26plus zeichen
[Jakob Runge]

26plus, or 26+ is a foundry located in Kiel, Germany. It is a platform to present and encourage student-created fonts. One of those involved is Jakob Runge from Würzburg, Germany, a graduate of Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt. He made the free condensed octagonal face Fracmetrica (2009). Dafont link. Additional URL. Other faces from 2009-2010 (all at 26plus-zeichen) include Singula, Edelsans (a geometric sans), Sinews (a manly sans which he compares with Klavika and Corpid), JJ Realis (a Swiss sans), Ugl-y (2010), Cojonna (2010; curly--an exercise on ball terminals), Capitalis Nova (2010, dot matrix family), Graphit (2010), Devion (2010, semi-angular serif face), Textrusion (2010, Escher-style trompe l'oeuil), Frgmt (2010, experimental), Samblone (2011, an Asian-look stencil face), TJ Evolette A (2011, with Timo Titzmann---a fashionable geometric grotesque caps family).

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Brian Hollingsworth

Artistic director in London, who created an Escheresque typographic poster called The Truth (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero

Venezuelan graphic and type designer (b. San Cristóbal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela, 1977). He studied Graphic Design between 1995 and 1998 in the Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Antonio José de Sucre (IUTAJS) Extensión Mérida, Venezuela. He runs the design studio Andinistas in Bogotá, Colombia, which he set up in 1998 with a few others. Creator of the beautiful typeface Cazon (1999-2007, a grunge script in 7 styles that includes Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Dingbats A and B) and of Escuadra (2003), Biologia (2003), Denedo (2003; the discussion by typophiles centers around how interesting this 3d font is experimentally---a bit like the type version of M.C. Escher's drawings, full of impossibilities), Modelia (2006), Nikona and Nikona Dual (2006, octagonal, with Rafael Rincón), Avecedario, Btamax (1999-2008, comic book style and grunge), Día D, Nativa, Codiga Icons (dingbats), Codiga (1999-2007, an 8-style octagonal family including Codiga Stencil and Codiga Dingbats), Codiga Pura (octagonal face), Pepelepu, Gancho petare, Guerrilla, and Hirofórmica (grunge). His calligraphic script family Panamericana (2007) comes in many grungy and experimental flavors: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis and Dingbats. With María Angélica Estrada Cano, he designed the hand-drawn font families Makika (2007) and Lita (2007; in five styles---Gris, Negra, Humo, Molis, and Dingbats). His blog. In the area of combat-ready explosion-inspired letters and dingbats, check his eight-weight family Hiroformica (2007, Andinistas; for a free version, see DaFont). In 2007, he created the calligraphic grunge family Rosadelia, and the grunge lettering and crow dingbats family Gancho Petare. In 2008, he published Heleodora (beautiful scratchy hand), Magola (Negra, Supra Negra and Stencil), Navaja 1 through 4 (a collection of grunge fonts with grungy dingbats), Lucrecia 1 through 3 (a fat connected script family ranging from clean to splattered), Pomarosa (irregular hand) and Pomarosa Dingbats, Bochalema (+Dingbats, a comic book family), and Alcira 1 through 3 (nice scribbly grunge scripts). Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Vermijlen

Fellow Belgian Christophe Vermijlen (Hasselt) created an experimental 3d tyeface called Tilting Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniele De Nigris

Digital and graphic artist in Bologna, Italy, who runs DNDesign. He created an Escher-inspired alphabet called Impossible (2010). Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Kegler

American designer of the fonts P22 Bauhaus Extras, P22 Bauhaus Extras, P22 Bayer Shadow, P22 Bayer Universal, P22 Cage Extras, P22 Da Vinci, P22 Da Vinci Extras, P22 Escher, P22 Escher Extras, P22 Folk Art Extras, P22 Hopper Josephine, Koch Signs, P22 Michelangelo, P22 Michelangelo Extras, P22 Hieroglyphic, P22 Petroglyphs, P22 Rodin, P22 Rodin Extras, P22 Vienna Extras, P22 Vienna, P22 Way Out West, P22 WayOutWest Critters. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape

Dick Pape (Dallas, TX) is digitizing the Dan Solo books one by one, and has digitized many other sources of alphabets and images. He started making fonts ca. 2007. In 2009, he was doing Solo's art deco tome. He is on several font-making forums such as High Logic, and is interested in revivals. "Toto" writes: Dick Pape made hundreds of fonts and here are the links to most of his fonts. This list has not been updated and later additions are found in Rapidshare folders. I've missed some and some links had been deleted by Rapidshare during its migration from .de to .com. Some have also been sent directly to the group, like those based on Mada's alphas. It is hard to tell whether the font has been made by Dick Pape. The only indication that he created the fonts is that the font have "DP" as font vendor and/or has "Digitized by TTD" in the trademark field. Both are not present in some of his fonts. He seems not to want to take credit. He is just a guy who wants to digitize anything he likes. In 2010, he made Bultaco, based on the logotype for Bultaco Motorcycles---see Freehostia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape: ornamental typefaces
[Dick Pape]

Ornamental typefaces made in 2008-2010 by Dick Pape: Abstract Alphabet (2009), Aged Ornaments (2009), Ancient Mortises (2008), Angel Alpha (2009), Angelica Alpha (2009), Ani-Red Jello Alpha (2009), Antique Alphabet (2009), Arabesque Design (2009), Art Deco Dingbat Images (2010), Art Deco Frames (2010), AlphabetArt, AndrewHolmesArtA, AndrewHolmesArtB, AndrewHolmesArtC, AndrewHolmesArtD, AndrewHolmesArtE, AndrewHolmesArtF, AvonInitials, BritishAirwaysNumbers, CaFaitDur, CelticDesignDark, CelticDesigns-Light, Continnental, EckenFlowerBorders, GermanGothicManuscript, KafkaFlourishes, LaxtonCommonRevival, NiceOldAlphabet, Portent, RomanoAlphabet, Weissranken-Initialen, Babylon Initials (2009), Bird Drawings Alphabet (2008), Black Buttons (2010, +Bold), Bold Cameo (2009), Bubble Gum (2010, +Condensed, +Extended), Charcoal family (2010), Chinese Flowers (2008), Chiswick Press (2007), ChrisGreen (2010), Calligraphia Latina (2010), Cardio Black&White (2010), Electronic Alphabet (2011), EstupidoEspezial1, EstupidoEspezial2 (2010, based on the Hoefler Swash variant of OCR_A), TokoFont, Clip People (2010), Compass Rose (2008), Coptic Letters (2010), Cubes, Cups, Cute Lolo Animals, Dark Herald (2011, Celtic caps), Dave's Glyphs, Design Images, Digital Auto Sampler, Drinking Scenes, Drinking Utensils, DunHuang Art, Eating Signs, EcoLeaf, Eduardo Recife, Eggs And Milk, Electronic Alphabet (2011), Extra Initials, Extra Ornaments, Fantasy Butterflies, Fantasy Dragon FX, Fantasy Monster Skulls, Far Away Places Images, Festival Books Borders, Festival Books Initials, Festival Books Ornaments, Fire Letters, Fire Letters Cameo, Fire Letters Monospaced, Fire Letters Monospaced, Floral Initials, Florentine Initials, Florentine Initials Reverse, Flower Panels, Flower Panels Outline, Flower Vines, Fresh Fish, Funky, Funny Numbers, Furore Mexican (2011), Futorisugi Face, Garden Nouveau Initials, Give me a break, Gothic Metal Initials, Goudy Initials, Graph Glyphs, Halbfette Egyptienne, Haunted Initials, Hollandisch-Gothic (2008), Holly Alpha, Hula Ribbon, Hula Ribbon 2, Hula Ribbon1, India Designs, Japanese Design Parts, Japanese Design Templates A, Japanese Design Templates B, Jugendstil A, Jugendstil B, Kelt Ornaments 1, Kelt Ornaments 2, Lichte Jonisch, Mayan Affixes A, Mayan Affixes B, Mayan Main Signs A, Mayan Main Signs B, Mayan Profiles, Mc Call's Magazine, Mimbres Pottery, Moderne-Zelda (2010, after a Dan X., Solo alphabet), Moderne-Zelda Black, More Drinkings Scenes, Mostly Fish, Moto Bykes, Mythological&Fantastic I, Mythological&Fantastic II, Mythological&Fantastic III, Mythological&Fantastic IV, Mythological&Fantastic V, Mythological&Fantastic VI, Mythological&Fantastic VII, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 1, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 2, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 3, New Music, Objects of Nature, Old English Images, Ondawall Versal (2011), Panels&Frames, Random Doodles, RangeMurata, Rankin-Initialen, Really Black Alphabet, Rons Old Patterns, Rons Old Patterns Bare, Rosart Initials, Rustic Alphabet, Sacon Inititals, Schmale Jonisch, Sea Shells of Nature, Shuttershock Vector Demo, Simple China Images, Simple Doodles, Snails&Slugs, Softsquare, Some Guitars, Soviet Founders, Soviet Life Posters I, Soviet Life Posters II, Soviet Life Posters III, Soviet Life Posters IV, Soviet Propaganda Posters, Splish-Splash, Strange Black Blobs, Tauba Auerbach, The Goetia, Tribal Dividers, Tribal Flames, ViaFaceDon Black, ViaFaceDon Black Hats, ViaFaceDon Outline, ViaFaceDon Speckled, Viking Design A, Viking Design B, White Buttons, Wood Type Cheltenham Bold, ZEart Designs, Zelek, Zelek Black, Zelek Boldline, Zelek Shadline.

