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Czech typefoundry in the 20th century. Fonts by them include Gregr Roman (1930), Gregr Italic (1931), and Dyrynk Lateinschrift (1928), all made by Karel Dyrynk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based foundry. Acquired in 1907 by H. Berthold AG. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech design studio. Behance link. Creator of the blackletter / metal band face Gothicecream (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adam Josefus
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Turkish born Akile Nazli Kaya (b. 1980) is a graduate of the Graphic Design Departmant of Bilkent University in Ankara. Her experience in animation and film studies started in 2005 at Film School Zlin in Czech Republic. Today, she is an animator and film director located in Prague. Behance link. Creator of the semi-serif typeface Idiot (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer (b. 1964), who holds an MA in Typo/graphic studies from London School of Printing. He founded Alba studio Ltd. in 1996, now Alba Design Press Ltd. in Prague. With his colleagues and design historian Dr. Iva Janakova he co-founded the design magazine Deleatur and served as editor. He teaches at the Academy of Architecture and Design in Prague (where he is a current PhD. candidate) and the Merz Academy in Stuttgart (2002). He was on the organizing committees of the International Graphic Design Biennale in Brno 2004, 2006 and the ATypI Congress 2004 in Prague. At the latter meeting, he and Johanna Balusikova introduced their own project called e-a-t experiment and typography. Creator of Cogito (2004), an experimental typeface. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Making democracy visible. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czechoslovakian designer (b. 1962, Prague), who runs Studio Najbrt in Prague. The Czech Centre London states: "Studio Najbrt was founded in 1994 and is closely connected with the Prague arts scene, designing for theatres, book publishers, film makers, magazines, the National Gallery and art festivals. Ales Najbrt, himself an active artist and performer, works with Zuzana Lednicka and Pavel Lev and their work is recognized for its humour and clear typography. Studio has received many important awards for their poster and book design." His creations include the very East-European poster typeface Prazska Petka (1989, for a film poster), Jedovlym Pismem (1988, a hairy logotype done for the Sklep theater). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New York-based designer of the revival fonts Preissig Antikva, Preissig Italika, Menhart Italika and Menhart Manuscript, which won awards at the TDC2 2001 competition (Type Directors Club). He is a professor of graphic design at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, specializes in publication design. Author of the bestseller "How to Spec Type", he lives in New York City. He also wrote "Type In Use", "The Elements of Graphic Design" (2002, Allworth Press), and Thinking in Type (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic-based applied cybernetics student, who created Kokaine (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brno-born architect (1872) who worked in München and Vienna and died in 1969. Some of his lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alois Studnicka
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Born in Ivancice, Moravia (Czechia), in 1860, died in Prague in 1939. Famous for his sleek posters of women at the height of the art nouveau movement. In 1885 he studied at the Munich Academy of Art and then moved to the Academie Julian in Paris. In Paris, he took commissions for illustrations, portraits and decorative projects, but became most famous for his poster designs for plays, especially under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt in the 1890s. The success of his posters led to a commercial career in decorative design for commercial and advertising products. Mucha also created jewelry designs, and briefly taught art in New York. In 1910, Mucha returned to Prague to work on nationalistic art, including murals, postage stamps, stained glass and bank notes. Digital fonts that were inspired by Mucha:
View commercial fonts that descend from Mucha's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech-born designer, who made the great art nouveau type family Cafe Noir (2004, free at Chank's). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based designer of the London 2012 alphabet (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anna Giedrys, who is based in Lidzbark Warminski, Poland, and in Czechia, works as a graphic designer focusing on visual identities, illustrations, and typeface design. She obtained an MA in graphic design and visual communication from the University of Fine Arts in Poznan (Sign and Typography Studio). During her exchange studies of graphic and fashion design at Vilnius Fine Arts Academy (Lithuania), she fell in love with calligraphy, lettering, and pattern design. Currently, she runs her own studio Ancymonic and collaborates with Rosetta Type Foundry. Google Plus link. Her typefaces:
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Czech Fraktur page. It has a lot of information and samples, includes a table (reproduced below), and has a small archive: Gothenburg (WSI), MA-Gotic (Will Software), Magdeburg (Scriptorium), SchwabenAlt-Bold, Diamond-Gothic (Jim Fordyce, 1993), Engrossing (Scriptorium, 1994), Fiorne (WSI), GF-Gesetz (Lorenz Goldnagl, 1999), JGJDrerGothic (Jeffrey Glen Jackson, 1997, based on Albrecht Dürer), OffenbachChancery, Ruritania, Schwabach, WornManuscript (Phillip Andrade, 1999), Suetterlin, MA-Bastarda1 (Will Software), FFraktur1, DSNormalFrakturBold (BfdS, 1997), Old-London, WilhelmKlingsporGotisch-Dfr.
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Ariel Laurencio Tacoronte
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Graphic designer and illustrator in Brno, Czechia. He created animal silhouettes out of letters in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The designer of the well-known Formata typeface (available at Berthold), Bernd Möllenstädt was born in 1943 in Germany. He has lived in Westfalia and Berlin and now lives in Munich. He studied typesetting and graphic design, and joined the Berthold typefoundry in 1967. In 1968, he became the head of the type design department, and remained head until 1990. Lange was the artistic director there, and when Lange retired in 1990, Möllenstädt became type director. He designed two strong sans font families for the Berthold Exklusiv Collection, Formata (1984) and Signata (1993). Formata, a popular sans serif face, is the corporate typeface of Postbank, Allianz, VW Skoda and Infratest Burke. Since 1998, Möllenstädt has worked independently from his own studio in Munich, and continues his association with Berthold as an independent designer. He most recently completed small caps and fractions for Formata, and added the Euro symbol to many faces in the Berthold collection. At Dalton Maag, he was responsible for SkodaSans (2000-2001), a custom font family that may be downloaded here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic design and type competition in Brno held at regular intervals. In 2000, theinners included Stefan Sagmeister (Grand Prix), Peter Bilak (best design in the type category), and Josef Týfa (special award for life-long contribution to Czech type design and typography). Normally, this is a graphic design competition, but every fourth year, a type competition is added. In 2004, the jury included Frantisek Storm, Stefan Sagmeister and Peter Bilak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type designer. He created the concave-stroked sans face Cantoria (1969, Grafotechna). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ceské fonty
