly cooperated (since 1990) with Tilde in the font development of East-European languages, and has created the AG fonts collection for Cyrillic. He specializes in Cyrillic and East-European extensions of prominent typefaces (such as the ones in the Bitstream collection). His typefaces:

Linotype Brewery (Linotype), Brewery No2 Pro (2015, Linotype). Brewery No. 2 is based on his submission in 1997 to the Second Linotype Design Contest, and was inspired by early 20th century German type. The Black weight is expressionist.
Waldorf Pro (2003, Tilde). A didone.
Robusta (2002, Tilde). A large sans typeface family.
Linotype Rowena (1996, Linotype).
Constellation Pro (2009, Tilde). An avant garde sans family with very thin hairline weights.
Linotype Gneisenauette (Linotype).
Baltic Ornaments (1999, Tilde).
Stencil Moonlight (2003, Linotype). This typeface won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003.
Snowbird (Tilde).
Am Beauty (2011, Tilde). An art deco family. Includes Am Beauty Stencil.
Kette Pro (2009, Tilde).
Rigaer Tango Pro (2009, Tilde). A connected script family with high contrast.
Brunch Pro (1996, Tilde).
Exquisite Pro (1998, Tilde).
Scintilla Pro (2001, Tilde). A delicate text family.
Tourandot Pro (1999, Tilde).
Starfighter (Tilde).
He published the AG Fonts collection, mostly between 1992 and 1994. In the AG fonts collection, we find the following families (non-exhaustive list): AGAalen, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLettericaCOMpr, AGMelanie, AGNewHandbook, AGOpus, AGPalatial, AGPresquire, AGReverence, AGZeppelin.

FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link.

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Guy Oring

Coauthor with Paul Carlyle of Letters and Lettering (1938), Layouts and Letterheads (1938) and Learning to Letter (1939).

The former book was a big source of inspiration for Nick Curtis. For example, he created the typeface Shishka Bob NF (2005) based on the experimental calligraphy in that book. Type designers who were inspired by, revived or extended alphabets shown in Letters and Lettering include:

Nick Curtis: Shishka Bob NF (2005), TaraBulbous NF (2008: is a fat-lettered font), Guinness Extra Stout NF (1999), Kynges X NF (2004: a blackletter semi-Lombardic face), Astoria Titling.
Dathan Boardman: Afternoon Tea (2010: art deco).
Anton Scholtz: Nocturne (2012: art deco).
Monogram Fonts (Jim Lyles, Brian Bonislawsky): MFC Patisserie Monogram (2020), MFC Redding Monogram (2016), MFC Buttergin Monogram (2018: Tuscan).
Grype (Jim Lyles, Brian Bonislawsky): Decade (2019).
PhotoLettering / House Industries: Quaint or Carlyle Quaint.

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Hackberry Font Foundry (Was: NuevoDeco Typography, or: Bergsland Design)
[David Bergsland]

In 2009, Hackberry Font Foundry grew out of NuevoDeco Typography, which in turn was a commercial foundry that formed part of Bergsland Design located in Mankato, MN, and before that, Las Lunas, NM, and run by David Bergsland (b. 1944, Buffalo, NY), a 1971 graduate of the University of Minnesota. Author of Practical Font Design: 2nd Edition: Rewritten for FontLab 5. Klingspor link. Creative Market link, as Radiqx Press. His fonts:

Aargh!- Light and Heavy.
Abiquiu Black.
Ablati (2009)
Out of Nuevo Litho (1993) appeared Abrect (2009).
Abwyn.
Academi (2010).
Adieu (1998). Adieu Two (2006, an almost blackletter script).
The high-ascendered and bouncy sans typeface Aerle (2009).
Aero Script (2001, and its extension, JargonPro, 2004)
Aggressian (2012). An angular and angry typeface.
Akme Pro (2002). Akme (2002, an industrial sans family).
Albe Sans (2000).
Allektra (2002).
AllSpeed.
Altra (2006).
AmeriDistort (old typewriter, Seamus Mills).
Amico (2008, a sans family).
Amitale (2008). Amitale (2008) has eight styles in each of AmitaleBook and AmitaleWide.
Araldo (2021). A comic book sans.
Aramus (2008). Aramus is an old style text face.
Archaic Penpoint Pro (2004, stylish blackletter).
Ardone Book (2007, garalde, a close relative of his own Diaconia Old Style, which in turn was influenced by the 19th century Dutch bible font, Minister (Linotype)). Ardone Book (+ Italic) is accompanyied by a sans called Arinar, and a slab serif called Alexandrya.
Artichoke (2007). A calligraphic printed script typeface with rough outlines, which according to the typophiles is a shameful clone of Chris Costello's Papyrus.
Out of Aramus grew Artimas (2009), a "book" family with tall ascenders.
Arturo (2008). A flared sans serif based on an alphabet found in Dan Solo book.
Artz (2002).
Astaire Pro (2004). He writes: This is a deco-style text OpenType Pro font loosely based on Koch's Locarno as seen in KochAltschrift a recent free German tribute to Koch's work. I was familiar with Meeks' Letraset presstype version called Locarno, but I never liked the proportions used by either Meeks or Koch. So I radically revised ascender, descender, and x-height to make them more usable.
Attend.
Auntie Pat (2008). A decorative script face.
Avenue (2002)
Beatz (by or with Seamus Mills).
Biblia, Biblia Serif (2017-2021) and Biblia Display (2022). Biblia is a lapidary outgrowth of Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt's typeface Minister from 1929.
Bergsland Engravers Pro (2005).
Bergsland Display (2005).
In 2005, he created Bergsland Fashion and Bergsland Round
Bergsland Pro.
Bilbo Black.
Bilbo Pro Fiesta.
Bjorgi Pro (2004).
Bling (2009).
Boxy (2018).
Brinar (2006). A Koch-inspired slightly playful humanist sans text family.
Briskly (2016).Handwriting style.
Buddy (2010). Buddy Slender (2011) is an informal display sans family.
Bulkr (2017). Bergsland's replacement of heavy titling faces like Impact.
Bushing (2010). An interpretation of Cushing No. 2 by ATF.
Caesar.
Chivalry.
Chunkie (2010).
Contenu (2010). A text book family. Followed by Contenu EBook (2012).
Cushing Two (2011).
Cutlass (2010). Uncial, created in a swashbuckling style.
Diaconia Old Style (1994-2001).
Draetha (2017). A monoline sans.
In 2006, he added Fiscal, a squarish sans typeface
For his book Practical Font Design With FontLab 5, David Bergsland designed a set of text typefaces in 2016, Librum, Librum Sans, Librum E, Bookish, and Bream (the display version of Librum).
Nordstrom.
NuevoLitho (1993).
Poniard (2011). A medieval script.
Sturdy (2006, heavy sans).

View David Bergsland's typefaces. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hafis Hidayat
[Supertype Studio (or: Hafis Hidayat)]

Haikal Jamal
[Haikal MHJ]

Haikal MHJ
[Haikal Jamal]

Indonesian designer, b. 1996, of the wild calligraphic typeface Gracias (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hajid Hikmatiyar
[Hikhcreative]

Halim Studio
[Antoni Halim]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1981, of these script fonts in 2017: Miracle (calligraphic), Hafizan Script, Andeglei (script + sans), Shangrela, Sheyna, Violette, Andalas (an upright script), Lagena, Monthain (monoline script), Bakmie, Black Chero, Auteru (script), Reomio & Juliet (sic) (script), Bentoke (calligraphic), Camelia (formal calligraphy), Regina (calligraphic), Vertigo (brushy calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Julian Thomas (signature script), Natasya, Jelisa, Karlote, Good Mood (a rubbe duckie font), Sports Time, James Douthson (signature script), Virgita (calligraphic), Kaitlyne (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2019: Metric (script), Violette (brush script), My Love Elegant, Myhope (script), Madam (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hallmark

The Hallmark Cards company was founded by J.C. Hall. Fonts with the letters HMK in their names are produced by Hallmark, the well-known postcard company in Kansas City, MO. These include early fonts such as Hog-Bold---HMK, Hog-Book---HMK, Jot-Medium---HMK, Marita-Medium---HMK, Marita-Script---HMK, Trots-Light---HMK, Trots-Medium---HMK and later (1997-1999) fonts such as BaaBookHmk, BernhardFashionHmk, BethsCuteHmk, BixAntiqueScriptHmk, BoogieWoogieHmk, ChrisHmk, CluffHmk, DesertDogHmk, FrancineHmk, FultoonHmk (by Nancy Fulton), GeeohHmk, HavixHmk (by Doug Havach), JanieHmk, Jewels, LamboHmk, McBooHmk (by Megan Walsh), NotnorvalHmk, OkrienHmk, OttumHmk (1997, downloadable here, PegsannaHMK (by Peg CarlsonHoffman), SandyTextHmk, SlashHmk, SplintHmk, StarbabeHmk (by Lisa Rogers), SuccotashHmk, SuccotashHmkBlack, TwizotHmk (by Bud Braman and John Dawbarn), WallowHmk.

In 2008, careful hackers found these fonts in the flash files of Hallmark and posted them on alt.binaries.fonts: AngelinaHMK, AnnouncementRomanHMK, CoronaSansHMK, CrownRomanHMK, DuneHMK (2008), InkberryCondensedBoldHMK, KarasHMK, KingsHatBoldHMK, MizquitoHMK, PatriciaHMK, PoobyrdHMK, ZincHMK-Regular. One hacker points out that AnnouncementRomanHMK is a rework of Castcraft's AnnouncementRoman, adding the Euro, so Hallmark seems to have its hands in the cookie jar, unless there is an intestinal link to Castcraft (but I am not aware of any).

In 2010, some people extracted fonts from Hallmark e-cards with these names: BetaCrownRomanBFA, BetaMars, BluesOnePKA, DoverA1, EdPS-Script, EvereadyOnePKA, GriegoOnePKA, InkberryCondensedBoldA1, KingsHatSansTextBoldPKA-Regular, KingsHatSansTextBoldPKA, KreamyPKA, Minion-HMK, PSOneBoldPKA, PahtooieOneSolidPKA, PahtooieTwoSolidPKA, PeanutsA1-Regular, QubitTwoBoldPKA, SlashKA, StoryBookPKA.

In 2010, Ascender started selling the Hallmark fonts. The first set includes Bix Antique Script HMK, Cluff HMK, Forget Me Not HMK, Fultoon HMK, Geeoh HMK, Hasty HMK, Havix HMK, Jewels HMK, Kat Tail HMK, McBoo HMK, Okrien HMK, Ottum HMK, Starbabe HMK, Succotash HMK and Wallow HMK. The second set, published in 2011, has BoogieWoogie HMK, Calcium HMK (2010, skeletal font), Gweet HMK, Karrot HMK, Pan HMK, Slash HMK, Splint HMK, Tuf Medium HMK (2011), Twizot HMK (1999). But then Ascender was gobbled up by Monotype, so who knows what will happen?

In 2012, we find a file with 107 free fonts on the Hallmark site as a support file for Hallmark Card Studio 2012. That collection: AliceFrancesHmk, BaaBookHmk, BaaBookHmkBold, BernhardFasD, BernhardFashionHmk, BernhardMordern, BethsCuteHmk, BethsCuteHmkBold, BixAntiqueScriptHmk (2009, a copperplate script), BixAntiqueScriptHmkBold, BoogieWoogieHmk, BoogieWoogieHmkBold, CallieHmk, CandyBuzzBTN, CandyBuzzBTNBold, CapriHMK, CarmineTango, CaslonAntT, CaslonNo540SwaD-Ital, ChrisHmk, ChrisHmkBold, CluffHmk, CluffHmkBold, CopperplateT-Bold, CopperplateT-Ligh, CopperplateT-Medi, DesertDogHmk (2008), DomCasualBT-Regular, DomCasualD-Regu, ForgetMeNotHMK, FrancineHmk, FrancineHmkBold, FultoonHmk (2010, a great painter's script), FuturaBT-Medium, Garamond, GaramondBold, GaramondBoldItalic, GaramondItalic, GeeohHmk (2009), GeeohHmkBold, GilliesGotD-Ligh, GrilledCheeseBTNCn, GweetHmk, GweetHmkBold, HankBT-Roman, HastyHMK (2006), HavixHmk (1998, calligraphic), HavixHmkBold, Humanist531BT-RomanA, JanieHmk (2008), JanieHmkBold, JewelsHmk (2008), KatTailBoldHMK, KatTailHMK (2009), LamboHmk, LamboHmkBold, LiorahBT-Regular, MaritaTextBookHMK, MaritaTextMediumHMK, McBooHmk (2009), MelanieBT-Roman, MissyBT-Roman, NimbusRomD-Regu, NimbusRomdBold, NimbusRomdItalic, NimbusSanT-Regu, NimbusSanT-ReguCond, NimbusSanTConBold, NokieBrushBoldHMK, NokieBrushHMK (2009), NotnorvalHmk, NotnorvalHmkBold, OkrienHmk (1999, camp site script), OkrienHmkBold, OttumHmk (2010, formal connected script), OttumHmkBold, PamHMK (2009), ParkAveD, PegsannaHMK, RegisterSansBTN, RegisterSansBTNBold, RyanBT-Heavy, SandyTextHmk (1997, formal script), SandyTextHmkBold, Shannon-Book, ShannonExtraBold, SlashHmk, SlashHmkBold, SplintHmk (2008), SplintHmkBold, StarbabeHmk (2009), StarbabeHmkBold, SuccotashHmk (1999, technical memo script), SuccotashHmkBlack, SuccotashHmkBold, Symphony, SymphonyBlack, TwizotHmk (1999), URWAlcuinT-Regu, URWImperialT-Regu, WackyActionBTN, WackyActionBTNBold, WallowHmk (1999), WallowHmkBold, WritetyperHmk, YearbookSolid.

Hallmark's SMC animations font download site has the free fonts Hmk Handjive, Handshake, Handlebar, Handstand, Handspring, Handsome, all made in 2010.

Additional fonts not mentioned above include Butch HMK (2008), Amberger Sans One, Angelina, Announcement Roman HMK, Constanze Mono One Med, Corona Sans, Crocka Doodle One, Crown Roman (regular, italic), Drummer Man, Dune, Inkberry Cond Bold, Karas, Kings Hat (bold, italic), Mizdemeanor One, Mizfit, Mizquito, Patricia Medium, Poobyrd, Zinc.

As of the early 2010's, Hallmark had two full-time font designers in its department, Terry Lee and Josh Scruggs, and could still count on Myron McVay, who officially retired from Hallmark a few years ago and died in 2013. The type department was headed by Rick Cusick. More recently, Hallmark started to work exclusively on proprietary font designs, including fonts for various Hallmark subsidiaries. By 2016, Rick Cusick and Terry Lee also retired, leaving Hallmark with just two full-time designers: Josh Scruggs and Lila Symons.

To read about type design at Hallmark, consult What Our Lettering Needs The Contribution of Hermann Zapf to Calligraphy & Type Design at Hallmark Cards by Rick Cusick. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hamdani Putra
[Refolve Design Studio]

Hamid Al Amidi

Born in 1891 in the city of "Diyar-e-Bakr" south Anatolia, Turkey. His real name is "Moses Azmi", the renamed as "Hamid Aytash Alamidi" after his village. He studied in the great Mosque named "Ulu" in his village. His calligraphy work embodied all kinds of Arab calligraphic types, but he was greatly famous in "Jali Thulth". Hamid Al Amidi has many writings on the domes and walls of mosques which can be seen in Turkey as a legacy of some of his calligraphy for verses of the Holy Quran, such as: "Ayoub Mosque", "Paschbahchi Mosque", "Haji Koushk Mosque" in Istanbul, the dome of "Cokhateb Mosque" in Ankara and many other mosques in Istanbul and Densley and "Shana Kalaa". The master piece of his production was when he copied the Holy Quran twice in a beautiful Nsekh type. It has been reprinted recently in Istanbul and Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hamid Al-Saadi
[Diwan Mishafi]

Handwriting Interest Group (HIG)

Hamizan
[Ari Budi Setiawan]

Indonesia-based designer (b. 1986) of the fat finger font Hold (2020). In 2021, he released Grooker (a flawed sans), the monolinear sans typeface Elmono Pro (for Latin and Cyrillic) and the calligraphic text typeface Matchout, which features seven styles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hand Foundry
[Andy Lethbridge]

During his studies, Andrew Lethbridge (Portsmouth, UK) created an op-art typeface called Modular Alphabet (2014). In 2015, he published the calligraphic brush script typeface family FS Shepton at Fontsmith. He set up Hand Foundry in London in 2015 or 2016.

Typefaces from 2016: Rogan (a modular sans), Adinah (layered brush script), Bronkoh (a subtly softened sans workhorse typeface family).

Typefaces from 2018: FS Koopman. A sans family designed by Andy Lethbridge and Stuart De Rozario. A hybrid sans workhorse that takes inspiration from Swiss grotesks, American gothics and early British grotesques.

In 2020, he released these script or handcrafted typefaces at Monotype: Adagio, Douglas, Gambino (a chalk font), Herman (a marker pen font), Hylandia, Kendrick (a thick brush font), Morning, Rockland (a counterless poster font), Wrong (a tape font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Handpik Design
[Muhammad Nurapik]

Bandung, Indonesia-based type designer, b. 1999. Creator of the decorative serif typefaces Aicho (2020: almost psychedelic) and Wondershine (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Astrella (a bold display serif), Brunhilde, Nobles Ville, Million Harmony (a formal calligraphic script), Anasya (script), Smoanes, Gorgonite, Meiland, All in (a greeting card display font), Mechta (a display serif that comes close the fat didones of the 1980s), Alletha, Aurallia, Beauty Nigella, Chleona (a decorative serif), Glenite Elegante, Madami, Morgenlicht, Morise, Sabana, Tanjiro.

Typefaces from 2022: Belgan Aesthetic (a display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Alison McRae's page on good handwriting, especially for kids. [Google] [More] ⦿

Handwriting-analysts'--graphologists' listserv

Discussion topics cover many aspects including, e.g., pen-computer interfaces such as the CrossPad. Contact Gary Brown. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hanne Schoolmeesters

During her studies at MAD in Hasselt, Belgium, Hanne Schoolmeesters (Rotselaar and now Leuven, Belgium) created the calligraphic typefaces Madelien (2013) and Koulu (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hanneke Classen
[Fontforecast]

Hans Bohn

German type designer, b. Oberlahnstein, 1891, d. Frankfurt am Main, 1980. He worked mostly for Ludwig&Mayer. Creator of these typefaces:

Orplid (Klingspor, 1929). An all caps shadow face influenced by the Bauhaus movement, this was digitized as Fernburner NF (2011, Nick Curtis) and even extended to layerable font by Ralph M. Unger as Orplid Pro (2019).
Mondial (1936, D. Stempel). This is a didone family, of which Mondial Bold is the most successful member. It was digitally revived by Lukas Schneider in 2017 as Mondial Text and Mondial Display.
The fat semi-stencil typeface Allegro (1936-1937, Ludwig&Mayer). Revived by Bitstream as Allegro. See also Alligator by Softmaker.
Kuenstler Script (1957 or 1959, Linotype). It is based on Künstlerschreibschrift (Stempel, 1902-1903), which in turn is based on the English copperplate script styles from the late 1800s. See Kuenstler Script (Adobe) or Kuenstler Script (Linotype).

Klingspor link. FontShop link. View Hans Bohn's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hans Eduard Meier

Swiss type designer in Obstalden, Switzerland, born in 1922 in Horgen am Zürichsee, who was associated with ETH Zurich for a long time. He died in 2014. In his obituary, Meier's long-time friend and former publisher Erich Alb wrote: He was a tireless, quiet craftsman, alone in his room, away from everything, who worked with endless stamina. The high quality of his calligraphic work, his sure eye in drawing letterforms, his teaching skills, his drawing, painting and graphic work distinguish him as a unique international figure. Meier created these typefaces:

Barbedor (1984) and Barbetwo.
The school fonts BasisSchrift Eins EF (2002), ABCSchrift Drei EF (2001-2002), ABCSchrift Eins EF and ABCSchrift Zwei EF. See this school script web page. In 2016, this ws formally published by Elsner and Flake as ABC Basisschrift.
The calligraphic family Elysa EF (2002).
Lapidar. Linotype Syntax Lapidar (1995). Syntax Lapidar Serif (2001).
Oberon (1992). Done as an OEM for Institut fuer Computersysteme in Zürich. Available from Elsner&Flake as OberonEF.
SNB Alphabet (1994). Designed for the Swiss National bank) as an adapted version of Helvetica Condensed. The notes themselves were designed by Joerg Zintmeyer.
Syntax, Meier's humanist sans chef d'oeuvre, started in 1954, and is inspired, according to Meier himself, by Tschichold's Sabon. An intermediate version was called Ur-Syntax (1964). Syntax was first released in 1968-1972 by Stempel. The last metal typeface produced by Stempel AG, it was available in just two weights of roman and a single italic design. When the design was digitized in the late 1980s, additional roman weights were added. Meier completely reworked and enlarged Syntax in 2000 and renamed it Syntax Next. The modern Bitstream version of Syntax is called Humanist 531. See also Saxony and S841 Sans on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002. Compugraphic's identical clone is CG Symphony. Other copies of Syntax include Synthesis, Cintal, and Synchron. URW has its own version. Linotype Syntax (2000), a reworking of his original Syntax, earned Meier a Bukvaraz 2001 award. Derived or related typefaces: Syntax Serif (1999), Syntax-Letter (1992), and Neue Syntax, all by Meier. Links to some of the digital versions of Syntax: Humanist 531 (ParaType), Humanist 531 (Tilde), Humanist 531 (Bitstream), Syntax Series (URW++), Linotype Syntax (Linotype), Saxony Serial (SoftMaker), Syntax Next (Linotype), Linotype Syntax Serif (Linotype), Linotype Syntax Lapidar (Linotype), Linotype Syntax Letter (Linotype), Syntax (Adobe), Linotype Syntax Lapidar Serif (Linotype), Syntax (Linotype).
ITC Syndor (1988).
Elysa (2002).
Gestickte Antiqua (2004).

His books include Die Schriftentwicklung (published in 1995 by Syntax Press in Cham, Switzerland). This teaching book contains over sixty of Meier's calligraphic specimens, as well as a historical survey of scripts from ancient Greece to today. One of Meier's specimens, entitled Roman Lapidary 1st Century, was worked into a digital typeface family by Elsner and Flake as Meier Kapitalis (2013).

References: Superb analysis of his life and contributions by Roxane Jubert (in French). See also Swiss Typographic Magazine Nr 3: Hans Eduard Meier 1922-2014, by Erich Alb, Cham, Switzerland, 2014 [Erich Alb, who knew Meier quite well, spoke about Meier's life at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo]. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link.

View Hans Eduard Meier's typefaces. View various digital versions of Syntax and Humanist 531. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hans Helmut Matheis

German type designer (b. 1917, Speyer). MyFonts page. His typefaces, mostly, but not exclusvely, done at Ludwig&Mayer:

The calligraphic, yet flowing Charme, originally from Ludwig&Mayer, 1957-1958. Digital versions by Adobe and Linotype. Softmaker's version is C721 Script.
Slogan (1959), a connected script also done at Ludwig&Mayer. It is the bold version of Charme, but quite different from Nebiolo's Slogan. It is heavier, more coloured, and fully connected. Elvira Slysh created the Latin/Cyrillic extension Corrida (1989, Paratype). Digital versions by Elsner&Flake, Linotype, Softmaker (as Soledad and S760 Script), Corel (as Shogun), and URW (2003, by Ralph Unger, called Unger Script there).
Primadonna (1956, a formal script, Ludwig&Mayer). The revival and expansion by Rebecca Alaccari of Canada Type is called Silk Script (2006).
Matheis Mobil (1960, informal script, Ludwig&Mayer). Mobil was revived in 2005 at Canada Type as Rhino.
Compliment (1965, a confident vertical script, Ludwig&Mayer). Johann Petersen's Kompliment (2003) is based on Compliment. And so is Ralph Unger's Compliment (2004, Profonts).
Verona (1958-1959, script face, Genzsch&Heyse). Nearly upright script. Not to be confused with Verona from ATF and Stephenson Blake.
Contact (1963, flowing script/brush) was digitized by Rebecca Alaccari at Canada Type in 2004 as Bruschetta. It was also revived by Ralph M. Unger in 2010 as Contact Pro.
In 2010, at he age of 93, he designed Judo ND, a calligraphic typeface. Judo ND was digitized by Neufville's design staff.

FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link.

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Hans J. Zinken

Köln-based designer whose web page has several pages related to calligraphy and Rechtschreibreform as well as calligraphy and handwriting education in schools. His (free) typefaces:

Deutsche Kurrent (2014). A historic German school script.
Marktkirche.
SchwungFraktur (2011). A Schwabacher.
Fraktur 1900.
AltDeutschHJZ (2002-2006). This is based on the types made for the prayer book of Maximilian I, by Johannes Schönsperger in 1514, and later adapted in metal type by Genzsch ca. 1890.
KanzleiScriptHJZ. After Heinrichsen Kanzlei (1933, Trennert) by Friedrich Heinrichsen.
The calligraphic handwriting font Hans Hand (1994-1996), HansHand2 (1996-2007).
Juergen Script (1998-1999), a heavy fountain pen script. See also Juergen2 (2011).
CiviliteHJZ (1997). This was first called civi4 (1996). Based on Lettres de Civilité.
GutenbergHJZ. This was Fraktur Gutenberg B42 (2000).

Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hans Reichardt
[Klingspor Museum Offenbach]

Hans Samuelson
[Samuelstype Design]

Hans van Maanen

Dutch science journalist who has published extensively in the Volkskrant. He is also into fine arts and illustration, and has even designed a few fonts. MyFonts page. Klingspor link.

His first production was Lexington and Lexington Handtooled (2006, a revival and major expansion of a 1926 Ludwig Wagner Schriftgiesserei typeface called Titanic. A typical art deco signage typeface which can be bought at Canada Type, and is characterized by its rabbit-eared k, l, b, d and h).
He also digitized and expanded Aurora Grotesk (1912, Johannes Wagner foundry) and called it Annonce (2006, Canada Type).
As explained by Canada Type: The story of Serena is a unique one among revivals. Serena was neither a metal typeface nor a film one. In fact it never went anywhere beyond Stefan Schlesinger's 1940-41 initial sketches (which he called Saranna). A year later, while working with Dick Dooijes on the Rondo typeface, Schlesinger was sent to a concentration camp where he died, along with any material prospects for the gorgeous letters he'd drawn. The only sketches left of Schlesinger's Saranna work are found in the archives of the Drukkerij Trio (the owner of which was Schlesinger's brother-in-law). The sketches were done in pencil and ink over pencil on four sheets of paper. And now Hans van Maanen revives Schlesinger's spirit as closely as the drawings permit. Hans Van Maanen thus digitized Serena (2007, Canada Type).
Dutch Mediaeval (2007, 9 styles) is a text family based on Hollandse Mediaeval, the 1912 Sjoerd Hendrik De Roos classic. Followed in 2013 by Dutch Mediaeval Book ST (done together with Patrick Griffin), which was engineered specifically for science writing.
Freco (2006, Canada Type): an art deco font.
Circulaire (2009, Canada Type) is a set of initial caps designed by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos in 1926.
Adams (2008, Canada Type) is a revival and major expansion of Dolf Overbeek's Studio typeface and Flambard, its bold counterpart, originally published by the Amsterdam Type Foundry in 1946 and 1954, respectively.
Lotto: A brush typeface originally designed by expert ad artist Herbert Thannhaeuser for East German foundry Typoart in 1955. Revived by Van Maanen at Canada Type in 2009.
Diploma (2009, Canada Type) is a revival of Diplomat, a metal type made by the in-house team of Ludwig&Mayer and first published in 1964.
Roos (2009): A 10-style revival and extension of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos's De Roos Romein (1948), created in cooperation with Patrick Griffin at Canada Type.
Archie (2010): a heavy techno sans banner face, done at Canada Type as a revival of work by Martin Meijer.
Agent (2010, Canada Type) is another revival of work by Martin Meijer.
Aragon (2010, Canada Type): Advertised as a workhorse Dutch Garamond family. Includes an open style called Aragon Initials.
Naga (+Naga Outline, 2011, Canada Type) is Hans van Maanen's original creation of art deco shapes intersected with intricate mazes of what could be Celtic or Mesoamerican knotwork art.
Zilvertype (2012). A 590-glyph typeface revival published by Canada Type: Right on the heels of the tremendous popularity wave that made Hollandse Mediaeval the most used Dutch typeface during the Great War years, Sjoerd H. de Roos was asked to design a 15 point type for De Zilverdistel, Jean-François van Royen's publishing company. So between 1914 and 1916, de Roos and van Royen collaborated on the typeface eventually known as Zilvertype, and which both parties viewed as an improved version of Hollandse Mediaeveal. Like Hollandse Mediaeval, Zilvertype was based on the Jenson model, but it is simpler, with more traditional metrics, and lighter and more classic in colour. Followed in 2014 by the expanded Zilvertype Pro.
Minuet (2007) revives Schlesinger's Rondo.
Grippo (2012). A layered font in six styles, with a general art deco look.
Gaulois (2012). Based on Scribe (1937, Marcel Jacno), an art deco era signage and advertising script.
Wilke Kursiv (2013) is based on Martin Wilke's Wilke Kursiv from 1932.
Aragon ST (2013, with Patrick Griffin). Related to Garamond, this family was designed for science writing, thanks to the incorporation of SciType. SciType is a flexible combination of oft-ignored letterforms and innovative OpenType programming that can be incoporated into existing text fonts in order for them to function seamlessly when including common science formulas and equations in regular text.
In 2015, Hans cooperated with Patrick Griffin on the sturdy small text typeface Leo.
Basilio (2017). a revival and expansion of the italienne typeface Hidalgo (1939, Stefan Schlesinger for Lettergieterij Amsterdam).
Der Mond (2018). A stick font.
Pala (2018). A condensed semi-bold sans typeface that is based on the tyopes seen on posters by activists.
Monostad (2019).
Litige (2019). A bold titling sans.
Salden (2019, by Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin). A grand effort to collect the lettering of Dutch book and book cover designer Helmut Salden in a series of typefaces.
Boerenzij (2019). A stencil type commissioned by Wapke Feenstra for an exposition in Rotterdam.
Mmomo (2019).
Artist in Space (2019). A commissioned typeface.
Normandia (2021, by Patrick Griffin and Hans van Maanen). A digital revival of the fatface typeface Normandia by Alessandro Butti at Nebiolo (1946-1949).

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HansCo
[Burhan Afif]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of the font duo Nesans and Nesans Signature (2019), the script fonts Sweet Love (2019: upright), Mondena (2019), The Bellinda (2019: calligraphic), Austin Capittal (sic) (2019: monoline script), Bread Store (2019) and Wrongler (2019), and the vintage (often, Victorian) display typefaces Blue Spirits (2019), Bandits (2019), Sonia (2019), Belgia (2019), Berlina (2019) and Berlin (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Blue Spiris, Grapine (Victorian), Ricasto (a signage script), Grizlie (an octagonal sports font), Madanira (a semi-formal script), Amellisa Ink, Anstec (a techno / sports font), Razen (a techno / sports font), Sourta (a speed emulation sports font), Abigile (an upright script), Off Side (all caps, brush), Bastina Sindey (a dry brush script), Bread Store, Feeling Blessed (an upright rabbit ear script), Meristmas, Mosteri (a fantasy font), Ateros (a sci-fi typeface), Aloner (a sci-fi font), Nucleo (a sci-fi font), Roline (prismatic), Tahu Bullats (a creamy signage script), Valentiqu (a curly upright script), Magic Funk (a psychedelic script), Letter Magic (a decorative serif), Craft Lovers, Magzo (a decorative serif), Belights, Cute Meow, Baking Pastry, Sweet Butter, Feeling Blessed, Baby Bunny Script, Misteri Caps, Carglos (blackletter), Traditian, Genta (a rounded bold all caps typeface), Beyond Stars, Off Side (brush), Santoriu, Hi Panda, Crows (a curly serif), Zeniq (a stencil font), Nucleo, Abigile, Blaster, Botania, Crunchy, Femina, Graphite, Holly Days, Hot Sauce, Just Swirls, La Fiesta, Lets Espresso, Little Baby, Magic Sparkle, Ricota, Secillia, Shinesy, Skid Rock, Stripline, The Englands, The Spectre, USA Nation, Magzo (a display serif indeed for food packaging and logos), Stabillo (a food logo brand typeface), Austina Capitton, Kora Kora, Mosherif (Regular, Tall, Short), Golden Stanbury (a signature script font duo), Risolla Calisto (a wild calligraphic typeface), Wild Wolf (brush), Balistone (a wild script), Glastia Monoline, Amorista (a rabbit ear script), Eastblue, Crimmy (a dry brush script), Buchery, Castel, The Begundals, Sambal Pedas (a dry brush script), Blastoic (a dry brush script), Queen Sea, Skid Rock, Platinum Signature, Sonita (a condensed decorative serif typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Bastro (a great obese short-necked retro display typeface), Romantic Serif, Pastel Orange (an elegant artsy ligature serif), Romantic Serif, Sunroll (fashion mag caps), Romla (a wide display serif), Magic Retro (a heavy magic mushroom typeface), Holingston (a dry brush script), Gopetter, Ballomont (handwriting), Astopher, Restoe Bumi (a handwriting font), Rotenfold (a script), Halima Sofira, Anastia Buttery (an inky signature script), Belighta (wild calligraphy), Bittle Birdy (an irregular typeface that will cause psychological damage), Magic Sparkle (a decorative all caps serif), Notted (an exaggerated fashion mag font loaded with smooth ligatures and featuring surprise gyhphs such as a lower case a that is a mirror of the lower case e).

HansCo Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Harder Type Foundry
[Dede Mulyadi]

Dede Mulyadi (b. 1990) is based in Bandung, Indonesia, where he established Harder Type Foundry. He created the Victorian typefaces Golden (2014), Qwerly (2014) and Bandung Pride (2014), and the vintage signage fonts Anastasia (2014) and Billfont (2014).

Typefaces from 2015: Remires (Victorian), The Harrlems (curly script), James Fonts (a comic book or cartoon style all caps typeface), Ballarea (connected calligraphic script), Gullever (formal connected calligraphic script), The Georgios (script).

Typefaces from 2016: Humber (signage script), Voster, Heritage (monoline script), Ballet Script, Roister, Dear Saturday (signage script).

Typefaces from 2018: Lambreta, Caledon.

Typefaces from 2019: Raighton (a 20-vintage font collection).

Typefaces from 2020: Homebreaks, Rosemary Love (a dry brush script), Bandoeng (a vintage sign painting script that was inspired by the cover of a 1920 Nebiolo book).

Typefaces from 2021: The Stylist (an upright monolinear signature script), Blossom Dahlia (a monoline signature script), Beautiful Summit (script), Heartbear, Homebreaks, Local Goods (a sign painter's font), Old Landmark (a monolinear retro script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hardik Shah

Based in Ahmedabad, India, Hardik Shah designed the calligraphic typeface Scribble (2012) and the techno Arabic simulation font Abica (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Haris Purnama Putra
[Typetemp Studio (was: Geranium Space, Moovied Co, Eight Type Rits, Letter Rits Type, Templatehere)]

Harjuno Kristanto
[Arkrist Letter]

Harold Van Buren Magonigle

New Jersey-born American architect best known for his memorials, 1867-1935. His lettering included these Modern American Capitals. [Google] [More] ⦿

Harry Brodjian

Harry and Seta Brodjian acquired Filmotype in 1987 and ran the company for a while. Earlier, in 1970, Harry had designed the calligraphic initials typeface VGC Constanze, which was digitized and revived in 2007 by Canada Type as VIP (Rebecca Alaccari). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Harun Zankel

Harun Zankel (Brooklyn, NY) created the calligraphic Maya's Alphabet (2012).

Harvey Hopkins Dunn

American lettering artist in the 1930s, b. 1879. Dundee Castle NF (2007, Nick Curtis) is a retro script based on his lettering done in 1930 for American Aplhabets. [Google] [More] ⦿

Harvey Tonkin
[Harvey&Karen Tonkin]

Harvey&Karen Tonkin
[Harvey Tonkin]

Aussies Harvey&Karen Tonkin have created Victorian cursive fonts that might also be used for primary schools. Address: 31 Deschamp Road, Noranda, WA 6062. URL that mentions their work. Fonts by Harvey Tonkin: DottedVicModCursive (1998), VicModCurJoinedNormal (1998), VicModCursiveNormal (1993). [Google] [More] ⦿

Has Rizal
[Hrz Studio]

Hasan Udin
[Ghuroba Studio]

Hassan Massoudy

Arabic calligraphy like you've never seen before. See also here. He wrote "Calligraphies d'Amour" (2002, éditions Albin Michel). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hassan Musa
[Zoomorphic calligraphy]

Hayinah Hayinah
[Rockboys Studio (or: Rockboy Studio)]

Hazim Mujahid
[Dotzeem]

Hebrew Calligraphy

Book by Jay Seth Greenspan. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hector Diaz

Mexico City-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Tipo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard (b. Lyon, 1867, d. New York, 1942) was an architect, who is widely considered today to be the most prominent representative of the French Art Nouveau movement (1890-1905). Designer in 1901 of the art nouveau font Metropolitaines used in the Paris metro (see here). His lettering was based on work done by Auriol for the Peignot foundry. Entrance of a metro station in Paris.

Digital implementations of Metropolitaines:

Metropolitain EF (Elsner+Flake).
Metropolitaines (URW++).
Metropolitaines (Linotype).
Metropolitaines (David Poullard and Julien Gineste). Designed in 2001 for the RATP. Their typeface can also be seen in Montreal's Square Victoria subway station.
Medoc (SoftMaker).

Site by Le Cercle Guimard. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Heinz Schumann

Heinz Schumann (b. Chemnitz, 1934, d. Chemintz, 2020) studied under German type designers Albert Kapr and Herbert Thannhaeuser at the University of Graphics and Book Design in Leipzig.

He drew the calligraphic brush typeface Stentor (1964, Typoart), a Mistral competitor. In this style, many still prefer Ron Zwingelberg's Rage Italic. Rosalia (2004, Ingo Preuss) is based on Stentor. Digital versions by Ralph M. Unger (2013, Tyton Pro), Scangraphic (as Stentor SB), Softmaker (called Sterling), Elsner&Flake and URW.

One of his unpublished typefaces from the early 1960s was revived in 2017 by Patrick Griffin and Richard Kegler at P22 as P22 Schumann Pro.

FontShop link. Obituary by Ingo Preuss. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Heinzel Studio
[Nofi Sofyan Hadi]

Probolinggo, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) of the script fonts Hello Ketta (2019: a monoline hand-printed typeface), Soul of You (2019), Crellia (2019) and Clarisa (2019) and the inline sans typeface Wander Brave (2019).

In 2020, Heinzel released the all caps display serif Brooké, the slab serif Baxley, the monoline scripts Wild Blood, Madore, Stanford, Brittney Signature, Caramella, and Emelynd, the calligraphic font Kingsley, and the script typefaces Lovely Girl, Estelle, Rocketto, Sherland, Silver City and Astercla.

Typefaces from 2021: Yummy Foodies (a fat finger font), Youth Syndicate. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Helena Öhman
[Studio Indigo]

Hendra Maulia
[Dirtyline Studio]

Hendra Pratama
[HP Typework (was: Mikrojihad Inc.)]

Hendry Juanda
[Letterhend Studio (or: Magang Letterhend)]

Henning Hartmut Skibbe
[ErlerSkibbeTönsmann (and: Character Type)]

Henry Dean

American calligrapher, 1788-1849. He wrote Dean's Analytical Guide. Containing A Variety of Plates in which are exhibited A Complete System of Practical Penmanship (1805, second edition 1808), a calligraphic primer containing many alphabets. In 2007, Jane Rodgers Siegel writes in APHA, vol. 163: The 1805 first edition of Henry Dean's Analytical Guide is the first ambitious American handwriting manual, a handsome quarto of 56 pages and 18 engraved plates. It may be of interest that Dean, as Nash tells us, not only was a writing master, teacher, and bookkeeper (writing and arithmetic, the two skills needed for com- merce, went hand in hand for centuries), but also had run a copperplate printing business in Salem, Mass. [Google] [More] ⦿

Henryk Sakwerda

Polish post-WWII type designer and calligrapher, b. 1942, Katowice, d. 2017, Katowice. He graduated in 1965 from Technikum Poligraficz. His typefaces include:

Typos (1970).
Akant (1975-1980).
Monitor (1986).
Codesigner with Artur Frankowski in 2006 of Silesiana 2006, a great calligraphic font whose development was supported by the Silesian Government.

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Herlan Nawwi

Purwokerto, Indonesia-based designer of the signage script typefaces Flaming and Alfien (2017), and the brush script typeface Anisha (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Flaming Script, Launch Atack, Qilla, Claudya Script (formal calligraphy). Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Herman Syah
[Get Studio (or: Her Design)]

Ihlenburg at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Graphic Arts Collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hermann Ihlenburg

German-American type designer (b. 1843, Berlin) who apprenticed at the Trowitzsch & Son type foundry in Berlin, and then worked as a punchcutter in Dresden and at the G. Haase & Sons foundry in Prague. After positions at the Flinsch foundry in Frankfurt, the Battenburg foundry in Paris, and the Fonderie Haas in Basel, Ihlenburg moved to the United States in 1866 to work for the L. Johnson & Company foundry in Philadelphia, which became MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan some time later. Specializing in ornamental (Victorian) fonts and borders, he designed over eighty typefaces for that Mackellar and a few more for American Type Founders after it purchased MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1901. Ihlenburg became an American citizen in 1874, and died in Philadelphia in 1905. He will be remembered as the prototypical Victorian type designer.

His typefaces at MacKellar:

American (1876), Angular Text (1884, a Victorian blackletter at MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan; digitally interpreted by Toto in his free font K22 Angular Text (2012) and by Alan Jay Prescott as Angolan Text (2017)), Arboret (1884), Arboret No. 2 (1885), Archaic (1888), Artistic (1886), Attic (1879). Artistic was revived by Alan Jay Prescott in 2017 as Beltane Roman. He wrote: this letterform started out in 1886 as drawn by the great Herman Ihlenburg as Artistic and assigned to MacKellar Smiths & Jordan. Dan Solo called this face Belmont but only showed caps and was suspect anyway. I was able to find specimens elsewhere and a motherlode of other interesting things in the Inland Printer. I developed my first full-featured OTF using this typeface and designed Greek and Cyrillic glyphs as well. I also fitted it out with a set of small caps to make a font that now has 4,000 glyphs for nearly every non-Asian language. To top it off, Robert Donona revived the decorative caps for this typeface, an excruciating task that I once considered for myself but was lucky enough to have this other crazy person take up. The number of hours dedicated between Robert and myself in reviving this complete series digitally is probably unprecedented.
Bijou (1883: digital copies include Bangle (1990-1991, FontBank), Riccio Display Script by Southern Software (1994, SSi, SSK), Grebe (1994, by an anonymous designer) and Mexacali by Swfte), Black Ornamented (1873), Broadgauge Ornate (1868: a spurred Western typeface at MacKellar Smiths & Jordan; revived by Michael Hagemann), Byzantine (1868).
Centennial Script (1874, a spectacular high-contrast script digitized in 2007 by Canada Type and in 2011 as a free font called Mortem Stylus by Stylus, and by Intellecta Design as Centennial Script), Chaucer (1883), Childs (1892, revived by R. Beatty, and by Ingo Preuss as Daring), Circular Black (1883), Columbian (1891), Columbus (1890: for metal recuts, see Victor Hugo by Nebiolo and Columbia (1909) by Urania); for digital revivals, see Cristoforo by Thomas Phinney, 2012, Cristoforo (2012) by SoftMaker, F37 Drago (2021, Rick Banks) and Colombo by Ingo Preuss), Columbus No.2, Columbus Outline (1892), Copperplate (1877), Crayon (1886), Culdee (1885).
Dado (1882), Drapery Border (1876), Dynamo (1891).
Elliptical Border (1878), Eureka Text (1870, blackletter), Eureka Shaded (1870).
Ferdinand (1892, now at Dover), Filigree (1878), Fillet (1890), Flourish Ornaments (1884).
Glyptic, Glyptic No. 2 and Glyptic Shaded (1878), Gothic Ornate (?), Greenback (1871), Grolier (1887), Gutenberg (1888).
Houghton (ca. 1880). Same as Edison. Revived by Jim Spiece as Edison Swirl SG.
Illuminated and Illuminated No. 2 (1876), Isabella (1892, a bastarda face; digital version at Agfa, Adobe, and Linotype, 2001), Italic Copperplate (1878).
Japanesque and Japanesque No. 2 (1877, oriental simulation typefaces), Johnson (1892).
Lady Text (1884, blackletter), Lippincott (before 1895).
MediaevalText and Mediaeval Text Ornate (1870, blackletter), Minaret (1868), Minster (1878), Mortised and Mortised No. 2 (1884).
Newfangle (1892, revived in 2015 by Nick Curtis as Newfangle NF), Nymphic (1889 [Ruffa says 1884], revived by Barmee in Secesja Pro (2013), and by Paul D. Hunt (2004), who published it as Kilkenny (2005, P22)).
Obelisk (1881), Oxonian (1881). Digital revival of Obelisk in 2014 by Robert Donona.
Pencraft (1885; digital revival in 2013 by Robert Donona), Pencraft No.2, Phidian (1870, redone by Dan X. Solo), Philadelphian (1867; digital revival by Michael Hagemann as Philadelphian in 2020), Pynson (1887).
Quenn Bess Script (1882).
Radiant (1876), Radiant Antique (1876: a money font), Radiated (1871), Relievo (1878), Relievo No. 2 (1879), Rimpled (1895), Ringlet (1882, the prototypical Victorian typeface; Dan X. Solo and George Williams made different digital versions in 1998 which are both also called Ringlet), Romanesque (1874).
Sansom Script (1888), School Text (1876), Spiral (1890, revived by R. Beatty), Stipple (1890), Stylus and Stylus No. 2 (1883).
Tendril (1878), Tilted (1886), Treasury (1874), Treasury Open (1875).
Unique (1874), Unique No. 2 (1875).
Zinco (1891, revived by Jim Spiece in 2002 as Zinc Italian SG).

At ATF: Taylor Gothic (1894), Schoeffer Old Style (1897: revived and extended by Alfonso Garcia in 2020 as Spirits), Roundhand Series (1902), Post Oldstyle Roman No. 2 (1901---possibly made by E.J. Kitson and/or Guernsey Moore), Post Oldstyle Italic (1901), Ihlenburg Series (1900?), Bradley Series (1895-1897, now at Dover), American Italic (1902). Ludlow offers a digital version of Hannibal.

Comments on some typefaces by Mac McGrew:

American Italic is a heavy, novel design by Herman Ihlenburg introduced by ATF in 1902, as a companion to Columbus, which had been designed for ATF's MacKellar Smiths&Jordan branch in 1892. The italic survived its roman mate, being shown by itself in 1906, but was gone by 1912. It is essentially a nineteenth-century design.
Bradley (or Bradley Text) was designed by Herman Ihlenburg-some sources credit it to Joseph W. Phinney--from lettering by Will H. Bradley for the Christmas cover of an Inland Printer magazine. It was produced by ATF in 1895, with Italic, Extended, and Outline versions appearing about three years later. It is a very heavy form of black-letter, based on ancient manuscripts, but with novel forms of many letters. Bradley and Bradley Outline, which were cut to register for two-color work, have the peculiarity of lower alignment for the caps than for the lowercase and figures, as may be seen in the specimens; Italic and Extended align normally. The same typeface with the addition of German characters (some of which are shown in the specimen of Bradley Extended) was sold as Ihlenburg, regular and Extended. Similar types, based on the same source and issued about the same time, were St. John by Inland Type Foundry, and Abbey Text by A. D. Farmer&Son. They were not as enduring as Bradley, which was resurrected for a while in 1954 by ATF. Also compare Washington Text.
Round Hand was designed for ATF about 1900, and has been ascribed to Herman Ihlenburg. It has the appearance of handwriting with a broad pen, but letters are not quite connected.
Schoeffer Old Style [No.2] was designed by Herman Ihlenburg for ATF in 1897. It is typical of a number of typefaces of the day-a plainly lettered roman with small, blunt serifs. Some references list Schoeffer Condensed, cut in 1902; this is probably the typeface shown a little later as Adver Condensed (q.v.). On Linotype, Schaeffer Oldstyle was called Elzevir No.2.

In 2021, Noah Bryant set out to revive many of Ihlenburg's Victorian typefaces.

Hermann Zapf

Prolific master calligrapher and type designer, born in Nuremberg in 1918. Most of his life, he lived in Darmstadt, where he died in 2015. He is best known for Palatino, Optima, Melior, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino, and ITC Zapf Chancery. He created alphabets for metal types, photocomposition and digital systems.

He studied typography from 1938 until 1941 in Paul Koch's workshop in Frankfurt. From 1946 until 1956, he was type director at D. Stempel AG type foundry, Frankfurt. In 1951 he married Gudrun von Hesse. From 1956 until 1973, he was consultant for Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn and Frankfurt. From 1977 until 1987, he was vice president of Design Processing, Inc., New York (which he founded with his friends Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin), and professor of Typographic Computer Programs, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Students at RIT included Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow, who together created the Lucida type family. Other prominent students include calligrapher/font designer Julian Waters and book designer Jerry Kelly. From 1987 until 1991, he was chairman of Zapf, Burns&Company, New York. He retired in Darmstadt, Germany, but consulted on many font projects until a few years before his death. In the 1990s, Zapf developed the hz program for kerning and typesetting. It was acquired by Adobe who used ideas from it in InDesign.

Awards:

1969 Frederic W. Goudy Award, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
1973 Gutenberg Prize, City of Mainz.
1975 Gold Medal, Museo Bodoniano, Parma.
1985 Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of Arts, London.
1987 Robert Hunter Middleton Award, Chicago.
1994 Euro Design Award, Oostende.
1996 Wadim Lazursky Award, Academy of Graphic Arts, Moscow.
1999 Type Directors Club award for Zapfino (1998), New York.
2010 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse.

Some publications by Hermann Zapf:

Feder und Stichel (1949, Trajanus Presse, Frankfurt)

About Alphabets (1960)

Manuale Typographicum (1954 and 1968). Only 1000 copies were printed of the original.

Typographic Variations (1964), or Typografische Variationen (1963, Stempel), of which only 500 copies were printed.

Orbis Typographicus (1980)

Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy (Chicago, 1987)

ABC-XYZapf (London, 1989)

Poetry through Typography (New York, 1993)

August Rosenberger (Rochester, NY, 1996).

Alphabet Stories (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, 2008). Review by Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater.

My collaboration with Don Knuth and my font design work [just an article], TUGboat 22:1/2 (2001), 26-30. Local download.

List of his typefaces:

Alahram Arabisch.
Arno (Hallmark).
Aldus Buchschrift (Linotype, 1954): Italic, Roman. Digital version by Adobe.
Alkor Notebook.
Attika Greek.
Artemis Greek.
Aurelia (1985, Hell).
AT&T Garamond.
Book (ITC New York). Samples: Book Demi, Book Demi Italic, Book Heavy, Book Heavy Italic, Book Medium Italic. The Zapf Book, Chancery and International fonts are under the name Zabriskie on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002.
Brush Borders.
Comenius Antiqua (1976, Berthold; see C792 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002).
Crown Roman and Crown Italic (Hallmark).
Chancery (officially called ITC Zapf Chancery): Bold, Demi, Italic, Light, Liht Italic, Mediu Italic, Roman.
Civilité (Duensing). Mac McGrew on the Zapf Civilité: Zapf Civilite is perhaps the latest typeface to be cut as metal type, having been announced in January 1985, although the designer, Hermann Zapf, had made sketches for such a typeface as early as 1940, with further sketches in 1971. But matrices were not cut until 1983 and 1984. The cutting was done by Paul Hayden Duensing in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The first Civilité typeface was cut by Robert Granjon in 1557, based on a popular French handwriting style of the time. Other interpretations have been made from time to time, notably the Civilité (q.v.) designed by Morris Benton in 1922 for ATF. The new Zapf design has the same general character but with a more informal and contemporary feeling. A smooth flow between weights of strokes replaces the stark contrast of thick-and-thin in older interpretations. There are several ligatures, and alternate versions of a number of characters, including several terminals. Only the 24-point Didot size is cut or planned.
Charlemagne (Hallmark).
Digiset Vario (1982, Hell): a signage face.
Edison (Hell), Edison Cyrillic. Scans: Bold Condensed, Book, Semibold Italic, Semibold, Book Italic.
Euler (American Mathematical Society). Zapf was also consultant for Don Knuth on his Computer Modern fonts. In 1983, Zapf, Knuth and graduate students in Knuth's and Charles Bigelow's Digital Typography program at Stanford University including students Dan Mills, Carol Twombly, David Siegel, and Knuth's computer science Ph.D. students Scott Kim and John Hobby, completed the calligraphic typeface family AMS Euler for the American Mathematical Society (+Fraktur, Math Symbols, +script). Taco Hoekwater, Hans Hagen, and Khaled Hosny set out to create an OpenType MATH-enabled font Neo-Euler (2009-2010), by combining the existing Euler math fonts with new glyphs from Hermann Zapf (designed in the period 2005-2008). The result is here. The Euler digital font production was eventually finished by Siegel as his M.S. thesis project in 1985.
Firenze (Hallmark).
Festliche Ziffern (transl: party numbers).
Frederika Greek.
Gilgengart Fraktur (1938, D. Stempel). Some put the dates as 1940-1949. It was released by Stempel in 1952. Revivals include RMU Gilgengart (2020, Ralph M. Unger), and Gilgengart by Gerhard Henzel.
Heraklit Greek (1954). A digital revival was first done by George Matthiopoulos, GFS Heraklit. Later improvements followed by Antonis Tsolomitis and finally in 2020 by Daniel Benjamin Miller.
Hunt Roman (1961-1962, Pittsburgh). A display typeface exclusively designed for the Hunt Botanical Library (Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation since 1971), situated on campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, to accompany their text typeface Spectrum. Review by Ferdinand Ulrich.
International (ITC, 1977). Samples: Demi, Demi Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic, Light, Light Italic, Medium, Medium Italic.
Janson (Linotype).
Jeannette Script (Hallmark).
Kompakt (1954, D. Stempel).
Kalenderzeichen (transl: calendar symbols).
Kuenstler Linien (transl: artistic lines).
Linotype Mergenthaler.
Melior (1952, D. Stempel; see Melmac on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002). Samples: Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Roman.
Michelangelo (1950, D. Stempel, a roman caps face; a digital version exists at Berthold and at The Font Company).
Marconi (1975-1976, Hell; now also available at Elsner&Flake and Linotype; according to Gerard Unger, this was the first digital type ever designed---the original 1973 design was intended for Hell's Digiset system; Marconi is a highly readable text face).
Medici Script (1971).
Musica (Musiknoten, transl: music symbols; C.E. Roder, Leipzig).
Magnus Sans-serif (Linotype, 1960).
Missouri (Hallmark).
Novalis.
Noris Script (1976; a digital version exists at Linotype).
Optima (1955-1958, D. Stempel--Optima was originally called Neu Antiqua), Optima Greek, Optima Nova (2002, with Akira Kobayashi at Linotype, a new version of Optima that includes 40 weights, half of them italic). Samples: Poster by Latice Washington, Optima, Demibold Italic, Black, Bold, Bold Italic, Demibold, Extra Black, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Regular, Italic. Digital clones: Zapf Humanist 601 by Bitstream, O801 Flare on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002), Opus by Softmaker, Columbia Serial by Softmaker, Mg Open Cosmetica, Ottawa by Corel, October by Scangraphic, CG Omega by Agfa compugraphic, Chelmsford by URW, Classico by URW and Optus by URW.
Orion (1974).
Palatino (1948, D. Stempel; the original font can still be found as Palazzo on Softmaker's XXL CD, 2002), Palatino Nova (2005, Linotype), Palatino Sans (2006, Linotype, with Akira Kobayashi), Palatino Greek, Palatino Cyrillic. Palatino was designed in conjunction with August Rosenberger, In 2013, Linotype released Palatino eText which has a larger x-height and wider spacing. Palatino samples: black, black italic, bold, bold italic, italic, medium, roman, light, light italic. Poster by M. Tuna Kahya (2012). Poster by Elena Shkarupa. Poster by Wayne YMH (2012). Zapf was particularly upset about the Palatino clone, Monotype Book Antiqua. Consequently, in 1993, Zapf resigned from ATypI over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members.
Phidias Greek.
Primavera Schmuck.
Pan Nigerian.
Quartz (Zerox Corporation Rochester, NY).
Renaissance Antiqua (1985, Scangraphic). Samples: Regular, Bold, Book, Light Italic, Swashed Book Italic, Swash Italic.
Saphir (1953, D. Stempel, see now at Linotype).
Sistina (1951, D. Stempel).
Scriptura, Stratford (Hallmark).
Sequoya (for the Cherokee Indians), ca. 1970. This was cut by Walter Hamady and is a Walbaum derivative.
Linotype Trajanus Cyrillic (1957).
Textura (Hallmark).
URW Grotesk (1985, 59 styles), URW Antiqua, URW Palladio (1990).
Hallmark Uncial (Hallmark).
Virtuosa Script (1952, D. Stempel). Zapf's first script face. Revived in 2009 as Virtuosa Classic in cooperation with Akira Kobayashi.
Venture Script (Linotype, 1966; FontShop says 1969).
Winchester (Hallmark).
World Book Modern.
ITC Zapf Dingbats [see this poster by Jessica Rauch], Zapf Essentials (2002, 372 characters in six fonts: Communication, Arrows (One and Two), Markers, Ornaments, Office, based on drawings of Zapf in 1977 for Zapf Dingbats).
Zapfino (Linotype, 1998, winner of the 1999 Type Directors Club award), released on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This is a set of digital calligraphic fonts. Zapfino Four, Zapfino Three, Zapfino Two, Zapfino One, ligatures, Zapfino Ornaments (with plenty of fists). Poster by Nayla Masood (2013).

Books and references about him include:

Hermann Zapf: A Life in Letters (2016, Julian Waters).
What Our Lettering Needs: The Contribution of Hermann Zapf to Calligraphy & Type Design at Hallmark Cards (2011, Rick Cusick, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester).
Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography (2019, Jerry Kelly, The Grolier Club, New York).
Laudatio for Professor Hermann Zapf (Frank Mittelbach). TUGboat 22:1/2 (2001), 24-26. Local download.
Book review: Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography, by Jerry Kelly (Barbara Beeton). TUGboat, Volume 40 (2019), No. 3.

Pictures of Hermann Zapf: with Lefty, with Rick Cusick, in 2003, with Frank Jonen, with Jill Bell, with Linnea Lundquist and Marsha Brady, with Rick Cusick, with Rick Cusick, with Stauffacher, a toast, with Werner Schneider and Henk Gianotten, with Chris Steinhour, at his 60th birthday party. Pictures of his 80th birthday party at Linotype [dead link].
Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hernan Lucio

Graphic and interface designer from Buenos Aires. His Caligrafia Experimental (2011) is an embryo of a great typeface. At FADU UBA, he designed the blackletter typeface Not Gothic (2011) and the fatted up didone display typeface Schön (2011).

Behance link.

Example of his information design. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hero Studio (or: Ws Studio)
[Wais Alqarni]

Indonesian type designer (b. 2001) specializing in script typefaces. Typefaces from 2021: Manda Rawles (a curly script), Gerakona (a calligraphic script), Baby Boy (a calligraphic script), Braly Latoya (a calligraphic script), Baby Boy (a calligraphic script), Cornelia (calligraphic), Holly Molly, Elora, Aqilla, Fussena, Breakfast, Girly Rose, Balyona.

Typefaces from 2022: Magmola (wild calligraphic), The Benmoka, Hi Margaret (script), Beauty Cosneta (a swashy script), Koodgeta, Womly Queen. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Herofonts (was: Hypefonts)
[Guilhem Greco]

Herofonts (was: Hypefonts) offers commercial fonts with free demos. This company in San Francisco was set up in 2013 by Guilhem Greco (France). The typefaces from 2013 include Strong Glasgow (arts and crafts typeface), Deadmobil (a grungy version of the Mobil logo font), Midnight Moon, Google Spies, Tarantino (grungy wood type), Bronx Bystreets (grunge), Hidden Archives, Stallions, Hidden Archives (grunge), Broken Detroit (grunge), Motor (2013, a lovely scratchy grunge face), New Motor (2013), Twisted Stallions (scratchy typeface), Stallions, Dust Overhaul and Grunge Overlords.

Typefaces from 2014: Primetime, Polar Vortex (grungy, 3d, beveled), Crushed, Flexsteel (techno), Diamond Dust (an eroded script), Delicacy, Primetime (sans).

Typefaces from 2015: Above (thin sans), Quartzo, Stargazer, Neoteric (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2017: Meteora (a slab serif originally coded in Metafont), Blackthorns (squarish sans), Crystal Symphony (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Mirfak, Maybe One Day, Youth Touch (script), Nightmare Pills (grunge).

Typefaces from 2019: Moonglade (a sharp monoline sans), Dreamwood, Deadmobil (grungy), Miralight (script).

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Creative Market link for Herofonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hexico Hx

Designer and illustrator in Buenos Aires who created a powerful calligraphic brush alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hideki Katayama
[COM4t (or: Communicate by Four Typeface; was: Font Factory Field)]

Hijoju

Creator of the Korean calligraphic simulation typeface Korean Calligraphy (2009-2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hikhcreative
[Hajid Hikmatiyar]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the vintage display sans typeface Nazgul (2020) and the script typefaces Scott Walker (2020), Epic Kantona (2020) and Bicillesta (2019).

Typefaces from 2021: Rassell (script), Algaida (a semi-formal script), Magnold (an elephant foot display serif), Archangelisia (a very tall chancery script), Grimalda (a wedge serif), Griselda (an italic wedge serif), and Sandtrey (a lively wild calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hildegard Korger

Calligrapher (b. 1935, Reichenberg, d. 2018) and professor of calligraphy and writing at HGB Leipzig (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig) since 1968. Her typefaces:

Her calligraphic typeface Daphne, aka Typo-Skript, was published by Typoart in 1965. See also here. Ingo Preuss revived Daphne as Daphne (2004). ARTypes revived it as Typoskript AR in 2010. And Ralph M. Unger created his own revival, Typoskript Pro (2010). Ingo Preuss's version is Floridana.
Kis Antiqua and Kis Kursiv (1984, Typoart). For a digital revival, see Ralph Unger's Kis Antiqua Pro (2018). In 2009, Elsner & Flake published the Kis Antiqua Now TB Pro and families (design by Erhard Kaiser for Elsner & Flake). The Elsner Flake types are based on Hildegard Korger's Kis Antiqua at Typoart. Kis Antiqua is the Typoart name of the original Jansonian Garamond by Miklos Totfalusi Kis from 1686.
Korger designed some other calligraphic alphabets. A digital version of one of them, originally drawn in 1965, was created by Ingo Preuss, who called it Korger Hand (2004).

Author of Handbook of Type and Lettering (1992, Design Press, or Lund Humphries), a translation of The Sixth Edition of Schrift und Schreiben (Fachbuchverlag GmbH Leipzig, 1971), which has been lauded as the best books ever on type and typography. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hillary Adams
[Signature Ink]

Hilmawan Qisthi
[Corazone Studio (or: Owllines; was: Prof Pungguk)]

Hilmius Akbar
[Type Factory]

Hindra Permana
[ndroadv]

Hiro (or: ashar1802)
[Chairul Ashar]

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of these display and handcrafted typefaces in 2020: Up and Down, Roots (a signage script), Moonsilver, Eve Adam, Vembazax, Delissa Beauty (monoline script), Feels so Good (a scrapbook script), Love Conchetta (script), Alleysha, Conceptual Progressive, Echo Ethnic, Hardliners, Homogenic, Neuborn (octagonal, constructivist), New Ancient (script), New Florence, Silly Girls, Smille, Tendencies.

Typefaces from 2021: The Deen (a reverse stress display font), Carrot and Strawberry (a scrapbook font), Echo Ethnic (a display typeface), Archapolago (a casual bold script), Rootsy (a signage font), Sunday Vibes (script), Relaxy, Rollerblack (script), Straight Edge (all caps, for signage), Michella Songs, Hello Tiffany (a swirly Valentine's Day script), Silly Girls (a thin script), Delissa Beauty (a thin script), Eve Adam (wild, calligraphic), Pro Smile, Vembazax Rm (an all caps display typeface with some stencil styles).

Typefaces from 2022: Fortunella (a high-waisted vintage display serif), Aztec Club (a hilarious decorated typeface), Makio (a 6-style organic sans), Aztec Club (a hilarious decorated typeface), Quickly Brown (a bold all caps supermarket font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

History of lettering

Wolfgang Thun on the history of lettering. Definition of some terms. [Google] [More] ⦿

H.L. Bridwell

Letterer and illustrator who drew these Modern American Capitals, ca. 1910. [Google] [More] ⦿

Holly McCaig

Denver, CO-based designer of the commercial handcrafted typefaces Front Porch (2017), Glossy Script (2015, calligraphic), Minty (2015), Daisy Dog (2015) and Enchanted (2014). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Hotline Supply Co

Bandung, Indonesia-based creator of the calligraphic script Chandelier (2017), the brush scripts Harley Style (2017) and Buckskin Script (2017), and the Victorian typefaces The Curious (2017) and Avelina (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Daylight (signage script), Shabiya.

Typefaces from 2019: Billionaire (Victorian).

Typefaces from 2020: Kimchi (a warm display serif). Creative Market link. Newest Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

How to teach italic

Handwriting tutorial by Iceland's calligrapher Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem. [Google] [More] ⦿

HowJoyful Studio
[Joy Kelley]

Crestine, CA-based Joy Kelley (b. Chile) designed these script typefaces in 2017: Joyful Letters, Darling Letters, Bold Lady, Amapola, Stand & Roam. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

HP Typework (was: Mikrojihad Inc.)
[Hendra Pratama]

Banten or Serang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1985) of Brookline (2020: sans), Hardome (2020: script), Sketsa Ramadhan (2020: Arabic emulation), Hoffermond (2020: script), Harvey Script (2020: monoline), Brotherline (2020: an upright monoline script), Shopie (2020), Sticky Notes (2020), Hugheid (2020: script), Rawk Brush (2020: dry brush style), Autography (2020: a signature font), Crossover, Sticky Notes (2020), Gillimore (2020: script), Nuchelle (2020: script), Bigfat Script (2020), Lovely Script (2020), Rottersand (2020), Birthland (2020), Quicklamb (2020), Alifia (2020), Rutheride (2020), Cartagena (2019: a dry brush script), Hisyam Facelift (2019), Hassanah (2019), Broderick (2019), Reactive (2019: a stencil font), Bellarina (2019: script), Sherlina (2019: script), Brushwell (2019: a dry brush script), Election Script (2019: monoline), Billgates (2019: brush script), Phallains (2019: a monoline script), Michland (2019: script), Blacktroops Stencil (2019), Hangover Brush, Colgneries, Spagheti (sic), Charmline Script (2019), Retrofunk (2019: a baseball script), Quick Signature (2019), Ramadhan Karim (2019: Arabic simulation font), Silent Fighter (2019), Groovy Script (2018, psychedelic signage script), Hisyam Script (2018), the free Barista Script (2018), the monolinear neon font Lazy Ride (2018), the free brush pen calligraphic typeface Azkia Script (2017), Knight Brush (2017), The Black Veil (2017, spurred), Hijrnotes (2016, connected script published at Aring), Banten Unfamous 2 (2016), Raven Script (2016, tattoo font), Nouradilla Script (2016), Bukhari Script (2015), Ababil Script (2015, tattoo script), Granada (2015, a wedge serif titling typeface), Al Ghifari (2015, brush script), MJ Zhafira (2015, a signage script; free demo font), Blacktroops (2015, a military typeface family with Basic, Rough, Inline and Stencil styles), Scriptonite (2015), Barber Kills (2015), Alisandra Script (2015, a brush pen signage script), Bukhari Script (2015, a free bold monoline cursive font), The Blackfat Script (2015, fat signage typeface), Granada (2015, spurred typeface), Fadli Script (2015), Jibriel (2015, ominous spurred vintage typeface), Umar (2014, a free spurred constructivist typeface), Aisha (2014, a spurred signage script), Rodja (2014, an Arabic simulation typeface), Banten Unfamous (2014), The Wahhabi Script (2014, free), The Black Veil (2014, a spurred font), Khadija Script (2014, free connected baseball script; +Khadija Spurs). Umar (2014) is an all caps font family that includes a stencil style and many athletic lettering styles. Dafont link. Home page. Behance link. Creative Market link. Fontspace link. Creative Fabrica link. Behance link for HP Typework. Dafont link for Hendra Pratama. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hrant Grigoryan

Yerevan, Armenia-based designer of the calligraphic Latin font Masterpiece (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hrvoje Dominko

Graphic design student in Zagreb, whose mentor is Nikola Djurek. Under Djurek's guidance, he created a few script typefaces, included the plump Zembo Script (2012, appropriate for signage) and Doyald Script (2012, a calligraphic script after Doyald Young). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hrz Studio
[Has Rizal]

Indonesian type designer. Typefaces from 2021: Hello Hellen (a scrapbook script), Cambridge (a bold upright soft calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2022: Billgates (a calligraphic script), Martha Script (an upright retro script), Gudytha (an upright scrapbook script), Hello Berlin (an upright script), Aryaduta (an upright script), Baby Garden (a calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Hugues Gentile

Graduate of ESAD in Amiens, France. His graduation typeface there is the Latin / Bengali typeface Kumar (2016). He writes: Kumar is a multi-script (Latin & Bengali) typeface family, especially crafted for editorial work. It has a classical feeling without being too historical. Kumar Book is a sober yet generous "bookish" typeface. Its design is inspired by various references: the steady structure is borrowed from late 20th century Dutch type design while the proportions are reminiscent of early William Caslon work. Baroque influences nourished the design with subtle features that give Kumar Book its personality and avoid arid shapes. Its bold version is a useful addition for documents with a more complex hierarchy.

Kumar Bengali is driven by the same principles as the Latin, seeking for a coherent combination between the two scripts to optimize legibility. Significant early references have been used such as the Figgins Bengali from 1826 for its fluidity, yet updated with contemporary proportions. Kumar Book italic originates from an interpretation of several italics of Robert Granjon, adapted to work with the roman weight.

Marcel (2016) is based on lettering drawn by Marcel Jacno for Caractère in 1949.

During his studies in Paris, Hugues Gentile created Ignacius (2014: an angular calligraphic typeface) and drew a blackletter alphabet (2014).

In 2019, a senior type designer Production Type, he designed the custom typeface Ormaie for a new Parisian perfume brand founded by Marie-Lise Jonak.

In 2020, Hugues Gentile, under the art direction of Jean-Baptiste Levée, designed the extensive text family Newsreader, which is primarily intended for continuous on-screen reading in content-rich environments. It features various optical sizes and comes with variable typefaces. Github link. Google Fonts link (for free download). [Google] [More] ⦿

Hurufatfont Type Foundry
[Oguzhan Cengiz]

Istanbul-based art director. Designer of Elen Sans (2002-2020: started in 2002 as a student, and finally finished in 2020, this 18-style display sans was influenced by Friz Quadrata and Eras) and the Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Milas (2018). In 2019, he published Kontras (a fashionable typeface), Apron (a 42-font sans family with the vertical roundness of airplane windows), ApronSoft, and Grosen (a 14-style grotesk).

Typefaces from 2020: Masifa (a neutral condensed grotesque in 90 styles), Masifa Rounded (another 90 styles), Masif (dead link; a neutral sans with little contrast; 90 styles; renamed Masifa most likely after a complaint from Monotype which markets a Steve Matteson font called Massif), Kanyon (a 54-style low contrast geometric sans), Salda (a 40-style sans family), Gevher (a 48-style grotesque family with deep ink traps), Tonus (an 84-style superfamily with Sans, Slab, Text, Display and Contrast subfamilies), Salin (a 20-style semi-geometric sans), Nema (sans), Kaunos (by Mustafa Eren).

Typefaces from 2021: Rapor (a 20-style grotesk), Mazot (a 19-style sans with almost no contrast, and vertical or horizontal terminal endings; includes a variable font), Berina (a 6-style display family), Mersin (a 20 style sans and a two-axis variable font), Bahar (an 18-style sans inspired by Souvenir and Cooper Black), Stadiona (a heavy condensed organic sans that was inspired by Bauhaus), Ancyra (a 48-style sharp-edged and thorny-serifed serif family), Salda Soft (a 20-style rounded sans family).

Typefaces from 2022: Multipa (a 22-style condensed rather formal sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

I Can Letter
[Sumho Pinheiro]

I Can Letter is the foundry of Sumbo Pinheiro, who is a calligrapher and hand-lettering artist based in Hamburg, Germany. In 2021, he designed the playful calligraphic font Brokkie. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

I Made Astawa
[Dex Astawa]

Bali, Indonesia-based photographer (b. 1984). Designer of the calligraphic typeface Alisya (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Iampeth

Free copies in PDF format of many rare books on calligraphy and penmanship, typically from the 19th century:

Ames' Guide to Self-Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship, Daniel T. Ames, Author and Publisher, 1884

Ames - The Daniel T. Ames Notebook, A wonderful collection of penmanship from the early 1860s from one of America's preeminent penmen and teachers

Arm Movement Method of Rapid Writing, The, Charles Paxton Zaner, 1904

Art of Penmanship, Eleazer Huntington, 1821

Art of Writing, The, John Jenkins, 1813

Bible Pearls of Promise, Real Pen-Work Publishing, 1867

The Blue Book, Compiled by L.E. Stacy, 1907 Text-converted PDF

C.C. Canan Collection of Penmanship - The Canan Book, Canan/Zanerian College, 1921, Copyright by Zaner-Bloser, Inc.

Champion Method of Practical Business Writing, Mary L. Champion

Clinton Clark Scrapbook, Clinton H. Clark: Part One, Part Two, Part Three.

Compendium of Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship, Platt Rogers Spencer, Sr., 1866

Complete Compendium of Plain Practical Penmanship, Lloyd M. Kelchner, 1901

Francis B. Courtney Scrapbook, F.B. Courtney, courtesy of Bob Hurford

Gaskell's Compendium of Forms (the section on writing), G.A. Gaskell, 1883

Gems of Flourishing, Charles Paxton Zaner, 1888

Gems of Penmanship, John S. Duncun, 1858

Gems of Penmanship, J.D. Williams and S.S. Packard, 1867

How To Become A Good Penman, An advertising packet by F.W. Tamblyn

IAMPETH Scrapbooks, A remarkable collection of Golden Age penmanship: Scrapbook 1, Scrapbook 2.

L'écriture Américaine par D'Avignon - "American Writing" by D'Avignon, circa 1840

Lessons in Advanced Engraver's Script, penned by Louis Madarasz, published by C.W. Jones

Lessons in Engraver's Script, C.W. Jones, editor, 1914

Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship, C.P. Zaner, 1920

Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship, P.Z. Bloser (Copies by E.A. Lupfer), 1948

Lessons in Practical Penmanship , H.P. Behrensmeyer

Madarasz Book, - The Secret of the Skill of Madarasz, Madarasz/Zanerian College, 1911, Copyright � by Zaner-Bloser, Inc.

Metodo Palmer de Caligrafia Comercial, A.N. Palmer Company, 1949. Donated by Mauricio Aguilar. Please visit his website www.VintagePen.net

Modern Business Penmanship, Edward C. Mills, 1903

Muster Alphabete, circa 1885

New Spencerian Compendium, Spencerian Authors, 1879

New Standard Practical Penmanship, Spencer Brothers, 1881

New Zanerian Alphabets, C.P. Zaner, 1900

Ninety-five Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship, C.W. Jones, editor, 1914

Noyes's Penmanship, Enoch Noyes, 1839

Oberlin Business College - Compendium of Penmanship, C.A. Barnett, J.T. Henderson and J.N. Yocom, 1901

Palmer Method of Business Writing, A.N. Palmer Company, 1935

Palmer's Penmanship Budget, A.N. Palmer, 1919

Penmanship Made Easy, George Comer & Oliver Linton, 1864. See also here.

Penman's Leisure Hour, McDonald Business Academy, penwork by F.F. Wildish, 1894

Portfolio of Ornate Penmanship, The A.N. Palmer Company

Practical Penmanship Being A Development of the Carstairian System, Benjamin Franklin Foster, 1830

Real Pen Work - Self Instructor in Penmanship, Knowles and Maxim, publisher, 1881

Real Pen Work Compendium of Penmanship, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., publisher, 1880

Recueil Méthodique de Principes d' Ecriture "A Methodical Collection of Principles of Writing", P. Meyrat, circa 1920's

Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship, Volume I, Chapters 1,2 and 8, Michael R. Sull, 1989. .

Steel Pen Trade 1930-1980, A.A.S. Charles, 1983. .

Studies in Pen Art, W.E. Dennis, 1914

Sykes's Manual of Penmanship, Sykes, circa 1885

Theory of Spencerian Penmanship, Spencer Authors, 1874

19th Century Swedish Copybook, dated December 9, 1858 and penned by Carl Damm, a tutor, this copybook contains 12 pages of handwritten forms of Copperplate/Engraver's Script. Contributed by Evan Lindquist.

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Ian Irwan Wismoyo
[Just Font You]

Ian Lynam
[Wordshape]

Ian Mikraz

Ian Mikraz is based in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, where he works as an illustrator and type designer. In 2019, he designed the script typefaces Beach Party, Debora, Aloha, River, Qickie, Bafalia, Badeg, Reghina, Buffalo, Netherlande, Almanak, Sabila, Artoone Oriottes, Viera, Dadali, Adelia, Kids Park, Rimona, Arsa, Yafoga, Dreamland, Beach Party, Bad Ride, Bedec, Robert Buso, Manfet, Rosydit, Quenty, Angelia, Hesgaki, Quenyland, Emargo, Denmark, Elpanas, Demian, Haruko, Kavelleri, Bella Marwa, and Melliana Script.

His earlier creations include Maudy Script (2018), Ayla Script (2018), Ariana (2018), Orchestra Script (2018: monoline), Almonde, Frutilla Script (2018), Billowing Script (2018), Cemberline Script (2018: monoline), Breakable (2017, brush script), Rainwood (2017, a free hand-painted font), Rachella Script (2017), Signatura Roselline (calligraphic script), Signatura Monoline (2017: free), Bigshine Script (2017, calligraphic), Priscilla Script (2016, free), Just Smile (2016, a free thin script), Setta Script (2016: thin and calligraphic), Prasto (2016: a monoline script), Rainy Day (2016), Mountique (2016), Queensha (2016, calligraphic script), Brightshine (2016, connected calligraphic script), Marthina Script (2016), Angelova Script (2016), Mochafloat Script (2015), Beautylove (2015, calligraphic script), Moonshine Script (2015), Sophia Script (2015), Fairybells Script (2015, a connected calligraphic font), Pradyse (2015, a connected calligraphic brush script), Angelova Monoline Script (2015), Miracella Script (2015, calligraphic), Skyoval (2015, signage script), Cellicia (2015, a calligraphic script), Harmonie Script (2015), Octavina Script (2015), Marcella Script (2015), Nadhine Script (2015, calligraphic), Mellissa (2015, brush script), Badhead (2015, a free lively powerful connected script), Peinture (2015, a painter's font), Quickline Script (2015, free), Bellanie Script (2015), Melliana (2015, a script), Stellanova (2015, connected script), Maudy Script (2014), Ayla Script (2014, wedding invitation script), Amazinga (2014, spurred Victorian typeface), Prodia (2014, Victorian signage font) and Ariana Script (2014).

Creative Market link. Older Creative Market link to Unromantic Studio. Behance link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ibram Syah
[Ibramsyah Ibram]

Ibramsyah Ibram
[Ibram Syah]

Aka Jehan, Ibram Syah, and Jehan Syah. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1992).

Typefaces designed by him in 2020: the decorative caps typefaces Relic Island and Romes Palace, the squarish typeface Space and the script typefaces Holin Jusi, The Masquito (a spurred vampire or pirate script), Rocklands and Ecalyars.

Typefaces from 2019: Nastar Pie (decorative caps), Crackers (textured caps), Garden Wood (Tuscan, textured), Love and Beach (textured).

Typefaces from 2018: Arakunda, Simposiuf (a vampire font), Blackfire (blackletter), Spirazi.

An alphabetic list of fonts released before June 2020: Aladine, Albias Smug, Alexandiya, Aloe Vera, Ancient Sword, Andro Medas, Arakunda, Armada, Asdema, Athenos, Avmo, Azura, Baloon Dory, Barber Lan's, Barista, Bear Cool, Beckyard, Black Widow, Blackfire, Blink Jumps, Bodyguard, Bonamcy, Boy and Friend, Break Times, Brisk Charity, Buzhera, Camelia Script, Campink, Children Day's, Claudya, Clover, Comprest, Contrash, Crackers, Creative Kids, Dragonfly Script, Dunheall, Ecalyars, Etihad, Falmediyar, Fight Stick Family, Forester, Garden Wood, Gardens, Gear, Hamsey, Hello Celvins, Hi Girl's, Hi Prety's, Holiland, Home City, Huming Book, Huringthon, Jack Matras, JockerLand, Julia Swanlya, Kevlac, Levarolls, Love and Beach, LoveBirds, Lyche, Maxce, Merry Love, Moneva, Monogram, Monogram Carnaval, Monograme Party, Morthen, Nastar Pie, Nemo Hunter, Orange Punch, Original Hunting, Paradox, Phanter, Pine Jungle, Poined, Prado, Pumpkin Hollowens, Raiderman, Relic Island, Relick Island, Resya Esdaz, Rocklands Original, Romes Palace, Rosnacy, Samoray, Sape, Scampers, Selimky, Shootink, Silver Gold, Simposiuf, Single Ghost, Slam Monkey, Sleep Charm, SliterD, Snackleaf, Space, Spirazi, Starchild, Sticky, The Brandals, The CheEsS, The Crown Royal, The Last Night, The Masquito, The Modish, The Parthenon, The Razor Blade, The Razor One, The Sallmode, The Suster, Viola, Wild Cruger, Winstone, Zafire, Zaflay, Zarcas, Zimuras, Zulva.

Typefaces from 2021: Lets Study, Ghost Childs (a scrapbook font), Yulia Khaira (a scrapbook script), Radish + Garlick (bouncy, hand-crafted), Listing PacksHalloween School, Koska Esko (a bold decorative typeface), Relic Island 1 (hyper-decorative initial caps), Royal Paradise (a display font with snakehead terminals), Air Leving (a squarish display typeface with a tall body and short neck), Beautiful Place (a scrapbook font), Cheer Up (a fat finger font), Joined Tightly (an interlocking font), Bread Crackers (an adventurous blackboard bold font), Comfort (a techno font), Monogram Challigraphy, Rocker Stage (a monumental typeface for bullies, slightly influenced by graffiti), Relic Island 2 (an alchemic / tribal font), Black Street (a Western font), City Tour (a city-themed textured font), Kevlac (a display sans with art deco elements).

Typefaces from 2022: Axmiq Richard (a 7-style decorative serif), Black Octopus (a graffiti font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Icep Anwar Fadhil
[Figuree Studio]

Idoia de Luxan

Spanish designer of the fine free hand-printed poster typeface Kallaikos Revve (2018). She writes: Letra galaica, baseada na auténtica escritura empregada polas poboacións célticas de Galiza. Inspirada na epigrafía que aparece nos Guerreiros Galaicos de Santa Comba e San Paio de Meixedo (Portugal), adaptada, dibuxada e construída coma tipograía por Idoia de Luxán, partindo da documentación aportada por Paco Boluda.

In 2021, she released Partitura1941, a calligraphic typeface inspired by the titles of the songs in a family notebook dating back to 1941. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ignacio Frances
[BoyBeaver Foundry]

Ignacio Pérez

Spanish author of the writing manual Arte de escrevir con cierta industria (1559). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ihsan Hasanudin
[Sanz d'Cloudz]

Ihsan Khairul Lazuardi
[Juru Rancang Studio (was: Juru Aksara)]

Ijemrockart
[Ferdian Syah]

Aceh Besar, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1991. His typefaces from 2015 include of the connected script typefaces Marthana Script, Alleana Script and Love Moment. He also made the handcrafted Kanover (also called Rockmasta?), Berrybold, the spurred typeface Jackland, the squarish typeface Flying Landing, Big Round (a clean brushed sans family that includes Outline, Normal and Black), Six Only, Difer, Kuasque (brush font), Parakota, Ring Town, Brushers Hands, Dhiezar, Moon Fighter (slab serif), Koala Script, SnowBad, Tree Shoots, Rahmah, Malaka Brush, Always Pro (squarish), Brush Rock 17, Caribold, Funny, Longers (tall condensed sans), Ubet City (brush face), Srikhaya (handcrafted), Queeny (condensed sans), OnFrends (brush), Hamboe (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2016: Sameri (brush script), Dentra, Salita Script, Salita Sketch, Parakota (Halloween typeface), Rustic Script, Badegan Calligraphy, Sinyak Script, Badegan Script, Contento Script, Behind Script (calligraphic), Rumble, Elpida Thin (blackboard bold), Elpida Lean, Elpida Outline, Elpida Vintage, Elpida Light, Marisa Script, Husty Brush, Gradies Brush, Sunset Script, Insects, Insect Slab Serif, Little Stars Brush, Zackers, Rock Mella, Jackland Two (spurred), Turning & Curling (curly script), Drast Bold Script, Friends Da Vinci (copperplate calligraphic script), Dreams Liem, Sugar Vanila, Caribold, Arizona (+Shadow, +Outline).

Typefaces from 2017: Rushtard Brush, Silver Made (free), Charlion Script, Raymod Colin Family, Big Blue Script (a signage font), Jackson Script, Scarlett Script (calligraphic), Scarlett Sans, Raquella (brush script), Madelon Script (connected script).

Typefaces from 2018: Showbad, Birabella Script, Harpert Script, Roxinate, Dreams Liem, Evertone, Magarella Script (calligraphic), Bitlamero Script, Bestilla Script, Charlion Slant Script, Kristale, Barosaki Script, Ballqis, Marquella, Bishella, Hostens Signature, Latasha, Bontella, Vellesa Script, Peque, Marchy, Gasterye, Big Bone (a free script), Woulien Script, Criselda Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Willford Brush, Lottekas Brush, Brodekist Brush, The Razels (brush script), Big Blue Rough, Elvira,

Typefaces from 2020: Kliptones Brush (a dry brush script), Milmay Brush, Adestya Signature, Madrutype Signature (a thin monoline script), Sellotia Signature, Diversal Brush, Shirleya Script, Dalgonis Brush, Highway Signature, Barthley Script, Wonderting Script, Fillmade Signature, Slighty Script, Hilluxos Script, Dextor Script (a signage script), Ackerley Script (a retro signage script), Ferdian Signature.

Typefaces from 2021: Hugehito Brush (a dry brush script), Dublishines Signature.

Typefaces from 2022: Kanisty (a plump retro display serif).

Aka Ijem Skupp Pen and IJ Letterplay. Creative Market link. Another Creative Market link. Dafont link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ikhsan Maulana
[George Studio (was: I M Studio, Logic Type, or: Biargabara)]

Ilene Strivzer
[FYI Scripts: Calligraphic Fonts]

IlhamSyah Vutra
[Inspira Type (or: Collabro Studio, or: Inspira Sign)]

Ilse Innire

Aka Lupus Es. Russian designer of the thin calligraphic typeface Elegance (2016) and the beautiful handwriting font Departure (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Imam Muhajir
[Straight Co]

Imun Studio

Designer of these calligraphic script typefaces in 2019 and 2020: Amelia, Angelonia, Batista, Fathani, Geurute, Kallina, Lantakaju, Lantana, Loveline, Mahligai, Malmyna Script, Moonttella, Panther, Razeer (well---this is not a script typeface), Sammalado, Shintia, Southamton, Squalia, The Bagenda, Wootter. [Google] [More] ⦿

Incools Design Studio (or: Aol Scrachtzo)
[Aulia Al Farabi]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1988. Creator of the handcrafted typefaces Archipelago (2015, a connected swashy script), Shintya (2015), Sambay (2015: a brush script), Silvia (2015), Matauro (2015, a watercolor brush), Almarhum (2015), Chocolava (2015, a fun creamy handcrafted typeface), Itaki (2015, a rough brush font), Egocentric (2014), and the curly connected script typeface Esmeralda (2015). He also designed the copperplate calligraphic script typeface Cimochi (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Jenny Simol (a signature typeface), Ipanema, Esse (brush script), Shaggie (script), Inkotsi (a rough sans serif).

Typefaces from 2018: Vladiviqo, Apple Peach, Sanango (script), Bamboo, Original Sin, Manchuria (wavy prismatic caps). [Google] [More] ⦿

Indahayuska

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic script typeface Indahnya Script (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Indestructible Type Co

Small typefounder located at 491-493 Carroll Avenue in Chicago, active in the late 19th century. The Inland Printer of 1895 writes: In the column of business notices last month a description was given of a new type metal. A company to manufacture the new material has now been formed, and a license of incorporation secured. The title of the new concern is the Indestructible Type Company; capital, $100,000. The officers are: President, George N. Hall, president Citizens Bank of South Haven, Michigan; vice-president and general manager, John West; secretary, Charles W. Clingman, of Chicago; treasurer, H. B. Thomson, of Chicago. That same issue of The Inland Printer shows some border types and an upright calligraphic script called Indestructible Script.

Lenny Knox reports that he only found the Indestructible Type Company in the 1895 and 1896 issues of the Chicago City Directory search for 1894-1897, and thus suspects that the company seems to have existed for only two years or less. [Google] [More] ⦿

Indian Summer Studio
[Alexander Bobrov]

Alexander Bobrov (Indian Summer Studio, or simply Indians, Moscow) designed the vintage didone typeface family Dodo (Latin and Cyrillic) from 2008-2012. This beautiful typeface is in a style similar to Nick Shinn's scotch Modern and Alexey Kryukov'sOld Standard but was developed independently based on old books from 1930s (printed with 1860s to 1910s metal type). His web site shows lots of calligraphic work, but also a few typefaces such as Oriental Font (2015), Photon Display (2014) and Trafareta (2015, stencil).

Typefaces from 2016: Historical Stencil Font USSR 1980 (2016), Geometric Sans Serif, Tanuki, Curly Cyrillic Sans, Historical Geometrical Art Nouveau Study, Indian Stylized Cyrillic, Historical USSR (constructivist), IBM Selectric Typewriter, 1966 Olympia SF DeLuxe Cursive (typewriter font), Moscow Metro, Cynzel (cyrillization).

Typefaces from 2019: Funny Toons (a rounded cartoon family by Ekke Wolf and Alexander Bobrov), Selectric Century (a Scotch Modern / Schoolbook typeface modeled after the famous IBM Selectric golfball font), Aldo New Roman (a modern version of the typeface cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius around 1490AD).

Typefaces from 2020: Air Force 30 Stencil (the official US military fonts/lettering used in U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, based on their technical specifications), Oriental Kaishu (all caps, oriental simulation), Selectric Melt, Air Force (the official US military fonts/lettering used by US Air Force, US Army, US Navy and US Marine Corps, designed based on the Military Standards and Technical Manual; covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), Stone Age (a neolithic font), Selectric Pyramid (a typefwriter font based on Rudolf Wolf's Memphis from 1929), Selectric (a 1315-glyph (!) revival of IBM's famous golfball typeface, Selectric), Dymond (a dymo label font).

Typefaces from 2021: Science Fiction (rounded, squarish), USSR (a squarish Russian cold war propaganda font; Latin and Cyrillic), Age (squarish and rounded; for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Indice degli Initcaps

Great archive with initial caps in clipart format. [Google] [More] ⦿

Infonta
[Vera Evstafieva]

Or Vera Evstafeva. Infonta is Vera Evstafieva's foundry in Moscow, est. ca. 2011. Born in Moscow to a family of artists and architects in 1980, Vera Evstafieva graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, the Faculty of Graphic Arts Technology, in 2003. She created the Rossica typeface in 2003 as her final project under the direction of Alexander Tarbeyev. After graduation she went to the Netherlands to continue her type design studies by attending the famous Type & Media course at the KABK in Den Haag. Her final work there was the Basileus typeface that included Cyrillic, Latin and Greek character sets. Another project at KABK saw her design a cursive pixel face, aafje. During 2004 and 2005 she completed a number of type design projects for Typotheque. In 2005 she started lecturing at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, and went on to give lectures at the Institute of Modern Arts. Vera has been working as type designer and calligrapher at Art. Lebedev Studio since July 2005. She has been working as a freelance type designer and calligrapher since November 2007. Her live journal (in Russian). Another URL. Typedia link. MyFonts link. Vera now lives in Cambridgeshire, England.

Her typefaces:

She was working on a Latin-Greek-Cyrillic version of Civilité.
The gorgeous upright connected Cyrillic/Latin script ALS Dulsinea (2007, Art Lebedev).
Apriori (2009, script).
The text family ALS Mirta (2008).
The text family ALS Direct (2008, sans family, Art Lebedev Studio).
Amalta (2010, Infonta). A round calligraphic typeface for Latin and Cyrillic. It won an award at TDC2 2011 and at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
Rossica (2003). A typeface created for her final project under the direction of Alexander Tarbeyev at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, the Faculty of Graphic Arts Technology.
Basileus is a typeface done while studying at KABK. It covered the Cyrillic, Latin and Greek character sets.
Another project at KABK saw her design a cursive pixel face, Aafje.
In 2015, Vera Evstafieva and Taisiya Lushenko co-designed the antiqua typeface Flai at Art Lebedev.
In 2014 and in collaboration with TypeTogether, Vera designed the Cyrillic for Literata, the custom typeface for the Google Play Books App.
With Veronika Burian, she designed Bree Cyrillic for Type Together's vast multiscript typeface family Bree.

Type Together link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ingga Nafasyah
[Telllu Craft]

Ingo Preuss
[preussTYPE]

Ingo Zimmermann
[Ingofonts]

Institut de l'Histoire du Livre

Ingofonts
[Ingo Zimmermann]

Ingofonts is a foundry in Augsburg started by Ingo Zimmermann (b. 1967) in 1994. It offers Fraktur fonts, handwriting fonts, sans serif fonts, Antiqua fonts and some pixel fonts. Full fonts go for 50 USD a piece and up. Some fonts are free. Many fonts are adaptations or revivals of historically important fonts. Ingo also practices calligraphy, and in particular, calligraphy for wine labels. The list:

Absolut Pro (2008) is a classy sans family that comes in Regular, Licht, Thin and Schmuck.
Amhara (2009): An experimental font inspired by the Ethiopic writing system.
Analogue (2010).
Anatole France (1997-2021). An art deco font in the style of Plakat Schrift by the munich-based printer Georg D. W. Callwey.
August Sans (2013).
Auxerre. A wedge-serifed text typeface. Ingo writes: Auxerre is a precursor of Etienne, which later became popular as an advertising script of the 19th century.
Banknote 1948 (2010).
Behrens Schrift (2008) is based on Behrens' famous 1902 Jugendstil typeface for Rudhard'sche Giesserei. Behrensschrift iF Plus (+Schmuck) followed in 2021.
Biró Script is a handwriting font (2007-2012, +Biro Script Plus, 2020) named after the inventor of the ballpoint pen, Laszlo Joszef Biro, 1899-1985.
Boule Plus (2020). A fat round circle-based bubblegum font family in Gras, Contour and Brilliant styles.
CharpentierBaroqueIF, CharpentierClassicItaliqueIF, CharpentierClassicistiqueIF, Charpentier Renaissance Pro (1996 and Pro version from 2020; modeled on Roman Capitalis). Charpentier Classicistique Pro (2020; earlier called Classicist) is an absolutely charming didone display typeface family with an award quality Black. In 2014, he added Charpentier Sans Pro for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic with the Pro version following in 2020.
Chiq Pro. After Apple's Chicago.
Conté Script (2014). A phenomenal effort towards the creation of a typeface that emulates real handwriting. It even has three-letter ligatures to achieve the desired reality. Based on Ingo's own hand, it also achieves a crayon effect. See also Conte Script Plus (2020).
Countries of Europe (2008). Outlines of countries. Free download.
DeBorstel Brush Pro (2009): brush face.
De Display (2010). A gridded type system.
De Fonte (1995): a grungy blurred overexposed Helvetica. See also De Fonte Plus (2020).
Déformé: a grungy Clarendon.
Deko-Blakk, Deko-Yello (art deco typefaces from 2007).
DeKunst (1995, deconstructivist). DeKunst Initialen (2007) is Bauhaus-inspired.
DePixel (1999: based on Apple's Geneva and Chicago; and Illegible DePixel).
Deutsche Schrift Callwey (1998). A free Sütterlin script that is based on a script sample from around 1920/30 by Karl Schäffer. DeutscheSchriftCallwey (1998): a free handwriting typeface in the style of the 1800s that was later taught in German schools under the generic name of "Sütterlin type".
Rudolf Diesel Rudolf (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor, Rudolf Kristian Karl Diesel (1858-1913).
Die Überschrift (1998): headline sans.
EconoSans Pro (2020). A 28-style sans that is meant to save space by squishing the letters together.
Faber Eins, Faber Zwei (1996, legible sans family), Faber Drei, Faber Gotic (2002, +Text, +Gothic, +Gotic Capitals; a Textura based on Gutenberg's blackletter from 1450), Faber Fraktur (1994), Faber Sans Pro (2011). This comes with a great all caps Deko style.
Façacde Pro (2007). An art nouveau brush typeface found in a 1900 booklet by Karl Otto Maier (a publisher in Ravensburg) entitled Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete. Cyrillic version.
Fixogum (1998, scratchy handwriting).
Fundstueck (2021). A simplified squarish typeface.
Graz2006 (1994, a sans family for the 2006 OlumTypographerpic Games in Graz; later renamed by Linotype to Olympia).
Guhly (2011). An organic family.
Gutenberg (1995, a textura).
Handschrift (2007). Expressionist and rough.
Hedwig Pro (2021). A tall condensed sans; 12 styles.
Hero (angular handwriting).
Josef (2000), Josefov (2003, slab serif for Josef), JosefPro (2006, a free sans family), Josefa Rounded Pro (2020: a rounded sans family).
Klex Plus (1997): a calligraphic or watercolor brush font.
Koch Schrift (1998-2021). A Schwabacher used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and first developed by Rudolf Koch in 1909, first known as Neudeutsch and later as Koch Schrift. An earlier version of Zimmermann's Koch Schrift was called Schwabacher Deutsche Reichsbahn.
Lech Sans (2020). A humanist sans family.
LeDrôle Lettering Pro (2020).
LettreCivilitdeGranjon (1997, a reworking of S. Moye's font by that name).
Maier's No. 8 (2002) and Maier's Neue No. 8 based on forms found in work of Karl O. Maier from before 1914, which already has the geometrical simplicity characteristic of the Weimar period. Maiers No. 21 (2006) and Maiers Nr 21 Pro (2021) are based on a script found in the magazine Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker: Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete (Karl O. Maier, Otto Maier Publishing House, Ravensburg, ca. 1910)---a hand-crafted font for technicians. Finally, Maiers Nr. 42 Pro (2020) is a brush-painted art nouveau typeface based a pamphlet of script samples from around 1900 that was issued by Otto Maier's publishing house in Ravensburg, Germany.
Marleen Script (2011, with over 400 ligatures).
Menschenalphabet (1997), based on Peter Flötner's alphabet from 1534.
Novello Pro (2009): The serifed counterpart of his Absolut Pro family.
OlympiaBuchIF, OlympiaFettIF, OlympiaHalbfettIF, OlympiaLeichtIF, OlympiaSemiSansBuchIF
Palmona Plus (2008). A German expressionist blackletter after Karl Schaeffer (1939). Palmona Plus was published in 2020.
Saeculum (1996, cursive connected handwriting).
Rudolf Diesel (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor.
Toby Font (2006(. A 3d doodle font for children.
Wendelin Pro (1996). A grotesque family. The Pro was released in 2020.
Whole Europe (2008, outlines of countries), now called Countries Of Europe. Pick it up, togeter with many suppoirt files for TeX by Herbert Voss, at CTAN.

Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ink Creative Art

Designer of the signature font Osulent (2018), the script typeface Emma (2018), and the calligraphic script typefaces Modennta (2018) and Bellissima (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ink Me This
[Kestrel Montes]

Santa Rosa, CA-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: Perfunktorily, Que Sera (monoline script), Emma Lou, Picky Girl, Daffodilias (monoline script), Standing Up, Eclipse (blackboard bold), Verbatim, Another Wild, Argentinian Nights (calligraphic), Great Mischief (calligraphic), Beyond March (calligraphic), Echo Falls (inky calligraphic pen script), Des Montagnes, All Formal Monogram, All Hand, All Formal, All Modern, Nectar (thin sans). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Inka Font

Peruvian type designer who is credited by Bung Letter for part of the design of the calligraphic typeface Dayton Script (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Inky Jar Design Studio
[Ana Marija]

Designer of the carefree calligraphic typeface Mondellina Script (2017) and the handcrafted typefaces Castelo Script (2017), Besotted (2017), Glorious (2017: Script and Serif) and Gingerbread (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: The Girl (font duo), Pumpkin Spice Latte, Palm Beach. [Google] [More] ⦿

Inopatype (or: Kotak Kuning Studio)
[Arif Dwi]

Surabaya, Indonesia-based designer of these script typefaces in 2018: Shalmone Hunter (sketched), Metalurdo, Kiara Tosfa (or Qiara Tosfa; monoline script), Kidosplay, The Foughe Script, Langit Merah, Bro Rintto, Fiona Lattina.

Typefaces from 2019: Carelo Brush, Greattong Brush, Rostering Brush, Cufis Decor, Breyhana, Hello Najwa, Lambresia (a wide connected retro script), Kampiun Samgor, Saghinores, Exarros (an all caps sans family for posters and display), Gadimon, Shagie Hodie, Sweaty Belvin, Johnie Horian (marker pen font), Abeganshi, Jarbomhollow (a fat finger font), The Senom (a dry brush font), Childhood Memories, William Dhatos, Kalvise Brushy, Rhogsainel, Diverplate, Sarodine, Aeroshodic, Montecarlito, The Baghotta Script, The Saxibrush, Aerocentrix, Thundergood (a shadow font), Garlobrush, Andolucia, The Labothings, The Miladiator, Hendangan, Roximura, Amostely Signature, Rhyndatton, Willingar Diary, Wildest Force, Hemondalisa (a shadow typeface), Black Roties (white on black), Broughesnaro, Bad Saturday, Anordighos, Clasicalderibbon, Marrocin Funnies (monoline marker pen font), Danisha Romance, Asimone Brush, Adelarsio, Sandrina, Baseboy Greek (a shadow font), Crash Mounty, Allingkug Wellany, Willyan Rocks, Empire Samgor, Almonthy Mirotas, Daywalker (a shadow font), Zombie Carshel (brush font), Dhagienol Sans (a shadow font), Kodinah Diary, Ramphobias, Kawula Muda, Asmelina Harley, Homenuli Shadow, Westtgonia Barneh, Youth Brush Daylight, Jacklyn Milner (blackboard bold), Bargeritho, Melankolis, Brush & Wedco, Kaldevaderibbon, The Lamontrush, Crosaline Hulok, Bughartta, Aliando Rocky, Holligrandina, Albeon Round (a rounded monoline sans), Gadrey Shadow, Beethoven Syinthesa, William Morittan (script), Morningdoodle, Mozaik Duren (a triangulated typeface), Brought The Style, Boldieso Lehonu, Lambresia. Puzzleboxs, Mycuteballon (a balloon alphading), Skallight Millagra (script), Casa de Amor, Armonela Black (a prismatic or toothpaste font), Rhomelia Strip, Go Speeds, Ortisan Signature, Allenattore (script), Black Hurricane, Aeromus Kirho (a handcrafted circus font), Ramen Noodle (prismatic), The Foughe Script, Bluck Amorhies, Dhuki Minerwo, Badminton Shadow, The Crost Horment, Lorden Holen (calligraphic script), The Black Cassanova (a shadow script), Alondria Bepah, The Capten Hoyda, Adelia Shawn (a monoline marker font), Southern Lourent, Southern Jannie, Anthoni Signature, Sarodime (calligraphic), Marmia (calligraphic), Blangkon Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Thoderan Notes, Malliya Signature, Amelia Stanley (a wild calligraphic script), Miguella Charlotte (an elegant wild script), Almonthy Mirotas (a fat finger font), Haniberryku, Fruity Stories, Sweet Garnish, Renatta Walters, Rachel Lovelyn, Sugar Charm, Amirah Brillone, Donittan Story (a wild script), The Macksen (a bold script font).

Typefaces from 2021: Marlina Garden (script), Hendangan (a bold signature script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Insigne Type Design Studio (was: Dooley Type)
[Jeremy Dooley]

Insigne Type Design Studio (est. 2006) is run by Jeremy Dooley, b. Columbia, SC, 1981, who received a masters in graphic design at Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005. He lived in Atlanta, GA, and is now in Knoxville, TN. From 2004 until 2006, he ran Dooley Type in Greenville, SC. Behance link. Klingspor link. Font squirrel link. Creative Market link. MyFonts interview. His fonts:

44th President (2009, based on Obama's handwriting).
Aberlyth (2006). An informal script face.
Ainslie (2014), Ainslie Slab (2014), Ainslie Sans (2014) and Ainslie Contrast (2020: a 42-style sans).
Antigen (2007) is futuristic.
Arendahl (2007) is a connected but irregular handwriting font.
Ashemore (2012). Production assistance for Ashemore was provided by Lucas Azevedo and Marcelo Magalhaes. Followed by Ashemore Softened (2012).
Avaloc (2006) is an expanded sans.
The Aviano superfamily. Aviano Wedge (2012), Aviano Slab (2007), Aviano Serif (2008), 2009 Aviano Didone (2009), Aviano Flare (2010), Aviano Sans (2010), Aviano Future (2011), Aviano Contrast (2012), Aviano Gothic (2013), Aviano Sans Layers (2013), Aviano Copper (2018), Aviano Didone (2019). Aviano Titling (2007) is inspired by Trajan. Aviano Silk (2015) is a bilined decorative titling typeface. Aviano Royale followed in 2016.
Barcis (2013). An organic sans family.
Beastias (2006). An informal script face.
Belda (2017). An elegant serif family of fonts that grew from the ancient roman capital. Followed by the 54-style Belda Didone (2020). A 54-style didone family without ball terminals.
Biortec (2004).
Biscuit Boodle (2008) is a fun and crazy script from Portland Studios illustrator Justin Gerard. Biscuit Boodle Ornaments (2009, dingbats).
Blue Goblet (2005) is a Treefrog-style script developed for the pending illustrated childrens book from Portland Studios, The Blue Goblet. It was co-designed by Cory Godbey of Portland Studios and Jeremy Dooley. In 2011, Cory Godbey added Blue Goblet Christmas Ornaments.
Boncaire Titling (2012) was iInspired by the type elements of 17th century map of Curacao made by Dutch cartographer Gerard Van Keulen.
Brigette (2007) is an ink-splattered calligraphic script.
Cabrito (2013). A typeface for children's books. Followed by Cabrito Inverto (2014) for reversed stroke stress---some of its heavier styles have a Western appearance. In 2014, Cabrito Sans was added to the set. Cabrito Semi followed in 2015, the playful Cabrito Didone in 2016, Cabrito Contrast in 2018, and Cabrito Flare and Cabrito Serif in 2019.
Caridade.
Carta Marina is a family of medieval map text typefaces and dingbats (2007).
Cartes (2020). A charming 54-style family with chancery ascenders, and a roaring twenties handcrafted appeal.
Cavole Slab (2011).
Celari Titling (2014).
Chatype is a geometric slab serif typeface family designed in 2012 for the city of Chattanooga, TN, by Robbie de Villiers and Jeremy Dooley.
Chennai and Chennai Rounded (2007) are playful display sans typefaces. Chennai Slab (2009).
Chypre (2017). A techno sans family.
Civane (2017). A flared inscriptional typeface family.
Coegit (2012). A sans family that offers Compressed, Compact and Condensed subsets.
Cohort (2010, elliptical sans).
Coupe (2003).
Dever (2015) is a 107-style family of rough and weathered letterpress typefaces with industrial octagonal skeletons.
Dienstag (2008, 8 styles).
Daito (2018). A welcoming soft slab serif typeface family.
Donnerstag (2010, extended slab serif).
Dulcian (2017). A bright open sans family.
Eigerdals (2010, rounded sans family).
Enocenta (2013). A penmanship typeface family done with Cecilia Marina Pezoa.
Enzia (2009, an elegant sans family).
Evalfey (2021). Formal calligraphic.
Fizgiger (2006). An informal script face.
Florencia (2007) is a vintage script.
Foverdis (2010, a calligraphic family that includes a hairline).
Gineso (2016). A set of 48 slightly condensded and squarish headline typefaces. Followed by Gineso Titling (2016) and Gineso Soft (2018).
Grayfel (2015). A 42-style sans typeface family characterized by flush horizontal or vertical terminal endings.
Grenale (2013). A flashy in-your-face didone family from Thin to Heavy. Grenale #2 (2013) is a curvy sans that is almost a monoline. In 2015, Dooley launched Grenale Slab.
Haboro (2016). A 54-font strong didone family with wedge serifs replacing the standard rectangular ones. It has no ball terminals. Followed by Haboro Slab (2016), Haboro Soft (2016), Haboro Serif (2016), Haboro Sans (2016), Haboro Contrast (2017), and Haboro Slab Soft (2020).
Honeydrop (2017). A brush script.
Insigne Abstractions (2007) and Insigne Fleurons (2008) are dingbats.
Jon Cary (2004, the handwriting of John Kerry).
Kairengu (2007) is a comic book family.
Kasuga (2008) and Kasuga Brush (2009) are fresh new scripts with oriental undertones.
Kidela (2007) is a sassy scrapbook family. Kidela Sketch (2009).
Kochi (2015). A 54-font rounded organic sans typeface family.
Le Havre (2008) is a gorgeous 8-style geometric art deco sans with tall ascenders. In 2010, the Le Havre Sketch family was added. We also have Le Havre Rough (2014, a bit of letterpress feel thrown in), Le Havre Rounded (2009), Le Havre Titling (2012), Le Havre Layers, Le Havre Hand (2015) and Le Havre Width (2017).
Look (2015). In Sans, Script, and Serif subfamilies, this super-collection blends a bit of vernacular signage with weathered letterpress.
Lorelei (2007, Insigne) is a bouncy script family.
Lourdes (2007) is an informal script.
Madeleine (2007) is a basic handwriting face.
Madurai (2012). A simple monoline sans superfamily. Madurai Slab (2013) has 54 styles.
Mahalia (2008) is a retro script.
Majidah and Majidah Potens (2006) are medieval scripts.
Mandrel (2017). A typeface with sharp serifs. Followed by Mandrel Didone (2021: a 54-style didone).
Marintas (2012).
Maris (2015). A curly script.
Massif (2008) is an aggressive sans family.
Metairie (2018). A connected high-contrast script.
Mirantz (2019). A 54-style text typeface family.
Mittwoch (2009, organic serif).
Montag (2007) is a casual rounded sans family in six styles.
Mr Darcy (2015). A Tuscan all-caps typeface.
Mynaruse Flare (2018). An update of Mynaruse (2010), which is a roman inscriptional titling family---it is characterized by skinny flared serifs.
Nanumunga (2007) is a comic book style face.
Natalya (2007) is a connected calligraphic script. Natalya Monoline (2007). Natalya Swashes (2009, calligraphic).
Newcomen (2008) is a 4-style roman titling face.
Obline (2004, sans).
Oita (2014). An octagonal typeface family.
Olidia (2008) is calligraphic.
Orewelia (2004, grunge face).
Pauline Didone (2011, a curly didone family). Pauline Script (2008) is a monolinear retro script.
Pershal (2021). A 54-style family, described as an oddball sans.
Plathorn (2014). Inspired by the Wild West, this generous typeface family uses flaring in a thousand ways to recreate the feel of that era.
Promethian (2005, futuristic).
Quarca (2013). A 36-font sans family with a sturdy rounded square look.
Quatie (2013). A curvaceous family: Quatie draws much of its inspiration from the industrial brawn of the railroad and the unique characteristics of Cherokee letterforms, giving it an atypical form not usually found in an industrial slab (accring to Dooley).
Questal (2007) is a unicase serif face.
Qurillian (2006, legible sans).
Radona (2021). A 54-style geometric sans described as the typeface version of Synthwave.
Ranelte (2016). A condensed sans series with techno or DIN appeal. The textured versions are collected in Ranelte Deco (2017).
RendtPhysic (2006).
Ript Cure (2005).
Sabler Titling (2016). An all caps typeface family with tapered flared strokes.
Sancoale (2011, an organic sans family, from Thin to Black). Sancoale Narrow (2011). Sancoale Softened (2012). Sancoale Slab (2012). Sancoale Slab Soft (2013), Sancoale Gothic (2022: 48 styles; a subdued and calming version of Sancoale, with quiet futurism).
Sangli (2015). A 54-style rounded organic sans typeface family.
Savigny (2011). Images: Savigny Black Extened, Savigny Regular Condensed.
Savory Paste (2007). Grunge.
Schorel (2019). A 54-style Scotch roman.
Senlot (2018). A 54-strong sans family. In 2019, Senlot Sans and Senlot Serif (2019) were added. Senlot Didone followed in 2021.
Serofina (2010, a calligraphic face).
Shrike2003 (2003).
Sildetas (2010, a high-contrast script typeface with tear drop terminals).
Sociato (2022). A 54-style baroque text family with didone roots. The typeface was inspired by a declaration published during the French Revolution that extolled the development of a new religion, the cult of the Supreme Being.
Solitas (2015). A rounded 42-style geometric sans family. Followed by Solitas Slab (2015), Solitas Serif (2017) and Solitas Contrast (2021; a 42-style display sans family described as sensual by Jeremy Dooley).
The sans family Sommet (2008; see also Sommet Rounded (2008), Som met Slab, 2010, and Sommet Serif (2011, a wedge serif family)) is futuristic. Sommet Slab Rounded (2011).
Sophima (2021). A weathered script family.
Soprani (2020). A 54-font set with considerable flaring and thorny serifs, based on a vintage plaque from the 1920s.
Sovba (2009, upright italic).
Steagal (2013). A geometric sans with a 1930s American feel.
Steam Court (2015). A combination of steam punk and blackletter.
Stefania (2007) has two calligraphic/chancery styles. Its aged version is called Stefania Antique (2008).
Stratham (2007) is a medium to black family of legible sans typefaces.
Terfens (2007) is an informal and quite rounded sans serif with inspiration from chancery scripts like Stefania. Terfens Contrast (2021) is an 48-style sans with calligraphic traits.
Torcao (2013). An elliptical anthroposophic typeface family.
Ultine (2016), an utilitarian sans family.
Valeson (2020). A vintage display typeface with a kneeling art nouveau lower case n.
Valfieris (2006). Valfieris Aged (2007) imitates medieval printing.
Varidox (2019). A variable font with a roundish slab serif design.
Verao (2018) and Verao Ornaments. A calligraphic script.
Vergils (2021). A 54-style sans that tries to instill the spirit of the eighties and electronic music genres like Synthview.
Waialua (2019). A script typeface with a variable font option.
Waimea (2019). A variable script font produced with the help of Lucas Azevedo.
Winsel (2019). A flared typeface influenced by British nostalgia, vintage signage and typographic ancestors like Edward Johnston and Eric Gill. Perfect for typesetting speeches by Winston Churchill.
Wreath (2016). A script typeface family.
Xalapa (2008) is a grunge family.
Yevida and Yevida Potens (2006, scripts).
Yorkten (2015): 54-style monoline sans family. See also Yorkten Slab (2017).
Youngblood (2008, +Youngblood Antique, 2010) is non-connected.

Catalog of their typefaces. View Jeremy Dooley's font library. View Jeremy Dooley's typefaces. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Inspira Type (or: Collabro Studio, or: Inspira Sign)
[IlhamSyah Vutra]

We find the names Septian Fauzi and IlhamSyah Vutra associated with Inspira Type. Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of script and brush script typefaces, who also runs Aktab Studio. Fonts from 2019: Greenland, Jaeggers, Vancouver (script), Freya (a free script), Beneth (brush script), Gisella (script), Fearless, Anggada (a vintage script), Delia (a text typeface), Baratyuda, Stanford (or Standford: a vintage label font), Itikaf (a religious serif), Maldins, Riverside (signage script), Stucker, Rottordam, Cartoon, Cartoon Fancy, Magna, Hollaboi (a brush font), Bratarini, Nanda Script, Qiba Serif, Gula (a cartoon font), Qiba, Alvaro (a fat monoline script), Fresh Berries Script, Eastchaft, Fillia Script, Alistair Signature, Abhyaksa, Etherion (wedge serif), Adhe Sans, Herey (dry brush), Backhill (signage script), Cecillia (inky script), Never Ending (dry brush), Abhinaya (Victorian), Debtos Script, Dohong (vintage style), Dohong Kaliba, Bessita Handwriting, Cendolita Script, Dingbod Script (monoline), Aussiente, Pure Tintri.

Fonts from 2020: Abimo, Baliosa (a signature script), Balkous, Bangga, Baswara Catra, Belly, Borude (sketched), Brigita, Bustracks, Candle, Cerita Senja, Confinental, Daniza Claretta, Dethars, Earthan, Eighties, Facibian, Fialiga (an octagonal sports font), Ghost Walker (dry brush), Gnaw, Goldstep, Halcyon, Hantari, Howkins (stencil), Intuitive, Itikaf, Jello, Khanaya (calligraphic), Kosmik, Kuffie, Lutuna, Malbourne, Mayasi, Mechanical (squarish), Mhoko, Nagista, Oblady, Our Story Begins, Panorama, Raimond, Rebellion, Sagittaria, Sanoraya (a tall inky script)Serpents, Shockwave (brush script), Sintya, Speedtrap (a speed emulation sans), Suballie, Sweetboys, The Bovalo, The Loccosta (dry brush), The Rolides, Throne (a wide all caps sans), Townsquare, Volare, Wildeoo, Wonderful Jungle. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

At this French institute in Lyon which forms part of the Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon, there are occasionally courses on typography. For example, in the Book History Workshop from 5-8 April 2004, James Mosley gave a course on Type, lettering and calligraphy 1450-1830. From 25-28 April 2005, he gave a course there on Typographie et calligraphie 1830-1980. We also find a list of books on typography and calligraphy, covering 1450-1830. [Google] [More] ⦿

Intellecta Design (or: Monocracy Types)
[Paulo W]

Intellecta Design is a design company in Brazil run by Paulo W (b. 1970) from Recife. In 2020, he also set up Monocracy Types. Paulo W is a gaúcho (Brazilian southerner), with interests in multiple areas, including poetry (he has published the digital opus Magical Book), graphic design and, most recently, type design.

Dafont link. MyFonts. MyFonts link. Abstract Fonts link. YWFT link. Behance link. Blog. Home page. Fonthaus. Monotype. Eshops. Facebook. Flickr. Klingspor link. Wordpress. Devian tart. T26. Linkedin. Identifont. Linotype. ITC. Faces.co. His typefaces:

Free fonts: Inductive Resonance (2014: connected script), Retrodings (+Two, 2014), Living In The Past (outlined Tuscan face), Rough Ornaments Free (2014), CornPop Three (borders), Too Good To Be True (2013, retro script), Blanchard Inland (2013), Living Together (2013), Arresto (2013, brush script), Hertziano (2013, non-connected fat script), Japanese Tourist (2013), Nouveau Never Dies Free (2013), The Beat Goes On (2012, fifties script), Stencix (2012), Figgins Brute Trash (grunge), Fontaniolo Beveled (2011, ornamental caps), Czech Gotika (2011), Random Dingbats (2011), Victorian Free Ornaments (2011), Rustic (2011), Armorial (2011), Woman Silhouettes (2011), The Nile Song (2010, hieroglyphics), Smith Typewriter (2009), Sign Flags (2010, semaphore dingbats), Senectus Morbus (2010), MesoAmerica (2010, Indian symbols), ClassicSketches (2010, dingbats), Columns (2010, dingbats of Greek and Roman columns), EasyCuneiform (2010), EasyLombardicTwo (2010), EasyOpenFace (2010, blackboard bold style), Egidia (2010), Significante (2010, dingbats with, e.g., gender symbols), WhiteDominoes (2010, domino pieces), Easy Heraldics (2010), Intellecta Heraldics (2010), Heraldic Devices (2011), KidingsFree (2010, dingbats), RoughTuscan (2010), The French (2009, Fleur de Lys dings), AprendizCaligrafico (2010), Volitiva (2006, Trajan caps and chancery lower case, all based on work by Ludovico Vicentino Arrighi), Gaivota (2006), KurrentKupferstichThin (2006), PaulKlein (2010), PaulKleinTwo (2010), PortuguesArcaicoLectura (2005), ReproxScript (2009, based on Jerry Mullen's Repro Script from 1953-1954), RickGearyHomage (2007, scanbats), WestBalaio (2006, ornamental caps), Corto Maltese (2006, scanbats), Renaissance Coiffure (2006), Renaissance Ornaments (2007), Renaissance Shoes (2012, free), TTF Tattoef (2006, tattoo-inspired dingbats), ExperiTypo5 (2006), Lower Metal (2006), Geometric Serif PW (2006), Geometric (2006), Geometric Petras PW (2006), War II Warplanes (2005), Carbono (2005), Times New Vespasian (2005), BoldBold (2005), Vengeance (2005), Doppleganger (2005), Chancelaresca (2005), Cursivo Saxonio (2005), Gotische Minuskel 1269 (2005: a Kanzlei Schrift after Dekan Hermann zu Soest, 1269) and Guto Lacaz (2005, dingbats).
Richard Gans revival project: Gans Tipo Adorno, Gans Lath Modern, Gans Titular Adornada (2006), Gans Ibarra (2006, after Carlos Winkow's Elzeviriano Ibarra), Gans Antigua (2006), Gans Antigua Manuscrito (2006), Gans Radio Lumina (2006), Gans Fulgor (2006), Gans Carmem Adornada (2006), Gans Italiana (2006, extensive Italian-style slab serif family), Gans Titania (2007), Gans Titania Adornada (2007), Gans Titular (2007), Gans Gotico Globo (2007: 9 styles by Iza W), Gans Royality (2007: 3 styles by Iza W), Gans Headpieces (2008), Gans Rasgos Escritura (2010: filets---followed in 2011 by Rasgos Escritura Nuevos), Gan Esquinazos (2010, frames), Gans Blasones (2010, shields), Gans Neoclassic Fleurons (2008), Gans Classical Fleurons, Gans Ding.
Wood-inspired typefaces: Dead Wood Rustic (2007), Taranatiritza (5 wood type styles, after William Hamilton Page), Majestade (2007, by Iza W---two Tuscan style typefaces), Decorative Tuscanian (2007), Concave Tuscan (2010, wood type), Palermo (2007, by Iza W---Tuscan style family), Teatro (2009, Tuscan), Bruce Double Pica (2009, Tuscan; the Beveled weight is free), Antique Extended (2010, slab serif wood type), Dark Wood (2009, gothic), Dark Wood Beveled (2011).
Charles Bluemlein's script revivals: Bluelmin Kisaburo (2013), Bluelmin Ralph (2012), Bluelmin Ronald (2012), Bluelmin Sandsfort (2012) and Bluelmin Benedict (2012). (2012).
Blackletter: Salterio (2012, +Trash, +Three, +Gradient, +Shadow, +Shadow Two), Leothric (2011, bastarda), Bruce 532 Blackletter (2011, after George Bruce), Schneider Buch Deutsch (2007, +Trash, +Shadow, +Shadow Two), Schneidler halb fette Deutsch (2009, +Beveled), Schneidler Zierbuchstaben, Hostetler Fette Ultfraktur Ornamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic 16 CG (2007), Gothic 16 CG Decorative (2007, blackletter caps), Schneidler Grobe Gotisch (2008, Iza W, T-26), Allerlei Zierat (2008, ornament fonts based on a 1902 catalog of Schelter & Giesecke), Allerlei Zierat Capitals (2007), Psalter Gotisch (2009, a blackletter after the Benjamin Krebs blackletter face by the same name, ca. 1890), Münster-Gotische (2009, a blackletter family after a 1896 typeface by the same created by Schelter&Giesecke), Koberger N24 Schwabacher (2007), Student's Alphabet (2007, blackletter), Like Gutemberg Caps (2007), Nürnberg Schwabacher, Gotische Frame (2007: four framed blackletter styles by Iza W), Gotische (2007: ten ornate blackletter styles by Iza W), Gothic Garbage, Gothic Shadow, Gothic Trashed, Gothic Flourish (2009), Gotica Moderna (octagonal, blackletter), AltDeutsch (2007, four severe blackletter fonts by Iza W), Fin Fraktur, Gotische Bouffard, Heimat RGS, Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006).
Historical revivals: Pantographia (2010: a digitization, as is, of several alphabets from Edmund Fry's Pantographia, 1799), Caslon2000, Caslon B, Delamotte Large Relief (2010), Figgins Brute (2007: 8 heavy Egyptian styles by Iza W based on Figgins' 1817 specimen book), Erased Figgins Brute (2007), Gras Vibert (2007, a didone family; followed by Gras Vibert Two in 2009).
Erotic or human alphabets: American Way of Life (2011), Roman Silhouettes (2011), Silvestre Weygel (2007, named after Martin Weygel'a erotic alphabet from 1560, which in turn was based on Peter Flötner's 1534 alphabet), Gravure (caps typeface made of human silhouettes), Innocence (2007, dingbats of girls).
Medieval chancery hand: Portugues Arcaico (2005, three medieval handwriting styles), Kurrent Kupfertisch (2006, a medieval hand done with Fernanda Salmona), Dovtrina Christam 1622 (authentic old manuscript face), Catania (2007, exquisite medieval caps in 3 styles by Iza W).
Typewriter typefaces: Remix Typewriter (2012), Smith Trash (2012), Neo Bulletin (2010, +Trash), Remington PW (old typewriter face), Olivetti Linea (old typewriter face), Erased Typewriter 2 (2007: 4 styles by Paulo W), RIP Typewriter (2009), Shadow Typewriter (2007), Underwood Typewriter (by Iza W).
Calligraphic: Broken Kiss (2015), Derniere Script (2015), Bradstone Parker Script (after Zaner's penmanship), Jan van den Velde Script (2011, based on the penmanship of Jan van den Velde as illustrated in vna den Velde's 1605 book Spieghel der schrijfkonste; developed jointly by Paulo and Iza W), Penabico (2010, with Iza W); Penabico is a free interpretation of the copperplate script styles to be found in the Universal Penman, London, 1741, by George Bickham---it contains over 1500 calligraphic glyphs and 250 ornaments. Samples of Penabico: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix), Easy Calig, Intellecta Mixed Script (2008), Spencerian Constancia (2008), Calligraphia Latina Soft4 (2010, quilled ornaments), Intellecta Script commercial (2009), Spencerian By Product (2009), Spencerian Palmer Penmanship Pro (2010), Indenture English Penman (2010), Calligraphia Latina (2008-2010, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Soft4, Mixed, Square Edition).
Victorian, Edwardian: Engel (2007, by Iza W in 15 styles that have a 1870s look), Compendium (Victorian), Costado (2009, a Victorian / Western face).
Ornamental caps: Campi (2009), Doppel Mittel Lapidar Azure (2012), Musirte Antiqua (2012), The House of Usher (2012), Peterlon (2012), Dolphus Mieg Alphabet (2011, +Two), Dolphus Mieg Monograms (2011), Human Nature (2011), English Arabesque Revival 1900 (2011), Imprenta Royal Nonpareil (2011), XVI Century Shaw Woodcuts (2011), Ichweis Caps (2011), Cherubim Caps (2011), Rara Beleza (2011), Gothic 1880 Revival (2011), Angelicaps (2010), Unnamed Caps Two (2010), VertiCaps (2010) Rebimboca Caps (2010), Rebimboca Beveled (2012, free), Rebimboca Gradient (2012, free), Rebimboca Trash (2012, free), Rebimboca Outlined (2012, free), Republica Presente (2010), Speedball Metropolitan Caps (2010, after a design by Ross F. George), Nice Initials (2010), Morphelic (2010), DurerGotischCapitals (2010), Egmontian (2007, ornamental caps family), Saducismus Triumphatus (ornamental caps), Vogus (Victorian caps), Victorian Ornamental Capitals (2009) and Frompac 1889 Arabesque (2007) [both are classical arabesques published in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Schriften-Atlas. Eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit nebst Initialen, Monogrammen, Mappen, Landeskarten und heraldischen Motiven fur die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgewerbes, 1889], Lettrines Petin (+Ornée), Numa Initials (2006), Gradl Initialen, Vampirevich (2009, ornamental caps), Paulus Franck 1602 (2006, ornate caps), Geodec (2006, baroque caps), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), Cadels (2007, ornate caps by Iza W), Manuscript XIV Century (2007, by Iza W--four Lombardic caps), Merona (2007, by Iza W--ten Lombardic caps fonts), Selena (2007, by Iza W---ornate Victorian caps), Leyenda (great Victorian era ornamental caps), Mixed Capital Style (2007, caps), Lenda (2008, capitals), Kidnaped at Old Times (2008, ornamental caps, ransom note style), Mortised Capitals, Is Not ABrazilian Font (hand-printed blackboard bold caps), Robur The Conqueror (2009, ornamental caps), Georgia Capitals (2009), Decadence avec Elegance (exaggerated ornamental caps).
The American Advertise series: American Advertise No. 9 (2008), American Advertise No. 17 (2007, 19th century caps), American Advertise 018 and 019 (2008), American Advertise Square Series (2007), American Advertise 003 (2012), American Advertise 004 (2010), American Advertise 005 (2010), American Advertise 006 (2010, alphadings), American Advertise 007 (2010, ornamental caps).
Ornaments, fleurons: Transportation Dings *2015), Cornucopia of Dingbats Eight (2015), Animals Old Cuts Two (2015), Unpublished Ornaments Two (2013), Classix (2012), Cornucopia of Dingbats (2012-2014, +Two, +Three, +Four, +Five, +Six, +Seven), Cornucopia of Ornaments (2013; +Two, +Three, +Four, +Five, +Six, 2014), Cornucopia Caligrafica (2012), Vintage Hands (2012), Human Silhouettes (2012; +Free, 2013; +Two, 2013; +Human Silhouettes Three, 2013; +Four, 2013; +Five, 2014; +Six, 2014; +Seven, 2014; +Eight, 2014; +Nine, 2015), Easy Fleurons (2012), Floreale Two (2012), Neoclassic Fleurons Free (2011), Calligraphic Frames Soft (2011, +Two), Jugendstil Flowers Free (2011), Easy Ornaments (2011), Blasons (2011), Blasons Free (2012), Armorial (2011), Monograms Soft (2010, with Iza W), Easy Tiles (2010), Free Tiles (2010), Rough Fleurons Two (2010), Vegetable Breathe (2010), Corn Pop Plus (2010), Mortised Fleurons (2010), Mortised Ornaments (2011), Mortised Ornaments Free Two (2013), Golden Times (2010), Stahlhelme und Kronen (2010), Rough Fleurons (2006), Nouveau Never Dies (2009, ornaments), GeodecBruceOrnamented6 (2006, after a sample from the Bruce Type Foundry), Grave Ornamental (2006), BlackOrnaments (2008), Hera Hedelix (2009, ornamental tiles), Mortised Ornaments (2009), Soft Fleurons (2007), Half Flower (2007), Frames 1 (2007, by Iza W), Flower Essences, Micro Fleurons (2009), Naturella (2009, leaf and grape dingbats by Iza W), Black Fleurons (2010), Easy Fleurons Two (2011), Intellecta Borders (2008, by Iza W), Intellecta Style (2007, borders).
Fonts made before 2007: Brute Aldine (2007, Western family), Bad Situation (2007, after a design by Freeman Delamotte from 1864), Benjamin Franklin (2007), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), Deutsche Poster (2006), FatFontGrotesk (2006), Orchis (2006, an art deco family by Iza W), Fantis (2006), Frompac (2006, with Iza W), Geodec Fog (2006), Intellecta Modern (2006), Intellecta Modern 2 (2006), Intellecta Romana Humanistica (2006), Advantage (2006, together with Iza W), Biza (2006, together with Iza W), Elegancy (2006, together with Iza W), Estiliza (2006, a sans family together with Iza W), Experitypo 4, Stairway to Heaven, Copperplate PW, Dings PW, Roger Dean, Gliphs PW, Luxeuil, Watchtower Bible 1965, Gabinete Portugues (11 fonts), Elara (2009), Xilografuras (dingbats), Beta, Alta, Paleolitica Nacional, Shakespeare Studs, Copperplate collection (5 fonts), Wine, Ampersamp, James Poem, Leal Conselheiro, Haeckel Enygma, Iza B, Of, Lementa (2006, ornate family), Pirates (dingbats), Wire Clip (2009), Divina Proportione (2009, dingbats), Tharagaverung (2007), Correo (2009, a nice manly bold face), Titivilus (2007, Roman lettering), Pirates De Luxe (2007, dingbats), Geodec Minuskel (2006), Geodec Spyral (2006), Copperplate Decorative (2006), Feosa (2006), Francesco Decorative (2006, Iza W), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), Ibarra Flourished (2006), Intellecta Decorative 017 (2006), Intellecta Decorative 018 (2006), Intellecta Slab Bold (2006), Kansas Decorative (2006), Pingente (2006), Sixties Living (2006), Caractere Doublet (2007), DeutschePosterSteinschrift (2007; by Iza W), Bailarina (2007), GP Casual Script (2007), Colonia Portuguesa (2007), Contouration (2007), Deco Experiment 3 (2007), Floresco (2007), Flower Jars (2007, by Iza W---a very nice idea), Frutisis (2007), Intellecta Monograms (2007: 19 monogram fonts by Paulo W), Intellecta Monograms Random Sample (2012-2013: several typefaces), Peloponeso (2007, by Iza W), Porcupine (2007, by Iza W), Southern Flight (2007, by Iza W---condensed), TTF TTTOEF 4 (2007, by Iza W---dingbats), GeodecBruceFlourished, HostetlerNormande, Victorian Ultra Parphernalia (2007), Angels (2007), Angels Free (2013), Mondrongo (2007), Oorlog (2007).
Fonts in 2008: Das Riese (3d engraved caps, +Shadow), Economica (sans, T26), Antiqua Double 12, Bad Baltimore (+Beveled, +Typewriter), Calligraphia Latina (2008-2009, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Mixed, Square Edition, Free), Fry's Alphabet, Grissom (bug dingbats, by Iza W), Latinish (by Iza W), Lettering Deco (by Iza W), Litho Romana Inland, Quadratta Serif (a slab serif by Fernando Diaz), TTF TATTOEF 7 (by Iza W).
Fonts made in 2009: Eingraviert (engraved; scans: i, ii, iii), Eingraviert Beveled (2011), Greko Roman Oldstyle, Ortodoxa do oriente, Sans Square, Speedball (by Iza W, Victorian style), Speedball Western Letters (after Ross F. George's lettering), Elara (2009), Intellecta Roman Tall, Force Brute & Ignorance, Sunamy Caps, Starret, The Pilgrim (alphadings), Renaisperian (alphadings), Real Caps Two, Mateus Bold (4 bold styles), Intellecta Crafts (arts and crafts family), Bruce 1490, Bradley Dingies (five dingbat typefaces, after William H. Bradley), Allerlei Zierat Renaissance, Grave Plus, the grungy Monkey series (Victorian Monkey, Monkey Poesy, Monkey Messed Gutenberg Caps, Monkey Was Here, Monkey Insinuation, Monkey In The Middle Ages), Montezuma (dingbats), Grotesque and Arabesque, Calhambeque (old car dingbats), Eiger (2009, a 3d sketched headline face).
Faces made in 2010: Po len, Pencraft (capitals were inspired in Swagger Capitals, an original design from Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers & Spindler; lowercase based Pencraft Specials, an ornamental variation of the Pencraft Oldstyle series, as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922), Salamemingoe (children's hand), BarberPoles, Beware the neighbors (scary), BlackInitialText, CaligrafiaDivina, CornPop, CowboyHippie Pro, Grotesca3-D, Nardis, Senzacuore, Speedball Metropolitan Poster (2010, after a design by Ross F. George), TagWood, Tosca, TypographyTribute, Zooland, Bubbleboddy-Fat, bubbleboddylight-Light, Pretoria Gross (a Victorian family done with Iza W), Wood Font Five (wood plank font), Wood Font Four, Herr Foch (art nouveau), Rebimboca, Octagon French (a 3d beveled typeface due to George Nesbitt, 1838), Picuxuxo (retro futuristic, comic book style), Large Old English Riband, Ornamental Riband, Kidings (Dutch dingbats), Hostil (originally done in 2007: a headline family; followed by Hostil Shadow Two (free, 2012) and Hostil Gradient (free, 2012)), Grotesca, Heptagon French, Antiquariaat (condensed), Cortinado, Sanoxio (3d headline face), Violentia (grunge), Swirlies (spiral dings).
Faces from 2011: Dia de los Muertos (fantastic skeletal masks), Inland Becker, Rasgos Escritura Nuevos, Jaggard (2007, a renaissance penmanship caps typeface modeled after Joachim Romann's Queen (1954-1956, Stempel)), Jaggard Two, Naive Ornaments Black, Augustus (+Beveled: roman letters), Sayonara (oriental simulation face; the Beveled style is free), Trash Barusa (inline ornamental face), Free Ribbons, Black Ornaments Three, Calligraphia Latina Soft 5, Heraldic Devices Premium, Ornate Blackboards, Benjamin Franklin Beveled, Baltimore Typewriter Beveled, Bernardo Beveled, Van den Velde Script (a free interpretation of the work of the famous master penman Jan van den Velde, found in the Spieghel der schrijfkonste, in den welcken ghesien worden veelderhande gheschrifften met hare fondementen ende onderrichtinghe (Haarlen, 1605)), Indenture English Penmanship, Penmanship Birds and Ornaments (2012), Beware The Neighboors Shadow (texture face), White Free (shadow face), Delamotte Large Relief Beveled.
Typefaces made in 2012: Porosa, Presto, Derradeira (signage script), About Sweet Memories (brush script), Intellecta Ribbons, Irrelevante (beveled caps), Laus Sus Chris (Christian dingbats), Unpublished Ornaments, Heavy Squared Writing (brush face), Mezcla Titan, Sweet About (retro script), Publicité, Hard to read monograms, Free Medieval, Doctor Polidori (initial caps), Mixed Silhouettes (One through Five), Glosilla Castellana Cursiva (inline type family), Sayonax (a textured version of the oriental simulation typeface Sayonara), Wood Stevens (free), Rockabilly (fifties script), Interdite Script (heavy calligraphic face), Prismatica (free), Cristalid (free prismatic face), Zed Leppelin (free), Neo Bulletin Outline (free), Neo Bulletin College (2012), Victorian Free Ornaments (+Two), Spanish Army Shields (+Two), Varius Multiplex, Stephens Heavy Titling.
Typefaces from 2013: Face of Yesterday (calligraphic script), Ribbon in the sky, Dreamer (a flowing upright semi-connected script), Vorname (blackletter), Barocque Capitals, Close To You (a rabbit-eared script), Wappen (heraldic shields), Eletroz (hand-printed), Morcrepito (blackletter), Metropolitan Poster Black, Animal Silhouettes, Intellecta Pointers and Hands, The Loyalist (script), Vonnegut (a left-leaning script), Perhaps Love (left-leaning script), So Lonely (script), Exposition (upright script), Plaster of Paris (connected script), Volstead (connected script), Versitia (connected script), Porongo (heavy brush script), Fat Fantasy, Das Krieg (soldier dingbats), Corn Pop Two (ornamental corners), Corn Pop Four, Corn Pop Five, Astrodings, Vulnavia Sans (comic book face), Capitular Heraldica, Mirella Initials Ornamntals (a swashy calligraphic script; with Iza W), Carpete (retro script), Free Writer, Round Hand, Exclusivite (fifties script), Hertz Oscillations (fat retro script), Heavy Rock (fifties script), Raindrops (retro script), Ralph Walker (ronde), Exiles (retro signage script), Mr. Richmond Caps (art nouveau alphadings), Berengard Caps Two.
Typefaces from 2014: Prester John, Animals Old Cuts, Take a Pebble, Corn Pop Five (borders), Kidnapped at German Lands (ransom note font), Kidnapped at German Lands 2, Kidnapped at German Lands 3, Kidnapped at German Lands 4 (finished in 2016).
Typefaces from 2015: Rogeer (script), Chart Moss, Eliensee, Speedball Ragged, State Bridge, Derniere Script, Grissom Four (dingbats of critters), Das Modern, Zona Pro (a sans family).
Typefaces from 2016: Ares Modernos, Soldier William Holmes (vintage handwriting), Doctor Russel (script), Hollandisch Closed (blackletter), Rough Flowers (floral ornaments), Equis (crosses), Mattaaus (a counterless poster font), Holland Morleau (a Kanzlei style blackletter font), Rough Vignettes, Rechnung (a bejeweled didone), Alphabet Fantasie (decorative caps), Phantasinian (blackletter), Loosing Memory (blackletter), Laandbrau (blackletter), Lord Radcliff.
Typefaces from 2019: Penmanship Feather.
Typefaces from 2020: Victorian Alphabets (a weathered engraved money font; despite its name, this is just one alphabet), Mortised Vignettes, Mortised Caps, Monocracy Cuts And Clips, Sincelo Ornaments, Augusta Torino Ornaments (based on art nouveau ornaments from Societa Augusta Torino), Renouveau (art nouveau).
Typefaces from 2021: Gotteslob (blackletter), Cotton Mather (a medieval blackletter), Josef Wein Moderne Blackletter (after an alphabet by Josef Heim from the 1900 book Moderne Schriften / herausgegeben und verlegt von Josef Heim, Supernouveau (art nouveau ornaments).

Showcase of Intellecta Design's fonts, numbering 554 as of early 2017. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Introduction to Japanese calligraphy

Grahan Hawker's intro page to Japanese calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Introduction to the History of the Alphabet, Types, and Fonts

An introductory course in the subject of lettering and written language. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ioanna Hristova

Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of several Cyrillic calligraphic alphabets (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Iordache Ionut
[Arys Design]

Iqbal Amsar Hidayat
[Bal Studio (or: Balstudio)]

Iqbal Paj
[Balevgraph Studio]

Ira Lensberr

Talented lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer in Volgograd, Russia, who graduated from BHSAD in Moscow in 2014. Ira's typefaces include Stuff (2014), Filum (2014, thin, techno face), Koolhaas (2014: inspired by architect Rem Koolhaas; renamed Gebouw), Staket (2014, a war movie font), Bodler (2014, named after Charles Baudelaire, this inky calligraphic typeface is exceptionally beautiful). All fonts cover Latin and Cyrillic.

In 2014, Ira finished Manola, an expressive flared lapidary sans typeface family with applications in stone carving, developed under the guidance of Alexander Tarbeev. [Google] [More] ⦿

IRF Lab Studio (was: Miss Type)
[M. Irfan Syouqi S.]

Indonesian designer of formal and semi-formal calligraphic scripts. In 2020, he/she made Adeylina, Alangte, Alove Hoolena, Arveraghen, Asengel Atigelan, Bebimelista, Braghan, Dear Mother, Fanedai, Garelgina, Hellomelanti, Hellomelodi, Holiedarling, Lenastanela, Love Derlina, Love Henila, Lovelyhome, Lovethebook, Neviliyenti, Seherlan Salene, The Harlana, Wathelmina (a rhythmic calligraphic script), Yonghate (swashy).

Typefaces from 2021: Manthan (a decorative fashion font family in four styles), Burger Honren (a retro family of supermarket typefaces), Angelin Girald (a bold and swashy script), Hello Melodi (a condensed calligraphic script), Family Holiday (a heavy swirly script), Faikinlan (a tattoo script), Benalline Signature (a condensed formal calligraphic font), Mahegrena (a loopy monoline script), Garelgina (swashy, calligraphic), Amanda Manopo (a formal copperplate calligraphic typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Irfan Nowly
[Nowly Studios]

Irina Dvilyuk

Or Ira Dvilyuk. Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine-based designer of the heavy brush script Alanta Script (2017), the brush font Senorita (2017), and the paper cutout typeface Scandinavian Kids (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Spaghetti, Rainbow Chalk (a children's font), My Sister Pamela (Script + Sans), Soul Adventures (signature font), Donna Lucia (connected script), Miss Katherine (a Cyrillic version was developed by Cherry Vishnya in 2019), Lady Boss (a great natural handwriting script), Rosamund (watercolor brush; followed in 2021 by Rosamund Cyrillic), Costa Blanca.

Typefaces from 2019: Buongiorno Rastellino (a signature script), Milky River (a delightful alphabet).

Typefaces from 2020: Sadlyne Cyrillic (wild, calligraphic), Miss Katherine Cyrillic (wild calligraphy), West Byanetta (an inky signature script for Latin and Cyrillic), Monggirella Script, Golden Night, Hello January Cyrillic (a monolinear signature script).

Typefaces from 2021: Petite Annagri (a connected monoline script), Senorita Cyrillic Script, Scandinavian Cyrillic, Rainbow Chalk, Milky River Script (a playful font), Soul Adventures Cyr (script), Golden Night Cyrillic, Spaghetti Cyrillic, Forest Glade Cyrillic (script), Sister Pamella Font Duo (an artistic brush script), Monggirella Cyrillic (a calligraphic script), Donna Lucia Cyrillic, Lady Boss Cyrillic (script), Buongiorno Rastellino Cyr (an elegant cursive script for Latin and Cyrillic, with a great set of leafy ornaments).

Typefaces from 2022: Zull Wettis Cyrillic (a powerful dry brush script), Agretta Hills Cyrillic (a dry brush script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Irina Smirnova

Graduate of the Masters program in type design at KABK, 2010. Before that, she studied type design at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts and graduated in 2001. She worked as free-lance designer for ParaType Inc under Tagir Safayev. During 2002-2006 she taught courses on type design and lettering at the Institute of Modern Art in Moscow. She was also affiliated with the British Higher School of Design (2008-2011) in Moscow. Irina worked as type designer at Laterica and Art Lebedev Studio (until 2008). Currently she is a freelance designer in Moscow, whee she teaches calligraphy.

She created Inder (2011), which can be downloaded at Google Web Fonts and Fontsquirrel, where it was published by Sorkin Type.

Her fonts at Art Lebedev Studio include Zwoelf (2008, with Oleg Pashchenko and Zakhar Yaschin), ALS Kraft (2008, an octagonal face) and ALS Klinkopis (2008, calligraphic). The latter fdont was named after Yana Klink (an illustrator at Art Lebedev Studio).

Designer of Museo Sans Cyrillic (2012), a Cyrillic extension of Jos Buivenga's Museo Sans. She also made Cyrillic extensions of Museo and Museo Slab.

Free fonts in 2012 at Google Web Fonts: Denk One [Download link], Fjalla One [Download link].

Designer of Parmigiano Cyrillic (2012-2014), as part of the larger Parmigiano Typographic System of Riccardo Olocco and Jonathan Pierini.

Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Irma Asharini
[Letrasupply Type foundry]

Irmingard Anna Kotelev

The beautiful calligraphic art of Irmingard Anna Kotelev. [Google] [More] ⦿

Irpan Maulana
[Sabrtype (or: Sabr Creative)]

Iryna Trigubova
[Red Ink]

Isac Correa Rodrigues
[Isaco Type]

Islamic Calligraphy with Mohamed Zakariya

Isaco Type
[Isac Correa Rodrigues]

Isaco Type is a type foundry in Vacaria, Brazil, est. 2009. Its founder is Isac Rodrigues (b. Vacaria, 1986), a graphic designer born who graduated from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State. His typefaces:

Grand prize winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his calligraphic typeface family Monarcha (2009).
Basel Sans ITD (2009, a humanist sans in one style only).
The calligraphic family Mayence (2010). Mayence Ornaments won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
Cantiga (2014): s a 44-style workhorse typeface family that uses contrast to express itself.
Basel Neue (2014). A complete redesign of BaselSans ITD in eight styles.
Destra (2015). A narrow sans typeface family.
Zega Text (2016). A 14-style slightly flared top-heavy typeface family. Followed later in 2016 by Zega Grot, which also has 14 styles.

Facebook page. Behance link. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Iskra Johnson

Seattle-based lettering artist who runs Iskra Design. Her lettering and handwritten alphabets are quite remarkable. She is especially talented with the brush.

Old link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mohamed Zakariya gives us an Islamic calligraphy lesson. [Google] [More] ⦿

Isroni Yoga Prasetya
[Yoga Letter]

Itzá Villavicencio Urbieta

Itoh Lab

Very interesting software development at Itoh Lab in Japan. Software includes the generation of scratched or brushed calligraphic bitmap images from truetype fonts. Some of the programs use fuzzy reasoning, fractals and "brush-touch" (sic) cursors. [Google] [More] ⦿

It's Lativa

Malang, Indonesia-based designer of Miss Amber (2017), Tasty Missmallove (2016, script font), Miss Summer (2017, connected script), Miss Balley (2017, a chalky font) and Miss Wiely (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Miss Quakers, Marison Brieny (a signature script), Hola Roster, Miss Waited, Buenos Script (a fat watercolor brush), Palieste Brush.

Typefaces from 2019: Miss Wailsey, Scarlett (formal calligraphy). [Google] [More] ⦿

iTypeface (or: Exfont)
[Cuong Truong Van]

Or Binh Ngo Thi, b. 1987. Hanoi, Vietnam, and now Canberra, Australia-based designer. I am not sure if she made all the fonts on her multiple web sites, so take the list below with a grain of salt. Thus, creator (?) of the free connected script font Beacon (2015). In 2016, she created Pateglamt Script (calligraphic), Aring (a gorgeous Treefrog style calligraphic brush script), Akita (avant garde), Akita Air (art deco style), Amery Brush, Dakota, Easy Brush, Purdue Script, Beach Brush Font, and Beautiful (thick brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Traveling, Rebli, Asmae, Cinderella Script, Merthy Script, Bodega Script, Gorgeous Script (watercolor brush), Le Beaune (roman capitals; a free font with a reference to a 2010 typeface by Damien Gautier), Restaurants Script, IT Encore Sans, Brook, Theage (script).

In 2021, she released the scripot typeface Overwatch.

Dafont link. Behance link. Creative Market link. Dafont link. Another Creative Market link. Newest Behance link. Gumroad link. Defonts link for Exfont. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graphic designer in Mexico City. She created the calligraphic typeface Gardenia (2011). It has 824 characters and ligatures. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ivan Rosenberg

Ziar nad Hronom, Slovakia-based designer of the brush typefaces Amazonia Bay (2016), Bahamas Brush (2016), Constance Brush (2016) and Malina Brush (2016), and the script typeface King Size (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Frosty Sky, Pink Lady, Mon Amour (script), Catedral Script (calligraphic), Catedral Brush, Palm Beach (Sans, Script), Broadway (brush script), Gustavson Script (dry brush).

Typefaces from 2018: Smooth River, Chester (SVG format brush font), Lucky Bloom (OpenType SVG), Black Caviar (SVG format brush font), Empathy (SVG brush), Melvin and Emily (a wedding script font duo), Margarita (formal calligraphy), Rocked (SVG format brush font), Royal Touch, South Wind, Diplomatic (formal calligraphy), and the hand-lettered font collection (HLF Supreme, HLF Montreal, HLF Marco Polo, HLF Rockway, HLF Black Caviar).

Typefaces from 2019: Santa Fiora (an SVG font duo), Biago Serif, The Brightside, Balkan (brush script), Rosematty (wild calligraphy), Boutique in Heaven (a casual brush font), Bianca Kamelo, Stay Bright (script), White Heart (brush script).

Typefaces fro 2020: Cosmopolite (a dry brush script), Bonami (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2021: Cherion (a fashion mag serif), Fairy Spirit (reverse stress), Wistenia, Selina, Betliar (a bold display serif), Siena (a luxurious sans), Asther (a fashion mag serif), Glamy (a ligature-rich serif), Giovany (a bold display serif), Monet (a hipsterish display typeface), Hanesy, Ribolla (German expressionist), Olive Village (a decorative serif), Grande (a stylish serif), Algiers (sans), Francie (serif and script), Meraki (serif and script), Queen Victoria SVG (script), Rocked SVG, Primer SVG, Horal SVG, Magic Flower SVG (a calligraphic script), Crystal SVG, Black Caviar SVG, Perfect Moment SVG, The Bloomington, Belgravia Terrace, Maison (a stylish flared typeface), Emporio Hotel (art deco), Black Dragon SVG, Sweater, Balkan, Corinthia, Smooth River, Empathy SVG, Beach, Los Banditos (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ivan Zeifert
[Gliphmaker.com]

Ivana Koudelkova

Czech type designer (b. 1955, Prague) who studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design under the direction of Prof. Milan Hegar and Jan Solpera. Since 1994 Ivana Koudelková is working as a designer for URW++. She did numerous font localizations as well as creating Greek, Cyrillic and Devanagari alphabets for several hundred fonts. She is associated with Profonts as well.

Ivana created the formal script Ivana Script (2005, URW).

In 2012, she co-designed the grungy headline typeface Retroactive Pro with Ralph M. Unger at Profonts. Savour Pro (2013, Profonts) is a calligraphic typeface.

Ivana Kurobic

Serbian designer of the calligraphic Latin/Cyrillic script Tapija. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ivana Tubaro

Calligrapher, typographer and architect. She is onere of three partners at RTT (Ronchi Tubaro Thom), an outfit in Milan, Italy, involved in typography, graphic design and calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Iza Wilma Lima Peixoto

Iza W is a Brazilian type designer who works with Paulo W at intellecta Design. Klingspor link. She created Kocham (2008, an art deco geometric typeface with dots centered in all letters), Orchis (2006, Intellecta Design), an art deco famliy in the style of Broadway. Other fonts, done with Paulo W at Intellecta Design in 2006: Advantage, Biza, Elegancy, Estiliza, Frompac. She designed DeutschePosterSteinschrift, Alta (5 styles), Apolo Decorative (Victorian era caps), Ariana, Black, Cresciesco (roman times lettering), Drianh (late 19th century styles), Easy Callig, Evangeliaire Uncial, Geodec N9 (high contrast sans family), Glaciana (decorative caps), Grid, Half Flower 2, Laureatus (Lombardic), Malvinna, Paola Decorative (caps), Passo Borgo (the ultimate spiky dungeon family), Schneider Kontrast (a 15-style art deco and ornamental family based on F.H. Ernst Schneidler's Kontrast (1930, Weber)), and Questy (semi-slab serif) in 2007.

Productions in 2008: Basilissa (flowery caps), Calligraphia Latina Soft, Chyrllene (curly Victorian family), Clea (caps), Fridha (undrerstated and 3d calligraphy), Hostetler Kapitalen 2, Litho Romana Inland (a caps family), Ogden (calligraphic), Olivetti Typewriter (5 styles), Syl (frilly Victorian caps), Tissot (2008, fine caps), Triball (headline blackletter family), TTF TATTOEF 8 (tattoo dings). MyFonts says The mysteriously-named Iza W shares most of the development activities at Intellecta Design with Paulo W. She specializes in revivals of historic advertising types, specifically metal and wood display types of the Americas, from the early 19th to mid 20th century. and lists these fonts at the end of 2008 as having been designed by her: Advantage, Agua (2007, an extension of Heinrich Maehler's 1931 font, Salut), Alta, AltDeutsch, Anatomy, Antiqua Shaded, Apolo Decorative, Ariana, Basilissa, Biza, Black, Boliche, Bruce Borders, Bruce Flourished, Bruce Hairline, Bruce Miscelania, Bruce Ornament, Cadels, Calligraphia Latina Soft, Catania, Centennial Script Fancy (+Three), Chancelaresca Spanola, Chyrllene, Clea, Cleo (Lombardic ornamental caps), Cresciesco, Deco Experiment 2, Deco Experiment 3, Deco Experiment 4, Deco Experiment 5, Deco Experiment 6 (2007), Deco Experiment 7, Deutsche Poster Steinschrift, Donald, Drianh, Easy Callig, Egipcia, Elara (2009), Elegancy, Engel, Estiliza, Evangeliaire Uncial, Faroeste, Feosa, Figgins Brute, Fin Fraktur, Flower Essences, Flower Jars, Fofucha (2007, a psychedelic typeface modeled after Seymour Chwast's Artone from 1968), Frames 1, Francesco Decorative, Fridha, Frompac, Fry's Alphabet, Furniet Roman (2008, after Fournier), Gans Animals, Gans Carmen Adornada, Gans Cornucopia, Gans Gotico Globo, Gans Italiana, Gans Royality, Gans Sport Club, Gans Titania, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Transportation, Gans Vessels Fishes, Geodec Bruce Ornamented (2006, a tribute to George Bruce), Geodec Minuskel, Geodec N9, Geodec Petras Enhanced, Glaciana, Gloo Biloo (2010, spooky alphading face), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda, Gotische, Gotische Frame, Gottar (blackletter), Gradl Initialen, Grid, Grissom (insect dingbats), Grolier (caps), Grolier Beveled (2011, free at Dafont), Half Flower, Hannover, Hostetler Kapitalen, Imperio Romano (2009, roman heads), Intellecta Bodoned (+Two, +Trash), Intellecta Borders, Intellecta Crowns (royal crowns), Intellecta Grotesca Compacta, Intellecta Slab Bold, Intellecta Square, Intellecta Typewriter, Intellecta Typewriter 2, Japonesa (2010, oriental simulation), Julisa Script, Kocham, Latinish, Laureatus, Lettering Deco (2008, art deco, +Shadow), Litho Romana Inland, Littler Serifada, Magro, Majestade, Malvinna, Manuscript XIV Century, Merona, Missal, Monograms Soft (2010, with Paulo W), Naturella (2009, leaf and grape dingbats), Neretta (2008, +Italic), Numbers, Ogden, Olivetti Typewriter, Orchis, Palermo, Paola Decorative, Peloponeso, Porcupine, Questy, Remington Elite Typewriter, Samuello, Schneider Kontrast, Schneidler Zierbuchstablen, Schwandner Versalia (2010, ornamental caps based on an alphabet by Austrian penman Johann Georg von Schwandner), Schwandner Black Fleurons (2010), Schwandner Ornaments (2010), Selena, Sinfonia, Southern Flight, Speedball, Standard Typewriter, Suciellid, Sunamy (oriental simulation, after lettering by Ross F. George), Surrey (2008), Syl, Tissot, Tondella, Triball, TTF TATTOEF 4, TTF TATTOEF 6, TTF TATTOEF 7, TTF TATTOEF 8, Tuska, Underwood Typewriter (+Underscore), Uthan, Versatile Initials, Victorian Exotical Capitals, Warp, Woodball, Yanna, Zooth.

From 2009: Calligraphia Latina Soft3, Cantate (+Beveled), Remington Weather (old typewriter), Xyla (caps), Polen, Polen Two (2007), Arrius (calligraphic), Catilina, Pentagraph (upright connected script), Renania (calligraphic), Renania Double Line (free), Samantha (caps), Silius Engraved (caps), Stencil Intellecta (+Trash), Tatooyn, Urszula (caps), Victorio (caps), Elfort (formal calligraphy after Poppl Exquisite, a typeface by Friedrich Poppl), Pretoria Gross (2009), Holy Church (2009, blackletter), Holy Church Fleurons (2009), Single Silhouettes (2009).

Typefaces done in 2010: Penabico (a calligraphic script; with Paulo W), Baltimore Typewriter (a great typewriter family, with a black-on-white typewriter keys style added), Izouda (an art deco Broadway-style beauty), Bernardo (an italic family, with swash initials thrown in, named after Lucian Bernhard), Netuno, Supermarket (shop signage family), Bruce Influence (interpretation of Great Primer Ornamented No. 30, from the Bruce's TypeFoundry 1869 catalog), Pretoria Gross (a Victorian family done with Paulo W), Reliant (2010, with Dmitrij Greshnev: a free interpretation of Bernhard Schönschrift (Lucian Bernhard) and Liberty, which was designed by W.T. Sniffin for ATF in 1927, following the original designs by Lucian Bernhard), Reliant Limited (2012, free version).

Gostosinhos (2010) are hilarious faces put together in a dingbat font. Centennial Onaments (2010) was done with Paulo W. Calligraphic Birds is pure penmanship.

Fonts done in 2011: Ambrose Bierce Daned Font (ornamental caps), Menina Carinhosa (floriated caps), Menina Formosa (floriated caps), Menina Espinhosa (2011), Menina Graciosa Ornaments (2011, +Two), Menina Poderosa Ornaments (2011), Azalleia (floriated caps), Azalleia Ornaments, Naoko (a fantastic oriental simulation face), Bestiario (calligraphic penmanship dingbats based on the work of English writing master John Seddon, 1644-1700), Seddon Penmans Paradise Capitals (elaborate caps along the lines of Bestiario), Dolphus-Mieg Monograms (after a 1901 book by the Dollfus-Mieg company), Imprenta Royal Nonpareil, Dia de los muertos (2011), Naive Ornaments (2011), Eingraviert Dutch Capitals (2011).

Creations in 2012: Spirulina, Promotion Script, Soft Ornaments (+Two, +Three, +Four, +Five, +Six, +Seven, +Eight, +Nine, +Ten, +Eleven, +Twelve, +Thirteen, +Fourteen, +Fifteen, +Sixteen, +Seventeen, +Eighteen, +Nineteen, +Twenty, +21), Soft Garden (ornaments), The Black Shapes, Sabor Words, Sabor Digital (textured), Sabor Rasgos Escritura (upright connected script), Floreart (floral dingbats), Mirella Script (French bastarda penmanship script), Soft Flowers, Derriey Vignettes (after Charles Derriey), Gracious Azaleas (flowery dings).

Design from 2013: Bruce Ornaments Collection, Invitation Script (after the calligraphy of Andrade de Figueiredo, 1722), Mirella Initials Ornamentals (a swashy calligraphic script done with Paulo W), Menina Graciosa (ornamental caps), Menina Gostosa (Loira (caps), Morena (calligraphic), Ornamentos (floral)), Alien Trees. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Izzy Pludwinski

Israeli type designer who created these Hebrew typefaces at Masterfont: Shir MF (2002, handwriting). His calligraphy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jaafar Hamza

Hamad Town, Bahrein-based creator of an experimental and quite expressive squarish typeface in 2015. He specializes in Arabic calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jacek Machowski
[Macha]

Jack Creative

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of script typefaces. These include Cinamon (2016), Abrham (2016: specially made for signatures) and Vakia (2016: calligraphic). In 2017, he designed the script typefaces Ihlimia (swashy calligraphic), Bestari, Hi Jack and Silona. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jackson Alves
[Type Curitiba Foundry]

Jacqueline Juliet Conteh

Berlin-based designer of the curly script typeface Peppy Motion (2013). It was created during her graphic design studies. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jacqueline Svaren

Author of Written Letters 22 Alphabets for Calligraphers (1975, The Bond Wheelwright Company, Freeport, ME). Scans of some poages by Gordo. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jakob Rask Arnesen

Article in Norwegian about the life of Norwegian calligrapher and typographer Jakob Rask Arnesen, 1918-2008. A type specialist, he devoted his life to calligraphy, the development of models for handwriting in schools, and books on letterforms and type. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jamalodin
[Jamaluddin Jamaluddin]

Known as Jamaluddin Jamaluddin and Jamal Odin. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Sehia Script (2016), Shanhie Script (2016) and Wenny Script (2016), the signage typeface Brandon (2016), the vintage all caps typeface Greething (sic) Sans (2016). This 4-style family has two shadow versions. He also designed the futuristic typeface families Magneto (2016) and Electro Wave (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Melanie Script, Margetta Script, Shailena Script, Heartbeat Script, Maheisa Script (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018 include the calligraphic fonts Boutinela Script, Amira Madison Script, Cathiy Betiey, Southernbelle Script, and Miracle Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Brendisa (a calligraphic script), Dearly Rose, Gloretha, Datting Rose, Karliyna Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Bertholina (a sweeping calligraphic script), Marithonia (a tall informal rabbit eared calligraphic script), Melissa Gweny (a calligraphic rabbit ear script), Merylanie Script (a tilted script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jamaluddin Jamaluddin
[Jamalodin]

James Ivey

James Ivey's font links, with emphasis on calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

James Kilfiger
[The Difficult Type]

James Matthew "Matty" Farrow
[Matty's calligraphy]

James Mosley
[Type foundry: Italian writing masters and calligraphers of the 16th and 17th centuries]

In 2016, she designed Gorenje Script.

Jan van den Velde

Or Jan van de Velde the Elder. Famous Dutch (Belgian?) calligrapher and penman (b. 1568, Antwerp, d. 1623, Haarlem) who worked first in Rotterdam (1592-1620) and then in Haarlem (1620-1623). Author of the writing manual Spieghel der Schriftkonste in den welcken ghesien worden veelderhande Gheschriften met hare Fondementen ende onderrichtinghe. Ut ghegeven door Jan van den Velde Fransoysch-School M. binnen Rotterdam (1605, Haarlem). He wrote a second penmanship book, Exemplaer-Boec Inhoudende alderhande Geschriften zeer bequaem ende dienstelijck voor de Joncheydt onde' alien Liefhebbers der Pennen (1607, Haarlem).

Samples of his engravings: Duytsche Exemplaren (1622). Sample of his calligraphy on paper, done in Antwerpen in 1622. [Large image at the University of Amsterdam Special Collections].

His work is extended---modernized---in the extensive ligature-laden Jan van den Velde Script type family by Intellecta Design (2011) and in DTL VandenVelde (2015, Jeroen Koning). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jana Matthaeus

German photographer, regisseur and designer. Creator of these typefaces:

The free hand-drawn typeface family Paper Plane (2013).
The handcrafted Paper Banner (2013).
Sandwich Paper (2013). A sketched typeface family.
The free font Paper Daisy (2016).
The calligraphic typeface Paper Bow (2016).

Aka Maja Mint. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jana Orsolic

Serbian type designer (b. 1979, Belgrade) who graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Applied Arts (FAA) in Belgrade, the Department of Applied Graphics, majoring in Type and Book Design. She is a professor of type design and calligraphy there since 2012, after having worked there since 2005. In 2010, she obtained the Magister degree from FAA. Alongside Olivera Stojadinovic and Olivera Batajic Sretenovic one of the editors at tipometar.org.

Her first typeface was Tabula (2003).

In 2010, she designed these flowing free Cyrillic / Latin calligraphic typefaces: Lovely Audrey BG, Lovely Grace BG, Lovely Sofia BG.

At ITC as Jana Nikolic, she released the elegant informal typefaces ITC Intro (2008) and ITC Aram (2007).

The chiseled street signs in Istria inspired her to design the slab serif typeface Mermer (2019).

Linotype link. MyFonts link for Jana Orsolic. Interview in 2018. Sometag link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Japanese brush calligraphy

Japanese brush calligraphy (shodo) comes in various styles:

tensho: the style of seals.
reisho: scribe's style.
kaisho (square or block style): write one stroke after another. Time-consuming, and not often used.
gyosho: semi-cursive style, a bit less legible than kaisho, but more fluent.
sosho: cursive style, even less legible, but often used.

Materials used include the suzuri (heavy metal ink pot), the fude (brush), the hanshi (thin calligraphy paper), the sumi (solid black goo that must be mixed with water in the suzuri to get black ink), the bunchin (metal stick to keep the paper flat during writing), and the shitajiki (soft black mat). [Google] [More] ⦿

Japanese calligraphy

Introductory page with links. [Google] [More] ⦿

Japanese Calligraphy

List of books, and some history of Japanese calligrahy. By Graham Hawker. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jason Anthony Walcott
[Counterpoint Type Studio]

Jason Anthony Walcott
[JAW Fonts (Jukebox Type)]

Jason Anthony Walcott
[Jukebox Collection]

Jason Guzman

Graphic designer in Bogota, Colombia, who created the curvy semi-calligraphic typeface June (2014). Co-founder of Bastardatype in 2017. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 for BT Orca Display, a titling typeface published at Bastardatype by Jason Guzman and Sebastian Castellanos. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jason Hogrefe
[Summit Type (or: macware Inc, or: Summitsoft Corporation)]

Java Pep

Surakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of the script typefaces Humienly (2017) and Mellifret (2017). In 2018, he designed The Youther, Ruthen Back (brush script), Scary Sign (a crayon font), Hand Strike, Land of Laugh, Rough Sketch and Sunderlines.

Typefaces from 2019: Lizelie (a calligraphic script), Hallo Berthany, Kongfusher (a retro signage font), Scary Sign, Sans Andreas, Sunbathe (an elegant script), Yackien, Rhythmic, Kingfisher (a layered retro script font), Windmill, Aromatic Ginger, De Luxious, Adelica Brush, Reallishmy, Choko Milky, Balltimore (sic) Sans.

Typefaces from 2020: Pure and Lovely (calligraphic script), Pure and Lovely (calligraphic script), Aesthetica (a wild calligraphic script), Metafiz (a display didone), Magical Source (a display serif), Cagile (a 4-style Peignotian sans), Garlic, Hey Beibeh, Happy Birthday, Kirana Delova, Santiago, Expressiveness (or The Expressions), Rextions, Mendoan Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Mickstone Crush (a heavy brush script), Brilliant Grunge (a stylish serif), Craved Story (inline, 8 styles), Avegas Royale (a stylish sans), Gexo Sans (a 10-style sans), The Lord Music (a spurred inline typeface), Beyond Worth (a decorative flared typeface), Castle Rocks (an eight style display typeface with flared terminals), Keystone (a display sans), Mutually Beneficial.

Typefaces from 2022: Versatile Letters (a bold signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Javatype Studio
[Tio Yulianto]

Brebes, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of the script typefaces Marcellines (2020) and Barbassy (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Ukasyah (a heavy modern script), Maguiston (a monolinear script), The Holler (a horror brush font), Spooky Ghoster, Mozaquen (a plump poster typeface), Achandria (a retro signage or baseball script), Dilovany (a calligraphic script), Nicky Marvelo, Ballowien (a Halloween font), Loristta (a vintage monolinear font), Asittany Script (a monoline script), Cendhany (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

JAW Fonts (Jukebox Type)
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

JAW Fonts (and before that, JAW Arts Fonts, and Jukebox Type) was founded by Jason Walcott (b. Trenton, MI, 1971) from Hollywood, CA. Jason grew up in New Jersey, and now resides in Southern California. He graduated from Kean College of New Jersey (now Kean University) in 1997 with a BFA in illustration. JAW Fonts features many elegant calligraphic and comic book style typefaces. JAW Fonts ceased operation in 2003 and Jason reintroduced his collection of fonts in a revised form under the new name of Jukebox Type.

The original list of typefaces includes Acroterion JF (2002, formal script), Adage Script JF (2002, formal script), Alpengeist, Andantino (2003), AnnabelleJF (2002, a formal script), Baileywick Curly, Baileywick Festive, Baileywick Gothic, Baileywick Happy Grams (star dingbats), Baroque Text JF (2003, a great Fraktur font based on a hand-lettered alphabet drawn by Ross George), Boxer Script, Bronson Gothic, Buena Park (2001, Victorian vintage type influenced by Clarendon), Cathexis (2010, a heavy poster font), Cavetto, CharadeJF (2001, informal script), Debonair, Fairy Tale, Fanfare (2004, a bouncy serif family), Fenway Park, Friki Tiki, Geometric Soul (2004, an art deco all caps face), Gypsy Switch, Holiday Times, Hucklebuck (2003, upright connected signage face), Jeffriana, John Andrew JF, KonTiki (a family published in 2002 containing Aloha, Enchantment, Hula, Kona, Lanai, Lounge and Trader), Lady Fair, Luxury Royale (2003), Manual Script JF (2002), Martini (2004, a brush script), Mary Helen, Opulence JF (2002, formal script font), Peregroy, Periwinkle (2006), Cabernet (2006, frilly didone), Polynesian (2004, Hawaiian-look typeface that could also pass for an oriental simulation face), Primrose JF (2002, formal script), Rambler Script, Randolph, Retro Repro (2002, based on a script by Jerry Mullen from 1953), Saharan, Scriptorama (Hostess, Markdown and Tradeshow), Shirley Script JF (2003), Southland, Spaulding Sans, Stanzie, Stella Ann (2005), Stephanie Marie JF (2003), Tamarillo (2005), TwisterJF (2003), Valentina Joy, Varsity Script, Viceroy, Walcott Gothic (Fountain, Hollywood and Sunset), Groovin (2005, Umbrella Type), Wonderboy. The fonts of this West Hollywood, CA-based foundry can be bought at MyFonts.com. In 2003, he started Jukebox Type and started offering his fonts at Veer. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jukebox Type outright.

In 2005, they added Rootin Tootin (Western style), Dulcimer (soft script), Block Party, Dandelion, Marmalade (idyllic script).

In 2006, he created Jukebox Bookman, a 6-weight family, and the brush script typeface Stephanie Marie.

In 2007, he added Hellenic Wide (after a 19th century ATF font), GiggleScript JF, Savoir Faire (after a handlettered slogan in 1940 for Chesterfield cigarettes), Lollipop.

2008 additions: Hogwash (paintbrush face), Antiquities Technobaby.

2009 additions: Cynthia June (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2010: Eloquent (a didone in the style of Pistilli).

Counterpoint Type Studio was established by Walcott in 2013. In 2013, Jason designed the psychedelic typeface Califunkia and the calligraphic script typeface Profiterole. Domani CP (2013, CounterPoint)) is a faithful digital revival of an old photo-typositing typeface called ITC Didi. Originally designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnese, Domani brings to life a font that has been somewhat neglected by the digital era until now.

This is the list of fonts sold by MyFonts in 2015. It is just a subset of the fonts made by Walcott:

Jukebox Type has these typefaces:

Klingspor link. View the Jukebox Type typeface library. View the JAW Fonts typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jay Sekora
[Jay Sekora: Typography and Calligraphy]

Jay Sekora: Typography and Calligraphy
[Jay Sekora]

Jay made a free CyrillicGothic font. [Google] [More] ⦿

JB Foundry
[Jean Boyault]

JB Foundry was established by Jean Boyault (b. 1960, Suilly La Tour, France), a type designer who lives in Suilly La Tour. He is the designer of the cursive and other school fonts for teachers, all free and made in 2006-2007: JBCursive, JBEtude-Regular, JBMatrice, JBBatonRond-Bold, JBBatonRond-Extra, JBBatonRond-Italic, JBBatonRond-Regular, JBChantier, JBCursive++Feutre, JBCursive++Marqueur, JBCursive++Normal, JBFil, JBRond, JBScolaireT1-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT1-Bold, JBScolaireT1-Italic, JBScolaireT1, JBScolaireT2-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT2-Bold, JBScolaireT2-Italic, JBScolaireT2.

Typefaces made after 2007: Simple Ronde (2011, upright connected script), JB Etude (2007), JB Script (2010), JB Haut>, JB Lames (2008), JB Elegant (2008), JB Cursive, JBStyle (2008), JB Fil Std (2009) and JB Calli (2008).

Commercial typefaces: JB Davayé (2010, connected upright script), Belladone (2010, a graceful display family), Maceriam (2010, +Nova, +Putri, +Lapide: letters cemented into walls---a great idea).

From 2011: Old French School Bold (upright connected script), Filature (a monoline connected upright script).

Typefaces from 2012: Only One Dollar (a shaky script), JB Cursive 3, Purple Line, Purple Deco, Suilly La Tour, Typha Latifolia, Bouclettes (a curly upright typeface).

Typefaces from 2013: Friandise (a decorative typeface reserved for chocolate enthusiasts), Capucine (a chocolate store pair of typefaces), Cuivrerie (a flared interlocking typeface based on lapidary inscriptions found in Bourgogne), Suilly La Tour (calligraphic script), Gaston (a large script family), Typha, Centaurea (a beautifully executed layered type system based on a didone with curved serifs), Toubib (hand-printed).

Typefaces from 2014: Hirondelle (connected script), Lecteur Heureux (connected upright loopy script), Happy Reader (connected script), Hopeful Giraffe (a very tall and thin upright script).

Typefaces from 2015: HopefulGrasshopper (a fun printed script), Henri Modeste (an experimental didone typeface), Gaston (upright connected ronde script), R+C (the ultimate explicit ruler-and-compass technical drawing typeface with filled, outlined and sketched substyles).

Typefaces from 2016: Belle Allure (connected upright school script).

Typefaces from 2017: Badinerie (flowery semi-connected connected script), Badinerie Love (with hearts added), badinerie Christmas.

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Jérémie Hornus

Frenchman Jérémie Hornus studied typography at Le Scriptorium de Toulouse, France and the University of Reading, where he graduated in 2006. He worked at Dalton Maag, where he designed Tornac (which became a retail typeface in 2013 at Dalton Maag), a connected script face, and was involved in brand identity for clients such as Burberry, Toyota, HP, Nokia, Danish Industries, Dubai Metro, Manchester Metrolink, and the city of Southampton.

Currently located in Paris, he set up his own commercial foundry in 2013. He also started publishing some of his typefaces at the French type coop Fontyou in 2013. His typefaces:

Kefa (2006), a Latin/Ethiopic family with slab serif origins and a futuristic twist. Kefa is an Apple system font. In 2013, he published Kefa II Pro and in 2020 Kefa III (at Black Foundry).
Schoiffer Sans. A soft slightly flared sans inspired by Enschedé's Roman No6, also known as the Scheffers or Quentell types.
Together, Jérémie Hornus and Franck Montfermé designed the feminine italic typeface Maryleen FY (2013, Fontyou).
The connected script typeface Tornac (retail typeface from 2013 at Dalton Maag).
Beaurencourt FY (2013). A vintage 19th century connected secretary's hand script codfesigned with Gia Tran.
Booster FY (2013, with Alisa Nowak and Luis Gomes). Luis Gomes, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the rounded sans typeface family Booster Next FY in 2014.
Gauthier FY (2013, with Alisa Nowak). A transitional typeface family. In 2014, Jeremie Hornus and Julien Priez co-designed the hairline typeface Gauthier Display FY.
Lean-O FY (2013, with Alisa Nowak and Benjamin Lieb). A slab serif with leaning asymmetrical brackets. Has a hairline weight. See also LeanO Sans in 2014.
Marianina FY (2013, with Alisa Nowak). A contemporary condensed 24-style headline sans family with simple strokes. Characterized by kinks in the ascenders.
The slender display typeface Sérafine FY (2013) was co-designed by Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak.
Gregori Vincens, Gia Tran, J&eacxute;rémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the humanist sans typeface Klaus FY (2013).
At the end of 2013, Jason Vandenberg and Jérémie Hornus co-designed the groovy poster typeface Jack FY.
In 2013, he collaborated with Alisa Nowak and Fabien Gailleul at FontYou on the design of the astrological simulation typeface Astral FY. The same group of three collaborated in 2014 on Naive Gothic FY.
In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. With Midzic and Nowak, Hornus co-designed the very humanist sans typeface family Saya FY (2013) and Saya Semisans FY.
Joao Costa co-designed the thin lachrymal typeface Zitrone FY in 2014 at FontYou with Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak.
In 2014, Monica Munguia, Alisa Nowak and Jérémie Hornus co-designed the blackletter typeface Blackmoon FY.
In 2014, Matthieu Meyer, Alisa Nowak and Jérémie Hornus co-designed the wedge serif typeface Ennio FY at FontYou.
The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.
In 2014, Joachim Vu, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the classical copperplate script typeface Vicomte FY.
Wes FY (2014). A sans family modeled after Futura.
Hansom FY (2014) and Hansom Slab FY (2014, Gia Tran, Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak). An organic sans and slab with very large bowls.
In 2014, Julien Priez, Hugo Dumont, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed Rowton Sans FY, a sans family patterned after Gill Sans in six weights, from Hairline to Bold---named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, it has the Gillian lower case g but italic lowercase is a bit too far afield for my own taste, especially the squeezed g.
In 2015, Jérémie Hornus, Clara Jullien and Alisa Nowak co-designed the spurless / organic slightly inflated sans typeface family Diodrum at Indian Type Foundry.
In 2015, Jérémie Hornus and Clara Jullien co-designed Eurosoft (Indian Type Foundry). Eurosoft is an elliptical monoline techno sans typeface family that is especially attractive in the heavier weights.
Volkart (2015, Indian Type Foundry). An 18-style neo-grotesk.
At Indian Type Foundry, Jérémie Hornus and Julie Soudanne co-designed the Spencerian calligraphic copperplate style script typeface Spencerio (2016).
Tabular (2016): a monospaced programming font by Jérémie Hornus and Julie Soudanne for Indian Type Foundry.
Intercom (2016). A bare bones sans with tapered terminals and very short ascenders and descenders.
In 2016, as Black Foundry, Jeremie Hornus, Gregori Vincens, Yoann Minet, and Roxane Gataud (and possibly Riccardo Olocco) designed the free Google web font Atma for Latin (in comic book style) and Bengali.
Switzer (2015-2021, Fontshare). A free 18-style neo-grotesk, named Switzer for its Swiss style roots. The terminals are slightly rounded and the appearance is timeless. This seems to Hornus's take on Helvetica.
In 2016, Google Fonts published the free Latin / Bengali signage font Galada (2015). It is based on Pablo Impallari's Lobster (for Latin). The Bengali was developed as a studio collaboration by Jeremie Hornus, Yoann Minet, and Juan Bruce at Black Foundry in France.
In 2016, he designed the connected calligraphic script typeface Rosaline (free version at Fontshare) and the heavy slab serif poster typefaces Thug and Thug Rough for Indian Type Foundry. Github link.
In 2016, Julie Soudanne and Jérémie Hornus designed the condensed movie title and credit typeface Title.
Alpinist (2016) is a humanist sans with a small x-height optimized for magazine design and other editorial applications. The edges are slightly rounded for easy reading. Designed by Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak. Somehow, it evolved into Alpino at Fontshare.
In 2016, Gaetan Baehr and Jeremie Hornus co-designed Hate at Indian Type Foundry. This is the best Halloween and horror movie font ever made, period. The font has 510 glyphs, and each letter has three variants. Letters have spooky-looking hairs or roots sprouting from their zombie outlines.
Supreme (2016-2021, by Jérémie Hornus and Ilya Naumoff at Fontshare). A 14-style engineering sans with straight-sided almost monolinear letters.
In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Théo Guillard, Morgane Pambrun, Alisa Nowak and Joachim Vu co-designed Bespoke Sans, Bespoke Serif and Bespoke Slab at Fontstore / Fontshare. In 2020, Bespoke Stencil was added.
In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Julie Soudanne and Alisa Nowak designed the attractive titling didone typeface Zesta.
Associate Sans (2019, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak). A sans family with an American gothic look. Matching font families include Associate Slab, Associate Sans Stencil, Associate Slab Stencil, and Associate Sans Mono.
Diodrum Rounded (2020, by Manushi Parikh, Jérémie Hornus, Clara Jullien and Alisa Nowak). A spurless organic sans family.
Zodiak (2021, Jérémie Hornus, Gaetan Baehr, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Alisa Nowak, and Théo Guillard at Fontshare). A free 24-style text family with Century-like newspaper roots and sturdy bracketed slab serifs that was originally named Claire (2020).

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Jean Boyault
[JB Foundry]

Jean de Beauchesne

Influential French master penman, 1538-1620. Jean de Beauchesne and John Baildon published the first writing manual in England: A Booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the English as French secrataries with the italic, roman, chancelry&court hands (1570-1571, London: Thomas Vautrollier). In 1580, he published Le Tresor d'escriture, auquel est contenu tout ce qui est requis&necessaire à tous amateurs dudict art. His third book was La Clef de l'escriture laquelle ouvre le chemin à la jeunesse, pour bien apprendre à excrire la vraye lettre françoyse&italique (1595, London: G. Boulengier). He also published Specimens manuscrits anglais dédiés à Mme Elizabeth fille unique du roi de Grande Bretaigne (1610, England).

Sample of his batarde angloise (1570). Digital typefaces based on his examples include Piacevole (2008, Marc H. Smith). [Google] [More] ⦿

Jean Evans

Jean hails from South Carolina and studied art history at Queens College in Charlotte, NC.

Designer of Dizzy (1995), Elli (1993) and Rats (1997, with the help of Jill Pichotta) at Font Bureau. These are grunge handwriting fonts, except for the great calligraphic font Elli, originally commissioned in 1989 by the Houghton Library of Harvard University, in honor of Eleanor Garvey, curator emerita of the library's Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Rats was based on the handwriting of children's book illustrator Scott Nash: Its small body height and tall ascenders support an oldstyle spirit drawn from early second-century Roman cursive scripts. Dizzy was made for an artist's book about Dizzy Gillespie.

Creative Alliance's font Hatmaker (1996) consists of two all caps typefaces, one of which was inspired by Ben Shahn's hand-constructed alphabet.

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Jean Larcher

French type designer and calligrapher (b. 1947, Rennes, d. 2015) who worked mostly in Cergy-Pontoise. From 1962-1965, he studied typographic art in a school under the Paris Chamber of Commerce. From 1973 until 1985, Jean Larcher, who had studied calligraphy as well, worked as a freelance calligrapher in and around Paris. From 1985, he taught calligraphy both inside and outside France. He wrote several books, including Character Traits (2014). While calligraphy was his passion, Jean was also fascinated by op-art and geometric patterns. His fonts are all phototypes except for the metal font Latina.

His typefaces: Abécédaire à Renayures (1991, for Collector magazine), Beauté (1966, for Magazine Votre Beauté), Castillejo-Bauhaus (1980, Rapitype Madrid), Catich (1998), Digitale (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Gautier (1992, Agence J.-P. Gautier&Associés), Guapo (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), Hollywood Script (1989), Honolulu (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Incise Volume (1981, for Cergy Magazine), Jamaica Experience (1978, for Rock Hebdo Magazine), Lancöme (1981, Rapitype, for Lancöme), Larcher (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Latina (1987, Mécanorma), Liberté Égalité Fraternité (1985, for the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale), Logement (1980, Rapitype, for Cergy Magazine), Menhir (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), New Crayon (1980, Rapitype, for Cergy Magazine), Optical (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Plouf (1970-74, Hollenstein Phototypo), Rasgueo (1979, for U&lc Magazine), Revival (1979, for 20 ans Magazine), Soleil (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), Super Crayon (1976, Titrage CCT), Tornade (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Veloz (1987, Mécanorma), Vibrator (1976, Titrage CCT).

3D Alphabet (by Character) is inspired by an alphabet coloring book designed by Jean Larcher, 1978.

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Jean-Baptiste Werdet

Or Werdet ainé, le père Werdet, Joseph Werdet, or Joseph Verdet. French penman, b. ca. 1770, d. 1854. As a writing master, penman, school script developer and calligraphy expert, he wrote several writing manuals:

Innovation: leçons d'écriture simplifi. Paris, Werdet aîné, 1841.
Cahier complet d'écriture, contenant en soixante-douze modèles la bâtarde, la coulée, la ronde, la gothique et la cursive, avec l'explication raisonnée des principes particuliers à chaque genre et de la taille de la plume. Paris, L. Hachette, 1852, and Paris, L. Hachette, 1858.
Manuel d'écriture cursive française à l'usage des écoles primaires. Paris, Clément, 1833.
Méthode rationnelle pour l'enseignement de l'écriture, contenant les préceptes et les modàles des cinq genres: cursive, bâtarde, coulée, ronde et gothique. Paris, L. Hachette, 1840.
Modèles de Lettres.
Nouveau cahier d'écriture, composé de cent vingt modèles... avec l'exposé des principes. Paris, L. Hachette, 1847. and Paris, L. Hachette, 1858.