Enric Jardi

At type-o-tones in Barcelona, Enric Jardi created Neeskens, Retòrica Buida (1995), Retòrica-Plena (1995), Deseada (1995), Escher, Magothic, Mayayo (great display font!), Peter Sellers, Poca, Radiorama (1995), Verdaguera (1995), Wilma (1996), Xiquets Forever (1995, dingbats). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Escher fonts

Discussion at typophile on designs of Escher-like geometrically impossible alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gene Buban

Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these faces:

• Aerologica (2009): 3-d headline face.
• Alphadings: DeTracks.
• Altitudinus (2010).
• Amplifica (+Carved, 2010).
• Arkham Bloodletters (2008).
• bay6
• Bauhaus style: Slink (2009) is a tribute to Josef Albers---one could also call it a piano key font. Codename Bauhaus (2010).
• Arc Brick 1:1 and 2:2 (2010).
• Bevelicious (2009): 3d shadow face.
• Bezziaiare (2010): an imitation of Futura.
• Brikd is a fantastic headline face.
• Bubble Lab EF (2008) and Bubble Lab Bang (2008): dingbat fonts.
• Calligraphique (2010).
• ChequereBoard (2008): a 3d face.
• Christmas fonts: Kallosia Decorative (2009, blackletter), Snowflakes (2009).
• Clone War (2008).
• code2
• Codename Bauhaus (2010).
• Country Fried (Western style)
• Decorata (stylized art deco)
• Didone fonts: Legality (2009, sharply serifed), Petrissage (2009).
• Dingbats: DeTrayne (graffiti-clad trains), Happy Halloween (2009).
• Egalite (2010): a blackletter face.
• ElSeeDee (2008, white on a black grid, inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport)
• Effleurage (2009).
• Eurostijl (2008)
• Exersia, Excursia
• Ferno (hell?)
• filmstryp
• Flameon (2008) is a vertically striped athletic lettering font.
• Fluoralei (2008) and Fluoralyte (2008) are all caps floral-themed typefaces.
• Futuro (2008) and Futuro Extra Bold (2008).
• Futurity Watch (2009).
• Framestore (2008).
• Gappy and Gappy LC (2010).
• Geolateral
• Glossierre (2009).
• Graffikki (2010): graffiti face.
• Hammerslab (2008) is a very thick heavy slab serif face.
• Happy Halloween (2008): Halloween dingbats.
• HellStruct (2008): flamed letters.
• hollo, holloback, holloblack
• HulkSmash has the look of cracked concrete blocks---has to be seen to be believed!
• HyperLynk (2010).
• Indiglo (2010).
• Interblok Cylindrome (2011) and Interblok Stroke (2009): labyrinthine / Celtic knot / texture faces.
• IronManic (2008, letters resemble armor steel plates with bolts)
• IsoMatrix 3D (2009, an Escher deception in 3D), Bevelluzian (2010, 3d beveled checkerboard illusion).
• Jaggs (2010): angular.
• Karuso 68 (2009).
• Leefer is a kitchen tile font.
• Legere (2010, a roman face).
• LegoManiax (2008).
• Modulus and Modulus Black, ultra fat fonts.
• Motternal (2011), a version of Othmar Motter's Motter Tektura.
• Mucro Bold, a heavy metal band font
• Multiverse Diagonality (2009).
• Nontroppo (2010).
• Outlier (2010).
• Paradoxx (2011). Peignotian.
• Periculum (2010): monoline sans.
• pixsle
• Pixsle (2010).
• Predatoric ad Predatoric2 (2010).
• Prikkle (2010): angular.
• Requiemme Decorum (Sept. 14th, 2009): blackletter. He writes: Exactly one year ago two of my cousins, Chris and Cleofe, got into a dealer-loaned Lexus for a trip after their main car was being repaired. Cleofe's husband, a CHP officer, was driving and their teen daughter was along for the ride. While on the freeway, the accelerator became stuck and they lost control of the car. As the runaway vehicle sped up to over 100 mph, all four passengers were killed in a fiery crash in the San Diego River. The loss was unquantifiably devastating. This immensely tragic event led my aunt to testify before congress with damning evidence that would initiate the recall of millions of Toyota vehicles. Requiemme Decorum was created on the way down to southern California for the funeral services. For Chris, Cleofe, Mark, and Mahala, may you all rest in peace and love.
• Renovare (2010, +Renovare S1, S2): a slab serif.
• Roboscript (2008): an upright connected school script.
• Rubrix (2008): a Rubik cube dingbat font.
• Scipio (2010).
• Scribble Not (2010) is a texture face.
• Sequencia (2010).
• sedagive
• Seriface and Seriface 2.0 (2010, a roman all-caps set).
• Sharp-serifed almost modern faces: Legality, Petrissage, Effleurage, Karuso68.
• Sonorous (2010).
• Spartan Tech (2010): inspired by the multiplayer game Halo3.
• Stanley Twobrick (pointy minimalist face)
• Startrek faces: Transformicon (2009).
• Streamlyne (2010, squarish, outlined).
• Structurocca and Structurozza (2009): Horizontally stencilled black faces.
• Tangience and Tangience Solid (2008) are fonts in which the glyphs are built up from circles glued together.
• Tetrisyde
• The Pax Man (2009): metallic whatever.
• Trelief and Trelief Rounded (2010): multilined 3d beveled faces.
• Tubric (2010): counterless.
• Upriteous and Upriteous Black, condensed protestant fonts.
• Victoriana (Victorian caps)
• Wall-F: white squarish letters in black circles
• Waverly, with scary pointed barbs like on German WWI helmets.
• Weaver (Celtic knot-themed letters)
• Xerro (2010): like Helvetica.
• Yeomamuh, a fat look face.
• Wypeout (2010)

