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[Headline set in Bodoni Ornamental (2009, Michael Hagemann), after an original design from the 1820s by an unknown designer (not Giambattista Bodoni)]








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2D Typo
[Lukyan Turetskyy]

Lviv-based Ukrainian designer (b. 1979) of the octagonal stencil typeface Depot Trapharet (2006, brutalist), and of the free car rallye dingbat typeface Rallye Symbols (2008). Dafont link.

In 2010, he went commercial as 2D Typo. The first typeface at 2D typo was the modular pixelish Pressure Drop 2D (2010). This was followed by Ornamental Deco 2D (2010, art deco ornaments), Rally Symbols 2D (2010), Mascaron2D (2010, by Iryna Korchuk), Depot Trapharet 2d (2010, a stencil based on the tram lettering in Lviv), Ascetic 2D (2005-2010), Hutsulyandiya (2010, extraordinary ornaments by Iryna Korchuk), Simeon (2010, calligraphic), Cranked Pipe 2D (2011), Tripyllia 2D (2011, ornaments of the neolithic Trypillya culture), and Ukrainian Barokko (2010, a calligraphic typeface by Genadij Zarechnjuk), Historism Border (2011, border ornaments), Moreske 2D (2012, ornaments), Geomanticus (2012, modular squarish sans).

Typefaces from 2013: Bandelwerk (borders), Digital Stitch, Modern Wave (ornaments based on Alphonse Mucha), Hopferian (Roman caps after engravings by Daniel Hopfer (1470-1536)---typeface completed with help of Mariya Sokil), Simple Ribbon (art nouveau dingbats).

In 2014, he created Angusto (an elegant narrow shaded display typeface family), Vindemiam (ornamental borders), Squamish (ornamental borders), UA Map (maps of Ukraine dingbats) and Bohemian Border.

In 2014, Dmitry Rastvortsev, Lukyan Turetsky, and Henadij Zarechnjuk cooperated on the design of the free Latin / Cyrillic handwriting typeface Kobzar KS, which is based on the handwriting of Taras Shnvchenko, a famous Ukrainian poet, artist and philosopher.

Typefaces from 2015: Finetitle (ornaments for headers), Gothic Herbarium (a floriated ornamental font based on the Gothic Revival ornaments developed by Augustus Pugin (1812-1852)), Old Depot (rough stencil), Francesca (decorative caps).

Typefaces from 2016: Geometric Harmony (geometric ornaments), Dubster (which he describes as a technocratic modular font).

Typefaces from 2017: Military Symbols.

Typefaces from 2018: Strapwork (four ornamental typefaces with friezes, borders and motifs modeled after Balthasar Bos (1554) and 16th century mannerism).

Typefaces from 2020: Lo Fi Copy (grungy and pixelish).

Typefaces from 2021: Kolm Keltek (classical ornaments), Microdot (a dot matrix font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

414 General Store
[Courtney Burroughs]

Courtney Burroughs and Alex Liebold (Savannah, GA) run 414 General Store. Their typefaces include Elise (2014, layered decorative caps) and Monster Party (2015, decorative caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

47Boo
[Bu Eiras]

Designer of the boxed decorative caps typeface Gotico Suave (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. M.

German designer of the free typewriter font AM Type 1 (2016) and the ornamental caps typeface AM Intex (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Mendoza

Designer of the Paganini, Arenski, ChopinOpenFace, KhachaturianCaps, Capinini (blackletter) and Debussy families of fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A New Machine
[Kent Swecker]

Foundry, est. 2011, in Raleigh, NC, by Kent Swecker. A New Machine created the beautiful hairline hand-printed typeface Hair Line (2011), Sweck Sans (2011, a sans with some contrast and a large x-height), Unstable (2011, a paper cut face), the sketch typeface Crosshatch (2011), and the modular FontStruct-like typeface Model UR (2011).

In 2012, he made Quarry (an outlined hand-drawn shadow font), Holt Sans (a Peignotian family), Unstable Slab, Mitosis (using bubbly dots), Radial (prismatic), and Airwave (techno).

Typefaces from 2013: Benthic (decorative geometric caps), Tubbs (a beefy poster face), Dot To Dot (a dotted and lined pair of school fonts), Emjay (sketched blackboard bold typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Art Party (a festive hand-drawn typeface co-designed with with Erin Solomon), Carawan (a rounded sans family), Back and Forth, Fat Nib (splatter brush face), Smoot (whimsical typeface).

Typefaces from 2015: El Guapo (a handcrafted typeface co-designed with Erin Solomon), Nervy, Current (thin connected script).

Typefaces from 2016: Etymon (Skyline style), Big Trees (Victorian, Western), Igor (a beatnik style font).

Typefaces from 2017: Down With The King (a great techno headline typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Thickness (hand-drawn), Chisel Brush, Dot to Dot, Dot To Dot Cursive (dotted line font, perhaps for teaching children in school).

Typefaces from 2019: Artie Deco, Marie Jeanne.

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

A. Pat Hickson

Britsh designer for ITF, most of whose fonts were mainly published by Red Rooster. After 2017, she started contributing to her husband's foundry, London Type. List (all ITF/Red Rooster unless otherwise specified):

  • Alghera Pro (1996): hand-printed, based on a handwritten Portuguese wine label design.
  • Alys (1995): Calligraphic.
  • Appleyard (1992): based on an old Monotype design, Prumyslava.
  • Badger (1992): comic book style. In 2010, this was Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir as Badger Pro.
  • Basset, Basset Five, Basset Four, Basset One, Basset Six, Basset Three (1997): headline family.
  • Bellini (1992): a garalde typeface based on Progreso (1923, Richard Gans Foundry). See Veer, where the font is sold as "Bellini". Linotype sells Greco (DsgnHaus, 1996) which according to some typophiles really is Progreso.
  • Byron (1992, by Paul and Pat Hickson): a calligraphic font originally cut in the 1980s for QBF based on a design in Printing Types of the World (1931, Pitmans). Later redone in digial form as LDN Piccadilly (2019) at London Type.
  • Coliseum (1992, ITF), co-designed with Julie Hopwood. Steve Jackaman completely redesigned, redrew, and improved the Coliseum family in 2017 and called it Coliseum Pro. That redesign also produced the sister typefaces Clydesdale and Torpedo.
  • Dundee, Dundee Condensed (1993), inspired by the various headlines used in children's comic books in England, published by D.C. Thompson of Dundee, Scotland.
  • Erasmus (1992): based on a design of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos, 1923, Amsterdam Foundry.
  • Forum Titling (1994): based on the Frederick Goudy design first shown in 1912, which was produced as a foundry typeface by Lanston Monotype in 1924.
  • Gilmore Fahrenheit and Gilmore Sans (1992): ugly typefaces based on Eric Gill designs.
  • Grove Script (1992).
  • Javelin (1994): a connected fifties diner typeface in the style of Continental Railway Magneto Bold, Parkway Hotel, Permanent Waves, and Raceway.
  • ITC Mona Lisa (ITC, 1992, and Elsner&Flake, 1991), ITC Mona Lisa Recut (ITC, 1991): an interpretation of a 1930 tall modern type by Albert Auspurg for Ludwig&Mayer.
  • Rivoli Initials. Based on the William T. Sniffin design for ATF, circa 1928.
  • Roller, Roller Shadow (1997): based on Iberica by Carlos Winkow for Fundicion Nacional, ca. 1942.
  • Sinclair Script (1992).
  • Stirling (1992).
  • Venezuela (2000, Red Rooster) is a decorative Mexican simulation font based on the typeface Vesta by Albert Auspurg, circa 1926.
  • Heseltine (2014) was designed by Paul & Pat Hickson in Text & Titling weights. The Heseltine typeface family was originally produced as a gift from Haymarket Media Group to Lord Heseltine for his 75th birthday.
  • London Belgravia (2019, by Paul and Pat Hickson). An art deco sans.
  • With Paul Hickson, she designed the floriated initial caps font LDN Garamond Initials (2020), which accompanies Paul's LDN Garamond (2020), which is a faithful revival of Claude Garamond's typeface.
MyFonts link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Healey

During his studies at the University of South Wales, Aaron Healey (Cardiff, Wales) created the decorative caps typeface Mechanical (2014) and Originality (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Thadathil

Pickering, Ontario-based designer of the floral caps typeface Acid Trip (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aasawari Kulkarni

New Delhi, India-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Temples of India (2016) and the ancient column and doorway-inspired Ellora (2017, named after Aurangabad's Ellora Caves). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abby Lindstrom

Creator of the (painted) illustrated caps called Growing Power (2011). Images: i, ii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ABC Design
[Johannes Birkenbach]

Johannes Birkenbach (b. 1956, Ludwigshafen) began his career with D. Stempel AG in 1983 drawing typefaces and moved to digital typeface design and development while working at Linotype in Germany and then Monotype in the UK. Since 1994 Johannes has operated his own design studio, ABC Design, and has worked with Ascender since 2004 on many font projects. In 2008, he joined Ascender Corp and is associated with its German branch.

Based in Pirmasens, Germany, his fonts include the Bijoux, Palazzo Caps (1997), Palazzo Text (2004), Jeunesse (1993), Jeunesse Slab (1993), Jeunesse Sans (1993), Cicero Caps (1996), Ambiente (2004), Jocelyn, Jonas, Ulissa, and Perrywood (Monotype, 1993).

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

Abdul Aziz
[Bringtype Studio]

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Abdul Hapiz Hilman
[Fizzetica Type foundry]

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Abigail Frances Twomey

Artist and illustrator in London, UK, who designed a great all caps typeface based on cats called Just My Type (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abigail Stevens

Illustrator in Cambridge, UK, who created the decorative alphabet Bestiary (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abland

FontStructor who made the gorgeous gridded caps typeface Clone (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Absoluut Designers

Dutch foundry in Bergen op Zoom. Psychoscout is an initial caps font, originally developed for the Psychoscout record by Flat Earth Society (2006). It was made commercial in 2011. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

A.C. Smithy

Student at UWE in Bristol, UK. FontStructor who made the Celtic caps typefaces Radiating Bold (2011), Radiating (2011) and Closed Energy (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Accurate Collective

Accurate Collective (Bucharest, Romania) created some unnamed display fonts in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Grason

Adam Grason (aka Zadok44) is an Orlando, FL (and before that, Kansas City, MO)-based illustrator at Disney. He designed the Victorian ornamental families Blair (2012) and Patmos (2011). It is unclear whether Grey Sans (2014) and Quire (2014) are typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Petras

Graphic designer in Pittsburgh, PA, who created the decorative caps Anatomy Typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Witton

Graphic designer who studied at University College Falmouth. Now based in London, Adam designed Infected Type (2012, ornamental caps). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Addin Hamzi

Shah Alam, Malaysia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Modreek (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adit Saputra
[Alter Deco Type foundry]

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Aditi Sarin

Bangalore, India-based designer of a colorful set of capitals in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aditya Tri

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Okinami (2014), a remarkable all caps typeface that emulates the famous ukiyoe painting of Katsuhiko Hokusai entitled The Great Wave off Kanagawa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adnan Lekpek

Creator of the free ornamental caps typeface Broken Skate Deck (2012).

Aka Chika Adika. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolf Meier

Hofkonditor (court confectioner) in Detmold, Germany. Author of Schriften-Album fur Konditoren nebst Monogrammen und Tortenschildern (ca. 1910, Heinrich Killinger, Konditoreibucherverlag, Nordhausen). This wonderful book shows many decorative capital alphabets designed mainly for decorating pies, cakes, and pastries. Local PDF file for that book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Ocadiz

Aguascalientes, Mexico-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Muximbal (2016), a typeface based on Mayan patterns developed during his studies at Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrea Vercetti

Fano, Italy-based designer of the decorative multi-colored geometric caps typeface Afivez (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrià Grandia

Catalan designer of the scratchy font Diatriba, of the corroded font Dead End, and of the ancient caps font Ot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Muñoz

Medellin, Colombia-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2016 that was showcased at a defunct Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Saucedo

Adrian Saucedo, a graphic designer in San Diego, created Monster Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriana Vigil

Santa Rosa, CA-based designer of a floriated caps typeface in 2015. Adriana grew up in Northern California. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aeolien
[J. Fürst Gardiner]

Creator at FontStruct of Aeolien (2011, alphadings), Gazebo Line Aeo (2012), Chateau d'Air (2013, castles), Like Fabergé (2013, oval), Fold Line (2013, a sewing font), Toothache (2013), Linoleum (2013), Sandor Basic Stripes (2013), Compass Norden (2013, a dot matrix font), Sambuccus (2013), Abneuroniques (2013, neurotic typeface), Zebra (2013, horizontally striped), Amazed (2013, maze font), Card Reading (2013), 3paths (2013), Raidho (2013), Floraeolien (2013, flower dings), the Art of Square series (2013), and Ostara Egg Box (2013, ornamental caps for Easter).

Typefaces from 2014: Ceques (op-art), Indentional, The Tunnels of Tralyoxx, ClickPop Beads, Blue Moon, Nurdal's Walk (LED font), Dumultix (techno, in De Stijl fashion, based on Mondrian), Wever Ding, My Unintended, Haltero, Linuta, Murexa, Abfahrt, Arrivee Mercredi, Mabon (vintage slab serif, art nouveau), Treat or Trick, Aerix Stencil Serify, Noba M, Plaque Emaille (white-on-black), Gleiteri, Strega nona, Kubetus (artsy), Kubetuffo, Pixiel, Werner, Free Masonry, Airy Brickwork, Aerix Stencil Sans, Sim Card, Kerbe, Fool's Beans, Gift Tag (alphadings), Tag Letters, Varsity Outline UC.

Typefaces from 2015: 3Fino, S-chablo Sans (stencil), August, Shifted (op-art), Arroed, Apprentice Quill, Spitze, Melusine.

Aka Jutta Gi. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Affolter und Gschwind AG
[Werner Affolter]

Werner Affolter ran a phototype and printing company in Basel, Switzerland, called Affolter und Gschwind AG, Fotosatz&Reprotechnik. In 1981, Affolter published an extensive catalog entitled Letterama that showed over one thousand alphabets. Few of those were original, so I suspect he acted as a vendor of sorts, but at least a couple seemed original, or were claimed to be original or exclusive: Guigoz, Moby Dick. Moby Dick was revived in 2014 by Nick Curtis as Call Me Ishmael NF.

Some examples of the types shown, in alphabetical order: Antique Wood MP363 (art nouveau), Antique Wood MP 364 (oriental simulation face) [the Antique Wood series is quite extensive, and is just numbered], B+T Classic (roman), Bernhard Fett, Beton Fine Line (typewriter), Burko (avant garde family), fonts starting with G, Gaston Fett (a squarish gothic typeface also called Gipsy), Gaston Halbfett (also called Grassy), Gemini Computer, Germanic Sans (more avant garde and Lubalin-style glyphs), Hollandse Mediaeval, Hollywood (a 3d decorative family), typefaces starting with K, Lineamarca (slabby), Linear (avant garde, geometric monoline), Melen (experimental, geometric), Meola Bookman swash (decorative), Metro (art nouveau, after the Metroploitaine font), Moraine (squarish), the Old Foundry sub-collection [another mysterious numbered collection; examples include some uncials, and some more art nouveau typefaces, some Victorian ornamental typefaces (F260 through F262), more art nouveau (MP418 through MP420) and blackletter typefaces (MP421)], Pierrot (psychedelic, groovy), Phydian (one of many Western style ornamental typefaces), Ronda, Roulette, Roulette Schattiert (=Rajah) (more Western fare), Ruby (shaded caps), Runic Small (condensed), Rustic (wood log look), typefaces starting with S, Spengler Gothik, St. Clair (ornamental), Zither (calligraphic script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Afif Chandra Kusuma

Indonesian designer of the grunge typeface Metal Sketchvetica (2011) and Diamondpoint (2013, a modular typeface).

In 2019, he published the decorative caps typeface Star Force Nesia.

Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Afifi Zaidin

During his studies in Singapore, Afifi Zaidin created the ornamental caps typeface Alfabetica (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aga Magdziak

Warsaw, Poland-based designer of magnificent experimental typefaces in various vector formats. These include:

  • The free AI-format experimental slinky font family Scribble (2018).
  • The free color font Balloon (2018) and the free PSD-format font Balloon (2018).
  • The free textured font Neon (2017-2018).
  • The free experimental color font Splash Letters (2018).
  • The free vector typeface Brush (2017).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Agata Dabkowska

Gdansk, Poland-based designer of a colorful all caps alphabet called Donuts (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

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Agnieszka Ewa Olszewska

Warsaw, Poland-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Sweets (2015, Studio Filigran) and of the outlined all caps typeface Typek (2018, Studio Filigran).

In 2020, she designed Cnabel, which is based on a Slovenian book illustration from the art nouveau period.

In 2021, she released Binia (a hyper-decorative typeface) and Zania (a fat display typeface) at Studio Filigran.

Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Agung Maskund
[Decade Type foundry]

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Ahmad Gani

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of a great set of decorative caps in 2016. Designer of the commercial display typeface Mazij (2016).

Aka Turistype. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmed Cekic

Bursa, Turkey-based textile designer. In 2015, he created the free decorative typeface ROTF. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ainar Olutnieks

Illustrator from Rezekne, Latvia, who made an ornamental caps face in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Airunreal
[Pavel Storchilov]

Stalingrad, Russia-based designer of the free AI and EPS-format Eco font (2017), which consists of foliated caps. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AJPT
[Alan Jay Prescott]

Pottstown (Philadelphia)-based designer and PostScript font hacker who ran Prescott Design and now Alan Jay Prescott Typography, but was also involved in other ventures such as the Black Walnut Winery. Originally from Greenfield, MA, he graduated from Saddleback College, and worked for some time as a typesetter in New York. He advertizes himself as a leader in PostScript Open Type Font development specializing in the revival of print-only letterforms into digital typographic materials. He operates as APT and more recently as AJPT. In 2019, he announced that he would stop making typefaces altogether. His work can be partitioned into time periods. For this reason, Prescott's oeuvre is split over several pages:

  • His late period (2017-2019). In these three years, he showcased his work on Facebook, and was mainly involved in reving 19th century typefaces, about half of which were from the Victorian era. The annotations in the list below are quoted from Prescott's pages.
    • Absolution Cursive (2017). When I was a typesetter in New York City, I had one of the largest collections of typefaces from CompuGraphic's library available for setting. One of the faces I never used in two decades of work was a rather ungainly decorative font called Abel Cursive. Apparently it was designed by Bernie Abel (perhaps one of CompuGraphic's employees) and I'm not sure it got much use, since I don't recall seeing it anywhere except my type catalog. Before I sold my equipment and closed my business for good, I made a scan of every typeface at 72-point size that I owned for future development, if there ever came a time to work on something crazy like that. Most of those 2,000 scans were lost when I changed computers a long time ago, but Abel Cursive survived and I made a down-and-dirty mow-and-blow font back then. I have recently worked on it extensively to make it usable as a multilingual slightly redesigned font in OTF format. I would classify it is as neo-Victorian medium-contrast decorative italic. It is definitely an oddball and may never see use.
    • Algol (2017). Based on a scan from Dan X. Solo, Algol is a vastly expanded character set for Algernon, a typeface that clearly presages Machine and other "octics." I don't have any source material for the original design, but it may have been a Dan Solo original.
    • Aloysius and Aloysius Ornamented (2017). This is a digital revival of the original Algonquin, cut by J.F. Cumming in the late 1880s for the Dickinson Type Foundry in Boston. While this was not my most challenging project, it was a doozy.
    • Alpenhorn Roman (2017). Another oddball typeface is revived here, renamed from the design called Alpine by Henry Schuenemann for the Cleveland Type Foundry in the 1880s. Buried in the "gingerbread" of this weird face is technically a Latin serif, but otherwise it is an entirely unique letterform for which I had a heart soft enough to revive here in digital form.
    • Androgen Roman (2017). I know next to nothing about this ultra-geometric blackletter called Anderson that I found displayed in a Dan X. Solo catalog, but it is another oddball that is attractive and very simple to revive in digital format. It is one of those projects I would recommend to a beginning revivalist who wanted to cut his or her teeth on a moderate challenge after mastering some basic tools in font development software.
    • Angolan Text (2017). I found Angular Text in a Solo catalog and revived it as a digital font with diacritics and other characters for expanded typesetting possibilities. It was designed by Herman Ihlenburg in 1884 for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, which information I found in a link from Tom Cruz for a fellow named Toto who revived the font as well; he has several glyphs I do not have and I like his showing better. Interesting to see what others have done with the exact same typeface and scan and some research for tantalizing missing glyphs...kudos.
    • Antiochia Series (2017). This collection of typefaces represents a revival of several bold slab-serif wood types with the name Antique that are related. Their individual histories will follow at another time, but note that several here are useful derivatives that add to the variety of this letterform's impact.
    • Azurine Roman (2017). Azurine is a digital revival of a typeface known as Aztec, drawn by an unknown designer for the Union Type Foundry before 1889.
    • Beltane Roman (2017). The very complicated story behind the work on this revival is too long for this space (and perhaps too boring to most), but suffice it to say that this letterform started out in 1886 as drawn by the great Herman Ihlenburg as Artistic and assigned to MacKellar Smiths & Jordan. Dan Solo called this face Belmont but only showed caps and was suspect anyway. I was able to find specimens elsewhere and a motherlode of other interesting things in the Inland Printer. I developed my first full-featured OTF using this typeface and designed Greek and Cyrillic glyphs as well. I also fitted it out with a set of small caps to make a font that now has 4,000 glyphs for nearly every non-Asian language. To top it off, Robert Donona revived the decorative caps for this typeface, an excruciating task that I once considered for myself but was lucky enough to have this other crazy person take up. The number of hours dedicated between Robert and myself in reviving this complete series digitally is probably unprecedented.
    • Bernhard Swirl (2019). This is a digital revival of the letterform of the same name. It is equipped only with the upper case, an ampersand, a spacer dingbat and the numerals. The numerals are quirky, not only in design, but the fact that they seem to have been intended as old-style figures with the exception for the 4 and 7. Lucian Bernhard is either the designer of this limited-use typeface or inspired a reworking of his "wobbly" poster typefaces for which he is known as an innovator. I have reworked the scanned samples I had used as templates and drew them with a little more consistency than the originals to improve color on the page.
    • Bireme Roman (2017). Below is a digital revival of a typeface called Bijou. As I have come to understand, several people have revived this face already. It is similar to Flirt in many respects. I will update information as I come across it, but I wanted to post my version here for your appreciation.
    • Blackguard (2018). This is a digital revival of a typeface known as Black Cap. William E. Loy writes that Black Cap was designed and cut by Charles H. Beeler Jr. for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan. The earliest-known commercial specimen was advertised in the January 1891 edition of The Inland Printer, so he probably created it in 1890.
    • Blackminster (2017). One of the more interesting treatments of blackletter forms in the 19th century is this beauty called Black No. 544 designed by Henry Brehmer in 1889, who assigned the rights to Bruce Type Foundry. Originally I was unable to locate certain key glyphs in this font, but they were graciously supplied by others in our crazy network of type geeks. More information on the people behind these projects will follow in other articles.
    • Bleak (2017). Bleak is a series based closely on a typeface called Stark. As with nearly all typeface names, there are several unrelated fonts developed in recent years that bear no resemblance to this gorgeous sans serif.
    • Brotherly Roman (2017). Among many "antiqued" letterforms developed in the late 19th century, Ben Franklin was offered by Keystone Type Foundry in Philadelphia. Several glyphs were missing from my best showing of the font, but I was luckily able to find them, as well as logotypes, two ornaments, several alternate characters and some punctuation. There had already been a digital revival of this typeface kicking around as shareware in the 1990s, but it was very poorly drawn and incomplete. I believe it has been rendered nicely and consistently here for posterity.
    • Busker Contour (2017). Burlesque was the name given by Solo to a typeface originating through Caslon or Figgins around 1843 and shown in German specimens a couple of years later.
    • Cane Gothic (2018). Cane Gothic was designed and cut by Edwin C. Ruthven c.1886; he patented it in March–April 1886 and assigned the rights to David Wolfe Bruce (son of George Bruce, holder of the first design patent in US history). The Bruce catalog number is unknown. The tradename Cane Gothic, an apt description of the caning patterned background, may have been assigned by Dan X. Solo, who had revived the face for his photo-lettering service, but it has previously been considered impossible for digitizing. Although the average character in this font contains something like 3,000 Bézier control points, it turned out to be doable once I figured out the original mathematics that Ruthven must have used to guide his design objectively. It is digitized for posterity and I thank Anna Allen once again for the patent specimen (No. 16,643) indicating, if extremely faintly, five missing glyphs from my otherwise excellent scan. Thus I've generated the border glyphs and a pound Sterling symbol to augment this letterform. As far as I can determine, this character set is complete, and I have generated three fonts in order to accommodate chromatic typesetting with very little effort.
    • Cantini Casual (2019). This is a digital revival of the typeface of the same name (or at least that is the name Solo gave it in the type specimen book from which it was scanned). It is a great example of the exuberant fancy characters that came to ascendance during the 1960s and 1970s. It is a medium-weight Latin italic with unusual decorative details in addition to crazy swash choices. I do not have any information on the history of this trippy face, but it is likely it was revived at some time in the recent past. It includes a large number of alternate glyphs as well.
    • Capulet (2017). This is a revival of a typeface called Caprice that was patented in 1888 by Arthur M. Barnhart and assigned to Barnhart Bros. & Spindler of Chicago. This letterform is a prime example of the explosion in design ideas occurring before the turn of the century, hundreds of which remain to be translated into digital format.
    • Carmenite Roman (2017). This beautiful digital revival covers a letterform drawn by the Bauer Type Foundry of Stuttgart, Germany sometime before 1896. It was originally called Carmen and has been referred to as Carmencita in the Solo books.
    • Centrum Text (2017). This is my digital revival of one of the more complex decorated blackletters, among my favorite and most difficult projects to work on and just finished today. It is identified as Celebration Text on p. 18 of Solo's "Gothic and Old English Alphabets." The lowercase for this letterform is also presented for two other typefaces, Testimonial Text and Innsbruck in his larger catalog, presenting some confusion. But I believe all three were drawn by the same designer, although I have no idea how old they are. The lowercase may simply have been used for all three decorated capitals, since they are a very good match. Intentional, who knows? It is a real beauty and I'm going to perhaps revive the other two in this triplet of great examples of decorated capitals.
    • Chapterhouse Roman (2017). This is an interesting typeface known as Ecclesiastic from Caslon around 1870. It was also known as Albion and Chapel Text No. 30. Most of those names were applied to completely unrelated designs, adding to the confusion that permeates typographic development and history to this day (and only gets worse over time). There are probably more alternate characters out there, but this is the best showing I could make with the resources I have and it is now available from me as a digital font.
    • Chapterhouse Roman (2017). This is an interesting typeface known as Ecclesiastic from Caslon around 1870. It was also known as Albion and Chapel Text No. 30. Most of those names were applied to completely unrelated designs, adding to the confusion that permeates typographic development and history to this day (and only gets worse over time). There are probably more alternate characters out there, but this is the best showing I could make with the resources I have and it is now available from me as a digital font.
    • Clarence Roman and Dotted (2017). Clarence Roman is a revival of Clown Alley and Clarence Dotted that of Cooktent (also called No. 515). Wood typeface Cooktent comes from W.H. Page before 1890 and the other looks to be a back-formation from it.
    • Commissioner Script (2017). The typeface known as Commercial Script was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in the early twentieth century and enjoyed widespread use for decades. There have been many variations from other foundries, varying mostly in contrast; but as far as I know there was ever only one rather bold weight produced. I have redesigned the letterforms for consistency on the way to producing the ten weights shown here. It is interesting to see the font in lighter weights that accentuate the beauty lurking in this standard, and the heavier weights to see that the design still holds up under even heavier lifting.
    • Courtesan Roman (2017). Among the dozens of wood types I have revived digitally is Courier, here called Courtesan. Many of these letterforms have been revived by others, all slightly different in their interpretations. More information on wood types will follow in articles I plan to write in the future on various areas of interest in the field of revival in particular and typography in general.
    • Cranston Ornamented (2017). This is one of the most difficult digital revivals I have worked on. It started as Crayon, another masterful design from the prolific Ihlenburg, available at MSJ in 1885. There are sister fonts in an Open and a Solid that differ slightly in design and will be available from me at some point in the future.
    • Creekside Playful and Calligrapic (2018). These are two digital casual scripts of my own creation based loosely on hand-drawn types from the 1950's. One is a calligraphic interpretation and the other is a more mono weight design that is a bit more slanted, both available for multi-language setting.
    • Criticism (2017). This is a digital revival of Critic, a typeface designed by William F. Capitain in the mid-1880s with rights assigned to Marder, Luse & Co. Several logotypes had been designed for this letterform and many alternate glyphs. I added a few of my own, as well as diacritic marks, for balance to this surprisingly modern face that can be rendered multilingually as well.
    • Crosby Roman (2017). This is a digital revival of the typeface known as University Text, designed in 1862 and shown by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1869 as Crosier. It was also known much later as Morningside. It is a stylized Latin with great charm.
    • Crossan Roman (2017). This is digital multilingual OTF revival of a typeface called Cross Gothic, another one of those unique, nearly unusable letterforms I adore. I got a million of 'em.
    • Cullane Roman (2017). Cullane is a digital revival of Herman Ihlenburg's Culdee, patented in 1885 and offered through MSJ. Others helped me scour the literature for missing glyphs and no one is sure we've got them all, but this is a wonderful showing of what we think is available until something randomly shows up in the future.
    • Currier (2018). J.B. Lieberman, Ph.D. identifies it as Deberny & Peignot Lettres Ombrés Ornés (ornamented shaded letters) and adds that it was originally cut by Gillé in 1820, thus making it one of the oldest typefaces I have revived digitally. It is an exuberantly decorated engraved shadowed heavy-weight Egyptian.
    • Danuvius (2017). Danube is the original name for this letterform, again found in a Solo catalog, and its links with medieval letterforms is obvious despite the trends toward modernization at the time it was first produced. I otherwise have no information on this face.
    • Devonian Roman (2017). This is a digital revival of a wood typeface known as DeVinne. More information updated later.
    • Dorothy Series (2017). The original Doric Chromatic was designed as a wood typeface and made its appearance in the United States in the 1850s, though it probably got its start in France in the 1840s according to Rob Roy Kelly.
    • Doughboy Roman (2017). This series of decorative caps is shown as Dodge City in Solo. I am not sure it is very old; it may very well have been a photographically slanted version of an older wood typeface in the Thunderbird category with flourishes added on at the same time. This has been revived before because of its simplicity, but I made my own version a little more consistent and they make attractive drop caps.
    • Enclave Roman and Expanded (2017). These two related digital revivals represent Enchorial in two versions. The roman came out of the Caslon Type Foundry in 1884 and was extremely popular (sometimes known as London). Petzendorfer showed the expanded Enchorial around 1903.
    • Esteban (2017). Esteban is an original design I developed around 2010, named after the recently deceased Esteban Arriaga, a leading seascape painter in the area of Málaga in Spain. It is a medium-contrast sans serif produced in nine weights plus italics. Currently it is available only for the Macintosh OS, but an OTF cross-platform font is anticipated.
    • Euclid, Euclid Initials,Euclastic, Elberon, Astral, and Auroral (2018). Elberon existed by November 1886 from Cleveland Type Foundry in The Inland Printer. Euclid (a lighter version of Elberon with a few different glyphs) is an obvious derivative from Illinois Type Founding Co. in Chicago in August 1890. Euclid appears with several Euclid Initials, a full sample of which appears as "Grant Iniitials" from Minnesota Typographic Co. Auroral (basically a shaded form of Elberon) appears in January 1887 from Central type foundry. Astral, also from Central type foundry, (the almost exact shading concept) whose base form is a condensed, heavier form than Euclid) appears in December 1886. Euclastic is my name for a complete set of weights, from a Hairline at the extreme end of lightness, through Black at the other extreme, using redesigned examples of Euclid and Elberon.
    • Farmerboy and Farmergirl (2017). Although these two typefaces have both been called Fargo in the past, they are distinctly not the same letterform despite sharing some characteristics. They are both probably late 1850s, early 1860s and some sources say they are German. In any case, two interesting oddballs with no usage in the last century-and-a-half are revived digitally by AJPT.
    • Fastidious Series (2017). The typeface known as Fashion started out in 1876 and was patented by Andrew Little for A.D. Farmer & Son. There are a total of five related typefaces in the same design: the prototype, condensed, ornamented, antique and extra-condensed. It turned out that the samples I had available when I originally revived these two were rather suspect and I have to consider going back to these and try to figure out what the "real" glyphs are. I believe that the Solo ornamental showing was rather a hatchet job on the base font, so I consider these two on hold pending further research, but they are interesting to view how they are so far.
    • Flare Serif Striped (2018). This is a digital revival of a face called Ornamented 1,079. This over-the-top candy-cane-with-curls design was created by Henry Brehmer, who patented it in December 1884–January 1885. The application was submitted and approved on the same days as Ornamented No. 1,077 (Hermann Ihlenburg), and the rights to both were assigned to David W. Bruce of the Bruce TF (New York) [USPTO D15748]. It was advertised in The Inland Printer of October 1885. Thanks again to Anna Allen Conroy for the background on Ornamented 1,079 and for the patent samples giving a good idea of the design of glyphs missing from the catalogs. I have produced AE and OE ligatures as well as a decent set of diacritical marks for setting in a few important languages, but it is not at OTF font at the moment and exists only as PostScript for Mac only.
    • Flippant Roman (2017). This fun font is a revival of a typeface known as Flirt. Although it has that 1960s feel, like many fonts popular then, I believe it has a much older pedigree. I will supply more information as I come across it. (There is currently an unrelated script font called Flirt on the market now, designed in 2009.)
    • Fusion (2017). i developed three weights (including small caps) for the popular typeface Futura, all of them lighter than the Futura Light that is widely available. You can never be too thin.
    • Gallantry Roman (2017). The earliest known specimen of the original Gazelle is found in the 1893 catalog of ATF in Cleveland and designed by Henry Schuenemann. This digital revival has multilingual capabilities and is quite unusual, demonstrating again the almost limitless possibilities of type design over the centuries.
    • Gamut (2017). The Gamut series of very condensed sans serifs is based on a wide range of typefaces that all began with the letter "G": Galaxy, Gable, Garfield, Giant, Gamma, etc. (Their italics began with the letter "E", perhaps to come at a later time). I produced these typefaces under the same name to keep them all in one place, all ten weights that are floating around somewhere undigitized until now. They are currently available from me as Mac-only fonts, but OTF may be developed over time. They are members of the large "family" of typefaces whose members can be difficult to separate, such as the Helveticas, Trade Gothics, Standard Gothics, etc. I believe this was a well-designed condensed face that has nice nuances.
    • Gironde and Gironde Extended (2017). Giraffe is the original name for this digital revival. It has been difficult to find a complete character set for this typeface, as I'm sure whatever existed in the roman also existed for the extended version. I revived what I could find, but it is a rather simple design and other characters can be imagined that are congruent with what is seen here. I'm not sure how much use these two oddball typefaces got in their time, but they were designed by Charles Beeler, Jr. in 1891for MacKellar , Smiths & Jordan.
    • Gothic Decorated (2018). This is my temporary name for the digital revival of a typeface once called Ornamented 1,078. In the past couple of weeks, I have revived the "ornamenteds" on either side of this number. I have no information on this other than that it appears in the Inland Printer of October 1885 from George Bruce's Son & Co. TF in New York City.
    • Goudy Flare Extra Bold (2019). This is a digital revival of another typeface in the Goudy superfamily, titled originally as simply Goudy Flare. I don't know the provenance of this particular letterform, but it was found in a Solo publication and could very well be one of his own creations, since I have never seen it used in print. It turns out that this is a modification of Goudy Old Style Extra Bold, and so I was able to find a suitable digitized version that matched the base forms very closely and modified the existing characters to accommodate these rather simple swashes. A reader added: "Goudy Flair was created by Mr. Phil Martin of Alphabet Innovations, that is he took Goudy Extra Bold and added swashes to this."
    • Goudy Long Fancy (2019). This is a digital revival of the typeface of the same name, again another addition to the large Goudy family. There is a tremendous selection of swashes and alternate characters in this font, especially the upper case. It is an extra bold italic Goudy whose slant is less steep than normal for this family. There are no figures or punctuation provided for this letterform; those provided in the scan from which I worked were incorrect, and possibly back-formations from a different Goudy, so they were not produced for this version.
    • Goudy Swash Heavy Italic (2019). This is a digital revival of the typeface of the same name. There are literally hundreds of revivals of letterforms in the Goudy "family" of typefaces. Nearly every foundry has produced its own version of this popular form, with many nuances between them. There are many weights, italics, various alternate characters and swashes galore, but I haven't seen a revival of this particular set of gorgeous swashes and alternates. Thus, I worked on very good printed samples, perhaps from a photolettering catalog half a century ago.
    • Goudytype Antique (2019). This is digital revival of a typeface designated as Goudytype in a Solo catalog, with a slight twist. There is no punctuation for this font, but several nice swash alternates, a dollar sign and an ampersand. I decided to draw this as an "antique," because the ink spread in the original lent itself to this sort of treatment. Although a bit tedious, it can be used in the same way as other faces, such as Packard, Benjamin Franklin, Caslon Antique, Papyrus (heaven forbid) and others. Although one would assume this is in the Goudy superfamily, there are some characteristics that set it apart. The stresses and some other features are rather reminiscent of Palatino. And the slant is so slight as to make it unlike both typefaces' italics.
    • Gracile (2019). Gracile is based closely on Greyhound Script, but has been expanded and standardized to include weights on either side of the two available in Solo. It is a semi script, since not all characters can be joined, and thus has a more casual feel. It is a strictly monoweight letterform in all six stroke thicknesses, with several alternate glyphs. There are digital versions in two medium strokes available from others, but those I was able to locate are rather poorly realized despite having diacritical marks for foreign languages. They can readily be designed and added to my interpretations, but I have chosen to do this later if anyone requires them.
    • Griego Wood Series (2017). Several typefaces classified as Grecian were produced in wood for large sizes. Here I show Full Faced (William Page, 1859); Condensed and X Condensed (Wells & Webb/L. Johnson, 1846); X Condensed Bold (probably handmade, Nebraska, before 1885), and XX Condensed (John Cooley, 1859). I had revived some of these digitally years ago, but I revisited them recently and gave them a real facelift. They have undoubtedly been revived before because of their relative simplicity.
    • Grosgrain (2017). This is a revival of a typeface called Grotesque No. 120. The lineage of the most famous typeface in the world, Helvetica (and, sort of, Arial) is evident in the early "grotesques." Although there are distinct differences in many of the characters of this very light typeface designed for mostly display use with alternate flourished glyphs, its resemblance to the later sans serifs of the twentieth century is striking. Marder, Luse & Co. of Chicago shows this face in 1885. Another similar typeface from around the same time called Circular Gothic is even closer to the Helveticas and derivatives of today. The alternate characters are revived from the sister font called Grotesque Fancy.
    • Grounded Series (2017). I have revived Abramesque again, this time in congruence with the series from which it originated, thus it is called Grounded Ornamented. The original types started with Gothic Rounded. There was a Roman, an Outline, an Open and an Ornamented. The story behind these beauties is (as usual) too long, but briefly, information from Anna Allen: Old Bowery and Abramesque were originally called Rounded Open and Rounded Ornamented and have led interesting lives. Nicolette Gray identifies them with Caslon c1844. As a teenager, Rounded Open visited the Bruce TF (c1854), where she was called Ornamented No. 1007. After a suspected Bruce facelift as Gothic Round Shaded (≤1869), she was reintroduced by ATF as Old Bowery in 1933. McGrew writes, “Old Bowery is an ATF revival, in 1933 and again in 1949, of Round Shade No. 2, originated by Bruce , one of its predecessor companies, about 1854, as Ornamented No. 1007.“ Only an ornamented version, different from Abramesque and not illustrated by Gray, is shown in Bruce 1856. At a recent Oak Knoll event, Nick Sherman shot a photo of the page in Caslon's 1844 catalog showing Rounded, the solid prototype of these faces (not documented by Gray) and shared it at flickr.com. Albert-Jan Pool (designer of DIN and keen historian of sans-serif faces) observed that the footer is dated “September 1836,†so it was reprinted (probably as a stereotyped page) from an earlier Caslon publication. Until then, the earliest specimen examined by THP is shown in Caslon 1841. All agree that, so far, it is the earliest-known rounded sans-serif face in history—and this pleasingly plump family of three is as appealing today as ever! Of a very similar wood-type face tradenamed Gothic Round, Kelly reports: “First shown by George Nesbitt in his 1838 specimens. … The Nesbitt design was an Outlined or Rimmed Gothic Round. The Caslon Foundry issued several Gothic Round designs, of which an ornamented one (Abramesque), in particular, came into general usage in America around mid-century.†George Nesbittt, a New York printer, distributed wood types produced by Edwin Allen (Windham, CT ). Sherman adds that “Miguel Sousa at Adobe is in the process of making a digital revival of this face (Gothic Round|Old Bowery) for the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry.â€
    • Heraldry Roman (2017). This is a digital revival of a typeface called Heraldic, patented by John K. Rogers in 1880, an agent of the Boston Type Foundry.
    • Hinterland (2017). Attached is a revival of an exuberant, heavy sans serif called Hibernian in Solo's catalogs. I've included alternate glyphs that I know of, but there may be some floating out there somewhere. The origin of this typeface is obscure, but there is some evidence it may have been from Genzsch & Heyse around 1893 according to one knowledgeable source.
    • Hopscotch Roman (2017). Hopscotch is a revival of a wood typeface known as Hopkins.
    • Jackdaw (+Open) (2017). This is a revival of a wood typeface known as Jackpot in Solo's catalogs, but was originally named Tuscan Shade No. 1. I have also produced a derivative called Jackdaw Open. Otherwise, I have little information on this bizarre beauty.
    • Jeffers Contour (2017). Another decorative cap discovered as Jeffrey in a Solo catalog has been digitally revived here.
    • Jeremiad (2018). A digital revival of Jenson Old Style, a typeface cut by Hamilton with the permission of American Type Founders in 1906. It has undoubtedly been revived before, as many wood types already have, but this is my interpretation and has been given a measure of consistency without losing its charm. I post this now, but it was produced a couple of years ago and I overlooked posting
    • Joshua Contour (2017). I found a rather odd display typeface called Joseph in a Solo catalog, and it seems not to have a history longer than that, so who knows?
    • Juvenilia Roman (2018). Juvenilia is a revival of a semiserif medium-weight typeface called Jumbo. Anna Allen's description follows: This slick stylized sans serif was designed and patented by Ernst Lauschke in 1887; he assigned the rights to Arthur M. and Alson E.Barnhart. This letterform is very unusual in having the tops of the characters generally devoid of the expected serif. Overall the design has medium contrast, which would be expected of a serif face. Several characters reflect missal-style influences (e.g. T, M), which was common for the time, but they are sprinkled in with standard types. The ampersand is influenced by wood types of the era. It is a distinctly odd species, another Lauschke innovation and unique.
    • Katy Beth (2017). I discovered in the Inland Printer typefaces called Katherine and Elizabeth that were identical to each other and I was able to piece together a complete set of glyphs between the two to make a full digital revival.
    • Kodiak (2017). Kodiak is a revival of Komet, an exuberant calligraphic sans serif produced by Roos & Junge Type Foundry around 1902
    • Latchkey Roman (2018). This is a digital revival of Lattice, a face designed by Carl/Charles E.Heyer (1841 Berlin–1897 Chicago). He patented it in October–December 1883 and assigned the rights to Arthur M. and Alson E. Barnhart by name (the firm was not yet incorporated). Among other things, his unique hooked C was probably inspired by the hint of a hook in Copley (a sign-painter face dated before or in 1877 and cut by J.F. Cumming in 1881-1884). As Heyer's talent flourished at BBS (Chicago, 1868–1929), he led his new employer from one loathed by traditional TFs for bartering stolen designs for newspaper advertising space to one at the forefront of truly innovative display types. In the history of this TF historically regarded as great, he conceived at least 50% of their designs. Thanks to Anna Allen for the background on Lattice. Thanks to Dan X. Solo for the complete specimen, which although inconsistent and ink-heavy for some characters, was complete as far as I know. I have substantially reworked this typeface to bring a consistency for modern-day typesetting, but it is entirely faithful to the original cutting. Several of the characters are adventurous for their time (the C and ampersand, for example).
    • Latin Fancy (2018). The Latin Fancy Engraved Shade version of these three fonts (the two others are derivatives) started life as Ornamented No. 1,077. Thanks again to Anna for the research that follows and for a patent specimen that gave a very rough idea of glyphs that did not appear in the catalog showings. It has ben digitally revived for posterity and is available for now as Mac-only. It appeared in October 1885 in the Inland Printer. Herman Ihlenburg, usually associated with MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan (Philadelphia), designed and cut this sizzling all-caps Latin face for the Bruce TF (New York). The patent application, submitted and approved on the same days as the one for Ornamented No. 1,079 (Brehmer), was likewise assigned to David W. Bruce (New York) [USPTO D15752]. A caveat for purists out there: The "A" has been drawn to compensate for a cutting or design error that appears in all examined versions of the typeface. No alternate has been provided for the misdrawn A.
    • Lipo Caps Series (2017). Lipo Caps is a typeface series whose members are related in the sense that they have never existed as digital fonts (as far as I know), they are hand-lettered (probably by the same person), they were unlikely ever to have been developed as typefaces at the time they were drawn, and they were found in the same publication of bizarre letterforms. I have given them consistency without sacrificing the hand-drawn qualities and produced two versions of each one that I found, five fonts altogether (with "undecorated" versions as the lower-case keystrokes in each case). It is interesting to see great drawing technique that nevertheless never resulted into typography until now.
    • Livornese Roman (2018). This is a digital revival of Livonia, an art nouveau-inspired typeface for which I have no information. There is a full set of alphanumerics, but no punctuation. It is a monoweight bold condensed sans serif with minimal descenders and an x-height that is at the maximum allowed visual percentage of cap height. This is another example of a face I revived in the 1990s but has been tightened up considerably for consistency and professional typesetting.
    • Lubricious (2018). This strictly monoweight rounded sans serif typeface was referred to as Lute Medium in a Dan X. Solo publication, but I otherwise have no information on this letterform. It is influenced by the Art Nouveau movement and I have drawn a plausible Light and Bold as well; it seems that either one or both must have existed if it was referred to as a medium and I have made a rough guess as to the stroke weight. I think this face is quite pretty and has several innovations that are not over the top.
    • Luring Series (2017). Luring is a faithful rendition of MacKellar , Smiths & Jordan's Luray and patented by Charles H. Beeler around the mid-1880s. Because the lining work in each was different depending on the point size of the metal type used (in order to achieve the same visual "grayness" when printed), I have developed each of these in such a way that when the same size is selected for each font, the optimal relative size is actually produced. The same technique was used for the equally challenging typeface called Tinted.
    • Luscious (2017). This is a revival of a typeface called Lulubelle found in Solo's catalogs. It has been rendered in 7 weights, several of which correspond to known weights of this interesting sans serif condensed Art Deco-influenced letterform.
    • Maggie Tried (2018). This is my digital revival (there have been others) of a typeface called Margit. According to sources I believe to be reliable, it was designed in 1969 by Phil Martin. An inquiry from a follower of this page generated a look back at a face I had once revived in the 1990s, but it was not as well-rendered as it could have been. I started from scratch and brought it back to life in a way more congruent with my current skills. It is a lovely example of letterforms developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
    • Maltic (2018). In the six original sizes advertised and an additional three sizes to fill the gaps: This is a revival of the typeface by the same name, since it may not have been patented or trademarked by anyone until further notice. This typeface may never have been used and certainly is rather odd, but it can be seen that it must be one of the oldest forerunners of typefaces that were built from discrete "pieces" into a dot pattern, presaging the use of pixelation on monitors a hundred years later, as well as many other examples of typefaces built from pixels, dots, rectangles, stars and numerous other doodads and dingbats. In this case, the strict grid is violated for diagonals and many other interesting work-arounds; there are actually three different shapes used to build this geometric sans serif letterform. Information by Anna Allen: "Maltic is an interesting sans-serif face built from geometric motifs, was shown by the Illinois Type Foundry in The Inland Printer edition of December 1886. The specimen is marked patented, but extensive THP research finds no verification of this claim. This typeface is a complete mystery to me, as is the Illinois TF [Chicago, 1872–1892]… Annenberg (who bewails the lack of history details) reports that it was originally a distributor for the BruceTF (New York) and no record exists of any types that were originated by the Illinois Type Foundry. A showing of ornamental borders in the August 1890 edition of The Inland Printer advertises that they were Western Agents for Conner (New York) types as well."
    • Margarethe (2017). It is hard to believe, but the original typeface was shown by Eduard Haenel (Berlin) in 1847 and was later adopted by American type houses. Eventually it was called Marble Heart, but most samples show only the upper case. Eventually I was ably to put together a large character set for multilingual setting after a rare, complete lower case specimen was discovered. This digital revival also covers typefaces variously known as Ornamented No. 11, 13 and 33. It is an early forerunner of faces known as grotesques (sans serifs that resemble Helvetica, Standard Gothic, etc.) This is another very difficult drawing exercise, but made all the more enjoyable after valuable sleuthing for missing glyphs by Anna at Type Heritage Project.
    • Minster (2018). Minster was yet another style ground-breaker by Herman Ihlenburg, who patented the design in May–June, 1878 with assignment to MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan. This rimmed dual-case ornamented Latin beauty was consistently shown by MSJ and by ATF as late as 1897. It was also distributed by the Franklin TF (Cincinnati) [aka Allison & Smith]. Charles H. Smith, foreman, was the son of Lawrence Johnson's former partner (Johnson & Smith, 1833–1843). It has been digitally revived for posterity and took about two weeks to produce the full set of glyphs. Thanks to J. Choi and Anna Allen for very good specimens of printed materials.
    • Molto (Fiorito, Ombreggiato and Nero) (2018). Molto Fiorito is a digital revival of MoléFoliate, whose history below has been researched by Anna Allen. Ombreggiato is a derivative with just the shadow, and Nero is the central characters adapted for separate setting, Bodoni or Didone letterform with high contrast and thin slab serifs. It has been produced in multiple sub-fonts for a wide variety of pin-register multicolor setting. Researching the topic on Fonderie Générale (Paris, 1834–1912) raised some perplexing questions about the history of this famous ornamented Didone. Twentieth-century historians attribute the design to Joseph Moléin c1819. Indeed, the conservative styling is compatible with fonts intended for title pages of scholarly and literary books, mainstay of the publishing industry during this period. The 1835 catalog issued by Tarbé (Molés successor) states that text, titling and display faces are offered therein. Even so, none resembling MoléFoliate is shown by any Molésuccessor in five digital specimen books dated 1835–1896. On the contrary, surface ornamentation is limited almost exclusively to Tuscans and Egyptians. Jaspert et al. (2001) note the then-current letterpress font source as Stephenson Blake & Co. Ltd. (Sheffield). Millington explains that the face was "redrawn by S.L. Hartz from a design by the Parisian typefounder Molé". Sem L. Hartz was associated with the Enschedé TF (Haarlem). SB introduced it in 1958 as "An Exotic Display Type". Did Molétransfer rights to this design before Tarbé's acquisition in 1835? If so: to SB? Enschedé? Another TF in existence at the time? Did Moléhimself design the leafy ornamentation attributed to him today? Or… Did Hartz superimpose his own concept on the surface of a MoléDidone roman? An anonymous developer digitized free revivals of this font and a matching plain one in 1997. They are difficult to find now [and are poorly executed].
    • Montrose Roman (2017). Montrose is a display typeface with many interesting features, an example of numerous "banner style" letterforms produced at the time, such as Stephen Ornate and Arboret. It was called Motto (a design claimed by John P. Rogers for the Boston Type Foundry in 1879) and I understand there is still a typesetter who has the original metal matrices. Mine was produced from rather poor scans, so some interpretation was necessary. It came out quite nicely, but not quite exacting enough for some standards. It is definitely of historical interest.
    • Moocher Roman and Moocher Open (2018). These digital revivals are based on Moorish and Moorish Open as described below: Moorish was designed, cut and patented by German immigrants Julius Schmohl and Ernst Lauschke, who assigned the rights to Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in April–May 1891. Commercial specimens consistently showed Moorish Open on the same page or in a spread. As advertised, this handsome stylized Latin was meant for multi-color effects.
    • Morton Roman (2017). It is plausible for reasons too long to explain here that Ludwig S. Ipsen of Boston designed the typeface known as Mother Hubbard sometime before 1886 when it was offered by Dickinson Type Foundry. There were numerous swashes and alternate characters for this typeface, and I'm certain some will never be discovered. (The unadorned caps of this font bear a close resemblance to Monopol from Petzendorfer in 1903 and I have heard a rumor that a lower case alphabet was designed in modern times. As with many typefaces, the stories behind the letters are sometimes fascinating to those who are interested to know more.)
    • Muralla Text (2017). This is a digital revival of Music Hall text. I have no information about it except that it appears in one of Dan X. Solo's publications, but it is quite pretty. Robert Donona added: "This was called Teuton Text, shown in MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan type specimen books, it is also shown in the 1898 book entitled Shriftatlas by Ludwig Pfetzendorfer of German and also shown in some German Printing periodicals entitled Archiv für Buchdruckerkunst by Alexander Waldow, this publication ran from 1864 to the early 20th century."
    • Mystica (2019). Mystica was found in a Dan Solo publication on swash alphabets. It consists of the upper and lower case only, but is a very pretty example of a slightly quirky calligraphic letterform that appears to have been hand-drawn. There are several features that I retained when digitizing, and there are others I standardized without sacrificing the overall feel. I'm not sure whether this was ever really a typeface; until now it probably would have been classified as ephemera.
    • National Pride (2018). This is a digital revival of a typeface known as National or National Gothic that is surprisingly old, and more surprisingly, not digitized until now despite being a rather obvious project. It was completed a few weeks ago, but it required a little massaging to get a few parameters more in line with afterthoughts I had. Thanks to Anna again for research and some good specimens to go with mine. In his correspondence with William E. Lo , German immigrant Julius Herriet Sr. (then in his 80s, with a life-long career in type design/cutting) recalled producing this face during the few years he worked in Philadelphia. As was customary at the time, his boss, the "hyper-active" Lawrence Johnson, patented it in 1856 [USPTO D760]. Johnson's patent affidavit explains that the design was geared to chromatic separations for printing with blue and red inks with white paper as the third color. What a great idea 150+ years later! Incidentally… It is said that Mr. Johnson [1801-1860] "worked himself to death." In the process, he promoted three of his employees to partners and groomed them to succeed him: Thomas MacKellar, John F. Smith and Richard Smith (sons of his first partner, Johnson & Smith). Together with Peter A. Jordan (the CFO of his time), these men built on Johnson's foundation to become the "largest and most celebrated type foundry in the world."
    • New Orange (2017). New Orange is a revival of a typeface called New Orleans but originally called Romantiques No. 3 in catalogs from the 19th century. The Decorated is the original design and the roman is one I created for special interest. Like many of these decorative typefaces from the 19th century, they can be produced as dual fonts for chromatic separations on special request.
    • Nile (2017). Nile is an original work based loosely on typefaces called Egyptians, particularly that of VGC. I've greatly expanded the possibilities of this letterform by generating 8 weights with accompanying italics and small caps, suitable for a wide range of languages as well as English, both text and display.
    • Nova Sandra Script (2017). Novelty Script has been revived as Nova Sandra. I've produced the typeface as an Extra Light, Light, Roman, Medium, Bold, Extra Bold and Black. (The Bold is a revival of the Novelty Script available from specimens.) The six other weights were added as an extra-special challenge. It is a beautiful connected script that has many unusual quirks unique to this design. There are several alternate characters and I have supplied a full set of “beginning forms†as well. I have also created a reasonable set of punctuation that did not exist in the original. It is a connected script, and therefore, one of the most difficult projects to undertake.
    • Octic Latin Drop Shade (2018). This is my digital revival of a typeface that started out life around 1884 at Illinois Type-Founding as Octagon Shaded. Several typefaces over the years have had "Octagon" somewhere in their name, but this is really an octic Latin with distinctive features such as a certain curviness where one would expect linearity, so not a true octagon type, and it in any case has a Latin serif, which was itself applied differently in later Latin designs. It has a wonderful drop shade that gives it great depth. There is no known lowercase for this font and the showing in Inland Printer was nearly complete.
    • Octuple (2017). This is a digital revival of a very old wood typeface called Octagon, which seems to have been first shown by George Nesbitt in specimens from 1838, believed to have its origins in France.
    • Partisan Ornamented (2017). One of the most challenging projects I've undertaken in the digital preservation of antique letterforms is this remarkable typeface that started off as a reference to "French 1838" and what Figgins showed as Parisian in 1843. Johnson & Smith showed it as Ornamented in 1841, but it was also known elsewhere as Dandy and Ornate No. 6. The principal trouble (beyond the sheer work involved in reviving this monster) lies in assembling anything like a complete character set. Showings in catalogs for nearly all typefaces have been several letters and perhaps a figure or two, but it is often impossible to get enough glyphs from even a dozen showings; Q, X, Z, J are commonly not shown. I revived the letter N to see whether it was even feasible to start the project and estimated it would take two months to complete, even if the missing letters could be found. Beyond my wildest dreams, several people were able to track down every missing letter and even the numerals and the AE and OE ligatures, in varying degrees of resolution from ancient catalogs. I was able to generate this type over many enjoyable, hellish hours.
    • Pattycake Condensed (2017). Attached is a digital revival of a lovely monoweight casual serif font called Pastel Condensed. I have seen revivals of this typeface, but I believe mine is a more complete and consistent version, and includes diacritical characters for setting in a wide variety of languages.
    • Paymaster Roman (2017). This wood typeface was called Painter's Roman and cut by both Page and Wells, being made available in the 1870s. It was revived a while ago by a major font developer with many glyphs added, but my cut retains some of the quirkiness of the sample I had available from Rob Roy Kelly's masterpiece, American Wood Type 1828–1900. Its numerous specimens are the source of many of my wood type digitizations.
    • Pencilings (2018). Pencilings has been digitally revived in three versions known to exist. Pencilings One was originally shown as Paragon Pencilings. Pencilings Two was originally shown as Paragon Pencilings No. 2 and uses the same caps as Pencilings with the lower case characters at 75% the size of No. 1 and with different cuts; both showings have several ligatures and alternates. Pencilings Three is a rendition of Solo's version, which was much heavier and was shown in "Grunge Alphabets" on page 65. The alphabet I scanned for One and Two is shown by Marder, Luse & Co., January 1885 in The Inland Printer. This is a lovely if somewhat inconsistent example of early explorations of typefaces that mimicked handwriting, particularly printing as opposed to calligraphy or penmanship. As such, these irregular examples are sometimes called casuals, a large group that includes brushes and bounces.
    • Pisa Semiscript (2017). A seldom-used font available from Bitstream, Piranesi Italic is nevertheless a lovely letterform whose designer I do not know. I have discovered that there was also a bolder version at some time in the past, but have never seen it except in type catalogs existing before digital typography, so quite rare. Despite its being called an italic, there never was a "Piranesi Roman." I have produced nine weights, both lighter and heavier than the original, completely redrawn for consistency and available in OpenType PostScript multilingual cross-platform fonts.
    • Precocious (2017). Preciosa was the original name for this little gem and it dates from around 1898 from Bauer & Co. in Stuttgart. It has been fonted before as freeware from Klaus Johansen of Svendborg, Denmark, but did not include lowercase. I'm not quite sure the lowercase I came across is the one designed for that face, as it comes from a Solo catalog, and occasionally he used lowercase alphabets from other faces to accompany his perhaps all-caps blackletter fonts, so who knows? More on that subject later as I revive a couple other drop-cap Gothic beauties whose lowercase characters are the same.
    • Protagonist (2018). This series is a digital revival of a face known as Program. Thanks to Anna Allen for the following research as well as a few critical scans from materials I didn't have in my possession: According to William E. Loy, this typewriter-like Egyptian was designed and cut by William F. Capitain [1851–1915]. Carl Müler, an executive of Marder, Luse & Co. (Capitain's employer since November 1874), patented the design in November 1881–April 1882 and assigned the rights to [USPTO D13862]. Contrary to USPTO regulations effective in 1874, he got away with identifying the intended commercial tradename. It was advertised in The Inland Printer of April 1885. In February–May 1885, Capitain himself patented Inclined Program, a dual-case back-slant derivative [USPTO D161054]. Like Program, it was shown in the Marder, Luse catalogs issued in 1889 and 1890. Unlike Müler, he retained the rights.
    • Rochelle (2017). This series is intended as an extension of Herb Lubalin's 1970 creation, Ronda. It has always been available in several weights, but I extended the utility of this face to some lighter forms as well as the inclusion of small caps (except in the bold).
    • Rose Madder (2017). This is another example of reviving a letterform that may never have been a typeface. It was found unnamed in Carol Belanger Grafton's "Bizarre & Ornamental Alphabets" on pp. 96–97.
    • Rosemary Series (2017). Rosemary is a revival of various Roman woods found in "100 Wood Type Alphabets," by Rob Roy Kelly. Ornamented (p. 230) first shown by George F. Nesbitt in 1838 specimens (Shadow and Expanded are derivatives); X Condensed (p. 234) same Nesbitt; Condensed (p. 233) same; Extended (p. 231) same; Roman (p. 232) first shown by Darius Wells 1828.
    • Ruinous Titling (2018). This is a digital revival of a face called Parable that appears in one of Dan X. Solo's publications. It would be strange if no one has revived this face, and I do so solely as a demonstration of how it is that people get into doing the sort of work I do, even as an occasional hobby and nothing more. With the right software and a little determination to learn something new, the average person can produce a typeface in a few hours, albeit one this simple and lacking anything more than the capital letters. It whets a lot of folks' appetites for something more challenging, but rarely ending up where I am at a level of astonishing self-inflicted pain! The typeface was less than two hours from turning on the scanner, through drawing and spacing to a usable font.
    • Rye Roman (2017). This is a digital revival of a typeface identified as Ryan Jackson on p. 85 of Solo's "Victorian Display Alphabets," but I have found no other reference so far as to its origins before that publication. Technically, it is a moderately decorated low-contrast Latin.
    • Saluzzo font (2017)> Giambattista Bodoni, one of the first rockstars of typography and printing, flourished in the latter half of the eighteenth century in Parma, Italy. His fans included Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon and Pope Pius VII. The typeface we know as Bodoni has been developed by numerous foundries, particularly in the late twentieth century, no two of which are identical. It has generally been drawn as a high-contrast serif and was itself based on some of the transitional forms originating in Baskerville's studios at the time Bodoni ran his printing business. I have developed a unique Bodoni myself, slightly lower in contrast to render it more readable at smaller sizes. I have produced the letterform in Open Type PostScript format for cross-platform use in eleven different weights, italics and small caps (in the roman only), for a total of 33 multilingual fonts. Saluzzo is named for Bodoni's birthplace in Italy.
    • Santa Claus (2018). This is a self-named digital revival of Santa Claus and Santa Claus Initials, both No. 1 and No. 2. This irresistible pair of fun faces was introduced by Central TF in the December 1885 edition of The Inland Printer. A patent pending notice was displayed in at least one commercial specimen; no such patent exists and none was claimed in the post-ATF catalog issued by the Central /Boston TFs in 1892. According to policies of the US Patent and Trademark Office in effect at the time, Santa Claus was positively new, novel and non-obvious and absolutely worthy of a design patent. No approved applications for design patents were filed by Central executives nor assigned by others after 1886. Apparently this notice was of the "beware of the (non-existent) dog" variety. The designer is unknown. William E. Loy does not account for Santa Claus in his biographies of Gustave F. Schroeder or Nicholas J. Werner, Central's staff type designers/punch-cutters until 1889, when they partnered an independent business. In 1891, Schroeder moved to California; he and Werner continued to contract design commissions from Central and other clients.
    • Saprophyte Roman (2018). Saprophyte is a digital revival of a typeface that started out as Ornamented No. 1060. Thanks to Anna Allen for the commentary on its provenance. This Latin gingerbread face was designed and patented by Julius Herriet, Sr. in 1878–1879. He assigned the rights to David Wolfe Bruce , the last family member involved with the Bruce TF. After the USPTO established the trademark division in 1870–1874, the Bruce TF switched from naming its new faces to numbering them. Presumably, this expedient circumvented payment of additional attorney and registration fees. The name Safari may have been dubbed by Dan X. Solo. Those comparing my version with Solo's and the patent specimen will find there to be discrepancies with Solo. The patent specimen was poor but indicated significant changes that occurred by the time Solo had samples. I went as best I could by indications from the patent application of 1878 in regards to overall form and design and had to rely on Solo for only several details. It is my creation based on the information I have available and is nevertheless stunning and unique.
    • Shifty Wide (2017). Shifty is a revival of a typeface identified as Shimmer Wide in Solo's "Victorian Display Alphabets," p. 88. I don't otherwise know the origin of this letterform, but because of its regularity I don't believe this was a wood type, or at least the version I'm seeing comes from a metal face that may have been based on a wood design. There is a resemblance to Antique Tuscan No. 1, a wood face from the 1850s.
    • Snitch Script (2017). Based squarely on one of the most familiar scripts, Snell Roundhand, my version has several major design changes. Charles Snell developed this letterform many decades ago and it was translated by Matthew Carter into phototype in the mid-1960s with a total of three weights made available. I have developed a total of 12 weights of this very difficult connected script, all the way from a Hairline to an Extra Black, beyond the ranges previously available—keeping in mind that this form has some very different glyphs in place of the originals, and quite a bit of standardizing in ways the original designer would perhaps find offensive. But I love it, so there.
    • Solomonic, Cliffhanger and Deerfield (2017). I revived Solar, Climax and Dearborn Initials consecutively, since they had been shown in many catalogs adjacent to one another and were offered by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in the late 1880s. They are decidedly modern-looking display faces, and as I always say, all of our best ideas were stolen by designers of the past!
    • Spiral Swash (2019). This is a digital revival of the typeface of the same name, found in one of Solo's publications. Technically it is a higher-contrast extra-bold, wide, extreme flare-serif with ball swashes. It is reminiscent of the Euclids I revived last year and would work well as drop caps with the entire range of undecorated forms from that revival. It is equipped with a very nice range of alternate characters, but there is no punctuation supplied. I don't know the designer of this face or the time period, but it looks to be something that would have appeared in a photolettering catalog in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
    • Springfield Roman (2017). This is a revival of a previously undigitized typeface called Spangle in some catalogs but has been also named Uncle Sam, Carnet de Bal, Ornate No. 3, Ornamented No. 851 and Romantiques No. 1; which demonstrates with one font the tremendous problem in type identification. In any case, it's hard to believe this was designed in the 1830s by Laurent & de Berny of Paris, calling it Ornamented No. 1071.
    • Sprinkle Roman (2017). Based on the original typeface called Spring, this is a display letterform that I digitized a few years ago from one of Dan X. Solo's catalogs. It is notable for containing a huge number of alternate characters that make it a lot of fun to work with for a distinctly retro feel. Also called Bonaparte by Photo-Lettering, and Radiant Flair by OptiFont.
    • Stakeholder Roman (2017). This wood typeface was called Staccato by Solo, but was originally released as Tuscan Extended by W.H. Page before 1872. I suspect this is another letterform that has been revived by others.
    • Stengel Roman (2018). This is a digital revival of Sterling. There have been other unrelated typefaces with the same name, but the history of Sterling follows. Again, thanks to Anna Allen for the sleuthing: A far cry from ATF Sterling (Morris F. Benton, 1917), this suave stylized Latin has just the right slinky curves! The designer, Charles E. Heyer, reprises his trend-setting hooked C and extends the style to the G with a new interpretation for this stunning all-caps alphabet [with two alternates, an E and an L]. His patent application was promptly approved in September–October 1890; rights were assigned to Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, his employer since 1878. It was shown by BBS until at least 1909. A few of my own comments on this letterform follow. For its time, it is certainly a departure from standard interpretations of alphabets. To begin with, we are finding terminals in some of the characters that are unexpected, swashes where we would expect traditional terminals. The A is square with a swash crossbar, echoed in the H, and the H itself is like the M and H in being bandy-legged. The W is practically an inverted M. The J and the U are very wide. All characters are quite a bit wider than usual, in line with Clipper, which it resembles in some respects; but the question mark is super-condensed. The A, B, E, F, H, P and R have compressed upper stories, giving the face a top-heavy look, which became very popular in the Art Nouveau craze. The curves are much thicker than expected, perhaps a bit outside acceptable for good color, so a high contrast in places where you would not expect. The serif is minimal and difficult to discern in my specimens, so I interpolated somewhat. Its modern sort-of-equivalent look is like Newtext, Americana or the modern Copperplates. I worked mostly from the patent specimen, because it was quite different from all the printed materials I examined.
    • Stigmata (2018). Only rock-solid project management, determination and a tolerance for tedium will get a typographic revivalist though the gantlet in bringing back to life one of the most complex typefaces ever designed, Stipple. The history of this unique letterform is provided by Anna Allen as follows: The brilliant Herman Ihlenburg completed design of this masterpiece in 1889; in January–February 1890, he patented it and assigned the rights to MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan [USPTO D19660]. Concurrently, he patented a set of related ornaments for line finials and a semi-rectangular frame [USPTO D19659]. The earliest commercial specimen examined was shown in the June 1890 edition of The Inland Printer by Shniedewend & Lee Co., then MSJ's Chicago agent. Widely considered unvectorizable, it was thus a challenge I undertook because the number of good specimens was high enough to consider the challenge. The rest of the story of this revival is too long and technical to relate, so I will describe this is as a maximally decorated modified bold Latin banner typeface. Just one of these characters contains around 2,000 data points, close to the maximum possible to create a font that will not crash. Thanks to all and sundry for a few rare specimens and particularly the US Patent Office for its poor but complete specimen of the 48-point characters; and several others for the serendipitous discovery of a couple important 36-point characters. The bang, question, period, comma and colon were designed by me to make the font more usable. Stipple is now available for the first time in 130 years.
    • Sundog (2019). This 9-weight series is a revival of a typeface shown as Sunningdale (in three weights from Dan X. Solo). It is a slab face Egyptian italic with very nice swashes, but there is no punctuation for this letterform. It contains a large range of alternate characters. Although I don't know the origin of this typeface, it is almost certainly the same designer as Whitley Sans, revived most recently by me. The lighter weights in this series are almost strictly monoweight, but there is an increase in contrast from Light through Heavy, as in the original forms.
    • Sunnybrook Script (2019). This is a very light monoweight upright semiscript of my own design with a lot of features found in traditional scripts of 150 years ago. The exuberant swash capitals are very loosely based on Flemish Script but have been modified a great deal and standardized across several glyphs. It can be set in a wide variety of languages.
    • Superior (2018). This is a digital revival of Superior, whose first showing I have as April 1886 from Great Western Type Foundry in Chicago. It is a slightly decorated extra-light condensed Latin existing only in caps as far as I can tell. There is a full set of numerals and minor punctuation. Superior is a rather simple revival in relative terms and requires only a few hours because of that simplicity and paucity of other glyphs. It has perhaps been revived by other developers, but I am not sure.
    • Tanglewood (2017). This revival ranks in the top five of the most difficult projects I've undertaken, not only because of the sheer amount of work involved in drawing the characters but in addition because of the number of glyphs that happened to be available. The name of this face was originally offered as Conner Ornamented No. 43, patented by James M. Conner in 1881. My undying thanks must go to Robert Donona, who supplied an incredibly good specimen from Graphic Compositions, Inc.'s phototype specimen book wherein the typeface is called Tangier. Diacritical marks, superior and inferior characters and basically enough glyphs to complete a large OTF file were evident in the specimen. Specimens of such completeness are rare in the world of typography, but having them available for viewing makes the revival process a time-consuming, if satisfying, venture. It required an absolutely stupid amount of time to finish. Several people have said this is my magnum opus...so far at least!
    • Tasty Gothic (2018). This is a digital revival of typefaces variously known as Tasso, Gotham and No. 205). 1890 (Tasso, Gotham), Barnhart Bros. & Spindler; 1895 (No. 205) George Bruce's Son. Some hunting around was necessary to find missing glyphs, but my version appears to contain everything that was originally designed for this very pleasant monoweight gothic.
    • Tender Regard (2018). This is a digital revival of a graceful letterform originally known as Tendril. The design for Tendril was patented by Herman Ihlenburg [1843–1905] in 1878. Along with Camelot (Goudy-Phinney/ATF Boston 1900), his application was one of the fastest-approved in 19th-century history. Rights were awarded in less than three weeks during November and assigned to MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan [MSJ ] of Philadelphia.
    • Thursday Roman (2017). Attached is my digital revival of Thurston, a letterform appearing in one of Dan Solo's numerous type specimen books. I don't have any information on the source of this form, but like other postings here, this will be updated at some point in the future for the curious. This face is strongly reminiscent of the Peignot types, sans serifs with relatively strong contrast, but in this case with quirky ornamentation.
    • Tiberius (2017). Tiberius is a revival of a typeface called Tirolean. This is another strange letterform that has distinct Art Nouveau influences, but I'm not at all sure of the history of this face except that it was found in a Solo catalog.
    • Tinting Series (2017). Tinting is a faithful rendition of MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan's Tinted and patented by Charles H. Beeler around 1885. Because the lining work in each was different depending on the point size of the metal type used (in order to achieve the same visual "grayness" when printed), I have developed each of these in such a way that when the same size is selected for each font, the optimal relative size is actually produced. The same technique was used for the equally challenging typeface called Luray.
    • Trinitro (2018). This super-sophisticated stylized Latin (known originally as Trinal) was patented by British immigrant William F. Capitain [b1850] of Chicago in September–October 1888. The Marder Luse Type Foundry (a.k.a. Chicago Type Foundry ), his employer since 1874, advertised it in The Inland Printer edition of November 1888. It was shown by ATF until c1900. Trinal has been digitized, containing many of the variously decorated characters that make up a large font. I am not at all sure I found everything, and it took the sleuthing of several other fanatics to find anything like a final set of everything that may have been produced.
    • Tunbridge Shadow Ornamented (2017). This is a revival of Tungsten, another oddball ornamented style probably originating in the late 19th century.
    • Unitary Roman (2017). Unitary is a revival of a wood type published as Unique. I have no other information as to the provenance of this typeface except that it was taken from a Dan X. Solo publication.
    • Valor Shade and Rimmed Shade (2017). These digital revivals started out in 1847 at V & J Figgins and there were several other variants in wood type at the time. Van Horn, Zebra and Tuscan Condensed Shade were other names used over the years, but the latter best describes the letterform. This is a moderately challenging revival that can be made available for chromatic separations, as many of these complicated characters were intended originally.
    • Venetian Tulip Wood (2018). The story of this revival is unfolding, but to make it short, this was digitized from a very large point-size specimen of what purports to be wood type from Kelly's collection. But upon further investigation, it is unclear whether this sample was a drawing made from an impression (or printed specimens) or whether it is an actual impression of wood type itself. I suspect the former, but it is indeed a legitimate typeface (and an important early 19th-century face) that existed in several different decorated forms. It is unclear which came first, the metal or the wood letterform. Technically this is an exuberantly decorated drop-shadow concave Tuscan.
    • Vicarage Initials (2017). This challenging revival took many hours to complete for digital font use, but well worth it. Vatican Initials was found in a Solo publication and much has been done here to achieve consistency of color and design without sacrificing the nuances of this rare beauty.
    • Warpath (2017). Warpath is a revival of a wood typeface called Wampum in Dan Solo's publication; otherwise, I don't know the provenance of this letterform.
    • Whitestone Sans (2019). This is a digital revival of a very unusual face called Whitely Sans, found in a Solo publication. It is a medium-weight sans serif italic with very nice swashes and an interesting treatment of shading. There is a wide variety of alternate glyphs, including rare "ending forms," several of which I produced on my own to make it a little more consistent with typefaces supplied with ending forms.
    • Wood Types Numbers 154, 500, 506, 508 & 510 (2017). These are five unrelated wood types that were occasionally used in foundries setting metal type because of their availability in large sizes. No. 154 is a modified Tuscan; Nos. 508 and 510 are flared sans serifs; and Nos. 500 and 506 are Latins. Like most wood types, the character availability was usually quite limited.
  • The free sans typeface families done in 2003: Clemente, Ultima, Passion Sans (a Peignotian family).
  • His 19th century series, all made in 1995 or 1996: APT New Abramesque, APT New Alferata (psychedelic), APT New Armenian, APT New Belmont (Victorian), APT New Brenda, APT New Cabinet, APT New Caprice, APT New Dawson, APT New Euclid, APT New Linden, APT New Madison, APT New Moorish, APT New Mystic, APT New Rollo (Victorian), APT New Slapstick (wooden plank font), APT New Spiral, APT New Stephen Ornate, APT New Teahouse, APT New Viola, APT Novelty Script.
  • The wood type collection of Alan Jay Prescott.
    • APT Antique Wood Double Outline Shaded 1995, APT Antique Wood Extended 1996
    • APT Caslon Wood w: Alts 1996
    • APT Clarendon Wood Extended 1996
    • APT Columbian Wood w: Alts 1996
    • APT Courier Wood 1997
    • APT Doric Wood 1995
    • APT Gothic Wood (+Alts) 1997
    • APT Grecian FullFaced Wood 1996
    • APT Jenson Old Style Wood 1996
    • APT Kurilian Wood w: Decorated Alts 1997
    • APT Modified Gothic Wood Cond 1997
    • APT New Venetian Wood 1996
    • APT New Woodcut Shaded Initials 1995 (Houtsneeletter)
    • APT Roman Wood 1994-1995
    • APT Tuscan Antique Wood (+Alts) 1995-1996
    • APT Tuscan Concave Wood 1996-1997
    • APT Tuscan Contour Wood 1996
    • APT Tuscan Gothic 1 Wood 1996, APT Tuscan Gothic 2 Wood Cond w: Alts 1996, APT Tuscan Gothic 3 Wood Cond w: Alts 1997, APT Tuscan Gothic Pointed Wood w: Alts 1997 (Ironwood)
    • APT Tuscan Italian Wood 1997
    • APT Unique Wood 1995
    • APT Wood 1995-1997
    • APT Wood No. 501 1996 (orig Wm.H. Page 1887), APT Wood No. 508 1997, APT Wood No. 51 1997, APT Wood No. 510 1997, APT Wood No. 515 1996
  • Stencil typefaces designed in 1995 and 1996: APT Crystal Ship (1995), APT New Acapulco Light (1995; after the phototype Acapulco Light VGC), APT New Alpha Midnight (1996; after a typeface from 1969 sold by John Schaedler), APT New Beans w/ Alts (1996, after Beans by Dieter Zembsch, 1973), APT New Checkmate (1995---not a stencil type, really, but rather a modular typeface; after the film type Checkmate), APT New Zephyr (1996).
  • Computer fonts designed in 1995 and 1996: APT Bugsy (1995), APT New Quote (1996: bilined).
  • Art nouveau typefaces designed in 1995 and 1996: APT New Abbott (1995; after Joseph W. Phinneys' abbott Old Style, 1901), APT New Ambrosia (1995, after Peter Schnorr's 1898 Jugendstil typeface), APT New Baldur (1996; after Baldur by Schelter (1895) and Julius Klinkhardt (1903)), APT New Jagged w/ Alts (1996), APT New Jason (1996), APT New Livonia (1996), APT New Margit w/ Alts (1996), APT New Nightclub (1995), APT New Quaint (1995), APT New Quaint Open (1995).
  • Decorative typefaces designed between 1995 and 1997: The Bizarre series (decorative caps), Advertisers Gothic PD (2010: a large family based on Robert Wiebking's ugly original from 1917), APT Antique, Crayon PDS (2013, a decorative Victorian family), APT Caslon 76 (1997, based on a Compugraphics original), APT Feinen Inline (1997, after Henry Mikiewicz, 1983), APT Millais (1995, unknown origin), APT New Abel Cursive (1996, a revival of Bernie Abel's Abel Cursive (Compugraphic, 1974)), APT New Artcraft (1996), APT New LSC Book (1996, after a 1970 original by Lubalin Smith Carnese), APT New Classic Rubber Stamp (1996: based on DeVinne by G.F. Schroeder, 1890; F.W. Goudy 1898), APT New Hearst (1995, based on an original from Inland Type Foundry, 1901, which was famously ripped off from Goudy; the Italic was by Carl Schraubstadter, 1904), APT New Ticonderoga (1995-1996), APT New Woolly West (1995), APT Horizon Initials (1995), APT New Gill Floriated (1995), Old Gothic Initials Plain (1995: Lombardic caps), Pfister Bible Gothic APT Cameo (1997, blackletter caps), APT Saint Nick (1995: snow-themed caps), APT Black Dog (1995), APT Blacksmith Heavy (1995), APT New Airedale (1995, after an original tattoo / poster from the 1930s), APT New Blade Display w/ Alts (1996), APT New Cugat (1995; a wedge serif letterpress emulation typeface), APT New Fieldstone (1995), APT New Static (1995), APT New Trump Gravur (1995; after Georg Trump, 1954), APT New Yagi Bold (1996), APT New Courtier Italic (1996, Vanity Fair), APT New Harlequin (1996), APT New June (1996, after Fournier le Jeune).
  • Avant Garde typefaces: APT Avant Garde Alts and Display (1997), APT Lubalin Graph Alts (1997; to be used with BT Lubalin Graph, Ed Benguiat, 1974).

Local download of some of his fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Chong

Singapore-based designer of the ornamental caps alphabet Tipity (2012) and the ball terminal typeface Acerola Bombs (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Jay Prescott
[AJPT]

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Albatross (or: Font Deals)
[Jay Hilgert]

Albatross is Jay Hilgert's foundry in Oklahoma City, OK, est. 2008. Before Albatross, Jay Hilgert ran Bittbox (or: BB Free Fonts), a site dedicated to free clipart and vector art.

Typefaces from 2008 include the informal outline typeface Tire Shop, the informal 3d shadow typeface Blox (2008), the 3-d wood typeface Baja California, the stunning four-style family called BB Petie Boy (which includes an ornamental caps style, a grunge style, a blackboard style and a sketch style), Fusty Saddle, 23rd Street (a graffiti font) and Whiteboard Modern.

In 2009, he followed up with Oil Change (3d, hand-drawn).

In 2011, he created the futuristic family Naughty Astronaut (+Cowboy), the Western typeface ABTS Gunsmoke, the connected retro script typeface ABTS Milk, ABTS Feather Pen, ABTS Oklahoma (retro deco), ABTS Aviator (2011, art deco caps face), and ABTS Day of the Dead (ornamental skulls, Mexican style), ABTS Crestwing (an inline caps face), Helios Pro.

Typefaces from 2013 include Boom (a comic book typeface family, with hand-drawn Boom Symbols).

Typefaces from 2014: Signyard (a retro overlay font family that evokes motel signage), Microbrew (letterpress emulation in many increasingly grungy styles, accompanied by Ornaments and Banners), Sparhawk (a 3d layered display font), Castor One (wood and letterpress style), Altus (a hand-drawn elliptical sans, +Altus Extras: ornaments).

Typefaces from 2015: Corinth Ornaments, Auburn (brush script), Microbrew Unicase, Corinth (hand-drawn geometric sans with letterpress influences).

Typefaces from 2016: Moraine (a weathered letterpress emulation typeface family), Microbrew Soft.

Typefaces from 2019: Blakstone (a letterpress emulation family), Hanscum (vintage, handcrafted and letterpress-inspired).

Creative Market link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. In 2011, he started Font Deals. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Albert Angus Turbayne

Albert Angus Turbayne (b. 1866, Boston, MA, d. 1940, London) was an American book designer and bookbinding artist. He worked in London for the London County Council School of Photoengraving and Lithography and also for Carlton Studio. He wrote Monograms and Ciphers (republished by Dover in 1968 and by Mayflower Books in 1978 with the title A Complete Book of Monograms & Ciphers). Designer of an initial caps face at the end of the 19th century. One of his typefaces inspired Ben Noe's typeface Turbayne (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Legault

In the book Divertimento (Editlivre, Paris), Albert Legault (UQAM, Montreal, Canada) published the decorative art nouveau caps alphabet Eugene Grasset (2015). PDF file for the Eugene Grasset alphabet [120MB]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Rodríguez Diaz
[Stereoplastika]

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Aldona Gritzmann

Graphic designer in Paris, who created the textured decorative caps typeface Wykinanki (2015) [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aldus Type Studio

Mysterious outfit that used to be located at 731 S La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 90036. It set type primarily for advertising agencies. Between 1997 and 2000, Art Paquette modified and improved some existing fonts. There is also an Aldus company related to Mark Myers in San Diego that used to bundle its fonts with TypeTwister---this was a different company not connected to Aldus Type Studio. The San Diego company changed its name to Aldus Digital Graphics, was bought by Supreme Graphics in 2011, and is no longer in business.

Fonts from Aldus that are traveling the internet include AestheticPlain, AllegroSwashes, Angel, Angel, AssayExtraExtended, AssayRimmed, Cardinal, Cruickshank, Dainty, Dominican, FantasiaCaps (based on Fantasia from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), GothicCaps (based on Gothic from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), Lettresombrees, LubnaCaps (based on Lubna from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. II), Nabel (based on Nabel from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), Napoli (based on Napoli from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. II), Penelope, Regal (based on Regal from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), Romant (based on Romant from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), Royal (based on Royal from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. II), Spire, SpireAlt, SpireExtraLight, SpireExtraLightAlt, SpireShaded, WahingtonAntiqueOpen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ale Gonzalez

San Salvador, El Salvador-based illustrator who drww a great ornamental caps alphabet called Paranorman in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alec Hildebrand

Milwaukee, WI-based creator of a plant-inspired caps alphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alec Julien
[Haiku Monkey]

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Alejandra Vindas

Graphic designer and illustrator in san Jose, Costa Rica, who created several decorative caps alphabets, such as Plants (2016) and Mushrooms (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Parkhomenko

Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow, who the Cyrillic decorative caps alphabet Chameleon (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Kondakov

Russian creator of the ornamental caps typeface Fusion II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Sipilova

Peravalsk, Ukraine-based designer of the Latin ornamental caps font Vintage (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Brutcher

As a student in St Louis, MO, Alex Brutcher designed the decorative caps typeface Ferrum Vine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Fowkes

London-based designer of an untitled decorative 3d caps typeface in 2012.

Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex H B

Designer of Britannica Display (2005), a hairline geometric all caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex J. Purdy

Alex Purdy is a visual communicator and illustrator, and type enthusiast, who lives in Delaware. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, earning his BFA graphic design in 2003. He made nice hand-drawn fonts (images only on his web page: lightning stencil, illuminati font, flim flam, puzzle stencil, old school wifi), and created many modular/octagonal fonts (computer destroy, prick, impalia, boxcutter, bubble deco,&plasmasoft). His illustrated caps font called Hypertype, done with Luke Ramsey in 2008, is a piece of art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Liebold
[Context Foundry]

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Alex Moseley
[Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts]

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Alex Sidorenko

Tel Aviv-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Totem (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Tomlinson
[Ursa Minor]

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Alex Traian Munteanu
[Zeppelin Graphics]

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Alex Trochut

Brooklyn, NY-based grandson of Joan Trochut of Super-Veloz fame, b. 1981, Barcelona. After completing his studies at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona, Alex established his own design studio in Barcelona before relocating to New York City.

He is the codesigner with Andreu Balius of SuperVeloz (2005, TypeRepublic), a digital version of his grandfather's typeface. It won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Balius says about this typeface originally created by Joan Trochut from 1920-1980: Super-Veloz could be considered as an Ornamental type design, but in its core it is an experimental typeface based on a set of modular features that, with the combining of its modules, a great range of typefaces, ornaments ---even illustrations---, could be made. That is perhaps the most interesting experiment in early modern type design ever made in Spain during the immediate years after the War. The lecture, considering the borders between type design and ornament design, will introduce the context where Joan Trochut's Super-Veloz was produced (from sketches to published brochures and speciments) in 1942. Also will explain how Super-Veloz works. It is really a "type-ornament" design that could be considered on the edge of what we call type design.

Alex has created design, illustration and typography for a diverse range of clients: Nike, Adidas, The Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, BBC, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, The Guardian, The New York Times and Time Magazine. Alex Trochut's lettering must be seen to be believed---it has to be genetic transmission. Recurring themes include adorned initials and modular types. His numerical all-caps alphabet for British Airways is phenomenal and pushes the bling-bling to the fashionable extreme. Stunning dollar sign drawn by him in 2007 for Acido Surtido.

In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. Noteworthy type treatments of that year include Nixon and the Futurecraft logo.

In 2012, he designed Trojan Font (like Trajan). He also did some stunning multiline alphabet for V Magazine. Also noteworthy is a swashy calligraphic logo for Wiz Khalifa and Atlantic Records.

Typographic picture by TDC55.

In 2013, Barcelona-based creative agency, Herraiz Soto commissioned Alex Trochut to create an original typeface collection titled Raw for Notegraphy.

In 2017, he made the color font Megazero at Fontself in Opentype SVG format.

In 2018, Alex Trochut and Sudtipos cooperated on Utopian and Dystopian. Utopian is a color font family based on primary colors and pure geometric shapes, influenced by Bauhaus and De Stijl. Dystopian, its black and white companion with square features of Renner's original Futura drawings, emits a darker look and evokes Trumpian gloom and doom.

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

Alexa Irungaray

During her graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Alexa Irungaray created an AI format typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Benois

Russian artist, art critic and historian, 1870-1960, who drew Alphabet in Pictures in 1904. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Pro

Designer in Saratov, Russia, who created a multilined caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Wright

Alexander Wright (Modo Visual, Caracas, Venezuela) created the hip alchemic display typeface Alicia (2012, HypeForType). It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.

In 2014, he published the prismatic typeface Maquinista, which can be bought at Hype For Type. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Isografia.

In 2015, together with Michelle Benaim Steiner, he co-founded In-House International Design in Austin, TX.

In 2020, he released Troptical (a 48-style prismatic or op-art typeface), and he co-designed Ragtag (a ragtag of capitals) with Rodrigo Fuenzalida for In-House International.

In 2020, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Alexander Wright and Michelle Benaim Steiner co-designed the exaggerated reverse stress (or: Italian) typeface Pata Slab at In-House International. All uppercase characters were built to fit precisely inside a square, so they are all the same width and height.

In 2022, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright published the decorative angular typeface family Broker at In-House International.

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Alexandr Bakanov

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

Alexandr Galuzin
[Alexandr Galuzin (was: Tangramus)]

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Alexandr Galuzin (was: Tangramus)
[Alexandr Galuzin]

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

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

In 2017, he designed the fat stenci typeface Growling.

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

Alexandr Mindryukov

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the scientific decorative all caps typeface Letter Symbol (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Cochran

During her studies in Melbouyrne, Australia, Alexandra Cochran designed the decorative all caps typeface Hairy (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Funaro

As a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, Alexandre Funaro drew the decorative Magical Girl Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Marc

French youngster (b. 1994) who created the simple hand-drawn typeface Newjosh (2012) and the grungy typeface Smoky Cloud (2012). He also made the African look caps typeface Tribalistik Tatwu (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexey Dombrovskiy

Alexey Dombrovskiy was born in 1964 in Russia (Uzlovaya, Tula region). He graduated from the Tula Polytechnical Institute in 1986. He works in book design. He cooperates with various publishing houses and designs books for the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Entomological Society, the Moscow State University, the Tula State University, and printed matter for the Bolshoi Theatre, the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the State Hermitage Museum. Author of some articles on the history of initials, a topic about which he spoke at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. In that talk, he covered these phases of initial caps development in Russia:

  • Cyrillic printed initial caps by 15-17th centuries as the Civil prototype.
  • First slavic capitals as serif (1494).
  • Francisco Scorina's modernization of Cyrillic type and capital letters (1517-1525).
  • Gothic motives in Moscow floriated letters by Ivan Fyodorov and his followers (1564-1677).
  • Alternative Cyrillic typefaces at Moskovia's western remote area (17th cent.).
  • Sobornoye Ulozhenie by czar Alexey Mikhaylovich: Ltin style of capital letters in Russian corpus juris (1649).
  • The Civil type's initials in Peter the Great's editions (1708-1725).
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Alexey Zlodey

Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the decorative all caps typeface Column (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexia Yang

Graphic designer from Long Beach, CA. She created an illustrated caps typeface inspired by contortion, called Grotesque Beauty (2011). Parakeet (2011) is a display face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Calhoun

Photographer in Ormond Beach, FL, who designed the ornamental caps alphabet Merci Pour Rien (2013). Her home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Kraus

Graphic designer from Rhode Island. He created the slightly gross alphabet Nose Job (2011), but this is not a font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Roizen

Graphic designer in Moscow, ID. She created an all caps alphabet that was inspired by Indian art in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Valle Chavez

At Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Alice Valle (Lima, Peru) and Valeria Florindez designed the octopus-themed all caps typeface Alfabeto Pulpo (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alina Statsenko

Toronto-based designer of the decorative floral caps typeface Botanic (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allie Surdovel

Graphic designer in Providence, RI, who created the cat alphabet Daddy Cat (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allie Wong

Graphic design student at Cal State University in Long Beach, class of 2013. Creator of the all caps typeface Dance Robot Dance (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allison Lea Armstrong

During her studies at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, AR, Allison Lea Armstrong designed Architecture Anatomy Font (2016, decorative caps) and the related artchitect (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allison Nambo

While studying at Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC, Allison Nambo designed the ornamental caps typeface Barnacles (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allsindar

Hjarta Smarta is a set of ornamental alphabets created in 2012 by Allsindar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabet Agency Font Foundry
[Jonathan Swinn]

Aka Alphabet Agency and Alphabet Agent. Jon (or Jonathan) Swinn is based in Preston, UK. He designed these typefaces in 2014: Hellfire, Halberdier, Norseman, Order of Calatrava, Lancaster Castle, Santa Rosa (ornamental caps), Arcade, Captain Regular, Captain Shipwreck, Strobe Stencil, Gunslinger (spurred Western font), Street Stencil (+Overspray, +Grime), Abandoned Saloon Font (Western typeface).

In 2015, he made the free speed-themed sports font Top Speed, the baseball logo font Benchmark, the tattoo font Hellfire Club and the decorative caps typeface Santa Rosa.

Typefaces from 2016: Rangers (spurred), Four Potato Farm, Peacemaker (spurred family), Potato Farm, Hammer & Anvil, Mughals (Victorian), Mughals Distressed, Zero 2 Sixty (speed emulation techno font), Neodigital (free; inside the font we find the date 2012 though).

Typefaces from 2017: College Champions (a varsity font), Toronto Display (chamfered), Homeplate Font Duo, Megapowerz (all caps, cartoon or comic book style typeface), Physico (techno), Gamerica (beveled techno typeface), Monster Truck, Shift (a technical speed emulation font), Urban Tribe (grungy stencil).

Typefaces from 2018: Ice Champs, Baseball Champs, Pro Hockey Champs.

Typefaces from 2019: Cicero, Sports Headline (an octagonal sports font), Outline 99.

Typefaces from 2020: Iron Lake (a Tuscan pioneer font), Iron Lake Rough, They Live (a paint brush font), Gamebred, Glitch Esports, Doomsday, Nextgen Athletic, Nextgen Solid.

Typefaces from 2021: Cicero Series (a mechanical typeface in the style of old wood types), Benchmark2 (vintage, spurred), Pro League 2000 (a 6-style sports font), Captain Tall Ship (a Victorian typeface with concave outlines), Nexgen SLD (a 6-style mechanical industrial octagonal font family), Block Brush (a sketched SVG font), Hallowevil (a Halloween font), Preds, Resiliency (18 styles), VSB, Old Jersey (a sports font).

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Alphabet art

Alphabets drawn in many forms include these renderings, as reported in U&LC:

  • Doug Keith (1981): Elfabets.
  • Jack Williams (1984): Elfabet.
  • Joan Edwards (1981): Alphabet de coutumes.
  • Debi Gardner: Cat alphabet.
  • Jill Tannenbaum: Cat alphabet.
  • Kimble Mead: Cat alphabet.
  • Dawn Ostrer: Alphabet of mice.
  • Suzanne Rozdilski (1981): Lorelei Bold.
  • Robert Bloomberg (1981): alphabeats.
  • D. Hooker (1982).
  • Wolfgang Sperzel (1982): Alphaband.
  • Kristi Weber (1983): Flower alphabet.
  • Colette Tubbs (1983): Contemporary Samscript.
  • Hrana Janto (1984): Mythic, Medieval&Marvelous.
  • Leah Oliver (1985): Kiddy Kaps.
  • June Sidwell (1986): Haute Couture Caps.
  • Donald King (1987): Suburban Block.
  • Raquel Jaramillo (1987): Body Language.
  • Claudia de Castro (1988): Custom Built.
  • Joseph Volpicelli (1989): animal alphabet.
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Alphabets de Style

A late 19th century book by an unknown author containing many exquisite ornamental caps alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphyn Press
[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

Two beautiful (shareware) caps fonts by Kevin Andrew Murphy from San Jose, CA: DeathDance (2000, based on drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger, circa 1523), WitchHunt1 (2000, witch dingbats). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ALT Foundry
[Andreas Leonidou]

ALT is the type foundry of prolific type designer Andreas Leonidou from Limassol, Cyprus, b. 1986. His main work is commercial, but there is also a substantial collection of free fonts.

He created Foldgami, Apollo 13 (techno, futuristic), Fatgami, Origamia, Paper Roll, Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), Alt Tiwo (2010, fat counterless), Alt Matey (2010, a family that includes a multiline style; the piano key typeface Alt Matey V2 followed in 2012), ALT Lautus (2010, a minimalistic monoline sans family), Japanese Cities Type Experiment (2010), ALT Alternatice (2010), ALT Vxt11 (2010, a high-contrast art deco octagonal face), ALT Aeon (2010, a unicase but multiline family), Alt Re 32 (2010, techno), ALT Mun (2010, a curlified family), ALT Breo (2011, octagonal family), ALT Exline (2011), Jun Script (2011, connected contemporary upright script), ALT Ayame (2011, condensed squarish family ain the piano key style, +Long), Alt UAV31 (2011, an octagonal experiment), Alt Moav (2011, a striking geometric caps face. Images: i, ii, iii), Alt Geko (2011, an art deco caps face), and Archetype (unicase, Bauhaus).

Free fonts at Devian Tart: Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), ALT Hiroshi (2011, ornamental), ALT Deville (2011, spurred).

Typefaces made in 2012: DNR001 (hipster style), ALT Kora (for the identity of Drone), ALT Fat (monospaced squarish caps face), ALT Exodus (sci fi face), Alt Wet (a paint splatter face), Alt Sku (ornamental didone face), Alt Robotechnica (pixel face), Exodus (a blackletter style straight-edged typeface), Juk01 (an ornamental mechanical, or steampunk, typeface), Alt Sake (a thin condensed poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2013: Modu (alchemic, hipster style), Modu Deco, Bely (a severe-looking almost constructivist Latin/Cyrillic typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Ren (a free vintage display typeface family).

Typefaces from 2015: ALT Hazer (a great free shadow sans), ALT Smaq (a family of eight free beveled styles for Latin and Greek).

The free fonts as of 2015: ALTBELY, AltJoli, AltPixelsGoneBad, AltRe32-Duo, AltRe32-Normal, AltRenDuo, AltRenRegular, AltRenRetro, AltRenShadow, AltRetroBlack, AltRetroBold, AltRetroLight, AltRetroRegular, AltRetroThin, Alt-Twitchy, AltVxt11, Altapollo13, AltAeon-Black, AltAeon-Bold, AltAeon-Light, AltAeon-Medium, AltAeon-Thin, AltAeonRegular, AltAxlDeco, AltAxlRegular, AltDEVILE, AltGeko-AltGeko, AltMateyv2-Black, AltRobotechnica, AltSku, AltSkuItalic, AltUAV31, AltWet, Altapollo13-Black, Altapollo13, althazer, altsmaq2.8, altsmaq4.8, altsmaq6.8, altsmaq8.8, altexodus, altfatgami, altfatitalic, altfatregular, altfoldgami.

Typefaces from 2016: Sadistic (a free scratchy font), System Code (free programming font).

Typefaces from 2017: Rekt, Rogue (free).

Typefaces from 2018: Alt Catwalk (a fashion mag typeface family), Frantic, Looper (a compass-and-ruler font), Silent Scream (a free dry brush font). free).

Flickr link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Devian Tart link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link.

View Andreas Leonidou's typefaces. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alte Schriften
[Susuanne Ulmke]

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

Alter Deco Type foundry
[Adit Saputra]

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer Adit Saputra set up Alter Deco Type foundry in 2013. He created the spurred Victorian typefaces The Famous Typeface (2013), Midnight Show (2013), Heister (2013), Cardiman Script (2013), Epique (2013), Holden (2013), Long March (2013), Dialog (2013), Big Lodge (2013), Jack Runner (2013, spurred), Shoutest (a Western circus font), Old Opera (2013) and AI Trashed (2013, free download).

Other typefaces: Haimdale (2013, Victorian), Hamdall (2013), Chevia (2013), Chevitz (2013, roman caps), Shakehand (2014), Harmonique (2014), Knight Guard (2014), Hydenia (2014), Monopolish (2014), Antiqueen (2014), Samathor (2014), Sea Horse (2014), Phillnesia (2014, spurred), Relative (2014: a multiline custom typeface for Addthisrock Studio), Dubster (2014: a multiline typeface), Orbital (2014: a multiline custom typeface for Addthisrock Studio), Apparecum (2014), Handster (2015), Mermaid (2015: Victorian), Roasted (2015), Run (2015, spurred), Movember (2015), Bhaltazar (2015, eroded medieval font), Arthur (2015, rounded and handcrafted), Aberden (2015), Boulden (2015, rounded spurred typeface family, including letterpress emulation styles), Mouthen (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Strongwill (Victorian), Cyanide, Handland.

Dafont link. Creative Market link, where one can buy the fonts. Another Creative Market link. Graphic River link. Behance link. Yet another Behance link. Designs Net link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Melgosa

Montreal, Quebec (was: Madrid, Spain)-based designer of a prismatic set of initials in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alyona Evlakhovich

After getting a degree in printing arts from Moscow State University, Alyona worked in Moscow as a designer and then art director in the publishing house Avanta+ specialized in encyclopedias, gift editions and books for children. Currently, she is a freelance illustrator and book designer in Ramat gan, Israel. Creator of the decorative caps typeface ABC Fairy Tales (2014).

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Alyssa van Zweel

Ascot, UK-based designer of the Misunderstood Monsters typeface (2015). Alyssa grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and studied design in Cape Twon, South Africa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A.M. Mudasir
[Hoatzin Designs]

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Amanda Chung

As a student at Parsons in New York City, Amanda Chung designed the alphading typeface Alphabet Men (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amanda McCutcheon

As a student at Humber College in Toronto, Amanda McCutcheon designed the decorative caps typeface Mythological Creatures (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ambika Chowdhry

For a school project at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, interor architecture design student Ambika Chowdhry created the floriated ornametal caps typeface Bach Minuet Badinerie (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Guilloux

During a workshop at Ensamaa, Paris-based Amélie Guilloux designed the elegant variously stressed text typeface Contralto (2018). She also created the marine-themed decorative caps typeface Undulata (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amelia Adam

American designer, b. 1984. Home page. Her free fonts include Selfish Bitch (2010, hairline, hand-printed), and the ornamental art deco caps typeface Sundays Are Boring (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amira Azmi
[Mirxey]

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Amna Saleem

Student in Pakistan, who created the geometric poster typeface Geometra (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amondo Szegi
[FONTana Typestudio]

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Amori Brits

Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Mining For Tomorrow (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amry Al Mursalaat
[Docallisme HAS]

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Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Co.

Typeface importer and vendor and foundry located on Fourth Avenue and Park Avenue South in New York City, with offices in Burbank, CA, and Chicago, IL. Their typefaces included Annonce Grotesque. Amsterdam Continental ceased operations.

A Handbook of Types (PDF catalog). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amuki Studio
[Vanessa Zuñiga]

Vanessa A. Zuñiga Tinizaray (aka Amuki) is a graphic designer and art director in Loja, Ecuador. She works a lot with pre-Colombian, Inca, and South American cultural patterns. Vanessa created the experimental typeface Pacha (2010), which is based on old Indian patterns.

In 2012, she designed the modular color font INTI, and the cultural pattern typeface family Sara.

In 2014, she designed the modular typeface Oraculo and the bribeware display typeface Lineas Y Puntos.

Amaru Creador won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. In 2015, she created the free display typeface Abyaster, and the multiline Bolivian pattern typeface Khurus. Her typefaces Modular 46 and Tiwanacu (decorative Nazca-themed caps) won awards at Tipos Latinos 2016.

Typefaces from 2016: Criolla (an ornamental circus font, extended to Criollabat in 2019).

In 2017, she designed an extraordinary multiline ancient Mexican culture-themed decorative typeface, Coatl Serpiente, and published the Arhuaca op-art patterns.

Typefaces from 2017: Tinkuy Patterns (a free op-art pattern font related to native Andean cultures; in 2021, published by Sudtipos with gdigitization by Alejandro Paul), M46C (experimental, and modular), Entorno (a modular prismatic typeface), Arhuaca (a precolombian pattern font).

Typefaces from 2020: Nunka Anent Dingbat, Sébastien (a set of color typefaces inspired by Truchet's tilings). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Cheung

Creator of the ornamental caps face Minu (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Dietrich

American designer, b. 1967, California. Married to Ken Russell, who runs Atlantic Fonts in Camden, ME.

At Atlantic Fonts, she designed the hand-printed typefaces Kinglet (2012, curly), Honey Bee (2011), Once (2010) and Clue (2010).

In 2013, Amy published the playful poster typefaces Trail Map (2013) and Merci. Farmstand (2013) is a hand-printed typeface that is accompanied by the dingbat font Farmstand Goodies. Wheat (2013) is a stylish rough-edged script face. Eeeek (2013) is a Halloween dingbat typeface. Solstice (2013) is hand-printed.

Typefaces from 2014: Shoebox, Reading (bouncy typeface), Lion (an African-themed typeface), Suntea (a children's book script), Fini (cartoon font), Fini Things (girly dingbats), Catbird (whimsical).

Typefaces from 2015: Goby (a great children's book font with fun sea life dingbats called Goby Graphic), Laughing Gull (a fun cartoonish font), Digby (Atlantic Fonts).

Typefaces from 2016: Sanderling(children's script), Dinghy (beatnik style) and Dinghybats, Storyboard (a primitve painter's font), Quince (a handcrafted typeface), Kiwi (a juice bar font accompanied by the dingbat font Kiwi Fruits).

Typefaces from 2017: Meow (a children's script), Answer (handcrafted, unicase), Peapod (a textured patterned all caps typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Junglegym, Turmeric.

Typefaces from 2019: Pattycake (a children's book font), Espadrille (a mixed case monoline display sans), Galavant (a cartoon font with interlocking letters), Seaglass.

Typefaces from 2020: Darcy (a wonderful beatnik typeface), Parula (hand-drawn with lots of oomph due to its energetic line variations).

Typefaces from 2021: MollyO (a scrapbook script), Rabbet (a fat finger font).

Old URL under the name Amy Dietrich Russell. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Amy Jones

Aka Taiga. Illustartor and graphic designer in Cardiff, Whales, who created the decorative all caps typeface Neptunes Garden (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Rodchester

Graphic designer in Manchester, UK. She designed the beveled caps typeface Fred Aldous (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Sanford

Greensboro, NC-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Damask (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Hoxha

Milan, Italy and Tirana, Albania-based designer of Juan Miro Typeface (2012), a school project that was finished in EPS vector format. Free download.

In 2017, Ana Hoxha and Julian Hoxhaj co-designed the free techno font Shkoder 1989. Dribble link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Luciano

Manila, The Philippines-based designer of the textured decorative caps typeface Intricate (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Margarida Soares

Or Ana Margarida Felipe. For a project at University of Aveiro in Portugal in 2016, Ana Margarida Soares (Figueira da Foz, Portugal), Filipa Oliveira and Joana Silva designed the geometric solid typeface Clumsy Types. Earlier, in 2012, at the same university, Ana Margarida Soares and Joana Silva co-designed the display typeface Palalimbagan.

In 2018, she designed the clorful all caps alphabet Tropical Birds. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Melo

Ana Catarina Melo (Barcelos, Portugal) created a modular squarish typeface entitled Maya (2013), as well as an unnamed set of pictograms. In 2015, she made Animal Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Solera

Alajuela, Costa Rica-based designer of the colored geometric caps typeface HHola (2015), which, like most of her other work, seems to be for the children's market. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Villa

Santa Fe, NM-based designer of an experimental caps typeface in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anabel Anderson

During her studies at Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL, Anabel Anderson created the ornamental caps typeface Empress (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anang Fibriyanto
[Cornertype Studio (or: Gassstype)]

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Anastasia Belevskaya

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the colorful Cyrillic initial caps alphabet Razrabotka (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasia Dimitriadi
[DimitriAna]

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Anastasiya Shtern

During her graphic design studies at BHSAD in Moscow, Anastasiya Shtern designed the Latin display typeface Modul (2013) and the mechanical ornamental caps typeface for Cyrillic called Reconstruction (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anchal Kandoi

Graphic designer in Mumbai, India, who designed the decorative caps typeface Kala Ghoda in 2016 for the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anders Rosen

Swedish folk fiddler. Designer whose fancy caps fonts will soon be developed in cooperation with David Kettlewell. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andinistas
[Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Typefaces from 2016: Enjoy (Script, Caps).

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

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

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

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

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

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

View the typefaces designed by Andinistas.

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

Andre Recinto

San Diego, CA-based designer of the floriated caps typeface Entanglement (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Borbély

Graphic designer and illustrator in Waterloo, Canada. Creator of Dress My Hair (2012, an ornamental alphabet for hairdressers) and Block Cut (2012, a modular octagonal typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Combs

Savannah, GA-based student who proposed this caps typeface (2006) for a school project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Douglas

Designer of Skywriting Alphabet, which was shown in ULC volume 13, 1986. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Malpede

Andrea Malpede (Nocive Laboratory, Naples, Italy) works in London. He created the ornamental alphabet called Maxicanito Nocive Font (2011). He also did Baboletor (2011, a superposition of basic geometric shapes), and Busy (2011).

In 2013, he designed Xylophone (an experimental 3d font) and Siick Nocive.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Meneses

Andrea Meneses Quezon City, The Philippines) created an ornamental caps typeface called Kusina ni Lola (Grandma's Kitchen) in 2013 during her studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Palacios

During her studies at UDLA in Quito, Ecuador, Andrea Palacios designed the chromatic ornamental caps typeface Curvus (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Peet

Lima, Peru-based designer of the flowery caps typeface Retablo (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Vigneau

Author of [Etude publicitaire pour la fonderie] Deberny et Peignot. [Caractères d'imprimerie] (1932, Paris). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Carlsson
[NoFont]

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Andreas Leonidou
[ALT Foundry]

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

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Andreas Stötzner
[SIAS (or: Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner)]

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Andree Ng

Graduate of Ton Duc Thang University. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based designer of the illustrated caps typeface Khong Gian Am (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andree Nguyen
[Nguyen Type]

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Andrei Isakau
[MonogramBros]

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Andreia Silva

Aveiro, Portugal-based designer of a handcrafted decorative floral alphabet in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Rive

Cordoba, Spain-based creator (b. 1991) of the ornamental caps typeface Popcorn (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreu Balius Planelles

Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (1980-1984), and graphic design at IDEP in Barcelona (1985-1989). He holds a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton (UK). He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. Casasín. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real. Coorganizer of ATypI 2014 in Barcelona.

Author of Type at work. The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003).

FontFont link. Linotype link. Behance link.

His production:

  • Garcia/Typerware offers about 50 fonts, including some very artsy typefaces, such as Fabrique (Andreu Balius), Futuda, Garcia Bodoni (Typerware), Alkimia (Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (pixel font, 1988-1989), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius) and Dinamo (1993, Balius and Casasin at Typerware), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), Mi mama Me Soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995; Water Knife (Laudelino L.Q., 1995); Alquimia (Estudi Xarop, 1995); Jam Jamie (Malcolm Webb, 1996); Network (Alex Gifreu, 1996); Panxo-Pinxo (David Molins, 1996); Euroface 80 mph (Peter Bilak, 1996); Inmaculatta (Roberto Saenz Maguregui, 1997); Proceso Sans (by Argentinan Pablo Cosgaya, 1996); Afligidos deudos (Adria Gual, 1996); Route 66 (Francesc Vidal, 1997); Popular (Sergi Ibanez, 1997); Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997); SoundFile (Reto Brunner, 1998); Ninja type (kana-lookalike alphabet by Charly Brown, 1995); Vertigo (Charly Brown, 1996); Loop UltraNormal (Franco and Sven, 1996); Inercia (Inigo Jerez, 1996).
  • Fontshop: FF Fontsoup.
  • ITC: ITC Temble (1996, a great subdued ghoulish face). With Joancarles P. Casasin, he created ITC Belter (1996) and ITC Belter Mega Outline (1996).
  • Typerware: Czeska was developed from Vojtech Preissig's woodtype typefaces. Andreu Balius completed the design and included an italic version and a large variety of ligatures (both for regular and italic).
  • Type Republic: Pradell, Trochut, SuperVeloz, SV Marfil Caps (2004), SV Fauno Caps. Pradell was freely inspired from punches cut by catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788), and is considered to be Balius' main work. Trochut is based on specimens from the 1940s by Joan Trochut. SuperVeloz is a collection of the type modules designed by Joan Trochut and produced at José Iranzo foundry in the beginning of the 40's, in Barcelona. Digitized and recovered by Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut in 2004. Example of such composition of modules include the great art nouveau typefaces SV Fauno Caps and SV Marfil Caps. In 2007, he added Taüll, a blackletter type. Still in 2007, he did the revival Elizabeth ND, which was based on an old type of Elizabeth Friedlander.
  • In 2008, he created the Vogue mag like family Carmen (Display, Fiesta, Regular), which are rooted in the didone style. Carmen, and its flirtatious companion Carmen Fiesta, were both reviewed by Typographica.
  • Barna (2011) and Barna Stencil (2011).
  • In 2012, Trochut was published as a free font family at Google Web Fonts. It was based on Joan Trochut-Blanchard's Bisonte.
  • Lladro (2012) is a custom sans typeface done for the Lladro company.
  • Rioja (2013) is a grotesque typeface that was custom-designed for Universidad de La Rioja.
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Andrew Belousov

Russian creator of a nail-themed all caps Cyrillic typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Clarke

During his studies in Sheffield, UK, Andrew Clarke created the sans caps typeface Spectrum (2014) and the decorative caps typeface Sheffield Cutlery (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew H. Leman
[E-phemera (was: HPLHS Prop Fonts, and earlier: Prop Fonts)]

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Andrew Jones

As a student at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea, Wales-based Andrew Jones created the decorative textured caps typeface H20 (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Novialdi

Jakarta, Indonesia-based graphic designer and lettering artist. Creator of Novialdi Dropcap Initials No. 1 (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Pixel (was: Timm Design)
[Andrew Timothy]

Estonian graphic designer who created these (mostly display sans or decorative serif style) typefaces:

  • In 2017: Heraldry (decorative caps), Spacious (sci-fi).
  • In 2019: Orlande, Mjölnir (a runic or Nordic script emulation), Ravenstar, Cyber (a mosaic font), Carmina Burana, Great Glory (brush), Galileo (serif), Galilei (script), Living Dream (font duo), Marie (sans), Curie (script), Pomino (a tall stylish serif), Chara (Sans+Serif), Moccha (Sans+Serif), Turin (Sans+Serif), Torres, Rustic Jack, Alchemy, Bushel (a spurred Tuscan typeface), Misty Meadow, Fiver (prismatic), Heleen Script, Xavier, Saint James, Vernazza (a condensed sans/serif pair), Torres (a free sans and Slab pair).
  • In 2020: Tiny Twig, Claro, Grove, Black Echo, Porto, Reval, Decora (geometric, art deco), Laura, Crasus, Cecilia Octavia, Rosalia, Boutique Serif, Flora, Magic Spell, Flare, Starglow, Sunday Sunshine.
  • In 2021: Alfa (sci-fi, stencil), Beauté.
  • In 2022: Polygon (triangulated), Verdant (a foliated font), Freco (a wedge serif), Wild Dreams.

Envato link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Timothy
[Andrew Pixel (was: Timm Design)]

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Andrew Tindale
[Tyntyp]

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Andrew Walsh
[TypeTrough]

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Andrey Kotko

Ukrainian designer who operates as Romantic Vintage Flowers. He created several EPS format decorative caps alphabets in 2015. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrey Yushchenko
[SHCH Graphics Group]

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Andrzej Heidrich

Polish illustrator and graphic artist, b. 1928, Warsaw. He created the beautiful cursive text typeface Bona. He also did nice lettering on some film posters, and designed bank notes, postage stamps, postcards and book covers.

In 2017, Mateusz Machalski contacted him for advice on the momentous revival and extension project Bona Nova, published by and available from Capitalics and MyFonts. For starters, Machalski had to design a regular upright style to match Heidrich's italics. Bona Nova is supplemented by the extreme contrast typeface family Bona Title and the inline typeface family Bona Sforza. Participants in the project also include Leszek Bielski, Ania Wielunska and Michal Jarocinski. Interview with Andrzej Heidrich, and the story of Bona Nova (PDF format, 2017). Google Fonts link for Bona Nova. Github link for Bona Nova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrzej Wasilewski

During his studies in Dublin, Ireland, Andrzej Wasilewski designed the decorative caps typeface Asymmetrical (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anezka Minarikova

Prague-based designer of the London 2012 alphabet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angélica Figueroa

Angélica (b. 1982) graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the ornamental caps typeface Tirana. The name comes from the fiesta de la Tirana.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Perez

Angel Perez (Cordoba, Spain) created a tattoo-inspired ornamental caps typeface called Sybarithe (2013).

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Angelica Teran

Maracaibo, Venezuela-based designer of the decorative prismatic all caps typeface Elephant (2015). Elephant was a school project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angelina Santos

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

Angeline Yeeai

Designer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Creator of an ornamental caps typeface called Steampunked (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angie Wang

Self-proclaimed illustratress in Portland, OR, with a beautiful web page intro: angie wang has not gone to art school and has not won any awards for illustration and got no job and no cats no dogs and no birds so dont give her no shit.She made a nice all caps illustrated alphabet called Space Nomads (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anglo-Saxon Capitals

A primitive uncial style of capitals prevalent in the eighth and ninth centuries. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angus R. Shamal
[ARS Type (was ARS Design)]

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Anhad Kaur

At Raffles Design Institute in Mumbai, Anhad Kaur designed the fun decorative caps typeface Nerd Word (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ania Szerszen

Ania Szerszen (Wroclaw, Poland) created the beautiful ornamental caps typeface Dream Shepherds (2012) and the oblique piano key typeface Lullaby (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aniko Veres

Graduate of the Media & Design Department Eger, Visual Arts Institute, Eger, Hungary. Budapest-based designer of the bilined caps school project typeface Linear (2013). It was created during Aniko's studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

For a project at the Media & Design Department Eger, Visual Arts Institue, Eger, Hungary, Aniko Veres designed the display typefaces Ithemba (2021) and Leiko (2020), and the monolinear minimalist sans typeface Forma (2020).

In 2020, she designed the informal monolinear sans typeface Nikushimi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anja Udovicic

Graduate of Banja Luka College, Bosnia. Duesseldorf, Germany-based designer of a great colorful shaded all caps typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anjali Kushwaha

As a student in New Delhi, India, Anjali Kushwaha designed a mushroom-themed decorative typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann Megg Arbotante

Designer from the Gold Coast in Australia, who created an ornamental octopus-themed ornamental alphabet called Tentacle (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann Piecha

Cambridge, UK-based designer of the experimental stick figure typeface Line Eyes (2016) and a colorful geometric all caps tape font (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Zhuk

Moscow-based illustrator. In 2020 she drew English Animals Alphabet for children's books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Bad-yan

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the squarish and quite innovative all caps Animal Alphabet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Grosh

Anna Grosh was born in Krasnoyarsk City, Siberia and now resides in San Francisco, California. She earned a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Architecture and Construction, and completed a Masters in Interior Design at the Open Social Academy of Design in Moscow. She is in the process of getting her second masters in graphic design at the Academy of Art University. She specializes in typographic design, illustration and graphic design. In 2010, she embarked on an ornamental typeface. She is working on an ornamental caps typeface.

Old Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Guz

Artist and illustrator from Russia, b. Aldan, Siberia, now located in St. Petersburg. In 2004 she graduated from the Saint-Petersburg Pedagogical University. In 2020, she drew an Animals Alphabet for children's books. In 2017, she drew a (Latin) Watercolor Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Postum

Moscow, Russia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Paul Klee (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Rigaud

During her graphic design studies in Nantes, France, Anna Rigaud designed the Inca-inspired decorative caps typeface Inca (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Ruf

Moscow-based designer of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Accidental (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Ryagskih

Saint-Petersburg, Russia-based teacher at Saint Petersburg University Of Technology And Design. Creator of elaborate hand-drawm ornamental caps (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Sarvira

Illustrator in Kiev. In 2015, she designed a hand-drawn children's book alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Simons

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

Anna Söderberg

In 2008 she graduated from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm where she studied advertising and graphic design. Designer and illustrator in Stockholm, who made the decorative caps typeface Ornis (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Szonn

Graphic designer in Gemmingen, Germany, who created the brush script typeface Mishelle (2017), and several sets of icons such as Clothing Icons and Gold Crown Icons. In 2018, she published Fashionable and Blooming Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Tilche

Anna Tilche (Barcelona) created an animal-themed caps alphabet called Animalario (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Zhang

Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of a decorative doodled all caps typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annaëlle Cousinié

Graphic designer in Lyon, France. She created the colorful textured geometric solid typeface Dyslexie (2013), the geometric display typeface Codex (2016), and the connect-the-dots electronic circuit typeface Le Lien (2016, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna-Sofia Giannicola

Prolific artist in san Francisco, who drew a colorful decorative bird-themed all caps alphabet called Flock (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anniliese Ahrens

Chicago-based designer of a dingbat font called Hairstyles (2012). In 2019, she published a decorative caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annisa Luthfiasari
[Knickknacks]

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Anthony Fook

During his graphic design studies in Taipei, Taiwan, Anthony Fook created the decorative caps set called Scientific Alphabet (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Nash
[Classic Font Company]

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Anthony Rodriguez

Marietta, GA-based designer of Loko Type (2013), a distressed steampunk caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Boire

Nantes, France-based designer of the decorative geometric didone alphabet Palansia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Van Leest

Woodcutter, engraver and printmaker, b. Antwerp, ca. 1545, d. Antwerp, 1592. He worked as a book illustrator for Christoffel Plantijn in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Vérard

Famous Parisian printer and publisher (1450-1512 or 1519), who also on occasion illustrated and even wrote texts. The link shows a Venetian wide-feathered alphabet of initial caps made around 1500. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Malina

Russian designer of the LED lights font LED (2015), the colorful 3d typeface Isometric (2016), and the bubblegum font Bubble Letters (2016). In 2017, he designed the colorful geometric all caps alphabet Memphis and the colorful sketched typeface Funky.

All fonts are in vector format. Aka Malina Shop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Mikaskin

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Monster Alphabet (2017). He specializes in childen's book illustrations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Shelko

Moscow-based designer (with Denis Mas) of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Entertaining Mechanics (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoni Tudisco

Hamburg-based designer of Cleptotronik (2012), a 3d visual effects caps alphabet.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonin Caulo

In 1856, Antonin Caulo published many alphabets, including Alphabet De Personnages and Alphabet des Diableries in Nouvelle collection de lettres de différents genres à l'usage de MM les peintres et graveurs (chez Caudriller, Paris). The latter book showcases about 50 decorative all caps alphabets. An earlier version, published by Grim, is dated 1846. It can be downloaded from Google Books. Local download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Basoli

Basoli (1774-1848) was born in Bologna, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, thereafter gradually making a name for himself as a specialist decorator and scene-painter. Basoli did a great deal of scene-painting and production design for the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Beginning in 1803, he taught at the Accademia in Bologna where he had studied, and was appointed Professor of Ornament there. He published an ornamental architectural alphabet in Bologna in 1839 called Alfabeto Pittorico, ossia raccolta di pensieri pittorici composti di oggetti comincianti dalle singole lettere alfabetiche (Pictorial Alphabet, or, a collection of pictorial thoughts composed of objects beginning with the individual letters of the alphabet). Each letter in this fantastic lithographic alphabet features a surreal architectural form. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Cerri
[CRR TNN]

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Antonio Hernandez Valdes

Although not quite a full alphabet, the ornamental caps shown in Caleidoscopio (2013) by Antonio Hernandez Valdes (Leon, Mexico) are worthy of mention. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anugraha Design
[Cina Catteau]

Pokhara, Nepal-based designer whose work is characterized by bold colorful geometric patterns and constructions. Typefaces from 2017 include Roam (which Cina calls a tribal type) and the color font Beach Towel.

In 2017, she also published a wood type collection:

  • Barn Raising. A sturdy sans-serif in regular and rounded.
  • Prairie. A perfectly square geometric serif, in inline and regular.
  • Broad Sheet. A wide slab serif with 1.5:1 proportions. This one has a western flair but is simple enough to work for a variety of projects.
  • Prize. An ornate slab serif with a circus / carnival vibe.
  • Extra extra. A quirky slab serif most like 1900s printmaking letters.

Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

April Syder

During her studies in Nowich, UK, April Syder created an ornamental caps typeface called London Typography (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arena Media Comunication

Creator of the all caps ornamental typeface El Efi de Arena (2009). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ari Rafaeli
[ARTypes]

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Ariadna Vilalta

Rotterdam-based creator of an ornamental caps typeface called Zabalt (2013).

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

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

Aridi Graphics (or: Aridi Computer Graphics)
[Marwan Aridi]

Company based in Dallas, TX, that markets Marwan Aridi's great drawings. His borders, ornaments, initial caps, ribbons and banners are almost legendary. They are for now in EPS format, and truetype and type 1 versions are available for many. Alternate URL. He sells great sets of drawings for the following: Arabic Calligraphy Art, Arabic Caps&Fonts, Web Clips, Initial Caps I, Initial Caps II, Initial Caps III, Initial Caps IV, Historical Ornaments Patterns&Frames, Arabesque Ornaments, Arabesque Borders, Olde World Borders I, Olde World Borders II, Calligraphia, Olde World Ornaments, Ribbons, Banners&Frames, Ornamental Backgrounds, Crests, Ribbons&Frames, Typography&Printer's Ornaments, Aridi Fiesta, Business 1, Background Two, Arabesque Designs. Alternate URL. Arab Caps has many fonts. Package of 30 display fonts for 500USD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aring Typeface
[Måns Grebäck]

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

View Mans Grebäck's typefaces.

Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. MyFonts link. Another URL. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Buy fonts directly from Måns Grebäck. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Armin Haab

Swiss designer and photographer, b. 1919, Baar, d. 1991, Oberwil. He studied typography in Zug, and photography from 1941 until 1943 first at Ecole Photographique de la Suisse Romande in Lausanne and then at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. He was mainly into photojournalism from 1950 until 1957.

Codesigner with Walter Haettenschweiler of the famous condensed headline typeface Haettenschweiler (1954). This font was added to the standard Microsoft font library in 1995 and is sold by Ascender.

In 1967, he designed the silhoueette alphabet Photo Letter Leonor. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ArmoredBaby
[Mark Sunshine]

Mark Sunshine (ArmoredBaby) made Scrapps (2004, an orthogonal mechanical face) and Kickface (2005, squarish caps face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arno Drescher

Type designer (b. Auerbach, Germany, 1882, d. Braunschweig, 1971) who studied at the Akademie für Kunstgewerbe in Dresden, and became professor there in 1920. During World War II, Arno Drescher was director of the Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. After a period as freelance designer, he finally moved to Braunschweig in 1960.

Drescher is best known for his large geometric Super Grotesk family (Schriftguss, 1930). The list of his typefaces:

  • Appell (1933, Schriftguss).
  • Arabella (1936, Ludwig Wagner) and Arabella Favorit (1939, Ludwig Wagner). A cursive pair of typefaces. Digital revivals include Arabella (ca. 1999) by Dieter Steffmann and Arabella Pro (2006) by Ralph M. Unger.
  • Drescher Eilschrift (1934, Wilhelm Woelmer).
  • Drescher Versalien (1927, Schriftguss). Aka Drescher Initials. An open lineale titling typeface.
  • Duplex (1930, Typoart and 1937, Schriftguss). An all caps inline typefaces.
  • Energos (1932, Schriftguss). An early brush script. Revived by Ralph M. Unger in 2008 as Energia Pro (2008).
  • Fundamental Grotesk (1938-1939, Ludwig Wagner) and Fundamental Kursiv. In several weights.
  • Helion (Schriftguss, 1935, and Fonderie Française, 1935, a 3-d shaded outline font). Digitally revived by Ralph M. Unger in 2020 as RMU Helion.
  • Manutius Antiqua (1935, Ludwig Wagner), Manutius Kursiv (1935, Ludwig Wagner). This typeface is idenitical to Johannes Wagner's Antiqua 505 (1955).
  • Milo (1940, Schriftguss). A shadow typeface.
  • Onyx (1936, Schelter & Giesecke). A multiline art deco titling typeface.
  • Schreibmeister Kursiv (1958, at Ludwig Wagner). A formal cursive font. Schreibmeister (2021) is Ralph Unger's interpretation.
  • Super Grotesk (1930, Schriftguss). This geometric typeface family was revived at FontShop in 1999 by Svend Smital as FF Super Grotesk, and at Bitstream in 2001 by Nicolai Gogoll as Drescher Grotesk BT. Super Grotesk Schmalfett (1933) was revived in 2020 by Ralph M. Unger as RMU Gong.
  • Super Blickfang (1932, Schriftguss), Super Elektrik (1931, Schriftguss), Super Reflex (1931, Schriftguss). For a digital revival, see FF Super.

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Arporn Seemaroj

Artist in Bangkok, who designed a decorative Latin caps alphabet in 2016 with textures that emulates traditional Chinese porcelain lettering. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ARS Type (was ARS Design)
[Angus R. Shamal]

ARS Type is an Amsterdam-based foundry with some commercial fonts by Angus R. Shamal. Shamal had earlier published fonts with T-26 and Plazm. Fonts can be bought via Fontshop.

The fonts: AudioVisual1, Code, Kamp, Kamp Serif, Retro City, OCRU, Toycube, Mortal, Maquette (1999-2000), Angelring, ARS Bembo, Contrast, Dandy, EcologyModern, Hartu (handwriting), Temper, ARS Novelty (2011, a free hybrid style face), ARS Polythene (pixel font family), Misanthry, Syntax (OsF format sans serif), CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Exert (T-26), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995), ARSFortune (2000, futuristic), ARS Region (2002, Bauhaus sans), District (experimental), Descendiaan (1998), Zero Rate (futuristic), Tegel (1998, stencil, kitchen tile), Twenty (octagonal, techno), Trio (dot matrix fonts), Maquette (1999), Region, Product (2007, sans typefaces), Mr Archi, Prime (display), Deviata (unicase face), Forum I-AR (after Forum I, a 1948 font by Georg Trump), Freie Initialen-AR (2007, after a 1928 set of caps for Stempel Garamond), Fry's Ornamented (2007; a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796), Graphique-AR (2007; a shaded typeface based on a 1946 design by Eidenbenz for Haas), Gravur-AR (2007; a digital version of a type designed by Georg Trump and issued as Trump-Gravur by Weber in 1960), Initiales Grecques (after a Firmin Didot design, ca. 1800), Lutetia Open (2007; based on Jan Van Krimpen's Lutetia), Old Face Open (2007; a digitization of Fry's Shaded, an open all caps Baskerville cut by Isaac Moore for Fry, ca. 1788), Open Capitals (2007, after Jan Van Krimpen's 1928 typeface for Enschedé called Open Kapitalen), Romulus Capitals (2007; after the caps series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1931), Romulus Open (2007; after the Open series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1936), Rosart 811 (2007; open caps after Enschedé no. 811 by Rosart), Zentenar Initialen (2007; based on blackletter initials of F.H.E. Schneidler, ca. 1937).

Fontshop link. Designer link at FontShop. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

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

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

Art Illustration Gaspard

Gaspard sells 26 illustrations, one for each letter, showing people in interesting positions. He sells similar sets called Fish, Danse, T-Bone (skeletons), M.I.B. (men in black), Bonne Année and Acid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art Slave

Alya AS (aka Art Slave) is the Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the colourful caps typeface Manroe (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Reinders Folmer
[Typearture Type Foundry]

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Artsy Lady's Home Page
[Betty Cook]

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

Artur Tenczynski

, Hamburg, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden-based designer of the decorative typeface Indian Summer (2015) and the 3d number font FC (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ARTypes
[Ari Rafaeli]

ARTypes is based in Chicago, and is run by Ari Rafaeli. List of their typefaces categorized by revival type:

  • Hermann Eidenbenz: Graphique (1946) now called Graphique AR, a shadow face.
  • Jan van Krimpen (Enschedé) revivals: Romulus Kapitalen (1931), Romulus Open (1936), Curwen Initials (Van Krimpen did these in 1925 for The Curwen Press at Plaistow, London), and Open Kapitalen (1928).
  • Jacques-François Rosart: Rosart811, a decorative initial typeface that is a digital version of the 2-line great primer letters cut by J. F. Rosart for Izaak&Johannes Enschedé in 1759 (Enschedé no. 811).
  • Stephenson Blake revivals: Borders, Parisian Ronde.
  • Rudolf Koch (Klingspor) revivals: Holla, Koch-Antiqua-Kursiv Zierbuchstaben, Maximilian-Antiqua, Neuland 24pt.
  • Bernard Naudin (Deberny&Peignot) revival: Le Champlevé.
  • W. F. Kemper (Ludwig&Mayer) revival: Colonia. P.H. Raedisch: Lutetia Open (2007) is based on the 48-pt Lutetia capitals engraved by P. H. Raedisch under the direction of Jan van Krimpen for Enschedé in 1928.
  • Richard Austin: Fry's Ornamented (2007) is a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796. Stephenson, Blake&Co. acquired the type in 1905, and in 1948 they issued fonts in 30-pt (the size of the original design), 36-, 48- and 60-pt.
  • Max Caflisch (Bauer) revival: Columna.
  • Elisabeth Friedlaender (Bauer) revivals: Elisabeth-Antiqua, Elisabeth-Kursiv (and swash letters). Linotype Friedlaender borders.
  • Herbert Thannhaeuser (Typoart) revival: Erler-Versalien.
  • O. Menhart (Grafotechna) revivals: Manuscript Grazhdanka (cyrillic), Figural, Figural Italic (and swash letters). Also, Grafotechna ornaments (maybe not by Menhart).
  • Hiero Rhode (Johannes Wagner) revival: Hiero-Rhode-Antiqua (2007).
  • F. H. E. Schneidler (Bauer) revival: Legende.
  • Herbert Post revival: Post-Antiqua swash letters.
  • Georg Trump (Weber) revivals: Trump swash letters, Trump-Gravur (called Gravur AR now). The outline caps typeface Forum I-AR is derived from the Forum I type designed by Georg Trump (1948, C. E. Weber). Signum AR-A and Signum AR-B (2011) are based on Trump's Signum (1955, C.E. Weber). Palomba AR (2011) is based on Trump's angular calligraphic typeface Palomba (1954-1955, C.E. Weber). Amati AR (2011) is based on a Georg Trump design from 1953.
  • Hermann Zapf revival: Stempel astrological signs.
  • F.H. Ernst Schneidler: Zentenar Initialen is based on the initials designed by Prof. F. H. E. Schneidler, ca. 1937, for his Zentenar-Fraktur types.
  • Isaac Moore: Old Face Open (Fry's Shaded) is a decorative Baskerville which was probably cut by Isaac Moore for Fry ca. 1788. A revival was issued in eight sizes by Stephenson Blake in 1928.
  • Border units and ornaments: Amsterdam Apollo borders, Gracia dashes, Primula ornaments, Bauer Bernhard Curves, Weiß-Schmuck, Curwen Press Flowers, Klingspor Cocktail-Schmuck, Nebiolo fregi di contorno, Attika borders, English (swelled) rules, Künstler-Linien, an-Schmuck, Primavera-Schmuck.
  • Freie Initialen are derived from initials made for the Stempel Garamond series. The type was issued in 1928 in three sizes (36, 48, and 60 pt); the AR version follows the 60-pt design.
  • Initiales Grecques, based on Firmin Didot's design, ca. 1800.
  • Emil A. Neukomm revivals: Bravo AR (2007; originally 1945).
  • Ernst Bentele revivals: Bentele-Unziale (2007).
  • Joseph Gillé: Initiales ombrées (2007) is based on Gillé's original all caps typeface from 1828.
  • Maria-Ballé-Initials (2007), after an original font from Bauersche Giesserei.
  • Raffia Initials (1952, Henk Krijger): revived by ARTypes in 2008 as Raffia.
  • Ornaments 1 AR (2010): from designs from 18th and 19th century typefounders that were ancestors of the Stephenson Blake foundry.
  • Ornaments 2 AR (2010): Ornaments 2 contains designs for the Fanfare Press by Berthold Wolpe (1939) and for the Kynoch Press by Tirzah Garwood (ca. 1927).
  • Ornaments 3 AR (2010): based on designs by Bernard Naudin for Deberny et Peignot, c. 1924; and ornaments based on designs by Oldrich Menhart, Karel Svolinsky and Jaroslav Slab for the state printing office of Czechoslovakia and Grafotechna.
  • Ornaments 4 AR (2010): based on the Amsterdam Apollo and Gracia ornaments and the Amsterdam Crous-Vidal dashes (designed by Crous-Vidal).
  • Ornaments 5 AR (2010): based on the Amsterdam Primula ornaments designed by Imre Reiner, 1949.
  • Ornaments 6 AR (2010): based on designs for the Curwen Press by Edward Bawden and Percy Smith.
  • Yü Bing-nan revival: Freundschafts-Antiqua AR (2010). Freundschafts-Antiqua (which was also called Chinesische Antiqua) was designed in 1962 by the Chinese calligrapher Yü Bing-nan when he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig in 1960.
  • Sans Serif Inline (2011). Based on the 36-point design of the Amsterdam Nobel Inline capitals (1931).
  • Hildegard Korger revivals: Typoskript AR (2010) is based on a metal type which was produced in 1968 by VEB Typoart, Dresden, from a design of the German calligrapher and lettering artist Hildegard Korger.
  • Hans Kühne revival: Kuehne-Antiqua AR (2010) revives a Basque typeface by Hans Kühne.
  • The Troyer AR ornaments (2010) are based on the first series of ornaments designed for American Type Founders by Johannes Troyer in 1953.
  • The Happy Christmas font (2011) is a snowflake font that is based on designs by Amsterdam and Haas, c. 1950. December Ornaments (2011) contains the 36 Amsterdam designs which were originally issued in 24 and 36 point.
  • Walter Diethelm: Diethelm AR (2011) revives Walter Diethelm's Diethelm Antiqua (1948-1951, Haas).
  • Walter Brudi revivals: Pan AR (2010, based on a 1957 font by Brudi).
  • Hermecito (2013) is a 46-style type system based on an angular serif. It covers Cyrillic, Latin, Greek and several other scripts. Besides being eminently readable, it also has extensive coverage of mathematical and phonetic symbols. Renzo (2013) is along the same lines but with sharpened serifs.
  • Spiral (2014) is a revival of a typeface called Spiral designed by Joseph Blumenthal and cut bu Louis Hoell in 1930. In 1936, Monotype reissued that type as Emerson 320.
  • Custom typefaces include Fabrizio (2016), a classical serif typeface family for Hebrew, Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, with hints of Garamond and Caslon. Ari writes that Fabrizio made its first appearance in Saggi di Letteratura Italiana: Da Dante per Pirandello a Orazio Costa, by Lucilla Bonavita, printed at Pisa in March 2016 by Fabrizio Serra Editore for whom the type was specially designed.
MyFonts link.

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Aryo Dwinugro

Bekasi, Indonesia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Kricak (2016). The typeface is influenced by the cultural elements of Ngawi in West Java, that are related to baboo, fire, its river and the ceremai fruit. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Dsouza

This British graphic design student created the ornamental caps alphabet Fish Face (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Dupont

Durham, NH-based designer of the textured all caps typeface Flurry (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Holley

Albany, NY-based designer of the custom mechanical ornamental caps typeface Resistance (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Lemire

During her studies, Ashley Lemire (Fort Pierce, FL) designed a decorative caps typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashna Mistry

During her studies in Mumbai, India, Ashan Mistry designed a curly Gurmukhi Script typeface (2016). Based on Archie's comics, she also created the decorative caps typeface Archies Font (2016). Charkat (2016) is a Devanagari font is inspired by the famous Nehru Planeterium. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

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

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

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

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

Asya Alexandrova

Talented Russian illustrator in Saint Petersburg. Flickr page. She made some nice ornamental caps alphabet [perhaps not a font] and drew interesting typographic posters such as Logoman (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asya Alexandrova

Drawing artist and illustrator from St. Petersburg, Russia. Flickr page. She created some beautiful illustrated caps in 2009. Also of interest is her Logoman ink on paper drawing (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Bouda

Paris-based graphic designer and illustrator, who made a decorative caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

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

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

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Bowen

Monson, MA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Supernova (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

August Will

August Will (b. Weimar, Germany, 1834, d. 1910) immigrated to the New York City/New Jersey area when he was a young man. His full name was John M. August Will. Will settled in Jersey City, NJ, where he remained until his death.

He designed the outline ornamental caps typeface Crossroads (1891). For a digital version, see Crossroads (Solotype) and Marcel Caps (2007, Character).

In 1881, he patented a fireworks-themed typeface, and another typeface with ornaments.

In 1880, he patented another font with Chinese ornaments. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic, chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style. His work culminated in the interior design of the Palace of Westminster. Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia.

Pugin designed several blackletter and uncial style alphabets ca. 1844. His Gothic Revival ornaments influenced the design of the digital typeface Gothic Herbarium (2015, Lukyan Turetskyy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

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Aurélien Medinger

Orleans, France-based designer of a city-inspired decorative caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurora Biancardi

Italian designer at the graphic design studio Tipiblu in Milan. Her typefaces include:

  • Artypodia (2014). A decorative modular typeface family by Aurora Biancardi.
  • Orti (2014). A decorative caps typeface by Aurora Biancardi.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Austin B

Creator of Pipes Type (2010), an all caps typeface with letters in the shape of tools and pipes---inspiration came from an 18th century typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Austin Norman Palmer
[Portfolio of Ornate Penmanship]

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Authentic
[Julius Wiescher]

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

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

Autosugestija

Graphic designer from Belgrade. Typeface 206 (2011) is an ornamental caps typeface that pays homage to da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aviv Studio
[Luis Miguel Torres]

Aviv Studio in Monterrey and Mexico City consists of Diego L. Rodriguez (from Madrid, Spain) and Luis Miguel Torres. Typefaces:

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Ayah Hariri

During her studies in Amman, Jordan, Ayah Hariri designed a floriated decorative caps typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayunda Swacita

Creative designer in Jakarta, Indonesia, who created the ornamental caps typeface Worm (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Badianychick

Creator of the free frilly caps font Indezone (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baihua92

FontStructor who made ornamental caps typeface Fairytale (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baily Crawford

As an illustration major at Pratt Institute in New York, Baily Crawford created a decorative caps typeface (2015), and a set of decorative vignettes called Horseradish (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baltimore Type Foundry (or: Baltotype)
[Herbert F. Czarnowsky]

Also known as Fielding Lucas, Jr., Lucas Bros., H.L. Pelouze&Son, and Chas. J. Cary&Co. Specimen may be found in Convenient Specimen Book of Type, Rules, Borders, and Electrotype Cuts from the Baltimore Type Foundry (Baltimore: Chas. J. Cary&Co., 1888. Banta Book of Types&Typographical Tips. Menasha: George Banta, 1961). The company existed until well into the 20th century, and published a catalog as late as 1957 called Type and Rule Catalogue 13, Baltotype.

A selected list of typefaces:

  • Airport Gothic: Turista Gorda NF (2009, Nick Curtis) is based on Baltimore Type Foundry's Airport Tourist which in turn used ideas from Renner's 1932 typeface Futura Display. Mc McGrew on Airport Gothic: Most of this series is the first American copy of Futura, which originated in Germany in 1927, designed by Paul Renner for Bauer. One source says it was cut from original Futura drawings, smuggled out of that country, but it seems more likely that matrices were made by electrotyping the imported type. An extrabold weight, Airport Black, was cut by Baltimore about 1943; information on this cutting is scarce and contradictory- one account says it was designed by Bill Stremic or Bill Blakefield, another that it was designed by Carl Hupie (or Hooper), and cut by Herman Schnoor. There is also Airport Black Condensed Title and Airport Broad. The latter is a modification of Airport Black, cut 50 percent wider on the pantagraph by Herman Schnoor. Baltimore later cast some of its Airport series from Monotype Twentieth Century matrices, and in a few cases listed both series. Airport Relief, Baltimore 299, is English Monotype Gill Sans Cameo Ruled, while Airport Tourist, Baltimore 602, is Futura Display, cast from electrotype mats of the German foundry type.
  • Baltimore Script (1955). Mac McGrew: Baltimore Script is a fancy style designed by Tommy Thompson and cut by George Battee for Baltimore Type in 1955. The lowercase follows the general style of a script letter hand-written with a broad pen, although the inclination is slight and the letters don't quite connect. Capitals are flourished. It is suitable for stationery, announcements, and greeting cards, but its range of small sizes is hardly enough for advertising use.
  • Mac McGrew: Czarin and Czarin Title were produced by Baltimore Type&Composition Corporation about 1948, the name being derived from the Czarnowsky family which owned the foundry. Czarin Title, issued first, is a copy of Offenbach Medium, a set of pen-drawn capitals designed by Rudolf Koch about 1935 for the Klingspor foundry in Germany. Czarin has minor changes in a few characters, but adds a lowercase, designed by Edwin W. Shaar, that is substantially different from that of Steel, the cap-and-lowercase version of Offenbach. The new lowercase harmonizes well with the capitals, and makes a handsome appearance. Compare Lydian. Footnote: McGrew spelled the name of the owner as Czarnowski. Irene Traeger, the granddaughter of Herbert F. Czarnowsky, pointed out the incorrect spelling to me.
  • Mac McGrew: Elegante is a decorative, nearly monotone typeface cut by George Battee for Baltimore Type, after the German typeface Sensation of 1913, from Foundry Heinrich Hoffmeister. It is upright, with flourished caps and loops on some of the ascenders and descenders, and is suitable particularly for announcements and personal stationery. Compare Greeting Monotone.
  • Mac McGrew: Emperor is a 1957 adaptation by Baltimore Type of Wide Latin which was cut by Stephenson Blake in England and related to nineteenth-century typefaces under other names. However, this Baltimore Type version has been modified and resized, and is less successful due to excess space between letters (although not as much as in the specimen shown here, which is letterspaced). Emperor was originally shown as Imperial.
  • Their geometric series from 1884 became famous, and was often imitated. HiH created two font families based on it: Teutonia (2007) and Baltimore Geometric (2008, a revival of Antique Geometric by Baltimore Type Foundry, 1883). HiH writes: Roos&Junge of Offenbach am Main in Germany produced Teutonia in a "back-to-basics" effort that has seen many quite similar attempts in the field of topography. In 1883, Baltimore Type Foundry released its Geometric series. In 1910, Geza Farago in Budapest used a similar letter design on a Tungsram light bulb poster. In 1919 Theo van Doesburg, a founder with Mondrian and others of the De Stijl movement, designed an alphabet using rectangles only -- no diagonals. In 1923 Joost Schmidt at Bauhaus in Weimar took the same approach for a Constructivist exhibit poster. The 1996 Agfatype Collection catalog lists a Geometric in light, bold and italic that is very close to the old Baltimore version. Even though none of these designs took the world by storm, they all made a contribution to our understanding of letterforms and how we use them.
  • Mac McGrew: Greco Bold and Italic are Spanish typefaces of the mid-1920s. They are very heavy, with long ascenders and small x-height, and have a hand-lettered appearance. Linotype Vulcan (q.v.) is equivalent. National Matrix&Type Co. in Baltimore, one of several independent companies which made matrices for the popular casting machines, offered Greco Bold in 1929 as its series 100; this was the source of Baltimore Type's mats, but Baltimore and some other sources cast Greco Bold and Italic as series 326-3261. These numbers have not been found in Monotype literature; perhaps another independent source also made mats. Notice the figures, which are termed hanging or old style, although they do not follow the usual form. However, taller 1, 2, and 0 are also available to convert the set to lining figurees. Compare Hess Monoblack. Greco Adornado, an ornamented version, has also been imported.
  • Mac McGrew: Homewood is a recutting by Baltimore Type of Metropolis Lined, a German typeface of the 1930s. It was made from a large size of Metropolis Bold, with the fine white lines cut in, and differs from the original in minor details of the curves. Other sizes were cut by pantagraph and do not necessarily match original sizes.
  • IBM Executive Modern, a typewriter type.
  • Mac McGrew: Mademoiselle was designed by Tommy Thompson in 1953 as a display typeface for Mademoiselle magazine. It was cut by Herman Schnoor at Baltimore Type, which also offered fonts for general sale. It is a delicate, narrow modern roman, with long ascenders and short descenders, rather loosely fitted, and works well for display with transitional text typefaces such as Bulmer and Scotch Roman. Both lining and oldstyle figures are provided, along with several pointing hands as shown.
  • Tourist Extra Condensed. Turista Flaca NF (2009, Nick Curtis) is based on Tourist Extra Condensed. McGrew: Tourist Extra Condensed of Baltimore Type is a copy of Phenix (q.v.) in 24- to 48-point sizes, and is Jefferson Gothic (q.v.) in larger sizes. Phenix is a 1935 ATF typeface by Morris Fuller Benton.
  • Mac McGrew: Trend is a brush-lettered typeface cut by Baltimore in 1953. It is very similar to Dom Casual (q.v.), but has a slight back slant.
  • Mac McGrew: Trylon as made by Baltimore Type was a 1949 copy of Stephenson Blake's Playbill (see Imports in Appendix), but Trylon Shaded and Trylon Shaded Oblique were designed and cut by George Battee of the Baltimore foundry. The solid version has lowercase in some sizes; it is somewhat similar to P. T. Barnum, with greatly exaggerated horizontal strokes and serifs at top and bottom, but is heavier and narrower. The Shaded versions are more properly outlines of the same design, with a small shadow effect at the top (which is unusual) and right of each letter, but without lowercase.
  • Mac McGrew: Vernen is essentially a copy of Huxley Vertical (q.v.), but omitting the round characters AKMNWY and using the alternate pointed characters instead. In addition, the slight extensions of cross strokes to the left of stems have been omitted, and a few other characters have been redrawn. It was offered by Baltimore in 1953.
  • Mc McGrew: Vista is a very wide square-serif face, cut by Baltimore Type in 1956. It is said to be a pantagraphic modification of Hellenic Wide from Bauer in Germany; actually it does not match that typeface in details, though it has the same general effect.
  • Mac McGrew: Wide Line Gothic is a creation of Herman Schnoor for Baltimore Type, modified by pantagraph from Philadelphia Lining Gothic, increasing the width by about 50 percent. The flat sides of round letters. acceptable in the moderately condensed original, make awkward shapes in this extended version. Compare Franklin Gothic Wide, Tempo Black Extended.
  • Among the wood types, we have Oak Leaf (1832, ornamental caps).

Rich Hopkins, a printing historian, acquired Baltotype ca. 1993. Based on drawings from the 1950s in the Baltotype material, Miranda Roth at P22 designed LTC Athena, a narrow art deco typeface, in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bannigan Artworks
[Todd M. Hallock]

Based in Perry, OK, Bannigan Artworks was founded in 1998 by Todd Hallock (b. 1969). His fonts include Arts&CraftsGS (2001, inspired by decorative lettering by Glaswegian illustrator Jessie Marion King (1876-1949) and by the Scottish style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). This font was published by Jack Yan), Renaissance Caps (2005, floriated), Celtic Knots-BA (2002), Celtic BA (2003), Celtic Ornaments BA (2008), Christianity BA (2004, Christian symbols), and the futuristic font Hallock.

Home page on Celtic Art. Agfa/Monotype sells Hallock, Celtic-BA and Celtic Knots.

At MyFonts, we find the Keltic caps typeface Medieval Caps BA (2006), Left Hand BA (2007) and Art Nouveau 2 BA (2007). Archibald BA (2009) is inspired by the art nouveau lettering of Archibald Knox (1864-1933), a designer for Liberty&Co. from the Isle of Man. In 2014, he created Arts and Crafts Sans BA. In 2015, Todd published Circle BA.

Klingspor link.

View Todd Hallock's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Barclay Open

An open all-caps typeface made by Photo-Lettering Inc. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baria Poonpanich

Baria Poonpanich (Bangkok, Thailand) designed an alphabet called Monsters (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

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

Barry Stock
[Stock Graphics]

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Bartosz Gregorek

Painter and illustrator in Warsaw, Poland. Designer of the very detailed intial caps typeface Adagio Sans Grande (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bas Jayel

Student at UWE in Bristol, UK. FontStructor who created the ornamental caps typeface Templar (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bauersche Giesserei: Hauptprobe in gedrängter Form der Bauerschen Giesserei

Type specimen book by Bauersche Giesserei published ca. 1915. Open Library link. Archive.org link. Local download. Local download, colored version [27MB].

An earlier and more volumunous book of specimens is Hauptprobe der Bauerschen Giesserei in Frankfurt am main und Barcelona (Frankfurt am Main, 1907). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bayo Suti XV
[Imran Nasution]

Imran Nasution [Bayo Suti XV] is the Medan, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of the dingbat typeface Masjid Al Imran (2014), which consists of silhouettes of mosques. Other typefaces from 2014: Semaphore Pramuka, Kingsland Timur (2014, caps), Lake Toba (textured capitals), Ali Air (cursive script), Gang of Sipirok (outlined typeface). In 2015, he designed INF Simpang Ampek (a simple script) and Alphabet SNK (a hacker font).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BC Government

Archive at a British Columbian government site with about 200 truetype fonts. It includes many Bitstream fonts, Arslannian, some SSK fonts, Lara Bold Italic, MaxInitiale, Palazzo Little Caps, Ramona (WSI), Tennyson, XavierCaps, and many text fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrice Giaramita

Graphic designer in Bologna, Italy, who designed the decorative caps typeface Creative (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrice Tamagnini

London, UK-based designer of the floriated caps typeface Naturale (2018), which was created during a course taught by the Riccardo Olocco at the University of Bolzano, Italy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatriz Torres

During her studies at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, lima, Peru-based Beatriz Torres designed the multiline decorative caps typeface Linear (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Becca Line
[Charles Siu]

San Francisco-based designer of the figurine-themed decorative initial caps typeface Keith Haring (2012; during his studies at the University of San Francisco). Muni Streetcar Display Font (2015) is inspired by the San Francisco Muni System Light Rail Display.

Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bechira Sorin

Graphic designer from Timisoara, Romania. He created some font designs in 2008: Olympics, Flickr (grunge), Smoke Elements, Handdrawn Elements, and a black geometric face. Behance link showing custom-made fonts, from frilly to graffiti, and artsy fat, to leafy caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beckii Adel

Montreal-based designer. During her studies at Concordia University, she created the free floriated caps typeface Floralism (2013), a font whose glyphs are shaped like in Novecento, one of the "in" typefaces of early 2013. Its decoration is inspired by art nouveau and psychedelia from he 1960s.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bedoodle
[Susan Derrick]

Susan Derrick's foundry in Dayton, OH. Her fonts can be bought at MyFonts. Alternate URL. The list of creations (2005): Ancestry (caps), Angeline, Angelique (both curly scripts), Banderole, Fred and Ginger (two-line display face), Garden Gate (gate-inspired curly script), Monogram, Oxymoron (simple sans), Relativity, Scrapbook, Beads (dingbats) and Beading. In 2006, some handwriting fonts by Matthew Derrick were added: Funnies, Grimble Castle, Paparazzi, Scratch Pad, Selvin, Love Me and Wavy Gravy.

Additions in 2009: Barack, Mrs. Obama, Malia (upright connected script), Violette (female script), Abbatia (ornaments), Frame Ups (frames), Sasha (didactic font with lines). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Beeline
[Claude Derieppe]

Free Beeline fonts by "Miss Claude" (Claude Derieppe) and "The Font Goddess": Alpha3D, AlphaBalloon, AlphaBalloons2, AlphaBizzyBee, AlphaBones, AlphaBoy, AlphaCar, AlphaClouds, AlphaCrooner, AlphaCutOut, AlphaDishes, AlphaElephant, AlphaElfin, AlphaFitness, AlphaFlowers, AlphaFunky1, AlphaFunky2, AlphaGarden, AlphaInky, AlphaMan, AlphaMusicMan, AlphaNails, AlphaPaint, AlphaParty, AlphaPencils, AlphaRemember, AlphaRope, AlphaRunning, AlphaSausage, AlphaSausage, AlphaScribble, AlphaSkyParty, AlphaSmoke, AlphaSports (2002), AlphaSquiggle, AlphaSurvivor, AlphaThin, AlphaTopiary, AlphaTrees, AlphaUnleaded, AlphaUnplugged, AlphaWizard, AlphaWoman, AlphaWomanHair, AlphaWood, Baby, BabyBeeline, BizzyBunny, CarBeeline, DinosBeeline, HeliumHeaven, TicketCapitalsImpressed, TicketCapitalsRepressed, WormAlpha, WormBeeline. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Dunkle

Buffalo, NY-based designer, b. 1971, of the fat typeface Kong Quest (2018, a somewhat retro, bubbly and fun cartoon font), the drop cap typeface Sir Guppy (2017) and the liquid contour typeface Stone Skip (2008).

In 2019, he designed the bone font Bone Brigade. In 2020, he released Alphabit Soup. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Nguyen

Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of Toi o Tamaki (2017), a decorative caps typeface that is inspired by the Arts Precinct of the city of Auckland. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Taylor

Graphic designer and typographer in Sydney, Australia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Mounsey

Bristol, UK-based digital artist, who drew a few beautiful ornamental caps in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berecca

FontStructor who made Classical Order (2012), an ornamental caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berliner Alphabet

The Berliner caps alphabet (ca. 1400) contains fantastic creatures, and illustrates the war between good and evil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernard Rebulado

During his visual communication studies at First City Providential College in Bulacan, The Philippines, Bernard Rebulado created a bird silhouette ornamental caps typeface called Aves (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernardo Rojas

During his studies at the Art Institute in San Diego, CA, Bernardo Rojas created the ornamental caps alphabet Paat (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernhard Pankok

German graphical artist, painter and printmaker, 1872-1943. He studied at the Düsseldorf and Berlin Art Academies. From 1892 Bernhard Pankok had a studio of his own in Munich. There he freelanced as an artist, graphic artist and illustrator for the journals "Pan" and "Jugend". Greatly impressed by the British Arts and Crafts movement, Bernhard Pankok joined Hermann Obrist, Richard Riemerschmid, and Bruno Paul in founding the Munich Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk. Afterwards, he also designed furniture, stage sets, interiors and buildings, and painted portraits. In 1907 Bernhard Pankok was a co-founder of the Deutscher Werkbund. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beth Doherty

During her studies at University of the Arts London in 2013, Beth Doherty created a decorative all caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beth Rufener
[Ornaments of Grace]

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Beth Shirrell

Designer and illustrator. A graduate of Tyler School of Art's MFA graphic and interactive design program, she spent her formative years in Louisville, Kentucky. Currently she teaches at Philadelphia University and moonlights as a freelance designer and illustrator. Her Kalakari alphabet (ornamental caps with an Indian look) is simply stunning. It received the first place award in the 2009 AIGA Center for Cross-Cultural Design Competition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bethan Durie

UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who made the ornamental caps typeface Ornée (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bethany Lesko

Bethany Lesko (Brooklyn, NY) made the cat alphabet Helveticat in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Betta Judge

During her studies in Barcelona, Betta Judge designed a handcrafted color alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Betty Cook
[Artsy Lady's Home Page]

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Bhadresh Raval

Graphic designer in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Creator of an illustrative Latin caps typeface in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bhagyashree Tathawade

During her studies at MIT Institute of Design in Pune, India, Bhagyashree Tathawade created a colorful all caps alphabet called Maths Glossary (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bianca Silva

Chilean designer of an animal alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bianca Vagnoli

During her graphic design studies in Prato, Italy, Bianca Vagnoli created a decorative caps Imaginary Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibliotheqie Nationale de France

The national library of France. Has nice Samples of lettrines, including Alphabet de Paulini (1570), Alphabet des diableries, in Nouvelle collection de lettres de différents genres à l'usage de MM. les peintres et graveurs, A. Caulo (1856), Les Cris de Paris no1 (Paris, Maison Basset, vers 1845), Alphabet comique de Daumier (1836), Alphabet, Kate Greenaway (London, 1885), Alphabet diabolique (1837), Les polichinelles utiles ou l'origine des lettres (1826). Sandrine Maillet accepts donations and specimen of typographic work. They specialize in rare books and historical typographical pieces, but present day work is also being collected right now. Address: Réserve des livres rares, Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bilal Ijaz

Bradford, UK-based designer of a geometric decorative multicolor typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bill Tchakirides
[UTF Type Foundry]

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Billy Argel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Birgit Palma

Austrian graphic designer and illustrator located in Barcelona. Lecturer at FH Salzburg & EINA Barcelona since 2016. She created the ornamental caps alphabet Reproduction (2012). In 2014, she made the Escher-inspired typeface Oxymora. In 2019, Birgit Palma and Daniel Triendl co-designed the colorful textured caps typeface Kenya.

Behance link. Old URL. Ultratypes link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BittBox (or: BB Free Fonts)
[Jay Hilgert]

Run by Oklahoma City-based Jay Hilgert, this site is dedicated to free clipart and vector art. He has made a stunning four-style family called BB Petie Boy (2008), which includes an ornamental caps style, a grunge style, a blackboard style and a sketch style. Dafont link. He also made the stunning Western display typeface Fusty Saddle (2008), the worn Tire Shop (2008), Blox (2008), and Conglomerfont (2008, based on letters solicited from designers all over the world). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Björn Johansson

Swedish graphic design student at Konstfack in Stockholm, b. Landskrona, 1983. His portfolio includes the refreshing caps designs he calls Typeface Anatomy (2008). He also made a skectch for Handwritten (2008). D, O, R. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blake Young

Blake Young (from Tupelo, MS) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Mississippi in Studio Art and Graphic Design, class of 2005. He continued his studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design and received a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2008. He currently lives in New Orleans where he works as an art director.

He created a frilly caps face inspired by the style of lettering in old copperplate etchings from the 1700-1800s in 2007.

His second typeface, Hispaniola is a swashbuckler typeface introduced here (2007) and discussed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blushbutter
[Vanessa Trendle]

Melbourne, Australia-based scrapbooking company of Vanessa Trendle (b. 1969).

Their fonts include Blushbutter Fairy Floss (2007, curly caps), Blushbutter Whimsy (2007, more curly caps), and Blushbutter Fae (2007, pixie dingbats).

Alternate URL. MyFonts site. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Blythe Magnuson

Louisville, KY-based designer of the classy titling typeface Magnus (2015, for a school project at the University of Louisville). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bobby Haiqalsyah

Melbourne-based illustrator and lettering artist, b. Indonesia. Work by him include a poster called Flourish (2013), Robin Gordon Drop Cap (2013) and a set of floriated numerals for AMP Bank (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bobby Haiqalsyah

Graphic designer and illustrator in Melbourne, Australia. In 2013, he created a set of ornamental numerals for promotional material of the AMP Bank. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bobo Choi

Macau-based graphic designer and illustrator who created Animal Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Gligoric

Pancevo, Serbia-based designer of decorative sets of capitals called Latinica (2017) and Cirilica (2017), which are inspired by urban graffiti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Homer

Brasov, Romania-based designer of Alphalines (2013, a graffiti-inspired decorative caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bolt Cutter Design (or: Mahoney Fine Arts)

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

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

Fonts from 2010: Sarcophagus.

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

Fonts from 2013: Precious (connected formal script).

Fontspace link. Open Font Library link for Tyler Schnitzlein. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bomiya

FontStructor who made a nice woven caps typeface called M026S (2011). He also did a geometric Italian typeface called M021S (2011) and an octagonal outline typeface called M022S (2011). Other typefaces made in 2011 include M029s, M028c (techno face), M022s, M013, 2012.

Typefaces from 2012: M037S. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bondan Gail

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the color all caps typeface Mags (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bonnie Wong

During her studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, Bonnie Wong (Hong Kong) created the decorative caps typeface MyType (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bookhands
[Peter R. Wilson]

Renton, WA-based Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000-2003) for the "bookhands" series of fonts. It was his intention to provide the main examples of manuscript hands from the first century until the invention of printing. Included are the following:

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Borja Fernandez

Granada, Spain-based designer of the free blackboard bold typeface September (2015: download), the textured all caps typeface Iris Font (2014) and the prismatic New Line Font (2014).

In 2016, she designed the display typeface Bluet. Home page. Another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bosque Studio

Design studio in Buenos Aires. Behance link. Their typefaces are mostly on commission for certain packaging or identity projects. These include Familia (2010, leaf and tree-themed all caps face), Goma (2010), Exagon (2010), some types for Atypica (2010) and Lucchetti (2010). Zero (2011) is a great striped logo face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BoyBeaver Foundry
[Ignacio Frances]

Foundry with one freebie, Irene Frances Italic Caps. All fonts in type 1 and TrueType, Mac and PC. Commercial fonts: the great subdued calligraphic Turbayne Collection, the Morgan and Morgan Sticks display font, and the stylish Deco font Habana Moon stand out. Other fonts: AbeAbeAbeAbeAbe, Berngard, BoyBeaver Koloss, Granma, Granma Bones, Runninghand, ZigZagBoy, Randi. I guess all fonts are made by Ignacio Frances. Irene Frances is Ignacio's mother. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bram Creative

Designer of handcrafted and display typefaces. In 2021, the catalog showed Air Leving, Black Crown, Black Street, Cheer Up, City Tour, Drawing Books, Fraction Speed, Homelands, Joined Tightly (interlocking glyphs), Love and Beach (textured), Monogram, Plant Factory Monogram, Reasonably, Relic Island 2 (patterned caps), Rocker Stage, Royal Paradise, Strange Of Story, The Witchers, Wonder Girls. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brem Stocker

Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Illumornate (2017) and the brush typeface Brushborn (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brenda Laura

Belo Horizonte, Brazil-based designer of the all caps vector format monster alphabet Tipos Figurativos (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brenda Taborda

Buenos Aires-based designer of the ornamental lettering for Comida Peruana (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brennan X. George

Sacramento, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Oceanic (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brett English

Canberra, Australia-based designer of several sets of drop caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brígida Guerreiro
[Kobu Foundry]

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Brian Garcia

Graduate of the Art Institute of San Antonio. San Antonio, TX-based creator of Papel Picado (2014), a decorative typeface family that contains ornamental initial caps in the style of Mexican fiestas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian J. Bonislawsky
[Monogram Fonts Co]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian Jacob
[Jacob Type]

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Brian Jangima

During his studies in Nairobi, Kenya, Brian Jangima created the free typeface Erster Caps (2015) and the free squarish typeface Cherrie Serif (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Kniceley

Brian Kniceley is a sign artist at the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. At Letterhead Fonts, he designed Henderson Roman, Henderson Church Text, Strong Nouveau, Strong Italic, Strong Angle, Equinox (caps and flourishes), LHF Strong Caliope (2000: a circus font; see also p.53 of the The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces by Dan X. Solo), LHF Strong Tea House (2000). Many of his fonts have a Western influence.

Brian Kniceley named all of his fonts after their creator or the books he found them in. Examples: LHF Strong Angle, LHF Strong Caliope, LHF Strong Italic, LHF Strong Nouveau, LHF Strong TeaHouse, LHF Ohnimus Florid, LHF Ohnimus Spiked, LHF Henderson Church. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian McMullen

With Rick Valicenti at Thirstype, he made the brilliant set of capitals called Handjob (2002) (wire-meshed hands). That font is now called Handsome. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Briar Press

Postscript art, including caps, borders and ornaments. Unclear who runs the site--could be Eric C. Nevin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bridie Fry

As a student at the University of South Wales, Bridie Fry (Frome, UK) created a colorful all caps typeface called Dream (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bringtype Studio
[Abdul Aziz]

Jakarta Timur, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1993, of the script typefaces Chikonica (2019) and Lichalizta (2019), and the blackboard bold typeface Linegers (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Undergod (eerie), Hildane (spurred), Kavri (decorative caps), Xavier Eskimo (script), Super Dust (a speed emulation font), Hulalaby, Funies, Kavri Display, Breadly.

Typefaces from 2021: Aligan, Keiltija Rathijan (script), Sancaka, Harebo (a Japanese emulation brush font), Thirttin (a spooky font), Sasat (a Halloween font), Suditha Signature, Lemonade, Toon, Komonesia (a signature script), Ride and Race (a speed font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Britta Hope

Illustrator and motionographer in Brooklyn, NY. Creator of Chimera (2012), an illustrated caps typeface representing animals.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brittany Sweney

Brittany Sweney (Minnesota) graduated from UW-Stout with a BFA in Graphic Design. In 2011, she created a beautiful ornamental caps alphabet for a mock Sokol Blosser Vineyard annual report. Other typefaces include Havana (2012), Dr. Beezy's (2013, hand-drawn).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brob House Books

Archive with initial caps, 18 and 19th century fonts, and medieval fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruce Mackay

Bruce Mackay (Cape Town, South Africa) created the multicolored caps typeface Funeral Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Selles
[Vasava Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bryant Taylor

During his studies at Valencia in Orlando, FL, Bryant Taylor designed the Zombie Letters alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bu Eiras
[47Boo]

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Buenos Dias
[Javier R. Calvo]

Buenos Dias is located in Sevilla, Spain. One of its two founders, Javier R. Calvo, used concentric circles as jewel beads to make up ornamental letters in his Monica Lettering. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bund für Liturgie und Gregorianik
[Holger Peter Sandhofe]

The defunct site www.nocturnale.de had commercial music fonts by Holger Peter Sandhofe (1972-2005) from Bonn:

  • Hufnagelnotation, Quadratnotation and Medicaeanotation: medieval notations for Gregorian chants.
  • HPS Antiphonale, Solesmes, and HPS Vatikan-Initialen (from the 15th century): decorative iniial caps fonts.
  • HPS Garamond: a medieval text font family in Normal, Kursiv, Fett and Fett-Kursiv.
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Bungalow Agency

Studio in Caracas, Venezuela. Creators of an ornamental caps typeface called Lo Importante (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bunka Design

Bunka (Bunka Design, Paris) is a freelance illustrator and toy designer. He drew a delightful children's book alphabet simply called ABC (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burcu Cetin

Istanbul-based graphic designer. In 2016, she created several all caps display alphabets, including an emoji-themed alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bureau 205 (was: Trafik)
[Damien Gautier]

Damien Gautier (b. 1971) studied typography in the Atelier de création typographique at l'Ecole Estienne, Paris. He co-founded Trafik, a type studio in Lyon. More recently, his fonts are distributed via 205 Corp and 205 TF, which he founded. He also teaches graphic design at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. He runs the publishing house Editions deux-cent-cinq which publishes books on graphic design and typography.

At Typotek, he designed LeQuincaillerie (fifties font, 2000), LeMenuiserie (2000), LeConfiserie (2000, an electronic panel font), LeConfiserie Couleur, L'ekran Dix (a pixel font), LeBoucherie-Ornament (2000), LeBeaune (1995-2011, a flared roman lettering typeface created at first for the town of Beaune in Burgundy), Alcala (1994).

For Salomon (the ski company brand font), Damien Gautier received a Trophée d'Or nomination at the Integraphic Congress in Paris in 2003.

MyFonts, where his foundry is called Trafik, and then Damien Gautier, then "205", Editions 205, and finally Bureau 205, sells these typefaces: Colonel (stencil), Laikran (pixel family), Le Bazar, Le Beaune, Le Chaufferie, Le Confiserie, Le Confiserie Couleur, Le Gendarmerie, Le Menuiserie, Le Quincaillerie, Pam (2005, counterless), Plaak (2013-2014, a large sans caps family inspired by French street name signs; co-designed with Olivier Raimbaud and Corentin Noyer), Robin (2010, a dingbat typeface with arrows, co-designed with Delphine Sigonney). In 2010, Gautier created Caporal (an elegant clean stencil face), Le Francois (a set of stylish capitals).

In 2009, Damien Gautier designed Bloo (a wedge-serifed typeface). Salomon is a corporate typeface family.

Typefaces of Damien Gautier and Quentin Margat in 2010: Amiral (cargo stencil), Alcala (started in 1994, finished in 2010, this text family is based on renaissance forms and was used to print a Bible).

With Quentin Margat, he created some typefaces in 2011 such as Maax (an information design sans family), Norr (styles include a didone, a slab serif, and two sanses), Colonel, and Beretta (dot matrix family).

In 2013, Damien Gautier designed Maax Mono and Maax Rounded, both at Editions 205.

In 2019, he published Plaax as an extension of Plaak. Subfamilies include Sathonay (super-condensed), Griffo, Pradel, Terme, Foch and Ney, from super-condensed to wide.

In 2021, Damien Gautier published the experimental sans typeface Heliuum in which letters can have different baseline heights.

Klingspor link.

View Damien Gautier's typefaces. Interview by Type Today. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Büro für Gestaltung Janssen
[Daniel Janssen]

Büro für Gestaltung Janssen, or Janssen Design, is located in Hamburg. It is involved in print, screen, animation, corporate and type design, and was founded in 2002 by Sylvia and Daniel Janssen. Together, they designed these typefaces:

  • Bias Regular (2008, T-26). An experimental pixel-based face.
  • Gretel (2005, Fountain), a cross-stitch pattern font.
  • Loop (2005, T-26).
  • Kaa, a multilined hypnotizing face. This and some other typefaces are also available at T-26.
  • Engel (2003, At T-26). See also here.
  • Vitus (2003, Fountain: Vitus is a bold typeface with occasional delicate strokes. It'a based on a typeface found on one of the million mark notes released during the inflation in the 1920's). See also here.
  • Emily, a connected script font, with some borders. Designed in 2003 with Sylvia Janssen, it is similar to Monte Carlo Script NF (2002, Nick Curtis), and both are based on a font called Medicis by Deberny and Peignot, ca. 1920.
  • AF Nitro, a techno/LED collection of typefaces.
  • Diavolo, a fifties diner face.
  • Unovis, a minimalist squarish typeface with hard to distinguish u, n and v lower case characters.
  • Sektor, a sans face.
  • Sonar, a display sans.
  • Masina, a simple geometric sans.
  • Cash (no idea what this looks like).
  • Initialen, a 21st century initial caps face.
  • EF Gigant, a 96-weight techno family (Elsner and Flake, 2006).
  • Emily: a connected upright script available from T26.
  • Atlantik: six sets of line elements, sold by Veer and Fountain. The Atlantik typeface is a result of a poster design made for the Habour Museum Hamburg.
  • Diago (2008, T-26): a striped op art sans.
  • Oceane (2009, T-26). An avant-garde face.
  • Karl (2010, T26). A script face.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. T26 link.

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C. Lee

Honolulu, HI-based lettering artist and typographer. C. Lee created Vintage Alphabet in 2013. In 2014, he designed Cassandre Alphabet (2014, art deco, named after Cassandre) and Ornate Alphabet (decorative blackletter caps, which was inspired by Williams and Packard's Church Text). [Google] [More]  ⦿

C. Mylanver

Brussels-based designer of Alphabet des Contes et Legendes (2014), an ornamental caps typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cahya Sofyan
[Studio Sun (or: Sun Brand Co)]

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Caio Designer
[Caio Garavazzo]

Serrano, Sao Paulo, Brazil-based designer. His typefaces include Zews (2029, a free multiline font) and Porao (2019: a free severe-looking squarish, and perhaps a tattoo, font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caio Garavazzo
[Caio Designer]

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Caio Rennan

Fortaleza, Brazil-based designer of a set of decorative capitals in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caitlin Dominy

During her studies at Rhodes University in Johannesburg, South Africa, Caitlin Dominy designed the decorative caps typeface Retro Rockwell (2016) and the floriated textured all caps typeface Lace (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caitlin Jade Skrinis

Kelowna, BC-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Emone (2016), which is inspired by anemones and crustaceans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caitlin Jade Skrinis

Designer in The Gold Coast, who drew the sea anemone-inspired ornamental caps alphabet Emone (2012). She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Design majoring in Visual Communication at Griffith University QCA in Southbank, Brisbane.

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Cale LeRoy

Graphic designer in Columbus, OH. Tissues (2012) is a hand-drawn ornamental caps typeface inspired by organs, muscles, and tissues of the human body. [Google] [More]  ⦿

California Type Foundry (21st century)
[Dave Lawrence]

This type foundry was started in 2019 by Dave Lawrence, perhaps to honor and revive the California Type Foundry from the 20th and 19th centuries. Their typefaces:

  • CAL Bodoni Casale (2019). This typeface has been painstakingly crafted from hi-res scans of 4 original Bodoni printings. It is a splendid reproduction, although the ear of the lower case g is too small with respect to the overhangs on the lower case a and r.
  • CAL Bodoni Terracina (2020). An italic didone family.
  • CAL Bodoni Palazzo (2020). An exact reproduction of Bodoni's largest display caps typeface.
  • CAL Bodoni Ferrara Origin (2020). A spectacular display serif.
  • Hermanz Titling (2021). A chiseled capitalis monumentalis titling font in Trajan style based on inscriptional caps drawn by Hermann Zapf.
  • Oceanwide (2021). He describes this revival of one of Frutiger's forgotten geometric sans designs: Back in 1968, Frutiger was approached by Pentagram to make a design for British Petroleum. They wanted a "new version of Futura". However, they wanted him to make a couple adjustments. First, they felt that Futura was "too fiddly." By this, they meant that it narrowed too much at the joins. (Joins are for example where the round and straight parts of the 'd' meet.) This is something that is necessary for small print text (to prevent ink clogging), but is not necessary at large sizes. Second, they wanted it to be entirely geometric, using the circular shape with minimal optical corrections. Unfortunately this font was not even used very consistently in the BP brand. A haphazard mix of Futura and Frutiger's BP font ensued. It was then replaced by another font design very soon after. My design is different in several ways. First, the commas and quotes are a more modern style. I tried his original commas, but these just didn’t work to 21st century eyes. Second, in his drawings, Frutiger went for a more standard u with a downstroke on the right. However, Oceanwide has a simpler u. Third, I made more optical adjustments. At the direction of his employer, Frutiger reluctantly put no font optical corrections into the letters. So I think my optical adjustments are similar to what Frutiger would have wanted. Fourth, I extended the weight into the light and extra light ranges. Fifth, the rest of the font I created according to the principles of Adrian Frutiger, but with no sources for inspiration. Here is Frutiger's design philosophy, in his own words: "If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful." The words about the spoon were the ones I kept in my mind as I tried to make the curves ultra smooth, and the shapes ultra simple.
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Callum Cussen

Callum Cussen (Limeblue Design) graduated from University for the Creative Arts in Surrey in 2013. Now based in Hindhead, United Kingdom, he designed a decorative all caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Calmius Software
[Vladislav V. Dorosh]

Calmius Software is a Russian company at which Vladislav V. Dorosh designed the Cyrillic font family Irmologion in 1996. This includes Evangelie-Ucs, Feofan-Ucs, Indiction Unicode (1996-2017), Indycton-ieUcs, IndyctonUcs, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs, Irmologion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Ucs, Irmologion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-ieUcs, Irmologion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Ucs, Pochaevsk-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-kUcs, Psaltyr-Ucs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-Ucs, Psaltyr-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-ieUcs, Psaltyr-kUcs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-kUcs, Render-Script, Slavjanic-Ucs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-Ucs, Slavjanic-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-ieUcs, Slavjanic-kUcs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-kUcs, Triodion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-Ucs, Triodion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-ieUcs, Triodion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-kUcs, Triodion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Ucs, Triodion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-ieUcs, Triodion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-kUcs, VertogradUcs, Zlatoust-Ucs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-Ucs, Zlatoust-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-ieUcs, Zlatoust-kUcs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-kUcs. Pochaevsk was made after an original by Nikita Simmons. See also here. Here we find some Old Slavonic fonts made in 2008 by Dorosh: Wilno-Ostrog.ttf, Wilno-Ostrog_2.ttf, WilnoCapsUcs.

Here we find these fonts by Dorosh: Irmologion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs, Irmologion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Ucs, Irmologion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-ieUcs, Irmologion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Ucs, Pochaevsk-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-kUcs.

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Calvin Drews
[Digital Studio (or: Digital Hustler; was: Drifter Studio, or: Everdrifter)]

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Camalam

FontStructor who made the ornamental caps typeface ORN8 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cameron Clements

Rexburg, ID-based designer of Catpahbet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camila Castaño Barco

Cali, Colombia-based designer, who, during her studies at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, created the modular decorative caps typeface Camicb (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camila Spindola

Based in Bogota, Colombia, Camila Spindola created the decorative bike-themed all caps typeface Bicidelia in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camille Moine

Aka Kid Pixel. Valence, France-based designer of the animated decorative caps typeface Tidy (2017) and the experimental animated fonts Fire (2017), XRay (2017), Splash (2015), and Snake (2017). In 2018, she made the animated font Bubble. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camille San Vicente

During her studies in Quezon City, The Philippines, Camille San Vicente designed the octagonal typeface Boxy Roxy (2013) and the modular typeface Nantucket (2013, free). She also drew the ornamental caps alphabet Ang Mga Maglalatik (2013) and Draft Display (2014, free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camilo Cuartas

Bogota, Colmbia-based graphic designer who craeted the ornamental caps typeface Alfabelico (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camilo Parodi

Creator of Kami-Geisha (2009, Fontcapture), a scanbat font with a geisha-themed human alphabet. Born in 1984, Camilo is based in Colombia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camoran Romesburg

During his studies, Warrensburg, MO-based [Google] [More]  ⦿

C&C (or: Cataloged)
[Coline Sunier]

C&C is the studio of Coline Sunier (who graduated from ESAD Grenoble Valence, France in 2006 and from ESAD Strasbourg in 2008) and Charles Mazé (a graduate of KABK Den Haag in 2009) in Brussels. Their typefaces:

  • Single Stroke CC (2011).
  • Série Seize (2011): Ongoing revival project of Deberny & Peignot's Didot Série Seize. The book series initiated by Swiss artist Laurent Kropf will provide the frame and use to develop this type family. Série Seize was cut in the second half of the 19th century and was widely used in Europe until the end of metal type.
  • Zoo (2010). A font done for Bénédicte Ramade, it is a revival of a children's alphabet seen in The Zoo (1960, M.E. Gagg).
  • DeVinne (2010). Digitized caps for the poster/program Ideas for the Future of Art.
  • BAT (2009, a Charles Mazé typeface). A didone family that originated from Charles's work at KABK.
  • Astral (2009). A decorative caps face.
  • Mercator (2009, Charles Mazé). Revival of Mercator Regular (Dick Dooijes, 1909-1998) based on a type specimen edited by Letterfoundry Amsterdam / Tetterode in the mid-sixties.
  • In 2012, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Alexandre Leray, Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé co-designed the readable typeface Dauphine Regular, which can be downloaded from Github and Open Font Library. See it in action on the web site of ESAD (Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design). Dauphine is a sans-serif font inspired by lettering in late 19th and early 20th century maps.

Typecache link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cansu Gumus

Istanbul, Turkey-based designer of the monster alphabet Illustratif (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caoca Studio (or: Heroglyphs)
[Olivia Theresa]

Bandung, Indonesia-based type designer specializing in scrapbook fonts.

Typefaces from 2021: Jingle Cookies, Halloween Time, Alpaca Rain, Dingo Nursery, Cheese Sandwich, Charming Winter, Dashing Christmas, Magic Blooms, Dear Love.

Typefaces from 2020: Prune Blossom, Author Junior, Party Festival, Thankful Cookies Font, Christmas Valley, Warm Noodles, Your Summer, Happy House, Back To School, Pink Unicorn Font, Pink Beach, Rolling Film, Chill Time, Holiday Season, The Merry Holiday, Winter Holidays, Chocolate Cheese, Holly Jolly, Some Time.

Typefaces from 2019: The Rudolf Sleigh, Christmas Glee, Pumpkin Halloween, Automono (a rounded monolinear monospaced sans family), Summer Break, Milky Unicorn, Merry Bright, Brain Wash.

Typefaces from 2018: Altocumulus, Great Heart, Jolly Christmas, Winter Story, Romantica Script, Orange Juice, Black Shadows, Baby Seal, Adabame, Ericlaire, Uniquely, Sunday Hawaii, Summer Seas, Pool Party (monoline), The Lettering Font, The Great Circus, Brain Wash, Parents Greet, Monday Lovers (athletic lettering), Moms Note (handcrafted), Meidy, Maldisa, Historia, Laborations (sans stencil), Magic Trick, Kajika, Little Edelweiss, Hello Alpha, Hairmusk (brush), Gallerina, Father and Son (sans), Summer Peach, The Patriot (all caps sans), Vaganza (spurred), The Harison, Twigs (brush script), Valery (vintage), Torberta (spurred), Sants (squarish sans), Out Hill, Super Slayers, Sun Street, Summery, Summer Nude, Retros, Keripik (fat marker font), LaVonn (sans), Happy Valentine's Day (dingbats), Valentine's Edition Dingbats, Irish Green, The Stoothgart, Tying The Knot, San Barley (horizontally hatched), Easton (monoline sans), Pop Fist (condensed sans), Oracles (all caps sans), Pandoura, Popera, Loverstruck.

Typefaces from 2017: Right Brush, Spooky Tricks (halloween font), Treasure Script, Summer Joy, Brave Hearted (outline font), Father And Son, Super Slayers, Earth and Sky, Almondia, Hello People (comic book script), Northern, Looking, Parents Greet, Baker Sweet, Avocados.

Typefaces from 2016: Ineffable (regular and grunge), Saqanone, Salmonberry, Huckleberries, Mongli (a sharp-edged sans), Retros (inline), Andrade (brush style), Amecas (squarish), Queenata (signage script), Ranania (script), Paradise (calligraphic), Valery, The Mastiff, Little Edelweiss (curly informal typeface), Loverstruck, Calamandria, Pulsate (stencil), Peanut, Sedalia (brush script), Delaboean, Rhapsody (blackletter), Chiqarine (connected script), Berretti (a Broadway style art deco typeface), Cupello Sons (a geometric serif), Quella (brush script), Hello Alpha, Historia, Desmosedici. In 2014, during her studies in Bandung, Indonesia, Olivia Theresa created the frilly ornamental caps typeface Sambasa (2014), which was designed on a Georgia skeleton.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Behance link for Olivia Theresa. Creative Market link for Heroglyphs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caoimhe O'Byrne

IADT graduate who works in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link.

She created the caps typeface Triangles (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carine Abraham

Art director and illustrator in Lille, France, who created the decorative caps typeface Lace Effect in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carissa Sudjono

Graphic design student in Washington, DC, in 2013. creator of the ornamental typeface Batik (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt

German designer (b. Stettin, 1864, d. Stuttgart, 1941). He studied lithography from 1878-1882, and worked as a lithographer in Stuttgart from 1891-1895. After that, until 1939, he was a free-lance graphic designer in Stuttgart. He made these typefaces:

  • Edelweiß (1936-1937, Schriftguss): an art nouveau typeface.
  • Hohenzollern (1902, Bauersche Giesserei); a blackletter face. For a revival, see the free font CAT Hohenzollern (2014) by Peter Wiegel, and Hohenzollern (2004, Petra Heidorn).
  • Imperial (Bauersche Giesserei): a fat version of Hohenzollern.
  • Mainzer Fraktur (1901, H. Berthold AG and Bauer). The Mainzer Fraktur was digitized by Gerhard Helzel, and also by Markwart Lindenthal (Fraktur.de). Free versions include Berthold Mainzer Fraktur (2014, Peter Wiegel) and Unifraktur Maguntia (2010, J. Mach Wust).
  • A school script typeface dated 1901. For a free digital version of this, see Peter Wiegel's Helvetia Verbundene (2010).
  • Minister (1929, Schriftguss). This family comes with Antiqua and Kursiv in various weights, as well as Minister Initlen. Adobe and Linotype have their own digital versions. The Minister family comes with a white on black circle titling font called Minister Kreis Versalien (1933). For further developments of Minister, see, e.g., David Bergsland's Biblia and Biblia Serif (2017).
  • Prominent (1936, Schriftguss): a beautiful set of filled-in open initials.
  • Symbol (1933): an engraved set of initials.
Ademo (2011, Andreas Seidel) is a shaded 3d caps typeface based on two designs of Fahrenwaldt done for Schriftguss in 1931-1932.

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

Carl Fredrik Angell

Design student in Oslo, aka Frisso. Creator of a few all caps typefaces in 2012, including one called DNA Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Hrachowina

In the late 19th century, Dr. Carl Hrachowina (1845-1896) taught at the Arts and Crafts School in Vienna. Among his students were Franz von Matsch and Gustav Klimt. He selected and published a series of study aids. Author of Initialen, Alphabete und Randleisten verschiedener Kunstepochen (1897, Carl Graeser, Vienna), and of Vorlagen für das Kunstgewerbe 1. Band. Künstliches Alphabet von J. Th. de Bry (1886, Carl Graeser, Vienna). Downloads of his 1897 books: Archive.org, local. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl J. Wehner

Dayton, OH-based creator of an animal-themed ornamental caps typeface in 1926. Its patent application. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Stephen Junge

Illustrator and poster designer in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, who lived from 1880 (b. Stockton, CA)-1972 (d. Des Plaines, IA). Many of the ornamental typefaces in the Barnhart Brothers&Spindler catalog of 1931, Typefaces: border designs, typecast ornaments, brass rule: selective specimens of preferred matter, are due to Junge. His typefaces:

  • Caslon Italic Specials (1924).
  • Swagger Capitals, which already appeared in the 1922 catalog of BBS. Swagger Capitals was reworked by Nick Curtis in 2004 as Mazurka NF [the lower case of Mazurka NF is based on Gothic Novelty Title, perhaps not a Junge type]. Swagger Capitals also inspired Pencraft (2010, Intellecta Design).

    Mac McGrew: Swagger Capitals or Swagger Initials were designed by Carl S. Junge for BB&S in 1925. They are virtually monotone, with an elongated flourish on each of the letters, most of which are cursive in character. There are only twenty-four letters, without X or Z. The foundry promoted them as being usable as initials with various typefaces.

  • Many ornaments were collected and digitized by Nick Curtis in Junge Holiday Cuts NF (2004).
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Carles Closa

Barcelona-based graphic designer. Creator of the Baille simulation typeface called Braille (1999, Garcia Fonts), the child's handwriting typeface Loreakop (1995, Garcia Fonts) and the funky display typeface Calypso (1997). Uses the artistic alias Txarly Brown. He also made the Kafkaesque caps typeface Vertigo (1996, Garcia Fonts), the stunning stencil typeface Floridax (1997) and the oriental simulation font NinjaType (1995, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlo Cadenas

Venezuelan art director and copywriter currently living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2014, he created an experimental ornamental caps typeface called Geometrile. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Alexis Ortiz Escalante

Typographer in Cayey, Puerto Rico, who created the hexagonal typeface Hexal (2012) and the decorative caps typeface Marvel (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Castillo

Cancun, Mexico-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Brush Nature (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Darthanhan

During his studies, Pacatuba, Brazil-based Carlos Darthanhan created the decorative octagonal caps typeface Capitulares (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero
[Andinistas]

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Carlos Segura

Born in 1956 in Santiago, Cuba, Segura founded the design firm Segura Inc in 1991 and the type foundry [T-26] in 1994 in Chicago.

He made Square 40 and Square 45 (2006, athletic lettering, octagonal), 26FacesA, Peepod (2000, great ornaments), Boxspring (1995, dadaist), Dingura, FaxfontFine (1997), FaxfontStandard (1997), FaxfontTone, FlacoSolid, FreeBeCaps, FreeDom-Normal, Mattress, Neo-Bold, Pintor (2006, wallpainting face), RPM (decals and logos), Sport IT (dingbats), Time In Hell (deconstructed Times).

Interview at typographer.com. Emodigi site. Interview. Another interview. CV. Klingspor link.

Catalog of Carlos Segura's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Vieira

Caracas, Venezuela-based designer (b. 1992) of the decorative caps typeface The Simpsons (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carly Berry

Graphic designer and illustrator in Tallahassee, FL, who created the illustrated set of letters spelling Resist (2017). Also noteworthy is her Trumpian Lord of the Puss Illustration (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carly Romano

Carly Romano (Carly Romano Designs, Orlando, FL) created the decorative caps typeface Machine in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carmen Nacher

Berlin-based designer of a curvy decorative caps typeface in 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carol Belanger Grafton

In 1981, Carol Belanger Grafton published Bizarre & Ornamental Alphabets (Dover).

Dick Pape digitized these ornamental caps typefaces, naming them by page number: BizarreAlphabets-Page108, BizarreAlphabets-Page112, BizarreAlphabets-Page114, BizarreAlphabets-Page116a, BizarreAlphabets-Page116b, BizarreAlphabets-Page117a, BizarreAlphabets-Page117b, BizarreAlphabets-Page121, BizarreAlphabets-Page14, BizarreAlphabets-Page22, BizarreAlphabets-Page24, BizarreAlphabets-Page62, BizarreAlphabets-Page66, BizarreAlphabets-Page74, BizarreAlphabets-Page76, BizarreAlphabets-Page78, BizarreAlphabets-Page92, BizarreAlphabets-Page93Bold, BizarreAlphabets-Page94, BizarreAlphabets-Page95, BizarreAlphabets-Page96-Dusty, BizarreAlphabets-Page98, BizarreAlphabets-Page99.

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Carole Gautier
[My Name is Wendy]

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Carole Guihard

During her studies at AGR in Nantes, France, Carole Guihard designed the decorative caps typeface Typo Contraire (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Segovia

Santiago, Chile-based creator of a partial ornamental caps alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Takara

During her studies in Sao Paulo, Carolina Takara created the initial caps alphabet Cat Nouveau (2014) and the decorative handcrafted typeface Ganache (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Denton

Caroline Denton (Elf Creative, Bristol, UK) designed a the calligraphic blackletter ornamental caps alphabet Gothic (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolyn Porter

Carolyn Porter is a St. Paul, Minnesota-based graphic designer, type designer, and author.

At P22, Carolyn Porter published P22 Marcel Script in 2014. This stylish fountain pen script comes with a story: The font Marcel is named in honor of Marcel Heuzé, a Frenchman who was conscripted into labor during World War II. During the months Marcel was in Germany, he wrote letters to his beloved wife and daughters back home in rural France. Marcel's letters contain rare first-person testimony of day-to-day survival within a labor camp, along with the most beautiful expressions of love imaginable. The letters---stained and scarred with censor marks---were the original source documents used by designer Carolyn Porter to create a script font that retains the expressive character of Marcel Heuzé's original handwriting. The letters were found in an antique shop in Stillwater, Minnesota, and the 1300-glyph font was developed from 2011 until 2014. It comes with a set of filets and calligraphic ornaments, P22 Marcel Ornaments, and a set of capitals, P22 Marcel Caps. Marcel Script won an award at TDC 2014. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal. The story of Marcel Heuzé is captured in her award-winning book Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's fate. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carrie Schrank

Graphic design student at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI. Designer of Synapses (2004), an all caps typeface in which letters are made up of axons, dendrites and synapses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cas van de Goor

Type designer from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, b. 1993. A stone's throw from the Belgian border, that is where Eindhoven is. MyFonts link to his foundry.

He says about Phi (2010, monoline geometric caps): Phi is a [monoline] geometric all caps typeface designed on the basis of the golden ratio.