Werdet taught penmanship at the Kycée de Bordeaux in 1809. In 1812, he became professor at Ecole Normale Suoérieue in Paris.

One of his bâtarde copperplate calligraphic alphabets inspired Josep Patau's Werdet Script in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jean-Charles Abrial

Parisian designer of the Bauhaus-inspired Ortaki (2012, with Cyril Barrier). In 2014, he designed the display typeface Norris and the calligraphic typeface Yonne.

Jeaninne Priess

Type designer. She created EF Reimig Brush (2009, Elsner&Flake), which has a couple of grunge styles in the family as well. She also created the calligraphic EF Jeannes Script (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jean-Marie Douteau

Jean-Marie Douteau (France) made free school handwriting fonts (with and without rulers): Ecolier, Ecolier_lignes, Ecolier_court, Ecolier_lignes_court, Douteau, Obase, Odumo, Odumo Ecolier (2001-2006, calligraphic, for schools). See also here, here and here.

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Jee Sook Kim

Jee Sook Kim (Pasadena, CA, but born in Seoul, Korea) writes about his typeface Jee Sans (2012): Jee Sans is a medium weight sans serif typeface that has cursive qualities.

Behance link. He designed a calligraphic faux logo for the 19th century composer Donizetti, and shows in images how Doyald Young guided him in that design. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jeff Bensch

Ex-student from the University of Toledo, b. 1971. Creator of the flamed dingbat and alphading fonts J-Flames (2011), Up In Flames (2008), Up In Flames Too (2008), Up No Flames (2008), Flames VI (2007), Flames V (2007), Gothic Flames (2007), Roman Flames (2009), Flames IV (2007), Flamesiii (2006, blackletter), Flames 2 (2006), Flames (2005), Bensch Gothic (2008), Bensch Gothic Flames (2008). PHuture (2008) breaks with his style and is a high-contrast rounded LED simulation typeface made in 2008.

Typefaces from 2010-2011: What UP (2011, gridded), Headshot (2011), PHUTUREphlamesPHAST (2011), PHUTUREphlames (2011), Gothferatu (2010, a spiky tattoo parlour blackletter face), Skyline (2010), Hexcellent (2011).

Typefaces from 2012: Fontmageddon.

Typefaces from 2014: Bus Stop, Blockt, Skylinesketch, Fast Block Flames, Hot Librarian, Hot Secretary, UpTop, Synced, Small Tall, Bus Stop Worn.

Typefaces from 2015: Namo, Jinkeez (dripping ink font), BeWicked (script), Stout Deco (art deco geometric sans), Middle Management (thick calligraphic script), A15Bit, Tentacles, Dsplaid, 1313 Mockingbird Lane (dripping blood font), Red Velvetica Shadows Bold (Helvetica with an outline and a shadow), Rough Draught, Prosciutto Sansish.

Typefaces from 2016: Brown Bag (script).

Typefaces from 2017: Zombie Tai, Gooey Drippy Sticky, Fingerspelling, Super Skyline, Picksuhl (pixel), Stop Slant Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: Flip Clock, Spoopy, Bologna Sansish, Flip Clock Black, Flip Clock White, Runden, Time For Salad (fat rounded italic), Grabage (grunge), Sole Survivor, Capicola Sansish.

Typefaces from 2019: Shocktober (a dripping blood Halloween font), Puck Man (Pacman font). [Google] [More] ⦿

Jeff Kichang Kim
[Rojotype (was: Kikichi Factory)]

Jeff Levine
[Jeff Levine: Additional typefaces]

Jeff Levine: Additional typefaces
[Jeff Levine]

This is a list of fonts by Jeff Levine not categorized anywhere else on my pages.

A: Adelanto JNL (2009), Adhesive Letters JNL (2011), Adhesive Serif Letters JNL (2015), Adventure Film JNL (2021: a casual sans based on the titles and credits for Texas Across the River, 1966), Afternoon Edition JNL (2015), Air Circus JNL, Aisle Seats JNL (2006, based on letters cut by the Redikut Letter Company of Hawthorne, CA), Album Cover JNL (2008), Alleway JNL (2012, a condensed sans), Allograph JNL (2007), Alphacal JNL (2008, outlined, and like Juneway JNL, based on water-applied decals once made by the Duro Decal Company (now Duro Art Industries) of Chicago), Alton JNL (2010: a bold display sans), Amateur Printer JNL (2007, grunge), Ampersorts JNL (2011: ampersands), And So Forth JNL (2011), Anecdote JNL (2009), Announcement Board JNL (2018: white-on-black), Antique Packaging JNL (2019: Victorian), Antique Price Tags JNL (2019), Arcaro JNL (2013, a calligraphic typeface based on the movie credits of the ABC TV series Naked City, 1958-1963, starring detective Frank Arcaro), Antique Show Card JNL (2018: based on an alphabet from the first Speedball Lettering Book in 1915), Arch Creek JNL (2010, an all caps revival of Beton), Ardball (2006), Arrevederci JNL (2018), Arrow Callouts JNL (2021: an arrow-themed alphading font), Art Deco Monograms JNL (2015), Arte Critique JNL (2009), Artist Colony JNL (2009), Arts District JNL (2014), Art Student JNL (2010), Art Techno JNL (2017), Astrospy JNL (2008: techno), Awkward Gothic JNL (2008), Axelby JNL (2013).
B: Backpage Article JNL (2010), Bal Harbour JNL (2008), Balcony Seats JNL (2007, narrow retro sans), Ball Game JNL (2018), Bandmaster JNL (2021: based on the opening movie titles from the 1940 musical comedy Strike up the Band starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney), Barricade (2011, a great shadowed caps face), Bayview JNL (2008, based on Inland Type Foundry's Studley), Best Bet JNL (2014, a slab serif redesign of Beton), Bike Decals JNL (2008), Billing and Shipping JNL (2010), Bingo Player JNL (2010), Birch Beer JNL (2008), Bitmap Typewriter JNL (2017), Bit Part JNL (2017: extra condensed), Bit Player JNL (extra-condensed tall poster font) (2015), Bloktor Mosaik JNL (2007), Blue Parrot (2006), Bluesman JNL (2014: based on the lettering of the blues album "I'm Jimmy Reed" released on the legendary Vee-Jay label out of Chicago), Bold Display Sans JNL (2016: based on an imge in a Speedball book), Bonehead JNL (2013, bones), Bookkeeper JNL (2019: based on R. Hunter Middleton's slab serif, Karnak), Bookkeeping JNL (2019, like an extra bold version of R. Hunter Middleton's slab serif Karnak (1936)), Boss Jock JNL (2021: an informal font based on the title and credits from the 1965 film Strange Bedfellows), Box Lunch JNL, Brass Rail JNL (2015), Brazil Nut JNL (2015), British Cinema JNL (2021, based on the hand lettered titles and credits from the 1945 British film The Way to the Stars), British Vehicle JNL (2020; based on the UK license plate font created by Charles Wright in 1935; with Ahmed Eraqi), Broadcast JNL (2015), Broadletter JNL (2009), Brochure Sans JNL (2022: based on Sans Serif No.7 from the 1921 Miller & Richard type specimen book), Brogado (2006), Brookside JNL (2016), Brushmark JNL (2011), Brush Off JNL (2017), Bulk Weight JNL (2017), Bum Steer JNL (2015), Burger Joint (2006), Burger Royale JNL (2007), Burlesk Queen JNL (2020: blocked letters), Business Helpers JNL (2014), Business Letter JNL (2021: based on the squarish typeface Geometric in the 1894 catalog of the John Ryan Foundry in Baltimore, MD).
C: Calendar Blocks JNL (2009), Calling Card JNL (2010), Callouts JNL (2011, in Circle and Square styles; white letters on black background), Canby (2006, a squarish caps face), Candle Wax JNL (2014, based on the movie poster for Bell, Book and Candle starring James Stewart), Cast And Crew JNL (2015, condensed monoline), Cast Shadow JNL (2010), Casual Lunch JNL (2009), Casual Friday JNL (2008, roman lettering), Casual Tune JNL (2015), Catalog Serif JNL (2015), Catalog Sheet JNL (2022: based on an extra condensed serif typeface from the 1892 MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan type foundry specimen book), Catch Words JNL (2009), Channel Tuning JNL (1999), Channel Surfing JNL (2010), Charlies Bar BQ JNL (2008, heavy slab serif), Charmer JNL (2014), Chive Turkey JNL (2007), Chunky Nouveau JNL (2020), Circuletter JNL (2016), Ciribiribin JNL (2014), Classification JNL (2015), Classroom JNL (2009), Cling Vinyl JNL (2009), Coal Train (2004), Cocktail Hour JNL (2016, a beatnik typeface based on the opening title for the 1962 Blake Edwards film Days of Wine and Roses starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick), Coffee Bar JNL (2021: a squarish typeface), Coldfield JNL (2008), College Nouveau JNL (2018), Colmar JNL (2018), Columnist JNL (2020, after Morris Fuller Benton's News Gothic, 1908, ATF), Commentary JNL (2010, almost typewriter type---easy on the eye), Composer JNL (2017), Concierge JNL (2014), Conscription JNL (2017), Corkboard JNL (2010: a rounded all caps family), Cornfield JNL (2008), Crepe Paper JNL (2018), Criminal Intent JNL (2018: based on the trailer of the 1942 movie Mr. and Mrs. North), Crown Heights JNL (2007, slab serif caps), Cruise Director JNL (2021: an inline typeface based on a hand-lettered title on the poster for the 1933 musical comedy film Melody Cruise), Courtship JNL (2018), Cover Letter JNL (2019), Curtain Up JNL (2018), Cyberglass (2010, techno), Cybrox JNL (2012, grunge).
D: Dance Hall JNL (2011), Dance Lesson JNL (2015, a wedge serif in the style of Latin Wide), Rotisserie Menu JNL (2021: based on a 1928 menu for the restaurant Rotisserie Du Cardinal), Dangits JNL (2009), Danish Script Initials JNL (2019, based on letters designed by Copenhagen-born industrial artist and letterer Gustav Boerge Jensen (1898-1954), Date Book JNL (2021; based on the credits of the movie The Awful Truth, 1937), Decal (2006), Decalcomania JNL (2017), Deco Of Tomorrow JNL (2014), Deconstructed JNL (2012), Decorative Panels JNL (2009), Deco Template JNL (2018: squarish), Deerfield JNL (2006, Bank Gothic style), Department Store JNL (2019), Desk Jockey JNL (2008), Deskplate JNL (2011: an all caps copperplate font), Desk Job JNL (2018), Detective Client JNL (2021: based on the cast credits of the 1941 film, The Maltese Falcon), Detention JNL (2007, hand-printed), Diamond Callouts JNL (2019, letters in triangles), Diamond Jim (2010), Diamondwood JNL (2015, rhombic), Dip Pen JNL (2017, rounded, handcrafted), Disclaimer JNL (2010, condensed thin headline face), Display Board JNL (2020: based on Paul Renner's Futura Display from 1932), Display Inline JNL (2009), Displayced (2006, LED font), Display Roman JNL (2014), Doggone It JNL (2019: based on the movie posters for the 1962 film, Mono Cane), Do It Yourself JNL (2008), Doo Wop Initials JNL (2007), Doowop (2006), Dormitory Decals JNL (2009), Double Take JNL (2008), Drafting Class JNL (2021: based on an all caps alphabet in The Essentials of Lettering by Thomas E. French and Robert Meiklejohn (circa 1912)), Dreamy JNL (2017), Dual Line Roman JNL (2021: an inline titling typeface), Duonor JNL (2010), Durable JNL (2016, based on a 1940s cover of a catalog for the Duro Decal Company of Chicago).
E: Eastport JNL (2019: an interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton's 1931 classic, Stymie Extra Bold), Eat More Fruit JNL (2016), Eccentric Sans JNL (2018), Edessa JNL (2009: chiseled stone look, faux Greek), Editorial Comment JNL (2009, grotesk caps-only headline face), Edits and Credits JNL (2008), Egg Farm JNL (2021: based on the opening titles and credits of the 1947 film comedy The Egg and I), Electric Newspaper JNL (2021: a dot matrix font based on the moving message board electric newspaper from 1931 installed by the Los Angeles Times---in partnership with the Richfield Oil Company---on its building), Electrostatic JNL (2017, textured), Elite Resort JNL (2017, slab serif), Elsinor (2006), Endless Journey JNL (2009), Ensemble Inline JNL (2014), Entitled JNL (2007, squarish as in Bank Gothic), Evening Edition JNL (2009), Evening Event JNL (2021; based on hand lettering from the title credits for the 1950 film All about Eve), Evening Paper JNL (2015), Evening Walk JNL (2018), Expressions (smilies).
F: Factual JNL (2010,headline face), Fairgrounds (2006), Fancy Free JNL (2016: decorative caps), Fancy Show Card JNL (2021), Farragut JNL (2008, hairline geometric), Fastenating JNL (2012, paper clip font), Federal Agent JNL (2021: a condensed typeface based on the opening title of the 1959 premiere season of The Untouchables), Feltboard JNL (2008), Fence Post JNL (2012), Festival Nights (fancy letters), File Clerk JNL (2020, Jeff Levine: based on Cushing (1897)), File Folder JNL (2010, Bank Gothic style family), Film Crew JNL (2009), Fincastle JNL (2011, all caps sans titling face), First Responder JNL (2017: a left-slanted version of Catalog JNL), Flagstaff JNL (2010), Flatbush Beanery (2006), Flipboard JNL (2011), Flivver (2006, a slab-serif display font), Floor Tiles JNL (2009), Florida (2006, retro), Food Vendor JNL (2011), Fordham JNL (2011, all caps slab serif), Formal Invite JNL (2021: thin, condensed serif lettering found in a 1937 magazine ad for Chris Craft boats), Formal Notice JNL (2020: a revival of an alphabet by Samuel Welo in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers), Frankly Plain JNL and Franky Ornate JNL (2010, all caps typefaces after Franklin Gothic), Frantic Pace JNL (2016, a bouncy retro party font), Free Form Retro JNL (2021: an all caps sans based on the titles and credits from the 1960 French film Le Passage Du Rhin), French Calligraphic JNL (2019), French Cinema JNL, French Serif Moderne JNL (2009), French Slab Serif JNL (2018: based on the 1934 French lettering instruction book L'Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre), French Song JNL (2021: a whimsical typeface based on the titles and credits of the 1952 British comedy Song of Paris), Freunlaven JNL (2006, psychedelic), Front Row JNL (2017: a tall condensed typeface that reinterprets Morris Fuller Benton's Empire from 1937), Fruit Juice JNL (2020), Fun and Games (2011, a casual retro typeface redrawn from the lettering found on the cover of a 1935 Speedball Lettering Pen book).
G: Gene Condensed JNL (2014), Generic Sans JNL (2022: modeled after Condensed Blair from the 1907 specimen book of the Inland Type Foundry), Generic Gothic JNL (2013: an interpretation of Franklin Gothic Condensed), Genesee JNL (2010), Gift List JNL (2016), Gift Wrap JNL (2014), Gilbert JNL (2011, after Eric Gill's sans), Go Home JNL (2017), Good Sport JNL (2019), Goose Creek JNL (2021: based on hand lettered credits from the 1942 British film comedy The Goose Steps Out), Go To Town JNL (casual inline type style) (2015), Gothic Grotesk JNL (2020; a revival of Royal Gothic (1930s, Stevens, Shanks & Sons), which in turn was based on Charter Oak (1899, Keystone Foundry)), Greenwich Village JNL (2014), Groovy 3D Caps JNL, Groovy Happening JNL (2005, psychedelic, in the style of Action Is), Groovy Summer (2006, a casual sans), Guadalajara JNL (2014, a Mexican party font), GummedAlphabet JNL (2011), Gummed Letters JNL (2010).
H: Halavah Twist JNL (2007; see also its extension Zydeco JNL in 2009), Hallandale (2006), Halliday JNL (2013: an outlined typeface based on Beton Open Condensed), Handbills And Posters JNL (2015), Handmade Caslon JNL (2015), Handmade Dropshadow JNL (2010), Handmade Gothic JNL (2011, inspired by lettering samples in a 1941 Speedball Lettering Pen instructional booklet), Handmade Headline JNL (2018: a 1940s style typeface), Handmade Roman JNL (2011), Hand Stamped JNL (2006, rubber stamp look), Hanford (2010, a sans headline family), Hash and Beans JNL (2007), Headstone Roman JNL (2015), Hectonoid JL (2008), Heller Sans JNL (2019: after an experimental alphabet by Steven Heller), Highbrow Cafetorium JNL (2009), Hippie Comics JNL (2021: based on poster lettering in the 1920 edition of How to Paint Signs and Sho Cards by E. C. Matthews), Home Address JNL (2019), Home Economics JNL (2018), Home Room JNL (2009), Horse Puckey JNL (2008), Hotel Suite JNL (2017), Hoxie JNL (2008).
I-J: Impecunious JNL (2017), Impressionable JNL (2012, based on a rubber stamp set), Incarceration JNL (2020), Industriality JNL (2015), Informational Gothic (2013: The Wood-Regan Instruments Company (Wrico) of New Jersey manufactured for decades a line of lettering kits called the Wrico Sign Maker. With only special ink pens, plastic templates and a template guide anyone could letter clean, clear signs, posters and notices. This typeface is based on one of those kits), Informational Sans JNL (2021: squarish, caps only), Initial Seals JNL (2012), Inkpad Letters JNL (2011), Inline Lettering JNL (2011, inspired by the opening title of a classic 1940s horror film, The Invisible Man's Revenge), Inlet JNL (2017), Inline Square JNL (2017), Innerspring JNL (2015), Intermediate JNL (2019: based on a home movie titling kit from circa the 1950s or 1960s called the Magna Tech Titler Number 312, modeled after Futura Bold), Interoffice Memo (2011), Intrigue JNL (2014, based on the hand-lettered movie titles from one of the William Powell / Myrna Loy Thin Man series of films), Island Time JNL (2015), Jalopy (2014), Jive Jump (2006), Jobseeker JNL (2011: hand-printed), Juneway (2006, modeled after a set of water-applied decals made by the Duro Decal Company of Chicago), Jungle Drums JNL (2017, African theme), Junior Printer JNL (2015), Just Great JNL (2016: angular display typeface).
K-L: Katydid JNL (2015, a connect-the-dots typeface), Katz Pajamas JNL (2017), Keyden Drop Caps JNL (2021: a set of slab serif framed capitals based on John Alden Initials, shown in the 1906 edition of the Keystone Type Foundry specimen book), Key Largo JNL (2011, all caps slab serif), Lakeland JNL (2013), Kiddie Blokz JNL (2010), Kids Activities JNL (2017, handcrafted), Lamp Post JNL (2012, an interpretation of Post Old Style, ca. 1901), Last Date JNL (2018), Lasting Impression JNL (2008), Late Breaking News JNL (2016, headline sans), Late Hours JNL (2021: inspired by the hand lettered titles for the 1961 film The Children's Hour), Lecture Hall JNL (2012), Lefferts (2006, squarish display face), Legal Brief JNL (2021), Legal Eagle JNL (2017, with engraved lines), Les Folies JNL (2009, Victorian), Lettering Lesson JNL (2021: a bold serif typeface based on the 1922 instructional booklet from the St. Louis Show Card School), Lettering Pen JNL (2015, handcrafted), Library Book Initials JNL (2018: Library Book Initials JNL was modeled from examples of Sidney Gaunt's Publicity Initials; originally sold in metal type by Barnhart Brothers and Spindler as a companion to the Publicity Gothic typeface), Liebestraum JNL (2014, a decorative caps font), Limited Appeal JNL (2016), Linem Up (2010), Lobby Card JNL (2010), Local News JNL (2021: a condensed sans based on the hand lettered title for the 1954 film Power of the Press), Location JNL (2017), Longbranch Initials (2006, for decorative monograms), Longacre JNL (2013, fat rounded sans), Long And Thin Initials JNL (2015), Loose Leaf JNL (2010), Love Notes JNL (2011: alphadings), Luminum JNL (2007).
M: Made in Japan (2014), Mailbox Letters JNL (2008), Main Feature JNL (2017, a marquee sans), Mainline JNL (2014), Manual Typewriter JNL (2017: allegedly after a 1933 example by Morris Fuller Benton), Manufactory JNL (2019, a wedge serif not unlike the ones used in advertizing in the late 19th century), Manufacturer JNL (2020: a reinterpretation of the Extra Bold Extended weight of Bauersche's Venus Grotesk (ca. 1907)), Marble Cutter JNL (2015, based on dies used for stamping text into marble headstones or other monuments manufactured by The Vermont Marble Company (Vermarco), which operated from the 1880s until 1976), Marching Band JNL (2019), Margate JNL (2013, based on water-applied decals manufactured in 1962 by the American Decalcomania Company for Goodyear), Marketing Strategy JNL (2017), Marking Device JNL (2014), Maryland JNL (2014), Matchbook JNL (2014: based on lettering on a matchbook from the Carrousel Restaurant in Miami Beach), Mayville JNL (2009), McCadden JNL (2013, inspired by the hand-lettered credits for the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show [1950-1958]), Meal Ticket JNL (2008, squarish), Merchandiser JNL (2010), Merchandising JNL (2014, brush signage script), Merchant Trade JNL (2020, after the Matthews Series by Inland Type Foundry, 1901), Merrymakers JNL (2020), Midnite Movie JNL (2017, inspired by the hand lettered title credits from the 1961 Hammer Pictures film Curse of the Werewolf), Millport (2006, squarish display face), Mimeograph Template JNL (2019: based on a plastic lettering guide manufactured by the Albert Blake Dick Company of Chicago), Misdirection JNL (2009), Mixed Messages JNL (2007, ransom note), Mocombo JNL (2010, an African look typeface that is a slightly modified version of one of the numerous alphabets created by the late Alf R. Becker for Signs of the Times Magazine during the period of the 1930s through the 1950s), Model Railroad JNL (2015), Moderator JNL (2013), Modern Appliances JNL (2014), Monoline Rounded JNL (2014), Monster Movies JNL (2018: a Halloween font), Monthly Meeting JNL (2013), Monthly Newsletter JNL (2011), Monthly Statement JNL (2018: based on the 1934 French lettering instruction book L'Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre), Morning Edition JNL (2021), Morning Paper JNL (2015), Morningside Heights JNL (2015), Morningstar JNL (2012, named after Jeff's friend, Estella Dawn Roberts of Stella Roberts Fonts), Movieland JNL (2008), Movie Night JNL (2011), Movie Set JNL (2021: an all caps wedge serif based on a 1911 movie poster for the film How Bella Was Won), Movie Show JNL (2021: an all caps wedge serif based on a 1911 movie poster for the film How Bella Was Won), Moving Message JNL (2015, dot matrix typeface), Musical Arrangements JNL (2014), Musical Comedy JNL (2021: hand-printed), Musical Score JNL (2015), Music Course (2019), Mystery Show JNL (2018: modeled after the hand lettered titles found on various early episodes of the 1950s TV suspense program Alfred Hitchcock Presents).
N: Naroid Initials JNL (2010, one of the most ultra-compressed sets of initials available in digital type), Narrow Minded JNL (2014), National Spirit JNL (2009), Newark JNL (2014: a strong slab serif), New Car Tag JNL (2020: based on the new license plates in Florida, which were introduced in 2018), Newsbreak JNL (2008), Newsbreaker JNL (2016; a vintage newspaper titling typeface), News Crew JNL (2017), Newshawk JNL (2007, a condensed sans), Newspaper Publisher JNL (2021: based on a headline in the 1917 edition of Logansport, Indiana Pharos-Observer), Newsprint JNL (2011), Newsreel Caps JNL (2014), Newsreel Text JNL (2021), News Ticker JNL (2021: based on the New York Times Square ticker operational in the 1930s), Newsworthy JNL (2011: a condensed headline sans), New Thin Roman JNL (2019, based on an alphabet called Compressed Roman in Essentials of Lettering, 1912), Nightcap JNL (2011), Nighthawk JNL (2009, a retro headline sans), No Entry JNL (2021: a bold blocky slab serif based on the hand lettered titles and credits from the 1958 war film The Young Lions), Nondescript JNL (2012), Nouveau Date JNL (2021: arts and crafts style), Nouveau Fashion JNL (2018), Nouveau Spur JNL (2019: neither art nouveau nor spurred), Nouveau Standard JNL (2018), Nouveau Handlettered JNL (2017), Nouveau Lettering JNL (2019, based on a 1916 slab serif alphabet by Thomas Wood Stevens), Nouveau Romance JNL (2017), Nouveau Roundcorner JNL (2015), Nouveau Square JNL (2017, squarish), Nouveau Standard JNL (2018), Nouveau Work JNL (2018), Nouveau Years JNL (2019), Nouveau Yorke JNL (2015), Novelty Nouveau JNL (2021), Now Playing JNL (2010).
O: Oblogram JNL (2008, techno), Occidental Tourist JNL (2009), Odditype JNL (2006, computer simulation), Off Duty JNL (2021: based on the hand lettering from the titles and credits of the 1964 French film comedy Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez), Office Staff JNL (2021: a version [with serifs added] of Popularity JNL---a condensed art deco design based on a popular typeface known as Radiant), Office Space JNL (2021: based on Condensed Edina from the 1921 Miller & Richard type specimen book), Office Work JNL (2021: a squarish typeface based on the title and credits of the 1965 film Mirage), Off The Wall JNL (2008). Old Bodoni Wide JNL (2016), Old Songs JNL (2018), Old Tijuana JNL (2018: in the serape style of pseudo-Mexican lettering found on ad designs of the 1930s and 1940s), Order Form JNL (2021: after MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan's Lining Gothic Extended from their 1892 catalog), Ordinary Gothic JNL (2017: gaspipe style), Outline Sans JNL (2018), Overnight JNL (2017), Oversimplified JNL (2019), Overton JNL (2017, based on early letter designs of Rudolf Wolf).
P-Q: Pacific Atoll JNL (2021: a stylized slab serif type design based on the movie title lettering for the 1942 wartime film Pacific Rendezvous), Pacific Island JNL (2017: a tiki font based on the sheet music cover for the title song from the 1957 Marlon Brando movie Sayonara), Packaged Cookies JNL (2021; based on the first Oreo Sandwich package from 1923), Packaged Goods JNL (2016), Park Slope JNL (2014), Parfum de Paris JNL (2014), Paint Store JNL (2006), Parking Lot Sale JNL (2021: a flag font), Parkitechture (2006), Part and Parcel JNL (2009), Partial Eclipse JNL (2012), Patriotica JNL (2011, American flag face), Pavement JNL (2010, based on the extra-condensed lettering used on roadway information signs as revised by the U.S. Government in 2000), Pendraw Roman (2006), Pen Elegant JNL (2018, after an alphabet from a 1918 lettering instruction book by William Hugh Gordon), Pen Gothic JNL (2017: a rounded sans), Penmanshift JNL (2006, ronde style), Pen Nib Square JNL (2019), Penny Wise JNL (2017), Pen Sans Rounded (2019: based on a Speedball book from 1940), People Talk JNL (2021; a squarish all caps typeface based on a title card with cast credits for the 1935 movie The Whole Town Talking starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur), Performer JNL (2014, re-drawn from condensed hand lettering found on a piece of vintage sheet music), Personal Invitation JNL, Personalization (2019: a squarish typeface), Personal Note JNL (2011), Photo Developer JNL (2021), Picz JNL (2009), Pillow Puff JNL (2008, fluffy and cloud-like lettering), Pistol Twelve JNL (2008), Pitkin JNL (2006, a hand-lettered sans), Plastic Display JNL (2010, sketched from photo examples in an old sales promotion sheet for the Movitex Do-It-Yourself Plastic Sign Kit by Pryor Marking Products of Chicago), Plastic Template JNL (2011), Pleasantville JNL (2012, a condensed slab serif), Pocket Initials JNL (2008), Podunk JNL (2007), Political Poster JNL (2021: a condensed casual sans inspired by the hand lettering on a 1940 campaign poster for Franklin Delano Roosevelt), Pool Deck JNL (2015), Popstix JNL (2013), Pop Tune JNL (2014), Popularity JNL (2014, after Radiant), Port Of Call JNL (2015), Postal JNL (2009, white on black, as on stamps), Poster Contoured JNL (2018), Poster Pen JNL (2017), Poster Inline JNL (2014), Poster Plain JNL (2012), Poster Project JNL (2020), Post Production JNL (2021: a slab serif modeled after title card of the 1950 Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame drama In a Lonely Place), Prehysteric JNL (2010), Presentation JNL (2011, a slabby family), Press Run JNL (2015, a reinterpretation of the classic typeface Cheltenham Condensed), Pricing Labels JNL (2010), Printed Letters (2006, made from stamped impressions made by a 1940s childrens sign making set), Printing Set JNL (2006, based on a rubber stamp alphabet), Printing Sorts JNL (2009), Prismatiq JNL (2009, shadow face), Privilege Sign JNL (2021: based on above-the-store signage for many newspaper stands, soda shops, candy stores, luncheonettes and pharmacies of the 1950s and early 1960s), Privilege Sign Two JNL (2021: based on decorative signage for many drive-ins, motels, food stores and other businesses of the 1940s), Promotional Copy JNL (2012), Proofreader JNL (2011, a rounded slab serif face), Prospect Heights JNL (2015), Public Notice JNL (2009), Public Transportation JNL (2008), Public Utility JNL (2012), Public Works JNL (2007: emulates the hand-cut lettering silk screened onto metal), Publication JNL (2010, a revival of DeVinne, 1890), Punch Tape JNL (2016, dot matrix font), Quick Meal (2019: a hand lettered interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton's 1905 design Miehle Extra Condensed Title), Quick Poster JNL (2019), Quick Response JNL (2015, based on QR codes), Quick Titling JNL (2019), Quorfid JNL (2010).
R: Raccoon Coat JNL (2014), Radio Interference (2019: grungy), Radio Show JNL (2019: based on a logo from the TV show Car 54 Where Are You?), Rail Bum JNL (2016, basically Morris Fuller Benton's Hobo with slab serifs added), Railway Station (2019: a spurred wedge serif), Recording Artist JNL (2019), Record Jacket JNL, Recreation JNL (2013, outlined shadow face), Red Border Labels JNL (2015), Rendering (2011, architectural draftman's lettering), Reprint JNL (2013), Restaurant And Lounge JNL (2015, handcrafted), Retail Merchant (2006), Retail Monoline JNL (2021: a stylish thin headline typeface), Retail Packaging JNL (2019), Recruitment JNL, Retail Price JNL (2021, +Inline; for catchy price cards), Retail Shop JNL (2018: based on vintage New York City neon signage), Retirement JNL (2021: a flared headline typeface based on the hand lettered film credits for the 1937 movie Make Way for Tomorrow), Retro Packaging JNL (2018), Retro Resort JNL (2011), Reveler JNL (2019), Reverberation JNL (2011, horizontally striped face), Reverse Calendar Blocks JNL (2011), Rhineland Roman JNL (2017), Ritz Slab Serif JNL (2018), Road Picture JNL (2021: modeled after the hand lettered title and credits for the 1940 Bob Hope-Bing Crosby semi-musical comedy Road to Singapore), Roadside Diner JNL (2021: a signpainting font in the style of pre-war Miami), Rockaway JNL (2006, titling sans), Rock Concert JNL (2021; an all caps curly Victorian typeface inspired by the opening title and credits for the 1964 motion picture comedy Send Me No Flowers starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall), Roma Initial Caps JNL (2009), Rotisserie Menu JNL (2021: based on a 1928 menu for the restaurant Rotisserie Du Cardinal), Rough Print JNL (2012, rubber stamp lettering), Roundpoint Pen JNL (2011, based on instructional lettering found in an old Speedball Pen textbook), Roughshod (2006), Running Board JNL (2017, monoline, pen-lettered), Rural Route JNL (2010), Rustic Inn JNL (2014).
S: Salad Bar JNL (2013), Sales Convention JNL (2021: a squarish typeface based on a menu printed in 1937 for the Starlight Room of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City), Sales Pitch JNL (2014), Sales Slip JNL (2013), Sandcastle JNL (2011), Sans Poster Bold + 3D, Savings And Loan JNL (2014), Scandals JNL (2017), School Project JNL (2015, based on self-adhesive poster board letters once made by the E-Z Letter Stencil Company and sold under the name Quik Stik), Schoolroom JNL (2020: a school font based on the type style used for the Superior Sign and Chart Printer No. 929), School Age (2019: based on Trixy Toy Educator, a 1930s-era set of letters and numbers for teaching children, manufactured by the Durrel Company of Gardner, MA), Schoolyard Blues JNL (2018), Sea Cruise JNL (2015), Scoreboard JNL (2014: dot matrix typeface), Screentext JNL (2010, pixel), Screenwriter JNL (2021; based on the all caps hand lettered credits from the 1950 Humphrey Bogart film In a Lonely Place), Second Guess JNL (2017), Second Impression JNL (2008), Sennetarium JNL (2008, after lettering in a Charlie Chaplin movie), Semi Calligraphic JNL (2018), Sentzoff Coupon (2006, stitched), Series A Signage JNL (2018: this is based on Highway Gothic, also known as FHWA, by the United States Federal Highway Administration; the widths varied from A (condensed) to F (wide), but A was discontinued, hence the motivation to create Series A Signage), Serif Callouts JNL (2017), Sew What JNL (2010, stitching face), Shareholder JNL (2015), Shelf Numbers JNL (2008), Shelf Tags JNL (2017), Shicken Zoop JNL (2008, Hebrew), Shipping Carton JNL (2012), Sign and Poster JNL (2009, die-cut letters), Sign and Display JNL (2019: a companion of Sign and Poster), Shopkeeper JNL (2010, after a a vintage rubber stamp sign and chart printing set), Shopping Guide (2019), Short Subject JNL (2016, based on some hand-lettered title cards from various vintage Columbia Pictures two-reel comedies), Show Card Freehand JNL 2021; based on the title and credits for the 1951 Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming film Cry Danger), Show Card Pen JNL (2021: based on an alphabet in the 1920 edition of How to Paint Signs and Sho Cards by E. C. Matthews), Show Card Sans JNL (2021: based on an alphabet in the 1922 book Modern Show Card Writing), Showmanship JNL (2017), Show Poster JNL (2021: A vernacular typeface based on a design from the 1960 edition of Samuel Welo's Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers), Shutterbug JNL (2021: a blocky typeface based on the signage of Jerry Lewis's Camera Exchange on Vine Street in Hollywood in 1950), Sightseeing Boat JNL (2021: based on the titles and credits for the 1966 romantic comedy The Glass Bottom Boat), Sign Expert JNL (2021: based on an alphabet in The Expert Sign Painter, 1922), Sign Studio JNL (2019: a multiline typeface modeled after an alphabet found in Martin Meijer's Album de Lettres Arti (1949)), Sign Template JNL (2015, based on one of the many plastic lettering guides manufactured by the now-defunct Wright-Regan Instrument Company also known as Wrico), Silent Film JNL (2021: a display slab serif used by the Uptown Theater in Wichita, Kansas, in 1928), Silent Movies JNL (2021; a rounded monolinear sans of the interbellum period), Silly Behavior (2019: a shaded bouncy letter font that revives a 1930 alphabet from 100 Alphabets Publicitaires dessinés par M. Moullet), Simplicity JNL (2014), Simply Grotesk JNL (2012, Peignotian), Simply Nouveau JNL (2017), Slab Compact JNL (2019), Sleuth JNL (2013, after the trailer for the 1936 movie After The Thin Man), Slim Chance JNL (2015, an ultra-narrow font based on an image of vintage packaging for Aquapruf Ear Drum Protectors), Slim Nouveau JNL (2017), Snack Shop JNL (2007, the retro diner look in a bold outline face), Snorkel JNL (2014), Snow Job JNL (2017, inspired by the hand-lettered titles for the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated holiday classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer), Socialite JNL (2009), Soda Fountain JNL (2015, bilined), Solid Serif JNL (2014), Songbook JNL (2014), Song Composer JNL (2017), Song Merchant JNL (2017), Song Plugger JNL (2014), Song Publisher JNL (2015), Song Stylist JNL (2016), Song Vendor JNL (2017), So Unusual JNL (2021: based on the hand lettered credits for the 1942 film comedy I Married a Witch), Southwest Serenade JNL (2015), Special Edition JNL (2021: based on a newspaper headline font used in 1924), Specimen Book JNL (2020: based on Lining Antique (1889. Illinois Type Foundry) and Central Lining Antique (1892, Central Type Foundry)), SplintersJL (2004), Sporting Event JNL (2021: a slab serif based on the title and credits of a British boxing film from 1953 called The Square Ring), Sportsboard JNL (2020: a flipboard font), Sport Shaded JNL (2009), Spring Fashion JNL (2010), Spring Season JNL (2020: textured caps), Spur Handlettered JNL (2008), Squarity JNL (2008), Stage Production JNL (2020), Stage Show JNL (2021: based on the movie credits for 9 Garcons...Un Coeur starring Edith Piaf), Stamp of Approval JNL (2007), Stamped Metal JNL (2012, beveled), Starlight Sans, Stationer JNL (2018), Stellator JNL (2006, a high-tech modular font), Stenographer JNL (2021: close to Bank Gothic Condensed), Stickball JNL (2017), Stonecut JNL (2014), Store Clerk JNL (2020: outlined), Store Tags JNL (2011), Streetcar JNL (2019: a vintage railroad wagon lettering font), Streeter JNL (2013, based on Beton Bold Condensed), Stylish Title JNL (2021: based on the cover title of the July 1935 issue of Harper's Bazaar), Subscription JNL (2018), Summer Holiday JNL (2021; based on the hand lettered production credits for the 1930 film Holiday), Summertime Breeze JNL (2021: based on the opening title sequence for the 1958 film The Long, Hot Summer), Sunlight JNL, Sunny South JNL (2015), Sunshine Susie JNL (2018), Supporting Cast JNL (2011), Surf Bum (2019), Swing Band JNL (2013: inspired by the title lettering from "Hi-De-Ho", a 1930s all-black cast film starring legendary bandleader Cab Calloway), Swing Vote JNL (2020: a beatnik font).
T: Tabloid Edition JNL (2021: based on a headline newspaper font from UK's Daily Mail in 1918), Tabloid News (2019: an all caps condensed slab serif), Tabloid Press JNL (2015), Take Charge JNL (2016, based on the opening title card for the 1936 film The Charge of the Light Brigade starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp and David Niven), Tallahassee Chassis JNL (2007, modeled from a toy rubber stamp set imported from Japan), Tall And Narrow JNL (2015), Tamiami JNL (2009, Victorian, known as "Cuba"), Tea Bag JNL (2013), Tea Time JNL (2014), Technerd JNL (2011, a thin technical/mechanical face), Technopen JNL (2013: a rounded techno sans from a 1929 instructional booklet for the Esterbrook Drawlet Pens), Teenagers JNL (2021: a beatnik font that was inspired by the hand lettered opening credits for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, a teen-oriented television comedy that ran from 1959 to 1963 on CBS), Teen Years JNL (2021: a blocky sans inspired by the hand lettered name for the Joyce Records label (circa 1956)), Template Basic JNL (2021: a simple sans), Template Sans (2019: based on a lettering template by the Wright-Regan Instrument Company (Wrico)), Template Shadow (2019), Tenement JNL (2020: based on a Cooper Black style alphabet by Harry Lawrence Gage that was shown in Thomas Woods Stevens's book Lettering (1916)), Terrace JNL (2015), Terror JNL, That Stuff JNL (2009), Theater Lights JNL (2014), Theater Tickets JNL (2021: Based on the marquee signage for Detroit's Majestic Theater built in 1934), Theatrics JNL (2009, 3d face), Thin Mint JNL (2011), Thinly Disguised JNL (2016), Three Day Pass JNL (2009), Tiler JNL (2012, a gridded face), Title Block Sans JNL (2011, an avant-garde titling face), Too Much Information JNL (2007), Top Billing JNL (2008, dot matrix), Top Forty (2019: handcrafted), Topographic Sans JNL (2018: a mapmaking sans featured in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers topographic drafting manual), Toucan Tango JNL (2007, multiline face), Tough Guy (2006, shaded titling face), Tough Stuff JNL (2008), Toy Decals JNL (2018), Toy Letters JNL (2018: based on die-cut letters and number by Village Toys (circa 1930s or 1940s)), Toyprint JNL (2009, grunge), Trade Journal JNL (2010), Trade Printer JNL (2007, Victorian-era sans emulation), Train Car JNL (2021: based on the hand-lettered opening credits of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951)), Transactive JNL (2007, dot matrix), Transcendental JNL (2017), Tribal Council JNL (2011, jungle lettering with a linocut look), Trilium JNL (2010, triline face), Tropicano JNL (2013, a wavy typeface), Tunesmith JNL (2014, Victorian), Twelve Oaks (2006), Two Cents Plain JNL (2012), Two Reeler JNL (2006; see also its follow-up typeface Positive Vibe JNL, 2007, both modeled after title cards of an early Charlie Chaplin movie), Two Step Nouveau JNL (2018), Type Catalog (2011, bilined all caps face), Typemonger JNL (2022: based on Two Line Sans Serif from the British type specimen book of Vincent Figgins (circa 1860)), Typesetter JNL (2011), Type Vendor JNL (2012), Typewriter Sans JNL (2015), Type Wronger JNL (2013, old typewriter typeface).
U-V: Unpretentious JNL (2014), Urmeba JNL (2012, named after amoebas and co-designed with Ray Larabie; a barf font), Used Cars (2012), Utica JNL (2010, squarish all caps face), Vacation Resort JNL (2021: based on the hand lettered cast and production credits for the 1942 musicl comedy Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire), Vaudevillian JNL (2017), Utility Signage JNL (2017), Vehicle JNL (2010, a condensed block font as for car plates), Vendor JNL (2010, Victorian era ribbon face), Vertical Roundpoint JNL (2011, found in a 1941 edition of the Speedball Lettering Pen instruction book and re-drawn digitally by Jeff Levine), Victorian Typewriter JNL (2020), Vintage Designs JNL (2009, dingbat which has some fists), Vintage Price Tags JNL (2015), Vododeo JNL (2014).
W: Washington Heights JNL (2016), Wavely (2010), Weekend Date JNL (2020), Weeneez JNL (2011, wiener-shaped glyhs), Welcome Home JNL (2009), Werble JNL (2010), What A Night JNL (2018), Whoosh JNL (2007), Wild About Myself JNL (2015), Willoughby JNL (2006, based on 1950s toothpaste lettering), Window Sign JNL (2013), Wine Cellar JNL (2014), Winery JNL (2012: a soft-serifed caps face), Winkle Picker JNL (2021: a cut paper font based on the 1963 movie poster for an Italian documentary called Sexy Nudo), Winter Garden JNL (2017), Wireline JNL (2021: a paperclip font), Wire Mesh JNL (2009), Work Force JNL (2011), Wynwood JNL (2009).
X-Y: Yankee Doodle Boy JNL (2017), Yard Sale JNL (2013), Yargo JNL (2009, hand-printed), Yayazout JNL (2008, fun titling face), Yorso Square JNL (2007).
Z: Zera JNL (2007, intersecting rings), Zodor JNL (2010), Zoning Department JNL (2012), Zydeco JNL (2009).

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Jellyka (was: Cutty Frutty)
[Jey Stevens]

Quebec-based creator (b. 1991) of the handwriting or script fonts Jellyks King's Hat (2012), Jellyka Delicious Cake (2011, calligraphic), Jellyka Lucky Day (2011), Jellyka Vampire Street (2011), Jellyka Western Princess (2010), Jellyka Wonderland Wine (2010), JellykaCuttyCupcakes (2010), Jellyka Wonderland Wine (2010), Jellyka BeesAntique Handwriting (2010), Le Grand Saut Textual (2010), Le Grand Saut (2010), Gare de Chambord (2009), Jellyka - Love and Passion (2009), Jellyka Waterways Seafarers (2009), Love and Despair (2009), Saint Andrew's Queen (2008: great!), Jellyka---Nathaniel,-a-Mystery (2008, connected hand), Jellyka Estrya's Handwriting (2008), Jellyka-Evan-&-Estrya (2008, grunge), Jellyka Endless Voyage (2008), Jellyka Castle's Queen (2008), CuttyFrutty (2007), Ellianarelle's Path (2007, hand-printed), Jey (2006) and Jellyka Jellyfish (2005, handwriting).

Dafont link. Other names used by her: Jey d'Edvikhan and Jellyka Nerevan. Another URL. Yet another URL. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jen Maron

Codesigner with Dathan Boardman of the connected calligraphic script typeface Velvet Hammer (2014). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jenna

Calligraphic blog and calliggraphy service in Brooklyn, NY. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jenna Rainey

Calligrapher and illustrator and the artist behind Mon Voir studio. Her signature lettering style led Dathan Boardman to develop that into the calligraphic script Mon Voir (2016). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jennifer DeAngelis
[Design 23]

Jenny Ambrose

Los Angeles-based creator of the calligraphic poster Shit Will Alays Butt Out (2012).

Jeremy Dooley
[Insigne Type Design Studio (was: Dooley Type)]

Jeremy Vessey
[Pixel Surplus]

Jeroen Koning
[De Aesthetische Dienst]

Jerry Berg
[Art and Sign Unlimited]

Jerry Campbell

Detroit-based designer and calligrapher. Designer of ITC Isbell (1980-1981) together with Dick Isbell. Jerry has worked for over 50 years in Detroit, where he designed the lettering for Cadillac. An anecdote from Susan Skarsgard: At one point, Jerry saw an ad from Signature Software for having a font made out of one's handwriting for about 99 dollars. Jerry sent in his "sample", and he received his font in the mail. Some time later, he noticed his own beautiful handwriting in a national ad campaign for Buick, and realized that Signature Software must have done something underhanded. Soooo, lucky Jerry cashed in from Buick. That font is now called Camelot.

Jerry Kelly and Alice Koeth

Editors of "Artist&Alphabet : 20th Century Calligraphy&Letter Art in America", a nice book on calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jerry Landers
[Mouser Fonts]

Jess Latham
[Blue Vinyl]

Jessica Barron
[Jessica Barron Designs]

Jessica Barron Designs
[Jessica Barron]

Meridian, ID-based designer of the upright rabbit ear ronde typeface Swirl (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische was born in Charleston, SC, in 1984. She is a Brooklyn-based hand-letterer and illustrator, who has worked for clients such as Tiffany&Co., Victoria's Secret, American Express, Target, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Chronicle Books, Random House, and Penguin Books. Blog. She created various calligraphic and hand-lettered scripts such as Valentine Script (2009), Buttermilk (2009, a calligraphic connected script) and New York Times Buzzwords (2009). Creations in 2010: Snowflake, Snowflake ornaments. Typefaces from 2011: Bryan Who (quaint, antique). Fonts made in 2011: Brioche (a dessert menu script face).

She also has a site called Daily Drop Cap Cap, in which she adds a free drop cap every day (but this lasted four days only).

Her drop caps typeface family Minot (2013) and her initals Penguin Drop Caps (2013: a series of twenty-six collectible hardcover editions of fine works of literature, each featuring on its cover a specially commissioned illustrated letter of the alphabet by Jessica in collaboration with Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley) won awards in 2014 at the Communication Arts 4th Typography Competition: 2014.

In 2014, Jessica Hische created the script typeface Tilda at Font Bureau for Moonrise Kingdom.

Klingspor link. MyFonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jessica McCarty
[Magpie Paper Works]

Jessica McCarty
[Rare Bird Font Foundry]

Jessika Granell
[The Paper Town]

Jesús Eladio Barrientos Mora
[Talavera Type Workshop]

Jey Stevens
[Jellyka (was: Cutty Frutty)]

JH Fonts
[Joe Mahfouz Hatem]

Joe Hatem (JH Fonts, Beirut, Lebanon) is a part time lecturer at Notre Dame University Beirut. He created these Arabic typefaces in 2013: JH Amira, JH Beirut, JH Firas, JH Farid, JH Dalya, JH Paola, JH Khalil (squarish), JH Hala, JH Diwani (a calligraphic font that took three years to complete; see also JH Diwani Simplified Light released in 2019), JH Fares (a modern Kufic font). In 2015, he made the Arabic typefaces JH Thuluth, JH Dima and JH Diwani Thuluth, and the children's (Latin) handwriting font JH Lea Cursive.

Typefaces from 2016: JH Naskh Expanded (extended by JH Naskh Expanded light in 2021).

Typefaces from 2017: JH Rawan (a geometric font), JH Lina Magazine, JH Hadi.

Typefaces from 2018: JH Lina, JH Roy, JH Farid, JH Fadi, JH Rawan, JH Hala, JH Mars, JH Lea (connected monoline script), JH Nazih, JH Yara.

Typefaces from 2020: JH Fatina (a superb Arabic typeface family with covering the Sounboli, Naissabouri, Diwani and Thuluth calligraphic scripts), JH Zoya Cyrillic (a monoline school script for Latin and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2021: JH Haroun (a calligraphic Thuluth script), JH Noha (a geometric Arabic typeface family).

Behance link. Facebook link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jhoen Studio
[Fajar Diansyah]

Aceh Besar, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) who designed the calligraphic typefaces Ambulane, Merpati, Namila, Mayda, Garlic, Amanda, Mackarel (watercolor brush style), Mandar, Known, Familiar, Formulir and Gourami in 2016.

Typefaces from 2017: Qalinda (calligraphic), Marshanda (calligraphic), Bonito (striped), Advantages (calligraphic script), Daydream, Meushiume (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2018: Ranthani. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jill Bell
[Jill Bells's Cyberstudio]

Jill Bells's Cyberstudio
[Jill Bell]

A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles-based Jill Bell has worked as a graphic artist, primarily creating letter forms, logotypes, signage, calligraphic elements, icons, and handwriting pieces, starting ca. 1980. At one point, she worked as sign painter in a shop and as a production artist for Saul Bass.

Original fonts and artwork by Jill Bell include It's A Breeze, ITC Clover (1997), ITC Gigi (1995), ITC Hollyweird (1995), ITC Carumba (1995), ITC Caribbean (1996), ITC Smack (1995, ink-stain typeface), ITC Stranger (1997), Jill's Miro, Bruno (handwriting font), Swank (2000, Agfa: a fuzzy-edged calligraphic font).

At TypeCon 2016 in Seattle, she had a timely talk: The Best of Clients at the Craziest Time: Hand-lettering & Font Design for the Trump Hotels. The abstract: It began with creating a logotype for The Spa by Ivanka Trump. The lettering was so well received by Ivanka, their ad agency and others running the Trump hotel empire that Bell's lettering quickly became the de facto style for their current advertising and branding: from hand-lettered headlines to a font to be used throughout the Trump hotels.

Autobiography. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jillian Adel

Print and web designer in Brooklyn, NY. Home page. The project Oiseaux Retro (2011) is based on the art nouveau period and the 1974 French flick, Emmanuelle, and resulted in a great calligraphic poster by the same name. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jim Ford
[VersaType]

Jim Lyles
[Stiggy & Sands]

Klingspor link. ContentDM collection. Jim Rimmer at the Fine Press Book Association. Rimmer Type Foundry link.

Jim Rimmer

Jim Rimmer (b. Vancouver, 1934, d. 2010) was one of the great contemporary type designers whose creations had a lot of flair, individuality, and charm. Based in New Westminster (near Vancouver, BC), Jim Rimmer was also an illustrator. Obituary in the Globe and Mail, dated April 27, 2010.

He designed Albertan (Albertan No.977, Albertan No.978 Bold) and Cloister (2000; a roman type family originally done by Morris Fuller Benton) in the Lanston collection. He also designed typefaces like Juliana Oldstyle (1984), Nephi Mediaeval (1986), Kaatskill (1988; a 1929 typeface by Goudy, revived and optimized for Lanston in type one format; the Kaatskill Italic was done by Rimmer based on Goudy's Deepdene), RTF Isabelle (Roman and Italic; 2006. A pair of delicate serif typefaces based on typefaces by Elizabeth Friedlander) and Fellowship (1986).

ATypI link. Jim began work as a letterpress compositor in 1950. He entered the field of graphic design in 1963, working as a designer lettering artist and illustrator, and freelanced in this capacity from 1972 to 1999 in the same capacity. In 1960, he began collecting letterpress printing and typefounding equipment, and operated a private press and foundry (Pie Tree Press&Type Foundry). FontShop link.

His metal typefaces at Pie Tree Press include:

Juliana Oldstyle (1981; McGrew says 1984): It represents my first attempt at cutting a metal type. I drew my letters completely freehand, hoping to capture a punchcut look. My artwork was then reduced and made into a dry transfer sheet, which I rubbed onto type-high typemetal blanks. I then cut the letters and electroformed copper matrices.
Nephi Mediaeval (1983, for private use; McGrew gives the date 1986): It was inspired by the Subiaco type of the Ashendene Press and by its inspiration, the type of Sweynheym and Pannartz. My design breaks away from those types slightly in form and is softer in general feeling. In time I will cut other sizes.
Fellowship (1984; McGrew says 1986). Designed and cut by Jim Rimmer, and cast by him for private use: The design is the result of the feeling of joviality and 'fellowship' I experienced at the meeting (American Typecasting Fellowship in Washington, D.C.). The design was not so much drawn as it was written. The letters were written quickly in a calligraphic manner with an edged pencil and then enlarged and inked to make a dry transfer sheet. As in my two previous designs (see Juliana Oldstyle and Nephi Mediaeval), Fellowship was cut not in steel, but in type metal, and then electroplated to make castable matrices.
Albertan 16pt, 1985
Garamont [not entirely sure that this was done in metal]
Cartier Roman 14pt, 2004
Cree Syllabic 14pt, 2006
Duensing Titling 12, 14, 18, 24, 36, 48&60pt, 2004-07. Duensing in use.
Hannibal Oldstyle 18pt, 2003
Quill 14pt, 2006
Stern 16pt, 2008. This was his last completed typeface.

In 1970, Jim made his first film type, Totemic. This sturdy text type was revived in 2015 by Canada Type as Totemic, and contains as an extra a et of stackable totems.

Jim has designed and produced a collection of digital types, and over the past 20 years has designed and cut six metal types. He recently completed a Monotype Large Comp type named Hannibal Oldstyle, is currently cutting 14 point matrices for Cartier Roman, and is making drawings for the cutting of a 14 point Western and Eastern Cree. Samples and discussion of his Cree typeface.

Jim in action in 2003. According to Gerald Giampa from Lanston, Jim is the most talented type designer alive in 2003. About his typefaces, I quote McGrew: Fellowship was designed and cut by Jim Rimmer in Vancouver in 1986, and cast by him for private use. He says, "The design is the result of the feeling of joviality and 'fellowship' I experienced at the meeting (American Typecasting Fellowship in Washington, D.C.). The design was not so much drawn as it was written. The letters were written quickly in a calligraphic manner with an edged pencil and then enlarged and inked to make a dry transfer sheet. As in my two previous designs (see Juliana Oldstyle and Nephi Mediaeval), Fellowship was cut not in steel, but in type metal, and then electroplated to make castable matrices." Juliana Oldstyle was designed and cut in 1984, as a private type. He says, "It represents my first attempt at cutting a metal type. I drew my letters completely freehand, hoping to capture a punchcut look. My artwork was then reduced and made into a dry transfer sheet, which I rubbed onto type-high typemetal blanks. I then cut the letters and electroformed copper matrices." Nephi Mediaeval was designed and cut in 1986, for private use. He says it "was inspired by the Subiaco type of the Ashendene Press and by its inspiration, the type of Sweynheym and Pannartz. My design breaks away from those types slightly in form and is softer in general feeling. In time I will cut other sizes."

In 2012, Rimmer Type Foundry was acquired by Canada Type. The press release: Canada Type, a font development studio based in Toronto, has acquired the Rimmer Type Foundry (RTF) from P22 Type Foundry, Inc. The RTF library contains the complete body of work of Canadian design icon Jim Rimmer (1934-2010), who was an enormous influence on Canadian type design and private press printing, and the subject of Richard Kegler's documentary, Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century. The RTF library contains many popular font families, such as Albertan, Amethyst, Credo, Dokument and Stern, as well as quite a few analog designs that were never produced in digital. Now that Rimmer's work has been repatriated, it will be remastered and expanded by Canada Type, then re-released to the public, starting in the fall of 2012. Jim's analog work will also be produced digitally and available to the public alongside his remastered and expanded work. Once Jim's designs are re-released, part of their sales will be donated to fund the Canada Type Scholarship, an award given annually to design students in Canada. This will be done in coordination with the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), the national professional association that awarded Jim Rimmer with the prestigious GDC Fellowship in 2007.

Jim Rimmer digitized Elizabeth (+Italic). From 2006 until 2012, the Rimmer Type Foundry collection was offered by P22. It included:

RTF Albertan: A great text family developed between 1982 and 2005. In 2013, it as remastered by Canada Type and reissued as Albertan Pro, calling it a first post-Baskerville-post-Joanna typeface.
RTF Alexander Quill: An artsy fartsy (in the good sense) and slightly 1920s Czech type family.
RTF Amethyst: A tall ascender serif family.
RTF Cadmus: A stone slab or Greek simulation face. P22 writes: Rimmer's re-working of a design done by Robert Foster, a hand lettering artist. Foster's type, named Pericles, is a style that he used for a time in lettering magazines and advertising headings. The design is based closely on early inscriptional Greek, but is less formal than the sans types of Foster's time. Cadmus keeps the proportions of Pericles but is overall less quirky than the Foster design. This was further expanded by Canada Type as Cadmus Pro (2016).
RTF Cotillion (1999): A tall ascendered Koch inspired sans family. Looks quite like Bernhard Modern.
RTF Credo: A six-weight sans family.
RTF Dokument: An extensive sans family: Dokument was my attempt to make a Sans Grotesque in the general weight of News Gothic (for the Dokument regular) but took nothing from News Gothic. I used some of the basic forms of my Credo series, but made many on-screen changes and broke away entirely from Credo on the range of weights. My plan was to make a typeface that will fill the requirements of financial document setting; things like annual reports and other such pieces of design. It is my hope that the large family of weights and variants will suit Dokument to this kind of work. This family was created in 2005 and published in 2006. A reworking by Patrick Griffin at Canada Type eventually led to Dokument Pro (2014).
RTF Elizabeth: An elegant tall ascender typeface about which Rimmer writes: Elizabeth Roman and its companion Italic were designed as a pair by Elizabeth Friedlander, and cut and cast for decades by the historic Bauer foundry of Germany.
RTF Fellowship: A standard script.
RTF Lancelot Titling: A roman titling typeface with Koch-like influences.
RTF Lapis: A calligraphic serif, inspired by Rudolf Koch.
RTF Posh Initials: A formal script.
RTF Poster Paint: A fat irregular poster font inspired by Goudy Stout.
RTF Zigarre Script: A bouncy brush script with rough outlines.
RTF Canadian Syllabics (2007): This font was developed as a metal typeface by Jim Rimmer for a special project and is now available in digital form. Containing over 700 glyphs in OpenType format, this font covers most Canadian Aboriginal Languages. RTF Canadian Syllabics is a more calligraphic version of the syllabary developed by Reverend James Evans for the languages of the native tribes of the Canadian provinces in the early 1800s. Jim Rimmer originally designed the characters for the Eastern and Western dialect Cree to be cut as a metal font. The digital version then grew to include all the characters of the Canadian Syllabics Unicode block.
Nephi Mediaeval (2007), a type heavily reflective of the semi roman of Sweynheim and Pannartz (in Jim's words).
Stern (2008, RTF) was simultaneously released both digitally and in metal. Named after the late printer Christopher Stern (WA), it is an upright italic intended for poetry. Colin Kahn (P22) has expanded the Pro digital version (originally designed by Jim Rimmer) for a variety of options. The set features Stern Aldine (Small x-height Caps with standard lower case), Regular, Tall Caps (with standard lc)&Small Caps with x-height caps in place of lc). Youtube. David Earls writes: I've heard people say that letterpress gives warmth, but I prefer to think of it as giving humanity. That the types interaction on a page is so dependent on the punch cutter, the caster, the compositor, the printer, the humidity, the papermaker and inkmaker gives it a humanity, not a warmth, and decries the demise of letterpress. In 2013, Canada Type remastered Stern as Stern Pro---this typeface now covers Greek, and is loaded with Opentype features.
RTF Loxley (2010): The style of Loxley is based on early Roman typefaces, such as the "Subiaco" type of the late 1400s that was also inspirational to Frederick Goudy for his "Franciscan", "Aries" and "Goudy Thirty" type typefaces. Loxley displays some of Jim's particular left handed calligraphy and is in a similar style to his "Fellowship" and "Alexander Quill" typefaces, both of which were made in metal and digital formats. In 2013, Canada Type published a remastered and expanded version simply called Loxley.

FontShop link.

Jim Rimmer passed away early on January 8, 2010. His friend Richard Kegler (P22) wrote this obituary the next day: Jim was a multi-talented type designer, graphic artist, bookbinder, printer, letterer, technician and a most generous teacher. He was never glory-seeking and turned down most speaking engagements offered to him, not out of vanity or indifference, but rather thinking that he was not worthy of being given a spotlight. Jim offered free typecasting instruction to anyone who asked and came to visit him in his studio in New Westminster BC. He took as much time as needed and was generous to a fault. Anyone who took him up on this open invitation can attest to the intense and elegant chaos of his studio and work habits. I was fortunate enough to know Jim but for only a few years. What started as a business arrangement grew into a mutual respect and ongoing correspondence that I can only describe as life changing for me. His kindness and generosity were exceptional and his diplomacy even when given the opportunity to speak ill of anyone else was measured and kind. Jim's dedication to the craft of type design and related arts was beyond most if not all contemporaries. After his "retirement" from his professional life as a graphic artist and illustrator, he tirelessly worked on type designs for book projects where all aspects of his skills were applied. His book "Leaves from the Pie Tree" (I encouraged him to change the title from his original plan to call it "Droppings from the Pie Tree"...a truly self-effacing Jim Rimmerism) is the best single tome that summarizes his life and work. He designed the book�s typeface in Ikarus (as he had with the 200+ other type design he created), cut the matrices and cast the type, wrote the text using an autobiographical introduction and continued to explain the process he used to cut pantographic matrices for his metal typefaces. The multi-colored lino cut illustrations, book design, individual tipped in sheets and attention to press work and binding would be impressive for one specialist to complete on each component. The fact that Jim did all of this himself is awe inspiring. A trade edition of this book has been printed by Gaspereau press but does not hint at the grandeur of the beautiful book that is Pie Tree. Jim's follow up of his edition of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (set in his Hannibal Oldstyle font designed for and fitted onto on a monotype composition caster) was recently completed and is equally if not more imposing as a fine press book, but with a sympathetic humor and humanity that would knock the stuffing of any other fine press attempt at the same material. Almost two years ago I visited Jim for a week and filmed footage for a documentary on his cutting of the Stern typeface. For various reasons the finishing of the film has been delayed. I truly regret that Jim could not see the finished version. With the film and his Pie Tree book, Jim generously conveys information on making metal type that has otherwise been largely lost and previously limited to a now defunct protective guild system. It was his wish that the information and craft be kept alive. Jim's last email to me was in classic Jim form hinting at his tireless dedication to his work: details of a new type family for a new book. He was one of the great ones. He will be missed.

Sumner Stone: Jim's insights into Goudy's typefaces in particular, and his devotion to doing everything in his own shop made me think he was perhaps Fred's reincarnation, but it took me awhile to realize this due to the self-deprecating personality you so accurately describe. His passing is truly a great loss to our craft.

Rod McDonald: I would like to relate a telephone conversation I had with Jim last month because I believe it shows his incredible spirit, and wonderful sense of humor. My wife and I visited Jim in November and were delighted to hear that his doctors had pronounced him cancer free. He looked good, just a little tired, but that was to be expected after his recent radiation treatment. Of course he was also anxious to get back to work. Less than two weeks later I received an email from him informing me that they had discovered that the cancer had spread to his lungs and, not only was it inoperable, he now only had six months to live. This sudden turn of affairs was devastating for me and I called him, hoping I think, to hear that it wasn't as bad as it sounded. He said it was bad and apparently nothing could be done. However he felt he would outlive the six months and in fact we even talked of getting together in the fall. The conversation then turned to his latest type family and when I gently asked him how long he thought it it would take to complete he simply said "I've got lots of time, after all I'm only going to be dying during the last fifteen minutes". I knew Jim for thirty-five years and will miss him more than his work, and that's saying a great deal.

In 2012, Canada Type, which had purchased Rimmer's designs started publishing some of Jim's lesser known designs. These include Cotillion Pro (2012, a very graceful typeface with high ascenders), Fellowship (2013, calligraphic), Poster Paint (2012, a take on Goudy Stout), Zigarre Script and Zigarre Rough (2012, brush scripts that were actually drawn with a marker), and Alexander Quill (2012, a calligraphic monastic typeface).

In 2013, Canada Type remastered several of Rimmer's typefaces, including in particular Isabelle Pro: Isabelle is the closest thing to a metal type revival Jim Rimmer ever did. The original metal typeface was designed and cut in late 1930s Germany, but its propspects were cut short by the arrival of the war. This was one of Jim's favourite typefaces, most likely because of the refined art deco elements that reminded him of his youthful enthusiasm about everything press-related, and the face's intricately thought balance between calligraphy and typography. Not to mention one of the most beautiful italics ever made. Lancelot Pro (2013) is a calligraphic all caps typeface based on Rimmer's digital original from 1999.

Pictures: Jim Rimmer casts 48pt ATypI keepsake (by John Hudson), Remembering Jim Rimmer (Facebook group), In his studio, a picture taken by the Globe and Mail. Another pic. Making Faces (trailer) (movie by Richard Kegler).

View all typefaces by Jim Rimmer. An alphabetical listing of Jim Rimmer's typefaces. Catalog of Jim Rimmer's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jim Wasco

Type designer who worked at Adobe from 1989-2002 and for Monotype from 2003 until today. His typefaces in chronological order:

1974 to 1989: As a freelance, he assisted Jim Parkinson in the Cochin, and Kennerley revivals, an old Perspective metal type design, and Rolling Stone alphabet additional weights Elephant, Italics and Condensed, done in pen and ink. For several ad agencies, he designed the Franzia winery logo, and many other logos for packaging and advertisementsi and was mainly a lettering a logo artist.
1985: He produced font designs for DHL Express and SFO International Airport at Primo Angeli Inc.
1986 to 1989: He produced various font families like Garamond, Goudy, Eras, American Typewriter, Futura and Stymie at SlideTek using a B-Spline vector graphic system.
1989 to 2002: He produced fonts at Adobe Systems in Redwood City, CA. There, he designed Tekton Bold, Mythos (1993: a mythical figure caps face done together with Min Wang), Tekton GX (with David Siegel), Waters Titling word ligatures. He designed and produced the Romaji Latin characters of Heisei Maru Gothic W4 and W8, Adobe Sans and Adobe Serif. He did font production work on ITC Garamond, ITC Cheltenham, Albertus, Castellar. He helped expand Adobe Originals to Pro character sets in Jenson Pro, Minion Pro, Kepler, Sanvito Pro, Cronos, and Calcite Pro. He played an important role in the production of Multiple Master fonts.
2003 to present: He produced fonts at Monotype Imaging:
- For Microsoft, he designed the family of five weights of Segoe based on Segoe Regular.
- He directed design production and programmed OpenType features for Segoe Script and Segoe Print.
- He designed Wasco Sans a font for the gaming and flight simulator groups at Microsoft.
- He designed AT&T Sphere Gothic Sans fonts.
- He designed a new slab serif family for Gatorade.
- He directed a new design for General Electric called GE Sans.
- He designed and directed production of various non-Latin scripts for Monotype for Armenian, Ethiopic, Khmer, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and African language scripts including Tifinagh, N'Ko and Bamum.
- He designed the original geometric sans font family Harmonia Sans (2011), which is a blend of contemporary geometric sans serif lettershapes and classic calligraphic proportions. Jim Wasco was aided by George Ryan in the production of the typeface family. He said: I wanted to create a simple and legible typeface by pulling the best aspects of classic geometric sans designs, such as Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
- He directed a language expansion project for Edward Johnston's London Transport fonts, adding Cyrillic and Greek.
- He designed a script typeface based on Ed Benguiat's calligraphy for the ITC logo in 1970 called Elegy (2010-2011). Elegy has 1546 glyphs, and was awarded at TDC2 2011.
- He designed nine new weights for the Neue Aachen font family (2012) expanding it to 18 fonts including Italic.
- He designed swash caps and directed Morris Freestyle.
- He designed ITC Avant Garde Pro ligatures for the new OpenType version.
- He designed Baskerville Cyrillic and Greek for E reader fonts (2012).
- Daytona (2015) is a sans family that grew out of a desire to provide improved fonts for use in televised sporting events.
- Elicit Script (2018, by Laura Worthington and Jim Wasco). A hybrid (casual and formal) scrpt typeface based on pointed pen Spencerian Script handwriting.

Linotype link. Linotype interview. FontShop link. Pic. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled OpenType features for Script Typefaces. Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jimi-neko
[Anton Drachuk]

Jimi-neko is a collaboration of Anton Drachuk and Jadwiga Krym offering expertise in various disciplines, such as graphic design, film-making, typography, lettering, print design, street-wear design, advertisement as well as corporate identity design and user experience design. It is located in Poznan, Poland.

In 2012, Anton Drachuk was a calligraphy and graphic design student in Poznan. He designed Crimée (2012, a fresh blackletter typeface), and Sankakkel (2012, a geometric typeface for Latin and Cyrillic).

Anton's graduation typeface in 2013 was Bertau.

Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

JLH Fonts

JLH Fonts (or: jhnri4) is the American creator of Making a list checking it twice (2012), Judges (2012, grungy), Janitor (2012), Remix (2012), Arrows (2012), Chalk Line Outline (2012), Pretzel (2012, art nouveau titling face), At Sign (2012), Portmanteau (2012), Seattle Avenue (2012), Sunflower Harvest (2012), Double Strike (2012: a hand-drawn blackboard bold typeface family), Sierra Nevada Road (2012), The Radical Sign (2012), The Jewish Bitmap (2012), The Inequality Grapher (2012), Thin Pencil Handwriting (2012), Marker Scribbles (2012), Grunge Handwriting (2012), Tally Mark (2012, prison wall counting), Gold Plated (2012), Overhaul (2012), Apex Lake (2012, ornamental caps), Halogen (2012, in the style of Comic Sans), Signs For Advertising (2012), and Hand Drawn Shapes (2012).

Typefaces from 2013: Vengeance (calligraphic), Calligraserif, Heavy Equipment (sans caps), ViaFont (art deco sans based on the Viacom logo), Bromine (a typeface that started out in iFontmaker), Topeka, Printed Circuit Board (based on the Hewlett-Packard logo), Fondue, Northampton, World Tour (ransom note font), Aquifer (an antiqued Garamond), Floppy Disk.

Typefaces from 2014: Scratched Letters, Airbrush, Broken Glass (glaz krak font), Byzantine Empire, Office Junk (ransom note font).

Dafont link. Old Fontspace link. Blogspot link. Google Plus link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Joachim Vu

Type designer who contributed to FontYou. In 2014, Joachim Vu, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the classical copperplate script typeface Vicomte FY.

Janko FY (2014, FontYou) is an informal calligraphic typeface.

In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Théo Guillard, Morgane Pambrun, Alisa Nowak and Joachim Vu co-designed Bespoke Sans, Bespoke Serif and Bespoke Slab at Fontstore / Fontshare. In 2020, Bespoke Stencil was added. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Joan Lundell

Designer in Portland, OR, where she studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Joan drew a calligraphic penman script unfortunately called Grunge in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Joana Maria Correia da Silva
[Nova Type Foundry]

Joanne Hewitt
[Joanne Marie]

Joanne Marie
[Joanne Hewitt]

Joanne Hewitt or Joanne Marie. Chester, UK-based designer of these commercial (mostly script) typefaces in 2015: Rebel, Hide Away, Strangelove, Artful Beauty, Alamanda (calligraphic script), Joella Brush, Springer, Featherly (a "wedding swash font"), The Artist (brush script), Artist Brush Script, Stephen Type (a signature script), Joanna Marie Script, Joanna Marie Calligraphic, Dreamy Script, Paddy (handwriting font), Violet Bee, Queen Caps, Twingo (rough-edged serif typeface).

Typeface from 2016: Benedict, Mistress Benedict, Birthday (calligraphic script font), Significant (calligraphic), Just Write, Featherly Handlettered, Heavenfield, Heavenfield Typewriter, City Lights Marker Font, Lucky Dip (consisting of Alright, Annabelle, Caitlin, Debbie, Dramatic, Famed, Felicity, Fernando, Gladys, Inspirations, Jacob, Jennifer, Joseph, Lucky Dip, Ribbon, Tristan), Happy Girl (watercolor brush), Sunset Hill (watercolor brush), Stephanie Jane, Humble Hearts (connected monoline script).

Typefaces from 2018: I Heart It, The Overthinkers (hand-lettered script).

Typefaces from 2019: Stylefinder, Soft Whisperings Calligraphic.

Typefaces from 2020: Forever Loved, Mistress Benedict Brush (dry brush script), Rebellious Brush, Hop Serif Hand Lettering, Use Your Words, Winterfalls (a perky upright script).

Typefaces from 2021: Halesbridge, (56=7x4x2 styles: Halesbridge is a soft sans serif font family consisting of 7 weights (from hairline to black), 4 widths (regular to super wide) and roman/italic versions), Stepford (a 6-style bold upright script), Patternistic (a set of patterned caps). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Joaquín (jko) Contreras
[Contrafonts (or: Frutitype; was: Sindicato de la Imagen, or: Cooperativa de Fundicion Tipografica)]

Joaquim José Ventura da Silva

Portuguese calligrapher, d. 1849, who wrote Regras methodicas para se aprender a escrever os caracteres das letras Ingleza, Portugueza, Aldina, Romana, Gotica-Italica e Gotica-Germanica in 1820. It had a "Portuguese Script".

Dino dos Santos's typeface Ventura (2006) was based on his calligraphy from ca. 1802. It won an award at TDC 2008. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Job Wouters
[Letman]

Joe Mahfouz Hatem
[JH Fonts]

Joe vanderHam
[Joebob Graphics]

Johann Georg von Schwandner

Joebob Graphics
[Joe vanderHam]

Dutchman Jeroen van der Ham ("joebob"), who is based in s'Hertogenbosch, designed mostly handwriting fonts: Lingua (a fat finger font) (2021), Quarantinus (2020), Epistula (2020), Old Letterhand (2020), dearJoe 7 (2019), Black Hand (2018), Caput (2018: a crayon font),Manus Smooth (2017), Four Hand (2017), Maneo (2017), Tater Todd (2016), Creta (2016, crayon font), Hillbelly (2016, rough brush script), Hesster Mofet (2016, brush script, renamed from Hesster Moffett), Coalhand Luke (2014, crayon or chalk script), Dear Joe 6 (2014), Dextera (2014, by Geert Dijkers), Stone Hand Saul (2014, a scribbly hand), Manus (2014), Dear Joe Hannes (2013), Winston Nero (2013, a hipster cartoon font), Serious Sally (2012), Inkydoo (2012, +Serif), Serial Sue (2012), Calligra Phillip (2012), Mixtape Mike (2012, a fat finger face), Dear Joe 3 (2010), Brushtip and Brushtip Travis (2010, two of his nicest typefaces, with a calligraphic and rough-edged touch), Vince Hand II (2010), Crossword Belle (2009), BrushtipTerrence (2009), Brushtip Texe (2009), OnetrickTony (2009), Christel Line (2009, +Black), Etch A Sketch (2009, grunge), DearJoe 5 Casual (2008), PencilPete (2008, handwriting).

Fonts added in 2007: Curly Joe, Sinister Sam (calligraphic), VincHand (handwriting of Vincent Haenen), DearJoe5, Moan Hand, FancyPens (a calligraphic pen).

Fonts added in 2006: FlutSaus (hand-printed; done with Hilde Rikken), Amorrisline, Hilde Caps (based on the handwriting of 9-year old Hilde Rikken), C rial, Hildinia Donut, BrunoBook, BuffaloStance, Stam Pete (grunge), CrosswordBill, DearJoe 1, JoeHand 2, Kali Graff, Bearer Fond.

His oldest fonts: BillieBarred (multiple-lined handwriting), BillieBob (a great poster typeface), BillieBoldHand, BillieKid (nice stencil font), BobTag, CalamityJoe, CrappyJoe, DearJoeItalic, DearJoe II, DearJoe IV (antique handwriting, 2005), DoctorBob, FruscianteHand, FuturexBob, JoeBobstraight, JoeHand, MarkerMoeII, MoanLisa (2001, linocut style), Onepunch Jim Outline, Detour Dork (2002).

His fonts are available from MyFonts. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Typoasis link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Another Fontspace link.

View Joe Vander Ham's typefaces. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Joel Maker

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer. He created these calligraphic script typefaces in 2015: Still Shine, Mighty Heart, Azurra Script, Amigirl (script and sans), Monkuta Script and Bruselo. Still in 2015, he designed the swashy script typefaces Story Dream, Mastura, Hefalo (brush style), Edelweis Script, Brigent Script, Cherryla, Amellia Script, Bella Script, and Novelia.

Typefaces from 2016: Chalisto Script, Harista Brush Script, Andara Script, Ocean Twelve, Johns Steward Script, Mustache (consisting of Mustache Rounded and Mustache Brush Script), Flourish Script, Virmigo (calligraphic script), Maestro (brush script), Mustica Script, Shinthia (calligraphic script), Be Smart Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Medley, Still Shine, Worthwhile (calligraphic script), Castilla Script, Daughter (formal calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2018: Mansions Brush Script (brush script), Malika, Barracuda Script (copperplate calligraphy), Mighty Heart, Novelia Pro (a curly serif typeface), Zenith Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Hefalo Script, Abella Script (copperplate calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2020: Nostalgic Script, Harista, Edelweis Script (wild, calligraphic), Basyirah Script, Almere Script, Meritta Serif (a decorative serif), Married Typefaces.

Typefaces from 2021: Rogelio Script (a wonderful inky script).

Typefaces from 2022: Krong (a 19-style geometric sans), Brody Script (a signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Austrian calligrapher and penman (1716-1791) who created many calligraphic alphabets, often of capitals. MyFonts link. Author of Calligraphia Latina (1755), reprinted by Dover in 1958. This book has twelve full alphabets, over 300 initials and many exquisite borders and frames. Samples from that book: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. Digital remixes: Schwandner Versalia (2010, Iza W, Intellecta Design). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Johann Jacob Losenawer

Author of Vorschrift Deutsch-Lateinisch und Franczösischer Schriften Geschrieben (Stuttgart, 1719, later edition in 1739). It has several calligraphic alphabets, and many elaborate initial caps: Sample, another sample, ample, and one more, and still more, and a final one for the road. [Google] [More] ⦿

Johann Neudörffer

German writing master, 1497-1563, aka Johann Neudörffer The Elder, who founded his writing school in Nürnberg, and printed his first plates ca. 1519. His first publication was Fundament in 1519. These prints eventually became the foundation for a new kind of writing education throughout Europe. His writing manual and teachings helped further the development of blackletter. Author of Anweijsung einer gemeiner hanndschrift. Durch Johann Neudoerffer, Burger vnd Rechenmeister zu Nurmberg geordnet und gemacht (Nürnberg, 1538). Some of his methods are still alive in contemporary type design.

Oliver Linke, an expert on Neudörffer, and Christine Sauer published Zierlich schreiben Der Schreibmeister Johann Neudörffer der Ältere und seine Nachfolger in Nürnberg (2007, Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg 25, Typographische Gesellschaft München / Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg).

Several blackletter type families are named after him, such as Helmutt G. Bomm's Neudoerffer Fraktur (2009, Linotype), Manfred Klein's Neudoerffer (2003; the note in the font says that these codex-style initials are the unaltered original Neudoerffer Initialen from 1660, but this information could be in error) and Neudoerffer Scribble Quality (2003), and Klaus-Peter Schäffel's 1519 Neudoerffer Fraktur (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Johannes Heuer

Designer of the orthographic/calligraphic font La. [Google] [More] ⦿

John David Maza

Iloilo City, The Philippines-based editorial designer who created the pixel typeface Kawingan (2020-2022), the powerful text free angular typeface Maragsa (2020) and the free vintage typeface Bantayog (2020) abd Bantayog Baybayin (2021).

In 2021, he designed the pixelish typeface Kawingan Baybayin, the free experimental typeface Talampas, the display typeface Taklobo (+Taklobo Baybayin; to be released by Blaze) and the calligraphic typeface Ulalong.

Typefaces from 2022: Amakan (an experimental typeface patterned after the woven split-bamboo mats used as walls for traditional nipa huts in the Philippines; it has two free fonts, Sheet and Strips), Lapi (a wide modulated sans).

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John Everett Benson

Lettering artist, stonecutter, calligrapher and sculptor, b. 1939, Newport, RI. Son of John Howard Benson (1902-1956), stonecutter and calligrapher, who was also born in Newport. He has created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC. Trained in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, John was owner and operator of the historic John Stevens stonecarving shop for more than thirty years. He trained his son Nicholas, who now runs the John Stevens Shop (since 1993), and has lately returned to the full-time practice of making sculptures at his studio in Newport.

His typefaces include the understated calligraphic scripts Alexa (1995-2002, Adobe), Balzano (1994, Adobe) and Caliban (1995, Adobe), the titling typeface Aardvark for Font Bureau (1991, with Jill Pichotta), and several phototypefaces for architectural applications.

Sample of his work from 1973 now at the MoMA in New York.

Wikipedia link. Font Bureau link. . Fontshop link. Linotype link.

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John Howard Benson

Born in Newport, RI, in 1901, John Howard Benson became a famous stonecutter and calligrapher. An author and educator at the Rhode Island School of Design, he wrote The Elements of Lettering with Arthur Graham Carey. He died in 1956.

Philip Hofer (Harvard College Library) published Inscriptions in the Graphic Arts Department at Harvard in PAGA, volume 1, no. 1, pages 10-12, 1953. In that article, he describes the collection at the Houghton Library in Harvard, and focuses a lot on the lettering and inscriptions of John Howard Benson. Hofer claims Benson is the best letter cutter of his generation, just as Eric Gill was the best in his generation.

His son is type designer, stonecutter and calligrapher John Everett Benson (b. 1939). [Google] [More] ⦿

John M. Bergling

Great American calligrapher and engraver. He wrote several books, including Engraving Designing Etching (1914), Heraldic Designs & Engravings (1913), Heraldic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople, Ornamental Designs and Illustrations">, Art Monograms and Lettering (1912, 1916) and Art Alphabets and Lettering (1914, 1918, 1923). He was Master Engraver with the renowned C.D. Peacock jewelers in Chicago around 1900. Creator of many art alphabets, Bergling is also noted for state seals of the United States and many seal crests of foreign countries. His great-grandchildren set up Bergling Publishing and are selling directly or through Amazon most of his oeuvre.

Digital fonts based on Bergling's work:

One Good Urn NF (2005, Nick Curtis) is based on his art nouveau lettering from 1914.
Morocco (1914) provided the caps of Funky Tut NF (2005, Nick Curtis), and Keramic Text (1914) provided the lower cases characters of the latter font.
Chantilly Lace NF (2005, Nick Curtis) uses uppercase letters by Bergling and lowercase letters by Roland W. Paul.
His Nibs NF is a digital font by Nick Curtis (2007) based on the calligraphy of Bergling, ca. 1914.
Carson Monogram (2009, Brian J. Bonislawsky) is based on Bergling's New Antique 53 from the book Art Monogram and Lettering.
Bergling (2010, Scriptorium) is a floriate script based on Bergling's work. Other (art nouveau style) Scriptorium fonts based on Bergling include Boetia, Belgravia, Bosphoros and Beaumains (2011).
LHF Bergling Panels (2012, John Davis) is based on Bergling's work.
Initials Bergling (2012, Alter Littera) is a comprehensive set of initials (usually referred to as Uncials, Lombardic Initials, or Lombards) of the French variety, adapted from Bergling's book Art Alphabets and Lettering (Second Edition) (1918, Chicago: Blakely-Oswald Printing Company).
In 2011, J.M. Bergling's work inspired John Studden's monogram fonts LHF Monogram Circle, LHF Monogram Diamond, and LHF Monogram Oval.
MFC Ambeau Monogram (2019, Monogram Fonts Co). Based on the decorative art nouveau alphabet called American Beauty in Art Alphabets and Lettering).
MFC Decatur Monogram (2020, Monogram Fonts Co). Based on an alphabet seen in J.M. Bergling's book Monograms and Engraving Alphabets (1914).
Bergling Nouveau Display (2020, Steve Harrison).
Skaliwag Display (2020, Steve Harrison).
Allotropic (2022, The Flying Type). An art nouveau font that loosely draws inspiration from an untitled alphabet drawn in 1914 by J.M. Bergling.

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John Nahmias
[Jonah Fonts]

John Neal Booksellers

This bookseller from Greensboro, NC, specializes in calligraphy. "We supply calligraphers, lettering artists, illuminators, bookbinders and papercraft enthusiasts with books, tools and supplies including fine papers. Our selection of calligraphy books and supplies is unequaled in the world." [Google] [More] ⦿

John Paul Gereaux

Tattoo artist in Florida, b. 1969, whose business is Vicious Ink. He posted 21 free fonts in 2011 at Dafont all at once. Many of these have calligraphic or Celtic influences. There are of course several blackletter and illuminated caps typefaces, as one would expect in a tattoo parlor. The fonts were all made in 2010: Pauls3-DTribal, PaulsBloodSweat&Tears, PaulsCelticFont1, PaulsCelticFont2, PaulsCelticFont3, PaulsCircusFont (Lombardic), PaulsEstherFont (tattoo style), PaulsFancyScript, PaulsGothicCurls, PaulsGraffitti, PaulsHeartlessFont, PaulsIlluminatedCelticFont, PaulsKanjiFont-Bold (oriental simulation), PaulsPoisonFont-Italic, PaulsRansomNoteFont, PaulsRealCelticRuneFont, PaulsSUPERFont, PaulsSinnerFont, PaulsSouthPacific, PaulsSwirlyGothicFont, PaulsWhimsyFont, Paul's Bloody, Paul's Weight, Paul's California (a fun script). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿

John Stevens

Calligrapher and letterer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who occasionally designs logo type and is involved in calligraphic-looking custom type. Since he started in 1983, he has published three books on the subject.

In 2011, John Stevens and Ryuichi Tateno combined forces to publish the four-font calligraphic brush series Stevens Titling at Linotype. It comprises Stevens Titling Boar Brush, Wolf Brush, Sable Brush and Badger Brush styles, all based on the Trajan style.

Cargo collective link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

John Wollring
[Koeiekat]

Joko Setiono
[JS Studio (was: Arttype7)]

Jonah Fonts
[John Nahmias]

Type and logotype company in Polanco (and now Mexico City), Mexico, run by John Nahmias (b. 1935, New York City). John is a graphic designer who started his career in 1952 in a New York studio with Lucian Bernhard. He left that company in 1958. He now lives in Mexico where he paints and runs his own studio. John's typefaces, mostly but not exclusively scripts, are sold by MyFonts.

A: Advent (2015: slab serif), Agave (2017: sans), Altura (2007, a serif family for covers), Amplia (2008, connected script in the style of Mistral; see also New Amplia (2010) and Amplia Pro (2017)), Angelviews (2020), Annabel Lee (2011, upright connected monoline script), Applaud (2017), Aquarel (2014), Aristide (2007, grunge), Aros (2009) Arroba (2010, a directionally challenged heavy slab serif), Artichoke (2011, fat signage script), Artistica (2019), Atlantica (2021: a ten-font sans with surgical cuts).
B: Bernhard Signature (2019: after the letters in a small logo that Lucian Bernhard used on his art), Bonafide (2009, sans family), Bonnie Bay (2017), Bonnie Bay Roman (2017), Botegga (2018), Brougham (2012, techno), Brush Swipe (2016), Buggy Ride, Bulwark (2011, oddly-serifed), Burgerbun (2014).
C: Caravan Script (2007), Caseta Slab (2014), Caseta Sans (2014), Caseta Regular (2014), Casual Brush (2007), Catapult (2020), Chatter Pro (2010-2019, influenced by signage), Cherry Lane (2011, fat round signage face), Chit Chat (2009, comic book style), Circuitry (2007, rounded octagonal face), Claxon (2009), Clic (2012: rounded comic book style family), Coliseum (2007), Cornerstone, Cornerstone Flair, Cornerstone Pro (2014), Credititle (2009), Crotona (2014), Crotona Sans (2014), Cuppa Tea (2015, cursive script).
D: Designers Gothic (2009, a poster sans family), Dogwood (2019).
E: Epoch (2009, organic), Espada (2015), eSpectrum (2019), Etiquette (2009, casual script).
F: Fabius (2008, a fat-nibbed pen face), Feather Pen (2007), Fidelity Caps (2009), Flavian (2013, a text typeface), Fountain Pen (2007), Front Page (2011; followed in 2015 by Front Page Pro), Frugality Pro (2014, an antiqua).
G: Gallivant (6 styles), Garabato (2008, informal hand), Gavel (2016), Georgie (2011, upright connected script), Gianna (2016: a connected calligraphic script), Goya (2012, a heavy signage script), Granada (2014).
H: Hacienda (2008, hand-printed), Honcho (2007). Lucian Bernhard's Magnetype font series is being revived in 2010 by John Namias, starting with Bernhard's Community Low and Community Condensed, which is called Harpsichord. Hebron Hebrew (2019). Hi Five is an art deco typeface.
I: Interum (2007).
J: Janagrace (2007, flowing script), Jonah Brush (2010, basic signage font), Jonahpad (2008, hand-printed), Joyscript (2007; Joyscript Two was done in 2013), Juggler (2010, signage / comic book face), Juke Box (2009, calligraphic).
L: La Quinta (a creamy cursive typeface) (2021), La Rotonda (2009), Lyanna (2008, brush script).
M: Manor Script (2013, connected), Mark (2010, a grungy marker script), Mavin (2015, a vintage serifed typeface), Medalist (2008, flat-nibbed pen script), Meridia Script (2009), Metrolite (2011), Metrolite Pro (2014), Micron (2016), Monoreal (a monospaced programming font) (2022), Montego (2014, monoline sans), Mulberry Road (2011, fat retro diner script).
N: Nebbiolo (2012, a monoline fashion mag sans family), New Epoch (2020: a solid sans), Newmark (2014: techno sans), Newmark Hebrew (2018), Novela (uncial) (2021).
O: Open Air (2014, a stencil font---caps only), Organo, Oregano Sans.
P: Pageantry (2020: based on Souvenir), Pageantry Hebrew (2021), Palazzo (2007), Paloma (connected script), Palomar (2012, condensed organic sans), Papagayo (2020: a 4-style sans with almost amputated descenders and ascenders), Pantext (2015), Pedigree (2020), Pennyscript (2014, a connected brush script), PenPal (penmanship script), Pine Nuts, Pine Nuts United (2017), Pinot Noir (2009, calligraphic), Poncho (2013, signage script), Pony Tale (2009, signage face; the Pro and Pony TailLight Pro versions appeared in 2014), Potus Uncial (2021), Puzzle Face (2019).
Q: Qualico (2009, semi-serif 1970s family), Quickline Slab,(2020), Quickline (2020: a sans), Quintana (2017). The Hebrew verson of Quintana Light is Komunidad Hebrew Script (2019).
R: Ratatouille (2020: inspired by wood type), Rave (2011), Regalo (2010, an organic family; see also Regalo Pro, 2014), Reto (2012).
S: Saguenay (2017), Scriptonah Pro (2014), See Saw (a dancing baseline font) (2022), Sevoya (2012, fat signage script), Scriptelle (2007), Scriptonah (2007; John Downer writes: Scriptonah, in any of its four weights, is not particularly pretty or delicate, but it is far from homely. It is firm and fibrous. It is raw.), Scriptonite (2010, a packaging script), Showtime (2011), Sideline (2018, a music nib font), Sign Brush (2010, a lively signage face), Single Tyne (a display serif) (2021), Singular (2009), Snowpuffs (2013), Stage (2015), Starlette (2009), Starry Eyed (2018), Steletto (2007, condensed), Steletto Oldstyle, Steletto OS Flair, Steletto Serif, Steletto Neue (2015), Stumpy (2011, display sans), Suite Slab (2011), Summit (2015, hexagonal circuit font).
T: Taglocaps (2017), Talento (2007, script), Tiggly Wiggly (2009, hand-printed), Tingle (2009, comic book face), TransRim Display (2018), Trebla Square (2020), Trumpet (2013), Tubo, Twiggs (2009, hand-printed), Twopenny (2013, bilined), TypeOgraf Pro (2018), Typogravure (a flared family, in 12 styles) (2020).
U: Unico (2013: a condensed geometric sans), Unigram (2011, monoline unicase family).
V: Vantage (2013, a humanist sans).
W: Whisk (2017), Wordscript (2007, almost a brush script).
Y: Yacqui (2009, Mayan look face), Yom Tov (Latin and Hebrew) (2021), Yonkers (2014).
Z: Ziggy (2007).

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Jonathan Cuervo Cisneros
[Atypic Co (was: Argo Typo)]

Jonathan Kew
[Summer Institute of Linguistics: Nastaliq]

Jonathan Restrepo

For a school project, Jonathan Restrepo (Colombia) created the calligraphic typeface Alice (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Jonathan Stephen Harris
[Tattoo Woo (or: JSH Creates, or: Smokewire)]

Joop H. Moesman

The Utrecht-based surrealist J.H. Moesman (1909-1988) is known for his quality paintings, drawings and essays on modern art. He also designed the Petronius typeface. As a gifted calligrapher, he gave Petronius a calligraphic look. The name was a tribute to Gaius Petronius Arbiter, a Roman author who lived in the first century AD and to whom Satyricon is attributed. Moesman studied The Golden type of William Morris (1834-1896), who had based Golden Type on a printed Renaissance typeface by the of Italian Nicolas Jenson (ca.1420-1480). For Petronius, Moesman made a roman, an italic, a narrow style and a set of initials. A lead type was never made though. Petronius was digitally revived in 2010 by Autobahn as Petronius (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿

Jordan Jelev
[The Fontmaker]

Jordi Embodas
[Tipografies]

Jordi Sempere i Vicedo
[Grow The Type]

Jore
[Georgi Georgiev]

Georgi Georgiev (aka Jore) is the Bulgarian designer in London who created some calligraphic and lettering pieces in 2013.

Behance link. Linked In link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jose Castro

Castro obtained a Master's degree in Communication Design and Multimedia at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) in 2011. He lives in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Under the guidance of Dino dos Santos, his study project was entitled The typographic process in Pedro Diaz Morante. Related to that project, he created a sweet, delicate and absolutely stunning penmanship typeface called Morante (2011), named after Spanish penman Pedro Diaz Morante, whose calligraphy inspired the typeface. His illustrations and graphic design work are equally impressive and perfect. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jose Jimenez
[Celebrity Fontz]

Josep Pep Patau i Bellart
[Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)]

Joseph Champion

Joseph Champion (b. Chatham, 1709, d. 1765) was a British calligrapher and penman. Champion contributed many plates to Bickham's Universal Penman. His most important work, The Parallel or Comparative Penmanship Exemplified, was published in 1750. It consists of reproductions of the work of foreign masters like Materot, Barbedor, Van den Velde, Perlingh and Maria Strick, with corresponding plates by Champion. Following these plates come some alphabets by Champion. His last published work was The Penman's Employment (1762).

The first known attempt to digitally implement Champion's alphabets, was in 1989 by French type designer François Boltana, who in Ligatures&calligraphie assistée par ordinateur (1995) proposed three copperplate calligraphic alphabets based on Champion. These did not result in a commercial font however. PF Champion Script Pro (Panos Vassiliou, 2004-2008; a winner at Paratype K2009) on the other hand has 4280 glyphs in each of its two styles, and it supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

One of Champion's alphabets, dated 1733-1741. Samples of his penmanship from The Universal Penman (1730): i, ii. [Google] [More] ⦿

Joseph de Casanova

Also, José de Casanova. Noted Spanish calligrapher from the mid 17th century, who had the title examinador de los Maestros de Arte de la Caligrafía en la villa de Madrid. He was a highly regarded penman. Author of Arte de escribir todas formas de letras, impressa (Madrid, 1650). Local download of that book.

Samples of his work. Curlicues from 1650. Signature ornament. [Google] [More] ⦿

Josh Scruggs
[Josh Scruggs]

Josh Scruggs is a graduate from Kansas University, who teaches type design there starting in January 2009. He is also an in-house type designer at Hallmark Cards. His type blog was called 26 Symbols. Creator of this brush script (2007), Halloween Haiku (2004, a calligraphic font), MJ (2003, a fresh curly modern font) and this typeface (2004). Josh is heavily into calligraphy as well. At Hallmark Cards, he designed typefaces such as Brownie (based on his own lettering) and Andrea (based on lettering by Peter Noth). [Google] [More] ⦿

Josh Scruggs
[Josh Scruggs]

Joshua Tetreault

Creator of Frank Gina Typeface (hmmm---the name suggests what this is about), Friday Night Type (2009, alphadings made out of used condoms), and the calligraphic Albinoni Script (2009). He is a 2007 graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. [Google] [More] ⦿

Joss Type
[Teuku Zulfikar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based type designer designer who uses the names Joel Popon and Teuku Zulfikar. Creator of the brush script typefaces Halyting Script (2016) and Thahira (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Romarya, Hampten, Abbie Script, Whenesday, Emainell Script, Marioline (a copperplate calligraphic script), Odelina (formal calligraphy), Bringtong (brush script), Mallica, Amethyst, Chettos Script (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Shedaytia, Agency Script, Lindage Script (wild calligraphy), Over The Sunday, Berlind, Venezuela, Balithya.

Typefaces from 2020: The Geantdum (a creamy upright script), Amealnia (a formal calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2022: Over the Sunday Slant (a thin script), Goodnight Thahira (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jovica Veljovic

Great calligrapher and type designer, born in Suvi Do, Yugoslavia, in 1954. He obtained his master's degree in calligraphy and lettering at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. In 1985, he received the Charles Peignot Award from the Typographique Internationale for excellence in calligraphy and type design. He taught typography at Belgrade University of Arts until 1992. Since 1992, he is based in hamburg, Germany, where he teaches type design and calligraphy at the Fachhochschule Hamburg. His typefaces:

Ex Ponto (1994-1995) is his first masterpiece. This rhythmic script typeface is based on Veljovic's handwriting.
He designed the very readable text typefaces ITC Veljovic (1984) and ITC Esprit (1985; followed in 2010 by ITC New Esprit), as well as the Times-like ITC Gamma (1986). In 2015, ITC followed up with ITC New Veljovic Pro.
Silentium (2000, at Adobe). This is based on 10th century Carolingian scripts.
Sava Pro (2003). These are roman-style caps and small caps, with ornaments, Greek and Cyrillic. Named after a popular man, the archbishop of Serbia, who lived around 1300, and partially named after the main river in former Yugoslavia. Winner of an award at TDC2 2004.
Libelle (2009, at Linotype). A joyful calligraphic script.
Agmena (2012, at Linotype). A gorgeous antiqua that won an award at TDC 2013.
Veljovic Script (2009, Linotype). A handwriting typeface for Latin and Cyrillic.
The German weekly news journal Die Zeit commissioned him to prepare an extended digitized version of Tiemann's Antiqua in 1999. He also designed two typefaces, an Antique and a Grotesque together with several variants, for the leading Serbian daily Politika in 2006.
Morandi (2018). A 48-style humanist sans typeface family published by Monotype.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic.

Linotype link. FontShop link.

View Jovica Veljovic's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Joy Kelley
[HowJoyful Studio]

JR Letter
[Aburayyan]

Designer of the script typefaces Red Devils (2019), aragon (2019), Gergaji (2019), Bosnia (2019), Elizabeth (2019), Dagelan (2019), Mendiang Script (2019), Sweety (2019), Angelia (2019: calligraphic) and Ferguson (2019), the handcrafted typeface Boh Manok (2019), the display typeface Kingdom (2019) and the spurred vintage label typeface Legendaris (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Jroh Creative (was: JROH Communications)
[Agus Zamroni]

JROH (or JROH Creative) is a Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based group consisting of Zulhadi Usman, Mohammed Agus Zamroni, Amad Zakiy and Daryanto. Creators of the free-flowing Moonfrost (2015) and Kenzo Script (2015), the baseball script Trademark (2015), the script typefaces Meilina Fancy (2015), Britney Star (2015), Safina (2015: Script, Inline and Fancy), Melika Letter and Melika Script (2015), Lanjutin (2015), Angely Script (2015), Boldy (2015), Jack Sway (2015), Saberina (2015), Amethyst (2015), CoretKoas (2015), CandyRose (2015), Grootland (2015, brush), Sabella (2015), Wonder (2015), Merno (2015) and Fetima (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: November Script, Sofie (brush script), Strike One (free), Esteban Script, Fitri Script, Syabab Brush Script, Aidan Romantic Script, Stonestick (brush script), Neithan (connected monoline script), Selima (free watercolor brush script by Agus Zamroni).

Typefaces from 2017: Melika Letter (connected formal calligraphic script), Azalea Script (calligraphic), Queen Star.

Typefaces from 2018: Trade Mark, Dublo Script, Husna Script, Evita Script, Dry Soul Script (dry brush), Queen Star.

Typefaces from 2019: Believer, Strengthen, Puniko Rough, Selima, Retromark Script.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Another Behance link. Another Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

JS Studio (was: Arttype7)
[Joko Setiono]

Demak, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) of the spurred typeface Fozmi (2019) and the script typeface Mosttie (2019). In 2020, he released the formal script typeface Cathena, the Arabic emulation typeface At Tupats, the eerie typeface Stooha Mainstream, the display typeface Astone Royal, the script typefaces Cinchin, Green Afocado, Christmas Deer and Bawnee, the oriental emulation typeface Yoben, Vallenia, Vallenia Love, Crufty Craf, the soft bulky script Syarom Gladies and the script typefaces Brother Siam and Wandita.

Typefaces from 2021: Sunia Rabica (Arabic emulation), Emoli (a 10-style rounded display sans), Original Taste (a signage script), Esdoria Journey (a swashy formal calligraphic script), Force Battle (a speed or sports font), Morning Miow (a cartoon font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Juan Bautista de Morales

Spanish penman, who lived around 1600. He published Pronvnciaciones generales de lenguas, ortografía, escuela de Leer, Escriuir y Contar, y Sinificación de letras en la mano (1623, Montilla). [Google] [More] ⦿

Juan Casco
[Sharp & Type]

Juan de Iciar

Also written as Juan de Yciar or Juan de Ycíar or Ioannes de Yciar. Spanish calligrapher, mathematician and writing master, 1515-1590. Author of Arte Subtillissima (1553, Zaragossa) and Arte Breve (1559, Zaragossa). According to Heitlinger, he was born in 1523, not 1515, in the Basque city of Durango (Vizcaya). He studied calligraphy with Tagliente and Palatino, and invented the so-called Spanish Bastarda, and drew many beautiful chancery alphabets.

Image of Spanish gothic capitals (1550).

He published Recopilación subtillísima intitulada Orthographia Practica in 1547-1548 (Zaragoza), the first writing manual in Spain. He also published Arte Subtilissima por la cual se enseña a escribir perfectamente in 1548 (8 editions from 1548 to 1566).

Recopilación subtillísima intitulada Orthographia Practica was republished in 2003 by Jakider. From that book, his beautiful Latina initial caps. Scan of his Spanish renaissance alphabet, other alphabets, Ave Maria (1548, from Arte Subtilissima), chancery hand, and Cancellaresca gruesca (1548). Biblioteca complutense de Madrid has images on-line. [Google] [More] ⦿

Juan Pablo de Gregorio
[Letritas]

Juan Pablo Romo

As a student at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, Romo designed the calligraphic serif typeface Fuga in 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿

Juan Sebastian Rincon

Or Juan Sebastian Rincon Redondo. Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the (very beautiful) Dutch krul letter font Morgan (2014). He also creates wonderful calligraphic lettering pieces. In 2014, he co-designed Beauty Script with Manuel Corradine. His penmanship typeface Alexandria Script (2015) won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

In 2016, he made the great humanist sans typeface Piloto Sans for the identity of the Universidad Piloto de Colombia. [Google] [More] ⦿

Judith Sutcliffe
[Electric Typographer]

Jukebox Collection
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

This is the new foundry of Hollywood, CA-based Jason Walcott, who formerly ran JAW Fonts, Jukebox Type, and Counterpoint Type Studio. JAW Fonts ceased operation in 2003 and Jason reintroduced his collection of fonts in a revised form under the new name of Jukebox Type. Established in 2015, Jukebox Collection started out with these typefaces, which are mainly remastered and recycled typefaces from JAW Fonts and Jukebox Type with original designs going back to the period 2001-2007, roughly spaeking:

Acroterion JF (2014). A copperplate script from 2002.
Adage Script JF (2014). A vintage script from 2002.
Alpengeist JF (2014). Original design from 2001. A German beer label blackletter typeface.
Anaheim Script Pro JF (2014). A fifties script from 2007-2010.
Annabelle JF (2014). A flowing connected script originally designed in 2001.
Baileywick JF (2015). A curly Victorian script from 2001.
Baroque Text JF (2015). A decorative blackletter script from 2003.
Beignet JF (2015). A casual script from 2009.
Bookman JF Pro (2015). Based on Bookman, a design that goes back to Alexander Phemister, and more recently, Edward Benguiat. Designed by Walcott in 2005, this 2-style family has extra swashes.
Buena Park JF (2015). A festive design from 2001, loosely based on Clarendon.
Cabernet JF (2015). A heavy wedge serif didone typeface from 2004.
Corner Store JF (2015). A script from 2007.
Cousin Beth JF (2015). A psychedelic / Victorian design originally from 2009.
Cynthia June JF (2017). Copperplate calligraphy.
Dragster Script JF (2015). A fifties script with a design going back to 2010.
Eloquent JF Pro (2015). A heavy didone in the style of Pistilli first conceived in 2008.
Fenway Park JF (2015). A baseball script first designed in 2001.
Funny Bone JF (2015). A funny fifties typeface, originally conceived in 2005.
Gibson Girl JF (2008). A creamy retro signage script.
Ginger Snap JF (2015). A fresh script from 2011.
Graham Cracker JF (2011-2017). Cartoon or beatnik font.
Guedel Script JF (2015). A rough vampire script from 2008.
Hellenic Wide JF (2015). Original design from 2007.
Hooligan JF (2015). Original design from 2007.
Hucklebuck JF (2015). A brush script from 2003.
Johanna Whimsy JF (2008). A retro upright connected script.
Kitti Casual JF (2015). A casual script from 2003.
Kon Tiki JF Aloha (2015). Original design from 2002.
Kon Tiki JF Enchanted (2015). Original design from 2002.
Kugelhopf JF (2017). Blackletter calligraphy.
Lady Fair JF (2015). A unicase curly psychedelic script first conceived in 2011.
Lux Royale JF (2003). A stylish retro script.
Magic Spell JF (2015). A curly blackletter script from 2011.
Mary Helen JF (2017). A warm feminine script typeface.
Orange County JF (2015). A retro script from 2011.
Peachy Keen JF (2015). A chunky typeface from 2008.
Sansational JF Pro (2015). Original design from 2011.
Santoro Script (2018).
Scriptorama JF Tradeshow (2015). A retro brush script from 2002.
Silver Thread JF (2020). A hairline art deco sans.
Stella Ann (2004). A formal script font.
Stephanie Marie JF Pro (2015). A thin brush script developed between 2003 and 2009.
Sunset Strip JF (2015). A retro script from 2010.
Tamarillo JF (2015). A casual upright connected script from 2004.
Technobaby JF (2008).
Tin Roof (2006). Based on the 1958 hand lettered movie poster from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Torino Display JF Pro (2015). Designed in 2004, this italic script is based on Alessandro Butti's Torino.
Valentina Joy JF (2015). A calligraphic connected script developed between 2001 and 2003.
Vanilla Shake JF (2015). A fat brush signage script from 2010.
Varsity Script JF (2015). Original design from 2001.
Viceroy JF (2015). A calligraphic copperplate script created between 2000 and 2003.
Walcott Gothic JF (2015). Original design from 2001.
Wesley JF (2017). A tall monoline geometric sans.

View the Jukebox Collection typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Julen Cano Linazasoro

Codesigner with Santos Bregaña and Maore Sagarzazu of the calligraphic typeface Lamia (2013, Atelier Laia, Basque country), which is based on Jose Francisco de Iturzaeta Eizaguirre's "lower case pancilla reformed" found in General collection of characters of European Letters (1833, Madrid). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Julia Brogle

Köln, Germany-based designer of several Hebrew calligraphic pieces in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Julia Irvan

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typefaces Super Moon (2016), Seaweed (2016), Meuttuah (2016), Ladybug (2016), Stephany (2016), Samantha (2016), Chaiden (2016, heavy calligraphic style), Bazooka (2016, curly), Almond (2016), Quality (2016) and Lantana (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Blastamino, Geoffrey (a childish script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Julia Kuznetsova

Moscow-based illustrator, letterer and calligrapher. Flickr page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Julian Rodriguez

Argentinain designer, b. 1984. He made the exquisite connected calligraphic script typeface Ibleum (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿

Julian Waters

Son of the famous calligrapher Shelley Waters who lives in Gaithersburg, MD. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Corcoran School of Art. Adobe wrote: In 1997, renowned lettering artist Julian Waters embodied his classical calligraphic roman capitals in a breathtakingly graceful 2-axis multiple master typeface, aptly named Waters Titling, which was modeled after Roman monumental inscription forms. Images: Waters Titling, Waters Titling Pro Lt.

Author of Hermann Zapf: A Life in Letters (2016). Chapters include: First Steps in Calligraphy, The Wartime Sketchbooks, Pen and Graver, Das Blumen ABC, Early Calligraphic Typefaces, Palatino, Optima, Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, Manual Typographicum (1955 & 1968).Typographic Variations, Book Design, Graphic and Calligraphic Art, Hallmark Film: The Art of Hermann Zapf, Hallmark Lettering Manual, Rotring Calligraphy Manual, Hallmark Typefaces, Hunt Roman, Zapf Civilité, Non-Latin Scripts, Orbis Typographicus, Designs for ITC, Early Digital Types, Zapf Renaissance, Zapfino, Scraffitto.

Bio. Alternate URL. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Juliana Moore

During her type design studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Juliana Moore created the sans typeface Muzza Sans (2014, with Andrea Kulpas). She also creates calligraphic pieces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Juliana Thahir
[Neelatype]

Juliano Augusto
[Fondue Fontes]

Julie Green
[Up Up Creative]

Julie Soudanne

French type designer. Her typefaces include:

Typefaces designed during her graphic design studies at ECV in Paris: the pixelish typeface QR Code (2014), an untitled modular typeface (2014), Wagon (2015, a modular expressionist typeface), and Electra Text (2015, a futuristic version of Dwiggins's Electra).
At Type@Paris in 2015, she created the angular text typeface Pressure which has strong calligraphic roots.
In 2016, Alisa Nowak, Julie Soudanne and Jean-Baptiste Morizot co-designed Graphico (Indian Type Foundry): Its letterforms are industrial and square-sided. The typeface looks like the product of precision mechanics: it should be featured together with tech---either old tech like appliances or watches, or new tech like apps and laptop stands.
In 2016, Julie published the art deco sans typeface Eileen: Eileen is named after the Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976). She was a pioneering Modernist, and this typeface is a fitting typographic tribute to her work.
At Indian Type Foundry, Jérémie Hornus and Julie Soudanne co-designed the Spencerian calligraphic copperplate style script typeface Spencerio (2016).
Tabular (2016): a monospaced programming font by Jérémie Hornus and Julie Soudanne for Indian Type Foundry. See also Tabular at Fontshare.
In 2016, Julie Soudanne and Jérémie Hornus designed the condensed movie title and credit typeface Title.
Papelli (Indian Type Foundry, 2016): an informal typeface family by Alisa Nowak and Julie Soudanne.
In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Julie Soudanne and Alisa Nowak designed the attractive titling didone typeface Zesta.
Clother (Jeremie Hornus, Julie Soudanne, Ilya Naumoff, 2017, at Black Foundry). This geometric sans workhorse covers also Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic.
Baro (2018). A geometric layerbale typeface family published by Indian Type Foundry.
Interlink (Indian Type Foundry). A monolinear all caps stencil typeface characterized by many stencil ligatures.

Julie Studio

Indonesian designer of these typefaces in 2019: Jack's adventure (curly script), Smoothie Shoppe (chocolate store script), Royals (heavy octagonal), Moon (sans), Aligathor (calligraphic script), Ventigladie Script, Ramanda (sans) and Soule (a thin script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Julien Chazal

Frenchman who has a wonderful historic overview of the calligraphic styles. Here are his categories:

Renaissance, starting with Gutenberg, and the re-use of Greek and Roman architecture and lettering. It has the chancery hand (or italic) and the humanist (or antiqua). But also in this category are the ronde (upright curvacious scripts), the Flemish cursive (stunning calligraphy) and the fine or modern chancery.
Gothic, or medieval, alphabets: Primitive gothic (S, T, U, V), textura (P, Q, R), cursive gothic (D, E, F, G, H), bastarda (A, B, C), rotunda (M, N, O), and Fraktur (I, J, K, L). Chazal adds to these six groups the Lombardian (lettre tourneure: A, B, C, D, E, F, G), the tourneure gestuelle (modern hand-printed version of the Lombardian: A, B, C), and the lettres cadeaux (overly ornamental caps).
Anglaises: voluptuous and difficult calligraphy.
Gestuelles in modern calligraphy: the cola pe n, the tire-ligne, the flat nib, and the poin ted nib.

Julien Priez

Julien Priez (b. 1986, Montreuil, France) studied typography and type design at Ecole Supérieure Estienne des Arts et des Industries Graphiques in Paris (2006, 2008). In 2010, he worked at Atelier Pierre di Sciullo in Montreuil. Recently, he was affiliated with the French type foundry FontYou. His typefaces:

Rag FY (2013). A wavy brush typeface co-designed by Julien Priez, Sofia Proisy and Charles Privé at FontYou.
Le Normandie (piano key face). Le Normandie was expanded at Fontyou in 2014 to a gorgeous display triple of fonts, Normandie FY (Modern, Gothic, Italian). Der Klaus (2011) is a blackletter version of Normandie.
Le Montreuil (2010). An experimental poster typeface family done at Estienne with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray et Franck Jalleau.
Le Briqueterie (2010). Done with Pierre di Sciullo's studio: a modular pixelish family.
Le Baaf (2010). Done with Margaret Gray: an experimental titling face, based on the stained glass windows of a cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
Le Composite (2010). An imaginary letter font made under the guidane of Michel Derre and Franck Jalleau.
Le Jimmy (2009). A typeface done to invoke the 1930 mafia. A beautiful idea executed with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray and Franck Jalleau.
Typetool (2010). An ornamental caps typeface).
At Fontyou, Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran and Julien Priez co-designed the hand-drawn typeface Brixton FY (2013). Not to be confused with two earlier typefaces called Brixton, one by Tom Chalky, and one by Luke Ferrand. Since two of the three Brixtons are commercial, I expected FontYou to change the name.
In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days.
The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.
In 2014, Jeremie Hornus and Julien Priez co-designed the hairline typeface Gauthier Display FY.
Mandinor FY (2014) is a decorative didone typeface---it comes with separate Gothic (blackletter) and Italian (Western) variants, and is accompanied by Mandinor Ornaments FY. Still in 2014, Julien Priez, Hugo Dumont, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed Rowton Sans FY, a sans family patterned after Gill Sans in six weights, from Hairline to Bold---named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, it has the Gillian lower case g but italic lowercase is a bit too far afield for my own taste, especially the squeezed g.
Boogy Brut (2020). A pointy decorative serif with many calligraphic influences. At Bureau Brut.
Julien also drew many calligraphic alphabets, some of which will eventually become fonts.
Michel Derre and Julien Prez jointly won the Bronze Medal in the Latin category for Abelha in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

Behance link. Julien Priez Drawing link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Julius de Goede

Dutch Creative Alliance designer of Uncia (1999, uncial), Rudolph (Fraktur), Julius Primary (1999, a school font family), Amadeo (handwriting, 1999, with Fiel van der Veen) and Augusta (1999, +Cancellaresca, +Schnurkl). He published Xander (2001) at Agfa, a font based on the handwriting of the Dutch type designer Alexander Verberne. Finally, he published the calligraphic script family Gaius (2002), the calligraphic Bastarda typeface family Bernhardt Standard (2003), the Fraktur typeface family Frakto (2003), and the blackletter family Rockner (2005) at Linotype.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Julius Wiescher
[Authentic]

Jun Herjuna
[Thirtypath (or: Pathero Studio)]

Juni Fadil Putra
[Fade Line (was: Director Fonts)]

Jure Stojan

Slovenian Jure Stojan designed the sans serif family JY Koliba in 2000 at Jack Yan and Associates. Check out that wacky "g", and the great hairline style. Also at Jack Yan, he published Raj JY (2001-2011), KlinJY (2003; first done for a student magazine in Ljubljana) and JY Shapa (2014, a calligraphic serif typeface family).

In 2017, designed published Saj JY, a heavily modulated sans with some exaggerated characters, which was published by Jack Yan. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Juru Rancang Studio (was: Juru Aksara)
[Ihsan Khairul Lazuardi]

Graphic designer in Bandung, Indonesia, b. 1986, Bandung, who is now located in Bali. He created IKL Bold (2013) for Oink, a skateboarding company. IKL Archi was made in 2010. He also designed the gooey Halloween font Brainless (2015), the thick brush typeface Ngabret (2015), the hipster typeface Braga (2015), the script typefaces Panghegar Script (2015), Kosambi Script (2015), the calligraphic script typeface Manglayang Script (2015, Juru Aksara), Kulacino (2015, +Rough), the art deco typeface IKL Archi (2015) and the display / poster sans typeface family Rancang (2015, Juru Aksara).

Cofounder of Image Type, where he published the spurred Victorian typeface family Skiltmaler in 2016.

Typefaces from 2017: Braga Huis (a Dutch deco typeface inspired by the famous street in Bandung), Tjikapoendoeng Script (formal calligraphic script by Ricky Rinaldi and Juru Aksara), TjikapoendoengSlabRough, Trellist (compressed and modular techno typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Aksara Agya (brush font), Bahula (dry brush), JA Jayagiri, Buana, Mancakrama (connected script), Bancakan (a handcrafted menu font).

Typefaces from 2021: Anggara, Marxis (a hyper-condensed movie credit sans), Seahoarse (sic) (all caps), Genesis (sci-fi), MAD-GTX (sci-fi), Sagara (a sports shirt family). Creative Market link. Behance link. Creative Market link for Juru Aksara. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Just Another Foundry (or: JAF34)
[Tim Ahrens]

Just Another Foundry (or: JAF34) was established in 2005 by Tim Ahrens (b. 1976, Heidelberg, Germany). He studied architecture at the University of Kasrlsruhe and type design at the University of Reading (2007). He now lives in Oxford, where he works as a type designer and architect. His typefaces:

JAF Bernini Sans (2012). A winner at TDC 2013. A corporate humanist sans family consisting of tens of styles, from compressed to narrow and regular, and partitioned into a serious JAF Bernino Sans and a more playful JAF Bernina Sans. The ample choices, especially in degrees of compression, makes this a prime candidate for the 2012 Oscars.
JAF Mashine (Just Another Foundry (2005). An octagonal / mechanical family.
JAF Lapture (2004, Just Another Foundry), A redesign of Albert Kapr's (angular, calligraphic) Leipziger Antiqua of 1971.
His MA project in Reading saw the development of Herb (2007), a hookish display face. Herb was extended in 2010 into a full family, which is still genetically linked to blackletters.
Facit (2005, a sans family).
Zalamander (2006). An angular comic book family.
With Brian Jaramillo, he designed JAF Peacock from 2007-2010. It was inspired by the Flair typefaces of the 1970s and contains 1200 glyphs and alternates.
JAF Domus Titling (2011). Designed with Shoko Mugikura, this is a rounded typeface with classical Roman proportions.
In 2015, Shoko Mugikura and Tim Ahrens revived the squarish blackletter Johannes Type (Johannes Schulz at Genzsch & Heyse, 1933) as JAF Johannes.
The sans serif family Linotype Aroma (1999), followed by Linotype Aroma No. 2 (2007).

At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about Font Remix Tools and on Optical Sizes. In 2010, he started a web font service. In 2011, I found his name listed as an employee of the web font service Typekit.

Author of Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs: An Investigation of the Principles Guiding the Design of Optical Sizes (2008, Mark Batty Publisher). Technical image from that book.

Abstract Fonts link. MyFonts page. FontShop link. Linotype page. Home page. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. View Tim Ahrens's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Just Font You
[Ian Irwan Wismoyo]

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of the free typefaces Never Old (2013), Perwolesan (2013, a wide face), and Amalia Mutia (2013, stencil face).

In 2014, he designed Amelian Script, Modiaro, Boneless, Helltown (spurred), Handoubt, Bowney Marowney (heavy brush face), Jackham, Abegnale (a weathered typeface), Scamfuk (brush) and Skumfuk (a brush typeface).

Typefaces from 2015: Vissal (brush script), Loveton.

Typefaces from 2016: The Glamz (dry brush style), Skinny Jeans, Don't Click Me (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Battersweet (calligraphic script), Beyouty Script, Yellove, Aesthetik (monoline script), Sparkplugs Biker Rebel, Steady Bonanza (watercolor brush in Sans and Script), Keep Scrolling, Clickbait (dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Mittens, Abundant Script, Best Part (script), Always Love, Breakfast & Chill, Don't Click Me, Forefarmers, Aesthetik Script, SparkPlug, Bride Style (wedding script), Sweet Patterson (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2019: Quisas (handcrafted), Impulsa (a rough brush font).

Typefaces from 2020: Brelie.

Typefaces from 2021: Raitor, (sportsy; futuristic), Strippy (inpired by posters from the 1990s), Kabal (a bold display serif), Fontatonic (a bold display sans), Pomp Adore (a fashion mag sans).

Typefaces from 2022: Grasond (art deco).

Just Font You link. Fontspace link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Justine Thorner

As a student in Cardiff, Wales, Justine Thorner designed the stunning teardrop-laden swashy calligraphic typeface Voracious Vanity (2013), which evokes the style of modern fashion magazines. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jürgen Brinckmann

German graphic designer (b. Aachen, 1960). His designs at FontFont include FF Ophelia Regular (1993, blackletter), FF Madonna Regular (1993, Celtic), FF Lukrezia Regular (1993, Celtic), FF RopsenScript (2001) and FF Humanist Regular, all calligraphic and/or old-text creations. EF Artemisia is a great OSF font at Elsner and Flake. Check also EF Carus (2003) and Justus Fraktur. EF Filzerhand and Graphis EF are ordinary hand-printed typefaces. EF Karolinger has a Celtic feel, and EF Medieva even more so. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Jürgen Gedeon
[Vurt, the typeface]

Jürgen Willrodt

Born in Hamburg in 1950, Willrodt worked for some years at the University of Hamburg in theoretical particle physics, and got a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics in 1976. Willrodt joined URW 1983 as a software developer, where he was introduced to Peter Karow's Ikarus font editor. He has been the main developer of the Ikarus font production system since 1985, developing interpolation, autotracing, and hinting algorithms as well as special algorithms for Kanji separation. He ported Ikarus from DEC to Sun UNIX, and developed Ikarus for URW's Asian customers. On March 1, 1995, after URW ceased to exist, Jürgen co-founded URW++ with Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau and Albert-Jan Pool, a URW spin-off group of design and production experts. Since then he has been managing director at URW++, and is responsible for font production and font tools development (Ikarus, OT Master and DTL FontMaster).

He designed the calligraphic scripts Concerto Pro (2007) and Sonata Pro (2007) with Peter Rosenfeld at Profonts. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about automating the font production process and editing OpenType fonts. His also spoke at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kadek Adi Mahardika
[Creative Media Lab]

Kalligraphie Award 2000 Gallerie

Kaigo

Zurich, Switzerland-based designer of the formal calligraphic typefaces Campar Script (2019) and Graceful (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Kaiser Type
[Bertram Kaiser]

Munich, Germany-based designer of the classical antiqua typeface Equipe (2015)---think lively Didot. He also made a series of calligraphic alphabets in his Schriftfamilie project (2015).

In 2019, he released the calligrpahic blackletter font Kaiser Fraktur, which was inspired by original manuscripts of Johann Neudörffer and Leonhard Wagner.

In 2021, he published Pontina (a 6-style ball terminal didone) and the chancery script Humanista , which features a choice of calligraphic swash caps or Zapf-like italic caps (in the Pro version only).

Typefaces from 2022: Triole 21 (a rotunda). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

KalliCulator Automatic Calligraphy
[Frederik Berlaen]

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
[Godelief Tielens]

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] ⦿

Kalligraphie
[Susanne Ulmke]

German calligraphy jump site, maintained by Susanne Ulmke. There is also a great list of initial caps. We find 4 hieroglyphic fonts (GlyphBasic1 through 4) from the Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1995. [Google] [More] ⦿

Swiss calligraphy awards with beautiful work by Helga Ladurner, Annikki Rigendinger, Gabriella Garbognani, Annemarie Grunder, and Elisabeth Megnet. [Google] [More] ⦿

Karandash
[Vassil Nikolaev Kateliev]

Karandash is a type and graphic foundry in Varna, Bulgaria, established in 2010 by designer Vassil Kateliev (b. 1980, Varna). The Fontmaker series is a collaborative project with Jordan Jelev, a well known Bulgarian calligrapher and cult wine label designer. The type designs are done on paper, using traditional calligraphic and artistic methods and then digitally recreated.

Typefaces: Myriad Pro Bulgarian and Cyrillic (2011), Rotis Semi Serif Bulgarian Cut (2011), and FM Clog (2011, with Jordan Jelev, done at The Fontmaker: has Openface, Shadowed and Engraved styles). Callista is a fat cursive typeface that was inspired by the work of François Boltana in the early 1970s and of Milka Peykova in late 1970s.

Gaytan (which means braid in Bulgarian) is a sans and serif family created in 2012. It was inspired by Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic, Bulgarian Ustav and the Russian Vyaz stiles, as well as the avant-garde works of Bulgarian typedesigners in late 1970s. But the result is definitely Victorian. He closes 2012 with Estimo, an organic typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic that has no diagonal strokes.

FM Bolyar (2012) is a copperplate typeface jointly designed by Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev at The Fontmaker. See also the spurred version FM Bolyar Ornate Pro ansd the weathered family FM Bolyar Typecarft. In 2019, after a full year of development, they published the 63-style all caps sans family FM Bolyar Sans Pro.

In 2013, Vassil Kateliev and Jordan Jelev codesigmned the lively script typeface FM Ephire, which comes with a useful caps companion, FM Ephire Frames.

In 2014, Kateliev designed a Valentine-inspired set of calligraphic ornaments, LoveHearts, Love Christmas (Christmas ornaments, done with Stella Ivanova Katelieva), and the humanist slab serif typeface Basil (the Regular weight is free). Basil won an award at Granshan 2014.

Typefaces from 2015: Sybilla (humanist slab serif, extended to Sybilla Pro in 2016, and the 294-style Sybilla Multiverse in 2017). Sybilla Shade Pro is free.

Typefaces from 2017: Versatile Bold (a Latin / Greek / Cyrillic font family for layering with plenty of hatched, shadow, rust and 3d options; by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev).

In 2018, he designed Kometa together with Kiril Zlatkov. The 21-style Kometa (Latin and Cyrillic) is a modern sans serif font family with a geometric skeleton and a humanist soul. It has a unicase option and many alternates.

Typefaces from 2019: Achates (a humanist sans workhorse), Future Tense (a sci-fi typeface by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev).

MyFonts link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Karen Smith
[Seven Seas Design Co]

Karin Wennbom

Stockholm, Sweden-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Birgitta (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Karl Krauß

German designer at profonts of Adagio Pro (2006), a connected calligraphic copperplate script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Karl-Erik Forsberg

Calligrapher and type designer, born in Munsö, Sweden, in 1914. He died in 1995 in Nyhamslaege [note: MyFonts states 1998]. Studied at the Gewerbeschule in Basel from 1946-1947. He became Sweden's grand master of the book arts. His best-known typeface is Berling (Berlingska Stilgjuteri). His typefaces:

Berling. This consists of Berling Anitkva (1951) and Berling Bold (1951-1958). Digital revivals: Berling (URW: the recommended one), Bestseller, Belfast Serial (on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002 and at Infinitype), C653 Deco (Softmaker), Bitstream's Revival565, Berling SB (2004, Scangraphic), Berling Nova (Text and Display) (2003-2004, Linotype, by Örjan Nordling and Fredrik Andersson, with advice from Akira Kobayashi).
Parad (1936-1941).
Lunda (1938-1942). An inclined roman typeface done as a tribute to Berlingska Stilgjuteriet in Lund, a Swedish type foundry (1837-1980) which supported Forsberg from the start. Lunda Modern (1998, Stefan Hattenbach) is an extension of Lunda.
Ericus.
Aros Antiqua (for "Tryckcentra i Västerås").
Carolus (1953-1954). Pen-drawn capitals for Letraset/Mecanorma systems. See C653-Deco on the SoftMaker Megafont CD, or Carleton by Corel.
An early unnamed and unfinished typeface of Forsberg formed the basis of the Remontoire family (1998, Stefan Hattenbach).

His books in Swedish include

Antiqua, Vandring bland bokstavsformer, Norstedts 1957.
Exlibris, monogram och andra märken, Norstedts 1981.
Bokstaven i mitt liv, Norstedts 1982.
Mina bokstäver, Wikens förlag, 1983.
Skrift, Handledning i kalligrafi, Norstedts 1986.
Schrift, Wittig Verlag, Hamburg, 1987.
Bokstaven och ordet, Wikens förlag, 1990.
Vandring bland bokstavsformer, Norstedts, 1992.
Alpha Magica, Calligrafia förlag, 1994.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. CV. Linotype page. Bio in Swedish by Curt Ahnström. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Karlgeorg Hoefer

German scribe, type designer and unbelievable calligrapher, b. 1914 in Schlesisch-Drehnow, d. 2000 in Offenbach. Following schooling in Schlesien and Hamburg, he served a four-year typesetting apprenticeship from 1930-1934 in Hamburg and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Offenbach am Main. From 1939 until 1945 he was in active military service and became a prisoner of the Russians. After that ordeal, he became a calligraphy teacher at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, and developed a universal pen with novel writing and drawing techniques for the company Brause. It is at that point that Hoefer started designing types as well. From 1970 to 1979, Hoefer was a lecturer and later professor at the HfG (School of Design) in Offenbach. From 1981 to 1988, Hoefer ran summer calligraphy workshops in the USA (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities). In 1982, Karlgeorg Hoefer founded a calligraphy workshop in Offenbach for everyone, with evening courses and summer school, and in 1987, the registered association "Calligraphy Workshop Klingspor, Offenbach, Supporters of International Calligraphy." From 1987 to 1995, he was the chairman of the association while teaching continuing courses and summer school classes with leading foreign calligraphers. Hoefer has written two books about calligraphy: "Das alles mit einer Feder" (Brause, 1953) and "Kalligraphie, gestaltete Handschrift" (Econ, 1986). Numerous articles about Hoefer's work have appeared in calligraphy journals in Holland, France, the USA, and Japan. In 1989, the book "Schriftkunst/Letterart Karlgeorg Hoefer" was published as part of Calligraphy-Editions Herbert Maring (Die Kalligraphie Edition, Hardheim, Germany, 1989). For his activities as a calligrapher, Hoefer received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1993. His typefaces:

At Klingspor: Salto (1952), Saltino (1953), Saltarello (1954), Monsun (1954). Salto is a famous and often-copied brush script.
At D. Stempel: Prima (1957), Zebra (1963-1965, D. Stempel, a script that plays on the simulation of grey and the use of two colors; revived by Colin Kahn in 2007 as P22 Zebra).
At Ludwig&Mayer: Permanent (1962-1969, a large Grotesk family developed over many years---this was revived by Daylight in 2010 as Permanent Massiv; URW sells Permanent Headline URW D without even a word about the original designer; Softmaker has Plakette Serial and P700 sans; Castcraft has OPTI Permanent and OPTI Pinacle; Marcus Sterz published Letterpress Headline in 2009), Stereo (1963, an outline poster headline script developed between 1957 and 1968; digitally revived in 1993 as Stereo (Tobias Frere-Jones, Font Bureau)), Elegance (1964, a handwriting script, which was the basis for Sincerely (2005, Canada Type)), Big Band (1974, a fat poster script revived in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Baby Cakes NF (2007)), Big Band Terrazzo (1974, a glaz krak face), Headline (1964, a poster typeface that emanated from Permanent).
Programm-Grotesk (1970): Hoefer's first digital typeface, commissioned by JT Hellas for the Greek telephone books It was first used in the digital machine Digiset of Dr. Ing. Hell in Kiel.
From 1978 until 1980, Karlgeorg got involved in the development of a German license plate font that could withstand forgery by black marker pens. The typeface, FE Mittelschrift/Engschrift, had also input from other sources.
Lateinischen Ausgangsschrift (1974): a school script for the Linotype phototypesetter. This led later to VA Schrift (Berthold and Linotype).
At Linotype: Omnia (1990, a unicase typeface with a Celtic uncial feel), San Marco (1990, round gothic / Rundgotisch), Notre Dame (1991-1993, a full blackletter face), Dominatrix (1994), Sho (1992, an Asian brush script), Beneta (1992, a French bastarda inspired by the Littera beneventana, the script of the Benedictine scribes from the 10th to the 12th century).

Linotype page. FontShop link.

View Karlgeorg Hoefer's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kassi Tamres

Southern California-based Kassi Tamres created the calligraphic typeface Mog Gothic in 2011 at iFontMaker. Other creations there include Gizmo Hand (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿

Kate Gladstone
[Kate Gladstone: Handwriting Repairwoman]

Kate Gladstone: Handwriting Repairwoman
[Kate Gladstone]

Handwriting repairwoman living in Albany, NY, born in Brooklyn in 1963. "Yours for better letters." Another page on her. Author of Read Cursive Fast. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kate Greenaway

English Victorian illustrator and letterer (b. London, 1846, d. 1901), known for her children's books. Sample of her work in her Almanack for 1884. Here are the title pages of The Royal Progress of King Pepito (1889) and The Book of Games.

In 1885, she drew Kate Greenaway's Alphabet (caps with children in various poses), which was made into a font by Gert Wiescher in 2005. Gert Wiescher also made the dingbat typeface Greenaway Mignonettes (2012).

Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kathryn Podorsky

Calligrapher and letterpress artist Kathryn Podorsky runs Della Carta Studio near Baton Rouge, LA. In 2016, she designed the calligraphic typeface Vena Amoris (Delve Fonts), which is based on a letter written by her great-great-grandfather in response to a request to marry his daughter. Vena Amoris would be a great wedding invitation font. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kathy Milici

American codesigner with Alejandro Paul (Sudtipos) of the calligraphic script typeface Gratitude Script (2015). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kathy Saunders
[Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship]

Kathy Schinhofen

Lettering artist. At Letterperfect, Kathy Schinhofen, Garrett Boge and Myron McVay together designed the whimsical curly connected script family Jackalope LP (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Katie Holland
[Makeitrock]

Kawisara

Kawisara obtained an MA in Typographic Design from London College of Communication (UAL) London, UK, and published the creamy display typeface Emile in 2020 at Type Department. Emile was inspired by brush calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kayona Alma
[Pineung Type]

Kayonnaalma

Indonesian designer of the (calligraphic or casual) script typefaces Limbothin (2017), Abhio (2017), Cauthion Vlow (2017), Atatila (2017), Athira (2017), Shimongtha (2017), and Alan Bowl (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Kazy Le Vrai

French designer of the free semi-calligraphic typeface Kazy Craie (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿

Keithzo

Or Nasiruzzaman. Semarang, Indonesia-based designer associated with 7N Types who specializes in handcrafted and script typefaces. Typefaces from 2018: Rhigen, Mova, Nathals, Caps, Sweaty Heart, Wonderia, Borjuis, Chrisye, Frostela, Christiany, Chubby Boys, Reborn Revolt, Lighthearted Pleasure, Steaming Grill, Gibran, Lemontea Squash, Christed, Dinomiko, Play Fairy, Troche, Attracted Monday, All Seasons (+Ornaments), Hardino (monoline script), Story of Super Boys, Kelidya, Hestina, Nicolera, Troche, Feltarigo, Gebrina, Yoshephin, Onadio, Richela Kids, Theola Kids, Purple River, Gabelisa, Killing Harmonic, Adelio Darmanto, Cirquesa (a Tuscan circus font), Sumber Jaya, Milloyste, You Never Know Until You Try, Hettas, Nilky Miky, Hotline Monoline, Clarisha (font duo: calligraphic brush), Dephion (font duo).

Typefaces from 2019: Malove, Beelova, Lovely Boys, Hamilym, Hugme, Prettyla, Royela. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kelle Anne McCarter

Colorado-based designer of the girlish hand-printed typeface truckle (2009). She also practices calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kellicia Morse

Denver, CO-based creator of the free calligraphic typeface Kellicia Handwriting (2012). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kellworks

All things Celtic are sold here. Two free font families by BayAnimation, Kelt (Celtic) and Liberate (calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

Kelly Reed
[Mellow Design Lab]

Kelsey Cronkhite

Graphic designer and photographer in Cleveland, OH, who obtained an MFA in graphic design at SCAD (Savannah, GA) in 2013. She runs Kelsey Cronkhite Design. Creator of the octagonal typeface Powerpants (2011), the flowing curly script typeface Blue Spruce (2013), and the calligraphic Swanville Road (2016). In 2017, she designed Cleverly Brush.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ken Hancock

Ken Hancock drew the beautiful calligraphy font ITFChampagneScript in 1993. (The link is to the ITF site.) [Google] [More] ⦿

Kerns&Cairns
[Dyana Weissman]

American type designer, b. 1980, who graduated from the RISD, and worked at Font Bureau (as Senior Custom Designer) and Type Network (as Custom Type Director) in Boston. She set up Kerns & Cairns, also in Boston. Interview at Daidala. Interview by Christian Palino. Her typefaces:

Materot: calligraphic.
She expanded the Benton Sans family into an ultra for Toyota, commissioned by Saatchi&Saatchi.
Baskerville was modified by her for Northeastern University (via Korn Design).
She made a font for learning handwriting for TouchMath.
Apotek (2020): a squared counter typeface family based on lettering on old medicine bottles seen in Oslo.
Benton Modern Display (2008), co-designed with Richard Lipton at Font Bureau: Benton Modern Text was first prepared by Font Bureau for the Boston Globe and the Detroit Free Press. Design and proportions were taken from Morris Fuller Benton's turn-of-the-century Century Expanded, drawn for ATF, faithfully reviving this epoch-making magazine and news text roman. The italic was based on Century Schoolbook.
A redesign of Matthew Carter's Postoni (1997), called Stilson (2009, with Richard Lipton and Jill Pichotta): Since 1997, The Washington Post's iconic headlines have been distinguished by their own sturdy, concise variation on Bodoni, designed by Matthew Carter. For the 2009 redesign, Richard Lipton, Jill Pichotta, and Dyana Weissman expanded the family with more refined Display & Condensed styles for use in larger sizes. Originally called Postoni, the fonts were renamed in honor of The Post's founder, Stilson Hutchins.
Escrow Reading Edge (2016, Font Bureau). An extension of Cyrus Highsmith's Scotch Roman, Escrow (2006).
Syfy Hero and Syfy Sidekick.
Waldorf Astorai. An art deco typeface inspired by the lettering on the facade of Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 301 Park Avenue in New York City.
Comedy Sans. A 12-style typeface commissioned by Comedy Central.
Firdevs (2022). A digitization of a Victorian typeface drawn in Silivri Prison by political prisoner and journalist Fevzi Yazici, and named after Fevzi's wife.
CTV Sans. For the Canadian TV network.
ESPN College Football. A custom varsity font family developed together with Victoria Rushton and loyalkaspar.
Peacock Sans (2020, with Victoria Rushton). A custom typeface for Peacock, NBC Universal's video streaming platform.
GRab=vity Grotesk (2021, with Victoria Rushton and CSTM Fonts).

FontShop link. Type Network link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kestrel Montes
[Ink Me This]

Ketikata (or: Ojo Ngintype)
[Fuad Hasan]

Wonosobo, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1997, of Jullian (2018: script), Bromount (2018: a display sans), This is Signature (2018), Simplicy (2018: a signature font), Airlangga (2018: a monoline script), and The Sweet Teddy (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Bigger Scape, Aldhyaksa, Artsender (dry brush), The Rich Jullietta, Billionthine, Button Shield, Mayasari (monoline script), Anadya, Menttarich, Salsabella, Antonellie Calligraphy, Rotterdalle, Shutter Braille (script), Betterlyne, Jullia Script, Brilliantte.

Typefaces from 2020: Boldmatte, Groyline, Letterally Handwritten.

Typefaces from 2021: Rebellion Knight, Sweet Childish, Stompkind, Alliens (brush caps). [Google] [More] ⦿

Kevin Allan King

Kevin Allan King is from Toronto. He designed fonts for Canada Type from 2010 until 2017. In 2018, he graduated from the University of Reading's MATD program.

In 2010, he co-designed Robur and Wagner Grotesk, Slinger (an art nouveau face) and Sol Pro (a 20-style monoline sans family based on the classic Sol design by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith, published by VGC in 1973) with Patrick Griffin at Canada Type.

Still with Griffin at Canada Type, he revived a psychedelic / art nouveau typeface called Fortunata (1971, Karlo Wagner) and called it Spadina (2010). He also has a Facebook group on type crimes called TCI: Typographic Crime Investigators. Wagner Grotesk is the elaborate digital version of Edel Grotesque Bold Condensed (also known as Lessing, Reichgrotesk, and Wotan Bold Condensed), a 1914 typeface by Johannes Wagner, which was later adopted by pretty much every European type foundry, exported into the Americas, and used on war propaganda posters on either side of the Atlantic.

In 2011, he and Patrick Griffin published the refined Orpheus Pro family, which was based on the elegant Orpheus by Walter Tiemann (1926-1928, Klingspor), and its Italic which was called Euphorion (Walter Tiemann, 1936). Their enthusiastic description: The Orpheus Pro fonts started out as a straightforward revival of Tiemann's Orpheus and Euphorion. It was as simple as a work brief can be. But did we ever get carried away, and what should have been finished in a few weeks ended up consuming the best part of a year, countless jugs of coffee, and the merciless scrutiny of too many pairs of eyeballs. The great roman caps just screamed for plenty of extensions, alternates, swashes, ligatures, fusions from different times, and of course small caps. The roman lowercase wanted additional alternates and even a few ligatures. The italic needed to get the same treatment for its lowercase that Tiemann envisioned for the uppercase. So the lowercase went overboard plenty alternates and swashes and ligatures. Even the italic uppercase was augmented by maybe too many extra letters. Orpheus Pro has been a real ride. Images of Orpheus: i, ii, iii, iv, v.

In 2011, Griffin and King co-designed Walter Script, a calligraphic script that revives Troubadour (1926, Wagner&Schmidt).

Still in 2011, King and Griffin completed work on an exceptionally beautiful revival, Ratio Modern (the original by F.W. Kleukens is from 1923). This is a didone family with a refined humanist trait.

Still in 2011, he and Patrick Griffin created the 18-style sans family Recta, a considerable extension of Novarese's Recta. And they also completed Kumlien Pro, a revival and expansion of a beautiful transitional typeface designed in 1943 by Akke Kumlien. King Tut (2011) is a restoration and expansion of the original Egyptian Expanded, a single bold typeface cut in 1850 by Miller&Richard. Libertine (done with Patrick Griffin) is an angular calligraphic script inspired by the work of Dutchman Martin Meijer (1930s): This is the rebel yell, the adrenaline of scripts.

Paganini (with Patrick Griffin) is another jewel in Canada Type's drawers: Designed in 1928 by Alessandro Butti under the direction of Raffaello Bertieri for the Nebiolo foundry, Paganini defies standard categorization. While it definitely is a classic foundry text typeface with obvious roots in the oldstyle of the Italian renaissance, its contrast reveals a clear underlying modern influence. Patrick Griffin and Kevin Allan King did a revival called Paganini in 2011.

The year 2012 starts out with a bang. King and Patrick Griffin published Wonder Brush (partly based on a signage brush script called Poppl Stretto (1969) by Friedrich Poppl), Wagner Script (a revival of Troubadour (1926, Wagner&Schmidt)), Spade (a super-heavy slab face, done with Patrick Griffin; based on Farmer and Little's Antique No2 from 1867), and Louis (a faithful digital rendition and expansion of a design called Fanfare, originally drawn by Louis Oppenheim in 1927, and redrawn in 1993 by Rod McDonald as Stylus). King Wood (2012) is an octagonal flared wood type family with a set of dingbats, King Wood Extras. Monte Cristo (2012) is a grand type family with five styles and 1630 characters with many swashes and ways of connecting the calligraphic glyphs---it is the ultimate wedding font. The last joint project of King and Griffin in 2012 was Pipa, a pseudo-psychedelic groovy bellydancing font: Originally made for a health food store chain we cannot name, Pipa is the embodiment of organic display typography.

In 2013, Kevin Allan King and Patrick Griffin revived Georg Trump's transitional typeface Mauritius (1967, Weber).

In 2014, they designed the psychedelic typeface Jingo: This is the digital makeover and major expansion of a one-of-a-kind melting pot experiment done by VGC and released under the name Mardi Gras in the early 1960s. It is an unexpected jambalaya of Art Nouveau, Tuscan, wedge serifs, curlycues, ball endings, wood type spurs and swashes, geometry and ornamental elements that on the surface seem to be completely unrelated.

His graduatiuon type at MATD in 2018 was Mazina, a multi-script typeface system developed for complex literary texts. It supports Arabic, Latin, and several Canadian aboriginal scripts.

In 2022, he released eight fonts for Canadian Syllabics at Typotheque. At the same time, he published the extensive article Syllabics typographic guidelines. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kevin Yudha
[Prototype Studio (or: Equinox Studio, or: Kensington)]

Khair Unnas
[Zelow Type (was: Khaiuns)]

Khaleelullah Chemnad

Anatomic Arabic calligrapher. Creator of the free Latin typefaces Versaniah (2013, in Bold, Light, Medium and Thin styles), Chemnad (2013).

Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Khalidin Ink
[Nurkhalidien Al-Haas]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of these calligraphic script typefaces in 2017: Orlando, Magnalia, Indiana, Amalyara. In 2018, he added the calligraphic typeface Jacqueline, the signature font Safarnama and the calligraphic scripts Umbrella and Ametta.

Typefaces from 2019: Betty Laudia Script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Khurasan
[Syaf Rizal]

Aka Khurasan and Jalembe. Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the free typeface Alamak (2014). In 2015, he made Jomblo Ngenes (comic book script) and Si Brot (heavy brush face). Typefaces from 2016 include Lefina (curly serif typeface), Carlita Script, Creaphy (a brushed Halloween font), Reybro, Moyko (Asian brush emulation), Setialah, Jalani Script, Bijak Script and Labuhan (a lava lamp typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: Felix, Vinyl Script, Millenials (sic), Happy Party, Licht Monoline Script, Qasmi Script, Hitam, Red Merah, Gloomy Night (Halloween font), Gloomy Line, Declara (script), Loveya (calligraphic), Rishtee Signature, Legenda, Indah Script, Exco (sans), Brat Brush, Hatake Brush, Otella Signature, Jaiho Script, Manda Script, Sanies Script, Wolca, Thesla Script, Thory (hipster style), Matta, Sanies Script, Beukah, Miliki, Starmix, Arlisa Script, Raport, Cebo, Tanda Signature, Nelvita Script, Aldine (script), Lexlox, Vallen, Aeron (brush font).

Typefaces from 2018: Welcome 2019 (brush script), Memory of 2018, Big Snow (free), Cute Thing (font duo), Brotha Script (angular), Young Sprime (a glitch font and two Tokyo techno fonts), Get Happy, Pauline & Fairy, Christy & Snow, The Fables Knight, Rogeu (free), Gabuek Script, Foxlite (free dry brush script), Merova, Tempe (brush script), Hi Summer, The Timmy Script, Salah, Summer Back, Coffee and Cookie, Yehaa, Hello Guys, Sweet Bread, Angers Script, Scripto, Sebastrian, Razan Script (free), Viksi Script (free), Arrival, Qsans (layered), Allexis (signature font), Ariel (signature font), Esteh, Tahu (a free script typeface), Cakra Script, Orange Squash Script, Fresh Grapes, Levo Sans (layered), Reman (a free script font), Apalu (a free brush script), Asans (a sketched layered font), Klasic Script, Happy Party, Slavina Script, Abuget (free).

Typefaces from 2019: Pinky Cat (script), Potato Chips (a painted font), Low Batt (a tape font), Hey Fun (a monoline marker pen font), Maquire (a brush face), Breaking Wild, The Brat, Expain, Snow Fairy, Beloved Daughter, Shelva, Henniver, Cold Climate, Friend White, Vixen Deer, Le Petit, Blue Fonts Sans, West Fighter (a dry brush script), Royal Fighter (brush), Smoke Attack (dry brush script), Blue Fonte, Cupid Deer, Blitzen Deer, Hey Comic, Prancer Deer, Comet Deer, Green Fonts, The Baby Monster (a stone cut font), Youth Power, Hey October (dry brush script), Stefont, Halloween Secret, Cute Maple (a great inline comic book font), Cute Jellyfish (a fine children's book font), Greywall, Hey August (dry brush script), Greywall, Great Fighter (brush), Angers Script, Nikolas+Pine, Sheppaloe, Youth Power (a dry brush font), Love Mint, Real Young (squarish caps), This July, Vontens (dry brush), Beloved Teacher, School Times, Tuckers (brush), Pig Year (+Sans, +Display), School Story, Wellfont (dry brush), Happy School (a fat marker font), Are You OK (dry brush), Sand Beach, Oh Now, Sheenaz (a signature font), Real Miami, Mother Day, Ranget, Lovea, Ohio (a high-contrast smooth brush script), Manda, Oh Now (brush style), Evident, Recoba (roman caps), Ariel Script, Sandiago (brush), Cavatelo (brush), Dream Meadow, Virale, Just Kelly Justine, Tempe, Galea (a floriated script), White Pinky, Fair Prosper, Real Ohio, Jatayu, Young Robust, Saitama, Rastazm (dry brush), Fontblitz (dry brush), Young Vigor (dry brush), Fonters (brush), Fontgrab (brush), Metal Pen, Tosca Pen, Blue Pen, Takota (a free brush font), Fontrust (dry brush), Goo Easter, Fontjek (a free thick brush script), Silver Pen, Coral Pen, Striverx (brush), Saltino (fat brush), Under Type (a heavy painted look), White Pen, Fake Serif (brush script).

Typefaces from 2020: Ontel, Fresh Mango, Fresh Lychee, Vuldo (a condensed sans), Gila (a bold titling sans), Mini Story, Anjhay, Fresh Guava, Fresh Coconut (a cartoon font), Fresh Olive, Free License (a dry brush font), Avture, Marqez (dry brush), Gathan (dry brush script), Marie Clara, Clusive, Rehat, Angello, Shaumy (Arabic emulation), Baby Eliot, Baby Pilot, Wash Your Hand, Fontix (a dry brush script), Salazur, (a dry brush script) Alert Covid (grungy), Black Hold (brush), Arthure (brush script), Black Wipe, Asia Tiger, Enjoy Writing, Schagen, Antam, Alansky, Fontrue, Sentury, Rithem, Flashing, Great Sejagad.

Typefaces from 2021: No Virus, Juliagar, Forturn, Masker Area, Hiatus (dry brush), Alphakind (a comic book typefacs).

Home Page. Creative Fabrica link. Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. Graphic River link. Newest Behance link. Fontspace link. Aka Matfine on Fontbundles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kim Le

Or Ngan Le Kim. Or Ngan Le. Albany, NY-based designer, as a student at The College of Saint Rose, of the curly calligraphic piece called Anna Belle (2016) and the experimental typeface Potcharu (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Kimchi Lee

In 2016, Kimchee Lee (Shao Design Co, Quezon, The Philippines) and Christine Lee designed the free calligraphic sans typeface Quezon (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
[Gabriel Martinez Meave]

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera) is a commercial Mexican design firm founded in 1994 by Gabriel Martinez Meave (b. Mexico City, 1972), who is by far Mexico's most prolific and talented type designer. The only freebie is Presidencia at the Mexican Government site.

Meave.org deals with illustrations and other occult arts. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Interview. Some of his early typefaces were published at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. His typefaces:

Arcana (2000, +Manuscript) won an award at Bukvaraz in 2001. The script font Arcana was traced out with a pointed metal quill and then digitized to give it a thoroughly 19th century look. It won an award at TDC 2000.
In 2006, he made the powerful serif typeface Artifex.
Aztlan (1998) is a fun artsy slab serif.
Basilica (1999, +Rotunda) is an extra-condensed experimental font based on a modern high-contrast design. Award winner at TDC2.
Comanda (handwritten).
Darka (2005) is a roman blackletter face. This typeface won an award at TDC2 2006.
Economista is a text typeface created for the Mexican business newspaper El Economista.
Ferra Sabs, commisioned by the department stores El Palacio de Hierro.
Fulgora. Inspired by late-medieval Basarda and Civilité blackletter styles, the Kannada and Sinhala writing systems from Southern India, Celtic uncials, and diverse vernacular Mexican scripts, it includes a Black and a Negra style. Released by Sudtipos in 2019.
Indio (handwriting). Commissioned for a beer ad.
Integra: a contemporary roman sans family. It was republished by Sudtipos in 2019.
Jumex Sans (2012). Custom font for a fruit juice advertising campaign.
For Lagarto (2001) is based on the hand of Luis Lagarto, a colonial illuminator and scribe, working in Mexico City and Puebla in the late 1500s. It won an award at Bukvaraz 2011 and an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition.
Liverpool Sans (2015). A corporate avant garde sans family of fonts for Liverpool, a Mexican chain of department stores.
Mexica (1996) is a large octagonal font family created to set text in náhuatl, the tongue of the Aztecs, but also the lingua franca of ancient Mexico. Mexica received an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition. It was republished by Sudtipos in 2019.
Mystix is a rune font based on a secret alphabet for a Delaware Punch promotional program.
Neocodex (1996) is an organic family.
At Adobe he designed Organica (2000), a display semiserif. That typeface family was republished in 2021 by Sudtipos as Organica Pro.
Pearson Calligraphic (1999).
Presidencia (2008, free at the Mexican Government site) won an award at TDC2 2008 and at Tipos Latinos 2008 (for extensive text family). He writes about Presidencia Sans: Inspired by Toltec and Aztec architecture, the letterforms of Presidencia follow a humanist sans-serif scheme that combines Mexican character with Latin structure. This grand family was commissioned by the Mexican Federal Government, to suit its new identity program, impeccably designed by Mexican firm Ideograma. The type family comprises twenty variants, to cover a full spectrum of possibilities, from official documents to corporate signage, billboards and nation-wide campaigns in all media.
Puuc, according to Meave, was inspired by the Mayan puuc style of modular architecture.
Rondana (2002) is a rounded character family in the style of VAG Round. It was republished by Sudtipos in 2019, which writes that Rondana is a typographic tribute to the retro-futuristic aesthetics of the 1960s and 70s, as well as an exercise in purity of line.
Sol and Solida. Sol was made for a beer ad.
In 2011, he created the Telcel Sans family, which was commissioned by Mexico's main telecommunications company for use in corporate communication, advertising and printed matter, as well as billboards, television and many other visual media. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
Tlatoani Sans won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010.
Tolteca.
Wordless Script (2019, at Sudtipos). A penmanship script with weathered outlines. Sudtipos writes: Wordless Script is the font of choice for writing those things that go beyond words. Based on the connected-scripts of the late 18th-century England, this typeface preserves the irregular finish and stroke gestures of the pointed nib. It is, so to speak, a personal rendition of the English roundhand as originally executed with the bird's quill. Imbued with a rococo, neoclassic, romantic spirit, Wordless Script radiates the gallantry of a time when the celebrated douceur de vivre that Talleyrand was so fond of was still alive and well; echoes of which still haunt us in our eclectic 21st-century, that now has once again come to appreciate again these magnificent styles of old. Wordless Script [...] is meant to be read with the eyes only or to be whispered into someone's ear.

Klingspor link. Behance link. Old Kimera type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kimmy Design
[Kimmy Kirkwood]

Kimmy Kirkwood (b. 1988, Seattle, WA) (Kimmy Design) studied at Chapman University, and lives in Santa Monica, Orange County. He graduated in 2018 from the University of Reading's MATD program.

Kimmy created a gracious curly calligraphic script face, Madeleine (2010), which is based on a logo she designed for Hotel Le Sirenuse.

At Dafont, one can download Kuppel (a hairline display sans) and Hammer Head, both done in 2010 as well.

Phase two of Kimmy's career started late in 2010 as Kimmy Design, where one now has to pay for Madeleine (2010) and Katelyn (2011). Addison (2011) is a wood type Western circus poster font in two styles, West and Circus.

In 2012, Kimmy created the counterless art deco typeface Chelsnuts, the worn wood type typeface Cpl Kirkwood, Elizabeth Script, and Paper Cutout Pro.

In 2013, Kimmy published Lunchbox Slab, the grungy Appareo, the condensed minimalist sans family Maxwell Sans, its companion Maxwell Slab, the scriptish typeface Lunch Box, and the bold headline family Station (inspired by old train station typography).

Typefaces from 2014: Catalina (hand-drawn typeface family with sub-styles called Anacapa, Avalon, Clemente Script, Typewriter and Extras, ideal for hand-drawn menus, table cards, chalkboards, and wall quotes), Amorie (a skinny hand-drawn family, with styles called Modella, Nova, SC and Extras).

Typefaces from 2015: Avaline Script, Baker Street (vintage hand-drawn typeface family), Burford (a 16-style vintage layered family), Burford Rustic (layered font family).

Typefaces from 2016: Bourton (a layered font for vintage yacht club or whiskey bar logos; it is the sans version of Burford; sufamilies include Drop, Lines and Outlines), Rainier (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2017: Evanston Alehouse (octagonal, beer bottle style, slightly copperplate), Bourton Hand.

Typefaces from 2018: Clifton (his MATD graduation typeface): Clifton is a modern type family with many weights and contrast styles. It supports Latin scripts as well as Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic. Originally intended as a book typeface, it was designed so that all the weights and styles would work together as a cohesive family.

Typefaces from 2019: Refinery (an 85-style octagonal family based in early 20th century signage), Evanston Tavern (Evanston Tavern is a square typeface and the sans-serif version to Evanston Alehouse. Inspired by the years that prefaced the ratification of the American Prohibition, this typeface mimics the signage commonly seen outside of saloons, taverns and alehouses during that time.), Winslow Book (a playful modern Scotch).

Typefaces from 2020: Roadhouse (a layering typeface family that is part of the greater Evanston type collection, which is inspired by American typefaces commonly used at the turn of the century leading up to prohibition), Winslow Title (a decorative didone family), Winslow Title Script (monoline), Hawkes (Sans, Script, Variable Width Sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Madley (a 12-style soft slab serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Bourton Text (an elliptical sans in 42 styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kimmy Kirkwood
[Kimmy Design]

King Ink
[Timothy Donaldson]

UK-based Timothy Donaldson's web site. Calligraphy and type design. FontFont write-up. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kinuta Font Factory
[Yuji Kataoka]

This Japanese foundry, est. 1995, sells the typefaces designed by Akira Kataoka, Ayumi Kiryu, Yuji Kataoka and Michiya Yamamoto: Kinuta Minchotai, Marumin, MaruMaru Gothic, Yuji-3, Donguri, Yamamoto-An, Shin and Kiriko.

In 2021, some of its typefaces made it to the Google collection, such as Yuji Boku, Yuji Mai and Yuji Syuku. Yuji is a series of fonts digitizing handwriting by calligrapher Yuji Kataoka.

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Kirby Lee Gosnell
[Callifonts]

Kirill Malykhin

Khabarovsk, Russia-based designer of the Comic Sans lookalike Laffayette Comic Pro Cyr (2015), the sharp-edged display typeface Kicker Bold (2015), and the connected calligraphic Latin / Cyrillic typeface Restaurants World (2015). In 2016, he created Cyrillic versions (I think) of DarkII, Minimal, Add ULC and Crash Landing BB. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kirsten Louise
[Kirsten Louise Design]

Kirsten Louise Design
[Kirsten Louise]

Or Kirsten Sweet. Bradford, Yorkshire, UK-based designer of calligraphic script typefaces. These include Silhouetto Script (2017: free), Mermaid Lagoon (2018: SVG font duo), Pretty Peachy (2018: SVG font duo), Blushing Script (2018: SVG dry brush font), Melonade (2018), Paper & Twine Font Duo (2018), Hello Lovely (2018) and Deliciously Sweet Font Duo (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Klapaucius Co

Singapore (and before that, Jakarta, Indonesia)-based designer of Elena (2015, a connected rough brush script), Clark & Lou (2015, a scribbly handcrafted typeface), Tim (2015, a hand-printed typeface), August (2015), Lisa Marie (2015, a great calligraphic brush script), and Bartolomew (2015, a handcrafted poster font).

Typefaces from 2016: Paris 1920 Script, Paris 1920 Sans, Sarah Loewe, Butterscotch Popcorn (rough brush), Carissa Wellington, Every Summer (brush style), Oatmeal Jack, Patricia Dorothy (a watercolor brush script), Nicoline, Old Emma, Emilia Baker (a great watercolor brush script), Herbert Lemuel (Victorian)l, Edeline (watercolor brush script), Ilana Bloom (brush script), Patrick Pie (Script and Sans), Harper Moe, Brandine (connected brush script), Hannah Abbot, Ornette (brush face that emulates a sans), Briella (a great watercolor brush script), Margot and Margery, August, Astrud Miller (described as a feminine brush type font), Jane Bugg (watercolor brush), Emilia Baker (watercolor brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Anita Liana Script, Hannah Abbot (+Sans), Leah Gaviota (casual typeface family), Jenna Jenkins (a messy script that approaches handwriting), Paula Paulina (Script+Sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Figuerola (font duo), Daisies of our Lives, La Pimienta, Bronze & Copper, Carlagata, Anita Liana Script.

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Klaus-Peter Schaeffel
[KPS Fonts]

Klingspor Museum Offenbach
[Hans Reichardt]

Opened in 1953, this museum in Offenbach has wonderful collections, and specializes in German typography between 1880 and 1950. The site has biographies on over 100 famous typographers. By Hans Reichardt. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kodhi Banks

Or Kodhi Bank. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based creator of the elegant connected script typeface Wallows (2015) and the useful unconnected script typeface Sherly (2015).

Typefaces from 2016 include the calligraphic typefaces Ramberos, Entihay and Markonah.

Typefaces from 2017: After Midnite, Wasteros (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2018: Suntruns (connected script), Rejoice (calligraphic), Dest, Delima (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Beitris (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Koeiekat
[John Wollring]

John Wollring (aka Koeiekat), b. Amsterdam, 1943, d. 2017, was passionate about type design. John worked in marketing communications in advertising agencies and at Philips. Bronwyn Holmes explains: His love of fonts came from his work in producing advertising and brochures and his close involvement with printers and printing. He was very aware of the power of typography in communication. He retired in Extremadura to a remote mountainous region. Small villages with little distraction except the very wild and beautiful nature so plenty of time for him to spend on typography.

John Wollring designed these typefaces:

The tuxedoed art deco typeface Zig Zag ML (2009, based on Zig Zag, a 1972 alphabet by Marcia Loeb). See also ML ZigZag KK (2013). ML Rainbow KK (2013) is identical.
Monotoon KK (2012, monolined and simple).
The formal calligraphic typeface Monogram KK (2007, Victorian initials).
A revival of Modern Fancies (Lewis F. Day) called Fontenay Fancy (2012).
ML Sunglow KK (2012, ornamental caps).
HK Display (2012: HK Display KK is a free interpretation of an art deco alphabet designed by Henk Kolkmeyer for a poster for the Veiligheids Museum in Amsterdam).
Dwiggins Initials KK (1930, an art deco caps typeface based on an unknown sketch by Dwiggins from 1930).
Obese & Square KK (art deco stencil).
ML Roxy Initials KK (2012, after Marcia Loeb's Roxy).
Open Egmont Kapitalen (2013: an interpretation of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos' Open Egmont Kapitalen also known as Egmont Inline and Egmont Versalien. Based on a 1935 specimen sheet of Lettergieterij Amsterdam and punctuation based on a 1938 specimen sheet of Intertype. Alternates in the lower case b and r based on a 1951 specimen sheet of the Belgian type foundry Plantin).
EA Sports Covers SC (2013).
Gotica Moderna KK (2013).

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Koi

Koi was born in Nashville, TN, in 1979. From the MyFonts site: The artist Koi incorporates abstract calligraphy into mixed media pieces. She also creates calligraphy from traditional and original hands, or alphabets. She creates original brush and nib designs for !Exclamachine Foundry, including Lestatic Lashed. In 2019, she co-designed Hurringtown Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kokok Studio
[Ahmad Rofingi]

Wonosobo, Indonesia-based designer of Rheinalita (2019), Allim (2019: brush script), Delliavirra (2019: a calligraphic script), Bellagu (2019: a smooth brush script), Angelinatta (2019), Akayla (2019: a calligraphic typeface), Grillinea (2019), Republic (2019: a signage script) and Rheinalita (2019: script).

Typefaces from 2020: Caroollina, Shunligh, Ardsttandsille. [Google] [More] ⦿

Kong Font (or: Gemes Font)
[Fatimah Dipi]

Surabaya, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2019: the plump almost bubblegum fonts Cookies Chip, Cookies Bold, Broom, Glowie, Bobba, New Cookies and Chiki, the cartoon fonts Cartoon Cookies, Dolpi, and Boebloe, the squarish (sci-fi) typefaces Klock, Mancha (+ Bold), Maxim, Blades, Kong, Forgotten, Warlock, Hi Jack (techno), Retrolab, Bagfresh and Rubrick, the oriental emulation typeface Japanola, the handcrafted typefaces Worflat Bold, Pramudya, Santuy, Ceetar, Sticky and Honnestly, the script typefaces Casofa, Claudia, Welldone, Baliday, Extendo, Peenguin, Natune, Adinda and Meraphy, the rounded monoline sans typeface Orcef, the horror blackletter font Dark Power, the brush font Must Brow, the monoline script font Chalisa Beauty, the gooey fonts Zumanie, Wildness, Histery, Halloweenkuy and Walktrought, the foliated typeface Leaf, the sports font Ancients Bold, the blackboard bold font Breader, the brush font Must Brow, the kawaii children's fonts Cookies Bold, Nino, Minnio, Kidstation and Bobba, the rounded sans fonts Wudsap Bold, Stikco, Polka, Himenz Bold and Goostt Bold, and the display typefaces Alpawolf Bold, Bagie, Incloud, Manohara and Bublo.

Typefaces from 2020: Abiyu Chan, Alloystan, Amatemora, Archimate (squarish), Baby Lovely, Battle Andy, Beckhand, Better Tomorrow, Blossom, Blue Julieta, Boogie Worth (an oily font), Brasblus, Butter Cookies, Byorg (all caps, blocky), Caitlin Angelica (wild, calligraphic), Carrie Gallerie, Chambers (a logotype), Confused, Dobbystar, Falencia, Faster Bottom, First Time, Forsegi, Hotte Brush (a dry brush script), Humingson, Nattalya, Pather Times, Petter Story, Pinkerston, Raspberry, Raynoss, Reflisatta, Sambara, Sebbastian, Snooky, Spicy, Stay High, The Texterius (a decorative serif), Varenthin, Walterson, Winne Vinne, Better Jack, Billie Bonnie, Greenleaf, Gumy Monster, Hello Olivia, Insurgence, Livermore (a speckled brush font), Lunar (a monolinear sans), Malcolm (a decorative serif), Manggala, Margo, North Coast, Red Steel, Shaeila Maker (a fat finger font), Simply Sugary, Smith Mouth, (a speckled brush font) Westie Ametta, White Systemattic Duo, White Systemattic, Zepplines (blackletter), Riverflows (a titling serif), Birawa (monoline script), Bintari (script), The Lord Night (script), La Lemonti (a display serif), Amerggedon, The Purple Love (an upright rabbit ear script), Monsterize, Wolfraid (a brush horror font), Hellowin (a display serif), Agnostic, Arcades, Armstrong, Babyface, Baimbo, Baliday, Beam Box, Blackmore (stencil), Blasteran, Bleach, Chucky buck, Classic Rock Band, Comfortune, Deathmatch (blackletter), Dolphin, Eniceplay, Fatayah Irhami (YonTypeStudio), Greatwriten, Humingson, Juicy Luicy, Lovamarte, Mustbrow, Passifille, Playbrush, Rackles, Ravenborg, Reflected, Samhock, Sevarozi, Spicy, Thenacious, Threarer, Wallrous, Wamatto, Wish Good, California Sun (blackletter), Brutals, Cartoon Cookies (a comic book font), Chalisa, Chucky-buck, Deallisa, Forgotten, Gient, Hiluck, Jacob-and-son, Mahoney, Dunford Moore, Buon Umore, Bongus, Samble Tracie, Retrow Mentho, Gilmoore, England Signature, Fleepavlop, Runcrow, Jacksilver, Backstranger, Heroes (spurred), Eastwood (Tuscan), Jellyo, Wilson Hawk (all caps, headline), Stilere, Charles, Beastic (script), Quanto (script), Benzo (modular caps), Wynfors (octagonal, inline), Masicha (script), Gottam (script), Marthinoul (a signature script), Cointa (script), Japan Rementen (oriental emulation), Tallo Stick, Cempe West (modular), Guard, Dumie, Fishtail, Horroh (a barbed wire font), Cosiris Cure, Borju, Fortman, DeBamboo, Donaldson, Winchester, Alison Finch, Kind Monster, Dr. Ziemboz, Mr. Draculle, Khilifah, Lobots, Song of Coronos (calligraphic blackletter), Aline Signature, Hooded, Limonea, Articha, The Rambler, Blackbird (grocery store script), Cooldown, Legend (spurred), Gentleman (Victorian), Mechane (octagonal), Darker, Bestbrust, Kenarock (blackletter), Spidol (script), Yellosun (script), Skelbourne, Stixuits.

Typefaces from 2021: Orange Signature, Lovelystory, Double Signature, Sunny Rommansa, Mas Karebet, Brillian, Hi Jack, Wonderfull, Ventus, Wellside, Keffie Austina, Broom, Minnio, Addison Affson, Adellicia, Adriana, Alberteen, Amongh Sein, Antoinete, Aurella, Aurely Lovely, Baby Coffee, Baby Doll, Babydoo, Bagstore, Battalion Commander, Beattrice, Black Pearl, Bobbey, Bobbi Jeffina, Boostone, Bricktown (roman capitals), Buckingham (spurred), Bunny Honey, Candywell, Charlotte Bella, Charlotte (a monoline script), Christaline, Christmas Bells, Christmas Glooves, Clutter Street, Cute Cartoon, Dakiens, Dakota Artha, Decembery, Demon Blade, Divalia, Ellanor, Envellope, Eternal Amsterdam, Extendo, Freakland, Frozzy Mosther, Gladiolus Display, Gladiolus Script, Glory Sunshine (a decorative serif), Hellilove, Hello Beloved, Heywolf, High Jersey, Hopkinson, Hoppe Dizzie, Iron Shark, Jackdean, Javassoul, Jeniffer, Jessica Mariolline, Katherinna, Katterine Rose, Kayonna, Kenthir, Kiss Boom, La Fleur, Leviathan, Lillian May, Lokey, Loving Gabriella, Luimp, Mackline, Margarett (a signature script), Margharita, Mecha (sci-fi), Miles Hunt (inline), Minigame, Mintmolly, Miss Amalia, Moonday, Morthwicks, Moulin, Mozzana, Mozzarella, Mutchin, My Happy, Nevla, Northwest Signature, Obsurd, Ocean Aubrey, Odessa, One January, Palesik (eerie), Peenguin, Pollutant, Queency, Rayanne, Ressoven, Road Light, Road Sunshine, Rodano, Rosaffina, Rosanna, Rosemary Jasmine, Rubeckia, Sabrina, Schofield, Shaffari, Sharlene, Shean Holmes, Skylark (squarish), South Forest, Stable, Sunnday, Taylorsit, The Blester, Timeline, Victoria, Wimter White, Wishleman, Youth Wright, Zanden.

Konrad Trzeszczkowski

Type designer in Warsaw (b. 1985, Warsaw). He created the broad nib calligraphic typeface Trsc (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Konstantina Louka
[Nantia]

Konstantine Studio

Commercial typeface foundry in Jakarta, Indonesia, run by "Ian" and "Abdilah". Its first typeface is Muffler (2014), which is inspired by retro brush signage for car races. Lacydes (2014) is a spurred advertizing typeface. Upjohn (2014) is a horror movie poster typeface. Curely (2014) is a free hand-drawn curly typeface, expanded to Curely Pro in 2017. Hemera (2014) is based on vintage matchbox packages.

Typefaces from 2015: Marthas, Risoless Script, Elska (a thick warm watercolor brush script), The Chalker (crayon font), The Bride, The Groom (brush script), Wanderlove (brush script), Rumbell (handcrafted poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Easy Lullabye (Swash, Sans), Wiggle (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Fathers (a vintage packaging script), Ride Slow (a handcrafted set of motorcycle culture fonts), Delight, Kehlin (retro poster style), Butter Love (dry brush), Fathers Script (vintage), Fili & Kyla (thin script), Husky Giggle (casual hand stroked brush font), Ruffle (dashing brush script), Dollyn Script, Halloween Rock, Love Hurts (ballpoint pen font), Moneyroll, Trakster, Trakster Serif, Noswatt, Noswatt Serif (copperplate style), Notstar, Rodenda, Hammet, Hastagirl (watercolor brush), Arzeti Script (informal monoline wedding script), Sicero (vintage display typeface by Abdilah), Sign Panthers Brush Script, Magle Sans, Magle Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Millerstone (connected calligraphic script), Bad Taste, Conserta (Victorian), Grestal Script, Beclave, Double Aunofa (Script and Serif), Summer Classico, Ahoy Amigo (font duo), Aunofa Serif, Aunofa Script, Delphin Spring, Delight Lettering Script, Tropical Asian, Vedacity (calligraphic), Rothe (vintage), Bigger Love (script), First Choice (calligraphic), Love Hurts, Hall Of Fun, Casual Font Bundle (which includes Easy Monoline Script, Subber Sans, Sintix, Rebel Four, and Grotes Sans), Hemera II (a vintage Victorian matchbox typeface), Asian Skyline, Queen Waffle, Rosse, Harvest Barn (script), Oh Samantha, Simple Monologue (calligraphic), Sweet Getaway (handwriting).

Typefaces from 2019: Vango (a sci-fi or speed font), Aghony (script), Conserta Royal (Victorian), Roast Serif, Mister Quenos (a fast food store signage font), Calisatt (an SVG brush font), Redstock Script, Suspiria Vampira (a Halloween font set), Hoffers (a children's book font), Closer (a Swiss sans), Hoffers (a marker pen font), Mackle (Script, Serif), Blante (Sans + Script), Millerstone, Kimball, Henave (flared sans), Valsday (Sans, Script).

Typefaces from 2020: Destrokes, Kremato (+Script, +Short, +Tall), Krasher (a painted brush SVG font), Rebelton (a 12-style all caps sans), Koutura (a fashion mag font), Kalleco (a free hand-printed typeface), Citypop (1990s Japanese retro pop style, with subfamilies Main Display, Neon, Screen, Digital and Automotive), Urban Shock (ultra-condensed), Renin (a Western super-heavy slab serif), Jaksel (a bold squarish sans typeface), Alkaria (a retro display typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Kingsad (a 5-style wide flared display family), Ahoy Amigo (a type duo), Harvest Barn (script), Simple Monologue (a calligraphic script), Magle (a script typeface), The Sign Painters, Makalo (an African tribal font), Discopia (neo-futurist), Daguin (a fashionable display typeface inspired by the Middle Ages), Tropical Asian (a painted font), Fosty Blue, Kofje (a daring decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Vogatron (sci-fi), Hwaiting Handwriting (emulating Korean), Hwaiting Serif, Hwaiting Sans (an experimental Korean vibe font), Walanor (a pop art font).

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Kousuke Nagai

Aka Kyosuke Nagai. Japanese designer of the free Japanese hand-printed Mincho style Google font New Tegomin (2021) and the free (variable) Latin penmanship font Kapakana (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

KPS Fonts
[Klaus-Peter Schaeffel]

Swiss calligrapher in Basel who made and sells various medieval and historically important script fonts. Dedicated page. These included the paleographic (PAL) series and the KPS series. He lives in Ühlingen--Birkendorf, Germany. His fonts are uniformly of high quality and are usefl for illustrating historical alphabets.

His early commercial collection: KPS Anglaise (calligraphic script), KPS Antiqua (+Kapitälchen), KPS Capitalis (classic Trajan caps), KPS Cicero, KPS Epona (calligraphic), KPS Fein (hand-printed), KPS Hand (calligraphic), KPS Horaz (calligraphic), KPS Iris (calligraphic), KPS Petit (calligraphic), KPS Plinius, KPS Spitzfelder, KPS Vitruv (calligraphy), PAL Bastarda, PAL Cancellaresca, PAL Carolina, PAL Gotisch, PAL Humanistica, PAL Lombarden, PAL Quadrata, PAL Rotunda, PAL Rustica, PAL Textura, PAL Uncialis, PAL Uncialis Roemisch, Weissranken Initialen, Ranken Initialen (Celtic capitals).

Since September 2013, all of his fonts are free. They were renamed and have conveniently the date of original creation in the font name. The fonts dated in the 1990s and 2000s are new typefaces or creative revivals by Klaus-Peter. The list of revivals: 0100DeBellisMacedonicis [Pre-uncial letters from the fragment "de bellis macedonicis", ca. 1st century], 0300Petros [Greek hand from the oldest surviving copies of St. Peter's epistles, dated 3th / 4th century], 0362Vitalis [Roman Minuscule Cursive from the so called Vitalis letter, written before 362 on papyrus (Strasburg)], 0480VergiliusRomanus [Capitalis Rustica from the Vergilius Romanus written in Rome, ca. 480], 0500VergiliusSangallensis [Capitalis Quadrata from the Vergil fragments in Stiftsbibliothek St.Gallen], 0512Dioskurides [Greek Uncials from the Vienna Dioskurides (about 512)], 0746Beda [from Beda Venerabilis: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Northumbria, dated 746], 0800Kells [Half Uncials from the Book of Kells], 0800Remedius [So called "Lombardic-Raetic Minuscule" from Codex 348 of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen], 0800 Theophanes [Greek Hand after a 9th century Theophanes manuscript], 0850CarolinaTours [Carolingian Minuscule], 0850Carolinaundulata [Carolingian Minuscule from the Scriptorium of Tours], 0864Folchart [St. Gall Carolingian from the Folachart Psalter], 1012Otto [Late Carolingian Minuscule from the Perikopes of Heinrich II, written at the Reichenau, donated to the dome of Bamberg in 1012], 1258FridericusII [Gothic Rotunda from the falcon book of Emperor Friedrich II, Southern Italy 1258-1266], 1400Wenzel [Bohemian Textura from Vienna], 1450Sebastos [Humanistic Greek hand from Homer, Ilias, Vatican Library], 1455GutenbergB42 [Gothic Textura types from the 42 line Gutenberg Bible], 1458GutenbergB36 [Gothic Textura types from the 36 line Gutenberg Bible], 1470Jenson [an antiqua by Nicolas Jenson], 1475HumanisticaCursiva [Humanistic Cursive of the kind Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua wrote, after Cod. Pal. Lat. 1508], 1480Humanistica [Humanistic Book Hand from Valerius Maximus: Facta et dicta memorabilia, ca. 1480-1485. The calligraphy is attributed to Antonio Sinibaldi from Florence and the titling capitals to Bartolomeo Sanvito from Padua], 1483Koberger [Incunabula type from the Koberger Bible, printed in Nuremberg in 1483], 1485Grueninger [Incunabula type from the Grueninger Bible, printed in Strasburg in 148], 1493SchedelRotunda [Incunabula type from the Latin edition of Hartmann Schedel's World Chronicles, printed by Koberger at Nuremberg in 1493], 1501Manutius [First printed Italic Antiqua by Aldus Manutius (Venice 1501)], 1513Gebetbuch [Fraktur from Emperor Maximilian's Prayer Book, printed in Augsburg in 1513], 1517Gilgengart [Fraktur type from Emperor Maximilian's 1517 private print "Gilgengart"], 1517Teuerdank [Fraktur type from Emperor Maximilian's "Teuerdank", printed at Augsburg in 1517], 1519NeudoerfferFraktur [Fraktur alphabet from a woodblock model in Johann Neudoerffer the Elder's Calligraphy book "Fundament", Nuremberg 1519], 1739Bickham [Copperplate or running hand after models from "The Universal Penman" by George Bickham, printed in London 1743], 1741Bickham [Bickham's round hand from Universal Penman], 1782Thurneysen [Baroque Antiqua Type of J. Jacques Thourneysen fils, Basel 1782].

Original versions by Schaeffel, with date of design in the font name: 1999Anglaise1, 1999Anglaise2, 1999Cancellaresca, 1999Carolina (Carolingian minuscule), 1999Livius, 1999LiviusBold, 1999LiviusItalic, 1999LiviusSmC, 1999LiviusTitel, 1999Ovidius, 1999Stylus, 1999Textualis, 2000Bastarda, 2000Cicero, 2000Humanistica, 2000Plinius, 2000PliniusItalic, 2000Seneca-Italic, 2000Seneca, 2000TextualisFormata, 2000Uncialis, 2001RotundaFormata, 2002Cato, 2002Horatius, 2002Vitruvius, 2003Epona, 2003Lombarden, 2004CapitalisQuadrata, 2004CapitalisRustica, 2004Iris, 2004UncialisQuadrata, 2004UncialisRomana, 2008-Noeuds-1 [for making Celtic knots], 2008-Noeuds-2, 2008-Noeuds-3, 2009Xenophon, 2010Filigrane, 2010Gouttes, 2010Labyrinthe [squarish], 2010Pointu [a calligraphic blackletter], 2010Vergilius [a great calligraphic face].

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Kristoffel Boudens

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] ⦿

Ksenia Belobrova

Type designer, calligrapher and lettering artist in Moscow. Initially, she was working for Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau. Her typefaces there:

Bureauserif (2015-2016). A text typeface family. The Greek part was done by Anna Danilova.
Galochki (or: Checkmarks). Done in 2013.
Voltaire (2015). A script typeface based on illustrations in one of Voltaire's books from 1734. Voltaire covers Latin and Cyrillic.

In 2015, she designed Di Mare, a layered script inspired by Italian restaurant and cafe signs.

In 2016, she designed MT Brush, Allister Rough, the brush signage typefaces Mixed Tape and Mixed Tape Rough, and the heavy monoline script typeface Jonesy.

Typefaces from 2017: Eldwin (The Northern Block: a connected script), New Jonesy Latin, Luna Brush (brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Frederik (a great Latin / Cyrillic humanist sans family published by The Northern Block in 2019), Garnet (Capitals and Script, with a great Inline). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kudo Creative (or: XD Creative)
[Faldy Kudo]

Banyuwangi, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Carmilla (2018), Mollucash (2018), Saturday Night (2018), Southwarks (2018), Charlottes (2018), Black Sweet (2018) and Hypertiroid (2018: drawn with a nibbed calligraphic pen).

In 2019, he released the monoline sans typefaces Shafira and Grayson.

Typefaces from 2020: Daffodile, Gadies (an organic sans), Emphatic (a display serif), Bonitha Octavy (script), Pramodia (a signature script), Cornelia (a titling typeface), Gloria Ramsey (a display serif), Honey&Lovely.

Typefaces from 2021: Native Txt (an 18-style transitional text family), Giane (a 16-style serif family), Giane Gothic Sans (54 styles), Vegas x (an inline typeface), Cantiqe (a didone), Loistave (an imperfectly kerned 6-style transitional text typeface), Cavello (an 8-style slab serif), Osande (an organic neo-grotesk in 14 styles).

Typefaces from 2022: Magnify (16 styles; a geometric sans inspired by Futura). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Kurniadi Saputra
[Cooldesign Lab]

Kurniawan Eko
[Letter Atom]

Kylie Ellway

London-based designer of the upright swashy calligraphic script typeface Windswept (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

La Nef des Fous

French calligraphy blog. [Google] [More] ⦿

La Operina
[Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi]

Full e-text of the first book on writing, La Operina (Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, 1522), a 32-page book about Arrighi's calligraphic lettering. Comments by G. Briem. Briem writes: The author was a copyist, papal scribe, publisher and type designer. He called himself Ludovico Vicentino, and wrote the name eight times into his short text. Yet we know him as Arrighi, a name that appears nowhere in the book. Operina shows great handwriting on every page. It is more than a set of model sheets, however. It describes Arrighi's underlying forms and two basic entry movements. It covers the spacing of lines, words and letters. It deals with slant and joins. Operina is a slim volume of 32 pages. It teaches italic handwriting and is still essential reading. Each page was printed from a separate woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, who is best known as a master of chiaroscuro engraving. Title page. Page 20. Page 26. Page 27. Page 28. Page 29. Page 30. Last page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lafontype (pr: tardiexwas: Pixifield, Elementype, Fontliner Studio)
[Anugrah Pasau]

Makassar, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of Botdoh Script (2016), Hallelujah (2016, brush script), Zephan (2016, calligraphic font), Antebras (2016, a brush script with over 1000 glyphs and ligatures) and Fundamental Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Kindentosca (handwriting), Welinedion (brush script), Bethadyn, Bawakaraeng, Bidaq, Bidaq Brush, BisQuid (signage script), Nestle (retro script), Quixo (a didone not to be confused with Griesshammer's 2010 typeface FF Quixo), Hallelujah, Demotia, Look.

Typefaces from 2018: Antebas (script), Aksara (a sans type).

Typefaces from 2019: Mithella (rounded sans), Antebas (a sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Belista (font duo), Herbit (a handcrafted sans family), Cabrion (a sans family), Malino (a low contrast humanist sans family with very open counters).

Typefaces from 2020: Scaffold (a condensed grotesk), Aretha (a 14-style sans), Celliad (a monoline script), Saltines, Hindia (a rounded heavy script), Pelita (a humanist sans family).

Typefaces from 2021: Protofo (a 16-style geometric sans), Cedora (a 14-style sans).

