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10four design
| 10four design group was founded in 2002 by Sue Lepard and Matt Heximer in Vancouver. Matt Heximer and Sue both graduated from The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1994. Matt has held senior design and freelance positions in several Vancouver design firms. Designer of ElDiabloRegular, TechnoOrganic (1996), Swashbuckler-Script (1996), BitchinCamero (1996) at Garagefonts. He also created Halqemeylem Serif (1997) for the Stolo Nation, based on Majoor's Scala. The fonts at 10four design include Adanac (free, clean sans), Bitchin' Camaro (scratchy writing font), Devicq (based on the handwriting of actress Paula Devicq), Downsize, El Diablo (gothic), Lonely Cowboy, Lonely Cowpoke (2010), Mia Pets (dingbats), Swashbuckler, Techno Organic. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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A list of links to good free clean legible fonts collected by someone in Edmonton. Well, with a few exceptions like Linotype's Helvetica Neue... Here is that list: Ambrosia Anivers, Asenine, Aurulent Sans, Babel Sans, Bastardus Sans, Bebas, Bitstream Vera Mono, Blue Highway, BPReplay, Cicle, Decker, Diavlo, District Thin, Dustismo, Engel Light, Enigmatic, Eurofurence, Eurofurence Light, Existence Light, Fertigo Pro, Florence Sans, Folks, Forgotten Futurist, FranKleinBook, Futura Light, Geosans Light, Gill Sans, Gnuolance, Graublau Web, Grutch Grotesk, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue UltraLight, Howie's Funhouse, Josef Pro Light, Lacuna, Lane Narrow, London Between, Mammagamma, Mandinga, Mank Sans, Mean 26 Sans, M+ Light, Museo Sans, Myndraine, Myriad Pro, Myriad Pro Condensed, National First, Nevis, Nuvo OT, Pakenham, Perspective Sans, Petita Light, Phoenix Sans, Print Clearly, Puritan, Qlassiuk Medium, Sansumi, Santana, Schul Vokal, Secret Code, SF New Republic, SF Old Republic, Soul Papa, Steelfish, Steiner, Stentinga, Street, Tall Films, Tradition Sans, Trebuchet, Walkway, Weezer, Y2K Neophyte. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
3rd Wheel Creative Studio
| Canadian branding and graphic design studio run by Julian Brown. Julian created the free faces Feedback Quiet (2006) and Feedback Loud (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
76type (was: electric type foundry)
| Free original fonts by Steve Palmer from Carleton University in Ottawa: Printer, Fabulous, Licorice, Electric Toaster, SaneSerif, Digitol and Crackpot. All in Windows TrueType format. Electric Type Foundry. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A Case For Type Design Education
| An article by Patrick Griffin in Applied Arts Mag, 2010. Patrick makes the point that type design should be taken seriously as a subject. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A critique of existing typefaces for HDTV (EIA-708) captioning
| Joe Clark (Toronto) takes all the fonts proposed by Agfa/Monotype, Ascender and Bitstream for HDTV screen captioning apart. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fantastic collection of code and tutorials by a mathematician (Bill Casselman) for mathematicians. A must visit! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calgary-based design and illustration student who is working on Q-Bert or Aaron's 3d face (2004), an awesome graffiti face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver) and the KABK in Den Haag in the Type and Media program (2009). Originally from Lethbridge, Alberta, Abi designed a modular type generator. At KABK, he created Arietta, a small family consisting of a simply constructed transitional roman and a bold roman, as well as multiple italic companions. He works as a graphic designer at Commercial Type in New York City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abstract Fonts
| Growing 13000+ font archive maintained by Alex Chumak from Mississauga, ON. Chumak himself designed these fonts: AF Pepsi, AF Champion, AF Tommy Hilfiger. List of designers. New fonts. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creators and vendors of an Ethiopic text family, HahuLite: "HahuLite is a program that runs on an IBM PC (or compatibles) that has Windows 95. This program enables you to write in Tigrigna and other languages that use the Geez alphabet, directly from your PC keyboard without any changes or additions to your existing Windows programs!" ACIS Consulting is based in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ackadia Fonts
| Fonts made by Paul Ackerley include Ackadia (1999, 3D simulation font). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pages no longer found. Signature/logo font service (70 USD per font). Download a free Halloween font and some free music fonts (George's Music): bagpipe, tin whistle, tablature. Based in Prince George, British Columbia. The fonts Recorder and Whistle can be found here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer who runs Peekay Art Department, which serves as a multi-disciplinary studio which focuses on art direction, illustration and graphic design. Behance link. Creator of the slabby Western poster face Fontaine (2011) and the grotesque black caps face TTC (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the bold avant garde face Sage Heavy (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian nature photographer, who made Picassa Dance (2009), an abstract face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aioku Fonts (was: Kung-Fu fonts, or: Superfunk.com)
| Free fonts for PC and Mac made by Mike Lecky from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. Mike Lecky's (mostly grunge) fonts: ATeam, Brad, Bruce, BuddySystem, Class_of_74 (pixel font), Desi, DickSoup, EverCrash (extra thin LED font), Font, Funboy, Fruitsalad, Jobats, Leck, Jet_Plane, Kevin Seconds, Losers, Mike_s_BigDay, Misfit, Rusty, WatchBreaker, Mark, Decline of the Western Civilization, Roadkill, x5, Brody (geometric font by Guilherme Capile!), Mark (grunge), Lou (handwriting), Kevin (handwriting). One font by Guilherme Capile. Fruitsalad is also here. Another URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
AiPaiNunavik Font
| Ray Taylor (Acorda Design Integration Inc) created a new Inuktitut font specifically for the Nunavik region of Northern Québec: AiPaiNunavik (2001) represents a return to the traditional way of writing the AI-PAI-TAI column of syllables. Fully-compatible Macintosh and Windows TrueType fonts in regular, italic, bold and bold-italic are available. The fonts contain the full Eastern Arctic syllabary (Nunavut and Nunavik). A version that is fully Unicode 3.0 compatible is available too. There are also AiPaiNutaaq (Unicode 3.0, full eastern arctic syllabary and Greenlandic), AiPaiNuna (a.k.a. AiPaiNunavik 2.0, all of the improvements to AiPaiNutaaq with AiPaiNunavik 8 bit encoding) and AiNunavik (1995, Ray Taylor), a font based on an original design of F. Firard and S. Putulik. The site also carries plenty of utilities for these languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian type designer from Toronto, active from 1950-1985, who made the script face Balladeer (Headliners, 1975). Revived by Fontshop as Ballantines Script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Aleksey Lisovsky | Ottawa-based student who is working on the curly display face Waterworld (2006) and the serifed display face Eskela (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Alex Klages | Winkler, Manitoba-based designer who is working on Furtive (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian art student (b. 1988) who lives in Mississauga. As "Crimson Designs", he made the handwriting font Alexander Hosking Handwriting (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alien Typefaces
| Six futuristic typefaces by Canadian Nicholas Fabian, yours if you can decode his encrypted messages. Try them out! One is called FModernMedium (avant-garde style, 1993). Fabian died in April 2006. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
A few original designs by Canadian graphic designer Allen Zuk include Swing (was freely downloadable), Beat, the Kooky family (since 2004 a Bitstream font), Creep, Shadow, Krumple, Arson, Skritch, Schroder. Zuk used to run web pages/outfits called trashtype fonts and Financial Peril. These have disappeared. Home page (his original font pages are gone). Zuk used to work in Edmonton. In 2000, he moved to the UK where he worked as a freelance designer and copywriter until 2004. He currently lives in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Allo? Police? | Big font archive. Five new fonts each week. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alphabet Design
| Boris Mahovac is a great Croatian designer. He founded Alphabet Design in Oakville, Ontario. One of his famous fonts is the kitchen tile face Kalendar. Other creations: Pixelina, Borek, Duckling, Fat Trace, Kloi (now Kloi BT (2004)), Tabita BT (2005, an informal font), and the great patterns of the Symbols font, JechoTecho. From the web site: He started working with digital fonts back in the days of bitmap fonts, sometime in 1988. At that time the studio operated in Zagreb, (former) Yugoslavia, which later became the capital of independent Croatia, under the name PixelPrint. The name changed to Abeceda Dizajn in 1992 while establishing itself as a successful typographic studio that specialized in font localization and type consulting. Abeceda Dizajn studio was the official distributor and manufacturer for Bitstream Inc. for Croatia and Slovenia from 1995 until 1997, when it relocated to Canada. Today, Alphabet Design is again a Bitstream re-seller. In 2005, Bitstream published Kloi, Borhand Tabitha, Duckling, as well as JechoTecho1 (the latter face was made by Evzen Jecho). Alphabet Design is donating all its proceeds of January 2005 to tsunami aid. In 2005, cartoonist Branimir Zlamalik created Smiles (dingbats) and Ulixa (comic book family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. Creator of the free information design face Fabrica (2011, Practice Foundry). He wanted to make Fabrica into the most legible typeface for mobile screens. His Rytm face (2011, renamed Theatre I think) is an experiment: Rytm was built based on the height and width, letter spacing and kerning of Helvetica. Yes indeed, each Helvetica glyph was replaced by a correctly sized black rectangle. Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amy Bradley (b. 1984) lives in Sudbury, Ontario. At Devian Tart, she designed the scribbly handwriting font Jagged Thoughts (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrew Dick was born in 1983 in Victoria, B.C. Canada, and is a selftaught artist who currently lives in Fukui, Japan. He is inspired by DADA, surrealism, the Cobra movement and naive art. He uses colored crayons and pens, paint, black ink, stamps, collages etc for his simple shapes, lines and new interpretations of old masters. His oeuvre includes several interesting sets of cats and critters done in 2007. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he published the pay-what-you-want typeface Soap (2012, Practice Foundry). Quillon (2012) is a typeface with minimal glyphs that draws inspiration from simplistic sword design. Hands (2012) is based on his own handwriting, and has its roots in street art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian designer of a logiotype in 2011 called Mister Chino. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Vancouver and/or San Francisco. He created the free font Neighborhood Type (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Ontario, who created Arch Type (2011, a geometric avant-garde face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angst Free Fonts
| Chris Dunfield's free fonts from 1990-1992. Mac PS, MacTT and Win TT. Includes AngstBlackLetter, AngstChartz1, AngstCircus2, AngstDingbatsOne3, AngstForce4, AngstGonzo5, AngstKidz6, AngstKink7, AngstMagicMush11, AngstMindless10, AngstPimp12, AngstProgge13. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chris Dunfield's font links: 2000 links to over 150,000 fonts! Possibly one of the greatest font link sites on the web. Link died! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aon Celtic Art
| Beautiful freeware Celtic font family Aon Cari (1998, a modern pseudo-Gaelic uncial) by Cari Buziak. In all formats, Mac and PC, type 1 and TTF. Cari is based in Calgary, Canada. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Apostrophic Instances
| Upstart foundry with one font family for now, the geometrically inspired Toolego (all formats). Newer fonts: FightThis, Tralfamadore (fantastic font!), WitchesBrew-1999. Alternate site. Apostrophe (Fredrick Nader from Toronto) is also a major custom font maker in Canada. His latest creations are for the 2003 Toronto Blues Festival, Trombone and King Gothic [not for public distribution]. In 2003, Apostrophic Instances morphed into Apostrophic Labs. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Apostrophic Laboratory
| One of the most dynamic foundries from 2000 until 2003. The "Lab" was run by Apostrophe (Fredrick Nader) and was based in Toronto. 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:
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Josh is the Canadian designer (b. 1982) of grungy handwriting faces such as Sao Paulo (2007), walk the walk (2006), and ugly karen slut (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Asgard Studios (Ottawa, Canada) used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Runes Hand Painted. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ashok Aklujkar | Designer in 1994 of Avanti and Kashi, Hindi/Marathi/Sanskrit fonts for the Mac. Aklujkar worked then at the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He sold the fonts on a diskette, which also included the Roman fonts "Ganga" and "Sindhu" which can be used for transliteration of most literary languages of South Asia. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian art student, b. 1989. Designer of the constructivist fonts Truth and Real Truth (2009), both named after Pravda. Fonts2u link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive with two Star Wars truetype fonts, Wars and Aurabesh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian creator of FF KlunderScript (Roman, Bold, Kreatures) and FF Ottofont (Fontshop, 2001). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer of the modular typeface Beck (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Baybayin Fonts
| Paul Morrow's Baybayin fonts (for old Philippine languages) in truetype and type 1 forms: Tagalog Stylized (a modern composite of many samples from the past), Tagalog Doctrina 1593 (based on the type face used in one of the very first books printed in the Philippines, the Doctrina Christiana of 1593), Bisaya Hervas (based on a type face that appeared in 1787 in an Italian work by Lorenzo Hervás y Pandura, Saggio prattico delle lingue con prolegomeni e una raccolta di Orazioni Domincale in più di trecento lingue e dialetti), Bikol Mintz (modelled after the cover art on the 1985 New Day Publishers edition of the Bikol-English Dictionary by Malcolm Warren Mintz&José Del Rosario Britanico), and Baybayin Lopez (2002), based on the typeface that Francisco Lopez used in the Ilokano Doctrina Christiana (1621). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Government of BC, Canada, has an interesting 100-font non-shareware truetype archive. Includes Bitstream fonts such as ArrusBT, AuroraBT, and URW fonts such as BinnerD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BC Government dingbat fonts for environmental things: BCMELP Cor Symbols, BCMELP EPD Symbols, BCMELP Fisheries Symbols, BCMELP Trim Symbols, BCMELP Wildlife Symbols, BCMELP Water Symbols, Forestry Inventory Font 25. All in truetype. For related links, check the ARC/INFO Symbology at BC Environment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian creator of the monospaced negatively tilted futuristic face Lights Out Noir (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and artist in Toronto. Creator of the free display face Eldora (2006), which is inspired by the Vienna Secession Movement. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ben Tour
| Ben Tour (b. 1977) is a Canadian artist. Ben Tour (1, 2 and 3) are scanbat fonts created in 2009 by Dick Pape. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bhagwan Nebhraj Thadani | Winnipeg-based designer of a set of 23 Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Marathi and Sindhi-Devnagari truetype fonts (20 USD for the set). See also here. The Bhagwan has a Bachelor of Engineering degree (1952) from the University of Poona, India, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (1965) from Bombay University. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Edmonton in 1971. Calgary-based employee of Veer who holds a BCom degree from the University of Calgary. In 1991-1992, he designed these commercial fonts for Image Club Graphics: Digital (digital readout font), Pacifica (squarish all-caps display face). Monotype Imaging, which sells the font, does not even know who made it, so how can they be expected to pay royalties to the designer? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blue Jay Font Studio
| The Blue Jay Font Studio specializes in alphadings and dingbats. Its fonts include BJFAngels, BJFBallerina-BJFBallerina, BJFBeaconofLight, BJFChristmasWreath, BJFDingFonts, BJFDragons, BJFFingerprint, BJFHollyBells, BJFHunnybee, BJFKatnMouse, BJFMermaid, BJFMerman, BJFSnowbird, BJFThread, BJFXmasAngelsAH, BJFXmasPuppy, Smilin_John. Just that last font name tipped me off. I had a very friendly correspondent once from Toronto, John Hill, and he used that nickname. And the Blue Jays play in Toronto, so I will bet my shorts that the designer is in fact John Hill. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer of Seagull (at Ingrama, 1978; with Adrian Williams---now available at Bitstream), Springfield EF (1973), Elefont EF, and Roman Script EF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Bob Tennent | Canadian computer scientist who used to be at Queen's University in Kingston. In 2006, he published the TeX support files for URW's free family URW Classico (2006), which itself is a free clone of Zapf's Optima. In 2009, he created figbas package for TeX, which contains three Postscript Type 1 mini-fonts cmrj, cmssj, plrj (and associated map file and metric files) with just five "ligatures" for the combinations 2+, 4+, 5+, 6+, and 9+ used in figured-bass notation in baroque music. The fonts are intended for use with Computer Modern (cmr), Computer Modern Sans (cmss), and Palatino/Palladio (pplr), respectively. The PostScript names are FiguredBassComputerModern, FiguredBassComputerModernSans, and FiguredBassPalatino. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Three free Vietnamese truetype fonts from the Trichlor Group, called the VISCII fonts: U-Hoai 1.1 (by Cuong Bui), VI Chi Toan and VI Chi Toan Hoa (the latter two by Tuan-Loc Nguyen). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UHoai11 (by Cuong Bui, The TriChlor Group), and VIChiToan and VIChiToanH by Tuan-Loc Nguyen. Freeware Vietnamese TrueType fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cartoonist in Canada who created Smiles (2005, smiling faces) and Ulixa (2005, a comic book face) at Alphabet Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Tantalog (2006), an artificial language font based on Disney's Lilo&Stitch. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brett Alton from Peterborough, ON, is a graduate in computer science from Trent University. He created the Open Font Library handwriting font Brett Font (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian Maloney | Director of the Type Club of Toronto, and employed at Massey College, University of Toronto, Brian is one of the type personalities of Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer (with Dave Kellam, at Eightface) of Stay Clear, Niner and Pigment08, in 1998. Designer at Chankstore of Barrett Ironwork (2001) and MC Auto (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Alchemic Swan Song (2011). Briana is a student at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer, b. 1991. Creator of the free font BM Spaceboy (2009, handprinted outline font) and BM Sham Garde (2009). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Foundland-born type designer of the handprinted face Soupbone (+dingbats), who directed commercials at Tricky Pictures, Chicago. He returned to Canada in 2000 to form Global Mechanic with filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming. Home page. FontShop link. Klingspor link. FontFont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
By The Font (or: BTF)
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Caffeen Fonts (was: Chlorine)
| Canadian archive where you can download 19 fonts by Regina's Jesse Wilson: Chlorinez, Chlorix, Chlorinov, Chlorinut, Chlorinar, Chlorinap, Chloriin, Chloreal, Chlorinej, Chlorinuh, Chlorenuf, Chlod, Chlub, Hyper3, JesseScript, Morevil, Circle6, Caffeen, Star Five. Mac and Windows. Plus Math Donuts, Hawaiiah, Clawless, Alcohol Licks, Ostro 868, Megapixel, Fack, Courier Now, Disco2000, Jim Teacher, Edcom, Kitchener, Alterna. Some of his fonts are also available in sIFR format. Dafont link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Cajjmere's Playground
