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Zagreb-based Croatian designer (b. 1982) of Oktober (2005, organic style) and Manu (2005, futuristic). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alphabet Design
| Boris Mahovac is a great Croatian designer. He founded Alphabet Design in Oakville, Ontario. One of his famous fonts is the kitchen tile face Kalendar. Other creations: Pixelina, Borek, Duckling, Fat Trace, Kloi (now Kloi BT (2004)), Tabita BT (2005, an informal font), and the great patterns of the Symbols font, JechoTecho. From the web site: He started working with digital fonts back in the days of bitmap fonts, sometime in 1988. At that time the studio operated in Zagreb, (former) Yugoslavia, which later became the capital of independent Croatia, under the name PixelPrint. The name changed to Abeceda Dizajn in 1992 while establishing itself as a successful typographic studio that specialized in font localization and type consulting. Abeceda Dizajn studio was the official distributor and manufacturer for Bitstream Inc. for Croatia and Slovenia from 1995 until 1997, when it relocated to Canada. Today, Alphabet Design is again a Bitstream re-seller. In 2005, Bitstream published Kloi, Borhand Tabitha, Duckling, as well as JechoTecho1 (the latter face was made by Evzen Jecho). Alphabet Design is donating all its proceeds of January 2005 to tsunami aid. In 2005, cartoonist Branimir Zlamalik created Smiles (dingbats) and Ulixa (comic book family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Croatian designer of Ugly R (2011) and Ana Sparavec (2011, handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian creator of Origami (2009), a paperfold typeface. Zeman lives in Zagrebwhere he studies industrial design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Babushke
| Babushke is a design cooperative in Zagreb that includes Marija Juza, who is the codesigner with Nikola Djurek of Balkan (2012, Typonine), a type system for Latin and Cyrillic that was awarded by TDC in 2011. Babushke created Herbert (2012), which is based on Herbert Bayer's early Bauhaus sketches. It is a low contrast 3-style typeface whose function is to properly align text in blocks. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Split-based Croatian designer (b. 1978) of Fast Magic Marker (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and interior designer in Zagreb, Croatia. He made FingerDraw Font (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CheapProfonts
| Started in 2008, this web place by Norwegian entrepreneur Roger S. Nelsson (based in Honningsvåg, Norway) sells fonts by Ray Larabie, Brian Kent, Nick Curtis, Derek Vogelpohl and Kevin King that were originally freeware fonts. Nelsson reworked them (more glyphs, more multilingual) and asks about 10 dollars per font now. He says his fonts now cover these Latin languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, Frisian, Galican, German, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Saami (Inari), Saami (Lule), Saami (North), Saami (South), Scots (Gaelic), Serbian (latin), Slovak(ian), Slovene, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Ulithian, Walloon, Welsh, Yapese. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of cowboy_hippie and Syndrome X (DNA-look face inspired by Syndrome BRK by Brian Kent). Nelsson's fonts are Classic Trash BRK Pro, Dynamic BRK Pro, Galapogos BRK Pro, Genotype BRK Pro, King Cool KC Pro (kid's hand; done with Kimberly Geswein), Lamebrain BRK Pro, Matrise Pro and Matrise Text Pro (dot matrix), Phorfeit BRK Pro, Syndrome BRK Pro, Technique BRK Pro, Vigilance BRK Pro, Grapple BRK Pro. The "BRK" refers to Brian Kent, the original free font designer. In 2009, he added a number of fonts that were done by Nick Curtis some years before that (hence the "NF"): Boogie Nights NF Pro (art deco face), Copasetic NF Pro, Coventry Garden NF Pro, Pro, Fontleroy NF Pro, Hamburger Heaven NF Pro, Monterey Popsicle NF Pro, and Wooden Nickel NF Pro. Trypewriter Pro (2009) is based on Kevin King's Trypewriter. Helldorado Pro (2009) is a Tuscan wood type style face based on a font by Levente Halmos. Designer of Familiar Pro (2011, designed with the same metric as Helvetica but "better than Arial"), Bloco Pro (2010, fat counterless face), Trump Town Pro (2009, athletic lettering slab serif), Geometric Soft Pro (2009), Geometry Script Pro (2010, upright connected script), DIN Fun Pro (2011), Infantometric Pro (2012), Foobar Pro (2012) and Cheap Pro Fonts Serif (2009), freely available from Dafont. Fontspace link. Fontsquirrel link. Catalog of Nelsson's bestselling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
