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Estonian Plakatschrift designer. Sample of his work from the mid 20th century. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tallinn, Estonia-based designer of the alchemic typeface Mermera (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andres Aarik is a graphic designer and a student in Media and Advertisement design in Tartu, Estonia. Designer of the fat and wide face Hustler (2010) and the chiseled face Tode Ja Oigus (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian type designer. Sample of his work on posters in 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andriy Konstantynov
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Anton Koovit was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1981, and studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, ESAG Paris and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he obtained a masters in type design at KABK in Den Haag. Anton set up his own company Khork OÜ in 2006. In 2007 he moved to Berlin, Germany. He is "extraordinary assistant professor" of typography/type design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2012, he and Yassin Baggar set up Fatype, a type foundry in Berlin and Neuchatel, Switzerland. His most well known typeface design is Adam BP (2007, B&P Foundry), a 4-weight sans family. He also designed Aleksei (2010, unreleased serif face), GQ Slab, GQ Baton (b Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar), U8 (2010: a grotesk family based on lettering in the Berlin underground), Arvo (2010: a free slab serif family at Google Font Directory, codesigned with Yassin Baggar). Experimental faces by him include Kork Sausage, Boudo (collage alphabet), Planton, Velo (geometric). Allan (2010) and Arvo are free at the Google Directory. Fontsquirrel link. Behance link for Fatype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian graphic designer, mostly interested in typography, who studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts from 2008-2011. She created the free handwriting font Kristi (2010). Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer whose illuminated caps will soon be developed in cooperation with David Kettlewell. Half-Estonian, half-White Russian designer, living in Sweden. She draws illuminated caps for David Kettlewell. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian art student in Tartu who created the elegant art deco face Liisbeth (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Kettlewell
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Phonetic font archive in Estonia with the RusEE family [RusEEBold, RusEEBoldItalic, RusEEItalic, RusEE, RusEERItalic, RusEER] (Monotype, 1992, a Microsoft core font), Venelane (Cyrillic), VenelaneTrans (Latin), Fone (Corel), and the Phonetic Times family (Monotype, 1992) [PhoneticTimesC, PhoneticTimesCBold, PhoneticTimesCBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesCItalic, PhoneticTimesEMS, PhoneticTimesEMSBold, PhoneticTimesEMSBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesEMSItalic, PhoneticTimesIMSK, PhoneticTimesIMSKBold, PhoneticTimesIMSKItalic, PhoneticTimesIMSKBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesISBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesS, PhoneticTimesSBold, PhoneticTimesSBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesSItalic, PhoneticTimesSL, PhoneticTimesSLBold, PhoneticTimesSLBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesSLItalic, PhoneticTimesV, PhoneticTimesVBold, PhoneticTimesVBoldItalic, PhoneticTimesVItalic]. Site maintained by Indrik Hein. Some of the weights of Phonetic Times are by Esko Oja (Türnpu 11-3, Tallinn EE0001, Estonia) for the Institute of Estonian Language (Roosikrantsi 6, Tallinn). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian graphic designer, b. 1989. Creator of Seips Sans Medium (five weights). No downloads yet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tallinn-based Estonian designer of some weights of the Phonetic Times family for the Institute of Estonian Language (Roosikrantsi 6, Tallinn) in 1994. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monotype's EEArial family in truetype, for Estonian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mart Anderson's page with a pictorial overview of Estonian typography, mostly illustrated with posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian type designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1945: Aeronaut, EREJtiitel, Koidula, Kullaketrajad. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tartu, Estonia-based media and advertising student at Tartu Art College in 2011. She made the multiline all caps font Paperplane (2011) and the art deco typeface Bauklotz (2013). | |
Huge font archive in Estonia. Too big to sample, it has many goodies, including the Marseille Tarot card font (1997) and Math Donuts (lunatic writing). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tartu, Estonia-based designer of the angular display typeface Helme (2013), and of the modular display face SAE Ants (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
HMF (or: HandMadeFont)
| Foundry in Tallinn, Estonia, est. 2008 by Vladimir and Maksim Loginov. Home page. A prime example of their vector craft is Vectorillo (2011), a delicate thread-themed face. In 2012, many were added, including HMF Marzipan, HMF Hulk, and HMF Read More Books (dadaist). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Indrek Hein