| Cajjmere Wray is the Toronto-based designer of Deeegruvy, Deeeluvly, and GoodbyeHorses, posted in May 2000 on abf. His (truetype) fonts consist of artsy handwritten and often curly letters. Fun to play with. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer Calum Smith (Gemini Design, Georgetown, Ontario), made the pixel face Pixette (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer (b. 1981) of the pixel faces Xposure (2008), Slashman (2009, FontStruct) and Vault (2008, FontStruct). He lives in Ontario. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Filmotype Giant (2011, a condensed sans) and its italic counterpart, Filmotype Escort (2011) were bth codesigned with Patrick Griffin. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontshop's page on Canadian type designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jim Lynch's font services in Toronto: signatures, new fonts, enhancements, customized products. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the squarish face Jet Set (2011), which is based in part on the font used in the Jet Set Radio game. He also made the pixel family Mecha (2012, FontStruct). Fontspace link. FontStruct link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Renowned Canadian type designer and designer (b. Welland, Ontario, 1912, d. 1968). His typefaces:
Author of Design with Type (1952, revised and expanded in 1967). John Berry discusses Dair's seven different kinds of contrast, size, weight, form, structure, texture, color and direction. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Toronto who made the experimental face Alienese (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer who used Fontifier to create a handwriting face, Cecilia (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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] ⦿ | |
Chank Store
| Born in Edmonton in 1969, Chank works out of the north-east corner of Minneapolis. Chank Diesel is a famous and prolific designer, type designer, busy-body and mentor. His creations include Spooooky (2011, a custom typeface design for the 2011 Target Halloween campaign), Professor Minty (2006-2010: spindly and gothic), HUGS (2005, comic book style), Porkshop (2011), Venis (2011), Yearling (2011), Amy Lynn Brown (2008, based upon the handwriting of the former Miss Kentucky), Ollivette and Ollivette Elite (2008, old typewriter face), Chrysler Electric (2007, fifties style connected script), Mars (2007, a custom family for Mars Inc), Quimby Gubernatorial (2007), Shrub (2007, grunge), the BlincType Letterpress Fontpak (2007: Sodom, Prospect Modern, Player Piano, Hamilton Offset, Goshen, Gomorrah, Golgotha, Gideon), King George (2003, ransom note), Ballers Delight (2007, free), Bell Martellus (2006, a Carolongian script family designed with Bill Moran of Blinc Publishing for the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota), Dry Cowboy (2006), Nomadic Egyptian (2005), Nomadic Sketchbook (2005, like Nomadic Egyptian, based on drawings by Kent Aldrich of the Nomadic Press), Newcastle (2005, blackletter face designed with Kevin Hayes), Player Piano (2005), Trucker (2005), Liquor 3D (2005), Chankbat Flowers (2005), Adrianna Extended (2005), Frisky Flakes (2005), Santa Script (2004), Chaloops (2004), Brubeck's Cube (2004), Carima (2002), Lambrettista (50s), Javatronic (retro font), Lemonade Speedster (more retro), Quimby Mayoral (2002), and others. All his creations (50 fonts) can be purchased in Dentalpak (299 USD). Individual fonts at his store for 30 to 100USD. He also has a bunch of free fonts such as Yellabelly (handwriting), Fridley, Airboy, SundayLuck, Shadowboxer, Portastat, Fridayluck, Twenty Six Snake Rumba, and Blinkers. Plus 11 handwriting fonts (Penpal font pack) for 99 USD (this package has in my view only one really nice font, the dingbats Mikrokoszmo). The GFY Handwriting Fontpak (2002-2005) is a collection of 21 fresh handwriting fonts in OpenType format for Macintosh or Windows. Contains the following fonts: GFY AuntSusan, GFY Brutus, GFY HeySteve, GFY JacksBluePrint, GFY Jeanna, GFY Josie, GFY Kersti, GFY Kimberly, GFY Loopy, GFY Marcie, GFY Mancini, GFY Michael, GFY Palmer, GFY Peggy, GFY Pollak, GFY Shue, GFY Ralston, GFY Sidney, GFY Sonya, GFY Thornesmith, and GFY Woodward. His DFY Handwriting Fontpak 2 (2008) contains GFY Artie, GFY Bobby, GFY Bobbys Kid, GFY Bracco, GFY Butcher, GFY Carmela, GFY Christopha, GFY Clarice, GFY Erin B, GFY Father Mike, GFY Finn, GFY Furio, GFY Georgio, GFY Janice, GFY Junior, GFY Madre, GFY Meadow, GFY Paulie, GFY Syl, GFY Tina, GFY Tony, GFY Uncle Junior, GFY Vito. He also distributes fonts by others such as: AYERS by Mike Cina, BOOCHIE by Jamie Nazaroff, CURBDOG by Matthew Desmond, DUESENBERG by Jamie Nazaroff, GRAPEFROOT by Jeff Johnson, INSTRUCTOR by Roger Lootine, JUTE by Mike Cina, LUNAR MOD by Matthew Desmond, NAILS by David Prout, NUCLEAR STANDARD by Jamie Nazaroff, OBSESSED by Jamie Nazaroff, POSTER by Mike Cina, PLATFORMS by Joe Kral, PROSPECT MODERN by Bill Moran&Jon Poor, SNOOCHIE by Khai Pham&Chank Diesel, ULTRAMAGNETIC by Mike Cina, ULTRAMAGNETIC-BIG-HVY by Mike Cina. Chank claims that Misterfrisky is his most popular design. Other goodies: Crusti Wacky (1996), Sister Frisky, Liquorstore, Liquorstore Jazz, Orbital, Shakopee, Snipple, Katwalk (2004). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Shareware barcode font set made in 1999 by Daniel Lajeunesse at Chaos Microsystems in Gloucester, Ontario: EAN-13, EAN-13B, EAN-13B-Half-Height, EAN-13-Half-Height, Interleaved-2of5, Interleaved-2of5-NT, UPC-A, UPC-A-Half-Height, UPC-E, UPC-E-Half-Height. The company may not longer exist: Daniel Lajeunesse now is Executive Vice-President&CTO, Storm Internet Services, CDS/Prometheus. The fonts are also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Fingerprint (experimental) typeface (2010) for an anti-war poster. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is a 2010 graduate in graphic design at the Ontario College of Art&Design, Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cherith Walsh (Cherith Brooke) is a graphic designer in London, Ontario. She made the fat finger face Pourquoi (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cherry J.S. Chao | Vancouver-based designer of Novel (2004, serif face). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Zurich Jaxboard font comes with Chessman. Free on Jack Woodbury's page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chinese chess font
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Victoria, BC-based photographer who created the handwriting font chris@iamfour.comtext (2004) with Fontifier. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the handprinted face Canadian Penguin (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Master of Design program (MDes) at NSCAD University, 2010, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was born and still lives. Typographer and enthusiastic supporter of open source projects. He says: I conduct experimental research designed to support or refute typographic conventions in accordance with objective measures of human performance and empirical data. Useful subpage on type literature. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chris Hunt's great handscribbled splatter font Collateral Damage (1998) is distributed by Chank, and was done with Andrea McKay. It was inspired by the gonzo art of Ralph Steadman. See also here. He is based in Yellowknife. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
AAmerican artist and type designer, who lives in British Columbia. He created the casual handprinted family Cody (2009, Delve Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sault Ste Marie, Canada-based designer of the tattoo font MyFont (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic artist and illustrator from Caledon, Ontario. He created the experimental typeface Gundam (2010), which is based on scrap plastic pieces that came from a gundam model. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian graphic and type designer who was born in Calgary and lives in Vancouver. He designed the didone face Outlier Italic (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Connor Fitzgerald (New York City) created the handprinted poster face Ginga Freestyle (2011) for a series of ads for Ginga, a soccer company based in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based typesetting company. Designers included A. Crawford and Allan R. Fleming. We cite: Cooper&Beatty, Limited was founded in 1921 by E. Cooper, L. Beatty and J.L. Pepper using the name Trade Composition Company. When Pepper left in 1926 the company was renamed to Cooper&Beatty. Until the Second World War it was essentially a trade typesetting company. In 1950 W.E. "Jack" Trevett acquired the company. Trevett shifted the focus to graphic design, for which Cooper&Beatty became known as one of the leading companies in the field. In 1986 the company was sold to Jannock Corporation and although greatly reduced in size today, continues to operate under the name of Cooper&Beatty Services Ltd. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Includes hundreds of fonts with their graphics packages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based brand identity company. Free fonts made by them can be downloaded here: Sable CR, Tesori CR. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Truetype archive. No list of fonts, just 4MB worth of rar files. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creating Comics
| Dave A. Law's links on comics fonts. The page includes a free Mac comic font by James Kochalka. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
CreeKeysLT
| At this site of the Cree Cultural Institute in Opemiska Meskino, Oujé-Bougoumou, QC, we find free Unicode and non-Unicode Cree fonts BJECreeBold, BJECree, BJCreeUNI, BJCreeUNI-Bold, all designed in 2000 by Bill Jancewicz, NDC Kawawachikamach Quebec, Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cultivated Mind
| Cindy Kinash is an apparel graphic designer from Canada. She started the Cultivated Mind foundry in 2012. She published the handprinted poster faces Gionni (2012), Dreamy Hand (2012), Taluhla (2012) and Hello I Like You (2012). Requiem (2012) is grungy. |
Curtis Patterson | Designer of Cranberriesfont (1999). Used to be at the University of Alberta. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cynscribe Calligraphy
| Calligraphy link site maintained by Cynthia Garinther in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dundas, Ontario-based designer (b. 1984) of Dain's Handwriting (2005). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Corporate identity person who also created some typefaces: Dahlquist Axe Titling Capitals, Dezynamotiv (art deco display face), Dockside, and this display face (2004). He runs Dahlquist Axe Studio in Victoria, BC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johnson explains: Jura is a family of sans-serif fonts in the Eurostile vein. It was originally inspired by some work I was doing for the FreeFont project in designing a Kayah Li range for FreeMono. (Kayah Li is a language used by a minority people group in Burma. Because the Burmese government suppresses the teaching of minority scripts, the Kayah Li script is taught only in schools in refugee camps in Thailand.) I wanted to create a Roman alphabet using the same kinds of strokes and curves as the Kayah Li glyphs, and thus Jura was born. Triod Postnaja (2010) attempts to mimic the typefaces used to publish Old Church Slavonic service books prior to the 20th century. It also provides a range of Latin letters in the same style. Dafont link. Kernest link. Fontsquirrel link. He contributed to the GNU Freefont project. In particular, he created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono. And never to be outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya. His GNU Freefont ranges:
Klingspor link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian artist who studied at Ryerson University in Toronto. Designer of Kirkita (2005; coauthored with Kirk Dyer, it is also here), Skratchy the Spook (2004), Skratchy v1 (2006, with Jacob Kobold) and Skratchy v2 (2004; also with Jacob Kobold). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the art deco multiline face Beacon Hill (2009, FontStruct). The font is called "Beacon Hill" because it's inspired by the totem pole carvings at Beacon Hill park in Victoria, BC, Canada. If you turn the word on its side, it looks reminiscent of a totem pole. Dave Aquino is located in Vancouver. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dave Feiner | Ottawa-based student who made Chester (2006), a grunged up version of Eurostile. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian co-designer of Raleigh (Ingrama, 1977) with Robert Norton, Carl Dair, Adrian Williams. Sold by Bitstream. Associated with Toronto's Typsettra, which in 1977 began the design of original typefaces for Berthold, Letraset and ITC. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type and culture blog by Vancouver-based designer David Arias. He created Isometrica (2008, a 3d pixel block face) and Toko (2009). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Canadian type designer Cabianca holds masters degrees from The University of Reading, Cranbrook Academy of Art (2001) and Princeton University. Creator of the Scala Sans-like face Quotidian Sans (2002) and of Stupidity (2001). As a graduate student at Reading, he designed Cardea (2003), which will be released by Emigre in 2007. David Cabianca teaches graphic design at York University in Toronto, Canada. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontario-nbased graphic and web designer. Behance lnk. | |
Font Shop font outlet man in Toronto. Used to be at 401 Wellington St W, Toronto, Ont M5V 1E8 Canada, and is very knowledgeable about fonts in general---Toronto is very lucky! He runs Swipe Books there. He will do custom font design work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
West-Vancouver based digital artist, b. 1987. Creator of Dotty Fun (2007), a dot matrix font (PDF only). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based creator in 2009 of LSD Blackletter, a dot matrix blackletter face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dean Stanton | Calgary-based designer in 1995 of the handprinted font Litterbox ICG, the irregular handprinted font Stanton (1995) and Smile (1995). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A free XWindows kanji font, and a free PostScript kana font. Plus some Japanese language links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deniart Systems
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List of font packages: Aglab, Alchemy Symbols, American Sign Alphabet, Ancient Writings Vol. 1, Ancient Writings Vol. 2, Angelica, The Astrologer Bundle, Astrologer, Aztec Day Signs, Black Magick, Braille Alphabet, Castles&Shields, Celestial Writing, Celtic Astrologer, Certar, Chinese Zodiac, Coptic Alphabet, Daggers Alphabet, Dendera, Dinosauria, Dragons, Egyptian Deities, Enochian Writing, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 1, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 2, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 3, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 4, Futhark, Greco, Hebrew Basic, Hypnotica, Magi Writing, Magick&Mystic, Malachim Writing, Masonic Writing, Maya Day Names, Maya Month Glyphs, Meso Americano, Meso Deko, Morse Code, Old Persian Cuneiform, Passing the River, Phaistos, Pike's Alphabets, Powers of Marduk, RongoRongo, Sanskrit Writing, Semaphore Code, Signals&Signs, Skeleton Alphabet, Sublimina, Tengwanda Gothic, Tengwanda Namarie, Theban Alphabet, The Egyptologist, Tolkien Scripts, WhiteMagick, Skeleton Alphabet, Hebrew Basic, Sanskrit Writing. Note: I cannot find an entry for Jan Koehler at MyFonts, where all Deniart fonts are said to have been made by Denise Koehler. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Canadian designer of the techno face Jeed (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital Graphic Labs
| Brenden C. Roemich's Winnipeg-based foundry. They sold fonts at 10 to 20 USD a shot, but made them free starting in 2003, when they quit the font foundry business. The entire collection, mostly dated 1998: ALSScript, Aberration, AngleterreBook, Aramis, AramisItalic, ChanceryCursive, Dichotomy, Eddie, EnterSansmanBold (heavy serious sans), EnterSansmanBoldItalic, FLWScript, Fanzine (ransom note face), GlassHouses, Gunmetal, ILSScript, Incite, KellsUncialBold, KellsUncialBold, LDSScriptItalic, MICREncoding, Misbehavin', NinePin, NobilityCasual, Overmuch (fat rounded), PinchDrunk, Protestant, PunchDrunk, RamseyFoundationalBold, RocketPropelled, SNCScriptItalic, ShagadelicBold (psychedelic), Spirit, StaticAgeFineTuning, StaticAgeHorizontalHold (textured like a bad TV signal), Symbolix, TempsNouveau, TitleWave, TypeWrong-Smudged-Bold, VinylTile, VulgarDisplay, Whimzee, WhizKid, alsscripttrial, bitwise (LED face), holyunion, overmuchtrial. Direct download. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Two custom designs for newspapers, Ink Bodoni and Ink Nulek, can be purchased here for 35 and 22 dollars respectively. Digital-Ink is located in Toronto. Makers of the InkFontDingbats font, 1996. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Diogene's monospace list | As posted on abf by Diogene:
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Founding partner and creative director of Toronto-based Concrete Design Communications Inc. She has lectured at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the design department of York University. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Candle 3D (2011) and Medley Script (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Web designer in Halifax who writes about fontography and type history. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Toronto, Don Black deals in metal type, printing equipment, matrices, used type, and so forth. Alternate URL. His pages have many metal specimen, especially from Ludlow and Monotype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer in Toronto. In 2009, she created the experimental geometric typeface Kolo (This typeface design was inspired by tin can pull tabs. Thank you chicken of the sea.), the cool Newmar (Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines.), and the curly display face Gallnut (gallnut---a round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree.). Home page. About Newmar, she writes: Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines. In 2012, Dorothy published the fun alchemic family Gelato (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Toronto, whose work includes a beautiful Romeo and Juliet typographic poster (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of a mathematical symbol metafont called dbnsymb. Bar-Natan is Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, and has included a Canadian flag symbol as well. He also has a free script that one can use to make xfig drawings into a metafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"D-Type Font Engine consists of an ultra-fast grayscale rasterizer capable of generating beautiful antialiased type on screen or any other raster device." It works with TrueType, type 1, OpenType and type 3 fonts. For Windows, Mac and Unix. A demo (DType V3.2) is available. Located in Toronto, Ontario. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eccentrica
| Toronto-based graphic designer (b. 1984) and student at York University. Creator of Chiquita Banana (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ed Cleary | Coauthor with Jürgen Siebert and Erik Spiekermann of The FontBook, published by FontShop International in 1998, with additions and updates in the following years. Robert Stacey situates Cleary in the history of Canadian design [because Cleary lived and died in Toronto], when he talks about the 1980s: Typographic design integrity continues to be defended, meanwhile, against trendiness and clutter by such private-press and fine-printing luminaries as Coach House Printing's Stan Bevington, Hemlock Press's David Clausen, Giampa Textware Corp.'s Gerald Giampa, Imprimerie Dromadaire's Glenn Goluska, Dreadnaught Design's Robert MacDonald, Canadian Art's John Ormsby, Aliquando Press's Will Rueter, and the late Ed Cleary, of the venerable Cooper&Beatty Typographers and the more recent Font Shop. As their work serves to remind us, the "democratization" of type and print through desktop publishing software and hardware, and the attendant access of thousands of typefaces, increases rather than decreases the need for taste, discernment and restraint to be brought to bear on the management of textual and visual materials. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eightface (was Dave Kellam.com)
| Eightface had free truetype fonts by Dave Kellam who was a student at Queen's University. He currently lives in England. David's fonts were mostly made in 1998: Cof, Plastic Tomato (thick round letters), dawgbox (grunge), Stay Clear (sloppy paint-- nice !), Pigment 08 (artsy), Dimestore Hooker (great eroded font), Niner, After Shok, and Eau de Toilet. Plus Discount Inferno (double vision font), Millionair, Nineteen 77, Adlock, Grade, Issac. Dave Kellam was born in Brockville, Ontario in 1981. He joined Fontmonster, where he (re)published Stay Clear, Adlock, DawgBox, DimestoreHooker, DiscountInferno, and PlasticTomato. Direct download [now dead]. His type blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eiko Emori | Designer of the Inuktitut fonts Emi Inuktitut Regular and Medium (1995). They can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eli Horn (b. 1986) lives in Vancouver, Canada. Tommaso (2011, Lost Type) is an angular condensed caps face. Behance link. Aka Fivethousand Fingers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian illustrator. Dafont link. Creator of the grungy calligraphic typeface Anatomy (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Foundlander who created the outlined handprinted Scootch over sans (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editor of The Scope, an alternative magazine in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Fontspace link. Creator of Full Dece Sans (2011, comic book style), Scootch over Sans (2011), Middle Cove Beach Rocks (2011, a stone emalation face) and Half Cut Gothic (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Ally Ally Wooga (2010), a grungy handprinted face. Is this the Emma I know in Toronto? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial foundry associated with Canada Type, selling most of its fonts under the SE label ("Scrapper's Edition"). Owner and designer: Julie Mead. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sylvie Peladeau's company in Ottawa creates custom fonts, primarily logo, handwriting and signature fonts for corporations to integrate with mail merge campaigns, office automation, fax software, and web pages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