| Czech font archive: 3rdMan, 3rdMan, AKVALEIR, AardvarkCafe, AardvarkCafe, Adamfont, Adam's-Font, Aeroportal-Bold, Aeroportal-Medium, Aeroportal, Airmole, AirmoleAntique, AirmoleShaded, AirmoleStripe, AmSans, AmSanslight, AmazonCE, Ambitsek, Amerika, AmerikaAlternates, Antigoni, AntigoniBdBold, AntigoniLight, AntigoniMed, Argor-Brujsh-Scaqh, AstronBoy-Italic, AstronBoy, AstronBoyVideo, AstronBoyWonder, AthenaUnicode, BadaBoomBB, BadaBoomCE, Bahamas-Bold, Bahamas, BahamasHeavy, BahamasLight, BaronKuffner, Baveuse, Baveuse3D, BenguiatFrisky, BlueHighway-Bold, BlueHighway, BlueHighwayCondensed, BlueHighwayLinocut, Bohemian-typewriter, Bosanova, Boulder, Brisk-CE, BrokenGhostCE, Brooklyn-Bold, Brooklyn-BoldItalic, Brooklyn-Italic, Brooklyn, Bullpen-Italic, Bullpen, Bullpen3D, CMUBright-Bold, CMUBright-BoldOblique, CMUBright-Oblique, CMUBright-Roman, CMUBright-SemiBold, CMUBright-SemiBoldOblique, CMUConcrete-Bold, CMUConcrete-BoldItalic, CMUConcrete-Italic, CMUConcrete-Roman, CMUSansSerif-Bold, CMUSansSerif-BoldOblique, CMUSansSerif-Oblique, CMUSansSerif, CMUSerif-Bold, CMUSerif-BoldItalic, CMUSerif-BoldNonextended, CMUSerif-BoldSlanted, CMUSerif-Italic, CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSerif-RomanSlanted, CMUTypewriter-BoldItalic, CMUTypewriter-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Light, CMUTypewriter-LightOblique, CMUTypewriter-Oblique, CMUTypewriter-Regular, CMUTypewriterVariable-Italic, CMUTypewriterVariable, Camilla, Cardo, Champagne&Limousines-Bold, Champagne&Limousines-BoldItalic, Champagne&Limousines-Italic, Champagne&Limousines, Champagne&LimousinesThick-Bold, Champagne&LimousinesThick-BoldItalic, Champagne&LimousinesThick-Italic, Champagne&LimousinesThick, ChroniclesofaHero, ChroniclesofaHeroBold, Chrysanthi-Unicode, CirqueDuFreakCE, CopperPot-Bold, CopperPot, DISTInkingBold, DISTInkingRegular, DeiGratia, Desyrel, Engebrechtre-Bold, Engebrechtre-BoldItalic, Engebrechtre-Italic, Engebrechtre, EngebrechtreExpanded-Bold, EngebrechtreExpanded-BoldItalic, EngebrechtreExpanded-Italic, EngebrechtreExpanded, EtBoemieRex, Eurofurencebold, Eurofurencebolditalic, Eurofurenceitalic, Eurofurencelight, Eurofurencelightitalic, Eurofurenceregular, Existence-Light, Existence-Light, Existence-StencilLight, Existence-UnicaseLight, ExpresswayFree, FAFERS-font, FantasticPete, Flatform-Light, France-Bold, France-Bold, France, FutureMillennium, FutureMillenniumBlack, FutureMillenniumItalic, Galette-Medium, Garogier, Geekabyte, Geekabyte2CE, Gemerald, Gentium-Italic, Gentium, GentiumAlt-Italic, GentiumAlt, Ginko, GnuolaneFree, Goodfish-Bold, Goodfish-BoldItalic, Goodfish-Italic, Goodfish, Gotika, GotikaApvalus, GotikaBrokas, GotikaSerifaiA, GotikaSerifaiB, GoudyBookletter1911, GrixelKyrou7Wide, GrixelKyrou7WideBold, GrixelKyrou7WideBoldXtnd, GrixelKyrou7WideXtnd, GrutchHanded, Guanine, GubbenIL, GunnyHandwriting, Gunplay, Gunplay3D, HappyKiller, HauntAOE, HildaSonnenschein-Dingbats, HildaSonnenschein-ExtraCharacters, HildaSonnenschein, IgnisetGlaciesSharp, IgnisetGlaciesSharpBold, IgnisetGlaciesSharpBoldItalic, IgnisetGlaciesSharpItalic, Ikusuteito, Impacted, InfraRed, InfraRedBlack, InfraRedBold, InfraRedExtraBold, InkiCE, Insula, JaneAusten, Junicode-Bold, Junicode-BoldItalic, Junicode-Italic, Junicode-Regular, KabanaBold, KabanaBook, Koala-Bold, Komikazoom, Legendum-Regular, LiberationMono-Bold, LiberationMono-BoldItalic, LiberationMono-Italic, LiberationMono, LiberationSans-Bold, LiberationSans-BoldItalic, LiberationSans-Italic, LiberationSans, LiberationSerif-Bold, LiberationSerif-BoldItalic, LiberationSerif-Italic, LiberationSerif, Linus, Love'sLabour, MPH2BDamase, MaassslicerItalic, Mager-Fat, Mager-FatItalic, Mager-Italic, Mager, Mastodon-Bold, Mastodon-Bold, Mastodon, Mastodon, MastodonHairline, Metrolox, Mogul, Monika, MonikaBold, Monofur, Monofuritalic, NegotiateFree, NewBrilliant, OFLGoudyStM-Italic, OFLGoudyStM, OctinCollegeFree, OctinPrisonFree, OctinSportsFree, OctinSpraypaintFree, OctinStencilFree, OctinVintageFree, Pakenham, Phorssa, PlasmaDripBRK, PlasmaDripCE, PlasmaDripEmptyBRK, Pricedown, Prociono-Regular, Promocyja, Promocyja, Propaganda, Pupcat, PykesPeakZero, RexliaFree-Regular, Rina, RingbearerCE, RingbearerMedium, Ritalin-Bold, Ritalin, RitalinExtraBold, RittswoodProfile_6-Bold, RittswoodProfile_6-Regular, RittswoodYoung-Extended, RittswoodYoung-Regular, Sandoval, Sanserifing, SaucyMillionaire, SaucyMillionaire, Scriptina-Alternates, Scriptina-Medium, Scriptina, Share-Regular, Share-Regular, Share-TechMono, Share-TechMono, Share, ShareTechMono, Steelfish-Bold, Steelfish, SteelfishOutline, StillTime, Strenuous, Strenuous3D, Summertime, SummertimeExtraCharacters, SummertimeExtraOblique, SummertimeOblique, Supersoulfighter, Syndrome-X, TacoSalad, TacoSalad, TeamouseVS, Teen-Bold, Teen-BoldItalic, Teen-Italic, Teen, TeenLight-Italic, TeenLight, Thryomanes, ThryomanesBold, ThryomanesBoldItalic, ThryomanesItalic, TimesSansSerif, Tincushion, TripSerifCE-Bold, TripSerifCE-BoldItalic, TripSerifCE-Italic, TripSerifCE-Light, TripSerifCE-LightItalic, TripSerifCE, Tycho'sRecipe, Uni0553, Uni0554, Uni0563, Uni0564, Unifur, Vahika-Bold, Vahika-BoldItalic, Vahika-Italic, Vahika, Vectroid, VelvendaCooler, VelvendaMegablack, VeraHumana95, VeraHumana95Bold, VeraHumana95BoldItalic, VeraHumana95Italic, Vibrocentric-Bold, Vibrocentric-BoldItalic, Vibrocentric-Italic, Vibrocentric, WeenCE, Wintermute, WirWenzlaw, WoskBlurCE, XBOX360, XalTerion, Xenippa, XiBeronne, Xirwena, YoureGone-Italic, YoureGone, Zekton-Bold, Zekton-BoldItalic, Zekton-Italic, Zekton, akaDora, akaDylanCollage, akaDylanOpen, akaDylanPlain, akaFrivolity, akaFrivolity, akaHoggle, akaPotsley, jGaramond-Bold, jGaramond-Italic, jGaramond, kawoszeh, ninifont-regular, px_sans_nouveaux, rittswoodclassic-regular, rittswoodofficelg-regular, skolacekCE, upirpaw, urania_czech. 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Software and TeX specialist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, who designed AuriocusKalligraphicus (2004), a calligraphic type 1 handwriting font. In 2006, these fonts were added: Lukas Svatba (originally called AmiciLogo for the group Amici Musicae Antiquae in September 2004, this was changed, after adding Czech and Slovak diacritics for the wedding of Lukas Palatinus and Ludmila Nyvltova in the Spring of 2005), Jana Skrivana. Alternate URL. From the readme file: Each font features oldstyle digits and (machine-generated) boldface and slanted versions. Lukas Svatba is provided in a variant with a long s with the same input convention as in fraktur.sty by Matthias Mühlich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based graphic designer, typographer and type designer. She was working on Qualtagh in 2010. Born in Paris, she studied design in the UK and briefly worked in Belgium in 2008-2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illustrator, calligrapher and typographer, b. 1944 in Czechoslovakia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Color Works
| Color Works is Jan Safarik (b. 1987, Zlin, Czechia), who lives in Prague. He created the bold rounded sans typeface Cargo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman East-European fonts. Truetype and type 1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design)
| Filip Blazek writes about typography. His own fonts include Pozorius, Studnicka Antikva and Duboryt. Alois Studnicka (Prague) seems to have designed PozoriusCESample. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jiri T. Pelech's place with some Czech font downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Contains over 270 type 1 fonts for use in X-Windows, including many interesting fonts from Star Division. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Site has X fonts for 8859-2 and Linux support for the Czech language. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This TeX users group has an active Bulletin, which has several interesting issues with articles each month. Free access to the issues. (In Czech) [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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From 2004 to 2007, he ran his own design studio DAVI, with projects in graphic, web and interface design. Back in Brno, he worked with Tiro Typeworks (Canada) as an associate designer. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about multi-script typography. His typefaces include
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Czech outfit. They created the free face Delarocca in 2010. Westcoast Ink (2010) is also free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech design mag. Has occasionally some articles on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deniart Systems
