TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
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Type design in Estonia |
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Ado Rebase | Estonian Plakatschrift designer. Sample of his work from the mid 20th century. [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] ⦿ | |
Andres Röhu | Estonian type designer. Sample of his work on posters in 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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. 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, 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), Derzeit (2012, with Manuel Schibli). 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. [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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Esko Oja | 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] ⦿ | |
Günther Reindorff | 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). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tartu, Estonia-based designer of the experimental face Submarine (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivar Sakk | 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] ⦿ |
Jaan Jensen | 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. [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] ⦿ | |
Kristjan Raud | 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] ⦿ | |
Lembittu Mikker | 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. Dafont link. Fontspace link. CTAN link for Libertineotf. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Estonian graphic designer. Creator of several experimental modular typefaces. [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] ⦿ | |
Märt Laarmann | Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1971. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mihkel Virkus | 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. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ |
Paul Luhtein | Estonian type designer from the middle of the 20th century. Some of his posters (ca. 1961) are here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
PDesign 6.0
| 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 runs PDesign 6.0, and created the techno faces Tecco Bold and Tecco Bold Italic. Both Tecco and Radix are sans families that include Latin, Cyrillic, and CE glyphs and accents. Other faces: Aera Sans, Aera Serif, Vitra Sans (2005), Terra Sans (2005), Terra Semi Slab (2005), Terra Slab (2005). His fonts can be bought from MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Peet Aren | Plakatschrift type specialist from Estonia. Sample of his work from 1913-1927. Images: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Peter Paasmäe | Estonian type designer. Sample of his work on posters in 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Estonian designer of the grunge face Soul Mission (2008). Alternate URL. Programmer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rudolf Koemets | Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1963. [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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
Villu Toots | 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. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Estonian Plakatschrift designer from the middle of the 20th century. Sample of his work on posters, ca. 1965. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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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. 