Creative Market link. Dafont link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. Creative Market link for Pixifield. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Laimute Varkalaite

Rumsiskes, Lithuania-based designer of several calligraphic alphabet called Alphabetology (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Laïc
[Maciej Polczynski]

Laic is the type foundry founded in 2018 by Warsaw, Poland-based type designer Maciej Polczynski. His typefaces:

As part of his Bachelor's project at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies in 2016, Maciej Polczynski (Warsaw, Poland) designed the sans typeface Ayka.
In 2016, as part of Warsaw Types, he designed the vintage technical typeface Cyrulik and writes: Cyrulik is inspired by technical stencil lettering found on electrical and mechanical devices in Warsaw, and a prewar headline display font---Cyklop---used in a newspaper called Cyrulik Warszawski. The font design combines a strong and sturdy form with delicate and modern details, reflecting the contemporary character of Warsaw. Cyrulik comies in Rounded, Sharp and Stencil styles and is free.
In 2017, at The Designers Foundry, he published the display typeface Solenizant, which covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
Obibok (2018): Obibok (2018). Obibok is a Polish word describing a lazy person. It is a modern sans serif typeface family consisting of five styles (Light, Regular, Bold, Black and Inversed). This fine geometric typeface was extended and modified in 2020 as Obibok Sans.
Maruder (The Designers Foundry). A reverse contrast typeface, 2018-2019.
Prostak. A plain geometric sans.
Ozzy.
Nieuk. An experimental modular typeface.
Krayewski: Krayewski is a display typeface based on sketch lettering of Andre de Krayewski from his book cover "Moje Okladki" (2014). Andrzej Krajewski (b. Poland) was an outstanding illustrator and designer who developed his own style mixing art-deco and pop art, and was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the supervision of Wojciech Fangor and Henryk Tomaszewski. Krayewski is unicased. It consists of Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. It was released at Laic in 2019.
Retor (2018-2019). A 6-style text typeface family.
Rygor (2018). An art nouveau typeface based on lettering by illustrator and publisher Ignacy Chodorowicz.
Wiwat (2019). A contemporary sans inspired by deco. In six weights.
Nielot (2019). Nielot (Polish for flightless) is a plain, geometrical typeface. It was inspired by posters created by designers representing Russian Constructivism.
Figura (2019). A nearly monolinear contemporary interpretation of a grotesque typeface.
Eksces (2019). A squarish display family.
Ozzy (2019, Laic). Described as calligraphic funk, this typeface by Brody Neuenschwander and Maciej Polczynski cannot be properly classified. Several versions were released between 2029 and 2022, numbered Ozzy I through Ozyy VIII.
Figiel (2020). A stylish wide monoline sans typeface family inspired by art deco streamline architecture.
Elektyk (2020, +Stencil). A quirky exaggerated display typeface.
Hybrida (2020). The slab version of Eklektyk, daring, in-your-face, and dystopian.
Pion or Pionek (2020). A condensed all caps headline sans.
Monter (2021). An octagonal typeface that refers to mechanical items such as nuts and bolts.
Iskry (2022). A sparling display serif.
Fason (2022). A hipsterish condensed sans family.
Awaria (2022). Emulating old pixel fonts.
Blef (2022). A triagular cutout typeface family.
Kommune Stencil (2022) and Kommune Display (2022).

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Laney Ruddell
[Design by Laney]

L'Aractère

L'Aractère organizes calligraphy courses given in Paris. During 2002-2003, in the gallery/bookstore Comptoir des écritures of the Beaubourg: Hassan Massoudy, Serge Cortesi, Kitty Sabatier, Béatrice Balloy, Omikado Sachiko, Ouyang Jiaojia, Zhu Ya and Abdallah Akar. In 2010-2011, Claude Mediavilla taught a course. [Google] [More] ⦿

Larin Type Co
[Pasha Larin]

Pasha Larin or Pavel Larin is the Perm, Russia-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Andrea, Alaska (brush script), Phaeton, Modesty, Quarter (brush script), Magdolena, Casamia, Natalia, Kemuri.

Typefaces from 2018: Jumbo, Winter Miracle, Planet Earth (signage script), Tiny Love, Cambridge, Shaimus, Darling Romance, Paeonia, Merchant, Kurtis, Road Crew (a monoline script), Lucky Fortune (a beatnik font), Aeriform, Christmas Mystery, Shanky, Cashmere, Seaward, Christmas Story, Inside, Sheraton, Beverly Hills, Vanilla Cream, Blue Moon, Bambino (children's script), Fun Play Day, Belorian, Malibu, Peach Blush, Royal Voyage, Crystal, Jackson, Highest, Stephany, Macbarel, Magnatec, Forestage, Honied, Arrivals, Fantasy, Modern Talking, Playful, Gulliver, Hadron (monoline script), Loituma (script), Rhonely (signature script), Sophia (smooth brush script), Chik Pik (a monoline children's script), Candy Land, Smashing (signature font), Garkleriny, Habital, Sambina, Space Jam Script, Taste of Desires, Rusarian Script, Lemon Blast, Skyline Script, Daintily Script, Fairytale Script, Jalsony, Balwest, Dandelion (calligraphic), Solar (brush script), Selrany, Joyful, Amplifier, Hantery (signature script), Richard, Buldery, Laperla, Largus Script, Juliet (watercolor brush), Dilation, Sun Island Script (brush script), Relang, Mirages Script, White Nights, Simple Game, Miracle Roved, Marylowe, Bird House, Selvia Script, Showing, Hendricks, Rosemary, Paradise, Adrenaline (a free signage script), Old Broadway, Virginal Script, Famous (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Winter Day, Blauer, Captain Nelson (vintage), Winter Miracle, Loredana (script), The Pincher Brothers, Romanson (a serif typeface), Lost Wind, Prima Donna, Palatine (a soft-edged script), Firm (a black sans with some oomph), Bunny Hop (cartoon type), Evelyn (brush script), Milady, Wild Nebraska (a monolinear font duo), The Old Navy (stencil), Kataleya, Spinach, Palestra (a black titling sans, followed in 2021 by Palestra Moderna), Foucher, Sanremo, Selatine (a streaked brush script), Beauty Flowers, Rush Hour, Avenger (a vintage monoline display sans), Anderson, Santa Monica, Pointer, Pattaya (script), Brisbane, Avangard, Armstead and Armstrong (two calligraphic wedding scripts), Violeta (script), Futurino (a great chldren's book font family), Avignon (script), Bombastic (cartoon font), Velvet Line, Beyond, Bright Cofetti (font duo), Fort Yukon (spurred), Briosh (signature script), Marisha, Black Star (monoline), Sensation (inky script), Bonavista, Pina Colada, Milardo, Bondy Mondy, Ostende, Pasternak, Secret Room, Pointer, The Old Navy (stencil), Lush Garden, Blonde, Way to the Heart, Youth Wind, Mulled Wine, Helardy, Ramson, Marine, Silona, Horse White, Hello Sakura, Mirabella .

Typefaces from 2020: Selna (a fashion mag typeface), Vianor (a decorative Victorian serif), Hughes (a retro signage script), Sugar Cake, Clarins (Script and Serif), Knopa (a beatnik font), Adventure Island (a monoline script), Morando (a decorative serif), Pina Colada, Norando (a decorative serif), Comilfo, Simaro, Malmont (script), Todes, Chaser (a military stencil), Mulled Wine (an inky Treefrog script), Bosca, Costa Mala (pure art deco), Sensal (formal art deco), Blaine (square-serifed), Leronda (a wedge serif typeface for display), Gron (bilined caps), Parnas (a stylish Peignotian sans), Landre (a retro script), Mansory (a Peignotian sans family), The Buchen (a rounded serif font), Platinor (a decorative serif), Grovana (soft all-caps sans), Ametis (an all caps fashion mag serif), Capella (brush script), Enigma (a stylish all-caps serif).

Typefaces from 2021: Cicada (a 10-style modulated sans), Legend Of Christmas (six styles: a font trio), Etero, Black River (a vintage outdoors font), Miamo (a script / sans pair), Portaso (a vintage grunge family), Brewery Factory (a 16-style collection of vintage beer label fonts), Butcher's Daughter (a vintage family ideal for pubs and beer bottles), Baren (a 9 style wide sans), Rolan (a 6-style art deco sans), Casual Style (sans, script), Delores (delicate roman caps), Above Ground (a dry brush script), Thawed (a melting ink font), Poum Boum (a children's book font), Giordano Gold (a stylish font duo), Lerum (a stencil serif typeface), Dress Code (a 12-style all caps headline or poster sans), Melgard (script), Chroman (a decorative serif first named Chroma), Chopard (a 12-style fashion serif), Hermitage (a 6-style decorative serif), Fremont (an inky Treefrog script) (a Treefrog script), Mansory (a formal display sans), Senar (20 styles; a slab and sans serif family), Opera Signature (a stylish serif), Faberge, (a decorative serif), Berkut (a take-no-prisoners octagonal military font with sold and stencil versions), Poligon (a military stencil family), Marmaris (a soft serif), Lestina (an inky script), Milonga (a Treefrog script).

Typefaces from 2022: Ramenson (a 15-style weathered vintage font collection including Sans, Serif and Script), Laro (an 18-style geometric sans). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Larry Brady

Lawrence Robert Brady (b. International Falls, MN, 1936-d. Salida, CO, 2023) was an American calligrapher, type designer, graphic designer, and educator. He studied Fine Arts at Montana State College and then completed a Masters Degree in design from California State University Long Beach. He taught for some time at Cerritos College. Brady's type designs include the titling font he designed in the 1980s for the J. Paul Getty Trust and Museum in Los Angeles (he was commissioned by Saul Bass to work on the museum's identity). Obituary. [Google] [More] ⦿

Larry E. Yerkes
[Vigilante Typeface Corporation (was: WolfBainX)]

Lars Olof Laurentii

Born in Stockholm in 1941, he is a Swedish lithographer, left-handed calligrapher, type and graphic designer, artist and teacher or ex-teacher at the following schools: Beckman Design School, Bergs Design School, and his own Schola Laurentii. One of Sweden's main graphic designers, he has created 1300 logos in Sweden, some of which have won awards, most notably from TDC in 1975. From 1974 until 1984 he developed the ten weight classic text family called Jonsson Roman. In 1983, he changed his name to Lars Olof Laurentii.

Author of Textning, grundbok i kalligrafi (Forma Publishing Group f.d.ICA-förlaget, 2001-03). He currently runs Flora&Lettera AB and Schola Laurentii. [Google] [More] ⦿

Laudelino L.Q.

Barcelona-based graphic designer, who created a revival of a medieval calligraphic script called Water Knife (1995, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More] ⦿

Laura Bolter
[Laura Bolter Designs]

Laura Bolter Designs
[Laura Bolter]

Graphic designer in Lenexa, KS, who created these commercial hand-drawn typefaces in 2014: LBBrushy, LBSweetieBold, LBSweetie.

In 2015, she designed Anne with an E (handcrafted), and LB Pie (curly script).

In 2017, she created Bonjour Mon Ami (calligraphic brush font) and Little Princess. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Laura Condouris
[Trial by Cupcakes]

Laura Worthington

Laura Worthington of Bonney Lakes, WA, is a letterer, illustrator and graphic designer. Her script typefaces became quite popular in recent years. In 2010, she set up shop at MyFonts. Catalog. Her typefaces:

Adorn (2014), Adorn Smooth (2015), Adorn Garland Smooth (2016, with Dai Foldes). Adorn is a hand-drawn poster font family larger than Charcuterie. It contains subfonts called Pomander, Coronet, Garland, Bouquet, Solo (monograms), Duo (monograms), Catchwords, Banners, Frames, Ornaments, Roman, Condensed Sans, Expanded Sans, Slab Serif, Serif, Copperplate, Engraved.
Al Fresco (2013). A breezy exuberant script loaded with opentype features.
Alana (2011, +Ornaments). A connected script.See also Alana Smooth (2017).
Alisha (2017).
Azalea Rough, Azalea Smooth
Beloved (2015)
Bianca (2010). A flowing calligraphic typeface.
Blithe (2017).
Boucherie (2014). In the "collection of vintage fonts" mould of Charcuterie, Boucherie captures the lively essence of 19th-century French advertising typography with a collection of original designs, rather than strict historical revivals.
Buckley (2012).
Caprizant (2016).
Charcuterie (2013). A large set of hand-drawn typefaces for vintage signage.
Congenial (2015). A legible soft unpretentious sans family originally designed for her own web site.
Ed's Market (2015). A grocery store and sign painting font family.
Elaina (2018). Script and Semi-Serif. Laura claims that Elaina Script is closest to her own handwriting.
Elicit Script (2018, by Laura Worthington and Jim Wasco). A hybrid (casual and formal) scrpt typeface based on pointed pen Spencerian Script handwriting.
Fairwater (2016). Designed together with Dai Foldes, this typeface family has Script, Sans, and Serif subfamilies, as well as several sets of ornaments. The Serif subfamily conjures up tattoo lettering, but also mathematical blackboard bold style and art deco.
Funkydori (2012). A fat retro signage script.
Ganache (2014). A packaging and logo script.
Gioviale (2012). A calligraphic script.
Greeting Cards (2010).
GrindelGrove (2009). A vampire font.
Harlean (2013). A rough-edged, powerful, and slightly sinful script face---originally named Harlowe.
HoneyBee (2012). An all caps pirate ship font.
Hummingbird (2012). A penmanship font.
Juicy (2015). A plump and yummy candy store font.
Ladybird (2010). A curly script.
Liam (2011). Bouncy and curly script.
Mandevilla (2013). Pure Americana, useful for signage.
Milkshake (a creamy retro script).
Modish (2016). A smooth brush script font.
Nelson (2011). A notched eroded family, almost for Mexican simulation.
Number Five.
Origins (2010). An antiqued typeface hand-lettered with a crow quill pen. Followed by Origins Smooth (2016).
Recherché (2010). A delicate script typeface.
Regina (2010). A delicate script typeface.
Renata (2016). A connected calligraphic script co-designed with Dai Foldes.
Rosarian (2011). A pointed brush connected script typeface.
Samantha (2011): 2700 flourished glyphs in the classical ronde upright script style and in an italic style; +Swash.
Sepian (2010). A pointy Textura font.
Sheila (2010). A connected calligraphic script.
Shelby (2011). A monoline, semi-connected script typeface based on hand lettering created with a Speedball B metal nib.
Spumante (2015).
Tangelo (2017).
Tiva (2010). A handcrafted and almost connected script.
Voltage (2014). A retro fat signage script.
Wallflowers (2011), Wallflowers II, Wallflowers III, Winter Wallflowers (2012).
Winsome (2016). A casual script.
Yana (2010). A spurred serif typeface.

Interview by MyFonts in 2010. I Love Typography link. FontBros link. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Fontspring link. Picture.

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Laure Afchain

Graduate from KABK, The Hague, 2009, Type and Media MA program. Her typefaces:

Malaussène (2009), a fun muscular display face, done as her graduation typeface at KABK. She says that her (large) family is designed for corporate identitities. It contains Malaussène Translation, Malaussène Expansion and Malaussène Sans as subfamilies, and is published by Die Gestalten in 2011. Examples: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H.
At KABK, she worked on a revival of the calligraphic typeface Meidoorn, originally designed in 1928 by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos for The Heuvelpers.
She was also at the Fine Arts School in Toulouse. Together with Alejandro Lo Celso, François Chastanet and Géraud Soulhiol, she designed the official typeface for the city of Toulouse, Garonne (2009, 4 styles).
A handwriting font.
The display family Pixat.
Peno (2009), done in a class of Peter Verheul.
A stone chisel/biline/paper cut experimental family Va mp y r.

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Lauren Lee

Lauren Eliza Lee is the Manhattan, NY-based designer of the connected script typeface Wildera (2016) and the free rounded sans typeface Somatic (2016, Modular and Rounded styles). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Laurent Pflughaupt

French author (b. Algrange, 1964) of Lettres Latines (Éditions Alternatives, 2003) and Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany (2007, Princeton Architectural Press, New York). The latter is a translation of his 2003 book. Calligrapher and activist for calligraphy in the streets of Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lawrence Rosa

Early 20th century designer of letters, such as Calligraphic. You're Invited (2014) is an invitation script font that revives a script found in Lettering (1916, Thomas Wood Stevens). The typeface was designed by Lawrence Rosa and later refined by Mario Arturo. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lazar Dimitrijevic
[Posterizer KG]

Lazydogs Type foundry
[Oliver Linke]

Lazydogs Type foundry is a German foundry located in München (and before that, Augsburg), est. 2005, by Oliver Linke, Robert Strauch and Kai Büschl. Strauch left in 2014. They do custom and retail type work. Oliver Linke (b. 1971, Odenwald, Germany) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany and the University of Missouri, Kansas City (19931-1998). He continued his studies in art history, art education and philosophy (2000-2005) at the University of Augsburg. He teaches type design and typography at the Designschule München (and before that, at the Blocherer Schule) and Augsburg. By 2017, Lazydogs was run by just two of its founders, Oliver Linke and Kai Büschl.

Lazydogs published some commercial typefaces, such as Fabiol (2005, a garalde by Robert Strauch), a winner at the TDC 2005 type competition. Oliver Linke created the Lazydogs Finn family (2006, a gorgeous delicate sans).

At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke about Masterpieces of Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563). In 2007, Oliver Linke and Christine Sauer published Zierlich schreiben Der Schreibmeister Johann Neudörffer der Ältere und seine Nachfolger in Nürnberg (Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg 25, Typographische Gesellschaft München / Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg).

Other typefaces: Pandera (2008, Robert Strauch), Vela (2010, a text typeface), North (2008, Trine Rask), Alena (2012-2017, Roland Stieger).

Typefaces from 2013: Streets of London (a complete lapidary font family out of a capital alphabet designed by the British stone cutter and type designer David Kindersley (1915-1995), a former apprentice of Eric Gill).

Typefaces from 2018: the didone families LD Moderne Antiqua (+Fat) and LD Moderne Slab by Kai Büschl.

Typefaces from 2019: LD Grotesk (Regular, Condensed, Wide), LD Fabiol Pro.

Typefaces from 2020: LD Elsnac (a roman typeface family), LD Genzsch Antiqua (by Michael Wörgötter: a revival of Genzsch Antiqua (or Nordische Antiqua)).

Typefaces from 2021: LinkeHand Pro. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Le Scribouillard

Ginette Morin's Montreal-based calligraphic enterprise. [Google] [More] ⦿

Léon Hulst
[TypeFaith Fonts]

Leah Chong
[Leah Design]

View Lennart Hansson's typefaces.

Leah Design
[Leah Chong]

Lettering artist and calligrapher in Singapore. In 2019, she cooperated with Roland Huse on the formal calligraphic typeface Brachetto. [Google] [More] ⦿

Leanne Rousseau

Graphic designer in Tornto who graduated from Humber College. Creator of the curlified didone typeface Rousseau (2013).

Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lennart Hansson

Swedish type designer, calligrapher and graphic designer, b. 1939, who lives in Skane, Denmark. He created RunaSerif (for Miles, 1995: inspired by the forms of ancient Viking runes, this typeface won the Nordic Typeface Competition in Copenhagen), Crane (1995, Agfa), Renasci (1997, based on old Danish inscriptions, mainly in churches), ZiP (Agfa Creative Alliance), and Hansson Stencil (Mecanorma). CV (in Swedish).

FontShop link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Leonard H. D. Smit

Dutch designer (1917-1986) active at Lettergietrij Amsterdam starting in 1947. Creator of the calligraphic script font Amazone (Tetterode Nederland, 1958), now available from Bitstream as Amazone BT [compare Amapola by Dan X. Solo]. In 1960, he designed Promotor, a medium weight expanded typeface done at Lettergieterij Amsterdam (now available from Elsner&Flake), in 1962 he added Orator (a bold companion to Promotor, Lettergieterij Amsterdam), and in 1969 Revue (still at Tetterode). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Leonardo Rosa Borges

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿

Lepré Vinci

Lepré Vinci is the alias of the French creator at URW++ of the calligraphic typeface Sultania (2015), the techno typeface Novara (2015), and Cerano (2015, a minimalist display family that combines elements of Bauhaus and art deco).

In 2017, he designed the Peignotian "Parisian chic" typeface Monceau at URW++.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Monotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Les Graphiquants

Graphic design studio in Paris, est. 2008. Designers include Maxime Tétard and Romain Rachlin. It is mainly involved in corporate identity and occasionally designs fonts for clients. Typefaces as of 2017 include Alsace (2012: modular all caps display typeface), Amsterdam (2012: an exercise in high contrast), Athènes (2009: experimental), Berline (2012: in Grotesk and Calligraphique substyles), Craft (2012: hipster style), Frankfort (2012), Intervalle (2016), Sofia (2011: Peignotian), Linbourg (2013), Rive (2010), and Lorraine (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿

L'esperluette (bleu.net)

French organization that wants to promote good writing and calligraphy through contests, meetings, seminars, and get-togethers. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letman
[Job Wouters]

Nice calligraphy in 2009 by Job Wouters in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letman

Dutch lettering artist who drew some alphabets in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letraspace

Letraspace was created by Trotsiglinda (Linda Âslund), Grafi (Magdalena Lindelöw) and Dawnland (Daniel Viberg), in Sweden, in 2013. Every week they make new word using lettering and calligraphy. Letraspace also organizes events.

On this sub-page, one can download several free fonts. These fonts are based on the handwriting of LetraSpace workshop attendants, processed by the online service from PaintFont.com and refined by Daniel Viberg as part of the LetraSpace workshop, LitterArt Gästabud, Sweden, in 2014. They include Dayweed (David Wiberg), Gagfi (Gabriella Axelsson), Humafi (Magdalena Lindelöw), Kickart (Christina Forsbom), Miranda (Miranda Viberg), Nettlebladt, Tyra (a children's hand by Tyra Viberg). Some fonts are sold commercially via Creative Market. These include Left Hand Path (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letrasupply Type foundry
[Irma Asharini]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Holistic Duo (2017: Script and Sans), the monoline all caps sans typeface Aerioz (2017) and the tattoo script font Familia Script (2017).

In 2018 she designed Colesberg Script (retro calligraphic) and Golden Signer, which was influenced by vintage and tattoo letters, and Versica (with Agung Gumilang Sugih).

Typefaces from 2020: Breland (a titling typeface, and decorative borders and ornaments, by Agung Gumilang Sugih and Irma Asharini).

Typefaces from 2021: Casler (a steampunk era caps typeface). Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letritas
[Juan Pablo de Gregorio]

Juan Pablo De Gregorio Concha lived in Santiago, Chile, where he founded Letritas in 2006. He is presently based in Barcelona. Home page of Sabia Usted. Blog with entries on themes such as legibility. Designer of these typefaces:

Chucara Serif (2003) and Chucara Text (2003): free at Dafont. Followed by Chucara Next (2021), a 16-style text typeface with inward serifs.
Los Niches (2007). A playful hairline sans, about which Anna Malsberger writes: The lowercase f puffs out its chest with exaggerated aplomb, and t splits into a script stem reminiscent of a table grab a cocktail and pull up a chair to watch the show.
Comalle (2008, Umbrella type). An organic roman with a comic book mind.
Romeral (2004, slab serif), a custom typeface for the University of Chile (2007).
Curico (2004).
Beauchef (2011, Cabinet Type). Beauchef is an organic monoline sans serif typeface, originally created to meet the needs of the Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of Chile. The design is cold as steel and rather abstract and lifeless, which reflects the ideas most people have about advanced mathematics. However, true mathematicians like warm, curvy and passionate letters and symbols. Beauchef was republished by Latinotype in 2015.
Los Niches (2011). A clean monoline sans family with some swashes. Published by Latinotype in 2012.
Pret-a-porter (2016). A calligraphic script typeface family accompanied by Pret-a-porter Slab.
Isabel (2016). Designed together with Eleonora Lana, Isabel is a very Latin text typeface family, feminine and didone-inspired. It has a unicase style. In 2017, Juan Pablo de Gregorio and Eleonora Lana added Isabel Condensed and Isabel SemiCondensed.
Condell Bio Poster (2016). A fat rounded sans. The larger Condell Bio family (published in 2017) was started in 2006.
Molde (2017). A neo-grotesque inspired by the extreme sobriety of famous post-Bauhaus Swiss Movement of the mid-twentieth Century.
The great layered vintage typeface Biscotti (2018).
Squalo (2018). A sans family.
Liliana (2018). A geometric sans with mischievous and frivolous alternates.
Vicky (2019). A slab serif.
Duddy (2019). A rounded sans.
Copihue (2020). A humanist sans family.
Stadtmitte (2020). An information design typeface family.

Letritas home page. Creative Market link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Kernest link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letter Arts Review

"Internationally recognized as the preeminent magazine for lettering artists and calligraphers, the award-winning quarterly journal will acquaint you with today's fresh and innovative lettering artists as well as yesterday's legends." See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letter Arts Review 2003

Letter Arts Review ran a calligraphic lettering competition. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letter Atom
[Kurniawan Eko]

Indonesian designer of the script typefaces Machis (2019: calligraphic) and Inkl Line (2019: monoline). [Google] [More] ⦿

Letter Stock (was: Gumacreative)
[Guguh Gumantoro]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1982) of Masura (2016, brush style), Space Cake (2016, sci-fi style), Caroline Script (2016), Morning Fever (2016), Binzo (2016), Morning Cloud (2016, handcrafted), Rancha (2016: grungy style), Alkhali (2016), Gath Is A Robot (2015) and Scarlet (2015, textured typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Vanhala (Tuscan), Orchard, Solitaire, Founder (a thin script), Elanor, Callous (signature script), Keith (script), Subsky (script), Hamburger (artsy script), Smith (monoline rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Steven Mattew, Romansa (script), Pianicas, Infamous, Voltras, Faddox, Slayer Creeper (a dripping blood blackletter font), Hellioum (a balloon font), Grootten Beast (a wooden plank font), Lazarrous (beatnik), Salmounth (a clean script), Damaskush (a blackletter), Neurotic (spurred, blackletter), Maclucash, Neowave, Throoper, Maldivine, Morrisette (signage script), Descrendent (sans), Athlenstan, Hole Script, Cardigan, Lenox, Aero Space, Esentrik (over-decorated), Lethal (sans), Markwell (script), Hallmark, Fymous (signature script), Brighford (spurred), Bulb (a bubblegum font), Wavecraft.

Typefaces from 2020: Flinch (a stone cut Flintstone font), Jack Miller (a signature script), Jaguar Jugglers (squarish, constructivist), Lazarrous (beatnik style), Jane Frediction, Grindmore (a calligraphic blackletter typeface), Descendent (a monolinear rounded coffee shop sans), Oliver Queen (a fat brush script), Orangutan, Chadwick (a Halloween font), Oakleaf, Buckles, Hackwell, Susan Brooks, Jacqueline, Alistair Morrison, Gibson Walsh, Slapstick, Monkey Werch, Rooselyn, Northway (lettering for outdoor or nature trail signage), Ghotana, Apija, Rawkin Pickles, Lockdown, Linger (a curly delight), Nuttyclash (a dry brush typeface), Ghosie, Kuro (a brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Bellamind (a decorative serif), Bingana (a playful typeface with oriental influences; appropriate for toys), Cheshire (sketched, textured), Creepycall, Croftler (a grungy athletic shirt font), Goldenwick (a vintage decorative serif), Karlburns (an ultra-decorative font by Vic Carless), Shorelly (an arts and crafts all caps serif), Walkingblue (a round vernacular slab serif), Garlicha (a great formal copperplate calligraphic font that unfortunately features a lower case r that can be confused with a lower case n), Hamingduck (copperplate calligraphy), Antucious (an ornamental serif), Monkeymod (a textured reverse srtress display font), Eightbit (a retro pixel font), Maloney West (art nouveau), Adamovick (a spurred Halloween font), Grindleaf (organic), Cronicalypse (a reverse stress elephant foot display font), Houston Palace (a monolinear retro script), Raceryouth (a weathered stencil font), Lyonade (a monolinear script based on retro motorbike posters), Alleysondust (a calligraphic script), Carlosberg (a spurred Victorian typeface), Clubeight (a trilined neon typeface that is reminiscent of Wyman's designs for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico), Slacksluger (a decorative inline typeface with medieval terminals), Beckmarine (a rough typeface inspired by retro cartoon and retro motorbike posters), Bullmars (a heavy font), Sinofluck (a stylish brush script inspired by a samurai poster), Scandlers (a dry brush script), Melvines (a thick paint brush font), Rockapolis (stencil), Lexaviers (a rune simulation font), Mylo (a dry brush typeface), Meckatler, Machiates (a vintage signage font), Fluxion (a dry brush script), Black Marilyn (blackletter), Palermosh, New Kids on the Font, Psychonaut (a reverse contrast, or even a Western, font), Black Valentine (a decorative blackletter), Buckles (a dry brush font), Smegh Mouth (a dry brush font), Armthadore, Brookland (a dry brush script), Khian Shantang (a decorative blackletter), Laekar (a hand-drawn blocky poster font), Schoutler (an ornamental fantasy font), Sonoxa (a heavy and creamy dry brush typeface), Classicloud (a decorative and festive blackletter).

Typefaces from 2022: Gavin Zoo (a vintage decorative serif), Sallam (Arabic emulation), Sururim Maudunah (emulating Arabic), Ar Rayyan (Arabic emulation), Hollybucks (a round handprinted typeface), Mack Dutch (a weathered elephant foot serif), Obidel (a squarish vernacular typeface), Pinkerton (a playful cartoonish font), Sloopy Joe (a condensed sans with some curly terminals), Xylo Macloud (a decorative serif), Hickenwitch (a decorative serif), Parkwilson (a decorative serif), Buckedtalk (an inline blackletter typeface), Buckedtalk (an inline blackletter typeface). Creative Fabrica Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letterafandi Studio (was: Letterafa Studio, Peterdraw, Delapan Studio)
[Ahmad Syarif Afandi]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) who started out as Peterdraw and in 2019 joined Delapan Studio, where his fonts are marketed. His studio was renamed Letterafa in 2020.

Creator of the display typefaces Pistachio (2019), and Brewok (2019: a sans with hairy outlines), Glippy (2019: a glitch font), and Neon Desmon (2019), the fat finger fonts Granada (2019) and Macadamia (2019), the rounded handcrafted sans typefaces Maven (2019) and Dear Audrey (2019), and the script typefaces Attaya (2019), Sabrina (2019), La Petite (2019), Molita (2019), Geulis Stylish (2019), Gladyss (2019), Nina Ninut (2019), Lulla (2019), Dear Audrey Script (2019) and Camellia (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Sparkle (a connected script), Mischella (a signature script), Chia Seeds, Summer Pisces, Jerome (a condensed slab serif in three weights), Marylinda (script), New Interspeaker, Revnosa (a dry brush typeface), Chasy (script), Sherletta, Candela (a monoline script), Danyla, Grand Duke (a display serif), Sintya (a stylish script), Hey Monday, Chapillada, Butterfly, Good Vibes, Techno Space (futuristic), Oregano, Sabrina, Femme, Bilderberg (a display serif), Sagara (a vintage text typeface co-designed by Ahmad Syarif Afandi and Tri Kuncoro).

Typefaces from 2021: Agathis, Allenisa (an open connected script), Beautiful Variella, Betteryou (a smooth script with contrast), Bitterlove (a curly script), Black Thunder (a fat finger font), Bunnyheart, Christhine (an elongated bean font), Christmas Craft (a blackboard bold font), Christmas Heart, Christmas Weather (script), Christmas Winter, Early Christmas (a scrapbook script), Easter Story, Evelyne, Febriella (a fine script), Firstlove (an upright script), Fishbone, Gabriella, Geollitta, Halloween Monoline, Hillarie, Holidate, Honey Love Bunny, Jaggielka, Kattsia, Lovebird, Nathilda (a calligraphic script), Phitaya (a hand-printed typeface with small x-height), Rabitta, Salminah (a monoline script), South Town (a monoline script), Spooky Hunter, Summer Beach (a playful font), Sweet Christmas, Thanks Mom (a scrapbook script), Violethe (a painter's font), Warilah, We Love Mom (a fat finger font), Wolfriend, Yattina (script).

Old link for Peterdraw. Old link for Delapan.

Typefaces from 2022: Angolla (a textured hand-crafted display font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letteralle
[Annas Alam Yahya]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1996, of the script typefaces Indigo Forest (2019), Golden Royale (2019), Brother Home (2019: brush style), Betterworks (2019: dry brush), Carlinet (2019: dry brush), Sophia Martini (2019), Ottawa (2019), Wonder Bay (2019), Aerobrush (2019), Heisenberg (2019), Denmark (2019), Wonder Bay (2019), Barrington (2019) and Strude (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: La Monte (a breezy calligraphic script), Hello America, Breakout (a signage script), Caliway (script), Marquette (a dry brush script), Carneys Gallery (Sans, Script).

Typefaces from 2021: Caseopia (stylized roman capitals), Cramble (a display serif with elephant feet), Margarette (a calligraphic script), Pride Signature (a wild signature script), Avocado Cake (a fat finger font), Bingbong (vernacular), Acardia (a wet-ink upright signature font), Alander (script), Autographer (a signature script), Comica Brush (a brush font for comic books), Signatural (an inky signature script), Briche (a beautiful all caps dry brush font), Balmind (a fat finger script), Little Moment (a fat finger script), Bakari (an all caps supermarket font), Rocket Chicken (handcrafted), Storia (a smooth script font), Frinkle Brush (a dry brush script), Imagine Forest (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2022: Cheva Display (a bold condensed display serif with didone roots), Avegra (a display serif), Diaspora (a stylish sans with flaring), Trovas (Peignotian / art deco caps), Diaspora (a display sans), Valery (a decorative serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letterara Studio
[Thomas Aradea]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based psychology student, b. 1988. He designed these typefaces in 2022: Australia Handwritten (a brush script), Easter Risen (a bean font), World Peace (a great graffiti font), Bollifia (a monoline script), Bollifia (a monolinear scrapbook script), Bellanos (a bean font), Asutenan (a dry brush script), Valkids, Light Bearer (a dry brush font).

Typefaces from 2021: Hello Easteria (a playfil scrapbook font), Blacker Valentine (an inky and wild calligraphic script), Allisabeth (a thick-and-thin script), Christmas Rockstar (a dry brush script), Dreamy Summer (script), Berries (a bold informal signage script), Miss Christine (a brush script), First Love FD (a font duo), Gardening, Chilli Peppers, Black Spartan (a dry brush script), Nijikon Japan (a plump supermarket or food packaging font), Summer Flower (a bold script), Mother Love (script), Earth Days (a textured typeface for ecologists), Good Friday (a heavy script), Natural Handwritten (script), Captain Kangaroo, Leaf Spring (a wild script), Merijola (script), Seruput Kopi (a fat finger font), Black Gladiator (a dry brush font), Baby Girl (a rabbit ear script), Heartberry (a scrapbook script), Princess Kimberli (an inky script), Wedding Dress (wild calligraphy), Harriella (an inky script), Pretty Butterfly (a wild playful script), Dear Darling (a wild script), Spring Sunshine, Still Valentine, Still Valentine.

Typefaces from 2020: Bellissa, Declaration Of Love, Endless Love, Bobby Anderson (a dry brush script), Thunder Ragnarok, Our Valentine (an inky script), Shepherd, Snowbound, Romeo Juliet, Sheepfold, Christmas Wonderland (a brush script), Holi Christmas Eve (an upright wild script), Christmas Journey, Mabelle (wild calligraphy), Barbiel (a wild calligraphic script), Michaello (a brush script), Sabastian (a wild inky script), Christmas Lights (a wild script), Merlyn, Snowball Bush, Christmas Magic (a creamy script), Cheerful Day (a wild script), Snowland (an inky Treefrog style script), Rolling Beat (a dry brush script), Batik Worldwide (a great textured font), Creepy Witch (a Halloween font), Angelynn Monogram, Angelynn, Mattera, Sweet Husky, Father Christmas, Hadriel, Alleffra, Olliffia (a great wild calligraphic script), Aguellera (a wild script), Angellolga (a signature script), Higher Jump (a dry brush font), Love Lovely, American Bulldog, Heal The World, Alaskan Malamute, Fergitta, Millena, Love Miracle, Cleanliness Power (a bold script, with our without shadows), Rayya (script), Matthew Woolsen, Heaster, Honnitta, Bluettelli, Good Thinking, Fressia , Easter Sunday, Well Done (swashy), Kobryan, Mileadila, Rutter, Jacksonville, Rockybilly (a brush script), Angelin Love (wild calligraphy), Backstreet, Roberto, Honey Bear (a heavy cartoon font), Horror Metal.

Typefaces from 2019: Anderson Silvai (a monoline display typeface), Maithe, The Army of God (a rough brush font), Puppy Love Brush, Beautiful Kisses, Black Note (a cartoon font), Kristabelle, Ramovia (wild calligraphy), Brenda Valentine, Margareta, Fabregas, Darkness of the Night (a brush font), Black Fighter (a dry brush script), Brother Tom (a dry brush script), Antika (a calligraphic script), Gamos, Airora (or Aurora), Keraton, Djoker State, Angel Maleficent, Harleyquin, Boomboyah (dry brush), Seronita, Untitled Artwork (in the "wild calligraphy" genre), Hertina, Reindeer, Right Now (a monoline script), Assinatura (a signature font), Snowby (snow-capped letters), Rosse, Snowky Brush (snowy letters), Black Area, Mariagata, Cubby Brush, Mariosa , Princess Berlianty, Gennie, Bestowens, Haruka, Kanaggawa, katherine, Halloween Story, Only One, Kutharock, Happy Halloween, Art Maria, Knighthood (dry brush script), California Street (script), After Zero (brush), Hong Kong (dry brush script), Alleluya (script), Handpick (a creamy brush script), Yolanda Love Script, Summer Cherry, Black Pink Summer, Johnson Rock, Hobenshaw (a free bold signage script), Eiffel in Love, Galgadot, Andora, Heanffe, Santeria Signature, Jason Statan (free), Brigitta, Peach Queen, Black Pink Signature, Garbera, Flaming Carrot, Seoul Script, Ferrero Rocker (marker pen font), Ferrero Rocher, Stefani, Adventure Dreamer, and Witherscollin.

Typefaces from 2021: Amsterdam Kindom (a fat finger script), Ordillon Handwriting (a fat finger script), Vallenta, Bittersoni (an inky script), Christmas Worship, Brigitta Signature (a dry brush script), Limit Breaking (letterpress emulation), Bellarosa (a dynamic inky script), Monster Scratch (a dripping blood font), Spooky Grave (a dripping blood font), Hallo Skull (a skull-and-bones font), Halloween Island, Billys Rock, Zombie Mummy (a textured mummy emulation font), Queenlery (a display serif), Ultimate Battle (dry brush script), Fastest (a speed font), Asgardian (a bold stencil font), Brillianissa (a stylish script), Hello Beach (a heavy script), Summering (a scrapbook font), Aishiteru (oriental emulation), Chilli Peppers, Gardening, Thanks Summer, Clarissa. Fontdaily link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

LetterArts

Calligraphy magazine from Oklahoma. [Google] [More] ⦿

LetterCult
[Brian A. Jaramillo]

Brian Jaramillo's page that highlights remarkable work by type designers, letterers, sign painters, graffiti artists, stone carvers, calligraphers, poster artists, and graphic designers. Its founders are Brian Jaramillo and Ray Frenden (a custom letterer), and frequent contributors include Jonathan Selig, Alex Savakis and David Hubner. Brian himself runs the Agency 26 lettering blog, where one can ogle his own lettering experiments from 2009: Bikini Killin' (alphabet), a toy font for Tokidoki, Hilton poster lettering, the word Boston, Fuck you lettering, So long sucker poster, Lowercase g, LetterCult logo, Kanye Unabomber art deco lettering.

Behance link. Brian is located in Signal Hill, CA. [Google] [More] ⦿

Letterflow Studio (or: Typestory)
[Diki Hermawan]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of hand-crafted and display typefaces. His early typefaces include Valenia (2019), Winter Is Coming (2019: script), Antello (2019: script), Vanilla (2019), Braga (2019: a vintage serif), Brader John (2019: an all caps slab serif), The Sunday (2019), Breethy (2019: script), the Victorian typeface Darktown (2019) and the script typefaces Rockhead Script (2019), Breakfast (2019: brush), Timberly (2019) and Fortwenty (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Winter Beauty, Midnight Glamour (a rabbit ear calligraphic script paired with a semi-didone), Love Bright (an upright rabbit ear script), Yesterday Dream (+Script), Mountain Bridge (script), Rockhead (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Betterside (an upright script), Sweet Dreams (a calligraphic script), Brilliant Summer (script), Venice Bridge (an all caps display serif), Bridney Signature, Buttershine Serif (and script).

The catalog in 2022: Amberia, Austein Script, Beauty and Elegant, BragaPRO, Breakfast, Bride (upright script), Bridney Signature, Brilliant Summer, Buttershine (a rabbit ear script and display serif duo), Chiara Feragni (a stylish display serif), Darktown, Darktown Font Duo, Gladisa, Golden Cheese, Gorgeous Font Bundle, Magic Bright, Marvelous, Midnight Glamour, Mountain Bridge, New Rockhead, Papernotes (a notebook font; +Sketch), Peony Blush, Riochi, Rockhead Script, Salva Avauger, Simply Lovely, Spring Edelweiss, Stay Lovely, Sweet Brownie, Sweet Dreams, Sweet Tropical, The Braders Script, Timberly, Valenia, Venice Bridge, Winter Beauty, Winter is Coming, Yesterday Dream. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letterfresh Studio
[Rizki Andika]

Indonesian studio specializing in calligraphic typefaces. Designer in 2018 of the calligraphic typefaces Ballesia, Bunglone, Diamond, Fathinya, Girly Love (upright script), Ranger Script and Margaretha (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Rangen (a sign painting script), Fathoni (a signage script), Batavia Script, Diamond, Melly Script, Buttering, Authem, Stayhill (a retro signage script), Austine Script (for signage), Stayland.

Typefaces from 2020: Beautiful Day Script Duo, Mogila Display (a decorative serif), Stay Glory Script (monolinear handwriting), Angelta Script, Beauty Queen Script, Sagita Script, Resnick (a fat headline or poster serif in the genre of Cooper Black or Windsor), Childa Script (a formal script), Amolina Boutique Script (a luxury script and accoapnyiong all caps sans), Budgeta Script (a signage script), Starline (monoline script), Ragilone Brush, Dustine Script (a remarkable high-contrast script characterized by samurai sword swashes and a military horizontal trim), Bufally Script (a vintage script).

Typefaces from 2021: Morning Flower Serif (an inky script), Salisha Signature, Agustina Script (upright), Golding Signature (an inky signature script), Rosthila Script (a creamy upright script), Liontine Script, Molista Script (an upright calligraphic script), Galitha Script (upright and calligraphic), Hello Georgina Script (an upright rabbit ear script), The Humble Script (a creamy script), Beauty Night Script (an upright script), My Sweety Script, Sweet Child Script (a formal calligraphic script), Hello Baby (an upright script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Letterhead Fonts
[Chuck Davis]

Chuck Davis (Palmdale, CA) is the founder of Letterhead Fonts, which is now loacted in Reno, NV. LHF was established in 1999. They specialize in sign and logo fonts, taking inspiration from wood type and late 19th century style typefaces.

Free fonts "Letterhead Tuscan" (handlettering), Quadrex (2006, 3d effect font), and Wal-Mart People (dingbats). Early display fonts include Esoteric (1999), Wall Dog, Double Gild, Convecta, Smalts, Splash, Lisa. His Atkinson collection has a few nice lettering alphabets: Heavy Sign Script, Eccentric French, Fancy Roman and Modern 1908 Classic (now called Cafe Nouveau).

Mike Stowe designed Old Blackletter in 2001. Ken McTague made the hand-lettered style typeface Boston Truckstyle. Designed by Brian Kniceley in 2000: LHF Henderson Church, LHF Ohnimus Florid, LHF Ohnimus Spiked, LHF Strong Tea House, Strong Caliope, Strong Nouveau.

Fonts made around 2000 by Chuck Davis: LHFActionMovie LHF Bulletin Plug, LHF Classic Block, LHF Condensed French, LHF Convecta (2005, beveled face), LHF Cool Blue, LHF Crouching Tiger, LHF Def Artist, LHF Def Writer, LHF Double Gild, LHF Eccentric French Lt, LHF Esoteric, LHF Heavy French Roman, LHF Heavy Sign Script, LHF Jami (2000), LHF Letterhead Tuscan, LHF Lisa, LHF Modern 1908 Classic, LHF Quantum (2001, techno family), LHF Smalts, LHF Splash, LHF Tuscan Full Block (Western style), LHF Wall Dog, LHF Letterhead Tuscan. Fonts made in 2001 by Chuck Davis: LHF Advertisers Plug ATK, LHF Argentine Solid, LHF Boston Truckstyle, LHF Esoteric New, LHF Grants Antique, LHF Mister Kooky, LHF Mister Spooky, LHF Scriptana (2003, angular calligraphic script).

The following are all by Chuck Davis: Kung Faux (2021: oriental simulation), LHF Antique Shop, LHF Fat Cat (2011, a round informal typeface influenced by Alf Becker's rounded block letterstyle), LHF Bank Note (2007), Quadrex (2005), Menace (2004, comic book style), Michelle (2004, calligraphic script), LHF Ambrosia (2004, free), Sofia Script (2003), Stanford Script (2003), Sarah Script (2003), Fancy Full Round (2003, a Western typeface inspired by Al Imelli, ca. 1900), Matthews Thin (2003, tall caps face), New Modern Classic (2003), LHF Birgitta (2003, roman style typeface, inspired by an E.C. Matthews book), LHF Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book style), CD Esoteric, OldSignFont, Robin, LHFDefWriter, LHFDefArtist, LHF Amarillo (2001, a spurred serif), LHFBeckerMonogramEnglish, LHFBeckerPosterScript, LHFBeckerRoundedBlock, LHFConclaveFLATreg, Cool Blue (2003), LHFConclaveFLATwide, LHFConclaveROUNDreg, LHFConclaveROUNDwide, LHFConclaveSHARPreg, LHFConclaveSHARPwide, LHFCrouchingTiger, LHFCrouchingTigerCONVEX, LHFEquinox, LHF Esoteric3 (2004), LHFMirageBOLD, LHFMirageITALIC, LHFMirageREG, LHFMonogram, LHFQuantumCONVEX, LHFQuantumREG, LHFRomanaClassico, LHFScriptana (great lettering font), LHFTimberlodge, Village, Kelly Ann, Outlaw, Hensler (2002, a cigar box face), Antique Half Block (2002, wood type), Spurred Egyptian, Wolverine, Ortlieb, Super Thick&Thin, Denise, Hensler, Charlotte, Antique Half Block (2002), Supabad (2003), Brianna (2003, techno), Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book family), Naylorville (2004), LHF Grant's Antique (2004, caps only Victorian face), Michelle (2004), Cafe Corina (2006, a decorative 19th century style free font by Chuck Davis), LHF Ambrosia (2004, a purely Victorian free font by Chuck Davis), Lincoln (2006), No Fishin (2006), LHF Bell Boy (2004, a free art deco font, Chuck Davis), LHF Full Block (2003; free slab serif athletic number typeface by Davis), Mike's Block (free slab serif by Davis), Old Block (free athletic numbering typeface by Davis), LHF Old Stock (2007), (2007, lettering from old stock market certificates), Hick Sticks (2007, letters made from sticks), LHF Fast Slant (2007, comic book style), LHF Cartoon Cowboy (2009), LHF Big Daddy (2012, fat signage family), LHF Comic Caps 2 (2014), LHF Advertisers Square (2014, after a signage alphabet by Al Imelli, 1922), LHF Asylum (2015, scratchy brush), LHF Black Rose Script (2016), LHF Mastercraft (2017).

Typeface categories: 3D, 30's and 40's, 50's and 60's, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bold, Calligraphic, Cartoon, Casual, Circus, Condensed, Convex, Corners, Decorative, Distressed, Early 1900's, Extended, Fire Truck, Formal, Gothic, Graffiti, Inline, Late 1800's, Layered, Light, Modern, Old English, Ornaments, Panels, Prismatic, Racing, Railroad, Ribbons, Roman, Sanborn Map Co., Sans Serif, Scripts, Scrollwork, Shadow, Stock Certificate, Swashes, Victorian, Western, Word Art.

Designers: Arthur Vanson, Brad King, Bruce Bowers, Charles Borges, Chuck Davis, Dan Sawatzky, Dave Correll, Dave Smith, David Parr, Denise Bayers, Duncan Wilkie, Francis Lestingi, Jeff Marshall, John Davis, John Studden, Kaitlin Sims, Ken McTague, Mark Searfoss, Mike Erickson, Mike Jackson, Patrick Kalange, Rob Cooper, Steve Contreras, Tom Kennedy.

At one point, Chuck Davis was running Blu Creative Media, where he published BLU Esoteric (1999).

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Letterhead Studio YG
[Yuri Gordon]

Letterhead is Yuri Gordon's (b. Moscow, 1958) Moscow-based foundry which publishes mainly Cyrillic fonts. Its coowners are Valery Golyzhenkov and Olga Vassilkova and it was established in 1998. It evolved from Garbage Type Foundry. Not to be confused with Chuck Davis' Letterhead. The main designer is Yuri (or: Jury) Gordon, the Moscow-based designer of the Type Directors Club 1999 award-winning designs Dve Kruglyh and FaRer Cyrillic, available from Paratype. URL at Yakovlev's Foundry. Picture. Article in the Moscow Times (2006), in which he proclaims: Better to make five fun and tasty new display fonts than one old, boring (and you thought it would look fresh!) text font. He is a graphic designer, illustrator, type designer, engraver and copyrighter. He is Art Director of several magazines.

Yuri Gordon created AntiQuasi (2008, a nice lightly slabbed serif family), Babaev [1996; inspired by the Russian Art Nouveau typefaces, initially created as a part of a corporate identity programme for Babayevskoye AO of Moscow], Arte mius (custom designed family for Art Lebedev Studio), Barrizmo (2004), Bistro (1997, hand-printed), Chantage (2000, handwriting), Conqueror Text, Conqueror Slab and Conqueror Display (large families), Conqueror Sans (2005-2010), Conqueror Text (2005-2010), Costa Brava (2003, fun script described as beach type), Costa Dorada (2003), Dva Probela (1997-1998), Dve Kruglyh (1997, unicase), Excession (1999), FaRer [1994; art deco typeface inspired by the work of Russian graphic artists Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964) and Ivan Rerberg (1892-1957), especially by Favorsky's lettering of 1924 and by Rerberg's of 1935. Dedicated to the Moscow Underground (Metro). Obtained an award at the 1997 TDC competition], Forward No. 10 (1995-1996), Forward Grotesque No. 9 (1998-2000), Gordoni (his take on Bodoni), GiardyOla (2008-2019), Handy, HotSause (1997, irregular handwriting), Karkas (2004, a manly sans), Little Shift (1999), Method (2002, a sans family), Minusmanscript (1998, calligraphic), Mr. Mixter (2011), Non System (2000), OptiMyst (1997), ResPublicana (1999), Sivtzev Vrazhek (1999, + mono), Michelle (2004, medieval), Naylorville (2004), Probel (1997-1998).
Illarion Gordon made the fun fonts Strelochnik (1996, irregular hand), Probbarius (1996), Monte Summa (1997), as well as Rahit (1998, kid's handwriting), Rough (2000, blotchy hand), Simpel (kid's hand), St. Valentin (2001), Accept (1998), Kartofel (2000, irregular handwriting), LangobardR (1999), Ospa (1997, funky handwriting), pLatinum (1999, informal script).
Valery Golyzhenkov's fonts from before 2000 are typically destructionist. He made 04.07 (1998), Bort#1 (2000), CardHolder (1997), Chellebrity (2004, screen), Cracker (1997), Cubes (2000), Dead Metro (1997, a constructivist family renamed Dead Mementro in 2017), Do Not Touch (1997), Dream Team (2000), Formalist (2001), Gamering (+Sans, 2009: a game font), Garbage (12997), GarbEdge (1997), Garmony (1997), Grammatika (1997), HandsOn (1997), Hole Down (1997), Hot Sauce (2009, Yuri Gordon), Ice Cola (2000), Kabotage (1998, octagonal), Kassa (2002, octagonal), Kren (1998), Laborant (2000), Lavert Noise (1997), Matrrolla (2001, octagonal), Mono (2000), Musor (1997), OneCode (1998), Primitiv (1998), Principal (1998-1999), Recruit (2004, octagonal), Remont (2000), Rounds (basic dingbats), Silver Winer (2000), Sklad (2000), Stampit (2000), Upadok (1997, futuristic), YE Stencil (2009), Zaplyv (1997), Zanoza (2005).
Custom typefaces for companies or special projects: 19oclock (2004, Yuri Gordon: for Vernost Kachestvu confectionery factory), AlfaBank, Always, Anteus, Artemius, Alexey, Atlas-1904, Bat Sans, Bat Roman, Calendarus, Carlis, Cifirki, CTC Screen, Digrol, Digimag, Esquire, Gulliver UTS, Gurmania_MA (2004, handwriting), Hi Afisha, In CaST, Ka, Kater, Komet, Kostro, Lumene Script, N.B.T., Nochnoi Dozor, Odessa, Progress Custom, Redd's, Robb Report New, Rolling Stone 2003, Rolling Stone 2005, Romb (2010), Rosbank Sans, RMA 2006, Salon Script (2007, calligraphic), Salon Antiqua (2007), Seventeen, N.Side, W.Side, Sivtzev Vrazhek, Snickers, Sovereign, STS Vizion, Svyaznoy RF (2008, sans), ToShi, Trust, Whiskas lettering, Zabava.
Typefaces and/or lettering from 2007-2009: Barocco Mortale (2005-2007curly script), Barocco Mortale Borders, Alfavita (ornamental caps by Goluzhenkov), Fleurs du Mal (2008, a Baudelarian antiqua, mischievous and decadent), DBL Cheque (by Goluzhenkov), Medved (by Goluzhenkov), YE Stencil (by Goluzhenkov), 21Cent (2009, related to Century; +Cyrillic; +Thin; +Black; advertised as not Century, not Clarendon, this fresh family is sure to win awards), Antiquasi (2008), Around the world, Bazaarban (2009, for Harper's Bazaar), Blacksteel, Citizen M (art deco), EsqGuardi (for Esquire), the curly Naska, with accompanying dingbats Naska Kozliki, the bird dingbats Udo Birdo, and more at Flickr.
Production in 2012: Digital October, Red Square (constructivist), Red Ring (art deco sans), Baker Street 221B (anglomane grotesque).
In 2013: Clarendorf (a hand-printed spoof on Clarendon), Bonvalet (large x-height sans), Bazaart (an art deco typeface for Harper's Bazaar), The drop-dead gorgeous condensed American slab and sans serif typefaces Mr Palker and Mr Palkerson.
Typefaces from 2014: 20 Kopeek (sans family with steampunk influences).
Typefaces from 2015: Buffon (a spaghetti Western italian typeface), Mr Palker Dad, Mr Palker Dadson.
Typefaces from 2018: Atomic Alice (a simple stocky sans family).

Author of the acclaimed 384-page book Book of Letters From to ” (2007, Art. Lebedev Studio).

Behance link. Art by Yuri. Issuu link. Klingspor link. Behance link for Yuri Gordon. Art Lebedev link.

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Letterhend Studio (or: Magang Letterhend)
[Hendry Juanda]

Hendry Juanda runs Letterhend Studio in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He designed the signage script typefaces Redoura (2016) and Kadisoka (2016), and the accompanying Redoura Serif (2016) and Kadisoka Monoline (2016). Hendry also designed the handcrafted typefaces Signerella Script (2016, +Sans), Motherline (2016), Motherline Sans (2016), Mukadua (2016: a beatnik serif and a script), Sakra (2016) and Sakra Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Kaylar Script (formal calligraphy), Keylar Serif, Legion, Hipsterious (signage script), Megattor, Dear Jane (a signature script), Wonder Stark (a rhythmic script), Kingbirds (monoline script), Mandatory (Sans+Script), Modesta Script, Romzul Sans (a fat finger font by Muhammad Romzul Khoir), Kanuda (by Galih Prasetyo), Aamonoline (by Ageng Jatmiko), Fad Script, Ageng Sans (by Ageng Jatmiko), Anisa Sans, Morsel, The Lentigo, Quinible, Storytella, Rose Colored, Swiftone, Antone (letterpress family), Retrology (monoline script), Claytonia, Pipetton (brush Script and Sans), Marttabuck (retro), Gloriant Signature Script, Jouska, Brooklyn (dry brush), Holiday, Take Easy (dry brush), Larizo (brush script), Vanillate (monoline retro script).

Typefaces from 2018: Sabatons, Autogate (font duo), Sharon Baker, Blue Phantom Script, Dologan, Bolica, Jaceline, Youther (brush script), The Goldies, Carllosta (curly), Black Space (brush style), Anjani Script, Melania Monoline, Calasans (retro layered), Arlington (spurred, Tuscan), Pastelle (SVG brush font), Diana Webber, Caligor (a vintage headline typeface), Greatly, Belymon Script (a great signage script), Majestika Script (signage script), Nagoya (monoline script), Charlotta Script, Stronger (vintage style), Vanillate (connected monoline script), Pipetton (script), Roseville (calligraphic: by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Rupture, Gustolle (a great watercolor brush font in OpenType SVG format), Riverside (monoline script), Bulgaria Script, The Majority (calligraphic script), Blacklite (signage script), Athalia Script, West Hood (Western), Fort Collins (font duo, by Sarid Ezra at Letterhend), Flanders Script (a signage script), Thirdlone (a monoline script), Bigstorm, Melania Script (named after the first golddigger), Motherline, Harsey (a 16-font toolbox of signage scripts and dingbats), Dearday Script, Dearday Sans, Blodders, Callonsky Script, Kulon, Quicken, Reklase, Skizzle, Storytella, Brighter.

Typefaces from 2019: Shockbar (a Halloween font), Chanide Script, Girly Moods, Padlock (a great retro script), The Rouged (monoline script), Karatone, Kingdrops, William Letter Signature, Billskates, Dorothy Clark, Chord Brights (a Victorian typeface), Sequents, LS Olive 01 Script, Bargitta (an SVG brush script font by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Hellone Script, Sharon Baker (by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Daniella Evans (a display serif by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Leafstar, Righton (a signage script by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Lotustail (by Henry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Radicals, Seriously (a display sans), Rupture, North Avellion, Majestika Script, Palmbell (a signature font by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Fokers (Victorian), Frankest (Script, Serif; with a Victorian feel), Danielle Harris, Callonsky Script, Murphy Script, Lanoline Script, Bittergrace Script (by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Bordemile (a copperplate calligraphic script by Henry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Daybird Script, Amerta Misty, Wonderstory, Kingbirds Rough (monoline), Rupture Stamp (for signage), Gorgone (a one-style didone by Henry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Stomper, Caligor, Asterone (a wide all caps sans), Venettica Script (a signature script), Hougbon Script, Philomena Script, Cephalonia, Birmingham Script (calligraphic), Hillstown (Sans and Script).

Typefaces from 2020: Billrocks (a condensed all caps sans), Greybridge (a fine retro script), Lava Cookies, Just Because, Moraline Script (a baseball signage script), Lemonade Peach, Mayburn (a retro signage script), Fillerglad (a signature script), Breadfast, Della Brian (script), Sailritme (wild, calligraphic), Stacylia, Stacylia, Salty Unicorn (a monolinear marker pen font), Super Giants, Gingerly, Creeplens, Donthank (a fat finger font), The Viperion, Blantika, Maritosca (wild, calligraphic), Thirtylane Script, Winland (a brush script), Ballmarks (wild, calligraphic), Mellodate, Braleno (a shaky font), Siregar, Camie (a wedge serif), Hugiller (a high contrast ball terminal fashion mag serif), Mildistance (a tall calligraphic script), Midgeto (a casual all caps typeface), Crimson Black (a brush typeface), Duke Charming (a decorative serif), Lucky Spark, Blue Jones, Sunshine Valley, Hello Christine (a rough-edged script), Revalina (a wild calligraphic script), Ranshell (a chalky script), Malliandra Script (a wild calligraphic script), Vistaria Notes (a wide flowing calligraphic script), Achiever, Bullgine (blackletter), Billion Reach (a signature script), The Randi (a monoline script), Yorkson (a signage script), Laverty Castaroza (all caps, art nouveau), Kandani (a creamy signage script), Fragtude (a creamy script), Quick Counters, Kaeliwritten, Heaven Wanders (a lively vintage hand-printed typeface), Chillday Script, Redberries, Foretelling Script, The Stegris (a decorative serif), Bayland (a signage script), Darthon, Caligonia, Deluge (a heavy script), Laterlocks (a display typeface), Baille Simpson (a dry brush script), Kanote (an all caps cartoon font), Black Ground, Franceur, The Wanters, Alburgone (an all caps quaint shop front lettering typeface), Annette Bradford, Winstreak (a brush font), Madegra (a decorative serif), Samrose (a dry brush font), Dehors (a Tuscan circus font), Compania (a wild script), Neography (a formal script), Shakuro Brush (oriental brush), Rascals, Wednesdom, Chirpy, Altia (Script, Sans, Slab Serif, Signature, Hand, Brush, Dingbats), Stargation, Buttoni, Radgrows, Linkgray, Monday Bay, Brown Chunkers (a vintage label font), Squiborn (a hand-drawn athletics font), Brilliantly, Holystone, Detroit (a handcrafted slab serif), Spring Note, Bigtown (a heavy hand-lettered slab serif), Naville (a 6-style all caps sans family), The Proactive (script), Wardrum Pro (a wide sans) and Wardrum, Kinderline Script (monoline), Kingdrops, The Kogles Script (retro), Conseration (a condensed sans). Hopkins Angela, Blue Phantom, Gladiolus Script, Calvous (spurred and weatheed), Fort Smith (penmanship calligraphy), Ramdone (a creamy signage script), Devilion (a signage script), Cortair (a vintage typeface), Kingbirds (a monoline script), Purefell Script, Rangkings (serif), The Holloway (Victorian), Roquen (a rustic typeface), Gloriant.

Typefaces from 2021: The Riskeys (a tall stylish serif), Brandice (blackletter), Carllosta (a Victorian font), Dountyland (a monoline script), Garten House (Victoriana), Hello Sierra Sans (a child's hand), Marla Griselda (a formal script), Nachinta (script), Winter Rosetta (a curly script), Distoniare (a thin calligraphic script), The Moon Milter (a vintage all caps display font), Asper Crown (a nature park display font), Delgian (script), Astropicks (a marker bpen font), Cerlistine (a fat finger script), Fintbar (a fat all caps display font with an oversized chin), Madre Rose (a stylish unicase typeface), Norvin (vintage caps), Roundkind, Sentra (a wide hand-crafted display font), Stone Masher (script), Beast Party (a Halloween font), Hollow House (a Halloween font), Blowsters (a dry brush mural font), Rumble Born (a bean font), Stano Sans (rounded), Amillia Rochete (a delicate signature script), Shopie Minclair (a fine pencil script), Sign Paintoh (a sign painter's font), Wednesday Island (script), Sinister Mind (a horror font), Divine Stone (a brush font), Pinsmalle (a signage script), Radnick (a plumpish retro font), Wackets, The Royal Chambers (decorative caps, with a hint of art nouveau), Shopie Minclair (a refined script), The Morshine (Victorian), Beauty Culture (an angled calligraphic script), Allarmante (a horror font), Billanta (a retro signage script), Galpike (a 9-style sans with modulated stems), Magnitude (a stylish display sans with large x-height), Romans Story (stylish caps), Stay Strong (a dry brush script), Cardila (a monoline retro signage script), Explore Magic (hand-printed), Kingslayer (a graffiti font), Marina Bullock (a flowing rabbit ear script), Dustland (a retro signage script), Haystack (script), Sakura Town (Japanese brush emulation), Boldistrike (a retro signage script), Maleryan (a delicate formal calligraphic script), Sellina Word (a calligraphic script with irregular line thickness), Servegin (a display serif), Shelbie Roger (Victorian), Stumble (a signage script), Foresight (a vintage script), Cordoba Sans (vintage caps), Badgear (a monoline script), Edellyn Script (tall and elegant), Glorify Sans (an 8-style decorative sans), Wellytonia Package (a scrapbook script), Turesco (a creamy caps typeface), Black Space (a horror brush SVG font), Slime Yogurt (a fat finger font), Black Hymned Script, Pompano (a lively almost vernacular headline sans), California Quotes (brush script), Rosterine (a vintage condensded display font), Between Days (a display serif), Crescent Slim (a stylish display serif), Captivate (script), Flumbery White (a thin tilted script), Modern Prestige, Olive Vine (a lively brush script), Graystera (an elegant script), Morning Glints (a marker pen font), Native Roast (a vintage layered typeface), Menleader (script), Neophyte (a flared vintage typeface), Dankfield (condensed, squarish), Sogate (a bold script), Hollow Sky (a thin script), Boosley (a condensed supermarket script), Killviners (blackletter), Chenile Deluxe (a vernacular supermarket font) Silvestern (a vintage display font), Arnette Script (a calligraphic script), Margoline (an elegant formal calligraphic script), Pinmold (a geometric stencil font), Eligated (all caps, vintage), Garmouth Display (a Victorian era advertizing font), Bugheds (blackletter), Candleton, Riotous, Baverley Astone (script), Belmistate (a fine rhythmic brush script), Hulberk (an all caps slab serif), Mogaster (a monolinear script), Black Rockets (a dry brush script), Glady Script (a bold signage script), Yesternight (a bottom heavy script), Welroseltone (a stylish calligraphic font), Bold Garage (an inky unusually elegant typefacre), Bright Clones (hand-printed) Grand Wilson (a font duo), Merodine (calligraphic), Appears (a decorative serif), Mounties (tall caps with flared terminals), Quatro, Ground Castle (a display serif), Linestay (a signage script), Alessia Harvey (a signature font), Caramel Chestnut, Londers (an upright bold script), Hubstone (a brush font), Oversouth (vintage, hand-drawn), Bright Gesture (a lachrymal font), Center Voyage (an all caps display typeface), Asteria Royalty, Georude (hand-printed), Raksana (a bold upright script), Aesthetic Notes, Broadley (a vintage font duo), Chopader (a vintage font duo), Wimp Stars (a beatnik font), Brown Holmes, Mortina (a vintage font duo), Dustown (a rounded handcrafted sans), Holymore, Lamberds (a rhythmic script), North Mountain (a decorative flared typeface), Butter Slices, Portalica (an all caps italic font with plenty of ball terminals), Evening River (an optimistic and playful script), La Graziela (formal copperplate calligraphy), Metro Capitals, Davenvale, Earthgate (a vintage penmanship font), Vindale (a retro reverse stress script), Better Hobby (a layerable cutout font), Bouldster (a bottom-heavy psychedelic script), Melorist (a display sans), Benorante, Millgrove (a condensed spurred typeface), Asterluck (a fat finger font), Boinger (wide, octagonal), Rimeland (calligraphic), Ansylia, Mantaray.

Typefaces from 2022: Arturico (a frivolous art deco font), Calmine Font Duo (a bold vintage script), Foresight, Penster Bross, Mayhome (script), Rivervale (flared hand-crafted caps), Rontage (a late 19th century-style display typeface), Bert Watson (a tall thin upright script), Honnie (Greek emulation), Livemono (6 styles), Caldeisa (a creamy script), Coral Candy Regular Slant (a blocky plump unicase typeface), Hanstone (script), Hintown Slant (arts and crafts era caps), Liviatica (a wavy display serif), Rosie Brown (a font duo), Growline (an all caps display sans), Lion Parade (a vintage apothecary script), Praysire (a sharp-edged display serif), Bashiton (a monolinear script), Crainzel (notched caps), Garetra (a stylish serif), Moon Slayer (a scrapbook brush font), Growlies (a fat finger script), Ridge Cliff (a massive slab srif), The Bristers Sans (a font duo), Augify (a hipsterish display serif), Dustyland (a monoline script), Primore Castle (hand-crafted), Merry Brook (script), Monstroux (a brush font), Blue Carousel (an informal brush script), Bastinson (a thin monoline script), Happy Sparkle (an inky treefrog script), Arinkoln, Backdown (script), Krostenia (a monoline script), The Bardian (script), Black Rocket (hand-printed), Kaglia (script), Cyberion (sci-fi), Groovy Friends (hand-printed), Calfine (a bold condensed poster typeface with small wedge serifs), Fountencil (a blackletter stencil), Logirent (a minimalist logo font), Logirent, Hermush (art nouveau caps).

Aka Magang Letterhend. Behance link. Dafont link. Graphicriver link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. Fontesk link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lettering books

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LetterPerfect
[Garrett Boge]

Established in Seattle in 1986 by Garrett Boge: Since 1986, LetterPerfect has supplied carefully-crafted, original display fonts to designers and desktop publishers. We now offer over 50 unique designs in 2 distinctive lines: Viva la Fonts&Legacy of Letters. Many fonts were inspired by Trajan roman lettering and by the great Italian renaissance artists.

Letter Perfect's typefaces include Catacomb, Philocalus, Sabina, Beata, Donatello, Ghiberti, Cresci, Pietra, Pontif, Stockholm, Göteborg, Uppsala, Didot LP, Kolo, Visage, Bermuda, Old Claude, Wendy, Tomboy, Spumoni, Spring, Silhouette, Roslyn, Longhand, Manito, Kryptic, Koch, Hardwood, Hadrian Bold, Florens, DeStijl, Chevalier Light, Binney.

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Lettersams
[Samsul Kamal]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of Mishora Script (2019), Garlandia Script (2019: a retro signage script), Kimberia Script (2019: a calligraphic script), Bedfore Script (2019), Ganesha Script (2019) and the calligraphic wedding script fonts Maughan Script (2019) and Marihouse Script (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Hometona Script (calligraphic), Fresh Orange (a cartoon font), Bilgate Script (formal calligraphy), History Agnes, Epidson (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Alpha Kosty (a decorative serif), The Romantic Absolute Duo (font duo), Brigesta (a display serif), Spring Hills Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lettersiro
[Muhammad Sirojuddin]

Muhammad Sirojuddin, aka illustrator Shiro Ngampus (of The Art of Shirongampus), is a Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989. In 2016-2017, he published some fonts at Shiro Ngampus. In 2017, he started Lettersiro, where he designed these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Stay Outside, Amsterdam (signature script), Mellisa Script, The Sunshine Script, Sunshine Ornaments, Holland Signature, Beauty (monoline script), Gisellia (signature script), Calling Heart (brush script), Handsome (dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Geronimo Base, Arthington, Asking Mind, Sayur Koool, Meillina, Bolder Line, Blur Sight, Sweetland, Wellsight, Reckless Art, Gojira Black, Butter Layer, Brieston, Breakout, Breaking Mad, Blinkstones (dry brush), Banthink Clean, Black Sambath, Mentega, Handsome, Wild Nature, Santana, Hunters, Kobar, Bio Monster, Good Sunday, Butter Haunted, Black Street, Dillova, Honey Butter (a font trio), The Banthink (a poster font), Sweetland, Outsmile (a signature script), Audhistine, Stella Wilson (font duo), Time Hunters Script, Onetime (signage script), Paladise (creamy upright script), Lovely Photograph Better Glory, Grooving (a weathered vintage font), Midtown.

Typefaces from 2019: Best Rock, Raster Slice, Kalimat Script, Satturday Collection, Hollanda, Rallian, Gotten Say, Quick Jump, Blade Stroke, Sandiego, High Sky, Delight Place, Higher Style, Monoline Signature, Lollipa, Deliont, Bellome, Vintage Quotes, Santiago, Darkside (dry brush), Bruttall (dry brush), Bloody Durian, Ruthless, Bankzath, Blanksack Immortal, Judgement Territory, Something in The Grave Yard, Blank Smile, Think Smart, So Sweet Honey, Signatime, Nightland, Willmad Friday, Maillove, Hello Santuy, Collonar Caps, Golliath, Monumental, Zamruds, Barton (rounded sans), Brave Strong (brush style), Dreaming Time (a fat finger font), Greathunt, Wrong Hunt (brush), Lost World, Monster World, Smasher, Charitta, Donnis, Perfect Sweet, Rentuck, Silhouette, Blankid, Signatour, Splash (dry brush), Redtowns (brush), Retro Thunders (a great angular signage script), Hamilton (script), Keilla, Willian, Melting Letter, Burn Wood, Bomber Balloon, Inzomniac, Brown Choco, Dark Hammer, Black Spirit, Black Heart, Batsand, Aged Machine, Heartless, Blink Kiss.

Typefaces from 2020: Breaking Wild, The Brat, Expain, Snow Fairy, Beloved Daughter, Shelva, Henniver, Cold Climate, Friend White, Agged Machine, Bradley, Friday, Haksen, Chicago, Writing Tresno, Vintage Quotes, Dalton, Earn, Media Times, Samford + Samford Black.

Typefaces from 2021: Paladise (a bold upright retro script), Beauty Switzerland Duo, Honey Crafter (a bold upright retro script), Amsterdam Signature (an upright rabbit ear script), Hunters Think (a bold creamy script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lettres Vagabondes (or: Fonts by Holyrose)
[Agathe Richard]

Agathe Richard (Lettres Vagabondes) is a French calligrapher from Lyon (b. 1986) who made Holyrose Sale (2005, painted letters) and who has a gallery with breathtaking calligraphy. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Direct link to her fonts: Midnight Tea (2006, blackletter), Bonbon Gothique (2005, blackletter), holyrose-font-midnightea (2006), Script Gribouillon (2005), BonbonBleu (2006, calligraphic gothic face). Under "grenier" (attic), check out her illuminated caps. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lewis Foreman Day

Lettering artist and author, 1845-1910. His books include Alphabets Old and New: Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Complete (1902, B.T. Batsford), which has a large number of historic alphabets, initials, blackletter examples, and new alphabets by the author himself. Other books: Alphabets Old And New For The Use Of Craftsmen (1910, B.T. Batsford, London), Lettering in ornament (B.T. Batsford, 1902), The anatomy of pattern (B.T. Batsford, 1895), Penmanship of the XVI, XVII&XVIIIth centuries (1911, B.T. Batsford, London: Local download), and Nature and Ornament (B.T. Batsford, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892).

He created numerous pen-drawn alphabets. I am using the descriptive names he used in his own book, Alphabets Old and New: Modern Brush Letters, Blunt Brushwork, Blunt Twisted Brushwork, Japanese Brushwork, Modern Capitals for engraving on metal, Modern Capitals, more Modern Capitals, and yet more Modern Capitals, Modern early Gothic Capitals for engraving on metal, Modern Early Spanish Letters, Modern Foliated Capitals, Modern Gothic Capitals, Modern Minuscule Gothic, Modern Roman Capitals, Modern Roman Italics, Modern Twisted Letters, Numerals (set 1), Numerals (set 2), and Numerals (set 3).

In 2012, Dick Pape created a number of typefaces based on alphabets found in Alphabets Old And New For The Use Of Craftsmen (1910). These include LFD14thCItalian75 (drawn by J. Vinycomb), LFD15thCFrenchRelief91, LFDAlphabetUndOrnamente216 (after roman capitals by Otto Hupp), LFDAsianStencilling205 (an art nouveau stencil based on an original by E. Grasset and M. Verneil), LFDBlockCapitals213 (based an alphabet by Walter John Pearce), LFDEngravingonSilver196 (a Foreman Day original designed for engraving on silver), LFDFreehand170 (based on an alphabet by Bailey Scott Murphy, architect), LFDFrenchPrintedType189 (based on a type by E. Grasset), LFDFrenchType209 (a caps typeface by Lewis Foreman Day), LFDIncisedinWood114 (a Foreman Day original Elizabethan lettering aklphabet based on an inscription incised in wood at North Walsham, Norfolk), LFDMetalEngraving187 (another original by Foreman Day, for engraving on metal), LFDModernCaps210 (an original), LFDPainted148 (a sketched typeface that was painted in 1727 on the wooden drug-drawers of an old apothecary's shop and kept in the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg), LFDPenAlphabet222 (an art nouveau alphabet by Foreman Day), LFDPenwork160 (after an original monstrosity by Walter Crane), LFDPenwork181 (based on an alphabet of Roland W. Paul), LFDPenwork206 (based on lettering by Franz Stuck), LFDQuasiJapanese203 (an oriental art nouveau design by Foreman Day), LFDRomanCapitals224 (based on lettering by Franz Stuck), LFDScriptStencil219 (an oriental art nouveau design by Foreman Day), LFDSquareCut202 (an original pixelish typeface by Foreman Day), LFDThinFrench208 (based on an alphabet by John Vinycomb). [Google] [More] ⦿

Lexique sur la lettre et la calligraphie

Christophe Badani's French glossary on calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

LFCF (was: El Serif de Chocolate)
[Luis Fernando Carvente Flores]

Luis Fernando Carvente Flores is a type designer and illustrator in Pueblo de Zaragoza, Mexico. Initially, he made free fonts published via Dafont, and using the foundry name El Serif de Chocolate.

Creator of Spatha Serif (2010), Spatha Sans, Musa Ornata (2008, fat round signage face), Knema (2010), Musa (2009), Bascula (2009, athletic lettering and Egyptian typeface; +College), Toeris (2009, a western heavy slab serif face), Golondrina (2010, in Africana and Europea styles, all blackletter), and Memela Fraktur (2009, blackletter).

In 2010, he turned commercial and set up LFCF.

In 2011, he published the free blackletter typeface Carmilia and the tropical typeface Babalu.

In 2012, he added the (free) thin ornamental typeface Ferrica Light and the bouncy Tuscan typeface Festiva (free).

Typefaces from 2013: Paky (a brush typeface for a packaging project with Mario Tapia), Vinilo Ultra (curvy stencil, tweetware).

Typerfaces from 2018: Agustina.

Home page with a typography blog and a calligraphy blog in Spanish. . Home page. Blog. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lián Types
[Maximiliano Sproviero]

Argentinian foundry located in Buenos Aires, est. in 2008 by Maximiliano Sproviero (b. 1987, Buenos Aires). It specializes mainly in gothic, uncial, script and handwriting typefaces. Sproviero graduated from FADU, University of Buenos Aires in 2008 with a script thesis typeface called Colofon.

His fonts from 2008 include Devil Kalligraphy, Pumba (great futuristic rounded look), Tobogan (retro), Kiwi Sans Serif, School Rainbow, Suave Calligraphy, Tonika (handwriting), Goddess (handwriting), Cursivessca (calligraphic; 4 styles), Friendship (6 styles), Chechelo Lawyer (modern italic condensed), Quijote Italic (calligraphic with tall ascenders and descenders), Miscelanea (arabesques), Lunga (a condensed hairline family consisting of Real Ligada, Exacta, Versalita and Extras), Mabela (a rounded fat display font), Red Wagon (ultra-condensed), Valeria Script (swashy), Kalligrand (2008, a tall calligraphic face), Intima Script One, Two and Three (described by him as a sensual calligraphic script family), and Paradise Script (96 styles, all calligraphic).

Creations from 2009: Kaligrafia, Galana, Mon Amour Script (hyper-calligraphic), Oh Lara (also hyper-calligraphic), and Quijot sauvage (a 7-style calligraphic feat).

In 2010 he made these typefaces: Parfait Script (a high-contrast calligraphic script), Kanikama, Breathe Pro (calligraphic with didone serifs), Boston Script.

Creations from 2011: Reina (a curvaceous didone family, +Engraved). He updated this in 2021 to the 45-style Reina Neue.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Maximiliano Sproviero won awards in the display type category for Aire (2012, a thin curly didone family), Breathe Pro, and Reina. At TDC 2013, he won an award for the copperplate script Erotica. Erotica also won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

Typefaces from 2013: String (a hairline Spencerian script), Brand (a signage script family), Agile Pro (a hairline swashy calligraphic family), Bird Script (which an award at Tipos Latinos 2014), Live Pro.

Typefaces from 2014: Selfie (connected monoline signage script), Heroe (a script that takes Lubalin and Caslon to the extreme), Dream Script (a chancery script that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016), Dream Caps (Trajan capitals), Beatle (a Spencerian script with psychedelic touches).

Typefaces from 2015: Seventies (a funkadelic typeface), Indie (a signage script family that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016), Model (a hairline fashion mag calligraphic script family).

Typefaces from 2016: Lubaline (decorative caps inspired by Herb Lubalin), Skill (signage type: winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award).

Typefaces from 2017: Posh (a fat didone), Fluire and Fluire Caps (a greeting card font pair), Preta (almost psychedelic script), Vinyle (a remarkable monoline decal script).

Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Lubaline, Posh and Preta.

Typefaces from 2018: Burger (a fast food slab serif bonanza), Fleur (inspired by some lettering in Palais Garnier in Paris---Sproviero calls this the Napoleonic style), Pantera (a lively pointed brush calligraphic typeface family), Girasol (based on sketches by Susana Maurette), Rafaella (all caps---described by Sproviero as coquette).

Typefaces from 2019: Hot Script (monoline), Elipses (a Peignotian sans family in 7 styles), Fabulous Script, Breathe Neue.

Typefaces from 2021: Selfie Neue Rounded (40 styles), Selfie Neue Sharp (39 styles), Ballet VF (Maximiliano Sproviero: a variable Spencerian penmanship font with optical sizing from 16pt to 72pt---a technical feat accomplished with the help of Eduardo Tunni and the Omnibus team; free at Google fonts; Github link),

Klingspor link. Behance link. Interview by MyFonts in 2014. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lila Symons

Calligrapher from Princeton, NJ, who was/is type designer at Hallmark cards in Kansas City, MO (since 2013). Creator of several calligraphic alphabets in 2011. During some studies at Type@Cooper in New York in 2011-2012, she designed the quirky humanist sans typeface Daryl. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lin Yü-Bingnan
[Yü Bing-nan]

In 1956, as a young graduate of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, calligrapher and type designer Yu Bingnan (also Lin Yü-Bingnan or Yü Bing-nan) was sent to East Germany to work on a Latin typeface. There, he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, thereafter HGB), one of the best and oldest art institutes in the world at that time. One of his teachers there was Albert Kapr. From early 1959, Yu Bingnan started conceiving a Latin typeface. He improvized a unique writing instrument---a bamboo pen that was chopped off from a traditional ink brush commonly used in Chinese calligraphy. Yu named his Latin typeface Freundschafts-Antiqua, a symbol of solidarity and friendship between China and Germany. Yu Bingnan graduated in 1962. That same year, Freundschafts-Antiqua was published by Typoart. These typefaces can be found in Jaspert's book and in Hildegard Korger's Handbook of Type and Lettering. It is a very readable old style serif, with many calligraphic elements, and original curvy characteristics. As the first Latin typeface ever created by a Chinese designer, Freundschafts-Antiqua has won the Gutenberg Prize (the first Asian winner), the Best Contemporary Typeface award, the German Minister of Culture Award, the Tokyo Type Director's Club Award and many other awards. Yu Bingnan became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University.

A first digital revival was done in 2010 by AR Types, which writes about Freundschafts-Antiqua AR: Freundschafts-Antiqua AR is based on a 20th-century German type design. Freundschafts-Antiqua (which was also called Chinesische Antiqua) was designed by the Chinese calligrapher Yü Bing-nan when he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig in 1960. It was cast in 1964 by VEB Typoart, Dresden, in 9-pt and 28-pt (Didot). The design combines the best German traditions with the Chinese bamboo pen. It is a unique, wholly modern, yet quiet and dignified typeface which is well suited for text-setting in many sizes.

In 2017, Roman Wilhelm and 3type, a Shanghai-based type foundry, released a six-style extension called Freundschafts Antiqua Neue. 3type has also fashioned a sans-serif member of the Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lina Chervenkova

Lin Chervenkova (Mindful Pixels, UK) created Beauty of the Peaks, Missish (a calligraphic typeface) and Sailors Luck Sea Font (a brush script) in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lindsay Kramlich
[The Styled Script (or: Luna Paper Co)]

Linggar Sundoro
[Aluyeah Studio (or: Cupcake Std)]

I Love Typography link. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Type Network link. MyFonts interview.

Linnea Lundquist

Noted calligrapher, who also designs type. Stigmata won the Silver prize in the Morisawa Type Design Competition in 1999. It is her fantastic interpretation of European Gothic Cursive writing from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Linnea is responsible for the roman transitional family Aitken commissioned in 2002 for Arion Press. Arion Press writes: Hoyem has taken advantage of twenty-first century technologies in order to revive what is believed to be the first type family cut and cast in America. In 1796 two Scotsmen named Binny and Ronaldson started a type foundry in Philadelphia, the first in the country to endure. By 1800 they had produced a remarkably beautiful and utilitarian type, identified simply as Roman No. 1. It is a Transitional face, between Old Style (as in Caslon) and Modern (as in Bodoni). The type was used by Jane Aitken, daughter of Robert Aitken, the famous printer of the American Revolution, and an accomplished printer herself, for the printing of the first American translation of the Bible, by Charles Thomson, in 1808. It was reintroduced by American Type Founders Company in 1892 under the name Oxford and was used by a succession of fine printers, such as Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, and the Grabhorn Press. Arion Press has 1,200 pounds of the original type that once belonged to the Grabhorn Press. Oxford was cast for hand composition only and was not adapted for Linotype or Monotype composition. The matrices are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and unavailable for further casting. In 2002, Hoyem worked with type designer Linnea Lundquist, assisted by Andrew Crewdson, to create a digital version of this historic face, which he renamed Aitken. The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin is its first use for book printing. The Aitken design has been optimized for letterpress printing, allowing for the spread of ink biting into paper just like with the original metal type design cut by Binny&Ronaldson. For this book, the type has been printed from photopolymer plates. In 2008, she joined Mark van Bronkhorst at Sweet Fonts and designed Sweet Upright Script with him. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Linnea Motts

Creator of the frilly display typeface Mosaic (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Linus Romer

Swiss creator (aka Fuex) of the free calligraphic font Miama (2009, Open Font Library), based upon the handwriting of his (then, girlfriend) wife. Romer is interested in Latex and mathematical typesetting and designed Miama in the spirit of Zapfino and Scriptina. An updated version, Miama Nueva (for Latin and Cyrillic), was developed in 2014, and published by Open Font Lirary. CTAN link.

In 2014-2017, he released the free Metafont (and also, Opentype and truetype) typeface, Fetamont. This 436-font parametric typeface extends Knuth's roundish elliptical logo font for Metafont. It includes a true "randomize" feature. Additional CTAN link.

In 2017, he developed the free slab serif Funtauna, again basing his glyphs on Metafont.

In 2018, he developed the text typeface Elemaints for Latin and Greek in Metafont.

Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lipton Letter Design
[Richard Lipton]

Calligrapher, sign painter, and graphic and type designer from Milton, Mass., who was born in New York, studied design and photography at Harpur College there (graduating in 1975), did some lettering in Syracuse until 1977, worked for Bitstream in Boston from 1983-1991, and made a career afterwards as a staff type designer at Boston's Font Bureau. In 2016, he joined Type Network, where his fonts can be bought. MyFonts page. MyFonts interview in which his modesty comes to the fore. His typefaces:

Alhambra: a calligraphic typeface.
Apotek: based on lettering on old medicine bottles seen in Oslo.
Arrus BT (Bitstream, 1991). This is a serif typeface with heavy calligraphic influences. The capitals are roman inscriptional. More typefaces in this style are to come, he promised in 2010.
Avalon (1995, calligraphic): based on the calligraphic writing of Austrian artist Friedrich Neugebauer.
Bennet Text, Bennet Display (36 styles: a wedge serif news text family), Bennet Banner (36 styles). This high contrast didone-themed superfamily (but for the wedge serifs) can't shed that "look at me" vibe. The initial idea for Bennet came from Moth Design's logotype and stationery system for the North Bennet Street School in Boston.
Benton Modern Display (2008, co-designed with Richard Lipton at Font Bureau: Benton Modern Text was first prepared by Font Bureau for the Boston Globe and the Detroit Free Press. Design and proportions were taken from Morris Fuller Benton's turn-of-the-century Century Expanded, drawn for ATF, faithfully reviving this epoch-making magazine and news text roman. The italic was based on Century Schoolbook.). See also here.
Bickham Script (1997, Adobe): The 2004 OpenType Pro version has hundreds of ligatures and substitute forms. See also Bickham Script 3 (2014). Review of Bickham by Timothy Rolands. Bickham Script is based on examples from Bickham's The Universal Penman. Poster by Fernanda D'Andrea (2013). Bickham Script 3 won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
Bodoni FB (1992, Font Bureau, a headline bold based on Benton's 1933 Ultra Bodoni).
Bremen (Bitstream), Bremen (1992, Font Bureau). This German art deco face was influenced by the poster lettering of Ludwig Hohlwein in 1922. Munich is an angular version of Bremen.
Bureau Grot. One of Font Bureau's bestsellers.
Canto (2011, Font Bureau) is a 32-style roman family that started out from the Trajan inscriptions via a few styles called Canto Brush to smooth and delicate styles such as Canto Pen. New styles were added in 2017.
Cataneo BT (Bitstream, 1993; with Jacqueline Sakwa): an elegant chancery cursive based on the calligraphic work of the 16th-century writing master Bernardino Cataneo.
Ecru
Escrow Banner (2016). An extension of Cyrus Highsmith's Scotch Roman, Escrow (2006).
Hoffmann (1993): a display family that is based on lettering by Lothar Hoffmann.
Meno (1994, Font Bureau). Lipton explains his oldstyle design: the romans gain their energy from French baroque forms cut late in the sixteenth century by Robert Granjon, the italics from Dirk Voskens' work in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. In 2016, he extended Meno to a 78-style superfamily. In 2021, MyFonts released Meno Text and in 2022 Meno Display (36 styles) and Meno Banner (36 styles).
Miller Banner (2010, Font Bureau): a completion of Matthew Carter's Scotch family Miller, that has banner and titling styles, and adds styles with extreme contrast and hairline serifs.
Moderno FB
Munich.
Nut cracker.
Rocky (2008, Font Bureau, with Matthew Carter).
Savanna Script (2013). A connected tightly spaced calligraphic script in three weights.
Shimano: an industrial geometric font.
Shogun (with Margo Chase, 1995).
Sloop Script (a penmanship script, 1994), inspired by the lettering of Raphael Boguslav. Sloop Script won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. Type Network published Sloop Script Pro in 2018. MyFonts relesed Sloop Script Pro in 2021.
Talon
Tangier (2010, Font Bureau): a Spencerian calligraphic family that was part of the 2008 redesign of Glamour Magzine.
A redesign of Matthew Carter's Postoni (1997), called Stilson (2009, with Jill Pichotta and Dyana Weissman): Since 1997, The Washington Post's iconic headlines have been distinguished by their own sturdy, concise variation on Bodoni, designed by Matthew Carter. For the 2009 redesign, Richard Lipton, Jill Pichotta, and Dyana Weissman expanded the family with more refined Display & Condensed styles for use in larger sizes. Originally called Postoni, the fonts were renamed in honor of The Post's founder, Stilson Hutchins.
Delaney (2016).
Collier (2018). A 150+-style lapidary flared stem typeface family ranging from Compressed to Extra Extended widths.
Englewood (2022). A script whose inspiration for Englewood came from the calligraphic hand of Philip Grushkin.

View Richard Lipton's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Liron Lavi Turkenich

Lavi Turkenich graduated at Ramat Gan's Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, in 2012. She created Aravrit (Arabic-Hebrew) as her final project. She graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2013. Liron's graduation typeface there, Makeda, is the first typeface that covers Latin, Hebrew and Amharic (Ethiopic) in a purposeful sense, i.e., not as three parts of one of the well-known full Unicode fonts. Liron writes: The three scripts were designed simultaneously in order to allow mutual influences. The design efforts were put into harmonising the scripts into one coherent family, while preserving their basic traditional structure. Makeda is named after an Ethiopian Queen also known as the Queen of Sheba.

Haaretz writes this about Aravrit: Lavi Turkenich does not speak Arabic, but she says she made substantial use of the comments she solicited from Arab passengers she approached at random during her daily train commute from her home in Haifa to her studies in Ramat Gan. Lavi Turkenich's Aravrit is somewhat less legible for speakers of both languages than each of the original typefaces from which it was crafted, and the Arabic letters are isolated rather than attached as they are usually written.

Lefty (2014) is a Hebrew calligraphic typeface.

In 2015, Nick Shinn and Liron Lavi Turkenic co-designed the Google Font Bellefair. Bellefair started life as a Latin typeface designed by Nick Shinn. Then a Hebrew typeface was designed as part of the project by Liron Lavi Turkenich, to be a good match in terms of style, weight and overall color. Github link.

Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona, and essential pillar in the organization of ATypI 2017 in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lisa Campbell
[Ally Heart]

It is unclear whether Ally Heart or Lisa Campbell is her real name. Art director in Johannesburg, South Africa, who created these typefaces in 2017: Chalk (sketched, hatched letters), Hollandaise Script (formal calligraphy), Brave Butterfly (informal writing style). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lisa Holtzman

Lisa Holtzman is the personal foundry of Santa Monica, CA-based calligrapher Lisa Holtzman. She created the brushy typeface Babaloo Basic (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lisa Najewitz

Wismar, Germany-based designer of the beautiful didone fashion mag typeface Giorgio (2015), which was part of a school project supervised by Andreas Froloff. All her pther work is equally outstanding---winess the calligraphic blackletter lettering piece called Affenzirkus (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Little Red Circles (or: LRC Type Foundry)
[Carl Seal]

Carl Seal was a designer at Tealeaf Digital Type Foundry in the UK. He founded the free font foundry Little Red Circles, which is based in Manchester, UK. His typefaces are preponderantly of the grunge style, which was in fashion at the time of their creation, ca. 1998-1999:

By Carl Seal: BaskerSans4 (1994-1995), Bitbloq, Bitmapbreakfast (1998), Bull (1998), Butter (1998), Calliglession (1998), Carl Hand (2015), Carl Scrib (2004), Carl Seal (1998), Chewy (1997), Crafty (2015), Crushedtalc (1998), DirtyHandBacks (2003), Dry Transfer Clarendon Crunch (2015, a glaz krak typeface), Dry Transfer Clarendon Crusty (2015), Dry Transfer Eurostile Bold Extended (2016), Dry transfer Futura Medium (2018), Dry Transfer Haphazard (2016), DuoGypsy (1998), EasyLino, Forma, GeekNormalish, Geekfat (1994-1995), Grivant, Growbag, Growbaged, Gypsy (1997), Hadnuf (2004), Inbreed, IndexCapsLoose (1997), IndexCapsStraight, IndexCapsTooLoose, IndexCapsTooStraight, Instamatik, Jakes FuzzyFelt, Jakes Stencil (2018), Kyleaged5, Kyleaged5half, Kyle Stencil (2003), LadyBoy (1998, calligraphic script), Leavingglassvegas (1999), Litrecs, Carl Lefty (2016: free), LRC Type Jake Aged Five (2016), MatrixBlow, MatrixNorm, MatrixSuck (1997), Mend (1997), MetisRota (1994-1995), MrFish (1999), Munch, Next, NuChina (1998), NuEngland (1998), NuJapan, Nudgedashak, Passion, PrintisDead (1994-1995), RaygunA, RaygunB, Repo Pocket (1998-1999: Sans, Outline Shadow, Condensed, Serif (2017), Slab Serif, Outline Fat), Repo Hands (2013, a free sign language font), Rupture, Scratch (2003), Scritch (1998), Shakasonikphormal, Shati, SheMale, Skript, Something, StampBold, Stamp CO Serif (2013: free), StampHeavy, StampLight, StampMedium, StampRegular, StampThin, StampUltraThin, Synsis, Theo Aged 6 (2016: free), Timig, Tweak, UnderWorldBlock, UnderWorldLine, Unrulycucumber, UnstukLino, Untitled, Userunknown, Whanted, Word Score Double (2015, scrabble font), Yatta.
By Mark Bradley and Carl Seal: Phobia.
By Tony Howell: Yuleo.
By Jon Ratcliffe: Calligruffy.

Liu Yinbin
[LYB Design (or: Liu Yinbin Design)]

Live Pen
[Andrei Burdin]

100 Dollar tool published in 2008 by Zero-One Inc for doing calligraphy in Adobe Illustrator. Free demo. Based in Moscow, the company was started in 2005 by Andrei Burdin. [Google] [More] ⦿

Liviu Antonescu

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the handcrafted poster typeface Cafe Racer (2014), the vintage signage typeface Brooks Brothers (2016, in styles called Douglas, James and Matthew), the brush signage script The Hunter (2016), the marker script Sharpeye Type (2015), the thick cursive typefaces Sweetie (2016) and Geneve (2016), and the signage script Goldeye (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Flourish (swashy calligraphic script), Buoyage, Overheat (connected script).

Typefaces from 2019: Replay (signage script), Tyler (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Liz Wells

During her studies at RIT in Rochester, NY, Liz Wells designed Kooi (2014, a calligraphic typeface) under the guidance of Kris Holmes. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lloyd Springer
[TypeArt Foundry (or: Digiteyes Multimedia TypeArt Foundry)]

Lorena Ortiz

During her studies in Buenos Aires, Lorena Ortiz created the angular calligraphic script typeface Scaligraphy (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Louis Madarasz

Penman, b. 1859, San Antonio, TX, from Hungarian parents. [Some say January 20, 1860] His maternal grandfather, Ladislaus Ujhazi, was Governor of Kameron and the Count of Saros. He traveled a lot and was a versatile and multi-dimensional person. He worked in Sterling, IL, Jersey City, NJ, and Poughkeepsie, NY. He spent most of his life in New York, and died in 1910 in San Francisco. Author of Lessons in Advanced Engraver's Script, published by C.W. Jones in Brockton, MA. Zaner&Bloser published The Madarasz Book - The Secret of the Skill of Madarasz in 1911, based on documents and sources given to them by Louis Madarasz's widow, Clara K. Madarasz. Scan of a calligraphic alphabet called Commercial College. Scans from the 1911 book: capitals drawn in 1909, death notice from 1910, engraved capitals, instructions, image, letter in 1902 to zaner and Bloser, lower case alphabet, Madarasz Script, Plate five alphabet, sample, signature, another signature, yet another signature, teachable capitals, portraits at ages 25, 35 and 45.

His work influenced Burgues Script (2007, Sudtipos) and Jamaica script (2018, Alex Ivanov, Vates Design). [Google] [More] ⦿

Louise Fili

Founded in 1989, Louise Fili Ltd is a graphic design studio specializing in brand development for food packaging and restaurants. Formerly senior designer for Herb Lubalin, Louise Fili was art director of Pantheon Books from 1978 to 1989, where she designed close to 2,000 book jackets. She has received Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Director's Club, the Premio Grafico from the Bologna Book Fair, and three James Beard award nominations. Fili has taught and lectured extensively, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale.

She is co-author, with Steven Heller, of Italian Art Deco, British Modern, Dutch Moderne, Streamline, French Modern, Deco Type, Deco España, German Modern, Design Connoisseur, "Typology Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age" (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999), Typology, Stylepedia, Euro Deco, Scripts, Shadow Type, Belles Lettres, Cover Story, and Stencil Type. Fili has also written Elegantissima, Grafica della Strada, Graphique de la Rue, The Cognoscenti's Guide to Florence, and Italianissimo. A member of the Art Directors Hall of Fame, she has received the medal for Lifetime Achievement from the AIGA and the Type Directors Club.

Her book cover (done with Jessica Hische) won a design award at TDC 55. Fili was also honored with the 2018 SOTA Typography Award.

In 2015, she made a futuristic counterless typeface, Mardell, which is named after retired Hamilton type cutter Mardell Doubek. It was published in 2016 as HWT Mardell in the HWT (Hamilton Wood Type) collection over at P22.

In 2017, Louise Fili, Nicholas Misani and Rachel Michaud co-designed the art nouveau typeface Montecatini, which is inspired by Italian travel posters from that era. In 2019, Louise Fili, Nicholas Misani and Andy Anzollitto expanded this typeface to the 24-style Montecatini Pro.

Marseille (2017) is co-designed with Nicholas Masani and Andy Anzollitto. It is an art deco-inspired letterform that is based on Louise Fili's cover design for the Marguerite Duras novel The Lover.

Keynote speaker at TypeCon 2018 in Portland, OR. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Loveletters Studio

Calligraphy, lettering and illustration studio in Poznan, Poland. Specialized in connected scripts, they designed Polacy (2015) and Rock (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Lovindha Kintani
[Vermilione (was: Lovoos)]

Luc Saucier

Calligrapher from Québec (born in Ottawa, working in Montreal). [Google] [More] ⦿

Luca Barcellona

Celebrated Milan-based calligrapher, letterer and illustrator. Examples of his lettering include this shoe (2010), this octopus (2010) and this tiger. Enhanced graffiti lettering. Lettering video on Vimeo. Logos and designs for Carhart in 2010. MySpace link. Flickr page. Another Flickr page. Another URL.

He has shown some complete, mostly calligraphic, alphabets that I suspect have never been fonted. These include the calligraphic brush set ABC Narrow (2008), a blackletter demo, and Dry Brush Fraktur (2010). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿

Luca Bolognese

Italian calligrapher and programmer who splits his time between Spain and Italy. He writes that he is inspired by the classical Italic hand, as exemplified by Fairbanks and Lloyd Reynolds and that his fonts strike a balance between the freshness of the pen and the rigidity of the digital medium.

Typefaces from 2021: Italiko (a calligraphic typeface family; see also his Github page on Italiko). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lucas Benjamin Sharp
[Sharp Type]

Lucas Oriel

Lucas Oriel (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) created the curly display typeface Carnaval do Recife (2012) aty the Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG). He also designed Caminha 1 (2009), a calligraphic typeface based on the Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha, written in 1500---the year Brazil was discovered by Portuguese adventurer Perdro Alvares Cabral.

Lucia Nolasco

Aka Lunol or just Lu. Lima, Peru-based lettering artist. Designer, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos, of the calligraphic and frilly script typeface Looking Flowers (2018). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lucio Passerini

Italian woodcutter, typographer and publisher. He teaches lettering and graphic arts history in Milan. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the current state of calligraphy in Italy and the achievements of the ACI (Associazione Calligrafica Italiana) since its inception in 1991. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lucio1

An orphaned iFontmaker calligraphic font from 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lucky Type (or: Luckytype)
[Muhammad Fajar]

Beureunuen, Indonesia-based designer of script typefaces, b. 1999. In 2018, these were published: Sunny Script, The Solmate Signature Script, Important Element Font Duo, Bellgonate Signature Script, Winnie Marrie Script, Batter Dinner Script, Simple Boy Script, Southside Script, Wild Smith, Lonelly Girl, Best Dreams, Duttane Script, Britnees Script, Casttelya Scipt, Magnolia, Emelyne Script.

Typefaces from 2019: December Brush (dry brush), Hello Freshtea Brush, Buttergone Brush (a dry brush script), Lovely Buttering Script, Bestromello Script, Red Blues Script, Amstrong Script (an irregular inky script), Spiderpies (brush).

Typefaces from 2020: Smoltimes (a dry brush script), Modelist (a dry brush script), Beauties Bright, Resgold Willgets (script, serif, extras), Fregiselle Brush (a dry brush script), Georgina Script, Unique Sirly, Rosemerry, Qelly Violentia, Hello Kindess Brush (dry brush script), Biglove.

Typefaces from 2021: Blessing Wilford Brush (a brush script), Pretty Dreaming (a scrapbook script).

Typefaces from 2022: Regiola (a font duo), The Valentines (script), Brightline (a wild flowing script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lucy Chugg
[Creativeqube Design]

Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi da Vicenza

Influential Italian printer, writing master and calligrapher, b. ca. 1475-1480, d. 1527, aka Ludovico Vicentino (degli Arrighi), or Ludovico il Vicentino. Around 1510 he was a bookseller in Rome. He was employed as a scribe at the Apostolic Chancery in 1515. Author in 1522 of the writing manual La Operina, da imparare di scrivere littera cancellarescha, which was the first one for popular use. La Operina contains the first printed example of Chancery Cursive. In 1523, he wrote a sequel, Il modo de temperare le penne, a beautiful and influential typographic manual.

Roderick Cave writes in his The Private Press: The first part of this was printed entirely from wood blocks, but the second part, Il Modo di Temperare le Penne, contains several pages printed in a very fine italic typeface modeled on the cancellaresca formata hand. The type was fairly obviously derived from the hand used by Arrighi himself; it seems likely that the punches were cut by his partner, who can with reasonable certainty be identified as Lautizio de Bartolomeo dei Rotelli, of whose skill as an engraver of seals Benvenuto Cellini speaks with respect in his Autobiography. He started printing in 1524 and designed his own italic typefaces for his work, which were widely emulated.

His letterforms were revived in the 20th century by designers such as Plumet (1925), Stanley Morison (Monotype Blado (1923, Stanley Morrison) is based on Arrighi's lettering---it was unfortunately named after the printer Antonio Blado who used the type in the 1530s; the name Monotype Arrighi would have been more appropriate), Frederic Warde (in his Arrighi Italic, 1925), Robert Slimbach (one could say that his memory lives on through fonts like Adobe Jenson Multiple Master), Ladislav Mandel (Cancellaresca), Willibald Kraml (Vicentino, 1992), Paulo W (as Volitiva), Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem (Briem Operina), James Grieshaber (P22 Operina), Michelle Dixon (Arrighi Copybook), Gilles Le Corre (1522 Vicentino, 2011) and Jonathan Hoefler (Requiem Text).

Arrighi's last printing was dated shortly before the sack of Rome (1527), during which he was probably killed.

Sample pics: Fantastic ornamental capitals (1522), roman capitals (1522), Italian capitals, Italian minuscule. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
[La Operina]

Ludwig Sütterlin

Berlin-based graphic designer (b. 1865, Lahr, d. 1917, Berlin) who in 1915-1917 invented the Sütterlin Schreibschrift, which was used to teach children handwriting. Various Sütterlin fonts can now be found on the web. It was introduced in the German schools starting between 1924 and 1934, and was used until 1941-1950, depending upon the region, when standard handwriting was taught. Scans: German writing style, Latin writing style, picture from 1914, the alphabet, another view, a practice book from a Berlin school, 1919, his own handwriting, how to hold the pen.

References: Marcus Hahn's course at the University of Saarland covers the Sütterlin Schrift. See also the 1983 essay by Wolfgang Hendlmeier: A, B, C, D, E. Anselm S. Bär wrote a brief biography in 1999. Harald Süß penned Deutsche Schreibschrift Lesen und Schrieben lernen, (Augsburg, Augustus Verlag, 1992). See also Hans Jensen's text, Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, (Hamburg, 1935).

Digital fonts for Sütterlin:

Suetterlin by R. G. Arens, Saarbrücken (1995). Free download here.
Sütterlin (2001) by Delbanco.
New (current Deutsche Schreibschrift).
Don Becker's free Sütterlin fonts.
Softmaker's commercial Sütterlin package in 14 variants.
Klaus Burkhardt's Sütterlin.
Heimatvest has some Sütterlin software that contains truetype fonts for Sütterlin.
SuetterlinEF (1992, Elsner&Flake).
Rainer Will Software Entwicklung has some Sütterlin fonts.
Ingo Fonts (Ingo Zimmerman) published its version, Deutsche Schrift Callwey, in 1998. He writes that it was based on a script sample from around 1920/30 by Karl Schäffer.
Walden Font has its own Sütterlin.

Author of Neuer Leitfaden für den Schreibunterricht (Albrecht-D&7uml;rer-Haus, Berlin, 1926). [Google] [More] ⦿

Luis Fernando Carvente Flores
[LFCF (was: El Serif de Chocolate)]

Luis Guillermo Galvan Morales

Mexican designer of Curzab (2012, hand-printed), Zalight (2012), Groov G (2012), Fonuzzle (2012), Zabdilus (2012), Bagally (2012, fat finger face), Memos Hand (2012) and Luis Candara (2012, calligraphic). Aka Pixeluigi. Luis was born in 1992 in Tampico. [Google] [More] ⦿

Luis Siquot
[Siquot Design]

Luisa Camarena Estruch

Graphic designer in Valencia, Spain, who made Tipografia Caligrafica (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿

Luisa Leitenperger

Graduate in industrial design from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil, class of 2018. Calligrapher and type designer active at Harbor Type. In 2021, she released the German expressionist typeface Bork. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Lukas Schiltknecht

Lukas Schiltknecht (was: Lucas Gardener) is a designer from St. Gallen, Switzerland, b. 1982. He created the blackletter typeface Helvedding (2009), the graffiti typeface Hinterwelt (2011), Goodwill (2011), Malice (2011, more graffiti style), and the sans typeface Phat Otto (2010). Until 2011, his typefaces were free.

In 2013, he set up his own commercial type foundry in Luzern: Lukas Schiltknecht. His first typeface was a basic sans, Shinokai (2013), which was inspired by FF DIN and ITC Officina.

In 2020, he released Maren, a calligraphic font made with a broad-nibbed pen. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Luke William Turvey
[Okaycat]

Luke Williams

Graphic designer, photographer and letterer in Chicago. Behance link. Hallmark lettering example, poster entitled Mise en scene (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿

Lukyan Turetskyy
[2D Typo]

Luthfi Fauzi
[Ef Studio (or: Luthfi ef)]

LYB Design (or: Liu Yinbin Design)
[Liu Yinbin]

Liu Yinbin graduated from the Xian Academy if Fine Arts in 2007. Director at Meitu Design Company since 2013. Creator of these typefaces in 2014: Calliraphy (sic) (oriental brush font), Lake Font (art deco), Rough (sans caps). In 2015, he made Gorgeous (a penmanship style calligraphic script), Dense Forest, Christmas Font (handcrafted script), Arrow, Vertical Line (sans) and Imagine (handcrafted bold typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Indisinct Shine (a thin all caps typeface with interrupted strokes), Procession (bilined sans). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lyons Type
[Daniel Lyons]

American type designer, b. 2000, who created the multi-style basic sans typeface family LT Reponse, the calligraphic blackletter typeface Blacklet, and the sans typeface family Avancement 2020 in 2020. The latter typeface supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Typefaces from 2021: Shortcake, Queen, Fillet, Carpet, Vehicle, Drink, Leap, Coffee, Broadway, Classics, Victoire, Museum, Wave, Notable, Energy, Woodchuck, Asus+Companions (an 8-style geometric sans), Skyscraper, Colored Pencil, Sunrise, Remark, Indoor, Candidate, Journal, Amber, Expo, LT Marathon (a humanist and modulated sans family), LT Emphasis (modeled after Eurostile), LT Bulletin (sans), LT Feelgood (script), LT Crafted (a cartoon font), LT Internet. [Google] [More] ⦿

Lyudmila Mikhailova

Russian calligrapher. Milanette is a set of 74 original vignettes and flourishes designed by her and released in 2011 by Paratype. She also made the flower dingbat font Milafleur (2011).

In 2011, she published her calligraphic script Millettre at Paratype. [Google] [More] ⦿

M. Akmal
[Mega Type]

M. Fairuzulhaq

Designer and illustrator from Semarang, Indonesia, b. 1987. Creator of the modular typeface VE-VastagurlyDisplay (2011) and the pixelish typeface Homigos (2012).

In 2014, he made Candlescript (connected copperplate style calligraphic script), Abovea (brush signage font), Nudely (modular font family), the display typeface Vailsnick Italic (see also here) and Eveagita Luxury.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Aka Rapsick and as Vast. [Google] [More] ⦿

M. Irfan Syouqi S.
[IRF Lab Studio (was: Miss Type)]

Mário Feliciano
[Feliciano Type Foundry]

Macha
[Jacek Machowski]

Rzeszow, Poland-based designer of the free hyper-condensed typeface Dugas (2019) and the free calligraphic typeface Uncial (2018). Dribble link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maciej Polczynski
[Laïc]

Made Deduk
[Deduk Suandana]

Or Deduk Suandanaipande, or Suandana Ipandemade, or Anggun Suandewi, or Suandana I Pande Made, or Pande Made, who publishes his fonts under the labels Made Deduk (est. 2016) and Type Class Heroes (est. 2022). Bali, Indonesia-based designer of the free display typefaces Merthy (2016, calligraphic script), Druchilla (2016), Breathe Karma (2016), Carrinady (2016: an all caps sans family), (2016), Rowdy (2016), Chandry (2016, connected script), Old Alpha (2016), Autumn Leaves (2016, textured with a floral pattern) and Anggun (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Die Hard (inspired by graffiti), Hamer, Harley (script), Pink Gladiolus, Madeleine (ultra-wide sans), Draconian (grungy caps), Amandella (calligraphic), Strong Bold (ink splash script), Jet Pilot (squarish), Bright Beauty (creamy connected script), In Blossom (watercolor brush script), Triumph Wheels, Budhayanti, Moonchrome (a monoline script), Claiborne, Geovana (a monoline script), Wild River, Sugar Candy (free signature font), Bilody Rainan (brush), Amandella (calligraphic), The Dark Titan (a textured typeface family).

Typefaces from 2018: Donatello (signage script), Justify (spurred), Nightype, Violaceous, Pierce, Thrones, Homerun (signage script), Skytree (brush script).

Typefaces from 2019: Merthy Script, The Dark Titan, Sugar candy (monoline script), Reingttoon (dry brush), Justify (a spurred tattoo font family), Bonthing (calligraphic), Chameron, Raegan (a brush script), Triumph Wheels (spurred, vintage), Inner Beauty, Reff Devil, Shergine (formal calligraphy), Sweet Yellow, Daniels Signature, Maddison Signature, Sophia Bella, Concetta Kalvani (a signature script / serif font duo), Chronicle (a layerable Victorian typeface), Nakone (a black fashion mag typeface), Gisbon (brush script), Marchello, Keshya (a dry brush script) (script), The Delicate, Sophia Bella (signature script), Munrolane (an extended techno or car grill typeface), Bethsy, Breath Karma (free), Bilody Rainan (free), Allison Tessa (script), The Phamelo (brush script), Majestic Romance (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2020: Mollie Rocky (a decorative art nouveau font), Hacky (an 18-style condensed display serif with a slight art nouveau feel), Wild River (a grungy and sturdy display typeface), Catellos (a display serif), Marlyn (with 73 styles, the largest floriated luxury serif typeface family to date), El Katana (a luxury serif), Delvon (a condensed organic sans), Sugar Candy, Pink Gladiolus , Primatama (a luxury serif), Black Elliot (a dry brush script), Sweet Harley Script, Challista (a signature script), Roman Morrissey (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Victory History (a single-height decorative typeface), Raque (an all caps display serif), Nirma (an expressive deco typeface), Heavy (a bold flared display font), Mothra (a semi-psychedelic display typeface), Kittenish (a playful retro cartoon font), The Strattos (a great interlocking cartoon font; perhaps a bit too complex to be used in children's books), Dino Moose (for children's books), Graves (a 9-style display family), Singa (a 53-style squarish display typeface), Marga (a decorative typeface), Pacho (a powerful angular display typeface), Nicla (a signage script). Graphicriver link. Creative Market link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Madhaline Studio
[Achmad Hanif Ulinuha]

Wonosobo, Indonesia-based type designer who specializes in script typefaces. Typefaces from 2022: Anthanista (a thin upright script), Ballonest (an elegant wild inky script), Chaletliness (a dry brush script), Dalton White, Granny's Flower (a signature script), Jastland (a dry brush script), Shasta Daily, Wisteria. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Madjack Font
[Zaki Muhammad]

Or M. Zeky. Sigli, Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of these script typefaces in 2019: Rogshine (brushed), Caldwell Script (calligraphic), Samarra, Shahira Script, Safelight Script (calligraphic), Dayatha, Bellinda, Nathasya, Wonderfull (calligraphic), Melisa, Yuliyana, Dayling.

Typefaces from 2020: Arelina Script (an upright calligraphic script), Masthiya Script (an upright calligraphic script), Rostalina Signature, Arabelle Script (an upright script), Hello Hana Script, Gellisa Script (a rabbit ear script), Fugenta Script (formal calligraphy), The Fottina Script (a swashy formal calligraphic script, with a hint of copperplate), Hello Aster, Migolan Script (wild calligraphy), Hello Kartina, Hellowita Script, Watford (dry brush), Blessinhet Script, Ellis Greatter (a calligraphic script), Shaqueille, Baritta Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Hello Cantika Script (a very fat upright script), Better Valentina (a bold upright script), Gloding Sophia Script (bold and upright), Syakila Script, Derby Script, Azkia Script, The Angella Script Duo, Latisha Script (calligraphic), Shelly Script (an upright script), Black Sweet.

Typefaces from 2022: The Chastha Script (a creamy signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Madonna Erotica

Beautiful lettering on Madonna's CD cover. Smaller pic. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maelle Keita
[Thomas Boucherie]

Maelle Keita is the second identity of Thomas Boucherie (Montpellier, France, b. 1977). The Maelle persona is a prolific Swiss creator of many free fonts, which are mainly calligraphic or connected scripts.

Typefaces from 2017: Adventure of the Old Giant, The Curious Incident, The Fabulous Orchestra, The Butcher factory, Dancing in the Moonlight.

Typefaces from 2016: La Bataille du Sanctuaire, The Quest of Discoveries, Sentimental Beach, October Quotes, Hercule vs Goliath, Band of Reality, Street Gathering, Alicia on the Enchanted Highlands, Adventures on the Mountains, League of Giant, Richard True Crime, Dragons and Chickens, The Elves And The Secret Garden, Pokerface, Gentleman on the Rainbow, La Pantoufle en Or (tattoo font), Bulles de Chocolats, Atlantide Starlight, The Golden Flower, Mr Fisherman and the Shoemaker, Catherine de Beaumont.

In 2015, Maelle made Gravity of Love (white on black letters), Incredible Angel (beatnik style), The Red Horse, The Spaghetti Movie (Western font), The Hundred King, The King of Lost Towel, les Soeurs Samurai, Mr. Jackson Rankenstein, Mathilde Castleland (calligraphic script), Question and Love (calligraphic script), Chateaux des Olives (calligraphic script), Le Cachalot du Grand Nord (a hilarious funky font), Le Grimoire du Bonheur, The Constellation of Heracles, The Citizens, Secret of the Octopus, Fabulous Vikings, King Arthur (ribbon font), Mademoiselle Catherine, Alfred La Moule, Jackie Talks to You, Les Carottes Sont Fraiches, Claudette aime le Chocolat (connected dessert script), LA-CHAMBRE-77, LACHAMBRE67, LE BAL DES COCHONNES, LE BAL DES COCHONS, LE CABARET DES FOUS, LE SILENCE DES CAFARDS, La Tortue, Le-Jardin-de-Calista (strong brush typeface), ONLY IN THIS CASE, Stink on the Death (signage script).

Before 2015, Maelle designed Black December (2014), Une Grenouille Le Soir (2014), La Kame A Leon (2014, heavy brush), The Best Things In Life Are Free (2014), Caviar De Lapin Blanc (2014), La Truite à Papa (2014), Mougatine (2014, a needle thread script), Chicken Chorizo (2014), Ventilla Stone (2014), Mademoiselle Camille (2014, swashy), Authentic Hilton (2014), Olympic Branding (2014), Le Laboratoire du Docteur Steak (2014), The Chicken Love Story (2014), Les Sorcières de la Lune Noire (2014), La Compagnie des Ombres (2014), Les Sensations de Cerise (2014), La Chatte à Maman (2014, a creamy script), Aligot de Mirabelle (2014, a great delicate calligraphic script), L'Antre du Corniche (2014, thin script), Caviar de Diane (2014, thin script), Karine Aime Les Chocolats (2014: a connected script), Death in the Shadow (2014: brush script), Akhenaton (2014: brush script), Mayumi Gumi (2014), Font For Children Indo (2014: dingbats), Anabelle Script (2014, a heavy brush script), Mademoiselle K (2014, a cursive typeface), Anacondas (2014, an upright connected script), Walker on the Moon (2014, connected script), Angelique ma douce Colombe (2014), Pomerole (2014), Paper For Your Ass (2014), Paper Towel (2014), Wolf in the City (2014), Dragon is Coming (2014), J'aime bien le dimanche (2014), Camelia (2014, grungy signage script), Kosmo Cat (2014, a stone age script), Ophelia Script (2014), Monkey Snake (2014), Ventilla Script (2014), Slow Motion (2014), Ail et Fines Herbes (2014: hairline script), Mister Fish : upright curly script (2014), Elephant (2014), Nemo One (2014), Royal Chicken (2014, signage script), Nenuphar of Venus (2013), There Can Only Be One Breaver Im It (2013: flourishes), Ruskof (2013, grunbgy Cyrillic simulation face), Kawaii Food Font (2013, dingbats), Chouette Alors (2013, owls), Eglantine (2013, upright script), Zentai Itacha (2013), Magnolia (2013), God Bless America (2013), Jack And The Beanstalk (2013, upright connected script), Halloween Trick (2013, dingbats), Noyeux Joel (2013, Christmas dings), Angel of Blood (2013), Matriochkas (2013), My Princess Likes A Frog (2013), Skate or Die (2013, dingbats), Chouette Alors (2013, owls), Sleep on the moon (2013), Animox (2013, teddy bear dingbats), It Was A Good Day (2013, ornaments and filets), Ordre de Depart (dot matrix face), Diane de France (2013, calligraphic), Serval (2013, script), Chicago Eskimo (2013, fat outlined signage face), Quality Street (2013, vintage signage script), From The Moment (2013, frames), Arabia (2013, upright connected script), Hector Le Dragon (2013), Fantom Better (2013), Mont Royal, Coccinelle, Ponctuation, Miel & Abeille, La Petite Puce, Yo te amo pero en secreto, Conjecture (a sketch font), Coloscobik (2013, a marquee face), Ejaculator, This Is Not A Font, Tell Me A Secret (2013), Chocolate Cake (2013, plump outline face), Eglantine (2013), Ornamind (2013, floral dingbats), La Grosse Cochonne (2013), Toyzareux (2013, bubblegum font), Oliver Tue Les Fourmis (2013), Two Fingers King (2013, an ornamental blackletter), Piragniac (2013), Marguerite (upright connected script), Gulliver, Arakphobia (2013, a spiderweb font), Gelatina Elemente (connected script), Zenzai Itacha (oriental simulation), Atlas Eternal 78 (2013), Serial MKV 1 (2013), The Black Manba (2013), Gang Bang Crime (2013, a dripping paint font), La Grenouille Verte Qui Devient Toute Rouge (2013), Aracme Waround (2013), Zoa Elephantesque (2013), Estrela Fulguria 1748 (2013, calligraphic), Cirus Quantum Solace (2013), Paint All Time (2013), Jumbo Burn (2013), Allo t'as pas de shampoing, Helene Queen K (2013, script), Not Only The Quake (2013, script), One Day Before Rain (2013), Bullet Campus (2013), Eternal Call (2013, swashy calligraphic font), Kill The Panda (2013, a textured blackletter face), Trash Butterfly (2013, ornamental caps) and In Secret I Love You (2013, hand-printed), A Sweet Melody My Lady (a circular font), Lady Solarus Queen 1789.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maelle Keita
[Octotype]

Maelle Keita & Youssef Habchi

Partnership between two type designers that led to these free fonts in 2015: Queen of the Moon (connected hairline calligraphic script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Magda Dubiel

Warszaw, Poland-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Tracery (2016) and the display typeface Circa (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Magda Kalman

Poznan, Poland-based designer of Arcadio (2017, a calligraphic alphabt), Miseli (2017, high contrast roman caps) and some weather icons (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Magique Fonts (was: Cpr. Sparhelt)
[Bálint Koczman]

Bálint Koczman (aka Cpr. Sparhelt, and Magique Fonts) is the Hungarian designer (b. 1992) of free fonts (from 2008 onwards, as Cpr. Sparhelt, or as Magique Fonts) and commercial fonts (from 2012 onwards), and he is located in Puspokhatvan, Hungary:

Capture Smallz (2014). A stencil family.
Thrownup (2014).
Take Cover (2013). Grungy white-on-black caps.
Selya (2013). A calligraphic script.
Dolen Taith (2012).
Teitheas (2012: tattoo font). A gothic blackletter pair of typefaces.
Gotique (2012).
Razalgur (2011), Font GF (2011, hand-printed), One Dance (2011, the engraved American dollar bill face), Sweet Lady (2011, cursive script), Clean Work (2011, stencil), Ancient God.
Future West (2010, Western face), Hexatus (2010, hexagonal).
Old Stamper (2009, grungy stencil), Top Secret (2009, army stencil), Floral Dawn (2009), Origicide (2009), Splincide (2009), This is Electronik (2009), Infinity Media (2009), Capture It (2009, grunge), Younger Than Me (2009, grunge), New York City (2009, skyline-themed letters), Electroinsanity (2009), Need for Font (2009, futuristic), Duplexide (2009), Veteran Typewriter (2009).
Niiiii-trous (2008, heavy square font), Urban&Slick (2008, graffiti lettering), District (2008, grunge), Times New Halftone, Times Old Attic (2008), Jigga Jigga (2008), and Most Wasted (2008, graffiti).

Catalog as of 2011: i, ii, iii.

Dafont link for Magique Fonts. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Magpie Paper Works
[Jessica McCarty]

Type foundry in the United Staes, run by lettering artist Jessica McCarty, which specializes in hand-drawn, pen-drawn and hand-printed typefaces. In 2017, she co-founded Rare Bird Font Foundry.

The following fonts were released in 2012: Vermandois (a great irregular vintage penman's hand, accompanied by Vermandois Splatter), Saltpetre (grungy medieval outline face), Plinth (architectural typeface), Mignonette, Jacob Riley (a vintage 18th century printers' specimen revival, hand-illustrated with calligraphy nibs dipped in walnut ink), Ghouligoo, Cerise (curly hand), Sullivan, Saissant (Treefrog style), Campland.

In 2013, she made the upright calligraphic script typeface Ahra and the children's script typeface Mirabelle (not to be confused wit an earlier typeface called Mirabelle by Alessandro Colizzi, or the 1926 Mirabelle typeface by Wagner&Schmidt). Ondise (2013) and Dasha (2013) are other decorative scripts in the mould of Emily Lime's Bombshell Pro.

Typefaces from 2014: Woolen (a hand-inked & italicized serif, based upon a 17th century type specimen by Jean Jannon. Many of the capital letters are decorated with subtle sprigs and leaves, while the lowercase letters remain classically styled).

Typefaces from 2015: Quimbly, Rivea Twist, Rivea Upright: two calligraphic scripts.

Typefaces from 2017: Liesel (a watercolor brush typeface family consisting of Regular, Brush, Pencil, Shadow, Printed, Icons).

Typefaces from 2019: RF Marshall.

Behance link. Creative Market link. View Jessica McCarty's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mah Studios

Designer of script and hand-crafted typefaces. In 2021, the catalog showed Aciem Guanteng, Adinda, Agatha Setyna, Aiden, Alatheen, Aliantyara Signature, Allcania, Allger, Allyntha, Anastasya vella, Angelina, Anindya, Arfas Tan, Athelred Script, Atlantha, Avellyn's, Barel, Bidadari Syurga, Blankenship, Bocha Chilick, Castila Signature, Chedillla, Chikachips Boolohoy, Chilax (horror font), Chris Oliver, Chutarie Ghost, Dandellion, Dannieffa Stefania, Dloothe Ridle, Dylema, El Cantika, El Jhuan, Ethan, Fahira, False Note, Fanfare, Fantasia, Feel Special, Feelix, Foolgan, Gaseda, Gelatik, Genaru, Giglle Diglle, Gilberto, Haer Script, Halima, Happy Jelly, Hella Fella, Herind Arabic, James Theodore, Januworry, Jelitha, Jhackyson, Jihan Meta, John Tone, Julliane, Kyroon, Lagath, Layla, Little Theory, Marlina Script, Marshynha Lovelytta (formal calligraphy), Moran, Morning Sunday, Mugoth, Oxos, Paboya, Petter sans, Quasia, Rain fall, Ramsay, Rayline Swift, Reillytta Sheilabe, Rhisa, Robins Aisha, Robinson Yilow, Romans Line, Roronoa, Rossy Script, Sahida, Sajak Senja, Samanta, Sattint, Serenade, Serendipity, Settarlla, Shaa Shaa, Sharon Minari, Sherapym, Sitqia, Squirl Quiin, Sweet Talker, The Chelasi, The Joejeita, The Latte, The Meddley, Thin Think, Thought, Tulilut, Van Gall, Veronica, Washington Angharad and Wonderfull Obelia. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mahar Studios

Designer of these display sans typefaces in 2017: Avmo, Moneva, Bonamcy, Morthen, Cherapay, Beckyard. Mahar Studios also designed thes typefaces in 2017: Dunheall (script), Black Widow, Calyan (calligraphic script), Jullabi (dry brush), Gardens Walking.

Typefaces from 2018: Etihad, Axura, Contrash, Maxce, Campink, Apolo, Lyche, Asdema, Sticky. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mahdani
[Fontdroe]

Mahyud Creative

Or Mahyud Creatif. Indonesian designer in 2017 of these script typefaces: Katrina, Amanda, Nurmala, Herlyna, Buntala, Juliyeny. In 2018, he designed the calligraphic scripts Chanteka, Dahlia and Hannah. [Google] [More] ⦿

Majestype
[Dexsar Harry Anugrah]

Dexsar (b. 1991) lives in Makassar City, South Celebes, Indonesia. Starting in 2012, he designed free typefaces. In 2013, he went commercial as Majestype.

Creator of the free logo font Dipanegara (2012), DHF Broffont Script (2012), the hand-printed DHF Semangat 2012 (2012), and the pretty hand-printed typefaces DHF Quinta's Diary (2012) and DHF Happy Birthday Ryan (2012).

In 2013, he added DHF Story Brush, DHF Milestone Script (a tattoo script available from 123 Creative), DHF Dexgraffiti Return and DHF A Great Happiness (hand-printed), Roverd (signage script), Story Brush (brush face), Broffont Script (retro signage script).

Typefaces from 2014: Bandung (a flowing connected brush script, done with Erwin Indrawan), Aceserif Regular, Doedel (signage script), Goodfy (brush script).

Typefaces from 2016: Rephone, Antebras (handcrafted poster typeface), Zephan (calligraphic script), Hayne Script.

Typefaces in 2017: Prayerd (dry brush script), Kayto (an oriental brush script: collaboration of Erwin Indrawan as the calligrapher and Dexsar Harry Anugrah of Majestype as the typeface designer).

Typefaces from 2018: Rockyeah (script, sans and serif), Quente (script), Tamigos (all caps sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Orjel Baru (a brush script), Misopen Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Burgendry.

Fontspace link. Facebook link. Dafont page. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Make Idea

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Callista (2017), Shayndeline (2017) and Mafistha (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Makeitrock
[Katie Holland]

Designer of script and soft brush fonts. In 2018, she published Donnio, Radjari (a lovely script), Joysin (script), Fabinache, Jaywish, Deelishes. Godfrey, White Rose, Sheryll, Wonderberry, Kingsland (free), Riverdale, Semmily, Jillzay, Animo, and Kimba.

Typefaces from 2019, all scripts: Adeline, Aldery, Breathe Slowly, Dasoon, Florina, Fomelo, Hamorry, Handy, Jar Binks, JD, Jedha, Lagerto, Lardio, Panamera (a wild script), Ramona, Satlom, Shawte, Wokona.

Typefaces from 2020: Boho Baby, Dream, Handy, Hello Autumn, Hey Girls, Jolie, Malutik, Manila Flo, Rockies, Saiquiry (a Bohemian script), Samshen, Skylar Rose, Wonderful. [Google] [More] ⦿

MakeMedia Co
[Callie Hegstrom]

Aka Callie Rian. Littleton and Denver, Colorado-based designer who created the curly typeface Veronia (2014, with Cindy Kinash), the handcrafted poster typeface Rustica (2014) and Seaworthy (2014). With the Extras (dingbats), this font is ideal for books or movies on pirates and adventure islands. She also made many vector packs with frames, borders, banners and dingbats grouped under Tropica or Rustica.

Typefaces from 2015: Boutique Script (brush script), Loveletter (brush script), Thriftshop Hand (Sans, Brush, Extras), Smitten (a great watercolor brush script), Lettersmith, Sweetgrass (curly script), Manhattan Darling (a gorgeous brush script).

Typefaces from 2016: Five Boroughs (brush font), Taco Tuesday, Brushfire (brush script), Melon Mojito (a great summery handcrafted font), Texas Toast, Bellissimo Brushed (a great brush script), Chopshop (free brush font), Cheers (curly script), Ink Bandits (sans and script pair), Blush (connected script).

Typefaces from 2017: Ciao Amore (a great layerable typeface family), Bloomsberry, Punchbowl, Cabana Kingpin, Bourbon & Buttermilk, Fresh Picked, Magnolia Merchant, Buttermilk Farmhouse, Millennial Script, Millennial Sans, Moonstruck (dry brush), Typeset.

Typefaces from 2018: Hey Bombshell, Thicket & Thatch (a rustic font trio, with plenty of ornaments), Portabella (SVG script), Portabella Serif, Love Potion (a boudoir script collection), Blush And Bloom, Among The Wildflowers.

Typefaces from 2019: La Paloma Script, Bushel And Peck (+Elements).

Typefaces from 2020: Fullbloom, Paperchaser (wild calligraphy), Cottonwood Market, Indigo Moon (a decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Always & Forever, Cafe Americana, Celebrate, Grateful Heart, Honeysuckle Market, Moonflowers, Palmetto, Paper Tigers, Punchbowl, Secret Crush, Sequoia Sans, Smitten Script, Sunshine & Whiskey, Sunshine Society, TypeSet Trio. Wallflower, Wild at Heart. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Malcolm Wooden
[DTP Types Limited]

Malindo Creative
[Murtadha Bin Sulaiman]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1978, of the calligraphic typefaces Anchou, Shany, Aisyah, Older Historica, Imelda, Love Amsterdam Script, and Nadine Script, and the handcrafted typefaces Modena, Best Deals, Mahligai and Morable. All these fonts were published in 2018.

Typefaces from 2019: Larosh Sithal (Sans, Signature), Hadsut (script), Handy Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Shynta (script), Lovely Amelya (an inky calligraphic Valentine's Day script), Handy (a signage script), Asdaen (a ligature font), Sothel Font Duo, The Handy (a heavy signage script).

Home page.

Typefaces from 2021: Kattelo (brush script), Sirathal (a script), Bleck Stome (a signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mamoun Sakkal
[Sakkal Design]

Manfred Klein
[Manfred Klein: Calligraphy]

Manfred Klein: Font Hosting

Manfred Klein: Calligraphy
[Manfred Klein]

Some typefaces ny Manfred Klein have a calligraphic influence: AstroCalligraphsOne, AstroCalligraphsTwo, CalliPsoGrafia, CalliPsoGrafiaItalic, CalliPsoGrafiaMedium, Callimundial, FatGrafCalliklein, HenryMorganHand, KaraBenNemsi, KleinKallig, MKalligFrax-MediumItalic, MKalligFrax, PetitixThreeCallig-Bold, PetitixThreeCallig-Light, PetitixThreeCallig-Normal, RustiCalligraphia, ScribblesCalligraphique.

Download page. Download all these fonts in onze zip file. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

In July 2017, Typoasis / Moorstation shut down. Run by Petra Heidorn out of Hamburg, Germany, it hosted her own fonts, as well as those of the popular and talented type designer and artist Manfred Klein (Frankfurt, Germany). Manfred, who was an active type designer from the late 1990s until about 2007, created over 3600 fonts in that period. Those fonts are now hosted at my site, thanks to Petra Heidorn. Manfred's oeuvre is too large to consume and analyze in one sitting or even one month.

This zip file contains all his fonts. For those interested in particular styles, please visit this web page for downloads of individual fonts, or fonts grouped by these themes: 3d, Africa, aliens, animals, architecture, arrows, astrology, birds, calligraphy, cave style, codex, Christmas, dada, decorative caps, didone style, dingbats, display style, Egypt, eyes, fists, Fraktur, handcrafted typefaces, Karla, kids, Laurens, masks, medieval styles, Mexico, monsters, native themes, ornaments, painters, peace, people, pixel fonts, runes, Sans, serif, slab, stencil, stone age, typewriter, uncial, wood and woodcuts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Manfredo Massironi

Italian author of The pleasure of showing and looking at words, an essay, ca. 2007, on the roots of calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mangai Padmanathan

During her studies, Mangai Padmanathan (Sungai Bulch, Malaysia) designed a calligraphic alphabet in 2016, and a floriated typeface in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿

Manjali Studio
[Rizky Awaludin]

Or Rizky Awal. Indonesian designer of the monoline script typefaces Gorinchem (2020, for signatures), Braindly (2020), Bielifild (sic) (2019) and Carlington (2019). He also made the script typeface Khalsa Billa (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Roast Chicken (hand-printed), Deary Darling (script), Almond Nougat, Madison Script, Chicken Quiche, Paper Flowers, Braindly, Hashed Browns, Marsheilla, Mayones, Chicken Pie, Creamy Chocolate, Banitha, Dianita, Luisha, Marleigh, Chariska, Belitha, Salvyna, Herliana.

Typefaces from 2021: Marchila (a swashy calligraphic script), Galistan, Cherilyn, Blackmatte (a bold script font).

Typefaces from 2022: Simply Blessed (a curly upright script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Manoel Andrade de Figueiredo

Portuguese penman of the 17th century, 1670-1722. Some say 1670--1735. Andrade de Figueiredo was born in Espirito Santo, where his father was Governor of the Capitania. His work follows the style of the great Italian masters in its use of clubbed ascenders and descenders, and of Diaz Morante, the famous Spanish writing master, in its very elaborate show of command of hand. He was known as the Morante portugues.

Author of Writing Book (1721, in Portuguese), in which we can find exceptional flourish work. This horseman was drawn in one stroke in 1722. See also these Versalien (1722).

Author of Nova Escola para aprender a ler, escrever, e contar. Offerecida a Augusta Magestade do Senhor Dom Joao V. Rey de Portugal (Lisboa Occidental: na Officina de Bernardo da Costa de Carvalho, Impressor do Serenissimo Senhor Infante, 1722).

His work inspired Ventura da Silva, a Portuguese typographer who published Regras Methodicas in 1803, who redesigned some of Figueiredo's type specimens.

Digital descendants include Dino dos Santos's Pluma (2005), Andrade Pro (2006, a modern) and Andrade Pro Script (2006) typefaces. Intellecta Design's Invitation Script (2013) is based on Andrade's 1722 book. Miguel Bernardino's Manoel Display (2016) is named after Andrade. [Google] [More] ⦿

Manon Lef

Designer in Ede, The Netherlands, of the connected calligraphic script typeface Joleni (2017), the script typeface Milano Sky (2017), and the brush typeface Hola Bisou (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Manpreet Taak

Manpreet Taak (London) designed the calligraphic script typeface Pearl (2013) using a pearl necklace for inspiration. [Google] [More] ⦿

Manuel Barata

Lisbon-born calligrapher. Author of Arte de Escrever (1572, Lisbon), a writing manual. Posthumously, in 1590, Antonio Alvares published this book, Exemplares de diversas sortes de letras tirados da Polygraphia de Manoel Barata Escritor Portuguez acrecentadas pelo mesmo Author para comum proveito de todos. Derigido ao Excelentissimo D. Theotonio Duque de Bragança e de Barcellos Condestavel dos Reynos de Portugal (Lisbon). Scans, all from 1572: Chancery hand, rotunda, calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Manuel Eduardo Corradine
[Corradine Fonts]

Maore Sagarzazu

Codesigner with Santos Bregaña and Julen Cano Linazasoro of the calligraphic typeface Lamia (2013, Atelier Laia, Basque country), which is based on Jose Francisco de Iturzaeta Eizaguirre's "lower case pancilla reformed" found in General collection of characters of European Letters (1833, Madrid).

At Comando Cran, which he co-founded with nine others, he created the beautiful angular hexagonal typeface Vögel (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Marc Hermann

German artist and illustrator. Creator of the elegant 18th century chancery typeface Handwriting1800 (2008). Alternate URL. Homepage. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marcelo Quiroz Duarte

Chilean type designer, who contributes to Latinotype. Revista (2015, Paula Nazal Selaive, Marcelo Quiroz and Daniel Hernandez) is a typographic system that brings together all the features to undertake any fashion magazine-oriented project. It has Revista Script (connected style), Revista Stencil, Revista Dingbats, Revista Inline and the didone Revista all caps set of typefaces. Revista won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

In 2017, he designed Diplome Script (a copperplate calligraphic script published by Latinotype).

In 2020, he released the 18-style semi-calligraphic semi-Trajan typeface family Emperator at Latinotype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Marcio Hirosse
[Fabrika de Typos]

Maria Gabriela Garigliano

Marco Antonio Rossi

Italian calligrapher from the late 16th century, who created several sets of beautiful initials. Geometric construction of roman capitals, from Giardino de Scrittori (Rome, 1598). [Google] [More] ⦿

Margaret Layson

Calligrapher who lives in Australia. Designer from 2002-2004 of the Celtic look family Lindisfarne Nova (with Harry Pears) at Bitstream.

FontShop link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Margaret Shepherd

American calligrapher whose blog contains almost 200 calligraphic alphabets drawn by her in 2013. lives in Boston, where she created the Boston Calligraphy Trail.

Author of Learn calligraphy, Learn World Calligraphy, Calligraphy Alphabets Made Easy, Using Calligraphy, Calligraphy Made Easy. She also wrote Capitals for Calligraphy: A Sourcebook of Decorative Letters (1981).

The alphabets from the first half of 2013: 4penheavyBookhand, 7-11Segmentdisplay, 7segmentdisplay, 8712Roman, A+C, AngularItalic, Antiquarr, AssortedGothicfromLC, Aura_caps, Backhand, Bamboo, Beady1, Benedictus, BigKid, Blister, BoldBookhand, Bookshelf, BrightIdeaupperleft, BrightIdeaupperright, Brightideaoverhead, Caroling, Celticcaps, Celticcommoncase, Celticlc, Coiltic, Continuo, Coopywithpens, Copperlight.png, Cuts, DNA, Database, DeadCenter, DecoMono, Deflated,inflatedshortGothic, DeflatedGothic, DisjoinedNeuland1, Double-cross, Dryland, Durercaps, Dx6Italic1, Dx7Italic, Easterncapitals, Echo, Endless, EnglishTwo-ply, FastForward, FatUnc, Fatshadow, FlatGothic, Fleurdelis, Fraktur, FriendlyRoman, Frills, Glisten, Gothichighlightblack+gold, HalfGothic, HappyKid, Hearty, HeavyCopper, Heavycoppercaps, Heavyland, Heavyland1, Heftybutnimble, Heraldrybasic, Houseplant, Icelandictwoply, Interruptus, Italicambigramat180, Italicextralean, Italicswashcapitals6PW, Jan2Waity, Jan7Mesh, Jan8Roadside, KingArthur, Legendelc, Letterbox, LightweightItalic, LowerKingdom, Magdalene, MargaretShepherd-Pic, Masquerades, Minimalist, Miscellaneous, Moneon, MonoItalic, Morse, Mx26initials, NewYorker, Optimal, Papyruscaps, Pencildraft, Pencilrough, PlainGothic, Radiantidea, RectangularGothic, RetouchedRomans, Robot, Roman6PW, Romanalphabet, Romanshadow, Rondecaps, Rondelc, RoundedGothic, Runes, ShadyGothic, Shamrock, Shamrockcap, Shatteredalphabet, Shortcuts, Simplesplitcaps, Simplestitalic, SkinnyGothic, SlantedBookhand, Softsquare, SplitItalic, SplitSwash, Spray, Sprung, StainedGlassGothic, StarsandStripes, Staves, Studs, Superceltic, Swashcaps, Swashitalic, Talluplight, Thistle, ThuPhapred, TouchedupGothic, TowelDry, Truncatecaps, Truncatelc, Twinings, Uprightitalic1.1, Versalcircles, Versals, VerylightRoman, Vivaldi, Vivaldicaps, Yeoman, Zap, abItalicfromlc, blot, bookhand, coopylc, donut, fatcaps, legendecaps, stringy, typewriter. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maria Eugenia Cazares

At Universidad de Monterrey, Maria Eugenia Cazares designed the modular display typeface I Was Created To Create (2017), Knot (2017), Clea (2017), Look At Me I Am crazy (2017), New Hand (2017: calligraphic script), Boicot (2017: stencil), Get Set (2017: stencil). [Google] [More] ⦿

Maria Eugenia Prato

Spanish art director based in Madrid. She created an exquisite copperplate-style calligraphic script typeface called Dhana Script (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿

Buenos Aires-based graphic designer. In 2013, she drew an uncial and an italic alphabet, and showed a couple of hand-drawn typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maria Jose Rivera

Rio de Janeiro-based designer of the lava lamp typeface Cloudy Night (2014) and the calligrapghic font Gritt (2015). She studied at PUC-Rio. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maria Kotciurzhinskaia

Russian designer of frilly and flowery decorations. She created the vintage calligraphic font Victoria's Letters in 2015 (Latin). Aka Fleur Art. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maria Montes

Catalonian designer, illustrator and lettering artist. Graduate of Eina, Barcelona (1996) and Cooper Union New York (2012). Now based in Melbourne, Australia, Maria Montes created Milosz Italic at Eina, Barcelona, in 2011. She co-founded a textile and print design studio called MarchTwentyTwo in collaboration with fashion designer Laura Piera. The studio focuses on art prints, limited edition scarves, calligraphy workshops and other analogue crafts.

Her great angular semi-calligraphic typeface March Twenty Two (Sans, Serif) was created during the Summer Condensed Program at Cooper Union in NYC in 2012. In 2016, she designed the fine ornamental caps typeface Green Fairy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Maria Skopina

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based calligrapher and graphic artist, b. 1986, Ryazan. Graduate of the Ryazan Art College (2006), the Institute of Arts and Crafts (St. Petersburg) (2012) and St. Petersburg State University (2014: MA in art history). [Google] [More] ⦿

Marian Bantjes

Bowen Island, BC-based very talented graphic artist, who specializes in custom type and ornaments. Her typographic work:

With W. Ross Mills at Tiro, she designed Restraint (2007), an ornamental typeface, announced here and here (a bit of simulated Indic). Restraint won an award at TDC2 2008.
She designed titling caps for Thirstype's Playground. Quoting designers from a TDC jury page, Stefan Sagmeister says she is one of the most innovative typographers working today, Noreen Morioka calls her the Doyald Young of her generation, and Sigrid Albert says [she creates] spiritual typography which goes beyond religion.
Love Letters are calligraphic pieces drawn by Bantjes in 2008.
HWT Bernice (2016, P22 and Hamilton Wood Type). P22 writes: HWT Bernice is an ornament font system designed by Marian Bantjes. The basic shapes were designed by Bantjes for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum's border stamping machine as a contemporary application for this 150 year old machine, which punches shapes into end grain wood to form continuous border patterns.

She teaches typography through Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mariana Leal

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based designer of these calligraphic scripts in 2015: Scriptica, Brush Hand, Louis. In 2016, she designed Box Rounded. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marie de Bourgogne

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] ⦿

Marie Fruchart

Marie Fruchart (Lille, France) designed a calligraphic alphabet in 2013. Unclear whether this is an actual digital font. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marija Rnjak

Croatian calligrapher and type designer, based in Belgrade, Serbia. Graduate of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. During TypeClinic 5 in 2012 in Trenta, Slovenia, she created Prouge, which is described as a soft didone that is best for titling, but can be successfully used also in smaller sizes down to 12 pt.

Creator of the Cyrillic typeface Vuk (2012), which is named after and based on the handwriting of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, a Serbian philologist and linguist who was the major reformer of the Serbian language. In 2015, Vedran Erakovic and Marija Rnjak finally published Vuk at LatterPalette. Thanks to some OpenType features, this typeface does a good job at emulating real handwriting.

In 2016, Marija designed the didone typeface Nocturno BG (Latin and Cyrillic) at Tipometar. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marina Karlova

Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer of the watercolor brush script Sillyserif (2017), the quill script Arfa Quill (2017), the calligraphic Siberius (2017), the brush signage typeface Signifique (2017), and the rough but attractive handwriting font Adjika (2017).

Aka Lissius. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marina Kuznetsova

Belarussian designer of the connected script typeface Oleander (2016) and the brush typefaces Momento (2016) and Hardcore (2016, Latin and Cyrillic) and the handcrafted typeface Enjoy (2016). She operates as Marie Smith Lettering & Design. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marina Prusov

Hannover, Germany-based designer of the antique calligraphic typeface Bloody Romeo (2013), which was created for a school project. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marine Ade

During her studies at ESAIG (Ecole Estienne) in Paris, Marine Ade designed the graceful script typeface Bengale (2016) and the informal calligraphic typeface Aicha (2016). In 2017, she designed the calligraphic print typeface Zadig. [Google] [More] ⦿

Måns Björkman
[Amanye Tenceli: Tengwar Calligraphy]

Måns Grebäck
[Aring Typeface]

Mario Arturo

Barcelona-based graphic designer (b. 1963). Dafont carries his free fonts, which are often revivals, or fonts based on scans from Dover books. The list of his typefaces:

Amarfil (2012). Traced from the Dubbelde Auguftyn Capitalen typeface by father and son Izakk and Johan Enschedé.
Angelface (2014). Mario writes that it is loosely based on the Lariata typeface. It was traced from the 1993 edition of the Novum Press book Schreibschriften/Script Types, compiled by Michael Rau & Rosemarie Kloos-Rau.
Better Heather (2000): a cleanup of De Nada's script font Heather.
Bodoni Fragile Sharp (2018). A Bodoni stencil.
Boizenburg (2013). An art nouveau caps typeface.
Brennan (2012). A heavy slab serif typeface.
Brook Flair (2012). Mario explains: This font is traced from the book Alphabete 2 by Erhardt D. Stiebner and Helmut Huber for Novum Press (1990). I added the missing swashy characters and punctuations. From what I understand, this is a variation of a typeface called Macbeth that was designed in the 1950's for Filmotype.
Dean Martin and Dean Martin Swing (2012). A retro font and its curly cousin.
Doris Day: an upright connected script.
Echedo (2018). This typeface was traced from an unnamed ornamental Roman alphabet from the 1958 edition of 101 Alphabets by W. Ben Hunt and Ed.C. Hunt. Originally published as 60 Alphabets in 1935.
Esplanade Script (2015). Published at Aring Typeface.
Flamingo (2015). A revival of a condensed titling typeface (+Inline) family designed in 1929 by Louis Oppenheim at H. Berthold Schriftgiesserei A.G.
Galeries (2001): based on a type that appeared on a receipt from a store called Galeries Sant Jordi in the 1960s in Pineda de Mar, Catalunya.
Halo Handletter (1997): taken from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
Helvelow: based on Helvetica.
Individual (or: Initial): calligraphic all caps face. Scanned from an alphabet book.
Japan (1997): a brush stroke font based on a scan from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
Lisbon Script (2014). Based on a script shown in Schreibschriften/Script Types (1993, Michael Rau & Rosemarie Kloos-Rau, Novum Press).
Lombard (2018). This typeface was traced from an unnamed orient alphabet from the 1943 edition of «New Letters and Lettering» by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring.
Masana (2011). An upright connected script family inspired by the handwriting of Catalan photographer Josep Masana from Barcelona who was also a publicist in the 1930's. Followed by Masana Grata, Masana Maxima and Masana Extras in 2011.
Mister Sinatra and Mister Sinatra Slim (2012).
Oz's Wizard (2012). Based on scans of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), which used a typeface designed by Goudy.
PetuniaBounce (1997): based on a Dan Solo typeface from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
Riddle (Riddle Upright and Riddle Script, 2010-2013): based on the typeface used on the Frank Sinatra&Nelson Riddle LP "Only the Lonely". With help from Harold Lohner. Continued in Riddle Upright (2013).
Rom (2001): inspired by Barcelona's Rom Caffe logo.
Rough Spring: based on Spring by Letterperfect.
Sahara (2000): based on the font Arbot.
South Pacific. Inspired by a phrase from The ABC of Lettering (1965, J.I. Biegeleisen, Harper & Row Publishers,NY. See also this OFL link.
Thick Deco: art deco face.
You're Invited (2014). An invitation script font that revives a script found in Lettering (1916, Thomas Wood Stevens). The typeface was designed by Lawrence Rosa and later refined by Mario Arturo.

Klingspor link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Marion Andrews

French calligrapher from Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux. Designer of a French school font, which was presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Education in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. Marion Andrews's school font has a basic monoline sans caps style tilted at only 5 degrees, and a connected lower case whose rhythm was influenced by the Dryad Writing style of Alfred Fairbank (1932).

Marion Andrews won an award for writing organized by the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale in France.

Marion organized a workshop on Fraktur/Gothic fonts, from 21-26 July 2003, in the Jura region of France. See also here.

Marion Andrews, Malou Verlomme and Laurence Bedoin collaborated on the school fonts Écriture A and Écriture B which are presented in Modèles d'écriture scolaire (2013), a document issued by the French Ministry of Education. These fonts are available from Eduscol. PDF with some of her work. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marion Chibrard

Parisian graphic and typographic designer. In 2013, Marion created the modular caps typeface Simple Hello Crab and the calligraphic typeface Astride.

Mark Frömberg

Berlin-based and Berlin-born illustrator and designer whose first degree is from the University of Applied Sciences (Berlin 2012). Graduate of the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag in 2014, where his graduation typeface was Shequalin.

He made the semi-calligraphic script typeface Faistra (2010) renamed Canary (2011, to be published by Die Gestalten), and the rounded informal typeface Calcine (2011, Die Gestalten).

Pigment (2012) is a chromatic typeface.

For his graduation project at the KABK in 2014, he created Shequalin, a text typeface for humoristic applications, Mark writes about this quirky but very pleasant and readable typeface: Shequalin is a text typeface designed for sophisticated humoristic literature and all kinds of typographic shenanigans. Be it satirical or dadaistic poetry, escapist or fictive novels, playful Shequalin seamlessly suits works by masters of the comical word. For the reader;s alertness, it rhythmically drops in oddities without distracting from the reading flow. In order to create a more severe and fervent contrast, the roman and italic were designed independently and merged later, creating a dynamic sense of tension and blatancy in Shequalin.

In 2016, he designed the monospaced programming font family Gintronic at Carrois and bBox Type.

Typefaces from 2019: Nunki (Future Fonts: a warm almost playful text typeface).

Co-designer of the free Google Fonts typefaces IBM Plex Sans Thai (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Ben Mitchell and Mark Frömberg) and IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Ben Mitchell and Mark Frömberg).

In 2020, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg set up Hypertype in Berlin, a studio that specializes in Latin and Hangul scripts. They promptly designed Neutronic and Neutronic Hangul, which are proportional descendants of Mark Frömberg's earlier monospaced typeface, Gintronic.

At Github, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg published the Latin / Hangul typeface family Hahmlet (2020). Hahmlet is inspired by a poster for the Korean Hamlet movie from the 1940s, created by an unknown letterer. Free download at Google Fonts.

Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mark Simonson
[Mark Simonson Studio]

Mark Simonson Studio
[Mark Simonson]

Mark Simonson Studio is located in StPaul, MN. Mark founded Mark Simonson Studio around 2000, and describes himself as a freelance graphic designer and type designer. From his CV: Early in my career I worked mainly as an art director on a number of magazines and other publications including Metropolis (a Minneapolis weekly, 1977), TWA Ambassador (an inflight magazine, 1979-81), Machete (a Minneapolis broadsheet, 1978-80), Minnesota Monthly (Minnesota Public Radio's regional magazine, 1979-85), and the Utne Reader (1984-88). I was head designer and art director for Minnesota Public Radio (1981-85) and an art director for its sister company, Rivertown Trading Company (1992-2000). During that time, I designed over 200 audio packages, including most of Garrison Keillor's, along with several hundred products (t-shirts, mugs, rugs, watches, etc.) for the Wireless, Signals, and other mail order catalogs. I have frequently done lettering as part of design projects I'm working on. This has always been my favorite part, so in 2000 I opened my own shop specializing in lettering, typography and identity design. I've also been interested in type design since my college days. I started licensing fonts to FontHaus in 1992, and since starting my new business, stepped up my efforts in developing original typefaces. I now have more than 70 fonts on the market with many more to come. This is increasingly becoming the focus of my activities. His fonts:

Coquette (2001). He says: Coquette could be the result of a happy marriage of Kabel and French Script.
Anonymice Powerline (2009-2010). This is probably a hack by some people based on Anonymous. It is available in some Github directories.
Kandal: a 1994 wedge serif, now also at MyFonts).
Proxima Sans (1994, a geometric sans, rereleased in 2004), followed in 2005 by his massively successful Proxima Nova in 42 styles/weights. Followed by Proxima Nova Soft (2011). The rounded version of Proxima Nova is Proxima Soft (2017). For a variable font that captures all styles, see Proxima Vara (2021). In 2022, he added Proxima Sera (an 18-style workhorse serif that combines old style forms with contemporary and modern typefaces).
Mostra (2001): based on a style of lettering often seen on Italian Art Deco posters and advertising of the 1930s. Look at the Light and Black versions, and drool...... The 2009 update is called Mostra Nuova. Selected styles: Mostra Nuovo Bold, Mostra One Light, Mostra Three Bold, Mostra Two Heavy.
In 2001, he made the Mac font Anonymous. Its updated version is Anonymous Pro (2009-2010), a TrueType version of Anonymous 9, which was a freeware bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-spaced Macintosh system font.
In 1998 and 2001, he produced the (free) 3-style Atari Classic family.
In 2003, he released Blakely Bold and Heavy (an art deco font first done for the Signals mail order catalog). The original Blakely is from 2000.
Goldenbook Light, Regular, and Heavy, based on the logotype of the 1920s literary mag called "The Golden Book Magazine".
Metallophile Sp 8 Light and Light Italic (2008): a "faithful facsimile of an 8-point sans as set on a 1940s-vintage hot metal typesetting machine".
Refrigerator Light and Heavy, Refrigerator and its extension Refrigerator Deluxe (2009) (geometric sans).
Changeling Light, Regular, Bold, Stencil, and Inline (2003): a redesign and expansion of China, a VGC photo-typositor typeface from 1975 by M. Mitchell, which includes unicase typefaces; see also Changeling Neo, 2009.
Sanctuary Regular and Bold: a computerish typeface based on lettering in the 1976 movie Logan's run--later withdrawn from the market.
Sharktooth (+Bold, +Heavy).
Felt Tip Roman, Woman and Senior (based on his own handwriting). Felt Tip Senior (2000) is based on the hand of Mark's father. Felt Tip Woman Regular and Bold are based on the handwriting of designer Patricia Thompson.
Filmotype Gay (2011).
Filmotype Honey (2010): fifties brush lettering face. For a free alternative, see Honey Script (2000) by Dieter Steffmann.
Raster Gothic Condensed Regular and Bold (12 fonts total), and Raster Bank (a pixelized version of Bank Gothic).
Other free bitmap fonts for the Mac [the PC version was made by CybaPee]. MyFonts page.
He digitized Phil Martin's family, Grad (2004, inspired by Century Schoolbook, and originally done by Martin in 1990).
His 2006 production includes three script typefaces: Kinescope is a connected script based on title lettering in Fleischer Studios' animated Superman films from the 1940s. Snicker is a cartoony block letter type. Both were published at Font Bros. And Launderette is a connected very slanted script based closely on lettering used in the titles of the 1944 Otto Preminger film, Laura.
In 2007, he revived and extended Filmotype Glenlake (2007, sold at Font Bros).
Lakeside (2008) is a flowing 1940s-style brush script. It was inspired by hand-lettered titles in the classic 1944 film noir movie Laura.
In 2008, he revived Filmotype Zanzibar, about which he writes: That Zanzibar is nearly an anagram of bizarre seems fitting. The surviving people from Filmotype (later Alphatype) have not been able to tell us who designed this gem, so we have no record of the designers intentions. Released in the early 1950s, it seems somewhat inspired by the work of Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Tango, 1934) and Imre Reiner (Stradivarius, 1945). At first, it appears to be a formal script, but there are no connecting strokes. It would be better described as a stylized italic, similar to Bodoni Condensed Italic or Onyx Italic, with swash capitals.
Filmotype Vanity (2008) is an outline typeface based on a 1955 design by Filmotype. It was derived from Filmotype Ginger.
Filmotype Alice (2008) is casual handwriting. However, MyFonts now credits Patrick Griffin with the digitization.
Filmotype MacBeth (2008) is a freestyle face.
Filmotype Ginger (2008) is a heavy display typeface with an aftertaste of Futura.
Boxy2 (2008) and Boxy1 (2008) are severely octagonal typefaces made to test out FontStruct. See also bubblewrap.
In 2008, Mark Solsburg and Mark Simonson cooperated on the digital revival of the calligraphic Diane Script, originally designed in 1956 by Roger Excoffon.
In 2009, Mark worked on SketchFlow Print, a font for Microsoft. It will be bundled with the next version of Christian Schormann's Expression Blend, part of Microsoft's Expression Studio suite. The fonts, based upon the handwriting of architect Michaela Mahady of SALA Architects, Inc., give that well-known architectural printing look (like Tekton).
Filmotype Gem (2011). A sans headline typeface that was first drawn by Filmotype in the 1950s.
Bookmania (2011) is a revival of Bookman Oldstyle (1901) and the Bookmans of the 1960s, but with all the features you would expect in a modern digital font family. Especially, Simonson's Bookmania story is worth reading.
In 2018, he published the 25-style Acme Gothic at Fontspring. He explains: Acme Gothic (2018) is based on the thick and thin gothic lettering style popular in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. There have been typefaces in this genre before, but they were either too quirky (Globe Gothic), too English (Britannic), too Art Deco (Koloss), too modern (Radiant), or too Art Nouveau (Panache). None captures the plain, workman-like style of Acme Gothic.
Parkside (2018) is a script typeface inspired by typefaces and lettering of the 1930s and 1940s. Parkside uses OpenType magic to automatically select letter variations that seamlessly connect to the letters coming before and after.
In 2018, he emulated wood type in his HWT Konop at P22. Named for Don Konop, a retired Hamilton Manufacturing employee, who worked from 1959 to 2003, this typeface is monospaced in both x and y directions so that letters can be stacked vertically and horizontally. All proceeds go to the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
Etna (2020). A 30-style text and display family that started out from William H. Page's Victorian wood type Aetna (1874), and was remolded by Simonson into a useful typeface family though still distinctly linked to its ancestor. Etna includes three different condensed widths in all six weights (intended for display use), four different figure styles, alternate characters, true small caps, and a selection of dingbats, including arrows, stars, asterisks, and manicules.

Links to his typefaces, in decreasing order of popularity: Proxima Nova, Bookmania, Mostra Nuova, Proxima Nova Soft, Coquette, Refrigerator Deluxe, Felt Tip Roman, Grad, Changeling Neo, Goldenbook, Lakeside, Kinescope, Metallophile Sp8, Blakely, Felt Tip Woman, Snicker, Felt Tip Senior, Kandal, Sharktooth, Anonymous, Raster Bank, Raster Gothic.

FontShop link. Fontspace link. MyFonts interview. View all typefaces designed by Mark Simonson. Fontspring link. Google Plus link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Kernest link. I Love Typography link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mark Solsburg
[Group Type]

Mark Solsburg

Mark Solsburg is the head of the Type Directors Club and of Fairfield, CT-based FontHaus (DsgnHaus). Mark Solsburg has been working in the type business since 1985 when he joined International Typeface Corporation in New York. Prior to leaving ITC to launch FontHaus in 1989, he was ITC's Worldwide Marketing Director. Solsburg was responsible for ITC client marketing support and assisted in developing early OEM licensing agreements with Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Canon, Linotype, Compugraphic and Xerox. In 1989 he founded FontHaus, which has since grown into one of the largest independent suppliers of digital fonts to large and small design firms, advertising agencies and other media producers in the industry. FontHaus was among the first to offer online sales of digital fonts (1994) and online sales of additional user licenses. In 1993, FontHaus began publishing the typographic magazine X-HEIGHT. In 1994, FontHaus expanded its dealer network in Europe by acquiring Faces Ltd., the UK's first independent font reseller. Faces was sold to Agfa Monotype after nine years as a FontHaus subsidiary. Solsburg served as a board member and as the president of the Type Directors Club (New York), and is a co-founder and principal of TypoBrand. Solsburg lives and works in Westport, CT. In 2008, Mark Solsburg and Mark Simonson cooperated on the digital revival of the calligraphic Diane Script, originally designed in 1956 by Roger Excoffon. [Google] [More] ⦿

Markus Schröppel

German designer, b. 1965. Currently, he teaches typography at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, but maintains a home in Wuppertal, Germany. His typefaces:

Claus (2019). A typeface with a shaky outline.
The dingbat typefaces LL Sami Signs (2016) and LL Hullu Poro (2016).
LL Mystic (2016). A pixel or embroidery typeface.
LL DCL (2016) and LL Miral (2019). Dot matrix typefaces.
LL Disco (2016).
LL Colon (2016).
LL Mountain (2015). Mountain scene dingbats.
LL Calligraphy (2014).
LL Paladin (2014). Medieval calligraphic typeface.
LL Liberte (2013). a rough stencil typeface based on railway stencils seen in Arles, France.
LL Lisa (2013). A Cyrillic sans.
LL Faces (2013).
LL Rounded (2012).
LL Charlotte
LLChina (2009): a grunge stencil face.
LLTippa (2009): old typewriter.
LL Pochoir (2007, grunge).
The dingbats font LL Hulu Poro (verrucktes Renntier) presented at FUSE95.
LL Faktotum (1995, grunge). Download here.
LL Humboldt (2012). A grungy signposting or poster face.
LL Record (2002-2006): music dingbats.
LL Medien (2004): extra-wide rounded techno face.
Free typefaces: LL Nitro (2002, grunge), LL Mirai (2018), LL Futur (2013), LL Pearl (2013), LL Pixel, LL Pikseli (2009, dotted face, done with Rovaniemen Yliopisto), LL Rubber Grotesque (grunge, letterpress simulation, and/or rubber stamp font originally done in 1997), LL Regular (grunge), LL Cooper (2009, sketched typeface based on Cooper Black) and LL Alarm (roughened stencil face). LL Rubber Grotesque has been used in the Harry Potter films since 2005: see here.
The typefaces for the interior of Smart cars (Smart Roadster) and the exterior of the Smart 4-4 and 4-2 (see here).
LL Textur (2014, a calligraphically constructed Textura face).
LL Xmas (2012, stitching font) and LL Dot (2012, dot matrix face).

In October 2007, he organized a Type Workshop in Rovaniemi. At that workshop, his students made a number of typefaces: Väinö Klemola, Siru Lämsä, Mika Junna, Merja Lahti, Lena Raeuchle, Kalle-Pekka Alare, Jussi-Pekka Koivisto, Heidi Ettanen, Hanna Piekkola, Hanna Kauppinen, Esa-Pekka Niemi, Elisa Niemelä, Elina Virtanen, Emile Uggla, Antti Huhtala. This was followed by similar workshops in 2008 and 2009. Type glossary.

Old download link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Marta Zawieja

Lodz, Poland-based designer of a nice lettering poster called Piosenki (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Martin Meijer

Dutch alphabetician who was active in the 1930s. In 1949, he published Album de Lettres Arti (Arti, Alkmaar, the Netherlands), which features 32 decorative alphabets. In 1940, he released the 20-page booklet De Perpetua van Eric Gill (Boek- en Handeldrukkerij Wormerveer).

Hans van Maanen at Canada Type revived his lettering as digital fonts: Archie (2010) is a square face, and Agent (2010) is pure comic book or signage style. Chikita (2008) by Patrick Griffin and Rebecca Alaccari at Canada Type is an upright ronde script that is also based on Meijer's work. The angular calligraphic type family Libertine (2011, by Patrick Griffin and Kevin Allan King at Canada Type) was also inspired by Meijer.

Jeff Levine was also inspired by Meijer's alphabets in his JNL Ornate Deco (2019), Sign Studio JNL (2019) and Maitre d Stencil JNL (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Martina Flor

Independent Argentinian designer (b. 1982) who was an assistant in the graphic design program at the University of Buenos Aires from 2003 until 2009. Graduate of the Masters program in type design at KABK, 2010. Martina set up her own Martina Flor Type Foundry in 2014. She presently lives in Berlin and teaches type design at Dessau where she initiated and manages Kurz Project in Type Design.

Author of The Golden Secrets of Lettering (Princeton Architectural Press and Thames & Hudson, 2017). Cofounder of the online competition Lettering versus calligraphy.

At KABK, she created the script family Supernova (2010) for packaging and signage. Supernova can be bought at Typotheque. Read about it here.

Her other lettering work is special too---I particularly appreciate her wedding cards for Mariana and Nacho. She did a revival of Berthold's Augustea in 2009, while still at KABK.

At her own foundry, in 2014, she published the connected handwriting font family Wonderhand (2014)---it has three axes of parameters, thickness, width and slope (0, 20 or 40 degrees).

In 2018, Martina Flor and Neil Summerour (Positype) published the layerable Tuscan typeface family Decorata. In 2019, the same duo released Ribbons at Positype.

Typecache link. Behance link. Home page. Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Telling good from bad Lettering. Keynote speaker at TypeCon 2017 in Boston. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mary Louise Marino

Type designer at Font Bureau since 1998. Calligrapher. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Masinong (was: Pholetter, Fatype Studio)
[Fajriadi Fajriadi]

First called Fatype Studio, it was renamed in 2017 to Pholetter and Farjadi Pholetter and in 2018 to Masinong. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of the calligraphic script typefaces Shirlly (2016), Gabias Script (2016) and Afrile Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Andella Script, Brillyo Script, Montalia Script, Debt Collectors (brush script), Barbara Script, Stylish Script, Dahlia Script (uright).

Typefaces from 2018: Dahlia Script (upright script), Golden Bridge (font duo), Woodley (gonzo calligraphy), Thirsty, Romansa.

Typefaces from 2019: The Lucky, Change Brush, Betharie, Chester Brush, Wonderkids, Baleria Script, Magistoe, Morelight Script, Wellington. Graphicriver link.

Typefaces from 2020: Handover, Shantika Script, Zellora Script, Castillo, Natalle (a heavy brush script), Dellarose, Agnesia (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Masketer
[Mukhlas A. Saputra]

Kota Sigli, Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Rosita Light (2017), the monoline marker script Brotherhood (2017), and the brush scripts Amberlyne Script (2017), Ganiyah Script (2017), Pentaphylla (2017, +Script, +Ornament) and Withdrawn (2017). In 2019, he released the script typeface Officielle. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Masoud Aghaie

Iranian graphic designer and calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Massimo Polello

Famous Turin-based calligrapher with a great web presentation of his work. The type community is eagerly awaiting his first calligraphic font! Calligraphic workshop coordinator at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo. [Google] [More] ⦿

Matevz Medja
[Archive Type]

Matheus Barbosa
[Tipoforme]

Mathilde Davy

During her studies at École de Condé de Lyon, France, Mathilde Davy designed Calligarphie (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Matra Creative
[May Adifarzan Muis]

Indonesian designer (b. 1979) of Aishanaziha (2019: a script), Claudia Betta (2019: formal calligraphy), Umbrellia (2019: a calligraphic script), Firstland (2019), Aurisha Script (2018: script), Kattelyna (2018: calligraphic script), Medharetta (2018: a script) and Janetha Script (2018).

In 2020, he published the formal copperplat calligraphic script typeface Bellisa Script (+Ornaments).

Typefaces from 2021: Keista Heather (a scrapbook script), Sentingo (a retro script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Matthew Napolitano
[Graffiti Fonts (or: Highground Industries, or: Highground Graffiti Fonts, or: Fulltime Artists)]

Matty's calligraphy
[James Matthew "Matty" Farrow]

James Matthew "Matty" Farrow (Australia) wrote in 1999: I am interested in calligraphy, palaeography, and (digital) typography, and am currently writing an outline font editor for Adobe Type 1 fonts called spif. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maulana Creative
[Gilang Maulana]

Bandung and/or Jakarta, Indonesia-based creator of Passion (2015, thick marker script), Elrotex (2015, thick brush script), Arkana Script (2015), Asia Otasi (2015, thick brush script), Wolf Reality (2015, thick brush typeface), Atorak (2015, brush script), Soulmater (2015, a calligraphic script), Zurich (2015, a heavy brush font), Chromount (2015), Constanta (2015, brush typeface), Tristan (2015, fat brush style), Rissa (2015, a fat brush script), Morracle (2015, hand-painted brush font; free), Tycho (2015, + Ornaments), Sobbers (2015, a lively connected script), Karenina (2015), Abg Centil (2015, a spindly curly script; later renamed Karenina), Benihana (2015) and Shine & Tokio (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Astronaut (signature font), Axwell (dry brush font), Allia (calligraphic), Broke, Dounuts (a great calligraphic script), Hattes (brush script), Blesd (connected hairline script), Kalista (connected script), Arissa (rough brush), Lote Santos (marker script), Sobod (a great high-contrast creamy script), Qoobly, Supartiny (thin calligraphic script), Evadoffi Script (calligraphic), Adellove, Alissya Script (heavy brush font), Rustic Station, Wonder Sunshine, Kania Script, Rabbits Hole, Easy Brush Font, Bottle Massow Brush Script, Sottafles (brush script), Roselowe (brush script), Pratiwi (connected formal script), Zonas (breezy script), Zonas Sans, Wosser, Palm Brush, Mornin Awesome, Jarvish Blurry Brush, Morning Wishes (calligraphic script), Valdemar (bold script), However Store.

Typefaces from 2017: Klast (signature font), Santashoes Script, Raisa Script, Harris Signature, Aerials, Fturism, Contaur, Bouttiques, Gladise (signature script), Bottle Massow, Sustans (script), Otentic (signature font), Hard To Love (dry brush), Bware, Love Hewits, Glamoush, Like Father Like Son, Brostars, Kottam (dry brush), Swanish, Little Kittens (script), Afattal, Peter Jhons (signature font), Sallad (brush script), Sandia Brush, Augustia Signature, Casses, Boostpest (brush), Habbit, Without You, Vesial (brush script), Hatton, Jollie, Bom Day (signage script), Rohtwo, Rusa Hitam, Authen Brush, Walrus, Datto (brush script), Masto (brush script), Jolies, Arion Signature, Gamot, Dattsy (a signature font), Sbastian Signature Clean.

Typefaces from 2018: Puspa Script, Puspa Sans, Kaydens (Sans+Script), Uniclo (a wide sans), Crake (brush SVG font), Scottsmith (script), Justices (font duo), Seltons (a dry brush SVG font), Golte (sans), Saturasi (signature font), Hybrid (brush script), Rossa Script, Saintrop (brush script), Leibra (font duo), Ladytron, Ansterdam (a monoline signature font), Rups Script (an SVG font), Amstonia (a signature font duo), Batters (a monoline script), Sweetshy, Fractis (monoline script), Aviliator (brush script), Clodia (signature font), Hunny Straw (font duo), Rushfor (calligraphic), Strollers (script), Zeuty Script, Bikarosta, Ollister (signature font), Wowi (brush font), Something Cool, Easy Salads, Limitless, Rissa (brush script), Nordams (condensed sans), Pollistons (Sans and Script: a signature font), Sheiral, Monerd (sans), Pure Dance (brush, SVG), Owissa Story (font duo), Rattles (Signature and Serif), Serrona Script, Love Rosnita (font duo), Seirra (OpenType SVG brush font), Funtastic Youth, Osturria, Zattoya (signature font), Bertta (signature font), Athen, Birocratic, Ottodisom, Baltism (monoline script), Stantic, Hellicopters (sic) (signature font), Agrem (sans), Motters (connected script), Stampson Signature, Solevate, Smith Allison (a signature font), Asturria, Awosem, Amber Queen (a signature script).

Typefaces from 2019: Broothers (chalk SVG font), Brotthers Sans, Pillish (font duo), Osttrola, Bastille, Nubolts Rounded, Hardtrack, Mistari, Wellfare, Millton (Serif, Script), Aklay (script), Worthness (an SVG font), Artifac (script), Anthique (spurred, Victorian), Poliesster (font duo), Snowhart, Fairmont, Mollysh Script, Swootys (for signatures), Sarvati, Rossmore, Horsesse (brush type), Paulina (a signature font), Mathew Rohas (a heavy brush font), Lany Zesty (a monoline script), Bridgetts (a font duo), Cardiff, Arlobuns, Asphalt (monoline script), Sweetshore (monoline script), Borris (font duo), Rushtten (script), Dotyville, Cayttons (a monoline signature script), Polandic (dry brush script in SVG format), Weisston (a thin script), Foltta, Suarte (script), Roosevelt (dry brush), Arthemis, Frances, Argents, Schrader SVG, Bashira, Emerisa, Hogart Script, Moriarty Serif, Flohart SVG, Triester SVG, Fire Stone, Lovas (script), Mombay Brush, Amorisa (monoline script), Amberla (font duo), Thorce (a rounded sans), Cassius, Katty Lynch (font duo), Jadeline (Script, Serif), Nyquist (signature script, and sans), Pradita Script, Modura, Oliviare (sans), Goodsay (a great monoline script), Scouthels, Hello Subrim (font duo), Darto (a signature font duo), Lostfield (display sans), Brushelly SVG.

Typefaces from 2020: Hmrile Brush, Bareta (a monoline script), Carols Night (a monolinear signature font), Eastpoint (wild calligraphy), Juxtapose, Mad World (a monolinear script), Corlathans, Grunges (a brush font), Anthroops, Ameriondela (monoline script), Wooden Okadio (a fashionable display typeface), Arturia, Esok Pagi, Scottish, Soul Harder, Stereoflows, Bahud Aroyek (a blackletter), Siarons (a dry brush script), Soul Harder, Frostiest, Gastronomes, Gottar Adsset, Symptonics, Malo Aino (a graffiti brush font), Beauty Flome, Moriss Ward (a dry brush script), Atorge, Black Range (all caps, dry brush style), Sabrionte, Waykers Amor (spurred, blackletter, Victorian), Rockerby, Bestro (a dry brush script), Charoeys (a monoline script), Constaniz, Mist Sunshine Brush (a dry brush font), Clockwork (a decorative inline blackletter font), Distance (a bold upright script), Stereomantic (a monoline script), Spacetroops, Astrolove, Randirops (a fat finger font), Adicttives, Mayoritte, Torches Realistic Brush Font (a dry brush script), Oturllis, Rollo (a decorative sans), Pollyester (a blackletter), Wondar Quason (a display serif), Winchester (a vintage label typeface), Cardiolla, River Rocks (a fat finger font), Backers (a fat finger font), Riverola (a dry brush font), Mathernal, Fleurette, Gillford, Santoria, The Monster, Balleys, Bestons (a dry brush script), Karstar (a monoline script), Bestiest (a script typeface), Arsitage (dry brush script), Asterica, Heathers, Judith (monoline script), Lekcra Crubop (signage script), Diettersen, Hasta (a dry brush script), Smithgroove, The Carbs, Elanor (tall caps), Outeris, Nymburgh (a fat finger font), Acrosmyth, Windblows, Asiatropic, Hello Miassond, Brasons Risool, Castallier, Elosiam, Tumbrella Script, Alona, Monology, Margott Rooster, Theodorlane, Charmeleon, Flim Flom Graffiti, Rabbit Oaks, Dawsons Script, Arteknilo (a wild script), Jetha Crimson, Heatwave, Kavarian Serif (a display serif), Royal King (spurred, vintage, inline), Clairdelune, Hawk Eyes (dry brush, SVG format), Sunset Trips, Roschetta, Chordettes, Salmander Bentols Script, Sentilum, Viesta, Morish, Amkifuny (vintage, decorative), Victory Rose, Emma Goulding (a monoline signature font), Wallace (a display serif), Monalls Script (wild calligraphy), Rozex (blackletter), La Rosse (Serif, Sans, Script), Gilodas (a monoline script), Dalton Gardens, Sophan Calligraphy (a signature font), Trickiest, Breakloft (a signature script), Elitmog, Collabro, Alentropics, Querins (an SVG brush font), Russlock (an SVG brush font), Winter Delight (textured caps typeface), Jonathan (script), Magic Daisy, Deronic (font duo), Alentropics, Brittanstone, Blackseas, Heartales, Dillandio, Mysthics, Qurtsign, Chelsy, Polers, Sattiers, Nickollas, Artlines, Osirish, Oterdin, Astherik (Sans, Script), Stuborn (sic).

Typefaces from 2021: Bolivar Shore (a wild script), Chasterlize (a tall and somewhat wild script), Greastly (a fat finger font), Ray Harts (script), Sobiah Written (a scrapbook script), Street Walks (a dry brush script), Surfers South (a monolinear signature font), Writes Sketh (a scrapbook brush font), Anesthesa (a fat finger script), Gratelos (a straightened bold inktrapped sans), Logkey Block (an informal blocky font), Qualyters (a rabbit ear signature script), Restflaws (a fat finger script), Pluckypot (counterless), Beauty Snowy (script), Brominates (script), Colatera Soft (a bold soft sans), Garmint (a condensed bold grot), Grimblocks, Hilority (a tall signature script), Julliusy (a wild script), Katvondy (script), Nastyflashy (script), Rissyetta (script) Roxfranks (brush script), Supergravity (script), Almond Nuts (a scrapbook script), Crash Struck (a brush script), Jillstone (script), Red Bells (a signature script), Sallowness (a bold script), Converon (in the style of Saul Bass), Cool Unkle (a bean font), Crayonest, Crisp Cracks (a marker pen font), Discreates (a signature script), Elfashion (script), Gradiattes (script), Woodstark (script), Kartbones (a signature script), Drive Hearts (script), Drive Hearts, Subcultures (a creamy script), Taptalks (a hasty script), Monstafaller (a Halloween font), Neillgates (script), Guyad (a scrapbook script), Twicelights (a signature script), Hollowcoves (a heavy old school script), Shadyspeed (a scrapbook script), Qritticaly (a marker pen font), Hockleys (a monoline script), Soulections (script), Bermont (sans caps), Manford Sans, Gramary (a compressed sans), Binthrots (script), Oxyless (a signature script), Fairdate (a unicase placard font), Farloxy (a thin signature script), Fortyfresh (vernacular supermarket caps), Hybridge (a brush font), Distractiles (script), Fallen City (a rabbit ear script), Fattalsfort (a brush font), The Rebound (a graffiti font), Bravarya Sky (script), Halley Parades (handwriting), Moralstory (a fat display script), Qobryts (a signature script), Shortwaves (script), Skisterstone (a scrapbook script), Hastafloris (script), Lafoyettes (script), Chillybeans (a rhythmic swashy calligraphic script), Olgoods, Rookys, Salmonillo (a brush script), Tarboots (a bold script), Tiffanka (a tall calligraphic script), Westclock (script), Angel Rise (a monolinear script), Chillphils, Golfrush (a monolinear script), Ronny Catuss (a signature brush font), Chorest (a dry brush script), Contoursy (a signature font), Hoffmans (a signature script), Quintys (a wild calligraphic script), Zapatos (a thin signature script), Avextur SVG, Roxtowns, Orbitens (signature script), Goversy, Sellyamor (signature script), Kartbones (signature script), Zapatos (siagnature script), Castury (signature script), Citadels (script), Elfashion (script), Chorest (an SVG brush font), McTellyus (a monoline script), Golfrush, Angel Rise, Tarboots (a fat finger script), Hoffmans (signature script), Contoursy (a signature font), Cillphils, Ronny Catuss, Risella fruits, Nuttelos, The Impostor (a fat finger script), Foxity, Infamous Rush, Alaskano (a plump display typeface), Brickston (script), Gutreks (script), La Roux (a bold monoline script), Overtis Signature, Younglines (script), Blackbirdy (a bold script), Clifttons (script), Mc Havoks (a script), Plotwist (a bold script), Belltons (an SVG format brush script font), Canthonys (script), Eureka Springs (script), Kollhers (a sloppy script), Lovesmilly (script), Quiltyks (script), Feeltrips (a marker pen font), Ginloops (script), Jollynorly (script), Soulsteps (script), Blacksharks (script), Fishercat (handcrafted), Honestbeat (a bean font for scrapbooks), Milkista (a heavy signage script), Railstone (a bold brush script), Silvia Norlin (script), Arttelost (script), Blisstrapy (a fat finger font), Blufcrowds (a monoline script), Callways (a creamy script), Hartsinger (a prototypical fat finger font), Mottel Laguna (an upright script), Sunsetstill (a fat finger script), Aurellia (a scrapbook font), Blakecats (a bean font), Franches (a bean font), Hopipolla (a plump script), Kurtistown (script), Malikis (a display font), Sailmelly (a fat script), Smithmagis (a bean font), Fujinstall (font duo), Switch Sister (script), Volatter, Hellostars (a script typeface), Hide Seek (a script font), Jeigers (an antiqued all caps font), Southavely Signature, Astavilla (script), Butterjam (a scrapbook font), Caberolla (a fat finger font), Rosestaly (script), The Junos (a handcrafted display font), Crunchyes, Fever Coaster (a handcrafted display typeface), Lottebytes (a scrapbook font), Noobys Display (beatnik caps), Cliquelly (a monoline script), Foxrights, Hillstatic (script), Howelstun (script), Jimmslofs (a brush script), Jownsey (a monolinear script), Just Hopes (a brush font), Sallymoores (a signature script), Tesselates (a wild calligraphic script), Adorefunny (a wild script), Birdflocks (a monoline script), Cheesyfloat (a fat finger script), Mustardmoster (script), Polyfonics (a handcrafted art deco typeface), Rusticform (a monolinear script), Steelkold (a brush font), Adoredly (script), Believest (script), Fortunelimes (script), Jawstone (script), Milatones Signature, Rawks Dream (script), Castella (script), Jullysinty (script), Kreatives (a wild script), Salvadores (a wild script), Amberlion (a creamy upright script), Ecaliptycus (an upright monolinear script), Nordstall (a brush script), Oplatussy (script), Sidehustle (a fat finger script), Terrakota (font duo), Tripfills (script), Anestacilla (a thin signature script), Blisslayton (a brush script), Dailytrust (script), Koolkids (script), Lovesgoods, Gilly Fleurs (a thin script), Hittoshira (script), Plastikcycle (a tall and wide signature script), Bloomshine (a script), Girlfinest (script), Owlmoons (script), Barkertraps (a wild calligraphic script), Konstanhigh (a signature script), Nickjones (an irregular script), Yourstrully Script (a wild calligraphic script), Cholasette (a tall handwriting font), Mondayslove (a wild script), Losthouse (script), Missousy (an upright signature script), Mylofist (a wild script), Affinities (script), Emitensy Script (upright), Gentlysoftly (a script), Homeytasty, Wollyroots (a handwriting script), Jollytimes (a thin script), Smorebucklys (script), Mostlovely (script), Dreamotions (a script), Hunnyflash (an upright script), Kristafly (script), Mashpoints (a scrapbook script), Heavenllys (script), Kallis Ottis (script), Nicestrips (script), Pallpitas (script), Amberlayton (a monolinear script), Chuckybits (a monoline script), Monkeystand (script), Jefferys York (a monolinear signature script), Monkeystand (script), Acronits (script), Bellmounts (a script), Mellodyst (a thin script), Wishlyttes (script), Wonkyest (script), Cashwoots (script), Kites String (script), Mylestock (an irregular signature script), Steffyray (a signature script), Ownttys (script), Greylorks (script), Vellizta (a wild script), Jilliankrots (a signature script), Allisha Croft (a wild calligraphic script), Alulla Saffia (script), Goldshift (a brush script), Goryfitts (a brushy signature script), Hotty Potty, Le Patterns, Melly Hailey, Raliscka (a wild script), Skyeeloft, Amorflavor (script), Gastank (a brush script), Ollykers (script), Mistychain (a wild script), Moonsticky (script), Collibryums (a signature script), Constatic (a signature script), Montly Cloudy (script), Straightfast (a brush script), Glofuts (a fat finger font), Northyhuny (script), Babotta (script), Blowfisher (a signature script), Hachitos (a signature script), Lillyanstar (script), Minormayor (a brush script), Sunnycyclops (a monoline script), Billijanes (a scrapbook script), Glowyts (script), Harashi (a brush typeface), Jules Otonomi, Marshlord (a monolinear script), Purplemonths (a signature script), Righttoast (script), Slowly Moment (a monoline script), Hoeflers (all caps, retro and handcrafted), Thoolloves (hand-printed), Blammingst (a monolinear script), Fallisanta (script), Aprictoos (a dry brush script), Jifstone Signature, Bllides (hand-printed), Tiffanky (a monolinear script), Xylomylo (a chunky rounded typeface), Alonnafeast (script), Alphasoil (script), Monicallisa (a wild script), Volustion (upright handwriting), Collathives (script), Holly Wings, Moffle Chee (a monoline script), Deloissta (script), Jarvitts (a signature script), Mildlight (an inky script), Sarfokats (a monoline script), Whillys (script), Ballstomer (a monoline script), MVRX Maverix (script), Great Alexa (script), Hoomanist (a handwriting font with delightful quirks), Ordionally (a signature font), Rallista (a thin signature font), Mokashin (a wild script), Roma Invicta, Buttersoy (script), Corestairs (a signature script), Echountter (script), Gotlicks (script), Potlar (script), Qallani (a monolinear script), Monnolitic (a signature font), Astoylist (a monoline script), Cariollets, Oliviars script, Sunfort, Bilanthy (script), Challum (a creamy script), Krysttal Spears, Satinwoods (a monoline script), Qojack (a signature script), Astoylist (a monoline script), Cariollets, Oliviars script, Sunfort, Astylooms, Bliss Hearts (a scrapbook script), Classyloop (a signature script), Koffiesta (a hand-printed typeface), Schwitz Signature, Millstream (brush scriupt), Chucklots, Slotheryn, Bagelorts (a monolinear script), Bathsy, Brothest (a fat finger script), Harollds (a script), Starstoles, Thefrost (script), Wascer (a signature script), House Bay, Rillies, Flinckstone (a wild script), Machinkly (a curvy display typeface), Fattoll (a signage script), Afiany (script), Asterikats, Molaka (a signature script), Zincand, Kalia (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Brownfauks, Yellawolfs (a fat finger script), Gotslick (a fat finger script), Gromhins (reverse contrast), Olds Murray (a wild script), Romantic Purple (a wild script), Rust Crowth (a dry brush font), Wishstock (script), Hookypilots (a scrapbook script), Argenthus (brush script), Hustcroft (a bean font), Keithlar (an inky dispaly typeface), Norlandy (a wild script), Melvio Play (a bold script), Atheroll (handprinted), Bionzhe (a rock-solid sans), Cityskypes (script), Embroi Ghokib (a scrapbook font), Astomia Duslons (an inky rabbit ear script), Blastiks (a monoline script), Hearthaliso (a condensed upright script), Fourthyla (a plump elepehnat feet retro serif), Honey Rain (a fat finger script), Pacifica Tropics (a rabbit ear script), Lanchoster (a scrapbook script), Backflips (a thin script), Manor Smiths (interlocking and hand-crafted in Saul Bass's style), Munichley (script), Beautiful House (a fat finger script), Alto Bonito (a scrapbook script), Architaris (a signature script), Brad Rowland (a signature script), Feliztha (a scrapbook script), Collint Billy (a thin script), Grandetrix (a scrapbook brush script), Jamie Handwriting (10 styles), Hogla Brush, Rithmycs (script), Coopslight (a signature script), Darkbones (a heavy brush script), Madymory (a scrapbook script), Mistoms (a scrapbook script), Eggcup (a children's book font), Calstavier (a delicate display serif), Clockerts (a fat finger script), Redtrails (script), Zelmud Script, Cybertroops (a monolinear rounded stick font), Hartwick (script), Queensytrix (script), Anthem Park (a fat finger font), Hinterlands (brush script), Headskirt (a monoline marker pen script), Queen Sheila (script).