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List of font packages: Aglab, Alchemy Symbols, American Sign Alphabet, Ancient Writings Vol. 1, Ancient Writings Vol. 2, Angelica, The Astrologer Bundle, Astrologer, Aztec Day Signs, Black Magick, Braille Alphabet, Castles&Shields, Celestial Writing, Celtic Astrologer, Certar, Chinese Zodiac, Coptic Alphabet, Daggers Alphabet, Dendera, Dinosauria, Dragons, Egyptian Deities, Enochian Writing, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 1, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 2, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 3, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 4, Futhark, Greco, Hebrew Basic, Hypnotica, Magi Writing, Magick&Mystic, Malachim Writing, Masonic Writing, Maya Day Names, Maya Month Glyphs, Meso Americano, Meso Deko, Morse Code, Old Persian Cuneiform, Passing the River, Phaistos, Pike's Alphabets, Powers of Marduk, Sanskrit Writing, Semaphore Code, Signals&Signs, Skeleton Alphabet, Sublimina, Tengwanda Gothic, Tengwanda Namarie, Theban Alphabet, The Egyptologist, Tolkien Scripts, WhiteMagick, Skeleton Alphabet, Hebrew Basic, Sanskrit Writing. Note: I cannot find an entry for Jan Koehler at MyFonts, where all Deniart fonts are said to have been made by Denise Koehler. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conference to be held from June 16-17, 2004 in Brno, Czechia. This meeting is related to the 21st International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conference held on 22-23 June 2000 in Brno, Czechia, and related to the 19thInternational Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2000. Speakers included Ales Najbrt (Czechia), Jan Solpera (who spoke about Josef Týfa), and Andrej Krátky (Slovakia). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designiq
| Filip Blazek (alias Filip de Sign, b. 1974) writes about typography and ran Filip de Sign--Czech Graphic&Design Studio, founded in 1997 in Prague. In 2003, its name was changed to Designiq. It focuses on the design of logotypes and corporate identity. His own fonts include Pozorius, Studnicka Antikva and Duboryt. Alternate URL. Very useful pages for Central European typography, with plenty of links and practical information. Interview. Blazek's old site, still jam-packed with font information. Coauthor of Typography in practice (Praktická typografie), published by ComputerPress, 2000, 2004. Founder of Typo Magazine, which focuses on typography, graphic design and visual communication. Speaker at ATypI 2006 on diacritics (PDF of Filip's presentation). At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on posters from the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
E-a-t (experiment and typography) is a joint Czech and Slovak enterprise that through publications and exhibitions tries to increase the visibility of Czechoslovak type design. Exhibitions in 2004 include Brno and Prague. In 2005, one is planned in Bratislava. Review by Dan Reynolds. Old dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Slovak scientist (b. 1988) who lives in Prague. Creator of the handwriting faces Enyon Handwrite (2008) and Naramel (2008). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech computer chess jump page, with a few links to font sites. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech FontStructor who made these fonts in 2009 and 2010: Husi BRK, Baculka (octagonal), Topol (condensed), Krasopis Script, Krasopis (connected upright script), Kyklop (ultra fat deco face), Kolecka (2010, curly face), Dvojlom, Bublifuk, Rozeklany, Robustni, and Nedotazane. In 2011, he created the bilined face Svinutek, the octagonal face Shishoid, Zapadlo (octagonal), and Puntiky (texture face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Filip Blazek
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Central European font links at Filip Blazek's Czech site. Great jump site for typography in general. Some links are taken from my own pages. Jump page for Polish typography. List of the special Polish characters: A, a, E and e ogonek; C, c, N, n, O, o, S, s, Z, and z acute; Lslash, lslash, Zdotaccent and zdotaccent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech graphic designer and typographer from Prague who is currently studying graphic design at the Pilsen College of Art and Design. Creator of the geometric futuristic typeface Matey (2009), the geometric face Donator (2010, free), and the architectural print face Qart (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michal Kvasnihka's Czech site with Czech versions of the Computer Modern fonts, CS Concrete, and a handwriting font called Slabikar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frantisek Storm
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Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the most influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature. He was born to middle class German-speaking Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia [now capital of the Czech Republic, but then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire]. Kafka's work-the novels The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927), as well as short stories including The Metamorphosis (1915) and In the Penal Colony (1914)-is now collectively considered to be among the most original bodies of work in modern Western literature. Much of his work, unfinished at the time of his death, was published posthumously. He has nothing to do with type design, except for the fact that I use the term Kafkaesque to describe a gloomy, dark and/or illogical style of lettering. Well, not totally true---some people have tried to digitize his handwriting, most notably Julia Sysmalainen in her typeface Mister K (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Future Millennium
| Zdenek Gromnica is a Czech type designer (b. 1989, Olomouc). He set up Future Millennium. Creator of Ignis et Glacies -Sharp- (2006, a futuristic sans caps face), Xaligraphy, XaligraphyBold, XaligraphyBoldItalic, XaligraphyItalic, XaligraphyThin, XaligraphyThinItalic (2006, semi-calligraphic family), InfraRed (2006), FutureMillennium (2006, sans---caps only), Elemental End (2010, sans), Memoria Vestri (2010, handprinted), Not Just Groovy (2011), Jolana (2012), Pixel Millennium (2012, pixel face), Dominik (2012, sans), and Groovy Fast (2009, sans headline face). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author of Moderni Maliri (Modern Painters, Prague 1909). The art nouveau title page was designed by Vladimir Zupansky. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based designer of some pay pixel fonts, such as Pixie Bold, Pixie Regular and Pixie Symbol, all done in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech state type foundry (est. 1951) from the communist era at which Josef Týfa, Oldrich Menhart and Rudolf Ruzicka worked for some time. Týfova Antikva (1959, inspired by the work of architect P.L. Nervi) by Josef Týfa later became Tyfa Text (and ITC Tyfa, 1998). Frantisek Storm made a version of it under Týfa's supervision. Menhart published typefaces such as Grazdanka (1953). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech creator of a typographic poster entitled Diplomky (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Prague who created the softly rounded sans lower case typeface Hero (2013). She also created a few sets of informal pictograms, such as her Smile series, and a Dress Code series. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Czech designer of the organic round sans faces LogoBlogo (2010) and Logoblogo2 (2010, lowercase only). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illustrator and book designer (b. 1880, Prague, d. 1945, New York). He became German in 1907. From 1907-1933, he was professor of graphics at the Staatlichen Akademie fü Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. He fled Germany in 1933 and after a long voyage, ended up in the USA, where he died. Blackletter typefaces designed by him include Steiner-Prag-Schrift (1912, Genzsch&Heyse), Batarde (Bauersche Giesserei, 1916). Some of his work is archived at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Princeton University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IndicType1
| All the fonts below were converted from Metafont into type 1 by Karel Piska in 2005-2006 using his own tools, METAPOST, FontForge and t1utils. Karel Piska is with the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague.