Devian tart link. Klingspor link. Behance link. University of Twente link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Casandra Sabag Hillen

Madrid-based designer of the socially responsible decorative caps typeface Globalizacion (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Casey Schuurman

Melbourne, Australia-based designer of the modular typeface Empress (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cassia Friello

Graphic designer in the UK, who created a decorative caps alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Casyopea

Polish graphic designer, b. 1991. Her first name is Marlena. Creator of Liternictwo (2009, a frilly medieval caps face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CAT Design Wolgast
[Peter Wiegel]

Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts:

  • In 2019: Kufi Pattern.
  • In 2018: Aurach Tri (a trilined typeface), Googee (monoline circle-themed sans), Gianna (medieval script), Hamburger Schwabacher.
  • In 2017: Eyechart (heavy slab serif), Border Control (inline), Espresso Dolce (rounded sans), Gotisch Weiss, Halt (a dry brush typeface after Walter Hoehnisch's Stop from 1939), Kanzler, Llewie (rounded sans), Schulze Werbekraft (expressionist, after Arthur Schulze, 1926).
  • In 2016: Ronaldson Gothic (after a MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Co original), Vorgang (a great 1920s geometric sans), 5by7 (LED pixel font), BP 12-22 (industrial sans), u DIN 1451 Mittelschrift, Flubby, Gaeilge (Irish / uncial), Junior CAT (after Hans Heimbeck, 1936), CAT Liebing Gotisch (after Kurt Liebing), Tippa (an old typewriter font based on Adler Tippa 1).
  • In 2015: Nuernberg (blackletter), CAT Schmalfette Thannhaeuser (blackletter), Offenbacher Reform (a revival of Offenbacher Reform, a blackletter typeface by Roos & Junge), Autobahn (blackletter), Barloesius Schrift (after Georg Barloesius's Barlösius Schrift, 1906), CAT-Franken-Deutsch (after Alfons Schneider, 1936), Fuckin Gwenhwyfar, CAT Kurier (a script after Herbert Thanhaeuser's Kurier from 1939), CAT Linz, CAT Rhythmus (a sharp-edged black grotesk after a Schriftguss AG original), DIN Schablonierschrift (DIN-based stencil), CAT North Licht, Feronia, Fette National Fraktur (after Walter Hoehnisch, 1934), Grobe-Plakat-Fraktur, CAT Childs (fifties style cursive typeface), Jena Gotisch (decorative caps), Kabinett Fraktur (after Johann Friedrich Unger, 1793-1794), Wattauchimma (heavy hipster sans), Friedolin (blackletter), Lorem Ipsum, Symphonie (a calligraphic script, reviving Imre Reiner's Symphonie (1938), also called Stradivarius (1945)), Power (a retro techno typeface), Krugmann Brush, Omega.
  • In 2014: BernerBasisschrift1, BernerBasisschrift2 (school script), Berolina, Brausepulver (after Brause & Co., 1912), Fette Mikado (psychedelic style oriental look), Germanica, Gloria, HentimpsCirclet (blackletter), Hofstaetten (blackletter), Kleinsemmering, KuenstlerGotisch (blackletter), LacledeCAT (psychedelic), NeptunCAT, Neue Zier Schrift (a mischievous curly script), Pommern Gotisch, Reclame, CAT Report (retro brush script), Rueck-Italic, Rueck, RueckLeft, RueckLicht, RundschriftCAT (hairline ronde), Standard Graf (German expressionist and hexagonal typeface), Teutonic, VerzierteFavorite, VictoriaCAT, AdmiralCAT (a retro script), Dynamo (poster font), Des Malers Fraktur, Kanzleyrath (blackletter), Ober-Tuerkheim (art nouveau), PopplFrakturCAT (blackletter), Rundkursiv, Modeschrift (fifties script), Biedermeier Kursiv, Ehmcke Federfraktur (after a 1935 font by F.H. Ehmcke), Wernicke Schwabacher (after an original by Emmi Wernicke), Gotische Missalschrift, Hand Textur (after a 1935 font by F.H. Ehmcke), Renata (after a 1914 bastarda by Bauersche Giesserei), Rundgotisch Rauh (possibly after a Schelter & Giesecke design from 1903), Offenbacher Schwabacher (after Kurt Wanschura's bastarda from 1900), Incopins Clusters (multilined typeface), BadGong, Bernardo Moda (Bold, Semibold, Moda, Contrast: modeled after Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard fashion), CAT-Hohenzollern (after a 1902 art nouveau font by Bauersche), CATNorth, CATNorthLicht, CATNorthShadow, CAT Zentenaer Fraktur UNZ1 (a blackletter after a 1937 original by F.H.E. Schneidler), Coggers-Tariqa, EirikRaude, Fabrik (a geometric sans), Grobe Deutschmeister (German expressionist face), Harry Piel (or Piehl--a tattoo font), Kanalisirung, Klaber-Fraktur, Peter Obscure, Rumburak (a fat retro script), Flottflott (retro script), Indira K, Regent UNZ (a Schwabacher), Postamt, TGL 0-1451 Engschrift (a DIN-like font).
  • In 2013: Spartakus (+Round), Cut Me Out (white on black sans), 5by9 (dot matrix face), Tartlers End (high-contrast ball terminal face), Alpha 54 (rounded flared script face), Chunk Five Ex (slab serif; he writes: With permission of Meredith Mandel, the original author of the ASCII-Font Chunk Five, I have extended Chunk Five Ex to a full featured unicode font with all figures used in Latin and Cyrillic writing), Simple Print (simple sans), Fette Bauersche Antiqua (a didone fat face), Manuskript Gothisch (after Manuskript Gotisch (1899, Bauersche), which was modeled after Wolfgang Hopyl's 1514 Textura), Quast (hairy font).
  • Still in 2013, he published a number of school scripts, including Neue Rudelskopf, Deutsche Normalschrift, Imrans School, Rastenburg (German school font), and Bienchen.
  • In 2012: Hardman (connected fifties script), Immermann (a quaint slab serif), Quast (grunge), Fundamental Brigade (sans family), DiffiKult (a bilined face), Men Nefer (a Memphis lookalike), Fette Unz Fraktur (like Fette Fraktur), Mutter Krause (for the reconstruction of the 1929 silent movie "Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück", where it is used for intertitles, that where missing. The font is redrawn from the original intertitles), Youbilee (a font with laurels).
  • In 2010: Alfabilder (dingbats), Gondrin (athletic lettering with a 3d effect), Helvetia Verbundene (making Helvetica into a school script? The original typeface was by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt 1901), Proletarsk (a grotesk face), Vis-à-vis (great idea--a double-storied serif face), ApolloASM (Victorian), BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Doergon-Regular (license plate font), DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, Eureka (Victorian, ornamental face), GoeschenFraktur (1880-style Fraktur used in Sammlung Göschen books), Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, StrassburgFraktur, TGL0-16 (same as DIN 16), TGL0-17 (same as DIN 17), TGL0-17Alt, Tank (emblems of gas companies), EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular (typewriter), ErikaOrmig, Fibel Vienna (2012, a high-legged sans), GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift (German Schreibschrift), Midroba-Regular (a strong mechanical octagonal face), MidrobaSchatten, MMX2010 (futuristic), Präsent60, Rotunda Pommerania (blackletter), TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe.
  • In 2009: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrent-Regular, 18thCenturyKurrentAlternates, German writing from the 18th century), CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, Cöntgen Kanzley Regular (blackletter), Cöntgen Kanzley Aufrecht (2009), ElficCaslin, H1N1, Loxembourg1910Shadow (an art nouveau-influenced stencil face), Luxembourg1910, Tschichold, VarietScala (an art deco sans family), Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift (blackletter), MoradoFelt-Regular (upright connected script), MoradoMarker (2009), MoradoNib, PreussischeVI9 (DIN-like family), PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Stage (art deco), Ring Matrix (dot matrix), Nathan, Amptmann Script (2009, upright connected script), Cat Shop, Blankenburg (blackletter), Murrx (arched face), Schwaben Alt (1988, bastarda), Vrango, 14LED (Regular, Phattt-Heavy, Rised-Black), 24LED (+Bright, +Grid, +Modul), DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, FibelNord (basic sans family with an architectural twist), FibelSued (family), PaneuropaBankette, PaneuropaCrashbarrier-Black, PaneuropaFreeway, PaneuropaHighway, PaneuropaRoad, PaneuropaStreet, PaneuropaWrongWay, Quirkus (family), RingMatrix (dot matrix family), RingMatrix3D, RingMatrixTwo, DiscipuliBritannica (connected script), GruenewaldVA-Regular (connected school script), Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, WiegelLatein (connected school script), WiegelLateinMedium (2009), Morado, Moebius Bicolor (art deco), Elbaris (sans), ElbarisOutline, Nomitais (multiline face), RostockKaligraph, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent (traditional German school script), WiegelKurrentMedium, XAyax, XAyaxOutline (2009), Kaufhalle (squarish), Quimbie (art deco), CasaSans-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, MeyneTextur (blackletter), Yiggivoo, TGL 31034-1 (futuristic sans), Beroga (a simple organic sans).
  • Before 2009: Xayax, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3 (2006, a severe sans), Utusi Star (1989, very condensed all-caps face), Avocado (2006, script face), CbeNormal (2006, script face), Leipzig Fraktur (+Bold) (2006), Berlin Email (2006, a condensed sans family, followed in 2009 by Berlin Email Serif), MaassslicerItalic (2006, a futuristic typeface made for Rudolf Maass + Partner GmbH), Powerweld (a gorgeous avant-garde typeface made for OPTI Pumpen und Technik GmbH), WolgastScript (2005), WolgastTwo (2006, connected script), WolgastTwoBold, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular (2006, traffic dingbats), Djerba simplified (Arabic font, Computer and Technologie, Hamburg, 1995; it can be downloaded here), Titus FrakturBaltic (1998), TITUS FrakturEast Normal (1998), and TITUS FrakturWest Normal (1998) [which used to be downloadable here; these fonts were retired and the Titus name dropped; most of the glyphs made it to Schwaben Alt].

Dafont link. One more URL. Fontspace link. Yet another URL. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link.

The list of his truetype and opentype typefaces as of 2011: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrentStart, 18thCenturyKurrentText, Alfabilder, AlteDIN1451Mittelschrift, AlteDIN1451Mittelschriftgepraegt, AmptmannScript, ApolloASM, Avocado, Barnroof, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, BerogaFettig-Bold, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A, BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Blankenburg-Regular, BlankenburgUNZ1A-Italic, BlankenburgUNZ1A, CasaSans-Regular, CasaSans, CasaSansFettig-Bold, CatShop, CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, ChunkFiveEx, CntgenKanzley-Regular, CntgenKanzleyAufrecht, DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, DiscipuliBritannica, DiscipuliBritannicaBold, Doergon-Regular, DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, DoergonWave-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Elbaris, ElbarisOutline, ElficCaslin, EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular, ErikaOrmig, Eureka, FibelNord-Bold, FibelNord-BoldItalic, FibelNord-Italic, FibelNord, FibelNordKontur, FibelSued-Bold, FibelSued-BoldItalic, FibelSued-Italic, FibelSued, FibelSuedKontur, GoeschenFraktur, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A, Gondrin, GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift, GruenewaldVA-Regular, GruenewaldVA1.Klasse, GruenewaldVA3.Klasse, H1N1, HelvetiaVerbundene, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A-Italic, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A, LeipzigFrakturBold, LeipzigFrakturHeavy-ExtraBold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Bold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Normal, LeipzigFrakturNormal, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Bold, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-BoldItalic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A, Luxembourg1910, Luxembourg1910Contur, Luxembourg1910Ombre, MMX2010-Regular, Maassslicer3D, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, MaassslicerItalic, Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, MeyneTextur, MeyneTexturUNZ1A-Italic, MeyneTexturUNZ1A, Midroba-Regular, MidrobaSchatten, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A-Italic, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, MoradoFelt-Regular, MoradoMarker, MoradoNib, MoradoSharp-Regular, Murrx, Nathan-CondensedRegular, Nathan-ExpandedRegular, Nathan-Semi-expandedRegular, Nathan, NathanAlternates-CondensedRegular, NathanAlternates-ExpandedRegular, NathanAlternates-Semi-expandedRegular, NathanAlternates, Nomitais, Nomitais, Numikki, Numukki-Italic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeVI9, PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, Proletarsk, Prsent60, Quimbie, Quimbie3D, QuimbieShaddow, QuimbieUH, Quirkus-Bold, Quirkus-BoldItalic, Quirkus-Italic, Quirkus, QuirkusOut, QuirkusUpsideDown, RostockKaligraph, RotundaPommerania, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A-Italic, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A, Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Schulfibel-Nord-Linie-2, SchwabenAlt-Bold, SchwabenAltUNZ1A-Italic, SchwabenAltUNZ1A, Stage, StrassburgFraktur-Regular, TGL0-16, TGL0-17, TGL0-17Alt, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, TGL31034-2, Tank, TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, TitilliumMaps29L-1wt, TitilliumMaps29L-400wt, TitilliumMaps29L-800wt, TitilliumMaps29L-999wt, TitilliumText22L-1wt, TitilliumText22L-250wt, TitilliumText22L-400wt, TitilliumText22L-600wt, TitilliumText22L-800wt, TitilliumText22L-999wt, TitilliumTitle20, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, VarietScala, Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, Via-A-Vis, Vrng, Waschkueche, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelLatein, WiegelLateinMedium, WolgastScript, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, WolgastTwoBold, XAyax, XAyax, XAyaxOutline, XAyaxOutline, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, YiggivooUnicode3D, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenDreihundertAlt, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenHundertAlt, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundertAlt, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech, kaufhalleblech, moebius.

His type 1 fonts as of 2011: Avocado, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, CasaSans, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, Quimbie, QuimbieUH, RostockKaligraph, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech.

A list of typefaces in alphabetical order, with descriptive comments provided by Reynir Heidberg Stefansson from Iceland: 18th Century Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded), Alfabilder (Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet), Amptmann Script (Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings), ApolloASM (Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin), Avocado (Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style), Berlin Email (Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Berlin Email Serif (Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Beroga (All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope), Berthold Mainzer Fraktur (Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Blankenburg (Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Casa Sans (Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing), CatShop (Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone), cbe Normal (Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform), Centre Claws (Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway), Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley) (Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding), DiffiKult (Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines), DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936 (The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font), Discipuli Britannica (UK school handwriting), Doergon (Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule), CAT Eckmann, Elabris (Elbaris) (Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift), Elb-Tunnel (Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg), Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon, Elfic Caslin) (a Caslon for the Queen Galadriel), Erika Type (Erica Type) (Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter), Eureka (Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil), Fibel Nord (2009, sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Sued (2009, sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Vienna (Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer), Fundamental Brigade (Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures), Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur) (Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Gondrini (Gondrin) (Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter), Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift (Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding), Greifswalder Tengwar (Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style), Gruenewald VA (Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding), H1N1 (Heavy display typeface made of parallel wavetrains), Hardman (Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters), Helvetia Verbundene (Swiss handwriting), Immermann (Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding), Kaufhalle (Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype), Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift (Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Leipzig Fraktur (Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding), Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A (Fraktur for bread text), Luxembourg 1910 (Sans-serif, Jugendstil display typeface from old spice drawers), Maass Slicer (Maassslicer) (Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype), Makushka (Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable), Men Nefer (Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding), Midroba (Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal), MMX2010 (Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel), Moderne Schwabacher (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Möbius (moebius) (Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)), Morado (Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen), Murrx (Heavy display typeface made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis), Mutter Krause (Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel), CAT Neuzeit and CAT Neuzeit Schatten (2012-2014), Nathan (Slab-serif, hand-drawn.), Nomatais (Nomitais) (Elabris with multiple levels of outlines), Numukki (Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks), Powerweld (Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule), Präsent 60 (PI font with various East German logos), Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3) (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3), Preussische VI 9 (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2), Proletarsk (Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark), Quast (Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline), Quimbie (Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia), Quirkus (Sans-serif), Ring Matrix (LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow), Rostock Kaligraph (Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda), Rotunda Pommerania (Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded), Rudelskopf deutsch (Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms), Schwaben Alt (Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.), Stage (Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway), Strassburg Fraktur (Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding), Tank (PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos), TengwarOptime (Optima for Tengwar), TGL 0-16/0-17 (East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types), TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2 (East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types), Utusi Star (Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk), Varieté (Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps), Vis-A-Vis (Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle), Volk Redis (Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941), VrÃ¥ngö (LED matrix type like Ring Matrix), Waschküche (Serif, resembles Antykwa Torunska), Wiegel Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting), Wiegel Latein (Latin-style handwriting), Wolgast Script (Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen), Wolgast Two (Latin/Cyrillic handwriting), XAyax (Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule), Yiggivoo Unicode (Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel), Youbilee (PI font with various jubilee laurels), Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen) (PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)), Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt) (PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)).

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Caxton Initials

A typeface made in 1905 by Frederic Goudy. D.J.R. Bruckner: The great San Francisco printer John Henry Nash was fond of this set of capitals, but Goudy considered it "a rather clumsy form of Lombardic capitals." American Type Founders issued it for many years.

Mac McGrew: Caxton Initials were designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1905. He says of them, "These are a rather clumsy form of Lombardic capitals. At this time had not given text letters much study and while the forms of these capitals are correct enough, they lack the delicate hairlines which I learned later are an important feature of letters of this kind." The font includes only the 26 letters shown and a small leaf ornament. Compare Lombardic Capitals.

Digital versions: 1479 Caxton Initials (GLC), Caxton Initials (2012, Alter Littera). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Céline Moreno

During her studies in Bordeaux, France, Céline Moreno designed a decorative caps alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cecilia Payseur

Graphic designer in Charlotte, NC, who during her internship with Arzberger Stationers, created some caps typefaces in 2011; Flora (floriated), Suzy (oriental simulation), Caroline (calligraphic), Sassie (Victorian), and a blackletter face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Celebrity Fontz
[Jose Jimenez]

Specializing in celebrity signature fonts, this Arcadia, CA-based foundry (est. 2008) is run by Jose Jimenez (b. Costa Mesa, CA, 1963). MyFonts link. It sells the following typefaces: Nursery Rhyme Initials (2004), Hire Me (2009), American Presidents (2008: a collection of all 44 U.S. Presidential signatures including Barack Obama), Signers of the Declaration of Independence (2008: a collection of all 56 signers of America's Declaration of Indepdendence).

In 2009, they added Tough Dude (childish handwriting), Western Americana (famous signatures), and Coulant Classique (calligraphic).

In 2010, he created a mix of calligraphy and brush in Classic Cool, as well as an ordinary hand-printed Wet Pussycat, and the all caps typefaces Snowflake Drop Caps, Crumpled Parchment (grunge), Mauro Poggi Ornamental Caps, and Flowery Drop Caps. Lil'Punk (2010) is a grungy hand-printed face. 20th Century German (2010), Maurice Dufrene Initials (2010, art nouveau) and Sassa Mixed (2010, inspired by Swiss art from 1939) are ornamental caps typefaces.

First Ladies (2011) consists of signatures of first ladies. Parisian Ornamentals (2011) is an ornamental shadow caps typeface modeled after an alleged 1810 design by J. Gillé [ahem, Gillé died in 1789...]. Other 2011 designs: Landscape Alphabet, Hollywood Stars (signatures), American Revolution (signatures), American Authors.

In 2012, he published Cartoon Characters Vol. 1, Medieval Times (illuminated caps), Pretzel Dough, Cats (alphadings), Bellflower (Victorian caps), Florid Renaissance (floriated caps), Victorian Ornamentals, Griffith Initials, Mother's Hand, Art Deco Flowery Initials (which are Victorian or art nouveau, and not really art deco in my view), Santerini Initials (inspired by Italian hand-etched designs dating back to 1839), 19th Century American Initials (art nouveau ornamental caps), Godfrey Sykes Initials (inspired by the decorations of Godfrey Sykes, whose work was greatly influenced by that of Raphael and Michelangelo), Alphabet of Death (a series of Northern-Renaissance-style woodcut letters based on the work of Hans Holbein the Younger), Lombardia Illuminata (Lombardic ornamental capitals), Straight Angles, Body Art (silhouettes), Italian Gothic (a full set of decorative initials inspired by 16th-century Italian calligrapher Giovanni Battista Palatino), Letters And Lace (ornamental caps), 26 Flowers (floriated drop caps), Brushwork (oriental brush face), Sfondo Fiorito (flourished caps).

Typefaces from 2013: English Monarchs (signatures of British monarchs), Kitchen Utensils (ornamental caps), Devilish, Papillon Woodcuts (a digital revival of an ornate alphabet by French engraver Jean-Michel Papillon dating back to 1760).

Typefaces from 2015: Kids at Play (ornamental caps).

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Celeste H

Graphic designer in London who created the decorative caps typeface Construction Type (2015). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cemleret
[Jupri Yudhana]

Indonesian designer (b. 1996) of the decorative typeface Kualamanpa (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cenz Qobbal

Malaysian designer (b. 1984) based in Petaling Jaya.

Creator of these typefaces in 2012: Afro, Stitches (stitch font), Pop Jazz, Galah Panjang, Bunga Cengkih, Senandung Malam (Victorian all caps family), Kunang Kunang, Raja Drama (hairline avant garde sans), Piring Hitam (Peignotian sans), Dayang Senandung (hairline caps), Kaberet (a squarish outlined typeface), Kata Bidalan (hairline sans), Halusinasi (hallucination), Pak Pandir, Primadona, Mohsuri, Badang (a strong sans), Si LuNcai (monoline geometric sans), Kata Bidalon (a hairline avant garde sans), ContenG (grungy), Chempaka, Retak Seribu, Batik Indo (a textured typeface), Berus Rambut Kuda, Usang (sketched face), Songket (textured caps), Ugly Hand Writing, Dedaun (floriated), The Garden (ornamental caps), Seni Pop (a textured typeface), Modern Kerawang (ornamental caps), Cakar Ayam (scratchy hand), Sticky Notes, and Kerawang (ornamental caps).

Typefaces from 2013: Selari (bilined), Haru Biru (bilined).

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Cercurius (was: Lars Törnqvist Typografi)
[Lars Törnqvist]

Born in Karlstad, Sweden, in 1952, Lars Törnqvist now lives in Stockholm. Lars Törnqvist's designed many typefaces, first at Lars Törnqvist Typografi, and then at Cercurius:

  • Dialekt Svi: a series of three phonetic fonts for Swedish dialects.
  • Dialekt Uni (2001): a huge Unicode phonetic font that includes the West European characters, the characters and diacritics of the Swedish dialect alphabet and most of the IPA characters.
  • Fitzronald (2013). Based on Ronaldson Old Style (Alexander Kay, 1884).
  • Hnias (2004): a unicode runic font.
  • Remington Reseskrivmaskin (2000): a typewriter font.
  • DecCode (2000) and HexCode (2000): numerical fonts.
  • Pitmanita, a font containing the characters of Sir James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet. This alphabet was used in many English schools in the 1960s.
  • Morsealfabetet, a Morse-Code font.
  • Korsstygn 1, a cross-stitch font.
  • Tant Brita (2006), Tant Ingrid (2006), Tant Ulla (2006), Tant Gertrud (2006), Tant Lilian (2006): stitching typefaces.
  • Knappast (2006), Knappolog (2013), Endast (2006), Emedan (2006): letters in circles or rounded rectangles.
  • Karolinus Fraktur (2006): A slightly regularized digital version of a late Baroque Fraktur type, probably from the beginning of the 18th century, issued by the Norstedts type foundry in Stockholm in 56 point size as Sju petit fraktur nr 2.
  • Simpliciter Sans (2006), a rounded sans family in three styles, based on the standard round-pen ink lettering used on technical drawings in the middle of the 20th century.
  • Huruvida (2006). Varvid and Varvid Caps (2006, a bilined tubular caps stencil face).
  • Vibertus (2007): a didone headline typeface based on Gras Vibert (1840, Vibert, for the Didot type foundry).
  • Yxlofon (2015). a dot matrix display typeface.

And a jump list for Fraktur fonts. MyFonts link to his foundry, Lars Törnqvist Typografi.

View Lars Törnqvist's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

CG Orlando Caps

Mysterious typeface in the Compugraphic collection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chad Hogan

West Hollywood, CA-based designer of the handcuff-inspired typeface Ergo (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chafomon

Ecuador-based designer of William Morris Initials (2018), which is based on the wood type initials designed for the Kelmscott Press by William Morris just before 1900.

In 2019, he published the striped typeface Kurtis Blow, which is based on his Back by popular demand album cover. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chalothorn Choosom

During her studies in 2012, Khon Kaen, Thailand-based Chalothorn Choosom created an ornamental Latin typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chan HueySze

During her studies, Setapak, Malaysia-based Chan HueySze designed the colorful decorative caps typeface The Hobbit (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chandler Dolan

Designer of the textured initial caps typeface Wrapped (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chane Khamal

To remember the Marikana Massacre, Chane Khamal (Durban, South Africa) designed the decorative caps typeface Miner Control (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chanel White

During her studies at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Chanel White created the decorative Bohemian Alphabet (2015) and 3d Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chantall

European designer of the decorative caps typeface Wave (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Character
[Herbert F. Van Brink]

Prolific Woodland Hills, CA-based typophile and type designer (1937-2013) whose portfolio consisted largely of revivals and who used the alias Character for his typographic work. The Los Angeles Times posted this obituary: Herb passed away after a brief fight against esophageal cancer. He was a 42 year resident of Woodland Hills CA. Son of the late Jean and Mary Van Brink, he was born in Manhattan, graduated from Stuyvesant High School (1952) and Queens College (1956) and always considered himself a New Yorker. He had a long career in Information Technology and retired from Arco. He loved traveling, bowling, genealogy, and was a bridge Life Master among his many interests. He was a trickster and a perfectionist. He leaves his wife, Paula, his son, David Van Brink and DIL Deb Culmer of Santa Cruz CA, his daughter Qarin Van Brink and SIL James Ray of Burien WA, grandchildren Amelia and Wilhelmina Ray Van Brink, brother and sister-in-law Jeffrey and Louise Van Brink of E. Northport NY and nephews Matthew and Jordan Van Brink.

His typefaces:

  • Animal dingbat fonts: AbecedarianZoo (2003, created from an alphabet in Art Explosion 200,000), Turf&surf (2005).
  • Alphadings: Jennifer's train (2011), ABCPlay (2005), DiddleTheMouse (2005), Silly Set (2005), Stone Carving (2005), Snow Persons (2005), Alaskan Ice (2005), Peppermin Canes (2005), USStarsNStripes (2003, first called USFlags), XmasTree (2002), XmasTree II (2004), Xmas Alpha (2005).
  • Erotic alphabets: Flotner (2002, based on a scan of the human character alphabet by Peter Flötner (1534)), SilvestreBodies (2006, based on a figurative alphabet designed by Joseph Balthazar Silvestre in 1834, with engravings made by Girault), ErotiCaps Outline (2007), ErotiCaps Solid (2007), WeygelBodies (2006, adapted from Martin Weygel's 1560 interpretation of Peter Flotner's 1534 figurative alphabet).
  • Stained glass themed fonts: ModernStainedGlass (2007), ModernStainedGlass2Tone (2007).
  • Capital alphabets: Cameo Antique (2011, after Cameo Antique on page 17 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces---a shaded outline version of the typeface called NightShade, on the same page of Dan Solo's book; the only known digitized fonts of NightShade are "Shadowed Serif" by James Fordyce (1994) and NigelSadeSH, from Soft Horizons (1993)), Modern French Capitals (2010, after a set of capitals drawn by Alphonse Mucha), Mucha French Capitals (2010, similar?), Marcel Caps (2007; based on "Crossroads" by August Will (1891)), WoodLook (2007, an improvement of 101's Wooden Alpha BlockZ), 3DAlphabet (2008, based on an alphabet coloring book designed by Jean Larcher, 1978), RomantiqueInitials (2007, based on work by Aridi), Blistered, BlisteredFramed, BlisteredReverse (2005, based on Marwan Aridi's Blister from the Initial Caps Vol I), ChiseledRound, Contemporary CH (2010), CourierInitials (2005, based on an alphabet by Johan)), Eclectica (2003, party-theme), FeathersInYourCaps (2002), FlowerSketches (2002), LACETRIM (2002), LeafyStencil (2003), QuiltedStippled (2004, based on an embroidery alphabet created by DesignsInStitches), RetroCapsBW (2004), RetroCapsWB (2004), Rope5 (2004, rope font), Rustic Black Shadow (2011. He explains: In the Solotype Catalog of 4,147 typefaces, RUSTIC is shown with a black shadow. RUSTIC WHITESHADOW has a white shadow. However, the Solotype digital font named RUSTIC has no shadow. Similar no-shadow fonts are also available as Pinewood (by Rick Mueller and one by Dieter Steffmann) and as Woody (by DincType). As of October, 2011, no digitized version of Rustic Whiteshadow is known. Character has produced a font named RusticBlackShadow, which matches the font named Rustic in the Solotype Catalog. Dick Pape had created an earlier version named Pepin Press Caps FA204, based on fonts contained in the Pepin Press book Fancy Alphabets. ), THINROPE (2002), VALENTINEHEARTS (2002), Printed Circuit (2005), SportsABC (2005), Feathered Flight (2005), Joe Clement (2007, Western pixel face), Ribbon Shadow (2007).
  • Fonts based on scans from Awesome Alphabets (Mike Artell, 1999, Good Year): SketchBoards, SketchBones, SketchClothes, SketchLogs (2005), SketchPencils, SketchPipes, SketchTools, all done in 2005.
  • Athletic lettering: Collegiate Heavy Outline (2006), Real Madrid 2011-2012 (2011, an expansion of a font by "Adriano"), The Football League (2011), Adidas Euro 2008 (2011), Puma World Cup 2010 (2010: based on Crepello, a custom-made font by Paul Barnes for Puma, that was used on the jersey of Italy, Switzerland and Uruguay during the 2010 FIFA World Cup), Adidas Unity (2010), LINKEB+Regular (2008) uses the lettering of the Geaux font used by LSU.
  • Pixel or dot matrix style fonts: Dash It All (2007, based on Cooper Black), Even Hearted (2007, an improvement of CK More Hearts), Square 9x9 (2007).
  • Brush typefaces: Skippingbrush (2006), GraffitiPaintBrush (2008).
  • Dingbats: Being Sport Pictograms (2008).
  • Scanbats: PilobusSilhouettes (2010) is based upon a human alphabet photographed by John Kane.
  • Techno: BultacoDual (2010), Dr Who 42 (2007), London MMXII (2008), ArrowheadLake (2009, +Shadows, +Sunlit; based on the nearly blackletter typeface Arrowhead from the Solotype Catalog and alphabet books).
  • Historic typefaces: Driftwood 67 (2011, Driftwood on page 67 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), ArrowheadLake and ArrowheadLakeShadows (2011, based on Solotype Catalog p.74), Cutin (2011, a simple rounded monoline sans called Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces),Cutin (2011, a simple rounded monoline sans called Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Pepin FA288 (2011, based on Matra, or Bifur, on page 54 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces by Dan X. Solo), Varicka (2010, from "Decorative Condensed Alphabets", by Dan Solo, p. 94. It is similar to Red Rooster's Triple Gothic Condensed, but the Solo's font has different features), MaxfieldParrish140 (2007: From an incomplete (no "N") hand-drawn alphabet by Maxfield Parrish. See figure 140 of "Letters&Lettering" by Frank C. Brown, 1921. This is a different source than the P22 Parrish font family.), Ronde Antique (2009, based on page 110 of the Verlag Gerlach 1881 catalog).
  • Other: Scramble Mixed (2006, scrabble face), Happy Fourth, Emperor AN (2009: this semi-art nouveau typeface is Emperor on page 42 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces---not the same as Dan Solo's Emperor at MyFonts), Wood Gothic Caps (2011, blackletter), WoodWud (2011), Gallia Two (2010, based on a font found on page 55 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as Gallia No. 2), Charleston (2010, based on page 46 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Azteca Regular (2010: based on Azteca Condensed by Dan X. Solo, page 74 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Othello Fill and Solid (2011, derived from Othello on page 155 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Sharons Shadows (2010, +Bold), Masked Menace (2012, based on Bodoni Poster).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. And another one. See also at abfonts. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Albert d'Arnoux

French illustrator, aka Bertall, 1820-1882. In 1861, he published the ABC Trim Alphabet Enchanté. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Hasler

British author of A Show of Hands (Typographica, 1953, pp. 4-11). The journal Typographica was edited by Herbert Spencer and published sporadically between 1949 and 1967. This article has many images of printer's fists and pointing hands.

Plinc Hasler Circus (2011, House Industries) is a digitizztion of a photo era font, Circus, done by Hasler for Photo-Lettering, Inc. in the 1950s. This circus font was digitized by Erik van Blokland in 2011 at House Industries, with a helping hand from Ken Barber.

Other typefaces designed by him at Photo Lettering include Regency Inline (caps only), French Antique Inline and Pearl Shaded (decorative caps). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Charles Robinson

Early 20th century designer of letters, such as these capitals and this lowercase. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Siu
[Becca Line]

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Charline Dhossche

During her studies at Luca Art in Brussels, Heverlee, Belgium-based illustrator Charline Dhossche created the ornamental caps typeface Het Fobie Alfabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cherub Alphabet

Cherub Alphabet (ca. 1900) was published in Le peintre de lettres recueil d'alphabets décoratives et inédits l'usage des peintres (Paris). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chika Kakazu

Designer in Tokyo. Creator of an ornamental caps alphabet for children in 2012. Chika also made Ribbon Alphabets (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chike Lee

Illustrator and letterer in Seoul, Korea. In 2016, for a school project, she designed a traditional Korean knot font (for Latin) and called it Jieum. She also created the decorative caps typeface Korea (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chinky Duller

As an art student in Muntinlupa, Philippines, Sonja Cristi Leigh "Chinky" Duller designed the decorative caps alphabet Jake The Dog (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiquita Clarissa

Surabaya, Indonesia (and more recently, Bremen and then Berlin, Germany)-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Flowery Font (2014) and the needlecraft font Aska (2016). Earlier, she made the typographic poster Tribute to Bjork (2012).

Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cho Na Mei

Aka Cho nami. Hong Kong-based designer of the silhouette font Dancer (2014). She also does Chinese lettering and calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cho Young Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Minhwa (2019), a decorative caps font based on Korean folk art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Choz Cunningham
[Exclamachine Type Foundry]

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Chris Boulden

London-based designer of Monster Alphabet (2016) and Bloodline (2016: a poster typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Kokoris

Athens, Greece-based designer and illustrator who studied at Middlesex University in the UK. Creator of the decorative caps typeface Bird watching (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Aurelio Brazzán Ramos

During his studies in Lima, Peru, Christian Aurelio Brazzán Ramos designed several decorative caps alphabets (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian De La Rosa

Designer of the human alphabet Renisci (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christianne Abigael

During her studies at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, Christianne Abigael created the wonderful pearl-studded (or floriated) decorative typeface Daisy (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christie Morrison

Graphic designer in New York City who created the ornamental caps typeface Lavish (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christina Ruggiero

During her studies in New York City, Christina Ruggiero created the multilined all caps typeface Wander (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Samms

Winnipeg-based creator of the ornamental custom typeface Kaytranada (2013). Christopher is a graduate of Red River College, class of 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chuck Davis
[Letterhead Fonts]

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Chyrllene Albuquerque

Aka Chyrllene K. Daughter of Iza W, who designed many typefaces at Intellecta Design starting in 2010. She studied applied mathematics and graphic design, and works as COO of Intellecta Design. In 2013, she wrote a thesis entitled Revival Tipografico at Faculdades Integradas Barros Melo, Brazil. Based in Recife, Brazil, she is credited with these typefaces:

  • Naive Ornaments (2012, with Iza W).
  • Calligraphic Birds (2012, with Iza W).
  • ABC Hand (2011). A sign language face.
  • Pencraft (2010): a penmanship typeface with uppercase based on Swagger Capitals (Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), and lowercase based on Sidney Gaunt's Pencraft Oldstyle series (1914), as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922.
  • Eingraviert Dutch Capitals (2009). An engraved typeface.
  • Vintage Hands (2012). A set of fists and penman's hands.
  • Bonsai Paufo (2010): a dingbat face.
  • Floreart (2012). With Iza W.
  • Jugendstil Flowers (2011).
  • Libertee Ornaments (2011): an elegant art nouveau typeface done with Paulo W.
  • MesoAmerican (+Two) (2011): native Indian dingbat typefaces.
  • Tribalism (2011): three typefaces with ornaments and fleurons, done together with Iza W and Paulo W.
  • Cripto (2011). With Paulo W.
  • Soft Garden (2012). With Iza W.
  • Bruce 1065 Soft Serifs (2011). Very Victorian. With Iza W.
  • Victorian Advertizing (2011).
  • Gothic Revival Layered (2012). One of the first layered blackletter typefaces anywhere.
  • Forte (2013) is a fee brush font in the style of Forte MT (1962, Carl Reissberger).
  • Tribalism (2011). Three fonts with penmanship-style flourishes.
  • Enchiridion (2012).
  • Azalleia Ornaments (2012). With Iza W.

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

Cina Catteau
[Anugraha Design]

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Cinderella Jimu Harrington
[CindiGirl]

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CindiGirl
[Cinderella Jimu Harrington]

The CindiGirl site closed. Cartoonist and computer specialist who ran (runs?) The Art of Jimu. Her pages show an exquisite collection of celtic style erotic caps in the style of Aubrey Beardsley. Unknown origin---I must conclude that Harrington drew these caps herself. A download site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cinthia Erazo

Cayambe, Ecuador-based designer of a textured decorative all caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cintia González

Spanish graphic designer. Behance link. In 2011, she made a beautiful striped caps typeface entitled Type And Songs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

C.J. Leonard

Chicago-based creator of the pictorial Nun Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claire Altomari

Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link. Creator of the display poster typeface Stay True Chief (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claire Robart

Lille, France-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Roubaix (2015), which is inspired by the decoration found in Roubaix's city hall. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claire Zimmerman

During her graphic design studies in Lawrence, KS, Claire Zimmerman designed an unnamed paperclip typeface (2013). Her second typeface, Seams (2012-2015), is a carefully designed sans specially made for white tee shirts. Kiosk (2015) is an all caps display typeface. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 2016. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clara Mur

Barcelona, Spain-based designer of a colorful geometric all caps typeface, Geo Type (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clara Richard

Clara Richard (Swansinsky, Paris, France) created the pointillist all caps typeface Seurat in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clare Rosean

Illustrator in Chicago, IL, who created the hand-drawn decorative caps typeface Keeks (2014). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claren McLaughlin

Kenosha, WI-based creator of the counterless hand-printed typeface Steamroller (2011). She also designed some beautiful ornamental caps in her Earth Day Poster (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clarence Pearson Hornung
[Dick Pape]

Prolific author, b. 1899. His books include the typographically magnificent Handbook of Early Advertising Art, Mainly from American Sources (Dover, 2 volumes). The typeface Lexington is attributed to him, as Mac McGrew writes: Lexington is a font of shaded and decorated letters and figures, drawn for ATF by Wadsworth A. Parker in 1926, from a design by Clarence P. Hornung. It is an ornamental form of roman letter, with curly serifs, and tendrils at the ends of light strokes. It was recast in 1954, and copied in one size by Los Angeles Type.

The book Early Advertising Alphabets, Initials and Typographic Ornaments (1956), edited by Clarence P. Hornung, led Dick Pape to creates these digital fonts in 2008: AltDeutsch, Amorette1889, ArabesqueDesign, BreiteEgyptienne (2008), BreiteverzierteClarendon, ChiswickPressGothicInitials, EarlyScrollAlphabet, EarlySignboards, EnglandInitials1880, ErhardDatdolt, FlorentineInitials, FlorentineInitialsReverse (2008), GothicChancery1880s, GothicClosedLetter (2009-2010, Lombardic), Hollandisch-Gothic (2010), JudendstilAlphabet (2009), LilyoftheValley, Papillon 1760 [First shown in Paris in 1760, and reprinted by Clarence P Hornung in Dover Pictorial Archive Series: Early Advertising Alphabets, Initials and Typographic Ornaments (1956, Dover Publications). Hornung's images inspired Pape's typeface], Phantasie (2009-2010), Romaine Midolline (2010), RomanPrintShaded (2010, ornamental roman caps), RusticAlphabet, SilhouetteInitials1880, TheTerrorsofNightLife, VerzierteAltGothic, VerzierteGothic, VictoriaGingerbread1890 (2007).

Klingspor link.

Download here. More direct link to Pape's digitizations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Classic Font Company
[Anthony Nash]

The Classic Font Company is a small foundry with absolutely gorgeous commercial fonts (often revivals of pen drawings) by Tony Nash (b. Bristol, 1944): Abby (blackletter family), Amadeus (1997), Batard, Bede, Byro, Carol (1997, blackletter family), Classic (2000-2002), Copper, Doodles (2000), El Cid (2000), Frameworks, Karen, Kells (celtic uncial), Prima, Priory (1997), Savoy (1997, a great bastarda font family accompanied by Savoy Frames), Scriptoria, Theodore (1995, blackletter font), Tuscany (Lombardic face), Versals (2000, Lombardic capitals). Plus 13 sets of fantastic caps (but not in font format) by Andy Jeffery. Based in North Somerset, UK.

Not to be confused with the rip-off outfit "Classic Font Corporation, USA".

Linotype link.

Identifont lists these typefaces: Abby, Abby Hilite, Abby Lowlite, Abby Open, Abby Split, Amadeus, Carol, Classic, Copper, Doodles (CFC), El-Cid, FW-Leaves, Kells, Priory, Savoy, Theodore, Theodore Fancy, Tuscany (CFC), Versals.

View Classic Font Company's typeface library. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Classification of initials by Jim Moran

Jim Moran (Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Wisconsin) classifies initial caps using these designations:

  • Calligraphic: Those letters that reflect the stroke of the flat-nibbed pen.
  • Criblé: A stippled dot pattern in the background.
  • Floriated: Letterforms that incorporate plant and/or flower motifs.
  • Historiated: Letterforms that employ people or places from a given story.
  • Inhabited: Those characters that have people, mythical beings, or faces in them.
  • Ornamental: A term that describes decoration that is nonrepresentational.
  • Speaking: Designs that represent the first letter of the subject matter, eg., P for Piper.
  • Zoomorphic: Letterforms that include animals.
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Claude Derieppe
[Beeline]

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Claude Melle Derieppe
[Ouvrez!!! Police!!!]

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Claude Pelletier

Quebec-based typographer and type designer (aka Diogene) who specializes mainly in revivals of obscure or old typefaces.

Dafont link. Yet another URL. Abfonts carries many of his fonts. Fontspace link.

His typefaces:

  • Aerolite C Pone (2013). A calligraphic connected copperplate script.
  • Angelica CP (2011). After a Fotostar font, Angelica, ca. 1960.
  • Banner Star (2012). An American flag-themed display typeface.
  • Barrio CP (2011). An inline face based on a Neufville original.
  • BeansCP (2010, after a font found on page 10 of Art Deco Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo).
  • Bienetresocial (2003), BienetresocialBold (2003).
  • Bizarre and Bizarrerie (2010; based on Edwards and Inland, both designed in 1895 by Nicholas J. Werner at the Inland Type Foundry; renamed in 1925 by BBS)
  • Bloque Demo (2011). Experimental.
  • Bold (2008)
  • Bolina (2015). A copperplate calligraphic script after Dan X. Solo's alphabet shown on page 12 of Dan X Solo. Script and Cursive Alphabets (1987, Dover).
  • Bonte Divine (2017).
  • Carre (2009, athletic numerals).
  • Caslon CP (2012, based on Caslon 223 Bold).
  • Champignon (1999-2009, a formal calligraphic script)
  • Chartrand (2010, Victorian)
  • Chomage (2009)
  • Chopin Script (1999-2010, calligraphic; after Polonaise by Phil Martin)
  • Constanze Initials (2010). After Constanze Initials by Joachim Romann (1956).
  • Crayonnette (2000-2001). Same as his earlier font Derniere (1999).
  • DeClaude (2010, patterned and named after DeVinne)
  • Dojo CP (2011)
  • Dynamic CP (2010, based on page 48 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as Dynamic Deco)
  • Ebony (2011). Based on a Marder&Luse design from 1890. Ebony is on page 38 of 100 Ornamental Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and also on page 43 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Embrionic 85 (2012, +Swash Caps) and Embrionic 55 Swash (2012): an ink trap sans display family modeled after Robert Trogman's Embrionic in the FotoStar collection.
  • Essai (2003)
  • Euclid CP (2011): based on an 1880 typeface at Central Type Foundry.
  • Fancy Text (2004, blackletter)
  • Fantaisie1 (1999)
  • Gourmandise (2013), an exquisite Normandian-style didone display typeface.
  • Grandee CP (2014). Claude says that it is based on T.H. Grandee, but that is too cryptic for me...
  • Haricot (2010, a fat modular typeface based on Beans in the Dan Solo catalog)
  • Humeur (2001-2002, funny smilies)
  • IEC5000 (2011). A symbol font with electrical and other icons.
  • Initiales Medium (2011).
  • Jeux Cache (2016). A boxed letter font.
  • JohnHancockCP-Medium (2010, bold didone)
  • Landi Echo (2011). A remake of Landi Echo by Alessandro Butti (1939-1943).
  • La Tribune (2011). A newspaper type.
  • Le Golf or Le Trou (2010, art nouveau typeface by Antoine Szczebanski, digitized by Claude Pelletier; also on page 71 of the Solotype catalog)
  • Les Etoiles (2013): an inline typeface
  • Les Tuyaux (2018). A great slinky font.
  • Lionel CP (2010, a multiline typeface inspired by Letraset's 1973 typeface Stripes)
  • Louisa CP (2015). A free calligraphic copperplate script. Louisa CP is Louisa on page 56 of Script and Cursive Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo.
  • Malvern (1999)
  • Manquis CP (2012). A roman typeface.
  • Maratre (2013). A delicious connected copperplate calligraphic script that revives (or is almost identical to) François Boltana's Aurore (1993).
  • Monterey Wide (2011). A Tuscan ornamental face, based on a showing on page 22 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Motscroises (1997)
  • Niaisage (2012). A lachrymal caps only typeface.
  • Oxford CP (2010, a multiline face, based on the 1960s typeface by Christine Lord)
  • Pasdecourbe (2003)
  • Pasdenom (2001, no punctuation)
  • Peak CP (2020). A revival of VGC's photo font Peak.
  • Pepinot (2012), an art nouveau typeface based on Coral Inline on page 190 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Pistilli Roman (2011, after the original by Pistilli)
  • Postface (2012). A bold signage script face.
  • Rita Smith (2012). After Primavera by Rita Major.
  • Rogers, Rogers2 (1997). He says that it is not his font---that he just rearranged the glyphs. According to Claude, can be found in the book Treasury of Authentic Art Nouveau Alphabets, ed. Petzendorfer, Plate 23. It was made in 1902 by A.V. Haight for Inland Type foundry.
  • Salamandre (2012). A tall 19-th century style slab typeface based on Iguana, a design of Sally-Ann Grover.
  • Simplement (2011) is Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Stylie Stymus (2012).
  • Threshold (2014).
  • TriangleETcircleShadow, TriangleETcircleShadowed (2010, 3d iron work style face)
  • UptightC (2010, multiline face).
  • Whitin Condensed Black (015). Whitin Condensed Black is Whitin Black Condensed on page 151 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • YagiUHFNo2 (2012).
  • Zenith CP (2016). A free connected calligraphic (wedding) script typeface.
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Claudia de Almeida

Claudia grew up in the south of Brazil and moved to the USA to attend college. She has BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she has also taught. Claudia worked for nearly 10 years as a designer and Art Director in New York before moving to San Francisco in 2013 to serve as Design Director at WIRED. She has worked for The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Blender, More Magazine, New York Magazine, Domino Special Editions, Gourmet Special Editions and Men's Health. In 2012, Claudia redesigned Real Simple Magazine, marking the beginning of her design studio with WIRED pal Margaret Swart.

She created some remarkable ornamental caps, such as Dessert Rose, and a dollar sign. At Type Paris in 2015, she designed Iño, a humanist typeface influenced by Garamond. Type Paris link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudia de Castro

During her studies at Florida State University, Claudia de Castro designed the decorative architectiral caps alphabet Helvedeco (1988). See U&LC Vol. 15, No. 3, 1988. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clavel Anthony

During his design studies in Annemasse, France, Clavel Anthony created the ornamental caps typeface Leopard Boy (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clément Gillard

Lille, France-based graphic artist who studied at ECV Lille. Designer of the vernacular typeface Montana (2014-2015), the hybrid typeface Bebas Android (2015), and the condensed sans typeface Gills (2014). Together with Edouard Spriet, he created the rounded organic sans typeface Kimono (2015) for wayfinding applications---it uses the circle as a basic building block and is developed with chromatic use in mind.

Typefaces from 2016: Writna (feels like a runic font, although the authors claims inspiration from old Asian sources). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clément Gillard

Toulouse, France-based designer of several decorative initial caps alphabets in 2018. In 2017, he designed the stencil typeface Fablab. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cleveland Type Foundry

Foundry in Cleveland that existed from 1875 until 1892, when it was absorbed by ATF. It was also called H.H. Thorpe Mfg. Co. They published Catalogue and Book of Specimens From the Cleveland Type Foundry. The H.H. Thorp Mfg. Co., 147 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, Ohio (176 pages, 1880), Catalogue and Price List of Type and Material (ATF 1893 Specimen) (1893), and Catalogue and book of specimens of type typefaces and printing material and machinery (1895).

Its original designs include Koster Initials and Litho (a curly Victorian typeface digitally revived by Nick Curtis in 2007 as Cleveland Litho NF; Curtis says that it comes from an 1898 specimen book but that contradicts the ATF date). Another Curtis revival, Yum Yum NF (2008) is said to be based on Mikado from an 1893 Cleveland specimen book. And in 2008, Nick Curtis continued with a revival of the geometric display typeface Morning Glory (1893), and a revival of Oxford called Really Big Shoe NF (2009). One of Central type foundry's most famous typefaces is the faux-Chinese font Chinese (1883, later called Mandarin). In 2010, Nick Curtis redid Geometric, a typewriter style face, and called it Linndale Square NF.

In 2013, the Victorian capitals typeface Oxford No. 2 (from the 1893 catalog) provided the inspiration for the digital typeface MFC Damask (Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles, Monogram Fonts Co). MFC Damask Flourish (2013) is a floriated caps typeface from the same source. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cloister Initials

A typeface made in 1918 by Frederic Goudy. D.J.R. Bruckner: Goudy allowed that this set of capitals was not, strictly speaking, a typeface. American Type Founders had asked for an alphabet in the style of the large center capital A in The Alphabet, and Goudy drew an entire set for them. He said he had not intended it to be cut, but A.T.F. made matrices and sold the type for a while.

Digital versions: LTC Goudy Initials (Miranda Roth for Lanston and P22, 2005: based on the original proofs of large sizes of Cloister Initials), Cloister Initials (2006-2007, Group Type), Initials ATF Cloister (Alter Littera, 2012), Goudy Initials (2008: a free font by Dick Pape), PF Goudy Initials (Paratype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cody Hartleben

Cory Harleben (Monomonie, WI) created the all-caps display typeface Hambone Notch in 2013 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coen Hofmann

Born in Amsterdam in 1939, Hofmann started out as a typesetter, and then morphed into a calligrapher and an author on calligraphy, and finally into a type designer.

Designer at URW++/Fontforum of

  • Admira (2019). A revival of the striped all caps money font Admira (1940, Schriftguss).
  • Altrincham (2003).
  • Caxtonian Black (2012). A blackletter.
  • Globus Cursive (2015, +Cyrillic). This cursive font is a revival of a font by Friedrich Hermann Wobst (1932, D. Stempel AG).
  • Gothic Initials (2015). After an original from 1821 by Firmin Didot's foundry.
  • Holland Gothic (2012). A blackletter.
  • Jason Uncial (2012). A unicase uncial design.
  • Perugia Cursive (2003). A gorgeous calligraphic script based on the 19th century "Scrittura Rotonda Francese" and "Scrittura Italiana" developed by Italian calligrapher Cesare Silvestrini.
  • Pinel Pro (2014). A revival of a didone from 1899 by Joseph Pinel called French 10pt No. 2. URW++ writes: Coen Hofmann digitized the font from a batch of very incomplete, damaged and musty drawings, which he dug up in Altrincham. He redrew all characters, bringing up the hairstrokes somewhat in the process.
  • Ramona (2004). A shaded typeface.
  • Revis (2011). A formal script based on Daphne, a typeface that was originally designed by German type designer Georg Salden. For some reason, that typeface was withdrawn from the URW++ library some time later.
  • Romeo (2004). A 3d beveled shadow face.
  • Sax (2008). A didone typeface family.
  • Seizieme Pro (2013). Based on the 1905 font Série 16 by Peignot, which was mainly used for scientific publications.
  • Signpainters Script (2013). A connected copperplate script.
  • Silvestrini (2003). A gorgeous Gando-style ronde. Based on the 19th century "Scrittura Rotonda Francese" and "Scrittura Italiana" developed by Italian calligrapher Cesare Silvestrini.
  • Sirius and Sirius Caps (2003). A garalde family developed together with British type designer Neville Brown.
  • Technotype (2011). A revival of Herbert Thannhaeuser's 1952 slab serif family Technotyp.
  • Thomas Schrift and Thomas Versalien (2015). Based on Friedel Thomas's Thomas Schrift and Thomas Versalien from 1956-1958.
  • URW Akropolis (2016, URW++). A revival of the cigar box open typeface Acropolis designed by the Ludwig Wagner foundry in Leipzig in 1940.
  • Pergamon (2016, URW++). A wonderful 10-style didone typeface family that revives, extends and modernizes Pergamon Antiqua first designed in 1937 at Ludwig Wagner in Leipzig by Alfons Scheider.
  • Marli (2016). A revival of the cursive typeface Korso by F. Schweimanns (1913).
  • Moewe (2017). An open typeface in the blackboard bold genre that revives Möwe (1929, Heinz Beck for Genzsch & Heyse).
  • Golf (2017). Golf was originally designed by Henry Reinhard Möller in 1935 for Schriftguss KG. Coen Hofmann redrew the capitals and then added lower case letter and Cyrillic alphabets.

Klingspor link. View Coen Hofmann's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Coline Sunier
[C&C (or: Cataloged)]

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Compuart

Russian page about initial caps in Cyrillic, with images of examples from the XVIth century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Context Foundry
[Alex Liebold]

Context Foundry is run by Alex Liebold out of Savannah, GA. Alex Liebold's typefaces include:

  • Monster Party (2007). Monster-themed caps.
  • Cougher (2008-2010). A grotesque based on the lettering of Edward McKnight Kauffer and vintage travel posters
  • Fresh Produce (2008). A hand-painted signage typeface by Greg Christman.
  • Ghoulies (2008). A ghost-themed all-caps alphabet, drawn by Greg Christman.
  • Montreal (2008). A fat counterless typeface by Jenna Holcombe.
  • Eric Schwartzwelder drew Chiropractor (2008), a bold mechanical face, and the display typeface Jayhawker (2014).
  • Elise (2014). A layered flourished all caps typeface.

He also runs 414 General Store with Courtney Burroughs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Coreena Cole

Designer and illustrator in Adelaide, Australia, who created the decorative capos typeface Adelaide (2014), which consists of ornaments related to her city. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corentin Plancade

Toulouse, France-based graphic design student who created the brushy typeface Typo Ex Machina in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corey Turner

During her studies at Staffordshire University, Corey Turner (Stoke-on-Trent, UK) created Pencil Themed Typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corinne Mock

Chicago, IL-based designer of the tooth emulation typeface Teefs (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cornertype Studio (or: Gassstype)
[Anang Fibriyanto]

Anang Fibriyanto (Ambarawa - Semarang, Indonesia) first set up Cornertype Studio and then, in 2020, Gassstype. Designer of the handcrafted typefaces Lawan (2020), Tasty Popcorn (2020), Bocah (2020), Fried Banana (2020), Alexaniri (2020) and Slacker Brush (2020), the script typeface Wish You Luck (2019), the gothic font Fear No More (2019), and the pinball or pachinko font Play This Game (2019).

Other typefaces from 2020: Acrylic Brush, Alexaniri 2.0, Alien Spaceship, Anti Toxic, Bazinga, Berbahaya, Brush in Space, Chromogene, Crush Berries, Davy Jones, Dotoria, Gorilla Warriors, Green Berry, Haberdines, Head Unit, Horror Brush, Johny the Kids, Kasar, Koolkids, Kopi Arabica, Kopi Robusta, Microfiber, Milkshake Mango, Milky Berry, Mix Berries, Raisha.

Typefaces from 2021 published by Gassstype but made by Abdul Malik Wisnu: Revoluta (a vernacular font for demonstrations), Brush In Space (a blocky dry brush script), Fearless Queen (dry brush), Kiddiess (a scrapbook brush script), Kotes (a fat finger font), Rolla Cossta (dry brush), Scramble Storm (a horror brush font), Stand Alone (a dry brush script), Winter Soda (a fat finger font), Fast Lane (hand-printed), Lost In South (a brush font), Bad Poser (an all caps dry brush font), Modern Cowboys (Western), Something Straight (hand-drawn caps), Asphalt Crack (textured), Average Issues, Dotoria Slant (a blocky brush typeface), Offstages (a brush font), Respawn (a rough brush font), Skylarr Scott (a dry brush font), Sweet Antihero (spurred, all caps), Unblessed (dry brush, eerie), Webcomic (a cartoon font), Alexaniri (a bold brush font), Amicable (a rough brush font), Breaking The Comic (a glaz krak comic book font), Bullhead (a textured brush font), Butter Press (a marker pen font), Careless Carry (a bold brush typeface), Downstairs (a marker pen font), Good Looking Karma (a rough brush font), Kostantera, Little Kisses, Lonesome (a straight brush font), Relocation, Soap Opera (a bold brush font), Steelhead (a bold cartoonish font), Travelista (a brush font), Freewill (a rough brush font), Irrational (a brush font), Fragmented (a grungy inline font), Sanstuy (handcrafted), Squabslab (a hand-crafted slab serif), Teaberry Essence (a brush script), Klisse (script), Lemonade Soda (brush), Real Enemy (brush), Teaberry Essence (brush), Worker Class (brush), Business Matter (a heavy script), Easysans (all caps, hand-crafted), Errorism (a brush font), Agression (a heavy brush font), Crossbar (a brush font), Good Explorer (glaz krak font), Kopi Arabica (a hand-crafted slab serif), Trust Issue (a handmade font for barn signage), Wakeup Today (a brushed slab serif), Ruthless (a heavy dry brush font), Timeless Nature (script), Unranked (a rough mural font).

Typefaces released in 2022: a href="https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/gassstype/bigbox/">Bigbox (cracked capitals), Recess Brush (a dry brush font), Aalama (a bold supermarket typeface), Break Parquet (cracked caps), Chratos (a black metal font), Deanicked (an all caps brush font), Revoluta (a wall paint font for starting revolutions), Anthony Writters (a scrapbook script), Murray Corn (a weathered all caps typeface), Rages, (a vernacular brush font) Residual (a bold condensed hand-crafted typeface), Timeless Notes (a fat finger script), Unfollow (a marker pen font), Alltoz (a condensed vernacular typeface), Kostaness (a graffiti font), Lazy Coffee (a bold quirky heavy slab serif), Minomisse (a bold brush script), Lonesome Zombies (a horror font with dripping blood), Quick Sketching (a scrapbook font), Raittens (a scrapbook script), Salomonstera (a scrapbook brush script), Speechless (a scrapbook font), Tenuity (a brush typeface), Bitter Kiss (a fat finger font), Havana Choice (a fat finger script), Playvictim (a brush font), Bitter Kiss (a fat finger script), Chocolate Breads (a fat finger font), Fried Cassava (a fat finger font), Stoopid Markers (a bold marker font), Stuffy (a fat finger script), Unofficial (script), Urban Pollution (graffiti), Sanes (a hand-crafted sans), Across The Street (brush font), Smooky (with a rough outline), Berani (grunge), Random Notes (a weathered vernacular font), Alokary (a Peignotian fashion sans), Rugpull (a rough brush typeface), Backstabber (a brush font), Flossy (a brush font), Hipeless Brush, Monsterian (a Halloween font), Bad Brush, Something Real (a dry brush script), Honey Mushroom (brushed caps), Resistant (a brush font), Silent Forest, Antodits (hand-drawn), Ressolles (a dry brush typeface), Sleepless (a horror font), Study Hard (a fat finger script), Beethink (dry brush), Better at Class (script), Calathos (a brush font), Haberdines (a tape font), Kartun (a cartoon font), Nutshell (dry brush), On Progress (a brush font), Sabarian. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cosimo Torsoli

Cosimo Torsoli (Florence, Italy) created Codryceps (2012), a caps typeface that was inspired by a video from the BBC called Planet Earth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cottage Graphics
[David Rood]

David Rood is the Harrisonburg, VA-based designer of BluePrint in 1992, a Tekton lookalike, and Rood Caps. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Courtney Burroughs
[414 General Store]

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Courtney Novits

Graphic designer in Brisbane, Australia. Creator of the modular sci-fi typeface Robotica (2011) and of the ornamental caps typeface Byron Daze (2014).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Craft Graphic (was: Thrift and Thistle)
[Matt Hull]

British free font foundry located in London run by Matt Hull (or Matt Rowan), a graphic designer, web designer and illustrator based in Surrey, UK. Behance link. Creative Market link, where Matt started selling his fonts. Matt's typefaces:

  • Acquaintance is a free rounded hand-drawn display typeface that is best used for headlines.
  • Acta (2019). A weathered label font.
  • Albium (2019). A rounded sans.
  • Aneto (2019). A rounded sans.
  • Baird Sketch Serif (2019).
  • Cavalcade is a free hand-drawn 3d face.
  • Crotched (2012).
  • Delineate is a free handwriting face.
  • Exesa (2019).
  • Flumen (2019).
  • Gaunt is a free uppercase variable-width poster face.
  • Griffonage is a free uppercase chalk/pencil/crayon typeface for a scribble or scrawl style. See also Griffon (2019).
  • Incision (2012). A paper cut out typeface.
  • Jabre (2019). A condensed sans.
  • Ottavia (2019). A simple sans.
  • Meander. Hand-printed.
  • Perplex is a heavy ink script face.
  • Piav (2019). An open single stroke sans.
  • Polpo (2019). Hand-crafted.
  • Quercia (2019). A contemporary slab serif.
  • Sampler (2012). An ornamental caps typeface based upon an original needlework sampler pattern.
  • Selva (2019).
  • Signe (2019). A condensed display typeface.
  • Viscid (2012). A brush face.
  • Winchester (2019). A script typeface.
  • Typefaces from 2013: Franq (poster typeface), Densen, Chroma (a sign painters' font), Mulligan (a hand-drawn Western / Victorian typeface).
  • Typefaces from 2014: Heiter, Viscount (Western typeface).
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Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts
[Alex Moseley]

Wonderful 16-th century (commercial) fonts from this Manchester, UK-based foundry, including:

  • Bastard Secretary
  • Black Cat Letter. A blackletter font used in the Harry Potter films.
  • Chancery Hand
  • Formal Text Hand
  • Hand of the Court of the Common Pleas.
  • Italic Hand
  • Parchment Print & Italic. From the Harry potter films.
  • Rustic Capitals (2005).
  • Secretary Hand
  • Seventeenth Century Print and Italic
  • Uncial
  • Wizard Runes and wizrdings. From the Harry Potter films.
  • Written Square Caps (2005: roman inscriptional caps).
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Cricket+Celery

Moscow-based designer of the playful decorative typeface Vile (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Tarapues

Cali, Colombia-based designer of the decorative caps typefaces Ice Monsters (2016) and Identipo (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Erre

Madrid, Spain-based designer of an ornamental caps typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristofer Jonatan Martínez Torres
[Typo Sash]

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CRR TNN
[Antonio Cerri]

Antonio Cerri (b. 1972, Catania, Italy) freelances in web, graphic and motion design from San Giovanni La Punta, Sicily. He created some typefaces in 2010, such as the futuristic CRR NTN (+Outline).

In 2011, he made Labyrinthus, a multilined all caps family: inspect each glyph and note that there is one point of entrance and one exit. Still in 2011, the decorative family Atlantide and the futuristic all caps typeface Silver Chisel appeared.

In 2012, he designed the techno family Steel.

Typefaces from 2013: Firebird (techno, automotive, speed font family).

In 2014, he made Luna Crescente, a layered multicolor 3d typeface.

Typefaces from 2016: Xandra (script), Xova (a 5-layer techno/logo font), Xova Rounded, Maria Script (heavy signage script).

Typefaces from 2020: Bilya Layered, Xova Layered, Labyrinthus Rounded.

Typefaces from 2021: Astralys (futuristic caps), Labyrinthus Pro (labyrinthine).

View Antonio Cerri's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cruzine
[Peter Olexa]

Peter Olexa (Bratislava, Slovakia, b. 1978) created the (typically retro / vintage) mostly commercial typefaces Slow SVG (2020: a brush font), Hurley (2020), Royal (2020: vintage caps), Wagoon (2020), Snow (2020: a 3d color SVG font), Venomous (2020: spurred, grungy), Behofeel (2020), Chasmophile (2020: formal calligraphy), Angelic (2019: dry brush), Boutique Paris (2019), Umbrella (2019), Cellica Bold (2019), Abigaile (2019), Ragtime (2019: a brush font), Ragtime Marker (2019), Futu (2018), Kiko (2018), Pineapple (2018), Urban (2018: inline), Plasma (2018), Evolve (2018: inline), Hallowen (sic; 2018), Phantom (2018), Palam (2018), Alter (2018), Chrome (2018), Rhino (2018), Giant (2018), Valeria (2018), Ruas (2018), Strife (2018), Giant (2018), Atari (2018), Octopus (2018), Green Light (2018), Atlantis (2018), Maroon (2018), Secure 3D (2018), Cube (2018), Billionaire (2018: art deco), Savana (2018: bejeweled), Castile (2018), Starla (2018), Brodo (2018), Nomos (2018), Brisk (2018, art deco), Tron (2018), Jewel (2018), Forest (2018), Noxa (2018), Ama Deust Inline (2018), Goliath Inline Grunge (2017), Arbatosh (2017: Victorian), Momoco (2017), Heyro Fun (2017), Calliope Fun (2017), Steampunk Gears (2017), Ponds (2017: Victorian), Zahra (2017: inline grunge), Green Light (2017: inline grunge), Jordan Bold Grunge (2017: inline), Metalic 3D (2017), Mecha Grunge (2017), Buffalo (2017), Queen (2017), Lacoste Inline (2017), Ollie (2017, sans family), Nomos (2017), Blue North (2017: spurred), Murray (2017), Atlantis (2017), Montana (2017, outlined), Speedhunter Line (2017), Star Black Inline (2017), Gatsby Inline (2017: art deco), Jibril (2016: spurred), Hallowen (sic) (2016), Kiko (2016), Sailor (2016, tattoo font), Annabel (2016), Zalora (2016), Geno (2016), Marin (2016), Starship (2016), Mozza Shadow (2016), Meravin (2016), Venomous (2016), Amora Inline Grunge (2016), Rocket Shadow (2016), Hydrant (2016), Boston Inline Grunge (2016), Skywalker (2016, art deco), Ocela (2016), Columbus (2016), Raven (2016), Nomura Grunge (2016), Stella (2016), Salada (2016), Vultron (2016), Majestic (2016), Napoleon (2016), Temu (2016), Rodeo (2016, Western style family), Brooklyn (2016), Thunder (2016, Victorian label typeface family), Murray Inline Grunge (2016), Opera (2016, Victoriana), Flamingo Shadow (2016), Blue North Inline Grunge (2016), Montana Bold Outline (2016), Monophone Fancy (2016, retro style), Marin Victorian (2016), Westwood (16-style Western font family), Mozza (2016, +Inline, +Shadow, +Grunge), Speed Hunter (2016), Metro Grunge (2016), Annabel (2016, Victorian), La Forest (2016, blackletter), Star (2016, decorative caps, with outlined and inline versions), Phoenix (2016, a spurred typeface), Gatsby (2016), Bureno (2016, a Victorian display typeface), New York (2016, letterpress emulation), Capella (2016), Almanac Italic Grunge (2015), Anabel (2016, roman caps), Regolith (2015), Chocoleta (2015, hand-printed), Sailor (2015), Turmeric (2015), Ultimatum (2015), Heyro (2015, a rough brush font), Calliope (2015, a rough brush), Glass Beads (2015), Red Paprika (2015), Greenkitchen (2015), Artistico (2015, grungy), Brush Shop (2015), Graceful (2015, irregular script), Brush Wall (2015), Nickainley (2015, connected script), Harloft (2015, a warm brush script), Detective Typewriter (2015), Not Perfect (2015), Good Vibes (2015), Cool Story (2014), Get Coffee (2014), Think Happy (2014), Say Less (2014), Let's Do This (2014), Just Be Cool (2014), Brooklyn Coffee (2014, a spurred poster typeface), Bronx Shoes (2014), Nevermind (2014), RockNRoll (2014), Bluegrass (2014), Memento (2014, spurred Victorian face), Melody (2014) and Grazioso (2014). He runs Dealjumbo.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CybaPeeCreations (or: Typoasis)
[Petra Heidorn]

CybaPee is the nom de plume of Petra Heidorn who lives in Hamburg. She has created many typefaces (listed below) between 1997 and 2005 and has cooperated with several type designers on interesting projects. She is undoubtedly best known for her successful web site Typoasis (discontinued in 2016), where one could download her own creations, and those of her many friends. Petra was also heavily involved in several attempts to revive blackletter fonts, in cooperation with Manfred Klein, Dieter Steffmann, Paul Lloyd and others. She organized several revivals of the typefaces of Rudolf Koch and Ernst Schneidler. She also managed the extensive web presence of Manfred Klein.

In 2016, she allowed me to host her fonts on my site. Download page. Download all her fonts in one zip file.

Her typefaces:

  • AlphanatismConHeads (2001). Stamped style.
  • ArabDancesMediumItalic (2002). An Arabic simulation typeface done with Manfred Klain's assistance.
  • Azimech (1999).
  • Bauernschrift (2004). After a 1911 typeface from Bauersche Giesserei.
  • Bayreuth (2003). A nice scan-version of Bayreuth Fraktur by Ernst Schneidler for C.E. Weber in 1932.
  • Bibelschrift (2004). Codesigned with Manfred Klein, Bibelschrift revives a Fraktur from 1926-1928 used by the Bremer Presse, est. 1911. The Bremer Presse was bombed by the Americans in 1944.
  • BirthdayGreetz (1999).
  • Brahms Gotisch (2005). A blackletter typeface co-designed with Manfred Klein. It is a revival of a 1937 Genzsch&Heyse typeface designed by Heinz Beck.
  • Burte Fraktur (2003). After Christian Heinrich Kleukens for the Mainzer Presse, 1928.
  • CalliBrush (1999).
  • Camouflage (1999). Textured.
  • Chaos-Theorie (2000). A Halloween or vampire font.
  • Charon (1999). An angry and / or scary typeface.
  • Crystopian.
  • CursedKuerbis (1999).
  • Cyclin (2000). An ironwork font.
  • DecoCaps (1999). Ornamental caps.
  • DeutscheDruckschrift (2004). A revival of Heinz König's 1888 blackletter typeface for Genzsch&Heyse.
  • DeutscherSchmuck (2004). Codesigned with Manfred Klein, this ornamental dingbat font is a revival and extension of the Schmuck für Deutsche Druckschrift by Eduard Ege, Genzsch and Heyse, 1922.
  • DiamondDreams (1999). A pearly all caps typeface.
  • Ellipsoideogram (2000). An italic headline sans.
  • Epitough (1999). A sans.
  • Extemplary (1999).
  • Funtastique (1999). An exagerrated, almost bubbkly, art nouveau typeface.
  • Gondoliere (2000). A light-hearted poster typeface.
  • Gotika (2005). After Reiner's 1933 blackletter typeface for Bauer.
  • Greex (1999). A Greek emulation typeface.
  • Hans Sachs Gotisch (2005). Based on a typeface by that name of Albert Auspurg, 1911, Genzsch&Heyse.
  • Hartwig-Schrift (2005). A blackletter typeface that revives Hartwig Poppelbaum's Hartwig Schrift from 1927-1928.
  • Hasenchartbreaker (1999). A handcrafted typeface.
  • Heimat (2005). After Wilhelm Weimar's Heimat from 1917, Genzsch&Heyse.
  • HelvAssim (1999). A naughty take on Helvetica to needle Linotype.
  • Hohenzollern (2004). Based on Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt's blackletter typeface for Bauersche Giesserei, 1902.
  • HollandGotisch (2005). Designed together with with Manfred Klein, this is a revival of the textura typeface Nederduits (aka Fleischmann Gotisch) by Johann Michael Fleischmann, ca. 1750.
  • InkyDinky (1999).
  • IsleOfTheDead (1999). An angular handcrafted typeface reminiscent of the movie titling of Dr. Caligari.
  • Jaecker-Schrift (2005). Revival of the 1912 blackletter typeface by Wilhelm Jaecker for D. Stempel.
  • Kleukens-Fraktur (2004). A Schwabacher based on a design by Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, 1910.
  • KrasniFellows (1999). An old Slavonic emulation typeface.
  • KuehneRevised (2003). A blackletter typeface.
  • LadyIce-Italic, LadyIce-SmallCaps, LadyIce, LadyIceRevisited, LadyIceRevisitedUpper. An organic monoline sans typeface family developed together with Apostrophe.
  • Leibniz-Fraktur (2003). A Schwabacher typeface based on a house font at Genzsch & Heyse, 1912.
  • LeontineLoew. A warm and plump informal typeface.
  • LightBats (1999). Dingbats.
  • Lupinus (1999).
  • Lurzing-Initials (1997). A decorative caps typeface based on a 1908 typeface by Karl Lürzing that depicts naked figures.
  • Manuskript Gotisch (2004). A revival of a 1514 Textura typeface by Wolfgang Hopyl, which was a house typeface at the Bauersche Giesserei in 1899.
  • ModerneSchwabacher (2005). After a ca. 1900 typeface by the Otto Weisert foundry called Moderne Halbfette Schwabacher.
  • MonkeyHouseParty (2001).
  • MothproofScript (1999). A calligraphic typeface. The name is a take on frostmoth, one of Petra Heidorn's early aliases.
  • MuseAsis (2002). Artsy fartsy.
  • Napapiiri (1999).
  • Neudeutsch (2004). After a 1900 original by Otto Hupp for Genzsch&Heyse.
  • NeueFraktur, NeueFrakturExtraBold (2004). Revivals of typefaces by Johannes Wagner Schriftgiesserei in 1927.
  • NinjaLine (2000). An outlined graffiti typeface.
  • Nordland (2005). Based on a typeface by Heinz Beck for Trennert&Sohn, 1935.
  • Oetztype (1999). German expressionist. Named after the Tyrolian Iceman, Oetzi.
  • Oktoberfest (1999).
  • Pachyderm (1999). A nice ultra-fat typeface.
  • PeesCelticItalic, PeesCelticPlain, PeesCelticOutline (1999). Ornamental Celtic caps.
  • Pegypta, Pegyptienne (1999). Hieroglyph-inspired typewriter fonts.
  • PostmoderneFraktur (1999).
  • Rammstein (1999). A tall condensed typeface.
  • ResPublica (2000).
  • RoteFlora (1999). Garffiti style typeface.
  • RoyalGothic (1999). A swashy set of initials.
  • SadLisa. A kitchen tile font designed to support Lisa Jenkins in a copyright battle.
  • Sagittarius (1999). An arrowed typeface.
  • SailingJunco (1999). A stencil typeface.
  • Scalper-Bold, Scalper, ScalperInk (2001). Grunge style.
  • SchmalfetteGotisch (2004). Codesigned with Manfred Klein, this semi-Textura typeface is based on a type of Ernst Schneidler.
  • SchneidlerInitialen (2004). After F.H.E. Schneidler.
  • Schneidler Schwabacher (2004). After F.H.E. Schneidler.
  • SchwabachDeko (2005). This is Verzierte Schwabacher by Carl Kloberg, Leipzig, 1891. In 2005, Petra co-designed a similar revival of Verzierte Schwabacher with James Arboghast, simply called Verzierte Schwabacher. Her SchwabachDeko attempted to be as close as possible to the original.
  • Scoglietto (1999). A text typeface.
  • SerpentisBlack (2004). Digitization of a typeface by E.W. Tieffenbach for Officina Serpentis, 1913. This in turn is based on a Gotico-Antiqua by Peter Schoeffers (Mainz, 1462) which was refined in the late 15th century by Creussner and Koberger.
  • SlimlinerMicro (1999).
  • Smoke-Rasterized-Medium (2001). Degraded and textured.
  • SoftAutumn (1999).
  • Stoertebeker (1999). A mediaeval typeface with a rough outline.
  • SunnySide (2000).
  • Symphonie (2005). A digitization of Imre Reiner's Symphonie from 1938 (renamed Stradivarius in 1945).
  • TaraType (1999). A lapidary typeface named after Petra's friend, Sabine Taranowski.
  • Teutonia (2004). Based on a typeface by Roos & Junge, ca. 1900.
  • TipTop (2004). Based on a typeface from Schriftgiesserei Julius Klinkhardt, Leipzig, ca. 1900. Virtually identical to Teutonia.
  • ToolTime (1999). Dingbats.
  • TypesourceFanclub (2001). A heavy semi-slab serif.
  • Urdeutsch (2004). A rounded blackletter typeface based on Urdeutsch (1924-1925, Adolf Heimberg for Genzsch&Heyse).
  • Vogeler Caps (2002). Based on Heinrich Vogeler's decorative blackletter caps typeface Jugendstil Initialen (1905).
  • Weiss-Gotisch (2004). A revival of E.R. Weiss's typeface by that name, published in 1936 at the Bauersche Giesserei.
  • WelcomeY2K (2000). A casual typeface.
  • XmasTerpiece, XmasTerpieceSwashes (2001). A Fraktur font based on Rhapsodie by Ilse Schuele.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cynthia Niam

Cynhia Niam (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) created the decorative caps typeface DJC in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cynthia Yin

New York City-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Clockwork Alphabet (2014) and of Mirrors (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyril Bays

Cyril Bays (Zekiko) is a graphic designer in the Vevey-Lausanne-Genève area of Switzerland. He designed a vector format decorative caps typeface in 2016 that mimics the caps used in the new Larousse Illustré. The letters were designed by A. Bosson. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Da Bin Lee

Busan, Korea-based designer of the decorative typeface Alphonse Mucha (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dado Queiroz

Brazilian designer (b. 1980, Curitiba) of the gorgeous 19th century-style decorative caps typefaces Marisco (Deluxe and Filled) (2007, Estudio Crop). He also made Tritura (2009, EstudioCrop: a grunge textura face), and Riff (2009, estudioCrop), a slab serif face. Dado Queiroz graduated in Graphic Design in 2003. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dagmar Veraksits

Designer whose illuminated caps will soon be developed in cooperation with David Kettlewell. Half-Estonian, half-White Russian designer, living in Sweden. She draws illuminated caps for David Kettlewell. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dahra Mia Kirchert

Graphic designer and illustrator in Aarhus, Denmark, who created the rough handcrafted typeface Into The Wild (2015), which was inspired by the movie. She also designed the anatomical Boney Letters (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dakota Brown

Designer with Rick Valicenti at Thirstype of Twiggies (2002), a free set of EPS-format caps made from twigs. He also made the techno font Negatron with Valicenti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damiano Stingone

Catania-based creator of the ornamental caps alphabets Fattidarte Pills (2012) and Ich Bin Ein Berliner (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damien Gautier
[Bureau 205 (was: Trafik)]

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Damien Hugon

Paris-based designer of the display typeface Diriol (2019) and the decorative caps typeface Bestiaire Chimérique Antique (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Reynolds
[TypeOff]

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Dan X. Solo
[Solotype]

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Dan X. Solo: Digitizations by Dick Pape
[Dick Pape]

Dick Pape based the following digitizations (2008-2010) of blackletter, art deco, Celtic, initial caps, and other ornamental typefaces shown by Dan X. Solo in his Dover books: DXSAlphaMidnight, DXSAlphaTwilight, DXSBeansBold, DXSBlackline (prismatic, art deco), DXSBoboBold, DXSBrusselsInitials, DXSBuckinghamInitials, DXSBust, DXSCharger, DXSCheckmate, DXSCorral, DXSDevon, DXSDevonian, DXSDudleyPNarrow, DXSFatCat, DXSFestival, DXSFrankfortInitials, DXSFuturaInline, DXSGrooviestGothic, DXSGuildhall, DXSHessNeobold, DXSHotline, DXSHuntingtonInitials, DXSJoyceBlack, DXSKupferInitials, DXSLampoon, DXSLeipzigInitials, DXSLeister, DXSLowenbrau, DXSMonogramStencil, DXSMonumentBold, DXSNottinghamInitials, DXSOrbit, DXSOttoHuppInitials, DXSPickfair, DXSPolly, DXSPotsdamInitials, DXSPrismaniaC, DXSPrismaniaP, DXSQuote, DXSRegalBlack, DXSRhythmBold, DXSRickyTick, DXSRoco (art deco), DXSSansSouci, DXSShadyDeal, DXSSheetSteel, DXSSilverShadowBlack, DXSStuttgartInitials, DXSTester, DXSThedaBara (counterless geometric art deco), DXSTulo, DXSTuxedo, DXSUrban (psychedelic), DXSVeronica, DXSWestmorland, DXSWienText, DXSYagiBold.bmp DXSYagiDouble, DXSYorkshireInitials, DXSZany, DXSZephyr.

Images: DXSBlackline, DXSBust, DXSDudleyPNarrow, DXSGrooviestGothic, DXSJoyceBlack, DXSMonogramStencil, DXSPrismania'P', DXSRickyTick, DXSRoco, DXSSheetSteel, DXSTulo, DXSUrban, DXSYagiDouble, DXS Alpha Twilight, DXS Brussels Initials, DXS Kupfer Initials, DXS Lowenbrau, DXS Otto Hupp Initials, DXS Theda Bara, DXS Urban. Download page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dana Alhasan

During her graphic design studies in Dubai, UAE, Dana Alhasan created the steampunk-inspired Latin / Arabic typeface Tick Tock (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dana Pride

In 2018, Dana Pride (Yakima, WA) published a collaborative all caps typeface created via Adobe Live. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dana Robinson

Illustrator in Tallahassee, FL., who made an ornamental caps typeface called A is for Apple (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danee She

Moscow-based designer of the decorative floral caps typeface Ghzel (2016), Daneehand (2017), Patch (2017: sketched, hatched), Pole Cho (2020: handwriting), and Benoti Grunge (2020: brush font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dani Foster Herring

From Hanna, WY, the designer of the free fonts Snowy Caps, the bird nest dingbat font ForTheBirds, VictorianAngels (elaborate caps), Sleigh Ride (1999), WeGiveThanks (Thanksgiving bats), Fisher's Women, Pika Pika, Winter Wonderland, Harbour Lights, Christmas Cheer (1999), Evergreen (1999, various Xmas trees), TeaTime (1999), DeannasIvyCaps (1999), and PikaPika (1999).

Dafont link. Another Dafont link. Obsolete link to Dabi's Delusions. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dani Rubio Arauna

Graphic designer in Barcelona since 2004. Creator of the wood type-inspired typeface Madera (2014) and of the ornamental caps typeface Metamorfosis (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Black

Dann Black (Indonesia) created the ornamental typeface Woody (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Bland

Illustrator and designer in Shipley, UK, who created a few decorative caps typefaces in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel D. Kim

Vancouver, BC-based designer of a couple of drop cap alphabets (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Felipe

Union City, NJ-based creator of the multilined caps typeface Nu Alpha (2012) and the experimental multiline typeface November (2012). He moved to Orlando, FL, to study at Full Sail University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Fidalgo

Santarem, Portugal-based designer of the display typefaces Iron (2015, hipster style), Betrayal (2015, rough brush), Frederick (2015, a layered shadow font), Warbler (2015, a bold display sans), and Gold Fish (2013). He also drew an illustrative set of initials called Fanzine (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Fleming

Milwaukee-based painter and illustrator, who created a mob-themed alphabet, Mob War (2010), with all glyphs based on Redford BV. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Hopfer

German artist (1470-1536) who created Alphabet of Capital Roman letters with metaphorical ornaments, an excessively ornamented alphabet. See here. Digitizations of his work include:

Scans of his orginal work: German Capitals (1549). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Janssen
[Büro für Gestaltung Janssen]

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Daniel Montero Galan

Madrid-based illustrator. Designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Pelavin

American type designer, born in Detroit, who lives in New York City. His early typefaces include

  • ITC Kulukundis (1997).
  • ITC Anna (1991). Pelavin's first typeface. The Cyrillic version of ITC Anna was done by Svetlana Yermolayeva, Vladimir Yefimov and Alexander Tarbeev in 1993. There is also a (rather poor) derived font from 1993 by Thomas E. Harvey called Tall Deco.
  • Canton Market (1995). An oriental simulation font.
  • Test (1996).
  • The geometric patter fonts Sindbad, Circles, Triangles, and Squares.

Pelavin was Chairman of the Type Directors Club, 2002-2003.

In 2009, he designed the 1940s art deco face Bokar.

In 2010, he created Marquue Faceted and Marquee Solid (which can be layered to make a 3d effect), China Market (oriental simulation), Setsuko, an oriental simulation face, Rilke (an adaptation of the lettering used by Gustav Klimt on his poster for the 1st Vienna Secession exhibition in 1898 and is named for Klimt's contemporary the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: caps only), Tribeca Script, Monograph (as if written with a Speedball B pen), Book Country (crude octagonal folksy face), Bing (art nouveau), HiFi (retro script), Twentieth Century (an art deco headline sans), and Safety (1930s style).

In 2011, he added Tiki (a pair of Hawaiian typefaces), Salty Dog.

In 2012, he created the monoline uprigt connected script typeface Mimosa, which was inspired by the packaging for Moulinard Jeune, a line of French toiletries from the 1920s.

Typefaces from 2013: Forgia (Pelavin writes: Forgia is a result of my fascination with the beauty I find in utilitarian industrial objects like the riveted stanchions in New York subway stations, decorative ironwork in Grand Central terminal and the eloquent construction details of the urban infrastructure of the 19th and early 20th century.) Perhaps the steampunk typeface Rivets (2016) is an outgrowth of Forgia.

Typefaces from 2016: Oscar (tri-lined art deco typeface that pays trbute to the Acadmy Awards), Plot (brushed or lined wood style), Camp (a wooden log typeface), Rosa (art deco).

Typefaces from 2017: Neroli (2017, formal art deco), Taos (2017, a cactus font).

Typefaces from 2018: Trilight (trilined typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: Noir et Blanc (a deco poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2020: Molly Louie (a patterned decorative caps typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Bedazzle (a movie marquee font), Bankster (a spurred bank note or financial document font with various hatched and shadow styles).

Typefaces from 2022: Mr Porter (a robust monolinear rounded slab serif rooted in 17th century England: rich and full-flavored with notes of coffee, licorice and molasses). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Redfern

Blue G or Blue Gangsta is an all-caps typeface created by Daniel Redfern (Virginia) in 2012. It consists of dice assembled in the shape of letters. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Reuber

Daniel Reuber (Cologne, Germany) used Impact to design the ornamental caps font Goldsun (2012). His experimental water-inspired typeface H2O (2012) is simply spectacular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel T. Ames

American penman. Author of Compendium of Practical and Ornamental Penmanship (New York, ca. 1883) and Ames' Guide to Self-Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1884). The latter book contains some explicit alphabets: Roman, Italic Roman, Gothic, German text, Old English, Church Text, Medieval, Egyptian, German Round Hand, Marking and Rustic (elaborate caps). One of the initial caps in that text led Robert Fauver to create the free font Dirty Ames (2006).

In 1890, Ames wrote Ames' Book of Flourishes.

Handdrawn portrait of Ames found in "Real Pen Work" (1881, Knowles and Maxim). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Triendl

Vienna, Austria-based designer. In 2019, Birgit Palma and Daniel Triendl co-designed the colorful textured caps typeface Kenya. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Viberg
[Dawnland]

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Daniela Acevedo

During her studies at Flagler College, and exactly obn the day hurricane Irma hit Florida in 2017, Orlando, FL-based Daniela Acevedo designed the decorative caps typeface Interlace. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniele Catalanotto

Graphic designer in Sierre and Lausanne (Switzerland). During his studies at ECAL (Lausanne), he made a cinematographic signage typeface called Geraldine (2011, named after Geraldine Page). Baskervilaine (2013) is a tweaked version of Baskerville. Severine (2013) is an ornamental caps typeface. Le Moche (2012) is a grotesk typeface. Sugarnir (2013) is a rune font.

In 2014, he designed the sans typeface Fryda (free beta version).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniella

Artist in Bethesda, MD, who designed the decorative alphabet Chains (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniella Patiño Siles

Graphic designer in Lima, Peru, who created the decorative caps typeface Puke Rainbow (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danii Baker

Toronto-based designer of the ornamental unicase typeface Flash (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daria Nikolaeva

Yekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic cartoon typeface Decorative (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darina Gorbacheva

Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of a colorful all caps Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darren Donahue

San Diego-based designer of the decorative initial caps typeface Reaper (2014, based on Blackmoor). This typeface was done for an assignment at The Art Institute of California-San Diego. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daryl Lee

Art director in Singapore, who created the flowery typeface Fleur (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dasha Skribchenko

Illustrator and designer in Kiev. In 2012, she created a wonderful poster typeface called Balloon, in which she plays on the widths of the characters. In 2013, several ornamental caps typefaces followed.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Fabik

From Portland, OR, Dave Fabik's free truetype fonts. Includes fonts such as Slipstream, Willow (1995, Rennie Mackintosh style lettering), DungeonBlocksFilled (1995), GrekoDeco (1992, based on El Greco Adornado by Fundicion Richard Gans), SableBrush, RoughBrush, Zoom, Quainte, DeRoos Caps (Lombardic).

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

Dave Hänggi

Berlin, Germany-based designer of Loqi (2016, an organic circle-based monoline sans custom-designed for a brand of bags), Moe (2015, decorative hipster caps), Satellites (2014, outlined geometric font inspired by the logo of DLR---the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft und Raumfahrt), Turna Round (2014, a roundish display alphabet), and Living Rooms (2014, an interlocking square-shaped blocky alphabet inspired by floor tiling). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Lawrence
[California Type Foundry (21st century)]

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Dave Towers

British graphic designer. Towers Type (2012) is an ornamental typeface inspired by the stained glass windows of the Saint-Rémy Church in Baccarat, France. He also made Creative Circle Headline Font (2012), and Shot (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Armstrong

Based in the north west of England, David Armstrong designed the dot matrix all caps typeface Fernando (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Charles Randolph Rakowski

Type designer and composer, born in St. Albans, VT, in 1958. He was one of the early free/shareware type designers, well-known for creating revivals of 19th century typefaces. He was the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, and has previously taught at Harvard University, Columbia University, and Stanford University.

List of Rakowski's fonts: 3-DWedgie, Aarcover, AdineKirnberg-Script, Ann-Stone, Beachman, Beffle (1991, after Fry's Ornamented No. 2 from Stephenson Blake), Bizarro, BrailleFont, BunnyEars, ChristensenCaps, Crackling, DaBigKeyCaps, DavysCrappyWriting, DavysDingbats, DavysKeyCaps, DavysNewOther, DavysOtherDingbats, DavysRibbons, DeBalme Initials, DieterCaps, Diner-Fatt, Diner-Obese, Diner-Regular, Diner-Skinny, Dobkin-Script, Dragonwick, Dubiel (1991), Dupuy-Light, DupuyBALloon, Eileen, EileenCaps, EileensMediumZodiac, Elizabeth-Ann, Elzevier, EraserDust, Firecat, Gallaudet (a sign language font), Garton (1993), Gessele-Script, GriffinOne, Harting (an old typewriter font), Headhunter, Holtzschue, Horst, Ian-Bent, Jeff-Nichols, Jumble, Kinigstein, Konanur, KoshgarianLight, Kramer, Lassus (1993), LeeCaps, Lemiesz (a free version of Publicity Gothic, 1916), Lilith-Heavy, Lilith-Initals, Lilith-Light, Lintsec, Logger, LowerEastSide, McGarey-Fractured, Multiform, Nauert, NixonInChina (oriental simulation), ParisMetro, Pixie, Pointage, Polo, Rechtman-Script, ReliefDeco, ReliefInReverse, Reynolds, Rockmaker, Rothman [note: poster by Lauren Buroker], Rounded, Rudelsberg (a Munch Jugendstil style font), Salter, Shotling, Showboat, Shrapnel, Starburst, TejaratchiCaps, TenderleafCaps, ToneAndDebs, Tribeca, Uechi, UpperEastSide (1990), UpperWestSide (lettering from the New Yorker magazine), VarahCaps, Wedgie, Wharmby, WhatA-Relief, Will-Harris, Zaleski, and Zallman-Caps.

Some downloads: Uechi, Rothman, Tejaratchi, Eileen Caps and Elzevier Caps, Paris Metro, Davy's Dingbats (see also here).

With Klaus Herrmann, of Intecsas in Düsseldorf, he started updating his fonts from 1992-1999. Those fonts can be bought at Will-Harris.

Here is an interview with David.

Download 120 of his fonts here.

And finally, a text file with the names of most of his fonts.

Mark Johansson explains the history of Rakowski's fonts. Dafont link. MyFonts page. Abstract Fonts link. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Clegg
[The 1477 Font Foundry]

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David Espinosa

Designer and art director in Bogotá, Colombia. His typeface Desf (2011) is completely based on a grid and compass construction. It is a funky display typeface designed for advertisements or labels.

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David Fernando Espinosa Martínez
[Type Sailor]

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David Fleming Nalle
[Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)]

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David Galasse

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian Portuguese creator from Portugal, of Dora (2012, calligraphic caps). He also made a series of unnamed display typefaces in paperfold, ocragonal and gridded styles.

In 2013, he made Joy, a bespok typeface for Brazilian furniture maker Artesian.

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David Harris

British lettering artist based in Exeter who specializes in the medieval versal cadel (or cadeau) letter. He created these typefaces:

  • Alexei Copperplate (1982, Letraset). A copperplate calligraphic script.
  • Chromium One (1983, Letraset, and later ITC). A decorative neon-light all caps typeface.
  • Becka Script (1985, ITC).
  • Julia Script (1983, psychedelic).

Author of The Art of Calligraphy (Dorling Kindersley), Calligraphy: Inspiration, Innovation, Communication (Anaya), and The Calligrapher's Bible (A&C Black).

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

David J. Seaman

Designer of a decorative all caps typeface in 1901. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Kettlewell
[New Renaissance Fonts (was: New Fontografia, or: David's Fontografia 2006)]

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David Koehne
[PaleAle's Fonts]

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David Martin
[David Pustansky (was: 24hourbauer.co.uk)]

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David Pustansky (was: 24hourbauer.co.uk)
[David Martin]

David Pustansky (b. 1985) is a UK-based type designer who was active in 2005-2006, when he operated as David Martin and his web site was called 24hourbauer.co.uk. He published many free fonts, but then became inactive ca. 2007. In 2014, he resurrected as David Pustansky.

Creator of the picture-derived typefaces Eye Spy (2006), Batman The Dark Knight (2006, scanbats), Simpsons Mmmm...Font (2006), Pokemon Pixels (2006), Silent Hill Nightmares (2006), Mario and Luigi (2006), Final Fantasy Elements (2006), Lara Croft Tombraider (2006), Superman Last Son of Krypton (2005), The Ultimate Lance Hoyt font (2005), Harry Potter and the Dingbats (2005), TNA Bound for Glory (2005), tna wrestling (2005), Doctor Who 2006 (2005), Futurama Dingbats (2005), Red Dwarf Characters (2005), Evil Characters (2005), and 24hourbauer (2005, scanbats), Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (2007), Split Splat Splodge (2006, ink slpatter), Splish Splash Splosh (commercial), TNA Lockdown (2007), Splis (2007), Donkey Kong World (2006), SonicMegaFont (2006), Doodlebears (2006), Tetris Blocks (2006), twentyfour, WWE, residentevilcharacters, wrestlinglogos.

In 2014, he created Garfield Hates Mondays Loves Fonts (scanbats), the retro typeface Shakespeare First Folio (after the lettering in the 1623 collection of Shakespeare's plays), Brush Stroke of Genius, Wilson (after the baseball in the movie), Eye Am Confused Optical Illusions, Game Logos, Retro Hasbro WWF Figures, Doom and Gloom, Nato Phonetic Alphabet, Shakespeare To Be Or Not To Be (ornamental caps), Super Street Fighter Hyper Fonting (scanbats)m), An Apple A Day Fruit Font, Secret Diary (hand-printed), Balls Balls and more Balls (scanbats), Legend of Zelda TriFont (scanbats), Crushed Candy (scanbats), A Work of Art (scanbats), Console Wars Console Yourself, Futurama All Hail the Hypnotoad, Family Guy Giggity (cartoon character font), and American Dad Good Morning USA (cartoon dingbats).

In 2018, he designed the shaky handcrafted Jack The Ripper Dear Boss (inspired by the original "Dear Boss" letter sent to the police at Scotland Yard by Jack the Ripper). In 2019, he added the caricature font Guess Who at the scanbat typeface Metal Gear Solid The Phantom Font.

Abstract Fonts link. Home page of David Pustansky. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Rood
[Cottage Graphics]

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David Schupbach

Lausanne, Switzerland-based designer. Various parts of a Swiss army tank influenced the design of the decorative caps typeface Tank Type designed by David Schupbach in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Zobel

Baltimore, MD-based senior creative director at High5design. He drew some illustrated caps alphabets in 2012 such as Crazy World Alphabet, and Gothic Inspired Type (more a painting than a set of letters). In 2018, he published the hairline sans typeface Zobel Thin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Davion Coleman

Saint Louis, MO-based designer of the ornamental textured caps typeface Triland Slab (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dawnland
[Daniel Viberg]

Daniel Viberg (Dawnland, est. 1999) is a Swedish designer, b. 1976, Nyköping. His early fonts could be downloaded at Dafont. His later fonts can be bought via MyFonts. In general, Dawnland Fonts are for headlines, posters for event graphics and music/media/game packaging.

He created the Chaos font series, which comprises Paradox (1999, trembling hand face; +Paradox X, 2011, +Paradox Runa, 2011), Lamenta (1999, scratchy face), Lamenta X (2011), Lilith (2000, initials made with human figures), Nihil (2011, grungy) and Dissonus (2004, a nihilist grunge typeface inspired by the type treatments of Dave McKean as well as the Manson Anti Christ Superstar-artwork).

Other typefaces include Victualia (brushy), Aeterna (2011, grunge), Haakke (2011, a children's hand), Awe (hand-printed), Victualia X (2011, a hand-drawn brush font), Chaos 1996 (2011, pen illustrations), Massiva GrotesQ (2012), Lore (2012, blackletter), Nokturnia, Nekromantea, Pandemonia, Meep (2013), Blck Phnx (2013, a lava lamp font), Auntie Lee (2013, hand-printed), Uncle Lee (2013, hand-printed), Ponderous (2013, a poster titling face), Cirque De La Lune (2013, poster lettering), Dulcet (2014, vintage script), Left Hand path (2015, hand-printed), Lost + Forlorn (2017, a punk/horror typeface), Wounds (2018: a scribbly horror font), Murk (2020: an all caps typeface with 26 ghastly creatures).

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

De Biasse & Seminara Architects

Martinsville, NJ-based architectural studio. Their architectural alphabet from 2011 is based on floor plance by J.D. Steingruber. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deanna McGeown

Vintage seed packaging from the 19th century inspired Deanna McGeown in the design of a Victorian ornamental caps typeface in 2012. Deanna was a student in Queens, New York, at the time of that design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Debbie Montique
[Moonlight Designs]

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Deborah Ho

Los Angeles-based designer of Funderful (2013), a colorful hand-painted all caps alphabet (2013).

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Decade Type foundry
[Agung Maskund]

Decade Type foundry (Bandung, Indonesia, est. 2008) is run by Agung Maskund (Agung Gumilang Sugih), b. 1987, Bandung. It specializes in Victorian and vintage type. Creator of Authentic Labels (2013), New Black (2012, a metal band typeface) and Chicano Brush (2012, graffiti face). Note: It is possible that Chicano Brush was made by Gilang Purnama.

In 2013, they published Reckless (by Gilang Purnama: a retro car font), Fabulous Drop Cap (with a free demo font), Los Santos (graffiti style), Logotype Frenzy (brushy signage face), Insurance Maps (inspired by the Sanborn Map Company's 1909 insurance map catalog), Basingstoke (a spurred display typeface by Gilang Purnama Jaya), Hustlers Rough (Western Tuscan signage font), Lakester (another Tuscan signage font with layering), and Griba (alchemic typeface).

Another great typeface project is the National Currency Font (2013), which features spurs and an engraved look. Stay Gold Script (2013) is a vintage signage typeface. Aesthetique (2013) is a Victorian ornamental Tuscan design.

Typefaces from 2014: Stanwood (Victorian), Herschel.

Typefaces from 2015: Tervia (spurred vintage typeface), Edmond (vintage typeface), Pretty Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Versica (by Irma Asharini and Agung Gumilang Sugih).

Typefaces from 2020: Voska (a bold display serif family), Breland (a titling typeface, and decorative borders and ornaments by Agung Gumilang Sugih and Irma Asharini).

Cofounder of Image Type with Ihsan K. Lazuardi and Gilang Purnama.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Fontspace link. Behance link for Agung Maskund. Another Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Decorated Initials
[Stephen Coles]

Stephen Coles's list of decorated initials:

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Decorative Caps&Leo's Icon Archive

Decorative caps archive (gifs!), and some original or modified caps by Leo Doerr: Freehand Purple, Gold Blade, Shining Flemish, Golden Zallman, Blue Carrick, Crazy, Ice, Psychedelic, Red Christensen, Green Becker. All gifs of course. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Delve Fonts (was: Delve Media Arts)
[Delve Withrington]

Delve Withrington (Alameda, CA; b. 1970, Asheville, NC) studied at Savannah College of Art and Design, designed signage, print projects and web pages in addition to designing custom typefaces, worked for Fontshop, and in 2004, joined the type team at Agfa Monotype, which morphed into Monotype Imaging, Redwood City, CA. From Asheville, NC, he moved around and ended up in San Francisco. In 1996, he founded Delve Fonts in Berkeley, CA (in fact, Delve Media Arts, and later renamed Delve Fonts). He has collected a virtually complete list of books on typography. Author index. MyFonts link. Designer of these typefaces:

  • Beleren (2015). A custom typeface for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering (Hasbro).
  • Blasphemy Initials: a free (and also commercial...) spooky font.
  • Blot Test (1999): a dingbat font inspired by the work of noted German psychologist Hermann Rorschach [1885-1922].
  • Cody (1999): an informal comic book face.
  • Continuo (1996): an all caps bilined outline face.
  • Cortina (2011). A futuristic family by Joachim Müller-Lancé.
  • Delve Hand (1996-2003).
  • Eucalyptus Regular.
  • Eulipia (1997-2003): organic.
  • Helfa (2011). Delve writes: Readability is baked in with a generous x-height, fine proportions that have a medium height to width ratio, and reasonable contrast in stroke weight variation.
  • Filmotype Washington (for Font Diner). Designer unidentified.
  • Muskeg. A combination of German expressionism and brush styles.
  • Oktal Mono (2012, a rounded octagonal modular typeface by Joachim Müller-Lancé and Erik Adigard of MAD studio in Sausalito).
  • Peso (1999): an octagonal family inspired by a parking sign discovered in Guanajuato, Mexico.
  • Quara (2009): a techno sans.
  • Smith & Nephew (2003) and Smith & Nephew Cyrillic (2015), rounded sans typefaces in the style of VAG Rounded.
  • Tilden Sans (2004-2009): low contrast, large x-height.
  • Tome Sans (2020). A 10-weight sans superfamily, with a variable font option.
  • Uppercut Angle (2011). A signage typeface by Joachim Müller-Lancé. It was originally developed for the Krav Maga training center of San Francisco.
  • Ysobel (2009; winner of an award at TDC2 2010). Delve co-designed the newspaper type family Ysobel (Monotype) with type designers Robin Nicholas, head of type design at Monotype, and Alice Savoie (Frenchtype, Monotype). The sales pitch: According to Nicholas, the idea for the Ysobel typefaces started when he was asked to create a custom, updated version of the classic Century Schoolbook typeface, which was designed to be an extremely readable typeface - one that made its appearance in school textbooks beginning in the early 1900s. See also Ysobel eText Pro (2013).
His Art work often involves type. Bitstream's Type Odyssey 2 (2002) has Continuo, Blot Test, Peso, Peso Negative. In 2009, Steven Skaggs designed Rieven Uncial and Rieven Italic at Delve Fonts. Pic.

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Delve Withrington
[Delve Fonts (was: Delve Media Arts)]

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DEMO Company
[Mak Sui Shing]

Mak Sui Shing (Hong Kong) created these freeware dingbat fonts in 2001-2002: CNg001, CNg002, CNg003, CNg004, CNg005, CNg009, ChopStick, DEMObeard, DEMObig5, DEMOcoins, DEMOflower, DEMOhorse, DEMOlantern, DEMOmusic, DEMOrose, DEMOstamp, DEMOsword, DEMOtree, DEMOwatch, DemoBun, DemoFood-2001, DemoXmas, cn12. Most of these fonts have Chinese symbols. He is working on Hand Signs, Doll Houses, Letter Flags and AZFonts (caps with embedded flowers). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deni Dessastra
[The Sastra]

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Denis A. Serikov
[OT Lab]

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Denis Disia

Moscow-based designer of the wonderful Theropoda dinosaur-themed decorative alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Mas

Moscow-based designer (with Anton Shelko) of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Entertaining Mechanics (2014). He also made the potato print Cyrillic font Zhola (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denise Lara Kamille K. Bentulan

Digital artist from Quezon City, The Philippines, b. 1991. Aka Douxiegirl. Creator of the mostly handcrafted fonts Laser Metal (2015), Honeytone (2015), Aloha Sunshine (2015, curly script), Moon Flower (2013), Denne Shuffle Euro Hollow (2013), Killed Vespertine (2013, decorative caps), Esto Bueno (2013), Luna Kronik (2013), Alright Scrapbooky (2013), Bacon Kingdom (2012), Brain Flower (2012), Autumn (2012), Springtime (2012), Soymilk (2012), Wintermelon (2012), Matryoshka (2011, 3d face), Monovirus (2011, caps only), Baby Doll (2011, hand-printed), Denne Freakshow (2011, 3d hand-printed), Chemistry (2010), Dominique (2010), All Hail Julia (2010), Denne Etude (2010), Denne Gnossienne (2010), Denne Shuffle (2010, 3d and hand-printed), DenneAtTheTeaParty (2010), DenneMilkTea (2010, all caps, hand-printed), Denne Kitten Heels (2010), Denne Angel (2010), Denne Fuchoor (2009), Denne Sketchy (2009), Denne's aliens (2009), Denne Schoolgirl (2009), Denne's Chokipi (2009), Pretty Shit (2009, dingbats), Denne's Summer (2009), Denne's Pen (2009), Crown Doodle (2009), DENNECURSIVE (2009), DENNELEFT-HAND (2009), Denne-Delica (2009), DenneMarker (2009), DennePuffy-Hearts (2008, marker pen), DenneThreedee (2008, marker pen), Denne's Aliens (2009), and Denne'sOldHandwriting (2009), 2006 (based on the Welcome font by Whitestone which was used in the Fifa World Cup in 2006).

Home page. Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Devian tart link. Behance link. Tumblr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Morgan

Designer the elongated fat typeface Bessemer (1936, Steven Shanks). The Alexander Wilson foundry had a similar typeface in 1843. Compare also with Slimblack. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Ortiz-Lopez

Prolific NY-based designer (born in East Los Angeles) who specializes in faithful revivals of old masters and logotype, in Latin and Hebrew. He made over 500 fonts including. He is also a translator and illuminator of Biblical period Hebrew and Aramaic. His clients include The Vatican (Pope John Paul II's Holocaust commemerative CD) and Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. His specialties are translations worded in the language and style of the period in which the Biblical text was composed. His translation and enumeration of kabbalistic writings, otherwise known as Hebrew Mysticism and numerology, demonstrate the mathematical base of Biblical miracles.

MyFonts wrote this analysis of his work: Dennis Ortiz-Lopez is a hugely talented New York type designer. lettering artist&typographer, with around 600 typefaces to his credit. Typographic quality in the magazine market doesn't get much better than Rolling Stone magazine---well, guess who was their typographer (as well as InStyle, Sports Illustrated, People, etc.). Dennis made a successful transition to the digital era around 1989, keeping up his prodigious output. Dennis is also known by his Hebrew name, Siynn bar-Diyonn. Dennis follows the footsteps of great American type designers such as Morris Fuller Benton and Herb Lubalin. And he likes contrasts, too: his typefaces are very narrow or very wide, very thin or very fat. If you love Franklin Gothic but always felt like it's not fat and wide enough. try [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Sopczynski

[T-26] designer of CarnavaleDelight (1997), a great party font with useful Western style caps.

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Derya Temiz

Istanbul, Turkey-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design 23
[Jennifer DeAngelis]

Design23 is a multi-disciplinary design studio in Morristown, New Jersey, started ca. 2012 by Jennifer de Angelis Gunn.

Creations from 2012: Wed Dings, Wed Dings City, the white on black tiled typeface Inthabox, Esther (art deco typeface), Nagi Tanka Regular (poster face).

Creations in 2013: Harper (a sketched all caps face), Gunn (a beveled typeface), Homsley (a Tuscan typeface).

Typefaces from 2014-2017: Wintery Mix (dingbats), Olive, Earhart, Matter. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Design Station
[Evgeny Bulash]

Evgeny Bulash (Design Station), is a Russian designer, b. 1978, who lives in Stavropol. He created the ornamental caps typefaces UniLeaf-Italic, Ornatix and Ornatique in 2009. He also did Bladeline (2009), Republic (2009) and Unileaf (2009). Another URL. Home page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Destiny's Lady

Original dingbat truetype fonts by Destiny's Lady in 1998-1999: DLDesigns3, DLDesignsFour, DLDesignsTwo, DLSantaCaps, DLBirdz (1999), DLTreeCaps, DestinysBorderDings, DestinysButterflyDingbats, DestinysCherubsDing, DestinysDecorativeDings, DestinysDesigns, DestinysEasterDings, DestinysFancys, DestinysFloralDings, DestinysFlowers, DestinysGingerbreadDings, DestinysLittleHouses, DestinysMusicDings, DestinysNewYearsDings, DestinysTeddbearDingsTwo, DestinysTeddyDingsOne, DestinysTeddybearDingsThree, DLFillegreeCaps, Destiny's Design Dings (6 fonts), Framers, Buttons, Interfaces.

Has gone partially commercial with these fonts: Destiny's Interfaces (3 fonts), Destiny's Framers (2 fonts), Destiny's Buttons.

Her original site disappeared. Dafont keeps some of the fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

deTheme
[Mega Ardelia]

Indonesian font outfit, offering mostly script fonts designed by Mega Ardelia. Their typefaces as of 2020: Aglio Olio (a monoline script by Mega Ardelia), Aventurine (a signature script), Beezy Bee, Brownsville, Dinotopia, Emilio (an all caps poster typeface by Mega Ardelia), Evangeline, Fadorable, Feeling Groovy, Gedrik, Hamberger, Hanooman (a signature script), Hungry Charlie, Jamaika (by Mega Ardelia), Lockport (by Mega Ardelia), Maisonette, Monstarr, Nuthsell, Ozwald, Panthera, Pichola, Qumalu (a script typeface by Mega Ardelia), Reyhana, Rockstar, RushFord, Shafiya, Sienna, Soetta Laga, Sun Kissed, Sweet Delight, Sweetmango, Teemika, Toraja (patterned, by Mega Ardelia), Tropica, Woodland. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Devani Govender

During her stdies in Durban, South Africa, Devani Govender designed the decorative caps typeface Sardine Run (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Devin Doty

During his studies, Devin Doty (Santa Monica, CA) created the all caps typeface Scrap Metal Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Corredin

Graphic designer and lettering artist in Brooklyn, NY. In 2016, she designed the Victorian era ornamental typeface Bushwick Brooklyn, and drew a decorative all caps typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Dueñas

Guadalajara, Mexico-based designer of a set of decorative caps simple called El Abece (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Hlevnjak

Zagreb, Croatia-based designer of the vector fonts Animal Typography (2016), Drop Cap (2016, colorful flower-themed initials) and Blurred (2016).

In 2017, she designed Spring Alphabet and Modern Tribe. Behance link. Creative Market link. Her company is called Polar Vectors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: Bizarre & Ornamental Alphabets]

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Dick Pape
[Speedball Text Book]

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Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: February 2013]

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Dick Pape
[Fonto Fonts (or: Fontologist)]

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Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: British Museum Festival Books Archives]

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Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: Dover Pictorial Series]

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Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: University of South Florida Decorative Letters]

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Dick Pape
[Dan X. Solo: Digitizations by Dick Pape]

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

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Dick Pape
[Intellecta Design]

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Dick Pape
[Clarence Pearson Hornung]

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Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: Initials]

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Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: ornamental typefaces]

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Dick Pape

Dick Pape (Dallas, TX) is digitizing the Dan Solo books one by one, and has digitized many other sources of alphabets and images. He started making fonts ca. 2007. In 2009, he was doing Solo's art deco tome. He is on several font-making forums such as High Logic, and is interested in revivals. "Toto" writes: Dick Pape made hundreds of fonts and here are the links to most of his fonts. This list has not been updated and later additions are found in Rapidshare folders. I've missed some and some links had been deleted by Rapidshare during its migration from .de to .com. Some have also been sent directly to the group, like those based on Mada's alphas. It is hard to tell whether the font has been made by Dick Pape. The only indication that he created the fonts is that the font have "DP" as font vendor and/or has "Digitized by TTD" in the trademark field. Both are not present in some of his fonts. He seems not to want to take credit. He is just a guy who wants to digitize anything he likes. In 2010, he made Bultaco, based on the logotype for Bultaco Motorcycles---see Freehostia.

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Dick Pape: Bizarre & Ornamental Alphabets
[Dick Pape]

In 1981, Carol Belanger Grafton published Bizarre & Ornamental Alphabets (Dover). Dick Pape digitized these ornamental caps typefaces and named them by page number: BizarreAlphabets-Page108, BizarreAlphabets-Page112, BizarreAlphabets-Page114, BizarreAlphabets-Page116a, BizarreAlphabets-Page116b, BizarreAlphabets-Page117a, BizarreAlphabets-Page117b, BizarreAlphabets-Page121, BizarreAlphabets-Page14, BizarreAlphabets-Page22, BizarreAlphabets-Page24, BizarreAlphabets-Page62, BizarreAlphabets-Page66, BizarreAlphabets-Page74, BizarreAlphabets-Page76, BizarreAlphabets-Page78, BizarreAlphabets-Page92, BizarreAlphabets-Page93Bold, BizarreAlphabets-Page94, BizarreAlphabets-Page95, BizarreAlphabets-Page96-Dusty, BizarreAlphabets-Page98, BizarreAlphabets-Page99.

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Dick Pape: British Museum Festival Books Archives
[Dick Pape]

In 2008-2009, Dick Pape (Texas) created several typefaces based on the British Museum Festival Books Archives: Festival Books Borders, Festival Books Ornaments, Festival Books Initials.

He writes: What is a Festival? In Europe in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, important events in the life of a princely dynasty, such as marriage, the birth or christening of an heir, a coronation or a funeral, were celebrated by mounting a festival. Festival books are printed accounts of these occasions, issued by or with the approval of court, city or religious authorities. They are often customised with the arms of a princely house, hand-coloured illustrations or a fine binding. The books usually offer eye-witness accounts of a festival, sometimes embellished with moral or philosophical reflections - though at their simplest they may just be a list of names. Festival books do not always provide an accurate record of events. Sometimes prepared in advance of the occasion, sometimes seen from the limited viewpoint of an eye-witness, their accounts are ideal, and even idealised, rather than strictly factual.

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Dick Pape: Dover Pictorial Series
[Dick Pape]

The extensive Dover series by Dick Pape contains about 150 typefaces. The typefaces are numbered and carry these names:

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Dick Pape: February 2013
[Dick Pape]

In February 2013, Dick Pape published a number of typefaces grouped together here. Local download page. The typefaces:

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Dick Pape: Initials
[Dick Pape]

Dick Pape revived hundreds of initial caps typefaces. Some came from collections. The unclassified ones include these fonts from 2009 (unless date specially mentioned): Antique Alphabet, Avante Light (2010, avant garde caps), Babylon Initials (2009), Bird Drawings Alphabet (2008), Boast Feder Bold (2010, horizontally-striped caps), Boast Plain Bold (2010), BoldCameo (2009), Clea Initials (2010, nudes), Command (2010), Dover Old Fashion Alphabet (2010, silhouettes), Fancy Nouveau (2010, art nouveau caps), Floral Initials (2010), Flotner Anthropomorphic (2010), Flower Panels Outline (2010), Flower Panels (2010), Flower Vines (2010), Flowery Alphabet (2010), Framed Alphabet (2010), Frankfurt Stempel-Series 52 (2011), Frankfurt Stempel-Series 55 (2011), Garden Nouveau Initials (2010: great art nouveau initials), Genteliza Hand (2011), Gothic Metal Initials (2008), Goudy Initials (2008), Haas'sche 1925 (2010), Humanistic Alphabet 107 (2011, uncial), Humanistic Alphabet 109 Swash (2011), Humanistic Alphabet 110 (2011), In Bloom Alpha (2010), Iniciales Greco (2010, after Richard Gans, 1922), Initialen Feder Grotesk (2010, after Jakob Erbar's 1908-1910 typeface at Ludwig & Mayer), Lichte Jonisch (2008), Light Me Up (2010), Madeleine (2010), Nelma (2011), New Music (2010), Rankin-Initialen (2010: Celtic), Rosart Initials (2010), Sacon Initials (2010: birds, beasts and flowers by Jacques Sacon, Lyon, 1519), Schmale Jonisch (2008), Schriftgiesserei Series 56 (2013: after D. Stempel, 1915), Victorine Embellished (2010).

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Dick Pape: ornamental typefaces
[Dick Pape]

Ornamental typefaces made in 2008-2010 by Dick Pape: 2 Cute 4 U (+Block), Abstract Alphabet (2009), Aged Ornaments (2009), Ancient Mortises (2008), Angel Alpha (2009), Angelica Alpha (2009), Ani-Red Jello Alpha (2009), Antique Alphabet (2009), Arabesque Design (2009), Art Deco Dingbat Images (2010), Art Deco Frames (2010), AlphabetArt, AndrewHolmesArtA, AndrewHolmesArtB, AndrewHolmesArtC, AndrewHolmesArtD, AndrewHolmesArtE, AndrewHolmesArtF, Angel Alpha, Angelica Alpha, Ani Red Jello Alpha (2009), AvonInitials, BritishAirwaysNumbers, CaFaitDur, CelticDesignDark, CelticDesigns-Light, Continnental, EckenFlowerBorders, GermanGothicManuscript, KafkaFlourishes, LaxtonCommonRevival, NiceOldAlphabet, Portent, RomanoAlphabet, Weissranken-Initialen, Babylon Initials (2009), Bird Drawings Alphabet (2008), Black Buttons (2010, +Bold), Bold Cameo (2009), Bubble Gum (2010, +Condensed, +Extended), Bultaco (2010, after the motorcycle brand), Cardio Black and White (2010, ECG-inspired), Charcoal family (2010, crayon typefaces), Checkerboard (2010), Chinese Flowers (2008), Chiswick Press (2007), Chocolate Type (2011), ChrisGreen (2010), Calligraphia Latina (2010), Dough (2011), Electronic Alphabet (2011), Elo (2010), EstupidoEspezial1, EstupidoEspezial2 (2010, based on the Hoefler Swash variant of OCR_A), TokoFont, Clip People (2010), Clothes Pin Font, Compass Rose (2008), Coptic Letters (2010), Cubes, Cups, Cute Lolo Animals, Dark Herald (2011, Celtic caps), Dave's Glyphs, Design Images, Digital Auto Sampler, Drinking Scenes, Drinking Utensils, DunHuang Art, Eating Signs, EcoLeaf, Eduardo Recife, Eggs And Milk, Eroding Alphabet Italic (2010), Extra Initials, Extra Ornaments, Fantasy Butterflies, Fantasy Dragon FX, Fantasy Monster Skulls, Far Away Places Images, Festival Books Borders, Festival Books Initials, Festival Books Ornaments, Fire Letters, Fire Letters Cameo, Fire Letters Monospaced, Fire Letters Monospaced, Floral Initials, Florentine Initials, Florentine Initials Reverse, Flower Panels, Flower Panels Outline, Flower Vines, Fresh Fish, Funky (2010), Funny Numbers, Furore Mexican (2011), Futorisugi Face, Garden Nouveau Initials, Gill Canterbury Capitals (2011), Give me a break, Gothic Metal Initials, Goudy Initials, Graph Glyphs (2010), Halbfette Egyptienne (2008), Hat Dance Alpha, Haunted Initials (2010), Hellenic Sketch (2010), Hollandisch-Gothic (2008), Holly Alpha, Hula Ribbon, Hula Ribbon 2, Hula Ribbon1, Humanistic Alphabet 106 Italic (2011), Humanistic Alphabet 108 (2011, uncial), India Designs, Irina Batkova HRG (2010, based on Giger's paintings), Japanese Design Parts, Japanese Design Templates A, Japanese Design Templates B, Jugendstil A, Jugendstil B, Kelt Ornaments 1, Kelt Ornaments 2, Kleft Bold (2011, dot matrix face), Lichte Jonisch, Madeleine Shaded (2010), Mayan Affixes A, Mayan Affixes B, Mayan Main Signs A, Mayan Main Signs B, Mayan Profiles, Mc Call's Magazine, Metal Branches (2010), Mimbres Pottery, Moderne-Zelda (2010, after a Dan X. Solo alphabet), Moderne-Zelda Black, More Drinkings Scenes, Mostly Fish, Moto Bykes, Mythological&Fantastic I, Mythological&Fantastic II, Mythological&Fantastic III, Mythological&Fantastic IV, Mythological&Fantastic V, Mythological&Fantastic VI, Mythological&Fantastic VII, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 1, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 2, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 3, New Music, Objects of Nature, Old English Images, Ondawall Versal (2011, Celtic), Panels&Frames, Parapam (2010), Pinto Inline (2010, +Speckled), Random Doodles, RangeMurata, Rankin-Initialen, Really Black Alphabet (2010), Robu Bold (2010), Rons Old Patterns, Rons Old Patterns Bare, Rosart Initials, Rustic Alphabet, Sacon Inititals, Saks (2010, bilined), Schmale Jonisch, Sea Shells of Nature, Shuttershock Vector Demo, Simple Alphabet, Simple China Images, Simple Doodles, Snails&Slugs, Softsquare, Some Guitars, Soviet Founders, Soviet Life Posters I, Soviet Life Posters II, Soviet Life Posters III, Soviet Life Posters IV, Soviet Propaganda Posters, Splish-Splash (2009), Strange Black Blobs, Tauba Auerbach, The Goetia, Tribal Dividers, Tribal Flames, ViaFaceDon Black, ViaFaceDon Black Hats, ViaFaceDon Outline, ViaFaceDon Speckled, Victorine (2010, Tuscan typeface), Viking Design A, Viking Design B, White Buttons Bold (2010), Wood Type Cheltenham Bold (2010), ZEart Designs, Zelek, Zelek Black, Zelek Boldline, Zelek Shadline.

  • From 2012: French Onion.

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  • Dick Pape: University of South Florida Decorative Letters
    [Dick Pape]

    In 2012, Dick Pape made 26 fonts, one for each letter of the alphabet, called USFDecorativeLetters. Each font contains a selection of decorative capitals. These fonts were inspired by the The Decorative Letters ClipArt gallery, which offers 855 examples of decorative letters in a variety of styles. Originally developed from 204-2012 by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, the ClipArt ETC is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse.

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    Diego Calvo

    Liège, Belgim-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Memphis (2014), which is inspired by Memphis Furniture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Diego Lara Saltos

    Neurotypo (2011) is a free illustrated caps alphabet made by Diego Lara, a graphic designer and illustrator from Cuenca (was: Quito), Ecuador.

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    Diego Rodas

    During his studies at UFRJ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Diego Rodas (Catanduva, Brazil) designed the Greek God figurine typeface Adonis (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dieter Steffmann

    FontShop was the name of Dieter Steffmann's foundry in Kreuztal, Germany (not to be confused with the FontShop foundry and font vendor). He made about 600 self-proclaimed "old-fashioned" fonts, and among these many Fraktur fonts. His site became too expensive to run, and was for about two decades hosted by Typoasis. His fonts can now de downloaded afrom 1001 Fonts. Alternate URL. Current list of fonts. See also here. New stuff. Fontspace link. A nice essay about Fraktur fonts accompanies the fonts. News. As Dieter puts it: I am not a designer but I add missing letters to public domain fonts in order to get a complete character set and I hint the fonts and create new weights (shadow, inline etc.) His Christbaumkugeln font, and how it was made. The font families:

    • Acorn Initialen (2000), Adine Kirnberg (2000, after David Rakowski's Adine Kirnberg Script, 1991), AI Parsons (1999: a simple conversion to truetype of AI Parsons (1994, Inna Gertsberg ans Susan Everett), which in turn revived Will Ransom's Parsons from the 1920s), Albert Text (2000), Alpine (2000), Altdeutsche Schrift (1998: a rotunda), Alte Caps (2000: white on black), Alte Schwabacher (2000, +Shadow), Ambrosia (2000), American Text (2000: a blackletter), Aneirin (2000: Lombardic), Angel (2000: an ironwork font), Anglican Text (2000: a frilly blackletter), Angular (1999: +Inline, +Shadow), Ann-Stone (2000: boxed art nouveau caps), Antique No. 14 (2000: fuzzy hand-crafted letters), Arabella (2000: script), ArabesqueInitialen (2002), Argos George (1999, an art nouveau font after Georges Lemmen's George-Lemmen-Schrift (1908); Steffmann added Argos Geirge Contour), Aristokrat Zierbuchstaben (2002, after a house font at Ludwig&Mayer, 1911), Ariston Script (2000: a formal calligraphic script), Art Nouveau Initialen (1999), Attic Antique, Augusta (2000: a rotunda; +Shadow).
    • Baldur (2000: art nouveau; +Shadow, +RoughSliced; after a schelter typeface from 1895), Ballade Bold (2002, a Schwabacher font based on Ballade Halbfette designed by Paul Renner in 1937; +Contour, +Shadow), Barock Initialen (2002: an incomplete decorative initials typeface), Becker (1999; +Shadow, +Inline), Beckett-Kanzlei (2001), Behrens-Schrift (2002: an art nouveau-inspired blackletter typeface based on an original by Peter Behrens), Belshaw (2000: a Victorian decorative serif), Belwe (2002, after an original by Georg Belwe, 1913; Gotisch, Vignetten), Benjamin Franklin Antique (2000, after a warm wood type designed in 1991 by Walter Kafton-Minkel simply called Benjamin), Berlin Squiggle Condensed, Bernhard Schmalfett, Bier und Wein Vignetten (2002, based on drawings from the Bauersche Giesserei), Billboard, Bizzaro, Black Forest (2000, blackletter; +Text, +ExtraBold), Black Knight (1999: blackletter), Blackletter (2001; +ExtraBold, +Shadow), Blackwood Castle (2000: an almost Lombardic blackletter; +Shadow), Breitkopf Fraktur (2000), Bretagne Gaelic (1999), Brian James Bold (2000, +Contour), Bridgnorth, Broadcast Titling (2000, 3d caps), Broadway Poster, Brock Script (2000: formal calligraphic script).
    • Cabaret (2000: all caps, +Contour, +Shadow), Campanile (2000: Victirian), Camp Fire (2000: wooden plank font), Canterbury Old English (2001: blackletter), Cardiff (2000: textured caps), Cardinal (2000: almost Lombardic; +Alternate, +Anglican), Carmen (1998: art nouveau style; +Shadow), Carrick Caps (2000), Caslon Antique, Caslon Fette Gotisch, Cavalier (2000), Celtic Frames (2000), Celtic Hand (2000), Challenge (2000; +Contour, +Shadow), Chelsea (2000: a serif), Chopin Script (2000, a formal penmanship script identical to Polonaise), Christbaumkugeln (1999: art nouveau alphadings consisting of Christmas ornaments), Chursächsische Fraktur, Cimbrian (2001: blackletter), Circus Ornate Caps (2001, a Western or circus font), Cloister Black Light (2001: blackletter), Coaster Black (2001, +Shadow), Coelnische Current Fraktur (2000), Colchester Black (2001: an ornamental blackletter), College, Courtrai (2000: a decorative blackletter), Coventry Garden, Cruickshank (2000: art nouveau caps).
    • Damn Noisy Kids (2002: a heavy brush font), Davy's Dingbats, Debussy, Decorated Roman Initials (2003), Deutsch Gotisch (2002: an expressive blackletter font; +Dutesch Gotisch Heavy, +Outline, +Shadow), Deutsche Uncialis (+Shadow) (2000), Deutsche Zierschrift (2002, after Rudolf Koch, 1919-1921), Devinne Swash (2000), Digits (2000), Direction (2000: letters with embedded arrows), Dobkin Script (2000: after David Rakowski, 1992, Domino, Domo Arigato (1999: oriental emulation), Dover, Driftwood Caps (2000: a wooden plank font), Due Date (2000: a grungy stencil typeface), Duerer Gotisch (2001), Duo Dunkel (+Licht), Durwent (2001: a rotunda).
    • Easter Bunny (after a 1994 font by Apropos Creations), Easter Egg (2001; after a 1994 font by Apropos Creations), Eckmann Initialen (2002, after the famous art nouveau typeface from 1900 by Otto Eckmann), Eckmann Plakatschrift (2002), Eckmann-Schrift (2002), Eckmann Titelschrift (2002), Eckmann Schmuck (2002), Egyptienne Zierinitialen (2002), Egyptienne Zierversalien (2002), Ehmcke-FrakturInitialen (2002), Ehmcke-Schwabacher Initialen (2002), Eichenlaub Initialen (2000), Eileen Caps (2000; after David Rakowski, 1992), Eisenbahn (2002, based on train vignettes at Bauersche Giesserei), Elzevier Caps (2000; after David Rakowski), Enge Holzschrift (2000; +Shadow), English Towne Medium (2000: a Fraktur), Epoque (1999; an art nouveau typeface; +Shadow, +Inline), Erbar Initialen, Estelle, Evil of Frankenstein, Express (1999).
    • Faktos (1998; a rip-off of Cory Maylett's Faktos, 1992; +Striped, +Contour, +Shadow), Fabliaux (2000: Lombardic caps), Fancy Card Text (2000: a textura), Fat Freddie (2000: a fat all caps font; +Shadow, +Outline), Faustus (2000: a Schwabacher), Fenwick Woodtype (blackletter: 2001), Fette Caslon Gotisch (2001), Fette Deutsche Schrift (2002, a revival of a Rudolf Koch font from 1908), Fette Egyptienne, Fette Haenel Fraktur (2000), Fette Kanzlei (2002), Fette Mainzer Fraktur (2001), Fette Steinschrift (2002), Fette Thannhäuser (2002; after Herbert Thannhäuser, 1937-1938; +Schattiert), Fette Trump Deutsch (20002, after Georg Trump, 1936), Firecat, Flaemische Kanzleischrift (2000: calligraphic), Flowers Initials (2000: floriated caps), Forelle (2002: a retro script; +Shadow), Fraenkisch Spitze Buchkursive (2002; after Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil, 1906), Fraktur Coelnische Current (2000), Fraktur Schmuck (2001: ornaments), Fraktur Shadowed (2001), Fraktur Theuerdank (2000: a Schwabacher), Frederick Text (2001: a blackletter), Futura Script.
    • Gabrielle (1999: a retro script), Ganz Grobe Gotisch (2000), Gebetbuch Fraktur (2000: a Schwabacher), Gebetsbuch Initialen (2001), Germania (2001, a revival of the 1903 blackletter typeface by Heinz König called Germania as well), Germania-Versalien, Gille Fils Zierinitialen (2002, after Gillé Fils, ca. 1820), Gingerbread Initials (Victorian initials, after an original from ca. 1890), Globus, Gloucester Initialen (2001), Gorilla Black (2000: rounded elephant feet font), Gotenburg A+B (2002, after Friedrich Heinrichsen), Gothenburg Fraktur (2000), Gotische Initialen (two different sets with the same name, one from 2000 and one from 2002), Gotisch Schmuck (2002, Fraktur), Goudy Initialen (2000), Goudy Medieval (2000), Goudy Thirty (2000), Grange (1999), GrenzschInitials (2001), Grusskarten Gotisch (2001), Gutenberg Textura (2000).
    • Haenel Fraktur Fett, Hansa (1999: art nouveau), Hansa Gotisch (2001: a textura), Hansen (1998; +Contour, +Shadow), Happy Easter (1994, by Apropos Creations: art deco caps), Harrowgate (2001: a textura), Hazard Signs (2000), Headline Text (2001: a textura), Hercules (1999: art nouveau), Herkules (2004: art nouveau), Hermann-Gotisch (2002; after an original by Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934), Herold (2002), Hippy Stamp (2000: after rubber stamps from the 1960s), Hoedown (2000; +Shadow), Holla (2001; after Rudolf Koch), Holidayfont, Holtzschue(2000: a circus font, after David Rakowski, 1992), Honey Script (2000: a retro script), Horror Dingbats (2000; after Letters from the Claw, 1998), Houtsneeletter, Humboldt Fraktur (2002-2005; after a Schwabacher font by Hiero Rhode, 1938; +Zier, +Initialen).
    • Iglesia Light (2002), Iron Letters (2000), Isadora Original.
    • Jan Brad, Journal Dingbats, Jahreskreis (seasonal dingbats, 2002), JSL Blackletter Antique (2000, by Jeffrey S. Lee), Jugendstil Fraktur (originally designed by Heinz Koenig, 1907-1910), Jugendstil Ornamente (2002, art nouveau ornaments, after Schelter & Giesecke).
    • Kabinett Fraktur, Kaiserzeit Gotisch (2001), Kanzle (2001)i, Kanzlei Initialen (2002), Kalenderblatt Grotesk (2000), Kashmir (2001: an arts and crafts typeface), Kinder Vignetten (2002), KingsCross (2001: blackletter), Kinigstein Caps (2000: art nouveau initials after David Rakowski, 1990), Klarissa (2000), Kleist Fraktur + Zierbuchstaben (2002, after Walter Tiemann, 1928), Koch Antiqua (2002), Koch Antiqua Zierbuchstaben (2002), Koch Initialen (2000, after Rudolf Koch, 1922), Koenigsberger Gotisch (2001), Koenig-Type (2002; a Jugendstil Fraktur originally designed by Heinz Koenig, 1907-1910), Kohelet (2001), Koloss, Konanur Kaps (2000, after David Rakowski, 1991), Kramer, Krone Bold.
    • La Negrita (2000, +Shadow), Latina (2001: script), Lautenbach (2001, +Zierversalien), Legrand (1999: art nouveau), Lemiesz (2000), Lettres ombrées ornées (2002, based on a typeface by Schriftgiesserei J. Gillé, 1820), Linolschrift (2000, +Heavy, a linocut font as in the Munch paintings), Lintsec (2000, a stencil typeface, after David Rakowski, 1992), Liturgisch + Zierbuchstaben (2002, after Otto Hupp, 1906), Logger (2000, after David Rakowski, 1991), Lohengrin Fraktur (2000), Long Island Antiqua, Louisianne (1998-2000: +Contour, +Shadow; a bold upright connected script), Ludlow Dingbats (2000, after Ludlow, 1930), Luthersche Fraktur (2000).
    • Mainzer Fette Fraktur, Marker Felt (2001), Marketing Script (1999, +Shadow, +Inline), Marlboro (2000), Maximilian (2002, a Fraktur font and decorated caps based on Rudolf Koch, 1914; +Zier), Mayflower Antique (2000), Mediaeval Caps (2000), Medici Text (2002: an ornamental blackletter), Menuetto (1994, after K.R. Field), Messing Lettern (2000), Metropolitain (2000, an art nouveau font like the ine used for the Paris metro; +Contour, +Condensed), Middle Saxony Text (2001), Moderne Fraktur (1999), Monats-Vignetten (2002, based on drawings by Franz Franke for Bauersche Giesserei, 1920), Montague (2000), Monument (2002, after Oldrich Menhart, 1952), Mordred (2000), Morgan Twenty-Nine (1999: Victorian caps), Morris Roman Black (2002, after William Morris, 1893), Morris Initialen (2000, after William Morris).
    • Napoli Initialen (2000), Neptun Gotisch (1999), Neugotische Initialen (2002, after an original from 1890), North Face (2000), Nougat (2000), Nougat Nouveau Drop Caps (2000), Nubian (after Walter T. Sniffin's font from 1928).
    • Olde English, Old English Five (2000: blackletter), Old Town (2000: Western), Old London (2000: blackletter).
    • Packard Antique (2000), Paganini Text (2000: blackletter), Pamela (2000: an ornamental blackletter), Paris Metro (1998; +Outline), Parsons Heavy (2000, after Bill Ransom, 1918), Paulus Franck Initialen (2002), Penelope (2000, Victorian), Peter Schlehmil (2002, after Walter Tiemann, 1918-1921), Peter Schlemihl Fraktur, Picture Alphabet (2000; after an original from 1834), Pilsen Plakatschrift (2000), Pinewood (2000, like wooden branches), Pinocchio (based on a psychedelic typeface by Gustav Jaeger, TypeShop, 1994), Plakat-Fraktur (2001), Plakat Antiqua, Plastisch (2002: ornamental caps), Plastische Plakat Antiqua (2002), Plum Script (2000: an upright script)), Pointage (2000; after David Rakowski, 1992), Polonaise (1999: a formal calligraphic script), Polo Semi (2000), Powell Antique (2000), Prince Valiant (1999: blackletter), Printer's Ornaments One (after Blake Haber, 1994), Prisma (2003, a four-line typeface inspired by Rudolf Koch's Prisma), Progressive Text (2001), Puritan (2000, +Swash).
    • Quentin Caps (2001: Tuscan).
    • Rediviva (2002), Rediviva Zierbuchstaben (2002: a Schwabacher font after a 1905 typeface at Benjamin Krebs designed by Franz Riedinger), Reeperbahn (1999; aka Rope), Regatta Relief, Reiner Script, Relief Grotesk (2003), Revue Decor, Reynold Art Deco (2000: arts and crafts; +Contour), Rheinische Fraktur (1999: after a 1905 Stempel font called Arminius Fraktur and Rheinische Fraktur), Rio Grande, Rockmaker (2000, after David Rakowski, 1992), Roland 92000. +Shadow, +Contour), Rolling No. 1 ExtraBold (2000), Roman Antique (+Italic) (2000), Romantik Initialen (2000), Romantiques (2002: ornamental caps, perhaps a circus font), Rondo, Rosemary Roman (2001: a great calligraphic script based on Rosemary Hall's Rosemary Roman), Roskell (1998: a poster font, +Bold, +Shadow), Roslyn Contour (2000), Rossano (2000, +Shadow), Rothenburg Decorative (2000: a frilly blackletter), Rothenburg Fraktur, Royal Initialen (1999), Roycroft Initials (2000), Rudelsberg (Schrift, Initialen, Schmuck: a typeface family in Munch Jugendstil style, based on Otto Eckmann's Eckmann from 1901).
    • Saddlebag Black (2000: Western), Saloon ExtraBold, Saltino, Salto, Sans Plate Caps (2000), San Remo (2000: a Parisian art nouveau typeface), Sans Serif Shaded (2000, after a font by Stephenson Blake), Savings Bond, Schampel Black (2001: a blackletter), Schmalfette Fraktur (2000; +Schattiert), Schluss-Vignetten (2002, also from Bauersche Giesserei), Schmale Anzeigenschrift + Zierbuchstaben (2002, after Rudolf Koch's Deutsche Anzeigenschrift, 1916-1923), Schmuck Initialen (2001), Schwabacher (2002), Sebaldus-Gotisch (2002, a blackletter after H. Berthold's Sebaldus Gotisch from 1926), Sentinel (decorative caps from 2001), Sesame (2000, +Shadow), Shaded (2002, a take on Sans Serif Shaded by Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd., Sheffield), Sholom (1999: Hebrew emulation), Showboat Caps (2000), Shrapnel (2000: in the font, we find a reference to David Rakowski, 1992), Siegfried (2001, art nouveau, based on a typeface by Wilhelm Woellmer), Simplex, Sixties, Snowtop Caps (2001), Starburst (2000; after a 1990 font by David Rakowski), Steelplate Textura (2002), Stencil Display, Subway (2001: Black, Shadow), Supermarkt.
    • Tanach (2003: Hebrew emulation), Tannenberg (Fette Gotisch, Fett, Umrandet, Schattiert: after Emil Meyer, 1933-1935), Thannhaeuser Fette Fraktur, Thannhäuser Zier (2002; original by Herbert Thannhauser, 1937/38), Theuerdank Fraktur (2000; after Schoensperger's Theuerdank, 1517), Thorne Shaded (2002, a shaded didone based on a Robert Thorne design of 1810), Tierkreiszeichen (2002, zodiac signs, based on drawings by Franz Franke for Bauersche Giesserei), Tintoretto (2000, after a Schelter & Giesecke original), Titania (2001; after Titania by Haas, 1906), Titling Roman Antique, Tobago Poster (2001; +Shadow), Tone And Debs (2002; after a 1991 snow capped font by D. Rakowski; identical to Snowtop Caps in 2001), Tonight (2002: a marquee font), Topic, Toskanische Egyptienne Initialen (2003: after a 1889 font by Schelter & Giesecke), Transport Pictorials, Tribeca (2001, after a David Rakowski original), Trocadero Caps, Trucker Style ExtraBlack, Turtles (2000; an extension of Turtles by Neale Davidson), Typographer Caps (2000), Typographer Fraktur (2002), Typographer Gotisch (2002), Typographer Holidayfont (2002: Christmas dingbats), Typographer Rotunda (2002), Typographer Subway (2011), Typographer Textur (2002, Fraktur), Typographer Uncial Gotisch (2002), Typographer Woodcut Initials (2002), Typographer's Schmuck-Initialen.
    • Uechi Gotisch, Uncialis Deutsche, Unger Fraktur Zierbuchstaben (2002; after an ornamental caps typeface by Julius Nitsche done in 1908), Unicorn (2000).
    • Vadstena Rundgotisch, Varah Caps, Ventura Bold (2000), Verve (+Shadow, 2000), Victorian Initials (2001), Victorian Text (2001), Viking (2000), Vivian (2000, +Shadow), Vogeler Initialen (2002, aka Vogeler Caps), Volute (1999: art nouveau caps).
    • Walbaum Fraktur (after Justus Erich Walbaum, 1800), Wallau Deutsch, Wallau Rundgotisch, Wallau Unzial and Wallau Zierbuchstaben (2002; originals by Rudolf Koch 1925-1930), Walthari Text, Washington Text, Waterloo Relief, Wave, Weiß Initialen (2000), Weiss Lapidar (2002, revival of a typeface by Emil Rudolf Weiss), Weiss Rundgotisch (1998; Bold and Shadow), Werbedeutsch (2002, original by Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934), Westminster Gotisch (2001: Lombardic), Wharmby (2000, a shadow font), White Bold (2003, a shadow font), Wieynk Fraktur (2002, +Initialen, + Caps Round; after a Schwabacher by Heinrich Wieynck, 1912), Wieynk Fraktur Vignetten (2001), Will-Harris Caps (2002, after David Rakowski, 1992), Woodcut.
    • Yellow Submarine (1995; after Stanley Davis's Amelia, 1966), Yentus (2001: Hebrew emulation), Yonkers (2001: a Rundgotisch font), Yorktown (2000: a Western wood type emulation font).
    • Zallman Caps (2000, after David Rakowski, 1991), Zentenar Fraktur (2003: after Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, 1937), Zentenar Zier (2002; after F.H.E. Schneidler, 1937), Zierinitialen 1 (2002, after an original from ca. 1800), Zierinitialen Two (2002; based on Deutsche Zierschrift by Rudolf Koch), Ziffern und Pfeile, Zither Script, Zodiac Pictorials.

    A set of TeX service files for many of the decorative caps fonts was published by Maurizio Loreti from the University of Padova.

    The collection is now also available in OpenType. 1001Fonts link. Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Digital Studio (or: Digital Hustler; was: Drifter Studio, or: Everdrifter)
    [Calvin Drews]

    Aka Everdrifter, Calvin Drews and Noi Minggu. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia-based designer of the fairytale and/or vampire script font Grym Story (2015), the counterless Republik (2016), the brushed typeface Ocean Six (2016, free at Pixel Surplus), and the pen script font Sleeks (2016).

    In 2017, he designed the decorative floral caps typeface Floral Secret Island.

    In 2018, under the alias Noi Minggu, (s)he designed the free brush font Shallou, the font duo Skyline Adventure and the cursive typeface Budapest in 2018.

    Typefaces from 2019: Sanrossi Sonata, Luscious Script, Quinn, Seraphina Script, Picanto (floral font), Hugging Hippo, Marisole (grungy vintage style), Celeste, Lighthouse Script, Key West, Insatiable, Lenka, Tiki Time, Riley (dry brush script).

    Typefaces from 2020: weirdos (Script, Serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Digital Type Foundry
    [James Banner]

    Digital Type Foundry is James Banner's (extinct) Seattle-based foundry that produced typefaces such as Angelic, Bamberg-Initials, Bamberg, Burton, Caxton-Initials, Daggers, Enochian, FetteFraktur, Fraktur, Futhark-Gothic, Futhark, Hebrew, Hermetica, Titling-Ornaments-1 and Turkish, around 1991-1992. Some fonts can be downloaded for free at Fontspace. He wrote: I started making fonts in 1988 and still produce work, although as it became more difficult to upload my work or share it using the University of Michigan FTP server, I haven't released much. Most recently, I issued the Geoffroy Tory initial letters as a Type 1 font and separately as EPS files as Freeware. I've produced 20-30 fonts since the DTF Volume Three bundle package came out.

    The foundry disappeared. The licensing today is unclear.

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    Digital Typeface Studio (was: Evas Unique Fonts)
    [Eva Barabasne Olasz]

    Aka Eva Barabas, and as Digital Studio. Ireland-based designer of Zenfyrkalt (2015, decorative textured caps), Papyrus EBO (2015), and Cirkus (2015, curly font).

    In 2016, she designed Kristaly (connected script), Rubican (connected script), FlypFlop (thin connected script), Dingfleur (floral dingbats), Dingsprinkle (ornaments), Lacy (textured), Coalpen, Digi Stamps One (flowery ornaments), the textured typefaces Leaffy (decorative caps) and Hyppolit, the ornamental typeface Zending, Karykas, the curly script Pyktor, Symca, Dood Leafs, Pypats, the textured typeface Zensyrom, Doodlowers, Doodletters, Woodys, the stylish display typeface Lynzer, the curvy Roucorns, the sans typeface Dyane, the pendant typeface Proxanys, the display typeface Chowes, the bubble-themed Amydor, the textured typefaces Sanzen and Bubbles, the sketched typeface Stone Story, the handcrafted Clarissa, Cally Script and Sanlabello, the mask dingbat font MaskbyEBO, the curly decorative all caps typefaces Zsylett and Zsynor, Rythmus and Popcorn.

    Typefaces from 2017: Maudlyn (script), Hakyt (script), Atyla (script), Welga, Bynda (script), Kylets (script), Martyn (script), Balton (handcrafted), Zengo (ornamental caps), Chyga (Victorian, curly), Geryta, Leafyction, Edyra (textured caps), Simpla (textured caps), Digidon (textured caps), Trefay (calligraphic script), Fonix (textured caps), Haloven (Halloween font), Sylabus, Icing Cookies, Clarissa, Floryan (floriated caps), Flory Anna, Nebulo, Storyteller (floriated didone), Mandings, Zenyth, Beadwork, Eszty (calligraphic), Divat, Kahir (exquisite decorative caps), Zen3, Moaren (sketched), Moare (fingerprint texture), Stone Story (textured), Stampy, Wyllam, Dyane (sans), Manuell (a heavy display didone), Labrint (textured), Zenone (textured decorative initial caps), Zensyrom (textured caps), Marmelad, Filigran (a textured didone), Chamylle (leafy font), Balloony (comic book style), Bemydor (textured caps), Eggshell Mosaic (textured caps), Portabell (textured caps), Stampy Light (outlined shadow typeface), Tendrils (textured caps), Retrograph (textured caps), Digizen (textured all caps typeface).

    Typefaces from 2018: Lamor (heart-themed textured caps), Zentyp (decorative textured initials), Square Frames, Seamless Patterns, Tiptak, Adetar, Seryfan, Blysher, Katalyn, Agrifan, Bokretan, Hebydia (calligraphic), Westyler (script), Pepitas, Sthencyl (script), Bykars (curly), Hegran (Victorian, with curls), Monogram Framer, Grafyk, Orhydea (upright script), Denka (textured caps), Dathyn, Agrish, Olyber, Sayes Script, Layers (with snowy TV screen texture), Dafodyl, Rubynt, Ofaly, Gudlak, Natyl, Vytorla Mix (curly script), Gaby, Kiraly, Meybi (heart script), Sofye, Emryt, Vytorla, Sybelia, Alyfe, Bigdey, Amagh.

    Typefaces from 2019: Gitar, Feba, Arthegos (script), Quilty (script), Trinyta, Lyra (textured caps), Astoria, Judyth, Artopyl, Stokyt, Janzen (tribal texture caps).

    Typefaces from 2020: Storyk (script), Pegro Stencil, Framed Monograms, Beprity Stencil (a script), Direkt Stencil, Dings, Sati, Hapyster, Stager, Lathyn, Welga, Agrifan, Atyla, Hegran (curly Victorian), Orhydea (a rabbit ear script), Dyobar (a stencil font), Cytar, Valtin (decorative caps for Valentine's day). Creative Market link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dili Dita

    Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the decorative cat-themed alphabet Dilibhet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    DimitriAna
    [Anastasia Dimitriadi]

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the free Latin / Greek handcrafted poster typeface Sunday (2014, Fontfabric) and the commercial poster typeface Silhouette (2014).

    In 2015, she and Iordanis Passas created the gorgeous Finos, which was inspired by Greek retro cinema (buy it here and check the free demo). Her second typeface of 2015 is the equally impressive deco script typeface family Magellan (in Deco and Script sub-styles). Marpesia (2015) is a connected calligraphic script typeface. Charming (2015) is a free spurred vintage tattoo typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Adalberta (2015) is a great connected script typeface.

    Typefaces from 2016: Sketchbook Script (+Pro), Old Harbour (vintage lettering collection consisting of Blue waves, Blue waves striped, Captain's pipe, Captain's pipe Sans, Sailor's tattoo, Sailor's tattoo Sans, Old Ship, Old Anchor, Old Lighthouse, Seashells, Starfish, Old Harbour dingbats), Juvenile.

    Typefaces from 2017: Lady Marmalade (a textured, almost painted, coffee shop lettering font), Footbridge (brush script), Novaturient (Latin / Greek; a wild calligraphic font), Thirsty Heart.

    Typefaces from 2018: Hayao's Letters (fantastic drop caps that pay tribute to Hayao Miyazaki and his magical films), Chalky Letters (a multilayered font collection).

    Typefaces from 2020: French Armoire (a formal calligraphic typeface), Patmos Sans, Patmos Serif (an old Slavonic emulation typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2021: Folk Zodiac Signs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dinda Anindita

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2016: Bandung Jalak Harupat (based on Bandung's city icon), Rereng Priangan (based on Rereng style batik motives). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Diogo Ramoreira
    [Diogo Ramos Moreira]

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    Diogo Ramos Moreira
    [Diogo Ramoreira]

    Buenos Aires-based designer of the floral caps typeface Amazonia (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dira Anndhini

    Designer in Bandung, Indonesia, who created the ornamental caps typeface Oculus (2012), a custom design for Sirkus Garut based on Georgia.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Discourse Type
    [Jonathan Bennett]

    Foundry, est. 2007 by Jonathan Bennett, who is located in Caerphilly, Wales. Bennett designed these typefaces:

    • The unicase typewriter (Courier-like) typeface shown here.
    • MyFonts sells Lazar (2007, an ultra fat art deco typeface inspired by work of El Lissitzky), Kubrickle (2008, in block, swash and kitchen tile shapes), Rody (2007, a counterless slab serif related to Russian deco), Diglossia (2007, a fat geomeric slab serif).
    • DaFont has a free copy of Diglossia.
    • Dialogue (2007) is an artistic sans typeface for short texts (see also here).
    • He is working on this blackletter.
    • At FontStruct, they made parallel (2008).

    Alternate URL. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dixie's Delights
    [Michelle Dixon]

    This used to be a wonderful page, but Michelle Dixon seems to have retired from the font making business. There used to be five shareware dingbats fonts: African Ornaments One, Cave Painting Dingbats One, Mayan Dingbats, Pre-Columbian Ornaments One, and Printers' Ornaments One (Mac PS), plus about 45 other original fonts (not shareware). In her wonderful collection, the following of Michelle Dixon's creations stand out: Arrighi Copybook, ItalianMosaicOrnaments, Beautiful, LondonHouse, Love Letter Typewriter, Gaudy Medium, Rusty Nail-Medium (the last four are all old typewriter fonts), and the display fonts Isla Bella (art nouveau), La Negrita, Arty Nouveau, Victorian, Art Nouveau Fonts, Bad Dog-Black, Berlin, Caslon Frenzy, Dixon's Vixens Caps, AntiqueMonoTW, DangerousTypoWriter, Elegant Nouveau Initial Caps, Fruitbasket, Matador, Manhattan, Modern Scribe, Ovid, Spillage, Tacos, Tolstoy, Typewriter, Love Letter, Basketcase, ChiliPepperDingbats, Postage Stamps, Garish Monde, Taco Modern, and Beautiful Ink. All fonts are between 5 and 30 dollars a piece, but often there are four fonts per face. In August 98, the absolutely gorgeous calligraphic font Beautiful Ink became available as a 10USD shareware font in Windows TrueType. Many designs are by Blake Haber, who is Michelle Dixon's husband. Located in Santa Barbara, CA.

    Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Diyana Amir

    During her studies in Kuala Lumpur, Diyana Amir designed Bunga (2013), an ornamental caps typeface based on Kebaya Nyonya embroidery designs in Melaka Malaysia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Shchetinskiy

    Russian type designer who made the calligraphic greetings typeface Gala 72 (2012) and Congratulatory (2010: Latin and Cyrillic) and the curly psychedelic all-caps typeface Lemonchello (2011). More greetings typefaces were added in 2015: Congratulatory 2.0, Congratulatory Happy Birthday, Congrats 36, Congratulatory New Year And Christmas, Congratulatory Womens Day. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dnor

    Designer of the art nouveau headline typeface Initial with Curls (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Docallisme HAS
    [Amry Al Mursalaat]

    Or A.M. Ryal. Or Docallisme HAS Feat Dusky. Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1994, of the free typefaces Love You (2015, letters on blocks), Batavia Kota (2015, shadow typeface), Raditas Cartoon (2015), Soekarno Hatta (2015, octagonal), Bhineka Tunggal Ika (2015), Sweet as Revenge (2015, graffiti font), Pagi Jakarta (2015, comic book style), Desminore (2015), The Minion (2015), Indah Papuaka (2015, outlined shaded typeface), Merdeka (2015, a dripping blood font), Awan Nusantara (2015), Docallisme On Street (2015; shadow graffiti font), Cheerful Party (2015), Super Docallisme Has Pattern (23015, a patterned, textured typeface), Hero Do Call (2015: a shadow font), Party Chocolate and Soda (2015), Cheese Cake (2015), Crayon Social Art (2015), Bali Tolak Reklamasi (2015), Nusantara (2015, decorative caps), A Ryal Black Block (2015), The Super Ryal 2015 (2015), Doraemon Slalala (2015), Grateful Sound (2015), Dadapaw Friends (2015), Cartoon 1994 (2015), Valentine Radita (2015, dot matrix), Sally Ross (2015, dot matrix), Juni 2009 (2015), Dear Raditas (2015, a dada typeface), Docallisme HAS (2015) and Minirus (2015, constructivist).

    Typefaces from 2016: Ry-Tha (alphadings), Good Time, One Piece, Blangkon, Syrial Mursa (script), Chopperrr (cartoon font), Dilove, Ceria Cinta (handcrafted), Move On, Enjoy Boy, Melankolia, I Will Wait.

    Typefaces from 2017: Broken Home, Bogor, Rainbow, Going Merry (cartoon font), Bromo, Gatot Kaca, Sweet Revenge, Mars Mellow (cartoon font), Glory United (comic book font), A Voice of Liberty (scratchy brush font), Jak Arta (graffiti font), Home Sweet Home, Dragon Ball, Sweety Tea, Hero Killer, Fish&Bear, Baduy, Coffe&Milk, Bansky, Goblins (brush style), Hoobie.

    Typefaces from 2018: Queen Mataram, Browny Bear, Sea Salt, Bood Street, Lord of the Ring (brush), Sweety Cheese, Rocket to Mars (3d, sketched), Sweety Baez, Dutsky Time, Moqa Float, Banda Neira (shadow font), Zara Thustra (a fat finger font), The Jacatra (outlined cartoon typeface).

    Typefaces from 2019: Read and Read (grungy), Happy Little Soul, Hell Raiser (a brush font), Killing The Moon (a dry brush font), Avocado, Nias Bird, Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, Redhead Snake, Ubud Fest, Tigeryen.

    Typefaces from 2020: Joe Rabbit (a cartoon font), My Dutsky Art, Calm Down, Sugar Poof, Ciao Adios, Hooman (Love, Stitch, World), Dark Sky,

    Dafont link. Another home page. Yet another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dohyun Han

    Seoul, Korea-based designer of several decorative Latin caps typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dominic Le-Hair

    A resident of Peterborough, UK, graphic designer Dominic Le-Hair created Ribbon (2009, multiline caps), Tribbon (2009, a free layered font family that can be tested here), Frankenface (2009) and Clipper (2009, experimental). Spykado (2009) is an electric-discharge-meets-Luc's-hair font. Hyaline (2010) is a bicolored affair---letters only appear after overlaying colored glyphs. Gas Alphabet (2013) emulates a gas furnace.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dominique McNair

    Graphic illustrator in Aliso Viejo, CA. Creator of a decorative monster alphabet typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dominique Rodride

    Poilly-sur-Tholon, France-based graphic designer who drew a funny alphabet in 2010. Here is his first complete font, called The First One (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Donald King

    Designer of Suburban Block, an all caps alphabet that was shown in ULC volume 13, 1986. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dos Diez Type

    Creator of the curly decorative all caps typeface Estaviejo (2017), and the connected Icenomina Script (2017). Estaviejo is based on an alphabet template given as a promotional material by a sewing thread company in Goggingen, Germany in the 1800s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Doug Alves
    [Nacionale]

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    Doug Keith

    Illustrator and designer. Seattle-based creator of Elfabet (1981), an ornamental caps face. This typeface, consisting of elves in various positions, was digitized by "Fontfan" in 1999 and can be freely downloaded here. He has several other illustrated alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Doug Peters
    [Symbiotic Design]

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    Douglas Crawford McMurtrie

    American designer (1888-1944) credited with these typefaces:

    • UltraModern (1928, Ludlow; with Aaron Borad and Leslie Sprunger). This sans has slightly concave strokes. Spiece Graphics (Jim Spiece) created Ultramodern Classic SG (1996), based on the 1928 design of McMurtrie. At MyFonts, one can buy a Red Rooster version of Ultra Modern digitized by Steve Jackaman.
    • McMurtrie Title (Conde Nast Press): shaded capitals with thin flat serifs. The typeface is based on Rosart.
    • A version of Garamond (1929, Ludlow), designed with Robert Hunter Middleton. There is also a Font Bureau version of Garamond, FB Garamond (Text, Display), digitized in 1992 by Jill Pichotta, based on the original design in 1929 at Ludlow by McMurtrie and Robert Hunter Middleton.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Douglas Day

    Creator of Bracelet Victorian (Tuscan Ornate, Victorian) New&Old in 2001. He writes: Scanned from Tschichold's "Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering" (Norton) and painstakingly digitized. For another typeface based on the same alphabet, see Romantiques (2002, Dieter Steffmann).

    In 2013, he reappeared at Fontspace and posted these free Victorian / Western / circus style ornamental caps typefaces: Gardenia Victorian, Radiant Antique, Caliope Victorian. All three were scanned from Dan Solo's Victorian Display Alphabets in 2001.

    Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Douglas Vitkauskas

    Brazilian resident who specializes in original grunge designs. His typefaces are mostly free. Some commercial typefaces are available via Creative Market.

    Typefaces from 2020: VTKS Beleza Pura (calligraphic script), Classical Hit, Lovecure, VTKS Smile (modular), VTKS Blocketo (a pixel font).

    Typefaces from 2019: VTKS Dracena (a dirty brush script), VTKS HyperBoldi (all caps, grungy), VTKS Amplexus (dancing letters), VTKS Dynamic (grunge), VTKS Unamour.

    Typefaces from 2018: Vtks Rockino v2, Vtks Bela Vista (a treefrog script), Vtks Core Reason, Vtks Hand Made, Vtks Blacqui Letter (a decorative inline blackletter), Vtks La Prensitcha, Vtks Brilhante, Vtks Beautizinea, Vtks The Dark, Vtks Lettering, Vtks Urbanizart, Vtks Textones, Vtks Autorized, Vtks BoldCool, Vtks Sportage, Vtks Relpius, Vtks Escape, Vtks Demolition (grunge), Vtks Challenge (weathered), Vtks Propriedade, Vtks Cafezito (coffee klatsch font), Vtks Propaganda (grunge), Vtks Lightness, Vtks Success.

    Typefaces from 2017: Carbo 753 (grunge), RokiyoSan, BlowUp (splashy brush), Madalena, Mural, Heavy Duty (grunge), Krueza, Azeitona, Mindfulness, Carruagem, VTKS Sal Grosso, VTKS Realm (grunge), Mercado, Dreamland 223, Dreamland 777.

    Typefaces from 2016: Vtks Colored Soul, Vtks Lombriga, Vtks Karmapolis, Vtks Katiassa, Peacemakers (art nouveau), Vtks Gran Moda (brush), Vtks Obscena (curly font), Vtks Zamioyn (childen's script), Vtks Long Time (painted letters), Vtks Solaris (hand-drawn), Vtks Zuadinha, Vtks Peace and Love, VTKS Shine (brush script), VTKS Kacilds (children's script), VTKS Friaka, VTKS MockUp, VTKS Amarelli, VTKS Perereca, VTKS Raladeira, VTKS Rough Col, VTKS Integral, VTKS Voluntario (brush script), Vtks Burning (curly and bewitched), Vtks Simplex Beauty (ornamental caps), Vtks Raladeira, VTKS Black Hair (a fun irregular brush script), VTKS Felicidade (script).

    Typefaces from 2015: VTKS Love U, VTKS Mockup, VTKS Academy, Family, Poster (grunge caps), Hunt, VTKS Articles (Treefrog-style script), VTKS Sonho (Treefrog), Lounge Set, Vacancy, Red Line, Old Mobile, Raining, Happiness Always, Good Day, Nicely, Desgaste (spurred), Basic Lines, Water Lily.

    Typefaces from 2014: VTKS Painel (brush), VTKS Motor (handcrafted), VTKS Super Funny, VTKS Tender Love (vampire script), Limpeza (signage script), Delicious, VTKS Hotel, Propolis (brushy script), VTKS Rash (irregular hand), Pedra Azul (vampire script), MRD 67 VTKS (grunge), VTKS Samanbaia (Treefrog-style script), VTKS Channels, VTKS Dreamer, VTKS Money, VTKS Belinha (inky script), VTKS University (striped typeface), VTKS Classicuda, VTKS Authentic, VTKS Burning, VTKS Modern Look, VTKS Beta, VTKS Bandoleones, VTKS Pedra Bruta (rough brush script), VTKS Recover MB 1, VTKS Simplex Beauty, VTKS Dirty Letters.

    Typefaces made in 2013: VTKS Rust, VTKS Easy Work, VTKS New One, VTKS Old Tee, VTKS Free Soul (Victorian), VTKS Have A Nice Day (grunge), VTKS University, VTKS Piscina, VTKS Divertida, VTKS Modern, VTKS Lovely, VTKS Back To Basics, VTKS Sujinha, VTKS Inked, VTKS Grungy, VTKS Thanks You, VTKS Love Is Everything (curly font), VTKS Dura 3D (showboat Western), VTKS Youth Spirit, VTKS Lightness, VTKS Premium, VTKS Authentic (a calligraphic brush script), VTKS Rafia, VTKS Have A Nice Day, VTKS Classical Hit, VTKS Lumina, VTKS Dirty 2, VTKS Good Day (Treefrog-style hand), VTKS Boutique, VTKS Storm 2 (grunge).

    Typefaces made in 2012: VTKS Street Vision (graffiti font), VTKS Show, VTKS Lounge Set, VTKS Total Flux Disturbed, VTKS Total Flex Clean, VTKS Love Love, VTKS Ballerina, VTKS Contrast, VTKS Friendly, VTKS Orbital, VTKS Exame (dirty stencil face), VTKS Future (stencil face), VTKS Fresh, VTKS Laundry, VTKS Curumin, VTKS Citrino (a spurred inline face), Vtks Squizita (grunge), Vtks Blank, VTKS Broadband, VTKS Logic (grungy texture typeface), VTKS Expert (grunge), VTKS Worker, VTKS Chalk 79 (chalk font), VTKS Vinte e Cinco, Good Vibration, VTKS Bagacao, VTKS Message, VTKS Keystorm (texture face), VTKS Scratch, VTKS Minus, VTKS Fail, VTKS Busseta (dymo label font), VTKS Assign, VTKS Carrier (grunge), VTKS Lovers Italic, VTKS Good Vibration 2, VTKS Encounter (grunge), VTKS Natural, VTKS Seven.

    Typefaces made in 2011: VTKS Message (grunge), VTKS Lovers (frilly), VTKS Carrier (grunge), VTKS Contact (texture typewriter face).

    Designs from 2010 include VTKSSIGNOFTIMES, VTKSSIGNOFTIMESbold, VTKS Unidade, VTKS Scream, VTKS Personal, VTKS Noise (texture face), VTKS Mint, VTKS Legal (Treefrog-style hand), VTKS Fresh Mint, VTKS Ink, VTKS Study (a sketch face), VTKS Morning Rain (+3D, +Bold), VTKSEMBROIDERY, VTKSLowRider, VTKSLowRiderBox, VTKSREVERSO, VTKSREVERSOOPTIONB, VTKSURBANTIME, VTKSURBANTIME3d, VTKSURBANTIMEbold, VtksBeautifulDreams, VtksVictory, vtksRudeMetalshadow, vtksarmy, vtksarmy3d, vtksshow, vtkssolution, vtkssolution3d, vtkssolutionbold, vtkssuper, vtkswhitepage3d, VTKSCOMIC, VTKSHIGHLIGHT (2010, a sketched face), VTKSHIGHLIGHT2, VTKSHIGHLIGHT3, VTKSXtra, vtkscrazytime, vtksmorningrain, vtksmorningrain3D, vtksmorningrainBOLD, VTKS Trunkset, VTKS Control, VTKSCURVE, VTKSDOWNTOWN (chalk or brush face), VTKSLOVEANDPEACE, VTKSSOLUOCRIATIVA, VTKSSOLUOCRIATIVADOIS.

    In 2009 he designed vtks Water cristals, vtksControl, vtkskeystorm, vtkstrunkset, VTKS Distress (grunge), VTKS Deja Vu, VTKS Giz, VTKS Sunny Day, VTKS Mercearia, VTKSRASURADA (grunge), VTKSSABONETE (grunge), Vtksespinhuda (grungy), and vtkssbadodechuva (grungy).

    In 2008, he created VTKSSKULLS, VTKS Focus (curly letters), vtksRascunhoErrado (hand-printed), vtksanimal2 (brush/paint), VTKSFLOWERSINOURSOUL, VtksRelaxingBlaze (double script), Quadrada e Gordinha, VTKS Velhos Tempos (great scratchy script face), Squizita, Mural, VTKS Revolt, VTKS General Use, VTKS Good Luck For You, VTKS-BEAUTY, VTKS-CHIP-SET, VTKS-CHOICE, VTKS-CORE, VTKS-No-Name, VTKS-SKULLZ-ME, VTKS-SummerLAnd, Vtks-Blank, Vtks-FININHA, Vtks-Hardness, Vtks-Noba, vtks-alcalina, vtks-caveirada, vtks-squares, vtks-syndicate, VtksCapsLoco (all caps), VtksEntulho (grunge), VtksSonho (elegant scratchy script), vtksalcalina, vtkscaveirada (grunge), vtkstrutagem (grunge), VTKS Encantar (grunge).

    In 2007, he designed VtksDesgaste, VtksWineLabel, VtksWineLabelTwo, VTKSBlackLabelNormal, VTKSBlackLabelNormalFilete, VtksBlack, VtksBlackLabel, VTKS Untitled (grunge), VTKS-News-Label, VTKS-ROCK-GARAGE-BAND, VTKS-SCRUBBED, vtks-REPORT-erRoR, VTKS Clean, VTKS Easy Way (informal outline lettering), VTKS Hardness (grunge), VTKS Mural (scratchy script), VTKS Alpes, VTKS No Name (ornamental caps), VTKS Beauty (ornamental caps), VTKS Refused (grunge), VTKS Gore, VTKS Estilosa, VTKS Bandana, VITKS Furious, VITK Colagem, VTKS36, VTKSDearLove (curly lettering), vtks38 (double-lined hand), vtksLemonDrop (comic book face).

    Fonts made in 2005 include D_OLD_MODERN, D_OLD_MODERN2, Scretch (scratchy face), Busseta, D Old Miner, Assign (handwriting), Fail (grunge) and Minus (scratchy face).

    Pay fonts include Beautiful Dreams, Black, Black Label, Bronze Age, Desgaste, Design Pencil, Embroidery, Funny Lines, Good Vibrations, Keep Your Mind Clean, Low Rider, Mixed Job, Natural Style, Number Zero, power Age, Sexy Lines, Shadow, Urban art, Victory, VTKS V2, Warrior, Wine Label, Xtra.

    FADU-UBA link. Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Old URL. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Drana

    Croatian graphic designer. She created a revival of a XVIth century ornamental caps typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Drop Caps

    Great drop caps font archive (shareware/freeware). Plus three Celtic fonts from Bay Animation Inc's Kelt family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Drop Caps

    A CSS tutorial on defining drop caps in CSS. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    D-Studio (Moscow)
    [Nikolay Dubina]

    DStudio, or Design Studio, is run by Nikolay Dubina, a prolific type designer. He is also a graphic designer, book designer and journalistic writer. He also runs the educational web site ProDTP. Their original Latin/Cyrillic fonts are of the highest quality, and include: Werewolf (2003), Werewolf NU (2003), DS Cosmo, DS Yermak, DS Eraser, DS Showbill, DS Poster Pen, DS Progress, DS Podd Cyr, DS Down Cyr, DS Comedy Cyr, DS Japan Cyr, DS Standart Cyr, DS Zombie Cyr, NewDeli, Stylo, Scrawl, the wonderful DS Nadejda, and DS OlymPix (2001, a pixel font), DPix8Pt (2003, pixel font), DS-Diploma-Bold, DS-Diploma, DSArmyCyr, DSBroadBrush, DS Brushess, DSComedyCyrBold, DSCyrillic, DSDiploma-Bold-Outline-DBL, DSDiplomaArt-Bold, DSDownCyr, DSEraserCyr, DS Initials (ornamental caps), DSJapanCyr--Normal, DSKolovrat, DSMechanicalBold, DSMotterHo, DSMotterStyle, DS Nova Black, DSPixelCyr, DSPoddCyrLight, DS Poster, DSPosterPen, DSProgress-SemiBold, DSRada, DSRussiaDemo, DSSharper, DS Sholom (Hebrew simulation), DSStain, DSStampCyr, DSStandartCyr, DSUstavHand, DSVTCoronaCyr, DSZombieCyr, InavelTetkaCyr, NadejdaBold, NewDeli (great display font!), Scrawl, SeedsCyr-Medium, Stylo-Bold.

    Direct access. More direct access. Some fonts are here. DS Century (2000).

    Dafont link where one can find DS Goose, DS Motter, DS Arabic and DS Stamper. Old URL. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dunnes Net

    Celtic and Gaelic truetype font archive. Has Celtic MD Decorative with Drop Caps and Cló Gaelach (Colum Twomey, 1993), for example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dusan Jelesijevic

    Serbian graphic designer located in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. Cofounder in 2009 with Slobodan Jelesijevic, his father, of the Serbian foundry Tour de Force. Creator of these typefaces:

    • Dusan Script (2009, Ascender: a monoline informal hand-printed script).
    • Artvod (2009, slabby and octagonal at the same time).
    • Qiltray (2009, handwriting for long texts).
    • Punkerro Crust (2009, delicious scratchy type).
    • Rough the Type (2009, blackboard style).
    • Shuma (2009, handwriting).
    • Dolina Script (2010).
    • Econs (2010, ecology dingbats).
    • Sensor (2010, an ink-trap monoline face).
    • Enforcer (2010, an elliptical headline sans).
    • Epruveta (2009).
    • Passage (2010, a great art deco family, including Initials and Borders).
    • Amanet (2011). A flared display face.
    • Osmacka azbukovica (2011). A Cyrillic font made by his kids in school.
    • The clean-cut semi-humanist sans family Centim (2011).
    • The Egyptian typefaces Saxophone Soprano and Saxophone Baritone.
    • Debelly (2011), one of the best typefaces to come out of Tour de Force. They say about this elegant fat poster face: Debelly is catchy fat typeface, with lovely geometric shapes. Inspired with contrast strokes, with square joins, Debelly gives an impression of retro style combined with contemporary trends. It is designed specially for packaging, posters, logotypes or headlines, even it can be pretty handfull in smaller sizes. Contains 375 glyphs.
    • Epitet (2011). A simple monoline family built around elegant elliptical shapes.
    • Refren (2012): A monoline script face.
    • Equator (2012): An avant-garde caps headline family.
    • Brisko Sans (2013). A straightforward sans family. Extended to Brisko Display (2012).
    • A day before Serbia was crushed by the Belgian soccer team, Dusan published the organic sans typeface Publio (2013).
    • Kamenica (2013). A display sans. Followed in 2017 by the gorgeous Kamenica Texture typeface family.
    • Nervatica (2013). A children's book font.
    • Lasta (2013) is an informal serif typeface advertized as poetic.
    • Selektor (2013). A geometrical almost techno sans family. This was followed by Selektor Slab (2013).
    • Bartender (2013). A copperplate typeface.
    • Lumier (2013). An all caps geometric sans family inspired by art deco posters from the interwar period. Followed by Lumier Texture and Lumier Rounded (2018).
    • Scholle (2014). A bouncy two-style inline family with cartoonish elements.
    • Hedon and Hedon Display (2014). A hedonistic sans that exhibits the sort of contrast one finds in inscriptional types.
    • Lumberjack (2014). A bouncy fat cartoon typeface. Not to be confused with Thiago Bellotti's Lumberjack (2013, Mushroom Type), it was renamed 24 hours after its first appearance to Lumberjacky.
    • Trampoline (2014). A funky typeface.
    • Dondolare (2014). A primitive hand-drawn typeface.
    • Balcon (2014) and Balcon Round (2014, a condensed rounded sans).
    • Scripton (2015). An urban wall brush type.
    • Manzello (2015: a workhorse text typeface).
    • Pleyo (2015). Hand-crafted, perhaps for children's books.
    • Dusan Script (2015).
    • Fartitudo (2015). Just for the name alone, this typeface deserves a medal. Fartitudo is a 3-style handcrafted all caps poster family in a genre that was kickstarted by Pintassilgo in Brazil.
    • Avram Sans (2016).
    • Dambera (2016) and Dambera Retro (2016). A connected script, perhaps suitable for children's books. Crazymond (2016). Hand-crafted semi-connected script.
    • Lunatino (2016). A poster script.
    • Plonker (2016). An all caps hand-printed typeface.
    • Fine New Bonbons (2016). A quaint candy store script.
    • Napolitanka (2016). A delicate high-fashion hifgh-contrast didone.
    • Businessland (2016). A rough handcrafted poster typeface.
    • Escondida. A high-contrast connected script.
    • Alonga (2017). A serif family with considerable contrast characterized by sharp triangular serifs.
    • Nula (2017). A 22-style humanist sans typeface family.
    • Mymoon (2017: a geometric sans in 22 styles), Mymoon Stencil, Mymoon Stencil Texture.
    • Landsick (2018). An intense script.
    • Blond (2018). A sans family that tends towards the humanist side.
    • Penfriend (2018). A script typeface.
    • Modny (2018). A fashion mag Peignotian sans family with a gorgeous inline style.
    • Stropha (2018). A compact slab serif family.
    • Hlad (2018). A distinguished 5-weight incised / lapidary typeface family.
    • Masny (2019). A no-nonsense modern sans family in 22 styles.
    • Connectica (2019). A retro connected script.
    • Dietal (2019). A condensed squarish military parade slab serif. Accompanied by Dietal Sans (2019).
    • Mondish (2019). A stylish sans family, perhaps best suited for fashionable environments.
    • Edicia (2019). A charming serifed typeface family.
    • Plaisir (2020). A serifed text family that oozes style.
    • Roanne (2020). a 44-style sans family characterized by a yawning lower case a.
    • Prego (2020). A 23-style Peignotian sans.
    • Prelom (2020). A retro wedge serif family in 15 styles.
    • Hartia (2020). A 10-style serif.
    • Silqa (2020). An art deco typeface on Novichok.
    • Finoteca (2020). A beatnik font.
    • Kondes (2020). A 20-style condensed squarish sans with variable styles.
    • Lupio (2021). In 20 styles: a variable and static geometric sans family.
    • OK Moral (2021). A Western font.
    • Ragazzi (2021). A 21-style with a didone skeleton but dwarfed serifs and sharper terminals.
    • Metropola (2021). A Victorian era sans accompanied by a variable font.
    • Stray (2021). An 18-style geometric sans for Latin and Cyrillic, with pinched connections.
    • Ancress (2021). A wide geometric sans in 14 styles.
    • Klaud (2021). A 14-style slab serif of Clarendon pedigree.
    • Fabular (2021). A twelve-style display serif.
    • Cat Fight (2021).
    • Bottled Moon (2021). A Victorian serif.
    • Povetarac (2021) and the superfamily consisting of Povetarac Didone, Povetarac Display, Povetarac Sans (2022). Each subfamily has 6 or 12 styles and contains a variable font.
    • Poruka (2022). A monolinear script.
    • King of August (2022). A retro signage script.

    Behance link. MyFonts link. His most popular typefaces showcased. Fontspring link. Klingspor link. View Dusan Jelesijevic's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dusan Todorovic

    During his graphic design studies in Belgrade, Dusan Todorovic created two great display typefaces, Future (2013) and Bugi (2013). Bugi is a white-on-black poster font that adds pizzazz to a page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dustin Chessin

    Creator of the vector format ornamental caps typeface Vallifont (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dustin Day

    Phoenix, AZ-based designer of the The Devil's Alphabet (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dylan Johnston

    During his studies in Farnham, UK, Dylan Johnston created the pixelish ornamental caps typeface Modular (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Echo Foxx Studios
    [Kristie Drews]

    Michigan (was: Los Angeles)-based designer of the outlined handcrafted typeface Tropikal (2016), the floral caps typeface Rhea (2017), and Into The Wilderness (2017).

    In 2018, she designed the ink splatter font duo of Forest and Pine (free demo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Edgard Cirlin

    Type designer from Jackson Heights, NY, who created an ornamental caps face for Oxford University Press in 1944. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Edmond Leroy

    Designer of L'Alphabet du petit Charles (1877). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eduard Ege

    München-based painter and graphic designer who designed type for Genzsch&Heyse, b. 1893, Stuttgart, d. 1978, München. He studied under Julius Dietz at the Kunstgewerbeschule München, and studied as well at the Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart. Eduard Ege made these typefaces:

    • Basalt (1926). A pre art deco all caps typeface.
    • Ege-Schrift (1921, Genzsch&Heyse). Jaspert, Berry and Johnson mention 1927. Seemann says 1923. Ege Schrift NF (2011, Nick Curtis) is a faithful revival of Ege-Schrift according to Curtis.
    • Ege Schmuck (1922, Genzsch&Heyse): ornaments for the Deutsche Druckschrift (Heinz König, 1888). A digitization and extension called DeutscherSchmuck was done by Manfred Klein and Petra Heidorn in 2004. Manfred added Druckschrift Initialen also in 2004.
    • Fiori Schmuck (for C.E. Weber): floral decorations.
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    Eduardo Manso Sayao

    Brazilian designer of the hand-printed all caps typeface Ruchedo Basico (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eduardo Notizia

    Art director at Leo Burnett in Milan. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Ritheart (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eduardo Recife
    [Misprinted Type]

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    Edward P. Cogger

    Designer of the decorative Funny Alphabet, some time between 1850 and 1864. It was published by McLoughlin Brothers in New York. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Edward Taylor

    Brooklyn, NY-based creator (b. 1989) of the ornamental caps typeface Cityscape (2012). Other typefaces done for various clients in 2013 include Seabeam, Neon and Songbird Thin (a stencil face).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Edwin Diaz

    Riverside, CA-based designer of the decorative all caps alphabet Yummy Calamari (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Efealcuadrado

    Illustrator in Madrid, b. 1986, who hgraduated from UCM. In 2016, she designed the spy detective caps alphabet Policiaca. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Egil Moeller

    Creator of CurlyHogRunes (2007), a gorgeous Celtic illuminated lettering font that is part of the Open Font Library. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Zhurkina

    Moscow-based designer who created Squareline (2014), a monoline compass-and-ruler typeface with a squarish techno look. She used Russian symbols, patterns and shapes in her initial caps typeface Russian Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ela Noboa

    Illustrator in Quito, Ecuador, who created an unnamed ornamental caps alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elaine Biss

    Lancaster, PA-based designer of Kiddie Sampler (2011) and Elaine (2006, curly hand-printed face).

    In 2012, she went commercial via Creative Market. Her fonts there include Kiddie Things Dingbats and Victoriana Caps (2012).

    Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elaine Fong

    Elaine Fong (Illinois) made illustrated drop caps for Scott Thomas's book Designing Obama. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elara Aitken

    During her studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Elara Aitken designed Basic Bites (2015, a fruit and vegetable-themed all caps alphabet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eleanor Ridsdale

    London-based graphic designer who graduated from Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Creator of the inline caps typeface Betsy Works (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Electric Blue Cat

    During her studies in Lille, France, "Electric Blue Cat" designed the decorative caps typeface Futurama (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Electric Typographer
    [Judith Sutcliffe]

    Judith Sutcliffe (Audubon, IA) is the Electric Typographer (est. 1986, Santa Barbara, CA). She has made absolutely exquisite highly original typefaces, which are sold by many foundries and vendors, including Will-Harris.

    Her typefaces: Abelard (1988, mediaeval), LeonardoHand (Da Vinci's handwriting--greeeeaaaat), Lutahline (clean hand-printed family), ArabiaFelix, Petroglyph (nice dingbat series), AuntJudy, BlockParty, PetroglyphHawaii, ItalianAElectric, TaglienteInitials (another great calligraphic font), TommysType (letters on a clothesline), Kiilani, and Troubador (1988-1989, mediaeval) and Troubador Initials (1989). Atomic Type sells her fonts. Other fonts: Petroglyph Hawaii (1993), Daylilies, Greene, GreeneGreene, Insecta, Leaves, OldstyleChewed, Finfont, Flourish, Hawaii Set, Maskerade, Santa Barbara Electric (1989, a Lombardic / uncial face; + Barbara Svelte, + Barbara Plump), Schampel, Electric Stamps, Daly Hand, Kiilani, Mesopotamia (1992). Emodigi site. At Will-Harris House, we find these fonts by Judith Sutcliffe: Catastrophe, Tommy, Daly Hand and Daly Text (based on the casual calligraphy of Pacific Northwest artist George Daly), Finfont (fish), Daylilies, Leaves, Flourish (calligraphic family), Greene&Greene (architectral lettering), a Hawaiian set consisting of Kiilani, Hibiscus (alphadings), and RockArt dingbats, Insecta (dings), Oldstyle Chewed, Leonardo (neat handwriting of DaVinci simulated), Petroglyphs, Schampel (blackletter), Serpent, Maskerade (masks), Tagliente (nice old-fashioned lettering and caps).

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

    Elena Lloveria

    Amsterdam-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Fantastica (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Naylor

    Scunthorpe, UK-based designer of Circus Cat Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elias Klingén

    Gothenburg, Sweden-based designer of a robot style ornamental caps alphabet (2012). This is perhaps not a font yet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elif Karabulut

    Elif Karabulut (Eskisehir, Turkey) created a teardrop and ball terminal-laden set of didone caps and called it Ivy Bodoni (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elika

    Located in Tbilisi, Georgia, Elika designed Onion Alphabet (2012, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elisa Bihan

    During her studies at AGR l'Ecole de l'Image in Nantes, France, Elisa Bihan designed a deconstructed Celtic ornamental caps alphabet called Couture Haut de Casse (2016), and City Futuriste (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elisabetta Vedovato

    Graphic designer in Milan, Italy, who created a colorful all caps collage alphabet in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizabeth Clemence

    Student at the University of Western England in 2011. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Decay (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizabeth McGuirl

    Elizabeth McGuirl (Sea Cliff, NY) studies graphic design at Rochester Institute of Technology. She created Deadly Decay (2012, an all caps ornamental typeface inspired by coral). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizabeth Moroz

    Clawson, MI-based graphic designer, b. Michigan. In 2015, she created a full set of Cyrillic drop caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizabeth Ruzicka

    During her studies, Uherske Hradiste, Czechia-based Elizabeth Ruzicka designed the floriated decorative caps typeface Ex Natura (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizabeth Sanders

    Los Angeles-based creator of a typeface called Body Print (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eljesa Gashi

    Creator of a decorative caps alphabet in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ella Yates

    San Diego, CA-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elle Levy

    Denver, CO-based designer of the free EPS and AI-format decoratice caps typeface Holiday AF (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elli Jaeger

    Hamburg-based designer and illustrator, who created an ornamental caps alphabet based on stamps called Stamp Collection (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ellie Cobb

    Ellie Cobb (London) created an untitled decorative textured caps typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elsa Z. Mersayeva

    Belgium-based Elsa Mersayeva is unique. She writes about herself: I'm all about typography, matryochkas, Paris, pirates, funny people, urban culture, Bukowski, red nails&messy hair, gangsters' bandanas, huge golden earings and unicorns. Her Chambéry typeface (2011) has elements of the Arts&Crafts movement. Sailor (2011) is an ornamental caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emil Karl Bertell
    [Fenotype]

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    Emilia Maj

    Graphic designer in Krakow, Poland. Creator of the display typefaces Casa (2013) and Penguin (2013) and of the ornamental intials Inicjaly (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Arnaut

    Letterer and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. In 2016, Emily created a drop cap alphabet. In 2017, she designed Iva Sans and the dot matrix typeface Dotty (free at FontStruct). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Birsa

    During her studies at York College of Pennsylvania in 2017, emily Birsa designed the fun silhouette alphabet Oxter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Johnston

    Nanaimo, BC-based student designer of the decorative caps typeface Flora (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Kluzak

    As a student in San Diego, CA, Emily Kluzak created a decorative handcrafted alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Mesli

    Marseille, France-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Barbershop (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Sutcliffe

    Leeds, UK-based designer of an unnamed decorative caps alphabet (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Waddecar

    Manchester, UK-based designer and student there in 2012 at the University of Salford. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Early Bird (2012). This typeface was published at Salford Type Foundry in 2012.

    In 2013, she published the paperclip and circle-based typeface Continuous.

    Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emily Xie

    Santa Monica, CA-based designer of the modern decorative caps typeface Geometric Alphabet (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emma Brooks

    During her studies in Rochester, NY, Emma Brooks designed the ornamental caps typeface Seals (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emma Takiwa

    During her graphic design studies in Auckland, New Zealand, Emma Takiwa created the ornamental caps typeface Maori (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emma Vignati

    Geneva, Switzerland-based designer of the experimental decorative caps typeface Dingbat (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emory Allen

    Illustrator in Minneapolis, MN, who designed a colorful splashing water decorative caps typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Empty Page Studio
    [Lukasz Kulakowski]

    Lukasz Kulakowski, a Polish graphic designer in Dublin and Baile Atha Cliath, Ireland, created the free typeface Mosaic Leaf (2011), which was inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk typeface. In 2012, he published Orbits (a prismatic multiline face, done with Zbyszek Czapnik).

    Typefaces from 2013 include the free display typeface Rhubarb Display Font (a condensed art deco sans caps family for Latin and Cyrillic done with Zbyszek Czapnik). In 2014, he created the tweetware font Christmas Time.

    Emptypage Studio is presently located in New York City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emrah Güzel

    Art director in Istanbul, Turkey, who created the decorative caps typeface Anatalian Deko in 2019, two weeks after Erdogan invaded Syria. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Encre et Lumière

    French calligraphy blog. It has some nice examples of 14th through 16th century writing.

    • Commonplace book - Plimpton MS 276, England, 16th century.
    • Ms Coste 134, lettres cadeaux A and E (ca. 1399-1433), taken from the work of notaries Andreas Pererii, Johannes Pererii, Raymondus Pererii and Johannes de Bereysiaco, in Terrier de l'obéance du Grand Comtal du chapitre cathédral de Saint-Jean de Lyon.
    • Ms Coste 134: same reference, but letter P only.
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    Enluminures

    French government site about illuminated initials. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Enrique Larios

    Graphic designer in Guadalajara, Mexico, who created Handphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Enrique Molina

    Barcelona-based illustrator. Graduate of EASD Serra i Abella, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelon, andUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya. In 2015, he created the decorative and gory typeface Gorecedario (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    E-phemera (was: HPLHS Prop Fonts, and earlier: Prop Fonts)
    [Andrew H. Leman]

    Andrew Leman is a prop designer in Hollywood, CA. The type foundry HPLHS Prop Fonts (was: Ephemera, Prop Fonts) was started by Hollywood's Andrew Leman, and is now located in Pasadena, CA. Some fonts are free, most are commercial.

    Dafont link. Klingspor link.

    Andrew Leman's fonts:

    • Cablegram (2001, old typewriter face, T-26).
    • Leviathan.
    • Garamold (2007, 2 styles).
    • Journalistic (2007, a blackletter inspired by the nameplate of a New England newspaper from the 1920s).
    • Blackburn (2006, distressed).
    • RTemporal (2006, blackletter).
    • Fonts in the HPLHS series, dated 2002: HeadlineTwoHPLHS, OldStyle1HPLHS, OldstyleItalicHPLHS, OldstyleSmallCapsHPLHS, Rogo, SlabSerifHPLHS, TelegramHPLHS, WW2BlackletterHPLHS, WW2BlackltrAltHPLHS, HPLHS-Lovecraft Cursive and Block (replica of H. P. Lovecraft's own handwriting), HPLHS-Autograph Lanier (replica of the 1875 handwriting of Sidney Lanier, a 19th century American poet), HPLHS-TextSerif (really Linotype Antique No. 1), HPLHS-TypoScript, HPLHS-TextSerif Oblique, HPLHS-Bulfinch, HPLHS-Colwell, HPLHS-Colwell Italic, HPLHS-Cromwell, HPLHS-National Oldstyle (after Goudy's font by that name), HPLHS-Post Monotone, HPLHS-Atlas Italic, HPLHS-Italic, HPLHS-Victoria (from the 1923 ATF book), HPLHS-Manuscript Caps, HPLHS-Tome Pi, HPLHS-TypoGothic, HPLHS-Copperplate Roman, HPLHS-Gothic520, HPLHS-Times Gothic, HPLHS-Persnickety, HPLHS-Roman Engraved, HPLHS-Mercantile, HPLHS-Mercantile Oblique, HPLHS-Mercantile Card, HPLHS-Headline Modified, HPLHS-ExtraExtra, HPLHS-Extra (wood type), HPLHS-Forsythe, HPLHS-MetroThin, HPLHS-MetroLight, HPLHS-MetroMedium, HPLHS-MetroMedium Italic, HPLHS-MetroBlack, HPLHS-Policy Gothic, HPLHS-Black Gothic, HPLHS-Gothic Compressed, HPLHS-Black Condensed, HPLHS-Black Oblique, HPLHS-Electro Gothic, HPLHS-Blackletter (an irregular hand-drawn textura font based on the lettering of French heraldic engraver Charles Demengeot).
    • The E-phemera Font Collection, available from MyFonts, which includes these fonts, with a majority being retro or script typefaces: Policy Gothic (2012, an eroded caps face), Mooseheart (2012), Operapolitan (2012), Fishwrapper (2012), Fred (2007, inspired by a 1930s typeface by Fred G. Cooper), Schreibweise (2007, a pirate-flavored font inspired by a hand-lettered manuscript dating from 1492), Cablegram-Regular, Golden Ticket (2003: Base, Fill, Highlight; a digitization of hand-drawn poster lettering by Otto Heim from 1925), Cablegram-Urgent, Cablegram-Madras, Cablegram-Ottoman, Julius Klinger (2003, based on 1925 fabric lettering by Julius Klinger), Cablegram-Zagreb, DMV Printer, Landry Gothic, Telegrafo, Toronto Gothic (2003: worn wood type or letterpress emulation, close to Condensed Titling Gothic #11), Vogue (pencil-lettered caps), Penitentiary Gothic (+Fill, +Lolite, +Hilite, +Shadow), Chicago House, Compliments (+Upright), Satisfaction (script based on 1930s cigarette ads), Vandal Broke Extra Juicy, Lanier (2004), Impersonal. The Cablegram and DMV series are typewriter fonts. Heck Italic (2010) is based on captions, labels and legends appearing on 19th-century maps and natural history engravings by Johann Georg Heck. Dai Vernon (2010) is based on the handwriting of card magician Dai Vernon.

    View Andrew Leman's typefaces. View the E-phemera typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Eric D. Carver

    Eric Carver (Kansas City, KS) designed the condensed squarish caps typeface Fong (2011, a typeface inspired by the artwork of Barry McGee) and the scratchy typeface Ghetto Palm (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eric Vasquez

    Eric Vasquez is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer. Eric has a BA in Graphic Design from the New England Institute of Art in Boston. In 2012, he created the ornamental caps typeface Royal Highness. Creattica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erica Mallia

    St. Paul's Bay, Malta-based designer of the free decorative caps typeface Petals (20178). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erica Sirotich

    Erica Sirotich (San Francisco) iwsmages inspired by children, animals and anthropomorphic critters. She designed Creature Alphabet (2012) for a children's print for Cuddlefish Press. These letterforms are based on the Adelle Basic font from Type Together. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erick Portillo

    Graphic designer in Ixtapaluca, Mexico, who created the decorative 3d typeface Portillo (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erik Baars

    Kiwi graphic designer based in Auckland. Behance link. His fonts include Cirone (2009, art deco), and Enever (2009, techno). He is working on the ornamental capitals typeface Mad Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erik Gonzalez

    Guanajuato, Mexico-based designer of the formidable and colorful decorative caps alphabet called Snapchat Geofilters Brazil (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erik Marinovich
    [Nuform Type Foundry]

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    Erika Box

    Creator of a bilined caps typeface in 2012: Typeface inspired by the Melbourne Cup horse races. I wanted to mix the timeless elegance of serif typefaces with the glamour of the Melbourne Cup. The font was inspired by the beautiful feathers on the hats, the bubbling champagne and the swift, smooth movements of the horses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erika Puf

    Fontstructor who made Erika Puf (2012, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erikka Schulz

    O'Fallon, MO-based designer of an ornamental caps alphabet based on ballet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erin Armstrong

    Erin Armstrong (Atlanta, GA) created the Sci-fi Fantasy Alphabet (2011, all caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erin Chen

    In 2016, she created the colorful geometric alphabet Nagy to pay tribute to the work of Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. She also designed the geometric all caps typeface Newton's Cradle (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Erolcan Özdemir

    Turkish creator of the gorgeous all-caps brush script Silk Road (2009) and of Grafitrk (2009, graffiti face). Another alias: Selman Ay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Errance Nocturne

    French designer interested in medieval and renaissance art. He created two free fonts at Devian Tart: Gothique Cursive V.II (2007, a medieval hand), 1413 Cursive (2006) and Hans Holbein (2006, decorative caps based on Hans Holbein's work: La Danse Macabre, 1523, and L'Alphabet des Enfants, 1532). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ESI Designs

    Creator of these display typefaces in 2017: Floral Mandala (textured caps), Promise, Kick Font, Simply Dotty (connect-the-dots), In The Clouds (watercolor brush). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Esmeralda Mejia

    During her studies at the Art Institute of Vancouver, Esmeralda Mejia (b. El Salvador, 1996) designed the textured caps typeface Frida (2018), the slimy typeface Monstrocity (2017) and the decoirative caps typeface Pipes (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Esperanza Calleja

    Lanzarote, Spain-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Cesar Manrique (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Est71

    American vector artist. Designer of Charged Insomnia (2008, LED font), Mezzanine (2007, ultra-fat), S.O.T.D. (2006, 1890-style caps face), Dog Star (2006, modeled after the Sirius radio font), Blowback (2007, display face), Alpha (2006, outline pixel face) and Pf Animals (2006, a stencil typeface modeled after Pink Floyd's "ANIMALS" album). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Esther Rahayu

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Nusantara Bali (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Estudio Cao
    [Lucaz Mathias]

    Lucaz Mathias (Estudio Cao, Jacarei, Brazil) designed the blackboard bold art deco typeface family Bink (2012), the experimental typeface Tupiaria (2015), and the gorgeous colorful ornamental caps typeface Latinidad (2015).

