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Adrian Täckman
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Graphic designer in Copenhagen. In 2012, he created the bold grotesk face Baltikum. He explains: Baltikum is a typeface inspired by the work of Danish designer/architect Knud V. Engelhardt. The type is based on an all capital letters alphabet by Knud. In collaboration with Christian Smed and Frederik Ibfelt 'Surplus Wonder' we create a modern version which includes the lowercase version of the alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Danish graphic designer and art director in Odense, who works at STUPID Studio. He created a great geometric modular face by superimposing simple geometric figures, and called it Paxono (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish creator (b. 1989) of the hairline octagonal font Aciddotica (2009). He lives in Aarhus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer, b. Denmark, 1985. His foundry in Copenhagen is Andreas Søren Johansen. In 2010, he created the liquid ink sans face Skammefy. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Anette Schmidt
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Anja Emzén grew up in the south of Sweden, and got a bachelor degree in graphic design from the renowned Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark. Starting in 2010, she is doing graphic design work in Sydney, Australia. Emzén (2010) was created while Anja was studying at The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark. It is a soft-edged slab serif. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Anne Hassing created a calligraphic typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer, with Lotte Reinert, of a font made for the Botanic Gardens in Copenhagen in 2000, a very dark almost-slab serif face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Original fonts. Includes commercial fonts (East Satire, Ginger, Houte, Monty, OldWest, Uncle Pete, WebtoolsRetro), and free fonts (Bleed, Juggernaut, ArmyChalk). All formats. The web page is indeed anonymous. No clue who designed the fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anthony I.P. Owen
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ARC Fonts
| Danish designer, b. 1998. Aske created Aske's Handwriting (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Aske Ching
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Astrofonts
| Astrological fonts: StarFont Sans and Serif (1993) by Anthony Owen, and AstroFont (2000, by Astrolars). Anthony Owen is from Copenhagen. A type 1 version of StarFont exists, as well as Latex/TEX code for using the font (the latter by Matthew Skala). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Originally from Reykjavik, Atli Þor Árnason is studying at The School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark. He created the runic and/or Futhark simulation face Ristir (2011), a typeface that was heavily inspired by The Elder and The Newer Futhark alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PC-Mac compatible true type fonts primarily intended for the transliteration of Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform texts. Bendt Alster's page. The fonts made by him from Monotype fonts include the BaBo family (BookmanOldStyle), the BaCesPsB family (CenturySchoolbook), the BaTak family (TimesAkkad), BaGarUni (Garamond Unicode). His BATimesAkkad (2000) is also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Benedikt Gröndal
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Graphic designer from Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark, who created Ideo Stencil (2006, a slab serif stencil) and Paperwing Sans (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the textured face EMRE (2011), which stands for Engschrift Mit Runden Ecken. Wernery is based in Copenhagen, where he obtained a BA from the School of Visual Communication in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Kolding, Denmark, who created Geometric Headline Font (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bo Linnemann
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Buddha Graphix
| Jesper Birk's FunkDaFont series. His cool shareware fonts include Funky Deco (Arnold Boecklin grungified), Bandit, Barmos, BlueRoom, ConnectionBad, Clockwork, DanzinLikeCrazy (a very curly pen-drawn face), See Your Point, and StageDive. Other URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish designer from Copenhagen, b. 1975. He studied graphic arts at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in 1997-1998 and at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, in 1999. Creator the free grunge typewriter family Traveling Typewriter (2006) and of the squared LCD pixel face ChessType (2008). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chainreact Media Design
| Chainreact is the personal web site and portfolio of Jan F. Poulsen - a young student living in Denmark. He created the Block Boxter font (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish designer (b. 1991) who made the organic headline face Whitelighter (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chess diagrams
| Eric Bentzen has links to chess diagram software, and to about twenty chess fonts. THE site for chess fonts! Download his Chess Alpha, his Chess Berlin, and many more TrueType chess fonts. Dafont link. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Copenhagen, b. 1979. At Dafont, one can download his techno face Street Movement (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2008 he designed Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, Peace), Articulate, Font from NATO (military slab serif), Glockenwerk (pixel clock font), Glockenwerk Uhrzeit, Flags-and-NATO (dingbats), Font from NATO alpha, Tall, Flying-Circus (Western showtime face to imitate the Monty Python titling font), LCD-display, Simple (stencil font with 700 glyphs), TMNT, Tetris, sharp-pixels, Raster, Quad (nice stencil face), Inverted, Propaganda (Cyrillic font simulation), Empty Monospace, Pride, Stadium, Rounded, Dear God (script pixel face), Celtic Style. In 2009, he added 7x12 Pixel Mono, @bcde, Abstract Letter Patterns, Music, Texture, Diagonal, Gothic, Illusio, Unispace (typewriter type), Narrow Serif, Delta, Alien Double (great!), Donut, Flags-and-NATO, Simple-Fraktur-Initial, Simple-Fraktur, Texture, Friendly Serif, (+Soft), Invisible, Sharp, Heavy Diacritics, Concentrium, Continuous Digital Display, Elves, Pixies, Space Movie (+Ligatures), Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, +Peace), Articulate, BBT Biline Twist, Biline Twist, Empty Monospace, Unfix, Infix, Pride, Tyre Stencil (like tire threads---nifty...), and Overlap. FontStructions from 2010: Even (gridded), Brilliance, Slalom Vision, Quirky Serif, 7x12PixelMono, Ball Terminator, Gearbox, Prefix, Upside Down, Way Too Small (a minimalist pixel face), Butterfly, Ribbon Gymnastics, 2D Barcode, Horizon Stencil, Biline Twist, Quirky Serif, Blocktur, Symmetricus (alien writing?). FontStructions in 2011: 12 dice, Monotwist (tall, monospaced), Squarific (fat octagonal), Swirl (curly), Sweet (Victorian), Easter Eggs, 50 Fifty (experimental, geometric), Squarific (+Stencilious), Spiralix (spiral-themed for Latin and Cyrillic), Bloccus, Feet (monospaced). Creations from 2012: Düpbøl (German expressionist face), Slice, Blocktur, Alien Double, 7:12 serif (pixel face), Blick, Dry Heat (Isolates and Initials, Medials, Finals: an Arabic simulation family), FF9 Coin Slots, FF8 Untalic, FF7 w1de, FF6 Lean Mean, FF5 Bamana, FF4 Circulation, FF3 3times7, FF3 Runization, FF1 Glitchy, Squared, Puzzlish, Steep, Digitalis (octagonal), 50 Fifty (artsy and geometric), Monotwist, Infix. FF stands for Forgotten Fonts. Typefaces made in 2013: Squarific Fraktastic, Metro Sans (pixelish). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based designer of a modular typeface in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen based designer of Octin College Free (2012, octagonal and stencil family), which is based on Ray Larabie's athletic lettering typeface Octin College. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Haderslev, Denmark, who is studying graphic design and communication at the School of Visual Communication in Denmark. Behance link. In 2012, she created the high-contrast fashion mag face Reddish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer. He created the ultra fat slabby face Brett or Jarvis (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christopher Hansen