Behance link. Graphicriver link. Another Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. Unsure if Graphic Assets is another identity. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mauricio Amster

Polish-Spanish designer, 1907-1980, who fled Spain in 1939 to Chile on board of the Winnipeg, and who revolutionized editorial design in Chile. He worked on the mag Zig-Zag. Examples of his sublime lettering: calligraphy, Cancellaresca, Gotica Bastarda, Romana Antigua, Romantica Humanistica, Rotunda.

Photo. Joaquin Contreras wrote a thesis at the Faculty of Architecture of the University in Chile in 2007 entitled Diseño de fuentes tipográficas, basadas en los libros integramente caligrafiados por Mauricio Amster en Chile. I quote from a talk given by Contreras in 2021: Mauricio Amster Cats is a leading Polish editorial designer who worked for 40 years in Chile as a publisher, potter, lettering artist and teacher. He published two books on graphic standards to support his classes at the school of journalism and design hundreds of books. Son of Jewish parents persecuted by the Nazi regime, as a young man he studied graphic arts in Germany. Together with his friend Mariano Rawicz he travelled to Spain to take part in the civil war. In Madrid he designed newspapers, pamphlets, posters and books, the best known being the Cartilla Escolar Antifascista, a study book for militiamen. As a refugee he travelled to Chile on the Winnipeg, a ship prepared by Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize) where he arrived with his wife Adina, a Spanish bookbinder with whom he shared his life. In Chile he started out as an anarchist, but as time went by he became part of Chilean culture until he became probably the most important designer of the last century. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mauro Torres

Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the decorative typeface Meatype (2015), or Carnica (2016). He also created the blackletter Caligrafia Gotica No 1 (2015). Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Max Caflisch

Swiss type designer and calligrapher, born in Winterthur in 1916. He died in 2004. Designer of Columna (Bauersche Giesserei, 1952-1955, originally a private typeface of the Benteli publishing house in Switzerland; revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli, and in 2011 by URW), a slightly-serifed roman capitals face. His teachers included Jan Tschichold and Imre Reiner. Trained as a compositor (1932-1936), het set some jobs from 1936-1943. In 1941-1942, he taught typography at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basle, and was art director of the Benteli printing works in Bern from 1943-1962. From 1962 until 1981, he was head of the graphics department and typography teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich He consulted on type design for IBM in New York from 1962-1966, for the Bauersche Gießerei in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1966, and for the Dr. Rudolf Hell company in Kiel from 1972-1989. He worked as type consultant at Adobe since from 1990. Adobe published Caflisch Script (designed by Robert Slimbach). Columna is available from Elsner&Flake (as ColumnaEF), Linotype and URW. Linotype bio.

Max Caflisch, Albert Kapr, Antonia Weiss and Hans Peter Willberg published F.H.Ernst Schneidler Schriftentwerfer, Lehrer, Kalligraph (SchumacherGebler a.o., München, 2002). This publication was thoroughly mangled by SchumacherGebler, to the dismay of Caflisch. This story was written up in "Die Chronologie der Schneidler-Monographie 1985-2002: Die 16 Jahredauernde, mühselige Entstehungsgeschichte" (Max Caflisch, 2002, Theo Leuthold Press). Other publications include: "William Morris, der Erneuerer der Buchkunst", Bern 1959; "Kleines Spiel mit Ornamenten", Angelus-Druck, Bern, 1965; "Fakten zur Schriftgeschichte", Zürich, 1973; "Schrift und Papier", Grellingen 1973; "Typography braucht Schrift", Kiel 1978; "Die Schriften von Renner, Tschichold und Trump. Aus Rede und Diskussion", Typographische Gesellschaft, 1990; Schriftanalysen, Band 1 + 2, St. Gallen 2003. Also see the book by A. Berlincourt et al: "Max Caflisch. Typographia practica", Hamburg 1988.

MyFonts page. Rudolf Bosshard's article about Caflisch's life (Comedia, 2004, vol. 2). Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Max Waibel

Calligrapher and ex-student of Rudolf Koch, who lived from 1903-1979. He worked for Heinrich Jost (Bauerschen Giesserei, Frankfurt). From the 18950s until 1969, he taught at the Gutenberg Berufsschule in Franfurt. He set up the Waibel Pressendrucke with Günter Dörr. A lot of his work is now at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach.

His type designs include St. Georg (1948, Bauersche Giesserei), which was co-designed with punchcutter Joseph Spahn. [Google] [More] ⦿

Max.co Studio
[Teuku Rinaldi Novianda]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the baseball signage script font Shailent Script (2018), Rhapson Script (2019: retro signage), the retro signage script typeface England Script (2019), the brush script Sparrowhawk Script (2019) and the calligraphic typefaces Brainly Script (2019), Maldini Script (2019) and Athan Script (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: The Moritza (formal calligraphy, with elaborate swashes and elements of copperplate; accompanied by penmanship style ornaments). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Maxime Francout

French illustrator, designer and art director in Montreal, who created the angular calligraphic typeface Form in 2016.

His company is called Bizarre Bizarre. Cargo Collective link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Maximiliano Sproviero
[Lián Types]

May Adifarzan Muis
[Matra Creative]

MC Store (or: MC Creative)
[Mohamad Candirah]

Indramayu, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of the handcrafted typefaces Muttcha (2019), Sicilian (2019), Guilitta (2019), Holandy (2019), Yillhand (2019), and Fabiano Caruna (2019). In 2020, he released the handcrafted typefaces Christmas Bella, Anji (a monoline script), Hello Ayu (a monoline script), Ankashi (monoline script), Chanilly (monoline script), Gullathi (monoline script), Rusattir Signature, Basteshy, Fastomy, Bastray and Shauqy.

Typefaces from 2021: Halimah Sadila, Rimela (a heart-themed Valentine's Day script), Rusthian (script), Hay Anika (a delicate calligraphic font) (a calligraphic script), Medika (a romantic calligraphic script), Heart Haily (calligraphic), Just You, Bethiany (a wild Valentine's day script), Hallysoon (a monolinear script), Latte Brown, Halisah (a monoline script), Child Happy (a scrapbook font), Sattinda (a monoline script), Kasturi, Hettada (a monolinear script), Tree Cheska (a monolinear script), Bhenay Signature, Lenkay (a monolinear script), Mallona (a monolinear script), Qitt Chesta, Aku Cinta (a monoline script), Allin Priska (a monolinear script), Zaneshia (a monolinear script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

McJer Studio
[Abzari Jafar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1985) of these typefaces in 2017: Qamilla (calligraphic script), Lea Serif, Beauty Straw (dancing script), Larista Pasta (signage script), Enemell (brush script), Cavalry (blackletter), Shambles (handcrafted), Beukah (slab serif), Natural Old Script (calligraphic), Modern Script, Edelweiss (brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Quality, Larista (signage script), Aniston.

Typefaces from 2019: Lord King (spurred), Khayali (Arabic), Bastian (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Médiatic

This French outfit specializes in beautiful handwriting fonts, often calligraphic or with an old look. Prices vary from 50 to 200USD per font: Calligraphie Parchemin, Calligraphie Princesse, Ambassador, Karen, Charlotte, Sebastian are some of the fonts. Your personal handwriting font for 360USD. For a few extra dollars, you can have alternate characters made as well, such as dingbats, math, bold characters, signatures, or special accents. They also sell the handwriting fonts of famous people: Delacroix, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Voltaire, Gauguin, Chateaubriand, Monet, Mme de Sévigné, Georges Sand, François Rabelais, Victor Hugo, Rimbaud, Georges Washington, Nostradamus, Léonard de Vinci. For 600 dollars, you can get an 8-font set of your handwriting which, under Word, will make the letters change as you write. Finally, they offer a collection of orthographic fonts for kids (for connected handwriting): abcCP3Lignes, abcCP2Lignes, abcCEMLignes and abcCPEM, the former three being lined. Recent link for purchasing the fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mecanorma

French graphics lettering company initially involved in instant lettering (made by Trip Productions), and some original typeface designs. From 1989 until 1994, Mecanorma worked with another Dutch company Visualogik to create digital versions of their typefaces, all having MN in their names. Monotype licensed and digitized some of Mecanorma's typefaces. In 1995, Mecanorma got out of graphics and stepped into home decoration. In 1999, Trip Productions, a Dutch Company located in Lisse, purchased the Mecanorma brand and what was left of the company. In 2004, International TypeFounders from Cedars, PA, licensed the typefaces from Trip Productions and released them as the Mecanorma Collection.

Their collection includes some great fonts: Access, Artdeco, Artworld, BalloonMN, Brio, BusoramaMN, Campus, CardCamio, Carplate, CaslonAntiqueVL, ChocMN, CircusMN, ComicStripMN, DynamoMN, Galba, Globe-Gothic-Outline, Glowworm, Jackson, LibraMN, MtPlacard, Ortem, Renault, RoslynMN, Sayer, SayerScriptMN, SquashMN, Sully-Jonquieres, Watch-Outline. You can also buy through Atomic Type. Projected new URL, which I am afraid will never be activated because in 1999, the company was bough by the Dutch company Trip Productions.

MyFonts sells these typefaces: Access, American Uncial, Anatol, Arnold Bocklin (art nouveau), Artdeco, Artworld (an embossed font), Aster, Balloon (brush font), Blippo Black, Brio, British Inserat, Brush, Bulletin Typewriter, Caligra (blackletter), Campus (athletic lettering), Cardcamio, Carplate, Caslon Antique, Celtic (in the style of University Roman), Chicago (dot matrix / marquee typeface), Chinon, Choc (brush script), Circus (Western font), Classic Script (a copperplate calligraphic script), Comic Strip, Commercial Script, Contest, Cooper Black, Dubbeldik, Dynamo, Egyptienne, Estro (Western font), Eurostile, Forelle, Fumo Dropshadow MN, Galba (Trajan typeface), Globe Gothic, Glowworm (a bubblegum font), Gothique (blackletter), Hansson Stencil, Hillman, Hotel (multilined art deco), Isonorm, Jackson, Jubilee Lines (an engraved money font), Latina, Leopard, Libra (uncial), Michelina (anthroposophic), Milton, Mistral, Normalise Din, Old Style, Olive, Orator, Organda, Ortem, Polka (a brush typeface), Renault, Rondo (retro script), Roslyn, Sayer Interview (old typewriter font), Sayer Script, Sayer Spiritual, Squash, Stencil, Stop (stencil typeface), Studio, Swaak Centennial (pure art nouveau), Tzigane, Viant, Vivaldi, Voel Beat (beveled), Watch Outline (LED font), Windsor, Zambesi (African look font).

Designers include Albert Boton, J.H. Crook, Jan van Dijk, J. Dresscher, Roger Excoffon, U. Fenocchio, L. Fumarolo, William Gillies, N. Glason, Lennart Hansson, B. Jaquet, K. Kochnowicz, J. Larcher, C. Mediavilla, José Mendoza y Almeida, L. Meuffels, Aldo Novarese, Georges Renevey, F. Robert, Manfred Sayer, M. Schmidt, J.P. Thaulez, J. Werner and Bogdan Zochowski.

The Western slabby font Figaro MT (2004) is ascribed to Mecanorma.

A list culled from the web: AccessMN-Bold, AccessMN-Medium, AmericanUncialMN, AnatolMN, ArnoldBocklinMN, ArtdecoMN, ArtworldMN, AsterMN-Demi, AsterMN-Roman, BalloonMN-Bold, BalloonMN-ExtraBold, BlippoBlackMN, BrioMN, BritishInseratMN, BritishInseratMNCondensed, BrushMN, Bulletin-Typewriter, BusoramaMN-Bold, CaligraMN, CampusMN, CardcamioMN, CarplateMN, CaslonAntiqueVL, CelticMN-Bold, CelticMN-Italic, CelticMN, CenturyMNCondensed-BoldItalic, CenturyMNCondensed-Bold, CheltenhamMN-Book, CheltenhamMN-BookItalic, CheltenhamMN-Ultra, ChicagoMN, ChinonMN, ChocMN, CircusMN, ClassicScriptMN, ComicStripMN-Italic, ComicStripMN, CommercialScriptMN, ContestMN, Cooper-Black-Italic, Cooper-Black-Outline, CooperBlackMN, CushingMN-Book, CushingMN-Heavy, CushingMN-HeavyItalic, CushingMN-Medium, DubbeldikMN, DynamoMN-Bold, DynamoMN-Medium, DynamoMN-Shadow, EgyptienneMNCondensed-Bold, ElanMN-Extended, ElanMN-Light, ElanMN-Medium, EnrouteVL, ErasMN-Book, ErasMN-Demibold, ErasMN-Ultra, ErasMN, EstroMN, EurostileMN-Extended, EurostileMN-ExtendedBold, EurostileMN-Medium, FidelioMN, FolioMN-Bold, FolioMN-Extrabold, ForelleMN, FranklinGothicMN-Book, FranklinGothicMN-BookItalic, FranklinGothicMN-Heavy, FrizQuadrataMN-Bold, FrizQuadrataMN, Fumo-DropshadowMN, FuturaBlackMN, GalbaMN, Gillies-Gothic-Bold, Gillies-Gothic-Light, Gillies-Gothic-Ultra-Shadow, Gillies-Gothic-Ultra, GlobeGothicMN-Bold, GlobeGothicMNCondensed-Bold, GlobeGothicMNOutline, GlowwormMN, GlowwormMNCompressed, GorillaVL-Bold, GothiqueMN, HanssonStencilMN-Bold, HanssonStencilMN, HillmanMN, HillmanMNCondensed, HotelMN, IrishUncialVL, IsonormMN, Italia-Bold, Italia-Book, Italia-Medium, JacksonMN, JubileeLinesMN, LatinaMN, LeopardMN, LibraMN, MRunic-Condensed, MSwingBold, MachineMN-Bold, MachineMN, MichelinaMN, MiltonMN-Demibold, MistralVL, MtPlacard-Condensed, NormaliseDinMN, OklahomaState, OliveCompactMN, OliveMNBold, OliveNordMN, OratorMN, OrgandaMN-Bold, OrgandaMN, OrtemMN, PascalMN, PolkaMN-Bold, PolkaMN, PopplExquisitMN, PopplExquisitMN-Alternative, RenaultMN, RenaultMNBold, RondoMN, RoslynMN-Bold, RoslynMN-Bold, RoslynMN-Outline, RoslynMNMedium, SaphireMN, SayerMN-Interview, SayerScriptMN-Black, SayerScriptMN-Bold, SayerScriptMN-Light, SayerSpiritualMN-Italic, SayerSpiritualMN, SloganMN, SquashMN-Outline, SquashMN, StencilAntiqueMN, StencilAntiqueVL, StencilMN, StencilMNOutline, StopMN, StudioMN, SullyJonquieresMN-Bold, SullyJonquieresMN, SwaakCentennialMN, Syntax-Bold, Syntax-Roman, ToucheVL, TziganeMN, ViantMN-Bold, VivaldiMN, VoelBeatMN, WashSymbolVL-Light, WatchMN-Outline, WindsorMN, WindsorMNElongated, ZambesiMN.

MyFonts link.

View Mecanorma's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Medha Malhotra

Aka Minty Blues. Creator of some calligraphic alphabets drawn with a reed pen in 2013.

Media Lab (or: Dima Evans)
[Dmitriy Chirkov]

In 2015, Dmitriy Chirkov (or: D.C. Store, or: Media Lab, or: Dima Evans, located in Moscow) created the brush typefaces Lovehearts, Cascade, Foliage, Something Wild, Pepper Mint, Summertime (watercolor brush), Breathe, Starshine Script, Seashore (an attractive dry brush style), The Moment, Cupcake, Anemone, Water, Adventurer, Sweet Brush, You & Me, Beverly Script, Sabrina, Onevia, Andrea and Dreamboat. He also created the Treefrog-style gonzo script typeface Sileighty and the handcrafted typefaces Scratchy, Julia's Dream, Begonia, Matryoshka (handcrafted Cyrillic sans) and Simpleton.

Typefaces from 2016: Anabella Script, Adventure (script), Mericella (calligraphic), Gracia (calligraphic), Joshico, Lauren (a free script font), Journey (brush script), Angelica (calligraphic), Angelica Sans, Alphabet Pony (brushed and calligraphic), Lavanda (script), Obsidian (calligraphic), Cotasia (calligraphic script), Reconsider (calligraphic script), Pechenka, September (brush script), Happy Life, Melina (brush script), Sensation (brush script), Carolina (calligraphic script), Cortney (connected script), Just Love Script, Aerostat, Starbright, Watchtower, Hey Baby, Modern Magic, Cornflower (calligraphic), Guatemala, Flashlight Display, Johana (brush script), Wild Berry, Dearhearts, Sladosti Cyrillic, Sweethearts, Evergreen, Honeyflower.

Typefaces from 2017: Vintage Beauty, Elusive Dream Monoline, Dear Sister, Battery, Tasty Morsel Script, Aareata script, Marcypan, Sevilia script, Virtual, Yolanda script, Majesta, Marmale, Alemeta, Midnight Rose, ML Tokyo Aurora, Fortune Script, Afterlight, Janges (wide calligraphic script), Bloom Skirt (thick brush script), Rumba Script, Together Script, Reflection, Serpentine, Lafesta (signage script), Cretina (a great monoline connected script), Flashlight, Charmel, Lupitta Script, Miss Hippie, Aivengo Script, Hello Wedding, Dust Cloud, Lovely Script, Snowdrop (script), Caviar (brush script), Fieldfare (upright connected brush script), Hello Wedding, Kiwami (brush script), Jemmy, Sallie (brush style), Cartina (a great painter's brush script), Loreal Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Hamilton Signature Script, Charme Script, Orchard Trees, Silver Lake, Luisa Script, Mignon, Jingle, Ludwig, Oh November, Switch, Rozovii Chulok, Zumiez, Peach Cream, Going Black (SVG font), Tomato Soup (free), Indian, Shadow, Emitha, Sophies Script, Juster, Felora (script), Almost (SVG brush font), Golden, Starshine, Puzzled (free), Moon Time, The Breakfast Club, Fortuna Script, Malloy, Jenson, Something, Saint Jerome Script, Femen, Fortune Script, Hollens.

Typefaces from 2019: Blushed, Boho Rose, Lush Blooms, Spring Blush, Catalina, Jessey, Shaley, Puzzled, Radio Volna, Brigitte, Roelle, One Feather, Spring Blush, Europia (script), Rosalina (SVG font), Joyce, Lussia, Shaelie, Maelie, Honey and Ginger, Joleigh.

Typefaces from 2020: Love Planet, Autumn Mittens (a paper cutout font), Your Favorite Pencil, Other Pen, Pear Shaped (handcrafted letters) Somewhere, Autumn Scarf (a children's book font), Moving Formula, Mixture, Aventure, Golden Light, After Hours, Letters and Roses, Fast Lane, Rosegold, Gentle Touch. Tenderly, Alaya Roza, Herbal Infusion, Mister Gordon, Bergamotte, Avenia (wild calligraphy), Jelly Cloud, Sunstone, Rosestone, Sweet Josefine, Second Song (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Magique (a delicate fashion mag serif), Wonder Magnolia (a bold display serif), Wairel (a stylish miniserif), Daisy Flowers (a scrapbook script), Local Media (script), Delightful Monoline (script), Hallo Queen (a Halloween font), Magic Charm (a scrapbook script), Bloodred (a dripping blood font), Hello Georgia Script (an upright script), Panoramic (handcrafted), Vishenka (script), Strawberry Monday (a fat finger script), Earthboy (a scrapbook script), Martin+Hellen (emulating handwriting), Pretty Letters, Ricardo Montero, Goldwings (script), Sugar Melon (script), Pink Bottom (script), Loneliness (script), Astronal (a monolinear script).

Typefaces from 2022: Oregon Highlights (a bold display sans), Mint Monday (a scrapbook script), The Kitchen (a melting chocolate font), Sunrays (a display serif), Movere (a stylish sans), Radellin (lapidary).

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Media Studio

Studio in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, that created these calligraphic typefaces in 2016: Restuner, Cityallir, Beaunight Script, Illigia (swashy), Espontise Script (swashy). They also designed the handcrafted Toberling Sans in 2016.

Typefaces from 2017: Elisscia Script (calligraphic), Biholgia (swashy calligraphic script), Pleasselio (calligraphic), Alligature Script, Espontise (calligraphic script), Busnight Script, Gutami Script, Simpony Script (formal calligraphic wedding font), Attlantis (sic; swashy calligraphy), Otwentic Script, Sollidern Script, Sizomie Script. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mega Type
[M. Akmal]

Aceh, Indonesia-based type foundry specializing in calligraphic script typefaces.

Typefaces from 2021: Calisga (a rounded glamour serif), Mostera (an intestinal font), Vintage Culture (a display serif), Histeria Dinamond (script), Hello Balgetia (script), Amontesa (a vintage label font), Baby Valentina.

In 2020, Mega Type released Marvelan (a bold flared decorative titling font), Black Dragon (a dry brush script), Black Dragon (a dry brush script), Salenta (a flowing rabbit ear script), Megatype Script (a signage script), Hello Molydia, Greater Amberjack, Wastima (script), Yoshieka (with curly swashes) and Barlington (a monoline script).

In 2019, Mega Type published Estebak (a dry brush script), Good Selection, Marliesta, Mobaster, Helostar Script, Randing, Belgiana Script, Freshline, Mareline Script, Yasmine Gardner (a feminine script) and Argentina Script.

In 2018, they published Mareline, Young Girls Script, Calissha Script, Ramolina Script, Lady Angelina, Reading (a signature font), and Marchanda Script.

In 2017, they designed Delaras, Retroyal (a condensed sans), Wacthout Script, Gebrina, Bethanya, Kamelia Script and Prestiquen Script.

Typefaces from 2022: Chandler Mountain (a tightly set headline sans family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mehmet Abaci
[Studio Typo]

Mel Drake
[Musimon Fonts]

Mellow Design Lab
[Kelly Reed]

Mellow Design Lab is Kelly Reed (USA). Her typefaces from 2015: the watercolor brush typefaces Ocean Adventure and Honey, the rough brush typeface Hurst (+dingbats), the handcrafted fonts Morrison (+Outline) and Hotel, and the connected script typeface La Tomarina.

In 2016, Kelly designed Alivia (a calligraphic script), Henrylistica, Moonlight (dry brush typeface), Hitchhiker (brush script), Fur Banhart Script, Hello Neighbor Script, Flowers in December, Sorilena (script), Spelling Night, Spirit of Montana, Artistic Friend, Josefina, Belfortello Script, Ewelvian Script, Just Believe, Ambassador, Off The Wall (rough brush), Carlshamn (upright brush script), Magnolia, Secret of Julia, Montreal Script, Sail Whale, Bostion, Catfish Blues, Ink Fortune, Jeniffer Script, Bamboo Tree, Good Times, Yellow Lime (calligraphic), Air Wooster Script, Amber Light (watercolor brush), Marseline (calligraphic script), Smitten (script), Brilliant (calligraphic script), Bristol (connected brush script), Starina Script (connected script), Rochesten (brush font) and Aliresi.

Typefaces from 2017: Heartful Monday, Gamla Stan (a fantastic signature font), Romantic Script, Henrylistica Script, Yorkshire, Patersson, Finn&Lohna (calligraphic), Torshavn Script (brush script), Little Moose Script, Smoothie, Justine, Family Bloom (fat script), Malina, Hey Friend, Melody, Power, Ferilistica Script, Kelmi Script, Smiths, Galimo, Pineapple Script, Miller (dry brush), Salt (dry brush), Manstarw (brush script), Moperly Script (inky pen script), Geffry Script, Sader Time (dry brush script), Melodysta Script, Zambia Script, Northway Script, Galapagos Script, Montana Script, Millioner, Aliviero Script, Countryside, Montyray, Macchiato, Mustache, Hooper, Carmensita, Rimbaud Script, Pendelton Script (brush style), Night In White Satin (textured script), Pineapple (dry brush font), Litle Seahorse.

Typefaces from 2018: Leaf & Twig, Antwerpen, Jolimer, Bonnie & Lary (brush script).

Typefaces from 2019: Alivia Script, Bambino, Blast SVG Font, Bonnie & Lary Script, Certified, Cherries Tree Script, Hake Brush SVG Script, Harmony Script, Hey Oulu, Holiday Script, Home Paris, Hosiery, House of Mouse Script, Juliet Kind Font DUO, Lavender Script, Lemon Grass Script, Lovely Day Script, Mint Salt Script, Mon Juliet, Movelistica, New York SVG, Ostinel SVG Font, Pistachio Script, Shine Yolk, Solution Script, Some Think Script, Talisman Script, Time Land Font, Tomas and Lilie Script, Yard Miles Script (for signatures).

Interestingly, on Behance, Kelly operates as River Port out of Murmansk, Russia. Newest Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Melody Tait

Calligrapher in San Angelo, TX. In 2017, she designed the graceful Sakura Script. Creative Market link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mercier

Author of the small calligraphy booklet Cahier d'écriture par Mercier, dédié à mes bien-aimés parents (St. Etienne, 1858). [Google] [More] ⦿

Merk Mansoon
[The Traveling Fox]

Merllo Type

Magelang, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typefaces Amanda Bellington (2019) and Brittany Script (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Merve Yildirim

Calligrapher in Istanbul, Turkey, who drew several calligraphic alphabets in 2016 during her studies at Marmara University of Fine Arts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Metafilter

Links on Arab calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Meutuwah (or: Hermestype)
[Fadhil Aqsa]

Fadhil Aqsa (b. 1996) (DJ Studios in Lamno Jaya, Banda Aceh, Indonesia) designed the calligraphic script typefaces Cratti Script and Xandrella Script in 2016.

Typefaces from 2017: Chatting, Rositha (curly script), Bonety Lady, Mantana (calligraphic script), Squadwife Script, Lovelyou Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Mention (a signature font), Soul Amsterdams, Cratti, Vettorell, Lobsters Blush, Battal, Sallat, Autumn, Lovelyou, August Script, Clarity. Aka Meutuwah.

Typefaces from 2020: Pisonest, Momday, Rosebondy, Orlando Smith (a signature font), Winterous (font duo), Valentine.

Typefaces from 2021: Northell (a fat finger script), Pisonest (script), Mountty (brush script), Love Squall (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mia Cinelli

Mia Cinelli is a designer, who obtained a BFA from Northern Michigan University (2011) and finished her graduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Currently, she is a Professor of Digital Media and Design in University of Kentucky's School of Art and Visual Studies in Lexington, KY. Her typefaces:

The connected script typeface Fayette (2012).
The free penmanship font Mackinac 1895 (2020), which she drafted during Michigan's 2019 Mackinac State Historic Parks Artist-In-Residence Program. Mackinac 1895 is a script typeface inspired by handwriting discovered in a ledger from 1895, the year the Mackinac Island State Park Commission was founded.

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Michael Baurenfeind

German calligrapher, who in an opus entitled Vollkommene Wieder-Herstellung [...] (1716, Christoph Weigel, Nuremberg) created an alphabet named Neudoerffer Initialen (named after Johann Neudoerffer). Baurenfeind lived from 1680 until 1753. [Information provided by Julian Waters and Oliver Linke] [Google] [More] ⦿

Michael Cina
[You Work For Them (or YWFT; formerly Cinahaus or TrueIsTrue)]

Michael Clark
[Typerror]

Michael Doret
[Alphabet Soup (or: Michael Doret)]

Michael Gills
[ULGA Type (was: Creative Goats)]

Michael Noyes

Michael Noyes is a freelance calligrapher/custom type designer in Annandale, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿

Michael Parson
[Typogama]

Michael Sharpe
[Boondox]

Michael Sharpe
[newpx]

Michael Sharpe
[newtx]

Michael Wallner
[The Type Fetish]

Michael Zeyda

Calligrapher and letter artist in Austin, TX. He has made several attractive calligraphic alphabets (not fonts). Behance link. Examples of his calligraphic alphabets: I, II, III, IV, V, VI. [Google] [More] ⦿

Michel Bujardet
[Fontmenu.com]

Michel d'Anastasio

French calligrapher at Atelier de calligraphie Ductus in Paris, b. 1968, Melun, France. The broad-stroked calligraphic Hebrew alphabet shown on his web page (2013) is extraordinary. Alternate URL. In 2008, he got involved in and exhibited his Hebraic calligraphic art. [Google] [More] ⦿

Michel Derre

Typography and calligraphy teacher at The ACT (Atelier de Création Typographique) of Ecole superieure Estienne (18 boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 75013 Paris). In 2014, with the help of the FontYou crew, he published the calligraphic rustic German expressionist blackletter style typeface Algo FY.

Michel Derre and Julien Prez jointly won the Bronze Medal in the Latin category for Abelha in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Michelle Dixon
[Dixie's Delights]

Miftahul Jannah
[Mytha Studio]

Mighty Pete
[Tofino Type]

Mightype
[Munawir]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989, of these script typefaces in 2018: Berhilda Script, Celesta Diaz, Bethany Script, Maheria Script, Brooke Smith Script, Bellindia, Fiolenitta (calligraphic), Bahytsah Script, Stefian Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Florita (formal calligraphy), The Lantak (formal calligraphy), Holyttha, Bellisa, Love Beard, Kallita, Roberts Hunter, Carlyle Honi, Stefian Script, Hair Styles, Tabitha Smest, Shabila, Robert Hunster, Holyttha, Adamd, Nattyla, Fabitha, Zubayda, Shafiyyah, Yulinda Script, Ghaziyah, Merxxi Script, Sottalica, Antefand, Hearth Stone (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Forlove (calligraphic), Streat Line. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Miglena Spasova

During her studies in Sofia, Bulgaria, Miglena Spasova designed the brush script typeface Blase Brush (2016; also called Slay), Byrgos (2016), the handcrafted typeface Wasteland (2016), and the monoline rounded sans typeface Prodigy (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Sweet Home Savannah (calligraphic script), The Loyal Watchman (Script, Sans), Louisiana Couture, Mortisha (brush script), Monroe, Glimmer Script, Beloved (formal calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2018: Bitter Sweet, La Ronda (signature font), Toscana, Montauk (rounded sans), Mindless Stunner, Lashes&Rose, Santa's Little Helper.

Miglena removed all her typefaces from the internet, and withdrew entirely from type design. She asked me not to show her typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Miguel Angel Padriñán Alba
[Mr. Black Fonts]

Mihaela Serbanescu
[Black Cats Media]

Mike Wright

Aka Michael L. Wright, a calligraphic type designer at Casady&Greene. He designed Pendragon, Paladin, Black Knight (Fraktur, 1991), Slender Gold, the Cyrillic font Vremya, and a few Western fonts (Dry Gulch, Abilene, Desperado). The fonts are trademarks of Casady&Greene. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mila Garret

American designer of these handcrafted and calligraphic script typefaces in 2018: White Garden, Brooklyn Heights and Delicate. In 2017, she published Honey & Lavender, and East Village. She released the flowing calligraphic typefaces Stylish (a wild signature font), Gathering, Beyond Sweet, La Angelie, Milkshake, Lucille, Modern Summer, Haute Couture, Parisian and Besotted Love in 2021 and Adore Theory in 2020. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mina Studio

Designer of the calligraphic script typeface Gather (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mira Kartika Sari
[Papermode Co]

Mira Vucko

Croatian lettering srtist. Designer of Needlescript (2005, ITC) and Agramer (2006, calligraphic script). Her CV at ITC states: Vucko lives, works and was educated in Zagreb, Croatia. She lived in France and Sweden while in her twenties, but then returned to Croatia to work as a graphic designer for the country's largest newspaper. It was here that her passion for type and typography was born. Vucko has since gone on to become one of Croatia's leading graphic designers, and has won many awards for her advertising and packaging design.

Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mirco Zett
[Mirco Zuchowski]

Mirco Zuchowski is a German graphic and type designer, who started the commercial foundry Mirco Zett in 2012 in Aschaffenburg.

Creator of the grunge blackletter typeface Lazy Monk (2012, free demo), Shodo Gothic (2012, an oriental brushy take on blackletter), and the dark gothic fonts Vertigo Death (2012), Black Edge (2012, a stylized blackletter), and Cinematic English (2012).

In 2013, he created Vertigo Death.

Fonts from 2015: Heftiga (watercolor brush), Lovely Madness (rough calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2016: Gory Madness, Paunchy (brush font).

Typefaces from 2017: Black Madness (blackletter), Uncut Madness (horror genre).

Dafont link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mirco Zuchowski
[Mirco Zett]

Misprinted Type
[Eduardo Recife]

Misprinted Type (est. 1998) offers free and commercial old typewriter and grunge fonts designed by Eduardo Recife, an illustrator and graphic designer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, b. 1980. Although his main work is in illustration, he became well-known in the early 2000's for his original grunge type designs. Typefaces:

Max Rhodes (based on the handwriting of Max Rhodes), Nasty, Shortcut, Carimbo (2003), Mosh (2004), Trashold (2004), Great Circus> (2004, a five-weight calligraphic decorative family), Pastelaria, Downcome (2002), DIESEL, DirtyEgo (2001), Mialgia, OverBored, PrintError, RecifeDings, ThirdWorldBuzz, Besign, HorsePuke, Lhabia, MemoryLapses, misprintedtype, NoMoreTypewriters, PrintFuck151, Selfish (2001), Misproject, Porcelain, Rochester (old typewriter), NailScratch, Astonished, Broken15, DisgustingBehavior, Guilty (2011, grunge).
NeasdenPIP was designed with Steve Smith (2001).
At Visuelle Orgasmus, we find Superphunky, Superload and Superaircraft, all made in 2001.
Here, we find DirtyEgo, Downcome, Porcelain, Selfish, Shortcut.
Myfonts sells Rapid Writing (a penmanship font), Magic 1985 (2017, grunge), King Bloser (2014, a calligraphic penmanship font named after E.W. Bloser), Bloser Serif (2014), King Bloser X (2014, ornaments), Mercy (2013, a set of connected Spencerian penmanship style fonts, with ornaments and flourishes if needed), Revanche (2013, a grunge stencil font), Grandpas Typewriter (2013, old typewriter font family), Monster Days (2007, grunge calligraphy), Kyoto (grunge), AntiRomantic (2006), Toscography (2007, slightly Kafkaesque), LeKing (2007: Eduardo calls it the Frankenstein of vintage ornamental typefaces of the past centuries), HandMade (2007, hand-drawn ornamental caps), Nars (2003, grungy script).

Earlier versions of this site could be found at TypOasis (dead link) and Dafont. Many of his fonts are also here and here. Klingspor link. Creative Market link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

MissinkLab Studio
[Beni Pantona]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of Chintia (2016, calligraphic script), Ermaifar (2016, brush script), Salma Script (2016), Montic (2016, calligraphic), Vantom Script (2016), Salma Script (2016), the dry brush fonts Gendong Brush (2016) and Rooftop Brush (2016), the calligraphic typefaces Alejandra (2016) and Mangat (2016), the signage script typeface Bentoh (2016), the connected script typeface Bacalah (2016), and the hand-lettered Uncle Ben (2016) and Alanna (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Alcott Ghalliana, Calia Macitta, Victh, Rita Carollina, Martila, Demittri (signature script), Kanittia, Vlottheli, Sallyh Alotah (a script, + floral illustrations), Haruki Primadonha (a nice brush script), Rallifornia Brush, Veruttala (a great brush script), Rocketstone, Ermaifar Script, Alanna, Banthei Laju, Materime, Kallitha, Pathigla, Bettlunerd (dry brush), Honey Brush, Elmah, Melinda (a great upright dry brush script), Mailitta, Funntastic, Paitane (swashy script), Ricttoria (calligraphic script), Hello Shalia, Rockabey, Vapetla, Saswitta, Aletcia, Ammhenthi, Alinkha Bothine (a great upright calligraphic script), Fanttikha, Beettrot, Brailes (dry brush script), Amatira (calligraphic script), Hello Gabhila, Claudhia, Jhelio, Rachellia (calligraphic script), Molinha (script), Bolor (brush style).

Typefaces from 2018: Mattinha, Famttura, Dormotta (swashy calligraphic font), Santiago Hendrick, Kasturi Dhitamuf, Salittura (brush script), Aletta Martta, Silitan, Halimatun, Albertta Script, Britagia, Matilna Samuela, Lotha Narottur, Biargaol, Mottura, Sampestera, Gurati, Bellaluna, Belarimul Meriam, Giodasi (dry brush script), Fioletta Smith, Thalia, Layla & Nayla. [Google] [More] ⦿

Misti Hammers
[Misti's Fonts]

Misti's Fonts
[Misti Hammers]

Texan creator (b. 1990) of many free mostly hand-printed typefaces. Starting in 2016, she is located in Dresden, Germany.

Typefaces from 2021: Vazeelia (script), Bee Dotty (textured), Muirgen (blackboard bold), Blodwen, Magnilda, Be My Glittertine, Cute Little Sheep.

Her typefaces from 2020: Dragon Wings, Bright Azure, I Love Glittermas, So Much Glitter, Sizable Quantity, Unicorn Confetti, Vampire Bite, Kind Handwriting, Nyckelpiga, Magier Schrift, Make Summer Fun, Make Anything, Bee Leave, Validity Script (by Mans Greback and Misti Hammers), Better Sweet, Yay Babe, Great Answer (brush script), And This Happened, Texas Twilight (rough script), MF 26 Banners (ribbons), Lipstick Rage (a crayon font), MF Heart Stuff (a Valentine's day font), XOXO Misti (lips).

In 2019, she designed Very You, Winter Wunsch, Winter Twilight, Chasing Snowflakes, Qtie Script, Mistis Destruction (calligraphic), Eleganta (with Mans Greback), Familiar Taste of Poison, Self Deception, Never Ever, Magical Night, Dillon the Cat, My Last Breath, Ridin Dirty, MF Star Dings, Lightning Crashes, Misti Nicole, Drop the Game, Pretty Summer, Reality Shift, Wake The Warrior (script), June Calligraphy, Fairies in the Forest, Marienkaefer, Flower Shop, Smol Kitty Boi, My Yellow Car, By Me, Keep The Faith, Rebellious Af, Okay Again, Going Forward, Living Selflessly, Quite Colorful (outlined and shadowed), My Best Shot, The Heart Chakra, Sugar Addiction, Bringing on the Heartbreak, 26 More Kisses, MF Love Dings 2, Pique My Interest, Flame Fetish, So Damn Beautiful (script).

In 2018, she designed Warm Winter Kiss, Forgiven Script, Quite Good, Dream Her, Rainbow Colors, My Happy Ending, Quite Magical, Clouds Smile Too, Whale I Tried, Haunted Moon, Fall is Coming, Good Unicorn, Losing Grip, The Haunted Maze, Love Like This, Bad Unicorn, Ready For It, Liebe Finden, I Heart Summer, Lucy The Cat, Queen Xylophia (upright script), Summer's Victory over Spring, I Heart Coloring, Cloud Calligraphy, Let's Bake Muffins, Blak and Bitter Coffee, Springtime in April, Springtime Sunshine, Unicorn Giggles, Make Magic Happen, Spring Is Coming, March Calligraphy, Your Star, Jakob's Handwriting, Color Your World, Supermassive Black Hole, Liar Script, I Found My Valentine, Lovers in February, Kiss Kiss (dingbats of lips), Snowflake Calligraphy, Behind Violet Eyes, Behind Brown Eyes, Chasing Stars, Einhorn Schrift, Unicorn Sparkles, January Handwriting, Simple Signature, and Winter in January.

In 2017, she designed December Calligraphy, Summer in December, My December, December Sky, Behind Green Eyes, Unicorn Calligraphy, Everything You Want, Autumn Moon, Haunted Eyes, Spooky Halloween, Midnight in October, October Moon, Vampire Calligraphy, Please Dont Take My Man, You're So Cool, A Perfect Place, I Heart You Always, Behind Blue Eyes, The Illusion of Beauty (monoline connected script), Basically Yes, Give You What You Like, Affectionately Yours, I Miss Your Kiss, Guys My Age, Oh My It's July, Kiss Me Or Not, Color Time, Congrats Calligraphy, Congrats Script, Galaxy Boy, It's Definitely Possible, Waiting For You, Let That Be Enough, If Only, Let That Be Enough (tall, hand-printed), That I Love You, Otterly Adorable (monoline marker script), Love and Sunshine, Youth and Beauty, Unicorns Are Awesome, April Flowers, Sunny Spring Day, Oh Whale, March Into Spring, Lie To Me, Marshmallows & Chocolate, Chasing Hearts, White Chocolate Mint, Winter Calligraphy.

In 2016, she designed Bold Stylish Calligraphy, Coffee With Sugar, I Love Christmas, Autumn in November (a connected script font), October Twilight (dancing script), Queen of Heaven, Requited Script, Watermelon Script (free), Better Together, Apples Script (curly calligraphic style), Stylish Calligraphy, Back to Black (signage script), The Heart of Everything (calligraphic), Hugs and Kisses (calligraphic script), Elephant Ears (fat marker font), The Happy Giraffe (thick roundish handcrafted sans), Dutch Tulips (a clean hand-printed typeface), Cupcake Party, Too Freakin Cute, My Epic Selfie, My Big Heart, Vampire Kiss, Lazy Spring Day, Coffee at Midnight, The Heart Maze, Strawberry Muffins, Texas Woman, Pretty Girls Script (connected and curly). In 2015 she made Miss Issippi, Ladybug Love, Mf Sippin on Sunshine (sketched font), Mf Vampire Heart (connected script), Feel My Heart (connected script), July Sky (a textured headline typeface), Mf Kazincbarcika (a comic book style fat finger script), Yellow Butterflies, I Love Glitter, Break The Rules (heavy brush script), Texas Spring, Love Song, Love is Awesome (Valentine;s Day font).

Earlier typefaces include Mf Wedding Bells (2014, wedding script), Really Awesome (2014), Air Balloon (2014), Be Yourself (2014, fat finger font), Autumn breze (2014), Mf Summertime (2014), Mf Kings & Queens (2014), Mf Still Kanda Ridiculous, Mf Houston Paris Budapest (2014, calligraphic), Mf Kind & Witty (2014), Delicate Little Flower (2014), I Like It Bold (2014), Mf Queen Leela (2014, connected), Killing Loneliness (2014), Scribble Script (2014), Rusty (2014, comic book font), Young and Beautiful (2014: connected script), Foxes in Love (2014), End of the dream (2014), My Love Dings (2014, mostly hearts), Love & Trust (2014), Quirky & Messy (2014), Hey Pretty Girl (2014), Fill Me With Color (2013), Hug Me Tight (2013), This Is Ridiculous (2013), Hello Heartache (2013), Girls Have many Secrets (2013), Even More Mixed Up (2013), A Little Mixed Up (2013), Are You Freakin Serious (2013), Borders Divide But Hearts Shall Conquer (2013), Just Sayin (2013), For A Pessimist Im Pretty Op (2013), Technically But Not Actually (2013), My Oh My (2013), Simply Complicated (2013), The Lonely Ones (2013), What's My Age Again (2013), MF Dings 3 (2013: dingbats with hearts), Love Is A Many Complicated Thing (2013), Fool For Love (2013), Fine Again (2013), Rebel Chick (2013), I Love You Monkey (2013), Happy Birthday Baby (2013), MF Dings (2013), MF Dings 2 (2013), Honeybee (2013), My Font Addiction (2013), Fight For Our Love (2013) and Ships In The Night (2013). She also designed Sex & Candy (2013), Simply Complicated, Head Versus Heart (2013, outlined typeface), Kill The Lights (2013, sans), Soul Merets Body (2013, sans), MF Dings (2013), Curious Cat (2013) and Bright Like A Diamond (2013).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

MJ Type (or: Jun Creative)
[Muhamad Junaid]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) of the script typefaces Manttulcuy Signature (2019: a monoline signature script), Beauty Friday (2019), Edwards (2019), Lancelot (2019: formal calligraphy), Shadow Brush (2019: a dry brush script), Corline Signature (2019), Angelina (2019: calligraphic), Ronhilli (2019: wild calligraphy), and Flowatt (2019). He also made the gooey typeface Mr. Monstar (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Autopilot (an inky script), Lifelism (a signature script), Rampage, Autopilot, Velvet Vanilla, Dramatic Style, Hunster Monster, Starlight, Attractive, Toronto, Sugar Cookies, ValentinaRoses, Bella Berry, Babylittle, Agatha, Savage Brush, Meow Meong, Banitta, Beauty Mothers, Ringlovely (calligraphic), Asmirandah, Lisalovely, Winston Andrews, Lemillion, Revenge, Sanstuy Brush, Aligatai (brush script), Berlindah Monoline.

Typefaces from 2021: Chopper, Magesta, Bridger, Polyglot (a stylish serif), Revenge (a bold script with scissored terminals), Dramatic Style (a thin stylish script), Attractive, Beauty Mothers.

Modern Vector (was: Lauritta)

MJB Letters (was: Artspace Design)
[Muhammad Mujibulloh]

Or just Mas Mujib, b. 1990. Ciamis or Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of Andalusia (2018), Honey Flower (2018), Lovely Honey (2018), Noorlita (2018: script), Southeast (2018), Chives (2018), Alyshen (2018: a Peignotian all caps sans), Snowy Day (2018), Smile of Cinderella (2018: signature script), Definite Soul (2018), Luxurossa (2018), Avicenna (2018: a display sans), Javenese Neu (2018: squarish), Villanesia (2018), Moonlight (2018: a modular sans) and the handcrafted Ajieb (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Atlane, Sheyla, Keysha, Klamber Satisfaction (font duo), Southen (a brush script), Amstella (calligraphic), Himalaya (a monoline signature script), Maldives (dry brush), Ballimore, Kastella, Cambridge (a tall upright script), Geishela, Heaternia, Sayidah, Sehaty, Space Outside (a dry brush script), Maryhand, Salty Malthy, Midnight Signature, Adhellita, Sathyn (calligraphic), Hilburg Script, Brightside (a brush font), Angeline, Alymhela, Afnolyca, Nalytha, Soulter, The Rottary, Romantice (roman), Nayshilla, Tinny Hurry, Cattelyna (upright script).

Typefaces from 2020: Naturallus (a monolinear script), Photomark Signature, Millano Script, Mirallove Restimond (an inky upright script), Capetown Signature (a monoline script), Rightland (script), Rolanstine (wild calligraphy), Sophia Morgant (wild calligraphy), Shutle Mind, Southand, Rightland (signage script), Valent Lovey, Capetown Signature, Beloving, Southland, Sweeter Sandwich, Cute Molly (a shaky script), Belinda Carolyne (a rabbit ear script).

Typefaces from 2021: Harttiney (a fine script), Arabellia Signature, Historina (script), Pretty Berelly (script), Herlianty (script), Golden Moment (wild writing), Stright Brush (a dry brush script), La Beauties (a casual inky script).

Typefaces from 2022: Hustony Extrude (a signage script), Golden Partline (emulating handwriting). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mocca Letter (or: Fana Studio)
[Fahri Rizal]

Or Fahri Denjer, or Fahri Mocca. Jambi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1992, of these typefaces, by category:

The calligraphic typefaces Alice (2020), Denila (2020), Gloresia (2019: wild calligraphy), Ediana Script (2019), Alyana (2019), Balerina (2019), Clover (2019), Gresya (2019), Latia (2019), Bougainvillea (2019), Madelyn (2018), Sofia (2018), Marion (2018), Nattalia (2018) and Olivia (2018).
The stylish typeface Baby Cute (2018).
The monoline geometric sans typeface Bulgare (2018: a fashion mag sans).
The dry brush typeface Black Stones (2018).
The comic book typefaces Carmella (2018) and Happy Comic (2018).
The beatnik font Caroline (2018).
The display typefaces Toffee (2018) and Skittle (2018).
The fat marker fonts Daniel (2019), Baby Girly (2018), Good Daddy (2018) and Rumagge (2018).
The handcrafted and script typefaces Sinta Mellia (2020), Britale (2020), Blossom (2020), The Horizontal (2020), Juliette (2020), Abigail (2019), Hilda (2019), Sheila (2019), Bianca (2018), Falicia (2018), Fanya (2018), Lydia (2018), Meisha (2018), Grace (2018), Winter (2018), Aurora (2018), Famous (2018), Kaylia (2018), Viona (2018), Novia (2018), Black Bubble (2018), The Jhonny Tan (2018), Crazy Lover (2018), Soulmate (2018), Mariana Oghawa (2018), Bettalia (2018: upright script), Little Malle (2018), Happiness (2018), Threelie (2018), Bringdown (2018), Queenland (2018), Mondayline (2018), Laylantia (2018), Valencia Script (2018), Diomira (2018), Monica (2018), Hargena (2018), Morgenta (2018), The Jack Marron (2018), Pretty Queen (2018), Forgotten (2018), Barthilda (2018), Christopher (2018) and Anggeliana (2018).
The brush scripts Southwales (2019) and Highway (2019).
The signature font Beholde (2020).

Typefaces from 2019: Alisson (script), Georgea, Booming (a comic book font), Etienne (a fat rounded marker font), Florian, Amadore, Goldberg.

Typefaces from 2021: Stones (a rough brush font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Russian designer of the free calligraphic typeface LS Long Calligraphy (2016) and the high-contrast didone typeface family Babylon (2016). Other typefaces: Colorado (2017: sans), LS Burlesque (2017: inky calligraphic watercolor script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mohamad Candirah
[MC Store (or: MC Creative)]

Mohamad Rian Rahardi
[Creatype Studio (or: Taro Creatype, Crella Marketplace, Rahardi Creatype)]

Mojtaba Kia Darbandsari

Iranian dingbat font designer, b. 1985. His creations include Neckar (2012), Besmellah (2008, five fonts) and Mohammed RasoolAllah (2008). His fonts have calligraphic scripts, and religious icons. Alternate URL.

Designer of the Arabic font Mj __ Tikeh, which can be found here. Irfont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Molly Jacques Erickson
[Great Lakes Lettering]

Monica Lewinsky's Handwriting

Molly Suber Thorpe

Calligrapher and lettering artist from Los Angeles who graduated from The American University of Paris and UCLA's Design Communication Arts program (class of 2009). Today, Molly lives in Athens, Greece. She wrote these books:

Modern Calligraphy: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started in Script Calligraphy (St. Martin's Press, 2013).
The Calligrapher's Business Handbook (2017).
Mastering Modern Calligraphy (St. Martin's Griffin, 2019).

In 2019, she designed the monoline script font Cantaloupe. In 2020, she released the handcrafted Outside Voice, the monoline script Honeydew, the monolinear all caps ligature-rich art deco typeface Lempicka for Latin and Greek, and the Tuscan typeface Wiley.

In 2021, she designed Very Matcha (a retro serif) and Charlot (a vintage all caps typeface).

Releases from 2022: Magritte (a surrealist serif; dreamy and slightly psychedelic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Moly Mol

Or Molidi. Indonesian designer of the calligraphic typefaces Animal Script (2020), Cameliya Stark (2019), Begokly (2019), Tifany Script (2018), Lorriana Script (2018) and Ladies Script (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Monartype

Designer in 2017 of Gigalow and the swashy typeface Sonetta. [Google] [More] ⦿

Graphologist's analysis of Monica's handwriting. [Google] [More] ⦿

Monofonts
[Valentino Coppi]

Monofonts was founded by Katiuscia Mari, Andrea Cerboneschi and Marco Ugolini. Monofonts is the Font Foundry related to Monocromo Creative Digital Agency based in Florence, Italy. Valentino Coppi is the Italian designer (b. Firenze) of the free typeface family Aron Grotesque (2016, Monocromo), which is named after French intellectual Raymond Aron.

Typefaces from 2017: Joe Stamp (monospaced roundish children's book type), Abuse (a blackletter font in the calligraffiti style), Sweetheart Script.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. Behance link. Behance link for Monofonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Monofonts (or: Monocromo Creative Factory)
[Andrea Cerboneschi]

Monofonts is the font foundry of Studio Monocromo, a Creative Agency based in Florence, Italy. Katiuscia Mari, Marco Ugolini and Andrea Cerboneschi are the founders of both Studio Monocromo and Monofonts, located in Firenze. Matteo Bonini is also involved. Most of their fonts can be freely downloaded from Dafont.

Creators of Fresko (2010), and the custom corporate sans family Opificio (2011, Andrea Cerboneschi) for a fashion and crafts company by the same name. It was followed in 2014 by the more organic, but still geometric, Opificio Neue. Cerbetica (2011, Andrea Cerboneschi) is a reworked Helvetica. Diamante (2011, Katiuscia Mari) is a sans typeface with a condensed feel. Peppermint (2011, Katiuscia Mari) is a techno face. Tape Rail (2011) overlays straight edges and looks like an oriental simulation face. Square Block (2011) is octagonal.

Fonts from 2012: Halfmoon.

In 2013, they published Opificio Serif and Vintage Straps (a thin monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2014: San Frediano (sans family), Zeronero (an artsy art deco geometric sans), Malandrino.

Typefaces from 2016: Aron Grotesque (by Valentino Coppi; named after French intellectual Raymond Aron), Emily the Brush (connected brush script), Quaderno Bianco, Monohipster.

Fonts from 2017: Sweetheart Script.

Fonts from 2018: Lazy Dog.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. Old URL. Behance link for Monofonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Monoline Calligraphy
[Putri Indira]

Indonesian designer Putri Indira set up Monoline Calligraphy in 2020. In 2021, he released these calligraphic scripts: Barbie Giofita, Awesome the Lady Boss, Mahoni With My Hearts (a scrapbook script), Nadhiratil Mahira (an upright rabbit ear script), Hello Mahony, Alvena Script, Willetysa Script.

Typefaces from 2022: Darlyta Script (a calligraphic script), Marshall Script (a scrapbook script), Himberlya (a calligraphic script), Sky Lights (script), Milkella Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Moove Studio

Purwakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the following script and display typefaces in 2022: Clara, Conquest, Dagnest, Destiny Signature, Enchant, Fisher, Gaston, Glasgow, Himalaya, Javana (a cultural font), Underates, Winter Song. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mordecai Pinchas

Mordecai Pinchas is a sofer, a scribe. He has excellent resource page for special Hebrew scripts. I quote: The Hebrew script used for sofrut is called K'tav Ashurit. There are basically three types:

Beyt Yosef (script generally used by Ashkenazi Jews)
Beyt Ari (script used by Jews of Chassidic descent or influence)
Sefardi (veilish) (used generally by Sephardi Jews).

Most importantly there are a great deal of rules governing the formation of the letters so that their temunah (symbol) is defined precisely and so that there is no confusion between the letters written. They should be clean and crisp and the test of validity is whether a young child who is neither especially clever, i.e., that he could work out the letter from the context or especially stupid, i.e., that he doesn't recognise the letters at all. The most well established ruling is Mishnat Sofrim written by the Chafets Chayim as part of the Mishnah Berurah on Tefillin. However there are other descriptions of letters in the Alpha Beta of Rabbeinu Lipman, Kol Sofrim (Yoseph Klein), L'david Emet (showing the sefardi letters forms), Baruch Sheamar, Da'at Kdoshim, Mikdash Me'at, L?vush, Kol Haremez etcetera, all collected in an anthology called "Tsurat Ha-otiyot" (the forms of the letters). Beyt Yoseph and Ari are similar differing only in a few letters, whilst Veilish is much more rounded and quicker to write. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mordex Studio
[Teuku Hamzah]

Aceh, Indonesia-based typeface design studio, est. 2021. In 2022, he released the classical calligraphic script Marphidy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Moriz Type (or: Muriza Creative)
[Muriza K. L. Jaya]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Crellitta (2016), Billgrotia Script (2016, +Sans), Hello Shanghai Script (2016), Rosvigts Brush Script (2016), Arillyoni Script (2016), Arillyoni Brush (2016), Thirteenth Script (2016), Stylistics (2016), Modigirl Script (2016: a really great calligraphic script with 925 glyphs), Willshering Script (2016), Mofishine (2016), Calligrafhy Script (sic) (2016), Zombis Night Script (2016), Raffiator (2016), Master Faith (2015), Cinderella (2015, a rip-off of Olympic Branding by Maelle Keita), Whartillax (2015), Everbest (2015), the connected Brisk Wondering (2016), Ritalina (2016), the handcrafted Stylistic Sans (2016), and the uber-curly Amsterday (2015).

Typefaces from 2017: Mantera, Metinoline Script (calligraphic), Gullami Rice Script (calligraphic), Religion, Zenithal, Ritalina Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: Asdore Script, Futsal Script, Chastum Script, One Luminous (calligraphic), Southern Script, Farmhouse (calligraphic). Behance link.

Typefaces from 2019: Purelove Script (calligraphic), Stylistics Script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Moron Brother Co

Jakarta, Indonesia-based lettering artist and type designer. His typefaces include Primata Script (2018), Raflesia Script (2018: in Treefrog style), Carolina Script (2018), Theory Signature (2018) and Automatic Signature (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mostafa El Abasiry

Alexandria, Egypt and Stockholm, Sweden, and Riga, Latvia-based creator of these Arabic typefaces in 2022: Anteeqa.

Typefaces from 2022: Mahbook.

Typefaces from 2021: Mareh, Tashweeq (a truly spectacular Arabic typeface in which glyph is a piece of modern geometric art), Mithqal, Dardashah (an inline Arabic display typeface), Lakhbatah, Lafet, Hawadeet, Caricaturey (a comical and comic book font), Mopaxel (a pixelish color font), Teraaz, Tashweesh (pixelish), Najmy, Rakan.

Typefaces from 2020: Tashkeel (a color font), Talasem, Naghamah (a children's book font), Qafashat, Makana (a fat display typeface), Shakhabeet, Meshkal (Arabic for kaleidoscope: an Arabic display font that is inspired by the kaleidoscopic geometries), Kahraman.

Typefaces from 2019: Mostaqbali, Wafir (condensed), Modhesh, Graffitica, Lamhah, Lattouf, Laftah, Kaleel, Mawzoon.

Typefaces from 2018: Moltaqa, Khorafi, Mateen, Jadeer, Taiween, Lafeef (rounded), Tamema, Ikseer, Origami (a color font), Fenoon, Dahka, Tajreed, Oajoubi.

In 2017, he designed Etlalah, Tashabok, Olfah, Zahey, Alama, Takween (based on the Mashrequi writing style), Loabah, Makeen, Maheeb, Enferad, Paxalah (a pixelish Arabic typeface), Mozarkash (deco style).

Earlier typefaces: Fokaha (2016), Khetab (2016, Kufic), Taleeq (2016), Saiihah (2016, an experimental Arabic typeface), Ahaleel (2016), Inseyab (2016, a monoline Arabic typeface), Ostouri (2015, a heavy calligraphic Arabic typeface), Kaleem (2015, Arabic display typeface), Ebhaar (2015), Tarhaal (2015), Jazeel (2014), Hetaf (2014), Bareeq (2014), Tawasul (2014), Wahaj (2013), Bedayah (2013, a geometric Arabic typeface), Atyaaf (2013, a multiline display face), Aqlaam (2012, Arabic), Falak (2012, Arabic typeface), Ahlan (2012, Arabic typeface), the hairline Arabic typeface Khayal (2012), the fat octagonal typeface PolyFont (2012), the corporate typeface Tasreeh (2012), the comics book font Nokta (2012), Ekleel (2012), Friendo (2012), Retro Town (2012, free demo), and the pixel typefaces Kufigraph (2012), Raqami (2012) and Pixelogist (2012).

Arabic typefaces made in 2013: Fekrah, Fenoon (square Kufic style).

Creative Market link. Dafont link. Behance link. You Work For Them link for Scribo Studio. [Google] [More] ⦿

Motype Idea

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the brushed signage typefaces Bellatine Pro (2017), Watiny (2017) and Mattheo (2017), and the calligraphic script typefaces Malficent Script (2017) and Rotterdam Street (2017). Typefaces from 2018: Road Story (SVG brush font), Rathbone (retro signage script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mouser Fonts
[Jerry Landers]

From Collingswood, NJ, Jerry Landers' type designs: Waters Gothic (calligraphic), Waters Gothic Deux, Waterhole (2000), Animal Caps (2000), Bouwsma Uncial, Foundational, Georgia Pond, Gourdie Cursive (2000), Goudie Cursive Deux, Gourdie Handwriting (2000), Gourdie Uncial, Gourdie Gothic Black, Gourdie Uncial Deux, Ken's Calligraphic, Korger Gothic Deux. Jerry also drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II.

Dafont link. Old URL (which died in 2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mr. Black Fonts
[Miguel Angel Padriñán Alba]

Iztapalapa, Mexico City-based graphic designer. Creator of Pixa Square (2014: a dot matrix typeface family that includes some arcade game dingbats as well), Domino (2014: digitization of a typeface by Sabino Gainza), Norma Script (2014, avant-garde sans), Norma Cursiva (2014), Macmillan (2014, sans), El Corondel (2014, signage script), Taller (2014, done with Manuel Flores), Mr. Pascal (2014: LED or kitchen style typeface for numbers on watches), Britannia Capital (2014: a calligraphic copperplate typeface), Alfaomega (2014, avant-garde sans), Alfaomega Cursiva (2014, school script font), Espiral (2013, a Victorian school project font at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas UNA).

In 2016, Ayi Studio (Mexico City) published the constructivist typeface family Alek Rodchenko, which was jointly designed by Miguel Angel Padrinan Alba and Victor Manuel Flores Lopez. One must assume that they run Ayi Studio.

Behance link. Newer Behance link. Old Wordpress link. Newest MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mr. Letters (was: Mr. Hand Studio)
[Muhammad Rizal]

Banda Aceh, Sumatra-based designer of these mostly calligraphic typefaces:

In 2017: Humilde Regular (a formal calligraphic script), Adaline Script, Skolateka, Claudia Script, Dogma Script, Chalala Script, Jealous Script (formal calligraphic script), Maisha Script, Streetlight.
In 2018: Nightlife, Magic Script, Diary Amily, Soulmates Script, Rachela (calligraphic), Fadelya (a bold script), Madison, America (baseball script), Philosophy, Beloved, Beautiful Script, Belinda Script, Aneisha Script, Heavenly Script, New England.
In 2019: Strength Night, Someday, Charlinda, Christmas Party, Pandu (dry brush script), Miracle, Hongkong (dry brush), Shellia, Sophia, Renata, Doremi Brush (dry brush), Daylight, Peuna Brush, Hangouts, Andonesi, Belley, Monday, Donita (script), Zombie, Delisa, Rumbe, Bandung, Musuh (dry brush), Famous, Natasha, Richland, Delightful (script), School (a shadowed outlined font), England, Martini, Dora Dore, Dolly (handcrafted), Mystery 2019 (brush font).
In 2020: Fadilla.
In 2021: Shaliha (a scrapbook script), Sabiya (script), Santorini (a wild calligraphic script), Andallusia Script, Maisha (script).

Graphicriver link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mu Fazzal
[Bosstype Studio]

Muammar
[Scooth Type (was: Scooth Line)]

Muammar Kadafi
[Attract Studio]

Muhajir
[Artimasa]

Muhajir Akarim
[Soft Creative]

Muhajir Oesman
[Anti Mainstype]

Muhamad Junaid
[MJ Type (or: Jun Creative)]

Muhamad Yusron Billah
[Sron Studio]

Muhammad Aidil
[Studioad]

Muhammad Akbar
[Stasy Font]

Muhammad Akbar
[Sinfa (or: Tone Studio, or: Triotone)]

Muhammad Alif
[Ovoz Digital Shop]

Muhammad Alkaf
[Dana Font Co]

Muhammad Edward

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of the formal calligraphic typeface Marlina (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

Muhammad Edward
[Aneuk Muda]

Muhammad Fajar
[Lucky Type (or: Luckytype)]

Muhammad Fajri
[Azzam Studio]

Muhammad Farid
[Casualized]

Muhammad Fikry
[Fikryal (or: Fikry Alif)]

Muhammad Hasan
[Fype Co]

Muhammad Husni Haikal
[Graphicfresh (was: Sameeh Store, or Sameeh Media)]

Muhammad Ilham
[Old Studio (or: Analogous Studio)]

Muhammad Juanda
[Graphic Crew]

Muhammad Mujibulloh
[MJB Letters (was: Artspace Design)]

Muhammad Nasir

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic typeface Matesia (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Muhammad Nazar
[Bung Letter]

Muhammad Nur
[Pollem Studio (or: Polem, was: Joee Creative, or Joe Creative)]

Muhammad Nur Alamsyah
[Allmo Studio]

Muhammad Nurapik
[Handpik Design]

Muhammad Panji
[Sipanji (was: Straightwell)]

Muhammad Rayyan
[Slex Studio]

Muhammad Razi
[Studio RZ]

Muhammad Ridha Agusni
[38 Lineart Studio (or: Grayscale, or: Fontsources)]

Muhammad Rizal
[Mr. Letters (was: Mr. Hand Studio)]

Muhammad Rizaldi
[Getypes Studio]

Muhammad Sirojuddin
[Lettersiro]

Muhammad Suhery
[Phonnastudio]

Muhammad Takiyuddin
[Amar Lettering (or: Kamaruddin, or: Just Lett)]

Muhammad Taufik
[Rastype]

Muhammad Yoni
[Yon Type Studio]

Muhammad Zuhair Albazi
[Omar Type]

Muhammd Aby
[Alqawoms]

Mukhlas A. Saputra
[Masketer]

Mukhlis Aljauhari
[Raseuki]

Muksalmina Muksalmina
[Muksalmina (or: Mercurial, or: Muksal Creatives)]

Muksalmina (or: Mercurial, or: Muksal Creatives)
[Muksalmina Muksalmina]

Mercurial (Banda Aceh, Indonesia) has been associated at various epochs with Mercurial Roxxane, then Muchsal Al Chalidi, Muchsal 7, Muksalmina Mercurial, and more recently, Salt Mercurial, and Muksalmina Muksalmina. The name Mercurial was changed in 2020 to Muksal Creatives.

Designer of the brush script typefaces Historise (2016), Ardilla (2016), Venturalia (2016), Someday Brush (2016), Lightning Script (2016) and Penelope (2016), the handcrafted Befindisa (2016) and Sathscha (2016), and the calligraphic typefaces Repackage Script (2016), Cleopatra (2016), Catandra Script (2016) and Hysteria Santa (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Histeria Bites (monoline script), Scoothlane Script, Louise Miller (calligraphic script), Charletto (brush script), Sheiloria (brush script), Carrolina Script and Sans, Hillgates (brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Eivitarri Blossom (script), The Fourth Avenue Sans (all-caps), Cottage (script), Rookie Mastering (a logotype script), The Chapetown (a font duo), Befindisa, The Fourth Avenue (font duo), Bridgetown (ink splash script), Lost Treasure, Rellista Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Rinjane, Amelyna, Angelina, Cherlina, Jonathan, Eliya, Ayudia, Anggela Styled, Bellgia, Valena, Archipelago (a Treefrog style script), Crayones, Bluestoria, Styledeep Brush, Fredilight (script), Elisofa Calvin, Scoothlane Sans Brush, Sheiloria Stylish Brush, Ernesthuge (a Treefrog-style script), Tristan Script, Boustown Sans, Catandra Brush.

Typefaces from 2020: Thalisar Handwritten, Guten Denison, Haney Love (rabbit ear calligraphy), Bangfel (a thin stylish font), Mellya (a signature script), Antaro (wild calligraphy), Bondjlo (a vintage serif), The Craprio (a decorative serif), Sellena (a wild upright script), Moycen (an almost stencil typeface), Vincent Familiante, Watten (script), Maldive (a decorative serif), Calrida (a decorative serif), Bulgatin, Chathoney (a wild script), Bienvenue Handmade (script), Gonestone Signature, Archeology Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Rangedit (a display typeface), Augan (a tuxedoed sans), Geefray (a stylized sans), Ghaden (a spindly display serif), Ardista Script (a scrapbook script), Bashan (a refined art nouveau typeface), The Bafger (a fashionable typeface), Ontime (script), Egalie (a stylish typeface with flaring), Andutione Handwritten, De Boulleva (a display serif), Benaya (a display serif), Redney (a stylish display typeface), Ardegan (a vintage decorative serif font that evokes see-through nighties in French boudoirs), Angista Script, Funny Holiday (monolinear, hand-printed), Daragie (a display typeface with Victorian curls), Hey Baby (a scrapbook font), Signore (a decorative serif), The Laughter Brush, Aloya (a playful marker pen font), Filogofil (a sans advertized for logos), Anbigu (a decorative serif) (a decorative serif), Katerlin (a swashy script), Stigma Serif Display (a decorative serif), Laughtale Script, Hello Amelinda (a script), Relagina (a stylish ligature-laden typeface).

Typefaces from 2022: Farench (a light display serif), Garetc (a wavy thin display serif), Camilen (a fashion mag serif), Rhositania (a formal calligraphic script), Feragie (nine tuxedoed sans styles situated between art deco and Peignotian), Aikenap (a display serif with thin musical curls), South Time (script), Refanea (a decorative sans adorned with many ligatures), Mogiena (a high-contrast fashion mag serif), Gengich (a decorative serif with flared terminals), Rosegar (a playful display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mulkan Nazir
[Great Studio]

Munawir
[Mightype]

MunchFonts
[Gary Munch]

Gary Munch (born 1953) is the Stamford, CT-based principal of MunchFonts. He teaches at Norwalk Community College and at the University of Bridgeport Shintaro Akatsu School of Design.. His typefaces:

GMAhuramazda (runes).
Calligraphic.
Candara (2005), a flared typeface done for Microsoft's ClearType project. Candara received a TypeArt 05 award.
GMChanceryModern.
Munch produced three new Cherokee fonts in 2011 in response to a request by Joseph Erb, of language technology and education services at the Cherokee Nation: Chancery Modern ProCherokee (a sleek sans serif semi-cursive font), Neogrotesk Cherokee (a multipurpose workhorse design), and Munch Chancery Cherokee (a calligraphic font that resembles handwriting). The Cherokee Nation is using Munch Chancery at its Cherokee Immersion School.
GMClavier.
GMDuomo.
Linotype Ergo.
The 8-weight didone font family GMFidelio is my favorite.
Finerliner (linked handwriting).
GMGlobe.
GMHieroglyphic.
GMHyperspace.
GMLondinium (1993, a blackletter face), and GM Londinium Versals (a Lombardic face).
GMMage.
GMMedallion. An architectural writing font made in 1997.
GMMeter.
GMMunchfonts.
GMMunchies.
GMNanogram.
GMPepRally.
GMPrentice.
Linotype Really (1997). An almost-didone family with Cyrillic and Greek extensions for which he received an award at the TDC2 2001 competition, and obtained third prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library. It was updated to Really No2 in 1999.
GM SPQR. A Trajan type family.
UrbanScrawlButtah, UrbanScrawlChill, UrbanScrawlDown, UrbanScrawlFly.
GM Wodensday.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. Old home page.

Showcase of Gary Munch's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Muntab Art
[Satriyo Hutomo]

Malang, Indonesia-based designer of the serif typeface Lorena (2019: for fashion mags featuring skinny models), Orlando Sign (2019), Banana Caroline (2019: font duo), Salvages Bold (2019), Davinci (2019), the loud typeface Dogtown (2019), the blackletter typeface Tribal (2019), the black metal blackletter font Southside (2019), the brush script fonts Selfakia (2019) and Destroit (2019), the multi-font Good Vibes (2019), the monoline scripts Freeflow (2019) and Lemonade (2019), the curly tattoo script typeface Chicano (2019), the tattoo font Brigade (2019), the sans font Walker (2019), the spurred tattoo script Dayles Script (2019) and the script font Hanselle (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Esteban (Tuscan), Aquatone, Oakle, Familia (a tattoo font), Gangsta (a blackletter typeface with decorative spurs), Martyr, Santiago (decorative), Mayhem, Westcoast (spurred), Mexicanos (a tattoo or cigar box font), Florida (a wavy font), Aveden (an all caps avant garde typeface), Skyload, Black Sails (brush), Hardcore (dry brush), Mood, Caithlyn (a great inky calligraphic script), Lestly (a curly text typeface).

Typefaces listed by early 2021: Aeromono (a futuristic semi-stencil), Akasara (a decorative serif), Amerald, Anomaly, Aquatone, Armora, Aveden, Balmonte, Baltre, Banana Carolline, Becko (futuristic, sci-fi), Befaro, Berlin (a sci-fi stencil typeface), Black Sails, Brigade, Caithlyn, Carl Brown (a decorative serif), Chicano Font, Chicano Vol. 02, Davinci, Dogtown, Dayles Script, Defrozo, Destroit, Eastside, Esteban, Evalter, Exposure, Familia Tattoo Lettering Font, Farware, Fenomeno (futuristic), Florida, Freeflow Monoline Script, Good Vibes, Gangsta Typeface, Glenca, Hardcore, Havox, Herlik, Herofin, Lemonade Signature Font, Leoni, Lestly Fonts, Lorena, Magna (a decorative serif), Maldito Font, Mandora, Martyr, Maverick, Mayhem, Metrolic, Mexicanos, Mijuo, Minerva, Monica, Monreal, Mood Font, Nordik (a sci-fi stencil typeface), Nova, Oakle, Orlando Sign, Phoenix, Quadron, Quincy, Rebelion, Reforma, Reviews, Roman, SALVAGES BOLD, SOUTHSIDE, Santiago, Selfakia, Skyload, Tribal Font, Valkrye, Velta, Westcoast, Wilyam, Zemora.

Typefaces added in 2021: Anabele (decorative serif), Arizona (a stylish all caps typeface), Avander (a stylish serif), Babylon (an all caps blackletter), Badgiek (decorative serif), Bandito Script (for tattoos), Bestie, Boston (retro baseball script), Bravado (decorative serif), Brescia (decorative caps), Brown Sugar (an all caps decorative serif), Calya (decorative serif), Carl Brown (a decorative serif), Carola (an art deco mini-serif), Caterina (an all caps display typeface), Cigero (a decorative all caps serif), Dectro (decorative caps), Dream Avenue (a decorative serif), Elmo (a decorative serif), Elva, Felicio (an art gallery serif), Gamero (a monolinear paperclip font), Ghania, Hexagon, Katrine (a decorative condensed serif), Le Monte (a high contrast jewelry store typeface), Lemonia (a reverse stress serif), Love Story Self Made, Lower Coast, Macron (a spurred Victorian tattoo font; why it is named after the French president beats me), Margate (a sword-serifed display typeface), Matrix (a bullet hole font), Molten (a display caps typeface), Monstar (an all caps typeface for fashion mags), Musa, Pleasure (blackletter), Qaigero (a display serif), Qureka (a glamour font), Ragesta (decorative with wavy junctions), Reno (cyberpunk), Rhapsody (a swashy penmanship script), Rioky (a lovely wedge serif display typeface with a vaguely tribal vibe), Romance (display caps), Rosalia (a fashion mag typeface), Stachy, (elephant-footed caps) Tropico Salte (art nouveau genre caps). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mur Zani
[Zane Studio]

Muriza K. L. Jaya
[Moriz Type (or: Muriza Creative)]

Murtadha Bin Sulaiman
[Malindo Creative]

MyFonts: Broad pen typefaces

Musikund Design

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the Hangul typefaces Sonagi (2016) and Moonshape (2016). Sonagi is designed for vertical priting and is based on the Gungche calligraphic style practiced in the Joseon Dynasty. Moonshape (2016) is a calligraphic take on the classical Hangul serif typeface Myungjo. [Google] [More] ⦿

Musimon Fonts
[Mel Drake]

Mel Drake (Musimon Fonts) is the designer of Groceries (2010, hairline hand-printed face) and Hopes are free (2010, calligraphic penmanship face). [Google] [More] ⦿

Mustafa Eren

Istanbul, Turkey-based winner in the Chartpak Designer Velvet Touch Transfer Lettering Typeface Competition in 1988 for Diodyma, who works as a calligrapher. In 2020, he designed Kaunos at Hurufatfont. Kaunos experiments with serifs. Still in 2020, he released Lotape (calligraphic; digitized by Oguzhan Cengiz), Fibula (a display type), Didyma (a bilined display font), and Anglez (a formal swashy calligraphic script so named as it is inspired by the English Script) at Hurufatfont. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

My Creative Land
[Elena Genova]

Elena Genova (My Creative Land, Edinburgh, Scotland) specializes in digitized handwriting fonts. She designed these commercial typefaces in 2014: Ariadne (connected curly script), Veryberry (curly script, + Cyrillic), Handy Sans Condensed (+Distressed; for Latin and Cyrillic), Handy Casual Condensed.

In 2015, she designed the brush typefaces Celestial, Dessert Menu (Sans and Script), Botanica (Sans, Script, Ornaments) and Evenfal and the script typefaces Storyteller (a great connected script in Script and Casual sub-styles ideally suited for children's books), Allegretto Script (calligraphic), Catfish (monoline and connected), Rosalinda Script, Aristelle Script (+Aristelle Sans: identical to Ariadne) and La Veronique.

Typefaces from 2016: Sunshine Daisies (handwritten type system), Nefelibata (in Brush and Sans versions), La Parisienne, La Veronique Two, New Storyteller.

Typefaces from 2017: Above the Sky, Lovingly Friends (a collection of sixteen handcrafted typefaces), Scandiebox, Brushability, Rockeby (32 fonts, which she describes as slightly more geometric than Block Berthold but much softer than the industrial Din Next; see also Rockeby SemiSerif and Rockeby Brush).

Typefaces from 2018: Adventures Unlimited (a connected monoline script and a super-condensed sans companion), Brushberry (dry brush script), Absolute Beauty (a monoline signature script and accompanying thin serif), Combinado (Sans, (a didone) Serif, Text, Script), Brooklyn Heritage (Sans and Script), Palomino (a crayon script), Beautiful Minds (a fashion mag typeface family; +Stencil).

Typefaces from 2019: Contempora Script and Contempora Sans Condensed, Freethinker, Hello Bloomie (a watercolor SVG font), Above the Beyond, Lumios Marker (a marker pen font), Lumios Typewriter (old typewriter), Beautifully Delicious (Sans+Script duo).

Typefaces from 2020: Dreaming Outloud (a fat finger font), Roca (a plump serif influenced by Windsor and Cooper Black), The Youngest, Praline MCL (a chocolate store Serif and sans pair), Balerno Serif (a lachrymal didione).

Typefaces from 2021: Parlare (a flowing script), Lumios Brush (a bold brush script), Boss Jock JNL (an informal font based on the title and credits from the 1965 film Strange Bedfellows), Peachi (a 6-style soft serif typeface with rounded terminals), Carelia (a didone display typeface for Latin and Cyrillic).

Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

mycandythemes
[Filia Ika Syilviani]

Bandung, Indonesia-based hand-drawn type designer who created these brushy calligraphic typefaces in 2014: Dality, Ala Nice, Its Holiday, Calligrapheez, Chaotiq Modern Paint Brush, Dago (connected script).

In 2015, Filia made the rough brush scripts JudgePat and Charisma, the free brush font Justin Road, the pretty connected paint brush script typeface Aishart, the wildly calligraphic Los Spiro, the scribbly Prestige Script, the brush typefaces Paris Light and Stylish Brush (formerly called Sunshine), Saturday (Hitz style calligraphic script), Blissful (script), Aura Blue (brush script), Tasty Two (a wild script), Donita Script (watercolor brush script), the script typefaces Mrs Glows and Crafty Script, and the brush font Away.

Typefaces from 2016: Fabs and Stylish (calligraphic), Miss Daisy, Sofy, Spectra, Spectra Sans, Mrs. Stylish (a lively calligraphic typeface), Miss Mighty, Skylar, Say Gotcha (brush script), Fashion Crush (brush script), Dality (brush script), Birby (a great calligraphic script), Prestige Script, Modesty (connected brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: C'est La Isabelly (script).

Typefaces from 2018: Sugar Creates (nice script), Dearly Script, Jet Quinn (calligraphic script), Myst Apah (signature font), Gardenia (flower dings).

Typefaces from 2019: Supernova, Craftylover.

Typefaces from 2020: The Paris (script), The Paris Supernova (a display serif). Fontdaily link. [Google] [More] ⦿

View a number of broad pen typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Calligraphic

Top-ranked fonts at MyFonts on the theme calligraphic. Long list of calligraphic typefaces. And an even longer list of calligraphic typefaces. Calligraphic script typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Calligraphy

Top-ranked fonts at MyFonts on the theme of calligraphy. A long list of calligraphic typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Formal scripts

A collection of formal script typefaces that can be seen at MyFonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Nib

Typefaces tagged nib at MyFonts. Most of these are calligraphic or script fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Pointed nib typefaces

A list of calligraphic typefaces based on pointed nib lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Quill script typefaces

Compare some commercial quill script typefaces. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿

MyFonts: Wedding fonts

Top-ranked wedding fonts listed at MyFonts. Over 1000 wedding invitation fonts listed here. A [long] list of typefaces suitable for weddings. And an even longer list of wedding fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

My-Lan Thuong

Thuong attended ESAD Amiens for Graphic Design and later pursued a career in type design. In 2018, she received an MFA in Type Design from the Ecole Estienne in Paris. She collaborated with type foundries Coppers and Brasses and Type Network prior to joining New York City-based Sharp Type as a type designer in 2019. Her typefaces:

Maple Leafs (2017). Co-designed with Etienne Aubert-Bonn at Coppers and Brasses in Montreal, Maple Leafs is a fast and aggressive typeface commissioned for the Toronto Maple Leafs as a display face to use along with their existing typefaces.
Mammouth (2017). Done together with Etienne Aubert-Bonn at Coppers and Brasses, Mammouth is a commissioned typeface family for a gala on Tele Quebec where teenagers can vote for the people, events, and causes that influenced them the most during the year. Mammouth contains a heavy and an ultra-fat style.
In 2018, she released the shaky outline typeface Royal at E162.
She assisted Justin Sloana at Sharp Type with Simula (2019).
In 2020, Etienne Aubert Bonn and My-Lan Thuong co-designed Baryton at Coppers and Brasses, a revival of Frank Bartuska's playful photo era didone typeface Century Bartuska.
Carta Nueva (2020). A copperplate penmanship font released at Sharp Type.
In 2021, Lucas Sharp and My-Lan Thuong, assisted by Wei Huang and Marc Rouault, designed Salter. Salter Roman is based on calligraphic book jackets by Georg(e) Salter from 1941, and Salter Italic is inspired by two of Oscar Ogg's book jacket alphabets from 1942.

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Myron McVay

Type designer at Hallmark, d. 2013. At Letterperfect, Kathy Schinhofen, Garrett Boge and Myron McVay together designed the whimsical curly connected script family Jackalope LP (2011). He designed the script typeface Bayou based on lettering (ca. 1984) by Rick Cusick. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Mysunday
[Bro Luthfi]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Devita Italic (2016), Cathy (2016), Arabella Script (2015, by Bro Luthfi), Nicky (2015), Lesly (2015), Victoria (2015), Coffee Script (2015), Coffee Sans (2015), Michael Script (2015; the same font is also available from Font Zilla...), Sweatpants (2015), Cutout (2015), Spoon (2015) and Theory (2015). Creative Market link. Behance link. The connection with Bro Luthfi (Behance) is unclear. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Mytha Studio
[Miftahul Jannah]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1984) of the calligraphic typefaces Hey Magnolia, Austeria Script (wild and calligraphic) (2020), Grandista (2020), Bela Yasmine (2020), Baby Giovani Script (2020) and White Crystal Script (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nach Oh
[Oh Type]

Nagoya Institute of Technology

"A Method to Generate Writing-Brush-Style Japanese Hiragana Character Calligraphy" is an interesting project by Junji Mano (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Lifeng He (Aichi Prefectural University), Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Enowaki, Atsuko Mutoh and Hidenori Itoh (Nagoya Institute of Technology) for generating writing-brush-style Hiragana calligraphy using an electronic pen. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nahar
[Nanda Hardiansyah]

Kota Cirebon, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Senoritta (sic) (2019), Los Angeles (2019), Chattagirie (2019) and Rhoselinna (2019), and the handcrafted sans typefaces Vanjar (2019) and Hansville (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Hello Daisy, Confidently (a wild script), Hillonest (a signature script), Belaris (a curly calligraphic script), Brightons (a signage script), My Sunshine (a rabbit ear script), Rallisha (a rabbit ear script), Brilganttyne (a swashy and tall calligraphic script), Hello Daisy (calligraphic), Hello Cristina (a wild script), Victograms (a dry brush script), Enjelina, Satrinah, Trackers, Black Ryder, Royal Haster Line, Rush Hour, Catrina, Grim Reaper. Fontdaily link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Naldi Studio (or: Naldy Studio)
[Riki Rinaldi]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these connected calligraphic typefaces in 2017: Ganitalia (condensed, formal calligraphy), Beruntung (upright script), Dandanga (upright), Pemberani (penmanship style), Saphira, Barokah, Angelisa, Lynelli, Badger, Charlie, Gabriella, Demanding, Knowledge, Melanie, Morinda. Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Namara Creative Studio (Collectype?)
[Eep Apringga]

Indramayu, Indonesia-based designer of the elegant signature typefaces Cristhyna Signature (2020), Callihgra (2020), Thrainly Sellier (2020), Limbathude Script (2020), and Qhueeny Signature (2020) and the calligraphic or script typefaces Chinthya, Shorin Bestie, Laughs Qhuan (upright) (2020), Sketch Crafty (2020), Rexland (2020), and The Oxcello (2020). Other fonts include the dry brush typefaces Boldace Brush (2020) and Be Wild Brush (2020), the monolinear sans typefaces Rogueland (2020, +Slab), Hamburge (2020), Micolesther (2020: organic), Chuterolk (2020: caps only), Angelika Playfull (2020), Arinttika (a signature script) (2020), Authorized (2020), Chinthya (a romantic script) (2020), Marchellia Sans (2020), Race Sport (2020), The Coastal (2020), Trellacote (bilined) (2020), and the tall sans Marbellya (2020, by Toni Setiawan).

Typefaces from 2021: Chelliond (an inky script), Fall in Love, Harland Roselyn, Revisthond, Qhitela Cruzh, Constaller (an inky script by Toni Setiawan and Eep Apringga), NCS Radhiumz (a wide sans in eight styles).

Typefaces from 2022: Collingethon (a signature script by Toni Setiawan and Eep Apringga).

Nanda Hardiansyah
[Nahar]

Nanda Putra Sukmayadi
[Strong]

Nandatype Studio

Indonesion designer of Dread (a vampire script) (2021), Legend (a display typeface) (2021), Cut Nyak Dhin (script) (2021), Khadijah (an inky script) (2021), Jebakan (a lively inky script) (2021), Mahdani (2020: a dry brush script), Khalisa (2020: inspired by a bird feather), Alishba (2020: script), Arshinta (2020: a brush script), Minda Script (2019) and Youra Script (2019: a formal calligraphic wedding script font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nantia
[Konstantina Louka]

Konstantina (Nado) Louka is a Ioannina, Greece and Luxembourg, Luxemburg-based illustrator. Designer of the vintage handcrafted Latin / Greek typefaces Luka (2015), Nadira (2015), Antio (an all caps hand-printed typeface) (2015), Nado (2015, brush font), and Nadirii Pro (2015), and the handcrafted typeface Evey (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Avae, Zanza, Miron, Nerres, Umy, Kold, Pagkaki (a stone-cut typeface), Muri (a fat finger font), Gluten Frei Script, Prokopis (tweetware, handcrafted), Kold, Oxya (a scratchy typeface), Melidia (a Latin / Greek brush script), True Mama (tattoo font).

Typefaces from 2017: Petit Nuage (a signature script), One Little Font (children's script), Supergal (casual brush), Roodo (dry brush), Lil Baby (Latin and Greek calligraphy), Takhie (brush), Fontryl (a monoline script), Chubby Font, Tavernaki, Blanc Seing (a signature font), Marilia Pro (connected script).

Typefaces from 2019: Nadoco, NF Nerres, NF Ananias, Lolotte (script), Noix (dry brush), NF Lukara.

Typefaces from 2020: Beiko, Le petit cochon, Cacographie, Aiolos, La Lou, Akakios, Dead Inside (a children's hand-printed font), Nadah, AMA, Stamnaki, Taio, Stamnaki, Farfelue, Nadira Pro, Okeanos, Petit Nuage v2.0.

Typefaces from 2021: Talonica (a monolinear signature script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nasrullah
[Sulthan Studio]

Nasruni Fajarita
[Tiny Hand Letter]

Klingspor link. MyFonts interview.

Natalia Kormina

Creator of several calligraphic alphabets in vector format in 2014 and 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Natalia Lee

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the calligraphic script typeface Staralfur Italic (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿

Natalia Vasilyeva

Natalya Vasilyeva (from Barnaul, Siberia) is a type designer, book designer and calligrapher, also engaged in editing, publishing, photography and computer design. She published these typefaces, which, unless explicitly mentioned, are all done at Paratype:

Adonis (2002). A 4-style text typeface. She added a major update, Adonis New, in 2021.
Adventure (2000). A calligraphic script.
Aelita (2014). A transitional typeface family.
Astrosym (2010, Paratype).
Barnaul Grotesk (2007): a humanist sans in 8 styles.
Barry Gothic (1996, TypeMarket), a Cyrillic extension of Adobe's Charlemagne (1989).
Bella.
Blick (2008, ParaType): a decorative sans.
Calendula (2017, Paratype). A very humanistic sans typeface family.
Cometa.
Crassula (2018). An organic sans.
Deca Sans (2010) and Deca Serif (2010). It was designed to be readable at small sizes, thanks to its low contrast. In 2017, she added Deca Serif New.
Elina and Elina Decor (2011). A graceful, decorative and calligraphic set of typefaces.
Emploi (2009: Emploi Travesti and Emploi Ingenue) is pure calligraphic pleasure.
Express (2001): a Cyrillic version of a brush typeface by the same name designed for Ludwig&Mayer in 1957 by Walter Hoehnisch.
Hortensia (2000). A calligraphic typeface.
Illusion (2019). A calligraphic typeface.
Iowan Old Style (2017, Paratype). This is the Cyrillic extension of John Downer's Iowan Old Style (1990, Bitstream).
Journal and Journal Sans Old School (2019), which is a modernized digital version of the widely popular (geometric) Journal Sans, which became famous via its use in Science and Life magazine of the 1960s.
Kudryashev.
Liana (1998, TypeMarket): a flowing script based on Lainie of Soft Horizons.
Lockon (2008, ParaType): a slightly curly hanprinted script.
Margon (2012, Paratype). This was a major contribution---a serif font family with a temperate design, i.e., small serifs, moderate contrast, and tiny roundings on the corners. The Margon font family consists of 18 members divided into 4 groups of different proportions with indices 360, 380, 400, 430.
Master Flo (2007): simulation of a broad-nibbed pen.
Melody.
Mirandolina (2008, ParaType): a freestyle serif typeface family in seven styles.
Mister Earl.
Motiv (2003, Paratype). A cursive calligraphic script for Latin and Cyrillic.
Muffin (2017, Paratype). A five-style soft and rounded humanistic low-contrast sans serif based on broad nib writing.
Nat Flight (2009, ParaType). A text family.
Nat Grotesk (2007, Paratype). A geometric sans family.
Nat Vignette (2000-2002): a great set of ornamental and border typefaces).
NataliScript (2000). A calligraphic script.
Orbi Sans (2011) and Orbi (2010).
Pallada (2008, ParaType) has the same genetic roots as Mirandolina but comes in only 4 styles.
Prospect (1997-2001).
Sans Rounded (TypeMarket, 1998): an extension of VAG Rounded.
Scientia (2016, Paratype): a neutral sans for scientific publications. In that same genre, she designed the 22-style text family Hyperon (2020, Paratype) for publications on mathematics and physics. Each font is loaded with about 1100 glyphs, including many symbols. All fonts cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
Selina (2007). A 9-style low-contrast modern type family.
Vesna. Zapf Elliptical 711.

View Natalia Vasilyeva's typefaces. Another listing of Natalia Vasilyeva's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Natalie Hoppe

Hamburg, Germany-based designer of a calligraphic text typeface in 2015 that is based on quill writing. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nate Piekos
[Blambot!]

Nathalie Tousnakoff

French calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nathan Williams
[Baseline Fonts]

Nathaniel Archer

Beautiful Tibetan calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nathatype
[Donis Miftahudin]

Nathatype (est. 2020) is one of the many foundries started by Donis Miftahudin (Gresik City, Indonesia), after Din Studio and Ditatype. Typefaces from 2020, all scripts or handcrafted: Mister Golden, Rainbow Lemonade, Hyollin, Sandy Pillow, Siriella, Stay Feeling, Beauty Miracle, Bright Winter, Coconut Candy, Dealistha.

Typefaces from 2021: Allonges (a flowing calligraphic script), Mint Smile (an elegant calligraphic script), Smooth Miracles (a flowing calligraphic script), Goldbugs, Mitters, Quaylike, Railing (a display typeface with calligraphic roots), The Marbler (a retro monoline script), Vintage Kingdom (retro signage script), White Block (a bold severe display typeface), Ballista Style (a signage script), Cagier (a very stylish display serif), Motion Taste (a scrapbook script), Blacktones (blackletter), Daily Smiles (script), Kalecius (blackletter), Milltown (blackletter), Verathrine, Northeast Oregon (script), Marteks (an 8-style simplified monolinear sans), Enjoy Doodle (an inky script), Quitos (a sharp-serifed typeface), Mirola (a fashion mag typeface with flared serifs and a stocky lower case t), Bavaria Gates (roman caps with some contrast), Cold Daylight (a creamy supermarket or signage script), Jotted Dream (a dry brush script), Fresh Roomettes (an inky script), Micfloral (a heavy upright supermarket script), Vikeys, Salt Debris (a creamy upright display typeface with possibly use in packaging), Ballon Midair (a dazzling inky script), Big Flask (a frilly display typeface), Staying Passionate (script), Embrown (all caps sans), Mostlatest (a vintage label font), Soft Cantle (a rabbit ear script), Vintage Bridge (a heavy monolinear script), Brighter Miracles (a tall rabbit ear script), Cravery (a hybrid of Victorian and art nouveau), Dracolas (Victorian), Lastones (a vintage all caps typeface), Monoline Fighter (a monolinear diner script from the 1950s), Vintage Feeling (a spurred retro script), Boosters (a spurred Victorian typeface), Western Brother (a Western font), Lost Cowboy (a spurred typeface), Bright Sunset (an inky script), Clean Fragile (a stylish serif), Real Magic (a stylish flared serif), Roashe (an all caps fashion font), Stealing Hearts (an inky script).

Typefaces from 2022: Barethelly Signature, First Marigold (font duo), Repath (a wide display serif), Bigcups (a rounded marker font), Crofelo Delight (a scrapbook script), Highpath Signature, Realistic Twilight (a scrapbook script), Walnut Cream (a scrapbook script), Castre (roman capitals), Billstone Signature, Glowing Midnight (a retro signage script), Hello Youthen (a retro signage script), Retrolife (a retro signage script), The Vintage Town (a retro signage script), Vintage Scripter (a retro signage script), Equity (a stylish serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Natural Ink
[Arif Gunawan]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1999) of the signage script typeface The Harley Queen (2019), the script typeface Lovely Thing (2019) and the calligraphic typefaces Hello Jasmine (2020: wild calligraphy), Andara (2020), Palmita (2019: wild calligraphy), Sunday Love (2019: wild calligraphy), Glittera (2019), Girly Night (2019), Alifia (2019: almost a wedding script with heart-shapred tittles) and Dongatta Story (2019), Mellow, Plug N Play, Kastella.

Typefaces from 2020: Pasta Italiano, Smith Catrine (an upright script), Allysa Daguise (a formal calligraphic script), Baby Mathya (calligraphic), Baby Mathya, Beauty Home, Humble Biglife, Dellyna Nathan, Gamelight, Sally Butter, Bully Gatte, Glitter Script, Rathalia, My Diarys, Have Fun Sunday, Babylove (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2021: Palm Belly (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Chalobah (a display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Naufal Paramata
[Young Type (was: Alpa Studio)]

ndroadv
[Hindra Permana]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the brush script typefaces Naira (2015), Noelan (2015: free at Pixel Surplus), Millet (2015, brush typeface family), Mochimochi (2015) and Mysera (2015), the vintage signage typefaces Naonweh and Naonweh Rough (2015), and the calligraphic script typeface Nafeeza (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Therion (Victorian), Rowo (dry brush script), Larquette, Pour Lavie, Explorado (children's book font family in Serif, Script, Sanserif and Dingbat styles), Brutus (Victorian, early art nouveau), Gloster (Script and Rustic styles), Noelan Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Naira Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Alinea (rough brush), Hui Boled (hand brush).

Typefaces from 2019: Morosyot (script), Laksana (script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Neelatype
[Juliana Thahir]

Indonesian designer of the formal calligraphic typefaces Fastline Script (2019: slightly retro and full of dash) and Moliani (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Juliana Dreams (a fat finger font), Black and Blue, Dafira (a fat finger font), Sremonia, Morgella Brush, Netavilla.

Typefaces from 2021: Baby Julia (a lively feel-good upright script), Yeasty (a monolinear script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Neil Caldwell

Manotick, Ontario-based designer of a calligraphic brush script (2007). He used my own Wahei (peace symbol dingbat face) in a sliding puzzle that will be carried by peace organizations worldwide. [Google] [More] ⦿

Neil Summerour
[Positype]

Nelson Script

Orphaned calligraphic script font, 1999. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nestype (was: Nest Studio)
[Yesaya Amnestian]

Founder of Nestype in 2018. Pemalang, Indonesia-based designer of Ruffin (2019: a tall script), Justicman (2019: a rounded sans), Sontiro (2019: a wild script), Battara (2019: script), Astro (2019: sci-fi), Hinata (2019, a signage typeface), Showdown (2018: octagonal), Aliyaa Script (2017, a yummy brush script) and Martin (2017). In 2020, he released Luffio (a brush script), Magazine (a text typeface), Harliy (a monolinear retro script), Affogato (wild calligraphy), and South (a script). In 2021, he designed Ginger Columbus (a decorative serif), Bugis (an all caps display typeface), and Vilaka (a decorative mini-wedge serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Chicago (a display serif), Quiny (a display or poster sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nevvada2

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typefaces Osella estin (2018), England (2018) and Glittering Script (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

newpx
[Michael Sharpe]

Michael Sharpe (UCSD) created newpx, a free font package at CTAN: This package, based on pxfonts, provides many fixes and enhancements to that package, splitting it in two parts---newpxtext and newpxmath---which may be run independently of one another. It provides scaling, improved metrics, and other options. For proper operation, the packages require that the packages newtxmath and pxfonts be installed and their map files enabled. The text package relies on an extension of the TeXGyrePagella Type1 fonts that is provided with this package. Note that TeXGyrePagella is a math and scientific text font based on Palatino. This package is meant to be a replacement for Young Ryu's pxfonts---a complete text and math package with roman text font provided by a Palatino clone, sans serif based on a Helvetica clone, typewriter typefaces, plus math symbol fonts whose math italic letters are from a Palatino Italic clone. [Google] [More] ⦿

newtx
[Michael Sharpe]

Michael Sharpe (UCSD) created newtx, a free font package at CTAN: This package, based on txfonts, provides many fixes and enhancements to the txfonts package, splitting it into two separate packages---newtxtext and newtxmath, which may be run independently of one another. It provides scaling, improved metrics, and other options. In particular, newtxmath offers a libertine option which substitutes Linux Libertine (provided with TeXLive and MikTeX) italic and Greek letters for the default Times letters, providing a good match for the Libertine text font, which is heavier than Computer Modern but lighter than Times, and in my experience, looks very sharp and clear on the screen. Newtxtt (2014) is a typewriter font subfamily. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ngene
[Wachid Ristiyanto]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of these vintage display and script typefaces in 2019: Crowlen Script, Boorani Thampil (+Script), Paradiso Script (signage), Almerian Script (monoline), Beastline Script, Fringland Script, Gorgeous Script, Gunstone Script, Harrison (Sans, Script, Illustration), Herschel (Sans, Script), Horseman (a monoline sans and script pair), Ironhead, Juliette (Sans, script), Milestone (retro signage script), Narmada (signage script), Portland (Sans+Script: monolined), Rampsey Script, Roosevelt, Shinola (script), Sultrans (Victorian, with ornaments), The Hometown.

Typefaces from 2020: Sanur, Eiutneck Script (psychedelic), Sceageus (a wavy display font), Emillont, Nolian script (calligraphic), Wentworth (vintage label font dup in Serif and Script versions), The Brone (a decorative display script), Sankes (a signage script).

Typefaces from 2021: Cartoen (a refinement of Horseman Sans), The Sgone. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nicholas Carvan

Designer of fonts at Garagefonts, including the sans serif font families Newt and Newt Monospace (1999). Nicholas is from Sydney, Australia.

FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nick Asphodel

Milan, Italy-based designer of the free brushy Hosp Script (2017) and the monoline script Calligro (2017). In 2020, he released the script typeface Lerof. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Calligraphic typefaces]

Nick Curtis: Calligraphic typefaces
[Nick Curtis]

Nick Curtis's foray into calligraphic typefaces, and penmanship.

His Nibs NF (2007) was inspired by an American roundhand presented by John M. Bergling in his Art Alphabets and Lettering, first published in 1914.
Shishka Bob NF (2005). Based on the calligraphy of Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring.

[Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nick Hill

Freelance designer in Bournemouth, UK. His graduation project in 2014 involved the creation of a calligraphic typeface. He also designed the circuit font CPU. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nick Stewart

Lettering artist. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nicolas Isfani
[Cotbada Studio]

Nicole Wong

Creator in San Francisco of the hand-lettered caps alphabet Pointer Rustic (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Nikola Kovanovic

Cyrillic font designer based in Serbia. His typefaces include Cirilica Pisana Nova D (2005: copperplate calligraphy), Nicoletta Script (2005: calligraphic), Jagodina (2004: an informal typeface), Azbuka03_D (2005: copperplate calligraphy), Brock Script_D (2005: swashy calligraphic), and Inspiration (2005: calligraphic script). Some of these fonts can be downloaded at Localfonts.eu. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nikolay Dubina
[D-Studio (Moscow)]

Nirmana Visual
[Sigit Dwipa]

Or Sgt. Nirmana. Denpasar, Bali-based designer (b. 1989) of the script typefaces Classy Beautiful (2018), Ballistick (2018), Britson (2018) and Absolute Neon Script (2018), the brush typefaces Raskhal (2018), Marker Brush (2018), Raskhal (2018) and Khalif Irsyad (2018), Halowen (sic) (2018), Corona (2018: Victorian), and Neon Absolute (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Sharoe (brush), Loveyou (script), Club Style (a fat finger font), Halentine (script), The Absolute, The Absolute Brush, The Prestige Signature, Helowen Monsta, Naibacarte, Jabetta, Antreh (a brush font), Mellurack, Laryo (script), Jokowi Prabowo, Ralisto (signature script), Urban Retro, Brashio, Diary Kidies, Bakusho (a dry brush typeface), Bigarus (a rough brush type), Summer Kidoza (a marker pen font), Rikabrush, Sabrva (free; hyper-ornamental, Victorian), Retroholic, Yavato (a great all caps dry brush), David Elika (brush type), Fatye (signature script), Hesrat (rough brush font), Angel Bilsh (a curly vampire font), Artistik (a painter's font), Brushot, Retro Type (post-psychedelic), Angel Brish, The Rustic (or Rusteak).

Typefaces from 2020: Retro Signature, Summer Magic, Lovely Girl, Gatkins (a signature script), Shettricka, Star Light, Rustgia (script), Kallisha, Gilas (wild calligraphy), Belagia (a sweeping script), Gelathy (script), Bentho (wild calligraphy), Playfull, Ramadhan (Arabic emulation font), Craft Holic, Awesome Brush, Blooms, Crafter, Hiromi (calligraphic), Sketchy.

Typefaces from 2021: Vako Mave (a display serif with a coathanger f), Airthay, Regist Bong (all caps, hand-drawn).

Typefaces from 2022: Handsta Signature, Retro Boldy (a vintage bold display serif accentuated by deep penetrating inktraps). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Nissa Nana (or: Nissa Studio)
[Novia Himatunnisa]

Bungo or Jambi, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1996, who specializes in wild calligraphy, and created many rabbit ear scripts. Designer of the marker pen typefaces Benito (2019), Jelly Sweets (2019) and Oswald (2019), and the sans typeface Goldberg (2019). These typefaces were published by Fahri Rizal's Fana Studio. Designer of the great script typefaces Hosbela (2019), Poppy Shower (2029), Michalina (2019), Kinsley (2019, wild calligraphic style), Ayalda (2019), Elmira (2019) and Giselle (2019). Other script fonts include Harelia (2019), Laila (2019), Boshela (2019), Alyanda (2019), Oh Beloved (2019), Franda (2019), Candid Style (2019: for signatures), Poppy Shower (2019), Laudiea (2019), Delisha (2019) and Belista (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Ballerose (script), Rosendenia (an upright rabbit ear calligraphic script with heart-shaped tittles), Michalena (a rabbit ear calligraphic script), Pieslay (a calligraphic script with heart-shaped tittles), Overlia (a wild script), Baisley, Clarista, Freelove, Delandia, Perisha, Rosaliana, Endenesilia, Madegola, Bailey, Belindia, Delara, Amadea, Belisha, Clara, Paisley, Domiland.

Typefaces from 2021: Merlynea (a tall condensed script), Andina (script), Aulletta (script), Esthetik Letter (a script), Butterline (script), Beauty Rose (a scrapbook script), Angellove, Golden Tale, Bellarosse, Yellow Sunflower (script), Massillo (handwriting), Bullvetti, Aulietta (wild calligraphy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

NK Studio
[Nurul Kamal]

Bereunuen, Indonesia-based type designer, b. 1999. Typefaces from 2021: Hello Sweetness Script (for scrapbooks), Lovely Brought Dreams Script (a scrapbook script), Rainbow (a Valentine's Day script), Rainbow (script), Baby Script (an upright script), Chellin (an upright calligraphic script), Hello Darling (an upright script), The Glester (an upright calligraphic script), Anjelia Script, Baby Live (a stylish script), Bitgette Script, Bridgeta (a curly formal calligraphic script), Derlina Script, Baby Sweet (a scrapbook script), Chigoda Script (a modern script), Cuttauri Script (a calligraphic script), Dona Doni Script (a scrapbook script), and Baby Gentha Script.

Typefaces from 2022: Glowing Shine (a scrapbook script), Blantone (an upright scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Noah Kinard

Red Lion, PA-based designer of a free set of vector format icons called Softee Icons (2013), and the commercial typefaces Avante (2014), Reeler (2014, with Mans Grebäck at Aring Type), Willow (2014, multiline neon tube font), Koil (2014), Nello (2014), Wear (2014), Chili (2014), Oil Field (2014, rounded sans), Stout (2014), Ale (2014), Indie (2014, outlined face), and Ale Pro (2014).

Typefaces from 2015: Urethane, Hijinx (rounded handcrafted sans caps typefaces), Mortyr Black (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2016 in his Tradesman series include Driver, Goblet (blackletter), Gallows (blackboard bold), Deere and Cordial. Together with Mans Grebäck at Aring Type, he designed the calligraphic typeface Melay Script (2016). Still in 2016, he designed the all caps sans typefaces Himalayan (pixelish), Makers Sans, Ale Ligs, Driver, Ranchero (modular), Golden Nugget, Frank, Frankie, Franklin and Graver, the rounded poster typefaces Creature, Cordial and Mill Smith, the connected script typeface Vivien, and the blackletter typeface Sandoval.

Typefaces from 2017: Starlite, Slab Sans, Slab Sans Stencil, Ironire (occult blackletter), Charter Sans, Blueberry Script (with Mans Grebäck), Dockhouse (rounded all caps sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Misty Forest (pixel font), Roses (8-bit pixel font).

Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Noah Type

Indonesia-based designer of these free script or display typefaces in 2021: Rage Soul, Jaillemon, Sharphorn, Killing Oni, Headsound. Their commercial catalog in 2021: Achilleas, Ackworth, Allston, Antropological, Anytime Soon, Arthur Dale, Atlanta Corner, Aussie House, Authoria, Awesome Girl, Back Green, Bandrek, Beauty Sleep, Blushie, Breathany Signature, BrotherGlow, Calliesha Signature, Camphill, Crumpled Letter, Cute Smile, Dillsburg City, Downstream, End Seconds, FreeStop, Game Play, Game Tricks, George Sight, Get Donuts, Getway, Graffiti, Grainold, Gravitation, Hair Comb, Happy Smile, Hareback, Harumi, Head Kick, Headsound, Heliolla, Hello Blushing, Hey you, Injustice, Inkstamp, Insightful, Inspace, Jackstay, Jaillemon Jhamesline, Kent Corner, KillingOni, Kingside Comic, Labella, Lasthour, Leaffuse, Letterman, Little Cartoon, Louis Violette Signature, Machington, Manchester Park, Marksville, Matrix Dots, Mountreal Vintage, Next Time, Nictha Calligraphy, Ordinary Man, Over Thinking, Peanuth, Portland Signature, Radstock, RageSoul, Richard Martha Signature, RollKing, Sandblaster, Saradiz, SharpHorn, She, Shut Down, Single Life, Single One, SkyMid, Somebody Else, Southport Signature, Staroff, Statesville, Sterous, Superstructural, Switch One, Tailstock, Terabite, The Orange, The Western, Thomson, Timothy Sign, Uniontown, Vaulcate, Velatus, Violableness, Waterflowers, Yakuza (a Japanese brush). [Google] [More] ⦿

Nofi Sofyan Hadi
[Heinzel Studio]

Nohamad Foda
[Fo Da]

Notes: a calligraphic journal

Noi Studio Crafts

Designer of Escucha Consuela (2018: a free font duo), Skyline Adventure (2018: font duo), Shallou (2018), Hugging Hippo (2018), Celeste (2018), Key West Script (2018), and Lenka (2018: brush calligraphy). [Google] [More] ⦿

Nonin Chowaney

Japanese calligraphy by Nonin Chowaney. [Google] [More] ⦿

Calligraphy news blog. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nova Type Foundry
[Joana Maria Correia da Silva]

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, who was born in Porto, Portugal. Joana worked as an architect and graphic designer in Portugal. She currently lives in the UK and/or Porto, Portugal. Since 2011, she teaches type design at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design).

In 2010, under the supervision of Dino dos Santos at ESAD, Joana designed an unnamed bastarda / chancery typeface that is based on originals by Francisco Lucas.

Creator of the script typeface Violet (2011).

Artigo (2011) is an angular type family for Latin, Hindi and Greek that was created during her studies at Reading. Artigo won Second Prize for Greek typefaces at Granshan 2011. It also won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. In 2017, Ndiscovered published Artigo Global and Artigo Pro. Artigo Display followed in 2018. In 2020, Nova Type Foundry republished Artigo, Artigo Display.

In 2012, she published the didone text typeface Cantata One at Google Web Fonts. Quando (Google Web Fonts) is a serifed text typeface inspired by brushy handwritten letters seen on an Italian poster from the second world war.

In 2013, at MSTF Partners, a Portuguese consultancy, she created Writers Font (2013). This is a script typeface by Joana Correia that combines the handwriting of famous Portuguese authors. For example the A is by José Luis Peixoto, the B by José Saramago and the C by António Lobo Antunes. Link with the story.

Still in 2013, she showed an unnamed unicase sans typeface and participated in the Canberra typeface competition.

In 2014, she made the round connected script typeface Jasmina FY (Fontyou), the Google Web Font Karma (for Latin and Devanagari: Karma is an Open Source multi-script typeface supporting both the Devanagari and the Latin script. It was published by the Indian Type Foundry; see also Open Font Library), and Canberra FY (at Fontyou: a short-serifed typeface family).

In 2015, Adrien Midzic and Joana Correia co-designed Saya Serif FY. Still in 2015, she published the humanist sans typeface family Vyoma at Indian Type Foundry. Amulya (2015-2021) is another humanist sans, now in 8 styles with two variable fonts, published by Correia at Indian Type Foundry's Fontshare.

In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the Latin / Tamil typeface Arima Madurai (free at Google Fonts). Their Arima Koshi (2016) covers Tamil, Malayalam and Latin.

In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the connected typeface Tidy Script at Indian Type Foundry.

In 2017, Joana published Laca Pro: Laca is a semi-sans serif inspired by retro Portuguese packaging of soaps. Laca is the Portuguese word for hairspray. Free download. Laca Text (2018) is a sans serif version of Laca. For Nova Type versions, see Laca (2019) and Laca Pro (2020). The latter versions cover Greek and Cyrillic as well.

In 2018, Joana published the soft script typeface Lemongrass: It was inspired by brush lettering and the sea and the strong winds that exist in Porto.

At Future Fonts, she released the didone typeface Alga (2019), in which ball terminals are replaced by genuflections.

She was the principal designer of the sans family Varta (2019, Sorkin Type), which is available from Google Fonts and Github. Assistance of Viktoriya Grabowska and Eben Sorkin.

Typefaces from 2020: Loretta (with Abel Martins; see also Future Fonts; Loretta is a low contrast text typeface that comes in 12 styles), Loretta (Future Fonts: a low contrast text typeface in 12 styles; by Joana Correia and Abel Martins).

Interview in 2021. Behance link. Another Behance link. Old home page. Joana Correia link at Behance. Future Fonts link. Type Department link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Novi Ananda
[Novi Souldado]

Novi Souldado
[Novi Ananda]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) of the copperplate calligraphic typeface NS Champtone (2019), the spurred Victorian Americana typeface NS Emhericans Vintage (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: NS Bullsmith (a Victorian typeface), NS Mudolf (a script/sans/serif vintage type package).

Typefaces from 2021: NS Gibswing (a spurred Victorian extravaganza, with a dingbat font that contains Victorian panels and flowers), NS Blackbooks Victorian, NS Lasttown (a penmanship script, and vintage capital and serif styles).

Typefaces from 2022: NS Deckpress (a layerable Victorian label font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Novia Himatunnisa
[Nissa Nana (or: Nissa Studio)]

NSW Foundation handwriting

Nowly Studios
[Irfan Nowly]

Medan, Indonesia-based designer of Vadelicia Script (2018), Equalizer Script (2018), Agelysha Script (2018) and Claudia Modern Script (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Night Weight Script (calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

NSW Foundation handwriting. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nug's Project
[Andrie Nugrie]

Bekasi, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) of the free script typeface Juvenile (2018) and the calligraphic script font Qyara (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Bellaville (script), Spellkid (a signage script), Harukaze (an oriental brush font), Greyfox (dry brush script), Arkania, Greathfella, Hey Brights, Brightside (weathered brush script), Fudelines, Seblaque (a dry brush script), Lunafreya (script), Heavenly Script, Reinata (script), Carrington (script), She Terror (brush font), Augustinne (script), The Lunatique (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Bittybite. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nur Khalidien

Indonesian designer in 2017 of these calligraphic typefaces: Indiana, Amalyara, Magnalia, Orlando. [Google] [More] ⦿

Nurkhalidien Al-Haas
[Khalidin Ink]

Nurul Fajri Redy
[Redy Studio (or: Nfajri Redy)]

Nurul Hidayani
[Olive Type]

Nurul Kamal
[NK Studio]

Nyapa Tanzil
[Damelev Studio (was: Logo Labs, Tanziladd, Rawi Project)]

View Cyrus Highsmith's typefaces.

Occupant Fonts
[Cyrus Highsmith]

Senior designer at Font Bureau since 1997, after graduating that year from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born in Milwaukee, WI, he now is a faculty member at RISD, where he teaches typography in the department of Graphic Design. He regularly offers a summer course on Digital Type Design, Summer Institute of Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design. His sketchbooks are now on line. In 2016, he set up Occupant Fonts as part of the Type Network.

In September 2017, Morisawa announced the establishment of "Morisawa Providence Drawing Office" in Providence, RI, as its new base for developing Latin fonts. Cyrus Highsmith, who had served as a designer for Font Bureau for many years, and who started Occupant Fonts in 2015, has been appointed as its creative director. By this move, Morisawa acquired Occupant Fonts.

Author of Inside Paragraphs, written for a foundational typography course. Matthew Carter writes: Cyrus Highsmith takes the lid off a paragraph of type and shows its inner workings. There is nothing you need to understand about using type that's not in this book. Cyrus explains the correct terms for the typographic components of form and space that make a letter, a word, a line, a paragraph, and he does it with clear drawings, simple language, and a legible typeface for the text.

Interview at MyFonts.

Cyrus created wonderful typefaces such as Loupot (1997, with Laurie Rosenwald, based on the lettering on Charles Loupot's St. Raphael poster from 1948), Eggwhite (2000-2018, for comics), Relay (2002, a somewhat art deco sans serif family that will be in vogue for years to come!), Benton Sans (1995-2003, with Tobias Frere-Jones, a revival of Benton's 1903 family, News Gothic; see also Benton Sans Wide, 2013), Occupant Gothic (2000-2018, angular), Prensa (2003, a simple 24-style serif family), Prensa Display (2012), Dispatch (1999-2000), Halo (2003), the 12-weight Stainless family (2001), and Daleys Gothic (1998). The Wall Street Journal uses his D4ScotchD4Scotch family (2001). He made a modified Palatino for the newspaper El Mercurio, and designed Zocalo or El Universal for the newspaper El Universal. He won Bukvaraz 2001 awards for Prensa and Relay.

His Amira (Font Bureau) and (Spanish-feeling) Zocalo (Font Bureau) won awards at TDC2 2004.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the wealth of typefaces. In 2006, Escrow (Font Bureau) was published, an out-of-this-world 44-style subdued Scotch family that is used by The Wall Street Journal. In 2007, still at Font Bureau, he created Antenna, a 56-style sans family, as well as Biscotti, a delicate connected (wedding) script commissioned in 2004 by Gretchen Smelter and Donna Agajanian for Brides magazine.

His calligraphic copperplate script Novia (2007, Font Bureau) was commissioned to grace the pages of Martha Stewart Weddings.

Still in 2007, he won an award for his newspaper type family Quiosco (Font Bureau). Font Bureau writes: With Quiosco, Cyrus Highsmith continues an examination of themes and possibilities which he first explored in Prensa, inspired by the work of W. A. Dwiggins---specifically a dynamic tension between inner and outer contours. However, the crackling, electrical energy of Prensa here gives way to a more fluid, mercurial muscularity in Quiosco. See also Quiosco Display.

In 2006, he designed Scout for Geraldine Hessler's redesign of Entertainment Weekly, under the influence of DIN, Venus and Cairoli. Scout is a utilitarian sans serif series that was followed in 2013 with Scout RE---four styles optimized for screen text and small sizes in print. In 2016, he added Scout Text.

In 2010, at Font Bureau, he published the extensive families Ibis Text and Ibis Display, which he says were influenced by Walbaum (1919) and Melior (1952). The Webtype version IbisRE is poorly kerned / displayed in my browser though. From 2007 until 2010, he developed Salvo Sans and Salvo Serif (Font Bureau), which were originally called Boomer Sans and Serif. They were released in 2011.

In 2012, he published Serge (an angular script family in three styles: a frisky, acrobatic typeface that dashes off decorative blurbs, signs, and headlines with a lively, angular zest), Heron Sans and Heron Serif at Font Bureau, which writes: Heron Serif and Sans are born of hard iron and steel, but galvanized with Cyrus Highsmith's warmth and energy.

In 2013, he published Icebox at Font Bureau---a font that is based on a set of magnetic letters found at a variety store.

Typefaces from 2014: Tick and Tock, two stencil styles.

Typefaces from 2015: Antenna Serif.

Typefaces from 2016: Gasket, Gasket Unicase, Gasket Uncial.

Typefaces from 2017: Allium.

Typefaces from 2018: Allium Text.

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Don't design web fonts Its theme is: The successful type series of the future will be the ones that can move between media. He says that new typefaces should be smarter than the devices that use them.

In 2015, he received the coveted Gerrit Noordzij Prijs. His illustrations were the subject of an exhibition and a book, both called Products Of A Thinking Hand (Typotheque / KABK, 2018).

Klingspor link. FontShop link. MyFonts interview. Old Font Bureau link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

OCS Studio
[Oki Candra Setiawan]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1995, of the squarish typeface Sabuga (2019), the brush script typeface Gtoles (2018) and the script typefaces Langrish Script (2019), Langrish Sans (2019: a monoline marker pen font), Endolitta (2019), Broetown Signature (2019), Another Scream (2019) and Amboeng (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Marborn (a baseball script), Jhoiboy (a brush script), Chorettan, Spandam (an upright monoline script), Brownie Girly, Quindelia (a calligraphic script), Jennifer Ellis, Broetown Signature.

Typefaces from 2021: Tamarind Brush, Scratchedman, Hanifah (a heart-themed script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Octotype
[Maelle Keita]

Octotype, or Octopus, is another venture of French designer Maelle Keita / Thomas Boucherie. Creator of the connected script typefaces Monte Cristo (2017), Making The Quality (2017), Malibu Babylon (2017), The Blacklist (2017), Gentlemanly (2017), Barbershop in Thailand (2017), Speciality of Rodrigues (2017), Signature of the Ancient (2017), Atlantic Bentley (2017), Dopestyle (2017), Christmas in Finland (2017), Fortunates December (2017), Enlighten Your Destiny (2017), School Production (2017), Stardust Adventure (2017), Calypsoka (2017), Delightful (2017), Langoustine (2017), Tastysushi (2017), Berstlovers (2017), Lovely Quotes (2017), Mysterious Lovers (2017), Libertinage (2017), Sanctuary Playground (2017), Quicksilver (2017, dry brush), Absolute (2017), Afterschool Festival (2017), Beautiful Fascination (2017, dry brush script), Magnificent Supernatural (2017), Picture of the Romantic (2017), Midnight Valentine (2017), Voice of the Highlander (2017), Goldfinger Kingdom (2017), Moonlights on the Beach (2017), Lights of the Stardust (2017), Walking in Sunlight (2017), Beautiful Creatures (2017), Le Secret de la Guilde (2017), Sensations & Qualities (2017), Birth of the Furious (2017), Washington Basketball (2017), Sabre du Rhinoceros (2017), Snowboarding Only (2017), Captain Redemption (2017), Les Mousquetaires (2017), Snowboarding (2017), Midnight Street (tattoo style), Albondigas (2017), Melancholight (2017), Amontillados (2017, signage), Amontilladios(2017), Boulevard Saint Denis (2017), Labyrinthe du Paradis (2017), Hirondelle des Alpes (2017) and Blanche de la Fontaine (2017).

Other typefaces include Jackyshow (2017), Cartoon Sketch (2017), The Chiquitas (2017), Confidentiality (2017), Shanghai Ghost (2017), Dont Flick In The Wood (2017), Light of the Mermaid (2017), Unicorn in Paradise (2017, dry brush), Do Not Disturb (2017, dry brush), Love Brings Freedom (2017), Legend of the White Lion (2017, rounded sans) and Dancing Jungle (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Dirty Bitch, Elegancia Romantica, Chocolate Flavor, Night of the Dragon, Romantic Beach, Generation September, Dancing in the Beat, Congratulation Folding, Hypnotica, Mathilda in Wonderland (formal calligraphy), Madame Cosmetics, Savour Pinacolada, Dumpling, Optimal Solutions, Atlantis The Lost City, Confidential Document, Weekend On The Mountains, Another Day In Paradise, Legendary Hollywood, Walking in the Street, Chocolatines, Something in the Night, The Matchmaker, Avenue du Vapoteur, Chocolatine du Dimanche, Rainmaker in the Shadow, The Blacksmith, After Night, Magic Candy, Beauty and the Dutch.

Typefaces from 2019: Charming Strangulation, Chiennes Stimulantes, Contemplation.

Typefaces from 2021: Black Rocket, Helena Johnsmith.

Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Odies Dwi Yudhistira

Type designer in Java, Indonesia, who published his typefaces at the type coop Qwrtype Foundry. In 2021, Suhery Anto and Odies Dwi Yudhistira co-designed the calligraphic typeface Holdywood and the script typefaces Elmimore (a monoline script), Bumblemilk (a children's book font), Donnabold (monoline script), Spearmint, Pear Amigo, Earthroline, Mochaberry and Stalshine. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Oghie Novianto
[Giemons]

Oguzhan Cengiz
[Hurufatfont Type Foundry]

Oh Type
[Nach Oh]

Nach Oh (Oh Type) is a type designer and illustrator from Medellin, Colombia, who is now based in Melbourne, Australia. Nach's real name is Hernan Toro (b. 1986, Copenhagen, Denmark), according to one page. On another page, Nach Oh seems to be a woman. Let's call him/her Hernan.

Hernan's typefaces include NOH Squadra (2014, a poster typeface with calligraphic elements), Spina (2013, a spurred tattoo script), Green Raven (2011), Railham GW (a slab serif inspired by railraod tracks), NOh Green Raven (2013), and Carbone (2013, techno, advertised as a mafia font).

In 2014, he designed False Widow.

In 2015, he made the free Western inline typeface Rancho. In 2016, Nach Oh designed the sans typeface family Modesta.

The modular typeface Mast (2017) is free.

In 2018, he published the bilined logo and titling font Playmax.

Behance link. Purchase the fonts at The Liars. Another Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ojes Studio
[Fauzi Hidayat]

Fauzi Hidayat (Ojes Studio, Banda Aceh, Indonesia) designed the connected calligraphic typefaces Veloce (2016), Orlando (2016, signage brush script), Orlando Sans Serif (2016), The Singet (2016), A Loving Light (2016) and Flamboyan (2016), the script typefaces Merciful (2016), Mowgli Script (2016), Mr. Dakota (2016: quite nice and consistent) and Bluelight (2016), the dry brush fonts Wokeh (2016), Siegfried (2016) and Surprise (2016), and the connected brush script typefaces Black Stone (2016), Sechan (2016) and Cemporeng (2015). His studio is called Pakem.

Typefaces from 2017: Stay Cool, Marline, Yellow Petals (dry brush), Adventure, Diamond, Author Style.

Typefaces from 2018: Red Fog, Play Glyphs.

Typefaces from 2019: Michelin Light (a great thin monoline script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ojimstudio

Designer of the script typefaces Yullya Script (2018) and Sweety (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Okaycat
[Luke William Turvey]

Takamatsu, Japan-based design division of The LOLO, a content creation company, which was established in 2006. Luke William Turvey (b. London, Ontario, 1978) who lives in Japan started out with street murals but is doing digital work now. His early fonts include Giacinta Ornate (2008, a lovely bastarda), Parabrite (2008, techno), Stefani EHYO Sans Rounded (2008, a clean geometric sans), Antikka (2008, art deco), Calisso (2008, experimental), LOLO Dingcats (2008), Clementine (2008: artsy serif), Okaytext (2008, a fashionable geometric sans in the style of Bernhard Fashion), Okay Cursive (2008, an upright connected script), Okay Crayon (2008), Okay Paint (2008), Japanese Brush Master (2008), Tag Banger (2008, graffiti font), Bapalopa (2008, more graffiti), Hive Mind (2008, nuts and bolts look), Trees of Africa (2008, dings), 3D Fantablock Beveled (2008), Shababa (2008, shadow font), LOLO Animals (2008), LOLO City (2008, inner city dingbat face), LOLO Cursive (2008, curly handwriting), Japoneh (2008, a great oriental-look drippy paintbrush font).

In 2009, Okaycat published Arco Crayon (blackboard writing, but also a lipstick font), 3D Blocky (with Natsuko Hayashida), Carbon Neutral, Hand Writing OC, Okay Cotton, Hand Cursive, Stitch Cursive, Antique Dubplate, Porto (rough calligraphic), Brush Writing OC, Nouveau Rock (engraved), Shababa, 3D Techno, Stefani EHYO (4-style geocratic sans), Japanese calligraphy poster. With Natsuko Hayashida, he did Rustic Stamp (grungy).

Fonts from 2010: Uncertainty (grunge), CASU Aerospatiale (an etched 3d font family), Geodot (a dot matrix face), Zampichi (a video game font family), Country Charm (Natsuko Hayashida: a dingbat face), The Inlines No Inlines (Natsuko Hayashida: a black rounded minimalist sans), CC Angular (Turvey: an octagonal typeface that comes with an outlined and shaded style), Pentastic (hand-printed), Candy Cursive (a monoline connected script).

Typefaces made in 2011: Okay-A (this font lets one make 3D letters that look to be fastened down with screws), Teselka (a 3d outlined shadow face), Joopica (a casual typeface created together with Natsuko Hayashida).

Typefaces made in 2012: Meksa (techno).

In 2013, he created Pixapp Inter (a pixel face).

Typefaces from 2014: Maple Street (a vintage wood type emulation typeface done with Natsuko Hayashida), Nunooska (a medium-heavy rounded sans).

View Luke William Turvey's typefaces. View the Okaycat typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Oki Candra Setiawan
[OCS Studio]

Oksana Petrenko
[Calamar Art (or: Calamar Studio)]

Olcar Alcaide
[Eurotypo]

Old Script

Orphaned calligraphic script font. [Google] [More] ⦿

Old Studio (or: Analogous Studio)
[Muhammad Ilham]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1987) of the script typefaces Alexander (2018), Anastasia Script (2018), Workside Slant (2018), Workside Script (2018), Latte Coffee (2018), Dealove Script (2018), Samantha (2018: signature font), Paula Eva Script (2018), Gallactica (2018), Entopia (2018), Le French (2018: a free thin monoline script), Mallino Monoline (2018), Allamanda Monoline (2018), Kimberly (2018) and Drinkwater (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Radiohead, Gayatri (a Victorian font), Nicole Script (wild calligraphy), Mahony (a formal script), Dreamer, Patricia Script, Evelyne Script, Ramsey Signature, Matthiola, Aquilland (a condensed script), Aquilland Sans, Dalmanti (roman caps), Handlove (calligraphic), Martina, Hurringtown Script (a creamy signage script), Cutyle Monoline Script, July It (a signature font), Fabulous.

Typefaces from 2020: Samant (a thin script), Bulliandry (calligraphic), Scoutdale, Alathenas Signature, Anastalia Script, Mikazora, Strasbourg (a signature script), Incredible, Gerromono, Dominisme, Stephanie (script), Nattalie (a monoline script), Jena&Gula, JellyBean, Mellowdy (calligraphic), Olivias (script), Millatyna, Demian, Thinkloud (brush script), Sun Gold, Larssonia (a signage script), Kangchen (a signage script), Ramsey (a signature script).

Typefaces from 2021: Analogous Script (a weathered script).

Creative Fabrica link. Fontdraft link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Oleksii Chekal

Kharkiv, Ukraine-based calligrapher. Designer of a Georgian calligraphic typeface in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

Olexs Studio (was: Rabbit Type, Mr. Rabbit, and Olex Studio)
[Firman Syah]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of Hellvina Hand Script (2015), Samitha Script (2015), Tynabella Script (2015), Silliza (2015), Aprillia (2015), Freenight (2015, watercolor brush), Samuella Script (2015), Seilla (2015, calligraphic), Ricca (2015, calligraphic), Love Sania (2015), Shizuka Brush Script (2015), Nella Script (2015), Beauty Atok Script (2015, connected and calligraphic in the style of a ronde), Allea Script (2015), the bubblegum typeface Monster Jelly (2015), the brush script typefaces Layla (2015, in Painted and Brush styles), Anggie (2015), Jailheart (2015), Sweet Delia Hand (2015), Stella Script (2015), Thunder Script (2015), Rachel (2015), Wendi (2015) and Rat Black Painted (2015). He also made the handcrafted typefaces Kingfont Script (2015), Asraf Kids (2015) and Obama Hand Lettering (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Himdath (script), Fighter (brush script), Mothica Script, Like Bandits Ink Script, Risthi Script, Redlight (dry brush script), Suthejo, Fredly, Flitte Script (connected and calligraphic), Nightgirls Script (brush script), Romero Script, Love Time Script, Seilotta (brush script), Angellight Beauty Script, Amylight, V Agnes, Valentine Agnes, Allita Script, Hello Bethy (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Monttassic, Madrid Castilla (brush script), Stealing Heart, Mahligai Script (calligraphic), Southside (signage script), Klibeuth Script, Hangtuah Script, Comichate, New Aprillia Script, Bigtedy Script, Raditya, Raditya Comic.

Typefaces from 2018: Winter Frost (SVG font), Lisa Angel (a great comic book font), Ray Signature, Light Shutter (SVG brush font), The Magnitude, Outside, Natsuki, Nettizen (dry brush), Beatles Culture.

Typefaces from 2019: Keith, Magliette (signage script), Bad Cats (script), Mallica Fairytale (a free beatnik font), Pristyne (a heavy script).

Typefaces from 2020: Renda (a warm serif), Stay Home Script, Rastell.

Typefaces from 2022: Rodentia (a scrapbook script), Abine (a spurred script (a spurred script), Gastone (a dry pen script), Monest (in the Windsor genre), Montells (a children's book font), Rojallie (a bold monolinear script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Olga Ktitorova
[Triple Hely (or: Iris Letters)]

Olga Zakharova
[Favete Art]

Olga Zolothukina

Illustrator and calligrapher in Moscow, who created several ornamental alphabets in 2013 such as Matches and Chelobooki. [Google] [More] ⦿

Olive Type
[Nurul Hidayani]

Indonesian type designer. In 2021, he designed Light Fun (informal caps), Cheesy Broccoli, Klay (a rough font), Smart Play (script), Space Walk (script), Noble Jungle (a wild brush script), Vicka (a scrapbook script), Thrilla (brush script), Lovely Emily, Thierry (handwriting), Big Black Scar (a dry brush graffiti font), Brutal Honesty (a bold brush font), Painted Sky (script), Soulfunk (a dry brush font), Brutal Honesty (a ferocious brush font), Klarise (a bold brush font), Open Book (a swinging script), Lowkey, Strongly (a dry brush font), Kersa (a great brush script by Aldy Sidik and Nurul Hidayani), North Bridge (an all caps brush font), Wolf Paul (a thin and wild script), Bledso (a brush script), Mieke (a brush script), Wild Story (a monolinear script), Boriel (a brush script), Jossie (a bold calligraphic brush script), Best Ever (a dry brush script), Hametts (a dry brush script), Fruit Syrup, Hot Cup Cake (a wild script), Sans Anger (a stressed out hand-printed typeface), She is Mine, Sub Train, Always Believe, Cake Store (a creamy scrapbook font), Zero To Hero (a brush font), Sidney + Claire (a calligraphic script), The Best Smile (a fat finger font), Crypton Ink (a rough bold crayon font), Shirt + Tie, Sparkling and Sunbreak (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Sterling Park (a fat finger font), Summer Cliff House (an all caps vernacular typeface), Blistering (a dry brush font), Red Sauce (a fat finger font), Sunday Ride (a rough brush typeface), Clever Medicine (a marker pen font), Roaming Around (a brush font), Bellboy (a scrapbook script), Skillwize (a playful bold poster typeface by Aldy Sidik and Nurul Hidayani), Big Neo (a vernacular all caps typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Oliver Linke
[Lazydogs Type foundry]

Olivera Stojadinović
[Typolis (Serbian version)]

Olivia Theresa
[Caoca Studio (or: Heroglyphs)]

Onetype Co (or: Myster Oneart)

Omar Type
[Muhammad Zuhair Albazi]

Arabic type foundry. Typefaces include Muhammad Musa Albazi Naskh and Zuhair Albazi Naskh. They specialize in true calligraphic Tatweel typefaces.

Muhammad Zuhair Albazi is based in Lahore, Pakistan. He made the Naskh font Musa Albazi Naskh (2009). He also created Adobe Naskh. His main Arabic typeface to date is Zuhair Albazi Naskh, an advanced OpenType Arabic typeface, which is based on the Ottoman manuscript. He writes: This unique typeface contains an unmatched range of features known from the Arabic script. It is not merely a font but an ultimate typesetting and design tool for the Arabic script in classic Naskh style, with letters variants and calligraphic styles, specifically developed to take advantage of the extensive functionality for Naskh Arabic typography. The typeface allowd many controls such as shape alternates, space adjustments, mark placements, and swashes. Two very special features: Calligraphic Naskh kashida (Tatweel) upto three levels of elongations, so the Kashida distribution and frequence can be precisely controlled to create Arabic calligraphic documents without a calligrapher; thousands of kerning pairs for the fine adjustment of letters specially after Raa, Zaa, Waw and before Kaaf.

In 2017, he published Omar Naskh and writes: Omar Naskh is an amazing Naskh font having full Unicode support for Arabic script till Unicode version 9.0. The font covers all the languages of Arabic Script like Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Kazakh, Uyghur, Punjabi, Khowar (Chitrali), Malay (Jawi), Balochi, Brahui, Kurdi (Kurdish), Kashmiri (Koshur), Kirghiz, Ozbek, Turkmen and Gawri (Kalami). [Google] [More] ⦿

Omega Type Foundry
[Toshi Omagari]

Toshi Omagari is a Japanese type designer who grew up in Fukuoka and studied typography and type design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. After graduating in 2008, Toshi taught graphic design in Fukuoka. He joined the University of Reading in the summer of 2010 and graduated in 2011. He is a type designer at Monotype.

His graduation typeface Marco (<2011), which is named after Marco Polo, covers Latin, Mongolian, Greek, and Cyrillic, and has sans and serif versions. Inspiration for Marco goes back to Italian humanist typography such as those of Nicholas Jenson or Aldus Manutius, and general influences from calligraphy. Marco is a true superfamily, with wide utility and superb legibility---not surprisingly, it won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. The text styles were professionally produced in 2015 by Type Together in 2015---each style has over 1900 glyphs.

His chancery hand typeface Tangerine (2010) is part of the Google font directory (for free web fonts).

Typefaces from 2013: Metro Nova (Linotype: a sans family with a strangely circumcised lower case f). Metro Nova won an award at TDC 2014.

Typefaces from 2014: Neue Haas Unica and Neue Haas Unica Pan European. A digital update of the Helvetica alternative Haas Unica, which was originally released in 1980 by the Haas Type Foundry for phototypesetting.

In 2015, he made Cowhand (Monotype: a Western typeface). All words typed in Cowhand are of equal width, whether they contain one character or twenty (the maximum the font allows).

For Monotype, he made the custom typeface Quentin Blake (2016) that emulates the irregular handwriting of Sir Quentin Blake, acclaimed illustrator of Roald Dahl's novels.

In 2017, Toshi Omagari designed the Wolpe Collection for Monotype, all based on Berthold Wolpe's distinctive typefaces: Wolpe Pegasus, Wolpe Tempest, Wolpe Fanfare, Sachsenwald (blackletter: a revival of Berthold Wolpe's Sachsenwald from 1936), Albertus Nova.

In 2018, Linda Hintz and Toshi Omagari published the large geometric sans typeface family Neue Plak that revives and extends Paul Renner's Plak (1928).

Nadine Chahine and Toshi Omagari collaborated with Akira Kobayashi and Monotype Studio on Avenir Next Arabic (2021).

At his own foundry, Omega Type, he released these typefaces in 2021: Klaket (a bold and monolinear Arabic display typeface that was inspired by classic Egyptian film posters in a free form Ruqah style), Platia (a modern revival of the 19th century font Hellenic Wide).

At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he spoke about Mongolian scripts. At ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo, he revealed his research on the Siddham (post-Brahmian). Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on BubbleKern (a new kerning algorithm). Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal on Sini: Arabic calligraphic styles from the Far East.

Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. I Love Typography link. Google Plus link. Interview by MyFonts in 2022. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Indramayu, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) of these script typefaces in 2018: Southampton Script, Dillanda Caligraphy Script (sic), Penny Script, Pameela, Haura, Killer Bee, Minory Script, Havana. [Google] [More] ⦿

Onyx Font Foundry
[Dondon Nillo]

Dondon Nillo (Quezon City, The Philippines, b. 1983), or just Don Nillo, created the ornamental typeface Tribou (2013) and the techno typefaces Aposiopesis and Aposiopesis Condensed (2013).

Typefaces from 2014: Sufrimeda (techno style), Signarita Chloe (sic: an unconnected calligraphic script), Dancing Juice, Dancing Juice&Salabat, Signarita Zhai (a great connected cursive script).

Typefaces from 2015: Signarita Anne (formal calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2018: Andor, Makayla (trilined), Katkat Scrambled (children's font), Signarita Louisse (sic) (signature font).

Devian Tart link. Dafont link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Open Window
[Dathan Boardman]

Dathan Boardman (Open Window) is an American type designer who lives in Eau Claire, WI, and was born in 1979. He went to UW Stout to get his BFA in Graphic Design.

Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Fontsquirrel link. Google Plus link.

His typefaces:

Afternoon Tea (2010), an art deco typeface that is inspired by a lettering specimen featured in Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring published in 1938.
Art Club (2013) and Art Club Roman (2014).
Backlash (2015, Molly Jacques Erickson and Dathan Boardman). The next step in gonzo splatter lettering scripts.
Baseline Script (2013). A thin-lined upright script.
Caesar Dressing Pro (2011). A Greek simulation / stone chisel face.
Calla Script (2017). By Molly Jacques and Dathan Boardman.
Calligraffitti (2010). Free at Google Fonts.
Clarendon Paint (2010).
College Dropout (2010): a sketch typeface based on athletic lettering glyphs.
Coming Soon and Calligraffiti (2010): free fonts at the Google Font Directory. The Pro versions are commercial.
Cowboy Stories (2013).
Deco and Deco Hatched (2010): art deco headline typefaces.
Distinction (2020). A script released by Great Lakes Lettering.
Doriss Girls (2013). A marquee typeface family.
Farm Girl (2011). A hand-printed face.
Gold Diggin (2011) hearkens back to posters from the Gold Rush Era.
Grannys Greenhouse (2019). A beatnik font by David Cohen and Dathan Boardman).
Hand of Joy (2011) is a thin connected script face.
Headbanger (2012). A heavy metal album cover font.
Jacky Hand. Based on the handwriting of a 6-year old child.
Liquor Store (2019).
Metal Mania (2012). A spurred heavy metal band font, free at Google Web Fonts.
Miniver Pro (2011) and Miniver Air Raid Pro (2012) are based on the titling for the 1942 movie Mrs. Miniver.
Pen Swan (2016).
Raindrop (2017). A flirty handcrafted typeface family for editorial illustration.
Rifleman (2012) is a painted wide-slabbed typeface.
Shag Script (2011). Was this renamed Shrag Script?
Sketchura (2011) is a sketch face.
Skyline Hotel (2014).
Some Assembly (2012). A rounded organic sans family.
Spur Rust (2011) is a disheveled take on the spicy classic Hellenic Wide.
Undercoat (2011). A painted version of Helvetica.
Velvet Hammer (2014). A calligraphic script co-designed with Jen Maton.
Wide Noise (2010) is grungy.

Great Lakes Lettering in Eau Claire, WI, showcases the type designs of Dathan Boardman and Molly Jacques Erickson. They jointly designed the illustrative handwriting font Frosted in 2012. In 2013, they co-designed the hand-drawn typefaces Saint Agnes and Icing, and the script typeface Kailey (2013).

View Dathan Boardman's typefaces. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Opry Type 85

Indonesian designer of the swashy and mostly formal calligraphic typefaces Bunglon (2019), Ballesha (2019) and Anggika (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ornamental Penmanship --Yahoo

Online Yahoo group on penmanship. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ornamental Prints

Many images from the vaults of the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, UPM Prag and MAK Wien. In German. Many 16th through 19th century books were partially scanned in for everyone's enjoyment. [Google] [More] ⦿

Orson Lowell

American artist in New York, 1871-1956. He studied with the well-known anatomist, J. H. Vanderpoel, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. He moved from Chicago to New York in 1893. Known for the richness of his work in pen and ink, he drew in 1898 fifty illustrations for The Choir Invisible. By 1907, he was employed at Life magazine, at that time a humor publication competing with Judge and Punch. At Life magazine, he contributed pen and ink cartoons and color covers. He also provided art for American Girl, American Boy, Judge, Century, McClure's, Scribner's, Collier's, Puck and Success. Renowned for his humorous pen and ink work. A set of capitals drawn by him. Picture of the artist. [Google] [More] ⦿

Oscar Ogg

Twentieth century book designer and calligrapher, b. Richmond, 1909, d. 1971. Ogg was an architecture graduate of the University of Illinois in 1931. The New York Times writes: He won recognition as one of the outstanding graphic artists of his time. His first book, Alphabet Source Book, published in 1940 by Harper, was a copy book of lettering styles. The 26 Letters, published by Crowell in 1948, a history of the alphabet from cave drawings to contemporary type fonts, was illustrated by 275 of his drawings.

For Photolettering in New York, he designed these typefaces: Ogg Folio, Ogg Irish Uncial, Ogg Roman 3 and 4, Ogg Italic 3 and 4, and Ogg Semi Uncial. Digital revivals include Ogg (2013) by Lucas Sharp. Sharp's Ogg is a fashion mag typeface loosely inspired by the hand lettering of Oscar Ogg.

Lucas Sharp's Salter Roman (2021) is based on two designs penned by Oscar Ogg in 1942. The first is his title page design for Design & Paper No.11 (Marquardt & Company, New York); the second is his design for Gates of Aulis (Gladys Schmitt, The Dial Press, New York) that same year. The former became the basis for the lowercase, while the latter informed the uppercase. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ostad Saeed Mohammad Ehsaei

Iranian master calligrapher, known for many intricate Farsi logotypes and calligraphic paintings. [Google] [More] ⦿

Oswald Bruce Cooper

Influential designer and type designer, motivated by beautiful advertising type (b. Mountgilead, Ohio, 1879, d. Chicago, 1940). Picture. He was angry at Goudy for his Goudy Heavyface (1925), which resembles Cooper Black a bit too much (check this 2002 video). MyFonts link. Cooper died of cancer. His typefaces include:

The well-known Cooper family done at Barnhart Brothers&Spindler: Cooper (1918-19), Cooper Stencil (1921), Cooper Black (1922; Linotype version, acquired from Barnhart Brothers&Spindler in 1924 by Schriftguß AG in Dresden; Elsner&Flake version; other versions exist by ParaType, Bitstream, Scangraphic, Mecanorma, Adobe, and URW++), Cooper Italic (1924), Cooper Old Style (1919), Cooper Initials (1925), Cooper Hilite (1925), Cooper Black Condensed (1926), Cooper Black Italic (1926), Cooper Fullface (1928). Bitstream offers an 11-style Cooper family. Cooper Black made it to American Typefounders (ATF). One of the original drawings for Cooper Fullface was rejected by ATF but digitally revived by Nick Curtis in 2008 as Ozzi Modo Plump NF and Ozzi Modo Squooshed NF in 2008.
Ian Lynam revived many styles from 2010-2013, under names such as Cooper Old Style, Cooper Initials, Cooper Italic, Cooper Fullface Italic. Lynam writes: Cooper OldStyle is the result of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler type foundry representatives Richard N. McArthur and Charles R. Murray having met with Oswald Cooper and his business partner Fred Bertsch in 1917. Due to other commercial design firms adopting Cooper's style of lettering throughout the Midwest, both companies came to an agreement to create a family of types based on Cooper's advertising lettering. McArthur and Murray saw the biggest potential in the super-bold advertising lettering that would become Cooper Black, but agreed that a roman weight old style should be executed first, the logical progenitor to a family or related types. The foundry requested that the roman have rounded serifs so as to more specifically correlate to the planned bold. This was the first of many tactical strategies in type design between type designer and foundry, most specifically McArthur and Cooper, whose back-and-forth relationship in designing, critiquing, and modifying letterforms was integral in shaping the oeuvre of type designs credited to Cooper. While it was Cooper's sheer talent in shaping appealing and useful alphabets that made his work so popular, McArthur's role as critic and editor has gone largely un-noted in the slim amount of writing of length about Cooper's work. Cooper and McArthur went back and forth over the design of the roman typeface for nearly two years with Cooper, constantly redrawing and revising the typeface to get it to a castable state. The capitals were successively redrawn by Cooper, with particular care paid to the "B" and "R" to make them relate formally. The lowercase was redrawn numerous times, as were experiments in shaping the punctuation. McArthur requested a pair of dingbats to accompany the typeface, along with a decorative four leaf clover ornament "for luck". Cooper included a slightly iconoclastic, cartoonish paragraph mark, as well as decorative end elements, a centered period, and brackets with a hand-drawn feel. The final typeface is a lively, bouncy conglomeration whose rounded forms dazzle and move the eye. Originally called merely "Cooper" in early showings, the name was later revised to "Cooper Oldstyle". The typeface met with a warm reception upon release in 1919, the public favoring its advertising-friendly, tightly-spaced appearance. Sales were moderate, and the typeface was considered a success. Cooper originally drew the figures the same width as the "M" of the font, but revised them to the width of the "N" at the request of McArthur. Early versions of drawings of the slimmer figures are noted as "cruel stuff" in accompanying notes by Cooper, though they were versioned out into far more elegant numerals than the earlier stout figures. Both versions of the numerals are included in the digital release, as are the ornamental elements. In 1925, McArthur and Murray requested a set of ornamental initials. Cooper designed the initials open-faced on a square ground surrounded by organic ornament. The initials were "intended to be nearly even in color value with that of normal text type". The letterforms themselves are a medium-bold variation on the Cooper OldStyle theme, lacking the balance of Cooper's text typefaces, but charming nonetheless.
SoftMaker did a complete Cooper Black Pro series in 2012, including Cooper Black Pro Stencil.
Oz Handicraft BT (Bitstream, 1991) was created by George Ryan in 1990 from a showing of Oswald Cooper's hand lettering found in The Book of Oz Cooper (1949, Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago). In that book, you can also find two great essays by Cooper written in 1936-1937, Leaves from an Imaginary Type Specimen Book and As an experiment: 15 serifs applied to stems of similar weight to test serif influence in letter design. Modern Roman Capitals.
Fritz (Font Bureau, 1997) was created by Christian Schwartz who was inspired by a characteristic handlettered ad from 1909, as well as the single word "Robusto" drawn for Oz Cooper's own amusement. In 1998, Fritz was honored by the NY Type Directors Clubs TDC2 competition.
Boul Mich. Mac McGrew: Boul Mich. During the period of "modernistic" typography of the 1920s, BB&S, the large Chicago type foundry, brought out Boul Mich in 1927, the name being an advertising man's idea for a tie-in with the fashion advertising of the smart shops on Chicago's Michigan Boulevard [Avenue], according to Richard N. McArthur, then advertising manager of BB&S. An unidentified clipping with a bit of hand-lettering had been sent to the foundry; Oswald Cooper of Cooper Black fame was asked to sketch the missing letters to guide the foundry's pattern makers in cutting a new face, but he disclaimed any credit for the design. Apparently there is no truth in the persistent myth that Boul Mich was named for Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris. Compare Broadway. Digitally revived in 2010 by Ian Lynam at Wordshape and a few years earlier by Dan Solo as well.
Dietz Text.
Packard, first handlettered for use in ads for the Packard Motor Company in 1913, and later converted to metal by BB&S. The bold weight is credited to Morris Fuller Benton (ATF, 1916), but it is highly probable that Benton did the adaptation for both weights. A digital version of this was done by Nick Curtis in 2008 under the name Packard Patrician NF. Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir created Packard New Style in 2011, and the slightly grungier Packard Old Style also in 2011. Mac McGrew: Packard is ATF's adaptation of a distinctive style of lettering done by Oswald Cooper in advertisements for the Packard Motor Car Company, in 1913. Packard Bold followed in 1916. The latter is credited to Morris Benton, again closely following Cooper's original lettering, and it is quite likely that Benton did the actual adaptation of the first typeface also. These typefaces retain a handlettered appearance partly by the slightly irregular edges of strokes, partly by a number of alternate characters. Both were quite popular for several years.
Pompeian Cursive (1927): a calligraphic script designed for BBS to compete with Lucian Bernhard's Schoenschrift. Ian Lynam found the original drawings and based his Pompeian Cursive (2010) on it.
Cooper's handlettering also inspired Matt Desmond, who created the beautiful typeface Cagliostro (2011, free at Google Web Fonts).
The Bitstream font Oz Handicraft BT (1991) was created by George Ryan in 1990 from a showing of Oswald Cooper's hand lettering found in The Book of Oz Cooper, published in 1949 by the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago). A refresh was done in 2016.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Otto Maurer
[Otto Maurer (was: Tattoofont)]

Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts. Klingspor link.

Otto Maurer (was: Tattoofont)
[Otto Maurer]

Tattoo artist and graphic designer from Dinslaken (Duisburg), Germany, b. 1968, Duisburg. Klingspor link.

Otto Maurer (Tattoofont) created Ipoint (2008, a 15-style fun-filled Bauhaus-inspired family), Black and Beauty (2007, blackletter family), Big Rain (2007), Blood (2007, dripping blood type), Preussen (2007, a 4-style blackletter family), Otto Bismarck Italic (2007), an italic blackletter face, and its parent, Otto Bismarck (2007). Designer of the free curly font Corps Script (2006) and Corps Script Shadow (2006). Creator with Sabrina of the free handwriting fonts Sabsis Handwriting Version 3 (2007) and Sabsis Handwriting (2007). Home page. Dafont link. Yet another URL.

In 2007, he went partially commercial and set up shop at MyFonts. His fonts there include the artsy Sailors Tattoo (2006), SailorsTattoo-waves (2007), Sailors Tattoo Pro Xmas (2007), Sick Skull (2007, scary), Tribal Maori (2007), MauBo Flatline (2007, experimental), Tribal Dingbats (2007), Tribaltypo (2007: quite interesting), MauBo (2007, mechanical look), Hotrod (2007), Blood (2007, scary), MauBo Flatline (2007, white on black) and Corpse Fairy (2007), Mrs. Sabo (2007, calligraphic and grunge hand), Tribal King (2007), Pierced (2007), Big Rain (2007), Detective Maurice (2007, a typeface with fingerprints on the alphabet), Cutdown Maurice (2007), Digital Maurice (2007), Good Old Fifties (2007, 11 styles), Tribal Dingbats II (2008, a tattoo font), Tribal tattoos III (2010), Hot Flames (2008), Drago (2008, a blackletter and alphading family), Party Night (2009), Tattoo Girl (2008).

Typefaces from 2009: Yuma (2009, Western saloon font), Freiheit (2009, blackletter), Lycaner (2009, blackletter), Sud France (2009, script), Psychbilly (2009, fat brush), Love Mom (2009), Vampire (2009), Animal Zoo (2009), Tur tle (2009), Grunge (2009, cracked marble family), Crate (2009).

Typefaces from 2010: Big Mom (2010, a family that includes a blackboard bold style), Haike (2010).

Typefaces from 2011: Tinka Babe (2011, a gangster or tattoo script), Poisoni Pro (2011, tall art nouveau style brush face, with Shadow and College sub-styles), Lanzelott (2011, a very elegant retro display family, followed in 2017 by New Lanzelott), Stencilla (2011, a heavy stencil face), Guilin (2007, brushy), Darkwood (2011), Rock n Roll Typo (2011), Loreen (2011: an elegant display family that includes a hairline and a shadow style).

In 2012, he made the pointy Psychomonster typeface.

In 2013, Otto Maurer published the gangster tattoo font Bibiana as a companion for Tinka Babe.

Typefaces from 2014: Cupcakes Winterwonder (snowy font), Soul Winterwonder, Loreen Hollywood (art deco), Soul Material Design Dingbatz, Soul Love (Valentine's Day font), AZ Cupcakes, Soul (a sans family with some flaring), Christe Wagner (a great set of curly Victorian music sheet-inspired typefaces), Spider Type, Marie Lyn, Mariedean (a Victorian titling set, including decorative caps), Peachy (+ Shadow: a slab serif).

Typefaces from 2015: Maori New Zeeland, Chika Tattoo (12-style tattoo script), Chino Tattoo, Big Yukon (Wild West font), Bonecracker, Freibeuter NR (Western Tuscan family), Sailor Marie (tattoo font family), Baby Lyns ABC (children's book alphabet).

Typefaces from 2017: Anchorage (a sailor's tattoo font), Friedrichsfeld (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2018: Lettre Damour (handwriting font), Cryptolucre (started in 2014, Cryptolucre is a font specifically for all crypto currencies like Bitcoins, Litecoins, Ethereum, Ark, Siacoin and Golem--the icon version includes some existing currency logos and newly invented currency logos), Haike, Soul Leo (textured), Soul Skull, Tattooflash Fingers, Tattooflash Marie.

Typefaces from 2019: Stencilla.

Showcase of Otto Maurer's fonts. View the typefaces made by Otto Maurer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Otto Reichert

Calligrapher, graphic designer, artist and teacher, b. Offenbach, 1883, d. Offenbach, 1956. From 1921 until 1949, he taught typography at TH Darmstadt. [Google] [More] ⦿

OurType
[Fred Smeijers]

OurType was Fred Smeijers' web site and foundry established in 2002 (formally launched in 2004). OurType was set up by four partners: Fred Smeijers, Corina Cotorobai with Rudy Geerarts and Martine Leloup (both of FontShop Benelux). Fred and Corina were the creative lead of OurType foundry, Rudy and Martine were in charge with sales. In 2017 Fred and Corina stopped their collaboration with OurType concentrating on several other projects, including a new type label. Fred and Corina are also co-partners in Type Tailors (established in 2008), offering type design development, publishing, custom type and typographic consultancy. Smeijers's fonts can now be found at Type By.

Smeijers is research fellow at Plantin Museum in Antwerp, and professor of type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, and visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In April 2018, Fred Smeijers and Corina Cotorobai announced that they would be starting a new foundry. Fred Smeijers (b. 1961) studied at the School of Art at Arnhem, and he worked as a typographic advisor to the reprographic company Océ, then became a founding member of the graphic design practice Quadraat, which provided the name for his first published typeface (FontFont, 1992).

He created the following typefaces:

The huge (and growing) text family Quadraat (1998-2001). It has as subfamilies FF Quadraat, FF Quadraat Sans and FF Quadraat Sans Mono, and was developed from 1997-1998 as part of the FontFont library.
Renard (at Enschedé, after letters by Hendrik van den Keere, 1998; see discussion here).
DTL Nobel (with Andrea Fuchs, 1993, at the Dutch Type Library). Not to be confused with the geometric sans family Nobel, also created in 1993, by Tobias Frere-Jones (Font Bureau).
Arnhem (1998-2002) and Arnhem Fine, which are historically related to the Romain du roi. These were developed in collaboration with Werkplaats Typografie (Karel Martens and Wigger Bierma)---Andy Crewdson provides an insightful discussion of it. Smeijers: Arnhem was designed in 1999 for the Nederlandse Staatscourant, the daily newspaper of the Dutch state. It can be classified as a very functional design---Arnhem has been conceived for, and does work best in large quantities of running text.
Fresco (1998), Fresco Sans, Fresco Condensed, Fresco Informal, Fresco Informal Sans, Fresco Script (+Sans), Fresco Plus, a work horse of a family at OurType.
Ludwig (2010), modeled after the 19-th century grotesks.
Monitor (2000-2004, a sans family at OurType). Not to be confused with earlier commercial typefaces with the same name, like Henryk Sawanda's Monitor (1975-1980) or BB&S's Monitor No. 5 (1890s).
Eva (2010: an informal sans, done with Merel Matzinger at OurType).
The sans family Sansa (2005, OurType) was followed by Sansa Slab and Sansa Soft in 2006. Sansa and Arnhem are available from FontShop since 2005.
In 2002, OurType created the gorgeous Custodia family for use in publications of the Custodia Foundation. The typeface is called Custodia 17 because it was inspired by 17th century Dutch styles. Peter Gabor and Jonathan Munn claim that Custodia is too close to Monotype Van Dijck. However, OurType explains that this was the intention: Its pleasantly uneven rhythm captures the not-quite-perfect lettershapes of master punchcutters working in Delft, Rotterdam, Amsterdam or Haarlem in the later seventeenth century: Christoffel van Dijck, Dirck Voskens, Johan Michael Smit, Jean Baptiste van Wolschaten.
Denda New (2000), a family made specially for Canon. In his book, Type Now, Fred Smeijers says: A contemporary sanserif initiated in 2000 by TBWA\Designers Company for their redesign of Canon Europe packaging. This typeface comes in four weights, in roman and matching italics: for use by Canon Europe in general publicity, manuals, and packaging. It is a custom-made design, not publicly available.
Puncho (2012) by Fred Smeijers is based on stencil letter punches made by S.M. Spencer of Boston.
Bery Roman (2012): Bery Roman is based on the stencil letters of Jean Gabriel Bery. Bery Roman is part of OurType's Stencil Fonts Series of 2012. Jean Gabriel Bery was a Paris stencil maker whose atelier was located on the Pont Notre-Dame. His work is mainly known from the stencil set he supplied to Benjamin Franklin in 1781, now at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Bery's confident sense of design and the excellent production of his stencils rank him among the best stencil makers of any period. Accompanied by the calligraphic Bery Script (2012).
Haultin (2011) is a private, unreleased typeface that is based on renaissance types cut by Pierre Haultin. The second edition of Fred's book Counterpunch is set in it.
His custom type designs include bespoke typefaces and lettering for Philips Electronics, Tom-Tom, Samsung, Porsche, and Canon-Europe.

FontShop link.

Author of Counterpunch: Making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now, London, Hyphen Press, 1996 [PDF file] [a second edition followed in 2011], and Type Now: A Manifesto (2003, London, Hyphen Press; reviewed by John Berry).

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). In 2016, the Society of Typographic Aficionados awarded Smeijers the SOTA Typography Award.

OurType's offices were 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. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam (on Spatial relationships among 16th-century matrices (and what they tell us), a close look at surviving matrices at the Plantin-Moretus Museum) and keynote speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (on zooming in and zooming out; and old beer, new type). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Oussama Choudane

Marrakesh, Morocco-based designer of a calligraphoc blackletter typeface in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

Outras Fontes
[Ricardo Esteves Gomes]

A Brazilian digital type foundry located in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in 2006 by Vitoria, Brazil-based Ricardo Esteves Gomes (b. 1980, Vitória, Brazil), a graphic designer and professor (at UFES), and Jarbas Barros Gomes.

Their fonts include the flowing script Maryam (2007, Ricardo Esteves Gomes; this typeface won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008; also available from T-26), the Celtic script Jana Thork (2007-2008; see here for this typeface which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Gaia (2008, ornamental dingbats), Hachura (2008, impressionist sketched garalde) and the medieval script Scrivano (2007, also at T-26).

In 2009, he published the ultra-black slightly techno sans family Force, which includes a great Force Dingbats typeface. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. The powerful inline and headline family Alegria was published in 2010.

In 2010, Outras Fontes made the custom typeface for the Brazilian Coca-Cola Light Plus campaign. This hand-printed typeface was ordered by Ana Couto Branding & Design studio.

In 2012, he published the grungy typefaces Rebellia and Rebellia Dingbats.

In 2013, he published Progressiva (a lively sans family with oomph that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014), and Directa Serif, a typeface family with condensed letters of large x-height and low contrast.

In 2019, Ricardo Gomes published Capellina (Script and Caps).

I Love Typography link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ovoz Digital Shop
[Muhammad Alif]

Madiun / Malang, Indonesia-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Rockyboard (2016), Honebee (2016), Divine Razier (2016, brush style), Monorain (2016, monoline and vintage), Rockyboard (2016), Faerie Fire (2016, calligraphic), Deadaluss (2016) and Octomorf (2016), the thick retro signage typeface Fusioner (2016), the granite block typeface Hipstetic (2016), and the Victorian typeface Mishall (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Haynthams, Sabreena (Script, Signature Script, Vintage Bold), Botthanie Script, Velociraptype, Vandalord Grafiti.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

P22 Type Foundry
[Richard Kegler]

Richard Kegler's fun Buffalo-based foundry, which he founded in 1995 together with his wife, Carima El-Behairy. Currently, on staff, we find type designers James Grieshaber and Christina Torre. In 2004, it acquired Lanston Type. P22 has some great unusual, often artsy, fonts.

The fonts are: Industrial Design (an industrial look font based on letters drawn by Joseph Sinel in the 1920s---this font is free!), LTC Jefferson Gothic Obliquie (2005, free), Sinel (free), P22Snowflakes (free in 2003 and P22 Snowflakes (retail) in 2020, finishedd by Richard Kegler and Terry Wüdenbachs), Acropolis Now (1995, a Greek simulation typeface done with Michael Want), P22 Albers (1995; based on alphabets of Josef Albers made between 1920 and 1933 in the Bauhaus mold), Arts and Crafts (based on lettering of Dard Hunter, early 1900s, as it appeared in Roycroft books), Ambient, Aries (2004, based on Goudy's Aries), Arts and Crafts ornaments, Atomica, Bagaglio (Flat, 3D; in the style of Il Futurismo), P22 Basel Roman (2020, Richard Kegler: an update of a 2015 typeface, P22 Basel, based on a garalde font used by Johannes Herbst (aka Ioannes Oporinus) in 1543 to publish Andreas Vesalius' On the Fabric of the Human Body (De humani corporis fabrica) in Basel), Bauhaus (Bauhaus fonts based on the lettering of Herbert Bayer), Bifur (2004, Richard Kegler, after the 1929 original by Cassandre), Blackout, P22 Brass Script Pro (2009, Richard Kegler; based on an incomplete script fond in a booklet from Dornemann&Co. of Magdeburg Germany, ca. 1910 entitled Messingschriften für Handvergoldung; for years, P22 and MyFonts claimed that Michael Clark co-designed this, but Michael does not want any credit, as he did only about 20 letters), Cage (based on handwriting and sketches of the American experimental composer John Cage), P22 Casual Script (2011, Richard Kegler, a digitization of letters by sign painter B. Boley, shown in Sign of the Times Magazine), Cezanne (Paul Cezanne's handwriting, and some imagery; made for the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Child's Play, Child's Play Animals, Child's Play Blocks, Constructivist (Soviet style lettering emulating the work of Rodchenko and Popova), Constructivist extras, Czech Modernist (based on the design work of Czech artist Vojtech Preissig in the 20s and 30s), Daddy-o (Daddy-o Beatsville was done in 1998 with Peter Reiling), Daddy-o junkie, Da Vinci, Destijl (1995, after the Dutch DeStijl movement, 1917-1931, with Piet Mondrian inspired dingbats; weights include Extras, P22 Monet Impressionist (1999), Regular and Tall), Dinosaur, Eaglefeather, Escher (based on the lettering and artwork of M.C. Escher), P22 FLW Exhibition, P22 FLW Terracotta, Folk Art (based on the work of German settlers in Pennsylvania), Il futurismo (after Italian Futurism, 1908-1943), Woodtype (two Tuscan fonts and two dingbats, 2004), P22 Woodcut (1996, Richard Kegler: based on the lettering carved out in wood by German expressionists such as Heckel and Kirchner), Garamouche (2004, +P22 Garamouche Ornaments; all co-designed with James Grieshaber), GD&T, Hieroglyphic, P22 Infestia (1995), Insectile, Kane, Kells (1996, a totally Celtic family, based on the Book of Kells, 9th century; the P22 Kells Round was designed with David Setlik), Koch Signs (astrological, Christian, medieval and runic iconography from Rudolf Koch's The Book of Signs), P22 Koch Nueland (2000), Larkin (2005, Richard Kegler, 1900-style semi-blackletter), London Underground (Edward Johnston's 1916 typeface, produced in an exclusive arrangement with the London Transport Museum; digitized by Kegler in 1997, and extended to 21 styles in 2007 by Paul D. Hunt as P22 Underground Pro, which includes Cyrillic and Greek and hairline weights), Pan-Am, Parrish, Platten (Richard Kegler; revised in 2008 by Colin Kahn as P22 Platten Neu; based on lettering found in German fountain pen practice books from the 1920s), P22 Preissig (and P22 Preissig Calligraphic, 2019), Prehistoric Pals, Petroglyphs, Rodin / Michelangelo, Stanyan Eros (2003, Richard Kegler), Stanyan Autumn (2004, based on a casual hand lettering text created by Anthony Goldschmidt for the deluxe 1969 edition of the book "...and autumn came" by Rod McKuen; typeface by Richard Kegler), Vienna, Vienna Round, Vincent (based on the work of Vincent Van Gogh), Way out West. Now also Art Nouveau Bistro, Art Nouveau Cafe and the beautiful ornamental font Art Nouveau Extras (all three by Christina Torre, 2001), the handwriting family Hopper (Edward, Josephine, Sketches, based on the handwriting styles of quintessential American artist Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, and was produced in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art), Basala (by Hajime Kawakami), Cusp (by James Grieshaber), P22 Dearest (calligraphic, by Christina Torre and Miranda Roth), Dwiggins (by Richard Kegler), Dyrynk Roman and Italic (2004, Richard Kegler, after work by Czech book artist Karel Dyrynk), Gothic Gothic (by James Grieshaber), La Danse (by Gábor Kóthay;), Mucha (by Christina Torre), Preissig Lino (by Richard Kegler), P22Typewriter (2001, Richard Kegler, a distressed typewriter font), the William Morris set (Morris Troy, Morris Golden, Morris Ornaments, based up the type used by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press; 2002), Art Deco Extras (2002, Richard Kegler, James Grieshaber and Carima El Behairy), Art Deco Display, the Benjamin Franklin revival font Franklin's Caslon (2006), Dada (2006) and the Art Nouveau font Salon (bu Christina Torre).

In 2006, Kegler added Declaration, a font set consisting of a script (after the 1776 declaration of independence), a blackletter, and 56 signatures. Many of the fonts were designed or co-designed by Richard Kegler. International House of Fonts subpage. Lanston subpage (offerings as of 2005: Bodoni Bold, Deepdene, Flash, Fleurons Granjon, Fleurons Garamont, Garamont, Goudy Thirty, Jacobean Initials, Pabst, Spire).

Bio and photo.

In-house fonts made in 2008 include Circled Caps, the Yule family (Regular, Klein Regular, Light Flurries, Heavy, Klein heavy, Heavy Snow, Inline; all have Neuland influences). Kegler / P22 created a 25-set P22 Civilité family in 2009 based on a 1908 publication from Enshedé, the 1978 English translation by Harry Carter, and a 1926 specimen also from Enshedé.

P22 Declaration (Script, Signatures, Blackletter, 2009) is based on the lettering used in the 1776 Declaration of Independence.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, Richard spoke about Vojtech Preissig. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin, where he presented Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century about which he writes: This film has the dual aim of documenting the almost-lost skill of creating metal fonts and of capturing the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer (1931-2010). P22 type foundry commissioned Mr. Rimmer to create a new type design (Stern) that became the first-ever simultaneous release of a digital font and hand-set metal font in 2008. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he showed Making Faces.

Typefaces from 2014: LTC Archive Ornaments (Richard Kegler and Miranda Roth).

Typefaces from 2020: Showcard Script (by Terry Wüdenbachs, based on an original of Beaufont at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, custom designed by the Morgan Sign Machine Company of Chicago).

Typefaces from 2021: P22 Glaser Houdini (a layerable family, after Glaser's Houdini from 1964), P22 Glaser Babyteeth. Kegler writes: In 2019, P22 Type Foundry met with Milton Glaser (1929-2020) to initiate the official digital series of typefaces designed by Glaser in the 1960s and 70s. P22 Glaser Babyteeth is the first family released in the series. Milton Glaser's inspiration for his Babyteeth typeface came from a hand painted advertisement for a tailor he saw in Mexico City. He was inspired by that E drawn as only someone unfimilar with the alphabet could have concieved. So he set about inventing a completelly ledgible alphabet consistant with this model. P22 Glaser Babyteeth was based on original drawings and phototype proofs from the Milton Glaser Studios archives. Over the years there have been many typefaces that borrowed heavily from the Glaser designs, but these are the only official Babyteeth fonts approved by Milton Glaser Studio and the Estate of Milton Glaser. The solid and open versions are designed to overlap for two-color font effects and can even be mixed and matched for multi layer chromatic treatments. In 2021, he published the 3d art deco shadow font P22 Glaser Kitchen which is based on Big Kitchen (1976).

MyFonts interview.

View Richard Kegler's typefaces. View the IHOF / P22 typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Paco Gonzalez

Codesigner with Giuseppe Salerno of Superb (2014, Resistenza: a creamy signage script) and the calligraphic brush script Modern Love (2015).

Codesigner, with Giuseppe Salerno and Andrea Tardivo, of the chocolate box script typeface family Gianduja (2016, Resistenza).

In 2018, he co-designed Contigo and Contigo Vintage with Giuseppe Salerno.

In 2019, Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno co-designed the brush typefaces SmoothyPro, Pando Script and Parkour, Auster Rounded, the Tuscan family Royale, the chalk font Dolce Caffe Chalk, the layered handcrafted sans typeface Dolcissimo, the dry brush script typeface Blue Jeans, the brush script Batticuore and Turquoise Inline.

Typefaces from 2020, all with Giuseppe Salerno: Big Mamma (a hand-printed slab serif), Suerte (a reverse contrast display type, inspired by Aldo Novarese's Estro), Norman (a fashion mag typeface), Royale Italic (Tuscan), Auster Variable, Hello Fresh, Nostalgia and Nostalgia Flowers, Tresor (a romantic flared sans), Pesto Fresco Italic.

Typefaces from 2021: Industria Serif (54 styles; by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzalez).

Typefaces from 2022: Industria Sans. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
[Roger Vershen]

Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. Roger Vershen died in Tucson, AZ, in 2003.

The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (blackletter), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitch, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex (typewriter family), Crossword, PIXymbols Deco Glass (2001), Digit&Clocks (+LED symbols), Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Linea (2002, prismatic), Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Mejicana (2001, a Mexican party font), Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, Prescott (2001, Western), Penman (2001, connected script), PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Signet Shadow, Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Vershen (2001), Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans.

View the Page Studio Graphics typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pak DuaTiga

American designer (b. 2000) of the calligraphic script typeface Fiction (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Panco Sassano

Illustrator from Mar del Plata, Argentina, who is now based in Buenos Aires. He designed these typefaces:

An Arabic simulation typeface (2014).
The wide connected semi-calligraphic handwriting typeface Horizontes Script (2014, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos), which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
Merengue Script (2015). A creamy script, designed together with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos.
Speckle (2019). A color SVG font with speckled texture.
Balneario script (2021, with Alejandro Paul). A friendly rhythmic retro sign painting script.

Panos Vassiliou
[Parachute]

Catalog. View all typefaces designed by Parachute.

Panritype Studio (or: Panrita Studio)
[Fajry Al Fatih]

Known as Fajry Al Fatih, Khaidir Fajri, and Khaidir Fajry. Bulukumba, South Sulawesi, Indonesia-based designer of the fat finger fonts Rayville (2019), Gietha Script (2019), Janille (2019), Gothenstone (2019), Sunshine Lollipop (2018) and Babyground (2018), the script typefaces Bengawan (2019) and Summer Skyline (2019), the monoline typeface Bill & Jack (2019), and the calligraphic typeface Qeysha Script (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Heavy Black (brush).

Typefaces from 2021: Relate (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Paper and Ink Arts

Calligraphy books and supplies, Woodsboro, MD. [Google] [More] ⦿

Papermode Co
[Mira Kartika Sari]

Indonesian designer of Emely (2019: a classy calligraphic font), Drama Quality (2019: a monoline script), Firestone (2019: a vintage serif), and Tritonal (2019: a curly calligraphic typeface).

Typefaces from 2020: Permacultur (a spectcular wild calligraphic script), Seila (a wild penmanship script), Matic and Colge (a monoline script with a serious slope), Andit (stylish wild calligraphy), Bon Apit (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2021: Kafutey (an excellent inky script; at Siwox Studios).

Typefaces from 2022: La Fiola (a great wild and inky script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Paprika Breitholtz

Creator the calligraphic typeface OZH (2009).

Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Parachute
[Panos Vassiliou]

London, UK, and Athens and Kifissia, Greece-based type foundry started in 2001 by Panos Vassiliou. It specializes in fine multilingual (usually Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) typeface families. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Canada with a major in Applied Science and Engineering. Following his University of Toronto graduation, he studied Graphic Communications at Ryerson University. Panos Vassiliou has conducted numerous seminars for Canadian companies such as Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank and Sony Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto/Canada, where he studied Applied Science and Engineering. He has been Creative Director for the Canadian design firm AdHaus, former Publisher of the monthly magazine DNA (Greece) and Secretary-General for the Hellenic Canadian Congress (Ontario, Canada). He has been designing typefaces since 1993, including commercial fonts as well as commissions from Vodafone, Nestlé, Ikea and National Geographic. He started Parachute in 2001 setting the base for a typeface library that reflected the works of some of the best contemporary Greek designers, as well as creatives around the world obsessed with type. Apart from its commercial line of typefaces, Parachute offers bespoke branding services for corporate typefaces and lettering. Customers include Bank of America, the European Commission, UEFA, Samsung, IKEA, Interbrand, National Geographic, Financial Times, National Bank of Greece, Alpha Bank and many others.

Myfonts link. Behance link.

Other type designers at Parachute include Kanella Arapoglou, Alexandros Papalexis, Dimitris Foussekis, Aggeliki Skandalelli, Helen Gabara, Babis Touglis, Vangelis Karageorgos, George Toumbalis, Eva Karapidaki, Charis Tsevis, Pavlos Levendellis, Panos Vassiliou, and George Lygas.

At Granshan 2010, Vassiliou won Second Prize in the Greek text typeface category for PF Encore Sans POro, and First and Second Prizes in the display typeface category for PF Regal Pro and PF Champion Script Pro, respectively. Typefaces:

Adamant
PFAgora Pro: Agora Sans, AgoraSerif, AgoraSlab.
Amateur
PF Archive Pro (2004). He received a design award for his typeface Archive at the E AWARDS 2004. It has special typographic features and multilingual support for all European languages including Greek and Cyrillic.
Armonia
Astrobats
Bague Universal and Bague Sans (2014). A geometric grotesk that dares to be different. Accompanied by Bague Slab Pro (2014), PF Bague Inline Pro (2014), and PF Bague Round Pro (2014).
Baseline
Beatnick
Beau Sans (2011). Inspired by Bernhard Gothic.
A custom didone font for Greece's Benaki Museum (2020-2021).
PF Benchmark Pro (2014).
Bodoni Script (2009).
PF Brummell (2016). A sans characterized by sharp angled terminals and a diamond dot on the i.
Bulletin Sans (2000-2005)
Centro (Centro Sans, Centro Serif, Centro Slab) a typeface originally developed for the redesign of the Financial Times Deutschland. PF Centro Pro family (Sans, Serif, Slab, a trillion styles) won an European Design Award in May 2008 in Stockholm and at Paratype K2009. It was completed by PF Centro Serif Compressed, PF Centro Sans Condensed and PF Centro Sans Compressed in 2015. In 2016, he published PF Centro Slab Press.
PFChampion Script Pro (2004-2008). A much lauded connected calligraphic script that is based on a calligraphic script by Joseph Champion, 1709-1765. Winner at Paratype K2009 and Granshan 2010. Images: i, ii iii, iv, v. The 4245-glyph family comprises Cyrillic, Latin and Greek subfamilies.
Cosmonut (sic) (2002). A retro futuristoc typeface made by Dimitris Foussekis.
PF Das Grotesk Pro (2014). Panos writes: Das Grotesk was inspired by earlier nineteenth-century grotesques, but it is much more related to American gothic designs such as those by M.F. Benton.
DaVinciScript (2001-2006). A Treefrog-style script typeface by Vassiliou and Dimitris Foussekis.
PF Dekka (2014). This solid elliptical sans family was influenced by Monaco's outline version called MPW. It includes PF Dekka Mono.
PF DIN (2010): PF DIN Display (2002-2005), PF DIN Mono, PF DIN Serif (2016; this great serif version of DIN---a first---contains a wealth of goodies: just look at the great weather icons; it won an award at Granshan 2016), PF DIN Stencil Pro (2010), PF DIN Stencil, PF DIN Stencil B (2016), PF DIN Text Pro, PF DIN Text Condensed, PF DIN Text Compressed, PF DIN Text Arabic, and PF DIN Text Universal. With Latin, Cyrillic and Greek coverage, each font has about 1300 glyphs. The designs go back to the lettering of the Prussian railways around 1900. In 2013, PF Din Text Pro was published. In 2021, the three-axis (weight, width, italic) variable type system PF DIN Max saw the light.
Eco Park. A 3d outline face.
PF Encore Sans (2009). A rich and versatile sans family supporting Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.
PF Fuel Pro
PF Fusion Sans (1996-2006)
PF Garamond Classic.
PF Goudy Intials and PF Goudy Ornaments. A winner at Paratype K2009.
PF Grand Gothik (2019). A large grotesque typeface family with three subfamilies and a variable font option. He writes: Grand Gothik is a postmodern, multiscript, multifaceted and variable type system which shines at its heavier extended versions with its hip, expressive, almost brutal energy. Grand Gothik's design space includes 3 axes for weight, width and one for italics. It is available as a variable font or as five separate opentype families---compressed, condensed, normal, wide and extended. Each family comes with 9 weights spanning from Extra Thin to Black plus italics.
PF Handbook (2005-2007, sans family)
HausSquare
HellenicaSerif. Chiseled look, Greek simulation face.
PF Highway Sans (2001-2015). Highway Sans Pro is based on the standard typefaces used for highway signs and other byways open to public travel in the United States. These standards were established by the US Federal Highway Administration in 1966 following several studies which were conducted at the California Department of Transportation in the 1940s. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
House Square. A Bank Gothic lookalike.
PF Isotext (2005). Meant for technical documentation, it is modeled after Isonorm.
Kids, KidsStuff
Libera
Lindemann and PF Lindemann Sans (2012).
PF Marlet (2019). A sharp-edged humanist sans family fit for fashion mags: Marlet Titling, Marlet Finesse, Marlet Swash, Marlet Display, Marlet Text. PF Marlet, collected three awards one after the other, a year after appearing on Luc's best-of-2019 list. First, the coveted TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2020 (at 23RDC), followed by another one from European Design Awards, a third distinction from Tokyo TDC and a fourth crown, Red Dot Award 2020, all in 2020.
Mechanica A and B, 2002-2006. Octagonal families.
PF Mellon (2019). A modernist variable grotesque influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century condensed sans serif typefaces such as Stephenson Blake's Grotesque No.77 and ATF's Alternate Gothic.
PF Monumenta (2002-2006). A majestic lapidary roman family.
Muse
Online (One, Two and Three). Pixelish family.
PF Ornamental Treasures (2008). Byzantine ornaments and borders.
PF Pixelscript
Playskool
Psychedelia (2003, Dimitris Foussekis). A psychedelic typeface.
Regal Pro and Regal Finesse Pro: Award-winning high fashion display didone families, 2010-2012, originally designed for the Grazia magazine. Awards include Red Dot Awrd 2012, Communication Arts Annual Competition 2012, Creative Review Type Annual 2011, European Design awards 2011, EBGE awards 2011, Granshan Awards 2010. See also PF Regal Swash and PF Regal Stencil.
PF Reminder Pro (2003). A hand-printed typeface.
Scandal
PF Spekk (2020). A simple versatile geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
PF Square Sans Pro, PF Square Sans Condensed Pro (2013).
PF Stamps (2002-2006). A grungy stencil typeface by Panos Vassiliou and George Lygas.
PF Synch Pro (2006). An industrial strength slab-serif typeface.
PF UEFA Super Cup (2013).
PF Uniform
PF Venue (2017). Semi art deco, and free-spirited, a great poster typeface family.
VideoText
PF Wonderbats (2003). Funky and strange animals.
Wonderland (2006). By Dimitris Foussekis.