    Behance link. Home Page. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eszter Herczeg

    Photographer Eszter Herczeg earned her Bachelor degree in graphic design at Visart Academy of Art and Design, Budapest. She designed the (naked) Body Typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ethan Barber

    During his studies at Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL-based Ethan Barber created Regal Triumph Sans (2015, avant garde), Rubber Flex Sans (2015) and Cacti (2015, decorative caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ethel Larcombe

    Ethel Larcombe (1879-1965, Britain) created this romantic art nouveau alphabet, ca. 1900. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eugène Morel

    Author of Grand Alphabet Amusant (1890), published by Pellerin in France. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eugen Kaelin

    German designer of the ornamental caps Verzierte Anfangsbuchstaben für Liturgisch (1988), to accompany Otto Hupp's Liturgisch (1906). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eugene Rudyy
    [Hello Keepa]

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    Eugene Shestopalov

    Khabarovsk, Russia-based designer of the ornamental typeface NRG (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eunice Ying

    Shanghai-based designer of a set of (Latin) initial caps inspired by Chinese folk art (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eutalia De La Paz

    New Jersey-based illustrator who designed the silhouette typeface Yoncé (2019), which is based on Beyoncé's poses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eva Barabasne Olasz
    [Digital Typeface Studio (was: Evas Unique Fonts)]

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    Eva Reuter

    During her art studies in Kiev, Ukraine, Eva Reuter designed the eerie all caps alphabet The Ghosts Of An Old Cemetery (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eve Lyn Lau

    Petaling Jaya, Malaysia-based designer of the floral caps typeface Hoppity (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evelyn Arauz

    Panama City-based student-designer of the decorative caps typeface Clawvy (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Everyone's favorite Halloween fonts

    Lists of Halloween font names. Mentioned are: Deathhead Kelt Caps, Mephisto, Spider Webb, Spirits, Headstone, Bat Ben, Pumpkinese, Monsters Attack!, Solstice of Suffering, Abaddon, Laderbog, Munster Mash, Pirate, Blood Feast, Bonz Display Caps SSK, Tombstone, Oogie Boogies, Scarecrow, Monsto Caps, Groovy Ghosties, Creepy Graves, Bones, Bloody, Spiderman, Zombie, Graveyard, Halloween Match, Blood of Dracula, Headhunter, Spooky, Bone Black, Transylvania, Fossil, Anhedonia, Blue Cake, Cramps, Creature, Demon Night, GreenFuz, Haunt, Horror Hotel, Karloff, PostCrypt, Rocky, Schlop, Eency Weency Spider, Satanic Participants, Halloween Spider, Scary Monsters, Skull Capz, 4YEOHalloween, rmghost4, RMSpider2, Halloween Kiddy Font, Punkins, Gravestone Bats, Helloween 2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniy Litvin

    Aka Drosselmayer. Evgeniy Litvin is the Ukrainian designer (b. 1990) of the free (Latin) sharp-serifed caps typeface Capitel Gothick (2012).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniya Savenkova

    Graphic design student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. During her studies, she created the fat comic book style Cyrillic typeface called Dancing (2012). Earlier, in 2009, she created the ornamental Latin caps typeface Masked Ball Font.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Bulash
    [Design Station]

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    Evyn Fong

    Davis, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Girly Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ewelina Gaska

    Warsaw-based graphic designer, who created the free dry brush typeface Mazak and the experimental decorative caps typeface New Color Font in 2015. In 2018, she designed a gorgeous abstract multiline poster alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Exclamachine Type Foundry
    [Choz Cunningham]

    Choz Cunningham (b. 1975, Santa Cruz, CA) is a Las Vegas and more recently, Nashville, TN-based designer and artist, who set up Exclamachine in 2005. Until 2012, exclamachine published free fonts. In 2012, it went commercial via MyFonts.

    Designer of Whiskey Songs (2007), Crass Roots, Crass Roots Alt (2016), and Crass Roots OFL (2007, stencil), Misqot (2006), The Troubles (2006), Limberjack (2006, an ornate wood titling font), this blackletter-inspired serif face (2006), Futurelic (2006, futuristic), Zugzwang (2006), Sketchy Times Bold (2005, grunge), Sketchy Times (2005, grunge), Basket of Hammers (2005, a nice wallpainting/graffiti font). His company, also called Exclamachine Foundry, where these fonts can be downloaded: The Black Bloc (2006, blackletter-inspired), MISQOT (2006), Kutura Frontalis (2006), PaulMaul (2006), Zugzwang (2006), Sketchy Times (2006), Carlos Caffeinated (2006), Basket of Hammers (2006), Disc Inferno (2006, LED simulation), Rosda Laevigata)2007, handprinting), and this heavy metal band font (2006).

    In 2012, Choz published the commercial typefaces MISQOT (scratchy) and Paul Maul XT (irregular hand-printed face).

    Typefaces from 2013: FinFang (comic book style caps), Lestatic Slashed (+Condensed), Lestatic Obsidian Outline (grungy), Lestatic Lashed (Arabic simulation face), Lestatic Celerite, Lestatic Carved, Lestatic CSS, Lestatic Withered Condensed, Lestatic Withered, Lestatic Sliced.

    Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Exclamations (or: The Boutons)
    [Gary David Bouton]

    Gary David Bouton and Barbara Bouton's site was called Exclamations. Gary has been writing books on computer graphics for over 20 years, inlcuding eight books on Corel Draw. In 2015, Gary went commercial as Gare.

    Their typefaces: International Symbols (2015, an icon font), Twooth (2015), Greek Diner Inline (2015, based on Carol Twombly's Lithos), BifurOverlay (2015, an overlay font based on Cassandre's Bifur (1929)), Bouton Kursiv (2008), Odissey (2008), Russel Write (2010), Elephants and Bears (dingbats), GreekDiner Inline, GeotypeTT (1997), WebKnobsTT (1997), Beacon (2008, a Schwabacher), BOUTON Nouveau Ornaments II (2009), BifurFoundation (2010), BifurOverlay (2010, after Cassandre's Bifur), Frankfurter Venetian (2008, fat rounded horizontally striped all caps face), Folks (medieval caps), Nouveau Rococo Deco Dings I (2008, art nouveau ornaments), Simulata (2006, geometric deco typeface with Bifur influences), Whimsy (comic book font), SymbolsTT (1998, charityware dingbat font).

    Exclamations link. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    EZ Byzantine Music Font Package

    Greek/Byzantine music font package brought to you by Father Ephraim from the Greek Orthodox St. Anthony's Monastery in Arizona: EZ-Oxeia, EZ-Fthora, EZ-Psaltica, EZ-Special-I, EZ-Special-II, EZ Omega. These fonts are similar to the fonts from CYLLOGOS MOUSIKOFILON CON.

    The Byzantine Drop Caps package includes Agion Oros XHR (1994, by I.M. Grhgorioy), EileenCaps, Genesis, MgAgiaSofiaUC, MgAgionOrosUC, MgByzantineUCPol, MgEkklisiaUC, MgGothicOld, MgKonstantinosUC, MgViking, MrSByzantinePT, Mt, PFGoudyInitials, PFKonstantinople and PFKonstantinopleInitials. The fonts starting with Mg are by Magenta, ca. 1989. The PF fonts refer to Parachute, ca. 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Faak and Paat Studio
    [Julien Fesquet]

    French design studio in Bordeaux set up in 2012 by Julien Fesquet and Benoit Baron, who were joined by Julien Taddei in 2013. Designers of the free display typeface Cascade Grotesk (2014), which is an experimental hybrid between Cascade Script and Brandon Grotesque. They also created the free high-contrast font Delicate (2014) and the free varied caps typeface 26 (2013).

    In 2016, they finished the Escher style typeface Deus. LVtiK (2017) is a take on Helvetica. Khodja (2016) is a piano key typeface. Slantit (2017) is an experimental stone cut typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Faberfonts
    [Frank Béla]

    Frank Béla (b. 1978, Orosháza, Hungary) is a graphic design student at Krea Art School in Budapest who uses the pseudonym Fabergraph. Home page. Blog. In 2010, he started out commercially as Faberfonts. Dafont link. Behance link. Klingspor link.

    He created the ink trap font Portrait Of A Lady (2009), FR Irisz (2009, didone family), Pontifex (2009), the hand-printed Munkácsy 1120 (2009), the unicase Reka Sans (2009), the thick-thin Azur (2009), the simple sans Babyface (2009), the medieval sorcery font Elmulas (2009), the Valentine;s Day font Sapet (2009), the avant garde sans family Hopper Sans (2009) and the ultra-fat typeface Rendezvous (2009). Callimachos (2009) is a fun triple-lined hand-printed headline typeface (with a Cyrillic version added in). Azur Title Font (2009) is a hairline slabbed typewriter type. Pasta Simpla (2009, followed by FR Pasta Mono in 2010) is another experimental jewel. Hobbista (2009) mixes symbols and glyphs. FR Rama Nous (2009) is a free modular font. In 2009, he also made Arrow, Enamel Paint Type, Belonging (Roman caps).

    Commercial fonts made in 2010: FR Unalom, FR Sniccer (stencil), FR Ceruza, FR Minta (a dingbat typeface to make labyrinthine patterns; +Two), FR Tabula (beveled face), FR Smaragdina, FR Mintry One and Two (pattern fonts), and a custom alphabet for Esquire Russia, FR Hopper (monoline sans family).

    Activity in 2011: A didone-inspired typeface called MFA Dagi that was was commissioned for a catalog of an exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fabrice Ducouret
    [Fabulous Rice Fonts]

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    Fabulous Rice Fonts
    [Fabrice Ducouret]

    Fabrice Ducouret (Fabulous Rice, b. 1981) was a Paris-based film maker and designer. He uses the funny pseudoname Subarashi Sakana. His home town is Chatenay-Malabry but he currently lives in Berkeley, CA.

    Fabrice created Kwaliteit (2007, dymo label font), Message in a bottle (a simple hand-printed face), Scrawling, Smoothie (primitive hand), Diskoboll (2002), Colcothar (2008, African bold sans), April 16 (2008, child's script), Fly Leg (another children's hand), No Futur (2008, grunge), GeoffDarrow (3d hand-printed outline face), Fabrice Handwriting, and Anthracite (2003, shaded metal surface simulation).

    In 2010, he went commercial. His commercial typefaces include Tar Teen (2010, an art deco all caps family).

    In 2012, he published commercial versions of these fonts: Smoothie (hand-printed), Peau Lisse (ornamental caps), Open Hype (hand-printed), Kwaliteit (grunge), Herod (grunge), Fontaine (hand-printed), Ferric (hand-printed caps), Fabrice (hand-printed), Dumb Thick (hand-printed), Deadly Thin (hand-printed), Darrow (outlined 3d face), Colcothar (a great hand-drawn poster face: based on a calligraphic alphabet I often use for my comic books, my film title sequences, or my notebooks), Bold Mine (hand-printed), Ask for Damage (hand-printed), April 16 (child's hand), Anthracite, 3X3 (dot matrix).

    Sworded (2015) and Metal Cry (2015) are great layerable typeface families.

    View Fabrice Ducouret's typefaces.

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

    Faitotoro

    Designer of the EPS format children's font Pastel (2015), Masking Tape Alphabet (2015), and Donut Vector Font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fakhri Aristo

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Lakuta (2017), a decorative all caps typeface based on traditional Indonesian patterns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fanny Coulez

    French designer of The Hand (2013, hand-printed caps co-designed with Julien Saurin, La Goupil), The Serif Hand (2013, also with Julien Saurin), Insolente (2013, a connected script typeface done with Julien Saurin at La Goupil), Neo Phoenician (a straight-edged rune simulation font done with Julien Saurin at La Goupil, 2013), Naive (a curly hand-printed typeface family done with Julien Saurin at La Goupil, 2013), and of Naive Inline (2013, La Goupil: blackboard bold, layered) and Naive Inline Sans (2014).

    Typefaces from 2014: Pontiac Inline (by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin---a classy almost art deco inline caps font with layering and shadow and other effects).

    Typefaces from 2015: Pontiac (also with Julien Saurin).

    Typefaces from 2016: Naive Line Sans, Naive Line. A great all caps handcrafted sans serif font designed by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin. Followed in 2017 by Naive Sans and Naive Deco Sans.

    Typefaces from 2018: Papercute Inline, Colette (an inky script).

    Typefaces from 2021: Almarose (an 18-style geometric sans).

    Typefaces from 2022: The Hand Wide (hand-printed). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fanny Papay

    Illustrator in Budapest who designed the ornamental caps alpahbet Hy Type in 2012. In 2013, she created Addiction Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fat Font Files

    Small archive of big font files, typically dingbats and initial caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fatema Buasallai

    Galali, Bahrein-based designer of the decorative floral caps alphabet Sakura (2014) and the ornamental alphabet Anime (2014). She also created some pictograms in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fatima Ordinola

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Lima, Peru, who created the decorative caps alphabet The Musicians in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fayth Foo

    Fayth Foo (Singapore) created the watercolor alphabet Riviera Illuminati in 2013 during her advertising studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    F.C. Herrick

    British poster artist who drew a roman capital alphabet (maybe even a typeface) for the Empire Exhibition in Wembley in 1924. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Federico Galvani
    [Happycentro]

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    Felicia Keresztes

    Budapest, Hungary-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Nest (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Felicia Rotert

    Locust Grove, OK-based lettering artist who designed the free color all caps typeface Harmony and the free hipster color font Naive in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fenotype
    [Emil Karl Bertell]

    Fenotype, a Finnish type foundry, has the original (often techno) designs of Emil Bertell (b. 1983, Helsinki) and his brother Erik Bertell and wife Kea Bertell. Emil has been studying graphic design at University of Art&Industrial Design in Helsinki since 2004. He designed most of his typefaces during 2001-2004, and works as a freelance illustrator. Behance link.

    Typefaces made in 2002: Disco (prismatic), Lakmus, Valimo, FUTU, Test1, Foton Torpedo, Cheaptype, Personal Computer, Copycut, Unicode 0024, HKI Metro, HKI NightLife, Digital Kauno, Fenotravels (dingbats), Tivoli, Kosmonaut, 10124, JouluFonttiFenotype, Testi, 1laitos, 1120, 0629 (2002, a kitchen tile font), 0927, 0210, FTdingsprevi, Fenotypedings#lego3, Genotype, NeoPangaia, NeoPangaia 2, Nipponblocks, Pectopah, Personalcomputer, Pouttu, Samarin (2002, athletic lettering), Unicode0024, URALphat, URALthin, URAL, URAL3d (all Latin/Cyrillic fonts with incomplete punctuation though), Automania (multiline), Copycut, Halo, 222_2003, Tantor, Letters, Rikos, Lastu, ThreeTheHardWay, Bukkake, Halo. Emil's brother Erik designed Neon (paperclip face), Mama and Mama Round (paperclip typefaces). In private email, he calls himself Carl. The foundry evolved from 2theleft.

    Fonts made in 2003: Military Dingbats, 08 02 03 Fenotype, Projectsfenotype, Rock-it.

    Fonts made in 2004: Scandinavian Titan white, Scandinavian Titan, Acid Test 2, Acid Test (texture typefaces), 080203, Letters11, Linja, Projects, Rock it, Simpletype. Commercial typefaces: Sapluuna, Shortcut, Transeuro-Express, Omega-Uros, Fenotype Dings, Military Dingbats, Nippon Noodle. Typefaces made in 2004: Kolari, Kolari Light, FTfaces, Twisted Ontogenesis. Alternate URL.

    In 2005: RoundAbout, Nihilist Philosophy, Boogie Monster, Chunky Hunk (Western), Diy Typeface (kitchen tile style), Futuretro (stencil-like), 3TheHardWayOverrun, Pedant Dilettante, FT Rosecube, FT Blockbuster, 3TheHardWayRMX, Adios Gringo (Western face), Helsingfurt (3d oil glow face), Cream Soda (liquid), Thashed Paper Bag, Big Medium.

    In 2006: Rock It Deluxe (grunge), Cassette (dingbats), Kings Garden (Japanese trees as dingbats).

    MyFonts link, opened in 2009, where one can buy 080203, 3 The Hard Way Overrun, 3 The Hard Way RMX, Adios Gringo, Depth Charge, FT Helsingfurt, FT Roundabout, FT Scandinavian Titan, FT Twisted Ontogenesis, Ice Cream Soda, Kings Garden, Kolari, Nihilist Philosophy, Old Note, Rock It, November Script, and Majestic Mishmash (ransom note caps), Digital Kauno (2002, upright script), 10.12, EB Vintage Future, Fenotype Dingbats, FT Forest, FT Funghis, FT Military Dingbats, FT Weapon of Choice, Motel Xenia, URAL, Valima.

    Additions in 2010: Linguine (connected script), FT Telegraph (slab serif), FT Brush, FT Industry Machine, FT Giorgio, Killer Elephant (signage), FT Supervisor (ultra-condensed), FT Dead Mans Diary (scribbly), FT Grandpa Script (grunge calligraphy), FT Stamper (angular lettering), FT Tantor (fat, rounded), FT Bronson (fat display typeface with mustache dings thrown in), FT Master of Poster (bi-level display typeface with many ligatures and interlocking letters), FT Hidden Forest (tree dingbats), FT Mammoth (grotesque headline face), Rikos (futuristic), Squarendon Extra Bold (2010, a Clarendon), FT Moonshine Script (a Treefrog style face), Billboard (a hand-printed rounded caps family), EB Bellissimo Display (rounded monoline sans), Malamondo (an all caps display typeface with a large number of interlocking ligatures), Linja (2002 and 2010, a rounded ultra condensed family), Punavuori (2002 and 2010: a monoline sans family), Signor (2010, a rounded all caps family), Mrs. Lolita (connected script), Funghi Mania (mushroom dingbats), Funghi Mania Script, Darlington (very open upright connected script family), Archipelago (+Caps: an upright connected script), Tower (pieces that enable one to modularly construct towers when stacked; created as a school assignment at the University of Industrial Art&Design Helsinki in 2006), Monster (just as Tower but for monsters), Verna (informal face with ball terminals), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna).

    Typefaces from 2011: Pepita Script (an upright connected script with small lachrymal terminals), Pepito (its nonconnected version), Barber (upright script family), Banzai Bros (a fat caps-only signage face), Mishka (an upright connected script with tear drop terminals).

    In 2012, he created Salamander Script, Taiga (connected upright script), Mercury Script (a set of upright connected script typefaces), Slim Tony (a bubblegum retro signage face) and Mercury Ornaments.

    Typefaces from 2013: No. Seven (a successful brushy signage or baseball script), Alek and Alek Ornaments (an upright signage script), Voyage (a vintage script), Barracuda Script (brushy signage face), Bonbon (signage script), Bonbon Ornaments, Scaramouche (a playful connected script).

    Typefaces from 2014: Larry (sturdy connected script), Silver (upright connected script), Powder Script, Peaches And Cream (creamy signage or baseball script), In and Out (a connected retro signage script), The Carpenter (a script family in the style of Mercury Script).

    Typefaces from 2015: HMS Gilbert (a collection of 14 hand-crfated vintage types), Lager (a signage script family with adaptable swashes and other opentype goodies), Vanilla Shot, Journey (a smooth and elegant vintage script family of four weights and a matching ornament set, packed with alternate characters, and, in Bertell's style, perfect connections between glyphs), Tea Biscuit (signage script), Skipper, Skipper (connected script), Frost (a signage typeface that is just right, a sure award winner), Monday (sign apinting typeface).

    Typefaces from 2016: Jazz Script, Fragola (sign painting font), Syrup (sign painting font), Cosmopolitan (monoline connected script), Bluebell (copperplate calligraphic script), Inkston (vernacular brush script together with the standard handcrafted sans and text styles), Beaujolais (brush script), Black Script (a heavy signage script), Beaujolais (an organic brush script), Cold Brew (signage script), Inkheart (tattoo style).

    Typefaces from 2017: Camper (monoline script, accompanied by Camper Print), Aether Rain (thin script), Thang, Big Fish, Bolton (Bolton Script and Bolton Script, and the degraded Bolton Print pack), Vodka (Slab, Sans, Pen and Brush), Poster Brush, Fresh Press (signage style), Praktika (grotesk), Praktika Rounded, Blossoms, Kitchen (sign painting brush), Letterpress Studio, Takeaway, Aether Rain, Pitcher (baseball script), Karu (a workhorse sans), Bluebell (calligraphic), Roster (signage script), Dog Days, Catsy, Alfons (in Script, Display, Sans, Serif, Tiki, Extras and Ornaments subfamilies), Cosmopolitan (monoline script and sans pair), Snooker (retro signage script), Salty (a creamy brushed signage typeface).

    Typefaces from 2018: Aster Script, Audrey (a monoline script and sans duo), Galatea (a 48-style sans family by Erik and Emil Bertell), Double Porter (an 18-style font collection with scripts, sans, and grunge faces thrown in the mix), Matchstick, Fruitos, Corner Deli (a layerable set of fonts in script and sans styles), Bayamo (a brush script done for Monotype), Sidecar (a connected monoline neon sign script, and a matching sans), Ginger John, Brush Marker, Shirataki (monoline soft pen script), Ash (a crayon font), Breakfast Script, Dallas Print Shop (a display family by Teo Tuominen and Emil Karl Bertell), Capital (a sans and serif family by Teo Tuominen, Erik Jarl Bertell and Emil Karl Bertell). Elixir, Maestri (a classical connected scrupt by Teo Tuominen and Emil Karl Bertell), Popcorn (brush script), Cherry (signage script), Goodwater, Signature Script, Kingfisher (a beer botle signage script), Sonder (brush script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Taurus (an all caps logotype family by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Ex Libris (a high contrast flared serif titling font), Riley (a retro sign painting script), Allison Script, Milky (a sign-painting brush script), Portland (a reverse contrast typeface by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Zeit (a transitional text typeface by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Boardwalk Avenue Rough (a monoline script and a weathered all caps sans), Avion (a sans family by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Yes Script, Gainsborough (script), Florian (a roman typeface with crisp edges and some contrast), Vogue Sans (a haute couture all caps contrast sans), Fabrica (a decorative frilly didone by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Chai (an expressive sans / serif hybrid), Rainmaker Script (monoline), Aequitas (a stylish sharp-edged roman typeface family), Tapas (by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen: a Serif, Sans, Deco and Script collection), Lawrence (a stylish roman typeface), Kallio Brush (a signage brush script), Morison (a great 32-style wedge serif typeface by Erik and Emil Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Felicity Serif (a juicy bold high-contrast serif), Las Palmas (Brush, Pen, Slab, Condensed), Honey Drops, Explorer, Boardwalk Avenue (a sans/script font duo), Skye (a heavy decorative didone), Leftfield (a retro baseball script), Steak And Cheese, Agile Sans (a humanist sans by Emil Karl Bertell, Erik Jarl Bertell, and Teo Tuominen), Punk Rocker, Silverline, Perfume (Pen, Brush and Sans), Hops And Barley, Allison.

    Typefaces from 2020: Laurel (by Teo Tuominen, Emil Bertell and Erik Bertell: a 4 style sans with amnay wedge elements), Omnipop (Sans, Brush, Script), Paper Tiger (a Victorian Script accompanied by a condensed flared serif in two weights and a chunky sans serif), Resolve Sans (by Teo Tuominen, Emil Bertell and Erik Bertell: an extensive grotesk super family of 124 fonts: from compressed to extended, thin to black), Gambler (a 14-style display type collection), Rockford Sans (2020: an 8-style geometric sans with large x-height and slightly rounded corners; Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Slacker (a brush script), Grand Atlantic (a vintage display package), Magnolia (Brush, Serif), Walden (a heavy rustic serif typeface by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Klik (a geometric sans family with Bauhaus influences, by the dynamic trio of Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Rose Garden Deluxe (a font duo), Felicity (a heavyweight display sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Alonzo (a 24-style Peignotian sans by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Imagist (a 12-style sharp-edged serif by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Maine (a 12-style modernized book antiqua by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Briston (a bold creamy serif in the Windsor genre), Lagom (a 16-style slab serif with some Clarendon charm; by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Skillet (a chubby Cooper Black-genre typeface full of hedonism and joie de vivre), Kings Valley (a decorative serif), Shaker Script (monolinear), Wonder (a 12-style rounded serif in the style of Windsor; by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Ellie Script (a signature script), Dirty Sundae (a casual font), Grand Cru (a refined serif family with 36 styles; by Emil Bertell, Erik Bertell and Teo Tuominen), Kiosk (a 4-style vintage headline typeface family in Script and Sans versions).

    Typefaces from 2022: Blood Orange (in the Cooper Black / Windsor / Souvenir genre), Tomato Ketchup (supermarket kitsch in the fat rounded Windsor genre).

    Dafont link. Behance link. Creative Market link. MyFonts interview.

    View the Fenotype typeface library.

    View Emil Bertell's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ferdyzal Oktama

    Padang, Indonesia-based designer of Saluak Laka (2014), a decorative typeface with Indonesian influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fernando Castello Branco

    During his studies at UFC in Fortaleza, Brazil, Fernando Castello Branco created Niemeyer (2013), a display typeface that was influenced by Oscar Niemeyer's architecture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fernando Fraga

    A Coruña, Spain-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fernando Gaverd

    Fernando Gaverd (Hexagono Design, Santa Fe, NM) created some experimental typefaces in 2011. In 2012, he made the caps alphabet Santa Fe, which is probably not a complete font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fernando Haro

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Ampuero and Laredo, Spain-based designer (b. 1971) who set up deFharo. Creator of the monoline sans typeface Depez (2011), Fabada (2011), and the free monoline geometric sans typeface La Chata (2011). La chatte, in French? Maybe not.

    In 2011, he made the monoline organic sans typeface Lerótica (free at OFL).

    In 2012, he created Nabatea (stone chisel typeface), V de Vacia (a grungy outline face), Sabática (organic), the straight-edged data style typeface Gabardina, the grotesk typeface A Bebedera, the shadow typeface B de Bonita, D Puntillas, and the deconstructed Qebrada.

    In 2013, he designed Yacarena Ultra, H.H. Agallas, Nacimiento (a dymo label font), J Airplane Swash (a psychedelic typeface named after Jefferson Airplane), CA Garrutas (grunge), CA Gatintas (grunge), I Am Telefono (the largest phone dingbat and scanbat typeface on earth), Wach Op-Art (kaleidoscopic icons), K.O. Activista, I Am Hueca, X Template (stencil), H.H.Samuel (rounded sans), U2 Metalona (a beautiful white-on-black display face), M F Plexus Italic, J.M. Nexus Grotesque (an "thin inline" fat grotesque), Wachinanga, Tabaquera, Pabellona (grunge), El Pececito (video game font), the poster typeface Hobby of Night (OFL), H2O Shadow (outline version of Fabada), Zabatana Poster (a didone-inspired poster font), Oaxaquena Tall, Yacimiento (wood style wedge serif), and Rabanera.

    Typefaces from 2014: Babalusa Cut, A Cuchillada, Sabandija (a plump round display typeface), F2 Tecnocratica, F1 Secuencia Quad (pixel face), La Pejina FFP (bilined), Tabaiba Wild, Gabachita (ultra-condensed rounded sans).

    Typefaces from 2015: Tabarra Pro (Swiss style sans family for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), A Sogra Ruth (ultra-condensed art deco), Gaban (an outline version of Tabardo), Tabardo (a heavy blocky font), Wacamoler Caps (a Tuscan typeface inspired opening credits of the Western movie Winchester '73 directed by Anthony Mann in 1950), Ubicada (condensed geometric sans), Rabiosa (neurotic font), Zacatecas (condensed shaded sans), F3 Secuencia Round, La Babaca (a powerful black condensed sans in the style of Impact), Obcecada Sans + Serif (condensed with almost disappearing descenders), Eacologica Round Slab (a nice commercial font with an incomplete set of numerals), Palim Script (curly), Vacaciones (signage face), de La Cruz.

    Typefaces from 2016: Yugoslavia (calligraphic), Love Box (stencil), Cienfuegos (connected retro script named after the Cuban her Camilo Cienfuegos), Gaitera Ball (round fat script), The Black Box (a retro banner font), Durum Kebab (shadow sans), Jolgoria In Town (script), Yerbaluisa (signage script), Escobeta One (brush script), Posteratus Rex, Bastardilla (a cursive font), Rotulona Hand, The Juke Box (retro juke box lettering), Angelique Rose (connected monoline script), Promenades, Bucanera (a swashbuckle font), Lucemita, Panama Road (a casual calligraphic font), Deslucida, Disoluta, Sucesion Slab, Tabarra Pro Round, Qebab Pro Shadow, Monserga (white on black), Indulta SemiSerif.

    Typefaces from 2017: Partizano Serif (a retro poster font; free demo), Jack Stanislav (a great condensed movie poster font), Fontanero (rounded fat sans), Yonky (fat slab serif), Zigzageo, Libertatus (manual serif fonts based on a Czech poster from 1935), Libertatus Duas (slab serif), Flamante Sans, Flamante Serif, Flamante (Round, SemiSlab, Stencil, Seca, Cairo, Roma), Seisdedos Dead (rough stencil fonts), Neo Latina (stencil), Carta Magna (blackletter), La Sonnambula (signature script), Bola Ocho (an eightball font), Clandestina (textured, layered), Acratica (signage script), Penitencia Inline, Autarquica (outlined vernacular style), Caminata One (shaded signage typeface), Sin Razon (wedge serif), Glotona Black and White (a layered tattoo style font duo), Glotona Dots (the textured versions of Glotona), 6th Aniversario, Tribal Box (squarish sans, with tattoo ornaments and a great environment for borders), Candy Pop (bubblegum font), Sargento Gorila (army stencil font), Libertinas + co (a curly calligraphic script; the free version has no numerals).

    Typefaces from 2018: Gudariak (a free color SVG font: Vicente Ballester Marco (Valencia 1887-1980) was a graphic designer and Valencian poster artist affiliated with the CNT (Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo) who created political propaganda posters of clear modernist and post-cubist influence during the Spanish Civil War. The Gudariak typeface is inspired mainly by one of the posters he made for the Government of Euskadi and also in others where the author continues to explore this particular typographic style. ), Farisea Fraktur, Octuple Max (techno), Ordeal Eroded, Panfleta Stencil, Secuela (free), Fragua Pro (condensed sans family), Getho (a geometric semi-sans), Cowboya Tuscan (a curly Tuscan circus font), Txuleta Deco (a striped art deco typeface), Coltan Gea (slab serif), Getho Semi Sans, Cowboys (a Tuscan typeface), Drystick Geo Grotesk, Diezma, Grifa Slab, Coltan Gea (slab serif family), Paloseco (geometric and grotesk), Stoica (a color SVG font), Letrera Caps (a rounded square style layered and color font that pays homage to the sans serif inline genre), Enagol Math (a condensed rounded slab serif based on carefully applied mathematical ratios), Heptal, Velocista, Octagen Condensed, Octagen Black, Sextan Serif, Sextan Cyrillic, Quickat (signage script), Octagen (condensed sand with short descenders), Wolframia Script (flowing handwriting), Pentay Slab, Pentay Sans, Pentay Book, Cuatra, Judera (Flat and Ring: monospaced, unicase and totally sqaurish), Quotus (slab serif), Tripleta Grotesk (a 16-style geometric sans family).

    Typefaces from 2019: Pervitina Dex (sci-fi), Megalito Slab, Obesum Caps, Jane Roe (sans), Icons Opentype, Felona (stencil: a variable font), Neo Fobia, Bocartes Fritos (food icons), Red Thinker (a squarish monoline sans), Pena Caldaria (blackletter).

    Typefaces from 2020: Anoxic (a squarish monoline sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Humato (a sturdy font for weightlifters), Probeta (a squarish techno sans family in 42 styles), Speeday (a speed emulation sans).

    Creative Market link. OFL link. Behance link. Dafont link. Devian tart link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fernando Rivas
    [Suture Art]

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    Fernando Sánchez-Ulloa Pérez

    Madrid-based designer of the experimental caps typeface Rat Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Figen Cicek

    Figen Cicek (Ankara, Turkey) created the triangulated typeface Cube Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Filipe Ferreira

    Designer and digital artist in Porto, Portugal. He made a nice typographic poster entitled Free Tibet (2010), and designed a number of experimental typefaces in 2010.

    In 2011, he made Souca (multilined), Ayuthaya (blackletter), Gourmet (art deco), Graphic Monkeys (bilined), a curly face and an ornamental caps face.

    Typefaces from 2012: Colambo (an early 20th century grotesk), Honkers (rounded sans).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Filiz Sahin

    Filiz Sahin is an American interactive designer, originally from Istanbul. Her work includes Geogram (2012, an octagonal typeface), Wave Me In (2012, a free wavy EPS-format font), Knit Type (2012, a free stitching font), Stitching Font (2012), Ant Type (2012, another stitching font), Drop Type (2012, a free EPS format ornamental caps face), Spider Type (2012, a modified Helvetica Bold), and a hand-drawn all ornamental caps face (2009). Muscle Type (2012) is a free EPS-format font inspired by bundles of muscles. Sablon (2012) is an organic all-caps type family. Hair Type (2012) consists of strands of hair. Dooooodle Type (2012) are doodled ornamental caps. El Yazi (2012) is a 2d and 3d school script font on EPS format. Cosmo Path (2012) is a free spaceship-inspired EPS vector font. Che's Bone (2012) is a bone-themed typeface. Mood Type (2012, free) is a beautiful EPS-format font that takes inspiration from modern Swedish furniture. Doodleista (2012) is a condensed poster face.

    Typefaces from 2013: Look Up (a hand-drawn arrowed poster typeface).

    Typefaces from 2014: Mink (free hand-printed font).

    Typefaces from 2018: Tonton (a children's book font), Tonton Green (crocodile skin texture).

    Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fingolfin

    Two Celtic truetype fonts in this small archive: CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps.ttf and CelticBold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fiodor Sumkin

    Byelorussian illustrator who fled his country when he was 18 years old. He sold paintings in Moscow and now lives in Amsterdam. His drawings are straight out of the 19th century, ornamental and playful. He is also inspired by the psychedelic lettering of the 1960s. Discussion of his work by Coles. Typefaces, all made or drawn in 2006-2007: Rodopi, Fashion Condensed, Farringdon, Hopkins, Rondell (Western style face), Abramesque (ornamental caps), Mansard Trimmed (19th century emulation), Wedlock, Silverado, Shimmer Wide (cyrillic), Mona (extra-wide slab serif), Flirt Chloe (more 19th century ornamental glyphs), Jubilee (constructivist Cyrillic lettering), Big Cyrillic pixels (many great pixelized alphabets), Cuba, Gingerbread (Victorian), and St. Clair. Alternate URL. Check out his gorgeous country maps designed for the aeroflot in-flight magazine in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fioravante Junior

    Graphic designer in Campinas, Brazil, who created the playful alphabet Monster Font (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fizzetica Type foundry
    [Abdul Hapiz Hilman]

    Born in 1988, Hilman lives in Depok City (Kota Depok), West Java, Indonesia, and runs Fizzetica Type foundry or Fizz-Labz Inc, Fizzetica TypeFoundary DepokAsiana Ltd.

    Creator of FTF Semar Poenakawan (2016), FTF Bali Myranthee Pro (2016), FTF Jiwarana Aroena 7 (2016), FTF Indonesiana Go Graffitiana (2016), FTF Robornesia (2016), FTF Indonesiana BatikRetrosphiana (2016), FTF Ahlan Ve Arabez (2010-2016, Arabic simulation font), FTF Minthee Distronesiana (2016, clothing dingbats), FTF Indonesiana Wanangkoe (2016, inspired by the wayang puppet), FTF Minthee Hewante (2011-2016, animal-themed caps in the style of Victor Garcia), FTF Aywave Arty (2016, a Treefrog style script), FTF Indonesiana Aruna Serif (2015), FTF Indonesiana Sans Serif (2015), FTF BALI Myranthee (2015), FTF Indonesiana BatikRetrosphiana Italic (2015, tweetware), FTF Inspillo Mystic (2011), FTF Instillo Packagee (2011), FTF Aywave Arty (2012), FTF Ahlan Ve Abra Retro vl1 (2007, circle-based), FTF Geng Kapak Merah (2013, scanbats), Indonesiana Khatulistiwania (2012), FTF Hutan Rantingee (2012), FTF Indonesiana Serif Hijauwana (2012), FTF Minthee Indonesiana 3th (2012), FTF Semar (2012), FTF Minthee Limo (2012), FTF Inspillo Packagee (2012), FTF Hutan Akarasiana (2011), FTF Leafy Lopstonesia (2011), LomonesiaDingbats (2010, scanbats of cameras), LostPopnicasiana (2010), IndonesianaGoGraffitiana (2010), IndonesianaIsland (2010), IndonesianaScout (2010), IndonesianaSerif (2010), IndonesianaSketchSerifv.1 (2010), the slightly curly serif typeface Indonesiana (2009), FTF Indonesiana Sans Javallonia (2010, grunge), Indonesiana Bramanangkoe Repack (2010), Cellul@rofIndonesianaIsland (2010, Indonesian communication logos), and IndonesianaSerif (2009).

    1001Fonts link. Devian Tart link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Another Dafont link. Facebook link. Fizzetica Type foundry. Behance link. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    flaiordai

    Designer of the thematic typeface Nautical (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Flamula Estudio Criativo
    [Frederico Mattos]

    Flamula Estudio Criativo is Frederico Mattos's studio in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Creator of an artistic all caps alphabet, the Azulejo Portugues font and Bjork Font (hipsterish) in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Flat-It
    [Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

    Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, who also runs Bagel & Co, Dharma Type, HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda. Most of his work was done at Flat-It. His typefaces:

    • 2021: Best Choice (a monospaced sans), Short Films (an art deco sans in twelve styles), Golden Decades (a 16-style sans that borrows from several sans genres).
    • 2019: Mid Century Sans, Tamba Sans, Rama Gothic Rounded, Bio Sans Soft.
    • 2018: Fairweather (clean sans), Kaneda Gothic (a basic severe condensed gothic), Vincente (a tall condensed display didone family).
    • 2017: Calling Code (monospaced programming font), Commuters Sans (elegant wide sans), Mighty Slab, Rigid Square (octagonal), Taro.
    • 2016: Bio Sans, Gomme Sans, Quiet Sans, Siro (sans).
    • 2014: Pero (condensed rounded organic sans), Kiro (minimalist organic sans), Graphie (modern geometric sans), Compasse (semi-condensed sans), Como (rounded sans).
    • 2013: Spoon (organic, rounded, monoline sans family), Antoinette Monogrammes (based on early 1900s embroideries by Janon Co; with frames), Clonoid (a sci-fi family that pays tribute to arcade game logos in 80s and 90s), All Round Gothic Demi (a sans based on perfect circles), Griffon (copperplate titling face), Antique Spenserian (based on Spencerian Script by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan).
    • 2012: Geom Graphic (a retro sci-fi family that can be considered as a squarish version of Eurostile), Sheepman (modular), House of Cards, Space Colony (a lovely monoline futuristic techno family), Rama Slab (an antiqued wood-style slab serif), Rama Gothic. An antiqued sans serif family that recalls the wood type era), Diamond Ring (an art deco typeface inspired by Japanese cosmetics-packaging designs and posters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries), Controller (techno meets organic in this rounded squaris sans family), Revolution Gothic (an extended version of PAG Revolucion), 2008, which was inspired by retro propaganda posters and wallpainting in Cuba from the 60s to 80s; Revolution Gothic P followed in 2014), Diamond Ring (art deco).
    • 2011: Yummo (monoline organic sans), Sheepman (based on the wood type No. 506 of William Page), Onick (2011, an art deco neojaponist fat display face done for Wordshape), Shiva (2011, hairline sans), Mocha Mattari (2011, grunge), Dharma Slab (2011, inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dharma Gothic (2011, +P), Rama Gothic (2011, also inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dimensions (2011, squarish), Design System (2011, a large family based on 70s style techno typefaces), Speedometer (2011, condensed piano key face).
    • 2010: Stereo Gothic (2010: an extended all caps slightly techno sans family), Behrensmeyer Vigesimals (2010, a pixel format connected script), Civilite Vigesimals (2010, pixelized Civilite), Flat10 Arts and Crafts (2010), Flat20 Hippies, Flat10 Segments (2010), Flat10 Antique (2010), Flat20 Gothic (2010), Flat20 Streamer (2009, pixelized ribbon font), Flat10 Fraktur, Flat10 holy, Flat10 Holly, Flat10 Stencil, Flat20 Headline, Flat10 Artdeco, Word From Radio (2008-2010). Cigarette (2007, Bauhaus/Peignot-style).
    • 2009: African Elephant Trunk (2009), Concrete Script, Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligraphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009).
    • 2007-2008: Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Thousands (2007), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2007, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of typefaces), Yasashii (2007, a great geometric art deco Broadway-style family, famous for being used in Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the 2017 blockbuster movie), Lily Wang (calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arabic simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline typeface with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007, a soft blackletter), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement).
    • 2006: Daisy Lau (calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Agedage Cancellaresca, Agedage Beneventan, Agedage Simple Versal (2006, Lombardic caps simplified), Amsterdam Modern (art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (a set of pixel typefaces), Machiarge (a heavy connected brushed signage script), Chic Hand (connected script), Double Dagger (geometric stencil family), Fault (an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (headline serif typeface with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (distressed), Boycott (distressed), Tokyotrail (futuristic techno family), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), El Piedra (letterpress emulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Bebas Kai (2014: free!), Bebas Neue (2010: free!), Bebas Neue Bold, Berlin89, Blackout (redesigned in 2011 as the ulta-narrow Dimensions), Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (a calligraphic family), Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso (grunge), Pusab (ultra round; one free weight), Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (a Celtic family of fonts). At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin.

    MyFonts link. Fontsquirrel link for their free fonts such as Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Boycott, Gesso, and Pusab.

    Typefaces from 2022: Senpai Coder, Madromit (a layerable futuristic font inspired by the early computer fonts), Tokyo Olive (art deco), Poipoi (a layerable 3d or bubblegum font).

    YWFT link. Bagel & Co. link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Dafont link.

    Interview.

    View Ryoichi Tsunekawa's typefaces. Kernest link. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Florence (or: Bombastudio)
    [Marta Podkowińska]

    Marta Podkowińska is the Polish designer of a few great type logos such as Bomba (2009). She also made the exquisite candy typeface Roisin (2011). Her studio / foundry called Florence operates in Krakow and Berlin.

    In 2012, she published Lucrezia, an overzealous decorative caps typeface, and Henry (a free retro script all caps family named after Henry Ford).

    Cargo Collective page with interesting posters such as Archer (2011) and Einstein. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Florencia Lopez Zeron

    Designer of the decorative caps typeface Velouria (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Florencia Motta

    Buenos Aires-based designer of the ornamental initial caps typeface Hindue Blues (2014). Her graduation typeface at FADU / UBA in 2013 was the ultra-condensed typeface Piudel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse

    A source of free clipart---mostly in TIFF format. These include tens of alphabets and almost a thousand initials, as well as many thosands of ornaments. Start page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fonderie Française

    French foundry. Designers of some beautiful often didone typefaces, such as the fat face Liliom (see Slimblack for a similar typeface). They also produced well-known Victorian decorative capitals under the names Romantiques No. 1 through 5. The Egyptian typefaces are called just that, Egyptiennes (Narrow, Bold, Italic). Henry Chaix made the display roman typeface Editor in 1937.

    Revivals include Liliom Pro (2012, Ralph M. Unger). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fonderie Turlot

    Big Paris-based foundry, with an extensive factory. Their work can be found in Caractères de labeurs de la fonderie A. Turlot (rue de Rennes, 128, Paris [ca.1896?]), Filets (Paris, 128, rue de Rennes, [ca.1898?]), Spécimen des caractères anciens de la fonderie Turlot (Paris, 1885; PDF file; see also this PDF file) and Réglure. Fonderie Ch. Derriey, A. Turlot, successeur (rue de Rennes, 142, Paris [1880]). See also "Caractères de labeurs de la fonderie A. Turlot" (1896).

    In 1880, they had acquired the Fonderie Charles Derriey. The major specimen book, Spécimen général de la fonderie Turlot, Henri Chaix, gendre, et cie successeurs (1910, 508 pages) [see also here] seems to indicate that the foundry was sold to Henri Chaix in 1910. The latter book is comprehensive. The "Néo-Didot" series mentions Fonderie J.-V. Éon, Turlot, successeur. Other niceties: "signes mathématiques", signes divers, the "Javanaises" (oriental simulation fonts, p. 103), the gorgeous vignettes (ex.: hibou, Japonaise, Nénuphar, Galvanos Modernes), and the hilarious "silhouettes reclames". This book has many illustrations of the start of the art nouveau style. Finally, in 1914, they published Spécimen Général (1914, Fonderie Turlot, Henri Chaix et cie, Paris: 454 pages).

    Scan of the caps typeface Lettrines Renaissance. Scans from the 1885 specimen book: Elzevir No. 3, Elzevir No. 3, Filets Elzeviriens, Gothiques blanches, Initiales Elzeviriens. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fonderie Typographique Française

    Type foundry in Paris, founded in 1921 by the merger of the firms of Chaix, Marcou, Durey, Huart and Saling. There were several catalogs of their typefaces such as Fonderie Typographique Française Catalogue Général (ca 1925, 798 pages). This site shows many samples from this foundry. The typefaces shown include Amadis (blackletter), Apollo, Ascot, Atlas (1933, an art deco typeface by K.H. Schaefer), Bizerte (art deco), Blanches Saint Germain (pearly caps), Caravelle (1957, the French name of Folio, a Helvetica-like typeface by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Clipper (1951, by Louis Ferrand), Deauville (a charmer that conjures up Les Vacences de Monsieur Hulot), Décor (pixelized and with mosaic effects), Ecriture parisienne (ronde), Editor (1937, Henri Chaix), Estienne, Excelsior FTF (art nouveau), Flash (1953, Enric Crous-Vidal), Garamond FTF, Hélios (a shaded titling face), Ile de France (by Enric Crous-Vidal), Marocaines FTF (revived in 2019 by mario Feliciano as Mazagan), Moscovites, Muriel (1950, a script typeface by Joan Trochut-Blanchard), Normandy, Paris (1953, Enric Crous-Vidal), Pittoresques FTF (1924, Japanese style art nouveau: revival of Pittoresques penchées by Yanick Blancho in 2015 as Koëlh), Psitt (1954, by René Ponot), Ramsès (a tall-legged Egyptian), Stylo (1935, connected script), Swing (art deco), Vulcain (art deco). Apollo is FTF's reply to Renner's Futura. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Font Mesa
    [Michael Hagemann]

    Michael Hagemann's creations have a 1850-1920 style or at evoke the Wild West. Font Mesa was located in Naperville, IL, but is now based in Las Vegas, NV.

    Free fonts include Cactus Sandwich (Mexican simulation face), Timepiece (originally called Tax Cut), Timepiece 3D, Magic School One and Two (2004, two Harry Potter typefaces), Wild Ride, Corleone (2001: see also here), Corleone Due (2001), MightyRapids (2001: discontinued) and the Ferrari logo font FerroRosso (2002).

    Michael Hagemann's commercial fonts by year of production:

    • 2001: La Mesa (2001), Maverick's Luck (2001), Desperado (2001), Rio Mesa, Maverick's Luck (based on a bank document from 1876), La Macchina (2001, Lamborghini car lettering)
    • 2002: Brewmaster Modern (lettering of Budweiser Racing), Saddlery and Saddlery Post (Western-style caps: a revival of Minaret by Ihlenberg in 1868; Solo calls it Trocadero), FerroRosso (lettering as in the Ferrari logo), Stampede (a family based on lettering used in document from the Chicago, Indiana&Eastern Railway Co. in 1902), Main Event (a Tuscan font, based on Tuscan Ornate, or Bracelet, fonts that date from before 1860; originally called Main Strike in 2003), Red Dog Saloon, Rough Riders (great Western-style caps), Draft Beer.
    • 2003: OK Corral (revival of Caslon and Catherwood's Italian from 1821), OK Corral Lined (same as OK Corral with layers; called Italianate Barnum by Dan Solo), Gold Standard (a Tuscan font based on a few letters found on an old Gold Certificate from 1882), Rodeo Clown (based on Carnival), Taqueria, Cove.
    • 2004: Bronc Stomper, Open Range, Saloon Girl (a spurred version, Tex Mex, appeared in 2021), Gillé Classic an exquisitily detailed family based on work by Joseph Gillé, 1820's, and implemented elsewhere under the names Circus, Roma and Madame; this was originally called Home Style; some say that the original goes back to Silvestre and not to Gillé; because of this, finally renamed Maison Luxe in 2017; the condensed versions, released in 2021, are Mi Casa and Mariachi), Miss Scarlett (Gone with the Wind poster lettering), Open Range, High Noon, Draft Beer Classic (2002-2005, connected 50s script), High Country, American West, West Wind, AmericanPop (Coca-Cola font).
    • 2005: Buckhorn (a Tuscan style Western or circus font; renamed Circus Wagon in 2020), Rodeo Roundup (rope font; Solo called it Rope Initials), Algerian Mesa (32 fonts; extended to the gigantic font family Tavern in 2017, with further development in 2020 in Bay Tavern and Bayside Tavern; the original Algerian goes back to Stephenson and Blake), Conestoga (circus font), Rough Riders (a nice Western font based on the logo of the Beach Creek Railroad Company in the 1860s), Rough Riders Redux, Mesa Pointe (pointing hands, from 19th century sources), Black Pearl (an ornamental blackletter typeface based on an original from ca. 1860; it has two beautiful manicules; some say it is based on an 1860 font called Rimmed Black by West, published by Farmer&Little), Saloonkeeper (inspired by the Leinenkugels brewing label), Wanderer (inspired by the title logo of the TV show The Wild West), Lynchburg (inspired by the Jack Daniels Green Label Whiskey logo).
    • 2006: Flatrock (a revival of Inverted Shaded by Julius Herriet, done at Conner in 1886; Solo calls it Big Cat; in 2020, Flat Rock was renamed Big Cat by Hagemann), Livery Stable (revival of GlypticShaded by Ihlenburg at MS&J, 1878. See also Glyptic and Glyptic No.2, 1878), Happy Holly Day, Main Street (a Tuscan typeface that revives Soutache by Julius Herriet and Bruce, 1873).
    • 2007: Birdcage (2007, after a lettering sample in Rob Roy Kelly's American Wood Type book), Lonestar, Lonestar Western, Railhead (2007: 4 styles, a revival of an 1870s type style that was originally available from both Bruce's New York and James Conner's&Sons type foundries called English Two-Line Ornamented No.4; an earlier version was English, done in 1853 by Caslon, Austin, Woods and Sharwoods; and before that, the typeface was created by a German designer in 1849), Flying Dutchman (2007, a revival of a MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan Co Kanzlei-style font from 1876), and Western Sky (2007, a revival of a late 1800s Italian font known as Italian Slab Fancy or Dodge City: it is Italic Ornate from Smith, 1874, MS&J). Country Western (2007, 11 styles; plus versions called Country Western Script and Country Western Swing) is a revival of the classic William Page font known as Clarendon Ornamented originally designed in 1859 and again in 1877 by Vanderburgh&Wells. Abbiente (2007) is his first foray into the world of Bodoni and Didot. Buffalo Bill (2007) is a beautiful Western style font that revives a classic from James Conner's foundry from 1888 [Solo also calls it Buffalo Bill].
    • 2008: Gold Rush and Gold Spur (2008) are further Wild West style families, based on typos from the Bruce Foundry, 1865. Silverland (2008, 8 styles; a revival of Ornamented No. 1490 by Ihlenberg, 1874, Bruce) and Belgian (2008, 5 styles; a revival of Ornamented No. 1515 by Julius Herriet, 1861, Bruce) are further revivals of typefaces from the Bruce Foundry.
    • 2009: Spanish Main (revival of an old MacKellar Smiths&Jordan blackletter font named Sloping Black, 1896; others mention Witham and MS&J and give the date 1869), Spanish Rose, Black Rose (spiky blackletter based on BlackOrnamented No. 532, Ihlenberg, 1873, Bruce), Bella Rose (2009, blackletter), Broadgauge Ornate (revival of an 1869 Western poster typeface by Ihlenberg at MacKellar Smiths&Jordan). Apple Pie (2009) is some sort of Bodoni Ornate---it revives and extends a William Hagar Type Foundry face, ca. 1850 [MS&J added a lowercase in 1869]. This was followed immediately by Bodoni Ornamental. Hickory (2009) is an ornamental Western face, a revival of an old unnamed font dating back to 1852 and was sold through a few different type foundries including Bruce, MacKellar Smiths&Jordan and James Conner's Sons.
    • 2010: Gunsmoke is a Far West font, a revival of a James Conner's Sons font that has been around the block under different names such as Extended Clarendon Shaded, Original Ornamented and Galena [Solo called it Galena]. Night Train is another Far West font.
    • 2011: Gold is a multi-style slab serif font family based on the classic Gold Rush (1865, Bruce), with the shadows removed. Images: Gold Black, Gold Thin.
    • Undated: Cowboy Serenade (based on Phidian by Ihlenberg, 1870, MS&J; Solo's names: Eureka, Shaded Phidian), Gold Fever (based on Caxtonian, 1878, MS&J), Old Thunder (based on a Tuscan typeface from the 1800s).
    • 2013: Great Western, Cowboy Western, Cowboy Rodeo.
    • 2014: Magnum Sans.
    • 2015: Grillmaster (a basic sans family consisting of 128 fonts).
    • 2016: Pitmaster.
    • 2017: Ribfest (a Tuscan circus font), Texicali, Alta Mesa (Wild West wood type).
    • 2019: Marlin Geo, a large sans typeface family---a modern geometric take on Helvetica. Michael writes on Creative Market: You may have noticed a new FontMesa font released on June 17th called Geovetica, Monotype has asked me to rename the font because it's too close to their best selling product. Marlin is the new name choice for our new font with the geometric version [Marlin Geo] being released first. Marlin Geo has many opentype features and comes with italics (at a 12 degree angle) and a slanted version (at a 6 degree angle). See also Marlin Soft (2019).
    • Fried Chicken (2020). A 32-style slab serif family intended for supermarket or food product advertizing.
    • Philadelphian (2020). A Western or billboard font family based on a MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan font from 1867 by the same name.
    • Taco (2020). A multistyle Mexican party font.
    • Tortilla (2021). A 24-style Tuscan typeface, a flat-sided version of Fontmesa's Saloon Girl and Tex Mex font families.
    • Marzano (2021-2022). A 30-style blend of Futura, Helvetica and his own Marlin.

    Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. MyFonts page. View Michael Hagemann's typefaces. Abstract Fonts link, [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Font Soup
    [Phil Kiel]

    This foundry's motto is: Font Soup is an independent type foundry that is primarily targeted at helping students and graduates break into the competitive world of being a type designer. Maze (2009) is a free biline stencil font. Font Soup is run by Phil Kiel, who is finishing the final year of his Graphic Arts Degree at Liverpool School of Art&Design. His typefaces include the Logotype family (2009---techno, with a stencil style thrown in), and the poster fonts Quam, P Warning, P Pong, P Fuzzy and P Maze. Behance link. A second Behance link. In 2009, we find Phil Kiel again at Phil Kiel Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    FONTana Typestudio
    [Amondo Szegi]

    FONTana is a font design studio in Szeged, Hungary, started in 1999. Free and commercial typefaces (39USD/piece) by Gabor Kóthay (La Danse, Luxury, Sehrgut (Fraktur), Faximile (1999), L&R (1999), Monsoon (1999)), and Amondó Szegi (Telegdi family, which is based on the worn typefaces used by Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi at the Vienna Jesuit press in the 16th Century; Velorex (1999)). Very beautiful web page, and fantastic fonts in all respects!

    Free typefaces: Zodiac (2000), Cards (Gyula Zsigri, 2001), Maldoror, Domino (Gabor Kóthay), Count, Csenge (a Hungarian rune font by Csaba Dávid), Qwerty (Gabor Kóthay, 2000), Y2K (Gabor Kóthay, 2000).

    Early commercial fonts: Woodini (caps), Sleeping Beauty (caps), Zimbalo (1999, Amondó Szegi), Pacalsone (1999, Amondó Szegi), Paradox (1999, Amondó Szegi), Construct (2001, Amondó Szegi), Binario (2000, Amondó Szegi), Bikewrench (2001, Amondó Szegi), Cabin (2001, Gábor Kóthay).

    At T-26, in 2001, Amondó Szegi published the commercial typefaces MuseFace (art nouveau), Glosso (2003), Xodus (2001, Regular, Italic, Forgotten), Kozma-Ornaments, all showing old Slavonic and/or Armenian influences in Latin letters. In 2000, he made Alian Ornaments (floral ornaments) for T-26.

    At T-26, Gábor Kóthay published Adagietto (2000), Minerva (2000), Archetype (2000). At PsyOps, Gábor Kóthay published the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), and Plexo (2001).

    Amondó Szegi's typefaces at T-26: Nexodus (2008, medieval style), Zenthes (2008), Alien Ornaments, Glosso, Iskola (2002, a Victorian typeface done with Silas Dilworth), Kozma (great ornaments), Melico, Melico Ornaments (2004, another great set), Xodus.

    At P22, Szegi designed the curly typeface Mantra (2005). Amondó Szegi's Telegdi family is since 2001 available from P22.

    At The Type Trust, he created the playful Gepetto (2006).

    Typefaces from 2013: Ma (avant-garde, constructivist, done as an hommage to Lajos Kassak), Overdose, Sorry (kitchen tile typeface), Atett (hommage to Lajos Kassak), Street Soul, Samizdat, Velorex (brush script), Zsir (fat octagonal face), Kedves (hipster font).

    Typefaces from 2014: Iseum, Pix Gotisch.

    Among their custom corporate identity jobs, the Losonczi Hair Salon work (2012) is quite outstanding.

    Dubstep (2012) is an experimental triangulated grid-based typeface.

    In 2013, Glosso Novum (2013, Fontana Type Foundry), a remastering of Glosso (2003), was published. Nexodus (2013) is a reworking of his 2001 typeface Xodus, with new ornaments and zodiac signs, and more weights. Xodus (2001, Regular, Italic, Forgotten) revives work by Miklós Kis Misztótfalusi (Nicholas Kis), who was one of the first designers of Armenian type: He prepared his first set of exotic types before September 1685 for the Armenian printing house in Amsterdam. It was the knowledgeable mayor of Amsterdam who requested that those types be founded. These types were used to print the mayor's (Nicolaes Witsen) work entitled Noord en Oost Tartarye. Misztótfalusi's name appears in the colophon of the book. Later, in 1687, he found Georgian types, which were, in many respects, similar to the Armenian set. Since there was no printing house in Georgia, he designed the types on the basis of some manuscripts. Unfortunately, as legend has it, the types never reached the Georgian court, which had commissioned Misztótfalusi to design them. They were either lost or stolen somewhere in Sweden. However, a sample sheet survived and was found in 1980 in Amsterdam. It may seem to make no sense to re-Latinise the types of Misztótfalus, who himself was a great master in founding Latin types, and for whom Armenian types meant the first step in a new direction.

    Typefaces from 2016: Crave Sans.

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    Fontfabric
    [Svetoslav Simov]

    Fontfabric is the foundry of Svetoslav Simov, a visual designer who is located in Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1984. They design highly innovative typefaces that have lots of style and flair. Most fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic. Until 2022, their fonts were sold through MyFonts, but gradually they switched to their own independent shop.

    • Typefaces from 2008: Cubic (3d face), Clou (cloud-like letters), Colo (double-lined and geometric), Snail, Blou (very thick and counterless letters).
    • Typefaces from 2009: Uni Sans (first called United Sans), Kare (psychedelic), File (fat face), Zag (7-style monoline sans with tear drop terminals; it include Zag Drps and Zag Deco), Clou (cloudy letters), Facet (Black and Ultra: paper fold typefaces), Noveu (psychedelic, art nouveau), Pastel (brush face), Rolka (round ultra-fat and curly lettering), Val (rounded fat), Kvant (severe and octagonal), Duplex (fat techno), Avatar (ultra fat black), Dovde (bubbly, co-designed by Maria Karkova), LOT (fat art deco), MOD (ultra-fat), Oval (rounded sans), Quad (octagonal outline), Portal Strips and Portal Black (hyper-experimental geometric typefaces), Prisma (more ultra-fat experimentation) and Wigan (Wigan Thin and Bold of this paperclip typeface appeared in 2014).
    • Creations in 2010: Hero (free sans family), Null (ultra fat, free), Aston (a modern high-contrast rounded display face), DAN (free piano key font; Dan Pro is not free though), Solomon (headline sans family) [Images of Solomon: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii], Dox (ultra fat geometric poster face), Sudoku (a geometric display family with several biline and triline styles, done with Fontan2), VAL Stencil (a stencil in which repeating letters makes them tilt the other way; free), Code (2010, a fantastic monoline sans family; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v), Dekar (techno), Clipdings Web, Clipdings Travel, Clipdings Graphic Arts, Babydings, Artdings, Reader (Light, Bold: avant garde sans), SAF2010 (comic book/signage: well, Jan Erasms, the designer in 2006 of Menyaka for FIFA WC 2010 is not happy, calling SAF a blatant imitation), Age Free (free fat organic face), GOTA (a free fat finger sans face).
    • Typefaces from 2011: Gabriel Sans (grotesk family), La Boheme (signage face), Qero Mite (an organic monoline sans), Code Pro (caps only clean sans headline family), Solomon Sans (a headline monoline sans family).
    • Typefaces made in 2012: Nexa (a geometric sans in 16 styles), Nexa, Rex (free octagonal family for Latin and Cyrillic), Hagin (free), Intro (26-style superfamily in the Futura style) and Intro Inline (free Futura-style family for Latin and Cyrillic). Intro Condensed was created in 2014.
    • Typefaces from 2013: Nexa Slab, Nexa Slab XBold, Nexa Slab Bold, Nexa Slab Book, Nexa Slab Light. [Recognize the typeface by the a and the g (an 8 with a small piece missing).
    • Typefaces from 2014: Nexa Rust (a weathered letterpress emulation family of 83 typefaces by Radomir Tinkov, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Vasil Stanev).
    • Typefaces from 2015: Bronn Rust, Bronn Script and Bronn Rust Extras is a handcrafted collection of 22 typefaces created on the coat tails of the hugely popular Nexa Rust and other typefaces in the grungy worn letterpress and layering vogue. The roundish tightly set broad-ranged sans typeface family Panton is sure to make waves for years to come---it is the typeface for mobile devices. Sensa (2015, Radomir Tinkov and Svetoslav Simov) is a handcrafted 21-style family divided into the subfamilies Sensa Brush, Sensa Pen, Sensa Wild, Sensa Sans, Sensa Serif and Sensa Goodies.

    View Fontfabric's typefaces. In 2015, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Radomir Tinkov co-designed the 214-style mammoth font system Intro Rust, a rough version of Fontfabric's Intro. The fonts are partitioned over Intro Rust, Intro Script, Intro Head and Intro Goodies. Still in 2015, we find Nexa Script.

    In 2017, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov co-designed Uni Neue, a total remake of Fontfabric's earler typeface Uni Sans (2009). Svetoslav Simov, Plamen Motev and the Fontfabric team (Vladislav Jordanov, Stan Partalev, Mirela Belova, Jacklina Jekova, Nikolay Petroussenko) produced Zing Rust, Zing Sans Rust and Zing Script Rust in the same year: it consists of 521 handmade typefaces.

    In 2018, Mirela Belova and Svetoslav Simov co-designed the 20-style geometric sans typeface family Mont. Svet Simov and Svetlin Balezdrov co-designed the humanist sans family Squad, and Simov published the free all caps flared terminal font Colus in 2018. Gilam was designed in 2018 by Ivan Petrov, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov---it is based on DIN, but is more geometric and has obliquely cut terminals.

    In 2019, Svet Simov, Radomir Tinkov and Stan Partalev designed the 72-strong Noah family of geometric sans typefaces, which is partitioned into four groups by x-height from small (Noah Grotesque) to medium (Noah and Noah Text) to large (Noah Head). Codesigner of Mozer (2019, by Svetoslav Simov, Ani Petrova, Mirela Belova and Nikolay Petrousenko: a condensed headline sans family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; Mozer SemiBold is free).

    In 2021, Svetoslav Simov and Vika Usmanova dusted off the 18-style update of Mont called Mont Blanc. It has very short descenders and medium-sized ascenders, two variable styles, and some redesigned glyphs. Its biggest problem will be the name---surely, the famous Swiss pen maker Mont Blanc will complain sooner or later about its trademark. I am puzzled about MyFonts, which did not catch this problem when they announced the typeface. In 2021, Simov also co-designed Code Next (a 20-style geometric sans by Svetoslav Simov, Mirela Belova and Stan Partalev; it includes two variable fonts).

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    Fonto Fonts (or: Fontologist)
    [Dick Pape]

    Under the name Fonto Fonts, or Fontologist, Dick Pape created some designs that were contributed by unnamed persons. He digitized the designs in 2009 and 2010. These include Ca Fait Dur, Celtic Designs (Dark, Light), ChrisGreen, Continnental (sic), Cubes (a 3d face), Ecken Flower Borders, Effing Type, Estupido Espezial (1 and 2), Futorisugi Face (oriental simulation face), German Gothic Manuscript, Ihlenburg 1884, Kafka Flourishes (2009: my favorite in this set), Laxton Common Revival, Nice Old Alphabet, Portent, Romano Alphabet, Squared Box, Toko Font, Weissranken-Initialen.

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    Fonts by Kathi
    [Katherine Lawson]

    Dingbats and caps fonts by Katherine Lawson: klarabesque2, Klflora1, Klflora2, Klflora5, kljugend. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Forrest C. Crooks

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as this oriental simulation face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fountain--A Friendly Type Foundry
    [Peter Bruhn]

    Fountain is a Swedish foundry in Malmö, founded in 1994 by Peter Bruhn (1969-2014). In 2008, its designers include Rui Abreu, Lee Basford, Lars Bergquist, Felix Braden, Lotta Bruhn, Peter Bruhn, Lucas Brusquini, Matthew Chiavelli, Stefan Claudius, Thomas Crolla, Jay David, Stefan Hattenbach, Peter Hoffman, Nina Hons, Sylvia&Daniel Janssen, Randy Jones, Gábor Kóthay, Martin Lexelius, Ricardo Santos, Góran Sóderstróm, Simon Schmidt, and Dirk Uhlenbrock.

    Some offerings over the years: the avant-garde Anarko (nice!), the curly Pizzicato (also nice), Pussy, Udo, Barbera, Gas, the gorgeous bottle dingbats Mini (by Peter Bruhn), Kundera, the free downloads Animals, Doggystyle, Egg, Egg Cameo, Fat Ultra, Kundera, Maceo, Mothafucka, Pavement, Pavement-Kana and Sevenet. All of the aforementioned typefaces have mostly been designed by Peter Bruhn. They also do custom work. Other fonts: Jinchi1, Hebrew, Greek. Recent fonts by Simon Schmidt include CloseCall, CloseGridder, Ogra and Schlager. Martin Fredrikson Core made the fat display typeface Filt (based on Antique Olive, it now has a Greek weight as well), Borgstrand, FTN Sauerkrauto [see also Sauerkrauto Pro (2000)], and Malmo Sans. Matthew A. Chiavelli made Ultura (1996).

    Peter Hoffmann created Alita.

    Lars Bergquist published Paracelus (a modern version of Schwabacher), Baskerville 1757 (2002), Montrachet, Monteverdi, and Waldstein (a Scotch typeface). Steve Payne designed COMA. Felix Braden made Sadness and Grimoire. Lee Basford created Nuephoric.

    Peter Bruhn made the commercial fonts Mayo, Ketchupa, Mustardo and the free fonts Partisan, Jinichi, Lipo-D, Dopil, Deuzhood, Azteak (initial caps) and Anticca. Lotta Bruhn designed Lucifer. Stefan Caludius made Dekoria (2003), a Tuscan titling face.

    Fountain released Stefan Hattenbach's sans family Stalemate in 2004, which was originally an OEM family designed for but not used by a German IT company, Gretel (by Sylvia&Daniel Janssen), Scrixel 8 and 16 (pixel families by Thomas Crolla).

    View Peter Bruhn's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Foziya Al-aujan

    As a graphic design student at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, Foziya Al-aujan created the colorful decorative caps typeface Dracos (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fragtype
    [Rodrigo Fuenzalida]

    Graphic and type designer from Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1981, who moved first to Buenos Aires and then to Santiago in Chile. While mainly a type designer, he also practices calligraphy. He was involved in and set up multiple type foundries, including Fragtype. Fuenzalida designed these typefaces:

    • The art deco faces Erre.
    • The experimental typefaces Tructura, Tangram, Sicodelica (multiline), SuperC (2009, tall condensed) and Pixid (2010, pixel face).
    • Concrete Stencil (2010). Stencil meets calligraphic script.
    • Fux (2010). A rounded monoline sans.
    • 7Tees.
    • Aushaus: letters like music notes. This is also called Aubhaus.
    • Gerd (2009). An artsy stylish piano key font that used to be free.
    • LINE_A and K5 (multiline).
    • Cubo (aka Khubo, 2009, Die Gestalten). This 3d geometric family was a grand prize winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
    • Factur (2011) is an angular typeface.
    • Isosibilia. A 3d face. This typeface won an award winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
    • The connected upright script face Nedo.
    • The grunge typeface Belt.
    • The stencil Bodoni typefaces Giambo Stencil (2009, Die Gestalten) and Giambattista.
    • Titan (2011). A fat rounded poster face, downloadable from Google Web Fonts.
    • Fux (2010). A basic monoline sans family.
    • Poetsen One (2012) is a rounded signage sans typeface co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
    • Racing Sans (2012). A techno typeface that conjures up speed. Codesigned with Pablo Impallari, it is free at Google Web Fonts.
    • With Nicola Massi, he created the textura typeface Pirata+One (2012, Google Web Fonts).
    • Hermeneus One (2013, with Pablo Impallari) is a slab serif.
    • Tweegi (2013) is an elegant super-condensed serif typeface family.
    • Kardia (2014) is a rounded slightly elliptical warm-hearted sans family.
    • Libre Baskerville (2012, Google Web Fonts, Open Font Library, Github, and CTAN) was developed together with Pablo Impallari. It is based on 1941 ATF specimens, but it has a taller x height, wider counters and minor contrast that allows it to work on small sizes in any screen.
    • Libre Caslon (2012-2014). A free typeface family co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
    • Raleway (2010-2013). This popular free sans typeface family was started by Matt McInerney in 2010 and completed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2013. In 2017, it was extended to Rawline.
    • Libre Bodoni (2014) was developed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida based on Morris Fuller Benton's Bodoni types---they optimized the glyphs for use on the web. Github link. Google Fonts link.
    • Latina (2015) is a humanist sans typeface family developed with the Latinotype team. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Its headline styles have exaggerated humanist features, while its text styles are more subdued.
    • In 2016, Latinotype published the 32-style Corporative Sans Round Condensed, which was developed by Elizabeth Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, under the supervision of Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernandez.
    • Libre Franklin (Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida) is a revival of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic, Franklin Gothic. Created in 2015, it was only published in 2016 at Google Fonts. Github link.
    • Taberna (2016). A vintage copperplate style family based on design trends in bar signage, liquor packaging and street wear. Codesigned by Jorge Cisterna at Latinotype.
    • Letteria Script (2017, Latinotype). A signage script family.
    • Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Mixta (Joya Type Foundry).
    • In 2018, Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida enlarged the fat all caps slab serif Latinotype typeface Rita that was originally started in 2010.
    • Market (2018, Latinotype) is inspired by hand-painted grocery store signs.
    • In 2019, Latinotype published the great super-slab typeface Breton which was designed by Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
    • In 2018, he published Multiple at Latinotype. Partly geometric and partly humanist, it has Sans and Slab subfamilies.

      In 2019, Alfonso Garcia and Rodrigo Fuenzalida released Utily Sans at Latinotype. Utily Sans is a slightly humanist take on Futura.

      In 2019, Fuenzalida released Atenas through Los Andes. It emerged as a mixture of science fiction and calligraphy, with notable influences of Eurostile and Microgramma. There is a fully stocked stencil subfamily, Atenas Stencil.

    • Mixta (2020, Latinotype). A total of 54 typefaces with these subfamilies: Mixta Sharp, Mixta Pro, Mixta Didone. Includes weights from Hair to Heavy.
    • Spock (2020). A 48-style demi-sans and demi-slab family by Luciano Vergara, Cesar Araya and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
    • In 2020, he co-designed Ragtag (a ragtag of capitals) with Alexander Wright for In-House International.
    • Mixta Essential (or: Mixta Ess) (2020, Latino Type). A 12-style hybrid of a didone-inspired rectangle-shaped serif and a sharp wedge serif.
    • In 2020, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Alexander Wright and Michelle Benaim Steiner co-designed the exaggerated reverse stress (or: Italian) typeface Pata Slab at In-House International. All uppercase characters were built to fit precisely inside a square, so they are all the same width and height.
    • Mumford (2021). An 18-style display sans.
    • Outfit (2021, Google Fonts). Github link. This geometric font family was originally designed for the brand company Outfitio and On Brand Investments Pty Ltd. It includes a variable font.
    • In 2022, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright published the decorative angular typeface family Broker at In-House International.

    Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. Kernest link. YWFT link. Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Another Behance link. Google Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    François-Émile Ehrmann

    Mid-19th century designer of illustrated alphabets, 1833-1910. His Alfabetos was published by J. Rouam in Paris, ca. 1890. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Francesca Spinicci

    Francesca Spinicci (Obostudio) is a graphic designer in Pistoia, Italy. Creator of a decorative caps typeface, Obofont (2013), which is useful for logos and monograms. Its design was inspired by the wind.

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    Francesco Bonvecchio

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Trento, Italy, who created the floral caps typeface Sprout (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Francielly Pereira

    During her studies in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Francielly Pereira created the architecture-inspired decorative caps typeface Arquitetando (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Francisco Galvez Pizarro

    Graphic designer from IPEVE, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. He teaches typography at Universidad Católica de Chile and Diego Portales University. He was a design consultant for Santiago de Chile public transport's information system (2003-2006) and author of the book Educación tipográfica, una introducción a la tipografía (published in Chile in 2004 and Argentina in 2005). He made his mark in the type design world in 2002 when his lively modern typeface Australis (see also here) won the gold medal at the Morisawa 2002 competition. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. His typefaces:

    • At tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile: TCL Elemental Serif, TCL Elemental Sans (1997, launched in 2001), TCL Uniprint, TCL Llanquihue (gorgeous), TCL Deluxe.
    • Galvez Sans.
    • Kinetika Grotesk.
    • Metrotipo.
    • Australis (2002) is now available from Latinotype. Australis Pro was published in 2012. Australis Swash (2013) adds a cursive touch to this splendid typeface family.
    • Amster (2008) and Queltehue Regular won awards in the extensive text and text family categories at Tipos Latinos 2008. Amster was published as Amster Pro by Pampa type in 2014.
    • He made font families for newspapers such as La Discusión (Chillán, 2008), and La Tercera in collaboration with Rodrigo Ramírez (Santiago, 2007-2008).
    • At Latinotype: Elemental Sans Pro (2010). This is a redesign of his earlier typeface by the same name. The letters in the words men and him have been smacked on the right cheek by their partners.
    • Chercan (2016, Pampa Type). A sans typeface family with a swinging g, a lapidary mood, Latin passion, and copperplate feet.
    • Otta, which won a grand prize at Tipos Latinos 2018.
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    Francisco Javier Rangel Meza

    Mexican designer of the stripping pole-themed typeface Table Dance (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Frank Abasse-Chevalier

    French graphic designer. Creator of the typefaces Robinson (decorative caps), Mondaine, Girofle, and Pixel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Frank Baranowski
    [Transkrypt]

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    Frank Béla
    [Faberfonts]

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    Frank H. Riley

    Advertising artist (b. 1894, Joseph, Missouri) influenced by Oswald Cooper and Frederic Goudy, with whom he collaborated. He worked first as a lettering artist in New York and then as a free-lancer in Chicago. Designer at American Typefounders of the condensed and stocky slab serif typeface Contact (1944: see the TS Colonel family by TypeShop for a digital version) and the calligraphic script font Grayda (1939, ATF; +Initials). Grayda was digitized, expanded and modernized by Rebecca Alaccari as Genesis (2007). McGrew writes:

    • Contact Bold Condensed and Italic were designed by Frank H. Riley for ATF about 1942, but not released until 1948 because of war-time conditions. They are narrow and vigorous, with a large x-height and short ascenders and descenders, intended for newspaper and general advertising display. Other widths and weights were projected, but there is no evidence that they were completed. Compare John Hancock Condensed, Bold Antique Condensed.
    • Grayda is an unusual and striking script designed by Frank H. Riley and introduced in 1939 by ATF. Lowercase letters are weighted at top and bottom. giving a strong horizontal emphasis; they are close fitting but not connected. Two sets of capital letters are available, designated Narrow and Swash. The IS-point size is cast on a 24-point body, the smallest size for which angle-body molds are used.

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    Frank Hazenplug

    Born in the USA in 1873, he designed a few hundred book covers, illustrations or title page layouts for many publishers, and was influenced by the art nouveau movement. He also painted and is best known for his chap-book posters, done at the time of Will Bradley and Edward Penfield. His art is at the MOMA.

    Examples: the galloping dick poster, script, Modern American Capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Frank L. Tybush V

    Creative director in Baltimore, MD, who published a decorative caps typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Franklin Lane

    Franklin Lane shows many decorative ornaments and initial caps. No fonts, just beautiful images. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Franzi Draws
    [Franzi Paetzold]

    Illustrator and type designer based in Berlin. Designer of the floriated caps typeface Bahor (2019), the arts and crafts typeface Elodie (2018), the free handcrafted font Caroni (2018). In 2021, she extended Caroni to an 18-style commercial family.

    Typefaces from 2022: Moonless (a hand-crafted font duo). Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Franzi Paetzold
    [Franzi Draws]

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    Frederic William Goudy

    One of the great type designers of the twentieth century, 1865-1947. Born in Bloomington, IL, he made over 125 typefaces. He founded the Village Press with Will H. Ransom at Park Ridge, IL, in 1903. From 1904 until 1906, it was in Hingham, MA, and from 1906-1913 at 225 Fourth Avenue, New York City, where a fire destroyed everything except the matrices on January 10, 1908. From 1913 until 1923, it was located in Forest Hill Gardens, Long Island, and from 1923 until his death in 1947 at Deepdene, in Marlborough-on-Hudson, NY. He was an art consultant for Lanston Monotype from 1920-1940.

    His life's work and his ideas on typography can be found in his great book, Typologia, Studies in Type Design \& Type Making (1940, University of California Press, Berkeley), but his views are already present in Elements of Lettering (1922, The Village Press, Forest Hill Gardens, New York). His own work is summarized, shown and explained in his last book, A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography 1895-1945, Volume One (1946, The Typophiles, New York). See also Frederic Goudy by D.J.R. Bruckner for Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York.

    In 1936, Frederic Goudy received a certificate of excellence that was handlettered in blackletter and immediately stated, Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep. He also wrote: All the old fellows stole our best ideas, and Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

    His 116 fonts include

    • Camelot (1896, Dickinson Type Foundry). He sold another design in 1897 to that foundry, but it was never published. McGrew writes: Camelot or Camelot Oldstyle was the first typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy. He offered it to Dickinson Type Foundry (part of ATF) in Boston, which accepted it and sent him $10, twice what he had modestly asked for it. This was in 1896; it was apparently cut and released the following year as drawn, without lowercase. In February 1900 a design patent was issued in the names of Goudy and Joseph W. Phinney, and assigned to ATF. Phinney was a well-known designer for Dickinson-ATF, and apparently it was he who added the lowercase alphabet. Its success encouraged Goudy to make a distinguished career of type designing, and this typeface was included in ATF specimen books as late as 1941. Compare Canterbury.
    • De Vinne Roman (1898)
    • Copperplate (1901): See Copperplate Gothic Hand (2009, Gerd Wiescher), Copperplate URW, or Copperplate EF (Elsner&Flake).
    • Pabst Roman (1902)
    • Village (1902). Some say 1903. Village was originally designed by Frederic Goudy in 1903 for Kuppenheimer & Company for advertising use, but it was decided it would be too expensive to cast. It was later adopted as the house face for Goudy's and Will Ransom's Village Press. The matrices were cut and the type cast by Wiebking. The design was influenced by William Morris's Golden Type. This Venetian typeface was digitized by David Berlow (1994, FontBureau), by Paul D. Hunt (2005), and by Steve Matteson (2018), who simply called his revival Village. Hunt's version was eventually released in 2016 by P22 as LTC Village. Ivan Louette (Belgium) is working on a fine version of Village as well.
    • Bertham (1936), his 100th typeface, named for his wife, Bertha.
    • Copperplate Gothic (ATF, 1905): The Bitstream version was done by Clarence Marder.
    • Goudy Old Style (ATF, 1914-1915): A 15% heavier weight was made by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919. Bitstream and URW++ sell that as Goudy Catalogue. See also Goudy Catalogue EF (Elsner&Flake), Bitstream's Goudy Old Style, Scangraphic's Goudy Old Style SB (2004), Infinitype's Goudy Old Style, Bitstream's Venetian 522, and Softmaker's G790.
    • ATF Cloister Initials (1917-1918). This was revived digitally by several foundries: Alter Littera did Initials ATF Cloister (2012). Group Type created Cloister Initials (2006).
    • Goudy Handtooled (1916): A decorative font. Elsner&Flake and Bitstream have a digital version. The Bitstream version used to be called Venetian 523.
    • Goudy Modern (Lanston, 1918): Goudy Modern MT is the Agfa-Monotype version. Adobe's version is confusingly called Monotype Goudy Modern.
    • Hadriano (1918): Agfa-Monotype has a digital version, as does Adobe.
    • Goudy Heavyface (ATF, 1925-1932): Created as a possible competitor of Cooper Black. Bitstream has a digital version.
    • Goudy Newstyle (1921): additional letterforms are provided to distinguish different pronunciations. This legible semi-Venetian typeface was cut by Wiebking and recut in 1935. It was sold to Monotype in 1942. Revival by Steve Matteson in 2018 as Newstyle.
    • Italian Oldtyle (+Italic) (ca. 1925): made after Dove, Monotype's president, prompted Goudy to make a Venetian typeface to compete with ATF's Cloister Old Style.
    • Venezia Italic (1925), to accompany Venezia. George W. Jones of the English Linotype company had it made by Linotype.
    • Aries (1925-1926): a kind of blackletter typeface in the style of Subiaco done for Spencer Kellogg for his new private press (he never used it).
    • Goudy Dutch: based on handwriting on an envelope from Holland. Goudy lost the drawings.
    • Companion Old Style and Italic
    • Deepdene (1927). See D690 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002. Deepdene became a Berthold font, and at Berthold it was digitized and refreshed by G.G. Lange from 1982-1983. URW also has a Deepdene family. But above all, one could pick up a free two-style revival by Barry Schwartz, Linden Hill (2010, OFL). View various Deepdene implementations.
    • Goudy Text (1928). Based on the textura blackletter types of by Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, Goudy Text has a narrow, ordinary lowercase. It can be used in display advertising and on certificates and invitations. Goudy Text is a "blackletter" type first used in 1928 by Goudy in a Christmas card from type cast at his own foundry. Among the digital versions, see LTC Goudy Text (P22 and Lanston; by Paul D. Hunt; this family includes LTC Goudy Text Lombardic Caps) and Goudy Text CT (Jason Castle).
    • Kaatskill (1929, Lanston Monotype): a beautiful old style figures font originally done for an edition of Rip van Winkle. Mac McGrew: Kaatskill is a private typeface designed and cut by Frederic W. Goudy for use in an edition of Rip Van Winkle which he made for The Limited Editions Club, in 1929. Goudy says that what he had in mind was merely to design a type "as simple, legible, vigorous, clear, and effective in detail as could, and which would at the same time show no note of strangeness in the mass. ...I feel that Kaatskill owes nothing in its design to any existing face. and the type therefore is as truly an American type as anything so hidebound by tradition as type can be." It is named for the Catskill mountains, which were the locale of Goudy's home and workshop as well as of the story. See Trajan Title.
    • Remington Typewriter (1929)
    • Kennerley (1930) (see his book A Novel Type Foundery for specimens). The Berthold foundry, where the types can now be bought in digital form, mentions the dates 1911-1924.
    • Ornate Titling (1931). See LTC Goudy Ornate (Lanston) and Goudy Ornate (2002, Ascender).
    • Kennerley Bold and Bold Italic, and Kennerley Open Caps, to accompany Kennerley Old Style.
    • Goudy Heavy Face (+Italic), made to please Harvey Best, the successor of Dove at Lanston Monotype.
    • Marlborough (1930s): a typeface whose design was sold in 1942 to Monotype, but nothing came of it.
    • Tory Text (1935). A blackletter typeface inspired by the lettre batarde used by Geoffroy Tory in his Champs Fleury.
    • University (of California) Old Style (1938). Also called Californian (1938). A commercial version of this is ITC Berkeley Oldstyle by Tony Stan (1983). Font Bureau published FB Californian (1994, Carol Twombly, David Berlow, Jane Patterson).
    • Bulmer (1939)
    • Goudy Sans: ITC Goudy Sans (1986), LTC Goudy Sans (2006, Colin Kahn), Goudy Elegant (SoftMaker), Moon Cresta (Ray and Chikako Larabie, 2010) and Goudy Sans EF (now gone?) are digital revivals of Goudy's Goudy Sans family from 1929. GoudySorts MT, an Agfa Monotype font consisting of beautiful ornaments.
    • Goudy Thirty. Mac McGrew: When Monotype suggested that Goudy design a type that that company might bring out after his death, to be called Goudy Thirty (from the newspaper term for the end of a story), he thought of a design he had started for a western college. That commission had fallen through, so the design was unfinished. Then, as Goudy relates, "This design struck me as particularly adapted to the purpose. As I worked on it I had determined to make it, as far as I was able, my last word in type design, a type in which would give my imagination full rein, and a type by which as a designer would be willing to stand or fall." Completed in 1942, it was kept under cover by Monotype and not released until 1953-long after his death in 1947. But he designed several types after this one, so it was not the last one from his hands. Goudy Thirty is a fine recreation of a fifteenth-century round gothic, excellent for period pieces. For digital versions, see LTC Goudy Thirty (Lanston, now P22 Lanston) and Goudy Thirty (a free font by Dieter Steffmann).
    • Nabisco (1921).
    • Garamont (1921).
    • Goudy Initials. These are floriated caps.
    • New Village Text (1938). A hybrid consisting of the capitals of Tory Text and the lower case of Deepdene.

    Several foundries specialize in Goudy's types. These include P22/Lanston, which has an almost complete digital collection, Ascender Monotype, and Castle Type, which offers Goudy Trajan (2003), Goudy Text, Goudy Stout and Goudy Lombardy. WTC Goudy was digitized ca. 1986 by WTC.

    Links: Bio by Nicolas Fabian. Alternate URL. Andrew R. Boone's article on Goudy in Popular Science, 1942. Goudy's typefaces listed by Paulo W. Obituary, May 13, 1947, New York Times, Time Magazine, November 6. 1933, Amy Duncan's thesis at BSU entitled "Howdy Goudy: Frederic W. Goudy and the Private Press in the Midwest", A 2009 lecture on Goudy by Steve Matteson (TypeCon 2009, Atlanta), Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection of Goudyana. Wikipedia: List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy. Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Frederico Mattos
    [Flamula Estudio Criativo]

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    Fredrik Jansson

    Graphic designer in Stockholm. He created an alphabet oiut of forks and spoons called Fork It Out (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Freeject

    Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia-based designer of Hellend (2019: a brush font), GOBR (2019: a display sans), Flola (2019: a great floral caps typeface), Grime (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Freeman Gage Delamotte

    Author, artist, photographer and wood engraver, b. Sandhurst, 1814, d. London, 1862. He published The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediaeval (1879, Crosby Lockwood and Co., London), which has plenty of 8th to 11th century alphabets and initials. See also here, here, and here. Another book is Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain (1864, C. Lockwood and Co, London), which was scanned in and can now be downloaded here, here (locally), and here (the latter link has the 1891 version printed by Crosby Lockwood and Son, London). Further texts: The Book Of Ornamental Alphabets Ancient & Modern (1858, publ. E.F.N. Spon, London), The book of ornamental alphabets, ancient and modern, from the eighth to the nineteenth century, with numerals (1859, E. and F.N. Spon), Medieval alphabets and initials for illuminators (1861, E. and F.N. Spon; see here or here (locally) for a PDF), and A primer of the art of illumination for the use of beginners (1860, E. and F.N. Spon). Most of his lettering is typical of the Victorian tradition of adding ornaments to simple silhouettes. Example: 16th century wood engaving. An Italian alphabet (1864).

    Digital typefaces based on his work include New Saxon Initials (David Nalle, 2016), Delamotte Initials One (2016, David Nalle), Delamotte Initials Two (2016, David Nalle), Museum Initials (2007, John B. Wundes) and Bad Situation (Intellecta Design, 2007: based on an 1864 design called Example Alphabet). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Frida Miranda

    During her graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Frida Miranda designed the poster typeface Dwear (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Friedrich Heinrichsen

    Type designer and calligrapher (b. Passau, 1901, d. 1980, Traunstein) who made Gotenburg (1935-1937, D. Stempel) [with Zierversalien, 1936]. This was digitized in 2001 by Delbanco as DS-Gotenburg. GotenburgA and GotenburgB were revived by Dieter Steffmann in 2002. Heinrichsen was associated with the Werkstattgemeinschaft Rudolf Koch. Other typefaces: Heinrichsen-Kanzlei (1933, Trennert), a gorgeous tall-ascendered blackletter face [for a free digital descendant, see KanzleiScriptHJZ by Hans J. Zinken]. His calligraphic work was also outstanding, and includes Initialen, a proposal for Lichte Schwabacher (never actually cut), and numerous handwriting and calligraphic keepsakes.

    In 1986, Wolfgang Hendlmeier wrote a brief biography. Picture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Frisk Web
    [Lukasz and Wojciech Bachur]

    Lukasz and Wojciech Bachur are the Szczecin, Poland-based designers of Mister Poster (2013, ornamental caps), Mrs. Doodle (2013), Up To Date (2013), Handyman (2013), Ship's painter (2014: brush), Herbarium (2014: plant dingbats), Rama (2013), Shaken (2014), Hooray (2014), Linesman (2014, a sketched typeface), Tile Tale (2014, a system for layering and coloring fonts), Mitty (2014, a poster font), Tinta Negro (2015), Unpoco Loco (2016, handcrafted), Ships Painter (2017, by Lukasz Bachur), sansevieria (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Frits Jonker
    [The Blue Bus Software]

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    Fritter Donut

    Designer of Manuscript Caps (2011, uncial or Celtic caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fritz Janschka

    Austrian artist (b. 1919) affiliated with the Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus, who created exquisite detailed drawings of figures involved in any imaginable form of intercourse. These are mainly initial caps, such as in Ulysses Alphabet (Dortmund, 1983). From 1949 until 1984, he was a professor at Bryn-Mawr-College in Philadelphia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fritz Richter

    Designer (b. Leipzig, 1945) at Typoart of Biga (1985), a shaded 3d headline face. Klingspor mentions the date 1989. In any case, a digital version is available from Elsner & Flake. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig from 1974 until 1979.

    In 2016, Ralph M. Unger created the circus font Circensis, and writes that the font was influenced by Richter's work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Frogii
    [Frogii's Free Fonts]

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    Frogii's Free Fonts
    [Frogii]

    Frogii is the designer of some free typefaces between 2001 and 2005. They were stored at Moorstation until that web site disappeared. I am now hosting that collection:

    • 26 Famous Peeps (2002). Caricature dingbat font.
    • Abstract.
    • Alphadings made in 2002: AlphaBaby, AlphaCar, AlphaDishes, AlphaFlowers, AlphaRope, AlphaWizard.
    • BearyLoveable.
    • BlackFrog.
    • BouquetInitials.
    • ChefTurkey (2001).
    • Chilluns (2005).
    • FlowerShower (2001).
    • Fontanesi (2003). Ornamental caps. After Aldo Novarese's Fontanesi from 1951.
    • FrillyDillies.
    • Frogii's-Froggeroo (2001).
    • FrogiiCapsNumbers (2001).
    • FrogiiChristmas (2001).
    • FrogiisFrogCapsDingfont.
    • FrogiisFroggers.
    • Futurex (2002). A font designed at Apostrophic Labs.
    • Iranian Hand-Lettered (2001). Based on Hand-Lettered by Siynn bar-Diyonn (Dennis Ortiz-Lopez).
    • OrnamentalNo2 (2003).
    • PosterLinguini (2001).
    • Pumpkinese.
    • SantasGiftCaps.
    • ShapeAbet.
    • WhyOhWhy.
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    Fuer Liu

    During her studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fuer Liu created the decorative caps typefaces Morning Exercise (2014) and After School Life (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fygo Wong

    At Subang Inti College in Ipoh, Malaysia, Fygo Wong published a colorful techno alphabet in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gabriel Haas

    During her studies in Florianopolis, Brazil, Gabriel Haas designed a playful all caps typeface called Bite Me (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gabriela DiSarli

    Long Beach, CA-based illustrator. Designer of a textured colored decorative typeface called Thai (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gabriela Rosa

    Joinville, Brazil-based designer of Alfabeto 3D (2018), a free vector format typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gabriele Laubinger

    German artist (b. 1962, Wanne-Eickel) and type designer who won an award in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000 for the blackletter-inspired caps font Linotype Sangue (1996). Font sample.

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    Gabrielle Harris

    During her studies at the Atrium, Cardiff campus of the University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales-based designer Gabrielle Harris created the splendid ornamental caps typeface Neptunes Garden (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gabrielle Leighton

    During her studies in Middlesbrough, UK, Gabrielle Leighton made the ornamental caps typeface Sense of Place (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gabrielle Welsh

    Designer of the decorative caps typeface Occult (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gaetano La Peruta

    Milan, Italy-based designer of the dashing all caps alphabet called Love Type (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gaëlle Jordahn

    Nantes, France-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Calendrier Végétal (2015) and of the bilined typeface Flow (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gail Anderson

    Gail Anderson is well-known for her typography at Rolling Stone magazine. Coauthor with Steve Heller of New Ornamental Type and Type Speaks: A Lexicon of Expressive, Emotional, and Symbolic Typefaces (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gail Sihan Zhao

    Flushing, NY-based student designer of the decorative caps typeface Style (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Galaxie Maria

    Artist and designer in manila, The Philippines. In 2015, she created the floriated decorative caps alphabet Natura. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GalloFonts (was: Graphics by Gallo)
    [Gerald Gallo]

    GalloFonts is part of Graphics by Gallo, founded in 1974 by Gerald Gallo (b. Lucernemines, PA, 1941), and based in Bethesda, MD. The fonts: Bullish (squarish), Display Brutal Rough (2015), Display Black Serif Rough (2015), Pristine Light (2014: caps only squarish sans family), Display Pump (2014), Display University (2005, athletic lettering), Angulatte Light, Angulatte Medium, Angulatte Bold, Anniversary Seals (2003), Basic Bullets, Blooming Ornaments (2008), Brashee Regular, Brashee Bold, Calendar Font One, Calendar Font Two, Calendar Font Three, Carved Initials, Chiseled Initials, Cleancut, Dexterous (2010, art nouveau), Diamond Monogram - 2 Characters, Diamond Monogram - 3 Characters, Display Black Serif (2010, angular), Display Dots Five (2010), Display Dots Six (2010), Display Grungy (2010), Display Robust (2010), Dooddle, Embossed Shallow, Embossed Medium, Embossed Deep, GG Casual Light (2002, was Gallo Casula: hand printing family), GG Casual Medium, GG Casual Bold, GG Dingbats (was Gallo Dingbats, like Zapf Dingbats), GG Serif (1993, was Gallo Serif), Geometric Arrows, Geometric Ornaments, Gnarlee, Greetings, Home Sweet Home, Isometric Initial Caps - Bird's Eye View (1994), Isometric Initial Caps - Worm's Eye View, Isometric Ornaments, Jackolantern Assortment (2002) Just Bugs, Kruede Light, Kruede Regular (handwriting), Kruede Bold, Leaf Assortment (1994), Leaves Falling, Logotype, Magnificent Ornaments (2006, Victorian era decorations), Make Tracks (2002, animal footprints), Number Ornaments, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Square Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Square Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Square Positive, Ornate Initials - Style One (2002), Ornate Initials - Style Two, Ornate Initials - Style Three, Pleasant Hand Light (2002) Pleasant Hand Medium, Pleasant Hand Bold, Precision, Rolling Ball Cursive, Serene (1993), Slender, Smiling Faces, Snowflake Assortment (1994), Snowflakes Falling (2001), Sport Numbers, Star Assortment (2002), Stature (2010, compressed sans), Swiss Folk Ornaments - Critters&Things, Swiss Folk Ornaments - Floral, Swiss Folk Ornaments - Geometric, Time Clocks, Woozee, Display Prominent (2005), Ultimate Ornaments (2005), Cross Ornaments (2005), Heraldic Creatures (2006), Victorian Leaf Ornaments (2006: great!), Quilt Patterns One (2007), Holy Ornaments (2007), Oriental Ornaments (2007), Gothic Initials One through Six (2007-2008), Interlaced Ornaments (2007), Modest Ornaments (2008), Art Nouveau Flowers (2008), Art Nouveau Ornaments (2008), Quilt Patterns Two (2008), Display Gothic (2008, blackletter), Plant Assortment (2008), Birds Flying (2009), Happy Go Lucky (2009, Victorian), Fish Fresh (2009), Display Dots One (2009, dot matrix face), Display Art Two and Three (2009, art nouveau alphabets), Display Dots Two Serif and Sans (2009, dot matrix typefaces), Display Dots Three Serif and Sans (2009), Display Dots Four Serif and Sans (2009), Display Robust (2010), Quilt Patterns Three and Four (both 2009), Gothic Initials (Seven, Eight, Nine: 2009), Carefreed (2009, a Halloween script?), Glorita (2009, casual condensed sans), Fancy Flowers (2010), Rectilinear Ornaments (2010), Display Brutal (2010, grunge), Cross Stitch Graceful (2010), Cross Stitch Regal (2011), Cross Stitch Formal (2010), Cross Stitch Discreet (2010), Cross Stitch Classic (2010), Display Dots Seven (2011), Cross Stitch Majestic (2011), Cross Stitch Elaborate (2011), Cross Stitch Medieval (2011), Cross Stitch Ornaments (2013), Display Squares One and Two (2011, gridded or dot matrix typefaces), Display Digits One through Seven (2011), Display Crisp (2012, octagonal), Blue on Blue (2012, shadow face), Green on Green (2012, 3d shadow face), White on White (2012), Orange on Orange (2012, a 3d shadow face), Victorian Ornaments (2012), Printers Plant Ornaments (2012, a floral typeface), Simple Ornaments, Numbers Style Three Diamond Positiv Regular (2012), Charisma (2013, inspired by the hand lettering used by draftsmen and architects), Display Explicit (2013), Display Uncanny (2013, unicase), Display Carlos (2013, a piano key typeface), Mighty Oaks (2013, stylized oak leaves), Sweet Hand (2014), Fast Hand (2014), Medallion Ornaments (2016), Vigorous (2016, octagonal), Heavy Duty (2016, a bold condensed sans), Tight Hand (2016), Hasty Hand (2016), Neat Hand (2016), Bullish (2017), Impossible Ornaments (2018: based on Escher's ideas), Flair Hand (2018), Severe (2018: squarish).

    Typefaces from 2022: Flashie (technio caps), Illustrious (chamfered caps), Sturdie (condensed, squarish), Jubilant (squarish), Noteworthy, Sensuous (art deco), Loftie (chamfered caps), Pudgie, Brilliante (squarish), Fervent (an all caps condensed slab serif), Bevelle (a beveled chamfered slab serif), Lankie (a gas pipe font), Rotunde (a blocky sans), Rigide (a 6-style squarish sans).

    View Gerald Gallo's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Galyna Tymonko
    [Happy Letters]

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    Gary David Bouton
    [Exclamations (or: The Boutons)]

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    Gasoline Creative

    Gasoline Creative is located in Mumbai, India. It created a colorful set of decorative caps called Tesla (2015) to honor the technological genius of Nikola Tesla. Earlier, it designed the steampunk caps typeface Tesla Title (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gavin Potenza
    [Script and Seal]

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    Gblack Id
    [Wahyu Nurcahyo]

    Bogor, Indonesia-based designer of the display typefaces Chalk Thoelis (2016, chalk or crayon style), Butterfly (2016), Cacing (2016, glaz krak style), Njajalen (2016, brush style), Blue Ninja (2016), and Dragonell (2016). Wahyu also made the painted brush typefaces Willensia, Wijilan, Mudeva, Widya, Jeuliteung, Don Kiciro, Doelkenyoet, Penasaran, Joko Anakteka, Jhagat Raya, Handhayani, Maunikung, Mak Enyoi, Kalliadem, Gillanie, Gelisyah, Gatelli, and Doelkecer in 2016.

    Typefaces from 2017: Stail Kisut (textured), Merindu (textured), Buadaze (textured), Pancala (textured), Mechar (textured), BigLightning (textured), ArtCore (textured), Adelina (textured), Absoulutes (textured), Sea Monster (textured), Chadal (outlined), Agnez (outlined), Poesaka (decorative and textured).

    Typefaces from 2020: Abbaranggana, Adelia Gatatis, Adorable Quiling, Aenindo, Agnez, Agnezia, Alimtapa, Allina Light, Alpha Anggela, Alpha Live Arjuna, Alvi Light Save, Alvin Duo, Amalianida, Amanda Scientist, Ambyarita, Andicolbri, Anggicrush, Anin Deco, Anindya Cresscendo, Aprilindo Smockum, Aprillian Springs, Aradyan Dixabey, ArtCore, Aryantona, Aviagraph, Avianty, Ayuwije Aestethic, Aztec Legion, Baby Freak, Bloddkingdom, Buadaze, Celestial Being, Chadal, Chomet, CrossHat, Dynastyan, Ericha, Jhagat Raya, Joyagatra, Khuas, Kotoba Dua, Organoid, Poesaka (decorative caps), Poesaka II, Remidial Monster, Roemah Hunian, Romenture, StailKisut, Wijilan, Willensia, ZeroCross (decorative caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gearwright
    [Yusof Mining]

    Yusof Mining (Gearwright) specializes in old American typefaces and letterpress. His typefaces:

    • Shrimpse (2016). A grungy descendant of Cheltenham.
    • Steelplate Script (2015): A revival of William Jackson's copperplate style script typeface Steelplate script (1888, Central Type Foundry).
    • In 2015, he revived Morris Fuller Benton's Gothic as Newston, and added Newston Inked.
    • Similarly, Caston (2015) and Caston Inked (2015) revive Card Litho (1917, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF), itself a modification of Litho Roman (1907, Inland).
    • Enigton (2015): a revival monogram typeface based on virkotype combination monograms issued by the American Type Founders in 1920's.
    • Standard Issue (2015). An octagonal sans that emulates weathered inky prints. He added Standard Issue Clean a bit later in 2015.
    • Arpegio Brush Script (2015).

    Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gebr. Klingspor: Schriftkartei

    In 1950, Gebr. Klingspor published a nice small booklet simply called Schriftkartei. The images below are from that book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Geckodude (or: Sleepy Gecko)
    [Steve Harrison]

    Steve "Gecko" Harrison of the Sleepy Gecko Chillout Bar on Cam Nam island off Hoi An, and also Danang, Vietnam, b. 1952, designed these typefaces:

    • Rocodecoco (2019). An art deco, Broadway style typeface based on a hybrid of Grock (1935) and Roco (1973).
    • Motter Alustyle. After a 1972 font by Othmar Motter.
    • Rabbit Moon (2019). Based on a few glyphs drawn by Kenneth Anger for an alternative film).
    • In 2020, he did a proper revival of Gene Eidy's iconic oriental simulation typeface Sukiyaki (1968, Lettergraphics), which can be downloaded here.
    • Together with Blair Massey, he designed the Victorian typeface Brand New Memorial (2020), which improves on Dan Solo's Memorial
    • Razor Face (2020). A revival of the spurred film font Scott Gothic (Photolettering). Free download.
    • Castaway (2020). A huge improvement and extension of Dan X. Solo's Stowaway, in Inline, Fill, Solid and Outline styles. Free download.
    • Alpha Nouveau (2020). A free all caps art nouveau typeface based on old signage.
    • Bergling Nouveau Display (2020). An ornamental art nouveau typeface based on an alphabet by John M. Bergling (1923). Download.
    • Skedaddle (2020). An all caps sans. Download.
    • Balsamic Display (2020). A tall all caps display serif. Download.
    • Snicket Initials (2020). After an alphabet called Initial Letters by John O. Ohnimus (1906). Download.
    • Typefaces modeled after Ross F. George: Doolally (2020; Ross F. George, 1938), Dawdling (2020; Ross F. George, 1935), Dawdling Snowflake (2020; Ross F. George, 1935), Bogeyed (2021: art deco), Faffinabout (2021).
    • Seraphime (2017). Download.
    • Skaliwag Display (2020). A decorative art nouveau typeface inspired by an alphabet in John M. Bergling's Art Alphabets and Lettering (1914, 1918, 1923). Download.
    • Astrologos (2021). An exquisite zodiac symbol font.
    • Cordwrangler (2021). A display typeface inspired by Kenneth Williams from the "Carry On" movies.
    • Lettres Ornes Blonde, Lettres Ornes Noire and Lettres Ornes Lignes (2021). Three exquisite decorative caps typefaces modeled after Joseph Gillé's Lettres Ornées (1820).
    • Ruffinit (2021). An alphabet for emulating mural signage.
    • Floral Poppl (2021). Steve's attempt to decorate one of the Friedrich Poppl faces, making it all flowery.
    • Odessa (2021). A joyous and prototypical art nouveau typeface.
    • Hullabaloo (2021). A nearly art nouveau typeface from Dan X. Solo's treasure chest of oldies but goodies.
    • Doubleback Display (2021). A revival and clean-up of a Letraset rub down lettering typeface.
    • The prismatic typeface family Stripes (2021). This is an enormous expansion of the similarly named typeface Stripes (1972, Tony Wenman), which was made available by Letraset for dry-transfer lettering as part of Letragraphica 11 in 1973. It comprises eleven fonts from a nine-stripe version (note: Wenman had eight prismatic lines) down to a solid one-line version. Along the same lines, he created the prismatic typefaces Sixty Eight and Sixty Eight Plus (2021) based on Lance Wyman's lettering for the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
    • Schlubert Rounded and Schlubert Round Stencil (2021). Two squarish typefaces.
    • Vermin (2021). Based on an old typeface called Voodoo.
    • Geometricfix Eighteen and GeometricfixThirtySix (2021). Textured typefaces based on geometric / techno designs by Brazilian designer Danilo Gusmão Silveira.
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    Geetika Alok

    Geetika Alok is a graphic designer and works on projects in London and India. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Communication, Art&Design and had previously completed her Bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Design with specialisation in Graphic Design. With Henrik Kubel, she designed the typeface India (2011). In 2014, she completed the TDi program at the University of Reading.

    In 2011, she created the absolutely fantastic ornamental caps typeface Saudade, which consists of overlapping circles. She writes: Poster for a talk of Marina Willer. Saudade is the most beautiful word in Brazilian Portuguese. It means something a bit like nostalgia. Typeface: In collaboration with Henrik Kubel.

    Maya (2011) and Sea Shells (2011) are typefaces that were inspired by Indian architecture.

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    Geetika Arya

    Indian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator in 2011 of a decorated caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Geir Frøvold

    Nodeland, Norway-based designer of the decorative caps set Norwegian Alphabet (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gem Hart

    UK-based creator of an alphabet made up of old iron bits (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GemFonts98
    [Graham Meade]

    Prolific Australian type designer who has made over 300 free fonts to date. Creations: Bonk Fatty, Worstveld Sling (2003), Quastic Kaps (2003), Quadlateral (2003), Junge Burnout (2003), Choktoff (2003), Hall Fetica (2002), Lady Ice Extra (2002), Gizmo (2002), Arggh@$*# (2002), Republika Ego (a huge family made in 2002, as an extension of the large family Republika by Apostrophe), Zillah Modern Offset Outline (2002), Feldicouth (2002, medieval lettering), GM Exp (2002), Pecot, Pecot #2 and Pecot #3 (2002), Wazoo (2002), JamesEightEleven (2002), AnalSatisfaction (2002), GenericFont (2002), PanAm (2002), Border Base Future (2002), Moondog (2001, with Apostrophe), Equine (2001), Street Corner (2001), Mister Belvedere (2001), Freebooter Script (2001), Street (2001, an 31 font sans and slab serif at the Lab), Choda (2001, with Apostrophe), Walkway (2001, see here), Castorgate (2001), Heidorn Hill (2001, a Fraktur font with Apostrophe), Labag (2001, with Apostrophe), 11S01 Black Tuesday (2001, for Life Saving Fonts), Endor (2001; a gothic font with Apostrophe), Dekon (2001), Asenine (2001), Eskargot (2001, with Apostrophe, a "tango" font), Brassier (2001, with Apostrophe), Kandide (2001, with Apostrophe), Labrit (2001, a Fraktur font done with Apostrophe), Control Freak, Gilgongo, Eskargot, LabtopGraphed, PhoenixArise, PrussianBrewSolid, YouthanasiaTexture, Dumbledor, Luciferius, Zebrra, Street, Kronika, PrimaryElector (all at Apostrophic Labs), Scaling the Dragon, Primary Elector, Blacksmith Delight, Birthday Dingbats, Halloween 2, Comicbook Smash, AcidDreamer, Arialic, AvQest, Battered Cooper, Beerglass, Berthside, Bloodgutter 99, Blown Away, Boneribbon, Boneribbon Tall, Bunny Rabbits, Callistroke, Carbonized Timber Chizzler, Deathhead KeltCaps Drummon, Family .., Effluence, Ericott, Erozion, Erthqake, Fanfold, Gemerald, GemFont One, Gorlock, Hungover, Impressed Metal, Inked Weird, Inningham, Isildur High, JaggaPoint, KeltCaps, Kharnorric, Kharnorric Royal, Knights Quest, Knights Quest Callig, Lane Humouresque (2000), Layaway, Linear Beam, Line Etch, Melted Moments, Metal Spagetti, NeoSpacial, Niew CroMagnon, Offset Plain, Old Copperfield, Old Oak, Old Virus, Ooky, Parkvane, Pee's Celtic, Pi in the SciFi, Quilted Indian, Ribbon, Ripplemere, Roughhewn, Rounheads, Rusty Sign, Rykindor, Satan Possessed, Seventy Flares, Simpleman, Skunkline, Slinked, Snail n Ink, SnottMM (multiple master), Solid Ooky, Squashed, Static Charge, StaidMM (multiple master), Steamroller, Stiltedman, Stretch, Tear, Tearoff, Textapoint, Thor version 1.5, Time Pundits (a CODEX-like face), Torcing Away, Trilayered, Ulse Freehand, Uncey, Untidy Skrawl, Vale Shadow, Waif Thin, Warpy Roundhead, Whoosit, Wonkers, Woodbrush, Wormfont, Woven Brick, Woven Outline, Yurine Overflow, Dingbats, Americanic, BirdArt, Cattart, Chyld, Culinary Art, Doggart, Doggon, Drinks - Various, EasterArt, Ein Schwein, Gembats 1, Gembats 2, Helloween, JFC, KidClipart 1, KidClipart 2, Komedy Kritters, Krazy Kritters, Luvya Babe, Moolah, Multicasion, Odds N Sods, Sportzs, Teddyber, Teddyber Too, Vehicular, Whethers, Xmas Clipart 1, Xmas Clipart 2, PenicMasturbata, Aliensatemymum, AustralianSunrise, AustralianSunset, Blockstepped, BoldlyGo, BarredOut, Blockstepped3D, BoldlyGoOut, Daemonesque, Efentine, FuzzyXmas, Gazzarelli, Jhunwest, JhunwestConcaveGM, LickcurlPetite, LupusBlight, MilleniGem, PhilteredPhont, SlicedIron, Stargit, StargitVer2, ZappedSticks, AlphaRomanieG98, BraveNewEraG98, BlobfontG98, BoxingBrophius, CacophonyLoud, ChainzG98, CulinaryArt, DarkBastion, FortuneCity, GorlockBold, HornsofDilemma, LlynfyrchFwyrrdynn, Maranallo, OptimisticPessimist, PositiveNhilism, UniversalShatter, Bonk, Bonk College, Bonk Fatty, Bonk Offset, Bonk Outercut, Bonk Undercut, ChefsSliceNovice, MeteorGM, TreasureMapDeadhand, TechnicallyInsane, Futurex (with Apostrophe), Street, Calan, Lady Copra, Thing, Dexetrine, ChizzMM (multiple master, with Apostrophe, 2001), Charrington (2001), Lady Copra (2001), Likkle (2007), Luteous (with Rich Parks, 2001), Thorazine and Thorazone (last eleven at Apostrophic Labs [dead link]).

    Interview.

    In March 2001, Graham's Charming Font (done with Andreas Höfeld) won the 2001 Friday Night Type Fights competition.

    Alternate URL. Fontfreak link.

    Other fonts: Choktoff (2003), Etched Fractals, Film Cryptic (2003), Future Sallow, Hardnsharp (2003), Jagged Dreams, Jungle Burnout, Kyiss M'ass (2003), Tall Films (2004), Meichic (2003), Nightmare Blend Revisited, ReducedEfficiency (2003), Wasted in this job, Western Taint (2003), Wytherness, Yuma Sunset (Western style font), and Zone Linear.

    Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link.

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    Gemma Davis

    Illustrator and designer in Bfrisbane, Australia, who created the great textured ornamental caps typeface Franky in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gems of Penmanship by Williams&Packard

    Penmanship book written in New York in 1867 by D. Williams and S.S. Packard. It has a few blackletter and other alphabets, and many freehand drawings of birds and animals. Selected alphabets: Grand Capitals, Italian Capitals, Ladies Hand, Roman Capitals, Italian, Half Block, Williams Style German Text, Williams and Packard's Steel Pen German Text, Old English, Williams and Packard's Church Text [this inspired C. Lee's Ornate Alphabet], Beveled Alphabet, Ribbon Alphabet, (continued), Soft and Twisted Alphabet, (continued), Rustic Alphabet, (continued). Selected drawings: a hand, a bird, a deer, a swan.

    Digital revivals include Vintage Ornamental (2016) and Gothic Ornamental (2016) by Ludmila Riumina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gene Buban

    Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these typefaces:

    • Aerologica (2009): 3-d headline face.
    • Alphadings: DeTracks.
    • Altitudinus (2010).
    • Amplifica (+Carved, 2010).
    • Arkham Bloodletters (2008).
    • bay6
    • Bauhaus style: Slink (2009) is a tribute to Josef Albers---one could also call it a piano key font. Codename Bauhaus (2010).
    • Arc Brick 1:1 and 2:2 (2010).
    • Bevelicious (2009): 3d shadow face.
    • Bezziaiare (2010): an imitation of Futura.
    • Brikd is a fantastic headline face.
    • Bubble Lab EF (2008) and Bubble Lab Bang (2008): dingbat fonts.
    • Calligraphique (2010).
    • Candella (2013).
    • ChequereBoard (2008): a 3d face.
    • Christmas fonts: Kallosia Decorative (2009, blackletter), Snowflakes (2009).
    • Clone War (2008).
    • code2
    • Codename Bauhaus (2010).
    • Country Fried (Western style)
    • Crossfyre (2010).
    • Crystles (2014). He writes: In 1983, Atari released the Crystal Castles video game. You play Bentley Bear walking around castles and collecting gems. Trimetric instead of isometric. Interestingly enough, the initials of the highest scorer in the leaderboard is used to build the first castle. This font version is created using the same thin plated tiles that the player traverses through the castles.
    • Decorata (stylized art deco)
    • Didone fonts: Legality (2009, sharply serifed), Petrissage (2009).
    • Digibubble (2014: pixelish face).
    • Dingbats: DeTrayne (graffiti-clad trains), Happy Halloween (2009).
    • Egalite (2010): a blackletter face.
    • Direktype (2014: striped).
    • Elektronika (2009) and Circularities (2015). Pixelish.
    • ElSeeDee (2008, white on a black grid, inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport)
    • Effleurage (2009).
    • Eurostijl (2008)
    • Exersia, Excursia
    • Ferno (hell?)
    • Filmstryp (2008)
    • Flameon (2008) is a vertically striped athletic lettering font.
    • Fluoralei (2008) and Fluoralyte (2008) are all caps floral-themed typefaces.
    • Futuro (2008) and Futuro Extra Bold (2008).
    • Futurity Watch (2009).
    • Fragg (2014: a rounded stencil face).
    • Framestore (2008).
    • G1 Construx (2012). An arched textured typeface for "under construction" signage.
    • G1 Stenzilla (2012). A piano key stencil face. G1 Twyne (2014: Celtic knots), G12 Brayed (2014: Celtic knots), G1 Explo (2014), G1 Fasttrax (2013).
    • Gappy and Gappy LC (2010).
    • Geolateral
    • Glossierre (2009).
    • Graffikki (2010): graffiti face.
    • Hammerslab (2008) is a very thick heavy slab serif face.
    • Happy Halloween (2008): Halloween dingbats.
    • HellStruct (2008): flamed letters.
    • hollo, holloback, holloblack
    • HulkSmash has the look of cracked concrete blocks---has to be seen to be believed!
    • HyperLynk (2010).
    • Indiglo (2010).
    • Interblok Cylindrome (2011) and Interblok Stroke (2009): labyrinthine / Celtic knot / texture typefaces.
    • IronManic (2008, letters resemble armor steel plates with bolts)
    • IsoMatrix 3D (2009, an Escher deception in 3D), Bevelluzian (2010, 3d beveled checkerboard illusion).
    • Jaggs (2010): angular.
    • Karuso 68 (2009).
    • Leefer is a kitchen tile font.
    • Legere (2010, a roman face).
    • LegoManiax (2008).
    • G1 Lovelines (2016). A multiline typeface with embedded hearts that won an award in the 2016 FontStruct competition on the theme of love.
    • Lucid (2009).
    • Lush Alienne Caps (2014).
    • Microboto (2014).
    • Modulus and Modulus Black, ultra fat fonts.
    • Motternal (2011), a version of Othmar Motter's Motter Tektura.
    • Mucro Bold, a heavy metal band font
    • Multiverse Diagonality (2009).
    • Nontroppo (2010).
    • Outlier (2010).
    • Paradoxx (2011). Peignotian.
    • Periculum (2010): monoline sans.
    • pixsle
    • Pixsle (2010).
    • Predatoric ad Predatoric2 (2010).
    • Prikkle (2010): angular.
    • Ray Type Alpha (2014). A game font based on Konami's 1981 game Scramble.
    • Renovare S1 (2010) and Renovare S2 (2015). a slab serif.
    • Requiemme Decorum (Sept. 14th, 2009): blackletter. He writes: Exactly one year ago two of my cousins, Chris and Cleofe, got into a dealer-loaned Lexus for a trip after their main car was being repaired. Cleofe's husband, a CHP officer, was driving and their teen daughter was along for the ride. While on the freeway, the accelerator became stuck and they lost control of the car. As the runaway vehicle sped up to over 100 mph, all four passengers were killed in a fiery crash in the San Diego River. The loss was unquantifiably devastating. This immensely tragic event led my aunt to testify before congress with damning evidence that would initiate the recall of millions of Toyota vehicles. Requiemme Decorum was created on the way down to southern California for the funeral services. For Chris, Cleofe, Mark, and Mahala, may you all rest in peace and love.
    • Renovare (2010, +Renovare S1, S2): a slab serif.
    • Roboscript (2008): an upright connected school script.
    • Rubrix (2008): a Rubik cube dingbat font.
    • Sanserity (2013).
    • Scipio (2010).
    • Scribble Not (2010) is a texture face.
    • Sequencia (2010).
    • sedagive
    • Seriface and Seriface 2.0 (2010, a roman all-caps set).
    • Sharp-serifed almost modern typefaces: Legality, Petrissage, Effleurage, Karuso68.
    • Sinaloco (2014: in the style of Sinaloa).
    • Sirkles (2015). a dot-matrix typeface.
    • Sonorous (2010). Broadway-style art deco typeface.
    • Spartan Tech (2010): inspired by the multiplayer game Halo3.
    • Stanley Twobrick (pointy minimalist face)
    • Startrek typefaces: Transformicon (2009).
    • Stencilline (2014).
    • Streamlyne (2010, squarish, outlined).
    • Structurocca and Structurozza (2009): Horizontally stencilled black typefaces.
    • Swizelle (2015). A lava lamp typeface.
    • Tangience and Tangience Solid (2008) are fonts in which the glyphs are built up from circles glued together.
    • Tetrisyde
    • The Pax Man (2009): metallic whatever.
    • Trelief and Trelief Rounded (2010): multilined 3d beveled typefaces.
    • Tubric (2010): counterless.
    • Upriteous and Upriteous Black, condensed protestant fonts.
    • Victoriana (Victorian caps)
    • Vindicta Dualine (2011: Blackboard bold).
    • Wall-F: white squarish letters in black circles
    • Waverly, with scary pointed barbs like on German WWI helmets.
    • Weaver (Celtic knot-themed letters)
    • Xerro (2010): like Helvetica.
    • Yeomamuh, a fat look face.
    • Wypeout (2010)
    • Zorea (2014, inline font).
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    Genna Cadangyao

    Florence, Italy-based graphic designer who created an ornamental caps typeface in 2013 at Accademia Italiana.

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    Genzsch&Heyse

    Hamburg-based foundry ifounded by Emil Julius Genzsch (1856-1906). It was taken over by Linotype in 1963. Their library included typefaces by these designers:

    • F. Bauer: Fortuna (1930), Genzsch Antiqua (1906), Genzsch Fraktur (1931), Heyse Antiqua (1921), Senats Fraktur (1907).
    • K. Klauß: Arkona (1935), Horizontale (1942).
    • Heinz Beck: Brahms Gotisch (1937).
    • Carl Otto Czeschka: Czeschka Antiqua (1914), Olympia (1929).
    • A. Auspurg: Hans Sachs Gotisch (1911), Domina (1929), Souverän (1913).
    • O. Hupp: Heraldisch (1910), Neudeutsch (1900), Numismatisch (1900).
    • J. Kirn: Oleander (1938).
    • H. König: Suberpia (1913).
    • Adolf Heimberg: Urdeutsch (1924).
    • Helmut Matheis: Verona (1958).
    • E. Mollowitz: Anemone (1955).
    • E. Ege: Basalt (1926), Ege-Schrift (1921).
    • W. Rebhuhn: Fox (1953), Hobby (1955).
    • H. Schmidt: Gigant (1926), Monument.
    • F. P. Glaß: Glaß Antiqua (1912).
    • Eickhoff: Lithograph (1903).
    • H. Möhring: Phalanx (1931).
    • C. Adam: Rex (1924).
    • H. Pauser: Semper Antiqua (1940).
    • Eugène Grasset: Römisch Grasset (1913), Grasset Antiqua (1900).
    • Albert Anklam: Mönchs-Gotisch (or: Mediaeval-Gotisch) in 1877 (Schnelle says 1881); Neue Schwabacher (normal and halbfett) in 1876.
    • J. Göbler: Ballerina (1959, script face).
    In addition we find house typefaces such as Adagio (1939, script face), Blockschrift (1897; revived by Nick Curtis in 2015 as Bothas Ruhm NF and by Moritz Zimmer in 2016 as Die Blockschrift), Leibniz-Fraktur (1912; digital versions exist by Klaus Burkhardt, Petra Heidorn (free), Softmaker (Leibniz Fraktur Pro, 2016), and Ralph M. Unger), Nero Kursiv (1913), Alster (1926), Elzevir-Antiqua and Kursiv and Elzevir-Versalien (1925), Rex Versalien (1925), Richard Wagner Fraktur (ca. 1920), Glass Antiqua (1912, Franz Paul Glass: remade in 2011 by Nick Curtis as Half Full NF), Halbfette Hansa Fraktur (1912), Hansa Fraktur (ca. 1915), Hansa Gotisch (digital version by Gerhard Helzel), Plantin Antiqua and Kursiv (1913), Ondosa Ornamente (1912), Preziosa Ornamente (1912), Psalterium (1907, blackletter), Serpentin Ornamente (1912), Hamburger Druckschrift (1909), Nordische Antiqua and Cursiv (1907), Renaissance Ornamente (1901), Römische Antiqua (1899), Sparta (1939), Hauptproben (1910), Negrita, Neugotisch, Neue Pittoresk, Ornamente, Pionier, Renaissance Initialen, Römische Initialen, Römische Kursiv, Venetianische Schreibschrift.

    Flickr page on Genzsch and Heyse. Proben von Schriften (1902). View the digital legacy of Genzch & Heyse. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Geofroy Tory

    Also Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges. Parisian printer, designer and engraver, 1480-1533. As designer and engraver he produced beautiful initials, borders, and illustrations. In Champ-fleury, auquel est contenu l'art et science de la vraie proportion des lettres antiques selon le corps et visage humain (Gilles de Gourmond, Paris, 1529), Geoffroy Tory compared the proportions in letters to proportions in the human body. The books treats the design of roman capitals and is critical of the work of Dürer. It was translated in English by George B. Ives, New York, in 1927. There also exists a facsimile, with introduction by John Jolliffe. East Ardsley, dated 1970. He was rewarded by François I with the title of Imprimeur du Roi in 1531.

    Octavo.com sells a CD of the original book. You can also view the text on-line. Essay in Spanish on his life. Page at Columbia University. A French thesis on Geoffroy Tory. PDF of Champ Fleury.

    Scans, images: Letter I superimposed on a human face, Lettres Fantastiques (caps made from tools), [continued], Lettres Imperialles et Bullatiques (capitals), [continued], Lettres Tourneures (Lombardian capitals), Construction of an S, Construction of a Z, Construction of an A, his Lettres Latines alphabet, Cadeaulx (blackletter caps), [continued].

    There have been rather few attempts at making a typeface based on Tory's drawings from Champ Fleury. Gilles Le Corre (GLC) created 1529 Champ Fleury Initials (2010) for example. The text of that book, which was printed by Gilles de Gourmond in Paris, led Gilles Le Corre to develop the rough typeface 1529 Champ Fleury Pro. Christian Küsters designed AF Champ Fleury (1996). Michael Jacoby based his Vitruvia Titling (2016) on the Champfleury typeface. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Barlösius

    Type designer (b. 1864, Magdeburg, d. 1908, Berlin) who studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Berlin and Akademie in München, and worked in Berlin. He designed the blackletter typefaces Barlösius-Schrift (1906, Bauersche Giesserei; +Fett, 1907), Barlösius-Gotisch (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), Fette Barlösius-Gotisch (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), and Barlösius-Buchschrift (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), as well as Barlösius Initialen, Barlösius Einfassungen and Barlösius Vignetten.

    Digital versions of some of these fonts by Peter Wiegel (Barloesius-Schrift, 2015), Manfred Klein (Barlosius Edged, 2007) and Klaus Burkhardt (Barlösius, 1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Duffner

    Austrian designer who is trying hard to give the free software world an excellent qualitatively competitive free Garamond family. At Google Web Fonts, we find his EB Garamond family (2011), which covers Latin and Cyriilic. It is named after Egelnoff and Berner.

    He explains: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the Berner specimen, which, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic fonts at different sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond. Also planned are polytonic Greek, IPA and ornaments.

    In 2017, Octavio Pardo entered the EB Garamond project. The fonts can now be downloaded from Github. For Valentine's Day, a certain Bryn replaced the o and the tittles by hearts, and called the font Better EB Garamond (2017).

    Designer of the free font OMW Ayembedt (2013): Ayembedt is a font aiming to recreate the symbolic typeface called Daedric, found in the Elder Scrolls video game series, most notably in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

    Klingspor link. Open Font Library link. CTAN download of EB Garamond. Google Plus link. Duffner's Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Giesecke

    Georg Giesecke, of Schelter&Giesecke in Leipzig, patented many of their typefaces in the USA. A partial list (with PDFs of the patents): Akantrea (1883), Angel Caps (1888), Border Series 73 (1887), Boxed Alphabet (1881), Celtic Caps (1883), Gothic Initials (1883), Initials (1889), Italian renaissance 1883), Kartuschen Einfassung Serie 72 (1887), Lombardic (1885), Ornaments (1878), Script (1887), Shieldface A (1881), Shieldface Combination Pieces (1881), Silhouette Border Series 63 (1884), Zierschrift 1400 (1889).

    Ralph Unger says that his RMU Pergola was inspired by one of Georg Giesecke's designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Herold-Wildfellner

    Type designer based in Vienna, Austria. Codesigner with Marcus Sterz at FaceType of a Victorian type family called Ivory (2009). They state that Ivory is inspired by a beautiful typeface used in an illustrated compendium about pomology from 1882. I did not know what Pomology is but the Urban Dictionary defines a pomosexual (for postmodernism sexual) as an individual who challenges assumptions about gender and sexuality. Now, a pomologist is a fruit tree specialist---that's another thing altogether. He created Aeronaut (2009, FaceType), a textura based on Kirchengotische Schrift, a font that can be found in a German font book from 1879 entitled Vorlegeblätter f&uunl;r Firmenschreiber. Weingut Script (+Ornaments, 2011) is a flourished type family. Mr. Moustache (2011) is a neatly hand-trimmed condensed type family, complete with various sets of ornaments and dingbats.

    Supernett (2019) and Supernett CN (2013, Facetype) are huge font families based on hand-drawn versions of Helvetica. They have 4700 glyphs and many opentype features.

    In 2014, he created the hand-lettered poster series Pinto.

    In 2015, Georg published the Opentype-feature-laden 2600+-character Mila Script Pro at FaceType.

    Typefaces from 2017: Pinto No 2 (hand-drawn), Sofa Sans Hand.

    Typefaces from 2019: Sofa Serif Hand.

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    George Chislett

    George Chislett is an illustrator based in Bristol, UK, who graduated from UWE Bristol. He drew a mechanical caps alphabet called Mech Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Dobrogeanu
    [Something Design]

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    George J. Becker

    Philadelphia, PA-based author of The American system of penmanship ... In ... ten numbers (1842, Uriah Hunt and Son, Philadelphia), Becker's System of Penmanship, Comprising Manual and Elementary Excercises, Business and Epistolary Writing, and Ornamental Penmanship. In Twelve Numbers. No. 10 (1856, Uriah Hunt and Son, Philadelphia), Becker's Ornamental Penmanship (1854), and Ornamental Penmanship Analytical and Finished Alphabets (1854, Uriah Hunt and Son), a lettering manual.

    In 2013, James Puckett (Dunwich Type Founders) revived five typefaces from this manual as digital typefaces in his Becker Gothics collection. They include Egyptian, Egyptian Rounded, Stencil, Tuscan and Concave. All have Western and wood type influences. In 2009, Becker's 1854 book was used by Monogram Fonts Co in the creation of Noir Monogram (2009), which was based on Becker's Pearl type.

    Downloads of his 1854 book: University of Michigan scan. For a Facsimile, see Becker's ornamental penmanship. A series of analytical and finished alphabets [FACSIMILE]. Free PDF file of the latter book.

    In 1993, Dover reprinted 23 complete alphabets in Ornamental Calligraphy [With 50 Plates] (Dover Books on Lettering, Graphic Arts & Printing). Local download of his 1854 book. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    George Roussos

    During his studies, Thessaloniki, Greece-based George Roussos created the decorative (Latin) caps typeface Infectura (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George W. Koch

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as this tall-ascendered Roman alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George William Jones

    British printer and typographer (born 1860 in Upton-on-Severn, died 1942 in Worcestershire). From 1921 until his retirement in 1938, he was "printing adviser" to Linotype&Machinery Ltd in Britain. He was director of typography for the British Printer, and reached the acme of his career as Printer to the King and Queen of Belgium. All his typefaces except Venezia are Linotype typefaces. His typographic work includes these typefaces:

    • About 1913, when at the press "At the Sign of the Dolphin" located in Gough Square off Fleet Street, he developed Venezia, a new typeface exclusive to his press. He retained Edward Prince to cut the punches and based his design on a Jenson precedent found in Caesar's "Commentaries" printed around 1470. Jones had the matching italic designed by Frederic Goudy. He sold the punches and matrices to Stephenson Blake in 1927. MacMcGrew: Venezia was produced by Keystone Type Foundry and first shown in 1899. It appears to have been inspired by the same models as Jenson Oldstyle, but features more generously bracketed serifs and a generally more pleasing appearance. Except for the unusual link between the bowls of the g, it is very agreeable. For a later modification of this design, see Laureate.
    • Granjon Old Face, first shown in the British trade press of December 1924. He based this on books produced by the Parisian printers Jacques Dupuys in 1554 and Jean Poupy in 1582 (according to Lawrence Wallis). Its roman is a true Garamond. Linotype states that it was based on the typeface sample of the Frankfurt font foundry Egenolff from the year 1592, with the romans by Claude Garamond and the italics by Robert Granjon. Linotype's Granjon gets a date of 1928, and is attributed jointly to George W. Jones and Chauncey H. Griffith. Image of Linotype Granjon. Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: [Mergenthaler Linotype; Linotype (London) 1928-1931] Designed for Linotype under the supervision of George W. Jones. Although named after another French type designer, Robert Granjon, this roman is the best reproduction of the Garamond type we have. It was based on a sixteenth century Paris book printed in a roman which appears under the name Garamond on a specimen sheet of the Egenolff-Berner foundry at Frankfurt, 1592. The capitals are tall in comparison with Bembo, but sufficiently narrow and light to prevent their being too conspicuous. The middle strokes of the M are slightly overhanging, the bowl of the P is not closed, the R ends in a foot serif on the line. The lower-case Garamond g with a small bowl is well reproduced. The italic is less distinguished than the true old-face italics. The A is rather like CASLON. There is a straight shanked h and a number of swash capitals. The large bowl of the g differentiates this design from the Garamond, so-called, italics.
    • Estienne (1928-1929, Linotype London and Mergenthaler Linotype). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: Another Garamond design due to G.W. Jones, named after the famous family of Paris printers. This roman differs from Granjon in the greater height of the ascenders and length of the descenders. It is also lighter in colour. Other distinguishing marks are, the R which tapers off and descends below the line, and the g with a larger bowl. The italic has less inclination than the Granjon. The Q has a tail after the Goudy model. In the lower case the serifs on the tops of ascenders are inclined; the curve of the bowl of the p continues beyond the main stroke. The Haas Estienne is an entirely different design. Mac McGrew: Estienne is a distinguished book typeface designed by George W. Jones, the eminent English printer, and released by Linotype in 1930. It is related to Garamond but more delicate, with longer ascenders and descenders. The roman makes a distinctive and very attractive appearance in text, but the italic is rather loosely fitted, necessitated by fitting the long ascenders and descenders to straight matrices. It is named for a distinguished sixteenth- century French printing family. Compare Granjon, Garamond.
    • Drawings for Linotype Baskerville are dated 1930 and the first public showing occurred in The London Mercury of November 1931. Jones wanted this to be a true revival, as close to the original as possible. Also, see ITC New Baskerville.
    • (Linotype) Georgian (1931-1932) goes back to 18th century type by Alexander Wilson in Scotland. It was probably never digitized. Berry, Johnson and Jaspert relate it to Stephenson Blake font, and write about it: A transitional roman dating from c. 1790, perhaps from the Fry Foundry, but its early history is obscure. The serif formation and differentiation of colour are approaching the modern face. The capitals, in larger sizes, are rather heavy. Descenders are short. The g has a curled ear. The italic supplied with Georgian seems to be an earlier design, a Fry copy of Caslon's italic. Cf. the slope of the A, the swash J and T. Linotype Georgian is similar to the Stephenson Blake design, but there are a number of small differences, e.g., the serif on the lower arc of the C and the straight serifs on the arms of the E.
    • Early on in his career, he designed a number of decorative caps alphabets, including the art nouveau style Grange and Dorothy.
    Adobe write-up. Bio by Lawrence Wallis. Klingspor link.

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    George Williams

    George Williams's site (now defunct) site was a discovery! George Williams (b. 1959) wrote spline-generating code and then went on to produce several fonts with his software between 1987 and 1998:

    • Art nouveau style: Carmen, Ambrosia (1989), Fantaisie Artistique, Baldur, Monopol, Parisian, Peignot, Bocklin, Edda.
    • Lombardic: Lombardic.
    • Victorian: Caprice, Ringlet.
    • Uncial: Uncial Animals, Roman Uncial Modern.
    • Ornamental caps: Versal, Decorative, Square Caps, Extravagant Capitals, Floral Caps, Morris, Andrade.
    • Display typefaces: Crystal, Flash, Cupola, Santa Barbara Streets (2013-2014; after the street signs in Santa Barbara, CA).
    • Blackletter: Rotunda (1998), Bastarda, Textura Modern, Fractur (a remake of Wittenbach).
    • Art deco: Piccadilly, Mirage (1999, prismatic).
    • Calligraphic: Humanistic.
    • Text: Caslon.
    • Slab: Monospace.
    • Sans: Caliban.
    • Bamboo Gothic (2007).
    • TIS620-2529 (a Thai font).

    George Williams writes: I have been slowly working to provide free unicode postscript fonts for the three major groupings of styles used by European (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic anyway) type designs: serif, sans-serif and typewriter (or Times, Helvetica and Courier). Monospace is my approximation to Courier. Close examination will reveal that it is a bad copy of courier. Caslon Roman (1992-2001) is a serif font (designed by William Caslon in 1734), it's not a bad copy of Times, it's a bad copy of something else. Caliban is a bad copy of Helvetica. If Microsoft can call their version of Helvetica Arial, then Caliban seems appropriate for mine. Yet another URL.

    George Williams is best known as the inventor and creator of FontForge, the biggest and best free font editor today. It made him the darling of the Open Software community. Interview with OSP.

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

    Gerald Gallo
    [GalloFonts (was: Graphics by Gallo)]

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    Germ Art
    [German Parada Diaz]

    Barranquilla, Colombia-based designer of Musical Illustrated Alphabet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Germaine Chen

    Germaine Chen Shiyun graduated in Visual Communications from Temasek Polytechnic, and is currently pursuing a BA in Design Communication at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore. She created Money Talks (2011) and ChiChi (2011, an ornamental caps typeface inspired by fashion illustrations).

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    German Blanco

    Based in Miami, FL, German Blanco created the fun figurines typeface Soccer Player Font (2012).

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    German Parada Diaz
    [Germ Art]

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    Gert Wiescher
    [Wiescher Design]

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    GF Fonts
    [Lorenz Goldnagl]

    Free original fonts and an occasional commercial font by Austria's Lorenz Goldnagl: old typewriter font family GF Halda, labeler family GF Ordner, and the sans serif headliner font GF Vienna. Classy-looking fonts. Recent additions: GF Becker (thick round letters), GF Hubert Caps, GF Gesetz (scanned Fraktur font), GF Krater, GF Fuffiger (modern Gothic font), GF Matilda (handwriting). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GG Design

    Maryland-based graphic and type design company. Their typeface catalog in 2021 showed these fonts, most of which are ornaments or initial caps: Americana Ornaments, Angulatte, Art Nouveau Flowers, Art Nouveau Ornaments, Art Nouveau Ornaments, Birds Flying, Blooming Ornaments, Blue On Blue, Brashee, Bullish, Carefreed, Carved Initials, Charisma, Chiseled Initials, Cleancut, Cross Ornaments, Cross Stitch Basic, Cross Stitch Brazen, Cross Stitch Carefree, Cross Stitch Classic, Cross Stitch Coarse, Cross Stitch Cursive, Cross Stitch Delicate, Cross Stitch Diamond Monogram, Cross Stitch Discreet, Cross Stitch Display, Cross Stitch Elaborate, Cross Stitch Formal, Cross Stitch Gothic, Cross Stitch Graceful, Cross Stitch Majestic, Cross Stitch Medieval, Cross Stitch Monogram, Cross Stitch Noble, Cross Stitch Ornaments, Cross Stitch Regal, Cross Stitch Simple, Cross Stitch Solid, Cross Stitch Splendid, Dexterous, Diamond Monogram, Display Ardent, Display Art, Display Art One, Display Art Two, Display Black Serif, Display Brutal, Display Carlos, Display Chamfer, Display Crisp, Display Digits Eight, Display Digits Five, Display Digits Four, Display Digits Nine, Display Digits One, Display Digits Seven, Display Digits Six, Display Digits Ten, Display Digits Three, Display Digits Two, Display Dots & Squares, Display Dots Five, Display Dots Four Sans, Display Dots Four Serif, Display Dots One, Display Dots Seven, Display Dots Six, Display Dots Three Sans, Display Dots Three Serif, Display Dots Two Sans, Display Dots Two Serif, Display Explicit, Display Exquisite, Display, Display Gothic, Display Grungy, Display Haphazard, Display Intense, Display Plump, Display Prominent, Display Robust, Display Squares Two, Display Uncanny, Display University, Dooddle, Elegant Ornaments, Embossed Deep, Embossed Medium, Embossed Shallow, Fancy Flowers, Fast Hand, Fish Fresh, Flair Hand, Fleuron Ornaments, Floral Ornaments, Foliage Ornaments, Folk Art Flowers, GG Casual, GG Serif, Glorita, Gnarlee, Gothic Initials Eight, Gothic Initials Five, Gothic Initials, Gothic Initials Four, Gothic Initials Nine, Gothic Initials One, Gothic Initials Seven, Gothic Initials Six, Gothic Initials Three, Gothic Initials Two, Green On Green, Hand Lettered, HappyFont Hasty Hand, Heavy Duty, Heraldic Creatures, Holy Ornaments, Impossible Ornaments, Interlaced Ornaments, Isometric Initial Caps Bird's Eye, Isometric Initial Caps Worm's Eye, Isometric Ornaments, Just Bugs, Kruede, Leaf Assortment, Logotype, Magnificent Ornaments, Make Tracks, Mighty Oaks, Modest Ornaments, Neat Hand, Numbers Style One, Numbers Style Three, Numbers Style Two, Orange On Orange, Oriental Ornaments, Ornate Initials, Plant Assortment, Pleasant Hand, Precision, Printers Plant Ornaments, Pristine Light, Quilt Patterns Four, Quilt Patterns One, Quilt Patterns Three, Quilt Patterns Two, Rectilinear Ornaments, Rolling Ball Cursive, Rosette Ornaments, Serene, Shield Ornaments, Simple Serif, Slender, Smiling Faces, Snowflake Assortment, Spiral Ornaments, Sport Numbers, Star Assortment, Stature, Sweet Hand, Swiss Folk Ornaments Critters, Swiss Folk Ornaments Floral, Swiss Folk Ornaments -Geometric, Tight Hand, Time Clocks, Tree Assortment, Ultimate Ornaments, Veggie Fruit, Victorian Leaf Ornaments, Victorian Ornaments, Vigorous, White On White, Woozee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giacomo Franco

    Italian copper engraver and publisher (1550-1620), who in 1596 published a human form alphabet largely influenced by similar alphabets of Peter Flötner in Germany. A font based on this was made by Ulrich Stiehl: GiacomoFranco (download link). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giacomo Paolini

    Italian author of a suite of ornamental letters known as Grotesque Alphabet in Mythological Landscapes (16th century). Scans of some letters in this alphabet: A, B, C, D, F, H, I, M, N, O, Q, R, S, T, V, Z. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gianfranco Agreda Tirado

    During his studies in Trujillo, Peru, Gianfranco Agreda Tirado designed the decorative caps typeface Michael Jackson (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giang Cao

    Illustrator in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, who created an illustrated decorative alphabet called Easy ESL (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gianluca Migliorini

    Graphic designer in Verona, Italy, who created the free all caps typeface Plaza (2018) and the fun colored all caps children's book alphabet Animalfabeto (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gilang Maulana
    [Maulana Creative]

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    Gilles de Brock

    Dutch art director in The Hague. Home page at Mister Three. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Don't Believe The Type. (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gilles Le Corre
    [GLC --- Gilles Le Corre]

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    Gimmikk Ohm

    During Gimmikk Ohm's graphic design studies at Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok,Thailand, he designed the ornamental caps typeface Templar (2013). It was inspired by the movie The Seventh Seal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gina Dalto

    Minneapolis, MN-based designer of the children's alphabet Animal ABCs (2016). Shae also created the multicolor typeface RGB Type (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giornale Nuovo

    Great news page about old books, the history of the book and type, incunabula, and important but forgotten artists. Ceased in 2008, but the archives are still there. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giornale Nuovo

    Survey by Judith Schaechter (Main) of figurative alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giovanantonio Tagliente

    Or Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. Calligrapher and writing master, born in Venice, 1468-1527. Author of Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte de lo excellente scrivere de diverse varie sorti de litere (1524). Sample images from that penmanship book, which includes scripts for Latin, Hebrew and Greek: i, ii, iii, iv. Also: Chancery, Florentine, Florentine bastarda, Lettera bollatica, Lettera imperiale. Sets of ornamental capitals: Italian gothic Initials and Italian Renaissance Capitals. Picture of Tagliente's title page of his book in 1531. PDF of his work by Toni Pecoraro. Digitizations:

    • A scanfont based on his chancery is 1491 Cancellaresca Formata (2009, GLC).
    • Stanley Morison's metal Bembo (1929) is based on Tagliente's letters. Bitstream's Aldine 401 is the first digital take of Bembo, which is attributed jointly to F. Griffo and G. Tagliente. JY Aetna (1994) is Jack Yan's version. Other revivals include Bembo MT (Monotype), Bamberg Serial (Softmaker), Bergamo and Bergamo Osf (Softmaker), Bergamo (Infinitype) and Bergamo (FontSite).
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    Giovanni B. Landi

    Landi writes about his company, GBL: GBL is a digital fonts foundry operating in Italy from 1994. We can create fonts or elaborate existing font. We have created Pineider's lithographic fonts from ancient metallic lithographic masters. Designer of the free ornamental caps typeface Miniature Caps (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giovanni Francesco Cresci

    Or Gianfrancesco Cresci. Milanese calligrapher who worked in Rome during the later 16th century, and became the Vatican's scriptor. Author of Essemplare (1560) and Il Perfetto Scrittore (Venice, 1569-1570), and influential Italian writing master. The full title of the book is II perfetto Scrittore Di M. Gio. Francesco Cresci Cittadino Milanese Doue se veggono i veri Caratteri & le natural forme di tutte quelle sorti di lettere che a vero scrittor si appartengono. Con alcun'altre da lui nuouamente ritrouate : Et i modi che deue tenere il mastro per ben insegnare.

    BibliOdyssey describes a type scandal from that era: Gianfrancesco Cresci heralded the onset of the Baroque by categorically rejecting what he considered were the useless adornments to some of the alphabets produced in the 1540s by the master calligrapher, Giambattista Palatino. Palatino responded by adopting letterforms similar to Cresci's (whose first work was published in 1560 in Essemplare) only to be accused by Cresci of lacking the necessary skills to produce the set himself, instead hiring an engraver for the work. It was quite the calligraphy/typography scandal of the 16th century. I believe the modern scholarly consensus, from manuscript comparisons, vindicates Palatino.

    Some images of his alphabets: Italian Gothic Capitals (1570), Italian Initials (1570), Italian Minuscule (1570). Another minuscule from 1570.

    Digital fonts directly based on his work include the Trajan all-caps typeface Cresci LP (1997, Garrett Boge).

    Pictures of his roman capitals. Images from Il Perfetto Scrittore. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Giovanni Mardersteig

    German type designer (b. Weimar, 1892, d. Verona, 1977). He started out in Kurt Wolff's München-based press in 1919, founded the Officina Bodoni, which moved first to Montagnola and then in 1926 to Verona. In 1968, he won the Gutenberg Prize. Here is the laudatio of Rudolf Hagelstang for the first Gutenberg prize winner (in German): Die Jünger Gutenbergs sind eine internationale Gesellschaft. Wenn wir heute einen ihrer Meister ehren, so blicken wir dabei weder auf die Stadt noch auf Länderfahnen, sondern fühlen uns mit dem Preisträger Giovanni Mardersteig als Bürger jenes Landes, das das Vaterland der Vaterländer ist: die Kunst. He became a perfectionist and printed exquisite books of the highest typographical standards. Hagelstang said that Mardersteig came as close to the ideal as possible. People referred to him as the prince among printers, the "Fürst der Drucker" or "Principe dei stampatori". His typefaces:

    • Dante (1947-1952, Officina Bodoni; 1957-1959, Monotype). The first digital release of Dante was in 1993. It was cut from 1947 until 1954 by Charles Malin for the private press of Officina Bodoni in Verona. This is a marvelously balanced serif family based in part on Luca Pacioli's renaissance face. It also has a Dante Titling style. Adobe says this about the family: Giovanni Mardersteig started work on Dante after the Second World War, when printing at the Officina Bodoni returned to full production. He drew on his experience of using Monotype Bembo and Centaur to design a new book typeface with an italic which worked harmoniously with the roman. Originally hand-cut by Charles Malin, it was adapted for mechanical composition by Monotype in 1957. The new digital version has been redrawn, by Monotype's Ron Carpenter, free from any restrictions imposed by hot metal technology. It was issued in 1993 in a range of three weights with a set of titling capitals, and is now available from Adobe. Dante is a beautiful book typeface which can also be used to good effect in magazines and periodicals. Monotype issued Dante Etext in 2013.
    • Fontana (1961, Monotype): designed for the Glasgow publisher Collins in 1936 (for the Collins dictionary), and based on a type cut by Alexander Wilson of the Glasgow Letter Foundry about 1770. It is an old style numbered typeface with some relationship to Baskerville.
    • Griffo (1928-1930, Officina Bodoni): designed for use in Mardersteig's own private press. Related to Dante, but more flowing.
    • Zeno (1937, Officina Bodoni). Based on early Italian romans; the punches were cut by Charles Malin.
    Books on the Officina Bodoni include Giovanni Mardersteig: stampatore, editore, umanista (Valdonega, 1989). The Officina Bodoni: an account of the work of a hand press, 1923-1977 (Valdonega, 1980; a translation of "Die Officina Bodoni: das Werk einer Handpresse, 1923-1977" by Maximilian-Gesellschaft (1979)).

    In 1967, Monotype published The Work of Giovanni Mardersteig with 'Monotype' Faces (London). This text was set in Monotype Dante and printed by Stamperia Valdonega Verona. It contains an insert with an advance specimen of the Monotype Dante Series no. 592, designed by Hans Mardersteig. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Giovannino dei Grassi

    Medieval miniaturist and painter, who died in 1398, probably in Milan. He was one of the first ones to show (painted) letters of an alphabet containing drawings of birds, animals and ladies (around 1390). This alphabet is known as The Bergamo Alphabet.

    Wikipedia link. Link to The Sketchbook of Giovannino de Grassi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gita Elek

    Eger, Hungary-based creator of the free hipster style typeface Landscape (2014). During her studies in Budapest, she created Budapes Type (2014), which was inspired by a train station in Budapest. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giuseppe Levi

    Giuseppe Levi from Perugia designed AnecdoteCaps in 1993. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

    Italian graphic artist, 1634-1718. In Le Collezioni DArte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Le Incisioni - Volume 1, he showed many figurative alphabets, such as the bizarre Alfabeto in Sogno (Dream Alphabet), dating from 1683. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giuseppe Salerno
    [Resistenza]

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    Gl3R

    Avignon-based designer who drew a children's alphabet in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GLC --- Gilles Le Corre
    [Gilles Le Corre]

    French painter born in Nantes in 1950, who lives in Talmont St Hilaire. His fonts include 2010 Cancellaresca Recens (inspired by a chancery type of Francisco Lucas from the late 16th century), 2009 Handymade (comic book style), 2009 Lollipop (chancery style), 2009 GLC Plantin, 2009 Primitive (2009, a rough-edged roman script), 2008 Script 2 (2008), GLC Ornaments One (2008) and 2008 Xmas Fantasy (2008: blackletter). In 2008, he started GLC -- Gilles Le Corre and became commercial. Creative Market link. He is best known for his historic revivals:

    • 161 Vergilius (2010)
    • 750 Latin Uncial (2010): inspired by the Latin script used in European monasteries from circa 5th to 8th, before the Carolingian style took over. The uppercases were mainly inspired by a 700's manuscript from Fécamp's abbey in France.
    • 799 Insular (2010): inspired by the so-called insular style of Latin script that was used in Celtic monasteries from about 600 until 820.
    • 825 Karolus (2009), and 825 Lettrines Karolus (2009).
    • 1066 Hastings (2009).
    • 1350 Primitive Russian (2012) was inspired by a Russian Cyrillic hand of Russkaja Pravda. It has rough-edged Latin charaters and many old Russian glyphs.
    • 1420 Gothic Script (2008).
    • 1431 Humane Niccoli (2010), after writings of Florence-based calligrapher Niccolo Niccoli (1364-1437).
    • 1456 Gutenberg (2008, based on a scan of an old text). Followed by 1456 Gutenberg B42 Pro, which was based on the so called B42 character set used for the two Gutenberg Latin Bibles (42 and 36 lines).
    • 1462 Bamberg (2008).
    • 1467 Pannartz Latin (2009): inspired by the edition De Civitate Dei (by Sanctus Augustinus) printed in 1467 in Subiaco by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, who was the punchcutter.
    • 1470 Sorbonne (2010) was inspired by the first French cast font, for the Sorbonne University printing shop. The characters were drawn by Jean Heynlin, rector of the university based on examples by Pannartz. It is likely that the cutter was Adolf Rusch.
    • 1470 Jenson-SemiBold (2008).
    • 1475 BastardeManual (2008, inspired by the type called Bastarde Flamande, a book entitled Histoire Romaine (by Titus Livius), translated in French by Pierre Bersuire ca. 1475, was the main source for drawing the lower case characters).
    • 1479 Caxton Initials (2009): inspired by the two blackletter fonts used by the famous William Caxton in Westminster (UK) in the late 1400s.
    • 1483 Rotunda Lyon (2010): inspired by a Venetian rotunda found in a 1483 book called Eneide printed in Lyon by Barthélémy Buatier (from Lyon) and Guillaume Le Roy (from Liège, Belgium).
    • 1484 Bastarda Loudeac (2008).
    • 1470 Jenson Latin (2009), inspired by the pure Jenson set of fonts used in Venice to print De preparatio evangelica in 1470.
    • 1491 Cancellarasca Normal and Formata (2009): inspired by the very well known humanist script called Cancellaresca. This variant, Formata, was used by many calligraphers in the late 1400s, especially by Tagliente, whose work was mainly used for this font.
    • 1492 Quadrata (2008).
    • 1495 Lombardes (2008): a redrawn set of Lombardic types, which were used in Lyon by printers such as Mathias Huss, Martin Havard or Jean Real, from the end of 14OOs to the middle of 1500s.
    • 1495 Bastarde Lyon (2008, based on the font used in the "Conte de Griseldis" by Petrarque).
    • 1499 Alde Manuce Pro (2010): inspired by the roman font used by Aldus Manutius in Venice (1499) to print Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the well-known book attributed to Francesco Colonna. Francesco Griffo was the punchcutter. The Italic style, carved by Francesco Colonna, illustrates the so-called Aldine style.
    • 1509 Leyden (2008; a Lombardic typeface inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae).
    • 1510 Nancy (2008, decorated initial letters was inspired by those used in 1510 in Nancy (France, Lorraine) for printing of Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d'Austrasie ou France orientale[...] by Symphorien Champion; unknown printer).
    • 1512 Initials.
    • 1514 Paris Verand (based on initial caps that Barthélémy Verand employed for the printing of Triumphus translatez de langage Tuscan en François.
    • 1522 Vicentino (2011). Based on Ludovico Vicentino Arrighi's 1522 typeface published in La Operina.
    • GLC 1523 Holbein (2010, after Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death.
    • GLC 1525 Durer Initials (2010). Sample R.
    • 1529 Champ Fleury Pro and 1529 Champ Fleury Initials (2010): based on Geofroy Tory's original drawings and text face.
    • 1532 Bastarde Lyon (2008, based on work by an anonymous printer in Lyon (France) to print the French popular novel Les Grandes et inestimables Chroniques du grand et enorme geant Gargantua).
    • 1533 GLC Augereau Pro: inspired by one of Antoine Augereau's three roman typefaces: the Gros Romain size, used in 1533 to print Le miroir de l'&aciorc;me..., a poetic compilation by Marguerite de Navarre, sister of the French king François I.
    • 1534 Fraktur (2009; inspired by the early Fraktur style font used circa 1530 by Jacob Otther, printer in Strasbourg (Alsace-France) for German language printed books).
    • 1536 Civilité manual (2011). Based on a handwritten copy of Brief story of the second journey in Canada (1535) by French explorer Jacques Cartier.
    • 1538 Schwabacher (2008, based on a font used by Georg Rhan in Wittemberg (Germany) to print Des Babsts Hercules [...], a German pamphlet against roman catholicism written by Johannes Kymeus).
    • 1540 Mercator Script was inspired by an alphabet of Gerardus Mercator, who is known for his maps as well as his Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio (1540).
    • 1543 Humane Petreius (2012) was inspired by the typeface used in Nuremberg by Johannes Petreius for De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, the well-known mathematical and astronomical essay by Nicolas Copernicus.
    • 1543 German Deluxe (2009): a Schwabacher inspired by the sets of fonts used in 1543 by Michael Isengrin, printer in Basel, to print New Kreüterbuch, which is a book with numerous nice pictures, the masterpiece of Leonhart Fuchs, father of the modern botany.
    • 1543 HumaneJenson-Bold (2008, after the typeface used in Vesalius' 1543 book De humani corporis fabrica).
    • 1543 HumaneJenson-Normal (2008, same source).
    • 1545 Faucheur (2011) is a rough garalde typeface that was inspired by the set of fonts used in Paris by Ponce Rosset, aka Faucheur, to print the story of the second travel to Canada by Jacques Cartier, first edition, printed in 1545.
    • 1546 Poliphile (2009), inspired by the French edition of Hypnerotomachie de Poliphile ("The Strife of Love in a Dream") attributed to Francesco Colonna, 1467, and printed in 1546 in Paris by Jacques Kerver.
    • 1550 Arabesques (2008, caps).
    • 1557 Civilité Granjon (2010).
    • 1557 Italique (2008, based on Italic type used by Jean de Tournes in Lyon to print La métamorphose d'Ovide figurée).
    • 1565 Renaissance (2010), inspired by French renaissance decorated letters.
    • 1565 Venetian Normal (2008, initial decorated letters that are entirely original, but were inspired by Italian renaissance engraver Vespasiano Amphiareo's patterns published in Venice ca. 1568).
    • 1584 Rinceau (2008, a set of initial letters is an entirely original creation, inspired by French renaissance patterns used by Bordeaux printers circa 1580-1590).
    • 1584 Pragmatica Lima (2011). Based on fonts used in 1584 by Antonio Ricardo to produce the first publication ever printed in Southern America.
    • 1585 Flowery (2009): inspired by French renaissance decorated letters.
    • 1589 Humane Bordeaux (2008, inspired by the Garamond fonts used by S. Millanges (imprimeur ordinaire du Roy) in Bordeaux ca. 1580-1590. The alphabets were used to reprint L'instruction des curés by Jean Gerson).
    • 1590 Humane Warszawa is a rough-edged garalde typeface inspired by a font carved circa 1590 for a Polish editor.
    • 1592 GLC Garamond (2008, inspired by the pure Garamond set of fonts used by Egenolff and Berner, German printers in Frankfurt, at the end of sixteen century. Considered the best and most complete set at the time. The italic style is Granjon's).
    • 1610 Cancellaresca (2008, inspired by the Cancellaresca moderna type of 1610 by Francesco Periccioli who published it in Sienna).
    • 1613 Basilius (2012) was based on the hand-drawn types used by Basilius Besler (Germany) for the carved plates of his botanical manual Hortus eystettensis.
    • GLC 1619 Expédiée (2015). A grungy Civilté.
    • 1621 GLC Pilgrims (2010).
    • 1634 René Descartes (2009), based upon his handwriting in a letter to Mersenne.
    • 1638 Civilité Manual (2010). Inspired by a French solicitor's document dated 1638.
    • GLC 1648 Chancellerie (2011). Inspired by the hand-written 1648 Munster peace treaty signed by roi Louis XIV and Kaiser Ferdinand II.
    • 1651 Alchemy (2010): a compilation created from a Garamond set in use in Paris circa 1651.
    • GLC 1669 Elzevir (2011) was inspired by the font typefaces used in Amsterdam by Daniel Elzevir to print Tractatus de corde, the study of earth anatomy by Richard Lower, in 1669. The punchcutter was Kristoffel Van Dijk.
    • GLC 1672 Isaac Newton (2012) is based on the hand of Isaac Newton.
    • GLC Morden Map (2011). Based on an engraved typeface used on a pack of playing cards published by Sir Robert Morden in 1676.
    • 1682 Writhed Hand: very irregular handwriting.
    • 1689 GLC Garamond Pro (2010): inspired by Garamond fonts used in an edition of Remarques critiques sur les oeuvres d'Horace by DAEP, published in Paris by Deny Thierry and seprately by Claude Barbin.
    • 1689 Almanach (2009): inspired by the eroded and tired fonts used by printers from the sixteenth century to the early years of twentieth for cheap or fleeting works, like almanacs, adverts, gazettes or popular novels.
    • 1695 Captain Flynt.
    • 16th Arabesques (2008, an exquisite ornamental caps scanfont).
    • 1715 Jonathan Swift (2011). An example of the hand of Irish poet and novelist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). It is a typical exemple of the British quill pen handwriting from about 1650-1720.
    • GLC 1726 Real Espanola (2012). Based on the set of typefaces used by Francisco Del Hierro to print the first Spanish language Dictionary from the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española, Dictionario de Autoridades) in 1726. These transitional styles are said to have been the first set of official typefaces in Spain.
    • 1741 Financiere (2009): inspired by the Fournier's font Financière. While it appears handwritten, it was in fact carved in 1741 by Pierre Simon Fournier le jeune and published in his Manuel Typographique in Paris (1764-1766).
    • 1742 Frenchcivilite (2008).
    • 1751 GLC Copperplate (2009), a 6-style family about which Gilles says: This family was inspired by an engraved plate from Diderot&Dalembert's Encyclopedia (1751), illustrating the chapter devoted to letter engraving techniques. The plate bears two engravers names: "Aubin" (may be one of the four St Aubin brothers?) and "Benard" (whose name is present below all plates of the Encyclopedia printed in Geneva). It seems to be a transitional type, but different from Fournier or Grandjean.
    • 1756 Dutch (2011).
    • 1776 Independence (inspired mainly from the font used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of the Congress' Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America).
    • 1781 La Fayette (2010): a formal bâtarde coulée script with caitals inspired by Fournier (1781).
    • 1785 GLC Baskerville (2011). Le Corre explains: The Baskerville's full collection was bought by the French editor and author Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais who used it to print---in Switzerland---for the first time the complete work of Voltaire (best known as the Kehl edition, by the "Imprimerie de la société littéraire typographique"). We have used this edition, with exemplaries from 1785, to reconstruct this genuine historical two styles.
    • 1786 GLC Fournier (2010), based on several books printed in Paris just before the Didot era set in. The Titling characters are based on hymns printed by Nicolas Chapart.
    • 1790 Royal Printing (2009): inspired by various variants of Romain du Roy.
    • 1791 Constitution (2011).
    • 1792 La Marseillaise (2011). Based on the original manuscript of the French revolutionary song La Marseillaise which later became the French national hymn---it was composed in one night (April 25, 1792) by captain Rouget de Lisle.
    • 1805 Austerlitz Script Light: a typical French handwriting style from that period, named after one of the few battles that Napoleon actually won.
    • 1805 Jaeck Map (2011). Inspired by the engraved characters of a German map, edited in Berlin at the end of 1700s. The engraver was Carl Jaeck or Jaek (1763-1808).
    • 1809 Homer (2011), a grungy typeface named after the "homer" message pigeons.
    • 1815 Waterloo (2008): a handwriting typeface originating in Napoleon's government. Why do I feel that GLC is nostalgic for the era of Napoleon? Their own present dwarf-version of Napoleon is not exactly a huge success.
    • 1820 Modern (2009) was inspired by a didone font used in Rennes by Cousin-Danelle, printers, for a Brittany travel guide.
    • 1822 GLC Caslon (2010): inspired by a Caslon set used by an unknown Flemish printer from Bruges, in the beginning of 1800s, a little before the revival of the Caslon style in the 1840s.
    • 1845 Mistress (2009): calligraphic script.
    • 1848 Barricades Italic, a quill pen italic.
    • 1859 Solferino (2009).
    • 1863 Gettysburg (2008; inspired by a lot of autographs, notes and drafts, written by President Abraham Lincoln, mainly the Gettysburg address).
    • 1864 GLC Monogram Initials (2011) was inspired by a French portfolio containing about two hundred examples of Chiffres---deux lettres, created for engravers and jewelers in Paris in 1864, and drawn by French engraver C. Demengeot.
    • 1871 Victor Hugo (2011). Based on manuscripts from the final part of the life of Victor Hugo (1802-1885).
    • 1871 Whitman Script (2008) and 1871 Dreamer Script (2008): inspired by manuscripts by American poet Walt Whitman. See also 1871 Dreamer 2 Pro (2012).
    • 1880 Kurrentschrift (2010): German handwriting, based on late medieval cursive. It is also known as "Alte Deutsche schrift" ("Old German script"). This was taught in German schools until 1941.
    • 1883 Fraktur (2009): inspired by fonts used by J. H. Geiger, printer in Lahr, Germany.
    • 1885 Germinal: based on notes and drafts written by Émile Zola (1840-1902).
    • GLC 1886 Romantic Initials (2012).
    • 1890 Registers Script (2008): inspired by the French "ronde".
    • 1890 Notice (2009): a fat didone family.
    • 1902 Loïe Fuller (art nouveau face).
    • 1906 Fantasio (2010): inspired by the hatched one used for the inner title and many headlines by the popular French satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948).
    • 1906 French News: a weathered Clarendon-like family based on the fonts used by Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper that ran from 1863 until 1937.
    • 1906 Fantasio Auriol (2010), inspired by the set of well known Auriol fonts used by the French popular satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948).
    • 1906 Titrage (2009): a didone headline typeface from the same newspaper.
    • Underwood 1913 (2007, an old typewriter font, whose commercial version is Typewriter 1913), and 1913 Typewriter Carbon (2008).
    • 1920 French Script Pro (2010).
    • 1920 My Toy Print Set, 1925 My Toy Print Deluxe Pro (2010): inspired by rubbert stamp toy print boxes called Le petoit imprimeur.
    • 1968 GLC Graffiti (2009).
    • 1917 Stencil (2009; with rough outlines).
    • 2010 Dance of Death (2010): based on Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death.
    • 2009 Primitive (2016).
    • 2009 GLC Plantin Pro (2016).
    • 2010 Pipo Classic: a grungy typewriter slab serif family.
    • 2010 Cancellaresca Recens (2016).
    • 2011 Slimtype (2011, +Italic) and 2011 Slimtype Sans (2011): an old typewriter typeface.
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    Gleb Guralnyk

    Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine-based designer of these typefaces in 2015: Odd Times (a vintage blackletter typeface), Brandy Label (a layered Victorian signage font), Smoking (a great Western layered poster font), Traveller, Letterhead (steampunk, vintage, Victorian), Age, Nataly Temper, Vintage Auto (a retro chrome automobile font), Golden Dust (a lava lamp font), Rusty Phoenix, Phoenix, the Victorian signage typeface Whiskey, Spirals, Biker (spurred inline font), the oily signage font Pin Up.

    In 2016, he designed Far Kingdoms (Victorian), Brass Heart (steampunk / Victorian), Big City Light (a vintage movie theater typeface), Lostamp (a weathered vintage rough stencil script), Kexman (calligraphic script), Loftype (creamy brush script), Shoelaces (monoline script), Tobacco Box (Victorian), Humblest, Whiskey Label (a great vintage Victorian headline font), Insane Fear (spurred), Falchion Edge (Victorian display typeface), Inside The Box (techno), Amber Taste (a layered Victorian beer label font; see also Amber Taste Pro (2020)), One Thin Line (a paperclip font), Bald Eagle (Victorian), Autumn Feel (brush script), Dirty Cartoon, Magic Curls, Winery, Bite Hard (beveled caps), Lovebus (psychedelic style), Column (layered Victorian), Golden Brush, Marine Fairytale (Victorian), and Old Story (handcrafted).

    Typefaces from 2017: Goodwine, Daub (EPS format brush alphabet), Rusted Bevel, Dirty Cartoon (a layerable cartoon font), Bald Eagle (vintage), La Belman (Victorian; see also La Belman Pro in 2020), Bright (creamy calligraphic), Winery, Magic Curls, Black Queen (Victorian style), Little Mess (dry brush), Lovebus (psychedelic), Bite Hard, Fiver (prismatic style), Sweet Rum (vintage), The Freaky Circus (Western circus font), Biker New (spurred), Flex Wire, Agress (graffiti style), Old Story, Rusted Brushpen (dry brush), Mosaic Pool, Ranch (vintage style with layered textures), Golden Dust, Letter Head, Limber (dry brush script), Patina, Craft Beer (a layered beer label font), Droptune (Victorian), Chimera Tail, Hardwatt (dry brush), Megawatt (signage script), Jamish (a handcrafted blackboard bold typeface), Oak Lumber, Odd Times (blackletter), Gunshot (an art nouveau display typeface), Bootleggers (a vintage label typeface), Brandy Label (vintage layered font), Smoking Typeface (vintage Western style, with layering).

    Typefaces from 2018: Shining Night (a marquee font), Scratches, Candy Shop (a multiline titling typeface), Nataly Temper (a crayon font), Anise Seeds, Lostamp (a great stamp font), Hicksons (retro signage script), Loftype (creamy script), Far Kingdoms (spurred vintage typeface), Predators Cuspid, Sweet & Fresh, Frantic (a vintage car typeface), Affair (Victorian), Falchion Edge (spurred vintage style), Lost in Space, Traveler (an interlocking vintage Tuscan display typeface), True Black, Late Frost, Inside The Box (an interesting double-width font), Magic Garden (curly style), Skater Girl (retro script).

    Typefaces from 2019: True Black (Tuscan), Nature Force, Sweettooth (script: 2018-2019), Rusted Bevel, Rusted Bevel, Fishermans Knot (a vintage label font started in 2018), Skater Girl (a heavy upright script), Cidrella, Western Shooter, Little Mess (a dry brush calligraphic script), Spirit Board (pure Victoriana), Ranch Vintage (shadowed, textured, vintage), Forged Fence (an ironwork font), Long Ride (an octagonal license plate font), Chimera Tail Rough, Patina.

    Typefaces from 2020: Sweet Ponch, Natural Heap (letters in laurels), Street Rush, Cally (a decorative Tuscan typeface), Sunny Bay, Harietta (a retro monoline script), Cheer Inside (a vintage font), Frizzy (a vintage label font), Asia Impact (simulating an oriental brush calligraphy), Exa Metline (an inline font), Hallie (a curly display typeface), No Rules, Parallax, Golden Treasure (a vintage ironwork font), Squidink, Bushman (an organic sans), Florry (a display sans), Propeller, Spirit Board (a layered circus font family), Lord Grayson (Victorian), Grayson (a tall gloomy monoline sans), Grayson Rough, Kaipara (a patterned all caps font), Classic Heritage (a Victorian or steampunk signage typeface), Anise Seeds (vintage softly spurred Tuscan caps), Candy Shop (vintage trilined caps), Plop, Practish (an experimental slab serif family), Everleigh (a stylish thin typeface), Everleigh Duo, Love Affair (vintage, perhaps art nouveau), Lost in Space (sci-fi), Sweet and Fresh.

    Typefaces from 2021: Dusky Rough (a Western or saloon font), Dusky Pub (a Western typeface with Tuscan features), Dusky Slab (a reverse stress Western font), Humblest Pro (an all caps display sans), Giftbox (a vintage label font).

    Typefaces from 2022: Simply Royal (layerable vintage caps with an engraved money look), Go Pop (pop art). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Glenda de Guzman

    Graduate in 1992 from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in Printing. While a co-op student for Monotype Typography in California, she hinted fonts. She has also carried out research at Microsoft with Robert Norton. She joined Font Bureau in 1994, but moved a few years later to Southern California.

    • Designer at Font Bureau of Bradley Initials (1994, after spectacular art deco capitals originally designed by William H. Bradley---see the 1934 ATF catalog, where it is called Bradley Ultra Modern Initials).
    • She also designed Math1-Bold, Math1, Math1Mono-Bold, Math1Mono, Math2-Bold, Math2, Math2Mono-Bold, Math2Mono, Math3, Math3Bold, Math3Mono-Bold, Math3Mono, Math4-Bold, Math4, Math4Mono-Bold, Math4Mono, Math5, Math5Bold, Math5Mono, Math5MonoBold for Wolfram's Mathematica package in 1996 (truetype versions here or here or here).
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    Glenn Sjökvist

    Swedish type designer who assisted Stefan Hattenbach with the development of the custom typeface Dwiggins Script (2018) for Antikvariat Morris. It revives a free hand script typeface by W.A. Dwiggins, and comes with standard and decorative initials, and a set of ornaments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gluk Fonts
    [Grzegorz Luksza]

    Aka Grzegorz Luk and just Gluk, Grzegorz Luksza is a Polish type designer (b. 1973) who specializes in ultra-decorative and experimental typefaces.

    Creator of the free artsy font Wanta (2008), of Resagnicto (2010), of Rawengulk (2010), of Rawengulk Sans (2011), of Reswysokr (2011), of the bold slab serif typeface Zantroke (2011), and of the free calligraphic typefaces Odstemplik (2009), promocyja (2008) and Konstytucyja (2008).

    He published the elegant serif family Foglihten (2010), which includes the inline typefaces Foglihten No. 1 (2011), Foglihten Fr02 (2011), Foglihten No. 3 (2011) and Foglihten No. 4 (2012). The latter is inspired by the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. Foglihten Petite Caps Black (2012) and Foglihten Black PCS (2012) are high-contrast fat didone typefaces, minus the ball terminals. The series continues with Foglihten No. 6 (2012) and Foglihten No. 7 (2013).

    Qumpellka No 12 (2011) is a flowing italic. Opattfram01 (2011) is a dingbat typeface with onamental patterns. The Okolaks family (2008) has a bit of an art deco feel. It covers East-European languages as well as Cyrillic. Sportrop (2008) is a neat multiline face. Gputeks (2008) is a delicate decorative face. Szlichta07 (2008) on the other hand is an experimental typeface based on tilting the horizontal edges about ten degrees up. Kawoszeh (2008) is a curly Victorian pre-art nouveau face. Spinwerad (2009) and Itsadzoke S01 (2010) and Itsadzoke S02 are display didones. Znikomit (2011) is an impressive lachrymal hairline slab face. See also Znikomit No. 25 (2012) and Znikomit No. 24 (2012; image by Benjamin Frazzetto).

    Creations from 2012: Charakterny, Garineldo, Mikodacs (an Impact-like black display sans), Yokawerad (a didone headline face), Resagokr, Nikodecs, Garineldo SC.

    Typefaces from 2013: Etharnig, Namskin, Namskout (a layered heavy display face), Prida 65 (spurred antique face), Ketosag, Prida 61, Gatometrix, Glametrix, Gallberik.

    Typefaces from 2014: VECfont FogV4, EtharnigV (a bi-colored font), Risaltyp, Wabroye, Kleymissky, Sortefax (an outline font with engraved versions as on dollar bills), Dragerotypos (blackboard bold), Resamitz.

    Typefaces from 2015: Prida 36, Sudegnak No. 3 (script), Vecfont Sudegnak (cartoonish), PridaEn (a vector font for color), Prida S4, Prida01, Prida02 Calt.

    Typefaces from 2016: BroshN, Tofimpelik (+Candy), Prosh3, Digitalt, Agreloy (a lovely curly Victorian typeface), Gluk Mixer (ransom note font), Fogtwo No 5.

    Typefaces from 2017: Prosh 4B (a variable color font), BroshK2 (an origami style color font, in OpenType SVG format), Fuetargio (a multiline bejeweled typeface).

    Typefaces from 2018: BroshK, Rostef (all caps titling typeface), Fogthree.

    Typefaces from 2019: ResotE, ResotE-Pastels (a color font), ResotYc (a decorative unicase font), Resot Yg, Liserif (a kinetic SVG font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Digico M (a color font), Resotho (a wide all caps geometric sans).

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    Godfrey Sykes

    English designer and painter, 1824-1866. Creator of a set of ornamental caps alphabet in 1864. In 2012, Jose Jimenez published Godfrey Sykes Initials, a tile alphabet that was inspired by the decorations of Godfrey Sykes, whose work was greatly influenced by that of Raphael and Michelangelo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    gothic mf
    [Yannis Haralambous]

    Gothic and ornamental initial (meta)fonts by Yannis Haralambous: yfrak, ygoth, yinit (1994-2019: German decorative capitals), yswab, sueterlin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grace Coakley

    Graphic designer in Dublin, Ireland, who created a set of 26 decorative capitals in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grace Lee

    Grace Lee (Pasadena, CA) created the Pole Dancing all-caps typeface in Yee Chan's class at Art Center College of Design in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Graham Meade
    [GemFonts98]

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    Graham Stark

    Designer at T26 of Copenhagen (2006, boxed caps face), Poison (2006, biline face), and Vanity (2006). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grant Killoran

    Illustrator at the Winchester School of Art in the UK. He created an ornamental all caps alphabet called Discovery (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grant Wang

    North York, Ontario-based designer of the silhouette typeface Parra (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Graphic Spirit

    Designer of the watercolor brush font Claretta (2017), the color SVG glitch font Anaglyph (2018), and several sets of decorative caps (not in any font format though). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Graphicfresh (was: Sameeh Store, or Sameeh Media)
    [Muhammad Husni Haikal]

    Bireuen, Aceh, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces:

    • In 2022: Cagey (a gret bold poster font with a retro vibe).
    • In 2021: Mores (a playful minimalist sans), Middle Name (a hipster font that only uses circular arcs and straight lines), Saikon (handcrafted), Jadey (a flattop display typeface), Mages (a fashion mag typeface), Amibata (monoline script), Miyoshe (a thin inky script), Daesung, Almonde, Tamrin, Brown Carlson, Brown austin, Frost (SVG brush), Ribons (sic), Sally Garden (script).
    • In 2020: Barqon (handcrafted), Utera (with halftone texture), The Melsa, Arjona (for children's books), Ryden, Kenzira (a hand-drawn art deco font), Kionsa.
    • In 2019: Sketching (dry brush), Coklat Sunda (a formal monoline script), Oregano (a monolinear vintage rounded sans), Vetto Cosellza, Asmiyati (an inky "wild" calligraphic script), Green Narcu, Nastar (script), Cristik (a pixel typeface), Wolfer (a weathered vintage font), Roger (an all caps sans), Rehab (partially a hacker font), Ansbach, Antigua Presidente, Bersihkan (a free watercolor brush SVG font), Masculin (a signature script), Almeda, Aversa (SVG dry brush font), Cardus Brush (a dry brush SVG font), Faceback (SVG brush), Bellevue, Green, Muiden Castle, Vernal Park, Super, Crepes French (stone cut, existentialist), Corma, Atjeh, Hallo Schatz, Valued, Crops.
    • In 2018: Pray Hard Now (an SVG brush font), Ripon (font duo), Adenium (a floriated decorative caps font), Aamazing Boombs (brushy SVG font), Posey (weathered vintage type), Kamikaze (signature script), Shoot (SVG brush font), English (a high-contrast thick script), Calcio (a free ultra-condensed sans), Biren, Banda, Ankara (signature script), South Korea (font duo), Edmund (an all caps vintage sans), Rotterdam, Sweet Yell, White Apparel, Quick, Nastar Script, Brush Action.
    • In 2017: Luna (sans), Indonesia (slab serif), Texas, Original, Aglow, Aglow Serif, Madison, Ornexo, Rehab (hipster style), Caos (inline), Gope (bilined, all caps), Draw Yoour Brand, Sabang Island (sans), Norman (thick brush), Paradise (tall signature script), Must Have (handcrafted), Newark (an all caps block serif titling typeface), Emma (connected script), Bemand (modular, techno), Sweet Heart, Don't Lebay, Cristik (pixelish), Brand, Gorden (horizontally striped, filled and outlined versions).
    • In 2016: Oxigen (an all caps inline typeface), Serpong (graffiti font), Gunoc, Manuvers (a bilined titling sans), Houster Script, Aspal (all caps roman typeface), Ronies, Drawsans, Bezaen (hipster sans), Dotcom (sans), Zeky (a stylish sans), Nixmat (a rounded monoline logo typeface), Alaska, the handcrafted typefaces Mabroc (a great inline typeface), Mr Haikal, Brush Action, Hibernate, Spine, Our Serif Hand, Our Hand, Billiony, Rainday, Kerape and Banda, the deco typefaces Ambisi, Bigboz and Karomah, the stencil typeface Abang, the minimalist sans typeface Axon, the straight-edged Sakap, the blocky typefaces Box and Aucall, Newstyle, and the techno typefaces Magz, Newtype and Arabuwa.

    Aka Ceo Haekal. Creative Market link. Personal web site. Graphicriver link. Graphicfresh home page. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Grazzia Bracamonte

    During her graphic design studies at Instituto Toulouse Lautrec in Lima, Peru, Grazzia Bracamonte designed the illustrated caps typeface Font Face Me (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greater Albion Typefounders (or: GATF)
    [Paul James Lloyd]

    Paul J. Lloyd's type foundry in Western Australia, est. 2008. Lloyd (b. UK) made over 100 free truetype fonts before that. He writes: What we will offer is new designs, replete with Edwardian Fun, Victorian distinction, or any other piece of elegance we can manage.

    Edwardian creations from 2008-2010: Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Adantine, Goldbarre, Brosse, Crewekerne, Crewekerne Magna and Crewekerne Magister (arts and crafts face), Larchmont, Brissard, Brossard (slab serif), Bonavia, Bonavia Blanc, Clementhorpe, Veneribe, Chiara Script, Howlett, Svengali Roman, Bonning and Bonnington (1920's style families with ideas from University Roman), Absinette (2009, art nouveau), Bamberforth, Tumbletype, Vertrina, Bromwich, Great Bromwich, Fleete, Helenium. Chipping emulates the Edwardian 1920s. In 2012, he added the Bolton Commercial family (late Edwardian, early art nouveau).

    Art deco typefaces: Oakland (2011, multiline typeface gleaned from a 1930s French car ad), Zenia (2010, trilined), Plebe (Plebia, 2008: a grotesk emulating the 1930s), Whitehaven (2008, an extensive art deco family with several shadow weights), Merry Fleurons (2008, Christmas ornament dingbats), Braxia (2008), Keynsia (fifties style art deco family with Peignot influences).

    Other typefaces: Haymer is a large sans family made in 2010. Clunic (2008) is a blackletter face. Tectura (2008) is a handwriting font. Eldridge is a slab serif family. Aliqua (2009), Chipperly (2009) and Syondola (2008, Tuscan) are Wild West families. Terazza Tilings (2009) and Valentine's Fleurons (2009) are dingbat typefaces. Additions in 2009 include Lowndes (soft blackletter), Christmas Fleurons, Merry Snowmen, Cherritt (described as a Victorian era Courier), DoodleBirds, Halloween Fleurons, ButtonFaces, Sabio (neither slab nor sans), Daub (brush graffiti font), Sabinard (a modern swash face), Cullions (futuristic blackletter), Coronard (blackletter / roman hybrid), Easter Fleurons, Chapter Initials, Paveline (19th century calligraphic script), Mellin Sans and Open, Gildersleeve (evoking the 1920s Arts and Crafts movement), Stannard (a 1920's advertising inspired small caps face), Slattery (a horizontally shaded fun face), Slatterine (2009, more retro futurism), Spillsbury (2010, Victorian family), Cirflex (2010, geometric display typeface based on arcs of circles), Oxonia (2010, a classic roman family) and Vectis (classic Roman elegance, another small caps face).

    Creations in 2010: Windevere, Albion's White Christmas, Paragon (a great didone display family with a wood type feel), Compton (slab serif family), Mexborough, Morover (Schwabacher family), Anavio (a classical roman family), Corvone (3d-effect font), Granville (Victorian), Corton (Victorian), Wellingborough (Victorian), Worthing (Victorian), Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Bonaventure (art nouveau), Federal Streamliner (1950s feel techno face), Deva (classical roman), Crucis Ornaments (crosses), Bronzino (a roman with Arts and Crafts roots), Bertoni (2010, a didone family), Pardon Me Boy (train dingbats), Woodruff (Open Face fonts with a wood type look), Jonquin (based on a WWI poster; +Incised), Luscombe (1920s display family; +Parva), Movella (futuristic from the 1950s), Magdalena Sans (2010: a clear monoline sans), Endymion (2010: Tuscan), Paget (a Tuscan experimental all caps face), Portello (Victorian).

    Typefaces made in 2011: Admiral (art nouveau), Tuscaloosa (Tuscan face), Eccles (bombastic Victorian), Wolverhampton (pre-Victorian), Doncaster (Victorian family), Metropole (art nouveau family), Corsham (stone engraved lettering family), Leibix (casual), Albia Nova (an elegant futuristic organic face), Flapper (art nouveau face), Bertolessi (curly Victorian), Tulk's Victorian Banner (all caps banner face), Fitzgerald (Victorian all caps face), Cleveden (Victorian headline family), Spargo (an extensive set of early 20th century-look engraved typefaces for official documents and securities), Bettendorf (2011, based on a 1900s masthead typeface), Wolvercote (2011, similar to Bettendorf), Pittsburgh (2011, a Western-style engraved face), Chubbly (2011), Portmeirion No. 6 (2011, a Victorian / circus design), Bronzetti (2011; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi), Sophie J (hanprinted), Dem Bones (2011, glyphs made from bones), Stout (2011), Birmingham New Street (a Victorian family inspired by the hand lettered title on a 19th century railway map), Beckinslade (ornamental blackletter).

    Production in 2012: Alfere Sans Stripes, Albion's Americana (Western stars and stripes face), Tudor Perpendicular (blackletter), Amici (rounded headline face), Amie (rounded sans), Wolverton Text (Edwardian family), Vinea (10-style display family), Par Avion (retro futuristic), AstroBats (retro sci-fi dingbats), Beeching (+Shadowed), Gondolieri (didone meets Tuscan), Penrose Slabserif (an Escher-like trompe l'oeuil 3d face), Haldane (art nouveau, Arabic look), Solidarius (chubby, fat felt-tip pen font), Bluebottle (angular display face), Merrivale (Victorian), Future Runes (runic simulation), Coliseo, Alfrere Sans (inspired by a 1950s television caption style), Tectura II (Lloyd's answer to Comic Sans), Secombe (Edwardian caps family), Milligan, London Court (Tudor-era caps family).

    Typefaces from 2013: Speedblur, Belhampton (Edwardian), Merry Baubles (Christmas tree dings), Merry Bauble Letters (Christmas alphadings), Wroxeter (blackletter), Thurbrooke (+Banner, +Initials, +Black, +Reverso, all based on 19th century banner headings and engraved lettering), Bourne (a rounded type system), Henrician (a set of eight Tudor style display typefaces), Belle Jardin (art deco marquee face), Lavery (Edwardian), Baldione (a stylized didone), Chequers (a vintage poster face), Turvy Topsy (fat finger face), Merrivaux (faux medieval), Blout (German expressionist typeface), Easter Egg Letters, Isometrica (a banner typeface family), Valentine's Letters, Imperial Granum (roman titling face), Brollo (chunky display face).

    Typefaces from 2014: Albions Very Old Masthead, Albions Engraved Black, Albions Old Masthead, Albions Incised Masthead, Albions Black Holly, Zanderley (pure Victoriana, +Initials), Landsdowne Commercial, Friendly Shaded Sans, Trivette, Wellmere Sans, Uncia Black, Henry VII, Greene and Rollins (layered Victorian typeface), Barollo, Alfrine, Alfrere Banner (+Incised), Lugano, Lanvier (1930s-style caps typeface family), Bonlivet (a hyper-decorative capitals alphabet from the late Victoian or early art nouveau era), Ames Text (a didone family with rounded brackets), Ames Roman (related to didones but with wedge serifs), Ames Weathered, Ames Shadow, Ames Shaded, Amersham (vintage signage family, 2013-2014).

    Typefaces from 2015: Netherland Perpendicular (Victorian blackletter), Ledbury (Victorian), Ambergate (Edwardian poster face), Empyrean (futuristic, yet curvy), Flinscher (1920s script), Signwriter Standard, Display Hatched, Albions Marker No.1 (a charming outlined marker pen typeface inspired by Bembo and Caslon), Joyvrie, Kinver (Victorian), Nationale (Victorian), Doges Banner, Doges Darker (Victorian), Doges Delight (Victorian), Doges Venezia (Victorian).

    Typefaces from 2016: Buntisland, Elmcourt, Allorette, Albion Sharp Italic, Deco Metro (art deco), SpeedSwash (blackletterish), Stridere (blackletterish), SpeedSketch.

    Typefaces from 2017: Shervington, Cantebriggia 1207 (a weathered blackletter), Algreve, Alambart, Duquesne Dark Woodcut, Courtold Shadow, Athabasca (Wild West Tuscan), Fargo Tuscan, Millerstown (Western), Millerstown Races, Old Millerstown, Sasparillo (Tuscan), Sasparillo Fizz, Wylgate, Herald Banner.

    Typefaces from 2018: Garstang Engraved, Halliwell Casual, Portculliard, Rotham Industria, Sombrieul (Edwardian), Shervington Engraved (a shaded typeface that appears hand-engraved on copper-plate).

    Typefaces from 2019: Dewhirst Display, Rakia (retro futuristic), Eurobia (art nouveau style).

    Typefaces from 2020: Draughtsman Engraved, Draughtsman Label Hand (Victorian), Civic Triline.

    Typefaces from 2021: Albion Seventies, Portculliard Engraved (an engraved ultra-decorative blackletter).

    Type announcements. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Font Squirrel link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link. Hellofont link.

    View all typefaces by Paul Lloyd. Images of Paul Lloyd's best-selling typefaces. Greater Albion Typefounders: typeface collection. View Paul Lloyd's Victorian typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Greg Christman

    Greg drew Ghoulies (2008, Context Foundry, Savannah, GA), a ghost-themed all-caps alphabet. He also made Fresh Produce (2008), a hand-painted signage face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greg Smith
    [Web Dog]

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    Gregory Madden

    Graphic designer in Lompoc, CA, who made the ornamental caps typeface ABC (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grzegorz Luksza
    [Gluk Fonts]

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    Guanyin Ma

    Aka SLUT. Illustrator in Kuala Lumpur who created an ornamental caps typeface entitled I Lose My Face (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guido Rosa

    Born in 1890, lettering artist Guido Rosa and his brother Lawrence (1894-1929) co-designed an antiqua typeface with a Kursiv for ATF. It was never published. He also created Modern Outline Roman Capitals.

    At Photolettering, we find several phototypes that refer to Rosa, such as Rosa Calligraphic, Rosa Italic, and Rosa Roman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guillamon

    Berlin-based graphic designer. He/she created Eimer (2013, a hand-printer poster face) and Shit Lettering (2013, shit-shaped glyphs co-designed with patricia martin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guillaume Allard

    French graphic designer whose graduation thesis in 2010 contains Alphabet Formel [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guillaume Federighi

    French-American artist (b. California) who lives in New York City. Behance link. Creator of a human figure alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guillermo Torres

    Graduate of the London College of Communication. Multidisciplinary designer living and working in London. Creator of the alchemic caps typeface Realium (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guillo Sanchez

    Illustrator in Tabasco, Mexico, who created the decorative caps set called Alphabet Monster Unicorn (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gustav Rendon
    [Ramdon Studio]

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    Guy Arnoux

    Type designer at Deberny & Peignot who created Guy Arnoux capitales (1914: caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guy Oring

    Coauthor with Paul Carlyle of Letters and Lettering (1938), Layouts and Letterheads (1938) and Learning to Letter (1939).

    The former book was a big source of inspiration for Nick Curtis. For example, he created the typeface Shishka Bob NF (2005) based on the experimental calligraphy in that book. Type designers who were inspired by, revived or extended alphabets shown in Letters and Lettering include:

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    Gwenn Espejo

    Graphic designer and 3d modeler in Strasbourg, France, who created the hypnotic experimental decorative caps typeface Random Geometric (2015) by turning each glyph 360 degrees. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gypsy Rose

    Nice caps font scanned in from the Solo: Pattern Alphabets book in 2000. Now at Fontsanon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    H. de Waroquier

    Designer ca. 1900 of a decorative caps face, shown here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hai Trinh

    San Diego, CA-based creator of a decorative caps typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Haiku Monkey
    [Alec Julien]

    Commercial foundry, est. 2007 in Burlington, VT, by Alec Julien (b. 1965). Fonts sold through MyFonts include Doctor Cyclops (2009), Grundlagen (2009, retro display sans), I Am A Bird (2009), Yacht (2009, a 1930s movie poster style family), Predicate (+Rounded) (2008, sans), Steel Sedan (2008, a condensed slab serif family), Monumint (2008, comic book style), Aerohop (2008, a sans family), Chittenden (2008, an artsy blackboard math style face), Rany (2008, hand-printed), Ashbery (2008, Asian jungle look stick font), Banyan (2007, brush typeface with a jungle look), Loge (2007, a high-contrast sans), Joules (2007, hand-printed family, whose development is described here), Tara (2007, a jungle-look face), Sinn (2007), Set Theory (2007), Bad Marker (2007), Counterfact (2007), Sharp Nine (2007), Good Robot (2007), Groovin Up Slowly (2007), Fractal Caps (2007), Classy Diner (2007), Anthem (2007), Zooey (2007), Imagination Theory (2007), 89 (2007), Skrawl (2007), Zerega (2007), AJ Hand (2007), Scandal (2008), Zone 52 (2008, techno), Gno (2008, techno), Gno Serif (2008), Abbott (2008, a cool hand-printed script). Most of these fonts resulted from drawing or doodling experiments.

    Free fonts: Lavoisier (2009, sans), Skritch (2008, handwriting), Geekium (2008, a math symbols font based on Gentium), 36 Dots (dot matrix face), Teacher Sez (2007, blackboard script). Devian Tart carries these free fonts/demos: Skritch, Rany, Teacher Sez, Steel Jalopy (2008, based on Steel Sedan), Insolent (2009), I Am A Bird (2009, slab serif family), Myrna (2009). Lavoisier (2009) is a free monoline font, later cyrillicized by Sergey Tkachenko. Working on Modus (2009).

    Additions in 2010: Lockwood (a strong all-caps sans display face), m7 (a slab serif typewriter face), Blues Vity (condensed display face), m13 (fat slab serif), Mineola, Hunk (fat all-caps display face).

    Creations from 2011: Zurdo (hand-printed).

    Typefaces from 2012: Shockproof (a tall display face).

    Typefaces from 2013: Arcation (techno).

    In 2014, Alec Julien published the skyline typeface family Lexave.

    Typefaces from 2015: Gilmour (a sturdy slab serif, +Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2016: Gama (octagonally cut Star Trek font).

    Typefaces from 2018: Syd, Sid.

    Interview by Seven Days. Fontsquirrel link. Klingspor link. Kernest link.

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    Haleigh Richards

    During her studies in Columbus, OH, Haleigh Richards drew the Letter People alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hali

    Student at UWE in Bristol. FontStructor who made the ornamental caps typeface Atom Dynamics (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Halisten Studio
    [Nadi Boglarka]

    Budapest, Hungary-based designer of Cat Drop Caps (2020) and Aesop's Alphabet (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hamdan Jan

    Lahore, Pakistan-based creator of a geometric poster typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Han Lee
    [Haniboi]

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    Haniboi
    [Han Lee]

    Haniboi is London-based illustrator Han Lee, a graduate of Saint Martins in London. Not surprisingly, his first entrance into the world of type design is an ornamental caps typeface, called Studio Rock (2012), which can be bought from The Type Foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannah Booe
    [Morgan Lee Schneider]

    Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Heavenly Rooted (2013; see also here). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannah Carnes

    Normal, IL-based designer of the dessert-themed decorative typeface Scrumdiddlyumptious (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannah Kieffer

    Greenfield, MA-based designer of The Voice of Bennu (2019: decorated caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannah Smith

    Chicago, IL-based designer of Shaggy (2014), a decorative caps typeface based on Futura. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannah Tarbotton

    Nashua, NH-based designer of a drop caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannah Thompson

    Graphic design student in Nottingham, UK, who created a bohemian all caps alphabet called Hallmark Doodles (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hannes von Döhren
    [HVD Fonts]

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    Hans Holbein The Younger

    Painter and drawer born in Augsburg in 1497, who died in 1543. He is most famous for his woodcut alphabet produced in Basel between 1522 and 1526 entitled The Dance of Death. At the Psymon site, we can find several initial cap alphabets of his in GIF format: these include The Alphabet Of Children (1527-1532) and The Dance Of Death (or: Danse Macabre) of Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1523).

    Digital versions abound:

    Site dedicated to The Dance of Death. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hans van Maanen

    Dutch science journalist who has published extensively in the Volkskrant. He is also into fine arts and illustration, and has even designed a few fonts. MyFonts page. Klingspor link.