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Odense, Denmark-based creator of the Danish Alphabet (font) (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish lettering artist (b. 1917) who drew type for cigarette packages, companies, banks and breweries. Many logos are due to him. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Copenhagen (b. 1971), Claus is the designer at Garagefonts of Cafe Retro, Dualis, Five Link Chain, Fono, Mobilette, Modus and Toaster, as well as the runny ink font TwoFourTwo (2000), C64 (2000, pixel face) and Fake Deco Extra Bold (2000, squarish). FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He says: I created a new design again taking inspiration from the early sketches of Dwiggins' Experimental No. 223. I was able to use the very open aperture design of the e in this experiment. The a again explored a inflexion points within the counters, and this was too integrated in the design. Finally lightly rounded wedge shaped base serifs were chosen. In 2011, Claus placed Playfair Display with Google Web Fonts. He explains: Playfair Display is a transitional design. From the time of enlightenment in the late 18th century, the broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens. This influenced typographical letterforms to become increasingly detached from the written ones. Developments in printing technology, ink and paper making, made it possible to print letterforms of high contrast and fine hairlines. This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the printer and typeface designer John Baskerville's designs, the punchcutter William Martin's typeface for the Boydell Shakespeare (sic) edition, and from the Scotch Roman designs that followed thereafter. As the name indicates, Playfair Display is well suited for titling and headlines. It was followed in 2012 by Playfair Display SC. Claus lives in Amsterdam. Google Font Directory link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of typography for touch-screen devices. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the great font Puppetface at the Beetles and Dry Fish foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Tintin truetype font. Well, it's a bit unclear who the designer really is. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Skolen for Visuel Kommunikation in Haderslev, Denmark, b. 1991. Creator of the free sans typeface family Thorup Sans (2012), which first started out as a logotype for school work. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Engelby
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David Engleby Foundry
| Copenhagen-based creator of the four-style serif face Ingleby (2006-2008). In 2011, he added Engelberg (pixel face), OnO Display, ServusTextDisplay-Display, and ServusTextDisplayItalic-display (an angular text face). All of these typefaces were free In 2013, he set up the commercial David Engleby Foundry. The first typeface there was the text family Ingleby II. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Deote
| New Danish type site from Copenhagen. None of the subpages show on my browser. Adrian Täckman is one of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Det danske Skriftstøberi Harry Løhr
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DOF, or Dansk Oplysnings Forbund, is a Danish organization with its own free font, DOFMedium (2003), a sans with all appropriate diacritics. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font archive at a Danish site. It has, as a subset, the WSI Hand Font Collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designed the free PostScript chess font Skak. Link temporarliy moved here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish typography guru who died on February 7, 2001. Eli was a teacher and researcher at The Graphic Arts Institute in Denmark, from 1956 until 1984. In 1993, he published Længe leve typografen (Long live typography). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Family of printers in the 16th and early 17th century in Leiden, The Hague, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The first one, Louis (1540-1617), was the son of a Belgian printer in Leuven and established a print shop in Leiden in 1580. They were operational until 1712. The name "Elzevir" is used to describe typefaces not unlike those made by them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Emil Juul created the monoline display typeface Acacia (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emil Willumsen studied visual communication at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, in Copenhagen. He created the sans display typeface Alma (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Haderslev, Denmark-based designer of the curly bilined pastry shop typeface Parisienne (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Bentzen's chess link page, with links to chess fonts. Download page. Chess font link page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Bentzen
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Erik Oestergaard discusses blackletter fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Danish foundry founded in 1997 by ex-graduates from the Denmark Design School and the Royal Art Academy. They designed a lot for corporations, such as for Framfab (Point Sans and Point Serif), the Danish Film Institute (Millton, 1998), the Källemo catalogue (Källemo) and the Danish State Archive, and are the main competitor of Kontrapunkt. After the ATypI meeting in Denmark in 2001, I learned that this is one of Denmark's main foundries. Based in Copenhagen, it sells fonts by its founders:
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Expert Alphabets
| George Abrams (b. 1919 or 1920, Brooklyn, d. 2001, Manhasset, NY) is the designer of the gorgeous font families Augereau, Abrams Caslon and Venetian, at Expert Alphabets in Great Neck, NY. Abrams taught lettering and typeface design at the Parsons School of Design, the New School for Social Research and at the Columbia University Teachers College. He had over 50 years of Madison Avenue experience designing ads, logos, typography and lettering for Fortune 500 companies and more. His early typefaces were photo types published by Headliners in New York City. He died on June 7, 2001 at age 81. About Augereau: This is the only digitized face by George Abrams [in fact, the digitization is due to Charles Nix, for George Abrams]. Its 28 weights include over 2,000 sorts including expert, OsF,&alts. Augereau is named for Antoine Augereau, who was a typographer who had a few claims to fame - one was that he was Claude Garamonds teacher, and two was that he was sentenced to death for heresy in 1544. Heresy for a typographer in 1544 meant that he printed something that the king or the Pope didn't like and died for it. I would like to thank Poul Steen Larsen for clarifying the history of Abrams' Venetian: The Abrams Venetian was donated to Mr. Poul Kristensen of Herning (in Jutland), then Printer to the Royal Court (which he has ceased to be in 1995). You are right about the font being today locked to Poul Kristensen' old Linotron, from which not even Linotype experts brought in to unlock it, could get it out for conversion into an up-to-date digital font. So the font will disappear from the type arena when Kristensens Linotron one day breaks down. You can trust me, for I was the one who established the contact between George and Mr. Kristensen back in 1986. The font was first used in 1989 in a book by Martin Lowry, British renaissance historian, with the title Venetian Printing. George Abrams' chalk drawings of the entire alphabet in regular and italic were scanned, more precisely vectorised on-screen and downloaded in Denmark by the Kristensens and therefore, in one sense, could be called the first Danish complete font. A sample of the first use of Abrams' Venetian. A second sample from "Venetian Printing". Abrams Venetian was digitized at some point by Jorgen Kristensen for Poul Kristensen Grafisk Virksomhed Printer. Apostrophe wrote this about Abrams Caslon: This was actually reviewed by Caflish and, if I remember correctly, Mark vonBronkhorst, so there are at least 3 or 4 copies of it out there, other than the Abrams' estate original data. Sumner Stone once said that this is the best Caslon he has ever seen. At least he has seen it; I haven't. The typefaces by Abrams (Abrams Venetian and Augereau) are preserved in the New York City-based Abrams Legacy Collection (see also here). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Finn Sködt
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He made the contemporary informal typeface Jula (2012). Asgaard was created during the one-week typeface design workshop tipoRenesansa in Trenta, Slovenia (February 2012). It is specially designed for street signage. Runge writes: To achieve great legibility the design paid much attention to features such as: large x-height, open counters, tiny serifs, slightly rounded corners, square terminals as well as inktraps. Research leading to asgaard is described in Runge's paper The echo of architecture in Danish type design of the 20. century. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font archive from Denmark. Includes several original dingbat fonts from Listemageren such as Ancient Greeks and Gabriel's Angels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jakob Roest Vinkel's 300+ Danish archive with handwriting fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontLister
| Great freeware font manager for Windows by Conquerware's Peter Theill (well, version 3 is not; version 2 was here). A review from the net: Got a lot of fonts? Would you like a quick (and free) way to see them -- even the ones that aren't installed? Then take a look at FontLister, a good-looking freeware utility that no Windows font fanatic should be without. It lets you print and view samples of all your typefaces (including TrueType, Type 1, and screen fonts). In this new version, FontLister lets you delete and install TrueType fonts, gives you more-detailed information on each font, and sports several interface and printing enhancements. With this update, FontLister becomes a true must-have for all font lovers. Download and enjoy! Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Windows 95 font manager software from Denmark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontpartners
| Danish type cooperative by Ole Søndergaard (b. 1937) and Morten Rostgaard Olsen (b. 1964). Olsen is a graphic and type designer who lives and works in Copenhagen. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Morten Rostgaard Olsen's typefaces include FF Olsen, FF Max (2003, elliptical). Søndergaard has had his own design studio since 1972, and has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His most famous font family is FF Signa (2000). He also created Thule Letters (2005) based on carved letters on Knud Rasmussen's monument. Together, they made FP Dancer (2007, an upright part script part sans part serif concoction), FP Palina (stencil, 2005), FP Quality (stencil, 2005), FP Silly (stencil, 2005; free at Fontshop), FP Stage (fat display grunge, 2005). Custom fonts include Elsinore (2005, serif), Public (2005), Signa Tryg (Søndergaard, 2003). Olsen's Dancer (2007), is described by Jan Middendorp as follows: In the sans serif realm, spelling out human and warm, while avoiding to become childish or silly, isn't as easy as some type designers assume. Morten Olsen's Dancer is one of those new, and newly conceived, text faces that seem to do the job. It strikes a balance between typographic quality and charisma, between conventional wisdom about legibility, and expressiveness. Also, it has an equally eloquent serifed companion. Other Fontpartners fonts: FP Head, FP Head Stencil, FP Head Pro (2011, described by them as a broad headline font, with a blur-style architecture. The typeface has a touch of FF Max, hard and soft at the same time). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Nicely categorized 300+ font archive by Mads Klinkby (Denmark). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Peter Theill (Conquerware) in Denmark: "FontSelector is a simple freeware font viewer for Windows 95, 98, NT4 and NT5. It gives you a quick and easy way to browse and print all your installed fonts." Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish company that offers a number of gothic and fraktur fonts, as well as old handwriting fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish rune font archive. Has Allan Daugaards Runefont, Grxlheim Runefont, Brynjolfson Runefont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish printer, book designer and publisher, 1882-1969. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
George Abrams
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German Donaldist Society (D.O.N.A.L.D.)
| The free Carl Barks Script (1998), an all caps bold comic book font that covers Greek as well, was originally made by the German Donaldist Society. In 1998, it was extended by Thomas Pryds Lauritsen of the Danish Donaldist Society. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish foundry in Copenhagen. Their fonts include Chablon (ca. 1938), a stencil face, and Blackburn (a Stymie clone). Scan of 12 WS typefaces (1938). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The zip file has many Monotype truetype fonts such as the Bookman, Centaur, Arial, BookAntiqua and Baskerville families. In addition, there are fonts such as Bearpaw (Dennis Anderson, 1999), Alpha Centauri (Michael Bazzell, 1998), Ala Carte (Gavin Kalinthia, 1996). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grølheims Rune side
| Danish rune site. The following free rune fonts by Morten Grølsted are available: Brynjolfson, Grolheim16, Grolheim24, GrolheimAS, GrolheimHal, GrolheimLim, GrolheimStung, GrolheimVal. These fonts also have many Viking dingbats. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
GRUNT
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Danish architect (1897-1968), who taught design at Danmarks Designskole, from 1951-1967. At some point, he designed some lettertypes. Steen Ejlers is writing a book on his work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish industrial designer of the art deco era (b. Copenhagen, 1898), artist and letterer who emigrated to United States, settling in New York City. He began working in the field of industrial design in 1928. His clients included Colophon Quarterly, Covici-friede, United Drug Company and DuPont, for whom he designed book jackets, bindings, and packaging. He was featured in the landmark 1934 article in Fortune magazine about the new profession of industrial design: the article noted that, of the recognized pioneers in the field---including Raymond Loewy, Henry Dreyfuss and Walter Dorwin Teague---Jensen was regarded as the top man from a purely aesthetic point of view. Paul Rand considered Jensen his mentor. After the United States entered World War II, demand for Jensen's brand of aesthetic design flagged, and he faded into obscurity. The date and place of his death is uncertain. He inspired many typefaces, such as Bodoni Egyptian Pro Thin (2007, Nick Shinn), a mythological Greekish art deco type Jensen first drew in 1931. Nick Curtis made Tasneem NF (2007), after Jensen's 1931 classic, which was drawn for American Alphabets. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Handwriting Models
| Handwriting Models An Icelandic Manual, 1883, was written by Benedikt Gröndal (1826-1907), an Icelandic poet, painter, draftsman, calligrapher and library historian. After a master's degree in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Copenhagen in 1863, he taught, wrote, and published a periodical, Gefn. In 2007, a foreword and useful introduction to handwriting models was added by Gunnlaugur Briem, and he placed all on his web site for free download. I quote: In 1875, Denmark changed handwriting models, replacing blackletter cursive by copperplate. This extended to its Icelandic dominion, where copybooks and model sheets in the new style were in short supply. Eight years later, a much needed handwriting manual by Benedikt Gröndal was published. The old style and the new are similar in appearance but have different letterforms. This picture shows the old blackletter cursive (top) and the new copperplate (bottom)---it was taken from Almanak Hins íslenzka þjóðvinafélags, Copenhagen (1877). Gröndal's copperplate and Gröndal's ronde. The foreword by Briem also shows a Danish ronde that appeared in Rundskrifts-Bogen; til Skolebrug og Hjemmeøvelse, ca. 1880. He also grabs the opportunity to showcase the most handsome of all Icelandic copperplate models done by Jón Þórarinsson in Skrifbók með forskriftum, 1. hefti (Reykjavík, ca. 1896). The American Palmer method, more open but less gracious, is illustrated in this alphabet from 1922 by Steingrímur Arason (from Litla skrifbókin, Reykjavík. Variants of this are shown in the alphabets of Guðmundur I. Guðjónsson, published between 1939 and 1953. Briem concludes: Handwriting based on copperplate was largely abandoned in Icelandic schools in 1984. It was replaced by italic, a modern monoline version of renaissance handwriting that owes much to Ludovico Arrighi's approach. A large selection of model sheets in this style is available for free download from the internet. He also shows Italiuskrift05, his own suggestion for schools. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hans Munk
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During his graphic design studies at the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark, Hans Pelle Jart created the experimental modular typeface Fragments (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Harry Løhr
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Creator of the smooth display typeface Am (2012), which was designed when she was taking a class from Kenn Munk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish type designer. Head of Department, Danish School of Media&Journalism [Den Grafiske Højskole], Copenhagen, Denmark. Co-organizer of ATypI in Copenhagen in 2001, founder of the Cooper Black Klubben. He designed DGH Sans for the Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark in 1996. In 2008, he art directed and Dalton Maag, London (Bruno Maag, Marc Weyman and Ron Carpenter) designed and produced the free Aller family, which was sponsored by Danish publishing company Aller (hence the name) and designed as part of the Danish School of Media and Journalism's new corporate identity. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Henrik Christian Grove
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Graphic design student in Haderslev, Denmark, who for a school project created Drone Sans (2012), a typeface with alchemic influences that are so "in" in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Henrik Kubel