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ParaType Script Fonts

"ParaType Scripts - a collection of 12 handwritten fonts carefully selected to represent various styles of writing. Designed by world-renowned type foundry ParaType, Inc., these fonts are expanding your design capabilities by adding a personal touch to your computer typography." All twelve TrueType fonts are shareware. [Google] [More] ⦿

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Patricia Lillie

From Ashtabula, OH, Patricia Lillie (b. 1958) is the respected designer of the wonderful (shareware) Poptics dingbat fonts series (I, II and III) in 1993. See also here or here. Please read her remarks about rip-off font sellers. She sold many wonderful wonderful wonderful dingbat fonts via Eyewire: Gargoil, Fidelma, Lil Creatures (great!), Lil Ancients, Lil Critters, Lil Dings, Lil Fishies, Lil Stuff, Lil Features, Lil Folks, Lil Faces, Lil Events, Lil Flowers, Mini Pics Doohickies, Lil Edibles and Lil Vehicles. These were marketed by Image Club Graphics as their MiniPics series in 1995. She also had display fonts such as Horsefeathers, WhimsyICG, Whassis, Farrier, Shatterday, Chilada and Chilada Dos (1994), Burweed, Alleycat, Ashtabula, Damosel, and Syllogon. [T-26] designer of Ashtabula, Damosel, DamoselDingbats.

Review of Poptics by Fred Showker. Noteworthy is that Poptics became Poptics Delux in 2010, and is now a pay font at MyFonts.

Other fonts: Fidelma (at Type Quarry), Samson, Delilah, Benderville, ElegeionScript (2001, formal handwriting), ITC Tickle (2001), ITC Tickle Too, ITC Cinderella (2002), Miss Kitty Deluxe (2009, comic book face), Zarlino (2011, a brand new bastarda blackletter family), Boppa Delux (2011, an elegant bold display family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Patrick Griffin

Type designer at Canada Type. Wikipedia tells us that Patrick Griffin had been locked away in a mental institution by Carter and Barbara, after he walked in on his mother performing oral sex on Jackie Gleason. He had a nervous breakdown and was sent to a mental hospital, where he came to the conclusion that Gleason was evil because he was fat, leading him to hate fat people. However, that is a different Patrick Griffin. The real Patrick Griffin, a graduate of York University, lives and works in Toronto, where he founded Canada Type and made it the most successful Canadian type foundry. His work is summarized in this 2009 interview by MyFonts. It includes lots of custom work for banks, TV stations, and companies/groups like New York Times, Pixar, Jacquin's, University of Toronto, and the Montreal Airport. His retail fonts include the following.

Ambassador Script (2007): a digital version of Juliet, Aldo Novarese's 1955 almost upright calligraphic (copperplate style) connected script, with hundreds of alternates, swashes, ends, and so forth. Done with Rebecca Alaccari.
Autobats (2005).
Ballantines Twelve (2014). A custom typeface for Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine Limited, the brand owner of Ballantine's Scotch Whisky.
Bananas (2020). An 18-style informal sans.
P22 Barabajagal (2018): P22 Barabajagal is a unique take on the display fat face by way of doodling fun. Somewhat informed by the shapes of an uncredited 1960s film type called Kap Antiqua Bold, this font's aesthetic is the stuff of boundless energy and light humour. This is the kind of font that makes you wonder whether it was drawn with rulers, protractors and compasses, or just by a mad doodler's crazy-good free hand.
Bigfoot (2008), the fattest font ever made (sic).
Blackhaus (2005), an extension of Kursachsen Auszeichnung, a blackletter typeface designed in 1937 by Peterpaul Weiß for the Schriftguss foundry in Dresden.
Blanchard (2009): a revival and elaborate extension of Muriel, a 1950 metal script typeface made by Joan Trochut-Blanchard for the Fonderie Typographique Française, that was published simultaneously by the Spanish Gans foundry under the name Juventud.
Bluebeard (2004), a blackletter face.
Book Jacket (2010): this is a digital extension of the film type font Book Jacket by Ursula Suess, published in 1972.
Boondock (2005): a revival of Imre Reiner's brush script typeface Bazaar from 1956.
Borax (2011-2021). An ode to the typography scene of New York City and Chicago in the late 1970s.
Broken (2006): grunge.
Bunyan Pro (2016, Patrick Griffin and Bill Troop). Bunyan Pro is the synthesis of Bunyan, the last face Eric Gill designed for hand setting in 1934 and Pilgrim, the machine face based on it, issued by British Linotype in the early 1950s---the most popular Gill text face in Britain from its release until well into the 1980s.
Chalice (2006). Religious and Cyrillic influences.
Chapter 11 (2009): an old typewriter face.
Chikita (2008): an upright ronde script done with Rebecca Alaccari, and rooted in the work of 1930s Dutch lettering artist Martin Meijer.
Clarendon Text (2007). A 20-style slab serif that uses inspiration from 1953 typefaces by Hoffmann and Eidenbenz and the 1995 font Egizio by Novarese.
Classic Comic (2010).
Coconut and Coconut Shadow (2006). Great techno pop typefaces.
Coffee Script (2004): the digital version of R. Middleton's Wave design for the Ludlow foundry, circa 1962. Designed with Phil Rutter.
Colville (2017). A set of sans headline typefaces based on letters used by Canadian painter Alex Colville.
Comic book typefaces: Caper or Caper Comic (2008), Captain Comic (2007), Classic Comic (2010), Collector Comic (2006, a comic balloon lettering family), Common Comic (2013).
Counter (2008): A futuristic beauty with a double-lined cursive thrown in. Available exclusively from P22. This typeface was based on the idea for an uncredited film typeface called Whitley, published by a little known English typesetting house in the early 1970s.
Cryptozoo (2009): Late director of design for VANOC, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Committee, Leo Ostbaum, commissioned Canada Type to make a typeface for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Patrick Griffin came up with a rounded signage font called Cryptozoo, whose Notice reads Concept and design by Leo Obstbaum, VANOC Brand & Creative Services. Additional character data and technical production by Canada Type. Copyright 2007 VANOC Brand&Creative Services.
Dads Handwriting (2014, custom typeface).
Dancebats (2004).
Davis (2016, a slab serif) and Davis Sans (2016). Typeface families designed for precision-engineered corporate use. All proceeds will go towards higher education expenses of design graduates.
Dokument Pro (2014). This is a reworking of a typeface made in 2005 by the late Jim Rimmer: Jim Rimmer aptly described his Dokument family as a sans serif in the vein of New Gothic that takes nothing from News Gothic. Dokument Pro is thoroughly reworked and expanded, with different widths still in the pipeline.
Dominion (2006). Based on an early 1970s film type called Lampoon. Dominions severely geometric shapes are a strange cross between early Bauhaus minimalism and later sharp square typefaces used for instance in Soviet propaganda posters.
Doobie (2006). 60s psychedelic style.
Driver Gothic (2008): based on the typeface used for Ontario license plates. Although unique among Canadian provincial license plates, this typeface is very similar to, if not outright identical with, the typeface used on car plates in 22 American states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. Ideal for license plate forgers.
Expo (2004): an octagonal family.
Fab (2007). A tube-design family reminiscent of the 1980s. Ricardo Cordoba writes: Fab reminds me of leafing through my first Letraset catalog in the mid-1980s all those decorative typefaces with rounded ends and tubular shapes, trying to imitate the look of neon signage. But Fab, with its contemporary twist on that aesthetic, and its unicase characters, manages to look like a cross between Cholla Bold and Frankfurter Highlight. Its handtooled, narrow shapes are perfectly suited to pop subject matter and bright colors. Fab Trio can be used to create layered chromatic effects, but its components can stand alone, too. The Seventies sure aint drab in Patrick Griffin's hands.
Fantini (2006). An update of the curly art nouveau typeface Fantan, a film type from 1970 by Custom Headings International.
Feather Script (2012). A revival of an old Lettering Inc font from the 1940s, known then as Flamenco.
Fido (2009) is the official font of dog owners everywhere. Has Saul Bass influences.
Filmotype fonts: Filmotype Ace (2015; based on a Filmotype script from 1953), Alice (2008, a casual hand-printed design based on a 1958 alphabet by Filmotype), Filmotype Arthur (2015; based on a Filmotype script from 1953), Athens (2014), Filmotype Brooklyn (2009, a casual script based on a 1958 Filmotype font), Filmotype Candy (2012), Filmotype Carmen (2012), Filmotype Hemlock (2013, a retro signage script), Hickory (2014), Filmotype Homer (2014, a brush signage script), Filmotype Hudson (1955, based on a 1955 original), Filmotype Jessy (2009, a flowing upright connected script based on a 1958 design by Filmotype), Filmotype Jupiter (2015; based on a Filmotype brush script from 1958), Filmotype Kellog (2013), Filmotype Lakeside (2013, a retro signage typeface), Filmotype Leader (2013), Filmotype Liberty (2015; based on a Filmotype brush script from 1955), Filmotype Giant (2011, a condensed sans done with Rebecca Alaccari) and its italic counterpart, Filmotype Escort (2011, done with Rebecca Alaccari), Filmotype Keynote (2013, a connected bold advertising script), Filmotype Lacrosse (2013, a retro script from the 1950s sometimes used in department store catalogs of that era), Filmotype LaSalle (2008, based on a 1952 retro script by Ray Baker for Filmotype), Filmotype Harmony (2011, original from 1950 by Ray Baker), Filmotype Kentucky (a 1955 original by Ray Baker), Filmotype Kingston (a 1953 original by Ray Baker), Filmotype Lucky (2012, based on a font by Ray Baker), Filmotype Hamlet (a 1955 original by Ray Baker), Filmotype Panama (2012, a flared casual serif typeface based on a 1958 original), Filmotype Prima (2011, with Rebecca Alaccari), Filmotype Quiet (2010, based on a 1954 military stencil typeface by Filmotype), Filmotype Yale (2012, a wedding invitation script based on a 1964 original by Filmotype), Filmotype York (2014).
Flirt (2005). Based on an art deco typeface found in a Dover specimen book.
P22 Folkwang Pro (2017, at P22). A revival of Hermann Schardt's Folkwang (1949-1955, Klingspor).
Fuckbats (2007).
Fury (2008): an angry techno family.
Gala (2005, expanded in 2017). By Griffin and Alaccari. Gala is the digitization of the one of the most important Italian typefaces of the twentieth century: G. da Milanos 1935 Neon design for the Nebiolo foundry. This designs importance is in being the predecessor - and perhaps direct ancestor - of Aldo Novareses Microgramma (and later Eurostile), which paved the worlds way to the gentle transitional, futuristic look we now know and see everywhere. It is also one of the very first designs made under the direction of Alessandro Butti, a very important figure in Italian design.
Gallery (2004): art deco.
Gamer (2004-2006), by Griffin and Alaccari: modeled after a few 1972 magazine advertisement letters, the origin of which was later identified as a common film type called Checkmate.
Gaslon (2005): a modification of A. Bihari's Corvina Black from 1973.
Gator (2007). A digital version of Friedrich Poppl's Poppl Heavy (1972), which in turn was one of the many responses by type designers to Cooper Black.
Genie (2006): a psychedelic typeface based on a 1970s film type called Jefferson Aeroplane.
Gibson (2011, with Kevin King and Rod McDonald). This 8-style humanist sans family is a revival of McDonald's own Monotype face, Slate. It was named to honour John Gibson FGDC (1928-2011), Rod's long-time friend and one of the original founders of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. All the revenues from its sale will be donated by Canada Type to the GDC, where they will be allocated to a variety of programs aiming to improve the creative arts and elevate design education in Canada.
Go (2005): a techno face.
Goudy Two Shoes (2006): a digitization and expansion of a 1970s type called Goudy Fancy, which originated with Lettergraphics as a film type.
Gumball (2005). A bubblegum font modeled after Richard Weber's 1958 font, Papageno.
Hamlet (2006): medieval. Based on an old type called Kitterland.
Happy (2005). Happy is the digital version of one the most whimsical takes on typewriters ever made, an early 1970s Tony Stan film type called Ap-Ap. Some of the original characters were replaced with more fitting ones, but the original ones are still accessible as alternates within the font. We also made italics and bolds to make you Happy-er.
Heathen (2005). A grunge calligraphic script: The original Heathen was made by redrawing Phil Martin's Polonaise majuscules and superposing them over the majuscules of Scroll, another Canada Type font. The lowercase is a superposition of Scrolls lowercase atop a pre-release version of Sterling Script, yet another Canada Type font.
Hortensia (2009): a semi-script Victorian typeface modeled after Emil Gursch's Hortensia (1900). Codesigned with Rebecca Alaccari.
Hunter (2005). A revival of a brush script by Imre Reiner called Mustang (1956).
Hydrogen (2007, a rounded geometric unicase family.
Informa (2009): a comprehensive 36-style sans serif text family based on traditional lettering. He says: While some typefaces classified as such exhibit too much calligraphy (like Gill Sans, Syntax and Optima), and others tend to favor geometric principles in rhythm and proportion (like Agenda, Frutiger and Myriad), Informa stays true to the humanist ideology by maintaining the proper equilibrium between the two influences that drive the genre, and keeping the humanist traits where they make better visual sense.
Jackpot (2005): The idea for Jackpot came from a photo type called Cooper Playbill, which as the name implies was simply a westernized version of Cooper Black. The recipe was simple: Follow Mr. Coopers big fat hippy idea, cowboy it with heavy slabs, give it true italics, then swash away at both for beautiful mixture. And there you have the bridge between groovy and all-American. There you have the country lover shaking hands with the rock and roll enthusiast. There you have your perfect substitute for the very overused Cooper Black.
Jazz Gothic (2005): an expansion of an early 1970s film type from Franklin Photolettering called Pinto Flare. Image.
Jezebel (2007).
The psychedelic typeface Jingo (2014, with Kevin Allan King): This is the digital makeover and major expansion of a one-of-a-kind melting pot experiment done by VGC and released under the name Mardi Gras in the early 1960s. It is an unexpected jambalaya of Art Nouveau, Tuscan, wedge serifs, curlycues, ball endings, wood type spurs and swashes, geometry and ornamental elements that on the surface seem to be completely unrelated.
Johnny (2006): with Rebecca Alaccari; based on Phil Martin's Harem or Margit fonts from 1969.
Jupiter (2007): based on Roman lettering.
P22 Klauss Kursiv (2018). A revival, at P22, of Karl Klauss's crisp fifties script typeface Klauss Kuriv (1956-1958, Genzsch & Heyse).
Latex (2015). A layered all caps decal typeface.
Leather (2005): an expansion of Imre Reiner's blackletter typeface Gotika (1933).
Libertine (2011). Libertine (done with Kevin Allan King) is an angular calligraphic script inspired by the work of Dutchman Martin Meijer (1930s): This is the rebel yell, the adrenaline of scripts.
Lionheart (2006). A digitization and extension of Friedrich Poppl's neo-gothic typeface Saladin.
Lipstick (2006): handwriting. Plus Lipstick Extras.
Louis (2012). A faithful digital rendition and expansion of a design called Fanfare, originally drawn by Louis Oppenheim in 1927, and redrawn in 1993 by Rod McDonald as Stylu.
Maestro (2009) is a 40 style chancery family, in 2 weights each, with 3350 characters per font, co-designed with calligrapher Philip Bouwsma. This has to be the largest chancery/calligraphy family on earth.
Magellan (2014). A custom stencil typeface.
Martie (2006). Done with Rebecca Alaccari. Based on the handwriting of Martie S. Byrd.
Marvin (2010): a fat cartoon typeface that recalls older Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies lettering.
In 2013, Kevin Allan King and Patrick Griffin revived Georg Trump's transitional typeface Mauritius (1967, Weber).
Memoriam (2009): An extreme-contrast vogue display script which was commissioned by art director Nancy Harris for the cover of the 2008 commemorative issue of the New York Times magazine. He also did the typography and fonts for the 2010 issue. This became an unbelievably successful family, and was extended in 2011 with headline, Outline and Iline variants.
Merc (2007). Based on an all-cap rough-brush metal typeface called Agitator, designed by Wolfgang Eickhoff and published by Typoart in 1960.
Messenger (2010), a calligraphic script. Patrick Griffin writes about Messenger (2010, Canada Type): Messenger is a redux of two mid-1970s Markus Low designs: Markus Roman, an upright calligraphic face, and Ingrid, a popular typositor-era script. Through the original film typefaces were a couple of years apart and carried different names, they essentially had the same kind of Roman/Italic relationship two members of the same typeface family would have. The forms of both typefaces were reworked and updated to fit in the Ingrid mold, which is the truer-to-calligraphy one.
Middleton Brush (2010): a redigitization of R.H. Middleton's connected brush typeface Wave, ca. 1962; see also an early Canada Type face, Coffee Script.
Miedinger (2007). Created after Max Miedinger's 1964 face, Horizontal. Canada Type writes: The original film typeface was a simple set of bold, panoramically wide caps and figures that give off a first impression of being an ultra wide Gothic incarnation of Microgramma. Upon a second look, they are clearly more than that. This typeface is a quirky, very non-Akzidental take on the vernacular, mostly an exercise in geometric modularity, but also includes some unconventional solutions to typical problems (like thinning the midline strokes across the board to minimize clogging in three-storey forms). This digital version introduces a new lighter weight alongside the bold original..
Militia (2007). An octagonal and threatening stencil.
Militia Sans (2007).
Monte Cristo (2012, with Kevin Allan King) is a grand type family with five styles and 1630 characters with many swashes and ways of connecting the calligraphic glyphs---it is the ultimate wedding font.
Neil Bold (2010): an extension of the fat typeface Neil Bold (1966, Wayne J. Stettler).
Nightlife (2005): inspired by a pre-desktop publishing grid design by L. Meuffels.
Nuke (2005): a fat stencil grunge weith pizzazz.
In 2011, he and Kevin Allan King published the refined Orpheus Pro family, which was based on the elegant Orpheus by Walter Tiemann (1926-1928, Klingspor), and its Italic which was called Euphorion (Walter Tiemann, 1936). Their enthusiastic description: The Orpheus Pro fonts started out as a straightforward revival of Tiemann's Orpheus and Euphorion. It was as simple as a work brief can be. But did we ever get carried away, and what should have been finished in a few weeks ended up consuming the best part of a year, countless jugs of coffee, and the merciless scrutiny of too many pairs of eyeballs. The great roman caps just screamed for plenty of extensions, alternates, swashes, ligatures, fusions from different times, and of course small caps. The roman lowercase wanted additional alternates and even a few ligatures. The italic needed to get the same treatment for its lowercase that Tiemann envisioned for the uppercase. So the lowercase went overboard plenty alternates and swashes and ligatures. Even the italic uppercase was augmented by maybe too many extra letters. Orpheus Pro has been a real ride. Images of Orpheus: i, ii, iii, iv, v.
Outcast (2010): a grunge family.
Oxygen (2006): a great grid-based design.
Paganini (2011,(with Kevin Allan King) is another jewel in Canada Type's drawers: Designed in 1928 by Alessandro Butti under the direction of Raffaello Bertieri for the Nebiolo foundry, Paganini defies standard categorization. While it definitely is a classic foundry text typeface with obvious roots in the oldstyle of the Italian renaissance, its contrast reveals a clear underlying modern influence.
The last joint project of King and Griffin in 2012 was Pipa, a pseudo-psychedelic groovy bellydancing font: Originally made for a health food store chain we cannot name, Pipa is the embodiment of organic display typography.
Player (2007). An 11-style athletic lettering family.
Plywood (2007): a retro typeface based on Franklin Typefounders's Barker Flare from the early 1970s.
Press Gothic (2007). A revival of Aldo Novarese's Metropol typeface, released by Nebiolo in 1967 as a competitor to Stephenson Blakes Impact.
Quanta (2005, stencil). Two weights, East and West.
In 2011, Kevin Allan King and Patrick Griffin completed work on an exceptionally beautiful revival, Ratio Modern (the original by F.W. Kleukens is from 1923). This is a didone family with a refined humanist trait.
Rawhide (2006): a bouncy Western saloon font based on cover page lettering of the Belgian comic book series Lucky Luke.
Recta (2011, with Kevin King). This is eighteen-stye sans family that extends Novarese's Recta.
Rhino (2005): a revival of the informal typeface Mobil (1960, Helmut Matheis, Ludwig&Mayer).
Normandia (2021, by Patrick Griffin and Hans van Maanen). A digital revival of the fatface typeface Normandia by Alessandro Butti at Nebiolo (1946-1949).
Noteworthy (2009). A font commissioned for the Apple iPad. It is based on Griffin's earlier revival typeface Filmotype Brooklyn.
Ronaldson Regular (2008, with Rebecca Alaccari), a 17-style oldstyle family based on the 1884 classic by Alexander Kay, Ronaldson Old style (MacKellar, Smith&Jordan). Griffin reconstructed this family from the metal typeface and from many scans from rare documents provided by Stephen O. Saxe, Philippe Chaurize and Rebecca Davis.
Roos (2009): A 10-style revival of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos's De Roos Romein (1948), created in cooperation with Hans van Maanen.
Robur (2010): Done with Kevin King, this set of two fonts revives Georges Auriol's Robur Noir from 1909.
Runway (2004): racetrack lettering.
Rush (2005): futuristic.
Sailor (2005): digital rendition of West Futura Casual (late 1970s film type).
Salden (2019, by Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin). A grand effort to collect the lettering of Dutch book and book cover designer Helmut Salden in a series of typefaces.
Salome (2008). Done with Rebecca Alaccari, this is a revival and expansion of a photolettering era typeface called Cantini (1972, Letter Graphics).
Santini (2004): Bauhaus-inspired architectural lettering.
One of Heinz Schumann's unpublished typefaces from the early 1960s was revived in 2017 by Patrick Griffin and Richard Kegler at P22 as P22 Schumann Pro.
Screener (2006): an extensive octagonal family, including Screener Symbols.
Sears Social (2014). A custom typeface family that includes Sears Social Monocase.
Secret Scrypt (2004): four shaky script styles done for a New York restaurant. With Alaccari.
Semplicita Pro (2011). A grand revival of Alessandro Butti's Futura-like Semplicità, executed between 2009 and 2011 by Patrick Griffin and Bill Troop. Image of the Medium weight.
Shred (2010): an octagonal heavy metal face.
Siren Script (2009-2010): Done with Rebecca Alaccari, this six-style script family is based on the metal typeface Stationers Semiscript (BBS, 1899).
Skullbats (2005).
Serial Killer (2005): bloody.
Slang (2004): a blood scratch face.
Slinger (2010): a flared art nouveau face.
Social Gothic (2007). After Tom Hollingsworth's Informal Gothic, a squarish unicase grotesk done in 1965. Followed by Social Stencil (2011-2012) and Social Gothic 2 (2014).
Soft Press (2012). A rounded version of Canada Type's Press Gothic.
Sol Pro (2010): a 20-style revival and extension of the monoline sans typeface Sol by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith (1973, VGC), done with Kevin Allan King. Griffin writes: This is not your grandfather's Eurostile. This is your offspring's global hope, optimism, and total awareness.
Spade (2012). A super-heavy slab face, done with Kevin King.
Spadina (2010): a psychedelic / art nouveau revival with Kevin Allan King of Karlo Wagner's Fortunata (1971, Berthold).
Sterling Script (2005): done with Rebecca Alaccari. Sterling Script was initially meant to a be digitization/reinterpretation of a copperplate script widely used during what effectively became the last decade of metal type: Stephenson Blake's Youthline, from 1952. Many alternates were added, so this is a virtually new type family.
Sultan: a Celtic-Arabic simulation typeface after "Mosaik" (1954) by Martin Kausche.
Stretto (2008) is a revival and expansion of the reverse stress font Sintex 1 (Aldo Novarese, Nebiolo and VGC, 1973), a funky nightclub face. It was used as the basis of Cowboy Hippie (2010, CheapProFonts). Similar typefaces include ITC Zipper (1970) and Berthold Beat Star (1972).
Symposium Pro (2011). This Carolingian family was drawn by Philip Bouwsma. Patrick helped with the production.
Tabarnak (2012) and its shaded version, Tabarnouche (2012). Lovingly named to attract business from Quebec, this is a packaging or signage pair of fonts.
Taboo (2009) is a geometric display typeface that was inspired by lettering by Armenian artist Fred Africkian in 1984.
Testament (2010): a calligraphic uncial family done with Philip Bouwsma.
Tomato (2005): done with Rebecca Alaccari, this is the digitization and quite elaborate expansion of an early 1970s Franklin Photolettering film type called Viola Flare.
Treasury (2006): a huge type family based on a calligraphic script by Hermann Ihlenburg from the late 19th century. Canada Type writes: The Treasury script waited over 130 years to be digitized, and the Canada Type crew is very proud to have done the honors. And then some. After seven months of meticulous work on some of the most fascinating letter forms ever made, we can easily say that Treasury is the most ambitious, educational and enjoyable type journey we've embarked upon, and we're certain you will be quite happy with the results. Treasury goes beyond being a mere revival of a typeface. Though the original Treasury script is quite breathtaking in its own right, we decided to bring it into the computer age with much more style and functionality than just another lost script becoming digital. The Treasury System is an intuitive set of fonts that takes advantage of the most commonly used feature of todays design software: Layering.
Trump Gothic (2005): a revival and expansion of two different takes on Signum (1955, Weber), Georg Trumps popular mid-twentieth-century condensed gothic: Less than one year after Signum, the Czech foundry Grafotechna released Stanislav Marso's Kamene, a reinterpretation of Signum. The differences between the two were quite subtle in most forms, but functionally proved to offer different levels of visual flexibility. Marso changed a few letters, most notably the wonderful a and g he added, and also made a bold weight. Trump Gothic West is a revival of Trump's original Signum, but in three weights and italics for each. Trump Gothic East is a revival of Marso's Kamene, but also in three weights and corresponding italics.. In 2013, Patrick Griffin redrew and optimized these condensed and ultra-economical typefaces in his Trump Gothic Pro and the rounded version, Trump Soft Pro.
Trump Script (2010) revives the African look script by Georg Trump called Jaguar (1962). An improvement on an earlier Canada type family called Tiger Script.
Tuba (2010).
Valet (2006): inspired by an uncredited early 1970s all-cap film type called Expression.
Veronica Polly (2005).
Vintage Deco (2017).
Vox (2007): a 24-style monoline sans family done with Rebecca Alaccari. This was followed in 2013 by a softer version, Vox Round.
Wagner Grotesk (2010): a sturdy grotesk, after a typeface from the Johannes Wagner foundry. Kevin King is also credited.
Wagner Script Pro (2011). Done together with Kevin King, this is a revival of Troubadour (1926, Wagner&Schmidt).
King and Patrick Griffin published Wonder Brush in 2012. This is partly based on a signage brush script called Poppl Stretto (1969) by Friedrich Poppl.
Opentype programming help for several fonts by Michael Doret, such as Deliscript (2009), Dynascript (2011) and Steinweiss Script (2010). Deliscript (a winner at TDC2 2010) is an upright connected script with accompanying slanted version. Steinweiss Script is a 2200-glyph curly script typeface called Steinweiss Script (2010), which captures a lot of the spirit of Steinweiss's album covers from the late 1930s and 1940s.
HWT Tangent (2021, at P22). This revives a Morgans & Wilcox wood typeface known as Tangent in the Hamilton Manufacturing collection (after Hamilton took over Morgans & Wilcox).
Patrick Griffin did the final mastering in 2021 for P22 Underground Pro, which was developed over the years by Richard Kegler (1997), Paul D. Hunt (2007) and finally, Dave Farey (2021) and James Todd (2021). This comes close to being thee ultimate implementation of Johnston's Underground.
Filmotype Andrew (2021). A bold and wide extension of the retro casual script font Filmotype Athens.
Ronaldson Pro (2021). A revision and extension of Griffin's 2006 font, Ronaldson Old Style. It now has four weights and two variable fonts.

Patty King

Californian graphic and type designer who claimed to be influenced by the impressionists. Patty King died in 2002, just after submitting ITC Bette. Check ITC's Women in Type. Her mostly calligraphic typefaces:

ITC Bette (2002, ITC).
ITC Blaze (1995, ITC),
ITC Kick (1995, ITC). A fine calligraphic brush script.
Montana (1996).
ITC Skylark (1995, ITC).
ITC Spirit (1995, ITC).

ITC wrote this after her death, about her last font, ITC Bette: Known to her friends as Patty and her family as Trisha, King grew up in northern California. Though she displayed artistic inclinations at an early age, it wasn't until her mid-twenties that she decided to pursue her talent and returned to college to study graphic design. Patty gravitated easily to calligraphy, lettering, and then typeface design. Over the succeeding years, a diverse list of clients commissioned her services. Sadly, this is the last typeface design ITC will license from Patty King. She succumbed to a prolonged illness just prior to completing the design. At her request, all royalties from the sale of this---and all her other ITC fonts---will be donated to the charity she identified before her passing.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Patty King at MyFonts. View Patty King's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Paul Carlyle

Coauthor with Guy Oring of Letters and Lettering (1938), Layouts and Letterheads (1938) and Learning to Letter (1939). The former book was a big source of inspiration for Nick Curtis and many other type designers. Typefaces based on designs by Carlyle and Oring:

Nick Curtis: Shishka Bob NF (2005), TaraBulbous NF (2008: is a fat-lettered font), Guinness Extra Stout NF (1999), Kynges X NF (2004: a blackletter semi-Lombardic face), Astoria Titling.
Dathan Boardman: Afternoon Tea (2010: art deco).
Anton Scholtz: Nocturne (2012: art deco).
Monogram Fonts (Jim Lyles, Brian Bonislawsky): MFC Redding Monogram (2016), MFC Buttergin Monogram (2018: Tuscan).
Grype (Jim Lyles, Brian Bonislawsky): Decade (2019).
PhotoLettering / House Industries: Quaint or Carlyle Quaint.

Paul D. Hunt
[Pilcrow Type]

Paul Hayden Duensing
[The Private Press and Type foundry]

Paul James Lloyd
[Greater Albion Typefounders (or: GATF)]

Paul K. Martin

No, this is not the prime minister of Canada. He designs type at SignDNA, where I found this bio: Ever since picking up a brush some 20 years ago, Paul Martin has been fascinated with the nuances of hand-rendered type. He believes that type sets the mood for a sign and its message. Paul often uses scripts and casuals to add personality to his customer's signs. After living in Sacramento, California for the past decade, Paul recently returned to northern Illinois. His work has been featured in SignCraft magazine several times, and has also been on the cover. His typefaces: Caz Fat, El Sid (holiday script), Journeyman, WarBird (great brush typeface with a bit of an oriental touch), Qwikscribble, RaceCarChisel (3d face), FastEddie, Squirt (upright, calligraphic).

Klingspor link. Sign DNA link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Paul Shaw

Paul Shaw (b. Ann Arbor, MI, 1954) is a calligrapher, type historian, writer and typographer working in New York City, where he runs Paul Shaw/Letter Design, and teaches calligraphy and typography at Parsons School of Design; and history of graphic design and history of type at the School of Visual Arts. He has created custom lettering and logos for many companies, including Avon, Lord&Taylor, Rolex, Clairol and Estée Lauder. In 2012 Shaw was appointed editor in chief of Codex magazine.

On Ocober 15, 2018, he was attacked in New York City and severly injured. There is a GoFundMe site to help him pay his extensive medical bills.

Designer of the Kolo LP art nouveau family (with Garrett Boge) in 1996 at Letterperfect Design. He was inspired by the lettering of Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Roller, and other members of the Secession, Vienna's turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau movement, in the design of Kolo. Garrett Boge and Paul Shaw made the fun handwriting font Bermuda LP in 1996. At LetterPerfect (which he started with Garrett Boge in 1996), he co-designed Kolo (1996), Tomboy, Beata, Donatello, Ghiberti, Pietra, Pontif (roman capitals), Cresci (roman capitals), Old Claude LP and Uppsala LP (1998) with Garrett Boge. At Agfa/Monotype, you can buy his calligraphic fonts Göteborg LP (1998), Stockholm LP (1998, with Garrett Boge), and Uppsala.

His books:

Coauthor with Peter Bain of Blackletter: Type and National Identity (1998).
Editor of The Eternal Letter Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital (2015, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
A Black Letter Primer (1981).
Letterforms (1986).
The Calligraphic Tradition in Blackletter Type (2001).
Helvetica and the New York City Subway System (2009).

At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the revival of the roman capital in the 15th century, and lettering in fascist Italy. At ATypI 2017 in Montreal, he spoke on the evolution of Dwiggins's Electra. Paul Shaw has been honored with the 2019 SOTA Typography Award.

Paul Veres
[Calligraphics]

Paul Worthy

Gloucester, UK-based designer of Calligraphic Script (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Paulina Aliaga Barros

Graphic designer in Santiago, Chile. During her studies at Eina in Barcelona in 2008, she designed the calligraphic typeface Republica. [Google] [More] ⦿

Paulo Heitlinger

Portuguese author of Tipografia: origens, formas e uso das letras (2006, Paulo Heitlinger, Lisbon) and Alfabetos, Caligrafia e Tipografia (2010, Lisbon). Born in Lisbon, he studied nuclear physics in Germany. He lectured on communication design at the Universidade do Algarve. His pages (in Portuguese) are quite complete, with a great glossary, a beautiful section on the history of type, a mag called Cadernos de Tipografia, links to type design in the world in general, and in Brazil, Spain and Portugal in particular, and more general information on type. Font-making how to. Useful timeline of 16th century writing manuals. An absolute must. He has also created or revived a number of typefaces, which can be bought on-line.

An incomplete list of his typefaces:

Sinalética: A sober serif typeface for excellent legibility.
CantoneirosRegular (2008), Cantoneiros-Thin (2008): art deco / avant-garde.
Transito (2008): the famous 1930s stencil face of Jan Tschichold at Lettergieterij Amsterdam, with reinvented forms for f, g and y. [Note: the pic on the right-hand-side is Transito, as grabbed from Heitlinger's page---the grammatical error is not mine.]
Sturmblond-Medium (2008): Revival of simple lettering of Herbert Bayer.
Bayer Condensed: Revival of simple lettering of Herbert Bayer.
Imperatorum (2008)
Ratdoldt (2008): a blackletter typeface made from scans, and attributed to Erhard Ratdolt.
Valentim (2008): a blackletter typeface made from scans of the book Vita Christi. Named after Valentim Fernandes, a printer active in Lisbon, ca. 1480-1519.
Incunabulo Normalizado (2008): a blackletter typeface made from scans of the book Vita Christi.
Uhertype-Medium (2007): Revival of another Bauhaus era typeface, by Joost Schmidt.
Arkitekto: A Bauhaus style piano key font based on an image found in a book of Kurt Weidemann.
His Spanish collection includes Bastarda de Francisco Lucas, a versão espanhola da Cancelleresca italiana do século XVI. Um ponto alto da Caligrafia del Siglo de Oro.
Redondilla de Francisco Lucas, a penmanship font based on Arte de Escribir (1577).
Gótica Rotunda Gans.
Juan Bravo, based on azulejos (tiles).
Segovia, a titling font.
Centauro, a decorative font.
Kurrsiva, inspired by scripts from the 1960s.
Deco de Avila, an avant-garde face.Bertrand (2008): an art deco typeface patterened after the shop sign of Livraria Bertrand in Chiado, Lisbon.
Rotunda:
Visigotica: based on the calligraphic writings of the 10th and 11th centuries. This font has many alternates. Based on scans of a text of the 10th century called Actas de Concilio de Caledonia de 451. Styles: Imperatorum, Isidoro.
Typefaces based on the calligraphic work of Francisco Lucas, 1570: Bastarda de Lucas Italic (2009), Bastarda de Lucas (2009), Redondilla de Lucas (2009).
Uncialis (2009): a Lombardian type based on a 16th century model of Giralde de Prado.
Escolar Portugal (Fino, Forte) and Escolar Brasil are school fonts of the "upright connected script" style that were made in 2008. For more on didactic fonts, read the booklet Caderno de Tipografia e Design Nr. 14 (March 2009).

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Paulo Pires

Graphic designer in Limeira, Brazil, who created the calligraphic / blackletter font family Gothyres (2014). One of its styles, Gothyres Capitular Musicalm, is designed for music event posters. [Google] [More] ⦿

Paulo W
[Intellecta Design (or: Monocracy Types)]

Paulus Franck

Designer of a set of curly baroque initials in Nürnberg in 1601, published in Schatzkammer. Allerhand Versalien. The original book was scanned in at the BSB (Bayerische Staats Bibliothek and can be downloaded.

Joseph Kiermeier-Debre and Fritz Franz Vogel published a facsimile that can be seen at Google Books and at Amazon (Ravensburger Buchverlag, 1998).

A penmanship book due to Paulus (or Paul) Franck from 1655 under the title Kunstrichtige Schreibart: allerhand Versalien oder AnfangsBuchstaben der teütschen, lateinischen und italianischen Schrifften aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen was published in 1655 in Nürnberg by Paul Fürst (ca. 1605-1666) and printed by Christoph Gerhard (1624-1681). This text, of which some pictures can be viewed here, consists largely of hyper-ornamental blackletter initials.

Franck's über-ornamental decorative caps were revived digitally in several typefaces:

PaulusFranckInitialen (2002) was created by Dieter Steffmann based on those initials, but they are apparently incomplete.
Paulo W (Intellecta Design) created the font Paulus Franck 1602 (2006).

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Pavel Drakunov

Art director and calligrapher based in Moscow. In 2017, he published the wonderfully dramatic free vector format semi-uncial calligraphic typeface Beresta for Latin and Cyrillic, and the free experimental slavonic emulation typeface Mart. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pavel Korzhenko
[Vintage Voyage Design]

Pavel Kuzanyan

Also written Kusanyan. Russian type designer, book designer, graphic artist, illustrator and calligrapher, who lived in Moscow, 1901-1992. Creator of calligraphic typefaces such as PT Decor (1979), which was digitized at ParaType in 1989 by Gennady Baryshnikov with the assistance of Vladimir Yefimov. He made the severe typeface Granit in 1966 at Polygraphmash type design bureau. He also made Mir, Pushkinskiy dekorativnyi (1970), Narrow Modern Antique (1958), and the text families Kuzanyan and Neva (digital version and bold styles were designed for ParaType in 2002 by Lyubov Kuznetsova). ParaType link. Scan of a Cyrillic alphabet from 1967.

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Pavel Zertsikel

Pavel Zertsikel (Rostov na Donu, Russia) has some nice calligraphic examples. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pawel Burgiel

Kielce, Poland-based type designer who was born in 1971 in Kielce. Since 2010 he has been working as a freelance graphic and type designer. He created these typefaces:

Peppo (2012). A feisty informal script family.
Arsinoe (2012). A condensed geometric typeface noted for its unorthodox long ascenders and low x-height.
Althea (2015). Free.
Ethlinn. A Gaelic uncial typeface.
Carbonium (2015) and Carbonium OSF (2015). Cursive text typefaces.
Longa Iberica (2015). A tall-ascendered mediaeval typeface.
Uranos (2016). A geometric display typeface.
Fusione (2016). A scribbly multiline typeface.
Rufus Script (2016). A connected penmanship font inspired by Palmer method of business writing.
Hamerslag (2017). A very condensed serif typeface.
PB Roman Uncial IIc (2018).
PB Capitalis Rustica IVc (2018). A fourth century roman calligraphic script.
PB Carolingian Xc (2018). A Carolingian miniscule typeface that imitates manuscripts from the 10th century.
PB Beneventan XIc (2018). In the style of the Beneventan minuscule (also called Lombardic, Casinense, Langobarda, Littera Longobarda and Longobardisca) from southern Italy found in 11th century manuscripts.
PB Roman Uncial Vc (2018). Based on Roman uncial writing style found in manuscripts from the 4th and 5th centuries.
Red Amaretto (2018). A nibbed pen font.

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PB Types (was: Handmadetypes)
[Peter Becker]

German designer (now based in Paris) who started out specializing in logotypes, and then spent a few years at URW in Hamburg in the type production department, before moving to Paris as a freelance designer. In 2018, he set up PB Types. His (mostly script) typefaces:

The beautiful calligraphic brush script typeface Meroe Pro (2012, Linotype).
The free Jensonian typeface Vinta (2014).
Rena. An old style typeface.
Treveris. A Trajan font.
Manus Scripts.
Whiskas.

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Peach Creme
[Gulya Yeap]

Gulya Ju or Gulya Yeap is a Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designer who specializes in calligraphic, penmanship and wedding script typefaces. Her fonts in 2017: The Styled Edit, Maison de Fleur, Adora Boutron, Wild Moon, Oh Darling, Eternal Paris Script.

In 2018, she designed Balzak, Faustine, Antoinetta (a wonderful wild calligraphic script), Breathe Poetry (boudoir calligraphy), Bonjour (a modern calligraphic typeface), Agonia Lyubvi (a calligraphic script for Latin and Cyrillic), Darling Modern, Floral Theory, Roseberry&Beatrice, Santorini (a luxury signature font), Blush Society, Sophia Ronald, Beloved Gray (a delicate swashy calligraphic script) and Floral Hearts.

Typefaces from 2019: Modernista (script), Sugar Bade, Elegantessa, Haute Atelier, Hermitage (calligraphic script), Lolita (script), Blackstone (an inky script), Manuscript 1284 (fine art calligraphy), La Bohemia, Saint Gerald, Bellmont, Dostoevsky (calligraphy), Feminist, Bloom Pretty.

Typefaces from 2020: Chic Societe, Abramo (Serif, Script), Houstonfield, Baltazak (an inky and wonderfully messy script typeface; this is just Balzak), Leyla Mark, Julie Edgar (a signature script), Printed Moments, Adorn Story (a delicate decorative serif and script pair).

Typefaces from 2021: Palm Honey (an inky script), Romes (a stylish mini-wedge serif), Floristica (script), Chelsie Hilton (a signature script), Honey Vineyard (script), Chocolate Peaches (a scrapbook script), Luxe Atelier (a signature script), Printed Moments (script), Raks (a curvy display typeface), Petite Kisses (script), Palm&Honey (script), August Roma (a font duo).

Typefaces from 2022: The Stylish Babes (a thin script), Autumn Melody (a wild script), Blackberry Macarons (a script family for Viennese coffee shops or quaint Cape Cod stores), Small Business Club (a fat finger script), Vintage Heirloom (a stylish wild penmanship script), Southern Margarita (a great wild calligraphic script), Maribon Script (a font dup consisting of a script and a fashionable all caps sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pedro Alexandre Teixeira
[Pedro Teixeira Foundry]

Pedro de Flórez

Spanish Jesuit father and penman, who lived around 1600. He published Método del Arte de Escribir (1614, Madrid, Luys Sánchez), a book in which he teaches how to write and draw Bastarda. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pedro de Madariaga

Author in Valencia of Libro Subtilissimo intitulado Honra de escribanos (1565), a writing manual. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pedro Díaz Morante

Spanish penman, calligrapher and engraver, 1565-1636. He lived in Toledo from 1591 on and moved to Madrid in 1612. He published Arte nueva de escribir in which he explains his system for teaching cursive writing, published in five volumes between 1615 and 1631. He was respected as a great penman, who, incidentally, was ambidexterous.

Scans: a calligraphic drawing of Felipe IV in 1624, a Spanish Bastarda (1624), a chancery hand (1630).

For digital typefaces based on Morante's work, check out Ramiro Espinoza's Dulcinea (2012).

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Pedro G. Lomba

Visual communication designer in Nova Iguacu, Brazil. He created the calligraphic typeface Oval in 2013 on the basis of Allessandro Butti's and Aldo Novarese's Athenaeum (1945). It was a school project in the class of Paula Soares.

In 2014, he started work on Gill Bright.

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Pedro González Jorquera
[PeGGO]

Pedro Leal

Pedro Leal graduated in graphic design and advertising from the ESEIG-Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Engenharia in Vila do Conde, Portugal, and lives in Porto. In 2010 he obtained a degree in type design at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Matosinhos) and started working at DSType. MyFonts link. Behance link.

He used FontStruct in 2008 to create the pixel typeface Minimal 8pt (514 glyphs!). In 2010, he created the text family Mafra at DSType. This was followed a bit later by Mafra Display (2010; +Medium, +Black). Apud and Apud Display (2010, DSType) are high-contrast typefaces.

Penna (2011) is a calligraphic type system. Braga (2011, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal, DS Type) is a layered font design family. Dino writes: Braga is an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a Portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colourful typographic designs.

In 2012, he designed User, User Stencil and User Upright>/a>, a monospaced type family with 30 styles, from Hairline to Bold. This too will many awards. Girga (+Italic, +Engraved, +Banner, +Stencil) is a strong black Egyptian family designed together with Dino dos Santos at DS Type. Solido (2012, with Dino dos Santos, DS Type) is a versatile type system with five widths: Solido, Solido Constricted, Solido Condensed, Solido Compressed and Solido Compact. In total there are 35 fonts. In 2020, a variable font was added to Solido.

In 2012, he created the sans family Global, with its own dedicated web site, The Global Font. In 2013, he followed that up with the Global Stencil typeface family.

In 2013, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal published Diversa, a set of nine very different fonts that are jointly kerned so that letters can be swapped out and replaced at will. Diversa Std (2014) extends this to include Stencil, Inline and other decorative styles. Pedro Leal's main typeface of 2013 is Aparo, a script that is calligraphic, yet keeps the characteristics of penmanship scripts, and the pizzazz of a good fashion font.

In 2014, he published Ocre and Ocre Poster in sans and slab serif substyles inspired by W.A. Dwiggins, Torio, a penmanship script based on a style used in Arte de Escribir por Reglas y con Muestras (1798, by Spanish penman Torcuato Torío de la Riva y Herrer). Torio received the Communication Arts Type Award of Excellence in 2014.

In 2015, he created the large Rudo and Rude Slab typeface families that exhibit many humanist traits: Rude ExtraWide, Rude Icons, Rude SemiCondensed, Rude SemiWide, Rude Wide, Rude, Rude Condensed, Rude ExtraCondensed, Rude Slab, Rude Slab Condensed, Rude Slab ExtraCondensed, Rude Slab ExtraWide, Rude Slab SemiCondensed, Rude Slab SemiWide, Rude Slab Wide, Rude Slab, Rude Slab Condensed, Rude Slab ExtraCondensed, Rude Slab ExtraWide, Rude Slab SemiCondensed, Rude Slab SemiWide, Rude Slab Wide. Early in 2015, he also did a custom typeface family for the Jornal de Notícias, including sans, serif and micro sub-styles. Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal published Jules and Jules Text in the summer of 2015---a fat fashion mag didone 45-style family inspired by several plates from Portuguese calligrapher Antonio Jacintho de Araujo; it comes in Big, Colossal and Epic. Ecra is a workhorse slab serif, also done in 2015. Viska (2015, by Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal) is designed for small print. Finally, TCF Zellige (2015, TypeCult) is a modular typeface inspired by the tiles that can be found in Southern Europe and North Africa.

Typefaces from 2016: Oposta (Italian, Western style pushed to the esthetic extreme; received the Communication Arts Type Award of Excellence in 2017), Ardina (with Dino dos Santos: a text typeface family with three optical sizes).

Typefaces from 2017: Scrittore (a heavy dark Italian bastarda influenced by the connected hand of Giovanniantonio Tagliente and Robert Granjon's Civilité; at DS Type), Zart (a voluptuous ebullient black didone, or fat face; +Script). Fusta (a gorgeous wood-type inspired poster typeface), Ordem (a low-contrast contemporary Capitalis Monumentalis).

Typefaces from 2018: Glitched (an experimental variable spacing font), Striver (a crisp contrasted curvy display typeface), Certo Slab and Certo Sans, Foreday (a forward-looking typeface family with associated variable font, covering sans, serif, semi-sans and semi-serif), Perfil (an inline and swashy high end script).

Typefaces from 2019: Akut (a purely angular typeface with some rounded corners), Denso (by Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal: a great condensed variable font with weight, serif and optical size axes), Jornada (a multistyle family with a Fraktur, a chancery, a bookish style called Libro, a news text serif, a clean sans, a slab serif, a monospace, and a penmanship script, all in one family dubbed hygienic post-punk by Leal).

In 2020, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal designed Larga, which was inspired by the typefaces shown in the specimens of the Fundiçãao Typographica Portuense from 1874. Larga is a wide all caps family and comes with a variable opentype format. Pedro also designed Effigy (a text typeface with slightly ballooning stems), Haste (a typeface that flirts with reverse contrast), Mescla and Enorme (an ultra massive and modular 3000-glyph mastodont of a font, together with Dino dos Santos; based on constructivist principles) in 2020.

Typefaces from 2021: Orla (a straightforward interpretation of the Skeleton Antique No2 from the Stephenson, Blake & Co. foundry; for the sans, the serifs were removed), Elaine (+Ombre, +Fleurer; a complete baroque / Elzevir family influenced by Jacques-François Rosart in its ornamental styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pedro Teixeira Foundry
[Pedro Alexandre Teixeira]

Pedro Alexandre Vilas Boas Teixeira is a Porto, Portugal-based type designer. Creator of the monoline gemetric organic sans typeface Constantine (2012). In 2016, he designed the comic book typeface Crazy Cartoon, the brush script Forever Brush Script, the sans typeface Rabelo, Westkreep (a wide wood type typeface), the tall cigarette typeface Long Tall Palito and the rounded sans typeface Sogu.

Typefaces from 2017: Signaturistar, Toxic Marker (dry brush), Scratched Brush Script, Serene Textured (script), Feris Script, Boemia, Savage Adventure (brush script), Casual Mark Script, Rough Beauty Script, Cartoon US Presidents.

Typefaces from 2018: Constancia Script (a thin refined calligraphic script), Bow Tie (script), Black Fox (upright script).

Typefaces from 2019: Aleante Sans (+a variable font option, Lets Get Crazy (script+sans), Stylish Marker.

Typefaces from 2020: Ungap Blocks Variable, Cursive Signa Script Variable (a signature script), Zinekiss.

Typefaces from 2021: Ayaha (a signage script), Xanas Wedding (a thin calligraphic signature font in 22 styles), Haeock (an 8-style slab serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Spaxel (a pixelated video game font).

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Pedro Yan
[Yanin Design]

PeGGO
[Pedro González Jorquera]

Type designer graphic designer, calligrapher and illustrator from Chile, who graduated in graphic design in 2005 from the Universidad del Bío-Bío., b. 1977, Santiago de Chile. Aka PeGGO, a foundry established in 2002. MyFonts link. PeGGO designed some commercial fonts, such as:

Farola (2008, a curly Victorian face; +Farola Simple, without curls).
PAI Fashion Font (2011).
Legan (2008, a mini-serifed Trajan face).
Thörtl (an angular display face).
Gothric (gothic).
Claramaria (sans).
Claramaria Mega Black, Claramaria Extra Light (hairline version).
Fonton (a fat elliptical face; images i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x). I can't understand why Fonton has not won any major awards. Even in this popular genre, it stands on a pedestal all by itself.
Cuadrada (2010, angular).
Lighton Extra Light (2011). An elliptical hairline sans.
Trianglery (2010, calligraphic).
Politic (+ExtraLight, +ExtraBlack: a slabbed family).
Bolta.
Minesmall (hand-printed).
SP-Font (squarish).
Halcön (2008, blackletter).
Krämfark (2008, blackletter).
Milica (2013). A squarish severe poster typeface family.
Hexaround (2013) is a dotted hexagonal matrix font.
Latinisiert Hebraica Schrift (2014). A Hebrew simulation typeface.
Double Trase Latinsiert Fraktur Schrift (2014) is a calligraphic blackletter alphabet.
Limonada (2015). An organic semi-serif typeface.
Ironbrick (2015). Pure techno futurism.
Sharka (2015). A mechanical high impact display typeface family ranging from Normal to Compressed widths.
Globa (2016). Globa is a low contrast round sans typeface family.
Niva (2016). A 60-style display sans typeface family advertized for use in scientific documents.
Primaria (2018). A great school script and print typeface family.
The commissioned decorative typeface family Roijer (2016), and Roijer Ornaments, Roijer Dingbats, and Roijer II (2017). This absolutely stunning display typeface family evolved from a branding exercise in which each letter was developed as typographic jewelry, a bond between classical and creative freedom concepts with Lombardic and art nouveau touches, Röijer puts a dual capital model in your hands---a classic Roman and a contemporary alternative.
LeBrush (2016). A contemporary humanist serif Roman typeface based on real brush lettering, in ten styles ranging from Thin to Extra Dark, inspired by the classical Roman proportions of the Capitalis Monumentalis of the Trajan Column. It comes with several dingbat fonts and a set of ornaments. The family could be appropriate for movie titling.
Animals LeBrush Extras (2016): a set of hand drawings of wild mountain and sea animals done for book covers, magazines and posters.
Geometrica (2017, Latinotype). Geometrica is a low contrast rounded geometric Sans with a mid 19th/early 20th century simplicity air yet it remains modern and minimalist. Geometrica has ten weights.
Caprina (2017). A geometric sans family with the flat squarish tops that characterize the original Futura and the work of Max Bill.
In 2018, Pedro Gonzalez and Marcela Aguilera co-designed Orqquidea and Orqquidea Garden (dingbats).
Rationell (2020). Classifying it as neo-grotesk, Pedro writes: Rationell is a functional multipurpose corporate typeface, based on classic 1950's Swiss rationalism, subtly tuned on a XIX century didonesque modernist structure, a contemporary interpretation with the eyes of the Latin idiosyncrasy. Rationell's great weight range stretches from hairline to extra black, with rounding in the heavier weights.
Geometrica (2019). A low contrast geometric sans family.
PGF Now (2020). A 22-style Latin American humanist sans family.
PGF Strange (2021). A thorny layerable display serif family in eight styles.
PGF Caprina Pro (2021). An audacious geometric sans in 20 styles with some of Renner's early ideas of surprising squarish glyphs.
PGF Americas (2021). A 15-style family inspired by Rudolf Koch's carved lettering; this family includes ornaments, dingbats, boxed initials, inline styles, and an array of sans display typefaces.

Calligraphic works include L'Ecole d'Fine Arts (2009), Latinisiert Fraktur Neue (2014), Paradise Duck, Eclesiastes (based on "La Rueda" of Sheila Waters, 1981).
Creative Market link. Behance link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pehuen Ciastkowski

Designer of Pehuensito (2008), a calligraphic face. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pen Culture (or: End Co; was: Stripline Co)
[Revo Farisky]

Aka Barthleby. Magelang, Indonesia-based designer (b.1998) who set up Pen Culture in 2018. Creator of Qonquer (2018: sans), Millanova (2018: script), Bernaillo (2018: script), Bathey (2018: calligraphic; free demo), Cassadio (2018: calligraphic script), Cattalonia (2018), Hadfield (2018) and Attaliand (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Monatta (script), Dellmonte Sans (font duo), Brandon Smith (a monoline script), Sieroty, Zettama, Abenda, Anitto, Dallard, The Great Sunday.

Typefaces from 2020: Bintang, Gather, Houston (a signage font), The Blue Font, Ocean Road, Garland (a dry brush script), The Nougat Font, Gilliany Signature, Santana, Romedance (a monoline script), Otamendi, Ruttany (script), Anarchy (a dry brush script), Fiordland, Valment, Medalion (script), Goudart, Paradiso, Chronicle, Willion, Scotland, Thailand, Paranoid (monoline script), Sheltone, Ralline.

Typefaces from 2022: Garland Glamour (a dry brush script). Creative Fabrica link. Creative Fabrica link for End Co. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Penciak

Polish type designer who created the calligraphic typeface Lubol. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pere Esquerra
[Smart Designs]

Persian Calligraphy by Yadolah Kaboly-Khansari

Gorgeous Nastalique writing. [Google] [More] ⦿

Perspectype

Papua-based partner of Letterena Studios in Indonesia. In 2021, their catalog showed these free (mostly script or signature) fonts: AlishaGishela, AllindaLight, amalianurse, AmantariaBeauty, AmorillanOrgendam, AmsterdamLaviera, AmsterdamSignature, AndyttaSelya, ApriliaMarelo, Aprilisa, AulliaBeauty, AuthenticCalisttera, BabyShower, BalenciaLattive, BALLOONDREAMS, BastianRichardo, BelacOrlan, BelindaHeylove, BeratoneEmadre, BerlineSpark, BeterniteLimited, BetterLovely, BlueBird, BrilliantSignature, BuffaloCity, BulgariaEmilton, Bullgeria, ButterflyGlorista, ButterflyHellyna, ButterflyHoliday, CandyDino, Cardrone, CastteloSignature, ChameliaBlinkar, CharlottePharly, cheesefoodies, ClaraSherly, ClarlisseDawson, Collinsaber, CutieDelina, DandelionPelangi, Darinella, DEARHONEY, Deirma, DeliaMonogram, DelrosaHoliday, DerlinataSpace, Derllina, DettinaLaura, DominicLaurence-Italic, DrawingKids, DreamsKuliah, EmelyDays, Emelylove, FarmhouseMorning, Ferttigra, FuturisticCaligraph, FuturisticSignature, Hafizah, HandoverSignature, HandwrittenDreams, happyfloral, Hercutes, herlitta, HestteroidBrilliant, Hiratheria, HirestariLove, HolidayMantilda, HumairaMonogram, HuttanCerote, IndonesiaCeriwise, JackyBoys, JanjiCinta, Kagemasha, KalingtoneBrilliant, LambertaSignature, LemonDelight, LemonteBuster, Lightshoot, LolyttaRenda, LombokBeach, loveerlia, LovelyBeralyna, LovingParis, MariraBinttang, MarlytaLovely, MenttariSparkle, MichiganCustom, Namashte, NotedParty, PartyRocky, PatrickHinton, PattersonSouthern-Italic, PIXELCRAFT, PortofolioBrilliant, Prilistale, PrincesGabriela, RafaelaMonogram, RafaestyWigera, RaflesttaElisha, Rallystta, RichardoKenedy, RoslittaAganta, RosteraSignature, RotherdamSignature, Rubie, Sandershon, sarahbetty, SepiaLove, SilvanaBright, Simphonitta, StephensonBrandon, SummerBeach, SummerFlowers, SummerLovely, SweetCake, Syahrinelove, SymphonyCalligraphy, Tametogde, TheCaliforniaHustle, TheCralingtonSignature, TheLimited, TheSundayLovely, TomcatLikely, Tomihesta, TwinkleSpark, venttawatter, VictoryGustina, VierastiMonogram, WashingtonCalligraphy-Italic, WashingtonLifestyle, WashingtonSignature, WonderfulRendola, YumeiraMonogram, ZiviliamMonogram.

The 2021 catalog at Creative Market contains Amattera Million, Amsterdam Billionaire, Amsterdam Lentteria, Anatasya Lenttera, Anthony Hunter, Auristtela Patricia, Barbara Lattvia, Barfield Lady, Bastian Richardo, Belinda Heylove, Belistaria, Bentila Signate, Better Lovely, Brittanyhustle, Calistta Mentali, Catalish Huntera, Cathrina Belisha, Cattya Brown, Christopher, Delisha Glande, Dominic Laurence, Ferttigra, Frederick Alexander, Futuristic Rottesla, Gabriela Ragile, Harietta Bulmer, Jamesttedy, Manttulda Philliph, Masteria, Mountain, Muttiara Pagi, Patricia, Patterson Southern, Pattricia Michella, Rafaela Salitha, Raflestta Elisha, Renatta, Richard Signatera, Richardo Kenedy, Richards Frederick, Rosalinda Berlinata, Rostera Signature, Simphony Brushe, Strongela Delmonte, Victory Gustina, Washington, William Victory. [Google] [More] ⦿

Peter Becker
[PB Types (was: Handmadetypes)]

Peter Fraterdeus
[Fraterdeus Web Log]

Peter Gericke

A true artist, designing wonderful Caps and initials in München. I really like the erotic initials. None of these seem to have been made into fonts though. Author of Typografische Magazin (1995), a book showing full character sets for 94 Fraktur typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Peter Gilderdale
[Calligraphic comment]

Peter Holliday

Art and design historian. Author of Edward Johnston: Master Calligrapher (2007, Oak Knoll Press and the British Library). Oak Knoll's blurb: This book looks afresh at Johnston's work and legacy. It considers his friendships and his philosophy, the people he worked with and the influence he had on them and others. Importantly it gives details of the setting up of the craft community at Ditchling in Sussex and the craftspeople who were all drawn to the village as a result. [Google] [More] ⦿

Peter Langpeter

German illustrator, cartographer, calligrapher, and logo and typedesigner who has his own studio, LP Design, since 1995. Designer of the classical script typeface LP Pinselschrift (2009, URW++), the bush script LP Pinsel Satt (2013, URW++), and the signage / bamboo script typeface LP Bambus (2009, URW++).

LP Saturnia (2013, URW++) and LP Saturnia Sans (2017, URW++) is a roman antiqua typeface: The aim was to create a modern interpretation of the classical Roman letters (Capitalis Monumentalis or Trajan by Carol Twombly), avoiding the archaic look of these letter forms.

LP Philharmonia (2014; +Outline in 2017) is a one-style didone typeface. In 2015, he designed the Peignotian typeface family LP Lazise (Regular, Lapidar, SemiSerif, Serif), and published it in the URW Fontforum collection.

In 2016, still at FontForum URW++, he published LP Hand Eins and the slightly tapered lapidary typeface LP Cervo.

Typefaces from 2017: LP Harmonia (calligraphic). LP Horizont Caps.

Peter Martin
[Awami Nastaliq]

Peter Olexa
[Cruzine]

Peter Rempel
[PR Fonts]

Peter Rosenfeld
[Profonts]

Peter Schoeffer

Peter Schöeffer, a calligrapher, was an assistant to Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, through the years of preparation necessary for the printing of the 42 line Bible, in 1455. Schöeffer designed the font under Gutenberg's supervision, during the preceding years. The font was a very accurate imitation of the best manuscript style of the period, and it contained nearly 300 letters, ligatures, and abbreviations. Later in 1455, Gutenberg lost his business to Johann Füst, but Schöeffer stayed on with the new owner. In 1459, Schöeffer designed the first "transitional" typeface from Gothic to Roman and it was used in the publication of Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by Guillaume Durand (Durandus). Some of the upper-case characters have full roman shapes and several of the lower case characters are noticeably rounded. Example of Schoeffer's early Schwabacher, created in Mainz in 1465. His son, Peter the Younger, moved to Mainz and carried on the trade.

Among digital revivals, see Psalterium (2012, Alter Littera), Schoeffer GP Roman (2015, Philippe Gauthier), and Germanica (2010, Seamas O'Brogain).

Fust&Schoeffer-Durandus-GoticoAntiqua118G (2016-2019, Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas, ANRT, France) is a recent revival of Durandus. Faudot and Ribas write Durandus's 118G Gotico-Antiqua was first used in Mainz by Peter Schoeffer and Johann Fust for Guillaume Durand's Rationale Divinorum Officorum in 1459. The book displays two sizes, the smaller 92G for the main text and the bigger and more contrasted 118G used only for the colophon and later for the famous 48-line Bible in 1462. It was used until the end of the 15th century. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Peter Thornton

Peter Thornton is a professional calligrapher who has taught for over 20 consecutive years in the U.S. [Google] [More] ⦿

Peter Vanroose

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 typeface Calligra15 (1992, metafont), with modifications by S. Dachian in 1999. In 2011, this font was released in type 1 format at CTAN. [Google] [More] ⦿

Peter White

Calligrapher. See this example. [Google] [More] ⦿

Peter Wiegel
[CAT Design Wolgast]

Petra Beisse

Renowned German calligrapher who has a studio in Wiesbaden. At Elsner&Flake in Hamburg she published EF Petras Script (1995) and EF Casanova Script (2006-2007, based on the hand of the real Casanova; with Günther Flake). The latter font was remastered in 2015 by Jessica Franke and Günther Flake for release as EF Casanova Script Pro.

FontShop link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Petra Heidorn
[CybaPeeCreations (or: Typoasis)]

Petterco
[Petterco Bahagia]

Petterco Bahia or Petterco Bahagia is a Beureunuen, Indonesia-based type designer (b. 1992) specializing in calligraphic typefaces. The fonts released in 2019 include Lintingdaon, Brandly, Dellina, Full Charm, Asyila Duo, Butter, Viktoria, Keep Live Simple, Againts, Bribttani, Drame, and Santhiika.

Typefaces from 2021: Fontanely (a Valentine's Day script), Script Betiya (a formal calligraphic typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Petterco Bahagia
[Petterco]

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

Philip Bouwsma

Type designer born in Boston in 1948 who created many exquisite designs such as Alexia (1992), Sallando Italic, Dorothea or Cresci Rotunda. His work shows the influence of masters such as Arthur Baker.

A list of typefaces done for Agfa (which became Monotype): Alligators (dingbats), Aureus Uncial, Bollatica (a blackletter script), Carmela, Connach (a Gaelic font), Corvallis (1995), Cresci Rotunda (a rotunda), Dorothea, Francesca (1994), Hrabanus (1994, Monotype: Based on the lettering of Hrabanus Maurus, c. 776-856, archbishop of Mainz and author of many commentaries on the scriptures), Lexie's Animals, Ludovico, LudovicoWoodcut, Makondo (tribal glyphs), Mantegna (named after the renaissance era engraver Andrea Mantegna), Mariposa, Mariposa Sans, Mexican Birds, Borders&Symbols, Monmouth (1994, a Lombardic / blackletter face), Neuhengen, Ophelia Italic, Palatino Rotundo, Percival, Poggio Bookhand, Pompeii Capitals, Ramsey (1997, Lombardic face), Sallando Italic, Southwest (dingbats), Synthetica (1996), Thalia Italic, Trieste, van der Hoef Capitals (Monotype, an art deco typeface after 1920 lettering by Dutch artist Christian van der Hoef), and Wolfdance.
At Alphabets Inc: Alexia (1992; a broad nib font), Benedict Uncial, BouwsmaScript, Juliana and Weissenau.
A complete list of all Philip Bouwsma fonts on the Creative Alliance v9.0 CD: Alligators (1994, letters made up from alligators), Aqua Life (2005), Carmela, Clemente Rotunda, Corvallis (1995), Corvallis Oblique, Corvallis Sans, Corvallis Sans Oblique, Dorothea, Fransesca Gothic (1996, Lombardic / blackletter style), Hrabanus, Lexie's Animals, Lombardic Capitals (1994, Monotype), Ludovico Smooth, Ludovico Smooth Flourishes, Mariposa, Mariposa Bold, Mariposa Book, Mariposa BookItalic, Mariposa Black, Mariposa Medium, Mariposa Sans, Mariposa Sans Bold, Mariposa Sans Book, Mariposa Sans BookItalic, Mariposa Sans Black, Mariposa Sans Medium, Mexican Birds, Polenta Black Italic, Polenta Italic, Ter Gast, Ter Gast Alternates, Wolfdance, Wolftrack, Schildersblad Capitals (Dutch deco, at Monotype), Tresillian Roman, Tresillian Script (1999: a calligraphic script).
From 2005 on, he started publishing his typefaces at Canada Type. There he published a fantastic calligraphic blackletter-inspired family, Torquemada, and Bouwsma Script (2006), an extension of his 1994 handwriting face. Still at Canada Type, he updated Alexia in 2006, and added Luminari in 2008, a Lombardic / uncial font influenced by the prolific humanist Poggio Bracciolini from the early fifteenth century (+Greek, +Cyrillic, +Celtic). The 8-style Bouwsma Text (2008, Canada Type) is a full-bodied truly "roman" family well worth visiting. The 5-style calligraphic script family Mirabel (2008, Canada Type) is based on the handwriting of Beverly Bouwsma (Philip's mother), which she developed in the 1930s. Styx (2008, Canada Type) is a 4-font connected calligraphic script family with rough and smooth variations. But his grandest achievement at Canada Type is perhaps Maestro (2009), a 40 style chancery family, in 2 weights each, with 3350 characters per font, co-designed with Patrick Griffin. Still in 2009, he designed the 6-style calligraphic Tupelo family. In 2010, his main contribution, with Patrick Griffin, is the calligraphic uncial Testament II. His Lorenzo family (2010, Canada Type) is has both chancery and calligraphic styles. In 2011, he published the Carolingian script family Symposium Pro, with the help of Patrick Griffin.
In 2015, Bouwsma published te calligraphic typeface Lyra, an Italian Renaissance script somewhere between the humanist bookhand and the chancery cursive.

View Philip Bouwsma's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Phill Grimshaw

Successful British designer, b. Bolton, 1950, d. Manchester, 1998. He studied at Bolton College of Art. Obituary in Serif, the magazine. List of typefaces:

Arriba (1993) and Arriba-Arriba (1993) are Mexican simulation typefaces.
ITC Banco (1997, +Light). Based on Roger Excoffon's Banco (1952).
Bendigo (1993).
ITC Braganza (1995).
ITC Choc Light (1997). Based on Roger Excoffon's famous brush typeface Choc (1955).
Gravura (1995, ITC). A formal calligraphic typeface.
ITC Grimshaw Hand (1995).
Hazel (1992).
One of his best families and in its kind one of the best anywhere is the ITC Kallos family (1996), which has high ascenders, and an aristocratic yet calligraphic feel, 1996.
ITC Kendo (1997), ITC Kendo Initials.
ITC Klepto (1996).
Locomotive (Letraset). This was copied as OPTI LenLen by Castcraft.
ITC Mistral Light (1997).
ITC Noovo Light (1997).
ITC Obelisk Medium (1996).
Oberon (1986-1994, Letraset).
Pristina (1994).
The calligraphic ITC Regallia (1998) was one of his last typefaces before he died.
ITC Rennie Mackintosh (1996), ITC Rennie Mackintosh Ornaments (1996): based on the handwriting and drawings of Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. See also ITC New Rennie Mackintosh (2017, by the Monotype design team).
Shaman (a great Jurassic Park type font, 1994).
ITC Samuel.
ITC Stained Glass (1997).
ITC Stoclet (1998).
The wedding invitation font Striptease (1995).
ITC Tempus (1995, +Sans and Sans Italic).
Latin flavors should check Zaragoza (1995).
Zennor (1995): a brush face.

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Phonnastudio
[Muhammad Suhery]

Indonesian designer of script typefaces. In 2021, he published Izumi Natsuka (an elegant signature script) and Maghdalena (a condensed formal calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Phospho
[Roland Hörmann]

Austrian foundry (est. 2008) located in Vienna, and run by Roland Hörmann (b. 1976, Krems, Austria), who did some pixel fonts in the nineties for the Commodore64, and is presently art director and graphic designer.

In 2007, he created Eltaus, an art nouveau font. Hörmann created the free brushy blackletter grunge typeface Adhesive Nr. Seven (2008), and the connected fifties style script typeface Luxus Brut (2009), and the simple handwriting family Neonoir (2010).

In 2011, he published the graffiti typeface Whatka.

In 2012, Roland Hörmann and Felix Auer co-designed the refined didone fashion mag display typeface Aquus (+the outline version, Aquus Linearis).

In 2014, Roland completely reworked Luxus Brut and published Luxus Brut Sparkling, a luxurious high-contrast calligraphic script typeface.

In 2015, he continued in the tradition of outstanding and striking display types by publishing Gloss Drop in the Treefrog genre. He writes: This is not a Barbie Script dolled up for the next beauty contest. It is imperfection and naivety dripping from every letter that makes this font stand out. An enviable choice for magazine headers, book covers or record covers. Works also well as a companion to hand-drawn or painted illustrations. Gloss Drop can even rock your wedding designs if they are seeking for something that makes a difference.

Typefaces from 2018: Antipol (a reverse stress sans typeface family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Photo-Lettering Inc

A subsidiary/part of House Industries in Yorklyn, DE. I quote: Photo-Lettering was a mainstay of the advertising and design industry in New York City from 1936 to 1997. PLINC, as it was affectionately known to art directors, was one of the earliest and most successful type houses to utilize photo technology in the production of commercial typography and lettering. It employed such design luminaries as Ed Benguiat and sold type drawn by the likes of Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast as well as countless other unsung lettering greats. The company is best known by most of today's graphic designers for its ubiquitous type catalogs. Physically, the collection takes up about 1500 cubic ft (42 cubic meters) of space and consists of film negatives and positives of most of the 6500 fonts produced in the company's 55 years. There are also countless patterns, cartouches, borders and dingbats, all of which have been preserved in film negative form. Each negative is approximately 28 in (71 cm) by 5 in (13 cm) high. House Industries, a Yorklyn, Delaware-based independent type foundry, purchased the entire physical assets of Photo-Lettering in April of 2003. Through a partnership with Ken Barber, Christian Schwartz and Erik van Blokland, House Industries is carefully digitizing select alphabets from the collection and plans to offer them through a modern web-based interface. The Photo-Lettering interface has allowed us to reach beyond the rigid confines of typography to offer extended features such as layering, color control and multiple master interpolation over six axes. With some of the most talented minds in display typography behind this new display lettering system, users of the system will enjoy the same refined typography as the original Photo-Lettering customers.

A snapshot of their production, as of mid 2012, in alphabetical order:

Atrax. A Mexican simulation typeface.
Aztec. A videogame typeface.
Banjo Playbill. A tear drop typeface.
PL Barclay Outline.
BenguiatBuffalo. By Ed Benguiat.
BenguiatCaslon, BenguiatCaslonOutline, BenguiatCaslonPlain. By Ed Benguiat.
BillSeeWhimsy.
PL Brazilia (sans).
Brickhouse.
PL Britannia.
Brixen.
BrodovitchAlbro.
Bubblegum, Bubblegum Drop.
Carlyle Eventide. A 3d titling face.
CarusoRoxy.
Chicamakomiko.
CopelandMilo. A connected script by L.H. Copeland.
CopelandTrilliumFills, CopelandTrilliumOutline. A beveled prismatic typeface by L.H. Copeland.
DARegatta. A flared didone.
DAmicoGothic. A casual flared typeface.
DavisonBaroque. A Western / Tuscan typeface.
ExotiqueJSplit.
FederalReserve.
FederalTwelveDiagonal, FederalTwelveHorizontal. These are engraved copperplate typefaces.
PL Fiorello (squarish sans).
Galaxy Didot (based on a didone typeface by C.E. Coryn).
Goliath. A fat Egyptian typeface with a wood style flavor.
HanoverBold. A nice Fraktur typeface.
HaslerCircus. A Tuscan circus font.
HenrionBA. A beveled typeface with several layers.
HouseGothicWide. A shaded unicase typeface.
Housebroken. A two-layer stencil caps face.
PL Latin.
Mierop Inline. A bilined art deco typeface.
Millstein Flourish. A beautiful tall-descender typeface.
PL Modern Heavy Condensed.
Neutra Inline, Neutra Thin. Neutra Thin is a phenomenal geometric hairline sans.
Norton Slapstick. A wood simulation typeface by S.E. Norton.
Norton Tape. A stencil paper-fold typeface by S.E. Norton.
Quaint. After an ornamental typeface from 1938 by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring.
Quicksilver.
Quintet. A calligraphic connected script
Raymund Circus (+Inline, +Outlined).
Smidgen. A signage face.
Sodachrome.
StanSlope.
SuperstarScript. A bubblegum typeface.
SwissInterlock.
SwissTwoTone. A display sans with two layers.
Tiki Palms.
TimesSquare. A dot matrix typeface.
Tuggle. An oil slick typeface.
Voodoo House.
PL Westerveldt. A sans revived by Monotype.
WestBarnumUltra, WestBarnumUltraDrop. A fat Egyptian typeface by Dave West.
WestBehemoth, WestBehemothItalic. Egyptian typefaces by Dave West.
WestEmperorScript. A fat didone by Dave West.
WestThud. A fat signage typeface by Dave West.
West Elephant. By Dave West.
West Italiano. A didone by Dave West.
West Kerpow. A comic book typeface by Dave West, late 1960s. This was digitized in 2011 by Allen Mercer at House Industries as Plinc Kerpow.
Worthe Numerals. Fat didone numerals revived by Ben Kiel at House Industries in 2012.

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Pia Frauss

German designer (whose real name is Marianne Steinbauer) of these beauuuuuuutiful (free) fonts:

Francisco Lucas Llana Regular (2003, chancery hand). Pia writes: Written in Madrid in 1570, by a man called Francisco Lucas. He classified it as a Bastarda; but actually, it is a humanist cursive -- the type of writing that is mostly known under the name of Chancery.
Francisco Lucas Brioso Regular (2003, medieval hand). Also based on Francisco Lucas.
WirWenzlawRough (2003). Pia writes: This is a genuine Bastarda, written at Prague in the year 1400, at the chancery of one Wenzlaw who was king of Bohemia and Roman king. His elixir of life was booze, his first occupation fighting off a brother who tried and retried to have him dethroned for insanity, his favourite pasttime having people drowned in the Moldava, and his only claim at immortality causing thereby the death of a court clerk called John of Pomuk, who afterwards became renowned as a saint.
XenippaRegular (2003). Absolutely original Rotunda capitals mixed in with French Bastarda.
XirwenaRegular (2003). A swash font invented by Pia.
Dei Gratia (2005): This font is rather closely based on a charter issued in 1275 by Rudolf of Hapsburg (the first of his house to make it on the German throne).
JaneAusten (2005): handwriting based on Jane Austen's hand.
Tagettes and Tagettes Plus (2005): Pia writes Tagettes&TagettesPlus are the type of Italian chancery cursive of the 16th and 17th century that is mostly called Cancellaresca. Swashes galore!
Xiparos (2005): an extract of some German charters issued nine hundred years ago by Henry, the last of the Salic kings. This medieval typeface was followed by Xiparos Lombard (2005).
XiBeronne (2005): "XiBeronne is, of course, plain Black Letter -- at least as far as the lower case glyphs are concerned. They were inspired by a very beautiful and very celebrated French manuscript written at the beginning of the 15th century, containing -- and splendidly illustrating -- Gaston Phoebus' Book of the Hunt."
EtBoemieRex (2007): a 14-th century blackletter face. Boemie means Bohemia...
Tycho's Recipe: based on the Antiqua used by Peter Payngk (Denmark, 1575-1645) or his helpers in copying astronomer Tycho Brahe's recipe against the plague, ca. 1610.
Love's Labour (2007): a blackletter based on a sample that Pia Frauss suspects is due to Michael Baurenfeind, ca. 1716.
aeiou (2007): a blackletter based on the chancery used by the Hapspurg's who reigned from 1440 to 1493.
XalTerion (2007): another blackletter.
Mala Testa (2012). A chancery hand based on a writing sample titled Lettere piacevolle taken from A booke containing divers sortes of hands, published by J. de Beauchesne and J. Baildon, in 1571.
Mitre Square (2012). A script typeface based on a handwriting dsample from the files of the Jack The Ripper case in 1888.
Son of Time (2012). Based on the handwriting of Giovanni Borgia (Joan Borja), duke of Gandia, who was the son of a pope and the grandfather of a saint.
Tycho's Elegy (2012). Based on the chancery hand of Tycho Brahe (1597, Denmark).

Dafont link. Yet another URL. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Picatype Studio
[Akmal Yusar]

Indonesian designer, b. 1987, who is based in Aceh. In 2017 he created the script typefaces Danliny Script, Almirra Script (dry brush), Rollent (calligraphic script), Sakhiya Script, Kalisha Script, Gallisia Script (calligraphic), Attention Script, Felicity Script, Gloretha Script (swashy), Hilwen Script, Claudette, Butterfly Script and Nightcall Script, and the calligraphic typeface Munira Script (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Formabbis (a brush script), Chellora (Victorian), Realvish (brush script), Conserina (a condensed script), Shirelda Script (calligraphic), Thuressia Script (a formal calligraphic typeface), Hadhelia Script, Martinail, Suhainora, Stayreed, Rishella (signature font), Barbara Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Graphemic (all caps, art deco), Baltster (a creamy casual typeface), Blangkist (dry brush script), Quinter (a spurred Tuscan typeface), Srikandy (a retro signage script), Celiya Script, Konseric, Bhontage (monoline script), Sandoval, Martinail (signage script), Klibers (script), Shintosa Script (formal calligraphy), Suhainora, Nigthwel (a retro signage script) and the elegant modern italic typeface Thestone.

Typefaces from 2020: Satnight Script, The Jophie Sans (a rounded sans), Gravia (a one-weight geometric sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pierre Moreau

Pierre Moreau (ca. 1600-1648) was a notary, calligrapher and "écrivain juré" in Paris in the 17th century. He wrote several books on the art of writing, and designed the six typefaces used to print "Les Saintes Metamorphoses," in a style imitating handwriting. He created a script in 1644 that is discussed here. He endeavoured to cut printing types in the style of handwriting. In 1644, he published these handwriting imitation ideas in "Les Heures de la nouvelle imprimerie inventée par Pierre Moreau, dediées à Madame la Marquise de Senecey, gouvernante du Roy." Fournier, and later Updike and Doyald Young document this attempt. Christian Paput found some of Moreau's alphabets in the Cabinet des Poinçons of the Imprimerie nationale (of France). Isabelle de Conihout wrote a chapter on Moreau in Poésie&calligraphie imprimée à Paris au XVIIème siècle. His script type and ornaments from 1643 can be admired here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pilcrow Type
[Paul D. Hunt]

Type and graphic designer from Joseph City, AZ. His first degree was from Brigham Young University. He was a type designer at P22/Lanston from 2004-2007. In 2008, he obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading where he designed the typefaces Grandia and Grandhara (Indic). In January 2009, he joined Adobe just after Thomas Phinney left. He lives in San Jose, CA. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled The history of non-Latin typeface development at Adobe.

He created Howard (2006, a digitization of Benton's Sterling), P22 Allyson (2006, based on Hazel Script by BB&S; a winner at Paratype K2009), the P22 FLWW Midway font family (2006-2018: Midway One, Two and Ornaments; based on the lettering found on the Midway Gardens working drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright from 1913---tall-legged and casual), Kilkenny (2005, P22), a Victorian-style font based on the metal types named Nymphic and Nymphic Caps which were designed by Hermann Ihlenburg in 1889. This typeface has almost 1000 glyphs and comes in OpenType format. It includes Cyrillic characters. Check the studies here and here. For another revival of Nymphic Caps, see Secesja by Barmee.

Designer of the display typefaces Seventies Schoolbook (2004) and Interlocq (2004).

Hunt also digitized Goudy's Village (2005). Village was originally designed by Fredric Goudy in 1903 for Kuppenheimer & Company for advertising use, but it was decided it would be too expensive to cast. It was later adopted as the house face for Goudy's and Will Ransom's Village Press. The matrices were cut and the type cast by Wiebking. The design was influenced by William Morris's Golden Type. This Venetian typeface was digitized by David Berlow (1994, FontBureau) and by Paul D. Hunt (2005). Hunt's version was eventually released in 2016 by P22/Lanston as LTC Village.

He revived Hazel Script (BB&S), which he renamed Allyson (2005).

Still in 2005, he created a digital version of Sol Hess' Hess Monoblack called LTC Hess Monoblack.

In 2006, he published a nice set of connected calligraphic script fonts, P22 Zaner. Bodoni 175 (2006, P22/Lanston) is a revival of Sol Hess' rendition of Bodoni. He was working on Junius (2006), a revival/adaptation of Menhart Antiqua. Frnklin's Caslon, or P22 Franklin Caslon, was designed in 2006 by Richard Kegler and Paul Hunt in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This slightly eroded font set includes faithfully reproduced letterforms digitized directly from images of impressions made by Benjamin Franklin and his printing office circa 1750. It comes with a set of ornaments.

In 2007, he used Goudy's 1924 typeface Italian Old Style in the development at P22/Lanston of LTC Italian Old Style. That typeface was remastered and extended to cover several languages by James Grieshaber in 2011.

In 2014, Paul Hunt finished work on the wood type revival font HWT Bulletin Script Two (P22 & Hamilton Wood Type). This backslanted psychedelic typeface can be traced back to the wood type manufacturers Heber-Wells (Bulletin Condensed, No. 5167), Morgans and Wilcox (Bulletin Script No. 2, No. 3184), Empire Wood Type (1870: Bulletin Script), Keystone Type Foundry (1899: Bulletin Script), Hamilton (117), and Wm. H. Page & Co (No. 111 through No. 113).

Free fonts at Google Web Fonts: Source Sans Pro (2012; Source Sans Pro for the TeX crowd), Source Code Pro (2012, a companion monospaced sans set by Paul D. Hunt and Teo Tuominen). Source Serif Pro, its Fournier-style relative, was developed at Adobe by Frank Grießhammer. They can also be downloaded from CTAN and Open Font Library.

Fun creations at FontStruct in 2008-2009: Possibly (a stencil loosely based on the Mission Impossible series logo), Probably (same as Possibly but not stenciled), Med Splode, Arcade Fever, negativistic_small, New Alpha_1line, New Alpha_4line, New Alpha_bit, New Alpha_dot [dot matrix font], New Azbuka [after Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet from 1967], positivistic, slabstruct_1, slabstruct_too, structurosa_1, structurosa_bold, structurosa_bold_too, structurosa_caps, structurosa_faux_bold, structurosa_leaf, structurosa_script, structurosa_soft, structurosa_tape, structurosa_too, structurosa_two, Slabstruct Too Soft, Structurosa Clean Soft, Structurosa Script Clean, Structurosa Clean, Structurosa Clean Too, Structurosa Clean Leaf, Structurosa Boxy, Stucturosa Script Heavy.

In 2010, he designed he programming font Sauce Code Powerline. Well, this is probably a renaming of Source Code by some hackers. Just mentioning that sauce Code is on some Github pages.

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Pineung Type
[Kayona Alma]

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of spectacular script and calligraphic typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pink Coffie

Slovenian designer of Lush Blue (2017, a dry brush typeface), Loveline Script (2017), Soulmates (2016, brush script) and Mademoiselle Script (2016).

In 2018, she designed Midnight Bloom (watercolor brush script), Blush Collective (a crayon font), Boston Marker (font duo), and Hearthshore.

Typefaces from 2019: Blanche (a tall sans), Isadora (calligraphic), Balayage (signature script).

Typefaces from 2020: Willow Avenue (rustic and grungy).

Typefaces from 2021 (mostly calligraphic): Jasmine Clarke, Frances, Aristea, August + Ivy, Porto Bianco, Wild Peonies, Style Ray, Earth And Soul, Astoria, Rose Moon. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pixel Surplus
[Jeremy Vessey]

Jeremy Vessey set up Hustle Supply Co in 2014. In 2016, he founded Pixel Surplus in Montreal. His first fonts there are Wild Youth (brush script), St. Jacques (a free avant-garde font), Buffalo (connected script font), Old Growth, Ambarella (free script), Greenstone (connected script), Summer Hearts (brush), Wayward, Wayward Sans (free), Gutenberg (a free soft blackletter typeface), Pilsner (also free, all caps and almost art deco), Westfalia (free, handcrafted), Cast Iron and Halogen (a free squarish industrial sans typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: Harvester (script), Particle Regular (all caps sans), Hunter River (signature script), Garment District (a free monoline script designed together with Alex Joganic), Ciderhouse (free all caps sans), The Woodlands (a free brush script), Rustico (a free dry brush font), Chisel Mark (free, by Savanas Design), Ocean Six (free brush typeface), Terrain (condensed sans), Gritstone Script Bold, The Brewers Collection, The Woodblock Collection, Bourbon Grotesque (free).

Typefaces from 2018: Schoolhouse (a free chalkboard SVG font), Rock N Roll (a free dry brush script), Calibre Super Condensed (free), Blackstone Script.

Typefaces from 2019: JV Signature SVG, Bellanche, (a free curly calligraphic typeface), Lightshow (dry brush), Carlanta (by Faras Dina), Highfield (a free Peignotian sans), Heavy MFG, The Woodlands (brush script), Gallagher (a vintage font family), Whiskey Sour (font duo), Rose Blush (SVG opentype brush font), Emily Smiles (brush script), Rhythmic (a dry brush SVG font), Ashfort (dry brush), Flintstock.

Typefaces from 2020: PS Botanical, Montero (script), Aelyn (a free art nouveau font), Paradizo (a didone-inspired typeface), Athletic Dept, Skream (a free horror dry brush font), Traverse (a painted SVG font), Blackshore (a painted SVG font), Morning Brew (grungy letters), Halden (SVG brush font), Strive (a dry brush SVG font).

Typefaces from 2021: Hatfield Park (a baseball script), Avondale (a monoline script), Drag Race SVG (brush), Portside (an old map font), Wild Youth (script), Melrose (a rough-edged script), PS Ambiance (a signature script), Drag Race SVG (dry brush), Strive (dry brush, SVG), Underground Ink SVG (painted), Earthtone (dry brush), Kinlock (a stencil serif), Presque, Haute (a decorative serif), Le Grand Amour (a wild calligraphic script), Adventurist (a free SVG format dry brush script), Game Day (dry brush).

Typefaces from 2022: Montgrove (a luxury serif), Rigero (a reverse contrast display typeface), Patheos (a sharp-edged decorative serif). [Google] [More] ⦿

Plu Victorien

Parisian type designer, b. 1988. He created the calligraphic Arabic look type family Amal (2012).

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Po Cheung

Or Pou Cheung Siu Po. Communication designer based in Hong Kong and Berlin, who graduated with a BA in Communication Design from the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, class of 2017. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, she designed Hoko. Hoko is a humanist Latin typeface inspired by Hong Kong Beiwei calligraphy which was used on stores there to be seen from far away. She writes: Influenced by the marks made by a chisel, Beiwei Kaishu has a rustic sensibility, with sharp strokes, dynamic forms and slightly asymmetrical constructions. [Google] [More] ⦿

Point Lab
[Ferdiansyah]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of the script typefaces Bontella Script (2016), Vellesa (2016), Marchy (2016) and Peque (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Hostens Signature, Latasha (calligraphic), Bishella Script (brush script), Marquella Script (calligraphic), Ballqis (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Dimmya, Lostera, Lovelique, Walty Script, Sarmilla Script, Moontello, Thousand Script, Blastpink Script, Kristale (brush), Barosaki Script (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Diralia (script), Chandelier Signature, Vrindals Script, Natthalie Signature (a signature script), Kiysoom Signature, Miolleta Script, Mistday Script, Bimfly (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Marellax Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Marfimo Signature, Concepts (a vintage font trio), Blastpink Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pojol Type
[Fauzul Azmi]

Indonesia-born architect. Designer of Barranom (2020: rounded, octagonal), Cartoon Book (2020), Sketsa (2020: an architectural blueprint font), and the informal monolinear elliptical sans typeface Handhuel (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Blancos (a ligature-rich sans), Velove (a scrapbook script), Battafia (a calligraphic script), Bondtique (a heavy round monolinear sans), English1707 (bilined), Alfatih (a display typeface), Ceudah (futuristic, art deco). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pokras Lampas

Moscow based self-styled calligraffiti artist. He specializes in calligraphy on girls. [Google] [More] ⦿

Polina Che

Moscow-based designer of an ink splatter calligraphic (Cyrillic) typeface in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

Pollem Studio (or: Polem, was: Joee Creative, or Joe Creative)
[Muhammad Nur]

Or Joe Ker, or Cupoe Mi, or Creative Cupoe. Alias of a type designer in Calang, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, b. 1986 or 1988, who created these script and/or calligraphic typefaces in 2016: Brambles, Steellia, Chandele Script, Antelope, Blackcurrant, Shinthia, Lattonya, Scallion, Nathalie, Beverly (thick brush), Khalindha, Annamelia, Nurrillia (calligraphic), Pugsley (calligraphic), Chietah (rhythmic calligraphic script), Greatfull, Lonely, Ambarella, Araura, Hedgehog, Magnolia (calligraphic), Buttercup. Mountains (brush style), Queen (brush), Buttercup (solid and bilined handcrafted), Thatch, Knightley (upright calligraphic script), Anteater, Lagnolia, Peach, Snapdragon, Chinchilla, Rooster, Seagull, Nightingale, Entrepreneur, Coffee Shop.

Typefaces from 2017: Roselle, Remember, Vracter, Memories Script, Acrobad Script, Hammerte (script), Flacacher (brush script), Berleyila (calligraphic script), Truelike (script), Looking For Beauty, Buttle (font duo), Looking Script, Radeshia (connected script).

Typefaces from 2018: Laurretta, Randoem Brush (dry brush), Chietah, Beverly, Vracter Work, Antelope, Scallion, Bentosa, Almonds Script, Dellima, Mighttel Script, Sentosa, Shutter (font duo), Jammes, Litton, Hellarria, Denmahis, Jummiten, Butty Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Fellisetta (calligraphic), Battista (calligraphic), Erlang, Daniela, Desmont Script, Delissa, Radetta, Achange (font duo), Baylee, Mirrabella. Graphicriver link. Creative Market link for Joe Creative. Creative Fabrica link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Poole Foundry
[Wesley Poole]

Wesley Poole's foundry based in Kaneohe, HI, and established in 2006. Wesley Poole (b. California, 1952) was a sign painter and wine label designer in the Napa Valley (his companies were called Oasis Graphics and then Titus&Poole, and Poole Aert&Design) for almost 25 years before moving to Hawaii in 2002 due to multiple sclerosis. Typefaces:

Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole). A comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu.
Poole Standard (2006). A stylish headline face.
Poole Chiselcut (2007). Digitization with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps).
Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together). Simulation of Easter Island lettering.
Jigger Statz (2007).
Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006). A festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole.
Alphaluxe (2008). A calligraphic upright connected ronde script by Wesley and Samuel.
Vingo (2006).

Positype
[Neil Summerour]

Positype was founded in 2002 by Athens and/or Jefferson, GA-based designer and type designer Neil Summerour (b. 1972, Azores, Portugal). Neil began developing typefaces in 1996 with the 1996 Olympic Brick Paver Project proprietary typeface. He is the co-principal and senior designer of Athens-based interactive, design, and advertising agency Genetic:ICG. In the summer of 2003, he began teaching Advanced Electronic Design in the Graphic Design Department at The University of Georgia.

Swash & Kern is the bespoke lettering and typeface design alter ego of Neil Summerour.

In 2001, Neil published his first two type designs with [T-26] Digital Type Foundry in Chicago, IL. Since then, he has released tens of font families including hiragana and katakana fonts. Positype fonts are sold by Myfonts.com and [T-26].

Klingspor link. Facebook link. Blog. Behance link. Union Fonts link.

The list of his fonts:

Aago (2017). A 54-style sans family.
Aaux, Aaux Office (2002), Aaux Pro (2004), Aaux Next (2009, 72 typefaces), Aaux Alphanumera, Aaux Emoticons.
Agent Sans (2021). An economical 22-style sans intended to be warm although the name seems to contradict that.
The Air superfamily (2011), which consists of 81 sans typefaces. Followed by Air Soft (2011), Air Pro (2021), Air Pro Condensed (2022) and Air Pro XCondensed (2022). He writes about Air: Heavily influenced by Summerour's Aaux Next typeface and Akzidenz-Grotesk, the typeface features a very efficient footprint, logical weight options, small caps, expanded numeral sets, extensive language support, and 5 total widths.
Altar (8-weight Gothic family).
Akagi (2008): 20 style sans family. Extended and refreshed in 2011 into Akagi Pro.
AMP (at Union fonts).
Anago (2012) is a softly rounded sans family, the product of a designer addicted to designing sans families.
Anarcharsis (2002): a serif family inspired by incomplete rubbing made from a stone wall located in the Bahamas.
Angel Script (2009, TypeTrust).
Baka (2005, a fantastic scratchy handwriting face), Baka Too (2006; followed in 2010 by Baka Expert).
The Bodoniesque family (Umbrella Type).
Cherry Blossoms (2018). A crayon script.
Claustrum (2003).
Clear Sans (2013). Starting from a monoline rather geometric set of thin weights, this typeface family morphs into a more humanist beast, with a, b, d and g having a squeezed look at the intercepts. And maybe because of that, this unclassifiable typeface is quite appealing. Followed by Clear Sans Text and Clear Sans Screen.
Courage (2019). A high contrast ultra black poster typeface.
Couture (2015) and Couture Sans (2015). Summerour was charmed by Imre Reiner's Corvinus when he designed this extremely high-contrast pair of fashion mag typeface families together with Mary Catherine Pflug.
Cynapse (2003; or Cynapse Pro. 2004, 12 weights). A sans family.
In 2018, Martina Flor and Neil Summerour published the layerable Tuscan typeface family Decorata.
Delphi (2014). A decorative multiline typeface by Lily Feinberg and Neil Summerour.
Directors Gothic (2013, Lettering Inc). A large retro sans family.
Donatora (2004).
Dream Big (2019). A swashy script typeface with weathered edges.
Ego (2003, octagonal family).
Epic (2007-2009, a 12-style contemporary garalde).
Ether, Ether Connected.
Eva (2003).
Filmotype Dancer (2012).
Filmotype Harvard (2015). Based on a Filmotype brush script from 1955.
Filmotype Horizon (2011).
Flirt Script (2014). Flirt Script won an award at TDC 2014.
Friendly (2012). In part based on Morris Fuller Benton's upright script typeface Announcement.
Fugu (2009, rough-outlined script family, winner at TDC2 2010).
Ginza (2008, a squarish techno family), and Ginza Narrow (2011).
Good Karma (2017). A sumi brush font. See also Good Karma Smooth (2020).
Grava (2018, twenty fonts) and Grava Display: Quirky and sharp, Grava is Neil Summerour's injection of warmth within the geometric sans font category.
Halogen (2012). An organic wide techno sans family. In 2014, he added Halogen Slab and Halogen Flare (flared). All have hairlines.
Headcold (2004).
Hype (2019). A collection of 432 low contrast gothic sans typefaces consisting of three subfamilies of 144 fonts each: Hype vol 1, Hype vol 2, Hype vol 3.
Ice Cream (2021). A creamy vernacular non-connected script for food packaging.
Iru1, Iru2.
Juicy (T-26, 2004, brushdrawn family).
Kari and Kari Pro (2005): a connected upright script. Kari Display (2009). Redrawn in 2020 and released as Kari (2020).
Kryptk Flash (2003).
Kurosawa Bastard, Kurosawa Hand, Kurosawa Sans, Kurosawa Serif, Kurosawa Hiragana, Kurosawa Katakana.
Love Script (2014). A high energy high contrast brush pen / marker script. Love Script won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition.
Luce (2004).
Lush Script (2011). A connected script inspired by the 1940s.
Lust (2012), a curvy hight-contrast didone in the Pistilli style. Neil: The result yielded a rather diverse typographic gene pool: a little Scotch Modern, a little Didone and Didot, a dominant dose of Caslon, and a pinch of Baskerville-- all wrapped up in the leggy body of a Brazilian supermodel. A confident, self-reliant typeface that shows just enough to keep everyone staring and leave them wanting more. Followed by Lust Slim (2014). In 2015, these were extended to the large families Lust Pro [dedicated page] and Lust Pro Didone.
Lust Script (2013). This is a curvier, sexier (Neil's words) version of Lust. For use in fashion magazines and large sizes.
Macha (2012). A sans family. In 2015, this was followed by Lust Hedonist, which has Didone, Italic and Script sub-styles---the ultimate fashion mag typeface. In 2021, he added Lust Sans (a 12-style high-contrast fashion mag typeface family), Lust Didone (a 6-style contribution to the fat face genre), Lust Stencil (six styles), Lust Text (ten styles).
The Type Trust: Magneta (2009, The Type Trust). Includes a Condensed subfamily.
Marshmallow (2017). A super-creamy high-contrast script typeface straight from a parisian bonbonnerie.
Murecho (2021). Murecho is a low-stroke contrast, flat terminal sans serif Japanese typeface designed for text settings in Japan. It covers Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (JOYO+). It also supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek.
Muscle (2009, TypeTrust---a futuristic family).
Nori (2010): a calligraphic brush typeface obtained by applying the Pilot Japan Kanji Fude brush pen on paper. It has over 1100 glyphs, 250 ligatures, 487 alternate characters, 125+ swash and titling alternates, lining and old style numerals. Awarded at TDC2 2011.
Organic (2009). A rounded warm sans family. In 2021, he published the 16-style Organic Pro.
Penumbra.
Plastek (2004-2009).
The R.E.M. Athens project involves three fonts published in 2009, REM Orange, REM Accelerate and REM Tourfont. They are based on ideas by Chris Bilheimer for the band R.E.M. (Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer). Both attended the fine arts program at the University of Georgia. Michael Stipe, singer and lyricist, formed R.E.M. in 1980. Bilheimer began working with the band in 1994.
In 2019, Martina Flor and Neil Summerour released the extensive typeface family Ribbons at Positype.
Romp (2009, condensed hand-printed).
Reserve (2018). A text typeface family designed to accompany Summerour's Scotch typeface family.
Rhythm (2011). An italic inline and solid display family based on ATF's Ratio (ca. 1930) and Herbert Thannhaeuser's Adastra (1928).
Rough Love (2014). A brushy crayon script.
Scotch (2017). An 31-style scotch roman typeface family consisting of Scotch Text, Scotch Display (more contrast), Scotch Deck (for subheads) and Scotch Dingbats. In 2020, he added Scotch Compressed to the set.
Shameless (2013). A connected penmanship-style script.
Sneakers (2003-2004): athletic lettering family. Also, Sneakers Script and Sneakers Max (2019: rounded and ultra fat).
So Lovely (2019).
Tactical (2011, octagonal mechanical face; +Stencil).
In 2012, he won the Second Akashi Prize in the kanji (!!!) category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Tegaki. Tegaki also won at TDC 2013.
Truss Ultra Light (2006): hairline architectural font.
Vekta Serif (2009), Vekta Neo and Vekta Sans (2009, a sans family at TypeTrust).
Wasabi Condensed and Wasabi (2010): an organic elliptical family, based on Iru.
Yumi (2003, techno font, Union Fonts).

His life in hiw own words: Neil Summerour is a type designer, lettering artist, calligrapher and designer based in Georgia, USA with one foot in Takamatsu, Japan. After graduating from The University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art with a BFA in Graphic Design, he soon found himself opening his own studio to deal with the flow of freelance work. [...] Neil opened his personal type foundry, Positype, in 2000 to feed his ever-growing desire for type design. He later co-founded TypeTrust (2002) with Silas Dilworth as his addiction to type and lettering grew. [...] He was an adjunct art professor at The University of Georgia in graphic design and taught graphic design at the Governor's School for the Arts. [...] As a typeface designer, he has published over 60 typeface families and produced numerous custom typefaces for clients worldwide. [...] He has won the Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence in Type Design in 2010 and 2011 for Fugu and Nori, respectively.

Showcase of Neil Summerour's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Posterizer KG
[Lazar Dimitrijevic]

Lazar Dimitrijevic, who set up the foundry Posterizer KG, was born in 1981 in Bajina Basta, Serbia, and lives in Kragujevac, Serbia. He obtained a Master of Graphic Design from the Department of Graphic Design, FILUM Kragujevac, Serbia. Presently, he is art director at Design Studio BOX.

His first font, Art Decor (2009), is a brush typeface in the style of Treefrog. Koma Latin (2009) is a roughly outlined script face. Bajka (2010) is a wonderfully entertaining Baskerville family (Latin, Cyrillic, dingbats, ornamental caps) made for children's fairy tale books. Scarface (2010) is a sublime scratchy hand ideal for torture movies. Kaligraf Latin (2010) is a rough-edged calligraphic face.

In 2012, he published Collage BB (hand-drawn didone), the heavy Egyptian typeface Posterizer KG at DizajnDesign. This font was created for Celebration of 5 years anniversary of Design Studio Box from the city of Kragujevac (KG), the industrial city of Serbia. Posterizer KG (+Rounded) contains all the Latin and Cyrillic glyphs. Posterizer KG Inline and Posterizer KG Rough (a letterpress emulation version) were added in 2013. Posterizer KG Sketch followed in 2015.

Still in 2012, he designed the ink splatter typeface Oops, and the calligraphic typefaces Cal Humanistic Cursive (a renaming of Cal Humanist Corsiva, posibly under pressure from Monotype), Cal Humanist Minuscule and Cal Humanist Corsiva.

He also creates stunning calligraphic works.

Cal Roman Capitals (2012) is a Trajan typeface. In the same calligraphic series, we find Cal Rustic Capitals (2012), Cal Square Capitals (2012), and Cal Uncial (2012).

Typefaces from 2013: Posterizer KG Sketch, Cal Expressive, Cal Bakerly (calligraphic script in the style of Arthur Baker), Cal Cursive Roman, Cal Rustic Black, Cal Neuland Bold (after the German expressionist typeface Neuland by Rudolf Koch), Cal Gothic Bastard, Cal Gothic Fraktur, Cal Fraktur Modern, Cal Rotunda, Cal Gothic Textura, Cal Carolingian Minuscule, Cal Carolingian Gothic, Cal Insular Minuscule, Cal Insular Majuscule, Cal Beneventan Minuscule.

Typefaces from 2014: Cal Neuland Shadow, Mozzart Sketch (a decorative hand-sketched version of Mozzart Sans, a slightly rounded, neo-Grotesque corporate font, that was originally created for the Belgrade-based company Mozzart DDO; followed in 2015 by Mozzart Rough).

In 2015, he designed Drina (brush typeface), My Way (a TreeFrog style handwritten face).

Typefaces from 2016: Bali Beach (brush script), Omorika (a rustic handcrafted sketched serif typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: Workshop Brush (dry brush), Workshop Marker, Workshop Pencil.

Typefaces from 2018: Miro (after the lettering in Joan Miro's art), Ernest (based on the hand of Ernest Hemingway), Natron (rounded condensed sans; +Pictograms).

Typefaces from 2019: My Tara (a thick brush script), Natron Rough, Kalli Hand, Kalli Sketch.

Typefaces from 2020: Panorama KG (based on the principle nothing below the baseline), Hubble (a rhythmic display typeface with thorny serifs), Liceum (a rhythmic calligraphic script for Latin and Cyrillic), Cal Fraktur Brush, Cal Roman Black, Cal Roman Modern, Cal Uncial Rough.

Typefaces from 2021: PKG Roman Capitals (Trajan capitals with a hand-drawn finish, for Latin and Cyrillic), Monodia (a slab serif and its glitched version). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Posts Type
[T. Muhammad Rizal]

Indonesian designer of the (mostly rabbit ear) script typefaces Myrtle Script (2020), Anggrek (2019), My Diary Script (2019) and My Story (2019).

Typefaces from 2020, mostly calligraphic in nature: Angelia Script, Anggun Script, Beautiful Script, Daicy Script, Daylily, Gladiola Script, Madelene, Manohara, Marigold Script, Memory Script, Nostalgia, Sunday Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

PR Fonts
[Peter Rempel]

Peter Rempel (b. 1958) is a Winnipeg-based calligrapher. Nice graphic about classical roman types. He designed some exquisite shareware fonts: PR Uncial Creepy (2010), PR Agamemnon Bold (2008), PR-Uncial (2003), PR-UncialAltCapsExtended, PR-UncialAlternateCapitals (1998), Demo-ofGabrielCondensed, Demo-ofGabrielRegular, Demo-version:Gabrielextended, PR-CelticNarrow (1998), Magickal Signs, PR Runes (2000), PR Rune Stones (2000), Pi Rho Runestones (1998), PR Astrological (1998), PR Compass Rose (2007), PR Viking (2007; +Alternates) and Pirho Herakles (1998, an Etruscan-style or Greek simulation font). In preparation: PR Alchemyst, PR Snaggly, PR Monk's Holiday.

He writes about himself: educated in music composition and visual design. In his family home, there were many wall plaques with German Bible verses, rendered in a variety of gothic and fraktur lettering styles. In the 1980s he discovered the art of calligraphy, first through the speedball lettering textbook, and later by joining the calligraphers Guild of Manitoba. He has studied a variety of lettering styles, but his strongest interest is in the letter styles of the Middle Ages, starting with the German Fraktur styles he knew from childhood, and extending back, into uncials, runic shapes, and the Classical Roman Letter. The Chancery cursive, or Italic hand, which to many people is synonymous with calligraphy, never held much interest for him. He released his first shareware fonts in 1996.

In 2010, he went partially commercial. His first pay font is PR Pointers (2010, an arrows font).

In 2011, he designed the commercial typefaces PR Mapping and PR Stars.

In 2012, he published PR Arco (arcs for framing curved lines of text, in a style common on Victorian posters and almanac covers) and PR Hydra (a Greek simulation font).

Typefaces from 2013 include PR Snowflakes 01, PR Bramble Wood 1 and 2, PR Valendoodle 01 (Valentine's Day ornaments), PR Swirlies (in series numbered 01 through 13), PR Swirlies Frames, PR HallowDoodles (Halloween dingbats), PR Nouveau Ornaments (art nouveau), PR Viking (a rune simulation face), PR Foxtail 01, PR Foxtail 02, PR Scrolls 03, 04 and 05 (2014), PR Sprucewood (2014), PR Swells One (2014), PR Xmas Doodles (2014), PR Hearts Take Wing 01, PR Mysticon 01 (star dingbats), PR Pointers 01 (arrows), PR Valknut (Norse god symbolism), PR Scrolls, PR Uncial (1998), PR Dim Sum (brush face), PR Columban (a Celtic uncial, named after Irish monk Columbanus), PR Columbian.

Typefaces from 2014: PR Cauldron (a scary Celtic style font), Vanaheim (a flared display typeface influenced by Nordic runes).

Typefaces from 2015: PR Hallow Doodles 03, PR Ex Cathedra (Trajan capitals).

MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. Fontsy link. Dafont link. Castles&Crypts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Pramod Chavan

Aka Pumbum. The project Thread Typography takes us far into the experimental typography universe. The resulting images are beautiful. Pumbum is a calligrapher in Mumbai who graduated from the Sir JJ School of Applied Art.

preussTYPE
[Ingo Preuss]

Ingo Preuss studied art at HBK Dresden (1976-1980) and graphic design from 1984-1989. In 1989, Ingo Preuss launched Cubus, a graphic design studio. Since then he also does freelance type design and illustration. Preusstype (est. 2003 in Dossenheim, and now Ladenburg, Germany) is his present foundry. In 2007, he also started an affiliation with The German Type Foundry.

Adora (2010-2015). An information design superfamily that consists of Adora Compact PRO, Adora Normal PRO, Adora Compressed PRO, and Adora Condensed PRO.
Amita. A contemporary sharp serif.
Anthea (2014). A transitional text typeface family.
Arventa (2010): Arventa Sans Pro was the basis for the system, but the Slab is not just a Sans with sticking Serifs. Arventa Slab Pro is delicately crafted form the outlines of the Sans.
Athanasius (2017-2018). a baroque font family.
Aureata (2015). A vintage text typeface family (+Inline) that reminds me of the style of Lucian Bernhard in the early part of the 20th century.
Babine (2003). Children's handwriting.
Badgirls (2003). Hhandwriting.
Barocco (2017). In Text and Display subfamilies. A traditional book font.
Baroque Borders A and Baroque Borders B (2004).
Battista (2005). A fat Bodoni family in Regular, Italic, Open, Stroke&Ornate.
Care Instructions Pi (2005). With US and EU symbologies.
Colombo (Normal, Outline). A revival of Columbian (1891, Hermann Ihlenburg).
Daphne (2004). After a calligraphic script by Hildegard Korger.
Daring. A revival of Hermann Ihlenburg's art nouveau font Childs (1892).
Compressa (2006). A strong condensed grotesk.
Floridana. A digital version of Hildegard Korger's handwriting font from 1965.
Ebura (2004).
Elara Sans and Elara Round.
Fleischmann Gotisch PT (2004). A digital revival of Fleischmann's gorgeous Fraktur typeface Groote Canon Duyts (1744).
Gekko (2003). In the style of Treefrog.
Instance (2014-2016). A high-contrast almost Peignotian sans family characterized by a karate chop k.
Korger Hand (2004). After the 1965 calligraphy of Hildegard Korger.
Language Code.
Lavina Sans. A humanistic sans.
Linotype Scrap (1997) and Linotype Funny Bones (1997).
Moto Guzzi Logo (2020). A logo font.
Neue Steinschrift (2006). A 6-style condensed geometric sans. The Pro version contains 814 glyphs.
Phoenica Std (2007, +Mono (for programming), +Hairline). A 12-style
PicNic (2003). Handwriting.
Placebo (2003).
Prillwitz (2005). A didone typeface of 1790, cut by Johann Carl Ludwig Prillwitz well before the first Walbaum. Prillwitz Pro was published in 2015.
Rosalia (2004). Based on the 1964 brush typeface Stentor by Heinz Schumann.
Scooter (2003).
Scootting.
Scribana. An Italian renaissance script.
Sebaldus. A heavy blackletter typeface, after Sebaldus Gotisch (1926, H. Berthold).
Sinkwitz Gotisch (2007). A revival of a 1942 typeface by Paul Sinkwitz.
Sipora (2016). A classic grotesque.
Spitting Image (2003).

FontShop link. View Ingo Preuss's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

PrimaFont

Foundry that was run in the 1990s by Christine Mauerkirchner and Rainer Grunert out of Kronberg, Germany. They made about 30 free Truetype and PostScript fonts, and were selling over 2000 fonts at 2.50 Euro a shot. Check here for Berthold A.G. clones of all famous families. The main PrimaFont collection in PostScript cost 1700 USD! As far as I can tell, if the 30 free-font sampler is any indication, this collection is not different from the good old Adobe, Monotype or Linotype collections, which may all be found somewhere if one looks hard enough.

Free fonts: Cheboygan, Exmouth (copperplate script), Jacoba (another copperplate calligraphic script), Mouth (uncial), Livingstone (uncial), Marlon Book, Oliver (Victorian), Scoutlight DB, Shanghai (oriental simulation face), and Xtra (Greek simulation face).

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Font Journal link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Printable Wisdom
[Ashley Gardner]

Ashley Gardner (aka Printable Wisdom) is the Texas-based designer of some handcrafted typefaces such as Ashley Brush Script (2015, a watercolor brush script), Skinny Minnie (2015), Scratch Super Sketchy Script (2014), Boldilicious (2014), Fabulovely (2014) and Understated (2014).

Typefaces from 2016: Birchwood (calligraphic script). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Prio Nurokhim Aji
[Prioritype]

Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Behance link.

Prioritype
[Prio Nurokhim Aji]

Kebumen, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of these typefaces in 2020: Arkaedos (a creamy script), Amtera (a fat finger font), Takidos (children's letters), Merilland, Tamword, Terasu Brush (a dry brush script), Chalk Perio (a chalk font), Diltoon (a cartoon font), , Savattera, Pecattes (a very dry brush script), Dhecalovia (a fat finger font), Launsela (a fat finger font), Super Love Christmas, Bevalonia, Butter Spoky, Super Love Christmas, Merilland, The Bonbon, Annila Script, Kagatsun, Frangstton, Sophomore, Reacter, Oliotton, Many Cheeks, Keyrannha (monoline script), Chatalisa, Dhecca House (a monoline script), Ligotra (all caps, Victoriana), Fagetone (a retro signage script), Gangsoka (an angry serif), the script font Meltinghones and the monoline script typefaces Caligendings and Frangstton.

Typefaces from 2021: Flower Glory (a counterless kindergarten font), Delichan (a calligraphic script), Smile Darling (a decorative stencil), Fondest (a Peignotian sans with a hipster f), Mintage (a retro serif), Klender (a descendant of Cooper Black), Charming Smile (a plump painted font), Hey Tiny (a fat finger font that emulates a child's hand), Central Display, Street Ruins (a graffiti font), Bruskest (a bold dry brush script), Klemer Display (a flat top display typeface), Nectarine (a plump almost psychedelic font), The Burcey (a casual cutout typeface), Relation De Luxe (a rounded all caps sans characterized by many interlocking pairs), Qochy (a display font with elephant feet serifs), Urban Starblues (a graffiti font duo), Urban Java (a reverse stress Western font), Brugty (a bold display typeface in the Cooper Black / Windsor genre), Organic Peach (a fat finger font), Kosans (all caps), Magilio (in the trendy Windsor / Cooper Black style), Elkoga (an 8-style rounded wedge serif), Onedrips (a dripping paint font), Bilground (script), Dassie (an all caps display font), Sugar Smile, Roti Bakar (a sans with swirls), Dripping Drops (a dripping paint font), Apple Slices (a font duo), Dialog Anila, Goodwin Geraldine, Tropical Blooming (a scrapbook script), Bomb Da Gone (graffiti lettering), Fillings Urban (a plumpish graffiti font), Tratags (graffiti), Johny Palkons (letterpress emulation), Kickcore (a brush font), Lonely Girl (a fat finger font), Malistiona, Bittermoon (a fat finger script), Demilton (a heavy script).

Typefaces from 2022: Amila Cuties, Cansetras (a tattoo blackletter), Codigra (a liquid serif), Distant Neighbors, Employed, Favorite Notification (a hipster serif), Getrok, Glemor (font duo), Niblick, Olasthy Script (a loopy script), Peach More, Pink Punk (a death metal font), Red Royale (blackletter), Shining Youth (ornamental caps with flowery texture), Sunday Bloom (a hand-drawn serif), Ditsa Calista (script), Brume Matinale (a sharp-edged display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Profonts
[Peter Rosenfeld]

Profonts is Peter Rosenfeld's German foundry in Norderstedt near Hamburg, est. 2005, and closely associated with URW++. Dr. Jürgen Willrodt is the other cofounder. The in-house designers as of 2013 are Volker Schnebel, Ralph M. Unger, Jörn Oelsner and Ivana Koudelkova.

Typefaces include Frau Becker (2011, hand-printed typeface by Daniel Henry Bastian and Volker Schnebel), Gallegos Pro (2011, a classic pen-drawn uopright script family), Manuskript Antiqua (2010, an angular Czech design), Charade (2009, psychedelic era style family), Balladeer (2009, formal script with imperfect connections), HH Sonora (2005, comic book or signpainting style script) and HH Valentine (2005, formal script). Link at MyFonts, where one can buy these script fonts: Adagio Pro (2006, a copperplate wedding script by Karl Krauß), Sonora (2005), Eurobrush Pro (2007, by Ralph M. Unger), Euroscript Pro (2006, a school script by by Ralph M. Unger), Civilite (2008), Ballerina Pro (2006), Laredo Pro (2010), Arabella Pro (2006, a calligraphic script typeface sold at URW; Arabella was originally designed by Arnold Drescher around 1936/1939 for Johannes Wagner), Chaweng (2006, an oriental simulation typeface by Ralph M. Unger) and Laramie Pro (2006, a free form script family).

In 2007, the Montauk Pro family of casual (comic book style) scripts was added, despite the fact that there already exists a similarly named script font since 1992 made by Sylvester A. Cypress. It can be had from URW.

Other 2007 designs: Iova Nova (based on Jowa Script by J. Wagner, 1967), Concerto and Sonata Pro (calligraphic scripts, co-designed with Jürgen Willrodt), Symphony Pro (calligraphic with lots of alternates; for a knock-off, see Opti Sybaris, Castcraft, 1990-1991), and Veltro Pro (based on a 1931 Nebiolo design by that name).

Designs from 2008: the signage family Santa Fe, the connected monoline script typeface Energia Pro (by Ralph Unger), and the blackletter typeface Peter Schlemihl (by Ralph Unger).

Designs from 2011: Northport (a casual upright non-connecting script face).

About Rosenfeld, taken from his CV: Peter Rosenfeld started, after finishing his business studies in 1980, his first position in the font production department at Dr. Hell in Kiel, a once well-known company in the area of CRT/laser composing and scanning systems. It was there where he first got in touch with digital type, (still in bitmap form at that time). Peter joined URW in Hamburg in 1982 and a little later he became the manager of the URW font studio. He says, 'All I am in this small font business, and all I know about font technology, I owe to Peter Karow. I had the luck to work very closely for and with this visioneer and pioneer of our industry for more than a decade.' Roughly ten years later Peter became Managing Director of URW++ and the company has established itself in the graphic design industry by continually developing and marketing innovative font and software products. URW++ is particularly successful in the area of corporate type development and production, as well as a supplier of so-called world or global fonts for OEM customers.

Showcase of the most popular Profonts typefaces. View all Profonts typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Prototype Experimental Foundry
[Charles S. Wilkin]

Commercial foundry, est. 1994 in Brooklyn by Charles Wilkin (b. Buffalo, NY). Designers selling their fonts through them include

Charles Wilkin: Sequence, Policy, Velvet (1995, also at Plazm), Superchunk (which includes funny Picasso-esque dingbats of typefaces), Spin (1994), Spaceboy, Hi-Light (2002, an upright script family), Poly Anna (2001), Phink, DeScripto (grunge calligraphy), Decline, Broken, Dink (1994), Euphoria, Fatboy, Interstate60, MagnetoHalfSerif, PJCT (2003, sans).
John Wiese: Halo, Petulia, Cat Woman, Caitanya.
Robert Beck: Table Manners.
Frank Ford: Ghetto Prince (calligraphic grunge script).
52mm: Kaiju (Hebrew simulation font).
Keith Tatum: Gliche.

Free fonts by Charles Wilkin: Creep (1995), Cypher (1997), Nude (1995), Pixely (2002).

Alternate URL. At MyFonts. Dafont link. Personal web site.

View Charles Wilkin's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Prototype Studio (or: Equinox Studio, or: Kensington)
[Kevin Yudha]

Or Umi Kholifah, or Yudha Chibi, or Dwi Yudha, or Kensington, or Equinox Studio, or Prototype Studio, or Chouji Kripik, or Kevin Yudha, or Matt Diamond. Cirebon (or New York)-based Indonesian designer of Romantika (2017: signature font), Black Jack (2017: font duo), Kensington (2017: hairline connected script), Tanzania (2017: brush script), Dahlia (2017: brush script), Kalimantan (2017: calligraphic script), Crayonila (2017: an upright calligraphic brush script) and Altequera (2017: squarish typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Royal Script, Magic & Chic, Katulamp (font duo), Chateau de Gudanes, Taleful (brush script). Early Creative Market link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

PunkWinter

Creator of Auto Motive (2009, car logo font) and Carmenta (2012, calligraphic family). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Putra Cetol Studio
[Putra Novembria Candra Kusuma]

Karanganyar, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989, of these typefaces in 2018:

Oriental simulation fonts: Japanese Emperor (2022: emulating Japanese).
The spurred typeface Darkrise.
The circus font The Circus Show.
The futuristic typeface Digitechno.
The curly script typeface Valentijn.
The monoline poster typeface Revalate.
The monoline cursive script typefaces Simplyline, Cinta Cantik, Antiqueline, The Beautyline, Aiushtya, Skywave, Simbok Pudjie and Yesie.
The vintage typeface Nuri.
The retro signage script typeface Vintage Party.
The tall octagonal typeface Armor.
The display typefaces Ratigk, Deco Tech, Horstail and Murai.
Playlines.
The tiki font Tikiland.
The script typefaces Jofi, Beauty Love, Bigfun, and Rhonde (a free swashy calligraphic typeface).
The upright scripts Shathika, Sweetyhearts and Shaquilla.
The brush typefacesAuthorfun and Pax Suyud.
The weathered condensed Therlalu.
The color fonts Garis Lengkung and Circuitra.
The textured typeface Quiltrix.
The poster typeface Audrey.

Typefaces from 2019, mainly calligraphic except if specified otherwise: Attaira (art deco and script), Arshaka (a great vampire blackletter font), Honey Berry, Vanetta, Safiar (font duo), Havina, Eurolite (a modular sans), Florita (font duo), Silky Candy, Ultimate Slayer (brush), Zahiya (a ronde), Networld (a mesh font), Stranger Creature, Amella, Grimscy, Visaka (a tall spurred wedge serif), Micayla, Rougher (brush), Slatter, Rygid (a straightened script), Mixy Missy (an oily script), Qunky (a formal script), Marceila (upright script), Glamoury (calligraphic), Thicxer, Madhen (script), Secret Darling, Keshia, Mahaputra (a spurred swashy Victorian typeface), Busther (brush style), Sherley, Shanela, Rotters (script), Sweety Lovers (script), Aliyah, Laureta, Tashia, Smash Wall (a glaz krak typeface), Delacruz (techno), Elvino (techno), Crava (a vintage display typeface), Bornena (curly script), Vintage Queens (for vintage signage), Kanaya, Yuanita, Daysha, Thickline, Maze Line (labyrinthine), The Doctor (a signature font), West Kingdom (fat signage script), Pixel Bit, Barstrip, Arjunka, Waffle Latte (monoline and connected), Strip Deco (Broadway style), Corlita Script, Fathur (signature script), Royal King (inline, vintage), Boldest (an oily fat font), High Mount (titling sans), Stasya, Ultimate Class (a thin monline script), Hai Eisya (geometric sans), Dirty Rock (grunge), Hello Eisya, Boldline, Dvorak (dry brush), Ayana, Bigdot, Ghaya, Scary Night, Keytip (Victorian), Melodious Script, Lusya, Nachelle.

Typefaces from 2020: Techno Board (a circuit font), Happy Christmas Party, Roadstone (a signage script), Cavilay Script (wild calligraphy), Urban Sketart (a fine mural art font), Shecarea, Rose Thorns, Retroparty (a bold script), Lovely Couple, Macrosty (a bold script), Amarithe, The Bold Street (a fat graffiti font), Rahaely (script), Nightcrow (a fiery font), Vintage King (a grungy vintage signage script), Vintage Party (a signage script), Gayesha, Water Splash, Clarinta (a wide hairline calligraphic script), Kinghawk, Audrena (a monoline script), Royal Queen, Headbrush, Coldcoast (script), Mahacara, Goldenlife (an upright signage script), Lyodra (a monoline script), Mayla (wild inky calligraphy), Faylake (a fat finger font), Grandmora (monoline script), Qonitya, Clowney (an inky script), Shafiqa (a rabbit ear script), Spirly (curly, Victorian), Quentara, Roxer, The Excited (signature script), Street Road (modular), Rasputia (a calligraphic script), Retroking.

Typefaces from 2021: Antique Vignette (a stylish script with extreme contrast), Love Paradise (a scrapbook font), Vintage Reclame (an upright retro advertizing script), Bulky Book (in the piano key genre), Scarf Bandana, Double Pineapple, Lychee Farmland, Single Tangelo (a cuddly casual typeface), Grandtown (a bold retro script), Dizzy Fence (a beatnik font), Cheesy Bread (a bold supermarket font), Roughpen, The Night Lamp (a horror brush font), Monokind Script (a monoline script), Cristaloak (a script with a weathered outline), Cute Love Story (a scrapbook font), My Love Letter (a monoline scrapbook script), Feldberg (a dynamic display typeface), Morrello (a rounded wide display serif), Quaker Ladies (Victorian), Spooky Monsta, Abstract Style (a geometric solid typeface), Ballsye (a fat finger font), Burning Hammer (a font with flaming letters), Falsetto Signature, Kharinniswa (a bold and wide serif typeface), Roshmary (a condensed monolinear sans), Unpredictable (a condensed display sans), Surprise Spring (script), Handaru (a wide script), Queen Veronica (a monolinear script), Strong Grandpa (a bold retro signage font), Rahardian (a signage script), Candrika (a vintage spurred typeface), Euphoria Party (a psychedelic font), Spookies Identity (this is what a font infected with pestilence or leprosy would look like), Alvarisky, Springate (script), The Knight (script), Hello Audrey (an upright script), Winslet (a bold script), Hello Audrey (an upright script), Winslet (a bold script), My Beautiful Story (an inky script), Romantic Dates (calligraphic), Blossom Heart (script), Happy New Year Party.

Typefaces from 2022: Japanese Emperor (emulating Japanese), Binlay (script), Child Krafter, Fresh Spring (a scrapbook script), Our Infinity Love (a wonderful connected script with a warm rhythm), East Aurora (a bold slab serif), Heathfield (a bold vintage serif). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Putra Novembria Candra Kusuma
[Putra Cetol Studio]

Putri Indira
[Monoline Calligraphy]

Qaila Sa
[Atatamita]

Qaratype
[Anass Qara]

Moroccan type designer. His typefaces from 2021: Neon LED V2, Fansthome (a fine upright rabbit-eared calligraphic script), Floukista (a 6-style sans), Chorasign (script), Koolvexa (a 4-style display serif looking for its own identity), Basta Sweet, Love Heart Script (a scrapbook script), Bakiya (a brush script), Neon Love, and Riwayat (a bold brush script).

Typefaces from 2022: Migontama (a stylish serif), Lostgun Plus (a fashion mag typeface), Metablue (a 16-style geometric sans), Lostgun (a display serif with many ligatures), Sofimaria (a display sans in six styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Qilli Design
[Veronika Golovko]

Veronika Golovko or Veronika Qilli (Qilli Design, Novorossiysk, Russian Federation) specializes in scrapbook fonts. She designed the brush typefaces Michelly (2015) and Jemmer (2015), and the hand-painted font Bellious (2015). In 2016, she designed Gentle Air, Clouds Caprice, Drawing A Life, Sorcery (a curly vampire script), Magic Snow (brushed), Joy In Night (Halloween font), Autumn Madness (perhaps for children's books), Belles Script, and the brush typefaces Adeline and Melony Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Hello Love (with heart textutres), Douillet (sketched), Tiny Joy (textured), Playful (paper cutout), Magic Days (brush), Gentle Air (curly script), Mirabelle (calligraphic script), Francy, Celine Modern (artsy beatnik style), La Balade, Mirelia (brush font), De Plaisir Autour (sic) (counterless), Artless (connected script).

Typefaces from 2018: Golden Day (monoline script), Only Yesterday, Summer Day, Spring Dreams (decorative caps), Just Step.

Typefaces from 2019: Only Joy, Angel Star, Amber Day (brush font), Magnoly, Clouds Caprice, Spring Dreams, Be Amazing, Starry.

Typefaces from 2020: Funny Christmas, Starry, Mirabelle Script, Golden Day. [Google] [More] ⦿

Qiu Yin

Qiu Yin (b. 1962) is the Development Director of Founder Type in China, where he designed the Chinese typefaces FZ-YouHei and FZ-DaWei. He designed the identity (and font) for the 2010 GuangZhou Asian Games. His books on typography and calligraphy include ChouYin Pen Writing, ChouYin write foreign poem, Pen writing ancient calligraphy, Pen writing Lei Feng's diary, Pen writing famous foreign poem, and Copybook of famous words of advice. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Fusion. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More] ⦿

Queen Type

Type design studio, est. 2015. Creators of the watercolor brush typefaces Mellanie (2015), Angelia Script (2015), Greatpark (2015), Shaliqa Script (2015), Painting Script (2015), Jellysugar (2015), Allessa Script (2015), Hellena Script (2015) and Greatpark (2015). They also made the angular brush script Scriptease (2015) and the thin Manny Script (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Paradise (dry brush), Dreamlight Script, Magicstone (brush type), Sprightful (hand-painted font), Festivale Script (brushed calligraphy), DeHangster (brush type), Falling Slowly (connected handwriting), Montagne, Perrota (pen script), Pennello (brush script), Stefhanie (script), Brightside (script), Brillia Script (brush style).

Typefaces from 2017: Evelyne Script, Allessa Script, Dellisha Script, Ladylove Script (calligraphic), Archstone Script, Stardust Script, Bigbang, Crasher Script (painter's script).

Typefaces from 2019: Sphinxes, Magicline, Boldey, Broken Dark, Strawline, Dreamlight.

Creative Market link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Quothron (was: TJ Creative)
[Arthur Ilyin]

Tommy James or Arthur Quathron or Arthur Ilyin, claiming to be in the UK, b. 1990. MyFonts mentions that Arthur Ilyin is based in Russia. His type collection consists mainly of calligraphic or semi-calligraphic scripts. As Tommy James, he ran TJ Creative and designed these script typefaces in 2018: Ultralife Sansa, The Forest Factory, Sallie, Beginning, Dammiano, Embrain, Unforgiven, South Pimllin, Sloothine, Zeatoner, Autumn Mood, Roottenberg, Snallie Soul, Nindalla, Quick Cloud, Glimpse, Fall of the Ghost, Exella, Lamhawk, Rattun, The Shellra, Cinthia Font, The Quick Brown, The Yellon, Elevation, Morale, The Breat, So Fresh, Vander, Belashic, Snaus, Wanda, Weendovre, Avantyre, Gamodora, Bring, Rakhino, Kahendra, Some One, Horizon, The Monse, Across, The Nicco, The Pamele. Lovely Barthy was done at TJ Creative in 2019.

After the switch to Quothron, he released these (mostly script) typefaces in 2019: Across, Adelmo, Anomutta Script, Armattuge, Autumn Mood, Avantyre, Battshion, Beginning, Belashic, Bimatter, Boshankem, Bring, Calligraphic, Cinthia, Creatie, Crittemo (a great swashy calligraphic typeface), Dammiano, Dannyfootto, Elevation, Embrain, Exella, Fall of the Ghost, Gamodora, Glimpse, Gybella (a curly script), Heeshland, Hermany, Horizon, Kahendra, Lamhawk, Lovely Jane, Margerlliny, Morale, Nindalla, Quick Cloud, Rakhino, Rattun, Rymand, Sallie, Salloomeg Script, Sheldon, Sloothine, Snallie Soul, Snaus, So Fresh, Some One, South Pimllin, Summer Faith, The Breat, The Heattoo, The Marttins, The Monse, The Nicco, The Pamele, The Quick Brown, The Shellra, The Wind First, The Yellon, Umbrella, Unforgiven, Vander, Wanda, Weendovre, Wild South, Zeatoner.

In 2020, he designed Quathman (a wild calligraphic script), Misttoy (a stylish script), Juwellina, Risky Choice, Dunkan Script, Adelmo, Amratty Script, Amitany, FinuttellaScript, Deellma, Unforgiven, Ingry Script, Christmas Miracle, Monttary, Dreamlike, Hichery, Fast Line (a brush script), Bertany (swashy calligraphy) and Lord Elliot (a wild calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2021: Willian (wild calligraphy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Raban Panton
[DecaType (was: Decavantona, or: Contra Studio or Panton Labs)]

Rachel Childers

New York City-based designer of the connected copperplate calligraphic script typeface Scalino (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rachel Raye Leininger

Rachel Raye Leininger grew up in Russia, and lives in Kansas City, KS. In 2017, she designed the calligraphic typeface Orsay. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rachel Treliving

During her studies at Camberwell College of Art, London, Rachel Treliving created Calli Sans (2013), a calligraphic sans typeface. In 2014, she designed Precis Display, Excavate Neue (a copperplate style script), and Kink Book (a sans typeface for signage, in collaboration with Sally Palmén, Alex Herrera and Olivier Boulton).

Another typeface, Gray (2014), is an interpretation of the serif typeface used in the body text of the 1890 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The crumbling 1890 edition locked in the vaults of the British Library is a frail decaying specimen, with the first six pages so brittle they have snapped from the binding. Yet it is this copy the that was used as a source for the letters.

Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rachel Yallop

British calligrapher. Designer of the calligraphic script font Swan Song which was digitized in 2006 by Canada Type's Rebecca Alaccari. Canada Type writes: Swan Song is a digitization of gorgeous free form calligraphy by British artist Rachel Yallop. It first appeared in The Calligraphy Source Book edited by Miriam Stribley (Running Press, 1986).

In 2020, Monotype released three of her script typefaces: Clanton (a marker pen script), Fairground (a breezy script), Maybelle (a non-connected calligraphic font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rad Fonts
[Radek Broz]

Czech designer of the handcrafted typefaces Hello Bride (2018), Sad Riff (2018), Hello Glamour (2017), Flowerlly (sic) (2015), and Forestelly (sic) (2015: upright script), the brush fonts Black Star (2017) and Dream Alley (2015), and the calligraphic wedding script typeface Glorifica (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Radek Broz
[Rad Fonts]

Raditya Putra Pratama
[Raditya Type]

Raditya Type
[Raditya Putra Pratama]

Indonesian designer of Bonitas (2019), Paula Fluiton (2019: a monoline script), Kitten Paw (2019), Muffin Cake (2019: a marker pen font), Magnolisa (2019: a script), Hill Diary (2019: calligraphic script), Speed Line (2019: a monoline script), Mangarans (2019: spurred) and Highday Script (2019: monoline).

Typefaces from 2020: Betsie Honey, Carmelio, Bonitas, Lord Kiddos, Dark Knight, Highday Script, Holy Dolly, La Mas Bonita, Mangarans, Onette, Cadabra (a vampire script), Carmelio, Sportune (sportsy, techno), Waterlord (a display typeface that experiments with ball terminals).

Typefaces from 2021: Duckface (a cartoon font), Monstellar (a wide display serif), Ragfille (a flared display typeface), Adoreline (an inky script), Musthyka (a stylish display sans), Maylane (script), Moonstore (a scrapbook font), Crunchy Orange (a fat finger font), Hermine, Jarkids.

Typefaces from 2022: Gazella (semi-psychedelic), Hola Sophia (a tall flared typeface), Lemonilla (a vernacular typeface), Metilda (a retro display serif), Molly Lips (a scrapbook script), Okule (sci-fi, techno), Remish (a bold display serif), Rolish (a bold flared display typeface), Squidy Club (a fun bullethole font), Vintage Waves (a vintage font with some flaring). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rafael Jordán/0Oliver

Rafael Jordan Oliver, aka Barry Bianco, is a graphic designer and calligrapher in Valencia, Spain, b. 1983, Alzira. Graduate of EASD in Valencia, class of 2013. His typefaces:

A geometric Futura / Bauhaus style typeface family called Geometric Obsession (2012).
The curly all-caps typeface Nord Type, which is based on the modern letters of Gregorio Muñoz at Valencia's train station L'Estació del Nord. It was his graduation project at EASD.
The commercial didone typeface Didac (2014). The Italic followed in 2015-2016. Buy it here.
At Type@Paris in 2015, he designed Carmen Maria (named after his wife), a sharp-serifed fashion mag typeface rooted in Carolingian calligraphy.
Las Naves Condensed (2017). A grotesque typeface designed under the art direction of Sebastian Alos for "Las Naves" foundation.
Bantha Sans and Bantha Serif (2017). Sturdy multi-purpose typefaces.
Bianco Slab (2017, Fontstore).
Brava Slab (2018). Almost monolinear, with Latin curves in the italics. Followed in 2019 by Brava Sans.
Ostium (2019). An inline unicase font with proportions close to classical romans.
Carmensin (2020). A humanist text family characterized by smooth curves, a large x-height and open counters. It includes a Display subfamily and some stencil styles.
Redoneta (2020). A 12-style geometric sans. Followed in 2022 by Redoneta Rounded (12 styles).
Tannen (2021). A layerable blackletter family, and an interpretation of Erich Meyer's Tannenberg (1933-1935).
Tannen (2021). A layerable German expressionist blackletter family, and an interpretation of Erich Meyer's Tannenberg (1933-1935).

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Rafael Tavares

During his studies in Recife, Brazil, Rafael Tavares designed the calligraphic typeface Dona Eliane (2017) and the pixel typeface Decaimento (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Raghunath K. Joshi

Typography professor R.K. Joshi's pages. He was born in 1936 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, and died in San Francisco in 2008. He was a poet, calligrapher, designer, researcher, teacher and type specialist. Above all, he was respected and influential. From 1952 until 1956, he studied at the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai. From 1956 until 1960, he was an artist at D.J. Keymer, and from 1961-1983 he was art director at Ulka Advertising in Mumbai. But his best years were still to come. From 1983 until 1996, he was Professor of visual communications at the Industrial Design Center of IIT, Mumbai, and he was with CDAC, Mumbai, formerly NCST, from 1997 until his death. Radio interview. Obituary at TDC. Pages by Design India on him.

His contributions to the type world:

At Microsoft, he published these typefaces in 2001: Gautami, Raavi, Shruti, Tunga. Later, he added Kartika (2002) and Vrinda (2004). In 2009, he developed Latha and Mangal.
Quoting CDAC, he made pioneering efforts to establish aesthetics of Indian letterforms through workshops, seminars, international conferences, exhibitions and demonstrations. He revived academic, professional and research interest in Indian calligraphy, typography and computer-aided type design.
He created Vinyas, a digital type font design environment providing a comprehensive set of interactive tools for the generation of calligraphic fonts (callifonts) using a skeletal approach.
Typecaces: Vishakha (Devanagari), Vibhusha (Bengali), Vidhan (Oriya), and Viloma (Tamil).
His students at the Industrial Design Centre included Deborani Dattagupta (Bengali calligraphic typefaces), P.M. Hashim (headline type for a Malayalam daily), Anand Bhandarkar (drop caps), Rajeev Prakash (text face), G.V. Sreekumar (text typeface for Malayalam), and Apurva Joshi (titling typefaces).
He experimented with random fonts. Check this example of a random font, based his Vinyas software (1991).
He won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Raghu (or Raghindi, which can be downloaded here and here. It was developed with with the help of Vinay Saynekar. With Amresh Mondkar, Jui Mhatre and Supriya Kharkar, Joshi and Saynekar developed RaghuBengaliSans (2005). With Riddhi Joshi, Jui Mhatre and Supriya Kharkar, he created RaghuGujaratiSans (2005). R.K. Joshi, assisted by Jui Mhatre, Supriya Kharkar and Kruti Dalvi, created RaghuHindiSans (2005). R.K.Joshi and Omkar Shende, assisted by Seema Mangaonkar, Jui Mhatre and Supriya Kharkar made RaghuKannadaSans (2005). R.K.Joshi and Rajith Kumar K.M., assisted by Nirmal Biswas, Jui Mhatre and Supriya Kharkar developed RaghuMalayalamSans (2005) and RaghuOriyaSans (2005). R.K. Joshi and Omkar Shende, assisted by Supriya Kharkar and Jui Mhatre, made RaghuPunjabiSans (2005) and RaghuTeluguSans (2005). RaghuTamilRoman (2005) was done by R.K. Joshi and Rajith Kumar K.M., assisted by Jui Mhatre and Supriya Kharkar.
Joshi made the first OpenType font for Hindi (Mangal) and Tamil (Latha, with Vikram Gaikwad). Mangal became a Microsoft face, but some designers such as Mohd Asif Ali Rizvan think that it is an eyesore.
Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon and at ATypI 2002 in Rome. His presentation in Rome was memorable and thrilled all participants.
Developer of Deshanagari, a common script for all Indian Languages.
Joshi was involved in the standardization of codes for Marathi and has worked exhaustively to implement Vedic Sanskrit codes for Unicode.

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Rahm Atilla Habakar
[Ximen Studio]

Rahmad Fajri
[Supotype]

Rahmad Mulyadi
[Baron WNM]

Rahmad Rizky
[RHD Studio (or: RHD Fonts, or: RHD Creative)]

Rahmat Hidayat
[Deniz86 (was: Atadroe, Rt Creative, Blue Eyes)]

Rahmat Syaputra
[Ageless Type (was: Crop Studio, or: Juniors 94)]

Raianne Rodrigues de Faria

Graphic and Industrial Design student at Universidade de Brasília in Brazil who created the calligraphic school project font Caos in 2012-2013.

Rajendra Bitling

Mumbai, India-based calligrapher, b. 1968. Designer of many Indic simulation typefaces in 2016: Bitling-lipika-Bold-Italic, Bitling-lipika-Bold, Bitling-lipika-Italic, Bitling-lipika-Regular, Bitling-moksh-Italic, Bitling-niks-musical-Bold-Italic, Bitling-niks-musical-Bold, Bitling-niks-musical-Italic, Bitling-niks-musical-Normal, Bitling-shivom-Italic, Bitling-shivom-Regular, Bitling-sujatra-Bold-Italic, Bitling-sujatra-Bold, Bitling-sujatra-Italic, Bitling-sujatra-Regular, Bitling-sulochi-calligra-Italic, Bitling-sulochi-calligra-Regular, Bitling-vedas-Bold-Italic, Bitling-vedas-Bold, Bitling-vedas-Italic, Bitling-vedas-Regular, Bitlingmoksh-Regular. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ralph Michael Unger
[RMU (Ralph Michael Unger Typedesign)]

Rami Hoballah

Designer in Hawalli, Kuwait. Creator of the calligraphic Arabic typeface Muhammad (2012), which includes outlined, shadow and 3d versions.

In 2013, he created the Latin typeface Pills. In 2014, he created the Latin typeface Folded Paper and the calligraphic typeface Aramisque. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ramiro Espinoza
[De Amsterdamse Krulletter]

Ramiro Espinoza
[Re-Type]

Ramon Stirling

Spanish author of the calligraphy and penmanship book Bellezas de Caligrafia (1844, Joaquin Verdaguer, Barcelona). Stirling was active in Barcelona.

This book led to the development of various modern script typefaces, such as Alejandro Paul's Bellissima Script (2013). Ramon's influence can also be seen in Ramiro Espinoza's Medusa (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rand Holub

Calligrapher and logo designer from the 1950s. One of his calligraphic scripts from 1950 was the basis for Monterey, a font done by Intertype in 1958. This was Intertype's version of the (then) successful ATF script typeface Murray Hill.

Feel Script (2007, Alejandro Paul, Sudtipos, see also here) is an extension of Monterey to 1,200 glyphs including stylistic alternates, contextual alternates, titling alternates, swashes, and ligatures. [Google] [More] ⦿

Raphael Boguslav

Great handletterer (b. 1929 in Far Rockaway, Long Island of Russian parents) who grew up in New York City. He studied lettering with Paul Standard, Georg Salter and Leo Manso at The Cooper Union and graduated from The Cooper Union in 1951. He worked at the same studio as Milton Glaser for the next three years. Rahael become a designer and worked for some time for Lippincott and Margulies in New York. Raphael lived in Colorado for a long time, but is now based in Bellingham, WA.

In 1969 he patented a squarish typeface for Tyco Laboratories in Waltham, MA. In 1972, he moved to Newport, RI and resumed his career in lettering, calligraphy and graphic design.

His typeface Avia (VGC) was an expansion of a logofont he did for Abex Corporation, almost like a stencil. It is now at Font Bureau, where Jill Pichotta has added the Light and Bold in 2000. His typeface Visa (1966, VGC) won the Second Prize in the 1966 VGC National Type Face Design Competition. Others (thanks, Alexander Tochilovsky) confirm what I thought---that Visa and Avia are the same thing. Finally, Sloop Script Pro (1994, Richard Lipton, Font Bureau) is based on Boguslav's designs.

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Raquel Ferreira

During her studies in Lisbon, raqueel Ferreira and MarianaFacada designed the lachrymal typeface Lagrimas (2013). In 2016, she designed the calligraphic typeface Lilium Script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rara Voenna
[Bonjour Type]

Rare Bird Font Foundry
[Jessica McCarty]

Seattle, WA-based foundry, est. 2017, that is dedicated to releasing only the highest quality hand-lettered fonts on the market. The co-founders are Jessica McCarty (of Magpie Paper Works) and "Tristan and Michelle" of Besotted Co. Their typefaces are calligraphic and hand-lettered based on samples of well-known calligraphers. The list:

Rare Bird Specimen I (2017). Lettered in calligrapher Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls's exquisite signature hand.
Rare Bird Specimen II (2017). An elegant hand by Karla Lim of Written Word Calligraphy.
Rare Bird Specimen III (2017). A graceful hand by Karla Lim of Written Word Calligraphy.
Rare Bird Specimen IV (2017). Lettered by Toronto-based artist Lisa Mavian of Post Calligraphy.
Rare Bird Specimen V (2018). A hand-drawn serif family based on the hand of Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls. With exquisite floral dingbats.
Rare Bird Specimen VI (2019). A refined hand typeface by artist Aileen Fretz of Plume Calligraphy.

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Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship
[Kathy Saunders]

Kathy Saunders posts scans of many beautiful old calligraphy and penmanship books. Quite remarkable! There are also many images of beautiful penmanship. A true treasure trove. [Google] [More] ⦿

Raseuki
[Mukhlis Aljauhari]

Designer in 2019 of the calligraphic script typefaces Evelyne Script, Dreamer, Nicole Script, Patricia Script and Mahony Script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rastype
[Muhammad Taufik]

Indonesian designer (b. 1996) of the upright script typeface Betrycia (2019), and the calligraphic script typefaces Handriona (2019), Lucky Start (2019), Baristafi (2019), Ballurani Script (2019), Burrahar (2019) and Hirradista (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Liashintya Script (curly and swashy formal calligraphy), Mellisa Hella, Meltisia Script (a wild script), Salsadila Script, Scarletta Script, The Artmars Script (a retro signage script), Dharma (a display typeface). With few exceptions, his calligraphic typefaces exhibit rabbit ear ascenders.

Typefaces from 2021: Beauty Sabila (script), Romantis Natalies Duo, Lovely Motheris Font Duo, Natalic Script, Hello Bluebird Font Duo, Hello Bestlady Duo, Solidaritas Script (swashy formal calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2022: Beloved Turtle (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ratiodrink

Creator of the free calligraphic pen font Ratiodrink (2013). Fontspace link [Google] [More] ⦿

Rawberry Strubarb Ink

Charlottetown, PEI-based designer of the thin calligraphic connected typefaces Sometimes Maybe (2016) and Honeybell Script (2016), and the grungy script Silverfields (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ray Cruz
[Cruz Fonts]

Ray Larabie
[Typodermic]

Razi Studio

Designer of Calarabella (2018: a calligraphic typeface) and The Magic (2018 a connected script). [Google] [More] ⦿

RCKY Studio
[Rizki Agam Fonna]

Indonesian designer of Kathie Mikayla (2021: a swirly calligraphic script), Bailey Rogles (2021: a calligraphic script), Ceglosia (a connected script with a serious slope) (2021), The Vanguard (a bold brush script) (2021: brush script), Angel Face (2021: a script), and the dry brush script typefaces Hothir (2020) and Brosley (2019).

Typefaces from 2018: Albino Lovebird.

Typefaces from 2017: Rouged, Kind Heart, Ourstory. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Realtype (or: Earning Type Co)
[Alam Syahril]

Indonesian designer Alam Syahril ran several studios, starting out as Earning Type Co in 2016. At this studio, he designed the connected calligraphic brushed typefaces Moonbringht (sic) (2016), Phobia Script (2016, upight and connected), Orlintia Script (2016), Mailinda Script (2016), Laluna Script (2016) and Breathers Script (2016). He also designed Thastsia Script (2016), Mallina Script (2016), Fajrina Script (2016), Titin Script (2016, a dry brush font), Lilypen Script (2016) and the calligraphic typefaces Profesi (2016) and Syirenata (2016), and Nether (2017).

Starting in 2017, now rebranded as Realtype Face and then Realtype, he published the brush script typefaces Willbelove (2017) and Sweet Cleverda (2017). In 2018, Alam Syahril published Chalofa (script), Ladies Day (dry brush SVG font), Falbench (SVG dry brush), Tanktop (SVG brush), That Lembuts (dry brush SVG font), Charming Mountain, Through Brush (sic), Qindom (brush), Winter Heart, Raselina (font duo), and Axelentia (natural brush font).

Typefaces from 2019: Axelentia (brush script), Cleverda, Super Ride (a fat brush font), Greatlove (brush script).

Typefaces from 2020: Esaqu (script), Nazelia Script, Cindoy Script, Rastanty Cortez (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Longhai (a dry brush script), Pondang Brush (script), Serabut Brush (a dry brush script), Minalon Brush (a dry brush script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rebecca Alaccari
[Canada Type]

Red Ink
[Iryna Trigubova]

Or Ira Trigubova. Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: the informal typeface School, Königreich (medieval blackletter calligraphic script), Sweetheart (a cutesy children's or Valentine's Day font), Coral Waves, Winter Story (handcrafted), Little Bee (+Sans: letters with bees buzzing around), Schönheit (connected script), Aisling (a monoline script), Rhapsody (connected script), Amanita, Star Dust (handcrafted), Urbano (dry brush), Tulip Garden, Meraki (a dotted ornamental sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Paper Snow (a paper cutout font), Hunter House, Pop Art (including SVG fonts), Rivendell (uncial), Morning Tea, First Kisses (crayon SVG font), First Kiss (display sans), Summer Jelly (font duo), Fiesta (font duo: Script and Serif), Solomiya (tribal script for Latin and Cyrillic), Friday Feelings (font duo), Nightingale (calligraphy), Monogram (a set of five decorative caps fonts), Red Tomato (script), Alter Ego, Beloved.

Typefaces from 2019: White Feather, English Channel (an elegant calligraphic font duo), Letter Home, Lettering Box, Rain Soul (SVG style), Rose Petals, Miracles (font duo), Tahiti Sand (a painted brush font in SVG format), Good Feeling, Little Girl, Stonehill, Broadway Lights (font duo), Love is Love (font duo), Summer Cat, Aztec Soul (a tribal / Aztec font).

Typefaces from 2020: Just Imagine (blackletter). Creative Fabrica link. YWFT link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Redy Studio (or: Nfajri Redy)
[Nurul Fajri Redy]

Bandar Lampung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1992) of these script typefaces:

Pardone (2021). An inky script.
Calligraphic: Simplified (a wild script) (2021), Hafidzah (2021: wild style), High Class (a wild calligraphic or Treefrog script) (2021), Voguish (a wild calligraphic script) (2021), Sophistic (a wild calligraphic script) (2021), Banda Neira (2020: a formal wedding script), Way Kambas (2019), Raja Ampat (2018).
Handwriting scripts: Diary Writing (2021), Mance Rose (2020: font duo), Rollover (2020), Multiverse (2020), Sign Style (2020: a signature font), Mortdecai Script (2019: emulating a signature script), Hafidz (2019), Dear Gray (2019), Canari Script (2019), Searches (2019), Pelipe (2018), Carine (2018: monoline), Bondi Sans (2018, +Rough), Read Head (2018: monoline), Restacts (2018), Minimalist (2018).
Brush scripts: Royalty (2020), Scotland Stories, Miguela (2018), Mateo (2018).
Signage scripts: Ecentric (2020), Streetball (2019), Miguela Script (2018).
Vintage: Bookman (2019: Script, Sans, Serif), Astria (2019).
Sans: Bookman Sans (2019), Carine (2018).
Font duo: Messy (2019, Sans+Script), Messy Nessy Script.
Display typefaces: Circus of Letters (a display typeface featuring lots of ball terminals).

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Reference Type Foundry
[Albert J. Kim]

Small foundry run by Albert J. Kim of Toledo, OH, who made the Adagio sans family in 1994. The fonts Aspire (1994, calligraphic) and HeadlineNews (1993) were shareware. I do not think this outfit is still up. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿

Refolve Design Studio
[Hamdani Putra]

Bandung / Semarang, Indonesia-based designer of the Victorian signage typeface Erudite (2014) and the spurred typeface Trave (2015). In 2016, he designed the monoline connected script typeface Roundless, Favor, Boaedan Script (calligraphic wedding script style, accompanied by great ornaments) and Roundless Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Fetani (a wonderful handcrafted typeface for bohemian gastronomy), The Jevera (brush script), Floure (letterpress emulation), Clairborne.

Typefaces from 2021: Stora (a bold poster typeface). Behance link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Creative Market link for Refolve. [Google] [More] ⦿

Reka Safriani
[Selotype Studio]

Reka Safriani
[Selotype]

Republik Kreatif (was: RDP Fontstudio, or: Digital Republik)

Rennys Niche

Great archive of decorative initials. Not fonts, but one could make fonts out of them. [Google] [More] ⦿

Jakarta, Indonesia-based creator of Mavellas (2015, brush script), Barstilla (2015, an inky brush typeface), Vhiezelvia Script (2015) and Retrica (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Anemone (connecged script), Charslie (sic) Handwriting (an elegant and recommended script), Parku Kedenge, Spidoels Jadoels (stencil brush). Behance link. Graphicriver link. A newer Graphicriver link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Resident
[V.H. Fleisher]

V.H. Fleisher's foundry located in New York. Fleisher was born in NYC. Designer of Monod and Monod Brun (2009, geometric sans), Prin (2008, children's hand), Claude (2008, sketched letters), Jules (2008, children's hand), Saul (2007, children's hand), Claude (2007, poster font), Eric Script (2007), Henry (2007, an outlined handwriting font), Jules (2007, children's hand), and Maurice (2007, sloppy hand). Added in 2008: Jerzy Gothic (geometric sans), Eldra, Eldra 90 (2009), Raoul (children's hand), Lazlo (2008, handwriting), Rosenfeld (more kid's handwriting), Kossoff (kid's handwriting), Vero (2010, hand-drawn), Eric Script 90 (2010), Fleisher Dingbats (2010).

The connecxted script series Mina was published in 2013. It contains a subfamily called Mina Calligraphic.

Resistenza
[Giuseppe Salerno]

Giuseppe Salerno (aka Resistenza.es) is an Italian graphic designer, specializing in web design. He lived in Torino, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Valencia, and currently works in Valencia, Berlin and Turin. Studio Resistenza was cofounded by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzales.

In 2010, he made the circular multiline face Afrobeat (+Light), the fat counterless typeface Vito Sans (2010), Wonderwall (2010, like a skeletal construction), the high-contrast art deco typeface Zaza (2010), and the pure Italian vintage art deco face Luxx (futurism).

Other work: an art deco poster.

Direct links to his fonts: Zaza, Afrobeat, Vito Sans, Luxx, Wonder Wall, Afrobeat Light.

Creations from 2011: Ratatan, Bodoni At Home (a handpainted Bodoni), Arcanotype (2011, delicate caps, individually drawn using Chinese ink on Japanese calligraphy paper), Babushka (2011), Dolce Caffe (2011), Adelaida (hand-printed poster face), Monella (octagonal).

Production in 2012: Ampersanders (a font with many ampersands), BLAQ (an ornamental blackletter caps typeface inspired by Henry W. Troy), The Bay (hand-printed all caps poster face), Bratislove (an artsy hand-drawn typeface), Modernissimo (decorative modern art-inspired caps), Clementina (hand-printed caps), Afrobeat Gothic (angular multiline face).

Typefaces from 2013: Glob (bubblegum face), Archivio (slab serif family with very open counters), Mina (connected script), Monster Hand (brush script), Berliner Fraktur (a flat brush fraktur inspired by Rudolf Koch), The Luxx (a redesign of the 2010 art deco sans typeface Luxx---a comparable typeface is Mostra Nuova by Mark Simonson), Starburst (calligraphic gestural light script), Caramello Script, Copperlove (copperplate script), Yma Italic (retro script), Sonica Brush.

Typefaces from 2014: Stencil Creek, Elastica (handcrafted typeface family), Elastica (hand-drawn poster family), Nautica (copperplate script, extended in 2018 to Nautica Sottile and the monoline version Nautica Line), Ingles (copperplate script), Peperoncino Sans (a decorative sans serif font system designed with a marker), Attica RSZ (inspired by Caslon Italian and Novarese's Estro), Montana (poster family, +Icona), Superb (a yummy creamy script, co-designed with Paco Gonzalez), Dolce Caffe 3D, Coming Home (a hairline curly script based on a childish handwriting), Rachele (a monoline connected script with a large x-height), The Crashed Fonts (a glaz krak family), Newland (inspired by Rudolf Koch's Neuland), Two Fingers (a funky hand-drawn family that includes, e.g., Two Fingers Bodoni, Two Fingers Courier, Two Fingers Poster [blackboard bold] and Two Fingers Script).

Typefaces from 2015: Modern Love (brush script), Mela (a gorgeous pointed brush / walnut ink typeface), Turquoise (a calligraphic serif type influenced by capitalis romana; not to be confused with Ahmet Altun's Turquoise typeface from 2011; co-designed with Paco Gonzalez, it was extended in 2019 in Turquoise Inline, and a new version was added in 2021, Turquoise Tuscan), Mina Chic (a wide connected calligraphic fashion mag script), Natura (connected fountain pen script, with accompanying Notebook, Icons and Stamps (initial caps) styles), Stencil Creek (inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk and influenced by street signs of the North West Pacific), Quaderno (monoline upright signage script).

Typefaces from 2016: Xmas Wishes, Gianduja (2016, a chocolate box script typeface family co-designed with Andrea Tardivo and Paco Gonzalez). Apero (a handcrafted emulation of sans and slab styles; the sans serif was inspired by vintage local liquor labels), Respect (a brush script sign painting typeface), Mentha (a calligraphic connected script typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: Peperoncino Vintage, Shabby Chic (wide signature script), Merendina (rounded sans family), Adore You (dry brush script), Quaderno Slanted (monolinear connected script), Love Wins (a collection of signage type phrases), Beach Please (watercolor brush), Timberline (dry brush script), Orbita (stencil shadow), Modern Love Slanted (brush style), Gessetto (a chalk lettering family).

Typefaces from 2018: Pesto Fresco (a wonderful 28-font layerable font family for use in hand-lettered posters), Instamood (a casual script), Auster (an unconventional flared and reverse contrast sans; followed in 2019 by Auster Rounded by Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno, and in 2020 by Auster Variable), Smoothy (brush script), Voguing (a multiline typeface inspired by the movement and glamour of the 80�s and New York ballrooms scene), Beach Please Vintage, La Bodeguita (calligraphic), Contigo (with Paco Gonzalez; see also Contigo Vintage ), Story Tales (folklore style, with many choices of textures and possibility of layering), DreamTeam (multilined).

Typefaces from 2019 co-designed by Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno: the brush typefaces Pando Script and Parkour, the Tuscan family Royale, the chalk font Dolce Caffe Chalk, the brush script Batticuore, the bry brush script typeface Blue Jeans, the layered handcrafted sans typeface Dolcissimo, and the font duo Sunday Morning.

Typefaces from 2019 by Giuseppe Salerno: SmoothyPro (with Paco Gonzalez), Auster Slab (a reverse stress slab).

Typefaces from 2020: Vermouth (a layerable font based on Italian signs from the 1960s), Big Mamma (a hand-printed slab serif by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzalez), Suerte (a reverse contrast display type, inspired by Aldo Novarese's Estro; with Paco Gonzalez), Norman (a fashion mag typeface by Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno), Royale Italic (Tuscan; with Paco Gonzalez), Groupie (a psychedelic delight), Hello Fresh (with Paco Gonzalez), Nostalgia and Nostalgia Flowers (with Paco Gonzalez), Tresor (a romantic flared sans; with Paco Gonzalez), Pesto Fresco Italic (with Paco Gonzalez).

Typefaces from 2021: Industria Serif (54 styles; by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzalez), Guess What (hand-printed), Little Boxes (a fat finger font), Notes (a notebook script family), Annuario (an 48-style sans initially created for a calendar), Norman Stencil, Norman Variable, Videomusic (script), Norman Fat (a decorative high-contrast razor-sharp serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Oddity (a stylish calligraphic script).

His type blog is called It's Not My Type. Behance link. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. Creattica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Restu Angga

Indonesian designer of the script typefaces Forsty Candy (a scrapbook font), Bright Orchid (a fat finger font), Creamy Sunset, Daytime (a fat finger font), Icebold, Diamond Midnight, Goldstick, Jingle Binder, Silvertone (a monoline script), Winter Candle, Violet Twinkle, Whiteland, Mahelisa, Balmonde (a monoline script), Bowhead, Mariogalo, Lambodia, Peachyday (a monoline marker pen), Winterlady (a dry brush script), Childish, Bratt Graner, Delighty, Zaniola Lavolce and Simplemind, which were all published in 2020 at Balpirick.

Typefaces from 2021: Heroic Trouble (script), Energetica (a signature script), Melodicstar (a scrapbook script), Secretsoul (script), Stylish Garden (a scrapbook script), Balletica (script), Beautica (script), Dreams Hunter (a brush script), Romantic Knight (a scrapbook script), Shadow Party (a scrapbook script), Blondie Rainbow (a scrapbook script), Golden Dates (a scrapbook script), Smilecake, Silver Midnight (a scrapbook script), Gustavo Eastwood (script), Smilecake (hand-crafted), Rolling Story (a heavy rhythmic script), Acoustica (a monoline script), Castlena (script), Memphis River (script), Blackbone (a wild script), Boucik (script), Ferguson Hunter (an inky wild calligraphic typeface), Violetail, Indian Feather (script), Phoenix Island (script), Sofia Carolyn (a scrapbook script), Martin Kamila (script), One Crayon (a crayon script), Rawles, Willow Eden (script), Biograf (a heavy script), Danisha (script), Rolasand (a Treefrog script), Delmona (an inky script), Georado (a monoline script), Mignola (wild calligraphy), Sweet Lavender (script), Valemon, Gardenisa (wild, calligraphic), Madelief (a monoline script), Richela (script), Glamori (brush calligraphy), Glittery (script), Goldie Rainbow (script), Kailey Latief (script), Coltisho (a monolinear script), Dementor (a monoline script), Dreamfoster (script), Gardenia Summer (a monoline script), Saylora (a monoline script), Gelyti (an inky script), Pumkinpie (a scrapbook font), Scholastica (a script), Silverglow (a scrapbook script), Socialist (a fat finger script), Heatwood, Kampsite (a monolinear script), Kidsfun (a children's book or scrapbook typeface), Lavineta (a wild calligraphic script), Ledgewood (a brush script), Lilybud (script), Natural Garden (script), Championa (a scrapbook font), Daily Planet (script), Dashing Unicorn (a fat finger font), Magicpie (a scrapbook font), Mattiface (script), Rattman (a monolinear script), Candycane (a scrapbook font), Chalkier (a fat finger font), Nicholia (script), Barkeliy (script), Bolognaise (a heavy monolinear script), Cailyn Bloom (an upright script), Camelleon, Victoria (script), Almonade, Baguette (a strong dry brush script), Baldive (a signature font), Adrielle (a wild script), Magnolin (an upright wild calligraphic script), Gingle Snowland (a monolinear signature font), Goldie Boxing, Grovelane, Magic Clause, Mysteries, Santa Robin, Selyna Avelyn (a wide signature font), Babycakes, Beatrica (a wild script), Bounties, Brownie Buster (a fat brush font), Thinker Justice (a Treefrog script), Guardian Circus, Nightjump, Painted Gallery.

Typefaces from 2022: Auguste Boutique (a Treefrog script), Goliath Soldier (a wild script), Obelisk Stone (a wild script), Smooth Batters (a thin wild script), Glamoria (a monoline script), Rosegrace (script), Roleyfox (a fat finger script), Tropical Harmony (script), Valley Country (a wild script), Dancinglove (script), Storytail (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Re-Type
[Ramiro Espinoza]

Argentinian designer Ramiro Espinoza (b. Santa Fe, 1969) studied at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe. He dabbled in fonts at his gorgeous (but now defunct) Jazz Futurezone site. In 2007, he founded Re-type, where he heads a group of designers including Yomar Augusto, Leo Beukeboom and Ricardo Rousselot. Ramiro graduated from the Type and Media's KABK (Den Haag) in 2004. He taught typography at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny in Valencia, Spain. At FontShop International, he was in a team that converted more than 50 font families to OpenType. He freelances occasionally for David Quay's studio. He joined Type Network in 2017. He is currently located in Amsterdam. His typefaces:

Mabella (2001), a free font dedicated to the Argentinian feminist activist Mabel Bellucci. It was for some time available at Sudtipos but discontinued there. It is still at Dafont.
Bellucci (2008), a commercial redesign of Mabella.
The display font Mariabrug (2002). This too is no longer available--it was redesigned and marketed as Kurversbrug, one of the ReType's fonts. Kurversbrug (2007) is a revival of the famous letters appearing on Amsterdam's bridges: the letters were probably designed by Anton Kurvers (b. Den Haag, 23 July 1889; d. Amsterdam, 29 January 1940).
At Union Fonts: Lula (2002-2003).
Maitena (2003), a free font based on the hand of an Argentinian comic artist, Maitena Burundarena.
Lavigne (2004-2010): Lavigne Display is the first release of a type-family aimed at publications such as interior design and women magazines-anywhere a touch of distinction is to be desired. Lavigne Display won an award at TDC2 2010. Lavigne Display and Lavigne Text (a modern serif family) were both winners at Tipos Latinos 2010.
Tomate (2008) is a brush lettering / signage script font influenced by Goudy Heavyface Italic. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010.
Barbieri (2009) is a signage face.
Work on Severino (2004) has been abandoned.
Smidswater Italics (2009): Smidswater is a Dutch graphic design studio with offices in The Hague and Breda. They had a corporate font (designed by Paulus Nabbe and Onno Bevoort) but wanted to expand the package adding italics and light weights. Ramiro Espinoza was commissioned for this and now Smidswater Font is a complete set extensively used in the studio's indentity.
Bath (2010-2011) is a Dutch typeface developed with David Quay for the signage and orientation in the city of Bath.
Winco (2012) is a glyphic (flared, incise) type family created from scratch. Espinoza mentions Arpke Antiqua and Globus Cursive as indirect influences on his new type family. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
Krul (2012) is an interpretation of the Amsterdamse Krulletter style of calligraphic signage. This was presented at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. A book entitled Amsterdamse Krulletter by Rob Becker and Ramiro Espinoza was published by Lecturis.nl in 2014. The English edition, The Curly Letter of Amsterdam followed in 2015.
Dulcinea (2012), a chancery / penmanship typeface. He writes: Dulcinea looks at Spanish Baroque calligraphy's most extreme tendencies, and especially at some of those produced by the writing masters Pedro Diaz Morante and Juan Claudio Aznar de Polanco. These 17th and 18th century alphabets with their plentiful calligraphic flourishes represented a marked break with the harmonic and angular Renaissance Cancellaresca style. It was Morante who first introduced and popularized the use of the pointed quill in Spain, and although his famous text entitled Arte Nueva de escribir(first volume published in 1616) contains alphabets that have much in common with traditional broad nib Cancellaresca calligraphy, most of the examples therein are outgrowths of the new models put forward by the Italian master Gianfrancesco Cresci. The swashes are complex and intricate, but at the same time they feature a profusion of defects. Many of them sometimes come close to ugliness. However, these pages contain an artistic essence that bears a relationship to the ironic and sometimes somber character of Spanish Baroque.
Medusa (2013) is a delicate copperplate penmanship script based upon renowned master Ramón Stirling. Helped in the type production by Paula Mastrangelo, Ramiro looked very carefully at the original manner in which glyphs connected. This typeface will win awards. Well, I wrote the previous sentence on the day I first saw Medusa. Medusa won an award at TDC 2014. In March 2014, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.
Laski Slab, co-designed with Paula Mastrangelo, won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. It is based on Paula's thesis work in 2012. Ramiro Espinoza kept on developing that typeface and published Laski Sans in 2016.
In 2017, he published Guyot Headline (a revival of Françcois Guyot's types). Guyot Text followed later in 2017---it is very legible even at small print sizes and is a sturdy workhorse overall. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Guyot. Guyot also won an award won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. In 2020, Guyot was selected as a typeface for Garcia Media's redesign of the major German finacial newspaper, Handelsblatt.
Reiher Headline (2018). A typeface family inspired by two fonts displayed in the famous Ploos van Amstel specimen, first printed in Amsterdam in 1767. The Reiher Headline romans were based on the handsome N° 1 Groote Paragon Romein, a rather condensed typeface whose punchcutter has not yet been identified. Reiher Headline's italics were based on the Aszendonica types attributed to Nicholas Kis. Several of the ornaments included in the Reiher types have been ascribed to J.F. Rosart. Espinoza further expanded the possibilities of his new family with Reiher Headline Open, a decorative inline version of Reiher Headline Bold. Reiher Headline was designed for magazine and newspapers.
Dejanire and Dejanire Headline (2019), a typeface family loosely inspired by an anonymous display typeface found in the type specimen of Claude Lamesle, published in Paris in 1742. It takes its name from Deianira, a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology and the wife of Heracles. Lamesle introduced it under the blah name of Gros canon deux points de gros romain. Ramiro Espinoza set out to improve Lamesle's typeface by fixing its flaws while preserving its freshness. It was followed in 2020 by Dejanire Sans and in 2022 by Dejanire Text and Dejanire Jewel (a baroque, profusely ornate set of capitals inspired by a set of titling capitals found in a religious decree printed in 1800 by Pedro Battle in Barcelona).
Kranto (2021). A 144-style sans serif typeface inspired by British and German grotesque typefaces from the first half of the twentieth century. It features weights from thin to black, widths from regular to condensed, and x-heights from small to large (called text, normal and display).

MyFonts interview in 2012. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Type Network link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Revnede
[Yehezkiel Azizal]

Designer of the calligraphic typeface Bruke (2019), the script typeface Rostock (2019) and the fat signature font Pastcode (2019). He also designed the display typefaces Aurond (2019), Zoctopus (2018), Scream (2018), Grimsby (2018) and Eqiva (2017: a trilined logo font). [Google] [More] ⦿

Revo Farisky
[Pen Culture (or: End Co; was: Stripline Co)]

Reyrey Blue
[Risca Anitawati]

Designer in Magelang (was: Yogyakarta), Indonesia, b. 1989. In 2020, she created the script typefaces Grand Amoura (script), Black Colnes, Des Rosesa, Nathiya, Lazy Boy, Brocke Jackson, Summer Like (+Sans), Magic Glass, Sweet Janette, Ceriya, La Muselle, Las Antonio, Shine de Love and Marionite.

Typefaces from 2021: Blinks High (a monoline script), Rhastelie (a sharp-edged reverse stress display serif), Christmas Melody (a calligraphic script), Billies Island (script), Bonjour Sydney (brush script), Mellaney Script, Bonjour Sydney (script), Le Vangeline (a calligraphic script), Soligant (an elegant typeface), Asillynne (an inky script), Paisleigh (a thin calligraphic script), Romantic Sunday (a graceful calligraphic script), The Julayna (a formal calligraphic script), Mon de Tresor (a condensed fashion mag serif), Medyson (a fattish vintage serif), Baby Rainbow, Magic Glass, Californian Beach, Caliner Script, The Bernardo, The Adelyne Script, La Vieste (a display serif with swashes), The Keandro (a signage script).

Typefaces from 2022: Roxale Story (a fashion mag serif), Te Quirtez (a sharp-edged vampire serif with rhombic tittles), Des Morgan (a condensed fashion mag serif), Triple Lemon, Cupid Darling (a scrapbook font), Seventh August (a display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Reza Abedini

Contemporary Teheran-based designer who has explored and expanded the possibilities of Farsi typography. He composes text into figures, posters and paintings. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [More] ⦿

Reza Design (or: Silverstein Design)
[Akhmad Reza Fauzi]

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer.

Typefaces from 2021: Atsuka Montreal (serif and script).

In 2020, he designed Shania Quinton, Peter Quincy (a dry brush script / sans duo),

In 2019, he published these script typefaces: Paula Matilda, Natalie Caydence, Mike Samiya, Death Squire (a horror font), Camilla Ahoy, Audrey Tatum, Olivade, Diane Amorta, Kasper Lullaby, Sharica, Brushella, Rawinda, Olismore, Shikatta (script), Peter Quincy (Sans, Script), Olime, Daisuke (monoline signature script), Ottmar, Hontary (brush script), Barthez (Victorian), Rodetta, Ganetha (an outstanding creamy script), Solvetta (a wild calligraphic script), Silver King (signage script), Barletta (a spurred vintage typeface). He also released the rounded sans typeface Minahils, the copperplate font Jakobenz, the spurred vintage / sans / serif/ monoline script typeface family Geovano, and the weathered vintage typeface Punizione in 2019.

Typefaces made in 2018: Wensfort (script), Omelette Script (a creamy retro signage font), Hallory, Bellington.

Reza Mukhtazar
[Rezatype (or: Reza Studio; was: Norman Debut Studio)]

Rezatype (or: Reza Studio; was: Norman Debut Studio)
[Reza Mukhtazar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1986) of the script typefaces Fabrik (2020), Kylie (2020), Bethanien (2020), Andeskut (2020), Britania (2020), Wollaston (2020) and Castalia (2020), the brush typeface Abigdon (2020), the all caps display typefaces Pipe (2020) and Dartford (2020), and the display typefaces Alika (2020) and Freshliy (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Carlotte (a calligraphic script with unexplicably amputated lower case f and q characters), Agoda (a rabbit eared calligraphic font), Bintan (a wild script with loopy ascenders), Andilay (script), Anita Honey (a wild calligraphic font), Dinamica, Fondyo (an inky script), Dindalove (an elegant upright script).

Typefaces from 2022: Aotani (a 16-style monolinear sans with an amputated g). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

RGB107,6

RGB is Radio Galibasel. The site carried DIE GUTE FUER ALLE font collection by Fidel Peugeot (Vienna), Karl Rottweiler (Basel), Peggy Boon, Robi Watt, Hermine Demoriane, Quentin Magnus, Christian Anders, Betti Sauter, Feit F. Stauffer, Nadja Z, Cosima v. Gestern and the RGB107,6 crew (Vienna-based outfit): nice handwriting fonts for general use. It seemed like it was a free collection, but the download page was not operational. All this is moot now, as the original font site disappeared.

The list of typefaces: Omen (Karl Rottweiler) is great, Gabel (by Fidel Peugeot) is a grunge font, Stukkie (by Peggy Boon) is normal handwriting, Ling (by Fidel Peugeot) is curly handwriting, Cuisinette (by Hermine Demoriane) is childish handwriting, Kanguruh (by Robi Watt) is hurried, HerrKlee (by Fidel Peugeot) is for graffiti, Mokka (by Fidel Peugeot) is for 8-year olds, the Waldmeister family (by Veit F. Stauffer) is for writing with chalk on trees, Sticker (by Christian Anders) is a disaster, Quentin Magnus der Wilde (by Fidel Peugeot) is so-so, Pirona (by Babette) is open and inviting hand-titling, BettisHand (by Betti Sauter) and Dr. R (by Dr. R) are regular handwriting fonts, Erdbeere (by Cosima von Gestern) is a doodling food-based dingbat font, Nadja's Trolle is so-so, and Trompete is Fidel Peugeot's Trumpet dingbat font. [Google] [More] ⦿

RHD Studio (or: RHD Fonts, or: RHD Creative)
[Rahmad Rizky]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 2003) of calligraphic script typefaces. In 2020, he designed the formal calligraphic typeface Armstrong, Della Sweet, Achieva, Wiolyna, Gotten Say (a rhythmic script), Highlandmonogram, Scarlatte, Casandsrela, Holy Love and Qontagen.

Typefaces from 2021: Cloudy Arolse (a vintage high-waisted decorative serif), Boster (a signature script), Wonderful Writing (calligraphic), Best Forest (a scrapbook script), Blackline (an inky signature script), Amira (calligraphic script), Andmesh (an upright script), Mastering (an upright script), Blushing Spring (an upright script), Ghosting (script), Bintaro (a display serif), Baby Honey (calligraphic), Martina (calligraphic), Dast Lovely (calligraphic).

Catalog in the spring of 2022: Achieva, Amstrong, Andmesh, Baby Honey, Beloved, Best Forest, Bintaro, Black Palkons, Blackline, Blushing Spring, Bouton Signature, Casandrela, Cloudy Arolse, Dast Lovely, Dellasweet, Galeon Script, Ghosting, Gotten Say, Griston, Hey Calligraphy, Higlandmonogram, Holy Love, Martina, Mastering, Nigella Script, Qontagen, Rosbella, Scarlatte, The Ganesha, The Safenter, Wakanda Script, Wiolyna, Wonderful Writing. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rhega Juliandy
[Deadlock Studio]

Rhydan Studio

Indonesian designer of Chaster Script (2017, calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rhydan Studio

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1984) designer of these script typefaces in 2020: Honolulu (a monoline signature script), Ridiana (calligraphic), Chaster Script (wild calligraphy). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ribeth Studio (or: Fonthana Studio)
[Davis Andi Pradana]

Davis Andi Pradana is the Klaten, Indonesia-based designer in 2021 of Rough Anthem (a retro baseball script), Brunella (script), Billionstar (a heavy brush script), and Callista (a wild calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ricarda Hollmann

German designer of the lively calligraphic typeface Lauries Tanz (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ricardo Esteves Gomes
[Outras Fontes]

Ricardo Ramos

Lettering artist in Odemira, Portugal. He did some windmill lettering commissioned by the Municipality of Odemira for the international day of the mills in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ricardo Rodrigues dos Santos
[Vanarchiv]

Ricardo Victor Rousselot Schmitt
[Edy Type]

Richard Beatty

Richard Beatty (Colorado) died on May 14, 2018. He made beautiful fonts, often revivals and interpretations of old typefaces and calligraphic designs, and was influenced by Frederic Goudy. In the 1990s, he operated as Richard Beatty Designs, making over 500 typefaces. Most were only for private or corporate use. Richard's typefaces:

Baxter New Style (1988), Baxter Old Style (1988)
Beatty Victoriana (1991): a set of five Victorian era fonts---Wanted, Spiral, Recherché, Hermosa and Childs (1985). Hermosa and Childs are nearly art nouveau. Childs is a revival of an 1892 typeface by Hermann Ihlenburg. Puzzling note: the Linotype catalogue says that Kismet was designed in 1879 by John F. Cumming. When you look at Spiral by Richard Beatty, you find a close copy of Kismet; Beatty says it's an "edited version of Kismet", but he holds the copyright. Is this another case of legal cloning? Finally, Wanted is based on an ATF typeface, Fantail, that was already shown in 1889 by the Franklin Type Foundry.
Benjamin (2002, BeattyType): from sketches by Ed Benguiat.
BernardsHand (beautiful medieval hand)
Borders (1990, some designed by R. Mitchell and R. Beatty)
Calligraph Initials (1997): a Lombardic face.
Childs. After a design from 1893 by Hermann Ihlenburg.
Civilite
Cooper
Desdemona (1994, +Black): art nouveau
Doric
Doves Type (2006). After the famous Venetian typeface designed by Emery Walker and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, 1900.
Duchy Blackletter, Duchy Initials (2002): A blackletter typeface based on a sketch by Ed Benguiat of Benton's Dutch Initials.
Elizabeth RB. After Frederic Goudy, 1900.
Elizabeth (1994, BeattyType): An all caps almost uncial face.
Fanny Mitchell, Fanny Mitchell Initials (2005).
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Goodhue (2005).
Goudy Claremont (1993: based on Scripps College Old Style, 1941).
Goudy Italian Old Style (1992).
Goudy Mediaeval (1992).
Goudy Saks (1990: based on a typeface designed in 1934 by Goudy for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York).
Hermosa (1991). a Victorian typeface.
Kennerley Old Style (1986, after Goudy's 1911 design)
Jensen Eusebius, Jensen Eusebius New Style (1989). A Venetian typeface.
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Lucianard
Mediaeval Calligraphy
Ornaments (based on 1928 figures drawn by E. Adler)
Overdressed (2002): based on a sketch by Edward Benguiat for his Phototype Company.
Prairie Poster (Plain, Fancy): arts and crafts face.
Quillsong (calligraphic)
Recherché (1991). A curly Victorian typeface.
Rene Louis (1992)
Rolls Royce.
Spiral (1991). Revival of John F. Cumming's Victorian typeface.
Troyer
University Old Style. After Frederic Goudy, 1938.
Velda (2005, connected hand): the handwriting of Velda Burgess Will, classmate of the designer.
Wanted RB (1991). A western font.
White Tie, White Tie Relaxed (2005): roman lettering.

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Richard Gething

British penman who published Chirographia or A Booke of Copies containing sundrie Examples for such as are desirous to better their hands and attaine to perfection in the Art of commendable Writing, with certaine peeces of Cursorie hands (not heretofore extant) newlie com in vse amongst the gentrie especiallie with secretaries and their Clearks, and are of excellent facilitie and dispatch for any manner of imploinients whatsoever in 1645.

In 1619, he wrote Calligraphotechnia or The Art of faire writing. Sett forth and newly enlarged by Ri: Gethinge Mr: in the said Art dwelling in Fetter-lane, at the hand and Penne, and are to be soulde by George Humble at the white horse in Popes head alley over against the roiall Exchange in London. [Google] [More] ⦿

Richard J. Bradley

Artist, calligrapher and type designer born in Portsmouth, England, in 1947. Richard Bradley designed ITC Bradley Hand (1995), Fine Hand (1987), Calligraphic Ornaments (1993, ITC; also in the Corel collection), and the flowing Bible Script (1979). Part-time teacher at the Portsmouth College of Art, and type designer for Linotype. From 2006 onwards, he cooperated with David Kettlewell at New Renaissance Fonts, where he jointly developed these renaissance-era fonts: AliceScrolltipRoman, RicksDecoratedUncial-Medium, RicksFolkloreRoman, RicksRelaxedHand-Italic, SevilliaDancingText, Sevilliastandingtext, Sevilliatiles, Ashbourne 1241 (2009, an uncial based on a gravestone in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, dated 1241). Future releases will include Ashbourne Uncials, Rick's Christmas card, Country Cursive, Curly Classic, Rick's Graphica, Rick's Rustic Caps, Rick's Rustic lettering, and Rick's Square Caps. In 2011, he and Linotype released a 3-style extension of Bradley Hand called Bradley Type. At New Renaissance Fonts, he released Bradley Chancery (2011), Alice Scrolltip (2006) and Sonnet Script (2011, inspired by the calligraphy of the Welsh artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974)). Bradley Texting (2014) is an informal script.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Richard Kegler
[P22 Type Foundry]

Richard Lipton
[Lipton Letter Design]

Rick Cusick

Calligrapher, b. Stockton, CA. Art director of Letter Arts Review magazine since 1992. Designer of Nyx (1997-2002, Linotype, Adobe). Presently, Rick was Manager of Font Development at Hallmark Cards near Kansas City, MO, until some time between 2012 and 2016. Nyx won an award at Bukvaraz 2001.

Author of What Our Lettering Needs The Contribution of Hermann Zapf to Calligraphy & Type Design at Hallmark Cards (2012, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press). This books deals with Hermann Zapf's years (1966-1973) as a consultant to Hallmark Cards. Zapf's typefaces there include Crown Roman, Jeannette, Hallmark Uncial, Crown Italic.

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Rick Hutchinson
[Bright Ideas Fonts]

Ricky Hartasni
[Taznix Creative]

Ricky Rinaldi
[Aiyari]

Ride Studio
[Ahmad Riqi]

Ride Studio stands for Riqi Design Studio, which was established in 2021 by Indonesian designer Ahmad Riqi. In 2021, he released Wedding Paradise (script) and Dominica Calligraphy (a calligraphic script with an interesting interplay between thick and thin). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rifan Asri
[Best Font Studio (was: Bald Creative, Asry Lab)]

Riki Rinaldi
[Naldi Studio (or: Naldy Studio)]

Rikke Hindborg

Graphic design student in Haderslev, Denmark, who made the high-contrast calligraphic script typeface Silvya (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rinaldi Novianda
[Alpha Bento]

Rinto Dwi Nugroho
[Almeera Studio]

Risca Anitawati
[Reyrey Blue]

Riska Kurniawan
[Black Lotus]

Riski Firmana
[Solid Type]

Riverside Studio (was: Pantera Studio, or: Bebby Studio)

Designer of the handcrafted typeface Mother Love (2015) and the calligraphic Bonita Script (2015). In 2017, he made Bellonie (a script). Old Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Riverside Type Foundry
[Akbar Muzrien]

Indonesian designer of the calligraphic fonts Silentmind (2017), Beautyface (2017) and Dolcetto Script (2017), and the script typeface Stringlight (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Riyadh Rahman
[Ergibi Studio]

Riza Haitami
[Black Studio]

Rizaldi Wandani
[Wandani Creative (or: Lhotive Studio)]

Rizka Prayuda
[Atasi Studio (or: Atasi Type)]

Rizki Agam Fonna
[RCKY Studio]

Rizki Andika
[Letterfresh Studio]

Rizky Awaludin
[Manjali Studio]

RM WD
[Antonio Vignali]

Graphic designer designer, b. 1959, Parma, Italy. He studied at the Art Institute in Parma. After graduation in 1983 from the Urbino ISIA Academy, Antonio spent 20 years working as Senior Art Director and Creative Director for various international advertizing agencies in Milan (Pirella Lowe, Armando Testa, Young & Rubicam).

In 2016, he designed the calligraphic typeface Gerolinda. This OpenType-feature-laden typeface family, at 1900 glyphs per weight for six weights, leaves all other calligraphic typefaces from the past decade in the dust. It is as if the Italian penmen from the renaissance period are being reborn through Antonio's hand. In fact, he intended something very specific---the recreation of an Italian gentlewoman's hand (his own words).

One of his projects was inspired by the Italian Futurismo artists in the early 1900s whose style is close to Italian art deco. Typefaces in the project include Italiano Doc (2018), Italiano Fushion Color (2021: the color version of Italiano Fushion) and Italiano Fushion New (2021: all caps).

