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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Vinnitsa, Ukraine-based group that designed the experimental techno face Lower Ladle (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Part of Prototype Experimental Foundry in New York City, this outfit designed the commercial Hebrew simulation font Kaiju (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian creator (b. 1985) of az (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication designer in Mumbai, India. In 2011, he made an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and photographer in Milwaukee, WI. Behance link. He gridified / pixelized Adobe Myriad Pro and called it Aluminum Life Semibold (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Their first commercial fonts are ATT49 Fanfare, ATT48 Thrax, ATT47 Candies, ATT46 Exlixir, ATT45 Transfix, ATT44 X-Cute, ATT43 Small Proteus, ATT42 Childhook, ATT41 Arcane, ATT40 Lysergic4a, ATT39 Liquor, ATT38 Once Upon A Damned, ATT37 Innocence, ATT36 Kidding, ATT35 Bestiaire (2011), ATT34 Lysergic 2a (2011), ATT33 Koan (2011), ATT32 Faun Call (2011), ATT31 Paraphilia (2011), ATT30 Lysergic 1b (2011), ATT29 Mad Hatter (2011), ATT28 Minimori (2011), ATT27 Tripton (2011), ATT26 Lysrergic3a (2011), ATT25 Multicoloured Rythm (2011), ATT24 Swallow (2011), ATT23 Artlien (2011), ATT22 Dopamine (2011), ATT21 ABTOY (2011), ATT20 Rankle (2011), ATT19 Ink Lust (2011), ATT18 Overabundance (2011), ATT17 Ink Circus (2011), ATT16 The Orgians (2011), ATT15 For Whom The Bell Tolls (2011), ATT10 Stereo (2011), ATT11 Heterodoxa (2011), ATT12 Psilocybine (2011), ATT13 Sync (2011), ATT14 Prehisto (2011), ATT8 Human Decay (2011), ATT9 Eroded Eclosion (2011), AT4 Parallax (2011), ATT7 Medieval Sweet Shop (2011), ATT6 Detected Future (2011), ATT5 Hard Sync (2011), ATT4 Chalice (2011), ATT3 Outer Christ (2011), ATT2 Macpanic (2011), ATT1 Nimal Nimoy (2011), AT54 Intermezzo (2011), AT26 Metamorph Candies (2011), AT29 Dystrogonyx (2011), AG2 Placenta (2011), AT17 Farandole (2011), AT27 Innocence (2011), AT3 Nuclear Project (2011), AT38 Nanogonyx (2011), AT49 Neuromicr (2011), AT16 Faun Call (2011), AG1 Neuroticons (2011), AT55 Neo Geo (2011), AT36 Mad Hatter (2011), AT51 Pharmaceutic (2011) and AT5 Childhook (2011). The FontStruct production in 2011: 00dot 5 TRANSFIX, 00dot 15 DYSTROPHIE POLYGONALE, 00dot 20 CURSED, 00dot 13 PARALLAX, 00dot 12 NUCLEAR TARGET, 00dot_7_nimal_nimoy, 00dot 17 SYNDROME F.K., 00dot 9 NEW TO, 00dot 6 DECLINE AND CODE, 00dot 3 ROBOX, 00dot 2 MINIDECO, 0dot 26 INKSECTS, 00dot 32 STEREO, 00dot 10 SMART PLAYGROUND, 00dot 33 FUTURE NOW, 00dot 23 BLING STREET, 00dot 4 TOXINE, 00dot 31 FAUN CALL, 00dot 19 ELIXIR, 00dot 30 DWARF LOGIC, 00dot 8 THRAX, 00dot 14 A NEW FORM OF BEAUTY, 00dot 22 HETERODOXA, 00dot 27 KIDDING, 00dot 21 INNOCENCE, 00dot 34 PICTORIAL ABUSE, 00ne Stretched Empty Cow (2011, a piano key stencil face), 00ne Empty Cow (2011), 00ne Medication (2011), 00ne Pills, 00ne Minipills, 00ne Stency, 00ne Neurelm, 000tag6 LYSERGIC, 000tag4 ROBOX, 000tag NUCLEAR WARFARE, 00ne dat / dot, 00ne Bat Kidding (+Stencil, +Stencil Quadrillé), 00ne Stencirc, 00ne Neurocirc Neue Deco, 00ne Neurocirc, 00ne Neurologo, 00ne Nutech, 00ne Nutech Black, 00ne Top Pix (+Clean), 00ne Not So Atroce Pixels (+Black), 00ne Videotech, 00ne Videotech Tamagochi, 0One Bad Video, 0One Exagg Superstrong, 00ne Blockollida, 00ne Minicut, 00ne Neuromoog, 00ne Exagg, 00ne XChurch, 00ne NeuroNeoq, 00ne Imprimante Matricielle, 00ne C64 NeurOOpart2, 00ne Heterodoxa, 00neZnorg, 00ne Znorg Heads, 00ne Zwrappearing (dotted and textured), 00neVideotech, A Present for Intaglio (2011, cloned from Intaglio's Wallachia), Inicial 1 (2010, an improvement of a face by Infotipografia), Neo Geo (2011), NE XS, NE 4x4 Technirement, NE Religious Migraine, NE Abtechre. NE Churching, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE Cellphone Cutie Punched Cards, NE Cellphone Cutie, NE Obl. NE Pax Pact, NE Pictorial Abuse, NE Charlie Chaplin Cybernetic Brains, NE Chaplin Cyborg, NE Unknown Remix, NE Neurofat, NE Neurocompressor, NE Neurocompressed Pictograms, NE Alien Orders, NE Filament Techneriment, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE The Eye, NE Moving Parallels, NE Alien Orders, NE Reordered Alien Orders, the NE New Newbix family, Parallax (2011). Typefaces made in 2012 at FontStruct: AFT1 Heterodoxa, AFT2 Forbidden Apple, AFT3 Kidding, AFT4 Spacelab Parallax, AFT5 Detected Future, AFT6 Lysergic 2b, AFT7 Lysergic 2a, AFT8 Transfix, AFT8 Smart Kids, AFT10 Candies, AFT12 Neo Geo, AFT13 Arcane, AFT15 Hard Sync, AFT17 Cortech Hallucination, AFT18 Lysergic1b, AFT20 Abtech, AFT21 Bling Chief Story, AFT22 Ink Lust, AFT23 Faun Call, AFT24 Toying, AFT27 Fluffy Clown, AFT30 Koan, AFT31 Innocence, AFT33 ETPheuneHeume, AFT34 Neuromicr, AFT35 Tripton, AFT36 Intermezzo, AFT37 Rankle, AFT38 Dark Rankle, AFT39 Rankle Distone, AFT40 Smart Kids, AFT41 Smart Playground, AFT42 Lysergic 4a, AFT43 Small Proteus, AFT44 Lysergic 3a, AFT45 New Forgee, AFT46 Space Connect, AFT47 Mondrian Drone, AFT48 Bark At The Code, AFT49 Stereo, AFT50 Artlien, AFT51 Liquor, AFT52 Neuromecha, AFT53 Lysergic 1a, AFT54 Dinoxyde, AFT55 Human Decay, AFT56 Eroded Eclosion, AFT57 Outer Christ, AFT58 Boing Code, AFT59 Nimal Nimoy, AFT60 X-Church, AFT61 Macpanic, AFT62 Lovely Breeze, AFT63 Mad Hatter, AFT64 The Orgians, AFT65 Chalice, AFT66 Ssaammothrax, AFT67 Panthrax, AFT68 Less Is More Neuromicr 2, AFT69 Paraphilia, AFT70 Psilocybine, AFT71 Childhook, AFT72 Once Upon A Damned, AFT73 For Whom The Bell Tolls, AFT74 Medieval sweetshop, AFT75 Nanoprehistoryx, AFT76 Pictorial Abuse, AFT77 Bestiaire, AFT78 Fanfare From Outer Space, AFT79 X-Cute, AFT80 Medication, AFT81 Wrong DNA, AFT82 Wrong DNA, AFT83 Minimal Disto, AFT84 Abacadabra, AFT85 Pharmaceutical, AFT86 Code Flu, AFT89 High-Diving Blindness, AFT90 Nopix, AFT91 Floppy Disk O, BUT1 Quarx, BUT2 Newbix, BUT3 Disto Matricielle, BUT4 Tomono, BUT5 Blurred Clown, BUT7 Religious Pill, BUT8 Nopix (octagonal), BUT9 Tipi Video, BUT10 Slanxic Acid, BUT11 Metamphetamental, BUT12 Znorgs, BUT13 Soyokaze, BUT15 Stick Tech, BUT16 Uninteresting Tech. 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Ace Productionz