    • His first production was Lexington and Lexington Handtooled (2006, a revival and major expansion of a 1926 Ludwig Wagner Schriftgiesserei typeface called Titanic. A typical art deco signage typeface which can be bought at Canada Type, and is characterized by its rabbit-eared k, l, b, d and h).
    • He also digitized and expanded Aurora Grotesk (1912, Johannes Wagner foundry) and called it Annonce (2006, Canada Type).
    • As explained by Canada Type: The story of Serena is a unique one among revivals. Serena was neither a metal typeface nor a film one. In fact it never went anywhere beyond Stefan Schlesinger's 1940-41 initial sketches (which he called Saranna). A year later, while working with Dick Dooijes on the Rondo typeface, Schlesinger was sent to a concentration camp where he died, along with any material prospects for the gorgeous letters he'd drawn. The only sketches left of Schlesinger's Saranna work are found in the archives of the Drukkerij Trio (the owner of which was Schlesinger's brother-in-law). The sketches were done in pencil and ink over pencil on four sheets of paper. And now Hans van Maanen revives Schlesinger's spirit as closely as the drawings permit. Hans Van Maanen thus digitized Serena (2007, Canada Type).
    • Dutch Mediaeval (2007, 9 styles) is a text family based on Hollandse Mediaeval, the 1912 Sjoerd Hendrik De Roos classic. Followed in 2013 by Dutch Mediaeval Book ST (done together with Patrick Griffin), which was engineered specifically for science writing.
    • Freco (2006, Canada Type): an art deco font.
    • Circulaire (2009, Canada Type) is a set of initial caps designed by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos in 1926.
    • Adams (2008, Canada Type) is a revival and major expansion of Dolf Overbeek's Studio typeface and Flambard, its bold counterpart, originally published by the Amsterdam Type Foundry in 1946 and 1954, respectively.
    • Lotto: A brush typeface originally designed by expert ad artist Herbert Thannhaeuser for East German foundry Typoart in 1955. Revived by Van Maanen at Canada Type in 2009.
    • Diploma (2009, Canada Type) is a revival of Diplomat, a metal type made by the in-house team of Ludwig&Mayer and first published in 1964.
    • Roos (2009): A 10-style revival and extension of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos's De Roos Romein (1948), created in cooperation with Patrick Griffin at Canada Type.
    • Archie (2010): a heavy techno sans banner face, done at Canada Type as a revival of work by Martin Meijer.
    • Agent (2010, Canada Type) is another revival of work by Martin Meijer.
    • Aragon (2010, Canada Type): Advertised as a workhorse Dutch Garamond family. Includes an open style called Aragon Initials.
    • Naga (+Naga Outline, 2011, Canada Type) is Hans van Maanen's original creation of art deco shapes intersected with intricate mazes of what could be Celtic or Mesoamerican knotwork art.
    • Zilvertype (2012). A 590-glyph typeface revival published by Canada Type: Right on the heels of the tremendous popularity wave that made Hollandse Mediaeval the most used Dutch typeface during the Great War years, Sjoerd H. de Roos was asked to design a 15 point type for De Zilverdistel, Jean-François van Royen's publishing company. So between 1914 and 1916, de Roos and van Royen collaborated on the typeface eventually known as Zilvertype, and which both parties viewed as an improved version of Hollandse Mediaeveal. Like Hollandse Mediaeval, Zilvertype was based on the Jenson model, but it is simpler, with more traditional metrics, and lighter and more classic in colour. Followed in 2014 by the expanded Zilvertype Pro.
    • Minuet (2007) revives Schlesinger's Rondo.
    • Grippo (2012). A layered font in six styles, with a general art deco look.
    • Gaulois (2012). Based on Scribe (1937, Marcel Jacno), an art deco era signage and advertising script.
    • Wilke Kursiv (2013) is based on Martin Wilke's Wilke Kursiv from 1932.
    • Aragon ST (2013, with Patrick Griffin). Related to Garamond, this family was designed for science writing, thanks to the incorporation of SciType. SciType is a flexible combination of oft-ignored letterforms and innovative OpenType programming that can be incoporated into existing text fonts in order for them to function seamlessly when including common science formulas and equations in regular text.
    • In 2015, Hans cooperated with Patrick Griffin on the sturdy small text typeface Leo.
    • Basilio (2017). a revival and expansion of the italienne typeface Hidalgo (1939, Stefan Schlesinger for Lettergieterij Amsterdam).
    • Der Mond (2018). A stick font.
    • Pala (2018). A condensed semi-bold sans typeface that is based on the tyopes seen on posters by activists.
    • Monostad (2019).
    • Litige (2019). A bold titling sans.
    • Salden (2019, by Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin). A grand effort to collect the lettering of Dutch book and book cover designer Helmut Salden in a series of typefaces.
    • Boerenzij (2019). A stencil type commissioned by Wapke Feenstra for an exposition in Rotterdam.
    • Mmomo (2019).
    • Artist in Space (2019). A commissioned typeface.
    • Normandia (2021, by Patrick Griffin and Hans van Maanen). A digital revival of the fatface typeface Normandia by Alessandro Butti at Nebiolo (1946-1949).
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    Happy Letters
    [Galyna Tymonko]

    Donetsk, Ukraine-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Espresso (2017), Advertis (2017: ornaments). In 2018, she published Delight (a script typeface), Lovingly (all glyphs are hearts), Lightbon (condensed deco), Castillo (a font with Scandinavian themes as textures), and the textured typeface Soft Vintage.

    Typefaces from 2019: Bonjour, Poster (+Bold, +Color), Tropical, Wedding Heart Monogram, Sweet Dreams, Holly Jolly, Just Case, Circle Around (curly), Summer Beach, Love Story Monogram, Inspiration (a great brushy script), Monogram Valentine (decorative caps), Christmas Snow. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Happycentro
    [Federico Galvani]

    Happycentro is a creative studio based in Verona, Italy. Members include Federico Galvani, Giuliano Garonzi, Roberto Solieri, Giulio Grigollo, Andrea Manzati, and Federico Padovani. Behance link. They made various experimental types. Federico Galvani and Sebastiano Boni drew the caps typeface ProtoType by hand. Giulio Grigollo made the avant garde typeface Architecta (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harald Geisler

    German type designer, b. 1980, Frankfurt. He runs a design studio in Frankfurt.

    His typefaces from 2010: Ciseaux Matisse (a counterless hand-printed all-caps typeface which is based on paper cut-outs), Zebramatic (a striped caps face), Sevigny (an experimental face based on threads), Speech Bubbles, and the fun poster typeface Whimsical Musical.

    Fonts made in 2011 include Cute Letters (curly, hand-printed Valentine's Day pair of typefaces: Hearted and Heartless), Prince Charming, Princess Charming (doodly Valentine's Day face), Conversation Hearts (alphading face), Capital Love (an alphading typeface with hearts), and Unchain My Heart (Valentine's Day alphading typeface).

    In 2012, he created the calligraphic connected script typeface Conspired Lovers and the seven-font set Light Hearted (which was inspired by a recording of Jean Baudrillard entitled Die Macht der Verführung (2006).

    His largest type project in 2013 was Sigmund Freud Typeface, which was developed with the help of PDF file. That font was published in 2017 as Albert Einstein.

    Still in 2017, he published Electric Cable (together with Julieta Ulanovsky) and had a Kickstarter project called Martin Luther.

    In 2018, he teamed up with Sumbo Pinheiro to develop the fun typeface Excited Alphabets, which is based on Sumbo's illustrations.

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

    Haris Mustafa

    Illustrator in Bandung, Indonesia, who designed a beautiful ornamental caps typeface along the theme of Balinese culture, called Balinese Deva (2011). Balinese mythology includes creatures such as such as Barong (the king of spirits), Jatayu (the bird in ramayana), Hanoman (the white monkey), and Rangda (the demon queen). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harlan Wallach

    Creator of Alphabet3 and Victorian Caps---these are not fonts, but just illuminated caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harold Lohner
    [Harold's Fonts]

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    Harold's Fonts
    [Harold Lohner]

    Harold Lohner was born in upstate New York in 1958. He received an MFA in printmaking from the University at Albany and is Professor of Visual Arts at Sage College of Albany. He began making fonts in 1997 and starting distributing them the next year through Harold's Fonts. He lives in Albany, NY, with his partner, Al Martino. Originally, most of his typefaces were freeware or shareware, but gradually, he started selling most on his site or via FontBros. His typefaces:

    • Famous fonts: Boom Chicka (2013: a set of three cartoon fonts inspired by the poster for the Marilyn Monroe film, The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), designed by Bill Gold), Auteur (2007, after the handwriting in the opening titles of Jean Cocteau's The Beauty and the Beast, 1946), 12 to the Moon (2000, runes based on the Columbia Pictures movie "12 to the Moon"), Aardvark Café (2000, extrapolated from the famous Hard Rock Café logo), Bensfolk (2000, adapted from the work of Ben Shahn, in turn adapted from "folk or amateur" alphabets. Originally developed for The Arts Center of the Capital Region), Bensfolk Condensed (2000), Bensgothic (1998), BensgothicLigatures (1998), Calaveras (2002, a take on Daisyland), Comet Negative (2000, based on the logo of Country Music Television (CMT)), Comet Positive (2000), HonestJohns (2000, based on the lettering in the classic Howard Johnson's restaurants logo), Metrodf (2000, based on the Mexico City subway's lettering), Radio (2002, derived from the old NPR (National Public Radio) logo), Subway Mosaic (inspired by the classic mosaic tile signs of the New York City subway system).
    • Handlettering: Empress Monograms (2014), National Archive (2009, calligraphic), Rough Draft (2009, sketched font), Greg's Hand (2009), Rudland Hand (2007, inspired by the work of the British artist and designer Peter Rudland), Gamera (2006), Directors Script (2006, based on a film credits script from the 1940s), National Archive (2005, based on the lettering of Timothy Matlack, who wrote the Declaration of Independence), Frank the Architect (2004, based on Frank Ching's lettering, which also gave rise to the Tekton family), Imitation (2003, inspired by the handlettered titles of the film Imitation of Life (1959), directed by Douglas Sirk and artdirected by Richard H. Riedel), Imitation Two (2004), antiestablishment (2000), Christmas Card (2000, based on the handlettered opening titles of the film "It's a Wonderful Life", Art Director: Jack Okey. This font was retired and replaced in 2006 by Testimonial), Espangle (2002, as the lettering for El Corte Ingles), Dad's Recipe (2000, based on his dad's handwriting), Greg's Hand (2001, Greg Smith's writing), Greg's Other Hand (2002), Kaela (1998, reshaped and extended in 2006), Marker Man (1999), Synch (2000, with Phil Campbell, inspired by the work of the artist Stuart Davis), Synchronous (2000, based on Syncopated Script, again made with Phil Campbell), Syncopated Script (1999).
    • Blackletter: Waldorf Text (2011, after a 1914 original), Waldorf Heavy Illuminated (2011), Manucrypt (2011), Rude Goth (2007, grunge blackletter), Alsace-Lorraine, Benighted, Chinese Gothic, Christmas Card II, Kombine Regular, Kombine Kursiv (2000), Olde Chicago.
    • Woodtype: Blacktops (caps, 1999), Blacktop Small Caps (1999), Blacktop Regular (2014), Captain Hook, Captain Hook Crackle (2020), Cinderella (1998). The Western font Cattle Annie (2006) is an unauthorized digital interpretation of the analog font "Les Catalanes." According to ABZ: More alphabets and other signs by Rothenstein and Gooding, it was designed in 1952 by Enric Crous-Vidal (1908-1987) but was never produced.
    • Stencil fonts: JJ Stencil, JJStencilLight (2000, inspired by the work of Jasper Johns), JJStencil Wet, JJStencilMedium, Sideshow (2000, based on the stencilled lettering on a vintage Ouija board), JJStencilSolid (2003), StencilFour (2001, inspired by the logo of Channel 4 (UK); reworked in 2006 into Oaktag), StencilFourReversed (2001).
    • Western: Oklahoma (2006, based on the title of the film by that name), Captain Howdy (1999, 2000, Western font based on the lettering on a Ouija board).
    • Fraktur fonts: Benighted (2002), AlsaceLorraine (2000), Chinese Gothic (2000), Kombine Regular (2000), Kombine Kursiv (2000).
    • Revived Letraset fonts: BLOCK UP family (2000, based on the font family by the same name by Sally Ann Grover (1974) for Letraset), Good Vibes (2001, based on the analog font "Good Vibrations" by Trevor Hatchett for Letraset, 1973), GoodVibesBackbeat (2001), ObliqueTextBold (2000, based on a Letraset font called Obliq, 1984), ObliqueTextLight (2000), ObliqueTextMedium (2000), Wireframe (2000, based on the Letraset font Bombere designed by Carla Bombere (or Carla Ward)).
    • Art deco fonts: Cartel (2005, simply gorgeous), based on the lettering of the 1936 movie by that name), Crazy Harold (2009), Road Jester (2009), Onion (2003), Roberta (2003, based on a font of Bob Trogman, 1962), Roberta Raised Shadow (2003), Boomerang family (1998-2000), LeFilmClassic family (2000, based on the classic Art Deco font of the same name, originally designed by Marcel Jacno and released by Deberny&Peignot, 1927), LeFilmLetters (2000), LeFilmShadow (2000), PopUps (1998, a 3-d art deco font for signboards), Tapeworm (1998, based on the work of artist Ed Ruscha), Farouk (2001, a five-line art deco font, based on an analog font of the same name, as illustrated in Paul E. Kennedy's "Modern Display Alphabets"; in fact, the original source should be Fatima, a font designed by Karl Hermann Schaefer in 1933 at Schriftguss, and a copy of it at FT Française was called Atlas (1933). Lohner renamed Fatima to Atlas at some point, and added Atlas Solid, still in 2001).
    • MICR fonts: CMC7 (1998).
    • Dingbats: Everyday People (2013, silhouettes), Bingo Dingo (2011, inspired by the classic Mexican game, Loteria), Essene Dingbats (2005), Chapeau (2005, inspired by the 1902 Sears Catalog), Corset (2005, inspired by the 1902 Sears Catalog), Harold's Pips (2004), Alpha Bravo (2003), Rebus, AmericanCheese (1999), Candide Dingbats (1999, a reclinming women dingbat typeface based on decorations designed by Rockwell Kent for "Candide," circa 1928), Maritime Flags (2000), New Year Dingbats (1999: Japanese patterns).
    • Monospace fonts: Chica Mono (2000, based on Apple's Chicago; not really monospaced, by the way), Queer Theory Black, Bold, Regular and Light (1999).
    • Arabic simulation typefaces: Alhambra (2006), Alhambra Deep (2006).
    • Oriental simulation fonts: Bruce Mikita (+Solid) (after a metal font by the same name; Dan Solo calls it Lantern), Pad Thai (2006), Mystic Prophet (2002, inspired by Ouija boards), Chines Gothic, Font Shui (inspired by a style of hand-lettering illustrated in Alphabets: Ancient&Modern, compiled by J. B. Russell (Padell, 1946), Rubaiyat Shadow and Inline, Seoul (Korean font simulation), Shazi, Twelve to the moon, Chow Fun (2001, an oriental simulation typeface based on a sample of hand lettering identified as "Crooks' Stencil Designed Alphabet" in Alphabets: Ancient&Modern, compiled by J. B. Russell and published in 1945 by Padell Book Co), Quasi (1998).
    • Cartoon fonts: Laughtrack (2009, based on the work of the cartoonist Jerry Robinson), CokerOne (2000, based on the work of cartoonist Paul Coker Jr), Coker Two (2000) (note: therse fonts were erroneously named. They were renamed to Denney because of this: "The lettering in the fonts you have was developed by Alan Denney at Hallmark in the late 1950s. He also worked for American Greetings Hi Brows from 1960 - 1966 and then returned to Hallmark.... And he later went to a different lettering style when Shoe Box cards became Hallmark's funny card line replacing Contemporary Cards. Alan retired from Hallmark in 1993 and died two years later."), ZITZ (2000, based on the hand lettering in the King Features daily strip "Zits" by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott), Ohmigosh (2007: 12 styles of comic book lettering).
    • Dot matrix fonts: Fortuna Dot (2001).
    • Pixel fonts: Larcher (based on a modular font designed by Jean Larcher).
    • Medieval script fonts: Sonnet Italic&Swash (2009), Galathea (2000, based on a classic analog font of the same name, "Originalerzeugnis von J. S. Schelter&Giesecke, Leipzig").
    • Fonts made in 2015: Ace of Clubs, Roberta (after Bob Trogman's art nouveau font Roberta, 1962).
    • Fonts made in 2013: OK Monograms (retro-futuristic), Splunge (based on Franklin Gothic).
    • Fonts made in 2012: Humerus (Halloween font inspired by the opening credit sequence of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948), Retrospace (inspired by the hand-lettered opening credits of the film Some Came Running (1958)), Toynbee Idea (free font based on Toynbee tiles), Hymn (scanbat).
    • Fonts made in 2011: Institute Stamps (grunge), Magic Carpet, Shoemaker (shoe stitch face).
    • Fonts made in 2010: Salmagundi (grunge), Dynamotor (like Dynamo, which was designed by K. Sommer and first released in 1930), Poignant (inspired by the hand-lettered film titles of certain mid-1900s films from Twentieth-Century Fox, including "All About Eve", "Gentleman's Agreement" and "No Way Out."), Pharmacy MMX (unicase), Karta (3d face), Flores MMX.
    • Fonts made in 2009: Wexley (revival of a VGC font called Wexford), Sonnet (based on the printed text of Shakespeare, 1609), Fashion Brush, Fashion Script, Imitation One, Two, and Three, Generation B (all at Font Bros), Gainsborough (2009, an art deco typeface inspired by the hand-lettered titles of an Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938)), Comfy (FontBros: inspired by an example of "Pinselschrift" (brush lettering) by Wilhelm Dechert), Sirena (FontBros: inspired by the hand-lettered opening titles of the film I Married a Witch).
    • Fonts made in 2008: Alumino (inspired by Saul Bass's design for the aluminum company Alcoa), République (four fonts inspired by Paris Metro signs---not the familiar Art Nouveau "Metropolitain" signs, but the later Art Deco design by Adolphe Dervaux), Handbill (based on rubber stamps), Flash Mob, Pen Script Monograms, Royal Wedding (commercial set at Font Bros), 2 Clover Monograms, 4 Heart Monograms, Silverliner (based on the opening titles of the 1951 Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train), Tricot (lettering as done on a sweater, after a design by Nancy Stahl), Silverliner (based on the opening titles of the 1951 Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train), Carbon Copy, Bracelet Mongrams.
    • Fonts made in 2007: Aeolian, Pub Bites, Barril and Barril Doble (a digital interpretation of the 1970s Neufville font Barrio), Circle Monograms, XOXO (grunge), Safety Pin (inspired by the cover of the June 1946 Ladies Home Journal), Swizzle Script (a script based on Stylescript, 1940, Sol Hess: compare with Coronet and Trafton), New England (script), Madfont (after MAD magazine's logo), Quince (a brush version of Klumpp's Murray hill), Plumber's Gothic, Gamera.
    • Fonts made in 2006: Humdinger (comic book lettering), Stella Dallas (a Koch Antiqua style typeface based on he hand-lettered titles of the film Stella Dallas), Foam Light, Mean 26 Sans, Mean 26 Serif, Gaudi, Lapis Lazuli (3 calligraphic fonts based on Dan X. Solo's Papyrus), Garden, Boston Line and Philadelphia Line (inspired by Boston Line Type, developed in the 1830s by Samuel Gridley Howe for use in raised-letter printing for the blind; the Philadelphia Line fonts were inspired by another raised-print font, this one developed by Julius Friedlander and adopted in 1837 by his Philadelphia school, now the Overbrook School for the Blind), Honeymoon (a script based on the Holiday Inn lettering), Blooper and Bloop Script (after Cooper Black and Brush Script), Roman monograms.
    • Fonts made in 2005: Don Semiformal, Fabulous Prizes, Valentin (inspired by the work of Valentin Haüy, creator of the first books for the blind), Chelt Press (a grungy Cheltenham), National Debt, Pub Smooth (followed in 2007 by Pub Bites), Baronial Monograms, Vine Monograms, Thaleia (revival of Thalia), Harold's Monograms Bold, Blockograms, CarmenMonograms, Profiler, Goya, Jest, Chaser, Rebus (dingbats), Dilemma, The Birds, CVelestial Alphabet.
    • Fonts made in 2004: Snowflake Monograms, Upbeat Demi, Pessima, White Birch, Artistamp, Entwined Monograms, Project, Dirty Finger, Koch Dingbats, Yard Sale, Shield Monograms, Gainsborough (inspired by the hand-lettered titles of the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Lady Vanishes", 1938), Jim Dandy (an interpretation of the 19th century typeface Jim Crow), Gaumont (based on the hand-lettered titles of the film The 39 Steps (1935), a Gaumont-British Picture, directed by Alfred Hitchcock), Imitation2, Sunset, Bend It, Pretz, Cantabile, Echo, Skidz, Columbia Stamp, Trudeau Sans (a companion of his architectural typeface Trudeau), Frank the Architect (2004, a Frank Ching-inspired typeface not unlike Tekton).
    • Fonts made in 2003: Card Characters, Pieces, Harlequin, Hexagrams&Octograms, Popstars, Level, Peace, Collegiate Monograms, Bead Chain, Marquee.
    • Fonts made in 2002: Level, Backhand Brush, Joggle, Script Monograms, Brickletter, Font Shui (oriental simulation), Heartland (for Valentine's day), Melodymaker (for music), Antiestablishment, Penmanship, RingTV, Cabaletta (now called Roosevelt), Graceful Ghost (caps based on an 18th century French design by Pouget&fils), the Ixat family (grunge fonts), PalimpsestBlack (grunge font), PalimpsestDark, PalimpsestLight, PalimpsestRegular, Pearlie, Repent (based on the work of American folk artist Jesse Howard), WillingRace (upper and lower case together).
    • Fonts made in 2001: Carmen Caps, Crazy Harold (2001, based on a font of the same name, as illustrated in Paul E. Kennedy's "Modern Display Alphabets"; extended to 8 weights in 2006), Easter Parade (brush script), Famous Label (pen lettering), FLORES (based on a florist's sign in Valencia, Spain), FONT ERROR, Guadalupe (Mexican simulation face), GuadalupeDos, HMBlackDiamondThree, HMBlackDiamondTwo, HMBlackOvalThree, HMBlackOvalTwo, HMWhiteDiamondThree, HMWhiteDiamondTwo, HMWhiteOvalThree, HMWhiteOvalTwo, Handmedown, Hymn, KaffeehausNeon (based on Kaufmann), PubSmooth (a variant of the classic font Publicity Gothic), Roselyn (a script font based on a font in "Lettering and Alphabets" by John Albert Cavanagh), RubaiyatDoubleLine, RubaiyatEngraved, RubaiyatInline, RubaiyatOutline, RubaiyatShadow, RubaiyatSolid, SanitaryBoldCaps, SanitaryDemi, SanitaryRegular, Shazi, ShaziGhost, Subtext (grunge font).
    • Fonts made in 2000: Arrobatherapy, Barbeque, Black Oval Monogram, Bruce Mikita (oriental simulation), Bruce Mikita2, Cantabile, CantabileAlternate, Celestial Alphabet, the Goya family (extrapolated from the logo of the GOYA food products company), King Harold (inspired by the lettering on the Bayeux Tapestry), KingXmas, KingXmasStars, KochQuadratFill, KochQuadrat, KochQuadratGuides, KochQuadratInline, KochQuadratOutlines, Koch Rivoli, Lab Rat, Law School (based on the architectural lettering at Albany Law School, Albany, NY, now named Trudeau, after a design by architect Robert Louis Trudeau), Milky Way (based on a style of hand lettering by Ross F. George included in 1930s Speedball lettering books), MilkyWayTwo (2001), Neurotoxin, Pharmacy, Punchhappy (holes in letters, influenced by Apostrophe's Toolego?), Punchhappy Shadow, Quarterround, Quarterround Tile (a kitchen tile font), RedCircle (based on the lettering on Eight O'Clock brand coffees), Ringpin, ScarletRibbons (inspired by a Speedball lettering book from the 30s by Ross F. George), Screwball (font in memory of Madeline Kahn), Solemnity (an uncial font modeled on the analog font SOLEMNIS by Günter Gerhard Lange, 1952), ThreePartySystemA, ThreePartySystemB, ThreePartySystemC, Vasarely (named in honor of Op artist Victor Vasarely; based on a modular font by Jean Larcher).
    • Fonts made in 1999: BrideOfTheMonsterStencil, Bubble Gum Rock A and B (1999-2002), CheltPressDark, CheltPressDarkVariegated, CheltPressLigh, CheltPressLightVariegated, CheltPress, Esquivel, EsquivelEngraved, Fulton Artistamp, MADFONT, Smellvetica, SmellveticaOutline, Vedette Blanche (movie roll font), VedetteNoire.
    • Fonts made in 1998: BrideOfTheMonster (caps and numbers are based on Rudolph Koch's Neuland), Cheapskate family, Dominican (coffee bean bag font), Landmark, OldeChicago (based on the Apple Chicago font), Ricecakes, SavingsBond extended in 2006 to National Debt, National Debt Hilite and National Debt 3D), StampAct, StampActJumbled, Thanksgiving, Virile Open, Virile Solid.
    • Typefaces from 2011: Bingo Dingo (dingbats inspired by the classic Mexican board game, Lotería), ManuCrypt (blackletter), Waldorf Text (blackletter).
    • Typefaces from 2012: Albanita (date unclear though), Curator (a compact handwriting font), Seafare (circus style face), Hardline (op art prismatic style), London (inspired by London, Susan Kare's bitmap-style Olde English designed for Apple in the early 1980s. Variations include cross-stitch, harlequin (black and white diamonds), and shaded (diagonal lines)).
    • Typefaces from 2015: Gilded Age (inspired by the opening titles of the 1952 French film Casque d'Or.
    • Typefaces from 2016: Mr. Kite (weathered wood type), Schnapps (blackletter), Egyptian Monograms, Bluelakehawk (with Jason Martinez, inspired by Southwest Pueblo pottery patterns and tribal art).

      Typefaces from 2016: Bogo (a digital version of Morris Fuller Benton's Hobo Light, 1915).

    • Typefaces from 2017: Asian Flavor, Time Lock, Flying Circus (a Western style slab serif modeled after Circo, which was made in 1971 by Jan Solpera at Berthold AG), Traftoon (after Howard Allen Trafton's Cartoon (1936)), Art Deco Monograms, Stage Left (with interlocking capitals), Intermittent (experimental: vertical lines only; inspired by West Side Story).
    • Typefaces from 2018: Niche, Licorice Whip, Mineral City (grungy), Cascade Monograms, Trails End (grungy), Maze Monograms, Harmonium, Tidal Wave.
    • Typefaces from 2019: Black Iris (blackletter), Headstand.
    • Typefaces from 2020: Jimmy Leg, Labelous, Divity Rose Monograms, Peaceful Protest, Headstand (Headstand was inspired by the logo for Melania Trump's Be Best campaign, reportedly designed by the First Lady herself), Tablet Monograms, Don Piano (an early computer-inspired monospaced typeface), Trente Neuf (hand-lettered with art deco roots), Vineyard (an art nouveau typeface inspired by two early 20th-century fonts from American Type Founders, Virile and Erratic Outline), Pheather, Gothic Vine Monograms, Vine Monograms, Money Tree (a currency font), Sonnet, Cantabile, Neurotoxin, Screwball. Typefaces from 2021: Tessera (a mosaic font), Diploma Monograms, Wet Ink (oily).

    Link at Dafont. . Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harpreet Pahwa

    Graduate of the MIT Institute of Design, Pune. For her graduation project, Harpreet Pahwa (Delhi, India) designed The Living Forest (2016), a decorative set of floriated capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harry Brodjian

    Harry and Seta Brodjian acquired Filmotype in 1987 and ran the company for a while. Earlier, in 1970, Harry had designed the calligraphic initials typeface VGC Constanze, which was digitized and revived in 2007 by Canada Type as VIP (Rebecca Alaccari). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Harry E. Townsend

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as Modern Roman Capitals, Modern lower case. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harry Lawrence Gage

    Harry Gage lived in the village of Annisquam on Cape Ann, Massachusetts after he left corporate and academic life in the printing business. He produced a great deal of fine art in his later years---watercolors, designs for commemorative medals, and designs for the Christmas cards that were sent out by the village committee.

    Author of Vel Vet Show Cards (1924). Some of his alphabets can be seen in Thomas Woods Stevens's book Lettering (1916). All of the alphabets in the latter book were digitized by Dick Pape in 2012 and 2013, and are free and downloadable from this site: TWS Heavy Capitals 49, TWS Italian Gothic Caps 80 (Lombardic), TWS Renaissance Alphabet 39, TWS Robinson Caps 23, TWS Roman Caps 13, TWS Slab Capitals 22, TWS The Japanese 32. Futher digitizations of the 1916 alphabets include Jeff Levine's Tenement JNL (2020: of the Cooper Black style alphabet TWS Heavy Capitals 49), Da ABF Mafia's Yoshi Toshi (2003) and David Nalle's Yoshitoshi (2003), both of TWS The Japanese 32. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harry Meakin

    Cardiff, Wales-based designer of Technology Supplies Typeface (2015), a decorative caps typeface for a technological company. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Haxon
    [Shokouh Razavi]

    New York City-based designer of the decorative floral caps alphabet Magic Forest (2017). Behance link. Behance link for Shokouh Razavi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hazel Nguyen

    During her studies in Madrid, Spain, Hazel Nguyen designed the colored wooden block / geometric solid color typeface Creario in 2017. She also designed the squarish typeface Glime (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hazem Ahmed

    Tanta, Egypt-based designer of a free experimental decorative Latin all-caps typeface called Polygonal (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hélène du Grand Placitre

    Lille (was: Rouen), France-based designer of the decorative typeface Spleen type (2014) and the lace-themed vector typeface Leontine (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Heather Green

    Florida-based graphic designer and wildlife photographer. Creator of the handcrafted typefaces Lucasta (2015, thick brush script), Thinsweet (2015) and Threadbear (2015), and the decorative caps typeface Zennadoo (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Heather Kennedy

    Heather Kennedy, a fashion model in London, created a curly all-caps typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Heather-Lynn Aquino

    Californian illustrator who drew Alphabeast (2010), a hairy monster alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Heidi R.L. Gomez

    Austin, TX-based musician, artist and graphic designer. Creator of the native Indian-themed all caps typeface Native Script (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Heinrich Vogeler

    Heinrich Vogeler (b. 1872, Bremen, Germany) was an art nouveau era artist, designer, illustrator and teacher, known for his paintings and for his illustrations of fairy tales. He also did some work for the art nouveau magazine Pan. From 1894 on, he lived for some time in the artist colony at Worpswede, Germany. In 1908 he and his brother Franz founded the Worpsweder Werkst&aauml;tte, which produced household objects. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1890-1895. With sympathies for the working class, after the Great War, he became a pacifist and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). The romanticism of his early art nouveau work gave way to proletarian content. In 1931, Vogeler and his second wife, Sonja Marchlewska, emigrated to Russia. Ironically, he was deported in 1941 to Kazakhstan by Soviet authorities, and died there in 1942.

    Jugendstil Initials (2007, HiH, Malcolm Wooden) is a commercial digital revival of Jugendstil Initialen (1905, Rudhardsche). Compare with Vogeler Caps (2002, Petra Heidorn, CybaPee Creations) and Vogeler Initialen (2002, Dieter Steffmann), both free revivals of a similar style face.

    Other typefaces by him include Vogeler Zierat (1904, Rudhardsche Giesserei), Kalender Bilder (1910, Klingspor).

    Vienna Secession link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Helen E. Hartford

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as Modern German capital letters and Art Nouveau Capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helen Zarembo

    Kiev, Ukraine-based graphic designer. In 2015, she created a Latin decorative caps typeface in EPS format called Forest. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helena Lunding Hultqvist

    Kristianstad, Sweden-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of an alphabet consisting only of solid geometric shapes called Geoalfabet (2013). She also created the illustrated caps alphabet I Want To Be (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helga Keulen

    Freelance graphic designer at Shift8, based in Hulsberg, The Netherlands. In 2014, she created the typefaces HelgAbstract and Helga Round. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hella 9

    As a student in Palma de Mallorca, Hella 9 designed the decorative (Tim Burton-inspired?) all caps typeface Alpha Burtonet (2016) and the colorful all caps typeface Youkaiphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hello Keepa
    [Eugene Rudyy]

    Eugene Rudyy (Hello Keepa, Lviv, Ukraine) designed the caps typeface Keeparty (2010). Free download at Font Soup. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hello Shane (was: Hello Richard)

    Parisian designer. In 2013, he/she made the ornamental caps typeface ABC consisting of the world's tallest buildings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helloise Mota

    Graduate of IFPE, class of 2016. Olinda, Brazil-based designer of a feathered decorative caps monogram typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Henk Krijger

    Dutch illustrator, b. 1914, Sumba, Indonesia, d. 1979. Designer at Lettergieterij Amsterdam of the slightly scribbly pen-drawn Raffia Initialen (1952). At ATypI 2003 in Vancouver, Peter Enneson highlighted Krijger and his Raffia Initials.

    Digital revivals:

    • AR Types did a digital revival, Raffia (2008).
    • Ian Lynam's revival is called Raffish (2013). It is a derivative rather than an exact revival.
    • Henk Krijger Raffia Initials (2014, Patrick Griffin and Peter Enneson). This typeface (Opentype, and Adobe Illustrator formats) is based on photocopied reproductions and digital photographic images of the master drawings.

    Klingspor link. Peter Enneson's biography of Henk Krijer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Henri de Sta

    French illustrator Henri de Sta was born in Versailles in 1846 as Arsène Henri Saint-Alary. He began his career around 1882 with La Vie Artistique and the publishing house of Léon Vanier. Coming from a military family, garrison life became a regular theme in his career. De Sta worked as a humorous illustrator for Le Chat Noir since 1892. He also published in Le Paris Bouffon (1885), Le Rire (1897) and Le Charivari (1900). He composed military alphabets, illustrated songs and produced comics for La Chronique Amusante from 1896, and for Les Contes Moraux et Merveilleux of the printing firm Pellerin d'Epinal. He is known for his decoratice caps alphabet Armée Française: Nouvel Alphabet Militaire (1883). de Sta died in 1920. Bibliodyssey link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Henry Reinhard Moeller

    Type designer at Schriftguss AG. These include a number of fine art deco fonts such as Regatta (1935, horizontally cut), and Trio A, B and C (1936, like Broadway; Trio B is a shaded version, and Trio C is a multiline version). He also designed the titling typefaces Faro (1938, inline), Golf (1935, an elegant inline fat caps typeface at Schriftguss), and Ramona (1939, shadow face). Finally, he created the all-caps typefaces Maximum A and B (1939) and the upright slightly threatening text typefaces Patria (1938, typical of so-called German art deco) and Patria Halbfett (1938).

    Revivals of Moeller's work include Ketman Display (2015, Chris Bowers), which emulates Patria, and Golf (2017, Coen Hofmann for URW FontForum). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Henry Schuenemann

    Born in 1866 in Cleveland, OH. Credited with the design of these typefaces:

    • Acadian No3 and No4 (1882, Cleveland Type Foundry). Victorian typefaces.
    • Alpine (before 1885, Cleveland Type Foundry). Revived in 2017 by Alan Jay Prescott as Alpenhorn Roman. Presott writes: Another oddball typeface is revived here, renamed from the design called Alpine by Henry Schuenemann for the Cleveland Type Foundry in the 1880s. Buried in the "gingerbread" of this weird face is technically a Latin serif, but otherwise it is an entirely unique letterform for which I had a heart soft enough to revive here in digital form.
    • Chic (1888, Cleveland Type Foundry). Art nouveau.
    • Clifton (1889, Barnhart Bros. & Spindler). Victorian.
    • DeVinne Extended (ca. 19896, Central Type Foundry).
    • Euclid (1889, Cleveland Type Foundry). Victorian. Alan Jay Prescott did revivals of Euclid and several other typefaces, which he called Euclid, Euclid Initials, Euclastic, Elberon, Astral, and Auroral (2018). He explains Euclid's genesis differently: Elberon existed by November 1886 from Cleveland Type Foundry in The Inland Printer. Euclid (a lighter version of Elberon with a few different glyphs) is an obvious derivative from Illinois Type Founding Co. in Chicago in August 1890. Euclid appears with several Euclid Initials, a full sample of which appears as "Grant Iniitials" from Minnesota Typographic Co. Auroral (basically a shaded form of Elberon) appears in January 1887 from Central type foundry. Astral, also from Central type foundry, (the almost exact shading concept) whose base form is a condensed, heavier form than Euclid) appears in December 1886. Euclastic is my name for a complete set of weights, from a Hairline at the extreme end of lightness, through Black at the other extreme, using redesigned examples of Euclid and Elberon.
    • French Old Style (Central Type Foundry).
    • Gazelle (ca. 1893, Cleveland Type Foundry). Revived in 2017 by Alan Jay PrescottIllyrian (1883, Cleveland Type Foundry). A curly Victorian typeface that was revived as Illyrian by Dan X. Solo.
    • Ivanhoe Series (1893, Cleveland Type Foundry).
    • Mikado (1886, Cleveland Type Foundry). Imitating a child's hand?
    • Oxford, Oxford No.2 and Oxford No.3 (1888, Cleveland Type Foundry). This includes ornamental caps. Oxford No2 was revived in 2013 by Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles as MFC Damask.
    • Walton (ca. 1885, Cleveland Type Foundry).
    • Waverly Circular (before 1895, Cleveland Type Foundry).
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    Henry Shaw

    Author (1800-1873) of The Handbook of Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices (Bernard Quaritch, London, 1853; and Henry George Bohn, London, 1856), Alphabets, Numerals and Devices of the Middle Ages (1845, William Pickering, London) and Alphabets&Numbers of the Middle Ages (London, 1845). cover page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Herbert F. Czarnowsky
    [Baltimore Type Foundry (or: Baltotype)]

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    Herbert F. Van Brink
    [Character]

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    Hermann Eidenbenz

    Swiss type designer (b. Cannanore, India, 1902, d. Basel, 1993). He was associated with the Haas type foundry, where he made Clarendon Roman (1952-1953, together with Edouard Hoffmann, after the 1845 English classic Clarendon; see also Clarendon BNo. 1 Stencil, 1965, URW), LA 39 Alphabet, and the shaded outline all caps typeface Graphique (1946).

    Eidenbenz designed numerous posters, logos, and Swiss and German bank notes. From 1932 until 1953, he and his brother Reinhold and Willy ran a graphics studio in Basel. From 1955 until 1967, he was art director at the Reemtsma company in Hamburg.

    Digital revivals:

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    Hermann Esser

    Author of Draughtsman's Alphabets (1877).

    Apostrophe made the font Nero based on Hermann Esser's 1878 Rustic Capitals. Exclusive at the (now defunct) Fontsanon site. He explains: Specimens of the mid-to-late 1800s Herman Esser types were collector's items for the longest time. Between 1910 and 1925, Esser specimens was a craze of almost the same magnitude that comic books were in the 1980s. George Abrahms, a book and old typography collector from New York City, made a fortune from auctioning off his Esser collection. All of Esser's art vanished for a bit more than a decade after World War II came to a stop, and the majority of it never saw the light again. Much of it was burnt among Nazi propaganda material (the 1800s artist's name was the same as that of the Nazi secretary of state during the 1940s, so all of the Esser art found in Germany after WWII was mistakenly attributed to the Nazi Esser as opposed to the true originator of almost half a century prior to the war -- much like most of the watercolour paintings made by an artist named Adolf Hitler were mistakenly burned because they were thought to have been the work of the Nazi leader). In the late 1950s, there was a revival of typogpraphy specimen publications, caused by some, according to certain circles, inexplicable demand for "more than the standards defined by Jannon, Bodoni, Goudy, Gill, and their heritage" (Influence of Symbolism, by Frank P. Marshall, p. 186). The wave that started in 1957 with the re-publication of a few George Bickham sample calligraphy books continues to this present day. Specimen books are quite popular among typography and calligraphy enthusiasts, as well as more expensive than most other genres of publication relation to design in general. The only Herman Esser type that can be seen in any of the specimen books published during the past 55 years is called Rustic, and it consists of the capital alphabet made out of burned trees. One can speculate about how Rustic escaped the Nazi propaganda burnings, and how an originating date was attributed to it, but aside from a few theories out there, no "official" answer was reached. Rustic is still as starkly mysterious now as it may have been in 1878. Nero is an attempt at reviving Rustic and completing Esser's work. Esser's 25 capitals (he never did a J for Rustic) was turned into a typeface of more than 200 characters. Due to postscript limitations about the number of points in each glyph, only a true type version was produced.

    David Nalle revived Esser's Belphebe (1998, Scriptorium). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hermann Zehnpfundt

    German type designer at Emil Gursch in Berlin. His creations include

    • Alt-Motive (H. Berthold AG).
    • Grandezza I and Grandezza II (1904, Emil Gursch). Blackletter.
    • Industria (1910, Emil Gursch). These weights appeared in subsequent years: Halbfett (1910), Zephyr (1913, aka Ronsard), Zart (1913), Fett (1913), Gravur (1920), Schwer (1922). Schwer and Gravur were published by H. Berthold AG. Industria is a celebrated grotesk designed for ads. It was revived in 2015 by Mattox Shuler as Termina. See also Ronsard Crystal in 2009 by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir, or OPTI Ronsard Crystal by Castcraft.
    • Journal Kursiv (1913) and Antiqua (1912) at Emil Gursch. See also Zirkular Kursiv.
    • Kavalier (1910, Emil Gursch). Inline caps.
    • Probat Ornamente (1909, Emil Gursch).
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    Hersh Jacob

    Illuminated alphabet by Hersh Jacob (2000) from Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario. The letters are in GIF format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hey Zinesters

    London-based graphic designer who created a multicolor initial caps alphabet in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    HiH (Hand in Hand)
    [Tom Wallace]

    Tom Wallace's foundry, HiH (est. 2005), was first located in Woodbridge, CT. Subsequently, Tom Wallace (b. 1944) moved from Woodbridge to Naugatuck to Waterbury and finally in 2009 to New Britain, CT. His type designs are based on historical letterforms:

    • Augsburger Initialen and Augsburger Schrift (2001), an art nouveau pair found in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Treasury of authentic art nouveau alphabets, decorative initials, monograms, frames and ornaments (1984, Dover). Augsburger Schrift is originally due to Peter Schnorr (1901, Berthold). In 2007, Wallace added Augsburger Ornamente.
    • Figgins Tuscan (2005) is based on the first metal Tuscan typeface by Figgins in 1817.
    • Freak, based on Bamboo (1889, The Great Western Type Foundry). HiH explains: Great Western became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1868. At some point, prior to 1925, Freak was renamed Bamboo by BB&S. It was delisted when BB&S was absorbed by ATF in 1929. Compare with Dan Solo's Bamboo (2004).
    • Gradl Initialen (2005): based on caps designed by Max Joseph Gradl ca. 1900 for engraving on his art nouveau jewelry in Germany. Samples are in Petzendorfer.
    • Huxley Alt (2005), an alternative to the ultra-condensed Lutherian church font Huxley Vertical (or Aldous Vertical) by Walter Huxley (ATF). Huxley Amore (2006) is a major extension of this, and Huxley Cyrillic (2008) adds Russian characters.
    • Künstler Grotesk (2005): a simple blackletter caps typeface based on a design seen in Petzendorfer's book.
    • Page No. 508 (2006): Page No. 508 was designed by William H. Page in 1887 as one of a series of designs for die-cut wood types for the firm of Page & Setchell of Norwich, CT. Page & Setchell was the successor to The William H. Page Wood Type Company and was sold to the Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1891.
    • Pekin (2005): first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 at the Great Western Foundry under the name Dormer.
    • Schnorr Dekorativ, Demi Bold and Initialen (2007), all due to Peter Schnorr (ca. 1900), as well as Schnorr Gestreckt (2006), an art nouveau typeface from 1898.
    • Rundgotisch (2005): based on a design by Schelter and Giesecke, ca. 1900.
    • Edison (2005) is based on Edison Swirl SG, a Spiece Graphics digitization of a late 18-th century design of the Bauersche Giesserei.
    • Bethlehem Star (2005) is based on the typeface Accent with the permission of URW++: HiH only added stars to the glyphs.
    • Antique Tuscan No. 9 (2006). One of the earlier wood-type designs by William Hamilton Page. It was first shown among the specimens produced in 1859, shortly after Page entered into a new partnership with Samuel Mowry, owner of the Mowry Axle Company. Antique Tuscan No.9 is an extra-condensed version of the tuscan style that had been released in moveable type by Vincent Figgins of London in 1817.
    • Secession (2006): a sans family with art nouveau twists.
    • French Plug (2007): A sign painters font based upon work of Frank H. Atkinson, a popular Art Nouveau sign painter in Chicago, who worked for Cadillac, and published Sign Painting in 1908.
    • T-Hand Monoline (2007): a printed script family.
    • Figgins Antique (2007): an all-caps black slab serif headline typeface based on Figgins, ca. 1815.
    • Mulier Moderne (2007): Based on a font designed ca. 1894 by E. Mulier, a French art nouveau era artist.
    • Regina Cursiv (2007): an art nouveau design that revives a typeface published by H. Berthold Messinglinienfabrik und Schriftgiesserei around 1895.
    • Edelgotisch (2007): a bold Jugendstil design (with caps), based on a design released by Schelter & Giesecke of Leipzig, Germany about 1898 and is very similar to Eckmann-Schrift released by Rudhard'schen Giesserei (later Klingspor) during the same period.
    • Teutonia (2007), a revival of Teutonia by Roos & Junge, a squarish art nouveau face. HiH writes: There are many quite similar attempts in the field of topography. In 1883, Baltimore Type Foundry released its Geometric series. In 1910, Geza Farago in Budapest used a similar letter design on a Tungsram light bulb poster. In 1919 Theo van Doesburg, a founder with Mondrian and others of the De Stijl movement, designed an alphabet using rectangles only -- no diagonals. In 1923, Joost Schmidt at Bauhaus in Weimar took the same approach for a Constructivist exhibit poster. The 1996 Agfatype Collection catalog lists a Geometric in light, bold and italic that is very close to the old Baltimore version. And in 2008, HiH itself published Baltimore Geometric.
    • Austin Antique, based on Richard Austin's 1827 antique typeface.
    • Morris Gothic, Morris Ornaments and Morris Initials One and Two (2007): The gothic that Morris designed was first used by his Kelmscott Press for the publication of the Historyes Of Troye in 1892. It was called Troy Type and was cut at 18 points by Edward Prince. It was also used for The Tale of Beowulf. The typeface was re-cut in at 12 points and called Chaucer Type for use in The Order of Chivalry and The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Morris' objective is designing his gothic was to preserve the color and presence of his sources, but to create letters that were more readable to the English eye. ATF copied Troy and called it Satanick. Not only was the ATF version popular in the United States; but, interestingly, sold very well in Germany. There was great interest in that country in finding a middle ground between blackletter and roman styles -- one that was comfortable for a wider readership. The Morris design was considered one of the more successful solutions.
    • Larisch (2007): a hand-lettered design by the Austrian calligrapher and teacher, Rudolf von Larisch. The original was used for the title page of the 1903 edition of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift Examples of Artistic Writing).
    • Patent Reclame (2007): an art nouveau typeface first cast around 1895 by Schriftgeisserei Flinsch, and then by Stephenson Blake, ca. 1896.
    • Jugendstil Initials (2007): an all caps decorative blackletter typeface designed by Heinrich Vogeler around 1905.
    • Wedding (2007): a multi-style English blackletter family, based on a Morris Fuller Benton original called Wedding Text.
    • Brass (2007): two blackletter typefaces from the early 1500s described by Alexander Nesbitt in his Decorative Alphabets And Initials (Mineola, NY, 1959) as initials and stop ornaments from brasses in Westminster Abbey.
    • Auchentaller (2007), a monoline art nouveau typeface inspired by a travel poster by Josef Maria Auchentaller (b. Vienna, 1865, d. Grado, 1949; studied at the Vienna Academy, professor in Munich, member of the secession from 1898, artist) in 1906.
    • Phinney Jenson (2007): a Venetian by Nicolas Jenson from the 15th century, about which Wallace writes: In 1890 a leader of the Arts & Crafts movement in England named William Morris founded Kelmscott Press. He was an admirer of Jensons Roman and drew his own somewhat darker version called Golden, which he used for the hand-printing of limited editions on homemade paper, initiating the revival of fine printing in England. Morris' efforts came to the attention of Joseph Warren Phinney, manager of the Dickinson Type Foundry of Boston. Phinney requested permission to issue a commercial version, but Morris was philosophically opposed and flatly refused. So Phinney designed a commercial variation of Golden type and released it in 1893 as Jenson Oldstyle. Phinney Jenson is our version of Phinneys version of Morris' version of Nicolas Jensons Roman.
    • Advertisers Gothic (2008): based on Robert Wiebking's tasteless 1917 design for Western Type foundry. HiH writes: Advertisers Gothic is bold and brash, like the city it comes from, Chicago. It was designed by the accomplished German-American matrix engraver, Robert Wiebking, for the Western Type Foundry in 1917. As its name suggests, it was designed for commercial headliner work, much as Publicity Gothic by Sidney Gaunt for BB&S the year before. See our Publicity Headline.
    • Publicity Headline (2006): an allcaps version of Sidney Gaunt's advertising typeface, Publicity Gothic (1916, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler). Its heavy weight and robust strength allows it to be used against complex backgrounds or reversed out on dark backgrounds without getting lost.
    • Herold (2008): a revival of Berthold Herold Reklameschrift BQ (Hermann Hoffmann, 1901), an art nouveau advertising typeface.
    • Yes Dear (2008) is a funny hyper-curly blackletter face.
    • Besley Clarendon (2008) is the HiH version of the Clarendon registered by Robert Besley and the Fann Street Foundry in 1845. This condensed typeface was very popular in the 19th century, and was copied by most foundries of that era. It was followed by Gutta Percha (2008), a Clarendon in which the upper case letters are dropcaps.
    • Waltari (2008): a revival of Walthari (1899, Heinz König for the Rudhardsche Giesserei), a Jugendstil type.
    • Hispania Script (2008): revival of a pirate map script typeface called Sylphide by Schelter & Giesecke (1896) (and not Schelter & Giesecke's Hispania).
    • Cloudy Day (2008), an alphading.
    • HiH stumbled on a 1902 publication by Bruno Seuchter called Die Fäche, in which he found the art nouveau typeface that HiH revived in 2008 as Seuchter Experimental.
    • Petrarka ML (2006). HiH writes: Petrarka may be described as a Condensed, Sans-Serif, Semi-Fatface Roman. Huh? Bear with me on this. The Fatface is a name given to the popular nineteenth-century romans that where characterized by an extremity of contrast between the thick and thin stroke. The earliest example that is generally familiar is Thorowgood, believed to have been designed by Robert Thorne and released by Thorowgood Foundry in 1820 as "Five-line Pica No. 5." Copied by many foundries, it became one of the more popular advertising types of the day. Later, in the period from about 1890 to 1950, you find a number of typeface designs with the thin stroke beefed up a bit, not quite so extreme. What you might call Semi-Fatfaced Romans begin to replace the extreme Fatfaces. Serifed designs like Bauer's Bernard Roman Extra Bold and ATF's Bold Antique appear. In addition, we see the development of semi-fatface lineals or Sans-Serif Semi-Fatfaces. Examples include Britannic (1906, Stephenson Blake), Chambord Bold (Olive), Koloss (Ludwig & Mayer), Matthews (ATF) and Radiant Heavy (Ludlow). Petrarka has much in common with this latter group, but is distinguished by two salient features: it is condensed and it shows a strong blackletter influence, as seen in the H particularly. See also Nick Curtis's Petrushka NF (2012). Footnote: Fonts in Use refer to the metal typeface Petrarka by Schelter & Giesecke (1900) and Milton (by Societa Augusta). The Solotype catalog has a related typeface, Ophelia.
    • Haunted House (2008), Halloween-themed fonts.
    • Gothic Tuscan One (2008) is an all-caps condensed gothic with round terminals and decorative Tuscan center spurs. It was first shown by William H. Page of Norwich, CT, among his wood type specimen pages of 1859.
    • HiH Firmin Didot (2008) is a one-style didone based on an 1801 version of Didot. It led to a combined alphabet/stick people alphading called Gens de Baton (2008) after a lower case alphabet that appeared in the Almanach des Enfants pour 1886 (Paris, 1886) under the title Amusing Grammar Lessons.
    • Shout (2008), a Compacta-like fat headline sans about which HiH writes: Its lineage includes the Haas Type Foundrys 19th century advertising font, Kompakte Grotesk, which Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) dryly described as extended sans serif and which graphic designer Roland Holst (1868-1938) would have disapprovingly referred to as a shout, as opposed to the quiet presentation of information that he believed was the proper function of advertising. In 1963 Letraset released what appears to be an updated variation in multiple weights designed by Frederick Lambert called Compacta. Shout draws heavily on Compacta, as well as other similar fonts of the 50s and 60s like Eurostile Bold Condensed and Permanent Headline. In weight, it falls about halfway between Compacta Bold and Compacta Black.
    • The heavy art deco typefaces Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed (2008) are based on a 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster designed by Anthonius Guthschmidt. The poster draws on the imagery of the legend The Flying Dutchman.
    • Cherub and Cherub Caps (2008) are based on Phinney Jenson. Not to be confused with the many fonts that already existed with that name, such as Cherub from House of Lime, Twopeas, Graph Edge Fonts, and Fuelfonts.
    • HiH Large (2009) is a poster sans.
    • Mira (2009) is an art nouveau / Victorian typeface patterned after a font by the Roos & Junge Foundry in Offenbach, ca. 1902.
    • Thorowgood Sans (2009): A three-dimensional all-cap font for title use, Thorowgood Sans Shaded was released by the Fann Street Foundry of W. Thorowgood & Co. in 1839. Interestingly, it more closely resembles Figgins' Four-Line Emerald Sans-Serif Shaded of 1833 than Fann Street's own Grotesque Shaded of 1834 (with light and shadow reversed).
    • Fantastic ML (2009): an art nouveau typeface originally released as "Modern Style" by Fonderie G. Peignot & Fils, Paris, France some time before 1903.
    • Gundrada ML (2010): a medieval style typeface inspired by the lettering on the tomb of Gundrada de Warenne, who was buried at Southover Church at Lewes, Sussex, in the south of England in 1085.
    • Wedge Gothic (2010). HiH writes: Wedge Gothic ML is the original name of this font released by Barnhart Bros. and Spindler of Chicago in 1893. [...] The typeface was dropped for awhile -- it does not appear in the 1907 catalog for example -- but reappeared in 1925 as Japanette. McGrew says that the new name was Japanet. It was recast by ATF in 1954.
    • Norwich Aldine ML (2010) is an all caps typeface with enlarged serifs, designed and produced in wood by William H. Page of Norwich, CT in 1872.
    • Rodchenko Constructed ML (2010) is constructivist (Latin and Cyrillic).
    • Cruickshank ML (2012): a decorative typeface from the late Victorian period. The typeface was designed by William W. Jackson and released by MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Type Foundry of Samson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1886.
    • Habana Deco ML (2013).
    • Chicago Ornaments (2015). a collection of decorative cuts cast by the Chicago Type Foundry of Marder, Luse & Co. of Monroe Street in Chicago, Illinois. This collection was shown in their 1890 catalog. Some of them were designed by William F. Capitain. Included in the font are a set of Victorian caps inspired by Ernst Lauschke's Dormer (or Pekin, 1888).

    View Tom Wallace's fonts. View the typefaces designed by Tom Wallace. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hio Massaguer

    Hio Massaguer (b. 1983, Girona) is a graphic designer in Barcelona. He made the ornamental caps typeface Bones (2012).

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    HMF (or: HandMadeFont)
    [Vladimir Loginov]

    Foundry in Tallinn, Estonia, est. 2008 by Vladimir and Maksim Loginov. Home page. A prime example of their vector craft is Vectorillo (2011), a delicate thread-themed face.

    In 2012, many were added, including HMF Marzipan, HMF Hulk, and HMF Read More Books (dadaist). Tens more were added in subsequent years, includiung Pen Line (2016) and Blueberries (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hoang Duc Nguyen

    Hanoi-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Maori Tattoo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hoatzin Designs
    [A.M. Mudasir]

    Islamabad, Pakistan-based designer of the free decorative colored caps and bird silhouette font Birda (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hohyeon Son

    Seoul-based designer who created the caps typeface Music Instrument Font (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Holger Peter Sandhofe
    [Bund für Liturgie und Gregorianik]

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    Holger Seeling

    Designer of Pleasure Bold Shaded (1987, ITC: a shaded all caps outline face).

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    Hollie Edwards

    During her graphic design studies at Atrium University in Cardiff, Wales, Hollie Edwards designed the ornamental caps typeface The Captain Is A Storyteller (2012). She also created an unnamed experimental typeface in 2012. Her company is called Hollie Amelia Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Holly Bloomfield

    During her studies in London, Holly Bloomfield created the alchemic caps typeface Final Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Holly Dennis

    FontStructor who made Bones (2011), a great caps face, as well as Badger Spine (2011). It is almost unbelievable that this amount of detail could be achieved in FontStruct. Holly is a graphic design student at the University of Western England in Bristol. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hongkit Toh

    Singapore-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Typoetry (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Honoré Daumier

    French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, b. Marseille, 1808-1879. He was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen. Designer of Alphabet Comique (1836). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hope Aylen

    Graphic Communication student at UCA Farnham, UK. She designed the anti-smoking typeface Stub Out Your Addiction (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Horae ad ursum Parisiensem

    Medieval capitals designed in 1475. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    House of Lime
    [Merethe Liljedahl]

    Defunct type foundry that had free original dingbats, alphadings and fonts, mostly from scanned art by Merethe Liljedahl (House of Lime) in Landskrona, Sweden.

    The font list: Abstract, Africa, African Design, African Eggs, AfricanPattern, AlphaRemember, AlphaSausage, AlphaThin, AmishQuilts, AngelsFairies, Angelsaroundtheworld, AngloText, Animal, AnimalDesign, AntiqueStuff, AntiqueStuffII, AroundSports, Aroundthehouse, ArtDecoMotif, ArtNouveauBild, ArtNouveauBlume, ArtNouveauFlowers, ArtNouveauFramesandBorders, ArtNouveauInitials (2001), ArtNouveauInitialsA, ArtNouveauInitialsB, ArtNouveauInitialsC, AsianArt, AsianArtII, BOO, BabyTime, BackToSchool (2000, pencil-themed face), Bagsandstuff, BagsandstuffII, Balloons, Baseball, Big Lou (2003, art deco), BirdStencilDesign, BirdStencilDesignII, Birdies, Bzzy (2004, alphadings), Books, Butterflies, Buttons (2006), Calender, CamelotCaps (2000), CarstensOwls, Cats, CelticElements, CelticElementsII, CelticMotif, Celtics, Cherub, CheshireInitials (2001), Chiseled (2006), ChristmasTime, ChristmasWreath, ChubbyDotty, ChubbyTrail, Cornerflair (2002), CrayolaKiddyFont, Curly Fleur Caps, DBLCeltic, DBLCorners, DBLFacesfromthepast, DBLFlowerDelight, DBLMedievalDesign, DancerInTheDark, DancerInTheDarkII, DancerInTheDarkIII, DecorativeOrnamental, Decorette, Decorina (2001), DesignMotif, DesignerCorners, DesignerCorners, DesignerDing, DesignerDividers, DesignerFrames, DesignerFramesTwo, DesignerMix, DesignerMixII, DesignerMixed, DesignerMotifs, DesignerMotifsThree, DesignerMotifsTwo, DesignerPlus, DesignerStuff, Dividers, DividersTwo, DoggyBag, DogsandCats, Dolphins, Dot Trail (2002), DoverChineseMotifDesign, DoverFloral, DoverFloralandDesignII, DoverJapaneseDesign, Dragons, Durbin Initials (2009), EasterBunny, EasterHoppy, EasterTime, EatingOut, Egypt, ElectionTime (2000), Elegance, EvelynsHeart, EvsDragons, ExtraOrnamentalNo2, FaceofaLady, Faces2Faces, FacesOfTheCentury, Faith, Fans, Fashion, FashionLadies, FleurCornerCaps (2000), FloralDesign, FloralStencilDesign, FloridVictorianOrnament, FlowerandFairyAlphabet, Folklore, FolkloreII, Fontanesi, Framed, Frames, FramesAndBorders, FramesAndBordersII, FramesAndBordersIII, FramesandBackgrounds, FramesandHeaders, Fromthegarden, Fruityandveggie, Furballs, GailsUnicorn, GardenTime, Geisha, Genzsch Initials, GermanCaps, GothicCornerCaps, GothicFlourish, GrafikText, GuinevereCaps, HalloweenKiddyFont, Hats, HatsII, HatsIII, HatsIV, HatsV, HeartsofLime, Heraldics, Horses, Houses, HousesII, Howling, Iconettes, Inmygarden, Inyourgarden, Itsserved, Jars, JustFrames, KarensKitties, KeyasTurtles, KiddyDing, KiddyFlakey (2002), KiddyFrames, KiddyHalloween, KiddyToys, KidsAlphabet, KittytheCat, Ladiesofthe20s, Leaves, LimeBlossomCaps (1999), LimeGloryCaps (2000), LisasDragons, LittleHeroes, LizsGibsonGirls, LovePoision, Maskes, MedievalAlphabet (2000), MedievalMotif, MedievalMotifTwo, MexicanMotif, MirrorImage, MosaicCaps (2000), Motif, Mousie (2000, alphadings), MoyrasParrots, Music For Your Ears (2006), MutansII, Mutants, Mythical, NavyBlues (2000, white on black buttons), OldFashionedIllus, OldFloralIllustration, OldFolksShuffle (2000), Onthefarm, OrientalDesign, OrientalIcons, OrientalIconsII, OrientalIconsIII, OrientalIconsIV, OrientalView, OrnamentalCorners, OrnamentalDecoration, OrnamentalDecorationII, OrnamentalElements, OrnamentalElementsII, OrnamentalFramesI, OrnamentalInitialsA, OrnamentalInitialsB, OrnamentalInitialsC, OrnamentalInitialsD, OrnamentalInitialsE, OrnamentalInitialsF, OrnamentalInitialsG, OrnamentalInitialsH, OrnamentalInitialsI, OrnamentalInitialsJ, OrnamentalInitialsK, OrnamentalInitialsL, OrnamentalInitialsM, OrnamentalInitialsN, OrnamentalInitialsO, OrnamentalInitialsP, OrnamentalInitialsQ, OrnamentalInitialsR, OrnamentalInitialsS, OrnamentalInitialsT, OrnamentalInitialsU, OrnamentalInitialsV, OrnamentalInitialsW, OrnamentalInitialsX, OrnamentalInitialsY, OrnamentalInitialsZ, OutOfAfrica (2000), Paisley, Paisley Caps, PaisleyII, Party (2004, Mexican simulation face), Pentagon (2003, Western face), PhilliBoo, PokemonKiddyDing, Retro Elite (2003, art deco), RibbonCaps, Rose, Rosegarden, Scary, Scary House, Scrapper's Arrows, ScrappersCorner, ScrappersElements, ScrappersElementsII, ScrappersElementsIII, ScrappersElementsIV, ScrappersElementsV, ScrappersKeys, ScrappersStencil, ScrappingDoodles, Scream, Sealife, September11, Shaking Salsa, Ships, SimplyFriends, Skeleton, Smelly, SomeoneSpecial, Spiders (2001), SplatterCaps, Spooky, Sporty (2004), Spring (2003, Victorian ornamental typeface), Square Frame (2006), Stamped Flowers, Starlite, Stars, Stencil, StripesCaps (2000), SugarFootStrut, Sun and Moon, Sunflowers, Sunny Days (2004), SunshineKiddyFont, Tattoo, TheGoddess, ThePerfectMan, ThemeCorners, TiffanyCorners, TiffanyCornersII, TiffanyCornersIII, Tiles, Tools, TraditionalFloralDesign, TraditionalFloralDesignII, TraditionalFloralDesignIII, Trapeze (2004), TreasuryofDesign, Treesandleaves, Tulips, TylersPokemon (2000), UncasWomen, Valentine, VictorianWindow, Wedding, Wildflower, WildflowerII, WildflowerIII, WildflowerIV, YesterdaysBeauty, YourSign, Yummi, Zodiac.

    Designer Menues (commercial dings, 2001). In 2006, these commercial dings: Scrapping Corners, Scrappers Fills. Direct access to the dingbats. Direct access to fonts.

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

    Howard Pyle

    Howard Pyle was one of the most renowned illustrators of the 19th century. His work was widely published in adventure novels, magazines and romances. He was the founder of the Brandywine school and artists colony in Chadd's Ford (Pennsylvania), where he taught artists like N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover and Thornton Oakley their craft. Scriptorium's Pyle collection includes a selection of fonts based on Pyle's original lettering, such as Pyle Gothic (based on his black letter style from Arthurian works), Courthand (based on the lettering in his Lady of Shalott), Buccaneer (from his pirate lettering) and Pyle Initials (a set of his decorative initials). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hugh van der Lande

    During his studies at London College of Communications, Hugh van der Lande designed the colorful geometric solid typeface Brixton Village (2016) and the chromatic typeface Hacker (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hugo Kornyeli

    Graphic designer who during his studies in Lille, France, designed the decorative all caps Rodent alphabet (2016), the angular display typeface Majestik (2016), and the art deco typeface Festival de Dour (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Human Alphabets

    Slideshare pages on the topic of human alphabets. Collected by Sotirios Raptis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Human figures, stick figures

    "Char@cter" suggests the following fonts for letters made to resemble humans:

    • apicturefont (Colonial figures with Caslon-Open style letters)
    • arbitre (A whistle-blowing referee)
    • armyboy (All identical soldiers with a simple superimposed letter)
    • BadCabbageICG-Primal (Elongated stick figures)
    • bizarro (It's ..errr.. well, its ummm ... bizarre)
    • CG Victorian Silhouette (People doing various things)
    • Chlorinuh (Think of the Pilsbury Doughboy in a swimming pool)
    • EDBindia (Puffy letters with eyes, wearing a feather headdress)
    • EDBsweatingIt (Puffy people-letters exercising)
    • FuzzyCootie (Sans-serif outline font with female silhouettes)
    • getagrip (Letters made up of arms holding each other's wrists)
    • GroovyGhosties (Cartoony ghosts - the covered-with-a-sheet kind)
    • Groupsex (Suggestive - Stick people in compromising positions)
    • KiddoTRT (Children Playing)
    • Kilroys (Like the WWII Kilroy Was Here)
    • LittleBallerina (Normal letters with a ballerina nearby)
    • PointerCaps (Each letter has a pointing hand)
    • Rad (People in exercise positions)
    • StickLetter (Stick people)
    • stripletter (Black letters with outline nudes superimposed)
    • Vintage Erotique (Elaborate and just what it says)
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hunt Brothers
    [Walter Bernard "Ben" Hunt]

    Walter Bernard "Ben" Hunt (b. 1888, Greenfield, WI, d. 1970) was an American artist, outdoor educator and author. His books covered native American arts, woodworking, scouting, pioneering, jewelry making, metalworking, and calligraphy. Quoting wikipedia: Hunt was born in Greenfield, Wisconsin and grew up in a log cabin. He attended Milwaukee's South Division High School, but did not graduate, dropping out to become lithographic engraver at the Bruce Publishing Company. Hunt moved to Hales Corners, Wisconsin with his wife, Laura, in 1920. In 1924, Hunt, along with his father-in-law and his brother, Edwin C. Hunt, built a log cabin behind his home. The cabin, a 16x28-foot structure, made of tamarack logs, was the subject of Hunt's first article, How We Built Our Log Cabin. During the late 1930s, Hunt began to study the work of Native American artists. As part of his research, Hunt met with artists and leaders such as Nick Black Elk, Frank Smart (or Chief Gogeoweosh), and James F. "Buck" Burshears. Hunt shared his knowledge of "Indian lore" with Milwaukee's boy scout leaders and, in 1942, Hunt started writing articles for Boy's Life. He became a regular member of its staff, ultimately writing over 1,000 articles. Hunt's work for Boy's Life, led him to serve on the staff of the National Boy Scout Jamboree in 1950, 1953, 1957, and 1960.

    Edwin and Ben Hunt published Fifty Alphabets (1931), Lettering of Today (1935, revised in 1941), 60 Alphabets (1935, Bruce Publishing), and 101 Alphabets (1954, 1958). Several digital typefaces resulted from those publications. Grouped by type designer:

    • Pablo Mateu: HFF Hunts Deco (2012). Based on an alphabet designed by the Hunt Brothers in Lettering of Today.
    • Nick Curtis: Moonshine Script NF (2004). A casual connected script patterned based on 60 Alphabets (Hunt Brothers, Bruce Publishing, 1935).
    • Dick Pape created 11 fonts in 2012 that are based on 101 Alphabets, all named HuntBros101Plate followed by a plate number. Plate 02 is a Trajan typeface. Plate 5 is a Trajan face. Plate 6 is an art nouveau face. Plate 7 is a flared caps typeface. Plate 10 is a textured poster typeface. Plate 11 is an ornamental caps face. Plate 13 is a condensed caps face. Plate 14 could be considered as a Mexican vernicular typeface. Plate 18 is an antique italic face. Plate 25 is an upright script. Plate 26 Brush is fifties brush signage at its best. Plate 29 (octagonal), Plate 46 (Celtic), Plate 52 (German expressionist), Plate 54 Blackletter, Plate 56 (Lombardic), Plate 62 (uncial), Plate 63 Script, Plate 65 (Victorian ornamental caps), Plate 66 (Western typeface), Plate 74 (Mexican fiesta font), Plate 68 (Arabic simulation), Plate 71, Plate 76 (architectural lettering), Plate 77 (inline caps) and Plate 83 (stencil face) complete the collection.

    Download some typefaces based on the latter publication. Flickr site sith images of 101 Alphabets, courtesy of Diane Zerr. Local download of 101 Alphabets. Download link for Pape's typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Huong Duong

    During her graphic design student at FPT University in Can Tho, Vietnam, Huong Duong drew Yoga Alphabet (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    HVD Fonts
    [Hannes von Döhren]

    Hannes von Döhren (b. 1979, Berlin) is a Berlin-based designer (b. 1979). His foundry is HVD Fonts. He started out with free handwriting and grunge fonts such as HVD Comic Serif Pro (2009, an alternative to Comic Sans, according to HVD), The Subway Types (2009, a graffiti family: Shik (New York), Deon (Paris) and Etan (Berlin) came together to show the typical tag styles of their respective metropolitan areas. The fonts were digitized, spaced, kerned and programmed by Hannes von Döhren).

    Later he went commercial, first at T-26, and then under his own label, HVD Fonts. His typefaces: Shelton (2008, T-26), HVD Peace (2008, an army stencil font), HVD Comic Serif (2007, a serifed spoof on Comic Sans), HVD Rowdy (2007), HVDSpencils-Block (2007, stencil), HVDSpencils (2007, stencil), HVD Steinzeit (2005), HVD Edding 780, HVD Rawcut (2005), HVD Age 11 (2006), HVD Shelton (2008, T-26: wood type grunge), HVD Bodedo (2009, potato-Bodoni lettering), Quench Pro (2008, Linotype), HVD Peace (2008), and HVD Poster (2006, grunge).

    Typefaces made in 2009: Grandma (great hand-printed style---move over, Comic Sans), Christmas Dingbats, ITC Chino (a soft-edged signage and sans family, done with Livius Dietzel), Klint (sans family, +Rounded), Brevia (a soft sans in seven styles), Cowboyslang (a Western slab serif family), Embryo (superblack), Embryo Open, and Opal, a classy old style text family with tall ascenders. Bumper (2009) is an ultra-black sans family in a style related to Impact.

    Typefaces from 2010: FF Basic Gothic (a grotesk family done with Livius Dietzel), Reklame Script, Shelton (grunge), Blow Up is a fat balloon font. His masterpiece of 2010 and perhaps of his career thus far is the Brandon Grotesque family that relives the 20s and 30s. [A year after I wrote the previous sentence, Brandon Grotesque won an award at TDC2 2011, and all during 2011, it was the most sold typeface at MyFonts. It was followed in 2018 by Brandon Grotesque Condensed.] Livory (2010, with Livius Dietzel) is a rounded serif type family of four fonts influenced by the French Renaissance Antiquas from the 16th century.

    Production in 2011: Brix Slab (2011, with Livius Dietzel), Brix Slab Condensed (2011, with Livius Dietzel:(24 styles in all), Pluto (16-style semi-scriptish sans family, +Italics), Cheap Pine (a wood type caps family), Supria Sans (free web font family; +Black). Together with Supria Sans Condensed, this 36-style family is a basic sans workhorse. It won an award at TDC2 2011.

    Typefaces from 2012: Shelton Slab (eroded wood type or dirty letterpress look), Diamonds (geometric caps only family), Pluto Sans, Love Potion No. 10.

    Typefaces from 2013: Embryo Tiny, Niveau Serif (an engravers / copperplate style typeface), Niveau Grotesk, Mikado (signage family for games, food and advertising with a lot of genetic material from Brandon Grotesque: Mikado Bold Demo is free), Brandon Text (similar to, but with a higher x-height and more rounded corners than Brandon Grotesque, it is more appropriate for long texts and small print), FF Mark (together with Christoph Koeberlin and the FontFont team: this font is marketed as Ze new Germanetric sans; one weight is free).

    Typefaces from 2014: Brix Sans (2014, created using precisely engineered glyphs for corporate or information design; with Livius Dietzel), Brandon Printed (a caps-only letterpress version of Brandon Grotesque).

    Typefaces from 2015: Brandon Grotesque Office (screen-optimized; specially designed for Microsoft Office applications, it has 4 styles), Brandon Text Office (also made for Microsoft Office applications), Goodlife (a hand-lettered collection, consisting of Brush, Sans, Script, and Serif styles), Americane Condensed and Americane (based on American wood types).

    In 2016, Christian Koeberlin designed Fabrikat, which had creative input of Hannes von Döhren. This simple geometric sans serif family is based on the DIN style used in the 20th century by German engineers. It has a plain and precise appearance, and is a textbook example of a compass-and-ruler typeface. The monospaced almost-typewriter version Fabrikat Mono followed in 2017.

    Typefaces from 2018: Giulia (a creamy cutesy baby shampoo font family).

    Typefaces from 2020: Brandon Text Condensed (in 12 styles), Bouba Round (a round sans family for small devices and wayfinding), Fabrikat Normal.

    Typefaces from 2021: Palast (Text, Display, Poster; with Bernd Volmer).

    Abstract Fonts link. Another URL. Font Squirrel link. I Love Typography link. Fontsy link. View Hannes von Döhren's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    HypoTypo

    HypoTypo (real name: Walter J. P.) is the designer in 2002-2004 of several ornamental fonts, which he showcased via alt.binaries.fonts.

    His typefaces: Amber'Shadowed', AnnabelleJF'LessItalic', AntiqueThings-01, AridiRenaissanceCaps, Asphalt'Wicker', Bauhaus'StainedGlass'-Heavy, BigRigs, Centurnalus'Deluxe', ChurchText'Replicant', ChurchText'Shaded' (blackletter), Coventree'Deluxe', CupieDoll, CupieDoll Buckshot (2004), Dantium'Tracing', FearFactor'3D', FearFactor'SmallCaps', FearFactor, FearFactorBlack, FearFactorText, Florence'Striped', Florence'Stripped', FuturexRoughlySliced, GillSans'MonkeyBars'-UltraBold, Gramius Blizzard (snow-cover alphabet), Gramius'ChromeDeco', Gramius'StainedGlass', GreatPrimerUncials'SnowBound', Guppulla'RoughlySliced', HopScotch'Denim', HopScotch'ElectricEddie', Kreepshow'Frigid', Lancastershire (2004), Licinia'Aged' (2003: weathered), Licktenstein'Chromed', Malaki'Continuum', Malaki'Deluxe', Metilius'BongoWood', Metilius'LeadedGlass', Metilius'PopCulture', Modius'Frigid', NewYorkTimes, Oleander'RoyalTablets', Oleander'StainedGlass', Ornam-oodles-01, PhoenixScriptUpr'Shadowed', PhoenixScriptUpright, Plautius'Branded', Plautius'LeadedGlass', Plautius'Rugged', Point-Dexter, Puffy'SandStone', Quintus'StainedCameo', QuintusLeadedGlass, Rocillius'QuickSilver', RocilliusBlack'Arson', Sintex'3D'UltraBlack, SkuareNot'BongoWood', Snoilies-01, Snoilies-02, Tekton'WhiteOnBlack', Timrombo'Erroded-DoubleVision'-Tall, VehicleDecals'Flames&Art', WoodsWorld'Deluxe', WoodsWorld'LeadedGlass', WoodsWorld'Melting', WoodsWorld'Quilted', WoodsWorld'StainedGlass', Auriol 'Shaded' Black (posted 09-02-2002), Bauhaus 'Shaded' Heavy (posted 09-19-2002), Bauhaus 'StainedGlass' Heavy (posted 10-23-2002), Bauhaus 'Textile' Heavy (posted 09-14-2002), Broadway 'Corroded' (posted 09-19-2002), Cooper 'Chromed' Heavy (posted 10-22-2002), Kid Type 'Flintstones' (posted 10-17-2002), Zapf 'SnowBound' Heavy (posted 10-19-2002), Zapf Int'l 'BubbleWrap' Heavy (posted 10-06-2002), LocusDelecti'Sibylline', SkuareNot'PlankYou', SkuareNot'Waveform', TexasWilly'Tracing', Half SunBurst-w4-01 (2003), Half SunBurst-w4-02 (2003), Half SunBurst-w4-03 (2003), NurfStar 'Shaded' (2003), StarBurst-w4-01 (2003), HavingWrit, IceCrystals-01'Continuum', IceCrystals-01'Impressions', IceCrystals-01 (snowflakes), PictoGlyphs, PlymouthRock'SnowDusted', Santa'sSleighFull-Bold, Santa'sSleighFull (a silent movie / art nouveau font), Zoophel (2003), Monika'Engraved'-Italic, Monika'Upright', Monika-Italic (2003), DotsType (Regular and 'OnFilm'), Hearts-O-Plenty, PinWheel, SchoolsOut, ButterCream'Tracing' (2004), Bartholomeow, ChitownScript (Regular, Bold, Light, Italic, Bold Italic and Light Italic), Guppula 'Ripples', Gramius Blizzard (2004), Letter People Things, Point-Dexter, TownSquare ('Grate' and 'Lattice'), StarryType. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    I. Paulini

    Italian copper engraver who lived in the 16th century. Around 1570, he created intricate initial caps, with each letter telling a story (the R in the link shows Romulus and Remus in Rome). His inspiration comes from mythology, and often involves angels, mermaids, snakes, and fruits. Spamula shows three letters of his alphabet, each letter encapsulating a mythological episode from the Methamorphoses of Ovid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iain Macarthur

    Illustrator in London, who made the colored figurine alphabet ABC Yoga in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ian Leguizamon

    During his studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia-based Ian Leguizamon designed Monsters Type (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ian Lynam
    [Wordshape]

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    Ian McMurray

    Ian McMurray (Madrid, Spain) created Fibre Script (2013), an ornamental rope-textured caps alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ibelis Garzon

    Barcelona, Spain-based designer of the colored floriated caps alphabet Sellos Naturales (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ibram Syah
    [Ibramsyah Ibram]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ibramsyah Ibram
    [Ibram Syah]

    Aka Jehan, Ibram Syah, and Jehan Syah. Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1992).

    Typefaces designed by him in 2020: the decorative caps typefaces Relic Island and Romes Palace, the squarish typeface Space and the script typefaces Holin Jusi, The Masquito (a spurred vampire or pirate script), Rocklands and Ecalyars.

    Typefaces from 2019: Nastar Pie (decorative caps), Crackers (textured caps), Garden Wood (Tuscan, textured), Love and Beach (textured).

    Typefaces from 2018: Arakunda, Simposiuf (a vampire font), Blackfire (blackletter), Spirazi.

    An alphabetic list of fonts released before June 2020: Aladine, Albias Smug, Alexandiya, Aloe Vera, Ancient Sword, Andro Medas, Arakunda, Armada, Asdema, Athenos, Avmo, Azura, Baloon Dory, Barber Lan's, Barista, Bear Cool, Beckyard, Black Widow, Blackfire, Blink Jumps, Bodyguard, Bonamcy, Boy and Friend, Break Times, Brisk Charity, Buzhera, Camelia Script, Campink, Children Day's, Claudya, Clover, Comprest, Contrash, Crackers, Creative Kids, Dragonfly Script, Dunheall, Ecalyars, Etihad, Falmediyar, Fight Stick Family, Forester, Garden Wood, Gardens, Gear, Hamsey, Hello Celvins, Hi Girl's, Hi Prety's, Holiland, Home City, Huming Book, Huringthon, Jack Matras, JockerLand, Julia Swanlya, Kevlac, Levarolls, Love and Beach, LoveBirds, Lyche, Maxce, Merry Love, Moneva, Monogram, Monogram Carnaval, Monograme Party, Morthen, Nastar Pie, Nemo Hunter, Orange Punch, Original Hunting, Paradox, Phanter, Pine Jungle, Poined, Prado, Pumpkin Hollowens, Raiderman, Relic Island, Relick Island, Resya Esdaz, Rocklands Original, Romes Palace, Rosnacy, Samoray, Sape, Scampers, Selimky, Shootink, Silver Gold, Simposiuf, Single Ghost, Slam Monkey, Sleep Charm, SliterD, Snackleaf, Space, Spirazi, Starchild, Sticky, The Brandals, The CheEsS, The Crown Royal, The Last Night, The Masquito, The Modish, The Parthenon, The Razor Blade, The Razor One, The Sallmode, The Suster, Viola, Wild Cruger, Winstone, Zafire, Zaflay, Zarcas, Zimuras, Zulva.

    Typefaces from 2021: Lets Study, Ghost Childs (a scrapbook font), Yulia Khaira (a scrapbook script), Radish + Garlick (bouncy, hand-crafted), Listing PacksHalloween School, Koska Esko (a bold decorative typeface), Relic Island 1 (hyper-decorative initial caps), Royal Paradise (a display font with snakehead terminals), Air Leving (a squarish display typeface with a tall body and short neck), Beautiful Place (a scrapbook font), Cheer Up (a fat finger font), Joined Tightly (an interlocking font), Bread Crackers (an adventurous blackboard bold font), Comfort (a techno font), Monogram Challigraphy, Rocker Stage (a monumental typeface for bullies, slightly influenced by graffiti), Relic Island 2 (an alchemic / tribal font), Black Street (a Western font), City Tour (a city-themed textured font), Kevlac (a display sans with art deco elements).

    Typefaces from 2022: Axmiq Richard (a 7-style decorative serif), Black Octopus (a graffiti font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ich Bin Ben

    Bristol, UK-based designer of the all caps typeface Hot Rod (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Idil Ar

    For Youko Studio, Idil Ar (Istanbul, Turkey) designed the bird-themed decorative caps typeface Kus Alfabesi (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ieva Ozola

    Prague, Czechia-based student-designer of the floriated caps alphabet Botanical (2016), which is inspired by the flora of Tenerife. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ignacio Frances
    [BoyBeaver Foundry]

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    Ignat Plot

    Cambridge, UK-based designer of decorative caps alphabet in 2012 and 2015, and a set of cards in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilektra Jole

    Tirana, Albania-based designer of a decorative caps typeface that was inspired by Wassily Kandinsky (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilia Baranov

    Moscow-based designer of several untitleddecorative Cyrillic alphabets (2013). He also created the experimental typeface Dotmaster (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Illustrated caps

    These illustrated capitals are from a manuscript dated 1480, in the possession of Philip Hanrott. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilona Repkina

    Kyiv, Ukraine-based designer of Go Green (2017) and Snow (2017), and the Batik India Color Font (2017).

    In 2018, she designed the decorative leaf (color) font Onferia, the Valentine's Day font Hots, and the handcrafted typeface Doodling. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ImageServe Typefaces

    Images of great historic types by Alberti, Amphiarea (1572), Caslon, Cresci, Feliciano (1463), Grandjean (the Grandjean&Alexandre Roman type, dated 1693), Torniello (1517), and Vicentino (1522). Also, pics of the letters on Trajan's column in the Forum (113). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    imagex

    Frenchman (b. 1957) who started making fonts in 2010, after a career in illustration, comics, and video games. In 2010, he created the free fonts BabyJo (pixel face), Bayday, Chrom (beveled face), LaPresse (grunge), Muffaroo, Poppy, Poppydot, Spacecard, Strokewith, Strokeless, ToonLand (comic book lettering), ToonLandBlack, ToonLandShad, TrashToys (grunge), WorldColors (3d face).

    In 2011, he published Francobelge (comic book face), Freepress (grunge), Gamix (Western titling face), Inmyroom (dingbats), Majestrick (calligraphic), Onomatopaf (comic book dings), Outerzone, OuterzoneB, Starz (dingbats), Stenstreet (grunge), Tram, Tramix (texture face), TrashToys02, War-Lettersn, Mixagex, Massive Dynamite (grunge), Not Well (grunge), Actu, Blck, Gling (texture face), HeRioz (silhouettes), Brightoon (cartoonish brush face), Muzo (ink spill face), Sharpy, Space Shop (dingbats), Pulp Dance (hand-printed), Essef (art deco), Retro Sign (grunge), Labo (grunge), Exhausted, Komikoz, Puzzled, Toonimals (dings), Penstriped (sketch face), Cashier (grungy), Dan Hand, Hardwell (grungy caps), Colleged (athletic lettering), Goodjean (jeans texture face), Seaside Things (dingbats), Real Tek (techno), Zou (3d hand-printed caps), Painter, Border Line (grunge), Handout (grunge), Tract (grunge), Pulpatone (grunge), Logos I Love, Pal Antic (chancery hand), Twent (fat rounded display face), DoodFlow (dingbats), Afro Add (texture face), Crump (grunge), Big White, Dark Room (grunge), Manifesto (grunge), Tacketil (a FontStruct font), Otto Land (sketch face), Over (outline face), Under (brush dings), Baskertown (grunge), Nursery Tale, Panic (texture face), BlackNDot (ink spill face), Beyond (striped display face), Advert, Car Crash (grunge), Heartz, Starsteel, Smart Faces, Blackflag (a brushed blackletter), Dock 51 (grungy stencil), Lead (3d face).

    In November 2011, he created a number of texture typefaces: Hotöcop, Pal Mod, Speedy (sketch face), Thirties Gold, Sunset GP.

    Further 2011 typefaces: Poptivi, Shadow Mole, Super Modern Black.

    Faces from 2012: Remanence, Winter Days (dingbats), Nowharehouse (grunge), Snuff (grunge), Cup of Tea (3d shadow face), Talk of the wall.

    Typefaces from 2012: Egirlz (dingbats), Art Post (white on black poster lettering), Volutes (copperplate calligraphic script), From me 2 you (curly script), PS I Love You, Kolossal (caps only), Kraash, Alexandre (3d engraved headline face), Monstres de poche (dingbats), Alternate (grunge), Warning, Dreams (brush face), Headline Crack, Bump Pad (textured typeface), Carton (grungy white-on-black stencil face), Maybe maybe Not, Frames n Riboons (sic), Blackboard (sketched face), Logotronik (a 3d techno face), Big Bad Dogs (dingbats), Libre Expression (engraved copperplate typeface), Mecagothix (textured blackletter face), Destroy, Destroy Helpers, Buy More, Things we said (curly face), Lost Saloon (Tuscan), Salon de Coiffure (beveled), Brighton Pier (grunge), Motel Vacancy (grunge), Bates Shower (dripping blood typeface), Venus Furs (texture typeface), Showmen, True Men Tattoos (dingbats), Quicker (sketch font), Romanum Est (grungy Trajan face), Also (scratchy letters), Lazy Day (3d font), Pusher, Hard Dumb, The Idiot, Overflowing (grunge), Fast Foont (sketched), Melange (grunge), Jumbo Parade (circus font), Happy Monsters, Zozox (experimental), Magic Sound (packaging typeface), Arena Mascaras (dingbats), Top View (3d face), Flagadoum, Last King Quest, Rhythm n Blacks (textured face), Troll Sketched, Superpoz (a 3d painted typeface of exceptional beauty), HalloCuties (Halloween font), Gothik Steel (circus font), Silvestre Relief (3d titling face), Just Like That (comic book face), Numero 10 (athletic lettering), Tet de Mor (skulls), Facelook, Xmas Dad, Instant Marker, Ragtimer, Punk Dots (textured face), Onomato Vlam (comic book balloons), 8th Cargo (textured mechanical octagonal face), Zu Kabarett (creepy curly German expressionist face), Unusual Day One, Happy New One (party font), Xmas Doods, Xmas Doods 2, Higher, Usual Day One, Team 401 (athletic lettering), Doonga (comic strip letters), Killer's Move.

    Typefaces from 2013: Them (fat brush), Ghost Code, Tiny Heroes (figurines), Over There (sci-fi), Higher than High, Abandon (sketched face), Broken Hearts, True Stories, A wolf at the door (wood style poster face), Elo Hand, Bots n Droids (dingbats), Toonimals 2 (dingbats), Halftoned Backup (textured face), Novlang (textured poster face), Come With Us, Ptits Pirates (pirate figurines), Board Dudes (skateboard dingbats), Big Bro's Watch (grungy), Doonga Slash (comic book face), Round About, Signz, Lethal League (grungy athletic lettering), Dark Times, Dandy Hat Trick, tardots (textured typeface), Dinoz (dinosaur dingbats), Big Surprise (fat script), Comix Loud, Arlequin, Fanzine Title, Scotch Taped, Phoenix (dingbats), Rock's Death (grunge), Tuamotu (textured), Trees Friends (dingbats), King Arthur Legend (blackletter), Fairy Strange, Flame On, Mystery, Money Go Round (ransom note font), Seven of One, Captain's Talk, Peaches en Regalia (sketch font), Wrong Board (textured or crayon typeface), Subito (comic book face), Extra Sales (signage face), Gimme Danger (grunge stencil), Alphabet City (graffiti font), Raleigh Rock, Rysky Lines, Splash, Good Vibers (comic book figurines), Tequilla Sunrise (3d shadow face), Graphers Blog, Star Waves, Splash, Action Comics, Wild Trails (wood plank typeface), Tiki Club (dingbats), Bad Striped (sketched face), Come With Me (paint drip face), Famous Oldies (textured face), Girly Toons (dingbats), Eshop Advert, Full Pack 2025, Dickson's Tale (a great grungy caps face), Hand Typewriter, Campus Relief (athletic lettering), ZalienZ (dingbats), Manga Style (oriental brush), Journal du Soir (letterpress emulation), Royal Delight (3d sketched face), Gothix Fate, Lettrisme (a letterpress ransom note font), NYC Zone 123 (graffiti face), Tedz (teddy bear dingbats), Merry Xmas, Last Day On Earth (textured typeface).

    Typefaces from 2014: Dite Alla Giovine (flared cursive script), Heavy Gothik (textured blackletter), Comix Bubbles, King of Scotland (textured), Lazy Sketch, Arabica Export (coffee bag texture), Scream Again, Season of the Witch, Soul Festival, Back Ride 342, Cheap-Potatoes, Nine-Feet-Under (grunge), Remingtoned-Type, Search'n-Destroy, Starz-2, Vanished, On The Roof (or: On The Tops), Mad Groove Blast, Another Brick (textured face), Destination Future, Perversionist, Dex's Jobs (Treefrog-style typeface), Ptit Coeur d'Amour, Mickey's School (athletic lettering), One Way or Another (a hand-drawn poster typeface), Californian Cars (license plates), Building State Empire, Back on Lime (shadow face), Next Ups (graffiti face), PatchFun (textured face), Railway to Hells, Shut'em Down, Misunderstanding, Another Brick (textureface), Perversionist (grunge), Destination Future, Linographer, Polish Posterisation, For Girls Only, Half Price 4 You (sketched typeface), Secret Agency (bad ink grunge), Player One (a grungy baseball Script), Raw Notice, Home Mad Popsters, No Silly Walk There, Bad Coma (lovely grunge), Dark Net Warrior (grunge), Cowboy Movie (Western font), Palm Beach (textured typeface), Search n Destroy (textured), Carnaval de mai, Variations (textured), Black Jeans (weathered font), City of Light, Santa's Air Mail (snow-capped letters), Cheap-Potatoes, Nine-Feet-Under, Remingtoned-Type, Search'n-Destroy, Starz-2, Vanished.

    Typefaces from 2015: Snake Jacket, Big Campus (athletic lettering), Penball Wizard, When The Eagles Dare, Urban Brush Zone (graffiti font), Wild West Pixel, World Black Shadow, Next Custom, Irresponsible Direction (grunge), Doodle Gum (textured), Posthuman (textured), Red Zone (glaz krak face), Smasher 312 (graffiti font), Columbine (dripping blood font), Tarentula's Web, Just Like This (retro funk), Eastern Brush (oriental brush typeface), Pulp Headlines (grungy typeface), War is Over (letterpress emulation), Thirties Relief, Flowers Power (sic) (floral caps), Direct du Gauche (inky brush), Jackpot (3d, sketched), Numero 10 Clean (athletic lettering), Lace Dreams (textured), Right Chalk (chalky crayon font), Lazy Sketch Black, Golden Age (shaded pixel font), Swamp Death (textured), Astounding News, Heavy Metal Rocking, Fifties Movies, Grunge Strokes 01, Cosmik Orchestra, Paysley Sports (sandy athletic lettering), No Safety Zone (grungy stencil), Quicksands (textured), Break It Down (glaz krak font), Naughty Cartoons, Mad Groove Clean (athletic lettering), Outlaw Stars (grungy Western face), Space Comics, Dirty Bowl 86 (athletic lettering), Cheap Potatoes Black (imitating pototo printing?), ExtraBlur (textured), Backside Air, Megalopolis, Curse of the Zombie, After the Goldrush, Avantgardiste 1934, Easy Fashion (textured), Free Thinking's Murder (textured), Phantom Zone (zombie texture), Snake In The Boot, Checkpoint Charlie (grungy stencil), For Girls Only Bold, Playing In The Mood (piano key face), Intergalactik Airlines, Les Mystères de Paris, Season of the Witch Black (blackletter), Resistance Is Futile (a great textured mechanical typeface), On The Tops Lights (matinee signage), Strawberry Fields, Serif of Nottingham, OnomatoBom (cartoon smaks).

    Typefaces from 2016: Dynamix (a shaded comic book typeface), Black Santa (snowy letters), Astral Delight, Mr. Headlines (titling sans), Sister Spray, Shaka Pow (cartoon font), Jack in the Box, Glitter Campus (athletic lettering), Ghost Crazy (heavy brush), Prezident, Flowers Kingdom (psychedelic), Galaxy Corps (octagonal stencil), Stitchn School, Brown Shoes, Armagedon (dry brush), Smasher 312 (graffiti style), Bad Stories, Master Droid, Heavy Metal Box (grungy letterpress), Outerspace Shoping (sic), Extros Backstage (squarish), Jelly Crazies (jellybean font), Black and White Banners, Ballad of Dwight Frye (grungy), Crazy Sixties, SciFi Movies, Maximum Strength (athletic lettering), Evanescente (sketched typeface), Urban Ghost, Vif Argent (watercolor brush script), Demolition Crack (textured), How to Disappear, Public Market, Pyjama Party, Magician Rings (modular sans), Pale Blue Eyes (brush script), All The Mad men (sketched), Dixociative (white-on-black), White Flame (octagonal typeface), Asian Delight (oriental brush emulation), Candy Shop, Barb Wire Club, Super Weird, My Socks Line.

    Typefaces from 2017: Scoubidou Rap, Good Morning (cartoon font), Graphik Arts (textured), Danger Zone Warning, Love The One You're With, Are You Hung Up (textured), Keys of Paradise, Mr Headlines Fancy, Game of Brush, Powerful, Ghost Shadow, Quick Menu Boards, Urban Fresh Air, Cheer Lace Leader (textured), Cracked Code (grunge), Very Simple Chalk, Fluo Gums, Very Popular, Personal Service, Blind Signature (crayon font), Blood n Guts, Quarterback Fight (octagonal athletic lettering), Supersonic Rocketship, Reboot Crush, Strange Path (dry brush font), Heroes Legend, Cache-Tampon, Championship (a great horizontally striped typeface), Silver Age Queens, Strange Tales.

    Typefaces from 2018: Play With Fire, Scrunched, Megalomaniac Headliners, Craps of Paper (white on black), All Things Must Pass (textured), Presque Normal, Interfearence, Pop of the Tops, Universal Knowledge, Digital College, Cold Turkey (a handcrafted horror font), Strange Magic, Grandissimo, Best Prices (sketched), Magician's Daughter, Children's Theater (textured), Magnifico, Lethal Slime, Pop of the Pops, Slow Death, Folk Festival, Strange Marvel, Strong Impact (octagonal), Heavy Metal Blight, Mango Slice, Are You Jimmy Carl Black, Strange Clowns, Mechanical Animals, Fast Forward, Spanish Castles, Vintage Warehouse, Swamp Black, Pixelmania, Enigma key, Vlump (wooden plank font), Guns n Flash Comix, Black Streamer, East Border (military stencil), Bot Craftshop, Super Quick, Don't You Know?, Return of the Flash, Only The Strong (weathered athletics font), Hands Up, Strange Shadow, White on Black, Ed Wood Movies.

    Typefaces from 2019: Inner Mounting Flame, Playtimes, Game Commands (white on black), Magic Spots (with a spotted texture), Vanishing (with a halftone effect), State Secret (squarish), All My Stitches (a hospital font), Lightyear Design, Ancient Ad, African Style (textured with African patterns), Secret Planet (sci-fi), Universal Ignorance, Give Peace a Chance, Hard Punk Gothic, Vraoum (speed emulation font), Galaxy Travels, Megapoliscape, Red Signal, Perfect Mystery (dry brush), Many Years Ago (mechanical, octagonal), Vintage Display (textured caps), Space Sport (textured, octagonal), Dancing Days, Steam Punk, Splatch (comic book font), Rear Defender (octagonal, stencil), Ghost Factory, Kids Magazine.

    Typefaces from 2020: Bright Star (sci-fi), Fiesta Rumba (a matinee font), Sergeant Rock (a stencil typeface), Tricky Hearts (a vampire font), Organic Brand, Campus Riot (grungy), Crazy Love Song, Shiny Signature, Evil Highway, Slightly Eroded, Lightyear Shadow, City Player (graffiti), Night of the Deads (a horror font), Ka Blam (an all caps cartoon font), Unforgettable, Corrupted File (grungy, pixelish), Urban Heroes (a dripping paint font), Victorian Art Magic Remains, Kid Games, Restricted Area (a dripping paint stencil), Dark Poestry, Platinum Sign, Tacos de Tijuana (a Mexican party font), Retro Shine, Lower East Side (a graffiti font), Holidays Homework (a chalk font), Deep Shadow, Finger Printed, Crushed (a glaz krak typeface), Bing Bam Boum, Stars Fighters (a Star Trek font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Baby Party, Shadow Of The Deads, Big Bad Bugs, Boldfinger (bold caps), Paperback Writer (sketched), Comics Tricks, Charming Sixties, Squarely, Mad King Games, Back to School (a varsity font), Youtube Star (an oily typeface), Silver Medal (beveled), Cosmic Blaster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Imperator Kot
    [Liudmila Riumina]

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative caps typefaces Gothic Ornamental (2016: this blackletter typeface also has lowercase letters, and is based on "Gems of Penmanship" by Williams&Packard, 1867) and Vintage Ornamental (2016, also based on "Gems of Penmanship" by Williams&Packard, 1867). All fonts are in vector format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Imran Nasution
    [Bayo Suti XV]

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    Ina Bachvarova
    [Login Studio]

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

    Banda Aceh, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1988. Creator of the handcrafted typefaces Archipelago (2015, a connected swashy script), Shintya (2015), Sambay (2015: a brush script), Silvia (2015), Matauro (2015, a watercolor brush), Almarhum (2015), Chocolava (2015, a fun creamy handcrafted typeface), Itaki (2015, a rough brush font), Egocentric (2014), and the curly connected script typeface Esmeralda (2015). He also designed the copperplate calligraphic script typeface Cimochi (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Jenny Simol (a signature typeface), Ipanema, Esse (brush script), Shaggie (script), Inkotsi (a rough sans serif).

    Typefaces from 2018: Vladiviqo, Apple Peach, Sanango (script), Bamboo, Original Sin, Manchuria (wavy prismatic caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Indira Christiani

    Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the all caps aliens-and-monsters alphabet UFO (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ingo Zimmermann
    [Ingofonts]

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    Ingofonts
    [Ingo Zimmermann]

    Ingofonts is a foundry in Augsburg started by Ingo Zimmermann (b. 1967) in 1994. It offers Fraktur fonts, handwriting fonts, sans serif fonts, Antiqua fonts and some pixel fonts. Full fonts go for 50 USD a piece and up. Some fonts are free. Many fonts are adaptations or revivals of historically important fonts. Ingo also practices calligraphy, and in particular, calligraphy for wine labels. The list:

    • Absolut Pro (2008) is a classy sans family that comes in Regular, Licht, Thin and Schmuck.
    • Amhara (2009): An experimental font inspired by the Ethiopic writing system.
    • Analogue (2010).
    • Anatole France (1997-2021). An art deco font in the style of Plakat Schrift by the munich-based printer Georg D. W. Callwey.
    • August Sans (2013).
    • Auxerre. A wedge-serifed text typeface. Ingo writes: Auxerre is a precursor of Etienne, which later became popular as an advertising script of the 19th century.
    • Banknote 1948 (2010).
    • Behrens Schrift (2008) is based on Behrens' famous 1902 Jugendstil typeface for Rudhard'sche Giesserei. Behrensschrift iF Plus (+Schmuck) followed in 2021.
    • Biró Script is a handwriting font (2007-2012, +Biro Script Plus, 2020) named after the inventor of the ballpoint pen, Laszlo Joszef Biro, 1899-1985.
    • Boule Plus (2020). A fat round circle-based bubblegum font family in Gras, Contour and Brilliant styles.
    • CharpentierBaroqueIF, CharpentierClassicItaliqueIF, CharpentierClassicistiqueIF, Charpentier Renaissance Pro (1996 and Pro version from 2020; modeled on Roman Capitalis). Charpentier Classicistique Pro (2020; earlier called Classicist) is an absolutely charming didone display typeface family with an award quality Black. In 2014, he added Charpentier Sans Pro for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic with the Pro version following in 2020.
    • Chiq Pro. After Apple's Chicago.
    • Conté Script (2014). A phenomenal effort towards the creation of a typeface that emulates real handwriting. It even has three-letter ligatures to achieve the desired reality. Based on Ingo's own hand, it also achieves a crayon effect. See also Conte Script Plus (2020).
    • Countries of Europe (2008). Outlines of countries. Free download.
    • DeBorstel Brush Pro (2009): brush face.
    • De Display (2010). A gridded type system.
    • De Fonte (1995): a grungy blurred overexposed Helvetica. See also De Fonte Plus (2020).
    • Déformé: a grungy Clarendon.
    • Deko-Blakk, Deko-Yello (art deco typefaces from 2007).
    • DeKunst (1995, deconstructivist). DeKunst Initialen (2007) is Bauhaus-inspired.
    • DePixel (1999: based on Apple's Geneva and Chicago; and Illegible DePixel).
    • Deutsche Schrift Callwey (1998). A free Sütterlin script that is based on a script sample from around 1920/30 by Karl Schäffer. DeutscheSchriftCallwey (1998): a free handwriting typeface in the style of the 1800s that was later taught in German schools under the generic name of "Sütterlin type".
    • Rudolf Diesel Rudolf (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor, Rudolf Kristian Karl Diesel (1858-1913).
    • Die Überschrift (1998): headline sans.
    • EconoSans Pro (2020). A 28-style sans that is meant to save space by squishing the letters together.
    • Faber Eins, Faber Zwei (1996, legible sans family), Faber Drei, Faber Gotic (2002, +Text, +Gothic, +Gotic Capitals; a Textura based on Gutenberg's blackletter from 1450), Faber Fraktur (1994), Faber Sans Pro (2011). This comes with a great all caps Deko style.
    • Façacde Pro (2007). An art nouveau brush typeface found in a 1900 booklet by Karl Otto Maier (a publisher in Ravensburg) entitled Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete. Cyrillic version.
    • Fixogum (1998, scratchy handwriting).
    • Fundstueck (2021). A simplified squarish typeface.
    • Graz2006 (1994, a sans family for the 2006 OlumTypographerpic Games in Graz; later renamed by Linotype to Olympia).
    • Guhly (2011). An organic family.
    • Gutenberg (1995, a textura).
    • Handschrift (2007). Expressionist and rough.
    • Hedwig Pro (2021). A tall condensed sans; 12 styles.
    • Hero (angular handwriting).
    • Josef (2000), Josefov (2003, slab serif for Josef), JosefPro (2006, a free sans family), Josefa Rounded Pro (2020: a rounded sans family).
    • Klex Plus (1997): a calligraphic or watercolor brush font.
    • Koch Schrift (1998-2021). A Schwabacher used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and first developed by Rudolf Koch in 1909, first known as Neudeutsch and later as Koch Schrift. An earlier version of Zimmermann's Koch Schrift was called Schwabacher Deutsche Reichsbahn.
    • Lech Sans (2020). A humanist sans family.
    • LeDrôle Lettering Pro (2020).
    • LettreCivilitdeGranjon (1997, a reworking of S. Moye's font by that name).
    • Maier's No. 8 (2002) and Maier's Neue No. 8 based on forms found in work of Karl O. Maier from before 1914, which already has the geometrical simplicity characteristic of the Weimar period. Maiers No. 21 (2006) and Maiers Nr 21 Pro (2021) are based on a script found in the magazine Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker: Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete (Karl O. Maier, Otto Maier Publishing House, Ravensburg, ca. 1910)---a hand-crafted font for technicians. Finally, Maiers Nr. 42 Pro (2020) is a brush-painted art nouveau typeface based a pamphlet of script samples from around 1900 that was issued by Otto Maier's publishing house in Ravensburg, Germany.
    • Marleen Script (2011, with over 400 ligatures).
    • Menschenalphabet (1997), based on Peter Flötner's alphabet from 1534.
    • Novello Pro (2009): The serifed counterpart of his Absolut Pro family.
    • OlympiaBuchIF, OlympiaFettIF, OlympiaHalbfettIF, OlympiaLeichtIF, OlympiaSemiSansBuchIF
    • Palmona Plus (2008). A German expressionist blackletter after Karl Schaeffer (1939). Palmona Plus was published in 2020.
    • Saeculum (1996, cursive connected handwriting).
    • Rudolf Diesel (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor.
    • Toby Font (2006(. A 3d doodle font for children.
    • Wendelin Pro (1996). A grotesque family. The Pro was released in 2020.
    • Whole Europe (2008, outlines of countries), now called Countries Of Europe. Pick it up, togeter with many suppoirt files for TeX by Herbert Voss, at CTAN.
    Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    In-House International

    In-House International is an Austin,TX-based creative studio founded in 2011 by Alexander Wright. Michelle Benaim Steiner became a partner in 2015. In-House designs custom typefaces for branding and editorial projects and specializes in geometric experimental display fonts.

    In 2020, they released Ragtag (a ragtag of capitals by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright) and Troptical (a 48-style prismatic or op-art typeface by Alexander Wright).

    In 2020, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Alexander Wright and Michelle Benaim Steiner co-designed the exaggerated reverse stress (or: Italian) typeface Pata Slab at In-House International. All uppercase characters were built to fit precisely inside a square, so they are all the same width and height.

    In 2021, he released the 20-style modular strip typeface Snare (designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright, it includes ten unicase styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Inna Indichenko

    Talented painter and illustrator in Kiev. Behance link. She created a fantasmagoric illustrated caps face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Inna Kukushkina

    Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of Advio (2017: a rounded set of capitals) and Medical Icons (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Insane Fonts (or: Heather Insane)
    [Maria Yurina]

    Russian designer Maria Yurina (aka Heather Insane and as Insane Fonts) created these (vintage, spurred) typefaces in 2017: Ocean Storm, Hipster, Tennessee Honey, Pegasus Label, Imperial (striped and spurred), Haven (a spurred circus font), Tequila, Old Cask, Marine Rum, Bottle Of Gin, Old Bourbon Label. Other typefaces from 2017 include Hoodlum, Centennial (Victorian), Antiquarian (Victorian), and Orange Tree.

    Typefaces from 2018: Stones, Nautical, Campus (a multilined sports font), Mariner, Raw Coffee (Victorian), Dead Biker (spurred), Tail, Bubble.

    Typefaces from 2019: Medieval Kingdoms (with decorative layerable caps), Big Pie Mama, Wild Nature, Birmingham, Prohibited (spurred, layerable). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Intecsas
    [Klaus Herrmann]

    Foundry run by Klaus Herrmann from Düsseldorf, whose fonts are distributed by Precision Type and FontHaus. Fonts include basically all of David Rakowski's old shareware fonts. Through Intecsas, David Rakowski has finally gone commercial. The fonts are often redrawn, and have complete international character sets. The library contains 500 fonts, of which about 90 are based on David's old shareware fonts. Among the newer fonts, DwigginsFortyEight (1999).

    Mark Johansson explains the history of Rakowski's fonts.

    Atomic Type distributes their fonts as well.

    Partial font list: Aaaaaaaargh Caps, Aarcover, Adineski, Adine Kernberg Script, Adriana Davidovsky, Air Supply, Alvin Caps, Aminal Initials, Anderson Script, Anne Stone, Avery Jean, Beffle, Bela Drips, Belgian Casual, Bellagio, Benjamin, Bizarro, Blasius, Braille Font, Brandenburger, Brookfield, Brooks Initials, Buffalo Bill, Cardboard Cutout, Carrick, Chalice, Charlotte Tile, Chinese Menu, Christensen Caps, Command Ment, Constructivist, Corsage, Crackling Fire, Crane Initials, Davys Blocks, Davys Dingbats, Davys Key Caps, Davys Big Key Caps, Davys Other Dingbats, Davys Ribbons, DeBellis, Deco Twenty Two, Dewhurst, Dieter Caps, Dilara Caps, Dinderman, Dorothy Initials, Dragonwick, Drawing Pad, Dubiel, Dupuy, Eileen Caps, Elizabeth Ann, Elzevier, Eraser Dust, Even More Face Cuts, Face Cuts, Fetch Scotty, Flicker, Forest, Frisch Script, Garton, Gessele Script, Gouda Old Style, Grab Bag, Gravestone Rubbing, Green Caps, Griffin Dingbats, Ground Hog, Harting (an old typewriter font), Headhunter, Holtzschue, Horror Show, Horst Caps, Hunan Garden, Ian Bent, Jacobs, Jeff Nichols, Joanna Lee, Judy Finckel, Kastner Casual, KidStuff, Kinigstein Caps, Kioko, Konanur Caps, Korf Caps, Koshgarian Light, Kramer, Lee Caps, Legal Vandal, Lemiesz, Lilith, Logger, Lower East Side, Lucy Script, MalakaLaka-LakaLakaLaka, Man About Town, Mary Monroe, McGarey Fractured, More Face Cuts, Multiform, Munchner Initials, Nauert, Nitemare Caps, No More Face Cuts, Octagon, Paris Metro, Party Down, Pavelle, Phonetic, Pixie Font, Pointage, Polo Semiscript, Randolph, Rechtman Script, Relief, Reynolds Caps, Rhodes Roman, Rounded Relief, Rudelsberg Regular, Rumble, Saint Albans, Scratchy Pen, Showboat, Sjlausmann, Sprecher Initials, Starburst, Still More Face Cuts, Sturbridge Twisted, Taiga, Tejaratchi Caps, Thompson Pond, Toletto, Travis Brush, Trench, Trevor Light, Tucker, Tundra, Upper West Side, Varah Caps, Victoria Casual, Wedgie, Wein Initials, Wharmby, What A Relief, Will Harris, Yasmine, Zaleski, Zallman Caps.

    At Will-Harris House, we find these fonts by David Rakowski: Cardboard Cutout, Dwiggins 48 (ornamental caps first designed by Dwiggins), Fetch Scotty, Gibbons (a great geometric Bauhaus-style font), Gravestone Rubbing, Greene&Greene (architectral lettering), Davy's Art Nouveau Initials, Gravestone Rubbing, Harting, Handscrifte, Lillith, Lillith Initials, Pointage, Rabbit ears, Rasta Rattin Frattin, Tenderleaf Caps, Tendril, Toletto (toilet paper alphadings), Will-Harris, and Zaleski. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Intellecta Design
    [Dick Pape]

    Digitizations by Dick Pape in 2010 based on material from Intellecta Design's Old Time Images: Bruce Miscelania, Clea Initials (2010).

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    Intellecta Design (or: Monocracy Types)
    [Paulo W]

    Intellecta Design is a design company in Brazil run by Paulo W (b. 1970) from Recife. In 2020, he also set up Monocracy Types. Paulo W is a gaúcho (Brazilian southerner), with interests in multiple areas, including poetry (he has published the digital opus Magical Book), graphic design and, most recently, type design.

    Dafont link. MyFonts. MyFonts link. Abstract Fonts link. YWFT link. Behance link. Blog. Home page. Fonthaus. Monotype. Eshops. Facebook. Flickr. Klingspor link. Wordpress. Devian tart. T26. Linkedin. Identifont. Linotype. ITC. Faces.co. His typefaces:

    • Free fonts: Inductive Resonance (2014: connected script), Retrodings (+Two, 2014), Living In The Past (outlined Tuscan face), Rough Ornaments Free (2014), CornPop Three (borders), Too Good To Be True (2013, retro script), Blanchard Inland (2013), Living Together (2013), Arresto (2013, brush script), Hertziano (2013, non-connected fat script), Japanese Tourist (2013), Nouveau Never Dies Free (2013), The Beat Goes On (2012, fifties script), Stencix (2012), Figgins Brute Trash (grunge), Fontaniolo Beveled (2011, ornamental caps), Czech Gotika (2011), Random Dingbats (2011), Victorian Free Ornaments (2011), Rustic (2011), Armorial (2011), Woman Silhouettes (2011), The Nile Song (2010, hieroglyphics), Smith Typewriter (2009), Sign Flags (2010, semaphore dingbats), Senectus Morbus (2010), MesoAmerica (2010, Indian symbols), ClassicSketches (2010, dingbats), Columns (2010, dingbats of Greek and Roman columns), EasyCuneiform (2010), EasyLombardicTwo (2010), EasyOpenFace (2010, blackboard bold style), Egidia (2010), Significante (2010, dingbats with, e.g., gender symbols), WhiteDominoes (2010, domino pieces), Easy Heraldics (2010), Intellecta Heraldics (2010), Heraldic Devices (2011), KidingsFree (2010, dingbats), RoughTuscan (2010), The French (2009, Fleur de Lys dings), AprendizCaligrafico (2010), Volitiva (2006, Trajan caps and chancery lower case, all based on work by Ludovico Vicentino Arrighi), Gaivota (2006), KurrentKupferstichThin (2006), PaulKlein (2010), PaulKleinTwo (2010), PortuguesArcaicoLectura (2005), ReproxScript (2009, based on Jerry Mullen's Repro Script from 1953-1954), RickGearyHomage (2007, scanbats), WestBalaio (2006, ornamental caps), Corto Maltese (2006, scanbats), Renaissance Coiffure (2006), Renaissance Ornaments (2007), Renaissance Shoes (2012, free), TTF Tattoef (2006, tattoo-inspired dingbats), ExperiTypo5 (2006), Lower Metal (2006), Geometric Serif PW (2006), Geometric (2006), Geometric Petras PW (2006), War II Warplanes (2005), Carbono (2005), Times New Vespasian (2005), BoldBold (2005), Vengeance (2005), Doppleganger (2005), Chancelaresca (2005), Cursivo Saxonio (2005), Gotische Minuskel 1269 (2005: a Kanzlei Schrift after Dekan Hermann zu Soest, 1269) and Guto Lacaz (2005, dingbats).
    • Richard Gans revival project: Gans Tipo Adorno, Gans Lath Modern, Gans Titular Adornada (2006), Gans Ibarra (2006, after Carlos Winkow's Elzeviriano Ibarra), Gans Antigua (2006), Gans Antigua Manuscrito (2006), Gans Radio Lumina (2006), Gans Fulgor (2006), Gans Carmem Adornada (2006), Gans Italiana (2006, extensive Italian-style slab serif family), Gans Titania (2007), Gans Titania Adornada (2007), Gans Titular (2007), Gans Gotico Globo (2007: 9 styles by Iza W), Gans Royality (2007: 3 styles by Iza W), Gans Headpieces (2008), Gans Rasgos Escritura (2010: filets---followed in 2011 by Rasgos Escritura Nuevos), Gan Esquinazos (2010, frames), Gans Blasones (2010, shields), Gans Neoclassic Fleurons (2008), Gans Classical Fleurons, Gans Ding.
    • Wood-inspired typefaces: Dead Wood Rustic (2007), Taranatiritza (5 wood type styles, after William Hamilton Page), Majestade (2007, by Iza W---two Tuscan style typefaces), Decorative Tuscanian (2007), Concave Tuscan (2010, wood type), Palermo (2007, by Iza W---Tuscan style family), Teatro (2009, Tuscan), Bruce Double Pica (2009, Tuscan; the Beveled weight is free), Antique Extended (2010, slab serif wood type), Dark Wood (2009, gothic), Dark Wood Beveled (2011).
    • Charles Bluemlein's script revivals: Bluelmin Kisaburo (2013), Bluelmin Ralph (2012), Bluelmin Ronald (2012), Bluelmin Sandsfort (2012) and Bluelmin Benedict (2012). (2012).
    • Blackletter: Salterio (2012, +Trash, +Three, +Gradient, +Shadow, +Shadow Two), Leothric (2011, bastarda), Bruce 532 Blackletter (2011, after George Bruce), Schneider Buch Deutsch (2007, +Trash, +Shadow, +Shadow Two), Schneidler halb fette Deutsch (2009, +Beveled), Schneidler Zierbuchstaben, Hostetler Fette Ultfraktur Ornamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic 16 CG (2007), Gothic 16 CG Decorative (2007, blackletter caps), Schneidler Grobe Gotisch (2008, Iza W, T-26), Allerlei Zierat (2008, ornament fonts based on a 1902 catalog of Schelter & Giesecke), Allerlei Zierat Capitals (2007), Psalter Gotisch (2009, a blackletter after the Benjamin Krebs blackletter face by the same name, ca. 1890), Münster-Gotische (2009, a blackletter family after a 1896 typeface by the same created by Schelter&Giesecke), Koberger N24 Schwabacher (2007), Student's Alphabet (2007, blackletter), Like Gutemberg Caps (2007), Nürnberg Schwabacher, Gotische Frame (2007: four framed blackletter styles by Iza W), Gotische (2007: ten ornate blackletter styles by Iza W), Gothic Garbage, Gothic Shadow, Gothic Trashed, Gothic Flourish (2009), Gotica Moderna (octagonal, blackletter), AltDeutsch (2007, four severe blackletter fonts by Iza W), Fin Fraktur, Gotische Bouffard, Heimat RGS, Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006).
    • Historical revivals: Pantographia (2010: a digitization, as is, of several alphabets from Edmund Fry's Pantographia, 1799), Caslon2000, Caslon B, Delamotte Large Relief (2010), Figgins Brute (2007: 8 heavy Egyptian styles by Iza W based on Figgins' 1817 specimen book), Erased Figgins Brute (2007), Gras Vibert (2007, a didone family; followed by Gras Vibert Two in 2009).
    • Erotic or human alphabets: American Way of Life (2011), Roman Silhouettes (2011), Silvestre Weygel (2007, named after Martin Weygel'a erotic alphabet from 1560, which in turn was based on Peter Flötner's 1534 alphabet), Gravure (caps typeface made of human silhouettes), Innocence (2007, dingbats of girls).
    • Medieval chancery hand: Portugues Arcaico (2005, three medieval handwriting styles), Kurrent Kupfertisch (2006, a medieval hand done with Fernanda Salmona), Dovtrina Christam 1622 (authentic old manuscript face), Catania (2007, exquisite medieval caps in 3 styles by Iza W).
    • Typewriter typefaces: Remix Typewriter (2012), Smith Trash (2012), Neo Bulletin (2010, +Trash), Remington PW (old typewriter face), Olivetti Linea (old typewriter face), Erased Typewriter 2 (2007: 4 styles by Paulo W), RIP Typewriter (2009), Shadow Typewriter (2007), Underwood Typewriter (by Iza W).
    • Calligraphic: Broken Kiss (2015), Derniere Script (2015), Bradstone Parker Script (after Zaner's penmanship), Jan van den Velde Script (2011, based on the penmanship of Jan van den Velde as illustrated in vna den Velde's 1605 book Spieghel der schrijfkonste; developed jointly by Paulo and Iza W), Penabico (2010, with Iza W); Penabico is a free interpretation of the copperplate script styles to be found in the Universal Penman, London, 1741, by George Bickham---it contains over 1500 calligraphic glyphs and 250 ornaments. Samples of Penabico: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix), Easy Calig, Intellecta Mixed Script (2008), Spencerian Constancia (2008), Calligraphia Latina Soft4 (2010, quilled ornaments), Intellecta Script commercial (2009), Spencerian By Product (2009), Spencerian Palmer Penmanship Pro (2010), Indenture English Penman (2010), Calligraphia Latina (2008-2010, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Soft4, Mixed, Square Edition).
    • Victorian, Edwardian: Engel (2007, by Iza W in 15 styles that have a 1870s look), Compendium (Victorian), Costado (2009, a Victorian / Western face).
    • Ornamental caps: Campi (2009), Doppel Mittel Lapidar Azure (2012), Musirte Antiqua (2012), The House of Usher (2012), Peterlon (2012), Dolphus Mieg Alphabet (2011, +Two), Dolphus Mieg Monograms (2011), Human Nature (2011), English Arabesque Revival 1900 (2011), Imprenta Royal Nonpareil (2011), XVI Century Shaw Woodcuts (2011), Ichweis Caps (2011), Cherubim Caps (2011), Rara Beleza (2011), Gothic 1880 Revival (2011), Angelicaps (2010), Unnamed Caps Two (2010), VertiCaps (2010) Rebimboca Caps (2010), Rebimboca Beveled (2012, free), Rebimboca Gradient (2012, free), Rebimboca Trash (2012, free), Rebimboca Outlined (2012, free), Republica Presente (2010), Speedball Metropolitan Caps (2010, after a design by Ross F. George), Nice Initials (2010), Morphelic (2010), DurerGotischCapitals (2010), Egmontian (2007, ornamental caps family), Saducismus Triumphatus (ornamental caps), Vogus (Victorian caps), Victorian Ornamental Capitals (2009) and Frompac 1889 Arabesque (2007) [both are classical arabesques published in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Schriften-Atlas. Eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit nebst Initialen, Monogrammen, Mappen, Landeskarten und heraldischen Motiven fur die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgewerbes, 1889], Lettrines Petin (+Ornée), Numa Initials (2006), Gradl Initialen, Vampirevich (2009, ornamental caps), Paulus Franck 1602 (2006, ornate caps), Geodec (2006, baroque caps), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), Cadels (2007, ornate caps by Iza W), Manuscript XIV Century (2007, by Iza W--four Lombardic caps), Merona (2007, by Iza W--ten Lombardic caps fonts), Selena (2007, by Iza W---ornate Victorian caps), Leyenda (great Victorian era ornamental caps), Mixed Capital Style (2007, caps), Lenda (2008, capitals), Kidnaped at Old Times (2008, ornamental caps, ransom note style), Mortised Capitals, Is Not ABrazilian Font (hand-printed blackboard bold caps), Robur The Conqueror (2009, ornamental caps), Georgia Capitals (2009), Decadence avec Elegance (exaggerated ornamental caps).
    • The American Advertise series: American Advertise No. 9 (2008), American Advertise No. 17 (2007, 19th century caps), American Advertise 018 and 019 (2008), American Advertise Square Series (2007), American Advertise 003 (2012), American Advertise 004 (2010), American Advertise 005 (2010), American Advertise 006 (2010, alphadings), American Advertise 007 (2010, ornamental caps).
    • Ornaments, fleurons: Transportation Dings *2015), Cornucopia of Dingbats Eight (2015), Animals Old Cuts Two (2015), Unpublished Ornaments Two (2013), Classix (2012), Cornucopia of Dingbats (2012-2014, +Two, +Three, +Four, +Five, +Six, +Seven), Cornucopia of Ornaments (2013; +Two, +Three, +Four, +Five, +Six, 2014), Cornucopia Caligrafica (2012), Vintage Hands (2012), Human Silhouettes (2012; +Free, 2013; +Two, 2013; +Human Silhouettes Three, 2013; +Four, 2013; +Five, 2014; +Six, 2014; +Seven, 2014; +Eight, 2014; +Nine, 2015), Easy Fleurons (2012), Floreale Two (2012), Neoclassic Fleurons Free (2011), Calligraphic Frames Soft (2011, +Two), Jugendstil Flowers Free (2011), Easy Ornaments (2011), Blasons (2011), Blasons Free (2012), Armorial (2011), Monograms Soft (2010, with Iza W), Easy Tiles (2010), Free Tiles (2010), Rough Fleurons Two (2010), Vegetable Breathe (2010), Corn Pop Plus (2010), Mortised Fleurons (2010), Mortised Ornaments (2011), Mortised Ornaments Free Two (2013), Golden Times (2010), Stahlhelme und Kronen (2010), Rough Fleurons (2006), Nouveau Never Dies (2009, ornaments), GeodecBruceOrnamented6 (2006, after a sample from the Bruce Type Foundry), Grave Ornamental (2006), BlackOrnaments (2008), Hera Hedelix (2009, ornamental tiles), Mortised Ornaments (2009), Soft Fleurons (2007), Half Flower (2007), Frames 1 (2007, by Iza W), Flower Essences, Micro Fleurons (2009), Naturella (2009, leaf and grape dingbats by Iza W), Black Fleurons (2010), Easy Fleurons Two (2011), Intellecta Borders (2008, by Iza W), Intellecta Style (2007, borders).
    • Fonts made before 2007: Brute Aldine (2007, Western family), Bad Situation (2007, after a design by Freeman Delamotte from 1864), Benjamin Franklin (2007), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), Deutsche Poster (2006), FatFontGrotesk (2006), Orchis (2006, an art deco family by Iza W), Fantis (2006), Frompac (2006, with Iza W), Geodec Fog (2006), Intellecta Modern (2006), Intellecta Modern 2 (2006), Intellecta Romana Humanistica (2006), Advantage (2006, together with Iza W), Biza (2006, together with Iza W), Elegancy (2006, together with Iza W), Estiliza (2006, a sans family together with Iza W), Experitypo 4, Stairway to Heaven, Copperplate PW, Dings PW, Roger Dean, Gliphs PW, Luxeuil, Watchtower Bible 1965, Gabinete Portugues (11 fonts), Elara (2009), Xilografuras (dingbats), Beta, Alta, Paleolitica Nacional, Shakespeare Studs, Copperplate collection (5 fonts), Wine, Ampersamp, James Poem, Leal Conselheiro, Haeckel Enygma, Iza B, Of, Lementa (2006, ornate family), Pirates (dingbats), Wire Clip (2009), Divina Proportione (2009, dingbats), Tharagaverung (2007), Correo (2009, a nice manly bold face), Titivilus (2007, Roman lettering), Pirates De Luxe (2007, dingbats), Geodec Minuskel (2006), Geodec Spyral (2006), Copperplate Decorative (2006), Feosa (2006), Francesco Decorative (2006, Iza W), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), Ibarra Flourished (2006), Intellecta Decorative 017 (2006), Intellecta Decorative 018 (2006), Intellecta Slab Bold (2006), Kansas Decorative (2006), Pingente (2006), Sixties Living (2006), Caractere Doublet (2007), DeutschePosterSteinschrift (2007; by Iza W), Bailarina (2007), GP Casual Script (2007), Colonia Portuguesa (2007), Contouration (2007), Deco Experiment 3 (2007), Floresco (2007), Flower Jars (2007, by Iza W---a very nice idea), Frutisis (2007), Intellecta Monograms (2007: 19 monogram fonts by Paulo W), Intellecta Monograms Random Sample (2012-2013: several typefaces), Peloponeso (2007, by Iza W), Porcupine (2007, by Iza W), Southern Flight (2007, by Iza W---condensed), TTF TTTOEF 4 (2007, by Iza W---dingbats), GeodecBruceFlourished, HostetlerNormande, Victorian Ultra Parphernalia (2007), Angels (2007), Angels Free (2013), Mondrongo (2007), Oorlog (2007).
    • Fonts in 2008: Das Riese (3d engraved caps, +Shadow), Economica (sans, T26), Antiqua Double 12, Bad Baltimore (+Beveled, +Typewriter), Calligraphia Latina (2008-2009, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Mixed, Square Edition, Free), Fry's Alphabet, Grissom (bug dingbats, by Iza W), Latinish (by Iza W), Lettering Deco (by Iza W), Litho Romana Inland, Quadratta Serif (a slab serif by Fernando Diaz), TTF TATTOEF 7 (by Iza W).
    • Fonts made in 2009: Eingraviert (engraved; scans: i, ii, iii), Eingraviert Beveled (2011), Greko Roman Oldstyle, Ortodoxa do oriente, Sans Square, Speedball (by Iza W, Victorian style), Speedball Western Letters (after Ross F. George's lettering), Elara (2009), Intellecta Roman Tall, Force Brute & Ignorance, Sunamy Caps, Starret, The Pilgrim (alphadings), Renaisperian (alphadings), Real Caps Two, Mateus Bold (4 bold styles), Intellecta Crafts (arts and crafts family), Bruce 1490, Bradley Dingies (five dingbat typefaces, after William H. Bradley), Allerlei Zierat Renaissance, Grave Plus, the grungy Monkey series (Victorian Monkey, Monkey Poesy, Monkey Messed Gutenberg Caps, Monkey Was Here, Monkey Insinuation, Monkey In The Middle Ages), Montezuma (dingbats), Grotesque and Arabesque, Calhambeque (old car dingbats), Eiger (2009, a 3d sketched headline face).
    • Faces made in 2010: Polen, Pencraft (capitals were inspired in Swagger Capitals, an original design from Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers & Spindler; lowercase based Pencraft Specials, an ornamental variation of the Pencraft Oldstyle series, as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922), Salamemingoe (children's hand), BarberPoles, Beware the neighbors (scary), BlackInitialText, CaligrafiaDivina, CornPop, CowboyHippie Pro, Grotesca3-D, Nardis, Senzacuore, Speedball Metropolitan Poster (2010, after a design by Ross F. George), TagWood, Tosca, TypographyTribute, Zooland, Bubbleboddy-Fat, bubbleboddylight-Light, Pretoria Gross (a Victorian family done with Iza W), Wood Font Five (wood plank font), Wood Font Four, Herr Foch (art nouveau), Rebimboca, Octagon French (a 3d beveled typeface due to George Nesbitt, 1838), Picuxuxo (retro futuristic, comic book style), Large Old English Riband, Ornamental Riband, Kidings (Dutch dingbats), Hostil (originally done in 2007: a headline family; followed by Hostil Shadow Two (free, 2012) and Hostil Gradient (free, 2012)), Grotesca, Heptagon French, Antiquariaat (condensed), Cortinado, Sanoxio (3d headline face), Violentia (grunge), Swirlies (spiral dings).
    • Faces from 2011: Dia de los Muertos (fantastic skeletal masks), Inland Becker, Rasgos Escritura Nuevos, Jaggard (2007, a renaissance penmanship caps typeface modeled after Joachim Romann's Queen (1954-1956, Stempel)), Jaggard Two, Naive Ornaments Black, Augustus (+Beveled: roman letters), Sayonara (oriental simulation face; the Beveled style is free), Trash Barusa (inline ornamental face), Free Ribbons, Black Ornaments Three, Calligraphia Latina Soft 5, Heraldic Devices Premium, Ornate Blackboards, Benjamin Franklin Beveled, Baltimore Typewriter Beveled, Bernardo Beveled, Van den Velde Script (a free interpretation of the work of the famous master penman Jan van den Velde, found in the Spieghel der schrijfkonste, in den welcken ghesien worden veelderhande gheschrifften met hare fondementen ende onderrichtinghe (Haarlen, 1605)), Indenture English Penmanship, Penmanship Birds and Ornaments (2012), Beware The Neighboors Shadow (texture face), White Free (shadow face), Delamotte Large Relief Beveled.
    • Typefaces made in 2012: Porosa, Presto, Derradeira (signage script), About Sweet Memories (brush script), Intellecta Ribbons, Irrelevante (beveled caps), Laus Sus Chris (Christian dingbats), Unpublished Ornaments, Heavy Squared Writing (brush face), Mezcla Titan, Sweet About (retro script), Publicité, Hard to read monograms, Free Medieval, Doctor Polidori (initial caps), Mixed Silhouettes (One through Five), Glosilla Castellana Cursiva (inline type family), Sayonax (a textured version of the oriental simulation typeface Sayonara), Wood Stevens (free), Rockabilly (fifties script), Interdite Script (heavy calligraphic face), Prismatica (free), Cristalid (free prismatic face), Zed Leppelin (free), Neo Bulletin Outline (free), Neo Bulletin College (2012), Victorian Free Ornaments (+Two), Spanish Army Shields (+Two), Varius Multiplex, Stephens Heavy Titling.
    • Typefaces from 2013: Face of Yesterday (calligraphic script), Ribbon in the sky, Dreamer (a flowing upright semi-connected script), Vorname (blackletter), Barocque Capitals, Close To You (a rabbit-eared script), Wappen (heraldic shields), Eletroz (hand-printed), Morcrepito (blackletter), Metropolitan Poster Black, Animal Silhouettes, Intellecta Pointers and Hands, The Loyalist (script), Vonnegut (a left-leaning script), Perhaps Love (left-leaning script), So Lonely (script), Exposition (upright script), Plaster of Paris (connected script), Volstead (connected script), Versitia (connected script), Porongo (heavy brush script), Fat Fantasy, Das Krieg (soldier dingbats), Corn Pop Two (ornamental corners), Corn Pop Four, Corn Pop Five, Astrodings, Vulnavia Sans (comic book face), Capitular Heraldica, Mirella Initials Ornamntals (a swashy calligraphic script; with Iza W), Carpete (retro script), Free Writer, Round Hand, Exclusivite (fifties script), Hertz Oscillations (fat retro script), Heavy Rock (fifties script), Raindrops (retro script), Ralph Walker (ronde), Exiles (retro signage script), Mr. Richmond Caps (art nouveau alphadings), Berengard Caps Two.
    • Typefaces from 2014: Prester John, Animals Old Cuts, Take a Pebble, Corn Pop Five (borders), Kidnapped at German Lands (ransom note font), Kidnapped at German Lands 2, Kidnapped at German Lands 3, Kidnapped at German Lands 4 (finished in 2016).
    • Typefaces from 2015: Rogeer (script), Chart Moss, Eliensee, Speedball Ragged, State Bridge, Derniere Script, Grissom Four (dingbats of critters), Das Modern, Zona Pro (a sans family).
    • Typefaces from 2016: Ares Modernos, Soldier William Holmes (vintage handwriting), Doctor Russel (script), Hollandisch Closed (blackletter), Rough Flowers (floral ornaments), Equis (crosses), Mattaaus (a counterless poster font), Holland Morleau (a Kanzlei style blackletter font), Rough Vignettes, Rechnung (a bejeweled didone), Alphabet Fantasie (decorative caps), Phantasinian (blackletter), Loosing Memory (blackletter), Laandbrau (blackletter), Lord Radcliff.
    • Typefaces from 2019: Penmanship Feather.
    • Typefaces from 2020: Victorian Alphabets (a weathered engraved money font; despite its name, this is just one alphabet), Mortised Vignettes, Mortised Caps, Monocracy Cuts And Clips, Sincelo Ornaments, Augusta Torino Ornaments (based on art nouveau ornaments from Societa Augusta Torino), Renouveau (art nouveau).

      Typefaces from 2021: Gotteslob (blackletter), Cotton Mather (a medieval blackletter), Josef Wein Moderne Blackletter (after an alphabet by Josef Heim from the 1900 book Moderne Schriften / herausgegeben und verlegt von Josef Heim, Supernouveau (art nouveau ornaments).

    Showcase of Intellecta Design's fonts, numbering 554 as of early 2017. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ira Carella

    During her studies in Bandung, Indonesia, Ira Carella created the decorative typeface Tolu (2015), which is based on the design elements found in the traditional Batak Toba wood carving and architectural ornaments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irene Coll

    Graphic designer in Alicante, Spain, who created the futuristic ornamental caps typeface Cosmos in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Batkova

    Moscow-based illustrator and digital artist.

    In 2010, with the help of Dick Pape, she created an ornamental caps alphabet called HRG that was inspired by the sexy surrealist drawings of Swiss Oscar-winning artist H.R. Giger [wiki]. Behance link. Scans: Logo, illustration, more illustrations, HRG's letter F, HRG's letter E. The full HRG alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

    In 2012, she published Lettercats, an all caps alphabet of cats.

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    Irina Chikovnaya

    Belarussian designer of these vector format fonts in 2017: Constellation (triangulated caps), Flower Embroidery, Chalk, Iridescent, Biscuit, Space (3d mesh font), Embroidery. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Danilyuk

    Ukrainian designer of the colorful Geometric Alphabet (2016: vector format) and Funny Geometric Alphabet (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Nosova

    Ryazan, Russia-based lettering artist. Designer of a decorative Latin all caps alphabet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Vinnik

    Saint Petersburg-based illustrator and designer. She drew an ornamental Cyrillic initials alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iryna Trigubova
    [Red Ink]

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    Isabel Ruiz de Casas

    Madrid-based designer of the building silhouette typeface Guada (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Isabel Urbina Peña

    Isabel Urbina is a graphic design graduate from ProDiseño School of Design and Visual Communications in Caracas, Venezuela. She was born in New York City, grew up in Venezuela and is currently working as a freelancer in Brooklyn, NY, where she also attended Cooper Type. Her main interests include typography and book design. Letra Type is a type foundry started by Isabel in 2014 in Brooklyn, NY.

    Isabel created the children's book font Quentos (2010) and an animal caps alphabet called Animaletters (2011).

    While studying at Cooper Type, she designed the quaint serifed typeface Olivia (2012), the elegant old-fashioned serif family Galea (2012: featured in the book Playing with Type: 50 Experiments by Rockport Press, 2013), and the revival typeface Laureate (2012), which was based on a 1906 typeface from Keystone Type Foundry. Galea Display won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

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    Isabell Laxa

    German designer of the leafy all-caps typeface Linotype Supatropic (1997). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Isaias Barreto Silveira

    Palhoça, Brazil-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Bauhaus Flow (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ishan Khosla

    Principal of Ishan Khosla Design, New Delhi, who has an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York. At Typography Day 2012 he spoke on Typocraft: Creating an Indian Typographic Identity. Founder in 2012 of Typecraft Initiative (Type Design based on India's Rich Living Craft Tradition). The partners in that project are Andreu Balius and Sol Matas. Khosla's typefaces:

    • Godna (2016). A typeface made from tribal tattoos. (Godna or tattoo is an ancient artform practiced by Gond tribe of Chattisgarh in Central India.) Andreu Balius helped with the development.
    • Chittara (2012), an ornamental caps typeface. The Kannada word Chittara means creating an image or drawing. Historically, the artform has been practiced by women of the Deevaru community in the Sagar district of Karnataka, where these images were occasionally painted inside and outside houses.
    • Barmer Katab (2020, Ishan Khosla and Andreu Balius). A textured all caps Latin font based on the ancient art of appliquá and patchwork from the Barmer desert region of Rajasthan, India.
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    ita

    Fifty TrueType fonts. Includes MaxCircus, NapkinScriptSSK, Pompeii Caps (Jim Fordyce, 1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iva Chobanova

    Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of the ornamental Cyrillics initial caps typeface Octopus (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Jimenez

    Ivan Jimenez (Leon, Mexico) is also called DaMuff. Creator of the ornamental Victorian caps typeface Papel Picado (2012).

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    Ivan Vlasov

    Moscow-based designer of Love Story (2017, handcrafted), Splasher (2017, an ink spill font), Charming Me (2017), Starway (2017), Azteker (2017), Robofor (2017, decorative caps) and Liner (2017, a monoline sans).

    In 2018, he designed Sport Pack Icons.

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    Ivanna Ivashka
    [Ivanna Pleshkova]

    Or Ivanna Pliskova. Moscow-based illustrator, who designed these decorative typefaces in 2018: Lazy Meow, Ivanka, Backstage (outlined, bilined), Watermelon (color font), Magnolia (floral caps) and Folk Kit. In addition, she drew several sets of floral and other icons, such as in her Romantic Collection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivanna Pleshkova
    [Ivanna Ivashka]

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    Iza Kaczmarek

    Poznan, Poland-based graphic and type designer, b. Sulechow, 1983. Behance link. Izabela created these typefaces in 2008: Roksana, Wool, Eisac, Bamboo Shoots. In 2009, she added the sensationally details ornamental caps typeface Isaura. No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iza Wilma Lima Peixoto

    Iza W is a Brazilian type designer who works with Paulo W at intellecta Design. Klingspor link. She created Kocham (2008, an art deco geometric typeface with dots centered in all letters), Orchis (2006, Intellecta Design), an art deco famliy in the style of Broadway. Other fonts, done with Paulo W at Intellecta Design in 2006: Advantage, Biza, Elegancy, Estiliza, Frompac. She designed DeutschePosterSteinschrift, Alta (5 styles), Apolo Decorative (Victorian era caps), Ariana, Black, Cresciesco (roman times lettering), Drianh (late 19th century styles), Easy Callig, Evangeliaire Uncial, Geodec N9 (high contrast sans family), Glaciana (decorative caps), Grid, Half Flower 2, Laureatus (Lombardic), Malvinna, Paola Decorative (caps), Passo Borgo (the ultimate spiky dungeon family), Schneider Kontrast (a 15-style art deco and ornamental family based on F.H. Ernst Schneidler's Kontrast (1930, Weber)), and Questy (semi-slab serif) in 2007.

    Productions in 2008: Basilissa (flowery caps), Calligraphia Latina Soft, Chyrllene (curly Victorian family), Clea (caps), Fridha (undrerstated and 3d calligraphy), Hostetler Kapitalen 2, Litho Romana Inland (a caps family), Ogden (calligraphic), Olivetti Typewriter (5 styles), Syl (frilly Victorian caps), Tissot (2008, fine caps), Triball (headline blackletter family), TTF TATTOEF 8 (tattoo dings). MyFonts says The mysteriously-named Iza W shares most of the development activities at Intellecta Design with Paulo W. She specializes in revivals of historic advertising types, specifically metal and wood display types of the Americas, from the early 19th to mid 20th century. and lists these fonts at the end of 2008 as having been designed by her: Advantage, Agua (2007, an extension of Heinrich Maehler's 1931 font, Salut), Alta, AltDeutsch, Anatomy, Antiqua Shaded, Apolo Decorative, Ariana, Basilissa, Biza, Black, Boliche, Bruce Borders, Bruce Flourished, Bruce Hairline, Bruce Miscelania, Bruce Ornament, Cadels, Calligraphia Latina Soft, Catania, Centennial Script Fancy (+Three), Chancelaresca Spanola, Chyrllene, Clea, Cleo (Lombardic ornamental caps), Cresciesco, Deco Experiment 2, Deco Experiment 3, Deco Experiment 4, Deco Experiment 5, Deco Experiment 6 (2007), Deco Experiment 7, Deutsche Poster Steinschrift, Donald, Drianh, Easy Callig, Egipcia, Elara (2009), Elegancy, Engel, Estiliza, Evangeliaire Uncial, Faroeste, Feosa, Figgins Brute, Fin Fraktur, Flower Essences, Flower Jars, Fofucha (2007, a psychedelic typeface modeled after Seymour Chwast's Artone from 1968), Frames 1, Francesco Decorative, Fridha, Frompac, Fry's Alphabet, Furniet Roman (2008, after Fournier), Gans Animals, Gans Carmen Adornada, Gans Cornucopia, Gans Gotico Globo, Gans Italiana, Gans Royality, Gans Sport Club, Gans Titania, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Transportation, Gans Vessels Fishes, Geodec Bruce Ornamented (2006, a tribute to George Bruce), Geodec Minuskel, Geodec N9, Geodec Petras Enhanced, Glaciana, Gloo Biloo (2010, spooky alphading face), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda, Gotische, Gotische Frame, Gottar (blackletter), Gradl Initialen, Grid, Grissom (insect dingbats), Grolier (caps), Grolier Beveled (2011, free at Dafont), Half Flower, Hannover, Hostetler Kapitalen, Imperio Romano (2009, roman heads), Intellecta Bodoned (+Two, +Trash), Intellecta Borders, Intellecta Crowns (royal crowns), Intellecta Grotesca Compacta, Intellecta Slab Bold, Intellecta Square, Intellecta Typewriter, Intellecta Typewriter 2, Japonesa (2010, oriental simulation), Julisa Script, Kocham, Latinish, Laureatus, Lettering Deco (2008, art deco, +Shadow), Litho Romana Inland, Littler Serifada, Magro, Majestade, Malvinna, Manuscript XIV Century, Merona, Missal, Monograms Soft (2010, with Paulo W), Naturella (2009, leaf and grape dingbats), Neretta (2008, +Italic), Numbers, Ogden, Olivetti Typewriter, Orchis, Palermo, Paola Decorative, Peloponeso, Porcupine, Questy, Remington Elite Typewriter, Samuello, Schneider Kontrast, Schneidler Zierbuchstablen, Schwandner Versalia (2010, ornamental caps based on an alphabet by Austrian penman Johann Georg von Schwandner), Schwandner Black Fleurons (2010), Schwandner Ornaments (2010), Selena, Sinfonia, Southern Flight, Speedball, Standard Typewriter, Suciellid, Sunamy (oriental simulation, after lettering by Ross F. George), Surrey (2008), Syl, Tissot, Tondella, Triball, TTF TATTOEF 4, TTF TATTOEF 6, TTF TATTOEF 7, TTF TATTOEF 8, Tuska, Underwood Typewriter (+Underscore), Uthan, Versatile Initials, Victorian Exotical Capitals, Warp, Woodball, Yanna, Zooth.

    From 2009: Calligraphia Latina Soft3, Cantate (+Beveled), Remington Weather (old typewriter), Xyla (caps), Polen, Polen Two (2007), Arrius (calligraphic), Catilina, Pentagraph (upright connected script), Renania (calligraphic), Renania Double Line (free), Samantha (caps), Silius Engraved (caps), Stencil Intellecta (+Trash), Tatooyn, Urszula (caps), Victorio (caps), Elfort (formal calligraphy after Poppl Exquisite, a typeface by Friedrich Poppl), Pretoria Gross (2009), Holy Church (2009, blackletter), Holy Church Fleurons (2009), Single Silhouettes (2009).

    Typefaces done in 2010: Penabico (a calligraphic script; with Paulo W), Baltimore Typewriter (a great typewriter family, with a black-on-white typewriter keys style added), Izouda (an art deco Broadway-style beauty), Bernardo (an italic family, with swash initials thrown in, named after Lucian Bernhard), Netuno, Supermarket (shop signage family), Bruce Influence (interpretation of Great Primer Ornamented No. 30, from the Bruce's TypeFoundry 1869 catalog), Pretoria Gross (a Victorian family done with Paulo W), Reliant (2010, with Dmitrij Greshnev: a free interpretation of Bernhard Schönschrift (Lucian Bernhard) and Liberty, which was designed by W.T. Sniffin for ATF in 1927, following the original designs by Lucian Bernhard), Reliant Limited (2012, free version).

    Gostosinhos (2010) are hilarious faces put together in a dingbat font. Centennial Onaments (2010) was done with Paulo W. Calligraphic Birds is pure penmanship.

    Fonts done in 2011: Ambrose Bierce Daned Font (ornamental caps), Menina Carinhosa (floriated caps), Menina Formosa (floriated caps), Menina Espinhosa (2011), Menina Graciosa Ornaments (2011, +Two), Menina Poderosa Ornaments (2011), Azalleia (floriated caps), Azalleia Ornaments, Naoko (a fantastic oriental simulation face), Bestiario (calligraphic penmanship dingbats based on the work of English writing master John Seddon, 1644-1700), Seddon Penmans Paradise Capitals (elaborate caps along the lines of Bestiario), Dolphus-Mieg Monograms (after a 1901 book by the Dollfus-Mieg company), Imprenta Royal Nonpareil, Dia de los muertos (2011), Naive Ornaments (2011), Eingraviert Dutch Capitals (2011).

    Creations in 2012: Spirulina, Promotion Script, Soft Ornaments (+Two, +Three, +Four, +Five, +Six, +Seven, +Eight, +Nine, +Ten, +Eleven, +Twelve, +Thirteen, +Fourteen, +Fifteen, +Sixteen, +Seventeen, +Eighteen, +Nineteen, +Twenty, +21), Soft Garden (ornaments), The Black Shapes, Sabor Words, Sabor Digital (textured), Sabor Rasgos Escritura (upright connected script), Floreart (floral dingbats), Mirella Script (French bastarda penmanship script), Soft Flowers, Derriey Vignettes (after Charles Derriey), Gracious Azaleas (flowery dings).

    Design from 2013: Bruce Ornaments Collection, Invitation Script (after the calligraphy of Andrade de Figueiredo, 1722), Mirella Initials Ornamentals (a swashy calligraphic script done with Paulo W), Menina Graciosa (ornamental caps), Menina Gostosa (Loira (caps), Morena (calligraphic), Ornamentos (floral)), Alien Trees. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    J. Daniel Escareno

    J. Daniel Escareno (Houston, TX) created the all-caps typeface Levels in 2013.

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    J. Fürst Gardiner
    [Aeolien]

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    J. Gyles&Sons

    J. Gyles&Sons was a foundry in Clerkenwell, UK, est. 1865. It advertised itself as Ornamental Typefounders. Samples from their catalog: Cheltenham Bold Outline, Dashes, fists, initials, a dingbat set called Convincers, and a dingbat set called Domestics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    J. Jeong

    Illustrator in Busan, South Korea. In 2012, she created an ornamental caps alphabet.

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    J. L. Romero

    J.L. Romero (JL Romero Design, Madrid) created the ornamental caps typeface Bike Type (2012). He works as a graphic designer and illustrator.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    J. Randall Harris
    [Just My Type]

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    Jack Lloyd

    London, UK-based designer of the colorful rounded sans typeface Prefecto (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jaclyn Whalen

    In 2012, Jaclyn Whalen designed a geometric typeface, and an ornamental caps typeface called Astoria. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jacob Diaz

    Whittier, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Simpson (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jacob Type
    [Brian Jacob]

    Brian Jacob (Houston, TX, and before that, Detroit, MI) set up Jacob Type in 2012. He designed these typefaces:

    • The illustrative alphabet Fox Type (2012), for which he used Futura as a basis.
    • Cellar Barrel (2012). A humanist slab typeface.
    • Boulevard Nights (2012). A heavy squarish typeface with copperplate terminals.
    • Various sets of numerals for a school project at College for Creative Studies called Zeitgeist Numerals (2012).
    • In 2013, he published the modular squarish typeface Wavering Nights.
    • The semi-condensed sans typeface Perfect Fall (2013).
    • Four Foxes (2013). A quartet of typefaces derived from wood, glass, metal, and paper.
    • The free font Glass Wing (2014).
    • The stencil art deco typeface Acoustic Beach (2015).
    • Kotori Rose (2018). A free sans.
    • Nyctophilia (2018).
    • Astro Lounge (2018).

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

    Jacopo Atzori

    Editorial and type designer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. During his communication design studies in Milan, Jacopo Atzori created a decorative caps typeface in 2013 for 6:00am Skateboard Culture Magazine. Check also his oriental Nike Tour lettering for the same magazine in 2012.

    Jacopo Atzori (Milano), Vicky Chinaglia (Roma) and Matteo Giordano (Alessandria) co-designed Anatomia in 2013-2014 during their studies at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) under the guidance of professors Marta Bernstein, Michele Patané and Andrea Braccaloni. It is a grotesk with peculiarities (such as the terminals on a and t) inherited from the Scotch Roman model found in the 1930 book by Giulio Chiarugi, Anatomia dell'Uomo.

    Graduate of ECAL in Lausanne, class of 2016. During his studies at ECAL, he published the display typeface Piet (2017) and the slab serif typeface Gioco (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jacqueline Barba

    Howard Beach, CA-based designer of Viola (2014), an ornamental caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jacques Sacon

    French typographer in Lyon, b. Romano Canavese, Italy, ca. 1472-1530, also known as Saccon, Sachonus, Zachonus, Zacconi, Zachone, Zachoni, Zacchoni and Zachon. He drew an initial caps alphabet in 1519 that depicted birds, beasts and flowers. Revival in 2010 by Dick Pape as Sacon Initials.

    In 2011, Marion Chalvin and Raphaële Mouren (Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, Villeurbanne, Rhône, Université Lumière, Lyon) wrote Jacques Sacon, imprimeur-libraire lyonnais du XVIe siècle: 1497-1529. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jacques-François Rosart

    Belgian punchcutter and typefounder (b. Namur, 1714, d. Brussels, 1777). His early life was spent in Namur, Belgium. In 1740, he started out in Haarlem as a punchcutter, and published twelve type specimens in 1741, as well as 14 ornaments. From 1746 until 1752, he cut another thirteen different alphabets. In 1749, he cut several sets of musical characters. He had a contract with Enschedé, where he made the gorgeous shaded capital typeface Rosart in 1759, aka Enschedé no. 811. He moved back to Brussels in 1759 where he ran his own foundry. He published books with specimens in 1752, 1761 and 1768.

    F. Baudin and N. Hoeflake published the facsimile The Type Specimen of J.F. Rosart, Brussels, 1768 (Amsterdam, London, New York, 1973). The original book by Rosart, Epreuve des caractères, qui se gravent et fondent dans la nouvelle fonderie de Jacques François Rosart has been scanned in. Download his 1761 specimen book. Download his 1768 specimen book. Local downlload of his 1768 book.

    Metal typefaces influenced by Rosart include a couple of typefaces by Douglas C. McMurtrie, McMurtrie Title (1922) and Vanity Fair Capitals (1923), and Stuyvesant (1942-1947) by W.A. Dwiggins.

    Mac McGrew: Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Italic were designed in 1942-47 by William A. Dwiggins, inspired by a quaint Dutch type cut by J. F. Rosart about 1750, and used in 1949 in The Shelby Letters, from the California Mines, 1851-1852, published by Alfred Knopf. An entirely different Stuyvesant, a novelty design, was made by Keystone before 1906, perhaps before 1900.

    Mac McGrew: McMurtrie Title is a font of highlighted roman capitals, based on a typeface created by the eighteenth-century Dutch founder, J. F. Rosart. The source of the first line of the specimen, a major typographer, shows no characters except the alphabet and three points. But the cases of a prominent printer include the points and figures shown on the second line. Although the letters seem to be identical, each size is on the next larger body compared to the first showing (thus the second specimen line is on 30-point body). The second line seems to be a little less compatible with the capitals, and perhaps was substituted from another source. Compare Caslon Shaded, Cameo.

    Mac McGrew: Vanity Fair Capitals were adapted by Douglas C. McMurtrie in 1923, from a type of J. F. Rosart, an eighteenth-century Dutch typefounder, and were privately cast for distribution by Continental Typefounders Association. They are a set of shaded italic capitals, with tendril designs used as serifs and breaking the main stems. John S. Carroll, then operating a private type foundry in Miami Beach, cut much the same typeface in 1964-65; the specimens here show both cuttings. Carroll's cutting is closer to the original, and true to the Dutch originals, smaller sizes are simpler, lacking the mid-stem ornamentation.

    List of digital typefaces based on Rosart's work:

    • The 2-line great primer letters of Enschedé no. 811 were digitized by ARTypes in 2007 as Rosart811.
    • In 2012, the Enschedé no. 811, which was made for the Enschedé Printing House, was revived at Cyreal / Google Web Fonts by Alexei Vanyashin and Manvel Shmavonyan.
    • In 2002, four students at ENSAD in Paris co-designed Rosart.
    • Rosart (1995) by Roger White.
    • Rosart (1991, Alfac, Thierry Gouttenègre).
    • DTL Rosart by Antoon de Vylder at Dutch Type Library.
    • Rosart Initials (2010, Dick Pape).
    • Rococo Titling (2001): ornate titling caps by Lars Bergquist.
    • Reiher Headline (2018, Ramiro Espinoza) contains a set of ornaments that are based on Rosart.
    • In 2017-2018, Michel Paré, as a Dutch participant in the Expert Type program at the Plantin Institute in Antwerp, designed a font with most of Rosart's ornaments, and Rosart's floriated initial caps.
    • Yulia Gonina, a Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, published a thesis entitled Jacques-François Rosart Revival (2018) that documents not only Rosart's life but also some of her revivals of Rosart's typefaces. Hers are called Rosart Text and Display and include italics.
    • Rosart (2011, Camelot Typefaces), by Katharina Köhler.

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    Jaduger Design Studio (and: Twodollarshop)
    [Mobaric Minhas]

    Mobaric Minhas is the Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the old typewriter typeface families AMTW (2016), Typerighter (2016), Silk Remington Typewriter (2016), Silk Remington Pro (2020) and the vintage typeface Steadfast (2016). In 2016, he created the modular sans typeface Production, the display typefaces Whakatani and Whangarei, the techno sans typeface family Glorifie, the grungy letterpress font Handy, the grungy typeface Brushed, the high-contrast display typeface Manukao and the squarish typeface Manurewah.

    Typefaces from 2017: Ashial Chalky, Mibrush (dry brush script), Malo Script, Egyp (hieroglyphs), Cycle Font (bike scanbats), Tamaki Pro (grungy letterpress emulation typeface), Stone Age, Kabadi (a geometric headline sans), King's Initials, Handwriter (grungy).

    Typefaces from 2018: Gothink (an ultra-condensed sans family with solid and aged versions of all styles), Kula, Reformer (a tall condensed gothic sans).

    Typefaces from 2020: Kula (+Shadow: a 4-style poster serif), Typrighter V1.

    A substore of Jadugar Design Studio is Twodollarshop. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jaime Brahmbhatt

    Based in London, Jaime Brahmbhatt created the iornamental caps typeface Random (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jake Domingo

    Jake Domingo (Palatine, IL) created several display alphabets in 2013. They include Stumped. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jalpa Shah

    Mumbai, India-based designer of the Gujarati display typeface Babuchak (2014). She developed this in a class taught by Rucha Suryawanshi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Albuquerque

    Illustrator and web designer in Parede, Portugal, who made Afrika (2010)---the ornamental caps alphabet, not the continent. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Andrews

    London-based creator of the wavy font Wavey (2013) and the ornamental caps alphabet Pencil (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Banner
    [Digital Type Foundry]

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    James Bonaventure Hepburn

    Scottish scholar (1573-1620) who in 1616 in Roma published The Virga Aurea---Seventy-two magical and other related alphabets. The Virga Aurea was published as a large engraving. The engraving consists of a listing in four columns of the 72 alphabets, which include various Latin and Greek alphabets, as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Etruscan, Assyrian, Armenian, Gothic, Scythian, Scottish, Hibernian, Coptic and Chaldaic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Hargreaves

    Savannah, GA-based student who proposed the fat 1870's style display typeface Little Hills (2006) for a school project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Hernandez

    Californian graphic designer who created the all-caps breast-inspired alphabet called Venusian (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Johnson

    Designer of the grunge family Aurora (at T26), Anagram Caps, the 2-font family Comix, Skeletons (letters made from people), Magic Squares (pixel font), Spankie, and the graffiti font Stresdt. Only Magic Squares is downloadable (Mac only). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Keefe

    During his studies at Leeds College of Art (UK), James Keefe designed the cross-haired typeface Geometric (2012), an ornamental caps alphabet (2013) and a display typeface (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James Kilfiger
    [The Difficult Type]

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    Jamie Clarke
    [Jamie Clarke Type]

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    Jamie Clarke Type
    [Jamie Clarke]

    Jamie Clarke (Bristol and London, UK, and at some point, Sydney, Australia) creates illustrative type and lettering. He ran his own digital agency for ten years, and retrained after that period by studying type design at the University of Reading and letterpress at the St. Bride Foundation in London. His commercial typefaces include Brim Narrow (2015). He writes about this engraved layered typeface: Brim is inspired by antique woodtype and chromatic type from the 1800s. Its various styles stack together creating a variety of decorative combinations. Each layer can be assigned its own colour. The horizontal etching in some styles and subtle shadow effects can give the typeface the appearance of a vintage money font. In 2016, he added Brim Combined.

    His commissioned led him to the Kelmscott Bakehouse K (2016), a decorative letter commissioned by Kelmscott Bakehouse and based based on William Morris's ats and crafts style.

    Typefaces from 2017: Rig Shaded (a large 3d shaded typeface family---the best such collection available to date).

    Typefaces from 2018: Shovel Knight Drop Caps (partial woodblock print alphabet), Rig Solid (a superb family of layered 3d fonts).

    Typefaces from 2020: Span (a 3-style a modern glyphic type family that flaunts its engraved heritage with sweeping serifs and sculptural forms).

    Typefaces from 2021: Rig Sans (a 16-style geometric sans).

    Author of the very informative article The Evolution of Chromatic Type (2017).

    Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jamie Marsh

    Jamie Marsh (a photographer in Ipswich, UK) designed the decorative caps typeface Affix (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jan Duda

    During his studies in Warsaw in 2013, Jan Duda designed the script typeface Szczud and the experimental caps typeface Tarot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jan Heeyeon Lee

    Toronto, Ontario-based designer of a colorful all caps alphabet, Floral Gas (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jan Nuzzo

    Berlin-based designer of the free EPS format Victorian caps typeface Kurt (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jan van Krimpen

    Major Dutch typographer and type designer, b. Gouda, 1892, d. Haarlem, 1958. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag (1908-1912) and joined Enschedé in 1925. He had a considerable influence on the next generation of type designers. His typefaces include:

    • Cancellaresca Bastarda (1934-1935, Enschedé). 100 Types writes: Cancellaresca Bastarda is a graceful narrow italic with long descenders and ascenders, and a large array of character variations and swashes. The uppercase and lowercase alone ran to 167 characters including ligatures, anticipating large-family calligraphic fonts such as Poetica Chancery by at least 50 years. Jan van Krimpen's types have been called 'austerely beautiful' but are little known outside of his native Holland. The Enschedé Foundry for whom he worked in the mid 20th century still rigidly controls his types, and none of these have been cross licensed, redistributed or pirated. As a result, Cancellaresca Bastarda is one of the rarest typefaces.
    • Haarlemmer (1938). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: Designed by Jan van Krimpen, and commissioned in 1938 by the Vereeniging voor Druk- en Boekkunst. This originally private type was intended for an edition of the Staten Bijbel to be printed in small folio format. The type has the qualities of an old face. The serifs on the capitals are thin; on the lower case they are stronger and not quite horizontal. The capitals are wide, especially the M. The g has a large bowl. The italic is slightly inclined and has angular beginning strokes; the g has a calligraphic tail; v and w have cursive forms. Two styles of figures are provided. Now digitized as DTL Haarlemmer and DTL Haarlemmer Sans (1994). Frank E. Blokland published it at Monotype in 1998, and later at his own type foundry, Dutch Type Library. This is a prototype example of a design that is totally destroyed by one glyph, the lower case g in the italics.
    • Lutetia (Enschedé, 1924). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: The type shares some of the qualities which we have found in a number of contemporary types, small serifs and unobtrusive capitals. The capitals are wide, note especially E and F. U has the lower-case design. In the lower case the e has an oblique stroke to the eye, the g a large bowl, and the t is very short. The figures are old style. In the italic there is a swash series of capitals with prolonged strokes in A, K, M, N and R. The lower case, very slightly inclined, resembles Blado in the angularity of the begininng strokes, but the serifs on ascenders are flat. The g has a calligraphic form. It is an italic which, again like Blado, will stand on its own. The roman alphabet shown here is the first Lutetia of 1925 designed 1923-1924. With the co-operation of Jan van Krimpen an American printer, Porter Garnett, had it revised in 1928. The present Enschedé Lutetia is of the first form with the exception of the horizontal bar to the e. Monotype Lutetia was adapted by the designer to the Mono-unit system. Lutetia Open was cut about 1930 on the model of handtooled capitals which the designer had been using occasionally. Lutetia was digitally revived as Lutetia Nova Book in 2014 by Ralph M. Unger, and as Lutetia Open by ARTypes in 2007. For her type revival project at KABK, Barbara Bigosinska picked Lutetia (2013) and writes: Lutetia was designed as a commission from Enschedé by Jan van Krimpen. The drawings of the typeface were ready in the middle of 1924 and first cut and cast in 16 point size in the Enschedé Type Foundry. For the first time the typeface was used in the book dedicated to the exhibition that took place in Paris in 1925. Therefore the name Lutetia refers to the Roman name of Paris. Essay by Doyald Young on Van Krimpen and his Lutetia.
    • Open Roman Capitals (or: Open Kapitalen, revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli; see also Open Capitals by ARTypes, 2007).
    • Romanée (Enschedé, 1928). For a digital revival, interpretation and extension, we refer to Holger Koenigsdoerfer's Romanée (2017, unpublished).
    • Romulus (Enschedé, 1931 for the Capitals and 1936 for the Open version). Romulus Kapitalen and Romulus Open were revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli. See also Romulus Capitals and Romulus Open in 2007 by ARTypes. Now digitized as DTL Romulus (2002).
    • Curwen Initials, done in 1925 for The Curwen Press at Plaistow, London. Digitized by ARTypes as Curwen Initials (2008, Ari Rafaeli).
    • Spectrum (Monotype, 1952--a very beautiful modern type family, legible, and flexible in all situations; part of the Linotype library). MyFonts writes: Spectrum is based on a design by Jan van Krimpen, who worked on his typeface from 1941 to 1943 for use in a Bible of the Spectrum publishing house in Utrecht. The bible project was later cancelled but the typeface was so beautifully formed and universal that the Monotype Corporation in London completed it.
    • Van Dijck.

    Van Krimpen had a difficult character. Lines&Splines wrote this: Alastair Johnston, from an issue of Ampersand, once posed the question, "Do you have to be an asshole to be a good type designer?" Gerard Unger replied to the effect that even to this day, people will look over their shoulders before discussing Van Krimpen. One can almost imagine Van Krimpen waving one of his sharp serifs over his head like a stick, flailing against the difficulties of his everyday relations, his nostrils flared as they were in every portrait taken of him. MyFonts page. CV at Linotype. FontShop link. Some of his work and correspondence can be found at the University of Amsterdam.

    Klingspor link.

    A list of typefaces based on Jan Van Krimpen's work:

    A

    Author of On Designing and Devising Type (1957, New York: the Typophiles, & Heemstede). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jan Vitásek

    Graphic designer from Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Behance link. He created a groovy smoky hazy all caps alphabet in 2009. In 2010, he followed that up with a stitching font and with Suche Hrdlo, an Escher trompe l'oeuil typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jane Lawler

    Preston, UK-based designer of the colored initial caps typeface Secret Garden (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janet Jeanes

    Graphic designer in Havelock North, New Zealand, who created Love Letters Drop Capitals (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janet Ng

    Johor Bahru, Malaysia-based designer of the fun decorative children's alphabet, Giraffe (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janon Co

    Authors of Fine Hand Embroidery (1914, New York). This book contains many embroidered alphabets and monograms. Janon Co had offices in Paris and New York.

    Digital typefaces based on their work include Antoinette Monogrammes (2013, Ryoichi Tsunekawa). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janos Csoma

    Hungarian FontStructor who made typefaces like ACDC (2011, a blackletter / tattoo typeface based on the AC DC logo), Code (2011, the pixel font used in Command Prompt), Bonzarificx (2011), Spore (2011), Greek (2011, ornamental Greek face), Olde Time Ornamental (2011), FontStruct (2011), Circuitboard (2011), Logo MT Condensed (2011), and Bonzarific (2011).

    In 2012, he added Code (grid-based), Moderniste, and IBM Logo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janos Raddatz

    German designer of the free monster alphabet font Monstros (2017). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jared Andrew Schorr

    Graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Montclair, CA-based designer of Bear's Monsterbet (2014, an ornamental monster alphabet). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jaro Springer

    Jaro Springer (1856-1915) of the International Chalcographical Society authored the specimen book Gothic Alphabets (1897, printed by the Reichsdruckerei, Berlin), which was also published the same year in German as Gothische Alphabete. This book showcases three ancient anthropomorphic alphabets: a pen-drawn figurine alphabet from ca. 1400 consisting of cowled figures and fabulous beasts and dragons; a figurine alphabet from 1464 engraved on wood in the Netherlands by Master of the Banderoles; and an architectonic alphabet engraved on copper. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jasmine Ang

    Bandar Sungai Long, Malaysia-based designer of the children's animal-themed all caps font Zoofari (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jason Mans

    Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the decorative typeface Yummy Sushi (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Javier Fuentes

    Boston-based designer who was born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela. Behance link. He created the geometric outline typeface Jeroglifico (2011), and the Bauhaus-inspired outline typeface Dessau (2012).

    Behance link. Cave Graphic Design link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Javier R. Calvo
    [Buenos Dias]

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    Jay Batchelor

    American designer, b. 1973, based in Cincinnati, OH. Between 2002 and 2010, he created Rebel Caps. Rebel Redux and Chemy Retro (art deco) followed in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jay Hilgert
    [Albatross (or: Font Deals)]

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    Jay Hilgert
    [BittBox (or: BB Free Fonts)]

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    Jay Roerade

    Plymouth, UK-based artist and designer, who created a decorative floral caps alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jérémy Schneider
    [VJ Type (was: Violaine & Jérémy)]

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    Jean Midolle

    French calligrapher and graphic artist, b. 1794, Besançon. He lived and worked in Geneva, Mulhouse, St. Gallen, Strasbourg, and finally, Belgium. Author of Spécimen des écritures modernes (Emile Simon fils press, Strasbourg, France, 1835), a book that contains many chromolithographs. His alphabets include:

    • Alphabet Diabolique and the Alphabet Lapidaire Monstre (1834). Initials depicting the devil and other monsters. Jessica Slater digitized it (as Diabolique) in 2001 and writes: This alphabet was designed by Jean Midolle and published in Strasbourg in 1834. During the previous 50 years the French had seen violent revolution (1789-1799), and the Napoleonic wars (1803-15), followed by the restauration of a monarchy that was increasingly reactionary, intent on augmenting the influence of the wealthy classes, and curbing civil liberties (Louis XVIII 1814-24; Charles X 1824-30). The July Revolution of 1830 restored what promised to be a more moderate monarchy under Louis Philippe. But this new government was not to respond to the economic needs and political desires of the lower classes, and further discontent became inevitable. Within this context, the often tasteless images of this "Alphabet diabolique" may be better understood as portraying through satire the harsh realities that the French people had faced within a single lifetime.
    • Romaine Midolline (1835) and Midoline (ca. 1840, at Julius Klinkhardt in Leipzig). There is a digital revival also called Midoline by Gerhard Helzel. Dan Reynolds writes: About fifteen years after this portfolio's publication, the printing and typefounding company of Eduard Haenel in Berlin produced a typeface that was also named Midolline. Its letterforms are similar to those in Midolle's print. Since we do not know the date of Midolle's death, it is difficult to imagine how this typeface actually came about. I suspect that Haenel might have produced it as a posthumous tribute to Midolle, for display at the 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London but that is just a guess. What is certain is that many other typefoundries across Europe acquired matrices for the Midolline types. The design was eventually sold in the U.K. as Saxon Text by the Edinburgh and London-based Miller & Richard type foundry. After the American Civil War, multiple foundries in the United States would carry it, too. They sold it under the name Composite. In 1854/55, just a few years after Haenel's Midolline had been produced, the Trowitzsch & Sohn printing and typefounding firm published a derivative typeface called Schmale Midolline. In the United States, Schmale Midolline was sold as Composite Condensed. For a time Midolline became a type classification term in Germany, used to describe all blackletter-roman hybrids. Other German typefoundries---like Flinsch in Frankfurt am Main---created additional designs that were also marketed with the term Midolline (or Midoline) in their names, such as Halbfette Midolline, Moderne Midolline, and Schmale Midolline. Because so many Midolline types had been in circulation, late-19th and early-20th century German typographers were not certain which foundry had been responsible for first bringing it into the world.
    • Gothique Composée (1835).
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    Jean-Daniel Preisler

    Eighteenth century designer of rococo iluustrated alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jean-Louis Frigon

    Montreal-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Montreal Vernacular (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jean-Michel Papillon

    French wood engaver, b. 1698, Paris, d. 1776, Paris. Son of Jean Papillon, the famous manufacturer of fine wallpapers. He was for a long time employed by the Imprimerie Royale as wood engraver. There, he created numerous ornaments. Author of Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois (1766, Paris). Chapters cover cutting of the block, inking and printing, monograms, xylography and block books, cutter's tools, and chiaroscuro prints.

    Digital typefaces that are based on his work include

    • Papillon 1760 (2007, Dick Pape). A free font. First shown in Paris in 1760, and reprinted by Clarence P. Hornung in Dover Pictorial Archive Series: Early Advertising Alphabets, Initials and Typographic Ornaments (1956, Dover Publications). Hornung's images inspired Pape's typeface.
    • Papillon Woodcuts (2013, Jose Jimenez). A commercial font based on the same sample from 1760.
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    Jeannette Wiseth Karlsen

    Designer in Slemmestad, Norway, who graduated from a school in Oslo in 2012. She created an experimental caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jed Heuer

    Designer Jed Heuer (Brooklyn, NY) has done quite a bit of typographic work, short of making an actual font. Behance link. I quite like his anatomical alphabet (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jefer Martinez

    Orihuela, Spain-based designer of a decorative robotoc 3d typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jeff Levine

    Prolific type designer in Florida, b. New York, 1952. His fonts were originally free and consisted largely of dingbats. Around 2005 he went commercial, and now sells his work (over 350 fonts as of 2009) via MyFonts. He has branched out into several font styles, with a soft spot for stencil fonts, fonts for signage, art deco, and fonts for advertising. Born in New York, his family moved to Florida in 1963, where he has been ever since.

    An interview. Alternate URL. Yet another URL with his early free fonts. My pages on him. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jeff Levine
    [Jeff Levine: Additional typefaces]

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    Jeff Levine: Additional typefaces
    [Jeff Levine]

    This is a list of fonts by Jeff Levine not categorized anywhere else on my pages.

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    Jeffrey Fernandez

    Graphic designer in San José, Costa Rica, who created the ornamental typeface Mecanica (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jen Haugan

    During her studies at the Royal College of Art in London, Jen Haugan, who was born and raised in Norway, designed the decorative caps typeface Penguin (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jen Lea

    As a student at Leeds College of Art in Leeds, UK, Jen Lea created the Impact-inspired fat slab serif typeface Immense (2016). For a summer project in 2015, she drew a decorative alphabet (but did not make it into a font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jenna Hughes

    Graduate of Pendleton College, UK. Creator of an ornamental caps typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jenna Josepher

    New York City-based graphic designer who made an alphabet that sure looks like it was made from clippings of pubic hair (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jenni Xinran Li

    Toronto-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Cinder (2013) that was influenced by Moroccan tiles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jennifer DeAngelis

    Born in New Jersey in 1985, Jennifer DeAngelis Gunn still lives in New Jersey, where she runs the graphic and web design company Jennifer DeAngelis Design (est. 2008), which is also listed on MyFonts. DP Fonts (est. 2010) sells fonts created by Jennifer and her New York college friend, Amanda Pastenkos.

    Jennifer designed the intricate wool strand-themed font Strands (2010) and the children's hand Right Height (2010). Majordomo (2010) is a pretty hand-drawn didone.

    The first DP Fonts font on MyFonts is the dingbat typeface Wintery Mix (2010). In 2011, Jennifer published the hand-printed 3d outline typeface Marquee, Mermaid NY (mermaid dingbats), Donald (hand-printed outline face), Bluebird (2011, a connected italic script), Quail (2011, grunge), REST BORT (2011, a hand-drawn blackboard bold family), White Rabbit (2011, a gorgeous hand-printed swashy caps face), Monocle86 (avant-garde), the grungy Snatch n Sniff, and the warped zebra typeface WEALD.

    Creations from 2012: the white on black tiled typeface Inthabox, the art deco typeface Esther.

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

    Jennifer DeAngelis
    [Design 23]

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    Jennifer Lim

    Jen Lim is a senior art director in Marikina, Manila, The Philippines. In 2018, she created the decorative alphabet Monster (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jenny Teoh

    Kuala Lumpur-based creator of the ornamental caps typeface Jenny's Doodles (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jeri Gulsby

    Tuscaloosa, AL-based designer of a curly all caps display typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jericho Jayme

    Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the architectural decorative caps typeface Pride of Place (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jerome Viguet

    Based in Lausanne, illustrator Jerome Viguet created the hilarious caricatural alphabet Alphabet 01 in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jerry Landers
    [Mouser Fonts]

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    Jess Matthews

    Pittsburgh, PA-based designer of The Underwater Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jesse Saler

    Graphic designer in Atlanta, GA. She made the caps typeface Guts (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jessica Bergmann

    Costa Mesa, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Damp (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jessica Campione

    A graduate of the State University of New York in 2009, graphic designer Jessica Campione created Betsy (2012, a 19th century typeface), [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jessica Cunningham

    During her studies in Philadelphia, PA, illustrator Jessica Cunningham created a map of France (2016) with handcrafted map lettering. She also drew a set of drop caps (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jessica Davis

    Bothell, WA-based desigigner of the decorative caps typeface Animal Letters (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jessica Hay

    Jessica Hay (Ottawa, Canada) created Body Type (2013, an anatomical dingbat face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jessica Hische

    Jessica Hische was born in Charleston, SC, in 1984. She is a Brooklyn-based hand-letterer and illustrator, who has worked for clients such as Tiffany&Co., Victoria's Secret, American Express, Target, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Chronicle Books, Random House, and Penguin Books. Blog. She created various calligraphic and hand-lettered scripts such as Valentine Script (2009), Buttermilk (2009, a calligraphic connected script) and New York Times Buzzwords (2009). Creations in 2010: Snowflake, Snowflake ornaments. Typefaces from 2011: Bryan Who (quaint, antique). Fonts made in 2011: Brioche (a dessert menu script face).

    She also has a site called Daily Drop Cap Cap, in which she adds a free drop cap every day (but this lasted four days only).

    Her drop caps typeface family Minot (2013) and her initals Penguin Drop Caps (2013: a series of twenty-six collectible hardcover editions of fine works of literature, each featuring on its cover a specially commissioned illustrated letter of the alphabet by Jessica in collaboration with Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley) won awards in 2014 at the Communication Arts 4th Typography Competition: 2014.

    In 2014, Jessica Hische created the script typeface Tilda at Font Bureau for Moonrise Kingdom.

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

    Jessica Slater
    [West Wind Fonts]

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    Jessica Slater
    [Jester Font Studio]

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    Jester Font Studio
    [Jessica Slater]

    UK-based Jessica Slater's fonts at Jester Font Studio include JF Ringmaster (2001, Western ornamental caps), Flamingo (a scan of 19th century birds in forms of letters), JF Ringmas, Cotsworld, FairFaces, JFAutumnFair, JFFerrule, JFHollyBows, JFHollyDayz, JFHollyNites, JFIvyLaceAlt, JFIvyLace, JFJungleRock, JFRockOutcrop, JFRockSolid, JFSnowbiz, JFSpringFair, JFSummerFair, JFWinterFair, JFWildWood, Flamingo, Diabolique (2001), Night Vigil (2001), McKloud, Clouds of Despair, Clouds of Hope.

    Enlargements of these delicately constructed fonts reveal magical things---for example, in Jungle Rock, spiders, ants and parrots will appear in the letters. The glyphs are veritable pieces of art!

    She designed McKloud (2001, with Apostrophe), Wiggles (dropcaps with snakes), Wibbles and Wobbles (2001) at Apostrophic Labs [dead link].

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    J.G. Schelter&Giesecke
    [Johann Schelter]

    Leipzig-based foundry started in 1819 by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Friedrich Giesecke (1793-1850). It evolved in 1946 into Typoart in Dresden, the official East German government's press. Its early history is told in Schelter & Giesecke 75 Jahre (1894, Leipzig).

    The descendants of Giesecke were also involved, because we find patents filed in the USA by Georg F. Giesecke for typefaces such as Italian Renaissance (1883, blackletter), an ornamental caps typeface (1889), a boxed alphabet (1881), a Celtic caps typeface (1883), Gothic Initials (1883), Zierschrift 1328 (1889), Zierschrift 1400 (1889), Akantrea (1883, borders and ornaments), an early border typeface (1878), Silhouette Border Series 63 (1884), a Lombardic typeface (1885), some script typefaces (1887, 1892), Kartuschen Einfassung serie 72 (1887, ornaments), an ornamental caps typeface with angels (1888), Shieldface A (1881, caps), Shieldface Combinationpieces (1881, ornamental) and Toskanische Egyptienne Initialen (1889; revival by Dieter Steffmann in 2003).

    Typefaces include the script typefaces Hispania Script (1890, a pirate map face), Koralle (1915), Flamme (1933, brush-like script), Fanal (1933, angular blackletterish script face), Sakia (1931, by Jan Tschichold), Shakespeare Mediäval (1930), Koralle (1929; Georg Kraus mentions the date 1915, as does Nick Curtis, who based his Koralle NF (2012) and Koralle Rounded NF (2014) on this typeface; see also the recent revival Koralle RMU (2018, Ralph M. Unger)), Belwe (1929, by Georg Belwe), Gnom (1928), breite Gnom (1928), Perkeo (1928), Tauperle (1928), Kolibri (1928), Wieland (1927, Georg Belwe), Belwe Antiqua (1927, Belwe), Alt Latein (1924, modified modern), Dolmen (1923, Max Salzmann), Titan and breite Titan (1915), Watteau-Schrift and Watteau Schmuck (1913: aka Kartenschrift Watteau; a non-connected script; ornaments by artists Erich Gruner, Professor Flinzer and Louis Oppenheim), Die Zierde (1913, ornaments by F.H. Ernst Schneidler), Salzmann Antiqua (1913, Max Salzmann), Monos (1912), Salzmann Fraktur and Kräftige Salzmann Fraktur (1911, Max Salzmann), Salzmannschrift and halbfette and schmale Salzmannschrift (1910, Max Salzmann), Roland Grotesk and Roland Kursiv (1910), Rundgotisch (1909; others say 1902-1903), Mimosenzierat (1909, Heinz Keune), Meierschrift (1904-1908, C.F. Meier), Walgunde mit Zieraten (1908, Eduard Lautenbach), Schmale Anker Romanisch (1908, a German romanesque), Leipziger Lateinschrift (1908), Liane (1908), Schmale fette Schelterantiqua (1908), Kalender Vignetten (1907, Max Salzmann), Initialen zur Rousseau (1907), Fee (1907, handwriting), Fata Morgana (1907, handwriting), Schmale fette Edelgotisch und Zierat (1907), Schmale Medieäval (1840: revived in 2020 by Ralph M. Unger as Schmale Mediaeval), Akropolis Ornamente (1907), Patriz Huber Ornamente (1906, Patriz Huber), Reklameschrift Radium (1904-1906), Schelter Kursiv (1906), Schelter Antiqua (1906---and its extensions in 1907, Leipziger Lateinschrift and Tauchnitz-Antiqua; revived in 2020 by Oliver Weiss as Schelter Antiqua WF), Fafner (1905, + Schraffierte; revived by Oliver Weiss in 2020 as WF Fafner), Biedermeierzierat (1905), Rosenzierat Serien 534 und 535 (1905, Heinz Keune), Accidenz-Zierat (1902), Edelgotisch (1901, Albert Knab), Belwe Antiqua (Georg Belwe), Belwe Kursiv (Georg Belwe), Schul-Fraktur (1886, + Fette, 1890, + Schmale fette, 1918; digitization by Delbanco as DS-Schulfraktur in 2001), Gutenberg-Gotisch (1885; the original by F.W. Bauer and Th. Friebel dates from 1880; Halbfette Gutenberg-Gotisch was done in 1890), Borghese (1904, art nouveau: revived in 2015 by Ralph M. Unger as Borghese), Münster-Gotisch (1896; revived in 2009 by Paulo W as Münster Gotische; Gerhard Helzel also did a revival), Jugend-Fraktur (ca. 1900), Breite Kanzlei (1835; other publications mention 1890...), Halbfette Kanzlei (1860), Baldur (1895; for a digital revival, see Alan Jay Prescott's New Baldur APT, 1996, and Dieter Steffmann's Baldur from 2000), Moderne enge halbfette Fraktur (1886), Schmale Steinschrift (1898, Grotesk), Schlanke Grotesk (1886, Grotesk), Breite Grotesk (1886, a typeface that influenced the Bauhaus movement and that become the forefather of Helvetica; revived by Nick Curtis as Schelter Grotesk NF in 2010, and by Arve Båtevik as Sagen Grotesk in 2015), Breite Halbfette Grotesk and Breite magere Grotesk. Ornaments found in their 1902 catalog formed the inspiration for the digital family Allerlei Zierat (2008, Intellecta Design).

    Comments by Paul Hunt in 2005 on Schelter Antiqua (1906): Schelter & Giesecke had launched Schelter-Antiqua as their own original in-house design with very elaborate and beautiful specimens, an essay on its features, and a warning that they had protected it under German law (gesetzlich geschützt). It was intended as a very serious contender in the legibility stakes and the Schelter & Giesecke specimen contains a fascinating 4-page article on it. There is much emphasis on the care put into avoiding over-fine hairlines and achieving good spacing. Benton's 1914 ATF typeface Souvenir is a cuddly soft version of Schelter Antiqua. Ed Benguiat (Photo-Lettering) did a faithful phototypesetting revival of Benton's typeface in his Souvenir Graphic (1967) and Souvernir Balloon, and that typeface in turn evolved (and was expanded) into the digital typeface ITC Souvenir.

    Books: Probensammlung Schelter&Giesecke, Zweite Folge (1894), Probensammlung (1888), Type specimen book of Schelter & Giesecke (1899), Schriften und Zierat (1909), Type specimen book of Schelter & Giesecke (1912), Type specimen book of Schelter & Giesecke (ca. 1932).

    Scans of some typefaces: Altromanisch Kursiv, Cancellaresca, Dante, Edda (art nouveau), Edelgotisch-Initialen, Edelgotisch (art nouveau), Galathea, Hispania, Iris, Müstergotisch, Petrarka (1900, an art nouveau typeface revived in 2012 by Nick Curtis as Petrushka NF), Rundgotisch, Sylphide, (see Hispania Script, 2008, Tom Wallace), Thalia (art nouveau), Tintoretto (for digital versions, see Dieter Steffmann (2000) or Ralph M. Unger, 2009), Washington, Altromanische Antiqua, Halbfette Altromanisch Versalien, Romanische Antiqua, Romanische Kursive No 20, Schmale Halbfette Romanisch, Schmale Muenster Gotisch, Sylphide, Sylphide.

    View some digital typefaces that are derived from the Schelter & Giesecke library.

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    J.H. Crook

    Type designer who created Mecanorma Ortem, an art nouveau caps face, which can be bought from URW and MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jia Yi Chee

    Illustrator and designer in Singapore who made an ornamental caps art nouveau alphabet called Deception (2013) and published it in The Subversive Alphabet Book. It showcases ruthless women throughout history. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jiayin Song

    Santa Ana, CA-based designer of a photographic alphabet called The Old Shanghai (2019) as well as a decorative 3d alphabet (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jill Albarado

    Designer based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI, who created the caps font Kidsplay (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jillian Hobbs

    Web designer in New York City, who created the floral decorative caps typeface Les Bois (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jillian King

    American designer of Animal Aphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jilly Cooper

    Freelance graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Greater Manchester, UK. She graduated from The University of Lincoln, UK. Creator of an ornamental caps alphabet in 2012.

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    Jim Crow

    During the 1850's, the Dickenson Type Foundry in Boston stole a typeface from a foundry in France, redesigned the M and modified the N, and named it Gothic Shade. American Type Founders (ATF), a business trust created by the merger of 23 type foundries (including the Dickenson Type Foundry) was established in 1892. With the merging of these foundries, came the merging of their catalogs. And with that came Jim Crow, the American Type Founders' 1933 and 1949 re-casting of the Dickinson Type Foundry's type of the 1850s, Gothic Shade. It has also been called Tombstone. Additional sizes were cut by Los Angeles Type Foundry.

    Digitizations include VTC Ruby by Tre Seals (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jim Fordyce

    Or James Fordyce. Type designer active ca. 1993, possibly located in Kosciusko County, IN. His typefaces were free, and can be found in many places. Font Squirrel link.

    A list of his creations:

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    Jim Marcus

    American type designer at [T-26]. Catalog of Jim Marcus's typefaces: ABS, Acetone, Aeos, Aerator, Airflo, AlbanyTelegram, AlquitoCCCP, Ambex (2004, futuristic, with nice dingbats), Aquabus (2004, multilined, op art), Aquiline (2007), Aquiline Master (renaissance script), Arete-Mono, Aviator, Axiom, BonGuia, CalculusRegular, Carnival, CartographersWheel, Coaxial, Detailles, Django-Bold, Dumaigne, Echoplex, Entelliant UK Bit (2004, dot matrix face), Eraser, Eremaeus (used for the movie Underworld Evolution), EscalidoStreak, FGrooveSeventyNine, FedorovAnglo, FgrooveEighty, GeistBold, Geminix (2004), Generator, Glue, GlueStix, Grenoway, Guerilla Dub (2004), HelterSkelter, HypercellHelix, InAscorbicAcid, InAspartame, InPotassiumCarbonate, InSodiumBenzoate, InXanthumGum, Innocence, IsoOpto-Regular, JuliaBook, Kode, Krane, Kurusu (1994, Japanese dingbats), LaFigura, LassigueDMato (1996, handwriting in the style of Treefrog, 1996), LexigraphA, LexigraphB, LexigraphC, Liefendre, MagyarPosta, Masoch-Dirach, MaxiGroove, Milagro, Montenegro, Octopus84, OctopusCentennial, Opaque (1996, T26, artistic letters!), Oscillator, Pacific, Phlax, PhlaxCyrillic, PolytoneReliant, Prophecy, PulsarGClass, PulsarNClass, QuadChannelTwo, QuadEq, QuadPolyphony, RegalloAPlaya, Registration (1995, a beautiful cross-hair dingbat face), Resbaloso, Retcon-SquareTwentyFiveOblique, RolandTR909, SW7, Scorpio, Seppuku, SerapisCaps, SkreechCaps, TaserRound (pixel font), TempoCCCP, Tempus Gothic (2004), TenkoQualgeist, Thessaly, Tiraso-AndanteThin, Toreador, TruStarImperial, VariatorTwo, Vishido, VoiturePlat, ZavTone, DigitalWaste, IDE, Uniglow, Velocity, Zavtone (2005, fifties style). At Plazm, he published EscalidoGothico (1994), EscalidoStreak (1994).

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    Jim Wasco

    Type designer who worked at Adobe from 1989-2002 and for Monotype from 2003 until today. His typefaces in chronological order:

    • 1974 to 1989: As a freelance, he assisted Jim Parkinson in the Cochin, and Kennerley revivals, an old Perspective metal type design, and Rolling Stone alphabet additional weights Elephant, Italics and Condensed, done in pen and ink. For several ad agencies, he designed the Franzia winery logo, and many other logos for packaging and advertisementsi and was mainly a lettering a logo artist.
    • 1985: He produced font designs for DHL Express and SFO International Airport at Primo Angeli Inc.
    • 1986 to 1989: He produced various font families like Garamond, Goudy, Eras, American Typewriter, Futura and Stymie at SlideTek using a B-Spline vector graphic system.
    • 1989 to 2002: He produced fonts at Adobe Systems in Redwood City, CA. There, he designed Tekton Bold, Mythos (1993: a mythical figure caps face done together with Min Wang), Tekton GX (with David Siegel), Waters Titling word ligatures. He designed and produced the Romaji Latin characters of Heisei Maru Gothic W4 and W8, Adobe Sans and Adobe Serif. He did font production work on ITC Garamond, ITC Cheltenham, Albertus, Castellar. He helped expand Adobe Originals to Pro character sets in Jenson Pro, Minion Pro, Kepler, Sanvito Pro, Cronos, and Calcite Pro. He played an important role in the production of Multiple Master fonts.
    • 2003 to present: He produced fonts at Monotype Imaging:
      • For Microsoft, he designed the family of five weights of Segoe based on Segoe Regular.
      • He directed design production and programmed OpenType features for Segoe Script and Segoe Print.
      • He designed Wasco Sans a font for the gaming and flight simulator groups at Microsoft.
      • He designed AT&T Sphere Gothic Sans fonts.
      • He designed a new slab serif family for Gatorade.
      • He directed a new design for General Electric called GE Sans.
      • He designed and directed production of various non-Latin scripts for Monotype for Armenian, Ethiopic, Khmer, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and African language scripts including Tifinagh, N'Ko and Bamum.
      • He designed the original geometric sans font family Harmonia Sans (2011), which is a blend of contemporary geometric sans serif lettershapes and classic calligraphic proportions. Jim Wasco was aided by George Ryan in the production of the typeface family. He said: I wanted to create a simple and legible typeface by pulling the best aspects of classic geometric sans designs, such as Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
      • He directed a language expansion project for Edward Johnston's London Transport fonts, adding Cyrillic and Greek.
      • He designed a script typeface based on Ed Benguiat's calligraphy for the ITC logo in 1970 called Elegy (2010-2011). Elegy has 1546 glyphs, and was awarded at TDC2 2011.
      • He designed nine new weights for the Neue Aachen font family (2012) expanding it to 18 fonts including Italic.
      • He designed swash caps and directed Morris Freestyle.
      • He designed ITC Avant Garde Pro ligatures for the new OpenType version.
      • He designed Baskerville Cyrillic and Greek for E reader fonts (2012).
      • Daytona (2015) is a sans family that grew out of a desire to provide improved fonts for use in televised sporting events.
      • Elicit Script (2018, by Laura Worthington and Jim Wasco). A hybrid (casual and formal) scrpt typeface based on pointed pen Spencerian Script handwriting.

    Linotype link. Linotype interview. FontShop link. Pic. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled OpenType features for Script Typefaces. Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jimmy Kam

    Jimmy Kam Chi Ping (Hong Kong) created Tripod (2013), a caps typeface with letters in the shape of a tripod. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jimmy Kam

    Graphic designer in Hong Kong who created the ornamental typeface Tripod (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jing Ng

    Singapore-based designer of the (free) fun initial caps typeface Jombie (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jingboo Young

    During her studies Jingboo Young (Beinjing, China) created an experimental Chinese caps typeface called Chair (2014), and an all-caps Latin ornamental typeface without a name. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jinso Elmalo

    Designer at Pastaza Type in Ecuador of the Mexican ornamental caps typeface Punk (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jintanat Jintasawaeng

    Jintanat Jintasawaeng (Denver, CO) modified Adobe Caslon into an ornamental typeface called Kin Sia in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    JLH Fonts

    JLH Fonts (or: jhnri4) is the American creator of Making a list checking it twice (2012), Judges (2012, grungy), Janitor (2012), Remix (2012), Arrows (2012), Chalk Line Outline (2012), Pretzel (2012, art nouveau titling face), At Sign (2012), Portmanteau (2012), Seattle Avenue (2012), Sunflower Harvest (2012), Double Strike (2012: a hand-drawn blackboard bold typeface family), Sierra Nevada Road (2012), The Radical Sign (2012), The Jewish Bitmap (2012), The Inequality Grapher (2012), Thin Pencil Handwriting (2012), Marker Scribbles (2012), Grunge Handwriting (2012), Tally Mark (2012, prison wall counting), Gold Plated (2012), Overhaul (2012), Apex Lake (2012, ornamental caps), Halogen (2012, in the style of Comic Sans), Signs For Advertising (2012), and Hand Drawn Shapes (2012).

    Typefaces from 2013: Vengeance (calligraphic), Calligraserif, Heavy Equipment (sans caps), ViaFont (art deco sans based on the Viacom logo), Bromine (a typeface that started out in iFontmaker), Topeka, Printed Circuit Board (based on the Hewlett-Packard logo), Fondue, Northampton, World Tour (ransom note font), Aquifer (an antiqued Garamond), Floppy Disk.

    Typefaces from 2014: Scratched Letters, Airbrush, Broken Glass (glaz krak font), Byzantine Empire, Office Junk (ransom note font).

    Dafont link. Old Fontspace link. Blogspot link. Google Plus link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jo Hyun Wang

    Seoul, Korea-based designer of an intricate and detailed 3d all caps font (2017), where one can ask the question: Where does a typeface end and art begin?. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jo Ratcliffe

    Graphic designer and illustrator who created Hairletters (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jo the Webmistress
    [The Netstar Fresh Fonts]

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    Joachim Müller-Lancé
    [kame Design (was: kametype)]

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    Joachim Romann

    Type designer (b. 1916, Dantzig, d. 1996, Kronberg). He studied lithography from 1933-1937 in Dantzig, and typography in Offenbach until 1944. After that he was associated loosely with Gebr. Klingspor, and was a freelance graphic designer from 1948 onwards.

    Romann designed fonts at Klingspor. Chief among these is Constance or Constanze (1954, a light script). Several digital revivals exist such as Stanzie JF at Veer, Constanze Pro (2012, Ralph M. Unger)), and Constanze Initialen (calligraphic; digitally revived as Constanze Initials (2010, Claude Pelletier) and as VIP (2008, Canada Type)). Other typefaces at Klingspor include Doppelmittel halbfette Constanze, Doppelmittel fette Constanze, Queen (1954, outline and decorated renaissance penmanship initials typeface revived as Jaggard (2007) by Paulo W at Intellecta Design), Variante (1951, formal script without lower case). Various typefaces remained unpublished such as Constanze fett, Constanze halbfett (1956) and Kronberg (blackletter). At the Ernst Engel Presse, he created a Schwabacher in 1940 and an Antiqua in 1941. Alternate image from Klingspor.

    Revivals of his work also include Jaggard (2007), a renaissance penmanship initials typeface developed by Paulo W at Intellecta Design.

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    Jón Ingiberg Jónsteinsson

    Reykjavik-based designer (b. 1982) of the modular type family Hlemmur (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joanne Hewitt
    [Joanne Marie]

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    Joanne Marie
    [Joanne Hewitt]

    Joanne Hewitt or Joanne Marie. Chester, UK-based designer of these commercial (mostly script) typefaces in 2015: Rebel, Hide Away, Strangelove, Artful Beauty, Alamanda (calligraphic script), Joella Brush, Springer, Featherly (a "wedding swash font"), The Artist (brush script), Artist Brush Script, Stephen Type (a signature script), Joanna Marie Script, Joanna Marie Calligraphic, Dreamy Script, Paddy (handwriting font), Violet Bee, Queen Caps, Twingo (rough-edged serif typeface).

    Typeface from 2016: Benedict, Mistress Benedict, Birthday (calligraphic script font), Significant (calligraphic), Just Write, Featherly Handlettered, Heavenfield, Heavenfield Typewriter, City Lights Marker Font, Lucky Dip (consisting of Alright, Annabelle, Caitlin, Debbie, Dramatic, Famed, Felicity, Fernando, Gladys, Inspirations, Jacob, Jennifer, Joseph, Lucky Dip, Ribbon, Tristan), Happy Girl (watercolor brush), Sunset Hill (watercolor brush), Stephanie Jane, Humble Hearts (connected monoline script).

    Typefaces from 2018: I Heart It, The Overthinkers (hand-lettered script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Stylefinder, Soft Whisperings Calligraphic.

    Typefaces from 2020: Forever Loved, Mistress Benedict Brush (dry brush script), Rebellious Brush, Hop Serif Hand Lettering, Use Your Words, Winterfalls (a perky upright script).