Typefaces from 2018: Ziletti Pop (a layerable pre-psychedelic font influenced by Girolamo Ziletti (1552-1583) in Venice) and Eletric Lady (a light copperplate calligraphic script).

In 2020, he published Parmesan Revolution (a didone with mirrored letters, perhaps in the hope of emulating Cyrillic), Venice Revolution, Jannson Map (a wonderful 18th century map font about which Antonio writes: This font is inspired by Johannes Janssonius, well known as Jan Janszoon or Jan Janssonius (b. Arnhem, 1588, d. Amsterdam, 1664), a Dutch cartographer, publisher and engraver who was married to Hondius's daughter. He authored many masterpieces of cartography just like Willem Blaeu and Hondius). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

RMU (Ralph Michael Unger Typedesign)
[Ralph Michael Unger]

Ralph M. Unger (b. 1953, Thuringia, East Germany) says this about himself at MyFonts: Typesetter from the composing stick via Linotype setting machines to the Mac. Jobs in various Thuringian printeries. Barred further education by Communist authorities due to political reasons. Imprisoned in East Germany. Since 1988 in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, former West Germany. Jobs in several newspaper printing houses as advertisement compositor. Own office since 1995, in Aalen, Baden-Wuerttemberg. He lives in Schwaebisch Gmuend, and was a freelance type designer for Profonts and URW++, where he contributed frequently to their libraries between 2002 and 2009. In 2009, he founded RMU. MyFonts link. I split his contributions into two groups, the URW / Profonts group, and the RMU group. The prefix FontForum refers to a subseries of URW++ fonts. Unless specifically mentioned, all the following fonts are at URW++ and/or Profonts:

FontForum Admiral Script (2005): revival of Middleton's Admiral script from 1953.
Amitié (2009): a garalde family.
Arabella Pro (2006): after the script by Arnold Drescher from 1936, published at Joh. Wagner.
Fontforum Atrament (2006): architectural lettering. Do not confuse with a Suitcase Type Foundry font from 2003 by the same name.
Atze (2010): a comic book family.
Behrensschrift D (2007): after the jugendstil typeface Behrens Schrift, 1902, by Peter Behrens.
FontForum Bernhard Script (2005): after Bernhard Script from the 1920s.
Bradley (2005): blackletter, after the original by William H. Bradley.
Breite Kanzlei (2007).
Breitkopf Fraktur (2003): after the original by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, done in 1793.
Brocken (2011) is a signage typeface inspired by a design of Volker Küster (1960s).
Profonts Bureau (2010, Profonts): a minimalist rounded sans family.
FontForum Calypso (2005): a revival of Roger Excoffon's Calypso (1958).
Card Pro (2006): a decorative display based on Ella Cursief (1916, Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos, Lettergieterij Amsterdam).
Chaweng (2006, Profonts): an oriental all caps simulation face.
Civilite URW (2005).
Compliment (2004, casual script). Based on a 1965 script by Helmu Matheis for Ludwig & Mayer.
Cranach (2007): a blackletter typeface modeled after Kuenstler Gotisch from the Krebs Foundry.
Dominante (2007): a serif family based on Johannes Schweitzer's font by that name, 1959.
Dominique (2010, profonts): an informal typeface.
FontForum URW Ecsetiras (2005): revival of Ecsetirás (Zoltan Nagy, 1967, a brush face).
Edda Pro (2008). An art nouveau typeface that revives a Heinrich Heinz Keune typeface from 1900.
Energia Pro (2008, Profonts): connected monowidth script, based on Arno Drescher's Energos from 1932.
Estro (2003, Western lettering). Seems close to Nebiolo's Estro from the 60s.
Eurobrush Pro (2007, Profonts): handwriting.
EuroSans (2008).
Euroscript Pro (2006, Profonts): school script typeface based on his own handwriting.
Flashes (2007): a revival of Crous-Vidal's Flash, 1953.
Fox (2007): a brush script based on W. Rebhuhn's original from the 1950s.
Gamundia (2010): a calligraphic copperplate script inspired by Excoffon's Diane.
Ganz Grobe Gotisch (2006): a fat blackletter modeled after the original by F.H.E. Schneidler.
Gmuender Elan Pro (2011) is a 1950s style script face.
Gradl Nr 1 (2008): based on hand-drawn art nouveau upper case characters by M. J. Gradl, ca. 1900.
Graphique Pro (2008): shaded caps face, based on Graphique, which was originally created by Swiss designer Hermann Eidenbenz in 1945, and issued as hot metal font by Haas'sche Schriftgießerei. See also New Graphique Pro (2011).
Handel Slab (2009): a 6-style extension of Trogram's 1980 typeface Handel Gothic.
Hanseat (2010): a grotesque family done at Profonts. It was heavily inspired by Germany's official DIN 1451 Engschrift.
Iova Nova (2007): based on Jowa Script, designed by J. Wagner in 1967.
Profonts>Impression (2008): art deco.
Jessen Schrift (2004): after the Rudolf Koch blackletter typeface by that name.
FontForum URW Konzept Pro (2005): revival of Konzept (1968, Martin Wilke's handprinting face).
Legende (2002): a script typeface based on the original typeface of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler (1937).
Leipziger Antiqua. The original Leipziger Antiqua by Alfred Kapr at Typoart dates from 1971 until 1973. The digital version of Leipziger Antiqua was developed by Ralph M. Unger in 2005.
Manuskript Antiqua (2005): after Oldrich Meinhart's Manuskript Antiqua.
The Maszynysta family of heavy industrial sans typefaces (2010) have a textured style (Struktura), a Shadow, and a plain Roman.
Maxim (2003, Profonts): The heavy brush typeface Maxim was originally designed by Peter Schneidler in 1956 for the Bauer foundry.
New Bayreuth (2008): after Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Bayreuth from 1932.
Old Borders and Lines (2010). A free font.
Ornella (2008): Jugendstil.
Peter Schlemihl (2008, Profonts): a revival of a blackletter by Walter Tiemann.
Pedell (2009): a casual script.
Polo (2002): a brush face modeled after Carl Rudolph Pohl's Polo (1960).
In 2012, Ivana Koudelkova co-designed the grungy headline typeface Retroactive Pro with Ralph M. Unger at Profonts.
Fontforum Rhapsody (2006): a revival of Ilse Schüle's rotunda face.
Roberta (2003): art nouveau typeface after obert Trogman's typeface for FotoStar.
FontForum Signs and Symbols (2006).
Splendor (2009): a revival of a brush script typeface by Wilhelm Berg, Schriftguss, 1930. See also Splendor Pro (2014).
Sportowy (2009): an outline face.
Stanford (2011). A sports lettering face.
Stiletto (2006): a medieval script.
Fontforum Stripes (2007): a multistripe op art display typeface based on a Letraset font from 1973 by the same name.
Fontforum Thalia (2006): retro font.
Tintoretto (2006): shadow display face based on an origonal by Schelter & Giesecke.
Tip Top Pro (2008): a Julius Klinkhardt art nouveau typeface revival.
FontForum Unciala (2005): a revival of Oldrich Menhart's typeface Unciala (1953, Grafotechna).
Unger Chancery (2005).
Unger Script (2003): based on H. Matheis' Slogan typeface designed for Ludwig&Mayer in 1957.
Veltro (2007): after a 1931 original by G. da Milano at Nebiolo.
Profonts Woodpecker (2008).

The list of RMU fonts:

Affiche (2017). A revival of Helios Reklameschrift of the Klinkhardt foundry.
Aldo Manuzio (2017). After a house typeface from 1897 by Schelter&Giesecke.
Amati Pro (2010): after Georg Trump's condensed didone face, Amati, 1951.
Antiqua Florenz (2021). A revival and extension of Paul Zimmermann's Antiqua Florenz (1960, Ludwig & Mayer), which is based on Venetian romans.
Avus Pro (2012). A sans family that extends Gert Wunderlich's Maxima (1970).
Baroque Pearl (2016). A pearly typeface that revives Peter A. Demeter's Fournier Geperlt (1922, Schriftguss).
Behrens Kursiv (2013). After a 1906 original by Peter Behrens.
RMU Belvedere (2020). A revival of Heinrich Wieynck's art nouveau / fin-de-siècle typeface Belvedere (1906, Bauer).
RMU Bison (2020). A revival of Julius Kirn's brush script Bison (1935-1938, C.E. Weber).
Bernhard Blackletter (2016). After Lucian Bernhard's extrafette Bernhard Fraktur (1921).
Bernhard Cursive Extra Bold (2010).
Borghese (2015). An art nouveau font after a Schelter & Giesecke original from 1904.
Borgis Pro (2012). A Clarendon-style text family.
Boulette (2015, a fat creamy script).
RMU Bowery (2019) A revival of Old Bowery (1933, ATF)).
Bravura Pro (2013). After G.G. Lange's Publica.
Bricklayers (2012). An original fat slab display face.
Brillant (2009): art nouveau and ultra heavy.
Butti (2011). A script family paterned after Fluidum (1951, Alessandro Butti, Nebiolo).
Cable Condensed (2014). Based on Koch's Kabel.
Caesar Pro (2011). A flared sans typeface after Caesar Schrift (1913, Georg Schiller, C.F. Rühl).
Capitol Pro (2012). An art deco typeface based on Capitol (Karl Hermann Schaefer for Schriftguss, 1931).
Carina Pro (2017). A calligraphic script typeface based on Rautendelein (1929, Schriftguss).
Carla Pro (2013). A broad-nibbed script modeled after Ballantines Script (Elsner & Flake, 1974; see also Ballantines Serial by SoftMaker).
Carlsbad (2018). A couple of art nouveau typefaces based on originals from 1895 by H. Berhold called Regina Cursiv and Hansa Cursiv.
Caslon Gotisch (2009): after the original by William Caslon from 1763.
Celebration (2009): blackletter.
Circensis (2016). A Western circus font based on a concept of Fritz Richter.
Claudius (2010): after a 1937 blackletter font at Klingspor.
Constanze Pro (2012). A light cursive typeface based on Constanze (1954, Joachim Romann, Klingspor).
Contact Pro (2010): after Contact, a 1963 font by Helmut Matheis.
Dante Alighieri (2018). Based on a Schelter & Giesecke original.
Daphnis (2016). A revival of Daphnis (1929, Walter Tiemann).
Deutschmeister (2017). A textura blackletter typeface after Deutschmeister by Berthold Wolpe for Ludwig Wagner in 1934. (Some dispute that Wolpe made this font.)
Diamant Pro (2012). A transitional serif face.
Emilia (2016). Based on Weiss Antiqua (1928) by Emil Rudolf Weiss.
Neue Echo (2016). Based on Echo for Schriftguss.
Elbflorenz (2020). A revival of Albert Auspurg's display typeface Miami (1934, Schriftguss).
Emilia Gotisch (2016). After Weiss Gotisch (1936) by Emil Rudolf Weiss.
Emilia Fraktur (2021). A revival of Emil Rudolf Weiss's Weiss Fraktur (1913).
Erler Titling (2015). After Erler Versalien (1953, Herbert Thannhaeuser for Typoart).
Eurotech Pro (2011): a slabby techno family.
Faulkner Pro (2011): a connected heavy signage script based on Alan Meeks's Kestrel.
Fette Kanzlei (2019).
Fette Unger Fraktur (2010).
Fichte Fraktur (2020). After Walter Tiemann's Fichte Fraktur (1934).
Fontanesi RMU. An ornamental caps typeface that revives Aldo Novarese's Fontanesi (2018).
Forelle Pro (2010): after the original Forelle script typeface by Erich Mollowitz, 1936.
Frankenberg Pro (2012). An antique script face.
Gabor Pro (2014). A connected copperplate script.
Gaby Pro (2017). A revival of Hans Möhring's script typeface Gabriele (1938 or 1947, C.E. Weber).
Garamond Antiqua Pro (2015).
RMU Gilgengart (2020). A revival of Hermann Zapf's Fraktur font Gilgengart (1938).
Gillray Pro (2015). A copperplate script after Hogarth Script (by Harald Bröder for Typoart).
RMU Gloria (2019). After Gloria (1898, Emil Gursch).
RMU Gong (2020). Based on Arno Drescher's Super Grotesk Schmalfett first released in 1933 at Schriftguss.
Gmuender Gravur (2011). A 3d shadow face. Gmuender Antiqua Pro (2015) is influenced by the metal font Imprimatur (1952-1955, Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum). Gmuender Kanzlei (2018) is a blackletter typeface.
Goethe Fraktur (2022). A revival of a blackletter typeface by Wilhelm Woellmer (1905).
Gravira (2021). A revival of Herbert Thannhaeuser's Gravira, released by Schelter & Giesecke in 1935 .
Haenel Antiqua (2020, based on a 19th century antiqua by Eduard Haenel) and Haenel Fraktur (2011, after Haenel Fraktur, ca. 1840).
Hanse Textura (2020). A revival of a textura by Hermann Zapf.
RMU Helion (2020). A revival of the 3d titling typeface Helion (1935, Arno Drescher for Schriftguss Dresden).
RMU Herkules (2019). After a late 19th century font by Bauer and Berthold called Reklameschrift Herkules.
Hoelderlin (2018). After Eugen Weiss's Hoelderlin blackletter font (1937).
Hoyer Script (2017). After Hanns Thaddeus Hoyer's Hoyer Schoenschrift (1939, Stempel).
Hupp Fraktur (2016). After Otto Hupp, 1911.
Impuls (2010): a brushy typeface based on Paul Zimmermann's Impuls (1945).
Initials RMU One (2012) consists of revivals of Rudhardsche Initialen (Otto Eckmann, ca. 1900) and Walthari Initials (ca. 1900, Rudhardsche Giesserei). Initials RMU Two (2012) consists of revivals of Jubilaeumsinitialen (by Bauersche) and Augsburger Initialen (by Peter Schnorr, 1901).
Jean Paul Fraktur (2021). A revival of Breitkopf's Fraktur font Jean-Paul-Schrift (1798).
Jobs Gravure (2011). It had to happen---a few days after Steve Jobs' death, Unger released the beveled engraved typeface Jobs Gravure, which is an extension of Trump Gravur (1954, Weber).
Jolly Polly (2012): a curly non-connected script face.
Kis Antiqua Pro (2018). A revival of Hildegard Korger's Kis Antiqua at Typoart.
Kleist Fraktur (2010): after Walter Tiemann's original.
Kompress Pro (2013). Two compressed sans typefaces.
RMU Kontrast (2021). An art deco typeface that revives Kontrast (1930, F.H.E. Schneidler at Weber).
Koralle RMU (2018). A revival of Schelter and Giesecke's Koralle (1915).
Korpus Pro (2014). A text typeface family. Followed later in 2014 by Korpus Sans Pro.
Korpus Serif Pro (2021). A revival and extension of Timeless (Typoart) that covers Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.
Leibniz Fraktur (2012) is modeled after the famous Genzsch & Heyse blackletter font.
Lenbach (2021). Inspired by a German font from the Victorian era.
Liliom Pro (2012). A beautiful fat didone typeface based on an original from the Fonderie Française.
Lipsia Pro (2011). An angular serif family.
Literatura Pro Book (2012).
Litfass (2021). A revival of an art nouveau font by Flisch.
Lutetia Nova (2014). A fresh two-style take on Jan van Krimpen's Lutetia (1924).
RMU Luchs (2021). A redesign of Jakob Erbar's inline all caps art deco font Lux (Ludwig & Mayer, 1929).
Luxor Pro (2010): a Victorian/Western display face.
Lyrica (2014). A revival of the informal blackletter typeface Lyrisch (1907, Georg Schiller).
RMU Magnet (2021). A redesign and revival of Magnet (1951, Arthur Murawski at Ludwig & Mayer).
RMU Manolo (2019). Based on the art nouveau typeface Manolo (Ludwig & Mayer).
Manutius Pro (2012).
Meister Antiqua (2011, +Bold, +Book). A Typoart original from 1951 in the tall flared ascender serif genre, revived and extended.
Mitropaschrift (2016). An octagonal original.
Mobil Pro (2011). A semi-script typeface in the fifties style of Matheis.
Monument (2010): a 3d shadow roman caps face created after Oldrich Menhart's Monument.
Narziss (2018). A revival of Walter Tiemann's Narziss from 1921.
RMU Neptun (2021). A revival and extension of the art nouveau typeface Neptun by Aktiengesellschaft fuer Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach.
Neue Kurier (2011). Typoart's popular signage script font in a new, completely remastered version.
Neue Muenchner Fraktur (2010).
Neue Schwabacher (2021). After Albert Anklam's Neue Schwabacher (Genzsch & Heyse, 1876).
Neue Thannhaeuser (2011).
Old Towne Pro (2010): a Western font.
RMU Omega (2020). After Omega, an art deco typeface by Friedrich Kleukens at Stempel in 1926.
Orbis Pro (2016). A revival of Walter Brudi's shadow typeface Orbis (1953, Stempel).
Orplid Pro (2019). a layerable typeface that revives and extends Hans Bohn's all caps Bauhaus era typeface Orplid (1929).
Parcival Antiqua (2016). A revival of Parcival Antiqua (1926, Herbert Thannhaeuser).
Parfum (2013). A low x-height script that was inspired by Howard Allen Trafton's Quick (1933, bauer).
Parler Fraktur (2018). A revival of Friedrich Poppl's Poppl Fraktur.
Parler Gotisch (2011). A blackletter face.
RMU Pittoreske (2019). A decorative Victorian typeface.
Plastica Pro (2015, a chiseled typeface inspired by a J. Lehmann design).
RMU Pergola (2021). A vintage shadow typeface inspired by a late-19th century font of Georg Giesecke.
Post Fraktur (2014) and Postillon (2014). After Herbert Post, 1933-1937.
Primana Pro (2012). A seductive geometric grotesk family.
Prinzess Gravur (2010): a blackletter typeface modeled after Prinzeß Kupferstichschrift (1905, Berthold).
Prisma Pro (2011). Revival and extension of Rudolf Koch's multiline typeface Prisma (1931).
Reklame Fraktur (2016). After Reklame Fraktur by Albert Christoph Auspurg, 1914.
Reflex Pro (2018). All caps, with an inline style.
Reznicek Pro (2011) is a post-Victorian pre-art nouveau typeface named after Ferdinand von Reznicek (1868-1909), one of the leading artists and illustrators of those times.
Rekord Antiqua (2020). A revival of the art nouveau era text typeface Rekord Antiqua (1911, Wagner & Schmidt).
Rhythmus Pro (2016). After a Schriftguss AG and Schelter&Giesecke original grotesk, and extended to cover Cyrillic.
Ridinger Std (2012). Based on Riedingerschrift (Franz Riedinger, 1906, for Benjamin Krebs Succ.).
Ronde Pro (2011): roundhand script.
Royal Grotesque (2021). A revival of Wotan by Wagner & Schmidt, 1914. Did this typeface become RMU Royal Sans (2022)?
Salzmann Fraktur (2019). A revival of Max Salzmann's blackletter font released by Schelter & Giesecke in 1912.
Saskia Pro (2016). Revival of Jan Tschichold's Saskia (1931, Schelter & Giesecke).
Schmale Anzeigenfraktur (2009): based on Koch's Schmale Deutsche Anzeigenschrift, 1923, Klingspor.
Schmale Mediaeval (2020). Based on Schelter & Giesecke's Schmale Mediäval (1840).
Schmuckinitialen (2009): an ornamental caps typeface in the art nouveau style based on Walthari Initials [Walthari (1899, Heinz König for the Rudhard'sche Giesserei) in the upper case and Eckmann Initials (ca. 1900, by Otto Eckmann, Germany's chief art nouveau type designer) in the lower case].
Schreibmeister (2021). Ralph's interpretation of Arno Drescher's formal cursive typeface for Ludwig Wagner (1958, Leipzig).
Schwabacher Book (2013).
Sebaldus (2019). A heavy blackletter typeface, after Sebaldus Gotisch (1926, H. Berthold).
Senatsfraktur (2020). After Friedrich Bauer's Senats Fraktur done in 1907 for Genzsch & Heyse.
Concordia (2020). A revival of Sensation Schmalfett (1914, Heinrich Hoffmeister).
Siegfried Pro (2017). A revival of the art nouveau typeface Siegfried (1900, Wilhelm Woellmer).
RMU Skizze (2021). This revives Walter Höhnisch's script typeface Skizze (1935, Ludwig&Mayer).
Staxx Pro (2013). A prismatic typeface.
Staufer Gotisch (2015). An engraved blackletter typeface modeled after Herbert Thannhaeuser's Hermann Gotisch (Schriftguss, 1934).
Steinschrift Pro (2015). A single style condensed sans serif.
Sylphe Pro (2019). A vintage script font that revives Schelter & Giesecke's Isabel (not Sylphide, as claimed by him).
Tablica (2017). After Karl-Heinz Lange's DDR telephone directory font Minima (1984).
Thannhaeuser Fraktur (2013) is a redesign of Typoart's Thannhaeuser Fraktur.
Thomasschrift (2014). A rustic typeface that revives and extends Thomas-Schrift by Friedel Thomas (1957-1958, Typoart).
Titanschrift (2011). A yummy soft and fat display face.
Tombola (2018). After an alphabet from the 1920s by Otto Heim.
RMU Trianon, renamed RMU Trifels (2020). After Heinrich Wieynck's Trianon (1905, Bauersche Giesserei).
Trocadero Pro (2010): an extension and revival of Trocadero Kursiv, 1927, Albert Auspurg, Trennert.
Troubadour Pro (2010): In Medium and Engraved styles.
Trump Deutsch (2011): a blackletter face, after the 1935 original by Georg Trump.
Trybuna (2013). Based on Herbert Thannhaeuser's Liberta Antiqua (1958), but completely redrawn.
Turnier (2019). A revival of G.G. Lange's derby (1952-1953).
Tyton Pro (2013). A brush script after Heinz Schumann's famous 1964 Stentor.
Typoskript Pro (2010): a revival of Hildegard Korger's Typoskript, first done at TypoArt in 1968.
Unger Fraktur (2010): after a 1793 design by Johann Friedrich Unger; includes fett and mager.
Walbaum Antiqua Pro (2013). A revival of Justs Erich Walbaum's didone classic.
RMU Wallau (2019). After Rudolf Koch's rotunda typeface Wallau (1926-1934).
Werbedeutsch (2021). A revival of the blackletter typeface Buchdeutsch (Ernst Schneidler, 1926).
Wieynck Fraktur (2019). after Heinrich Wieynck's Wieynck Fraktur (1912).
Wieynck Gotisch (2018). After Wieynck Gotisch (1926, Heinrich Wieynck).
Zentenar Fraktur (2010): mager and halbfett; after the 1937 workhorse by Ernst Schneidler at Bauer.
Zierfraktur (2010): after Deutsche Zierschrift, an engraved blackletter font that was cut by Rudolf Koch between 1919 and 1921 for Klingspor.

Ralph made some typefaces outside URW/Profonts and RMU, such as Stripes (2014, a prismatic typeface puvlished by Thinkdust).

View Ralph M. Unger's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Roann Mathias

Calligrapher and greeting card designer based in Memphis, TN. In 2017, she created the formal calligraphic typeface Italian Heather. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rob Cooper

Renowned calligrapher, carver, designer and sign painter who has been involved in the sign industry over twenty years. A frequent contributor to SignCraft magazine, he is probably best known for his slate carving techniques. In 2002, Rob relocated from Miami, Florida to Koh Tao, Thailand. His alphabets have been recreated at Letterhead: Alarm Block, Chunky Block, Claretian, David Design, Farango, Fine Line Roman, Gypsy, Seranoa, Signature (calligraphic), Utopia (informal slab serif). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rob Dobi
[Dobi (was: Toxic Type)]

Rob Leuschke
[Alphabytes]

Robbie de Villiers
[Wilton Foundry]

Roberlan Borges

Illustrator, lettering artist and graphic designer in Vitoria, Brazil. Creator of the great bold poster sans typeface Condensa (2016) and the vintage (art deco) display font Calzone (2013).

Behance link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Robert Alonso
[BA Graphics]

Robert Arnow

Illustrator and graphic designer who is Director of Creative Investigation at Incitement Design in New York City. His calligraphy was turned into calligraphic brush typefaces such as Mustang (2009) and Streetbrush (2009). In 2010, he created Graffiti Classic and Graffiti Classic Taglets (dingbats).

In 2013, he published the brush script typeface French Kiss. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Robert E. Leuschke
[TypeSETit]

Robert Whitcome
[Rosalind Bennett]

Roberta Leoni

As a student at the Free University of Bolzano / Bozen in Italy in 2013, Roberta Leoni (based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands) designed the calligraphic stencil font Quarzo (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Roberto Raúl Beto Janz

Brazilian designer (b. Curitiba, 1981) who joined estudioCrop in 2005. He created the five-weight (slightly grungy) calligraphic family Postuma (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Robot Smith
[Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky]

Roch Art
[Rochadi Sudarma]

Boyolali, Solo, Indonesia-based designer who uses the names Rochart Studio, Sheo Manggala Abhayas, Shelana Hadyan (b. 1989), Shelana Hadvan and Rochadi Sudarma (b. 1990). Creator of the signature fonts Timberluck (2018), Berthy (2018) and Ghotesims (2018), the script typefaces Sheryl (2018), Astina (2018), Rosette (2018) and Hayes's Swing (2018), the dry brush script South Baggreg (2018), the layerable children's book font Play On (2018), the brush script typefaces Arjuno (2018), Abalone (2018), Abhayas (2018) and Yulia (2018), the rounded marker pen typeface Netigen (2018), the free calligraphic typefaces Fabulous (2018), Little Betty (2018) and Bring Heart (2018) and the hairline script typeface Stealletto (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Boughies, Barbara Blast (wild calligraphy), Asterik, Bellsmore Brush, Birdrockers (dry brush), Black Finger (a heavy all caps brush font), Mendello, Lattetude, Hysteria, Aligore, Funtastic, Broklight, Satarland, Quaint, Mustank (a superb signage lettering font), Santhana (calligraphic), Landscape (a signature font).

Typefaces from 2020: Cherry Bird, Lostown (a monoline script), Milesbingo, Slimlight (script), Duty Beauty, Regine (a brush script), Flephy, Mustank (a marker script), Allison Dream (a brush script), Shellana (script), Rockets Battle ( an all caps dry brush typeface), De Sandey (a heavy script), Chocolate Banana, Clarities, Mallaire (a great formal calligraphic typeface), Qallegro (a layerable vintage circus font family), Choco Cookies, Moontells, Dellana, Biggest Things.

Typefaces from 2021: Signatural (a signature script), Heavy Brush, Thrillington (a forceful supermarket script), Bellish, Clarities, Dellicia, Lotterdam, Valentine Blooms. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rochadi Sudarma
[Roch Art]

Rocio Amura

In Diego Pérez Lozano's class at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Rocio Amura designed the lively curly calligraphic script typeface Ruperta (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rockboys Studio (or: Rockboy Studio)
[Hayinah Hayinah]

Graphic designer in Jambi, Indonesia, who says that most of his clients are tattoo craftsmen. Creator of Angelissa (2020: a formal calligraphic font), Hayes Preston (2020: a signage script) and Huntly, (2020: a decorative blackletter font that has interesting options for adding frills and swashes).

Typefaces from 2021: Rosica, Andina Janelia (a heavy monoline script), Geotrica (a 4-style geometric sans), Jack Mason (a script with a large x-height), Kinghood (serif), Reymond (a sturdy brush script), Beauty Festival (script), Buffallo (a scrapbook script), Hellowhiten (a signature script), Linguista (a monoline upright script), Santarino (a dry brush script), Autosmash (a dry brush script), Avengeline (script), Delphanium (calligraphic script), Reskova (a dry brush script), Alphayouth (a dry brush script), Brostone (a dry brush script), Geostar (dry brush caps), Stargold (script), Castonvilla (a creamy script), Shutdown Brush (a dry brush script), Anabelia (an upright monoline script), Hugio (a decorative serif), Belliza (a dry brush script), Priscilla (a scrapbook script), Bottania (a scrapbook script), Brettisa (script), Alovetha (script), Warmtone (script), Westerna (script) Shootballs (a fat finger script), Boldetton (a scrapbook script), Roselitta (a wild calligraphic script), Aghitta (brush script), Rustcyber (a dry brush script), Brushtter (a dry brush font), Slatteros (a brush script), Finesolla (a dry brush script), Strike Brush, Thunder (a bold brush script), Deska Magosta (a swashy display serif), Mogenta Signature, Darkness Brush, Blackshot (an exaggerated Victorian typeface), Battle Skill (a dry brush font), Bellazio (a tall and effective dry brush script), Astallya Script (monolinear), The Classic Signature, Zero Master (a techno stencil for cyber-starved geeks), Roxelane (hyper-ornamental and Victorian, perhaps useful for tattoos), Ludovica (a formal calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2022: Contagia (a meaty decorative serif), Vessagio (a tuxedoed sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rodrigo Fuenzalida
[Fragtype]

Linotype link. Article by John Dreyfus: The Speed and Grace of Roger Excoffon. FontShop link.

Roelant van der Munnik

Dutch designer, born and raised in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, who is working on some calligraphic scripts (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿

Roger Druet

Famous French calligrapher who wrote "La civilisation de l'écriture" with Herman Grégoire (Fayard, 1976). [Google] [More] ⦿

Roger Excoffon

Born in Marseille in 1910, Roger Excoffon died in Paris in 1983. Co-founder of the Urbi et Orbi advertising agency in Paris, he was a graphic artist and type designer. He created the image of Air France, designed the symbols of the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, and designed many fonts. Porchez mentions that he lived from 1911-1984, not 1910-1983.

Books about him:

David Rault: Roger Excoffon, Le Gentleman de la typographie (2011, Atelier Perrousseaux, Paris).
Sandra Chamaret, Julien Gineste and Sébastien Morlighem: Roger Excoffon et la Fonderie Olive (2010, Ypsilon, Paris).
Jean-Philippe Bertin: Roger Excoffon, l'homme de la griffe et du paraphe (2008: thesis at Ecole Estienne).

Visual hommage by Peter Gabor. Picture. Signature. Some drawings by him: i, ii, iii. His typefaces include

Antique Olive (1962-1966, for Fonderie Olive). This was originally designed for the Air France logo. Bitstream's digital version is Incised 901. See also Chalfont by Alan Meeks, URW Antique Olive, and Antique Olive by Linotype. With almost reverse contrast, this sans typeface can't be used for body text. The heaviest weight is called Antique Olive Nord.
Banco (1951, Fonderie Olive). Digital remakes include ITC Banco (1997) (by Phill Grimshaw), Bnko (by Damien Gosset), Banco (by Dan Solo), New Banco (by Alessio d'Ellena) and Bandit (by Softmaker).
Calypso (1958, Fonderie Olive): a sexy curvy experimental display typeface that could be considered as op art. Revived by Ralph M. Unger at URW++ as FontForum Calypso (2005), by Brendel as Calypso (1994), and by Martin Pfeiffer at Scooter Graphics as Calypso Boy (1996). A free 2013 revival called Calypso PF by Joep Pohlen is based on the original matrices which Pohlen acquired from Stempel AG. Discussion at Typophile where Pohlen tells the story: Marcel Olive, owner of Fonderie Olive saw Excoffon experimenting with an enlarged print of a half-tone screen at Olive studio. He was rolling it up and looked through it like a kaleidoscope. A metal type with half-tone dots was not done before and a technical challenge to achieve. Marcel Olive saw the chance to profile the technical capabilities of his foundry and earn a worldwide reputation and gave Excoffon permission to execute the design proposal. After establishing the angle and size of the dots by Olive Studio each character was drawn dot by dot using a pair of compasses. According to José Mendoza y Almeida, who lead the team at the studio, Excoffon made sketches of the outlines of each character and in the studio shading was added by airbrush. The airbrush shading was converted to a dot-screen that went from deep black to white. It was quite a challenge to transfer the drawings with a pantograph and to scale this complex drawings in different type sizes to the matrices. Then it had to be milled, retouched and casted in lead reproducing all the dots of the dot-screen. Calypso was cast in four sizes: 20, 24, 30 and 36 pt and had 26 capitals, a period, an apostrophe (used a lot in French), and a hyphen..
Chambord (1945, Fonderie Olive): a Peignotian sans serif family. Deberny&Peignot published Touraine in 1947, after a design of Guillermo Mendoza (the father of José) in 1943. Chambord is a typeface published by Fonderie Olive in Marseille, which was headed by Roger Excoffon. The four basic weights of Chambord were designed by François Ganeau and published by Olive in 1946/1947. Legend has it that Roger Excoffon said he saw proofs of Touraine on Charles Peignot's desk, took the next train to Marseille, drew Chambord at Olive and beat Deberny&Peignot to market. Olive also had a better marketing machine at the time. By the end of the 40's, Charles Peignot tried to go to court over the Chambord/Touraine affair because the fonts were just too similar, but they settled financially out of court. José Mendoza also claims, as reported by Porchez, that Ganeau changed Vendôme after having seen an exhibition of Guillermo Mendoza's type in 1943. All of this may to some extent explain Peignot's initiative to create ATypI to protect typefaces.
Choc (1954- 1955, Fonderie Olive), an iconic brush face. Bitstream called its digital version Staccato 555. ITC commissioned Phil Grimshaw to create ITC Choc Light in 1997. Softmaker calls its version Chandler Pro. Sold by URW, Linotype, ITC, Monotype Imaging, Mecanorma and letraset under the name Choc.
Diane (1956, Fonderie Olive): a calligraphic script. Diane was digitally revived in 2008 by Mark Simonson and Mark Solsburg as Diane Script. It also inspired Ralph Unger's Gamundia (2010).
Mistral (1953, Fonderie Olive; later Mecanorma), the beautiful but overused connected script that resembles Excoffon's own hand. The Bitstream version is Staccato 222. SoftMaker's version are Malaga Pro (2016) and Zephyr (2019). Other versions: Mistral (ITC), Mstral (Adobe), Mistral (Linotype), Mistral (URW),
With François Ganeau, he designed Vendôme (1951-1954). But read the remarks above regarding Chambord.
Excoffon (1974). His last typeface about which he wrote Excoffon will be the end product of all my thinking, the sum of everything that I have accumulated during my career as a typographer. The typeface was never published because of a contractual misunderstanding. Bruno Bernard has been working on the archives of this typeface, and possibly a revival.

View Excoffon's typefaces. View Roger Excoffon's type designs and all digital revivals. Subpage with many digital versions of Mistral. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Roger Vershen
[Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)]

Roger White

Type designer from Staffs, UK. His 114 free creations, all done between 1992-1998, include AmertonOutline, AmertonOutlineItalic, Cambridge (a copy of University Roman), Cardiff, CardiffBold, CardiffBoldItalic, CardiffItalic, Carolus, CarolusItalic, Circled, Colton, ColtonSmallCapitals, Curborough, CurboroughBold, CurboroughBoldItalic, CurboroughItalic, Derrington, Dresden, Dublin, DublinBold, DublinHollow, Dunstall (art nouveau), Fradley, FradleyBlack, FradleyBold, FradleyBoldItalic, FradleyExtended, FradleyExtendedItalic, FradleyItalic, FradleyNarrow, FradleyNarrowItalic, FrysOrnamented, GloucesterOpenFace, Gresham, Hanch, HanchBold, HanchBoldItalic, HanchItalic, HanfordScript, Jana, Jarrow (uncial), KeeleDecorated, Lancaster (blackletter), Libra, LongdonDecorative, Loxley, Lydian, Milford, MilfordBlack, MilfordBold, MilfordBoldItalic, MilfordCondensed, MilfordCondensedBold, MilfordCondensedBoldItalic, MilfordCondensedItalic, MilfordHollow, MilfordItalic, MilfordLight, MilfordLightItalic, Milwich (Lombardic), NationalFirstFont, NationalFirstFontDotted, NationalPrimary, NationalPrimaryDotted, Newborough, NewportGothic, NewportGothicItalic, Newtown, NewtownBold, NewtownBoldItalic, NewtownItalic, Orgreave, OrgreaveBold, OrgreaveBoldItalic, OrgreaveExtendedBold, OrgreaveExtendedBoldItalic, OrgreaveExtendedItalic, OrgreaveExtendedNormal, OrgreaveItalic, Oxford, Plymouth, QueensPark, QueensParkBold, QueensParkBoldItalic, QueensParkItalic, Rochester, Rosart, StoweOpenFace, StoweTitling, StoweTitlingItalic, SudburyBook, SudburyBookBold, SudburyBookBoldItalic, SudburyBookItalic, SudburyLight, SudburyLightItalic, Swansea, SwanseaBold, SwanseaBoldItalic, SwanseaItalic, TamworthGothic, Telford, TelfordHollow, TelfordHollowItalic, TelfordItalic, Tiverton, TrajanusRoman, Tutbury (blackletter), TutburyBold, TutburyBoldItalic, TutburyItalic, Typewriter, TypewriterBold, WrexhamScript, WrexhamScriptLight, Yoxall, YoxallBold, YoxallBoldItalic, YoxallItalic.

Many of these are text families, both sans (like Milford) and serif (like Fradley). The collection is largely a revival or an extension of historic typefaces. Specialty styles covered by him include blackletter (Derrington, Lancaster, Rochester), ornamental caps (Dresden), calligraphic scripts (Hanford Script, Wrexham Script), uncial (Libra) and medieval (Milwich).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Roiyani Teungku
[Artisan Studio (or: Artisans)]

Rojotype (was: Kikichi Factory)
[Jeff Kichang Kim]

Kichang Kim has degrees in communication design from Samsung Art and Design Institute in Seoul (2009), HGK FHNW in Basel (BA in 2013, MA in 2015). He set up Kikichi Factory in Basel, Switzerland, where created the high-contrast sans typeface Snello (2014-2018) and the calligraphic text typeface Kontro (2016-2019).

From 2016 onwards, he is lecturer at Sookmyung Women's University, and from 2020 onwards also at Dongyang University.

Later, he started Rojotype in Seoul, South Korea. The typefaces at Rojotype:

Arco (2020). A Venetian text typeface family by Jongbeom Kim.
Bello (2020). A 5-style slab serif by Kichang Kim.
Viso (2020). A hipster sans family.
William Sans. An eight-weight sans serif family by Hyunseung Lee.

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Rokas Cicenas

Lithuanian from Vilnius, b. 1987. Creator of the connected monoline script typeface Treciokas (2013), the graffiti font Pirmokas (2009), of the special effects fonts Map (2010, grungy art deco) and Corner (2010), of the graffiti font Pirmokas (2013), of the calligraphic typeface Antrokas (2010), of Ikarus (2010, connected fifties script based on a font used by a bus company), of Dobilas (2010, rounded monoline face), of Puzzle (2007), of the ultra-black round typeface Puff (2011), and of the condensed art deco typeface Kurkku (2009).

Home page. Typedia page. Fontspace link. Abstractfonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Roland Hörmann
[Phospho]

Roland Hüse
[Runes & Fonts (or: My Handwritings)]

Roman Georg Arens

Saarbrücken-based designer of the freeware font Suetterlin (1995). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rometheme
[Yahdi Kumala]

Known as Yahdi Kumala and Yahdi Romelo. Pekanbaru, Indonesia-based founder of Rometheme in 2018 and Krakenbox Studio in 2021. Designer of Mafieso (2018: a brushy sushi shop font), Nathanos (2018: a headline serif typeface), One Piece (2018: brush script), Indesign Signature (2018: a signature font), Jacklyen (2018: brush font), Lovestrong (2018: calligraphic script), Grizzly Attack (2018: brush), Keishue (2018: script), Hegorustow (2018), Frappe Latte (2018), Donkey (2018), Bajhera (2018), Alestraza (2018: script), Casiopeia (2018: futuristic), Pink Blue (2018: rough brush), Stranglethorn (2018) and Exodar (2018), a futuristic outline font.

Typefaces from 2019: Robeck, Almahira, Cardust (a cartoon font), Chendolle (children's hand), Velguife Script, Brotherhood (brush). Creative Fabrica link.

Typefaces from 2020: Halloweins, Monsterious, Craiyound (a crayon font), Diland, Veronica, Prizertiez, Darkspear (a brush font), Ghostbumps, Kinders (monolinear, circular arc-based, Wood Craft (a playful cartoon font), Zone Brown (a cartoon font massage with a bit of Saul Bass's oil), Andreash (condensed, all caps), Axeon (sci-fi), Brotherhod (an all caps brush font), Lovestrong (a calligraphic script), Night Forest (a vintage typeface), Thequilla (a monoline script), Roley Poley (a cartoon font), Big Dreams (a wild script), Dungeons (a grungy upright connected monolinear typeface), Brendria Signature, Danielle Signature, Blackpine (a dry brush script), Caendr (a dry brush font), Bhamious (a monoline script), Creslina (a dry brush script), Caress (a bold rounded monolinear sans for cartoons and children's books), Violet Watson (a fine wild script), Heart Quarter. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Romi Rahmadi
[Romie Creative (or: Sikem Studio)]

Romie Creative (or: Sikem Studio)
[Romi Rahmadi]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of mostly formal calligraphic typefaces. These include (in 2020): Bethany Script, Brittalia Script, Galisha, Helena Bonham, Malisa, Milania, Sandira Script, Southam, The Sunshine, Mollandia (a bold calligraphic script), Billy Betty, Nathalia (formal copperplate calligraphy), Methalia (formal calligraphy), Haileyna (a formal script), Grethania Script, Merriday, Migelia, Gebisha Script, Hello Heart, Josephani Script, Brigland Script, Standey Script (2019), Hello Crystal Script, Helena Luis and Yosyita Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Bertha Script (a swashy script), Granding Script (an upright script), Classic Girl Regular (script), Jully Julia (a romantic upright script), Gladian (an upright script), Rastalia (an upright script), Blossom Lovely (a hairline monolinear script), Justin Honey (a Valentine's Day script), Best Valentina (an upright script), Montela (a calligraphic script), Bleeding Heart (a modern script), Hello Sunshine (a soft calligraphic font), Winterday (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2022: Beulagak Script (a scrapbook script), Merry Bright (a bold upright rabbit ear script), The Heather (a swashy formal calligraphic script), Antonia Retro (a creamy retro upright signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ronchi Tubaro Thom
[Anna Ronchi]

RTT is Ronchi Tubaro Thom, an outfit in Milan, Italy, involved in typography, graphic design and calligraphy. Its principals are Anna Ronchi, Ivana Tubaro and Stuart Thom. Born in 1962, Anna Ronchi is primarily a calligrapher. She studied visual design at the Politecnico in Milan, and lives in that city. She co-founded the Italian Calligraphy Association and has taught many calligraphy courses via that Association. Her typefaces include Etruria (2000, an archaic lapidary font made for "La Operina", the association's magazine), Baby (1999, a Flintstone font created for the launch of Baby Martini), Serate (2001, a swashy face) and Mulino Bianco (1999, a calligraphic font done for a Barilla ad campaign). [Google] [More] ⦿

Ronin Design

Malang, Indonesia-based designer of Origin Tech (2020: a techno or circuit font), Radio Classic (a signage script) (2020), the upright script Lily Liana (2020), the glitch font Split On (2020), the monoline script typeface Sefiyah (2020) and the squarish De Stijl-like stencil typeface New System (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Encrypto (labyrinthine), Jeztec Empire (blackletter), Anticode (a marquee font), The Beast (all caps, chamfered), Moonllys (display serif), Wrecked Ship (an eroded font), Talidia (a squarish sans), Night Hunt (an eerie font), Beatles (an upright rabbit ear calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rosalind Bennett
[Robert Whitcome]

Calligrapher who made this beautiful English Courthand, based on the pen of Robert Whitcome. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rosario Nocera

Naples-based designer of the connect-the-dots typeface Doretypo (2013). In 2013, he set up his own commercial foundry. In 2014, Rosario published the display typeface family Remah (improved to Remah Pro in 2020), and the Edwardian wedding script Paulette (+Paulette Eroded). In 2015, he designed Remah. In 2016, he published Romina (a neoclassical typeface family) and Cajito (a sans developed for numerous uses, ranging from app to website and catalogue to corporate and logo design).

Typefaces from 2017: Koara (hand-ccrafted), Marek Slab.

Typefaces from 2018: Scorno (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Maraka (a painted font), Zachar (a lapidary roman caps font designed for horror or thriller games).

Typefaces from 2020: Chamy (a vernacular or supermarket typeface), Osaca (a 6-style display sans with square counters).

Typefaces from 2022: Thima (a fluid display typeface).

Behance link. Newest Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rosemarie Kloos-Rau

German designer who made Wiesbaden Swing Dingbats and the neat handwriting Wiesbaden Swing in 1992. In 1993, together with Michael Rau, she published Schreibschriften (Bruckmann, München), a collection of 500 calligraphic or script alphabets.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rosemary Hall
[Rosemary Hall Calligraphy]

Rosemary Hall Calligraphy
[Rosemary Hall]

Rosemary Hall (Oak Park, IL) mae exquisite calligraphic fonts such as Rosemary Modern, Rosemary Copperplate, Rosemary Italic, Rosemary Modified Italic, Rosemary Script, and Rosemary Roman (a stunning font; a free version was done by Dieter Steffmann in 2001 called Rosemary Roman). Check also the fantastic Rosemary Celtic, 50 USD. Mike Yanega claims that the designer is actually Brian Hall (Chicago, IL). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ross DeMeyere
[DeMeyere Design Incorporated]

Ross F. George
[Ross F. George: Speedball 10 (1927)]

Ross F. George: Speedball 10 (1927)
[Ross F. George]

Ross F. George's book Speedball 10, published by C. Howard Hunt Pen Co. in Camden, NJ in 1927, was scanned in 2014 by Lee Littlewood, a signpainter in Portland, OR, who runs Lee's Better Letters [2915 NE 21st A, Portland, OR 97212]. The PDF file [59 MB] is made available with his permission. I extracted some useful images from that file. For further information on Ross F. George, see here. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ross Mills
[STIX Fonts]

Rotterlab Studio
[Sidiq Fahmi]

Sigli, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1998, Beureunuen) of the calligraphic typefaces Black Ghost (2020), Morrita (a wild calligraphic script) (2020), Staylive (2020), Monisha (2020), Richmond Script (2020), Brissham (2020), Sathiya (2020), Hastone Brenda (2020), Gerald Battom (2020), Briancha (2020: wild style), Baby Garland (2020), Brinkley Script (2019-2020), Misha Gergoval (2020), Bellisha Script (2019), Seychell Script (2019), Lattoria Script (2019), Kanghara Script (2019), Girly Heart Script, Winther, Authenia, Ithalia Script (2019), Rameline Script (2018), Boshella (2018), Maritha (2018), and Cynthia (2018).

He also designed the dry brush typefaces Erghon (2020) and Rushfiel (2019).

Typefaces from 2021: Scoot Charrita (script), Ambrogio (a bold formal script), Family Queen (script), Joss Rilex (an elegant wild and wide calligraphic script), Brittney Script (a calligraphic script), Rhapsody Script, Diary Angelique (calligraphic), Baby Heart (wild calligraphy), Authentic Sheldon.

Typefaces from 2022: Bridgate Script (a tall upright script), Antum (a formal signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rouages

French designer of the calligraphic typeface Marteen Luuther (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Rouages Design

Le Mayet-de-Montagne, France-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Classic Super Trooper (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Royaltype
[Darwin Huayan Harahap]

Aka Darwinoo, and revitalized in 2019 as Royaltype. Medan, Indonesia-based designer of these (mostly calligraphic) typefaces:

2015: Violina (rounded sans), Alien (textured typeface).
2016: Santa Rose (swashy script), Beautiful Friends (über-curly tall calligraphic script), Metalick (hexagonal), Australian Script (a swashy pirate map or upright penman script), Simplisicky Script (a creamy connected script in outlined and filled versions), Von Halent (thick brush font), Marie Bella (an attractive watercolor brush font), the curly 950+-glyph script typeface Cymbidium Script, Brazilian Script, the handcrafted Handwritten Sans and Lazy Gogo, Chrysanthin (curly), Daslan Script (very curly), Old Story Bold, the scary Blunt Brush, the children's font Kid Type, the cute curly calligraphic Wedding Font, Shyntia Bella.
2017: Children Handwritten, Bargain Script, Rasterize Script, Elegant Sans, Dastan Script, Asteroidea, Perfectos Script, Nostar Script (dry brush), Senior Artist, Argentina Script, Artisoya Script, Frizzy Bella, Comic Land, Philosophy Script, Simple Chalk, Garden Sans, Handwritten Bold, High Desert Script, Comic Font, American Script (a free swashy calligraphic typeface), Sweeter Than Candy (swashy calligraphic script).
2018: Arabian Script, Artisoya Two, Artisoya Three, Simplisicky (a yummy creamy script), Kindergarten Memories (a children's script), Recognition Script, Wonderland Scratch.
2019: Violina (sans), Rasterize Script, Children Signature, Nostar Script (a chalk or dry brush font), Monogram Script, Bittermilk, Champigna, Cream Soup, Comic, Mozzarella, Mythical Garden, Forsythia Garden, Santa Rose, Marie Bella, Peanut, Senior Artist, Sweet Baby, Naturalistic Playground, Instine Sans, Handwritten, Rock Stair.
2020: Watermelon, Sambalado, Instine Script.

R-Type (or: Rui Abreu)
[Rui Abreu]

R-Type was founded by Rui Abreu in 2008. Rui graduated from FBAUP (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto) in 2003. He has been working as an interactive media designer in different design agencies, and he has been designing typefaces. Based in Porto, he created Tirana (2006, sans family at T26), Catacumba (2007, a gorgeous bold didone titling face, T26; in 2009 at Fountain/PsyOps), Cifra (2006, a lovely ten weight sans family, T26), Nomada (2007, a monoline slab serif), Salto Alto (2006, avant garde sans family, with octagonal influences), Foral (2008, monoline slab serif; published by Fountain in 2010), and Forma (2006, stencil family, T26).

In 2008, he published Orbe (Fountain), an exotic all-caps blackletter inspired by Portuguese and Lombardic calligraphy [it deservedly won an award at TDC2 2009; Orbe Pro at MyFonts], Gesta (2008, sans family), Gesta Condensed (2012), Gesta Semi Condensed (2012), Gira Sans (2012, a grotesque family), Foral Pro (2011, an elliptical slab serif), Catacumba (2011, a high-contrast ball terminal wedge serif family), Aria Pro (2011, a delicate high-contrast transitional serif family), Forma Solid (T26).

In 2013, Rui published Aria Text (a rational (transitional) toned-down version of Aria that comes in three sets of optical sizes, G1, G2, and G3), the geometric sans family Azo Sans and Azo Sans Uber, a geometric sans with a humanist element. Grafolita Script (2013) is a connected typeface family that borrows ideas from signage scripts.

Typefaces from 2014: Litania (medieval-style typeface with roman capitals, Lombardic capitals, and Carolingian minuscules; nice fists accompany the type), Signo (a dynamic sans serif with reverse contrast, designed for editorial and branding). Signo won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition.

Typefaces from 2015: Montblanc (a custom sans for the Montblanc company that won the IF Design award in 2015), Usual (a neutral sans with large x-height). In 2010, Peter Bruhn started a typeface but he died before it was finished. In 2015, Rui Abrey and Göran Söderström finished it as Bruhn Sans (Fountain Type). In 2010 Peter was commissioned to design a wordmark for the documentary Harbour of Hope. The type was to ellicit Malmö's harbor, and Peter found inspiration from the painted type of industrial tankers docked in his hometown.

Typefaces from 2016: Grifo, Symbio and Symbio Arabic (at Typotheque; prize winner at Granshan 2016), Sul Sans (a geometriclly constructed sans with features frequently seen on signs and buildings in Portugal).

Typefaces from 2017: Sul Mono (a typewriter style), Grifito, Grifinito (condensed versions of the sharp-edged display typeface Grifo), Aquino (by Rui Abreu and Ricardo Santos; a display calligraphic stencil typeface inspired by a liturgic book made by Portuguese friar Tomas Aquino in 1735).

Typefaces from 2018: Gliko Modern (an award winner at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019).

Typefaces from 2019: Flecha (a sharp and streamlined old-style typeface made for editorial design that won an award at 23TDC in 2020), Staff (a neo-grotesk from X Wide to XXX Condensed).

Typefaces from 2020: Flecha Bronzea (M, L: the condensed version of Flecha).

Typefaces from 2021: Azo Super (a heavy display font), Staff Grotesk (a low key sans family derived from Abreu's 2019 font, Staff), Gineto (a grotesque developed from the brevier size of Gothic no. 4, a nineteen century design by the New York type foundry Farmer, Little & Co), Chassi (in three optical sizes, S, M and L: a revival of Garamond as a genre, slightly reinterpreted for our times; I duisagree though with the word "slightly").

MyFonts interview in August 2013. MyFonts page. T-26 page. Old home page. Klingspor link. Fountain Type link.

View Rui Abreu's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rubens Ribeiro

Illustrator and art director in Sao Paulo. He uses great calligraphic and other lettering styles for logos and posters. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rudi Irawan

Medan, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1989) of calligraphic typefaces. The Dafont page refers to Ink Type Studio (or Letters by Trish), a calligraphy studio. In 2021, they released the script typeface Seminyak. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rudo Spemann

Born in Würzburg in 1903, this type designer died in 1947 in Schepetowka, USSR. Illustrator and calli grapher who made the calligraphic font Gavotte in 1940-1942 at Klingspor, now digitized by Linotype as Linotype Gavotte.

He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich under F. H. Ehmcke and Emil Preetorius and at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart under F. H. E. Schneidler.

Picture. A blackletter lettering example. In 1998, Harald Süß wrote a brief biography. See also Hans Adolf Halbey's book Rudo Spemann 1905-1947. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis seiner Schriftkunst (Offenbach, 1981).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Rudolf von Larisch

Typographer and graphic artist (b. 1856, Verona, d. 1934, Vienna). Author of Beispiele künstlerischer Schrift, 5 Folgen (1900-1926) and Unterricht in ornamentaler Schrift (1905). His wife, Frau Hertha von Larisch, gave most of his work to the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach. Some samples from his books are here. Larisch taught lettering at Kunstgewerbeschule (School of the Commercial Arts) and Akademie der Bildenden Kunste (Academy for Visual Arts), both in Vienna.

Digital descendants include Larisch (2007, HiH), an all-caps handlettered design based on the title page of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift (1903).

Samples of his work: an outline capitals alphabet, an art nouveau piece entitled Moderne Architektur.

In 1995, Harald Suess wrote about him in die Deutsche Schrift, Nr. 117, volume 4: A | B | C | D | E.

Rufino Blanco y Sánchez

Spanish author of Arte de la escritura y de la caligraf�a: teor�a y práctica (1920, Madrid, Perlado, Páez y Compañía), a textbook into the art of calligraphy and writing. This book is available on-line. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ruggero Magri

Ruggero Magri (Catania, Italy) studied graphic design and art direction at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. He is still based in Milan. Magri developed an interest in typography, which led him to pursue courses in calligraphy sign painting, and lettering. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, he designed the experimental interpolative typeface Cimer. He is now working on projects at Typofonderie with Jean François Porchez, and for AlfaType Fonts in Italy. In 2019, he published a set of Tuscan capitals.

Recipient of the 2019 SOTA Catalyst Award.

As a member of the Italian open source font cooperative Collletttivo, he released the free font Ignazio (2018: Text, Display). Ignazio Sans is a humanistic sans serif designed for the signage of Catania's underground. Born from the epigraphs and the signage that characterized the city across the centuries, the typeface has two optical sizes.

Graduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. His graduation typeface was called Gesto. [Google] [More] ⦿

Rui Abreu
[R-Type (or: Rui Abreu)]

Rumi Gallery Persian Calligraphy

Iranian calligrapher Ali Rouhfar at work. [Google] [More] ⦿

Runes & Fonts (or: My Handwritings)
[Roland Hüse]

Kazincbarcika, Hungary-based type designer Roland Hüse (b. 1980) sells his fonts through My Handwritings (Kazincbarcika, Hungary), which was renamed Runes&Fonts. His first font is Zuider Postduif (2012, an informal type family). Florida Shark (2012) is a free Death Metal or tattoo version of one of his commercial fonts. Tamiami (2012) is a headline typeface. Granny's Handwriting (2012), Script Demolition (2012), Sharon Lipschutz's Handwriting (2012), Isa Por Es Homou (2012) and Kinga's Handwriting (2012) are hand-printed typefaces. Napping Cat (2012) and Cubic Sub (2012) are angularly designed, while Mgla (2012) is round and plump. Greek Stone (2012) is a squarish Greek simulation face. On The Road (2012) is a textured typeface. Whirly Wood (2012), Hargita (2012, inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Dreamcatcher (2012) and Bee Ridge Vantage (2012: see also Bee Ridge) are grunge typefaces. Individigital (2012, +Black, +Thin) is a techno set of typefaces.

Typefaces from 2013: November Sky (art deco sans), Windy Wood, Cool Weekdays, Yellow Peas Light (clean thin monoline sans; free), Back To The Future 4, Yellow Peas Demo (hairline sans), Yellow Peas Bold, Pagan Winter (bilined), Beer Money (brush face), Poor Weekdays (+Serif), Hun Legion (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Freehand Roman, Esthajnal (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Buffalo Chicken (a connected script), Telihold.

Typefaces from 2014: Sunny Winter (thin script), Sunny Merry Christmas (dingbats), Fox in the snow (connected hand), Dersu Uzala Brush (Asian brush), Good Karma (connected script), Stitch Warrior, Chickpeas, Jaspers Handwriting, Margarita in August, Wheatland, Slim Extreme (a gorgeous geometric hairline sans), Sparkler (a clean geometric sans), Factory Worker, Brushido (Japanese simulation font), Mojito in June, Mesa Grande, Altering The Future, Black Olives (thin calligraphic script), Hangyaboly (comic book font), Fecske (Peignotian sans), Windy Rain, Rainy Wind (calligraphic script), Comic Roman, Wizard of the Moon, Urban Stone (grunge version of Urban Tour), Urban Tour (avant garde sans), Wacky Sushi (hiragana emulation), Constrocktion (multilined typeface).

Typefaces from 2015: She Always Walk Alone (handcrafted), Transatlantic Cruise (an outline script), Csemege (upright connected script), Milano Traffic (sketched typeface), Undergrunge Tornado (a great brush font, +Cyrillic, +Hiragana, +Katakana), Dirt Road, Kikelet, Kikelet Brush, Have A Great Day (rough brush script), Sorsod Borsod, City Birds (script), Loonaria, Texas Grunge (brush script), Solaria (minimalist techno), Biloxi Script, Chicken Fried Steak, Texas Grunge (brush face), Sharky Spot, Autumn Chant (connected script).

Typefaces from 2016: Tribal Case (decorative caps), Shopping Script, Biloxi Calligraphy, Tribal Case (tattoo font), Ting Tang, Alaska Script, Take It Easy (fat finger font), Mi Amor (wide monoline handwriting), Spring Script, Fox in the Snow (connected school script), Kazincbarcika Script (a gorgeous calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2017: Interconnected, Bar Hoppers, Ciao Baby (retro signage script), De Rotterdam, Abigail Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Christmas Wish Calligraphy, Christmas Wish Monoline, Chicago Moonshine (art deco), Poker in October (a layered color typeface), Personalitype (connected monoline script), Yellow Peas (sans), The Laughing Wolf (script), Italian Breakfast, Saturday Champagne, Teach (by Moataz Ahmed), Long Night (signature script), Relapse (rough brush script), Just Be (brush script), Air in Space (stencil), Beach Script, Interconnected, Beaumaris (slab serif).

Typefaces from 2019: Christmas Wish (calligraphic script), Brachetto (a formal calligraphic typeface developed together with lettering artist Leah Chong), Mulled Wine Season, Colder Weather (spurred), Unlocking Your Dreams (brush script), Gold Under The Mud (a fine scratchy brush script), The Mumbai Sticker (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Delugional, Roberts Script, Alone Together Script (a swashy tattoo script), Shopping Script (a signature font), Shape Variable Script (a variable script font that can be programmedi to react to music), Jam Session (blackboard bold), Un Jour Merveilleux (a script), Stars + Love.

Typefaces from 2021: Long Story Short (a monolinear signature script), The Racoon Quest (a condensed all caps typeface), Delugional (Greek emulation), Neon Love (a monolinear neon sign script font released at Schriftlabor).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Creative Market link, Old URL. Home page. Another Fontspace link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Runsell Type (or: Runsell Studio, Studio Runsell)
[Anna Safitri]

Magelang and/or Temanggung, Indonesia-based designer of Stayhend (2016, brush script), Shanthans (2016, brush script), Menulis (2016), Revalina (2016, grunge), Asbak, Rollingline (2016, brush script), the creamy script typeface Qisah (2016), the display typefaces Mishall (2016) and Stangbunder (2016), and the handcrafted display typefaces Smanca (2016), Beliung (2016), Sathas (2016) and Rolade (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Homeland, Standley, Seact, Hollybear, Vertica, Robusta.

Typefaces from 2018: Royal Stamford, Fairyland, Lancaste, Britania Letter (a signature font), Northam Thorne, Throttles, Amanda Santiago, Red Brick, Rusted Orlando, Lightstone, Echomotors (+Script), Jumping Frog, Soulgates, Qatar Capital, Arthurdale, Jessy Odelya, Robusta, Robusta Sans, Tosca Beauty, Pacific Coast, Eudora, Housemate, Shilkmen Sans, Morristone Script, Macrone, Belle Hamilton, Justlyne, Hockley, Natalia Roseline, Woodystone, Artista, Arucard, Adelline, Brush Wayne.

Typefaces from 2019: Windgard, Historical, Robusta II (Sans, Script), Lancaste Sans, Lancaste Serif, Hemispheres (Sans, Bold Sans, Script), Eudora, Salveation (vintage script, serif and slab serif family), Glorial (font duo), Schramberg (script + sans), Josephine (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Burma (a vintage label font), Historical (calligraphic), Goldenside (script), Regint (a display serif), Wildstreet (a dry brush script), Retroica (a vintage display sans by Fitriyawan), Greatwall (dry brush), Romance Story (Sans, Script), Sweet Rosetia (an informal wedding script), Batrider (a vintage bottom-heavy signage script), Retrorelic (Script, Serif, Slab Serif), Neville (a vintage label script).

Typefaces from 2021: Naira (a smooth display typeface with many ink traps).

We have both Fitriyawan Runsell and Anna Safitri associated with Studio Runsell---maybe they are aliases of the same person? [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Russell Bean
[Type Associates]

Ruxandra Duru

Born in Iasi, Romania, Ruxandra Duru moved first to Casablanca and then to Montreal. In 2011, she studied at EINA in Barcelona.

Ruxandra created the angular text typeface Botanica (2014, as a project at EINA), and the blackletter-inspired Textura Nova (2014, for the modern monk).

In 2016, she designed the free knotted typeface Royal. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ryan Blackman

Got to like the swashy lettering in the Spaghetti poster (2011) by Ryan Blackman from San Diego. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ryan Martinson
[Yellow Design Studio]

Ryan Prasetya
[Thirteen Studio (or: Lost Volt Type foundry)]

Ryoichi Tsunekawa
[Dharma Type]

Ryoichi Tsunekawa
[Flat-It]

Ryuichi Tateno

Japanese designer of the Pirouette family of calligraphic typefaces (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003 and at the TDC2 2005 type competition. In 2011, John Stevens and Ryuichi Tateno combined forces to publish the four-font calligraphic brush series Stevens Titling at Linotype. It comprises Stevens Titling Boar Brush, Wolf Brush, Sable Brush and Badger Brush styles. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sabina Aghova
[Tabita's Shop]

Sabina Aliyarova

Moldovan designer of the feature-laden copperplate calligraphic script typeface BP BlackWhite (2019, with Dmitrii Mikitenko). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sabina Irina Chipara

Sabina Chipara (or: Kipara) was born in 1987 near the seaside in Constanza, Romania. She moved to Bucharest to study graphic design at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and at EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona. She took the TDi program at the University of Reading, UK, in 2016. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, where she surveys the archaic Romanian alphabets. Sabina also helps with type design at MCKL Type, Jeremy Mickel's type foundry in Los Angeles. She is currently based in Amsterdam. Her typefaces:

MoRo (2012) and Arhaic Romanesc (2012). MoRo, or Modern Romanesc, is an artsy typeface. She writes: MoRo is a modern version of archaic Romanian types. The design of the MoRo letters combines the features of Cyrillic glyphs with Latin shapes.
In 2012, during an Advanced Typography Masters at EINA, Barcelona, she developed Zagoris.
DIN Next Stencil (2017) and DIN Next Shapes (2018). Done together with Akira Kobayashi at Linotype.
Rosella (2017, Monotype). An engraved lettering typeface with textured, inline, beveled, shaded and filled versions.
In 2018, she designed the 8-weight simplified sans family Bega (Indian Type Foundry) and the high-contrast calligraphic script Britney (done with Diana Ovezea), which was released as a free font at Fontshare.
At Future Fonts, she published Bizzarrini (together with Diana Ovezea). Diana Ovezea writes about the wonderful Bizzarrini: Though the idea originates from a Stefan Schlesinger ad sketch for a Paris couture house, we straightened up this typeface and made it seem engineered and sharp. It gets its name from the Bizzarrini Manta, a wedge-shaped concept car designed in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Bizzarrini has extremely long wedge serifs. Following Schlesinger's sketch, it features very tall capitals with an out-of proportion middle-line (very big heads on S, B and R).
The connected monoline sans script Akin (2019), done with Diana Ovezea at Indian Type Foundry.
The neo-grotesque typeface Amurg (2019).
Anouk (2020). A reversed high contrast typeface designed to be used at large sizes.
Aesop (2021). A despoke typeface for the brand identity of Iwoca. The Iwoca identity elements were influenced by the work of Wassily Kandinsky through geometric shapes and angles. The corners of the sans typeface are rounded and provide a smooth appearance on screens.

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Sabine Pfeiffer

Calligrapher who gives many seminars and leads several calligraphic workshops each year, mainly in Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sabrina De Mestre

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the semi-calligraphic typeface Lashing Candy (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sabrina Mariela Lopez
[Typesenses]

Sabrtype (or: Sabr Creative)
[Irpan Maulana]

Sukabumi, Indonesia-based designer who created the display sans typefaces Wingko and Bivoac (layerable), the monoline script typefaces Rigoletto, Andalusia and Galliyani, the free weathered font Abraham Stamp, the upright script Andina, the script typefaces Asyast Krizalid, Rosalin, Halana, Raliangi, Walkway (monoline, +Bonus: a leafy dingbatfont) and Kalliandra, and the brush script typefaces Valeriana and Andallan in 2018.

Typefaces from 2019: Rosis (an all caps sans), Ballroom (script), Allagia (a great upright script), Hai Brush, Bonaro (a vintage font family), MixBox, Aldivaro, Bardon (a 10-style all caps sans with weathered and textured options), Bradlay (upright script), Bivouac (retro layered sans), Dalillah (free), Jattestor (calligraphic), Anderella, Dollie (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Andaga, Natalisa (modular), Sallas, Sinttesy, Black Bass, Risotto, Hi Morgane, Kalyubi, Agathe Ledden (an inky Treefrog script), Blackbill, Berthusen, Bubble Love (a shadow font), Wonderblend, Mandan (a compressed all caps sans), Daltana, Andhibath, Cooker Cake, The Stamshons, Little Angel, Billbest, Hillstate, Navada (dark caps), Brasham (a stylish display sans), High Performance, The Kallman (brushed), Kastangel.

Typefaces from 2021: Nura (a 10-style geometric all caps sans intended for logos; the N is an upside down U, for example; contains a variable font).

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Saffatin & Edy (was: Saffatin Sweettype, Saffatin Co, Siwox Studios, Siwox Smoke, DSiwoX)
[Sarwo Edi]

This foundry started ca. 2015 as Siwox Smoke and Siwox Studios, and was rebranded Saffatin Co, Saffatin Sweettype, and Saffatin & Edy in 2018. Sarwo Edi (or Sarwo Edy) is the Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993 or 1996) of Oscar Script (2015), the calligraphic Dewi Script (2015), Zilvia (2015) and Salsabilla (2015), the brush script Kaizoku Brush (2015), Monica Script (2015), the connected script Holy Mountain (2015), the octagonal typeface family Nuevo (2015, a minimalist futuristic typeface), Space Galaxy (2015), the thin sans typeface Navira (2015), the connected Alberts Script Land (2015), the outlined typeface Devira Outland (2015), Albert's Handwriting Land (2015), the brush typeface Eco Brush (2015), and the watercolor brush typefaces Sarah & Claire Brush Land (2015) and Greenland Brush (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Rottarity (connected script), Better Step (brush font), Justmine Modern Script, Patricia (calligraphic brush), Sleeplesson (a swashy calligraphic beauty), Srikandy Script (calligraphic), Philosophy (connected script), Paragraph Script (calligraphic), Prologue Script (calligraphic), Monica Script (connected), Paduka Script, Donita Handscript (calligraphic), Darlian Script, Legacy Brush Script, The Good News.

Typefaces from 2017: Bettilafea (font duo), Lovely Dramatis (script), Crushine Wet Brush, Hillary Script, Modista Script, Dectari (a great calligraphic brush script), Beutary Script, Rottarity Feminine, Jack Frost Brush.

Typefaces from 2018: Barbeque Script, Bonsay, Lemans Pen Script, Jendral Writing Pro, Estafet Letter Script, Donita Handscript, Cochocib Script Latin Pro, Antums (brush style), Tanktop (brush SVG), Atoucher (brush font), Kaizoku Brush, Delliathin, Sail Smith, Canvas Pointed Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Coldays Memories Brush, Lumpia Brush Script, Quintal Script, Seluas Handmade, Crushine Brush, The Quiz Script, Vistol, Delizius Script Latin Pro.

Typefaces from 2020: Testimoney, Estafet Letter Script, Notulen Serif Display, Kastiya (a wonderful wild script, Mischa Script, Hujen (a heavy script).

Typefaces from 2021: Hot Road Brush, Mapinter Brush (a dry brush script), Afjat Trends (a display typeface with a sickle-shaped lower case f), Onethink (script), Serabut Brush (a dry brush SVG format script), Kisyah Loved (a Valentine's Day script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Safri Fajar
[Sapre Studio]

Sai Poel

Indonesian designer of the script typefaces Malvina (2019: formal calligraphy), Standly (2019), Muthya (2016), Marceline (2019) and Wolfsbane (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Quintavy (a signage script), Heirley Script, Hunting Object.

Typefaces from 2021: Carrington (a 6-style decorative sans), Marston (a plump serif family), Dickson (an eight-style condensed variable geometric sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Saidi Studio

Designer of these calligraphic script typefaces in 2018: Maudy, Angeline, Amelia, Nayla. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Saiful
[Encolab]

Saiful Anwar
[Sealoung (was: Masay Letter)]

Sakha Design
[Alif Ryan Zulfikar]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1991) of these script typefaces in 2020: Amillea (a rabbit ear script), Hayatti (a rabbit ear script), Koalla, Vyodra.

Typefaces from 2021: Dartie (script), Thanks Valentine (a confident script), Thanks Valentine (a scrapbook Valentine's Day script), Algeko (an organic monolinear sans), Mousony (a bold slab serif), Halena (a bold rounded sans), Timeless Series (a squarish mechanical sans), Pumpkin Smile, Dead Bear, Hallo Witch, Christmas Leaf (script), Spooky Ghost, Christmas Queen (script), Alveru (an all caps sans), Miver (a gaspipe font with tiny terminals), Miver, Voklea (a thick monolinear informal typeface), Fun Zone (a polygonal cartoonish display font), Lightmoon (a sign-painting script), Lovely Summer (script), Andyou (an upright script), Summer Peach (a scrapbook script), Tropical Leaves (a calligraphic script), Aneliya (script), Green Leaves (a heavy calligraphic script), The Spring (script), Youth Line (a monolinear script), Youth Line (a monolinear script), Chill Rabit (a scrapbook font), Spring Sweet (a scrapbook script), Easter Gift (a fat finger font), Christmas Bear, Rastica, Love Lea (a Valentine's Day script), Beatlove (a wild upright script), Cheerful Yellow( Christmas Bright (a scrapbook script), Easter Nice, Bright Love (a Valentine's Day script), Christmas Night (a script typeface), Valentine Soul (an upright calligraphic script), Christmas History (a rabbit ear script), Christmas Bell (script), Withrose (calligraphic script), Ageitha (an upright rabbit ear calligraphic script), Thanklove (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Love Rabbit (a scrapbook script), Highlove (a fat finger font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sakkal Design
[Mamoun Sakkal]

Born in Aleppo, Syria, Mamoun Sakkal is a respected calligrapher and typeface designer. He emigrated to the United States in 1978. He is the founder and principal of Sakkal Design in Bothell, Washington. Providing graphic design solutions to major US corporations, Sakkal Design has focused on Arabic calligraphy, Arabic type design and Arabic typography since the 1990s. His Arabic fonts often cover all related scripts---Arabic, Sindhi, Kurdish, Uighur, Urdu and Persian/Farsi. Sakkal Design was commissioned to design the corporate Arabic typefaces for Burj Khalifa and Armani Hotel in Dubai, and several of his Arabic fonts are now widely used as Windows system fonts. In 2010, he obtained a PhD at the University of Washington with a thesis entitled Square Kufic Calligraphy in Modern Art, Transmission and Transformation.

He designed the beautiful Sakkal Sameh Calligraphic font family, Sakkal Shilia (Linotype: an elaborate type system created to match Univers), Sakkal Maya, Sakkal Seta, Sakkal Kufi, Al-Futtaim, Arabtek, Sakkal Majalla (2005), Hasan Alquds (2004, with Hasan Abu Afash), MS Uighur (for Microsoft), and Baseet.

Winner with Paul Nelson and John Hudson at the TDC2 2003 competition for Arabictype. He was also awarded there for the Arabic display font Sakkal Seta Pro.

In 2004, his MS Uighur (Sakkal Design&Microsoft) won an award at TDC2 2004.

In 2006, he won First Prize in the Letter Arts Review Annual International Competition: The winning artwork Rich and Poor, No. 8 is a computer-manipulated image of Square Kufi calligraphy, produced by the artist as a limited edition print in 2005. Square Kufi is a style of Arabic calligraphy that developed in the thirteenth century.

AwanZaman (2016, Type Together) by Mammoul Sakkal (Arabic part) and Juliet Shen (Latin part) grew out of the Arabic newspaper type Awan Sakkal had designed on commission for a Kuwaiti newspaper in 2007.

In 2014, Mamoun Sakkal published the Arabic typeface Bustan (done with Syrian calligrapher Jamal Bustan), which was inspired by Kairawani Kufic and cursive Sunbuli.

Calibri Arabic (by Mamoun Sakkal and Aida Sakkal) won an award at Granshan 2016. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Salak Tung
[Font Castle (was: Dataibayt, Rizal Castle)]

Salam Ibrahim

Designer of the calligraphic script typeface Delicate (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Salila Trk

During her studies in San Francisco, Salila Trk created Pavena (2015, a calligraphic typeface) and Blunt (2015, a handcrafted typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sally Alzaza

Dubai and damascus-based calligrapher and graphic designer who hand-drew some promising alphabets, such as this blackletter set and this calligraphic beauty.

In 2012, she drew the Arabic display typeface Zaza. Sally is a custom-designed Latin / Arabic typeface produced by RTL Type in 2014.

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Samantha Sutton

Samantha Sutton (Sutton Fonts, Michigan) designed the free fonts Ballroom Waltz (2012, calligraphic) and High Octane (2012, a museum font). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sami Artur Mandelbaum
[Samtype]

Samsul Kamal
[Lettersams]

San Gabriel Custom Fontologists

Samtype
[Sami Artur Mandelbaum]

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based designer of Pirkei Avot (2008), a calligraphic Hebrew font modeled after the Hebrew Book by the same name. It has a GNU license and was designed for biblical Hebrew applications. Free download. Another free download.

In 2019, he published the Hebrew typeface Tora Calligrasphy.

Typefaces from 2020: Magalith Tanach Pro (for a Hebrew prayer book), Magalith (a Hebrew typeface inspired by prayer books from the early 1900s).

Typefaces from 2021: Hebrew Dot III, Hebrew Sara, Hebrew Century (from the Xth century), Hebrew Marge, Hebrew Castel, Hebrew Mairi, Hebrew Europa, Hebrew Marge Tanach, Hebrew Kria Tanach, Hebrew Ariel Std, Hebrew Ariel Tanach, Hebrew Text Tanach, Hebrew Karina, Hebrew Caligraphic Stam, Hebrew Tsefat, Hebrew Stam, Hebrew Frank Tanach, Hebrew Dot II, Hebrew Rinat Kids, Hebrew Vilna Old Style Tanach, Hebrew Crown, Hebrew Esther Std, Hebrew Esther Tanach, Hebrew Classic Tanach (as in Hebrew prayer books), Hebrew Torah Sans, Hebrew Dot, Hebrew Rose Pro, Hebrew Vilna Std, Rinat (a Hebrew font), Hebrew Juless.

Typefaces from 2022: Hebrew Caligraphic Stam Std, Hebrew Liane Std, Hebrew Le Be Tanach (based on Guillaume le Bé's Hebrew typeface), Hebrew Le Be Std, Hebrew Alter Rebbe of Liadi, Hebrew Gigi Std, Hebrew Sevilha Tanach, Hebrew Julit, Hebrew Moses Std VF, Hebrew Esther Tanach VF, Hebrew Kria Tanach VF, Hebrew Liane Tanach. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Samuel Poole

Son of Wesley Poole, born in California in 1984. Sam lives and works with his father Wesley in Hawaii, and has cooperated with him on these fonts that were published by Poole Foundry:

Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole). A comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu.
Poole Standard (2006). A stylish headline face.
Poole Chiselcut (2007). Digitization with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps).
Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together). Simulation of Easter Island lettering.
Jigger Statz (2007).
Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006). A festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole.
Alphaluxe (2008). A calligraphic upright connected ronde script by Wesley and Samuel.
Vingo (2006).

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Samuel Welo

Samuel Welo was an American advertising calligrapher, typographer, designer and lettering artist whose work appeared in the 1920s. Scans by Gene Gable of many pages of Studio Handbook Letter&Design for Artists and Advertisers (1927, Samuel Welo). This book has 233 pages and is entirely hand-lettered! Based on his lettering, several typefaces have seen the light of day. A partial list:

P22 Art Deco Chic (2002, James Grieshaber).
Hamilton (David Nalle, Scriptorium, 1993): a tall, bold display font typical of art nouveau poster lettering and turn-of-the-century advertising design.
Plakat (David Nalle, Scriptorium, 1993): a rough-edged curly decorative poster face.
Melcheburn (David Nalle, Scriptorium, 1993): a blackletter face.
Samuello (Iza W, Intellecta Design, 2007). This type family comes in five styles.
Rio Rita NF (2012, Nick Curtis).
Welo Casual NF (2012, Nick Curtis).
Mohair Sam (2005, Nick Curtis): the upper case is based on Welo's letters, but the lower case on ATF's Romany Script.
Pyriform Tones (2007, Nick Curtis): first done by Welo in 1925.
Fireside Chat NF (2003, Nick Curtis) is a font based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
ITC Photoplay (2002, Nick Curtis): based on lettering from 1927 by Samuel Welo, intended originally for captions of silent movies. It was in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Sweet Afton NF (2014, Nick Curtis) is based on another silent movie font by Welo.
Grenadier NF (Nick Curtis) is based on Samuel Welo's Modernistic.
Souci Sans (Nick Curtis) is based on a type design shown in Lettering Modern and Foreign (1930).
Blue Plate Special (Nick Curtis) is a font family based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Herald Square NF (Nick Curtis) is a font family based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Magic Lantern NF (Nick Curtis) is a font family based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Speedball No 1 NF and Speedball No 2 NF (Nick Curtis) are font families based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Washington Square NF (Nick Curtis) is a font based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Whoopie Cushion SW (Nick Curtis) is a font family based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1931).
Mustang Sally and Tugboat Annie (Nick Curtis) are fonts based on a design by Welo shown in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers (1931).
Suave Sam NF (2009, Nick Curtis) is art deco at its peak.
Fluid Drive NF (2014, Nick Curtis).
Carillon (2014, David Nalle) is based on one of Welo's alphabets.
LHF Welo Thin (2015, Patrick Kalange) is an art deco poster typeface based on Welo's work.
Lenox Avenue (2017, David Kerkhoff).
Formal Notice JNL (2020, Jeff Levine). A revival of an alphabet in Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers.
Show Poster JNL (2021, Jeff Levine). A vernacular typeface based on a design from the 1960 edition of Samuel Welo's Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers.

Other alphabet designs: (unnamed, 1928), (unnamed, 1928), Modernistic (1932; I suspect that this was used as a basis for Samuello by Intellecta Design). Books by Welo:

Lettering: Modern and Foreign (1930, Chicago: Frederick J. Drake and Company). Local download.
Practical lettering, modern and foreign (1946).
Studio Handbook Letter&Design for Artists and Advertisers (1927).
Trademark and Monogram Suggestions (1937).

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Samuelstype Design
[Hans Samuelson]

Hans Samuelson is a freelance graphic designer in Stockholm. He runs Samuelstype Design. Fonts from his hand include Maya Samuels (2007-2010), Malcolm Samuels (2008), April Samuels (2000), the Arnold Samuels family (2007, fashionable sans), Lucy Samuels (2011, a simple rounded monoline sans family), Colin Samuels (2003), Owen S (2012, a sans family with a hairline weight), Rebecca Samuels (2001), Rosemary Samuels (2000), Victoria Samuels (2000, script), Andrew Samuels (2003, minimalist sans), Elliot Samuels (1999), Chelsea Samuels (2003, serif), Henrietta Samuels (2009, calligraphic), Bradley S. (2009, stencil), Orlando Samuels (2009, ornamental script; +Shade), and Spencer Samuels (2003, italic).

Fonts from 2013: Brooklyn Samuels, Rubica (originally drawn as a pitch for a headline sans typeface for one of Sweden's supermarket chains, it is both geometric and warm).

In 2015, he published the 60-style typeface family Magica which consists of Jade (no serif), Onyx, Ruby and Topaz (full serif).

In 2018, he published Hoxton Samuels (a sans workhorse).

Typefaces from 2021: Metropolia (a 5-style monoline art deco sans).

Typefaces from 2022: Darling Rose (a stonecutting font inspired by faded stone cuttings in a churchyard), Reba Samuels (15 styles: sans, slab serif and italic).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

From Georgetown, TX: supplier of custom Truetype and Type 1 handwriting and logo fonts. Beware: a custom block letter handwriting font at 100 dollars plus shipping. For a cursive handwriting font, 300 dollars and up! [Google] [More] ⦿

Sandi Dez
[Zeune Type Foundry (was: Zeune Ink Foundry)]

Sandra Biondi

Chilean designer of the connected girlish and gestural calligraphic font Tita Script (2015, with Daniel Hernandez at Latinotype) which was created in honor of Sandra's grandmother, Hebe Arrabalera. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sandro Bonomo

Graphic designer and calligrapher in Vicenza, Italy, who drew some calligraphic alphabets in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿

Santiago Gomez Recio

Illustrator in Cali, Colombia, who created several calligraphic alphabets in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿

Santos Bregaña
[Atelier Laia]

Sanz d'Cloudz
[Ihsan Hasanudin]

Ihsan Hasanudin (b. 1996, aka Sanz d'Cloudz) is the Cianjur, Indonesia-based designer of I Love Arrow (2015), Cute Enung (2015), Blee Guys (2015), Siliwangi Engineering (2015, a sharp-edged sans), One Day in Malangbong (2015, handcrafted), Sanz Query (2015), Sahidz Script (2014, fat finger font), Biru Htam Biru (2014, a lava lamp typeface), Beela (2014), Ganeez (2014), Digital Ruins (2014), Cisca Note (2014), Kodak (2014, a heavy sans), Pulang dari Paris (2014, heavy pen calligraphy), Sharpz (2014), Message From the East (2014, oriental simulation typeface), Clownz (2014, connect-the-dots font), the logo dingbat typeface Logoz Librariez (2014), the rounded slab serif typeface Cookie (2014), the cut-out lettering typeface Noveey (2014), and the hand-printed typefaces Child Writing (2014), Newbie Serif (2014), Beautiful Horror (2014), Ghost Everywhere (2014), and SemingguDiKotaCianjur (2014).

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Sapre Studio
[Safri Fajar]

Indonesian designer of the copperplate calligraphic script typeface Geshane (2019) and the connected script fonts Ballesha Script (2019), Bunglon (2019), Sunkist, Singles (2019) and Dethalia (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Gravitafont (a retro script), Standerfont (a smooth script font), Anastasiya (a swashy penmanship-style calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2021: Sehatie (calligraphic, with an uneven baseline), The Shooter (a dry brush script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sara Ng

Sara Ng (Sala Ink, Hong Kong) designed the calligraphic typefaces Quinton Script and Miss Kalina Script in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sarah Gulliver

Sarah Gulliver (Luquin, Spain) made a fun calligraphic poster in 2013 called Gorka. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sarah Taylor

Designer of the free connected calligraphic typeface Saffron (2016, iFontMaker). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sarid Ezra

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Sakra (2016, a script published at Letterhend), Sarid Ezra (2017), Retrology (2017), King Birds (2017), Megattor Script (2017), Dear Jane Script (2017: a signature script by Hendry Juanda), Wonder Stark (2017: by Hendry Juanda), Mandatory (2017), Modesta Script (2017), Antone (2017), Better Red (2017), Madgue (2017, monoline script), Beautiful Holiday (2017: monoline script), Dear Disya (a chalk script) (2017), Shutter Stone (2017, signature script), Hello Stranger (2017), Vanillate (2017: monoline script), Gloriant Signature (2017), Signerella Script (2017, signature font), Claytonia (2017, by Hendry Juanda), Rose Colored (2017), Quinible (2017), Mukadua (2017: a beatnik font by Hendry Juanda), The Lentigo (2017), Morsal (2017: free).

Other typefaces from 2017 include Bitter Rose (free), Suddenly (signature script), Historia Sky and Billenia.

Typefaces from 2018: Roseville Script (calligraphic: by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Daytonia, Carrol Wild, Royalite, Historia Sky, Headley (monoline font duo), Scarlette Script, Bellatrone (script), Edinburgh (SVG brush font), Carrol Standard (sans), Richardson Script (a signature font), Audacity (font duo), Daviton (SVG brush by Sarid Ezra), Rossie Kelly (SVG brush), Sirens, Magdaline, Stephen Gillion (an inky script), Allison Style (font duo), Black Mountage (dry brush font), Merova (serif), Rotrude Sans (in 16 styles), Aurelie Smith (a signature script, and ornaments), Soredime (a great rabbit ear signature font), Hughson (a monoline script), Morriles (SVG brush), Strong Heart (font duo), Auckland Script (signage font), Camilla (signature font), Big Reputation (font duo), Briberra (a brush script) (free version), Carrol Sans, Kaylar, Brighter, Hipsterious (signage font: by Hendry Juanda).

Typefaces from 2019: Fokers (Victorian), Bargitta (an SVG brush script font by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Gorgone (a one-style didone by Henry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Sharon Baker (by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Daniella Evans (a display serif by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Lotustail (by Henry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Palmbell (a signature font by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Bittergrace Script (by Hendry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Bordemile (a copperplate calligraphic script by Henry Juanda and Sarid Ezra), Loverica (a tall elegant titling typeface), Wonderstory (a dry brush script), Point Panther (all caps, display), Dua Rosé, Black Mountage (brush script), Quirkily, Callistera Script, Fort Collins (font duo, by Sarid Ezra at Letterhend), Seriously (at Letterhend), Callistera Script (a signature script), Troyline, Marquis, Elaine Hanks (script and dingbats), Katherine.

Typefaces from 2020: Briberra (a brush script), Bitter Rose (a brush font), Swifted (a stylish sans), Pearlone (a stylish stencil), Cloudster (an all caps titling sans), Carrol (a 16-style unkerned all caps sans), Carentro, Lindsay Brown, Karelle (decorative serif), Beautifull Weakness (a wild inky script), Augillion (a bold decorative serif), Bread Crumbs, Troyline (a retro script), South Louisville (a painter's script), Shutter Stone, Sirens (a bold headline sans), Shutter Stone, Crooked Hooks (a brush font), Headley (a monoline script), Mister London (a monoline script and sans duo), Roller Cores (a roller paint typeface), Scary Things (all caps, wedge serif), Quinstar, Lequire (a logotype), Routhers (a creamy signage script), Chequers, Lindsay Brown, Audrey Mirages (a decorative serif), Mandalika (a display serif), Branders, The Postgates (a calligraphic script), Louise Walker (Serif, Script), Fragilly, Bombalurina (a script), Goldbrick (wild calligraphy), Dropgray (a stylish sans), Mandalika.

Typefaces from 2021: Billy Magie (a smooth stencil typeface), Broken Drive (grunge), Future History, Krafika (a modern display typeface), Vierra Moon (a fat finger script), Lighters (a minimalist sans), Duarose (a vintage all caps font), Klopers (a display typeface), Planet Gamers, Freaky Story (a horror font with pointy dagger terminals), Freaky Story (a horror font with pointy dagger terminals), Consent (a playful display font derived from didone caps), Desira (a decorative art gallery serif), Proxemic (a bold sans intended for use in logos), Fireside (a techno logo font), Psyche Lover (psychedelic), Baligo (a fat finger font), Retrips (a bold rounded display serif), Blink Twice (a wavy font), Holybuck (a signature script), Diamond Bridge (a stylish display serif), Adoria (a sci-fi logo font), Folklore Story (script), Strong Girls (an all caps display serif), Space Boards (a sci-fi font), Hisquins (a diamond-themed all caps typeface), Herkings (an all caps display typeface), Collingar (a lachrymal serif), Claire Murphy (a stylish italic serif), Daviton (an SVG brush font), Cherions (a rough brush font), Sertona (a bold display typeface), Daisy Lovers, Louise Walker (a meaty display serif), Carrol Wild (a vintage all caps sans), Edinburgh (a dry brush font), Redrains (a decorative serif), Designors (hand-printed, all caps), Hello Friday Vector (a grungy handcrafted typeface), Angel Charms, Blackpast (a notched all caps sans), Hillray (a stylish bold sans), Love Board (an all caps typeface with some ink run), Cloudy Aurora (font duo), Duarose Serif, Reminder Notes, Explore Wonders (a watercolor font), Shaping Heart (a decorative typeface with hairline serifs), Cronera (handcrafted), August Stories (a display serif), Brolink (tech, sci-fi), Laginchy (a quirky decorative serif), Argue (a decorative serif adoned with hipsterish lower case f and t), New Orleans (an inky script), Glendale (a variable width all caps sans), Ezra (italic), Coachella (a soft serif), Burgundy (a sans with ball terminals and swashes), Cherish Today (a cutout font), Blank Moment, Saphira (a smooth display typeface), Slightly Marker (a brushed marker pen font).

Typefaces from 2022: Crazy Party (hand-crafted reverse stress caps), Philosophy (a feminine display typeface), Maglite (a lachrymal display serif), <,a href="https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/sarid-ezra/winder/">Winder (a pure display font), Black Point (a stencil / script font duo), Daily Spark (a font duo), Maginors (starry, all caps), Nefilt (a wavy display serif), Stay Tuned (a crayon font), Bodwars (techno logo).

Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link for Letterhend. Creative Market link for Sarid Ezra. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sarif Letter

Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of the upright rabbit ear script Being Human (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sarten (or: Sari Tender)

Designer of the attractive connected script typefaces Gallendo (2017), Marceline Script (2017, dry brush), Corets Script (2017) and Martha Script (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sarwo Edhi Prayitno
[Absonstype (was: Haksen Graphic, or: Haksen Letters, or: Haksen Studio)]

Sarwo Edi
[Saffatin & Edy (was: Saffatin Sweettype, Saffatin Co, Siwox Studios, Siwox Smoke, DSiwoX)]

Sasha Chebotarev

Art director, designer and calligrapher in Minsk, Belarus. Designer of the nice free rough brush font Reys (2015) for Latin and Cyrillic. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Satin Studio (or: Satiné)
[Emanuela Krusteva]

Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of the wild script typefaces Almara (2021) and Nouvel Amour (2019), and the script typeface Bamby (2021). Earler, she made the Latin calligraphic script typefaces Amelis Script (2019) and Blossom (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Satoshi Iwai

Winner of the type design prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club TDC 2019 for his calligraphic Japanese typeface Hidesu. [Google] [More] ⦿

Satriyo Hutomo
[Muntab Art]

Satwinder Sehmi

Kenyan-born England-based calligrapher and designer of these typefaces:

ITC Simran (1998). An Indic simulation face.
With Colin Brignall, he co-designed the angular blackletter family ITC Werkstatt (1999).
Independence Script (2018). A cursive script loosely based on the Declaration of Independence. Co-designed with Alan Meeks.
FS Sammy (Satwinder Sehmi and Jason Smith). A script typeface.

The author of Calligraphy--The Rhythm of Writing, he often lectures on on-screen calligraphy, and calligraphy in general. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Saytype
[Sayuti Yuti]

Indonesian designer in 2021 of Edelline (a modern calligraphic script), Love Family (script), Emaria (script), Freddrick (script), Andira (script), Arsintia (an upright script), Breakline (an upright script), Sheyna (script) and the calligraphic typeface Richardo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sayuti Yuti
[Saytype]

Scawty

FontStructor who made Fin-struct (2012), Scawtish Broadpen (2012, calligraphic face), Eldar Furhark (2012), Iltantu Tiveta (2012, Tibetan), Iltantu Romu (2012), Anglo-Saxon Small (2012), Alesati Neo-block (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Scholtz Fonts
[Anton Scholtz]

Scholtz Fonts was started by Anton Scholtz (b. Durban, 1941) in 1997. This South African design company is located in Durban, where the Zulu culture of the region has greatly influenced Anton's font design. Klingspor link

Scholtz sells a fine selection of display types that ooze African themes. An alphabetical list:

Aarde (2005), Aarda Brush
Ability (2009). Calligraphic
Affable (2008). Calligrahic
African Elegance
African Gold (2007)
African Jazz (2005)
African Jungle (2007)
African Patchwork (2008)
African Pattern (2004)
African Shield (2005). Patterned after the cow-hide shields of the Zulu tribe. Made by Anton and Merle Scholtz
Afrimod
AfroFlare
African Textile (2007)
Ala Kazam (2015)
Always (2010). A fantastic swashy calligraphic face, and its multiline sister, Filigree, 2010
Amaboxi (2007) or Amabokhisi. White on black
Amanzi (1999)
Aplomb (2008)
Aqua Casual (2008)
Arabesque (2009). A flowing calligraphic typeface
Archivo (2011)
Art Nouveau SCF (2008)
Asakire (2006)
Assegai (2007)
Bad Girl (2008). Grunge
Bakuba
Baluba and Baluba Snake
Banquet SCF (2007). Brush script
Baobab
Black Tie (2007)
Blackout SCF (2008)
Blythe (2009). Connected script
Bongo
Bongani (2008)
Brazza (2008). Brush
Brillig (2008). Informal hand
Button (2008)
Buzz (2008)
Camy (2009). Hand-printed
Carve (2008). Chiseled look
Catholic Girls (2008). Script
Centric (2007). Zebra-striped, or op art
Certificate (2008). Calligraphic
Collette (2007). After an art deco font called "Independant" designed in 1930 by Collette and Dufour
Comical (2007)
Coral (2008) and Coral Pro (2012)
Crime Inc
Crostini
Debs (2013). Hand-printed
Deco Doni (2011)
Delikat (2010). A script, followed in 2013 by Thaun
Doorn (1998), Doorn Body, Doorn Display
DragonFyre (2008). Calligraphic
Dufour (2011). After an art deco font called "Independant" designed in 1930 by Collette and Dufour
Dusk Til Dawn (2012). Art deco
Elegance SF (2005). Art deco
Estravaganza (2012)
Et Cetera (2015). A classy breezy connected script
Excalibur SCF (2007). A beautiful rough-edged hand
Fable (2007). A type family for wizards
FadedRose
Figment (2008)
Filigree
Fracture (2008). Glaz krak style
Fragrance
Gatsby SF
Genevieve (2007). Calligraphic
Genial (2009). A flowing connected script
Giraffe Skin (2007)
Girl Script (2008). Curly hand
Girltalk (2008). Curly script
Gladly (2016). A 17-style decorative and romantic typeface
Gossamer (2011). A wedding script
Greek (2008). Chiseled
Groom (2007). A connected brush type
Grunge Formal (2007), Grunge Piazza (2007), Grunge Standard (2009)
Hard Rain (2007)
HiTone. Niely handcrafted
Hobi (2008). A ghastly script
Honeybird (2011)
Hoofer (2014). A mega family of retro scripts
Iliad (2007)
Inja
Jazz
Jolie (2015). A connected calligraphic script for romance and weddings
Josephine (2007). Art deco
Kassena (2006)
Kau (2016)
Klatter (2007)
Kuba (2007). A tribal stencil
Kunjani (2008). African look
Lagos
Leah (2008). Handwriting
LeopardSkin (2005)
Lovers Pro (2011). A fantastic calligraphic hand---ready for red carpet treatment
Lualaba Snake (2007)
Lumina (2008)
Madrigalle (2011). A calligraphic wedding script
Mafuta (2006)
Makonde (2007)
Manhattan Midnight
Margaux (2013). A vintage 1900s script
Martini Script (2011)
Maypole (2007)
Melodica (2012)
Miss Donna (2009). A script typeface
Mtwane (2009)
Nocturne (2012). An art deco family based on work from the 1920s by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring
Noobia (2013). An inky pen font
Nordika
Oxamu (2009). A wonderful angular African-themed font
Pacific Script (2011). A font inspired by an alphabet created by Howard Trafton in the 1930s
Palm Court (2007). A Bauhaus typeface by Merle Scholtz
Parchemin (2008). Parchment look
Phat Chance (2008). Organic
Piazza (2007)
Proper (2008)
Qotho (2010). An almost architectural sans family, done with Merle Scholtz
Queen (2008). Nice handwriting
Quirky and Quirky Kurlz (2013). A spidery script based on a book of etchings by British artist Graham Clarke
Refresh A 1950s script
Riposte (2009). A dynamic script
Romi (2008). A thin calligraphic typeface
Rondalia (2008)
Sage Sage (2008). Brush script
SandWriting (2007)
Sangoma (2007)
Scratch SCF (2007). A scratchy hand
Scrittura (2011). Calligraphic. +Antiqua, +Fantasia
Shapely (2010). Swashy calligraphic typeface
Silken (2009). Calligraphic
Siyabonga
Silver Dagger (2007)
Smart Casual (2007). An artsy architectural typeface by Merle Scholtz
Sondela (2007)
Spaza (2007). African look
Sprig (2010). A signpainting typeface
Stoan (2008)
StoneWash (2008). Grunge
Tabwa (2007) Inspired by Koch's Neuland, but on an African theme
Tamboti
Tertius (2008). Also, Tertius Romantic and Tertius Crenellated (2008). Scripts based on the Carolingian hand
Thaun (2013)
Thought (2009)
Thystle (2010)
Tokoloshe (2008)
Toulouse (2007). Art nouveau handcrafted typeface
Tshikona (2005). Hand-crafted
Tsotsi (2007)
Ubuvila (2004)
Umkhonto (2003)
Umoya (2009). Organic
Utshani (2000). African theme
WildSong (2010). A calligraphic script
Woodcarve.
Write Now (2008). Connected script
WriteHand (2008)
Yseult (2009). Script
Zaire SF (2007)
ZebraSkin (2007)
Zest (2007)
Zim (2007). Octagonal

View the typefaces designed by Anton Scholtz. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Schreibereien.de

Christian Zimmermann's calligraphy site (in German). [Google] [More] ⦿

Schriftgestaltung
[Georg Seifert]

Georg Seifert (Schriftgestaltung) is a Bitterfeld-Wolfen and/or Jena, Germany-based designer, born in Halle in 1978. He was a student at the Bauhaus University Weimar and runs Schriftgestaltung.de. He is best known for the free font editor Glyphs, released in 2011. Seifert lives and works in Berlin. His typefaces include

Olive Green Mono (2008). A monospaced typeface designed for his own use in email and programming code. Covers Greek and Cyrillic. Published by Schriftgestaltung.
Rosa Stencil (2008). A calligraphic stencil typeface. Published by Schriftgestaltung.
Azuro (2011). A 4-style screen family developed by Georg Seifert and fine-tuned by Jens Kutilek.
Graublau Sans (2005), GrauBlau Sans Kursiv. Has a Cyrillic style. The design of Graublau Sans Pro (20 styles with over 1000 glyphs each) took Georg Seifert over 5 years. Graublau Sans Web is free. Retail versions at MyFonts: Graublau Sans Pro (2008, FDI), Graublau Slab Pro (2012, FDI).
Pen (2006). A handwriting font.

At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he introduced his (free) font editor Glyphs to the world. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw.

Klingspor link. Behance link. Older German URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Scooth Type (was: Scooth Line)
[Muammar]

Medan, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1992, who specializes in scripts. Creator of these script typefaces in 2019: Indigold Script, Modelis Script, Niderland, Spanish Dancer, Acapella (a curly calligraphic script), Reaching, Frestayle, Audentcial, Cristalistic, Natashabela, Raidemith, Austral, President, Brushello.

Typefaces from 2020: Anatomia Script, Good Slient Night, Chintabelia, Katy Land, Vanisto (a 4-style sans family), Single Ladies, Clarabela.

Typefaces from 2021: Nauticel (a brush script).

Typefaces from 2022: Palestine Script (an 8-style monogram font accompanied by a script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

S-Core

Foundry in Korea, whose type designers include Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm. One of the house typefaces is Core Gungseo (2012), a calligraphic typeface for Latin and Hangul. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Scripsit

Calligraphic publication by the Washington Calligraphers Guild. [Google] [More] ⦿

Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)
[David Fleming Nalle]

Dave Nalle was born in Beirut in 1959, but lives and works in Texas. He is currently in Manor, TX. From his wiki page: Dave Nalle is a political writer, game author and font designer who was active in the early history of the development of the internet. He is Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes libertarianism within the Republican Party and is Senior Politics Editor at Blogcritics online magazine and is the CEO of Scriptorium Fonts. A creative and prolific designer, he has made hundreds of beautiful (often historic) fonts. His outfit, Scriptorium (based near Austin, TX, est. 1989), also does custom font and logo design. At some points, Scriptorium was also known as Ragnarok Press and Fontcraft. It specializes in artsy and ancient typefaces. Some subset of the fonts is made by Michael Scarpitti. Free font demos.

Images of his best selling fonts. Special subpages:

Three free fonts: Onuava (a mini-serifed hybrid fixed-width font), Divona (sans), Sirona (based on Lombardic calligraphy).
Lombardic: Aneirin, Benevento (8th century Lombardic), Cymbeline, Fabliaux, Formidable, Locksley.
Decorative initials such as the 20th century sign lettering initials set Pencraft Initials (2009), New Saxon Initials (2016, based on work by F.G. Delamotte), Delamotte Initials One (2016), Delamotte Initials Two (2016), Holly Initials (2010, based on Real PenWork (1880s, Knowles and Maxim), Vyones (2010), Vergennes (2001), Cascade (2009), Bergling (2010; based on initials by John M. Bergling).
Steampunk typefaces: Clockwork, Gearhead, Gears, Verne, Draughtwork, Belgravia, Boetia, Blackthorn, Linthicum, Good-fellow, Necromantic, Mephisto.
Wild West fonts: Academy, Alcalde, Atkinson Boomtown (2009, after the lettering of Frank Atkinson), Atkinson Eccentric (2009), BigIron, Cibola, Del Norte, Lachesis, Perdido, Plowright, Primer, Riudoso, Niederwald, San Lorenzo (2011, with a Mexican and Tuscan look), Stonehouse, Manquo, Rochambeau, Purcell, Vaquero.
Arabic simulation fonts: Samaritan is based on the poster lettering of Alphons Mucha from his poster for the play La Samaritan. Serendib and Waziri are based on the hand lettering of René Bull from his edition of the Arabian Nights. Caliph (1993) is derived from Ernst Schneidler's classic Legende font, with variant characters based on his original lettering. Also: Satampra, Jerash, Samarkand, Isfahan.
Celtic fonts: the fonts include Constance, Durrow (1993, traditional rendering of Insular Minuscule calligraphy), Malvern, Glendower (based on the most common lettering in the Book of Kells), Knotwork (caps based on Celtic knots), Alba Text (modernized text font based on Celtic uncial lettering), Lindisfarne (based on a square uncial style), Stonecross (1997, derived from Celtic cross and gravestone inscriptions), Celtic Spirals (dingbats), Celtic Borders font (lets you combine key strokes to form decorative borders; many frames and borders are original Celtic designs by Arts&Crafts period artists like Evelyn Paul and Louis Rhead), Spiral Initials, Brigida (based on Rudolph Koch's interpretation of a squared uncial), Macteris Uncial, Coverack (heavy non-traditional uncial), Dahaut (modernized uncial), Dunsany, Glendower, Morgow (1999, spiral uncial), Teyrnon (elaborate spurred uncial), Padstow (heavy uncial), Vafthrudnir (2011, uncial), Sualtim and Columba (decorative initials based on characters found in the Book of Kells), Albemarle (2001).
Oriental simulation fonts: Yoshitoshi (2003, based on the 1900-style writing by Yoshi Toshi.
Gothic fonts, including Alt Gothic, Koch Gothic, Barnabas (2011), Sternhagen (2014), Montgisard (2010, roman capitals with blackletter lower case), Serenissima, Gelderland, Alcuin, Monumental, Goldwork, Waldeck, Roncesvalles, Montressor (2010, ornamental blackletter capitals), T4C Beaulieux (1998, a free copy here), Bastarda (2011), Burgundian, Cadeaulx, Collins Old English, Courtrai, Descant, Ereshkigal, Faustus, Franconian (1993, a Schwabacher), Froissart (2000), Ghost Gothic, Katisha, Koch Gothic, Ligeia, Magdeburg, Magdelena, Melusine, Pyle Gothic, Rheingold, Sanctum, Stuttgart Gothic (2010), Textura, Theodoric, Yngling (2002).
German expressionist: Dromon.
Renaissance fonts: Monumental Gothic, Caswallon (a Caslon family), humanist cursive (Palmieri, Castiglione and Hanes Italic), quirky Italian cursives (Fiorenza and Alleghieri), a Roman style hand-lettered font (Rudolfo and Rudolfo Swash), a Trajan-style Roman lettering (Hadrianus), a classic flourished cursive (Trinculo) and a set of floral intials from the Quattrocento (Fraticelli).
Modern poster fonts: Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine (after Central Type Foundry's Quaint Roman), Ekberg (2002, based on Samuel Welo's posters), Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Posada (2008, based on the poster lettering of Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada), Squiffy, Suspicion, Magnin (2003).
Mapmaker fonts: building elements are available in Basilica; Ortelius is a map dingbat font; Queensland (based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), is bold, hand-drawn and reminiscent of medieval writing on maps. There are also Brandywine, Daresiel, Hesperides, Longhorne, Windlass (1996), and Cityscape. Orford (2008) is based on samples of hand lettering from a 1693 manuscript collected by Lewis Day in his classic book on historical paleography, Alphabets Old and New.
Calligraphic fonts: Albemarle (2001), Azariel, Moncrief (2011, based on the calligraphy of J.M. Bergling), Pavane, Rasael (2009), Abdiel (2005), Roncesvalles, Gazardiel (2003, connected script), Spoonbill (2003, arts and crafts), Macteris (Roman uncial font), Antioch Uncial (Roman uncial font), Burgundian (Classic black letter font), Franconian (993, a classic black letter font), Castiglione (Attractive Renaissance lettering), Cicero (Roman Rustica font), Formidable (1993, very bold late medieval / Lombardic style), Collins Old English (Classic Old English style gothic), Corbei Uncial (Roman uncial font), Cymbeline (late medieval lettering), Durrow (Standard insular minuscule uncial font), Theodoric (Classic black letter font), Gazardiel, Ghost Gothic (Unusual gothic font), Glendower (Uncial font based on Book of Kells), Gloriana (Interesting hand lettering style), Folkard (from the hand-lettering of Charles Folkard), Offenbach Chancery, Ranegund Merovingian Courthand, Benevento (8th century Lombardic), Hesperides.
Art deco typefaces: Imperatore (2018: based on a hand lettered design from California art deco master designer Pedro de Lemos in the 1920s), Speakeasy (2018), Gates of the West (2018), Lyceum (2014), Borealis (2009), Criterion (2011), Illuminata, Madding (2009, a bold poster font that grew out of Aventine), Alexandrine (2009), art Deco Stencil (2009, based on samples of Art Deco stencil lettering by Pedro Lemos), Falmouth.
Art nouveau typefaces: Acadian, Agravain (2009), Amphitryon (2009), Ariosto, Asphodel, Averoigne, Beaumains (2011, based on J.M. Bergling's lettering), Beauvoir, Belgravia (based on J.M. Bergling), Bernhardt (based upon the lettering of the Czech art-nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha), Bentham, Berenicia, Boetia (2003, based on J.M. Bergling's lettering), Bruges, Bucephalus (1993), Burd Ellen (2009), Butterfield (1993; in Alfred Roller's style), Cafe Society (2018), Curetana, Damariscotta, Elsene (2011, based on lettering by early 20th century illustrator Clara Elsene Peck), Elysian, Exotique, Flaubert, Gaheris, Ganelon, Gehenna, Goodfellow, Grammophon (2019: a bold Jugendstil poster font), Harbinger, Huyot (2016, after Georges Auriol's types), Jugendstil Kunsthand (2003), Lysander, Maginot (1993; after Peter Schnorr, 1898), Munich (after the Munchner Jugend magazine), Norumbega, Odeon, Ormandine (2010), Pantagruel, Phaeton, Reggio, Rochmbeau, Rockne (2009), Rudolfo, Setebos, Sprite, Summerisle, Sylphide (2005), Undine, Valentin (2008), Vambrace (2010), Walhal, Wendingen (2016), Wormwood (2018), Zeitschrift (2016, based on the Ver Sacrum magazine).
Modern poster fonts: Field Day (2003), Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine (after Central Type Foundry's Quaint Roman), Ekberg (2002, based on Samuel Welo's posters), Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Squiffy.
Constructivist fonts: Krasny Mir (2009), Vrubel, Structura (1997).
Futuristic fonts: Alecto, Angelus, Circuit, Culdrose, Gearhead, Ironclaw, Parika, Sanhedrin, Semiramis (1997), Slither, Structuro, Yazata, Adastra (dings).
Borders and ornaments. These include New Arets and Crafts Borders (20912, based on The Calendar of Golden Thoughts (Barse and Hopkins Publ, 1911).
Boneyard fonts: Undertaker (2014), Antrobus (2010), Sepultura (2002), Halloweenies, Dementia, Boneyard, Skull and Bones, Malagua (1999-2013), Paleos (2002, from titling of B movies in the cave girl genre), Carmilla, Abaddon, Black Cow (1998), Valdemar, Cuede, Ligeia, Mayhem, Mephisto, Golgotha, Sanguinary, Ironworks, Moravia, Gehenna, Nosegrind (2005, graffiti), Corpus, Ghostly.
School fonts: Schoolhand (2010).
Arts and Crafts movement (late Victorian period, 19th century), based on work and lettering by Walter Crane, William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Elbert Hubbard. The Arts&Crafts movement was enormously influential on the works of designers, artists and architects of the 20th century, and inspired the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. Fonts include William Morris' Kelmscott (based on Morris' Troy type), and True Golden, fonts from the Glasgow branch of the movement like Chelsea Studio (1997), which is based on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's lettering, fonts from the Roycrofters of New York like Semiramis and Ganelon, fonts based on Walter Crane's work such as Crane Gothic, Pencraft Initials (2009) and Walter Crane, and even fonts from the California Arts&Crafts period of the early 1900s like Coloma. Other typefaces: Jesse M. King (refreshed in 2015, and based on hand lettering from a frontispiece design by Glasgow-based Jessie King who was known for her lavish book covers), Aylward, Palmyra (based on work by the Roycrofters, a design community founded by Elbert Hubbard), Aylward (2010, Victorian), Hyacinth Initials, Spoonbill, Adresack (1996: inspired by the arts and crafts lettering styles of designers like Charles Rennie MacKintosh and Jessie M. King), Brandywine, Changeling (2009, based on lettering by fairy artist Fanny Railton), Goddard, and Advertising Gothic (2003), Valentin, Gaheris, Agravain (2009). Delaguerra (2001-2009) is based on a lettering style originating in the California Arts&Crafts period commonly associated with Mission Style. It is still in common usage in signage at historical sites in California.
Victorian: Beaumarchais, Berenicia, Bilibin, Brandywine, Brigidis, Curetana, Durendal, Elphinstone, Flaubert, Folkard, Gjallarhorn, Gloriana, Hermia, Ironclaw, Magnus.
Typewriter: Fontcraft Courier.
Anthroposophic: Ekberg (2002, based on a sample of poster lettering by Samuel Welo).
Medieval fonts of Scriptorium, critiqued by Marc Smith, page 65: Batwynge is based on lettre gffe by Geofroy Tory (1529), and not on an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century as claimed by Scriptorium. Perigord (1993) is based on a Carolingian alphabet drawn by Ernst Bentele in 1952. Allencon is a calligraphic font based on an interpretation of 6th century Ostrogothic Italian calligraphy.

Some selected fonts: Finchley (psychedelic), Captain Kidd (2012, an original font design based on the title lettering from the classic pirate movie starring Charles Laughton), Aerobrush (2011), Fondry Ornament (2009), Atkinson Egyptian (2008, after the lettering of Frank Atkinson), Verne (2008: remade in 2020 into Covid19), Goldwork (almost blackletter), BigBlok (2010), LetterpressGothic (2010), Plymouth (2010, in the style of Cooper Bold), Broadley (2008, an architecturally inspired script based on lettering by British architect and designer C.F.A. Voysey), Locksley (2004, medieval lettering), Tuscarora (curly lettering), Fiorenza (Renaissance calligraphy), Hesperides (old colonial calligraphic script), Angelus (beautifully printed monospaced script), Esperanza (1996, connected medieval handwriting), Ithuriel (2002), Alleghieri (2002), Hamilton (2002), Spiral Initials, Zothique (great font, based on hand lettering from a map of Clark Ashton Smith's fantasy world of Zothique), Reynard (semi-Celtic), Daresiel (elegant script), Caliph (1992, Arabic simulation), Bassackwards, Rosalinde (1999, handwriting), Arakne (2000, connected handwriting), Falconis (by Michael Scarpitti), Asrafel (semi-Celtic), Swithin (2004), Tyrfing (Art Nouveau/Fraktur, 1999), Waldeck (2008, blackletter), Woburn Initials, Stampwork, Draughtwork, Roughwork (a codex font derived from Nalle's own True Golden which is based on a=n earlier typeface by arts and crafts master William Morris), Melusine (gothic calligraphy), Corbei (uncial), Niederwald (hand lettering), Gjallarhorn (great uncial), Gaiseric (early medieval uncial), Taranis (1987, an uncial first drawn as a font for the cover of the old Ysgarth roleplaying system), De Bellis (roman era, by Michael Scarpitti), Engravers Gothic, Monimental Initials, Sanhedrin (Enemy of the State font), Vespasiano (roman capitals, by Michael Scarpitti), Bilitis, Hendrix (2002), Collins OE (old English), Samedi, Praitor, Evadare (1993, based on a character set which was hand calligraphed by Rudolf Koch), Koch Fantasie (1993), Black Cow (1998). Zothique, Ruritania, Mariner (2004, based on hand lettering originally done by Willy Pogany), Trinculo (a swinging cursive font), Texas Star (2002), Octavian (antique demi-serif font), Ruffian (antique type font), Ascelon (thin sans serif font), Munich (title lettering from Munchner Jugend magazine), Necromantic (bizarre bold titling font), Titania (romantic decorative lettering font), Oberon (bold romantic font), Knotwork, Guede (1993), Pullman, Purcell (Victorian circus poster style font), Allegheny, Carmilla, Malagua (1999-2013), Ardenwood, Platthand, Buccaneer, Cochin Archaic (2010), Boswell (1994), Guilford (based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), Death Ray (2012, constructivist), Alecto (futuristic), Candlemas (2003), Bridgeport (2003, based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), Medieval Tiles (2003), Linthicum (2003), Draughtwork (2003), Yngling (Fraktur, 2003), Rheingold (elaborate Fraktur: Music Hall Text elsewhere; see also Teuton Text, Cincinnati Type Foundry, 1877), Kidd (2003), Belgravia (2004), Peck Shields (2004), Scrawlies (2000, handcrafted), Albrecht Durer Gothic (2004), Orpheus (2004), InduXtrial (2004, a grunge face), Yoshitoshi (2003), Veronique (2004), Veneto (2006), Vidilex (1993, monospaced), Abelarde (2006), John Speed (1993: a mapmaker font), Furbelow (2006), Estoril (2006), Tangle, Aventine (sans), Texas Star (2002), Groningen (Bauhaus design), Nevins Hand, Scrapple (2011, Victorian, ornamental), Leodegar (2011, based on samples of 7th century Frankish hand lettering), Candlemass (2012).

Fonts from 2013: Doge (a Venetian font based on a J.M. Bergling revival), Original Django (after the titling font in Quentin Tarantino's movie Django Unchained).

Fonts from 2014: Highball, Carillon (based on a typeface by Samuel Welo), Edifice (based on lettering by J.M. Bergling).

Fonts from 2015: Gods of Mars (an inline sci-fi typeface), Rykov (based on a 1930s Ukrainian constructivist style; Latin and Cyrillic), Vie Moderne (French art deco), Dahlgren, Grand Concours (art deco), Tantalus, Power Tie (art deco), Marquis Greeking.

Fonts from 2016: Ekberg Modern (based on lettering samples by Samuel Welo from poster designs of the 1920s), Knuckleduster, Tzaphkiel, Sarandiel, Primrose Initials, Elizabethan Script (chancery style), Zeitschrift (an art nouveau font based on the Ver Sacrum magazine), Wendingen (Dutch deco), Memento Mori (Tuscan), Rounders (art deco).

Fonts from 2017: Buzzmill (wooden plank font), Pumpkin Patch Initials, Talinn, Reliquary, Nopalito, Scattershot (script).

Typefaces from 2018: Marionettas (a Mexican horror movie poster font), Fascination, Architextura, Santa Sangre, Glyphos.

Typefaces from 2019: Cafe Corso (art nouveau), Comic Classix.

Fnts released in 2020: Epigramatic (based on lettering by Dard Hunter for the Roycroft Press in the early 1900s), Cryptos (graffiti).

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link.

View David Nalle's typefaces. Scriptorrium's library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Scryption

Museum for type, printing, and writing in Tilburg, The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sealoung (was: Masay Letter)
[Saiful Anwar]

Mojokerto, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1986) of these typefaces in 2020: Abimoty, Agoxes Game (octagonal), Amellya (wild calligraphic), Arahma, Asgore (a horror font), Assiaam, Aulidah, Battom Glory (a curly blackletter), Blapuhy (a dry brush script), Blondie, Bodihel, Brithny (a plumpish upright script), Busero (a speed emulating sports font), Christmas (a signage script), Deuglas (a wide monolinear sans), Domino, Duralit, Endellia (dry brush), Fastrace (a race car font), Gladish, Gondes, Hello Father (a heavy upright script), Kafenot, Kehraut, Killega (a decorative serif), Kris Kringle (Christmas-themed caps), Little Aliens, Love Money (an upright script), Merry Santa, Miss Mince, Moody, Queen, Rayhed, Sadish (a spurred decorative blackletter all caps typeface), Challiren (a Valentine's day script), Sakurata (oriental simulation), Santomyse Eridupes (a heavy rabbit ear script), Stiffeny Maritta (a rhythmic script), Tehisa, The Backro, Time Christmas (a retro signage script), Wuudy Cow, Yogurt Luber (a dripping paint font).

Typefaces from 2021: Saevul (an elegant inline typeface), Maferic (a display serif and script), Liferdas (an 18-style transitional serif), Adeston (a fashion mag serif), Edhan Martine (luxury serif), Abygaer (a refined display serif), Asbigan (a ligature serif), Maguire (a display sans), Angela (a swashy display serif), Nergisha (a trendy fashionable serif typeface), Weatsyam (a stylish signature script), Weatsyam (a stylish signature script), Mansdefia (a formal calligraphic script), Romantic (a script with personality), Bandes (an upright supermarket script), Love Rysma (a scrapbook font), Adaniya (a calligraphic signage script), Alyesina (calligraphic), Hay Monster (a scrapbook font), Balloon Duwoor (a scrapbook font), Crazy Robot (a blocky all caps typeface), Belyna (an upright script), Lovelys (a textured script), Sanderyna (a signature script), Magemin (a decorative serif), Hello Bucin, Founder Christmas, Amania (a bold signature script).

Typefaces from 2022: Sugela (a display serif), Ramadhan Amazing (Aarabic emulation), Algoria (a 36-style sans), Sageyl (a spider web serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sean Lee

Sean Lee, a graphic designer in Pasadena, CA, created the calligraphic typeface Satisfactory Script (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sean Moldenhauer
[Art and Fonts by Sean (aka The BlackBox)]

Sebastian Wieland
[Typemotion]

Sergio Arlex Guerrero Villa

Sebastian Zanilla

Padova-based calligrapher who produced some calligraphic alphabets, ca. 1604. See also his Book on lace with Antonello Bertozzi, also 1604. Examples: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. [Google] [More] ⦿

Segno Scrittura

The Associazione Culturale Calligrafia e Lettering in Torino, Italy, organizes workshops and courses on a variety of topics, some of which are related to calligraphy and the history of type. For example, from 14-15 March 2009, there was a course on Gothic Textura. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sehat Co (or: Duasatu)
[Aliv Pandu]

Aliv Pandu is a Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer.

In 2016, he created these typefaces: Thillends (2016, a thick brush script by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Hastadaya (a brush script co-designed with Hamam Jauhari at Wakacsara), Anthares, Aerokids Script, Marsmello (monoline fifties script), Sandat (connected script), Aduhay (calligraphic), Corder.

Before that, he designed Realitium (2015, spurred Victorian style), Dianjuli (2015), Logawa (2015), Fantai (2015, a great brush poster typeface), Sandat (2015, a painted font), Wanih (2015, a signage script), Hayuk Script (2015), Aduhay (2015), Arisyan Script (2015), Greget (2015, painted type), Solecha (2015, +Rough), and the tall handcrafted typeface Flush (2014).

Typfaces from 2017: The Austten (brush script), Cosmoball (a signage script by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Museum Sonobudoyo (curly Victorian typeface influenced by traditional Javanese patterns).

Typefaces from 2017: Underland (a dry brush script by Aliv Pandu), Santhen (a sign painters font by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Sailoria (by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Baksoda (by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Austten (brush script), Mattcool (by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Cosmoball (a signage script by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Anthares (brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Delichia (a monoline script by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Southbeach, Rocket Clouds (a neon font done with Hamam Jauhari), Machineat (with Hamam Jauhari).

Typefaces from 2019: Quadrone (by Aliv Pandu and Hamam Jauhari), Everland Script.

Behance link for Sehat Co. Behance link for Duasatu. Another Behance link. Aka Ahya Agawiss (Pacitan and/or Yogyakarta, Indonesia). Dafont link. Creative Market link for Wacaksara. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Seinai Kumano

Japanese type designer who published some Japanese typefaces at FONT1000. He also practices sho calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Selotype
[Reka Safriani]

Aka rchdttf, Richard Wibi and Reka Safriani. Indonesian designer of Baby Angel (2020: an upright calligraphic script), Mathilda Script (2020: wild calligraphy), the monoline cartoon script font Creatoon (2018, under the name Richard Wibi) and the stylish but wild calligraphic typeface Silver Lovely (2020, under the name Reka Safriani). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Selotype Studio
[Reka Safriani]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of romantic calligraphic script typefaces. As of 2021, her typefaces included Alitha, Baby Angel, Bohela, Cinderella, Loveheart, Lovely Heart, Mathilda, Medina, Shophia, Silver Lovely. [Google] [More] ⦿

Seniors Studio

The Seniors Studio in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, designed Sherika (a 16-style grotesk), Aaron Script (2021), Daniela Script (2021), Florabella Script (2021), Isabella Script (calligraphic) (2021), Adelicia Script (wild, calligraphic) (2021), Annalena Script (2021), Brenda Script (formal calligraphy) (2021), Switnesa Script (2020), Hendbras (a dry brush script) (2020), Migha (2020: a free variable font), Stigsa Display (2020: a 35-style 1194-glyphs-per-style high-contrast transitional typeface family with serifs that will cause severe bleeding), Arthura (2018: a sans with subtle reverse stress), Elisabetta Script (2018: exquisite calligraphy), Keneisha (calligraphic) (2017: calligraphic script), Brunella Script (calligraphic) (2017), Be Bright (2016), Hello Sweets Script (a scrapbook script) (2016), Black And White Font Duo (2016), The Sweetest Thing (2016, brush script), Molly Script (an almost upright script) (2016, calligraphic and connected), Belastoria Script (a friendly calligraphic typeface) (2016), Auther (2015), Sweetness Script (2015), Blingtastic Script (2015), Daniela Script (2015), Shania Script (2015), Brenda Script (2015, calligraphic swashy wedding script), Delabasto (2015, handcrafted unconnected script), Adelicia (2015, connected script), Florabella (2015, curly script), Carolinea (2015), Roselina Script (2015), Kathya Script (2015), Cresilda Script (calligraphic) (2015), Isabella Script (2014), Andalusia Script (2014), Aaron Script (2014), Shepia Script (monolinear) (2014), Shintia Script (2014, for signage), Everglow Script (2014, retro signage script), the caps only compressed sans titling typeface Grounday (2014), the free signage script typeface Blenda Script (2014) and the free connected script typeface Nickainley.

The only thing we know about the designer is his birth year, 1986. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sentavio Creative

Belize City, Belize and now New York City-based designer who specializes in high tech and futuristic type designs. He created Borgita (2021: a plump rounded display typeface), Cyberpunk (2021), Cyberto (2021: cyberpunk), Cyberia 3D (2021: a 3d customizable font), Spacegate (2020), the puffy or bubblegum font Funfood (2020), the calligraphic font Wayout (2020), the techno family Vortex (2020), the techno / paperclip font family Mazeline (2018), the signage script Lettercraft (2017), the robot and drone-inspired Robodron (2017), Gempire (2017), the rounded organic typeface Airy (2017), Radon (2017), the outline typeface Ply (2017), the paperclip typeface Garde (2017), the blackboard bold typeface Aberration (2016), the striped typeface Karma (2016), the logotype font Advio (2016), the ribbon or monogram font RibOne (2016), the tech font Line Tech (2016), the curly Wonderscript (2016), the prismatic typeface Lineat (2016, +Lineat III), the plump logotype Airy (2016), the bi-lined typeface Freeline (2016), the robot-inspired Stingo (2016), the display typeface Food Craft (2016), the bilined logo and monogram font Sentaline (2016), the script typefaces Curline (2016) and Article (2016), the children's font Happy Kids (2016), the futuristic font Digitalium (2016, +Condensed), the multiline titling typeface Sentagram (2015), Forest Line (2015, thin squarish headline sans), Sweet Ink (2015), and the ribbon typeface Sentaband (2015). Creative Market link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Serdaribut Studio

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these (mostly calligraphoc) typefaces in 2021: Amanda Script, Amelanda Script, Bandet Script, Birdena Script, Blacktone, Bridget Script, Celvin Font Duo, Daisy Script, Dangki Script, Faradilla Script, Ferlyna Script, Gambong Script, Gytha Script, Hengky Script, Kayla, King Bettyle Script, Millea, Molly Script, Octavia, Selly Script, Staylia Script, Tanisya Script, Warton, Wichita, Wylie Script, Yolanda Script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Serebryakov Type Foundry (or: Serebryakov TF, S TF; was Onetypethree Foundry, or: Dzianis Serabrakou)
[Denis Serebryakov]

Denis Serebryakov's Design studio in Minsk, Belarus creates logotypes and identity based on original lettering and own production fonts. Appetite (2011) is a black upright script family. It was followed by Appetite Contrast (2012) and the italic version, Appetite New (2012), the sketched version, Appetite Sketch (2013), and Appetite Rounded (2014). In 2016, it was updated to Appetite Pro. In 2017, it was extended to Appetite Pro Rounded.

Myster (2012) is a random font in which each glyph has three alternatives. General (2012) is an elegant casual sans family. Germes (2012) is a grotesk family with some contrast and with some reverse serifs added sparingly. Germes Sans (2012) is the sans version.

Statut (2012) is an elegant thin typeface that is based on calligraphic work by Belarusian artist Pavel Semchenko.

Oldsman No. 1 (2012) is a fashion mag typeface.

Displace (2013, +Displace Cut, +Displace 2.0 in 2019, +Displace Serif in 2019) is a sans typeface drawn with a tilted nib. Ultratype (2013) is an angular typeface designed for Ultralab.

Typefaces from 2014: Bouquet (a fat brushy script, with Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2015: Ultratype Beta.

Typefaces from 2016: Nature Product.

Typefaces from 2017: Canapa (humanistic sans), Rozza (a curvy decorative stencil typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Epos.

Typefaces from 2019: AMDG (a sans commissioned by Artox Media design Group).

Typefaces from 2020: Nekst (a 7-style geometric sans with a reference to bent metal tubing; +a variable style).

Typefaces from 2021: Taler (a 7-style avant-garde slab serif featuring plastic stiffness).

Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the calligraphic font Alex Brush (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Serin Studio
[Sulthan Adam Maulana]

Indonesian designer, b. 1999, of the calligraphic typefaces Angela (2018), California Script (2018) and Atmaka (2018), the thin Nukman Tsabit (2018), and the handcrafted typefaces Soliaterz (2018), John Wick (2018) and Ozora Script (2018). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Seruput (or: Barokah, or: Graptail)
[Teuku Deky Firnanda]

Indonesian design studio located in Banda Aceh, run by Teuku Deky Firnanda, b. 1989. In 2013 it published the free Comic Sans-style typeface Barokah, Purbacala (hand-lettered posater face), Hardline, Hardline Grunge, and Hardline Stencil.

In 2014, they created Kahitna, Stand By Slab, Laskar (signage script), Aleandra (a flowing script), Gemulay Script (signage script family), Monday (script face), Transmetal and Bringin (a free connected script).

Typefaces from 2015: Apashi, Anthem Script (a ronde style connected script), Honeymoon Script, Devious, Dankita Script (brush script), Ringdena (connected calligraphic script), DorayakiScript, Realist, Hillda Script, Angelline Script, Karmela Script, Lemonade.

Typefaces from 2016: Pathout Script (for signage), Manisly Script, Kaitlyn Script, Trapline, Regaled Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Antigena, Duffish (a heavy upright script), Sarcastic (+Inline; Victorian; published in 2019 as Sarkastic), Pathout Script, Young Coconut Script (signage brush script), Blastrick (Tuscan / Victorian), Smooth Boy, Bringin, Delitha.

Typefaces from 2018: Dropslide (Victorian), Laskar Script, Aerohate (Victorian), Jailetter (spurred), Grantmouth, Monday Script, Karmela Script, Apashy, Ropstone (Victorian).

Typefaces from 2019: Arastin (Serif+Script), Herina, Grantmouth Vol. 2 (art nouveau), Crotila.

Typefaces from 2020: Rodest (a decorative serif), Histories Family (a fairy book display serif), Boheld (a vintage collection with Sans, Serif, Bold, Condensed, and Inline styles), Morthern (a decorative Victorian typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Sarcastic Nova (Victorian caps), Ringift (a decorative serif), Norteam (a 9-style vintage all caps collection), Lorida (a compressed display serif), Sernes (an 18-style condensed all caps display serif), Bunga Pro (a stylish curly romantic serif), Koling (a romantic cursive font), Klipan Black, Rhinegold (a heavy display serif with diamond-shaped tittles).

Dafont link. Behance link. Graptail link. Another Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Seven Seas Design Co
[Karen Smith]

Dahlonega, GA-based designer of the connected script typefaces Caleigh (2015), Marahuyo (2015) and Ola Moon (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Alouette. Creative Market link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Seventh Imperium
[Cucu Supriyadi]

Bandung, Indonesia-based type foundry est. 2015, showcasing typefaces designed by Cucu Supriyadi. Cucu left Seventh Imperium in 2020 to set up a new type foundry, Thirtype. His initial work is largely Victorian, characterized by spurious curls or spurs:

Agneya (2015). A calligraphic brush script with an urban street art vibe.
Screter (2015). A spurred tattoo font with a blackletter feel.
Artonic (2015). A tattoo script.
Bellico (2015). A signage script.
Black Future (2015). A blackletter / tattoo /metal band font.
Bolyar (2015). An all caps display typeface. Almost an exact copy of FM Bolyar Pro (2013, Vasil Kateliev and Jordan Jelev).
Clarize (2018). A high-contrast didone family. Followed by Clarize Display (2019), which has a great Engraved style.
Egory Castle (2015).
Goldana (2017). A great layered font family that emulates chromatic type.
Heiders (2018, a 72-style script and sans typeface family).
Kyouking (2015).
Lockon Velline (2015).
Lunair (2019). A layerable script family.
Midnight Coffee (2015).
Monstice (2018). A stylish vintage typeface family with textured and inline styles.
Revorioum (2015).
Swiftel (2015). A layered creamy signage script font.
Gratinoli (2019).
Truens (2019). A vintage font collection.
Exorts Compressed (2020). A great compressed ultra black octagonal typeface family.
Autherical (2020). A Fraktura font.

Creative Market link. Another Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

SevenType
[Vitoria Neves]

SevenType is a type foundry set up in 2017 by letterer and type designer Vitoria Neves, who is based in Portimao, Portugal. Luis Bandovas joined the foundry briefly in 2019. In 2017, Vitoria created the connected script typeface Kamila.

In 2019, Luis Bandovas and Vitoria Neves co-designed the monoline script typeface family CoolKids, and Vitoria released Comodot, and the octagonal typefaces Klapt, Klapt Arabic and Klapt Cyrillic.

Home page of Vitoria Neves. Behance page for Vitoria Neves. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Seyed Mohammad Vahid Mousavi Jazayeri

Seyed Mohammad Vahid Mousavi Jazayeri is a well-known Iranian master calligrapher, designer, scholar, and author. MyFonts writes: Mousavi Jazayeri has taken a particular personal interest in the Kufic script and devoted years to independent research, visiting archaeological locations, historic buildings and cemeteries, mosques, libraries and museums to study the script through direct contact. He has developed a systematic research methodology and published his findings in several books.

In 2018, he published the calligraphic Arabic typeface Jazayeri Kufic Qazvin and Jazayeri Kufic Shoushtar, which is modeled after the decorative Kufic calligraphy inscribed on the walls of the historic Grand Mosque of Shoushtar in southwestern Iran. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Shakatype
[Burhanul Jauhar Arifin]

Malang, Indonesia-based designer of display typefaces, b. 1990. The catalog in 2022 showed these fonts: Neonisans (a neon font), Rafaiza (a swashy calligraphic script), Oulina (a formal script), Ramphal (a rhythmic script), Adara (a curly typeface), Beauty Angelin (an upright script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Shanaya Studio (or: Shanaya Creative)

Chinese designer, b. 1999, based in the British Virgin Islands (according to Behance). Creator of these calligraphic and script typefaces in 2019: Pinklineryh, Griseldya, Redlineryh and Branday. He/she also made Nervousm (2019: a sans), Linguineve (2019: a rounded monoline sans) and Fannabella (2019: a rounded headline brush style sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Hiyotori (a sans), Alenia (a display sans), Lionthine (a great inline typeface), Fonthana (sans), Winter Hunt, Bartenique (sans), Halmahera, Wilkey (a papercut typeface), Sein Blue (a rounded sans). [Google] [More] ⦿

Shape Studio
[Teuku Saifullah]

Indonesian designer of these calligraphic typefaces in 2021: Adventure Handwritten (a white on black font), Angelica Angelina (formal calligraphy), Regulation Signature (monolinear), The Calligraphy (a fine formal calligraphic typeface with high contrast).

calligraphic typefaces from 2020: Little Dolly (a scrapbook font), Thawain Serif, Banafsha Script, Hrothberta Script (formal calligraphy), Matilda Script, Butterfly, Calliope, Kamelia Script, Carliste, Agatha, Auristela Script (inky and wild), Maylafaisha Script (a formal calligraphic script), Alisya Script, Marizta Script (wild calligraphy with lots of contrast), Miskiani Script, Kattrina Script, Gracelya Script (upright and swashy), Brantley Script, Caitlin Script, Loyalty Script, Bainbrydge Script, Blackstore Script (wild calligraphy), Courageous Script (a formal wedding script), Rahmalia Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Bahagia Script (an impressive futuristic calligraphic script), Armalona Script (calligraphic, swirly and upright), Brighte Script, Checkpoint, Beliandiya, Malioboro, Roselina Script, Beattes, Usbanda script, Himalaya.

Typefaces from 2022: Thasyalina Script (a heavy calligraphic script), Toy Story (outlined), Toy Story (outlined, hand-crafted). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Shapes for Cash
[Timothy Donaldson]

British calligrapher, signwriter, lettering artist, and type designer. He teaches typography at Stafford College and is a Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln. His typefaces:

At ITC: ITC Cyberkugel, ITC Digital Woodcuts, ITC Farmhaus Normal, ITC Farmhaus Not So Normal (he says that Farmhaus is where Neil Young meets Paul Renner), Flight (1995), Pneuma, Scruff, Spooky, Telegram, Trackpad, ITC Humana Serif, ITC Humana Script Light, Medium, and Bold, John Handy, ITC Klee, ITC Talking Drum (1990s, interpreted in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Monkey Business), ITC Musclehead, ITC Riptide, Ruach, Ulysses, ITC Airstream, ITC Angryhog, Etruscan, Green, ITC Jellybaby, Neo Neo, Orange (1995, a liquid font).
At Letraset: Pink (Peter Hanley's review of Pink), Uffington, TwangLetPlain (scribbly).
At FontFont: Fancy Writing (or: FF Fancy, 1996).
At Adobe: Immi 505, Postino, Banshee, Coriander.
At the Indian Type Foundry: Rozha One (2014, free Google web font). This is a heavy didone typeface with large x-height, high contrast, and a harmonious balance between its Devanagari (designed by Tim Donaldson and Jyotish Sonowal) and Latin (designed by Shiva Nallaperumal). Github link.
At his own type foundry Shapes for Cash (est. ca. 2018): Donaldsans Code (2019: a programming font), Billy Mozz (2019), Amadeo (Timothy: this is a 20-year old design that won a prize in a Morisawa competition in the 1990s. It is a deliberately crude, unevenly weighted set of simulated incisions that now attempts to challenge the chocolate-box hegemony of perfect Instagraphy, and maybe to invoke the spirit of Imre Reiner), Cowgirl, Hipsterpotamus (a chubby puppy, a chunky monkey, a bestially bloated beauty of corpulent cuteness), Pointyhead (an exercise in absurdity; to create the most atrociously spiky, thorny blackletter; to give it a set of roman uppers along with brutal fraktur majuscules).
Other fonts: Cult.

He runs Kingink.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about The world's even bigger Hamburgefonts. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about the resurrection of the pencil. He states in the abstract: During research for my recently published book, "Shapes for sounds", I investigated the Glagolitic alphabet created by the brothers Cyril and Methodius. This alphabet was the mother of Cyrillic. I learned to write the letters, an activity that took on a life of its own and led to a body of interpretation bordering on the obsessive. My talk will focus on the history, development, and subsequent abandonment of the Glagolitic alphabet and will show the new drawings, sculptures, scripts and typefaces I have produced as a result of this investigation. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik.

In 2012, he won the Akashi award in the Latin category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Jara (a fat signage script).

Klingspor link. Linotype link.

View Timothy Donaldson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sharp & Type
[Juan Casco]

Type foundry set up by Juan Casco (Puyo, Ecuador) in 2013. Its typefaces as of 2014 include Jeniffer Script (a vampire script), Darkshire JZ (by Jeniffer Zuñiga), Frozen Script (by Juan Casco), Tramonta, Elrie Roman, Linexter (by Juan Casco), Refugiatta Bold, Ninja Turtles (modular and squarish), Frozen Roman, Guardians of the Galaxy (octagonal sci-fi face).

In 2015, Juan designed Huntsman, Funpool / Deadpool (movie titling font), Antman (based on the movie), Daredevil, Iron Tech (octagonal, techno), Limon Script (signage script), Viaje Script, Camomila (script), and The Marauders (a pirate typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Silabario Waodani, Lemon Hipster (sign painting font), Slim Chef (narrow, handcrafted), Atemporal (blackboard bold style), Symphony Script (calligraphic).

Behance link. Home page. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sharp Type
[Lucas Benjamin Sharp]

Lucas Sharp is a designer (b. 1986, San Francisco) set up Sharp Type in Brooklyn, NY, and later in New York City proper. Before that, Lucas Sharp was involved with Typeslashcode in New York. In 2011, he and Juan Carlos Pagan set up Pagan&Sharp in Brooklyn, NY, but they split a few years later. In 2015, Lucas Sharp and Chantra Malee [at Sharp Type, Malee handles business, brand management, marketing, graphic design and sales] started Sharp Type in New York City. In 2020, the collaborators and type designers included Josh Finklea, Connor Davenport, Marc Rouault, My-Lan Thuong, Calvin Kwok, and Justin Sloane. Lucas Sharp's typefaces:

Happy Stache (2010). A blackletter.
Hera (2010). A ball terminal-laden ornate didone done for his thesis at Parsons. His talent shines through his award-quality ornamental didone family, Hera Big (2010), which is an extension of his earlier thesis work.
Designer Sucks (2010). An ultra-fat and counterless typeface.
The free fat counterless typeface Doughboy (2010). In 2014, Greg Gazdowicz and Lucas Sharp co-designed Doughboy Pro, a bubble bath typeface.
Lucas Sharp does penmanship drawings such as Go Big Or Go Home (2010) and We're on a roll (2010).
Together, Pagan and Sharp published Malleable Grotesque Regular (2011).
Sharp Sans (2013, Incubator subfoundry of Village). Sharp Sans is a geometric sans with a non-geometric semi-curvy italic. Sharp Sans No. 2 (2015) is more geometric. It has Bayer / Bauhaus alternates, Lubalin avant garde style interlocking capitals, and pays tribute to those styles. Sharp Sans No. 2 (2015, Incubator): While Sharp Sans No. 1 ends its round monolines with diagonally sheared terminals, Sharp Sans No. 2 shears those terminals on a 90 degree angle.
Ogg (2013) is a fashion mag typeface inspired by the hand lettering of 20th century book designer and calligrapher Oscar Ogg. Ogg won an award at TDC 2014. Review by Bethany Heck.
Frauen [Roman, Script] (2015, Incubator). A calligraphic pair. The Roman is partially based on the calligraphy of Friedrich Neugebauer [on the cover of an almanac of Berlin debutantes published in 1945 titled, Die schönsten Frauen der Welt], and partly Lucas's own creation. Production assistance from Wei Huang.
Sharp Sans was modified in 2016 for Hillary Clinton's campaign, on commission for Michael Bierut of Pentagram. They write: The newest iteration of Sharp Sans was conceived for the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign. Michael Bierut and the Pentagram team chose Sharp Sans Display No.1 as the main typeface of the campaign identity, but such a monumental project required a sturdier and more utilitarian typeface. The new Sharp Sans is completely redrawn and shaped by the rigorous typographic demands of modern visual communications. What sets the new Sharp Sans apart is a raised x-height, and newly opened counters that make it optimal for both text and display layouts; a new, more versatile approach, of which the two Display versions were not previously designed for. The set has Slab and Stencil styles as well.
In 2016, Sharp designed a custom Trajan-inspired typeface for Anthonly Lent, the jeweler.
Sharp Grotesk (2017), 259 fonts strong and several years in the making. Village writes: Sharp Grotesk sits at the intersection of mid-century modernist rigor and Victorian hand-hewn vernacular. Lucas considered Adrian Frutiger's monumental Univers suite of fonts, with its grid of multiple weights and widths, applying this underlying construction principle to letterforms echoing the forms of American and northern European wood types. Sharp Grotesk won sixth prize in the TDC Typeface Design competition in 2017.
Lucas Sharp and Connor Davenport finished the Dutch oldstyle typeface Eros Text in 2017. Eros Text was influenced By Jan van Krimpen's Sheldon and Bram de Does's Lexicon. Eros Text B has longer ascenders than Eros Text A.
Halyard (2017). An information design sans typeface family by Joshua Darden, Lucas Sharp and Eben Sorkin.
Respira Black (2017). A contemporary blackletter inspired by Spanish and English models from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Sharp Slab (2018).
Beatrice and Beatrice Display (2018) by Lucas Sharp assisted by Connor Davenport and Kia Tasbihgou: Beatrice is a new kind of typeface. The family is an exploration of contrast methodologies, combining various aspects from the canon expansionist systems, inverted contrast, and the contrast behavior of standard sans-serif grotesks. These methodologies were dissected and used as cornerstones in building our own system, with the final result landing largely in unexplored territory. Built on the foundation of a traditional American Gothic but with tight-as-can-be spacing, the superfamily spans a robust set of weights and includes 2 optical sizes: a super high-contrast, tightly packed Display cut, as well as a standard low-contrast cut, designed to function beautifully in a wide range of optical sizes.
In 2019, Lucas Sharp and Marc Rouault wrapped up Doyle at Sharp Type. The chubby Doyle interpolates between Cooper Black and ITC American Typewriter.
In 2021, Lucas Sharp and My-Lan Thuong, assisted by Wei Huang and Marc Rouault, designed Salter. Slater Roman is based on calligraphic book jackets by Georg(e) Salter from 1941, and Salter Italic is inspired by two of Oscar Ogg's book jacket alphabets from 1942.

Type catalog, 2010. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sherrie Lovler Calligraphy (Ink Monkey)

Beautiful calligraphy by Lovler. No fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Shi Long-Min
[Shih Lung-Ming]

Shih Lung-Ming
[Shi Long-Min]

Chinese designer of the Chinese calligraphic script font YK Xing Kai (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Shodou's room

Mayumi Kitazawa demonstrates shodo (brush calligraphy) writing. [Google] [More] ⦿

Si Scott

The digital images by Si Scott will blow you away. He is a master at creating images that escape from letters. Wonderful typography and type art. Si Scott Design, based in the UK. In 2009, he started publishing typefaces. His first one is Hun ter (2009, HypeForType). Examples of his bling lettering: His name, a psychedelic title, bubbly pose, Open sign, poster for an exhibition, a carp, a model, and curly lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sidiq Fahmi
[Rotterlab Studio]

Sigit Dwipa
[Nirmana Visual]

Sigit Nur Wicaksono
[Gittype]

Sign DNA
[Dave Simpson]

SignDNA is run by Dave Simpson (Winters, CA). Commercial sign and display fonts, including many scripts, often by Dave Simpson himself. Other designers:

Bob Behounek made ChicagoStyle, NewCity, SantaFe, KedzieLite, Heading Script, Pravda Casual, Pulaski Script, Archer. (This must be in error--there is a contradiction between the web page and the information in the fonts.) In the latest page, these fonts are credited to "Behounek". I can't follow this.
Paul Martin made Caz Fat, El Sid, Journeyman, WarBird (great signature-type font), RaceCarChisel, FastEddie, Squirt (upright, calligraphic).
Wm. J. Krupinski designed Bill's Holiday, Cube a Rama, Toon Copy, Med Ved, Toon Block.
Dan Antonelli created the 3-d fonts Banner Priz, Corinne, Lori Slant, Nicole, Tommy B, Rocinante, Zak, Prizmatic Numbers.
Mike Stevens made Magic, Stix, Happy Script, Master, ArRoyo, Tahoe, Staton, BigSur, DuVall, BigRed, BigMedicine, Tenor, Phoenix, Vasona.
Jack Wills made Nitro, Whoa, Brougham, Kreem, Buzz, Daffy Script, Hot Rod, Matilda, Jules Shado, Jules, Brave Heart, Monterey Script, Mr. Charles, Newmann.
Tramp Designs (Tramp Warner) made Eurolian (techno), Grafix (techno), Metal, Radical, Ripped, Salza, Sawblade, Starbound, Straight Laced, Tramp and Victory.
Kirby Stafford made Big Boy (2001), Lowered, Pencil Stroke and Whoop T Do.
Ray Larabie made Mecheria, Silentina, Soap, Tank, Zosma Bold, and Zosma Lite.
Gary Godby made Monika (script).
House fonts (by Dave Simpson, I guess): Amazing Grace, American Eagle, Amps, Ands, Andy, Auction Block, Autographic, Automat, Aztec, Banner Heavy, Banner Long n Lean, Big Cheese, Big Kiss, BuckShot, Bull Frog, Bulletin Black, Cadet, CopsRobbers, Crown Title, CrownTitle Priz Wide, Cut Out Script, Daytona Script, Dave the Wave, Deco Roman, Denny, Denny Bold, Dogwood, Downtown, Dragonfly, FiveCents, Golden Eagle, Half Dome Block, Half Dome Script, Heaven, Hell, Hex, Hillbilly Opteamaw, HogWort, Huckelberry, Jade, Kaylon, kaylon Heavy, Lone Wolf, Loose Spokes, los Pintores, Lumax, Lynewood Crakd, Mac, Marcel Dubo, Marcel Jones, Marker Magic, Marvels Navel, Medicine Hat, Miss Kitty, Monika, Nelson ShoCard, Nelson ShoCard Fat, Neon, Neon Script, Neon Tubes, O'Daly, Picasso, Playground, Race Car Casual, Race Way, Raceway Priz, Rosebud, Santa Cruz, Savage, Scriptboy, Shakey Jake, Shoefly, Slope, Smoothy, Snappy, Snappy Thin, Space Patrol, Spatz, Spatz HiLite, Speed Stroke, Street Rod, Stringline, Strout, Sundowner, Swing, Tank, Taylor Caz, Thin Man, Thin Man Bold, Tug Boat, Tys Optimus, Waldo, Woody.

Note: Nick Curtis: Dave Simpson purchased the rights to [Nick Curtis's] Creampuff for $167, and has been selling it for the past 11 years or so as Waldo. [Google] [More] ⦿

Signature Ink
[Hillary Adams]

South African calligrapher who has created some stunning calligraphic logos. [Google] [More] ⦿

Signs of Gold
[Francis Stephen Lestingi]

Francis Lestingi (b. 1963, Long Island City, NY) started out in type design at Letterhead Fonts, where he made the calligraphic script typefaces Pierre (2006) and LHF Pierre Fancy (2007). In 1994, while teaching physics at the State University College at Buffalo, he started Sign of Gold, Inc. with his son Stephen. He enjoyed it so much, he took early retirement and went full time carving. As a "recovering college professor", Francis has garnered nine First Place Awards from the USSC Sign Design Competition and the International Sign Association since 1999, and has been profiled in Signs of the Times, Sign Business, and SignCraft magazines. His first commercial typeface at Signs of Gold is Fran Hand (2009), an architct's font. In 2010, he added the signage typeface Stefano. He lives in Williamsville, NY. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Silana Essie

Creator of the connected calligraphic script typeface Mirelle Script (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Silver Stag

Designer of the SVG dry brush and watercolor font families Amsterdam (2019), Maria Rose (2019), Sky Love (2018), Loving Rose (2018) and Loving Celine (2018), and the thin display typeface Marseille (201).

Typefaces from 2020: Esther (a ligature-rich serif), Seven Neon, Vicky Christina, Amelie (wild calligraphy), Lovers SVG Serif, January Love, Coral Lovers, Charles (a decorative serif), Onyx (a hand-painted SVG font), Skylar, Lovescript, Verona, Amore (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Le Vivre Ensemble (a bold SVG font), Chic Lovers (a watercolor SVG font), Ognes (a display serif), Giorgia (decorative. with hipster elements), Lucky Feelings, Lumiere, Skyline (grungy), Quick (a hand-painted SVG font). [Google] [More] ⦿

Silverdav Studio
[David Kasidi]

Wajo, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Richello Same (2020: a Victorian script), Marilyne (2020), Marlina Melvin (2020), Hessley Andreas (2020: a signature script), Brilliant Starlight (2020: Treefrog style), Flowerbloom (2019), Love Florida, Hello Sunday (2019), David And Sovhie (2019: calligraphic; +Sans), Heydhar (2019: dry brush), Bellandha (2019), William (2018), Seventeen (2018), Amarilis Script (2018) and The Queenthine (2018).

He also made the display serif typefaces Fragille (2020), Rockabye (2020) and Backslash (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Alexandra Calligraphy (formal calligraphy), Bellagium (a creamy display serif), Richard + Caroline (stylish roman caps), Backnotes (a marker typeface), Safirah Moon (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Ramadhan Mubarok (emulating Arabic). Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Silvia Cordero Vega

Extraordinarily talented Argentinian calligrapher, b. Buenos Aires. She graduated from the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1988. She teaches and gives talks about calligraphy. Her Flickr page. Behance link. She drew some wonderful calligraphic alphabets such as Polilla (2011), Estaciones (2011), Alfabeto (2007), Alfabeto Organico (2011), Calligraphic Alphabet (2008), Cola Pen (2011), and Letra de Mascar (2011). I also like the lettering in her Erotica project (2007), Gothic Tango Slang poster (2008), Papelera Palermo poster (2009) and Amigo poster (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿

Simon Liesinger

Simona Vaskovicova

Designer of a medieval hand revival font in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sinfa (or: Tone Studio, or: Triotone)
[Muhammad Akbar]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based calligrapher and designer, b. 1981, of mostly calligraphic or connected script typefaces. He ran Tone Studio, Triotone, Sinfa, and set up Stasy Font in 2020.

In 2021, he designed Party Lover (a tall rabbit ear script), Wondrous (an inky script) and Wondrous (an inky script).

In 2020, he released Stargild and Bettiya.

In 2019, he designed Longtime, Friendship, Gesture (a great inky calligraphic script), Saylove (a hairline script), Madani Script, Santha Cruze (a signature font), Hasnita, the monoline script Stuttgart, the signature script Santhalia and the script typefaces Amelia Amanda, Zeinstore and Metic.

In 2018, he designed Janetta, Marta Anthoni, Vineshia Johnson, Adelea, Edore, and Melitta&Jeffry.

Earlier typefaces: Lagena (2017, formal calligraphy), Transformer (2017, bold script), Anton Script (2017), The Kastle (2017), Zeinstore (2017), Melitta&Jeffry (2017), Fisherman (2017), Maheishia (2017, an irregular script), Romantis Momen (2017, calligraphic), Zuraida (2017, calligraphic), Picture (2017), Mirantie (2017: calligraphic), Kayla (2017; connected inky calligraphic script), Blester (2017, outlined script), The Flashter (2017, script), Mother Love (2017, thin calligraphic script), Atlantic (2017, calligraphic), Gentle (2017, calligraphic), Buffalo (2017), Leather (2017, calligraphic script), Turkeye (2016, script), Fastter (2016, script), Andrea (2016, calligraphic script), Confident (2016), Carolina (2016, script font) and Anton (2016, bold brush script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sinikka Li

Berlin (and Stuttgart), Germany-based designer of the brush typefaces Emmeline (2017: free), Ingenue (2017), Stay Humble (2017), Alyshia Brush (2017), La Rosé (2017), Wanderlust (2017), Milky Way (2017), Wildflower (2017), Little Dreamer (2017), Magnolia (2017), Summer Vibes (2017), Iceland (2017) and Bloomberg (2017), the signature fonts Just Dreamin (2017), Classy (2017), Savannah (2017), Salome (2017), Sienna (2017), Roses Please (2017: signature font) and Lemon & Mint (2017), the blackboard bold Oh Juniper (2017), the display typeface Vagabond (2017), the font duo Saluti (2017), the informal typeface Lisbon (2017) and the script typefaces Blossom (2017), Magical (2017), Affinity (2017), Hello Agnes (2017), Wild Romance (2017), Mindfully (2017, free at Pixel Surplus) and Chicago (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Osaka (sans), The New Yorker, Augusto, Americano (a signature font), Rome Diaries (brush script), Oh Savannah (brush SVG font), Brooklyn (font duo), Western Love (brush SVG font), Blush Away, Whisper, The Bohemian, Ciao Ciao (watercolor SVG font), Bella Vista, Bonjour SVG, Aloha Babe (watercolor brush SVG font), New York City (SVG brush font), Austin (opentype SVG), TheWilde (opentype SVG), Roses Please (a free signature font), Mindfully, Valerie (signature font), Copenhagen, La Parisienne, Figueira, Audrey & Louis, Only You, Sanziah, C'Est La Vie, Attila, Esther, Beatrix (brush), Unconditionally, Oh Jasmine (signature script), Hey Thalissa (brush script), Matsuko (sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Bloom+Wonder, Dear Rose, Botanista. [Google] [More] ⦿

Sipanji (was: Straightwell)
[Muhammad Panji]

Known as Si Panji, Muhammad Panji and Panji Ramdhani, b. 1998. Indonesian designer of the handcrafted typefaces Kiddie Love, Roadart Grafiti (2021), Baby Magpies (2020), Street Of Zeus (2020: a graffiti font), Dashtin Brush (2020), Vope Dome (2020: a graffiti font), Giecella Kids (2020), Seventeen Winter (2020), Cute Lime (a bubblegum font) (2020), Ben Kidoz (2020: all caps and rounded, for children's books), Xandercode (2020: an all caps graffiti font), Nightvandals (2020: a graffiti font), Wolvins (2020: an all caps beatnik font), Pumpkinos Horror (2020: a dripping blood horror font), Dirty Lizard (2020: graffiti style), Amazing Grafiti (2020), Dance Kitty (2020), Los Porttal (2020), Cute Lime (2020), SpaceBro (2020), Wigenda, Wofferine (handcrafted), Swadi Marker (2020), Veruzza Hollow (2020), Veruzza Italic (2020), Veruzza (2020), Good Summer (2020), Hayven (2020), Break Flames (2020), Molusca (2020), Digital Space (2020), Wolvins (2019), Rocketboss (2019), Straightwell (2019: a steampunk slab serif typeface) and Zhivanii (2020; for Latin and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2021: Ashlyn (a brush script), Black Brody (spurred), Notress Graffiti, Dastin Toxic Graffiti, Fallaxe Drip Graffiti, Red Bubble Graffiti, Thick or Melted (a graffiti font), Thick or Melted (a graffiti font), Death Stinger Horror (a dripping blood font), Zigatos Graffiti, Vandalust Graffiti, Street Air (a graffiti font), Hello Velisha, Trick or Bite, Black Magnet (a death metal font), Magnekidz (a death metal font), Night Franklin (a horror font), Beluga Road (a graffiti font), Love Twins Solid (a scrapbook font), Lucky Boy (handcrafted), Tight Hug (a fat finger font), Punch of Love (a scrapbook font), Ruckshack (a dry brush script), Afterlife Party (a genie bottle font?), Nala Junior (a goofy font for children), Kaindra (a brush font), Wushand Graffiti, Jamstreet Graffiti, Gheamarker (a marker pen font), Gracelyn (hand-printed), Nightfate (a graffiti font), Kids Touch, Locked Monster (a graffiti font), Thiny Bunny (a condensed display typeface), Foolish Hand (a fat finger font), Snakehead Graffiti, Spring Butter (a wild calligraphic script), Happy Dinosaur, Sword Art (a dry brush font inspired by the samurai), The Bossman (a graffiti font), Cyberwar (cyberpunk, DeLorean style), Boldist (German expressionist).

Typefaces from 2022: Dark Razoor Graffiti, Wild Gang Graffiti, Spiky Frog Graffiti, Street Eagle Graffiti, Crazy Rooster (a graffiti font), Dragon Scribble (illegible graffiti), Java Temple (a lava lamp font), Weely Honey (a retro dancing baseline font, useful for cartoons). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Siqna Filatova

Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of several Cyrillic display typefaces in 2015, including a calligraphic typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿

Siquot Design
[Luis Siquot]

Luis Siquot (b. 1945) studied architecture and modern letters in Cordoba, Argentina, and graduated in 1975 from the Department of Visual Communication, Higher School of Arts, University of Hamburg. He currently specializes in typographic design, and lives and works in Córdoba, Argentina. Luis Siquot runs the graphic and logo design company "siquot'design" in Argentina. Talk at t-convoca. Interview in 2003 by Icograda. 2011 wishes. Klingspor link. FontShop link. His fonts:

ITC Cali (2002). A fantastic calligraphic script font.
ITC Arecibo (2002).
ITC Abaton (1997).
ITC Florinda (1997). Inspired by Rob Roy Kelly's American Wood Type: 1828-1900.
ITC Juanita Condensed (1996), ITC Juanita Deco (1996), the very very beautiful ITC Juanita (1996), ITC Juanita Lino (1996), ITC Juanita Xilo Condensed (1996), ITC Juanita Xilo (1996).
ITC Portago (1997). A great stencil font.
He is working on the extensive family called Arquetipo Sans and Arquetipo Serif.
Also in the works is a multiple master and OpenType font, Siquot Antigua.
His early work includes Doble (1972, a two-line font), Unilinea (1969-1970, a unicase monoline and monospace family), and Cuadrata (1967, all letters of the same square dimensions as for Japanese kanji).

View Luis Siquot's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Siti Saribanon Nurjannah
[Cititype]

Situjuh Nazara
[7N Types]

View Dan Solo's typefaces. Another page on Solotype. Dan Solo's typefaces listed in decreasing order of popularity. View Dan Solo's typefaces. View Dan Solo's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sizimon Studio
[Faisal Tanjung]

Surakarta, Indonesia-based designer of Winrun (2016, grungy), Harmonic Script (2016), Campion (2016, brush script), After Miles (2016, brush script), Sweetcase (2016, signage script), Artefak (2016), Soulmate (2016), Bladmail Script (2016), Adven (2016, spurred), Venture (2016, spurred), Explore (2016), Backup (2016), Resize (2016), BloodStone (2016), Broodfath (2016, brush type), Winrun (2016, grungy sans), Arcweid (2016, a handcrafted typeface) and Stuner Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Bellisia, Balestya Script (formal calligraphy), Balestya Sans, Rosaline, Saekana Script, Resillia, Westey (monoline script), Black Sunday, Campion, Bristan, Monalisa Script, Monalisa Monoline Script, Brownhill Script (a brush script), Backup, Aveline, Ameliea Script, Black Animal (brush style), Jasmine (brush script), Black Anemone (brush typeface), Camellia Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Jefinian Script, Mitchellia, Daniella (calligraphic), Mellyana, Bethany, Light Olifia (script), Sunydale, Biancha Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Sunchery (formal calligraphy), Rosiecated (a thin script), Diarylea (calligraphic brush), Dioksiany, Lucky Walter (wild calligraphy), Harsley (script), Aurothesia Script (font duo), Unstream , Weastream, Scientesia, Bloodstone (brush).

Typefaces from 2020: Carlhes Browny, Agreable, Brown Love (script), Hermosa (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Cherishline Font (a signature script), Sonlight (a scrapbook script), Biancha Script (an elegant wild script), Domestic Script (an inky script), Harlesy Script (a chic script), Sunchery (a calligraphic script with a natural rhythm), Black Borough (a dry brush script), Dioksiany (script), Mallikay.

Typefaces from 2022: Valerie Indirose (a stylish script), Breathing Fresh (a scrapbook script), Sunydale Font Duo (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos

Dutch typographer and type designer, b. Drachten, 1877, d. Haarlem, 1962. He worked at Tetterode from 1907-1941. Catalog of some of his digitized typefaces. Designer of various typefaces:

The uncial-like typeface Libra Uncial (1938, a pseudo-Gaelic font) at Tetterode in Amsterdam. Libra is now carried in digital form by Mecanorma and Bitstream.
Nobel, a redesign of Berthold Grotesk. FB Nobel (1993, Tobias Frere-Jones at the Font Bureau) is a powerful 18-style sans family based on de Roos's Nobel. It ranges from Extra Light to Very Black, and includes a condensed sextet. See also DTL Nobel (Dutch Type Library) by Fred Smeijers and Andrea Fuchs (a German student at the Arnhe academy supervised by her teacher, Fred Smeijers).
De Roos made Dutch (or Hollandse) Mediaeval (1912), an old style (Venetian) typeface with little contrast, arched slabs and serifs, short descenders, an atrocious lower case g, and an italic that is more like an oblique, but with several conservative workhorse qualities that made it one of the most popular typefaces during World War I. Intertype Mediaeval is similar. Hollandse Mediaeval was digitally revived by Hans van Maanen in 2007 as Dutch Mediaeval, and by Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin in 2013 as Dutch Mediaeval Book ST. For other digitizations, see De Roos Mediaeval NF (2014, Nick Curtis) and Hoboken Serial (2010, SoftMaker).
He designed the calligraphic typeface Meidoorn (1928) for De Heuvelpers (his own private press), which was active from 1926-1935. The Meidoorn materials (matrices, punches) are now in the hands of G. J. Randoe (Keizersgracht 89, 1015 Amsterdam). Laure Afchain was doing a revival of Meidoorn in 2008 as a student at KABK, Den Haag. And Joe Chang, still at KABK, did a revival of it in 2012 in van der Laan's class.
Egmont (1933) is a serifed typeface done at Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Mac McGrew writes: Egmont is a modern interpretation of classic letter forms, designed by S. H. DeRoos for Amsterdam Type foundry in the 1930s, and subsequently cut by Intertype. It is an elegant face, with long ascenders which have double serifs. There are three weights in roman and italic, all with three styles of figures as shown in the bold specimen. Italic swash letters are made for all three weights. Egmont Decorative Initials were added by George F. Trenholm in 1936; they are sometimes called Egmont Medium Italic, from which they are derived. Compare Bernhard Modern. A digital family was designed by Dennis Ortiz-Lopez in 2005 called OT Egmont. Castcraft's free font family OPTI-Eisen is also noteworthy. Open Egmont Kapitalen (2013) is a free openface designed by John Wollring based upon de Roos's known Egmont Inline (or Egmont Versalien) shown in a Lettergieterij Amsterdam specimen book of 1935. Jay Rutherford digitized Egmont Inline in 1988, but did not publish it. In 2016, Alice Retunsky designed the revival Dutch Plus, and added cyrillics.
Erasmus Mediaeval (1923, Amsterdam). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: Venetian in style, but with light serifs and short descenders. Many of the serifs are shaped, as though drawn with a pen. E and F have the centre arms high, the Ha high bar and U the lower-case design. g has a brief tail drawn from right to left;p and q have oblique foot serifs. The italic has slight inclination and has the serifs of the roman. The heavier face of this design is called Grotius. Digital revivals include Erasmus (1992, A. Pat Hickson, ITF) and one by Pradnya Naik.
Card Pro (2006, URW, Ralph M. Unger) is based on Ella Cursief (1916, Lettergieterij Amsterdam). For another digital version of Ella Cursief, see Rozy Cursive (2016, Leon Hulst).
Circulaire (2009, Hans Van Maanen, Canada Type) is based on a set of initial caps designed by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos in 1926.
His last typeface was De Roos Romein (and Cursief) (1947, Amsterdam; Intertype New York; American Typefoundry) about which Canada Type, which produced a magnificent 10-style digital revival, expansion and interpretation in 2009 simply called Roos, in a cooperative effort between Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin, writes: It was designed and produced during the years of the second World War, and unveiled in the summer of 1947 to celebrate De Roos's 70th birthday. In 1948, the first fonts produced were used for a special edition of the Dutch Constitution on which Juliana took the oath during her inauguration as the Queen of the Netherlands. To this day this typeface is widely regarded as De Roos's best design, with one of the most beautiful italics ever drawn. In contrast with all his previous roman typefaces, which were based on the Jenson model, De Roos's last type recalls the letter forms of the Renaissance, specifically those of Claude Garamont from around 1530, but with a much refined and elegant treatment, with stems sloping towards the ascending, slightly cupped serifs, a tall and distinguished lowercase, and an economic width that really shines in the spectacular italic, which harmonizes extremely well with its roman partner. Mac McGrew: De Roos is a handsome contemporary roman type designed by S. H. DeRoos in Amsterdam, Holland. Originally imported from a Dutch type foundry, with additional weights and inline initials, this roman and italic were also cut by ATF about 1952, and by Intertype in 1954. A 1953 piece of ATF literature notes, "Cast at Elizabeth on Amsterdam line." Scans below are from the book First specimen book of De Roos Roman&Italic (Typefoundry Amsterdam).
Savoy (ca. 1936) was the third art deco display typeface drawn under de Roos's superviosn, after the earlier pair, Bristol and Carlton (1929), which were drawn by Dick Dooijes also under de Roos's supervision.
Simplex (1937). A typeface that flirts with the idea of unicase. For a digital revival, see Hendrik (2021, by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco).
Zilvertype (1914-1916, with Jean-François van Royen). This was revived by Hans van Maanen as Zilvertype (2012-2014, Hans Van Maanen, Canada Type): Right on the heels of the tremendous popularity wave that made Hollandse Mediaeval the most used Dutch typeface during the Great War years, Sjoerd H. de Roos was asked to design a 15 point type for De Zilverdistel, Jean-François van Royen's publishing company. So between 1914 and 1916, de Roos and van Royen collaborated on the typeface eventually known as Zilvertype, and which both parties viewed as an improved version of Hollandse Mediaeveal. Like Hollandse Mediaeval, Zilvertype was based on the Jenson model, but it is simpler, with more traditional metrics, and lighter and more classic in colour.
Nieuw Javaansch No. 1 (1909). A Javanese script done by Sjoerd de Roos at Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Revived in 2012 at the KABK by Troy Leinster under the same name.

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Slex Studio
[Muhammad Rayyan]

Indonesian designer of (mostly) calligraphic scripts. In 2020, Slex Studio released Thalita (a formal calligraphic script), Amsterduma (a thin wild calligraphic script), Zhivilia (a wild high contrast calligraphic script), Bethanny Script (an upright calligraphic script), Geryline, Paradisa (a wild calligraphic script), Amsterdam, and Brigland.

The deco typeface Twentyone (2020) was co-designed by Gajana Aslanjan, Gumilang Anggara Ruslan, Slava Antipov, and Fidan Aslanova.

Typefaces from 2021: Octagon Calligraphy (a copperplate calligraphic font), Coda Loop (a 5-style sans), Gangfield (a tall upright rabbit ear script), Savarella (a calligraphic script; +Savarella Ornament), Valentina (an almost upright rabbit ear calligraphic script), Valentina (an almost upright rabbit ear calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2022: Zimbara (formal calligraphy), Bulgari (wild calligraphy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Slovolitni de Grande Tartaria
[Dima Pole]

Dima Pole (Slovolitni de Grande Tartaria, Yalta, Russia) is a Russian type designer [as a joke, he claimed on Behance to be from Russellstown, Ireland and on Hellofont he said that he was in Berjozovskii, Iceland].

Designer of the clean sans typeface Hinton (2016), the lapidary typeface Gor (2016), and the handcrafted typefaces Pocherk 26, Zelo (calligraphic), Rusich, Etruria (based on Etruscan inscriptions, this handcrafted font tries to accurately simulate the writing of the Etruscans; published in 2018), Hors, Fufluns, and Fufluns Luna. Most of his fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

In 2017, he designed Garuspik (ultra-condensed; in Krug, Original and Kvadrat styles), Konung, which is a mixture of various medieval central European styles for Latin and Cyrillic. He also designed the contrast-rich typeface Retra, the blackletter typeface Getman, the eroded typeface family Hors, the Celtic typeface Keltichi, and the angst-ridden Dubrove (which was inspired by Moravian angular type design of 1930-50s) in 2017.

Typefaces from 2018: Tartaria, Osovec (a wedge serif text typeface in one style), Maribor, Vinneta (a Latin / Cyrillic italic).

Typefaces from 2019: Arkaim (East Slavic simulation style). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Smart Designs
[Pere Esquerra]

Designer and restaurant chef in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Catalunya, b. 1977, who specializes in beer label design. Creator of the liquid lettering typeface Kikuri Script (2015), children's script typeface Lukid (2015), the ultra heavy brush typeface Sekula (2015), the ivied Climbing (2015), the free handcrafted typeface ZeFont (2015). In 2015, he published the commercial handcrafted beer label typefaces Beer Script and Free Markfreer. Other typefaces include Jackfont Script (2015), Fabian (2015, brush font), Bloody (2015, free dripping blood font), Vincent (2015, a heavy handcrafted poster font), Wallgate (2015), Honey Bunny (2015), Woys Script (2015), Lluc Script (2015, brush script), Fabian (2015), Jody (2015), My Name is Jody (2015), In Wonder (2015, brush script), Wolf Script (2015), Pumpkin Script (2015), the poster typefaces Captain Koons (2015), Tottem (2015), Script Calm (2015) and Hannding (2015), the handcrafted Hannah (2015) and Pubinie Script (2015) and Buffy (2015), and the script typeface Mocka (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: The Clouds (a handcrafted weathered fat sans), Mamma Mia (free), Martha (brush font), Big Eddie, Harmony, Witold, Hilton, Mr. Duff, The Stopped Brush, Hunk (thick brush), Howie, Free Marvin, Markos Brush, Maddox Brush, The Amish (brush script), Bimba, Bumpy, Mikelin (brush typeface), Quentin, Latin Brush, Sheena, Wooby Script (vampire script), El Zorro Script, Hey Buddy, Punks and Skins, Frederik.

Behance link. Another Behance link. Another URL. Creative Market link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Snaptype

Designers of the calligraphic script typefaces Belleflower (2015) and Xellow (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sofia Castaño Ishizaka

Designer in Salamanca, Spain, who created the strong calligraphic poster typeface Alpino (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sofia Mohr

Sofia Mohr (b. 1978, São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) studied architecture at UFRGS, Brazil, and type design at Universidad Católica de Chile. She works as graphic, web and type designer in her own studio (called Sofia Mohr) in Santiago, Chile.

In 2013, she created Café Brasil, a plump typeface inspired by the shape of coffee beans. Café Brasil won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

Nido / Nido Dingbats (2014, Sofia Mohr, Latinotype) is a fun typeface family for use in children's books. Sabores Script (2015, also at Latinotype) is a beautiful calligraphic coffee shop script family, complete with dingbats.

In 2016, Sofia published the upright unconnected script family Culinary at Latinotype. Culinary Script is the connected version, and Culinary Borders is a delightful addition. Furniture design inspired Sofia to design Hogar (2016, Latinotype), which comes in Sans, Script and Dingbat subfamilies. See also Hogar Slab (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Aromatica (retro connected monoline script and accompanying sans, Latinotype), Estampa Script (a high contrast formal connected script typeface that inherits elements from copperplate and didone; at Latinotype).

Typefaces from 2018: Mohr Rounded ( a rounded humanist sans published by Latinotype), Blauth (a rounded small x-height sans family), Amazonia Script (MyFonts link for Amazonia), Mohr (a large sans family published by Latinotype).

Typefaces from 2019: Moranga (a warm heavy sans; she writes that its design is a mixture between Café Brasil's flowing, organic shapes and elements from popular fonts from the seventies such as Cooper and Souvenir), Cookery (a useful brush pen script, released at Los Andes).

Typefaces from 2020: Anguita Sans (a 16-style condensed sans), Aguila (a sharp-edged Peignotian family of 9 fonts), Mangueira (a geometric sans with wide welcoming counters).

Typefaces from 2021: Singolare (a five-style geometric sans supplemented with a gaggle of stencil fonts and some layerable styles), Amarela Stencil. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Soft Creative
[Muhajir Akarim]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the script fonts Frelline Script (a brush script) (2020), Willgets Calligraphy (formal style) (2021), Everytime Script (2020: wild calligraphy) and Dagestan (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Sugar Garden (a calligraphic script), Gritalina Script (a wild calligraphic script), Western Brushes (a font duo). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Solid Type
[Riski Firmana]

Aceh and Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of these calligraphic typefaces in 2018: Gredom, Mostin (a strong all caps headline sans), Berthilda Script, Solidar (a fine connected calligraphic script), Alesand (free), Virmana Script, Feelsmooth, Sarisha Script, Aneisha Script, Stay Classy (free), Staychill (dry brush), Albertyna Script, Rosabelia Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Lunarie, Shington Script (wild calligraphy), Halfesika Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Granelly Script, Denita Script (a formal calligraphic scruipt with a serious slope), Bargiery (formal calligraphy), Darshye Script (formal calligraphy), Gistela (script), Boldka Script (a supermarket or packaging script), Khalifah Script (formal calligraphic), Stay Chill (a dry brush script), Achelan Script (a formal script), Brillany, Cowboy Strong, Certhian Script (an upright script), Khamden Script, Mealsika Script, Antura Script (formal calligraphy), Federica Script, Mathovia Script (a vintage script), Grettana (script), Distor, Arethia (formal calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2021: Cherrine, Kaneishia Script (wild and calligraphic), Cential Script (a retro signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Solotype
[Dan X. Solo]

Dover Press sold Oakland's Dan X. Solo's digitizations. Dan Solo (b. 1928, d. 2012) has collected over 13,000 sets of metal fonts, starting when he was 9 years old and growing up in Oakland, CA. Finally, in 2002, he stopped doing that and began converting all of his fonts to computer type. Solotype, his company, was established in Alameda, CA. He printed 30 books on fonts (with Dover), including The Solotype catalog of 4,147 display typefaces, and created hundreds of fonts. In 2007, Dan Solo retired from the font business. He died in 2012.

Robert Trogman writes: I know Dan X. Solo personally. He ran a typographic studio in Berkeley for over 30 years. He had a large collection of film fonts, including some of my own. He created thousands of fonts and is now retired and is an avocational prestigitator. Copyrights have run out on most of his fonts. He also protected himself by creating pseudonyms on the questionable font names. Stuart Sandler confirms that many of the fonts in Solo's Dover books are in fact from the Filmotype collection, which Stuart is digitizing right now.

Gene Gable writes: Dan Solo of Solotype in Berkeley was experimenting with photo type as early as 1945 and started doing optical special effects in the early '60s. And a number of the larger display-type shops developed their own techniques. But in terms of opening up new markets for display type (and giving designers more control over type setting), Visual Graphics and Letraset lead the way. These companies were proud of, and promoted, the fact that that their products could be used by non-typesetters with little training.

Bio. He wrote about himself: Dan X. Solo The Solotype Archive was begun in 1942 when I was 14. I was a kid printer for several years before that. At 16, after a quick three months of training, I dropped out of school and went to work full time as a radio actor and announcer in San Francisco. (Easy to get jobs in those days, due to the war-induced manpower shortage.) In 1949 and 1950, I created a magic show which played West Coast theatres with some success. After that, back to broadcasting. By 1962, I was completely burned out on radio, so I decided to see if I could make a living with my collection of antique types, which numbered about a thousand fonts at that time. In 1962, I sent out 4,000 catalogs showing the type to ad agencies all over the U.S. The timing was perfect (no thanks to me) because there was developing at that time a renewed interest in the old types. Business took off immediately. The Solotype collection was one of four commercial collections at the time, but I seemed to have been more aggressive in marketing than the other chaps. (Well, Morgan Press certainly knew how to market.) Two years into the business, I began to collect alphabets on paper for conversion to photo lettering, which was just becoming mainstream in the type business. We closed the shop for a month every year and went on a type hunt, mostly in Europe where there didn't seem to be much competition among collectors. Other typographers couldn't understand how we could do this, but I believe it made people appreciate the resource we offered even more. Over the years, the collection became quite large. When I closed Solotype a couple of years ago, I got rid of about half the archive (because the fonts were dull, or already digitized, or for a variety of other reasons) leaving me with about 6,000 fonts on paper or film. In 1974, I began to supply Dover Publications with mechanicals for books of 100 alphabets on a particular theme. I did 30 of these books over the years, and 30 more of printers' ornaments, borders, and so forth. Sometime in the 1990s, Dover asked me to digitize books of 24 fonts each, to be sold with a disk in the back. I did 12 of these. The Dover relationship came to an end when Hayward Cirker, the owner and my special friend, died and the company was sold to another publisher. Dover felt that they had covered the type field thoroughly. Now in my old age, my wife and I have a mindreading act that is great fun and good for the ego. Even so, when not traveling, I digitize type for relaxation and enjoyment, but have made no effort to sell it. Until now.

Solo's wood type/Western/ headline/ Victorian collection includes Acantha, Bindweed, Dime Museum (2004, a French Clarendon revived by ATF in 1933 under the name P.T. Barnum), Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Rigney, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Brevet (after a Victorian typeface from 1887 by Ernst Lauschke), Brussels, Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dutch Treat, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade (1992, a Victorian face after an 1890 original called Mural by Boston Type Foundry), Trixie, Valerie, Valjean, and Zorro. Alaska is based on an 1890 design of Marder, Luse and co. Arcade imitates an 1888 design of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler. Bamboo (oriental simulation face) is based on a 1889 creation of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler. Behrens Antiqua and Behrens schrift are revival of early 20th century typefaces by Peter Behrens. Eccentric is a digitization of a 1898 arts and crafts typeface by Kingsley/ATF. Hansard is a revival of a display type published in 1887 by MacKellar, Smiths,&Jordan. Pekin is a digitization of a face, first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 and issued by Barnhart Bros.&Spindler foundry in Chicago under the name Dormer, and revived by them in 1923 under the name Pekin. Charles Henry Beeler made a condensed sans serif issued by Mackellar, Smiths&Jordan foundry in 1887: it was digitally revived as Roundhead. Monument is a revival of a 1893 typeface by the Boston Type Foundry, but was also cast at the Central Type Foundry. Vienna Light is a delicate early 1900s type originally created by the German foundry of Schelter&Gieseke. Other designs: Bareback, Campaign (ca. 1970), Cigar Label (1997), Estienne, Farringdon (a western face), Goodfellow (digitization of wood type from 1895 found at Hamilton and probably due to W.H. Page), Harlem Text (blackletter), Houdini (ca. 1992), Memorial, Quadrille 2 (a simplified Tuscan face), Sparticus, Vanities (a Victorian type), Whirligig.

In 2005, MyFonts added Seminary (after a Victorian font from 1885 by Bruce Type Foundry), Margie (formal script based on Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry vormalig Brüder Butter, 1920s), Fancy Dan, Bamberg (2005, after a condensed wood type from ca. 1850), Fat Face No. 20, French Ionic (quite ugly--based on an 1870 Clarendon derivative by the Cincinnati Type Foundry), Hearst Italic (based on a 1904 typeface by Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry), Hearst Roman (based on a typeface from the Inland Type Foundry allegedly stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy, acccording to Goudy himself), Tally Text (early photolettering type of the comic book style), Welcome 1 (based on Van Loey-Nouri's art nouveau typeface from 1900). A list of some digitized fonts:

Art Deco: Advertisers Gothic Light, Alex, Beverly Hills, Boul Mich, Capone Light, Chic (after Morris Fuller Benton's Chic, 1927), Clyde, Eagle Bold, Eagle Narrow, Eden Bold, Eden Light, French Flash, Gallia, Graybar Book, Grock, Matra, Modernique (art deco), Parasol, Parisian, Phoenix American, Plaza Suite, Publicity Gothic, Salut, Stymie Obelisk, Zeppelin.
Victorian: Anglo, Arboret, Campanile, Chorus Girl, Fancy Celtic, Ferdinand, Floral Latin, Glorietta, Grant Antique, Gutenberg, Hogarth, Jagged, Katherine Bold, Lafayette, Meisteringer, Olympian, Phidian, Ringlet (1998, a Victorian typeface after an 1882 original by Hermann Ihlenburg), Romanesque, Rubens, Stereopticon, Templar, Wedlock, Zinco.
Script/Cursive: Amapola, Artists Script, Carpenters Script, Certificate Script, Commercial Script, Conway (an architectural script), Elegance, Engrossing Script, Figaro, Flare, Gloria Script, Hanover, Helvetica Cursive, Holly, Kunsteler Bold, Liberty, Manuscript, Orion Script, Pantagraph Script (+No2, +No3), Park Avenue, Romany Script, Trafton Script, Typo Upright, University Script, Virginia Antique.
Art Nouveau: Ambrosia, Argus, Artistik, Auriol, Baldur, Bocklin, Cabaret (2003, as in Murder She Wrote), Carmen, Childs, Edda Black, Excelsior, Francomia, Giraldon, Harrington, Isadora, Metropolitan, Murillo, Oceana, Odessa, Orbit Antique, Palmetto (2005; an art nouveau typeface based on a 1887 typeface called Palm from the A.D. Farmer Foundry), Siegfried, Skjald, Spartana, Titania.
Gothic/Medieval: Academy Text, American Uncial, Antique Black, Becker Bold, Bradley, Castlemar, Celebration Text Fancy, Church Text, Engravers Old English, Frederick Text, Freehand, Hingham Text, Initials-Bradley and Caxton, Kanzlei Light, Lautenbach, Lautenbach Fancy Caps, Libra, Morris Black, Nicholini Broadpen, Rhapsodie Swash Caps, Scottford Uncial, Solemnis, Washington Text, Wedding Text.
Celtic: Anglo Text, Camden Text, Chappel Text, Cimbrian, Colchester Black, Durer Gothic, Durwent, Fenwick, Genzsch Initials, Gloucester Initials, Gutenberg Gothic, Hansa Gothic, Harrowgate, Kaiser Gothic, Kings Cross, Konisburg, Malvern, Medici Text, Middlesex, Progressive Text, Tudor Text, Warwick, Westminster Gothic, Yonkers.
Special-Effects Display Fonts: Azteca Condensed, Buddha (oriental simulation face, after a Schelter&Giesecke type), Burst, Campaign (1970), Chinatown (oriental simulation), Cigar Label (1997-2002), Colonial Dame, Contract Banner (2004, a take on Mezzotint from 1880), Direction, Fillet, Filmstar (1999), Firebug, Headhunter, Hollywood Lights, Igloo Solid, Import, Lariat, Needlepoint, Old Glory, Protest, Rustic, Scimitar (Arabic simulation face), Scoreboard, Skyline, Starburst, Sundown Shadow, Tableau, Tonight, Xerxes.
Other: Acantha, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Bindweed, Brevet (after a Victorian original by Ernst Laushke, 1887), Brussels (positioned inbetween Stephenson Blake's Flemish Expanded and Flemish Condensed), Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dime Museum, Dutch Treat, Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade, Rigney, Trixie, Valerie, Zorro.

Images of selected typefaces: Agency Gothic, Alpha Midnight, Alpha Twilight, Anita Lightface (1977), Art Deco Display Alphabets, Ashley Crawford, Ashley Inline, Astur, Bamberg, Banco, Beans, Blackline, Bobo Bold, Braggadocio, Broadway Engraved, Busorama Bold, Busorama Light, Bust, Charger, Checkmate, Colonel Hoople, Corral, Dudley P Narrow, Dynamo, Earth (a futuristic / prismatic typeface revived by nick Curtis in 2015 as Terranova NF), Eclipse, Empire, Ewie, Fat Cat, Fatso, Festival, Futura Black, Futura Inline, Gillies Gothic Bold, Greeting Monotone, Grooviest Gothic, Hess Neobold, Hotline, Huxley Vertical, Inkwell Black, Joanna Solotype, Joyce Black, Koloss, Lampoon, Mania, Mania Contour A, Mania Contour B, Margit, Mindy Highlight, Modernistic, Monograms Stencil, Mossman, Neon, Neuland (+Inline), Phosphor, Piccadilly, Pickfair, Polly, Prismania P, Quote, Rhythm Bold, Shady Deal, Sheet Steel, Sinaloa.