| Asa Childress (Ace Productionz) created the experimental poster face Vision Division (2010). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer based in Paris, who makes experimental commercial fonts at "For Home or Office Use" (Frankfurt). One of his families is called Lini (2000, semi-technical). Others: 2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klinspor, 161Try-Bitter, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Lini Eins, Lini Drei, Lini-Viers, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi, WIR 7Vi Fat. Achim also runs Vier5 with Marco Fiedler, a graphic design studio. At Vier5, he published the experimental face SVT (2010) and the futuristic angular Shake (2010), which was originally designed for the Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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ACME Fonts (or: CHK Design)
| Started in 1996, by Christian Küsters and Andy Long (from South London), ACME Fonts is a London-based foundry, offering fonts by Küsters and these designers: Anthony Burrill, Gérard Paris-Clavel&Johannes Bergerhausen, Jean-Lou Désiré, Paul Farrington, Robert Green, Paul Kehra, Henrik Kubel, Simon Piehl, Alex Rich, Carsten Schwesig, Sandy Suffield, Dirk Wachowiak, Anne Wehebrink and Paul Wilson. Christian Küsters is an ex-student of Matthew Carter at Yale. Born in Germany, he now lives in Oberhausen. Buy the fonts at Font Factory or MyFonts. The company evolved, I guess, into CHK Design. Interview. Klingspor link. The ACME font list:
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Actiontype.de
| German designers of some experimental 2d and 3d fonts, under the guidance of Professor Tanja Diezmann from the Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau. Fonts include Isometrie (sans), Actiontype Bold (3d), Actiontype Light, Actiontype Serif (slab serif). Using these fonts as base models, several random fonts were constructed by interpolation. Actiontype is managed by Marcus Schaefer in Dessau. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Northampton, UK. Behance link. In 2010, he designed Typegram, a modular typeface that consists of puzzle pieces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist from Limerick, Ireland. Devian tart link. At FontStruct, he created the ultra thin squarish face Lithe (2010). In 2011, he created the thread-themed experimental alphabet I Hate Thread. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manchester, UK-based typographer and digital artist who studies at Pendelton College in Manchester. His stern display face High Rise (2010) was inspired by concrete city monsters. In college, he created several other (unfinished) alphabets: i, ii, iii, paper cut typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studied Graphic Design at London Guildhall University from 2000-2003. Worked for six months in a design/marketing agency working on commercial projects for clients such as Wella and Vodafone. At present designer for a design/print company based in Newbury, UK. With the experimental typeface Landing Ship, he won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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American creator of the experimental typeface Pig Pen (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian art director, graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Born in 1981 in Sao Paulo. Behance lnk. He designed various display typefaces for his projects: Mariana (2005) is an experimental face for the Havaianas web site. Cristiane (2005) is a Bank Gothic-inspired sans. Mathews (2005) and Ana Rayssa (2005, upright connected script) are experimental types. Antonio (2005) is a fat rounded sans. Josefa (2005) is a grunge face created for Brahma Bier. Adilson (2005) is a super-fat display face. Rose (2005) and Douglas (2005, also a super-fat display face) were created for Sensorama ID. Other typefaces include Mark, Mike and Cris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adnauseum
| Adnauseum is an experimental design studio in Brooklyn, NY, run by Christian Acker, an American type designer who graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2002. Christian occasionally guest lectures typography classes at Parsons. He designed SailorGothic (2003), the Spanish-looking font Sailor Jerry (2002) and 24Hrs (Cubanica). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Budapest-based creator of the experimental geometric face Optypo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Agnes Jekli is a graphic designer in Budapest, Hungary. She developed an impressive multiline prismatic typeface called Agiko (2012), which was created for a Rubik's cube style puzzle. The letters of the alphabet are put together in a modular fashion by rotating and shifting basic multiline elements. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York-based designer of the experimental face Blue Notes (2011), which was inspired by the jazz of Billie Holiday. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ahmad Effendy's FUSELAB fonts
| Singapore-based Ahmad Effendy's gorgeous experimental font Fondgrafie-weird created for FUSELAB '95. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Hastings, UK, who made an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ainezunouzu
| Akira Hayashi (Ainezunouzu) is the Japanese designer of the experimental Latin fonts UzuAutotwo, UzuBalloonO, UzuBalloon, UzuBiscuit, UzuBmp01_06 (pixel), UzuCheeseO, UzuCheese, UzuCracker and UzuRenga. He also made the handwritten kanji fonts UzuPen, UzuPencil, UzuKaku, UzuMaru, UzuFace, UzuOfTsuchiyaB, UzuOfTsuchiya, UzuFude. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French digital type foundry, est. 2007. Commercial fonts include these made by Atelier Télescopique: Stone Heure (2007, multiline), Ader, Bepierre (pixel), Beye (pixel), Birinte (experimental), Boureuse (an elegant geometric sans), Byme, Capulco, Ciceron (dot matrix), Delory (clean sans), Dicion (dot matrix), Dixca (pixel), Fisher, Hic, Kune (sans family), Lailuya, Lienne, Mentable (dot matrix), Mento (clean sans), Merik, Miante, Micale, Mulette, Naconda, Nalfabait (dings), Natomi (techno), Nibalsmith (ultra-fat), Norak, Normal, Peindice, Rabik (paperclip face), Raoul, Rondie (kitchen tile), Scard, Sphiquesy, Steroid, Stuce, Tino, Treen, Varo, Velinge (dings), Veu, Vrette, Vure, Yoli (dings), Xatif, Zofage. News. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative director in Minneapolis, MN, working at Cue Inc. He designed the superb experimental face Popular Front (2012) using circle arcs only. Home page of Cue. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alan Záruba | Czech designer (b. 1964), who holds an MA in Typo/graphic studies from London School of Printing. He founded Alba studio Ltd. in 1996, now Alba Design Press Ltd. in Prague. With his colleagues and design historian Dr. Iva Janakova he co-founded the design magazine Deleatur and served as editor. He teaches at the Academy of Architecture and Design in Prague (where he is a current PhD. candidate) and the Merz Academy in Stuttgart (2002). He was on the organizing committees of the International Graphic Design Biennale in Brno 2004, 2006 and the ATypI Congress 2004 in Prague. At the latter meeting, he and Johanna Balusikova introduced their own project called e-a-t experiment and typography. Creator of Cogito (2004), an experimental typeface. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Making democracy visible. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alden Verdan (Seattle, WA) made several experimental typefaces in 2012. Particular typefaces by him include Blackline (a neon tube typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer from La Coruna, b. 1976. He created Matricula Espanola (2007, an all caps sans face) and N-Gage (2007, a futuristic experiment). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian art director and graphic designer in Oslo. He has done Banana Hello (2010), an alphabet in which all curves come from bananas. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the beautiful Cyrillic serif family Leksa (a winner at Paratype K2009) and the accompanying Leksa Sans family from 2004-2007. This was followed by equally gorgeous families such as Fence (2009, an ultra-fat artistic beauty). Skoropix is an experimental pixel face done with FontStruct. She also made Belladonna (2008, a stunning modern face for Latin and Cyrillic; a winner at Paratype K2009 and Grand Prize winner at Granshan 2011), Skoropix (with FontStruct), and the experimental face Cless (2009). She spoke about Cyrillic at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Fourty-nine face. Alternate URL. At MyFonts, one can buy Gorodets [2009: a Russian decoration face based on traditional wood-painting style from the town Gorodets on the Volga river, Russia], Leksa and Leksa Sans], Blonde Fraktur (2010: written with a quill by Alexandra Korolkova and prepared in digital form by Alexandra Pushkova), Airy (2010, a curly script), Airy Pictures (2010, animal and plant dingbats), Bowman (2010: a blackboard children's script), PT Serif (2011, Paratype's superfamily of 38 fonts, codesigned with Vladimir Yefimov and Olga Umpeleva), PT Circe (2011, a geometric sans family with a neat Thin weight; Third Prize for cyrillic text faces at Granshan 2011), and Cless (2010: ultra fat and counterless). Together with Isabella Chaeva, she made PT Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts). MyFonts interview. Kernest link. Klingspor link. View Alexandra Korolkova's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creative Italian designer who managed to draw letters with water (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex is a senior Visual Communications and Advertising student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. He created the (free) ultra fat face A/Bru Subtle (2010). Home page of A Bru Design in Flagstaff, AZ. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona who works in London. Behance link. Creator of Die Modularität (2012), De Palo (2011), Scriptura (2011, a calligraphic connected script), this triangle/circle based modular type, of GoodBye (experimental type based on Barcelona's night lights), and of a geometric custom-designed face for the Aroy Restaurant in Barcelona. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the experimental geometric face Covenant (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Alex Trochut's lettering must be seen to be believed---it has to be genetic transmission. Recurring themes include adorned initials and modular types. His numerical all-caps alphabet for British Airways is phenomenal and pushes the bling-bling to the fashionable extreme. Stunning dollar sign drawn by him in 2008. In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. Typographic picture by TDC55. Behance link. Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oslo-based graphic designer and art director who has desiged some logotypes. Behance link. He used black censureship strips to create the calligraphic experimental face Shame (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He created some experimental typefaces, alongside some display fonts. Examples: Kokface (a constructivist beauty), a circle-themed stencil face, Revolt, and an octagonal face. In 2012, he made another set of experimental typefaces called Engineering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based designer of the unbelievable experimental font Wirefox (Die Gestalten, 2006), consisting of diagonal lines only. See it to believe it! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, who has made Thin (2009, octagonal), Arrow (2009), Decade (2009), Fat (2009), Hiploe (2009), Player (2009, upright connected script), Mini (Bauhaus style), Winter (pasperclip face), and Unic (experimental). Some typefaces can be bought. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Krasnodar, Russia. He created some experimental typefaces in 2009-2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Utica, NY. His typeface Neuro (2012) consists entirely of circular arcs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Ralegh, NC, who created an experimental typeface in 2010 called Georna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian creator of the very expiremental typeface Typographie Modulaire (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Zarga, Jordan-based designer (b. 1986) of the experimental faces X-Fire (2006), Relaxic (2005) and Graphiro (2005). Gerlaneu (2006) is a 6-style octagonal and geometric family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sarah Anne (2009) is an experimental typeface that was inspired by fashion designer Sarah Leach and her current brand Sarah Anne. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the squarish text typeface Gloomy (2008). At Behance, we learn that she is from Singapore (if it is the same Alicia Lee). There she published Shysosa (fat counterless face), Sensosa (gridded face) and Resosa (counterless display face) in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American type, web, and brand designer in Baltimore, MD. She combined Adobe Caslon and Gill Sans to make a blended experimental typeface in 2010. View her typographic study of Gill Sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography | An exhibition held in Orlando, FL, during the AIGA Orlando, July 15-30, 2007, and elsewhere in the USA between 2005 and 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alternumerics