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Henrik Lund runs Henrik Lund Digital Design in Copenhagen. He made an old Amiga bitmap font in 1992 (Harmonica). That face was digitized by the people at Freaky Fonts. Other screen fonts he made include Seen6 (check it on the flash intro). He is working on a 5-weight type 1 version of Seen6, to be released in 2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small Danish font archive: dingbats, movie fonts, game fonts, fantasy fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Idiot Copenhagen
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Ilektra holds a Bachelors in graphic arts from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece and a Masters in industrial design engineering from Aalborg university, Denmark. She works in Astoria, NY. Creator of an unnamed script family in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer of the free athletic lettering font College Slab (2009-2010), which is an extension of an earlier face by Matthew Welch by the same name. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student (BA) at Skolen for Visuel Kommunikation in Haderslev, Denmark. Creator of the electrical experimental typeface Iskry (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Coding that supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. See also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. More specifically, other ISO-8859 groups are as follows:
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Jakob Fischer
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Jan F. Poulsen
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. He designed fonts such as Premiere (2001, a sans), Glendale (Peignotian), Cabo (grotesque) and Agita (geometric sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based graphic designer, who created a gridded octagonal typeface, Block Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based designer of Kryle (2011), an octagonal typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jesper Birk
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Graphic designer in Copenhagen. Creator of Cellar Door (2012, a Peignotian typeface), Ové Sans (2012, +Outline). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based designer of Norrebro (2013, inspired by pixacao) and Vibrant Serif (2013, a pixel typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Skolen for visuel kommunikation in Haderslev, Denmark, Joakim Meihack created the modular techno typeface Wesia Sans (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer, b. 1983. Creator of the funny faces dingbat font The Freaky Face (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer (b. 1990) who lives in Copenhagen. He worked for five months to complete the good-looking geometric type family Comfortaa (2008), which is free at CTAN and Google Font Directory. In 2009, he made Trunkmill (2009) and the useful organic sans family Lastwaerk. In 2010, he added Montepetrum (a basic condensed family). Devian Tart link. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. Catalog in 2010. Fontsy link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swede Johan Nordlander's runic font pack. Nice original designs. Demos available, but the fonts must be ordered. All formats (type 1, truetype, Mac and PC). Johan says: "I have been developing these runic fonts since 1991 in close collaboration with one of the world's foremost experts on Old English runes, Professor Bengt Odenstedt. " Fonts: Old Norse, Old English, Danish, Short-Twig, Staveless runes, Gothic runes, Scientific runes. Plus lots of references on runes! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johann Gottfried Pöetzsch was a typefounder from Stötteritz near Leipzig. In 1753 he became manager of the Berling typefoundry in Copenhagen. In 1755, Pöetzsch takes over the printing privileges in Denmark (from Hesse). Until his death in 1783, Pöetzsch successfully operates his typefoundry. His market includes all Scandinavian countries. Elisabeth Krey, his widow then takes over the foundry, which eventually was sold to Sebastian Popp, and finally to J.P. Lindh 9Stockholm) in 1814. Pöetzsch used mainly imported German matrices. Samples of the typefaces: Mittel Gammal Schwabach, Cicero Gammal Schwabach, Calender Zeigen auf Rheinlaender Kegel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sweden's first printer, who cut his own punches and cast his own types. He printed "Missale Upsaliense vetus" in Stockholm in 1483. He was also the first printer in Denmark, where he printed Breviarium Ottoniense and De obsidione et bello Rhodiano in 1482 in Odense. His main main office was in Lubeck, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer (b. 1991) who lives in Helsingør, Denmark. Creator of the geometric typeface Goca Logotype (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. He designed fonts such as Movie (2001, a very black condensed movie generics sans), iD:00 (2001, a large sans and serif family), Fletch Text (1998, a sans), DeLuca (Bodoni-like, 2001), NinetySix K (2001, a serif), Underton (1998), Point Sans (1999), Point Serif (1999), Cendia (1997), DenmarkSerif (1998), Mega (1999), Olic (1999), Arch Sans (2003), Arch Serif (2003), Arch Stencil (2003), Arch Pattern (2003). In the 2011 Playtype on-line catalog, it seems that several of his early designs have been renamed, and many others have been added. So here is the on-line list of his fonts there as of February 2011: AbidaleBook, AcademySans, AcademySerif, BingoSans, BingoSerif, DeArchie (didone), DeArchieDisplay, FletchText, FruOlsen (condensed), Geometric, Hall, HomeDisplay, Hazelwood, HermesBaby (old typewriter), Hill, HomeText, ID00 Sans (large family), ID00 Serif, ItalianPlate, JPSpecial Sans, JPSpecial Serif, JazzHouse, Mari, MoviePlaytype, New Press, Noir Text, Nord Dingbats (circled letters), Norwegian, Play (2011, a minimalistic sans serif typeface), PrimoSerif, Republic, SymphonyDisplay, TheWave, Trood, VentiQuattro (didone), Vertigo, Willumsen, ZettaSans. Later in 2011, he published the modern sans family Metro. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jonathan faust is a designer in Copenhagen, Denmark. He created a monoline slab face called Monoline Eastwood (2011: buy it at Ten Dollar Fonts), and a text face called Typewondo (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jorgensen Fonts
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MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
While studying in Haderslev, Denmark, Josefine Pedersen created the blackboard bbold typeface Where's The Ink? (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
About ten specially selected fonts showcased by René Pedersen from Denmark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Copenhagen. He created the clean sans face Zimmer (2010), which was published by Gestalten. Images: i, ii. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design student in Kolding, Denmark. She created a display sans typeface during her studies in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free fonts BJyskISONN, IJyskISONN, RJyskISONN (2000) of the Institut for Jysk Sprog- og Kulturforskning, Aarhus Universitet, Niels Juels Gade 84, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. The fonts are "Ordbogens lydskrift". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer (Aalborg) in 1937 of the brushy face Stafet (William Simmelkiær Skriftstøberi). This site shows a 1938 note that announces that Kai Pelt had won the type competition held by Grafisk Compagni in 1937 with his typeface Palet, later known as Stafet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Incorrectly appointed by Type Euphoria as the designer of Fantomet, Lewis F Day No 191, and William J Pearce No 213. A visit to Listemageren reveals that she may be a cat or a daughter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Danish graphic designer and illustrator living in Copenhagen. Her typefaces include the brown bag face Traktor (2011) and the Latin American pearly ornamental face Oro (2011). In 2012, she added the geometric monoline family Neoneon. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kasper Ledet
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Danish minimalist designer in Roskilde / Copenhagen, who made various typefaces in 2010, including a monoline sans caps face, a Peignotian high-contrast caps face and a paper fold face, and the geometric face Ottoman. Ottoman was part of the visual identity made for a nightclub named OTTOMAN, located at Dunkel in the heart of Copenhagen). Wondair (2011) is a rounded monoline logotype made for a fictituous airline. Gemini (2011) is a bilined geometric art deco typeface. In 2012, Pyndt designed the geometric typeface Husaar, which was inspired by Avenir. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish creative director who created Semislabed (sic) (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark. She created the stylish display typeface Kava (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kenn Munk (b. 1974) is the Aarhus-based Danish designer of free and commercial fonts since 2000: Karmaflage (2004, first free, but now a pay dingbat font at MyFonts), Influenza (2004, gothic), Wappenbee (2003, free bitmap dingbat font system for making crests), Arkudius (2003, entirely constructed from circles), Contamination, Acetone (formal script), Linemap (2002, free almost connected bitmap face), DummyTapes (2001, originally free), Replywood, Urbanregent, Aether (free dingbats), Rorschach, Yarpies, Nylon Violence, Psychophante (2004, dingbats). Kenn sells his faces through MyFonts. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer at Litewerx of the (free) pixel fonts Tile (1999), LiquidCrystal, Minus (1999) and Blue Matrix (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kim Pedersen