EVCCo
| EVCCo is the foundry of Canadian type designer E Victor-C. He created West Warp (2010), Evcial (2000, monoline geometric avant garde sans) and Chapeau (2010, experimental). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Eyewire Studios | Formerly Image Club Graphics. Was Adobe Studios until late 1998. Calgary-based foundry and font vendor. Free fonts Pacifica Condensed and Mini Pics Digidings. In February 2003, Eyewire was acquired by Agfa/Monotype: big fish eats small fish. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fairytaled
| Canadian who designed free handwriting fonts such as Fairytaled Handwriting (2008), Karma (2008) and Scratch (2008). The artist is Ellen X. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Faith
| Faith is a Torontonian outfit headed by designer and type designer Paul Sych. Fonts at FontShop and Thirstype. FontFont designer of Dig, Dog and Hip. Thirstype fonts: Wit (1995), USeh (1994), Fix, Toy. FUSE 6 font: Box (1992, FontShop, pixel style). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fatfonts
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Numerals in vector fonts developed by the team have a thickness that is proportional to their value. Numerals can also be nested. The (free) fonts were converted to opentype by Richard Wheeler (a PhD student at The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology of Oxford). Uta Hinrichs designed Gracilia, Cubica, and Rotunda. She codesigned Miguta with Miguel Nacenta. Finally, Richard Wheeler himself created the LED face 7Segments. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
3d Animator in Toronto, b. 1990. He created the art deco / logo face Chaos Math (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toronto. She created the Knotty typeface in 2009./ [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian creator of the free grunge font Dirty Joe (2008) and the free handprinted outline face Outlined (2011) and the handprinted Dear Diary (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Neat explanations on font embedding in web pages by Microsoft. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Explorer 1.5 beta
| Font Explorer is a freeware 32-bit font manager for Windows 95/98/NT. Version 1.5 is a complete rewrite, with a completely new interface. By UBC's Arash Ramin. His outfit is called Digitalroom.net. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
fontage canada
| Joanna Briggs' nice original fonts such as Leger Light (1998), and the handwriting font Menrath Antiqua (1998). Commercial fonts: Cancon (Canadian flag in the a and o!), Medwin Sans and Regular, Acoustic, Krovelblad, Accacciatura, Airport Carpet. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
fontasm | From Vancouver, G. Gibson and Associates' program for converting Truetype and Postscript Level one fonts into AutoCAD fonts. 95USD. For Windows. Sold here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonteam International
| Marin Darmonkow is the designer at Fonteam International of Refugee (2002), K-Taj (2002), Jaxon (2002), Inahurry (2002), Fontone (2002). He used to be located in St. Johns, New Foundland. Alternate URL. List of fonts at the site: Aga, Bordy, Clichet (stencil), Darmonkow, Dotmap, Fontone, GiaMagdalena, Grozen, Inahurry, Jaxon, Kitaj, Liveon, Moden A, Newold, Orthodox, Orthodox 2 (cyrillic simulation faces), Ossie 02, Pechat, Refugee, Repenton (gothic), Squaremap (pixel face), Sunny Samuel, Tutiin, Valerie ZD, Vetren Sans (elegant high contrast sans family), Vlast. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts For Flash
| Toronto-based "Fonts For Flash" (est. April 2002, run by Walter Apai) offers low cost pixel fonts and allows type designers to sell their fonts through the site. All fonts are made specifically for use in Macromedia Flash. Free crippled demos: FFF Freedom, FFF Reaction, FFF Compact, FFF Agent, FFF Extras. MyFonts site. See also here. In 2003, Fonts For Flash and TRUTH in Design developed the notion of Superpixel fonts, which are pixel fonts with quarter pixels added to certain blank pixels so that the results show well in Flash. An example is Halogen (2003). Dafont has some free fonts, and mentions the name Randy Caldwell. The list of fonts: Abstract, FFFAccess, FFFAccessExtended, FFFAgentCondensed, FFFAgentTrial, FFFAlaska, FFFAlaskaCondensed, FFFAlaskaCondensed, FFFAlaskaCondensed, FFFAntigua, FFFAntiguaBold, FFFAntiguaBoldExtended, FFFAntiguaExtended, FFFAquarius, FFFAquariusBold, FFFAquariusBoldCondensed, FFFAquariusCondensed, FFFAtlantis, FFFAtlantis, FFFAtlantis, FFFAtlantisBold, FFFAtlantisBoldCondensed, FFFAtlantisCondensed, FFFAtlantisTrial, FFFAtlantisTrial, FFFAvantiBoldCondensed, FFFBusiness, FFFBusinessBold, FFFBusinessBoldExtended, FFFBusinessExtended, FFFBytecode, FFFBytecodeExtended, FFFCalypso, FFFCalypsoExtended, FFFCompact, FFFCorporate, FFFCorporateBold, FFFCorporateBoldExtended, FFFCorporateExtended, FFFCorporateRounded, FFFCorporateRoundedBold, FFFCorporateRoundedBoldExtended, FFFCorporateRoundedExtended, FFFCosmos, FFFCosmosCondensed, FFFDaylight, FFFDaylightBold, FFFDaylightBoldExtended, FFFDaylightExtended, FFFDirect, FFFDirectCondensed, FFFDiscotheque, FFFDreamer, FFFDreamerBold, FFFDreamerBoldExtended, FFFDreamerExtended, FFFEnchanted, FFFEnterprise, FFFEnterpriseBold, FFFEnterpriseBoldExtended, FFFEnterpriseExtended, FFFEstudioExtended, FFFExecutive, FFFExecutiveBold, FFFExecutiveBoldExtended, FFFExecutiveExtended, FFFExecutiveTrial, FFFExpresso, FFFExpressoBold, FFFExpressoBoldExtended, FFFExpressoExtended, FFFExtras, FFFExtras2, FFFFamily, FFFFamilyExtended, FFFForward, FFFFreedom, FFFFreedomTrial, FFFFuego, FFFFuegoBold, FFFFuegoBoldExtended, FFFFuegoExtended, FFFGalaxy, FFFGalaxy, FFFGalaxyBold, FFFGalaxyBoldExtended, FFFGalaxyExtended, FFFGalaxyExtended, FFFGalaxyExtraBold, FFFGalaxyExtraBoldExtended, FFFGames, FFFGamesBold, FFFGamesBoldExtended, FFFGamesExtended, FFFGamesThin, FFFGamesThinBold, FFFGamesThinBoldExtended, FFFGamesThinExtended, FFFGardencity, FFFGardencityBold, FFFGardencityBoldExtended, FFFGardencityExtended, FFFGlorious, FFFGloriousBold, FFFGloriousBoldExtended, FFFGloriousExtended, FFFHarmony, FFFHarmony, FFFHarmony, FFFIdea, FFFIdeaCondensed, FFFIntelligent, FFFIntelligentCondensed, FFFIntelligentThin, FFFIntelligentThinCondensed, FFFInterface01, FFFInterface01b, FFFInterface02, FFFInterface02b, FFFInterface03, FFFInterface03b, FFFInterface04, FFFInterface04b, FFFInterface05, FFFInterface05b, FFFInterface06, FFFInterface06b, FFFInterface07, FFFInterface07b, FFFInterface08, FFFInterface08b, FFFLighthouse, FFFLighthouseExtended, FFFMagazine, FFFMagazineBold, FFFMagazineBoldExtended, FFFMagazineExtended, FFFMajestica, FFFMajesticaBold, FFFMajesticaBoldExtended, FFFMajesticaExtended, FFFManagerBold, FFFMetropolis, FFFMetropolisExtended, FFFMinitower, FFFMinitowerBold, FFFMinitowerBoldExtended, FFFMinitowerExtended, FFFMinute, FFFMinuteBold, FFFMinuteBoldExtended, FFFMinuteExtended, FFFModulas, FFFModulasBold, FFFModulasBoldExtended, FFFModulasExtended, FFFMono01, FFFMono01BoldExtended, FFFMono01Extended, FFFNadador, FFFNadadorBold, FFFNadadorBoldCondensed, FFFNadadorBoldTight, FFFNadadorCondensed, FFFNadadorTight, FFFNeostandard, FFFNeostandardBold, FFFNeostandardBoldExtended, FFFNeostandardExtended, FFFNeostandardTrial, FFFPhantom01, FFFPhantom01, FFFPhantom02, FFFPlaneta, FFFPlanetaBold, FFFPlanetaBoldExtended, FFFPlanetaExtended, FFFProfessional, FFFProfessional, FFFProfessional, FFFProfessionalBold, FFFProfessionalBold, FFFProfessionalBoldExtended, FFFProfessionalBoldExtended, FFFProfessionalExtended, FFFProtege, FFFProtegeBold, FFFProtegeBoldExtended, FFFProtegeExtended, FFFReaction, FFFReactionBold, FFFReactionBoldCondensed, FFFReactionBoldExtended, FFFReactionCondensed, FFFReactionCondensed, FFFReactionCondensed, FFFReactionExtended, FFFReactionTrial, FFFRegates, FFFRegatesBold, FFFRegatesBoldCondensed, FFFRegatesCondensed, FFFRegency, FFFRegencyBold, FFFRegencyBoldExtended, FFFRegencyExtended, FFFResolution, FFFResolutionCondensed, FFFSailor, FFFSailor, FFFSilver, FFFSilverExtended, FFFSimplicity, FFFSimplicityExtended, FFFSpacedust, FFFStar, FFFStar, FFFStar, FFFStarBold, FFFStarBoldCondensed, FFFStarCondensed, FFFStrawberry, FFFTimeline01, FFFTimeline02, FFFTraditional, FFFTraditionalExtended, FFFUrban, FFFUrbanBold, FFFUrbanBoldExtended, FFFUrbanExtended, FFFViewpoint, FFFViewpointBold, FFFViewpointBoldExtended, FFFViewpointExtended, FFFZerofactor, FFFZerofactorBold, FFFZerofactorBoldExtended, FFFZerofactorExtended, Lemoine, LemoineExtended, Orgill, OutlinePixel, OutlinePixelExtended, Pixpat10, Pixpat20, RaxelGreek, RaxelGreekBoldBold. Showcase of the typefaces made by Fonts For Flash. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Gif files of characters for use in web pages: 5 dollars per font. By Jim Norman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
X-server format font archive (PCF, BDF formats) with these fonts: artsie (by Chris MacGowan, pinhead (also by Chris), caps, bigcaps, smallcaps, vga (by Larry Varney), Outcast, Shine, Bright and Zaber (the last four fonts by "The Bishop"). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Martin Hosken's free Perl module for TrueType font hacking. Supports reading, processing and writing of the following tables: LTSH, OS/2, PCLT, cmap, cvt, fpgm, glyf, hdmx, head, hhea, hmtx, kern, loca, maxp, name, post, prep, vhea, vmtx and the reading and writing of all other table types. In short, you can do almost anything with a standard TrueType font with this module. Alternate site. Another site. Now also support for the OpenType tables: GSUB, GDEF and GPOS and also a bunch of AAT tables. The module now also supports XML output and a buggy XML input. Man pages. On-line manual. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the didone face Frisco (2002, with Alejandro Paul) at Typeworx in Toronto, a company which he co-founded. He is also the well-known type designer "Apostrophe" at Apostrophic Lab in Toronto, where he created hundreds of full font families. He was the main industrial custom type designer in Toronto. Interview: Who is Apostrophe?. MyFonts admits that Nader's current whereabouts are unknown. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Vancouverite who designed the wedding invitation font Vivaldi (1965, Letraset). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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. nHis typefaces:
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Designer of Manuscript Caps (2011, uncial or Celtic caps). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
G. Kevin Connolly's thesis at the University of Calgary on legibility: Legibility and Readability of Small Print: Effects of Font, Observer Age and Spatial Vision (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
GautFonts
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Interview. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
George Mok's free signature font service | George Mok (P.O. Box 1918, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 2P3) will make a free TrueType signature font. Just send him your signature or picture on a sample sheet. Full functional fonts for 30 dollars. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Written by David Huggins-Daines, gglyph is a GNU-license open code previewer and installer for Type 1 fonts for X-Windows/Linux. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Globe and Mail
| Canada's main newspaper, The Globe and Mail, was redesigned on April 23, 2007. It features a new font family, consisting of Globe and Mail Sans, Globe and Mail News, and Globe and Mail Text subfamilies, all designed by Nick Shinn. Thanks to the new type, the width of the paper was decreased to 12 inches, matching the Wall Street Journal. The redesign is good, with strong sectioning by well-designed separators. Sample. See also the piece by News Designer. The Globe and Mail News font replaces the old serif headline font, and introduces a semi-serif with the ascenders of the b, d and l slightly bent near the top. Its "l" has a tail for readability I suppose. Personally, I would have stuck with a solid serif headline face---classy and timeless. Chapter two, October 1, 2010--another redesign, this time catastrophic by any standard. Text content is reduced, pictures are bigger and flashier (and all in color), sports scores, sudoku puzzles, and just about any piece of information is smaller (to the point that sudokus, for example, are almost impossible to do with no scratch space left), and large one-page ads without information are taking over. Nick Shinn's Globe Sans is not bad, but the Globe promises a reduction in its use of serif faces for text, and that is another major blunder. This is very sad, indeed, because just about all other newspapers in the country, some French ones excepted, are in the hands of a right-wing group and provide predictable biased content. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Government of Nunavut's web site has these free Inuktitut fonts: EmiInuktitutMedMedium, EmiInuktitutRegular, Naamajut (2000), Nunacom, NunacomU, Pigiarniq-Bold, PigiarniqHeavy, Pigiarniq-Italic, PigiarniqLight, Pigiarniq, ProSyl, ProSylBold, TunngavikBold, Tunngavik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calgary-based designer (aka splorp) who created typefaces at Image Club Graphics, Adobe Studios, EyeWire, and Getty Images, while maintaining the storefronts of some of these places. He designed East Bloc Open (a Cyrillic simulation font), Mini Pics Classic (Image Club), Mini Pics Snowflakes (1997, ICG), Narrowband Prime, Schmutz Cleaned (ICG, 1996), Badloc (plus Bevel, Compression), Boca Raton (and Solid), Carver, Broadband, East Bloc Closed, Mini Pics ASL Alphabet, Mini Pics International, New Geneva Nine (and Nine Point), Schmutz Clogged, Schmutz Corroded, and Mini Pics Directional (AA, DA, RA, RT, SA, ST). He was also a type marketer at ICG, Adobe Studios, EyeWire, Getty Images, and most recently, Veer. He is a founding member of Veer. Alternate URL. Splorp.com is his blog. He describes hiw own life path as follows:
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Canadian graphic communications and graphic arts magazine founded in 1991. Its publisher is Dan Brill. The magazine's type designer is Nick Shinn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Glenn Wooden and Harry Hahne explain about Greek and Hebrew under MS Windows. Their recommendation in 2000: Both WinGreek and Silver Fonts are good choices for Greek, but Silver Fonts offers higher quality output and greater ease of editing. These two sets also provide economical Hebrew fonts, although editing is easier with Silver Fonts. BibleScript provides a more polished Hebrew text with cantillations, easy Roman transliteration of Hebrew and Greek, and a wide range of Hebrew typefaces. The public domain fonts from Scholars Press are a good choice for displaying biblical and classical texts which use the TLG and Michigan-Claremont text encoding schemes or for those on a limited budget. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer of Mercer (1994, developed for Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto), A Font Called Frank (1994, with Bruce Mau; developed for Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall), Franky Greg (1993, developed for Pleasure Dome Film Collective), Jusslur (1993, with Bruce Mau; developed for Rem Koolhaas/OMAs Jussieu Library), Blackdome (1992, developed for Pleasure Dome Film Collective). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Gregs Hand (2010) and Bradley Hand (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From the Government of Canada: "The suite of GSC ArcInfo Symbolsets consists of line, marker (point), shade (area) and text symbols appearing on geological maps produced by the Cartographics Services Section since 1995." The following truetype fonts are included: GSC1, GSC10, GSC2, GSC3, GSC4, GSC5, GSC6, GSC7, GSC8, GSC9, Inuktitut-Sri-Regular, Nunacom, OldSyl. The last two fonts are Inultitut fonts by Krista Thompson, Nortext Multimedia (1997-1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian graphic and web designer who now lives in Toronto. Used to be based in Campinas, Brazil, where he was a professor of graphic design at the Catholic University of Campinas. In 2008, he created Greenland2008, Greenland2025, Greenland2050, Greenland2100, Greenland-2100-Extra-Light, fonts done in the context of his web site Type For Change. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Haig Der Ohanian | Torontonian who sells two Armenian fonts at 15 USD a piece. Also, four Arabic fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Halq'emiylem Font Downloads
| Four free truetype fonts for Halq'emiylem, a Salishan language spoken by First Nations people living in the Fraser Valley (Canada). Designed by Brian Thom. HalqemeylemSans is based on Martin Majoor's ScalaSans, and HalqemeylemSerif on his Scala. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Photographer and graphic designer in Toronto. Behance link. She designed Teckno (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quebec-based designers of the free Berber and Touareg faces HapaxBerbre, HapaxMusique, HapaxTouareg, HapaxTouaregDàG (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer Heather Kidd (Stuck in suburbia) created three pixel faces in 2011: Streeeeetch, Pocket Pixel, Rounded Pixel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Henry Rogers (Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto), creator of the phonetic symbol font IPAPhon. Free downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illuminated alphabet by Hersh Jacob (2000) from Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario. The letters are in GIF format. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Alberta, who created the script face OwlskiMHenry (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Instructions for Fontographer by Steven Hall. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based logo specialist. He designed BellSlim for Bell Canada's 2008 web site and identity. It seems that he also did some logo lettering for Belgian beerbrewers such as Leffe and Hoegaarden. In any case, he does exclusively custom type design---no retail. Discussion of his work by Villatype. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Icestar Software (or: IS Software) | Icestar Software or IS Software are the Canadian designers of Child Handwriting (2003) and IPA Font (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
OCAD Candidate Bachelor of Design 2011 in Toronto. She created several handprinted typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Image Club Graphics
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Greg writes: In 1994 I sold Image Club to Adobe Systems of Mountain View, California. At that time, Image Club was distributing over 10 million software catalogs to it's customers world wide. With sales topping $20 million in 1996, Image Club is very well known in the industry as a successful direct marker and software developer. [...] The company still operates in Calgary, but has been purchased back from Adobe by the manager who I had hired years ago who changed the name to Eyewire. In 1998, Eyewire was sold to Getty Corporation for a whopping $30 million. The ICG site said at one point that Image Club no longer exists. As a company, it ceased to be sometime between our purchase by Aldus in 1994 and our rebranding as Adobe Studios in 1998. Until recently, the Image Club Typeface Library and Image Club clip art products were available at EyeWire. Eyewire then became Veer. The ICG library can now be bought at MyFonts. List of available ICG fonts. Martin Kotulla states that ICG copied fonts in an aggressive manner, and finds it ironic that this pirate was bought by Adobe. View the Image Club Graphics typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The Master's thesis of Frances Sendbuehler written in 1995 at the Université de Montréal, Département d'études anglaises. There are some interesting typographical comments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Inception 8
| Darren M. Boudreau (Inception 8) is the Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based designer of Resident Evil Movie (2003), a tweaked TimesNewRoman. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nova Scotia-based company which makes a free font available: Nova Scotia Highway Numbers v2 (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Inuktitut Font
| Krista Thompson (Nortext Multimedia) designed the Inuktitut font Nunacom (1998). She also designed OldSyl, a free truetype font for PC and Mac (Western, i.e., Canadian style, not Greenland style). Alternate URL. One more URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
At the government of Nunavut's site, about ten free Inuktitut truetype fonts: Naulak (Saali Peter, 1996), NaulakBold (Saali Peter, 1996), Nunacom (Krista Thompson, Nortext Multimedia, 1998), ProSyl (Saali Peter, 1996), ProSylBold (Saali Peter, 1996), QalluSylNormal (Datarctic Information Systems, Iqaluit, NWT, 1992), TunngavikBold (Nunanet Worldwide, 1997), Tunngavik (Nunanet Worldwide, 1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
INVDR