    Typefaces from 2021: Halesbridge, (56=7x4x2 styles: Halesbridge is a soft sans serif font family consisting of 7 weights (from hairline to black), 4 widths (regular to super wide) and roman/italic versions), Stepford (a 6-style bold upright script), Patternistic (a set of patterned caps). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jocelyn Gonzalez

    Santa Elena, El Salvador-based designer of the brush font Bohe (2015) and the doodle monster alphabet Mons (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jody Burge

    Designer of these free fonts in 2006-2007: Dancers (alphadings), Expecting (fat brush), Touch of Class, Deer by Jody Burge (alphadings), Elvis, Go Wildcats (all caps) and The Blob. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joe Lau

    Brighton, UK-based designer of Manhole Cover Font (2014: decorative caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joe vanderHam
    [Joebob Graphics]

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    Joebob Graphics
    [Joe vanderHam]

    Dutchman Jeroen van der Ham ("joebob"), who is based in s'Hertogenbosch, designed mostly handwriting fonts: Lingua (a fat finger font) (2021), Quarantinus (2020), Epistula (2020), Old Letterhand (2020), dearJoe 7 (2019), Black Hand (2018), Caput (2018: a crayon font),Manus Smooth (2017), Four Hand (2017), Maneo (2017), Tater Todd (2016), Creta (2016, crayon font), Hillbelly (2016, rough brush script), Hesster Mofet (2016, brush script, renamed from Hesster Moffett), Coalhand Luke (2014, crayon or chalk script), Dear Joe 6 (2014), Dextera (2014, by Geert Dijkers), Stone Hand Saul (2014, a scribbly hand), Manus (2014), Dear Joe Hannes (2013), Winston Nero (2013, a hipster cartoon font), Serious Sally (2012), Inkydoo (2012, +Serif), Serial Sue (2012), Calligra Phillip (2012), Mixtape Mike (2012, a fat finger face), Dear Joe 3 (2010), Brushtip and Brushtip Travis (2010, two of his nicest typefaces, with a calligraphic and rough-edged touch), Vince Hand II (2010), Crossword Belle (2009), BrushtipTerrence (2009), Brushtip Texe (2009), OnetrickTony (2009), Christel Line (2009, +Black), Etch A Sketch (2009, grunge), DearJoe 5 Casual (2008), PencilPete (2008, handwriting).

    Fonts added in 2007: Curly Joe, Sinister Sam (calligraphic), VincHand (handwriting of Vincent Haenen), DearJoe5, Moan Hand, FancyPens (a calligraphic pen).

    Fonts added in 2006: FlutSaus (hand-printed; done with Hilde Rikken), Amorrisline, Hilde Caps (based on the handwriting of 9-year old Hilde Rikken), C rial, Hildinia Donut, BrunoBook, BuffaloStance, Stam Pete (grunge), CrosswordBill, DearJoe 1, JoeHand 2, Kali Graff, Bearer Fond.

    His oldest fonts: BillieBarred (multiple-lined handwriting), BillieBob (a great poster typeface), BillieBoldHand, BillieKid (nice stencil font), BobTag, CalamityJoe, CrappyJoe, DearJoeItalic, DearJoe II, DearJoe IV (antique handwriting, 2005), DoctorBob, FruscianteHand, FuturexBob, JoeBobstraight, JoeHand, MarkerMoeII, MoanLisa (2001, linocut style), Onepunch Jim Outline, Detour Dork (2002).

    His fonts are available from MyFonts. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Typoasis link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Another Fontspace link.

    View Joe Vander Ham's typefaces. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Johana Ramirez Nieto

    Art director in Caracas, Venezuela, who designed the decorative caps typeface Fishing Type in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann David Steingruber

    Steingruber (1702-1787) was the son of a master mason from a place called Wassertrüdingen an der Wörnitz, near the town of Dinkelsbühl. After an apprenticeship in which he worked on constructing palaces at Mannheim and Rastatt, he came to work at the Brandenburg court at Ansbach in the service of the margrave Friedrich Carl Alexander. He was soon appointed court and public surveyor, and was later made principal architect of the board of works. Besides completing many building projects, Steingruber expounded on his architectural theory in his books Architecture Civile (ca. 1748) and Practica Bürgerlicher Baukunst (Practical Course in Civil Architecture, 1763). He is the creator of the Architectonisches Alphabeth, so called because each capital is in fact a floorplan of a building. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Georg von Schwandner

    Austrian calligrapher and penman (1716-1791) who created many calligraphic alphabets, often of capitals. MyFonts link. Author of Calligraphia Latina (1755), reprinted by Dover in 1958. This book has twelve full alphabets, over 300 initials and many exquisite borders and frames. Samples from that book: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. Digital remixes: Schwandner Versalia (2010, Iza W, Intellecta Design). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Jacob Losenawer

    Author of Vorschrift Deutsch-Lateinisch und Franczösischer Schriften Geschrieben (Stuttgart, 1719, later edition in 1739). It has several calligraphic alphabets, and many elaborate initial caps: Sample, another sample, ample, and one more, and still more, and a final one for the road. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Merken

    Creator of Liber Artificiosus Alphabeti Maioris (ca. 1782). His designs were engraved by Heinrich Coentgen. I quote: The first and only edition (published in two parts) of this rarely complete calligraphy book included fifty six engraved plates. Besides the elaborate alphabets there are example writing styles, portraits, silhouettes (Lavater purloined one of the plates - not shown - for his 'Physiognomy'), monograms, calendars, fantasy geometrical and architectural figures, emblems, genealogical tables and ornamental letters. Scans: I, II, Scans: III, IV, Scans: V, VI. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Neudörffer

    German writing master, 1497-1563, aka Johann Neudörffer The Elder, who founded his writing school in Nürnberg, and printed his first plates ca. 1519. His first publication was Fundament in 1519. These prints eventually became the foundation for a new kind of writing education throughout Europe. His writing manual and teachings helped further the development of blackletter. Author of Anweijsung einer gemeiner hanndschrift. Durch Johann Neudoerffer, Burger vnd Rechenmeister zu Nurmberg geordnet und gemacht (Nürnberg, 1538). Some of his methods are still alive in contemporary type design.

    Oliver Linke, an expert on Neudörffer, and Christine Sauer published Zierlich schreiben Der Schreibmeister Johann Neudörffer der Ältere und seine Nachfolger in Nürnberg (2007, Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg 25, Typographische Gesellschaft München / Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg).

    Several blackletter type families are named after him, such as Helmutt G. Bomm's Neudoerffer Fraktur (2009, Linotype), Manfred Klein's Neudoerffer (2003; the note in the font says that these codex-style initials are the unaltered original Neudoerffer Initialen from 1660, but this information could be in error) and Neudoerffer Scribble Quality (2003), and Klaus-Peter Schäffel's 1519 Neudoerffer Fraktur (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Schelter
    [J.G. Schelter&Giesecke]

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    Johann Theodor de Bry

    Belgian-German copper engraver (b. Liège, 1561, d. 1623), who worked most of his life in Frankfurt am Main. His vast oeuvre includes a human figure alphabet [see also here], which appeared in his book Alphabeta et characteres, iam inde a creato mundo ad nos- tra usq. tempora; apud omnes omnino nationes usurpati; ex variis autoribus accurate depromptj. artificiose et eleganter in aere efficti et recens foras dati (1596), and shows many influences of similar alphabets of Peter Flötner in Germany. The alphabet plates in the book include representations of Chaldaean, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Arabic, Samaritan, Greek, Illyrian, Croatian, Armenian, and Roman, among others, many of these in several different varieties, as well as national varieties of lettering styles (German, Flemish, French, etc).

    In 1595, he published a thick Alphabetbuch, in which we find elaborately ornamented caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Volkmer

    Berlin-based designer of the 3d- carpentry alphabet Mann von Wald ABC (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Zainer

    Johann Zainer (d. ca. 1523) was the second printe in Ulm, Germany. He is known, e.g., for printing the first German edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus. He used a gotico-antiqua typeface ca. 1477 for the printing of Jacques de Voragine's Legenda aurea and used it unti 1485. A revival of that typeface was undertaken in 2017 by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas at a type design workshop at Hochschule Aachen and Stadtbibliothek Aachen. They called it Zainer Gotico-Antiqua 96G. In addition, Faudot and Ribas revived a richly decorated gothic initials typeface used by Zainer for the Spiritual Interpretations of the Life of Jesus Christ around 1478 (and used until 1480). They named that typeface Zainer Initials 45mm.

    Github link where one can download the digital revivals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johanna Basford

    Calling herself an ink evangelist, Johanna Basford (Aberdeen, UK) created exquisite ornamental capis typefaces called Alphabots (2012) and Alphabotanics (2012). She graduated in 2005 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johanna Feth

    Mannheim, Germany-based designer of Scherenschnitt (2016, a decorative caps alphabet) and Lepidoptera (2016, an experimental alphabet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johannes Birkenbach
    [ABC Design]

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    Johannes Siemensmeyer

    German creator of the rabbit-eared angular typeface family Suberp (2014, +Black, +Light) and the techno typeface Smeyer (2014). In 2015, he created the decorative caps typeface Helveticalien. Flickr page. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John A. Hern
    [The Happy Greyhound]

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    John B. Wundes
    [Wundes]

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    John Chippindale

    Designer of the art deco caps typeface ITC Avenida (1994). ITC Avenida was inspired by lettering found on buildings in Spain's Andalucia region in the 1930s and 1940s. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    John Clister Santos

    Designer of the tribal decorative caps typeface Pangkat Etniko (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John G. Ohnimus

    Denver-based artist. Author of Henderson's Sign Painter (1906, R.H. Henderson, Newark, NJ). R. Henderson published the related text Henderson's Sign Designs and Alphabets (1905).

    His own alphabets in this text include Church Text (Lombardic), Modern Egyptian, Architectural, Initial Letters, and Heavy Sign Script. Local download of the former text [692MB].

    Digital revivals:

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    John Leighton

    John Leighton (pseudonym Luke Limner) (1822-1912) was an English artist and book illustrator. His Royal Picture Alphabet was published in 1856 by Ward Lock in London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John M. Bergling

    Great American calligrapher and engraver. He wrote several books, including Engraving Designing Etching (1914), Heraldic Designs & Engravings (1913), Heraldic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople, Ornamental Designs and Illustrations">, Art Monograms and Lettering (1912, 1916) and Art Alphabets and Lettering (1914, 1918, 1923). He was Master Engraver with the renowned C.D. Peacock jewelers in Chicago around 1900. Creator of many art alphabets, Bergling is also noted for state seals of the United States and many seal crests of foreign countries. His great-grandchildren set up Bergling Publishing and are selling directly or through Amazon most of his oeuvre.

    Digital fonts based on Bergling's work:

    • One Good Urn NF (2005, Nick Curtis) is based on his art nouveau lettering from 1914.
    • Morocco (1914) provided the caps of Funky Tut NF (2005, Nick Curtis), and Keramic Text (1914) provided the lower cases characters of the latter font.
    • Chantilly Lace NF (2005, Nick Curtis) uses uppercase letters by Bergling and lowercase letters by Roland W. Paul.
    • His Nibs NF is a digital font by Nick Curtis (2007) based on the calligraphy of Bergling, ca. 1914.
    • Carson Monogram (2009, Brian J. Bonislawsky) is based on Bergling's New Antique 53 from the book Art Monogram and Lettering.
    • Bergling (2010, Scriptorium) is a floriate script based on Bergling's work. Other (art nouveau style) Scriptorium fonts based on Bergling include Boetia, Belgravia, Bosphoros and Beaumains (2011).
    • LHF Bergling Panels (2012, John Davis) is based on Bergling's work.
    • Initials Bergling (2012, Alter Littera) is a comprehensive set of initials (usually referred to as Uncials, Lombardic Initials, or Lombards) of the French variety, adapted from Bergling's book Art Alphabets and Lettering (Second Edition) (1918, Chicago: Blakely-Oswald Printing Company).
    • In 2011, J.M. Bergling's work inspired John Studden's monogram fonts LHF Monogram Circle, LHF Monogram Diamond, and LHF Monogram Oval.
    • MFC Ambeau Monogram (2019, Monogram Fonts Co). Based on the decorative art nouveau alphabet called American Beauty in Art Alphabets and Lettering).
    • MFC Decatur Monogram (2020, Monogram Fonts Co). Based on an alphabet seen in J.M. Bergling's book Monograms and Engraving Alphabets (1914).
    • Bergling Nouveau Display (2020, Steve Harrison).
    • Skaliwag Display (2020, Steve Harrison).
    • Allotropic (2022, The Flying Type). An art nouveau font that loosely draws inspiration from an untitled alphabet drawn in 1914 by J.M. Bergling.
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    John Misael Villanueva

    Trece Martires, Philippines-based lettering artist and type designer, known for the official typeface of the American industrial tools maker Stanley Black & Decker. In 2019, he designed these typefaces: the colorful decorative caps typefaces Pinas, Habi and Habi Pinas, Florida, Military Industrial, the free vernacular typeface BBT Martires, the script typeface Cute Bouncy, the modular typeface Arturo, the corporate font Stanley Black&Decker and the variable sans typeface Dinamika.

    Typefaces from 2020: Nilad Pro (a display serif inspired by the flourishing bud of the yamstick mangrove or nilad), Leandro (inspired by the brutalist architecture of Filipino architect Leandro Locsin). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    John O'Reilly

    During his studies in Dublin, Ireland, John O'Reilly designed an ornamental caps typeface called My Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John Paul Gereaux

    Tattoo artist in Florida, b. 1969, whose business is Vicious Ink. He posted 21 free fonts in 2011 at Dafont all at once. Many of these have calligraphic or Celtic influences. There are of course several blackletter and illuminated caps typefaces, as one would expect in a tattoo parlor. The fonts were all made in 2010: Pauls3-DTribal, PaulsBloodSweat&Tears, PaulsCelticFont1, PaulsCelticFont2, PaulsCelticFont3, PaulsCircusFont (Lombardic), PaulsEstherFont (tattoo style), PaulsFancyScript, PaulsGothicCurls, PaulsGraffitti, PaulsHeartlessFont, PaulsIlluminatedCelticFont, PaulsKanjiFont-Bold (oriental simulation), PaulsPoisonFont-Italic, PaulsRansomNoteFont, PaulsRealCelticRuneFont, PaulsSUPERFont, PaulsSinnerFont, PaulsSouthPacific, PaulsSwirlyGothicFont, PaulsWhimsyFont, Paul's Bloody, Paul's Weight, Paul's California (a fun script). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John Peters

    British type designer, b. 1917 Hilton, d. 1989 Hilton (by suicide). Designer of Angelus (Monotype, 1954, a 4 1/2 point type typeface for Bible composition), Castellar (an open caps face, Monotype, 1954? or 1957), Fleet Titling (1967, Monotype Series 632), and Traveller (1964, a Monotype font done for the British Railways). MyFonts incorrectly attributes ITC Peters Miro to him---that font was made in 1997 by american designer John Peter, ten years after John Peters' death. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    John Studden

    Sign artist in Burbank, CA who runs L.A. Signs and Graphics on E. Verdugo Avenue there. MyFonts link. All his fonts are commercial, and can be bought from Letterhead Fonts (LHF). He specializes in signage and retro typefaces. Perhaps his best-selling typeface is Classic Caps (2002). Other typefaces: Casablanca (2003), LHF Ephemera (2002, calligraphic), LHF Ballpark Script (2001, connected signage script), Goldsmith (2003), New Trajan (2002, based on Roman lettering found on buildings), Aristocrat (2002, inspired by a 1930s ad for swallow motorcycles), Big Top (2002, a circus headline font), Bulldog, Burbank (modeled after fire truck lettering), Classic Roman, Light Face Roman (2003), Fairground, Havana, Hertford, Corrie (2004, a roman titling face), The Bat (2004, inspired by lettering of Al Imelli), Pullman Train (2003), Labelle (2003, inspired by a Peace Time cigar label), Stetson (2004, an elegant all-caps display face), Brough Superior (2004), Classic Caps (2006, for Western style signs), Diploma (2006), Watrin (2006), Hamilton Ornate (2006, late 19th century ornamental style), Mackinlay (2006), Hamilton Nailhead (2006), Palms Bold (2006, wood type), Square Block (2006), Bank Note (2006, all-caps pair of typefaces that includes an outline), Gilmore (2006, wood type), Booth (2006, an artsy modern-serifed headline face), LHF Citizen (2007), LHF Prince (2007), LHF Vienna (2007), LHF Victoria (2007, art deco), LHF Roebuck, LHF Quaker (2007, elegant and artsy), LHF Prince (2007, inspired by the old "Farmer's Deposit National Bank" stock certificates), LHF Gilmore (2007), LHF Jumbo (2007, heavy Egyptian), LHF Conservatory (2008, a tall serif face), LHF Iron Horse (2008) and Shopfront (2002).

    In 2014, John Studden and Dave Parr co-designed the Victorian display typeface family LHF Blackstone and the retro script LHF Heller's Script. Studden also finished LHF Iron Knight in 2014.

    In 2011, J.M. Bergling's work (early 1900s) inspired the development of LHF Monogram Circle, LHF Monogram Diamond, and LHF Monogram Oval.

    In 2015, John Studden designed the Western Tuscan typeface LHF Nugget. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    John Wollring
    [Koeiekat]

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    Johnny Isaacs

    Johnny Isaacs (Oh Momma, UK) created the didone caps typeface Red (2011, work still in progress). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jolien Brands

    During her studies at Sint Lucas in Antwerpen, Belgium, Jolien Brands designed a geometric display typeface called Fragmental (2013) and the figurines typeface Wrestling (2012), possibly called La Lutte.

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    Jon McNair

    Graduate of The Maryland Institute College of Art, where he earned a BFA in Illustration. Portland, OR-based designer of an alphabet in 2012 that consists of bizarre flora, fauna, monsters and objects.

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    Jon Sharp

    Jon Sharp's studio in Lubbock, TX, is called Vertigo Creative. In 2016, he designed the decorative all caps wood-inspired typeface Oldenwood. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonah Fried

    Artist in Edinburgh, Scotland, who created the tool-inspired typeface Tool (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonas Helgeneset

    Jonas Helgeneset (Oslo, Norway) created the curvy decoratie headline typeface Smash (2011) and the experimental typeface Trendy (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonas Vacek

    During his studies in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Jonas Vacek designed the avanat garde sans typeface Saqare (2017) and a straight-edged experimental typeface (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonathan Bennett
    [Discourse Type]

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

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    Jonathan Jesus

    Graphic designer in Itagui, Colombia, who studied at Universidad Jose Maria Vargas. He designed the decorative caps typeface Louis Comfort Tiffany (2015), which is named after the famous American industrial designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonathan Ortiz

    As a student in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Jonathan Ortiz designed the free decorative AI format typeface Fusion Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonathan Rodríguez
    [Pixel Canibal]

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    Jonathan Swinn
    [Alphabet Agency Font Foundry]

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    Jonny Trousseau

    Portland, OR-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Pod (2014), which is inspired by Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001 A Space Odyssey. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joost van Vredendaal

    Utrecht, The Netherlands-based creator of Cirque de les folies (sic) (2011, an ornamental caps face), Men Archetype (2016: icons), and Refinery (2012).

    Typefaces from 2017: Infrastructure (multiline typeface), Music in Mono is Dead, Cartoonesque.

    Behance link. Cargo Collective link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jordan Kay Phillip

    Designer and illustrator in Seattle, WA. She made several ornamental caps typefaces such as Softwonder and Wingrose (2010). She also drew a sketchy alphabet, and alphabets called Violettdrakt (2010) and Double Dog (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jordan Lindsay

    Illustrator in Adelaide, Australia, who created a floriated caps alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jordi Fosch

    Tarragona-based Catalan designer of the typewriter font called Let32,2, and of the comic book font Love Gun. He also made Escher Desigual and FoschWords 1. In 2000, he created the poster stencil typeface called Cartolina (2000). In 2001, he designed the grunge typeface Surface (Garcia Fonts), the Kafkaesque all-caps typeface Jroña (Garcia Fonts) and the all-caps kids typeface Funny (Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jordi Manero Pascual
    [Woodcutter Manero]

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    Jorge Gallardo

    Toledo, Spain-based creator (b. 1984) of the heavy octagonal sci-fi typeface Base 45 (2013) and of Chain Anchor Font (2014). In 2015, he designed Popova Type (a grotesque font based on the design of an exhibition poster by Russian constructivist artist Liubov Popova in 1923 for the contemporary art piece "Wall of fame"), a great set of initial caps, and El Lissitzky style numbers.

    In 2016, he designed a decorative architectural all caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jorge Luis Vidal

    During his studies at Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil-based Jorge Luis Vidal designed the decorative ivy-themed all caps typeface A Casa (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jorge Moron

    Spanish designer of these free fonts in 2017: JMH Alfabeto Petiso, JMH Moreneta Dingbats, JMH Cajita, JMH Elixir, JMH Mariana Blanca (fun children cartoon font), JMH Paz, JMH Strigoi II, JMH Carrera, Vortice, JMH Crypt, JMH Tales, JMH Linart Caps II, JMH Bamboo Caps (oriental simulation font), JMH Lee West, JMH Mejana, Tuscan Caps, JMH Katan (based on the titling in the Katan comics), JMH Noreneta (Lombardic), JMH Ado, JMH Eeerie Dingbat, JMH Eeerie Out, JMH Eeerie, JMH Horror, JMH Harry Dickson Subs, JMH Memorias Dingbats, JMH Memorias SH One, JMH Select Terror, JMH Harry Dickson One, JMH Harry Dickson Two, Monsters Among Us Dingbats.

    Typefaces from 2018: JMH PR (a cartoon font family), JMH Halloween 2017, JMH Pulp Paperback (comic book font), JMH Typewriter (+Mono, +Dry Bold, +Thin), JMH Jezail, JMH Wolfa (dry brush), JMH Beda, JMH Sindbad, JMH Euryale, Julidoodles 3yrs (doodles by his 3-year old daughter), JMH Holy Bible, JMH Celaeno, JMH Extra Wide, JMH Arkham, JMH Moreneta Divine (heavy blackletter), JMH Cthulumbus, JMH Mummy, JMH Belicosa, JMH Canasta, JMH Saloon, JMH Extra, JMH Super Science, JMH Shadow.

    Typefaces from 2019: JMH Poudre, JMH Rodeo Caps 3, JMH Rodeo Cies Caps II, JMH Comics, JMH Espinosa (+Ornaments), JMH Typewriter Sans, JMH Ava, JMH Sherlock Dingbats, JMH Espinosa Ornaments, JMH Espinosa Bold, JMH Pets Caps, JMH Robotus, JMH Alien Sound, JMH Elixir Shadow, JMH Abedesa, JMH Moreneta Caps II (Lombardic).

    Typefaces from 2020: JMH Korak (a stone age font).

    It appears that some fonts (now removed from my list) were rip-offs. These included JMH Psychedelic Caps, which is a blatant copy of Keith Bates's Wes Wilson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jorik van Ruiswijk

    Amersfoort, The Netherlands-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Sea Style (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jorrit van Rijt

    Graphic designer in Utrecht. In 2010, he created the kitchen tile typeface Geo. In 2011, he designed the illustrative caps typeface Illustrato.

    In 2012, Jorrit designed Blocko.

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

    Jos Elsendoorn

    Dutch designer of the handwriting fonts Josschrift and JosschriftSerif (2005-2009), Dolly Dots (2009, dot matrix face), and the Western all caps billboard font Simson (2009). He also made Scratch Bold (2009) and Brands Kidnapped (2009, ransom note font).

    He based his font Margaretha (2016) on the handwriting of Margaretha Turnor (1680). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jose A. Puche
    [Kingdom Pixels (or: Reding)]

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    Jose D. Medina

    Illustrator from Caracas, Venezuela who is attending SCAD in Savannah, GA in 2015. At SCAD, he drew the all caps Ancient Mythology Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jose Jimenez
    [Celebrity Fontz]

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    Jose Ortiz

    Texan creator of the ornamental alphabet Fowl (2012). She is doing a BFA in Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Houston. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    José Antonio Garrido Izquierdo
    [Noem9 Studio]

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    Josep Baqués

    Catalan painter, sculptor and graphic designer, b. 1931, Barcelona. He created Zurich (ca. 1968), a roman all caps face, that can be seen here, here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Apoux

    French creator of the wonderful decorative caps called Alphabet Pornographique, circa 1880. As an example, the letter C is a nun performing a certain oral service on a hooded monk who is holding a whip. The full set of naughty caps can be seen here. The caps were digitized in 2007 by bobistheowl. For the sake of completeness, here is that alphabet again: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Gillé

    Among French type-founders at the end of the eighteenth century, the two Gillé's, père et fils, held a prominent place. The elder Gillé, Joseph, was a distinguished Parisian type-founder. He died in 1789. His work can be found in Epreuves des caractères de la fonderie Joseph Gillél; (1773), and in Caractères de la fonderie de J. Gillé, graveur et fondeur du roi pour les caractères de l'imprimerie de la loterie royale de France,&autres (Paris, Rue&petit marché Saint-Jacques, 1778). The latter book still shows mainly transitional typefaces, with slight hints of the start of the geometric trend in typography. Gillé seems to be mostly remembered for being the author of the ornamental typeface called Madame.

    Joseph Gillé was succeeded about 1790 by Joseph Gaspard Gillé fils. He was one of the promoters of the newer styles of ornament, and offered typographic decoration to the printers of France. His Recueil des divers caractères, vignettes et ornements (1808) also showcases copperplate engraving including copperplate calligraphic alphabets: one part of the book is entitled Trente-huit Caractères d'Écriture Financières, Anglaise et Civilité, depuis le Cicéro jusqu'aux Grosses de Fonte. Later, he published Recueil des divers caractères, vignettes et ornemens de la fonderie et imprimerie de J.G. Gillé, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, division du Panthéon, Paris (1826) [Local download]. Gillé fils was influenced by Didot in the design of his lush vignettes, borders and rules. His house specialized in ornaments, fancy letters and script letters. In September 1827 it was bought by Honoré de Balzac.

    On digitizations. In 2011, Jose Jimenez of Celebrity Fontz created Parisian Ornamentals after a design by Gillé. Home Style (2003, Michael Hagemann, Font Mesa) is an exquisitely detailed family based on work by Joseph Gillé, and implemented elsewhere under the names Circus, Roma and Madame. See also Gillé Classic (2004, Michael Hagemann). I think that this is a renaming of Home Style. Initiales ombrées (2007, Ari Rafaeli, ARTypes) is based on Gillé's original all caps typeface (from 1828, it is claimed). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Kaspar Sattler

    Lettering artist, painter and illustrator, b. 1867 Schrobenhausen, d. 1931 München. He studied in München and became professor in Strasbourg. His art nouveau illustrations appeared, e.g., in Simplicissimus.

    The typeface Sattler AS by Andreas Seidel (2003) at AS Type captures some of Sattler's finest initials, made in 1897 for the monumental book project Die Nibelunge (1900) for the Reichsdruckerei Berlin. The corresponding art nouveau script typeface by Sattler is called Nibelungen-Schrift (1897).

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

    Joseph Kiermeier-Debre

    Joseph Kiermeier-Debre and Fritz Franz Vogel wrote Menschenalphabete. Nackte Models, Wilde Typen, Modische Charaktere (2001, Jonas Verlag, Marburg), about alphabets made up of people. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Maalouf

    Graphic design student from Beirut, Lebanon. He created the bellydancer silhouette alphabet Alphabet vs Venus (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Pomerance

    Designer of ITC Pomerance, an all caps alphabet that was shown in ULC volume 4, 1977. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Spicer

    Owensville and/or Vincennes, IN-based art student (b. 1985) and designer of the Courier-like Shavian font Shaw Mono (2004), ChordBoxes (2010, to create chord diagrams), Bee Skep (2004, for Deseret), Box Puzzle Font (2010), Litterae Ignotae (2010: A Lingua Ignota (Latin for unknown language) was described by the 12th century abbess of Rupertsberg, Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes. To write it, she used an alphabet of 23 letters, the litterae ignotae), Seftos Nandor (2004, for an artificial language called Lower Geldorian), Sëftos Parathenia (2005, also in the Seftos script), this decorative serif (2006, experimental), Alberne Handlung (2007, a narrow all-caps Latin and Cyrillic face), Swartsbok (2007, a nice gothic font), Lumaro (2007, in the style of Times-Roman), Duck Hunt (2004, fat display face, based on the lettering of the title of the game), Anquietas (2004, "the Ancient alphabet from Stargate"), Gothic Book (2005), and Dadh Ath (2004, containing the Ath characters used to write Baronh created by Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Sekai no Monshou). Spicer now lives in Terre Haute, IN. Another web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Volpicelli

    Designer of a decorative bird alphabet in 1989 at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Xavier

    Graphic designer in Jleeb al Shuyoukh, Kuwait. Designer of the Latin caps alphabet Striped (2013). The outlines of Striped are from Nova. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Josh Krecioch

    Milwaukee, WI-based designer (as a student based in Oconomowoc, WI) of the great Opentype SVG-format floral caps typeface Posy (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Josh Sayer

    Hull, UK-based creator of the futuristic ornamental caps typeface Antevorta (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joshua Rodrigues

    During his studies at Brighton University in the UK, Joshua Rodrigues designed the decorative caps typeface Natural Garden (2015). In 2016, he added a modular typeface, as well as a circle-based Bauhaus style typeface aptly named Roundhaus. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jost Amman

    Nürnberg-based painter and illustrator (b. 1539, Zürich, d. 1591, Nürnberg) who created some ornamental alphabets, including an anthropomorph alphabet (1567) that shows some influences of Peter Flötner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joyce Lam

    Hong Kong-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Seafont (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jozef Sumichrast

    In the 1980s, Jozef Sumichrast designed ornamental alphabets from his home in Deerfield, IL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ju Ji

    Hanoi, Vietnam-based designer of an ornamental caps typeface that is based on Billy Collins' poem Fishing on the Susquehanna in July (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Juan de Iciar

    Also written as Juan de Yciar or Juan de Ycíar or Ioannes de Yciar. Spanish calligrapher, mathematician and writing master, 1515-1590. Author of Arte Subtillissima (1553, Zaragossa) and Arte Breve (1559, Zaragossa). According to Heitlinger, he was born in 1523, not 1515, in the Basque city of Durango (Vizcaya). He studied calligraphy with Tagliente and Palatino, and invented the so-called Spanish Bastarda, and drew many beautiful chancery alphabets.

    Image of Spanish gothic capitals (1550).

    He published Recopilación subtillísima intitulada Orthographia Practica in 1547-1548 (Zaragoza), the first writing manual in Spain. He also published Arte Subtilissima por la cual se enseña a escribir perfectamente in 1548 (8 editions from 1548 to 1566).

    Recopilación subtillísima intitulada Orthographia Practica was republished in 2003 by Jakider. From that book, his beautiful Latina initial caps. Scan of his Spanish renaissance alphabet, other alphabets, Ave Maria (1548, from Arte Subtilissima), chancery hand, and Cancellaresca gruesca (1548). Biblioteca complutense de Madrid has images on-line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Juan Esteban Orozco Sanchez

    Graphic communication student in Medellin, Colombia. Creator of Helvetica Y Art Nouveau (2012), a typeface in which Helvetica outlines are filled with art nouveau patterns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    JuanJo Rivas del Rio

    JuanJo Rivas del Rio (Malaga, Spain, b. 1983, San Pedro de Alcantara) created the teardrop-themed typeface Louisiane (2013). The modular decorative caps typeface Forium (2013, free) is inspired by gothic cathedrals. Both fonts are tweetware.

    In 2014, he published the free ultra-condensed typeface HR Giger Type, named after artist H.R. Giger. The typeface itself was started in 2007.

    In 2014, he co-designed Garnata Display with Nano Torres and Rafa Galeano at Garnatatype, a project about the urban vernacular type in the city of Granada.

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

    Jucelle Lim

    Graphic designer in Dublin, CA, who created several experimental typefaces in 2013, including Twirl It (ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Judith Sutcliffe
    [Electric Typographer]

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    Jules-Auguste Habert-Dys

    Illustrator, born in Fresnes in 1850. In the late 1880s, he published Alphabets (J. Rouam, Paris), a book that featured decorative alphabets. After studying under the ceramicist Ulysse Bernard in Blois, he moved to Paris in 1873, where he spent four years in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Later, he was influenced by graphic artist Félix Bracquemond, one of the first "japonists" in France. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia & Iryna

    Aka Blue Ocean Art Store. Designers of the vector format display typefaces Pixel Alphabet (2017), Vector Knitted Alphabet (2017), Watermelon Alphabet (2017), Watercolor Alphabet (2017), Tribal Alphabet (2017) and Sweet & Juicy (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Boden

    Dresden, Germany-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Stitch by Stitch (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Kuzmina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the (Cyrillic) decorative caps typeface Yarmarka (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Ockert

    Australian designer of the textured colored all capsBeatles Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Perry

    Graphic designer in Denver, CO, who created the ornamental caps typeface Hungry Jungle (2016; free PDF of this alphabet). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Shironina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the floral caps typeface Intober (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Shironina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based illustrator. Designer of the decorative all caps hprror font Inktober (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia van Vuuren

    During her graphic design studies in Sydney, Australia, Julia van Vuuren created the textured caps typeface Explore (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Vengerova

    Taganrog, Russia-based designer of the (Cyrillic) decorative caps typeface Geometrika (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Juliana Carreira

    During her studies in Madeira, Portugal, Juliana Carreira designed an ornamental alphabet (not a font, I think) called Projecto 6 (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Juliana Pedemonte

    Colorblok founder Juliana Pedemonte's illustration and motion graphic work first appeared on VH1, MTV and Nickelodeon Latin America in 2003. Born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, she studied at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2018, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos, she designed the Memphis-style color font Ponche in 2018. In 2019, she published the floral decorative color SVG font Wild Bloom at Sudtipos. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Julie Chapalain

    Julie Chapalian (Lille, France) designed the beautiful ornamental caps typeface Harness (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julie De Abreu

    Illustrator in Funchal, Portugal, who designed the ornamental caps typeface Constellation Sky (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julie Jup

    Freelance graphic designer in Paris, who created the experimental caps typeface Typototem (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julie Noel

    During her studies at ESAG Penninghen, Julie Noel (Paris) created the decorative caps alphabet Cieslewicz, which is named after Polish graphic artist Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julien Fesquet
    [Faak and Paat Studio]

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    Julien Poisson

    Montreal-based designer, illustrator and digital artist who created the wonderful Typeface (2012, an alphabet of comic book style human typefaces).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julien Priez

    Julien Priez (b. 1986, Montreuil, France) studied typography and type design at Ecole Supérieure Estienne des Arts et des Industries Graphiques in Paris (2006, 2008). In 2010, he worked at Atelier Pierre di Sciullo in Montreuil. Recently, he was affiliated with the French type foundry FontYou. His typefaces:

    • Rag FY (2013). A wavy brush typeface co-designed by Julien Priez, Sofia Proisy and Charles Privé at FontYou.
    • Le Normandie (piano key face). Le Normandie was expanded at Fontyou in 2014 to a gorgeous display triple of fonts, Normandie FY (Modern, Gothic, Italian). Der Klaus (2011) is a blackletter version of Normandie.
    • Le Montreuil (2010). An experimental poster typeface family done at Estienne with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray et Franck Jalleau.
    • Le Briqueterie (2010). Done with Pierre di Sciullo's studio: a modular pixelish family.
    • Le Baaf (2010). Done with Margaret Gray: an experimental titling face, based on the stained glass windows of a cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
    • Le Composite (2010). An imaginary letter font made under the guidane of Michel Derre and Franck Jalleau.
    • Le Jimmy (2009). A typeface done to invoke the 1930 mafia. A beautiful idea executed with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray and Franck Jalleau.
    • Typetool (2010). An ornamental caps typeface).
    • At Fontyou, Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran and Julien Priez co-designed the hand-drawn typeface Brixton FY (2013). Not to be confused with two earlier typefaces called Brixton, one by Tom Chalky, and one by Luke Ferrand. Since two of the three Brixtons are commercial, I expected FontYou to change the name.
    • In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days.
    • The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.
    • In 2014, Jeremie Hornus and Julien Priez co-designed the hairline typeface Gauthier Display FY.
    • Mandinor FY (2014) is a decorative didone typeface---it comes with separate Gothic (blackletter) and Italian (Western) variants, and is accompanied by Mandinor Ornaments FY. Still in 2014, Julien Priez, Hugo Dumont, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed Rowton Sans FY, a sans family patterned after Gill Sans in six weights, from Hairline to Bold---named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, it has the Gillian lower case g but italic lowercase is a bit too far afield for my own taste, especially the squeezed g.
    • Boogy Brut (2020). A pointy decorative serif with many calligraphic influences. At Bureau Brut.
    • Julien also drew many calligraphic alphabets, some of which will eventually become fonts.
    • Michel Derre and Julien Prez jointly won the Bronze Medal in the Latin category for Abelha in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

    Behance link. Julien Priez Drawing link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Julien Saurin
    [S&C Type Paris (was: La Goupil Paris)]

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    Julien Stephan

    Creator of the hipster typeface Plusieurs (2015) and the monster alphabet Abecedaire Monstrueux (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Juliette Glory

    During her studies in Rennes, France, Juliette Glory designed a mechanical decorative caps typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julius Edmund R. Nitsche

    Designer, illustrator, painter and interior design architect, b. 1882, Breslau, Germany, d. 1965, München. He worked for the Jugend magazine in München.

    Creator of Buchschmuck (1905), Akzidenz Zierat (1905), Unger Fraktur (1910, Klinkhardt; Wetzig says 1907), Waltraute (1916, a blackletter typeface done at Klinkhardt and at Berthold, Berlin) and Neudeutsche Ornamente (1911, Klinkhardt).

    Among digital revivals, we note the ornamental caps typeface Unger Fraktur Zierbuchstaben by Dieter Steffmann (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julius Klinger

    Klinger was born in Dornbach near Vienna in 1876. He studied at Technologischen Gewerbemuseum in Vienna. In 1895, he found his first employment with the Vienna fashion magazine Wiener Mode. In 1896, he moved to München where he worked as an illustrator for the Meggendorfer Blätter and other magazines. From 1897 to 1902 he was a collaborator at the famous Jugendstil magazine Die Jugend. In 1897 he moved to Berlin, where he worked extensively as a commercial graphic artist until 1915. Together with the printing house Hollerbaum und Schmidt, he developed a new fashion of functional poster design that soon gained him international reputation. In 1912 he designed the poster for the Rund um Berlin air show in Johannisthal. In Berlin he also contributed to Das kleine Witzblatt, Lustige Blätter and Das Narrenschiff magazines. Beginning in 1918, Klinger designed the ads for Tabu cigarette rolling paper. According to Viennese police records, Klinger, who was Jewish, was deported to Minsk on June 2, 1942 together with his wife Emilie and killed the same year. Others have him die in Vienna in 1950.

    His typefaces include Klinger Antiqua (1919, Emil Gursch) and Klinger Type (1925-1927, Schriftguss).

    Digitizations of his work: Jim Spiece created SG Veranda Poster (+Caps) in 2001. Its elegant letters go back to Julius Klinger and Willy Willrab. Based on fabric lettering by Klinger from 1925, Andrew Leman created a type family called Julius Klinger (2003). Nick Curtis designed Toot Sweet NF after a 1912 poster design by Klinger.

    Klingspor link. Anita Kühnel's page on his posters. Vienna Secession link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Julius Wiescher
    [Authentic]

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    Juliya Slanchak

    Graphic designer in Vilnius, Lithuania. Creator of the decorative caps typeface Construction (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    June Aarseth

    As a student at KHIB in Bergen, Norway, June Aarseth designed the decorative caps typeface The Most Amazing Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    June Sidwell

    Designer of Haute Couture Caps, an all caps alphabet that was shown in ULC volume 13, 1986. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jupri Yudhana
    [Cemleret]

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    Juseph Ramirez

    Cali, Colombia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Balastro (2016), which is inspired by the sports fileds in the city of Cali. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Just My Type
    [J. Randall Harris]

    Just My Type is a type foundry that was founded in 2012 by J. Randall (or Randy) Harris (b. 1947, Marion, IN) in Tucson, AZ. Harris is a graphic and type designer who has been making typefaces since 1997. He teaches at the Art Institute of Tucson. His typefaces from 2013: Megatropolis (a stackable deco font system), Historic Warehouse (Victorian).

    Typefaces from 2012: Happenstance (a lovely retro-futuristic script), Illuminations Woodcut, Yule Love It (Christmas time dingbats), Gawain (based on the hand of Gawain Douglas), Oaxaca (a Mexican look face), Boxy Code, Channel B (a rounded monoline sans), Curves, Puzzle, Dempsey (based on the writing of Tucson film teacher, media artist and programmer, Vikki Dempsey), Chilespice, Strata, Deco Donut, Jiminy (a comic book face), Invites (a roundish upright script that intends to recreate the 1920s spirit), Hunky Chunky (an obese poster face), the hand-printed typeface Carissa, Got Milk, Cutting Corners, Astro (retro-futurustic), Dix (2012: a slabby wood style typeface inspired by the poster for the 1929 film Redskin, and a desire to create a black Edwardian font with an offbeat serif), and the monoline rounded stripped-down sans typeface family Laszlo (2012: the name is an homage to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy of Bauhaus fame).

    Kolega (2012) is a constructivist typeface family that consists of Kolega, Kolega Tall, and Kolega Podrobska (fake comrade).

    Steampipe (2012) is an ironwork, Jules Verne, wrought iron and time machine font.

    Los Muertos (2012) is a Halloween font.

    Typefaces from 2013: Megatropolis (a stackable deco font system).

    In 2014, he created the art deco typeface HG Welles, which was originally designed for a privately-published luxury edition of The Time Machine.

    Behance link. J Randall Harris Design link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Justin Barreras

    Artist in San Francisco who designed the decorative caps typeface Fiend in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Justin Brazeau

    Toronto-based designer of Breaktura (2014), an ornamental caps typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Justin Buto

    Graphic designer in Danbury and/or Stambury, CT, who graduated from Western Connecticut State University. Creator of Sci Noir (2012): "Sci-Noir" is a genre of both film and literature that combines the dark and mysterious elements of Film Noir and classic Science Fiction.

    In 2019, he published the sci-fi typeface Xibalba, the Mayan-themed caps typeface Muyal, and the glitch typeface Paramorfosi.

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    Justin Ford

    Nashville-based designer of an unnamed flourished typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Justin Post

    Designer and artist at Surrealistic Designs in Merifee, CA. As a student he created a decorative all caps alphabet based on sails (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Justin Thomas Kay
    [Version Type Foundry (was: Industrial-Organic.Net)]

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    Justin Ward

    Chicago-based designer of an ornamental typeface in 2010.

    In 2012, he created a sans face, Pelago, and added a couple of alchemic versions.

    Typefaces from 2013: Here & There (poster typeface), Reynard (bejeweled typeface), Northerly (angular), Rime (ornamental display face).

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    Justine Roy

    At Cegep de Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Justine Roy designed the decorative caps typeface Dentelle (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    K. Mattis

    FontStructor who made the tall condensed caps typeface Glacier (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    K22 Fonts
    [Toto]

    Quezon City or Kyusi (Philippines)-based designer of revivals and opportunistic typefaces, who is quite active on newsgroups like alt.binaries.fonts. His production is impressive:

    • Typefaces from Dan Solo's books: Pluto Outline (2012), a 3d beveled typeface from page 82 of Solo's Outline Alphabets. K22 Angular Text (2012, an interpretation of Herman Ihlenburg's 1884 Victorian typeface Angular Text at MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan), K22 Helve Cursive (based on Helvetica Serif by Dan Solo; other digitizations include Pen Tip (WSI) and Renania (Intellcta)), K22 Spiral Swash (Victorian), K22 Athenian Wide (2011: K22 Athenian Wide is Athenian Wide on page 5 of Circus Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo; see also Tobias SSK), K22 TriLine Gothic (2011, a multiline art deco typeface based on Ross F. George's TriLine Gothic from 1956), K22 Timbuctu (2011: this is the Arabic simulation typeface Timbuctu on page 73 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces and on page 95 of Special Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo), K22 Didoni (2011, + Swash: a fat typeface based on Didoni from page 33 of Swash Letter Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also on page 140 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), K22 K22 Eureka (2010, based on Eureka from Dan X. Solo's book "Circus Alphabets, 100 Complete Fonts"), K22 Monastic (2010, based on Monastic from Victorian Display Alphabets by Dan X. Solo), Solo Ornaments (2003, based on Solo's books), K22 Eclair (2010, a decorative Western typeface Toto found in Dan X. Solo's book on Victorian alphabets, but which in fact dates back to Hans Brehmer in 1868), K22 Karnak Deco (2009, a slab serif based on Karnak Deco from the Moderne Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and published by Dover Publications in 1999).
    • Revivals of Letraset phototypes: K22 Lucifer No. 1 (2012, a beveled neon-look face).
    • Typefaces from 101 Alphabets (W. Ben. Hunt and Ed. C. Hunt, The Bruce Publishing Company, New York, 1958): Saisa (2011, art deco face), K22 Amihan (2011, an art deco face, after this original).
    • MICR fonts: K22 GKW Computer (2011, a MICR font which is based on KW Computer from ATF, and looks very similar to Moore Computer), Auto Mission (2011, after Auto Mission was derived from the MICR font Automation Shaded on page 3 of Solo's Special Effects and Topical Alphabets, and is more complete than Otto Mason SH, the Soft Horizon digitization of Automation).
    • Fonts based on work by Ross F. George: K22 TriLine Gothic (2011) is based on Tri-Line Gothic by Ross F. George in Speedball Text Book, 17th Edition, 1956.
    • K22 Xanthus (2012, based on Xanthus Computer, a dry transfer (or rub-on) font from Mecanorma).
    • K22 Stile Ballmer (2011, after an art deco typeface made by Walter Ballmer for Olivetti), Mallary (2011, based on Mallary from page 43 of Dan X. Solo's Moderne Alphabets).
    • K22 Landi Linear (2011, after Nebiolo's Landi Linear).
    • Le Pochoir (2011, an art deco stencil typeface (à la Futura Stencil) based on an alphabet from Plate 40 of La Lettre dans la Peinture et la Publicité by Jean Joveneaux, Paris, 1987), Le Pochoir Creux (2011), Lettre dans le decor (2011, based on an alphabet from "La Lettre dans le Decor et la Publicité Modernes").
    • Splash Gordon (2011, +Inline; after the title of Flash Gordon, the movie).
    • Soccer shirt fonts: Brooks Chile (2011, used by Chile in the 2010 world cup), SwitchImage FC Copenhagen (2011, used by FC Kopenhagen), Azmie WC2010 South Korea (2010), SwitchimageACMilan (2010), FCBarcelona (2010), Azmie WC2010 United States (2010), Azmie WC2010 England (2010), Azmie WC2010 Australia (2010), Azmie WC2010Brazil (2010, based on a vector image by Kuala Lumpur-based Azmie for the Brazilian World Cup team), Azmie WC2010Portugal, Azmie WC2010Netherlands, Azmie2Slovenija-2010, Real Madrid 2011 (2010), ABFonts RCD Mallorca 2012 (based on the shirts of Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, for the 2012-2013 season).
    • K22 EricGill Shadow (2011, after Gill's 1929 face, Gill Sans Shadow 338; and K22 EricGill Shadow Line, an inline version).
    • Sajou Fancy Gothic (2011, based on pages 3 and 4 of Sajou No. 236, a late 19th century French embroidery booklet).
    • RAWB (2010, ultra fat family).
    • Linyat Bilog (2010). A geometric monoline typeface.
    • K22 Ambelyn Condensed (2010, based on Ambelyn Condensed, page 2 of Condensed Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also page 21 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces where it is called Ambelyn), K22 Spiral Swash (2010, based on Spiral Swash from Dan X. Solo's Swash Letter Alphabets (p79)).
    • Art Jam MakingFaces (2003, a great dingbat font based on designs found in Image Club Graphics' volume 30, called Art Jam).
    • Town Sketches Bandstand (2003, based on volume 35 (Sketches On The Town)).
    • Fonts based on Aridi's designs: Nabel Initials (2005, based on Marwan Aridi's Nabel from the Initial Caps Vol I), Anabel (2005, a simpler version of Nabel Initials), Blister Caps (2005, based on the Blister set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. 1), RegalAlt, RegalInitials (2005, based on the Regal set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), SpringAlt, SpringInitials (2005, based on the Spring set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), VictorianaAlt, VictorianaInitials (2005, based on the Victoriana set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), Tuscan Initials (2005, based on more of Marwan Aridi's alphabets), Napoli Initials (2009, more Aridi capitals), Gothic Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Romant Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Royal Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Stone Initials (2009, also based on Aridi).
    • K22 You Know Who (2004, dingbats based on Dark Mark from the Harry Potter books).
    • Gidget Cameo (2004).
    • K22 Xerxes (2003, a stone carving typeface).
    • Dover Birds (2012, based on the Birds Alphabet Coloring Book by Ruth Soffer, Dover Publications).
    • K22 Spotty Face (2012, +Cyrillic) is a dot matrix font based on Tony Huggett's Spotty (Zipatone).
    • K22 Gadget Lined (2012) is an art deco typeface based on Gadget Lined by Peter Bennett at Zipatone. See also K22 Gadget (2014).
    • K22 Lawenta (2012). A teepee-styled typeface (check also Nick Curtis's Wigwam NF). He says: The font is based on the alphabet on page 63 of 101 Alphabets by W. Ben. Hunt and Ed. C. Hunt (The Bruce Publishing Company, New York, 1958).
    • K22 My Didot (2012). This is one of three known digitizations of CBS Didot.
    • K22 Aking Didot (2012). free.
    • K22 Plural (2013) is a revival of the op-art font Plural made in 1971 by Vicente Rojo for the Mexican magazine Plural.
    • Sabbath Paranoid (2018). It is based on the letters used in Paranoid, the 1970 album of Black Sabbath.
    • UP Fighting Maroons (2018). An unreleased custom font based on the sports font on the shirts of the Fighting Maroons at the University of the Philippines. The original Fighting Maroons font, called Maroons (Sharp Strong, Wide) is an octagonal family by AJ Dimarucot, Joanna Malinis of Plus63 Design Co., and Dan Matutina of Plus63 Design Co.
    Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Partial catalog from 2010. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KA Designs
    [Kaitlynn Albani]

    KA Designs is Kaitlynn Albani's shop on the web. She created these handcrafted typefaces in 2018: Earthy, Beautiful Awakening, Gingerbread Cookies, Mink Beach (SVG font), Grateful, Chic, Jellyfish, Haunted House, Cozy, Harvest, Winter Wonderland, Literally, Jingle Bells, Iced Coffee, November, Animal Crackers, All the Thangs, Country Market, Scarecrow, Hayride, Superstitious, Sweet Dreams, Pinecone, Autumn Sky, Cake Batter, Birthday Cake, Sprinkled Donut, Handwritten Monogram, lackout, Mimosa, Safari, Frosting, Timeless, Creep it Real, Sloth Life, Halloween, Fragments, Sky, Starfish, Blueberry Lemonade, Snicker, Mademoiselle, Effortless, Seashore, Beach Shop, apple Cider, You Gon Learn, Apple Pie, Pumpkin Season, Winter Wishes, Little Bird, Sunshine, Oatmeal, Kandi, North Pole (a doodle font), Bamk (a cartoon font), Fall Fun, Sassy, Country Farmhouse, Skipjack, Sidewalk, Boardwalk (textured, almost tattoo style), Chalkboard, Maryland, Mishap, Kashing, Adventure (doodles), Pink Flamingos, Charming, Skeleton, Cloudy, Kiwi Smoothie, Whaley Fun, Lemondrop, Ghost Tales, Karrilee, Ladybug, Saturday, Honeydew, Floaties, Dream (floral caps), Cookie Monster, Nora, Sailboat, Bearly, Fall Breeze, Ocean, BlueberryShake, Calm, Wishful, Summertime, Fairytale, Dotty, Spring, The Park, Farm House, Going Camping, Bright Lights, Vanilla Cupcake, The Bakery, Cheesecake, Kate Johnson (signature script), Foxtrot, Dotty, Dairytale, Wishful, Bonfire, Calm, Cats+Dogs, Spring Sunshine, Mason, Water Park, Lumineuse (a nice art deco typeface), Raspberry, Forest Friends, Alpine Forest, Everlasting, One Teaspoon, Bonfire, Blushed, Farmhouse, Twigs, Summer Break, Fanactus (cacti), Sophisticated Outfit, Koalifications, Whimsy, Cookie Jar, Unicorn Wishes, Lots of Love, Believe, Tropical (dingbats), Alpaca My Lunch, Very Berry Smoothie, Valentine (dingbats), Tuesday, Spring Fling (doodle font), Gingerbread, Calm, Baked Goods, Park, Bearly Awake, Moonwake, Grateful, Blooming, Friday, Lakehouse, Beautiful Awakening, Sophisticated, SaltWater, Serendipity, All the Things (doodles), Monday Blues, Sunday Morning (fat finger font), Silence, Pink Lemonade, Lemonade, Hoptrot, Blueberry Shake, Lynchburg, Alpenglow, Darlington Park, The Lighthouse, Extraordinary, In Lust.

    Typefaces from 2019: Absolutely, Amsterdam, Arrows, Asteroid, Beautiful Disaster, Believe, Birthday Cake, Black Kitten, Bloomy, Builder, Bunny Ears, Butterflies, Cinnamon, Cloud Nine, Dandy Dandelions, Day Dreamer, Fairytales, Fancactus, Friendship (comic book font), Grapefruit, Guilty, Guilty, Handwritten Font Bundle Harvie, Hey Style, Hi Valentine, Island Tea, Joy & Hugs, La Vie (dry brush), La Vie, Little Bear, Little Kitty, Little Reindeer, Logan Ann, Lovebirds, Lucky Charm, Marvelous, Melon, Merry and Bright, Mintsy, Molly & Elroy, One Wish, Pink Polka, Pink, Sassy, Saturday, Sky, Snickerdoodle, Starburst, Sugar Cupcake, Sugar and Nutmeg, Sweet Dreamer, Sweetheart, The Scarlett, The Shaker, Things (dingbats), Ultimately, Unlikely Friends, Valencia Font, Valentine's Day Font, Walking on Mars, Washington, Wildflowers, Wink (cartoon font), Wonderful (cartoon font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Silverway.

    Typefaces from 2021: Harlots (a thin monoline script and sans font duo), Magic Charm.

    Typefaces from 2022: The California (decorative serif), Like Totally (psychedelic), Limited Edition (psychedelic), Moonstone Style (script), Alysar (calligraphic), Barley (a scrapbook script), Moonshire (a scrapbook script), Wild Mango (a modern display serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kadi Koroma

    During her studies at York University in Toronto, Kadi Koroma created Requiem (2013), a display typeface based on didone elements. Serendipity (2014) is a free caps-only teardrop typeface. In 2015, she created a free vector format native Indian symbolism font, Ohitika (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kadu Supanik

    Kadu Supanik (Joinville, Brazil) created the free hand-printed script typeface Rose (2013). In 2014, he created the free social media icons font family Sozialize, the warm commercial sans typeface family Elisabeth and the ornamental caps typeface Windflower.

    Typefaces from 2015: Vintage Break (letterpress emulation).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. Gumroad link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kaer
    [Roman Korolev]

    Roman Korolev (Kaer, Vologda, Russia) designed the wood stick brush typeface WoodStick in 2016.

    Typefaces from 2017: OneLine Bold (rounded fat color font).

    Typefaces from 2019: Antique Initials (regular and color; with a flower pattern), OneLine Overlap (a color font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Pagesso (a lava lamp font), Avery (a monolinear connected sans), Sailem (an inline art deco font), Old Stamp (a fingerprint font), Silvery (a display typeface on the theme of thick and thin), Blueberry Spot, Coffee Chalk (a textured typeface), Allegro (a blueprint type), Northern Monk (beveled), Westland (blackletter), Neon Line, Bronze (art deco, +color, +texture), Shtrih (dry brush), Geoline (sketched, textured), Flowline, Foliageant (floral, curly), Northern Runes (rune emulation), Neon (color font), Parallel Lines, Bronzen Abundance (a display family with textured and color options), Sharp Stroke (a heavy brush typeface), Renaissance Initial, Celtic Spiral, Lace Line.

    Typefaces from 2021: Atta Weird (a font for LSD addicts), Three Neon Lines, Dead Saint (a Halloween alphabet), Lockdown Christmas (a dot matrix font), Nordic Folk (a layerable typeface family with Scandinavian texture; plus Nordic Folk Icons), Hewy (a display typeface), Planny (a blueprint font), Sportlight (a speed font), Wesloy (a brush serif font), Carle (a 3d polygonal children's book font; +Shadow, +Colored), Absundo (a playful dual weight font), Wide Plump (a geometric solid typeface), Colton (a condensed boutique serif), Aztec Initials (+a colored version), Adrim (a thin floriated sans), Northern Monk (an inscriptional ustav-inspired typeface), Sogia (a decorative serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Asl Line (an American Sign Language font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kai Ying Gan

    Illustrator and typographer in Singapore. Behance link. Creator of a beautiful ornamental caps typeface called Destination (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kaiser Zhar Khan

    Kaiser Zhar Khan (b. 1980, Chile), aka Zanatilja, used to run a new defunct archive called True Type Fonts. He also designed many typefaces himself. The most famous among these is his free African-themed typeface South Afirkas 2100 (2009), which is downloadable from Dafont.

    In 2012, he made Stickerman Bad Times, Rock X Start TFB, Aespiro TFB, Perspectivo TFB (3d face), Desgarvuda (textured face), Estancofida TFB (textured face), LEDisplay TFB, Restroom Signs TFB, Chinese Cally TFB, Discontinuo, Suast Ornad TFB (a textured face), Scoolar TFB (3d face), Katakana TFB, Hiragana TFB, Dragons TFB, Arrows TFB, Old Retro Keys TFB, Pycuaf, Pycuafodi, Dragon Ball TFB, Escaned (texture face), Chess TFB, Seagram TFB, Army Weapons TFB, Stamp Seal TFB, Logos TFB, Scripto TFB, Another Ornaments TFB, Vintage Auto Cars TFB, Simple (a monoline sans), Travesia TFB (information design dings), Music TFB (dingbats), Xmas Cartoon, Wings of Wind TFB, Mickey M TFB, Pincel Handwrite, Jigsaw Pieces TFB, Valentines Day TFB (heart dingbats), Proportional TFB (squarish sans), Stars TFB, Working Signs TFB, Signs Language TFB, Ornaments Labels and Frames, Snowflakes TFB, Christmas Nativity TFB, Chinese Zodiac TFB, Zodiac TFB, Only Skulls, Calendar Note TFB, Sports TFB (sports silhouettes), Old Retro Labels TFB, 11 Vator TFB, Xmas TFB (Christmas dings), Trees TFB, Clothing Logos TFB, Dirty Sweb, Can Dog TFB, Ornaments, Finger Print, Kitty Kats TFB, Batman Logo Evolution TFB, Light TFB (avant garde sans), Digital Display TFB (LED face), Skullx (dingbats), Tribal Tattoo (dingbats), Klingon, The Meme Font (dingbats), Rongorongo (a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island), Strangferfixcs, Hotel Transilvania and Frankenwine.

    Typefaces made in 2013: Pudahuel Sans, Variada TFB (simple circle-and-arc-based sans), Estorea TFB, New LED Board TFB, Rayada TFB (textured face), New Barcode Font TFB, Estrellas TFB (stars), Estrellass (sic) TFB, Spirits Dots Drinks, Mero Ornad TFB (fishnet textured), Toolz TFB, New Stencil TFB, Logocarsbats TFB, Caritons TFB (smilies), Illustrations TFB (scanbats), Edgebat TFB (knives), Crossbats TFB (crosses), Abstrec TFB (organic sans), Frames TFB, BitxMap Font TFB, Austera Simple TFB, Traffic Signs TFB, Extranger Sol TFB, Rifle Bats TFB, New X Digital TFB (LED typeface family), Dasgastada TFB, El Alambre TFB, Punk Not Dead TFB, Triangled TFB, Noxtrey Auf TFB, Cross LED TFB (+Bold), Cursi Extra TFB, Hearts Shapes TFB, Ornamentsss TFB, Eggfaces TFB, Orniste TFB, Shadded TFB (sic) (shadow face), Spoghetti Western (sic) (Italian Far West face), Groovy Font (shaded), Fireguns TFB (dingbats), Only Revolver TFB (dingbats), Aeg Flyon Now (condensed sans), Espinuda TFB, T1 Logoso TFB, Social Logos TFB, Hearts and Flowers for valentines, Astrology Astrological TFB, Ornametss TFB, Astrology TFB, Old Ornaments, Old Foundry Prints TFB, Old seals TFB, English Two Line TFB (pearly alphabet from 1796), Amame TFB (dot matrix face), Fontesda TFB (sketched face), Flowers Dots Bats TFB, Queen Destroy TFB, Bicycle TFB (dingbats), Stone Army, Ancient Weapons TFB, Numismatic Bats TFB, Elizabethan Initials TFB, Anome Ibul, Big Daddy LED, Mavole Sinpo TFB (spurred), Dowted Remix TFB (dot matrix face), QR Font TFB, Another Barcode, Display Free TFB (LED face), Cadabra Debilex, Initials TFB, Music Logos TFB, Toxic Waste TFB, Ornad Dentro TFB, Logos and Logos TFB, Amore Mio, Hearts Shapes TFB, Another X Display TFB (dot matrix), Pro Display TFB (dot matrix), Juino Net, Quiwo Luse TFB, Aliencons Two, Cargante TFB, News Board TFB, Aliencons TFB, Barcode TFB, Birthday Balon TFB, Birds TFB (silhouettes), Le Fish (fish silhouettes), Motos TFB, Love You Too TFB (Valentine's day font), LED LCD 123, Noteame (fat sans), Badopus TFB (monoline script), Estrellado TFB, Love You TFB (Valentine's Day font), Cubs LED TFB (LED / dot matrix typeface), Text Inside TFB (textured face), Kuwa Ronmcie Q (circle-based face), Zebra TFB, Distrogrunge TFB, Carillas TFB (smilies).

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    Kaitlyn Hebden

    Kaitlyn Hebden (Wells, ME) first studied at the University of Redlands in Redlands, CA, and then at the University of New South Wales in Sudnay, Australia. She designed the multicolored all caps typeface Liquid Bass during her studies in Sydney in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kaitlynn Albani
    [KA Designs]

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    Kajol Bhalerao

    At Racahna Sansad College of Applied Arts and Craft, Mumbai-based Kajol Bhalerao designed the textured caps typeface Katti Batti (2018) and the Rajasthani dance-inspired color typeface Ghoomar (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kale Liew Soon Huen

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designer of the display typeface Animal Zone in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kalinor

    Small Celtic font archive with AuntJudy (Judith Sutcliffe), ElGar (Gary Garrett), Gothic-Leaf, King-Arthur (James Fordyce), Anglo-Saxon-Caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kalligraphie
    [Susanne Ulmke]

    German calligraphy jump site, maintained by Susanne Ulmke. There is also a great list of initial caps. We find 4 hieroglyphic fonts (GlyphBasic1 through 4) from the Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1995. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kalos Chan

    At Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand, Kalos Chan designed Tangly Alphabets (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    kame Design (was: kametype)
    [Joachim Müller-Lancé]

    Joachim Müller-Lancé is a German designer (born St. Wendel, Saar, 1961), who was trained in Basel and at the Cooper Union in New York. He had his own studio in Barcelona, where he taught information design at Elisava School. He was lead information designer for Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco for 3 years. Currently, he lives in Umkirch near Freiburg and/or San Francisco. Timeline of his achievements:

    • 1993. His Lancé type family (FF Lancé) won him the coveted Morisawa award in 1993.
    • His typefaces Flood (brush), Ouch and Shuriken Boy are available from Adobe.
    • He designed the kanji/Latin typeface Shirokuro, which won two awards at the 1999 Morisawa Awards.
    • 1996. He created an outline face.
    • 1997. He established kametype in 1997. Emodigi site.
    • 2001. In 2001, he started up Typebox with Mike Kohnke. His fonts there include Monodular (2003), Tiny Tim and TX Cortina (1997, an LED style face). At Bukvaraz 2001, he won awards for Nichiyou Daiku, Shuriken, Pesaro and Shirokuro.
    • 2002. He co-designed the dingbat font TXSignal Signifort (Typebox) with eight others.
    • 2006. At AND in 2006, he created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S together with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Sylvestre Lucia and Mike Kohnke.
    • 2011. In 2011, he published Uppercut Angle (Delve Fonts), which was originally developed for the Krav Maga training center of San Francisco. Also at Delve, he (re-)published the futuristic family Cortina in that year. With Ernesto Gonzalez Serros, he co-designed Chato.
    • 2012. With Erik Adigard of MAD Design in Sausalito, he created the rounded octagonal monospace typeface family Oktal Mono (Delve Fonts).
    • 2015. Owlphabet (a decorative caps font).
    • 2015. Fleisch Wolf & Wurst: a fun German expressionist blackletter typeface.
    • 2015. Stenciletta (Delve Fonts).

    Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Creative market link.

    View Joachim Müller-Lanceé's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kamila Piatko

    Polish designer of a textured decorative all caps typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karandash
    [Vassil Nikolaev Kateliev]

    Karandash is a type and graphic foundry in Varna, Bulgaria, established in 2010 by designer Vassil Kateliev (b. 1980, Varna). The Fontmaker series is a collaborative project with Jordan Jelev, a well known Bulgarian calligrapher and cult wine label designer. The type designs are done on paper, using traditional calligraphic and artistic methods and then digitally recreated.

    Typefaces: Myriad Pro Bulgarian and Cyrillic (2011), Rotis Semi Serif Bulgarian Cut (2011), and FM Clog (2011, with Jordan Jelev, done at The Fontmaker: has Openface, Shadowed and Engraved styles). Callista is a fat cursive typeface that was inspired by the work of François Boltana in the early 1970s and of Milka Peykova in late 1970s.

    Gaytan (which means braid in Bulgarian) is a sans and serif family created in 2012. It was inspired by Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic, Bulgarian Ustav and the Russian Vyaz stiles, as well as the avant-garde works of Bulgarian typedesigners in late 1970s. But the result is definitely Victorian. He closes 2012 with Estimo, an organic typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic that has no diagonal strokes.

    FM Bolyar (2012) is a copperplate typeface jointly designed by Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev at The Fontmaker. See also the spurred version FM Bolyar Ornate Pro ansd the weathered family FM Bolyar Typecarft. In 2019, after a full year of development, they published the 63-style all caps sans family FM Bolyar Sans Pro.

    In 2013, Vassil Kateliev and Jordan Jelev codesigmned the lively script typeface FM Ephire, which comes with a useful caps companion, FM Ephire Frames.

    In 2014, Kateliev designed a Valentine-inspired set of calligraphic ornaments, LoveHearts, Love Christmas (Christmas ornaments, done with Stella Ivanova Katelieva), and the humanist slab serif typeface Basil (the Regular weight is free). Basil won an award at Granshan 2014.

    Typefaces from 2015: Sybilla (humanist slab serif, extended to Sybilla Pro in 2016, and the 294-style Sybilla Multiverse in 2017). Sybilla Shade Pro is free.

    Typefaces from 2017: Versatile Bold (a Latin / Greek / Cyrillic font family for layering with plenty of hatched, shadow, rust and 3d options; by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev).

    In 2018, he designed Kometa together with Kiril Zlatkov. The 21-style Kometa (Latin and Cyrillic) is a modern sans serif font family with a geometric skeleton and a humanist soul. It has a unicase option and many alternates.

    Typefaces from 2019: Achates (a humanist sans workhorse), Future Tense (a sci-fi typeface by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev).

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

    Kardre Dear

    Hong Kong-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Lace Lacy (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kareem Wilson

    As a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Kareem Wilson designed the decorative caps typeface Rizbot (2016) for a book cover. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karen CKL

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designber of the decorative caps typeface Kenyalang (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karen Mosby

    Graphic designer in Toronto, who made several hand-printed and brush typefaces in 2012, including a typeface family called Bonfire. She also made the ornamental caps typeface Architecture Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karen Necelis

    Designer of a shoelace alphabet in 1989 at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karin Skoglund

    Born in Stockholm in 1954. Designer whose fancy caps and uncial fonts will soon be developed in cooperation with David Kettlewell. The first one in this series is Karins Lombardy Caps (2006). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Karina Eibatova

    Moscow-based graphic designer who created an exquisite set of initials in 2010 called In Love. Aka Ei Ka. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karina Kuts

    Kiev, Ukraine-based illustrator who created the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Font Of The Muscles And Bones (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karina Mosqueda

    Illustrator in Barcelona, who drew the all caps illustrative alphabet Abecedario (2010), which as far as I know has not been "fonted" yet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karl Klimsch

    Type designer, born in 1867 according to some sources [this must be wrong!]. He created Flinsch-Germanisch (1876, Flinsch), a blackletter face. In 1877, he created some decorative typefaces at Klinkhardt, called Zierschriften. One of his ornamental typefaces from 1869 was revived by Paul Lloyd as the free fonts Saraband Lettering and Saraband Initials (2002). In 1878, he published Zierschriften von Karl Klimsch Band I. Dover republished two books by this author: 2,100 Victorian Monograms (1994), and Florid Victorian Ornament (1977). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karl Ludick

    Durban, South Africa-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Afrika Typografika (2016) during his studies at Durban University of Technology. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karl Lürtzing

    Designer of Modernes Alphabet (1900) for the German periodical Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karlis Gama

    In a typography class she took in 2007, Karlis Gama (Morelia, Mexico) drew a decorative bird alphabet in honor of illustrator Carlos Palleiro. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karo Akpokiere

    Graphic designer from Lagos, Nigeria. He created the vector format alphabet BitSyringe (2012): BitSyringe is a collection of letters inspired by drill bits, medical syringes and geometry.

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

    Karolina Polozova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Akcindentnyj Shrift (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kart Koos

    Aalborg, Denmark-based designer of the decorative Finger Font (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kashmira Sarode

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Bangalore City, India. Creator of the decorative caps typeface Fish Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kason Headley

    Graphic designer in Miami, FL. Behance link. Creator of a very detailed caps alphabet with letters in the shape of elephant trunks, called Trunkalump (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kat Aviles

    During her studies in Baltimore, MD, Kat Aviles designed a decorative caps typeface called Quote (2013). In 2015, she added Solid, Contour, Disconnect and Quad. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kat Donoghue

    At Vega school in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kat Donoghue designed the floral caps typeface Human Nature (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kat Heap

    Kat Heap is a London-based illustrator and designer who completed an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts (UK) in 2012. Creator of the Monster typeface (2012, ornamental caps).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow. She created William Klein Font (2012, named in honor of the photographer, and inspired by his New York 1955 series of photos of skyscrapers), and The Big Air Font (2012, ornamental caps). In 2012, she also published a few cosmic fonts as well as the decorative caps typeface Red Flower (2012).

    In 2013, Kate created the connected font Conjoint. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Allen

    During her studies, Uttoxeter, UK-based Kate Allen designed a decorative typeface (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Goltseva

    Kiev-based graphic designer who made the ornamental alphabet King Kong (2012), the 3d typeface Module (2012), and the Cyrillic paper-fold alphabet Macalatura (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Greenaway

    English Victorian illustrator and letterer (b. London, 1846, d. 1901), known for her children's books. Sample of her work in her Almanack for 1884. Here are the title pages of The Royal Progress of King Pepito (1889) and The Book of Games.

    In 1885, she drew Kate Greenaway's Alphabet (caps with children in various poses), which was made into a font by Gert Wiescher in 2005. Gert Wiescher also made the dingbat typeface Greenaway Mignonettes (2012).

    Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Tsventoukh

    During her studies, Kate Tsventoukh (Odessa, Ukraine) designed the decorative Latin caps typeface Collision (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Wolfson

    During her graphic design studies in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Kate Wolfson designed the ornamental caps typeface Jungle Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate-Lynn Ubels

    Illustrator and designer in Edmonton, Alberta, who created the decorative caps typeface Pink Beauty (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katerina Alivizatou

    Graphic designer, illustrator and moving image designer in London, UK. Creator of an decorative Latin / Greek caps typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kateryna Machneva

    Kiev-based illustrator who created Smoking Alphabet (202). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kath Gayo

    Graphic designer in Manila, The Philippines, who created a colorful decorative set of capitals in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katherine Konzal

    During her studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, Katherine Konzal designed an illustrative all caps alphabet based on skeletal bones (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katherine Lawson
    [Fonts by Kathi]

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    Kathleen Rothschild

    New York City-based designer of the all-caps font Godly (2014) on the theme Greek Mythological Gods from Alpha to Omega. While studying at Parsons in 2014, she also created Etiquette Icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kathryn Darnell

    Creator of Sweeney (Agfa-Monotype, 2002), an italic uncial with strong Celtic overtones. Sweeney Lino Cut is a companion series of illuminated initial letters. Agfa explains: Sweeney is the name of a seventh-century Irish king who went mad (some say from the din of battle; others say he was cursed by a Christian monk), roamed Ireland naked and composed poetry.

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

    Kathryn Flint

    Scottish illustrator who lives in London. She made Flint's Pictorial Alphabet (2011), an all-caps ornamental alphabet that consists of fantastic creatures and pieces of morphine dreams. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kathryn Sutton

    Kathryn Sutton (Springfield, MO) created Monster Alphabet (2013, ornamental caps) and Illustrated Numerals (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kathy Vong

    Austin, TX-based student-designer of a decorative caps alphabet (2016) that celebrates the city of Austin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katia Keisi

    Tirana, Albania-based designer of an ornamental painted all caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katie Bennett

    Northamptonshire, United Kingdom-based designer of Beast (2013, hand-drawn caps) and Engin (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katie Gorbacheva

    Russian graphic designer and illustrator. In 2017 she drew Russian Alphabet For Children, and in 2019 English Alphabet for Children. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katie Hatz

    Designer of the drop caps alphabet Anthropologie Holiday (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katie Kerrigan

    Newport, RI and Stamford, CT-based student, letterer and graphic designer. Creator of an ornamental caps face (2011) and a nice psychedelic typography poster in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katrina Densmore

    Designer of Nature's Alphabet (2014), a decorative all-caps set of letters created during her studies in Kitchener, Ontario. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katrina Tan

    Katrina Tan (b. 1991) created the outlined ornamental typeface Kayetan (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Keegan Crawford

    Durban, South Africa-based designer of the decorative plant-themed typeface iJusi Afrika (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Keiran Rhodes-Wort

    Midhurst, UK-based designer of the flag-themed font Multinational Geometric (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    keith

    15-font truetype archive. Includes mostly Fraktur and uncial fonts such as DorovarFLF-Carolus (or: Carolingia), Chaucher, ClerestorySSK, CloisterBlackBT-Regular, Diamond-Gothic, Diploma, EnglishTowne-Normal, FaustusNormal, Gothic-Straight-Faced,-16th-c., OffenbachChancery, OldGondor, Paganini, PR-UncialAltCaps, SchwabenAlt-Bold, Wellsley. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kelli Urabe

    Graduate of the University of Oregon, with a B.S. Degree in Digital Art and Minors in Fine Art and Communication Studies. Kelli Urabe currently works as a Graphic Artist at Sign Pro Eugene, OR. Creator of the Hawaii-themed typeface Hawaii Grown (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kelly Abeln

    Graphic designer in Minneapolis, MN. Creator of the handcrafting all-caps face Knots&Loops (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kelly Fletcher

    During her studies at Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa, Kelly Fletcher created Typografika (2015), an ornamental caps typeface based on tribal African patterns and the shapes of African city buildings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kelsey Scherer

    Graphic designer in Washington, DC, who created the ornamental didone caps typeface Mandrake (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kelsi Mathey

    Chapman University graduate who was born and raised in Redlands, CA. In 2012, she created the caps typeface Not For Fake Lovers, which was inspired by French iron work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ken Ray

    American musician and poster designer. He made Strongs 1917 Sharp (2010), an all caps art nouveau typeface found in the book Strongs Book of Design (1910), by Charles J. Strong. Strong was a designer at the height of the Art Nouveau movement. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kenny Vuong

    Arlington, TX-based designer of a liquid decorative caps alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kent Swecker
    [A New Machine]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kevin Andrew Murphy
    [Alphyn Press]

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    Kevin Calderon Arias

    Graphic designer in Lima, Peru, who created a chameleon-themed decorative caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kevin King
    [Kingthings]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Khairah Majid

    Singapore-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2018 called Geode. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Khoir
    [Muhammad Romzul Khoir]

    Jepara, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) of the decorative caps typeface Karakter (2017), the monoline script Suprats (2017), the culturally inspired Jepara Carving Font (2017), the script typeface Cahyati (2017), and the free fat finger font Romzul Sans (2017, Letterhend Studio).

    Typefaces from 2018: Delova, Domco (an art deco sans), The Cheryl (a Victorian label font), Elma (display sans), Boven (display sans; caps only), Randusary, Almairah, Antenna, Massali (signature script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Milona, The Houls, Bromtone, Panerah, Benaco (art nouveau-inspired), Syailendra, Nieel, Gram (spurred), Wolver (a luxurious high-contrast typeface), Bodbug (1970s style balloon type), Caravan (a free display font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Givani (a decorative serif), Sila (a decorative serif), Rolih (a decorative serif), The Maulo (a decorative serif), Sila, Antonia (display), Virago (display), The Alpan (a bold semi-psychedelic display typeface), Dovika (Victorian), Chinta.

    Typefaces from 2021: La Penina, Qulio (a sharp-edged display serif), Carafia (a stylish black display serif), Sadila (a stylish black sharp-edged display serif), The Britin.

    Typefaces from 2022: Trimo (a wide extreme contrast display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Khor Zheng Hong

    During his studies in Kuala Lumpur, Khor Zheng Hong created the decorative caps typeface Hyakki (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Khyati Trehan

    Indian type designer and talented singer based in New Delhi. In 2014-2015, she designed the sturdy 5-weight text typeface Tarsus (Indian Type Foundry), which could even be used in newsprint. The italics are missing though. In 2013, she created decorative caps alphabets that are inspired by science. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Khyati Trehan

    During her graphic design studies at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, Khyati Trehan created a decorative scientific all-caps alphabet (2013). Behance link. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kid Monkey Design

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Cuenca, Spain, who created the decorative caps typeface Brain Type in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kilcar.net

    TrueType Celtic font archive. Included the gorgeous CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps. Being rebuilt, so be patient. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kim Cyprian

    San Diego, CA-based illustrator who created the decorative caps set Ocean Alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kim Moulaire

    Nimes, France-based designer of a colorful decorative caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kimberly Boustead

    Designer and illustrator in Minneapolis. She created the illustrative typeface Seashore Spectacular (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kimberly Cheung

    Kimberly Cheung, an illustrator in Washington, DC, used Walbaum's capitals to design an ornamental caps typeface, Couturier (2013), on the theme of fashion accessories. It was developed during her studies at Corcoran College of Art and Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kingdom Pixels (or: Reding)
    [Jose A. Puche]

    Kingdom Pixels (or: Reding) is a design group in Spain. Reding on Behance. Kingdom Pixels on Behance. It is run by Spanish graphic designer, illustrator and art director Jose A. Puche, who is based in Madrid.

    They developed the custom stencil typeface eGruyère (2011). Other typefaces include Sommerschule Type (2012, a signage face), and Foamy Type (2012, morbidly obese and rounded: free for the price of a Twitter).

    In 2016, Puche designed the semi-stencil typeface Anchor (2016) and the colorful decorative caps typeface Royal Bali (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kingsobu Pictures

    Jakarta-based studio. They designed Kingsobu Font (2013), an ornamental caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kingthings
    [Kevin King]

    Keven King (Kingthings) is the British designer (born in Kent in 1959, educated at the Graphic Design College in Exeter/Devon, and based in Exeter) of these fonts, many of which have Celtic influences. His typefaces:

    • 2002: Kingthings-Gothique (oranmental face), Kingthings-Hand, Kingthings-Hand-Light, Kingthings-Organica, Kingthings-Petrock, Kingthings-Petrock-Light, Kingthings-Xander, Kingthings-Xander-Outline.
    • 2003: Kingthings-Calligraphica, Kingthings-Calligraphica-Italic, Kingthings-Calligraphica-Light, Kingthings-Chimaera, Kingthings Flashbang, Kingthings Flourishes (Arabic simulation face), Kingthings-Italique (blackletter), Kingthings-Kelltika---Kevin-King.-2003 (fantastic Celtic style caps face), Kingthings-Sans, Kingthings-Whizzbang, Kingthings-Xander-Outline.
    • 2004: Kingthings Linear K, Kingthings Pique'n'meex, Kingthings-Annex (started in 1981: ornamented letters), Kingthings-Printingkit (old typewriter), Kingthings-Spike (blackletter), Kingthings-Typewriter (old typewriter), Kingthings Versalis, Kingthings Wrote, Kingthings-Xstitch. Some fonts have calligraphic/medieval or Celtic influences.
    • 2005: Kingthings Poppalok (ornamental dot matrix face), Kingthings Embroidery, Kingthings Spikeless, a blackletter face.
    • 2006: Kingthings Petrock, KingthingsChristmas (ornamental).
    • 2007: Kingthings Willow (great ornamental face; a commercial Pro version exists at CheapProFonts), Kingthings Willowless, Kingthings Exeter, Kingthings Extortion (ransom note face), Kingthings Facetype, Kingthings Lupine (the Pro version was done in 2009 at CheapProFonts), Kingthings Lupineless.
    • 2008: Kingthings Wrecktangle (piano key font), KingthingsSerifique, Kingthings Clarity, Kingthings Gutenberg, Kingthings-Conundrum (oriental simulation face: the Pro version follows in 2012), Kingthings-Eggypeg, Kingthings-Inkydinky, Kingthings-Knobson, Kingthings-Spirogyra, Kingthings Bloone, Kingthings Tendrylle, Kingthings Foundation.
    • 2009: Kingthings Slippery Lips, Kinthings Spike Pro (blackletter, commercialized by Cheap Pro Fonts).
    • 2010: Kingthings Lickorishe, Kingthings Scrybbledot.
    • 2011: Kingthings Scrybbledots Pro and Kingthings Scrybble Pro (sketch typefaces).
    • 2012: Kingthings Frontwards, Kingthings Sans, Kingthings Kurllie (curly Victorian caps).
    Alternate URL. Cheap Pro Fonts catalog. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kira Slepchenkova

    Graphic designer from Moscow who is based in London, and who is studying Design for Graphic Communication in London College of Communication, UAL.

    Her typefaces include Party Alphabet (2012, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kirsten Engen

    At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kirsten Engen designed the decorative caps Alphabet Stretch (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    kitscha.de

    MonotypeCorsiva, Rothenburg-Decorative-Normal (caps font by Alex Winterbottom). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Klaus Herrmann
    [Intecsas]

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    Klaus-Peter Schaeffel
    [KPS Fonts]

    [More]  ⦿

    Knickknacks
    [Annisa Luthfiasari]

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Akkala Passura (2013), which is based on Toraja wood carving. In 2014 she created other display typefaces that were inspired by the cultural heritage of the Sundanese: Aksara Kujang, Aksara Sunda, Merak Ngibing, Mega Mendung, and Huruf Kuping (based on the vernacular lettering of Abah Garut).

    In 2016, she designed the Italian bistro typeface Tagliatelle.

    In 2017, she created a set of vector or image format drop caps. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kobu Foundry
    [Brígida Guerreiro]

    Brigida Guerreiro (b. 1992, Faro) studied at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, graduating in 2013. She set up Kobu Foundry and Kobu Agency. Her typefaces:

    • Akuto Display (2020). A wonderful sharp-edged display typeface.
    • Ereganto Serif (2021). A 7-weight hipster serif.
    • Kaito Sans (Normal, Stencil and Stencil+Texture) (2021). A typeface for titles in books, magazines, posters, packaging but also streetwear and sports apparel.
    • Kawaru (2020). A variable sans designed for bold titles in websites. Free for personal and commercial use.
    • Kotei Condensed (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black or Variable) (2020). An ultra condensed titling or movie credit font that can also be used for short titles.
    • Meji Serif (Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold and Black, in Normal and Italic) (2021). Kawaii font.
    • Taiyo Serif (Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold and Black, in Normal and Italic) 92021). Inspired by editorials in the 1970s.
    • Okaasan Serif (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Extrabold) (2019). A typeface with contrasting thick and thin elements.
    • Sakasu Display and Sakasu Decorative (2018). A diamond-studded all caps typeface.
    • Tsuku Sans Serif (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold) (2019). A geometric font for posters, publications, packaging or digital pieces.
    • Ulmo Slab (2013). Designed during her communication design studies at the University of Algarve, Faro.

    Cargo Collective link. Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Koeiekat
    [John Wollring]

    John Wollring (aka Koeiekat), b. Amsterdam, 1943, d. 2017, was passionate about type design. John worked in marketing communications in advertising agencies and at Philips. Bronwyn Holmes explains: His love of fonts came from his work in producing advertising and brochures and his close involvement with printers and printing. He was very aware of the power of typography in communication. He retired in Extremadura to a remote mountainous region. Small villages with little distraction except the very wild and beautiful nature so plenty of time for him to spend on typography.

    John Wollring designed these typefaces:

    • The tuxedoed art deco typeface Zig Zag ML (2009, based on Zig Zag, a 1972 alphabet by Marcia Loeb). See also ML ZigZag KK (2013). ML Rainbow KK (2013) is identical.
    • Monotoon KK (2012, monolined and simple).
    • The formal calligraphic typeface Monogram KK (2007, Victorian initials).
    • A revival of Modern Fancies (Lewis F. Day) called Fontenay Fancy (2012).
    • ML Sunglow KK (2012, ornamental caps).
    • HK Display (2012: HK Display KK is a free interpretation of an art deco alphabet designed by Henk Kolkmeyer for a poster for the Veiligheids Museum in Amsterdam).
    • Dwiggins Initials KK (1930, an art deco caps typeface based on an unknown sketch by Dwiggins from 1930).
    • Obese & Square KK (art deco stencil).
    • ML Roxy Initials KK (2012, after Marcia Loeb's Roxy).
    • Open Egmont Kapitalen (2013: an interpretation of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos' Open Egmont Kapitalen also known as Egmont Inline and Egmont Versalien. Based on a 1935 specimen sheet of Lettergieterij Amsterdam and punctuation based on a 1938 specimen sheet of Intertype. Alternates in the lower case b and r based on a 1951 specimen sheet of the Belgian type foundry Plantin).
    • EA Sports Covers SC (2013).
    • Gotica Moderna KK (2013).

    Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Koivo

    Illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Designer of a colorful decorative all caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Birukov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the high-contrast display typeface Admiral (2012) and the Peignotian Cyrillic typeface Herold (2012).

    In 2013, he designed the Cyrillic sans typeface Ledokol and the Cyrillic ornamental caps typeface Kirillica Hersonese. In 2016, he designed the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Dlja Goroda Tihvin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Frolov

    Moscow-based graphic designer who created the decorative Cyrillic all caps typeface Blitz (2017). In 2018, he custom-designed a foliated display typeface for the cover of the album Flügelschlag der Seele by Amangul Klychmuradova, a Turkmenian pianist from Munich, Germany. That font is based on traditional Turkmen ornaments. Still in 2018, he published the display typeface Aurora. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Korinna Mei Veropoulou

    Illustrator in London who designed a decorative alphabet in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    kosbarts

    Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the ultra-fat UglyKost. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kostas Kaparos

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Ron Finley (2013) for the identity for the activist and gardener Ron Finley (the gangsta gardener) based in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kosuke Tatsumi

    Japanese creator of the human silhouette alphabet font Human Capital (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KPS Fonts
    [Klaus-Peter Schaeffel]

    Swiss calligrapher in Basel who made and sells various medieval and historically important script fonts. Dedicated page. These included the paleographic (PAL) series and the KPS series. He lives in Ühlingen--Birkendorf, Germany. His fonts are uniformly of high quality and are usefl for illustrating historical alphabets.

    His early commercial collection: KPS Anglaise (calligraphic script), KPS Antiqua (+Kapitälchen), KPS Capitalis (classic Trajan caps), KPS Cicero, KPS Epona (calligraphic), KPS Fein (hand-printed), KPS Hand (calligraphic), KPS Horaz (calligraphic), KPS Iris (calligraphic), KPS Petit (calligraphic), KPS Plinius, KPS Spitzfelder, KPS Vitruv (calligraphy), PAL Bastarda, PAL Cancellaresca, PAL Carolina, PAL Gotisch, PAL Humanistica, PAL Lombarden, PAL Quadrata, PAL Rotunda, PAL Rustica, PAL Textura, PAL Uncialis, PAL Uncialis Roemisch, Weissranken Initialen, Ranken Initialen (Celtic capitals).

    Since September 2013, all of his fonts are free. They were renamed and have conveniently the date of original creation in the font name. The fonts dated in the 1990s and 2000s are new typefaces or creative revivals by Klaus-Peter. The list of revivals: 0100DeBellisMacedonicis [Pre-uncial letters from the fragment "de bellis macedonicis", ca. 1st century], 0300Petros [Greek hand from the oldest surviving copies of St. Peter's epistles, dated 3th / 4th century], 0362Vitalis [Roman Minuscule Cursive from the so called Vitalis letter, written before 362 on papyrus (Strasburg)], 0480VergiliusRomanus [Capitalis Rustica from the Vergilius Romanus written in Rome, ca. 480], 0500VergiliusSangallensis [Capitalis Quadrata from the Vergil fragments in Stiftsbibliothek St.Gallen], 0512Dioskurides [Greek Uncials from the Vienna Dioskurides (about 512)], 0746Beda [from Beda Venerabilis: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Northumbria, dated 746], 0800Kells [Half Uncials from the Book of Kells], 0800Remedius [So called "Lombardic-Raetic Minuscule" from Codex 348 of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen], 0800 Theophanes [Greek Hand after a 9th century Theophanes manuscript], 0850CarolinaTours [Carolingian Minuscule], 0850Carolinaundulata [Carolingian Minuscule from the Scriptorium of Tours], 0864Folchart [St. Gall Carolingian from the Folachart Psalter], 1012Otto [Late Carolingian Minuscule from the Perikopes of Heinrich II, written at the Reichenau, donated to the dome of Bamberg in 1012], 1258FridericusII [Gothic Rotunda from the falcon book of Emperor Friedrich II, Southern Italy 1258-1266], 1400Wenzel [Bohemian Textura from Vienna], 1450Sebastos [Humanistic Greek hand from Homer, Ilias, Vatican Library], 1455GutenbergB42 [Gothic Textura types from the 42 line Gutenberg Bible], 1458GutenbergB36 [Gothic Textura types from the 36 line Gutenberg Bible], 1470Jenson [an antiqua by Nicolas Jenson], 1475HumanisticaCursiva [Humanistic Cursive of the kind Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua wrote, after Cod. Pal. Lat. 1508], 1480Humanistica [Humanistic Book Hand from Valerius Maximus: Facta et dicta memorabilia, ca. 1480-1485. The calligraphy is attributed to Antonio Sinibaldi from Florence and the titling capitals to Bartolomeo Sanvito from Padua], 1483Koberger [Incunabula type from the Koberger Bible, printed in Nuremberg in 1483], 1485Grueninger [Incunabula type from the Grueninger Bible, printed in Strasburg in 148], 1493SchedelRotunda [Incunabula type from the Latin edition of Hartmann Schedel's World Chronicles, printed by Koberger at Nuremberg in 1493], 1501Manutius [First printed Italic Antiqua by Aldus Manutius (Venice 1501)], 1513Gebetbuch [Fraktur from Emperor Maximilian's Prayer Book, printed in Augsburg in 1513], 1517Gilgengart [Fraktur type from Emperor Maximilian's 1517 private print "Gilgengart"], 1517Teuerdank [Fraktur type from Emperor Maximilian's "Teuerdank", printed at Augsburg in 1517], 1519NeudoerfferFraktur [Fraktur alphabet from a woodblock model in Johann Neudoerffer the Elder's Calligraphy book "Fundament", Nuremberg 1519], 1739Bickham [Copperplate or running hand after models from "The Universal Penman" by George Bickham, printed in London 1743], 1741Bickham [Bickham's round hand from Universal Penman], 1782Thurneysen [Baroque Antiqua Type of J. Jacques Thourneysen fils, Basel 1782].

    Original versions by Schaeffel, with date of design in the font name: 1999Anglaise1, 1999Anglaise2, 1999Cancellaresca, 1999Carolina (Carolingian minuscule), 1999Livius, 1999LiviusBold, 1999LiviusItalic, 1999LiviusSmC, 1999LiviusTitel, 1999Ovidius, 1999Stylus, 1999Textualis, 2000Bastarda, 2000Cicero, 2000Humanistica, 2000Plinius, 2000PliniusItalic, 2000Seneca-Italic, 2000Seneca, 2000TextualisFormata, 2000Uncialis, 2001RotundaFormata, 2002Cato, 2002Horatius, 2002Vitruvius, 2003Epona, 2003Lombarden, 2004CapitalisQuadrata, 2004CapitalisRustica, 2004Iris, 2004UncialisQuadrata, 2004UncialisRomana, 2008-Noeuds-1 [for making Celtic knots], 2008-Noeuds-2, 2008-Noeuds-3, 2009Xenophon, 2010Filigrane, 2010Gouttes, 2010Labyrinthe [squarish], 2010Pointu [a calligraphic blackletter], 2010Vergilius [a great calligraphic face].

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    Krahovnet

    New York City-based studio. They created a decorative ironwork all caps typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kris Kopek

    Graphic designer in Ann Arbor, MI, who created the ornamental caps typeface Derive (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kris Lee

    Junior art director and graphic designer in New York City. Creator of the drop cap typeface Story Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristen Caviston

    Boston, MA-based designer of the ornametal caps typeface Tentacle Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristen Pauline

    Kristen Pauline (Bonekey Studio, Orlando, FL) created the ornamental typeface Little Monsters (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristianne Phillips

    Designer in London, who created a 3d all caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristie Drews
    [Echo Foxx Studios]

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    Krużyńska
    [Studio Filigran]

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    Ksenia Storozhenko

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She made a decorative caps face called Workout (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kseniya Petrushak

    Graphic designer in Kiev, Ukraine, who created the experimental geometric typeface Aktsidentny (2012), and the Cyrillic caps typeface Children's Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenya Kuznetsova
    [Peliken]

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    Ksenya Samarskaya

    Ksenya Samarskaya (b. Saint Petersburg, Russia) studied at the University of Oregon and New York University (class of 2010). From 2007 until 2011, she worked for Hoefler&Frere-Jones in New York. After a brief stint as type consultant for Apple in Cupertino, CA (2012-2013), she set up her own design studio, Samarskaya & Partners, in 2015, in Brooklyn, NY. That same year, she co-founded Alphabettes. Samarskaya has taught typography and design at Harbour.Space University in Barcelona, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She splits her time between Brooklyn, NY, and Lisbon, Portugal. The typefaces she worked on at Hoefler include Exchange, Ideal Sans, Landmark, Retina, Sentinel, Sterling, Verlag, Archer, Forza, Gotham, Historical Allsorts, Numbers, Shades, Tungsten, Vitesse and Whitney. Her contributions covered design direction, drawing, kerning, interpolation, opentype features, hinting, production, testing and troubleshooting.

    Ksenya created the decorative layered display typeface Blesk (2015).

    In 2019, at Rosetta Type, she published the rugged informal typeface Corsair Latin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kursat Unsal

    Graphic designer and illustrator based in Bodrum / Istanbul. Designer of the free vector format cityscape-themed decorative caps typeface Hane (2016) and Olympic Sports Icons (2016). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kursat Unsal

    Bodrum, Turkey-based designer of the vector format city scape decorative caps typeface Hane (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kyla Birgitta Arsadjaja

    During her studies at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore, Kyla Birgitta Arsadjaja created the decorative typeface Betawi (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kyle Pitman

    Designer of the free mechanical caps typeface Sling Shot (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kyle Sowden

    Cardiff, Wales-based designer of a codex-style all caps typeface in 2015, during his studies at the University of South Wales. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kyon

    Japanese makers of an initial caps font in which letters are related to torture chamber tools and anatomy, and of the anatomical dingbat typeface Hone Font. Alternate URL. Still another URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    L' Imprimerie Paul Daxhelet
    [Paul Daxhelet]

    Paul Daxhelet's printing shop in Hannut, Belgium. Paul designed the striped currency typeface Ecuyer DAX in 2004. Masonic Tattegrain (2013) are lettrines maçonniques, ornamental caps, based on work by Henri Tattegrain (1874-1944).

    Dafont link. Aka Daxad. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    La Grande Danse Macabre

    La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes (1862) is an alphabet based on the 1486 edition and subsequent copies by Jehan Lecocq (Troyes, 1539) and Garnier (Troyes, 1641). It was published by Baillieu in Paris in 1862. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    lalalulalalu

    American traditional artist who used gears in her caps font Gear Type 1 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lampridio Giovanardi

    Italian engineer-inventor, engraver, cabinet maker, 1809-1878. He designed the decorative caps Alfabeto Figurato (ca. 1860). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lara Docampo

    Madrid-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Madrid Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lara Koedoot

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of the all caps alphabet Animal Type (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lara Kothe

    Hamburg, Germany-based designer of the 3d decorative caps typeface Memphistype (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lara Kravchenko

    Omsk, Siberia-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Celebrity (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lars Bergquist
    [Timberwolf Type]

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    Lars Törnqvist
    [Cercurius (was: Lars Törnqvist Typografi)]

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    Laszlo Svajer

    Budapest-based designer of Gasztro (2011), an alphabet on the theme of coffee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Blow

    London, UK-based designer of the multilined typeface Disqo (2015), the geometric solid typeface No Name (2015), the smooth decorative caps typeface Salmonype (2015), and the rounded sans typeface Mars (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Busque

    Quebec City-based designer who designed a decorative texutured all caps typeface during her studies in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Dimitru

    Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Now working as an illustrator in Breda, The Netherlands. Behance link.

    Creator of the illustrated caps typeface TypoBirds (2012) and the dingbat font Soferul Modern (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Keer

    London, UK-based designer of City Font (2018: decorative caps), Fluid Font (2015) and Woven Font (2015, a textured all caps typeface), and of Words of Myth (2015, a decorative caps typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Keer

    London-based designer of the mythological creature caps typeface Words of Myth (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Kelly

    During her photography studies at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Laura Kelly (Milwaukee, WI) created the textured clored didone caps typeface Moths (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Moyer

    Laura Moyer (Lancaster, PA) created the decorative typeface Sea Garden (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Sala

    Barcelona-based designer who created a hip free circle-based modular typeface called Insaitdisseny in 2009. She also created a magnificent watercolor-stained lettered alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laura Tessier

    During her studies at Gobelins in Paris, Laura Tessier created the cat-themed all caps typeface Le Chalphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lauren Ashpole
    [The Living End]

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    Lauren Azzis

    Graphic designer in Lyon, France, who drew a decorative architectural alphabet called Konnexion (2016) and the Clarendon/ Capsuula hybrid The Pastemporary (2016, for the antique shop Lecomte Antiquités located near Nantes). Behance link. Another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lauren Filzenger

    San Diego, CA-based student-designer of the initial caps typeface Flower Sans (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lauren Harvill

    Lauren Harvill (Atlanta, GA) used fishing lures in her illustrative alphabet called Alluring Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lazar Dimitrijevic
    [Posterizer KG]

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    Leafhunter

    FontStructor who made Gearbox (2011), a caps typeface that is based on an old Renault gear box. He also made Futurebox (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leandro Senna

    Creator of a gorgeous ironwork caps typeface (2014) that can be viewed here. He is part of the design collective WOW in Cupertino, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lee Kelly

    Singapore-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Typoetry (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lee Yun Chen

    Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of Meteorological Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leigh Ellen Kosloski

    Graphic designer in Austin, TX. She created the ornamental organic caps typeface Great Expectations (2012). Her posters are quite noteworthy.

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    Leila Heuse

    During her studies, Liège, Belgium-based Leila Heuse designed the surrealist decorative caps Alphabet Illustré (2017) and the textured typeface family Veliquid (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Len Peralta

    Designer of Zombie Alphabet (2006): caps using zombies. No downloads, just images. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leo L.G. Meuffels

    Meuffels, who runs Meuffels&Partners in Susteren, The Netherlands, is the designer of the art deco multi-striped all caps Dextor family (Mecanorma), now in digital form at URW++ and Scangraphic. The Softmaker version is called Delano. TitanickDisplayNF (1999, 2007) by Nick Curtis is a remake of Dextor.

    He also created the multilined art deco typeface Mecanorma Hotel.

    Nightlife (2005, Canada Type) is based on an experimental grid design by Meuffels.

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    Leo Maggs

    Designer of Westminster (1973, Berthold), related to VGC's Amelia (1967) and based in the look of the magnetic ink bank cheque font MICR E-13B that was developed in the mid 1950s and is used by banks from the 1960s onwards. Klingspor's site says that he is German, but that is wrong---he is British. In an interview, the writer says: There is one space age one called One Up, a ghastly 60s thing, and the guy who designed that, Leo Maggs, talks about how he wished he hadn't designed it. "Way back in the swinging 60s," he says, "when my youthful soul was consumed with enthusiasm, if not naked ambition, I was surprised and delighted to have my first typeface, Westminster, accepted by Robert Norton. I produced several further designs, most of which were properly strangled at birth. One Up unfortunately survived... Looking at it now I feel much as I imagine a mature film star must feel when, 30 years after the event, she comes across photographs of herself as a struggling starlet revealing all for the readers of popular girly magazines, and I wish I hadn't done it." [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leo Partus

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of Dia De Los Muertos Font (2013), a spectacular illustrated caps typeface for Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leon Tan Hong Yap

    During his studies in Klang, Malaysia, Leon Tan Hong Yap designed an Animal Alphabet (2016) for children's books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leonie Steiner

    Bonn, Germany-based designer of the pencil-themed typeface Pastella (2016), the hand-drawn typeface Leonie (2014) and of the decorative blackboard bold typeface Sun (2014) and the classic shaded caps typeface Indianer (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leonor Graça Moura

    Lisbon-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of a caps typeface on the basis of fish and sea life called Sea Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lera Efremova

    Lera Efremova specializes in vector graphics. She has created several icon sets and alphabets in vector format, ca. 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Les lettrines de St Jean Damascène

    Beautiful 16th century lettrines (initial caps), scanned and shown in jpg format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Les polichinelles utiles

    French silhouette alphabet from 1826. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leslie Hamer
    [Leslie Ray]

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    Leslie Pascual

    Designer in Lima, Peru, who created the children's book caps typeface Oso (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leslie Ray
    [Leslie Hamer]

    Leslie Ray (or: Leslie Hamer) (Swell & Grand, Chicago, IL) designed these typefaces in 2017: Pop Clink (in Classic, Deco and Diamond styles), Circle Monogram, North by Night, Holiday Cookies (a monoline Christmas script), The Holidays (Christmas font), Hazel Deco, Circle Monogram, Diamond Monogram, Obey Sans (squarish).

    In 2018, she added the balloon font Helium. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lesly Marcos

    Lima, Peru-based designer of Coatl (2014), a decorative caps typeface that is based on pre-Colombian patterns. This project was finished during her studies at Instituto Toulouse Lautrec. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leta Che

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface for Latin and Cyrillic called The Life of a Scottish Terrier (2012), and of the Cyrillic display headline typeface Krugosvet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leticia Genesini

    Brazilian graphic designer. As an exercise for Central Saint Martin's Summer School in London, she created the playful gin stick-themed ornamental caps typeface called Gin O'Clock (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leticia Miranda Lodeiros

    London-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Eloisa (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Letitia Thirapathi

    Letitia Thirapathi Appadu (Townsville, Australia) created Futura Floral (2011) by filling the glyphs of Futura with art nouveau style flower ornaments.

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    Letterhead Fonts
    [Chuck Davis]

    Chuck Davis (Palmdale, CA) is the founder of Letterhead Fonts, which is now loacted in Reno, NV. LHF was established in 1999. They specialize in sign and logo fonts, taking inspiration from wood type and late 19th century style typefaces.

    Free fonts "Letterhead Tuscan" (handlettering), Quadrex (2006, 3d effect font), and Wal-Mart People (dingbats). Early display fonts include Esoteric (1999), Wall Dog, Double Gild, Convecta, Smalts, Splash, Lisa. His Atkinson collection has a few nice lettering alphabets: Heavy Sign Script, Eccentric French, Fancy Roman and Modern 1908 Classic (now called Cafe Nouveau).

    Mike Stowe designed Old Blackletter in 2001. Ken McTague made the hand-lettered style typeface Boston Truckstyle. Designed by Brian Kniceley in 2000: LHF Henderson Church, LHF Ohnimus Florid, LHF Ohnimus Spiked, LHF Strong Tea House, Strong Caliope, Strong Nouveau.

    Fonts made around 2000 by Chuck Davis: LHFActionMovie LHF Bulletin Plug, LHF Classic Block, LHF Condensed French, LHF Convecta (2005, beveled face), LHF Cool Blue, LHF Crouching Tiger, LHF Def Artist, LHF Def Writer, LHF Double Gild, LHF Eccentric French Lt, LHF Esoteric, LHF Heavy French Roman, LHF Heavy Sign Script, LHF Jami (2000), LHF Letterhead Tuscan, LHF Lisa, LHF Modern 1908 Classic, LHF Quantum (2001, techno family), LHF Smalts, LHF Splash, LHF Tuscan Full Block (Western style), LHF Wall Dog, LHF Letterhead Tuscan. Fonts made in 2001 by Chuck Davis: LHF Advertisers Plug ATK, LHF Argentine Solid, LHF Boston Truckstyle, LHF Esoteric New, LHF Grants Antique, LHF Mister Kooky, LHF Mister Spooky, LHF Scriptana (2003, angular calligraphic script).

    The following are all by Chuck Davis: Kung Faux (2021: oriental simulation), LHF Antique Shop, LHF Fat Cat (2011, a round informal typeface influenced by Alf Becker's rounded block letterstyle), LHF Bank Note (2007), Quadrex (2005), Menace (2004, comic book style), Michelle (2004, calligraphic script), LHF Ambrosia (2004, free), Sofia Script (2003), Stanford Script (2003), Sarah Script (2003), Fancy Full Round (2003, a Western typeface inspired by Al Imelli, ca. 1900), Matthews Thin (2003, tall caps face), New Modern Classic (2003), LHF Birgitta (2003, roman style typeface, inspired by an E.C. Matthews book), LHF Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book style), CD Esoteric, OldSignFont, Robin, LHFDefWriter, LHFDefArtist, LHF Amarillo (2001, a spurred serif), LHFBeckerMonogramEnglish, LHFBeckerPosterScript, LHFBeckerRoundedBlock, LHFConclaveFLATreg, Cool Blue (2003), LHFConclaveFLATwide, LHFConclaveROUNDreg, LHFConclaveROUNDwide, LHFConclaveSHARPreg, LHFConclaveSHARPwide, LHFCrouchingTiger, LHFCrouchingTigerCONVEX, LHFEquinox, LHF Esoteric3 (2004), LHFMirageBOLD, LHFMirageITALIC, LHFMirageREG, LHFMonogram, LHFQuantumCONVEX, LHFQuantumREG, LHFRomanaClassico, LHFScriptana (great lettering font), LHFTimberlodge, Village, Kelly Ann, Outlaw, Hensler (2002, a cigar box face), Antique Half Block (2002, wood type), Spurred Egyptian, Wolverine, Ortlieb, Super Thick&Thin, Denise, Hensler, Charlotte, Antique Half Block (2002), Supabad (2003), Brianna (2003, techno), Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book family), Naylorville (2004), LHF Grant's Antique (2004, caps only Victorian face), Michelle (2004), Cafe Corina (2006, a decorative 19th century style free font by Chuck Davis), LHF Ambrosia (2004, a purely Victorian free font by Chuck Davis), Lincoln (2006), No Fishin (2006), LHF Bell Boy (2004, a free art deco font, Chuck Davis), LHF Full Block (2003; free slab serif athletic number typeface by Davis), Mike's Block (free slab serif by Davis), Old Block (free athletic numbering typeface by Davis), LHF Old Stock (2007), (2007, lettering from old stock market certificates), Hick Sticks (2007, letters made from sticks), LHF Fast Slant (2007, comic book style), LHF Cartoon Cowboy (2009), LHF Big Daddy (2012, fat signage family), LHF Comic Caps 2 (2014), LHF Advertisers Square (2014, after a signage alphabet by Al Imelli, 1922), LHF Asylum (2015, scratchy brush), LHF Black Rose Script (2016), LHF Mastercraft (2017).

    Typeface categories: 3D, 30's and 40's, 50's and 60's, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bold, Calligraphic, Cartoon, Casual, Circus, Condensed, Convex, Corners, Decorative, Distressed, Early 1900's, Extended, Fire Truck, Formal, Gothic, Graffiti, Inline, Late 1800's, Layered, Light, Modern, Old English, Ornaments, Panels, Prismatic, Racing, Railroad, Ribbons, Roman, Sanborn Map Co., Sans Serif, Scripts, Scrollwork, Shadow, Stock Certificate, Swashes, Victorian, Western, Word Art.

    Designers: Arthur Vanson, Brad King, Bruce Bowers, Charles Borges, Chuck Davis, Dan Sawatzky, Dave Correll, Dave Smith, David Parr, Denise Bayers, Duncan Wilkie, Francis Lestingi, Jeff Marshall, John Davis, John Studden, Kaitlin Sims, Ken McTague, Mark Searfoss, Mike Erickson, Mike Jackson, Patrick Kalange, Rob Cooper, Steve Contreras, Tom Kennedy.

    At one point, Chuck Davis was running Blu Creative Media, where he published BLU Esoteric (1999).

    Interview at MyFonts. Letterhead link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    LetterPalette

    LetterPalette was founded in 2017 by Serbian type designers Ana Prodanovic and Vedran Erakovic. In 2017, Ana Prodanovic designed the modern text family Obla, and Vedran Erakovic created Stena. In 2018, Vedran Erakovic added Ana, a layered set of decorative capitals. Plener (2018) is an experimental layerable font family by Ana Prodanovic.

    Typefaces from 2021: Orto Sans (by Ana Prodanovic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lettersiro
    [Muhammad Sirojuddin]

    Muhammad Sirojuddin, aka illustrator Shiro Ngampus (of The Art of Shirongampus), is a Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989. In 2016-2017, he published some fonts at Shiro Ngampus. In 2017, he started Lettersiro, where he designed these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Stay Outside, Amsterdam (signature script), Mellisa Script, The Sunshine Script, Sunshine Ornaments, Holland Signature, Beauty (monoline script), Gisellia (signature script), Calling Heart (brush script), Handsome (dry brush script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Geronimo Base, Arthington, Asking Mind, Sayur Koool, Meillina, Bolder Line, Blur Sight, Sweetland, Wellsight, Reckless Art, Gojira Black, Butter Layer, Brieston, Breakout, Breaking Mad, Blinkstones (dry brush), Banthink Clean, Black Sambath, Mentega, Handsome, Wild Nature, Santana, Hunters, Kobar, Bio Monster, Good Sunday, Butter Haunted, Black Street, Dillova, Honey Butter (a font trio), The Banthink (a poster font), Sweetland, Outsmile (a signature script), Audhistine, Stella Wilson (font duo), Time Hunters Script, Onetime (signage script), Paladise (creamy upright script), Lovely Photograph Better Glory, Grooving (a weathered vintage font), Midtown.

    Typefaces from 2019: Best Rock, Raster Slice, Kalimat Script, Satturday Collection, Hollanda, Rallian, Gotten Say, Quick Jump, Blade Stroke, Sandiego, High Sky, Delight Place, Higher Style, Monoline Signature, Lollipa, Deliont, Bellome, Vintage Quotes, Santiago, Darkside (dry brush), Bruttall (dry brush), Bloody Durian, Ruthless, Bankzath, Blanksack Immortal, Judgement Territory, Something in The Grave Yard, Blank Smile, Think Smart, So Sweet Honey, Signatime, Nightland, Willmad Friday, Maillove, Hello Santuy, Collonar Caps, Golliath, Monumental, Zamruds, Barton (rounded sans), Brave Strong (brush style), Dreaming Time (a fat finger font), Greathunt, Wrong Hunt (brush), Lost World, Monster World, Smasher, Charitta, Donnis, Perfect Sweet, Rentuck, Silhouette, Blankid, Signatour, Splash (dry brush), Redtowns (brush), Retro Thunders (a great angular signage script), Hamilton (script), Keilla, Willian, Melting Letter, Burn Wood, Bomber Balloon, Inzomniac, Brown Choco, Dark Hammer, Black Spirit, Black Heart, Batsand, Aged Machine, Heartless, Blink Kiss.

    Typefaces from 2020: Breaking Wild, The Brat, Expain, Snow Fairy, Beloved Daughter, Shelva, Henniver, Cold Climate, Friend White, Agged Machine, Bradley, Friday, Haksen, Chicago, Writing Tresno, Vintage Quotes, Dalton, Earn, Media Times, Samford + Samford Black.

    Typefaces from 2021: Paladise (a bold upright retro script), Beauty Switzerland Duo, Honey Crafter (a bold upright retro script), Amsterdam Signature (an upright rabbit ear script), Hunters Think (a bold creamy script). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lettres Ornées

    Famous decorative caps typeface originated by the Paris-based foundry of Joseph Gillé (ca. 1820). Later versions included one by Wood & Sharwoods (ca. 1842), Laurent & Deberny (ca. 1867: in various size variations, (Lettres ornées No 101, No 103 and No 89)), Deberny & Peignot and Haas.

    In the phototype era, PLINC carried the face as Lettres Ornées, with a variant named Eldorado B where the line fill is missing. Letraset had it as Lettres Ornées (with a Deberny & Peignot credit), and Mecanorma developed it some time before 1971 as 82A Lettres Ornées and Ornées A (with a Haas credit).

    Digital revivals were attempted by Dieter Steffmann (2002: a free font called Lettres ombrées ornées), FontMesa (2015), Alan Jay Prescott (as "Currier") and Steve Harrison (2021: Lettres Ornes Blonde, Lettres Ornes Noire and Lettres Ornes Lignes). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

    Agathe Richard (Lettres Vagabondes) is a French calligrapher from Lyon (b. 1986) who made Holyrose Sale (2005, painted letters) and who has a gallery with breathtaking calligraphy. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Direct link to her fonts: Midnight Tea (2006, blackletter), Bonbon Gothique (2005, blackletter), holyrose-font-midnightea (2006), Script Gribouillon (2005), BonbonBleu (2006, calligraphic gothic face). Under "grenier" (attic), check out her illuminated caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lettrines avec LATEX

    Daniel Flipo's macros for introducing initial caps in LATEX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lewis Foreman Day

    Lettering artist and author, 1845-1910. His books include Alphabets Old and New: Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Complete (1902, B.T. Batsford), which has a large number of historic alphabets, initials, blackletter examples, and new alphabets by the author himself. Other books: Alphabets Old And New For The Use Of Craftsmen (1910, B.T. Batsford, London), Lettering in ornament (B.T. Batsford, 1902), The anatomy of pattern (B.T. Batsford, 1895), Penmanship of the XVI, XVII&XVIIIth centuries (1911, B.T. Batsford, London: Local download), and Nature and Ornament (B.T. Batsford, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892).

    He created numerous pen-drawn alphabets. I am using the descriptive names he used in his own book, Alphabets Old and New: Modern Brush Letters, Blunt Brushwork, Blunt Twisted Brushwork, Japanese Brushwork, Modern Capitals for engraving on metal, Modern Capitals, more Modern Capitals, and yet more Modern Capitals, Modern early Gothic Capitals for engraving on metal, Modern Early Spanish Letters, Modern Foliated Capitals, Modern Gothic Capitals, Modern Minuscule Gothic, Modern Roman Capitals, Modern Roman Italics, Modern Twisted Letters, Numerals (set 1), Numerals (set 2), and Numerals (set 3).

    In 2012, Dick Pape created a number of typefaces based on alphabets found in Alphabets Old And New For The Use Of Craftsmen (1910). These include LFD14thCItalian75 (drawn by J. Vinycomb), LFD15thCFrenchRelief91, LFDAlphabetUndOrnamente216 (after roman capitals by Otto Hupp), LFDAsianStencilling205 (an art nouveau stencil based on an original by E. Grasset and M. Verneil), LFDBlockCapitals213 (based an alphabet by Walter John Pearce), LFDEngravingonSilver196 (a Foreman Day original designed for engraving on silver), LFDFreehand170 (based on an alphabet by Bailey Scott Murphy, architect), LFDFrenchPrintedType189 (based on a type by E. Grasset), LFDFrenchType209 (a caps typeface by Lewis Foreman Day), LFDIncisedinWood114 (a Foreman Day original Elizabethan lettering aklphabet based on an inscription incised in wood at North Walsham, Norfolk), LFDMetalEngraving187 (another original by Foreman Day, for engraving on metal), LFDModernCaps210 (an original), LFDPainted148 (a sketched typeface that was painted in 1727 on the wooden drug-drawers of an old apothecary's shop and kept in the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg), LFDPenAlphabet222 (an art nouveau alphabet by Foreman Day), LFDPenwork160 (after an original monstrosity by Walter Crane), LFDPenwork181 (based on an alphabet of Roland W. Paul), LFDPenwork206 (based on lettering by Franz Stuck), LFDQuasiJapanese203 (an oriental art nouveau design by Foreman Day), LFDRomanCapitals224 (based on lettering by Franz Stuck), LFDScriptStencil219 (an oriental art nouveau design by Foreman Day), LFDSquareCut202 (an original pixelish typeface by Foreman Day), LFDThinFrench208 (based on an alphabet by John Vinycomb). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lex Nau

    Lex Nau (Tel Aviv) created the rounded sans display typeface Lex Nau (2013) and the decorative caps typeface Totem (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liam McInnes

    Adelaide, Australia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Adelaide (2014) that celebrates the city. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liana Ahmad

    During her studies at Raffles College of Higher Education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Liana Ahmad created the textured caps typeface Zentangle (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lila

    Illustrator in Toulouse, France. I am not sure what Typictography. (2012) is---Lila says that it is a game between pictures and words, pictograms and typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liliana Perez

    Creator (b. 1984) of the claw-themed caps typeface Lilith (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lillette Marceaux

    Graphic designer in Louisiana. She created the caps typeface Blow Me Away (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lina Bolt

    Fontstructor who made the elegant horizontally-striped monospaced all caps techno typeface Bolt (2011), the liquid typeface Lolly (2011), and LB17 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lina Forsgren

    Lina Forsgren is an illustrator in Stockholm, Sweden. She created FRIAST (2011), an all-caps alphabet made with feathers. She also created an illustrated all caps alphabet around the theme of food recipes in 2011.

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    Lina Martinez

    Cali, Colombia-based designer of the ironwork-inspired decorative caps typeface Tonita (2016). She also proposed icons for Cali Terminal de Transportes (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Linan Chen

    American designer of the decorative all caps typefaces Anxious (2018) and Morris (2018), which is named after arts-and-crafts designer William Morris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lindsay Derecola

    Boyertown, PA-based creator of the decorative caps typeface family Royal Decorum (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lindsay Kneram

    Grand Junction, CO-based designer of an ornamental caps alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Line Villadsen

    Copenhagen-based designed of the children's caps typeface ABC My Little Monsters (2015), which was finished during her studies at KEA (Københavns Erhvervsakademi). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Franck

    Greensboro, NC-based designer of the all caps typeface Kinetic (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Hill

    Minneapolis, MN-based designer of the art deco typeface Metro (2016) and the drop caps alphabet Scribbles (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Peterson Rye

    Birmingham, MA-based designer of Pictograph Primer Expansive (1981), a decorative caps alphabet. See U&LC Vol. 8, No. 3, 1981. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liudmila Riumina
    [Imperator Kot]

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    Liza Diadina-Soniachna

    Graphic designer in Luhansk, Ukraine, who created the experimental Cyrillic poster typeface Boychuk (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liza Faustova

    Moscow-based designer, while studying at the HSE Art and Design School, of the refreshing all caps Cyrillic typeface Ticket (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    LJ Design
    [Luis Jaramillo]

    Luis Jaramillo (LJ Design Studios, Monteria, Colombia; b. 1993) created these free typefaces in 2014: AGreaterFoundation-Bold, Capella-Century, CapellaRockIII-Bold, Decasmini, Dolgan, LJStudiosGF, LuisSmartTX-Bold, Melinett1, Parallels, ThePowerlessRise, WallIT-Bold. In 2015, he made the decorative connect-the-dots caps typeface Night of Music, the great slab serif titling typeface Inicio and the extremely tall x-height logotype Lidea National Fontype, the alchemic occult typeface Zilap Geometrik, the sans typeface Fina, and the headline / poster sans family Silver (Regular, Forte, Grunge). The current list of fonts: AoceanbetweenUS, AGreaterFoundation-Bold, AJourney, AnewHeardDecorative, AsILayDyingLogoFont, Beforeandafther-Bold, Blade, CapellaRockIII-Bold, Capella-Century, CapellaRock-LJDesignStudios-Bold, CapellaRockIII-Bold, Condemnedtoyourlove, DZTypography-Zilap-Bold, DZTypography-Zilap, Darkpast, Decas-Bold, DecasII, Decasmini, Dolgan, EarthDry (2014, glaz krak font), Fina (thin sans logotype), Forsaken, Lacalle6, IS-BoldItalic, IS-Bold, IS-Italic, IS-Thin, IS, Logo, LJPromiseDarck, LJStudiosMB, LJStudiosMFJH, LJStudiosMNS, LJStudiosMNS2, LJStudiosMonitorIS-MAYUS, LJStudiosMonitorIS-MAYUSMinus, Leven, Leven, LordZeDD-LJStudios, LordZeDD3-Bold, LorenaGalarcio, LorenaGalarcio, LorettoGrafic-Bold, LorettoGrafic-Italic, LuisSmartTX-Bold, LuisSmatTXNormal-Bold, MarlenThePonderosa, MeliVargas, Melinett1, Melinett2, Melinett3, MyBrush, NeoLR, NovedosaStick-Italic, Overcome, Parallels, ParalyzedSkyandMoon-LJ-designStudios-Grunge, PenetrationOut-Deformed, PenetrationOut-Grunge, Pequeita, Pizcas, PowerDark-Bold, ShadowsofSecurity, SilverDust, SilverForteGrunge-Grunge, SilverForte, Sincedust, TRG-Zilap, The Dark (spooky), TheSoundofTruth-Grunge, TheSoundofTruth-smooth, ThePowerlessRise, ThroughStruggle, WallIT, WritingMemories, ZILAPGEOMETRIK, ZulmCool, redout, thedark, withindestruction.

    Typefaces from 2016: Zilap Urban (hipster style), First Christmas (snowy font), Shadows of Security, Hellion (textured), Blade, This Is Who We Are (grungy sans), GE Body (a sharp-edged sans), IS (unfortunately named, IS stands for Independent Style; it is a techno sans), Start With Today, The Sound of Truth, Zilap Geometrik, Silver Forte Grunge, Leal (monoline sans), The Frontman (free), The Frontman 2 (free), Primera (caps only sans), Zilap Oriental (oriental simulation typeface).

    Typefaces from 2017: Robusta (dry brush font), Dulkanyca, Factory LJDS, Murderess, Zilap Monograma, Zilap Black Storm, Red Out Reloaded, Zilap Sleep, Melibrush, Ligera Rouden.

    Typefaces from 2018: Geobin, Striker Eureka (stencil), The Darkest Night, Demon Killer.

    Typefaces from 2019: Daily Reading (a text typeface).

    Behance link. Fontspace link. Blogspot link. Dafont link. Newest Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Login Studio
    [Ina Bachvarova]

    Studio located in Sofia, Bulgaria, run by graphic designers and illustrators Ina Bachvarova and Vladimir Vencharsky. In 2010, they created an ornamental caps alphabet with mythological creatures. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lonor Lima

    Illustrator and painter in Guimaraes, Portugal, who created the ornamental caps typeface Saudade (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lord Kyl's Medieval and Fantasy Fonts
    [Robert D. Anderson]

    Old URL. Another old URL. This was of the greatest archives, loaded with medieval and fantasy fonts, including many dingbats. Robert D. Anderson (aka Lord Kyl MacKay) scanned in many alphabets from "Medieval and Renaissance Alphabets" and created tens of beautiful historical fonts, and made them available free of charge: Anglo-Saxon 8th c, Battel Abbey 8th C, British Block Flourish 10th c, British Museum 14th c, British Outline Majuscules 10th c., Celtic Knot, Curved Majuscules 17th c., Decorated Majuscules 14th c., English Gothic 17th c, Floral Majuscules 11th c, German Blackletters 15th c, Gothic Leaf, Gothic Straight-Faced 18th c., Italian Cursive 16th c (GREAT!), Library of Minerva 9th c., Spanish Round Bookhand 16th c., Traditional Gothic 17th c, Vatican Rough Letters 8th c, Celtic Knot (caps), Gothic Leaf (caps font), Medieval Dingbats.

    Alternate URL at TypOasis. Other archive categories: runic fonts, gothic, versals (initial caps), uncial, roman era, anglo-saxon.

    Old URL. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lorena G

    Award-winning graphic designer and illustrator in Barcelona, whose work and letter designs are characterized by flashy and colorful contructions. She studied at the University of Salamanca (2008) and ELISAVA (2013). Her type designs include 36 Days of Type (2016) and Ahoy (2013, a decorative rope font, which can be bought here). She shows exquisite lettering in posters such as Playing Arts 8 (2016) and ATC Rosemary (2016, based on ATC's Rosemary font from 2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lorenz Goldnagl
    [GF Fonts]

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    Lorenz Schimik

    Vienna-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Diamond (2013).

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    Louis Morin

    French illustrator who illustrated, e.g., Les Confidences d' une Aïeule (by Abel Hermant, Paris, 1900). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Louisa Smith

    State College, PA-based designer of Union Pacific 1942 (2016). Louisa explains: This is my first font project---an all-caps display sans serif, based on hand-drawn lettering in a 1942 ad for Union Pacific. It's perfectly imperfect, intentionally impersonating the flaws of hand lettering, to bring a retro vibe to your projects. Perfect for retro logos. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Louise Dib

    Louise Dib and Sandra Side co-designed the handcrafted decorative caps typeface Viok (2015) that depicts very old people. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Louise Quintin

    During her studies at ECV in Nantes, France, Louise Quintin designed the caps typeface Feather Alphabet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Low Chonyin

    Student in Kangar, Malaysia, who created an ornamental caps typeface in 2012 that is based on folded jeans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luan Tran

    Senior designer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Creator of two teardrop-themed all-caps vector format typefaces in 2013, Elegance and Lovers. In 2013, he created the curly serif caps typeface Romance, the decorative didone typeface Venus (2013), Floral Typeface (floral caps), and the ball terminal typeface Noble. He also created a set of icons for Octavian Back Office (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luana Oliveira

    Uberlandia, Brazil-based designer of the all caps decorative typeface Uberlandia (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucas Iacono

    Graphic designer in Rosario, Argentina, who made the experimental all-caps typeface The X-Ray Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucas Matta

    Campinas, Brazil-based designer of a decorative textured all caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucas Young

    During his studies at York University in Toronto, Lucas Young created an ornamental caps typeface called Alphabeta (2013). He created a Si-Scott style typeface in 2013 which is not available to the public---see however various posters on his site in that same style.

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    Lucaz Mathias
    [Estudio Cao]

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    Lucia Cordero

    Madrid and Berlin-based designer of the children's alphabet Garabato (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucie Baratte

    Lille, France-based designer of the pixel blackletter font Methazoa (2013). Crapotine (2013) is an experimental diamond- or rhomboid-inspired ornamental caps typeface.

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    Lucie Burel

    During her studies in Nantes, France, Lucie Burel created a food-inspired decorative typeface, Alphood (2015), and Certes (2015, based on a mixture of Museo Sans and Van Dijck). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucy Depardieu

    Much too talented to be related to Gerard, Lucy Depardieu created a decorative flamingo-themed decorative caps typeface in 2014 called Flamingo. Her other work at DeMontfort University in London is also outstanding. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucy Haque

    Lucy Haque (London) used textures and patterns on a Clarendon shell to create a decorative all caps alphabet in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucy Kirin

    Lucy Kirin (Uniqkirin, Seoul, Korea) created the deorative typeface Random Monster (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucy Marris

    During her studies in Lincoln, UK, Lucy Marris designed the stick figure typeface Body (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ludvig Grandin

    Designer of Cloister Small Caps Old&Style Figures. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ludwig&Mayer

    Big German foundry active in the first half of the 20th century. It was absorbed by Neufville in 1984, which will make its typefaces available in digital form. Type designers and typefaces:

    • House typefaces: Allemannia Fraktur (1908, or: Alemannia Fraktur; a digital revival in 2018 by Mew Varissara Ophaswongse), Allright (1936), Altenburger Gotisch (1928), Aristokrat Zierbuchstaben (1911: digital revival by Dieter Steffmann in 2002), Bastard Mediaeval, Beatrice (1931), Chic, Cochin (1922), Commerciale, Die Mode (1914-1915), Diplomat (1964, see the digital version Diploma by Hans van Maanen, 2009), Excelsior (1914, script face), Firmin Didot (1929), Hallo (1956), Kombinette (1932), Kupferplatte (1950), Largo (1939), Magnet (1951), Manolo (art nouveau: revival in 2019 by Ralph Unger as RMU Manolo), Nelson (1902, art nouveau), Wren, Samson Script, Luminous, Behrens. Kudos Kaps NF (2006, Nick Curtis) is a set of five nice ornamental caps and associated alphabet and border sets, including a Lombardic set, and an engraved set--they are based on typefaces from the Ludwig&Mayer library.
    • Albert Christoph Auspurg: Rasse (1924), Mona Lisa (1930), Brigitte (1935), Krimhilde (1934)
    • Hans Bohn: Allegro (1936-1937)
    • Jakob Erbar: Erbar-Grotesk (1922-1930), Lucina, Lumina, Lux, Phosphor, Koloss (1923), Candida (1936, a mediocre didone family), Feder Grotesk (1910), Fette Feder Grotesk, Erbar
    • Hace Frey: Charleston (1967, Alphonse Mucha-style display face)
    • G. Germroth: Germroth-Deutsch (1935, blackletter)
    • Erhard Grundeis: Achtung (1932)
    • Karlgeorg Hoefer: Stereo (1968), Permanent (1962), Headline (1964), Elegance (1968), Big Band (1974)
    • Walter Höhnisch: Tempo (1930), Werbeschrift Deutsch (1933), National (Fraktur, 1933-1934), Schräge National (1937), Skizze (1935, a script face), Stop (1939), Antiqua die Schlanke (1938-1939), Express (1952), Candida Italic (1937), Slender (1939)
    • Heinrich Jost: Aeterna (or Jost Mediaeval, 1927)
    • Walter Ferdinand Kemper: Colonia (1938-1939, a humanist sans)
    • Wilhelm Krause: Professor-Krause-Fraktur (1930, blackletter)
    • Paul Eduard Lautenbach: Prägefest (1926)
    • Richard Ludwig: Augenheil (1908)
    • Helmut Matheis: Charme (1957-1958, calligraphic), Slogan (1959, connected script), Primadonna (1956, a formal script), Matheis Mobil (1960), Compliment (1965, an angular vertical script)
    • Joshua Reichert: Reichert-Gotisch (1930s).
    • Imre Reiner: Contact (Deberny&Peignot, 1952; Ludwig&Mayer, 1968 (according to Jaspert), and 1963 according to others), Corvinus (ca. 1932), Stradivarius (1945)
    • Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil: Welt-Fraktur (1910), Werk-Fraktur (1918)
    • Alfred Riedel: Domino (1954: a fat face)
    • Georg Schiller: Lyrisch (1907)
    • Arthur Schulze: Werbekraft (1926)
    • Ilse Schüle: Rhapsodie (1949-1951, bastarda)
    • Johannes Schweitzer: Dominante (1959)
    • Francesco Simoncini: Aster (or Aster Simoncini, 1958), Life (1965), Armstrong (1970), Simoncini Garamond (1961)
    • K. Sommer: Dynamo (1930)
    • Hans Wagner: Altenburger Gotisch (1928, Fraktur font), Welt (1931, slab serif), Wolfram (1930, a heavy upright italic).
    • Eugen Weiss: Hoelderlin (1937-1938, blackletter)
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    Luis Cabrera

    Designer in Chiclayo, Peru, who created the ornamental caps typeface Surf (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luis Del Pielago

    During his studies in Lima, Peru, Luis De Pielago created the ornamental caps typeface Face Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luis Eder Moreno Quintanilla

    Designer in Monterrey, Mexico, who created the caps typeface Fantasma (2012) and a dot matrix typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luis Jaramillo
    [LJ Design]

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    Luis Miguel Torres
    [Aviv Studio]

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    Luis Paulo

    During his studies in 2014, Funchal, The Azores, Portugal-based designer Luis Paulo created the decorative caps typeface Olinda (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lukas Flekal

    Graphic designer in Brno, Czechia. He made the striped vector format font Candy Type (215), and a wonderful coloful decorative caps alphabet called Flat Alphabet (2015) and the equally interesting Circular Stamp Retro Vector Type and Circular Stamp Marine Vector Icons. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lukas Gerber

    Zug, Switzerland-based designer of the brush typeface Blemished (2008), the ornamental caps typeface Polar Shift (2010), the didone stencil typeface Femoralis (2010), the hand-printed typeface Camille Javal (2012, named after Brigitte Bardot in Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard), and the athletic lettering typeface Limbus (2015).

    Fontsy link. Home page for his illustrations and graphic design. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lukasz and Wojciech Bachur
    [Frisk Web]

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    Lukasz Kulakowski
    [Empty Page Studio]

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    Luke Ives

    Montreal-based creator of an animal caps typeface, Wild Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luke Ritchie

    Designer in Stellenbosch, South Africa, of an ornamental typeface (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lukyan Turetskyy
    [2D Typo]

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    Luthfi Juliansyah

    Bogor, Indonesia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Kurva (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lydia Blagden

    London-based designer of these display typefaces in 2014: Helios (hipster font), Metazoa (animal-themed caps), Krystall. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lydia Burris

    Graduate of Fort Hays State University. Portland, OR-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Jubilee (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lydia Matas

    London, UK-based designer of a beveled colored all caps typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lynda Areno-Aciro

    Rotting vegetables inspired Lynda Aneno-Aciro (London, UK) when she developed the textured all caps typeface Decay in 2014 during her graphic design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    M. Moullet

    Author of 100 Alphabets Publicitaires Dessinés par M. Moullet (1946, Editions Caboni, Bruxelles). Alphabets from that book include Letters in relief, Fancy Character, Ornamental Antique (art deco), Fancy Antique (multiline art deco), Fancy Antique 2 (a different style altogether), Pochoir (stenciled).

    Some of Moullet's fonts were digitized by Dick Pape in 2011 and 2012 and can be downloaded here. Pape's fonts: FAA3DLettresEnRelief, FAAAllongees, FAAAllongeesBold, FAAAntiqueAllongee, FAAAntiqueGrasse, FAAAntiques, FAAAntiquesGrasses, FAABaroque3DInitiales, FAABlockLettresEnRelief, FAACameoHollow, FAACaracteresdeFantaisie, FAAChevauchantes, FAACubiques, FAAEcossaises, FAAEcritureGrasseEmoussee, FAAEgyptienneGrasse, FAAEgyptiennesEmoussees, FAAFantaisie, FAAFantaisieBlaireau, FAAFantaisieHardi, FAAFantaisieHaut, FAAFantasio, FAAFloralGothiqueInitiales, FAAFrenchMecane, FAAItalianHeavySlab, FAALettresAuCrayonItalic, FAALiberty, FAANormandes, FAANormandesAllongees, FAAOmbreeEnRelief, FAAOnciale, FAAOrientales, FAAPochoir, FAARomainClassique, FAARomainTypographique, FAScenesPaysannes, FAASerifEgyptienne, FAAVetteFantasieAntieke. Download page.

    Jeff Levine revived some of Moullet's typefaces: Silly Behavior (2019), Old Sport JNL (2018), Relaxation JNL (2017), Peppermill JNL (2017), Script Spot Initials JNL (2017), French Lettering JNL (2017), Martial Arts JNL (2017, an oriental simulation font), Relaxation JNL (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    M. Tolnai

    Author of "Letters voor Moderne Reclame-Kunst". 3e verbeterde druk. Amaco, Amsterdam, c. 1941. Excerpts of this book were shown by Piet Schreuders. These include Sierschrift (an ornamental caps face), and this hand-printed alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Macarena Guillén

    Macarena graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created Delata, an all caps face based on antique toys. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mackenzie Palma

    Mackenzie Palma is a graphic designer from New York who studied in New York and Scotland, and has a BFA degree in graphic design. Since 2011, she has been working as a design intern at various companies, including the Food Network and Cooking Channel. In 2015, she created the decorative caps typeface Charlotte. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Macy Rajacich

    During her studies, Macy Rajacich (Minneapolis, MN) designed a wonderful all caps color alphabet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Madalina Tantareanu

    Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Born in Bucharest, she lives and studies in Valencia, Spain. In collaboration with Angelica Acosta Otero and Jorge Morales, in 2013, she created a decorative caps typeface as a proposal for an illustration congress in Valencia. She also created a few floriated initials in 2013. She also creative a decorative techno typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Madeline Dubuisson

    During her studies at ESA Liège, Madeline Dubuisson (Namur, Belgium) designed the swimming human figure typeface Alphabet Illustré (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Madeline Quinn

    Graphic designer in Newburgh, NY. She created the experimental geometric typefaces Jazz and Caps in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Madison Angus

    Kirkland. WA-based designer of the free handcrafted typeface Kindle (2016) and the octopus-themed decorative typeface Sucker (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Madz Bugayong

    Graphic artist in Mandaluyong, Philippines. Designer of the colrful women silhouette typeface Fierce (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maelle Keita
    [Thomas Boucherie]

    Maelle Keita is the second identity of Thomas Boucherie (Montpellier, France, b. 1977). The Maelle persona is a prolific Swiss creator of many free fonts, which are mainly calligraphic or connected scripts.

    Typefaces from 2017: Adventure of the Old Giant, The Curious Incident, The Fabulous Orchestra, The Butcher factory, Dancing in the Moonlight.

    Typefaces from 2016: La Bataille du Sanctuaire, The Quest of Discoveries, Sentimental Beach, October Quotes, Hercule vs Goliath, Band of Reality, Street Gathering, Alicia on the Enchanted Highlands, Adventures on the Mountains, League of Giant, Richard True Crime, Dragons and Chickens, The Elves And The Secret Garden, Pokerface, Gentleman on the Rainbow, La Pantoufle en Or (tattoo font), Bulles de Chocolats, Atlantide Starlight, The Golden Flower, Mr Fisherman and the Shoemaker, Catherine de Beaumont.

    In 2015, Maelle made Gravity of Love (white on black letters), Incredible Angel (beatnik style), The Red Horse, The Spaghetti Movie (Western font), The Hundred King, The King of Lost Towel, les Soeurs Samurai, Mr. Jackson Rankenstein, Mathilde Castleland (calligraphic script), Question and Love (calligraphic script), Chateaux des Olives (calligraphic script), Le Cachalot du Grand Nord (a hilarious funky font), Le Grimoire du Bonheur, The Constellation of Heracles, The Citizens, Secret of the Octopus, Fabulous Vikings, King Arthur (ribbon font), Mademoiselle Catherine, Alfred La Moule, Jackie Talks to You, Les Carottes Sont Fraiches, Claudette aime le Chocolat (connected dessert script), LA-CHAMBRE-77, LACHAMBRE67, LE BAL DES COCHONNES, LE BAL DES COCHONS, LE CABARET DES FOUS, LE SILENCE DES CAFARDS, La Tortue, Le-Jardin-de-Calista (strong brush typeface), ONLY IN THIS CASE, Stink on the Death (signage script).

    Before 2015, Maelle designed Black December (2014), Une Grenouille Le Soir (2014), La Kame A Leon (2014, heavy brush), The Best Things In Life Are Free (2014), Caviar De Lapin Blanc (2014), La Truite à Papa (2014), Mougatine (2014, a needle thread script), Chicken Chorizo (2014), Ventilla Stone (2014), Mademoiselle Camille (2014, swashy), Authentic Hilton (2014), Olympic Branding (2014), Le Laboratoire du Docteur Steak (2014), The Chicken Love Story (2014), Les Sorcières de la Lune Noire (2014), La Compagnie des Ombres (2014), Les Sensations de Cerise (2014), La Chatte à Maman (2014, a creamy script), Aligot de Mirabelle (2014, a great delicate calligraphic script), L'Antre du Corniche (2014, thin script), Caviar de Diane (2014, thin script), Karine Aime Les Chocolats (2014: a connected script), Death in the Shadow (2014: brush script), Akhenaton (2014: brush script), Mayumi Gumi (2014), Font For Children Indo (2014: dingbats), Anabelle Script (2014, a heavy brush script), Mademoiselle K (2014, a cursive typeface), Anacondas (2014, an upright connected script), Walker on the Moon (2014, connected script), Angelique ma douce Colombe (2014), Pomerole (2014), Paper For Your Ass (2014), Paper Towel (2014), Wolf in the City (2014), Dragon is Coming (2014), J'aime bien le dimanche (2014), Camelia (2014, grungy signage script), Kosmo Cat (2014, a stone age script), Ophelia Script (2014), Monkey Snake (2014), Ventilla Script (2014), Slow Motion (2014), Ail et Fines Herbes (2014: hairline script), Mister Fish : upright curly script (2014), Elephant (2014), Nemo One (2014), Royal Chicken (2014, signage script), Nenuphar of Venus (2013), There Can Only Be One Breaver Im It (2013: flourishes), Ruskof (2013, grunbgy Cyrillic simulation face), Kawaii Food Font (2013, dingbats), Chouette Alors (2013, owls), Eglantine (2013, upright script), Zentai Itacha (2013), Magnolia (2013), God Bless America (2013), Jack And The Beanstalk (2013, upright connected script), Halloween Trick (2013, dingbats), Noyeux Joel (2013, Christmas dings), Angel of Blood (2013), Matriochkas (2013), My Princess Likes A Frog (2013), Skate or Die (2013, dingbats), Chouette Alors (2013, owls), Sleep on the moon (2013), Animox (2013, teddy bear dingbats), It Was A Good Day (2013, ornaments and filets), Ordre de Depart (dot matrix face), Diane de France (2013, calligraphic), Serval (2013, script), Chicago Eskimo (2013, fat outlined signage face), Quality Street (2013, vintage signage script), From The Moment (2013, frames), Arabia (2013, upright connected script), Hector Le Dragon (2013), Fantom Better (2013), Mont Royal, Coccinelle, Ponctuation, Miel & Abeille, La Petite Puce, Yo te amo pero en secreto, Conjecture (a sketch font), Coloscobik (2013, a marquee face), Ejaculator, This Is Not A Font, Tell Me A Secret (2013), Chocolate Cake (2013, plump outline face), Eglantine (2013), Ornamind (2013, floral dingbats), La Grosse Cochonne (2013), Toyzareux (2013, bubblegum font), Oliver Tue Les Fourmis (2013), Two Fingers King (2013, an ornamental blackletter), Piragniac (2013), Marguerite (upright connected script), Gulliver, Arakphobia (2013, a spiderweb font), Gelatina Elemente (connected script), Zenzai Itacha (oriental simulation), Atlas Eternal 78 (2013), Serial MKV 1 (2013), The Black Manba (2013), Gang Bang Crime (2013, a dripping paint font), La Grenouille Verte Qui Devient Toute Rouge (2013), Aracme Waround (2013), Zoa Elephantesque (2013), Estrela Fulguria 1748 (2013, calligraphic), Cirus Quantum Solace (2013), Paint All Time (2013), Jumbo Burn (2013), Allo t'as pas de shampoing, Helene Queen K (2013, script), Not Only The Quake (2013, script), One Day Before Rain (2013), Bullet Campus (2013), Eternal Call (2013, swashy calligraphic font), Kill The Panda (2013, a textured blackletter face), Trash Butterfly (2013, ornamental caps) and In Secret I Love You (2013, hand-printed), A Sweet Melody My Lady (a circular font), Lady Solarus Queen 1789.

    Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Magda Brankiewicz

    During her studies in Poznan, Poland, Magda Brankiewicz designed these typefaces: Oedo (2015, octagonal typeface), Blumen (2014, brush script). Now located in Barcelona, she designed a decorative caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Magdalena Olczak

    Gdansk, Poland-based designer of a textured caps typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MaGo Fonts
    [Mariel Gornati]

    Mariel Gornati (Mago Fonts, Bernal and/or San Rafael, Argentina) is the creator (b. 1988) of the connected script typeface Bacana (2013), Mago Script, the free ultra-condensed typefaces Ayres (2013) and Quinn (2012, hyper-condensed).

    In 2016, we find her in San Rafael, Argentina. That year, she designed Bernal Sans and the romantic serif typeface Gorni.

    Typefaces from 2017: Bernal Drop Caps (a color font), New Ayres.

    Typefaces from 2018: Bolonqui (brushed).

    Typefaces from 2019: Niceto (a layerable humanist sans for logos).

    Dafont link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Wordpress link. Creative Market link. Tumblr link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mahatma Putri

    Indian designer. She created two Latin typefaces in 2012, Rushing Russian (Russian simulation font), and Kalamanthana (ornamental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mahendra Andisona

    Mahendra Andisona (Salatiga, Indonesia) created the MSTCH ornamental caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mak Sui Shing
    [DEMO Company]

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    Malacara

    Malacara (Chiapas, Mexico) is a designer and illustrator. Creator of the display all-caps typeface Masque in 2012.

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    Malale Jaramillo Fernandez

    Cali, Colombia-based designer of two decorative all caps typefaces in 2018, Organik (based on a few modules in the spirit of Super Veloz) and mapale (floral). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Malika Favre

    French designer for Airside of the Alphabunnies all caps alphabet in 2008. She also designed the NSFW Kama Sutra font (2013). Further images for this alphabet. Interview. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manali Hudar

    Mumbai, India-based designer of the colorful decorative caps alphabet Indovasi (2018), which is inspired by Gond art. The Gond constitutes the largest Adivasi community in India. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mandice Wong

    Hong Kong-based creator of the decorative caps protest typeface Poacher (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mandy Tensen Woolery

    Minneapolis, MN-based creator of the ornamental caps typeface Nom (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manfred Klein
    [Manfred Klein: Decorative caps and initials]

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    Manfred Klein
    [Manfred Klein's Fonteria]

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    Manfred Klein
    [Manfred Klein: Blackletter, Fraktur, Rotunda]

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    Manfred Klein: Blackletter, Fraktur, Rotunda
    [Manfred Klein]

    Manfred's fascination with blackletter and its German roots is apparent from the tens of typefaces he designed that are either revivals of historic typefaces or playful and not so playful extensions. Here we go:

    • ArthritishSpringtime
    • BarlosRandom, BarlosRandomRings
    • BarlosiusEdged (2007)
    • Bastarda-K, BastardaButtonsBeta, BastardaMajuskel1300, BastardusSans
    • BauernFraktur (2004, after the 1911 original by Bauersche)
    • BayreuthFraktur, Bayreuther-BlaXXL (2005, a variation of Schneidler's Bayreuth)
    • BigBroken, BigBrokenTwo
    • BigElla
    • Brahms-Gotisch (2005, with Petra Heidorn: a revival of Heinz Beck's 1937 typeface at Genzsch&Heyse)
    • BrokenAlphabetTradition, BrokenBrainsFrax, BrokenCapsJumperB, BrokenHand-Bold, BrokenHand, BrokenHandLight, BrokenRoman-Bold, BrokenSansCaps, BrokenSansCapsJumper, BrokenWoodtypes, BrokentTraditionRound
    • BruchRund
    • BruchschriftMK
    • Burte-Fraktur
    • Burtine (2003: handwritten freestyle version of Burte Fraktur, 1928), Burte-Fraktur, Burtinomatic, Burtinomatic-DemiBold
    • Burtinomatic-DemiBold, Burtinomatic
    • CancellerescA
    • CantaraGotica
    • Cantzley Inverse Caps (2007), CantzleyAD1600 (2005)
    • CaslonishFraxx
    • ClaudiusImperator
    • Clausewitz-Fraktur (2005). Designed in memory of Klaus Burkhardt.
    • CaslonishFraxx
    • ClaudiusImperator
    • CowboyCaxton
    • Cuxhaven Initials Round (2006), CuxhavenFraktur (2006), CuxhavenInitials (2006), CuxhavenTimes (2002). All named in honor of Petra Heidorn, who is from Cuxhaven.
    • DecadentaFrax (2007)
    • DirtyThinkwitz (2003). In honor of his good friend Klaus Burkhardt.
    • DizzyBrokenWritten
    • DolbyFraxCaps (2005)
    • DornspitzGrotesk
    • DoubleBrokenTextura
    • Druckschrift-Initialen
    • DrunkenSailor (2006)
    • DuerersMinuskeln
    • ElectrUnciale (2005)
    • ElephantaBlack (2006)
    • FatFreeFrax
    • FlyingHollander (2005)
    • FracturiaSketched, FracturiaSketchedCaps
    • FraktKonstruct, FraktSketch, FraktSketchFS, FraktalConPablos, FrakturInRings (2007), FrakturInitials07 (2007), FrakturNitials (2006), FrakturaFonteria, FrakturaFonteriaSlim (2006)
    • FrakturCondensedHeadline, FrakturCondensedHeadlineExtra
    • FraxBoxes, FraxBricKs, FraxBrix, FraxHandwritten-RoundCaps, FraxHandwritten, FraxHandwrittenXtrem-Medium, FraxInCage, FraxInCageLeftOblique, FraxInCageRightOblique, FraxInitials, FraxMouseSketches, FraxxSketchQuill
    • FrungturaFS
    • GGothiqueMK
    • GermanFatman (2006)
    • GingkoFraktur (2006)
    • GoldenSwing
    • GotenborgFraktur (2007)
    • GothicLetters (2007)
    • Gotic Caps (2006), GoticaBastard, GotischeMajuskel, GothicMajuscles
    • GotikaButtons (2005, after Imre Reiner's Gotika from 1933)
    • GutenbergsGhostypes, GutenbergsTraces
    • HamletOrNot, HamletTobeornot
    • HansFraktur
    • HansSachsCaps (2007)
    • HansSchoenspergerRandomish
    • HappyFrax (2006)
    • Haunted-Normal, HauntedBricks
    • Heimat
    • Holland Gotisch (with Petra Heidorn; a revival of Nederduits by Johann Michael Fleischmann, ca. 1750)
    • ImresFraktur, ImresFraxCaps (2007)
    • Incunitials
    • IronFraktur
    • JessicaPlus
    • JoeCaxton
    • JohannesBricks, JohannesButtons-02, JohannesGDiamonds, JohannesGLastTraces (2007), JohannesTraces
    • Jugendstil (2006)
    • KaiserRotbartCaps (2007)
    • KL1CiviliteEdges
    • Kl1RheumaticFraktur
    • KleinSchwabach (2005)
    • KleinsBrokenGotik (2006)
    • KlungerCaps (2006)
    • Leibniz-Regular
    • LombardPlattfuss, Lombardic
    • LookBrokenTypes
    • LuFraktorsoBroad
    • LudwigHohlwein (2006)
    • LufrakturBricks (2006)
    • LutherDuemille, LutherMousedrawn-Bold, LutherMousedrawn
    • MKBritishWriting
    • MK Broken Types (2006)
    • MKFraxConstr (2007)
    • MKImresTshirtsA
    • MKalligFrax, MKalligFrax-MediumItalic
    • MKancellerescaCaps (2005)
    • MKantzley (2005), MKanzleiCaps-One (2006)
    • MKapitalisRusticaMedium
    • MKaslonTextura
    • MoKsford, MoKsfordBold, MoKsfordDemiBold, MoKsfordExtraLight, MoKsfordLight
    • MonAmourCaps (2006), MonAmourFraktur-Broken (2006), MonAmourFrakturRegular
    • MonksWriting
    • MorbusParcinsonFraxx
    • MorscheKnochen
    • MountFirtree
    • MousefraKtur
    • Münchner-Fraktur (2005). A revival of Renaissance Fraktur by Heinz König, 1885, Genzsch&Heyse.
    • MyElectronicSchwabach
    • NeuGothic-Bold
    • Neudoerffer, NeudoerfferScribbleQuality. Both codex style typefaces are from 2003. Manfred writes that Neudoerffer is an unaltered version of the original Neudoerffer Initialen from 1660.
    • OKsfordBadFat, OKsfordItalic
    • OldTypographicSymphony-Regular, OldTypographicSymphony-Round
    • PopFraxFrankfurt (2007), PopFraxFrankfurtCondensed (2007)
    • PrinzEugen
    • Potsdam (2005, a revival of a 1934 typeface by Robert Golpon)
    • Prothesis-Black, Prothesis-Caribiqu, Prothesis-Caripix
    • RandomFrax
    • ReadableGothic
    • RememberReinerFS
    • RotundaEspagna
    • Schaftstiefel Kaputt (2003)
    • SchmaleGotischMK, SchmalfetteGotisch
    • SchneidlerSchwabacher, SchneidlerSolitaires, SchneidlerSolitairesRound
    • Schwabach, SchwabachDuemille, SchwabachScribbels, SchwabachScribbelsSecond
    • ScribbledFrakturX-Heavy (2006)
    • SketchedCassiusBroken
    • SmallEdgedFrax (2006)
    • Snoutlike (2003)
    • SpaceWinningFrax (2007)
    • TizonaDance
    • TshirtsForFrax
    • TypoasisBoldGothic (2003)
    • VanDoesburgBrokenFS
    • VeryBrokenFrax
    • WaldarbeiterGotisch
    • WeimarInline
    • WeissGotischRandom
    • Weissgotnitials (2005, based on Weiss's Lichte Initialen, 1935)
    • WittewittMajuscles-Flourish, WittewittMajuscles-FlourishBricks
    • WrittenFrax (2007)

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    Manfred Klein: Decorative caps and initials
    [Manfred Klein]

    Capitals are a favoritre playground for illustrators, drawers, and artists. They go beyond just mere type. So, to no one's surprise, Manfred Klein has created well over one hundred initial caps typefaces: AlkoInitials, AlkoInitialsFramed, AnarchoCaps, Arabuttons, Archeologicaps, ArtNouveauCaps, BreezedCapsBoldOblique, BrokenSansCaps, CapitalisTypOasisMedium, CapsMKS, CapsRandomish, CapsRandomishBricks, CassandraTwo, ChaosStripesCaps, ChristianInitials, CircleInitialsFreeshape, ClassiCapsBricksBlack, ClassiCapsC, ClassiCapsShields, ClassiCapsXmas, ClassicRomanCaps, ClassicaCaps, ClownNormal, ConstrAccident, ConstruCaps, CorrodetClassicaps, CorrodetInitials, CrazyConstructor, CuneateCaps, CuxInitials, CuxhavenInitialsRound, DeKonitials, DeconstructionCaps, DelitschInitialen, DelitzschCaps, DevilsAlphabets, DirtyHatchCaps, DodgesCaps, DolbyFraxCaps, DotCapsMK, DotsCapsTwo, DrunkenConstructor, DuodezInitialen, EaglesButtons, ErikGCapsSkInvers, ErikGCapsSketches, Ermir-Normal, FatFloralphabetXperimental, FifthCenturyCaps, FilledABC, FloRaTialen, FlorAlphabet-Bold, Florabetic, FloralOne, FloralTwo, FloralalphaLight, FloraliaCaps, FlowerPower, FlowerPowerRound-Medium, ForJeffTwo, FragmentCaps-Cross, FragmentCapsRound-Medium, FrakturInitials07, GaraNitials, GaraNitialsFramed, GaranitialRings, Glitter, GlitterOblique, GoticCaps, GoticaCaps, GotikaButtonsDrei, GotikaButtonsOne, GotikaButtonsTwo, GoudamentBricks, GriffosSCapsFont, HansSachsCaps, HansSachsCapsTwo, HansSchoensCapsInGrid, ImresCorrodetCaps, ImresCorrodetCapsInvers, Incunitials, InitialenFramedMK, JahnsCaps, JahnsCapsRound50, JugendstilCaps, JuliusCaesarBlack, KaiserRotbartOneCaps, KaiserRotbartTwoCaps, KleinFeodoraCaps, KleinsWrittenCaps, KlungerCaps, KochsLongCapsSquares, LambordicCaps, LeiterplattenSans, LetterBuildings, LetterBuildingsTHREE, LettersAnimales, LettersBats, LinoCapsA, LinoCapsAR, LinocapsB, LinocapsBR, LombardInitials, LombardiCaps-Round, LombardiCaps, LucaPacioliCaps, LucaPacioliRough, MKapitalisRusticaMedium, MKapsMixed, MKidge, Magyarish, MammothishCaps, ManFont, MaximilianAntiquaSmallCaps, Mighty-Normal, MightyContour-Black, MightyShadowBlack, MightySpecial-Normal, MightyWindyBlack, MonAmourCapsAprilFraktur, MultiCapsOne, MultiCapsTwo, NeoPanFrames, NeudoerfferScribbleQuality, NoisyButtons, OldConstructedCaps, OldiesButGoodies, OrnamentalInitial, OrnamentalInitialButtons, OszillCapsSecond, OszilloCapsFirst, ParmaInitialenMK, PetitFleurLight, PetitFleurNormal, PixCaps, PixCapsRound, PixCapsShadow, PixCapsWinding, PreRomanCaps, QuaNauticale_Initials_No1, QuaNauticale_Initials_No2, QuaNauticale_Initials_No3, QuadratZiffernNegativ, QuadrataRoma-MediumOblique, QuasimodoCaps, ReliefCaps-Italic, ReliefCaps, RememberCassandre, RememberManhattanBolkd, RememberManhattanSeptember, RememberScribbledTypes, RodGauApesInitials, RodgauCaps, RomanGridCaps, RomanaCapsClassicSquares, SaltoOne-Normal, SaltoTwo-Normal, SchneidlerSchwabachInitials, SchnoerkelCaps, SchoenspergerCaps, Schraffura, SerifsCaps, SilvestreInitials, SilvestreInitialsSquares, SnowCupsCaps, Solitaire, Solitaires, SomeCapsStories, StoneCapsIngrid, TangoMacabre, Tangoasis, TokayMK, TokayOSeven, ToleCaps, TornielloInitials, Torynitialen, TorynitialenInversed, TorysToolsFS, ToscanButtons, ToskanaCapsRound, TrajanSmallCaps, TrajanusBriX-Invers, TrajanusBricks, TrajanusBricksXtra, TwilightCaps, TypOasisInitials, TypoGhosts, VForVictory, VariationsForImre, VaticanianInitials, VenetianBlind, VenetianBlindInverse, VespasianCaps, VespasiansFlorials, VictorianInitialsOne, WalNussCaps, WeimarCaps, WieynkCapsRound, WindyCityCaps, ZagzagCaps, ZebralCaps, ZebralSketchedCapsItalic, ZierCaps.

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    Manfred Klein: Font Hosting

    In July 2017, Typoasis / Moorstation shut down. Run by Petra Heidorn out of Hamburg, Germany, it hosted her own fonts, as well as those of the popular and talented type designer and artist Manfred Klein (Frankfurt, Germany). Manfred, who was an active type designer from the late 1990s until about 2007, created over 3600 fonts in that period. Those fonts are now hosted at my site, thanks to Petra Heidorn. Manfred's oeuvre is too large to consume and analyze in one sitting or even one month.

    This zip file contains all his fonts. For those interested in particular styles, please visit this web page for downloads of individual fonts, or fonts grouped by these themes: 3d, Africa, aliens, animals, architecture, arrows, astrology, birds, calligraphy, cave style, codex, Christmas, dada, decorative caps, didone style, dingbats, display style, Egypt, eyes, fists, Fraktur, handcrafted typefaces, Karla, kids, Laurens, masks, medieval styles, Mexico, monsters, native themes, ornaments, painters, peace, people, pixel fonts, runes, Sans, serif, slab, stencil, stone age, typewriter, uncial, wood and woodcuts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manfred Klein's Fonteria
    [Manfred Klein]

    Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932, d. 2018) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mantra Studio

    Mexico City-based designer of Funky Letters (2018), a colorful geometric set of capitlas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manu Arranz

    Senior art director in Madrid. Designer of the free font Clothespin (2010), the experimental 3d font Tactile Cut (2013). In 2018, Manu added the decorative caps typeface Strong Women. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manuel Ramos

    Porto, Portugal-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Trype, which served as a school project at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marc Kappeler
    [Moiré]

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    Marc Pe

    San Sebastian, Spain-based designer of a colorful ornamental caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marcel Lenoir

    Designer at Fonderie Turlot of a rococo initial caps face at the end of the 19th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marcel Piekarski

    London-based designer of the bicycle parts alphabet Type Cycle (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marcela Gomez Meneses

    Medellin, Colombia-based creator of an ornamental caps typeface called Marie Antoinette (2012, in collaboration with Haim Oke Millan). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marcella Caraballo

    Athens, GA-based designer of an untitled ornamental rope font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marchelo Suazo

    Marchelo graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, he created the ornamental all caps typeface Ms Valparaíso. In 2012, he designed the text typeface Renzo which is characterized by high ascenders and lots of old style charm.

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    Marco Antonio Rossi

    Italian calligrapher from the late 16th century, who created several sets of beautiful initials. Geometric construction of roman capitals, from Giardino de Scrittori (Rome, 1598). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marco Black

    San Jose, Costa Rica-based designer of the decorative Black Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marco Moreira

    Marco Moreira is Magel Studio in Sao Paulo. Creator of the leaf-shaped typeface Follaje (2012) and the squarish Soccer Type (2013). Na Type (2013), Rubber Type (2013) and Dog Type (2013) are experimental, while Hand Type (2013) is ornamental caps alphabet.

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    Marco Oggian

    Freelance designer and illustrator in Milan, now based in Laveno. Creator of Magico (2013, Ten Dollar Fonts: an ornamental caps typeface), Conizugna (2013, Ten Dollar Fonts), the alchemic typefaces Roccia (2013), Parqa (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts: inspired by Gotham, a font used in German expressionist cinema), Labieno (2012) and Harf 77 (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts: Harf77 is a contribution to the English punk scene of the late 70's). Harf 77 Neue followed in 2013.

    Typefaces from 2014: Freschezza, Milano (a free sans typeface).

    Typefaces from 2017: Friki (a free geometric solid style font).

    Behance link. Hellofont link. Additional URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marco Sbaraglia

    Graphic designer in Milan who made the flare-serifed heavy all caps typeface Camel (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marcos Vinicius Machado de Oliveira

    Aka Marcos Oliveira. Porto Alegre, Brazil-based designer of a prismatic decorative set of initials in 2017, with some impossible Escher-style glyphs thrown in. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mardhiyah Zulkifly

    Subang Jaya, Malaysia-based designer of the decorative typeface Ghazal (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maren L. Knutsen

    During her studies at Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Bergen Norway, in 2015 and 2016, Maren L. Knutsen (Fredrikstad, Norway) designed the modular typeface I Never Read and the ornamental caps typeface Modified Futura. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mari Drivdal Lie

    Designer in Oslo who created Muridae (2012), a flowery ornamental caps typeface, and Borealis (2013, humanist sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Alejandra Soto

    Creator of the decorative caps typeface Thrigt (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Antonieta Jaramillo Graterol

    Graphic designer in Maracaibo, Venezuela, who designed an untitled artistic all caps typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Ballé

    Designer at the Bauersche Giesserei of fonts such as Ballé initials, a series of light floral initials. In the meantime, Andreas Seidel made a great digital version of this and called it Alea (2005). Not to be outdone, ARTypes created its own version, Maria-Ballé-Initials (2007). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Clara Narvaez Fernandez de Soto

    During her studies at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Colombia), Maria Clara Narvaez designed the Rockwell-meets-Bauhaus-meets-Memphis movement typeface Rockhaus (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Grimaldos

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Malaga, Spain, who designed a modular decorative caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Jose Palomino

    Designer in Sevilla, Spain, who created the circle-based typeface Lady Bug (2013). Dragon Puppet (2013) seems like an unfonted ornamental caps alphabet.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Karkova

    Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria, who cooperated with Svetoslav Simov on the round typeface Dovde (2009, Fontfabric) and the sans typeface Zag (2009, Fontfabric). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Levina

    Illustrator in Moscow who made the decorative caps alphabet ABC Body Language (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Montes

    Catalonian designer, illustrator and lettering artist. Graduate of Eina, Barcelona (1996) and Cooper Union New York (2012). Now based in Melbourne, Australia, Maria Montes created Milosz Italic at Eina, Barcelona, in 2011. She co-founded a textile and print design studio called MarchTwentyTwo in collaboration with fashion designer Laura Piera. The studio focuses on art prints, limited edition scarves, calligraphy workshops and other analogue crafts.

    Her great angular semi-calligraphic typeface March Twenty Two (Sans, Serif) was created during the Summer Condensed Program at Cooper Union in NYC in 2012. In 2016, she designed the fine ornamental caps typeface Green Fairy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Mora

    Los Teques, Venezuela-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Frutal (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Neves

    Born in Porto, Portugal in 1994, Maria Neves moved to London to attend a Foundation course in Art and Design at London College of Communication. During her studies at LCC University of the Arts London, she created the naked figurine typeface Thou Shalt Give Thy Love (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Olkhovik

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative caps typeface The Body Language (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Rosa Muñoz

    Illustrator in Granada, Spain, who designed the ornamental caps alphabet Flamenco in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Yurina
    [Insane Fonts (or: Heather Insane)]

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    Marian Bantjes

    Bowen Island, BC-based very talented graphic artist, who specializes in custom type and ornaments. Her typographic work:

    • With W. Ross Mills at Tiro, she designed Restraint (2007), an ornamental typeface, announced here and here (a bit of simulated Indic). Restraint won an award at TDC2 2008.
    • She designed titling caps for Thirstype's Playground. Quoting designers from a TDC jury page, Stefan Sagmeister says she is one of the most innovative typographers working today, Noreen Morioka calls her the Doyald Young of her generation, and Sigrid Albert says [she creates] spiritual typography which goes beyond religion.
    • Love Letters are calligraphic pieces drawn by Bantjes in 2008.
    • HWT Bernice (2016, P22 and Hamilton Wood Type). P22 writes: HWT Bernice is an ornament font system designed by Marian Bantjes. The basic shapes were designed by Bantjes for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum's border stamping machine as a contemporary application for this 150 year old machine, which punches shapes into end grain wood to form continuous border patterns.

    She teaches typography through Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariana Rodrigues

    Graphic designer in Lisbon who created the decorative caps typeface Lisboa in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariana Vianna

    Santa Fe, NM-based designer of the typographic poster called Boombox (2012). She also drew an organic ornamental caps alphabet in 2012.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariano Rivera Corbalán

    Mariano Rivera Corbalán (Rivera Diseño) is a designer in Valencia, Spain. He created the multiline typeface Line (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marie de Bourgogne

    Aka Maria von Burgund, or Maria duchess of Burgundy. Born in Brussels in 1457, she died tragically in Brugge in 1482 when she fell off her horse, which fell on top of her. Only daughter of the duke Karl of Burgundy. The so called Gothic Alphabet of Marie de Bourgogne is shown in a Dutch manuscript, ca. 1480, that is found in the Louvre (collection Rothschild), and is dedicated to the duchess. On this French calligraphy site, there is speculation that the author of that book/alphabet would not be Nicolas Spierinc (known in the period 1450-1499), a talented Flemisch scribe employed by the house of Burgundy. Spierinc was a student of medicine in 1455 at the University of Leuven. From 1460-1470 onwards, he collaborates often withthe famous illuminator Lieve van Lathem. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marie Gauvrit

    During her studies in Nantes, France, Marie Gauvrit designed a handcrafted textured all caps typwface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariel Gornati
    [MaGo Fonts]

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    Mariel Verano

    Mandaluyong, The Philippines-based designer of Patterned Font (2017), an all caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariela Pena

    Graphic designer in Texas. El Lissitsky's Proun series inspired an ornamental caps font in 2012.

    Cargo collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Carminal
    [PIBA]

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    Marina Martins Chaccur

    Marina is a Brazilian graphic designer and teacher, who graduated from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado FAAP. She has an MA from the London College of Communication. In 2011, she obtained a Masters in the type and media program at KABK, Den Haag. She was a designer and college tutor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but now lives in Den Haag, The Netherlands.

    She spoke at ATypI in Lisbon on vernacular Brazilian type and the current state of Brazilian type design. On her site we can find some sketchbooks, and a proposal for a blackletter face, among many other type-related goodies.

    At KABK, she designed the type system Chic (2011). This family includes fashion mag styles from a roman sans to curly caps and a "chic" didone.

    In 2013, she created the beveled caps typeface O Melhor de Sao Paulo, which is based in part on Jackson Cavanaugh's Alright Sans Ultra.

    In 2014, Crystian Cruz and Marina Chaccur co-designed the sans custom typeface UOL for the Brazilian internet provider.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Salazar

    Barcelona-based creator of Barbie Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Willer

    Marina is a graphic designer, film maker and partner at Pentagram Design based in London. Perhaps best known for the Tate identity (produced with Brian Boylan) during her time as Head Creative Director at Wolff Olins in 1999, Brazilian-born Willer first came to London 15 years ago to study at the Royal College of Art. For 13 years at Wolff Olins, Marina worked on major identity schemes that include the Southbank Centre, Amnesty International and Russian telecoms operator Beeline.

    Creator of a beautiful ornamental caps alphabet (2011).

    Typocircle link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Måns Grebäck
    [Aring Typeface]

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    Mario Almaraz

    Born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1989, Mario Almaraz designed the prismatic art deco poster typeface New York in 2012.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marion Videlin Roy

    During her studies in Nantes, France, Marion Videlin Roy created the alchemic typeface Aventura (2015) and the decorative caps typeface Kata (2015: created for the catalog of Grandir d'un monde à l'autre). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marissa Yeung

    American designer of an illustrated alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mark Roble

    Washington, DC-based designer of Organimond (2015), a decorative textured caps typeface with the proportions of Adobe Garamond Pro, created during his studies at Corcoran College Art + Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mark Sunshine
    [ArmoredBaby]

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    Mark van Gelder

    Wezep, The Netherlands-based designer of a star-themed all-caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Markela Bgiala

    Markela Bgiala, an interior designer in Berlin, created the ornamental typeface Twirkle (2012) and the thin poster headline typeface Hair Line (2012, Latin and Greek).

    In 2013, Markela designed the display sans family Mismark, which comes with a hairline weight.

    In 2014, she created Copy Paste Futura, which can be bought here.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marli Heunis

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Pretoria, South Africa. In 2009, she created the all caps ornamental typeface Kruisstreek ("cross stitch"). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maroi Titouhi

    Parisian designer, aka Design by Human, of DNA EX (2012), Letter to Flora (2011-2012, ornamental caps), and Forerunners (2012).

    In 2013, Maroi created Acid Kub and Tech Cut. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marque Kabbaz

    Art director in Adelaide, Australia. In 2009, he created a custom alphabet for the Adelaide Botanical Gardens. Called Botanica, it has roman letterforms but the texture is inspired by the gardens. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marta Carrazedo

    During her studies at FBAUP (Universidade do Porto, Portugal), Marta Carrazedo (b. 1994, Oporto) designed the funny figurine alphabet font Haring Type (2015). At FontStruct, she designed the squarish modular typefaces Less Definition (2016) and More Space (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marta Cerdá Alimbau

    Graphic designer in Barcelona who founded her own studio in 2008. In 2018, she joined the faculty in the Masters program in typographic design at Elisava. She has been working since 2008 on some gorgeous typefaces, such as Ophelie (2008), Rigid (2010, a piano key font that she proclaims to be a grandchild of Josef Albers), and Gallo Guapo, which mix high contrast and extreme quaint roundness. In 2011, she made the ornamental watch number typeface Nido.

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

    Marta Comas

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Barcelona, who created a cute children's alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marta Leon Martinez

    Sevilla, Spain-based designer of the shaded 3d typeface Sailor Stripe in 2016. In 2017, she created the stencil typeface Space and the slab serif Revolution Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marta Podkowińska
    [Florence (or: Bombastudio)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Martien Heijmink
    [VIBE]

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    Martin Bodger

    Aka arty Marty. Student at UWE in Bristol. During his studies at UWE, he used FontStruct to create the ornamental textured typeface Dores Comedia (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Martin Wait
    [Martin Wait Typeface and Lettering Company]

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    Martin Wait Typeface and Lettering Company
    [Martin Wait]

    Martin Wait (born Forest Gate, UK, 1942) is based in Horndon on the Hill, UK. He went to Lister Technical College where he was taught art. The Martin Wait Typeface and Lettering Company is Martin Wait's outlet for his fonts. Initially he was associated with Letraset.

    He designed Artiste Freescript Style (1981), Bertram LET Plain (1991, comic book lettering named for the famous Bertram Mills Circus), Cathedral (multiline decorative face, Letraset---this typeface has never been digitized), Emphasis (1989), Forest Shaded (1986), Hadfield (1980), Balmoral (1978, Letraset [see also Ballad Script (SoftMaker), Balmoral ICG, BalmoralD (URW) and Balmoral SH (Scangraphic)]), Informal Roman (1989), Horndon (1984, Western lettering), Banner (1986), Laser (1987), Laser Chrome (1987), Pendry Script (1981), Pritchard (1990), Rapier (1989), Refracta (1988: see also Reflex (2012, SoftMaker)), Challenge Bold (1982), Conference (1978), Forest (1986), Riva (1994), Roquette (1993), Scriba (1992), William Lucas (2010: a free-flowing connected script, ITC), Wild Thing (1995), Masquerade (1977, Letraset: ornamental Victorian caps), Tractor (2001), Julietrose (2006, informal script, Monotype), Company (2012), Spectra New Style (2012, monoline sans).

    MyFonts.com link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. FontShop link.

    Typeface catalog. Catalog of fonts at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Martin Weigel

    Publisher who worked in Nürnberg in the 16th century, and whose alphabets of human forms were largely influenced by those of Peter Flötner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Martina Balke

    Designer of Stempel LT Std 1 and 2 (2002) in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection. Stempel Std2 (2002) is a white on black informally hand-printed caps set, perhaps emulating linocut.

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

    Martina Filippella

    Milan, Italy-based designer of a funny all caps decorative alphabet called Typefaces (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marwan Aridi
    [Aridi Graphics (or: Aridi Computer Graphics)]

    [More]  ⦿

    Mary Imbong

    Mary Imbong (Manila, The Philippines) created The Friendly Alphabet in 2015. This is a hand-lettered set of decorative caps. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Kate McDevitt

    Illustrator and designer in Portland, OR, who created the caps typeface Aspen (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Komary

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based graphic and icon designer. In 2017, she published various sets of icons, including Sign System and Travel Icons. She also designed the outlined decorative caps typeface Vladivostok (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Komary

    Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Mary Komary designed a decorative architectural all caps typeface depicting the city of Vladivostok (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Tolstova

    Moscow-based designer of a couple of decorative caps alphabets for Milk magazine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maryane Ane

    During her studies, Bandung-based Maryane Ane designed the decorative caps typeface Bali Ornament (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masie Chong

    Masie Chong (Herndon, VA) drew some alphabets---undigitized as far as I can tell---in 2013: QR (pixelish) and Symbolic Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Master E.S.

    Fifteenth century German artist, active ca. 1450-1467. He created caps made of animals and people. See here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mateo Buitrago

    Bogota, Colombvia-based creator of the free vector format typeface Track And Field (2013, ornamental caps), which was finished during his graphic design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mathias Augustyniak
    [M/M Paris]

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    Mathilde Bureau

    Belgian designer of the illustrated alphabet Ombre (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matías Canales González.

    Designer in Alicante, Spain, of the tree-themed typeface Gill Tree (2011).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matt Frost

    Matt Frost Type is located in Madison, WI. Matt designed some fonts at Chank's place, including Cowboy Rhumbahaut (2000), a take on a mid 19-th century ornamental face. His home page. In 2011, he set up Matt Frost Foundry.

    His commercial typefaces include

    • Aegean (2012). A swashy take on roman capitals. The spurred version is Cirque (2012).
    • Antler (2014-2016). A spurred woody letterpress vintage family of typefaces Antler has your back for beer bottles, fantasy novels, taco shops, beekeepers, cattle rustlers, tattoo artists, druids, hair bands, and bounty hunters, is how Matt descrives the typeface family. The Western typefaces Antler East, Antler North, Antler West (spurred; in Regular, Wood and 3d) and Antler South (Tuscan) were published in 2016. In 2017, he added Antler.
    • Baron of Arizona (2011). A Victorian ornamental face.
    • Baboon (2015). A handcrafted poster typeface.
    • Cirque (2012).
    • Cow Boss (2015). A Tuscan Western typeface.
    • Dubliners (2011). A signage script face.
    • Escape From Budapest (2011). Art deco, based on a type specimen in the Communist Sculpture graveyard outside of Budapest.
    • King Of Prussia (2011). An angular Halloween face.
    • Praha Nouveau (2011). Art nouveau. Praha Nouveau is based on a type specimen on the statue of Jan Hus in Prague's Old Town Square. The statue was designed in 1903 by Ladislav Saloun.
    • Quijibo (2011). A quaint handmade slab serif.
    • Street of Crocodiles (2011). Inspired by the main title of the Quay Brothers film Street of Crocodiles (based on the 1934 Bruno Schultz book).

    View Matt Frost's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Matt Gibson

    During his graphic design studies, Matt Gibson (Hinckley, UK) created the carefully crafted ornamental caps typeface Mechanical Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matt Hull
    [Craft Graphic (was: Thrift and Thistle)]

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    Matt Stevens

    Matt Stevens (Charlotte, NC) created a great series of mechanically deconstructed caps called The Exploded Alphabet (2013). In a similar style, he designed illustrations for an article on European Supercars for Wired UK, also in 2013

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matt W. Moore
    [MWM Graphics]

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    Matteo Brogi

    Cofounder in 2012 with Leonardo Maltese of Studio Polpo. Together with Leonardo Maltese, Matteo Brogi (Rome) created the vintage signage typeface Forno (2013). Matteo designed the ornamental caps typeface Fishes (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matthew Ellero

    Peterborough, UK-based designer of the ornamental Flower Alphabet (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matthew Heckart

    Creator of Cat Lady Alphabet (2010), an ornamental caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matthew Nosworthy

    Vancouver-based creator of a nice Q capital in 2013.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mattias Adolfsson

    The initial caps alphabet created in 2010 by Mattias Adolfsson is quite stunning--it has an old carved stone look that is quite effective when forced onto a Clarendon. He drew another animal-themed 3d alphabet in 2010 as well. Not surprisingly, Mattias is an illustrator---Dachshund (2010) and Glasses (2010). He lives in Sigtuna, Sweden. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maulana Creative
    [Gilang Maulana]

    Bandung and/or Jakarta, Indonesia-based creator of Passion (2015, thick marker script), Elrotex (2015, thick brush script), Arkana Script (2015), Asia Otasi (2015, thick brush script), Wolf Reality (2015, thick brush typeface), Atorak (2015, brush script), Soulmater (2015, a calligraphic script), Zurich (2015, a heavy brush font), Chromount (2015), Constanta (2015, brush typeface), Tristan (2015, fat brush style), Rissa (2015, a fat brush script), Morracle (2015, hand-painted brush font; free), Tycho (2015, + Ornaments), Sobbers (2015, a lively connected script), Karenina (2015), Abg Centil (2015, a spindly curly script; later renamed Karenina), Benihana (2015) and Shine & Tokio (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Astronaut (signature font), Axwell (dry brush font), Allia (calligraphic), Broke, Dounuts (a great calligraphic script), Hattes (brush script), Blesd (connected hairline script), Kalista (connected script), Arissa (rough brush), Lote Santos (marker script), Sobod (a great high-contrast creamy script), Qoobly, Supartiny (thin calligraphic script), Evadoffi Script (calligraphic), Adellove, Alissya Script (heavy brush font), Rustic Station, Wonder Sunshine, Kania Script, Rabbits Hole, Easy Brush Font, Bottle Massow Brush Script, Sottafles (brush script), Roselowe (brush script), Pratiwi (connected formal script), Zonas (breezy script), Zonas Sans, Wosser, Palm Brush, Mornin Awesome, Jarvish Blurry Brush, Morning Wishes (calligraphic script), Valdemar (bold script), However Store.

    Typefaces from 2017: Klast (signature font), Santashoes Script, Raisa Script, Harris Signature, Aerials, Fturism, Contaur, Bouttiques, Gladise (signature script), Bottle Massow, Sustans (script), Otentic (signature font), Hard To Love (dry brush), Bware, Love Hewits, Glamoush, Like Father Like Son, Brostars, Kottam (dry brush), Swanish, Little Kittens (script), Afattal, Peter Jhons (signature font), Sallad (brush script), Sandia Brush, Augustia Signature, Casses, Boostpest (brush), Habbit, Without You, Vesial (brush script), Hatton, Jollie, Bom Day (signage script), Rohtwo, Rusa Hitam, Authen Brush, Walrus, Datto (brush script), Masto (brush script), Jolies, Arion Signature, Gamot, Dattsy (a signature font), Sbastian Signature Clean.

    Typefaces from 2018: Puspa Script, Puspa Sans, Kaydens (Sans+Script), Uniclo (a wide sans), Crake (brush SVG font), Scottsmith (script), Justices (font duo), Seltons (a dry brush SVG font), Golte (sans), Saturasi (signature font), Hybrid (brush script), Rossa Script, Saintrop (brush script), Leibra (font duo), Ladytron, Ansterdam (a monoline signature font), Rups Script (an SVG font), Amstonia (a signature font duo), Batters (a monoline script), Sweetshy, Fractis (monoline script), Aviliator (brush script), Clodia (signature font), Hunny Straw (font duo), Rushfor (calligraphic), Strollers (script), Zeuty Script, Bikarosta, Ollister (signature font), Wowi (brush font), Something Cool, Easy Salads, Limitless, Rissa (brush script), Nordams (condensed sans), Pollistons (Sans and Script: a signature font), Sheiral, Monerd (sans), Pure Dance (brush, SVG), Owissa Story (font duo), Rattles (Signature and Serif), Serrona Script, Love Rosnita (font duo), Seirra (OpenType SVG brush font), Funtastic Youth, Osturria, Zattoya (signature font), Bertta (signature font), Athen, Birocratic, Ottodisom, Baltism (monoline script), Stantic, Hellicopters (sic) (signature font), Agrem (sans), Motters (connected script), Stampson Signature, Solevate, Smith Allison (a signature font), Asturria, Awosem, Amber Queen (a signature script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Broothers (chalk SVG font), Brotthers Sans, Pillish (font duo), Osttrola, Bastille, Nubolts Rounded, Hardtrack, Mistari, Wellfare, Millton (Serif, Script), Aklay (script), Worthness (an SVG font), Artifac (script), Anthique (spurred, Victorian), Poliesster (font duo), Snowhart, Fairmont, Mollysh Script, Swootys (for signatures), Sarvati, Rossmore, Horsesse (brush type), Paulina (a signature font), Mathew Rohas (a heavy brush font), Lany Zesty (a monoline script), Bridgetts (a font duo), Cardiff, Arlobuns, Asphalt (monoline script), Sweetshore (monoline script), Borris (font duo), Rushtten (script), Dotyville, Cayttons (a monoline signature script), Polandic (dry brush script in SVG format), Weisston (a thin script), Foltta, Suarte (script), Roosevelt (dry brush), Arthemis, Frances, Argents, Schrader SVG, Bashira, Emerisa, Hogart Script, Moriarty Serif, Flohart SVG, Triester SVG, Fire Stone, Lovas (script), Mombay Brush, Amorisa (monoline script), Amberla (font duo), Thorce (a rounded sans), Cassius, Katty Lynch (font duo), Jadeline (Script, Serif), Nyquist (signature script, and sans), Pradita Script, Modura, Oliviare (sans), Goodsay (a great monoline script), Scouthels, Hello Subrim (font duo), Darto (a signature font duo), Lostfield (display sans), Brushelly SVG.

    Typefaces from 2020: Hmrile Brush, Bareta (a monoline script), Carols Night (a monolinear signature font), Eastpoint (wild calligraphy), Juxtapose, Mad World (a monolinear script), Corlathans, Grunges (a brush font), Anthroops, Ameriondela (monoline script), Wooden Okadio (a fashionable display typeface), Arturia, Esok Pagi, Scottish, Soul Harder, Stereoflows, Bahud Aroyek (a blackletter), Siarons (a dry brush script), Soul Harder, Frostiest, Gastronomes, Gottar Adsset, Symptonics, Malo Aino (a graffiti brush font), Beauty Flome, Moriss Ward (a dry brush script), Atorge, Black Range (all caps, dry brush style), Sabrionte, Waykers Amor (spurred, blackletter, Victorian), Rockerby, Bestro (a dry brush script), Charoeys (a monoline script), Constaniz, Mist Sunshine Brush (a dry brush font), Clockwork (a decorative inline blackletter font), Distance (a bold upright script), Stereomantic (a monoline script), Spacetroops, Astrolove, Randirops (a fat finger font), Adicttives, Mayoritte, Torches Realistic Brush Font (a dry brush script), Oturllis, Rollo (a decorative sans), Pollyester (a blackletter), Wondar Quason (a display serif), Winchester (a vintage label typeface), Cardiolla, River Rocks (a fat finger font), Backers (a fat finger font), Riverola (a dry brush font), Mathernal, Fleurette, Gillford, Santoria, The Monster, Balleys, Bestons (a dry brush script), Karstar (a monoline script), Bestiest (a script typeface), Arsitage (dry brush script), Asterica, Heathers, Judith (monoline script), Lekcra Crubop (signage script), Diettersen, Hasta (a dry brush script), Smithgroove, The Carbs, Elanor (tall caps), Outeris, Nymburgh (a fat finger font), Acrosmyth, Windblows, Asiatropic, Hello Miassond, Brasons Risool, Castallier, Elosiam, Tumbrella Script, Alona, Monology, Margott Rooster, Theodorlane, Charmeleon, Flim Flom Graffiti, Rabbit Oaks, Dawsons Script, Arteknilo (a wild script), Jetha Crimson, Heatwave, Kavarian Serif (a display serif), Royal King (spurred, vintage, inline), Clairdelune, Hawk Eyes (dry brush, SVG format), Sunset Trips, Roschetta, Chordettes, Salmander Bentols Script, Sentilum, Viesta, Morish, Amkifuny (vintage, decorative), Victory Rose, Emma Goulding (a monoline signature font), Wallace (a display serif), Monalls Script (wild calligraphy), Rozex (blackletter), La Rosse (Serif, Sans, Script), Gilodas (a monoline script), Dalton Gardens, Sophan Calligraphy (a signature font), Trickiest, Breakloft (a signature script), Elitmog, Collabro, Alentropics, Querins (an SVG brush font), Russlock (an SVG brush font), Winter Delight (textured caps typeface), Jonathan (script), Magic Daisy, Deronic (font duo), Alentropics, Brittanstone, Blackseas, Heartales, Dillandio, Mysthics, Qurtsign, Chelsy, Polers, Sattiers, Nickollas, Artlines, Osirish, Oterdin, Astherik (Sans, Script), Stuborn (sic).

    Typefaces from 2021: Bolivar Shore (a wild script), Chasterlize (a tall and somewhat wild script), Greastly (a fat finger font), Ray Harts (script), Sobiah Written (a scrapbook script), Street Walks (a dry brush script), Surfers South (a monolinear signature font), Writes Sketh (a scrapbook brush font), Anesthesa (a fat finger script), Gratelos (a straightened bold inktrapped sans), Logkey Block (an informal blocky font), Qualyters (a rabbit ear signature script), Restflaws (a fat finger script), Pluckypot (counterless), Beauty Snowy (script), Brominates (script), Colatera Soft (a bold soft sans), Garmint (a condensed bold grot), Grimblocks, Hilority (a tall signature script), Julliusy (a wild script), Katvondy (script), Nastyflashy (script), Rissyetta (script) Roxfranks (brush script), Supergravity (script), Almond Nuts (a scrapbook script), Crash Struck (a brush script), Jillstone (script), Red Bells (a signature script), Sallowness (a bold script), Converon (in the style of Saul Bass), Cool Unkle (a bean font), Crayonest, Crisp Cracks (a marker pen font), Discreates (a signature script), Elfashion (script), Gradiattes (script), Woodstark (script), Kartbones (a signature script), Drive Hearts (script), Drive Hearts, Subcultures (a creamy script), Taptalks (a hasty script), Monstafaller (a Halloween font), Neillgates (script), Guyad (a scrapbook script), Twicelights (a signature script), Hollowcoves (a heavy old school script), Shadyspeed (a scrapbook script), Qritticaly (a marker pen font), Hockleys (a monoline script), Soulections (script), Bermont (sans caps), Manford Sans, Gramary (a compressed sans), Binthrots (script), Oxyless (a signature script), Fairdate (a unicase placard font), Farloxy (a thin signature script), Fortyfresh (vernacular supermarket caps), Hybridge (a brush font), Distractiles (script), Fallen City (a rabbit ear script), Fattalsfort (a brush font), The Rebound (a graffiti font), Bravarya Sky (script), Halley Parades (handwriting), Moralstory (a fat display script), Qobryts (a signature script), Shortwaves (script), Skisterstone (a scrapbook script), Hastafloris (script), Lafoyettes (script), Chillybeans (a rhythmic swashy calligraphic script), Olgoods, Rookys, Salmonillo (a brush script), Tarboots (a bold script), Tiffanka (a tall calligraphic script), Westclock (script), Angel Rise (a monolinear script), Chillphils, Golfrush (a monolinear script), Ronny Catuss (a signature brush font), Chorest (a dry brush script), Contoursy (a signature font), Hoffmans (a signature script), Quintys (a wild calligraphic script), Zapatos (a thin signature script), Avextur SVG, Roxtowns, Orbitens (signature script), Goversy, Sellyamor (signature script), Kartbones (signature script), Zapatos (siagnature script), Castury (signature script), Citadels (script), Elfashion (script), Chorest (an SVG brush font), McTellyus (a monoline script), Golfrush, Angel Rise, Tarboots (a fat finger script), Hoffmans (signature script), Contoursy (a signature font), Cillphils, Ronny Catuss, Risella fruits, Nuttelos, The Impostor (a fat finger script), Foxity, Infamous Rush, Alaskano (a plump display typeface), Brickston (script), Gutreks (script), La Roux (a bold monoline script), Overtis Signature, Younglines (script), Blackbirdy (a bold script), Clifttons (script), Mc Havoks (a script), Plotwist (a bold script), Belltons (an SVG format brush script font), Canthonys (script), Eureka Springs (script), Kollhers (a sloppy script), Lovesmilly (script), Quiltyks (script), Feeltrips (a marker pen font), Ginloops (script), Jollynorly (script), Soulsteps (script), Blacksharks (script), Fishercat (handcrafted), Honestbeat (a bean font for scrapbooks), Milkista (a heavy signage script), Railstone (a bold brush script), Silvia Norlin (script), Arttelost (script), Blisstrapy (a fat finger font), Blufcrowds (a monoline script), Callways (a creamy script), Hartsinger (a prototypical fat finger font), Mottel Laguna (an upright script), Sunsetstill (a fat finger script), Aurellia (a scrapbook font), Blakecats (a bean font), Franches (a bean font), Hopipolla (a plump script), Kurtistown (script), Malikis (a display font), Sailmelly (a fat script), Smithmagis (a bean font), Fujinstall (font duo), Switch Sister (script), Volatter, Hellostars (a script typeface), Hide Seek (a script font), Jeigers (an antiqued all caps font), Southavely Signature, Astavilla (script), Butterjam (a scrapbook font), Caberolla (a fat finger font), Rosestaly (script), The Junos (a handcrafted display font), Crunchyes, Fever Coaster (a handcrafted display typeface), Lottebytes (a scrapbook font), Noobys Display (beatnik caps), Cliquelly (a monoline script), Foxrights, Hillstatic (script), Howelstun (script), Jimmslofs (a brush script), Jownsey (a monolinear script), Just Hopes (a brush font), Sallymoores (a signature script), Tesselates (a wild calligraphic script), Adorefunny (a wild script), Birdflocks (a monoline script), Cheesyfloat (a fat finger script), Mustardmoster (script), Polyfonics (a handcrafted art deco typeface), Rusticform (a monolinear script), Steelkold (a brush font), Adoredly (script), Believest (script), Fortunelimes (script), Jawstone (script), Milatones Signature, Rawks Dream (script), Castella (script), Jullysinty (script), Kreatives (a wild script), Salvadores (a wild script), Amberlion (a creamy upright script), Ecaliptycus (an upright monolinear script), Nordstall (a brush script), Oplatussy (script), Sidehustle (a fat finger script), Terrakota (font duo), Tripfills (script), Anestacilla (a thin signature script), Blisslayton (a brush script), Dailytrust (script), Koolkids (script), Lovesgoods, Gilly Fleurs (a thin script), Hittoshira (script), Plastikcycle (a tall and wide signature script), Bloomshine (a script), Girlfinest (script), Owlmoons (script), Barkertraps (a wild calligraphic script), Konstanhigh (a signature script), Nickjones (an irregular script), Yourstrully Script (a wild calligraphic script), Cholasette (a tall handwriting font), Mondayslove (a wild script), Losthouse (script), Missousy (an upright signature script), Mylofist (a wild script), Affinities (script), Emitensy Script (upright), Gentlysoftly (a script), Homeytasty, Wollyroots (a handwriting script), Jollytimes (a thin script), Smorebucklys (script), Mostlovely (script), Dreamotions (a script), Hunnyflash (an upright script), Kristafly (script), Mashpoints (a scrapbook script), Heavenllys (script), Kallis Ottis (script), Nicestrips (script), Pallpitas (script), Amberlayton (a monolinear script), Chuckybits (a monoline script), Monkeystand (script), Jefferys York (a monolinear signature script), Monkeystand (script), Acronits (script), Bellmounts (a script), Mellodyst (a thin script), Wishlyttes (script), Wonkyest (script), Cashwoots (script), Kites String (script), Mylestock (an irregular signature script), Steffyray (a signature script), Ownttys (script), Greylorks (script), Vellizta (a wild script), Jilliankrots (a signature script), Allisha Croft (a wild calligraphic script), Alulla Saffia (script), Goldshift (a brush script), Goryfitts (a brushy signature script), Hotty Potty, Le Patterns, Melly Hailey, Raliscka (a wild script), Skyeeloft, Amorflavor (script), Gastank (a brush script), Ollykers (script), Mistychain (a wild script), Moonsticky (script), Collibryums (a signature script), Constatic (a signature script), Montly Cloudy (script), Straightfast (a brush script), Glofuts (a fat finger font), Northyhuny (script), Babotta (script), Blowfisher (a signature script), Hachitos (a signature script), Lillyanstar (script), Minormayor (a brush script), Sunnycyclops (a monoline script), Billijanes (a scrapbook script), Glowyts (script), Harashi (a brush typeface), Jules Otonomi, Marshlord (a monolinear script), Purplemonths (a signature script), Righttoast (script), Slowly Moment (a monoline script), Hoeflers (all caps, retro and handcrafted), Thoolloves (hand-printed), Blammingst (a monolinear script), Fallisanta (script), Aprictoos (a dry brush script), Jifstone Signature, Bllides (hand-printed), Tiffanky (a monolinear script), Xylomylo (a chunky rounded typeface), Alonnafeast (script), Alphasoil (script), Monicallisa (a wild script), Volustion (upright handwriting), Collathives (script), Holly Wings, Moffle Chee (a monoline script), Deloissta (script), Jarvitts (a signature script), Mildlight (an inky script), Sarfokats (a monoline script), Whillys (script), Ballstomer (a monoline script), MVRX Maverix (script), Great Alexa (script), Hoomanist (a handwriting font with delightful quirks), Ordionally (a signature font), Rallista (a thin signature font), Mokashin (a wild script), Roma Invicta, Buttersoy (script), Corestairs (a signature script), Echountter (script), Gotlicks (script), Potlar (script), Qallani (a monolinear script), Monnolitic (a signature font), Astoylist (a monoline script), Cariollets, Oliviars script, Sunfort, Bilanthy (script), Challum (a creamy script), Krysttal Spears, Satinwoods (a monoline script), Qojack (a signature script), Astoylist (a monoline script), Cariollets, Oliviars script, Sunfort, Astylooms, Bliss Hearts (a scrapbook script), Classyloop (a signature script), Koffiesta (a hand-printed typeface), Schwitz Signature, Millstream (brush scriupt), Chucklots, Slotheryn, Bagelorts (a monolinear script), Bathsy, Brothest (a fat finger script), Harollds (a script), Starstoles, Thefrost (script), Wascer (a signature script), House Bay, Rillies, Flinckstone (a wild script), Machinkly (a curvy display typeface), Fattoll (a signage script), Afiany (script), Asterikats, Molaka (a signature script), Zincand, Kalia (a fat finger font).

    Typefaces from 2022: Brownfauks, Yellawolfs (a fat finger script), Gotslick (a fat finger script), Gromhins (reverse contrast), Olds Murray (a wild script), Romantic Purple (a wild script), Rust Crowth (a dry brush font), Wishstock (script), Hookypilots (a scrapbook script), Argenthus (brush script), Hustcroft (a bean font), Keithlar (an inky dispaly typeface), Norlandy (a wild script), Melvio Play (a bold script), Atheroll (handprinted), Bionzhe (a rock-solid sans), Cityskypes (script), Embroi Ghokib (a scrapbook font), Astomia Duslons (an inky rabbit ear script), Blastiks (a monoline script), Hearthaliso (a condensed upright script), Fourthyla (a plump elepehnat feet retro serif), Honey Rain (a fat finger script), Pacifica Tropics (a rabbit ear script), Lanchoster (a scrapbook script), Backflips (a thin script), Manor Smiths (interlocking and hand-crafted in Saul Bass's style), Munichley (script), Beautiful House (a fat finger script), Alto Bonito (a scrapbook script), Architaris (a signature script), Brad Rowland (a signature script), Feliztha (a scrapbook script), Collint Billy (a thin script), Grandetrix (a scrapbook brush script), Jamie Handwriting (10 styles), Hogla Brush, Rithmycs (script), Coopslight (a signature script), Darkbones (a heavy brush script), Madymory (a scrapbook script), Mistoms (a scrapbook script), Eggcup (a children's book font), Calstavier (a delicate display serif), Clockerts (a fat finger script), Redtrails (script), Zelmud Script, Cybertroops (a monolinear rounded stick font), Hartwick (script), Queensytrix (script), Anthem Park (a fat finger font), Hinterlands (brush script), Headskirt (a monoline marker pen script), Queen Sheila (script).