| Free experimental fonts consisting of pieces of text, made by Paul Chan of Alternumerics: Blurrybutnotblind (2001), SelfPortraitasaFontV2 (2001), Sexualhealingshiftfor (2000), Thefuturemustbesweet (2000), ActUpBeta2001 (2001, with Mary Patten), Politicstocome (2005), Therivergone (2005), Thewavegone (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. Creator of the free information design face Fabrica (2011, Practice Foundry). He wanted to make Fabrica into the most legible typeface for mobile screens. His Rytm face (2011, renamed Theatre I think) is an experiment: Rytm was built based on the height and width, letter spacing and kerning of Helvetica. Yes indeed, each Helvetica glyph was replaced by a correctly sized black rectangle. Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Partner with Dario Hofstetter at Monom in Switzerland. Together, they designed 100 pixel and experimental fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a number of typefaces at FontStruct in 2009: ANSAR (texture effect face), ANSAR DECO (horizontally striped face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who is experimenting with modular geometric black faces in 2010: Blind, Triangulo, Square, High. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Anderson Guedes | Brazilian designer of the experimental face Venom (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Milan-based creator of the handmade experimental typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Andrea Grossy | Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Maria Laura Fernandez, Andrea Montedonico, Ruth Slomovitz). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Andrea Montedonico | Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Andrea Grossy, Maria Laura Fernandez, Ruth Slomovitz). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
London-based designer of Dazed&Confused (2011): Custom font derived from Serifa for the fashion section themed 'Vibrations/Movement'. The font looks as though it shivers/vibrates. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian artist, thinker and autodidact, b. 1954, Antwerpen. The DITT writes this about him: André is an adult dyslexic. Formerly working in the arts, he is now working on a monologue entitled The Illusionist. He researches the interface between psychology and physics. His "act" (a sort of humorous lecture) gives insight into his findings, interests, and himself as an illusionist. At Bridges 2009, he presented an experimental typeface on which he had been working since 1975, under the title Zen Art. In 2007, he created another experimental geometric face, Alphabet Candy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greek graphic designer. He creaed a number of minimalist/pizelish/squarish Latin/Greek fonts in 2009 under the name City Fonts. His Totem Font (2009) is experimental. Nomass Team Font (2009) is a squarish stencil. His typographic posters. Alternate URL. Another URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer based in Rio de Janeiro. Creator of the experimental face Bossa (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, and graphic design at the IDEP School. He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. Casasín. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real. Author of Type at work. The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003). His production:
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Creator of the paperclip font Mothership Connection (2009). He is located in Odessa, Ukraine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrew Lockhart (b. Sandy, OR) runs Andrew Lockhart Design in Montana, where he is a student at Montana State University. As a FontStructor, he made Thick Round, Sport Classic (athletic lettering face), Thin Stripe, Bold Stripe, and Stripe Bold in 2010. Locked Up (2010) is based on a vector image of a combination lock. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Interface designer from Lawrenceville, GA, who graduated from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and who created the experimental typefaces AMBubbla, HalfTonBleenUpper. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrij Type
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Showcase of Andrij Shevchenko's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Angeles Moreno |
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Graphic and print designer in Birmingham, UK. He created the experimental face AviationAirplaneEngines (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ankhbayar Byambasuren is a digital artist based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Behance link. He made the ultra-fat experimental typeface TSELMEG (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer in Roosendaal. Behance link. Creator of a colorful typographic experiment with overlays and weaving (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian typographer and graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface called Brush (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia, whose studio is called Could Not Sleep. He created the experimental loopy face called Boundary (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and motion graphics designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he works as Ontwerp.tv (Idea currency) Pty Ltd. Home page. Behance link. He created several experimental alphabets, often of a geometric nature, such as Geometric Chic (2008-2009) and Beauty (2009). The Bends (2011) is a hairline curly-yet-straight display face. SansGoma (2011) is a hairline slab poster face. Nu Gothic (2011), Nu Modern (2011) and especially Vironica (2011) are fashion mag display faces. Neu Nouveau (2011) is a curly art nouveau face. Numera (2011) is an organic fashion mag face. Killoton (2011) is super-fat and beautiful. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antidesign
| Freelance designer in Girona, Spain. Behance link. He created the multiline neon-look techno face Adtype01 (2010) and the futuristic face Adtype00 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Experimental typography. Under construction. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American designer (b. 1987) of Indigalian (2002), an extremely experimental font. Real name Lauren Rupp. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ukrainian illustrator in Kiev. He created a paper cut numerical alphabet in 2009, called Figtype, and a free experimental face called Color Lines in 2010. Behance link. Home page. [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] ⦿ | |