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kim-inter.net
| kim-inter.net is Kim Pedersen's web home. Pedersen is a Danish graphic designer and type designer, who made Arild Sans from 1993-1998. Pedersen worked (works?) at The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark, Copenhagen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish designer of Capitalis Purificalis (2000, a minimalist sans), Quinone Headline (1999, a sans), and City Talker (1998, a condensed sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish graphic designer. He is working on this minimalist geometric face (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klaus Johansen
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Klaus Johansen
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Danish graphic designer who created a custom angular typeface for Danish photographer Søren Malmose (2012). He also did several logotypes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klaus Nielsen
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Kontrapunkt
| Danish design bureau that publishes corporate fonts, and fonts for government agencies. The Danish Railway fonts ViaSign (2000), ViaText (2000) and DSBTPL (2000) are due to them. This company in Copenhagen was founded in 1991 by Kim Meyer Andersen and Bo Linnemann. Kontrapunkt's Bo Linnemann is mainly occupied with corporate branding, and this often includes new corporate designs. He professes to be deeply influenced by Knud Engelhardt, who used wide faces with the A, N, V, W and M corners stretched by horizontal pieces. His type designs include
Another URL. Fontsquirrel link. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Haderslev, Denmark-based creator of the high contrast fashion mag typeface Vertigo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristina Krogh Larsen is a graphic designer with a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from the Danish School of Media and Journalism (formerly the Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark). In Trine Rask's type design class, she created the Charlie typeface in 2010, an exercise on contrast and ball terminals. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ladyfingers
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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Information designer from Stutgart who is studyin at Stuttgart Media University. At Denmarks School for Media and Journalism in 2012, she designed the didone font Elegant, which has a fragile yet fashionable look. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lars Mathiasen made his first font in October 1998. Email him to get Ljm, posted on alt.binaries.fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lars Pryds
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Lasse Hedegaard
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laxxes fonts
| Three free type 1/truetype fonts by Denmark's Lasse Hedegaard of "laxxes fonts": Expression, Register (2000), Schwarz (1996). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 2012, she created an unnamed black didone display typeface. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish type designer, calligrapher and graphic designer, b. 1939, who lives in Skane, Denmark. He created RunaSerif (for Miles, 1995: inspired by the forms of ancient Viking runes, this face won the Nordic Typeface Competition in Copenhagen), Crane (1995, Agfa), Renasci (1997, based on old Danish inscriptions, mainly in churches), ZiP (Agfa Creative Alliance), and Hansson Stencil (Mecanorma). CV (in Swedish). | |
Leon Sloth
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One of the "Trophée d'Or" awards is a typographic award. Given under the auspices of Agfa Monotype, it rewards the creator of the best typeface for a visual identity or a special use. Faces must be less than 5 years old. The 2003 awards were handed out at the 23rd Intergraphic Congress, held from January 15-17, 2003 in Paris. The winners:
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Danish creator (b. 1987) of the experimental font Soft Triangles (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Founder of Stein & Otto in Haderslev, Denmark. Creator of Skraa 01 (2012), a typographic experiment in extreme contrast. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Listemageren Fontarkiv
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Dafont link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish outfit. Kim Jensen made the (free) pixel fonts Tile, LiquidCrystal, Minus and Blue Matrix. Ruben Borup made the pixel font City Lights. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Livin Hell (was: Webbyen.dk)
| Danish site with about twenty original grunge fonts made by Christopher Hansen, who is located in the United States: A Theme for Murder (2005, a great scary script), Got Heroin (2005, ransom note font), Carnivalee Freakshow (2004, Western), Even Badder Mofo (2005), Living Hell (2005), Nemo (2005), Nemo Nightmares (2005), Dearest Dorothy (2005, curly), Deanna (2005), The Gingerbread House (2005, a curly creepy German expressionist typeface), Cocaine Sans (2005), Latchboy (2005, curly creepy face), Raiderz (2004), Shoguns Clan (2004), Sell Your Soul (2004), Nightmare Maker (2004), Beyond Wonderland (2004), Bad Mofo (2004), Pure Evil (2004), Pure Evil 2 (2005), Slaytanic (2004), Spinal T. Fanboy (2004), Frank Knows (2004), Requiem (2004), The Battle Continuez (2004), Against Myself (2004), Scratched Car Paint (2004), Punk Kid (2003), All Rejects (2003), 80's-hero (2000), If (2000), Insert-your-name-here (2000), Metalheads (2000), Funky2, GoRiLlaz-2 (2000), Punk-Kid (2000), Green Days (2002), Straight-Face (2002), se7en (2002), The Battle (2000), and Dwarves (2003). See also here. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. FontShop link. Abstract Fonts link. Another Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish designer, with Anne Marie Brammer, of a font made for the Botanic Gardens in Copenhagen in 2000, a very dark almost-slab serif face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During Kenn Munk's type desin class in Haderslev, Denmark, Louise Lahn design the straight-edged typeface Secat Sans (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For Kenn Munk's class at the School of Visuel Communication, located in Haderslev, Denmark, Lube Glien Andersen designed the Balloonaddict typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Fountain of the serif family Tycho (2007). It is said that this is a revival of a font by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lungo
| Rasmus Lange is the Danish creator in 2009 of the FontStruct fonts LungoMinimal (a horizontally stencilled family) and LungoType (octagonal). The Boss (2007) was patterned after the lettering in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) by George Cukor. Cronista (2006) is a condensed font made for the TV series Kroniken. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish illustrator and poster artist, with a style that is inbetween art deco and retro futurism. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mads Burcharth (Odense, Denmark) has a graphic design and branding studio called Stupid Studio. He created the simple monoline sans faces GEUSE (2009) and Sedo (2009). He graduated in April 2008 from SDE College, Center of Visual Communications with a major in Digital Media. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Copenhagen. Norwegian creator of the prismatic typeface Seal (2012). | |
Mads Quistgaard
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Danish designer of the hookish sans serif font Anton Regular (2002). The family mrh_Anton (2000) was posted on alt.binaries.fonts on July 23, 2002, by its creator. Designer of the following display sans face (2004), based on the handwriting of many people. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mads Rydahl
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Magnus Gaarde
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Maria Grønlund is a Lystrup, Denmark-based digital artist who experiments with elaborate glyphs. She created, e.g., Shredded Alphabet (2011), I See Numbers (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Founder in 2008 of M Design Studio in Copenhagen. Creator of a modular font in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based graphic designer, who created God Mother High Nose (2012), a modular monoline sans family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based designer (b. 1989) of Svampen's Handwriting (2013) and Vanlose Handwritten (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mary Huang