Greater Albion Typefounders (or: GATF)
[Paul James Lloyd]

Paul J. Lloyd's typefoundry in Western Australia, est. 2008. Lloyd (b. UK) made over 100 free truetype fonts before that. He writes: What we will offer is new designs, replete with Edwardian Fun, Victorian distinction, or any other piece of elegance we can manage.

Edwardian creations from 2008-2010: Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Adantine, Goldbarre, Brosse, Crewekerne, Crewekerne Magna and Crewekerne Magister, Larchmont, Brissard, Brossard (slab serif), Bonavia, Bonavia Blanc, Clementhorpe, Veneribe, Chiara Script, Howlett, Svengali Roman, Bonning and Bonnington (1920's style families with ideas from University Roman), Absinette, Bamberforth, Tumbletype, Vertrina, Bromwich, Great Bromwich, Fleete, Helenium. Chipping emulates the Edwardian 1920s.

Art deco faces: Oakland (2011, multiline face gleaned from a 1930s French car ad), Zenia (2010, trilined), Plebe (Plebia, 2008: a grotesk emulating the 1930s), Whitehaven (2008, an extensive art deco family with several shadow weights), Merry Fleurons (2008, Christmas ornament dingbats), Braxia (2008), Keynsia (fifties style art deco family with Peignot influences).

Other faces: Haymer is a large sans family made in 2010. Clunic (2008) is a blackletter face. Tectura (2008) is a handwriting font. Eldridge is a slab serif family. Aliqua (2009), Chipperly (2009) and Syondola (2009) are Wild West families. Terazza Tilings (2009) and Valentine's Fleurons (2009) are dingbat faces. Additions in 2009 include Lowndes (soft blackletter), Christmas Fleurons, Merry Snowmen, Cherritt (described as a Victorian era Courier), DoodleBirds, Halloween Fleurons, ButtonFaces, Sabio (neither slab nor sans), Daub (brush graffiti font), Sabinard (a modern swash face), Cullions (futuristic blackletter), Coronard (blackletter / roman hybrid), Easter Fleurons, Chapter Initials, Paveline (19th century calligraphic script), Mellin Sans and Open, Gildersleeve (evoking the 1920s Arts and Crafts movement), Stannard (a 1920's advertising inspired small caps face), Slattery (a horizontally shaded fun face), Slatterine (2009, more retro futurism), Spillsbury (2010, Victorian family), Cirflex (2010, geometric display face based on arcs of circles), Oxonia (2010, a classic roman family) and Vectis (classic Roman elegance, another small caps face).