St. Petersburg-based graphic designer who made the experimental face Can You Read Music (2010), in which letters are replaced by music notes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Antonio Briano | Brazilian designer of the experimental face Perspective (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Creator of The Simple Font (2012, experimental, geometeric and minimalist) and Geometric Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer and illustrator Apirah Infahsaeng ("Synthetic Automatic", Brooklyn, NY) made Elastic (2004), based on wrapping a series of rubber bands around a 3x3 pegboard grid. Four (2004) takes inspiration from the dot matrix display in the popular children's game Connect Four. Seven Board of Cunning (2004) is a modular paper fold face constructed with Chinese tangram puzzle tiles. In 2004, he also made an ascii typeface drawn from Helvetica Neue R, created and manipulated using Microsoft Word [sic], called Helvetica Neue R Microsoft Word. He studied art at the University of Connecticut. In 2008, he drew a custom didone display typeface for New York Magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ari Weinkle (Brookline, MA) created the circle-and-straight segment typeface Sisyphus (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ariana Pereira (Viseu, Portugal) made the experimental faces PAC ABC (2011) and Castelo Branco (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Puerto Rican type designer, b. 1991. He lives in Caguas. His first type design is the experimental face Just Around The Corner (2010). His foundry is called ArmandoP. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Arne Meganck | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Dirtyfax. Arne lives in Kontich. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Manchester, UK-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the triangle-themed face Kosmos (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ARS Type (was ARS Design)
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The fonts: AudioVisual1, Code, Kamp, Kamp Serif, Retro City, OCRU, Toycube, Mortal, Maquette (1999-2000), Angelring, ARS Bembo, Contrast, Dandy, EcologyModern, Hartu (handwriting), Temper, ARS Novelty (2011, a free hybrid style face), ARS Polythene (pixel font family), Misanthry, Syntax (OsF format sans serif), CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Exert (T-26), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995), ARSFortune (2000, futuristic), District (experimental), Descendiaan, Zero Rate (futuristic), Tegel (1998, stencil, kitchen tile), Twenty (octagonal, techno), Trio (dot matrix fonts), Maquette (1999), Region, Product (2007, sans faces), Mr Archi, Prime (display), Deviata (unicase face), Forum I-AR (after Forum I, a 1948 font by Georg Trump), Freie Initialen-AR (2007, after a 1928 set of caps for Stempel Garamond), Fry's Ornamented (2007; a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796), Graphique-AR (2007; a shadowed face based on a 1946 design by Eidenbenz for Haas), Gravur-AR (2007; a digital version of a type designed by Georg Trump and issued as Trump-Gravur by Weber in 1960), Initiales Grecques (after a Firmin Didot design, ca. 1800), Lutetia Open (2007; based on Jan Van Krimpen's Lutetia), Old Face Open (2007; a digitization of Fry's Shaded, an open all caps Baskerville cut by Isaac Moore for Fry, ca. 1788), Open Capitals (2007, after Jan Van Krimpen's 1928 face for Enschedé called Open Kapitalen), Romulus Capitals (2007; after the caps series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1931), Romulus Open (2007; after the Open series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1936), Rosart 811 (2007; open caps after Enschedé no. 811 by Rosart), Zentenar Initialen (2007; based on blackletter initials of F.H.E. Schneidler, ca. 1937). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made Weee (2010), Qada (2010, blackboard bold open face), Qada Treuga (2010, Mexecian-themed), Queue BB (2010), Queue (2010, art deco), Tribe Lock (2010, gridded), Calcula (2010, + rounded: an LED family), Verba (2010, dot matrix face), Oldecod (2010, dot matrix face0, Polynomial semiserif (2010), Phosphora (2010, texture face), Znot (2011), Robotic Handwriting (2011), Thinkapth (2011), Endomorphism (2011), Caseda (2011), Zare Ornamental Border (2011), Spheretta 5x7 (2011, ot matrix face in circles). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of the experimental typefaces Gearbox, Gotha (octagonal), Nippon Garden, Labyrinth, Nano (pixel), Machine Script, Plank stencil, Ballistix, San Andreas (recreation of the Grand Theft Auto font), Machina (a macho octagonal heavy face), Electro, Hiro (oriental look), Japanica (oriental look, based on Hiroshi), Mage, Silkscreen Alt (pixel, a modification of Jason Kottke's Silkscreen). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Porto, Portugal. He created the octagonal typeface Numb (2010) and the experimental type Folded Square (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ascinct
| Grant Sparks (aka as Phesix or Ascinct, b. 1985) is the Perth-based designer of the experimental face Conscept (2005) and of Consphere (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in the FUSE 12 collection of the experimental barely legible font Dofus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born and brought up in Mumbai, Ashish Kalpund graduated from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in 2009. He explains about his ornamental typeface Kundankari (2011): Kundankari, is a prime example where art of jewelry making helps complement the beauty of an Indian woman. Introduced by Mughals, this art form is still prevalent in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. This jewelry involves the process of embellishing pearls and precious stones in a frame of goldstring. Another link. In 2010, he made several experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Liverpool who graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in July 2009 with a BA Hons in Graphic Design. She made CircleType (2009, letters based on lines and arcs). Behance link. Other experimental modular faces include Craft Fonts and Tessellated Fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces made in in 2008 as thalamic: Hello (connected upright script), Epilogie (blocks), WimSoft (+U/C), Chunk Chip, Konstruct (Russian constructivism face), Sensei Says, FS Tributary, Arc Echo, Twotype Font, Urge (fat octagonal), Subliminal, FS United One, The Game of Type, Anaximander Zooom!, Corrupt and Corrupt Ed (piano key stencil fonts), Blueprint, Monomum, Synergy, Insert Coin Italic, Write I Careful, Write I Casual, Write