This Corel font is on Nenad Zanko's Croatian site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian fonts, including Courier New, Arial, Times New Roman, Helvetica, Times PP, Verdana. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The zip file has about ten Croatian truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dach's Place (Hrzo's Fonts) | Hrzica Davor from Croatia showcases many dingbat fonts, including Monotype dingbats such as Df Calligraphic Ornaments, Df Diversions, and df Diversities. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Darko Zubrinic from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Av. Vukovar 39, Zagreb, Croatia, has created a set of TeX and METAFONT files called Croatian Glagolitic (1995-1996). It contains 367 symbols covering Croatian Glagolitic (round, angular, Baska Tablet, quickscript, about 60 ligatures, Baromic broken ligatures, calligraphic letters), Croatian Cyrillic, Stechak ornaments, and Croatian wattle patterns. See also here. The fonts are described in his paper "Croatian fonts", TUGboat, Vol. 17, 1996. This page also has links to other Glagolitic fonts. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian designer from Zagreb (b. 1957) who created the Glagolitic faces GlagolicaUnicode (1998) and Staroslavenski unicode (1998). These fonts can be found here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian graphic designer. She created a revival of a XVIth century ornamental caps face in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian creator of the bouncy handprinted font Zimamedia (2000, with Kresimir Zimonic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian designer of PX Glagolitic 01, a freeware pixel font for glagolitic script. Regalar and bold versions are available. Recommended usage size is 8pt. He also made the great free pixel family PX Sans Nouveaux (2008), about which he writes: Sans nouveaux is designed for the malcontents. [...] Sans nouveaux is serious business. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eugen Divjak | Croatian designer from Zagreb of the Glagolitic font Krcka glagoljska kurziva (2002, also called Kr*ka notarska *kola), a glagolitic quickscript from the island of Krk. This face can be found here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Free Mac fonts in the EversonMono series for CSX, Celtic, Croatian, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Gaelic, Georgian, Greek, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Ogham, Romanian, Sami, and Turkish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zagreb, Croatia-based designer (b. 1998) of the grungy Broken Life (2009), which can be downloaded from Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the beautiful font Epistula Croatica (2011), a Glagolitic face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Filip Gjurin (Zagreb, Croatia) created the stencil typeface Gjurencil (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Croatia, Garibaldi's 2000+ font archive with previews. A bit slow, but this direct access page will help a lot! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dino Manzella's draft on a book entitled Forgotten Scripts: a Book of Runes. Fantastic pages in all respects! Many fonts can be downloaded. Includes Academiury-ITV (Georgian, by Alexander&Temuri Imnaishvili), Rashi, Alex and ChayaBold (by Aaron Schmiedel), Angelic and Enochian (by Digital Type Foundry), several rune fonts by Dan Smith, Beth-Luis-Fearn and Beth-Luis-Nion (by Curtis Clark), Cherokee (by Joseph LoCicero), Moonrune (Morton Bek, 1995), Eshmoon (by Salim G. Khalaf, Family Health International), Glagoljica UGL and Glagoljica OBL (old Croatian; by Zox), RK Meroitic, RK Sanskrit, RK Ugaritic, Mendel Siddur, Nug-Soth (by Daniel U. Thibault), Tzipporah and RuthFancy (by AFS Ltd), and RNIB Braille. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quoting: The Glagolitic script (Glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic script and supposedly was created by the missionaries St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD). They needed it to translate the bible and other religious texts into Old Slavic language when the Slavic world converted to Christianity. The letters were probably modeled after a cursive Greek script. With their translations which were based on a slavic dialect of the Thessaloniki area, they created the literary standard known as Old Church Slavonic. The name Glagolitic comes from the fourth letter of the script, glagol. Glagol in turn stems from the Serbo-Croatian glagoljica, from Old Church Slavonic glagolu (word). The script was also referred to as azbuka which is a generic term derived from the names of the first two letters of the alphabet. The Glagolitic script consists of 33 basic letters whose order is mainly based on the Greek script, apart from some letters that represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek language. The origin of the shape of the non-Greek Glyphs is unknown, some say they are derived from hebrew or Coptic script, but there is little evidence. The earliest documents written in Glagolitic are from the 9th century. Glagolitic was used until the 12th century and then gradually replaced by Cyrillic, sometimes Latin in liturgical uses. Only in Croatia was it used in church until the 19th century, because in 1248, the Croats had been given special permission by Pope Innocent IV to use their own language and script in liturgy. In Croatia, the rounded shapes of the Glagolitic Glyphs (seen above) also evolved into a very distinctive, more square variant which features a lot of ligatures. Today, Glagolitic is a dead script only used for research and scholarly purposes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian designer and illustrator. In 2010, he created Fourteen Stencil. In 2011, he made Paperfold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Croatia, V. Gaco's font editor for bitmaps (FON) on Windows. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2012, he designed the fat signage typeface Zembo Script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free font manager (about 1MB zipped) from ZIK in Zagreb, Croatia. Alternate site. Windows software. MacOS version under development. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