Creations in 2010: Windevere, Albion's White Christmas, Paragon (a great didone display family with a wood type feel), Compton (slab serif family), Mexborough, Morover (Schwabacher family), Anavio (a classical roman family), Corvone (3d-effect font), Granville (Victorian), Corton (Victorian), Wellingborough (Victorian), Worthing (Victorian), Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Bonaventure (art nouveau), Federal Streamliner (1950s feel techno face), Deva (classical roman), Crucis Ornaments (crosses), Bronzino (a roman with Arts and Crafts roots), Bertoni (2010, a didone family), Pardon Me Boy (train dingbats), Woodruff (Open Face fonts with a wood type look), Jonquin (based on a WWI poster; +Incised), Luscombe (1920s display family; +Parva), Movella (futuristic from the 1950s), Magdalena Sans (2010: a clear monoline sans), Endymion (2010: Tuscan), Paget (a Tuscan experimental all caps face), Portello (Victorian).

Typefaces made in 2011: Admiral (art nouveau), Tuscaloosa (Tuscan face), Eccles (bombastic Victorian), Wolverhampton (pre-Victorian), Doncaster (Victorian family), Metropole (art nouveau family), Corsham (stone engraved lettering family), Leibix (casual), Albia Nova (an elegant futuristic organic face), Flapper (art nouveau face), Bertolessi (curly Victorian), Tulk's Victorian Banner (all caps banner face), Fitzgerald (Victorian all caps face), Cleveden (Victorian headline family), Spargo (an extensive set of early 20th century-look engraved faces for official documents and securities), Bettendorf (2011, based on a 1900s masthead typeface), Wolvercote (2011, similar to Bettendorf), Pittsburgh (2011, a Western-style engraved face), Chubbly (2011), Portmeirion No. 6 (2011, a Victorian / circus design), Bronzetti (2011; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi), Sophie J (hanprinted), Dem Bones (2011, glyphs made from bones), Stout (2011), Birmingham New Street (a Victorian family inspired by the hand lettered title on a 19th century railway map), Beckinslade (ornamental blackletter).

Production in 2012: Penrose Slabserif (an Escher-like trompe l'oeuil 3d face), Haldane (art nouveau, Arabic look), Solidarius (chubby, fat felt-tip pen font), Bluebottle (angular display face), Merrivale (Victorian), Future Runes (runic simulation), Coliseo, Alfrere Sans (inspired by a 1950s television caption style), Tectura II (Lloyd's answer to Comic Sans), Secombe (Edwardian caps family), Milligan, London Court (Tudor-era caps family).

Type announcements. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Font Squirrel link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link.

View all typefaces by Paul Lloyd.

Images of Paul Lloyd's best-selling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jan Vitásek

Graphic designer from Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Behance link. He created a groovy smoky hazy all caps alphabet in 2009. In 2010, he followed that up with a stitching font and with Suche Hrdlo, an Escher trompe l'oeuil typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean-Baptiste Levée

Jean-Baptiste Levée is a French type designer who commures between Paris and Montreal. He designs custom and other typefaces. Behance link. Old URL. His portfolio:

• Vuitton Persona (2007): a family made under the supervision of Porchez for Vuitton's bags.
• Wallpaper corporate typeface (2008): Under the art direction of Meirion Pritchard and Christian Schwartz, this 2-style sans was developed for the architectural magazine Wallpaper. It is a self-confessed blend of Meta and Amplitude.
• Le Monde Courrier PTF (2008): an extension and OpenType completion of the glyph tables of Porchez's LeMonde Courrier.
• Panorama (2004-2008): an elegant full-fledged sans family from hairline to extended bold.
• Henderson Serif & Sans (2006): This is a Baskerville family conceived by J.-F. Porchez, but extended and perfected by Levée. The Sans is in the style of Arial with large x-height. The Typofonderie page does not mention Levée.
• Retiro (2007): Done with J.-F. Porchez for Madriz Magazine. This is a didone family with juicy and classy alternates. Will be available to the public in 2015.
• Pimkie (2006): a playful feminine display face.
• Seenk Serif and Seenk Sans: a text family done with Christophe Badani in 2005.
• Expert (2009): a unicase face done for magazine, ca. 2009.
• Acier BAT (2009-2010, BAT Foundry): an extensive family that builds on Cassandre's 1930 font by the same name.
• Gemeli.
• Synthese.
• Carrefour Origin (2011). A tall thin face.
• Cogito Atelier Malte Martin.
• Telerama Dogon. This is a matchstick or campground face.
• Nathan Enfantine. A simple upright connected script.