I Dump, Loop UC, Loop LC, Emergic, Prick!, Insert Coins Pixels, Retro Electro, Bubble Lab IJ, Bubble Lab Bang, A Needle Pulling Thread, Send, Scan (IBM logo look), Intermittent and Intermittent Sans (stencil faces), Melt x DR and Melt x tDR (dot matrix), Oval x DR and Oval x tDR (original design by theDesignersRepublic for Issey Miyake), On Grid, Indigo (almost blackletter), orange_2 (dot matrix), Scan (horizontal stripes), Bass, Grape (simple pixel face), Nachahmung and Nachahmung Block (fat and extra condensed, Wim Crouwel simulation faces), Nachahmung Block Serif, Conjunction, Interjection, Is It, Sangular (nice experiment), Anonon (nails in square letters), Purple and Purple Very (slab serif headline faces, pixelized), Arc Echo (biline and strutted), The Question (a fantastic 3d paper fold imitation face), FS Minimal (a fantastic ultra fat decorative face), FS FontStructor, Vibrant (multiline face), Conjunction, Writ (upright pixel script), Castor, Ooki (octagonal), Industrial, The I Flat, The I, Indiscrete, Analog (connected script), Dent (mechanical), Digital (connected script), Hello Hello, and Sensei Says. In 2009, he made Clone It, Entwined, C64, Helix, Fontsration, Bent, Stripe Zoo, Dull, Indent (stencil), Quartertined (kitchen tile), Firox, Orfix, A Priori, Ignore, Confused, S-Ookii, Ookii (octagonal), Very Becoming, Crisis Averted, Crisis (neat bold octagonal face), Penmanship, Up All Night, Sleep All Dayi, Chunk Chip, Grayletter (upright script), Soso, Mostly Harmless. Ata Syed lives in Karachi, Pakistan, Etched, La Cross, Twotype, Etched Bare, Aught (One, To, Three), as: Inflate (Pop, Pfft, Puff, Poof), Istic, Very Becoming, Ignore, Ought, Balance, Broken, Dry Flat (dot matrix), La Cross, Etched (+Bare), Fontsration (+Refined: multilined beauties), FS Institutional (fat multiline face), FS Industrial, FS Pixelayers. Additions in 2010 as thalamic: fs Section, fs Reboot, fs Easy DNA Auto Stencil, fs Institutional (+Ho, +Elements), fs Quartertined, fs Stencil 2.0, fs Rivet, fs Intaglish, fs Dumb Italic, fs Loop Gap, fs GoTeam (stencil), fs ITilic, fs Kerplunk (Startrek face), fs Dumb Italic, fs Ribbon, fs Beringer, fs Ooki Woodcut, fs Croissant (stencil), fs 45 (octagonal stencil), fsXO, fs Pipe, fs Confused, fs Confused Less. Fonts from 2011 as thalamic: fs Xenon (a paperclip face), fs Instant, fs Twist, fs WIP (blackletter), fs Sparc, fs Reboot (texture face), fs Pod, fs Flute Tune, fs Special, fs Watch Out (stencil), fs Etched Nyle (labyrinthine face), fs No Kerning Required (2011, connected upright script). Creations in 2012 as thalamic: FS Strict, FS Confined, FS Fix, fs in three (octagonal stencil face), fs Single, fs Wakarimasen, fs r-failed (white on black), fs Permutation X, fs Pan Am. Creations as minimum: Gridlock (2009), Mingle Minx (2009), Mingle Co (2009), Mingle (2009, gridded letters), Bevel (2009, 3d beveled family), illiij (2009, multiline family), m.ove.r (2009, multiline family), Grayscale (2009, multiline family), fs Cubed (2010, 3d-face), Bas Relief (2009, 3d face), Silver (2009, 3d face), Tin (2009), Lead (2009), Bevel (2009), Bevel Just (2009), Bevel Just Shadowed (2009), Ceci n'est pas une vague (2009), A Fault in Reality (2009, optical effect font), Blit Slash (2009, experimental), Blit Hack (2009), Dot Dot Hex (2009), Super Black (2009), fs Overlap (2010), fs Fabric (2010, texture font), fs Original (2010), fs Ink Blot (2010), fs Dots and Dashes (2010), fs I Square (2010), fs Squared Up (2010), fs Super Black (2010), fs Unoriginal (2010), fs Minimum (2010, geometric stencil face), fs Pin and Thread (2010, stitching face), fs Shade (2012, 3d face). FontStructions from 2011: fs Perpetual (dotted line face), fs Slither, fs No Escape, fs Prompt (a DNA-inspired biochemical lab face), fs Plus H (horizontally striped face), fs Arc Test 2:2 (a modular blackboard bold face), fs V Simple (2010, textured face), fs Instant, fs Permutation V, fs Rehash Monoic (labyrinthine), fs Meta (texture face), fs Scroll, fs Scroll Not (stencil). FontStructions from 2012: fs Translucent (a texture face), fs Bank, fs Shade, fs Confined (white on black), fs Institutional (+Vo, +HeVe, +Ho, +He, +Ve: texture faces). Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Atelier Olschinsky
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Designer of Punkgaraphy (2010), an experimental face. Audria is into adverting and graphic design and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The students of arts and design at HfG Karlsruhe present their work in 2008: Amoto (Nadja Schoch), Barbarossa (Peter Stahmer: grunge), Cirrus (Antonia Huber: liquid style), Fourty Five Degrees (Emanuel K: octagonal), Hopfen (Martin Borst: display sans), Letrix (Miriam Bauer: modular octagonal), Lokomo (Claudia Kappenberger: experimental), Mayfield Display, Monta (Stefanie Miller), Moto Moto (Piero Glina: octagonal), Nancy (Masa Busic: art deco), Oceanic (Simone Gier: rounded techno), Platine (Lise Naujack: multiline, inspired by chip wiring), Pluk (Simon Roth: poster stencil), Quitt (Marko Greve: experimental multiline), Sophonho (Daniel Schludi: display sans), Vahen (Nicolaz Groll: display sans). Avoid Red Arrows is run by Marko Grewe, Stefanie Miller, Simon Roth, and Peter Stahmer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director and photographer in Paris. He experimented in 2009 with gridded typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bagel & Co
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Dafont link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bamboo Types
| Foundry that grew out of the now defunct and controversial Gasoligne in Brest, France, which was run by Yves Patinec (Roubaix) and his brother. The Bamboo Type fonts rescued from Gasoligne in 2008 are Neborg Sans (2008, organic and techno), Mignone (2011, fat organic face), Bambhout Connect Trial (2010), Bambhout (2009, experimental), Oxea (2008, organic), Magenta (2009, italic display type inspired by Inverserif from Infinitype, which in turn has roots in Speedway from FontBank, Concorde from Brendel Informatik, OptiIambic from Castcraft, and so forth), and Veeko, Veeko Wide (informal and organic). Bamboo Types says that the fonts were designed by freelance designer Florian Bambhout. I don't believe that for a second----that name was made up. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Londoner who created the experimental Bezier-driven Blended Alphabet in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the European Institute of Design in Sao Paulo. She created a modular geometric face and an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian type and graphic designer, b. 1983. He specializes in experimental typefaces (examples: Angel, Back, Blank, Block, Flip, Flow, Game, Intercom, Iris, Length, Maze, Missing, Found, Neutral, Newt, Origami, Quilt, Shift, Soviet, Spiral, Switch, Takara, Thai, Womb, Woven). Build is a kitchen tile/stencil face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London. Flickr page. Creator of some experimental faces, including several 3-d alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. He created the experimental typeface RLF (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beautiful