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Based in Prague, Irina Sidorina designs and illustrates. Her portfolio includes the techno font Isatech (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 2012, she codesigned the grungy headline face Retroactive Pro with Ralph M. Unger at Profonts. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Czech engineer. Creator of the upright connected school script Písankové psaí Jakub Sloup opt (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Hus (1370-1415) introduced the principle of a diacritic (in his case, a dot above some letters) in his "Orthographia Bohemia" (1406-1412). This work became the basis for modern Czech typography. Hus was burnt at the stake in Konstanz, but not because of his typographic convictions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Hýsek is the owner of Lege.cz. He wrote several texts on typography now published at Lege.cz, which is an internet bookshop with a special focus on typography. Hýsek is a writer, photographer, poet, bookseller, musician and computer specialist. The name Martin Manis is an alias. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer of Skvär (2013), an angular serifed typeface developed during Typeclinic 6 in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Koehler
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Czech codesigner, with Matej Syxra, of the free family TripSerif CE (2008), which can be downloaded at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer. Dafont also mentions the name Heinz Newman. Creator of the 3-d pixel fonts Khalijaka Black and Outline (2007) and the hairline octagonal face Boulder (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer of the didone family Brno Z (Grafotechna, 1959). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Safarik
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Klingspor link. Dafont page (where three styles of Paperclip, Diagond, and the sans face Mentone are free). Home page. Pic. Showcase of Jan Schmoeger's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer (b. 1939, Jindrichove Hradci) who designed Insignia (1979) which was renamed (since Neville Brody has a font by that name), and then digitized by Frantisek Storm as Solpera (2000, Storm Type Foundry). See also here for this sans-serif family. He heads the Font Studio at the School of Applied Arts in Prague and is the author of the fonts on the banknotes of the Czech National Bank. Frantisek Storm was one of his students. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Urban
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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] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer of the paper-fold logotype Fontai (2009), Average (2012, an averaged typeface), Architekti (2009, headline face), and the logo typefaces Kruzynski (2009) and Candy Cane O (2009). He does identity and branding in Prague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer of the uncial/blackletter face Rebeka, which is based on 13th century Italian bastarda scripts. Read its review by Dan Reynolds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer of Jannafont (2013, hand-printed). Dafiont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Brno, Czechia. In 2011, he created a Hebrew simulation face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech art historian and author of Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950 (Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002). This book presents a comprehensive visual lexicon of early 20th-century page design. Illustrations include designs by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lázló Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and Jan Tschichold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jaroslav „Dero“ Polakovic
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Czech fine-arts and design theoretician and critic. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about The life and work of Josef Týfa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech graphic designer based in Hradec Kralove. Creator of the condensed blackletter font Future Combat (2012). Behance link. FontStruct link, where Jindra is known as fash153. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jiri Anderle's didactic pages on type history (in Czech). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jiří Novák (b. 1973) is the Czech FontStructor whose fonts in 2011 include Repropolis, Cyklopilot (a nice Peignotian face), Duotwin (De Stijl stencil face), Polystereon (counterless, octagonal), Plexilesk (square stencil), Naocetka (pixelish), Motodidakt (pixelish), Kultivar (stencil), Autogramot, and Uradia (octagonal). In 2012, he made Sadorost and Rototuc (stencil face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech poster artist and graphic designer, 1924-2003. Postage stamp engraver. He did the design work, including the typography, for the subway system in Prague. MyFonts writes about Metron: Metron by Jiri Rathousky is so far the most ambitious typeface made to order in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that for a number of years it has not been used for the purpose for which it was designed, every inhabitant of Prague is still well aware of its typical features. Metron was commissioned by the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague in 1970 to be used in the information system of the Prague Metro. The face was replaced in 1986 by Helvetica, something that clearly puzzled Storm. In 2003, Rathousky contacted Storm to digitize Metron, but he died that same year. Metron was digitized by the Frantisek Storm and Marek Pistora (Storm Foundry) in 2004. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech illustrator who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. Jiri Vancura (b. 1944, Prague) lives and works in Kolin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech art student who made Pixela (2011), a font in which the outlines are dots and dashes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer (b. 1913, Nachod Beloves, d. 2007) who lived and worked in Prague. Before the Second World War, he designed advertisements for Bata, Prazdroj, Thymolin and others. He later started to design the graphic elements of signs and fonts. FontShop link. Czech postage stamp designed by him in 1965. Týfa lived and worked in Prague. Before the Second World War, he designed advertisements for Bata, Prazdroj, Thymolin and others. He later started to design the graphic elements of signs and fonts. His typefaces:
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Joseph Maria Olbrich (b. 1867, Troppau, Austria, which today is Opava in the Czech Republic; d. Düsseldorf, Germany, 1908, from leukemia) was an Austrian architect, and co-founder of the Vienna Secession artistic group, which was formed in 1897 by a number of Austrian painters, sculptors, and architects who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich himself, Max Kurzweil, Otto Wagner, and others. His architectural works, especially his exhibition buildings for the Vienna and Darmstadt Secessions, have had a strong influence on the development of the Art Nouveau Style. Like most architects of that period, he drew several alphabets, such as these Modern German capitals. Nick Curtis designed Olbrich display NF based on a 1907 face by Joseph Maria Olbrich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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JUSoft
| JUSoft is a Czech outfit where Jan Urban (from Blansko) made the dingbat font OB Piktogramy (1998). It has pictograms for use on maps and in cities. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
K Design
| K Design is the company of Czech designer Matej Kaspar Jirásek FontStructor who made the gridded Condensed Milk family in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech design studio in Prgaue, and publisher of "Font" (in Czech): Od roku 1991 vydáváme odborný èasopis Font, toho èasu jediný specializovaný èasopis v ÈR zamìøený na grafiku, písmo, typografii, pre-press, reklamní praxi atd. Mezi odbìratele patøí vìtina tuzemských grafických studií, výtvarníkù a reklamních agentur. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer and book artist (1876-1949). Director of the state press Statni Tiskarna. Author of these books: Typograf o Knihach (1925, Prague), Rules of Typesetting (Pravidla sazby), The Book Beautiful (Krasna Kniha). Typefaces include Dyrynk Lateinschrift (1928, A. Gregr typefoundry), Malostranska Antiqua (1927), Malostranska Italic (1928), Gregr Roman (1930), Gregr Italic (1931), Otakar Brezina (1946, Statni Tiskarna), Biblicke pismo (1933, unpublished), Konupek Italic (1946, unpublished), and a set of pictograms (1933, Statni Tiskarna). Digitizations: Dyrynk Lateinschrift was the basis of P22 Dyrynkova-Latinka (2003), and P22 Dyrynk Roman and Italic (Richard Kegler, P22, 2004). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer at Grafotechna of the 2-weight transitional roman family Kolektiv (1952, with S. Duda and J. Týfa). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Karel Piska