Jordi Fosch

Tarragona-based Catalan designer of the typewriter font called Let32,2, and of the comic book font Love Gun. He also made Escher Desigual and FoschWords 1. In 2000, he created the poster stencil face called Cartolina (2000). In 2001, he designed the grunge face Surface (Garcia Fonts), the Kafkaesque all-caps face Jroña (Garcia Fonts) and the all-caps kids face Funny (Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josip Kelava

Josip Kelava (Jay Kreative, Australia) is an art director and graphic designer. He has done typographic work for fashion mags and fashion-conscious ads such as for Mercedes (2011), Coco Vodka (2011, using an Escheresque typeface), and Click Magazine (2011, see the Olena Cherneyo illustration). Creator of the alchemic yet futuristic family Geomas (2011).

Typefaces made in 2012: Metropolis (a superb bilined retro type family, ideal for posters---free download).

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Laurent Lacroix

Belgian graphic designer from Huy. Some of his posters, such as Typographisme Escher and Al Capone, are typographically interesting. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Klenske

Graphic Design student at Iowa State University who lives in Davenport, IA. Creator of the 3d trompe-l'oeuil face Paradox (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martzi Hegedüs

Martzi Heged&77uml;s (Budapest) created the gridded trompe l'oeil typeface Frustro (2012), which is based on the optical illusion created by the Penrose triangle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Aka Mauk Escher. Famous Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is known for his repeating patterns of interlocking motifs, tessellations of the Euclidean and the hyperbolic plane and his drawing representing impossible figures, such as his waterfall and his Belvedere. Several type designers created fonts based on these geometric contradictions and curiosities, which a I gathered on this page. The art deco lettering on some of his posters inspired P22 Escher (1998, Denis Kegler). Pic. Wiki page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mike Wolf

Born in 1960, this German or American designed several 3d faces such as Twister (2006, Escher trompe-l'oeuil face), Aragon (2010), Ribbon (2006), Greek Tome (2011, Greek simulation face), Inner City (2011, an Escheresque face), A Ripping Yarn (2011, texture face), Helixx (2006), Strip Joint (2011), Wicker Man (2011), and Atomic Picnic (2006). Other faces include Tapestry (2011), Stonehenge (2011, textured), Tape Deck (2011), Bad Escher (2011), Swirl (2011, labyrinthine), and Grounf (sic) Round (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nedo Mion Ferrario

Designer and artist, b. Milan, 1926, d. Caracas, 2001. From MyFonts: Several Venezuelan generations had acquired very strong design, typographic and drawing knowledge due to the historical and artistic heritage left by Master Nedo Mion Ferrario. He spent big part of his life teaching and working on design. His passion for impossible figures and geometric optic illusions were the most valuable characteristics of his work. Most of his knowledge was obtained from his father, Emilio Mion Vianello, who dedicated his life to wood carve, a high profile job those day in Italy. Emilio studied in the Brera Academy in Milan and Nedo studied in the Commercial and Technical Institute of Milan between 1936 and 1940, and then in the Fine Arts Academy in the same city. At the end of the Second Word War, both of them decided to leave Italy due to the political situation in those days. Encouraged by the immigration Venezuelan politics they arrived in Caracas in 1950. Wiki. His work inspired Carlos Camargo Guerrero to create the Escheresque font Denedo (2001-2007). According to Camargo, Denedo is a font based in one of the impossible alphabets created by the Italian graphic designer Nedo Mion Ferrario during the 60's and 70's in Caracas, Venezuela, South America. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

P22 Type Foundry
[Richard Kegler]