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Danish creator in aarhus (b. 1988) of the hand-printed typeface Lotte by Rue (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aarhus, Denmark-based designer of an unnamed thin font with technical / architectural roots. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Copenhagen, this Danish designer created some experimental typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Design student at The Danish School of Media & Journalism, who will graduate in 2014. Based in Copenhagen, Michelle does mainly illustrations. Creator of the geometric alphabet Flip (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Midt Sans is a series of freely downloadable sans fonts made in 2006. They are modifications of Morgan Sans (Feliciano Type Foundry, 2000-2005) done by Village (with permission from FTF) for Midt Jylland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Haderslev, Denmark-based designer of Runic (2012), a runic simulation typeface This was created while she was studying at the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Tehran in 1986, Mohsen Khaki now lives in Denmark where he designs type. With Alireza Amiri, he created Ki Moa Trinagle Mark (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
More To Come
| Danish design studio built around graphic designer Leon Sloth in Copenhagen. In 2011, they designed Paten (a severe almost-constructivist typeface) and Antiwar (an army stencil face). In 2012, they created Deadman. |
Morten Bek
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Morten Grølsted
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Danish creator of the free Morse code font Morso Kode (2009). It contains three Danish special characters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Morten Rostgaard Olsen
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Graphic design student, who is currently studying to get a bachelor degree in graphic communication at the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark. She created the curvy monoline typeface Ino (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer of the alphabet for the Danish license plates. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1970 until his death in 1979. The license plate design is now in the hands of the firm Klint&Vejse, run by Lars Klint and Lise Vejse Klint. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A musical notation metafont for transcribing Hildegard von Bingen's music. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the didone display typeface Corydon (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Soeborg-based Danish designer of the handprinted face Phoenix Print (2005). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish art director. Creator of Casa Madero (2012, a logotype for the winery), Douwe Egberts (2012), FF Berliner (2012, octagonal constructivist typeface), and F-Rune (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer of amor, blogs, boring, dogma, elektra (Greek simulation), fatboy, kromozone (grunge), mainstreet, micro, mousecrap, oilhand, onakite, raw, rec, risk, roundabout, starbeam (grunge), strike, Improvised (a pixel font). Niels lives in Copenhagen. Dafont link. At FontStruct in 2008, he created Dub Chuck, Structor, Work In Progess, and Monkey Wok. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Seoul, Nina Lee Storm moved to Denmark in 1975, where she works as a freelance type designer. She designed Storm Sans at Agfa/Monotype in 2000. She designed Noa for use on television and computer screens during the late 1990s. This tall x-height short-ascendered face was published by Linotype in 2004. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Advertised as "freeware fonts and band stuff. By Jacob Nielsen. About 80 fonts now. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Not my type: the centuries-long identity crisis of Scandinavian typography | Great article by Shane Wilson in the Harvard Independent on Scandinavian typography and type design. But the Scnadinavians won't like it: Wilson says that there is no such thing as a Scandinavian typographical identity. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Ole Munk
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Danish designer of FoekFont (2006), the title font of the Mads Foek magazine. Fonetika Dania (2006) is a font bundle with a serif font and a sans serif font for the Danish phonetic system Dania. Both fonts exist in regular and bold. The fonts are based on URW Palladio and Iwona Condensed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Per Baasch Jørgensen
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Pernille Jensen (or Lundsgaard) designed the display typeface Go Xperiment (2013) during her studies in Haderslev, Denmark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and print designer in Aalborg, Denmark. He created the ultra fat face Squares (2009). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For a type design course taught by Kenn Munk in Haderslev, Denmark, Peter Kaalund designed the display typeface Galvanik Fraktur (2013), which was inspired by circuit boards. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Theill
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Graphic design student based in Denmark, Haderslev. Currently he is studying graphic communication at the School of Visual Communication. Creator of the fashion mag face Vojens (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pia Rolschau Hansen (aka Catfish) is located in Aarhus, Denmark. She created a grotesk sans caps face in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish pixel artist, who made two pixel fonts in 2010: Made of Pixels, Made of Bricks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PizzaDude
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Planet
| Mads Rydahl (Denmark) designed some free techno and sci-fi typefaces: PlanetBubble, PlanetEstyle, PlanetKosmos, PlanetOpti, PlanetSpace. Rasmus Keldorff designed some others: Planet Megapolis, Planet Tricolore. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Place to buy fonts made by E-type designers. Located in Copenhagen and started in 2006. Another URL. The face were designed by Jonas Hecksher (JH), Henrik Kubel (HK), and Jens Kajus (JK). By category:
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PLEKS
| Mats Quistgaard is creative director at Pleks, a graphic design studio in Denmark. He studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and at Central Saint Martins, MA. Then he worked as a designer for Sleazenation, and art-directed and designed Frieze magazine. He co-founded design collective APOGS in 2001. He taught at the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and Central Saint Martens, and founded Pleks in 2004. He founded Danish Faces in 2005. He created a number of corporate typefaces, such as an identity typeface for the public channel DR (Danish State Radio and Television) called DR1, DR2 and DRi; FRH; KRAT (an Egyptian face); Telia (grunge); Nyco Sans (for NYCOMED). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish typographer and graphic designer. After studying in Copenhagen he went to the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris to study under José Mendoza. Agfa Creative Alliance designer who made the Jante Antiqua typeface [2007]. According to Poul Steen Larsen, the transitional family Jante (digitized by a technician at Purup Electronics Ltd) is the second complete Danish typeface, after Venetian (which was based on drawings by George Abrams). | |
Poul Steen Larsen of the Danmarks Biblioteksskole digitized Baskerville Book in 1995. Liber is a roman bookface done for the Danish library school publications in 1993, which was released in 2000. Other fonts include Mega (1996) and Colonna (1996). He is currently a professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based photographer who created the handwriting font ras (2004) with Fontifier. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer at Planet of the techno faces Planet Megapolis and Planet Tricolore. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rasmus Lange
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René Holst (aka Blue Panda), b. 1983, is a designer from Copenhagen, Denmark, who is currently studying Interactive Design at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. He created the ball terminal scriptish face New World Monkeys (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ribergaard&Munk