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Karel Piska works at the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, and specializes in Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform fonts covering also Akkasdian, Ugaritic and Old persian. There, he designed these fonts from 1999-2003 (free downloads): NAOldPersianAcadBFType1, NAOldPersianAcademicType1, NAOldPersianClassicType1, NAUgariticAcadBFType1, NAUgariticAcademicType1, NAUgariticClassicType1, NeoAssyrianAcadBFType1a, NeoAssyrianAcadBFType1b, NeoAssyrianAcadBFType1c, NeoAssyrianAcademicType1a, NeoAssyrianAcademicType1b, NeoAssyrianAcademicType1c, NeoAssyrianClassicType1a, NeoAssyrianClassicType1b, NeoAssyrianClassicType1c. Free metafonts of his include Syllabary A No. 56A (additional cuneiform signs), The page also has a rare metafont triple called "cunmfa", "cunmfb" and "cummfc" by Jo Grant (1992). He wrote "Fonts for Neo-Assysian Cuneiform," Proceedings of the EuroTeX Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, September 20-24, 1999, Günter Partosch andi Gerhard Wilhelms eds, Giessen, Augsburg, 1999, pp. 142-154. At TUG 2005 he spoke on the conversion of Metafont fonts to outline fonts using Metapost. After theoretical conversion, the FontForge font editor is used for removing overlap, simplification, rounding to integer, autohinting, generating outline fonts, and necessary manual modifications. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creator of these experimental geometric typefaces in 2010: Tasemnice, Semetrika, Metrika, Kaleidoscope. Katerina lives in Zlin, Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brno, Czechia-based graphic designer who made her first font in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer (b. 1970) who created Hovado (1995) and the poster lettering face Excholer (1995, for Zivel magazine). With Petr Krejzek, she founded ReDesign in 1999. She is involved in identity design and as such, creates logotypes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kolektiv Studio
| Kolektiv studio is a Prague based, multi-disciplinary design studio founded by Lukas Kijonka and Michal Krul. They designed the monospaced sans typeface Mono Dinner Pro (2013) and the experimental typefaces Meetfactory (2012) and Width(2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
La Mère Noelle
| Noelle Papay (La Mère Noelle) created the experimental pixel face Caracterielle (2010). She is a freelance designer in Prague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Steven Heller writes this about this Czech designer who was born in Pilsen in 1897 and died in 1976: "Ladislav Sutnar was a progenitor of the current practice of information graphics, the lighter of a torch that is carried today by Edward Tufte and Richard Saul Wurman, among others. For a wide range of American businesses, Sutnar developed graphic systems that clarified vast amounts of complex information, transforming business data into digestible units. He was the man responsible for putting the parentheses around American telephone area-code numbers when they were first introduced. [...] Overshadowed by two contemporaries, El Lissitsky and Moholy-Nagy, Sutnar is a relatively unsung leader of Modern objective typography. Yet he was a household name in Prague." Exhibition about his work in Prague (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lengua Mongola (was: Vocabulario Mongol)
| Ariel Laurencio's great Mongol language page. He has some links to other Mongol language pages. His page also has the Cyrillic Mongol font Ch Opus (1992, Andrejs Grinbergs, Tilde Ltd) and the Mongol transliteration font Galig (1990, by Akira Kamimura). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lenka Melcakova
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Czech creator of Lenka Stabilo (2012, OFL: hand-printed). Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech student of Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He made a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech site with helpful tables of all Latin and Slavic alphabets. Downloadable fonts made by Libor Sztemon in 2001 for his software, Liborsoft, include CNR-Solca, Casy-EA-Bold, Casy-EA, Darseni-e-Afshenasi, Dee-Sathairn, Euransi-e-Nauromane, FZDHTJW--GB1-0, FZHLJW--GB1-0, GaramondWLHalbfett, Havirov, Johaansi-ye-Peyravi, Khorshide_Iran, LiborsoftInternational, LinguaLatina, Masnavi-e-Nauromane, OldMoravianGlagolitic, Ostrava, PrydEuro-Cymraeg, Shahanshah-e-Xatt, TNRLiboriusVII, TempsEuro-Catalan, Times-NR-Czech, Times-NR-Greenlandic, Times-of-EuransiLS, Times-of-SlaviskPSMT, Times-of-Slavs, Times-of-Tajiki, Times-of-the-West, TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto, TimesNewRomanHungarian, Velehrad, VelehradBold, Zemanho-ye-Darseni, Ardashir-e-Urofarsi, Daftar-e-Urofarsi, Gam-e-Urofarsi, Jahan-e-Urofarsi, BohemiaLS, BohemiaPS-BoldLS, BohemiaPS-BoldItalicLS, BohemiaPS-ItalicLS, LiborsoftCzechia, MoraviaLS, Moravia-BoldLS, Moravia-BoldItalicLS, Moravia-ItalicLS, SilesiaLS, SilesiaPS-BoldLS, SilesiaPS-BoldItalicLS, LiborsoftSilesiaPS-ItalicLS, Miyane-ye-Urofarsi (Liborsoft), Name-ye-Urofarsi, Parvane-ye-Urofarsi, Peyk-e-Urofarsi, Sadsale-ye-Urofarsi, ahpur-e-Urofarsi, Setare-ye-Urofarsi, Siyah-e-Urofarsi, Times of Tajiki, Tarik-e-Urofarsi, Zeman-e-Darseni, Zaman-e-Urofarsi, TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto. Direct access. Another directory. Friulan Nazzi-Faggin (2001, a didone) is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Linda Kudrnovská
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Czech designer (b. 1963) of the blocky grunge face PesDog (1993). This illustrator and graphic designer is based in Prague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As a graphic design student in Prague in 2009, Lucie Frydlova created a modular typeface called Oze. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lukas Kijonka
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In 2012, he made the old typewriter typeface Albertsthal Typewriter. His typewriter typefaces of 2013 include Hollywood Starfire and Vera Type. Home page. Another link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based designer of some nice logotypes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based creator of Spin (2009, rounded and ultra-fat). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Idea and identity designer in Prague. The LK font (2011) is an exclusive purely geometric typeface designed by graphic designer Lumír Kajnar in collaboration with Lars Kemper: The layout of the LK font was inspired by the styles of modern typographers from the first part of the 20th century (DeStijl movement, Theo van Doesburg typeface 1919). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mac2pfm
| Marek Peca's utility for converting (PostScript) font metrics from Macintosh resource forks to .PFM format, usable on Microsoft platforms and convertible to standard AFM. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sells Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer (b. 1975) who lives in Olomouc. He made the runic font HlaholiceBold (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marek Peca
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Marek has written an AFM and PFM file generator, starting from a Mac font family resource fork. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech type designer. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the history of Czech type. With Frantisek Storm, he created the digital version in 2004 of Metron. MyFonts writes: Metron by Jiri Rathousky is so far the most ambitious typeface made to order in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that for a number of years it has not been used for the purpose for which it was designed, every inhabitant of Prague is still well aware of its typical features. Metron was commissioned by the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague in 1970 to be used in the information system of the Prague Metro. Other faces: Spectrum, Reflex BPM (2001), Wafle Two, Wafle Stencil, Dot, Teg, Sutnar, Merkur (published at Suitcase Type Foundry, this face was based on letters of a metal toy kit), Plastik, Vitalana, Propag, Vafle (1997, extended in 2006 by Thomas Brousil at Suitcase Type Foundry), Recorder, Micro. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. Marian designed Timeline for his thesis. Timeline is a full family with serif, sans and Arabic subfamilies. It is intended for information design---the serif is kept uncomplicated while the sans and Arabic are basically monoline styles. Marian has both a Polish and a Czech background. With Tomek Bersz, he runs a studio in Warsaw. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech graphic design student, who, as a stunt, created an alphabet out of molten caramel sauce, called Karamel Sans CE (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Litomerice, Czech Republic. Behance link. He created Grideater (2011) based on the grid design that characterizes the work of Wim Crouwel and so many others. Grideater has many weights that were designed together, as a whole. The design is modular and octagonal, and consists of Grideater Stencil and Grideater Semiround in various weights. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martin Pecina
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Czechoslovakian designer/typographer. He created the informal blocky fave Pakt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Matej Hlavacek
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Matej Kaspar Jirásek
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Czech creator of the typographic poster I Am For Free Fuck (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Matej Syxra
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His web page in in Slovakia, but his body is in Prague. This graphic designer created the fat rounded face Rusalka (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