    Behance link. Graphicriver link. Another Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. Unsure if Graphic Assets is another identity. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mauricio Deer Olague

    Mexican creator of Chentenario (2011, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mauro Poggi

    Italian artist who drew Alfabeto di Lettere Iniziali (ca. 1730), ornamental caps with scrolls and flourishes and then inhabited by satyrs, mermaids, Medusa heads, birds, cats, dogs, snakes, and other creatures. The letters were designed by Poggi, drawn in ink by Andrea Bimbi, and engraved by Lorenzo Lorenzi. A digital version was done by Jose Jimenez in 2010 called Mauro Poggi Ornamental Caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mauro Torres

    Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the decorative typeface Meatype (2015), or Carnica (2016). He also created the blackletter Caligrafia Gotica No 1 (2015). Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Max Burnside

    Cincinnati, OH-based and/or San José, Costa Rica-based designer of the techno ornamental caps typeface Alex Young (2013), named after a DC-area producer and DJ for whom the typeface was created.

    In 2014, he made the squarish typefaces Elite and This Way To Costa Rica.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Max Joseph Gradl

    German type and jewelry designer, 1873-1934. He did advertising work for customers in Naples, London, New York and Germany. He was active in the art nouveau era and is credited with these typefaces:

    • The ultimate art nouveau all caps face, Gradl Highstep, revived under that name in 2008 by Tom Wallace (HiH).
    • Gradl Initialen (2005), another art nouveau caps typeface revived and extended by Tom Wallace in 2008. Wallace writes: Max Joseph Gradl designed Art Nouveau jewelry in Germany. At least some of his designs were produced by Theodor Fahrner of Pforzheim, Germany -- one of the leading manufacturers of fine art jewelry on the Continent from 1855 to 1979.
    • Gradl Zierschriften is yet another art nouveau decorative face, ca. 1900. Revived by Tom Wallace in 2005 under the same name. Another revivalist is Peter von Zezschwitz (Zetafonts), who created, e.g., Gradler. Rivanna NF (Nick Curtis) is yet another revival, but this one is free. Other revivals include Gradl No 1 (2008, Ralph M. Unger, URW++), Gradl (1992, Font Bureau typeface done for Microsoft), and Gradl Max (2010, Mike Freiman).

    Scans of some his art nouveau alphabets: (1), (2). Scans of some alphabets of initials: (3), (4), (4). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maxime Poirier

    At Ecole Brassart (campus Nantes) in Nantes, France, Maxime Poirier designed Chronodora (2017), a decorative caps typeface basedon Isidora Light. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maxwell L. Beucler

    During his studies at The School of Visual Arts in New York, Maxwell Beucler created the all caps typeface Bones (2013) and the scary typeface Slime Sans (2013).

    In 2014, he published Nautikal Nonsense. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maybe Kennedy

    Liège, Belgium-based designer of the stick figure font Alphabet Illustré (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maynor Alexander Perez Mayen

    Tenchis Celiber inspired Maynor Alexander Perez Mayen when he designed the all caps decorative typeface Ten CH Celiber in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    May-Yen Lee

    Corona, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Marvel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    McLoughlin Bros

    New York City-based publishers of (1884) which was printed in linen and showcases an ornamental caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    mdmpa

    BankGothicBT-Light, AgfaNadianne-Bold, PompeiiCapitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Medamine Belcaid

    Aka Mohamed Amine Belcaid. Casablanca, Morocco-based designer of the animated display caps typeface Meed's (2015). Free download. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mederic Niot

    French designer, b. 2004, of Robot Medoclone (2019), a great robot-themed decorative caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Medieval

    Small archive of medieval/gothic fonts: Alchemist (Computer Safari, 1995), AromatCapsSSK, FrankensteinPSMT, KellyAnnGothic, OldEnglishTextMT, Parchment-Regular (PhotoLettering, 1993), Ruritania. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mega Ardelia
    [deTheme]

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    Meghan McBride

    At Edmonton Digital Arts College (EDAC) in Edmonton, Alberta, Meghan McBride designed the decorative caps typeface Insect (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mehmet Abaci
    [Studio Typo]

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    Mehvish Iqbal

    Illustrator in Copenhagen, Denmark, who created the colorful 3d decorative caps typeface Imaginary in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Meister E.S.

    German monogrammist, who lived from about 1420 until about 1468. His oeuvre contains elaborate initial caps, often around religious themes, weaponry and love scenes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melanie Chambers

    During her studies at the The School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston, Melanie Chambers created a very detailed ornamental caps typeface called Exotica (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Meley Laetitia Sie

    San Diego, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Seahorse (2015) and of a set of tree dingbats (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melike Ozenc

    During her studies at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey-based Melike Ozenc designed the animals caps alphabet Harf Tasarimi (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melissa DiRenzo

    Toronto, Ontario-based art director. In 2014, she created a colorful decorative caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melissa Herring

    During her graphic design studies, Melissa Herring (St. Helens, UK) created the decorative caps typeface Ballerina (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melissa Manwill

    Provo, UT-based illustrator who created DreamPress Drop Caps in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melissa Plaza

    Cali, Colombia-based designer of an experimental handcrafted alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melody Markus

    Designer, as a student in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, of the colorful all caps alphabet Hairxpression (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou
    [Menis Art]

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    Memo Vigil

    In 2016, Memo Vigil (Saltillo, Mexico) designed a great handcrafted 3d decorative caps alphabet. Earlier, in 2015, he proposed type design for the eight blood groups, A, B, AB, and O, both positive and negative. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Meni Chatzipanagiotou

    Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of the all caps typefaces Caps (2015), Flora Stamp (2015), Carnation Alphabet (2014), and Hand Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Menis Art
    [Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou]

    Illustrator and graphic designer based in Thessaloniki, Greece, specializing in decorative initial caps. Examples:

    • Animal Alphabet (2016) is a collaboration project between Meni Chatzipanagiotou and Tympan Ink, a letterpress studio based in Melbourne, Australia. The concept of the project was to create a series of 27 letters featuring animals in their natural environment. The textured typeface is heavily floriated. Etsy link.
    • Caps type (2014).
    • Carnation Alphabet (2014).
    • Floral Stamp Alphabet (2015).
    • Numbers (2016).
    • Trick Or Treat (2016).
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    Mentecalamar Studio

    Madrid, Spain-based designer of the Mad Max-themed decorative caps typeface Apocalypse (2018) and the ghoulish Horror Sans (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mercedes M.A. Gardner

    Aka Mencho, Mercedes teaches the history and evolution of type. She created the dingbat typeface Tepu-mereme in 2009 which was inspired by the petroglyphs of Venezuela. Daumier Comique 1836 (2011) is a humorous alphabet designed by the French caricaturist and engraver Honoré Daumier in 1836, originally called "Alphabet Comique". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Merethe Liljedahl
    [House of Lime]

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    Mesut Ugurlu

    Mesut Ugurlu, art director at McCann Erickson in Istanbul, designed the font I have been waiting for all my life---Penis Type (2011), especially the multi-purpose Y. Images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii. Behance link. Creator of the fanciful Evil Eye font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mia Catedrilla

    Quezon City, The Philippines-based creator of the decorative caps typeface Type Mechanique (2014), which is inspired by Fernand Leger's Ballet Mechanique. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mia Liang

    Graphic designer in Brisbane, Australia, who created the ornamental caps typeface Metamorphosis in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mica Connelly

    Graphic designer in Carlisle and London, UK. Graphic Design student at the University of Cumbria. Inksplat (2012) is a typeface created by Mica for the cover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey, Penguin). In 2015, she made the floriated all caps typeface Botanical (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Amzalag
    [M/M Paris]

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    Michael Baurenfeind

    German calligrapher, who in an opus entitled Vollkommene Wieder-Herstellung [...] (1716, Christoph Weigel, Nuremberg) created an alphabet named Neudoerffer Initialen (named after Johann Neudoerffer). Baurenfeind lived from 1680 until 1753. [Information provided by Julian Waters and Oliver Linke] [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Cina
    [You Work For Them (or YWFT; formerly Cinahaus or TrueIsTrue)]

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    Michael Guhl

    For a school project at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, Michael Guhl designed the fun decorative caps typeface Body Talk (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Hagemann
    [Font Mesa]

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    Michael Hazior

    Bratislava, Slovakia-based designer of a few hand-printed ornamental caps alphabets in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Jason Browers

    Duluth, MN-based designer (b. La Crosse, WI, 1977) of Ekkehard (2020: inspired by multiple blackletter typefaces that appeared in an 1862 printing of "The Doctrine of the Simple and the Power of the Powerless" by Hans Nielsen Hauge), Gladstone Street (2019), Jayce (2018, +Fleurons), Dulcyna Hand (2018), Bombastic (2010, grunge), Jeyran (2010, a blotchy hand-printed typeface done with Elnara Browers), Gladstone (2009, a readable blackletter), Diegeometrische (2008, a stencil for Latin and Cyrillic), Menim Elim (2007, cursive hand), Ellaroza (2007, gorgeous fleurons), Konscript (2007, old typewriter face), Geistig (2006, classical caps), Sophiazoya (2006, Victorian era ornaments), Dovshan (2007, more Victorian era ornaments), Loza (2006, curly antique face), Disjecta (2006, a shaken serif face), Formasi (2006, grunge face), Mehriban (2007, grunge), Mehriban Outline (2008), Squarefill (2008, grungy stencil), Squarefix (2008, grungy stencil), Wingbrush (2008), Somatica (2006, grunge) and Isoglyphics (2005, dingbats).

    MyFonts page. Alternate URL at MyFonts. View Michael Jason Browers's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Muranaka

    San Salvador-based designer (b. 1985) of the thin slab typeface Espacio (2011), the monoline extended sans typeface Añejo (2011), the playful Antelope (2011), the razor blade-themed Font Interrupted (2011), the sci-fi typeface Cerebro (2011), the headline sans Jenkins (2011), the stencil typeface Mura Knockout (2011), which can be downloaded from Dafont.

    He also made Diminuto (2011, monoline slabby face), Wednesday (2011, gridded), Diamante (2011, elliptical architectural sans face), 50 Blizzards (2011, stencil face), Kiona (2011, headline caps face), the geometric logotype New Drop Era (2011), the angular typeface A Brand New Day Midnight (2011), Catman (2011), Lowery (2011), and the tattoo font Slayer Dragon (2011). Naomis Citadel (2011) is a font comissioned by author Rick Austinson for his upcoming Consecution Books series. Ocho Siete (2011) and La Quince de Mayra (2011) are hairline sans typefaces. Ciudad Nueva Caps (2011) is a geometric avant garde caps face. Home page. Mariko Chan (2011) is a soft rounded and friendly monoline display sans. Alto Voltaje (2011) is also a monoline typeface but its sharp corners make it much more threatening.

    Typefaces from 2012: Bad Handwriting, Sessions, Gorila (sic) (techno sans), Daiichi (hairline elliptical sans), Elite Hacker Corroded, Impalinger (hand-printed).

    In 2013, he made Dolce Vita (avant garde sans), Blackbook Two, Giorgio (organic sans), Blackbook One (graffiti face), Tokyo Pop Star.

    Typefaces from 2014: Tranquila (grungy), Blackbook 3rd (graffiti brush face), Bobby Corwin, Outlier (sci-fi face).

    Typefaces from 2015: Break Label (monoline techno font), Generica (clean sans), Sylphie, Mnml Fnt (experimental stroke removal font), Espacio Novo (thin slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2017: Head Traffic.

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

    Michaelangel007

    FontStructor who made the blackletter caps typeface MacBeth Calligraphy (2013). In addition, he created several pixel typefaces for computer programming. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michaël Mahaux

    Graphic designer in Liege, Belgium. He created the ornamental caps typeface Typographie Organique in 2012.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michel Paré

    Michel Paré studied graphic design and technique at the Art Academie Artibus, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and has worked as a graphic designer and web designer. He attended the Expert Class Type Design at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp, Belgium. Paré conducted research in the history of typographic ornaments, especially those of J.F. Rosart.

    In 2017-2018, Paré digitized 800 of Rosart's typographical ornaments and some of the 18th-century Belgian punchcutter's flourished capitals. The digitized ornaments and an accompanying publication will be published by the Dutch Type Library. Plantin Institute link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (with Walda Verbaenen). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michelle Dixon
    [Dixie's Delights]

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    Michelle Luttman

    Conifer, CO-based designer of the curly caps typeface Charlotte Script (2012). She also did an experiment in which Palatino was married with Romantiques, yielding Romantino (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Miekala Cangelosi

    Now here is a new idea proposed by Miekala Cangelosi, a freelance designer in Texas: take an existing font and use it to compose glyphs in a bigger font. The glyphs are like atoms, if you wish, of the new font. This will test (break?) the 1000x1000 or 2048x2048 grids people and font software enthusiasts are used to deal with, and support my call for much much larger grid sizes in font files. Anyway, Miekala used Bebas Neue to create an all caps face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mighty Pete
    [Tofino Type]

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    Miguel Angel Padriñán Alba
    [Mr. Black Fonts]

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    Miguel Cabrera

    Migual Cabrera (b. 1982, Costa Rica) studied Fine Arts and became an editorial illustrator in San Jose, Costa Rica. Known as Monfa, he created among other things the award-winning illustrative alphabet Mascaradas (2011). Arista (2011) is an experimental 3-d paper-fold face.

    Now based in Mexico City, he published the experimental Favela in 2015. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mihaiu Andreea

    Art director in Bucharest, Romania. Creator of Industrial Font (2013, ornamental caps) and Poli (2013, a triangulated techno font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mijael Fandiño

    Venezuelan youngster (b. 1990) who lives in Colonia Tovar. He created the leafy caps font Ramada 1 (2006). Home page. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikael Biström

    Freelance illustrator in Gothenburg, Sweden. Creator of a nice set of vintage ornamental numbers (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mike Burroughs

    Graphic designer in Queens, NY, who created the decorative caps typeface appendages (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mike Chu

    London, UK-based creator of these textured vecotor format typefaces in 2015: Cheese, Autumn Leaves, Vector Leaf. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mike Perry

    Mike Perry works in Brooklyn, NY, where he makes books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings, and illustrations. He has drawn a number of ornamental alphabets that as far as I know have not been turned into fonts (yet). These include Porn Beyond Sex (2010), Alphabet Town (2010), Animalphabet (2010), and Bikini Type (2010).

    Examples of his illustrations: Six (2009). Amsterdam (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mike Vincent

    Designer of the decorative caps typeface Mandmtribal (2014) and of Futrure Paint (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikeware

    Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the snake-themed ornamental caps typeface Snake, and of the dot matrix typeface Dot Matrix Wild. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhail Sherman

    Metal and graphic designer and painter in Moscow. In 2016, he designed the painted decorative caps Cyrillic alphabet Pine Forest Morning. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Milica Golubovic

    Graphic designer in Belgrade, b. 1989, Kotor, Montenegro. In 2011, she made an ornamental caps typeface called Maritime.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Milica Koncar

    Sydney, Australia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Geomatric (sic) Garden (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Milica Radojevic

    Gornji Milanovac, Serbia-based designer of an ntitled ornamental Latin / Cyrillic typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Milo Dominik Ivir
    [Milo Typografik]

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    Milo Typografik
    [Milo Dominik Ivir]

    Milo Dominik Ivir is a Croation graphic designer and type designer, born in Zagreb in 1968. He worked at the Institute of Print Technology and Planning in Berlin, and started Milo Typografik. Check his essay "Schrifttechnologien und Bildschirmtypografie". His typefaces: Agram (2000), Aramaica (1997), AvantHighBook (1997), Bonbon (1998), CorinnaHand (1999), Delirious (1998), GirlsAndBoys (1997), Gotharda (1997, a blackletterish headline face), Kaptol (1997), LexikaBold, Pianissimo (1998), Poster-Inline (1997), Poster-Outline (1997), Samantha (1997), StariGrad (1998), StephenHand (1997), Zagreb. His families: Factory (1997), FactoryBroken (1997), Klavir (1997), KlavirCaps (1997), Milo-Inline, Milo-Outline, Screen14 (1998), Screen14Bold (1998).

    He joined Linotype in 1999 where he had already published his blackletter font Linotype Gotharda (1997). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Milton Glaser

    Milton Glaser (b. 1919, New York, d. 2020) was an important American graphic designer who founded Push Pin Studios (in 1954) in New York where he worked with Seymour Chwast. He left in 1970 and founded Milton Glaser Inc in New York in 1974. He taught classes at SVA, where according to Michael Samuel he said to his students: There are three responses to a piece of design---yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for. One of his most iconic designs is the New York City logo from 1977 set in ITC American Typewriter. Glaser designed type on art boards. In the 1973 monograph Milton Glaser Graphic Design, George Leavitt is credited for lettering execution. Author of Sketch & Finish: The Journey from Here to There (2020, Princeton architecural Press). Glaser's typefaces:

    • Baby Teeth (1968, Photolettering). Milton Glaser's inspiration for his Babyteeth typeface came from a hand-painted advertisement for a tailor he saw in Mexico City. He was inspired by that E drawn as only someone unfamiliar with the alphabet could have concieved. So he set about inventing a completely legible alphabet consistent with this model. Available in the grapevine as BabyTeats. Cyrillically extended by Alexey Kustov (1993, TypeMarket) as Bebit. For a variation of Glaser's psychedelic Baby Teeth Baroque, see Nick Curtis's Aint Baroque NF (2009). Other digital versions include OPTI Buford (Castcraft: after Baby Teeth Ajar) and Baby Teeth (2009, Daylight). Drew Maughan's Wisdom Teeth (2020) is a modern and personal take on the original Baby Teeth, made in response to the large number of hideously bad clones of Baby Teeth (in Drew Maughan's own words). Finally, in 2021, Richard Kegler at P22 published P22 Glaser Babyteeth. Kegler writes: In 2019, P22 Type Foundry met with Milton Glaser to initiate the official digital series of typefaces designed by Glaser in the 1960s and 70s. P22 Glaser Babyteeth is the first family released in the series. P22 Glaser Babyteeth was based on original drawings and phototype proofs from the Milton Glaser Studios archives. Over the years there have been many typefaces that borrowed heavily from the Glaser designs, but these are the only official Babyteeth fonts approved by Milton Glaser Studio and the Estate of Milton Glaser. The solid and open versions are designed to overlap for two-color font effects and can even be mixed and matched for multi layer chromatic treatments.
    • Glaser Stencil (1967, avant-garde typeface available at URW, Elsner&Flake, Linotype, and Apply Interactive). The Cyrillic version is due to A. Kustov (1993). For another digital version, see F37 Glaser Stencil by Rick Banks (2015). Glaser Stencil is sometimes referred to as Neo Futura and Futura Stencil.
    • Hologram (1970). For a revival see Capital Ideas NF (2012, Nick Curtis).
    • Baby Fat (1964). Glaser's first typeface. Digitized by Nick Curtis as Keepon Truckin NF (2007) and Baby Curls, and by Richard Keglet at P22 as P22 Glaser Babyfat (2021), which introduces six additional variations to allow the user to easily colorize the type as Glaser envisioned: Keyline, Fill, Glyph, Left, Right, and Down.
    • Test (1996, a Braille simulation face).
    • Houdini (1964). Milton Glaser commented about this type family: The typeface is called Houdini after the famous American magician. I wanted to produce a letterform that would gradually disappear as one line after another was removed. For a digital revival, see Richard Kegler's layerable family P22 Glaser Houdini (2021).
    • Kitchen or Big Kitchen (1976), an art deco shadow caps face. It was digitally revived by Nick Curtis as Coochie Nando NF (2011) and by Richard Kegler as P22 Glaser Kitchen (2021).
    • Einstein (1970s).
    • Film Sense (1968, Photolettering, with Seymour Chwast). This typeface was digitized and extended by Adrian Candela in 2013 as Newsense.
    • Sesame Place (1980).

    Musings about life (dead link). Linotype link. FontShop link. A brief tour of Milton Glaser's typography. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Milton Magaña

    San Salvador, El Salvador-based designer of the colorful all caps Reef Font (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Min Ng

    During his studies in Singapore, Min Ng created the decorative caps typeface Typoetry (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Min Wang

    Min Wang is a professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He is currently serving as dean of the School of Design at CAFA and director of the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games. He also serves as Standing Expert on Image and Identity for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Committee. He received his BA in graphic art from CAFA and an MFA from Yale University School of Art where he studied under Armin Hoffman, Paul Rand, and Bradbury Thompson. He is the design director at Square Two Design, which he joined in 1998 after serving eight years as design manager, senior art director and graphic designer at Adobe Systems. He has been a visiting fellow in Germany at Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich and Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin. In 1989, he began lecturing in graphic design at Yale University School of Art, teaching graduate students until 1997.

    Square Two Design clients include: Adobe, IBM, Intel, Stanford University, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

    At Adobe, he designed the mythical figure caps typeface Mythos (together with Jim Wasco).

    At this site, Min Wang used to have nine Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic truetype fonts: GCdls, GCWei, GCXfang, TCHei, TCSun, GCFang, GCHei, GCKai, GCSong. Alternate (dated) URL.

    Keynote speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong.

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

    Mindofone Fonts

    Dallas, TX-based creator of the free art deco stencil typeface Glas Deco (2012), which is based on a specimen found in Hoffmanns Schriftatlas: Das Schriftschaffen der Gegenwart in Alphabeten und Anwendungen, Stuttgart 1930. Another download site. View the original.

    Creator of Mexico 86 (2011), a bilined headline typeface that was modeled after the Mexico 1986 World Cup logo font, which in turn was based on Avant Garde Extra Light. Free download at abfonts.

    Creator of Twin Mo 1 (2012, bilined).

    In 2013, he/she created Hadley Numerals (based on the numbers originally generated by Gunter Gerhard Lange for his Derby typeface), and Hadley Stencil (based on the letters originally generated by Gret Mengelt-Mergenthaler and Walter Ballmer for their Swiss typeface TEXPO). Free download.

    North Dallas Forty (2012, free) is based on the custom letters in the original 1979 movie posters and marketing materials for the film North Dallas Forty.

    In 2011-2012, Dick Pape created a number of free fonts based on designs pointed out to him by Mindofone, and he calls them his Mindofone collection, 86 files strong. They include French Alphabets (FA) and French Advertising Alphabets (FAA). The French Advertising Alphabets were designed by M. Moullet in Brussels in 1946.

    The FAA series: FAA3DLettresEnRelief, FAAAllongees, FAAAllongeesBold, FAAAntiqueAllongee, FAAAntiqueGrasse, FAAAntiques, FAAAntiquesGrasses, FAABaroque3DInitiales, FAABlockLettresEnRelief, FAACameoHollow, FAACaracteresdeFantaisie, FAAChevauchantes, FAACubiques, FAAEcossaises, FAAEcritureGrasseEmoussee, FAAEgyptienneGrasse, FAAEgyptiennesEmoussees, FAAFantaisie, FAAFantaisieBlaireau, FAAFantaisieHardi, FAAFantaisieHaut, FAAFantasio, FAAFloralGothiqueInitiales, FAAFrenchMecane, FAAItalianHeavySlab, FAALettresAuCrayonItalic, FAALiberty, FAANormandes, FAANormandesAllongees, FAAOmbreeEnRelief, FAAOnciale, FAAOrientales, FAAPochoir, FAARomainClassique, FAARomainTypographique, FAScenesPaysannes, FAASerifEgyptienne, FAAVetteFantasieAntieke.

    The FA series consists first of all of digitizations that are from a booklet by signpainter Roumond entitled 32 Alphabets Modernes, published in Paris by A. Charayron and Léon Duran, some time in the 1930s. Pape's 32 fonts are FAModerne0369, FAModerne0562a, FAModerne0562b, FAModerne0946aBold, FAModerne0946bBold, FAModerne1367a, FAModerne1367b, FAModerne2021a, FAModerne2021b, FAModerne2491a, FAModerne2491b, FAModerne2491c, FAModerne2491d, FAModerne4441, FAModerne5204, FAModerne5204a, FAModerne5204b, FAModerne5204c, FAModerne6183a, FAModerne6183b, FAModerne6518a, FAModerne6518b, FAModerne6518c, FAModerne6518d, FAModerne7287a, FAModerne7287b, FAModerne7666, FAModerne7798, FAModerne9002a, FAModerne9002b, FAModerne9321a, FAModerne9321b.

    The other fonts in the FA series are FAAntique2748, FAAntiqueShaded, FACondensedGothic, FACondensedReversedGothic, FAGillSignWritersGuide, FAGothicInitials, FAHerrickSignWriters, FAJeuSubstantoBold, FAPutti, FARoundSans4901, FAThin3394, FATransportReversed4858, FAUltraLight, FAVineInitials, FAWildFlowers.

    Further typefaces by Dick Pape: Cathedral (2011, a sketched expressionist face, based on Martin Wait), ColorLinesFont (2010, based on work by Anton Gridz), ColorOutLinesFont, FuroreMexicoCameo, FuroreMexicoNormal, FuroreMexicoPlain, FuroreMexicoWide. The Furore series was made in 2011 based on Furore No. 11 The Mexico Issue (Piet Schreuders, Amsterdam, 1978).

    Dick Pape font download page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mindy Duits

    Mindy Duits (Huntington Beach, CA) created the decorative typeface Flloyd in 2014. Its design is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's stained glass windows. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Minh Chau

    Vietnam-born illustrator in Oxford, UK. Minh Chau drew an ornamental caps alphabet called Ballerina (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Minh Le

    As a student at Portland State University, Minh Le (Portalnd, OR) designed the cat-themed alphabet Meo (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Minh Vu

    Hanoi, Vietnam-based creator of the ornamental caps typeface Typoetry (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Minunache

    Illustrator and typographer vin Bucharest, Romania. Creator of the bilined typeface Cinema (2013, as a school project at UNATC) and of the ornamental caps typeface Building Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Miranda Roth

    Miranda Roth graduated from Daemen College (Buffalo, NY) and joined P22 as an in-house type and graphic designer. Creator of these typefaces:

    • HWT Antique Tuscan No.9 (2012, Hamilton Wood Type). The HWT explanation: A very condensed 19th century Tuscan style wood type design with a full character set with ligatures. This design was first shown by Wm H Page Co in 1859.
    • Roman Extended Light (2012). A revival of No. 251 in the 1872 wood type catalog of Page Manufacturing Company.
    • HWT Catchwords (2013).
    • HWT Republic Gothic (2013, with Richard Kegler).
    • LTC Athena (2013). A condensed art deco typeface. Based on drawings from the 1950s in the Baltotype material (and in particular, a 1955 font by George Battee called Athena). Baltotype was acquired ca. 1993 by Rich Hopkins, a printing historian.
    • LTC Archive Ornaments (2014, with Richard Kegler).
    • P22 Saarinen (2014). A set of eight architectural styles based on the lettering of Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen.
    • LTC Goudy Initials (2005). Based on the original proofs of large sizes of Cloister Initials by Frederic Goudy.
    • P22 Dearest Pro (by Christina Torre and Miranda Roth). Dearest is a distinct flowing script based on handwritten characters found in a 19th Century German book chronicling a history of the Middle Ages. Originally released in 2001 as a set containing two styles, Script and Swash, Dearest was expanded in 2014 as a pro font with several hundred new characters including support for Central European, Cyrillic and Greek languages.

    P22 link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mirely Cabral

    Mirely Cabral (Atlanta, GA) created the insect alphabet Arthropod (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mirko Humbert

    Fribourg, Switzerland-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Elefont (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mirna Everett

    New York City-based graphic designer. She studied graphic design at the Art Institute of New York City and at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Croatia. In 2010, she designed the great ornamental all caps face Mevlida. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mirror Types

    Mirror Types is an Argentinian foundry. Creator of BlackStripe (2011, a typeface inspired by bricks) and Rephran (2011, ornamental caps, lower case and numerals).

    Alice (2011) is an upright almost formal script.

    Funtasy (2012) is an informal font family for children's books or fairytales.

    Typefaces from 2016: Neverland (a casual signage script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mirtho Prepont

    Graphic designer born in French Guiana in 1983, who is currently studying towards a Bachelors in graphic design in Portland, Oregon. Behance link. He created Viscera (2010), an unusual textured ornamental all caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Miruna Popescu

    Illustrator in Craiova, Romania. She designed a Trumpet Alphabet (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mirxey
    [Amira Azmi]

    Singapore-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Medusa (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Misha Priemyshev

    Or Misha Priem for short. Graphic and urban designer in Vologda, Russia, who created the artsy hipster Latin / Cyrillic typeface Kurbanistika in 2016. On commission for the city of Vologda, he designed many illustrations as well as a fun decorative Cyrillic caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mishlen Gilbert

    During his studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Mishlen Gilbert designed the dog-themed all caps typeface Fallen Angels (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Misprinted Type
    [Eduardo Recife]

    Misprinted Type (est. 1998) offers free and commercial old typewriter and grunge fonts designed by Eduardo Recife, an illustrator and graphic designer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, b. 1980. Although his main work is in illustration, he became well-known in the early 2000's for his original grunge type designs. Typefaces:

    • Max Rhodes (based on the handwriting of Max Rhodes), Nasty, Shortcut, Carimbo (2003), Mosh (2004), Trashold (2004), Great Circus> (2004, a five-weight calligraphic decorative family), Pastelaria, Downcome (2002), DIESEL, DirtyEgo (2001), Mialgia, OverBored, PrintError, RecifeDings, ThirdWorldBuzz, Besign, HorsePuke, Lhabia, MemoryLapses, misprintedtype, NoMoreTypewriters, PrintFuck151, Selfish (2001), Misproject, Porcelain, Rochester (old typewriter), NailScratch, Astonished, Broken15, DisgustingBehavior, Guilty (2011, grunge).
    • NeasdenPIP was designed with Steve Smith (2001).
    • At Visuelle Orgasmus, we find Superphunky, Superload and Superaircraft, all made in 2001.
    • Here, we find DirtyEgo, Downcome, Porcelain, Selfish, Shortcut.
    • Myfonts sells Rapid Writing (a penmanship font), Magic 1985 (2017, grunge), King Bloser (2014, a calligraphic penmanship font named after E.W. Bloser), Bloser Serif (2014), King Bloser X (2014, ornaments), Mercy (2013, a set of connected Spencerian penmanship style fonts, with ornaments and flourishes if needed), Revanche (2013, a grunge stencil font), Grandpas Typewriter (2013, old typewriter font family), Monster Days (2007, grunge calligraphy), Kyoto (grunge), AntiRomantic (2006), Toscography (2007, slightly Kafkaesque), LeKing (2007: Eduardo calls it the Frankenstein of vintage ornamental typefaces of the past centuries), HandMade (2007, hand-drawn ornamental caps), Nars (2003, grungy script).

    Earlier versions of this site could be found at TypOasis (dead link) and Dafont. Many of his fonts are also here and here. Klingspor link. Creative Market link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Missy Austin

    Missy Austin is a designer based in Minneapolis. She graduated in December 2010 and currently works at Zeus Jones. At Lost Type Coop, she published the artsy caps typeface Nelma (2011) in EPS format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mixed Studio

    Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Mixed Studio designed the typeface Good Days in 2015 and the interesting Firewood in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    M.J. Da Luz

    Graphic designer and illustrator in San Jose, Costa Rica, who specializes in design for children. Creator of the ornamental caps typefaces Monster Alphabet (2014) and Dogs Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    M/M Paris
    [Mathias Augustyniak]

    M/M Paris is a studio in Paris run by Michael Amzalag (b. 1962, Paris) and Mathias Augustyniak (b. 1967, Cavaillon), est. 1992. They created the decorative caps typeface Pradalphabet in 2014. It was custom designed for Prada's collection of unique T-shirts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    M/M Paris
    [Michael Amzalag]

    M/M Paris is a studio in Paris run by Michael Amzalag (b. 1962, Paris) and Mathias Augustyniak (b. 1967, Cavaillon), est. 1992. They created the decorative caps typeface Pradalphabet in 2014. It was custom designed for Prada's collection of unique T-shirts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    mmolai
    [Ojay Juarez]

    Type blog by Ojay Juarez (TX). Aka mmolai. Ojay used Fontifier to create the handwriting font mmolaihandbasic (2008), and who used Fontcapture to make mminland or Inland (2009, free download), a Victorian typeface from the Inland Type Foundry. His blog.

    Vector typeface roundup.

    He created the ornamental caps typeface McDonald in vector (EPS) format.

    He made a scanfont called Roman Print Variously Shaded (2009), which is an ornamental caps alphabet in EPS format based on document from ca. 1800.

    In 2010, he used iFontMaker to create the hand-printed outline typeface Shadow Hand. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moa Nordahl

    Oslo-based designer of the ornamental caps alphabet Creeps (2010). He created some interesting typographic posters, such as Next Time Cards (2009).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mobaric Minhas
    [Jaduger Design Studio (and: Twodollarshop)]

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    Mohammed Emdadul Haque

    Bangladesh-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: grungy typefaces Lightorium Drunk, Inker Glow, Jaqeen, Garmentdo and Hand Post; the handcrafted typefaces Syvavya, Toonerfrog, Satinface, Queryee, Painter Pro and Logatica; Labough, Alien Ghost, City Matrix, Satin Soft, Grassia, Breaklee, Dingdong, Flanger Vg (decorative caps), Fruitees Dingbat, Blood R, Ecolo [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mohammed Shohail Bhuian
    [Seemly Fonts (or: Fancy Fonts, Instagram Fonts, Comely Designs, or: Seemly Designs)]

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    Mohd Saif

    Kanpur, India-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mohssen Beygzadeh

    Tehran-based designer (b. 1987) of a futuristic caps set in 2012, called Future Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moiré
    [Marc Kappeler]

    Zurich-based graphic design studio that often work for art and architecture clients. It is run by Marc Kappeler, Markus Reichenbach and Ruth Amstutz. Font subpage. Regina (2008) is a custom rounded typeface in Latin and Cyrillic for Regina Gallery in London and Moscow. Balkankaravan (2008) is a layered typeface custom-designed for Balkankaravan. In 2010, they made an ornamental caps typeface consisting of building demolitions.

    In 2012-2013, Grilli Type published their typeface family GT Pressura (with monospaced and proportional versions), which was inspired by type stamped on shipping boxes. GT Pressura was co-designed by Ruth Amstutz and Dominik Huber.

    In 2014, Dominic Huber, Marc Kappeler and Noel Leu published the extensive text family GT Sectra (Grilli Type), which, in view if its breadth and angular design will prove to be one the world's major releases of 2014. GT Sectra won first prize in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. Their blurb: GT Sectra was originally designed for the German-language magazine Reportagen, a bi-monthly publication specializing in literary reporting. Its long-form stories require a typeface that works well in text, but not at the expense of character. GT Sectra strikes that balance.

    In 2020, Dominic Huber and Marc Kappeler co-designed the 112-style GT Flexa at Grilli Type. Flexa is also a variable type with width, slant and thickness axes, and has a monospaced subfamily. GT Flexa is characterized by simple shapes and penetrating ink traps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Molé Foliate
    [Sem L. Hartz]

    Molé Foliate is a great floriated caps font designed by the Parisian founder Molé, with floral decorations inside the open typeface 3d letters Redrawn by S.L. Hartz at Stephenson Blake (1960) and/or Enschedé. Digital implementations include Mole Foliated (1997, unknown designer, free), [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Molly Brown

    Graduate of the Pratt Institute, 2006. San Francisco-based illustrator and painter who drew an animal alphabet in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Momo Villarreal

    Creator (aka Mnca or Mnica) of the hand-printed ornamental caps typefaces Animalitos (2011, iFontMaker), Oattie (2011, iFontMaker), Oattie (2011, iFontMaker), ABC (2011, iFontMaker) and Monstruitos (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monica Li

    During her studies in Sydney, Australia, Monica Li designed the floral decorative caps typeface Flora (2015) and the hairline sci-fi typeface Grandioso (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monica Villar

    Spanish designer who lives in Donostia-San Sebastian. Her typefaces include Sydney Meller (2017), Alexis Jernigan (2017, circle-themed), 36 Days of Type (2016, a decorative caps alphabet), Manyar (2013), Lost in Time (2012, display face) and Edden (2013, oriental simulation).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monika Grause

    Hamburg, Germany-based designer of the free modular all caps typeface MGGeometricColor NoColor (2019) and the freeGeometric Color. Both were made with Fontself. Other fonts by Monika include MG Skribble. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monique Sterling

    Queens, NY-based designer of the hand-printed caps typeface Diana (2013), named after the Princess of Wales. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monogram Fonts Co
    [Brian J. Bonislawsky]

    Commercial foundry, est. 2009 by Brian J. Bonislawsky (Las Vegas, NV), known for his participation in the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, the Breaking the Norm Font Library, VersusTwin Type Foundry, and Foundry-X. Most of the fonts done after 2013 were in cooperation with Jim Lyles. Fonts made in 2009 include MFC Franklin Corners (based on Metal Corners from the 1889 "Convenient Book of Specimens" from Franklin Type Foundry in Cincinnati), MFC Manoir Monogram (2009, Victorian initials), MFC Bijou Monogram, MFC Escutcheon Monogram, MFC Pantomime Monogram, MFC Peony Monogram (2009), MFC Vice Monogram (an Art Deco letterset (capitals only) from a 1915 publication by Cartier-Bresson of Paris), MFC Viper Monogram (based on Hollywood Combination Initials, found in a 1934 ATF book), MFC Carson Monogram (from Art Monogram and Lettering by J.M. Bergling, Vol. 1, Fifth Edition, 1912), MFC Semicirculus Monogram, MFC Royaume Monogram (after lettering from the 1884 Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship by Daniel T. Ames), MFC Bindi Monogram (after a 1915 publication by Cartier-Bresson of Paris), Carson Monogram (a letter set from the book Art Monogram and Lettering by J.M. Bergling, Vol. 1, Fifth Edition published in 1912, where it was simply labeled New Antique 53), Noir Monogram (after the "Pearl" letterset from the 1854 Becker's Ornamental Penmanship and Draughtsman's Letter Book by George J. Becker), Distinto Borders (after the Black&White and Running Borders from the 1906 Abridged Keystone Type Foundry Specimen Book), Tagliato Monogram (after a decorative letterset (capitals only) from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway&Sons Silk Co), Mouchoir Monogram, Memoriam Initials (based on University Initials in the 1934 Book of American Types by ATF), Moissanite Monogram (based on Diamond Combination Monograms from the same book), MFC Monarchy Initials (based on Diamond Combination Monograms from the same book), Morningside Monogram and Neuport Monogram (both based on letters found in the 1934 Book of American Types by American Type Founders), Diamant Monogram, Distinto Borders (based on borders found in the 1906 Abridged Keystone Type Foundry Specimen Book), Ruse Monogram (an all caps typeface based on DeRoos Inline), MFC Tagliato Monogram (from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway&Sons Silk Co), and Tryst Monogram. MFC Franklin Corners (2009) is a series of three border dingbat fonts.

    MFC Hills Medieval (2010) was developed from an overly ornamental blackletter type specimen found in the 1882 Hills Manual of Social and Business Forms. The interesting Victorian outline family Sappho Monogram (2010) was inspired by an alphabet set from the book, Monograms and Alphabets for Combination by Dollfus Mieg&Cie, first published in the 1890s.

    Typefaces from 2012: MFC Bruce Corners.

    Typefaces from 2013, all done with Jim Lyles: MFC Baelon Monogram (an 800-character monster font with outlined spurred letters from Dollfus Mieg's book, ca. 1890), MFC Bontebok Monogram, MFC Carnivale Monogram (known as Romantiques No. 3 and Ornate No. 2), MFC Thornwright Monogram (from the Manuel de Broderies No. 179 by N. Alexandre & Cie. from the late 1800s), MFC Zulu Monogram (an African-themed font inspired by Bibliothèque D.M.C: Alphabets et Monogrammes 2nd Series), MFC Jewelers Monogram (based on a decorative alphabet designed in 1901 by Marcus Goldsmith, an inventor of elegant accessories), MFC Verre Monogram, MFC Triangulus Monogram (based on a vintage publication called "Bibliotheque D.M.C: Alphabets et Monogrammes 2nd Series"), MFC Chaoxiang Monogram, MFC Fantasie Monogram, MFC Mastaba Monogram, MFC Voyeur Monogram (based on Broadway Monogram Initials in Book of American Types (1893, ATF)), MFC Haute Monde Monogram, based on Elite Monogram Initials in Book of American Types (1893, ATF)), MFC Budding Monogram, MFC Hardwood Monogram, MFC Almond Monogram, MFC Brass Rules Petit (based on filets from the Franklin Type Foundry), MFC Damask and MFC Damask Flourish (by Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles, a Victorian capitals and floriated caps pair of typefaces based on Oxford No. 2 from the 1893 catalog of the Cleveland Type Foundry).

    Typefaces from 2014: MFC Medieval Monogram (a Lombradic caps typeface based on Book of American Types (1934, American Type Founders)), MFC Chaplet Monogram (from Dessins de Broderies---Album No. 486 (Sajou, late 1800s)), MFC Capulet Monogram (based on Monograms and Alphabets for Combination (Dollfus Mieg & Cie, 1890s)), MFC Klaver Monogram, MFC Billow Monogram (from Manuel de Broderies No. 179 by N. Alexandre & Cie. from the late 1800's), MFC Aldercott Monogram (by Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles, after a 1901 alphabet by Marcus Goldsmith, an inventor of elegant accessories of personal nature).

    Typefaces from 2015: MFC Tattersaw Monogram, MFC Livermore Monogram (based on Victorian alphabets shown in Charles J. Strong's The Art of Show Card Writing, 1907), MFC Ringold Monogram (based on Strong's Book of Designs, 1917), MFC Petworth Monogram, MFC Piege Monogram, MFC Gilchrist Initials, MFC Gilchrist Monogram, MFC Arteaga Borders One, MFC Arteaga Borders Two, MFC Arteaga Borders Three, MFC Brass Rules Grand (based on Franklin Type Foundry's brass rules in Convenient Book of Specimens, 1889).

    Typefaces from 2016: MFC Diresworth Monogram (based on an alphabet set from the book, Monograms and Alphabets for Combination by Dollfus Mieg & Cie, first published in the 1890's), MFC Spindler Borders, MFC Imperator Monogram (based on Monograms and Alphabets for Combination by Dollfus Mieg & Cie, 1890s), MFC Mercer (an initials set from the book Monograms and Alphabets for Combination by Dollfus, Mieg & Cie, first published in the 1880s), MFC Botanical Borders (based on a collection of border treatments from the 1886 Spécimens de caractères d'imprimerie by E. Houpied a Paris), MFC Diamondside Monogram, MFC Redding Monogram (a highly ornate lettering style from Letters and Lettering by Carlyle & Oring), MFC Rodizio (a layered chromatic typeface family inspired by wood types by William H. Page), MFC Falconer Monogram, MFC Glencullen Monogram, MFC Bruce's Corners Two (based on Metal Corners found in Specimens of Printed Types (1882, Bruce Type Foundry)), MFC Westport Monogram, MFC Arkena Monogram (art nouveau font based on Strong's Book of Designs (1917)).

    Typefaces from 2017: MFC Enschede Borders (based on floral borders in the 1904 Ornamenten Hoofdlijsten en Sluitstukken book by Joh. Enschedé & Zonen, Haarlem), MFC Keating Monogram (based on Monograms and Alphabets for Combination (1890s, Dollfus, Mieg & Cie)).

    Typefaces from 2018: MFC Stencil Borders Six, MFC Elmstead Monogram and MFC Endeavor Monogram (both based on Dollfus, Mieg & Cie, 1890s), MFC Blossom Monogram (a chromatic layering font), MFC Buttergin Monogram (based on Tuscan typeface shown in Letters and Lettering by Carlyle & Oring), MFC Stencil Borders Five, MFC Stencil Borders Four, MFC Stencil Borders Three, MFC Stencil Borders Two, MFC Stencil Borders One (all by Brian Bonislawsky), MFC Diamondstack Monogram, MFC Sansome Monogram (an art nouveau typeface based on John F. Irwin's Rustic Roman from 1906).

    Typefaces from 2019: MFC Joliet Monogram (2019: based on a vintage McCalls Kaumagraph Transfer), MFC French Roman (an all caps typeface based on French Roman Light in an 1899 lettering publication by International Correspondence Schools), MFC Diamerrick Monogram (diamond-shaped monograms), MFC Ambeau Monogram (2019, based on the decorative art nouveau alphabet called American Beauty in J.M. Bergling's Art Alphabets and Lettering, 1914), MFC Diamas Monogram (diamond-shaped monograms), MFC Nadall Medieval (an uncial/blackletter font based on Bernd Nadall's Faust from 1898).

    Typefaces from 2020: MFC Patisserie Monogram (from Letters and Lettering by Carlyle & Oring), MFC Decatur Monogram (after an alphabet seen in J.M. Bergling's book Monograms and Engraving Alphabets).

    Typefaces from 2021: MFC Deco Diamond Monogram.

    View the typefaces made by Brian Bonislawsky.

    Typefaces from 2022: MFC Heathcliff Monogram (2022: rhombic monograms). Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    MonogramBros
    [Andrei Isakau]

    Belarus-based designer of monogram fonts. In 2020, he released Baseball Monogram. This typeface cleverly combines three letters within a circle where the three letters are separate glyphs. So, instead of needing 26 to the power three glyphs, it essentially gets away with three times 26 glyphs. And the facility of combinations is further enhanced by the use of contextual alternates in opentype.

    Typefaces from 2021: Romanesque Monogram, Gemstone Monogram, Initial Monogram, Jungle Monogam, Mermaid Monogram, Round Branch Monogram, Shield Classic 2 Letters, Six Sided Monogram, Strap Monogram, Western Monogram, Heart Monogram, Round Squeeze Monogram, Shield 2 Letters Monogram, Rounded Square Monogram, Shield Monogram, Oval Scalloped MNG, Super Monogram, Block Monogram, Oval Monogram, Square Diamond Monogram, Octagone Monogram, Shell Monogram, Liquid Monogram, Round Monogram. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Moonlight Designs
    [Debbie Montique]

    Debbie Montique (Deborah C. Montique) designed these free original dingbats in 1998-1999: ArtistsWorld, Christmas-Debbie, Christmas3, Corners, DCM_SchoolTime, DesignDings, DesignDings2, DesignDings3, DesignDings4, Dividers, Dividers3, Dividers4, DividersTwo, DovesandStuff, FishingAnyone, FloralDesign, OrnateDesigns-Debbie, Printer Ornaments Debbie, PrinterOrnamentsbyDebbie2, PrinterOrnamentsbyDebbie3 (very useful floral dingbats for texts!), SquareCaps_DCM, TrucksforJudyS, Western-DCM. MD Button Mania and MD Lavish Lines were created in 2000.

    Her web site disappeared after she lost her computer and everything else in hurricane Katrina. However, the fonts were already out in the wild. Thanks to helpful fans, she recovered all of her fonts.

    In January 2013, she agreed that I could host her typefaces.

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. Decomania link.

    Download Debbie Montique's typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moonyoung Wohn

    Student at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Fairfax, VA. She created the elaborate all caps typeface Clock (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Morgan Lee Schneider
    [Hannah Booe]

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    Moska Masamorra

    Caracas-based graphic designer who created the ornamental caps typeface Ganesh (2013). For the Humboldt Planetarium, he designed a constellation typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Motin Blanco

    Buenos Aires-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Vision (2018), which is based on architectural plans. It was developed at FADU / UBA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mouser Fonts
    [Jerry Landers]

    From Collingswood, NJ, Jerry Landers' type designs: Waters Gothic (calligraphic), Waters Gothic Deux, Waterhole (2000), Animal Caps (2000), Bouwsma Uncial, Foundational, Georgia Pond, Gourdie Cursive (2000), Goudie Cursive Deux, Gourdie Handwriting (2000), Gourdie Uncial, Gourdie Gothic Black, Gourdie Uncial Deux, Ken's Calligraphic, Korger Gothic Deux. Jerry also drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II.

    Dafont link. Old URL (which died in 2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moy Lee

    Weifang, China-based designer of the Latin's children's book illustrative Doodles Alphabet (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mr. Black Fonts
    [Miguel Angel Padriñán Alba]

    Iztapalapa, Mexico City-based graphic designer. Creator of Pixa Square (2014: a dot matrix typeface family that includes some arcade game dingbats as well), Domino (2014: digitization of a typeface by Sabino Gainza), Norma Script (2014, avant-garde sans), Norma Cursiva (2014), Macmillan (2014, sans), El Corondel (2014, signage script), Taller (2014, done with Manuel Flores), Mr. Pascal (2014: LED or kitchen style typeface for numbers on watches), Britannia Capital (2014: a calligraphic copperplate typeface), Alfaomega (2014, avant-garde sans), Alfaomega Cursiva (2014, school script font), Espiral (2013, a Victorian school project font at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas UNA).

    In 2016, Ayi Studio (Mexico City) published the constructivist typeface family Alek Rodchenko, which was jointly designed by Miguel Angel Padrinan Alba and Victor Manuel Flores Lopez. One must assume that they run Ayi Studio.

    Behance link. Newer Behance link. Old Wordpress link. Newest MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mr. Bunbury

    Designer in Hamburg who works at Jung von Matt. He posted the Books Font (2011). A correspondent pointed out that this font is identical to that published by Jody Yeoh and Hwee Chong Chan earlier in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mr. Karakas

    Athens-based designer of an unnamed hand-drawn font and the ornamental caps typefaces Burjee, Frame and KFont in 2013. Fenrir (2013) is a geometric typeface inspired by graffiti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mr Woody Woods

    Illustrator in Manchester, UK, who designed the ornamental caps typeface Yoga in 2016. In 2018, he designed the decorative set of numerals called Dead Snake. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Muhammad Husni Haikal
    [Graphicfresh (was: Sameeh Store, or Sameeh Media)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Muhammad Romzul Khoir
    [Khoir]

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    Muhammad Sirojuddin
    [Lettersiro]

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    Muhammadhani Farinaldi

    Indonesian designer of the caps alphabet Huruf Yang Berakar (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Multimedia Fonts

    One zip file with 100+ fonts (2.4MB). Among the unusual entries, CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps, CochinArchaic, Curetana, Gaelach, Goethe, Heidelbe-Light, Hermia, the QuickType family, Yazata (oriental simulation). Lots of Scriptorium fonts, obviously. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Muriel Righes Mancio

    At Centro Universitario Ritter dos Reis in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Muriel Righes Mancio designed the decorative caps typeface Minions (2016). Linkedin link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Musée du parchemin

    This French museum sells useful books with hundreds of examples of medieval alphabets, illuminations, initial caps, and ornaments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mussy Simohamed

    During his studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK, Mussy Simohamed (Leeds, UK) created the Tyre Art typeface (2014). He writes: This typeface was inspired by Toyata IQ typeface project. I tried replicating what they did but in a different way. I used my hand and a toy wheel taken from a JCB toy truck. Then I scanned the work and worked on it digitally.

    He is in awe of assault rifles, and thus created the ornamental caps typeface Arsenal (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mustafa Bayrali

    At T.C. Halic University in Istanbul, Mustafa Bayrali designed the decorative Candy Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Muthama

    Nairoba, Kenya-based designer of the silhouette figurine font Simon Says (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Muzi Li

    During his/her studies in New Zealand, Muzi Li designed the decorative typeface Luminous (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MWM Graphics
    [Matt W. Moore]

    Matt W. Moore (MWM Graphics) is the designer of Deck of Cards (2011, illustrative caps), Crenshaw and Xacto (2005, typefaces inspired by California scrawl and Xacto knife blades), Alphafont Cuatro (2010, a geometric experiment). Illustrations: Fishing lures, frog.

    Klingspor link. His fonts can be bought via HypeForType. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    My Name is Wendy
    [Carole Gautier]

    The Parisian design studio My Name is Wendy was founded in 2006 by Carole Gautier and Eugénie Favre. Their typefaces, often for clients, and nearly always experimental and on the edge, include

    • Burlesk (2018).
    • New Fabrik (2014). An industrial sans.
    • ViewWriter. Almost a typewriter type.
    • Paulownia. Curvy and experimental.
    • Wendy (2014). A bicolored monoline sans.
    • Freaks Alphabet (2014). A decorative caps typeface.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MyFonts: Illuminated typefaces

    A selection of illuminated typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MyFonts: Incunabula

    A selection of digital typefaces that are related to incunabula (printing from the renaissance and Gutenberg eras). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MyFonts: Openface fonts

    Top openface fonts at MyFonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MyFonts: Pearly or bejeweled typefaces

    These typefaces have pearls built into the decorations of the glyphs:

    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MyHemp Page

    Nenad Zanko's 3-font archive: URW's DexGothicD, Priory (Drop Caps), and Corel's CosmicTwoPlain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nacionale
    [Doug Alves]

    Brazilian graphic artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA. Home page. He made a few all-caps frilly floral caps typefaces, such as one designed for Havaianas Ipe, and Mari (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadi Boglarka
    [Halisten Studio]

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    Nadiuska Ruiz

    Nadiuska N. Ruiz G. designed a funny futuristic decorative caps alphabet in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadja Kargruber
    [Nana Kar]

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    Naele Na

    Palma de Mallorca-based designer of the all caps alphabet Dog Font (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naghi Naghachian
    [Naghi Naghashian]

    Naghi Naghashian's foundry (called Naghi Naghachian, with a c) is located in Frankfurt. Quoting MyFonts, where we can buy his fonts: Naghi Naghashian was born in Teheran. After completing his school education in Iran, he studied illustration and book design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), an academy of design, in Offenbach, Germany. Thereafter he was engaged as art director in various advertising agencies in Germany, Switzerland and England. He also worked as a freelance graphic designer with focus on illustration and brand designing for leading producers of brand articles in Europe, and also for broadcasting stations in Germany and other European countries. He was occupied with theoretical work in the field of color and research in the passive perception of color and "after image" phenomena. He carried out an analysis of the letters of the Arabic alphabet and a definition of their structure, enabling him to design a number of modern types of Arabic script. He designed the monoline typeface Aban (2010), which covers Latin, Arabic, Persian and Urdu. Jasna (2010) is a monoline rounded family with the same support. Avesta Extra Bold (2010) and Anahita Extra Bold (2010) are headline typefaces. Bi Bi (2010) is a squarish (Bank Gothic style) typeface that also covers Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.

    Ahoura (2011) is an Arabic font family. Decora One (2011) is a curly ornamental all caps face. Decora Two (2011) is another ornamental caps face. Bamdad Extra Bold Condensed (2011) is an Impact-like typeface Bamdad that supports Latin, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Parsi (2011) is an elliptical sans family that supports Latin, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Novin (2011, +Shadow) is an elliptical typeface that supports Latin, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.

    Typefaces from 2012: Parto (elliptical).

    Typefaces made in 2013: Iranica, Avid Pro, Nima (a Latin/ Arabic techno family named after Persian poet Nima Yooshij, 1896-1960), Decora Arabic, Decora Pro (and its Arabic / Farsi / Urdu companion, Parvin), Ekbatana (for Latin, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu), Apadana (for Latin, Arabic, Persian and Urdu), Roumi Pro (an elegant inline typeface), Surprise Pro (headline rounded sans), Mocca Pro, Nana Pro, Nana Rounded Pro, Nana Arabic, Petrol Stencil (an Arabic / Urdu / Latin stencil typeface), Kashi (2015: inspired by 16th century building decorations in Iran).

    Typefaces from 2013: Ostad Arabic.

    Typefaces from 2016: Naghashian, Golestan (supports Arabic, Persian and Urdu), Babak (a techno family for Latin, Arabic, Persian and Urdu), Ostad Pro, Elogium Pro.

    Typefaces from 2017: Afsoon, Afsane, Jekta, Pasargad, Kamane (Naskh style for Arabic, Persian and Urdu), Damavand.

    Typefaces from 2018: Bieta, Afshid, Pegah, Homayoon, Hafez, Dara, Homa (for Arabic, Farsi and Urdu), BaBa Rounded, BaBa.

    Typefaces from 2019: Nahid, Nameh (a single-weight sans), Gilan, Jaleh, Bauhaus Arabic.

    Typefaces from 2020: Golnama (a prismatic typeface for Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Latin), Esfand, Bonyad (modern kufi / geometric sans), Art Deco Arabic, Behtab.

    Author of Illustrated Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Geometrie als Mysterium, and Design and Structure of Arabic Script.

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

    Naghi Naghashian
    [Naghi Naghachian]

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    Naiomi Viegas

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Brisbane, Australia. Naiomi Viegas's Skin Deep display typeface (2016) is based on a mash-up of "The Thing" from The Addams family and tattoos or the idea of individuality. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nakai Toru

    Nakai Toru (Pimatics, Japan) created the caps typeface Oiwai (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nana Kar
    [Nadja Kargruber]

    Nadja Kargruber (Nana Kar, Reykjavik, Iceland) was born in Italy and grew up in Tesido in northern Italy. She graduated from the Accademia Leonetto Cappiello in Florence in 2014 before moving to Iceland. She designed these typefaces in 2014: Aventa (human figurines) and Allure (ultra-condensed thin sans). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nana Nozaki

    New York City-based designer of Bauchstaben (2013), a Bauhaus-inspired decorative caps typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nancy Ortiz

    During her graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Nancy Ortiz designed a pencil and eraser all caps typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naomi Cox

    During her design studies in Manchester, UK, Naomi Cox designed the ornamental caps typeface Battle (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naomi Farrar

    Leeds-based graphic designer who created the ornamental caps alphabet Raven (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naomi Prabudhi

    During her studies, Bandung, Indonesia-based Naomi Prabudhi designed a decorative caps typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naomie Ross

    Brooklyn, NY-based creator of Lovechild (2012), a typeface that uses the shapes of Gotham and is filled with frilly patterns.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Napasawan Sirisukont

    Astoria, NY-based designer of an ornamental caps typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nasty Davydova

    Moscow-based designer of Character Alphabet (2013), an ornamental cartoon character typeface for Cyrillic.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nastya Sokha

    During her studies in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Anastasiia Sokha designed an elaborate deco typeface called Memphis (2015). The name refers the Memphis Style promoted by the Memphis group in 1981, for whom decoration and styling was a game to combat austere modernism. They achieved this by combining flashy geometric shapes with bright colors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natacha Diaz

    Creator of a hand-lettered caps alphabet in 2013. Natacha lives in Dublin, Ireland. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natali Strelchenko

    Designer in Kiev (Ukraine), who made the beautiful dot matrix family BDirect for Latin and Cyrillic in 2011. Link (2011) is an ornamental caps face.

    In 2012, Strelchenko made Jackson Pollock Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia García M

    During her fine arts studies in Valladolid, Spain, Natalia García M created the ornamental caps typeface Bestiario (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Jaworska

    Warsaw, Poland-based designer of the figurine font Keith Haring (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalie Mihlin

    Arona, Italy-based designer of several ornamental caps typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalija Gladkiha King

    Floridian web and graphic type designer. She created the leafy caps typeface Pavo STD (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natanael Gama
    [Ndiscover (or: Ndiscovered; was: Natenine Type)]

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    Natasha Merculova

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Ramenskoye, Russia. She created a special ornamental Cyrillic all caps typeface called Animalphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natasha Ochshorn

    During her graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Natasha Ochshorn designed an all caps poster typeface called Funky (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nate Springstead

    Marquette, MI-based graduate of NMU who created the ornamental caps typeface Fleas in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nate Williams
    [Nate Williams Illustration and Design (or: Letter Playground)]

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    Nate Williams Illustration and Design (or: Letter Playground)
    [Nate Williams]

    Nate Williams is a designer and illustrator in Washington. Creator of the free font Busted Lip. Check out his LetterPlayground. He also oversaw the creation of Illustrated Alphabet (2011) by 26 illustrators from all over the world.

    Behance link. Letter Playground link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natee Srisuk

    Creator of the JPG-format all caps Colorful Felt Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nathalie Echeverria Maquilon

    Guayaquil, Ecuador-based graphic designer. In 2019, she published the Andean pattern all caps typeface Umiñs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nathalie Hallman

    Illustrator Nathalie Hallman (Stockholm, Sweden) explains the motivation behind her decorative caps typeface Egon Schiele (2013): Typeface built out of image cut-outs from works by Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918). A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. From 2012 until 2015, she studied at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm.

    She drew an ornamental caps alphabet called Ribbon (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nathan Fetherston

    Graduate of MIAD, class of 2018. Milwaukee, WI-based designer of the colored decorative all caps typeface Roman Archi-Type (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nathaniel Smith

    London, UK-based graphic designer. Creator of the decorative caps typeface Black Smith (2015), which took inspiration from the Kremlin. He also created various sets of icons including Monument Icons (2015) and Mobile UI Icons (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nauan Gustavo

    Nauan Gustavo (or Darkkinder) is a Brazilian youngster (b. 1991), who created a few nice free typefaces, such as Engine (2007, an all-caps display face), WitchCraft (2007, gothic), Scribble (2007), Robotization (2006, futuristic), Alienable Halloween (2006, scary), TheMachine (2006), Alien Earth (2006, scary futuristic) and Future Font (2006, also eerie in style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nav Raw
    [Rajesh Rajput]

    Rajesh Rajput (since 2014 with Cognizant Technologies, Gurgaon / Delhi, India) designed the free 5-style stencil typeface family Break in 2015. Interestingly, a guy called Steven Han calls it his font in 2016. He worked for four months on an elaborate decorative set of 26 capitals under the project name Type Soul (2015).

    With Raina Agarwal, Rajesh Rajput designed the free scratchy font Chemin in 2015.

    From his home base in New Delhi, he created Hagna (2017; although inside the font we find another name, Webvilla), the free variable condensed sans display family Thunder (2017) and Gorgeous (2017, a free tall fashion mag typeface family).

    Typefaces from 2018: Morganite (a free condensed movie credit sans in 18 styles),

    Typefaces from 2019: Emberly (a free 54-style didone, with a variable option).

    Typefaces from 2021: Mango Grotesque (a free 18-style+variable condensed elongated sans font family), Moniqa (a free 162-style (+variable font) family of art deco typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2022: Meshed Display (a free display serif family with a fashion mag didone vibe).

    Behance link. Behance link for Nav Raw. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nayana Freitas

    Caruaru, Brazil-based student-designer of the praying mantis-themed font Mane Magro (2017) and the ironwork window-themed decorative caps font Tipogo (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ndiscover (or: Ndiscovered; was: Natenine Type)
    [Natanael Gama]

    Ndiscovered (and before that, Natenine Type) is Natanael Gama's site in Lisbon (earlier, in Caldas da Rainha), Portugal. Born in 1988, Natanael's first font is Chumbo (2010). Joana Correia joined forces in Ndiscovered.

    In 2011, Natanel Gama designed Intimacy and Exo (free at Google Web Fonts). Free download. Exo is a rounded techno font family in 9 styles. See also Exo2 at Google Web Fonts, Open Font Library, and Fontspace. In 2015, he added the futuristic slab serif Exo Slab Pro and the beautiful rounded elliptical Exo Soft. A custom version of Exo2 was developed for Dutch Tv Channel BNNVARA in 2017. The free Ezarion (2018) completes the Exo2 family.

    In 2012, he added the roman inscription style typeface family Cinzel, classic, well-proportioned and just drop dead gorgeous. And free. See also Google Web Fonts and the CTAN site. There is also the Cinzel Decorative subfamily, and a flowery decorative caps version of this by Nguyen Luan (2018).

    Typefaces from 2013: Genica (a tweetware signage script).

    Typefaces from 2014: Genica Pro, Mangerica, Mangerica Italic. Definitely, a very Latin sans, described by Natanael as follows: This design incorporates different styles into a consistent look. A pinch of script, a little of geometric and some humanist shapes as well create a very distinguishable sans-serif.

    Typefaces from 2015: Taylor Sans (free at Open Font Library).

    In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the Latin / Tamil typeface Arima Madurai (free at Google Fonts). Their Arima Koshi (2016) covers Tamil, Malayalam and Latin. In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the connected typeface Tidy Script at Indian Type Foundry.

    Typefaces from 2017: Bruta Pro (Natanael Gama), Bruta Global (Natanael Gama), Artigo Global (a Venetian typeface by Joana Correia), Artigo Pro (a Venetian typeface by Joana Correia).

    Typefaces from 2018: Opake (an experimental typeface in which the outlines are made with a single continuous looping curve), Feltro (brush script), Mastro Sans, Square Grotesk (free at Open Font Library), Point (a great geometric sans), Nazare.

    Typefaces from 2019: Worker 3D, Ribbon Generator (free), Nazare Exuberant, Point Soft (a rounded sans family), Worker (an industrial all caps font family).

    Typefaces from 2020: Thrillers (a display typeface for crime novel titles), Gluy (a 20-style almost geometric sans family that has a splendid hairline weight and a vigorous black style), Mastro (a 72-style text family with optical sizing).

    Typefaces from 2021: Sinete (interlocking monograms), Fastpen (a monoline script).

    Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Creative Market link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ned Hadley

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as Art Nouveau Capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Neha Katkar

    Illustrator in Mumbai, India, who created the decorative caps typeface RoboFont (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nehal Lodha

    Mumbai-based designer of Picasso (2012), a an ormanental caps typeface inspired by the life and work of Pablo Picasso. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nekropolis

    A reprint of a book of monograms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nelly Boyanova

    Copenhagen, Denmark-based designer (b. Bulgaria) of the free vector format geometric solid typeface Metra (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nerijus Simkus

    Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of AllCaps 2014 (2014, or Avys2014) and Hooky (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Neville Lam

    Neville Lam (Kowloon) created the ornamental caps typeface 3BAL (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    New Renaissance Fonts (was: New Fontografia, or: David's Fontografia 2006)
    [David Kettlewell]

    David Kettlewell (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1946, d. Bollstabruk, Sweden, 2011) moved to Sweden in 1984 to take the role of head of music at a college. He was soon putting his musical and linguistic talents to researching and performing early Swedish church and choral music. He was a guest lecturer at four of Sweden's universities and for a period a professor at Tartu University in Tallin, Estonia. He worked from his forest farmhouse in Bollstabruk, Northern Sweden. Kettlewell also ran Fontografia, a medieval and calligraphic type site featuring subpages on Ludovico Vicentino [degli Arrighi], Giovambattista Palatino, and Giovanniantonio Tagliente. He also told us why Fontlab is so much better than Fontographer when developing fonts from scans. Obituary.

    David Kettlewell is a harper, renaissance musicologist and conductor who illuminate his work with text and type. His own work through New Renaissance Fonts is mostly with medieval and renaissance scripts, calligraphic alphabets and ornamental capitals. Direct acess. MyFonts link for New Renaissance. Klingspor link.

    Free fonts: AliceScrolltipRoman, AndersFancyCapitals, AndersPlainCapitals, BickhamSwashCaps, Cartouches, CelticNoadProtoype, Chiswickblack, DagmarIlluCaps, Davies-RomantiqueCaps, DaviesIlluminatedcapitals, DaviesRoundhand, DaviesSapphire, DeBeauChesneRoman, FantasiaCaps, GothicCaps, KarinsFreeLombardyCaps (2006, with Karin Skoglund), KingRichard2Caps, Kurbits3, Lettreornee, LubnaCaps, NesbittDecoratedCaps-Medium, RicksClassicItalic, RicksDecoratedUncial-Medium, RicksFolkloreRoman, RicksRelaxedHand-Italic, Samuel, SevilliaDancingText, Sevilliastandingtext, Sevilliatiles, ShawDecoratedInitials1, ShawDecoratedInitials4-Medium, Taliente-IlluCaps, WestminsterMemorialBrasses-Medium.

    Other fonts (some no longer available or shown): Soest St. Mary (2006, decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church), Kurbits, Samuel, Celtic Noad, Dagmar IlluCaps, Lettre ornée, Phalesiodecor (medieval caps, 1998), American Uncial (adaptation of a URW font), FinalRomanfat or FatRoman50 (adaptation of an RWE font), Marshall (made from an 1822 parchment).

    Some fonts are developed in conjunction with Richard Bradley. Others involved more loosely include Adam Twardoch, Karin Skoglund, Dagmar Varaksits and Anders Rosen.

    MyFonts offers fonts like Chiswick Illuminated Caps (2009, Lombardic), Alice Scrolltip (2006), Albrecht Fraktur (2011), Edward's Uncial 1904 (2011, after an alphabet drawn by Edward Johnston), Davids Roundhand, Karins Lombardy Caps, Sevillia (2006, with Richard Bradley), and Soest St Mary.

    View the New Renaissance Fonts library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nguyen Type
    [Andree Nguyen]

    Nguyen Type is a small type foundry founded by Andree Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 2019, Andree released the display typeface family Iconique Sans, the cross-cultural Latin typeface House of Nguyen (2019) and the fantastic decorated caps typeface Khong Gian Am (2019: inspired by negative things and sins). In 2020, Andree designed Iconique Serif and the experimental typefaces Froot Mono and Seed Mono. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nia Banwell

    Artist from Manchester, UK. Behance link. Creator of a hand-drawn floral caps face in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nicholas Coughlin

    Clay, NY-based designer of the decorative Panda Food Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nicholas Martin

    Kingston, Jamaica-based creator of the modular techno typeface Curb (2013) and of Elemental Caps (2013, geometric and experimental). He also made the octagonal typeface Base (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nicholas Topping

    Manchester, UK-based designer of Summer Alphabet (2013, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Curtis

    Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948) lived in Texas from 1952-1997, and lives since 1997 in Gaithersburg, MD and Alexandria, MD. From ca. 1990 onwards, he has been designing fonts, first for free, and then commercially. He had a great reputation as a "revivalist" type designer, with a particular interest in retro fonts and art deco types. In 2003, his site had become too popular and too expensive to maintain, and thus he went commercial as Nick's Fonts. In 2013, he stopped making fonts, and donated his collection of rare books and type material to the University of Virginia. Interview. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type design tool.

    Near the end of 2012, he posted this comment on his web site: Fifteen years ago, I embarked on a wonderful voyage of discovery, when I created my very first font with Fontographer 3.15. My maiden voyages were, frankly, rather clunky and amateurish, but I have been told that they showed promise. Well, sure enough, thanks to the diligent (and patient) efforts of Ilene Strizver, I polished up my craft enough to sell my humble efforts---first as a sideline business and, since 2006, as my full-time job. In total, I have produced over eleven hundred fonts---almost five hundred of them freeware fonts, which I conservatively estimate have been downloaded and enjoyed by over three million people worldwide. Unfortunately, this past year has brought a series of unanticipated setbacks, culminating in the loss of my wife's beautiful mind and soul to the scourge of alcoholism. In an effort to generate extra income to cover the expenses for her long-term care, I have proposed a number of, I believe, innovative ways to revamp the online font business; unfortunately, those efforts have fallen flat, primarily due to the professional font community's abject fear of crossing the $165 million Elephant in the Room. I even offered a special discount rate of 75% off retail price for full-time students of Typohile Forum. To date, there have been zero takers. Hell: even the webfont kit of one of my own fonts which I purchased from myfonts.com turned out to be an empty folder. Talk about a run of bad luck. Which leaves my with you, dear readers. If you or someone you know has had fun or made a buck from my humble efforts throughout the years, please donate whatever you can---even a lousy dollar would help---to help me out. I would greatly appreciate it.

    Home page. Dafont link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link.

    View the typefaces designed by Nick Curtis. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Curtis
    [Nick Curtis: Commercial typefaces]

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    Nick Curtis
    [Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2011]

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    Nick Curtis: Commercial typefaces
    [Nick Curtis]

    Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948) lived in Texas from 1952-1997. Since 1997, he is in Gaithersburg, MD and Alexandria, MD. Since the 1990s, he has been designing fonts, first for free, and then commercially. He had a great reputation as a "revivalist" type designer, with a particular interest in retro fonts and art deco types. In 2003, his site had become too popular and too expensive to maintain, and thus he went commercial as Nick's Fonts. Interview. Free downloads at TypOasis. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type design tool. Home page. His free fonts are listed elsewhere.

    On MyFonts, he says this about himself: Nick's Fonts is a modest little foundry dedicated to the preservation of our rich typographic heritage. Most of the foundry's designs are based on authentic historical sources, gleaned from the massive collections of the Library of Congress. If you are looking for a font that captures the essence of the Wild West, the Gay Nineties or the Jazz Age, look here first: if it is not in the catalog, it will be soon. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2011
    [Nick Curtis]

    Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2011, not listed elsewhere on these pages: Jersey City NF (modeled after Times Gothic (1905, ATF)), Petty Despot NF (2011, also modeled after Times Gothic, and possibly renamed from Jersey City NF after Berthold---yes, the same Berthold again---complained about the name Jersey since one of its fonts by Gustav Jaeger was named Jersey. This is my educated guess..., and two thumbs up to Nick for picking the appropriate name Petty Despot NF). Olde Megrat NF is patterned after Antikva Margaret, designed by Zoltán Nagy for VGC in the mid-60s. Herkimer Bunrab NF is an upright scriptish typeface with bunnyears that is based on Hercules (1926, Amsterdam Type foundry). Blackbarry NF (2011) is a faithful revival of Deutsch Black (1966, Barry Deutsch, VGC), a unicase piano key typeface. Bindlestiff NF (2011), which won the 2011 Devroye Memorial Medal for funniest typeface name, revives Schmallfette Binder Style (1959, Joseph Binder, Stempel AG), a squarish tightly set headline face. Decked Out NF (2011) is a fat inline typeface modeled on Dektiv in Homage to the Alphabet. Bazoo Tow NF (2011) is a fun fattish headline typeface that is a faithful reroduction of Basuto (1927, Stanley Baxter for Stephenson Blake). Are You Shaw NF (2011) is an all-caps blackboard bold typeface inspired by Pygmalion, a typeface found in Homage to the Aplhabet. Hoodoo U NF (2011) is a roly-poly romp through the alphabet, based on Jürgen Riebling's irrepressible Mr. Big from the 1970s. Big, bold, bubbly and a little brash, it's a natural choice for happy headlines. The handlettered Mikeys Roman NF (2011) has an uppercase based on the work of Mike Stevens, and a lowercase based on the work of Alf Becker. Outgribe NF (2011) is a rough, raw typeface that is based on the lettering in Ben Shahn's iconic poster protesting the execution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927. Nellie Kay NF (2011) is a monoline script face, based on an example by Ross F. George. Shaq Attack NF (2011) is a wooden plank style or brushy typeface inspired by an alphabet of Alf R. Becker. Relampago NF (2011) revives Hans Möhring's bilined typeface Elegante Lichte (1928). Squirrely Shirley NF (2011) is a bouncy typeface based on Phoenix (unknown creator) in Schriftatlas. Spread Out NF (2011) is modeled after Ross F. George's Split Caps. Salzburger Plakat NF (2011) is based on an Austrian winter sports festival poster from 1907 by Swiss poster designer Otto Baumberger (1889-1961). Rightly So NF (2011) is a squarish typeface based on Geometric Gothic (1884, Palmer and Rey)---it is hard to imagine that this almost pixelish style was around at that epoch. Kenotaph NF (2011) is a condensed headline slab serif modeled after Stymie Obelisk (1930s, Morris Fuller Benton). Vasari NF (2011) is based on Ancient Gothic (1891, William W. Jackson, Keystone Type Foundry). Moslem (Boston Type Foundry) was revived as Suffiya NF (2011). Looky Cookie NF (2011) has eyes placed on the glyphs. Iago NF (2011) is a powerful headline sans inspired by two ATF typefaces from the 1880s, Othello and ATF Black Caps. Big Bag NF (2011) is called an industrial-strength titling face by Nick Curtis---it has design elements of Hans Eduard Meier's Syntax Antiqua. Highpoint Gothic NF (after Morris Fuller Benton's 1932-1935 typeface Raleigh Gothic Condensed). Fernburner NF is an all caps shadow face, modeled after Hans Bohn's 1929 typeface Orplid. Planscribe NF is based on types used by the Leroy Automatic Lettering Machine, a tool for architects. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Griner

    Designer of Tubes (2012), a mechnical engineering caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Matej

    Illustrator in Cleveland, OH, who designed a great ornamental caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Meeuws

    Graphic designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 2014, he used only arcs of circles to construct the ornamental caps typeface Circularis (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Shinn
    [Shinn Type]

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    Nicolas Gazut

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Les Sorinières and Nantes, France. Creator of the sci-fi / paper fold typeface Oribinary (2012), of the bubblegum alphabet Blob (2013), and of the floriated decorative typeface Bloom (2013).

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

    Nicole Gebel

    Nicole Gebel (Kiel, Germany) was born in 1985. In 2009, she graduated from the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. In 2011, she showed some illustrated caps typefaces at Behance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nicole Orsolini

    Great Falls, VA-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Niki Z. MacRae

    Student at the University of Western England in 2011. Creator of the labyrinthine typeface Broken Record (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Sawant

    Together, Nikita Sawant (Mumbai), Shruti Kamath, and Shomali Partagalkar designed a Latin ornamental caps typeface for a school project in 2013 that was inspired by Indian musical instruments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikkita Maheera

    As a student in Jakarta, Indonesia, Nikkita Maheera designed an ornamental Disney-themed set of capitals (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolaos Georgantas

    Designer in Brooklyn, NY, who drew many ornamental capital letters in 2013 during his graphic design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolay Dubina
    [D-Studio (Moscow)]

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    Nina Friedl

    During her studies at FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria, Nina Friedl created the decorative caps typeface Obstsalat (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina North

    Tbilisi, Georgia-based digital artist, who made the Geo Giraffe alphabet for Georgian in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nir Navon

    Graphic designer in Petah Tikva, Israel. In 2014, he and Chi No co-designed the Latin / Arabic typographic poster Made in Jaffa. In 2015, he created a decorative all caps Hebrew typeface simply called Alefbet.

    In 2016, he designed the striking octagonal striped typeface Tri, the experimental typeface Portal, and the geometric typeface Eret. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nirali Shah

    During her studies at Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai, Nirali Shah designed Jamini Roy (2014), a decorative typeface that was inspired by ancient paintings. In 2015, she designed the waterpipe-themed alphading typeface Hukka and the Gujarati display typeface Kai Po Che. During her studies in Ahmedabad, India, Nirali Shah designed the Latin typeface Arrow Narrow (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Niteesh Yadav

    Graduate of the TDi program at the University of Reading, UK, 2017. He graduated in 2018 from the University of Reading's MATD program.

    He designed the Saur typeface for Hindi in 2017. It was made after collecting and studying the handwriting of the people from Saur village in Uttarakhand.

    Now based in New Delhi, he published the all caps alphabet ABC Of Social Issues in 2017 (free download of an AI file), possibly to forget the dismal events of 2016. He also started drawing exquisite steampunk style initial caps.

    He also created a great PDF file on the topic of Gill Sans (1927, Eric Gill).

    His graduation in 2018 at the University of Reading was ARone, a multiscript type family designed for augmented reality headsets. Its low contrast, generous spacing and robust shapes make it work well in busy backgrounds with high readability. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noah J. Hamann

    Minneapolis-based designer of the all caps 3-d display typeface Adspace (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    NodeBox

    NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF, an image or a Quicktime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. Examples include this thesis at Politecnico di Milano in 2007 that gives a Python script for creating illuminated letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nodo San

    Bogota, Colombia-based designer of Solyaev (2016)(, a decorative caps typeface named in honor of Ivan Solyaev. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noémie Pasquier

    Parisian graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of these typefaces:

    Behance link. Poster: Make Love Original. Poster: Pour G. Home page where one can can ogle her creative ornamental caps from 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noel Ramos

    Arlington, TX-based designer of the mechanical object all caps typeface Prototype (2018). This seems to be a project at the University of Texas at Arlington. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noem9 Studio
    [José Antonio Garrido Izquierdo]

    Noem9 Studio is an online studio created by Jose A. Garrido, a graphic designer who was born in Alcañiz, Teruel, Spain, in 1987, and lived in Zaragoza. Noem9 is currently based in London.

    He created Avanth (2012), a modular experimental typeface that is very useful for logos and titles.

    Typefaces from 2012 include Ballege (a partially free slab serif family that uses details often seen in college sports and that was inspired by the film MoneyBall by Bennet Miller).

    Typefaces from 2013: Chronic (a free alchemic / hipster font inspired by native American legends), Essay (a copperplate headline sans published by Avondale).

    In 2016, he made the custom prismatic typeface Happy Ending, and 36 days of Type (decorative caps). They also published the layered multiline retail typeface family eNeon (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Kick Off (based on sports graphics from the 1970s).

    Typefaces from 2029: Inndam (modular).

    Typefaces from 2020: Locker Numerals,

    Creattica link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    NoFont
    [Andreas Carlsson]

    Nofont is an absolutely wonderful Swedish type experiment page with many pixel fonts. The free fonts by Solna, Sweden-based Andreas Carlsson include Artek-BloxFilledTwiggy (1998, pixel font), Artek-BloxFilled, Artek-BloxTwiggy, Artek-Blox, Artek-OutlineTwiggy, Artek-Outline, Artek-Regular, Artek-Twiggy, ChemicalBreakfast-Normal, ChemicalBreakfast-Outline (1999), CWebLarge (2000, pixel font), CWebSmall, Ihateyou (2000), MWeb (pixel font), Positions-AttheMovies (abstract forms). Commercial fonts: DIN Cafe, Megafat (pixel font), NoInitials (caps). Experimental/futuristic fonts: Distribution, Intershitty, Sentenced, Tube, Klum, Click Megafat. Dingbats: I Hate You, Positions. It seems the fonts are no longer available for distribution.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Norasoft Zierschriften

    Rainer Nowoczin's German handwriting and signatures service. A truetype font for 140 DM (100 USD). There is also a 50-font truetype archive (standard, but includes some SSi fonts), and a demo font of drop caps. Some drop cap fonts contain semi-erotic symbols. P_Behr_1 (1996) and Erasmus-Initialen (1996) drop caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noree Saisalam

    Thailand-based designer of vector format fonts such as AZ Owl (2017), Lover (2017), and Cartoon Character (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Norma Bashaw

    This designer used iFontmaker in 2011 to create For The Birds, a hand-drawn ornamental face on the theme of birds. She also made For The Birds All Caps (2011) and Cupcake Squiggle, a great curly face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Norma Kashoggi

    Creator of the Dantelle all caps typeface in 2012. This typeface was inspired by French lace designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Norman Green

    Creator at PhotoLettering Inc of the decorative caps family Buzzard. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Norman P. Hall

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as Heavy Modern Roman Capitals, Italic and lower case. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Novita Fahmi

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Bandung, Indonesia. In 2015, Novita made the decorative all caps typeface Ohaea (2015), which is based on the Buna motif and the Nusa Tenggara Timur traditional dance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nubefy
    [Rosana Martinez]

    Nubefy groups Ale Cota and Rosana Martinez. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, they designed the floral typefaces Spring Color (2018), Spring Noir (2018), Autumn Color (2018), Autumn Noir (2018) and Spring (2018), the decorative caps typeface Winter Light (2018), the wavy Copacabana (2017), the display typefaces Dark Forest and Green Forest (2017), the colorful Summer Bold (2017), Summer (2017), and Summer Light (2017, + dingbats). Home page of Rosana Martinez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nuform Type Foundry
    [Erik Marinovich]

    Erik Marinovich (Croatia) ran/runs Friends of Type and Nuform Type, and is based in Berkeley / San Francisco. He is the creator of some neat type posters in 2009. In 2010, he made more typographic posters. Police&Thieves (2011) is an illustrated caps alphabet (font?). FAC13 (2011) is an experimental alphabet.

    In 2015, he designed the retro Viktor Script with James Edmondson at Oh No Type.

    At Future Fonts, he published Brzo (2020: a display typeface inspired by the boldness of 90s basketball graphics), the reverse stress typeface Jaws (2018) and the vintage typeface Hermanos (2018-2021). He writes: Hermanos is a dedication to the hand painted signs found in the mission district of San Francisco. Its flared serifs, narrow stature and cheerful spirit make Hermanos a perfect compliment for packaging, restaurants and editorial headlines.

    Designer of Ozik (2022), a bizarre four-weight display typeface that pays homage to the iconic lettering featured on Black Sabbath's Vol.4 album.

    Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nurgül Iletir

    Istanbul, Turkey-based designer of the decorative typeface Garden (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nuria Bringué Bergua

    Barcelona-based graphic designer who created some ornamental caps for the Festa Xica Pont de Suert (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Objectives

    Japanese designers of the free fonts SteelBone (2001, Regular and Bold) and Kakutoten (2001, caps in circles). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Octavio Pardo

    Or Octavio Pardo Virto. Born in Pamplona, Spain, Octavio got his first degree in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. After several years working for various design studios and advertising agencies, he moved to UK where he graduated from the MA in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2010. After collaborating with the Typofonderie in Paris for several months, Octavio went back to Pamplona. His typefaces:

    • Ibarra Real (2007), done with the help of José María Ribagorda. Ribagorda writes: IbarraReal is a public-domain font of Ibero-American character, created in 2005 as a revival of the types cast by Jeronimo Gil for the Royal Spanish Academy's edition of Don Quixote, printed in Madrid by Joaquin Ibarra in 1780.. The vignettes were designed by Manuel lvarez Junco, Andreu Balius, Didac Ballester, Paco Bascuñan, José María Cerezo, Alberto Corazón, Oyer Corazón, Pablo Cosgaya, Rubén Fontana, Javier García del Olmo, José Gil Nogués, Pepe Gimeno, Fernando Gutiérrez, Juan Martínez, Laura Messeguer, Juan Antonio Moreno, Juan Nava, Miguel Ochando, Josep Patau, Alejandro Paul, Marc Salinas, Emilio Torné, Alex Trochut or Roberto Turégano. Free download here. Github link.
    • Blackwood (2011). An ornamental all-caps typeface that takes its inspiration from a mixture of the woodcuts of the early 18th century and fat typefaces of today's magazines.
    • Cabriole (2011). A text typeface done for his thesis at Reading. It is a very Latin typeface, with round contours and a lot of pizzazz---as if it came straight out of old Iberian textbooks..
    • Terabyte (2011). A monoline corporate typeface in current development for Aspa Company.
    • Sutturah. A fat signage face, published by Rosetta Type, and awarded by TDC 2012. The Cyrillic was developed with the help of Sergei Egorov.
    • In 2013, he contributed to the Cyrillic of Adelle (2009, Type Together), a typeface first developed by Veronika Burian, Jose Scaglione and Alexandra Korolkova.
    • In 2016, he created an experimental, almost hipster, typeface, and finished a custom typeface, NRK Ethica Slab, for Norway's main media group.
    • For the logo and credits of Fashion Film directed by Human Produce, he designed Myth (2016).
    • With Elena Ramirez, he created Cubit (2016), a custom monospaced typeface for a Chicago-based interior design Studio.
    • Gupter is a condensed serif font for Latin and Devanagari. Its design is inspired by conventional fonts like Times New Roman. The ufo files included in the Github repository are synchronized so they will allow the user to create intermediate instances if required. The Devanagari designed by Modular Infotech, Pune, India, in 2000. Free at Google Fonts.
    • EB Garamond (2017). EB Garamond was started in 2011 by Georg Duffner (Austria) as a Google Web font for Latin and Cyrillic. It is named after Egelnoff and Berner. Duffner explains: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the Berner specimen, which, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic fonts at different sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond. In 2017, Octavio Pardo entered the EB Garamond project. Rhe fonts can now be downloaded from Github. A variable version of EB Garamond is planned.

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

    Octopi
    [Paul Smith]

    Octopi is UK-based foundry of Paul Smith. He created the round black monoline sans typeface Ioana (2011), the Victorian typeface Ressonant (2012: this typeface was originally cut by Henry Brehmer of New York for the Dickinson Type Foundry of Boston ca. 1879 under the trade name Renaissant. John F. Cumming later cut a light-face derivative called Artistic) and Kill Me (2015, messy handwriting).

    Typefaces from 2017: Egypt Rose (floral decorative caps based on old woodcut font).

    Typefaces from 2018: Comtype (octagonal).

    Typefaces from 2020: Luben (a 5-style quirky serif with long fingernails). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ojay Juarez
    [mmolai]

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    Ola Chtak

    Moscow-based illustrator who drew a decorative floral alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olesia Volkova

    Moscow-based designer of the free AI-format Coffe Store Icon Set (2015). In 2018, she designed Chalk Circus Letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Bortiokova

    Krimean artist and illustrator based in Simferopol. Her work includes Narrow (2015, a hand-drawn Latin alphabet), Romantic Alphabet (2015), Ice Cream Alphabet (2015), Snacks and Drinks Doodles (2015), Floral Brushes (2015) and Hand-drawn Zen Letters (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Novozhilova

    Graphic and web designer in Kiev. Creator of the beauiful ornamental Latin and Cyrillic caps typeface Oposhnya (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Otryvanova

    Chelyabinsk, Ri=ussia-based designer of the colorful decorative caps typeface Loki Color (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Pavlova
    [Olle Vita]

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    Olga Samsonenko

    Check out the beautiful lettering of Olga Samsonenko from Kiev, Ukraine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Shvedina

    Chelyabinsk, Russia-based designer of the decorative caps Marine Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Yukhta

    Graphic designer in Ekaterinburg, Russia, who created the Cyrillic display typeface Cats (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Zolothukina

    Illustrator and calligrapher in Moscow, who created several ornamental alphabets in 2013 such as Matches and Chelobooki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Zolotukhina

    Illustrator in Moscow who created several fun hand-drawn Cyrillic alphabets in 2013 and 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olich Stets

    Or Olga Stets. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Bosia (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic). She also drew a decorative all caps Cyrillic alphabet called Wild Squirrel (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oliko Nadiradze

    Olichko Nadiradze is a Georgian web designer in Tbilisi. She drew some ornamental caps in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olivia Kurniawan

    During her studies at RMIT University, Melbourne-based Olivia Kurniawan designed the decorative caps typeface Melbourne (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olivia Linn Sørensen

    Illustrator who studied at Savannah College of Art and Design. Based in Vejle, Denmark. In 2014, she drew some floriated drop caps. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olivia Theresa
    [Caoca Studio (or: Heroglyphs)]

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    Olivia Whitworth

    London-based illustrator. Designer of the typographic poster Anatomy of Cockney Gentleman (2014). She also created the decorative caps typeface White Stuff Autumn 2014 (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olja Ilyushchanka

    For HBK Saar in Saarbrucken, Olja Ilyushchanka designed an ornamental initial caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olle Vita
    [Olga Pavlova]

    Kaliningrad, Russia-based designer of the vector format decorative caps typefaces Floral Font (2015) and Christmas Font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olympe Silve

    Paris-based designer of the firework-themed decorative caps typeface L'Artificielle (2016), the monoline Greek simulation typeface Hydapse (2016), and the modular outlined typdeface La Faculté (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Omar Franco

    Morelia, Mexico-based designer of a children's animal alphabet in 2016, called Spanish Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Omar Shammah

    Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1992, the über-talented Omar Shammah studies Visual Communications (Graphic Design) in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus. In 2012, at the height of the Syrian conflict, Omar created a disturbing yet hauntingly beautiful set of drawings in his Inked Sketchbook. From that, he derived his illustrated caps typeface, Blowjob. Omar also developed a set of signage icons for the Faculty of Arts in Damascus, still in 2012.

    In 2013, he created the straight-edged typeface POV. In 2015, he designed Steven for Blanc Marc, a marketing firm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Onethird

    Graphic design studio in Singapore. They created the ornamental caps typeface Keen Green Type (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Onimtsunari

    FontStructor who made the brushy Asian simulation typefaces Onii (2009) and Auni (2009), and the ornamental caps typeface Clover (2010). He was a student at UWE in Bristol. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Organ Studio

    Australian creators of a great set of futuristic caps called Future (2011). Organ Studio is based in Perth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oriana Flores

    Caracas-based designer who made the ornamental caps typeface Dragonly Vitreaux SF (2010), as well as other experimental caps typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ornamental Prints

    Many images from the vaults of the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, UPM Prag and MAK Wien. In German. Many 16th through 19th century books were partially scanned in for everyone's enjoyment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ornamental Typography at BibliOdyssey

    Subpage at Bibliodyssey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ornamenti

    Dead link. At VEDI/Design Studio, an archive of ornaments (EPS files usually). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ornaments of Grace
    [Beth Rufener]

    Rittman, Ohio-based creator of a set of 23 Victorian-style vintage fonts called Church in the Wildwood (2014). She also made a free set of Victorian drop caps called Month of Sundays (2014). Along the same Victorian rustic wood emulation theme, she published the layered typeface family Sunday Best (2014) and the poster font collection Thankful (2014).

    In 2015, she created the handcrafted funky typeface Capriccio (Plain and Rough).

    Typefaces from 2016: Miss Elizabeth Script, Humoresque (a signpainter's family emulating the 19th century Western style; it has 12 weights designed for layering),

    Home page. Behance link. Creatove Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Orson Lowell

    American artist in New York, 1871-1956. He studied with the well-known anatomist, J. H. Vanderpoel, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. He moved from Chicago to New York in 1893. Known for the richness of his work in pen and ink, he drew in 1898 fifty illustrations for The Choir Invisible. By 1907, he was employed at Life magazine, at that time a humor publication competing with Judge and Punch. At Life magazine, he contributed pen and ink cartoons and color covers. He also provided art for American Girl, American Boy, Judge, Century, McClure's, Scribner's, Collier's, Puck and Success. Renowned for his humorous pen and ink work. A set of capitals drawn by him. Picture of the artist. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oskar Wimmerman

    Stockholm-based designer of an alchemic ornamental caps typeface called Beroe (2013), aprt of an assignment at Berghs School of Communication.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    OT Lab
    [Denis A. Serikov]

    Denis Serikov (OT Lab) is the Moscow-based Russian designer of DionisiiOTF (2003), the caps font Remeslo (2002), the Cyrillic font Clip Condensed (2002), the dingbat fonts EL Symbols (2003), Notice (2002-2007, a useful dingbat family), Notice2 (2006) and Notice3 (Notice3 (2007, household icons) DisplayOTF (2002, dot matrix), Display (2009, +3D, gridded typefaces), Remeslo STD (2009, ornamental didone), Rusticus STD (2009, roman), Rusticus (2004, semi-uncial), Agatha (2001, like Toulouse Lautrec), Display 3D (2003, pixelized face), Grafoman (weather and finger dings), DestinyLight, Shashki (2010, a game of checkers font), and the Latin/Cyrillic font Joke. His commercial typefaces are listed here. They include Pi (2009, weather and other dingbats), TUI Type Pro (a rounded sans, 2008, at Dalton Maag) and White Wind (2005, a pixel face, at Dalton Maag). Scazanie (2005) is a future project.

    Metrofont (2013, free) contains navigation and warning signs for transportation systems.

    In 2018, he published the free Latin / Cyrillic / dingbat font Dacha.

    Forum / Blog (in Russian). Dafont link. Behance link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Otto Hupp

    German type designer, painter, Gutenberg researcher and heraldy specialist, b. Düsseldorf 1859, d. 1947, Oberschleissheim. Mainly specializing in blackletter. His typefaces:

    • At Genzsch&Heyse (Hamburg, München), he did Heraldisch (1910), Hupp-Neudeutsch or Neudeutsche Schrift (1899-1900, see revivals by Gerhard Helzel and Petra Heidorn (2004)), Baltisch (1903, extension of Hupp-Neudeutsch), Numismatisch (1900; revived (?) by P22 as P22 Numismatic), Liturgisch (1906, Klingspor, revived by Dieter Steffmann in 2002, Kristian Sics in 2013, Eugen Kaelin in 1988, as well as by Gerhard Helzel), and Hupp-Gotisch.
    • At Rudhardsche Giesserei, Offenbach am Main, which in 1906 became Gebr. Klingspor, he made more blackletter typefaces, such as Hupp-Fraktur (1906-1911), Hupp Fraktur Fett (1910), Hupp Unziale (1909), Heraldisch (1910), Hupp Antiqua (1909: this is a delightful display typeface with religious undertones), Hupp Antiqua Fett (1910), Hupp Schrägschrift (1922; others give the date 1927), and the display fonts Lichte und volle Tam-Tan, Keilschrift and Kegelschrift.
    Noteworthy among modern digitizations are Hupp Fraktur (2016, Ralph M. Unger), Hupp Antiqua NF (2006, Nick Curtis) and DXS Otto Hupp Initials (2010, Dick Pape). In 2012, Dick Pape created LFD Alphabet Und Ornamente 216 which is based on Hupp's Modern German version of roman capitals, as seen in Alphabete und Ornamente (Frau Bassermann Nachfolger, Munich).

    German biography by Wolfgang Hendlmeier from 1985: A, B, C. Scans of his blackletter alphabets: I, II, III, IV, V.

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

    Otto Maurer
    [Otto Maurer (was: Tattoofont)]

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    Otto Maurer (was: Tattoofont)
    [Otto Maurer]

    Tattoo artist and graphic designer from Dinslaken (Duisburg), Germany, b. 1968, Duisburg. Klingspor link.

    Otto Maurer (Tattoofont) created Ipoint (2008, a 15-style fun-filled Bauhaus-inspired family), Black and Beauty (2007, blackletter family), Big Rain (2007), Blood (2007, dripping blood type), Preussen (2007, a 4-style blackletter family), Otto Bismarck Italic (2007), an italic blackletter face, and its parent, Otto Bismarck (2007). Designer of the free curly font Corps Script (2006) and Corps Script Shadow (2006). Creator with Sabrina of the free handwriting fonts Sabsis Handwriting Version 3 (2007) and Sabsis Handwriting (2007). Home page. Dafont link. Yet another URL.

    In 2007, he went partially commercial and set up shop at MyFonts. His fonts there include the artsy Sailors Tattoo (2006), SailorsTattoo-waves (2007), Sailors Tattoo Pro Xmas (2007), Sick Skull (2007, scary), Tribal Maori (2007), MauBo Flatline (2007, experimental), Tribal Dingbats (2007), Tribaltypo (2007: quite interesting), MauBo (2007, mechanical look), Hotrod (2007), Blood (2007, scary), MauBo Flatline (2007, white on black) and Corpse Fairy (2007), Mrs. Sabo (2007, calligraphic and grunge hand), Tribal King (2007), Pierced (2007), Big Rain (2007), Detective Maurice (2007, a typeface with fingerprints on the alphabet), Cutdown Maurice (2007), Digital Maurice (2007), Good Old Fifties (2007, 11 styles), Tribal Dingbats II (2008, a tattoo font), Tribal tattoos III (2010), Hot Flames (2008), Drago (2008, a blackletter and alphading family), Party Night (2009), Tattoo Girl (2008).

    Typefaces from 2009: Yuma (2009, Western saloon font), Freiheit (2009, blackletter), Lycaner (2009, blackletter), Sud France (2009, script), Psychbilly (2009, fat brush), Love Mom (2009), Vampire (2009), Animal Zoo (2009), Turtle (2009), Grunge (2009, cracked marble family), Crate (2009).

    Typefaces from 2010: Big Mom (2010, a family that includes a blackboard bold style), Haike (2010).

    Typefaces from 2011: Tinka Babe (2011, a gangster or tattoo script), Poisoni Pro (2011, tall art nouveau style brush face, with Shadow and College sub-styles), Lanzelott (2011, a very elegant retro display family, followed in 2017 by New Lanzelott), Stencilla (2011, a heavy stencil face), Guilin (2007, brushy), Darkwood (2011), Rock n Roll Typo (2011), Loreen (2011: an elegant display family that includes a hairline and a shadow style).

    In 2012, he made the pointy Psychomonster typeface.

    In 2013, Otto Maurer published the gangster tattoo font Bibiana as a companion for Tinka Babe.

    Typefaces from 2014: Cupcakes Winterwonder (snowy font), Soul Winterwonder, Loreen Hollywood (art deco), Soul Material Design Dingbatz, Soul Love (Valentine's Day font), AZ Cupcakes, Soul (a sans family with some flaring), Christe Wagner (a great set of curly Victorian music sheet-inspired typefaces), Spider Type, Marie Lyn, Mariedean (a Victorian titling set, including decorative caps), Peachy (+ Shadow: a slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2015: Maori New Zeeland, Chika Tattoo (12-style tattoo script), Chino Tattoo, Big Yukon (Wild West font), Bonecracker, Freibeuter NR (Western Tuscan family), Sailor Marie (tattoo font family), Baby Lyns ABC (children's book alphabet).

    Typefaces from 2017: Anchorage (a sailor's tattoo font), Friedrichsfeld (blackletter).

    Typefaces from 2018: Lettre Damour (handwriting font), Cryptolucre (started in 2014, Cryptolucre is a font specifically for all crypto currencies like Bitcoins, Litecoins, Ethereum, Ark, Siacoin and Golem--the icon version includes some existing currency logos and newly invented currency logos), Haike, Soul Leo (textured), Soul Skull, Tattooflash Fingers, Tattooflash Marie.

    Typefaces from 2019: Stencilla.

    Showcase of Otto Maurer's fonts. View the typefaces made by Otto Maurer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Otto Weisert

    Typefounder who ran the Schriftgiesserei Otto Weisert in Stuttgart. Designer of the prototypical Jugendstil font Arnold Boecklin in 1904, a typeface named after the Swis symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. Arnold Boecklin is available at URW, Linotype, Adobe, Scangraphic, Mecanorma, and Softmaker [where it is known as Jugendstil]. A monolinear version was done in 2020 by Mario Feliciano, called Korrodi.

    Otto Weisert also designed the blackletter typefaces Moderne Fette Schwabacher and Brabanter Gotisch (1905). He also made the great-looking art nouveau style Kalligraphia (digital revivals at Linotype, URW, Scangraphic and Elsner&Flake). For recent revivals of Kalligraphia, see Kalligraphia (2012, SoftMaker) and Karin Pro (2019, SoftMaker).

    His 1890 catalog has an extensive series of caps typefaces.

    A catalog of digital typefaces that descend from Otto Weisert's work. See also here. And another one. FontShop link.

    View some digital implementations of Arnold Boecklin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ouripedes Gallene

    Brazilian designer of caps fonts, dingbats, Celtic lettering fonts and some hand-printed alphabets, all done in 2002-2003: CapitularFloral, CapitularMoldurada, Formasgeometricas2, Formasgermetricas1, Personalidades1, PincelCaps, Pincel2Plain, Simbolos1, Sports1, CapitularMoldurada2, FolhasCaps, Ramo2Caps, RamoCaps, RebuscadaCaps, RetaCaps. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Outras Fontes
    [Ricardo Esteves Gomes]

    A Brazilian digital type foundry located in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in 2006 by Vitoria, Brazil-based Ricardo Esteves Gomes (b. 1980, Vitória, Brazil), a graphic designer and professor (at UFES), and Jarbas Barros Gomes.

    Their fonts include the flowing script Maryam (2007, Ricardo Esteves Gomes; this typeface won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008; also available from T-26), the Celtic script Jana Thork (2007-2008; see here for this typeface which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Gaia (2008, ornamental dingbats), Hachura (2008, impressionist sketched garalde) and the medieval script Scrivano (2007, also at T-26).

    In 2009, he published the ultra-black slightly techno sans family Force, which includes a great Force Dingbats typeface. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. The powerful inline and headline family Alegria was published in 2010.

    In 2010, Outras Fontes made the custom typeface for the Brazilian Coca-Cola Light Plus campaign. This hand-printed typeface was ordered by Ana Couto Branding & Design studio.

    In 2012, he published the grungy typefaces Rebellia and Rebellia Dingbats.

    In 2013, he published Progressiva (a lively sans family with oomph that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014), and Directa Serif, a typeface family with condensed letters of large x-height and low contrast.

    In 2019, Ricardo Gomes published Capellina (Script and Caps).

    I Love Typography link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ouvrez!!! Police!!!
    [Claude Melle Derieppe]

    From Lille, France, Claude (Chloe) Derieppe's (now Madame Claude Bernollin-Derieppe) wonderful archive with many fonts displayed in an artistic manner. Specializing in music group, movie and animal theme fonts and dingbats. Go here for her own (free) creations: AbcdaireEnfantin, AgendaduDirecteur, AlphaBones, AlphaClouds, AlphaFitness (2005), AlphaGraphics, AlphaMusicMan (2004, letters with instruments built in), AlphaNails, AlphaRunning, Alpha Sports (2004, letters made of athletes), Crazy Zoo (2004, alphadings with animals), Woman Hair (2004), Elephant and Alpha Elfin (2004), Good Fellow (2005, caps typeface made from people), AlphaSmoke, AlphaTrees, Amadeus, AmericanDream, Arbitre, BeMyValentine, Bouhbouh, CDCrossword, CafeduMatin, ChatBada, ChausettesdeNoel, CountryButton, Cuicui, Elles, FirstAid, FleursdeLiane, Georges, GoodFellow, GrazingOnGrass, HalloweenBats, HalloweenSpider, JackO, JoeDiMaggio, Lucky-Font, MixedGrill, MovingCarton, PaquetCadeaux, TheFontWithNoName, Touchdown, Tourbillon, ValentineRibbon, WhiteChristmas, WienerGentilToutou, Zazou, Alpha Unplugged, Patchwork Angel, Alpha Topiary, Alpha Elfin, Alpha Paint, Wiener Gentil Toutou, Grazing On Grass, Hungry Frog, Amadeus, AmericanDream, Aquarium, Arbitre, AStarisBorn, BasicFont, Bestioles, Beurk, Bouhbouh, BrokenGlass, BzzzBee, CanadianAutumn, ChausettesdeNoel, ChloeConfetti, CheeseandMouse, CouteauSuisse, CrazyZoo, DaddyTie, DowntheDrain, DecoStamp, Boum-Boum, ExtravaDance, FleursdeLiane (1999, caps font with branches), Halloween Spider (1999), JoeDiMaggio, LotusPaws, Lucky-Font, MapleLeafRag, Mariposa, MissingPiece, Once-uponatime, PatchworkLetter, Georges, PanierdePaques, PetitsBateaux, RoseNote, RubanExtravaganza, ScaryMonsters, SpottyFont, StrictoSensu, SavageSausage, TavernDoors, Touchdown, Tomate, Zippo (2000), HobbyHeadline, ryp_snata1, PapaNoel, PoleNord, Three Little Pink Pigs, LuckyFont, MixedGrill, Explosif, Abcdaire Enfantin, AgendaduDirecteur, BasicFont, BzzzBee, CafeduMatin, CrackBoum, EroticaCD, FirstAid, MovingCarton, PersonaNonGrata, TacoBox (Mexican simulation face), WalkingAround.

    Her site featured an erotic font archive with Big Breast Font (Lions Den), Condom Font (Lions Den), Koksure (Les Rowe), StripLetter, Martini Olive (Solar*Sister Fonts/Isabelle Trolio), SexFont (Lions Den), Marlboro (WSI), ScripteaseLetPlain (Letraset), DongCasual (Chank Diesel), Hole (Dieter Schumacher), Pigpen (Thomas Rogerstam), Pornhut (Fontalicious), MargueritaLetPlain (Letraset), and Groupsex (Fish Dicks). Plus links. Many music theme fonts. Warning: Someone reported to me that visiting this site will infect your computer with a nasty script (I could not verify this as this seems to apply to PC users only). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    P22 Type Foundry
    [Richard Kegler]

    Richard Kegler's fun Buffalo-based foundry, which he founded in 1995 together with his wife, Carima El-Behairy. Currently, on staff, we find type designers James Grieshaber and Christina Torre. In 2004, it acquired Lanston Type. P22 has some great unusual, often artsy, fonts.

    The fonts are: Industrial Design (an industrial look font based on letters drawn by Joseph Sinel in the 1920s---this font is free!), LTC Jefferson Gothic Obliquie (2005, free), Sinel (free), P22Snowflakes (free in 2003 and P22 Snowflakes (retail) in 2020, finishedd by Richard Kegler and Terry Wüdenbachs), Acropolis Now (1995, a Greek simulation typeface done with Michael Want), P22 Albers (1995; based on alphabets of Josef Albers made between 1920 and 1933 in the Bauhaus mold), Arts and Crafts (based on lettering of Dard Hunter, early 1900s, as it appeared in Roycroft books), Ambient, Aries (2004, based on Goudy's Aries), Arts and Crafts ornaments, Atomica, Bagaglio (Flat, 3D; in the style of Il Futurismo), P22 Basel Roman (2020, Richard Kegler: an update of a 2015 typeface, P22 Basel, based on a garalde font used by Johannes Herbst (aka Ioannes Oporinus) in 1543 to publish Andreas Vesalius' On the Fabric of the Human Body (De humani corporis fabrica) in Basel), Bauhaus (Bauhaus fonts based on the lettering of Herbert Bayer), Bifur (2004, Richard Kegler, after the 1929 original by Cassandre), Blackout, P22 Brass Script Pro (2009, Richard Kegler; based on an incomplete script fond in a booklet from Dornemann&Co. of Magdeburg Germany, ca. 1910 entitled Messingschriften für Handvergoldung; for years, P22 and MyFonts claimed that Michael Clark co-designed this, but Michael does not want any credit, as he did only about 20 letters), Cage (based on handwriting and sketches of the American experimental composer John Cage), P22 Casual Script (2011, Richard Kegler, a digitization of letters by sign painter B. Boley, shown in Sign of the Times Magazine), Cezanne (Paul Cezanne's handwriting, and some imagery; made for the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Child's Play, Child's Play Animals, Child's Play Blocks, Constructivist (Soviet style lettering emulating the work of Rodchenko and Popova), Constructivist extras, Czech Modernist (based on the design work of Czech artist Vojtech Preissig in the 20s and 30s), Daddy-o (Daddy-o Beatsville was done in 1998 with Peter Reiling), Daddy-o junkie, Da Vinci, Destijl (1995, after the Dutch DeStijl movement, 1917-1931, with Piet Mondrian inspired dingbats; weights include Extras, P22 Monet Impressionist (1999), Regular and Tall), Dinosaur, Eaglefeather, Escher (based on the lettering and artwork of M.C. Escher), P22 FLW Exhibition, P22 FLW Terracotta, Folk Art (based on the work of German settlers in Pennsylvania), Il futurismo (after Italian Futurism, 1908-1943), Woodtype (two Tuscan fonts and two dingbats, 2004), P22 Woodcut (1996, Richard Kegler: based on the lettering carved out in wood by German expressionists such as Heckel and Kirchner), Garamouche (2004, +P22 Garamouche Ornaments; all co-designed with James Grieshaber), GD&T, Hieroglyphic, P22 Infestia (1995), Insectile, Kane, Kells (1996, a totally Celtic family, based on the Book of Kells, 9th century; the P22 Kells Round was designed with David Setlik), Koch Signs (astrological, Christian, medieval and runic iconography from Rudolf Koch's The Book of Signs), P22 Koch Nueland (2000), Larkin (2005, Richard Kegler, 1900-style semi-blackletter), London Underground (Edward Johnston's 1916 typeface, produced in an exclusive arrangement with the London Transport Museum; digitized by Kegler in 1997, and extended to 21 styles in 2007 by Paul D. Hunt as P22 Underground Pro, which includes Cyrillic and Greek and hairline weights), Pan-Am, Parrish, Platten (Richard Kegler; revised in 2008 by Colin Kahn as P22 Platten Neu; based on lettering found in German fountain pen practice books from the 1920s), P22 Preissig (and P22 Preissig Calligraphic, 2019), Prehistoric Pals, Petroglyphs, Rodin / Michelangelo, Stanyan Eros (2003, Richard Kegler), Stanyan Autumn (2004, based on a casual hand lettering text created by Anthony Goldschmidt for the deluxe 1969 edition of the book "...and autumn came" by Rod McKuen; typeface by Richard Kegler), Vienna, Vienna Round, Vincent (based on the work of Vincent Van Gogh), Way out West. Now also Art Nouveau Bistro, Art Nouveau Cafe and the beautiful ornamental font Art Nouveau Extras (all three by Christina Torre, 2001), the handwriting family Hopper (Edward, Josephine, Sketches, based on the handwriting styles of quintessential American artist Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, and was produced in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art), Basala (by Hajime Kawakami), Cusp (by James Grieshaber), P22 Dearest (calligraphic, by Christina Torre and Miranda Roth), Dwiggins (by Richard Kegler), Dyrynk Roman and Italic (2004, Richard Kegler, after work by Czech book artist Karel Dyrynk), Gothic Gothic (by James Grieshaber), La Danse (by Gábor Kóthay;), Mucha (by Christina Torre), Preissig Lino (by Richard Kegler), P22Typewriter (2001, Richard Kegler, a distressed typewriter font), the William Morris set (Morris Troy, Morris Golden, Morris Ornaments, based up the type used by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press; 2002), Art Deco Extras (2002, Richard Kegler, James Grieshaber and Carima El Behairy), Art Deco Display, the Benjamin Franklin revival font Franklin's Caslon (2006), Dada (2006) and the Art Nouveau font Salon (bu Christina Torre).

    In 2006, Kegler added Declaration, a font set consisting of a script (after the 1776 declaration of independence), a blackletter, and 56 signatures. Many of the fonts were designed or co-designed by Richard Kegler. International House of Fonts subpage. Lanston subpage (offerings as of 2005: Bodoni Bold, Deepdene, Flash, Fleurons Granjon, Fleurons Garamont, Garamont, Goudy Thirty, Jacobean Initials, Pabst, Spire).

    Bio and photo.

    In-house fonts made in 2008 include Circled Caps, the Yule family (Regular, Klein Regular, Light Flurries, Heavy, Klein heavy, Heavy Snow, Inline; all have Neuland influences). Kegler / P22 created a 25-set P22 Civilité family in 2009 based on a 1908 publication from Enshedé, the 1978 English translation by Harry Carter, and a 1926 specimen also from Enshedé.

    P22 Declaration (Script, Signatures, Blackletter, 2009) is based on the lettering used in the 1776 Declaration of Independence.

    At ATypI 2004 in Prague, Richard spoke about Vojtech Preissig. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin, where he presented Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century about which he writes: This film has the dual aim of documenting the almost-lost skill of creating metal fonts and of capturing the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer (1931-2010). P22 type foundry commissioned Mr. Rimmer to create a new type design (Stern) that became the first-ever simultaneous release of a digital font and hand-set metal font in 2008. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he showed Making Faces.

    Typefaces from 2014: LTC Archive Ornaments (Richard Kegler and Miranda Roth).

    Typefaces from 2020: Showcard Script (by Terry Wüdenbachs, based on an original of Beaufont at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, custom designed by the Morgan Sign Machine Company of Chicago).

    Typefaces from 2021: P22 Glaser Houdini (a layerable family, after Glaser's Houdini from 1964), P22 Glaser Babyteeth. Kegler writes: In 2019, P22 Type Foundry met with Milton Glaser (1929-2020) to initiate the official digital series of typefaces designed by Glaser in the 1960s and 70s. P22 Glaser Babyteeth is the first family released in the series. Milton Glaser's inspiration for his Babyteeth typeface came from a hand painted advertisement for a tailor he saw in Mexico City. He was inspired by that E drawn as only someone unfimilar with the alphabet could have concieved. So he set about inventing a completelly ledgible alphabet consistant with this model. P22 Glaser Babyteeth was based on original drawings and phototype proofs from the Milton Glaser Studios archives. Over the years there have been many typefaces that borrowed heavily from the Glaser designs, but these are the only official Babyteeth fonts approved by Milton Glaser Studio and the Estate of Milton Glaser. The solid and open versions are designed to overlap for two-color font effects and can even be mixed and matched for multi layer chromatic treatments. In 2021, he published the 3d art deco shadow font P22 Glaser Kitchen which is based on Big Kitchen (1976).

    MyFonts interview.

    View Richard Kegler's typefaces. View the IHOF / P22 typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pablo Byrne

    Pablo Byrne, a graphic designer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, created the ornamental headline alphabet Delirium (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pablo Fonts
    [Paul Politis]

    Shareware fonts created by Paul Politis: Crappy Aperture, Lithium, Zoloftian, Lysergic. The latter two are quite interesting. Additional fonts at 10USD for the lot: Kolos Heavy (great), Magic Mushroom Caps, Zoloftian 3d, Zoloftian Outline, Pablo, Nada. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pack Rat Fonts and Drop Caps

    Lav Plourde's font archive. Many dingbats. A total of about 550 fonts. Links. Direct access. Oriental simulation fonts. Cat font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paige Orland

    At Towson University (Towson, MD), Paige Orland designed the decorative caps typeface Balloon (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pakoma Bessa

    Sao Paulo-based graphic designer who created the decorative textured typeface Futura Ornamentada (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    PaleAle's Fonts
    [David Koehne]

    Dingbat and scanbat fonts by David Koehne: Aboutface, Airwars, AmericanWoman, Bacall, Bogie, Centerfoldsdingbats, DecoDings (2000, by Jeri Ingalls), GlimmerQueen, GraumansChinese, HaveSomeFaith, Heartbreak, LookingBuffDingbat, MatchbookAds01, NightMoves, ProlongedGazedingbat, SpikeYourDrink, Strut2, Strut, UncaPale2, Xenafont, Gentlemen, Mandy, Milking, Solos, Visitation. Fontsanon has EveInitials (2000, the gorgeous caps used at Fontsanon), Heartbreak (2000, picture font), GourmetDisplay (1999, converted from the Solotype catalog), UncaPale1 (2000), UncaPale2 (2000), TarantellaDisplay (1999, based on a font in Dan Solo's catalog). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pallavi Gupta

    Parisian fine artist. Creator of an intricate caps typeface called Morbus (2011), in which the 26 letters each represent a certain disease. Sample letters: B, C, N, Q, S. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pam Shuler
    [Shuler Studio]

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    Pancho López

    Graphic designer in Guadalajara, Mexico, who made Miami Deco (2011, a multiline art deco jewel), Poiret 1940s (2012, art deco), Juke Box (2010, retro type), El Solitario (2011, an Italian Western typeface, a redesign of an earlier type by Francisco Bustamante), Arcan Magic (2012, an alchemic typeface based on Cherokee Indian symbology), OK Mr Lopez (2012, open caps face), and Bardot Type (2012, a fashion mag typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pantless

    An animated alphabet project, 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paola Arango

    Guatemala City-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paola Saravia

    Graduate of Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado. San Salvador, El Salvador-based designer (b. 1995) of the dripping paint font Blotch (2016) and the pencil-themed all caps typeface Illu (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paola Vecchi

    Born in Lombardia in 1979, Paola Vecchi studied in Milan before moving to Spain, where she works as a graphic designer in Sevilla from 2010 onwards. In 2017, she designed the decorative caps alphabet Memento Mori. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paper Moon Type & Graphic Supply
    [Scott Banks]

    Scott Banks (Atlanta, GA) specializes in digital fonts with a printed letterpress or hand-lettered look and feel. In 2022, he released PM Doorbuster Casual, PM Doorbuster Plug (a supermarket font), PM Doorbuster Script, PM Eckmann Initials (a chromatic / layered version of Otto Eckmann's famous art nouveau font Eckmannschrift Initial Caps), PM Eckmannschrift (an art nouveau typeface; after Otto Eckmann's Eckmannschrift, 1900), PM Endora (a rough-edged curly vampire script), PM Showman (a layerable sans based on vintage hand-painted sign writing from the 1900s through the 1960s), PM Eckmore (psychedelic, art nouveau: after Otto Eckmann's Eckmann Schrift, 1900), PM Orchid (art nouveau), PM Alcorn (an all caps beatnik font) and PM Outpost (a national park font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    parich

    Archive with medieval fonts such as Anglo Saxon, Bliss, Eileen, Elzevier Caps, English Gothic, Floral Majuscules, Gothic Leaf, King Arthur. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paris Massenot

    Parisian designer of the caps typeface Soniagraphie (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Parker Jones

    Parker Jones (Dallas, TX) designed the dyslexia-awareness typeface Monsters in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Parko One

    Bangkok-based illustrator, graphic and type designer. In 2009, he drew the ornamental caps alphabet Stupid Character.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paruksheen Dhunjisha

    Interior designer in Los Angeles. In 2015, she drew a decorative flowery all caps alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pasant Elhadary

    Dubai-based designer of the decorative Latin / Arabic typeface Alphabeast (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Passitive Design

    Bangkok-based creator of the decorative caps typeface Truth Type (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pastaza Type

    Pastaza Type is located in Puyo, Ecuador. It groups the Casco brothers, Juan, Eduardo and Luis, as well as Javier Villamil and Danny Fiallos. Pastaza designed the free dingbat fonts Papa Roach (2010) and Telefonica (2010). Other typefaces from 2010 include Punkstoric (by Javier Villamil), Punk (2009, Mexican or Inca ornamental caps by Jinso Elmalo), and Spoonge Punk (by Valeria Herrera). In 2011, they made Wires, and Cowboys. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patri Molina

    Spanish designer of the decorative children's book critter typeface Tipografia Infantil (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patricia Ferreira

    Designer in Lisbon who created an ornamental caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patricia Picas

    Patricia Picas from Setubal, Portugal, now works as a designer in Lisbon. She graduated earlier from ESAD CR in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Creator of the bilined caps typeface Cacos (2012) and the Picas typeface (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patrick Seymour

    Super-talented Montreal-based illustrator and digital artist. Home page. He created several modular typefaces in 2011.

    In 2012, he created Muse, Gotham Streets (a prismatic typeface), Slinky, Stencil, Tulipe (counterless), Bad Billy (multilined, art deco), The Great Carnival (beveled caps), Web Font (prismatic), Jump Jump Font (octagonal), Fashion (a horizontally striped typeface), OK (prismatic), The Aviator (horizontally striped poster face), La Bonne Aventure (prismatic and slightly art deco), the rope-themed typeface Noeud Marin, the shaded boat name typeface Bleu Marine, the multiline caps typeface Origami, the moustache-inspired caps typeface Mous Type (ornamental moustache-shaped capitals), the multilined display typeface Empire, the hand-drawn Une Typo Faite A La Main, and the prismatic typeface Anabelypster. After a bout of salmonella, he created Intestino, still in 2012. In Motion (2012) is an awesome prismatic art deco typeface.

    Images of his stunning work from 2011: i, ii, ii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x.

    His Cathédrale project (2011) starts from a squarish face and transforms it gradually into one that contains the features of a cathedral.

    Creations in 2013: Shapes (geometric font), Gold Deco, Dentelle, Twist, Sleek (a thin slab serif), Say Say Say (multiline, prismatic, hypnotic), Metrick (a gridded typeface), Film Noir (an overlay type system), Tam Tam, Diner (a striped all caps typeface), Spot Light Font (prismatic), Flora, Bright Diamond, Incandescent, XVII (multilined display face), Konga (a multiline script), Shiny Diamond, Splash (paint font), Chicago (prismatic neon tube face), Taxi (a wonderful multiline typeface), Papale (religious symbology alphabet made to mock the papal system), Empreinte (pure op-art), Broken Arrow Font (multiline caps face), Liquid Paper Font, Sunset (prismatic), Boogie (Broadway-style art deco family), New Art Deco (prismatic art deco face), Poule de Luxe, Burnout (a prismatic typeface), Marble Maze Font, M Gagnon (ornamental caps influenced by the design work of Denis Gagnon).

    FontStruct fonts: Test3 (2012), Jump Jump 2 (2012).

    Typefaces made in 2014: Moiré, Decora, Magnetic, Noise (TV noise emulation), Yes (multilined font), Broderie (braided letters), SAS (multilined), Full House, Heart Font (prismatic), 1976 (inspired by the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal), Gold (prismatic art deco typeface), Lace, Bike.

    Typefaces from 2015: Detour, Allie X, Grad Font, Duct Tape, Mint Julep (bilined art deco beauty), Hourglass, Stuntman (prismatic), La Dame de Coeur (playing card font), Fog.

    Typefaces from 2016: Road Free (a free prismatic font), Solitaire (card font), Joliette, Denis (named after Montreal's mayor, Denis Coderre), Montreal (a prismatic typeface based on the logo of the city of Montreal), Cherry Cola Font, Bro & Co (multilined art deco beauty), Macramee (multilined).

    Typefaces from 2017: The Simple Font (sans), Le Cabinet (multilined neo deco).

    Typefaces from 2018: Atrium (a sublime multiline art deco beauty), Pride (a color font to support the LGBT community).

    Typefaces from 2019: Columbarium (a beveled typeface), The Invisible Font, The Usual Font, Recettes d'Ici (handcrafted style for menu design), Vinyl (multiline), Gasoline (a gasoline spill textured font), Reflet, Mint Soda (a fashion mag extravaganza), Glamarrr (a sailor or pirate font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Siren (a wonderful mermaid-themed initial caps font, half Engravers MT and half mermaid), Homa (decorative caps), Luna (blocky caps), Chicken Bone, Happier (an all caps 3d color font), Dollara (a polygonal typeface), Stay Home, Mundo Disko (prismatic).

    Typefaces from 2021: Deliria, The National Bank Open font (created for a tennis tournament).

    Behance link. Hellofont link (for buying his fonts).

    Typefaces from 2022: Trumpets (deco caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patten Wilson

    British Victorian, pre-art nouveau illustrator, 1868-1928. Creator of this (lettered) set of Modern Capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paul Briffa

    During his studies at Brighton Metropolitan college, Chichester, UK-based Paul Briffa designed Glitch Type (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paul Carlyle

    Coauthor with Guy Oring of Letters and Lettering (1938), Layouts and Letterheads (1938) and Learning to Letter (1939). The former book was a big source of inspiration for Nick Curtis and many other type designers. Typefaces based on designs by Carlyle and Oring:

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

    Paul D. Hunt
    [Pilcrow Type]

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    Paul Daxhelet
    [L' Imprimerie Paul Daxhelet]

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    Paul Helmuth Rädisch

    German punchcutter and engraver, b. 1891, Leipzig, d. 1979, Haarlem. He taught Matthew Carter the art of punchcutting in 1955 at Enschedé, and hosted Carl Dair as an apprentice in 1956-1957. Carl made a silent movie of a day in Rädisch's life in Haarlem, called Gravers and Files. Lutetia Open (2007, ARTypes) is based on the 48-pt Lutetia capitals engraved by P. H. Rädisch under the direction of Jan van Krimpen for Enschedé in 1928. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paul Hickson

    British designer who was first associated with Red Rooster, and who co-founded London Type in 2017. Designer of these typefaces, mainly done at Red Rooster:

      Byron (1992, by Paul and Pat Hickson): a calligraphic font originally cut in the 1980s for QBF based on a design in Printing Types of the World (1931, Pitmans). Later redone in digial form as LDN Piccadilly (2019) at London Type.
    • LDN Merton Sans (2019, London Type) started out as a design by Paul Hickson's wife Pat, a typeface from the 1970's called Modern Lightline. This was based on an old ATF design called Lightline Gothic published by Face Photosetting.
    • Wade Sans Light (1990, Latraset/ITC). A slightly flared sans with tall ascenders and small eyes.
    • At Red Rooster Type foundry, he co-designed Argus (1992) and Beckenham (1993) with Les Usherwood.
    • He revived a 1919 Keystone Type foundry design, Poor Richard, at Red Rooster. See this poster by Alessandra Magrini.
    • Pat and Paul Hickson redesigned the Granby family, exclusively at Atomic Type.
    • Eric Gill's Jubilee, created specially for the Silver Jubilee Wedding Anniversary announcement of George VI and Queen Mary, was revived at Red Rooster by Hickson as Jubilee.
    • Keyboard revives a 1951 design. It is a condensed modern face.
    • Basuto (2000) revives an original Stephenson Blake design, circa 1927.
    • In 1994, he revived Rivoli Initials at Red Rooster, an original typeface by William T. Sniffin (1928, ATF).
    • In 1997, he created Messe Grotesk. This is a fat poster typeface based on the Albert Auspurg design, circa 1921-1927.
    • Leighton. Based on Lectura, a design by Dick Dooijes, Amsterdam Foundry, circa 1966.
    • Venezuela RR (a Mexican-look face). Based on the typeface Vesta by Albert Auspurg, circa 1926.
    • Honduras (a Mexican-look family). Based on the typeface called either Albert or Select by Albert Auspurg, circa 1936, Amsterdam Foundry. Paul also designed the alternates not available on the original design.
    • Inverness. Based on posters from the 1930s.
    • Equestrienne, originally designed by Les Usherwood, and digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Les never released this completed typeface before his untimely death in 1983.
    • Claremont, also originally designed by Les Usherwood, and digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Les never released this typeface before his death in 1983.
    • Lesmore, also originally designed by Les Usherwood, and digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Les never released this typeface before his death in 1983.
    • Stanhope, also originally designed by Les Usherwood, and digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Based on a turn-of-the-century typeface of the same name. The foundry is believed to be Soldans&Payvers, circa 1904. London Belgravia (2019, by Paul and Pat Hickson). An art deco sans.
    • London Clarendon Poster (2019).
    • London Whitechapel (2019). An industrial strength bold headline sans.
    • London Bloomsbury Old Style (2019). Called post-impressionist.
    • LDN Garamond (2020). A faithful one-style (roman only) revival of Claude Garamond's typeface. Floriated initial caps (LDN Garamond Initials) by Paul and Pat Hickson.
    FontShop link. Klingspor link.

    View Paul Hickson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paul James Lloyd

    About 100 free TrueType fonts by University of Western Australia lecturer Paul Lloyd (b. UK), many of them elaborate caps fonts: Larkin Capitals (2004), QuaNauticale Initials (2004, with Manfred Klein), Blavicke Capitals (2002), FoliarInitials (2002, Caps), Halftone (2003, blackletter), UltraBlack (2003, blackletter), Saraband (2002, an ornamental ribbon font after Karl Klimsch, 1869), Infula (2002, Caps), Strelsau (2002, Fraktur), Dampfplatz-DemiBold (2002, Fraktur), DampfplatzShadow-Black (2002, Fraktur), DampfplatzSolid-Black (2002, Fraktur), GenzschEtHeyse (2002, Fraktur), GenzschEtHeyseAlternate (2002, Fraktur), Moderna (2002, Fraktur), Lightfoot (2002), Nuffield Initials (2002), Cantebriggia (2002, Fraktur), Charterwell (2002, Fraktur), Portcullion (2002, blackletter), Portculliard Initials (2003, blackletter), Proclamate (2002, blackletter), Zenda (2002, blackletter), Teutonic (2002, blackletter), Medieval Victoriana (2002, caps), Portland Roman (2002), Wolnough (2002, caps), Landsdowne (2002, + Shadow: Victorian typefaces), Grimeswade (2002, caps), Orotund-Heavy, OrotundCapitals-Heavy (2002), Minster (2002, a 6-font Fraktur family), Killigrew (2002, Fraktur), Minim (2002, Fraktur), Coltaine (2002), Emporium Capitals (2002), Penshurst (2002), Cherubim Initials (2002), Pompadour Initials (2002), Casua (2002), Wadsworth's Industria (2002), Radaern Script (2002), Queen Empress (2002), Lisburne Initials (2002), Dundalk (2002), Claritty (2002, handprinting), Mysterious Voyage (2002), Arborial (2002), Deepwoods (2002), Florana (2002), Springtime (2002), Topiary (2002), Woodland (2002), Bertham, Camelot Initials, Chocolate Box (2002), Altea, Mosaic (2002, caps), Burgoyne (2002, caps), Hentzau Initials (2002), Engravier (2002, caps), Rustick Capitals (2002), Louvaine (2002), Chipperfield&Bailey (2002), Boister Black (2002, blackletter; the commercial Boister Black Pro was done in 2009 at CheapProFonts), Quill (2002), Erasmus (2002), Birmingham, Bolton, Brassett (2001), Chancera, Glastonbury, Grantham, E-Caps, CleaversJuvena, CoronationScot, Chronos, Brodgnorth, Draughtsman (2002), Duvall, Helena, Hominis (1997), Imperator, Lewisham, Newstyle, Noir-et-Blanc, Peake, Priory, Ruritania, Shrewsbury, Simplicity, Sylph, Ubiqita_Europa, Woodcut Capitals, Watson, Wrenn, Imperator, Trefoil Capitals (2002), TinplateTitling, Freame, Graphis, Dutch I, Festival, Festival Flourish, d'Spenser, Sylvan-Capitals, Helena, Bridgnorth and Paladin Caps. In his Black Jewels series (as in "blackletter"), he published Black (2002), Germanica (2002), and is working on Minim and Killigrew. Most typefaces come in many weights, and are carefully manicured products. Other Lloyd creations may be found here, here, here, here, or here in Russia. In 2008, he started a commercial foundry, Greater Albion Typefounders. Font Squirrel link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paul James Lloyd
    [Greater Albion Typefounders (or: GATF)]

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    Paul Lang

    Type designer, 1877-1937, best known for his art nouveau typeface Langschrift (1905-1908), published by Flinsch. Some sources pin Langschrift in 1903. For a digital revival, see Stefan Chirila's Mendelson (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paul Pateman

    Graphic artist in London, who has designed various decorative all caps alphabets. These include East End (2014) and Alphabet of Sex and Disability (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paul Politis
    [Pablo Fonts]

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    Paul Reid
    [Tracer Tong (was: WhoAmI Type&Design)]

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    Paul Smith
    [Octopi]

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    Paulina Mendoza

    Freelance designer in Mexico City, who created Menu Tipografico (2014), an ornamental caps alphabet, during her studies in the Facultad de Arte y Diseñ at UNAM. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pauline Nouvel

    During her studies in Toulouse, Pauline Nouvel designed a decorative scientific typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pauline Vidal

    Graphic designer in Toulouse, France, who created the decorative modern all caps typeface typeflex in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paulini

    Illuminator who created the Alphabet of Paulini (1570). Beinecke Library writes: "Nothing is known of Paulini, the designer and engraver of this Mannerist alphabet--not even his first name. Each letter is a fantastic composite of human figures, botanical and marine specimens, landscapes or cityscapes, with a frame of arabesques, grotesques, putti, antique statuary, and the like. No two frames are identical. Each letter encapsulates a mythological episode from Ovid, A for Actaeon, B for Bacchus, C for Cadmus, etc. The Ovidian episode is illustrated behind each letter, and printed captions identify the figures." [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paulo Vinhas Baudouin

    Lisbon-based designed of the ornamental caps typeface Afroglyphics (2013), which was custom-made for the visual identity of a DJ duo from Lisbon. Afroglyphics used in Celeste Mariposa.

    Neue Neon was created in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paulo W
    [Intellecta Design (or: Monocracy Types)]

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    Paulus Franck

    Designer of a set of curly baroque initials in Nürnberg in 1601, published in Schatzkammer. Allerhand Versalien. The original book was scanned in at the BSB (Bayerische Staats Bibliothek and can be downloaded.

    Joseph Kiermeier-Debre and Fritz Franz Vogel published a facsimile that can be seen at Google Books and at Amazon (Ravensburger Buchverlag, 1998).

    A penmanship book due to Paulus (or Paul) Franck from 1655 under the title Kunstrichtige Schreibart: allerhand Versalien oder AnfangsBuchstaben der teütschen, lateinischen und italianischen Schrifften aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen was published in 1655 in Nürnberg by Paul Fürst (ca. 1605-1666) and printed by Christoph Gerhard (1624-1681). This text, of which some pictures can be viewed here, consists largely of hyper-ornamental blackletter initials.

    Franck's über-ornamental decorative caps were revived digitally in several typefaces:

    • PaulusFranckInitialen (2002) was created by Dieter Steffmann based on those initials, but they are apparently incomplete.
    • Paulo W (Intellecta Design) created the font Paulus Franck 1602 (2006).

    Open Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Storchilov
    [Airunreal]

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    Pearl Fernandez

    Graphic designer and illustrator in London, who created an all caps Bicycle Alphabet in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ped Cordero

    Ped Cordero (Cartago, Costa Rica) created the ornamental caps typeface Sanjo Zoologico in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pedro Antonio Rubio Yzu

    Based in Lima, Peru, Pedro Antonio Rubio Yzu created the display typeface Tab Surf (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pedro Henrique Messias

    During his studies in Votorantim, Brazil, Pedro Henrique Messias designed these typefaces: Luxo Ocursus (2017: all caps), Dali (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pedro P

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Brooklyn, NY, who created the fun all caps alphabet Vicious Type (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pei Chyi

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designer of two decorative caps typefaces in 2016, one of which was inspired by Halloween. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peizhu Yuan

    American designer of the decorative all caps typeface Mouse (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peliken
    [Ksenya Kuznetsova]

    Or Ksenia Kuznetsova. Moscow-based designer of the tribal patterned color typeface Aleut (2018) and the dry brush typeface Drum (2018).

    In 2018, she added the stars-and-stripes color font America, the color ransom font Anon, the color font Mexifont, and the children's book font Hands Up.

    Typefaces from 2019: Handsup (a children;s book color font), Catsme (a cat-themed opentype SVG font), Crochet (an opentype SVG font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Branch (a Latin / Cyrillic typeface whose Latin component could be used for slavonic emulation purposes). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Penguin Productions

    Located in Ronkonkoma, NY, this outfit published Middleton, Rick, Walrodi, and WalrodInitials in 1992. Pick up WalrodInitials here or here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pepin Van Roojen

    Author of Ornamental Type (Ramboro Books, 1996). Some pictures from this book are here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Percy J. Delf Smith

    Or Percy Smith. British lettering artist. Percy John Delf Smith (1882-1948) trained at Camberwell School of Art under Edward Johnston and Graily Hewitt. He subsequently taught at the LCC from 1934-1938 and was Assistant Examiner in Lettering and Illumination to the Board of Education from 1939. At his Dorian (later Dorno) Workshop, he did the lettering for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. His other work included lettering for County Hall, Broadcasting House and the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Some of his work was digitally revived:

    • GC16 (2015-2016, Bold Decisions): a monospaced serif typeface that goes back to an undated plate by Percy Smith.
    • Look here for initials designed by Percy Smith for the Curwen Press.
    • Ornaments 6 AR (2010, Ari Rafaeli) is based on designs for the Curwen Press by Edward Bawden and Percy Smith.
    • Lettering done at 55 Broadway, S.W.1, London, led Matthieu Cortat (Nonpareille to develop a digital all-caps typeface called Petit Serif (2013). It has all the features of an engraved alphabet.
    Books by Percy Smith include
    • Lettering: A Plea (London: Dorian Workshop & Studio, 1932).
    • Lettering: a Handbook of Modern Alphabets (London: A & C Black, 1936).
    • Civic and Memorial Lettering (1946).
    In addition, he Percy Smith contributed to several books including Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth centuries, edited by Lewis F. Day (1911), and Lettering and its uses to-day (Cantor lectures: Royal Society of Arts; 1936). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Perspectype

    Papua-based partner of Letterena Studios in Indonesia. In 2021, their catalog showed these free (mostly script or signature) fonts: AlishaGishela, AllindaLight, amalianurse, AmantariaBeauty, AmorillanOrgendam, AmsterdamLaviera, AmsterdamSignature, AndyttaSelya, ApriliaMarelo, Aprilisa, AulliaBeauty, AuthenticCalisttera, BabyShower, BalenciaLattive, BALLOONDREAMS, BastianRichardo, BelacOrlan, BelindaHeylove, BeratoneEmadre, BerlineSpark, BeterniteLimited, BetterLovely, BlueBird, BrilliantSignature, BuffaloCity, BulgariaEmilton, Bullgeria, ButterflyGlorista, ButterflyHellyna, ButterflyHoliday, CandyDino, Cardrone, CastteloSignature, ChameliaBlinkar, CharlottePharly, cheesefoodies, ClaraSherly, ClarlisseDawson, Collinsaber, CutieDelina, DandelionPelangi, Darinella, DEARHONEY, Deirma, DeliaMonogram, DelrosaHoliday, DerlinataSpace, Derllina, DettinaLaura, DominicLaurence-Italic, DrawingKids, DreamsKuliah, EmelyDays, Emelylove, FarmhouseMorning, Ferttigra, FuturisticCaligraph, FuturisticSignature, Hafizah, HandoverSignature, HandwrittenDreams, happyfloral, Hercutes, herlitta, HestteroidBrilliant, Hiratheria, HirestariLove, HolidayMantilda, HumairaMonogram, HuttanCerote, IndonesiaCeriwise, JackyBoys, JanjiCinta, Kagemasha, KalingtoneBrilliant, LambertaSignature, LemonDelight, LemonteBuster, Lightshoot, LolyttaRenda, LombokBeach, loveerlia, LovelyBeralyna, LovingParis, MariraBinttang, MarlytaLovely, MenttariSparkle, MichiganCustom, Namashte, NotedParty, PartyRocky, PatrickHinton, PattersonSouthern-Italic, PIXELCRAFT, PortofolioBrilliant, Prilistale, PrincesGabriela, RafaelaMonogram, RafaestyWigera, RaflesttaElisha, Rallystta, RichardoKenedy, RoslittaAganta, RosteraSignature, RotherdamSignature, Rubie, Sandershon, sarahbetty, SepiaLove, SilvanaBright, Simphonitta, StephensonBrandon, SummerBeach, SummerFlowers, SummerLovely, SweetCake, Syahrinelove, SymphonyCalligraphy, Tametogde, TheCaliforniaHustle, TheCralingtonSignature, TheLimited, TheSundayLovely, TomcatLikely, Tomihesta, TwinkleSpark, venttawatter, VictoryGustina, VierastiMonogram, WashingtonCalligraphy-Italic, WashingtonLifestyle, WashingtonSignature, WonderfulRendola, YumeiraMonogram, ZiviliamMonogram.

    The 2021 catalog at Creative Market contains Amattera Million, Amsterdam Billionaire, Amsterdam Lentteria, Anatasya Lenttera, Anthony Hunter, Auristtela Patricia, Barbara Lattvia, Barfield Lady, Bastian Richardo, Belinda Heylove, Belistaria, Bentila Signate, Better Lovely, Brittanyhustle, Calistta Mentali, Catalish Huntera, Cathrina Belisha, Cattya Brown, Christopher, Delisha Glande, Dominic Laurence, Ferttigra, Frederick Alexander, Futuristic Rottesla, Gabriela Ragile, Harietta Bulmer, Jamesttedy, Manttulda Philliph, Masteria, Mountain, Muttiara Pagi, Patricia, Patterson Southern, Pattricia Michella, Rafaela Salitha, Raflestta Elisha, Renatta, Richard Signatera, Richardo Kenedy, Richards Frederick, Rosalinda Berlinata, Rostera Signature, Simphony Brushe, Strongela Delmonte, Victory Gustina, Washington, William Victory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Baker's old English page at the University of Virginia
    [Peter S. Baker]

    Peter S. Baker, an English professor at the University of Virginia, offers free TrueType and PostScript fonts. these include:

    • Anglo-Saxon Caps.
    • Beowulf-1 (1995, a pseudo-Gaelic face; BeowulfOT dates from 2018).
    • Bury Caps (2014, free at OFL). This decorative typeface was inspired by the display capitals in the 12th-century Bury Bible.
    • The elegant Carolingian typeface Eadui (2010), a reproduction of English Caroline Minuscule as written by Eadui Basan, a scribe at eleventh-century Christ Church, Canterbury.
    • Elstob (2018-2019). A variable font for for medievalists. He writes: The Elstob font, named for Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756), a celebrated early scholar of Old English language and literature, is based on the Double Pica commissioned by Bishop John Fell (1625-1686) for the use of the Oxford University Press. Wherever possible, it is modeled on a specimen book printed in 1925 with type cast in the 1890s from the seventeenth-century matrices; digital images from the 1693 and 1706 Fell specimen books served as backup, and also an early eighteenth-century folio in which a lengthy dedication was printed in Fell's Double Pica. The type doesn't have a great reputation: the typographer Stanley Morison thought it amateurish in comparison with the excellent Fell English. However, its angular character (especially its flat or flattish serifs with minimal or no brackets) makes it well suited to adaptation as a variable font.
    • Interlace Set (2015). A dingbat font for making Hiberno-Saxon interlace patterns.
    • The important and well-designed Junius family (1996, modern hybrid Gaelic). This led to Junicode, the working name of a Unicode font for medievalists. The fonts in the latter project are Junicode-Bold, JunicodeItalic, Junicode (2002), and are by Peter S. Baker and Briery Creek Software. André G. Isaak writes: Junicode isn't the only free font for mediaevalists out there, but it's certainly one of the two most well-designed ones (the other being Andron Scriptor). I used to teach courses on the history of English and I used Junius (the predecessor of Junicode) for many of my handouts because I preferred it to all of the commercial fonts which I had looked at. In 2020, Junicode was rebuilt into JuniusX or Junicode New.

    Alternate URL. Dafont link. Open Font Library link, where he is known as psb6m. Fontspace link. Link to his foundry, Thornbec Staefwyrhtan. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Bruhn

    Born in Malmö, Sweden in 1969, d. 2014. He started Fountain in 1994 in the same city. Peter Bruhn's typefaces:

    • [T-26] designer of these typefaces: 7Seconds, Anarko, Barbera, Bruhn Script, Capricorn38, CorpusGothic, Godlike, Leash, London-Seventy series, Mini (bird-themed dingbats), Pizzicato, RevivalBeta, Tainted.
    • At Fountain, which he founded in 1994, one can buy these typefaces: Adrian (2007, after Frutiger's Breughel), Anarko, Artistico, Barbera, Bruhn Script, Capricorn 38, Corduroy, Corpus Gothic, Deliverance, Drunk, Fatso (now discontinued, but revived in 2007 as Wood Grotesque), Farao (2003, an egyptienne based on ephemera and old woodprints; note that Storm has a similarly named Egyptienne!), Floppy, Fluida (2007, a high contrast calligraphic script), Gas, Godlike, Ketchupa, Deuzhood (with Wolfgang Bruhn), Azteak (free initial caps set), Leash, London, Mayo, Mini, Mercury (1998; Mercury Alternative is free at FontShop), Mustardo (now available as FF Mustardo), Plumpo (2007, comic book face), Pussy, Revival, Sect, South (2007, sans), Sporty (2007, influenced by 1950s American pop culture), Squirt, T-Formula, T-Grumpy, Tainted, Udo, Unica, Doggystyle, Egg, Kundera, Maceo, Motha Fucka, Pavement, Sevenet (pixel family), Dopil, Partisan, Lipo-D (pixel font) and Jinichi (dingbat font of typefaces).
    • His free fonts.
    • He was working on the bitmap font Grape.
    • Sydvenskan (2004, a paper for the tabloid by that name).
    • The custom fun lettering typeface Oeresundsbron.
    • Liquory (1995) was never released.
    Blog. Pic. Catalog of Peter Bruhn's typefaces. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Fountain Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Bruhn
    [Fountain--A Friendly Type Foundry]

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    Peter Enneson

    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.

    In 2014, in collaboration with Patrick Griffin of Canada Type, he published a meticulous revival of Henk Krijger's Raffia Initials (1952, Lettergieterij Amsterdam, where it is known as Raffia Initialen) that is based on photcopies and digtal images of the master drawings. Raffia Initialen was distributed in North America by Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Inc. in electrotype format, and later through VGC on strips of typositor film. Currently licensing rights are owned by the Linotype Corporation. The master drawings were located in 2001 by longtime Lettergieterij Amsterdam employee Henk Gianotten, and are now part of the Special Collections division of the Univeriteitsbibliotheek of the University of Amsterdam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Flötner

    Artist who probably comes from Thurgau, and who lived roughly from 1485-1546. From 1512 until 1528, he worked in Adold Dauer's shop in Augsburg. He settled later in Nürnberg. Creator of an alphabet (now known as Flötner's Menschenalphabet) in 1534 that shows each letter composed of human figures. He also made a more sexually explicit anthropomorphic alphabet font [see also here and here].

    One of his alphabets was scanned and fonted by "Character" and posted on abf on November 25, 2002. It is called Flotner. For other free fonts, see Flotner Anthropomorphic (2010, Dick Pape) and Menschenalphabet (1997, Ingo Zimmermann). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Gericke

    A true artist, designing wonderful Caps and initials in München. I really like the erotic initials. None of these seem to have been made into fonts though. Author of Typografische Magazin (1995), a book showing full character sets for 94 Fraktur typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Judson

    London-based graphic designer who created the sans typefaces Human PJ and Rule (with Rachel Shasha), the display typeface Apartment, and the colored 3d toy block typeface Shape in 2014.

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

    Peter Olexa
    [Cruzine]

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    Peter R. Wilson
    [Trajan]

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    Peter R. Wilson
    [Bookhands]

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    Peter S. Baker
    [Peter Baker's old English page at the University of Virginia]

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    Peter Umgeher

    Austrian designer. In 2008, he and Georg Schnitzer co-designed the human decorative caps set called Miss Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter van der Borcht

    Aka Pieter van der Borcht (the Elder), ca. 1540-1608. Van der Borcht was a Flemish Renaissance painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is regarded as one of the most gifted botanical painters of the 16th century. Born in Mechelen, he worked for Christoffel Plantijn (Christopher Plantin), the famous book publisher and typefounder in Antwerp. He supplied Plantin with the drawings for the engravings for many scientific publications of Plantin such as the works of Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius and Matthias de l'Obel. He illustrated many liturgical books published by Plantin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter von Zezschwitz
    [Zetafonts (Tangram Studio)]

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    Peter Wiegel
    [CAT Design Wolgast]

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    Petra Blahova

    Petra Blahova (Carlisle, UK) created the octagonal experimental typeface Architecture (2013) and the decorative caps typeface Wonderland (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Petra Heidorn
    [CybaPeeCreations (or: Typoasis)]

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    PH VietHa

    During his studies at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore, PH VietHa designed the decorative caps typeface Sing Play (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pham Nguyen Thien Phu

    Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Pham Nguyen Thien Phu created an exquisitely ornamented caps typeface called Cricket Adventure (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Phil Kiel
    [Font Soup]

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    Phillip Boydell

    Designer (b. 1932) of Festival Titling or Festival of Britain (1950-1951, Monotype) at the London Press Exchange for festival advertising. This almost beveled typeface has caps and numerals only. Monotype carries digital versions.

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

    PIBA
    [Marina Carminal]

    Creative design studio in Buenos Aires founded in 2011 by Marina Carminal. Creators of the decorative caps typeface PIBA (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pictoline

    Designer (?) of the decorative alphabet Ortografia (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pierre Blanchard

    Student in Bordeaux who created an ornamental caps face, Type Addikt (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pierre Larousse

    Dictionary publisher in France. In 1867, he published Ornamental lettrines in his Grand Dictionnaire Universel. More ornamental letters followed in the 1936 and 1948 encyclopedias. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pierre Piech

    Illustrator in Marseille, France, who graduated in 2003 from ESA Institut St. Luc in Brussels with a Bachelors degree in plastic arts. In 2011, he created a hand-drawn caps face and a roman lettering alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pierre-Simon Fournier

    French typefounder (b. Paris, 1712, d. Paris, 1768) also called Fournier le jeune.

    • His books. Author of Manuel Typographique, two volumes published in 1764 and 1766. Nijhof&Lee write: The first volume is one of the major source books on the processes of making printing types in the era of the hand press. Volume two includes a comprehensive specimen of the types and ornaments of Fournier's own foundry, most of which he cut himself, and as such provides a record of one of the most remarkable personal achievements in the history of typefounding. The books are available as a Darmstadt Facsimile reprint (1995). He published other theoretical works, such as a 1737 manuscript on the spacing between letters for readability.
    • His life. Son of typefounder Jean-Claude Fournier, he became famous as a type theoretician. He created his own point system in 1737, 14 years after the Frenchh government decreed that types should have standards. In 1739, he created his own foundry. The king of France, Louis XIV, commissioned new types for use during his reign, and turned to Fournier. Reproduction of these types by others was not tolerated. And so, Fournier modèles des caractères were in use throughout Louis XIV's reign. They had huge contrasts (after all, they just predated the outbreak of didones) and were crammed with rococo ornaments. Other contemporaries elsewhere, such as J.M. Fleischman and J. Enschedé, started imitating Fournier's style. In the 1750s, his career was at its peak. He advised royalty in Sweden and Sradinia on types, and set up a printing shop for Madame de Pompadour. He developed musical types in cooperation with J.G.I. Breitkopf in 1756. But other printers thoroughly disliked Fournier. There were several literary battles between rival typefounders, such as between Gando and Fournier, and between Ballard (a music symbol typfounder who held a monopoly before Fournier in that area) and Fournier. Fournier's type foundry existed until the 19th century.
    • His typefaces. The Fournier MT family by Monotype (1924-1925) was based on the types cut by Pierre-Simon Fournier (ca. 1742) and was called St Augustin Ordinaire in Fournier's Manuel Typographique. These were the firtst transitional typefaces after the privately owned romains du roi. Mac McGrew: Fournier is an aristocratic roman typeface which had its inception in letters engraved and cast by Pierre Simon Fournier, a famous mid-eighteenth-century French typefounder. It is transitional, almost modern, in character, with a distinct French flavor, but with more grace and style than traditional French oldstyle designs. This modern character influenced the later work of Bodoni. This adaptation was made by English Monotype in 1925, and copied by Lanston Monotype in 1940. The specimen of the roman shown here is from English Monotype, in the absence of a good American specimen, but the italic is from Lanston. Narcissus-Roman (1995, Font Bureau) is based on a 1745 design of Simon Pierre Fournier, and a 1921 version of it called Narcissus by Walter Tiemann for Klingspor, and was digitized by Brian Lucid in 1995. Jim Spiece's version is called Narcissus SG. In 1768, he designed an ornamental all caps face, which Peignot produced as Fournier le Jeune. More elaborate caps were added by ATF in the 1920s, and the current digital version by P22/Lanston, also called Fournier le Jeune, is based on that [see LTC Fournier Le Jeune]. Alan Jay Prescott created APT New June (1996) based on Fournier le Jeune. In 2007, Tjorbjörn Olsson (T4) created Museum Fournier, inspired by a set of Rococo capitals designed by Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune, ca. 1760. The matrices are part of a set imported to Sweden by J.P. Lindh in 1818 from Breitkopf&Härtel in Leipzig, Germany. They are now in the Nordiska Museum in Stockholm. Jas Rewkiewicz's Fournier RD (2007) is an interpretation of the famous Fournier typeface. The Castcraft version of Fournier is called OPTI Fourquet. Joshua Darden's Corundum Text (2006) and typeface Griesshammer;s free font Source Serif (2014, Adobe) are also based on Fournier. The ambitious PS Fournier (2016, Stéphane Elbaz) is perhaps one of the best digital revivals. At B&P Swiss Typefaces, François Rappo published New Fournier (2011) based on the typography of Pierre-Simon Fournier. It comes in 24 styles.

    Pauline Nuñez graduated in 2007 from Ecole Estienne with a thesis entitled Pierre-Simon Fournier, typographe absolu, typographe accompli?.

    Publications by Pierre-Simon Fournier dit le jeune:

    Klingspor link. FontShop link.

    View some digital typefaces based on designs by Fournier. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pik Chu Ahmetaj

    Pik Chu Ahmetaj (b. Hong Kong) studied at Tompkins Cortand Community College Upstate NY, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Her decorative caps Garden typeface (2013) is based on Century Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pilcrow Type
    [Paul D. Hunt]

    Type and graphic designer from Joseph City, AZ. His first degree was from Brigham Young University. He was a type designer at P22/Lanston from 2004-2007. In 2008, he obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading where he designed the typefaces Grandia and Grandhara (Indic). In January 2009, he joined Adobe just after Thomas Phinney left. He lives in San Jose, CA. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled The history of non-Latin typeface development at Adobe.

    He created Howard (2006, a digitization of Benton's Sterling), P22 Allyson (2006, based on Hazel Script by BB&S; a winner at Paratype K2009), the P22 FLWW Midway font family (2006-2018: Midway One, Two and Ornaments; based on the lettering found on the Midway Gardens working drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright from 1913---tall-legged and casual), Kilkenny (2005, P22), a Victorian-style font based on the metal types named Nymphic and Nymphic Caps which were designed by Hermann Ihlenburg in 1889. This typeface has almost 1000 glyphs and comes in OpenType format. It includes Cyrillic characters. Check the studies here and here. For another revival of Nymphic Caps, see Secesja by Barmee.

    Designer of the display typefaces Seventies Schoolbook (2004) and Interlocq (2004).

    Hunt also digitized Goudy's Village (2005). Village was originally designed by Fredric Goudy in 1903 for Kuppenheimer & Company for advertising use, but it was decided it would be too expensive to cast. It was later adopted as the house face for Goudy's and Will Ransom's Village Press. The matrices were cut and the type cast by Wiebking. The design was influenced by William Morris's Golden Type. This Venetian typeface was digitized by David Berlow (1994, FontBureau) and by Paul D. Hunt (2005). Hunt's version was eventually released in 2016 by P22/Lanston as LTC Village.

    He revived Hazel Script (BB&S), which he renamed Allyson (2005).

    Still in 2005, he created a digital version of Sol Hess' Hess Monoblack called LTC Hess Monoblack.

    In 2006, he published a nice set of connected calligraphic script fonts, P22 Zaner. Bodoni 175 (2006, P22/Lanston) is a revival of Sol Hess' rendition of Bodoni. He was working on Junius (2006), a revival/adaptation of Menhart Antiqua. Frnklin's Caslon, or P22 Franklin Caslon, was designed in 2006 by Richard Kegler and Paul Hunt in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This slightly eroded font set includes faithfully reproduced letterforms digitized directly from images of impressions made by Benjamin Franklin and his printing office circa 1750. It comes with a set of ornaments.

    In 2007, he used Goudy's 1924 typeface Italian Old Style in the development at P22/Lanston of LTC Italian Old Style. That typeface was remastered and extended to cover several languages by James Grieshaber in 2011.

    In 2014, Paul Hunt finished work on the wood type revival font HWT Bulletin Script Two (P22 & Hamilton Wood Type). This backslanted psychedelic typeface can be traced back to the wood type manufacturers Heber-Wells (Bulletin Condensed, No. 5167), Morgans and Wilcox (Bulletin Script No. 2, No. 3184), Empire Wood Type (1870: Bulletin Script), Keystone Type Foundry (1899: Bulletin Script), Hamilton (117), and Wm. H. Page & Co (No. 111 through No. 113).

    Free fonts at Google Web Fonts: Source Sans Pro (2012; Source Sans Pro for the TeX crowd), Source Code Pro (2012, a companion monospaced sans set by Paul D. Hunt and Teo Tuominen). Source Serif Pro, its Fournier-style relative, was developed at Adobe by Frank Grießhammer. They can also be downloaded from CTAN and Open Font Library.

    Fun creations at FontStruct in 2008-2009: Possibly (a stencil loosely based on the Mission Impossible series logo), Probably (same as Possibly but not stenciled), Med Splode, Arcade Fever, negativistic_small, New Alpha_1line, New Alpha_4line, New Alpha_bit, New Alpha_dot [dot matrix font], New Azbuka [after Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet from 1967], positivistic, slabstruct_1, slabstruct_too, structurosa_1, structurosa_bold, structurosa_bold_too, structurosa_caps, structurosa_faux_bold, structurosa_leaf, structurosa_script, structurosa_soft, structurosa_tape, structurosa_too, structurosa_two, Slabstruct Too Soft, Structurosa Clean Soft, Structurosa Script Clean, Structurosa Clean, Structurosa Clean Too, Structurosa Clean Leaf, Structurosa Boxy, Stucturosa Script Heavy.

    In 2010, he designed he programming font Sauce Code Powerline. Well, this is probably a renaming of Source Code by some hackers. Just mentioning that sauce Code is on some Github pages.

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

    Pilsung Kang

    American digital artist who created an alphabet of instruments in the forms of letters in 2011. I do not think that it is a proper font though. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pixel Canibal
    [Jonathan Rodríguez]

    Pixel Canibal is Jonathan Rodriguez's site. He is a Costa Rican, born in 1983. Educated at UNA (Costa Rica) and Bauhaus University (Germany), he does graphic design in a very broad sense. Creator of the art deco typeface Generación (2009), Pig (2009) and the stunning brushed-figures all caps alphabet Dayana (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pixelbox Estudio Grafico

    Asturianos, Spain-based designer of the decorative Plant Alphabet (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    pnitas

    Pnitas (Barcelona) is a digital imaging freelancer. She created an ornamental alphabet called Abecedario (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Poliksena Stamatova

    Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria, who created Poli (2010, an ornamental Cyrillic font) and Grotesk (2012, a Bulgarian Cyrillic sans typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Korobova

    During her studies at Lasalle Collage of The Arts in Singapore, Polina Korobova created the ornamental caps typeface Monster (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Poly Chee

    Kuala Lumpur-based designer of the skull-and-bones typeface Skeleton (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pooja Pabale

    Mumbai, India-based designer of the display typefaces Ornate (2018: based on a Times Roman skeleton) and Pisces (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pooja Sjapati

    Queens, NY-based creator of the decorative caps typeface Patterns (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Popo Mangun

    Jakarta, Indonesia-based illustrator, who designed a modular patterned set of tribal capitals (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Portfolio of Ornate Penmanship
    [Austin Norman Palmer]

    Penmanship book by the Austin N. Palmer Company in Cedar Rapids, IA, probably published in 1896, and edited by Austin N. Palmer. It contains numerous hand-drawn alphabets. Contributors include F.A. Curtis of Hartford, CT (blackletter faces and a marking alphabet), F.B. Courtney (swashy capitals), F.W. Martin of Boston (several blackletter alphabets, one of which is called Rapid German Text, and another is is for diploma filling), W.E. Dennis of Brooklyn, NY (a bird, his signature, Austin N. Palmer's name hand-printed), E.L. Brown of Rockland, ME (a bird, several calligraphic alphabets, a woody caps face, and several blackletter alphabets), G.N. Bretscher of New York (several blackletters, one of which is called Western Penman), G.W. Wallace (Normandie Script), W.C. Henning of Cedar Rapids, IA (swashy caps and a blackletter face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Posterizer KG
    [Lazar Dimitrijevic]

    Lazar Dimitrijevic, who set up the foundry Posterizer KG, was born in 1981 in Bajina Basta, Serbia, and lives in Kragujevac, Serbia. He obtained a Master of Graphic Design from the Department of Graphic Design, FILUM Kragujevac, Serbia. Presently, he is art director at Design Studio BOX.

    His first font, Art Decor (2009), is a brush typeface in the style of Treefrog. Koma Latin (2009) is a roughly outlined script face. Bajka (2010) is a wonderfully entertaining Baskerville family (Latin, Cyrillic, dingbats, ornamental caps) made for children's fairy tale books. Scarface (2010) is a sublime scratchy hand ideal for torture movies. Kaligraf Latin (2010) is a rough-edged calligraphic face.

    In 2012, he published Collage BB (hand-drawn didone), the heavy Egyptian typeface Posterizer KG at DizajnDesign. This font was created for Celebration of 5 years anniversary of Design Studio Box from the city of Kragujevac (KG), the industrial city of Serbia. Posterizer KG (+Rounded) contains all the Latin and Cyrillic glyphs. Posterizer KG Inline and Posterizer KG Rough (a letterpress emulation version) were added in 2013. Posterizer KG Sketch followed in 2015.

    Still in 2012, he designed the ink splatter typeface Oops, and the calligraphic typefaces Cal Humanistic Cursive (a renaming of Cal Humanist Corsiva, posibly under pressure from Monotype), Cal Humanist Minuscule and Cal Humanist Corsiva.

    He also creates stunning calligraphic works.

    Cal Roman Capitals (2012) is a Trajan typeface. In the same calligraphic series, we find Cal Rustic Capitals (2012), Cal Square Capitals (2012), and Cal Uncial (2012).

    Typefaces from 2013: Posterizer KG Sketch, Cal Expressive, Cal Bakerly (calligraphic script in the style of Arthur Baker), Cal Cursive Roman, Cal Rustic Black, Cal Neuland Bold (after the German expressionist typeface Neuland by Rudolf Koch), Cal Gothic Bastard, Cal Gothic Fraktur, Cal Fraktur Modern, Cal Rotunda, Cal Gothic Textura, Cal Carolingian Minuscule, Cal Carolingian Gothic, Cal Insular Minuscule, Cal Insular Majuscule, Cal Beneventan Minuscule.

    Typefaces from 2014: Cal Neuland Shadow, Mozzart Sketch (a decorative hand-sketched version of Mozzart Sans, a slightly rounded, neo-Grotesque corporate font, that was originally created for the Belgrade-based company Mozzart DDO; followed in 2015 by Mozzart Rough).

    In 2015, he designed Drina (brush typeface), My Way (a TreeFrog style handwritten face).

    Typefaces from 2016: Bali Beach (brush script), Omorika (a rustic handcrafted sketched serif typeface).

    Typefaces from 2017: Workshop Brush (dry brush), Workshop Marker, Workshop Pencil.

    Typefaces from 2018: Miro (after the lettering in Joan Miro's art), Ernest (based on the hand of Ernest Hemingway), Natron (rounded condensed sans; +Pictograms).

    Typefaces from 2019: My Tara (a thick brush script), Natron Rough, Kalli Hand, Kalli Sketch.

    Typefaces from 2020: Panorama KG (based on the principle nothing below the baseline), Hubble (a rhythmic display typeface with thorny serifs), Liceum (a rhythmic calligraphic script for Latin and Cyrillic), Cal Fraktur Brush, Cal Roman Black, Cal Roman Modern, Cal Uncial Rough.

    Typefaces from 2021: PKG Roman Capitals (Trajan capitals with a hand-drawn finish, for Latin and Cyrillic), Monodia (a slab serif and its glitched version). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Prachi Gajjar

    During her studies in Mumbai, Prachi Gajjar created the decorative caps typeface Cartoon (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Prajakta Dhargalkar

    Mumbai-based creator of the display typeface Astuvity (2016) and of the decorative caps typeface Birdography (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Prashant Varma

    Bangalore, India-based graphic designer. He created Tribal Typo (2013, an ornamental caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Preeti Kaur

    New Delhi, India-based designer of the multicolor geometric all caps typeface Life (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Prequel

    Austrian creator of the hand-printed rough all-caps typeface JohnFSebastian Lettering (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Prio Nurokhim Aji
    [Prioritype]

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    Prioritype
    [Prio Nurokhim Aji]

    Kebumen, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1997) of these typefaces in 2020: Arkaedos (a creamy script), Amtera (a fat finger font), Takidos (children's letters), Merilland, Tamword, Terasu Brush (a dry brush script), Chalk Perio (a chalk font), Diltoon (a cartoon font), , Savattera, Pecattes (a very dry brush script), Dhecalovia (a fat finger font), Launsela (a fat finger font), Super Love Christmas, Bevalonia, Butter Spoky, Super Love Christmas, Merilland, The Bonbon, Annila Script, Kagatsun, Frangstton, Sophomore, Reacter, Oliotton, Many Cheeks, Keyrannha (monoline script), Chatalisa, Dhecca House (a monoline script), Ligotra (all caps, Victoriana), Fagetone (a retro signage script), Gangsoka (an angry serif), the script font Meltinghones and the monoline script typefaces Caligendings and Frangstton.

    Typefaces from 2021: Flower Glory (a counterless kindergarten font), Delichan (a calligraphic script), Smile Darling (a decorative stencil), Fondest (a Peignotian sans with a hipster f), Mintage (a retro serif), Klender (a descendant of Cooper Black), Charming Smile (a plump painted font), Hey Tiny (a fat finger font that emulates a child's hand), Central Display, Street Ruins (a graffiti font), Bruskest (a bold dry brush script), Klemer Display (a flat top display typeface), Nectarine (a plump almost psychedelic font), The Burcey (a casual cutout typeface), Relation De Luxe (a rounded all caps sans characterized by many interlocking pairs), Qochy (a display font with elephant feet serifs), Urban Starblues (a graffiti font duo), Urban Java (a reverse stress Western font), Brugty (a bold display typeface in the Cooper Black / Windsor genre), Organic Peach (a fat finger font), Kosans (all caps), Magilio (in the trendy Windsor / Cooper Black style), Elkoga (an 8-style rounded wedge serif), Onedrips (a dripping paint font), Bilground (script), Dassie (an all caps display font), Sugar Smile, Roti Bakar (a sans with swirls), Dripping Drops (a dripping paint font), Apple Slices (a font duo), Dialog Anila, Goodwin Geraldine, Tropical Blooming (a scrapbook script), Bomb Da Gone (graffiti lettering), Fillings Urban (a plumpish graffiti font), Tratags (graffiti), Johny Palkons (letterpress emulation), Kickcore (a brush font), Lonely Girl (a fat finger font), Malistiona, Bittermoon (a fat finger script), Demilton (a heavy script).

    Typefaces from 2022: Amila Cuties, Cansetras (a tattoo blackletter), Codigra (a liquid serif), Distant Neighbors, Employed, Favorite Notification (a hipster serif), Getrok, Glemor (font duo), Niblick, Olasthy Script (a loopy script), Peach More, Pink Punk (a death metal font), Red Royale (blackletter), Shining Youth (ornamental caps with flowery texture), Sunday Bloom (a hand-drawn serif), Ditsa Calista (script), Brume Matinale (a sharp-edged display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Priscila Gomez Aldas

    Art director in Galapagos, Ecuador, who designed the animal-themed ornamental caps typeface Galapagos in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Priscilla Siahaan

    During her studies in Jakarta, Indonesia, Priscilla Siahaan created a decorative all-caps typeface called Jakarta (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Priska Nur Asriani

    Bandung and Jakarta-based artist. She created the beautiful nude female figure alphabet Fatal Femme (sic) in 2011. Each glyph has a different character taken from Indonesian mythology. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Proportional Lime
    [Shane Brandes]

    Oberlin, OH-based foundry of Shane Brandes (b. Lakefield, MN, 1974), who made the historic semi-blackletter revival Augsburger2009 (2009), which was inspired by one of Ernhardt Ratdolt's (1442-1528) many beautiful typefaces. Ratdolt was a printer from Augsburg, hence the name. River Liffey (2009) is based on a typeface used by James Williams an Irish printer active in Dublin during the late 18th century. Rising Sun (2009, blackletter) was inspired by Gering and Remboldt's work during the late 1490s in Paris.

    Charlemagne (2010) is an imaginary medieval script. Fleurious (2010) are ornaments. Sweynheym Pannartz (2010) is modeled after an example Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz used in their early printing venture in Subiaco, Italy which began around 1465. Ballard (2010) was inspired by a font used by Henrie Ballard, who operated on Fleet Street at the Signe of the Bear in London from ca. 1597-1608. White Now (2010) is a music note font. Enn'agrammaton (2010) is a cryptographic font. Pluton (2010) is a fixed width font with over 1400 glyphs. Old Venexia (2010) simulates an irregular medieval type. Black Tie (2010) is a simple monoline sans family. Azabercna (2010) is based on gothic principles. Alchimistes (2010) is a medieval symbol face, while Florati (2010) provides a set of ornamental caps. Wappenstein (2010) is an angular stone-carved face: The font Wappenstein was inspired by the carving on a memorial stone located in Paderborn, Germany. The stone was a Epitaph of the Brenkener family, and the carver is known as the Meister des Brenkener Familienepitaphs. The carving, dating to 1562, currently is curated by the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in the city of Paderborn and was originally in the Brenkener Pfarr Kirche. Boston 1851 (2010) is based on a stereotype used by Wier and White, Printers of Boston, that was created by the New England Stereoype Foundry under the auspices of Hobart and Robbins, also of Boston. Cruxially (2010) is a 500-glyph dingbat font with crosses.

    Gaspardo (2011) is an art deco display face. Anguillette (2011) is a quaint grungy face. Ernst (2011) is a very simple but large hand-printed face. The blackletter typeface Schoeffer (2011) is based on Typ.7:146/148G also known as Gesellschaft für Typenkunde plate no. 258, by Peter the Younger (son of Peter Schoeffer), cut ca. 1509-1520. Printers in Marks is a printer mark dingbat typeface created in 2011. Cat E Poultry (2011) is a scanbat typeface of cats. Lucas Brandis (2011) is based on section headings used by printer Lucas Brandis, the first printer to operate in the city of Lübeck around 1473.

    Creations in 2012: Vine Street, Nicolaus Kesler (a blackletter type based on one of the typefaces of Basel-based Nicolaus Kessler, 15th century), Modality Antiqua (straight-edged and mechanical), Martin Crantz (2012: Martin Crantz (or sometimes Krantz) of the three, including Ulrich Gering and Michael Friburger, that set up a press at the Sorbonne in 1470 was likely the fellow who had the technical know how how to cast the type itself, hence the name of this new typeface that is based on his work.). Modality Antiqua and Modality Novus are explorations of the octagonal principle. Zainer is a rough-edges renaissance era typeface named after Augsburg-based printer Günther Zainer who was active from 1468 until 1478. Swine And Roses is based on a Free Mason script. Ammurapi is a Ugaritic script face.

    Typefaces from 2013: Michael Wenssler (an incunabula / blackletter typeface based on Michael wenssler typeface from 1482), Andreae (a Fraktur based on a 16th century font by Hieronymus Andreae, who first worked as woodblock cutter and then became a publisher in the city of Nuremberg until his death in 1565), Dropsomaniacal (Lombardic), Therhoernen (grungy medieval script after a Cologne-based printer Arnold Therhoernen, active from 1470 until 1483), Rusch (a 1000-glyph revival of a late 15th century antiqua by Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler, who was active in Strasbourg from 1460 until 1489), Gutknecht (a Schwabacher based on a font used by Jobst Gutknecht, a printer in Nuremburg from 1514 until 1542). The rough blackletter typeface Kachelofen and Konrad Kachelofen are named after Konrad Kachelhofen, a printer in Leipzig active from 1482 until 1529. Albrecht Pfister (2013) is a textura typeface based on Biblia Paperum, which was printed by Pfister in Bamberg, ca. 1460. Amerbach 883 (2013) is a rotunda typeface based on a typeface by Basel-based printer and typefounder Johann von Amerbach, who was active from 1477 until 1513.

    Typefaces from 2014: Willie Caxton (a blackletter used by William Caxton in his 1476 edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), Azabercna, Lion of Antwerp (an incunabula typeface: Gerard Leeu met his untimely end in a work-related altercation in 1492. He was a notable printer in both the cities of Gouda and Antwerp. This font typeface is based on the "Die gesten of gheschienisse van romen" typeface, ca. 1481.), Hildegardis (an alphabetic cipher that was invented in the 12th century by Hildegard von Bingen to obscure a language called Lingua Ignota. The exemplar was found in the Riesencodex), Lady Vittoria (vampire script based on a German cross stitch pattern from the 1870s), Trowel.

    Typefaces from 2016: Holle There (a re-cut of a typeface that Lienhart Holle used in his epic edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia that dates to the early 1480's, even predating italics).

    Typefaces from 2017: Archbishop (based on the legal documents of Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen, who granted Hildegard von Bingen and her nuns rooms at the Rupertsberg Monastery in the year 1150), Schoensperger Der Altere (after a blackletter font used by the first female printer, Anna Ruuml;gerin, who was Johann Schönsperger der Altere's sister; Johann was a famous printer in Augsburg, Germany, during the last 20 years of the 15th century).

    Typefaces from 2018: Zell (a rough blackletter based on 15th century German typeface by Ulrich Zell), Captain Cookie (based on the original font used to print a short history of Captain Cook's exploits around the world), Adelheid (a great curly blackletter based on a 16th century Swiss publication), Feodorov (named after Russia's first printer, Ivan Feodorov).

    Creative Market link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Psymon

    A site with initial caps in GIF format. Sets include The Alphabet Of Children by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527-1532), The Dance Of Death of Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1523), and Initials by Paulus Franck-Schatzkammer (1601). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Puntuale

    Torino, Italy-based designer of the colorful decorative caps typeface Mousta (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Purah

    A few truetype fonts: Batarde, PompeiiCapitals (Agfa, 1995), Ruritania, CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps, OffenbachChancery, Stonehenge. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Qilli Design
    [Veronika Golovko]

    Veronika Golovko or Veronika Qilli (Qilli Design, Novorossiysk, Russian Federation) specializes in scrapbook fonts. She designed the brush typefaces Michelly (2015) and Jemmer (2015), and the hand-painted font Bellious (2015). In 2016, she designed Gentle Air, Clouds Caprice, Drawing A Life, Sorcery (a curly vampire script), Magic Snow (brushed), Joy In Night (Halloween font), Autumn Madness (perhaps for children's books), Belles Script, and the brush typefaces Adeline and Melony Script.

    Typefaces from 2017: Hello Love (with heart textutres), Douillet (sketched), Tiny Joy (textured), Playful (paper cutout), Magic Days (brush), Gentle Air (curly script), Mirabelle (calligraphic script), Francy, Celine Modern (artsy beatnik style), La Balade, Mirelia (brush font), De Plaisir Autour (sic) (counterless), Artless (connected script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Golden Day (monoline script), Only Yesterday, Summer Day, Spring Dreams (decorative caps), Just Step.

    Typefaces from 2019: Only Joy, Angel Star, Amber Day (brush font), Magnoly, Clouds Caprice, Spring Dreams, Be Amazing, Starry.

    Typefaces from 2020: Funny Christmas, Starry, Mirabelle Script, Golden Day. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Qiushuo Li

    Chinese creator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City of a colorful geometric decorative caps typeface in 2016 that was inspired by ACME Studios. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    R. Krohn

    Based at Northern Michigan University, R. Krohn created a gothic architecture and stained glass typeface called NMU Gothic Architecture (2011, FontStruct). Never mind that there are no Gothic cathedrals in Michigan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Racheal Pontin

    Durban, South Africa-based designer of the rhino poaching font Afrika Typografika (2016), which was finished during her studies at DUT. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rachel Fernandez

    Graphic designer in Santiago, Chile, who designed the all caps image-format typeface Lorax in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rachel Graham

    Graphic artist in Firenze (and soon London). She made Blackout (2010, a geometric face), and Pac (2010, a circular face, inspired by Pacman). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rachel Nicholls

    Brighton, UK-based designer of Vintage Animal Alphabet (2013), a revival of an alphabet from the 18th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rachel Toh Jia Xin

    Muar, Malaysia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Spiral Eyes (2018), which was developed during her studies Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Kuala Lumpur. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rachelle Fortin

    Graphic artist in Ottawa, Ontario. Creator of the display caps typeface Eureka (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rae Crawford

    At the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY-based Rae Crawford designed the decorative caps typeface Beautiful Insects (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rafael Leal

    Salvador, Brazil-based designer of the frilly decorative caps typeface Capitulares (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Raffael Sebastian

    During his studies at Maranatha Christian University in Indonesia, Bandung-based Raffael Sebastian created the decorative caps typeface Asmat (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rahul A. Kumar
    [TrendGFX Design Studios]

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    Rainer Will
    [Will Software]

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    Rajesh Rajput
    [Nav Raw]

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    Ralph Michael Unger
    [RMU (Ralph Michael Unger Typedesign)]

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    Ramdon Studio
    [Gustav Rendon]

    Illustrator and typographer in Cali, Colombia. Blog. His typefaces:

    • St3ak (2014).
    • Zinuu (2011). A fresh display caps typeface called that marries three concepts: the spiral, dots, and paperclips.
    • Idiky (2011). A poster typeface.
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    Ramona Gonzalez

    Manila, The Philippines-based designer of the decorative Rawrphabet (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Randi Meredith

    Web designer in Delaware. Behance link. She drew an alphabet---not a font---based on lace patterns called Dollies (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    randi5

    FontStructor who made Epic Cap (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Randy Raharja

    Illustrator and designer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He created an ornamental alphabet of digits in 2010. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ranjani Agrawal

    Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Mini Henna (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rashid Hadis

    Born in 1986, and based in Lahore, Pakistan, Rashid Hadis created the ornamental caps typeface Bhangra (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Raul Alejandro

    New York City-based art director who drew an exquisite set of initials in 2013 called Love Letters. He graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rawan Alhussaini

    During his studies at the American University of Kuwait, Rawan Alhussaini (Qortuba, Kuwait) designed several all caps Latin display typefaces (2016) and the skull-themed Skullets (2016, for Latin and Arabic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Raxdar

    Izium, Ukraine-based designer of the PNG-format all caps alphabet Crystalline (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Raxon Rex

    Surabaya, Indonesia-based student-designer of the decorative caps alphabet Chameleon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ray Moore

    Graphic designer in Munich. Behance link. He is working on an extensive ornamental caps typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rayane Alvim

    During her studies in Rio de Janeiro, Rayane Alvim designed a decorative set of caps (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rémy Peignot

    French type designer, b. Paris, 1924, d. Paris, 1986. Designer of Initiales Cristal (1953-1955, Fonderie Deberny&Peignot). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Rebecca Clements

    Cartoonist and illustrator in Melbourne, who drew The Kitty Alphabet in 2013.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rebecca Mah

    New York City-based designer of Culture Caps (2014), a collection of drop caps from various cultures. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rebecca Menge

    Thibodaux, LA-based student-designer of the decorative caps typeface Easy As ABC (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Red Ink
    [Iryna Trigubova]

    Or Ira Trigubova. Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: the informal typeface School, Königreich (medieval blackletter calligraphic script), Sweetheart (a cutesy children's or Valentine's Day font), Coral Waves, Winter Story (handcrafted), Little Bee (+Sans: letters with bees buzzing around), Schönheit (connected script), Aisling (a monoline script), Rhapsody (connected script), Amanita, Star Dust (handcrafted), Urbano (dry brush), Tulip Garden, Meraki (a dotted ornamental sans).

    Typefaces from 2018: Paper Snow (a paper cutout font), Hunter House, Pop Art (including SVG fonts), Rivendell (uncial), Morning Tea, First Kisses (crayon SVG font), First Kiss (display sans), Summer Jelly (font duo), Fiesta (font duo: Script and Serif), Solomiya (tribal script for Latin and Cyrillic), Friday Feelings (font duo), Nightingale (calligraphy), Monogram (a set of five decorative caps fonts), Red Tomato (script), Alter Ego, Beloved.

    Typefaces from 2019: White Feather, English Channel (an elegant calligraphic font duo), Letter Home, Lettering Box, Rain Soul (SVG style), Rose Petals, Miracles (font duo), Tahiti Sand (a painted brush font in SVG format), Good Feeling, Little Girl, Stonehill, Broadway Lights (font duo), Love is Love (font duo), Summer Cat, Aztec Soul (a tribal / Aztec font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Just Imagine (blackletter). Creative Fabrica link. YWFT link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Redak Anderson

    Lima, Peru-based designer of a monster font called Moco (2013) and of Cristal Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Renalli Trajano

    Graduate of De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, Manila. Based in Las Pinas, The Philippines, Renalli Trajano created the ornamental caps alphabet Sesame Street (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Renata McElvany

    Long Beach, CA-based designer of the colorful all caps typeface Candy Worm (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Renn Crump

    As part of Life Saving Fonts, Renn Crump designed RC All American (2001). He also designed the display font Antwerp Text (2002), Paintdrips (2002), Easter Sunrise (2002), Meisterstinger (2002), Dodge City Initials (2002), the Celtic knot font CelticKnot (2002), RioArtDeco (2002, a multiline typeface based on Marcia Loeb's 1972 art deco alphabet, Rio), and the gorgeous Farnoe Initials font.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Resistenza
    [Giuseppe Salerno]

    Giuseppe Salerno (aka Resistenza.es) is an Italian graphic designer, specializing in web design. He lived in Torino, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Valencia, and currently works in Valencia, Berlin and Turin. Studio Resistenza was cofounded by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzales.

    In 2010, he made the circular multiline face Afrobeat (+Light), the fat counterless typeface Vito Sans (2010), Wonderwall (2010, like a skeletal construction), the high-contrast art deco typeface Zaza (2010), and the pure Italian vintage art deco face Luxx (futurism).

    Other work: an art deco poster.

    Direct links to his fonts: Zaza, Afrobeat, Vito Sans, Luxx, Wonder Wall, Afrobeat Light.

    Creations from 2011: Ratatan, Bodoni At Home (a handpainted Bodoni), Arcanotype (2011, delicate caps, individually drawn using Chinese ink on Japanese calligraphy paper), Babushka (2011), Dolce Caffe (2011), Adelaida (hand-printed poster face), Monella (octagonal).

    Production in 2012: Ampersanders (a font with many ampersands), BLAQ (an ornamental blackletter caps typeface inspired by Henry W. Troy), The Bay (hand-printed all caps poster face), Bratislove (an artsy hand-drawn typeface), Modernissimo (decorative modern art-inspired caps), Clementina (hand-printed caps), Afrobeat Gothic (angular multiline face).

    Typefaces from 2013: Glob (bubblegum face), Archivio (slab serif family with very open counters), Mina (connected script), Monster Hand (brush script), Berliner Fraktur (a flat brush fraktur inspired by Rudolf Koch), The Luxx (a redesign of the 2010 art deco sans typeface Luxx---a comparable typeface is Mostra Nuova by Mark Simonson), Starburst (calligraphic gestural light script), Caramello Script, Copperlove (copperplate script), Yma Italic (retro script), Sonica Brush.

    Typefaces from 2014: Stencil Creek, Elastica (handcrafted typeface family), Elastica (hand-drawn poster family), Nautica (copperplate script, extended in 2018 to Nautica Sottile and the monoline version Nautica Line), Ingles (copperplate script), Peperoncino Sans (a decorative sans serif font system designed with a marker), Attica RSZ (inspired by Caslon Italian and Novarese's Estro), Montana (poster family, +Icona), Superb (a yummy creamy script, co-designed with Paco Gonzalez), Dolce Caffe 3D, Coming Home (a hairline curly script based on a childish handwriting), Rachele (a monoline connected script with a large x-height), The Crashed Fonts (a glaz krak family), Newland (inspired by Rudolf Koch's Neuland), Two Fingers (a funky hand-drawn family that includes, e.g., Two Fingers Bodoni, Two Fingers Courier, Two Fingers Poster [blackboard bold] and Two Fingers Script).

    Typefaces from 2015: Modern Love (brush script), Mela (a gorgeous pointed brush / walnut ink typeface), Turquoise (a calligraphic serif type influenced by capitalis romana; not to be confused with Ahmet Altun's Turquoise typeface from 2011; co-designed with Paco Gonzalez, it was extended in 2019 in Turquoise Inline, and a new version was added in 2021, Turquoise Tuscan), Mina Chic (a wide connected calligraphic fashion mag script), Natura (connected fountain pen script, with accompanying Notebook, Icons and Stamps (initial caps) styles), Stencil Creek (inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk and influenced by street signs of the North West Pacific), Quaderno (monoline upright signage script).

    Typefaces from 2016: Xmas Wishes, Gianduja (2016, a chocolate box script typeface family co-designed with Andrea Tardivo and Paco Gonzalez). Apero (a handcrafted emulation of sans and slab styles; the sans serif was inspired by vintage local liquor labels), Respect (a brush script sign painting typeface), Mentha (a calligraphic connected script typeface).

    Typefaces from 2017: Peperoncino Vintage, Shabby Chic (wide signature script), Merendina (rounded sans family), Adore You (dry brush script), Quaderno Slanted (monolinear connected script), Love Wins (a collection of signage type phrases), Beach Please (watercolor brush), Timberline (dry brush script), Orbita (stencil shadow), Modern Love Slanted (brush style), Gessetto (a chalk lettering family).

    Typefaces from 2018: Pesto Fresco (a wonderful 28-font layerable font family for use in hand-lettered posters), Instamood (a casual script), Auster (an unconventional flared and reverse contrast sans; followed in 2019 by Auster Rounded by Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno, and in 2020 by Auster Variable), Smoothy (brush script), Voguing (a multiline typeface inspired by the movement and glamour of the 80¿s and New York ballrooms scene), Beach Please Vintage, La Bodeguita (calligraphic), Contigo (with Paco Gonzalez; see also Contigo Vintage ), Story Tales (folklore style, with many choices of textures and possibility of layering), DreamTeam (multilined).

    Typefaces from 2019 co-designed by Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno: the brush typefaces Pando Script and Parkour, the Tuscan family Royale, the chalk font Dolce Caffe Chalk, the brush script Batticuore, the bry brush script typeface Blue Jeans, the layered handcrafted sans typeface Dolcissimo, and the font duo Sunday Morning.

    Typefaces from 2019 by Giuseppe Salerno: SmoothyPro (with Paco Gonzalez), Auster Slab (a reverse stress slab).

    Typefaces from 2020: Vermouth (a layerable font based on Italian signs from the 1960s), Big Mamma (a hand-printed slab serif by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzalez), Suerte (a reverse contrast display type, inspired by Aldo Novarese's Estro; with Paco Gonzalez), Norman (a fashion mag typeface by Paco Gonzalez and Giuseppe Salerno), Royale Italic (Tuscan; with Paco Gonzalez), Groupie (a psychedelic delight), Hello Fresh (with Paco Gonzalez), Nostalgia and Nostalgia Flowers (with Paco Gonzalez), Tresor (a romantic flared sans; with Paco Gonzalez), Pesto Fresco Italic (with Paco Gonzalez).

    Typefaces from 2021: Industria Serif (54 styles; by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco Gonzalez), Guess What (hand-printed), Little Boxes (a fat finger font), Notes (a notebook script family), Annuario (an 48-style sans initially created for a calendar), Norman Stencil, Norman Variable, Videomusic (script), Norman Fat (a decorative high-contrast razor-sharp serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Oddity (a stylish calligraphic script).

    His type blog is called It's Not My Type. Behance link. Creative Market link. Klingspor link. Creattica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Reuben Miller

    Creator in 2008 of a beautiful finger alphabet (not fontified yet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ricard Garcia

    Barcelona-based designer and lettering artist. In 2015 he received his BA in Graphic Design from the University of Barcelona. Graduate of the Type Media program at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2019. His typefaces:

    • Prelude, his graduation typeface at KABK, is a display sans that has calligraphic traits in the heavier weights. It has many styles that make this humanistic ensemble a wonderful and useful toolbox, even for short texts. It won an award at 23TDC.
    • With Andreu Balius at Type Republic, he designed Patufet (2018-2019), a warm text family inspired by Catalan folk tales. For hairlines, one can't go thinner than Patufet Finet. In 2020, they added Patufet Mono. For hairlines, one can't go thinner than Patufet Finet, and for fatness, one can't go fatter than Patufet Obes, another 2020 addition.
    • Still with Andreu Balius, he developed Poblet (2018: Solid, Diamond, Bevel), a stylish titling or display typeface that includes a vintage inline style.
    • The heavy sign painter's typeface Raval (2020, Type Republic). Later renamed Ravals.
    • The stroke-based Casual. This typeface was developed by combining the calligraphic origin of a sign painting model to a parametric world built by code.
    • Nina (ca. 2015). A hand-printed typeface based on the handwriting of Antonia Monroig, in which each glyph has four versions.
    • Globe (2020). An artsy typeface that fits well in Gaudi's universe.
    • Groundbeat (2020). A stencil family by Andreu Balius and Ricard Garcia.
    • The Superveloz Centenary Collection (2020, by Andreu Balius and Ricard Garcia at Type Republic). Designed to honor Joan Trochut's 1942 masterpiece. It consists of SV Mambo, SV Jazz, SV Bebop, SV Bolero, SV Swing and SV Twist. In 2021, Ricard Garcia and Andreu Balius added the large family SuperVeloz Caps which consists of SV Caps Bebop SV Caps Bolero SV Caps Jazz SV Caps Mambo SV Caps Swing and SV Caps Twist.

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    Ricardo Esteves Gomes
    [Outras Fontes]

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    Ricardo Fortes

    Graphic designer, illustrator and video editor based in Toronto. In 2019, he drew the decorative alphabet Dragon Plate. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ricardo Reis

    During his studies in Entroncamento, Portugal, Ricardo Reis designed the organic monoline typeface Richard Light (2014) and the decorative Sausage Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ricardo Valadez

    During his graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Ricardo Valadez designed a high-contrast hand-printed all caps typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Riccardo Olocco

    Prior to a four-year stint as a lecturer in typography at the faculty of design and Art of the free University of Bolzano (2009-2013), Italian type designer Riccardo Olocco freelanced as a graphic designer in Milan and elsewhere in Italy. He graduated in 2014 from the MATD program at the University of Reading, UK. In 2019, he obtained his Ph.D. at Reading's Faculty of Typography and Graphic Design. In his thesis, A new method of analysing printed type: the case of 15th-century Venetian romans, he focuses on 15th-century Venetian roman types, combining the use of bibliographical knowledge and analysis of letterforms.

    Riccardo writes on type design and type history. Besides his ongoing investigation into Francesco Griffo's roman types, his research with James Clough on Bodoni's types will be published by Codex. He is also a member of the Nebiolo History Project.

    Designer, with Michele Patanè, of the commercial caps typefaces Cordial Bloom (2009) and Cordial Cherry (2009).

    Together with Jonathan Pierini, Olocco reinterpreted Bodoni's work in 2014. Their Parmigiano Typographic System, which is named after Parma, the city where Giambattista Bodoni (d. 1813) established his printing house, attempts to revive, interpret and boldly extend Bodoni's work. There is not a single official original Bodoni---Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico contains many slightly different examples---, and so, the first challenge was to create coherent relationships between various optical sizes (Piccolo, Caption, Text, Headline) and weights. Besides the Parmigiano Serif family, Olocco and Pierini also developed the creative extension Parmigiano Sans. There are also Stencil, Typewriter, Egyptian styles, to name a few. The Parmigiano Typographic System was published in 2014 by Typotheque, but was developed a few years before that.

    In 2014, he was a founding partner in the new CAST type foundry in Bolzano. His typefaces at CAST include

    • Brevier (2014). This typeface was designed for setting long texts in small or very small type sizes---the name Breveir refers to 8 point size in ancient times.
    • Gramma (2014). A compact temporary sans with large x-height.
    • Zenon (2014, for Latin, Bengali, Greek and Cyrillic) and the sans version, Zenans. His graduation typeface in the MATD program at the University of Reading, UK. He writes: is a sum of different styles, from Francesco Griffo to Granjon, from modern typefaces to the first sketches of Times New Roman. Zenon is an apparently Renaissance revival with modernish proportions. A closer look reveals that it is a typographic potpourri. Zenon was published by CAST in 2015.
    • Arzachel (2017, CAST). A flared terminal humanistic sans.
    • In 2018, Luciano Perondi and Riccardo Olocco designed the newspaper and information design typeface Sole Sans. It was originally designed for the leading Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 ore.
    • In 2021, Miles Newlyn, Riccardo Olocco and Krista Radoeva co-designed New Spirit, a 10-style typeface that revives the comfort food font Windsor.

    Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Nicolas Jenson's roman type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Riccardo Sabatini

    Designer and digital artist in Florence, Italy. He created the ornamental caps typefaces Mekkanika (2011) and Brushwood (2011). In 2012, he added the beautiful 3d cube typeface Hexahedra and the free beveled typeface family Embossy.

    In 2015, he created the typeface family Native for the graphic novel Indian Tales by Passenger Press, for cover and chapter headings. Sub-styles are Wisakedjak (alchemic), Croatoan (like wood carvings), and Wendigo.

    Typefaces from 20165: Spike (a monospaced spurred typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Richard Beatty

    Richard Beatty (Colorado) died on May 14, 2018. He made beautiful fonts, often revivals and interpretations of old typefaces and calligraphic designs, and was influenced by Frederic Goudy. In the 1990s, he operated as Richard Beatty Designs, making over 500 typefaces. Most were only for private or corporate use. Richard's typefaces:

    • Baxter New Style (1988), Baxter Old Style (1988)
    • Beatty Victoriana (1991): a set of five Victorian era fonts---Wanted, Spiral, Recherché, Hermosa and Childs (1985). Hermosa and Childs are nearly art nouveau. Childs is a revival of an 1892 typeface by Hermann Ihlenburg. Puzzling note: the Linotype catalogue says that Kismet was designed in 1879 by John F. Cumming. When you look at Spiral by Richard Beatty, you find a close copy of Kismet; Beatty says it's an "edited version of Kismet", but he holds the copyright. Is this another case of legal cloning? Finally, Wanted is based on an ATF typeface, Fantail, that was already shown in 1889 by the Franklin Type Foundry.
    • Benjamin (2002, BeattyType): from sketches by Ed Benguiat.
    • BernardsHand (beautiful medieval hand)
    • Borders (1990, some designed by R. Mitchell and R. Beatty)
    • Calligraph Initials (1997): a Lombardic face.
    • Childs. After a design from 1893 by Hermann Ihlenburg.
    • Civilite
    • Cooper
    • Desdemona (1994, +Black): art nouveau
    • Doric
    • Doves Type (2006). After the famous Venetian typeface designed by Emery Walker and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, 1900.
    • Duchy Blackletter, Duchy Initials (2002): A blackletter typeface based on a sketch by Ed Benguiat of Benton's Dutch Initials.
    • Elizabeth RB. After Frederic Goudy, 1900.
    • Elizabeth (1994, BeattyType): An all caps almost uncial face.
    • Fanny Mitchell, Fanny Mitchell Initials (2005).
    • GeneralMenou
    • Goodhue (2005).
    • Goudy Claremont (1993: based on Scripps College Old Style, 1941).
    • Goudy Italian Old Style (1992).
    • Goudy Mediaeval (1992).
    • Goudy Saks (1990: based on a typeface designed in 1934 by Goudy for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York).
    • Hermosa (1991). a Victorian typeface.
    • Kennerley Old Style (1986, after Goudy's 1911 design)
    • Jensen Eusebius, Jensen Eusebius New Style (1989). A Venetian typeface.
    • 11LivingstonJCL
    • Lucianard
    • Mediaeval Calligraphy
    • Ornaments (based on 1928 figures drawn by E. Adler)
    • Overdressed (2002): based on a sketch by Edward Benguiat for his Phototype Company.
    • Prairie Poster (Plain, Fancy): arts and crafts face.
    • Quillsong (calligraphic)
    • Recherché (1991). A curly Victorian typeface.
    • Rene Louis (1992)
    • Rolls Royce.
    • Spiral (1991). Revival of John F. Cumming's Victorian typeface.
    • Troyer
    • University Old Style. After Frederic Goudy, 1938.
    • Velda (2005, connected hand): the handwriting of Velda Burgess Will, classmate of the designer.
    • Wanted RB (1991). A western font.
    • White Tie, White Tie Relaxed (2005): roman lettering.
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    Richard Edwards

    East Longmeadow, MA-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Bone To Pick (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Richard Kegler
    [P22 Type Foundry]

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    Richard McMurtrie

    Designer of Old Dutch (1926, ATF), an open decorated caps typeface with circles in the middle of each stroke. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Richard Schonegevel

    Richard Schonegevel (Happy Lucky Fun Studio, Amsterdam) created an ornamental caps typeface called Amsterdam in 2013. This work was inspired by the iron work details found on the city's early modernist bridges and buildings.