Richard Kegler's fun Buffalo-based foundry, which he founded in 1995 together with his wife, Carima El-Behairy. Currently, on staff, we find type designers James Grieshaber and Christina Torre. In 2004, it acquired Lanston Type. P22 has some great unusual, often artsy, fonts. The fonts are: Industrial Design (an industrial look font based on letters drawn by Joseph Sinel in the 1920s---this font is free!), LTC Jefferson Gothic Obliquie (2005, free), Sinel (free), P22Snowflakes (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), Bio and photo. In house fonts made in 2008 include Circled Caps, the Yule family (Regular, Klein Regular, Light Flurries, Heavy, Klein heavy, Heavy Snow, Inline; all have Neuland influences). Kegler / P22 created a 25-set P22 Civilité family in 2009 based on a 1908 publication from Enshedé, the 1978 English translation by Harry Carter, and a 1926 specimen also from Enshedé. P22 Declaration (Script, Signatures, Blackletter, 2009) is based on the lettering used in the 1776 Declaration of Independence. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, Richard spoke about Vojtech Preissig. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin, where he presented Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century about which he writes: This film has the dual aim of documenting the almost-lost skill of creating metal fonts and of capturing the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer (1931-2010). P22 type foundry commissioned Mr. Rimmer to create a new type design (Stern) that became the first-ever simultaneous release of a digital font and hand-set metal font in 2008. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he will show Making Faces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pat Mehbrei

Editorial and graphic designer in Adelaide. He is into custom typography: he made Blackletter New (2010), Thick and Thin (2009), and Neuhausstraße (2010), but my favorite is Impossible (2009), a typeface in which Escher-style improbable 3d contradictions occur. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramiro Lozada

Designer in Villa Allende, Argentina. Creator of the 3d trompe-l'oeuil face Möbius (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Regan Fred Johnson

A graphic designer from American Fork, UT. Creator in 2008 of an Escher-inspired optical illusion font called Implausible. This typeface won an award at the Communication Arts Annual in 2011. Discussion by the Typophiles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tad Biernot

Canadian designer of Linotype Rory (1997) and Linotype Dummy (1997). FontShop link. Linotype Dummy is an Escheresque optical illusion face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tibor Lantos

Budapest-based creator (aka Frodo 7) in 2009 at FontStruct of FontMoot 01 (pixel face), Brego, Magor (minimalist), Andromeda Strain, Elrond (Tengwar font), Oil Stencil, Optill 2A and 2B and 3A and 3B (optical illusion fonts), Rivendell (Celtic weaving), Cubeology (patterned cubes), The Two Towers, Mike Wazowski (emoticon face), Edoras Stencil, Elessar, Earendil, LE Meta (dot matrix), Coccinella (dot matrix), +Two, +TwoB, Picosec, Picosec Rounded (ultra fat retro), Palindrome, Valimar, Fundin Eco, Fundin Regular, Lost Entropy (series of rectangular fonts), Bombs and Men (2009, modular and blocky), Eärendil, Chromosomes, Denethor-Sans (octagonal), Edoras-, Elspeth-, Elspeth-Grey, FontMoot-01 (pixel face), French-Defence-v2 (chess font), French-Defence (chess font), Gilgalad-v2, Gilgalad (octagonal), Hommage-a-Escher-LC1, Hommage-a-Escher-LC2, Legolas-Codex-Stencil, Legolas-Codex (blackletter family), Legolas-Stencil (+v2; art nouveau style), Mirkwood-Regular and Mirkwood Outline (pixel faces), Nimrodel-FS, Faramir (gridded), Faramir Black (octagonal, mechanical), Elessar, Vertebrae, Etudes Pour Noir et Blanc (01, 02, 02 Vertebrae), Eomer FS, Karyotype (horizontal stripes), Snooker Ball, Aragorn, Mirkwood Nano (pixel face), Mirkwood Second Iteration, Mirkwood First Iteration, Haldir (pixel face).

Creations in 2010: Hasta Siempre (military stencil), Hasta Siempre Supplement (Fontstruct rendering of the iconic photograph of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda), Belfalas, Fractal Font, Sierpinski White, Sierpinski Black, Sierpinski Dalmatian, Remolino Stencil, Boikot Stencil, Legolas Pixel, Brego, Vortices (dings), Gamling, Coccinella Two (+B), Cyrillic 02, Waves, Hommage à Escher v2 extLat.