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Tartu, Estonia-based designer of the experimental face Submarine (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian graphic designer designer (b. 1962) who studied industrial design at Estonian Art Academy and has worked as a graphic designer since 1986. He is mainly a poster designer. He also lectures on the history of graphic design at the Estonian Art Academy in Tallinn. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Estonian style: Russian or German? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1971. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student from the Estonian Academy of Arts, whose particular interests lie in web design and typography. His free font Vibur (2010) is a script face based on handwriting. In 2012, Johan Kallas and Mihkel Virkus designed Ewert, a slab serif wood type inspired by and loosely based on the collection of cultural infographic maps by Estonian graphic artist Olev Soans. Free at Google Web Fonts. They added Revalia later in 2012---see here. Meie Script (2012, John Kallas and Mihkel Virkus, free at Google Web Fonts) is described as follows: Meie Script is a typeface, which is based on the original 1910 Estonian handwriting standard. It is less flamboyant then its Western European contemporaries. Estonian handwriting has been influenced greatly by German and Russian handwriting styles and Meie Script embodies a mixture of those two styles. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian designer who made a Basque / slab serif face in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian Plakatschrift designer. Sample of his work on posters. Kino. Rehe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plakatschrift type specialist from Estonia. Sample of his work from 1904. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tartu, Estonia-based software specialist (b. 1971) whose main achievement is the vector drawing program Sodipdi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian type designer. Sample of his work on posters in 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letter Database
| Indrek Hein's online character database, based in Estonia. Invaluable data base of all unicode letters, with pictures! (Only the Asian languages are missing, but it is complete for all East-European languages, for example.) [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Libertine Open Fonts Project
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In 2007, the following weights are available: Normal, Kursiv, Fett, Fett Kursiv, Kapitaelchen, Unterstrichen, Grotesk. As a measure of the success of the font, we find that is now used on the logo of Wikipedia. As a companion font, they offer Linux Biolinum (2010): The Biolinum is an organic sans-serif and could be also described as organogrotesque (non-linear sans serif). It is still in a beta stage. Biolinum is meant for emphasizing titles but could be used also for short passages of text. For longer texts a serif font such as the Libertine should be used in favour of readability The Biolinum has the same vertical metrics and visual weight as the Libertine, so that it fits perfectly to the Libertine and can be also used for emphasizing within the body text. In 2012, Bob Tennent created type 1 versions of Biolinum and Libertine. Dafont link. Fontspace link. CTAN link for Libertineotf. CTAN link for Libertine download. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator vabased in London and Tallinn. Creator of a bitmap typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian graphic designer. Creator of several experimental modular typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tallinn, Estonia-based designer of the prismatic art deco typeface just called Art Deco (2012), created during her studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art Director at Vatson & Vatson (now Vatson Wunderman) in Estonia. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke about Digitizing the "Estonian national" typefaces. In his own words: His fonts Pagana, Vaderi and others are based on a lettering of such Estonian mid-20th century typographers as Günther Reindorff, Paul Luhtein and Villu Toots. ATypiI reports: Mart Anderson is producing a range of revival typefaces based on the lettering on 20th century Estonian book designers. The character of their (mainly pen-drawn) work is rather like woodcut lettering, with gently curved slab sides. To make them suitable for typesetting, the characters have been slightly tidied up. Sample of his work on posters, 2005-2006. Scans of faces: Sula (2005, flowing and angular), Panin (2006, playful), EiBanner (2006, comic book face), AmaKaas (2005, again that soft angular theme). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian designer of the bitmap face TinyPixy (2007) and of the grunge face Soul Mission (2007). Aka RoCU. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1971. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Estonian type designers Johan Kallas and Mihkel Virkus designed Ewert, a slab serif wood type inspired by and loosely based on the collection of cultural infographic maps by Estonian graphic artist Olev Soans. Free at Google Web Fonts. They added Revalia later in 2012---see here. Meie Script (2012, John Kallas and Mihkel Virkus, free at Google Web Fonts) is described as follows: Meie Script is a typeface, which is based on the original 1910 Estonian handwriting standard. It is less flamboyant then its Western European contemporaries. Estonian handwriting has been influenced greatly by German and Russian handwriting styles and Meie Script embodies a mixture of those two styles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mint Type (was: PDesign 6.0)
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His typefaces generally cover Latin and Cyrillic: Tecco (techno), Radix, Aera Sans, Aera Serif, Careless Hand Script (2005), Radix (2004), Cyntho Pro (2012, a geometric sans), Cyntho Slab Pro (2013), Cytia Pro (2012, a geometric sans with built-in contrast), Cytia Slab Pro (2013), Lytiga Pro (2012, a 48-font techy sans family, starting with hairline weights), Espuma Pro (2013, a soft humanist sans family with lots of curviness), Guarda Sans (2012), Vitra Sans (2005), Terra Sans (2005), Terra Semi Slab (2005), Terra Slab (2005). View Mint Type's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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New Fontografia (was: David's Fontografia 2006)