His commercial faces include
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Designer at Grafotechna of the roman face with many hairlines, Kalab. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer who created a poster with nice stitchy lettering for the Theater Caspar in 2003. The typeface is called Garder0bier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech creator of the old typewriter font Psacstroj (2011), Rifle 1 (2012, a wooden plank typeface), Willy 2 (2011, hand-printed), Ozzy 2 (2011, grunge blackletter face), and Mucha (2011, art nouveau). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech site with several free fonts developed in a mathematically precise manner:
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moonphase metafont
| Moonphases in metafont format, by Stanislav Brabec from Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MyFonts pages on typefaces related to the work of the Czech art nouveau master Alphonse Mucha. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MyFonts lists the top selling fonts of the Storm Type Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MyFonts lists the top selling fonts of the Type Together foundry run by José Scaglione and Vik Burian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freelance graphic designer based in Prague. In June 2010, she graduated from the Prague College with a degree in Graphic Design. Behance link. Her typeface On Fire (2012) looks like it was drawn with a watercolor brush. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creator of the free handwriting face Nini Font (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baltimore, Maryland-based designer of Frimbo (2004) and Frimbo Serif (2004). He also made the wonderful Preissig-Antikva influenced NsfBook, the sans face Nisamuel Sans (2005), KisbefeSans (2005), FineGold (2005), Kisbefe2 (2005) and the handwriting typeface ASLetters (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noelle Papay
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Czech type designer. Author of "A book of Type and Design" (English Language version of "TYPOGRAFICKÁ PÍSMA LATINKOVA", published by the State Office of Technical Literature, Prague, 1957), Tudor Publishing, New York, 1960. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
View the typefaces related to Oldrich Menhart. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer who created the superchiseled face Mongoloid (1993). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Koprivnice, Czechia-based designer. His typefaces include Trendy Roma (2012, sans and slab), Steelovy (2011, art deco prismatic typeface), Inspiration (2011, a thin architectural typeface), and Spock (2011, modular, logical, and mini-slabbed). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech page with Arabia, Corel's renamed version of Arnold Boecklin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type designer (b. Prague, 1965) at Storm Type in Czechia, who co-designed the 25-weight Preissig font family in 1998 with Frantisek Storm, after work by Vojtech Preissig. He is an independent typographer and teacher. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the history of Czech type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
P22 Type Foundry
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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 (2003, free), Acropolis Now (1995, a Greek simulation face 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, Bauhaus (Bauhaus fonts based on the lettering of Herbert Bayer), Bifur (2004, Richard Kegler, after the 1929 original by Cassandre), Blackout, 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, Regular and Tall), Dinosaur, Eaglefeather, Escher (based on the lettering and artwork of M.C. Escher), FLLWExhibition, FLLW 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), Woodcut, Garamouche (2004, +P22 Garamouche Ornaments; all codesigned 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), 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 him 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), Preissig, 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; face 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), 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 free 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). 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 will show Making Faces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page42 Type Foundry
| Czech type, graphic and visual design studio run by Matej Syxra (b. 1980) in Prague. Creators of Flatform (2008, slab serif), TripSans (2008: exclusively licensed to Radio 1 for their new corporate identity designed by Klára Nemravová), Wosk Blur (2009), Strobe (2009, modern sans), Ween (2009), and Vitamin (2006, exclusively licensed for LIPOXAL medical products). At Dafont, one can download Flatform and the TripSerif CE family (2008, done with Jan Moravec). Aka Matej Sychra. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer who created Error, a techno face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer who created various logotypes for the Reflex magazine in 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech typographer and graphic designer, 1935-1970. He created a Walbaum/Didot-style roman in 1967 called Teimer's Antiqua. It was submitted to Grafotechna in 1967 but never manufactured. Suitcase Type Foundry (Tomas Brousil) started work on its digitization in 2005, and published it in 2006. Some letters were modified. The 24-style family is called Teimer Std. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pavel Zelenka was born in 1970 in the Czech Republic. After five years of medical studies he left university to become graphic designer. In 1995 he co-founded two-person DTP business called Marvil, which within a few years became a full service graphic and pre-press company employing 10 people. He is an OpenType and Unicode enthusiast and his company, Studio Marvil, has converted more than 3000 fonts to OpenType format for URW++. In 2003, together with his friends Filip Blazek, Pavel Kocicka and Jakub Krc he began to publish Typo magazine, a Czech/English bi-monthly concerning typography, visual communication and graphic design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perl font utilities for type 1 and truetype such as Font-AFM (Gisle Aas), Font-Fret (Martin Hosken), Font-TFM (Jan Pazdziora, Font-TTF (Martin Hosken). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech FontStructor who made Skoro CZ (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer (b. 1967) of the experimental face Prkno (1992-1993, wooden plank-shaped letters). He works at Studio Machek & Babak, founded by them in 1967. Interview (in Czech). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Ostrava, Czechia. He created a typeface in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech creator of a typographic dog (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer of the stencil logo font A New Signature (2006). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer of Comenia Script (Storm Type), an upright script designed for teaching writing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer at the Suitcase Type Foundry of RePublic (a 2004 revival, done with Tomas Brousil, of Public by Stanislav Marso, 1955. Note that Public was used to set the text of a Czechoslovak Communist party newspaper, Rudé Právo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radim Pesko
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In 2012, he created the polygonal typeface Vaba. Typefaces from 2013 include Waves (an informal sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic design studio in Prague where Peter Krejzek (b. Brno, 1965) and Klára Kv&iscute;zová work. Both designers are well-known for designing the magazine Zivel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, who studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Creator of the grungy poster typeface TS135 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Kegler
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Czech designer, b. 1962. He specializes in graphic communication and photography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fonts at the time of the start-up include Aisha (Arabic, Latin), Maiola (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin), Nassim (Arabic, Latin), Roxane (Devanagari, Latin), and Skolar (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, Gujarati). In 2011, they published Neacademia (by Sergei Egorov). Neacademia is a Latin and Cyrillic type family inspired by the types cut by 15th century Italian punch-cutter Francesco Griffo da Bologna for the famous Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Pius Manutius. The family is designed for lengthy texts. In 2012, Arek (Latin/Armenian) by Khajag Apelian was published by Rosetta Type Foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rudolf (Rudolph) Ruzicka was a Czech type designer (1883-1978), wood engraver and designer, who worked for 50 years as a consultant for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. He had a farm of Vermont. Designer of these typefaces:
Jesse Ragan is working on Ruzicka Collection. This comprises digital versions of the alphabets shown in Rudolf Ruzicka's 1968 portfolio Studies in Type Design. Ruzicka was also known for his engravings: see this wood engraving example. Bio. FontShop link. An alphabet drawn in 1950 on his farm in Vermont (taken from PAGA, vol. 1, no. 1, page 12, 1953). View digital versions of Rudolf Ruzicka's typefaces. View Rudolph Ruzicka's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer at Grafotechna of the roman font Teimer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semaphor
| Semaphor metafont by Vit Zyka from Czechia (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MyFonts writes: "Slavoboj Tusar was the brother of Czech prime minister in the 1920s and 30s. His typeface was introduced at the Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, revised and manufactured by Lanston-Monotype in 1926 and redesigned and digitized in 2004 [note: by Frantisek Storm, as Tusar]. Tusar's advertising and typographic activities and writings are unique inspiring sources for today'ss young designers." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Spalek's Czech tutorial on metapost. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stanislav Brabec
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Designer at Grafotechna of the 2-weight transitional roman family Kolektiv (1952, with K. Misek and J. Týfa). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer (1910-1976) at Grafotechna of Vega (1956, a grotesk), Public (1955-1958, a heavy short-ascendered face revived in 2004 by Tomas Brousil as RePublic), Grafotechna Garamond (1959), the 2-weight sans serif family Kamene (1956, revived by Patrick Griffin at Canada Type in 2005 as Trump Gothic East), Prazke Kamene (1958, an elongated condensed sans), Orion (1960, a sans), and Marso Grotesque (or Marsova Grotesque, or Marsuv Grotesk, 1958-1960). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Storm Type Foundry
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Alternate URL. Myfonts write-up. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about his own Czech typefaces, on his Czech Typeface Project, and on the life of Josef Týfa. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Prague-based outfit converted 1600+ fonts of the URW collection to OpenType. One free complete font, Barbedor. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Suitcase Type Foundry
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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), 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 200=7 also saw Purista (a 10-style cousin of Bank Gothic), 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 face 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). 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). Tomas lives in Prague. MyFonts page. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SuSE CR s.r.o (Czech Republic) and URW++ Design and Development GmbH (Germany) have reached an agreement to ship URW equivalents of the 35 standard PostScript fonts using the ISO 8859-2 encoding with the Czech SuSE Linux 6.4 distribution. The fonts are distributed with the GNU General Public Licence. The type 1 fonts: URW Gothic L EE Book, URW Gothic L EE Demi, URW Gothic L EE Book Oblique, URW Gothic L EE Demi Oblique, URW Bookman L EE Light, URW Bookman L EE Demi Bold, URW Bookman L EE Light Italic, URW Bookman L EE Demi Bold Italic, Century Schoolbook L EE Roman, Century Schoolbook L EE Bold, Century Schoolbook L EE Italic, Century Schoolbook L EE Bold Italic, Nimbus Sans L EE Regular, Nimbus Sans L EE Bold, Nimbus Sans L EE Regular Italic, Nimbus Sans L EE Bold Italic, Nimbus Sans L EE Regular Condensed, Nimbus Sans L EE Bold Condensed, Nimbus Sans L EE Regular Condensed Italic, Nimbus Sans L EE Bold Condensed Italic, Nimbus Roman No9 L EE Regular, Nimbus Roman No9 L EE Medium, Nimbus Roman No9 L EE Regular Italic, Nimbus Roman No9 L EE Medium Italic, Nimbus Mono L EE Regular, Nimbus Mono L EE Bold, Nimbus Mono L EE Regular Oblique, Nimbus Mono L EE Bold Oblique, URW Palladio L EE Roman, URW Palladio L EE Bold, URW Palladio L EE Italic, URW Palladio L EE Bold Italic, URW Chancery L EE Medium Italic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Animator and designer in Prague. He created the squarish script face Dyktaat (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tasuki's blog
| Vit "Tasuki" Brunner (Czechia) recommends the 14 best free fonts. Summarizing his recommendations:
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Creator of Moove (2013), Buns (2013, plump), the bold monoline sans display face Obligum (2013), and of the experimental geometric typeface Cryst (2013). Tereza is located in Plzen, Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jörg Knappen's page on the European Computer Modern fonts. "The following languages are supported by the Cork encoding: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish (modern orthography), Italian, Letzeburgish, Lusatian (Sorbian), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaetian (Rumantsch), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TheyGraphics is a multidisciplinary graphic design studio. Working in advertising, retail, fashion, company profiles, broadcast, illustration, type design and music. Their offices are in Stockholm, Sweden and Prague, Czech Republic. The designers: Fredrik Forsberg (Stockholm), Jiri Adamik-Novak (Stockholm), Zdenek Patak (Prague). The fonts: Leda (experimental), Motion (hairline octagonal), Prank (Amelia-inspired), Logarex and Garamond Preissig. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brno, Czechia-based designer of the free avant garde font Select Regular (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tomás Brousil
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This Czech blog has an icon font archive: Atmandings, Bagarozz, Cartographer, DISTYolksEmoticons, DotCom, Emoticons, Entypo, Evilz, Heydings-Icons, IconBitOne, Kfon, MexicanOrnaments, ModernPictograms, NaiveOrnamentsFree, NoticeStd, Nymphette, Paskowy, SLZodiacIcons, SirucaPictograms, SoftOrnaments, SymbolSigns-Basisset, WCRhesusABta, WebSymbols-Regular, Webmasters, Zodiac01. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer who created Bluepix, and Type Egoist (1993, logotype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tungus Studio
| Adam Josefus (Tungus Studio) is a Czech designer who lives in Prague. Creator of the seriously angular Happy Killer (2008) and the hand-printed Gramofon (2013). Old URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type Together
| Foundry est. in 2005 by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione. TypeTogether's library of retail fonts includes
Catalog of the Type Together typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TYPO
| Bi-monthly Czech type and graphic design magazine set up in 2003 by Pavel Zelenka, Filip Blazek, Pavel Kocicka and Jakub Krc. Some issues are free. Linda Kudrnovská is its present editor-in-chief. Issue 13 (2005) deals with readability and legibility, for example. Some of the articles: The Science of World Recognition (Kevin Larson), The Bouma Supremacy (Hrant Papazian), Lateral Interference, Response Bias, Computation Cost and Cue Value (Peter Enneson), and Producting legible text on screen: Where do we look for guidance? (Mary C. Dyson). Issue 14 (2005) has an article by Iva Knobloch on Vojtech Preissig and by Adam Twardoch on FontLab 5. Table of contents. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Czech association TypoDesignClub was founded in 1996. Its members include Petr Babak, Pavel Benes, Lubos Drtina, Karel Haloun, Filip Heyduk, Pavel Hrach, Clara Istlerova, Milan Jaros, Jan Jiskra, Otakar Karlas, Ivan Kral, Petr Krejzek, Vaclav Kucera, Klara Kvizova, Zuzana Lednicka, Pavel Lev, Tomas Machek, Josef Maly, Richard Marsak (left 2001), Boris Myslivecek, Ales Najbrt, Robert V. Novak, Milan Pasek (d. 1998), Pavel Petr, Marek Pistora, Radomir Postl, Jan Solpera, Lubomir Sedivy, Petr Sejdl, Ondrej Smerda, Frantisek Storm (resigned 1999), Pavel Stastny, Rostislav Vanek and Zdenek Ziegler. At irregular intervals, the club publishes "Annual". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
typografie.dero.name
| Screen typography advice by Jaroslav „Dero“ Polakovic. In Czech. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typomil
| Martin Pecina's type blog. Subpage on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typoplus
| Graphic design studio in Prague, with art director Pavel Hrach and creative director Václav Kucera. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Upir Typo
| Upir Typo is Vaclav Krejci's Czech foundry. Designer of GUI Design Icons (2009), Upirpaw (handwriting), Pixelanky (2006), Skicack (2007, a scribbled version of Times), and Scribel CE (2006, handwriting), Suprexy CE (2006, octagonal monospaced font). Dafont link. MyFonts page. Yet another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
V Design
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Václav Kucera
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Vaclav Krejci