| Beautiful is a design studio set up by creative director Roy Poh in Singapore. He created Chair Type (2011, experimental), Vera (2011, a baby curl caps face) and Mickey (2011), a playful alphabet based on Mickey Mouse. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at UBA who created a few typefaces such as the experimental typeface Frecasjon (2012) and who designed a few beautiful retro posters, also in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based designer, who created Synthetic Stencil (2011) and Pixel Error (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer who created glyphs from icons in order to create the experimental Punk Rock Font (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Singapore who created the modular typeface Avalon (2009, a FontStruct face?), as well as Origami Type (2010), SeaSpray (2010, experimental and gridded), and Neue Miedinger (2010, an interesting play on Helvetica). Home page. Another home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Born in Darmstadt in 1989, Berenike is a student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. Behance link. Creator of an alphabet, Corner (2010). This is not a font, I think. Creator of Peek (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berserker Studio
| Berserker Studio is Christopher Mooij's graphic design studio in Monterrey, Mexico. He created La Revolucion and Green in 2009. He designed the hairline geometric faces This is her type (2010) and BRSRKR (2010), and the experimental geometric faces Bibo (2010), Nova (2010) and Balla (2010). At the end of 2010, he started work on a big avant garde sans family called República Sans. Raw (2011) is a modular experimental face. Behance link. Cargo Collective link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This is also A Hundred Dollars and a Dog (AHDAAD), located in Mainz, Germany. This studio, run jointly by Isabelle Gehrmann and Stefan Ruetz, does graphic design and art direction. Creators of some (free) experimental typefaces for Neo2 magazine in Spain. These include BERT (2006, futuristic face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Birgit Mayer | Austrian designer of the experimental face Urbana Ltd (2009), which won an award at the TDC2 2010 type design competition in the category of display faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Blaise Sumerah Kal (was: 4Logoz)
| Blaise Kal (who used to call her web presence 4Logoz) is the Dutch designer of Blzee v1.03 (2003, handwriting), BlaiseHand (2001), Blaise (experimental, 2001), Crashed Scoreboard, Amsterdam (2001, pixel imitation), and Blame My Parents. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Blue Typo
| Manolo Guerrero (Blue Typo, San Luis Potosi, Mexico) is the Mexican creator of Deconstructa (2005, grunge), Hybrid Screen (2005), and Optica (2008, an optical illusion texture face). Optica won an award at TDC2 2009 and a grand prize at Tipos Latinos 2010 (in the experimental type category) and can be bought at MyFonts under the Cocijotype label. Optica is a tribute to Colombian artist Omar Rayo's optical art. Behance link. FontStructions by him in 2009 include Block 02 (stencil). In 2009, he also made the experimental face MiniBlock (Cocijotype). In 2010, Sticky was published---it is an experimental brick face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Bomparte's Fonts
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John designed the art deco sans face Hamptons BF, and another art deco headline face, Take Two BF. In 2006, he published the 12-style family Blackletter Sans and the exquisite poster semi-Greek simulation art deco face Abstrak BF. In 2007, he surprises with the 1920s poster font Michelle BF, the handprinted Brandy BF, its follow-up Johnny Script BF (2008), the quirky Freaky Frog BF, the dot matrix experimental font Subliminal BF, the frizzy Glow Gothic BF (2007), and the gorgeous swashy 3-style blackletter family Black Swan BF (2007). His 2008 faces: Jacky Sue BF (based on the hand of Jackie Geerlings), SoHo Nights BF, Hamburger Font BF (a rounded fat face), and the art deco sans serif faces Sidewalk Cafe BF (2008) and Hamptons BF (2 weights). Emerge BF (2009) is a flare serif inspired by Admiral, c.1900, from the Keystone Type Foundry. Freedom Writer BF (2009) is a connected handwriting script face. Danielle BF (2010) is handprinted, based on the hand of Danielle Paradis. Factor BF (2010) is an electronic / futuristic / techno face. FingerSpeller BF (1994) is an American sign language typeface. Retroscript BF (2010) and Capistrano BF (2010) are beautiful connected scripts. In 2011, he added the fat felt tip pen face Sherbet BF and the funky rounded display face Dragonfly BF. In that same year, he published the stunted black wood type face Squat (BA Graphics, based on earlier work of or with Bob Alonso). Klingspor link. Catalog of some of his commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
BOODAS.DE
| Sankt Augustin, Germany-based creator (b. 1981) of the pixel face BOODASDREIECKE (2007): all the pixels are in fact small triangles. He also designed BOODAS.DE|Subtract (2007, negative octagonal), My (2007), Boodas.de|My|Regular (2007, octagonal, free), Redhead (2007, geometric, experimental), Bourier (2007, like Courier with bowls filled in and frills added), Slimbo (2008, hairline geometric). All his fonts are free. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Malaysian graphic artist, nicknamed Boom Yee. He created the experimental decorative face Reindeer (2008) while he was a student at Tunku Abdul Rahman College. No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of the experimental font PT Duetto (2002, Paratype). FontShop link. Klingspor link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of the experimental geometric face Boris Light (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Buenos Aires. In 2012, he made the experimental typeface Absurda, which in spirit, and to some extent in form, conjures up images of dadaism. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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B+P Swiss Typefaces (was: BP Type Foundry)