| Freelance designer currently studying in the York/Sheridan Bachelor of Design program in Toronto, Ontario. Check out his Font Bots: robots made from letters taken from famous fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian artist who designed Bonified (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2010, he set up his own foundry. At it, he published the soft monoline sans face Soft2911 (2011). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Edmonton, Alberta-based created of the blackboard bold font Mapping Archer (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Crux (a gothic bitmap font), Keytype, Frankental (LED simulation), Padsans (dot matrix), Padtype (dot matrix), Multitool (a dingbat font with firemen's tools), Hexagonipus (a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires), Code. Cofounder of Home Clothing in Switzerland and Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian illustrator who teaches at OCAD University (Ontario College of Art and Design) in Toronto. Nice handlettering in some of her work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian creator (b. 1994) of Smudge (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A British immigrant in Canada (1801-1846) who developed the syllabic writing systems for Ojibwa, and then Cree (with initials, syllables and finals making up the alphabet). In 1840, he started the Rossville Mission Press and had to use rather primitive methods of printing. An excerpt from Roderick Cave's The Private Press (1983, R.R. Bowker Co., New York): A Wesleyan Methodist missionary, the Rev. James Evans, had been at work among the Ojibway Indians in Canada since 1822 and had published a Speller and Interpreter in English and Ojibway in New York. Evans, however, like many missionaries, found the roman alphabet less than ideal to represent the sounds of speech in native tongues and eventually (by 1840) perfected a system of 36 syllables he believed would meet all the needs of the Canadian Indian languages. Evans reported that those in his mission at Norway House could read and write it with ease and fluency. At first he copied out his syllabics by hand on pieces of birchbark. These proved so popular that he realized he must resort to printing. But there was a difficulty, quite apart from the lack of type for his syllabary: the Hudsons Bay Company, which controlled all transport, was not in favor of making the Indians literate and refused to bring in a press. Being a man of much determination, Evans built his own primitive press on the model of the fur presses used at the trading posts. He also overcame the problem of providing type, for which he used musket balls and the linings of tea chests melted down. With some coarse paper and with ink contrived of soot and oil, in 1841 Evans printed 100 copies of a 16-page booklet containing the syllabary and some Bible texts and hymns translated into Cree. This effort was enough to overcome the skepticism of the church authorities about the value of his syllabary. They had a regular font of the type cut in England, and the Hudsons Bay Company withdrew its opposition. With the new type and a small handpress shipped in via Hudsons Bay, Evans and his successors at the mission continued work under rather easier circumstances. Image of his syllabery. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Vancouver. His typefaces include the 3D block face Le Cube (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Prior from Toronto drew Beggars Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Redekop is a University of Waterloo-based designer of some free math fonts: MVDecorations, MVMathA, MVMathB, MVMathC, MVRoman (this is Times New Roman), MVSansSerif (Verdana, really), MVTypewriter (Courier New in fact). Made in 2003, some of these fonts have references to HK Software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian, b. 1991. He created the pixel face 0v3rcl0ck3d (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer of Brownhand (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jason Miles Vanderhill | Canadian designer of three shareware fonts in the Top Speed series (50s diner font, 1997), and of Brand-X. They are also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jason Munger (Nova Scotia, Canada) created the Wallruss font family (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jay is a Canadian designer (b. 1992) who created JAY (2007) and Jack (2009), handprinted fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jay Rutherford (b. Sarnia, Canada, 1950) studied graphic design in Kingston and Halifax. He opened his own design studio in the early 1980s in Nova Scotia and taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. In 1992, he worked at Meta Design in Berlin on FF Meta and FF Transit. In 1993, he became Professor of Visual Communications at the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany until 2003. In 2004, he taught at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, but returned to Weimar after that. He designed an OEM for his university called Unisyn, which is based on Syntax (with changes to the a, e and g in the italic versions, and a few other minor modifications). His projects include DDIA (Digital Design Image Archive: DDIA is putting high-quality, keyword-searchable images on a secure website for teachers and researchers in design), about which he spoke at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon (PDF of Jay's presentation). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His typographic posters are quite original, and pack lots of humour. See, e.g., Brixx Bar and Grill (2011) and Four-Fingered Fisherman (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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 book¹s 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. 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). ContentDM collection. Jim Rimmer at the Fine Press Book Association. View all typefaces by Jim Rimmer. An alphabetical listing of Jim Rimmer's typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
JMA Marketing Group
| Foundry located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It is run by Sandy Cerovich (b. 1954, Ontario). The blurb there: Sandy Cerovich entered the world of graphic design in the mid 1980s. His first type designs were for the Atari ST computer platform and were published by the now defunct Safari Fonts. He worked closely with several font designers converting their creations between various formats. With the demise of the Atari ST computer line, he left font design behind, concentrating on designing and producing print media and web sites. His first release in over 15 years, JoAnne Display began life as an assortment of characters for use in a print ad in 1992. JoAnne Display has been tweaked and reworked, on and off, for 16 years.. JoAnne Display (2008) is an elegant open titling face. Alexandar (2008) is an austere almost-slab serif family. Dasieve (2008) is a simple 8-style sans family with huge counters. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Joan Sarah Touzet developed the font Cherokee between 1993 and 1998 at Yale University. Cherokee is a free font that covers the native language of the Tsalagi (Cherokee) Indians of North America. Touzet is now at the University of Toronto. Thomas Phinney does not like it: It's utter junk in both design and execution. Bizarrely irregular stroke weights, sidebearings chosen by rolling dice, extrema often ignored in point placement, non-Euclidean geometry of curves. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe Clark's essays on typography. Typoblog: his old blog on type. Newest URL for his type blog. Author of the must-read book Building Accessible Websites (2002). At ATypI 2003 in Vancouver, he spoke about typography for online captioning. ATypI writes: Toronto journalist, author (Building accessible websites, New Riders, 2003), and accessibility consultant Joe Clark has followed typography as long as he.s followed accessibility for people with disabilities: over 20 years. He is director of the Open&Closed Project, a public-private-academic partnership in research and standardisation in captioning, audio description, subtitling, dubbing, and related fields in audiovisual accessibility. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke about Type in the Toronto Subway. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe Clark: Type in the Toronto subway
| Joe Clark tells us about the typeface used in the Toronto subway: The Toronto subway has a typeface all its own. You can compare it to a few other fonts, but no other face is exactly the same. And, for 50 years, pretty much the only place you found it was on permanent, virtually indestructible wall signage. The typeface, in its original form, is a geometric sansserif in upper case only, with ten numerals, ampersand, period, and apostrophe, and an arrow (though a few other arrows are found on period signage). The typeface is often misidentified at Gill Sans, a typeface that will later become important in TTC typographic history. Even highly expert designers have misidentified the face as Gill. Vaguely comparable typefaces are Verlag, Bernhard Gothic, Metro, Neutraface, and Eagle. [...] By all accounts, no one alive today knows who designed the Toronto subway typeface. The original drawings (TTC 1960) do not credit an artist. (Since the drawings are dated 1960.12.12, they were drawn after the first installation of letters on a subway wall. That makes the absence of credit even more surprising; it may mean the designer had already been forgotten six years after the subway opened.) The subway typeface does not have a name, although the TTC claims (2007a) it is known internally as the Station font. That name has not taken root with transit fans outside the TTC. No stable name for the typeface in common use apart from "the TTC font." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Joe Nicholson is an honors graduate of Humber College's Package Design and Development Program in Rexdale, Ontario, Canada. In 1985, after working in several studio environments, he launched his own company, Design Fortress near Toronto, which specialized in packaging graphics, corporate identity programs, logotypes and typeface design. Nicholson's Prosper typeface family (monoline) was produced to incorporate both "open" and "closed" designs in light, book, medium, bold and black weights, with both condensed and italic complements. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Joel Shane | Canadian typography student in Reading (UK), who was working on a condensed serif text family for low quality printing. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Toronto-based designer of Abtechia, the large Retardo (also called Spaz-1) and Mermaid grungy families (free downloads). All fonts dated between 1996 and 1998. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vernon, BC-based creator of Simply Delicious (2012, handprinted) and Viande Funée (2012, hand-drawn). Dafont link. Aka Tuna Fish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Garagefonts of Pawn (1991). John is from Ontario. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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John-Paul Knox | Winnipeg, Canada-based designer of Perrin OT (2004), a recreation of the fonts found in the Oeuvres de Descartes series published by J. Vrin in the 1970s. As Ren&eacite; Ponot quote: The Editions des Cendres book was set in the typeface Perrin (fig. 10), thanks to the understanding and benevolence of the Imprimerie Nationale of France, to which it belongs. Used there for the first time, Perrin was recreated from the authentic Augustaux in 1987 by the Atelier National de Création Typographique, under the direction of Ladislas Mandel and José Mendoza. It was digitized in 1995 by designer Franck Jalleau of the Imprimerie. That Perrin OT, after discussion with Hrant Papazian, morphed into and was renamed Marquet (2005), a delicate text family. He also created Adrichom (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jon Whipple | Designer of the sans family Kompass (2004), which was specially created for maps and diagrams. Jon is a graphic designer in Vancouver. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Branding expert in Calgary, who has created some curly logotypes in 2009. In 2010, he made the geometric beveled face Architype, and the octagonal techno face Phreeker. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Joseph Gorecki | Toronto-based designer of the sans face Smartie (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Josh Conley (Canada) designed the skinny handprinted face Wirey (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. She studies at York University in Toronto. Creator of the modular typeface Runway (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Newfoundland-based illustrator and designer Julie Lewis (b. 1979, aka Sassy Tuna) created the scratchy face Phont Van Ulden (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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K. Srinivasan | Designer of the Inuktitut font called Inuktitut-Sri (1996). Resident of St. Bruno, Quebec, he also made the Tamil fonts Valai-Sri (1997), Mylai-Sri (1996), Sri-TSC (1998), TSC-Sri (2001), Adhawin-Tamil. Some of these fonts are here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer of the gothic typeface Testing Chaos (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vancouver-born co-designer, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of the Enemy of the State titling font (Metrolox; has 567 glyphs for most Latin, Cyrillic, Turkish and Greek languages), and of Wellbutrin. Karen lives in Bruges now. In 2001, she made Jagz with Apostrophe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toronto, who made several handprinted and brush typefaces in 2012, including a typeface family called Bonfire. She also made the ornamental caps face Architecture Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Winnipeg-born designer, who is a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki she spoke on Children and typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontarian designer of the curly outline face Fica (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
KC Fonts
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Commercial typefaces: Pewter (2012), Varsity Playbook (2012, sketched), Subway Novella (2012). Typefaces made in 2012: Pewter, Black asylum (grunge), Transit Diplay (noisy), Muddy Tractor, Load up on guns (grunge), Tragic Vision (grunge), Closure, Rocky Shore (grunge), Kraft Nine, Hooverville (copperplate/engraved typeface), Misery Loves Company, All Ages (grunge), By The Throat (scribbly, fat), Faded Memory, Varsity Playbook, Headliner No. 45 (a heavy poster face). |
Graphic Designer living in Edmonton Alberta. He created a constructivist typeface in 2009 while studying at Grant MacEwan College. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian graphic designer who offers on her site the free font Slayer (1999) which has as its copyright string Slayer the buffy font based on Herculanum http://members.xoom.com/buffysaver. I know that Graham Meade made a font called Byffy the vampire slayer and got into tons of legal problems with FOX. I have no idea who made this particular font on Cullen's site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontario-based designer of the serif face Silverfish (2005) and of a 1x1 pixel face (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Keith Tam Typography
| Keith Tam is a graphic designer and type designer born in Hong kong who has lived and worked in the UK and in Vancouver, Canada. He received his MA in Typeface Design at the Department of Typography&Graphic Communication at the University of Reading in 2002. Presently, he teaches art the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2005, along with Michail Semoglou, Keith co-founded Type Initiative, a type foundry and design collective. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His fonts include Arrival (a font developed during his graduate studies at Reading for reading signs from afar or while driving) and DGSans. He started a discussion on why people pick certain typefaces:
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Kejak Fonts (was: Cheops)
| Alexander S (aka Scott Dieznyik) made (mostly grunge) fonts in Mississauga, Ontario, and ran Kejak (formerly Cheops) Fonts, ca. 1997: his creations included Aadavalus, Honeybomb, This-Emulation, Keoki (not bad!), Lava-Lava (my favorite), ThisEmulation, Eroded2020, Circuit Scraping, Demun Lotion, Equilibrium, DustMites (a wonderful connected script based on Adobe's Sho Roman), Reticulan, Typewise, Bitwise Beta, Chemical Gus, Mechoba and BitwiseAlpha. Alexander is no longer making fonts. All his sites have disappeared. |
Kenneth E. Bryant | Designer in 1994 of Jaisalmer (for Devanagari), Hindi/Sanskrit fonts (in all formats) for the Mac. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Still with Griffin at Canada Type, he revived a psychedelic / art nouveau face 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 humanistic trait. Images of Ratio Modern: i, ii, ii, iv, v, vi, vii. 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 face 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 face with obvious roots in the oldstyle of the Italian renaissance, its contrast reveals a clear underlying modern influence. i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. 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), 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. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Kevin was born in 1979 in Winnipeg MB but grew up on the east coat of Canada in Fredericton NB. In 1998 he attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax NS, eventually earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts and the 2001 Xerox Canada digital arts scholarship. After Relocating to his current home of St John's NL Kevin has been re-energized toward art making and recently received a grant to develop an art exhibition through the Newfoundland Labrador Arts Council. Creator of Skretchy (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the pixel font PointOne (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Kingdom of Awesome
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The font Kip_ReMT (or Kip_Resp) by Kip Panesar (from Calgary, Alberta) was made in 1998. It has some symbols for mathematics, but looks like a strange smorgasbord of glyphs taken from Times, Symbol, and a few other fonts. It has smilies, but no delta and no epsilon, strange. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kit Pullen | Kit Pullen (Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Ottawa) assembled the Inuktitut font NunacomU (1999) for the Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit. Download site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Canadian designer who created Pixified (2007) and Pixeltastic (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian designer of some interesting caps in which opposite counter are filled by competing graphical elements: K, S. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristina R | Based in Toronto. Designer of Organica (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Krystal Empire
| Canadian youngster (b. 1992) who is working on the pixel face Chmod (2007). Home page. Chmod 1.0 (2008) was made with FontStruct. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of Programmer Font (2005). See also here at Arcavia Software in Toronto, where he works. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Testing Chaos (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Language Geek
| Chris Harvey's site on native languages in North America (for now, mainly Canada). He includes several free Unicode-compliant creations (Aboriginal Sans Unicode, Aboriginal Serif Unicode). The following are covered: Dakelh, Cherokee, Cree syllabics, Ojibway (Ojibwe, Ojibwa) syllabics, Naskapi syllabics, Dene or Athabaskan/Athapaskan (Chipewyan, Slavey) syllabics, Blackfoot syllabics, and roman orthographies of Canadian (and some US) native languages. Of particular interest are his pages on syllabics. I quote some passages: "Syllabics became very popular first among the Cree people, then spread to other Algonquian languages such as Ojibway, Naskapi, and Blackfoot. Heading north and east, Syllabics were adopted by some of the Dene languages, and Inuktitut. The writing system was transferred from parent to child despite the attempts of the Canadian residential school system to obliterate Native languages. The system was so popular, that it has been reported that the Cree once had a near 100% literacy rate. [...] These days, Inuktitut, Cree, Naskapi, Oji-Cree, are the languages most often written in Syllabics (although Roman orthographies for these languages are also available). The others have generally switched to Roman writing systems, however some dialects, communities, or individual speakers still prefer syllabics." The list:
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Lanston Type Co
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Fonts can be purchased from MyFonts where all fonts have the prefix LTC. Obituary of Giampa and links to obituaries. Catalog of the Lanston typeface library. View the typefaces designed by Lanston. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Lapiak Design
| Graphic design bureau for the deaf, located in Alberta, Canada, and run by Joachim Lapiak, who created the wonderful sign language font Lapiak ASL (2007). He obtained a Bachelors in Design from the University of Alberta. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Larabie Fonts