The Solotype Catalog is a file with information on Dan Solo's typefaces, annotated with remarks about name equivalences and digitizations. The original file was due to Thibaudeau, but typophiles on alt.binaries.fonts have added to it in 2010. PDF version. Excel version. Text version. See also here.

Sophie Larivière

During her studies at ESAG Penninghen, Paris-based Sophie Larivière created tthe calligraphic display typeface Pièce Montée in 2015. Earlier, she made a handcrafted typeface and a connected script, Ecriture Epistolaire (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sophie Saxo

Designer and calligrapher from Sweden, who specializes in script and calligraphic typefaces. In 2018, she published Wilma, Olina, Northwest Campston, Raila, Moccem, Jorgen, Lagom, Minka, Paolo Nola, Helma, Wilson, Benjamin, Wolen, Sven, Kirka, Sonia, Norell, Leona, Miana, Fletcher, Minacht, Jadenson, Bonsoir Script Camira, Grazia, Moland, Demila, Mohen, Micca.

Typefaces from 2019: Kate Olson, Molci LaPayne, Milam, Sigmond, LaShaye, Olason, Haley, Roscher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Spencerian Script typeface

A calligraphic copperplate typeface by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan. For a digital revival, see Opti Swallow (Castcraft, 1990-1991). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sron Studio
[Muhamad Yusron Billah]

Purwakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996).

Typefaces from 2021: Walkout (script), Just Overthink (a scrapbook script), Always Lovely (hand-printed), Tropical Country (an inky script), Daniela Charming (script_, Magical Spring (script), Spring Plum (bold and hand-printed), Romland (a brush script), Gasthony Signature, Hastery Signature, Magista Brush (a dry brush script), Rustling Sound (an inky script), Maghony (Peignotian caps), Romantic Lovely (a wild calligraphic script), Magical Snow (a fat finger font), Mistery Heart (calligraphic), Merciful Heart, The Snowday (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2020: Wintersing, Delight Coffee, Cold Outside (script), Snow Bright, Winterhome, Winter Song, Sunday Snow, Secret Winter (a wild script), October Story, Raffaello (a wild inky script), Pumpkin Story, Sunday Smoothie, Koe Benson, Barlista (an inky wide calligraphic script), Lovely Sister, Sandy House, Magistone, Delight Cookies, Baby Pumpkin, Warmesty (a creamy high contrast script), Nice Dream, Margenta (a wild calligraphic font), Pashmina (a wild inky script), Almond Whisp (a rabbit ear script), Milkhouse, Pretty Animal, Pretty Smile, Scary Vampire, September Twilight (a rabbit ear script), Fresh Cocktails, White Bowling, Homeday, Krispy Panda, East Watch, Hippotamia, Light In Brush, Kabut Hitam, Paris Tonight, Gilmour.

Typefaces from 2019: the handcrafted typefaces Winter Festival, Big Points, Handsnow, Light Brighter (dry brush script), Hasting, Singletone, Walkout, The Plumber, Signeritta, Scatter Ink, Sheridan, The Sopher, Darmogo, Aisha Blush, Vista La Diva, Shelma&Hugie (Sans, Script), Synthia, Month Glade, Anastacy, Ragland, Capappa, (a Treefrog style script), Tantinotes (a scrapbook script), Amourist, Handita, Ramland, Hugos (a dry brush typeface), Displatter, Kaileigh, Handsel, Oliver Notes, Sunday Vibes, Saturday Vibes, Friday Vibes, Monday Vibes (brush script), Tuesday Vibes, Wednesday Vibes, Thursday Vibes, Bombinate, Gallatone (a great inky script), Aliquest, Watercoral, The Brittany.

Typefaces from 2018: The Brittany (a script with irregular stress, accompanied by sans and serif styles), Better Caramel (a font trio), Appocalypse (a great signature font), Millano, Lilypaly, Baltimore (a signature font), Dalmatins (for signatures), Martinesse, Blesson (a signature font), Bluebell (calligraphic), The Grateful, a monoline script), Black Butter, The Consultant, Violette, Hiroshima (a monoline handwriting font), Bellatrix, Rahayu (a signature font), Chiko, Kingsley (formal calligraphy), and Lillylucky. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stain Ink Graphics

Based in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Stain Ink Graphics created the free vector format calligraphic graffiti-inspired titling font Blackmark (2014). They also made the poster typeface Evil Font (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

Stanislav Chiganov

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic calligraphic typeface Antarctic (2018) and the Latin / Cyrillic skyline typeface Journalism (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Stasy Font
[Muhammad Akbar]

Aka Akbarmeasalaro. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based calligrapher and designer, b. 1981, of mostly calligraphic or connected script typefaces. He ran Tone Studio, Triotone and Sinfa, and most recently, he set up Stasy Font in 2020. On Dafont, his location is East Kalimantan, not Sumatra, though. In 2020, he released Aurum (a bold script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stef Elmrabet

Stef Elmrabet Mustapha is the Casablanca / Rabat, Morocco, and now Bari, Italy-based designer of The King (2014, free calligraphic script), Branco Script (2014) and Lonely Brush (2014). He also designed some icons in 2014.

In 2015, he created the script typeface Alia and the brush script Siviana.

Behance link. Aka Stefano, as Stef El Mrabet, and as TOP Design. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stefan Schlesinger

Stefan Schlesigner was born in Vienna in 1896. He moved to the Netherlands in 1925, where he worked for Van Houten's chocolate, Metz department store, printing firm Trio and many other clients. He died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944. His typefaces:

Rondo (1948), at the Lettergieterij, co-designed with Dick Dooijes (published in 1948 after Schlesinger's death). Rondo Bold is from 1954. Mecanorma later added Rondo to its (phototype) library. For digital versions, see Castcraft's OPTI Rondo, Minuet (2007, Canada Type's version of Rondo), and Mecanorma's Rondo.
The Western "italienne" slab serif font Hidalgo (1939, Lettergieterij Amsterdam). Canada Type explains: In the late 1930s, old Egyptiennes (or Italiennes) returned to the collective consciousness of European printers and type houses, especially in France where Le Figaro newspaper was seeing record circulation numbers. In 1939 both Monotype and Lettergieterij Amsterdam thought of the same idea: Make a new typeface similar to the reverse stress slab shapes that make up the titles of newspapers like Le Figaro and Le Frondeur. Both foundries intended to call their new type Figaro. Monotype finished theirs first, so they ended up with the name, and their type was already published when Stefan Schlesinger finished his take for the Amsterdam foundry. Schlesinger's type was renamed Hidalgo (Spanish for a lower nobleman, son of something) and published in 1940 as "a very happy variation on an old motif". Although it wasn't a commercial success at the time, it was well received and considered subtler and more refined than the similar types available, Figaro and Playbill. In the Second World War, the Germans banned the use of the type, and Hidalgo never really recovered. In 2017, Hans van Maanen (Canada Type) revived and expanded Hidalgo as Basilio.
Superba.
He was working on the calligraphic script typeface Saranna (1941). As explained by Canada Type: The story of Serena is a unique one among revivals. Serena was neither a metal typeface nor a film one. In fact it never went anywhere beyond Stefan Schlesinger's 1940-41 initial sketches (which he called Saranna). A year later, while working with Dick Dooijes on the Rondo typeface, Schlesinger was sent to a concentration camp where he died, along with any material prospects for the gorgeous letters he'd drawn. The only sketches left of Schlesinger's Saranna work are found in the archives of the Drukkerij Trio (the owner of which was Schlesinger's brother-in-law). The sketches were done in pencil and ink over pencil on four sheets of paper. And now Hans van Maanen revives Schlesinger's spirit as closely as the drawings permit. Hans Van Maanen thus digitized Serena (2007, Canada Type's take on Saranna). Malou Osendarp is also working on a revival of Saranna.
At Future Fonts, Diana Ovezea and Sabina Chipara published Bizzarrini. Diana Ovezea writes about the wonderful Bizzarrini: Though the idea originates from a Stefan Schlesinger ad sketch for a Paris couture house, we straightened up this typeface and made it seem engineered and sharp. It gets its name from the Bizzarrini Manta, a wedge-shaped concept car designed in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Bizzarrini has extremely long wedge serifs. Following Schlesinger's sketch, it features very tall capitals with an out-of proportion middle-line (very big heads on S, B and R).

Author of Voorbeelden van Moderne Opschriften voor Schilders en Tekenaars (NV Kosmos, Amsterdam). Cherries.

Stefani Letter
[Stefani Tri Rosa Setiati Christiana]

Indonesian designer of the script or scrapbook typefaces Grufy (an urban font inspired by graffiti) (2022), Vallino (a Valentine's Day scrapbook font) (2022), Alothea (a high contrast hand-printed beauty) (2021), Valensa (a bean script) (2021), Christmas Snowflake (a starry script) (2021), Bartolomeus (script) (2021), Hello Snow Swash (snow-capped letters) (2021), Simple Christmas (2021: a fat finger font), Christmas Letter (a fat finger script) (2021), Christmas Soul (a monolinear scrapbook script) (2021), Jolly Angel (a scrapbook font) (2021), Shooting Star (a fat finger font) (2021), Unicorn Couple (a bold scrapbook font) (2021), Dino Play (a children's book font) (2021), Sweet Aloha (a brush font) (2021), Hillona (a monolinear script) (2021), Ladylord (a Treefrog script) (2021), Spellbound (a wild script) (2021), Thankmom (a curly script) (2021), Candlelight Dinner (wild, calligraphic) (2021), Michael Signature (2021), Just Simple (a fat finger font) (2021), Spring Has Come (a wild script) (2021), Romantic Blossom (a great inky or Treefrog script) (2021), Dayana (a great wild calligraphic typeface) (2021), Easter Wishes (a fat finger font) (2021), Melukis Senja (2021), Sweet Valentine (2021), Denada (2020), Cristiano (2020), Rafandra (a wild script) (2020), Christmas Sheep (2020), Gerallydine (2020), Christmas Signature (an inky calligraphic script) (2020), Raffaello (a wild inky script) (2020), Merry Christmas Baby (2020), Baby Chipmunk (2020), Angel Cry (2020), Sweet Macarons (a fat finger font) (2020), Cuddle Bunny (2020: a fat finger font), Sweet Affogato (2020), Black Love Pink (2020), Ondemande (2020: an inky Treefrog script), Barachiel Alternate (2020), Moolfy (2020), Fadella (a monoline script), Love America (2020), Spooky Party (2020), Rotterdam Bridge (2020), Defitta (2020), Allofera (2020), Christmas Holiday (2020), Ottbelix (2020), Bethania (2020), Steffinella (2020), Welcome Summer (2020), Christmas Holiday (2020), Meoowly (2020), Summer Miracle (2020: wild calligraphy), Lets Coorgi (2020), Mikhaella (2020), Sweet Unicorn (2020), Sweetfy (2020), Boomolla (2020), Carlottena (2020), and Queen Bee (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stefani Tri Rosa Setiati Christiana
[Stefani Letter]

Stefano Giliberti
[Brumale]

Stephan Brechtl

Author of Ein gruenndtlich Formular manncherley Art Lateinischer und Teutscher Handschrifften (1550, Nuremberg), the first writing manual in Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stephanus Bagus Saputra

Indonesian designer (Bionez Mediantara, Bekasi) of the free calligraphic typeface Agnez Lovely (2013). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stephanus Prabowo
[Andrey Font Design]

Stephen Miggas
[Aerotype]

Stephen Rapp

American calligrapher, letterer, and type designer (b. 1953, Indianapolis, IN) located in Lakewood, OH, and/or Kent, OH. As a lettering artist for American Greetings since 2000, he has designed and developed numerous proprietary fonts. He specializes in beautiful script typefaces. Stephen's commercial fonts can be found in both Veer and P22/IHOF collections. Creator of these fonts:

Baghadeer (2013). A very tall ronde typeface.
Bramble (2005, P22): an organic hand-printed font family.
ChaiTea (2007, P22): a flowing script.
Chatter: hand lettering for a card design that was both humorous and trendy. Proprietary.
DeSoto (2009-2012) is a family of four engraved typefaces based on a few letters from a 1958 DeSoto magazine ad. Joe Newton at Veer created butterfly ornaments and swashes.
Hiatus (2010-2013): a connected chancery hand.
Hollie Hobbie: proprietary hand-printed face.
Memoir (2008): an elegant connected script.
Montague Script (2008): a connected calligraphic brush script that won a "Certificate of Excellence in Type Design" award in the 55th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition and an award at TDC2 2009. In 2014, it was followed by Montague Script Bold.
New Cuisine (2012). Sure to be a winner, this upright signage script oozes warmth and charm.
Rani script: 2009, upright connected script) from 2009.
Shoebop (2006, 2012): retro connected lettering / signage face.
Slapjack (2013). A broad-edged calligraphic script.
Tai Chi (2003, P22): a calligraphic oriental simulation font.
Custom fonts by Rapp were created for American Greetings, AGI and a few private clients. As of 2014, they include Longhand Plain&Swash, Chick Flick, Ciao Bella, AGI Typewriter, AGI Serif, AGI Hand, Chickadee, Madeline, Rough Draft Pro, Cafe Noire, Cantoni Pro, Milk and Honey, Line Dance and Vickery Script.
Typefaces from 2015: Spry Roman.
Typefaces from 2016: Solantra (a great script).

Stephen Raw

Stephen Raw shows his calligraphic creations at Letterforms. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stereo Type France
[Damien Raymond]

French designer at Stereotype of the happy wino dingbat typeface Fleur aux Dents. Download it at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stereotype (was: Zone Erogene, or Dasklem)
[Clément Nicolle]

Stereotype is Clément Nicolle's web outfit. He designed these (free) fonts between 2004-2006: 3grammes5, BagpackDemo (grunge), Base02 and Base05 (grunge; this one dates from 2009 though), FrakturikaDemo, Fleur Aux Dents (happy dingbats, by Damien Raymond), Barrio 30 (degraded stencil face), Heroin07 (2008, grunge), Base 05 (stitching font), Madredeus, MarcelleScript, MarcelleSwashes, MigraineSans, MigraineSerif, Perestroika (Cyrillic font simulation), Petiote, Phonetica, Reclame, Sodium'76. Fleur aux Dents was designed by Damien Raymond. Today (2008) is a connected diner style script. Morgenstern (2008) is a wiry font.

Dasklem (Zone Erogene) was a French foundry (est. 2002) in Nancy also founded by Clément Nicolle. At Dasklem, he created nice typefaces (with repetitions from the list already mentioned above) such as Frakturika (2004), Phonetica (2003, a semi-phonetic unicase face), C'dans l'air, Irreversible, Migraine Sans (2002), Migraine Serif (2002, unicase), Fleur aux Dents (dingbats by Damien Raymond), 3 Grammes 5 (2002), Arriere Garde (2002), Base 02 (2002), Perestroika (Russian simulation face), Petiote (2003, pixel face), Marcelle (2004, fifties style baseball script), Madredeus, ReclameDingbats, Bagpack (grunge), Barrio 30 (grunge), Morgenstern (electrical circuit font), Today (2008, signage script), Heroin 07 (2008, grunge), Base 05 (2009, grunge).

The most recent typefaces: Bugeater (2013, textured typeface), Docktrin (2014, a spurred letterpress-style typeface), Huntress (2015, grungy letterpress style), Wasted (2015, a connected retro script), Bakery (2015, curly script), Bernadette (2016, signage script), Master of Break (2016, free signage script), Magnolia Sky (2016, a wonderfully irregular curly script), Marguerite (2016, signage script), Beyond The Mountains (2016), Mark My Words (2016), Thinking of Betty (2016, retro signage script), Bernadette (2016), Thinking Of Betty (2016, a retro signage script), Bernadette Rough (2017), Work In Progress (2017), Mustardo (2017, signage script), Gloss And Bloom (2017, dry brush), La Guapita (calligraphic), Rose of Baltimore (calligraphic), Broadcast Matter (2017, dry brush script), Mocking Bird (2017, signage script), Hotel de Paris (2017, beveled), Julietta (2017, script based on the lettering of Stéphane Lopes), Meat Buckets (2017, a nervous signage script), Strawberry Blossom (2018: script), Jasmine and Greentea (2018: script), Grand Adventure (2018: script), Silver Charm (2018: script), The Breakdown (2018: script), Rosetta Black (2018: brush style), Rosetta Color (2018: SVG color font), The Perfect Christmas (2018: a starry font), Strawberry Blossom (2019: watercolor brush), Madame (2019: signage script), Mollywood (2019), Badass Moon (2019), Rotten Mangos (2019: made from a fudenosuke brush pen; a renaming of Badass Moon?), Snowballs (2019: Magnolia Sky with snowflakes), Mondaine.

Typefaces from 2020: Yellowstone (an inky script), Holly and Berries (a Christmas font), Halloweek (a dripping blood font).

Typefaces from 2021: Bergamote (script), Leaves&Ground.

Older (dead) URL. Dafont link. The foundry survives as Stereo Type (since about 2005). Another Dafont link. Yet another link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Steve Deffeyes
[Deffeyes Design]

Stiggy & Sands
[Jim Lyles]

Stiggy & Sands is the Arvada, CO-based type foundry of Brian "Stiggy" Bonislawsky and Jim "Sands" Lyles, est. 2013. Their first commercial typefaces, all jointly designed, are Sante Pro (2013, a tall upright connected script), Rum Raisin (2013, inspired by the lettering from a vintage Kellogg's Raisin Bran cereal box), Maiden Orange (2013), Luckiest Softie Pro (2013, a rounded comic book typeface that was inspired by hand-lettered vintage 1950s advertisement), Smokum Pro (2013, a Western typeface), Carioca Script Pro (2013, inspired by the lettering on the RCA Records Stereo Action Series in the 1960s), Uncial Antiqua Pro (2013), Spicy Rice Pro (2013: psychedelic or disco), Ultra Pro (2013: a Clarendon or wood style slab serif), Quintessential Pro (2013: calligraphic), Bruno Ace Pro (a techno/automoive font, followed in 2018 by Bruno Ace Pro Rounded), Aclonica Pro (2013), Special Elite Pro (grungy typewriter), Audiowide Pro (2013: organic techno face), Peralta Pro (2013: a bouncy cartoon font), Englebert (2013: inspired by the title screen of the 1930s film Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich), McLaren Pro (2013: comic book style), Galindo (2013: a comic book typeface with square counters), Margarine Pro (2013), Righteous Pro (2013), Mouse Memoirs Pro (2013, cartoonish), Risque Pro (2013, funky style), Luckiest Guy Pro (a fat comic book font based on vintage 1950s ads), Original Surfer Pro (2013, an an offbeat sans serif font bursting at the seams with lively personality. Inspired by a vintage advertisement for the California Cliffs Caravan Park, this font exudes all of the fun of a summer vacation anytime of the year), and Marcellus Pro (a flared roman inscriptional typeface with both upper and lower case, originally published in 2012 by Astigmatic; CTAN page).

Typefaces from 2014: Purple Purse Pro (an offbeat didone based on a vintage Ivory Soap ad from the fifties).

Typefaces from 2015: Shojumaru (an oriental simulation font inspired by a movie poster for the 1957 film titled Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando), Sacramento (connected script), Bazaruto (a decorative set of typefaces inspired by wrought iron, Letters and Lettering by Carlyle and Oring, and didones), Maiden Orange Inline Pro.

Typefaces from 2016: Syncopate Pro (unicase), Kapture (a great romantic script), Stint Pro (slab serif spanning condensed to expanded widths), Grand Hotel Pro (upright connected script), Ribeye Pro, Shojumaru Pro (oriental style), Freckle Face Pro.

Typefaces from 2017: Dear Sans (rounded sans family), Glorious Song (a display serif typestyle that was inspired by the poster lettering for the 1948 movie Words and Music), Montez Pro.

Typefaces from 2018: Croft (a revival of Lewis Buddy III's ATF classic, Roycroft, 1912), Navarone (a Greek simulation font inspired by the titling sequence of the 1962 movie "The Guns of Navarone"), Distressed Telegraph (based on the typewriter font Large Elite Type No. 44), Gimbel Script (a tall monolinear upright vintage script), Bigelow Rules Pro (a beatnik font), Eagle Lake Pro, Husk (a digitization and extension of a film typeface called Maile by LetterGraphics), Boilermaker (a digitization and extension of a film typeface from LetterGraphics dubbed Flair G100), Eagle Lake (calligraphic), Bruno Ace.

Typefaces from 2019: Fascinate Pro (a soft-shelled art deco typeface), Artisinal (an art deco typeface that revives John W. Zimmerman's Cubist Bold from 1928). Modulate (a blocky modular typeface), Lorette (based on the film font Laurel from LetterGraphics), Quandor (based on the Lettergraphics film font Impacta), Magnate (a digitization of the film typeface Wilshire from LetterGraphics), Toastie (based on the film font Flair 312 by Lettergraphics), Latitude Sans (a heavy sans based on Lettergraphics' Free).

Typefaces from 2020: Bugleboy (this font family revives and expands the film font Wood Grotesk by LetterGraphics), Berkshire Pro (a plump display typeface), Mervale Script Pro (a brush script originally done in 2012 at astigmatic One Eye).

Typefaces from 2021: Huerto (a geometric angular sans), Pennyroyal Pro (an elephant feet font with irregular outlines), Pennyroyal (an elephant foot almost cutout font).

Typefaces from 2022: Pardner (a hand-painted spaghetti Western font).

MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stipline Studios (was: Fittingline Type Supply, or: Apon Bahrainy)
[Teuku Marjan Bahrainy]

Aka Aponjohn and FLStudio and Fittingline Type Supply and Apon Bahrainy and Teuku Bahrainy, est. 2015. Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of the fifties style connected calligraphic script typeface Guarddilla (2016), the calligraphic Ayunda (2016), Eye Catcher (2016) and Callpedia Script (2016), Callpedia Sans (2016), Elfa Brush (2016), and the handwriting fonts Malaga Diary (2016) and Feelter (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Story of Butterfly (rough brush script), Fabitha Script (elegant and upright), Jet Seat Script (hairline), Saythis Script (formal calligraphy), Nafigat Script (calligraphic), Staylish Script (upright calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2018: Milestone (a signature font).

Typefaces from 2019: Anna Marseinta (calligraphic script), Aidercy (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Ahsan Sinta (a wild calligraphic script), Notulen Serif Display [inside the font, we learn that the designer is in fact Sarwo Edi], Timphan Brush (a wonderful rough brush script), Mabista Script (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2021: Nurbaya Script (calligraphic), Kalimat Script (a painted script).

Behance link for Teuku Bahraini. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stirling H. Alexander
[AcuteType]

STIX Fonts
[Ross Mills]

Non-profit free font project, which started in 2001. The (free) fonts were released in May 2010. The designer is Ross Mills, Tiro Typeworks Ltd, with portions copyright of MicroPress Inc., and with final additions and corrections provided by Coen Hoffman, Elsevier (retired). From the web page: The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists, students, and the general public.

The project is supported by six publishers, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

The fonts are unicode-compatible. They are designed to be useful for mathematical documents in XML pages on all browsers. They say that they have awarded the font development contract to a respected font development company. Press release. Chairman: T.C. Ingoldsby, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY. AMS page on STIX. CTAN page on Stix.

In 2016, STIX Two, a major update, became available at CTAN. The letterspacing and kerning of the text fonts have been significantly improved. True small capital variants (Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek), accessible via the OpenType font feature smcp, have been added for all text fonts. Text (lowercase or oldstyle) numerals, available via the font features pnum and onum, have been added, in addition to natural-spacing figures. Alphabetic superscripts and numeric sub- and superscripts, accessible via the subs and sups font features, have been added. Fractions are available via the frac feature, as well as numerators (numr) and denominators (dnom). The STIX Two fonts consist of one Math font, two variable text fonts (STIXTwoTextVF-Roman and STIXTwoTextVF-Italic), and eight static text fonts (Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, SemiBold, SemiBold Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic) derived from the variable fonts.

Truetype versions of the family (2007) by Oleguer Huguet Ibars: STIXGeneral-Bold, STIXGeneral-BoldItalic, STIXGeneral-Italic, STIXGeneral, STIXIntegralsDisplay-Bold, STIXIntegralsDisplay, STIXIntegralsSmall-Bold, STIXIntegralsSmall, STIXIntegralsUp-Bold, STIXIntegralsUp, STIXIntegralsUpDisplay-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpDisplay, STIXIntegralsUpSmall-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpSmall, STIXNonUnicode-Bold, STIXNonUnicode-BoldItalic, STIXNonUnicode-Italic, STIXNonUnicode, STIXSize1Symbols-Bold, STIXSize1Symbols, STIXSize2Symbols-Bold, STIXSize2Symbols, STIXSize3Symbols-Bold, STIXSize3Symbols, STIXSize4Symbols-Bold, STIXSize4Symbols, STIXSize5Symbols, STIXVariants-Bold, STIXVariants.

OpenType versions at the official site: STIXGeneral-Regular, STIXGeneral-Bold, STIXGeneral-BoldItalic, STIXGeneral-Italic, STIXIntegralsD-Bold, STIXIntegralsD-Regular, STIXIntegralsSm-Bold, STIXIntegralsSm-Regular, STIXIntegralsUp-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpD-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpD-Regular, STIXIntegralsUp-Regular, STIXIntegralsUpSm-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpSm-Regular, STIXNonUnicode-Regular, STIXNonUnicode-Bold, STIXNonUnicode-BoldItalic, STIXNonUnicode-Italic, STIXSizeFiveSym-Regular, STIXSizeFourSym-Bold, STIXSizeFourSym-Regular, STIXSizeOneSym-Bold, STIXSizeOneSym-Regular, STIXSizeThreeSym-Bold, STIXSizeThreeSym-Regular, STIXSizeTwoSym-Bold, STIXSizeTwoSym-Regular, STIXVariants-Regular, STIXVariants-Bold. Not all unicode ranges are covered, but math symbols, Greek and Cyrillic are. There are also monospace, blackletter, calligraphic scipt, informal script, and sans styles. But small caps are still missing. The general look is that of a Times font. The fact that any publisher can use these fonts free of charge (after signing a license though) is positive. The main negative is that the style chosen is slightly boring, but that is not unexpected for scientific publications.

In 2018, Paul Hanslow, Ross Mills and John Hudson co-designed the free STIX Two family, which is based on Times Roman.

At this CTAN site, one can download the entire STIX collection. Designer URL: MicroPress Inc. STIX Two (type 1) at the CTAN site. STIX Two (OpenType) at the CTAN site.

Also worth pointing out is the free 163-font collection Schticks (2017) by Adam Twardoch, which is based on STIX Two.

Google Fonts link for STIX Two Math. Github link for the STIX fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stjepan Fileki

Serbian designer of the calligraphic Cyrillic/Church Slavonic script Miroslavs gospel, which is based on calligraphic characters from the 12th century. NeoplantaBG (2009) is a didone face for Latin and Cyrillic. See also here for a free download. [Google] [More] ⦿

Stone Type Foundry
[Sumner Stone]

The Stone Type Foundry in Guinda (ex-Rumsey and ex-Palo Alto), CA, is Sumner Stone's outfit, which he founded in 1990. Born in Venice, Florida in 1945, Sumner Stone is a major designer, and creator of the Stone family. He studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and then went to work for Hallmark cards as a lettering artist. In 1979, he became type director at Autologic, and in 1984, he became the Director of Typography at Adobe Systems (until 1989). His typefaces:

ITC Stone Sans (1992, Linotype), ITC Stone Sans II (2010, ITC), ITC Stone Sans (Adobe), ITC Stone Sans (ITC), ITC Stone Sans (Linotype). The ITC Stone family was co-designed by John Renner.
Stone Phonetic (with John Renner, 1992).
ITC Stone Informal (ITC), ITC Stone Informal (Adobe), ITC Stone Informal (Linotype).
ITC Stone Serif (ITC), ITC Stone Serif (Linotype), ITC Stone Serif (Adobe).
ITC Stone Humanist (2005, ITC).
Stone Print (Stone Type Foundry, 1991). Designed for Print: America's Graphic Design Magazine.
Magma II (Stone Type Foundry, 2014), Magma (2004), Magma Halo (2004) and Magma Thin (2009). These are extensive informal humanist sans text families that could be used as Greek simulation typefaces.
Tuff (Stone Type Foundry, +Halo, +School, 2008-2009) started from his Magma. This flared informal typeface is slightly Greek in its vision, and has hints of Morris Fuller Benton's Souvenir, Stone's own ITC Stone Informal, and Dennis Pasternak's Maiandra.
Munc (Stone Type Foundry, 2005). The uncial version of Magma. It has some Basque influences.
Silica (Stone Type Foundry, 1993). A humanist slab serif.
Arepo (Stone Type Foundry (1995). A modern text family related to his SFPL family developed for the San Francisco Public Library in 1999 and 2003.
SFPL (Stone Type Foundry: minipage). Part of a new identity of the San Francisco Public Library.
Sator (1995, Stone Type Foundry), Popvlvs (2010, Stone Type Foundry), Davanti (2010, Stone Type Foundry). Roman inscriptional typefaces.
Cycles (Stone Type Foundry, 2004). Cycles comes in 7 optical scales: 5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 24 and 36pt, each in numerous weights and figure styles.
Basalt (Stone Type Foundry). Basalt won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 and was first used for signage at the Cecil H. Green Library of Stanford University.
Leaves + Straw (Stone Type Foundry). A dingbat font.
Nvma Titling (Stone Type Foundry). Numa Titling is an Etruscan letterform used in centuries -7 through -3. While roman, it is runic and chiseled in appearance. See also Numaiota.
Scripps College Old Style (Monotype, 1997). Scripps College commissioned his revival of Scripps College Old Style (1997, Agfa-Monotype), originally designed by Frederic Goudy. Compare with Richard Beatty's Goudy Claremont, another good revival of that family.
From 1994-1995: ITC Bodoni Six (ITC), ITC Bodoni Twelve (ITC), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two (ITC), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Std (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Pro (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Twelve (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Ornaments (ITC), Bodoni Display Figures. Based on Bodoni's original designs, there are 6, 12 and 72-point optical sizes. The family was developed under Stone's guidance who was partially aided by Holly Goldsmith (Six Roman), Janice Prescorescott-Fishman (Seventy-two Roman) and Jim Parkinson (Six Italic).
Dignitas (2011). Commissioned by Hallmark.

At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke about The foundation of the humanist sans serif. As of 2008, his entire collection can be licensed for 20 computers in an educational lab for just 300 dollars. Scripps College pages. CV at Agfa. Bio at Linotype. Page at Emodigi. His lecture in 2007 on W.A. Dwiggins. PDF file of his work. Signature. 2012 Newyear's card. Interview by MyFonts in 2014. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Sumner Stone's typefaces. Summary overview of Sumner Stone's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Straight Co
[Imam Muhajir]

Indonesian designer of Kathia Script (2019) and Sabrina Script (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Stacylia (wild, calligraphic), the formal calligraphic scripts Evelyna Stranger, Stafani, Goldie, Michalina, Kathyna, Angela Script and Anindira, and the script typefaces Floresta and Wossella.

Typefaces from 2021: Complain Script (a swashy script), Baby Sandria (a loopy script), Christofer (script), Maulydia (a wild script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stripes Studio
[Yur Lis]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Wellington (2018: a penmanship font), Starlight (2018) and Smoothline (2018).

In 2019, they published the curly calligraphic script Syarlina, the wild calligraphic script font Angola Script (2019), the dry brush fonts Ringster, Lost Brush, Horbelly and Gruffly, and the calligraphic fonts Melya, Murchison Script (with many swashes) and Melisenda Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Dear Story (a wild script), Misyela, Jasmitha Script (a formal calligraphic script), Basting Brush (a dry brush script), Fellya, Black Mud (a dry brush font), Heliconia, Aster Love (a dry brush script), Flower Garden (a brush script), Hot Ink (brush script), Push Thing Script, Hugbirds (dry brush script), Brightime Script, Ink Hill, Gempita Brush, Schuyler Script, Birthday Script, Agustin Script, Madelis Script, Holland Script, Fabulous Script (penmanship script), Starlight Script, Marstain (a dry brush), Emilston (a dry brush script), Konsteady, Clock Bird (a dry brush script).

Catalog as of 2020: Agustin Script, Angola, Aster Love, Basting Brush, Birthday Script, Black Mud, Brightime, Clock Bird, Emilston, Fabulous Script, Fellya, Flower Garden, Gempita Brush, Gruffly, Heliconia, Holland, Horbelly, Hot Ink, Hugbirds, Ink Hill, Jasmitha Script, Konsteady, Madelis Script, Marstain, Melisenda Script, Melya, Murchison, Push Thing, Ringster, Schuyler, Smoothline Script, Starlight, Syarlina, Wellington.

Typefaces from 2021: Anstolina (a dry brush script), Anstolina (a dry brush script), Wiltona Brush (a dry brush script), Meyola (script), Celtia Script, Molynia Script, Strong Brush (a dry brush script), Revanie Script, Better Night (a dry brush font), Hello Yasmin (an upright script), Hello Yasmin (an upright script), Young Style (script), Love Style (a scrapbook script), Marthoni Brush (a dry brush script), Hello Marlisa (script), Choose Time.

Typefaces from 2022: Mitabela (script), Deysia Brush (a dry brush script), Deysia Brush (a dry brsuh script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Strong
[Nanda Putra Sukmayadi]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer who set up Strong in 2020. Creator of the upright script typeface Baby Rihana (2021). In 2022, he released the formal calligraphic script fonts Ernestone Script, Brailganta Script, Fanya and Palengue Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Struggle Studio
[Andri Kurniawan]

Indonesian designer of Mulan Cute (2020), Helena Girl (2020: wild calligraphy), Angel Boos (2020: a dry brush script), Megan Nice (2020: a calligraphic script), Justin Hailey (2020), Santaria Script (2020: a needle-and-thread script), Honey Batter (2020: a nearly upright script), the 19-style display sans typeface family Mantul Pro (2020), the casual calligraphic typeface Galista (2020), the copperplate calligraphic typeface Thamron (2020), the monoline script typeface Motherday (2019) and the script typefaces Pastela (wild calligraphy) (2020), History Love (2020), Fresh Hansler (2020), Safella (2020), Billie Endria (2020), Santaria (2020), Timeline (2020), Ghoppters (2020: a dry brush) and Nasty Life (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Quare Zombie (a Victorian font), Candy Hollyn (script), History Jasmin .

Typefaces from 2022: Diana Custin (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Stuart Sandler
[Font Diner (or: Stu's Font Diner)]

Studio 62

Graphic and typographic design studio in Wroclaw, Poland. Behance link. They are involved in original typographic work and lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

Studio Alda 98

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Anguilla (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

Studio Indigo
[Helena Öhman]

Helena Öhman (Studio Indigo) is a Swedish illustrator and graphic designer based in Stockholm. Gipsy Alphabet (2013) is an italic engraved alphabet with lower case letters inspired by a cigarette ad found in Modern Publicity 1934/35. It is not a real digital font.

Creator of some handlettered pieces in 2012, including a psychedelic Christmas tree, a Valentine's Day card, and an Easter Egg. She also made a geometric typeface in 2012. In 2013, she created the typefaces Ribbon and Studio.

In 2014, she worked on Shrimp, a free text typeface.

Typefaces from 2016: Belle Helene (script), Karolina. This calligraphic text font is inspired by Edward Johnston's foundational hand and roman capitals. The name Karolina refers to the carolingian style that influenced Johnston.

Typefaces from 2018: Celadon Script, Stitching Love.

Typefaces from 2019: Fairlady (script), Cerulean Love.

Typefaces from 2021: Figuratika (a geometric art deco stencil typeface), Stitch It Up (a cross stitch font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Studio RZ
[Muhammad Razi]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic typefaces Authentic (2016), Wolfband (2016) and Annabeth Script (2016) and the brush script typeface Montellia (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Adellicia (weathered script).

Typefaces from 2018: Adventure Script, Absolute (an elegant thin calligraphic hand).

Typefaces from 2020: Meutuah, Aqilla, Amlight, Ametha, Bettos (an upright script), Anisha, Mellanie, Mellonya, The Bintang, Beloved, Evolution. [Google] [More] ⦿

Studio Typo
[Mehmet Abaci]

Mehmet Abaci (b. 1978) is based in Istanbul. In 2014, he established Studio Typo, where one can buy his typefaces. Limited forms of the fonts can be downloaded fpr free from the Dafont site.

Creator of the elegantly plump rounded sans typeface Vinyl Cuts (2013), Samatya (2013, a unicase piano key typeface), Boldie (2013), Laundry Day (2013, alphadings), and the wood log typeface Timbers (2013).

Typefaces from 2014: Smush, Slim Fir (athletic lettering), Typonome, Typo Slab, Neons, E-Square (sci-fi typeface), Screamer, Typoline (piano key typeface), Omniblack (flared display face), Papillons (flared caps), Typoster (a great fat geometric slab serif typeface family accompanied by an equally great shaded outline style), Typo Comica (a family drawn to compete with Comic Sans), Tipo Press, Manyeto (calligraphic), Quatroline (prismatic typeface), Wardoom, Cabold Comic, Digiform, Akaju (oily fat typeface with lighting effects), Almira, Bonebastic, Comic White Rabbit, Sinema (a bit of retro movie art deco), Sober, Cali Brush, Tiny Plate, College Player, Smart Kid, Barbed, Wideroy, Angella (+outline: a poster family), Megi Sans.

Typefaces from 2015: Bro 4D (outlined 3d capitals), Typo GeoSlab, H&B Sketch (a gorgeous sketched didone), Mixiva (a six-style athletic lettering slab serif family), Typo Sketch (sketched font), Malter Sans, Parole Script, Degaws (a great sketch font), Typo Comics, Gribal, Gribal Shadow, Early Times (a sans family), Quizma (an elegant sans family), Super Seven (shaded), Typo Slab Inline, Type Slab Irregular, Geoma (hairline geometric sans), Double Bubble (bubblegum typeface), Mona Bella, Typo Grotesk, Typo Grotesk Rounded, The Matic, Typografix (avant garde sans), Move X (techno family), Savaro Stencil (in the geometric style that is characteristic of Futura Black), MindBlue (sans), A Space.

Typefaces from 2016: Wox Striped (multiline typeface), Wox Modelist (organic sans), Aprikas (sans), Meltix (techno sans family), Widolte (sans family), Mayeka, The Wireframe, Typo College (athletic lettering), Halftone Poster, Chocolate Bar (oily and gleaming), Type Round (circle-based sans typeface family).

Typefaces from 2017: Zelta Six (octagnal), Wida Round (round sans), Prestij (geometric sans), Typo Style, Naughty Squirrel (fat poster typeface family that includes hatched and shadow styles), Typo Quik, Ageta (bubblegum style), Rock On (glaz krak typeface), Typo Square, Typo Angular Rounded, Planetium-X (monoline, techno), Big Pixel (octagonal), White Festive, Watchword Hairline.

Typefaces from 2018: At the Midday, Typo Hoop (rounded circle-based sans family), Typo Longest (tall condensed sans), Maccos (a multilined font family), Asectica, Magettas (rounded monoline sans), Bluefish, Bluefish Eroded, Bluefish Scratched, Quesat (rounded sans), Quesat Striped.

Typefaces from 2019: Manti Slab College, Pesta Stencil, Type Draft (a drafting font), Pages Grotesque (a caps only geometric sans), Typo Cut-Out, Swera, Minalis (futuristic).

Typefaces from 2020: Typo Cut-Out Shaky, Typo Oval, Typo Formal (a tall monolinear sans), Typo Ring (circle-based, monolinear), Manti Slab, Manti Sans (+Fixed), Geco Strong (a fat sans), Tually, Slabten (an inline typeface), Minalis Double (an inline typeface). Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Studioad
[Muhammad Aidil]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) in 2019 of the calligraphic typefaces Deliagha, Amettha, Whinter, Better, Legenda, Queenly, Bantaci, and Navitta. [Google] [More] ⦿

Studioways
[Eliza Gwendalyn]

Calligrapher in New York City. In 2016, she published the copperplate calligraphic script typeface Petunia (Great Lakes Lettering).

In 2017, she teamed up with Boston-based type designer Jim Lyles to form the Studioways Studio, which specializes in calligraphic typefaces. Studioways features Eliza's own lettering as well as that of other popular calligraphers.

Typefaces from 2017: Madison Street (a Spencerian set of fonts by Elaina DeBoard, Eliza Gwendalyn, and Jim Lyles, accompanied by a few styles that are based on the handwriting of Elaina DeBoard), Hart (by Virginia Lucas Hart, Eliza Gwendalyn and Jim Lyles), Boronia, Lady Slippers.

Typefaces from 2018: Petunia Monogram (with Jim Lyles).

Typefaces from 2019: Little Sprout (script; with Jim Lyles).

Typefaces from 2020: Nerine (a brush-lettered script).

Creative Market link for Studioways. Another Creative Market link for Studioways. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sudar Moko

Jombang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1981) of the oriental simulation typeface Tribal Chinese Version (2016), the monoline sans typeface Soputan (2016), the squarish Rivesquare (2016), the calligraphic Ampikunanti (2016), the Peignotian sans typeface Raung Rivs (2016), the handcrafted Kabuh Rivs (2016), and the basic sans typeface Anjasmoro (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Sudtipos
[Alejandro Paul]

Alejandro Paul's Argentinian foundry is called Sudtipos. Veer writes about Paul: Alejandro Paul is one of the founders of the Sudtipos project, the first Argentinian type foundry collective. He taught graphic design and typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1996 until 2004 and has worked as an art director in prestigious Argentina-based studios, handling high-profile corporate brands such as Arcor, Marta Harff, Morph, SC Johnson, Danone and Movicom. He has walked away with awards from several design competitions. In 2003, he began working with artist Angel Koziupa, designing fonts and lettering for several top packaging agencies. In 2006 he was a speaker at TMDG06, the largest Latin American graphic design event - more than 4,000 designers were in attendance. His work has been featured in publications around the globe, including Step and Creative Review. He has walked away with awards from numerous design competitions. He has received two Type Directors Club TDC2 awards, in 2008 for Burgues Script and in 2009 for Adios Script. He teaches a postgraduate typography program at the University of Buenos Aires, where he previously taught graphic design.

Sudtipos has made a reputation as the place to go to for script and signage type.

Faces include Brownstone Sans (2010), Brownstone Slab (2013), Politica (2008, an architectural lettering superfamily, used, e.g., by Discovery Channel), Domingo (by Ariel Garófalo), Plumero (connected handwriting font by Diego Giaccone, which is also in the Umbrella Type collection), Murga (display font by Alejandro Paul based on lettering of Angel Koziupa, 2003), and these typefaces by Alejandro Paul: Tierra, Latinaires (2003-2018), Reflex (unicase), Downtempo, and Stardust. Free fonts: Mosaico (2003, pixel typeface by Alejandro Paul), Mabella (2001, Ramiro Espinoza), Rolinga (Carlos Carpintero). Divina (2004) is a Latinized digitization of Kurrent (designed by Rudolph Koch in 1927 and cut in 1935). Myfonts link. Pictures of their fonts in use. YouWorkForThem link. Blog / Facebook group.

Additions in 2010: Business Pen man ship (which is based on models of American business education penmanship, ca. 1900). Poem Script is another Spencerian face---it won an award at TDC2 2011 and at Tipos Latinos 2012.

Fonts from 2011: Calgary Script (brush signage face), Viento (a lively version of Brisa, 2004, another font done with Angel Koziupa), Semilla (2011, a retro script based on an alphabet drawn by Ernst Bentele in 1953).

Fonts from 2012 include the angular pair Bayoneta Pro and Machete Pro, both co-designed by Alejandro Paul and Angel Koziupa. Platinus Script Pro (done with Angel Koziupa) is a wedding font.

His Hipster Script won an award in the TDC 2012 competition and at Tipos Latinos 2012.

In 2013, he created Seashore Script (described as a feminine script, it has horizontal stress and is backslanted; some may consider it an Arabic simulation typeface).

At Tipos Latinos 2014, Alejandro Paul cleaned up, winning awards for Bellissima Script, Seashore Script, Auberge Script (a penmanship font in the style of the French bâtarde and coulée), and Bayoneta.

Typefaces from 2014: Jugo Script (a supermarket script, done with Angel Koziupa), Courtesy Script (a connected Zanerian script based on a model from 1876).

Typefaces from 2015: Blog Script (an informal handwriting font, with Carolina Marando), Auberge Script (which was started in 2014).

Typefaces from 2016: Wink (a connected script font co-designed with Joluvian), Henderson Slab and Henderson Sans (a large slab serif family loosely based on an alphabet drawn in 1906 by Albert Du Bois for the Henderson Sign Painter Book), Prangs (a thinly connected italic didone named after Prussian-American printer and lithographer Louis Prang (1824-1909)).

Typefaces from 2017: In 2017, Tropical (with Joluvian: this package contains a bold, wet-looking display script, an inky, textured brush script, and hand-penned capitals with a felt-tip look).

Typefaces from 2018: Fixture (a 72-font grotesk family published by Sudtipos).

Typefaces from 2019: Replete Sans (a seven-style mainly art deco typeface inspired by early 20th century lettering on metropolitan buildings all over the world), Tafel Sans (a contemporary take on early- to mid-century geometric fonts).

Typefaces from 2020: Antica (a wedge serif based on Latin poster and billboard typefaces from the 19th century).

Typefaces from 2021: Statement Sans (an 18-style neo-humanist sans with an exquisite Black weight, by the Sudtipos team; it includes a variable font).

View Alejandro Paul's typefaces. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sueh Li Tan

Graphic and type designer from Penang, Malaysia, who lived in The Netherlands and is now in Kuala Lumpur, where she founded Huruf, a malaysian type collective. Graduate of the Type and Media program at KABK, 2009. There, Tan tried a revival of Bembo (2008) and created Callie Text and Callie Display (2009), a text family, as the graduation project.

In 2010, in collaboration with Martin Frostner, she created the custom octagonal / calligraphic typeface Biskops Arnö for Nordic Folk High School Biskops Arnö at Mälaren.

Creator of Interieur (at Sara De Bondt Studio in London), Monster Type, and DrawbotScript.

Klingspor link Typecache link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Suetterlin

Freeware program for teaching the Suetterlin handwriting style. Includes a free Suetterlin truetype font (by Roman Georg Arens, Saarbrücken). Informative page by Marcus Hahn from the Historisches Institut der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken. [Google] [More] ⦿

Suhery Anto

Sukjana Almunandar
[Alcode]

Sulthan Adam Maulana
[Serin Studio]

Sulthan Studio
[Nasrullah]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1984) specializing in calligraphic typefaces. In 2018, Sulthan Studio published Lady Suettaya (a tall formal script), Binattiah Script, Aliyana, and Silluettes.

Typefaces from 2019: Rogertt (a thin rabbit ear script)ttps://www.myfonts.com/fonts/sulthan-studio/recobant-sans/">Recobant Sans (a rounded sans), Allysha Script, Baby Master, Sayutilove, Say Love, Eliyamoli script (formal calligraphic), Berliyan (calligraphic script), Oh Juliya, Halimah (brush), Cynthia Script, Chocolate (brush script), Baby Master, Bantimange Script (swashy and calligraphic), Article (calligraphic), Jantan (calligraphic), Selentingan (calligraphic), Sahitya, The Fantastic, Night Alongs, Cadina, Syakira (a great calligraphic script), Naghitha Brush, Bungalow Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Pelangi Script (a low x-height rabbit eared calligraphic script), Aliefba Script, Real One Specific (a font duo), Gabilo Script (a rabbit ear script), Bright Star Script, Rosliyati, Conithing (an upright rabbit ear script), Julianti (a rabbit ear script), Quality Capcay Black Light (a curly font), Starland, Oh Claristta, Mitha Silva (script), Layla Layli (script), Salsa Billa, Bright Lady, Best Love, Listingloves, Melliyan (calligraphic), Ameliya, Andrila.

Typefaces from 2021: Glaster (a scrapbook script), My Love Olivia (script), Balicot Sweet (a dry brush script), Cangela (script), Belonk (a handcrafted poster font), Anjeli (a bold upright brush script), Beasley (an upright rabbit ear script), Broughtes (script), Larisa Script (upright), Metalline (a display serif), Bella Bellia (a thin upright script), Jorstin (a curly script), Nela Neta Script 1, Hi Girls, Mono Love, Muliya Tat (a calligraphic script with serious contrast and some rabbit ears), Rostyle Script (a curly calligraphic script), Ronal Diana, White Gray.

Typefaces from 2022: Sweet Boho (a scrapbook script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sumho Pinheiro
[I Can Letter]

Sumiyaginsuke

Japanese brush calligraphy site. One can buy prints and follow courses. [Google] [More] ⦿

Summer Institute of Linguistics: Nastaliq
[Jonathan Kew]

Nastaliq font for QuickDraw GX. Available as shareware from Jonathan Kew, who released it in 1997 at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. It allows Arabic, Urdu, and similar languages to be written using the elegant Nastaliq style of calligraphy. URW write-up. [Google] [More] ⦿

Summit Type (or: macware Inc, or: Summitsoft Corporation)
[Jason Hogrefe]

Summit Type is located in Omaha, NE. At Dafont, the company is associated with Jason Hogrefe. Another name of the company is 128Bit Technologies. Their fonts include Calligri (2009, calligraphic), and Merilee (2009, neat handprinting). At Dafont, there are free fonts such as Alido (2009), Dunkirk (2010, a comic book style face) and Loopi (2009, a connected script). Other fonts include Whirly (2008 curly), Venezio (2008), Regala (2008), Opal (2008), Olcen (2008), Idion (2008), Gamadyne (2008), Ferris (2008), Dickens Carol (2008), Bristle (2008, brush), Banks Script (2008), Arias (2008), and Ardor (2008). The unknown designer might be Hogrefe himself--I doubt it though. Upon closer scrutiny, we discover that the company is basically a vendor. About 4000 Fonts (40 USD), they write All of the fonts in 4000 Fonts are new from our SummitType foundry and have never been available before now. They also sell Wedding Fonts and Holiday Fonts. The company is also known as Summitsoft Corp.

Further investigation reveals that this is the old Macxware company about which I have been writing for almost ten years. From another place on my web site, I quote [note that this was written ca. 2004]: A CD with 1000 truetype fonts for Mac OS/X sold for 30USD and advertised by Creative Pro. This PDF file shows that most fonts are by Ray Larabie, Aenigma and other shareware foundries. I wonder if Ray and Aenigma know about this. For an extra 30USD, you can get an additional 750 fonts on the MoreMacFonts CD. That second CD, whose fonts can be viewed here consists of nothing but renamed stuff from elsewhere.

The dubious company, called macXware, is run by Ishan Amin out of Omaha, NE. People on Typophile complained that most are freeware/shareware fonts by people such as Ray Larabie, Tom Murphy and Brian Kent (Aenigma). Amin said he obtained permissions. I do not believe that. And a big booh to Creative Pro. On September 4, 2004, 5 months after my original complaint, Creative Pro was still at it advertising this work. Typophile thread. Finally, on September 21, 2004, macXware withdrew its font collections from the market. Well, it seems they have been resurrected as Summit Type and convinced MyFonts to accept their business.

The continuing saga in 2011. MacUpdate bundles free fonts with their software---see here and here. The fonts were made by SummitType---this PDF shows all the fonts. The FontPack Pro 2015 edition contains 7640 fonts. See also here, 4000 Fonts (Amazon), here, and here. Again, nothing but renamed fonts---Mistral is Mystic, Vogue is Vogel, and so forth.

Compilation of all font names in the Master Pro collection. List of the 1577 names in the Premium Fonts collection of 128bit Technologies. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sumner Stone
[Stone Type Foundry]

Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes

Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes (b. Stavanger, Norway) was based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is now in Oakland, CA. In 2012-2013, she studied towards an M.A. in Type Design at the KADK (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art School of Design). In 2013, she graduated from the Type & Media program at the KABK in Den Haag. Her graduation typeface was Ricochet. Ricochet is inspired by the speedball D-series, which uses ball-shaped nibs developed by American sign painter Ross Frederic George. Ricochet is bulky and round, and has little contrast. It is warm and quite suitable for illustrative applications. Ricochet can be bought at Future Fonts.

Earlier work by her includes some calligraphy, a corporate typeface for the KADK (2012), and an unnamed slab serif typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Suomen Kalligrafia Yhdistys

Suomen Kalligrafia Yhdistys is the Finnish calligraphic society. [Google] [More] ⦿

Supertype Studio (or: Hafis Hidayat)
[Hafis Hidayat]

Beureunuen, Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the handcrafted Mansfield (2018), Hey Buffalo (2018), Legenddrink Script (2018), Boottering (2018: font duo), and Lottime Script (2018: a signage script).

Typefaces from 2019: Milk Child, Hungaria (a calligraphic script that is almost surely derived from Julie Green's font Slight), Jositary.

Typefaces from 2020: Milk Child, Muthea, Pierogies (a Treefrog script), Brunei Darussalam (an irregular script), Bellastory (a brush script).

Typefaces from 2021: Building (a script).

Typefaces from 2022: Mount Gambier And Sidney (a brush typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Supotype
[Rahmad Fajri]

Beureunuen, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typefaces Beautilla Script (2018), Pruistine Script (2018), Sthephen (2018), Esmeralda (2018), Austtina Script (2018) and Miadiena Script (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Groenly Script (an ultra fat signage font), Angelica Script, Calington Script (calligraphic), Bargetta , Malisara Script, Stephani Signature, Brightina Script, Awelina Script, Dandelion Script, Sinthiya Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Brendan (a sans and monoline script font duo), Moleska, Mailston (a signage script), Amellica Script, Gaulmen Script (formal calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2021: Kettiy Zalliya Script, Beauty Ladies (an upright script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Susan Skarsgard

Noted calligrapher, who works at General Motors Design Center in Warren, Michigan, where she is Lead Product Designer and Lettering Specialist. Picture. MyFonts page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Susana Bravo

During her studies, Vigo, Spain-based Susana Bravo designed the calligraphic script typeface Micaela (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Susanne Ulmke
[Kalligraphie]

Susuanne Ulmke
[Alte Schriften]

Suthi Srisopha
[Typhoon Type]

Swiss Calligraphy Society

Suza Studio
[Zikril Lah]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of calligraphic script typefaces. Typefaces from 2020: Pretty Heart Script, Glowing Script, Audryna, Amory and Chedaty.

Typefaces from 2021: Shocking Script (an upright script), Britnes (a dry brush script), My Dream (script), Glistening Script, Yoshinta Sans (a wild script).

In 2022, Suza Studio's catalog showed these fonts: Amory, Audryna, Chedaty, Girly Sweet, Glistening, Glowing Script, Holiday Start, My Dream, Pretty Heart Script, Rasberry, Rombusa (script), Shocking, Yoshinta. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Sveta Dorosheva

Calligrapher and illustrator in Rehovot, Israel. She made some great hand-drawn posters in 2010, including Animal Man (2010), Fish Man, Smiling Man (2010) and Strugatskie (2010).

In 2013, she drew many decorative drop caps. [Google] [More] ⦿

Schweizerische Kalligrafische Gesellschaft. [Google] [More] ⦿

Syaf Rizal
[Khurasan]

Syahputra
[Bexxtype]

Syahrul Iwan

Designer of the connected brush script poster typefaces Veronica (2015) and Roselly (2015).

In 2016, he designed the copperplate calligraphic script Triana and the script typeface Nidewoof. [Google] [More] ⦿

Symon Adam Abdullah
[Groen Studio (or: Jorse Creative, or: Jorsetype)]

Symon Adam Abdullah
[Adefa Studio]

T Create (was: Primafox Design, or: Tanincreate)
[Tanya Amos]

UK-based designer of these script typefaces in 2019: Freezetide, Northern Petal, Rossioffe (script), Ailre Heleris, Hazel Shadow, Oriole Bird, Ametrine, Leisoll Reef (wild calligraphy), Carnelian Antique, Tiara (a calligraphic script), Morning Mood, Michael (a signature script), Violets (brush), Cookie Jar, Parapluie. She also designed the decorative sans typeface Peronel (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Tralee (a rounded handcrafted sans), Cookie Treat.

Typefaces from 2021: Blicalon (a bold monolinear sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

T. Muhammad Rizal
[Posts Type]

Takase Studios (or: Eri Takase Artworks)

Tabita's Shop
[Sabina Aghova]

Prague, Czechia-based designer of the brush scripts Lemonfish (2016), Cupcakia (2016) and Karlita (2016), the handcrafted typeface Funisima (2016) and the calligraphic script typefaces Lavandia (2016) and Hanelka (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Cedrika (calligraphic script), Florisa (signature script).

Typefaces from 2018: Magic Winter, Snowy Christmas Script, Bright Side, Elderflower. [Google] [More] ⦿

Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase. Examples: Danjo, Miru, Sakana, Ai. Intro to Japanese calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Talavera Type Workshop
[Jesús Eladio Barrientos Mora]

Talavera Type Workshop is Jesus Barrientos's type foundry in Puebla, Mexico. He has a Masters in Type Design from Estudio Gestalt in Veracruz, class of 2013. Presently he is a professor at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico.

Barrientos designed Vecchia Romana (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won awards in the display type category for Agony, and Ecstasy. Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. Graduate of the TDi program in 2018 at the University of Reading.

In 2012, these commercial fonts were offered via MyFonts: Vecchia (Venetian), Ochenteros (counterless geometric face), Escuadra (squarish), Signorina, Ecstasy (blackletter), Agony (a script).

Kyrenia TTW (2014) is a calligraphic script family.

In 2014, after heaving studied Elzevir in depth, Jesus published his Leidener typeface family. The actual letters were developed from those found in Constantini Imperiatoris (1611) and Exercitationum Mathematicarum (1657), which were printed by Louis and John Elzevir in their workshop in Leiden.

In 2017, he published the pixelish typeface Kader at Letter Inc.

In 2018, he designed Malaguenya and the grungy Rapenburg.

Typefaces from 2020: Nimbo TTW (kaleidoscopic mandalas).

Typefaces from 2021: Keizer (a superb 5-style display serif with Titling, Inline, Openface, Initials and Outline options; Keizer has its roots in early XXth century cartography), Blacken (a blackletter inspired by the gothic-cholo style, Mexican sign painting and some delicious Belgian beer).

IT FADU link. Fontown link.

View Talavera's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Taller de Caligrafía

A workshop on calligraphy at Chili's tipografia.cl. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tamas Nagy

Graphic designer in Budapest who made the calligraphic script typeface Brute Script (2008). He runs Nagy Design Kft, and lectures at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty Of Humanities And Social Sciences, Piliscsaba, Hungary.

Tania Debono

Typographer and lettering artist in Manhattan, NY, who runs theWriting. In 2016, she designed a special hand-lettered typeface for fashion house Oscar De La Renta. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tania Whiteley

South African illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Johannesburg. Her typefaces include Stencil Script. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tanya Amos
[T Create (was: Primafox Design, or: Tanincreate)]

Tanya George

Type designer from India who graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. Her graduation typeface is Kolaba, a multi-script typeface for Latin, Devnagari and Greek. The type family began as a solution for editorials with different language editions. Kolaba is heavily influenced by handwriting and calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tanya Yeremeyeva

Ukrainian motion graphics designer/letterer in New York City, who created several beautiful calligraphic pieces in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿

Taran Conyers

Designer of the grunge fonts TK smartypants, TK mouse, TKturtlesoup, TKstamped font, TKhoneydo and TKdoodle (2006, calligraphic script). Some are here. It is a mystery to me how Ligia Rego Cruz (b. 1986), a Brazilian designer from Pernambuco, can claim TK Doodle as hers on Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tart Workshop
[Crystal Kluge]

Minneapolis, MN-based illustrator and lettering artist. Designer who sells her script fonts through Font Bros, where she receives digitization support from Stuart Sandler. Her work is also sold via Tart Workshop. Alternate URL. Another URL. MyFonts link.

In 2007, she made Silverstein and Seasoned Hostess. In 2008, she added Henparty Sans and Serif (casual curly scripts), and Darling Monograms. The calligraphic Nelly Script (copperplate script) and Nelly Script Flourish followed in 2009. Carrotflower (2009, hand-printed) comes with Carrotflower Christmas Icons, Carrotflower Invitation Icons, and Carrotflower Celebration Icons.

Her designs in 2010 include Barocca (a monogram font, done with Stuart Sandler) and Nelly Frames.

In 2011, she published the quaint teahouse typefaces Bookeyed Jack and Bookeyed Suzanne.

At Google Web Fonts, we find Chelsea Market (2012), Butterfly Kids (2012, a curly script) and Princess Sofia (2012, a tipsy script).

Crystal Kluge and Stuart Sandler made the children's party font Crafty Girls Pro (2010, with Stuart Sandler at Neapolitan).

Typefaces from 2012: Emily's Candy (a curlified didone: free at Google Web Fonts), Madelinette (connected script). Codystar (a dot matrix face) is free at Google Web Fonts. Sugarplum (with Stuart Sandler) is a cheerful casual typeface. Aya Script (with Stuart Sandler) is a script with adjustable ribbons at front and rear of the letters. San Rafael is an upbeat curly script. Bookeyed Nelson is a tall caps only poster typeface. The teenage script typefaces Princess Sofia Royale Pro, Butterfly Kids Pro and Emily's Candy Pro and the bohemian typefaces Chelsea Marketplace Pro and Chelsea Market Open Pro were published by Crystal Kluge and Stuart Sandler at Neapolitan.

Typefaces from 2013: Bookeyed Sadie (a quaint curly ball terminal typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Amoretta (a curly font family, co-designed with Stuart Sandler), Bookeyed Martin (another vintage curly script, with Stuart Sandler).

Typefaces from 2016: Cherripops (by Crystal Kluge and Stuart Sandler).

Typefaces from 2019: Madelinette Grande (by Stuart Sandler and Crystal Kluge: created by hand with traditional pointed pen, it includes calligraphic penmanship and rustic styles), Bella Monograms.

View Crystal kluge's typefaces. Google Plus link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tasam Design

Italian designer of the calligraphic nibbed pen vector format typeface Sunset ABC (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Tashi Mannox

Beautiful Tibetan calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tatiana Noujaim

During her studies in Beirut, Lebanon, Tatiana Noujaim created the Latin / Arabic hipster typeface boldly called God's Typeface (2015). Presently, she is an art director living in Jounieh, Lebanon. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tattoo Woo (or: JSH Creates, or: Smokewire)
[Jonathan Stephen Harris]

Tattoo Woo (or: Smokewire) is American tattooist Jonathan Harris. He also runs JSH Creates.

In 2011, he created the curly gothic tattoo typefaces Hot Chocolate Latte, League of Ages, Royal Inferno, Tribal Times and Tribal Dragon, and the spiky typeface Quasari (2011). He also made Jelly Swirls (curly), Highway to hell, What a mess (grunge), Pixie Moon, Sword Thrasher, Starship XXXII (Star Trek face), Christmas Snow (art nouveau snowcapped glyphs), and Jazzy Caveman (a stone age face).

Typefaces created in 2012: Bright Star Tonight, Harristoon, a crayon series (Crimes Times Six, Colored Crayns, XXX Dirty Jokes XXX, Harris Wear, Black Crayon), Alien Mutations Begin, Vineyard Magazines, Forbidden Land (scratchy face), Way Gardens (flowery script), Pencil Shading, Cartoon Shadow, Heart Shapes, Sassy Stark, Back to School, Black Eye Peas, Silly People, Street Art (a great ink splatter font), Heartbroken, Jen Luves Ben Forever, Heart Broken, Catalina, Anywhere but home, Holly Christmas, Kringley Christmas (dingbats), Seasons Greetings, Cheese Cake, Abraham Heights, Call me maybe (sketch font), Lydia Puente (calligraphic script), Tribal Script, The Daily Bread (a beautiful ronde), Naughty Nights, a set of four Asian brush style typefaces (Japanese Style, All Yoko, Chinese Asian Style, Chinese Takeaway), Hey Cutie, Zing Easy (brush), Kids Play, Keep It Simple (loopy script), Standing Tall (anguished Kafkaesque typeface), The Abandoned Treasure (brushy caps face), The Mocking Bird, Nighty Nights, Road Trip, Been Hanging Around, Divided Nations, Dodger Gear, The Best Night (brush), Stencil Brush (brush), Quite Chocolatey, Round About (stitch font), Physics Teacher, Madman Howling, Love Sequel, Cross Out, My Mistake, Colours of Autumn, Da Streets (graffiti face), Hard Fox (stencil brush), You Are Precious (curly script), The Blue Oasis, Dysfunctional Family (brush face), Lovely Excuse (brush family), No Fear (brush face), Dead End, The Art Show (brush face), Comical Smash, The Quick, The Lost Paintings, Stone Age, Eyeliner Tattoo, Sketch Pad, Art Class (spilled paint face), Ink Studio, Stay Holy Okay, Water Park (bubblegum face), Urban Jungle, Geez Seriously (curly typeface), Crazy Weekend, Slimeball, Real People, A Brush No, Beware of the Hogs (blood drip typeface), Definitely Maybe, Draw Freehand, Bloodthirsty (blood drip font), Zombie Slayer (blood drip font), Your Bloody Choice (blood drip font), Barn Animals, Comic Strip, Scribble Fun (textured face), Boom Shanker, Girly Punk, Pucky, Spray Break, Font Insane, Fairground, Last Breath (2012), Follow Your dreams, Together Again, Drawing Guides, Death Branch, Panda Spots, Fuzzy Bear, Threadz Needle, Homeboy, Hairs Dens Bag, Primitive Alien, Bonney Lass, Cake Nom (3d and shaded), Headshop (psychedelic), Tribal Butterflies (dings), Tribal Dragons Tattoo Designs, Tribal Animals Tattoo Designs, Abstract Alien Symbols, Jewelry Design Shapes, Wander Ball, Love Hue, The Fat Store, Chooka Zoon (bubblegum face), Happy Roxy, Hearts and Stars, Arcade Book, Teaspoon Display (swashy calligraphic face), Ready Black (another swashy calligraphic face), The Lodger Rang (gothic script), Sketch Book, Sketchline, Drafting, Last Breath (tattoo font), Drawing Pad, Child's Play, Design Bubble, A Stitch Plus Nine, Ming in Bling (comic book shadow face), You Are Something (curly script), Hot Pink, How To Do Something (comic book face), I Love What You Do, Get Wet.

Typefaces from 2013: Seaside Heights, Falling Rain, Ace Records, Today People, Night Adder, Squicky (curly font), No Messin (scratchy brush), Wrong Tracks, Postcard From Mars, Aluminum Trucks (script), Life Azures, The Waddys, The Angels, Oliver Richards (brush face), Arabic Magic, Messenger, Anxiety Management, Basterds, Beep Beep, Suburban Legends, Street Wild, Abreviater, Snowmania, Yak Shamash, Booday, Everyday Mayhem, Mega Team, Beaty Pagent (sic), Monster Unleashed, Hopeless Place, Alley Cat, The Lovers, Crazy Rascals, Golden Star, Gimme Your Love, Every Freakin Night (a sketched poster face), Big Top, Hopeless Place, The Lovers, Alley Cat, Queenie Beebie, Swirly Shirley (curly script), Dark World (scratchy face), Fun House (sketched face), Ultimate Chaos, Wake Me Up, Find A Way, Fat Tats (signage script), Big Winks, Nothing To Lose (blood drip typeface), Art Brewery (brush font), Holiday Blues (scratchy brush), Punked Out, The Jolly Rancher, Quite Mighty, Smudgie Crayon, Squiggley Brown, Morning Star (brush face), No Talking Allowed, Butter Finger (scratchy typeface), Mad Beef (thin script), Dinosaur, Reed of Love (a textured script face), First Grader, School Holiday (brush script), Spin Head (sketched face), Russian Roulette, Blah (brush face), Eating You Alive (brush face), Christians United (brush face, same as Blah), Beginning of Summer (brush face), Something Strange (blood drip font), Messy Script, Broken Ink, Car Wash, Head Case (a very curly script), Barn Owl, Ruff Ruff, Shadow Jumper, Barn Oil, Phantom Ghost, Tardy Kid, Scrapbooking, Fiesta Time, Science Project, Oh No Not Again, Oh Shit (brushy), Teaser Houses, Eternal Fascination (connected script), Shades of Black, Bingo Bangos (brushy script), Street Fighter, Marker Pen (brush), Home and Away (brush), Spring Cleaning, Scribble Table, Sound Heart, Imagination Station (a heavy brush face), Teddy Bear, Good Day, Easy Rider (retro script), Silent Reaction, Today is the Oldest and Youngest (tall condensed script), Brush Strokes, Texas (brush), Messing About (scratchy hand), Kindergarten (hand-printed), Oh No (dusty typeface), Art Studio, Crazy Horse (great grungy brush), Time Machine, Strings and Things (sketched typeface), Twisted Brother, Big Easy, Egyptian Nights, Demolished, Lazy Girls, Angels Message (pixie dust script), Medieval Queen, Kings and Queens (swashy script), Admiration Pains, Confetti Stream, Hill Billies (signage face), Sweet Heart, Manhunter, Beware of the dog, Kiss Me Quick (Valentine's Day script), Atomic Number (a chalky dusty typeface), Potted Balls, The Boatman (graffiti font), Dead Island (brush face), Age to Age (swashy brush), Sticky Things (brush face), Lasting Love, Beware of the Zombies, Skyscraper, Coffee House, Rough Rider (fat brush face), The Green Life, National Cartoon (sketched 3d face), True Lies (brush face), Heron's Nest (sketched), Freaky Friday, Be There Soon, Praying Angel, Leap of Faith (graffiti brush), Beginning Yoga (brush script), Tims Grocery Store, Biogalaxy, Funga Donga Binge, Sketchbook Challenge, Arsonist, Say No to Drugs, Frizzled Planet, Decayed in Sixty Seconds.

Typefaces from 2014: Believer Fever (tattoo script), Millennium (sketched font), Everything Holiday (tattoo script), Angel Warriors, Ghetto Master, Going Rogue (3d, hand-printed), Times Are Hard (brush), Oliver Twist (fat brush), Story Book (brush face), Rockers, Berty Script, Broken Promise (textured all caps typeface), Paranoid Freak (a great scratchy typeface), Nitya HK (or: Drawing Practice: a sketch font), Early Bird, British Quest, Crazy Thoughts (fat brushy script), Teenage Dreams, Renegades (hairy, grungy), The Pits (crayon font), Always Beside You (tattoo script), Greed (fat brush), Sea Reef, Sandy Bay, Fun Crayon, Mother in Law (caryon brush), Asylum Mansion (fat brush), Taking Notice, Basquiat, The Beach, Open Hours, Paranoia (brush typeface), Beast of Avalon, Motives, The Hit, Air Heads, Painted Lady (brush script), Born Wild (fat brush), Rebel Beat, Across the Road (script), Zentaiges (script), Fearing Madness (tattoo font), Rags to Riches (a great brush face).

Typefaces from 2015: Merry Christmas Tree, Christmas Trees Celebration, Fun Christmas Trees, Ocean Rotation, Street Sound (thick brush), Without Notice (thick brush font), Slowed Down (brush font), Girlfriend (sketched shaded beauty), The Others Are Here (scary brush font), Government Torment (brush font), Love Rock, Skid (charcoal brush), Redrum (grungy brush), Charcoal, Home School (textured), Mona Shark (textured 3d typeface), Cookie Dough, Minimum Loss, Moonstreet, Friday Lovers, Broken Dreams, Cutie Pie, Freedom Fighters, Cooperation Nest, Magic Pies (rough brush script), Rain Tax.

Typefaces from 2016: Loads of Love, Personal Delinquent, The Right Thing, Devastated (scratchy style), Broken Ground, Slimed, Cartoon Madness (sketched), Anything For You, Sketchy Script, Beautiful Vampires (scratchy), Think Nothing, Barn House (paint or blood drip typeface), Thready Bear, Get Richer, Bedrock, Chocolate Smoothie, Running Scared, Truly Yours, Coffee Mocha, Abrahams Wish, Dicey Slices, Forbid Nothing, Cartoon Freak, The Oyster Bar, Nowadays, Rough Script, Messy Artist, Fun Things, Bubble Bash (grungy), Yeti Fety (dry brush script), Kahuna Island (a tropical island font), Dancing on the Beach, Consistency Measures, Dead Wood (dry brush), Regent Way, Last Feast, Steppers, Oily.

Typefaces from 2017: Wishing Well, Darkside of the Morning, From Nowhere, Wreak Havoc, Rocky Bottoms, Shock Horror, Signatures, Elyse, Stew Tuesdays (brush script), Majestic Mansion, Chasing Magnolia.

Typefaces from 2018: Queens Perfume, Shiny Pimple, Belly Queens, Martian Vacation, School's Out (sketch font), Brush Pains (dry brush), Death Valley (dry brush), Steady Rain (crayon font), Blinkets, Trap Beats, Chicken Fajitas, Knackers, Regal Eagle.

Typefaces from 2019: Sketchy Night (a dry brush font), Royal Riot (dry brush), Questionary (a chalk font), Holly Hood, Squiggles, Pirate Scripts, Mutation Patient, Futures Past, Monster Reading (sketched), Metal Head, Ghosting, Wear and Tear, Rain Shower (textured), Ring Master, Yellow Rose, Splat Attack, Crazy Hearts (dingbats), Margarita, Black Brush, Ghost Story, Chalk Stick, Spiritual Ritual (textured), Farty Breath, When in Rome (brush), Crazy Metro, Swirly Tops (curly).

Typefaces from 2021: Crimes Times Six (a dry brush font), Sticky Pops.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link for Smokewire. Link to Smokewire. Fontspace link for Jonathan harris. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tauris Mustafa

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Bonestyle (2015, a Halloween font, with funny pumpkin dingbats in one of the styles), Bobbie (2015: free demo), Brushfiber (2015), Ariflikey (2015), Quaver (2015), Conflow (2015), Gonggg (2015), and of the techno font Digitall (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Bibest (dry brush script), Rafka Script (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2017: Stevie Wonder (script).

His commercial name is Tooris. Behance link. Creative Market link. Most recent Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Taylor Trostle

Graphic designer in Sarasota, FL. Behance link. He used a bamboo calligraphy pen to create the hand-drawn typeface Steep (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Taznix Creative
[Ricky Hartasni]

Semarang / Batang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 2000) of these typefaces in 2020: Aditta, Aihana Handwritten Font, Ankormati, Archeria, Avalla, Bastille Vredeburg (Victorian), Bethaine (formal calligraphic), Bubble Balloon, Buonapati (Victorian), Cyrille, Engkrak, Epines (a signage script), Eternal Ego (a spurred dystopian typeface), Fringilla (spurred), Grano, Jazking (a comic book typeface), Lacqua, Lalapis (a cartoon font), Limpung, Planus (an octagonal stencil typeface), Redpine (letterpress emulation), Silver Shield (a monster truck font), The Heritages Palace, Viennero (spurred, Victorian), Waraxe.

Typefaces from 2021: Rothest (a layerable Victorian font with applications to tattoos), Degan (a bold children's book typeface), Shampoerna Betoel (a decorative Victorian typeface), Ankormati (Victorian), Magroe (a layerable vintage label font), Aditta (a monoline script), Novusa (a street art font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ted Staunton

Born in Lincoln, UK, in 1942, Ted Staunton lives in Surrey, BC, and designs type. After serving a five-year apprenticeship as a hand compositor (1958-1963) with the Lincolnshire Publishing Co., he spent three years (1963-1966) at Leicester College of Art&Design, graduating in type design. After spending some time in London working for Penguin, Hamlyn and other book publishing houses, he emigrated to Canada in 1970, working for Mitchell Press and Hemlock Printers in Vancouver before opening his own design business and letterpress printing shop, Sherwood Graphics, in 1984. In 1991 he published a private press book, The Lincolnshire Poacher, illustrated with his own wood-engravings. Some of his fonts were used privately on transfer lettering sheets and cast in metal for hand typesetting at his private press, Sherwood Letterpress. His typefaces are mostly published bi P22:

In 2003, P22 launched Staunton's Sherwood Type Collection, a beautiful ensemble of revivals: Afton (2003), Albemarle (2008: connected script), Albion (2003), Albion Italic, Amelia (2003: ornamental caps in the style of William Morris), Aragon (2003: Victorian), Avocet Light (1985: chancery script originally named Avoca), Canterbury (2006, +Caps A, Caps B, Caps C, Pro), Elven (2003), Floriat (2003: floriated ornaments), Founders (2003), Freely (2002), Kaz (2008, between architecture and Comic Sans), Kaz Thin, P22 Kelly Pro (2009, Celtic style uncial), Latimer (2002), Lindum (2000; based on his Lindum Titling from 1967), Mayflower (2002: medieval lettering), Mayflower Italic, Mayflower Smooth (2009), Mercian (2003), Plymouth (2001), Roanoke Script (2002, a rough texture typeface; Albemarle is the smooth version), 1722 roman (2002), 1722 italic, Sherwood (2002), Sparrow (2001), Symphony (1987), Tyndale (2002), and Tyndale Xtras (2002: Arabesque ornaments).
Typefaces from 2004: Merton, P22 Ruffcut and P22 Spooky (blackletter).
Typefaces from 2005: the Staunton Script (package P22), which includes handwritten style typefaces that simulate the period spanning between the English Civil War (1640s) and the Victorian Era (1839-1901): Virginian, Royalist, Grosvenor, Grenville, Elizabethan, Broadwindsor, Chatham. Staunton Script was first drawn in 1981.
Typefaces from 2006: P22 Phantasmagoria (a wedge serif inspired by Viking runes), P22 Regina (calligraphic).
Typefaces from 2011: Bix, Brigid.
Typefaces from 2013: the spurred typeface Ridley, which is based on his Avalon Text (2002).
Typefaces from 2014: P22 Amelia Jayne (which has a classical roman, with several sets of initial caps).
Typefaces from 2015: P22 Clementine (sans, curly: pure Victoriana), P22 Ringwell (Victorian).
Typefaces from 2019: P22 Kingsclere. Inspired by a 17th century tombstone inscription in the town of Remedios, Cuba.
Typefaces from 2020: P22 Ridley (a spurred medieval typeface, named for Nicholas Ridley and similar in style to Staunton's Latimer font), P22 Tuscaloosa (P22: a hybrid Tuscan typeface).
Typefaces from 2021: P22 Araminta (a Tuscan Victorian font).
Undated roman: Bentley.
Undated sans: Witham Light.
Undated initial caps: Arabella Initials, Florabunda (floriated Lombardic caps).
Undated blackletter: Luther, Yeoman.
Undated Victorian typefaces: Arabella.
Undated scripts: Guildford, Hykeham Swash, Nadine, Saluki.
Undated text typeface: Crossroad.

Klingspor link. P22 link.

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TeGeType
[Thierry Gouttenègre]

Thierry Gouttenègre is a Belgian designer (b. 1961), who is located in Tullins-Fures, France. After a stint as type director of Alfac-Decadry in Belgium, Thierry Gouttenègre moved to the south of France and started his own Design Studio in the mid 90s. In 2007, he set up TeGeType. He is one of my favorite type designers. His fonts:

Aldogizio (2013). The name gives the font away, an amalgamation of Aldo Novarese and Egizio---this is a slab serif fest.
Batarde Bourguignonne: a medieval blackletter.
Carcel (2009): striped letters.
Cinio (2009): used for signage by several French cities. For use on screen, he slightly rounded the corners and released the result as Cinio Text in 2019.
David Aubert (1992, Alfac): a bastarda (bâtarde bourguignonne) named after David Aubert, the calligrapher of Philippe Le Bon and Charles Le téméraire, both dukes of Burgundy who worked and lived in Brussels in the 1500s.
Dickens (1995, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Dilectus (2019). Originally intended for musea, this lapidary typeface takes inspiration from paleochristian engravings.
Falace (2008): a contemporary interpretation of the Didone typefaces.
Firmin Didot (1989, Alfac).
Fournier (1990, Alfac).
Fraktur (1990, Alfac).
Grégoire (1994, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Alipe Script (2014). A calligraphic connected (wedding, chancery, greeting card, divrce) script.
Hugo (1995, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Kafka (1994, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Limine (2008), a 3D beveled typeface family in styles called Creux and Relief.
LouisJou (2000).
Majuscule (1991, Alfac).
Neutre (1997, Fonderie Barthélémy). A sans family specially designed for signposting applications. This type family is used by several cities in France.
Oculi Magni (2020). Specially designed for small and tight texts, the glyphs have maximal x-height.
Otsu Sans (2011) and Otsu Slab (2013).
Poltrone (2010), a great titling family inspired by 19-th century public inscriptions.
Rome (1995, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Rosart (1991, Alfac), named after the 18th century Belgian typefounder, J.-F. Rosart.
Sand (1996, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Sursum (2009): a roman almost-typewriter family.
Tolstoï (1994, Fonderie Barthélémy).
Varvara (2017: a weathered all caps constructivist typeface created as a tribute to Barbara Stepanova (1894-1958)).
Vizille (1998-2009): a phenomenal Fournier text family made for the Musée de la Revolution Française in Vizille.
WebType (2002): a techno family.

View Thierry Gouttenègre's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Telllu Craft
[Ingga Nafasyah]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based cooperative that includes people such as Ingga Endita Nafasyah (b. 1982), Aditya Nugraha Putra and Ilham Wahyu. They published the formal calligraphic typeface Sinestesia (2018, inspired by brush lettering from old sign paintings; made by Haris MM), Wander Type (2018: signage) and Articlave (2018: a vintage display type with one art nouveau style, and plenty of classical ornaments). Typefaces from 2019 and 2020 include MissBaker, Bustanist, Endita, Kosakatta (a signature font), Boulevard, Downtown, Goodkids, Goodline (a monoline script), Hands Down, Harson, Hi Girls, Hustle Bustle, Miggoe, Nafasyah, Nielsen Rough, Rosella. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Teri Martin Designs

Gorgeous lettering on a poster by calligrapher Teri Martin. [Google] [More] ⦿

Terima Kasih
[WUB Studio]

Terrestrial Design
[Carl Crossgrove]

Terrestrial Design is Carl Crossgrove's web site. Crossgrove graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printing /Typography, and has shown a life-long interest in calligraphy and lettering. Now based in San Francisco, he has worked at Adobe, where he designed the Multiple Master hand-printed (semi-Celtic or stone-carved) families Reliq (1998), Reliq Std Active and Reliq Std ExtraActive in 2002, and where, with the help of Kim Buker Chansler and Carol Twombly, he co-designed the Western fonts (Adobe's Wood Series) Origami (hookish, in the expressionist style of Menghart and Preissig), Pepperwood (1994), Ponderosa (1990), Rosewood (1994) and Zebrawood (1994). He was also active at ITC (ITC Minska, 1996) and Agfa Monotype (Origami, a Menhart or Preissig style family; and Mundo Sans, 2002: a 14-weight humanist family, which includes a fantastic hairline sans).

Other fonts by Crossgrove include Othello (2002, with Steve Matteson), Wakerobin (based on hand-painted billboards, posters and signage lettering of the mid-19th century), Scripsit (which was named Judges' Choice in Serif Magazine's 1996 type design competition), Tarantella Script, Ranunculus, Penmark, Curlz MT (1995, Monotype; with Steve Matteson).

Beorcana (2006) is a 28-part serifless roman in the style of Optima or typefaces like Albertus, Stellar, Tiepolo, Barbedor, Lydian and Amira. In the making since 1992, this flared calligraphic book typeface was released by Monotype in 2006. Stephen Coles states: Beorcana is Crossgrove's best and most complete design yet. I can declare from personal experience that it is beautifully drawn and sets very well, small or large, thanks to three optical size masters. It will be a hit with fans of calligraphic sans serifs like Optima. It won an award at TDC2 2007 and was one of the best types of 2007. Florian Hardwig writes: The typeface has no serifs, yet its the opposite of a grotesque. It exhibits the rhythmic contrast and the humanist proportions of a renaissance roman. Its letters please with vividly dancing forms in every detail. However, this obvious calligraphic derivation never seems inappropriately fancy even the spruce swash italics are down-to-earth in a convenient way. The Thin isn't anemic and the Ultra isn't heavy-handed. Crossgrove really knows his stuff. Beorcana Pro (2006-2013) comes in Regular, Display and Micro styles.

Nebulon (2008) is an organic typeface that won an award at TDC2 2009. This retro-futuristic, soft superelliptical display sans-serif design was renamed Biome a year later.

With Rod McDonald, he created Egyptian Slate (2009, Monotype).

Linotype published ITC Galliard Etext in 2013, after the 1978 garalde typeface by Matthew Carter called ITC Galliard. It lists Carl Crossgrove as its designer.

In 2014, Crossgrove published the Burlingame typeface family at Monotype. He calls this sans collection sturdy, muscular and decisive.

From 2003 until 2014, he designed the OEM Monotype font Halesworth Etext.

In 2017, he published the comic book typeface family Cavolini at Monotype. Still in 2017, Karl Leuthold, Juan Villanueva and Carl Crossgrove co-designed the breezy script typeface Sagrantino (Monotype) in Regular, Highlight and Shadow substyles.

In 2018, Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, Juan Villanueva and Lynne Yun co-designed Walbaum, a reimagined superfamily with 69 total fonts, in five optical sizes. Monotype writes: Walbaum was meticulously crafted by Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, and Juan Villanueva to bring Justus Erich Walbaum's high contrast didone style masterpiece to the 21st century. Walbaum has over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features like small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures. Also included in the family are three decorative and ornament fonts.

At the end of 2018, he published the rough-edged calligraphic typeface Amarone at Monotype.

Typefaces from 2019: Mundo Serif (Monotype).

Linotype page. Adobe's page. MyFonts page. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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Terry Kunysz
[Casady&Greene (Fluentlaserfonts)]

Terry Lee
[Veil of Perception]

Testegiatta

Calligraphic term: the headed ascenders or plumelike terminals to b, d, h, and l, in particular, which became an ornamental feature of the 16th-century italic bastarda script. [Google] [More] ⦿

Teuku Asrul Sami
[Assami Studio (or: Sammy Studio)]

Teuku Asrul Sami

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the script typeface Cranberries (2018) and the calligraphic typefaces The Singers (2018), Sellica (2018) and Amelia Kanny (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Teuku Deky Firnanda
[Seruput (or: Barokah, or: Graptail)]

Teuku Fahruddin
[Typehill]

Teuku Hamzah
[Mordex Studio]

Teuku Marjan Bahrainy
[Stipline Studios (was: Fittingline Type Supply, or: Apon Bahrainy)]

Teuku Muhammad Zaki
[Zaki Creative]

Teuku Muslyawan
[Donya Design]

Teuku Rinaldi Novianda
[Max.co Studio]

Teuku Riski Firmana
[TRF Fonts]

Teuku Saifullah
[Shape Studio]

Teuku Zulfikar
[Joss Type]

Teweka
[Tuanku Muhammad Iqbal]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1993, of the brush script typeface Liberty Brush (2016), and the calligraphic typefaces Shania (2016), Silicia (2016) and Median Script (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Blackpool, Slavelake, San Francisco, Palestine (thin calligraphic typeface), Camelia (calligraphic), Stalingrad (calligraphic), Washington (calligraphic), Society Script, Anatasha (calligraphic), Paradise (calligraphic), Phoenix (calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2018: Syndicate.

Typefaces from 2020: Nightingale (a Spenerian calligraphic script), Galisha (a fine script).

Typefaces from 2021: Columbia (wild calligraphy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

TexType

Type designer and artist at Lettering Delights who made these fonts: TXT Abrasive font, TXT Altius font, TXT Annesia font, TXT Antique Italic font, TXT Antique Poster font, TXT Brush Script font, TXT Delicate Script font, TXT Fancy Caps font, TXT Fat Hatch font, TXT Groovy Smooth font, TXT Hoopla font, TXT Hunkaspunk font, TXT Jubulation font, TXT Long Hand font, TXT Menu Item font, TXT Monique font, TXT Monkeyshine font, TXT Nuptials font, TXT Old English font, TXT Personality font, TXT Romanesque font, TXT Rough Button font, TXT SantaFont font, TXT Scribbletti font, TXT Seasonal font, TXT Sloppy Script font, TXT Small World font, TXT Soda Shoppe font, TXT Stonewashed font, TXT Tough Love font. Most of these are hand-drawn or grungy. [Google] [More] ⦿

TGIF STD

TGIF STD stands for Thanks God I'm Fontmaker Studio. Located in Bandung, Indonesia, this commercial type foundry produced these typefaces in 2016: Sigismund No. 7, Eugiene (monoline script), Aiden, Hodor (inspired by the character Hodor from Game of Thrones), Bengrraas (monoline ans), New Autumn (soft hand-printed), The Arms Race (bilined), Brushcheetah (brush script), Eugiene (poster typeface), Landon (deco), Camille (signage script), Neorah (neon style), December Script, Companion (spurred Victorian style), Boullevard (sic), Adeft (brush face), Vignette Script (calligraphic), Mewton, Castle John (Victorian), Pixelo, Desmodo, Elliot (fun script), Montour (geometric slab serif), Aiden (handcrafted slab serif), Madison (Victorian).

Typefaces from 2017: Kakamora, The Servant (sans), Chaiaathah, Hollawinds (a rough rounded sans), Sunshine Boy, Remembrance, Beornheard, Glodiolusy, Caang, Sanur Beach, Jomantara, Daddy Day (titling sans), Fatherly (inline), Amorette Light (elementary geometric sans), Badstar, Scriptonesia, Adeft.

Typefaces from 2018: Lucky Irish Dingbats, Lucky Prince Lettering Dingbats, Easterica, Mongli (all caps sans), Cincoyo (Tuscan), Hippo Letto, Huckleberries, Iacott Neue, Valentine's Dingbats, The Rogue (textured), Thank You Dingbats, Sun Pepper, Reilly, Regan Slab, Rawwwing (eerie style), Penny Farthing, Oliemolly, New Autumn, Ms Orange Sky, Little Girl (children's script), Leo Bronx (weathered athletic lettering), Leaderson, Laudya Bloods, Juneville (octagonal), Hellowins, Helldings, Echizen (brush), Coast Redwood (a pirate font), Chukies, Caldwell (+Easter eggs), Baileyns, Brodetto, Bellquina, Audie, Von Everect, Gustavo (art deco sans), The Queen (inline, spurred), Stardust Moonlight, Serenity (calligraphic), Questro (inline stencil), Otakaku, Dhangdose (spurred), Desmodus, Romaniesta, Emery (octagonal). [Google] [More] ⦿

Thaddeus Ted Szumilas
[Thaddeus Typographic Center]

Thaddeus Typographic Center
[Thaddeus Ted Szumilas]

Thaddeus "Ted" Szumilas was born in Poland in 1951. In 1966 he emigrated to the United States where he attended Haaren H.S. and Parsons School of Design, majoring in Graphic Design. Practical experiences at Lubalin, Smith&Carnase Design Studio and with John Pistilli at Sudler&Hennessey ad agency prepared him for the real world of typographic design. He did book jackets, packaging, corporate identity, entertainment and TV. Here is one of his early typefaces. Thaddeus has been teaching the curriculum of basic and advanced typography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 1998-2008. Designer of the swashbuckler / medieval script family Ovidius Script (2001, FontHaus; in Light, Demi and Bold weights; also known as TS Ovidius), Sans Original, On The Line (2008, great calligraphic grunge), Singles Bar (2008, display sans), Wind Factor (more calligraphic grunge), Agitas Gallery (2008, blackletter), Big New Sign (2008), Breslau City (2008), Daily Fix (2008), Deltona (2008), Nigerian King (2008, avant garde face), Stigmal (2008, African theme), Amerigraf (2009), Election (2009, medieval with a rough outline), Gillateg (2009, grungy outline), Wackoface (grungy like Treefrog), Taliography (2009, another script with a rough outline).

Tharso Duarte

Illustrator in Blumenau, Brazil, who drew the calligraphic alphabet Tharso in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tharwat Emara Thuluth
[Tharwat Mohamed Emara]

Egyptian designer (b. 1972) of the calligraphic Arabic typefaces Naskh (2017), Modern (2017, for signage), Ruqaa (2017) and Thuluth (2017), and the royal Naskh font Dewani (2017).

In 2018, Tharwat designed Almona Dewany (an interlocking Arabic typeface usedful for official graduation certificates, certificates of appreciation and decorations), Almona Ornament (a religious font), Almona Thuluth (calligrahic, for Latin, Farsi, Urdu and Arabic), Al Thuluth, Osama Modern, Ahmed New (for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Latin) and Dr Mohammed and Sara.

Typefaces from 2019: TE Aldewan, TE Alkhatat, TE Start2, Alruqaa TE, TE Start1, TE Poster, TE Banner, TE Sarah, TE Heading, Alnaskh Quraan, Tharwat Emara Thuluth Golden 2, Thulth Tharwat Emara Golden.

Typefaces from 2020: TE Aldwawin (Diwani calligraphy), TE Nastaaliq , Te Reqaa Gold, Sara Tharwat Emara Modern.

Typefaces from 2021: TE Fantasy, TE Cathrine, TE Cathrine 2, TE Classic Tharwat Emara, TE Rekaah3, TE Rekaah (Arabic), TE Rekaah 2 , TE HAFS (a Naskh Font for writing the Holy Quran by Raweya Hafs). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tharwat Mohamed Emara
[Tharwat Emara Thuluth]

The Audacious Brush

Oakland, CA-based designer of Tiki Serenade (2019: calligraphic) and Anaiyah Sunshine (2019: a brush script). [Google] [More] ⦿

The Difficult Type
[James Kilfiger]

James Kilfiger (The Difficult Type) designed the free calligraphic typeface Inkcallig (2006), as well as T-Ball (2006, handwriting), LetsTrace (2006; a *very* readable light sans, even at small sizes), LetsTraceruled (a school font), Letstraceitalic, Pugsley (2006, a bi-ped Tuscan, based on an eighteenth century clock maker's sign from an old edition of Signs of the Times magazine), Pugsley Oblique (2006), AlphabetofChildren (2006, based on 16th century illuminated caps), Animal Silhouette (2006), Fold (2006, an origami-inspired face), Pierce Roman and Oblique (2006, after Gentium), Untitled1 (2010, a chess font), Tudor Rose (2010, script), Fold (2011, paper fold face), Transcends Games (2011, fututuristic), Lets Trace (2011, a school font for tracing), Tudor Rose (2011, an ornamental fat finger family), Pierce Oblique (2011, an angular face), Chess (2011), Wire Wyrm (2011, hairline serif face), Orthoventional Upright (2011), Ackermann (2013), Fifteen (2013, a faux bitmap font) and Contrans.

In 2013, he designed the free monospaced typeface Quinze Narrow.

Link at the Open Font Library. Aka Zeimusu. [Google] [More] ⦿

The European Voynich Manuscript Transcription Project Home Page
[Gabriel Landini]

Gabriel Landini designed EVA Hand 1 (medieval glyphs as taken from the Voynich manuscript), Voynich-CurrierHandA and Voynich-EVAHandA. Download file. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿

The Fontmaker
[Jordan Jelev]

Jordan Jelev (The Fontmaker) is the Varna, Bulgaria-based graphic and logo designer (b. 1975, Varna) who specializes in wine label design. He set up The Fontmaker in 2011. Their typefaces:

The calligraphic Cyrillic alphabet Kaloyan (2008).
The double-lined Grant (2009, with Svetoslav Simov, Fontfabric).
FM Clog (2011, with Vassil Kateliev, done at The Fontmaker). This font has Openface, Shadowed and Engraved styles.
FM Bolyar (2012) is a copperplate typeface jointly designed by Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev at The Fontmaker. See also the spurred version FM Bolyar Ornate Pro ansd the weathered family FM Bolyar Typecarft. In 2019, after a full year of development, they published the 63-style all caps sans family FM Bolyar Sans Pro.
FM Valentines Pro (2012). For Valentine's Day messages.
FM Christmas 2.0 (26 hand-lettered Christmas greetings), done in 2012.
FM Ephire (2013). A lively script family, done with Vassil Kateliev. It comes with a useful caps companion, FM Ephire Frames.
FM Easter Pro (2013). For Easter wishes.
FM Thank You (2014). Thank you hand lettering.
FM Birthday 1.0 (2015) consists of 26 birthday-related words and phrases.
The enormous typeface family FMBolyar TypeCraft (2016) Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev. This family has Engraved, Shadow, Rust, Rough and Woodcut subfamilies. Many styles are spurred. Caps only, though.

Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Recent Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

The Hungry Jpeg

London-based graphics marketplace in the style of Creative Market. Publisher of a few typefaces such as Millanha (2017: calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

The Icelandic Method
[Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem]

A free instruction booklet by Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem written in 1985, and concerned with handwriting education for Icelandic children. Nan Jay Barchowsky, who published it in her series called Cursive Italic News says: The Ministry of Education in Iceland is introducing italic handwriting in schools. That is the result of pressure from teachers who were dissatisfied with the style they had, a copperplate-based business hand. A group of Icelandic teachers who are interested in experimental teaching of italic formed a working party last year, They were interested in the method and asked Briem to put together instructions that could be used with children by teachers who had little or no experience with italic. The members of the working party initially paid for the printing out of their own pockets. Dr. Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem donated his work. The scheme has been very well received. Letters of support have come in from handwriting experts in many parts of the world, Education authorities in other countries have suggested collaboration. The PDF showcases three font families by Briem himself, Italiuskrift05 (his casual handwriting for instructions, dated 1985), BriemAnvil06 (serif family) and BriemAnvilSans07 (sans family). [Google] [More] ⦿

The Ink Affair
[Bhavika Malhotra]

New Delhi, India-based designer, b. 1993, of the brush script typefaces Cuddle and Kind (2017), Vanilla Vibes (2017), Glitter City (2017), Oh Azalea (2017: monoline script), Morning Glory (2017), Ciao Bella (2017), Hey Buttercup (2017), Everyday Loving (2017), Pillow Talk (2017), Mutual Feelings (2017), Boss Babe (2017), Scoops (2017, in monoline and regular), Glen+Coco (2017), Oh Wonder (2017, Sans and Script), Berrylicious (2017), Casablanca (2017), Hey Prettiness (2017), Hotsy Totsy (2017), Longhand (2017), Darling (2017) and Snuggle (2017), the connected script typeface Azalea (2017), and the dry brush typeface Lacuna (2017).

Typefaces from late 2017: Snuggle, The Glamorous Tale, Strawberry Shortcake, That Girl, Unstoppable, Beauty Rush, Hey Alice, Crystal Castle, Oh Lovely, Artistic Chaos.

Typefaces from 2018: Wild Magnolia, Midnight Story, Exclusively Chic (font duo), Wild Wanderlust, Extra Cheese, Ever Enigmatic, Musings Script, Oh Spring, Simply Breathtaking, Enchantress (a luxurious script), Mostly Sunshine. [Google] [More] ⦿

The Letter Office

Designers of the angular calligraphic text typeface Brightcut. [Google] [More] ⦿

The Paper Town
[Jessika Granell]

French designer of these script typefaces in 2019: ChocoLatte Script, Kingston (brush script, and ink splash dingbats), Marshmallow (handcrafted), Allegoria (calligraphic).

In 2020, she released Kotomi Display (a high contrast all caps serif), Maille (a creamy upright script) and Maltese SVG (a watercolor brush font).

Typefaces from 2021: Polarity (a text family), Butter Sweet (script), Slick (an SVG brush font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

The Pen & Brush
[Amy Ellks]

Amy Ellks (The Pen & Brush) creates commercial graphics items. Her fonts, mostly hand-drawn in a lively poster style, include Mia Bella (2014, an über-decorated Valentine's Day typeface; +Lighthearted), Love & Stuff (2014, a calligraphic font), Le Petit Parisien (2014, a gorgeous hand-drawn poster typeface), Le Petit Parisien Light (2014, outlined version), Sweet Wanderlust (2014), Brooklyn Girl (2014, a great connected curly script), and Made From Scratch (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿

The Private Press and Type foundry
[Paul Hayden Duensing]

Paul Hayden Duensing (1928-2006) was a typographer and type designer who ran The Private Press and Type foundry, in Vicksburg, MI. Designer of Sans Descender, Chancery Italic (1966), Rustica Sixteenth Century Roman, Quadrata II, Janson Open (experimental), Van Krimpen Open Capitals (numerals only; designed by Will Reuter and cut by Duensing), Octavian Caps, Unciala, and Dartmouth (designed by Will Carter, cut by Duensing). In 1990, he published a gorgeously hand-set booklet entitled "Deutsche Druckschriften", in which he says: "The present portfolio attempts no campaign for Fraktur; rather it makes only a quiet appeal for consideration of a great, if neglected, calligraphic typeface." The blackletter types shown there are, I presume, made by him: Heinzemann No99M, Heinzemann No100M, Dürer No.256, Wallau, Jessen, Kasseler No. 40 Teutonic Text, Theuerdank No. 392, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Schrift, Blücher No. 387 and Koch Initials. He was a generous man, who in the last year of his life donated his typefounding machines, matrices and effects to young people.

Mac McGrew explains Andromaque's genesis: Andromaque is a cursive form of uncial letter, mixing Greek forms of aeklmnstz with Roman forms of the other letters, yet retaining legibility and harmony. The original size was cut by Victor Hammer and cast in France. The 14-point size was begun by Hammer, but left unfinished at his death. The font was completed by his long-time friend, R. Hunter Middleton, in the early 1980s, and cast by Paul H. Duensing. Paul Baker did a digital version of Andromaque in 1995.

Duensing died on November 9, 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿

The Styled Script (or: Luna Paper Co)
[Lindsay Kramlich]

Luna Paper Co was founded by two sisters in 2015 out of Denver, CO. One of them, Lindsay Kramlich, designed some delicate and classy calligraphic typefaces. In 2018, she published Sangria Script, California Dreamer, Julietta, Somersette (script) and Adore Calligraphy.

Typefaces from 2019: Fiori, Canyonlands (wild calligraphy), Modern Bohemian (Sans, Script), Monterey Script (calligraphic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

The Traveling Fox
[Merk Mansoon]

Designer of these typefaces:

Scripts: Nakser (2018), Electric Thunder (2018), Karima (2018: calligraphic), Whitby (2017), Whitby (2017), Marrane (2017), Darley dale (2017), Arundel (2017), St Albans (2017), Carlisle (2017), Cinderford (2017), Bexley (2017), Skatera (2017), Askern (2017: calligraphic), Bampton (2017: a signature font), Ashburton (2017), Castle Combe (2017), Lundy (2017), Marettimo (2017), Swindon (2017), Mustique (2017), Isle of Staffa (2017), Mauna Loa (2017: calligraphic), Roman Love Story (2017), Natron (2017), Splendis (2017).
Sans: Polperro Sans (2017).
Inline: Catumbo (2017: Tuscan).
Display types: Ancutz (2018), Thirsk (2017, +Carved), Skulk (2017), Abberwick (2017).

The Type Fetish
[Michael Wallner]

Born in Minneapolis, MN, in 1967, Michael J. Wallner (now in St. Paul, MN) graduated from the College of Visual Arts. In 2001, he set up The Type Fetish.

His typefaces include Pushki Pro (2011, a slabby poster typeface based on some hand lettering found on a Russian poster), Lard Pro (2011, very fat and high-contrast typeface; +Greek, +Cyrillic), Brogue (2009), Casualties Pro (2009, grunge), Kari Sans (alyered typeface family), Fabricate (2007, fururistic), Idiot Boy (2010, grunge), Numbskul (2007, grunge), Parcel (2007, grunge), Reverend Jim (2007, handwriting; with Jim Laitinen), Recreant (1998, grunge), Used (2002, grunge), Calligraphy-Unicase (2007), Commuter (2008, gridded letters), Fabricate-Inline, Fabricate-Regular, Fabricate-Thin (2009, techno family), Grimm (2008, a German expressionist blackletter), Fucsimile (2009---no idea what this is), S4QUFX (2009, dot matrix face), Amrep 026, Borough Pro (2010, random width squarish sans set), Broken Vows, Casualties, Cheapo, Cubage, Dimentia, Discharge (grunge), DIY-One (2002), DIY-Two (2002), Dimerit, Filth, Fucsimile (degraded fax or old typewriter), Insurgent (2009, grunge), Kaaos (2005, eroded stencil), Maim, Nascent, Quadrate, Refuse (2009, grunge), Sabotage, Squarish, Straphanger (2009, dot matrix face), The Crew (stencil font), Universally Corrupt, Whore, Xiphoid and Zen Arcade.

Michael did not publish any fonts between 2011 and 2018. In 2018, he returned with a mammoth 50-font layerable typeface family, Apnea, which are based on old painted signs.

MyFonts.Com is selling the fonts. The free font Sabotage (2002) can be downloaded here.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Théo Guillard

Toulouse and now Paris, France-based freelance designer, who created Izy (2014), Autumn (2014, a textura face), Easy (2014, a fat display typeface), and Gerhard (2014, a take on Bernhard Gothic, 1930).

In 2016, he designed the inline didone typeface Zina at Indian Type Foundry and Fontshare.

In 2018, he designed the great angular typeface Sharpie Script (free at Fontshare).

Guillard won the bronze medal in the Latin category at the 22nd Morisawa Type Design competition in 2019 for Easy.

In 2019, he released Carmin at Future Fonts. Carmin is like a hipsterized uncial.

In 2020, he published the fat stone cut calligraphic typeface Grenat. Future Fonts link.

Zodiak (2021, Jérémie Hornus, Gaetan Baehr, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Alisa Nowak, and Théo Guillard at Fontshare) is a free 24-style text family with Century-like newspaper roots and sturdy bracketed slab serifs that was originally named Claire (2020).

Gambarino (2016-2021, Fontshare). A condensed, single-weight serif face for headlines. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

TheLetterheads.com

Tutorial pages on hand lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

Theo Kurpershoek

Dutch lettering artist, b. Rotterdam, 1914, d. 1998. He taught lettering at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1955 until 1971. One of his students there was Gerard Unger. Some of his working papers and designs are at the University of Amsterdam. In 2004, Mathieu Lommen published the paper Belettering van Theo Kurpershoek en Gerrit Noordzij in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam in Nieuwsbrief Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge. [Google] [More] ⦿

Thiago Bellotti
[Gestu]

Thiago Gomes

Recife, Brazil-based designer of the free pixel typeface balance (2018) and the calligraphic typeface Wonderland (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Thierry Gouttenègre
[TeGeType]

Think Design: Script Faces

A listing of free high quality mostly calligraphic script typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿

Thinstroke
[Antonio (Tony) DiSpigna]

Italian type designer, b. 1943, Forio d'Ischia, Italy, who emigrated to the USA. Di Spigna graduated from from New York City Community College in 1964 and then from Pratt Institute in 1967. His first design job was at Bonder&Carnase. In 1969, he joined Lubalin Smith Carnase Inc. He founded his own studio, Tony DiSpigna Inc in 1973. DiSpigna taught typography at the Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts and the New York Institute of Technology. In 2009, Tony Di Spigna and Bill Hilson (a colleague at Pratt) founded Thinstroke, which joined Type Network in 2021.

DiSpigna's typefaces:

ITC Serif Gothic. Designed in 1972 by Herb Lubalin and Tony DeSpigna for the International Typeface Corporation, it is a "cold" almost copperplate typeface. Serif Gothic started as a scribble sketch for a French shirt company, Hechter Chemise, a client of Herb Lubalin. The sketch made it into a presentation by Tom Carnase, but was rejected by the client. Type Network writes: During a rare slow day at the office, Di Spigna decided to develop and sketch the remaining capitals, adding a lower case and some alternate characters. In his free time, he decided to finish the design with ink and white paint. Despite it being Di Spigna's first full typeface, Serif Gothic went on to become quite popular. Serif Gothic was used for the original Star Wars films's posters.
Playgirl.
ITC Lubalin Graph (with Herb Lubalin).
Fattoni (1968).
DiSpigna Roman (1969). One of his arly typefaces at Lubalin Smith Carnase Inc. He writes: When I got out of school at Pratt in 1967, I fell in love with Herb Lubalin's posters of his new typefaces, especially Pistilli Roman. (See page 34 of the Herb Lubalin book by Alan Peckolick.) I vowed that someday I would do one even better and heavier in weight. So, in 1969, I designed DiSpigna Roman in pencil on tracing paper, and executed it on heavy stock bond paper with the traditional ink and white clean up paint-the way we did all executions of letterform and typefaces back then. It became one of the first faces we digitized when we created Thinstroke. This typeface harkens directly back to 1969. I still love Pistilli, but I do think my DiSpigna Ultra is heavier with more luscious curves. DiSpigna Ultra (2022) can be found at Type Network.
ITC Korinna (1974). Designed together with Ed Benguiat).
WNET.
Spignarian Script (2021). A creamy formal calligraphic script published by Thinstroke.
DiSpence Script (2021). A Spencerian script published by Thinstroke.

FontShop link. Another MyFonts link. Logo. Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Thirteen Studio (or: Lost Volt Type foundry)
[Ryan Prasetya]

Ryan Prasetya (Republik Digital and Lost Volt Type foundry, Tangerang, Indonesia) created the spurred Victorian signage typefaces Arsemith (2015) and Stonebangs (2014), the tattoo typeface family Maroline (2015), and the art deco typeface Herline (2014).

In 2015, he created Beautiful Friday (a calligraphic script and about 20 related handcrafted typefaces), Mutiara Vintage (letterpress emulation), the connected Vanessa, the connected script The Flanela, Mutiara (brush script), Nadhin Script (cursive), Nadhin Sans, Lussira Brushscript, Castrina Typescript and Syaquilla, as well as the spurred Victorian typeface Evolution.

Typefaces from 2016: Agistha (logotype and script), Novitha Script, Kali Angke (layering typeface), Shella Hera (sans and script), the striped shadow typeface Vhiena and the copperplate typeface Renassance (sic).

Typefaces from 2017: Moon & Chips, Vhiena 2.0 (layered), Vayentha Script, Vayentha Sans, The Braggest.

Typefaces from 2018: Madeleine (a free signature font), Lineton (sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Maryatha (an SVG script font), Panhitra Slab.

Typefaces from 2020: Ariston (a comic book font), Retrica (a rounded hand-printed all caps font), Free Love Script. Graphicriver link. Creative Market link. Dafont lnk. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Thirtypath (or: Pathero Studio)
[Jun Herjuna]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1983, of the brush script typefaces Adilla + Rita (2015), Ausyilla (2015), The Barrack (2015), Geuceu (2015) and Ballistic (2015), the calligraphic Workaholic (2015) and Autumn Flower Script (2015), the handcrafted Crash One and Crash Two (2015, free), and the curly script Kracktone (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Metal Ink, Beastmachine (brush script), Connoisseurs (connected script), Beauty Angelique (calligraphic), Bright Daddy, Angelow (dry brush), Bellinda Script, Serangkai (script), Maximaz, Legacy, Billaneiva (swashy calligraphic script), Bareken (an elegant signage script).

Typefaces from 2017: Mishaland (signage script), West Cousin (daring modern calligraphy), Bantham, Lambaretta (or Lambretta; a free signage script), Fusterd (brush script), Ballada (free watercolor brush), Volletra (free calligraphic script), The Zains (free brush script), Amigos (signage script), Hello Bunda, Terranika, Andieny Script (formal calligraphic), Mahdaleina (calligraphic and swashy), Boldie Script, Helliebrie (script), Bright Visions, Bellatrix (free brush script), Bammantoe (connected script).

Typefaces from 2018: Bellaneiva, Bitter Mind, Eleineighteen, Andriani Script, Mandymores, Alleiyana, Boomerang (signage script), Bright Daddy, Kracktone (curly script), Salernitana Script, Boomerang Script (for signage), Gold Brush, Ballistic (curly script), Rommantis, Fusterd Brush, The Zains, Lambaretta, Ballada, Crash One, Legacy, Madelina, Peque Script, Conditional Script, Passengers Script (a free script).

Typefaces from 2019: Death Zone, The Black Hat (script), Fantastico, Santun Adab, Stamford Bridge, You Are Stranger (brush script), The Woofey Script, Great Himalaya (fat script), The Barrack, Lovely Valentine, Vaelarmoster (a curly script), Valentine Season (dry brush).

Typefaces from 2020: Panbers (brush), Slabor Brush, Theraphiest, Amboera Script.

Creative Market link. Behance link for Pathero Studio. Pathero Studio link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Thom Janssen
[Geen Bitter]

Thomas Aradea
[Letterara Studio]

Thomas Boucherie
[Maelle Keita]

Thor Christopher Arisland

Thomas Ingmire

Calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

Thomas Jockin

Type designer in Brooklyn and/or Holbrook, NY, b. 1986, who studied at the Parsons School of Design and the inaugural Type@Cooper program. He lived in Portland, OR.

In 2012, he designed the large award-quality copperplate family called Garçon Grotesque.

Typefaces from 2013: Ductus (a five-style broad-nibbed calligraphic / medieval family).

In 2015, he published Azote (a multilined typeface family inspired by the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City).

In 2019, he released the free seven font family Lexend at Google Fonts, together with Bonnie Shaver-Troup. Github link. Dedicated site. Lexend now comes in subfamilies called Deca, Exa, Giga, Mega, Peta, Tera and Zetta. He writes that Lexend is empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency. As prescription eyeglasses achieve proficiency for persons with short-sightedness, Lexend's families were developed using Shaver-Troup Formulations. We will eventually release all seven families as a single variable font featuring its own custom axis. Lexend is thus an implementation of Bonnie Shaver-Troup's 2000 study, in which she theorized that reading performance would improve through the use of (1) hyper expansion of character spacing [which creates a greater lag time and reduces potential crowding and masking effects], (2) expanded scaling, and (3) a sans-serif font [to reduce noise]. Lexend is indeed hyper-widely spaced. Lexend also received support from Santiago Orozco and Hector Gomez.

Additional links: CTAN link with TeX support. Github link by Brain Stone (Yannick Schinko). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Oslo-based designer (b. 1986) of i8080 (2017: old computer screen emulation font), Manos (2017), Modum (2017), Monomod (2017), the tall serif typeface Roland (2017), the modular monoline monospace sans typeface Borgen (2017), Sullivan (2017), Inverted Stencil (2017), the high-contrast sans High Society (2017), and the slim slab serif typeface Klub Katz (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Hothead, Anderson, Nodes, Salome (art nouveau style), Dirdy Birdy (calligraphic and inky), Betong (stencil), Solid Sans, College Sans, Giovanni, Cardboard Cutout, ZX80.

Typefaces from 2019: Brush Off (brush script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Thumbnail Designs
[Andrew Martin]

Andrew Martin (Thumbnail Designs) is a Manchester, UK-based type and graphic designer. He will do custom type design, including signatures. His fonts, dated ca. 2008: Black Swirl (2007-2009, blackletter), Blade (techno/octagonal), Diablo (2007-2010, gothic), Ornate (scratchy), Quantum Leap (futuristic), Serif Regular (constipated and condensed), Script (a calligraphic typeface "ripped off" from Feel Script by Sudtipos, and because of that, discontinued), and Wolverine (faux oriental). Beloved Script (2009) is an elegant upright connected script face. No downloads or sales.

Behance link. Devian tart link.

Dafont link. Aka Smudge and Scribble. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tilde (was: AG Fonts)

Reinis Ludvik's Riga-based Latvian font design and software development company sells high quality fonts (adapted from Bitstream fonts) for Baltic, Cyrillic, Turkish and Eastern European languages. Includes the AG Baltia fonts by Andrejs Grinbergs. Commercial Cyrillic fonts based on Bitstream fonts.

The Tilde/AG Fonts collection published between 1991-1995 also includes these families designed by Andrejs Grinbergs: AGAalenBold, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLetterica, AGMelanie, AGNewHandbook, AGOpus, AGOpusHR, AGPalatial, AGPresquire, AGReverence, AGZeppelin.

The Bitstream-based collection comprised these typefaces in 2015: Aachen, Aldine 401, Aldine 721, Allegro, Alternate Gothic, Am Beauty, Amazone, Amelia, Americana, Amerigo, Aurora, Baker Signet, Balloon, Baltic Ornaments, Bank Gothic, Baskerville, Bell Centennial, Belwe, Bernhard Fashion, Bernhard Modern, Bernhard Tango, Blippo, Bodoni, Bremen, Broadway, Brunch Pro, Brush 445, Brush 738, Brush Script, Calligraph 421, Candida, Carmina, Cataneo, Caxton, Century Old Style, Cheltenham, Clarendon, Classical Garamond, Cloister Black, Cloister, Commercial Script, Constellation Pro, Cooper, Copperplate Gothic, Davida, Della Robbia, Dom, Egyptian 505, Elegant Garamond, Empire, English 111, English 157, Engravers Gothic, Engravers Old English, Exquisite Pro, Flareserif 821, Flemish Script, Folio, Formal 436, Fraktur, Franklin Gothic, Freehand 471, Freehand 521, Freehand 575, Freehand 591, Futura, Futura Black, Geometric 231, Geometric 415, Geometric 706, Geometric 885, Geometric Slabserif 703, Gothic 720, Gothic 725, Gothic 821 Condensed, Goudy Handtooled, Goudy Heavyface, Goudy Old Style, Handel Gothic, Hobo, Humanist 521, Humanist 531, Humanist 777, Huxley Vertical, Impress, Impuls, Incised 901, Informal 011, Kaufmann, Kette Pro, Kuenstler 480, Lapidary 333, Letter Gothic 12, Liberty, Libra, Lucian, Lydian, Lydian Cursive, Matt Antique, Mirarae, Mister Earl, Monterey, Murray Hill, News 702, News 705, News 706, News Gothic, Nuptial, OCR-B-10, Onyx, Oranda, Orator 10, Original Garamond, Parisian, Park Avenue, Piranesi, Poster Bodoni, Prestige 12, Raleigh, Revue, Ribbon 131, Rigaer Tango Pro, Robusta, Romana, Roundhand, Schadow, Scintilla Pro, Seagull, Serifa, Shotgun, Snow Cap, Snowbird, Square 721, Staccato 222, Staccato 555, Starfighter, Stencil, Swiss 721, Tango, Tourandot Pro, Transitional 521, Transitional 551, Umbra, University Roman, VAG Rounded, Waldorf Pro, Wedding Text, Windsor, Zapf Calligraphic 801, Zapf Elliptical 711, Zapf Humanist 601, Zurich.

MyFonts link where one finds Starfighter TL (2012, a font family for gamers), Snowbird (2011, informally hand-printed family), Constellation Pro (geometric sans family), Kette Pro and Rigaer Tango Pro (calligraphic script).

View Tilde's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tim Ahrens
[Just Another Foundry (or: JAF34)]

Tim Donaldson

Not to be confused with the (much older) British type designer and calligrapher, Timothy Donaldson. This Tim Donaldson was born in Tauranga, New Zealand, in 1986.

Donaldson made Pyes Pa (2010-2011), in Headline and Poster styles, high-contrast calligraphic script versions of Bodoni in the style of Canada Type's Memoriam (2009).

The Otama Typeface Project: Otama (2011) is a free didone typeface family with its own dedicated web page. Well, "free" became "not quite free", as the complete Otama family is now priced at 400 dollars. Otama Italic was completed in 2012.

MyFonts link. Behance link. Another Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Timothy Donaldson
[King Ink]

Timothy Donaldson
[Shapes for Cash]

Timothy Moulsdale

Graphic design graduate from the University of Brighton. London-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Lowe Slaughter (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿

Tiny Hand Letter
[Nasruni Fajarita]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of the free connected script typefaces Stellova (2020), Jocellyne (2020), Snowy Holiday (2020), Abiggail (2020), Calliope (2020), Kallyca (2020), Lovellia (2020), Rettica (2020), Biggbey (2020), Battilla (2020: monoline) and Allodya (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Bridgeth (script), Terghosting (a fleshy hand-printed Halloween font), Rafellia (an elegant calligraphic script), Sush (a free cartoon font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tio Yulianto
[Javatype Studio]

Tipo de Fabrica

Depok, Indonesia-based designer of the calligraphic script typeface Ciellda (2018) and the script typefaces Avocado Cream (2018), Be Bold Not Regular (2018) and Ambre (2018). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tipo de Fabrica (was: Vero Type)
[Zulfan Iskandar]

Known first as Ivan Vani and then as Zulfan Iskandar. Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the vampire script typeface Milea (2015), the calligraphic typeface Calista (2015), the connected Panda Tired (2016), Panda Tired Caps (2016), Sheilova Script (2015), and the curly romantic script Weloe (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Blank Monkey, Fabulous Script (calligraphic), Sidolly Script, Lisbon (copperplate calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2017: Madhouz (script and sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Ciellda (script), Blackout.

Typefaces from 2019: Relion (script), Lolly & Choco (a creamy fat script), Avocado Cream. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)
[Josep Pep Patau i Bellart]

Antaviana Typeface Division is a Catalan foundry, est. ca. 2002. It went also under the name Astramat and was also known as ANTAVIANA SERVEIS INTERACTIUS, SCCL. Located in Lleida, it is run by Josep Patau i Bellart (b. 1971, Les Borges Blanques, Lleida). Patau i Bellart offered free fonts, as well as commercial fonts. He has emerged as one of the most talented contemporary Spanish type designers. In 2011, he started Tipo Pepel [MyFonts link] in Les Borges Blanques. Josep Patau's typefaces:

Free typefaces: Lletraferida (2011, a didone), Negrona (2011, a revival of Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard Negro, 1930), Perolet, Lango, Gimenells, Arbeka, Rosango, Antaviana, FoxScript (1996, old typewriter), Unregistered, and FistroRatted (grunge).
At Astramat, one could download these fonts: Anmari (2002), Antaviana (1996), Arbeka (2002), FAXADA (2001, by Cel Tico Petit), FoxScriptNormal (1996, old typewriter), Gastada (2001, another grunge font by Cel Tico Petit), Gimenells (2001, pixel font), Gorchs (2007, script font), Klander (1999, pixel font), Lang (2001, pixel font family), Masterfly (2007, T-26), Omellons (2001, pixel font family), Perolet (2001, Bauhaus style), Pixelade (2001, pixel font), Rosango (1996), Tiquet (2001, grunge font by Cel Tico Petit), Ultrafat (2007, T-26), Fistro Ratted. Fontspace link for Astramat.
T-26 fonts: the screen typeface PixScript (2004), the screen icon dingbat font Pixelade Icons (2003), the art nouveau headline font Gisele (2003, angular art deco titling face), Masterfly (2007), Gopal (2004), Gourmet (2004, based on a type from the 1923 ATF catalog), Confetti (2006, connected fifties style face based on a 1930 type called Escritura Maravilla and Escritura Energica by the José Iranzo foundry in Barcelona), the pixel family Bit Kit (2003), Houdini Icons (20 pixel web icon dingbat typefaces, 2004).
At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he explained the typographic work of the goldsmith Manuel Peleguer: The aim of this paper is to give an account of the project Peleguer, the recovering and digitialization of the work of the goldsmiths Manuel Peleguer, both father and son, who cut some printing characters between 1780 and 1784 in response to an order of the "Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del Pais". The result was a modern transitional typeface, with good legibility and neoclasical forms, equal in quality to those made by the Real Press (Imprenta Real) in Madrid by Pradell, Espinosa or Gerónimo Gil. Peleguer founded a press and a font foundry in 1784. Patau Bellart created a type family based on Peleguer's work called Peleguer (2009, + Ornaments).
Anduaga, a calligraphic typeface from the 18th century, won the Laus Prize (said to be the Spanish equivalent of the type Oscars). Anduaga is the interpretation of the script that Joseph of Anduaga proposed for teaching the first letters in the 1780 book Arte de escribir por reglas y sin Muestras ...
Valliciergo (2011) is a 100+-glyph calligraphic / copperplate script font that is inspired by samples from Caligrafía inglesa published in Madrid in the late nineteenth century by Spanish calligrapher Vicente Fernández Valliciergo.
Dafont page, where one can download Ventura Edding (2008, hand-printed).
Kids Script (2011). An upright connected school script.
Trajana Sans (2011) is a sans-serif typeface family based on the shapes and proportions of the characters on the Trajan Column in Rome.
Farrerons Serif (2011) is a very readable family with angular and humanist underpinnings.
Chupada (2012) is an ultra-condensed font family noted for their exaggerated x-height, which consists of five different weights.
Chopped Black (2012) was inspired by the font Pabst Heavy, designed by Chauncey Hawley Griffith in 1928 for Linotype. It was Linotype's version of ATF's popular Cooper Black.
Paralex (2012) is a 12-style geometric slab typeface family.
Boxed (2013) is an 18-weight squarish sans family. Followed in 2017 by Boxed Round.
Cinta (2013). A large humanist sans family with a full range of weights starting with hairline. It also has Cyrillic.
Bridone (2013), for British didone. A didone family that inherits some features from Victorian era British slab serif typefaces. Fashionable, beautiful, and useful.
Sisco (2014) is an 18-style elliptical techno family with large x-height.
Book Cover (2014) is a fat headline typeface.
Tiquet (2014). A dot matrix typeface.
Milio (2014). A ten-style wedge-serif transitional typeface family for newsprint and magazines.
Naste (2014). A sixteen-style geometric sans family that adds details and character to the classical geometric sans typefaces such as Futura. It is a bit wider than usual and covers Cyrillic.
Pobla (2015). A text serif with angular, almost fractured.
Dupla. A large multilingual sans family.
Trepa (2015). A stencil family with various choices of textures, which was inspired by commercial signs and the 1960s French art movement Graphie Latine.
Itaca (2016). A 48-style sans family with very open counters.
Mario (2017). A typeface family for arcade games and children.
Werdet Script (2017). A calligraphic penmanship script which is named after calligrapher Jean-Baptiste Werdet who was a penman in Bordeaux in 1809 and later a professor at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
Geo Deco (2019). A geometric art deco sans family.
Frontis (2019). A transitionl roman typeface family inspired by the roman lettershapes that Asensio y Mejorada drew in 1780.
Kongress (2019). An elliptical sans family for corporate identities.
Labernia (2019). A large didone family based on the font used in Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana (1864, by Pere Labernia, Barcelona): Labernia and Labernia Titling are characterized by ball terminals that are turned inwards.
Indecise (2020). A nostalgic 50-style sans family that reminds us of type designs by Enric Crous-Vidal and José Mendoza y Almeida.
Frenchute (2020). A great 36-style garalde family inspired by the type used in the 1727 text Le Chemin Royal de la Croix.
Gina (2020). A great readable 16-style humanist sans family. Sixteen styles including a hairline.
Samplex (2020). Bellart's take on the neutral Swiss sans genre.
Bauen (2020). A Bauhaus-inspired geometric sans typeface family.
Bazinga (2020). A display typeface family characterized by square counters. Perhaps a children's book font.
Romulo (2020). A 12-style transitional roman typeface.
Kheops (2020). A 14-style slab serif.

Additional links: Dafont. MyFonts page. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Fontfreak page. Patau Bellart is also involved in the type information site Unos Tipos Duros. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link.

Interview by Unostiposduros. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tipoforme
[Matheus Barbosa]

Matheus Barbosa (Tipoforme) is a graphic designer Fortaleza, Brazil, who studied design at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. He is studying typography at Universidad de Buenos Aires in the Masters program of CDT-UBA. His Armoribat 2, co-designed with Buggy, won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008. He also does cal li gra phic work. . [Google] [More] ⦿

Tipografies
[Jordi Embodas]

Jordi Embodas is a Barcelona-based graphic designer, b. 1977. After studying at ELISAVA (1995-1999) and at GH Essen, Germany, he started working at Estudi Juste Calduch in Barcelona (from 2001 onwards). He designs type since 2005 and set up Tipografies in Barcelona for that purpose in 2010. Jordi teaches typography at the design schools from Barcelona Elisava and Idep. His typefaces:

Orenga (2005-2008).
Pona (2009, text face). Pona can be considered as a a calligraphic sans family, with flared glyphs. Pona Display followed in 2011.
Bulo (2012, a legible sans family, from Hair Blond to Ultra Black). Noe Blanco has helped with the development of Bulo Rounded, and Max Saladrigas with Bulo Extreme.
Trola (2013, a text serif family). Trola Text was co-designed with Noe Blanco. In 2017, the Trola family was updated, improved, and expanded to Cyrillic. The Cyrillic version was designed by Letterjuice (Pilar Cano & Ferran Millan) under the supervision of Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky.
Nomada (2014). A 4-style sans family specially designed for the web and screens. Followed in 2018 by Nomada Incise, a solemn typeface family with flared stems, and one of the best lapidary typefaces of the past five years. Still in 2018, Maria Ramos and Jordi Embodas co-designed Nomada Didone, and Jordi Embodas added Nomada Slab (2019), Nomada Sans and Nomada Serif (2019).
For Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, he designed UOC Sans and UOC Serif in 2016.
Cuatrecasas (2017). A flared custom sans and serif typeface family done for Mucho.
Folha Grafico (2018) and Folha Texto (2018).
Kymco (2019). A wide all caps sans family done for the motorcycle company Kymco.
Tinta Broken Coated, Tinta Broken Uncoated, Tinta Coated (2021). A 12-style flared sans. Followed by Tinta Uncoated (2021).

Behance link. Village link. Another link. Klingspor link.

Interview by Unostiposduros. Juste Calduch link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tipos en red
[Ana Dorado]

Catalan/Spanish typography and type design blog and information site. At Behance, Ana is listed under Buenos Aires, Argentina. The motor behind Tipos en Red is Ana Dorado, a talented letterer, calligrapher and typographer.

Tofino Type
[Mighty Pete]

Tofino Type is located in Kelowna, BC, Canada. An earlier site, Pete's Oasis was run when Pete was in Yellowknife. Its designer, The Mighty Pete, describes himself as follows: The Mighty Pete is a graphic artist that's been doing computer graphic art for 30 years. His fonts and art have appeared in movies, on TV, in magazines all over the world and also in numerous commercial software packages as art elements. [...] Just to give you a idea of how long I've been making fonts for computers and how times have changed over the years my first collection of computer fonts was made in the early 80s for the Apple II computer. It was called The Arctic Ice Collection and consisted of about maybe 100 different fonts. In those days font editors did not exist. It was entirely written in binary directly on the surface of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. Remember those? You had to create a empty font file on a disk then with a binary editor change the bits in that empty file to create a full font with all the characters. Even the apple. We used to pride ourselves on how wild a different we could make the apple. It could take days to make a single character. You could not see the letters. It would be just a green screen of numbers. Later you got to finally see it and maybe go back and tweak them.

His first font sold at MyFonts is the hyper-swashy calligraphic Albion Signature (2008) which contains over 2200 glyphs, flourishes and ornaments. The commercial fonts also include Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental typeface with 4,200 glyphs: this is the commercial version of Fantastic Pete) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008).

When he started, he offered free fonts such as Extravagant Pete (2003), a gorgeous rococco font, as well as Extravagant Pete 3D, Fantastic Pete (medieval ornamental script---artwork below by Dora Ivette Torres), ComicPieces, GuiltyPieces, HollowPieces, MentalPieces, MetalPieces, MightyPieces, MoldyPieces, Pieces, PlainPieces, Scream In Pain, SillyPieces, SolidPieces, SorryPieces, StickyPieces, ThickPieces (2004). The commercial fonts also include Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental typeface with 4,200 glyphs: this is the commercial version of Fantastic Pete) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008).

1001 Fonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tofutype
[Tzu-yuan "Erik" Yin]

Erik Yin (b. 1988) lives in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Creator of the gridded rhombic typeface Prism (2013) and the sans headline typeface ERKN (2013). ERKN covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian and Georgian. In 2014, he created the Latin typeface Coward. In 2015, he created the free thin sans typeface Jonah.

In 2018, he addded the calligraphic oriental emulation font Goalthink and the modular typeface CubeFarm Latin (to accompany his Chinese font CubeFarm).

Typefaces from 2019: Typori (a rounded sans).

Dafont link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tojanna

Creative agency in Indonesia. Designer(s) of the free formal calligraphic typeface Amelina (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Tom Kemp
[Twice Publishing]

Tom Kennedy

Thomas Kennedy started working for Baldwin Designs, a wood sign company in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1989, where he grew up. He specialized in signage and lettering, and hooked up with Letterhead Fonts in 2011. He now lives in Sweden. Designer at Letterhead of the Pilsner formal script font family (2002) (the lower case is now called Ballpark Script), Egyptian (2006: this is a gothic, not an Egyptian), Pilsner Swashes, CigarShop Corona, CigarShop Maduro (2002, caps), the Western billboard font Tonic (2002), LHF Thick and Thin (2002, sign painting caps in serif and sans styles), Ephemera and Ephemera Swashes (2002, calligraphic), Old Tom, Engravers Ornaments (a great set of filets), Cameo (copperplate), Confection Deco Caps (+Essentials), Corner Specimens, Colonial Roman (2003), Rawson&Evans (Victorian), Royal Script (2003), Cosmic Cursive (2004-2011, a drop dead gorgeous thick upright script), LHF Bootcut (2010, Victorian), LHF Billhead (2004, art nouveau / Victorian), Firehouse (2004, a Tuscan face) and Thick and Thin (2003, sans and serif).

Letterhead Fonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tomasz Kucharczyk

Warsaw-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Fontino (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Toni Irfandi
[Tony Type Studio]

Toni Mous (or: Toni Mouse)
[Fatoni Nurman]

Indonesian designer (b. 1995) of Bangore (2019: a tattoo font), Dellon (2019: a flowing script), Magic Butter (2019: a calligraphic rabbit ear script), and Caritta (2019: a script). In 2020, he released Bellanie, Belakonte, Amertha, Beaty Lova, Childspon (a children's book typeface), Faletina, Butter Mollen, Montari, Babyola (curly), The Tweelie, Childspon and Faletina. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tony Forster

British designer (d. 2008) at Letraset of the calligraphic nuptial style typeface Tiranti Solid (1993-1995). He also made Willow (1990, Letraset, a font based on lettering of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, now offered by both ITC and Linotype). Quoting from Timothy Donaldson's announcement of his death: He was well-known for his commercial lettering and type-design, which he continued to practice until the last. He also influenced many through the mid-period of his career, when he was a lecturer at Bolton College of Art (now a part of the university). Possibly the most well-known amongst the influenced was Phill Grimshaw.

Torquato Torío de la Riva y Herrero

Tony Type Studio
[Toni Irfandi]

Founded in 2021, Tony Type Studio is a type design studio based in Aceh, Indonesia. Typefaces as of 2022: Bestigna (a monolinear signature script), Vanigar Display (a display serif), Brigstone (formal calligraphy), Healing Script (calligraphic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Or Torcuato Torio de la Riva. Spanish writing master (b. 1759, Villaturde, d. 1820) who studied Latin, theology and law at the University of Valladolid in 1773. He published these books:

Arte de Escribir por reglas y con muestras según la doctrina de los mejores autores antiguos y modernos, extranjeros y nacionales (1798; and also in 1802 in Madrid, chez Joaquin Ibarra). Samples from the 1802 book: a Spanish script, ornamental caps. Downlaod sites: I, II, III, IV.
Coleccion de muestras de letra bastarda, inglesa, italiana, etc (1804). Local download.

Digital revivals of his chancery scripts include Torio (2014, Pedro Leal). [Google] [More] ⦿

Toshi Omagari
[Omega Type Foundry]

totwo (or: Atelier Otadoya)

Yana Kutyina and Andrey Belonogov together form totwo (or Atelier Otadoya), a studio in Moscow. Their typefaces include the award-winning calligraphic Latin / Cyrillic font Kalimantan (2012-2013) by Yana Kutyina. In 2014, they designed the counterless display typeface Nerpa. In 2016, they cooperated with Valery Golyzhenkov on the great vintage typeface system Triplet in Erste, Zweite and Dritte styles. Triplet won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tour de Ink

The typophiles are showing many nice examples of handlettering. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tram Ban King

Designer of the ornamental blackletter typeface Hang Kieu Aero (2010) and the calligraphic brush typeface Calligraphy (2010). Both are pay fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

TRF Fonts
[Teuku Riski Firmana]

Or Teuku Risky Firmina. Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Reshonta (2017) and Gibrael (2018, a calligraphic tattoo script), and the calligraphic typefaces Aston Script (2018: formal calligraphy), Fresh Script (2017: formal calligraphy) and Cherella Script (2017).

Typefaces from 2020: Nirotica (a sexy fashion mag serif with red carpet swashes), Mirolica (another fashion mag serif).

Typefaces from 2021: Glosta (a powerful sharp-edged bold display typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Trial by Cupcakes
[Laura Condouris]

Laura Condouris is a calligrapher, illustrator, and occasional comedienne from Baltimore, Maryland. She offers commercial fonts via Trial By Cupcakes. The first font is the calligraphic Katie Rose (2012). Anna Clara (2013) is a casual connected script with plenty of optional swashes. Quickpen (2014) is a connected script. Freeland is a hand-painted connected brush typeface.

In 2017, she designed Quickbrush (dry brush style).

In 2018, she added Harlan. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Triple Hely (or: Iris Letters)
[Olga Ktitorova]

TripleHely is the personal type foundry of Olga Ktitorova, a graphic designer from Moscow, Russia. After graduation at Moscow Institute of Contemporary Arts, she worked as an editorial designer.

Creator of the Latin/Cyrillic slab serif typeface Tender (2009) and the script typefaces Cohen (2018: calligraphic), Symply (2017) and Hyptis (2017: brush script). In 2021, she released the brush script Glaciar. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Trissha Taylor

Canadian designer of the script typefaces Inspiration (2017; connected and calligraphic) and Le Chateau (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

TrueBlue
[Gianni Marcolongo]

Located in Canegrate, Italy, TrueBlue is the foundry of Gianni Marcolongo (b. Legnano, 1963). He created the scholastic (upright and connected) handwriting font Pinocchio (2006), the connected calligraphic typefaces Emanuela (2008) and Martina (2007), TB FireSigns (2007), TB Matrix (2007, dot matrix font), TB Abacus (2007), TB Valentine A and B (2008, Valentine Day-themed dingbats), Philo Logic (2012, an extended sci-fi family), and the American-flag inspired TB StarsAndStripes (2007). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tuanku Muhammad Iqbal
[Teweka]

Type and calligraphy 1450-1830

twcal

Thomas Weinmann's connected handwriting font in metafont format. [Google] [More] ⦿

Twice Publishing
[Tom Kemp]

Tom Kemp on "Formal Brush Writing", which also is the title of his wonderful book on this technique, building on the work of father Edward Catich regarding Roman inscriptions in general and Trajan letterforms in particular. [Google] [More] ⦿

Tyfo Mono (was: Ease Type, or: Cartel Deux or Koll Kolls or Arctic Co)
[Firman Suci Ananda]

Tanjung Morawa, Medan, Indonesia-based group consisting of Firman Suci Ananda and Fajar Wahyu Pribadi. Designers of Dalia (2015, brush face), Marjei Display (2015, rough brush), Arum Display (2015, signage script), Victoria Script (2015, connected and calligraphic), Merry Light (2015, sans titling face), Rebli (2015, signage script), Worship (2015, brush script) and Kremlin Script (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Lotte (script), Kely (sic) Rose, Anomaly Script, Adleit (signage script), Markinson (retro signage script), Colorado (retro sign painting style), Fresh From The Farm (a playful all caps sans), Le Paris (creamy lettering), The Airlines (script), Aventura, Maskoolin (a free bold all caps titling typeface), Amerizana (heavy signage script), Scribble Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Winifred (signature font by Wahyu Pribadi), Litograph, Bosque (Regular, Press), TF Opicular (geometric sans), TF Hillmark (a script typeface by Firman Suci Ananda and Wahyu Pribadi), TF The Fest (a script typeface by Firman Suci Ananda and Wahyu Pribadi), Volkschaft TF (baseball script by Firman Suci Ananda and Wahyu Pribadi), Bender Script, Hurley 1967 (signage script), Marana, Goodwyn (spurred vintage font), the script font Cartel Deux (+Sharp, +Smooth), the titling font Cartel Deux Black, the brush script Ruthmike.

Typefaces from 2018: Taneka (signature font), US Bill Sans (published by Unidaas; co-designed with Fajar Wahyu Pribadi and Irfan Ulya), US Blaak (a wedge serif by Firman Suci Ananda and Fajar Wahyu Pribadi), Rucyva (by Le Magh).

Creative Market link. Newer Creative Market link. Behance link. Dribble link. Dafont link. Creative Market link for Koll Kolls. Creative Market link for Cartel Deux. Skolbord link. Creative Market link for Tyfo Mono. Creative Market link for Koll Kolls. Creative Market link for Le Magh, a venture of Wahyu Pribadi. Behance link for Wahyu Pribadi. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Bibliography on type and calligraphy from 1450 until 1830, compiled at l' Institut de l' Histoire du Livre for a course taught there by James Mosley. [Google] [More] ⦿

Type Associates
[Russell Bean]

Russell Bean (Type Associates of Pyrmont, Australia, est. 1993) is an Australian type designer (b. Parkes, NSW, 1947). He worked in many ad agencies and later in the studios of the local photolettering houses, redrawing typefaces for filmfont setting as well as hand-composing headlines using photo-mechanical devices.

In the early seventies, he designed a five-weight Avant-gardish family named Virginia (now also digitized).

He then worked for the Los Angeles studio of Lettergraphics International in charge of lettering, logo design and converting type designs to film fonts. It was at this time (1973) that the Washington Family was completed. Upon his return to Australia that year, he teamed up with a long time colleague to form a design and art group in Sydney.

Russell has been responsible for the creation of many Australian icons, including the Qantas logo. Russell Bean has served on the executive committees of The Australian Type Directors' Club and Australian Graphic Design Association.

Typefaces available from MyFonts include Bougainville (1994-2005, a condensed sans family), Bougainville Neo (2021: 16 styles), Fremantle (1994), Beanwood Script (1997, a calligraphic script co-designed with David Wood), Craigie Halpen, Eumundi Sans [also available in the Agfa Creative Alliance], Eumundi Serif, Linear, Melissa, Rhodamine Blue, Sanguine (2004, handwriting), Semaphone (brush writing), Washington (1973, art deco family--really nice geometric letterforms with at least one hairline weight), and Xaltier.

He designed ITC Christoph's Quill (2004), Billabong (2006, 1950s handlettering), Charleston Caps (2007, art deco) and the comic book lettering typeface Rhapsodie (2006).

In 2007, he added the Threepoints East, North and West sans typefaces.

About the Avant-Garde-style geometric sans family Virginia (2008), Bean writes: she was the most popular headline typeface around, at least in my home town in the year of her release circa 1970. That was the year my five-weight design won the inaugural (and only) Lettergraphics International Alphabet design competition and shut out 5000 competitors. Alas, Lettergraphics ceased to trade from its LA studios after the mid-80s and Virginia's two-inch film fonts were left to collect dust on the cutting room floor.

The Koomerang family and Karmel (flare-legged retro display) were added in 2008.

In 2009, Bean created Comp Sans 226, Argyle Rough, Empirical (12-style DIN-like sans family), Dotmap (pixel family) and Macquarie Heavy.

In 2010, he made the poster signage typeface Hangtime.

In 2013, he published the hand-printed typeface famiy Progeny.

He is associated with Keith Morris in the type foundry Bean & Morris.

In 2015, Russell created Macaroni Sans. In 2017, he added the calligraphic script typeface My Pimp.

Typefaces from 2019: Aodaliya (an ultra-condensed typeface family).

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Type Curitiba Foundry
[Jackson Alves]

Jackson Fausto Alves (Type Curitiba foundry) is a Brazilian graphic and type designer, illustrator and teacher located in Curitiba. He also designs exclusive lettering for clients around the world.

In 2012, he published the pointy calligraphic typeface Bispo---free at MyFonts and at Fontspring. Nova Bispo (2013) and Bispo Pro (2013) are available from MyFonts.

In 2015, he designed a custom typeface for the Brazilian beer Kaiser.

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Type Dish
[Eko Bimantara]

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the free typeface Kalem Light (2016) and the free headline sans typeface Saff (2016).

In 2017 he published the calligraphic typeface Anther, the clean legible sans typeface family Syabil, which features a free weight, Syabil Book. Kecap (2017) is a creamy upright script. Musk (a modulated sans) and Musk Script (a signature font) followed at the end of 2017.

Typefaces from 2018: Urbax (a signage script), Anakoala (serif), Mulka (sans), Fexa (rounded hexagonal).

Typefaces from 2019: Hornbill (a supermarket serif family), Rossanova (a 36-style semi-serif family with some flared strokes), Clab (a slab serif family), Mollen (an information design sans with 48 styles), Anko (text or newspaper type), Malvie (free demo), the free font Remove, Dear Pony (a great text typeface which Eko describes as sweet, warm, kinky, classy), Ageo (a 16-style geometric sans family).

Typefaces from 2020: Blogh (a heavy inktrapped display typeface), Dunley (a creamy script), Amio (a mix between script and sans; in six styles), EB Mensch (a 32-style family consisting of sturdy legible humanist sans and slab serif sets; features include large x height, low caps, spacious counters and apertures, and diagonal and sunken stroke ends), Florania (a decorative serif), Stannum, Bovino (an 18-style display serif), Modeco (a fashion-friendly 18-style geometric art deco sans characterized by an earring lower case g), EB Corp (a simple 18-style corporate sans family), Slippery (an oldstyle text typeface family), Hando (neo-grotesk).

Typefaces from 2021: Manju (a soft supermarket typeface in ten styles with two additional variable fonts), Shallot (a well-balanced 10-style serif with pointy terminals), Kutai (an ethnic typeface family), Capuche (a gorgeous eccentric bloated display font), Kimaus (a reverse contrast music note emulation font), Sandor (a striking blackletter / medieval typeface), Bizmo (an 18-style headline sans family; includes two variable fonts), Homade (a 12-style display sans), Svelte (a condensed serif), Altone (an 18-style geometric sans), Highman (a tall bold condensed all caps titling sans), Vanio (a 12-style wedge serif family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Type Factory
[Hilmius Akbar]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of these fonts in 2020: Antonie, Black House, Black Passion (a dry brush script), Brentley, Charmelya, Galguna, Hackbot (a pixel font), Hailey, Hello Madelyne, Hi Rolley, Hollowtown (graffiti), How Dare You, Life Of Apple, Monkey Geek, Punkiss, Randhu, Reviola, Sendha, Seymore, Silver Flower, Someday, Sounding, Speedkings, The Speciment, Thundra.

Typefaces from 2021: How Dare You (grungy vintage caps), Mystic Forest (a chalk font), Hello Jones (a vintage shadow font), My Home (a fat finger font), Honey Jar (handprinted), My Fox (a scrapbook font), Beachfly (a decorative serif), Hardinge (a hand-drawn blackletter), Chalkboy (sketched).

Their catalog in 2022 showed 250 fonts: Abilane, Abrock, Acetone, Aestetic, Allista, Amal Baik, Aquarex, Archking, Aslah, Authentique, Avena, Avoda (a fashion mag sans), Baker's Dozen, Bakery Home, Baleho, Baloba, Bancak, Bangke, Barnies, Bayleigh, Beach Hits, Beachfly, Big Heroes, Big Jelly, Big Tales, Black Passion, Blackold, Bloody Camp, Bluffton, Bodor, Bratton (spurred), Bricius, Brickrow, Brickson, Brutaly, Bunaken, Came Back, Candola, Candyful, Carisyn, Chalkboy, Charmelya, Cider Lime, Classy, Coconutz, Cold Army, Combust, Coming Sans, Cordion, Cosmogen, Crabug, Crow Bait, Cutenest, Cybersky, Daewon, Dandely, Dark Magic, Day n Nite, Daya Sans, Death World, Debug, Delta Force, Destro (stencil), Dirty Drags, Dutch Brigade, El Mayor, Elecstrom, Exton, Fall Season, Fall Story, Fire Ace, Fronzy, Fun Show, Galguna, Garden Bloom, Gludak, God Doll, Golday, Grane, Grateful Life, Gummies, Gunji (Japanese emulation), Hackbot, Hacklife, Hadest, Hadeya, Hailey, Hakan, Hakio, Hakubo (Japanese emulation), Haloha, Happy Gnome, Hara, Hardinge, Harvest Day, Harvest Time, Hastag, Hazeland, Hello Jones, Hello Madelyne (a calligraphic script), Hellow, Helsinky, Hey Jack, Hey Jane, Hiccup, Hollowtown, Home to Rome, Honey Belly, Horrific (a horror font), How Dare You, Howling Nightmare, Jackal Band, Javanica (a vintage label typeface), Jonks, Jungle Hope, Just For You, Just Ruth, Kahlil, Kana & Hana, Kanatala, Kastil, Kesal, Killing Me, King Castle, King Malik, Klassiek (a crayon font), Kohatu, Kulo, Kurayami (Japanese emulation), Last Mission, Legendary Runes, Life Rolling, Life of Apples, Lubang Hitam, Madsense, Madtune, Maluku, Marsea, Marsela, Marshed, Mauricio, Melon, Mexican City (a Western slab serif), Miami Beat (a multiline font), Mighty Star, Mika Story, Mister Hipster, Mistery, Mistis (spooky), Mocktail Blues, Modeon (a wonderful layered all caps sans), Moeloek, Monde, Monkey Geek, My Fox, My Home, Mystic Forest, Night Vibes, Nightscary, On My Way, Orchard Song, Ovalie, Panikos, Parylicious, Poked, Princess Star, Punkiss, Qabil, Quirky Bay, Rabiul, Racula, Randhu, Rebutan, Reclaim Glory, Rekan, Remily, Renji, Retro Sick, Reviola Bold Script, Risky Venture, Romeda (a vintage serif), Runboy, Salacia, Saluyu Script, Sandatory, Savilla, Savon Burg, School Kids, Scribery, Secret Mansion, Seledina, Semur, Sendha, Senja, Sensai, Serkan (a Celtic font), Seymore, Shade June, Shayan, She Dance, Shocked Up, Show Up!, Shufen, Shutter Speed, Sketchup (a sketched font), Skullbone, Sneak Peak, Snooby, Soda Land, Someday, Sorreal, Sounding, Space Corner, Speedkings, Spirit Freak, Steak House, Sticky Web, Stitch Boy, Story of Alundra, Summer Blaze, Summer Blues, Summer Creamy, Sundae Bite, Sunday Coffee, Sunkiss Bliss, Sweet Beans, Sweet Cherry, Tangisan, The End Story, The Millers, The Speciment, Thundra, Ugly Byte, Uncracked, Urbanded, Vintage Wheel (a retro signage script), Voltec, Wake Snake, Walers, Walk Away, Wavemax, Weloved, West Yard, Wicked, Wild Justice, Winola, Wonder Magic, Wonder Soul, Wrecked Works.

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Type foundry: Italian writing masters and calligraphers of the 16th and 17th centuries
[James Mosley]

James Mosley researched the names of all the calligraphic writers, mostly professionals, working in Italy between 1501 and 1700, whose names have been recorded:

Alberici, Andrea [Antonucci 1989, 1993]
Alunno / Alumnus, Francesco (Francesco del Bailo) (Ferrara, Venezia, c 1485-1556) [MorisonBarker]
Amphiareo, Vespasiano (Ferrara, 1501-1563) M 1554 [Johnson]
Antonozzi, Leopardo (Roma) M 1638 [Marzoli]
Arrighi, Ludovico degli, il Vicentino (Vicenza, Roma, d 1527?) M 1522 [Johnson]
Augustino da Siena M c 1565 [Johnson]
Badesio / Badessi / Badeschi, Fabrizio (Roma, fl 160040) [Servidori, p. 189]
Barisoni, Giovanni (Venezia) M 1606, 1607 [Marzoli]
Bartolamasio, Geminiano (Modena, Milano, fl c 1630-1640) [Bidelli]
Bellinato, Giovanni Francesco (Venezia) [Cresci 1579]
Bonacina, Giovanni Battista (Milano) M 1649 [MorisonBarker]
Brembilla [Osley p. 116]
Brondoli, G. Francesco [Ascoli]
Bruni, Francesco [Antonucci 1989]
Bruni, Lucantonio (brother of Nicola) [Marzoli, p. 49]
Bruni, Nicola padre da San Severino [Marzoli, p. 49]
Buonadio, Camillo (Piacenza) [Paillasson]
Busdrago, Vicenzo (Lucca) [Johnson, p. 43]
Capponi, Alessandro [Antonucci 1989]
Carpani, Carpano (Fermo) [Cresci 1622]
Carducci [Antonucci 1996]
Castelletti, Tomaso (Fabriano) [Paillasson]
Castelli, Rocco Maria (Bologna, fl 1690) [Ascoli]
Cataldi, Belardino [Antonucci 1989]
Celebrino, Eustachio (Udine) M 1525 [Johnson]
Ciampalanti [Antonucci 1996]
Ciarallo, Giovanni [Antonucci 1989]
Civeri, Giovan Battista [Antonucci 1989]
Conretto da Monte Regale (Mondovi, Piemonte) M 1576 [Johnson, Marzoli]
Costa, Benedetto (Milano) [Cresci 1579]
Cresci, Giovan Francesco (Milano, Roma, Venezia) M 1560, 1570, 1579 [Wardrop 1948, Johnson]
Cresci, Giovan Francesco (Milano). Son of the preceding. [Cresci 1622]
Curione, Lodovico (Bologna, Roma d 1617) M 1582, 1588 [Cresci 1622, Johnson, Antonucci 1989]
Dolcetta, Gioseppe (Venezia) M 1692 (Morison Barker)
Domenichi, Cesare (Roma) M 16023 [Osley]
Fanti, Sigismondo (Venezia) M 1514
Fondi, Ventura (Siena) [Cresci 1579]
Forlivi, Paolo (Verona) [Paillasson]
Fortebraccio, Cipriano [Osley, p. 116]
Franco, Giacomo (Venezia) M 1596, 1600 [Johnson]
Fumarola, Abele (Napoli) M 1598 [Marzoli]
Gagliardelli, Salvadore (Firenze) M 1583 [Johnson]
Gallesi, Pauolo [Antonucci 1996]
Gandolfi, Marco Antonio (Genova) M 1606 [Paillasson]
Garzoni, Giovanna (Ascoli Piceno, Firenze, Napoli, Roma, c 160070) [Ascoli]
Ghebelino, Stefano (Brescia) M 1591 [Johnson]
Gherardacci, padre Cherubino (Bologna) [Cresci 1579]
Gieronimi / Girolami, Rocco (Venezia, Pavia) M 1603 [Osley, Becker]
Giomi, Gregorio [Antonucci 1996]
Giordi, Rodomonte (Faenza, fl 1608) [Ascoli]
Hercolani, Giuliantonio (Bologna) M 1571, 1574 [Johnson]
Horfei see Orfei
Lancione, Sempronio (Verona) M 16013 [Becker]
Landino, Giovanbattista da Modena (Roma) [Cresci 1579]
Lazeroni [Antonucci 1996]
Leone / Leoni, Scipione (Bologna) M 1598, 1601 [Johnson]
Liviziano / Lavizzano, Christoforo (Modena, d 1582) [Cresci 1579, 1622, Marzoli, p. 49]
Maffei, Leonardo (Bergamo) [Cresci 1579]
Mancini, Dono [Antonucci 1996]
Manzoni, Domenico (Oderzo, Venezia) M 1540 [Johnson]
Massari, Mario (Rome) [Cresci 1579]
Mercato, Giovanni Luigi (Roma) [Cresci 1579, 1622]
Migliorucci, Federigo [Antonucci 1996]
Migliorucci, Niccolò [Antonucci 1996]
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria (Bologna) M c 1693 [MorisonBarker]
Monterchi, Francesco da [Servidori]
Moro / Poliviani, Francesco (Padova) [Johnson, p. 43]
Moreggio, Cesare (Roma) [Cresci 1579]
Mureti, Alberto (Siena) M 1594 [Johnson]
Mutilli, Matteo [Antonucci 1996]
Navarra, Vincenzo (Berghisella (Faenza), Roma, fl 1560) [Wardrop 1948, p. 11]
Naventeri, Girolamo (Roma) M 1600 [Osley]
Orfei, Luca, da Fano (Roma, d 1608) M 1589 [Johnson]
Ortiz, Lorenzo (Cadiz, Venezia, b 1630/32 d 1698)
M 1696 [Becker]
Paffetti, Andrea [Antonucci 1996]
Pagliarolo, Girolamo (Bologna 14741539) [Wardrop 1946]
Palatino, Giovambattista (Rossano, Calabria; Roma b c 1515 d after 1575) M 1540, 1566 [Johnson]
Pedarra, Francesco (Roma) M 1598 [Johnson]
Pennacchio, Alessandro [Antonucci 1989]
Periccioli / Pericciuoli, Francesco (Siena) M 1619 [Marzoli]
Picchi / Picchio, Cesare (Roma) M 1598 [Johnson, Marzoli]
Piccini, Benedetto [Antonucci 1996]
Piccioli, Giovanni [Antonucci 1989]
Pisani, Dario (San Gimignano, Pisa) M 1607 [Marzoli]
Pisani, Francesco (Genova, X 1640) [Marzoli]
Pisani, Giovanni Battista (Genova, b c 1606) M 16401 [Marzoli]
Poliviani see Moro
Pomodoro, Giovanni (Roma) [Cresci 1579]
Porro (Padova) [Osley, p. 131n]
Raimondi, Nicolò, Piemontese (Roma, Genova) M c 1637 [Marzoli] [Antonucci 1989]
Richier, Michele, di Lorena (Roma) M 1626 [Osley]
Rofreni [Osley, p. 116]
Rogni [Calligraphy teacher of Giovanna Garzoni. Ascoli]
Romano, Iacomo (Roma, b 1539) M 1589 [[Cresci 1622, Johnson]
Rossi / Rubeis, Marco Antonio de (Roma) M 1598 [Johnson]
Ruano, Ferdinando (Badajoz, Roma d c 1560) M 1554 [Johnson]
Ruinetti, Tomaso (Ravenna, Roma, b c 1597) M 1619, 1622 [Paillasson, Marzoli]
Sacchi, Antonio (Ravenna) M 1605, 1606 [Servidori, p. 30]
Sallando, Pierantonio (Reggio nell'Emilia? Bologna fl 14891528) [Wardrop 1946]
Salvioni, Giovanni Battista (Milano) [Bidelli]
Santi, Bartolomeo [Antonucci 1996]
Santorio, Giovanni [Antonucci 1989]
Sanvito, Bartolomeo (Padova, Roma b 1435 d after 1518)
Sarafellini, Ventura / Bonaventura (Imola, Roma) M 1611 [Paillasson]
Scalzini / Scalino, Marcello, detto il Camerino (Camerino, Venezia, Roma b c 1556) M 1581, 1599, 1608 [Osley, MorisonBarker]
Scevola, Muzio [Antonucci 1989]
Scorza, Sinibaldo (Voltaggio, Genova (c 15911631) [Paillasson]
Scribante, Giovanni (Arezzo?) M 1532 [Osley]
Segaro, Giovanni Battista (Genova, son of Giuseppe) [Paillasson]
Segaro, Giuseppe (Genova d 1624?) M 1607, 1624 [Marzoli]
Sellari, Giuliano (Cortona, Roma) M 1635 [Marzoli]
Sena, Giovan Pietro [Antonucci 1989]
Sfondrato, barone (Milano) [Cresci 1579]
Sisto (Fr.) da Siena [Paillasson]
Sopranini (Padova) [Osley, p. 131n]
Spada, Valerio M 1649, 1680 [Antonucci 1996, Ascoli, MorisonBarker]
Spannocchi, Camillo (Siena) [Cresci 1579]
Talenti, Virgilio [Antonucci 1996]
Tagliente, Giovanantonio (Venezia) M 1524 [Johnson]
Tagliente, Pietro (son of Giovanantonio) [Servidori, p. 11]
Tauro, Andrea [Antonucci 1989]
Tensini, Agostino (Bassano b c 1606) M 1641, 1668, 1670, 1686 [Osley, MorisonBarker, Ascoli]
Testa, Fabio [Servidori]
Tiranti, Honorato (Saorgio, Torino) M 1639, 1655, 1656, 1657 [Marzoli]
Tozzi, P. P. (Padova) M 1604 [Osley]
Tronchi, Giovanni Battista (Roma) [Cresci 1579, 1622]
Ugo da Carpi (Roma 1479/801533) [Johnson]
Verovio, Simone (Roma) M 1587 [Johnson]
Villani, Francesco [Antonucci 1989]
Willevaux, Pietro (fiammingo, scrittore in Casale, X 1650) [Ascoli]
Zabarelli, Ascanio (Cortona) [Ascoli]
Zanella, Sebastiano (Padova) M 1605 [Marzoli]
Zanetti, Antonio (Bologna) [Cresci 1579]

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Type Sailor
[David Fernando Espinosa Martínez]

Type Sailor is David Espinosa (born in 1986) who lives in Bogotá. He graduated from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano as graphic designer and advertiser. He is a descendant of Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, first royal printer of the viceroyalty of Nueva Granada.

He designed these typefaces:

In 2021: Chapinero (blackletter, serif and sans system).
In 2020: AmaLita (handcrafted), Font Negra (a spurred blackletter typeface done for a client, Mao Fonnegra).
In 2019: Monteros (text typeface), TS Chapinero (blackletter).
In 2017: Monteros (a revival of an old style typeface by Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros), Gautama (an organic sans).
In 2014: Internerd, Old Providence New Roots (a poster typeface co-designed with Mateo Rivano), Santander (a great didone family).
In 2013: Vercingetorix (monoline informal sans), Persifal (calligraphic typeface), Ygraine, Urania, Zephiroth (a semi-connected script), X-Classified (very grungy typewriter typeface), Salme (Treefrog-style script), Joyeux, Fugitiva (an ornamental Western saloon or circus font), Tomsk.
In 2012: Pelida, Valpuesta, Walkiria (an informal blackletter), Quattro (a techno family), Olimpia, Luisa, Merlot (like caps in the style of William Morris), Bizancia (Arab simulation face), Imelda, Epifanía, Nero d'Avola (a great calligraphic script), Round, Avanti (calligraphic), Street Dork (stencil face).
In 2011: Daniela (hairline sans), Glamourousse (sans), Caro (pixel), Carolina (sans), Kermesse (an octagonal font).
In 2010: Davidcito (handwriting) and Hug Femmes (sans).

He says that his inspiration comes from the female form, which always has been associated with classic typography.

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Type Zilla

Or Typezilla. Jakarta, Indonesia-based creator of the connected retro techno script typeface Highville (2015), the calligraphic Sheilla (2015), the handcrafted typeface Queen Creek (2015), and the brush typefaces Hollyland (2015), Sweet Soul (2015), Shayla (2015), Bethlehem (2015), Northless (2015), Storywells (2015), Stellia (2015) and Cliche (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

TypeArt Foundry (or: Digiteyes Multimedia TypeArt Foundry)
[Lloyd Springer]

TypeArt is the commercial foundry of Lloyd Springer (Vancouver), est. 1992. His typefaces from before 2003:

Bitmap fonts: CitymapRounded, LoveBytes, Letterstitch.
Comic book: Disorder, Scratchpad, Sideshow, Superhero, Verbal Cues, Balloons, Buffalo Joe, Frontline.
Western: Outlaw, Eastside.
Typewriter: Courier Ragged, Double Hitter, Firenza, Keystoned, Romanstone, Streetwise, Writing Machine, Firenza Text, Dear John.
Stencil: Mediocre, Boxcar.
Serif: Burlington (1997, roman caps only), Miracolo (2002, art nouveau), Saltzburg (1999, a bit art nouveau), Steinburg Modern, Sundance.
Script: Prints Charming, Sideshow, Dream Lover, Falcon Casual, Falcon Brushscript.
Fifties: Golden Age, Golden Day, Flingaling.
Monster: Braindead, Horror Show, Junglemania, Newman, Frankenstein, Frontline, Mixed Breed.
Label type: Dimeotype, Label Gun, Liteweit, Silverscreen (1998, a condensed sans ideal for movie credits), Total Disorder, Letterstitch.
Inline: Puzzler, Scratchpad, Steelyard.
Grunge: Amnesia, Bellamie, Bighead, Braindead, DeviantStrain, DoubleHitter, DoubleVision, Fi ngerprint, LabelGun, Meanstreak, Phantom, Poorsport, Social Menace, Streetwise, TotalDisorder, Mixed Breed, Tapeworm, Typochondriac.
Display and decorative fonts: Niteweit, PostIndustrial, Tolstoy (1996, art deco), WhatTheHell, Xheighter, Bossman, Eucaliptus (art deco), Fishboners, Strangelove (1999), Charbonne (art deco), Reerspeer (2002), Freakshow, Underground, Tipemite, Spaced Out, Sunday Best, Eye Doctor, Foreign Language, Hammerhead, Sidewalker, Wendy Woo, Post Industrial, Starship Command, Venus Envy.

The 2003 collection includes Natalian, Amusement, and Finders. MyFonts link. In 2007, MyFonts started selling his fonts: Amnesia, Bellamie, Bighead, Bossman, Boxcar, Buffalo Joe, Charbonne, Courier Ragged, Dead Zone, Dear John, Deviant Plain, Deviant Strain, DimeOtype, Disorder, Double Hitter, Double Vision, Dream Lover, Eastside, Eucaliptus, Eye Doctor, Falcon Brushscript, Falcon Casual, Frankenstein, Frontline, Golden Age, Golden Days, Horror Show, Junglemania, Keystoned, Label Gun, Letterstitch, Letterstitch Plain, Letterstitch Script, Liteweit, Miracolo, Outlaw, Prints Charming, Reerspeer, Romanstone, Saltzburg, Sidewalker, Silverscreen, Spaced Out, Starship Command, Steelyard, Strangelove, Sundance, Superhero, Tapeworm, Time Machine, Tolstoy, Typochondriac, Venus Envy, Verbal Cues, Writing Machine, Xheighter Condensed.

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Calligraphic gallery. In Russian. [Google] [More] ⦿

TypeFaith Fonts
[Léon Hulst]

Leon Hulst (TypeFaith) was born in 1966. Typographer at WAT Ontwerpers in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and affiliated with Linotype.

Commercial fonts: ReadMyHand (1994, brush), Bombin, Fix, Cubi, Berkhout (handwriting), Miguel (sans family), Salamanca Caps, Ponsi Rounded (2011).

Free fonts at TypeFaith, his place on the web, all made ca. 2008: AlbaJulia-ExpandedBold (techno), AlbaJulia-ExpandedBoldItalic, AlbaJulia-ExpandedRegular, AlbaJulia-ExpandedRegularItalic, Dilys-Bold (organic), Dilys-BoldItalic, Edding-Italic, Edding (brush), FixFlat-Italic, FixFlat, Flowmotion-Heavy (2010), LowFile-Bold (grunge), LowFile-BoldItalic, LowFile-WidthOblique, Mellow-Italic, Mellow (comic book family), PaloAlto-Italic, PaloAlto (sans), Per4m (dot matrix face), Stitch Cross.

Creations from 2012: Ponsi Rounded Slab (the regular weight is free), Danze Script, Salamanca TF, Moonface Script (an elegant display serif typeface family).

Typefaces from 2013: Lev Serif, Lev Black Distressed (2015, free).

Typefaces from 2014: Picastro (retro signage script), Desierto, Frye Caps, Birchwood (hand-printed), Fix Fat Black, Seren Script, Planjer (art deco), Planjer Distressed.

Typefaces from 2015: Jason Capitals (a revival of a woodblack capitals alphabet), Bakersville (Full, Line: hand-drawn, sketched), Lev Serif Grunge, Blackflower (brush face), Inkredible, Goldpicker (a layered Western typeface), Goldpicker Line (bilined; blackboard bold).

Typefaces from 2016: Amilly Script (a heavy nibbed pen script), Rozy Cursive (based on Ella Cursief/Handels-Cursief by Sjoerd de Roos for Lettergieterij Amsterdam in 1915), Jason Distressed, Toxa Ink, Donker Caps (wood type emulation).

Typefaces from 2017: Organa (a futuristic typeface family).

Typefaces from 2018: Solente (art nouveau-inspired with Victorian decorations).

Typefaces from 2019: Chaumin (hand-printed).

Typefaces from 2020: Pinkhoff Caps (in Dutch deco style).

Typefaces from 2022: Thirty Nine Stencil.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Behance link.

Known as Misha at iFontMaker, he drew the outlined hand-printed Miff (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typehand Studio
[Yanuar Adi]

Semarang, Indonesia-based type designer, b. 1992. His typefaces from 2020: the script typeface Moonlight Sonata, Happy Lucky, Mirabelle (script), Den Basuky (a dry brush script), Musashi (squarish and interlocking), Bratterly (a monoline script), Anastasya (a signature script), Signaline (a font duo), Camilla (a thick poster brush script), Ravenda (a unicase piano key font), Rosseville (a flowing script).

Typefaces from 2021: Eksellena (a weathered blackletter), Etheryna (script), Anderlacht (a vintage all caps font with antiqued outlines), Puertofino (script), Rhinestone (an expressive hand-printed font), Alleyosha (a Treefrog style brush script), Hayabusha (a squarish typeface with interlocking letters), Sancho, Cornetta, Lucky Sunshine (calligraphic), Kintapani (a brush script), Sendang Mulyo (brush script), Manokwary (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Mariska (emulating Japanese), Sophia Laluna (a display serif with an astrological vibe). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typehill
[Teuku Fahruddin]

Indonesian designer of these connected brush script typefaces in 2017: Stephanie, Austin Script, Navisha. In 2018, Typehill designed Typehill (dry brush script), Intybus Script, Sunlight Script (copperplate calligraphy), Bougenvil (formal calligraphy), Ephorbia (calligraphic), Angelina and Natural.

Typefaces from 2019: Fantasia Script, Austin Script, The Fraga Script (a semi-curly retro signage script), Forestry Script, One Day, Graphitel (a formal calligraphic script), Marysha Script, Lemons, Floural Script, Warrior Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Straight Script (a calligraphic font duo, with penmanship ornaments), Malaka Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Lovey Dovey (an upright script), Sweet Love Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typeholish

Indonesian designer of the brush script typeface Balliget (2016) and the connected swashy calligraphic typeface Crontang (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Shilla (curly script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Typeline Studio
[Yadhie Setiawan]

Tangerang Selatan, Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1987) of Starcity Script (2018: a signature script), The Rochester (2018), South City Script (2018), Presidente (2018), The Starlight (2018: a rhythmic brush script), Raullina Aguste (2018: a great inky script), Rembrants (2018), Happy Milk (2018: brush script), Benthol (2018), Ballegra (2018: calligraphic), Bridgetown (2018), Signatrust (2018), Brithney (2018), Romantic Couple (2018), Maddison (2018, signage script), Black Whisky (2018, bilined and calligraphic), North City (2018: a fun pen script), Damian (2018: signature script), United Stay (2018), Winteria (2018: a Treefrog style script), Quick Land (2018: monoline and slanted; free download), Minarsih Script (2018) and Brother Lands (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Elizabeth, Raulina (a signature script), The Signater (brush script), Gilberto (a weathered brush script), Letto (a flared serif), Switzerland (a formal calligraphic script), Amalfi Coast (wild calligraphy), Photograph Signature, East Liberty Signature, Ruthligos Sillentin (a signature font), Collonar (a titling typeface), Manchester Signature, South City, Boowie (a fashionable sans), The Arthington (monoline script), East Liberty (font duo), Signatrue, The Rattnest, Maestro Signature, Pretty Women Script, Queenstown Signature, Geronimo, Presidente Serif, Pretty Women Serif, Collonar Caps.

Typefaces from 2020: Necmato (Peignotian, +Script), Geronimo (beveled, layerable, all caps), Dream Catcher (Treefrog script), Montelly, Little Hampton, Baliland, Zombies Reborn, Chewy Inside (a bubblegum font).

Typefaces from 2021: Mikiland, San Diego (a fine inky script), Wiliam Signature, Straighforward (a tall script), Wilson (a fat caps font), Quixotic (an upright script), Fashion Stamp (a grungy and plump serif), Fighter Brush (dry brush), Windblow (script), Epiphany (script), Sanshine, Nodelines (a rounded sans), Namina Sucilia, Sucillia, Dakata, Mellifluous (calligraphic). [Google] [More] ⦿

Typemotion
[Sebastian Wieland]

A resident of Trier, Germany, Sebastian Wieland started studying communication design at the University Of Applied Science in Trier in 2008. In 2010, he set up shop at MyFonts as Typemotion.

His typefaces: the square counter typeface Easton (2009), Elias (2010, handwriting), Easton (2010), Haegtor (2014, medieval calligraphic style).

Dafont link for some free fonts. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typerror
[Michael Clark]

Michael Clark (b. 1952) set up Typerror in 2011. His calligraphy is showcased at Michael Clark Design. Richmond, VA-based Clark does book covers, CD covers and greeting cards. His typefaces:

At Typerror: Lucilee (2011, connected script).
At Font Bureau: Pouty (2001, calligraphic). It was reintroduced at P22 in 2017 as P22 Pouty Pro.
At P22, where he did and does most of his work: P22 Sting (2005, a blackletter with roman capitals), Peanut (2006, a bouncy rough-edged display typeface that won an award for display type at TDC2 2007), P22 Peanut Sans, P22 Sweepy (2005, connected script which won an award at TDC2 2006), P22 Pooper Black (2003, connected script), P22 Frenzy-Marks (2003), P22 Frenzy-Regular (2003), P22 Frenzy-Sans (2003), P22 Shibumi (2003, brush face), P22 Monumental Titling (2005), P22 Sneaky (2008, the connected version of Pooper Black), P22 Lucilee (2011), P22 Lucilee Pro (2017), P22 FleurCross (2020: 76 stylized crosses).
At Stereo Typehaus: the condensed font Paris.
At Letraset: Katytude.
Proprietary: Colonial Williamsburg Script (calligraphic, connected), Icons Sisters of St. Clare (crosses and religious symbols), Michael Podesta Design.

Gofundme page in 2021 to help Michael with his medical bill to treat his Parkinson's disease.

More examples of his work. MyFonts page. An old URL. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typesenses
[Sabrina Mariela Lopez]

Typesenses was founded in 2009 by Sabrina Lopez in Ramos Mejìa, near Buenos Aires. Sabrina Lopez (b. 1987) graduated from FADU, University of Buenos Aires. Her typefaces include:

Lady Elizabeth Grant (2008). Developed during her studies at FADU / UBA.
With Maximiliano Sproviero, she created Aphrodite Pro (2009, +Slim), a calligraphic family in the style of Alejandro Paul's famous Affair.
From 2009 until 2011, she worked on the fancy copperplate calligraphic script family Parfumerie Script. This typeface won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
In 2012, she joined the Google Web Font craze, and published the free copperplate script face Rouge Script.
In 2013, she published Wishes Script (2013), a connected ligature-rich typeface with adapted ornaments and borders for use in greeting cards and wedding invitations. It comes with a Trajan-inspired style called Wishes Script Caps. Winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.
Euphoria Script (2013). A free Google Web font.
Fantasy and Fantasy Caps (2014) is an elegant set of medieval fonts that includes two styles of Lombardic caps. It could also be used for wedding scripts and monograms.
Blend (2015). A large handcrafted type system, layered and with dingbats. Blend won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
Limon (2017). This fresh hand-made font collection was hand-drawn by Sabrina Lopez, with the collaboration of Sol Suarez (who illustrated the dingbats) and Guido Ferreyra (who made the font production and programming of the script font). It took 18 months to complete. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Limon.
Dress (2018). A layered Victorian Tuscan circus style typeface family.
The signage script Christmas Time 2019 (2019).
Chonky (2020). A bold retro signage script in Regular and Poster styles.

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TypeSETit
[Robert E. Leuschke]

Rob Leuschke was born in and lives in St. Charles, MO. A former lettering artist at Hallmark Cards (1983-1987), Rob Leuschke had his own design businesses, Alphabytes, and set up TypeSETit in 2004. He earned a BFA in graphic design at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and started freelancing in 1987. Rob has created over 250 custom typefaces. In addition, he made tens of calligraphic and other script typefaces, and has to be considered as one of America's most prominent and talented script typeface artists.

Ambiance BT (Bitstream) was Rob's first typeface. Also, early on, he created the free emoticon font AairChat (1995).

An incomplete list of his creations: AlexBrush, Cherish, Ephesis, Inspiration, Jackie-O, Licorice, Kolker Brush (2004, Western version of Japanese calligraphy), Love, Neanderthaw, Ruge Boogie (2004), Saliere, Updock, Whisper, TheNautiGal (2006, connected script), Water Brush, Love Light, Passions Conflict (2004), Mea Culpa, Beau Rivage (2004: calligraphic; Github link), Good Vibrations (the commercial version of his free font Great Vibes), Lovers Quarrel, Grechen Fuemen (2003-2021), Moon Dance (2004), MsMadi (a monolinear script), Bonheur Royale (2005), Fuzzy Bubbles, LA Heat (2005), Qwigley ROB (2005), Vujah Day, he added Kings Honor (2006), Kings Quest (2006), Kings Dominion (2006), RUSerius (2007, curly handwriting), QwitcherBychen (2007, calligraphic), Arizonia (2007, calligraphic, based on lettering seen on a truck), Road Rage ROB (2008, grunge), Grey Qo (2008, calligraphic), FleurDeLeah (2008, flowery calligraphic), My Soul (2008), MooLahLah (2008, cow-spotted letters).

MyFonts sells Alex Brush, Allison (an inky script that is free at Google Fonts), Ambiance BT, ITC Arid (1997), Arizonia, Babylonica (2008, a great connected brushy script), Bilbo, Bilbo Swash Caps (2011, Google Web Fonts), Bonheur Royale, Caramel (Crunch, Candy, Nuggets), Carattere, Cherish, ITC Chivalry, Corinthia (calligraphic but with slope errors on some connections such as between "o" and "r"), Ephesis, FleurDeLeah, Fuzzy Bubbles (free at Google Fonts), Good Vibrations (2003), Grapenuts, Great Vibes (2012, Google Web Fonts), Gwendolyn (free at Google Fonts), Holiday Font, Hurricane (brush script), Imperial Script (2008), (2018-2022, Google Fonts), Inspiration (2004), Jackie O, Kings (script), Kolker Brush (2004), LA Heat, (2018-2022, Google Fonts), Licorice (2004), Love Light (2003), Lovers Quarrel (since 2012 at Google Web Fonts), Mea Culpa (2003-2021), MooLahLah (2003-2021), Moon Dance (2004), Ms Madi, MySoulOne, Neonderthaw, Oh Ley, Ole (2008), Oooh Baby (2004-2021), Passions Conflict, Petemoss, Puppies Play (2009-2021: a curly script), Qwigley, QwitcherBychen, Qwitcher Grypen (2007-2021), RoadRage, Roelandt BT (2002), RUSerius, Ruthie (2003), Saliere, SassyFrass ROB (2008-2021: calligraphic), (2018, Google Fonts), Shalimar (a great calligraphic script, 2004-2021), Square Peg, Tapestry, TheNautiGal (2013-2021), Twinkle Star (2003), Updock (classical calligraphy), VujahDay (2003), Water Brush, Waterfall (2011) and Whisper.

Fonts released in 2009 at P22: Babylonica, RobsPickles, RoadRage, QwitcherBychen, the Caramel family (including Crunch, Candy, Nuggets). In 2009, he also published Italianno ROB.

Typefaces made in 2010: Allura (see Google Web Fonts), Estonia Nouveau (based on calligraphy by Villu Toots), Estonia Regular, Estonia Swash, Island Moments, Neon Derthaw (neon light face).

Typefaces from 2011: Robs Pickles, Waterfall, Monte Carlo (a free formal calligraphic script at Google Fonts), Genos (anthroposophic; includes Cherokee; in 2021, a variable font pair was added), Bilbo (free at Google Web Fonts), Playball (free connected signage or baseball script face at Google Web Fonts).

Designs from 2012: Fuggles, Explora (a delicate calligraphic script face).

Typefaces from 2013: Style Script (an upright retro script; free at Google Fonts).

Typefaces from 2014: Praise Pro (signage script), Ise Sport (flared font).

Typefaces from 2015: Festive, Luxurious (free at Google Fonts), Luxury script, Comforter, Comforter Brush, WindSong (a connected script, not to be confused with the famous calligraphic script Windsong (1998, Bright Ideas); also at Google Fonts), Alumni Sans (an organic sans family with large x-height; +Collegiate, +Inline; free at Google Fonts).

Typefaces from 2016: Glory (an organic sans family, free at Google Fonts, and a pay font at MyFonts), Hurricane (connected script family).

Typefaces from 2017: Splash (ink splatter script), American Calligraphic, Smooch (a brush scriptthat is free at Google Fonts), Smooch Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: Angeletta (at Monotype), Meow Script. In August 2018, he published his Smorgasbord series: Grape Nuts, (Google Fonts), (2022, Google Fonts), Kings Honor, Kings Quest, Kings Dominion, Moon Dance One, Moon Dance Two, Ms Madi, My Soul, Pickles, RUSerius, (2018, Google Fonts), Vujahday Plain, Vujahday Script, Vujahday Flourish.

Typefaces from 2019: Birthstone.

Typefaces from 2021 (including updates of earlier fonts), all published by Google Fonts: Are You Serious, Birthstone, Birthstone Bounce, Bonheur Royale, Caramel, Carattere, Cherish, Ephesis, Explora, Fleur De Leah, Gideon Roman, Fuggles (script), Festive (a free curly script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typetemp Studio (was: Geranium Space, Moovied Co, Eight Type Rits, Letter Rits Type, Templatehere)
[Haris Purnama Putra]

Aka Geranium Space, Moovied Co, Rits Studio and Letter Rits Type and Template Here and Megi Satyo and Megi Widodo and Megi Satyo Widodo (b. 1993) and Geranium.co and Haris Purnama Putra. In 2020, the latest reincarnation was Typetemp Studio which was co-founded with Egi Ahmad Mufid.

Lampung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) of the signage script typefaces Callerious (2019), Modster Script (2019), Qintan Script (2018), Adelaide (2018; aka Azzardo), Purnama (2017) and Chasing Star (2018; brush style), the dry brush typefaces Flassty (2019), Springfield (2019), Housky (2019), and Southgirl (2019), and the script typefaces Austine (2019), Outlander (2019), Guigliamore (2019), Quillenghton (2019), Mettda (2019), Arkland (2019: monoline), Breavenheart (2019), Jesselyne Script (2019), Claude (2018), Wilderness (2018), Magnolia (2018), Oregon Script (2018), Made Hellios (2018), Ballerina (2018), Dreamland (2018), Charlotte (2018), Geraldine (2018), Laura Hellaw (2018), Sureder (2018), Sureder Stylish (2018), Cherry Blossom (2018) and Lattravis (2017).

Typefaces from 2020: Classy Brune Sans, Klarinda (a decorative serif), Mitchaella Luxury Serif (a decorative serif), Oliver Blush, Casanova Serif Display (a decorative serif by Haris Purnama Putra and Egi Ahmad Mufid), Crimson Foam (a wild calligraphic font by Haris Purnama Putra and Egi Ahmad Mufid), Chairine, Klarinda Remenont (a decorative serif), Sonettons, Cheapsman (a 4-style headline sans), Aetrina Script, Hugolers Stylish Modern (a decorative serif by Egi Ahmad Mufid), Irish Belle (script), Novocane (a monoline script), St Lousie Dayton, Eunila Script, Nocarine Script, The Billvort (script), Victoryia Wastinger (a decorative serif), Handley (monoline script), Blanchope (brush script), Lavitanie (monoline script), Hampshire (script), Anxiety, Blackhills (dry brush script), Huntington (dry brush script), Crystal Dust, Billy Smith (a signature script), Houstiny, Signature Flavour, Irlandya (a dry brush script), Rubellion Script, Lostmoond Script, Quechely, Bollivia Script, Vacation Brush, Rosemellind Signature, Lotterras, Mighty Brush, Marryliane, Frankfield Script, Bravenheart Script, Halmaherra Signature, Kileegon Zales, Aurelly Signature, Billy Smith, Crystal Dust, Flaura, Histeria Script, Huntington, Irlandya, Signature Flavour, Threesixty.

Typefaces from 2021: Bougerose (a reverse stress display typeface), Silk Flower, Creamy Sunday, Housky, Springfield, Housting, Kiyoka, Koln, South Amsterdam (font duo),Ladysmith, Butter Fluid, Neutral Autumn, Aurelly, Crystal Dust, Southgirl, Blackhills, Crystal Sandstone, Pineapple Palm Tree, Kindbold, Portofolio, Irlandya, Signature Flavour, Huntington, Flassty, Rutch Display (a display typeface), Coastine, Allenoire (a bold display serif), Stay Wild, Northern Worssley, Bleu Femee (informal), Allegra de Amour (a fashion mag typeface), Ruth Clair (calligraphic script), Quetry Serif (a wedge serif), Rotterburg.

Typefaces from 2022: Aqala (a hipster display face), Graindeur (a modern display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typhoon Type
[Suthi Srisopha]

Bangkok, Thailand-based designer (b. 1976) of the free brush script typeface Zomtam Thai (2017), and the script typefaces Amazing Kids (2017), Reality Sunday (2017), Lovely Home (2017), Journey to Thailand (2017), Midnight Bangkok (2017), Vacations in Phuket (2017) and Chiangmai Hostel (2017: formal calligraphic style).

Typefaces from 2018: Butterfly Kiss, Medusa Story, Weather Sunday, The Holiday (signage script), Sudsakorn, Siam Giants, Black Melody, Cheetah Kick, Jestho Fisher, Kansha, Sawasdee, Hosabien, Yakuza Lobster (brush script), Lonely Basket, Indigo Daisy, Antishbusy, Skating Move, Kindly Jasmine, White Mackintosh, Joker Smiling, Umbrella Market, Double Jacket (a creamy script), Candle Mustard, Pacific Again, Plastic Beauty, Schoolkid, Beach Society, Earth Quest, Slow Life, Tale of Hawks, Broken Heart, Dancing Marker, Awesome Birds, Follow Me, Inkland, Moving Skate, Sexy Queen (script), Black Party, Easy November, Sweet Hipster, On The Rings, The West Gate, Indy Women.

Typefaces from 2019: Vesta Night, East Octopus, Vicky Cinthia, Xanthousy, Christmas Ribby, Reindeer Christmas, Mocking Bird, Jazzy Raptor, Antique Cherry, Real Gipsy, Likely Kitty, Silent Asia, Donkey Talk, Mother Batik, Beefy Soup, Lemon Brush, Ants Valley, Blisk Rhythm, Chocolate Kids (inline script), Salmon White, King Lionel, Coaster Quake, Billion Calligraphy, Hallo Oyster, Red Lipstick, Navy Ballad, Osaka Mustache, Rhinos Land, Ole Blizzard (signage script), Zebra Advert, Getsu Magic, Atomic Robusta, Gook Kitt (dry brush script), Handsome Boss, Durian Lovers, Qwerty Ability, Absolute Pink, Sixth Babylon, Yeah Violette (brush script), Newest Oldest, Fiesta Kids, Baking Lion, Rainbow Dreams, December Pastel, Macho Barista, Victory Racket, High Destiny, March Lovers (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Manila Kiss, Snowy Christmas, Christmas Bell, Kind and Rich, Sushi King, Monicha (a nice inline typeface), Crowny, Feathery, Blue Eyes, Pink Diary (a pink panther script), Rathouly (calligraphic script), Phiscilla, Cutie Cupid, All The Roll, Yellow Rabbit, Play Day, Jacky Shake, Quark Cheese, Ivory Chill, Monkey Act, Delan Gray, Harytian, Kashmir Rosy, Seaside Wave, Aloha Friday (signage script), Say Mooky, Super Yeasty, Handy Ink.

Typefaces from 2021: Milla Cilla (script), Rose Cake, Suki Yaki, Piasley, Fat Inlove, Myrlissa.

MyFonts interview. Fontspace link. Fontspring link. Catalog of the typefaces in the Larabie Fonts collection. Klingspor link.