iDEA2Design
| iDEA2Design is Danko Thomas' outfit in Croatia. He has some fonts, but I could not locate them. Alternate URL. One font is called identity (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mini-archive with the Belwe family (Bitstream, tuned for East European by MAJUR Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia, 1995), as well as Bernhard Modern. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Inkclear
| Luis Carlos Redondo (Inkclear) is an art director, illustrator and designer in Zagreb, Croatia. He made the heavy slab serif headline face Heavyweight (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Croatian designer (b. 1987) of the childish handwriting face Madness (2008), also called Kai's Hangover Truetype Font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian graphic designer in Zagreb who made a great Adobe Garamond Pro poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivana Ziljak is a graphic designer who teaches at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Department of Typography, in Zagreb, Croatia. she has designed type and is working towards a doctoral degree. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive with the Monotype families Courier New CE, Times New Roman CE, Arial CE. Also, Lucida Sans, and a Swiss family (type 1), adapted by Tefik Becirovic, Zagreb, for use in East-European languages. Link went dead. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zagreb, Croatia-based designer of the ultra-contrasted ABC Art Typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klaudio Pap | Klaudio Pap (PhD) is assistant professor in the Faculty of Graphic Arts teaching Computer Typography, Computer graphics and Computer programming. He also teaches Design and Computer reprophotography, Computer Typography and at the Polytechnic of Zagreb Web Search and Navigation, Web Interactive Programming, Graphic software Languages and Digital Printing. Klaudio has been engaged in research and development in the areas of computer graphics, image and text processing, modeling and simulation with computers, web technologies, digital printing and graphic software languages. He is co-author of two books and has published more then 30 scientific papers. He has co-authored development and software packages and has taken active part in research projects being head in three of them. Since February 2005 he is associate member of the Croatian Technical Science Academy. At ICTVC 2007, he spoke about Development of PostScript Procedures for Transformations of Digital Typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Croatian creator of the bouncy handprinted font Zimamedia (2000, with Drasko Ivezic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces created in 2012: Wrong Ink (ink run face). | |
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Luka Juras | Croatian designer of this border type font (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Luka Peric studies design at the University of Zagreb. In 2012, he created the stencil serif type family Thea. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A Croatian company that sells East European fonts based on Bitstream originals. The 1600 TrueType font CD sells for 78 dollars. Bitstream fonts with East-European details. Check also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mare Rajcic is an art director and graphic designer located in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2011, she created some logotypes, as well as a paper-fold typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rijeka, Croatia-based illustrator and graphic designer. Creator of a poster for Carol Twombly's 1997 font, Chaparral (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator, photographer and web artist from Zagreb, Croatia, b. 1985. Creator of the fat rounded counterless font Slukoni-Medium (2009), and the anorexic monoline face Obli (2010). Dafont link. Kernest link . [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian graphic designer and photographer, b. 1985, who lives in Osijek. He created the modular face Tea Leaf in 2009. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American graphic designer in Rijeka, Croatia. Designer of the ball terminal face Sumac (2010), the prismatic face Aviary (2011), Minor Slab and the self-described badass sans face On Ramp (2011, Lost Type), Leaden (2012), Anchor (2012). Behance link. Creattica link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian designer of the handprinted face Mihaela Borak (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Two free Croatian TrueType fonts: GlagoljicaUGLStaroHrvatskoPismo, Glagoljica_IIIstaroMakedonskopismo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milo Typografik