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Ray Larabie's fonts were originally free. The site was discontinued in the summer of 2001. Ray Larabie started a second life in his new commercial foundry, Typodermic, which opened in the Autumn of 2001. The following fonts are free: Blue Highway (1996-2011, based on American road signs), Strenuous, Tofu, Electoral Blue, Embargo, Lunaurora, MarqueeMoon, President Gas (nice stencil font), Motorcade, Overload, Baltar (2010), Dignity of Labour (1999), DirtyBakersDozen (1998, military stencil), Mufferaw (2000), Kimberley (2002), Typodermic, Mexcellent (2000, a great triline and 3D face), Minya, PulseState, Quinquefoliate, Yadou, Para-Aminobenzoic, Hydrogen Whiskey, Metal Lord (an Iron Maiden font made in 1996), Golden Girdle, DazzleShips, Kredit, Minisystem, Boron, RiotAct, GlazKrak (1996), SoRunDown (1997; visions of Detroit in 2010), YellowPills, Fake Receipt, Tinsnips, Lucky Ape, Bailey's Car, Icicle Country, Home Sweet Home, Let's Eat, Giant Tigers, RoboKoz, Snidely, Xtra-Flexi-Disc, Fluoride Beings, Field Day Filter, Bramalea Beauty (1998), Braeside Lumberboy (stencil font), Oliver's Barney, Rothwell, Fragile Bombers, Yawnovision, Superheterodyne, Massive Retaliation, Instant Tunes, Neurochrome, Xenowort, Balcony Angels, Neuropol Deluxe, Quadaptor, Deftone Stylus, Lady Starlight, LetterSet, Map of You, First Blind, Larabiefont (monospaced, 1999), Monofonto (monospaced, 1999), Orange kid, Thiamine (1999), Green Fuzz, Gunplay (stencil font), Mail Ray Stuff, Walshes Outline, Mississauga, Union city blue, Carbon Phyber (1999-2009), Carbon Block, Plain Cred, First Blind, Walshes, Credit river, Dendritic Voltage, Neuropolitical, Poke, Port Credit, Lesser Concern, Kustom Kar, Mold Papa, Kleptocracy, Blue Highway D, Hots, Coolvetica, Holy Smokes, Chinese Rocks, sudbury Basin, Lilliput steps, Hurontario, Participants, Adriator (1999), Airmole (2000), Airmole Antique (2000), Ethnocentric, Biting My Nails, Biting Outline, Dyspepsia, Vanilla Whale, Libel Suit, Effloresce, BeatMyGuest, DreamOrphans, EffloresceAntique, EnnobledPet, Euphorigenic, EyeRhyme, GotNoHeart, Hamma Mamma Jamma (1998), Octoville, PlainCred1978, Plasmatic, RadiosinMotionHard, Densmore (a modern stencil font), RadiosinMotion (a morse font), Sexsmith, ShouldveKnown, ShouldveKnownShaded, 20thCenturyFontItalic, Counterscraps, Cretino, , Duality, Echelon (1999, + Italic), Effloresce, Fabian, KenyanCoffee, MinyaNouvelle, OliversBarney, Oil Crisis (2002, car dingbats), SybilGreen (2000), Tork (2000), Degrassi, Vibrocentric, Rafika (stencil font), Berylium, Pakenham, Steelfish, Bullpen, Almonte Woodgrain, Sandoval, Sappy Mugs (2002, mugshots), Colourbars, Unispace, Urkelian (1998), Subpear, Stasmic, StreetCred (1998), Zekton Dots, Vademecum, Vectroid (2000), Zeroes One (1999). The early commercial fonts at Typodermic included Amienne (2004, brush script), Asterisp (named Aplha through Iota, asterisks, 2000), Bomr (2002), Jillican, Tank (2004, an octagonal face), Telidon Ink and Wyvern. Rare Larabie fonts. Mass download. Direct access to some fonts. Noteworthy is that Neuropol is the font in the official logo of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Roxio's new Easy Media Creator 7 includes 36 updated Ray Larabie freeware fonts with expanded character sets, kerning, Euro symbol and installable embedding: Arnprior, Baveuse, Berylium, Berylium Bold Italic, Blue Highway (based on the US highway series E font), Blue Highway Condensed, Blue Highway D Type, Blue Highway Bold, Blue Highway Linocut, Burnstown Dam, Carbon Block, Credit Valley (+ B, I,&BI), Earwig Factory, Hurry Up, Kredit, Krystoid, Minya Nouvelle (+ B, I,&BI), Neuropol, Planet Benson 2, Pupcat (unicase), Stereofidelic, Sybil Green (2000, girlish font), Teen (+ B, I, BI, Light, and Light Italic)), Velvenda Cooler, Velvenda MegablackWaker. Fonts made in 2004-2005: Stentiga (free), Boopee, Zalderdash, First Blind 2, Fenwick Outline, Amienne, Induction, Huxtable, Good Times, Euphorigenic, Neuropolitical, Effloresce, Squealer, Axaxax, Coolvetica, Cretino, Heroid (comic book). Catalog of the typefaces in the Larabie Fonts collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Toronto-based designer of a bitmap font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young French graphic designer who graduated in 2006 from Ecole Estienne. She lives temporarily in Vancouver. Typefaces by her include Personal (handwriting) and Funambule (experimental). Her thesis at Estienne was entitled Baskerville: rupture ou continuité? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
laxj
| 20-font archive with the Howard M. Berlin Hebrew fonts AinYiddisheFontCursiv, AinYiddisheFontModern, AinYiddisheFontTraditional (1997) (see also here), and TorahSofer. Also Boomerang (Harold Lohner), DIVCHEM, Dahrlin (WSI), Fifties (WSI), GothicHijinx and GothicHijinxRough from Omega, Hirosh (AARRGGHH), MendelSiddurBold, ParishMedium (LMNo Designs, Steven Shepard), SymbolMW-Normal (MWSoft), and WarnSymbols5. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer of the handprinted faces Georgina's Hand and Celine's Hand (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toronto. Dafont link. Creator of the techno / futuristic face Nanonaut (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication Design Major at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leo Ostbaum | Late director of design for VANOC, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Committee. In December 2009, some hackers on alt.binaries.fonts extracted fonts from PDSFs at the Vancouver Olympics web site, and came up with a rounded signage font called Cryptozoo, designed in 2009, 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. So it appears that Canada Type was also involved in its design and production. Other fonts extracted by the same people include [the comments in italics are from the hacker team]:
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2009 creations: Haemophobe (pixel), Star Wreck, Mouthcaster (a bilined face based on the lettering on the front of the 1978 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook), Pasta (white on black), Medical Station Alpha (techno), Disco Stud (Chrome, Solid, Chrome Oblique, Solid Oblique), Affix, Infix (experimental and minimalist), Pinball Blizzard, Tears in Rain (a simplistic textura), Five Minute Hair Colour (slab serif), Seg Sixteen (LED face), Trajedy (pixel), Nobody 8 Italic (pixel), Home Sweet Home (a cross-stitch font), Wotan, Tiki Deaky, Writetyper, Chromatose (shadow family), Chocobot (an octagonal family containing Dark, Stacked (multilined), Milk, White), Big Fat (Shaded, Vibrate, Solid). 2010 creations: Fungal Sharp, Fungal Rounded (described by himself as a unicase stovepipe sans), Elliptical Lasso (Western ornamental caps), Astral Projection (a dot matrix face that updates Astra, a Letraset font designed by François Robert and Natacha Falda in 1973), Brick-block tops (3d effect), Knots, Spacerock (an extensive arc-based geometric family), Telephone (counterless), Pixular, StarWreck the Next Generation, Hockey Club, Brick-Block Tops, Bubblemania, Ziabelle Remix (outline, 3d, shaded), Hextone, Falcone (robotic face), but I didn't Trap the Deputy (Egyptian), Dinosaur Gothic. Fonts from 2011: Apé'ritif (bilined), Csillagok (a futuristic face based on a hungarian Star Wars poster), Valhalla (faux runic), Birodalom, Haboruja, Piezo, Felix (black art deco face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the handwriting face Prime Minister of Canada (2008). It is not said which Prime Minister's hand this is---I would guess that its writer is at about grade three level, and thus it can only be Steven Harper's hand. Upon closer scrutiny, I discovered that the font was made by Ray Larabie in 1998, so Liam is a fake. But then again, so is Steven Harper. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lists all sources for metafont code for most languages in the world. Liam Quin works for SoftQuad Inc in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lists all sources for metafont code for most languages in the world. Liam Quin works for SoftQuad Inc in Toronto. Site at the University of Utrechts's CS Department. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lists all sources for metafont code for most languages in the world. Liam Quin works for SoftQuad Inc in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Loai Gammo | Was working with Al-Alamiah and might have access to their (Sakhr) fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Locker
| Rénald Lévesque offers a few self-made dingbat files (Valentine, HalloweenDingbats, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Christmas Dingbats, Clipart Dingbats, Music Notation Font). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian creator of the fat grunge face Messy Bubble (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lonnie Taylor (patgroove) is the Canadian designer (Calgary, b. 1981) of LonniesHand and LonniesHandInProgress (2003) [no downloads]. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Machiavelli (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lorne McLean | Calgary-based designer of Overprint (1996), Seven Sans and Seven Serif. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
An assignment given by Hersh Jacob at Loyalist College in Belleville Ontario led to a number of pages on the main type designers such as Bodoni, Garamond, Goudy, Baskerville, and Dwiggins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calligrapher from Québec (born in Ottawa, working in Montreal). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lucie Lacava is a design consultant based in Montreal. Her company Lacava Design Inc. founded in 1992 has developed an international expertise in editorial design and visual identity, recognized for its architectural approach to design and streamlined use of custom typography. Her most prestigious awards include the Society for News Design "Best of Show" and "World's Best Designed Newspaper". Lacava has lectured internationally on the topics of newspaper design and typography. She has served as a judge for news and design organizations and has been published in critical books on the topic of newspaper design. Lacava is past president of the Society for News Design (2001). As Lacava Design Inc, she has her finger in almost every newspaper design contract in Canada. For example, in 2003, she redesigned La Presse in Montreal. Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luis Boisvert (b. 1986) is the Canadian designer of Luis Boisvert Handwriting (2009, Fontcapture font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luke Cyca | Jesse Wilson, aka Luke Cyca (Regina, Canada), made these free fonts, which at some point could be found at sites called Pland.net, caffeen fonts, jesserific.com and LukeZone (all expired): caffeen, Chlod, Chloreal, Chlorenuf, Chloriin, Chlorinuh, Chlorinej, Chlorinap, Chlorinar, Chlorinut, Chlorinov, Chlorinez, Chlorix, Chlub, Circle-Six, Courier-Now, edcom, Jessescript, Jim-teacher, Math-Donuts, morevil, ScissorCuts, ScissorCuts2, Star-5-Five, Disco-2000. Mac and Windows. Site also known as caffeen fonts, or jesserific.com. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Copy of FOG 4.1.5 (Mac: 1MB) and House Industries fonts (4MB). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lux Lucre | Canadian designer who filled in the RayGun font to make its character set more complete. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer of the handprinted block letter font Sunday Morning Garage Sale (2008), the signpainter face The Bubbler (2008) and the brush face Underpaid Sign Painter (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the comic book face Mumbley Joe (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young Canadian designer of Soundtrack Howl (2009), a handprinted font patterned after the font used as Soundtrack Howl's logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontario-based creator of Mallory Maloney's Handwriting (2009, Fontcapture). Her Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toronto, who "made" Meta Rounded (really?). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of the comic book face Ace Attorney Objection (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish graphic, type and logo designer, and photographer, born and raised in Skelleftea in Northern Sweden, but now located in Vancouver. His typefaces include SD Stencil, Bolsrf (ultra fat), Street Typeface (squarish), Swedisc (avant garde sans), Crispy (hairline octagonal), SubStreet (sturdy sans headline face), Miru (experimental), Subscript (upright connected script), and Bulky (ultra fat). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontario-based Canadian designer (b. 1955) of the handprinted semi-calligraphic face Lindsay (1979, Letraset), which was at one point available from Linotype, Elsner&Flake and URW++. She also made Gato and Canada, both unpublished. Pic. MyFonts: Lindsay Holton has an atypical background as a type designer. She apprenticed many years ago with the legendary Les Usherwood in Toronto as a lowly proofreader after completing a literature degree at the University of Toronto and Edinburgh. Studying type and contour at extreme close range is like pursuing a map with a microscope; all is visible yet strangely mysterious. It was and continues to be an enchanting world. She began to doodle and designed Lindsay, her first face, in 1979, and licensed it to the now defunct dry transfer company, Letraset of England, in 1980 while writing her first book, Economic Sex, under pen-name, in Spain. Now an award-winning mid-career artist and author living in Canada, Lindsay has designed and produced over two hundred and fifty signature Canadian fine furniture pieces for many of Canada's cultural elite, written three books of social realism The Gilded Beaver won Best of 1999 from the Hamilton Arts Council written and directed one experimental documentary about hunting, created over five hundred original works of fine art, many in both public and private collections. Today, she pursues what pleases her most. Type is never very far from her thoughts. To wit, her typefaces Gato and Canada await their grand moment; watch for them, you're gonna love Canada. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Toronto. Behance link. She created the experimental texture alphabet called Mesh in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marian Bantjes is a self-described Graphic Artist, who works primarily with custom type and ornament. 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." Both her graphic work and her design work are continually explorative, but are founded upon 10 years' work as a book typesetter, and an additional nine years as the owner operator of a 212-person design firm. In 2003 Marian left her firm and "strategic design" behind to embark on the work that she has since become internationally known for. Her work has been featured in Eye, STEP, étapes, Azure, Tupigrafia and Print, and she has a book coming out with Princeton Architectural Press in the fall of 2008. She is also known as a writer on design for the design weblog Speak Up, is a board member of the BC Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, and teaches typography through Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC. She lives and works from her home on Bowen Island, BC, off the West coast of Canada, mostly for clients in the US and Europe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1982 in Canada, this illustrator has a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (English Literature and Visual Arts) from the University of British Columbia. With John Roshell, she created the comic book lettering fonts Marian Churchland and Marian Churchland Journal (2009, Comicraft). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Originally from Mexico, Mariana now studies media arts in Vancouver. She created a typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based art director and typographer. Creator of the curly alphabet The Sound of Fashion (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marisa Ranalli is the Canadian designer of the alien writing font Irken (2002). Page at Devian Tart. Irken is also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark Orion (aka Hyrax) (b. 1985) in Ontario, Canada. At Devian Tart, he designed the handwriting font CanControl. See also here. He also made the FON format bitmap fonts 6p Killer (2001) and Chip (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark Poon (Mississauga, Ontario) created the font Circuit (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer. Devian Tart link. Creator of the futuristic techno face Neutro Nation (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Edmonton, Alberta-based designer of Alphageometry (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mashy.com
| Free original fonts by Mark Ombra: mashyBONG&Gossip, mashyDroopShadow, mashyJigsaw, mashyShona, mashyCutFelt, mashyFire, mashyJigsaw, mashySchizoid, mashyValentine. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lasalle, Ontario-based designer (b. 1988) of Matt's Handwriting (2004, handwriting). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British Columbia and/or Winnipeg-based computer scientist who obtained his PhD from Waterloo. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba, in the Computational Geometry Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science. He developed these fonts:
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Marek Cerajewski's Windsor, Ontario-based outfit selling barcode fonts and solutions. Also a calligraphy/signature service. This was Cerajewski Computer Consulting, where prices started at 40 dollars per font. Freebies include eight Morse code fonts, and one Braille font (MC Braille). PC, TT and type 1. High quality Morse code fonts: International Morse Codes MC morse_International_1890, MC morse_Baudot_5_Unit, MC morse_VanDuuren_7_Unit; MC morse_US_Navy_Bugle_1920; American or Railway Morse Code font MC morse_Am_or_Railway_1844, Vail morse code font MC morse_Vail_Code_1837; Double Translation Morse Code font MC morse_Double_Trans_1835; Rock Telegraph of the US Vietnam POW's font MC morse_Vietnam_POWs_1965. Barcode packages (not free): Code 11, Code 128, Code 2 of 5 industrial, Code 2 of 5 interleaved, Code 2 of 5 standard, Code 3 of 9, Code 93, Code Codabar, Code EAN, Code MSI, Code Plessey, Code Postnet and FIM Marks, Code 4 State. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontario-based designer of some pixel faces such as RGB and ROYGBIV (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mean Tangerine
| Pixel foundry run by Calgary, Alberta-based designer Tyler Young. He is the creator of the kitchen tile pixel face Trixie&Blinker (2004, pixel versions of kitchen tile letters), the pixel face Slim (2006, very readable!), the pixel face Minus (2005), the dot matrix family Soda (2005), the pixel face Consist, the pixel face Tex Standard 7 (2007), the script pixel face Katie (2005), the futuristic display faces Flipper (2004), Atom (2003), Nuetron (2003, "inspired by Andreas Lindholm's industrial work"), the pixel faces Fredman (2004), Checker (2004), Belleville (2004), Errata Properus (2003), Dorothy (2003), Dope (2004, pixel font), Khaki (2004, pixel family), Commence (2004, pixel family), Biceps (2004, pixel family) and Rolos ( (2002-2003), Shale Modern (2003, pixel face), Arc Classic, Astromo 2017, Chip Classic, Chip Modern, Astromo 2018, Biceps, Bri++LeModern, Celophane Classic, Chain, Chain Unicase, Chaos, Clarus, Clarus even, Clarus Hi, Clarus Lo, Cursor, Disclosure, Dope Classic, Dope Short, Dorothy, Electron Classic, Gumdrop Bubble (2002-2003), Ice Classic, Montessa, Money Narrow, Resolution, Roma, Roma Mini, Screen Sans, Screen serif, Sheriff's Girl Tight, Troy, and Raster (2004). He also runs Tyler Young Creative, an impossible site that does not display at all on my browser. Their 142-font library can be had for 100 dollars. Elsewhere, we read that he is located in Santa Cruz, CA. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer of Hijo de la Luna (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian comic artist who calls herself Wayward Insecticon. Home page. Designer of the techno font Transformers AEC (2005), created by scanning a logo off a Cybertron toy box. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he made MockingJay XL (a single glyph dingbat face). Link at Dafont. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1980, this Victoria, BC-based designer created the piano key face Mr. B. Dull (2010), which was specifically created for posters. He explains its development at his studio, called Mr Blonde. Ninjo (2011) is another piano key face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Tension (b. 1973) run Tension Type in Victoria, BC. He went commercial in 2012. Creator of the grunge face Caslame (2008), the old typewriter face My Underwood (2008), the handwriting face Prophecy Script (2008), the handprinted 2Dumb (2009), 3Dumb (2009) and Chinese Ruler (2008), and the dymo white on black label face Impact Label (2008). In 2009, he made Sans I Am (sans), Fuck Beans (handprinted; +Bold, +Italic), Key Tab Metal (outline) and the western face Heffer. Additions in 2010: Bottle Depot, Leander, Kyboshed (ball terminal face), Sears Tower (old typewriter), Helveticrap, DINK (grunge). Fonts from 2011: J.P. Kasperville (handprinted). Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer (b. 1989) who created Michelle's (2007), a font of her own handwriting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nova Scotian who works at GrammaTech in Ithaca, NY. Mike McDougall (ex-University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. student) created a random type 3 font called "Tekla" as an undergraduate student at McGill University, under the supervision of Luc Devroye. He used several handwritten samples as parents to create random offspring. A companion article entitled Random Fonts for the Simulation of Handwriting has appeared in "Electronic Publishing" in 1995. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Quuen's University in Kingston, Ontario. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based outfit with a 200-font archive called "David's fonts from the web", and a few downloadable font managing utilities. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian mirror of the Australian Monash University Nihongo site. Mincho.ttf is downloadable from here (see JpnSupp.exe). Plus a million other things. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Miss Tiina