Typia Nesia
[Arief Setyo Wahyudi]

Aka Fitriyawan Runsell, Arief Setyo Wahyudi founded Typia Nesia in 2016. Malang, Indonesia-based designer of the brush signage script typefaces Marjei Display (2016), Riverhack (2016), Bhatoshine (2016), Bellatiez (2016, dry brush), Sinisuka (2016), Hello Lary (sic) (2016), Hilary Room (2016, renamed later to Hello Lary?) and SokaQola (2016).

Other typefaces from 2016 include Glorynight (octagonal), Maqin Larisa, the calligraphic script fonts Rinstonia (almost like handwriting), Glorydays and Illusias, Revalina (grungy), and the vintage typefaces Asbak Display and Stangbunder.

Typefaces from 2017: Little Ballerina, Authentic Monoline, Betarisa, Elsagars, Glorydays, Queenland, Pinarak (brush), Bigbroade, Quashar, Hamline (a monoline signature script), Zailayard, Sidaghis, Illusias (calligraphic), Aziya, Shelafisa, Selesia Heart, Moolrys, Glorynight, Whimsy, Rhaikane (monoline script), Dabrush (dry brush), Sheilazain (a free calligraphic script), Magehand (signage script), Meshitara (connected script), Autorich Sans, Aurellia (textured script font), The Historia (brush script), Quashar (grungy), Kaiya Land (dry brush font), Biolatesha (connected script).

Typefaces from 2018: Historea (dry brush), Quashar, Houstander Allcaps, The Historia (heavy brush style), Sandbrush (a dry brush script), The Real Magazine (brush style), Single Brand, Lazy Quotes, Indie Fest, Alisheader, Houstander, Herdrey (calligraphic), Beshiny, Fantica, Riotiks, Outerlord, Antique.

Typefaces from 2019: Aesthetic White, Aurellia Vintage, AvailaBrush, Jokelaws, KaiyaLand Brush, Mark the Date, Meshitara Elegant, Riverhack Brush, Runtoys (a children's book font), Sinisuka Logo, Availa Brush (free), Dream Beach (script).

Typefaces from 2020: Advander Display Serif, Amaryllis Sans, Athetic Bold Script, Avaboca (a black condensed sans), Cageworld, Campfire (slab serif), Castand, Costigue (a hipster typeface), Crush Tease, Deltory (a stencil slab serif), Distropica, Great Dome Allcaps, Loemintoe, Luxury Quality, Magnetico Italic Sans, Maquire, Math & Risk, Nicolatte (a monospaced slab serif), Noiseware, Portway Stencil Serif, Qualivite Serif, Quartage Serif, Slabien Slab Serif, Sunnyside Rough Sans, TN Rosemary, Tarquile, Vanelope, Zoonaji, Athetic.

Typefaces from 2021: Castilon (a warm display serif), Angle Coast (an expressive hipster serif), Archane, Astrovans Retro, Baby Sunday, Beachy Italic, Bella Queta serif, Birds&Home, Blisstwin, Chaostic, Codeca One, Faltige Slab Serif, Fast and Cure Serif, Ghapter Sans (a hipster typeface), Gilsock Sans, Glamode, Gold and Queen, Grand Matilda, Greatwoods, Gunstand, Helena Bloom, Jazzbury, Kingdom (a garalde), Knock Out (a sports font), Lumaneon, Luxury Quality Script, Magehand Logo Font, Mighty Wings, Milk and Wild, Mutone, Neomarket, Palmour, Pottery Gifts Sans, Quatera (a 10-style serif), Quatest Thin Italic, Quickwar Display Sans, Quitewave, Quite Word, Quotesa Sans (a thin stylish sans), Rosemode (a serif typeface based on Trajan), Roystorie, Scripter (a typewriter font), Shigatsu Italic Serif, Sporadic (a bold sports sans), Squiver (techno), TN Rosemary Font Duo, Vaulto (a wide bold sans), Westbake Sans, Wondermind.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typodermic
[Ray Larabie]

Ray Larabie (b. 1970, Ottawa, Canada) ran Typodermic in Mississauga, ON, which opened in the Fall of 2001. In 2006, it moved to Vancouver, BC, and in 2009 it moved on to Nagoya, Japan. Dafont page. Ray Larabie has been making fonts since 1996, but those early fonts were freeware. His pre 2001 fonts are grouped under the label Larabie Fonts. In 2001, he set up Typodermic. Latest additions.

The Typodermic fonts:

2022: Biphoton (a monospaced sans with the same proporions as Letter Gothic 12), Valve (an industrial muffler shop font), Deception (a sub-pixel typeface with ten captivating effects---Deception Array (wide blocks), Deception Bars (text viewed through lenticular glass), Deception Blocks (as in heavy JPEG degradation), Deception Diamonds, Deception Lines (for a grayscale effect), Deception Particles, Deception Plusses, Deception Process (simulates grayscale LCD text or a thermal printer on the fritz), Deception Scanline (television picture tube text rendering), Deception System (1-bit dithering gone haywire)), Monofonto (a monospaced sans), Encercle Draft (permitting users to create numbers in borders), Encercle Sans, Heavy Heap (a groovy psychedelic typeface with a scorching look, reminiscent of 1960s hot-rod culture and die-cast toy vehicles), Ggx89 (a 48-style tightly spaced Swiss style sans family).
2021: Quadrillion (a 12-style rounded monoline sci-fi family), Mochon (a wall writing or chalk font based on the lettering of Donald Mochon, dean of the RPI School of Architecture until 1966; the Mochon samples were provided by an ex-student of Mochon, Karl A. Petersen), Steelfish Hammer (a subtly rustic version of Larabie's most popular typeface, Steelfish), Wavetable (sci-fi), Xyzai (an LED emulation font, described by Ray Larabie as a hardcore, Y2K-style techno typeface), Geoparody (a 12-style squarish typeface inspired by a late 1960s font called Anonymous), Typewriter Spool (122 fonts, modeled after the Underwood No. 5 typewriter font).
2020: Gravtrac (a 56-style condensed to crushed slab serif family inspired by mid-twentieth century classics like Univers 59 Ultra-Condensed, Helvetica Inserat and Compacta; +Greek, +Cyrillic), Vinque Antique (a rustic handcrafted blackletter in eight styles).
2019: Dealerplate (17 license plate styles for various states and provinces in the USA and Canada, current as of 2019; included are California, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Missouri, Washington, North Carolina, Virginia, Quebec, and Ontario), Kenyan Coffee Stencil, Good Timing, Steelfish Rounded, Bitcrusher (a consumer electronics / techno font), Galderglynn 1884 (a nineteenth-century style sans-serif typeface that exp[ands his Galderglynn Esquire).
2018: Cybermontage, Crack Man (a pac man font), Propaniac (a 1980s-style postmodern typeface inspired by a Pointer Sisters record sleeve which was designed by Shoot That Tiger Creative Services), Zelega Zenega, Spectrashell.
2017: Minicomputer (MICR style), Squirty, PCTL9600, PCTL4800 (retro techno), Ultraproxi (semi-monospaced and influenced by the high speed computer printers from the 1950s to 1970s), Toxigenesis (techno sans), Venus Rising, Vanchrome (a compact sans-serif headliner with chromatic layers), Krait (a layered geometric typeface designed for architectural display), Xylito (a layered font for chromatic or 3d effects).
2016: Refuel (octagonal, based on military aircraft markings), Expressway Soft (a sans-serif font family inspired by the U.S. Department of Transportation's FHWA Series of Standard Alphabets, also known as Highway Gothic), Conthrax (squarish, techno), Cornpile (cartoonish), Electric, Evensong (art deco), Fledgling (a very tall typeface), Gymkhana (sans), Remissis (sans), Sunday Evening (a reverse contrast typeface), Meloche (Meloche is a unique grotesque sans-serif typeface influenced by hand-painted French signs of the late nineteenth century. It's available in 7 weights and obliques).
2015: Canada 150 (a custom font for the Canadian government; see here, here, this coverage regarding the Inuktitut part of the font, and this reaction by the curmudgeons in Toronto who complain that Ray did this work for free), Autoradiographic (sans family), Built Titling (for compact headlines), Chickweed Titling (cartoon titling font), Cardigan Titling (flared headline face), Bench Grinder Titling, Kleptocracy Titling, Palamecia Titling (rounded black comic book typeface), Quasix Titling, Galderglynn Titling (all caps sans family from hairline to black), Mixolydian Titling, Stormfaze (a sci-fi font started in 1996 and finished in 2015), NK57 Monospace (a 60-style programmer typeface), Gargle, Athabasca (a sans family designed for the rugged Canadian oil patch).
2014: Mesmerize (a large free sans family), Kingsbridge (a large slab serif family with sharp points on the A, M, N, V and W), Manbow (a layered geometric art deco display font which includes solid, clear, stripe, polka-dot and screen patterns), Breamcatcher (an all caps art deco font inspired by the piano sheet music for With Every Breath I Take which was featured in the Bing Crosby/Kitty Carlisle musical comedy film, Here is my Heart), Kilsonburg (Dutch deco based on an old Vogue magazine cover), Uchiyama (poster typeface), Goldsaber (art deco design), Vexler Slip (unicase), Rakesly, Dacquoise, Pretender, Rimouski (a rounded geometric font family), Nulshock (techno), Recharge (techno/industrial font), Interrogator Stencil, Strange Alphabets (arts and cratfs font), Angerpoise Lampshade (free).
2013: Numbers With Rings, Shookup (funky cartoon font), Pastrami on Rye (cutout comic book style), Chickweed, Built (a condensed headline sans), Fluctuation (a softly rounded elliptical sans family), Astrochemistry (sci-fi, techno with rounded edges), Snasm (sci-fi).
2012: Engebrechtre (2000-2012), Die Nasty (1999-2012: free), Strasua (1999-2012), Planet Benson (1997-2012), Husky Stash (1998-2012), Barbatrick (1999-2012: a speed emulation font), Zero Hour (1997-2012), Urkelian (1998-2012: very condensed), Zolasixx (inspired by the video game Zaxxon), Ampacity (neon font), Chromakey (a space deco headline font inspired by box art classic video games including Matrix Marauders and Magical Chase), Disassembler (1980s style bitmap font), Zerbydoo (a dot matrix family), Superego (a geometric-techno font inspired by the cabinet graphics for the 1981 Stargate arcade game), Rukyltronic (a set of dot matrix typefaces), Nerdropol (pixel family), Gulkave (rounded pixel font), Cyclopentane, Palamecia (a fat finger poster face), Gameness (a 1990 retro industrial deco font), Camulogen (headline face), Color Basic (a pixel typeface inspired the by TRS-80 Color Computer), Triac Seventy One (a funky face), Acroyear (retro all-caps headline font), Troll Bait, Strenuous (unicase), Permanence (a retro=futuristic font based on Alvin Toffler's cover of Future Shok, 1970), Clockpunk (octagonal and quaint), Battlemaze (trekkie face), Mixolydian (industrial sans).
2011: Ugocranis (a brutalist typeface), Clipwave, Wheaton (MICR-inspired), Mango Scribble, TRS Million (dot matrix face), Ugogranis (constructivist), Gomoku (paper cut face), From The Internet.
2010: Cranberry Gin (2010, octagonal), Restore (all caps, geometric sans), From The Stars (an elliptical techno family done with Chikako Larabie), Thrusters (space age face), Dream Orphanage, Dream Orphans (2000-2012), Kengwin (rounded slab serif), Gleaming The Cube (Greek simulation face), Vectipede (a slab serif family), Great Escape (an elliptical sans family), Subrocs (connected script), Hackensack (with Chikako Larabie), Polarband (bilined stackable headline face), Naked Power, Special Forces (a great macho slab serif headline face---watch for awards to roll in), Warugaki (handpainted), Warmer, Honfleur (art deco; with Chikako Larabi), Voivode (a headline typeface done with Chikako Larabie), Hachimitsu (Asian look face, done with Chikako Larabie), Kadeworth (rounded retro look sans, done with Chikako Larabie), Gnuolane Jump (2010, with Chikako Larabie), Markerfield (brush), Board of Directors (Bank Gothic style family, done with Chikako Larabie), GGX88 (a Swiss sans family), Body Goat, Reversal, Gord (techno), Computechnodigitronic (LED, LCD geek-look font), Bench Grinder, Inklea (a bubbly face), Skygirls (retro brush script), Gloss (a paint brush typeface based on Champion, 1957, G.G. Lange), Galderglynn Esquire.
2009: Maqui (an industrial headline sans family), Zingende (art deco family: caps only), Misadventures, Gaz (large retro sans family), Acrylic Brush, Enamel Brush (a digitization of Catalina, 1955, Emil J. Klumpp), DDT (neutral sans), Thump (fat, casual), Desperate Glamour, Pricedown (an update of his free 1990s font, patterned after the lettering on The Price Is Right show), Mitigate (monoline and slabbed; has some typewriter styles), Catwing, Walken (slab serif stencil), Silicone (soft rounded sans family), Movatif (sans), Gunplay (a stencil family inspired by the poster for the 1972 Steve McQueen/Ali MacGraw film The Getaway), Fragile Bombers (octagonal), Forgotten Futurist (techno sans, 19 styles), Bullpen (slab serif), Coolvetica (35 styles), Duality, Good Times, Strenuous, Shlop (paint-drip style), Dirty Baker's Dozen (stencil), Junequil (VAG Rounded style), Owned (graffiti), Domyouji, Threefourtysixbvarrel (stencil), Enacti, Uniwars (futuristic, 16 styles).
2008: Madawaska (a rugged slab serif), Ebenezer (grunge), Gnuolane Stencil, Raincoat, Report School (avant garde sans), Jesaya, Carouselambra (art nouveau), Debusen (rounded), Barge (military font), Renju (2008, potato or rubber stamp print face), Otoboke (handlettered), Hit (informal hand), R6 D8 (futuristic sans family), Rexlia (an octagonal machinistic family), Hybrea (a display sans with TV screen rounding), Sweater School, Tussilago (2008, a neutral sans family), Presicav (extended sans), Hover Unit, Addlethorpe (grunge), Scheme (rounded sans), Usurp (bouncy poster lettering), Negotiate (technical sans family), Divulge, Sewn, Gnoulane (condensed sans), Moja, Teeshirt (old typewriter face), Pound (art deco marries grunge), Graveblade (heavy metal font), Synthemesc (psychedelic anti-Starbucks font), Chysotile (white on black grunge), Cardigan (sans), Gurkner (balloon style), Reagan (grunge).
2007: Tight (a copy of Dean Morris's 1976 Letraset chrome font Quicksilver), Headlight, Meloche (a 3-style grotesk), Octin Spraypaint (grunge stencil), Octin Vintage (grunge), Bouffant (script), Octin Prison (stencil), Octin Sports (octagonal), Octin College (octagonal, for sports jerseys), Octin Stencil (free octagonal font family), Burnaby Stencil (stencil), Superclarendon, Conceal, Ohitashi, Stud (grunge), Bristles (grunge), Skirt, Cotton (grunge), Kelvingrove (a bit of copperplate gothic, rounded and shaved), Augustine, Containment, Snowa, Veriox, Scrubby, Transmute, Sheaff, Injekuta (techno), Rinse (grunge), Polyflec, Domyouji (square sans), Winthorpe (old style), Cutiful (script), Flyswim (grunge), Dirtstorm (spray-painted stencil), Shnixgun (grunge), Neuzon (grunge), Oxeran (old typewriter), PRINTF (grunge all caps monospaced), Akazan (sans), Nyxali (a metal tag face), Nesobrite (25 styles of Bank Gothic lookalikes), Meloriac (a heavy headline sans inspired by Futura), Walnut (graffiti face), Gnuolane (a narrow superelliptical sans), Edifact (a damaged computer font), Darkheart, Stampoo (squarish), Raymond (rough script), Hayate (oriental look), Telephoto. The entire Octin series is free at DaFont.
2006: Octynaz (grunge), Paltime (ornamented), Jolie Ecriture Desard (children's hand), Mango (comic book face), Desard (child's hand), Bulltoad, Lerku (eroded serif), Charbroiled (also eroded), Ceroxa (eroded stencil), Nagomi (a chiseled-look Asian font based on calligraphy of Chikako Suzuki from Nagoya), Whiterock, Yellande, Chilopod (a futuristic typeface inspired by the logo from the 1980s videogame, Atari Centipede), Order, Goldburg (based on a typeface by George Bowditch, 1957), Laserjerks (2006, brutalist), Milibus (futuristic), Bonobo (serifed), Ohitashi, Sarasori (TV-tube shaped typeface in the style of Oban), Structia (an octagonal family), Betaphid (octagonal), Gendouki (futuristic stencil), Slugger (athletic lettering), Marianas (a gorgeous art deco face), Lineavec (octagonal), Corzinair (serif family), Buxotic (a great caps face), Cinecav X (for closed caption TV and DVD), Salsbury (comic book face), Lonsdale (loosely based on a font called Parkway Script, which was designed by Emil Hirt in 1964), Alepholon (futuristic), Kwokwi, Mikadan (a tribute to Stephenson Blake's Verona from 1948, which was in turn based on William Dana Orcutt's Humanistic from 1904), Marion (2012: a beautiful transitional family adopted as a standard Mac OS X font), Quasix (hookish), Skraype (grunge stencil), Bleeker (casual lettering), Linefeed (monospaced line printer font), Draculon (a casual typeface inspired by the letterforms of William Orcutt's humanist font from 1904 which was in turn based on an Italian manuscript from 1485), Mahavishnu (a mix between 1970s psychedelics and art nouveau), Doradani (a corporate identity sans family), Korotaki (futuristic).
2005: Beat My Guest, Kadonk (a Halloween face), Report (a VAG-Rounded style face), Croteau (a poster face), Heroid (ook face), Barrista (informal script), Wyvern (sans serif), Wubble (like puddles of water), Caryn (casual script), Folder (a rigid sans family), Venacti (a futuristic family), Xenara (a keyboard lettering family), Emory (a destructionist sans family), Ligurino (neat sans&serif family), Biondi (update of Copperplate Gothic; followed in 2010 by Biondi Sans; these copperplate style typefaces are in the style of AT Sackers), Byington (Trajan column lettering), Sayso Chic, Expressway (28 weights, a highway signage family), Algol (pixel type), Meposa (fat display face), Tandelle (condensed), Vigo, Maychurch, Mecheria, Vactic (dot matrix), Zosma, Topstitch, Windpower, Llandru, Soap (a creative extension of Cooper Black, with dingbats), Kleptocracy (1999-2005), Owned, Rimouski (sans), Burnstown Dam (2005, a wooden plank font), Sinzano (sans with opentype ligatures galore; compare, e.g., House Ed Interlock), Zamora.
2004: Affluent, Threefortysixbarrel (stencil face), Tank, Telidon (dot matrix face), Funboy, Neuropol X, Neuropol Nova, Mufferaw (comic book face), Larabiefont, Zekton (techno), Strenuous 3D, Silentina (advertised as "a silent movie font"), Amienne (brush script), Fenwick Outline (free), Betsy Flanagan (1998, a keyboard face), Boopee (children's handwriting), Pirulen (in the general Bank Gothic style), Zalderdash.
2003: Zupiter, Blue Highway.
Before 2002: the dot matrix family Telidon, Telidon Ink, Butter Belly, Almonte (1999), the architectural font Jillican (octagonal), Snowgoose, Bomr, Pakenham, Neuropol, Nasalization, Fenwick, Kleptocracy DLX, Sui Generis, Dirty Bakers Dozen (faded stencil), Minya Nouvelle, Asterisp, Chinese Rocks, Jillsville (great artsy Courier), Ulian, Wevli (including Wevli Dingbats), Sappy Mugs (funny mugshots), Sofachrome (1999, inspired by Pontiac car emblems), Eden Mills (1999).

Catalog of the Typodermic library in decreasing order of popularity. Extensive (large page warning) Typodermic catalog. Font Squirrel link. Creative Fabrica link. Fontsquirrel link. Fontdaily link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typofabric
[Dois Debe]

Plymouth, UK-based foundry, est. 2009. In 2009, they made the organic and slightly experimental sans typefaces Aplica, Shelter, Qero Lite and Qero Nite, and the schoolbook handwriting typefaces Sweety and Sweety Hollow, and the industrial Fabrikey (2009). In 2010, Dois Debe made the calligraphic typeface Shanklin.

In 2012, Typofabric published the ball terminal typeface Coquelicot and the techno script typeface Methylene. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typogama
[Michael Parson]

Typogama is the personal foundry of Swiss designer Michael Parson (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 1979), who published these fonts in 2003 as part of Linotype's Taketype 5 collection: Anlinear LT Std Bold, Anlinear LT Std Light, Anlinear LT Std Regular, Arabdream LT Std (Arabic simulation face), ClassicusTitulus LT Std, Hexatype LT Std Bold, Morocco LT Std, Jan LT Std, Ned LT Std, Pargrid LT Std Cross, Pargrid LT Std Regular, Pargrid LT Std Trash, Piercing LT Std Bold, Piercing LT Std Code, Piercing LT Std Regular, Raclette LT Std.

Most of Parson's fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

In 2004, he made Clans (T-26, blackletter) and Boulas (T-26).

In 2006, he released these at T-26: Boutan (Indic simulation face), Heraldry (dingbats), Palm Icons (dingbats for golf), Wingbat (aircraft dingbats).

In 2007, still at T-26: Heraldry, Thunderbolt 73 through 76 (from techno stencil to techno sans).

In 2008, at T26: Ealing (geometric sans family, with a hairline), Bauhau (6 weights), Jane (a rounded sans in 12 weights), Quean, Halja (a modular sharp-edged blackletter with illuminated capitals), Faddish (a high-contrast vogue family), Big Boy (11 styles, a slab family from grunge to regular, accompanied by BigSigns, a hand sign font).

Fonts from 2010: Tinsel (condensed), Rusty (Latin / Cyrillic constructivist typeface inspired by snowboarding), Vindaloo (+Outline, T26), Kimbo (octagonal slabby family), Cyrus (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Calvin (a monoline sans family, +Hairline), Checkpoint (rounded display sans that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014), Fuera (2011: a bilined typeface, T26).

In 2013, he published Selecta (an organic rounded sans, T26), Thunderbolt (an octagonal army style typeface family with a military stencil, T-26), Xcetera (2011), Ignorance (an American 19th century style penmanship font), Psalta (an octagonal blackletter typeface), Nadsat (a geometric display sans with some interlocking letters), Cobono (organic sans), Prox (sans face), Zurika (a wonderful crazy script face), Faddish (T26: a fashion mag typeface), Heraldry (T26), Cedi (YWFT: a hand-printed typeface family with huge multi-character ligature set to simulate real handwriting), Tcho (T26: a soft rounded sans family that covers Latin, Thai, Arabic, Greek and other scripts), Dejecta (a striking scratched titling face, T26), Nedo (2011, a bold prismatic display typeface inspired by the work of Nedo Mion Ferrario in Venezuela), Quam (2012, an elliptical sans family), Pictypo (2012, a useful icon typeface).

In 2014, he updated the interlocking poster display typeface Tinsel (T26---original from 2010) and published the fantastic cartoon / comic book typeface family Bangbang. Siggy (2014) is a funky typeface. Lale (2014), which won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition, uses the opentype features to set up a font system for flowers. Jane (2014) is a rounded sans typeface family. Vulgat (2014) is a vibrant display typeface based on uncial letterforms. Elsuave is a free rounded piano key typeface.

Typefaces from 2015: Chickenz, Framez, Jackazz, Raubam (free), Martinaz (signage script).

Typefaces from 2016: Auro (rounded sans), Dejecta (rough and ragged), Apollonius (a swashy didone), Rosengarten (vintage type influenced by Lucian Barnhard), Deleplace (influenced by didones), Furius (Tuscan style).

Typefaces from 2017: Kurstiva (an informal sans family), Banja (a plump signage script), Bignoy (Wild West, modernized), Kimbo (octagonal), Mensrea (organic sans with beveled, inline, and various layered and graffiti styles), Nibbles (a food truck-inspired dingbat typeface), Huggy (an art nouveau typeface influenced by the work of Heinrich Heinz).

Typefaces from 2018: Brinnan (a wide sans), Zoltana (a floriated, abll terminal-laden fancy titling typeface), Genesa, Kufin (a free Kufic emulation typeface), Madden (an angry dry brush poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: Ahsing (oriental look font), Convexion (a creamy display typeface), Vidocq (based on 19th century woodcut styles).

Typefaces from 2020: Fiducia (inspired by the first Swiss banknotes), Gorgonzo (a creamy bold typeface designed for attention grabbing headlines), Thrifty (a clean minimalist sans family).

Typefaces from 2021: Oildale (an oily and creamy display typeface), Conica (a fine extra bold condensed poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2022: Xotor (a double-inline or prismatic font with octagonal outlines).

Behance link. Klingspor link. Hellofont link. MyFonts link.

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Typograma
[César Puertas]

Cesar Puertas is the Bogotá, Colombia-based designer, who teaches typography at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (2005-2007) and National University of Colombia (2009-). He is the co-founder of ADG Colombia (Colombian Association of Graphic Designers). He graduated from the National University of Colombia in 1999, and got an MA in Type and Media from KABK in 2009. He is currently associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and type designer at Typograma, his own design studio. His typefaces:

Puertas Sans (2005).
ITC Obliqua (2007), a humanist sans family with handwritten influences, discussed here.
Urbana (2007). A humanist sans family having a few odd glyphs such as a very wide "w". Monotype link. Review by Typographica.
Bolívar (2007) and Bolívar Dingbats (2007). A contemporary calligraphic display typeface inspired in the handwriting of Simón Bolívar, the liberator of South America.
Buendia (2009). His graduation type family at KABK was Buendía. Available from Bold Monday and Fontshop.
La Republica (2010). Custom high-contrast didone typeface for a Colombian newspaper. Review by The Case & Point.
Robofan (2010, techno; +Symbols).
Legitima (2011) is a text font family inspired by the types found in the third edition of the Italian book La Cicceide Legitima, printed in 1695. It was originally developed in 2009 during his studies in the Type & Media program. Its weight and x-height, optimized for 10 point-size, makes it an ideal choice for book design and anything with running text.
Ancizar (2013). A family of 26 sans and serif fonts designed for the National University of Colombia. Ancizar won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
Bufalino Display (2014) is a custom design for El Malpensante. Jointly designed by Cesar Puertas and Juan Sebastian Cuestas, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
In 2016, Cesar Puertas and Jan Filipek co-designed the newspaper typeface Bagatela for La Republica.
Translation (2017) is a typeface designed to teach the strokes and stroke order to calligraphy students.

Puertas received many awards at Tipos Latinos 2012: Legitima Regular and Italica won in the text category; while Buendia and La Republica won in the typeface family category. La Republica also won an award at TDC 2012. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Algorithm for the assessment of text typefaces using design parameters.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Monotype link. Flickr page. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Typolis (Serbian version)
[Olivera Stojadinović]

Serbian type designer and calligrapher who made these typefaces:

ITC Anima (2006). A gorgeous bouncy type family with angled weight stress, and angled, even calligraphic, crossbars and serifs.
ITC Aspera. Awarded at the TDC2 2001 type competition.
ITC Hedera (2001). Semi-calligraphic.
ITC Rastko (2000). A great calligraphic font.
Plusquam Sans (2017). A humanist sans.
ITC Resavska and ITC Resavska Sans (2004). She writes: Resava is the old name of an early 15th century Manasija monastery. There was a manuscript workshop at the monastery where, for many years, Resava script served as the model for scribes. Download Resavska here and Resavska Sans here.

Visit her fantastic Black Cat Gallery while you are at it.

In 2017, together with painter and graphic artist Slavko Milenkovic, she set up Typolis (not to be confused with earlier typefoundries called Typolis, one located in Belgium, and the other one in Germany. At Typolis, she published Plusquam Sans (2017).

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Typomancer
[Warit Chaiyakul]

Warit Chaiyakul (Typomancer) is a type designer from Bangkok, Thailand. He created the upright connected script typeface Rhyme Casual (2012) and its unconnected cousin Rhyme Formal (2012).

All of Warit's typefaces cover Latin and Thai. Warit also designed Wongklom (2012, a rounded sans), Theorem (2012, didone), Charm (2012, serifed face), Conflict (2012, sans), Arch (2012).

In 2013, he published Acid (an upright script), the rounded didone typeface family Lynx, the hybrid didone family Felis, the rounded humanist sans family Lounge, the calligraphic script family Mist, and the Latin / Thai sans typeface Quark.

Dawnora (2014, +Initials, +Headline) is a flared swashy display type family. Auxilia (+Condensed) is a geometric sans typeface family.

Typefaces from 2015: Cline (slab serif and sans), Cline (a slab and sans family), Lince (16 fashion mag typefaces rooted in didones), Felis Script.

Typefaces from 2016: Eirlys (a sharp-edged typeface with a medieval or Irish character), Conflict (sans), Ounce (a didone typeface), Cloud (some weights are free).

Typefaces from 2017: Cloud Soft (soft rounded sans; free LightBold weight), Gwyner, Charm (a warm rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Muirne (a Celtic semi-serif typeface family), Pinala (script and sans duo).

Typefaces from 2019: Cloud Lucent, Cloud Script (free).

Typefaces from 2020: Belynos. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Tzu-yuan "Erik" Yin
[Tofutype]

Udegbunam Tbjay

Lagos, Nigeria-based creator of the free hand-printed typefaces Barbecue Chicken (2016, brush face), Beans Plantain (2016, brush face), Purple Arya (2015), Dance with me Tata (2014), John Snow (2014), Black Biscuit (2014), Beautiful Aria (2014), Long Assignment (2014), Written Lies (2014), My Lekpa Girlfriend (2014), Calabar Firewood (2014), Bad Axe (2014), Pidgin Dance (2014), Elegant Agege (2013: calligraphy meets art deco), Sassy Blogger (2013), Boogieweewee (2013), Bee Your Shelf (2013), Skinny Navigator (2013), Chop Chicken Beef (2013), Abeg Pretty Linda Cute (2013), Aboki Dreadlock Jam Suya (2013), Wetin Caro Want (2013) and Ktochi (2013), and the display typeface Hapuyalikethatbiko (2013).

Additional typefaces from 2014 include Midnight Hymn, and Lagos Traffic.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

Ugo da Carpi

Ugo da Carpi (b. ca. 1455, d. ca. 1523) was an Italian painter and printmaker who worked in woodcut. Author of the handwriting book Thesauro de Scrittori (1535). This book was republished in 1968 by Nattali and Maurice (London). An alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿

ULGA Type (was: Creative Goats)
[Michael Gills]

Michael Gills is a British calligrapher and graphic and type designer. He founded Creative Goats in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, and later set up ULGA Type. He worked first at Letraset (1988-1995) where he made typefaces such as Charlotte and Charlotte Sans, Elysium, Gilgamesh, Fling, Forkbeard, Frances Uncial, Isis, Katfish, Prague and Type Embellishments. He is currently an art director at The Folio Society: Book publishers, London. His fonts:

ITC Iris (1990). A tall condensed all caps typeface.
Elyseum Book (1992), originally at Letraset, now sold by ITC.
Charlotte Book and Charlotte Sans (1992), originally at Letraset, now sold by ITC.
Figural Book (1992; art direction by Colin Brignall; based on a typeface of Oldrich Menhart), originally at Letraset, now sold by ITC.
Isis (1990, Letraset, then ITC). An open inline all caps typeface.
Katfish (1994, Letraset, then ITC). An angular script typeface.
Prague (1991, Letraset, sold by ITC; based on a typeface of Oldrich Menhart).
Fling (1995), an upright connected script originally published at Letraset, but now an ITC font. Recently used for Martha Stewart's Blueprint magazine.
Gilgamesh Book (1994), Gilgamesh Book Italic, Gilgamesh Medium, Gilgamesh Bold, all originally at Letraset, now sold by ITC. Plus Gilgamesh Titling (Fontek).
Spidercave (Fontek).
Type Embellishments Three (with Martin Wait, 1994, originally at Letraset, later at ITC). With Colin Brignall, Type Embellishments One (1993) and Type Embellishments Two (1993).
Forkbeard (Letraset, then ITC).
Frances Uncial (1995, Letraset).
Avalanche Script (originally from Letraset).
Rahere Sans (2019), a humanist sans with little contrast. He explains: Way back in 1992 I designed my first sans serif, Charlotte Sans, and although it was relatively successful, I was never really satisfied with the end result: not enough weights & italics, a small character set, lack of accented characters, and my design skills were still in their infancy. Whilst Rahere shares many common elements with Charlotte Sans, it is much more than just a reworking; it represents over 20 years of accumulated knowledge and experience as a designer. In 2021, he released the flared lapidary typeface Rahere Roman Display, which pays homage to Berthold Wolpe's Albertus. In 2022, he added the gothic version Rahere Esoteric and in 2022 Rahere Sans Inline.
Agatized Informal (2020). A rough-edged stencil typeface with chunky letterforms and tight spacing. Accompanied by Agatized Formal (2020).
Ulga Grid (2020). A modular, monospaced typeface reminiscent of the old Letraset LCD and Quartz typefaces from the 1970s and 1980s.
Steel Grrrder (2021). A 12-style industrial strength stencil family. Followed by Steel Grrrder Script (2021), Steel Grrrder Groove (2021) and Steel Grrrder Nutjob (2021).

View Michael Gills's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Uloel Design
[Ulul Fahmi]

Or Uloel Portnoy. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based creator of Ethammov Brush (2017) and Makila Script (2017). In 2019, he made the script fonts Agnetha, Chain Breaker and Quick Jump, the dry brush font Louisiana Brush, the brush font Blasting Brush, and the calligraphic script typefaces Catherine, Valentina, Romantisch, Samantha, Mathilda, Space Craft, Charlotte, Quintella, Lieselotte, Merlin and Lovely Valentine. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ulul Fahmi
[Uloel Design]

Une petite histoire de la calligraphie

Umberto Fenocchio

Designer of the pen script font Grafico (Cooperativa, 1965), characterized by a large x-height, the grotesque family Linea (Cooperativa, 1966-1969), Calligrafia, Armonia (calligraphic) and Brio (script typeface at Mecanorma). He has worked with Aldo Novarese and Pietro De Macchi at Nebiolo in Turin, and was afterwards artistic director at Fonderia Tipografica Cooperativa di Peschiera Borromeo, where he designed Linea, Sigla, as well as Arabic and Hebraic alphabets. Linea, in particular, is his major type design oeuvre---it contains weights called Linea Tonda Chiara, Linea Tonda Neretta, Linea Corsiva Neretta, Linea Nera, Linea Nerissima, Linea Neretta Stretta, Linea Nera Stretta, Linea Nerissima Compatta and Linea Profil. He also designed Sigla.

From 1974 until 1996, he was professor of typography and calligraphy at the Istituto Statale Isia di Urbino, while from 1969-1998, he taught lettering at the Scuola Politecnica di Design di Milano. In 1996, he became professor of calligraphy and lettering at NABA, the Nova Academia di Belli Arti in Milan, Italy.

PDF of his work by Hans Reichardt. Gio Fuga's info on him. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Uncle Ersatz

Creator of the iFontMaker fonts Ersatz Grothic (2010, calligraphic) and Ersatz Typewriter 1 (2010, hand-printed, typewriter simulation face). [Google] [More] ⦿

On the history of calligraphy: great French pages. Learn about the differences between Rotunda, Uncial, Textura, Roman, Gothic and Humanist. [Google] [More] ⦿

Unicode Studio (or: Habageud)

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based foundry, est. 2015. Creator(s) of these fonts:

2020: Winstone, Brownies Script,
2019: Allexandrea.
2018: Riverdale, Medallion and the formal connected script typefaces Blacksmith and Fountaine Script (monoline).
2017: Madeline Script, Sweetheart (swashy).
2016: Brilliant, Mighty Love, Delighted Script (brush calligraphy), Boulevard Script, Primadona (sic), Nightstar Script, Brightest Script, Starlight Script (calligraphic), the dry brush typeface Brighton Script, the hand-inked Honesty Script, The Pirates.
2015: Revallyna Script, Allexandrea Script, Ellizabeth Script (free), Claudia Script, Beloved Script, Sunlight Script, Sandhya Script, Rachelle Script, Vandella Script.

Behance link. Graphicriver link. Behance link for Unicode Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Union Hands (was: 50Fox)

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based cooperative of three designers. Creators of Trust Wisely (brush), Jane Austin, Oraqle Script (2017: a free brush font), Manchester Script (2017, fir signage), Beauties Script (2017) and Mostley Script (2017).

Typefaces from 2018: Oriflame Script, Boheme Floral (calligraphic script), Hiroshima Script, Seville Script, Crystal Vibes (an SVG font combined with a signature typeface), Soak Up The Sun (brushy SVG font), Sweet Waves, Sophistica (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2019: Glossy Night (a dry brush font), Imperfecto (condensed masthead font), Loyalty Script, Imperfecta (+Rough), Airplane Script.

Typefaces from 2020: 5th Avenue (a flamboyant display typeface), Painted Brush (a dry brush script), Lovable, Girl Boss, Perfectly Imperfect.

Typefaces from 2021: Hello Bride Script (formal calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2022: Casey (a luxury serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

UORG
[Frank Heine]

Born in 1964, Frank Heine died in Stuttgart in 2003. Heine established UORG in Stuttgart in 1992. UORG was essentially a one-person outfit. Frank also released his fonts through Emigre, FontHaus, FontShop and [T26]. Author of Frank Heine: Type &c (Gmeiner Verlag, 2003).

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

Frank Heine's typefaces:

At [T-26]: Amplifier (1994), IndecisionBasic, Feltrinelli, Intolerance, Kracklite, Opsmarckt (1996, medieval simulation script, including borders), Opsmarckt-Borders (1996), WholeLittleUniverse, Divine.
In FUSE 15 (1996), he did Determination.
At Emigre, he created the grungy Motion (1992), his script family Dalliance (2001), Tribute (2003, a creative revival of a 1565 typeface by Guyot), his curly Remedy (1991) family.
His list of fonts also includes Coolage Bold, Desolation, Vespasian, and Schablone (for Factory, 1993). It is unclear if he also designed Contrivance (1993), a neat curly handwriting font.

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Up Up Creative
[Julie Green]

Julie Green (Up Up Creative) is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, and letterer, based in Rochester, NY. She designed the thin connected script typeface Bundt Cake in 2015. Bundt Cake comes with more than eleven hundred glyphs. Later in 2015, she designed the poster typeface Pinafore.

Typefaces from 2017: Holla (brush script).

Typefaces from 2018: Stoic (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2019: Flatline (a stylish sans family), Thrift (a decorative high-contrast typeface with huge ball terminals), Meritocracy (a monoline script), Slight (a great formal penmanship font), Porcelain, Zoxi (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2020: Auteur (a flowing script), Kindly, Filia (a bold serif).

Typefaces from 2021: Radiograph (a stylish serif), Think (a fine monolinear sans that plays on the the theme of wide and narrow), Ingo (advertized as a sultry display font), Ten Pounds (a vintage italic typeface), Flatline Serif (16 styles).

Typefaces from 2022: Fifty Fifty (a stylish display serif), Filk (an ultra-bold script), Coax (a stylish sans with modulated stem widths). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Ute Harder

Born in Glückstadt a.d. Elbe, Germany in 1972, Ute Harder (known as Frau Jenson at P22) studied Illustration and Communication design at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg under Jovica Veljovic. Since 2002, she works as a freelance graphic designer, collaborating on diverse projects for Linotype and developing her own fonts. She lives in Hamburg.

At P22, she published Alpha Initials (2004), Alpha Roman (2006, described by her as a playful calligraphic display face), Cilati (2004, calligraphic script; +Swash caps), Frau Jenson People (2004, pictograms), Bastyan Pro (2006, a bastarda based on the Carolingian minuscules), and Tulda (2004, letters done for a calendar), which includes Tulda Symbols.

At Linotype, she designed Marathon LT Display and Book (1999, after the famous 1931 font by Rudolf Koch). Other fonts by her include My People, Some Indiduals, Initials, Out Now, Pixi Bilderbuch and Pixi Outline, as well as the Gracy, Grocy and Groby families.

Close-up look at her work.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. P22 link.

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Utopia Latjuba

Designer born in. 1994. Creator of the calligraphic typefaces Anjelina Modern (2019) and Prettyholic (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿

Utopia19
[Witrina]

Utopia 19 has been associated with Witrina, Ayah Phoen and Aya Phoen. Indonesian designer of the sans typeface Romances (2019), the esoteric typeface Morgana Script (2019), the calligraphic script typefaces Seloyor Script (2019), Prettyholic (2019), Kottie Script (2019), Pabku Script (2019), Siantar Script (2019) and Misthy (2019), and the smooth brushed textured font Southam (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Kiranty, Tiberias, Romario, Astra Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Valentin Cauro

Art director in Montreal who created the calligraphic script typeface Helas in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Valentino Coppi
[Monofonts]

Valeria Duarte

Argentinian graphic design student at the Instituto Superior de Diseño Aguas de la Canada, in Córdoba, Argentina. Her first typeface is the flowing script Milonguita (2006, Sudtipos). She specializes in handwriting type, and studies the relationship between emotions and shape. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Van Roem Studio
[Akmal van Roem]

Graphic designer in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, who created the script typefaces Destiny Script (2016), Gladysta Script (2016), Shirley (2016), Hollyn Script (2016), Bralyn Script (2016), Saldina (2016), Angelonia (2015), Overture (2015) and Daviya (2015), the hand-printed Forsaken (2016), and the connected calligraphic Lucita Script (2015).

Graphicriver link. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vanarchiv
[Ricardo Rodrigues dos Santos]

Ricardo Rodrigues dos Santos (or just Ricardo Santos, b. 1976 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese type designer. He ran VanArchiv (est. 2000) from Loures, Portugal. He changed the name to Ricardo Santos and sells his work through MyFonts.

In 2014, Aprígio Morgado, Ricardo Santos and Rúben Dias cofounded Tipos dasLetras in Lisbon. Klingspor link. Behance link. FontShop link.

Ricardo's early masterpiece is Atlantica (2005), a 28-weight transitional family. His typefaces Insectos Project (1997, geometric sans) Base Geometric Sans Serif (1998, geometric sans) Focus (1999, geometric sans) and Zeit Geist (2000, decorative) are discussed by a type forum. He made the sans families Boom (1997, decorative), Van (1998-2001, geometric sans) Urbis (2001, geometric sans) Baseniv (2001), geometric sans) RS1 (1998, decorative), Mitron (2001, decorative) Van Condensed (1998-2004, geometric sans), Van Dingbats (2004, travel dingbats), Focus and Focus Dingbats (2006, sans), and Lisboa (2000-2005, a humanist sans, with dingbats based on the symbology of Lisbon city, published with Fountain, and later at Vanarchiv as Lisboa Swash (2015), Lisboa (2017), Lisboa Sans (2017), Lisboa Tamil (2018). Lisboa Sans Tamil (2019), and Lisboa Hebrew (2018)).

At Tiponautas: Lab Sans Pro (LuisAlonso+RicardoSantos--LabSlabPro-2011b.png">2011, by Luis Alonso and Ricardo Santos) is a geometric sans-serif typeface with a technological and minimalist look and is suitable for use in large sizes.

Tramuntana 1 Pro (2012) was inspired by the late Renaissance and Manneiist spirit during 2009 for his Masters in Advanced Typography (Eina-Barcelona). This project was also inspired by Robert Granjon, Garamond and Sabon typefaces. The name tramuntana (Tramontane) is the Catalonian word for the cold wind that comes from the Pyrenees mountains and goes as far as the Balearic Islands. It was designed for editorial proposes (books and magazines). Tramuntana Dingbats (2012) is a set of artistic arrows.

Typefaces at Tipos da Letras: TDL Ruha Hairline and Latin (2014, with Abrígio Morgada and Rúben Dias: a modern slab and wedge serif pair). See also TDL Ruha Crown (2017).

In 2014, Ricardo Santos designed the geometric humanist sans typeface family Grafia Sans.

Typefaces from 2015, at Tiponautas: Xaloc (a Latin text typeface with flaring and stroke modulation, divided over subfamilies called Caption, Text, Subhead and Display). At Vanarchiv, still in 2015, he published the 20-style calligraphic text families Escritura and Escritura Display. In Escritura, Santos worked in elements of chancery and renaissance writing, Its angular open letters make this typeface useful for texts. It was extended in 2017 to Escritura Hebrew.

Typefaces from 2016: Aircrew (published at Tiponautas), which is a neutral, humanist sans-serif family optimized for wayfinding and signage applications in display sizes. Aircrew features large x-height, vertical terminals, low contrast, and short ascenders and descenders.

Typefaces from 2017: Aquino (by Rui Abreu and Ricardo Santos; a display calligraphic stencil typeface inspired by a liturgic book made by Portuguese friar Tomas Aquino in 1735), Gazeta (text and editorial use).

Typefaces from 2019: Gazeta Slab, Gazeta Stencil Ds, Lisboa Sans Hebrew, Lishbona Naskh (an Arabic typeface based on Lisboa Sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Linka (2020: a rounded organic sans that can be morphed into a linked cursive script, complete with initial, medial and final forms), Linka Stencil (2020), Nouveau LX Expanded, Nouveau LX Stencil, Nouveau LX (based on Hermann Hoffmann's Herold (1913, Berthold), but with a different capital R).

Typefaces from 2021: Miragem (an 18-style serif typeface with wedgy terminals),

Typefaces from 2022: Quebra Expa, Quebra Ex Condensed, Quebra (a large slightly techno sans family with large squarish counters), Van Condensed Hebrew. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Vardo Design

Russian designer of Felicita (2016, a dynamic brush script), Brambles (2016, rush script), Brambles Spike (2016), Brambles Swashes (2016, floral dingbats), White Soul (2016), Doppio (2016, handcrafted), Belamora (2016), TrimMark (2016), Vegano Upper (2016) and StrawScript (2016).

Vassil Nikolaev Kateliev
[Karandash]

Vates Design
[Alex Ivanov]

Moscow-based illustrator specializing in vintage style, calligraphy, ornate crests and emblems. In 2014, Vates Design created the commercial copperplate script typeface Bodega Script and the engraved currency font Bold Price. In 2015, Vates added the copperplate gothic typeface Barracuda Display and the curly Austen Display. In 2016, they published the calligraphic chancery style November Script. Fonts from 2017 include Achievement (a brush script) and Black Spot (vintage style).

In 2018, he designed the beautiful Spencerian penmanship font Jamaica Script, which was inspired by Louis Madarasz. In 2019, he released Rough Antiqua and Viking Caps (a rune and rune emulation typeface).

Typefaces from 2020: Lodbrok (Celtic).

Typefaces from 2021: Marquise (a calligraphic script).

Link to a business that makes vintage coat-of-arms logos. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vava Aryanto
[Blankcraft (was: Fallen Type, or: Fallen Graphic)]

Vellum gallery: calligraphy links

Vedran Erakovic

Serbian designer who lives in Belgrade. He was born in 1980 in Split, Croatia. In 2009, he obtained a Masters in Applied Graphics from the University of Arts, Belgrade. He works as an Art editor in the Serbian daily newspaper Politika, and also collaborates with FontShop. In 2017, he set up LetterPalette together with Ana Prodanovic.

His typefaces include Skockana (2003), Slovit (2003, an interpretation of the Cyrillic version of the Renaissance cursive), Narator (2003). Koledar (2004), Cyrillic versions of Champion and Magna (2008), Orden (2010), and Adamant BG (2009, a sturdy Cyrillic family). Besides Adamant Sans BG, he designed PF Adamant Pro (2010, Parachute: +Cyrillic). Still in 2010, PF Adamant Pro was awarded Third Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Cyrillic text typefaces. PF Adamant Sans Pro followed in 2015, after winning an award at Granshan 2014.

In 2015, Vedran Erakovic and Marija Rnjak co-designed the handwriting font Vuk, which is named after and based on the handwriting of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, a Serbian philologist and linguist who was the major reformer of the Serbian language. Thanks to some OpenType features, this typeface does a good job at emulating real handwriting.

In 2017, he designed the sans serif typeface Stena, which is characterized by deep sharp ink traps and a large x-height.

In 2018, he published Ana, a layered set of decorative capitals.

MyFonts link. Free downloads here. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Veil of Perception
[Terry Lee]

Terry Lee is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas for some time. His typefaces there include Runyan, which is based on lettering by Terry Runyan, Write Typer (typewriter emulation), and Ultra Jason, which is based on lettering by Amber Goodvin.

In 2015, he set up his own type foundry, Veil of Perception. His typefaces at his own foundry include Feverish (2017; well, this one is made by Bill LaFever for Veil of Perception), Tragicomic (2016: a comic book typeface), Occam (2016: an informal calligraphic script face) and Hadron (2016, a gothic calligraphic typeface family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

By Brooks Collins. [Google] [More] ⦿

Veneta Rangelova
[Dear Type]

Vennessa Mayer

Creator of the swashy thin script typeface Tattooed Wedding (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿

Vera Evstafieva
[Infonta]

Vera Holera
[Vera Kudryashova]

Vera Kudryashova (aka Vera Holera, Katy, Houston, TX) specializes in calligraphic alphabets for Latin and Cyrillic. In 2015, she created the script typefaces Quick Snack Script, Imperfect Script, Imperfect Calligraphy Script, Happy Day Script, Caprice Script, Stubborn Faith and Maxim Script, and the yummy brush typeface Humus Script.

Typefaces from 2016: New York (handwriting), Bakery Paradise, Delicious (connected script), Sunny Script, Spirit of Dance.

Typefaces from 2017: Baikal, Amsterdam (script). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vera Kudryashova
[Vera Holera]

Verlag ABC26

German commercial site selling posters of beautiful letters. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vermilione (was: Lovoos)
[Lovindha Kintani]

Aka Onep99, Lovoos and Sayins. Malang and/or Surabaya, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1997, of the monoline script typeface Exiona (2019)the rounded monoline sans typeface Bunderan (2019), the signature script fonts Alexandria (2019), Morellin (2019), Charllesh (2019), Mansions (2019) and Jellaine (2018), the upright calligraphic font Rose Marline (2019), the brush typefaces Butter&Milk (2019), Senorita (2019), Whisper (2019) and Brush Kencur (2019), the neon font Lumos (2019), and the handcrafted typefaces Juttely (2019), The Sayinistic (2019), Hillary (2019), Alchemisch (2019), Josephine (2019), Santhana (2019), Margareth (2019), Karimun Jawa (2019), Spicy Wings (2019), Swallow Script (2019), Lucky Likey (2018) and Kalila (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿

Veronika Golovko
[Qilli Design]

Veronika Hovhannisyan

Yerevan, Armenia-based designer of a calligraphic display typeface for Latin in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

VersaType
[Jim Ford]

Versa Type is Jim Ford's foundry. Jim graduated in graphic design from Columbia College in Chicago. He received his BFA in Graphic Design in 2005. Jim lives in Delavan, Wisconsin. He joined Ascender Corp in 2005, and Monotype in 2013.

At Ascender, he co-designed Ayita (2006), a decorative sans family, with Steve Matteson. Pokerface (2009, Ascender) is an industrious mixed-case display font devised on the theme of playing cards. Captain Quill (2008, Ascender Corp) is calligraphic. Moire (2008, Microsoft) is a sans face. Jimmy Crack Corn (2009, Ascender) is an ordinary handwriting font. Ford's Folly (2010, Ascender) is a felt tip pen face. He also made Artcraft Pro (Ascender). Dempster (2010, Ascender) is a geometric sans with angular terminals; it was reissued in 2016 and Steve Matteson's name was adeed to the list of designers. He also designed the Segoe Chess Font (2006, Ascender, with Steve Matteson). He co-designed Segoe Mono in 2012 with Steve Matteson at Ascender.

In 2013, Jim joined Monotype as a type designer. The Halloween font Wolfsblood was designed in 2013. In 2014, he created Quire Sans (a humanist sans) at Monotype.

In 2015, he designed Esca (Monotype). Richie (2016, Monotype) is a brush script typeface inspired by the work of Czech type designer Oldrich Menhart, who liked angular calligraphic outlines.

Posterama (2016, Monotype) is a 63-font set that pays homage to the 20th century. Its base set is Posterama Text (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic). Additional subfamilies include Posterama 1901 (art nouveau), Posterama 1913 (abstract art, as seen at the Armory Show, or 1913 Exhibition of Modern Art), Posterama 1919 (Bauhaus), Posterama 1927 (related to Metropolis, The Jazz Singer and Paul Renner's Futura), Posterama 1933 (art deco), Posterama 1945 (constructivism and Russian propaganda), Posterama 1984 (sc-fi and video game era, with a bit of George Orwell thrown in), and Posterama 2001 (inspired by Stanley Kubrick's science fiction movie).

Still in 2016, he designed Ernie, a funky animated typeface, intended as a complimentary serif design to Freeman Craw's fun retro hit, Ad Lib.

Typefaces from 2017: Beefcakes (butcher shop type), Masqualero, a display typeface family with a luxurious look and a sparkly smooth finish: Like the legendary jazz song of the same name, Masqualero is haunting and sophisticated. Drawn as a tribute to Miles Davis, its letterforms are as beautiful as his Masqualero composition. I approached drawing the letters as if they were marble sculptures.

Typefaces from 2018: Hideout (a sturdy typeface family inspired by the flared serif lettering of antique tobacco tins), Alfie (a casual script).

Typefaces from 2021: Guzzo (an informal, humble and naive sans family with 18 styles that takes its name from American artist Jeremy Pinc, aka the painter Guzzo Pinc; Guzzo channels the quirky, funny and poignant qualities of his paintings).

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Vespasiano Amphiareo

16th century Franciscan scribe and calligrapher (1501-1563), known for his 1554 writing manual Opera di Frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara ... nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti de lettere (Venice, 1554), the first place where one can find a Bastarda. Typefaces based on scans of his work include Gothic Majuscles (2003, Manfred Klein, based on Gothic Initials, 1554), and Amphiareo (2002, a Mac font made by Michael Schrauzer). Pictures of his capitals. [Google] [More] ⦿

V.H. Fleisher
[Resident]

Vicente Fernandez Valliciergo

Spanish author of various books on calligraphy and penmanship. These include:

Nuevo metodo de caracteres goticos y de adorno (1905, Madrid).
Nuevo metodo grafico del escritura inglesa (1896, Madrid).
Nuevo metodo de ensenanza de la letra inglesa. Caligrafo de la Real Casa premiado con diferentes medallas de oro y plata.
Caligrafia Francesa : primer metodo de ensenanza de la letra redondilla: para uso de los colegios y academias, y de todo aquel que desee aprender por si solo (Madrid, ca. 1887).

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Vicky Mardian
[VMF Fonts]

Victoria Rushton

After attending high school in Singapore, Victoria Rushton (New York City) studied at RISD (the Rhode Island School of Design) and graduated in 2013 with a degree in Illustration. In 2014 she joined Font Bureau and later Type Network as a staff designer, and lived in Boston. Under the guidance of Cyrus Highsmith at RISD, she created the text typeface Sylvia in 2012 for the poems of Sylvia Plath who committed suicide in 1963.

In 2015, she designed the Font Bureau font Marcia, a didone with many quirks and curvy surprises.

In 2016, she designed Embury Text. Victoria explains: Contrasting characteristics like soft round curves, sharp end strokes, exaggerated oval counters, punched in slab-like serifs, and swelling swashes play subtly off of each other, offering an unexpectedly immersive experience to the reader.

In 2017, she designed the connected script typeface Gautreaux, which is inspired by a lettering style from Tommy Thompson's The Script Letter called "free style lettering."

In 2021, Victoria, together with Type Network and Kerns&Cairns, designed the corporate typeface Peacock Sans for NBC.

At Future Fonts in 2021, she released the Spencerian script typeface Kadabra, which was started by (her late partner) Dai Foldes, who in turn was inspired by the work of calligrapher Jean Larcher.

Lovegrove (2021) is a display typeface designed by Dai Foldes and Victoria Rushton for their wedding invitations. It was inspired by the calligraphy of Raymond DaBoll and has been expanded into a variable font with a swash axis.

Interview in 2015 by Type Thursday. Font Bureau link. Type Network link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

View Type
[Fajri]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of the formal calligraphic typeface Faradila (2020). Other calligraphic typefaces from 2020 include Amanda, Amorita, Play Girl, Meghan Markle, Natacha, Kitalina, Miyuki and Aspect. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Vigilante Typeface Corporation (was: WolfBainX)
[Larry E. Yerkes]

Over 100 original fonts by the prolific Allentown, East Pennsylvania-based tattoo artist Larry E. Yerkes, aka WolfBainX, b. 1969. His work include many comic book typefaces, a few grunge fonts, several macho fonts, and some smudged typewriter fonts. Many fonts are in a style one could call tattoo fonts. Several fonts come in 4 to 8 weights.

His fonts: VTC#9pt1of, VTCAllWashedUp, VTCAnglika, VTCAngoraChik, VTCAntiqueFizz, VTCBadDataTrip, VTCBadDrip, VTCBadHangover, VTCBadLuck, VTCBadNausea, VTCBadPaint, VTCBadPlating, VTCBadVision.ttf VTCBadWhipit, VTCBelialsBlade3d, VTCBoseephus, VTCCoppaKroma, VTCDizplaced, VTCEmbrace, VTCFunkinFrat, VTCFuzzyPunkySlippers, VTCGoblinHand, VTCJezzabelBimbo, VTCJoeleneHand, VTC Komika Headliner, VTCKomixationRegular, VTCKrinkle-Kut, VTCLettererPro, VTCLiquorCrystalDisplay, VTCLo-Down, VTCOldAsCrap, VTCOptika, VTCPizzOff, VTCPunkettePumps, VTCScreamItLoud, VTCSeeJoBend, VTCSeeindubbledointriple, VTCSikleCell, VTCStressedHand, VTCSubwaySlam, VTCSundaykomix, VTCSuperMarketSale, VTCSwitchbladeRomance, VTCTribal, VTCVictorianLint, VTCeltiaKeys, VTCeltiaSpirals, VTVBadJudgement, WBXKomiX, the comic book fonts GrannyT (3 weights, smudged typewriter), Lucidite (grunge family), Nero, Komik, Domin8, the grunge fonts Flack and ListenJenn, VTCNightOfTheDeadCorruptCaps, VTCNightOfTheDrippyBentCaps, VTCNightOfTheDrippyDead, VTCNightOfTheDrippyDeadCaps, VTCNightOfTheDrippyDeadFatCaps, VTCNightOfTheDrippyDeadOuttie, VTCNightOfTheDrippyLowCaps, VTCNightOfTheOozieDeadCaps, VTCNightOfTheStretchedDead, VTCNightOfTheWackedDead, Scar, Tribal, and Scrawl. Windows TrueType. Vigilante has joined forces with Apostrophic Labs to make Tribal (2001) and Komika (2001), a 50-font family for comics. In 2008, he published VTC-OldeSchoolTattoo-One. In 2009, that was followed by VTC-Bad Tattoo Hand One, VTC Nue Tattoo Script (calligraphic), VTCTattooScriptTwo (2013), and VTC-Roughed Up.

Creations in 2010: VTC-TribalThreeFree, VTC Bad English, VTC Sumo Slasher, VTC KomikSkans, VTC Freehand Tattoo One, VTC Roughed Up, VTC Bad Tattoo Hand One, VTC-BadEnglischOne, VTC-BadTattooHandOne, VTC-FreehandTattooOne, VTC-KomikSkans-One, VTC-KomikSkans-Two, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerChewdFat, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerChewdUp, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerOne-Bold, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerOne-BoldItalic, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerTwo-Bold, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerTwo-Outline, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerTwo-Shadow, VTC-KomikaHeadLinerTwo-Wide, Komika Krak, VTC-SumiSlasherOne-Italic, VTC-SumiSlasherOne-SmallCaps, VTC-SumiSlasherOne, VTC-SumiSlasherOneSkinned, VTC-SumiSlasherOneSkinnedRaw, VTC-TribalThreeFree.

Typefaces from 2013: VTC Garage Sale Axis, VTC Garage Sale (+Outlined), VTC Tattoo Script Three, VTC Karnival Fat (cartoon font).

Catalog. Klingspor link. Dafont link. MySpace link. Fontspace link. Abstractfonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Viktor Kharyk

Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduate of the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982. Viktor became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. In 2012, he cofounded Apostrof with Konstantin Golovchenko. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts, and is particularly interested in revivals of ancient, forgotten, or historically important typefaces and writing systems. His work:

At Elsner and Flake, he published EF Bilibin (2004, uncial), EF Abetka (2004), EF Gandalf (2004, uncial), Bilbo (2004-2008, an uncial family), Kiev EF (2002), Lanzug EF (2002, letters as zippers), Rose Deco EF (2001), EF Elf (2002, imitating Tolkien's writing), EF Deco Uni (2001-2004), EF Deco Akt Light (2001-2004), EF Fairy Tale (2003-2008, caps face), EF Varbure (2004, an experimental family), Rose Garden EF (2001, initial caps ornamented with roses; the text is uncial), and Viktors Raven EF (a spectacular caps font with letters made out of a raven).
At MasterFont: Abetka MF (1999, with Alexeev), Kiev MF (1976-2003), and Netta MF (1999, text family). These fonts have Latin and Hebrew components.
At Paratype, he published Uni Opt (2007, Op Art letters based on free brush technique similar to experimental lettering of the early decades of the 20th century; for instance to Graficheskaya Azbuka (Graphic ABC) by Peter Miturich and works by Victor Vasareli), Joker (1978, a subtractive font---since 2000, also in Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic), Blooming Meadow (2007, flowery ornaments), Bogdan Rejestrowy and Bogdan Siczowy (2006, based on Ukrainian Skoropis (fast handwriting) of the 16th and 17th centuries, and named after Ukrainian Getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The character set contains Cyrillic, Old Slavonic, Glagolitic, Latin and Greek alphabets), Lidia (2006, a lined engraving typeface based on a 1967 font by Iraida Chepil for Polygraphmash).
At 2D Typo: Florentin 2D (2011, angular family), New Hotinok 2D (2010, with Henadij Zarechnijuk).
Other work: Simeon 2D (2011, 2D Typo), some fonts at Face Typesetting (1970s), Getto (1970s), White Raven (2002), Handwritten Poluustav Ioan Cyrillic (1999-2001), Letopis (1983), New Zelek (1980s), UniAkt (2001, based on Unifont, an erotic caps face, done with Natalia Makievska).
Free fonts at Google Web Fonts, published via Cyreal: Iceberg (2012, octagonal).
Cyrillizations by Viktor Kharyk: Data 70 (1976; original from 1970 by R. Newman), ITC American Typewriter, Bullion Shadow (1984; of the shadow font Bullion Shadow (1978; original from 1970 by Face Photosetting), Calypso (1984; of Excoffon's 1958 original), Lazybones (1980s; of a 1972 Letraset font with the same name), Glagolitic (1983, Elvira Slysh, digitized in 2003), Augustea (1947, Allessandro Butti), Stencil (after a 1938 typeface by R.H. Middleton called Stencil), Columna (1980s; after Max Caflisch's original from 1955), Sistina (1951, Hermann Zapf), Weiss Kapitale (1935, Emil Rudolf Weiss), Vivaldi (1965, Friedrich Peter), ITC Tiffany (1974, Ed Benguiat, digitized in 1995), ITC Bookman Herb Lubalin (1974, digitized in 1980s), Berthold Cyrillic Helvetica Cyrillic (1980), Churchward Galaxy (1970s, J. Churchward, digitized in 1980s), Olive Bold Condensed (1980s, original of Roger Excoffon in 1962-1966), Motter Ombra (1980, original by O. Motter in 1975), Sinaloa (1981, original by Odermatt and Tissi in 1972), Serif Gothic (1990, original by Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna in 1974), Dynamo (1980s, original of K. Sommer in 1930), EF Gimli and EF Gloin (2004-2010, mediaeval typefaces done at Elsner&Flake together with Marina Belotserkovskaja).
Other typefaces: Lili (multilined), Rutenia (by Henadij Zarechjuk and Viktor Kharyk).

At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue Op Art display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 typeface Ladoga (+Text, +Dis play, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009.

In 2016, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk designed Dnipro for Apostrof. The Cyrillic version of this font follows Ukrainian decorative traditions, initiated by Georgy Narbut and Mark Kirnarsky in the 1920s and continued until the 1980s. The Latin part has an uncial character.

Typefaces made in 2018: Algor, Zluka (with Henadij Zarechnjuk; named after The Act Zluka, or Ukraine's Unification Act of 1919), XX Sans, Yurch (developed by Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk by samples of calligraphic lettering by Ukrainian book designer Volodymyr Yurchyshyn), heb? [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Viktor Solt-Bittner

Or just Viktor Solt. Born in 1970, Viktor lives in Vienna. He teaches typography and handwriting at the Joanneum in Graz, works in information design and advertising, and is involved in 3-D animation.

Designer of Voluta Script (Adobe, 1998), ITC Johann Sparkling (ITC, 1998: a calligraphic script face), ITC Ballerino (ITC, 1999, a great calligraphic script), Leander Script (2012, Adobe) and FF Danubia (2002, an extensive didone text family). All his work has strong calligraphic influences with energetic swashes, rough contours, and looping ascenders and descenders.

Plantago (2014). Viktor Solt-Bittner drew logo sketches for an insurance company. After they rejected the design, he turned the sketches into a font family. Later, in 2018, Plantago was expanded, developed and completed by Schriftlabor's type directors Franziska Hubmann and Lisa Schultz.

In 2017, Viktor Solt-Bittner designed the industrial sans typeface family Attorney as a custom font for a law firm. It has unconventional---even threatening--- serifs and some hard corners. The typeface was produced by Schriftlabor's type director, Lisa Schultz, and will be enjoyed by hordes of heartless lawyers.

FontShop link. MyFonts link. MyFonts catalog. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Villu Toots

Villu Toots (b. Tallinn, 1916, d. Tallinn, 1993) was an internationally known Estonian calligrapher, book designer, educator, palaeographer and author. In 1965 Toots established a successful one-man calligraphy school named Kirjakunsti Kool with a three-year course.

Sample of his work on posters, 1956-1980. Scans: handset text, chancery hand, book cover (1956), geometric alphabet (1956), Brych, Gooti (1980), Pro Anno (1978), Rodrigues, Tahestik.

Author of many books on calligraphy. These include i Opime plakatkirja. Algteadmisi kirjakunstist (Tallinn, 1949), Tänapäeva kiri (Tallinn, 1956), 300 burtu veidi" (Riga, 1960), Kirjukunsti ABC Grotesk ehk plokk-kiri (1968, Tallinn), Eesti kirjakunst 1940-1970" (Tallinn, 1973), Kiri kui kunst (Tallinn, 1981), Kiri Eesti kultuuriloos (compiled by Rein Loodus; Tallinn, 2002), Kalligraafilisi etüüde. Calligraphical studies (Tallinn, 1976), 50 eksliibrist (Tallinn, 1979), Sule ja pintsli duett (Tallinn, 1985), Paraaf (Tallinn, 1987), Calligraphical spirals (Gothenburg and Tampere, 1989), and Calligraphic Bookplates and Monograms (San Juan Capistrano, CA, 1992). In 2016, the Society of Scribes Calligraphy NYC, has set up a pre-order website for the limited edition book Villu Toots: One Hundred Book Covers. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vin Type Studio

Vin Type Studio is an Indonesian studio run by designers Tom Chung and Jordan Murphy, who created many calligraphic and script typefaces. Vin Type's catalog in 2021 included these fonts: Active Space, Always There Handwriting, Ameliora, Anniversary Day, Bartley Green Handwriting, Beauty Parade, Belligia, Biographical, Blackhack, Blockguards, Brickouts Graffiti, Brisant, Brondown Various, Bubble Lemon, Calianda, Carnallians, Cerolinedion, Cerolinedion, Claymont Signature, Columbia Hill, Cubical, Daringness, Dean Bradley, Diamond Flower, Erasable, Ezet, Facebear, Fail in love Handwriting, Fake Soul, Fortification, Handselled, Hopeflow Handwriting, Jumps Hill, Just King Handwriting, King Fruit Comic, Knowingness Handwriting, Little Jasmine, Love Earth Signature, Love Today Handwriting, Mading Calligraphy, Magic Baloon Comic, Masterline Signature, Metamora, Neadless, North Sweet Handwriting, Not Wanted, Obedient, Optimistically, Osyka Calligraphy, Parsley Sauce Bold Handwriting, Playground Kids, Quickstep, Race Break, Raunchies, Ravines, Rosemaries Signature, Shiny Love Handwriting, South Victoria, Stan Rogers (a stencil font), Startup Life, Street Letters, Sunbury Town Signature, Tailorbird, Tech Zone, Uniondale. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vintage Voyage Design
[Pavel Korzhenko]

Aka P. Rudakov and Pasha Korzhenko, and operating as Vintage Voyage Design. Perm, Russia-based designer of the vintage handcrafted typefaces West End (2015, spurred Western typeface family), Winter Holidays (2015), The Sugar Cane (2015, eroded signage script), Montana (2015), Canyons (2015), Forest Tramp (2015), Heart of Gold (2015, a think inky brush), La Fa Salt (2015, a connected monoline script), Robinson (2015, handcrafted), Rise (2015, rough brush), Stout (2015, +Stout Roughen), Jack's Guitar (2015) and Bough (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Chameleon (rough brush), Les Paul (beatnik style), 1994 Fancy, The First Division (an elegant handcrafted Peignotian typeface family), The Aviator, Ocean Beach (weathered athletic lettering font), Fenway Script (baseball script), Fenway Sans, Octanis (display family in Sans, Slab, Serif, and Rounded Sans sub-styles), Compare (a vintage wedge serif typeface inspired by the mafia), Unchained (Western typeface), The Selvedger (signage script), Driver (a retro speed emulation typeface family), Pasternak Script.

Typefaces from 2017: The Bartender (a 14-font vintage typeface family with some letterpress styles), Easy Rider (a layered road movie brush script font), The New America (penmanship script), Ace of Spades (grungy), Cavalcade (a layered serif typeface inspired by American and European typography of early 20th century, from movie posters to design of alcohol bottles like Martini, Cinzano and Campari), Old Standard (sans, script), Season Times (Sans+Script), Roadstar (a vintage speed emulation techno font).

Typefaces from 2018: VVDS Pacifica (a hand-lettered bold signage script inspired by American branding typography from the end of the 20th century), Le Bonjour (a retro sans), The Voyage Culture (font duo), Afterglow (a didone), VVDS The Bimbo (circus fonts), Two Letter Monogram, Diamond Monogram, Circle Monogram, Circle Frames, Harbour (a free decorative blackletter, +Harbour Decor: 2017-2018), Sandwich (a large 3d beveled typeface family), The Telegraph (transitional newspaper type), Golden Horn (a layered vintage typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: VVDS Organum (a decorative typeface for operas and phantasms), The Pretender (a package inspired by vintage American sign painting), VVDS Praliner (an all caps sans for display), Le Bonjour (Peignotian), Kristopher (a fancy serif), Nurnberg (an expressionist, modernized blacletter), The British Telegraph (based on vintage British headline type), Halau (a tiki font), Halau Serif, Sign Painter (a monoline Script, a layerable Sans, and two Decor ornamental styles, all based on Victorian era signs).

Typefaces from 2020: The Ruby (a 56-font and icon collection), VVDS Minorica (a handrwritten collection in ten styles), VVDS Rashfield (in the soft serif genre), VVDS London Oatmeal (Sans, Script), VVDS Sunshine Bridge (a creamy brush script), VVDS Benigne Sans (a wide geometric sans), VVDS La Truffe (a bold decorative didone), VVDS Big Tickle (a handcrafted retro family).

Typefaces from 2021: VVDS Clementia (a stylish condensed serif), Urbanchrome (an SVG letterpress emulation font), VV Neonica (a 12-style neon font family), Grodsky (a stylish 4-style antiqua), The Country Blues (a throwback to the fifties), Surfbird (a 30-style western family), VVS Nobleman (a stylish serif in four styles).

Behance link. Creative Market link. Vintage Voyage Design. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Virginia Lucas Hart

Virginia Lucas Hart is a calligrapher, illustrator and lettering artist in New York City. In 2017, she teamed up with Studioways (Eliza Gwendalyn and Jim Lyles) and published the retail calligraphic typeface Hart. MyFonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vit Condak

Ostrava, Czechia-based designer of these free fonts: Gunny Handwriting (2003), Tincushion (2003-2014), Hieroglyphic (2002, paperclip font), Fashionism, Milanotica (2012), Gunny Rewritten (2014), Blrrpix Strict (2014, pixel face), Kvantita (2014, script), Simply City (2014, organic sans).

Typefaces from 2015: Jack Brusher (brush font), Gunny Manual, Gomes Strikes Agaian, Octagonal, Fashionism (thin sans), Bublina The Dog (comic book face), Quality of Life.

Typefaces from 2016: Residualni (brush calligraphy), Ales&Hegar Raw (outlined party present font; inspired by the book "Mladezi" by Mikolas Ales (1852-1913). Its cover was designed by Milan Hegar who tried to imitate Ales's ornamental upper case letters from the original 1910s magazines).

Typefaces froom 2017: Vitkova Pisanka (handwriting type loosely based on what was taught in Czech elementary schools in the 1980s), Ruffiano & Loseri, Eighties Monster (outlined and textured sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Bublina The Mongrel (comic book script), Whatacolor (a watercolor brush font), Indiana Jones (his take on the font from the Indiana Jones logo), Pixlashed, Krasomila (hand-drawn letters used in credits of the movie Pysna princezna (The Proud Princess) (1952)). [Google] [More] ⦿

Vitoria Neves
[SevenType]

Viviane Wehbe

Beirut, Lebanon-based designer of an untitled painted calligraphic caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vlad Atanasiu

Pages on language and calligraphy, in French. In 2003, Vlad wrote a doctoral thesis on calligraphy: "Le phénomène calligraphique à l'époque du sultanat mamluk" (Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). [Google] [More] ⦿

Vladimir Andrich

Main type designer (b. 1915) at AlphaType in Niles, IL. Bitstream states: AlphaType Corporation, a family-owned company, was founded by Al and Beatrice Friedman in the mid-1960s to make high quality but inexpensive phototypesetters for advertising typographers. In 1981 Berthold acquired AlphaType.

His typefaces:

Allan (1978, Alphatype).
American Gothic (Alphatype). A copperplate gothic based on Frederic Goudy's Copperplate Gothic from 1904. For a digital version, see URW's American Gothic.
Andrich Minerva (1965, VGC). This typeface won Second Prize in the 1965 VGC National Type Face Design Competition.
Beatrice Script (Alphatype).
Claro (Alphatype). A Helvetica-style typeface.
Contemp (Alphatype).
Cremona in 1982 for Alphatype, now available at Berthold. A macho text typeface. Cremona is C820 in the Softmaker library.
Magna Carta (1974, Alphatype).
Vladimir Script (1966, Alphatype), a calligraphic script. Digital versions at URW++, Elsner & Flake and Linotype. Vladimir Script is called Violin Script in the Softmaker collection.

MyFonts and Linotype refer to this designer as Vladimir Andrevich. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Vladimir Fedotov
[VP Creative Shop]

Vladimir Radibradovic

Half Serb, half Croatian Vladimir Radibratovic studied architecture before falling in love with the visual arts as a student of painting and illustration at the Academy of Applied arts in Belgrade of two prominent calligraphers, Stjepan Fileki and Alexandar Dodig. He moved to Athens, Greece, to work as a calligrapher.

At Parachute, in 2021, he released three calligraphic typefaces for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, PF Rafskript (original design between 2000 and 2003), PF Signskript (for packaging and sign painting; originally done between 2000 and 2003) and PF Mediterra (unconnected; first designed between 2000 and 2003). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

VMF Fonts
[Vicky Mardian]

Vicky Mardian (VMF Fonts) is the Bandung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of the pirate ship and/or tattoo font Nina Script (2012). The Pro version of this font can be bought at MyFonts. Lina Script Pro (2012), which was done with Mans Grebäck, looks awfully similar, so perhaps Vicky was forced to change the name by outside forces. Mardian (2012, with Mans Grebäck) and Brother Tattoo (2012, at Mans Grebäck) are more calligraphic tattoo fonts by her.

In 2013, Vicky published Homi Script (tattoo font), the (tattoo) script typeface Anha Queen, the tattoo typeface Pure Black Demo (2013), the spurred tattoo typeface Lafayet Scripts, and the spurred tattooish (incomplete) logotype font Los Angeles.

Typefaces from 2014: Deadly Heat (metal band typeface), Home Brush Font Script, Avigo (spurred Victorian), Hellter VMF (spurred tattoo font), Daisy Shop, Cotte VMF, Fonika VMF (signage script), Gold and Bone (incomplete Victorian face).

Typefaces from 2015: Vizels (signage script), Scydet (spurred, Victorian), Ferrine Script.

Typefaces from 2016: Fire Skin VMF (spurred), Mr. Brown VMF (tattoo font).

Typefaces from 2017: Cester Shire, Almond Tree, VMF Gold Miner (tattoo font), Slugs Script, Papercut Rough.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Another Fontspace link. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Voryu

Designer of the handcrafted vampire script typeface Aira (2015) and the angular typeface Ata Loenway (2015). In 2017, he/she designed the script typefaces Russell, Daffy, Scarlett, Clover, Wilma, Louie and Avery. [Google] [More] ⦿

VP Creative Shop
[Vladimir Fedotov]

Bulgarian designer (b. 1991, Varna) of these typefaces in 2017: Nova (a great logo font), Selfish Script, Delicious Yellow Script, Emanuela (a charming upright calligraphic script), Mikaela Script, Sailor (handcrafted), Parrot, Octopus, Everest Script, Stork, Dork, Boxo, Pino.

Typefaces from 2018: Cross Road, Desire, Marvin, Contraband (all caps display sans), Christmas (a ball terminal-laden font), Trixie, Musa, Vendée, Just Because, Splendor, Vovchik (art deco), Varna, Summer, Jane Doe, Opinio, Melancholy, MadHouse Sans, Rebel, Irina, Gentleman (art deco), Fancy, Rhino, Rimini, Tamira (high contrast luxury font), Aria (ultra-condensed), Elena, Good Wish, Kavaler (fashion mag typeface), April, Belinda Script, North East (high-contrast family), Golden Bird Serif (a fashion mag typeface), Dark Heart (an eerie typeface), Nova Logo, Maria (blackboard bold), Signature VP, Moderna, Hashtag, Fonatik, Sugar Serif, Spice Serif, Highway (vintage script), Ravenside (a fashion mag typeface family), Georgia (stylish), Pandora Display (piano key typeface), Desislava (a fashion sans with several selections of textures; the outline style is free), Young Rebel (a partially free spurred font duo), Alexandria (piano key style), Blu Purpl (a partly free sci-fi typeface family), Kalpazan (partly free: a tall condensed unicase font), Pinchik (a simple rounded sans), Echo (14-style squarish sans), Elephant (with a free Outline style), Golden Age (curly calligraphic script), Rose Gold (fashion mag serif), Godlike (monoline script).

Typefaces from 2019: Propaganda, Mallie, Clementine Script, Phoeniks, Orenda (script), Monument, Rose Gold (a fashion mag typeface), Sunflower (+Script), Gentleman, Minibus, Lelushka (an inky brush script), Mondaze, Kindel (a stylish geometric typeface family), Kalorama (a font duo), Fabulist, Explorers, Errorist, Afterclap, Lotus Eater, Cute Animals, Black Gold (a stylish all caps typeface), Mantrum (brush), Highway (script), Exquisite, Belinda, Tamira, Pathway Script, Sunlight, Serendius, Portraits, Hysteria Script, Bock, Indigo, Bosnia (a monolinear all caps sans), Hippo Sans Serif, Zemarah (calligraphic), Portraits, Mooka Powder (font duo), Momentus, Searchlight, Dream (a fashion mag headline typeface), Melancholy, Knowhere (grunge), Elena (a luxury serif), Hashtag Moderna (a Peignotian sans), Musa Display, Ultimus and Ultimus Serif (fashion mag fonts), Alpha.

Typefaces from 2020: Black Gold VP (a high contrast display font; with Plamen Petrov), Kompot (a condensed all caps decorative serif; co-designed with Plamen Petrov), Chalga VP (a decorative serif co-designed with Plamen Petrov), Ablation (a 6-style all caps geometric sans jointly done by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Midnight Tales (vintage decorative caps jointly done by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Akros (a fashion mag font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Daylight Dreams (a festive all caps typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Zink VP (a bold all caps sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Billionaire Club (art deco caps; by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Blackpaper (a negative space font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Metria Street (a monolinear condensed interlocking sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Monday Boulevard (an all caps art deco typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Sombre (a negative space font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Bubbble Gum (a 10-style rounded monolinear sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Equinox VP (a futuristic all caps font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Inertia (a logo font, with Plamen Petrov), Inure (a ball terminal typeface, with Plamen Petrov), Papillon VP (with Plamen Petrov), Bungalow VP, Fika VP (a rounded and modular typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Kavo Serif (a 5-style all caps didone by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Kavo Inline (with Plamen Petrov), Kavo Sans (with Plamen Petrov), Silver Queen (a ball terminal typeface; with Plamen Petrov), Anteric, Agelast (all caps, futuristic sans), Quilin (decorative and swashy; with Plamen Petrov), Akros (an art deco serif typeface), Metria Street (art deco), Blackpaper (a font that experiments with negative space), Mischief (brush), Slang, Daylight Dreams, Kavo (a 17-style family), Midnight Tales, the tall slab serif Carnival VP (with Plamen Petrov), and the weathered Greenth (with Plamen Petrov).

Typefaces from 2021, all by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov: Aisling (a six-style ultra-compressed sans), Stolen Love (a 16-style fashion mag serif), Cruell (a high contrast ball terminal laden fashion headline typeface), Mother VP (a high-contrast fashion font with plenty of ball terminals), Magoa (a serif typeface with extreme contrast), Sorcha (a ball terminal display font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Stolen Love (a fashion mag font), Defect (grunge), Tacenda (grungy caps in SVG and OTF formats), Magoa serif (a ligature typeface), Sonder Serif (decorative, for fashion mags), Oldink (grungy), Arowen (grungy, SVG format), Cruell Serif (with ball terminals), Mother Serif (also a play on ball terminals), Derau (a bitmap SVG watercolor font), Akrasia (an SVG watercolor font), French VP (an all caps glamour font adorned with gigantic ball terminals; with Plamen Petrov), Perfectly Splendid (a ball terminals all caps typeface; with Plamen Petrov), Italian VP (a 21-style tall slab serif in which the bold weight is still thin by international standards), Huova (a decorative all caps serif), Kompot Slab, Kompot Display, Unique VP (a fashion mag titling font with many ligatures and swashes), Bronx (sans and inline), Monday Boulevard (an art deco typeface), Chalga VPoutline (a classy outline font), Mila VP (a disturbing sans & serif hybrid), Kompot Sans (an all caps titling sans), Avoqado (a 6-style all caps sans with features of DIN), Kuchek (a ligature-rich decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Forbidden Love (a condensed fashion mag serif), Vintage Mintage (a display serif), Lonely Moon VP (a delicate yet eerie typeface), Malinger VP (an elegnat display serif), Sign That (a wild script), Redmark. Enchanted Love (a 7-style display sans).

Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. Personal web site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Vunira Design

Indonesian designer of script, calligraphic, brush, dry brush, Halloween and children's book typefaces. Typefaces made in 2019: Alkilri, Anggita, Arzeta, Atalintar, Baladewa, Balistik, Beliau, Blackout, Blooqe Stages, Brand Hole, Braser, Delphina, Diana Rough, Doglas, Ecustic, Emerland, Enigma, Famous, Goteru, Harbala, Hastron, Helegra, Himaliya, Hollims, Jagalana, Magdalena, Monalisa, Ollson, Orlandia, Queny, Rekyoto, Reysha, River Young, Santoy, Seventy, Silloute, Staryl, State Moques, Vintage Legends, Zaskia, ZeBrush, Zillion.

Typefaces from later in 2019: Adabra, Advections, Alya, Assassin, Augustine, Autogenic, Azarita Duo, Bacar, Bedmifo, Belgia, Bigted, Britney, Certified, Dare Daling, Daytone, Dead Night, Delich, Duythy, Enofive, FireFlight, Giji, Green Walk, Growth Period, Hafala, Haned, Hargery Molly, Hello Day, Hogituey, Humble, Jocker, Jungle, Kellang Rika, Keyrey, Kronos, Laggran, Lolipop, Margaritha-Tropicana, Melage, Morisita, Onboard, Overfly, Paper Clip, Puresity Burbon, Quanty, Quiet, Quirtty, Qunanty, Qunomy, Regad, Rendezvouws, Resquro Halloween, Rose Hips, Rostter Boot, Rotter Bradly, Segoul, Silent, Silently, Snake Fangs, Sugarberry, The Baleak, Vallerya, Vanguard, Walking Dream, Wallington, Witch girls, Zigas, Zildjan.

Typefaces from 2020: Appetizer, Batone, Caledy, Callgios, Gargilla, Grandyose, Longline Quart, Mudega, Osage, Ouvality, Rafale, Soulist, SpeedBeast, Swansong, SwordFish (signage script), Waterlow, Whitefish.

Their massive collections bundle in 2020 has these 250 fonts; Abdillah, Acusted, Adabra, Adilea, Adirolies, Adisone, Advectionz, Aella, Akod, Alantis, Alkatros, Alkilri, Alrogty, Alrte, Alternation, Alya, Anadego, Anggita, Aniabellia, Antagonist, Appetizer, Arlaya, Artesy, Arzeta, Assassin, Atalintar, Augustine, Autined, Autogenic, Azala, Azarita, Bacar, Bafera, Bagide, Baladewa, Balges, Balistik, Barecy, Batone, Bedmifo, Beliau, Beligo Cary, Benetton Arenty, Bentley, Berlynda, Betnefie, Bigted, Birced, Blackout, Blackwing, Blooqe Stages, Blue Snow, Botade, Brand Hole, Braser, Brattsoon, Bright, Bright Daily, Britney, Brylion Script, Caledy, Callgios, Catline, Comye, Cursey, Daisy Rain, Dallime, Dare Daling, Daytone, Dead Night, Deglas, Delich, Dellaine, Delphina, Diana Rough, Diotam, Distrik, Doglas, Duythy, Eather, Ecustic, Ellies, Emerland, Enicye, Enigma, Enofive, Everlyne, Fabela, Famous, Fireflight, Frenchoy, Gargilla, Gasela, George, Giji, Goteru, Gotre, Grandiose, Green Walk, Growth Period, Hafala, Hafela, Hagos, Halybed, Hamble, HandyDandy, Haned, HappyFun, Harbala, Hargrey Molly, Harmonia, Hastron, Hatedo, Helegra, Hello Day, Hellow, Heritage, Hetbig, Hibes, Higlays, Hilles, Hiltobe, Himaliya, Hogituey, Hollims, Honey Moon, Humble, Huttem, Jagalana, Jocker, Jungle, Kaduta, Kalled, Kellang Rika, Keyrey, Kronos, Laggran, Legendaire (spurred), Leightonz, Lindsay, Lolipop, Longline Quartz, Magdalena, Magic Stick, Malikec, Margaritha Tropicana, Mariose, Matody, Maybelin, Melage, Mellenya, Mellisa, Moolland, Morisita, Mosem, Motibe Cebiks, Mudega, Mugle, Noifale, Onboard, Orlandia, Osage, Ouvality, Overfly, Paper Clip, Pastilec, Penleigh, Petite Romance, Plamiya, PrimeCast, Puresity Burbon, Qors, Quanty, QuickSets, Quiet, Quirtty, Qunanty, Qunomy, Qutapy, Rafale, Railway, Rawriting, Rebelia, Reffin, Regad, Rendezvouws, Resquro Halloween, Roast Type, Rolest, Rose Hips, Rosega, Rosela, Rostter Boot, Rotter Bradly, Salting, Scribbling, Segoul, Serfeb, Shout Ease, Signlia, Silent, Silently, Silfhie, Silloute, Simply Harmony, SnakeFangs, Soulist, Speed Beast, Staryl, State Moques, Strade Eqrem, Sugarberry, Sulifec, Sunniland, Sweet Serve, Swordfish, The Akrage, The Baleak, The Blog Malog, The Osage, Thrucy, Thune, Vallerya, Vanguard, Vinesday, Vintage Legends, Walking Dream, Wallington, Waterlow, Watterland, Whitefish, Wipela, Witch Girls, Zigas, Zildjan.

Typefaces from 2021: Absolute, Acude (blackletter), Adabe, Afika, Agites, Agnostic Mirossa, Allianta, Ambattur Sign, Attila, Badhie Dope, Bagela, Ballarat, Ballmind (inline), Beguns, Belanie, Bigote, Braier, Brattsoon, Butterfly, Carlinson, Carlistter, Charleigh, Cikals, Claustyn, Dagose (blackletter), Dark Glitter, Daywala, Dragon, Dreamland, Emogine, Emrand, Falose, Flynster, Giletha, Gisela, Hellington, Holife, Hypnotize, Jelita, Jissela, Joyfully, Kalvert (artsy), Leaflets (paperclip), Lilith, Lokills, Ma Lorena, Magaretha, Mellifluous, Northern Forest, Olios, Parahyang, Patterning, Ratna (signature script), Raymond, Regitta (signature script), Reliser, Relods, Richmond, Rollet (dry brush), Rusthic, Sabhar, Salmon, Seasony, Skylight, Stone Garden, Stranggi (a rabbit ear script), Sunflower, Sweetlilly, The Edensick, The Marshmallow, The Recolista, Thetian, Watterland, Welldone. [Google] [More] ⦿

Vurt, the typeface
[Jürgen Gedeon]

Vurt, a beautiful handwriting face, was designed by Jürgen Gedeon in 1995. This font was later improved/completed by Fontgrube's Andreas Höfeld to Tusch FG (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿

Vuuuds
[Agung Syaifudin]

Aka Vuuuds. Denpasar, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2021: Alfine, Efton Serif (decorative), Emilea, Fistro (an avant garde fashion font with hipster traits), Fromy, Fugi, Hues Serif, Musky (decorative).

Typefaces from 2020: Arsen (a font duo), Cagily (a decorative serif), De Hudson, Froyas, Gesmont (a striking fashion mag font), Kasual, Moric, Smith Signature, Tefis (a decorative serif), Thiago (a decorative serif), Lavagne (an almost-stencil), Carlsen (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Claire (Sans, Script), Tango (a poetic irregular script), Serfict (calligraphic), Serfict Sans (outlined caps), Charles UK (a formal upright script), Moret (a children's script), Olifer (Serif+Script), Callies Script (swashy calligraphic script), Hector Ink (a Treefrog style ink splatter script).

Typefaces from 2018: Theory, Ezalor (an inky script), Chase (a clean geometric sans family), Manila, Stay, Mono, Lipstick (a signature font), Figo (an inky script), New (sans), York (script), Roth, Reusk Script, Paris, Adelia, Rosie Kiley (a font duo consisting of the titling typeface Track and the script typeface Kiley), Artemis Script, Anter Script, Gloams, Redge, Muster Script, Stylish Script, Georgia Script.

Typefaces from 2017: Bianca (signature font), Lisbeth Script, Wilder Script, Kalisa (signature font), The Bloom, Earnis, Mient, Styler, Erily Script, Miyuki (calligraphic), Mussie, Kesley Script, Faust Script, Recolter (a stunning poster typeface), Caities, Emily (script), Roth, Hukster, Rovist Script, Renith (connected script).

Typefaces from 2016: Hulleva, Callet, Theos Script, Void (rounded sans), Lemonia, Revel (script), First Text (primitive script), Magical Script, Mauret Script (calligraphic), Rosgart (a signature font), Plore (experimental sans), Murtics (a signature font), Infister (minimalist modernist sans), Beafust, Astter (calligraphic script), Humos (connected school script), Hullist (connected handwriting), Happy Tum, Little Bite (children's book font), Millace (calligraphic script), Grafter (connected signage font), Elgard (brush script), Flotus (calligraphic), Pitter (fat finger font), Scripter (formal calligraphic style), Muffet (connected monoline script), Waltus Script (calligraphic and connected), Feruci, Evertype, Breital Script, Castellia, Enough Script, Rollfunk, Hottuf, Staiger (script), Fintype, Themost Script (calligraphic), Fuster Script.

In 2015, he made the brush script typefaces Mauvet Rios, Reusk (a great informal calligraphic typeface), Mostter (calligraphic script), Foldeck (a rounded monoline sans), Quickfox, Serffost, Hurgey, Gothup, Gullick, Wilfur Script and Barkless, the hairline script font Catties, the fine hand-drawn poster font Monofor, the handcrafted connected script fonts Wellone, Anter Script, Cindelia, Ruffest and Perston, the handpainted Emillyne, Herlock, Forsa, the calligraphic font Herfume (loaded with alternates), the handcrafted font family Latype (Brush, Hand, Script, Serif, Condensed, Sans, Extras), the brush typefaces Nufertum (a great medieval travel log script), Nufertum Sans, Northline, Stokebridge, Fouyers Script, Heiger Script and Wayback, and of the handwriting font Allegate. He also designed Bubble Tea, Whalerig, Klasdot, Hello June, Retro Board, London Train, Rope&Bag, Strip Box, Yellow Jelly, Wide West, Funky Disco, Fat Burger, Sweet Lollipop, Dance Club, Crazy Type, Avicelyns (a connected script), Blackyard (a monoline connected script), and Nanoline Icons (which contains 2061 icons divided into 30+ categories: symbol, weather, building, financial & shopping, user, emoticon, hand gesture, medicine, body parts, image, audio, video, music, charts, map, security, document, furniture, kitchen, drink, fruit, food, chat, email, tools, text, communication, business, time, science, laundry, zodiac, kids, energy, animal, clouds, transportation).

Typefaces from 2022: Georgia Script, Lecory (a fashionable typeface with high contrast). [Google] [More] ⦿

Wachid Ristiyanto
[Ngene]

Wahi Din
[Gold Type]

Wais Alqarni
[Hero Studio (or: Ws Studio)]

Wakfu Fan

An orphaned free calligraphic handwriting font made in 2011. It has a slight oriental look. [Google] [More] ⦿

Walter Crane

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. Wikipedia states that He, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, are considered the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century. His work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.

His lettering was at the basis of Crane Titling (2006, Nick Curtis), Crane Gothic (David Nalle, Scriptorium) and Walter Crane (2009, David Nalle, Scriptorium). Example alphabets drawn by him with a quill pen include Modern Gothic Capitals and this set.

In 2012, Dick Pape created a digital alphabet called LFD Penwork 160 that is based on Crane's (utterly unattractive) modern gothic capitals.

In 2013, Michael Bolen designed BU Scarecrow based on Crane's alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿

Walter Käch

Teacher of Adrian Frutiger, b. 1901, Ottenbach, Switzerland. Pic. Here, you can find wonderful advice for making well-adjusted alphabets. In this wikipedia, we read: At the age of 16, Frutiger was apprenticed as compositor to a printer in the nearby town of Interlaken for four years and attended classes at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts. (Rauri) Under the tutelage of Walter Käch from 1949 to 1951, students learned type design by rubbing forms from Roman inscriptions. The students then applied the knowledge learned from these ancient letterforms to their own type creations. The students came to realize that the way the inscriptions were made was an outline applied with a pen, and then chiseled into the rock. When students were first learning to design typefaces, they used pens to create flowing letterforms. Then students moved on to work with pencil. No instruments, such as rulers were used- everything was done by eye, and corrections had to be made by scraping the markings off with a knife. Frutiger respected Käch, and felt he was a fine teacher who allowed many different views to be prevalent. However, the young student disagreed with his teacher on how technical and defined forms should be. Käch was a calligrapher, and thought because punch cutters used a grid their forms were too harsh and technical. His typefaces are all dated 1949 and were published by ZHdK Zurich:

Arte Antica (a great fat didone headline face)
Au cerf (formal calligraphy)
Capitalis Monumentalis (roman capitals)
Flo rist (slab serif)
Gegr 1845 (multiline)
Modes de Paris (condensed didone headline Vogue-style)
Optik Foto Film (fat slab serif)
Oertli & Co
Picture Gallery (flared roman)
Rauch waren (fat sans)
Röntgen Therapie (1949). A fat humanist sans. Digitally revived by Scott Vander Zee, ca. 2017.
Segel Club (fat sans headline)
V elos

Author of the lettering manual Schriften/Lettering/Ecritures (1949), which, according to Peter Bain, establishes a conversation between typeface designers, typefounders, and those who were drawing letters in a typographic age. [Google] [More] ⦿

Wandani Creative (or: Lhotive Studio)
[Rizaldi Wandani]

Banda Aceh-based designer, b. 1996, of the script typefaces Jester Brush (2018), Glossy (2018), Basston Script (2018), Shelly Script (2018), Hello Sweety (2018), Mettical (2018), Yulisa Script (2018: curly), The Billow (2018), Wandani (2018), Just Sweet (2018), Oh Darling (2018) and Natasya (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Yollandy, Abbassy Script (a thin monoline script), Syakia (calligraphic script), Hellomy (monoline), the semi-stencil typeface Calvir, Hellow Knight, Vasttag Brush, Losttimoh, Hello Grizelle Sans, Black Clover Display (blackletter, Victorian), Hello Signature, Cattoms Cute, Ashadiya, Brushnyoe, Sallim Signature, Bellasya, Hilland.

Typefaces from 2020: Bestwep (a monoline script), Samutin, Sheenline Script, Hello Grizelle Sans (a fat finger font). [Google] [More] ⦿

Warit Chaiyakul
[Typomancer]

Washington Calligraphers Guild

Warren Chappell

Born in Richmond, VA, 1904, d. Charlottesville, VA, 1991. Typographer, illustrator, letterer, and type designer. He made two type families:

Trajanus (1939-1940, for Stempel). McGrew on Trajanus: Trajanus was designed by Warren Chappell, New York illustrator and letterer, in 1939, and cast by Stempel in Germany. It has the basic form of classic Venetian letters, but with a nervous, pen-drawn, contemporary quality. Ascenders are fairly long but descenders are short. The narrow italic lowercase shows a calligraphic quality in particular. There is an extra little flick of the pen at the end of crossbars of f and t; caps M and N have no serifs on their apexes; and cap U is lowercase in form. Trajanus is named for the Roman emperor whose accomplishments are immortalized in classic letters on the Trajan column. The three versions are also made by German Linotype, but have not received much attention in America. For revivals, see Tribunus SG by Jim Spiece and Linotype Trajanus (probably close to the original design as Linotype absorbed Stempel).
Lydian (1938, ATF) and Lydian Cursive (1940). McGrew writes: The Lydian series is a brilliant and popular calligraphic style designed by Warren Chappell for ATF. The lighter weight and italic were designed in 1938; bold and italic in 1939. They have the appearance of being lettered with a broad pen held at a 45-degree angle, but the ends of vertical strokes are square, improving legibility and stability. This is probably the most popular thick-and-thin serifless letter of American origin, though the concept is more popular in Europe. Oldstyle figures were made for these four Lydians, but were fonted separately and very rarely used. These four typefaces were copied by Intertype in an unusually large range of sizes for a slug machine, and from these matrices some suppliers cast fonts of type for handsetting. Lydian is named for the designer's wife, Lydia. Compare Czarin, Stellar, Radiant, Optima, Samson, Valiant. Lydian Cursive was drawn by the same designer in 1940. Although it gives the appearance of having been drawn with the same sort of pen as the regular series, it is much freer and more calligraphic, with a style unmatched by any other American script or cursive face. Lydian Bold Condensed was designed in 1946, also by Chappell, but not marketed until 1949. It has the general character of the earlier typefaces, but with much more emphasis on the vertical strokes. This gives the lowercase a suggestion of the effect of a simplified German blackletter. Digital versions:
- Lydian and Lydian Cursive by Bitstream. The early versions of Lydian and Lydian Cursive were called Granite, Lisbon, Granite Cursive and Lisbon Cursive.
- Lydian and Lydian Cursive by Tilde. These are identical to the Bitstream fonts.
- Monotype Lydian.
- Manofa (2018, Mariya Pigoulevskaya for The Northern Block). This bold family was inspired by Lydian.
- MPI Sardis (2013). By mpressinteractive. Inspired by Lydian.
- Beorcana Pro (2006, Carl Crossgrove). A distant relative of Lydian.
- Libris ADF. A free family by Arkandis.
- Lydia Bold Condensed (2013, Benjamin Critton).
- OPTI Lydian Cursive (Castcraft).
Chappell studied under Koch in 1931-1932 and worked briefly for him afterwards. This page states that he designed a font called Eichenauer (for Gustav Eichenauer, who cut the type in lead) in 1955, but it was never manufactured and released. This face, tentatively named Eichenauer, was shown in Chappell's book A Short History of the Printed Word.
Klingspor file on him (PDF). FontShop link.
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Freelance calligraphers. Some of them do custom type work as well. [Google] [More] ⦿

Wazi Tuya

Designer of Dela Garza (2010), a calligraphic script. [Google] [More] ⦿

WD Font Creative (or: Captain Jack)

Leong, East Nusu Tenggara, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of the script typefaces Sollasy (2019), Hilland (2019), Rangga Script (2019), Gittelsy (2019), Mottas (2019), Condita (2019), Amotim (2019), Darloune (2019), Adinda (2019), Master Script (2019), Strong Farmhouse (2019), Moon Chin (2019), Buttercup Script (2019), Under Script (2019), Rosella (2019), Christmas (2019), Riska Script (2019), Hello Junita (2019), Hunter (2019), Modista Script (2019) and Just Sunday (2019).

Designer of these script typefaces in 2018: Callme, Hello Junita, Spoiled Girl, Ralilea, Stylish, Hunter, Jelita, Delima, Pettaya Script, Qumalla. [Google] [More] ⦿

Webvilla

Polish designer of the thin upright script typeface Mila (2016) and the sans typefaces Friday (2016), N78 Thin (2016) and Exmila (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: The Youngest (textured), Harold (fashionable), Philemon (handcrafted), Tamarind (handcrafted blackboard bold typeface duo), June Morning, Cardamine (marker caps), Cedrus, Tarant (sans), Gramin (a great inky brush font), Moricandia, Thyme (curly letters), Parsley, Lovage (all caps sans poster type), Camomile, Chervil (sketched), Hornimet (watercolor brush), Asure (rounded all caps geometric sans), Savory (handcrafted), Anise (thick watercolor brush script), Hagna (sans), Marjoram (curly script), Caraway, Fonto.

Typefaces from 2018: Realism (headline sans). [Google] [More] ⦿

Wendy Steenks

Graphic design student at the Willem de Kooning Academy who lives in Delft. She is passionate about lettering, and has drawn a few alphabets in 2012.

Werner Eikel

Calligrapher (1929-1998) who published Kalligraphie/Kunstschrift. He was a calligraphy professor in Aachen. He wrote the book Das Mosella-Buch by hand. [Google] [More] ⦿

Werner Schneider

German scribe, type designer and calligrapher, born in Marburg in 1933 or 1935, who studied under Friedrich Poppl at the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden from 1954 to 1958, where he started teaching in 1959. He became a professor at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden in 1973.

He designed Medita (1979), Sublima (1981), Schneider-Antiqua (1987, Berthold) and Schneider Libretto BQ (1995, Berthold: a didone family).

In 1988, he made "Euro Type" for the German Federal Transportation Ministry in order to optimize the legibility of and standardize transportation typefaces.

In 2002, in cooperation with Helmut Ness, this family evolved into the 22-weight and 14-dingbat signage family Linotype Vialog and Vialog LT Signs (mainly arrows), which is now used in the subway system of Munich.

In 2003, he created the Senatus family (Berthold), after Roman inscriptions.

In 2006, he designed the calligraphic family Sunetta.

In 2007, he published the text type system Satero Sans and Satero Serif at Linotype.

The Aeneas font family by Tiro Typeworks (1994) is based on his work.

Linotype bio. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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Wesley Poole
[Poole Foundry]

Western calligraphy

Bibliography on Western calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿

Wiescher Design
[Gert Wiescher]

Gert Wiescher was born in Braunsbach am Kocher, Germany, in 1944. Based in München, Gerd Wiescher designed many classy and classic Bodoni families, as well as New Yorker Type (1985). All of his typefaces are carefully fine-tuned and balanced. Wiescher founded first Munich Type and then Wiescher Design and Autographis. He is known as a hard, fast and prolific worker. His exquisite typefaces can be bought at MyFonts. Catalog of his bestselling typefaces. Interview in 2008. Wikipedia page. Creative Market link. List of typefaces:

Scripts: Prima Script (2017: for menus and cookbooks), Marmelade (2015, +Fruits, a set of dingbats), Triana (2014, a thin monoline penmanship script named after a Spanish sailor on the Pinta who in 1492 was the first to see America---in this case the Bahamas), Floral Script (2014, copperplate style script), Sherlock Script (2014: this comes with Sherlock Stuff (fingerprints) and Sherlock Stuff Dots (ink stains)), Felicita (2013, a swashy copperplate script), Vividangelo (2013, after the handwriting of a real person), Dreamline (2013, connected monoline cursive wedding scripts in A, B and C styles), Fiorentina (2012, a renaissance style script with 650 characters), Excelsia Pro (2012), Delicia Pro (2012, a fat brushy signage script), Nono (2011, formal swashy calligraphic family), Dyane (2011), Penn (2011), Lettera (2011, hand-drawn formal face), Tosca (2010, a high-contrast calligraphic typeface with 730 glyphs), Grandcafe (2010), Loulou (2010, curly and of extreme contrast), Schoolblock (2010, hand-printed school font), Grandezza (2010, calligraphic family; +Xtra), Sixtra (2010, a curly didone script), English Script (2010, classic Spencerian calligraphic script), Savage Initials (2009), Morning News (2009), Revolte (2009, a brush script for demonstration signs), Estelle (2009), Scriptofino (2008, 4 calligraphic styles to give Zapfino a run for its money), Exprima (2008), Daiquiri (2008), Lisa Bella, Lisa Fiore and Lisa Piu (2008, connected and calligraphic), Tati (2008), Movie Script (2007), Cake Script (2007), Eddy (2007, grungy calligraphy), Pointino (2007), Bohemio (2007, a great oriental-brush script), Artegio (2007, two calligraphic scripts), Xylo (2006, in the tradition of the 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham and the 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer), Tamara (2005, art-deco script based on some initials for Semplicita made in the 1930s by the Nebiolo foundry), Tecon, Ellida (2005, inspired by the elaborate scripts of 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham, with additional influences from 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer), Eloise (2009, a high-contrast version of Ellida), Nadine Script (2005, an elegant script inspired by a set of initials the French designer and artist Bernard Naudin drew for Deberny&Peignot in the 1920s), Royal Classic (2005, unbelievable script based on a design that has initially been comissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria for in-house-use), DesignerScript, Filzer Script (1995, handwriting), Futuramano-Condensed-Bold, Futuramano-Condensed, Futuramano-Plain, Futuramano-Thin, Giambattista, Scriptissimo-Plain, Scriptissimo-Forte, Scriptissimo-Swirls, Squickt (1989), Konstantin A, B and C (2005), Konstantin Forte (2005), MyScript, GrocersScript, Swanson (2006). Scriptissimo (2004) has versions named Start, Middle and End, tweaked for their position in the word, and there are plenty of ligatures. Check also Bodoni Classic Chancery (2007) and Bodonian Script (2012).
Sans: Brute Sans (2018), Xpress (2018), Xpress Rounded (2019), Classic Sans (2017, a revival of Theinhardt Grotesk), Classic Sans Rounded (2017), Maxi (2017), Nic (2017), Azur (a large almost geometric sans famly with 1950s Roger Excoffon-style French flavours, called a Medterranean grotesk by Wiescher himself), Royal Sans (2017, after Theinhardt's Royal Grotesk---the forerunner of Akzidenz Grotesk--- from 1880), Docu (2016, a workhorse elliptical sans family), Viata (inspired by Bauhaus), Noticia (2016, in the Bauhaus tradition, with very pointy v and w, and a bipartite k; not to be confused with the 2011 Google Web Font Noticia Text by José Solé; followed in 2019 by Noticia Rounded), Avea (2015), Aramis, Nota Bene (2015: squarish, narrow, technical), Nota (2015, technical and cold: the rounded version, Nota Rounded, followed in 2019), Dylan Condensed (2014), Dylan Copperplate (2014), Supra (2013, grotesk: Supra Thin is free. See also Supra Condensed (2013), Supra Mezzo (2013, between regular and condensed), Supra Extended (2013), Supra Rounded (2015), Supra Classic (2014), and Supra Demiserif (2013, slab serif derived from Supra)), Dylan (geometric sans), Franklin Gothic Raw (2013, like Franklin Gothic but with raw, not rough, outlines, only visible at very large sizes), Blitz (2012, a flared family), Blitz Condensed (2012), Contra Sans (2011, which led to Contra Slab, Contra Condensed and Contra Flare), Vedo (2011, a Bauhaus style family that include a hairline weight), Germania (2011, a useful and beautiful monoline sans family), Geometa (2011, +Rounded, +Rounded Deco, +Deco: all based initially on Renner's Futura), Geometra Rounded (2011, a rounded family based on Futura and "much less boring than DIN"), Bombelli (2010, ultra-wide architect's hand), Bluenote Demi (2010, a grungy Franklin Gothic Condensed), Perfect Sketch (2010, sketched grotesque), Unita (2009), Antea (2009), Eterna (2009, sans with a swing), Pura (2008, an uncomplicated grotesk family), Purissima (2010, a decorated extension of Pura; +Bold), Copperplate Gothic Hand (2009, after a 1901 design by Goudy), Copperplate Alt (2011), Copperplate Wide (2011), FranklinGothicHandDemi (+Shadow), Franklin GothicHandCond (2009), Franklin Gothic Condensed Shadow Hand (2010), and Franklin Gothic Hand Light (2009, a hand-drawn version of Franklin Gothic), Papas (2005, sturdy, slightly curly), Julienne (2005, a condensed sans family; see the new versions Moanin and Julienne Piu, 2017), Cassandra (1996, an art deco style after Adolphe Mouron Cassandre), Futura Classic (2006), Cassandra Plus (2012), Ela Sans (2005, a large family), Mondial-Bold (2004), Mondial-Demi, Mondial-Light, Mondial-Medium, Mondial-Normal, Mondial-XBold, Monem-Bold, Monem-Medium, Monem-Normal, Monem-Roman.
Serif: Imperia (2011, a Trajan column caps face), Monogramma (2012, a Trajan family for monograms), Imperium (2005, a precursor of Imperia with a Relief shadow style included), Hard Times (2011), Fat Times (2011, retraced Times), Elegia (2011, slightly Victorian family), Breathless (2010, a spiky family, inspired by nouvelle vague movie posters), Bodoni Classic 1, Bodoni Classic 2, Bodoni Classic 3, BodoniClassic-Condensed, BodoniClassic-Handdrawn, BodoniClassic-Swashes, BodoniClassic-Text, Bodoni Classic Deco, Bodoni Classic Swirls (2009), Bodoni Classic Pro (2011), Bodoni Classic Inline (2012), Bodoni Classic Fleurs (2014, ornamental caps), Bodoni Comedia (2010, one of my favorites: a funny "live one day at a time" curly Bodoni cocktail), Bodoni Classic Swing (2010), Bodoni Classic Free Style (2010, curly), Bodoni Classic Ultra (2010), La Bodoni Plain (+Italic, 2008), Take Five (2005, a jazzy take on Bodoni Classic), DonnaBodoniAa, DonnaBodoniBe, and DonnaBodoniCe (three scripts named after Bodoni's wife, Margharita dell'Aglio, who published his complete works, the Manuale Tipografico, in 1818, five years after his death), Edito, Robusta. A great series, some of which were originally published at Fontshop, see, e.g., FFBodoniClassic (1994). MyFonts: When the first of Wiescher’s Bodoni Classic fonts came out in the 1993, there was nothing like it. Up to then, virtually all Bodoni revivals had been given clear-cut forms and square serifs. But Bodoni’s originals from the late 1800s were never as straight and simplistic as is often assumed: they had rounded serifs and slightly concave feet. Wiescher digitized a wide range of Bodoni letterforms, including a wonderful script-like family called Chancery and a nice series of Initials. Having accomplished his mission twelve years later, he began making personal additions to the family, such as the more decorative Bodoni Classic Swashes. Recently a useful little family was added to the clan: LaBodoni is sturdier and less optically delicate than most Bodonis, and therefore more usable as a text face. Wiescher made Metra Serif (2009), Principe (2008) and Paillas (2009). Prince (2009) is a curlified didone.
Romain du roi: In 2008, Wiescher designed the two-style Royal Romain, which is based on the Romain du Roi of Philippe Grandjean, which was completed in 1745 after Grandjean's death by Grandjean's successor Jean Alexandre and Louis Luce. Wiescher: The Romain du Roi was for the exclusive use of the Louis XIV. It was never sold or given to any other king or government. The king of Sweden tried to scrounge a set, but the king refused. This font is the basic design for such famous fonts as the Fournier and Bodoni. Just so the Romain du Roi doesn't get lost in the digital turmoil I set out to redesign it in 2004 and finished now in early 2008. I did a lot of research in France's National Library. A good excuse to visit Paris is always welcome!!!
Engravers: Dylan Copperplate (2014), Cavaliere (2010), Guilloche A (2009), Guilloche B (2013, op-art borders), CopperplateClassic-Plain, CopperplateClassic-Round, CopperplateClassic-Sans, Copperplate Classic Light Floral (2009), Cimiez-Bold, Cimiez-Roman (2004), Ela-Demiserif, Ela-Sans (2004), Eleganza (2008).
Blackletter/Fraktur: Renais (2011, renaissance initials), Flipflop (2011), Fraktura and Fraktura Plus (2008), Royal Bavarian (2004, based on a typeface commissioned by King Ludwig 1st of Bavaria about 1834), Royal Blossom (2009), Royal Bavarian Fancy (2004), Bold Bavarian (2010, a heavy version of Royal Bavarian), Monkeytails (2008), Fat Fritz (2006, rounded endings), Ayres Royal (2005, blackletter typeface based on drawings of London's calligrapher John Ayres, ca. 1700; to be used with RoyalBavarian; followed in 2010 by BoldAyres).
Slab serif: Slam Normal (2017), Slam Rounded (2017), Suez (2017: with extra tall ascenders and descenders), Egyptia (2010), Egyptia Rounded (2010).
Typewriter: Lettera (2014), Lectra (2011), QuickType-Bold, QuickType-Plain, QuickType-Sans.
Decorative: Tric (2017, art deco), Franklin Gothic Raw Semi Serif (2015), Frank Woods (2013, letterpress simulation based on Franklin Gothic Heavy), Ohio Bold (2012, a rough headline type in the tradition of Louis Oppenheim's Lo-Type from 1913), Viking Initials (2012), Cannonball (2012, a psychedelic typeface derived from a jazz record-sleeve for Cannonball Adderley), Byblos (2011, derived from the logo of St. Tropez's famous Hotel Byblos), Blockprint (2013, early 1900 German expressionist grunge face, renamed Bannertype after 24 hours), Ferrus (2010, inspired by Cassandre's Acier Noir, 1936), Petite Fleur (2009, flowery embellishments and the capitals of his redesigned Royal Romain, which in turn is based on the famous romain du roi), Glass Light (2012, a decoirative art nouveau type family based on Glass Light by Franz Paul Glass, 1912), Penstroxx (2009, 5 fonts that are based on the powerful, expressive Traits de plume (penstrokes) designed in Paris around 1930 by Alfred Latour), Liquoia A, B and C (2008, decorative scripts), Modernista (2008, an art nouveau headline face, based on an 1898 sample by Peter Schnorr), Ornata A, B, C, D, E, F and G (2008-2009: ornaments), Fleuraloha (2008), Floralissimo (2008: flowery ornaments), Frank Flowers (2011), Scrolls A (2010, penman's dingbats), Bacterio (2007), Alpha Bravo, Alpha Charlie, Alpha Echo (2006), Barracuda, Cacao (2005, fifties style), Cassandre Initials (2004, Elsner&Flake, after the 1927 original by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre), Contype, Fleurie (2005), Fleurons Two (2006), Fleurons Three (2006), Fleurons Four (2006), Fleurons Initials (2007), Fleurons Six (2008), Fleuron Labels (2008), HebrewLatino, Julius, Lunix (2006), MyHands, NewYorkerType (1985; extended in 2011 to NewYorker Plus, and in 2020 to New Yorker Type Classic and New Yorker Type Pro; after Rea Irvin's well-known typeface for The NewYorker), Venice Initials (2006, after a 15th century find, but Wiescher added about half of the caps), Ventoux, Vivian (2005), Woody.
Pixel and/or futuristic: Nexstar (2013: this octagonal typeface is also useful or athletic lettering), Alpha Fox (2007), Alpha Juliet (2010), Alpha Papa (2010), Alpha Square (2010), Alpha Jazz (2010), Alpha Papa (2010, LED meets stencil).
Stencil typefaces: Dripps (2010, handpainted, perhaps brutalist), Red Tape Plus (2014).
Comic book fonts or brush fonts: Breezy (2015), Caboom (2014).
Dingbats: Wayside Ornaments (2012), XX Century Ornaments (2012), Thistle Borders (2012), Greenaway Mignonettes (2012, after Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), author and illustrator of childrens books), Collins Florets (2012), Flourishes A (2010), Jingle Doodles (2010).
Art deco: Trix (2017), Zelda (2017, named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife).
Commissioned and special typefaces include a version of the logotype for the Munich's newspaper Abendzeitung, Maxi (variable width sans), NIC Grotesk, Tric (art deco), a Cyrillic version of Bodoni Classic for Vogue Moscow, a special Bodoni Classic for Ringier Publishers in Zurich, and Red Tape, a typeface that is on permanent exhibition at the German National Library in Leipzig.
Typefaces from 2019: Elita (a condensed sqaurish typeface), Artis Sans, Sigma Condensed and Sigma (simplified readable sans families), Cosma (an elegant high-contrast text family with tapered upstrokes and crossbars, but otherwise didone roots), Quincy (a bebop typeface that started from some letterutouts), Phoebe (an elliptical techno family), Phoebe Rounded, Polygon A, Polygon I, Polygon X.
Typefaces from 2020: Bullets Bannertype, Alpha One (a counterless experiment), Exec (a 14-style sans family), Exec Corners, Exec Demiserif, Penta (a grotesque family with large counters that make the ExtraLight style quite striking), Penta Rounded.

Author of many books, including Zeitschriften & Broschüren (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1990), Schriftdesign (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1991), and Blitzkurs Typografie (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1992).

The following text was excerpted from his wikipedia page: At 14 years of age, Wiescher went to Paris to study fine art. He financed his stay by doing portraits on the Place du Tertre on Montmartre. In the sixties Wiescher studied graphic design at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. (Since November 2001, Berlin University of the Arts.) He financed his studies by sidewalk painting and drawing portraits. While doing sidewalk paintings, he met the typeface designer Erik Spiekermann, who inspired his love of this branch of design. After two years he quit his studies, and went to Barcelona where he worked at the offices of Harnden & Bombelli, for whom he designed the OECD-Pavilion of the 1970 Osaka World Expo. In 1972 he moved on to Johannesburg working as an art director at Grey and Young advertising . In 1975, he returned to Germany, working first for DFS+R-Dorland, and then for the "Herrwerth & Partner" ad agency. At Herrworth, he was involved in introducing IKEA into the German market. In 1977 he became a creative partner in the Lauenstein & Partner ad agency, creating mainly campaigns for large German retail chains. In 1982 he started his own design office, creating work for editors (Markt & Technik, Systhema and Langen-Müller-Herbig), computer companies (House of Computers, FileNet) and he worked for Apple Computers designing their publications (Apple-Age and Apple-LIVE).

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Wilhelm Hilder

Author of Moderne Alphabete (1922, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt. Leipzig), a booklet in which Hilder shows about 40 of his hand-drawn alphabets. I scanned in most of that book for all of you. [Google] [More] ⦿

William Graily Hewitt

English calligrapher and illuminator, b. 1864, London. He started out as a lawyer, then as a writer, before turning to calligraphy. He was one of the first students of Edward Johnston at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1900. Hewitt went on to teach classes at the School for over thirty years. Hewitt's works include The Pen and Type Design (1928), which was set in his own typeface, Treyford, and Lettering (1930; reprinted in 1976 by Pentalic in New York). He died in 1952.

Hewitt designed Gwendolin for The Greynog Press in 1935. Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: In general this roman is a Venetian but reminiscent of the calligrapher in many of the serifs, for example on the E, L and the feet of m, n and u. The capitals are mostly wide, especially the splayed M. U has the lower-case design. The lower-case g has a very broad tail and the w a cursive form. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

William Hoyt Worrell

Calligrapher and author (1879-1952), who designed (the metal face) Worrell Uncial. McGrew writes: It was cut by Linotype from designs originally made by Dr. W. H. Worrell, who had based them on the calligraphy of a fifth-century codex or manuscript book. The font was named in honor of Dr. Worrell and first used for Coptic Texts in the University of Michigan Collection, a volume which he edited. There are also Greek and Coptic versions of the face. The alphabet itself is interesting, but the Caslon No.3 (New Caslon) figures and punctuation marks Linotype has included with the font are incongruous. [Google] [More] ⦿

William Lilly

Ohio-based calligrapher. [Google] [More] ⦿

William Overington

Located in Worcestershire, England. Designer in 2005-2006 of the free fonts 10000, 10000Outline, ArtisticText, HouseBricks, HouseBricksOutline, BUILD3D, CHESS3D, Chronicle, ChronicleTextDocument, ChronicleTextLozenge, ChronicleTextOutline, ChronicleTextSublozenge, ChronicleText, FontofSpaces, ForSupermarketWallSigns, GalileoLetteringEnamelled, GalileoLetteringGilding, GalileoLettering, GalileoLetteringMosaic, GalileoLetteringSubmosaic, GothicSplendour, Invention103, PaperSimulation, PixelPolka, PixelPolkaOutline, Poetical, QuestChess, Questtext, SculptureGarden, SpanglewareBlues, Stones, Style, StyleArtFont, TomatoesOrangesandLimes. Those are mostly pixel-inspired and techno fonts.

Fonts made in 2006: AlternateGlyphSelectorsV, CropMarks, EutopianArchitecture (architectural writing face). From 2007: the futuristic but also art deco KernDeco-Italic, KernDeco, KernDecoOutline-Italic, KernDecoOutline, KernDecoShadowLayer, KernDecoShadowLayer2. And PicturesLandscape, PicturesPortrait, Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady, Sonnet Large Initials. From 2008: TRAIAN Experiment. From 2009: FOODQUALITYCOLOURSHAPES. From 2011: Disc and Annuli, Art Test, Sonnet Calligraphic. [Google] [More] ⦿

Willie Liu
[Yu Li Liu]

Wilton Foundry
[Robbie de Villiers]

The Wilton Foundry, which started out in Wilton, CT, but is now in Chattanooga, TN), was founded in 2003 by Robbie de Villiers. It published the semi-stencil typeface EM (2018), Brew (2018), Context Regular (2017: a condensed inline typeface), Målestok (an octagonal logo font family), Yotta (2017, a thin monoline sans specially designed for the fashion retail industry), Werk Serif (2017), Clareza (2016, a clean geometric sans), Leuk (2016, a playful sans), Maker (2015, a fresh rectangle-studded techno-display typeface), Saluzzo (2015, a contemporary calligraphic stencil interpretation of Bodoni), Twine (2014, a warm rounded stencil type inspired by the Plantin typeface which in turn is based on Robert Granjon's Gros Cicero of the 16th century), Cielo (2012, a sans family with some contrast), Marcus (2012, a roman type family in the Trajan style), Typetonic (2011, techno), Skript (2011, a stencilish script), Vallassina (2011, like a child's hand), Bellezza (2010), Pagina (2010, humanist sans), Rijk (2010, calligraphic), Saycheez (2009), Chamber (2009, serif face), Ciseaux (2009), Terzo (2009, calligraphic), Werk (2009, 12-style sans family), Velouté (2008, script), Diario (2009, blackboard script), Carnegie Classic (2009, calligraphic), Ziro (2008, almost a comic book font), Suzie Q (2007, hand-printed), Brasserie (2007, connected script), Chateau (2007, calligraphic script), Pointe (2007, a blackboard script), Atto Sans (2007), Santa Cruz (2007, a serifed headline face), Marzipan (2007, a whimsical script), Spark (2007), Fete (2006, formal script), Flax (2006), Portfolio (2005), Cyan (2006, a compact serif typeface reminiscent of Trajan; updated in 2016 as Cyan Neue), Ceres (2009, related to Cyan), Cyan Sans (2006), Petronella (2006, medieval script), Pezzo (2006, calligraphic script), Canette (2006, calligraphic script), Vecta Serif (2005), Vecta (2005, sans family; also published in 2006 as Vecta DT (DTP Types)), Cinnamon (2005, children's handwriting), Cilantro (2005, fun handwriting, and its niece Hanna (2008)), Misspink (2005, stone-age simplicity), Brown Fox (2005, script), Celsius (2005, felt tip face), Plumage (2007, formal high contrast calligraphy), Plato (2005, faded roman caps), Diplomat (2006, calligraphic), Duet (2004, calligraphic; also published in 2006 as Duet DT (DTP Types)), Spark (2005), Anno Rex (2005), Hampton, SCelsius, Gluestick, Duet Bold (2005, calligraphic), Duet-Flourishes (2004), Duet2Deux, Duet-Regular (2005), Nobodi Bodoni (2005), About Face (2004, script), Benjamin (2003, a geometric sans), Paella (2005), Boondoggle (2005, curly face), Monotonose (2004), Password (2004), LoosieGoosie (2004), Pippin (2005, transitional serif), Carnegie (2004, calligraphic), LatextBold (2003), ModusBoldItalic (2003), Nantucket (2004), Nicolas (2005), Oslo (2005, a legible sans family), Sepia (faded look), Belair.

Chatype is a geometric slab serif typeface family designed in 2012 for the city of Chattanooga, TN, by Robbie de Villiers and Jeremy Dooley.

Unio (2012) is a rounded slab family designed to be sturdy and legible.

In 2017, Wilton Foundry published Yotta, Marcus, Chateau, Pagina, Plato, Beurre, Vecta Serif, Cyan Neue, Buckle, Suzie, Unio, Attic Sans, Blau (hand-chiseled, angular text typeface) and Taglio, a contemporary calligraphic interpretation of incised or inline engraving or carving.

Typefaces from 2018: Chartre, EM, Mijne, Brew, De La Croix (a stencil sans inspired by the works of Eugène Delacroix, leader of the Romantic School) , Halla (a light monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Kular (monospaced), Zentral (an awesome 2-style sculptural font with the angularity of old Czech masters such as Preissig and Menhart).

Typefaces from 2020: Obo Regular (a diamond-studded display typeface), Rito (monospaced).

Home page.

View Robbie de Villiers' typefaces. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Winarno
[Blue Studio]

Winston Type Co.
[D. Sandi Sjahputra]

Aka Sandi Dez. Designer (b. 1985) based in Bandung, Indonesia. Creator of the free vintage spurred decorative blackletter typeface WT Bradford (2018), which includes Inline and Press styles. Winston also designed the vintage display typeface family WT Kingsbury (2018).

In 2019, Winston Type Co published the distinguished early art deco typeface WT Bellochero, the Tuscan circus font WT Scotch, and the great formal calligraphic typeface WT Hilton Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Winterbird

Designer of hand-lettered and calligraphic typefaces. These include Little Duckling (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Wisnu Cipto Wibowo
[Fateh Lab]

Witrina
[Utopia19]

Woodside Graphics (was: Arroyo-Style California, or: Rustic Spirit)

Witruimte

Belgian institute where one can study calligraphy. Teachers include Yves Leterme, Brody Neuenschwander, Ann Degeyter and Veronique Vandevoorde. [Google] [More] ⦿

This graphic design firm in Westlake, Oregon makes original fonts. Through MyFonts.com, they are selling

Presidio (2001). Presidio is a stylized version of the hand-lettered calligraphy typical of the Mission era of early California.
Craftsman (2001). The Craftsman font is a faithful reproduction of the logo, or Title typeface used for Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Magazine, the foremost journal of the American Arts & Crafts Movement during its publication years of 1901-1916.
G+G (1996). The only authentic digitized version of the unique handlettering of Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene.
Syracuse (1999). The explanation for this arts & crafts typeface: In Syracuse you will find hints of Dard Hunter's work at the Roycrofters in East Aurora, New York, a little of the Art Nouveau style of 1900 Vienna, even a touch of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's design ideas in Glasgow, Scotland. The font was named for the city in New York where Gustav Stickley produced his Craftsman furniture.
Mission Art (2001). Mission Art contains 26 design elements from many of the California missions.
Stickley Decorations (1997). Stickley Decorations contains 26 classic images from Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Magazine.
Batchelder Ruff (2000). Batchelder Ruff is a battered version of the typeface used for titling in the catalogs and advertising of the Batchelder Tile Company in Pasadena, California in the 1920s.
Greene Designs (1997). This font consists of 26 design elements derived and adapated from various architectural works of Charles and Henry Greene who created hundreds of designs for houses, furniture and decorative arts in their own unique interpretation of the Arts & Crafts style in the early years of the 20th Century, mostly in Pasadena, California.
Batchelder Elements (2000). Batchelder Elements contains 26 images from legendary Pasadena tilemaker Ernest Batchelder's design books of the 1920s.

Other designs include Wild Wood, Prairie, and handmade notecards drawn from early designs featured in Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Magazine, published between 1901 and 1916. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Wordshape
[Ian Lynam]

Commercial fonts at this boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo, jointly run by Ian Lynam and Thien Huynh. Ian Lynam is a New Yorker who studied Graphic Design at Portland State University (B.S.) and California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A.). He is professor at Temple University Japan, as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design and the hybrid publishing imprint and type foundry Wordshape. MyFonts link. Images of most of Ian Lynam's typefaces.

Cern (2013). A sans family based on Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk and Univers, with large x-heights.
Vaud (2013). Ian writes: Vaud is a family of 40 weights of neutral, yet formally nuanced grotesk typefaces that takes inspiration from Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers and the original metal types from Switzerland, yet had a slightly larger x-height for more pronounced legibility.
Plural (2013). A futuristic sans family.
Sketch Caslon Italic (2013).
Raffish (2013). This is an ornamental caps typeface based on Henk Krijger's Raffia typeface.
Entity (2012). A basic sans family with slightly rounded corners.
Okojo (2012), Okojo Slab (2012) are geometric sans and slab serif typefaces influenced by the type designs of Paul Renner and Herb Lubalin. They were followed by Okojo Slab Display (2012) and Okojo Display (2012). In 2016, he rebundled everything as Okojo Pro and Okojo Slab Pro, Okojo Pro Stack and Okojo Slab Pro Stack.
Pompeian Cursive (2010). An elegant calligraphic script based on the original drawings by Oswald Cooper for BBS in 1927.
His Cooper series. Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Cooper Italic (2010, after Cooper's original from 1924), Boul Mich (2010, after Oswald Cooper's 1927 art deco typeface), Cooper Initials (2010), Cooper Old Style (2010), Cooper Capitals (2010), Cooper Text (2010), Cooper Black Condensed (2010), Cooper Black Swash (2010), Cooper Screamers (2010, oversized exclamation points), Cooper Black Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Fullface Italic Pro (2013).
Cruller (2010). A spidery display typeface that is based on lettering from a 1910 German lettering book.
Hanger (2004).
Rubber Vloeren. A geometric display typeface adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring.
Ensenada is a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.
Clobber Grotesk (2010) is a grotesk typeface designed for readability at very small sizes. It is accompanied by a nice stencil style.
International Blackletter (2010) is a collaborative display typeface designed for fun, together with Simon Gane and Selena Hoy.
Devil's Advocate is a digital version of the heavy blackletter typeface Cathedral Text found in the 1934 ATF typeface from the American Specimen Book of Type Styles (by ATF).
Sandberg Honorarium (2003) is inspired by the work of Dutch typographer Willem Sandberg.
Inversion (2010) is an uncial face.
Designer with Eli Carrico of the heavy stencil typeface Black-Out (2010, Wordshape) and the paperclip family Interno (2004), which was based on Walter Ballmer's logo for Olivetti in 1960.
Neuerland (2010) is an update of Rudolf Koch's Neuland.
Dorsal (2011) is a splendid versal lettering typeface that cries Absinthe Overload.
Off Broadway (2011) is a casual art deco face related to Oz Cooper's Boul Mich and to Nubian (ATF).
Cinta Adhesiva (2011, done with Mexican designer One Eye) began as a typeface designed for the masthead of a graffiti fanzine called Free Copy---the monumental letters painted by L.A.-based graffiti writers Crae and Hael greatly influenced the feel of the typeface.
Maat (2011) is a modular geometric stencil piano key face. It is a loose interpretation of a handlettered alphabet by the late Dutch designer Jurrian Schrofer called Sans Serious which was included in Wim Crouwel's publication Letters of Maat. It is inflected with a bit of influence from British designer Ken Garland's similar lettering form the cover of his textbook, The Graphics Handbook.
Effete (2011) is a tall stylish typeface similar in weight and proportion to fonts like Imre Reiner's skyline typeface Corvinus.
Adora (2011) is a typeface similar to Walter Tracy's AdSans.
Kihachiro Swash Italic (2011) has garalde forms but Caslonian curved terminals and weighty serifs. Kihachiro Geometric (2011) recalls Antique Olive and Futura.
Kirimomi Swash (2011) is a pair of garalde typefaces. Kirimomi Geometric (2011) is a humanist sans.
Kommisar (2012) is Lynam's version of the Trajan capitals alphabet.
Smythe Sans (2012) is a contemporary geometric sans serif family that is quite readable on-screen and in print.
Stebl Grotesk (2012) and Stebl Slab (2012) are workhorse typefaces for sturdy jobs.
Raker (+Stencil) and Raker Display (+Stencil) is a 40-style octagonal typeface family published in 2015. It was inspired by science fiction and space travel.
Iggy (2015) is based on the lettering of Australia-based Oklahoman artist, animator and lifelong skater Darin Bendall.
Stamen (2016). A 12-style sans typeface lost in time.
Smythe Sans Pro (2016) and Smythe Soft Pro (2016).
Biwa and Biwa Display (2017). A grotesk family by Ian Lynam and James Todd.
Glot (2019). A 10-style flared terminal sans family by James Todd and Ian Lynam. See also Glot Round from 2020.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of From Bijin-ga to Brutus, in which he explains the work of graphic designers Hokuu Tada (1889-1948) and Seiichi Horiuchi (1933-1987). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

WUB Studio
[Terima Kasih]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the layered cigar box label font Historica (2016), the connected script font Symphoniesta (2016), the Halloween typeface Silenthell (2016), the handcrafted Spellbound collection (2016), and the brush script typeface The Flower City (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Cloudy Monday (a great watercolor brush script), Cashlitta (based on a president's signature), Moonhells (Halloween font), Courageous (vintage, layered), Nusantara (a layered Victorian signage typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Green Suligar (sans and script), Hellwolf (a Halloween font).

Typefaces from 2019: Nagara (a great decorative roman and calligraphic script duo that makes optimal use of interlocking ligatures), Aspernatur (Victorian).

Typefaces from 2020: Constructio Grotesk, Volutant Display, Juicy Rooky (a supermarket font), Hellianna (a Halloween font), Northville (over 100 vintage fonts in this family!). [Google] [More] ⦿

WunderMoosen

American company that used to sell fonts inspired by historical documents or texts: American Beauty (formal script), Beethoven, Beethoven SuperCaps (blackletter), Book of JKells (Celtic), Elizabeth R, English Courthand, Merchantshand, Merchantshand Alternate, Rembrandt, Renaissance, Rheims (blackletter), Rheims SuperCaps, Roundhand, Swiss Gothic, Tiffany. 5 USD a piece. Since 2006, these fonts are free. [Google] [More] ⦿

Xandra Y. Zamora

Calligrapher and designer in Los Angeles, who did calligraphic work for Halle Berry, Dustin Hoffman, Joe Walsh, John Travolta and Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne, Quincy Jones, and Elizabeth Taylor. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Inside Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Letter Arts Review, People and US Magazines, as well as print, television, and films such as Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

At Delve Fonts, she published the calligraphic typeface Quita in 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿

Xavier Cervelló

Tomata Taller Grafic is the Spanish outfit of calligrapher and graphic designer Xavier Cervelló Sanchez in Valencia. He created Thingbats (2010) and a monospaced typewriter sans to go with it, Thingbats Monospaced (2011).

At Ten Dollar Fonts, he published Thingbats Mono in 2012.

Still in 2012, he created two calligraphic alphabets, a brush set, and a blackletter set.

Behance link. Ten Dollar Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Xiao Yu Liu

Xiao Yu Liu is a type designer at Hanyi Fonts based in Shanghai, China. In 2014, she obtained a Masters in visual communication design from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. After graduating, she joined Hanyi Fonts and started designing Latin types. She created Lthe atin parts of various types, such as Hanyi Nuomituan, Hanyi Tangmeiren, and Ruiyisong. She has also participated and directed branding family type projects for JOOX in 2017 and the Alibaba group in 2019. Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022 (with Yu Li Liu) for Hanyi YihexianJing. She writes: This typeface was not made by auto-tracing. On the contrary, designers extracted the features of about 100 characters from Qianlong's original calligraphy work. Then the team designed the rest of the 9000 characters. Qianlong's calligraphy was inspired by Wang Xizhi (303AD---361AD), one of China's greatest calligraphers. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ximen Studio
[Rahm Atilla Habakar]

Indonesian designer who published the script typefaces Virginity Script, Mimosa Script, Celebrate, Classical script, Hoegata Script, Prilliya Script, Dreamst Script (formal wedding calligraphic script), Dellayla Script, Telepia Script, Catchy Script (calligraphic), Julliyus Script, Mycheell Script, Dealina Script (almost formal calligraphic), Cadeck Script, Aurelia Script, Sellya, Caalifah Script and Angelina Script in 2017.

Typefaces from 2019: Beach. Graphicriver link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Xu Bing

MacArthur-award winner in 1999 for calligraphy. He was born in Chongqing, China in 1955 and grew up in Beijing. In 1975 he was relocated to the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution. In 1977 he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing where he studied printmaking. He received an MFA from the Central Academy in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the United States and he still lives there today, making his home in Brooklyn, New York. [Google] [More] ⦿

XXI Creative
[Alfredo Callistini]

American creator of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Sara Script (calligraphic), Ruby's Notes (a thick brush script), Arizona, Socrates Gothic (blackletter), Spring Fling, Casual Friday (stencil), Apollo (formal art deco), Ivy League, Snap Dragon, Figura (octagonal), New Planet (circular futuristic typeface), Gargoyle (blackletter), Italian Goth (blackletter), Borders (brush script), Pencil, Casual Friday, Tetrahedron, Caffeine, Scratch, Quick Architect, Lines, Codec. Creative market link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yadhie Setiawan
[Typeline Studio]

Yahdi Kumala
[Rometheme]

Yan Studio
[Yayan Sihwadi]

Muara Bungo, Jambi, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) of principally script typefaces. The catalog in 2021 showed these fonts: Alaskana, Absolute Script, Agilaque, Alexia Script, Amanda Script, Amantra, Amelinda, Amerta Signature, Ameylinda, Amstrong, Anggere, Auristela, Baby Boho, Baby Heart, Babylonia, Babymoon, Bagratha, Bahila, Ballerina Script, Baltimore, Baritone, Bastiolla, Beautiful Handmade, Belligo, Beloved, Berliana Script, Besta Loving, Bework Script, Bherliant, Billy Bella, Boldness Race, Boristeak, Breathing Script, Bridetown Script, Brittanis, Calderious- Elegant Sport, Caroline Signature, Gisellano, Gloria Farmhouse, Glorihouse, Grithani, Gritter City, Hello Jucky, Hallo Bumble, Hanabelle, Happy Halloween, Hello Baby, Hello Beauty, Herliya, Home Studio, Home Sweet, Houston, Jafiera Signature, Latansha, Mariosha, Marisaka, Michella, Mother Love, Rabizone, Rafelina Script, Raflesia, Rangkuti, Rockerta, Rostagia, She Flower, Soungkito, The Broadstone Script, Yolandia. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yana Kutyina

Moscow-based designer of Nerpa (2014, with Andrey Belogonov), Kalimantan (2012-2013, an award-winning calligraphic face), Powerview (2010, with Andrey Belogonov), a scanbat font with players like Bush, Castro, Gorbachev, Osama Bin-Laden, and Reagan. Napoleon (2012) is a fat slab typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. Vataga (2008, Paratype, with Andrey Belogonov) is a really funny dingbat face. Lustre (2008, Paratype) is a dingbat with women's accessories.

In 2016, Yana Kutyina and Andrey Belogonov cooperated with Valery Golyzhenkov on the great vintage typeface system Triplet in Erste, Zweite and Dritte styles. Triplet won an award at Granshan 2017.

Paratype link. Her name is also spelled Anna Kutina. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Yang Bo

Beijing-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2018, in which each glyph evokes a famous artist. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yaniguille
[Guillermo Vizzari]

Guille Vizzari is the Argentinian designer of the gorgeous experimental pixel-script typeface Beautiful Pixel (2006). He also created the equally gorgeous connected copperplate script typeface Ragazza Script (2012, Latinotype). His graduation work in 2012 at FADU-UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is the Trajan / roman caps typeface Esmeralda.

In 2013, he published the lapidary flared serif typeface Esmeralda Pro at Sudtipos. Esmeralda Pro won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

In 2014, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari published Abelina Pro at Sudtipos. It is based on Yanina's thesis project in 2011-2012 at FADU/UBA simply called Abelina, which was mentored by Ale Paul and Ana Sanfelippo. Abelina won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

For the 3rd edition of Masticar (2014), an Argentine Gourmet fair, an exclusive hand-drawn poster typeface was developed by Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari for use in the identity of the fair. In 2015, Alejandro Paul, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari combined forces in the signage script typeface Quotes (Script+Caps) (2015, Sudtipos).

Still in 2017, Guille Vizzari designed the great Moleskine notebook-inspired typeface family Proprietor at Sudtipos. Proprietor comes in Script, Icon, Deco, Wide, Open and Roman styles. Co-designed with Alejandro Paul, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018.

In 2018, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari published the lively vernacular signage typeface family No Molestar, which won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.

Typefaces from 2019 include Buddies, a retro brush lettering font released by Sudtipos.

Designer of the vintage handcrafted typeface Espiritu (2021, Sudtipos), together with Agus Pizarro Maire.

Typefaces from 2022 by Yaniguille: Maison Maioli Text (a custom typeface for a floral boutique in London).

Old URL. Facebook page. Behance link (joint page with Yani Arabena). Joint web page with Yani Arabena. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Yanin Design
[Pedro Yan]

Aka Pedro Yan, Imam Sofyan, and Sofyan ID. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1987, specializing in wild semi-calligraphic typefaces. His early fonts include Fashion (2016), Save Beauty (2016), Enjoy Summer (2016), Remember (2016), Quellea (2016), Jasmine (2016), Impossible (2016), Mallows (2016), Fruitella (2016), Mujuani (2016) and Textilia (2015).

Typefaces from 2017: Shailene, Bungalowsa, Glamor, Bungalow, Bungalow Sans, Willshiffe (Script, Sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Sheline (script), Vallexis, Quiche, Bouthfield, Asnitta, Sweete Girl, Coneshia, Wellyfitts, Bottomline, Little Star, Darmia, Starword, Merry & Bright, Ornamen, Envelope.

Typefaces from 2020: Coconut (a curly script), Hello Sweety Bundle, Joustin, Merry & Bright, Moisture ink, Mountiza, Palmtrees, Regular Queen, Salmon, Sienta, Sophie, Vioneka, Wollshine.

Yanina Arabena

Yani Arabena (b. 1985, Buenos Aires) graduated from the University of Palermo in 2007 and then from FADU-UBA in Buenos Aires in 2012. Her graduation typeface in 2012 at FADU UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is the signage script typeface Abelina. Along with Guille Vizzari, she runs the studio Yani & Guille based in Buenos Aires. Still with Guille Vizzari, she created Volar Script (2014, a signage script custom created for Aerolineas Argentinas) and Cafecito (2014), and was involved in several lettering and calligraphic projects.

For the 3rd edition of Masticar (2014), an Argentine Gourmet fair, an exclusive hand-drawn poster typeface was developed by Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari for use in the identity of the fair. For the 2015 edition of the fair, Masticar Bold was added.

In 2015, Alejandro Paul, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari combined forces in the signage script typeface Quotes (Script+Caps) (2015, Sudtipos).

In 2018, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari published the lively vernacular signage typeface family No Molestar, which won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.

Behance link, jointly with Guille Vizzari. Another Behance link. Facebook link. Joint web page with Guillermo Vizzari. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Yanuar Adi
[Typehand Studio]

Yayan Sihwadi
[Yan Studio]

Yayoi Tsukizawa

Kana calligraphy by Yayoi Tsukizawa. [Google] [More] ⦿

Ydhra Studio
[Yudha Ageng]

Or Yudha Rahmat Ageng. Yogyakarta and/or Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) of the bold script typefaces Eusthalia Sans and Clean (2018: a free font duo), the signage script typeface Chillout (2018), the calligraphic typeface Anthasic (2018), Helsinki (2018), Manhattan (2018) and Matane (2018), the vintage typeface Boatman (2018), the signature font Better Signature (2018), the monoline script typeface Royaland (2018) and the modern script typefaces The Blendhes (2018: a baseball script), Bellasic (2018) and Pharosi (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Haydes (a signage script), Eusthalia Stamped, Boatman Stamped, Buryland ((monoline) Script, (Victorian) Sans, Serif), Rocka + Billy.

Typefaces from 2020: Sunpalm Addict (script).

Typefaces from 2021: Boatman (a vintage label font).

Graphicriver link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Yehezkiel Azizal
[Revnede]

Yellow Design Studio
[Ryan Martinson]

Yellow Design Studio is a fine art, graphic design and typography studio based in Sanibel, FL, and before that, in Madison, Wisconsin. The font designer is Ryan Martinson (b. 1972), who is from Chetek, WI. Rena Martinson is the other partner in the venture.

Via MyFonts, they sell fonts such as Cardium (2021: an almost geometric font family in 54 styles), Draft Natural (2019), Draft (2018: a 144-style sans superfamily, followed by Draft B later in 2018), Lullabies (2016, watercolor brush script), Kiln (2016, an eroded caps only letterpress typeface), Canvas Acrylic Megafamily (2016, by Ryan and Rena Martinson), Sucrose (2015, a letterpress emulation family with eight levels of textured distress), Sant Elia Script (2015), Lulo (2014, a stackable chromatic typeface family), Lulo Clean (2014), Thirsty Soft (2014, a vintage signage script family), Eveleth (2014, a detailed vintage letterpress emulation family), Gist (2014, an inline slab serif; one weight is free), Gist Rough (2014, rough letterpress), Verb (2012, a very open sans family; +Verb Condensed, 2013, +Verb Compressed, 2013 +Verb Extra Condensed, 2013), Thirsty Script (2012, a retro connected signage script, which by his own admission, is based on Jack Edmondson's Wisdom Script, a fact he did not originally mention in the typeface description), Thirsty Script Shadow (2012), Thirsty Rough (2012), Thirst Script Extrabold (2014), Anodyne (2012, grungy caps), Veneer (2012, letterpress style), Veneer Clean (2016), and Veneer Extras (2012, dingbats), Melany Lane (2011, a connected school script), Skitch (2011, sketch / blackboard bold face); +Skitch Shaded, Magesta Script (2010, a grungy calligraphic script), and Wausau (2010, an all caps grunge face).

Klingspor link. Creative Market link, Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Yesaya Amnestian
[Nestype (was: Nest Studio)]

Yesie Erma Yunita
[Yunita Ecy]

Yetian Yu

Beijing, China-based designer of the Chinese calligraphic brush font Feiyun (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yofi Aprilla

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of the calligraphic typeface Oathkeeper (2020) and Piledrive Walts (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿

Yoga Letter
[Isroni Yoga Prasetya]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the thin (and often wild) calligraphic typefaces Mikella (2020), Agatha (2020), Pretty Willie (2020), Maretha (2020) and Betharia (2020), and the script typefaces Monalissa (a Valentine's Day script), Billetha, Berthessa, Rillilove, Beathria, Astherlia, Rossaline, Alletha, Sherllia, Meillea, Khalitta, Shalitta, Madelline, Adellia (a tall script with some contrast), Halloween Party, Bialletta, Best Friends, Queenatha, Sanantha, Selvia Cahya, Shailene Woodley, The Brilliant, Vienetta and With Danilla, which were all done in 2020.

Typefaces from 2021: Your Everything (a Valentine's Day script), Goblin Monster, Diary Autumn (script), Death Party (a horror font), Devil Scream (a horror font), Demons Light (an eerie font), Witch Pumpkin (a horror font with prickly concave outlines), Merry Deer (a lava lamp font), Linford (a plastic serif), Dino Park (dinosaur-themed), Light Sunday (script), Amelline (a monolinear script), Leonisa (a monolinear script), Hello Miami (vernacular writing), Spring Heart (an inky scrapbook script), Halloween Party (a dripping blood font), Bethlove (a Valentine's Day scrapbook font), Catty Funny (a scrapbook font), With Rose (a smooth script in which the tittles are replaced by roses), Easter Day, Valentine Moon (a tall rabbit-eared inky script), Art Valentine (script), Charllona (wild calligraphy), Emillisa (calligraphic), Hello Valentine (script), Shamilove (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2022: Easter Park (an Easter font), Airlove (with a heart-themed texture), Monogram Lovely (a hand-crafted serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Yon Type Studio
[Muhammad Yoni]

Pemalang, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) of the free brush script typeface Zombiess (2019), the calligraphic typefaces Laurance (2019) and Elizabeth (2019), the script typefaces Live Love (2019) and Mattina (2020), and the free font duo Guttenfighter (2019: Serif, Signature).

Typefaces from 2020: Bughia (a swashy decorative serif), Guttawa (a bold script), Satteck (a signature script), Dellima (calligraphic), Battur (script), Rindu, Sunflor (floral), Fatayah Irhami, Sleman, Busstan (a dry brush script), Hamble (a retro signage script).

Typefaces from 2021: Sagha (a bold signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

You Work For Them (or YWFT; formerly Cinahaus or TrueIsTrue)
[Michael Cina]

Michael Cina (Minneapolis) is the cofounder of WeWorkForThem and YouWorkForThem (in 2002), also known as YWFT. Before that, he ran TrueIsTrue, and before that was partner in Test Pilot Collective (which he left in 2001), and before that he ran Cinahaus. YWFT is located in Knoxville, TN and/or Baltimore, MD. The creative director is Michael Paul Young.

Cina's fonts include the pixel fonts YWFT Caliper (1998), YWFT Bit (1998), 6x7oct (1998) and BlackGold; the handwriting font Cinahand; Blessed (1999, techno), YWFT Cam (1998, a slab serif based on industrial lettering), CommunityService, Crossover (1998, dot matrix with stars instead of dots), Composite (1998, octagonal), Formation (1999, a big octagonal family), Jute (2004, a masculine, military, sans-serif), YWFT Maetl (1999, octagonal, angular family), YWFT Moteur (a technical, retro, machine-like design; it briefly went under the name Alloy---in the early 2000s it was heavily used in the video gaming magazine Playstation), YWFT Novum (2002: a heavy block font that draws inspiration from a typeface originally used by the Swiss graphic designer Siegfried Odermatt), Pakt, Reversion (1997, squarish), Selector, Selek (1998, pixelish), YWFT Blackgold (2000, pixelish), Service (2001-2002, an octagonal family), YWFT Signature (1998), Trisect (1999, three-lined family), Unisect (1999, organic monoline sans), YWFT Ultramagnetic (1996, a popular rounded gothic typeface family), Ultramagnetic2 (1999), YWFT Ultramagnetic Expanded (2011), YWFT Ultramagnetic Rough (1996-2017), Unfinished. Bastard (1998), Kcap6 (with Matt Desmond), Cheese (1998), Novum (2002), Overcross (2002, unfocused letters), Stem (1998), Testacon (with Kral and Desmond, 1999), Praun (2002, pixel typefaces), OneCross (2002, pixelish stitching family), Estenceler (2004, a great stencil family a bit related to Milton Glaser's Glaser Stencil), Graphium (2004, octagonal Western style family), Expos (2004, graffiti or poster face), YWFT Pixacao (2007, after the Brazilian graffiti style), Vox (2007, monoline sans), Militia Sans (2007, like a Russian constructivist stencil), Jupiter (roman), Militia (2007, heavier stencil), Merc (2007, grunge), Guild (2007), Clarendon Text (2007, a complete revival), Jezebel (2007, script), Ambassador Script (2007, a digital revival of Novarese's typeface by that name), Enam (2002, influenced by Crouwel), Enigmatic Hand (2007), Dusty (2007, a Tuscan-eared Western font), YWFT Poplock (2007, experimental), YWFT Pakt (2004, geometric sans), Sudsy (2007), Black Sabbath (2008, ultra black slab serif, by Stefan Kjartansson), YWFT Belle (2008), YWFT Agostina (2008), YWFT Bitwood (2007-2017, pixelish Western typeface), YWFT Mullino (2009, letterpress emulation), Trithart (2008, grunge by Emma Trithart), YWFT Tapscott (2008-2017, informal and nostalgic all caps family, in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Habano (2008, script), Amorinda (signage script), Retron (2008, connected script), MD01 (medical-themed dingbats), Adelaide (script), Centennial Script (calligraphic), Alexia (calligraphic), Ultramagnetic (experimental), Nash (1997, grunge), Amber (kitchen tile), Fab (3d), 6x7 Oct (1998, pixels and dots), Wool (2009, stencil), YWFT Matter (2009, a wide bold grotesque), YWFT Merriam (2009, a Clarendon-styled slab serif), Agostina Alternate (2011, with Michael Paul Young and Taechit Jiropaskosol), Ramsey (2012), YWFT Dessau (2013, schizograms and capitals like Bauhaus on drugs), YWFT League (2014, inspired by college football jerseys), YWFT Yoke (poster typeface done with Pintassilgo), YWFT Illuminati (2015, abstract capitals).

Blog. His lovely g poster (2010).

House fonts at YWFT by unknown designers: YWFT Knit (2010: knitting patterns), YWFT Motif (2015), Ramsey Condensed (2015), YWFT Roamer (2016), YWFT Whisky (alchemic), YWFT Psychosis, YWFT Processing (2001-2010: YWFT Processing was developed in 2001 for Casey Reas, the co-creator of the Processing programming language. We created this display face to be sharp, tall, unique and interesting...much like Mr. Reas himself. The font was derived from an original logo that already existed, and we continued the idea into a fully working six-weight font family. YWFT Processing was converted to Opentype format in 2010), YWFT Filbert (2012), YWFT Nim (2012, combining the hipster style with overlays for bevel and shadow effects), Dogma (2012, alchemic), Attic (spooky poster face, in EPS format), YWFT Yoke (textured all-caps), Riblah (2003, dot matrix), YWFT Fraktur (tattoo face), YWFT Burls (2013, fat poster typeface), YWFT Coltrane (2011, handdrawn poster typeface), YWFT Symplify (2013: haute couture snowflakes), YWFT Smoothie, YWFT Chance (2016), YWFT Skipper (2016), YWFT Wheatgrass (2016), YWFT Estee (2002-2017), YWFT Watermelon (2017), YWFT Ink (2017, originally designed in 2008), YWFT QUE, YWFT Burtonian (2017, named after Tim Burton), YWFT Crew (handcrafted), YWFT Maudlin (2017), YWFT Liana (2017; perhaps plumbing dingbats, who knows?), YWFT Victoria (2010: a bonbonnerie type), YWFT Valley (2017: a Memphis movement type), YWFT Wellsworth (2017), YWFT Harmony (2008-2017, a curly calligraphic script), YWFT Edger (2017), YWFT Chateau, YWFT Gummy (2002-2018), YWFT Blender (2018), YWFT Fluctuant (2018: a variable font), YWFT Gavin (a ransom note font) (2021), Ramsey (2021: a 54-style rounded squarish typeface), YWFT Hugo (2021: a child's hand).

View Michael Cina's typefaces. Alternate URL. Behance link. Interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Young Type (was: Alpa Studio)
[Naufal Paramata]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) who specializes in calligraphic and informal script typefaces. He created the connected script typefaces Girlboss (2016), Patarana (2016), Children (2016) and Wonderful (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Vamellia Script, Mochigan, Wastelands, Modestyle (brush), Moonshine (brush), Zahira Script, Schiffen Script, Hoomies Bomhies, Nathain, Adheana, Smithen (brush script), Barbeque Script, Delaney Script, Garden House (watercolor brush), Roes Blues, Wenstroong (brush script), Adolescent Script, Magnificient Script (watercolor brush), Strawberry, Ladyrose, Freedom, The Cuts, Shavia Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Dastine Script, Madein Script, Astilone, Eminent Script, Estamilo Script, Shellion Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Phoony Script, Amorica Script, Mellona Lovely, Osward Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Blusher Script, Marthens (script), Astella Script, Strives Less, Schiffen Script, Lovely Scream Queens (a cartoon font), Eva Rose Script, Shallowent Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Kustina (script), Spadoya (an irregular script), Vanny Onesha (script), Miss Moonling (a wild script), Belpast (a brush script), Kamesky History (a rough beatnik font), Mongnai Script, Sprimosk Font (a bold dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2022: Joyful Magnolia (a scrapbook font), Billie Olivia (a scrapbook script), Blitanos (a scrapbook script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Youssef Habchi

Strasbourg and now Metz, France-based creator of Ormont Light (2013), a free geometric sans titling typeface.

Marbre Sans (2014) is a free Peignotian fashion mag typeface. Still in 2014, Youssef designed the free sans family Kirvy and the free calligraphic connected script typeface Brotherhood Script, which on January 18, 2015, was by almost a factor of two the most downloaded font at Dafont.

In 2015, he published the thin calligraphic typeface Distant Stroke, the athletic lettering font Sablon Up (College, College Alt), the textured typeface Sablon Washed and the calligraphic Darleston. Steamster and Beastform are rhythmic pen scripts. Indelible is a dry marker script, while Milton One and Two are copperplate calligraphic scripts.

Typefaces from 2016: Tasty Birds (a handcrafted tall all caps didone family), Highjack, Road Rage (angry brush script), Blacksword (a flowing script).

Typefaces from 2017: Quinzey (monoline pen font), Crabmeal, Javacom (signature script), Antro Vectra (handwriting), Infinite Stroke (connected script).

Typefaces from 2018: Mafakanev, Stingray, Hughs (script), Dulcelin (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Reglisse (an oily font), North Wave (a tilted script), Deuxieme Rang (a ronde), Fishes Friends (a fat finger or marker pen font), Spring Romance (wreaths), Retwisted, 62 Dragz (a speed track font), Midnight Drive, Buvard, Sand Dunes (a dry brush script).

Typefaces from 2020: Eternate (monoline script), Gavabon (sketched), Superficious.

Behance link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yu Li Liu
[Willie Liu]

Yu Li (Willie) Liu is a type designer at 3type in Shanghai. Holding a bachelor degree in Urban & Rural Planning, he is currently enrolled in the Media & Communication Design Program in TJDI (Tongji University College of Design and Innovation, China). He is the creator of Dinkie Bitmap, an experimental multi-script typeface that tests the legibility of Hanzi in extreme conditions.

Designer of Dinkie Bitmap (2018-2020), a pixel typeface for Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Chinese.

Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022 (with Xiaoyu Liu) for Hanyi YihexianJing. He writes: This typeface was not made by auto-tracing. On the contrary, designers extracted the features of about 100 characters from Qianlong's original calligraphy work. Then the team designed the rest of the 9000 characters. Qianlong's calligraphy was inspired by Wang Xizhi (303AD---361AD), one of China's greatest calligraphers. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yudha Ageng
[Ydhra Studio]

Yuji Kataoka
[Kinuta Font Factory]

Yumi Tohyama

Yumi Tohyama is a Japanese calligrapher. She was born in Tokyo in 1964. Read here about her hybrid Eastern/Latin letters. [Google] [More] ⦿

Yunita Ecy
[Yesie Erma Yunita]

Surakarta, Indonesia-based designer of calligraphic typefaces, aka Yunita Ecy.

In 2018, Yunita designed the free upright script typeface Shathika (2018) and the free script typeface Jofi (2018, PutraCetol Studio).

Typefaces from 2019: Dorcy.

Typefaces from 2020: Almahyra, Alyna, Andini, Armyta, Belvania, Bratayudha (monoline script), Dyana, Emila (a swashy script), Fimayra, Gold Marble, Gyldan (Victorian), Hanie, Hillway, Hovalik, Lanifira, Maysile, Morlyn (a monoline script), Oldland (a bottom heavy script), Rifanca, River Lake, Rogusta, Southaven, Syahira (a swashy upright script), Syarena, Tragedye (a dry brush script), Velisya, Veristic (modular), Vialuna, Wild Foxs (dry brush script). [Google] [More] ⦿

Yur Lis
[Stripes Studio]

Yuri Gordon
[Letterhead Studio YG]

Yus Wardi
[Diyos]

Yusup Saputra
[Dysa Studio]

Yü Bing-nan
[Lin Yü-Bingnan]

Yves Leterme

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: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O. [Google] [More] ⦿

Y&Y

Past foundry of Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes, and Berthold Horn, which ceased operations near the start of the 21st century. They had the following font sets: Galilei, XY_Pic fonts (Nine ATM compatible fonts in Adobe Type 1 format for use with Ross Moore and Kristoffer Rose's XY Pic drawing package for TeX), Y&Y American Mathematical Society (AMS) fonts (Computer Modern, Euler), Y&Y European Modern (EM) fonts, Y&Y Lucida fonts (1996), LucidaBrightAstro, Lucida Bright Expert, LucidaConsole, Lucida Fixed Narrow, Lucida Greek, Lucida Latin, Lucida Sans Cyrillic and Latin 2, Lucida Sans Hebrew, Lucida Sans Linedraw, Lucida Sans School, Lucida Sans Unicode, Y&Y MathTime 1.1 fonts, Y&Y MathTime Plus fonts, Y&Y TeX Pi fonts, Alan Jeffrey Geometric Sans Serif Blackboard Bold, Ralph A. Smith Formal Script typeface (based on R. Hunter Middeleton), Jeremy Gibbons and Alan Jeffrey St. Mary's Road Symbolic Logic, Roland Waldi extension of LASY symbol --- version 2.0, APL (free), Crufty (free old typewriter font), Finger (free finger dingbats), MarVoSym (free).

The Lucida collection (Lucida Blackletter, Lucida Bright, Lucida Bright Math, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Casual, Lucida Console, Lucida Fax (1985), Lucida Handwriting, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Lucida Typewriter, and Lucida Unicode) is being distributed by Ascender Corporation from 2005 onwards. There is also a dedicated commercial site, Lucida Fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿

Zack Blanton

St. Augustine, FL-based designer of a swashy calligraphic initials alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿

Zaki Creative
[Teuku Muhammad Zaki]

Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of Black Star (2020), Rihanna (script) (2020), and Sunny (an upright script) (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Acehnese (an upright calligraphic script), Marlborolah (a tall script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zaki Muhammad
[Madjack Font]

Zane Studio
[Mur Zani]

Indonesian designer of these calligraphic script typefaces in 2018: Futhura, Dollygirl Script, Austina, Reghinatha, Bungalow. Typefaces from 2019: Glisten Script (wild calligraphy), Wallingness Script, Ratherbe, Carrolin Script, Gorgeous Duo, Bergenia, Sherilyn, Amorra Script, Strengthen Script, Distoria Script.

Typefaces from 2020: The Glisten Script, Arbhie Script, Almost There Script, Glaudia Script, Jamarius Script, Spalding Script, Hello Sunrise Script, Blossomed Script.

Typefaces from 2021: Hattori (a display serif with rounded wedges), Ambrossius Script (a rabbit ear script), Sea Angel (a display serif), Baby Salmon Script, Botton Love Duo (a scrapbook script), Ariana Script (monolinear), Alara Script (an upright script), Houlding Script (calligraphic), Houlding Script (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2022: Acosta (an 18-strong serif family that mixes several styles), Brish (an 18-style Peignotian sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zeenesia Studio
[Doni Purwoko]

This Purbalingga, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1994) uses the names Abu Rumaisha Doni and Doni Purwoko. His typefaces: Farm Bluster (2020), Hay Billy (2020), Classic Blody (2020), Maron American (a fat finger font) (2020), The Hungry (a supermarket script) (2020), Madista Calligraphy (2020), Kid Candy (2020), Romantica Story (2020: a monolinear script), Adhellia (2020), Fresh Pineapple (2020), Hello Agatha (2020), Catterpillar (a fat finger font) (2020), Jalliestha (a monoline script) (2020), Rumaisha (2020), Beauty Butterfly (2020: a decorative serif), Menthari (2020), Honey Batterfly (2020: a heavy display sans by Abu Rumaisha Doni), and Rebahan (2020: modular caps).

Typefaces from 2021: Better Delight (script), Dream to Berich (a bold curvy almost psychedelic display serif in the Cooper Black genre), Magical Signature (a sharp-edged display serif), Boldblaster (a creamy signage script), Bolderist (a bold wedge serif display typeface), Chocoladine (a creamy dessert font), Faither (script), Kalyant (an unpretentious 6-style sans), Neo Alcatraz (sci-fi), Satnight (a dry brush script), Vince (art deco), Willpower (a 10-style slab srif), Willond (a fat finger font), Baskuline (a grungy script), Gatinlose (a dry brush script), Sathiresa (a dry brush script), The Gaston Swisea (a brush script), Bromo Plateau (a stylish script and serif font duo), Hexi (an 18-style serif, seemingly identical to Sign Studio's Hexi), Magic Romance (a plump display serif that features many ball terminals), Beauty Hamida (a thin monoline script), Butter Carney (script), Hello Molarine (a scrapbook script), Simple Pen (art deco), Cherry Blossoms Script, Lemonilla (a fat finger font), Dream Miracless (a scrapbook script), Golden Blast (a fat finger font), Reds Aglonema (an informal monolinear typeface), Marwah Signature, Battle Bingo (a casual font), Choco Candy, Ice Cream Grande (an ice cream store or comic book font), Lovely Forever, Sintyabelinda (a monolinear signature script), Amsterland, Chikybard (an upright display serif), Little Humble (a scrapbook font), Queen Emirates (all caps, copperplate serifs).

Typefaces from 2022: Bright Melody (a bouncy bold display typeface), Bulgaria Script (a bold calligraphic upright script), Silkstone, Silkstone (script), Kedira Signature, Amore Dreaming (a font duo). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zelow Type (was: Khaiuns)
[Khair Unnas]

Kecamatan Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh and/or Jakarta, Indonesia-based type designer (b. 1997). Creator in 2019 of Good Morning (script), Barokatt, Lamender (a signature font), Efothryo Script, Auro Rumpthut (a hairline signature font), Yasmin, Hello Fhillya, Jalitta (wild calligraphy), Lihataja Brush, Lamender (signature script), Meurandeh, Lettyh (script), Appenzell (monoline script), Pasa Baroe (font duo) and Bineh Gunong.

Typefaces from 2020: Woonder (an inky script), Sattin (a grungy font duo), Glora Sans (a fun casual sans in six styles), Lovtony (a free font duo), Mightam (a thin script), Gatha (script), Loffers (calligraphic), Kallem (wild calligraphy).

Typefaces from 2021: Zt Sigata (a 6-style sans and serif experimental hybrid), Bolkit (a 9-style display serif), Mudzil (a curious 12-style slab serif), Raylig (a ten style display serif), Molika (an architectural blueprint font), Virzo (a daring and dynamic fashion mag typeface), Kolligio (an artsy ligature-rich display serif), Mukbeng (signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zet Design (or: Afredo.fk, or: Seventype)
[Ahmad Zulfikar Ali]

Surabaya, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of the brushed font Carocks (2019), the children's book font Kidplay (2019, at Zet Design), the 3d sketched font Doodletoon (2019), the futuristic typeface Allegias (2019, at Zet Design), the curly typeface Chattelyne (2019), the leafy font Green Nature (2019) and Arrowman (2019: gothic).

Also, as there are perhaps two Zulfikar Ali's, the Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1990) of these script typefaces in 2017: Cumtbum (or Camtbum), Vathina Script (calligraphic), Alif Script. In 2018, he designed the signage script typefaces Dealova, Parent, Norty, Alongtime Script, and Alakita, as well as the decorative typeface Singel Parent Serif and the thin script Van Basten. In 2019, he designed the creamy brush scripts Insting, Camping and Wanita, the modular typeface Batavia Glamore, the wooden plank font Woodyssey, the horror brush script Realiztix, and the monoline scripts Daddy Doctor, Batavia Glamore Script and Dirgantara.

Typefaces from 2020: Resolve, Khansa (an inky signature script), Hino Nagata, Roster, Estika (a brush script), Queen Mestalla (ornamental, Tuscan), Birthy (a decorative serif), Willgive (a display family), Alterous Display, Alterous Text (a bold, perhaps threatening, vintage typeface), Queenzy, The Brothers (exaggerated decorative), Funboo (a Halloween font), Restrick (a heavy decorative serif), Scratoon (a scratchy font), Pentoon, Doodletoon Pencil (3d, sketched), Aquaboy, Cartoonic (a bold monoline cartoonish font), Justheros (a bold display typeface), Quinlophe (a Valentine's Day font), Goodbees (a retro signage script), Radhistone (a florally decorated serif), Magnitudo (a signage script), Cute Frog, Kachong, Sakalangkong, Madina, Online.

Typefaces from 2021: Wedef (a creamy signature script), Broost (a groovy script), Nugetto (a curly magic mushroom font), Quegos (a lava lamp font), Blastand (a techno typeface), Racesky (a speed font), Qoutiens (a signature script), Scratchman (a sketched font), Gerush (a fingerprint font), Grandix (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Stellafox (a stylish brush font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zetafonts (or: Studio Kmzero, or: ZeroFont)
[Francesco Mistico Canovaro]

Italian design firm in Firenze consisting of three graphic designers, Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti, and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. It has evolved into Italy's premier and most prolific type foundry. Canovaro's Behance link. Also called ZeroFont and Zetafonts, this type foundry exhales joy---in every design and presentation, the passion of the designers bubbles to the surface. Blending a delicious sense of humour and a great aesthetic taste, Zetafonts is a typographic delight. Their typefaces:

Adlibitum (2018). A textura blackletter typeface family.
Anaphora (2018). Anaphora is a contemporary serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro (roman), Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini (italic) and Andrea Tartarelli. It features a wedge serif design with nine weights from thin to heavy. Its wide counters and low x-height make it pleasant and readable at text sizes while the uncommon shapes make it strong and recognizable when used in display size. Anaphora covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
Aliens and Cows (2016). An ultra-condensed all aps sans family by Canovaro.
Arturo (2018), by Francesco Canovaro.
Atlantica (2017). A signage script family.
Lightstrike (2016). A thin (and free) brush font by Canovaro.
Byom (2016). A tweetware organic sans typeface family by Francesco Canovaro.
Adlery (2016, +Cyrillic). A brush script by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini.
Adlibitum (2016). A blackletter typeface by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro.
Morbodoni (2016). A display didone by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro.
Altair (2016). A display sans by by Francesco Canovaro based on Digitalino.
Aquawax (2015). A sans family by Canovaro and the Zetafonts team. Extended in 2019 to Aquawax Pro by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.
Armonioso (2014). A creamy connected signage script.
A Day Without Sun (2014, by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini).
Another Shabby (2014, a primitive script by Francesco Canovaro).
Antipasto (2007, by Matteo Di Iorio). A clean elegant sans by Canovaro.
Arista (2007) and Arista 2.0 (2010). A simple rounded bold sans typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro and Adolfo Monti. In 2017, Francesco Canovaro updated these to Arista Pro.
Arsenale White and Arsenale Blue (2009). Children's hands, done by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Mi, Debora Manetti, Katiuscia Mari, and Jonathan Calugi.
Beatrix Antiqua (2016, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). This humanist sans-serif typeface is part of the Beatrix family (Beatrix Nova, etc.) that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model. Its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in Florence's Santa Croce Cathedral. Beatrix keeps a subtle lapidary swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif, similar to Hermann Zapf's treatment in Optima. Some weights are free.
Bimbo >(2018). A child emulation handwriting font developed as an extension and redesign of the original Arsenale White typeface created with italian illustrator Jonathan Calugi.
Bistecca (2005). A bellissima extra-condensed serif font created for ego[n] 5 and for the cover of ego[n] 4.
Braciola (2006). Monospaced and octagonal, with stencil styles added.
Brushstrike (2015). By Canovaro.
Byron (2006). Handwriting.
In 2010, Canovaro designed the plumpish bubblegum typefaces Bubblebody Fat and Bubbleboddy Extra Light. These fonts were discontinued in 2016 and replaced by Bubbleboddy Neue.
Bulletto (2015). A retro baseball script.
Cibreo. A basic sans typeface by Canovaro and Monti.
Cinematografica (2017). An ultra condensed small caps movie typeface used in the advertising campaign for Lucca Comics 2017 Festival. This film noir family features eight weights from thin to heavy with open type alternate glyphs and some full word ligatures.
The rounded geometric sans family Cocomat (2015, Zetafonts, by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Debora Manetti and Francesco Canovaro) was inspired by the style of the twenties and the visions of Italian futurists like Fortunato Depero, Giacomo Balla and Antonio Sant'Elia. Updated in 2019 as Cocomat Pro.
Cocosignum (2017). Cocosignum Corsivo Italico and Cocosignum Maiuscoletto are both based on Italian art deco styles.
Codec (2018) by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli is a geometric sans typeface family in which all terminal cuts are horiontal or vertical. See also Codec Pro (2019).
Delizioso (2008). Art deco.
Digitalino (2013).
Docporn (comic book style).
Duepuntozero Pro (2006-2008). A condensed rounded sans famly by Adolfo Monti and Francesco Canovaro. The Pro version was released in 2019.
Filetto (2009). A sans modeled after DIN 1451 done by Canovaro, Debora Manetti and Katiuscia Mari.
Florentia (2017). An 18-style lapidary typeface family influenced by the renaissance and luxury.
In 2018, Debora Manetti and Francesco Canovaro designed the brush handwriting font Freehand Brush.
Handvetica (2005). Arched.
Happy Frush Zero (2014). A random note font.
Happy Funghetto (2015). Fifties style lettering.
Heading Pro (2017). A condensed sans typeface by Francesco Canovaro. Followed in 2018 by Heading Pro Ultra Compressed, Heading Pro Extended, and Heading Pro Text.
Hello Script (2015). Curly and calligraphic.
Modulo3 (2008). An artsy beauty.
New Romantic (curly grunge).
Panforte (2013) and Panforte Serif (2013): hand-drawn typefaces. Panforte Pro followed in 2017.
Prozak. Consists of zProzak-Bold, zProzak and zProzakLight (2006). A basic sans typeface by Canovaro and Monti.
Sala de Fiestas (2005-2006). Free download at OFL.
Square80 (2009).
Studio Gothic (2017, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli) is an 8-style geometric sans family based on Alessandro Butti's geometric sans classic, Semplicita.
Sugo (2007). By Canovaro and Monti.
Taller (2009, ultra-condensed), Taller Evolution (2009), Tallest (2009, ultra-condensed).
Targa Monospace. Inspired by license plate lettering.
Targa (2002), TargaMS (2002), TargaMSHand (2002). Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, who developed Targa in 2002, based his design on the peculiar sans serif monospace typeface with slightly rounded corners and a geometric, condensed skeleton that Italy had been using for its license plates. In 2022, Francesco Canovaro redesigned this font into a versatile multi-weight typeface, Targa Pro, which includes Targa Pro Mono (which keeps the original monospace widths), Targa Pro Roman (with proportional widths), both in five weights plus italics, the handmade version Targa Hand, and Targa Pro Stencil.
Tutor (2006). Rectangular, pixelish---what I call a piano key font.
Zerocalcare is a typeface family created for the branding of Lucca Comics & Games Festival 2016. It is based on the digitised handwriting of italian comic artist Zerocalcare, and it uses open type substitutions to mimick the flow of real handwriting. Free at Dafont.
Double Bass (2018): A jazzy 4-style typeface family that pays tribute to Saul Bass's iconic hand lettering for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm film title sequence and other movies, Bass's vibrating, almost brutal cut-out aestethics, and the cartoonish lettering and jazzy graphics of the fifties.
Another Shabby (2018) is a brush script typeface family designed by Francesco Canovaro for Zetafonts with Cyrillic letters designed by Alina Golovan.
Sugo Pro (2018, Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli). It was designed in 2006 by Francesco Canovaro in two weights (regular and extralight) and later used by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini as base inspiration for the design of the successful Zetafonts' Cocogoose Pro typeface. In 2018 the family was completely redesigned by Andrea Tartarelli, expanding the original glyph set to include Cyrillic and Greek and adding three extra weights and italics. The restored and revamped version is named Sugo Pro Classic. In 2020, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero drew the 60-style Cocogoose Pro Narrows family, which features many compressed typefaces as well as grungy letterpress versions.
Extenda (2018) is a thin-to-wide grotesque advertising or movie credit family with some of the DNA of Impact or Compacta. By Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli.
In 2019, Blacker Sans (Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli) and Blacker Pro (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli) were released. The 63-strong fashion mag powerhouse Blacker Sans Pro (Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli) followed in 2020. Zetafonts writes: Blacker Pro is the revised and extended version of the original wedge serif type family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli in 2017. Blacker was developed as a take on the style that Jeremiah Shoaf has defined as the "evil serif" genre: typefaces with high contrast, oldstyle or modern serif proportions and sharp, blade-like triangular serifs.
The extreme wedge serif and reverse stress typeface family Blackest (2018, Andrea Tartarelli and Francesco Canovaro).
In 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli published the monolinear geometric rounded corner amputated "e" sans typeface family Cocogoose Classic and the condensed rounded monoline techno sans typeface family Iconic.
Klein (2019) is (in their words) Zetafonts' love letter to the grandmother of all geometric sans typefaces, Futura. Starting from a dialogue with Paul Renner's iconic letterforms and proportions, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli decided to depart from its distinctive modernist shapes with slight humanist touches and grotesque solutions---with some design choices evoking the softness of humanist sans serifs like Gill Sans. The end result is a workhorse superfamily of 54 fonts with full coverage of Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. The original display-oriented family, developed in nine weights with matching italics (from the hairline thin to the sturdy black), has been paired with a text version (with slightly higher x-height, better readability and maximum legibility at small point size) and with a condensed version, to be used for space-saving display solutions in editorial and advertising formats. With a name that is both a nod to its humble functionality and an homage to French nouveau realiste artist Yves Klein, this typeface aims to become your next trusted companion in all your adventures in print, digital and motion design.
Kitsch (2019, Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini) mixes angular medieval elements and old style letterforms. Thicker (2020, by Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli). They write: A geometric sans typeface on steroids, it was first designed in the muscular extrablack weight with the aesthetics of high-power dynamic typefaces used in sports communication, and then developed in the lighter weights where the shapes show some vintage-inspired proportions and the slightly squared look that nods to Novarese famous Eurostile, eponymous with retro-futurism..
Stinger (2020, a 42-style reverse contrast family by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini).
As part of the free font set Quarantype (2020), Francesco Canovaro designed Quarantype Chillout and Quarantype Sunshine. Sunshine Pro (2020, Zetafonts) was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Solenn Bordeau expanding the original Quarantype Sunshine design by Francesco Canovaro, which in turn was designed as a typeface for good vibes against Covid-19. Sunshine Pro is an experimental Clarendon-style font with variable contrast along the weight axis---contrast is reversed in light weight, minimized in the regular weight and peaks in the bold and heavy weights.
Eastman (2020, by Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli with help from Solenn Bordeau) is a 178-font geometric sans workhorse family with Bauhaus genes developed for maximum versatility both in display and text use, with a wide weight range and a solid monolinear design featuring a tall x-height. It comes with a two axis variable font (weight, italic angle). It was followed by the 46-style font Eastman Grotesque (2020, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli), which comprises an interesting Eastman Grotesque Alternate subfamily with daring and in-your-face glyphs, and the 88-style Eastman Condensed (2021, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli).
Garbata (2020). A round typeface loosely based on Windsor and Cooper Black, having a variable type option that offers many weights. Between sans and serif.
Bogart (2020, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli). An homage to the low-contrast oldstyle fat faces, like Cooper Black (Oswald Bruce Cooper, 1922), Windsor and Goudy Heavy Face (Frederic W. Goudy and Sol Hess, 1925-1932), and more recently, Bookman.
Stadio Now (2020). A revival by the Zetafonts team of Aldo Novarese's Stadio (1974), a reverse contrast sans that was published only as a rub-on transfer typeface. It comes with a multi-axis variable font that greatly enlarges the design space.
Amazing Slab (2021). A 20-style typeface family designed by Francesco Canovaro, Mario de Libero (who did the inline versions), Sofia Bandini and Andrea Tartarelli, developed from the Amazing Grotesk family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. Characterized by outward-pointing top serifs, this typeface is designed for use in athletic lettering, logos and titling. Zetafonts writes: Mixing an Egyptian serif, low contrast approach with the curved endings and open shapes of humanist sans grotesques, it was developed to embody the energetic and friendly nature of the startup scene---a feeling of innovation, information and energy, with a desire for simplicity and straightforward communication. The basic design shapes for the font come from the strong personality of the extrabold letterforms drawn by Francesco Canovaro for his StartupItalia logo, that informed the display design of the four darkest weights (from medium to black).
Coco Sharp (2021). A 62-style sans feast, and two variable fonts with variable x-height, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.
Arsenica (2021). A 43-style decorative serif by Francesco Canovaro for Zetafonts, and developed by a design team that included Mario De Libero, Andrea Tartarelli and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. It comprises two variable fonts and subfamilies Display, Text, Alternate and Antiqua.
Asgard (2021). A 72-strong experimental display sans superfamily with a 3-axis (weight, width, slant) variable font, designed by Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli ans Mario De Libero.
Heading Now (2021). A 160-strong titling font (+2 variable fonts) by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero that provides an enormous range of widths.
Salad and Salad Interlock (2021-2022). These typefacea are based on vernacular signpainting, extending Debora Manetti's Sala de Fiestas.
Bakemono (2021). Canovaro writes: the design space of fixed vs. proportional width, mixing the lessons of mechanical typewriter technology with the intuitions of eastern brush calligraphy. The name of the typeface comes from the Japanese shape-shifter monsters that could change their form freely between human and animal, and aptly describes the metamorphic nature of this wide superfamily coming in proportional, monospace and intermediate subfamilies. bakemono supports Latin, Cyrillic, Aarabic and kana, and comes with a variable font option.

Corporate typefaces were designed for Lucca Comics and Games, Digitalic Magazine, Kair, Unicoop, and Istituto Europeo di Design.

Behance link. Zetafonts home page. View the Zetafonts library. Abstract Fonts link. I Love Typography link. MyFonts link. Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zeune Type Foundry (was: Zeune Ink Foundry)
[Sandi Dez]

D.S. Sjahputra (or Sandi Dez) (Zeune Ink Foundry, Bandung, Indonesia) created the Victorian typeface The Wallington and the spurred typeface Mythes in 2014. In 2016, he published the stunning swashy calligraphic typeface Hummington.

Typefaces from 2017: Marschel and Marschel Display (a vintage roman font with possible uses in fashion mags; with Inline, Printed and Stencil styles).

Typefaces from 2018: Serendior (art deco).

Typefaces from 2020: ZT Voltra (a vintage serif family), Wallington Pro (based on his 2014 design).

Typefaces from 2021: ZT Grafton (an 8-style dark neo grotesk typeface characterized by a sickle f). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿

Zheka Tkhorzhevskiy

Zheka is a graphic designer, calligrapher and illustrator in Vladivostok. He has made some great logos that showcase his lettering prowess. [Google] [More] ⦿

Zhenya Kost

Sevastopol, Ukraine-based designer of the Cyrillic calligraphic alphabet Old Chicken's Hand (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿

Zhu

Digital calligraphy site, akak 6763.net. In Chinese, for Chinese. Some subpages have free samples of handwritten / calligraphic fonts (see, e.g., JinZeshan). One subpage has FZKTFW--GB1-0. Makers of Fashion Font (Chinese calligraphy). [Google] [More] ⦿

Zikril Lah
[Suza Studio]

Zoltán Nagy

Hungarian type designer (1920-1998) (some pubs mention a birth date of 1921), who is responsible for most types in Hungary in the 20th century. He studied graphic arts at the Technical University of Budapest, and became chief engineer and art director at Elsö Magyar Betüöntöde. Author of Techniques of Type Design. He also engraved many postage stamps.

His typefaces consist of metal types done at EMB (Elsö Magyar Betüöntöde), a type foundry in Budapest, and phototypes at VGC:

Antikva Margaret (1965, VGC), his most important work. This text family won a third place award at an ITC-sponsored competition in 1966. Tibor Szikora's Margaret Neue (2021) was inspired by this.
Ecsetiras (1967, EMB).
Kirillitsa (1967, EMB). A heavy grotesk for Cyrillic.
Kalligrafia (1968, EMB).
Terentius (1961, EMB). An outlined shadow face.
Ungarische Grotesk (+breitfett) (1967, EMB). Aka Széles Groteszk (+kövér groteszk).
Reklam kurzív (1960, EMB), a signage script.
Katerina (1970). This typeface, slightly modified according to requirements of the Ministry, is used on Hungarian passports.
Later photo typefaces: Magdalena (1971), Gilgames (1972), Sznoett (1973), Unió (1975), Unio Grotesk (1981, Cyrillic), ITEX Linear (1984), Nexus (1984), Thomas (1984).

Digitizations of his typefaces:

ICG did a digital version of Antikva Margaret in 1992, also called Antikva Margaret.
In 2005, Ralph M. Unger digitized Ecsetiras at URW as FontForum URW Ecsetiras.
In 2011, another digital version of Antikva Margaret appeared, thanks to Nick Curtis, who created Olde Megrat NF.
Oszkár Boskovitz is working on the digitization of his oeuvre and has already completed the brush typeface Ecsetirás (2001).

Zoomorphic calligraphy
[Hassan Musa]

A subpage of BibliOdyssey which describes the creation of animal drawings from letterforms, typically using Arabic glyphs. Many nice examples are shown by Sudan's Hassan Musa. [Google] [More] ⦿

Zoya Sokolova

Aka meookami. Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia-based designer of the alphading font Fly Butterfly (2018), the wedding calligraphy typeface Maganda (2018) and the Tuscan Western typeface Westild (2018: for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More] ⦿

Zulfan Iskandar
[Tipo de Fabrica (was: Vero Type)]

Zulkhair Lettering
[Zulkhairi M. Saleh]

Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1988) of the script typefaces Silvia Script (2021), Chocolatos (2020), Simple Script (2020), Anonim (2020), Celia (2020), Sella (2019: rough-edged and calligraphic), Santosa (2019: formal calligraphy), Attention (2019), Auristela (2019), Estonia (2019), British Script (2019), Muliana (2018), Chandrawinata (2018: signature script), Chekidot (2018), Matania Script (2018), Nyoehoka (2018), Christina Allie (2018), Natasa (2018), Seullanga (2018) and Breathtaking (2018).

Other typefaces include Indoscreen (2020: a monoline sans). [Google] [More] ⦿

Zulkhairi M. Saleh
[Zulkhair Lettering]