| Ole Munk is a graphic designer, design consultant, and illustrator. He holds an architectural degree from the Institute of Visual Communication at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. He drew the comic strip Felix 1976-85. Graphic reporter at Politiken 1985-89, lecturer and consultant at the Graphic Arts Institute 1989-94, head of graphics at Politiken 1994-95, partner of Ribergaard&Munk since July 1995 (with Maj Ribergaard and Hanne Groenlund). He was awarded the Commemorative Prize of Knud V. Engelhardt (Knud V. Engelhardts Mindelegat) in 2003. Ribergaard&Munk is a graphic design studio, specializing in newspaper and magazine design. Munk, who also dabbles in logotype and typography put these articles on his site: Letters are made for reading, Typography and legibility (in Danish), and Grids (in Danish). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student in Haderslev, Denmark, who made the high-contrast calligraphic script typeface Silvya (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish graphic designer located in Berlin. Her typefaces include Lunar (done for a school project under Kenn Munk at the School of Visual Communication, Denmark), Holger (a monospaced sans also also done at the the School of Visual Communication), and Berlin Baby (2012, a purely geometric typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Allan Rasmussen's free font archive based in Denmark with about 1100 fonts. Nice presentation. Has some fonts from hard-to-find places such as BWP (see Brenton's Scrawltype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer at Litewerx of the (free) pixel font City Lights (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish creator (b. 1980) of Ugly Betty (2009, handprinted, done with Yourfonts). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sanja Radakovic (Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Master student of graphic and interactive designat Designskolen Kolding in Denmark. In 2009, she created the text typeface Font Sanes. In 2011, she designed a corporate organic sans typeface for Telia Sonera called Sonera. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Sara Cramer Rasmussen designed a hyper-contrasted didone typeface called Artemes (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his Masters degree studies at the Kolding School of Design, Sebastian Askari Schmidt created the simple sans typeface Askari (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish typefoundry in Copenhagen active there from 1738-1814. It had matrices from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Its most celebrated owner was Johann Gottfried Pöetzsch. The timeline:
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Copenhagen, Denmark-based illustrator, comic book artist, and graphic designer. Behance link. He created the organic face Zayin (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Denmark of a free OpenType font with partial Unicode support: Summersby (2003). Current language support: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, plus a few others. Alternate URL. He is working on a serif face called Random (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sidsel Solmer Eriksen
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Haderslev, Denmark-based designer of the high-contrast fashion mag typeface Couture (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
skak
| Metafont chess fonts called skak. Part of the skak package developed by Dane Torben Hoffmann in 2000. See also here. In 2002, several symbols were added by Dirk Baechle. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Skriftklog Grafisk Design (was: TypeEinz)
| Magnus Gaarde studied garphic dsign at Hoyer College of Visual Communication from 2001-2004. Google Plus link. Type Einz was Magnus Gaarde's Danish type site. His typefaces there, done ca. 2005, included Grandjean Grotesk, Bocoché, Package, Black Hole (ultra fat experimental display face), Junk Yard, Medea (sans), Aarhus (sans), Petrograd (squarish), and Psychosium Grotesk. He set up Skriftklog Grafisk Design in Skanderborg, Denmark. At Google Web Fonts, these free fonts can be downloaded: Basic (2011), Habibi (2011, a high-contrast serifed face), Trykker (2011, a text face published by Sorkin Type). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
skull
| From Denmark, Henrik Christian Grove's metafont for a skull-and-crossbones symbol. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sofie "Soffi" Beier graduated from Danmarks Designskole (The Danish School of Design) in 2000, and has since been working as a graphic designer, designing several Danish magazines, websites, books and CD covers along with a number of typefaces. She studied at the Royal College of Art in the UK, with a thesis entitled Legibility and Visual Compensation of Typefaces. Sofie works in London and Copenhagen. She teaches at Danmarks Designskole. MyFonts link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Author of Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility (2012). Designer at Die Gestalten of Engel New Sans (2010), Pemba Script (2005, a connected 50s script), Engel (2005, 8-style sans family; Engel Light is free). In 2011, she created the round sans family Ovink which was loosely inspired by Knud V. Engelhardt's work for the street signage, designed around the years 1926-27 for Gentofte in Denmark. Named after legibility expert Gerrit Willem Ovink, the family was designed for legibility at great distances based on research published by Beier in Beier, S.&Larson, K. (2010): "Design Improvements for Frequently Misrecognized Letters", Information Design Journal, 18(2), 118-137. That same research was used in the calligraphic text face Spencer (2011), which was named after legibility expert Herbert Spencer. And to Pyke (2011), a variation (with optical scaling) on the didones, named after legibility researcher Richard Lionel Pyke. These are two phenomenal contributions to the field, sure to garner her a closetful of awards. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Spread Studio
| Spread Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a multidisciplinary design studio covering art direction, design and publishing. It was founded by Sidsel Solmer Eriksen. She graduated from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen in 2004. In 2013, Spread Studio published Copenhagen Caslon. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danish architect and graphic designer (b. 1951) and senior lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Steen Ejlers graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in 1975. He wrote several books including Claus Achton Friis - skrift&brugsgrafik (Arkitektens Forlag, 1996), and a book on Gunnar Biilmann Petersen, who was an eminent letter designer and the first design professor in Denmark. Alternate URL. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer of the sans serif font Brus (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes is a Norwegian based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2012-2013, she studied towards an M.A. in Type Design at the KADK (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art School of Design). Her work includes calligraphy, a corporate typeface for the KADK (2012), and an unnamed slab serif typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist in Philadelphia, PA, and/or New York City, whose web sie is in Denmark. He created the modular geometric typeface Pictobob (2010) and the hand-printed Pops (2013). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based designer of the rounded monoline sans typeface Arnold (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Design student at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen. She made the feather-themed typeface Seriema (2011), later renamed Kramer (2011) in honor of Seinfeld's Kramer. | |
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] ⦿ | |
The Great Detective Font
| Detective font made by Klaus Johansen based on drawings by Henry Lauritzen and downloadable from the Listemageren web site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Makers of the futuristic font Planet Kosmos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Tolkien Homepage
| Morton Bek's web page where one can find his free fonts Futhark (old Scandinavian), Moon Runes (Anglosaxon runes), Angerthas-Moria (a Cirth font). Alternate page. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Copenhagen-based designer. Behance link. For Malmö Konsthall, Thomas developed Creo (2012). It was created to function well in two different scenarios---print typography and public signage. Typefaces for posters, catalogs and brochures need to be narrow enough to work in crowded environments, but still dynamic enough to encourage people to keep reading. Typefaces designed for wayfinding programs need to be open enough to be legible at a distance. Creo is designed to meet both scenarios. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas is doing a Master's Degree in design at Danmarks Design Skole (a.k.a. The Danish Design School), specializing in the craft of graphic design, art direction&strategic communication. He designed Black Box Typeface (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer of the rune font Elver Runer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish graphic designer who created a sans family (2003). He runs Laboratorium Kobenhavn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas Pryds Lauritsen