| Tina E.J. Raparanta (Miss Tiina, Miss Tiina Fonts, or MTF) owns MissTiina.com. Mostly, her fonts are free. Fontspace link. Tina is af mixed Finnish and French origins and lives in Ontario. Designer of the ornamental dingbats face Miss Tiina (2007), as well as MTFBase (2009), MTFBaseOutline (2009), MTFUnderYourSkin (2009, curly), MTFBaseDashLeafy (2007), MTFBaseOutline (2007), MTFChunkie (2007), MTFRever (2007), MTFScribblie (2007), MTF_CHUNKIEDOODLE (2007), Mtf_sketchie (2007, childish handwriting), MTF Doodle (2008, dingbats) and MTF Heart Doodle (2008, dingbats). Commercial handwriting fonts, for a small fee: Megan, XOXO Vo2, XOXO Vo1, Christopher, Hunnie, Sweetie, Frozen Solid, Base, Girlie, Lexi, Oopsie Daisie, Chunkie Doodle (dingbats), Quirkie, Chunkie, Funk Fusion (dingbats), Cutie Patootie, Scribblie, Dreamie, Messy. With repetitions, the fonts at Fontspace are: MTF-Chunkie-Doodle, MTF-Funk-Fusion, MTF-Girlie, MTFBase, MTFBaseLeafy, MTFBaseOutline, MTFBecki, MTFCaMaura, MTFChubb, MTFChunkie, MTFCindy, MTFColleenCursive, MTFColleenPrint, MTFCoolKid, MTFCupcake, MTFCutiePatootie, MTFDearSanta, MTFDonna, MTFDoodle, MTFDoodlewhats, MTFDreamie, MTFElegance, MTFEpic, MTFEvasHand, MTFFlowerDoodles, MTFFlowrites, MTFFrozenSolid, MTFGavin, MTFGridie, MTFHeartDoodle, MTFHelloAgain, MTFHooRah, MTFHootyCoo, MTFHunnie, MTFIttyBittyBaby, MTFJotted, MTFJude, MTFJumpin'Jack, MTFKatrina, MTFKim, MTFKrystyna, MTFLexi, MTFLoli'sHandwriting, MTFLynds, MTFMagicalMarilyn, MTFMegan, MTFMelissa, MTFMemory, MTFMessy, MTFMikayla, MTFMikaylaPrint, MTFNotebook, MTFOliveYou, MTFOopsie, MTFOopsieDaisie, MTFPeachCobbler, MTFPlaytime, MTFPorkChop, MTFQueenOfSketchyland, MTFRever, MTFRhesa, MTFSaxy, MTFScribblie, MTFSkinnyJeans, MTFStampinRachel, MTFSweetCheeks, MTFSweetDings, MTFSweetHalloweenDings, MTFSweetNatureDings, MTFSweetSkyDings, MTFSweetie, MTFTamarasHusband, MTFToast, MTFUnderYourSkin, MTFVecbatVo1, MTFWhacko, MTFWhimsy, MTFWildflower, MTFWulan, MTFXOXOVo.1, MTFXOXOVo.2, MTFakhn, MTFdrgnldy, MTFiheartSketches. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Moiz Syed | Mississauga, Ontario-based design student. Working on this broken serif face (2006), reminiscent of old Menhart or Preissig typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Monkeymike
| Original fonts (Mac truetype only), typically scribbly handwriting by Canadian Michael Piercey, aka Monkey Mike: Krackle (2002), WeKickYourAss (2002), Kesone (2002), Bullfighter (2002), Grangband (2002), Molly Pangular (2002), Motone (2002), Pencillio (2002), (2002), Thirsty (2002), Saladbar (2002), Benew (2001), Fivestyle, (2001), KesoneOutline, (2001), Kowloon (2001), Dixel (2001), MollyParker (2001), Sandra Oh (2002, originally free), Althea (2001), Paolo, Schuble, Sranda, Nervous, Aire, Giraffe, King Tubby, Smooth Peanut Butter, Kickyourassspanktacular (2001), Dogbone (2001), Superthirsty (2001), Mena (2001). Nixon (2001) is a dirty scanned font. Part of the Chank Army, where you can buy Nube (2002). Some PC versions here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nice discussion of monospaced fonts by Toronto's Joe Clark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcode specialist in Markham, Ontario. They sell custom barcode fonts, and make your signature into a type 1 font (70 USD). They also sell the Monterey Barcode Creator which supports Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Code 39 Extended, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8 and POSTNET. At Dafont, pick up the free barcode font MRVCode39extMA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Long list of music notation software links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A selection of typefaces tagged Canadian at MyFonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Narani Kannan is a very gifted student at Ontario College of Art&Design in Toronto, pursuing a BDes in Graphic Design. She dabbles in typography and type design and created the organic sans face Pebble in 2008. Beautiful type posters. Home page. He created Victoria (2009, a delicate display face that was inspired by the Victorian elements and ornamental designs). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based freelance graphic designer. Creator of the multiline face Neon (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
List of fonts as of the end of 2009: 3D Blocky, Art Of Japanese Calligraphy, Brush Writing OC, Courier Coco, Exchange Student, Geisha Holiday, Grunge Decay, Hand Cursive, Hand Writing OC, Japanese Brush Master, Japoneh, Little Japan, Porto, Ribbon Cursive, Rustic Stamp, Stitch Cursive, Trees Of Africa. Fonts made in 2010: Flower Sketch (dingbats), The Inlines, The Inlines No Inlines, Kanji OC (a Latin font with a brushed Kanji character in place of each letter), Super Hand, Country Charm (dingbats), Rocktopus, Asian Scroll (kanji face). Fonts from 2011: Okay Marker, Script Love (connected script), Muju (Asian brush script), Joopica (a grungy casual face done with Luke William Turvey), Okay Berry (connected script), Orchids (flower dingbats), Seashells (dingbats), Sumi (2011, a beautifully raw brush face), Mushrooms (2011), Azsitra (2011, handwriting), Right Hand (2011). Fonts made in 2012: Ferns (dingbats), Arco Web (handprinted, with Luke William Turvey), Oracle Bone (based on ancient Chinese glyphs), Arco Dot (2012: think "Dalmatian"), Azsion (a sketch font). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Typographer and graphic designer in Toronto. He created the cooking utensil alphading face Shai (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist in Vancouver, who created the computer game emulation font Forcefield (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Foundland-based creator of MyHandwriting (2009). Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nortel Networks has its own custom designed sans typeface family dated 1999, which can be downloaded for free from their site: NortelNetworksPrimary, NortelNetworksPrimaryBold, NortelNetworksPrimaryBold-Italic, NortelNetworksPrimarySB, NortelNetworksPrimarySB-Italic, NortelNetworksPrimaryXB, NortelNetworksPrimaryBlack, NortelNetworksPrimaryLight. For serif family, they use Adobe Garamond. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
NTI and Nunavut Worldwide | Designers of the Inuktitut fonts Tunngavik and Tunngavik Bold (1997). They can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Objets Dart
| Refreshing fonts created by Canadian Darren Rigby using High-Logic. The fonts come in truetype format (in 2000): Bayern (fraktur font), Beltane (2002), Brasspounder (2004), Con Jitters (2002, handwriting), Enigmatic, EnigmaticUnicodeRegular, Fitzgerald, GangueOuais (2002), HindsightUnicode (2001, with all European languages, Cyrillic, Armenian, and IPA), HindsightSmallCaps, HindsightRegular, HindsightMonospaceRegular, IntruderAlert, QuicktypeRegular, ThinDime, TorturerUpright, SilverDollar, DontWalkRun, History-Repeating (1999-2000), HistoryHappens, HistoryRepeatingH, HistoryHappens, HistoryRepeatingV, Lemon, Norse-Code (runes), OneEighty, TorturerBound, TorturerCrushed, Daybreaker, Yerevan, Seebreaze, Jareth, Tin Birdhouse, Tin Doghouse, Three-Sixty, Three-Sixty Condensed, Levity (2001, Western font), Gravity, River Avenue, Water Street, Warer Street Detour (unicase), Meridiana, Torquemada, Torquemada Starved, Torquemada Starved Unicode, Radian (2002), All Hooked Up (2002), Brasspounder (2004), Quilljoy (2004). Dafont link. Aka Starving-4 Entertainment. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Okaycat
| 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 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), Arco Crayon (2009, blackboard writing), 3D Blocky (2009, with Natsuko Hayashida), Carbon Neutral (2009), Hand Writing OC (2009), Okay Cotton (2009), Hand Cursive (2008), Stitch Cursive (2008), Antique Dubplate (2009), Porto (2009, rough calligraphic), Brush Writing OC (2009), Nouveau Rock (2009, engraved), Shababa (2009), 3D Techno (2009), Stefani EHYO (2009, 4-style geocratic sans), Uncertainty (2010, grunge). Japanese calligraphy poster. With Natsuko Hayashida, he did Rustic Stamp (2009, grungy). CASU Aerospatiale (2010) is an etched 3d font family. Geodot (2010) is a dot matrix face. Zampichi (2010) is a video game font family. Country Charm (2010, Natsuko Hayashida) is a dingbat face. The Inlines No Inlines (2010, Natsuko Hayashida) is a black rounded minimalist sans. CC Angular (2010, Turvey) is an octagonal face that comes with an outlined and shadowed style. Pentastic (2010) is handprinted. Candy Cursive (2010) is a monoline connected script. Okay-A (2011) lets one make 3D letters that look to be fastened down with screws. Teselka (2011) is a 3d outlined shadow face. Joopica (2011) is a casual face created together with Natsulo Hayashida. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The free OM system fonts can de downloaded here. Problem is, the zip file is corrupt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist from Nova Scotia, Canada (b. 1978). Designer of the artificial language pixel font Galactic Mini (2006) and the handwriting font OhdeeSee (2007). Alternate URL. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Open source fonts
| Based in Ontario, Kevin fights to keep the Open Source sites free of "closed source fonts". These are fonts that, though free, can not be modified if one follows its creator's wishes. He gives as an example the Open Font Library, where one can find Ray Larabie's fonts. As a result of this discussion on Typophile, the Larabie fonts will be removed from Ubuntu, another Open Source site for Linux supporters. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This page contains a nice historical tree explaining how most Indic languages came from from the brahmee script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Our House Graphics
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He created the free dot matrix face Campcraft (2010). The retail version of Campcraft has improved tracking and kerning, a few more glyphs and one (yes, just one) open type feature. It is available in four weights that can be combined to form a multi-layer (chromatic) font. Baro Black (2010) is a fat display face in the piano key or Futura style---it was initially called Bolo. Silex Black (2011) is a pointy octagonal face, characterized by McGorman as Silex Black is a solid, hard-edged, masculine display font suitable for [...] wrestlers or mixed martial arts fighters. Kush Fat and Kush Shade (2011) are plump packaging faces described by McGorman in this way: Kush is what happens when you let your fonts sit around watching cartoons and eating cake and ice-cream all day---when their vectors are freed from constraints and allowed to follow their bliss. Kush has filled its insides to just the other side of contentment and comes to you on a sugar high with a head full of Loony Tunes. And... it's two ply! Typefaces made in 2012: Reo (a fourties truck grill style typeface), Tynne (wedge serif family), Metro Bots (on the theme of city skies), Reo (a retro car grille-inspired typeface). MyFonts link. Dafont link. His blog. . Klingspor link. Abstractfonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer and typographer in Vancouver. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Ottawa-based Paul Albers is the designer of the Startrek font Tron. See also here. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PBinns Design (est. 2012) is located in Toronto, Canada. Creator of Electrical Tape (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Prince George, BC-based free-lance designer of Kaiser (2003, a fun distant display relative of Bodoni and Dalliance), Steampunk Metron (2002), a hookish font, the soft boulder sans serif font Epoch (2003), Coquitlam Gothic (2003), and Abbotsford (2003). At Union Fonts, he created Epoch (2003) and Cosmorton (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pazo math fonts
| Diego Puga from the University of Toronto offers a set of five math fonts (type 1) suitable for typesetting math in combination with the Palatino family of text fonts. Developed in 2000. The LaTeX macro package mathpazo.sty defines the Palatino family as the default roman font and uses the virtual mathpazo fonts, built around the Pazo Math family, for typesetting math in a style that suits Palatino. Puga explains: The mathpazo package builds on Walter Schmidt's mathpple package and has many similarities with it. The main difference is that mathpazo uses the purposefully designed Pazo Math font family instead of slanted versions of some of the Euler fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Basel in 1940, Peter Bartl taught typography, graphic design, photography and computer graphics at the University of Alberta. He retired in British Columbia, where he and Jane Merks run PB+J Press. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Volcano Type in Karlsruhe of the extensive Western font family Gringo (2006): GringoDingbats, GringoTuscan LightNarrow, GringoTuscan Light, GringoTuscan LightWide, GringoTuscan MediumNarrow, GringoTuscan Medium, GringoTuscan MediumWide, GringoTuscan BoldNarrow, GringoTuscan Bold, GringoTuscan BoldWide, GringoSans LightNarrow, GringoSans Light, GringoSans LightWide, GringoSans MediumNarrow, GringoSans Medium, GringoSans MediumWide, GringoSans BoldNarrow, GringoSans Bold, GringoSans BoldWide, GringoSlab LightNarrow, GringoSlab Light, GringoSlab LightWide, GringoSlab MediumNarrow, GringoSlab Medium, GringoSlab MediumWide, GringoSlab BoldNarrow, GringoSlab Bold, GringoSlab BoldWide. Discussion. In 2010, he created a family for type layering called Matryoshka (+Pregnant; scans: i, ii, iii). Brugger studied at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel Schweiz, the Hochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim and at the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design in Halifax, Canada. He teaches typography at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Enneson is an Art Dirctor and Graphic Designer living and working in Toronto. His work has been awarded in design competitons sponsored by the National Magazine Awards Foundation, the Art Directors Club of Toronto, and others. Recently, his "Typographical exploration" of Genesis was selected for inclusion in Type Culture, a Canadian competition. Peter Enneson is preparing a translation of Gerrit Noordzij's "De streek: theorie van het schrift", and a book based on his ATypI 2003 presentation on Henk Krijger's work. He holds a Masters of Philosophy degree in Aesthetics. His writings include a piece on Henk Krijger's 1972 painting "The survivors", and a reply to Peter Burnhill's "Type spaces" in Typography Papers 4, 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Saali | Designer of the Inuktitut fonts ProSyl and ProSyl Bold (1996). They can be downloaded here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Canada Type of Coffee Script (2004, with Patrick Griffin), the digital version of R. Middleton's Wave design for the Ludlow foundry, circa 1962. [Patrick griffin revived Coffee Script in 2010 as Middleton Brush.] Phil Rutter and Rebecca Alaccari designed Almanac (2004), a script face based on Imre Reiner's London Script (1957) (in 2007, superseded by Reiner Hand, a new digitization by Rebecca Alaccari), Tiger Script (2004, based on Georg Trump's wild brush script Jaguar done in 1967 for C. E. Weber; done with Rebecca Alaccari), and Ali Baba (2004), an Arabic simulation face originally designed by Georg Trump as Palomba (1955, C.E. Weber foundry). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Matthew is an American digital artist, b. 1990, who resides in North Carolina. Under the aliases ZapatoDelFuego and Phoenix-Pyre Designs, he has created some free fonts such as Phoenix Grunge (2006). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pierre Guillaume | Printer who runs Atelier Pierre Guillaume in Montreal, where he still uses a Vandercook Hand Press. He has made his own metal typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pinyin fonts for Windows
| Pinyin TT fonts by Daqing (David) Chu of Calgary. "Pinyin is a phonetic system used in Chinese to help people to pronounce Chinese (Mandarin). It has been widely used in the People's Republic of China since 1958. Many none-speaking-Chinese people also find out that this is a very good phonetic system for them to learn Chinese." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Plan Nine Design
| Free fonts by Andrew McMillan (Plan Nine Design): Cowboy Clips (1998, dings), Eva 16, November 16th, Happy Halloween Michelle (1998). I assume that Andrew is Canadian. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
PR Fonts
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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 faces PR Mapping and PR Stars. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. Fontsy link. Dafont link. Castles&Crypts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Their manifesto: Practice Foundry is an independent type foundry and a collective space for showcasing the work of amateur type designers in Vancouver. Our goal is to create a stronger typographic presence in Canada. Typefaces include Fabrica (2011, Vince Lo), Egypt 22 (Ivan Kostynyk), Mimic Roman (2009, Will Longaphie), Collator (2011, Alvin Kwan) and Rytm (2011, Alvin Kwan: renamed Theatre). They operate on a "pay what you want" basis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Proggy Fonts
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Quadrat Communications
| Born in Edmonton in 1957, David Vereschagin set up Quadrat Communications in Toronto (Quadrat Communications, 18 Grenville Street, Suite 1501, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4Y 3B3). A graphic designer by profession, he has made a number of carefully crafted font families such as Spike, Ratcaps (free keycaps sample font available), MyAuntCelia, Farquharson, Clear Prairie Ornaments (1992), Clear Prairie Dawn. A free copy of Farquhason is here. At MyFonts, one can buy Clear Prairie Dawn (Optima-like), Clear Prairie Ornaments, Farquharson (like wood type), My Aunt Celia, Ratcaps, Ratkeys, Spike, Toronto Subway (2004: based on the lettering originally used for station identification and signage in the Toronto subway system, which first opened to the public in 1954. Developed from rubbings of the lettering on station walls and photographs of painted signage.) In 2008, he designed the cool constructivist poster family Kubrick, about the same time as Iconian Fonts' Kubrick family---I hope that they can settle the naming fight amicably. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Toronto-based designer of the artsy fat face Stencil (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian graphic, print and web designer who lives in Toronto. Behance link. His typefaces include the squarish Alphabet Soup (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raphael Studio in Toronto created Cheeni (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Remote Inc (or: StayPretty)
| Staypretty is a type collection that is part of the Toronto-based commercial type collective called Remote Inc, est. 2003 by Mark Herd. MyFonts link. With one exception, the faces are designed by Mark Herd (b. 1972, Toronto), include Tanya (far out experimental), Wellesley (a bouncy display face), Taraville (handprinting), Jean (rectangular lettering), StayPretty and Don Mills. The fonts can be bought at MyFonts. See also SP Isis (minimalist font), SP Jean (a Bank Gothic exaggeration), SP Reka (more minimalism) and SP Tanya (experimental). Tara Rose Guild made the dingbat font family SP Taraville (2002). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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This site is devoted to the study of PostScript. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Fredericton, New Bruswick, who is working on some typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian creator (b. 1991) of the handwriting font Robin's Handwriting (2009, Fontcapture). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Robot Johnny (was: Robotic Attack Fonts)
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Dafont link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rocyl is from Vancouver, BC, b. 1993. She made RL Print (2009) and RunawayLies (2009) from her own handwriting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vancouver, Canada-based graphic design student, who created Archura (2004, a blackletter face: the name stands for Arched Textura). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2007, he became a Design Fellow for Monotype Imaging where he will create new and revived typefaces. In 2008-2009, he created Slate (an 18-style sans family) and Egyptian Slate, both at Monotype. In 2011, Slate was reissued and given a second life, but now as Gibson, with the help of Patrick Griffin and Kevin King at Canada Type. The 8-font Gibson family sells for less than one style of Monotype's Slate. I take it that McDonald's divorce from Monotype is now final. Well, that is just after Rod McDonald created the 14-style Classic Grotesque in 2011 for Monotype. FontShop link. Linotype link. Agfa-Monotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian illustrator. Letterpress is one of his specialties. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Toronto. He created the monoline hairline sans face Verse Light (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian designer who is working on this octagonal font (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Saskatchewan, Canada-based creator of the pixel fonts SD Auto Pilot (2008) and SD LED Screen (2008). FontStruct was used in the process. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sam Sirlin is the author of textib, a Tibetan package for TEX. He also converted Don Stilwell's Gaka font into a metafont. He created gtib, another Tibetan font. On this page, you'll also find Leonardo Gribaudo's BOD, another Tibetan font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sam Smart | Canadian type designer (d. 1998) who helped establish the first Type Directors Club in Toronto. As a tribute, Rod McDonald designed Smart Sans (2004, Agfa Monotype, a bold, compressed, sans serif design in three weights, suited for setting headlines and display copy). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Vancouver-based designer of the Jotting family (handprinting, 1993), Notimeleft (commercial), Comping (commercial), and Bubbalump (free, 1998). Salazar is into corporate branding and logos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian creator of the fashion mag face Bravura (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian type designer best known for her work at Hoefler&Frere-Jones type foundry on such typefaces as Gotham. Ex-student at the University of Reading (MA, 2003) who designed Motet (2003), a text family including a sans and an italic. In 2005, she joined Hoefler&Frere-Jones in their typeface development department. She is working on a superfamily, and has written an in-depth study of the evolution of the sans serif lowercase in the types of the nineteenth century. She has taught type design at Yale School of Art, the Book Arts Institute at Wells College, and New York's School of Visual Arts and the Cooper Type Certificate Program. Her typefaces:
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Science Technology Centre Font Page
| Free TrueType chess font ChessDW. And CU-SYMBOL is another dingbat font with Canadian symbols, chess figurines, icons and Carleton University symbols. All developed by Douglas Wong. Alternate site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Scooter Graphics (Fonts by Marty Pfeiffer)
| Public domain fonts designed by Marty Pfeiffer (Vancouver). Some gorgeous fonts such as the experimental font Simga or Moris Script. The full list includes Epsy Serif, Epps Evans, Nu Sans, Epsy Sans-Tight, Midnight, Pfeiffer Tall, Jubal Sans, Virtue (based on Apple's Chicago and Charcoal fonts), Especial Kay, Marty Bold, Moris Script, Nu Casual, Calypso Boy (after Excoffon's Calypso, 1958), Electrode, Freak, Ground Slither, Scooter Boy, Simga, Nu Sans Monospaced, lower, Nu Serif. Also commercial fonts such as the cash-register lookalike font Receipt 1.0. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Screenfont.ca
| Joe Clark (Toronto) is developing special fonts for captioning and subtitling for TV and film. Joe's motto is Watching TV is bad enough. Reading TV shouldn't be worse. Two interesting sub-pages: Here he explains the difference between captioning and subtitling. Captions are basically for the deaf, and are manually turned on. They not only describe what is said or heard but also mention or show things about the intonation, style, language, or nature of the voices or sounds. Subtitling is mostly used to translate. It is generally automatically turned on, and shown at the bottom of the screen. On this page, Joe lists the main issues with captioning and subtitling and lists the many problems with popular subtitling faces such as Bitstream's Tiresias or Monotype's Arial. Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sean Arnett Type Foundry (was: corduroy)
| The Sean Arnett Type Foundry used to be called "Corduroy". This Canadian foundry sells about 175 fonts at 55 dollars a piece. The list: ALCHEMEY, AMSTERDAM, ANALOG, APRICOT, ARISTOTLE, BADLY DRAWN BOY, BALI EYES, BARREL OF A GUN, BARREL OF A GUN 2, BI - POLAR BEAR, BLITZKRIEG BOP, BROKEN, BUDDY HOLLY, BULLET, BULLETPROOF, BUTTERFLY, CAKE, CATERPILLAR, CHEMISTRY, CLEOPATRA, CLOSE TO ME, CONTINENTAL, CONTINENTAL EXTENDED, CONTINENTAL EXTENDED WIDE, CONTINENTAL OUTLINE, CONTINENTAL OUTLINE CLEAR, DEVOTION, DIESEL, DR. NO, EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, ELVIS, ELVIS PRESLEY, ELVIS PRESLEY BOLD, ELVIS PRESLEY OUTLINE, ELVIS PRESLEY OUTLINE ZEBRA, EMBRACE, ESCTASY, EUROPA, EVEL KENIEVEL, EVEL KENIEVEL BROKEN, FANTA, FLAMENCO, FLAVOUR FLAV, FRANK SINATRA, FREESTATE BOLD OUTLINE, FREESTATE CHROME, FREESTATE OUTLINE, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, FUTURAMA, GASOLINE, GAS PANIC, GINGER, GIRAFFE, GIRAFFE OUTLINE, GIRAFFE OUTLINE BOLD, GIRAFFE SHADOW, GOLDFISH, GUS GUS, GYPSEY KINGS, HAPPINESS, HASH PIPE, HEPBURN, HEPBURN BOLD, HEPBURN BOLD OUTLINE, HEPBURN OUTLINE, HOWDY, INSIGHT, INSIGHT BOLD, INSIGHT HIGHLIGHT, INSIGHT OUTLINE, INSIGHT THIN, INSTRUCTIONS, IRONWORK, IRONWORK BORDER, JESUS SAVES, JO JO'S JACKET, JOHNNY CASH, KEE WEE, KEE WEE BOLD, KEE WEE OUTLINE, KEE WEE OUTLINE OUTLINED, KEE WEE SMOOTH, KEE WEE SMOOTH OUTLINED, KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME, KUBRICK, LED ZEPPELIN, LEONARDO DA VINCI, LEONARDO DA VINCI SYMBOLS, LICORICE, LOU REED, LUSH, MARLON BRANDO, MARTINI, MATADOR, MEGATRON, MEMENTO, MEMPHIS, METRO, METRO BLOCK, MOLECULE, MONET, MONET SYMBOLS, MOONLIGHT DRIVE, MUTATIONS, NEIL FINN, NERO, NICO, OASIS, ODELAY!, ONES AND ZEROS, ORBIT, PARIS, PEIGNOT, PENGUIN, PETROGLYPHS AFRICAN, PEZ, PIXEL BUBBLE BUBBLE, PIXEL CONDENSED HV, PIXEL CONDENSED, PIXEL CURVED EXTENDED, PIXEL CURVED HV, PIXEL SPACE INVADERS, PIXEL SQUARE, PIXEL SQUARE EXTENDED, PIXEL SQUARE HV, PIXEL SQUASHED, PIXEL TECHNO, POPSICKLE, POSTCRYPT, QUICKDRAW, RAMONES, RAYGUN, RAYGUN OUTLINE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, REVOLVER, RUN LOLA RUN, SAUL BASS, SCRABBLE, SEAHORSE, SEAWEED, SIGNAL ONE, SIGNAL TWO, SPIDERWEB, SPUTNIK, STEPHEN MALKMUS, STEREOPHONICS, STYLOROUGE, STRAWBERRY FIELDS, SUPERGRASS, SUPERMAN, SWANSONG, SWEETHEART, TAHITIAN MOON, TELEVISION, TROPICALIA, TECHINCOLOR©, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE OYSTER (DO NOT FEED), THE STROKES, TIGER THE LION, TURNTABLE, USELINK, VELOCITY, VENICE, VERTIGO, VESPA, VESPERTINE, VINCENT SYMBOLS, VINCENT VAN GOGH, VIOLATION, WATER AND A SEAT, WILLIE NELSON, WOODY, WOWEE ZOWEE. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian creator of the spiky stencil face Tatted Teez Canada (2011, FontStruct, based on Wallachia by intaglio). In 2012, he made Al Kisah (handprinted), The Modern Pirates, Extrakrebel 1987 (a daggered typeface) and Aurilia Nurlazikana (a spurred adventure movie typeface). Aka Extrak Rebel. At Dafont, we read that he was born in 1987 in Indonesia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sebastian Kosch (b. 1989, Germany) studies Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. He designed the open license garalde font family Crimson Text (2010), which is part of the Google open font directory. This was followed by Crimson (2011) and Crimson Bold (2011). Free downloads at OFL and here. His motto: free as in both "free beer" and "freedom." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and photographer in Toronto. Creator of Collier Roman (2012), a typeface in the style of University Roman. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paul Gershon Vandenbrink's pages. He proposes a revised version of the Shavian alphabet, by adding a set of auxiliary vowel markers. Glottal stops are taken care of by a proposed vowel capitalization. No new fonts (yet), but there is a biography of George Bernard Shaw, and a history of the Shavian alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ontario-based freelance web designer, b. 1985. He created the free pixel face phkk (2007). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian creator of the garffiti font Phoenix Boldy (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shinn Type
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Shinn Type fonts at MyFonts. Behance link. He is the designer of Fontesque (a wild family of curly glyphs), the monospaced font Monkey Mono, Artefact (1999), Beaufort (a sharply serifed family; in 2008, he published a 10-style extension called Beaufort Pro), Bodoni Egyptian (1999), Alphaville (2000, straight mono-width strokes), Brown, Brown Gothic, Duffy Script (2008, in 4 styles: an interpretation of the lettering of contemporary illustrator Amanda Duffy, aka Losergirl), Handsome (1999, cursive handwriting family, since 2005 available in OpenType), Merlin, Oneleigh (masterful!!), Paradigm (1995, updated in 2008, inspired by 15th century letterforms), Shinn, Walburn (1996) [note: Walburn and Brown were originally commissioned for the 2000 redesign of the Globe and Mail. Walburn is an adaptation of a didone typeface by Erich Walbaum, c.1800], Worldwide (1999). In 2001, he designed the Richler font in honour of the memory of Mordecai Richler. The Richler font is currently only available to the Giller Prize, Random House and the Richler family. In 2002, he published Goodchild (a Jenson revival) and the liquid lettering family Morphica, exclusively at Veer. In 2003, he released the absolutely gorgeous "modern" sans Eunoia (which has a unicase weight), and the quirky sans family Preface (2003; Preface Thin is a hairline weight; Preface Light is free at FontShop). Veer also sells his spectacular monowidth unicase family, Panoptica (2003). In 2005, he created Nicholas, a serif family, which is the headline version of Goodchild. Additions in 2006 include Softmachine (VAG Rounded/comic book style family). Sexy type from Toronto is an article by Erin Kobayashi about Shinn's work published in the Toronto Star on April 15, 2007. Nick Shinn designed the type for the redesign of The Globe and Mail in April 2007: Globe and Mail Text [look at the f], Globe and Mail Sans (or GM Sans), Globe and Mail News (or GM News). In 2008, these faces went retail. One face is called Pratt, named after David Pratt, the design director at The Globe and Mail who commissioned the face for his redesign of the paper. The companion face will be called Pratt Sans. Additions in 2008: Figgins Sans (4 styles), Scotch Modern (a 5 style didone family that revives the typeface used in New York State Cabinet of Natural History), Scotch Micro. Paul Shaw writes: Scotch Roman, beloved by D.B. Updike and W.A. Dwiggins, was a standard in the typographic repertoire of pre-World War II printers but fell out of favor after the war, supplanted by Bodoni. Nick Shinn of Shinntype has made a bid to resurrect this oft-maligned face with Scotch Modern. Scotch Modern is not a revival of the familiar Scotch Roman of Linotype and Monotype, but of a more modern design attributed to George Bruce, the great 19th-century New York punchcutter. Shinn used a sample of the face from the New York State Cabinet of Natural History's 23rd Annual Report for the Year 1869 (printed in 1873) as a model. He drew it by eye, aided by a sharp loupe: no photographic enlargements, no scans, no tracing. The ends of the strokes are slightly rounded, to capture the effect of metal type being impressed into soft paper. Shinn contends that the 19th-century Scotch types were "eminently readable" and a factor in the rise of modern literacy. His rendition, an OpenType font, aims for readability in all situations with display, regular, and microtype versions. The display roman includes a unicase font-a nod to Bradbury Thompson's Alphabet 26 experiment-and the italic has elegant swash caps. Scotch Roman has never been a face for those seeking eternal beauty or anyone desperate for typographic kicks. Dwiggins gave it a 10 for legibility (where 10 was "reasonable human perfection") but only 4 for grace and 0 for novelty. Shinn's Scotch Modern, with its many OpenType extras, scores well on all three counts. It's a face for those who prefer a mature single malt: simple at first, but more complex as it is savored. Photograph. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, his talk was entitled Scotch Modern. Several catalogs have been published by Shinntype. Particularly noteworthy is The Modern Suite (2008, Nick Shinn, Coach House Press, Toronto), which showcases Figgins Sans and Scotch Modern. Sample of some Scotch Modern dingbats. Production in 2010: Sensibility (a humanist sans superfamily), Sense (a modernist sans superfamily), Bodoni Egyptian Pro (a monoline slab Bodoni experiment---the Pro version of a 1999 family by him). More images of sense and Sensibility: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii. In 2011, he created Checker, an all caps 3d black and white-tiled typeface, and Parity (a roman unicase pair). [Google]
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Designer at Canada Type of Boyscout (2004), which is based on her son's handwriting. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Interactive typography, letterform appreciation art magazine. Free subscription. Has feature articles, tips, a gallery and reviews. Run by Rod McDonald from Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner with Kemie Guaida in 1998 of Soli (Pixilate Designs, Sweden), a typeface that is based on an architect's handwriting. That typeface can now be bought at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Splorp.com
| Grant Hutchinson's blog. Grant founded Veer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tikkana is a truetype font designed by Sri T. Desikachary, who is based in Winnipeg, Canada. Changes were made by Prasad Chodavarapu and Sri Ramana Juvvadi. See also here, here and here, where one can download the Tikkana fonts (truetype and type 1) for Telugu. These fonts are free under the GNU license. Prasad A. Chodavarapu also explains how to install the fonts for X-Windows/UNIX users. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
St. Rachan Typeworks
| Free fonts by Jim Strachan (Canada): Bibliotheque, Cigarstore, D'Italia (nice stencil font), Mumblypegs (1999), Medieval Scribish (1999, Lombardic), Stampede (1999). Several medieval fonts. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer from Kitchener (b. 1984) who created the irregular handwriting font Stefan Handwrite (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Stefanie (2009, handprinted using Fontcapture). Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian graduate (b. Ottawa) from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. He grew up in Halifax. Interested through his wife in the Mayan culture, Steve designed the typeface Yukatek at Reading. His motivation: A modern text typeface for books, with custom features for Mayan languages. In 2011, Steve joined the Adobe Type Team. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer (b. 1973) of Strassman Script (2009, Fontcapture). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian graphic and web designer. Creator of the Circular Alphabet (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stylus
| Headline and revival type by this Toronto-based company (Stylus), run by Rod McDonald. Fonts include Bodoni Open Condensed (Rod McDonald, 1993), Fanfare Recu (Louis Oppenheim, 1927, revival by Rod McDonald, 1993; Canada Type made Louis in 2012), Goudy Globe Gothic (revival by Rod McDonald, 1993), Loyalist Condensed (Rod McDonald, 1993), Regency Gothic (Rod McDonald, 1992). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian digital artist. Creator of the handprinted and flowy SwingScript2 (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sylvestre Studios
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Canadian designer of Linotype Rory (1997) and Linotype Dummy (1997). FontShop link. Linotype Dummy is an Escheresque optical illusion face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Tanya Chong | Ex-student of Nick Shinn in Toronto who made the unicase graffiti face Flow in 2003 at York University. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer (b. Hamilton, 1980) at the Staypretty Type Collection/Remote Inc in Toronto of the dingbat font family SP Taraville (2002). See also here and here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian youngster, b. 1991. Creator of the handprinted fonts Tchy (2009) and Ozul Script (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Originally from Tirana, Albania, Taulant now lives in Ottawa. Using an on-line tool called Harmony, he drew the Insane Graphic Typeface in 2010. Taulant is an illustrator. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TechnoFace Digital Type Foundry
| Val Fullard is the Toronto-based designer of the Latin-American semi-dingbats font family Mambo (1992, FontShop, a Mexican simulation face), and of Science (Agfa), Deluxe (fifties styler font), Mariachi and FunkedUp (free). List of links. FontFont write-up. Agfa bio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Ontario College of Art&Design University (OCADU) who lives in Toronto. He created the Asian simulation face Postskrit (2011), which as inspired by Sanskrit script and Roman ligature forms. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tired of looking for a Canadian flag in a font, I made one myself, and named it after Julius Grey. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nice pages by Nicolas Fabian on Canadian type. He writes about Eskimo languages: "Most Eskimo groups use Roman orthography while the eastern Arctic Inuits employ unique syllabic characters. For the Inuits it was a matter of luck and it depended on which missionary group they happen to come in contact with. The very first time, in 1742 in Greenland, the spoken Eskimo language was transcribed using the Roman alphabet by Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary. In the 19th century some of the other Eskimo language groups were transcribed by special customized orthography using the Roman alphabet with the addition of special characters and unique accents. In the 1970s the written language was simplified to employ only the basic characters of the Roman alphabet. The syllabic characters were introduced to eastern Arctic Inuits in 1855 with borrowed characters from the Cree and Ojibwa languages. In the western Arctic, Roman orthography is used and in 1976 a systematic orthography in the Roman alphabet was proposed for all the Inuit of Canada." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Lindsay Holton files
| We document the case of Lindsay Holton, who designed the hand-drawn typeface Lindsay in 1980. Players in the sad story about how she was misled, lied to, and cheated, include Letraset, urw++, ITC, Monotype and FontHaus. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Type Club of Toronto
| The Type Club of Toronto is headed by Brian Maloney, who is the Club's Director. The aim of the Club is to "promote typography." The Club hold events four to six time per year with with one or two presenters, usually at the Arts&Letters Club at 14 Elm Street in downtown Toronto. It was founded by Rod McDonald and Martyn Anstice. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian founder (with Yuri Yarmola) of FontLab, where he is Presidnt. MD (1975) and MBA from Wharton. At ATypI in Rome in 2002 he spoke about Fontlab 4, but more importantly, about a new font format, called Photofonts that allows complete typographic control of web pages yet retains all the benefits of standard HTML text. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about EULAs, font licensing and FontLab. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on EULA's, once again, and about Fontgrapher V, all fresh and revived. I got a chuckle from this quote of his at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City: Fonts are the Rodney Dangerfield of software. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font technology expert who runs his own type tech blog. Thomas Phinney was in Adobe's type group from 1997 until December 2008, mostly as Product Manager for Fonts&Global Typography, based in Seattle. At Adobe, he was involved in the technical, design, historical and business aspects of type, and worked closely with other font developers and customers. He has a Master's degree in typography and design from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In 2008, he joined Extensis, where he is senior product manager for font solutions. He created Geode (2004, Adobe) and Hypatia Sans (2005-2007, Adobe, an elegant geometric sans family, complete with coverage of East European languages, Greek and Cyrillic). Hypatia Sans Pro (2009) is a more complete family that was finished with the help of Paul Hunt. In 2012, he started work on Cristoforo, a revival of Hermann Ihlenburg's Victorian typeface Columbus (1890, ATF) and its accomapnying American Italic, also by Ihlenburg. Kickstarter project. Phinney notes that it is known as the typeface of Call of Cthulhu, the H.P. Lovecraft roleplaying game, and as the original logo for Cracker Jack. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the demise of multiple masters, and the future of OpenType and type 1. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he announced the phasing out of type 1 at Adobe. He has spoken at nearly all of the TypeTech parts of the annual ATypI meetings. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about web fonts and on OpenType. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. His talk at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik is entitled TSI: Type Scene Investigations. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type designer, b. 1967, Amsterdam, who now works in Dundas Valley, Ontario, Canada, in pre-press and the print trade. He has had wonderous encounters with other type designers. He made 47 digital typefaces. As far as I can tell, no sales, and no downloads. Behance link. A partial list:
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Tibetan metafonts, and help files for the use of Tibetan in TeX and LaTeX. The metafont is by Sam Sirlin. Other pieces of code, including LaTeX Tibetan, are by Jeff Sparkes (Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland). Dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tim Lucke | Vancouver, BC-based designer whose first typeface is Mothership Connection 3030 (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. Creator of the fat pixel face BitFont (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tipogram
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Tiresias: Critique by Joe Clark
| Joe Clark (Toronto) deflates the balloon blown up by Bitstream regarding John Gill's Tiresias, which was specially developed for screen captioning. His main points:
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Tiro Polyglot Fonts offers Pigiarniq, a free Inuktitut font family made by Wm. Ross Mills (Tiro) for the Government of Nunavut, Canada. It also has Uqammaq which was developed for Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated. The web site also contains useful information on the history of various North American scripts, and is maintained by Wm. Ross Mills. See also here for Pigiarniq. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ross Mills Hudson at Tiro Typeworks makes these fonts for native (Canadian) Indian languages available to the public: Euphemia (2004), Pigiarniq (2001-2002), Uqammaq (2002). Euphemia covers most languages which use the Canadian Syllabic script including various Cree orthographies, Inuktitut and the historical Carrier/Dakelh script (dulkw'ahke). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tiro TypeWorks
| John Hudson and Wm. Ross Mills, the co-founders of Tiro Typeworks, design wonderful top-of-the-line fonts in Vancouver. From the TIRO web page: "TIRO TYPEWORKS is an independent digital type foundry developing&marketing high quality typeface families for PC and Mac platforms. Our commitment is to continuing the independent tradition of typography, as it has existed for more than five hundred years, free from the influence of fashion and novelty." Agfa write-up. Tiro is increasingly involved in font technologies, and are avid advertisers for OpenType and work often with Microsoft and Linotype on projects. Interview in 2008 byy Hiba Studio. Tiro's typefaces:
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Tofino Type
| Tofino Type is located in Kelowna, BC, Canada. 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. An earlier site, Pete's Oasis was run when Pete was in Yellowknife. At that time he offered free fonts such as Extravagant Pete (2003), a gorgeous rococco font, as well as Extravagant Pete 3D, Fantastic Pete (medieval ornamental script), ComicPieces, GuiltyPieces, HollowPieces, MentalPieces, MetalPieces, MightyPieces, MoldyPieces, Pieces, PlainPieces, Scream In Pain, SillyPieces, SolidPieces, SorryPieces, StickyPieces, ThickPieces (2004), Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental face with 4,200 glyphs) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tony Pankson (Brampton, Ontario) made eight Laotian fonts, and gives them away for free. He is asking 10 dollars to help Wat Lao, so please support him. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based foundry, located on Bay Street. It was active in the late 19th century, and published a specimen book on wood type: "Wood Type" (1897). It went out of business in 1967 and was taken over by Howard Graphic Equipment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sean (Toronto Zoo) is based in Toronto. He designed the alphading face Toronto Zoo Penguins (2011) for the Toronto Zoo's new Endangered African Penguins. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Traumae
| XXIIVV is the digital playground of Devine Lu Linvega, born David Mondou-Labbe, a french illustrator and programmer from Montreal. He is into artificial languages. FontStructor who made Septambres (2010), Septambres Neau (2011), Echo, Ehrivnv July (2010), Ehrivnv V Experience (2009), and Ehrivnv V Lo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian programmer (b. 1989) who created the Super Mario-inspired face Pipe Dream (2007). Fontspace link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Truck fonts
| Original designs such as TRUCK Conky Choo Driver, a dingbat font by Chris Stone. Don Weber's grungy Truck Novembre Gruppe, Truck Rocketry by Truck Armstrong, and truck transmission by Steve Wilson can also be downloaded. Latest addition: Mandible Mama (by Truck Armstrong as well). The new page seems a dead end, so Truck Fonts was revived by CybaPee at typOasis. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ghostscript-based program by Thomas H. Barton for creating a PostScript Type 42 font file from a TrueType font file. The included C program ShowAllGlyphs creates a PostScript program which shows all the glyphs defined by the font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
William Zhang's free program "converts BIG5 True Type Fonts to GB True Type Fonts and vice versa. It also converts GB files from/to BIG5 files. It is a WIN32 program running on Windows 95 and NT." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tweektype
| Graphic design place, often involved in custom type design. Typefaces by Peter Zak of Tweektype in Toronto include Julie Script and a script face for the Humber Institute of Technology. They write: We have lectured on type related issues at York University, Humber Polytechnic and George Brown College in Toronto, Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typadelic
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Fonts from 2011: Pink Lemonade (child's hand), Little Sunshine (Open, Solid: slightly Victorian letters), Gaffer, Ruff N Ready, Elisabeth (rough-edged antiqua), Miss Demeanor (based on 1930s script), Wee Todd (2011, kid's hand), Crush (grunge). FontShop link. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Type Initiative
| Type Initiative is a typefounding and design collective based in Canada and Greece. It was co-founded by type designers Michail Semoglou and Keith Chi-hang Tam, who are both graduates of the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK, in 2005. In 2005, they joined the type coop Village, where you can buy their typeface Arrival (2005). Michail Semoglou, who is based in Thessaaloniki, was commissioned in 2005 by The Secretariat of Research and Development (EDET), at the Greek Ministry of Industry, to design a serif and a sans for the Greek Open Source Community to be used by all the Greek public administration. Michail Semoglou works as a calligrapher and type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
TypeArt Foundry (or: Digiteyes Multimedia TypeArt Foundry)
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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. View the TypeArt typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typefonts.html newsletter
| Newsletter created by Taylor Andrews, who made the font "Possibly". [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typeworx | Short-lived Toronto-based commercial foundry (2002-2003). The fonts included: PlumeroScript (2002, a sublime connected handwriting font by Diego Giaccone). Reflex (2002, a unicase techno-style font family by Alejandro Paul), Domingo and DomingoAlternates (2002, a funky sans serif pair by Ariel Garofalo) and Frisco (2002, a gorgeous fat didone face by Fredrick Nader). Freddy Nader continues his general advertising and graphic design work at Hardcover Communications. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The Typodermic fonts:
Catalog of the Typodermic library in decreasing order of popularity. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typsettra
| Toronto-based type house and foundry run by the most famous of all Canadian type designers, Leslie Usherwood (1932-1983). Usherwood studied at the Beckenham School of Art, and practiced as a lettering artist in the commercial art field for 15 years. Typesettra was created in 1968, and had more than four type designers in the early eighties. In 1977, Typsettra began designing original typefaces for Berthold, Letraset and ITC. Other designers associated with Typsettra included David Anderson. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
UCAS font
| "This font implements the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics encoding as defined in Michael Everson's pDAM and includes some additional characters that were missing from the original proposal. " This is the BallymunRO family by Ronald B. Ogawa, 1999, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It has characters for Cyrillic, Greek, Cree, Naskapi, Ojibwe and Inuktitut. See also here for these fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ulric Auger posts some links to font sites. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Affiliated with the University of Toronto, Massey College has material on the history of printing, papermaking, bookbinding, palaeography, calligraphy, and type design. The collections also include the papers of Canadian graphic designers Carl Dair and Allan Fleming. The Robertson Davies Library, Massey College, is located at 4 Devonshire Place, one block east of St George and one block south of Bloor Street in Toronto. Check also the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library nextdoor, which includes the Cooper and Beatty Collection [over one thousand broadsides, pamphlets and books from the Canadian typographic firm of Cooper and Beatty, including Christmas cards and advertisements of its services. Designers represented are Stuart Ash, Tony Crawford, Carl Dair, Jim Donoahue, Allan Fleming, Tony Mann, Jake Sneep, and W.E. "Jack" Trevett]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The University of Toronto generously scans in many old copyright-free books, including many texts on typography and type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of Cindy's Handwriting (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Indian-born tudent at KABK, Den Haag, who also claims Canada as his residence. He designed ConsoleFont (2010), a (free) typeface in which all letters are inspired by elements of a computer. Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vaughn (b. 1986) is based in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He created the pixelish face UNDATAME (2009), as well as Vinc. Dafont link. Urban Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of Adobe, Alias, Red Rooster, Shinn Type, Letraset Fontek and Device fonts. Shinn Type's Morphica exclusively here. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jason Walcott's Jukebox Type Foundry, and adds it to the Test Pilot Collective Foundry whose faces it also sells exclusively. One of the founding members is Calgary-based type designer Grant Hutchinson. One of the sub-collections is called Umbrella. In 2004, they added a few faces from Fountain and Font Bureau. New type announcements. In 2007, Veer was bought by Corbis, a Bill Gates company. Typographers predicted that Veer would disappear soon after that, but this did not happen. Finally, on January 2, 2012, we learn that Veer will not be acquiring and selling licences for new typefaces. The collection will be frozen in time. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian designer of ITC TotSpots (1997). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Villatype
| Mandy Milks' blog about type found in public spaces. See also here. Based in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Vince Lo is a communication designer currently working and living in Vancouver Canada, where he recently graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a Bachelor of Design. In 2011, he created the Collator family at Practice Foundry: Collator is a typeface designed to achieve greater harmony between Chinese characters and Latin letterforms when set together. | |
Vladvertising Studio
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Wahiba Bukhari is a graphic designer located in Toronto and a graduate of the York University/Sheridan Institute Specialized Honours Bachelor of Design program. She created One Eighty (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer at Apostrophic Labs of some geometric dingbats such as Ovulution I and Ovulution II (Wayne Sharpe). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wendy Elliott | Designer of the free Canadian native font Nakaway. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian graphic, web and type designer in Vancouver. Behance link. His typefaces there:
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Designer (b. Vancouver, 1970) of high-quality faces at Tiro Typeworks in Vancouver, which he co-founded with John Hudson. He created Plantagenet (1995, a great transitional type family: the OpenType extension of 2004 is called Plantagenet Novus), 1530 Garamond (1994), and Academia (1995), three full font families. Academia2 (Mills, 2006-2007) is a complete redesign of the 1996 sans family. In 2000, Tiro was commissioned by the government of the new Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut to design a set of Inuktitut and Latin script fonts. That font family is called Pigiarniq (Mills; see also here). He is working on Maxwell (also since 2005), a text face designed for the typesetting of mathematical and scientific texts. With Marian Bantjes, he created the ornamental font Restraint (2007), which won an award at TDC2 2008. The book family Huronia was designed from 2005-2010. The Pro version, which is currently in development, expands upon the standard character/glyph set, with targeted language and script support for languages of the Americas, including Canadian Syllabics, Cherokee, Latin and Latin derivatives for Americanist orthographies, IPA and support for arbitrary accent positioning. Polytonic Greek will also be included in the Pro version. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Essay by Nick Shinn on typefaces designed by Canadians. Copy of a paper in "Graphic Exchange". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Yukon Native Language Centre, or YNLC, created the YNLC Csrefi font package (truetype) which can be used for eight Yukon languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zal Moxe | Design student in Toronto, who is working on this unicase font (2005) which combines OCR with Startrek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Zang-O-Fonts
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Among the not-so-free fonts, I like Marc Anthony (an irregular Times-Roman), Boochie and the display fonts Brody and Duesenberg (1996). Newer fonts include Pillowbiter, Shiloh, Lush (1996), Streamliner, McGurdy, Tiramisu, Dexy (1998---the typical retro techno look), Zygose, Eight (2002, geometric font), Lightspeed (1997), Thik, the Carmichael Theorum, Lawyerbait (2002), Koobler (2003, a lively roman font), Obsessed (2011, Monotype Imaging), Perpetuity, Thrombolus, Thik, Nuclear Standard, and CharleyStyle (1999). Showcase of Zang-O-Fonts's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Canadian designer of the handprinted face Hyperbole (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian creator of the handprinted typeface Ducky (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish fonts: links, explanations, code tables, maintained by Zbigniew Koziol. Read about the following codings of the special Polish characters: Mazovia, Dom Handlowy Nauki, Cyfromat, Microvex, LOGIC, IEA = Instytut Energii Atomowej w Swierku, IBM Latin-2 (DOS - Latin-2, CP852), ISO Latin-2 (ISO-8859-2), CP1250 = Microsoft Windows Code Page 1250, also called a Latin-2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zetafonts (Tangram Studio)
| At 40 dollars per font, Peter von Zezschwitz's Durham, Ontario-based company digitized Art Nouveau designs created by M.J. Gradl, Philip Morris and other of their less well-known contemporaries. Mac or Windows. Great-looking faces. Not to be confused with the foundry ZETAFonts! Fontnames: Gradler, Greta, Gretchen, Heinisch, Kaiser (minimalist unicase font), Lydia (drop caps), Florentia, Mahlau (has also astrological symbols), Mirror, Odilia, Morelia, Pinks, Ramona, Blautopf (Fraktur), Vintago (caps). Odilia, Vintago and Morelia are beautiful Uncial/Celtic fonts. I say "Bravo!". Write-up at FontNews. Feena Casual and others are free at Eksten. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Nick Shinn ran an interesting project in his 2009 class at Humber College in Toronto. In the 1950s, Toronto built a subway system [which is run by the TTC, the Toronto Transit Commission], with comprehensively modernist architecture. As part of the program, a geometric, all-caps typeface was designed (anonymously), for use in signage [read 
Student at OCAD University, who created 
Designer in Toronto (b. 1986, Siberia) who has some nice botanical illustrations in her 
Canadian graphic and type designer who lives in Vancouver. 
By The Font is a Canadian typeface and clip-art design and vanity press operation, run by Pastor Alex and Kelly Klages. The name was chosen in reflection of the Lutheran faith of its founders. Free fonts include some 
Foundry in Canada, est. 2004 by Rebecca Alaccari in Toronto, and run by her and Patrick Griffin. 
Chad Geran is a cartoonist and illustrator in Regina, Canada. 
Graphic design student at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto. He created the art deco multiline face 
Designer at the Open Font Library of 
Czech designer (b. Brno) who graduated in Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno in 2005, spent a term at the Denmark's Designskole in Copenhagen in 2004 and graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design at the 
Great fonts for astrology, hieroglyphics, alchemy and the occult, by Toronto's Jan and Denise Koehler, mostly designed between 1993 and 1995. They moved to Litomerice, the Czech Republic, recently. 
Partner of Jan Koehler in 
J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier (GautFonts) was born in Montreal in 1964, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. His fonts from 2005, many of them reworked versions of earlier fonts by him: BarrelOfMonkeys, Beethoven, Burris, BurrisBlack, BurrisBlackShootout, BurrisShootout, ChainFontBlack, ChainFontOpen, ChangChang, ChangChangWoodcut, DirtyDarren, FireStarter, FrootStand, GriffinDucks, Jenna Myles, LollipopLettering, Lymphnodes, PooCorny, PooSmooth, Quake3ArenaBats (scanbats), 
Graphic designer, aka Ivan K or Ivan Kay, who lives in Toronto. Creator of 
Designer in Edmonton, Alberta, who created the techno family Powers (2011), the squarish monoline family 
One of the great contemporary type designers whose creations had a lot of flair, individuality, and charm. Based in New Westminster (near Vancouver, BC), 
FontStructor who made DB Brick VANOC in 2010. He writes about this gridded face: This font is based off BD Brick. It was used by VANOC (Vancouver Olympic Committee) as a secondary typeface in the 2010 Winter Olympics. [
Canadian creator (b. Regina, SK) of the free faces Subway Novella (2011, grunge), Death From Above (2011, grunge), My Girl is Retro (2011, grunge), 
Kevin Allan King is from Toronto. In 2010, he co-designed Robur and 
Canadian designer of the experimental face 
Torontonian creator of a lovely typographic poster entitled 
The Lanston Type Co was based in PEI, Canada, moved in 2002 to Vancouver, and moved later that year to Espoo, Finland. In 2004, 
Well over 500 original designs by 
The most famous Canadian type designer (1932-1983). Usherwood studied at the Beckenham School of Art, and practiced as a lettering artist in the commercial art field for 15 years. Typesettra was created in 1968, and had more than four type designers in the early eighties. In 1977, Typsettra began designing original typefaces for Berthold, Letraset and ITC. Usherwood's typefaces: 
Calgary-based designer of 
Type designer. The 
Type and graphic designer in Jerusalem, where he studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He also did one exchange student term at OCAD in Toronto. 
MyFonts hit list for Canada Type. [
Born in Takamatsu, Kagawa-ken, Japan, in 1984, Natsuko is a Canadian-educated graphic designer who created the high school handwriting fonts Geisha Holiday (2008) and Exchange Student (2008, Okaycat), and the dingbat fonts Little Japan (2008, exquisite Japanese dingbats) and Trees of Africa (2008, Okaycat). Hand Cursive and Stitch Cursive (2009) are upright connected scripts. Ribbon Cursive (2009) was developed from Mercator's Italic Hand. 3D Blocky (2009) is a hand-drawn 3-D font done with Luke William Turvey at Okaycat. Art of Japanese Calligraphy (2009, Okaycat) is a kanji font with calligraphic glyphs. With Luke William Turvey, she did Rustic Stamp (2009, grungy). 
Russell McGorman (b. 1954) runs 
Type designer at Canada Type. 
Peter Rempel (b. 1958) is a Winnipeg-based calligrapher. 
This pixel and bitmap font site is the home of the Proggy programmer's fonts (Proggy Clean, Proggy Square, Proggy Small, and Proggy Tiny, all made in 2004 by the website owner, Tristan Grimmer) as well as a number of contributed programming fonts (Crisp (2003, by Chris Pine), Speedy (by Walter Reel), CodingFontTobi1 (by Tobias Werner), PixelCarnageMonoTT (2004, by Roman J. Lewis, aka "The Wolf"), and Opti and Opti Small (by Nicolas Botti)). It is also the home of two other proportional bitmap fonts for use on web pages (Webby Caps and Webby Small). Several people have contributed to these fonts: Karl Landström to Proggy Clean, Christian Winkler to the Proggy fonts, and Simon Renstrom to Proggy Clean. 
Torontonian creator of a beautiful and thought-provoking 
Author of 
Original shareware fonts designed by Johnny Martz of Kitchener, Ontario. Font list: 
Toronto-based type designer who made the great 
Ross Milne (b. 1985) works and lives in Vancouver, Canada where he studied at the Emily Carr University. After graduating with a degree in Communication Design (2007), he moved to Den Haag, where he studied type design at the 
Nick Shinn (b. London, 1952) is an art director and type designer. He teaches at York University in Toronto, and is a founding member of the Type Club of Toronto. He writes regularly for Graphic Exchange magazine, and has contributed to Applied Arts, Marketing, Design, and Druk. He founded Shinn Type in 1999, and made fifteen type families. 
Silvio is the Toronto-based designer of ITC Napoleone Slab (2001) and the Greek simulation font family 
New Westminster, BC-based foundry of 
Born in Lincoln, UK, in 1942, 
TypeArt is the commercial foundry of Lloyd Springer (Vancouver). 
Ray Larabie (b. 1970) 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. 
Design studio in Toronto. Run by 
Zang-O-Fonts is a foundry in Guelph, Ontario, run by Jamie Nazaroff. [They used to be located in Orangeville, Ontario.] Nazaroff specializes in techno fonts. There are a few free fonts such as Stylechild (2003), Chemo, Slowhand, TechnoviaCaps and Gustavus. 
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