| David Kettlewell (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1946), who has been professor at Tartu university in Estonia, and now works from his forest farmhouse in Bollstabruk, Northern Sweden, explains how fonts work and how to work with Fontographer and other programs. Kettlewell also runs Fontografia, a medieval and calligraphic type site featuring subpages on Ludovico Vicentino [degli Arrighi], Giovambattista Palatino, and Giovanniantonio Tagliente. He also tells us why Fontlab is so much better than Fontographer when developing fonts from scans. David Kettlewell is a harper, renaissance musicologist and conductor who illuminate his work with text and type. His own work through New Renaissance Fonts is mostly with medieval and renaissance scripts, calligraphic alphabets and ornamental capitals. Direct acess. MyFonts link for New Renaissance. Klingspor link. Free fonts: AliceScrolltipRoman, AndersFancyCapitals, AndersPlainCapitals, BickhamSwashCaps, Cartouches, CelticNoadProtoype, Chiswickblack, DagmarIlluCaps, Davies-RomantiqueCaps, DaviesIlluminatedcapitals, DaviesRoundhand, DaviesSapphire, DeBeauChesneRoman, FantasiaCaps, GothicCaps, KarinsFreeLombardyCaps (2006, with Karin Skoglund), KingRichard2Caps, Kurbits3, Lettreornee, LubnaCaps, NesbittDecoratedCaps-Medium, RicksClassicItalic, RicksDecoratedUncial-Medium, RicksFolkloreRoman, RicksRelaxedHand-Italic, Samuel, SevilliaDancingText, Sevilliastandingtext, Sevilliatiles, ShawDecoratedInitials1, ShawDecoratedInitials4-Medium, Taliente-IlluCaps, WestminsterMemorialBrasses-Medium. Other fonts (some no longer available or shown): Soest St. Mary (2006, decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church), Kurbits, Samuel, Celtic Noad, Dagmar IlluCaps, Lettre ornée, Phalesiodecor (medieval caps, 1998), American Uncial (adaptation of a URW font), FinalRomanfat or FatRoman50 (adaptation of an RWE font), Marshall (made from an 1822 parchment). Some fonts are developed in conjunction with Richard Bradley. Others involved more loosely include Adam Twardoch, Karin Skoglund, Dagmar Varaksits and Anders Rosen. MyFonts offers fonts like Chiswick Illuminated Caps (2009, Lombardic), Alice Scrolltip, Albrecht Fraktur (2011), Edward's Uncial 1904 (2011, after an alphabet drawn by Edward Johnston), Davids Roundhand, Karins Lombardy Caps, Sevillia (2006, with Richard Bradley), and Soest St Mary. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Estonian type designer from the middle of the 20th century. Some of his posters (ca. 1961) are here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plakatschrift type specialist from Estonia. Sample of his work from 1913-1927. Images: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian type designer. Sample of his work on posters in 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Philipp H. Poll
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Estonian designer of the grunge face Soul Mission (2008). Alternate URL. Programmer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1963. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Fournier era family Rameau (2011, Linotype). Linotype writes: Sarah Lahzarevic is a graphic designer and typographer. She has worked for ten years with the photographer Max Yves Brandily. She is now working as a freelance graphic and type designer for clients such as the French Post Office (La Poste), Millau City Council and the International Francophone Organisation. She teaches graphics and typography at the Ecole Professionnelle Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques et d'Architecture de la Ville de Paris (Graduate Training School in Graphic Arts and Architecture in Paris). She is also developing her own work in copper-plate engraving. She derived the italics of Rameau from the manuscript of the opera Les fêtes de l'hymen et de l'amour, the music for which was composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1747. Linotype: In the 18th century, musical compositions were published in the form of impressions from copper plates that had been hand-engraved in contrast with books and other texts, which were printed from moveable lead type. The italic letters of Rameau include many ligatures and are thus typical of the engraving style of the period. Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer residing in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2012, he graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in the field of graphic design. His typeface Völv (2012) was inspired by arcs found in classical Estonian arhitecture. Vahtra (2010) was inspired by the works of estonian artist Jaan Vahtra, and was created under the supervision of Anton Koovit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Tallinn, Estonia, Silver Lahi created an unnamed neurotic typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British font service house: can sell you most of the commercial fonts. Sells also fonts for Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh. Has barcode fonts, and is a special distributor of the Royal Mail Barcode font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jörg Knappen's page on the European Computer Modern fonts. "The following languages are supported by the Cork encoding: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish (modern orthography), Italian, Letzeburgish, Lusatian (Sorbian), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaetian (Rumantsch), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas T. Pedersen
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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] ⦿ |
Estonian type designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, 1956-1980. Scans: handset text, chancery hand, book cover (1956), geometric alphabet (1956), Brych, Gooti (1980), Pro Anno (1978), Rodrigues, Tahestik. Author of Kirjukunsti ABC (1968, Tallinn). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1965. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vladimir Loginov
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Illustrator and designer in Tallinn, Estonia. He created the triline face 
Now, here is a project with a name I like! This project by Philipp H. Poll has been started in order to create fonts that can be released under the GNU Public License. As of early 2005, we have the following Times New Roman lookalikes: LLibertineCaps, LinLibertine, LinLibertine-Italic, LinLibertineBd. Libertine Grotesque is next on the list of things to do. The fonts come in truetype and fontforge (SFD) text formats. 
Ukrainian Andrey Konstantinov (b. 1981, Moscow, lives in Kiev) graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine in 2002. He lived for some time in Tallinn, Estonia. He ran 
Graduate of the Tallinn Art School, b. 1990. Still based in Tallinn, Mirjam designed the beautiful poster font 
Ex-student at the Ecole Estienne in Paris (b. Estonia) whose diploma work consisted of the creation of 