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Graphic designer in Aarhus, Denmark. His first font attempt (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas T. Pedersen
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Graphic design student in Haderslev, Denmark. Behance link. Creator of the Break display typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Site has commercial Tibetan fonts of the highest quality. Director and font developer is Tony Duff, Kathmandu. Many of the fonts have a handwritten look. The fonts: Machine, Calligraphic, Newsprint, Dzongkha Calligraphic, Chosgyal Classic, Amdris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of SketchBook (2004, handwriting font). He runs Tim3D.tk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based designer of the slab serif caps typeface Font 183 (2013). Why 183? I recall Highway 183 in Austin, TX, from my younger days---the tackiest sleaziest highway in the West. But the font is too classy for that. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toke Nygaard
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Toke Nygaard's Beetles and Dry Fish foundry
| Absolutely wonderful faces called Puppetface (by Claus Kristensen) and Bastard (by Toke Nygaard). Great graphics in the web pages as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tolstrup Pryds Graphics
| Tolstrup Pryds Graphics is a Brabrand, Denmark-based graphic design studio run by Lars Pryds (b. Kolding, Denmark, 1962) and Lisbeth Tolstrup. Lars is the designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. He also made the beautiful handwriting font family Tolle One (2001, available from MyFonts) and TPGFaceFont and TPGDontBlurry, a grunge font. TPG Katalog (2011) is a grungy stencil face. Typefaces from 2012: TPG Squarespace (monospaced and squarish), TPG PrydsPensel (a brushy painter's typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Copenhagen-based designer who graduated as a graphic designer from Denmark's Designskole in the summer of 2004. He works as a freelance designer with type and identity design. His typefaces include the ransom note style font Pumpernickel (2002), Gauze (2000), 36degrees (2000), Trust (2001, a sans family discussed here), GeoSans (2003), and IntegriType (2004). He is working on a "superellipse"-inspired bitmap font A1 Roman (2002). Restricted link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torben Hoffmann
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Copenhagen-based graphic designer who created the tongue-in-cheek sans typeface TAJP (2012), which borrows glyphs from several fonts. I 2013, he designed Castano New. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torben Wilhelmsen
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Student at The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design. Behance link. He is working on a Cheltenham-inspired text face (2011). Finally, in November 2011, he showed Academy Bold to the world---a virile sans face for texts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Transliteration of Non-Roman Alphabets
| From Copenhagen and Estonia, Thomas T. Pedersen's page on non-Roman alphabets. He specializes in all kinds of Cyrillic alphabets, such as Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altay, Arabic, Armenian, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian (Belorussian), Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa (Dargin), Dungan, Erzya Mordvin (Mordva), Eskimo - Yupik, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Georgian, Greek, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kirghiz, Komi (Komi Zyryan), Komi-Permyak, Koryak, Kumyk, Lakh, Lezgian (Lezgin), Macedonian, Mansi, Mari: Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Moksha Mordvin (Mordva), Moldovan (Moldavian), Nanai, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay (Noghay), Ossetian (Ossetic), Ottoman Turkish, Russian, Rusyn (Lemko&Vojvodinian), Selkup, Serbian, Tabasaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Yakut, Yiddish. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Author of Skriftdesign - øvelser på papiret (2009). In 2009, Trine went commercial at MyFonts. In 2010, she published Rum Sans, a humanistic modular sans serif to accompany Rum. In 2012, Trine designed Bornholm Tejn, named after the Tejn village on the rocky Danish island of Bornholm. It is a rough stone-cut typeface. It was followed some time later in 2012 by Bornholm Sandvig. In 2013, she finished Bornholm Allinge (chiseled stne face). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Copenhagen-based creator of the oil pipeline face The Pharcyde (2011). Behance link. aka Wise One. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typeface
| Free software that takes a picture of a face taken with the computer camera, and creates a typeface according to the mood. Announced as a typographic photobooth, Typeface is a software program by Mary Huang that lets users choose an instance of a parametric font depending upon a human face. Software by Mary Huang, a graduate of CIID in Denmark. She is originally from California where she studied Design and Media Arts at UCLA. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Udulffonts (or: www.wil.dk)
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Ultramarin
| Ultramarin is the foundry of Danish designer Finn Sködt from Knebel (b. 1944, Aarhus), who created fonts such as Solaris (2011, slightly contrasted grotesk), Mentor (2011, fat pixel face), Q3 (2011, pixelish), Black Currant (2011, squarish), Zinar (Russian letter simulation, 1995), Empty Alphabet (experimental, 1998), Antikva (1999, a classic roman stone inscription alphabet), Primus Light (sans, 1994), and Black Currant (a compact sans made in 2000 for the Society of Bookcraft in Denmark). |
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Uwe Zimmermann
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Malmö, Sweden-based designer of the free rune simulation font Vidir Futhark (1997). Danish home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Viking
| Uwe Zimmermann designed the metafont Viking (2003). He explains: "The package VIKING contains the two 16 letter runic alphabets as used by the vikings in Scandinavia. It is based on the archaic font series by Peter Wilson and uses the same, simple installation and interface routines." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Vinterstille
| Vinterstille is Klaus Nielsen's Danish foundry in Aarhus (which used to be in Aalborg), set up in 2001. He used to have these freeware fonts: The Handwriting of Barbie's Jealous Sister (2001), RubThis (2002, grunge), Antfarm (texture face), WankerHand (2002), Stylebats Cleancut (2002, dingbats), Problematic Piercer (2011, experimental face based on body rings), and LonesomeLiar (2003). But all his fonts are commercial now. They are designed with full character sets for all Scandinavian languages as well as German. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
William Simmelkiær
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William Simmelkiær Skriftstøberi
| In 1873, William Simmelkiær (1849-1922) founded the type foundry William Simmelkiær Skriftstøberi, Galvanoplastik og Clichéfabrik in Copenhagen, Denmark. William had learned the craft of type founding during a vist of Schelter&Giesecke in Leipzig. In 1904 he acquired the foundry Frieses Skriftstøberi, Copenhagen (established in 1837 by Heinrich Berling), and in 1909 a little unknown foundry in Lyngby. Their 1912 specimen book entitled Skriftprover confirms that the foundry was quite active. [Flickr site for that 1912 specimen book. Another pic of that book. And another one. And another one.] After William's death in 1922, his son Svend Simmelkiær (1892-1939) took over the foundry. In 1923, Svend established Grafisk Compagni as a sales company. The old foundry continued to cast type under the original name, but now as a part of Grafisk Compagni. The main business of Grafisk Compagni was the sale of equipment to the graphic trade---types from Genzsch&Heyse, presses from F.A.G., Vandercook, Miehle and Albert Frankenthal, and typesetting machines from Linotype. After Svend's death, the company became an Inc/ Ltd in 1940. In 1982 the company closed down. All the rights to their types were acquired by Haas'sche Schriftgießerei and all mats, machines, archives and so forth were destroyed. They only cut one original face, the brushy Stafet. The typeface was designed by Kai Plet in 1937 and was only cast in 36, 48 and 60 point. The rest of their type holding were from foreign type foundries such as ATF, Berthold and Bauersche Giesserei [see, e.g., Corps 48 or Dana Bodoni]. The typeface Simmilkiær Grotesk is a special Danish version of Polar/Kristall/Saxo/Rund Grotesk cut by Wagner&Schmidt, Leipzig (1930-1937). Simmelkiær Grotesk is not 100% identical to any of the German and Swedish versions though. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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