Creations in 2011: Midori Dot (2011, a dotted kana face), Sierpinski Black Initials (a stunning decorative caps face based on Sierpinski triangles), Fontstructivism (constructivist Latin/Cyrillic face), Sierpinski White Initials, Vasarely Squares (experimental---letters based on Victor Vasarely's work), Hurin (counterless, created after Nagasaki by Tom Muller), Strider (an optical illusion 3d multilined face), Dot Dot White (texture face), Dot Dot Black (texture face), Garamond Italic SP (a pixelized version of Garamond Italic), Rohan (+NE01, +NE03: a textured lined 3d logotype family, +NE04, +NE10), Gray Scale (a very interesting texture experiment in which gray scales are "simulated" by simple font mechanisms).

Fonts made in 2012: Font Neuf. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tobias Sommer

Tobias Sommer ("Shasta") is the Geneva, Switzerland-based designer (b. 1986) at FontStruct in 2008 of Great Depression (influenced by headline fonts from 1929), Brutto (headline slab serif), Lame Dude (dripping paint), Toytype (an interesting Indic simulation face based on an earlier block font by him called Block On), Teatral and Teatral Fill (gorgeous Western circus style decorative faces), Fickle Mickle, Hard Light (shadow face), Tangram, Tangram Grid, Tangram Grid Rounded (kitchen tile), and Tangram Rounded (octagonal/kitchen tile). In 2009, he added Stylita, Vasyugan, Block On, Cupra, Disparador (mechanical octagonal: +Stencil, +Filled), Exempla Slab Serif, Exempla Sans (Strict, Medium, Ultra Light, Stencil: octagonal family), Stitched Outline, Escheresk (impossible outlines), Capitalia (+Rounded), Vjatka (constructivist), Punched Out (+Fill: pixelish), Cupra.

Additions in 2010: Punchline Filled (athletic lettering), High Voltage, Punchline (ultra heavy octagonal slab; +Filled), Nicotiana (slab serif), Exempla Slab Medium, Punched Out, Exempla Sans Medium (fat octagonal0, Pixel Pandemonium, Tradita, Frostletter (blackletter), Scrambled Script (blackletter), Circle Cult (circle-themed sans).

Typefaces made in 2012: Apodosa (octagonal).

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

VirusFonts (was: Virus Foundry, Studio 12)
[Jonathan Barnbrook]

Jonathan Barnbrook was born in 1966 in Luton, England. He is a type and graphic designer and filmmaker. Since 1990 he has worked with cultural institutions, activist groups and charities and produced a steady stream of posters. He is also known for his collaborations with Adbusters and Damien Hirst, his work for David Bowie, and his typefaces released by Emigre and Virus (his own foundry). He started Virus in 1997, and works out of the Barnbook Studio (now Studio 12) in London's Soho. He specializes in cult-type faces.

MyFonts interview. Creative Pro interview. Bio at Emigre.

In 2007, Mathieu Réguer wrote a thesis at Estienne on Barnbrook.

Barnbrook designed these typefaces:

• Apocalypso Pictograms (1997).
• Bastard (1990, blackletter) and Bastard Even Fatter (1995).
• Bourgeois (2005). In 32 weights, this was originally done for the Mori Art Museum in Japan.
• Coma (2001).
• Delux (1997).
• Draylon (1997).
• Drone 666 (2010). and Drone (1997).
• Echelon (2001, connected upright script).
• Exocet (1991, Emigre). This is possibly his most recognizable face.
• Expletive Script (2001, upright connected and modular script).
• False Idol Script (1997).
• Infidel (2003). A crusaders type family praised by Claudio Piccinini.
• Mason (1992, +Serif, +Sans). Done at Emigre.
• Melancholia (2001).
• Moron (2001).
• Newspeak (1997).
• Nixon Script (1997, fifties style connected upright script).
• Nylon (1996).
• Patriot (1994). Exocet, Patriot---these were the good old days of the missile attacks on Israel and the war in the Falklands. Strange that Barnbrook never designed a font called Wolf Blitzer.
• Olympukes (2004, with Marcus McCallion) was a free dingbat font at Fontshop. It can now be found at Undt Typefaces.
• Priori (2003, Emigre) and Priori Acute (2010, Emigre) are Escher-like trompe l'oeuil fonts.
• Prototype (1990).
• Prozac (1997).
• Regime (2009). A slab serif.
• Sarcastic (2007). A modular connected script.
• Shock&Awe (2004).
• State Machine (Virus, 2004). Based on lettering on US and Russian military vehicles.
• Tourette (2005).

Klingspor link. Fontworks link. MyFonts link. FontShop link.

Showcase of Jonathan Barnbrook's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