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    Richard William Mueller

    Designer from Elkader, IA (or is he from Garnavillo, IA?), b. 1956. No web page, but the fonts, mostly made in the early 1990s, were collected by CybaPee at TypOasis for your downloading pleasure. His typefaces:

    • AdvertMF, AdvertMFItalic. Ultra-heavy brush lettering.
    • AkashiMF (1993). Oriental simulation font.
    • AltenglischMF
    • AmbrosiaMF (1995). Art nouveau.
    • AndreasPenMF, AndreasPenMFBold
    • AnglesMF. Beveled letters.
    • ApolloMF-Shadow, ApolloMF (1994-1997). Victoriana.
    • ArgosMF
    • AtlantisMF
    • BaileyMF (1997).
    • BlackCastleMF. A rounded blackletter.
    • BodieMFFlag, BodieMFHolly (1995). An American flag font.
    • BolideMF. A brush font.
    • BrandyMFScript (1993).
    • BravoMF (1994). A script typeface inspired by a 1945 font by E.A. Neukomm.
    • BurntMF. Halftone textured letters.
    • CamelotMF, CamelotMFBold (1995).
    • CarnivalMFOpen, CarnivalMFOpenShadow, CarnivalMFRimmed
    • Casual-Regular, CasualContactMF, CasualMarkerMF (1994). Marker pen fonts.
    • CignoMF. A delicate script.
    • Cinema-Regular
    • ClubMF
    • CoffeeTinMFInitials. Western circus font.
    • CreditCards. Dingbats.
    • GFCristateMF (1997). Borders and dingbats, published by Garagefonts.
    • DaisyMF
    • DipperMF, DipperMFDemiBold
    • DirectionsMF (1995).
    • DragonflyMF
    • EarthquakeMF. Broken letters.
    • EddaMF. Art nouveau.
    • EdisonMF (1995). Pure Victoriana.
    • ElectMF (1997).
    • FanfareMFFancy. Art nouveau.
    • FantasticMFInitials, FantasticMFModern
    • FarleyMF (1994).
    • FlamesMF
    • FleetingMF
    • FranconiaMF (1994).
    • GingerMF (1997). Late Victorian, early art nouveau.
    • GrangeMF
    • GreetingsMF
    • GuttenbergMF (1995). Victorian.
    • HayStackMFWide
    • HeeHawMF
    • HoffmanMF
    • InkHighlight
    • Knockout-Regular, KnockoutMFInitials
    • KompaktMF
    • LavaMF (1994).
    • LegrandMF
    • LongEarsMF
    • MaizeMF
    • MamaMF
    • MantelMF
    • MeltdownMF
    • MercuriusMF
    • NewDayMFScript
    • OceanViewMFInitials
    • OmegaMF-Bold, OmegaMF (1994).
    • PaintPeelMFInitials
    • ParchmentMF
    • PenMarkMFBold (1995).
    • PinewoodMF
    • PlymouthMF
    • PollockMF (1995). Marble-filled artsy display letters.
    • PoloBrushMF (1993).
    • PosturesMFInitials
    • Primitive
    • ProtestSignMF (1995).
    • QuaintMF
    • RaggedMF (1996).
    • ReefMF (1994).
    • SantaMonciaMF
    • Sexy-MF
    • SixtiesMF (1993). A psychedelic font.
    • SophieMF (1995). Art nouveau.
    • SpeedlineMF
    • SpiritsMF
    • StarshineMF
    • StereoMF
    • SteveMF (1997).
    • StowawayMF
    • SwingtimeMF (1995).
    • TamboScriptMF
    • TarantellaMF. An insect-themed decorative typeface.
    • TitaniaMF
    • TolkienUncialMF
    • TomahawkMF (1995).
    • TradingPostMFBold
    • TumbleweedMF
    • TuscanMFNarrow
    • UncleBobMF-Shadow, UncleBobMF (1993).
    • VassarMF
    • VeronaScriptMF
    • WaverlyMF
    • WetPaintMF (1996).
    • WindsweptMF
    • WishMF (1997). Art nouveau.
    • WizardryMF-Contour, WizardryMF (1997). Art nouveau.

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

    Richardteoh Teoh

    Ipoh, Malaysia-based designer of the floral caps typeface Pitcher Plant (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rick Valicenti

    Rick Valicenti was born in 1951 in Pittsburgh, PA. After working for The Design partnership in Chicago, he founded R. Valicenti Design in 1981. Later, in 1989, he founded Thirst/3st, an internationally recognized design firm. The type design section of Thirst is Thirstype. Rick Valicenti is based in Barrington, IL. The White House honored Valicenti in 2011 with the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design. In 2006, he received the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medal, the highest honor of the graphic design profession, for his sustained contribution to design excellence and the development of the profession.

    Rick designed Commerce (1992, with Greg Thompson, Font Bureau), Punch (1999, pixel family done by Valicenti and Gregg Brokaw), Ooga Booga (1993, with Greg Thompson), Bronzo, UltraBronzo, and Love. In FUSE 4, he published Uck 'n Pretty. In 2002, Rick and Chester designed the sans serif family Infinity (20 weight architectural drawing family) and Alexey (2002, free stencil font family, with Chester Jenkins). Handjob (2002, with Brian McMullen) is a gorgeous set of capitals made out of wire-meshed hands. Twiggies (with Dakota Brown) is a free set of EPS-format caps made from twigs.

    Other creations: Apex Serif (2003, with Chester Jenkins, Constellation / Village), Apex Sans (2004, a 40-style sans family done with Chester Jenkins, Constellation / Village), EZ (2003), a monospaced family, and Veejay (2003, a funny dingbat family done with Chad Johnston).

    Books abut Valicenti include Art with Function: The Design of Rick Valicenti (Paul Carlson).

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    Rido Kim

    Gunpo, Korea-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Santaword (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Riham Hassan

    At the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in Beirut, Riham Hassan created the decorative caps typeface Poison (2014, Latin and Arabic), Arabic Flotsam (2014), and the textured Latin typeface Scribble Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rik Speel

    Graphic designer who runs Studio Speel in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 2017, he designed the decorative caps typeface Uno. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rik Verlin Livingston
    [Zono Fonts]

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    Rimma Seklani

    Graphic designer in Plymouth, UK, who made a few scary children's fonts in 2018, inspired by children's shows like Doc McStuffin or Henry Hugglemonster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ripul Bhopal

    Designer of the decorative caps typeface Britomart in 2015 during his studies at Yoobee School of Design in Auckland, New Zealand. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Risa Kusumoto

    Art director in Berlin who was born in Japan, and who graduated from the University of Toronto. Designer of the decorative all caps Brush Pen Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rita Macedo Carvalho

    Porto-based creator of the handmade caps alphabet Unbalanced (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rita Moniz

    Porto, Portugal-based creator of the hand-drawn decorative caps alphabet Alpha Tradiio (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rita Nogueira

    At the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Rita Nogueira created the multilined decorative display typeface family Sebastiao Rodrigues (2015), to honor the artist. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Riva Marino

    Graphic Design student in the Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. During his studies, Riva designed the ornamental caps typeface Archipelago Old Face (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    R.K. Cowtan

    Letterer from the last part of the 19th century. Examples of his alphabets include Modern Gothic Capitals, Modern Italic Penwork, Modern Penwork. These pictures appeared in the 1910 book by Lewis Foreman Day entitled Alphabets Old and New. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    RMU (Ralph Michael Unger Typedesign)
    [Ralph Michael Unger]

    Ralph M. Unger (b. 1953, Thuringia, East Germany) says this about himself at MyFonts: Typesetter from the composing stick via Linotype setting machines to the Mac. Jobs in various Thuringian printeries. Barred further education by Communist authorities due to political reasons. Imprisoned in East Germany. Since 1988 in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, former West Germany. Jobs in several newspaper printing houses as advertisement compositor. Own office since 1995, in Aalen, Baden-Wuerttemberg. He lives in Schwaebisch Gmuend, and was a freelance type designer for Profonts and URW++, where he contributed frequently to their libraries between 2002 and 2009. In 2009, he founded RMU. MyFonts link. I split his contributions into two groups, the URW / Profonts group, and the RMU group. The prefix FontForum refers to a subseries of URW++ fonts. Unless specifically mentioned, all the following fonts are at URW++ and/or Profonts:

    • FontForum Admiral Script (2005): revival of Middleton's Admiral script from 1953.
    • Amitié (2009): a garalde family.
    • Arabella Pro (2006): after the script by Arnold Drescher from 1936, published at Joh. Wagner.
    • Fontforum Atrament (2006): architectural lettering. Do not confuse with a Suitcase Type Foundry font from 2003 by the same name.
    • Atze (2010): a comic book family.
    • Behrensschrift D (2007): after the jugendstil typeface Behrens Schrift, 1902, by Peter Behrens.
    • FontForum Bernhard Script (2005): after Bernhard Script from the 1920s.
    • Bradley (2005): blackletter, after the original by William H. Bradley.
    • Breite Kanzlei (2007).
    • Breitkopf Fraktur (2003): after the original by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, done in 1793.
    • Brocken (2011) is a signage typeface inspired by a design of Volker Küster (1960s).
    • Profonts Bureau (2010, Profonts): a minimalist rounded sans family.
    • FontForum Calypso (2005): a revival of Roger Excoffon's Calypso (1958).
    • Card Pro (2006): a decorative display based on Ella Cursief (1916, Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos, Lettergieterij Amsterdam).
    • Chaweng (2006, Profonts): an oriental all caps simulation face.
    • Civilite URW (2005).
    • Compliment (2004, casual script). Based on a 1965 script by Helmu Matheis for Ludwig & Mayer.
    • Cranach (2007): a blackletter typeface modeled after Kuenstler Gotisch from the Krebs Foundry.
    • Dominante (2007): a serif family based on Johannes Schweitzer's font by that name, 1959.
    • Dominique (2010, profonts): an informal typeface.
    • FontForum URW Ecsetiras (2005): revival of Ecsetirás (Zoltan Nagy, 1967, a brush face).
    • Edda Pro (2008). An art nouveau typeface that revives a Heinrich Heinz Keune typeface from 1900.
    • Energia Pro (2008, Profonts): connected monowidth script, based on Arno Drescher's Energos from 1932.
    • Estro (2003, Western lettering). Seems close to Nebiolo's Estro from the 60s.
    • Eurobrush Pro (2007, Profonts): handwriting.
    • EuroSans (2008).
    • Euroscript Pro (2006, Profonts): school script typeface based on his own handwriting.
    • Flashes (2007): a revival of Crous-Vidal's Flash, 1953.
    • Fox (2007): a brush script based on W. Rebhuhn's original from the 1950s.
    • Gamundia (2010): a calligraphic copperplate script inspired by Excoffon's Diane.
    • Ganz Grobe Gotisch (2006): a fat blackletter modeled after the original by F.H.E. Schneidler.
    • Gmuender Elan Pro (2011) is a 1950s style script face.
    • Gradl Nr 1 (2008): based on hand-drawn art nouveau upper case characters by M. J. Gradl, ca. 1900.
    • Graphique Pro (2008): shaded caps face, based on Graphique, which was originally created by Swiss designer Hermann Eidenbenz in 1945, and issued as hot metal font by Haas'sche Schriftgießerei. See also New Graphique Pro (2011).
    • Handel Slab (2009): a 6-style extension of Trogram's 1980 typeface Handel Gothic.
    • Hanseat (2010): a grotesque family done at Profonts. It was heavily inspired by Germany's official DIN 1451 Engschrift.
    • Iova Nova (2007): based on Jowa Script, designed by J. Wagner in 1967.
    • Profonts>Impression (2008): art deco.
    • Jessen Schrift (2004): after the Rudolf Koch blackletter typeface by that name.
    • FontForum URW Konzept Pro (2005): revival of Konzept (1968, Martin Wilke's handprinting face).
    • Legende (2002): a script typeface based on the original typeface of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler (1937).
    • Leipziger Antiqua. The original Leipziger Antiqua by Alfred Kapr at Typoart dates from 1971 until 1973. The digital version of Leipziger Antiqua was developed by Ralph M. Unger in 2005.
    • Manuskript Antiqua (2005): after Oldrich Meinhart's Manuskript Antiqua.
    • The Maszynysta family of heavy industrial sans typefaces (2010) have a textured style (Struktura), a Shadow, and a plain Roman.
    • Maxim (2003, Profonts): The heavy brush typeface Maxim was originally designed by Peter Schneidler in 1956 for the Bauer foundry.
    • New Bayreuth (2008): after Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Bayreuth from 1932.
    • Old Borders and Lines (2010). A free font.
    • Ornella (2008): Jugendstil.
    • Peter Schlemihl (2008, Profonts): a revival of a blackletter by Walter Tiemann.
    • Pedell (2009): a casual script.
    • Polo (2002): a brush face modeled after Carl Rudolph Pohl's Polo (1960).
    • In 2012, Ivana Koudelkova co-designed the grungy headline typeface Retroactive Pro with Ralph M. Unger at Profonts.
    • Fontforum Rhapsody (2006): a revival of Ilse Schüle's rotunda face.
    • Roberta (2003): art nouveau typeface after obert Trogman's typeface for FotoStar.
    • FontForum Signs and Symbols (2006).
    • Splendor (2009): a revival of a brush script typeface by Wilhelm Berg, Schriftguss, 1930. See also Splendor Pro (2014).
    • Sportowy (2009): an outline face.
    • Stanford (2011). A sports lettering face.
    • Stiletto (2006): a medieval script.
    • Fontforum Stripes (2007): a multistripe op art display typeface based on a Letraset font from 1973 by the same name.
    • Fontforum Thalia (2006): retro font.
    • Tintoretto (2006): shadow display face based on an origonal by Schelter & Giesecke.
    • Tip Top Pro (2008): a Julius Klinkhardt art nouveau typeface revival.
    • FontForum Unciala (2005): a revival of Oldrich Menhart's typeface Unciala (1953, Grafotechna).
    • Unger Chancery (2005).
    • Unger Script (2003): based on H. Matheis' Slogan typeface designed for Ludwig&Mayer in 1957.
    • Veltro (2007): after a 1931 original by G. da Milano at Nebiolo.
    • Profonts Woodpecker (2008).
    The list of RMU fonts:
    • Affiche (2017). A revival of Helios Reklameschrift of the Klinkhardt foundry.
    • Aldo Manuzio (2017). After a house typeface from 1897 by Schelter&Giesecke.
    • Amati Pro (2010): after Georg Trump's condensed didone face, Amati, 1951.
    • Antiqua Florenz (2021). A revival and extension of Paul Zimmermann's Antiqua Florenz (1960, Ludwig & Mayer), which is based on Venetian romans.
    • Avus Pro (2012). A sans family that extends Gert Wunderlich's Maxima (1970).
    • Baroque Pearl (2016). A pearly typeface that revives Peter A. Demeter's Fournier Geperlt (1922, Schriftguss).
    • Behrens Kursiv (2013). After a 1906 original by Peter Behrens.
    • RMU Belvedere (2020). A revival of Heinrich Wieynck's art nouveau / fin-de-siècle typeface Belvedere (1906, Bauer).
    • RMU Bison (2020). A revival of Julius Kirn's brush script Bison (1935-1938, C.E. Weber).
    • Bernhard Blackletter (2016). After Lucian Bernhard's extrafette Bernhard Fraktur (1921).
    • Bernhard Cursive Extra Bold (2010).
    • Borghese (2015). An art nouveau font after a Schelter & Giesecke original from 1904.
    • Borgis Pro (2012). A Clarendon-style text family.
    • Boulette (2015, a fat creamy script).
    • RMU Bowery (2019) A revival of Old Bowery (1933, ATF)).
    • Bravura Pro (2013). After G.G. Lange's Publica.
    • Bricklayers (2012). An original fat slab display face.
    • Brillant (2009): art nouveau and ultra heavy.
    • Butti (2011). A script family paterned after Fluidum (1951, Alessandro Butti, Nebiolo).
    • Cable Condensed (2014). Based on Koch's Kabel.
    • Caesar Pro (2011). A flared sans typeface after Caesar Schrift (1913, Georg Schiller, C.F. Rühl).
    • Capitol Pro (2012). An art deco typeface based on Capitol (Karl Hermann Schaefer for Schriftguss, 1931).
    • Carina Pro (2017). A calligraphic script typeface based on Rautendelein (1929, Schriftguss).
    • Carla Pro (2013). A broad-nibbed script modeled after Ballantines Script (Elsner & Flake, 1974; see also Ballantines Serial by SoftMaker).
    • Carlsbad (2018). A couple of art nouveau typefaces based on originals from 1895 by H. Berhold called Regina Cursiv and Hansa Cursiv.
    • Caslon Gotisch (2009): after the original by William Caslon from 1763.
    • Celebration (2009): blackletter.
    • Circensis (2016). A Western circus font based on a concept of Fritz Richter.
    • Claudius (2010): after a 1937 blackletter font at Klingspor.
    • Constanze Pro (2012). A light cursive typeface based on Constanze (1954, Joachim Romann, Klingspor).
    • Contact Pro (2010): after Contact, a 1963 font by Helmut Matheis.
    • Dante Alighieri (2018). Based on a Schelter & Giesecke original.
    • Daphnis (2016). A revival of Daphnis (1929, Walter Tiemann).
    • Deutschmeister (2017). A textura blackletter typeface after Deutschmeister by Berthold Wolpe for Ludwig Wagner in 1934. (Some dispute that Wolpe made this font.)
    • Diamant Pro (2012). A transitional serif face.
    • Emilia (2016). Based on Weiss Antiqua (1928) by Emil Rudolf Weiss.
    • Neue Echo (2016). Based on Echo for Schriftguss.
    • Elbflorenz (2020). A revival of Albert Auspurg's display typeface Miami (1934, Schriftguss).
    • Emilia Gotisch (2016). After Weiss Gotisch (1936) by Emil Rudolf Weiss.
    • Emilia Fraktur (2021). A revival of Emil Rudolf Weiss's Weiss Fraktur (1913).
    • Erler Titling (2015). After Erler Versalien (1953, Herbert Thannhaeuser for Typoart).
    • Eurotech Pro (2011): a slabby techno family.
    • Faulkner Pro (2011): a connected heavy signage script based on Alan Meeks's Kestrel.
    • Fette Kanzlei (2019).
    • Fette Unger Fraktur (2010).
    • Fichte Fraktur (2020). After Walter Tiemann's Fichte Fraktur (1934).
    • Fontanesi RMU. An ornamental caps typeface that revives Aldo Novarese's Fontanesi (2018).
    • Forelle Pro (2010): after the original Forelle script typeface by Erich Mollowitz, 1936.
    • Frankenberg Pro (2012). An antique script face.
    • Gabor Pro (2014). A connected copperplate script.
    • Gaby Pro (2017). A revival of Hans Möhring's script typeface Gabriele (1938 or 1947, C.E. Weber).
    • Garamond Antiqua Pro (2015).
    • RMU Gilgengart (2020). A revival of Hermann Zapf's Fraktur font Gilgengart (1938).
    • Gillray Pro (2015). A copperplate script after Hogarth Script (by Harald Bröder for Typoart).
    • RMU Gloria (2019). After Gloria (1898, Emil Gursch).
    • RMU Gong (2020). Based on Arno Drescher's Super Grotesk Schmalfett first released in 1933 at Schriftguss.
    • Gmuender Gravur (2011). A 3d shadow face. Gmuender Antiqua Pro (2015) is influenced by the metal font Imprimatur (1952-1955, Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum). Gmuender Kanzlei (2018) is a blackletter typeface.
    • Goethe Fraktur (2022). A revival of a blackletter typeface by Wilhelm Woellmer (1905).
    • Gravira (2021). A revival of Herbert Thannhaeuser's Gravira, released by Schelter & Giesecke in 1935 .
    • Haenel Antiqua (2020, based on a 19th century antiqua by Eduard Haenel) and Haenel Fraktur (2011, after Haenel Fraktur, ca. 1840).
    • Hanse Textura (2020). A revival of a textura by Hermann Zapf.
    • RMU Helion (2020). A revival of the 3d titling typeface Helion (1935, Arno Drescher for Schriftguss Dresden).
    • RMU Herkules (2019). After a late 19th century font by Bauer and Berthold called Reklameschrift Herkules.
    • Hoelderlin (2018). After Eugen Weiss's Hoelderlin blackletter font (1937).
    • Hoyer Script (2017). After Hanns Thaddeus Hoyer's Hoyer Schoenschrift (1939, Stempel).
    • Hupp Fraktur (2016). After Otto Hupp, 1911.
    • Impuls (2010): a brushy typeface based on Paul Zimmermann's Impuls (1945).
    • Initials RMU One (2012) consists of revivals of Rudhardsche Initialen (Otto Eckmann, ca. 1900) and Walthari Initials (ca. 1900, Rudhardsche Giesserei). Initials RMU Two (2012) consists of revivals of Jubilaeumsinitialen (by Bauersche) and Augsburger Initialen (by Peter Schnorr, 1901).
    • Jean Paul Fraktur (2021). A revival of Breitkopf's Fraktur font Jean-Paul-Schrift (1798).
    • Jobs Gravure (2011). It had to happen---a few days after Steve Jobs' death, Unger released the beveled engraved typeface Jobs Gravure, which is an extension of Trump Gravur (1954, Weber).
    • Jolly Polly (2012): a curly non-connected script face.
    • Kis Antiqua Pro (2018). A revival of Hildegard Korger's Kis Antiqua at Typoart.
    • Kleist Fraktur (2010): after Walter Tiemann's original.
    • Kompress Pro (2013). Two compressed sans typefaces.
    • RMU Kontrast (2021). An art deco typeface that revives Kontrast (1930, F.H.E. Schneidler at Weber).
    • Koralle RMU (2018). A revival of Schelter and Giesecke's Koralle (1915).
    • Korpus Pro (2014). A text typeface family. Followed later in 2014 by Korpus Sans Pro.
    • Korpus Serif Pro (2021). A revival and extension of Timeless (Typoart) that covers Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.
    • Leibniz Fraktur (2012) is modeled after the famous Genzsch & Heyse blackletter font.
    • Lenbach (2021). Inspired by a German font from the Victorian era.
    • Liliom Pro (2012). A beautiful fat didone typeface based on an original from the Fonderie Française.
    • Lipsia Pro (2011). An angular serif family.
    • Literatura Pro Book (2012).
    • Litfass (2021). A revival of an art nouveau font by Flisch.
    • Lutetia Nova (2014). A fresh two-style take on Jan van Krimpen's Lutetia (1924).
    • RMU Luchs (2021). A redesign of Jakob Erbar's inline all caps art deco font Lux (Ludwig & Mayer, 1929).
    • Luxor Pro (2010): a Victorian/Western display face.
    • Lyrica (2014). A revival of the informal blackletter typeface Lyrisch (1907, Georg Schiller).
    • RMU Magnet (2021). A redesign and revival of Magnet (1951, Arthur Murawski at Ludwig & Mayer).
    • RMU Manolo (2019). Based on the art nouveau typeface Manolo (Ludwig & Mayer).
    • Manutius Pro (2012).
    • Meister Antiqua (2011, +Bold, +Book). A Typoart original from 1951 in the tall flared ascender serif genre, revived and extended.
    • Mitropaschrift (2016). An octagonal original.
    • Mobil Pro (2011). A semi-script typeface in the fifties style of Matheis.
    • Monument (2010): a 3d shadow roman caps face created after Oldrich Menhart's Monument.
    • Narziss (2018). A revival of Walter Tiemann's Narziss from 1921.
    • RMU Neptun (2021). A revival and extension of the art nouveau typeface Neptun by Aktiengesellschaft fuer Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach.
    • Neue Kurier (2011). Typoart's popular signage script font in a new, completely remastered version.
    • Neue Muenchner Fraktur (2010).
    • Neue Schwabacher (2021). After Albert Anklam's Neue Schwabacher (Genzsch & Heyse, 1876).
    • Neue Thannhaeuser (2011).
    • Old Towne Pro (2010): a Western font.
    • RMU Omega (2020). After Omega, an art deco typeface by Friedrich Kleukens at Stempel in 1926.
    • Orbis Pro (2016). A revival of Walter Brudi's shadow typeface Orbis (1953, Stempel).
    • Orplid Pro (2019). a layerable typeface that revives and extends Hans Bohn's all caps Bauhaus era typeface Orplid (1929).
    • Parcival Antiqua (2016). A revival of Parcival Antiqua (1926, Herbert Thannhaeuser).
    • Parfum (2013). A low x-height script that was inspired by Howard Allen Trafton's Quick (1933, bauer).
    • Parler Fraktur (2018). A revival of Friedrich Poppl's Poppl Fraktur.
    • Parler Gotisch (2011). A blackletter face.
    • RMU Pittoreske (2019). A decorative Victorian typeface.
    • Plastica Pro (2015, a chiseled typeface inspired by a J. Lehmann design).
    • RMU Pergola (2021). A vintage shadow typeface inspired by a late-19th century font of Georg Giesecke.
    • Post Fraktur (2014) and Postillon (2014). After Herbert Post, 1933-1937.
    • Primana Pro (2012). A seductive geometric grotesk family.
    • Prinzess Gravur (2010): a blackletter typeface modeled after Prinzeß Kupferstichschrift (1905, Berthold).
    • Prisma Pro (2011). Revival and extension of Rudolf Koch's multiline typeface Prisma (1931).
    • Reklame Fraktur (2016). After Reklame Fraktur by Albert Christoph Auspurg, 1914.
    • Reflex Pro (2018). All caps, with an inline style.
    • Reznicek Pro (2011) is a post-Victorian pre-art nouveau typeface named after Ferdinand von Reznicek (1868-1909), one of the leading artists and illustrators of those times.
    • Rekord Antiqua (2020). A revival of the art nouveau era text typeface Rekord Antiqua (1911, Wagner & Schmidt).
    • Rhythmus Pro (2016). After a Schriftguss AG and Schelter&Giesecke original grotesk, and extended to cover Cyrillic.
    • Ridinger Std (2012). Based on Riedingerschrift (Franz Riedinger, 1906, for Benjamin Krebs Succ.).
    • Ronde Pro (2011): roundhand script.
    • Royal Grotesque (2021). A revival of Wotan by Wagner & Schmidt, 1914. Did this typeface become RMU Royal Sans (2022)?
    • Salzmann Fraktur (2019). A revival of Max Salzmann's blackletter font released by Schelter & Giesecke in 1912.
    • Saskia Pro (2016). Revival of Jan Tschichold's Saskia (1931, Schelter & Giesecke).
    • Schmale Anzeigenfraktur (2009): based on Koch's Schmale Deutsche Anzeigenschrift, 1923, Klingspor.
    • Schmale Mediaeval (2020). Based on Schelter & Giesecke's Schmale Mediäval (1840).
    • Schmuckinitialen (2009): an ornamental caps typeface in the art nouveau style based on Walthari Initials [Walthari (1899, Heinz König for the Rudhard'sche Giesserei) in the upper case and Eckmann Initials (ca. 1900, by Otto Eckmann, Germany's chief art nouveau type designer) in the lower case].
    • Schreibmeister (2021). Ralph's interpretation of Arno Drescher's formal cursive typeface for Ludwig Wagner (1958, Leipzig).
    • Schwabacher Book (2013).
    • Sebaldus (2019). A heavy blackletter typeface, after Sebaldus Gotisch (1926, H. Berthold).
    • Senatsfraktur (2020). After Friedrich Bauer's Senats Fraktur done in 1907 for Genzsch & Heyse.
    • Concordia (2020). A revival of Sensation Schmalfett (1914, Heinrich Hoffmeister).
    • Siegfried Pro (2017). A revival of the art nouveau typeface Siegfried (1900, Wilhelm Woellmer).
    • RMU Skizze (2021). This revives Walter Höhnisch's script typeface Skizze (1935, Ludwig&Mayer).
    • Staxx Pro (2013). A prismatic typeface.
    • Staufer Gotisch (2015). An engraved blackletter typeface modeled after Herbert Thannhaeuser's Hermann Gotisch (Schriftguss, 1934).
    • Steinschrift Pro (2015). A single style condensed sans serif.
    • Sylphe Pro (2019). A vintage script font that revives Schelter & Giesecke's Isabel (not Sylphide, as claimed by him).
    • Tablica (2017). After Karl-Heinz Lange's DDR telephone directory font Minima (1984).
    • Thannhaeuser Fraktur (2013) is a redesign of Typoart's Thannhaeuser Fraktur.
    • Thomasschrift (2014). A rustic typeface that revives and extends Thomas-Schrift by Friedel Thomas (1957-1958, Typoart).
    • Titanschrift (2011). A yummy soft and fat display face.
    • Tombola (2018). After an alphabet from the 1920s by Otto Heim.
    • RMU Trianon, renamed RMU Trifels (2020). After Heinrich Wieynck's Trianon (1905, Bauersche Giesserei).
    • Trocadero Pro (2010): an extension and revival of Trocadero Kursiv, 1927, Albert Auspurg, Trennert.
    • Troubadour Pro (2010): In Medium and Engraved styles.
    • Trump Deutsch (2011): a blackletter face, after the 1935 original by Georg Trump.
    • Trybuna (2013). Based on Herbert Thannhaeuser's Liberta Antiqua (1958), but completely redrawn.
    • Turnier (2019). A revival of G.G. Lange's derby (1952-1953).
    • Tyton Pro (2013). A brush script after Heinz Schumann's famous 1964 Stentor.
    • Typoskript Pro (2010): a revival of Hildegard Korger's Typoskript, first done at TypoArt in 1968.
    • Unger Fraktur (2010): after a 1793 design by Johann Friedrich Unger; includes fett and mager.
    • Walbaum Antiqua Pro (2013). A revival of Justs Erich Walbaum's didone classic.
    • RMU Wallau (2019). After Rudolf Koch's rotunda typeface Wallau (1926-1934).
    • Werbedeutsch (2021). A revival of the blackletter typeface Buchdeutsch (Ernst Schneidler, 1926).
    • Wieynck Fraktur (2019). after Heinrich Wieynck's Wieynck Fraktur (1912).
    • Wieynck Gotisch (2018). After Wieynck Gotisch (1926, Heinrich Wieynck).
    • Zentenar Fraktur (2010): mager and halbfett; after the 1937 workhorse by Ernst Schneidler at Bauer.
    • Zierfraktur (2010): after Deutsche Zierschrift, an engraved blackletter font that was cut by Rudolf Koch between 1919 and 1921 for Klingspor.

    Ralph made some typefaces outside URW/Profonts and RMU, such as Stripes (2014, a prismatic typeface puvlished by Thinkdust).

    Klingspor link.

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    Robbie de Villiers
    [Wilton Foundry]

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    Robby Woodard
    [WoodardWorks Type Design (was: Robby Woodard Design and Illustration)]

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    Robert Cottrell

    London-based graphic designer who created the mechanical engineering-themed decorative caps typeface Mecheng (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert D. Anderson
    [Lord Kyl's Medieval and Fantasy Fonts]

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    Robert Fauver
    [Typeology]

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    Robert Harmon

    Creator of a beautiful colourful painted alphabet, Algebraist (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Huston

    Graphic designer from Portland, OR. Behance link. He made an all-caps alphabet with rings in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Kolben

    German artist. Designer of the font Linotype Venezia Initiale (1997), a caps font based on the classic forms of Roman writing in the 1st and 2nd centuries found chiseled on many Roman buildings. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Missen

    Kent, UK-based digital artist who made an ornamental all caps face in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Po

    Robert Po (Quezon City, The Philippines) created an exquisite ornamental caps typeface called Lady Gaga (2012) during his visual communication studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Tirado

    Talented illustrator in Madrid who drew some ornamental caps in 2011. Check also his Ladytron poster (2011) and his fashion illustrations. Robert was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1977. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roberto Lanznaster

    Illustrator and designer in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil. In 2014, he drew a fantastic Bestiary Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roberto Pena

    Toronto-based designer of AJ Fosik Script (2016), a colored decorative caps typeface based on A.J. Fosik's work [AJ Fosik was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. In 2003, he received a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in New York City. He is currently based in Portland, Oregon]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roberto Scotti

    Digital photographer and graphic designer in Bergamo, Italy. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface AlfaBasura (2012), which was based on garbage. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robyn Phillips
    [Skeldale House Treasures]

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    Rocio Mattos

    Rosario, Argentina-based designer of the splended colorful all caps typeface JEM (2016) and the equally colorful Colour Type (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rodrigo Flores

    San José, Costa Rica-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Adele (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rodrigo Fuenzalida
    [Fragtype]

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    Rodrigo Gonzalez
    [Southype]

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    Rodrigo Leite

    Rodrigo Leite (Sao Paulo, Brazil) created the tweetware font CompLaden All Caps (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roger White

    Type designer from Staffs, UK. His 114 free creations, all done between 1992-1998, include AmertonOutline, AmertonOutlineItalic, Cambridge (a copy of University Roman), Cardiff, CardiffBold, CardiffBoldItalic, CardiffItalic, Carolus, CarolusItalic, Circled, Colton, ColtonSmallCapitals, Curborough, CurboroughBold, CurboroughBoldItalic, CurboroughItalic, Derrington, Dresden, Dublin, DublinBold, DublinHollow, Dunstall (art nouveau), Fradley, FradleyBlack, FradleyBold, FradleyBoldItalic, FradleyExtended, FradleyExtendedItalic, FradleyItalic, FradleyNarrow, FradleyNarrowItalic, FrysOrnamented, GloucesterOpenFace, Gresham, Hanch, HanchBold, HanchBoldItalic, HanchItalic, HanfordScript, Jana, Jarrow (uncial), KeeleDecorated, Lancaster (blackletter), Libra, LongdonDecorative, Loxley, Lydian, Milford, MilfordBlack, MilfordBold, MilfordBoldItalic, MilfordCondensed, MilfordCondensedBold, MilfordCondensedBoldItalic, MilfordCondensedItalic, MilfordHollow, MilfordItalic, MilfordLight, MilfordLightItalic, Milwich (Lombardic), NationalFirstFont, NationalFirstFontDotted, NationalPrimary, NationalPrimaryDotted, Newborough, NewportGothic, NewportGothicItalic, Newtown, NewtownBold, NewtownBoldItalic, NewtownItalic, Orgreave, OrgreaveBold, OrgreaveBoldItalic, OrgreaveExtendedBold, OrgreaveExtendedBoldItalic, OrgreaveExtendedItalic, OrgreaveExtendedNormal, OrgreaveItalic, Oxford, Plymouth, QueensPark, QueensParkBold, QueensParkBoldItalic, QueensParkItalic, Rochester, Rosart, StoweOpenFace, StoweTitling, StoweTitlingItalic, SudburyBook, SudburyBookBold, SudburyBookBoldItalic, SudburyBookItalic, SudburyLight, SudburyLightItalic, Swansea, SwanseaBold, SwanseaBoldItalic, SwanseaItalic, TamworthGothic, Telford, TelfordHollow, TelfordHollowItalic, TelfordItalic, Tiverton, TrajanusRoman, Tutbury (blackletter), TutburyBold, TutburyBoldItalic, TutburyItalic, Typewriter, TypewriterBold, WrexhamScript, WrexhamScriptLight, Yoxall, YoxallBold, YoxallBoldItalic, YoxallItalic.

    Many of these are text families, both sans (like Milford) and serif (like Fradley). The collection is largely a revival or an extension of historic typefaces. Specialty styles covered by him include blackletter (Derrington, Lancaster, Rochester), ornamental caps (Dresden), calligraphic scripts (Hanford Script, Wrexham Script), uncial (Libra) and medieval (Milwich).

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    Roland Hüse
    [Runes & Fonts (or: My Handwritings)]

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    Roland Maas

    In 2014, Roland Maas (Amsterdam) created the snake-themed decorative typeface Snakes. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rolando Bojorquez

    Glendale, CA-based designer of an all caps 3d alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roma Lyubimov

    Russian poster designer. He created the alphading alphabets (fonts, I guess) Killer Instinct and Fury. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Romaisa Fawad

    Lahore, pakistan-based creator of the ornamental Latin alphabet Fruitalistic (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Cieslewicz

    Polish graphic artist and photographer, 1930-1996. He designed a decorative alphabet in 1964 for Guide de la France Mystérieuse. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Korolev
    [Kaer]

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    Romane Ruskoné

    Châtenay-Malabry, France-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Romant de la Rose

    Creator in early part of the 16th century of these ornamental caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Romeo Soon

    During his studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Romeo Soon designed the textured caps typeface Egypt Digital (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Romina Ideses

    Student at FADU UBA (Buenos Aires). She created a hyper-ornamented Western style caps typeface in 2012 called Abecedario or Kinsty. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roones

    Illustrator in Beirut who created some ornamental alphabets in 2012, such as Poof and Bottlecapped. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roos&Junge

    German foundry established in 1886 and located in Offenbach. Acquired by D. Stempel in 1915. Typefaces include Teutonia (scan) and Offenbacher Reform (blackletter, ca. 1900). Offenbacher Reform was revived by Peter Wiegel in 2015. Teutonia is being reworked by Dan Reynolds as Teutonia Serif (2005) and/or Mountain. HiH made another revival in 2007, also called Teutonia. One of their art nouveau / Victorian typefaces, Mira, was digitized as Mira (2009, Tom Wallace). Komet is another art nouveau face, and Romanische Initialen is a decorative caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rosana Martinez
    [Nubefy]

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    Rosanna Highton

    During her studies, Oxford, UK-based Rosanna Highton created the Lana Caps typeface (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rosie Morgan-Bellamy

    Visual Communication student at Loughborough University, UK, who lives in Oxford. In 2011, she made Cycling in London, a typeface inspired by bicycle parts. She also created London Olympic (2011, silhouettes of athletes in the forms of letters). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rosie Nguyen

    Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of Aotea Square (2018), which is an Aztec / Maori decorative caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ross F. George
    [Ross F. George: Speedball 10 (1927)]

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    Ross F. George

    Inventor and patent holder (with W.H. Gordon) of the speedball pen. Lettering artist from Seattle, influenced by W.H. Gordon. W.H. Gordon and Ross F. George wrote Presenting The Speedball Pen With Alphabets, Drawings and Designs Produced With This Wizard of Lettercraft (1915, Seattle, WA; local download). George's alphabets appeared in the Speedball Lettering catalogues, published between 1935 and 1948. The Speedball Text Book series's 8th through 17th editions were published at regular intervals from 1925 until 1956, and have many of his alphabets. Some dates: 8th (1925), 10th (1927), 11th (1929), 12th (1935), 13th (1938). Link related to his art deco alphabets. Some of the alphabets in Speedball Lettering have been digitized. To name a few:

    • Toto's K22 TriLine Gothic (2011) is a free multiline font based on Ross F. George's TriLine Gothic from 1956.
    • Jim Parkinson created Wigwag (2003, a display family inspired by Ross George as well as the work of Samuel Welo and Cecil Wade).
    • Jason Walcott made Baroque Text JF (2003, a great Fraktur font based on a hand-lettered alphabet drawn by Ross George).
    • Nick Curtis added Xanthippe NF (2006, an "exuberant" blackletter face) and Big D NF (2014).
    • Garrett Boge revived Free Roman.
    • Nick Curtis designed Catty Wumpas NF (2004).
    • Nick Curtis created Gnarly Dude NF (2005).
    • Nick Curtis created Hacky Sack NF (2009), after Ross George's Stunt Roman.
    • Harold Lohner published Milky Way (2001) and MilkyWayTwo (2001).
    • Michael Stacey created the brushy typeface ITC Wisteria (1995), an almost exact reproduction of one of George's brush typefaces which appeared in many publications from 1938 until 1952 (see here).
    • Heller and Fili give him credit for Chop Suey (1935), an oriental simulation typeface which has found its way into the free font world under several guises.
    • Jim Spiece (Spiece Graphics) created the Wild West family Cactus Flower SG.
    • Paulo W created Speedball Western Letters (2009), Speedball Metropolitan Caps (2010) and Speedball Metropolitan Poster (2010). Sunamy (2007, Iza W) is a ninja font made after an example of Ross George.
    • Nick Curtis made the monoline script typeface Nellie Kay NF (2011).
    • The art deco typeface Blue Jay Way NF (2011, Nick Curtis) was also inspired by Ross F. George.
    • Big George NF (2011, Nick Curtis) is a fat comic book style typeface that revives another of George's creations from Speedball Text Book.
    • Split Caps by George was revived by Nick Curtis as Spread Out NF (2011).
    • Nick Curtis's revivals from 2014 include Trading Hoss NF (after D-nib Display) and Twinkletoes NF.
    • Dick Pape created these typefaces based on the 17th Edition: Speedball America, Speedball Architects Italic, Speedball Architects, Speedball Block, Speedball Brush Bold Italic, Speedball Built Up Style, Speedball Bulletin Dusted, Speedball Bulletin Heavy, Speedball Bulletin Plain, Speedball Bulletin Squiggley, Speedball Carnival, Speedball Carved Caps, Speedball Cond Bold Italic, Speedball Cond Poster Gothic Bold, Speedball Decorative Initials, Speedball Decorative Ransom, Speedball Draftsman's Art, Speedball Formal Roman, Speedball Free Roman, Speedball Gay Nineties A, Speedball Gay Nineties B, Speedball Line Gothic, Speedball Metropolitan Poster, Speedball Power, Speedball Roman Italic, Speedball Rough, Speedball Slant Script, Speedball Speed D Italics, Speedball Squeezed Headline, Speedball Stencil Italic, Speedball Variation. Download here.
    • In 2016, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, Giulia Ursenna Dorati and Andrea Gaspari co-designed the 1940s vintage brush script typeface Banana Yeti, which is based on an example by Ross George shown in George's Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual.
    • Steve Harrison's free fonts: Doolally (2020; Ross F. George, 1938), Dawdling (2020; Ross F. George, 1935), Dawdling Snowflake (2020; Ross F. George, 1935), Bogeyed (2021), Faffinabout (2021).

    Examples of his Speedball Text Book alphabets: Speedball Title Display 1 (1927), SpeedballTitle Display 2 (1927), Easter Suggestion (1935), Speedball Title 1 (1938), Speedball Title 2 (1938), untitled lettering (1941), Poster Gothic 5 (1935), Postrie Caps (1938), Roman 2 (1935), Roman 3 (1935), Roman 4 (1935), Roman 7 (1935), Roman 7 (1938), Symphony 1 (1935), Symphony 1 (1952), Symphony 2 (1938), Symphony 2 (1948), Modern 1 (1938), Modern 2 (1941), Modern 2 (1948), Line Gothic (1938), Tri-Line Gothic (1956). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ross F. George: Speedball 10 (1927)
    [Ross F. George]

    Ross F. George's book Speedball 10, published by C. Howard Hunt Pen Co. in Camden, NJ in 1927, was scanned in 2014 by Lee Littlewood, a signpainter in Portland, OR, who runs Lee's Better Letters [2915 NE 21st A, Portland, OR 97212]. The PDF file [59 MB] is made available with his permission. I extracted some useful images from that file. For further information on Ross F. George, see here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roumond

    This page has a number of scans from a booklet by signpainter Roumond entitled 32 Alphabets Modernes, published in Paris by A. Charayron and Léon Duran, some time in the 1930s. There are lots of alphabets with art nouveau and art deco influences.

    In 2011-2012, Dick Pape digitized all 32 fonts from that booklet. They can be downloaded here.

    Pape's 32 fonts are FAModerne0369, FAModerne0562a, FAModerne0562b, FAModerne0946aBold, FAModerne0946bBold, FAModerne1367a, FAModerne1367b, FAModerne2021a, FAModerne2021b, FAModerne2491a, FAModerne2491b, FAModerne2491c, FAModerne2491d, FAModerne4441, FAModerne5204, FAModerne5204a, FAModerne5204b, FAModerne5204c, FAModerne6183a, FAModerne6183b, FAModerne6518a, FAModerne6518b, FAModerne6518c, FAModerne6518d, FAModerne7287a, FAModerne7287b, FAModerne7666, FAModerne7798, FAModerne9002a, FAModerne9002b, FAModerne9321a, FAModerne9321b. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    rrrrrrr

    FontStructor who made 3D (2012, a 3d outline caps face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rubberboy Alphabet

    A picture alphabet of a rubbery guy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rubith del Pilar

    Lima, Peru-based designer of the colorful children's alphabet Billy & mandy (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruby Abutaleb

    American designer of the bicolored caps typeface Ketab (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rudolf von Larisch

    Typographer and graphic artist (b. 1856, Verona, d. 1934, Vienna). Author of Beispiele künstlerischer Schrift, 5 Folgen (1900-1926) and Unterricht in ornamentaler Schrift (1905). His wife, Frau Hertha von Larisch, gave most of his work to the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach. Some samples from his books are here. Larisch taught lettering at Kunstgewerbeschule (School of the Commercial Arts) and Akademie der Bildenden Kunste (Academy for Visual Arts), both in Vienna.

    Digital descendants include Larisch (2007, HiH), an all-caps handlettered design based on the title page of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift (1903).

    Samples of his work: an outline capitals alphabet, an art nouveau piece entitled Moderne Architektur.

    In 1995, Harald Suess wrote about him in die Deutsche Schrift, Nr. 117, volume 4: A | B | C | D | E.

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    Runes & Fonts (or: My Handwritings)
    [Roland Hüse]

    Kazincbarcika, Hungary-based type designer Roland Hüse (b. 1980) sells his fonts through My Handwritings (Kazincbarcika, Hungary), which was renamed Runes&Fonts. His first font is Zuider Postduif (2012, an informal type family). Florida Shark (2012) is a free Death Metal or tattoo version of one of his commercial fonts. Tamiami (2012) is a headline typeface. Granny's Handwriting (2012), Script Demolition (2012), Sharon Lipschutz's Handwriting (2012), Isa Por Es Homou (2012) and Kinga's Handwriting (2012) are hand-printed typefaces. Napping Cat (2012) and Cubic Sub (2012) are angularly designed, while Mgla (2012) is round and plump. Greek Stone (2012) is a squarish Greek simulation face. On The Road (2012) is a textured typeface. Whirly Wood (2012), Hargita (2012, inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Dreamcatcher (2012) and Bee Ridge Vantage (2012: see also Bee Ridge) are grunge typefaces. Individigital (2012, +Black, +Thin) is a techno set of typefaces.

    Typefaces from 2013: November Sky (art deco sans), Windy Wood, Cool Weekdays, Yellow Peas Light (clean thin monoline sans; free), Back To The Future 4, Yellow Peas Demo (hairline sans), Yellow Peas Bold, Pagan Winter (bilined), Beer Money (brush face), Poor Weekdays (+Serif), Hun Legion (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Freehand Roman, Esthajnal (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Buffalo Chicken (a connected script), Telihold.

    Typefaces from 2014: Sunny Winter (thin script), Sunny Merry Christmas (dingbats), Fox in the snow (connected hand), Dersu Uzala Brush (Asian brush), Good Karma (connected script), Stitch Warrior, Chickpeas, Jaspers Handwriting, Margarita in August, Wheatland, Slim Extreme (a gorgeous geometric hairline sans), Sparkler (a clean geometric sans), Factory Worker, Brushido (Japanese simulation font), Mojito in June, Mesa Grande, Altering The Future, Black Olives (thin calligraphic script), Hangyaboly (comic book font), Fecske (Peignotian sans), Windy Rain, Rainy Wind (calligraphic script), Comic Roman, Wizard of the Moon, Urban Stone (grunge version of Urban Tour), Urban Tour (avant garde sans), Wacky Sushi (hiragana emulation), Constrocktion (multilined typeface).

    Typefaces from 2015: She Always Walk Alone (handcrafted), Transatlantic Cruise (an outline script), Csemege (upright connected script), Milano Traffic (sketched typeface), Undergrunge Tornado (a great brush font, +Cyrillic, +Hiragana, +Katakana), Dirt Road, Kikelet, Kikelet Brush, Have A Great Day (rough brush script), Sorsod Borsod, City Birds (script), Loonaria, Texas Grunge (brush script), Solaria (minimalist techno), Biloxi Script, Chicken Fried Steak, Texas Grunge (brush face), Sharky Spot, Autumn Chant (connected script).

    Typefaces from 2016: Tribal Case (decorative caps), Shopping Script, Biloxi Calligraphy, Tribal Case (tattoo font), Ting Tang, Alaska Script, Take It Easy (fat finger font), Mi Amor (wide monoline handwriting), Spring Script, Fox in the Snow (connected school script), Kazincbarcika Script (a gorgeous calligraphic script).

    Typefaces from 2017: Interconnected, Bar Hoppers, Ciao Baby (retro signage script), De Rotterdam, Abigail Script.

    Typefaces from 2018: Christmas Wish Calligraphy, Christmas Wish Monoline, Chicago Moonshine (art deco), Poker in October (a layered color typeface), Personalitype (connected monoline script), Yellow Peas (sans), The Laughing Wolf (script), Italian Breakfast, Saturday Champagne, Teach (by Moataz Ahmed), Long Night (signature script), Relapse (rough brush script), Just Be (brush script), Air in Space (stencil), Beach Script, Interconnected, Beaumaris (slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2019: Christmas Wish (calligraphic script), Brachetto (a formal calligraphic typeface developed together with lettering artist Leah Chong), Mulled Wine Season, Colder Weather (spurred), Unlocking Your Dreams (brush script), Gold Under The Mud (a fine scratchy brush script), The Mumbai Sticker (script).

    Typefaces from 2020: Delugional, Roberts Script, Alone Together Script (a swashy tattoo script), Shopping Script (a signature font), Shape Variable Script (a variable script font that can be programmedi to react to music), Jam Session (blackboard bold), Un Jour Merveilleux (a script), Stars + Love.

    Typefaces from 2021: Long Story Short (a monolinear signature script), The Racoon Quest (a condensed all caps typeface), Delugional (Greek emulation), Neon Love (a monolinear neon sign script font released at Schriftlabor).

    Fontspace link. Dafont link. Creative Market link, Old URL. Home page. Another Fontspace link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ruslan Simashev

    Mytishchi, Russia-based designer of the dymo label font Perelom (2013). In 2013, he published the (free) ornamental mechanical tool-themed typeface Flaner and the (free) techno typeface family Stringer.

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

    Rustic capitals

    Rustic capitals refers to the style of hand-printing roman capitlas in the third to fifth centuries. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ryan Sowers

    Illustration student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Sanswich (2012).

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    Ryan T. Kelley

    Fontana, CA-based creator of the Decaying Monsters decorative caps alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ryoichi Tsunekawa
    [Flat-It]

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    Saarah Gottinari

    Pelotas, Brazil-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Ladri (2014). This project was finished during her graphic design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Saarah Saghir

    Graduate of YSDN (York University/Sheridan College) who is based in Toronto. In 2015, she published the Perso-Arabic typeface Zariyah. In 2017, she designed Endangered Animal Alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sabrina Yedigarian

    Graphic designer from Leesburg, VA, who is scheduled to graduate in 2011 from George Mason University. She created an ornamental alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sage Reynolds

    Designer at T-26 of Rustic Sage (informal lettering), Rustic Sage Ornaments (2004), and the fantastic all-caps wood-cut typeface Zebra (2004). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Saidul Choudhury

    Graphic designer in Manchester, UK, who published a decorative all caps alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sakke Soini

    Finnish graphic designer in Helsinki. Behance link. Creator of Cthulhentai (2010), an elaborate all-caps face with tattoo and jewelry influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sakshi Doshi

    Jamnagar, India-based designer of the fluffy decorative caps typeface Fluff (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Salim Miah

    London-based designer of the decorative typeface Talk to the Hand (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Salman Boosty

    Graphic designer. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Orial Bold (2009). Dafont link. He was born in 1980 in Pekalongan, Indonesia, but lives in Yogyakarta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Salvador Dali

    The great surrealist Salvador Dali (1904-1989) created a pornographic alphabet that he called Paule Gala (1931, France), in which his friend Paul Eduard, is pictured together with his wife, Gala, who also was Dali's mistress. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sam Blower

    During his design studies in Manchester, UK, Sam Blower created the Bruce Gay typeface (2013). He explains: I created this typeface based on some artwork by Bruce Gray. I experimented by looking at various modern artists and creating letters based around the shapes in their artwork. I then created this typeface from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sam Edwards

    During his studies in Cheltenham, UK, Sam edwards designed an exquisite ornamental caps alphabet called Lovely Letterforms (2013), which was inspired by the Victorian and Arts & Crafts styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sam Irvin

    During her studies in Las Vegas, NV, Sam Irvin designed the stunning all caps typeface Cut Away (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samantha Alva

    Corona, CA-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Wild Lavender (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samantha McKeown

    Design student in Orlando, FL, in 2013. Creator of the hairy ornamental caps typeface Big Bad Wolf (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samantha Montes de Oca

    During her illustration studies in Caracas, Samantha Montes dfe Oca drew a decorative Caps alphabet called Beatles (2014), in which the glyphs represent different songs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samme Snow

    London-based designer. Creator of the all caps children's book alphabet Alphsilly (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samuel Bottschild

    Samuel Bottschild (1641-1706) was painter to the court of Johann Georg IV, Elector of Saxony, and from 1699 inspector of the Electoral art collection. He was based in Dresden, Germany. He conceived a complete alphabet of roman capitals with figures mostly from Greek mythology. The series was engraved by Moritz Bodenehr (1665-1749) in Dresden. Each letter is engraved over the image of a figure from classical (mostly Greek) mythology whose (sometimes Roman) name begins with that letter. The letters do not directly copy any known model, but they come close to those in Geofroy Tory's 1529 Champ Fleury, with the straight strokes, the bracketing of the serifs and some curved strokes possibly executed with a ruler and compass. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samuel Louis "Sem" Hartz

    Dutch designer at Johan Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, whose work was also published by Stephenson Blake and Linotype. Born in Leiden in 1912, he died in Haarlem in 1995. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) in Amsterdam, specializing in engraving. He joined Enschedé in 1936 where he would become art director. During the war, like many other Dutch Jews, he had to hide in closets and secret rooms. Sem writes about his time at Enschedé: As you know,I am a designer and engraver, mostly of postage stamps and banknotes, sometimes of books and dust-jackets, zegt Hartz, I have designed more than a hundred stamps and banknotes for The Netherlands, Belgian Congo, Luxemburg, Indonesia, United Nations etcetera. My practice has been to rough out the design and afterwards cut it immediately in steel or copper. For stamps I relied on the best lettering one could possibly get, Jan Van Krimpen. In 1953, he became professor at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp. Hartz made these typefaces:

    • Juliana (Linotype, 1958). The original commission by Walter Tracy dates back to 1952. Many penguin editions used Juliana. In 2006, Mathieu Lommen published Sem Hartz and the Making of Linotype Juliana (Inferno Press, Vancouver). Digitizations of Juliana include Juliana Text (Linotype) and Juliana Text by David Berlow at Font Bureau.
    • Emergo (1949, Enschedé). A typeface that was never released. Hertz wrote The Emergo Type in PAGA, volume 2, number 3, pages 57-60, 1954. The article explains his cooperation and apprenticeship with Jan Van Krimpen and P.H. Rädisch (Van Krimpen's punch-cutter), and his hopes of using Emergo in his press and of his plans of spending time at Officina Bodoni in Verona with Giovanni Mardersteig.
    • Molé Foliate (1960). Molé Foliate is a great floriated caps font designed by the Parisian founder Molé, with floral decorations inside the open typeface 3d letters. Redrawn in 1960 by Hartz at Stephenson Blake. A free digital version, Molé Foliated, was made in 1997 by an unknown designer.
    • Panture (1971). A typeface designed for Enschedé's Pantotype system. Read about it in Ramiro Espinoza's interview in 2018 with Piet Jacobs.

    Lines&Splines reports the famous line by Hartz about Jan van Krimpen, his predecessor at Enschedé: the story of Van Krimpen's life could be subtitled, From Angry Young Man to Angry Old Man (note: Van Krimpen did not get along with many people.)

    A collection of Hartz's correspondence and prints (from his own press, Tuinwijkpers) can be found at the University of Amsterdam. He also designed some Dutch postage stamps.

    Books by or about Hartz:

    • Sem Hartz: The Elseviers and their contemporaries: an illustrated commentary (1955, Joh. Enschedé & Zonen, Haarlem, Amsterdam/Brussels).
    • Sem Hartz: Essays, compiled by Mathieu Lommen, 1992 (Serifpers, Amsterdam).
    • Chr. de Moor [et al.]: S. L. Hartz in de grafische wereld, 1969.
    • Mathieu Lommen: Letterontwerpers: gesprekken met Dick Dooijes, Sem Hartz, Chris Brand, Bram de Does, Gerard Unger, 1987>
    • Mathieu Lommen: Sem Hartz and the making of Linotype Juliana, in: Quaerendo: a quarterly journal from the Low Countries devoted to manuscripts and printed books, vol. 36, 2006.
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    Samuel Love

    Student at Digital Media Arts College in Boca Raton, FL. He made the ornamental typeface Chronograph (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Samuel Pillidge

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Auckland, New Zealand, who created a botanical ornamental caps typeface called Winter Gardens (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sander Spolspoel

    iFontmaker whose typefaces include the decorative caps font Visual Story (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sandra Waihuini

    In 2013, Sandra Waihuini (Washington, DC) used Bauer Bodoni as a background to create Mauwa, an intricate ornamental caps typeface. Graduate of Corcoran College of Art and Design in DC, class of 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sanskrit Web (or: Transliteration and Devanagari Fonts for Sanskrit)
    [Ulrich Stiehl]

    Sanskrit Web offers several high-quality transliteration fonts for German, Polish and English-speaking indologists, made by Ulrich Stiehl (b. 1947, Wiesbaden) who lives in Heidelberg. All these fonts are derived from Hermann Zapf's URW Palladio (1990), with appropriate diacritics added for German and Polish indologists: URWPalladioCSXG-R (later replaced by URW Palladio CSX+), URWPalladioFF-B, URWPalladioFF-BI, URWPalladioFF-I, URWPalladioFF-R, URWPalladioGGM-B, URWPalladioGGM-BI, URWPalladioGGM-I, URWPalladioGGM-R, URWPalladioIT-B, URWPalladioIT-BI, URWPalladioIT-I, URWPalladioIT-R, URW Palladio IT98, URW Palladio ITU (a reencoding of URW Palladio IT), URWPalladioREEG-R, URWPalladioSKT-B, URWPalladioSKT-BI, URWPalladioSKT-I, URWPalladioSKT-R, URWPalladioUNI-Bold, URWPalladioUNI-BoldItalic, URWPalladioUNI-Italic, URWPalladioUNI (2002: replaced by URW Palladio HOT in 2003, which in addition has a Roman Small Caps style), URWPalladioUS-B, URWPalladioUS-BI, URWPalladioUS-I, URWPalladioUS-R, URWPalladioKUL-B, URWPalladioKUL-BI, URWPalladioKUL-I, URWPalladioKUL-R (with supplementary font URW Palladio M), Sanskrit 99, URW Palladio IS (2003, packaged with the 2003 IndoSkript CD from the Universities of Berlin and Halle), URW Palladio Pali (2005, Buddhist Publication Society encoding), URW Palladio KRN (Norman encoding). The site offers, besides conventional truetype and type 1 fonts, an innovative hybrid OpenType Unicode font for PC and Mac. It can be used either as plain Unicode font or as OT font. On this page, Ulrich offers free versions of two historic fonts, GiacomoFranco (a human figure alphabet based on an original from 1596) and Hypnerotomachia (based on on Aldine font used in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili). Wikipedia page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Santiago Durieux

    Designer in Barcelona of the ornamental caps typeface Old Electricity (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Santiago Morales Rivas

    Medellin, Colombia-based creator of a surreal alphabet (2014). Only drawn by hand, it was not made into a font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sara Olmos

    Graduate of the Complutense University of Madrid. Rome-based designer of Spanish Alphabet (2018, decorative caps). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sara Steiniger

    During her studies, Sara Steiniger (Grahamstown, South Africa) designed a colorful all caps typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah Crow

    During her studies at Art Institute of San Diego, Encinitas, CA-based Sarah Crow designed the decorative Indiana Jones Alphabet (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah Ellis

    During her studies in Toronto, Sarah Ellis designed a wonderful striped geometric alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah Jane Peck

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based designer of the caps typeface Paper Cuts (2011). In 2012, she made the hand-printed poster typeface Summer Camp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah Lasiter

    During her studies in El Cajon, CA, Sarah Lasiter created the caps alphabet Contortion (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah Michael

    Cardiff, Wales-based creator of a decorative caps typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Bokova

    Fashion illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Wishlist (2013) is an ornamental caps typeface that consists of fashion accessories. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sathaporn U-sapanitch

    Designer in Bangkok, who created the all-caps alphabet called Lady Gaga (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    S&C Type Paris (was: La Goupil Paris)
    [Julien Saurin]

    Julien Saurin (b. 1986) and Louis-Emmanuel Blanc (b. 1986) are two experienced graffiti artists who created the foundry "La Goupil Paris" in Paris in 2007. They were joined by Fanny Coulez. In 2017, Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin set up S&C Type Paris and moved their successful collection of fonts there.

    Graffiti fonts: Ruelles (2009), Vandalism Alternate (2008). The original Vandalism (2007, co-designed by Saurin and Blanc) was free at Dafont. The scratchy Carving (2010) is commercial, however.

    In 2011, Saurin made the pure geometric art deco face Haussmann.

    With Angela Bolliger, Julien Saurin published the classic avant-gardist hand-drawn typeface Paris (2012, La Goupil). It comes with art nouveau ornaments called Paris Serif Ornaments.

    Typefaces from 2012: Paper Cute (a paper cut face), Adrenaline (hand-printed), Montmartre (a soft hand-printed typeface family, now retired from the line-up).

    Typefaces by Julien Saurin in 2013: The Serif Hand (with Fanny Coulez), The Hand (a hand-printed caps typeface done with Fanny Coulez), Naive (a curly hand-printed serif typeface done with Fanny Coulez), Insolente (a connected script done with Fanny Coulez), Neo Phoenician (a straight-edged rune simulation font done with Fanny Coulez).

    Typefaces from 2014: Pontiac Inline (by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin---a classy almost art deco inline caps font with layering and shadow and other effects).

    Typefaces from 2015: Pontiac (with Fanny Coulez), Insolente (by Julien Saurin and Fanny Coulez), Carving (scratchy hand).

    Typefaces from 2016: Naive Deco Sans, Naive Line Sans. A great all caps handcrafted sans serif font designed by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin.

    Typefaces from 2017: Majorelle (signage script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Papercute Inline (with Fanny Coulez), Colette (an inky script).

    Typefaces from 2022: The Hand Wide (hand-printed).

    Creative Market link. Fontspring link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Behance link for S&C Type Paris. Creative Market link for S&C Type Paris. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Schomer Lichtner

    American artist (b. 1905, Peoria, IL, d. 2006, Milwaukee, WI) in Wisconsin, known for paintings of ballerinas and dairy cows and his regionalist murals. He married fellow-artist Ruth Grotenrath in 1934, and both became involved in the Federal Works Progress Administration's (WPA) art programs, Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) and the Public Works Art Project (PWAP). He created the stick figure Ballerina Alphabet as a serigraph in 1990. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Schreibbuechlein

    Images of two Schreibbuechlein, one by Urban Wyss (Basel, 1549) showing an antiqua versal alphabet, and one by Wolfgang Fuggers (Nuernberg, 1553) that shows a paragraph of blacklettered text. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Schuyler Shipley
    [Skyline Type Foundry]

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    Scott Banks
    [Paper Moon Type & Graphic Supply]

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    Scott D. Kolbe

    Scott Kolbe (Sikich Graphic Design & Marketing Service, Napierville, IL) created the monogram typeface Sparkle Type in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scott Ferguson

    Kutztown, PA-based designer (b. 1982) of the fancy caps typeface Abusive Pencil (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scott Kinney

    Omaha, NE-based designer of the colourful all caps Bertender's Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scott Newland

    Boston, MA-based designer of the decorative initial caps alphabet Initial Print (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scribeworx

    About 8 calligraphic fonts in this archive, including VampyresGarden (1997, by "Sean"), a caps font, and Old English (Fraktur font by Elfring Soft Fonts, 1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Script and Seal
    [Gavin Potenza]

    Script and Seal consists of the duo of Gavin Potenza and Liz Meyer (a Type@Cooper graduate). In 2010, they created an animal alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)
    [David Fleming Nalle]

    Dave Nalle was born in Beirut in 1959, but lives and works in Texas. He is currently in Manor, TX. From his wiki page: Dave Nalle is a political writer, game author and font designer who was active in the early history of the development of the internet. He is Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes libertarianism within the Republican Party and is Senior Politics Editor at Blogcritics online magazine and is the CEO of Scriptorium Fonts. A creative and prolific designer, he has made hundreds of beautiful (often historic) fonts. His outfit, Scriptorium (based near Austin, TX, est. 1989), also does custom font and logo design. At some points, Scriptorium was also known as Ragnarok Press and Fontcraft. It specializes in artsy and ancient typefaces. Some subset of the fonts is made by Michael Scarpitti. Free font demos.

    Images of his best selling fonts. Special subpages:

    • Three free fonts: Onuava (a mini-serifed hybrid fixed-width font), Divona (sans), Sirona (based on Lombardic calligraphy).
    • Lombardic: Aneirin, Benevento (8th century Lombardic), Cymbeline, Fabliaux, Formidable, Locksley.
    • Decorative initials such as the 20th century sign lettering initials set Pencraft Initials (2009), New Saxon Initials (2016, based on work by F.G. Delamotte), Delamotte Initials One (2016), Delamotte Initials Two (2016), Holly Initials (2010, based on Real PenWork (1880s, Knowles and Maxim), Vyones (2010), Vergennes (2001), Cascade (2009), Bergling (2010; based on initials by John M. Bergling).
    • Steampunk typefaces: Clockwork, Gearhead, Gears, Verne, Draughtwork, Belgravia, Boetia, Blackthorn, Linthicum, Good-fellow, Necromantic, Mephisto.
    • Wild West fonts: Academy, Alcalde, Atkinson Boomtown (2009, after the lettering of Frank Atkinson), Atkinson Eccentric (2009), BigIron, Cibola, Del Norte, Lachesis, Perdido, Plowright, Primer, Riudoso, Niederwald, San Lorenzo (2011, with a Mexican and Tuscan look), Stonehouse, Manquo, Rochambeau, Purcell, Vaquero.
    • Arabic simulation fonts: Samaritan is based on the poster lettering of Alphons Mucha from his poster for the play La Samaritan. Serendib and Waziri are based on the hand lettering of René Bull from his edition of the Arabian Nights. Caliph (1993) is derived from Ernst Schneidler's classic Legende font, with variant characters based on his original lettering. Also: Satampra, Jerash, Samarkand, Isfahan.
    • Celtic fonts: the fonts include Constance, Durrow (1993, traditional rendering of Insular Minuscule calligraphy), Malvern, Glendower (based on the most common lettering in the Book of Kells), Knotwork (caps based on Celtic knots), Alba Text (modernized text font based on Celtic uncial lettering), Lindisfarne (based on a square uncial style), Stonecross (1997, derived from Celtic cross and gravestone inscriptions), Celtic Spirals (dingbats), Celtic Borders font (lets you combine key strokes to form decorative borders; many frames and borders are original Celtic designs by Arts&Crafts period artists like Evelyn Paul and Louis Rhead), Spiral Initials, Brigida (based on Rudolph Koch's interpretation of a squared uncial), Macteris Uncial, Coverack (heavy non-traditional uncial), Dahaut (modernized uncial), Dunsany, Glendower, Morgow (1999, spiral uncial), Teyrnon (elaborate spurred uncial), Padstow (heavy uncial), Vafthrudnir (2011, uncial), Sualtim and Columba (decorative initials based on characters found in the Book of Kells), Albemarle (2001).
    • Oriental simulation fonts: Yoshitoshi (2003, based on the 1900-style writing by Yoshi Toshi.
    • Gothic fonts, including Alt Gothic, Koch Gothic, Barnabas (2011), Sternhagen (2014), Montgisard (2010, roman capitals with blackletter lower case), Serenissima, Gelderland, Alcuin, Monumental, Goldwork, Waldeck, Roncesvalles, Montressor (2010, ornamental blackletter capitals), T4C Beaulieux (1998, a free copy here), Bastarda (2011), Burgundian, Cadeaulx, Collins Old English, Courtrai, Descant, Ereshkigal, Faustus, Franconian (1993, a Schwabacher), Froissart (2000), Ghost Gothic, Katisha, Koch Gothic, Ligeia, Magdeburg, Magdelena, Melusine, Pyle Gothic, Rheingold, Sanctum, Stuttgart Gothic (2010), Textura, Theodoric, Yngling (2002).
    • German expressionist: Dromon.
    • Renaissance fonts: Monumental Gothic, Caswallon (a Caslon family), humanist cursive (Palmieri, Castiglione and Hanes Italic), quirky Italian cursives (Fiorenza and Alleghieri), a Roman style hand-lettered font (Rudolfo and Rudolfo Swash), a Trajan-style Roman lettering (Hadrianus), a classic flourished cursive (Trinculo) and a set of floral intials from the Quattrocento (Fraticelli).
    • Modern poster fonts: Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine (after Central Type Foundry's Quaint Roman), Ekberg (2002, based on Samuel Welo's posters), Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Posada (2008, based on the poster lettering of Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada), Squiffy, Suspicion, Magnin (2003).
    • Mapmaker fonts: building elements are available in Basilica; Ortelius is a map dingbat font; Queensland (based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), is bold, hand-drawn and reminiscent of medieval writing on maps. There are also Brandywine, Daresiel, Hesperides, Longhorne, Windlass (1996), and Cityscape. Orford (2008) is based on samples of hand lettering from a 1693 manuscript collected by Lewis Day in his classic book on historical paleography, Alphabets Old and New.
    • Calligraphic fonts: Albemarle (2001), Azariel, Moncrief (2011, based on the calligraphy of J.M. Bergling), Pavane, Rasael (2009), Abdiel (2005), Roncesvalles, Gazardiel (2003, connected script), Spoonbill (2003, arts and crafts), Macteris (Roman uncial font), Antioch Uncial (Roman uncial font), Burgundian (Classic black letter font), Franconian (993, a classic black letter font), Castiglione (Attractive Renaissance lettering), Cicero (Roman Rustica font), Formidable (1993, very bold late medieval / Lombardic style), Collins Old English (Classic Old English style gothic), Corbei Uncial (Roman uncial font), Cymbeline (late medieval lettering), Durrow (Standard insular minuscule uncial font), Theodoric (Classic black letter font), Gazardiel, Ghost Gothic (Unusual gothic font), Glendower (Uncial font based on Book of Kells), Gloriana (Interesting hand lettering style), Folkard (from the hand-lettering of Charles Folkard), Offenbach Chancery, Ranegund Merovingian Courthand, Benevento (8th century Lombardic), Hesperides.
    • Art deco typefaces: Imperatore (2018: based on a hand lettered design from California art deco master designer Pedro de Lemos in the 1920s), Speakeasy (2018), Gates of the West (2018), Lyceum (2014), Borealis (2009), Criterion (2011), Illuminata, Madding (2009, a bold poster font that grew out of Aventine), Alexandrine (2009), art Deco Stencil (2009, based on samples of Art Deco stencil lettering by Pedro Lemos), Falmouth.
    • Art nouveau typefaces: Acadian, Agravain (2009), Amphitryon (2009), Ariosto, Asphodel, Averoigne, Beaumains (2011, based on J.M. Bergling's lettering), Beauvoir, Belgravia (based on J.M. Bergling), Bernhardt (based upon the lettering of the Czech art-nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha), Bentham, Berenicia, Boetia (2003, based on J.M. Bergling's lettering), Bruges, Bucephalus (1993), Burd Ellen (2009), Butterfield (1993; in Alfred Roller's style), Cafe Society (2018), Curetana, Damariscotta, Elsene (2011, based on lettering by early 20th century illustrator Clara Elsene Peck), Elysian, Exotique, Flaubert, Gaheris, Ganelon, Gehenna, Goodfellow, Grammophon (2019: a bold Jugendstil poster font), Harbinger, Huyot (2016, after Georges Auriol's types), Jugendstil Kunsthand (2003), Lysander, Maginot (1993; after Peter Schnorr, 1898), Munich (after the Munchner Jugend magazine), Norumbega, Odeon, Ormandine (2010), Pantagruel, Phaeton, Reggio, Rochmbeau, Rockne (2009), Rudolfo, Setebos, Sprite, Summerisle, Sylphide (2005), Undine, Valentin (2008), Vambrace (2010), Walhal, Wendingen (2016), Wormwood (2018), Zeitschrift (2016, based on the Ver Sacrum magazine).
    • Modern poster fonts: Field Day (2003), Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine (after Central Type Foundry's Quaint Roman), Ekberg (2002, based on Samuel Welo's posters), Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Squiffy.
    • Constructivist fonts: Krasny Mir (2009), Vrubel, Structura (1997).
    • Futuristic fonts: Alecto, Angelus, Circuit, Culdrose, Gearhead, Ironclaw, Parika, Sanhedrin, Semiramis (1997), Slither, Structuro, Yazata, Adastra (dings).
    • Borders and ornaments. These include New Arets and Crafts Borders (20912, based on The Calendar of Golden Thoughts (Barse and Hopkins Publ, 1911).
    • Boneyard fonts: Undertaker (2014), Antrobus (2010), Sepultura (2002), Halloweenies, Dementia, Boneyard, Skull and Bones, Malagua (1999-2013), Paleos (2002, from titling of B movies in the cave girl genre), Carmilla, Abaddon, Black Cow (1998), Valdemar, Cuede, Ligeia, Mayhem, Mephisto, Golgotha, Sanguinary, Ironworks, Moravia, Gehenna, Nosegrind (2005, graffiti), Corpus, Ghostly.
    • School fonts: Schoolhand (2010).
    • Arts and Crafts movement (late Victorian period, 19th century), based on work and lettering by Walter Crane, William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Elbert Hubbard. The Arts&Crafts movement was enormously influential on the works of designers, artists and architects of the 20th century, and inspired the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. Fonts include William Morris' Kelmscott (based on Morris' Troy type), and True Golden, fonts from the Glasgow branch of the movement like Chelsea Studio (1997), which is based on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's lettering, fonts from the Roycrofters of New York like Semiramis and Ganelon, fonts based on Walter Crane's work such as Crane Gothic, Pencraft Initials (2009) and Walter Crane, and even fonts from the California Arts&Crafts period of the early 1900s like Coloma. Other typefaces: Jesse M. King (refreshed in 2015, and based on hand lettering from a frontispiece design by Glasgow-based Jessie King who was known for her lavish book covers), Aylward, Palmyra (based on work by the Roycrofters, a design community founded by Elbert Hubbard), Aylward (2010, Victorian), Hyacinth Initials, Spoonbill, Adresack (1996: inspired by the arts and crafts lettering styles of designers like Charles Rennie MacKintosh and Jessie M. King), Brandywine, Changeling (2009, based on lettering by fairy artist Fanny Railton), Goddard, and Advertising Gothic (2003), Valentin, Gaheris, Agravain (2009). Delaguerra (2001-2009) is based on a lettering style originating in the California Arts&Crafts period commonly associated with Mission Style. It is still in common usage in signage at historical sites in California.
    • Victorian: Beaumarchais, Berenicia, Bilibin, Brandywine, Brigidis, Curetana, Durendal, Elphinstone, Flaubert, Folkard, Gjallarhorn, Gloriana, Hermia, Ironclaw, Magnus.
    • Typewriter: Fontcraft Courier.
    • Anthroposophic: Ekberg (2002, based on a sample of poster lettering by Samuel Welo).
    • Medieval fonts of Scriptorium, critiqued by Marc Smith, page 65: Batwynge is based on lettre gffe by Geofroy Tory (1529), and not on an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century as claimed by Scriptorium. Perigord (1993) is based on a Carolingian alphabet drawn by Ernst Bentele in 1952. Allencon is a calligraphic font based on an interpretation of 6th century Ostrogothic Italian calligraphy.
    Some selected fonts: Finchley (psychedelic), Captain Kidd (2012, an original font design based on the title lettering from the classic pirate movie starring Charles Laughton), Aerobrush (2011), Fondry Ornament (2009), Atkinson Egyptian (2008, after the lettering of Frank Atkinson), Verne (2008: remade in 2020 into Covid19), Goldwork (almost blackletter), BigBlok (2010), LetterpressGothic (2010), Plymouth (2010, in the style of Cooper Bold), Broadley (2008, an architecturally inspired script based on lettering by British architect and designer C.F.A. Voysey), Locksley (2004, medieval lettering), Tuscarora (curly lettering), Fiorenza (Renaissance calligraphy), Hesperides (old colonial calligraphic script), Angelus (beautifully printed monospaced script), Esperanza (1996, connected medieval handwriting), Ithuriel (2002), Alleghieri (2002), Hamilton (2002), Spiral Initials, Zothique (great font, based on hand lettering from a map of Clark Ashton Smith's fantasy world of Zothique), Reynard (semi-Celtic), Daresiel (elegant script), Caliph (1992, Arabic simulation), Bassackwards, Rosalinde (1999, handwriting), Arakne (2000, connected handwriting), Falconis (by Michael Scarpitti), Asrafel (semi-Celtic), Swithin (2004), Tyrfing (Art Nouveau/Fraktur, 1999), Waldeck (2008, blackletter), Woburn Initials, Stampwork, Draughtwork, Roughwork (a codex font derived from Nalle's own True Golden which is based on a=n earlier typeface by arts and crafts master William Morris), Melusine (gothic calligraphy), Corbei (uncial), Niederwald (hand lettering), Gjallarhorn (great uncial), Gaiseric (early medieval uncial), Taranis (1987, an uncial first drawn as a font for the cover of the old Ysgarth roleplaying system), De Bellis (roman era, by Michael Scarpitti), Engravers Gothic, Monimental Initials, Sanhedrin (Enemy of the State font), Vespasiano (roman capitals, by Michael Scarpitti), Bilitis, Hendrix (2002), Collins OE (old English), Samedi, Praitor, Evadare (1993, based on a character set which was hand calligraphed by Rudolf Koch), Koch Fantasie (1993), Black Cow (1998). Zothique, Ruritania, Mariner (2004, based on hand lettering originally done by Willy Pogany), Trinculo (a swinging cursive font), Texas Star (2002), Octavian (antique demi-serif font), Ruffian (antique type font), Ascelon (thin sans serif font), Munich (title lettering from Munchner Jugend magazine), Necromantic (bizarre bold titling font), Titania (romantic decorative lettering font), Oberon (bold romantic font), Knotwork, Guede (1993), Pullman, Purcell (Victorian circus poster style font), Allegheny, Carmilla, Malagua (1999-2013), Ardenwood, Platthand, Buccaneer, Cochin Archaic (2010), Boswell (1994), Guilford (based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), Death Ray (2012, constructivist), Alecto (futuristic), Candlemas (2003), Bridgeport (2003, based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), Medieval Tiles (2003), Linthicum (2003), Draughtwork (2003), Yngling (Fraktur, 2003), Rheingold (elaborate Fraktur: Music Hall Text elsewhere; see also Teuton Text, Cincinnati Type Foundry, 1877), Kidd (2003), Belgravia (2004), Peck Shields (2004), Scrawlies (2000, handcrafted), Albrecht Durer Gothic (2004), Orpheus (2004), InduXtrial (2004, a grunge face), Yoshitoshi (2003), Veronique (2004), Veneto (2006), Vidilex (1993, monospaced), Abelarde (2006), John Speed (1993: a mapmaker font), Furbelow (2006), Estoril (2006), Tangle, Aventine (sans), Texas Star (2002), Groningen (Bauhaus design), Nevins Hand, Scrapple (2011, Victorian, ornamental), Leodegar (2011, based on samples of 7th century Frankish hand lettering), Candlemass (2012).

    Fonts from 2013: Doge (a Venetian font based on a J.M. Bergling revival), Original Django (after the titling font in Quentin Tarantino's movie Django Unchained).

    Fonts from 2014: Highball, Carillon (based on a typeface by Samuel Welo), Edifice (based on lettering by J.M. Bergling).

    Fonts from 2015: Gods of Mars (an inline sci-fi typeface), Rykov (based on a 1930s Ukrainian constructivist style; Latin and Cyrillic), Vie Moderne (French art deco), Dahlgren, Grand Concours (art deco), Tantalus, Power Tie (art deco), Marquis Greeking.

    Fonts from 2016: Ekberg Modern (based on lettering samples by Samuel Welo from poster designs of the 1920s), Knuckleduster, Tzaphkiel, Sarandiel, Primrose Initials, Elizabethan Script (chancery style), Zeitschrift (an art nouveau font based on the Ver Sacrum magazine), Wendingen (Dutch deco), Memento Mori (Tuscan), Rounders (art deco).

    Fonts from 2017: Buzzmill (wooden plank font), Pumpkin Patch Initials, Talinn, Reliquary, Nopalito, Scattershot (script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Marionettas (a Mexican horror movie poster font), Fascination, Architextura, Santa Sangre, Glyphos.

    Typefaces from 2019: Cafe Corso (art nouveau), Comic Classix.

    Fnts released in 2020: Epigramatic (based on lettering by Dard Hunter for the Roycroft Press in the early 1900s), Cryptos (graffiti).

    Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link.

    View David Nalle's typefaces. Scriptorrium's library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

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

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    Seb Solignac

    Seb Solignac (Bordeaux, France) created the all caps children's font Allover (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sebastian Guzman

    Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Futuyuno (2013). The name is derived from Futura and Desayuno (breakfast). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Seemly Fonts (or: Fancy Fonts, Instagram Fonts, Comely Designs, or: Seemly Designs)
    [Mohammed Shohail Bhuian]

    Names associated with Seemly Designs and Comely Designs and Fancy Fonts and Seemly Fonts include Jamel E. Robin and Mohammed Shohail Bhuian. Bangladesh-based creator (b. 1984 or 1985) of Merry Christmas Go (2014, Christmas dingbats), Delphinium (2014, modular typeface), Calla (2014, ornamental letters; called Brush Moon inside the font), Christmas Go (2014, Christmas icons), Artindo (2014, rounded hand-printed sans) and Gerbera (2014, an experimental outline typeface).

    Typefaces from 2016: Crocus, Formiane (handcrafted), Xiovus (a rough brush face), Brown Foxy (a brush typeface), Burly Stain, Brown Crow, Funtos, Borsta (thick brush), Handwritten Artem, Burly, Goajubia, the handcrafted typefaces handwritten Artem and Vimofee, the grungy Grungoe, the outlined typeface Yarrow, the brush face Renbion, the sans typeface Carefaq.

    Typefaces from 2017: Shurjota, Admixes, Darkling, Daichi, Deadway (gothic), Dorathy, Funbox, Getrox, Kadence, Quinni, Radburn, Red Runner, Rishima Tint, Rishima (monoline hand-printed), Brave Rocker, Mantre, Marlys Wilson, Bixens, Anxious, Plucky, Terbium, Fraxinus, Leilani (sans), Gresan (signage), Isrety, Sinewy (rounded sans), Foglia, Josen, Meriana (hand-printed), Landis (dry brush), Radburn, Deadway, Bince Triex (rounded sans), Celibe (sans), Rodless, Axile, Bexirow, Jacsony (dry brush), Rantox, Dream Booker, Saburio, Nioxra, Waking Dreamer, Faegan (sans), Quenby, Jugsar (fat brush), Priopa, Tenure (grungy), Hardy Street, Noisette, Disjunct (grungy), Nigella, Xioxca (grungy), Goajubia Next, Rocky Here, Grand Dreamer (sans), Speedwell (text typeface), Scabiosa, Celosia, Gaillardia, Matthiola, Clarkia (dry brush), Jaxcos (prismatic), Jacsony (drybrush), Nelumbo.

    Typefaces from 2019: Sebqor, Sombir, Cherish Today, Rosbed, Bookish, Bonrin, Dokrak, Moorish Nonary, Notice Things, Single Step, Musicality, Axile, Funbox, Spring Season, Journey Planner, Rockwork, Notice Things, Finder, Caroos, Our Goal, Single Step, Rekobip, Mobstex, Bogwood.

    Typefaces from 2020: Leman, Valentine Dream, Thrive Xmas, Christmas Respite, Good Mood, Our Santa, Christmas Love, Supposition, Stay Happy, Christmas Tree, Nest, Mother Wonder, Autumn Arbor, Keep Smiling, Be Honest, Spread Beauty, Spread Joy, Happy Dreamer, Delighted Panda, Christmas Eve, Derivation, Be Kind, Dream Arranger, Enjoy Summer, Fallen Dreamer, Father, Follow Through, Hello Brilliant, Hello Christmas, Hello Halloween, Mermaid, My Father, Natural, Obsessed Halloween, Shadowy, Spooky Haunt, Spooky Regime, Summer Garden, Syncopator, Target (textured caps), Travel, Vacation Planner, Veritas Christmas, Welcome Everyday, Sweet Summer, Halloween Occurrence, Bomka, Floweret, Keqima, Mando, Qiko, Runner, Demure Dogma, Epoch (Bold/Light/Regular), Floret, Goodenia, Grand, Hello Brilliant, Jacsony, Plight (Bold/Light/Regular), Queenship, Scabiosa, Sombir, Mamma, Mammy, Momcare, Mother, Mother Special, Mother Wonder, Valentine Things, Autumn Happiness and Valentine Monster.

    Typefaces from 2021: Strong Passion (a scrapbook font), Striking Rainbow, Food Zone (a round vernacular caps font), Remind Him (hand-crafted), Monteya (a bold display serif), Our Happy Holiday, Sweet Daydream (hand-printed), Eerie House (a Halloween brush font), Scary Hours, Big Dreamer, Christmas Preference (hand-printed), Wake Up Now (a scrapbook font), Connect Christmas, Merry With Dream, Dark Misery, Spooky Sphere, Creepy Night (a brushed horror font), Happy Moment (all caps, handcrafted), Summer Motion, Inquisitive (handdrawn caps), Aim High, Hold On (an all caps brush font), Aim High, Positive Attitude, Take Chances, Hardy Mind, Pretty Magnolia, Summer Ink, Tidy Mom (a chalk font), Think Big, Precious Way, Just Believe (a marker pen font), Generous Monarch (a tall condensed dry brush typeface), Our Goodwill (hand-printed), Keep Me, Intense Emotion, Majestic Valentine (hand-drawn), Wow Darling (handcrafted), Love Taking, Love Radiate.

    Typefaces from 2022: Easter Discover (condensed, hand-printed), Instinct Question (a condensed all caps brush font), Summer Fable (handprinted), Cute Rabbit (a fat finger children's book font), How Lovely (hand-printed), Summer Splendor (casual, hand-crafted), Individual Thinking, See You Again (handprinted caps), Juicy Fruit.

    Some fonts are free at Dafont. Creative Market link for Jamel E. Robin. Fontspace link. Sellfy link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sefilianto

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Wayang Rumput (2013), an ornamental caps typeface that is based on dry grass shadow puppets in Wayang Rumput, a Sundanese culture. This was done during studies at Bandung Institute of Technology. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sejal Mota

    Mumbai-based illustrator and graphic designer. She drew an exquisite multi-patterned all-caps alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Selina A. Fenech

    Designer of Fantasy Alphabet, a set of decorative initial caps. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sem L. Hartz
    [Molé Foliate]

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    Seni Olivier Monovisua

    Graphic designer in Soustons, France. Creator of Lettrine 2 (2011) and the rounded Tuscan (Western) typeface Brooklyn Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Senor Octopus

    Illustrator in Montpellier, France. Creator of a decorative handcrafted alphabet of initials in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Kovalyov

    Motion graphics and fashion designer in Kiev, who made a beautiful ornamental caps set for Latin and Cyrillic called Bosch (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Chekhonin

    Illustrator. In 1919, he designed Dreamlike Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergio Buitrago

    Bogota, Colombia-based designer of a modern all caps typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergio Gomes

    During his studies at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade in Porto, Portugal, Sergio Gomes created Locked Type (2014: decorative caps) and Clean Type (2014: like blackletter). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serkan Kosemek

    Graphic, textile and fashion designer in Istanbul, who created the ornamental caps typeface T-Connection (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sevtap Sarica

    Isparta, Turkey-based designer of Illuminated Alphabet (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Seyeon Kang

    Los Angeles, CA-based designer of Greek and Roman Mythology Typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shahan Keuork

    Toronto-based designer of an innovative decorative caps typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shahin Haghjou

    Barcelona-based graphic designer. For Yorokobu Magazine, he created a set of fancy numerals called Numeric Paradise (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shahira Khalid

    Illustrator and graphic designer who created the ornamental techno caps typeface Points in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shane Brandes
    [Proportional Lime]

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    Shannon Smith

    Australian designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental caps alphabet Wild Things (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shanyasmin

    Tel Aviv-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Font Princess (2014) for Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shari A. Brown

    Gainesville, FL-based designer of Agency (2014, a high-contrast all caps sans typeface family) and Diamond Type (2014, decorative caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shawna Stobaugh

    Independence and/or Blue Springs, MO-based Shawna Stobaugh, who runs Nonna Illustration & Design, created these typefaces in 2015: Anna Mae, Mila Floral Fill, Siri Floral Elements, Siri Uppercase, Siri Floral Numbers. Nonna Design link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SHCH Graphics Group
    [Andrey Yushchenko]

    Graphic design, illustration and art direction group located in Kiev, Ukraine, and headed by Andrey Yushchenko. Alternate URL. They offer some beautiful decorative capital letters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

    Additional URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shelby Mitchell

    Arlington, TX-based designer of a floral ornamental caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shelly Still

    North Ascot, United Kingdom-based designer of the colorful number font Yoga birds (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shi Briggs

    During her studies in Grand Rapids, MI, Shi Briggs created the decorative caps alphabet Dullars (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shinn Type
    [Nick Shinn]

    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. Interview by Jan Middendorp, in which he describes himself as a contrarian. Pic by Isaias Loaiza. Pic by Chris Lozos at Typo SF in San Francisco in 2012. Custom typefaces have been produced for newspapers such as The Birmingham News (Alabama), The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Express (London), The Daily Mail (London), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), The Montreal Gazette, and The St. Petersburg Times (Florida). Custom fonts, with exclusive rights, have been created for corporations such as Thomson Nelson, Enbridge, Rogers Communications Inc., and Martha Stewart Living. Nick organizes type evenings in Toronto all year long.

    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 done in 1999; in 2008, he published a 10-style extension called Beaufort Pro), Bodoni Egyptian (1999), Alphaville (2000, techno typeface with 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 (1999, 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 was only available to the Giller Prize, Random House and the Richler family until its public release in May 2013 at MyFonts, where Richler (+Cyrillic, +Greek) is advertised as a 21st century antiqua book face.

    In 2002, he published Goodchild (a Jenson revival; see also Goodchild Pro (2017). Goodchild is a Venetian with clean (not antiqued!) outlines and a larger-than-Jensonian x-height. It comes in 4 styles and is targeted at sophisticated academic typography) 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). In 2003, he also published the mmonowidth unicase family Panoptica (2003), which includes styles called Regular, Sans, Egyptian, Doesburg and Octagonal, to name a few.

    In 2004, he released Nicholas, a Jensonian 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 typefaces went retail. One typeface is called Pratt, named after David Pratt, the design director at The Globe and Mail who commissioned the typeface for his redesign of the paper. The companion typeface 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 typeface 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 typeface 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 typeface 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 typeface 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).

    In 2011, he created Checker, an all caps 3d black and white-tiled typeface, and Parity (a roman unicase pair).

    Naiad (2013) is a didone, or neoclassical, typeface with Victorian curlicues thrown in to create a Victorian look.

    Pratt Nova (2014) is a 17-style large x-height typeface family that attempts to achieve visual and semantic opulence, equipping the typographer with a comprehensive array of harmonized fonts, all rigorously drawn, superbly fitted iterations of a single, profoundly original design. Neology (2014) is a 15-style sans family subdivieded into Deco, Grotesque and plain sans subfamilies.

    Brown Pro (2016) is a classic grotesque, distinguished by its semi-condensed proportions and slight flaring of the edges and some ink traps.

    Figgins Standard (2016) is a take on the low-contrast original sans typefaces designed in the 1830s in industrial London.

    Gambado (2016). This is a collection of shaken typefaces with bouncing letters. Particular fonts include Gambado Sans and Gambado Scotch.

    Dair (2017) is a revival of Canada's first home-grown typeface, Cartier, which was completed by Carl Dair in 1967 and named after 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who mapped the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1530s. Dair 67 and Dair 67 Italic are facsimiles of the original fonts. Dair and Dair Italic are fully-featured 21st century fonts.

    In 2018, Nick Shinn published Phiz, a diverse suite of 27 decorative fonts based on Figgins Sans Extra Bold.

    Designer of Boxley (2016), a superelliptical sans typeface family.

    At the end of 2020, he published the 14-style condensed rounded sans typeface family Aptly. o

    Typefaces from 2021: Buslingthorpe (a tall-necked typeface in which the x-height is only 29% of the ascender height, beating classic tall fonts such as Rudolf Koch's Koch Antiqua, and Lucian Bernhard's Lucian and Bernhard Modern).

    Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal.

    MyFonts interview. I Love Typography link. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

    View Nick Shinn's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Shivani Kher

    India-based designer of a decorative all caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shokouh Razavi
    [Haxon]

    [More]  ⦿

    Shola Harrison

    During her studies at the University of Hertfordshire, Shola Harrison (London, UK) designed a colorful all caps typeface based on sport floors (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shondra Eppinger

    Shondra Eppinger (Midland, TX) created a cat silhouette ornamental caps typeface simply called Cat Typography (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shravan Muralidhar

    Bangalore, India-based designer of Ficus Script (2013), an Indic ornamental caps typeface that was inspired by the banyan tree.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shrisruthii Gurumoorthy

    Nagappattinam, India-based designer of the patterned all caps typeface Fontif (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shriya Bhattacharya

    During her studies in New Delhi, Shriya Bhattacharya designed the arrowed Tuscan typeface Pisces Zodiac (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shujal

    Swiss designer of the ornamental caps typeface Monster Hunter (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shuler Studio
    [Pam Shuler]

    Pam Shuler (Shuler Studio, Columbus, GA) designed many exquisite monograms. In 2017, she published Monogram Chic. Other monogram fonts include Monogram Block, Single Antique Chic and Vintage Vine. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    SIAS (or: Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner)
    [Andreas Stötzner]

    Andreas Stötzner (b. 1965, Leipzig) is a type designer who lives in Pegau, Saxony. Graduate from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and the Royal College of Art in London (1994). Since then, free-lance. Started making typefaces in 1997. He edits the sign and symbol magazine Signa. He spoke at Typo Berlin 2004 and at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki where his talk was entitled On the edges of the alphabet. Coauthor with Tilo Richter of Signographie : Entwurf einer Lehre des graphischen Zeichens. He set up SIAS in 2006-2007 and started selling fonts through MyFonts.

    He created Andron Scriptor (2004, free), with original ideas for Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. The Andron project intends to extend this Venetian text typeface in many directions: right now, it covers Latin, Greek, Coptic, Gothic, runes, Cyrillic, Etruscan and Irish scripts, musical symbols, astronomical and meteorological symbols, and many dingbats. The Andron MC Corpus series (2012) contains Uncial, Mediaeval and Capital styles. He also created Andron 1 Monetary (2014), Andron 1 Alchemical and Andron 2 ABC (2014, for children's literature).

    On or before 2006, he created a few typefaces for Elsner & Flake. These include EF Beautilities, EF Ornamental Rules, EF Squares, EF Topographicals, EF Typoflorals, EF Typographicals, EF Typomix, EF Typosigns, EF Typospecs, EF Typostuff.

    Fonts from 2007-2010: Gramma (2007, three dingbats with basic geometric forms), Andron Corpus Publix (2007, dingbats including one called Transport), SIAS Freefont (2007, more dingbats), SIAS Lineaturen (2007, geometric dingbats) SIAS Symbols (2009), Andron Freefont (2009, text font), Andron 1 Latin Corpus (2009), Andron 1 Greek Corpus (2009), Andron Kyrillisch (2009, consisting of Andron 1 CYR, Andron 2 CYR and Andron 2 SRB where SRB stands for Serbian), Andron 2 English Corpus (2010, blackletter-inspired alphabet), Andron 2 Deutsch Corpus (2010), Andron Ornamente (2012), Reinstaedt (2009, blackletter family), Crisis (2009, economic sans).

    Lapidaria (2010) is an elegant art deco sans family that includes an uncial style and covers Greek. Hibernica (2010) is a Celtic variant of Lapidaria. Symbojet Bold (2010) is a combination of a Latin and Greek sans typeface with 400 pictograms.

    Rosenbaum (2012) is a festive blackletter face, obtained by mixing in didone elements.

    In 2013, he published Arthur Cabinet, a six-style inline art deco caps collection of typefaces, with accompanying Arthur Ornaments and Arthur Sans. Meanwhile, Andron Mega grew to 14,700 unicode glyphs in 2013.

    Typefaces from 2014: Behrens Ornaments (art nouveau ornaments based on Behrens Schuck by Peter Behrens, 1914), Fehlian (an open capitals typeface family with Plain, Gravur and Precious styles), Happy Maggie (a hand-drawn script based on Maggie's sketches when she was 13 years old), Abendschroth (for lullabies, girl's literature, murder poems, short stories and Christmas gift books), Abendschroth Scriptive, Albyona English No. 1 (as Andreas writes, suitable for children's books, fantasy literature, crime novels, natural food packaging and poison labeling, for infancy memories, vanitas kitsch items, dungeon museum bar menu cards, introductions to herbalism and witchcraft manuals), Lindau (a Venetian Jensonian typeface with considerable flaring in the ascenders), Grund (based on the 1924 art deco signage in Leipzig's Untergrundmesshalle Markt whose architect was Otto Droge), Leipziger Ornamente (based on variopus buildings in Gohlis, Leipzig, dating from the 1920s-1950s), Kaukasia Albanisch (ancient writing system of the Caucasus region, allegedly created by Mesrop Mashtots who also invented the Armenian alphabet in 405).

    Commissioned fonts include Runes (commission by Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), Lapidaria Menotec, Old Albanian, Dania (a special notation for Danish dialectology. Font extension of Latin Modern Italic (Open source), commissioned by the Arnamagnanean Institute, Copenhagen Universit).

    Typefaces from 2015: Andron 2 EIR Corpus (uncial, Gaeli), Artemis Sans (Greek version of Arthur Sans), Ardagh (a Gaelic / Irish version of Arthur Sans). Don Sans (a sturdy sans).

    Typefaces from 2016: Popelka (an uncial fairy tale font modeled after the opening sequence of the 1973 movie Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel).

    MyFonts. Behance link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link.

    Showcase of Andreas Stötzner's typefaces at MyFonts. View the SIAS typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sigríður Rún

    With a BA in visual communication from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik-based Sigríður Rún created Icelandic Alphabet (2013), a typeface that consists of skeletal structures. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sila Özyildiz

    During her studies in Ankara, Turkey, Sila Özyildiz created the avant-garde typeface Moderna (2015). Now based in Alicante, Spain, she created the squarish typeface Brick, and a battery-themed all caps typeface in 2016. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvia Baz

    Silvia baz (London) played around with glyph outlines at various sizes and angles and created a beautiful set of decorative caps in this manner. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvia Coco

    Graphic designer and illustrator in New York City. Creator of the ornamental caps Sexy Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvia Moran

    Portoviejo, Ecuador-based designer of a decorative techno all caps typeface in 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvia Solano

    During her studies in San Pedro, Costa Rica, Silvia Solano designed a decorative caps alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Egli

    Swiss art director who has done substantive typographic work for some clients. For Tess model agency in London, he custom-designed a typeface and logo in collaboration with Mind Design. Sea Ark Sheep (2010) is a contextual typeface that was started as a project at Central Saint Martins, and ended up being released by Die Gestalten in collaboration with Stian W. Bugten in Norway.

    In 2012, he was based in New York City.

    In 2016, Simon published the free superfamilies Sean Slab and Sean Sans. The typeface is about to be renamed Canola. Github link for Metapolator: Canola is the first typeface created using Metapolator. It includes Sean Devanagari.

    As part of his Biblia Libre project, he addded Bold and Italic to Apostrophic Lab's free Day Roman font family (2020), which is based on François Guyot's 16th century types. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Inkpen

    London-based designer of the nature-themed all caps Alphabet Au Naturel (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Rogers

    British designer who made the cog-themed initial caps typeface Cogs (2012). He is schedlued to get a Bachelor's degree in Arts in 2015 from Kingston. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Spring

    Speicher, Switzerland-based creator of the commercial vector format fonts Bodoni-X (2014, a modification of Bauer Bodoni Bold) and Spatium-X (2014, squarish and bilined). In 2017, he designed the mechanical octagonal all caps typeface Play.

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

    Simone Bianchetti

    Graphic designer in Brescia, Italy, who created the pearly caps typeface Capilettera (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Singpentinkhappy (or: Colors Happy)
    [Yahya Rifandaru]

    Designer in Banten, Indonesia, b. 1981. Creator in 2020 of Batique (a batik-themed textured font), Rambejaji (a fat finger font), Gemagus (a brush font), Ndasem (a 16-style minimalist organic sans), Jekulo (a 20-style rounded sans) and Kakuati (a display sans). In 2019, he designed a colorful decorative caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sinisa Komlenic

    Novi Sad, Serbia-based freelance graphic and brand designer. Behance link. Creator of the artsy display typefaces Clutchee (2009) and Clutches (2009). He cofounded Just.Dot, a creative studio in Serbia, with his friend Zeljko Gudelj in 2008. His own site, where one can freely download Clutchee. Klingspor link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sinisha Guzvic

    Graphic designer from Zurich who works in the fields of illustration, lettering and fine arts. He studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule or ETH) in Zurich during three years. He also studied law at the University of Zurich, graduating as a Master of Law, specializing in intellectual property rights.

    Creator of the simple but quite effective sans caps typeface Wapo (2011-2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sisi Recht

    Designer and illustrator in New York City. Creator of Bubble Wrap Type (2015, dot matrix font), Turnover (2015, decorative caps done for the identity branding for Turnover, a new product design, as part of a startup company with Katie MacLachlan and Robyn Donnelly), and Hearst Holiday (2015, an ornamental caps typeface done for Hearst's holiday invtations). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Siyu Cao

    British creator of Political Alphabet of the 1970s (2011), a hand-drawn caps alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos

    Dutch typographer and type designer, b. Drachten, 1877, d. Haarlem, 1962. He worked at Tetterode from 1907-1941. Catalog of some of his digitized typefaces. Designer of various typefaces:

    • The uncial-like typeface Libra Uncial (1938, a pseudo-Gaelic font) at Tetterode in Amsterdam. Libra is now carried in digital form by Mecanorma and Bitstream.
    • Nobel, a redesign of Berthold Grotesk. FB Nobel (1993, Tobias Frere-Jones at the Font Bureau) is a powerful 18-style sans family based on de Roos's Nobel. It ranges from Extra Light to Very Black, and includes a condensed sextet. See also DTL Nobel (Dutch Type Library) by Fred Smeijers and Andrea Fuchs (a German student at the Arnhe academy supervised by her teacher, Fred Smeijers).
    • De Roos made Dutch (or Hollandse) Mediaeval (1912), an old style (Venetian) typeface with little contrast, arched slabs and serifs, short descenders, an atrocious lower case g, and an italic that is more like an oblique, but with several conservative workhorse qualities that made it one of the most popular typefaces during World War I. Intertype Mediaeval is similar. Hollandse Mediaeval was digitally revived by Hans van Maanen in 2007 as Dutch Mediaeval, and by Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin in 2013 as Dutch Mediaeval Book ST. For other digitizations, see De Roos Mediaeval NF (2014, Nick Curtis) and Hoboken Serial (2010, SoftMaker).
    • He designed the calligraphic typeface Meidoorn (1928) for De Heuvelpers (his own private press), which was active from 1926-1935. The Meidoorn materials (matrices, punches) are now in the hands of G. J. Randoe (Keizersgracht 89, 1015 Amsterdam). Laure Afchain was doing a revival of Meidoorn in 2008 as a student at KABK, Den Haag. And Joe Chang, still at KABK, did a revival of it in 2012 in van der Laan's class.
    • Egmont (1933) is a serifed typeface done at Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Mac McGrew writes: Egmont is a modern interpretation of classic letter forms, designed by S. H. DeRoos for Amsterdam Type foundry in the 1930s, and subsequently cut by Intertype. It is an elegant face, with long ascenders which have double serifs. There are three weights in roman and italic, all with three styles of figures as shown in the bold specimen. Italic swash letters are made for all three weights. Egmont Decorative Initials were added by George F. Trenholm in 1936; they are sometimes called Egmont Medium Italic, from which they are derived. Compare Bernhard Modern. A digital family was designed by Dennis Ortiz-Lopez in 2005 called OT Egmont. Castcraft's free font family OPTI-Eisen is also noteworthy. Open Egmont Kapitalen (2013) is a free openface designed by John Wollring based upon de Roos's known Egmont Inline (or Egmont Versalien) shown in a Lettergieterij Amsterdam specimen book of 1935. Jay Rutherford digitized Egmont Inline in 1988, but did not publish it. In 2016, Alice Retunsky designed the revival Dutch Plus, and added cyrillics.
    • Erasmus Mediaeval (1923, Amsterdam). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: Venetian in style, but with light serifs and short descenders. Many of the serifs are shaped, as though drawn with a pen. E and F have the centre arms high, the Ha high bar and U the lower-case design. g has a brief tail drawn from right to left;p and q have oblique foot serifs. The italic has slight inclination and has the serifs of the roman. The heavier face of this design is called Grotius. Digital revivals include Erasmus (1992, A. Pat Hickson, ITF) and one by Pradnya Naik.
    • Card Pro (2006, URW, Ralph M. Unger) is based on Ella Cursief (1916, Lettergieterij Amsterdam). For another digital version of Ella Cursief, see Rozy Cursive (2016, Leon Hulst).
    • Circulaire (2009, Hans Van Maanen, Canada Type) is based on a set of initial caps designed by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos in 1926.
    • His last typeface was De Roos Romein (and Cursief) (1947, Amsterdam; Intertype New York; American Typefoundry) about which Canada Type, which produced a magnificent 10-style digital revival, expansion and interpretation in 2009 simply called Roos, in a cooperative effort between Hans van Maanen and Patrick Griffin, writes: It was designed and produced during the years of the second World War, and unveiled in the summer of 1947 to celebrate De Roos's 70th birthday. In 1948, the first fonts produced were used for a special edition of the Dutch Constitution on which Juliana took the oath during her inauguration as the Queen of the Netherlands. To this day this typeface is widely regarded as De Roos's best design, with one of the most beautiful italics ever drawn. In contrast with all his previous roman typefaces, which were based on the Jenson model, De Roos's last type recalls the letter forms of the Renaissance, specifically those of Claude Garamont from around 1530, but with a much refined and elegant treatment, with stems sloping towards the ascending, slightly cupped serifs, a tall and distinguished lowercase, and an economic width that really shines in the spectacular italic, which harmonizes extremely well with its roman partner. Mac McGrew: De Roos is a handsome contemporary roman type designed by S. H. DeRoos in Amsterdam, Holland. Originally imported from a Dutch type foundry, with additional weights and inline initials, this roman and italic were also cut by ATF about 1952, and by Intertype in 1954. A 1953 piece of ATF literature notes, "Cast at Elizabeth on Amsterdam line." Scans below are from the book First specimen book of De Roos Roman&Italic (Typefoundry Amsterdam).
    • Savoy (ca. 1936) was the third art deco display typeface drawn under de Roos's superviosn, after the earlier pair, Bristol and Carlton (1929), which were drawn by Dick Dooijes also under de Roos's supervision.
    • Simplex (1937). A typeface that flirts with the idea of unicase. For a digital revival, see Hendrik (2021, by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco).
    • Zilvertype (1914-1916, with Jean-François van Royen). This was revived by Hans van Maanen as Zilvertype (2012-2014, Hans Van Maanen, Canada Type): Right on the heels of the tremendous popularity wave that made Hollandse Mediaeval the most used Dutch typeface during the Great War years, Sjoerd H. de Roos was asked to design a 15 point type for De Zilverdistel, Jean-François van Royen's publishing company. So between 1914 and 1916, de Roos and van Royen collaborated on the typeface eventually known as Zilvertype, and which both parties viewed as an improved version of Hollandse Mediaeveal. Like Hollandse Mediaeval, Zilvertype was based on the Jenson model, but it is simpler, with more traditional metrics, and lighter and more classic in colour.
    • Nieuw Javaansch No. 1 (1909). A Javanese script done by Sjoerd de Roos at Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Revived in 2012 at the KABK by Troy Leinster under the same name.

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

    Skeldale House Treasures
    [Robyn Phillips]

    This site used to have shareware dingbats by Missi (Robyn Phillips from Cascade, Montana). For a short while, it was a commercial site featuring 246 fonts on one CD for 49USD. And some time after that, it shut down altogether. However, the fonts will forever be floating around in cyberspace. Fontspace link.

    The font names start with Ryp or ryp, and with that prefix omitted, we have: Abctrain, Animal, Aquatic, Bars 1, Birds 1, Buildings, Butterfly 1+2, Button 1-4, Caps Fonts (60 typefaces !), Cartoon Bugs, Cats 1 + 2, Children 1-3, China Art (11 typefaces), Christmas 1-4, Christmas Bells, Christmas Caps, Deco 1-20, Element 1+2, Evil 1, Facets 1, Fat 1, Fiesta 1+2, Floral 1-11, Frames 1+2, Geometrics, Greek Vases 1+2, Halloween 1, Hats 1+2, Hearts 1, Jewels 1-4, Keys 1+2, Kokopelli Flute, Ladies Hats 1+2, Leaves 1, Lighthouse 1, Nature 1, Nymphic, Old Wood Cuts 1-6, 10-14, Old World Art 1-4, Ornate 1-7, Pipes 1+2, Quilt 1-10, Real Bugs, Ropes 1+2, Santa 1+2, Scarey, Snowflake 1-8 (image of Snowflake 1 and of Snowflake 3), Silhouette 1-20, Thanksgiving, Transportation 1-3, Trees, Victorian 1-3.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Skyline Type Foundry
    [Schuyler Shipley]

    Metal font foundry in Prescott, AZ (was: Kampsville, IL), est. 2004. Run by Schuyler (Sky) Shipley, b. 1954. Shipley collects, restores and operates antique presses. He has been involved with type and letterpress printing since 1962. Check also T.H. Groves's site.

    As of 2010, Skyline's typefaces include Sans Serif Light w. Alts, Egmont Decorative Initials, Park Avenue, McMurtrie Title, Mercury Borders, Bewick Roman, Bradley, Cazxtonian, Cochin, Cooper Ted, Crayonette, Della Robbia, Extended Black, Fournier le Jeune, Glyptic (after Hermann Ihlenburg's Glyptic from 1878), Hadriano Stone-Cut, Ben Franklin Decorative Initials, John Alden Decorative Initials, Massey Two-Color Initials, Iroquois Condensed, Keynote, Lexington, Narciss, Neon, Neuland, Neuland Inline, Othello, Othello Inline, Paramount, Playbill, Sans Serif Light, Sans Serif Light Italic, Schoeffer Old Style, Trocadero, Worrell Uncial. They also have quite a number of ornamental border fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Smily Pixel

    Tallinn, Estonia-based designer of a free vintage floral caps typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Snehal Jadhav

    Mumbai-based designer of Painter Suhail (2013), Painter Kafeel (2013) and SeafoodType (2013, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Snipe Scientist

    Designer in 2018 of the script typefaces Starlet (a wild calligraphic script), Beloved Ottilia, Delicate Script and stylish Charm, and the sans typeface Overhill.

    Typefaces from 2019: Celebrity Signature.

    Typefaces from 2020: La Rosa (font duo), South Epic (Solid, Stencil, Script: especially the decorative caps are stunning). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Society6

    Designer of several children's alphabets ca. 2014, such as Muppet Alphabet, Oz Alphabet, and Sesame Street Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Noceti

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Buenos Aires. Creator of a decorative alphabet for Piba Co (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Pinto

    During her studies in Lisbon, Portugal, Sofia Pinto created the ornamental caps typeface Housemaid (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Pliakopanou

    Athens-based creator of Makaronia (2012), an ornamental pasta-themed Greek caps typeface that is based on Linotype Palatino. In 2016, she showcased the decorative caps typeface Macaroni. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sol Hess

    American typographer and type designer, b. 1886, Philadelphia, d. 1953. He was a man with class and style, who influenced many through his work. He managed the Lanston library from early in the 20th century (he joined Lanston in 1902) until the second World War. He created many of its typefaces himself, and commissioned many from Frederic W. Goudy. His typefaces (LTC stands for Lanston Type Company):

    • Alternate Gothic Modernized.
    • LTC Artscript (Lanston Monotype, 1940; digital version in 2005 at P22/Lanston). McGrew: Artscript is a delicate calligraphic letter designed by Sol Hess for Monotype, which calls it "an attempt to convert into rigid metal the graceful penmanship of the ancient scribe. ..based on the writing of Servidori of Madrid (1798)." It was designed in 1939 but not released until 1948, because of wartime restrictions. It is a pleasing design for limited use, but its delicacy requires special care in handling. Compare Heritage, Lydian Cursive, and Thompson Quillscript.
    • In 1928, he created the now famous Broadway Engraved. P22 writes: LTC Broadway was originally designed by Morris Benton. Sol Hess added a lower case in 1929 and also drew Broadway Engraved for Lanston Monotype. That font is now available in digital format from LTC/P22. Other digital fonts include OPTI Broadway Engraved from Castcraft, Broadway Inline (Softmaker), B820 Deco (Softmaker), B821 Deco (Softmaker), Deco 901 (Bitstream) and Bravo (Corel).
    • Bodoni 26: a unicase interpretation of Bodoni by Hess at Lanston, designed by Giampa; digital version at P22/Lanston in 2005.
    • Bodoni No. 175 (remastered in 2006 by Paul Hunt).
    • LTC Bodoni Bold.
    • Bruce Old Style No. 31: a transitional font at Lanston Monotype in 1909. Now a Bitstream face. Based on Bruce Old Style No. 20 from Bruce Foundry (1869).
    • Linotype states that Sol Hess is responsible for a version of Cochin Bold (1921): Georges Peignot designed Cochin based on copper engravings of the 18th century and Charles Malin cut the typeface in 1912 for the Paris foundry Deberny&Peignot. The font is named after the French engraver Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790) although its style had little to do with that of the copper artist's. The font displays a curious mix of style elements and could be placed as a part of the typographical Neorenaissance movement. Cochin is especially large and wide and was very popular at the beginning of the 20th century. Note: Cochin is now sold by Linotype, Adobe, Monotype, URW++ and Bitstream (as Engravers' Oldstyle 205).
    • English Caslon no 37.
    • Flash.
    • Goudy Bible (1948). Mac McGrew: Goudy Bible is a modification of Goudy Newstyle (q.v.), adapted by Bruce Rogers with the assistance of Sol Hess for use in the Lectern Bible Rogers designed for World Publishing Company in 1948.
    • Goudy Bold Swash.
    • Goudy Heavyface Open (1926) and Condensed (1927). Mac McGrew: Goudy Heavface and Italic were designed by Goudy in 1925 in response to a strong request by Monotype for a distinctive typeface on the order of the very popular foundry Cooper Black. Such typefaces had little appeal for Goudy, and he always felt that Monotype was disappointed in his efforts, but the result is more informal than other similar types, and has had considerable popularity. Note the extra set of figures and the unusual number of tied characters and ornaments in the font. Goudy Heavyface Open is a variation produced by Monotype in 1926, probably designed by Sol Hess, who designed Goudy Heavyface Condensed in 1927. Compare Cooper Black, Ludlow Black, Pabst Extra Bold. See LTC Goudy Heavyface, or Goudy Heavyface (Bitstream).
    • Hadriano Stone-Cut.
    • Hess, Hess Bold (1910). Mac McGrew: Hess Bold was designed by Sol Hess for Monotype about 1910, as a companion typeface for Goudy Light, drawn earlier by Frederic W. Goudy. Of medium weight, it accurately reflects the characteristics of the lighter face with a high degree of legibility, but neither typeface is distinguished. There is also an italic by Hess.
    • Hess Monoblack. A great display poster typeface that looks like a hand-drawn version of Nicolas Cochin. Mac McGrew: Hess Monoblack is a Monotype typeface that no doubt was drawn by Sol Hess, but it has not been found in any accounts of his work nor in the regular specimen books. The showing here is reproduced from Monotype's "specimen on request" sheet; no other information has been found except that there are only two sizes with seventy-seven characters each, a practical minimum for cap-and-lowercase fonts. Compare Greco Bold. See P22/Lanston for a digital version called LTC Hess Monoblack done by Paul Hunt in 2005.
    • Hess New Bookbold (1946). Mac McGrew: Hess New Bookbold was designed for Monotype in 1946 by Sol Hess. with italic the following year; both were released in 1948. An adaptation of Garamond Bold, the typeface was reproportioned to fit a new standard arrangement which was intended to make it readily available for use with several standard oldstyle typefaces still in common use at the time, but little use seems to have been made of it. Ascenders and descenders are shorter than in Garamond, anticipating later phototype trends, weight is slightly greater, and letters are more tightly fitted.
    • Hess Old Style (1920-1923). Mac McGrew: Hess Old Style was designed about 1920 (one source says 1912) by Sol Hess for Monotype, which says it was modeled after a typeface shown by Nicolas Jenson about 1479. It is neat, but does not have much in common with Centaur, Cloister, and other typefaces based on Jenson's work. However, it is a little heavier than most of them and so works to good advantage on smooth papers. The italic followed in 1922. Revived by Steve Jackaman in 1993 as Hess Old Style RR.
    • Hess Neobold (1933-1934). Mac McGrew: Hess Neobold was designed by Sol Hess for Monotype in 1934. It is a narrow, bold, and very squarish gothic with small serifs, designed for attention-getting display in a style of the day, but never made in more than one size. Compare Airport Tourist (Futura Display), Othello.
    • Hess Title (+Italic, 1910). Mac McGrew: Hess Title and Italic were the first type designs drawn by Sol Hess. Produced in 1910 as advertising types, they were designed for and first used by a prominent New York department store. Only the roman was made in display sizes.
    • Italian Old Style Wide.
    • Janson.
    • LTC Jefferson Gothic: an adaptation of News Gothic Extra Condensed drawn by Sol Hess in 1916; digital version at P22/Lanston in 2005. Mac McGrew: Jefferson Gothic was originally Monotype's copy of News Gothic J Extra Condensed, using the same foundry name. In 1916 Sol Hess designed several alternate round capitals; matrix fonts include both styles of these letters, but no lowercase. Baltimore Type called it Tourist Extra Condensed. Compare Phenix.
    • Kennerley Open Caps.
    • Laurentian.
    • Martin (+Italic). Mac McGrew: Martin and Italic are listed as a Monotype production of 1945, adapted by Sol Hess from old sources, but no specimen or further information has been found.
    • New Bookman.
    • Onyx Italic (1939, for Monotype). The italic version of Gerry Powell's 1937 ATF typeface Onyx, a condensed version of Poster Bodoni.
    • Pendrawn (1934). Mac McGrew: Pendrawn was designed for Monotype about 1933 by Sol Hess. It retains much of the quality of sixteenth-century hand-lettering, and is generally modem in character without the severity typical of most modem types. Serifs are long and thin, slightly concave, but those at the top of lowercase stems are slanted as in oldstyle types. Stems taper slightly toward the ends, and figures are hanging. Round letters tend toward an egg shape, with the small end down. It has been made only in two sizes: regular 36-point as a complete font and 36H4 as oversize capitals only.
    • Postblack Italic.
    • Post-Stout Italic.
    • Poster or Hess Poster. Mac McGrew: Poster or Hess Poster is a heavy, narrow, very compact gothic designed by Sol Hess for Monotype. Its general appearance suggests a contemporary serifless design but in fact there is a slight hint of serifs. The slightly splayed M and the single-bowl g are suggestive of British grotesques. Ascenders and descenders are short, giving a large x-height, and the typeface is closely fitted.
    • Slimline (1939). Mac McGrew: Slimline was designed by Sol Hess in 1939 for Monotype. It is a lightweight, very narrow, monotone typeface with tiny serifs and a number of alternate round characters. It has had some use for stationery. Compare Huxley Vertical.
    • Spire (1937): a condensed didone, see the digital LTC Spire in the Lanston collection. Mac McGrew: Spire is a modernization of the old modern roman extra-condensed style. drawn by Sol Hess for Monotype in 1937. There is no lowercase, but there are several alternate round characters. Compare Greenwich, Modern Roman Extra Condensed, also Empire, Slimline. Spire is also the name of a dissimilar BB&S face, cut in 1898 or earlier and shown as late as 1927. Spire has been digitized/revived by Ann Pomeroy under the same name for FontHaus and then Group Type. LTC Obelysk Grotesk was designed by the Lanston Drawing Office in the late 1980s. This typeface is a reconstruction of Spire. The skeleton of Spire Roman stands with the serifs removed. Like Spire, this font has no lower case, but does offer alternate cap styles in some of the lower case positions.
    • Squareface (1940). Now available digitally as LTC Squareface from LTC/P22. Mac McGrew: Squareface was designed by Sol Hess in 1940 as a variation of Stymie Extrabold. A number of characters are the same for both typefaces, but normally round letters have been squared considerably, with only slightly rounded corners. It makes a vigorous display face, and harmonizes well with other square-serif designs.
    • Stationers Gothic (1942-1948). Mac McGrew: Stationers Gothic Light and Bold were designed by Sol Hess for Monotype in 1942, and Medium in 1944, but wartime and post-war conditions delayed their release until 1948. They are similar to the Bank Gothics. following a style of squared letter popular for copperplate engraved stationery and announcements, and in effect constitute a more contemporary form of the style typified by Copperplate Gothics. Like the others, there are several sizes on each of several different bodies, making various cap-and-small-cap combinations easily practical.
    • Style Script (1940). Mac McGrew: Style Script was designed by Sol Hess for Monotype in 1940. It is a popular bold thick-and-thin cursive style, which has had considerable use in advertising. It is somewhat like the earlier Coronet Bold of Ludlow, but heavier and with a greater x-height; some characters seem to make a conscious effort to differ.
    • Stymie.
    • Tourist Gothic (Lanston, 1909; now available digitally as LTC Tourist Gothic from LTC/P22). Mac McGrew: Tourist Gothic is a Monotype copy of Modern Condensed Gothic with a set of several round alternate caps designed by Sol Hess in 1928. (Sizes under 14-point continued under the Modern Condensed Gothic name, without the alternates.) In 1938 Hess drew a matching Tourist Gothic Italic, which added to the popularity of the face, although it lacks the round characters. The Outline Gothic Medium Condensed (or Franklin Gothic Condensed Outline) from some sources is actually an open version of Tourist Gothic. Tourist Extra Condensed of Baltimore Type is a copy of Phenix (q.v.) in 24- to 48-point sizes, and is Jefferson Gothic (q.v.) in larger sizes.
    • Twentieth Century was designed by Hess between 1936 and 1947 as a monoline version of Paul Renner's Futura. Mac McGrew: Twentieth Century is Monotype's copy of Futura (q.v.), and in display sizes is essentially an exact copy, while composition sizes are only slightly modified. Several additional versions were drawn for Monotype by Sol Hess, including Twentieth Century Bold Italic and Extrabold Italic in 1937, Extrabold Condensed Italic in 1938, Ultrabold in 1941, Ultra bold Condensed in 1944, and Medium Condensed Italic and Ultra bold Italic in 1947. Some of these weights have different names than their counterparts in the original Futura series or other copies; see the list under Futura for comparison of these names as well as technical data. The main version is sold by Monotype as Twentieth Century MT. The digital type foundry Lanston, or LTC, sells LTC Twentieth Century. Hess Gothic Round NF (2008, Nick Curtis) is based on Twentieth Century. The design was reinterpreted by Herb Lubalin as Avant Garde in the 1970s. Curtis' version softens the harsh geometry of the original designs with rounded line endings. Revivals and derivations of Twentieth Century Poster include Renard Moderne NF (2010, Nick Curtis).
    • Ward (1942). McGrew: ard or Montgomery Ward is an adaptation by Sol Hess in 1942 of Memphis Light, specially redesigned for use in the large catalogs of that mail-order company. Strokes are lightened a bit, and the x-height is increased slightly. It was cut by Monotype for private use. One reference says there were light and medium weights; another says there were roman and italic in normal width and also an extended version. The latter account seems more authentic.

    Digital descendants of Sol Hess: LTC Hess Monoblack (Lanston Type Company), Hess Old Style (Red Rooster Collection), Hess Gothic Round NF (Nicks Fonts), Twentieth Century (Monotype), LTC Squareface (Lanston Type Company), Broadway Engraved SH (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), Bruce Old Style (Bitstream), LTC Jefferson Gothic (Lanston Type Company), LTC Spire (Lanston Type Company), LTC Swing Bold (Lanston Type Company), LTC Artscript (Lanston Type Company), LTC Twentieth Century (Lanston Type Company), LTC Tourist Gothic (Lanston Type Company), Renard Moderne NF (Nicks Fonts), Goudy Heavyface (Bitstream), Broadway (Monotype), LTC Broadway (Lanston Type Company), Broadway (Linotype), LTC Hadriano (Lanston Type Company), Cochin (Linotype), LTC Bodoni 175 (Lanston Type Company), Stymie (Bitstream), Engravers Oldstyle 205 (Bitstream), LTC Bodoni 26 (Lanston Type Company), LTC Obelysk Grotesk (Lanston Type Company), Century Gothic (Monotype), Spire (GroupType), Havel (T4), Alternate Gothic Pro Antique (Elsner+Flake).

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    Sol Kaufer

    The art of Claudio Baldrich inspired Sol Kaufer, during her studies at Universidad De Palermo in Buenos Aires, to design the colorful figurine typeface Abecedario Claudio Baldrich (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Solotype
    [Dan X. Solo]

    Dover Press sold Oakland's Dan X. Solo's digitizations. Dan Solo (b. 1928, d. 2012) has collected over 13,000 sets of metal fonts, starting when he was 9 years old and growing up in Oakland, CA. Finally, in 2002, he stopped doing that and began converting all of his fonts to computer type. Solotype, his company, was established in Alameda, CA. He printed 30 books on fonts (with Dover), including The Solotype catalog of 4,147 display typefaces, and created hundreds of fonts. In 2007, Dan Solo retired from the font business. He died in 2012.

    Robert Trogman writes: I know Dan X. Solo personally. He ran a typographic studio in Berkeley for over 30 years. He had a large collection of film fonts, including some of my own. He created thousands of fonts and is now retired and is an avocational prestigitator. Copyrights have run out on most of his fonts. He also protected himself by creating pseudonyms on the questionable font names. Stuart Sandler confirms that many of the fonts in Solo's Dover books are in fact from the Filmotype collection, which Stuart is digitizing right now.

    Gene Gable writes: Dan Solo of Solotype in Berkeley was experimenting with photo type as early as 1945 and started doing optical special effects in the early '60s. And a number of the larger display-type shops developed their own techniques. But in terms of opening up new markets for display type (and giving designers more control over type setting), Visual Graphics and Letraset lead the way. These companies were proud of, and promoted, the fact that that their products could be used by non-typesetters with little training.

    Bio. He wrote about himself: Dan X. Solo The Solotype Archive was begun in 1942 when I was 14. I was a kid printer for several years before that. At 16, after a quick three months of training, I dropped out of school and went to work full time as a radio actor and announcer in San Francisco. (Easy to get jobs in those days, due to the war-induced manpower shortage.) In 1949 and 1950, I created a magic show which played West Coast theatres with some success. After that, back to broadcasting. By 1962, I was completely burned out on radio, so I decided to see if I could make a living with my collection of antique types, which numbered about a thousand fonts at that time. In 1962, I sent out 4,000 catalogs showing the type to ad agencies all over the U.S. The timing was perfect (no thanks to me) because there was developing at that time a renewed interest in the old types. Business took off immediately. The Solotype collection was one of four commercial collections at the time, but I seemed to have been more aggressive in marketing than the other chaps. (Well, Morgan Press certainly knew how to market.) Two years into the business, I began to collect alphabets on paper for conversion to photo lettering, which was just becoming mainstream in the type business. We closed the shop for a month every year and went on a type hunt, mostly in Europe where there didn't seem to be much competition among collectors. Other typographers couldn't understand how we could do this, but I believe it made people appreciate the resource we offered even more. Over the years, the collection became quite large. When I closed Solotype a couple of years ago, I got rid of about half the archive (because the fonts were dull, or already digitized, or for a variety of other reasons) leaving me with about 6,000 fonts on paper or film. In 1974, I began to supply Dover Publications with mechanicals for books of 100 alphabets on a particular theme. I did 30 of these books over the years, and 30 more of printers' ornaments, borders, and so forth. Sometime in the 1990s, Dover asked me to digitize books of 24 fonts each, to be sold with a disk in the back. I did 12 of these. The Dover relationship came to an end when Hayward Cirker, the owner and my special friend, died and the company was sold to another publisher. Dover felt that they had covered the type field thoroughly. Now in my old age, my wife and I have a mindreading act that is great fun and good for the ego. Even so, when not traveling, I digitize type for relaxation and enjoyment, but have made no effort to sell it. Until now.

    Solo's wood type/Western/ headline/ Victorian collection includes Acantha, Bindweed, Dime Museum (2004, a French Clarendon revived by ATF in 1933 under the name P.T. Barnum), Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Rigney, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Brevet (after a Victorian typeface from 1887 by Ernst Lauschke), Brussels, Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dutch Treat, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade (1992, a Victorian face after an 1890 original called Mural by Boston Type Foundry), Trixie, Valerie, Valjean, and Zorro. Alaska is based on an 1890 design of Marder, Luse and co. Arcade imitates an 1888 design of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler. Bamboo (oriental simulation face) is based on a 1889 creation of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler. Behrens Antiqua and Behrens schrift are revival of early 20th century typefaces by Peter Behrens. Eccentric is a digitization of a 1898 arts and crafts typeface by Kingsley/ATF. Hansard is a revival of a display type published in 1887 by MacKellar, Smiths,&Jordan. Pekin is a digitization of a face, first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 and issued by Barnhart Bros.&Spindler foundry in Chicago under the name Dormer, and revived by them in 1923 under the name Pekin. Charles Henry Beeler made a condensed sans serif issued by Mackellar, Smiths&Jordan foundry in 1887: it was digitally revived as Roundhead. Monument is a revival of a 1893 typeface by the Boston Type Foundry, but was also cast at the Central Type Foundry. Vienna Light is a delicate early 1900s type originally created by the German foundry of Schelter&Gieseke. Other designs: Bareback, Campaign (ca. 1970), Cigar Label (1997), Estienne, Farringdon (a western face), Goodfellow (digitization of wood type from 1895 found at Hamilton and probably due to W.H. Page), Harlem Text (blackletter), Houdini (ca. 1992), Memorial, Quadrille 2 (a simplified Tuscan face), Sparticus, Vanities (a Victorian type), Whirligig.

    In 2005, MyFonts added Seminary (after a Victorian font from 1885 by Bruce Type Foundry), Margie (formal script based on Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry vormalig Brüder Butter, 1920s), Fancy Dan, Bamberg (2005, after a condensed wood type from ca. 1850), Fat Face No. 20, French Ionic (quite ugly--based on an 1870 Clarendon derivative by the Cincinnati Type Foundry), Hearst Italic (based on a 1904 typeface by Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry), Hearst Roman (based on a typeface from the Inland Type Foundry allegedly stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy, acccording to Goudy himself), Tally Text (early photolettering type of the comic book style), Welcome 1 (based on Van Loey-Nouri's art nouveau typeface from 1900). A list of some digitized fonts:

    • Art Deco: Advertisers Gothic Light, Alex, Beverly Hills, Boul Mich, Capone Light, Chic (after Morris Fuller Benton's Chic, 1927), Clyde, Eagle Bold, Eagle Narrow, Eden Bold, Eden Light, French Flash, Gallia, Graybar Book, Grock, Matra, Modernique (art deco), Parasol, Parisian, Phoenix American, Plaza Suite, Publicity Gothic, Salut, Stymie Obelisk, Zeppelin.
    • Victorian: Anglo, Arboret, Campanile, Chorus Girl, Fancy Celtic, Ferdinand, Floral Latin, Glorietta, Grant Antique, Gutenberg, Hogarth, Jagged, Katherine Bold, Lafayette, Meisteringer, Olympian, Phidian, Ringlet (1998, a Victorian typeface after an 1882 original by Hermann Ihlenburg), Romanesque, Rubens, Stereopticon, Templar, Wedlock, Zinco.
    • Script/Cursive: Amapola, Artists Script, Carpenters Script, Certificate Script, Commercial Script, Conway (an architectural script), Elegance, Engrossing Script, Figaro, Flare, Gloria Script, Hanover, Helvetica Cursive, Holly, Kunsteler Bold, Liberty, Manuscript, Orion Script, Pantagraph Script (+No2, +No3), Park Avenue, Romany Script, Trafton Script, Typo Upright, University Script, Virginia Antique.
    • Art Nouveau: Ambrosia, Argus, Artistik, Auriol, Baldur, Bocklin, Cabaret (2003, as in Murder She Wrote), Carmen, Childs, Edda Black, Excelsior, Francomia, Giraldon, Harrington, Isadora, Metropolitan, Murillo, Oceana, Odessa, Orbit Antique, Palmetto (2005; an art nouveau typeface based on a 1887 typeface called Palm from the A.D. Farmer Foundry), Siegfried, Skjald, Spartana, Titania.
    • Gothic/Medieval: Academy Text, American Uncial, Antique Black, Becker Bold, Bradley, Castlemar, Celebration Text Fancy, Church Text, Engravers Old English, Frederick Text, Freehand, Hingham Text, Initials-Bradley and Caxton, Kanzlei Light, Lautenbach, Lautenbach Fancy Caps, Libra, Morris Black, Nicholini Broadpen, Rhapsodie Swash Caps, Scottford Uncial, Solemnis, Washington Text, Wedding Text.
    • Celtic: Anglo Text, Camden Text, Chappel Text, Cimbrian, Colchester Black, Durer Gothic, Durwent, Fenwick, Genzsch Initials, Gloucester Initials, Gutenberg Gothic, Hansa Gothic, Harrowgate, Kaiser Gothic, Kings Cross, Konisburg, Malvern, Medici Text, Middlesex, Progressive Text, Tudor Text, Warwick, Westminster Gothic, Yonkers.
    • Special-Effects Display Fonts: Azteca Condensed, Buddha (oriental simulation face, after a Schelter&Giesecke type), Burst, Campaign (1970), Chinatown (oriental simulation), Cigar Label (1997-2002), Colonial Dame, Contract Banner (2004, a take on Mezzotint from 1880), Direction, Fillet, Filmstar (1999), Firebug, Headhunter, Hollywood Lights, Igloo Solid, Import, Lariat, Needlepoint, Old Glory, Protest, Rustic, Scimitar (Arabic simulation face), Scoreboard, Skyline, Starburst, Sundown Shadow, Tableau, Tonight, Xerxes.
    • Other: Acantha, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Bindweed, Brevet (after a Victorian original by Ernst Laushke, 1887), Brussels (positioned inbetween Stephenson Blake's Flemish Expanded and Flemish Condensed), Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dime Museum, Dutch Treat, Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade, Rigney, Trixie, Valerie, Zorro.

    Images of selected typefaces: Agency Gothic, Alpha Midnight, Alpha Twilight, Anita Lightface (1977), Art Deco Display Alphabets, Ashley Crawford, Ashley Inline, Astur, Bamberg, Banco, Beans, Blackline, Bobo Bold, Braggadocio, Broadway Engraved, Busorama Bold, Busorama Light, Bust, Charger, Checkmate, Colonel Hoople, Corral, Dudley P Narrow, Dynamo, Earth (a futuristic / prismatic typeface revived by nick Curtis in 2015 as Terranova NF), Eclipse, Empire, Ewie, Fat Cat, Fatso, Festival, Futura Black, Futura Inline, Gillies Gothic Bold, Greeting Monotone, Grooviest Gothic, Hess Neobold, Hotline, Huxley Vertical, Inkwell Black, Joanna Solotype, Joyce Black, Koloss, Lampoon, Mania, Mania Contour A, Mania Contour B, Margit, Mindy Highlight, Modernistic, Monograms Stencil, Mossman, Neon, Neuland (+Inline), Phosphor, Piccadilly, Pickfair, Polly, Prismania P, Quote, Rhythm Bold, Shady Deal, Sheet Steel, Sinaloa.

    The Solotype Catalog is a file with information on Dan Solo's typefaces, annotated with remarks about name equivalences and digitizations. The original file was due to Thibaudeau, but typophiles on alt.binaries.fonts have added to it in 2010. PDF version. Excel version. Text version. See also here.

    View Dan Solo's typefaces. Another page on Solotype. Dan Solo's typefaces listed in decreasing order of popularity. View Dan Solo's typefaces. View Dan Solo's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Something Design
    [George Dobrogeanu]

    Ploiesti, Romania-based designer of Winchester Condensed (2014), Picnic Caps (2014) and Grocery Rounded (2014).

    In 2015, he designed the beautiful watercolor brush typeface Toscana, the old typewriter font Enigma Typewriter Sans, the connected script typeface Melancolie, the script typeface Annabelle (2015), the hyper-curly script La Provence, and the thin avant garde fashion sans typeface Eva.

    Typefaces from 2016: Tall and Tiny Font Duo, Novus Sans, Playbook, Agave, Wanda Script (which he calls a pin-up style), Capital (dry brush font), Halftone Sans (textured), Quantum, Dystopia.

    Typefaces from 2018: Faun (an exquisite decorative caps typeface).

    Creative Market link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sona Jurikovicova

    Bratislava-based illustrator who drew the painted floral all caps alphabet Made In Modra (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sonia Grin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Phobos (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sonja Steiner-Welz

    Author of Von der Schrift und den Schriftarten (Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag, Mannheim). These have a history of type and lettering, instructions on lettering (e.g., stroke guide for Antiqua Majuskeln, Lombardische Versalien, and Gotische Majuskeln), some type specimen (mainly German, from the early part of the 20th century), some alphabets, drawn by her, information on the German school scripts, and a German type and lettering glossary: i, ii, iii, iv. It was probably published between 1956 and 1959.

    In 2010-2012, Dick Pape created a number of (mostly caps-only) typefaces based on that book. These include SSWAntiquaPionsel, SSWAntiquaVersalien (a caps set based on Ludovico Vicentino, 1523), SSWCelticAntiquaOutline, SSWFederAntiqua, SSWHollowScript, SSWHolz (Lombardic caps), SSWJensonsAntiqua, SSWLeopoldAntiqua, SSWLombardischeVersalien, SSWMannheimOrnament, SSWPlakatschrift (a useful outline alphabet), SSWRoundPrinting, SSWRusticAlphabet, SSWRusticScript, SSWSchablonenschrift (Bauhaus-style stencil face), SSWUrbanAntiqua-Versal, SSWWoodcuts.

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    Soojung Lee

    Anyang, Korea-based student-creator of the display typeface Bake (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Del Pizzo

    London-based designer of Libertyville Drop Caps (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Maria

    Freelance designer in London, who created the decorative initials typeface Libertyville Dropcaps (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Balch

    UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who made the all caps chaos-themed font Pandemonium (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Jackson

    Southport, UK-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Tim Burton (2016) in the style of the art in Tim Burton's films. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Jenkin

    During her studies in Swansea, Wales, Sophie Jenkin designed a decorative caps typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Lafay

    During her studies in Liège, Belgium, Sophie Lafay designed the connect-the-dots typeface Typographie Modulaire (2016) and the decorative alphabet Alphabet Illustré (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Melrose

    Barton le Clay, UK-based designer of the handcrafted ornamental caps typeface season (2016) and the display typeface Zipper (2016, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sorcerer

    Designers of Medieval Sorcerer Ornamental (2005, luscious ornamental caps loosely based on a script found in the book Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms (Chicago: Hill Standard Book Co., 1893) by Thomas E. Hill), FairiesWearBoots (2005, curly font), Flaming Stars (2005), Celtasmigoria (2005, letters made up of Celtic icons), Barnum Symbols, and Rongo Rongo (dingbats based on Easter Island Script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Soulpowerworks

    Designer based in Rome, b. 1989. Designer of reNOISE (2007, fat futuristic all caps display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Southype
    [Rodrigo Gonzalez]

    Chilean designer of the Easter dingbat fonts Easter Eggs ST (2014) and UnTaRot ST (2014). Other free typefaces from 2014 include Shapes St, Stupenda ST, Grafeno (connect-the-dots), Puente Estrecho (hairline), Tipo Capital, Cuadrada (dot matrix style), Apurado Royitto (arched typeface), Brillante, Novation Box, Rudasteria, Presidiario (horizontally striped typeface), Puente Nuevo, Rockmia ST (a glaz krak face), Boceto ST (outlined typeface), Puente Bueno ST, Open 24 Display ST (LED font), Iniciales ST, Floreada ST, Concadenado ST, Phantom ST, Santiago Sans ST, Es La Dura WN ST, Ledsitex ST, Imnova ST, Cinema ST, Cathedral ST, And Run ST (textured caps typeface), Older ST (textured face), Asrelurio ST, Hearts ST, Other Display ST (LED font), Salpicado ST, Adornada ST, Extragna Rara ST, Fichas ST, LED Simple ST (dot matrix font), Dominos ST, News Papers, Our Display ST (LED emulation), Lineal Simples ST, Cuadradex Simple ST (hexagonal face), Edournida ST (a textured typeface), Tripleled ST (dot matrix), Bicolors ST, Absolutamente Rou ST, Flowers ST, Leders (dot matrix), Old Computer ST, Rounded Display ST, Lediz (dot matrix face), Alien Faces ST, Westranga (textured), Rostros y Emociones (smilies), Filligrees and Ornaments ST, Demionatibu and Cube Face ST.

    Typefaces from 2015: Shapes ST (kaleidoscopic ornaments), Questra Extra ST.

    Typefaces from 2016: Viexa Barbuda, Justo St, Mala Vida St, Hypnossia St (textured), Boulding Work St (textured), Hand Faces St, Astronomic Signs St, Alien Bats St, Snowflakes St, The Misty South, Discotheque St (trilined), Qualentaro Wallmapu St (textured), New Russia 2108 St (Cyrillic emulation typeface), Comics of South, Puntiyisca (textured), Calendulia (textured), The LED Display dot matrix style), My Older Life St, Xmasbats St, Merry Xmas St (alphadings), The Guns Smoke St, Cubox 3D St, Mr Techly St, Coming Soon St (movie font), Old Burlesque St, The Neckbreaker St, Big Daddy St, Chinese Wok Food St (oriental simulation type), Extra Gro St (3d, outlined), Halloween Scare St, Humongous of Eternity St, La Que Cuelga St, Litle Simple St, Metalo Of South St, Mostera St, My Valentine Now St, Panda Power St, Pumpkin Halloween St (pumpkin alphadings), Shadded of South, Sheriff of South St, The Flaggy St, Big Daddy St, Digital Play Hollow St, Digital Play Italic St (LED font), Digital Play St (LED font), Happy Balloon St (alphadings), Humongous of Eternity St, Notarized Openly Script Oblique, Notarized Openly Script St (comic book style), Panda Power St, Sheriff of South St, Antique Quest St, Blockys St (3d blocks), Comely St, Data Cards St, Don Moise St, Jackdaws Love St, Maxter Board St (dot matrix), Moderna Disco St, Pointed Laid St (dot matrix), Recoleta Sans St, SS Barracuda St (a great grungy style), Score Board St (dot matrix), Second Flowers St, The Drunked Man St, The Flowers St, The Inbox St, The Outbox St, Thempo New St, And Love st, Another Faces St, DhonJako St, DoubLe CoLor St, EasterFont St, Granite Rock St, Monster oF South Hollow St, Monster oF South St Italic, Monster oF South St, Satanyc Demoniac St, Tenebrous St, The South Flag St, UltraLED St, Halloween Party St, The Display St (LED font), Good Idea St (alphadings), Mi Nuevo Display St (dot matric), Otra Mas Stf, Fantasmytas St (alphadings), Urban Tribal STF, Foontastica St, Del Recuerdo St, Cuadritos St, I Love St (Valentine's Day alphadings), Eskimporce VSF (textured).

    Typefaces from 2017: The Quick Frog St, Shadded South St (shadow font), Consequad St, Warmerous St, The Bad Times St, The Jack Brown St (multilined), Alphin Merytous St, News Board St, Eat at Joe's St (marquee font), Any Meritous St, The Quick South St, Kasquiwane St, Jux Kadabra St, Flowered, It's Scary Now, Cooler South, Icons South, Glass & Bottles (dingbats), Squarex (octagonal).

    Typefaces from 2018: Scarythin St, New Led Display St, My Display St (LED font), Petroleum St (grunge), Blade Gunner 2049 St.

    Typefaces from 2019: Zodiac. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Spark-Ceresa

    Type designer who created Mecanorma Zambesi, an ornate African-looking biline face. To be bought from URW. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Speedball Text Book
    [Dick Pape]

    Ross F. George's Speedball Text Book has inspired many digital typefaces. Its 17th edition published by the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company in 1956 was used by Dick Pape in the design of 31 fonts. Dick Pape tried to select only those alphabets that had not yet been digitized by others.

    The list: Speedball America, Speedball Architects Italic, Speedball Architects, Speedball Block (a warm octagonal typeface), Speedball Brush Bold Italic, Speedball Built Up Style, Speedball Bulletin Dusted, Speedball Bulletin Heavy, Speedball Bulletin Plain, Speedball Bulletin Squiggley, Speedball Carnival, Speedball Carved Caps (beveled face), Speedball Cond Bold Italic, Speedball Cond Poster Gothic Bold, Speedball Decorative Initials, Speedball Decorative Ransom, Speedball Draftsman's Art, Speedball Formal Roman, Speedball Free Roman, Speedball Gay Nineties A (Western face), Speedball Gay Nineties B, Speedball Line Gothic, Speedball Metropolitan Poster, Speedball Power, Speedball Roman Italic, Speedball Rough, Speedball Slant Script, Speedball Speed D Italics, Speedball Squeezed Headline, Speedball Stencil Italic, Speedball Variation.

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    SpoonArt

    Parisian who designed Skate or Die (grungy capitals and skateboard scanbats), and Winter Flakes (2010, one of the greatest snowflake and Christmas season fonts of all time). In 2020, he released the decorative caps typeface Bones and Chimeras, and striped Arial font, Zebrarial.

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    Srishti Suryavanshi

    At the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, India, Srishti Suryavanshi developed a decorative caps typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ssaamm

    FontStructor who made these fonts in 2009: 5x5 (pixel face), SignaPix (pixel script), MegaPixel, Steamwriter, Minimalista (4x4 pixel face), Square Off (programming font), 12segment (pixel face), Oriental Theatre, (+Smooth: condensed piano key typefaces), 7x7:1 basic Serif (pixel face), 7x7:2 Classic (pixel face), Square On, Sharp Perforation, Modern Monospace.

    In 2010, he created Squeaky, Texico (a gorgeous Tex-Mex party headline face), Dutts Sans, Dutts Serif (dotted typefaces), Concrete Block (octagonal). Squareplane (+Sharp) and Tacky (a coffee bean font), Cancerous (pixl), Squrave (pixelish), Variable (pixel face), Impossible (pixel), Super (dotted), S-Video Real, Odds and Ends, Edward, Reversey, Rocky, Tacky (dotted), It Pops (athletic lettering), Bulge, Brick Block (3d face), Whoops, Gradient, Uniform Heavy, Uniform 2, Here Is Your Receipt, Filmstrip, 4444, Offf, Leave It To The Mind, Wayvee, Illusiyellow, Thunky, Jot It Down, QweABC, Bleach, 5x7 Practicali, Fancy 5x7 (pixel), Crispy, NoNoNo, S-Video, Blockish.

    Creations from 2012: Hardclips (military stencil).

    Typefaces from 2013: Expection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SSI Scraps
    [Syukur Setiyadi]

    Aka SSi Scraps. Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Morning (2018), Silvester (2018: a starry script), Raintake (2018), Knuckle Head (2018), Syarief Humble (2018), Budapest (2018) and Aisy Khadijah (2018).

    Typefaces from 2019: Anyhow, Valkyrian, Better Regards, Sofyan Diana, My Andriane, The Creative, Ballone (a dry brush script), Drillmaster (a nice dry brush script), Broader (dry brush style), Bizardless (dry brush), Bangunan, Brighty (a display sans), Maylanie (a script with heart-shaped tittles), Silvestero, Quintuples (a creamy script), Hulahop, Hukiran, Rembullan (+Mallam: a rabbit ear script), Brownittos (rough brush), Ukiran (decorative caps), Kalgellise, Angellife (brush script), Dentanx (dry brush), Jeng Mudy, Apem, Syantic, Stembase (Peignotian caps), Singo (a fat finger font), Genttalla (script), Moedyningsih Shadow, The Khallid (script), Sonddesip, Kidtoy, Rasyidin.

    Typefaces from 2020: Astronema (a dry brush script), Love River, Emphasize (a dry brush script), Carmentz, Iron Heart (dry brush), Iron Heart (dry brush), Tuesday Spirit, Carmentz (dry brush script), Bugs Bony (script), Brave Signature, lack Throne, Darlington, Febrina, Primary Gilberta, One Heart, I Love January, Pollard Signature, I Luv Mommy.

    Creative Fabrica link. Fontspace link. 100Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Stacey Fussmann

    Groningen, The Netherlands-based designer of a colorful all-caps alphabet in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stanley

    Paris-based designer of caricature alphabet Joliment (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Vincent

    UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who made the tribal all caps typeface Ordered Tribal (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefanie Haslberger

    Illustrator in Muenchen, Germany, who designed a colorful all caps alphabet in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefano Brizzio

    Graphic designer / illustrator in Cordoba, Argentina, who created the wavy typeface Curve (2014) and the decorative circuit and circus-inspired caps typeface Circus (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefano Buffoni

    Creative designer from Milan, who co-founded Typojungle, now defunct. His typefaces include Nero (2010, avant-garde), Minimo (2010, hairline geometric sans), Boulevard (2009, fat stencil face), Studio 45 (almost a paperclip face), Nu Classic (ornamental caps, 2008), Rocket (2009, techno) and Metropolitain (2009, a display didone of high contrast). Behance link. Twitter link. Another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stella Björg

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Reykjavik, Iceland. Creator of the decorative caps typeface There Be Monsters (2013), which is based upon the illustrations found on a 1598 map of Iceland drawn by Abraham Ortelius. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stella Caraman

    Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based graphic designer who specializes in illustrations and stock photography. Behance link.

    It is unclear whether her alpahbets are just illustrations or finished fonts. They include fonts with the titles 3d, Abstract, Handmade, Playful, Ink, Sticker, and Cookie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephan van Wyk

    Freelancer in Cape Town, who specializes in children's books. He created an ornamental caps typeface called Monstrosity (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephanie Peay
    [The Pretty Letters]

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    Stephanie Toole

    Designer in New York City who grew up in Atlanta. She created the ornamental caps typeface Montecastello (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephanie Vang

    American designer of a frilly all caps alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephen Coles
    [Decorated Initials]

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    Stephen Miller

    Aka Radon2000. American student (b. 1989) at AIH (The Art Institute of Houston) who created the ornamental caps typeface Jaws and Claws (2011). He also created the experimental sans typeface Long Sans (2012).

    Stephen is a graphic designer in Houston.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sterenn Bourgeois

    Sterenn Bourgeois (Trait pour trait, France) studied graphic and type design at Ecole Estienne in Paris. She created several typefaces, including Nature (a great children's book typeface created for Mille Ans de Contes, ed. Milan), Québec (same purpose as Nature), Titi (hand-drawn), Super Héros, Ariol (comic book face), Gabri, PLR (license plate sans) and a set of initial caps done for Editions Ex Nihilo in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stereoplastika
    [Alberto Rodríguez Diaz]

    Spanish graphic design, poster design and illustration outfit of Alberto Rodríguez in Toledo and Madrid. Some free artsy fonts on this site include Xstrema (2011, octagonal and experimental), Groteska (2009), Gordala (2009), Metal (2009), Tozuna (2009), Amable (2009, like the previous two, counterless fat octagonal typefaces) and Sierra (2009).

    In 2013, he designed the art deco sans typeface Finolis (Ultratypes) and the fun experimental set of numbers Yorokobu Numerografia No 43.

    In 2017, he designed Animal Alphabet.

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

    Steve Anderson

    Alexandria, VA-based designer of the ornamental caps typefaces Uncle Paul (2015) and Tripel Six (2015), and the typeface Turnstyle (2015). Steve is associated with Yellow Wine Labs. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steve Cloutier

    Quebec-based designer (b. 1971) in 2010 of the outline face Elégante and of the grunge typefaces Apocalypse Regular, Arbre, Autodestruction, Papineau (hand-printed), de Lorimier, Gardien d'herbe, Elusion (organic), Cataclysme (grunge), Wolfred Nelson (rubber stamp caps), Chénier (grunge), Crack and Bold, Fleur de Lys (dingbats that are useful pour mon pays), Manuscrit, Ancien (grungy inline face), Confusion, Patriote 1837 Regular, Arbre (hand-printed) and Cloutier Script (hand-printed).

    Typefaces created in 2011: Sioux Caps (ornamental caps: a scanbat face), Flower Cap (floriated caps), Damned (a grungy horror movie typeface), Sketch Me (a sketched face).

    Typefaces from 2012: Dill Francis, I Hate Futur, Fabrics (stitch font), Stucco, Children, Hacking Trashed, Flower (floriated caps), Arbre, Patriotes 1837, Damned Deluxe, Trashed Light (grunge), Leather (ornamental caps), Punk Rock Show, Crack And Bold, Ana Eve (grunge), British Museum 1490 (ornamental caps), Nature Font (grungy caps), Chenier (grunge), Mosaique (a textured typeface), Motor Pieces (commercial), Mixtec Codice (Maya, Aztec or Inca dingbats), Parkinson (grungy outlines), Ludger Duvernay, Monster, Sponge, Napoleon (a nice fat poster face), Negative Film, Nelson Old Newspaper, Fuck Autority (sic), Rene Levesque (hand-printed), First Nation (an Indian scanbat face), Pustule, Emilie (hand-printed caps), Papineau (hand-printed), Sixties, Dali, Midnight (brush face), Fairy Tale (ornamental caps), Tiger Balloon (African-themed), Rafael (fat poster face), Sacred Place (heavy poster family), Pistache Regular (unicase Plakat font), Morning Stress, Hippie Gypsy (ornamental caps), FBI Old Report (old typewriter face), Mitsouskos, Ten O Clock (a multiline hand-printed face), Strawbwrry, Jewels, CF Night of the Damned, CF One Two Trees (tree-themed), Hagadou (bejeweled letters), CF Punk Forever (white on black grunge), CF Anabelle (curly script), CF Samurai Bob, CF Marie-Eve, CF Christmas Shit, CF Pinceau (fat brush face), CF Deco 1492, CF Cracked Stone, CF Metropolis Serif, CF Punky, CF Snowball (snow-capped glyphs), CF Tuques, CF Revolution, CF Fashion, CF Tissus, CF Christmas Letters, CF Diamond (diamond-studded letters), CF Stencil Orama, CF Dallas Stars (stars and stripes face), CF Old Photograph Credit Font, CF Christmas Letters.

    Typefaces from 2013: CF National Stitches, CF Spaceship, Historia (sans caps), CF WireFrame, CF NaVia, CF Sortilege, CF Spirality, CF Charlie, CF Fredo Style, CF Little Monsters (alphadings), CF Tissus, CF I Love Montreal (fat finger face), CF Jungle, CF Paris (art deco caps), CF Marie Eve Cartoons, CF Circuit Electrique, CF Jack Story, CF Punk Attitude, CF Billabong, CF I Want To Believe Comp (grunge), CF Zombie Party (crayon or lipstick font), CF Life Is Beautiful (paint font), CF Gothika (grungy blackletter), CF Manifesto (painted letters), CF Rise of Nations, CF The Lost Batallion, CF Armageddon, CF Electronic Board, CF Old Typography (letterpress font), CF Modern 165, CF Hockey Players (dingbats published on the day the Montreal Canadians were humiliated, 6-1, by the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup playoffs), CF Nelson Old Caracters (sic), Peru Adventure, CF Montreal High School (athletic lettering), Urban Life (textured font), CF Same Old Story (grunge), CF Plants And Flowers, CF Cant Change The World (clean, hand-printed), CF Jeanne Mance, CF Jeans Collection (textured), CF Alien Abduction, CF Rebelle (brush font), CF Jungle Adventure, CF Never Trust A Hippy, CF Anarchy (ransom note font), CF Life Is A Dream (grunge), CF Farwest, CF Typocraft, CF Politicians Killers (blood drip face), CF Technomania, CF Technorama, CF I Love Ugly Fonts, CF Ribbon, CF Tree Of Life, CF Revenge, CF Back to School, CF Nut And Bolts, CF Final Conflict (brush script), CF Nostalgia (brush face), CF Industrial Fabrics (textured face), CF Font Shading, CF Rock Age, CF Nouvelle France (antiqued alphabet), CF My Bloody Valentine, CF Ceinture Flechee (multilined typeface), CF Disappointed, CF Atlantide, CF Bucherons (texture face), CF Simon Marchessault (hand-printed), CF Haunted House (brush face), Gray Texture, CF Space Cowboy (textured typeface), CF Louis Cyr.

    Typefaces from 2014: CF Goliath, CF Alone on Earth, Stencil of Rama, Bad News (textured face), CF Xerography, CF Milk, CF Springtime, CF Crayons, CF Dwarf, CF Asshole Politicians, CF Old Milwaukee (spurred typeface), CF Paris Old Style (grungy Peignotian typeface), Creature of Darkness (textured typeface), Quebec Stamp (grungy stencil), Schizophrenia (neurotic typeface), La Belle Helene, CF William Wallace, CF Dots 521, CF LCD 521, CF America, CF Left Behind, CF Jacques Cartier, CF My Best Friend, Flowers of Destiny.

    Typefaces from 2015: CF Rise of Nation (bold poster typeface), CF Punk (grungy capitals), Baron Rouge, General Tao (oriental simulation font), CF Mother Board (circuit font), CF John Doe (sketched), CF Crayons de Plomb, CF US Army (textured type), CF White Trash (Treefrog style), CF Punk Rock Show, CF Denim Jeans, CF School Handwriting, CF Nuclear War (very grungy caps face), CF Jack Story, CF Civilisation Maya (textured typeface), CF Punk Is Not Dead, CF Calligraphia, CF Life Is A Dream (grungy textured font), CF Blueprint, CF Far West Regular, CF Samuel de Champlain, CF Azteques (Mexican decorative font)., CF Fleurs de Lys (dingbats), CF Chevalier de Lorimier (connected script), CF Bonaparte, CF Expedition, CF Boston Regular (casual script), CF Jacques Parizeau (a grungy font named after a racist and pompous former political figure in Quebec), CF Trash Zone (grungy stencil), CF I Dont Want To Grow Up, CF Metro Parisien (art deco), CF Craig Robinson, CF Paradise City, CF Great Destiny, CF Robert Nelson, CF Grand Nord (a snow-capped design), CF Green Monster (slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2016: CF Showbizz, CF Halloween (dripping blood font), CF La Sorciere Noire (vampire script), CF Green Corn (white on black), CF Engraved, CF Ghost Stories, CF Legends of the Fall, CF Bad Cops, CF Cherokee (wood block printing emulation), CF School Zone (crayon font), CF Snowboard Project (grunge), CF Oak Island, CF Peterson.

    Typefaces from 2017: I Robot, Christmas Stitch, Nightmare (dripping blood font), Tangerine (inline typeface), CF Klondike (spurred Western font), CF Letterpress Type, CF Brothers in Arms, CF Etoffe du Pays (a dusty typeface), CF Second Son, CF The Rock (textured), CF Old School, CF Pretty Trees.

    Typefaces from 2018: CF Le Dernier Empereur (oriental emulation), CF Sacred Planet, CF Glitch City, CF Remington Typewriter, CF Cyborg, CF Punk vs Cyborg, CF The Ocean Song (monoline connected script), CF Wild West (Tuscan), CF Three Dimensions, CF Mexicana.

    Typefaces from 2019: CF Le Grand Cirque (a circus font), CF Saturn 21, CF World at War (an old typewriter font), CF Night of Terror (a dripping blood font), CF Blackboard (a chlak font), CF Punk Fashion, CF Punk Songwriter.

    Typefaces from 2020: CF Punk Posters (a ransom note font), CF University of Nowhere (a grungy varsity font), CF Letterpress Type Two, CF Band of Brothers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steve Harrison
    [Geckodude (or: Sleepy Gecko)]

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    Steve Matteson

    Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing graduate who lived in California and in Holland, MI, and now resides in Louisville, Colorado. He was a disciple of Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes. MyFonts page on him. In 1990, he started work at Monotype in Palo Alto to create the Windows truetype core fonts Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New. He stayed with Monotype and then Agfa/Monotype until 2003 (when he was probably fired, but that is only an unreliable guess), directing type development from the design office in Palo Alto, CA. Bio at Agfa/Monotype. He has directed branding projects such as Agilent Technology's corporate sans serif and Microsoft's corporate font family 'Segoe'. At the same time, he was involved in producing bitmaps and outline fonts for cell phones and TV set top environments. He has worked extensively designing Greek, Cyrllic, Thai, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets to satisfy the requirements of customers such as IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Sun and Sybase. In 2004, he co-founded Ascender Corporation in Northbrook, IL, where he remained Type Design Director until Ascender was bought by Monotype, where he now heads the type design team (12 people in all, as of 2013).

    CBC interview in 2012. Fontspace link. FontShop link. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he spoke on typefaces for Android OS.

    His typefaces:

    • Amanda.
    • Andale Mono (Monotype), Andale Mono (Ascender). This is a monospace sans-serif typeface designed for terminal emulation and software development environments. It was originally created by Monotype. Andalé Mono was first distributed as an Internet Explorer 4.0 add-on under the name Monotype.com. In version 1.25 of the font, it was renamed to Andale Mono, distributed with Internet Explorer 5. It is often used by programmers, and is bundled with Mac OS X.
    • Andy (Monotype), his first face, a design based on a friend's lefty handwriting. Published at Agfa's Creative Alliance.
    • Arimo (2010). A free sans family at Google Web Fonts that is metrically compatible with Arial. TeX support and further downloads on CTAN.
    • Ascender Sans Mono (2004-2008, Ascender). Metrically compatible with Courier New. Ascender Serif (2005, 4 styles) is metrically compatible with Times New Roman.
    • Ascender Uni Duo is a fixed-width comprehensive Unicode-compatible font available with support for the Unicode Standard. Ascender Uni Duo is a 39MB TrueType font with approximately 53,000 glyphs. The Latin and related glyphs (designed by Steve Matteson) are Sans Serif, with Gothic ideographs drawn in Japanese style, and complementary styles for other scripts. There are also versions of Ascender Uni that provide localized support for Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. OpenType layout support is included for Arabic (initial, medial, final, isolate, and required ligature forms, as well as basic mark positioning), and vertical writing for CJK locales (consisting mostly of Latin, symbol, punctuation, and kana glyph variants). Character Set: Latin-1, WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic. Ashley Crawford.
    • Ascender Sans (Ascender).
    • Ascender Serif (Ascender).
    • Ayita (2006, Ascender), a decorative sans family co-designed with Jim Ford.
    • Bertham Pro (2009, Ascender). Four styles including Open, after Goudy's Bertham.
    • Bierstdat (2021). A sans typeface that could replace Calibri later in 2021 as Microdoft's go-to font in Microsoft 365 apps.
    • Blueprint (1993).
    • Binner Gothic (Monotype).
    • Blueprint (Monotype).
    • Cambria (Ascender).
    • Carnero (2019, Monotype). Steve describes this sans family as a feisty hybrid of precise geometry and calligraphic flair.
    • Chicory (2006, Ascender). A calligraphic script face.
    • (2010). A free family at Google Code that is metrically compatible with Courier New. See also OFL.
    • Creepy (Ascender Corporation): a Halloween font designed with Carl Crossgrove.
    • Curlz (1995, Monotype). Done with Carl Crossgrove, based on wrought iron on chairs.
    • Dempster (2016, with Jim Ford at Ascender). The original iangular industrial design, by Jim Ford, goes back to 2010.
    • Droid Sans Mono Pro (Ascender), Droid Sans Pro (Ascender), Droid Serif Pro (Ascender). and Droid Sans Mono: a font family designed in 2006-2007 by Steve Matteson at Ascender for Google's Android project, mobile phone software for handsets. Free download at CTAN.
    • Dujour (2005, Ascender): an art deco revival of the 1930's typeface Independant by Joan Collette and Jos Dufour for Plantin. Compare with the free Independant by Apostrophic Labs.
    • Endurance Pro (2009, Ascender): neo-grotesque sans. Endurance Pro Cond (Ascender).
    • Facade (Monotype).
    • Fineprint (Monotype). A design loosely based on his own penmanship ("on a good day"). Another Creative Alliance face.
    • Friar Pro (2009, Ascender): Friar Pro is a revival of Frederic W. Goudy's "Friar" typeface. Goudy described this typeface design as a 'typographic solecism' as it combines a lowercase of half-uncial forms from the 4th through 7th centuries with an uppercase of square capitals from the 4th century. Friar was originally designed in 1937 and used to print a Christmas keepsake produced by Goudy and printer Howard Coggeshall. The fire that burned Goudy's studio in 1939 destroyed the drawings and matrices before many metal fonts were cast. Of all that was lost in the fire, Goudy once said he missed Friar the most.
    • Futura Now (2020: a 107-style family by Steve Matteson, Terrance Weinzierl, Monotype Studio and Juan Villanueva, that includes variable fonts as well as subfamilies called Text, Display, Headline, Inline, Outline, Shadow and Script).
    • Georgia Pro (Ascender).
    • Gill Floriated Caps.
    • Goudy Fleurons (2010, Ascender).
    • Goudy Modern MT (Monotype).
    • Goudy Ornate (2002). Unsure if Matteson made this or Carl Crossgrove.
    • Kennerley. Based on Goudy's Kennerley family.
    • Kidprint (Monotype).
    • Kootenay (2006, Ascender), a sans family.
    • LeBeau (Ascender): a signage font.
    • Liberation Mono, Sans and Serif (2007-2009, Ascender). A set of free open source fonts done for Red Hat Inc.
    • Lindsey Pro (2006, Ascender): a cursive script based on his niece's hand.
    • Louisville Script (2008, Ascender): ordinary handwriting.
    • Massif (2006-2011, Monotype). Odd name, since Jean Joveneaux made a font called Massif in 1957. How can Monotype get away with a trademark for this is beyond me.
    • Mayberry (2008, Ascender): a 14-font sans family with extremely large x-height and strange proportions. Mayberry semibold is free. Mayberry Pro (Ascender).
    • McZee, a Microsoft symbols font.
    • Miramonte Pro (2006, Ascender). A geometric-meets-humanist sans after the typeface Marsuv Grotesk by Stanislav Marso at Grafotechna, 1960.
    • Open Sans (2010, Ascender). A free family by Steve Matteson. See also at Google Fonts. In 2021, he added the rounded companion, Open Sans Soft (20 styles).
    • Overpass and Overpass Mono (2011-2019), designed by Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey, and Thomas Jockin. A free open source sans font. The design of Overpass is an interpretation of the well-known Highway Gothic letterforms from the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices published by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration in 1948. It was created for Red Hat Inc. Dedicated web page. Link at Delve Fonts.
    • Newstyle. Based on Goudy's 1921 typeface, Newstyle. See also Newstyle (2018, Steve Matteson).
    • Pericles Pro (2005, Ascender): an Ascender typeface based on the work of Robert Foster who created the original for American Type Founders in 1934), a 433-glyph OpenType font for Greek simulation or stone cut looks.
    • Pescadero Pro (2005, Ascender),
    • Pescadero Pro: a serif face.
    • Rockwell Team (Ascender): an athletic lettering face.
    • Rebus Script (2009, Ascender): done with Terry Weinzierl.
    • Scooter Script (2009, Ascender): comic book style face.
    • Segoe Chess (Ascender), Segoe Mono (Ascender), Segoe TV (1997-2004, Ascender: done for MSNTV).
    • Tinos (2010). A free serif family at Google Fonts that is metrically compatible with Times New Roman. Download at CTAN, where one also finds TeX support maintained by Bob Tennent. Nerd Fonts patch.
    • Tipperary eText (2012-2013), Monotype.
    • Titanium Motors (2012, Monotype), Titanium (2006, Ascender): techno typefaces.
    • Truesdell (1994, Monotype): a revival and extension of the "lost" Goudy types cut in 1931. Also at Creative Alliance. Also includes Truesdell Sorts.
    • Tucker Script (2009, Ascender): ordinary handwriting face.
    • Twentieth Century Poster (2002), an art deco display font straight from the late 1920s.
    • VAG Rounded Next (2018, Monotype). Developed under the direction of Steve Matteson, this revival of the 1979 classic corporate font of Volkswagen AG has new weights and adds support for Greek and Cyrillic. The MyFonts site co-lists Tom Grace as designer.
    • Verdorgia (2010): an ugly duckling.

    Klingspor link. Fontspace link. View Steve Matteson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Albert

    American designer of Aquitaine Initials (1987), sold by ITC.

    See also here. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Harding

    Graphic designer in the UK, who made Animal Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Parisi

    Denver, CO-based designer of Sven Display (2013, a decorative caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stevie Dutson

    Orem, UT-based designer of Fern Alphabet (2016), a floral caps typeface based on the didone typeface Madrid by Antonio Rodrigues. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stian W. Bugten

    Designer from Trondheim, Norway. Behance link. Sea Ark Sheep (2010) is a contextual typeface that was started as a project at Central Saint Martins, and ended up being released by Die Gestalten in collaboration with Simon Egli. Klingspor link. Die Gestalten link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stock Graphics
    [Barry Stock]

    Barry Stock (Hollywood, FL) at Stock Graphics made HotRodSCLF10baby, Monstroula and the gorgeous avant-garde font Opticon (1997, +Opticon Loose, 2013). He also created Amity (2014, textured typeface), East Ganglia (2013, grunge), Pandemic (2013, grunge), Drugged Individualist (2013, a halftone-textured typeface), Code Border (2013), Saturday Morning Hand (2013), Urban Forestry (2013), Shrimp Fried Rice (2013, oriental simulation face), Batman's Trip (2013, encased caps), Kathedral, Brainchild Graphique and Brainchild Standard.

    Pandemic comes with the following chilling story: On Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. Suddenly I was informed that there were mysterious cases of mortalities in Aralsk. A research ship of the Aral fleet came to within 15 km of the island (it was forbidden to come any closer than 40 km). The lab technician of this ship took samples of plankton twice a day from the top deck. The smallpox formulation---400 gr. of which was exploded on the island---"got her" and she became infected. After returning home to Aralsk, she infected several people including children. All of them died. I suspected the reason for this and called the Chief of General Staff of Ministry of Defense and requested to forbid the stop of the Alma-Ata Moscow train in Aralsk. As a result, the epidemic around the country was prevented. I called Andropov, who at that time was Chief of KGB, and informed him of the exclusive recipe of smallpox obtained on Vozrazhdenie Island.

    In 2018, Barry designed the free sans display typeface family Byway. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    strandbergio

    FontStructor who made Slay The Dragon (2011) in various styles including Outline and Decorations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Struvictory Art
    [Viktoryia Strukouskaya]

    Struvictory Art (Hrodna, Belarus) is run by Viktoryia Strukouskaya and Viktor Strukovski. Most of their typefaces are jointly designed. Their creations include the patterned typeface Endless Hygge in 2017. In 2018, they designed the decorative Mexican flavor typeface Mexico, the textured Nordic Tale, the tribal font Solaris, the color font Jazz, the floral typeface Gardenia, Insectarium, Folk Tile, the alchemic typeface Majolica (released in 2019 as Maiolica), Rustic Spring, Africa, and the tribal African font Tabu.

    Typefaces from 2019: Runista, Runista Symbols, Wigwams, Aronia, Norwolk (a Nordic folklore font, +Symbols), Solarica (a tribal font family), Agnostic Font (a hipster font), Modesto (arts and crafts style font), Wigwam and Wigwam Symbols (a tribal font), Sealife.

    Typefaces from 2020: Moonwild (a celestial font and symbol set), Moonwild Decorative, Okaeri (a Japanese emulation foint), Quizles (a stencil serif), Doubleganger (a Peignotian typeface for fashion magazines that plays on two different widths), Hedonist (a great modern poster sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Hygge Adore (a hairline slab serif), Geonica (a great geometric deco typeface), Le Tarot (a spurred celestial font), Stonage (stone age letters and patterns), Foliart (floriated, blackboard bold; originally called Foliar), Mystyline Decorative, Ajoure (a folk art font that includes a set of symbols).

    Typefaces from 2022: Nomad Decorative (a decorative boho font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Disjointed

    Studio in Leeds, UK. Creators of the ornamental caps typeface Cable Thief (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Filigran
    [Krużyńska]

    Type foundry in Warsaw, Poland, run by Krużyńska. It published the caps typeface Filigran, and the playful textured typeface Ping-Pong. In 2012, Filigran published the fat hand-drawn poster typeface families Kruszynka and Serwus.

    In 2013, it published the hand-printed typeface Janusz, the unconventional slab serif Kurws, the angry angular Gang, the upright script Hashtag, and the dingbat typeface OJ. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Lovelock

    Studio in London. Their typefaces and alphabets include a patterned illustrated type (2015) and a colored geometric typeface for Square Art 11 (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Polpo

    Studio Polpo was founded in 2012 by Matteo Brogi and Leonardo Maltese in Rome. Its typefaces include Fishes (2013, an ornamental caps typeface by Matteo Brogi), and the vintage signage typeface Forno (2013, done jointly by Leonardo Maltese and Matteo Brogi).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Sun (or: Sun Brand Co)
    [Cahya Sofyan]

    During her studies in Bandung, Indonesia, Bali-based Cahya Sogyan (b. 1994) created the free rounded sans typeface Synthesia (2014), the free sans typeface New Dawn (2015), and the free techno / futuristic typeface Cosmonaut (2015), with accompanying drop caps.

    In 2016, she co-founded Spencer and Sons with Gilang Purnama Jaya. In 2017, she started Studio Sun in Denpasar, Bali.

    In 2016, Cahyan published June of Fortune, the free hipster typeface family Soda Popp and writes: The new typeface called Soda Popp is inspired by pop-culture, vaporwave music, and seapunk that emerged in the early 2010s among Internet communities. It is characterized by a nostalgic fascination with retro cultural aesthetics, typically of the 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s.

    Typefaces from 2017 at Spencer and Sons: S&S Nickson (a copperplate display font including eight font styles and seven dingbat fonts).

    In 2018, she published the retro auto racing font Intensa, the extended sans typeface Matrice, and the free flared poster typeface Florent.

    Typefaces from 2019: Alathena (a decorative Victorian and Arts & Crafts typeface family), Rustob Club (a variable font), Tropiline, Matahari Sans (a large family that includes Matahari Sans Mono).

    Typefaces from 2020: Rachee (a 6-style renaissance text font), Klose Slab (an ultra-fat variable font), Gulfs Display (a 6-width ultra bold cartoon font family), Gliker (an extraordinary comic book font family; a new take on the Hobo typeface), Radiate Sans (40 styles), Balgin (a large display family that celebrates the 1990s), Brice Pop (a sixties display style; with Syarif Hafidh).

    Typefaces from 2021: Bethari (a 6-style art deco typeface, including a blackboard bold outline style).

    Typefaces from 2022: Fragmatika (a 9-style a geometric sans serif typeface with support for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew and Thai). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Typo
    [Mehmet Abaci]

    Mehmet Abaci (b. 1978) is based in Istanbul. In 2014, he established Studio Typo, where one can buy his typefaces. Limited forms of the fonts can be downloaded fpr free from the Dafont site.

    Creator of the elegantly plump rounded sans typeface Vinyl Cuts (2013), Samatya (2013, a unicase piano key typeface), Boldie (2013), Laundry Day (2013, alphadings), and the wood log typeface Timbers (2013).

    Typefaces from 2014: Smush, Slim Fir (athletic lettering), Typonome, Typo Slab, Neons, E-Square (sci-fi typeface), Screamer, Typoline (piano key typeface), Omniblack (flared display face), Papillons (flared caps), Typoster (a great fat geometric slab serif typeface family accompanied by an equally great shaded outline style), Typo Comica (a family drawn to compete with Comic Sans), Tipo Press, Manyeto (calligraphic), Quatroline (prismatic typeface), Wardoom, Cabold Comic, Digiform, Akaju (oily fat typeface with lighting effects), Almira, Bonebastic, Comic White Rabbit, Sinema (a bit of retro movie art deco), Sober, Cali Brush, Tiny Plate, College Player, Smart Kid, Barbed, Wideroy, Angella (+outline: a poster family), Megi Sans.

    Typefaces from 2015: Bro 4D (outlined 3d capitals), Typo GeoSlab, H&B Sketch (a gorgeous sketched didone), Mixiva (a six-style athletic lettering slab serif family), Typo Sketch (sketched font), Malter Sans, Parole Script, Degaws (a great sketch font), Typo Comics, Gribal, Gribal Shadow, Early Times (a sans family), Quizma (an elegant sans family), Super Seven (shaded), Typo Slab Inline, Type Slab Irregular, Geoma (hairline geometric sans), Double Bubble (bubblegum typeface), Mona Bella, Typo Grotesk, Typo Grotesk Rounded, The Matic, Typografix (avant garde sans), Move X (techno family), Savaro Stencil (in the geometric style that is characteristic of Futura Black), MindBlue (sans), A Space.

    Typefaces from 2016: Wox Striped (multiline typeface), Wox Modelist (organic sans), Aprikas (sans), Meltix (techno sans family), Widolte (sans family), Mayeka, The Wireframe, Typo College (athletic lettering), Halftone Poster, Chocolate Bar (oily and gleaming), Type Round (circle-based sans typeface family).

    Typefaces from 2017: Zelta Six (octagnal), Wida Round (round sans), Prestij (geometric sans), Typo Style, Naughty Squirrel (fat poster typeface family that includes hatched and shadow styles), Typo Quik, Ageta (bubblegum style), Rock On (glaz krak typeface), Typo Square, Typo Angular Rounded, Planetium-X (monoline, techno), Big Pixel (octagonal), White Festive, Watchword Hairline.

    Typefaces from 2018: At the Midday, Typo Hoop (rounded circle-based sans family), Typo Longest (tall condensed sans), Maccos (a multilined font family), Asectica, Magettas (rounded monoline sans), Bluefish, Bluefish Eroded, Bluefish Scratched, Quesat (rounded sans), Quesat Striped.

    Typefaces from 2019: Manti Slab College, Pesta Stencil, Type Draft (a drafting font), Pages Grotesque (a caps only geometric sans), Typo Cut-Out, Swera, Minalis (futuristic).

    Typefaces from 2020: Typo Cut-Out Shaky, Typo Oval, Typo Formal (a tall monolinear sans), Typo Ring (circle-based, monolinear), Manti Slab, Manti Sans (+Fixed), Geco Strong (a fat sans), Tually, Slabten (an inline typeface), Minalis Double (an inline typeface). Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suepriya Pramod

    Indian graphic designer and illustrator who lives in Mumbai. Designer of the curly typeface William Shakespeare (2011) and of the caps typeface Elvis Presley (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suhaila Azeman

    Singapore-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Geometrical (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suitcase Type Foundry
    [Tomás Brousil]

    Suitcase Type is a Czech foundry, est. 2003 by Tomas Brousil (b. 1975), who lives in Prague. He graduated from the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (Type Design and Typography, MgA. 2009) where his graduation project was the 96-family Tabac typeface system, published in 2010. He teaches in the Type Design and Typography department of the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design.

    The Tabac family started with Tabac Sans in 2010. It was augmented in 2012 with Tabac Slab and Tabac Mono, which have a full range of weights from Hairline to Black. Tabac Glam, a fashionable Peignotian high contrast sans, was added in 2016, and Tabac Micro in 2018. In 2019, he published Tabac Big Glam, Tabac Big Sans, Tabac Big Slab and Tabac Big.

    Other typefaces from 2008-2010 include Monopol (a six-weight condensed sans that includes a hairline weight), Idealista (2010, organic, a mix of styles), Nudista (2009, a multistyle take on DIN with a superb fashion mag hairline, Nudista Thin), Kulturista (2009, a part slab part serif extension of Nudista), Comenia Sans (2008, a 12-style complementary family to Storm's Comenia Serif for school textbooks), Metalista (2008, unicase octagonal metallic face).

    2007 was a successful year. Brousil created Bistro Script (2007, fifties diner style script), Corpulent (2007), and Gloriola (2007, a sans in 14 styles, including a hairline. The last typeface family won an award at TDC2 2008 and at Typographica's Best of 2007. Stephen Coles likes its position between the cool sterility of de Groot's monolinears and the warmth of Latin designers: With a broad range of weights, a complete Western character set, and a sack of ligatures and alternates, Gloriola has the depth required for complex identity systems and publication design. This shrewd response to the fashions of today is going to be useful for many years to come.). The year 2007 also saw Purista (a 10-style cousin of Eurostile), which includes hairline weights. Ellen Lupton says this about Purista: I've been feeling hungry for a stylish, edgy sans who enjoys evenings out on the town and long mornings of crisp conversation. In other words, I've been craving a font who likes to party but who can also help out with the dishes.

    Production in 2005-2006: Teimer's Antiqua (2006: a didone family based onn unpublished 1967 design by Pavel Teimer), Rokoko (2006, an octagonal custom typeface for the Rokoko Theatre in Prague), Sandwich (2006, a lively display caps set), Vafle (2006: based on an original concept by Marek Pistora from 1997, with minor adaptations and 11 new weights), Dederon Sans and Serif (2005, the sans version being inspired by TypoArt's Liberta; see also here for a comparison with Underware's Dolly), Dederon Serif.

    Typefaces from 2004 or earlier include Fishmonger (2004, a sans family), RePublic (a 2004 revival, done with Radek Sidun, of Public by Stanislav Marso, 1955. Note that Public was used to set the text of a Czechoslovak Communist party newspaper, Rudé Právo), Botanika (2005, a sans family including many typewriter styles and several mono weights), Atrament (2003, a narrowed grotesque inspired by the lettering used on the title of the almanac "Devetsil - Revolucni slovnik" (1922) edited by Karel Teige, in 30 styles!), Magion (2004, a simple geometric font), Fishmonger (2004, a broad 50-weight futuristic family), Katarine (2004, a warm sans family with appropriate dingbats added in), and Orgovan (2004-2005, a punk/brush family).

    Typefaces from 2013 include the roundish sans family Ladislav: The Ladislav font revitalises Sutnar's legacy, while not explicitly copying any of his original fonts. It however keeps true to their technicist character and initial principles of character creation - a simple modular system of combined geometrical segments. This approach affects all round shapes of capital and lowercase letters, as well as the shapes of the majority of numbers. The g consists of two disjoint circles.

    Typefaces from 2014: Urban Grotesk (a very airy, open grotesque typeface with large x-height and uniform grayness).

    Typefaces from 2015: Pacifista (stencil).

    Typefaces from 2016: BC Novatica (by Tomas Brousil and Marek Pistora (Briefcase Type): Novatica was created based on a commission from the Czech commercial television station Nova in 2007. Marek Pistora worked with Tomas Brousil to create an alternative to a readable, simply designed sans. They naturally called the typeface Novatica. In 2014 TV Nova decided to abandon Novatica for good, and in so doing it released the exclusive licence it had been using. Novatica thus became a new typeface offered by Briefcase Type Foundry.

    Typefaces from 2017: Jaroslav (monolinear sans, named after Jaroslav Benda, followed in 2020 by Benda), Pepi and Rudi (a sans and slab pair based on basic shapes such as circles, rectangles and triangles).

    Typefaces from 2020: Atyp BL (+variable), Atyp (+variable). A 25-style sans family remotely influenced by Bauhaus.

    Typefaces from 2021: Crabath (a 72-style transitional typeface family based on the 1761 specimen book of Czech typefounder Vaclav Jan Krabat; this family covers several optical ranges, from Subhead to Display to Text, and features wonderful initial caps).

    Typefaces from 2022: Atyp Kido (a 6-weight and variable rounded sans family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Brousil made many corporate or identity fonts. Examples include Brzda (a custom font for Czech artist Pavel Brazda), Budovatel (a custom font for the Bohemian National Hall in New York), and Union (custom webfonts for the Czech graphic design union).

    MyFonts page. Behance link. Klingspor link. MyFonts interview.

    View Tomas Brousil's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sunny Fong

    Johor Bahru, Malaysia-based student-designer of the ornamental caps typeface Jewel Type (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Susan Chait

    Designer of Alphabit, an all caps alphabet that was shown in ULC volume 13, 1986. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Susan Derrick
    [Bedoodle]

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    Susana Sarmento

    Graphic designer in Porto, Portugal, who created the decorative caps typeface Dog Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Susanne Ulmke
    [Kalligraphie]

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    Sushma Aithal

    As a Student at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore India, Sushma Aithal created the decorative caps typeface Commercial Street (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Susuanne Ulmke
    [Alte Schriften]

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    Suture Art
    [Fernando Rivas]

    Sevilla, Spain-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Jack Kirby (2019), which fits entirely with his futristic and dystopian art illustrations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suzanne Alidina

    Orlando, FL-based designer of the floriated caps typeface Fleurnacular (2014), which uses a Times New Roman outline. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suzanne Rozdilski

    During her studies at the University of Connecticut, Suzanne Rozdilski designed the decorative caps Mermaid Alphabet (1981). See U&LC Vol. 8, No. 3, 1981. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sven Gabriel

    Designer in Hamburg, Germany. Creator of the experimental typefaces Camo Hype (2013, abstract ornamental caps) and Stickz and Stonez (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sveta Dorosheva

    Calligrapher and illustrator in Rehovot, Israel. She made some great hand-drawn posters in 2010, including Animal Man (2010), Fish Man, Smiling Man (2010) and Strugatskie (2010).

    In 2013, she drew many decorative drop caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetoslav Simov
    [Fontfabric]

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    Svitlana Pototska

    Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of a Latin floral caps typeface in 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Swadharma Type
    [Swadharma Wiyastana]

    Denpasar, Bali-based designer (b. 2002) of the rounded monolinear sans typeface Akanta (2020) and the decorative caps typeface Xico (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Swadharma Wiyastana
    [Swadharma Type]

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    Swann Seck Grellier

    Parisian creator of the cute figurine alphabet Typo Aimer (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sweetdrug Studio

    Bangkok, Thailand-based designer of the colorful all caps typeface Dee (2019) for Siam Center. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Swindler & Swindler

    Two French illustrators, who started working in Grenoble in 2015. As part of their trade, they create delicately lettered pieces, and design some decorative floral alphabets. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sydney Goldstein

    During her design studies at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), Sydney Goldstein created the (excellent!) free ornamental mosaic font South Rose (2013) for a fictional travel service. In 2015, she added the interesting 10-style typeface family Hooptie, which is based on a 1972 Land Yacht. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sylvie Leveiller

    Graphic designer in Sudbury, Ontario, who created the decorative caps typeface Thar She Blows (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Symbiotic Design
    [Doug Peters]

    Sioux Falls, SD-based entrepreneur who as Symbiotic Design created the free 618-glyph WebFont (2018, FontStruct) and the stencil typeface Blown Out Regular (2018, FontStruct). In 2019, he added the techno fonts Anticipatio (angular) and Jonarun, and the textured Lephnia Display Caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Syukur Setiyadi
    [SSI Scraps]

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    Tam Oonz

    Artist and illustrator from Georgia, Tbilisi, b. 1987, who graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2008. In 2017, Tam Oonz designed a Georgian alphabet in the shape of children's book monsters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tammy Leow

    Singapore-based student designer of Fonties (2014), an alphabet of silhouettes of fat naked people (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tandy Mackenzie

    Bandung, Indonesia-based creator of the decorative typeface Gorga (2015), which is inspired by one of the Batak traditional architecture ornaments called Gorga Singa, which represents the mythological protecting lion. Batak itself is a collective term used to identify a number of ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tangmo Cecchini

    New York City-based illustrator and designer. Creator of the floral and herbal Magical Ingredients Alphabet (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tangmo Cecchini

    Graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design who lives in Mount Arlington, NJ. In 2016, he designed a decorative floral all caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tania Quindos

    Bilbao, Spain-based designer (b. 1986, Bilbao) of a set of decorative numerals called Numeros de Palacio (2014). She also created the modular typeface Zati (2014). Tania studied fine arts at la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU).

    The free Asap Symbol font (2015, Omnibus Type) was designed by Tania Quindos, Marcela Romero, Elena Gonzalez Miranda and Pablo Cosgaya, to accompany the rounded sans family Asap.

    In 2017, she designed the text typeface Alaia. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tano Veron

    Buenos Aires-based creator of the children's hand font Nicolina (2012) and of the techno typeface Hifix (2012).

    Zephyr (2013) is a striped ornamental caps typeface. In the ornamental caps style, Tano also made Las Mejores Cosas De La Vida No Son Cosas (2013).

    Boxing (2013) is a condensed sans headline face.

    In 2014, he made the free multicolored vector format typeface Mondrian, which is named after De Stijl artist Piet Mondrian. In the same vane, he made the decorative caps typeface Kandinsky (2014). Keplerian (2014) is an alchemic typeface. In 2014, Tano Veron and Yai Salinas co-designed the free vector format colored display typeface Carioca.

    In 2015, he published Natureza (alchemic / hipsterish), Theremin (great variable-width san; free download), Mapuche (a free native symbol font), Pettoruti Type (a colorful cubsy typeface influenced by the cubist Argentinian painter Emilio Pettoruti (1892-1971), Sandre (based on Cassandre's Bifur), Dionisia (a great free art deco poster typeface), Jekyll & Hyde (a free EPS format vintage display pair of typefaces), Binary Font (free), the free sci-fi typeface Houston, the free hipster typeface Belladona, the tweetware constructivist font Moscu, the decorative caps typeface Guernica (named after Picasso's famous civil war painting from 1937), the free vector format typeface Miro and the tweetware colored circus font Circo.

    Typefaces from 2017: Hot Rod (free art deco style), Hangar (rounded sans), Belladona Stencil, Bardo (an all caps typeface described as classic, transgressive and badass as Shakespeare, it has a bit of the art deco charm of the The New Yorker typeface).

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

    Tanvi Chunekar

    Mumbai, India-based designer of the all caps floriated typeface Bangalore Font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Taq Bleiler

    Portland, OR-based creator of the ornamental caps typeface Break Display (2012), which was inspired by bicycle parts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tarik Akin

    Istanbul, Turkey-based designer of the colorful all caps typeface Font Block (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tashina Wells

    American designer, b. 1993, of the decorative caps typeface Limitless (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Cociorva

    Bucharest, Romania-based designer of many sets of vintage frames, ornaments, flowers and borders, as well as snowflakes (2016). Her typefaces include Leafy Tales (2016: floral caps) and Cute Blunder (2017, handcrafted). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Nedialkova

    Illustrator in Brighton, UK, who drew some children's alphabets in 2011. She has an MA Fine Arts from the Chelsea School of Art&Design, 2007. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Pastushkova

    Aka TasiPas. Mezhdurechensk, Siberia-based designer of the serif typeface Quffer (2018), the sans typeface Harbinger (2018), the handcrafted Latin typeface Buxton (2018) and the colourful plump decorative typeface Circus (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tavo Montañez

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Aguas Calientes, Mexico. He drew a great all-caps alphabet for the Prison for Young Offenders in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    tci.ac.jp

    The zip file contains about 40 fonts, a basic starter truetype collection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ted Staunton

    Born in Lincoln, UK, in 1942, Ted Staunton lives in Surrey, BC, and designs type. After serving a five-year apprenticeship as a hand compositor (1958-1963) with the Lincolnshire Publishing Co., he spent three years (1963-1966) at Leicester College of Art&Design, graduating in type design. After spending some time in London working for Penguin, Hamlyn and other book publishing houses, he emigrated to Canada in 1970, working for Mitchell Press and Hemlock Printers in Vancouver before opening his own design business and letterpress printing shop, Sherwood Graphics, in 1984. In 1991 he published a private press book, The Lincolnshire Poacher, illustrated with his own wood-engravings. Some of his fonts were used privately on transfer lettering sheets and cast in metal for hand typesetting at his private press, Sherwood Letterpress. His typefaces are mostly published bi P22:

    • In 2003, P22 launched Staunton's Sherwood Type Collection, a beautiful ensemble of revivals: Afton (2003), Albemarle (2008: connected script), Albion (2003), Albion Italic, Amelia (2003: ornamental caps in the style of William Morris), Aragon (2003: Victorian), Avocet Light (1985: chancery script originally named Avoca), Canterbury (2006, +Caps A, Caps B, Caps C, Pro), Elven (2003), Floriat (2003: floriated ornaments), Founders (2003), Freely (2002), Kaz (2008, between architecture and Comic Sans), Kaz Thin, P22 Kelly Pro (2009, Celtic style uncial), Latimer (2002), Lindum (2000; based on his Lindum Titling from 1967), Mayflower (2002: medieval lettering), Mayflower Italic, Mayflower Smooth (2009), Mercian (2003), Plymouth (2001), Roanoke Script (2002, a rough texture typeface; Albemarle is the smooth version), 1722 roman (2002), 1722 italic, Sherwood (2002), Sparrow (2001), Symphony (1987), Tyndale (2002), and Tyndale Xtras (2002: Arabesque ornaments).
    • Typefaces from 2004: Merton, P22 Ruffcut and P22 Spooky (blackletter).
    • Typefaces from 2005: the Staunton Script (package P22), which includes handwritten style typefaces that simulate the period spanning between the English Civil War (1640s) and the Victorian Era (1839-1901): Virginian, Royalist, Grosvenor, Grenville, Elizabethan, Broadwindsor, Chatham. Staunton Script was first drawn in 1981.
    • Typefaces from 2006: P22 Phantasmagoria (a wedge serif inspired by Viking runes), P22 Regina (calligraphic).
    • Typefaces from 2011: Bix, Brigid.
    • Typefaces from 2013: the spurred typeface Ridley, which is based on his Avalon Text (2002).
    • Typefaces from 2014: P22 Amelia Jayne (which has a classical roman, with several sets of initial caps).
    • Typefaces from 2015: P22 Clementine (sans, curly: pure Victoriana), P22 Ringwell (Victorian).
    • Typefaces from 2019: P22 Kingsclere. Inspired by a 17th century tombstone inscription in the town of Remedios, Cuba.
    • Typefaces from 2020: P22 Ridley (a spurred medieval typeface, named for Nicholas Ridley and similar in style to Staunton's Latimer font), P22 Tuscaloosa (P22: a hybrid Tuscan typeface).
    • Typefaces from 2021: P22 Araminta (a Tuscan Victorian font).
    • Undated roman: Bentley.
    • Undated sans: Witham Light.
    • Undated initial caps: Arabella Initials, Florabunda (floriated Lombardic caps).
    • Undated blackletter: Luther, Yeoman.
    • Undated Victorian typefaces: Arabella.
    • Undated scripts: Guildford, Hykeham Swash, Nadine, Saluki.
    • Undated text typeface: Crossroad.

    Klingspor link. P22 link.

    View Ted Staunton's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Teo Gagliano

    London-based designer who is originally from Italy.

    Creator of the experimental caps typefaces Faber (2012) and NSWE (2012).

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    Teo Georgiev

    Teo Georgiev (b. 1992) is a Bulgarian illustrator and graphic designer based in Helsinki who was studying towards an MA at Aalto University in Helsinki in 2020. In 2013, he published the colored all caps typeface Helvetica Warped. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Terence Lim

    Terence Lim (Perth, Australia) graduated in 2009 from Curtin with a graphic design degree. He made the custom caps typeface Erica (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teresa Arroyo

    Teresa Arroyo is a graphic designer in Valencia, Spain. She created Puzzle Font in 2013. Free PDF source.

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    Termica Estudio Creativo

    Studio in Caracas, Venezuela, that makes 2d and 3d digital graphics illustrations. These include the Misterios font (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Terry Sampson

    Designer of these typefaces at FontStruct in 2008: Upson Downs, Big Block Sans, Serabunde (outline face), Sampson Mono Sans, Spandantic, Decal (athletic lettering face), Collegiate Solid, Iconic Louvre, Ma Bennett, Collegiate Outline, Blockhead, Zataganges, Micro G (based on Microgramma), This Way Up, Fraktured Bubbles, Movie Clip Reversed, Domtext (blackletter), Guido (flowery caps face), Guido Light, Misery (pixel face), T-Squared, Whisper, Samus, Rybald, Easter Island, Rybald Normal, Hairy Bugger II Clone, Texture Fancy and Texture Graph paper (both based on Wolfkrim's blackletter typeface Texture), Sausage Factory, Klingon Blade II Heavy, New Gotham, Whipstitch (stitching face). Additions in 2010: Sectarian, Sectarian Outline. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thalyson Souza

    Brasilia, Brazil-based designer of the caps only blackletter typeface Fraktur TS (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The 1477 Font Foundry
    [David Clegg]

    Founder of Atelier Zero Ltd and The 1477 Font Foundry in London. In 2012, he designed the squarish typeface Voona 1. He also drew several beautiful caps typefaces including the frilly Age of Decadence.