| 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 faces: 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] ⦿ |
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Born in 1971 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated on Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she now works as an assistant. Simultaneously, she is doing a masters degree at ALU, Ljubljana, Slovenija, specializing in Visual Communications Design. Winner of an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition with her experimental security-oriented typeface "Monitoring". Digital reviver of the nice angular glagolitic font family Vrbnik Missal style (angular glagolitic, 1456) consisting of GLAG_1 (1995) and NIKI_l (1995). These fonts can be found here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nenad Hancic (Glagolitica Fonts&Co) specializes in Glagolitic. He created two fonts, Croatica (2009), and Glagolica Missal DPG. The lower case letters of Glagolica Missal DPG are based on Missal from 1483, while the capital letters are based on those of Transit of St. Jerome from 1508. Nenad lives in Duesseldorf, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Croatian designer (b. 1990) of Jelusic Dizajn (2011) and Jelusic Rukopisni (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pixel Print | This is the now defunct foundry of Boris Mahovac in Zagreb that produced a number of knock-off fonts between 1992 and 1995, such as Addressans_PP, Baskwille_PP, Candidate_PP, Cavalier_PP, Centrepiece_PP, FuturSans_PP.ttf GarantiquaBlack_PP, Garantiqua_PP, Handy_Script_PP, HelveticaHeavy_PP, Lubaline_PP, OptiMistik_PP, Pixies_PP, RomanExtraPP, Universans450_PP, Universans570_PP, and Universans670_PP. Since that episode, Boris Mahovac became a member of TypeRight, an organization that has as its goal the protection of typefaces (including, I guess, protection against knock-offs). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Croatian designer of the psychedelic face Blow (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zagreb, Croatia-based designer (b. 1991) of the handprinted outline face Fontdizajnesrki (2011) and of Rober (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zadar, Croatia-based designer. Creator of Renedi Sans (2007), a 21st century version of Didot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian, b. 1986, who made the handwriting font Tena (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marina aka Selina Huber grew up near Pula in Croatia, and applied graffiti on cows and sheep as a youngster. She is now based in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Behance link. She designed the Kanzlei typeface Son of Bach (2012), which permits layering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typetester
| On-line screen font tester, wriiten by Marko Dugonjic (Croatia). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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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. His typefaces include Slovit, an interpretation of the Cyrillic version of the Renaissance cursive, and Adamant BG (2009) is a sturdy Cyrillic family. In 2010, this family became PF Adamant Pro (Parachute). Later in 2010, it was awarded Third Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Cyrillic text typefaces. MyFonts link. Free downloads here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian Masters student in graphics technologies and engineering in Zagreb. He created the modular display face Fade (2010) which makes creative use of ball terminals. Quarity (2011) is an experimental labyrinthine face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive of free foreign language fonts covering Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Celtic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Old English, Farsi, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Myanmar, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from Polytechnics University in Zagreb, and student at the New York Online School for Design. Behance link. He created the fat counterless face Geometry Circle (2010). MyFonts link. Vjeko Sumic Design Studio, located in Serbia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Koncar is a visual artist and designer born in 1979 in Bjelovar, Croatia. He lives in Zagreb where he works as art director, information architect and designer at the multidisciplinary design studio Revolucija, which he co-founded in 2004. He is into experimental typography, by which he means that he creates alphabets (not fonts) out of objects. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian designer (b. 1973) of the round and angular Glagolitic fonts Glagoljica-IIIstarohrvatskopismo, GlagoljicaUGLStaroHrvatskoPismo in 1995. These faces may be found here and here. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Croatian designer (b. 1988) of the geometric art deco face 
Freelance graphic designer in Zagreb, Croatia. She made the devilish blackletter face 
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Croatian graphic designer in Zagreb who made a stunning 