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Born in Prague in 1973. She grew up in Munich, where she studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Sciences. She worked as product and graphic designer in Vienna, Austria and Milan, Italy. She graduated with an MA degree in type design from the University of Reading. Her typeface Maiola (2003), spiced up by the prototypical Czech angular design elements, received the Type Directors Club award in 2004 (Certificate of Excellence in Type Design) (see here) and was the "Judge's Choice". FF Maiola, released in 2005, includes Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters and ligatures. For Maiola Cyrillic (2004), she received some help from Maxim Zhukov. In 2010, the Maiola family was published at Type Together. Other designs include Ronnia Sans and Gitter. She joined Dalton Maag in London in the autumn of 2003. In Milan, she was at Die kleine Fonderie, a studio headed by Andrea Braccaloni as part of LeftLoft. This is where she created LL Mila (2002, a condensed sans with a trademark "g"), which was part of the exhibition "Contemporary Type Design in Italy" during AtypI in Rome (2002). In 2005, she and José Scaglione founded Type Together. With José Scaglione she created the text face TT Carmina (2006), which can be had via MyFonts as Karmina (2007). Also with Scaglione, she did the humanist sans family Ronnia (2007, Type Together). At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about Oldrich Menhart (see also this PDF file). In 2005, she collaborated with Gerard Unger on the 12-weight corporate family Allianz. In 2007, her slab serif family Crete was published at Cabinet Type. She won an award at Granshan 2008. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Veronika Burian
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Prague-based researcher and TeX specialist who obtained a PhD in computer vision from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2003. Designer of free semaphore fonts in OpenType and Type 1 formats, January 2008. The Semaphor font family contains 5 shapes (regular, bold, slanted, bold slanted, and mono) in 3 variants (differ by a pillar shape). They were obtained by rewriting the original Metafont sources he made in 1998 to Metatype1, and utilizing FontForge: Semafor-Bold, Semafor-Bold-Slant, Semafor-NoPillar-Bold, Semafor-NoPillar-Bold-Slant, Semafor-NoPillar, Semafor-NoPillar-Slant, Semafor-NoPillar-Mono, Semafor-PesonPillar-Bold, Semafor-PersonPillar-Bold-Slant, Semafor-PersonPillar, Semafor-PersonPillar-Slant, Semafor-PersonPillar-Mono, Semafor-Regular, Semafor-Slant, Semafor-Mono. He also made a softball metafont. [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] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The East-European typographic scene of the past 50 years reviewed by Adam Twardoch. Site temporarily in limbo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vit Brunner
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Czech designer of these free fonts: Gunny Handwriting (2003), Tincushion (2003), Hieroglyphic (2002, paperclip font), Fashionism, Milanotica (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vit Smejkal
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Preissig Antikva was the basis of several digitizations:
View Vojtech Preissig's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quandary (2010), her second typeface, is angular. In 2010, she published Rue Display at Type Together: Rue is an organic, casually ornamental, narrow-faced sans serif, and the gridded information design and wayfinding face Simple. Fun portrait by Lim Cheng Mei. Home page. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech type designer. At Volcano Type, she published the art deco era stencil face Reklame Stencil (2010, developed jointly with Erwin K. Bauer). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zdenek Gromnica
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Brno, Czechia-based graphic designer. Check out his Meat Typo work (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based graphic and type designer who cofounded Theygraphics with Stockholm-based Fredrik Forsberg and Jiri Adamik-Novak. He obtained an MA from VSUP MA VSUP (Academy of Art, Architecture and Design) in Prague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech TeX and font software expert, whose place on the web is called IceBear Soft. He created makebarcode, a free package done in 2008 for the TeX community. It contains TeX macros for printing various 2/5 bar codes and Code 39 bar codes. The macros do not use fonts but create the bar codes directly by vrules. It is therefore possible to vary width to height ratio, ratio of thin and thick bars. The package is convenient for printing ITF bar codes as well as bar codes for identification labels for HP storage media. In 2010, he published OCR-B Outline. These are type1 and OpenType versions of an earlier Metafont by Norbert Schwarz (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague-based graphic designer, who created the constructivist face Kozel (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech designer. With Pavel Lev and Ales Najbrt, she is involved in Studio Najbrt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interviewed by Rhonda Rubinstein. Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko and Mary E. Gray wrote Emigre (The Book): Graphic Design into the Digital Realm (1993, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York). Her work is discussed by William H. Powes (in More from Eastern Europe: Czechoslovakia. Art Direction, vol. 45, pp. 62-63, 1994), Laurie Haycock Makela (in Three New Faces. Design Quarterly, vol. 158, pp. 22-25, 1993), Mike Jones (in Two Colors, one vision. Design, vol. 500, pp. 64-66, 1999) and Patrick Coyne (in Communication Arts, vol. 34, pp. 64-73, 1992). |
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Prague-based designer. He created an innovative set of ornamental capitals / icons for 
Czech designer in 1941-1943 at Joh. Wagner of the display roman face Pracht, a hookish creature showing lots of anger. Nick Curtis created the cuddly showcard face 
Prague-based designer of 
Czech designer (b. Brno) who graduated in Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno in 2005, spent a term at the Denmark's Designskole in Copenhagen in 2004 and graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design at the 
Great fonts for astrology, hieroglyphics, alchemy and the occult, by Toronto's Jan and Denise Koehler, mostly designed between 1993 and 1995. They moved to Litomerice, the Czech Republic, recently. 
Partner of Jan Koehler in 
Also Francysk Skaryna, b. 1486 Polazk (white Russia), d. 1541 Prague. 
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German scribe and calligrapher (b. Soborten, Czechoslovakia, 1923, d. Wiesbaden, 1982), and designer of several text families, such as 
Designer (b. 1911, See bei Niesky (Sachsen), d. 1979, Leipzig) at Typoart in 1955-1959 of the garalde face Tschörtner-Antiqua. This family became very popular as a workhorse in the DDR. This was digitized in three optical weights as 
Graphic designer in Magnolia, AR, who created an 
Czech type designer who created the formal script 
Prague-based designer who made his 
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Born in Prague in 1949, Jan Schmoeger emigrated to Australia in 1980, and is a book designer in Mentone, Victoria. Creator of the rounded octagonal headline sans faces 
Jiri Chlebus (Magenta Design, Brno, Czechia) is a graphic designer. 
Jozef Ondrik (b. 1988, Ruzomberok, Slovakia) studied at the School of Applied Arts in Slovakia and at the Graphic Design and Typography Department of Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic). He currently lives in Prague. He created Paper Font and 
Czech designer of the grunge monospace font Urania Czech (2006) and of the didone numbers-only font Stöhr Numbers (2006). In 2009, he made the old typewriter face Bohemian typewriter. In 2010, that was followed by another typewriter font, 
Czech type designer (b. Prague 1897, d. Prague 1962) who was mainly active at Grafotechna, a state foundry in Prague. Menhart was also an author who wrote about type and its history. After the World War II, he helped the communist party to promote itself. He was the author of fonts celebrating the victory of communism in hand-written manifests. Menhart considered himself foremost as a craftsman, and derived typefaces from calligraphic origins. 
Radko Hromátka (b. 1980) established the Radko Hromátka foundry in Prague in 2006. Radko created the art deco sans caps family 
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Rosetta is an independent foundry, set up in 2011 by David Brezina, José Scaglione and Veronika Burian, with a strong focus on multi-script typography. It is headquartered in Brno, Czechia. Other designers include Amélie Bonet and Titus Nemeth. 
At Storm Type, Czech designer Rotislav Vanek published the 
RP is a small scale digital type-foundry established in 2009 by Czech designer Radim Pesko, who currently lives in Amsterdam. He is a regular contributor to various publications including 
Graphic designer in Prague and Katowice, Poland. 
Nove Straseci, Czech Republic-based graphic designer, who runs 
Suitcase Type is a Czech foundry, est. 2004 by 
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Foundry established in Prague in 2006 by 
Czech graphic design, photography and type design studio run by 
Vitel Tomas (Usti nad Labem, Czechia) created a 
Czech expressionist type designer from Svetec u Biliny, Bohemia, b. 1873. He died in Dachau in 1944. Preissig is representative of the Czech cubist period, 1910-1925. His only book typeface, Preissig Antikva, was cast in 1925 at the Czech State Printing Office foundry in Prague, where he had returned to settle in 1930. This lively angular typeface had a hand-drawn poster-look feel. It was a milestone in Czech type design and served as inspiration for later developments, including typefaces by Menhart, Ruzicka, and Tyfa. 
Graphic designer from and in Singapore. Her first fonts appeared in 2009: Hybrid (experimental), 