    Typefaces from 2018: Blow Ted, Prim & Proper, More Say Ache, Reubenesqueish, Into Minds, Stay The Sway, Whoa Van, Hurley Curley, Blow Red, Surfer Zoil, Organic Too, Splish Splosh, Triffids Day Off, Slab Square Rounded, Game of Stones, Dark Ages (a handcrafted Lombardic typeface), Not Quite Wright, Globular, InGrid, Magna Sea, And Gloves Axe On, Big Bold Chunky, Boing The Dots, Made Evil (decorated textured caps), Big Chunk, Jiggery Shrubbery, Re Twig, Pet Redish, Rub Her Side Lamp, Eye Wood Knot (wooden plank font), Jabby Rocky (Flintstone font), Phat Belle (plump psychedelia), Sir Riff Rough (curly), Stripe Bend, Stripe Bend Finesse, All Over The Shop, Not My Indent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The ABCs of Dobrolet

    Russian revolution poster showing a nicely decorated Cyrillic all-caps alphabet related to early 20th century aviation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Blue Bus Software
    [Frits Jonker]

    Dutch designer and letterer based in Amsterdam, who made many decorative, typically all caps, typefaces starting in 2006. Some of his alphabets are influenced by the rich signage on the buildings of Amsterdam, including the Dutch deco style typefaces in vogue in the early part of the 20th century in that city. Ger van Wulften wrote a book about him in 2021, Man van Letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Comical Hotch Potch

    A colourful silhouette alphabet from London, 1782. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Difficult Type
    [James Kilfiger]

    James Kilfiger (The Difficult Type) designed the free calligraphic typeface Inkcallig (2006), as well as T-Ball (2006, handwriting), LetsTrace (2006; a *very* readable light sans, even at small sizes), LetsTraceruled (a school font), Letstraceitalic, Pugsley (2006, a bi-ped Tuscan, based on an eighteenth century clock maker's sign from an old edition of Signs of the Times magazine), Pugsley Oblique (2006), AlphabetofChildren (2006, based on 16th century illuminated caps), Animal Silhouette (2006), Fold (2006, an origami-inspired face), Pierce Roman and Oblique (2006, after Gentium), Untitled1 (2010, a chess font), Tudor Rose (2010, script), Fold (2011, paper fold face), Transcends Games (2011, fututuristic), Lets Trace (2011, a school font for tracing), Tudor Rose (2011, an ornamental fat finger family), Pierce Oblique (2011, an angular face), Chess (2011), Wire Wyrm (2011, hairline serif face), Orthoventional Upright (2011), Ackermann (2013), Fifteen (2013, a faux bitmap font) and Contrans.

    In 2013, he designed the free monospaced typeface Quinze Narrow.

    Link at the Open Font Library. Aka Zeimusu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Happy Greyhound
    [John A. Hern]

    The Happy Greyhound is John Hern's metal type foundry in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It sells and ships metal type, including an interesting-looking Heintzemann Fraktur [after Karl Heintzemann], and nice sets of initials such as the John Alden Initials, Ben Franklin Initials, Lombardic Initials, and Massey Initials, as well as several great border sets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Living End
    [Lauren Ashpole]

    Free fonts made by Brooklyn, NY-based (and before that, Huntington Beach, CA-based) Lauren Ashpole (b. 1982, Corpus Christi, TX): Kremlinology (2012, constructivist), Bikes (2011, bike dingbats), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouette dingbats), Sewing Patterns 2 (2012), OrigamiBats (2010), Thirty-Nine Smooth (1997), A T&Love (1998, curly hand), Publicité d'Epoque (dot matrix face), Candy Randy (1998, party font), Horseshoes&Lemonade (1998, 2009: white on black letters), Horseshoes, Paper Hearts (2001), Scooby Doo (1998), Hecubus (1997, hand-printed), Starry Night (1998, 2009), Boo Boo Kitty (1997-1999: textured, for comic books), Scooby Doo (hand-printed), and Southbats (1998, dingbats of heads). Her font 39smooth (1997) can be found here.

    In 2011, she went commercial at MyFonts as Lauren Ashpole Foundry, located in Brooklyn, NY. Her fonts there include Starry Night (1998), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouettes of women), Sewing Patterns 2 (2012), Origami Bats (2010), Horseshoes And Lemonade (1998), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Bikes (2011, dingbats), Paper Hearts (2012, a Valentine's Day font), and Candy Randy (1998).

    Typefaces from 2014: Hellmuth (2014, based on the Tuscan writing on the Hellmuth Building) .

    Typefaces from 2015: Herbaceous Border (2015, floral caps).

    Typefaces from 2016: Bar Book (dingbats), Parallel Lines.

    Typefaces from 2017: Sewing Patterns 3.

    Typefaces from 2018: Roundabout (a display type with circus font textures), Mistletoe (a color SVG font).

    Typefaces from 2019: Thornback (sketched).

    Typefaces from 2020: Sacremende (a chunky, slightly messy display font inspired by the retro California aesthetic and, in particular, old surf rock posters).

    Typefaces from 2021: Space Time (a starry stackable shadow font). Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    The Netstar Fresh Fonts
    [Jo the Webmistress]

    Original free fonts by New Jersey's Jo "the webmistress" include Dorothy at the Algonquin (nice display font!), Bourbon Decay, Nini Beans, Rabbit Redux, Magic Marker, Pop Bop, SeeMyEtchings (caps), Digital Logic (pixel font), Spaple Gun, Testosterone, LALA, Toolbox Metal, Cafe Fontana, Floppy Disk, Squaresville. Truetype for PC. Alternate URL. Interview with Jo. Links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Pretty Letters
    [Stephanie Peay]

    Designer of Rainboho (2020: a layered textured all caps typeface), Planet Hugger (2020: layerable caps), Sham Rocker (2020: with St Patricks's Day texture), Nacho Type (2020: layered), Garden Fancy (2020: a font duo), and Meowica (2020: striped). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Sastra
    [Deni Dessastra]

    Singkawang, Indonesian Borneo-based designer, b. 1983. Creator of the decorative Victorian typefaces Noir (2015) and Dwiss (2015), which are intended for tattoos. He also made Crypton (2015), Steampunk Ornaments (2015), and Rosewell (2015, Western decorative caps typeface).

    Typefaces from 2016: Lawless (biker style blackletter), Union.

    Typefaces from 2017: Volcano (script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Wolfgang (a vintage tattoo font).

    Typefaces from 2019: Vanderink (tattoo type), Monteradoo, Temadjo (a biker gang font), Khatulistiwa (spurred tattoo type), Jhoony Richmond (art deco; caps only), Black Borneo (vintage, spurred), Blackphanters (vintage), Noise Storm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Scrappin Cop

    Deb, the "Scrappin Cop", is the American creator (b. 1970) of the caps font SC Stamped Alpha (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Type Foundry

    British commercial type foundry. They sell typefaces made, e.g., by these designers:

    • Claire Scully: Anemone, Feather, Nature Club.
    • Jack Featherstone: Delphon.
    • Josep Román: Elia, Lausana.
    • Michael Willis: Future Venus.
    • Angus Macpherson: Grande Fete (hairline sans), Nord Express (art deco sans).
    • Rob Francis: Industrie Sonderbar.
    • Ross Bennett: Milk (LED face).
    • Mind Design: Verdun (2009, co-designed with Rafael Farias), Metastasis, Muggenburg Grotesk (Bauhaus style).
    • Rose Stallard: Rock (scanbat face).
    • Patrick Saville: Shadow (textured caps).
    • Philipp Dornbierer: Spargel (2012, a humanist sans).
    • Haniboi: Studio Rock (ornamental caps).
    • Jamie Winder: Turnpike Display and Turnpike Bevel (2012).
    • Oli Frape: Welco (2012, hand-drawn).
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Theodor de Bry

    Theodor de Bry (1528-1598, Johann's father) had been a goldsmith in Liège (in present day Belgium). As a Protestant, he was forced to leave that catholic city in 1570. After living in Strasbourg for several years, he moved to Frankfurt in 1588, where he established himself as a bookseller and publisher. Many of his volumes were illustrated with engravings by his own hand. He was aided in this by his sons Johann Theodor (1561-1623) and Johann Israël (ca. 1570-1611). The de Bry firm issued almost two hundred books, including a renowned series of illustrated accounts of the Americas, emblem-books, and the mystical&alchemical works of Robert Fludd and Michael Maier. He designed the intricate set of caps New Kunstliches Alphabet (1595). In 1596 in frankfurt, they published Human Alphabet. De Bry together with his sons created many non-Latin alphabets as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Theodore Brown Hapgood

    Early 20th century designer of letters, such as Roman Capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Therefore

    German designer of the ornamental caps typeface called The Fragile Typeface (2011).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Theresa Fitzgerald

    Designer of A Picture Alphabet, an all caps alphabet that was shown in ULC volume 13, 1986. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Therese Luna

    Quezon City, The Philippines-based designer of an ornamental planet-inspired alphabet in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Therese Potgieter

    Vienna-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Talking Walls (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thibaud Cartigny

    Graphic designer in Paris. His typefaces include Shapeflow (experimental, 2009), Narra (2009, all caps, free), and Falcon (2009, shadow headline face, free). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thibaud Gouno

    Nantes, France-based graphic designer who created the decorative alphabets Trompetto Game and Alphabet Alambique Gloire & Beauté in 2014. In 2015, he created Uptown Valley and Monmort. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Amby Johansen

    During his studsies at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2013, Thomas Amby Johansen created a few ornamental drop caps. He also has a few spectacular posters under his belt, such as Time Trial, Bucheron (a tribute to A.M. Casssandre) and Cirque du Romani, all done in 2013.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Boucherie
    [Maelle Keita]

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    Thomas Charier

    Parisian designer of the very detailed typeface Ask The Dust (2014). He writes about this font which was made during his motion graphics studies: Ask The Dust is a highly detailed time-crafted typography. Ready to use with full set of letters, numbers and ten punctuation marks. Ask The Dust is a modular typeface inspired from real bones exposed at the Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy in Paris. More than 250 000 paths are used to fake grey shades.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Ledin

    Illustrator in the San Francisco area, b. 1970. Dafont link. Creator of the signage typeface Tom Bombadill (2009), Bone Hymie (2009), Tioem Handwriting (2009), Tioem Open (2009), Tioem Black Distressed (2009), Dullard (2010, 3d, sketched), Flim-Flam (2009). He also made the lined didactic font Life Lessons (2009), the multilined scratchy typefaces The Spaz (2010) and Scrum Bucket (2009), the grungy Rock Biter (2009), Truffle Shuffle (2009, Kafkaesque), Metal Up Your Ear (2009), Griswold (2009), Seismacrap (2009), Snarky's Machine (2009, 3d shadow face), and Grog-Binge (2009, hand-printed).

    Creations in 2010: ChickenButt (textured comic book face), Janky, SailorLarry-ExtraFancy (ornamental caps), SailorLarry-Fade, SailorLarry-Fancy, SailorLarry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Lotze

    Free Times Roman with Autumn Leaves font, called InitialAutumnTimes (1999) by Thomas Lotze. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Lowe

    During his studies in Manchester, UK, Thomas Lowe designed Organic Alphabet (2015, decorative caps) and an untitled hipster alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Schulze

    During his studies in Potsdam, Germany, Thomas Schulze created the alphabet Messer Gabel Schere Licht (2014). This is not a digital typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Wood Stevens

    Early 20th century designer of letters, who was associated with the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Author of Lettering (1916, The Prang Company, New York).

    Alphabets from his 1916 book include Art Nouveau Capitals, Italic Capitals, Italic Lowercase, Modern Script Italics, Modern German Italic Capitals, Modern Round Gothic, Uncial (based on a 14th century manuscript), Venetian Modern Capitals, Roman Lowercase, Modern German.

    PDF file of his 1916 book.

    Digital remakes include Wood Stevens (2012, Intellecta).

    In 2012 and 2013, Dick Pape digitized many of the typefaces discussed in Lettering (1916). They are freely downloadable from this site. The typefaces in Dick's collection are attributed as follows:

    • No artist: TWS Brush Caps 31, TWS Capitals from Coins 15,
    • Harry Lawrence Gage: TWS Heavy Capitals 49, TWS Italian Gothic Caps 80, TWS Renaissance Alphabet 39, TWS Robinson Caps 23, TWS Roman Caps 13, TWS Slab Capitals 22, TWS The Japanese 32 [note: see also Yoshi Toshi, 2003, by Da ABF Mafia, and Yoshitoshi, 2003, by David Nalle].
    • Norman P. Hall: TWS Heavy Modern 30.
    • Oswald Cooper: TWS Long Ascenders 36.
    • Ned Hadley: TWS Modern Caps 24, TWS Modern French 25.
    • Helen E. Hartford: TWS Modern German Capitals 28.
    • Charles H. Barnard: TWS Modern Roman 05.
    • F. G. Cooper: TWS Modern Roman Bold 37.
    • William A. Dwiggins: TWS Modern Roman Caps 32, TWS Variation on Georgian.
    • Guido Rosa: TWS Outline Caps 21.
    • George W. Koch: TWS Roman Wide Pen 33.

    Commercial revivals include he slab serif Nouveau Lettering JNL (2019, Jeff Levine). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiffany Boger

    Charlotte, NC-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Wonder Woman (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiffany Post

    Houston, TX-based digital illustrator, who created the illustrated caps alphabet Etho Simian (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tilda Rose Sladek

    Philadelphia-based Illustrator, originally from Finland. In 2017, she designed the colorful decorative caps alphabets Prototype and Shoe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Easley

    Designer and illustrator in London who created a decorative caps alphabet in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Naish

    Freelance illustrator in Brentwood, UK. His stunning and often funny work has some typographic components as well, as for example in the ornamental caps alphabet Acrobat (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Rolands
    [Tim Rolands Digital Studio (was: TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance)]

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    Tim Rolands Digital Studio (was: TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance)
    [Tim Rolands]

    Tim Rolands (b. St.Louis, MO, 1970, based in Kirksville, MO and London, UK, but also in Stevens Point, WI) is an independent digital type developer, producing TrueType and Postscript typeface families for MacOS and Windows. He founded Tim Rolands Digital Design in 2001. Other names for his company include TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance. His fonts can be bought at MyFonts.

    Tim's creations include Orlando (free), Anvil (also available in OpenType), Valor (2006, an experimental modern typeface that combines geometry and mediaeval Lombardic ideas), Miranda (an Aldine, roman caps family: Pro version appeared in 2012), Aegis, Prospero (1997, inspired by the early Romans of Nicolas Jenson; see Prospero Pro (1997-2008)), Illiad, Kimberly, Timotheus, Envoy (2001, garalde family), Odyssey (2001, classical Roman caps; see Odyssey Pro in 2017), Alexander, Runik Futhark (based on the earliest Germanic-Norse runes, known as the Elder Futhark).

    View Tim Rolands's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Ryan
    [Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Yarzhombek

    Moscow-based creator in 2008 of Beard Alphabet (not fontified yet). In 2015, he designed a handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic set of numbers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timberwolf Type
    [Lars Bergquist]

    Lars Bergquist is the Swedish type designer (b. 1936) who runs Timberwolf Type in Sollentuna, just outside Stockholm. Bergquist designed numerous successful text families and display typefaces, including the free Beryll typeface. In 2016, the collection moved over to (was bought by?) 3IP. Some offerings:

    • Old Style romans: Sarabande (1998; based on Jean Jannon's famous "Garamond" of 1621), Pavane (1998, based on a text typeface by Rudolf Koch), Philomela (2000, also at PsyOps), Montrachet (2002, Fountain: a garalde family), Monteverdi (Fountain: with Granjon's Plantin Ascendonica italic).
    • Baroque/transitional: Leyden, Leyden News (PsyOps, 2000), Baskerville 1757 and Baskerville Caps (1998; winner of a Bukvaraz award in 2001, available at Type Quarry).
    • New Style Romans: Millennium, Eleonora (1999), Prospero (1998, a didone family), Waldstein (2003, Fountain: a Scotch typeface).
    • Sans typefaces: Millennium, Millennium Sans, Millennium Linear, New Millennium, New Millennium Sans and New Millennium Linear (2000).
    • Display typefaces: Diorite (2005, a calligraphic angular family), Corsiva Italica (2003), Paracelsus (2003, Fountain: a modern version of Schwabach), Foliant Blackletter (German 15th C Textur), Zeppelin Bauhaus Gothic, Berserk Scandinavian runes, Escorial (at PsyOps), Paestum (2001, a Greek simulation family), Sekhmet (2000), Praetorian, Pressroom (2003), Proconsular, Palaestra (the latter three are inspired by informal, painted Roman wall writing), Triumphalis Caps (also inspired by Roman imperial inscriptions), Bucintoro (1999, a modern version of the rotunda blackletter), Midnight (2000; a neon light/ blackboard bold family), Karolin Fraktur (at Psy/Ops: Fraktur modeled after the Bible of King Charles XII, printed in Stockholm in 1703), Rococo Titling (2001, ornate titling caps based on work done by Jacques-François Rosart (1714-1777) and Pierre Simon Fournier (1712-1768), and the Renaissance family Ronsard (at PsyOps, 2000).
    Some fonts are available at Fountain, Psy/Ops and Type Quarry. Bukvaraz gave him an award for Absolut Type, a classic Renaissance family, so I wonder if that is not the same as Baskerville 1757. Lars says that Absolute Vodka complained, so the type is sold by Psy/Ops as Aalborg (2002). He published Whitenights at Linotype in 2003. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Timofei Dekalo

    Inspired by the work of Vladimir Shukhov and the period of industrialization in the Soviet Union, Timofei Dekalo (Marafont, Moscow) created several decorative caps typefaces in 2014. He created quite a few other experimental geometric or multicolored fonts as well. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timoteo Werner

    Manaus, Brazil-based designer of the decrative floral all caps typeface Rebeca (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timothée Midy

    Parisian codesigner, with S. Michel, of La Statistique (2013), an an ornamental (vector format) caps typeface that is based on mathematical charts.

    Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tina Marshall

    During her studies in Atlanta, GA, Tina Marshall created Nuptials (2015), a wedding-themed illustrative alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tina Smith

    Tina Smith is an independent art director and designer in New York City who specializes in typography-driven branding, editorial design, and art direction. She has worked on brand identities, campaigns, editorial design, films, websites and packaging for Google, The New York Times, and Target. She also has an independent practice of lettering and type design. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Montana State University and studied at The Cooper Union in 2018 and 2019. Her typefaces:

    • Porphyry (2021). A lapidary display typeface inspired by chiseled, stonework forms.
    • Fizia (2021). Fizia is a display typeface with sharp, angular terminals developed between 2018 and 2021.
    • A fantastic display alphabet, ca. 2021.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ting Lin

    During her studies, Ting Lin (Queens, NY) designed the decorative floral caps typeface Flora (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tipiblu

    Graphic design studio in Milan that only uses hues of blue on its site. Their typefaces:

    • Frusino (2015). The official font of the county of Frosinone, near Lazio. Project by Andrea Amato.
    • Artypodia (2014). A decorative modular typeface family by Aurora Biancardi.
    • Orti (2014). A decorative caps typeface by Aurora Biancardi.
    • Sempione Grotesk and Sempione Modern (2009-2019). A Swiss style sans family published at CAST.
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Titon Malczow

    Polish illustrator, who created an ornamental caps alphabet called Malchov (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    To Chu

    Freelance designer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, who created Doodle Alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Todd M. Hallock
    [Bannigan Artworks]

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    Tofino Type
    [Mighty Pete]

    Tofino Type is located in Kelowna, BC, Canada. An earlier site, Pete's Oasis was run when Pete was in Yellowknife. Its designer, The Mighty Pete, describes himself as follows: The Mighty Pete is a graphic artist that's been doing computer graphic art for 30 years. His fonts and art have appeared in movies, on TV, in magazines all over the world and also in numerous commercial software packages as art elements. [...] Just to give you a idea of how long I've been making fonts for computers and how times have changed over the years my first collection of computer fonts was made in the early 80s for the Apple II computer. It was called The Arctic Ice Collection and consisted of about maybe 100 different fonts. In those days font editors did not exist. It was entirely written in binary directly on the surface of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. Remember those? You had to create a empty font file on a disk then with a binary editor change the bits in that empty file to create a full font with all the characters. Even the apple. We used to pride ourselves on how wild a different we could make the apple. It could take days to make a single character. You could not see the letters. It would be just a green screen of numbers. Later you got to finally see it and maybe go back and tweak them.

    His first font sold at MyFonts is the hyper-swashy calligraphic Albion Signature (2008) which contains over 2200 glyphs, flourishes and ornaments. The commercial fonts also include Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental typeface with 4,200 glyphs: this is the commercial version of Fantastic Pete) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008).

    When he started, he offered free fonts such as Extravagant Pete (2003), a gorgeous rococco font, as well as Extravagant Pete 3D, Fantastic Pete (medieval ornamental script---artwork below by Dora Ivette Torres), ComicPieces, GuiltyPieces, HollowPieces, MentalPieces, MetalPieces, MightyPieces, MoldyPieces, Pieces, PlainPieces, Scream In Pain, SillyPieces, SolidPieces, SorryPieces, StickyPieces, ThickPieces (2004). The commercial fonts also include Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental typeface with 4,200 glyphs: this is the commercial version of Fantastic Pete) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008).

    1001 Fonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Hobbs

    Student at UWE in Bristol. During his studies at UWE, he used FontStruct to create the ornamental typeface Tobacco Factory (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Howard

    Manchester, UK-based creator of the ornamental caps typeface Fat Freak (2013). Student at Salford University in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Rouleau

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Joinville-le-Pont, France. Creator of the funny decorative caps typefaces glass Box (2018: 3d style), GunGunType (2017) and Detectype (2017). His illustrations are wonderfully mischievous, and so are some of his typefaces such as Typo Gras Filles (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Smile

    During his graphic design studies at Les Gobelins in Paris, Tom Smile created the mechanical bicycle-inspired font Velodroom Meka (2015). This typeface was made for a short film about bicycles in French and Dutch movies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Wallace
    [HiH (Hand in Hand)]

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    tom_9

    Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Fforest (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomás Brousil
    [Suitcase Type Foundry]

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    Tomas Lewis

    Londoner who created Skeleton (2011), a typeface based on pieces of a skeleton and of the spine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomasz Czuprynski

    Glasgow, Scotland-based designer of Lego Technik (2014), complertely made with Lego pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomi Lahdesmaki

    Born in Finland, Tomi Lahdesmaki graduated from Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Now based in London, where he runs a studio called Harvest, Tomi created several typefaces in 2014, including the all caps decorative series Mastodon, the fat typeface / light sister combination called Aune, and the heavy titling sans typeface Scandal. He also created several interesting sets of icons.

    In 2015, he created a number of typefaces that were inspired by metal band genres: Death Metal, Viking Metal, Industrial Metal, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Trash Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Gothic Metal. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Torquato Torío de la Riva y Herrero

    Or Torcuato Torio de la Riva. Spanish writing master (b. 1759, Villaturde, d. 1820) who studied Latin, theology and law at the University of Valladolid in 1773. He published these books:

    Digital revivals of his chancery scripts include Torio (2014, Pedro Leal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Toto
    [K22 Fonts]

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    Totoi aqui estoy

    Mexico City-based creator of the free ornamental typeface Letras de Agujetas (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tracer Tong (was: WhoAmI Type&Design)
    [Paul Reid]

    Beautiful original fonts (freeware, shareware) by Glasgow-based Paul Reid, aka Tracer Tong. A partial list: Vannoidyk (2012, techno), Xiaxide (2012, circuit simulation typeface), Cursed Law (2012, grunge), Pixcel (2012), Ablattive (2012), Scratch To Reveal (2011), Techno Hideo (2011), High Score Hero (2011, horizontally striped glyphs), Hunter Squared (2011, a sci-fi typeface based on the movie The Predators), Nioc tresni (2011, dot matrix face), Lightman (2011, texture/[ixel family), Coalition (2010, a charcoal face), OhMyGod, Stars&Moons, Arrgh, Blokk, BulletHolz, DriftTypeSolid, DriftType, Emoticons, Encounter, FilmStrip, LiandriBETA, MatrixSchedule, OhMyGodStarsMoons, PixelBlock, Serifsy, TroubledGenius, WhereCracksAppear, ZX Font Pack (pixel typefaces), Dyers Eve, DecayedOptical, DirtyHead, DumbAss, Fade2Back, GameLogos (2003), HobbesFriend, InvisibleKiller, Obliquo, OhMyGodStars, Stryx, VenetiaMonitor, Gothikka, MedicationNeeded, Recognition, RecognitionNekkid, SeeTheBeast, Shredded, SirClive, Sucaba, WhatPossUse, ZX81, ZXSpectrum, Rekkoy (font with embedded Morse code), Staley (Alice in Chains), Abstrakt (nice!), Pliskin Snake Eyes (2006, a John Carpenter movie credit font), Top Billing (2006), Unrealised (2008), Steel Tongs (2006, an adaptation of Larabie's Steelfish), Playstation Buttons, Dirtyhead, Dumbass, Fenix Blackleter Caps (2011), Fade2Back, Gothikka, HobbesFriend, Invisible Killer (1997), Luggerbug, (the Gallahad inspired font) Mordred, Recognition (a barcode type font), See the Beast (crosshaired letters), ZX-Spectrum Keyboard, Steeltongs, Stigmata (this will be a classic display font!), DropCaps, Springfield Mugshots (dingbats), Intergalactic Megastar (2007, based on Digital Strip by Blambot), Jacinto Sans (2009, grungy typeface based on the titles for Gears of War), Universal-Accreditation (2006, condensed sans).

    At Dafont, we find these fonts: BulletHolz, Coalition, DriftType-Solid, DriftType, DropCapsSans, DropCapsSerif, DumbAss, Dymeda, Gothikka, InvisibleKiller, JacintoSans, LiandriBETA, LuggerBug, MedicationNeeded, Obliquo, OhMyGodStars, PhatBoySlim-Bold, PhatBoySlim-BoldItalic, PhatBoySlim-Italic, PhatBoySlim, PhatboySlim Rough, Phatboy Slim College, PlaystationButtons, SeeTheBeast, Serifsy, Shredded, SpringfieldMugShots, Spyh, Sucaba, TroubledGenius, UniversalAccreditation-Italic, UniversalAccreditation, Unrealised, USPF Liberty (2018: a starship font), VenetiaMonitor, ZX81, ZXSpectrum.

    Links: Typoasis site. Mirror site. Alternate page. Dafont link. Dafont link #2. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Traitor Vic

    Creator of some fonts that are based on scans from the book Special Effects and Topical Alphabets (1978, Dover Publications), by Dan X. Solo. They are: Chalkboard, Chinatown II, Confucious, Grog Caps, Ideograph. He goes: I named Chinatown II as a secondary version because Solo has released this font previously. The one that appeared in the book, however, is slightly different. Confucious is very similar to the font Bamboo. Grog Caps is similar to Rakowski's Nitemare Caps. His ornamental typeface Wedding of the Bugs (2009) is based on Tarantella from page 89 of Special Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Trajan
    [Peter R. Wilson]

    Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (1999) for Trajan. "The trajan package provides fonts based on the capitals carved on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD. Many typographers think these rank first among the Roman's artistic legacy." In 2005, type 1 versions were created as well: Trajan-Roman, Trajan-Slanted. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Transkrypt
    [Frank Baranowski]

    Frank Baranowski (b. 1960, Altenmedingen), of Neuenkirchen in Northern Germany, runs the Transkrypt foundry and has been designing typefaces since 1990. He studied Graphic Design at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2003 transkrypt was started as a website to show typographic experimental projects, exercises on types and also typefaces, which were designed by Frank Baranowski. He also set up Fontschmiede. His most extensive project, the Lyrix Projekt, is a kind of typographic anthology of pop lyrics. He describes transkrypt as "a space for unusual and unused type-design and typography". He designs mainly experimental typefaces, such as Kaleido (2004), Clayborn (2004, slightly grungy), Concrete, EF Mrs. Beasley (1995, nice fat round letters, Elsner&Flake), Sputnik (2004, URW++, an oriental look family), Phoenikia, Tambourine (2004, URW++), BB Mr. Beasley (1995, Linotype) and EF Musical (Elsner&Flake, serifed and playful). His experiments also include Lyrix (type motifs from pop songs), Quak (Quadrat-Kreis System, a grid system for constructing letters as parts of circles and lines), Patchwork (2005), Pardon (2005) and Kryptik-Zyklus (his own type posters and art).

    Latest creations: Karoline (2005), New Telegraph (2007, slab serif), Funtype (2009, hand-printed), Monumental (2009, a fat typeface made for stacking), Dodgy Ultra (2009, fat face). He has a page on "Typen mit Schwung". He also designed many elaborate initial caps typefaces, such as Tookatooth Initialen, Schnabel, Alien Initials, Siamesisches Alphabet (Thai simulation face), Banderol Initialen.

    In 2010, he started Fontschmiede with Michel M, where further fonts, commercial and free, can be found: Mrs Beasley, Sputnik, Superia, Tambourine, Destroya, Alphabutts and Elemenz are free.

    In 2011, he published New Telegraph Arrows at Fontschmiede.

    In 2012, he created Journal 74 (Fontschmiede), a retro font family.

    MyFonts site. Linotype page. View the transkrypt typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Travis Poffenberger

    Florist in Washington, DC. Using Futura Bold as a basis, the typeface was covered by ornaments to make REEF (2012), an ornamental caps face.He also experimented with Helvetica Neue in the design of Inbredica (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tree alphabet

    An old tree-based initial caps font. Origins unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TrendGFX Design Studios
    [Rahul A. Kumar]

    Trend GFX Design Studios is the commercial type foundry in Karnataka, India, of type designer Rahul A. Kumar. Kumar's creations include Crescent (2012, a scratchy script face), Eclypse (2012, an ornamental caps typeface), Ravan (2012, an irregular hand), and Cuba (2012, an irregular typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Trent Barfield

    Woodbridge, VA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Element (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Trevor Loane

    Designer of the all caps copperplate shadow font Citation (Letraset, 1990). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Trismigist

    Russian creator of the Monster alphabet in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    True April Latham

    Fort Worth, TX-based designer of the decorative anatomical typeface Frankenstein (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tung Pham Quang

    Ho Chi Minh City-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface One Art (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyler Harder

    Franklin, TN (and before that, Buffalo, NY)-based designer of the rounded counterless typeface Korbin (2015) and the children's alphabet Monster (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyntyp
    [Andrew Tindale]

    Tyntype is a digital type foundry in Stafford, UK, run by Andrew Tindale. Its typefaces include Paradise (2017: vernacular), Emilon (2017: a stylish display or poster sans family), Fac8 (2017: techno and bi-lined), Fals8, Paradise (2017: handcrafted), Hille (2017: text typeface), Arqus (2017: sans), Alosad (2016: a set of decorative caps), Skinny Dreamer (2017), Decodence (2017, monospaced neo deco), and Fals8 (grunge). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type and Signs

    Hamburg-based branding and designstudio. Typefaces made by them between 1995 and 2012 include Cheerpeople, Karate Do, Insanity (dripping blood font), San Polo, and an unnamed ornamental caps typeface for children (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)
    [Tim Ryan]

    Tim Ryan is a Thousand Oaks, CA-based type designer and font enthusiast, who has helped me out generously with font links in the 1990s. FontShop link.

    His fonts are distributed by ITF and Monotype and Precision Type. Font list: AES, AcmeTR, AdmiralTR, AlpineWhiteTR, AncientTextTR, AssayTR, August family, AutomationTR, BinnerGothicTR, BinnerTR, BlackboardLinedTR, BlackboardTR, BoboCapsTR, BonGuia, Bondage-Oblique, Bondage-Regular, BoomerangTR (1995, a typical art nouveau face), CameraStencilTR, CartoonPartyCapsTR, ChopinTR, CiviliteTR, ClaudiusTR, CollegeCapsTR, CoreDumpTR, DirectionTR, EclipseCapsTR, EngravedTR, ExpressTR, FlairTR, FrenchCapsTR, GabrielleTR, GaelicCapsTR, GoudyMediaevalTR, HelvinBlackTR, HelvinTR, HostessTR, KhayyamTR (Arabic simulation face), KiddoKapsTR, KleukensTR, LadyDawnTR, MaximeTR, ModTR, PencilCapsTR, PlayBlocksTR, SaltinoTR, SansPlateCapsTR, SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, ShalimarTR (Indic simulation), ShalomTR (Hebrew simulation), SimplexTR, SpringtimeTR, SukiakiTR (Japanese simulation), SusieQTR, VarianteInitialsTR, WashingtonTextTR, XerxesTR (Greek simulation face, now at Monotype), SchoolOblique.

    Santa Barbara, CA-based SourceNet used to market school fonts, ca. 1992-1994, such as those listed above: SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, but also DnealianCursive, DnealianCursiveLined, DnealianManuscript, DnealianManuscriptLined. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Type Sailor
    [David Fernando Espinosa Martínez]

    Type Sailor is David Espinosa (born in 1986) who lives in Bogotá. He graduated from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano as graphic designer and advertiser. He is a descendant of Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, first royal printer of the viceroyalty of Nueva Granada.

    He designed these typefaces:

    • In 2021: Chapinero (blackletter, serif and sans system).
    • In 2020: AmaLita (handcrafted), Font Negra (a spurred blackletter typeface done for a client, Mao Fonnegra).
    • In 2019: Monteros (text typeface), TS Chapinero (blackletter).
    • In 2017: Monteros (a revival of an old style typeface by Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros), Gautama (an organic sans).
    • In 2014: Internerd, Old Providence New Roots (a poster typeface co-designed with Mateo Rivano), Santander (a great didone family).
    • In 2013: Vercingetorix (monoline informal sans), Persifal (calligraphic typeface), Ygraine, Urania, Zephiroth (a semi-connected script), X-Classified (very grungy typewriter typeface), Salme (Treefrog-style script), Joyeux, Fugitiva (an ornamental Western saloon or circus font), Tomsk.
    • In 2012: Pelida, Valpuesta, Walkiria (an informal blackletter), Quattro (a techno family), Olimpia, Luisa, Merlot (like caps in the style of William Morris), Bizancia (Arab simulation face), Imelda, Epifanía, Nero d'Avola (a great calligraphic script), Round, Avanti (calligraphic), Street Dork (stencil face).
    • In 2011: Daniela (hairline sans), Glamourousse (sans), Caro (pixel), Carolina (sans), Kermesse (an octagonal font).
    • In 2010: Davidcito (handwriting) and Hug Femmes (sans).

    He says that his inspiration comes from the female form, which always has been associated with classic typography.

    Dafont link. Iphoneruler link. FontM link. Facebook link. Issuu link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typearture Type Foundry
    [Arthur Reinders Folmer]

    Arthur Reinders Folmer (or Arthus) is from Haarlem, The Netherlands. Future Fonts link. He created the free ornamental all-caps typeface Magical Unicorn (2011), Elerium (2012, an upright italic), and the tringaulated Crystalline (2012). It has been a long wait, but finally someone had the courage to create a typeface with the name Obesitas: Obesitas Sans (2012), advertised as the mother of all fat typefaces. Pylon (2012) was inspired by electricity pylons.

    In 2013, he designed Angellocks, a semi-blackletter typeface.

    In 2016, he designed Utopia Initials and the ABC of Bad Events.

    Typefaces from 2017: The Disclosure Dingbats, Fabel, Pegacorn Initials.

    Typefaces from 2019: Schijn Variable (a gemstone-styled variable font, with layering and outlines). Schijn won an award at 23TDC.

    Typefaces from 2020: Gimme (experimental color fonts including Constructo and Battleships; +a variable font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Sugarshop. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TypeOff
    [Dan Reynolds]

    Typeoff was an Offenbach-based German type collective, est. 2004 by Daniel John Andrew Reynolds (b. 1979, Baltimore, MD), who blogs happily and frequently. Dan grew up in various cities in the USA, received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2002, and moved to Germany in 2003 to study typography with Professor Fritz Friedl at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. Dan was an intern at Linotype, and is still affiliated with Linotype. In 2004, he founded Typeoff.de. In 2007 he moved to the University of Reading for an MA in typeface design. Afterwards, he returned to Germany where he is based in Berlin and, for some time. In 2017, he helped Jan Middendorp set up the new foundry Fust & Friends. In 2018, he submitted his type history PhD dissertation at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, and joined LucasFonts in Berlin.

    Typefaces created by the collective include Argos, AT Stencil, Disco 3000, Ignaz Text, Ignaz Titling, India Gothic, Janus, Jeans, Pater Noster, Proportia, Sweet Pea, Teppic, Used to Love Her. The designers include the founder Dan Reynolds, and his collaborators David Borchers, Lara Glück, Till Hopstock, and Lukas Schneider.

    Dan's own typefaces at TypeOff include Ignaz Text (2004, originally called Ignaz Textura, and based on letters he found on a sepulchral memorial outside of St. Ignaz church in Mainz (Germany)), Ignaz Lombard Caps (2004), Ignaz Titling (2004), Janus (2004, a pixel face), Pater Noster (2004-2009, an uncial), Proportia (2004, a geometric sans), Sweet Pea (2004, an octagonal face), and Used to Love Her (2004, experimental). He is working on a Lombard Capitals face (2004), Teutonia Serif (2005, based on Teutonia, a geometric display typeface that was cut in Offenbach by the Roos & Junge type foundry in 1902; this squarish family is released under the name Mountain at Volcano Type in 2006) and Farewell Street (2004, sans family). Working on this condensed didone (2007).

    In 2007, he worked with Kobayashi at Linotype to produce a revival and extension of a 1930 sans family of Morris Fuller Benton, and named it Morris Sans (+Small Caps), which could be viewed as an organic version of Bank Gothic. Morris Sans was published in 2008 by Linotype.

    In 2008, he designed the serif family Martel in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MA in typeface design at the University of Reading---it covers Latin and Devanagari. Martel Sans was published in the (free) Google Fonts collection in 2015. It was finished in 2014 in cooperation with mathieu Réguer. Github link.

    He is working on a Condensed Serif.

    Malabar (2008) won an award at TDC2 2009. Malabar also won the German Design Prize in Gold 2010. See the Linotype version Malabar Etext (2013).

    In 2013, Dan did a digital revival of Harold Horman's Western reverse stress typeface Carnival at House Industries. The original dates back to the 1940s when Horman co-founded PhotoLettering Inc.

    Codesigner with Matthew Carter in 2010 of Carter Sans (ITC), a flared lapidary typeface family.

    With Mathieu Réguer, he created the libre a monolinear, geometric sans typeface family Biryani (2015, Google Web Fonts) for Latin and Devanagari.

    In 2017, he published Rustic.

    In 2020, Eben Sorkin, Pria Ravichandran, Inga Ploennigs and Dan Reynolds co-designed the sans family Karow at URW.

    Type events of 2008 reviewed by Dan. Volcano Type link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin and at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Klingspor link. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Did photography kill punchcutting?. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Jean Midolle's typeface Midolline. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typeology
    [Robert Fauver]

    Typeology is the commercial foundry of Robert Fauver (b. 1978), who lives in Moorestown, NJ. His site has an on-line PDF-format type magazine that showcases new fonts, and was started in 2006. In Typeology #1 (2006), we find, e.g., 14 fonts from Dino Dos Santos René Verkaart, Damien Gosset, Marcio Hirosse, Andre Nossek, Keith Bates, Amy Conger, Jason Ramirez, Hannes Siengalewicz, Sean Kelly and Clément Nicolle.

    His early fonts were free, like the grunge ornate caps typeface Dirty Ames (2006, based on an intials typeface created by D.T. Ames in 1884), and the Broadway style typeface Quaker Shade (2009). His commercial typefaces include Holmes (2009, graffiti style) but a version of that is also at Dafont. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TypeTrough
    [Andrew Walsh]

    Andrew Walsh (TypeTrough) is the Kiltimagh, Mayo, Ireland-based creator of a mechanical ornamental caps typeface called Macha (2011). ZigZag (2011) is a beautiful experimental typeface made for an architectural company. Gosdin (2015) is an elegant inline serifed headline typeface.

    Walsh is also a talented illustrator.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typo Sash
    [Cristofer Jonatan Martínez Torres]

    Cristofer Jonatan Martínez Torres is Typo Sash, the Queretaro, Mexico-based designer of Type Neitor (2014, a bilined caps typeface) and Expegab (2014, a free all-caps typeface). These typefaces were designed during his studies at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typograf

    Moldovan creator of these free fonts:

    • Berry Rotunda (2016).
    • Excalibur Nouveau (2015). Pure art nouveau.
    • Dyer Arts and Crafts (2015).
    • Behrens Antiqua Initialen (2015, after Peter Behrens, 1907). A revival font.
    • Morris Jenson Initialen (2015). Contains many of William Morris's art nouveau initial letters done for Kelmscott Press. A revival font.
    • Feinsliebchen Barock (2015). Also known as Kanzlei Initialen, an excessively ornate set of blackletter initials.
    • Maximilian Antiqua Initialen (2015). An initial caps version of Rudolf Koch's Maximilian Antiqua.
    • Blumenstrauss Caps (2018).
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ulrich Stiehl
    [Sanskrit Web (or: Transliteration and Devanagari Fonts for Sanskrit)]

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    Umut Guney

    Art director in Istanbul, who created the decorative Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Union Pearl

    The oldest of the English decorated typefaces. Around 1700, it belonged to the Grover Foundry. It then bacame part of Fry's, then the Fann Street Foundry, and finally Stephenson Blake. Known for its swash capitals and pearl decorations. A sample can be found in Jaspert, Berry and Johnson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ursa Minor
    [Alex Tomlinson]

    Alex Tomlinson is an illustrator and graphic designer in Portsmouth, UK, b. 1992, who studied at Kingston University, and set up the Ursa Minor type foundry. In 2010 he designed the experimental fonts Drugs, Obesity and Prodigium OS. In 2020, he published Whirly Birdie (a variable font a display typeface inspired by American advertising of the 50s). In 2021, he designed the postage stamp style Bird Lore Capitals. It is accompanied by Grinnell (2021), a display typeface that was inspired by the nameplate lettering of the "Bird Lore" (now Audubon) magazine of the 1940s.

    Home page. Cargo Collective link. Another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ursula Huber

    Ursula Huber-Bavier (1918-2010) is the designer in 1967 of a delicate initial caps typeface, Das Lustige ABC, or Bavier (named after her father, I guess), that was scanned in and digitized by an anonymous person at Fontsanon, and named BavierShow (2000). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ute Harder

    Born in Glückstadt a.d. Elbe, Germany in 1972, Ute Harder (known as Frau Jenson at P22) studied Illustration and Communication design at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg under Jovica Veljovic. Since 2002, she works as a freelance graphic designer, collaborating on diverse projects for Linotype and developing her own fonts. She lives in Hamburg.

    At P22, she published Alpha Initials (2004), Alpha Roman (2006, described by her as a playful calligraphic display face), Cilati (2004, calligraphic script; +Swash caps), Frau Jenson People (2004, pictograms), Bastyan Pro (2006, a bastarda based on the Carolingian minuscules), and Tulda (2004, letters done for a calendar), which includes Tulda Symbols.

    At Linotype, she designed Marathon LT Display and Book (1999, after the famous 1931 font by Rudolf Koch). Other fonts by her include My People, Some Indiduals, Initials, Out Now, Pixi Bilderbuch and Pixi Outline, as well as the Gracy, Grocy and Groby families.

    Close-up look at her work.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. P22 link.

    View Ute Harder's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    UTF Type Foundry
    [Bill Tchakirides]

    Fonts designed by Bill Tchakirides (b. 1946) out of Shepherdstown, WV (was Hartford, CT), who writes about himself: Would you believe that this old man in West Virginia was once a Broadway Producer, or a Commercial Food Photographer, or a Justice of the Peace, or a Font Designer, or even a Director of a major non-profit Arts Program on Cape Cod? Well, he was. Now he spends most of his time posting in the blogosphere and looking for things to do (retirement is a bitch).

    This company (UTF=U-Design Type Foundry) sells display and picture fonts at 45 dollars a shot (30+15 handling): Bill's Hand Chiseled, Bill's Blasting Caps, Bill's Fat Freddy Caps, Bill's Olde Foundry, Bill's 1935 Caps, Bill's Printer Pals (2003), Bill's Light Deco, Bill's DECOrations, Bill's Tropical DECOrations, Bill's Modern Diner, Bill's Barnhart Ornaments (1989), Bill's Victorian Ornaments, Bill's Broadway DECOrations, Bill's Dingbats (1988---his first font), Bill's Universal Symbols, Bill's Century Marks, Bill's Cast O Characters (2003), Bill's New Elzevir (1993), Bill's School Letters (1993), Bill's School Daze (1993), Bill's American Ornaments (1993), Bill's Bertham (after Goudy), Bill's Brushed Broadway (1993, fat art deco face), Bill's Metropolitan (1993, art nouveau), Bill's Peculiars, Bill's Real Rubber Stamps, Bill's Asterisks and Bullets (1993), Bill's FISTory (1993), Bill's Brackets, Bill's Ampersands, Bill's Box Specials. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vaishnavi Bangar

    Pune, India-based designer of a hilarious funny-man-themed alphabet simply called Character (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Ali

    During her design studies in Dublin, Ireland, Valentina Ali created the decorative caps typeface Silica (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeria Di Niscia

    Madrid-based graphic designer. Creator of the drop cap figurine typeface Atoiaf (2021), which was inspired by the characters and symbols of the epic saga A Song of Ice & Fire and the TV show Game of Thrones. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeria Florindez

    At Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Alice Valle (Lima, Peru) and Valeria Florindez designed the octopus-themed all caps typeface Alfabeto Pulpo (2017) or Octo (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeria Guadalupe Caballero

    Creator of the detailed oriental ornamental caps typeface Irasuto Ji (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeria Micolta

    Creator of the all caps typeface Drop Of Fun (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valerian Felder

    Valerian Felder cofounded Oizo factory in Geneva, Switzerland. He created the decorative caps alphabet Abecedaire Doodle (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valiana Sandra Wijaya

    During her studies at Maranatha Christian University in Bandung, Indonesia, Valiana Sandra Wijaya designed the decorative caps typeface Nusantara (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vanessa Ma

    During her studies at Loughborough University, London-based Vanessa Ma created an animal alphabet (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vanessa Trendle
    [Blushbutter]

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    Vanessa Zuñiga
    [Amuki Studio]

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    Varga Szilard

    Graphic designer in Romania. Behance link.

    Creator of a set of ornamental caps in EPS format in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Varsha Mohta

    Mumbai-based designer of an untitled all-caps painter's font in 2015. She also created the Devanagari font Parampara in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasava Fonts
    [Bruno Selles]

    Catalan designer Bruno Selles (b. 1976) set up Vasava Artworks (and later, Vasava Fonts) in Barcelona in 1997. In 2018, he joined the faculty in the Masters in typographic design program at Elisava in Barcelona.

    Selles created fonts like VSV-Alergia-Bold, VSV-Alergia-Regular, VSV-ByPass-StencilBold, VSV-Epidermis-Black, VSV-Leila-Bold, VSV-Leila-Medium, VSV-Melon (Light and Regular), VSV-DingDong (I and II), VSV-Lengua-RoundedRegular, VSV-Pachuca-Regular, VSV-Pachuca-Suau, VSV-Romina-Bold, VSV-Romina-Light, VSV-Romina-Regular, VSV-RominaRounded-Light, VSV-RominaRounded-Regular, VSV-Rotula-Regular (2001, by Toni Selles, used to be a free stencil font), VSV-Tirania-Caps, VSV-Tirania-RoundedCaps, ADN, ADN-katakana (pixel fonts, 1998), Neurona, Neurona-katakana (pixel fonts, 1999) and Retina. Some fonts used to be free (but they have gone totally commercial now, it seems).

    Custom typefaces include the official Nike Barca font used by the Barcelonba soccer team.

    Typefaces from 2015: Matchpoint (a scoreboard or sports jersey typeface), Amaretta (a Suetterlin script-style typeface renamed Amarissima after a few days), Synopsis (a classic small caps or titling typeface).

    Typefaces from 2017: Kröwn (3d, beveled).

    Typefaces from 2018: Parca (a grotesk sans).

    Typefaces from 2019: Abu Dhabi (a custom typeface for Etihad Airlines' magazine Atlas). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vasil Stanev
    [VSF (or: Vasil Stanev Foundry)]

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    Vasiliy Uvarov

    Quito, Ecuador-based designer who created the sketched 3d font Doodle (2015), the spurred athletic lettering font Sporty (2015), Retram (2015), Leafy (2015), and the textured all caps typeface Round Sketch (2015).

    In 2016, he designed the handcrafted typeface Autumn. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vassil Nikolaev Kateliev
    [Karandash]

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    Vedran Erakovic

    Serbian designer who lives in Belgrade. He was born in 1980 in Split, Croatia. In 2009, he obtained a Masters in Applied Graphics from the University of Arts, Belgrade. He works as an Art editor in the Serbian daily newspaper Politika, and also collaborates with FontShop. In 2017, he set up LetterPalette together with Ana Prodanovic.

    His typefaces include Skockana (2003), Slovit (2003, an interpretation of the Cyrillic version of the Renaissance cursive), Narator (2003). Koledar (2004), Cyrillic versions of Champion and Magna (2008), Orden (2010), and Adamant BG (2009, a sturdy Cyrillic family). Besides Adamant Sans BG, he designed PF Adamant Pro (2010, Parachute: +Cyrillic). Still in 2010, PF Adamant Pro was awarded Third Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Cyrillic text typefaces. PF Adamant Sans Pro followed in 2015, after winning an award at Granshan 2014.

    In 2015, Vedran Erakovic and Marija Rnjak co-designed the handwriting font Vuk, which is named after and based on the handwriting of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, a Serbian philologist and linguist who was the major reformer of the Serbian language. Thanks to some OpenType features, this typeface does a good job at emulating real handwriting.

    In 2017, he designed the sans serif typeface Stena, which is characterized by deep sharp ink traps and a large x-height.

    In 2018, he published Ana, a layered set of decorative capitals.

    MyFonts link. Free downloads here. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vere Henry Louis Foster

    In the early part of the 20th century, British calligrapher Vere Foster (1819-1900) designed a set of figurative initials for one of his calligraphy workbooks. These were turned into a font simply called Foster Figurative Initials by David Nalle in 2016. Vere Foster called it Comic Alphabet in his book.

    Foster was also active as a penman. In the UK in the 1940s, children were taught the Vere Foster Civil Service Script which was a simplified form of copperplate (roundhand). It was written with a straight pen fitted with a moderately flexible dip nib. That script was promoted in Vere Foster's New Civil Service Copy Book Series (ca. 1919, Blackie and Son, London), about 50 books in total. PDF file of Vere Foster's Copy Books Lettering, Plain and Ornamental (ca. 1900). Local PDF file for that same book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronica Garcia

    Graphic designer in Medellin, Colombia, who created the ornamental caps typeface Abecedario (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronica Yap

    During her studies in Singapore, Veronica Yap created Planr (2014): Planr is typeface inspired by Singapore's housing system (HDB) and blueprints. As the name suggests, it is a planar view of living spaces. The inner designs includes home, garden and pool plans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Golovko
    [Qilli Design]

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    Veronika Kapralova

    Czech designer in Prague who operates as Whynot. In 2015, she created the handcrafted typeface Bebekvi. In 2014, Nika created a splendid set of zodiac symbols in EPS format, and a colorful zoo alphabet for children. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Starikova

    Perm, Rusia-based designer of the medieval style Ancient Book Font (2016), which has a slavonic-themed set of initial caps. In 2017, she designed the vector decorative caps typeface Magic Garden.

    Typefaces from 2018: Blooming Garden (decorative initials), My India (super-decorative capitals). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Version Type Foundry (was: Industrial-Organic.Net)
    [Justin Thomas Kay]

    Brooklyn-based Justin Thomas Kay runs Version Type Foundry, and before that, Industrial-Organic.Net. His lettering designed mostly for industrial clients is very original and artistic. Behance link. Noteworthy designs: various headline typefaces for Swindle Magazine, lettering for Isis (the artist), frivolous logotype for Back in Black, Garland. One can purchase typefaces from Version Type such as Garland Monospace (2011, a piano key logotype---condensed, monospaced, and stencilish) and VTF Park (2011, a counterless geometric face). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vertigo Kid

    Designer at FontStruct in 2009 of the creative typefaces Laters (texture), Masheensmith, Ratchet, Hairpin Turn, Masheenury (pipeline-inspired glyphs), Hyperblurr, Vortext and Circuit Bored. In 2010, he made Razorwing (futuristic) and Knutz & Boltz. In 2011, he created Konstrukt, a 3d technical caps face, and Konduitz.

    In 2012, he created Robot Raid (dingbats), Do Or Diode, Dark Arcanna, Hairpin Turn, Circuit Braker, Koily Kord, Kouch Kushion II, Kouch Kushion (monospaced and artistic), Flame Retarded, and Revoltage (a circuit font).

    In 2013, he made the traffic sign alphading typeface Road Rage, the penis font Dicktionary, the textured typeface Feedback attack, and the horizontally striped Bad Latitude.

    Typefaces from 2015: Zipper Teeth, Mad Caps.

    Typefaces from 2016: Block Party (3d).

    Typefaces from 2017: Pistons & Vinegar, Meanderthal, Mardi Goth.

    Typefaces from 2019: Best Buds (flowery alphadings). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vespasiano Amphiareo

    16th century Franciscan scribe and calligrapher (1501-1563), known for his 1554 writing manual Opera di Frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara ... nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti de lettere (Venice, 1554), the first place where one can find a Bastarda. Typefaces based on scans of his work include Gothic Majuscles (2003, Manfred Klein, based on Gothic Initials, 1554), and Amphiareo (2002, a Mac font made by Michael Schrauzer). Pictures of his capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VIBE
    [Martien Heijmink]

    Martien Heijmink's Dutch page on the theme of human or experimental all caps alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vic Fieger
    [Xaviera Comics]

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    Vicente Teng

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Burnaby, BC, who created the ornamental caps typeface Seaweed (2013). Vicente was born in The Philippines. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victor Oliva

    Catalan author of Introducción al estudio del arte del alfabeto en Cataluña (Verdaguer, 1913), a book about the history of the alphabet. Pic of the Epistolae Sancti Augustini alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victoria Button

    Illustrator in London. She created the wonderful decorative initials typeface Loveabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victoria Dubois

    Graphic designer in Nantes, France, who created the hand-drawn biological caps typeface Bonitacaps (2015) and the display typeface Variance (2015, with Priscille Bonachon). Behance link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vidhya Nagarajan

    Student at Washington University in St Louis, MO, who excels at illustrations (A Day in Chennai (2012) is my favorite series). He created a great ornamental caps alphabet called Foodie in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Kharyk

    Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduate of the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982. Viktor became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. In 2012, he cofounded Apostrof with Konstantin Golovchenko. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts, and is particularly interested in revivals of ancient, forgotten, or historically important typefaces and writing systems. His work:

    • At Elsner and Flake, he published EF Bilibin (2004, uncial), EF Abetka (2004), EF Gandalf (2004, uncial), Bilbo (2004-2008, an uncial family), Kiev EF (2002), Lanzug EF (2002, letters as zippers), Rose Deco EF (2001), EF Elf (2002, imitating Tolkien's writing), EF Deco Uni (2001-2004), EF Deco Akt Light (2001-2004), EF Fairy Tale (2003-2008, caps face), EF Varbure (2004, an experimental family), Rose Garden EF (2001, initial caps ornamented with roses; the text is uncial), and Viktors Raven EF (a spectacular caps font with letters made out of a raven).
    • At MasterFont: Abetka MF (1999, with Alexeev), Kiev MF (1976-2003), and Netta MF (1999, text family). These fonts have Latin and Hebrew components.
    • At Paratype, he published Uni Opt (2007, Op Art letters based on free brush technique similar to experimental lettering of the early decades of the 20th century; for instance to Graficheskaya Azbuka (Graphic ABC) by Peter Miturich and works by Victor Vasareli), Joker (1978, a subtractive font---since 2000, also in Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic), Blooming Meadow (2007, flowery ornaments), Bogdan Rejestrowy and Bogdan Siczowy (2006, based on Ukrainian Skoropis (fast handwriting) of the 16th and 17th centuries, and named after Ukrainian Getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The character set contains Cyrillic, Old Slavonic, Glagolitic, Latin and Greek alphabets), Lidia (2006, a lined engraving typeface based on a 1967 font by Iraida Chepil for Polygraphmash).
    • At 2D Typo: Florentin 2D (2011, angular family), New Hotinok 2D (2010, with Henadij Zarechnijuk).
    • Other work: Simeon 2D (2011, 2D Typo), some fonts at Face Typesetting (1970s), Getto (1970s), White Raven (2002), Handwritten Poluustav Ioan Cyrillic (1999-2001), Letopis (1983), New Zelek (1980s), UniAkt (2001, based on Unifont, an erotic caps face, done with Natalia Makievska).
    • Free fonts at Google Web Fonts, published via Cyreal: Iceberg (2012, octagonal).
    • Cyrillizations by Viktor Kharyk: Data 70 (1976; original from 1970 by R. Newman), ITC American Typewriter, Bullion Shadow (1984; of the shadow font Bullion Shadow (1978; original from 1970 by Face Photosetting), Calypso (1984; of Excoffon's 1958 original), Lazybones (1980s; of a 1972 Letraset font with the same name), Glagolitic (1983, Elvira Slysh, digitized in 2003), Augustea (1947, Allessandro Butti), Stencil (after a 1938 typeface by R.H. Middleton called Stencil), Columna (1980s; after Max Caflisch's original from 1955), Sistina (1951, Hermann Zapf), Weiss Kapitale (1935, Emil Rudolf Weiss), Vivaldi (1965, Friedrich Peter), ITC Tiffany (1974, Ed Benguiat, digitized in 1995), ITC Bookman Herb Lubalin (1974, digitized in 1980s), Berthold Cyrillic Helvetica Cyrillic (1980), Churchward Galaxy (1970s, J. Churchward, digitized in 1980s), Olive Bold Condensed (1980s, original of Roger Excoffon in 1962-1966), Motter Ombra (1980, original by O. Motter in 1975), Sinaloa (1981, original by Odermatt and Tissi in 1972), Serif Gothic (1990, original by Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna in 1974), Dynamo (1980s, original of K. Sommer in 1930), EF Gimli and EF Gloin (2004-2010, mediaeval typefaces done at Elsner&Flake together with Marina Belotserkovskaja).
    • Other typefaces: Lili (multilined), Rutenia (by Henadij Zarechjuk and Viktor Kharyk, as part of Vasyl Chebanyk's Ukrainian Alphabet project).

    At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue Op Art display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 typeface Ladoga (+Text, +Display, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009.

    In 2016, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk designed Dnipro for Apostrof. The Cyrillic version of this font follows Ukrainian decorative traditions, initiated by Georgy Narbut and Mark Kirnarsky in the 1920s and continued until the 1980s. The Latin part has an uncial character.

    Typefaces made in 2018: Algor, Zluka (with Henadij Zarechnjuk; named after The Act Zluka, or Ukraine's Unification Act of 1919), XX Sans, Yurch (developed by Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk by samples of calligraphic lettering by Ukrainian book designer Volodymyr Yurchyshyn), Chebano (based on the calligraphy of Ukrainian artist Vasyl Chebanyk), Zahar Berkut (developed by Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk following the lettering by Ukrainian artist Georgiy Yakutovich),

    Typefaces from 2020: Homenko (by Viktor Kharyk, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Konstantin Golovchenko: an update and extension of Vasyl Homenko's metal Ukrainian typeface from 1963-1967), Bethencourt (an uncial typeface co-designed with Vsevolod Buravchenko).

    A special project published in 2020: 1812 (by Viktor Kharyk and Konstantin Golovchenko). This is a 14-style revival and further development of the typeface 1812 by Lehmann Type Foundry (St. Petersburg). It was created for the centenary of the French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 along the lines of decorative engraved inscriptions and ornamented typefaces of that time, presumably by the artist Alexandre Benois. It was used mainly for the decoration of luxurious elegant publications. Later, in 1917, this typeface was used on the Russian Provisional Government banknotes. In the Soviet period of time '1812' appeared to be one of the few typefaces included in the first Soviet type standard OST 1337. It was produced for manual typesetting until the early 1990s. This typeface could be seen on Soviet letterheads, forms, posters and even air tickets.

    At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki he spoke about Ukrainian fonts. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, his talk is entitled Old Slavic alphabets and new fonts. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke (well, was supposed to speak) on Old Roman Styles and Cyrillic. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, where he explains the development and multilingual extensions of Ladoga.

    MyFonts page. Victor's friends: a Ukrainian/Russian news blog. FontShop link. Author of Non-Latin Fonts Cyrillic and Other (2004, Düsseldorf).

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

    Viktoryia Strukouskaya
    [Struvictory Art]

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    Vincent Boucher

    Parisian designer of the decorative typeface Fox (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincent van Opdorp

    Breda, The Netherlands-based designer of a colorful decorative initial caps typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincentius Kevin

    Indonesia-based designer of the floral caps typeface Pring San Sedapur (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vinicius Theodoro

    Jacarei, Brazil-based designer of a decorative all caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Virag Agg

    Budapest-based designer of a set of decorative caps called Public Transport 2014. This was a school project. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitaly Kabyn

    Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine-based illustartor who made Chuldren's Alphabet P1 in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitor Braz

    Lisbon, Portugal-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Agaro (2011), the neon tube typeface Bulb (2011), Punku (2011), and the high-contrast fashion mag caps typeface Esquise (2011).

    In 2013, he designed the alchemic typeface Lunaria.

    Cargo collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivek Verma

    Designer of the decorative caps typeface Britomart in 2015 during his studies at Yoobee School of Design in Auckland, New Zealand. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivian Chua

    Singapore-based designer of an all caps decorative typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivian Lee

    During her studies at SVA in New York, Vivian Lee designed some drop caps (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viviane Wehbe

    Beirut, Lebanon-based designer of an untitled painted calligraphic caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VJ Type (was: Violaine & Jérémy)
    [Jérémy Schneider]

    In 2011, Violaine Orsoni and Jérémy Schneider set up their studio, Violaine & Jérémy, in Paris. Schneider studied at Ecole Professionnelle Supérieure d'Arts graphiques et d'Architecture de la Ville de Paris (EPSAA). Their work is fashionable, elegant, unique, ground-breaking and delightfully experimental.

    In 2015 Schneider designed Nord and Sud for Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

    In 2016, they designed the (custom) Tuscan typeface Tribute, the gorgeous deco poster typeface Dida and the tall typeface Scali for Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. Schneider added the expressive and frivolous display typeface Canopée in 2016 as well.

    In 2017, Violaine Orsoni and Jérémy Schneider published the stylish typeface Traviata.

    In 2018, Jérémy Schneider designed the stylish typeface family Kobe, and the exquisite but delicate all caps typeface Love. In that same year, VJ Type released the corporate art deco type Archibald, Les Gros mots, Big Fernand, Art Team, Napoleon Stratege, Lukas Dong, and Cage.

    In 2019, they created the identity, illustrations, fonts and menus for the Parisian restaurants Baba and Mamie (art deco), and the angular display typeface Cako. Jérémy Schneider designed the luxurious fashion mag typeface Voyage in 2019 as well.

    Typefaces from 2020: Jäger (by Jérémy Schneider), a tribute to fine craftsmanship. Jäger is a display typeface for headlines and short texts. Its first drawings were developed for an exhibition in 2015 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Jäger is inspired by techniques mastered by craftsmen in their work, such as hollowed-out counter forms reminiscent of engravings, sculptures or chisel work. The angles give the impression of having been cut in wood, while the contours are rounded.

    Typefaces from 2021: Dahlia (an art nouveau serif by Jérémy Schneider that was influenvced by Italian lake posters from ca. 1910), Mun (a samurai sword caps typeface for the identity of Japanese restaurant Mun Camps Elysées), Kobe (experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Loginov
    [HMF (or: HandMadeFont)]

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    Vladimir Nikolic

    Belgrade, Serbia-based designer (b. 1981) of these typefaces:

    • The dingbat fonts Canavarlar (2020: funny men), Haircut (2020: women's hairdos), Ornament Borders (2020), Gourdy (2020: birds), Lizards (2020), Mantra (2020), All Star (2020), Speel (2020), Soavely (horses) (2020), Forma (2020), Hell Beasts (2020), Mistresses (2020), Paraiso (2020), Crow (2020), Traverser (2020: crosses), Cats (2020), Dogs (2020), Negative-Heads (2020), Otu (2020), Wakazi (2020), Risk (2020), Wurm (2020), Beard Man (2020), Hoder (2020), Damen (2018), Damen 2 (2020), Foliga (2020), Solo Drinker (2020), Congress (2020), Farmacy (2020), Elections (2020), Emergency (2020), VN Arrows (2020), Hexagonos (2020), Automobiles (2020), Cars (2020), Emoji Boom (2020), Bestia (2020), Aliens (2020), Insect (2020), Bytost (2020), Monstero (2020), Aveto (2020), Dancing Cat (2020), Atradimas (2020), Womanhood (2020), Figur (2020: an alien insect font), Halfwits (2020), Silly Donkey (2020), Crazy Monkey (2020), Round Masks (2020), The Quick Dog (2020), Flying Birds (2020), Maskid (2020), Monstra (2020), Bull Skulls (2020), War Items (2020), Public Transport (2020), Loomad (2020), Mokhabiso (2020: African patterns), Record (2020), Mulher (2020), Heroez (2020), Bulls (2020), Madarak (2020: birds), Bold People (2020), Munari (2019: a collection of drawings based on Bruno Munari's book "Artista e designer" from 1966), Screws (2019), White Mouse (2019), Schepselen (2019), Glatze (2019), Crosses (2019), Chefs (2019), Diamond Blocks (2019), Hexagons (2019), Maumbo (2019), Circles (2019), Enfeite (2019), Pigs (2019), Mythos (2019), Kreaturen (2019), Baby Alien (2019), Body Moving (2019), Various Boys (2019), Lines and Objects (2019), Mouvman (2019), Watch (2019), Credit Card (2019), Cycles (2019), Devil Emoji (2019), Fare (2019), Mund (2019), Labbra (2019), Circular Ornaments (2019), Cranium (2019), Ugok (2019), Ansigter (2019), Tsim (2019), Schmetterlinge (2019), Jungfrau Maria (2019: religious icons), Knights Helmets (2019), Kinderskizzen (2019), Wolves (2019), Various Cats (2019), Owls (2019), Spiral Object 3D (2019), Zodiac Signs (2019), Cyborg (2019), Duck (2019), Cat 3D (2019), Object 3D (2019), Circle and Line (2019), Various Girls (2019), Dulcet (2019), Erotic Symbols (2019), Frauen (2019), Pierre the Vampire (2019), Robotter (2019), Middle Finger (2019), Claudio The Cat (2019), Medusa (2019), Veggie (2019), Pablo (2019), Fishes (2019), Dream of Picasso (2019), Stam (2019), Animality (2019), Ink Drops (2019), Faces (2019), Bayan (2019), Froggy (2019), Senhoras (2019), Diamondo (2019), Skallen (2019: skulls), Swimmers (2019), Churches (2019), Easter Icons (2019), Lippen (2019), Gullar (2019), Bankwesen (2019), Creatures with Horns (2019), Vehicles (2019), Various Hands (2019), 3D Animals (2019), Abantu (2019), Herr (2019), Menge (2019), Funny Aliens (2019), Mustachos (2019), Kids Drawings (2019), Tierfarm (2019), Troep (2018), Women Heads (2018), Cats and Dogs (2018), Wanita (2018), Eyez (2018), Animales (2018), Peoples (2018), Mobile Icons (2018), Controllers (2018), Womano (2018), Lost in Space (2018), Blumen (2018: flowers), Tetriso (2018), Snowflake (2018), Meine (2018: masks), Horoscopicus (2018), Esoterica (2018), Astrologicus (2018, astrolical symbols), Abbild (2018: African masks), Being (2018: monsters), Gebell (2018), Headed (2018), Falter (2018), Filling (2018), Anichka (2018), Cyclopia (2018), Buggus (2018), Opa (2018), Messe (2017), Head of Idol (2018), Diavolo Nero (2017: funny silhouettes).
    • The boxed or encircled alphabets Audience Capitals (2020), Galileo (2020), Compare (2020), Compare-Light (2020), Hexagonas (2020), Select (2020), Before (2020), Before-Dark (2020), Boxes (2020), Boxes-Extravagant (2020), Boxes-Fancy (2020), Calf-Negative (2020), Capital-Relationship (2020), Pyxidas (2020), Capitalica (2020), Tundra (2020), Ordinary Capitals (2020), Broadway Capitals (2020), Browser Capitals (2020), Capitalismo (2019), Schwarzenberg Capitals (2019), Retrospective Capitals (2019), Official Capitals (2020), Impression (2020), Oriental (2020), and Letters in Circles (2018).
    • Shadowed caps: Cleopatra (2021), Farmers Market (2021), Erkekler (2021), Assignation (2021), Greek Tragedy (2021), Distorted (2021), Lightshow (2021), Credenza (2021), Ragusa (2021), Comunismo (2021), Scordia (2021), Gazelle (2021), Organ (2021), Strizhi (2021), Umoya (2021), Ninja Justice (2021), Unlimited (2021), Unicorns (2021), Labyrinth (2021), True Artisans (2021), Poker (2021), Donald (2021), Ferrari (2021), Booster (2021), Madness (2021), Favorita (2021), Vitamin (2021), Robot (2021), Robust (2021), Engine (2021), Whether (2021), Nucleus (2021), Trunk (2021), Ombre (2021), Viscosus (2021), Jewelry (2021), Verge (2021), Pursue (2021), Keener (2021), Visor (2021), Korvo (2021), Squash (2021), Scum (2021), Darker (2021), Education (2021), Cimice (2021), Tomb (2021), Bambola (2021), Calla (2021), Rump (2021), Complex (2021), Razor (2021), Driveller (2021), Karambol (2021), Princino (2021), Berger (2021), Adopted (2021), Bugbear (2021), Samara (2021), Talisman (2021), Waterway (2021), Megabus (2021: a marquee font), Roller (2021), Numerica (2020), Bond (2020), Gloom (2020: a marquee font), Chalkboard (2020: sketched), Unboxing (2020: techno), Antennas (2020), Secca (2020), Umfo (2020), Sabbia (2020), Squirrel (2020), Byzan (2020), Debtor (2020), Bridge (2020), Familie (2020), Lake (2020), Roma (2020), Tissue (2020), Bombay (2020), Osteology (2020), Restroom (2020), Speaker (2020), Bebika (2020), Center (2020), Gismo (2020), Fierce (2020), Gambler (2020), Afterparty (2020), Birdbrain (2020), Boner (2020), Divine (2020), Gelatin (2020), Lost (2020), Marshland (2020), Quadri (2020), Shadow (2020), Stairs (2020), Superba (2020), Techno (2020), Underman Book (2020), Wired Capitals (2020), Fineliner (2020), Fictive Kinship (2020), Exotica (2020), Ural (2020), Devianza (2020), Kultur (2020), Unmute (2020), Antiqua (2020), Chains (2020), Scheme (2020), Stumble (2020), Aroma (2020), Beans 2 (2020), Cover (2020), Cronica (2020), Fundament (2020), Horna (2020), Loce (2020), Mademoiselle (2020: art nouveau), Melodia (2020), Penny (2020), Taikun (2020), Assault (2020), Athletica (2020), Baraka (2020), Brassica (2020), Builder (2020), Chancellery (2020), Gwara (2020), Pliez (2020), Recinzione (2020), Right (2020), Rimes (2020), Seal (2020), Service (2020), Scorpions (2020), Terraces (2020: American flag font), Wedding Cabbage (2020), Wild Girl (2020), Tragedy (2020), Indos (2020), Starfish (2020), Vintage (2020), Adriatica (2020), Funeral (with American flag texture) (2020), Voleur (2020), Calzino (2020), Peshkop (2020), Metzger (2020), Asshole (2020), Puppet (2020), Broeksel (2020), Hals (2020), Escort (2020), Vortex (2020), Dades (2020), Boild Hedgehog (2020), Mermer (2020), Grower (2020), Rainbow (sketched) (2020), Baise (2020), Necklace (2020), Angels (2020), Smuggler (2020), Dommage (grungy) (2020), Squalor (2020), Fusto (2020), Course (2020), Fisheye (2020), Baiser (2020), Banda (2020), Cantaloupe (2020), Canto (2020), Begriff (2020), Trapeze (2020), Arabeska (2020), Silver (2020), Wasco (2020), Kosaken (2020), Triangle (2020), Banquet (2020), Demode Capitals (2020), Cultus Capitals (2020), Idiot Capitals (2020), Granary Capitals (2020), Liberta (2020), Montblanc (2020), Granary (2020), Blanket (2020), Tuyaux (2020), Wolf (2020), Comeback (2020), Oliba (2020), Idiot (2020), Trailer (2020), Bricks (2020), Toys (2020), Luxury (2020), Hertz (2020), Signal (2020), Serenada (2020), Kurven (2020), Schnecke (2020), Mona (2020), Sierra (2020), Search (2020), Tranchante (2020), Eccentric (2020), Fast (2020), Mosquito (2020), Speed-of-Light (2020), Thanks (2020), Album (2020), Boyhood (2020), Ending (2020), Trend (2020), Universal-Serial-Bus (2020), Fixed (2020), Kings (2020), Holiday (2020), Range (2020), Numbers (2020), Shipman (2020), Officer (2020), Video (2020), Order (2020), Route (2020), Cosa-Nostra (2020), Clowns (2020), Unique (2020), Voyeur (2020), Shape (2020), Brigadier (2020), Allora (2020), Spartacus (2020), Advisor (2020), Ambis (2020), Cables (2020), Genesa (2020), Horse (2020), Laptop (2020), Pork (2020), Mafioza (2020), Mucho (2020), Athens (2020), Audience (2020), Rotor (2020), Mundo (2020), Olympus (2020), Border (2020), Scale (2020), Survival (2020), Trouble (2020), Turnabout (2020), Catharsis (2020), Parade (2020), Discoteque (2020), Rude (2020), Fame (2020), Safran (2020), Ausweis (2020), Mechanica (2020), Moscowian-Party (2020), Beers (2020), Strengthen (2020), Tempo (2020), Unreal (2020), Poetico (2020), Bach (2020), Bach-Fat (2020), Energy (2020), Alexandra (2020), Basket (2020), Cushion (2020), Model (2020), Organiser (2020), White (2020), Anabela (2020), Cannibal (2020), Casablanca (2020), Castle (2020), Control (2020), Crazy (2020), Crazy-Gradient (2020), Emotion (2020), Honey-Bunny (2020), Knockout (2020), Linearo (2020), Murmure (2020), Polished (2020), Reon (2020), Sparrow (2020), Storms (2020), Street-Stars (2020), Franchise (2020), Pencil (2020), Ruanda (2020), Pepito (2020), Megalomania (2020), Rouleaux (2020), Frozen (2020), Together (2020), Saldo (2020), Museum (2020), Network (2020), Hunk (2020), Cultus (2020), Creator (2020), Flow (2020), Blocchi (2020), Possession (2020), Bad Germans (2020), Discounted (2020), Traversal (2020), Mangalica (2020), Murmansk (2019), Summer Candy (2019), Question (2019), Second Channel (2019), 3D Models (2019), Memory (2019), Computer (2019), Diversity (2019), Elastic Letters (2019), Businessman (2019), Kuchen (2019), Demode (2019), Objective (2019), Medication (2019), Nonsense (2019), Plagiat (2019), Toledo (2019), Tricks (2019), Common (2019: a trompe-l'oeil font), Mafia (2019), Releases (2019), Extradition (2019), Shoot To Kill (2019), Groowing (2019), Enough (2019), President (2019), Silence (2019), Dressed (2019), Already (2019), Hocus Pocus (2019), Password (2019), Ready (2018) and Messages (2017).
    • The ornamental caps typefaces Mahal (2021), Stamp (2021), Hell Door (2021), Tangram (2021), Custom (2021), Remake (2021), Studio (2021), Adagio (2021), Oxidizer (2021), Mondial (2021), Paraglide (2021), Tattoo (2021), Developer (2021), Dama (2021), Lobby (2021), Gabaritos (2021), Sence (2021), Ombre (2021), Cresa (2021), Anniversary (2021), Wire (2021), Triton (2021), Lamina 92021), Hangup (2021), Years (2020), Dowry (2020), Sephora (2020), Jewels (2020), Straightforward (2020), Dance (2020), Necklace (2020), Maria (2020), Taxi2 (2020), Outlaw (2020), Combat (2020), Chewed (2020), Fantasy (2020), Observation (2020), Cure (2020), Pioneer (2020), Near (2020), Kleid (2020), Unitas (2020), Tomato (2020), Blader (2020), Canal (2020), Baked Snails (2019), Alcoholic (2019), Bonjour (2019), Zylinder (2019), Phenomenal (2019), Surfaces (2019), Success (2019: as in De Stijl), Retailer (2019: multilined), Havana (2019: multilined), Mechanismo (2019) and Pencil Letters (2019).
    • The display typefaces Trader (2020), Oysters (2020), Furious Ride (2020), Portfolio (2019), Pontos (2019), Swordsman (2019), Regular (2019), Andrey (2019), Retrive (2019), Connected (2019), Locator (2018), Tracking (2018), Iceberg (2018: snow-capped letters), New Amsterdam (2018), Ana (2018), Enemy (2018), New Yorkers (2018), Happy Day at School (2018), Focused (2018), Modish (2018), Beholder (2018) and Principality (2017).
    • The alphadings Birthdays and Parties (2021), Bahanalia (2020), Icecreams (2020), Brailler (2020), Night Dreams (2020), Flower Capitals (2020), Jingle Bells (2020), Neuron Capitals (2020), Easter Time (2020), Hearts and Arrows (2018), Penguins (2018), Kitties (2018), Doggy (2018), Teddy Bears (2018), International Capitals (2018), Aafia Capitals (2018), Answer Capitals (2018), Beholder Capitals (2018).
    • The circuit font Simple Repairs (2021).
    • The 3d typefaces Sharp (2021), Edited (2021), Three Dimensions (2020), Rental (2020), Shiny Blocks (2020), Turbulence (2020), Labor (2020), Worship (2020), Fantasy-3D (2020), Zucker (2020: stacked blocks) Perfetto (2020), Rude-3D (2020), Lover (2020), Kasten (2020), 3D Models (2019), Tricks (2019) and Metallic (2019).
    • The multiline typefaces Yiphi (2021), Porker (2020), Formula (2020), Laguna (2020), Hypochondria (2020), Majestic (2020), Vibes (2020), Tubes (2020), Yogurt (2020), Turkish (2020), Question (2019), Pancake (2019), Remained (2017), Liquidrom (2018), Second Channel (2019), 3D Models (2019), However (2019), Confarreatio (2018) and Fudged (2018).
    • The textured typefaces Incompetent (2021), Autumn (2021), Sangria (2021), Studio (2021), Kino (2021), Elixir (2021), Espace (2020), Mistress (2020), Heritage (2020), Silicone (2020), Hornettio (2018), Ignorant (2018), Americans (2020: the American flag embedded into the glyphs), Pollution (2020), Jakob (2019), Diversity (2019), Townscape (2019), Patriotic (2019: American flag theme), Meshes (2018), Complained (2019), Duration (2018) and its solid counterpart, Duration Book (2018).
    • The Slavonic emulation typeface Russian Land (2017) and the Cyrillic emulation typefaces Monarch (2021), Cold War (2021), Beograd (2020), Ukrainian Princess (2019), Territory (2019), Kalinka (2019), Rubles (2018), Maniac (2018), Jurij (2018), Kachusha (2018), Soviet Program (2018), Armenia (2017), Fontograd (2018) and Russian Spring (2017).
    • The constructivist typefaces Tokarev (2017), Russiano (2018), Suggested (2018), Hungaria (2018) and Schwachsinn (2018).
    • Art deco typefaces: Cavalier (2021), Performer (2021), Angelica (2019), Protocol (2019), Retrospective (2019), Leculier (2018, after an alphabet in Georges Leculier's art deco lettering book from ca. 1930), Better (2018), Critical (2017).
    • Art deco caps: Reverse (2020), Bathroom (2019), Idiotism (2019).
    • The chess fonts Schach (2020) and Wisdom Chess (2020).
    • The weather icon font Weather Symbols (2020).
    • The decorative sans typefaces Shock (2021), Energia (2021), Pitviper (2021), Nemesis (2021), Addiction (2021), Nehad (2021), Chewer (2021), Nightfall (2021), Gourmet (2021), Flipside (2021), Layered Letters (2019), Imbecile (2019), Answer (2018), Hours (2018), Abandoned (2018), Sea Gardens (2017), Forvertz (2018), Yeysk (2018) and Closeness (2018).
    • Sans: Wollicht (2021), Ministro (2021), Lonely (2021), Noix (2021), Messina (2021), Samara (2021), Rickrack (2021), Broadcaster (2021), Catamaran (2021), Official (2019).
    • Comic book fonts: Reset (2021).
    • Artsy fonts: Hornstick (2021), Kikundi (2021), Shanghai (2021), Skewed (2021), Company (2021), China (2020).
    • The headline sans typefaces Finance (2020), Marija (2020), Fashion (2020), Magazine (2020), Policemen (2020), Impressum (2019), Educated Deers (2019), Hindenburg (2019) and Fixation (2018).
    • The rounded organic sans typefaces Hofmann (2020), Adelino (2020), Available (2018) and Biysk (2018).
    • The handcrafted typefaces Diana (2020), Flood In London (2019), Milord (2018), Sex and Breakfast (2018), Sweet Handwrite (2018), Industrial Revolution (2018), Oh Maria (2017), Sofija (2017) and Travelling (2017).
    • The bubblegum typefaces Roller (2020), Jellies (2020), Designero (2019), Bubblicious (2019) and Icecreamer (2017), and its oily companions Gummy (2018) and Liquid (2018).
    • The heavy deco typefaces Guest (2019), Bigger (2018), Hours (2018), Intransitive (2018: Dutch deco), Theatrical (2017) and Consequences (2017).
    • The beveled fonts Iron (2020), Rising (2020), Novgorod (2020), Troy (2020), Fake Hope (2019), Diamond Ring (2019), Playback (2018) and Member (2018).
    • The starred caps typefaces Farmers Market (2021), Donald (2021), Citizen (2021), Wizard (2021), Adrenaline (2021), Diabolo (2021).
    • The stencil fonts Browser (2019), Serbia (2019), Belgrado (2019), Further (2019), Generals (2018), Mayor (2018) and Olga (2018).
    • The semi-stencil all caps typefaces Restaurant Menu (2019), Queen Dea (2019), Latest (2019) and Large (2019).
    • The fat rounded sans typefaces Guest (2019) and Subscribe (2019).
    • The Western fonts Newlywed (2020) , Tombola (2019), Permission (2019), Alexander (2019), Retrosonic (2019), Kasplysk (2019).
    • The experimental typeface Typo Layer (2019).
    • The German expressionist outline typeface Robert (2018).
    • Current Moment (2019): a digitized "Zuccini" plate by Frits Jonker.
    • The LED fonts Remaster (2021), Ringing (2022), Gigabytes (2020), Error (2020) and Technology (2018).
    • The octagonal athletic lettering fonts Academy (2021), Junk (2020), Barbara (2019), Soccer (2020), and Soccer League (2018) and the outlined athletic font Onderneming (2018).
    • Leculier (2018). After an alphabet in Georges Leculier's art deco lettering book from ca. 1930.
    • The speed fonts Live News (2020) and Speed Racing (2019).
    • Essere (2018).
    • The squarish typefaces Archipelago (2021), Haine (2020), Augsburg (2020), Legionary (2020), Cyber Princess (2019), Professor (2019), Layers (2018) and Cataclysmo (2017).
    • Driving Around (2018).
    • The decorative floral caps typefaces Floral Capitals (2018) and Narcissus (2018).
    • Gradientico (2018). A textured didone.
    • The Greek simulation font Meteora (2018).
    • Griddy Blocks (2018) and Blocky Letters (2018).
    • Decorattio (2018).
    • Ordinary (2018) and Mina is Gone (2018).
    • The trilined typeface Trio (2017).
    • The connected handwriting typeface Eric's (2016).
    • The military typefaces Login (2018), Commanders (2017) and Hunt (2017, after an alphabet by the Hunt Brothers in their 1930s book Lettering of Today).
    • The neon typeface Bubble 3D (2017), and the neon and shadow font family Magia (2019).
    • Schaeffer (2017). A revival of the famous multiline typeface Fatima (1933, Karl Hermann Schaefer).
    • The grungy typefaces Horizont (2020), Cosmas (2020), Drunk Millionaire (2019), Leave No Fingerprints (2018), Haziness (2017) and Victorious (2017).
    • The molecular typeface Neuron (2019).
    • The inline caps typefaces Panther (2021), Africa (2021), Look (2019) and Speed (2019).
    • The inline typefaces Green (2020), Bernard (2020), and Games (2017).
    • The display serif typefaces Kandinsky (2021), Funia (2021), Army Guys (2021), Hoodie (2019).
    • The marquee typefaces Squad (2021), Grotto (2021), Megabus (2021), Plagiat (2019), Dropped (2019), Casino (2018) and Chicago (2018).
    • The layerable marquee font Rockefeller (2018).
    • Movie fonts: Film Letters (2018).
    • The outlined typeface Important (2018).
    • The white-on-black typeface Circusant (2019).
    • The didone typeface Vogue (2018).
    • The geometric solid typeface family Ivan (2019).
    • The geometric sans typeface Occupied (2017).
    • Rise of Kingdom (2017).
    • Cartoonish (2017).
    • Hesitation (2017). A rounded handcrafted poster font.
    • Leben and Leben Shadow (2018).
    • Braillenum (2018).
    • The condensed grotesks Around (2020), Heinrich (2019) and Schwarzenberg (2019).
    • Schreibmaschine (2017). A dusty old typewriter font.
    • The vintage initial caps typefaces Nautiica 3d (2018), Fantasy Capitals (2018) and Herne Capitals (2018).
    • The Arabic emulation typefaces Bayram (2020) and Sinbad (2018).
    • Herne (2018).
    • Passage (2018).
    • Knotty (2018).
    • The Mexican style font Mexicanera (2018), Dilemma (2018: Mexican Calavera skulls), and Mexican Tequila (2018).
    • The techno typefaces Flight 21 (2019), Cyber Princess (2019), Passionate Relationship (2019), Neighbor (2018), Bombardment (2018) and Leprosy (2018).
    • The avant-garde typeface Typolino (2018).
    • Regensburg (2018).
    • The ultra-fat typefaces Crime (2020), Owners (2018) and Housebreak (2019).
    • The prismatic typefaces Jumble (2020), Boogie Woogie (2019), Running (2019), Bigger Italic (2018; based on Bigger Book), Linerine (2018) and Cosmology (2018).
    • Failed (2018).
    • The codex typefaces Grille (2020), Compass (2020) and Measurements (2018).
    • Damages (2018).
    • The circle-themed fonts Sparks (2020) and Condition (2018).
    • The textured typefaces Mitesser (2020), Object (a meshed font) (2020), Noisy Walk (2020), Brightness (2020), Mistress (2020), Heritage (2020), Silicone (2020), Hornettio (2018) and Ignorant (2018).
    • The oriental simulation fonts Dasvidaniya Book (2020), Pearl Harbor (2020), Chinese Dragon (2019), Sudoku (2019), Hiroshima (2019) and Kamikaze (2018).
    • Monograms: Quintete (2020), Formogram (2020), Diamond Monogram (2020), Ribbon-Monogram (2020), Bulged Monogram (2020), Monogramus (2019), Blocky Monogram (2018) and Monograma (2018).
    • Blackletter: Bramble Princess (2021), Drunks (2021), Cosmopolite (2020).
    • Fists: The-Point (2020).
    • Scanbats: Retro-People (2020), Vladimir (2019: Putin scanbats), Portraits de Femmes (2019: scanbats), Notre Dame and Notre Dame de Paris (2019: scanbats), Hollywood Actors (2019: scanbats), European Leaders (2018: scanbats), Trumpolina (2018: Trump scanbats).
    • Word fonts: Black-Lives-Matter (2020).
    • Plank fonts: Wooden Planks (2020).
    • The outlined typefaces Carwash (2020), Hypno (2020), George (2020), 3D Letters (2018), Milk & Chocolate (2018: trilined), Czar (2018), Classica (2018) and Created (2018).
    • The glitch fonts Elderberry (2021), Sparkle (2021), Eclairages (2021), Nectar (2021), Check Your Connection (2020), Horizons (2020) and Searching For Signal (2019).
    • The glaz krak font Smashed (2018).
    • The circus font Amigo (2020).
    • The kitchen tile font New Message (2020).
    • The 3d dingbats typefaces Basic Objects (2020: geometric shapes) and Jigsaw Puzzles 3D (2018).
    • The modular typefaces Orenburg (2018), Broadway (2018) and Assyrian (2018).
    • Escher style: Illusion (2019), Vologda (2019).
    • Slinky typefaces: Rings (2020), Zylinder (2019), Pipes (2019).
    • Lombardic caps: Moher (2020), Dublin (2020), Moderno (2020).
    • Ransom note caps: Today (2020).
    • Artistic font: Meute (2020).
    • Halftone fonts: Tourner (2020), Cinquecento (2020), Devotion (2020), Gulliver (2020), Bamboo (2020).
    • Ornaments: Adornos (2020).
    • Antique caps: Grandes (2020), Reveler (2020: from Draughtsman's Alphabets (1877) by Hermann Esser)).
    • Funny faces: Isitolo (2020).
    • Angular caps: Milk (2020), Strike (2020), Worldwide (2020).
    • Tall sans caps: Bungler (2020), Shakeout (2020).
    • Mecano typefaces: Shakers (2020).
    • Titling sans: Steinberg (2020).
    • Titling serif: Love (2020).
    • Break (2020).
    • China (2020).

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    Vladislav V. Dorosh
    [Calmius Software]

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    Vogue December 2008

    Fashion alphabet created for Vogue UK, December 2008. Unknown creator. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vojin Maksimovic

    Raska, Serbia-based designer of the decorative caps typefaces Abeceda (2017) and Azbuka (2017) for Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Volodymyr Vechirnii

    Varna, Bulgaria-based designer of Handdrawn Letters (2016), A Rope Black (2016, a rope font), Maryna 1 (2016, a script), Atanas Brush (2016, in vector format), AxWood (2016), and a textured decorative caps typeface (for Latin) in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Voltio

    Design studio in Valencia, Spain, and London, UK. Creators of the decorative caps alphabet Zombic Sans (2011).

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    vonquednow .com

    Hamburg, Germany-based designer of the medieval Mil Type Caps (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VSF (or: Vasil Stanev Foundry)
    [Vasil Stanev]

    Typographer and type designer in Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1982, Sofia, who worked mostly for Svetoslav Simov's type foundry, Fontfabric, before setting up his own shop, VSF (Vasil Stanev Foundry).

    In 2010, he made the ornamental all caps Cyrillic typeface Orthodox. In 2011, he created the ornamental caps typeface Floralis (which was finished by Svetoslav Simov) and the experimental typeface Negativ.

    In 2012, he made Times New Roman Sans Serif.

    Nexa Rust is a set of 83 weathered letterpress emulation fonts that evolved from Nexa and Nexa Slab. This was a project by Radomir Tinkov, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Vasil Stanev.

    In 2016 and 2017, he designed the mythological typefaces Bugazoo Letterbat and Etymonster, respectively.

    Typefaces from 2017: Combax (rounded sans), Tengwar Sindarin Latin and Cyrillic, Hel Grotesk Gothiq Cyr (a cyrillization of Kevin Yuen Kit Lo's Hel Grotesk), Celtic Cyr, Jardin Ornatis (decorated caps).

    Typefaces from 2018: Crona, Etymonster (a letterbat font), Mistnake (Halloween dingbats), Ergam, Cloch, Ufont (an aliens font), Needlephabet, Ornatis (a floriated caps alphabet for Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Hebrew).

    Typefaces from 2019: TDR (a heavy octagonal / mechanical typeface), Talljob, Moxic, Allebagra, Beejuice, Beltenebros, Pepo The Clown, Plump Fiction, Spartechno.

    Typefaces from 2020: Coque (a tall extra compressed font family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vytautas Abraitis

    Lithuanian designer of these free display fonts in 1993: KABlokHead, KABlokHeadJam, KACobra, KACobraCreep, KADinoSlay, KADinoSob, KAHorrible, KAHorribleSquish, KAMarble, KAMarbleClear, KAMonster, KAMonsterSmirk, KAPasta, KAPastaAldente, KAPizza, KAPizzaMunch, KASnake, KASnakeNite, KAStorm, KAStormRain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wadsworth A. Parker

    Printer, typefounder, and head of the ATF specimen department (1864-1938). Designer of the caps font Modernistic (1927, ATF, which is in the spirit of Gallia), Gallia (1927, art deco headline face), Graybar Book, Lexington, Stymie Compressed, Stymie Compressed Inline Title and Bookman (+Italic).

    Mac McGew: Gallia is a unique decorative letter designed by Wadsworth A. Parker for ATF in 1927, and copied by Monotype the following year. It is a severe thickand-thin style, with main strokes divided by two white lines into a thick and two thin lines. There are flourished alternate forms of several letters, for use as initials or terminals. Compare Modernistic.

    Nick Curtis made Metro Retro Redux (2001), an art deco font, based on Modernistic. Gallia has seen many revivals including Gallia (Monotype), Galleria (Corel) and Gambler (Softmaker).

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    Wahyu Arienda Kusumantika

    Pekalongan, Indonesia-based designer of the decorative textured typeface Jlantik (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wahyu Nurcahyo
    [Gblack Id]

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    Walter Bernard "Ben" Hunt
    [Hunt Brothers]

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    Walter Hagen

    Brooklyn, NY-based but German born creator (with Arnold A. Lister) of a fish-themed ornamental caps typeface in 1935. Its patent application. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Walter John Pearce

    Letterer from the art nouveau era. In some fonts named after him, the name William J. Pearce seems to have crept in. Author of the art nouvea style book Painting and decorating (1898, Charles Griffin: London). Examples of his alphabets include these Modern Block Capitals and these Gothic Capitals. These pictures appeared in the 1910 book by Lewis Foreman Day entitled Alphabets Old and New, For the use of Craftsmen [other editions of this book date back to 1898].

    In 2012, the former alphabet was digitized by Dick Pape as LFD Block Capitals 213. Another free digitization is W.J. Pearce No. 213 by Klaus Johansen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Web Dog
    [Greg Smith]

    Australian font site. Original free fonts by Greg Smith: Round Graph (great!), Wipeout, Handi, Scratchi, Fishbowl, Pencilled, Pussyfoot (1998, caps made up from cats), Spiderman (1998), Graffito, Anvil, Blotto, Curly, Fetch, Roughie (old typewriter), ThisWay, Graph, Zippy, Roughage, Roughie Light, Aussie Icons. The font site has closed down, but TypOasis offers some of the fonts now. Greg's Hand (2001) is available at Harold Lohner's site.

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    Wenceslaus Joannes Crabat

    Typefounder Vaclav Jan Krabat (1719-1805) set up his shop in the center of Prague in 1751. His first specimen book was Specimen characterum latinorum existentium in Pragensi typorum fusura (1761). This work showcases 41 Latin typefaces in roman and italic styles, 33 Fraktur and Schwabacher typefaces, and 21 Greek and Hebrew typefaces, as well as ornaments, headers, border elements, and decorative lines. Other specimen books follwowed between 1767 and 1772, and a script type was created in 1775. The foundry started declining in 1782. Crabat died in Prague in 1805. Local download of Krabat's 1761 specimen book.

    Tomas Brousil's 72-style family Crabath (2021), which contains subfamilies for Text, Display, Subhead and Intials, is based on samples seen in Crabat's 1761 text. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wendy Law

    During her studies, Singapore-based Wendy Law designed the all caps decorative typeface The Tyger in 2017 to illustrate and accompany William Blake's poem. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wendy Wong

    London, Uk-based illustrator who designed an all caps figurine alphabet in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Werner Affolter
    [Affolter und Gschwind AG]

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    Weronika Dajdok

    Polish designer of the textured decirative blackletter caps typeface Frankenstein Floral Font (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wesley Barnes

    Woking, UK-based designer of the signage script typeface Allora (2018). His decorative caps typeface Reverie (2018) is inspired by the bizarre and surreal work of Terry Gilliam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    West Wind Fonts
    [Jessica Slater]

    Designers in 2001 of DearestFriendlite, DearestFriend, DearestOpen, DearestOutline, Dearest (the Dearest family is in the blackletter style), Exotica-Medium (ornamental caps used by Vogue Paris), HoppyRibbitday (alphadings), ShadyCharacters-Medium (3d face), WePray (2001, made in commemoration of the September 11 tragedy, alphading and blackletter), Florabet, Alphapix (alphadings), Celtic Eels (Celtic caps), Circus Train (alphadings), Billboard (2003, alphadings), Leafy (2001), Face (2001, great smilies Faceoff and Faceit), Autumn Gifts (2001), Leafyglade, Leafyshade (2001, leafy caps), LittleDaisy, Little Days (2001, connected handwriting, an interpretation of Memimas by Type-o-tones), Little Days Alt (2003), Notethis (2001), Yippy Alt (2003), Yippy Skippy (2001, handwriting), Yippy Skippy Alt (2003), Toy Train (2001), Wild West (2001), KitchenKapers (2001, alphadings), Cast Iron (2001), Santa Time (2001, letters made up of Santas), Applejuiced (2001), Ziggy Zoe (2001, handwriting).

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    Westminster Press

    London-based publisher of Initial Letters, ca. 1925. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wichaya Pintavirooj

    Bangkok, Thailand-based designer of the dog-themed decorative caps typeface Pocky The Corgi (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wicky Syailendra

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Relics of Sailendra (2012). This typeface is a modification of Baskerville Old Style, with the flesh of the glyphs replaced by elements that are based on decorations found on some temples of the Sailendra dynasty. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wiescher Design
    [Gert Wiescher]

    Gert Wiescher was born in Braunsbach am Kocher, Germany, in 1944. Based in München, Gerd Wiescher designed many classy and classic Bodoni families, as well as New Yorker Type (1985). All of his typefaces are carefully fine-tuned and balanced. Wiescher founded first Munich Type and then Wiescher Design and Autographis. He is known as a hard, fast and prolific worker. His exquisite typefaces can be bought at MyFonts. Catalog of his bestselling typefaces. Interview in 2008. Wikipedia page. Creative Market link. List of typefaces:

    • Scripts: Prima Script (2017: for menus and cookbooks), Marmelade (2015, +Fruits, a set of dingbats), Triana (2014, a thin monoline penmanship script named after a Spanish sailor on the Pinta who in 1492 was the first to see America---in this case the Bahamas), Floral Script (2014, copperplate style script), Sherlock Script (2014: this comes with Sherlock Stuff (fingerprints) and Sherlock Stuff Dots (ink stains)), Felicita (2013, a swashy copperplate script), Vividangelo (2013, after the handwriting of a real person), Dreamline (2013, connected monoline cursive wedding scripts in A, B and C styles), Fiorentina (2012, a renaissance style script with 650 characters), Excelsia Pro (2012), Delicia Pro (2012, a fat brushy signage script), Nono (2011, formal swashy calligraphic family), Dyane (2011), Penn (2011), Lettera (2011, hand-drawn formal face), Tosca (2010, a high-contrast calligraphic typeface with 730 glyphs), Grandcafe (2010), Loulou (2010, curly and of extreme contrast), Schoolblock (2010, hand-printed school font), Grandezza (2010, calligraphic family; +Xtra), Sixtra (2010, a curly didone script), English Script (2010, classic Spencerian calligraphic script), Savage Initials (2009), Morning News (2009), Revolte (2009, a brush script for demonstration signs), Estelle (2009), Scriptofino (2008, 4 calligraphic styles to give Zapfino a run for its money), Exprima (2008), Daiquiri (2008), Lisa Bella, Lisa Fiore and Lisa Piu (2008, connected and calligraphic), Tati (2008), Movie Script (2007), Cake Script (2007), Eddy (2007, grungy calligraphy), Pointino (2007), Bohemio (2007, a great oriental-brush script), Artegio (2007, two calligraphic scripts), Xylo (2006, in the tradition of the 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham and the 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer), Tamara (2005, art-deco script based on some initials for Semplicita made in the 1930s by the Nebiolo foundry), Tecon, Ellida (2005, inspired by the elaborate scripts of 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham, with additional influences from 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer), Eloise (2009, a high-contrast version of Ellida), Nadine Script (2005, an elegant script inspired by a set of initials the French designer and artist Bernard Naudin drew for Deberny&Peignot in the 1920s), Royal Classic (2005, unbelievable script based on a design that has initially been comissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria for in-house-use), DesignerScript, Filzer Script (1995, handwriting), Futuramano-Condensed-Bold, Futuramano-Condensed, Futuramano-Plain, Futuramano-Thin, Giambattista, Scriptissimo-Plain, Scriptissimo-Forte, Scriptissimo-Swirls, Squickt (1989), Konstantin A, B and C (2005), Konstantin Forte (2005), MyScript, GrocersScript, Swanson (2006). Scriptissimo (2004) has versions named Start, Middle and End, tweaked for their position in the word, and there are plenty of ligatures. Check also Bodoni Classic Chancery (2007) and Bodonian Script (2012).
    • Sans: Brute Sans (2018), Xpress (2018), Xpress Rounded (2019), Classic Sans (2017, a revival of Theinhardt Grotesk), Classic Sans Rounded (2017), Maxi (2017), Nic (2017), Azur (a large almost geometric sans famly with 1950s Roger Excoffon-style French flavours, called a Medterranean grotesk by Wiescher himself), Royal Sans (2017, after Theinhardt's Royal Grotesk---the forerunner of Akzidenz Grotesk--- from 1880), Docu (2016, a workhorse elliptical sans family), Viata (inspired by Bauhaus), Noticia (2016, in the Bauhaus tradition, with very pointy v and w, and a bipartite k; not to be confused with the 2011 Google Web Font Noticia Text by José Solé; followed in 2019 by Noticia Rounded), Avea (2015), Aramis, Nota Bene (2015: squarish, narrow, technical), Nota (2015, technical and cold: the rounded version, Nota Rounded, followed in 2019), Dylan Condensed (2014), Dylan Copperplate (2014), Supra (2013, grotesk: Supra Thin is free. See also Supra Condensed (2013), Supra Mezzo (2013, between regular and condensed), Supra Extended (2013), Supra Rounded (2015), Supra Classic (2014), and Supra Demiserif (2013, slab serif derived from Supra)), Dylan (geometric sans), Franklin Gothic Raw (2013, like Franklin Gothic but with raw, not rough, outlines, only visible at very large sizes), Blitz (2012, a flared family), Blitz Condensed (2012), Contra Sans (2011, which led to Contra Slab, Contra Condensed and Contra Flare), Vedo (2011, a Bauhaus style family that include a hairline weight), Germania (2011, a useful and beautiful monoline sans family), Geometa (2011, +Rounded, +Rounded Deco, +Deco: all based initially on Renner's Futura), Geometra Rounded (2011, a rounded family based on Futura and "much less boring than DIN"), Bombelli (2010, ultra-wide architect's hand), Bluenote Demi (2010, a grungy Franklin Gothic Condensed), Perfect Sketch (2010, sketched grotesque), Unita (2009), Antea (2009), Eterna (2009, sans with a swing), Pura (2008, an uncomplicated grotesk family), Purissima (2010, a decorated extension of Pura; +Bold), Copperplate Gothic Hand (2009, after a 1901 design by Goudy), Copperplate Alt (2011), Copperplate Wide (2011), FranklinGothicHandDemi (+Shadow), Franklin GothicHandCond (2009), Franklin Gothic Condensed Shadow Hand (2010), and Franklin Gothic Hand Light (2009, a hand-drawn version of Franklin Gothic), Papas (2005, sturdy, slightly curly), Julienne (2005, a condensed sans family; see the new versions Moanin and Julienne Piu, 2017), Cassandra (1996, an art deco style after Adolphe Mouron Cassandre), Futura Classic (2006), Cassandra Plus (2012), Ela Sans (2005, a large family), Mondial-Bold (2004), Mondial-Demi, Mondial-Light, Mondial-Medium, Mondial-Normal, Mondial-XBold, Monem-Bold, Monem-Medium, Monem-Normal, Monem-Roman.
    • Serif: Imperia (2011, a Trajan column caps face), Monogramma (2012, a Trajan family for monograms), Imperium (2005, a precursor of Imperia with a Relief shadow style included), Hard Times (2011), Fat Times (2011, retraced Times), Elegia (2011, slightly Victorian family), Breathless (2010, a spiky family, inspired by nouvelle vague movie posters), Bodoni Classic 1, Bodoni Classic 2, Bodoni Classic 3, BodoniClassic-Condensed, BodoniClassic-Handdrawn, BodoniClassic-Swashes, BodoniClassic-Text, Bodoni Classic Deco, Bodoni Classic Swirls (2009), Bodoni Classic Pro (2011), Bodoni Classic Inline (2012), Bodoni Classic Fleurs (2014, ornamental caps), Bodoni Comedia (2010, one of my favorites: a funny "live one day at a time" curly Bodoni cocktail), Bodoni Classic Swing (2010), Bodoni Classic Free Style (2010, curly), Bodoni Classic Ultra (2010), La Bodoni Plain (+Italic, 2008), Take Five (2005, a jazzy take on Bodoni Classic), DonnaBodoniAa, DonnaBodoniBe, and DonnaBodoniCe (three scripts named after Bodoni's wife, Margharita dell'Aglio, who published his complete works, the Manuale Tipografico, in 1818, five years after his death), Edito, Robusta. A great series, some of which were originally published at Fontshop, see, e.g., FFBodoniClassic (1994). MyFonts: When the first of Wiescher’s Bodoni Classic fonts came out in the 1993, there was nothing like it. Up to then, virtually all Bodoni revivals had been given clear-cut forms and square serifs. But Bodoni’s originals from the late 1800s were never as straight and simplistic as is often assumed: they had rounded serifs and slightly concave feet. Wiescher digitized a wide range of Bodoni letterforms, including a wonderful script-like family called Chancery and a nice series of Initials. Having accomplished his mission twelve years later, he began making personal additions to the family, such as the more decorative Bodoni Classic Swashes. Recently a useful little family was added to the clan: LaBodoni is sturdier and less optically delicate than most Bodonis, and therefore more usable as a text face. Wiescher made Metra Serif (2009), Principe (2008) and Paillas (2009). Prince (2009) is a curlified didone.
    • Romain du roi: In 2008, Wiescher designed the two-style Royal Romain, which is based on the Romain du Roi of Philippe Grandjean, which was completed in 1745 after Grandjean's death by Grandjean's successor Jean Alexandre and Louis Luce. Wiescher: The Romain du Roi was for the exclusive use of the Louis XIV. It was never sold or given to any other king or government. The king of Sweden tried to scrounge a set, but the king refused. This font is the basic design for such famous fonts as the Fournier and Bodoni. Just so the Romain du Roi doesn't get lost in the digital turmoil I set out to redesign it in 2004 and finished now in early 2008. I did a lot of research in France's National Library. A good excuse to visit Paris is always welcome!!!
    • Engravers: Dylan Copperplate (2014), Cavaliere (2010), Guilloche A (2009), Guilloche B (2013, op-art borders), CopperplateClassic-Plain, CopperplateClassic-Round, CopperplateClassic-Sans, Copperplate Classic Light Floral (2009), Cimiez-Bold, Cimiez-Roman (2004), Ela-Demiserif, Ela-Sans (2004), Eleganza (2008).
    • Blackletter/Fraktur: Renais (2011, renaissance initials), Flipflop (2011), Fraktura and Fraktura Plus (2008), Royal Bavarian (2004, based on a typeface commissioned by King Ludwig 1st of Bavaria about 1834), Royal Blossom (2009), Royal Bavarian Fancy (2004), Bold Bavarian (2010, a heavy version of Royal Bavarian), Monkeytails (2008), Fat Fritz (2006, rounded endings), Ayres Royal (2005, blackletter typeface based on drawings of London's calligrapher John Ayres, ca. 1700; to be used with RoyalBavarian; followed in 2010 by BoldAyres).
    • Slab serif: Slam Normal (2017), Slam Rounded (2017), Suez (2017: with extra tall ascenders and descenders), Egyptia (2010), Egyptia Rounded (2010).
    • Typewriter: Lettera (2014), Lectra (2011), QuickType-Bold, QuickType-Plain, QuickType-Sans.
    • Decorative: Tric (2017, art deco), Franklin Gothic Raw Semi Serif (2015), Frank Woods (2013, letterpress simulation based on Franklin Gothic Heavy), Ohio Bold (2012, a rough headline type in the tradition of Louis Oppenheim's Lo-Type from 1913), Viking Initials (2012), Cannonball (2012, a psychedelic typeface derived from a jazz record-sleeve for Cannonball Adderley), Byblos (2011, derived from the logo of St. Tropez's famous Hotel Byblos), Blockprint (2013, early 1900 German expressionist grunge face, renamed Bannertype after 24 hours), Ferrus (2010, inspired by Cassandre's Acier Noir, 1936), Petite Fleur (2009, flowery embellishments and the capitals of his redesigned Royal Romain, which in turn is based on the famous romain du roi), Glass Light (2012, a decoirative art nouveau type family based on Glass Light by Franz Paul Glass, 1912), Penstroxx (2009, 5 fonts that are based on the powerful, expressive Traits de plume (penstrokes) designed in Paris around 1930 by Alfred Latour), Liquoia A, B and C (2008, decorative scripts), Modernista (2008, an art nouveau headline face, based on an 1898 sample by Peter Schnorr), Ornata A, B, C, D, E, F and G (2008-2009: ornaments), Fleuraloha (2008), Floralissimo (2008: flowery ornaments), Frank Flowers (2011), Scrolls A (2010, penman's dingbats), Bacterio (2007), Alpha Bravo, Alpha Charlie, Alpha Echo (2006), Barracuda, Cacao (2005, fifties style), Cassandre Initials (2004, Elsner&Flake, after the 1927 original by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre), Contype, Fleurie (2005), Fleurons Two (2006), Fleurons Three (2006), Fleurons Four (2006), Fleurons Initials (2007), Fleurons Six (2008), Fleuron Labels (2008), HebrewLatino, Julius, Lunix (2006), MyHands, NewYorkerType (1985; extended in 2011 to NewYorker Plus, and in 2020 to New Yorker Type Classic and New Yorker Type Pro; after Rea Irvin's well-known typeface for The NewYorker), Venice Initials (2006, after a 15th century find, but Wiescher added about half of the caps), Ventoux, Vivian (2005), Woody.
    • Pixel and/or futuristic: Nexstar (2013: this octagonal typeface is also useful or athletic lettering), Alpha Fox (2007), Alpha Juliet (2010), Alpha Papa (2010), Alpha Square (2010), Alpha Jazz (2010), Alpha Papa (2010, LED meets stencil).
    • Stencil typefaces: Dripps (2010, handpainted, perhaps brutalist), Red Tape Plus (2014).
    • Comic book fonts or brush fonts: Breezy (2015), Caboom (2014).
    • Dingbats: Wayside Ornaments (2012), XX Century Ornaments (2012), Thistle Borders (2012), Greenaway Mignonettes (2012, after Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), author and illustrator of childrens books), Collins Florets (2012), Flourishes A (2010), Jingle Doodles (2010).
    • Art deco: Trix (2017), Zelda (2017, named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife).
    • Commissioned and special typefaces include a version of the logotype for the Munich's newspaper Abendzeitung, Maxi (variable width sans), NIC Grotesk, Tric (art deco), a Cyrillic version of Bodoni Classic for Vogue Moscow, a special Bodoni Classic for Ringier Publishers in Zurich, and Red Tape, a typeface that is on permanent exhibition at the German National Library in Leipzig.
    • Typefaces from 2019: Elita (a condensed sqaurish typeface), Artis Sans, Sigma Condensed and Sigma (simplified readable sans families), Cosma (an elegant high-contrast text family with tapered upstrokes and crossbars, but otherwise didone roots), Quincy (a bebop typeface that started from some letterutouts), Phoebe (an elliptical techno family), Phoebe Rounded, Polygon A, Polygon I, Polygon X.
    • Typefaces from 2020: Bullets Bannertype, Alpha One (a counterless experiment), Exec (a 14-style sans family), Exec Corners, Exec Demiserif, Penta (a grotesque family with large counters that make the ExtraLight style quite striking), Penta Rounded.

    Author of many books, including Zeitschriften & Broschüren (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1990), Schriftdesign (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1991), and Blitzkurs Typografie (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1992).

    The following text was excerpted from his wikipedia page: At 14 years of age, Wiescher went to Paris to study fine art. He financed his stay by doing portraits on the Place du Tertre on Montmartre. In the sixties Wiescher studied graphic design at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. (Since November 2001, Berlin University of the Arts.) He financed his studies by sidewalk painting and drawing portraits. While doing sidewalk paintings, he met the typeface designer Erik Spiekermann, who inspired his love of this branch of design. After two years he quit his studies, and went to Barcelona where he worked at the offices of Harnden & Bombelli, for whom he designed the OECD-Pavilion of the 1970 Osaka World Expo. In 1972 he moved on to Johannesburg working as an art director at Grey and Young advertising . In 1975, he returned to Germany, working first for DFS+R-Dorland, and then for the "Herrwerth & Partner" ad agency. At Herrworth, he was involved in introducing IKEA into the German market. In 1977 he became a creative partner in the Lauenstein & Partner ad agency, creating mainly campaigns for large German retail chains. In 1982 he started his own design office, creating work for editors (Markt & Technik, Systhema and Langen-Müller-Herbig), computer companies (House of Computers, FileNet) and he worked for Apple Computers designing their publications (Apple-Age and Apple-LIVE).

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    Wilhelm C. Pischner

    German type designer, b. Offenbach, 1904, d. Offenbach, 1989. Creator of Neuzeit Grotesk (1928-1929, Stempel, 6 styles---leicht, mager, halbfett, fett, schmalhalbfett, schmalfett) while he worked at Stempel, where he was an apprentice from 1918-1922 and a full time employee from 1922-1940. See also Neuzeit Grotesk (URW++: the first four styles only), DIN Neuzeit (Linotype), Geometric 706 (Bitstream: the schmal styles), Peter Wiegel's free CAT Neuzeit (2012-2014), N692 Sans (SoftMaker), and Neutral Grotesk (2002, SoftMaker). In 2006, Akira Kobayashi produced Neuzeit Office (Linotype), modeled after the original sans serif family Neuzeit S, which was produced by D. Stempel AG and Linotype's design studio in 1966. Neuzeit S itself was a redesign of Pischner's DIN Neuzeit.

    Minor typefaces by him include Barcarole (1939, Stempel, a shadow caps face) and Tory Gotisch (unpublished blackletter).

    Digital versions and relatives of Neuzeit Grotesk: Neuzeit Grotesk (URW++), DIN Neuzeit Grotesk (Adobe), DIN Neuzeit Grotesk (Linotype), Neuzeit S (Linotype), Neuzeit Office (Linotype), Neuzeit S (Adobe), Heimat Display (Atlas Font Foundry), Karben 105 Stencil (Talbot Type), Heimat Mono (Atlas Font Foundry), Karben 205 (Talbot Type), Karben 105 (Talbot Type), Heimat Stencil (Atlas Font Foundry), Heimat Didone (Atlas Font Foundry), Peter (Calligrafiction), Heimat Sans (Atlas Font Foundry), Karben 105 Mono (Talbot Type), Karben 205 Mono (Talbot Type).

    After the second world war, he became an independent graphic designer in Offenbach. Sometimes his name is spelled C. Wilhelm Pischiner or Wilhelm C. Pischiner.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link.

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    Wilhelm Gronau
    [Wilhelm Gronaus Schriftgießerei]

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    Wilhelm Gronaus Schriftgießerei
    [Wilhelm Gronau]

    Wilhelm Gronau was a German typographer who ran the Wilhelm Gronaus Schriftgießerei in Berlin-Schöneberg from the mid 1800s until early in the 20th century. Typefaces at that foundry include Hohenzollernschrift (1905), Kolumbus and Kolumbus Eng (1905-1906, by Heinrich Wieynck) and Gronau Gotisch (Heinrich Ehlert, 1850). House typefaces include the blackletter typefaces Accidenz-Gotisch, Albion, Alt-English, Alt-Gotisch, Amerikanische Gotisch, Angelsächsisch, Bastard, Canzlei (breite, moderne, musirte, neueste fette, schmale, and umzogene), Deutsch-Gotisch, Diplomen-Gotisch, Moderne Gothisch, all done before 1891, as well as Schmale Zeitungs Gotisch and Universal Gotisch from the 1850-1870 period. Berolina (art nouveau), Sezessions-Initialen, Teutonia and Martagon Ornamente were done ca. 1900. Reichs-Deutsch followed ca. 1904. Specimen books include Brotschriften, Titelschriften für zeitgemässe Druckausstattung (Berlin, ca. 1902), Moderne Schriften, Einfassungen, Ornamente, Vignetten, Anwendungen (Berlin, ca. 1908), Muster-Sammlung von Wilhelm Gronau’s Buchdruckerei und Schriftgiesserei (Berlin, 1891). The foundry was acquired by Klingspor in 1915. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Will Mower

    Fontstructor who made the eroded ornamental caps typefaces Deadwood (2011) and Final Font (2011). Student at UWE in Bristol, UK. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Will Ransom

    American designer, letterer, author and type designer (1878-1955) who was associated with ATF. In Chicago, he and Frederic Goudy started the private Village Press in 1903, which was a popular meeting place for typophiles, including Cooper and Dwiggins. Bio by Eason&Rookledge.

    • In 1918, he created Parsons for Barnhart Brothers&Spindler, which was named after the artistic director of a Chicago-based department store. This was the basis of the typeface AIParsons (1994) by Inna Gertsberg and Susan Everett at Alphabets Inc. Nick Curtis' Parsnip family (2004) is based on Parsons. Jess Latham also digitized Parsons. Finally, Dieter Steffmann converted the Gertsberg / Everett revival in 1999 to truetype while keeping the name AI Parsons.
    • He created Clearcut Shaded Capitals (1920s, Barnhart Brothers&Spindler). This was extended to a full font by Nick Curtis in 2005 as Ransom Clearcut NF).

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    Will Scobie

    Über-talented and original illustrator based in Brighton, UK. Creator of Faced (2007-2008, T-26), a circle-enclosed facial expression dingbat typeface. He also made a commissioned display typeface for Audi Magazine in 2011.

    Formation (2012) is an ornamental techno all caps typeface.

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    Will Software
    [Rainer Will]

    Rainer Will Softwareentwicklung (Schöffengrund, Germany) developed many school and cursive writing fonts, ca. 1996-2005. They sell their fonts in 10 to 30-font packages, such as handwriting, Altdeutsche schrift, Barcodes, Schulschriften (school fonts). There are also East-European, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and IPA fonts. Here, we have demos for various programs, and if you download and unzip them, you will discover these alphading fonts: FT-BruchTon, FT-HochztsGlocken, KD-Kaesweich, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Kegelweich, KD-Pilz, KD-Singvogel, and these dingbat fonts: NW-BioBlatt (leaves, 1998), Pikto5 (1997). The caps font IN-Barock is here. Will Software made hundreds of fonts, including the handwriting fonts Jeff and HW Stone (1998), KL-Antiqua2, Old-London, Fraktur. A fuller list, by type:

    • Alte Schriften (blackletter): Black-For, Chevalin, Civotype, Fleisman, Fraktur, German-Script, Germen-Type, Ghiollier, Goethe, Gotik, Gudenberg, Heinrich-Kanzlei, IN-Barock, IN-Barock2, IN-Barock3, IN-Florentine, IN-Fraktur2, IN-Fraktur3, IN-Geometric, IN-Gothic, IN-Gothic1880, IN-Innsbruck, IN-Jugendstil, IN-Jugendstil1920, IN-Jugendstil3, IN-LaRose, IN-OldGothic, IN-Schwabach, IN-Silhouette, IN-Uncial1475, IN-Walbot1, IN-Woodcut, IN-Woodcut2, KL-Antiqua1, KL-Antiqua2, KL-CapitalisQuadrata, KL-Fraktur1, KL-Gotic1, KL-Gotic2, KL-HKursive1, KL-HKursive2, KL-HKursive3, KL-Karolin1, KL-MKursive1, KL-MKursive2, KL-Rotunda1, KL-Rotunda2, KL-Unziale1, KL-Unziale2, Limpach, Luthan, MA-BastardAnglicana, MA-Bastarda1, MA-Bastarda3, MA-Current, MA-FereTextura, MA-GKursiv1, MA-GKursiv2, MA-Gotbuch, MA-Gotic, MA-InsularMinuscule, MA-Kurrent1814, MA-KurrentBarock, MA-Minuskel1, MA-Minuskel2, MA-Schreibschrift1900, MA-Schreibschrift1900Bold, MA-Urkunde, Meriage, Offenbacher, Old-Germen, Old-London, Petjes, Ried, Romand-Genealogie, Schlei, Schwaben, Suetterlin-2, Theudan, Verdn17, Verdn2, Walbot, Zentar-Bold, Zentar.
    • Alte Schriften 2 (more blackletter fonts): AD-AlbrechtDuerer, AD-AltSchwaben, AD-Ballo, AD-Barock1720, AD-Blackpool, AD-British, AD-Burgundy, AD-CalligraphicAntiqua, AD-CalligraphicFraktur, AD-CalligraphicTextura, AD-Celtic, AD-CelticCollege, AD-Coburg1, AD-Coburg2, AD-Diagoth, AD-Dublin900, AD-Fraktur2, AD-GothQuad, AD-Gothisch, AD-Gotisch2, AD-Gotisch3, AD-GottfriedLeibniz, AD-Handschrift1, AD-Handschrift2, AD-Handschrift3, AD-Handschrift4, AD-Handschrift5, AD-Handschrift6, AD-Hans, AD-Herefordshire, AD-Hohenstein, AD-Huddersfield, AD-Italia1650, AD-Kaiser, AD-Odin, AD-Offenbach, AD-OldEire, AD-Patron, AD-Ponti, AD-Renaissance, AD-Sachsen, AD-Stebark, AD-Thingvellir, AD-Toulouse, AD-Turin, AD-University, AD-Wallgau, AD-Zierfraktur, Col-Barock, Col-Barock3, Col-Celtic, Col-Florentine, Col-Fraktur3, Col-Geometric, Col-Gothic, Col-Gothic1880, Col-Jugendstil, Col-Jugendstil1920, Col-Jugendstil3, Col-LaRose, Col-OldGothic, Col-Uncial1475, Col-Woodcut, Col-Woodcut2, Suetterlin-2, Suetterlin-4, Suetterlin.
    • Familienschriften (fonts for kids, alphadings, dingbats): ArGlas3, ArSchatten7, Calos-Glas1, EffOutline, FT-Amor, FT-BruchGlas, FT-BruchTon, FT-GluecksKaefer, FT-GluecksKlee, FT-GluecksSchwein, FT-HerzanHerz, FT-Herzhardt, FT-Herzkranz, FT-Herzweich, FT-HochztsGlocken, FT-HochztsHerz, FT-Karneval, FT-Klecks, FT-Osterhase, FT-Sektknall, FT-Trommler, FT-WeihnachtsBaum, FT-WeihnachtsMann, Fingprnt-1, HB-Brfmarkclassic, HB-Brfmarkhardt, HB-Dart, HB-Fackel, HB-Fechten, HB-Filmklappe, HB-FrzBlattHardt, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Lorbeerkranz, HB-Palette, JD-Halali, JD-Kerbe, JD-Pille, JD-Popblut, JD-Pseudokinese, JD-Pseudonippon, JD-Pseudoruski, JD-Schachhardt, JD-Timur, JD-Wurm, KD-Blumehardt, KD-Esel, KD-Franja, KD-Handschrift, KD-Kaeshardt, KD-Kaesmaus, KD-Katze, KD-LKW, KD-Lamm, KD-Nacht, KD-Obstigel, KD-Schneemann, KD-Zwerg, Revont-Kraeusel1, Teje.
    • Festtagsschriften (holiday-themed fonts): FT-Amor, FT-Babyputte, FT-Babystorch, FT-Bethand, FT-Betkind, FT-BruchGlas, FT-BruchTon, FT-Clownslachen, FT-Cupido, FT-Eihardt, FT-Eikranz, FT-Eiweich, FT-Familienbande, FT-Getreide, FT-GluecksKaefer, FT-GluecksKlee, FT-GluecksSchwein, FT-HerzanHerz, FT-Herzbruch, FT-Herzhardt, FT-Herzkranz, FT-Herzweich, FT-HochztsGlocken, FT-HochztsHardt, FT-HochztsHerz, FT-HochztsJubilaeum, FT-HochztsKranz, FT-HochztsPaar, FT-Hufeisen, FT-Kalenderblatt, FT-Kanzel, FT-Karneval, FT-Kerze, FT-Klecks, FT-Kreuzlamm, FT-Menora, FT-Osterhase, FT-Schule, FT-Sektknall, FT-Spiegelfrau, FT-Spiegelmann, FT-Spukhaus, FT-Torte, FT-Trauerzweig, FT-Trommler, FT-Trompeter, FT-WeihnachtsBaum, FT-WeihnachtsMann, FT-ZuckrtuetHardt, FT-ZuckrtuetWeich, FTH-Fische, FTH-Jungfrau, FTH-Krebs, FTH-Loewe, FTH-Schuetze, FTH-Skorpion, FTH-Steinbock, FTH-Stier, FTH-Waage, FTH-Wassermann, FTH-Widder, FTH-Zwillinge, HB-Fackel, HB-Lorbeerkranz, HW-Handpic, KD-Blumebundt, KD-Lamm, KD-Nacht, KD-Schneemann, SP-Blume, SP-DRHH2, SP-DRHH3, SP-Face, WinterNacht.
    • Geheimschriften (codes or secret fonts): SP-DRBYQuadrat, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SR-Abstrakt1, SR-Abstrakt2, SR-Abstrakt3, SR-Abstrakt4, SR-Abstrakt5, SR-Abstrakt6, SR-Astro, SR-Blatt, SR-Braille, SR-Chaos, SR-ChaosBold, SR-ChaosItalic, SR-Finger, SR-Geheim0, SR-Gesicht, SR-Labyrinth, SR-LabyrinthBold, SR-Marine, SR-Morse, SR-Puzzle, SR-Radierer, SR-Rune, SR-Schatten, SR-Schiffe, SR-Schloss, SR-Schmetterling, SR-Skyline, SR-Strichmann, SR-Tiere, SR-Wabe, SR-WabeBold, SR-Wappen.
    • Handschriften: A1, A2, A3, Agnieszka, F1, F10, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F9, Ghiollier, Goethe, HW-Agilo, HW-Andrew, HW-Brouet, HW-Burg, HW-Clay, HW-Emmi, HW-Feliks, HW-Foster, HW-Guga, HW-Handpic, HW-Harico, HW-Hilly, HW-Jeff, HW-Jesco1, HW-Jesco3, HW-Jesco7, HW-Josh, HW-Marbo, HW-Pablo, HW-Phil, HW-PizPaz, HW-Renate, HW-Sarx, HW-Schneid, HW-Stone, HW-Tolomeo, HW-Tommi, HW-Turandot, HW-Veneto, HW-Vincent, HW-Vogel, HW-Volker, Handwrites-CTrac, KD-Handschrift, KG-Hand, Limpach, Offenbacher, Ried, Rw2, Schlei, Teje, Uggy, Verdn17, Verdn2.
    • Handschriften 2: HW-Alec, HW-Allan, HW-Armand, HW-Bjarne, HW-Brian, HW-Carlo, HW-Cathy, HW-Claude, HW-Danielle, HW-Dario, HW-Eleanor, HW-Enrico, HW-Estelle, HW-Fabio, HW-Federico, HW-Giorgio, HW-Giovanna, HW-Giuliano, HW-Hakon, HW-Harald, HW-Jacques, HW-Jaro, HW-Jelena, HW-Juri, HW-Justine, HW-Kuno, HW-Larissa, HW-Laslo, HW-Lennart, HW-Lizzy, HW-Luitpold, HW-Manolo, HW-Marcello, HW-Murielle, HW-Nadine, HW-Paolo, HW-Pascal, HW-Pietro, HW-Roxana, HW-Thery, HW-Valerian, HW-Vittorio, HW-Wally, HW-Wilma.
    • Schulschriften (lined fonts, didactic fonts): DR-HH, DR-HH1, DR-HH1Bold, DR-HH2, DR-HH2Bold, DR-HH3, DR-HH3Bold, DR-HH4, DR-HH4Bold, DR-HHBold, DR-HHEl, DR-HHEl1, DR-HHEl1Bold, DR-HHEl2, DR-HHEl2Bold, DR-HHEl2Italic, DR-HHEl3, DR-HHEl3Bold, DR-HHEl3Italic, DR-HHEl4, DR-HHEl4Bold, DR-HHEl4Italic, DR-HHElBold, DR-HHElItalic, DR-HHOL, LA-El, LA-El1, LA-El1Bold, LA-El2, LA-El2Bold, LA-El3, LA-El3Bold, LA-El4, LA-El4Bold, LA-ElBold, LA-ElOL, MA-Schreibschrift1900, Offenbacher, SAS-1, SAS-2, SAS-2Bold, SAS-3, SAS-3Bold, SAS-4, SAS-4Bold, SAS-Bold, SAS-OL, SAS, SP-AnlEssen, SP-AnlHaus, SP-AnlTiere, SP-Anlaut1, SP-Anlaut2, SP-Anlaut8, SP-Anlaut9, SP-Bear, SP-Blume, SP-DRHH1, SP-DRHH2, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHHKubik, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SP-Dino, SP-Face, SP-VAKubik, SP-VAQuadrat, SPAnlMensch, Suetterlin-2, Suetterlin-4, Suetterlin, VA-Ansi, VA-Pe, VA-Pe1, VA-Pe1Bold, VA-Pe2, VA-Pe2Bold, VA-Pe3, VA-Pe3Bold, VA-Pe4, VA-Pe4Bold, VA-PeA, VA-PeABold, VA-PeBold, VA-PeOL.
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    William H. Bradley

    Book designer, poster designer and typographer, born in Boston (1868). He died in 1962. His typefaces include the following:

    • Abbey Text (1895, A.D. Farmer).
    • Bradley (ATF, 1895). This blackletter typeface was cut into a wood type by Hamilton in 1900.
    • A beautiful unnamed lettering for the Inland Printer (1891-1892).
    • He drew the Bradley Series and licensed it to American Type Founders in 1895. That blackletter design was copied and issued by the Inland Type Foundry (as "St. John") and by A.D. Farmer&Son Type Founding Co (as "Abbey Text", still 1895). Also in 1895, Hermann Ihlenburg at ATF made the Germanic-language version of the Bradley Series. Several German foundries had metal versions of his 1895 series under the names Halbfette Altgotisch, Altfettgotisch and Amerikanische Altgotisch, such as Bauersche Giesserei and Schelter & Giesecke (1903). Digital revivals: Fyne Fish NF (Nick Curtis, 2009), Bradley Pro (2005, Ralph Unger at Profonts), Bradley DJR (2018, David Jonathan Ross). Bradley was used by Disney in its Sleeping Beauty Castle.
    • Priory Black (ATF, 1897-1898) is said to be due to Bradley. In 1904, ATF introduced a modernized version called Cloister Black (or Cloister Text), designed by Joseph W. Phinney or Morris F. Benton.
    • Bradley Roman and Italic saw the light in 1901 when Bradley was writing Peter Poodle, Toymaker to the King, and these typefaces are known as the Peter Poodle types.
    • In 1904, he co-designed Antique Bold with J.W. Phinney and Morris Fuller Benton at ATF.
    • His Bewick Roman series (1904) has gorgeous ligatures (tt, ct, and so on). Mac McGrew: Bewick Roman was designed by Will Bradley in 1904 and issued by ATF the following year. It is a quaint display type with a number of unusual characteristics. Several capitals have both wide and narrow versions, although generally the typeface is rather narrow; there are also several tied charac$Gters and ornaments in the font, as was common with nineteenth-century designs. Compare Rogers, Vanden Houten.
    • Wayside Roman and Italic. Mac McGrew: Wayside Roman and Italic were shown by ATF in 1900, as a handsome interpretation of modern typeface similar to Scotch Roman, but without the heavier capitals of the latter face. Some sources say the designer was Will Bradley, but this is disputed by other authorities, and most likely it is a revival of an older face. It was not in regular production very many years, but special castings have been made at times. Some figures appear to be oversize---6, 7, and 9 in the specimen shown here---but this is a characteristic of the font, although not uniform from one size to another. Also compare Oxford, Bell.
    • In 1904, he created the beautiful Chap-Book series (Cuts, Borders, Directors (pointing fingers), Guidons (unbelievable parentheses)), as well as the Mission Toys Ornaments, all at ATF. Thereafter followed Missal Initials, Wayside Borders (1904), Wayside Ornaments (1904), Cloister Borders (1905), Cloister Initials (1905), Indian Borders (before 1908). Some of his ornaments made it to American Pi NF (2006, Nick Curtis) and to the five-font-set Bradley Dingies (by Paulo W, 2009). Mac McGrew: Missal Initials were issued by ATF in 1904; their design has been ascribed to Will Bradley. Derived from fifteenth-century sources, each letter is designed to fill a square area. Compare Caxton Initials, Lombardic Initials. For a digital version of Missal Initials, see Initials ATF Missal Caxton (2012, Alter Littera).
    • Bradley Initials (1934). For a degital version, see Glenda de Guzman's Bradley Intials (1994, Font Bureau).
    • Vanity (1921-1930) is custom type he made while he was art director.
    • His last group of typefaces was Bradley Combination Ornaments, made in 1952 for Steve Watts, type merchandising director of the American Type Founders Company.
    • Roman alphabet by Bradley.

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    A Booklet of Designs (1915, New York) contains many of his interesting drawings for typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    William Morris

    British type designer, architect and designer (b. Walthamstow in East London, 1834, d. 1896). Defender of the medieval form, he set up Kelmscott Press in 1891, and was one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris was an artist, poet, writer and designer himself, but he is probably best remembered for his fabric designs and his book designs for Kelmscott Press, such as The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896). All his punches and matrices and some types are now with Cambridge University Press.

    William Morris's typefaces:

    • Kelmscott Golden or Golden Type (1889-1890): a bolder re-design of the classical Jenson face, done while he ran Kelmscott Press. The punches were cut by E.P. Prince. It was based on Nicolas Jenson but darkened. ATF's copy of this was called Nicolas Jenson, just before 1900. Morris used it in many of the books in the Kelmscott Press. Ancient Roman was Keystone Type Foundry's adaptation in 1904 of the Golden type [Mac McGrew deems it comparable to Jenson Oldstyle]. All matrices, punches and some of the types are in possession of Cambridge University Press. Digital versions include GoldenType (Elsner and Flake), GoldenType ITC (ITC), Kelmscott Roman (Nick Curtis), Kelmscott (Scriptorium), True Golden (Scriptorium), URW GoldenType (URW), URW GoldenTypeITC (ITC).
    • Troy (1891-1892): blackletter. Called Morris Gotisch, it was published by Berthold in 1903. Multiple digital versions exist: GL Morris (2017-2018, Gutenberg Labo, a free version), P22 Morris Troy (2001, Richard Kegler), Joyeuse (1992, Scriptorium: a variation), Morris Gothic and Morris Initials (Tom Wallace), Troy3Roman (Chet Gottfried), MorrisBlack (Dan Solo), Satanick (Marty Snyder), an unnamed revival by Eliana Ferreira (2010), Kelmscott (Scriptorium), Morris Gotisch (Gerhard Helzel), MorrisBlackLetter (Scriptorium), MorrisRoman (Dieter Steffmann), Troycer (Torbjörn Olsson).
    • Chaucer (1892): an enlargement [in the sense of point size only!] of Troy. Wetzig mentions the date 1897. For a digital version, se Alter Littera Chaucer (2012).
    • Morris Romanized Black. Mac McGrew: Morris Romanized Black is an adaptation of the Troy and Chaucer types designed by William Morris for his Kelmscott Press. This adaptation first appeared under the name Tell Text about 1895, and was renamed in 1925. Troy and Chaucer were two sizes of one style, approximately 18- and 12- point respectively. William Morris had previously designed a roman type which became popular commercially as Jenson Oldstyle (q.v.); of this design he says, "After a while I felt that I must have a Gothic [in the sense of Blackletter or Old English] as well as a Roman, and herein the task I set myself was to redeem the Gothic character from the charge of unreadableness. ... Keeping my end steadily in view, I designed a blackletter type which I think I may claim to be as readable as a Roman one, and to say the truth, I prefer it to the Roman." Compare Satanick. For digital versions, refer to the digital interpretations of Troy.
    • Jenson Oldstyle, Morris Jensonian, Morris Old Style. Well, not really---Mac McGrew explains: Jenson Oldstyle, though a comparatively crude typeface in itself, did, much to start the late nineteenth-century move toward better types and typography. Designed by J. W. Phinney of the Dickinson Type Foundry (ATF) and cut by John F. Cumming in 1893, it was based on the Golden Type of William Morris for the Kelmscott Press in 1890; that in turn was based on the 1470-76 types of Nicolas Jenson. Morris had established standards for fine printing, in spite of the fact that he did not design really fine types. Serifs in, particular are clumsy, but the Jenson types quickly became popular. BB&S introduced Mazarin in 1895-96, as "a revival of the Golden type, redesigned by our artist." But it was a poor copy, and was replaced by Morris Jensonian. Inland's Kelmscott, shown in 1897, was acquired by BB&S and renamed Morris Jensonian in 1912; Keystone had Ancient Roman (q. v.); Crescent Type Foundry had Morris Old Style. Hansen had Hansen Old Style (q. v.); and other founders had several other typefaces, all nearly like Jenson. It is hard to realize that Jenson was inspired by the same historic type as the later and more refined Centaur, Cloister, and Eusebius. ATF spelled the name "Jensen" in some early specimens, and added "No. 2" to the series, the latter presumably when it was adapted to standard alignment or when minor changes were made in the design. Jenson Italic was introduced at the same time as the roman. ATF advertised Phinney's Jenson Heavyface in 1899 as "new and novel-should have been here long ago." Jenson Condensed and Bold Condensed were introduced in 1901.
    • Morris Initials: illuminated capitals in the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer's works at the Kelmscott Press. Digital versions: Morris Inits (George Williams), Chaucerian Initials (Scriptorium), Morris Initials (Scriptorium), Morrisinits (Dieter Steffmann), William Morris Initials (2018, Chafomon). The Morris Jenson Initialen font by Typograf (2015) is somehow different.

    Self portrait, 1856 and picture, age 53.

    William S. Peterson writes on Morris.

    FontShop link. MyFonts link. Bio by Nicholas Fabian.

    Reference books include Typophile Chapbook: The Kelmscott Press, 1891 to 1898 (William Morris), and The Cambridge University Press Collection of Private Press Types, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny, Cranach (Thomas Balston, 1951; inscribed by Adrian Wilson to Bob&Jane Grabhorn). William Morris himself wrote The Art and Craft of Printing (1895, Kelmscott Press) in which he explains his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press. Ebook version of the latter book.

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    William Zhang

    Medan, Indonesia-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Willy Wegener

    Willi Wegener lived in Magdeburg, Germany. Designer of Beta Flinsch (1910, Bauersche Giesserei) and Neugotisch (1907 or 1908, +Initialen, Flinsch, with ornaments and vignettes; Wetzig shows the date 1903). Other typefaces at Flinsch include Wegener Initialen, Glückwunsch Vignetten, and Alpha (1910). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Willy Willrab

    Jim Spiece created SG Veranda Poster (+Caps) in 2001. The elegant letters are said to go back to 1920s Viennese artists Julius Klinger and Willy Willrab. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wilton Foundry
    [Robbie de Villiers]

    The Wilton Foundry, which started out in Wilton, CT, but is now in Chattanooga, TN), was founded in 2003 by Robbie de Villiers. It published the semi-stencil typeface EM (2018), Brew (2018), Context Regular (2017: a condensed inline typeface), Målestok (an octagonal logo font family), Yotta (2017, a thin monoline sans specially designed for the fashion retail industry), Werk Serif (2017), Clareza (2016, a clean geometric sans), Leuk (2016, a playful sans), Maker (2015, a fresh rectangle-studded techno-display typeface), Saluzzo (2015, a contemporary calligraphic stencil interpretation of Bodoni), Twine (2014, a warm rounded stencil type inspired by the Plantin typeface which in turn is based on Robert Granjon's Gros Cicero of the 16th century), Cielo (2012, a sans family with some contrast), Marcus (2012, a roman type family in the Trajan style), Typetonic (2011, techno), Skript (2011, a stencilish script), Vallassina (2011, like a child's hand), Bellezza (2010), Pagina (2010, humanist sans), Rijk (2010, calligraphic), Saycheez (2009), Chamber (2009, serif face), Ciseaux (2009), Terzo (2009, calligraphic), Werk (2009, 12-style sans family), Velouté (2008, script), Diario (2009, blackboard script), Carnegie Classic (2009, calligraphic), Ziro (2008, almost a comic book font), Suzie Q (2007, hand-printed), Brasserie (2007, connected script), Chateau (2007, calligraphic script), Pointe (2007, a blackboard script), Atto Sans (2007), Santa Cruz (2007, a serifed headline face), Marzipan (2007, a whimsical script), Spark (2007), Fete (2006, formal script), Flax (2006), Portfolio (2005), Cyan (2006, a compact serif typeface reminiscent of Trajan; updated in 2016 as Cyan Neue), Ceres (2009, related to Cyan), Cyan Sans (2006), Petronella (2006, medieval script), Pezzo (2006, calligraphic script), Canette (2006, calligraphic script), Vecta Serif (2005), Vecta (2005, sans family; also published in 2006 as Vecta DT (DTP Types)), Cinnamon (2005, children's handwriting), Cilantro (2005, fun handwriting, and its niece Hanna (2008)), Misspink (2005, stone-age simplicity), Brown Fox (2005, script), Celsius (2005, felt tip face), Plumage (2007, formal high contrast calligraphy), Plato (2005, faded roman caps), Diplomat (2006, calligraphic), Duet (2004, calligraphic; also published in 2006 as Duet DT (DTP Types)), Spark (2005), Anno Rex (2005), Hampton, SCelsius, Gluestick, Duet Bold (2005, calligraphic), Duet-Flourishes (2004), Duet2Deux, Duet-Regular (2005), Nobodi Bodoni (2005), About Face (2004, script), Benjamin (2003, a geometric sans), Paella (2005), Boondoggle (2005, curly face), Monotonose (2004), Password (2004), LoosieGoosie (2004), Pippin (2005, transitional serif), Carnegie (2004, calligraphic), LatextBold (2003), ModusBoldItalic (2003), Nantucket (2004), Nicolas (2005), Oslo (2005, a legible sans family), Sepia (faded look), Belair.

    Chatype is a geometric slab serif typeface family designed in 2012 for the city of Chattanooga, TN, by Robbie de Villiers and Jeremy Dooley.

    Unio (2012) is a rounded slab family designed to be sturdy and legible.

    In 2017, Wilton Foundry published Yotta, Marcus, Chateau, Pagina, Plato, Beurre, Vecta Serif, Cyan Neue, Buckle, Suzie, Unio, Attic Sans, Blau (hand-chiseled, angular text typeface) and Taglio, a contemporary calligraphic interpretation of incised or inline engraving or carving.

    Typefaces from 2018: Chartre, EM, Mijne, Brew, De La Croix (a stencil sans inspired by the works of Eugène Delacroix, leader of the Romantic School) , Halla (a light monoline sans).

    Typefaces from 2019: Kular (monospaced), Zentral (an awesome 2-style sculptural font with the angularity of old Czech masters such as Preissig and Menhart).

    Typefaces from 2020: Obo Regular (a diamond-studded display typeface), Rito (monospaced).

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    W.J. Loftie

    Author of Lessons in the Art of Illuminating (1880, Blackie & Son, Glasgow). A series of examples selected from works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington Museum, with practical instructions, and a sketch of the history of the art. Local PDF file for that book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp

    Dutch designer of an initial caps face at the end of the 19th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wolf Magin

    Designer of Black Line (1976, Berthold), a nice multiline all caps face. It was digitally recreated by Nick Curtis in 2011 as Linea Nera NF. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wolfgang Homola

    Type design graduate from Reading who created Pulse (2004), a family consisting of a sans and an adapted serif for corporate identity design. Today, Wolfgang Homola is an independent type designer and graphic designer in Vienna. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he introduces a new typeface for a new signage system for the AK building in Vienna.

    In 2011, he published the sans family Soleil at TypeTogether. This family is geometric with a twist---it features small asymmetries and optical corrections. In 2015, he added Soleil Magic Caps.

    His dissertation in 2004 was entitled Type Design in the Age of the Machine. The Breite Grotesk by J.G. Schelter & Giesecke.

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    WoodardWorks Type Design (was: Robby Woodard Design and Illustration)
    [Robby Woodard]

    Robby Woodard is the Fresno, CA-based designer of fonts at Garagefonts such as Clarice (2004, a lapidary semi-sans with 16 weights), Arbuckle (2001-2003, fat comic book style; see Black, Bright: bubblegum typefaces), Clairmont (2002, a huge sans serif family), Dixon (2001, a monoline sans family with a hairline weight, garagefonts), Elkhorn, Fargon (2002, avant-garde family), P22 Hedonic (2003, a delicate slab serif family; +a chiseled version), Montclaire (2003, an interesting way of adding serifs to a sans serif font) and Bancroft (2000). At the L'ab [dead link], he designed the avant garde family Ashby (2001). He is working on Wiggins (2004) and Laconic (2007, a severe-looking futuristic sans). Alternate URL. Other fonts: Inyo (a high contrast slab serif), Joachim (Basque style), Kritter (mythological dings), Veggieburger (cartoon caption font with hints of Tekton), Nudgewink (2010-2018, P22, a bouncy comic book face), Clarice (2001-2009, a lapidary (flared serif) family, Garagefonts). FontShop link. Myfonts link. Laconic and Veggieburger are free at Fontsquirrel.

    In 2019, he added extreme weights (from hairline weights to extra black weights) to Joshua Darden's popular Freight series: Freight Big Compressed Pro (2019, a sturdy rational newspaper masthead and book cover typeface by Robby Woodard and Phil's Fonts), Freight Display Compressed Pro (2019), Freight Text Compressed Pro (2019), Freight Sans HPro Hairlines, Freight Sans HCnd Pro Hairlines, Freight Sans HCmp Pro, Freight Sans UPro Ultra Black.

    Typefaces from 2020: P22 Posies (a six-font system for creating multi-colored floriated initial caps in the spirit of illuminated manuscripts), P22 Bangersfield (P22: a casual monoline comic book font designed to replace or compete with Comic Sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Quirkwood (Canada Type: a reverse stress Western font; Canada Type describes it as a spaghetti western with Shazam and Wile E. Coyote cast in prominent starring roles, a bluegrass album of Edith Piaf covers).

    Typefaces from 2022: ,a href="https://canadatype.com/product/robbins/">Robbins (a soft flared slightly undulating sans).

    Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Kernest link.

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    Woodcutter Manero
    [Jordi Manero Pascual]

    Prolific Barcelona-based type designer. He started out by creating the counterless hand-printed typefaces Woodcutter Dripping Nightmare (2012) and Woodcutter MMXII (2012).

    In 2013, he created Gothic Winter (snow-capped blackletter), Woodcutter Anonymous (ransom note font; +part2, 2014), The Shining (movie scanbats), Woodcutter Optical Army (op-art), Viking Runes Shields, Fresh Blood, Pig Rules, Pole Dance, Music+Party, Asian Food, Deers (sic), Woodcutter Amor de Madre (curly tattoo font), Tattoo Vieja Escuela 1, 2 and 3, Origami (animal dingbats), Vintage Motorcycle Club (scanbats), Vintage Christmas (dingbats), Terry Richardson World (scanbats), Woodcutter Wire Fence, Woodcutter Points (textured face), Made in Spain 4, I Love 80s (dings), Drugs (drug paraphernalia dings), Barber Shop (dingbats), Woodcutter del Reves, Adventure Time, New York New York (1 and 2), Woodcutter Dripping Classic, Woodcutter Tinta China (ink splatter font), Woodcutter Cross, Nightmare on Social Media, Breaking Bad (scanbats), Fight Club (boxing scanbats), Boligrafo (sketched font), Robots, Luxury Brands, Woodcutter Buena Lettra, Barcelona (scanbats), Devoto (religious dingbats), Joker (dingbats), Woodcutter Typewritter (sic), Banksy (scanbats), Made in Spain 1, 2 and 3 (company logos), Animal City (funny dingbats), LSD Junior (a scary alphading font), Woodcutter Army (army stencil), Woodcutter El Día De Todos Los Santos (Mexican dingbats), Woodcutter Summer Shadows, and the monster dingbat typeface Woodcutter El Dia del Juicio. Still in 2013, he designed Woodcutter Black Square, DaPunk, Woodcutter Pollita Alegre (a penis font), Woodcutter Hungry Pig, and Woodcutter Hand Light.

    Typefaces from 2014: Hospital Icons, Woodcutter Rare Drawings, Headache, Irresistible (rounded sans), Doctor Garcia (textured), Violence, Hipster Icons, Saint Valentine's Day, Mister Manson, Casino (dingbats), Christian Icons, Christmas Icons, Hermes Manero, Beauty (dingbats), Art Icons & Tools, Clouds Mix, Malamadre (grunge), Offset Punk, Manos de Cerdo, Hotel Oriental, Basic Trip, Popeye (scanbats), Viva la Fiesta (flag alphadings), Street Stencil, Supermarket, Ebola Font, Vintage Halloween, Motel Imperial, Clothes, The Second World War (army stencil), Tahs On A Rope, Penis (dingbats), Regular Show (dingbats), Parkinsonism, The 70 Greatest Directors of All Time (scanbats), Smartphone (alphadings), Dripping, Chaos in Wisconsin, Saturno, Gym (dingbats), Angie, Antique Book, Black Rodeo, Gutierrez+, Matias-Font, Viejo-Oeste, Woodcutter-Prison-Tattoo, old+sailor, Italian Revolution, Kid Nightmare, Anderson (rough stencil), Manero (scratchy script), Tecno-Chaos (dot matrix font), Neverland, Martian Font, Radical Block, Woodcutter Delicada, Bon Appetit, Termica, Kandinsky, Hotel Paradiso, Seven Arts, Street Icons, Militaria (dingbats), Undergramo (poster font), Woodcutter Avispa, Fuego Fatuo, Other Space, Electrica Sals, Woodcutter Dramatica, Cocinitas (cooking dingbats), Bad Mother Fucker, Quentin Tarantino (scanbats), El Extraño, Fine Disorder, Woodcutter BCN Style (dripping blood font), Woodcutter Virus, Efectiva, Mogambo (fat brush), Duck Tape, Warriors, Cutre Glam, Woodcutter Sutill Shadow, Woodcutter Future, Rage, Woodcutter Negative, Manolo, Vegetables, Woodcutter Storm (lightning texture), Woodcutter Rare Drawings, Rustic Heavy Metal, Grass, Virgin Mary (scanbats), Laurus Nobilis (wreaths), Mister Bambu, Woodcutter Barcode, Conquest, Multimedia Icons, Preschool, Cursors, Woodcutter Kaos, Woodcutter Lines, Ukraine (constructivist), Meccano, Woodcutter Simple Font, Crux (crucifixes), Dolores (3d), Eyes, MoneyMoneyMoney, Made in Spain 5, Barcelona Mon Amour, New Society (a 3d shadow face), Federico (a hand-printed shadow typeface), Aranea (spider dings), Fifth Avenue (art deco), Beware of Pitbull, Dictators (scanbats), Woodcutter Vintage Cartoon, The American (textured face), Woodcutter Mixed Icons, Apple Japanese Keyboard, Vintage Classics Disney, Carnage College (blood splatter font), Vintage Porn (scanbats), Woodcutter Fontana (textured caps), Woodcutter Mixed Icons, Woodcutter Jet Set, Woodcutter Gothic Drama (blackletter), Woodcutter Relieve, Mixed Icons Vol. 1, Woodcutter Electric, Woodcutter Cloth, Street Style (graffiti font), Gothic Punk, Human Body Parts, Dirty Harry, Woodcutter Fine Sketch, Woodcutter Invisible, Miley Cyrus (scanbats), Old Guard, Circus and Fair, Comic Cover, Woodcutter Gigantismo, Clockwork Orange (scanbats), Dosmilcatorce, The Walking Dead (scanbats).

    Typefaces from 2015: Rude High School, Imprenta Gonzales (white on black), Estrategia (textured style), Monkey Business, Venganza (dripping blood font), Woodcutter Executive, Left Hand Comic (textured), Dirty News, Gorilla BCN (a great handcrafted athletic lettering typeface), Neo Protein (bio-grunge), Barrio-Santo (graffiti style), Periodic-Table-of-Elements, TerrorToons, Vanilla-Candy, Baseball-Icons, Boots, Fine-Homage, Jesus-Christ (religious icons), Lock, Meredith (texturted typeface), Neo-Victorian, Old-Europe (soft blackletter), White-Army (military stencil), HeadWear, Oil-Icons, Pollito-Peligroso (white-on-black letters), Taxi, The-Dentist, Planeta Zero (white-on-black letters), Cronenberg, Hell Bar, Horror Poster, Big Gipsy Bro, Peccatum (bloo drip font), Tempus Fugit (grunge), Indiana State (a great shaded titling face), DJ Icons, Gentleman Icons, Dope Crisis (textured), Bad Quality, Love and Hate, Smoking (dingbats), Phantom of the Opera (dripping blood font), Video Games (dingbats), Beauty Initials, Knife, Ciudad Capital, System Error (dot matrix font), Rejilla (gridded font), Punk Survival, Watches, Barrio Chino (grungy typeface), Delayed (dot matrix font), Impertinencia, Ecology, Anchor, Comic Sandchez, Beard, Globe Icons, Jalisco Company (handcrafted 3d typeface), Summer Icons, New Art Deco (textured art nouveau typeface), Gordita Alegre, Banned World, Pixel Chaos, Dirty Grunge, Metal Curvy, Jazz Club, One Percent, Profile, Scoreboard, Sentencia, The Octopus (silhouettes of octopi), New Sailor (tattoo script), Cleaner, Bear Icons, Woodcutter Trama, Manolete (wavy font), Skully (alphadings), Big Designer, Vintage Punk (white on black), Streets of Fire (textured), Nordica, Belle Epoque (art deco), Bakery, The Worlds Best Logos, Special Unit (textured typeface), Manifesto, Shooter, Woodcutter Carnage, Black Rain (sketched), Soft Addiction, Digital Camera Symbols, Surf, Tailoring, Palo Santo, Morbida (rounded athletic letters), Fine Shadows, The Woodcutter (dings), Experimento (textured typeface), Seven Sisters, Senior Citizen (dingbats), Hotel California, Woodcutter Hand 2015, Fire Department (scanbats), Dolor de Muelas [toothache], Hamburger, Vintage Mixed Vol 1 and 2, Torremolinos, Ol Torero (bullfight scanbats), Formula 1 (scanbats), Presidents of the United States of America, Furure Blood (dripping blood typeface), Wild West Icons, Maravillosos, Territorio (textured display face), Forced Flowers, Black Hole, The Death, Extra Fat (comic book font), Cristobal, Cirilico, Fuck Off (a very useful raised middle finger font), Mexican Skull (the best Mexican skull font anywhere), Old Nuremberg, Maria Dolores, China, Street College, Rodriguez, Tourism, Community, Oklahoma (varsity font), Smartphone Icons, Science Icons, Horse, Greek Mythology, Persiana (a Venetian blind font), Alcohol, Whatsap Emoticons, Library (possibly the best library icon font today), Candelita, Remember Me, Flamenco, Universidad 2015 (athletic lettering), Sneakers, Fire, Industrial Worker, Europe, Abstemious, Police, School, Paris, Savage Empire, Nautical (dingbats), Crusader (dingbats), Woodcutter MMXV, Rats, Monster Mash, 5th Avenue Stencil, Baby Icons, New Space, City Icons, Diamonds, Punkland, Temblores, Puttana Antique, Human Anatomy (dingbats), Guerra Santa, Winter Icons, Farm, NeoWriter, Russia.

    Typefaces from 2016: Woodcutter People Faces, Ear, Codociosa (grungy), Viking Hell, Simple Myopia (textured, halftone style), Bulbs, Emblem, Vegan Icons, Fleur de Lis, Pregnancy, Harley Davidson, Window, Owl, Native American Indians, The Toy Castle, Aristogramos Chernow, Mediogramo (monogram font), Yes Darling, Dilema Emocional (white on black), Original 301 (draftsman style), Emperador Oscuro (scribbly), Vespa (scanbats), Fine-Sheriff, Hard-Western, Olivia-Garcia (brush script), Woodcutter-Rude-Press (a great handcrafted poster typeface), Printing, Disabled Icons, Golf Icons, Electric Guitar Icons, Airport-Icons, Prudencia (pixel style), Rude-Basic, Stencil-Guerrilla, Tramita-club, Drone, Garden Icons, Feminine Hygiene, Psycho Dad, Intransigencia (textured), Fat Food Icons, Torrebruno, Home Appliances, La Pecosa (textured), Gyn Toons, Insect Icons, Bomb, Special Forces, Business, Irish, Female Underwear, Zombie Salad, Isometric Love, Dinastia (textured), Fireworks, Happy Birthday, Snake Mix, US Election, Spectrum, Extreme Simple, Drunk Sailor (tattoo font), Mountain (dingbats), Cafe Madrid (white on black), Celebration, Rabbit, Rude College, Words, Wingding Review, Transilvania (blood drip font), Tattoo Museum, El Arropeiro (dry brush font), TV (scanbats), Western Dead, Star Wuarras, File Types, Industrial Poison (grunge), Future War, Masacre Digital, Senor Domingo (grungy), Workout Routine (dingbats), Gipsy Bar, Finegrams (ornamental caps, monogram font), Diving (dingbats), Extupida, Dictadura, Euro Estilazo, Cul de Sac, Lions, Woodcutter Olla Barrejada, Cocaine, Monogramos, Gobierno (rounded sans), Maldita Comebolsas, Macho (spurred style), Eagle (great eagle-themed dingbats for East European coup d'etats ca. 1880), Fuck Love, Woodcutter Rocks (white on black), England (dingbats), Mechanic (garage mechanic dingbats), Rodaja (script), Le Petit Chaos, Old Deutschland (blackletter), Mister George, Cloud Candy, Ceporro, Old School Toons, Big Drama (fat poster style), Serial Font, Hotel Madriz, Lady Fiesta, Punk Army, Enfermo Rules, The Laguna, Casa Camaron, Mister Muerte (dripping blood font).

    Typefaces from 2017: Sea Life, Sushi Sushi, Destruccion, The Barrio Caps (blackletter for gangs), Prehistoric Paintings, Sumo, Hot Air Balloons, Woodcutter Self-Portraits, Manero Universe (grune), Digital Dark Sister (LED font), New Watch (LED style), Free Biker (spurred tattoo font), The King, Canada, Super Hero, Target Shooting, Smokeland, Rabia Absoluta, Infringement, Gifts Icons, Sprinkled (textured), Miopia Internacional, Chupapollas, Orientalismus (oriental emulation), Technopollas, Doctor Punk (ransom note font), Global Terror, Bananas Social Club, Wedding, Coffee Icons, Archeology, Graffiti Tags, Maquina de Escribir (old typewriter font), Little Candy Shop, Madre Superiora (script), Territorial, Diogenes, Cyber Tittle, Pain Explosion, Panchito Style, Lightning Bolt, Pixeland, Club Seven Espadas, Chandelier, Computer Mouse, Restroom, Wash Care, Hell Circus, Extraterrestre, Pix Punk, Lamp, Pizza, Pirate Style, Vacaciones, Hecatombe, Fuente Manerismo, La Cucaracha (white on black), Plastic Surgery, Mafia Mix, Dirty Classic Machine (old typewriter), Woodcutter Noise, Cokelines, Simple Cream, Vintage Poison, Lighter Icons, Pacific Break, Maldito Gringo, Bazar Costa, Doctor Satan (dripping blood font), Caja Fuerte (textured stencil typeface), Saint Peter (brush script), Bela-Lisboa, Ear, Future-Socialism (constructivist), Poop, Retro-Toons, Tattoo-Pro-Icons, Victorian-Gang, Woodcutter-Justice, Writing, Amusement-Park, Linoleum, Funny Barber (shaded), Decadence, Victorian Gang, Depalma (spurred sans), Bela Lisboa.

    Typefaces from 2018: La Gilda, Portugal Vintage, Call to Huesi, Wood Xmas, Black Empire (a fancy blackletter), Benedicto (a textured all caps typeface), Pixel Icons, Hysterical, Cadalso 74 (grunge), Gramitos, Negroni Chaos, Carajillo de Anis, Hail Disney, Pen Icons, Neo Spain (a glitch font), Adolfito, Anesthesia, Don Pasquale, The Imperial, Juanita Banana, Sovereignty, Bloody Winter (dripping blood font), Drunk College, Sunset Boulevard (shadow font), Miss Order (3d effect font), Burning Manero, Dirty War (a grungy military stencil), Press Division (a shadow font), Fight Team 18, Time To Dead (grunge), Woodcutter Clasica, La Nueva Vieja Escuela (a paint drip font), Woodcutter Animal Faces, Crochet (a softly spurred typeface), Marshal Manero, Nou Barris Bcn, Bad Things (a dripping blood font), Biker Vamp, Insuperable, Pain Shop, El Monstruo del Raval, Arabesque Ornaments, Fans, Tarraco City, Woodcutter Basic Viking (rune simulation), The Hurraca Company, Broken Press, Carnage 1974 (a dripping blood font), Manicomio Woodcutter (a very funny comic book style dingbat font), Amor (spurred), Rompetechos, Electric Punk, Happy Square, Bad Signal (a glitch font), Funny Death, Fresh Nieve (paint drip font), Rota en mil Pedazos (a glitch font), Perra Gorda, Goma de Mascar (a bubblegum font), Mister Love, La Deco Klan, Glitchland, Hackerchaos, Vicious Stencil, Hippie (dings), Skate (dingbats), Dinosaur Icons, Mastodontus, Alphaletras, Torito Style (a woven font), Problems in Wisconsin, Alarma Social, Rue Mademoiselle, Tree Icons, Go Go Sports, Rage Against Mom, Hell Kitchen, Black Order, Black Trident, Sale, War Times (dingbats), Ice Cream Icons, Bastardo, Titi Yayo Rules, Jailbreak, Britannia (blackletter), Venenosa (grungy letterpress), The Gallery (3d, sketched), El Puto Amo, Finolis, Lovegramos (monogram font), Smartwatch, Interferencias (glitch font), Hostage (ransom note font), Miss Antonia (grungy caps), Bocadilla de Mortelada, Bitcoin, Car Parts, Celtic Knots, Cock (rooster dingbats), Dubious Reputation, Funny Chaos, Garage Imperio (shaded, vintage), Geometriarquia (archeological stone font), Good Morning, Graphic Design (dings), Hard Core, HoldFast (spurred), MacizoCompany, Milk, New Gang (garage dingbats), Ninja and Samurai, PhayaThai (Thai emulation), Robotic Arm, Rotunda, Social Media Circled, Stone Block, Unicorn, Victorious (Victorian), Gypsyland, Modernist Chaos, Rata Negra, MMA Champ, Love Initials, Doctor Glitch, Mad College, E-Commerce (dingbats), Sheriff (dingbats), Outline Mix, Stencil Icons, Fairy Tales (dingbats), Alfabetizacion, Night Fever Again, Jodido & Noble, Woodcutter Oligarquia, Screwdriver, Baroque Explosion, Seville Kid, Huesitos, Hanging Party, Brave Grams, Tower of London (outlined, Tuscan), Quintanar de la Orden, Punk West, El Forastero, The Enemigo (ink splash font), El Camino, Finisterre (thin sans).

    Typefaces from 2019: Ho Chi Minh City, Retro Team, Brushland, Stamp Empire, The Drama Army (an irregular military stencil), Space Grunge, Disturbed (a glitch font), Dead Corporation, El Tito Adolfo (textured), Dirty Deco, Mister Black, Grunge Manifesto, Dark College, Indian casino (a striped Far West font), Heil West (Tuscan), Bonesitos (a bone font), Bad Santa Company, Felipe Segundo, Vanity Garden, Rough Blacky, Rough City (textured, weathered caps), California, Canarias, Chernobyl (weathered), Beauty Bee (an inky script), Chain Style (a bike chain font), Spaniard Soldier, The Matadero (a slimey font), Lapicero, The Minima, House Icons, La Distinguida, Fuente Jalisco, Cordoba, Extreme Glitch, Simulacro, Dies Irae Saloon, El Hispano (decorative Tuscan capitals), Senorita Esmeralda (Tuscan; white on black), Easy Listening, Cool Chaos, Guarrilla, Big Dealer (a grungy poster typeface), Lord British (decorative caps), Cantina Jalisco (Tuscan), Disco Paradiso (brush font), Dark Metal Institute, Asteroide, Bloody Office (dripping blood font), Los Chapters, Home Entertainment, Witch, Cemetery King (dripping blood font), Steel Soldier (a military stencil), Estreno (a dot matrix font), Cat Faces, Gears Icons, Flower Icons, Hardcore Poster, Northern Army (a military stencil), Casimiro, Pantano Gipsy (sic), Zodiac Mix, Insane Empire, Break Summer, Wood Hell Company, Merluza Company (a grungy typeface), Metalurgia Sexual, Aztec Icons, Cemetery Picnic, Pantano Thing, Falange Punk, Jupiter Team, Breakdance, Origaminator, Gothic Gotera, Friday 14, Wifi Icons, Parque del Buen Retiro, Bato Todo El Rato (a graffiti font), Neo Nacional (a shadow font), Capitan Morgan (a Tuscan pirate font), Habitacion 37, Santa Monica (a shadow font), Casino Bar (shaded font), El Boxeador, Attack the Block, Sister Ant, Hard Tree, Another Round, Charcuteria, Thor Gonzalez, Crappy Town (grungy), European War (eroded military stencil), Rock of Times (3d), Crazy Saigon (shaded), Diamondgrams (monograms), Humanoide 2014 (a dripping blood font), Cheddar Cheese (weathered type), Alberto ha Vuelto, Sweet Cake, Cortocircuito (a glitch font), Potorro Angular, Hijo Puta Peligroso (a 3d shadow font), Constitution, Mastodonte, Street Reich, Hispania Manero, Pureta, Pandora, Spray Letters, Roca de Escama, Fat Mom Rules, Thespian, Stencil Time, Isometria Club (3d), Meteoritox, Cinema Capitol, Barna Break, Scratch Night Team, The Estampada, Afterhours, B-Team, Caballito, Ampersand, Gothic Manus, Espana (spurred, Western), Circus Manerus (Tuscan circus font), Hood Army Stencil, Negative System, Positive System, Pagan Symbols, Andy Capp, American Sign Language, Tiki Idols, Greek Column, Maze, Euro Western, Speed Grams, Tiki Tako, Burgos City (waethered caps), The Company (inline caps), Waste Money (a striped money font), Speedy Retro (a circus font), La Rapidita (a speed emulation font), Chill-out Gang, Resistance (grunge), Normandy Squad (condensed military stencil), Last Round, Tecno Extrema, Madrid Grunge, Escabetxina, Face To Sun, Sailor Gonzalez (a tattoo font), Times Now (a codex font), Sergi Tete, Orgasm Co.

    Typefaces from 2020: Pocket Change, Basura Humana, Korean Icons, Construction Icons, Cowboy Manero (handcrafted, Western), National College, Big Junkie Joe, New World Order, Le Club Parisien, Hardcore Attitude (grungy), Orchestra Icons, Soccer Icons, Tennis, Billiard, Startup Icons, The Fortune, Imperator, La Ramera de Barcelona, The North Hell, Soccer Team, Traditional Punk (a ransom note font), Seismo Club (a glitch font), Ugly, Pistolas, Thailand Icons, Renderland (beveled), Traditional Tattoo Parlour, Retro Computer (halftone font), Vintage Glitch, Torquemada in da house, Louisiana Biker Shop, Le Casino Royale (vintage caps, almost Tuscan), Property of Thor, Los Angeles MMXX (a dripping blood blackletter), American Dreamer (a circus font), American Signs, Back To The Fantasy, Badass Draws, Ballooning, Barcelona Streets (a dripping paint font), Battle of Gettysburg, Bisturi Night Club (a marquee font), Born To be Strong (grungy), Bourbon Whiskey, Century Manero (blackletter), Crunch Motel, Decorative Stencil, Drunk Company, Fat Enterprise, Fellini Club, Gameboard, Gorilla Team, Grandma Rules (a stitching font), Grindcore Records (a scratchy font), Hygiene Icons, La Cebadita, Laia the Great Blondie, Latino Heart, Mass Hysteria, Neo Metropolis, Old Celtiberian (blackletter), Oscuro Club (a heavy grungy brush font), Pandemic&co, Poster Queen, Retro Killer (splattered blood font), Saint-Tropez, Sangre y Arena, Se Esta Lianado, Skate Brand (grungy), Spanish Nightmare (a glitch font), The Happy Bear, The Poster King (grungy), Trabello, Trapeze Artist, Western Samurai, City of Brussels, Daddy Ink (a dripping blood font), Conflictive, Albacete Team, Ornaments Salad, Strong Brain, Hand Shadows Icons, Hello Kitty, Bunker Lowercase (a blackletter), LSD Glitch, Rounder Dirty Team, Ole Torrero, Doctor Terror, Hello Chilly (a glitch font), Donuts Icons, Candy Icons, Holy Bible, Old Japanese, Gothic Notausgang, Adventure Magazine, Nordic Thunder, Black Metal, Franco Bros, Saigon Hotel, Piratas, English Bulldog, Mount Olympus (stone cut Greek emulation), Recreativos, Coronavirus, Dirty And Elegant (grungy), 18 Army (an army stencil), Dirty Streets (grungy), Dark Citizen (grungy), Wild Spain, Marbella, Woodcutter People Faces Vol2, Hawaiian Icons, Vietnam, Maps of USA, Comandante Glitch, Planets, Documenta (a shadow font), Ghetto Bros, Charnego (a wooden plank font), Westfalia (a blackletter), Oi!oi!oi! Party (a ransom note font), Bad Gringo (Tuscan), La Formalita, Sabandija Asquerosa, Woman Faces, Dark Tales, Model Woman Silhouettes, Super Impacto, Adolfo's Punk Restuarant, Virginia, Henry McCarty (a grungy western font), Neo Euskal Herria (a Basque font), Heartbreaking, Battery Icons, Space Rangers, Terremoto, La Distorsionada (a glitch font), New York Press (textured ultra fat caps).

    Typefaces from 2021: Retro Grunge West, The Bandido (spurred), Casino Madrid, Rosita's Dinner, Mom's Gang (a grungy slab serif), Las Brigadas (a military stencil), Typewriter Grunge, Fire Safety Icons, Zodiac Killer Code, Hearts Salad, American Offset (a halftone texture font) Schizoid Personality, Happy Ending (a dripping semen font), María Magdalen, Nuevo Orden Nacional, Future Shit, Carnage Movie Poster (brush), Big Holidays (counterless), San Judas Tadeo, The King Of Wall (a ransom note font), Graffiti City, Spanish College (a sports font), Campo De La Bota, History Icons, Gothic War, Rocking Bunny, White Storm, Police Department, Rebel Hero, Graphic Lady, La Casa Del Cementerio, Picapiedra (a 3d stone font), Barcelona Scared (a dripping blood font), Nightmare On Raval Streets, High Moon, The Lord of War, La Isla Tortuga (a pirate font), Carmen Polo Superstar (script), Napolitana, New Dimension (3d), Heavy Steel, Barna Hardcore, Fine Books (Initial caps), Descompensada (a ransom note font), Rifle Casual, Espana Imperial, Big Titles, La Costa Dorada is Spain, Brasil Icons, Indonesian Icons, Los Guripas (a grungy blackletter). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wordshape
    [Ian Lynam]

    Commercial fonts at this boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo, jointly run by Ian Lynam and Thien Huynh. Ian Lynam is a New Yorker who studied Graphic Design at Portland State University (B.S.) and California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A.). He is professor at Temple University Japan, as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design and the hybrid publishing imprint and type foundry Wordshape. MyFonts link. Images of most of Ian Lynam's typefaces.

    • Cern (2013). A sans family based on Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk and Univers, with large x-heights.
    • Vaud (2013). Ian writes: Vaud is a family of 40 weights of neutral, yet formally nuanced grotesk typefaces that takes inspiration from Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers and the original metal types from Switzerland, yet had a slightly larger x-height for more pronounced legibility.
    • Plural (2013). A futuristic sans family.
    • Sketch Caslon Italic (2013).
    • Raffish (2013). This is an ornamental caps typeface based on Henk Krijger's Raffia typeface.
    • Entity (2012). A basic sans family with slightly rounded corners.
    • Okojo (2012), Okojo Slab (2012) are geometric sans and slab serif typefaces influenced by the type designs of Paul Renner and Herb Lubalin. They were followed by Okojo Slab Display (2012) and Okojo Display (2012). In 2016, he rebundled everything as Okojo Pro and Okojo Slab Pro, Okojo Pro Stack and Okojo Slab Pro Stack.
    • Pompeian Cursive (2010). An elegant calligraphic script based on the original drawings by Oswald Cooper for BBS in 1927.
    • His Cooper series. Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Cooper Italic (2010, after Cooper's original from 1924), Boul Mich (2010, after Oswald Cooper's 1927 art deco typeface), Cooper Initials (2010), Cooper Old Style (2010), Cooper Capitals (2010), Cooper Text (2010), Cooper Black Condensed (2010), Cooper Black Swash (2010), Cooper Screamers (2010, oversized exclamation points), Cooper Black Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Fullface Italic Pro (2013).
    • Cruller (2010). A spidery display typeface that is based on lettering from a 1910 German lettering book.
    • Hanger (2004).
    • Rubber Vloeren. A geometric display typeface adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring.
    • Ensenada is a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.
    • Clobber Grotesk (2010) is a grotesk typeface designed for readability at very small sizes. It is accompanied by a nice stencil style.
    • International Blackletter (2010) is a collaborative display typeface designed for fun, together with Simon Gane and Selena Hoy.
    • Devil's Advocate is a digital version of the heavy blackletter typeface Cathedral Text found in the 1934 ATF typeface from the American Specimen Book of Type Styles (by ATF).
    • Sandberg Honorarium (2003) is inspired by the work of Dutch typographer Willem Sandberg.
    • Inversion (2010) is an uncial face.
    • Designer with Eli Carrico of the heavy stencil typeface Black-Out (2010, Wordshape) and the paperclip family Interno (2004), which was based on Walter Ballmer's logo for Olivetti in 1960.
    • Neuerland (2010) is an update of Rudolf Koch's Neuland.
    • Dorsal (2011) is a splendid versal lettering typeface that cries Absinthe Overload.
    • Off Broadway (2011) is a casual art deco face related to Oz Cooper's Boul Mich and to Nubian (ATF).
    • Cinta Adhesiva (2011, done with Mexican designer One Eye) began as a typeface designed for the masthead of a graffiti fanzine called Free Copy---the monumental letters painted by L.A.-based graffiti writers Crae and Hael greatly influenced the feel of the typeface.
    • Maat (2011) is a modular geometric stencil piano key face. It is a loose interpretation of a handlettered alphabet by the late Dutch designer Jurrian Schrofer called Sans Serious which was included in Wim Crouwel's publication Letters of Maat. It is inflected with a bit of influence from British designer Ken Garland's similar lettering form the cover of his textbook, The Graphics Handbook.
    • Effete (2011) is a tall stylish typeface similar in weight and proportion to fonts like Imre Reiner's skyline typeface Corvinus.
    • Adora (2011) is a typeface similar to Walter Tracy's AdSans.
    • Kihachiro Swash Italic (2011) has garalde forms but Caslonian curved terminals and weighty serifs. Kihachiro Geometric (2011) recalls Antique Olive and Futura.
    • Kirimomi Swash (2011) is a pair of garalde typefaces. Kirimomi Geometric (2011) is a humanist sans.
    • Kommisar (2012) is Lynam's version of the Trajan capitals alphabet.
    • Smythe Sans (2012) is a contemporary geometric sans serif family that is quite readable on-screen and in print.
    • Stebl Grotesk (2012) and Stebl Slab (2012) are workhorse typefaces for sturdy jobs.
    • Raker (+Stencil) and Raker Display (+Stencil) is a 40-style octagonal typeface family published in 2015. It was inspired by science fiction and space travel.
    • Iggy (2015) is based on the lettering of Australia-based Oklahoman artist, animator and lifelong skater Darin Bendall.
    • Stamen (2016). A 12-style sans typeface lost in time.
    • Smythe Sans Pro (2016) and Smythe Soft Pro (2016).
    • Biwa and Biwa Display (2017). A grotesk family by Ian Lynam and James Todd.
    • Glot (2019). A 10-style flared terminal sans family by James Todd and Ian Lynam. See also Glot Round from 2020.

    Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of From Bijin-ga to Brutus, in which he explains the work of graphic designers Hokuu Tada (1889-1948) and Seiichi Horiuchi (1933-1987). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    W.R. Symms

    Author of The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860, Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, London). Examples from that book: 14th century Lombardic, 15th century chancery. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    W.R. Tymms

    Author of The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860, Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, London). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    WunderMoosen

    American company that used to sell fonts inspired by historical documents or texts: American Beauty (formal script), Beethoven, Beethoven SuperCaps (blackletter), Book of JKells (Celtic), Elizabeth R, English Courthand, Merchantshand, Merchantshand Alternate, Rembrandt, Renaissance, Rheims (blackletter), Rheims SuperCaps, Roundhand, Swiss Gothic, Tiffany. 5 USD a piece. Since 2006, these fonts are free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wundes
    [John B. Wundes]

    Graphic designer John B. Wundes (b. 1971, California) established the Wundes foundry in Hayward, CA, in 2005. MyFonts catalog.

    • Ossuary (2005) is a font in which each letter is formed using a uniquely arranged pile of skulls. The font was inspired by images from the Kostnice ossuary in Sedlec, Kutna Hora near Prague.
    • Neona (2006) takes inspiration from neon signs.
    • Road Stencil (2006) is a font based on painted street markings: The letters are stretched roughly six times their normal height so that when viewed from an angle, the text is seen as proportional.
    • In 2007, Wundes published Boilerplate, Broadveau (art nouveau), Sprouts (which he calls bonsai nouveau), Fairybook (ornamental caps face), Caard (credit card text face), Museum Initials (scanned from the engravings of Freeman Delamotte, 1879), and Henry8 (16th century caps font).

    View John Wundes's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wuttisak Sukmorn

    Illustrator in Bangkok, who drew an illustrated human figurine alphabet called Ramayana (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xaviera Comics
    [Vic Fieger]

    American graphic designer (b. 1982) located in Medway, MA, who has created many free fonts, and some low cost commercial fonts. He is also known for his web comic, Dubmarine. Until 2006, all his fonts were free, but starting in 2006, he started selling them via MyFonts.

    In 2004, he created Airstrip Four, AlphaEcho, Boston Traffic (a freestencil typeface), Breakaway, CarbonType (old typewriter), Corporate HQ, DataControl (nice octagonal face), DataControlUnifon, Delta Echo, Eurocentric, FormerAirline, GangofThree (oriental simulation), Helsinki (comic book font), IonicCharge (LCD simulation), JamPact, KarmaticArcade, KnowYourProduct (stencil), LandSpeedRecord, MajorSnafu (stencil; Major Snafu Pro (2012) is a cooperation with Cheap Pro Fonts), NervousRex, Osaka-SansSerif (techno), PillboxOpaque (dripping blood face), QuickEndJerk, Refrigeration, SiameseKatsong, Tetroserbogia, Umbrage, Virgo01, Whitehall1212, Xenophone (+Pro version in 2011), Yukarimobile, ZonaArmada. In 2005, he designed FrauleinUnifon, Fraulein, Fraulain II, Fraulein Hex, NukuNuku (oriental simulation face), OffshoreBankingBusiness, PlannedObsolescence, TerryScript, Wunderbar, YachtingType, Zero&Zero-Is, Xerography, FrauleinHex, ICBMSS20, ICBMSS25 (stencil typefaces), Hydrogen Type, Gumbercules, Kremlin (Cyrillic letter simulation; followed in 2010 and 2014 by Kremlin Pro and Kremlin II Pro at CheapProFonts), Johnny Homicide, Lilac Malaria, Motorway, Offshore Banking Business, Planned Obsolescence, Nuku Nuku Paradiso (Asian simulation), Quadrophonic, Ruth Script, Shoplifter (ransom note font), Under Influence (scratchy face), Viva Allende, KarmaticRevolution (with Mike "Karma" Alkire), RanmorianStd-B (artificial language script) and Ex (kana).

    His 2006 additions, still free: Big in America, Maxine Script, Gisele Script, Siamese Katsong (oriental simulation), Pokopen, Grecian Formula (Greek simulation), Edo (brush; this became Edo Pro in 2010), Armalite Rifle (grunge stencil; a Pro version followed in 2010), Ruth Script, Terry Script, Oil Age Heiroglyphs (grunge), Nyamomobile (gorgeous futuristic stencil face), Q-Bert's Funeral, Xtreme Chrome, Fawn Script, Ukiah Caps (a hip all caps face), Banzai (fake Japanese), 106 Beats That, Azudings1, Fawn Script, Freelance Kamchatka, and Daisy Script.

    Commercial fonts: Sixpak (2008, pixel face), Jaipur (2007, Indic script simulation), Santa Mensch (2006, brush face), Celonius Mark XIX (2006 geometric design), Argon Type (2006, futuristic), India Echo (2007, futuristic), How to Consume Oxygen (2007, grunge), Statue Of Liberty's Underwear (2007, Russian constructivist style), Moon Corps (2007, katakana), Underwood Champion (2008, free distressed typewriter), Heavy Data (2008, a computer simulation face). Perlmutter (2008) is a Hebrew and Yiddish font designed for the purpose of legibility at great distance (included are niqqud, letters with dagesh, punctuation, sheqel sign, and aleph-lamed ligature). In 2009, he created Edifice Wrecks (graffiti), Damon Script (comic book face) and Maritime Flags and Curses (dingbat face). Fonts made in 2010: Single Sleeve. In 2015, he created Extended Play.

    Fonts at FontStruct in 2009: Newhome (LED simulation).

    Free fonts made in 2011: Death to Smudgey (grunge), Lino Chisel (2011).

    Fontsy link. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. Kernest link . Devian Tart link. FontM link. Dafont link. Aka Xaviera Comics. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    xpunkdreamdoll

    LA-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Under The Sea (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    xrayman

    British designer of Baby Toys (1999) and Elfabet Decorative (1999). Elfabet is a digitization of an ornamental caps alphabet of Doug Keith (1981). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yachna Marwah

    During her studies in New Delhi, Yachna Marwah designed a decorative caps typeface called Sex Education (2016-2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yahya Rifandaru
    [Singpentinkhappy (or: Colors Happy)]

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    Yai Salinas

    Graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, at some point located in Madrid, Spain, who made the free purely geometric typeface called Geometric Way in 2010.

    In 2014, Yai made the free decorative caps typeface Craft (for craftsmen), the Greek-inspired caps typeface Hera and Destroy (2014: futuristic ornamental initials. Free download). In 2014, Tano Veron and Yai Salinas co-designed the free vector format colored display typeface Carioca.

    In 2015, Yai Salinas created the hipster typeface Hera, the free blueprint font Craft Font, free vector font Helana (color, all caps) and the free decorative caps typeface Sea.

    Typefaces from 2016: The free experimental draftsman typeface Lieben, the free textured ink-saving Arial GTI and Times GTI, the high contrast didone-inspired free fashion mag typeface Ginebra (revitalized in 2022 as GinZwei), the free decorative blackletter typeface Ethelvina, and the free thin connect-the-dots typeface Fina (which was designed for Design Hooks).

    Typefaces from 2017: Gaia (floral caps), Aires (a free color font at Fontself), the free textured color typeface Electra, the free colorful all caps Ariel Black typeface.

    Typefaces from 2018: Mercurio SVG (+color), Iris SVG, Russia 2018 (color fonts), Portugal, Sppain, Germany, England, France, Argentina, Flux (a nicely textured all caps color slab serif), Agatha (a free tall condensed slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2019: Margo (floral initial caps), Renata (a text family), Flora (textured caps), Easter (textured caps), Antiça, Crack (decorative caps), Christmas, Itze (a colorful textured all caps typeface), Demeter, Regia (floriated caps), Venus (free).

    Typefaces from 2020: Kaliope (a delicate and daring fashion mag display typeface), Acelga (a warm text typeface), Mora, Cut & Paste (a ransom note font), Nagy (Memphis-style exuberant capital letters), Block (3d), Konga (a wonderful color font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Mood Font (colourful and festive), Cleo (decorative caps).

    Flickr page, where she goes under the name Dopamina. Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yan Yee Kwok

    Singapore-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Flash Thoughts (2014). This font was a school project at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yang Bo

    Beijing-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2018, in which each glyph evokes a famous artist. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yannis Haralambous
    [gothic mf]

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    Yanny Cheng

    Hong Kong-based designer of Tortoise Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yash Pradhan

    Mumbai, India-based designer of Gradient Stripes Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yashan Tsai

    Taiwanese designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yeji Choi

    Busan, Korea-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2017 called Instrumnent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yeonjae Lee

    Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Love Buzz (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yi-Shan Lin

    Tainan city, Taiwan-based designer of the exquisite decorative caps typeface Mushroom Garden (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yok Teng Lai

    During her graphic design studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Yok Teng Lai created an ornamental caps typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoki Yao

    During her studies at Yoobee School of Design in Auckland, New Zealand, Yoki Yao created an ornamental caps typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoko Kristiansen

    Student-designer in Houston, TX, of Drop Cap Stamps (2015), an incomplete but fascinating set of letters inspired by early Greek art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yong

    Singapore-based designer of Bento (2008, ornamental caps), Bright Lights (2008), Zebra (2008) and AG Stencil (2008: very nice!). His web site is also called 110, or the Institute for Process Thought&Design. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoshihide Shimazawa

    Tokyo-based designer of the decorative typeface Aphrodite (2015), which is based on the skeleton of the Venus comb murex sea snail. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    You Work For Them (or YWFT; formerly Cinahaus or TrueIsTrue)
    [Michael Cina]

    Michael Cina (Minneapolis) is the cofounder of WeWorkForThem and YouWorkForThem (in 2002), also known as YWFT. Before that, he ran TrueIsTrue, and before that was partner in Test Pilot Collective (which he left in 2001), and before that he ran Cinahaus. YWFT is located in Knoxville, TN and/or Baltimore, MD. The creative director is Michael Paul Young.

    Cina's fonts include the pixel fonts YWFT Caliper (1998), YWFT Bit (1998), 6x7oct (1998) and BlackGold; the handwriting font Cinahand; Blessed (1999, techno), YWFT Cam (1998, a slab serif based on industrial lettering), CommunityService, Crossover (1998, dot matrix with stars instead of dots), Composite (1998, octagonal), Formation (1999, a big octagonal family), Jute (2004, a masculine, military, sans-serif), YWFT Maetl (1999, octagonal, angular family), YWFT Moteur (a technical, retro, machine-like design; it briefly went under the name Alloy---in the early 2000s it was heavily used in the video gaming magazine Playstation), YWFT Novum (2002: a heavy block font that draws inspiration from a typeface originally used by the Swiss graphic designer Siegfried Odermatt), Pakt, Reversion (1997, squarish), Selector, Selek (1998, pixelish), YWFT Blackgold (2000, pixelish), Service (2001-2002, an octagonal family), YWFT Signature (1998), Trisect (1999, three-lined family), Unisect (1999, organic monoline sans), YWFT Ultramagnetic (1996, a popular rounded gothic typeface family), Ultramagnetic2 (1999), YWFT Ultramagnetic Expanded (2011), YWFT Ultramagnetic Rough (1996-2017), Unfinished. Bastard (1998), Kcap6 (with Matt Desmond), Cheese (1998), Novum (2002), Overcross (2002, unfocused letters), Stem (1998), Testacon (with Kral and Desmond, 1999), Praun (2002, pixel typefaces), OneCross (2002, pixelish stitching family), Estenceler (2004, a great stencil family a bit related to Milton Glaser's Glaser Stencil), Graphium (2004, octagonal Western style family), Expos (2004, graffiti or poster face), YWFT Pixacao (2007, after the Brazilian graffiti style), Vox (2007, monoline sans), Militia Sans (2007, like a Russian constructivist stencil), Jupiter (roman), Militia (2007, heavier stencil), Merc (2007, grunge), Guild (2007), Clarendon Text (2007, a complete revival), Jezebel (2007, script), Ambassador Script (2007, a digital revival of Novarese's typeface by that name), Enam (2002, influenced by Crouwel), Enigmatic Hand (2007), Dusty (2007, a Tuscan-eared Western font), YWFT Poplock (2007, experimental), YWFT Pakt (2004, geometric sans), Sudsy (2007), Black Sabbath (2008, ultra black slab serif, by Stefan Kjartansson), YWFT Belle (2008), YWFT Agostina (2008), YWFT Bitwood (2007-2017, pixelish Western typeface), YWFT Mullino (2009, letterpress emulation), Trithart (2008, grunge by Emma Trithart), YWFT Tapscott (2008-2017, informal and nostalgic all caps family, in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Habano (2008, script), Amorinda (signage script), Retron (2008, connected script), MD01 (medical-themed dingbats), Adelaide (script), Centennial Script (calligraphic), Alexia (calligraphic), Ultramagnetic (experimental), Nash (1997, grunge), Amber (kitchen tile), Fab (3d), 6x7 Oct (1998, pixels and dots), Wool (2009, stencil), YWFT Matter (2009, a wide bold grotesque), YWFT Merriam (2009, a Clarendon-styled slab serif), Agostina Alternate (2011, with Michael Paul Young and Taechit Jiropaskosol), Ramsey (2012), YWFT Dessau (2013, schizograms and capitals like Bauhaus on drugs), YWFT League (2014, inspired by college football jerseys), YWFT Yoke (poster typeface done with Pintassilgo), YWFT Illuminati (2015, abstract capitals).

    Blog. His lovely g poster (2010).

    House fonts at YWFT by unknown designers: YWFT Knit (2010: knitting patterns), YWFT Motif (2015), Ramsey Condensed (2015), YWFT Roamer (2016), YWFT Whisky (alchemic), YWFT Psychosis, YWFT Processing (2001-2010: YWFT Processing was developed in 2001 for Casey Reas, the co-creator of the Processing programming language. We created this display face to be sharp, tall, unique and interesting...much like Mr. Reas himself. The font was derived from an original logo that already existed, and we continued the idea into a fully working six-weight font family. YWFT Processing was converted to Opentype format in 2010), YWFT Filbert (2012), YWFT Nim (2012, combining the hipster style with overlays for bevel and shadow effects), Dogma (2012, alchemic), Attic (spooky poster face, in EPS format), YWFT Yoke (textured all-caps), Riblah (2003, dot matrix), YWFT Fraktur (tattoo face), YWFT Burls (2013, fat poster typeface), YWFT Coltrane (2011, handdrawn poster typeface), YWFT Symplify (2013: haute couture snowflakes), YWFT Smoothie, YWFT Chance (2016), YWFT Skipper (2016), YWFT Wheatgrass (2016), YWFT Estee (2002-2017), YWFT Watermelon (2017), YWFT Ink (2017, originally designed in 2008), YWFT QUE, YWFT Burtonian (2017, named after Tim Burton), YWFT Crew (handcrafted), YWFT Maudlin (2017), YWFT Liana (2017; perhaps plumbing dingbats, who knows?), YWFT Victoria (2010: a bonbonnerie type), YWFT Valley (2017: a Memphis movement type), YWFT Wellsworth (2017), YWFT Harmony (2008-2017, a curly calligraphic script), YWFT Edger (2017), YWFT Chateau, YWFT Gummy (2002-2018), YWFT Blender (2018), YWFT Fluctuant (2018: a variable font), YWFT Gavin (a ransom note font) (2021), Ramsey (2021: a 54-style rounded squarish typeface), YWFT Hugo (2021: a child's hand).

    View Michael Cina's typefaces. Alternate URL. Behance link. Interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ysabela Nunez

    In 2017, Ysabela Nunez, who is based in The Philippines, designed the display typeface Vegetable, as well as a human silhouette alphabet font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yu Hasegawa

    Osaka, Japan-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Divine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yudha Destiangga

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Wonderlnd (2014), an experimental typeface composed of graphical pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuliya Sobotyuk

    Aka Yufrukt. Slavic designer who lives in Den Haag, The Netherlands where she works as a freelance illustrator. She graduated in 2011 from the KABK in Den Haag. In 2013, she created a hand-illustrated children's alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yumi Takeda

    Portland, OR-based designer who created an untitled floriated caps typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuna Himura

    Spanish designer who is working on a project that involves working animals into capital letters. An example: Mosquito Diotima Roman (2006), with a gorgeous mosquito on a capital M. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yunyuang Zhang

    At Nottingham Trent University in the UK, Yunyuang Zhang designed the butterfly-inspired ornamental caps typeface Danaus Gilippus (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yusof Mining
    [Gearwright]

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    Yusuf Algan

    Designer and illustrator in Berlin (was: Bonn), Germany. In 2012, he made a wonderful ornamental caps face, World Font, which illustrates 26 of the main scripts in the world today. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuzlem Cholak

    Toronto-based creator of the decorative alphabet Mirror Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yves Michel

    Koksijde, Belgium-based designer of the roman titling typefaces Via Appia (2019: beveled) and Pompei (2019, accompanied by decorative caps), the tuxedoed art deco typeface Valentino (2019), the cursive script typeface Coxyde (2019) and the connected script typefaces Cursyves (2019) and Abecedary (2019, +Stencil). Typornament Prague (2019) is a pure Victorian typeface based on an alphabet seen in Milan Kopriva's book Typoornamenty (1991, Pluto Publishers, Prague).

    Typefaces from 2020: Carl Larsson (a script based on the handwriting of famous Swedish painter Carl Larsson, 1853-1919), Clipangle, Claroscuro (striped caps), Virgule, Juneasvik (handcrafted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zac Ong

    Singapore-based creator of the caps typeface Candy Font (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zach Lanoue

    American musician (b. 1987) who created these free caps fonts (in jpg format): Stump or tree Alphabet (2005), Human Alphabet (2005, medieval human alphabet), Block Font two (2005), Block Font (2005). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zachary Halleck

    Greenville, SC-based creator of the Palatino-inspired roman caps typeface Jackson (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zain Abdillah
    [Zain Studio]

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    Zain Studio
    [Zain Abdillah]

    Wonosobo, Indonesia-based designer of the monoline script typefaces Rosallinda (2019) and Quattro (2018), the signage script typefaces Rallina (2019) and Billyon (2019), the fashion mag typeface Brandson (2019), and the handcrafted typeface Roller Dodlle (2019) and Sweet Donuts (2019).

    Typefaces from 2020: Hello Doctor (script), Berlin Monogram (decorative caps), Stayola (script), Unicorn Dancing, Garden Party (script), Bolder, Darllinge, Rosallinda, Power Sell, Adventures, Smiles Women (an upright script), Beauty Moon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zarynn A

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based designer of a cat-themed decorative caps typeface (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zarynn Ahmad

    During her art design studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Zarynn Ahmad created the cat-themed caps typeface Cat (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zeppelin Graphics
    [Alex Traian Munteanu]

    Bucharest, Romania-based designer of these typefaces in 2018: Forests (a layered decorative all caps typeface), Habanos Retro, Quentin (serif), Hydra (futuristic), Lapland (a script and Christmas icons), Galla (font duo), Berthe Script, Bella Script (monoline), Storyland, Two Adventures, Andy One.

    Typefaces from 2019: Arrogant, Hermannstadt, Hotel Royal (vintage, art deco), Celestar.

    Typefaces from 2020: Hotel Imperial (Victorian), Fantasya, Coodles (a 20-style hand-drawn collection), Avantgarde Sans, Berry (slab serif and tattoo font), Woodman (a rugged slab serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zetafonts (Tangram Studio)
    [Peter von Zezschwitz]

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

    Zoe P

    Hanoi, Vietnam-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Amaki (2015), which was inspired by sushi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zoelyn Gunawan

    At NTU School of Art and Design Media, Zoelyn Gunawan (Singapore) created a decorative 3d typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zono Fonts
    [Rik Verlin Livingston]

    Wonderful collection of Mac and PC fonts by Rik Verlin Livingston. Direct download. The fonts: Zono (comic book style), ZonoBold (comic book style), ZonoCreatureCaps (2000), Zono Dingbats (2000: a gonzo dingbat face), ZonoPlanetClipArt, ZonoToon, ZonoToonBold, ZonoToonCompressed.

    Dafont link. Rik Verlin graduated in 1987 from the San Francisco Art Institute. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zsuzsanna Erdélyi

    During her graphic design studies in Budapest, Zsuzsanna Erdélyi designed the exquisite Obuda multilined caps typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zulya Dzulkefli

    Designer of the geometric decorative caps typeface Britomart in 2017 during her studies at ACG Yoobee School of Design in Auckland, New Zealand. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zumra Waheed

    Maldivian / Malaysian designer. She designed the Highheel all caps typeface in 2008. No font downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