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Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brass Fonts
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MyFonts sells BF Anorexia (a grunge face by Schneider), BF Corpa Gothic (a DIN-like family done in 1997 by Schneider), BF Corpa Serif (1997, a slab serif family by Schneider), BF Cuba (a pixel face by Schneider), Fiona Script (2006, connected), Fiona Serif, BF Fiona Slab (2006, Guido Schneider), BF Fluxgold (1998, Schneider), BF Invicta (2006, a roman inscriptional family by Schneider), BF Jaruselsky (1997, Guido Schneider), BF Matula (1996, an organic face by Guido Schneider), BF Nobody (1995, a roman face by Schneider with pointy experimental serifs), BF Paul D (a grunge blackletter face by Schneider), BF Rotwang (1997, a roman face by Schneider0, BF Solo Sans (1995, Schneider's grotesk family), BF Stoneman (1997, a decorative poster face by Schneider), BF Styptic (a grunge paperclip face by Schneider), BF Sub Zero (experimental, by Schneider), BF Tara (1999, a humanist sans family by Schneider), BF Girando Pro (a garalde made by Guido Schneider in 2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Briana Zajac | Designer based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI, who created the minimalist experimental font Broken Arrow (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made Grizzly, ZXebbidy, Ocean liner, Linked (experimental) and Disco (texture face) in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer from Lisbon. He created the modular experimental face Pista (2010, which is based on sections of model car race tracks. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Burdock Design is located in London. It created the modular geometric tiling face Shapes (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Contact (2001), Mirror (2001), Vestige (2001), Square (2001), Realm, Embryo, Manic Punch, Vacation, and the beautiful experimental font Nomad (2001). Please look at the unbelievable Shockwave presentation on Choi's page!!!! He also created Alicia (2002, T-26). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Cabbages&Kings
| American designer who made the free experimental fonts Discus (2011, circle-based), Atlantean (2011) and Aced It (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Calango
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Images of Moshun: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi. In 2011, he teamed up with Maria Jose Torrero Heredia from Mexico to create the latest addition to the typeface collection, Binary 2.0 (experimental and very modular). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Caligraft
| Beautiful (programmed) experimental letters derived from fonts. This is based on the Masters Thesis in Digital Arts, obtained in 2005 by the Catalan designer Ricard Marxer Piñón, 2006. For this, he wrote the "Geomerative" library of programs, which includes a truetype importer and interpreter. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Carini Type Foundry
| Carini Type Foundry is Michael Genova's experimental type foundry. Two free fonts, Handsom (1997, sign language font) and Adler (1997, an old typewriter font), both in type 1 and truetype formats. Artistic page design. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
Art director in Toronto who made the experimental face Alienese (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caroline de Pont | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Overlap, an exercise on overlapping Bezier curves. Caroline lives in Antwerpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Oakland, CA-based designer (b. 1975) at FontStruct in 2008 of the smudged typefaces Smudge New Roman and Chinese Chairs, as well as the experimental faces Navajo Blankets, Progesterone, Guru Blackletter (Indic font simulation), June Cleaver (dot matrix), Sugandha Shringar (Indic font simulation), Aravinda Incense Sticks (more Indic font simulation) and Guru Saksha (still more Indic simulation). Wayang Kulit (2008, caps only) was inspired by Javanese shadow puppets. Dafont link. Graffiti fonts made by him in 2008: Professional Muse, Gladiator Cruel. On the side he runs a business selling pin-up calendars. Fontsy link. Home page. Full name Casey Castille Nassberg (nee Shelton). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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FontStructor who made a number of pixelish experimental typefaces in 2011: Sweet Pain, Two and a half cookies, Marshmallows, Marshmallows 2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican type designer in Queretaro. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental face Masiva. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Namur, Belgium-based designer of Brasero (2011), an experimental typeface.She also created an upright connected school font family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian designer in Buenos Aires of an experimental poster typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Barcelona. Behance link. Critters inspired him to create the experimental typeface Climb (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chinese designer of some experimental Latin typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Lala (pixelish script), Sunday (great vertical-stripe stencil), Radiotic (rounded), Blabla (experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian-born graphic design student at Manchester Metropolitan University. She created the experimental typeface Bang (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles Combs from Austin, TX, runs the design studio Charles Combs Design. He created Ghost Font (2010, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrative designer in Den Haag, who made the experimental face Hoogtelijnen (2011), as if each glyph were a meteorological map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator in Cape Town, South Africa, of the straight-edged geometric face Harsh Phuk (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leeds, UK-based graphic designer who created the display typefaces Bones (2012) and Cuckoo (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Agoura Hills, CA. Creator of some experimental typefaces in 2012. | |
Student at the University of Greenwich, UK. Designer of the experimental face Binary Code (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Leeds, UK. Chris experimented with exaggerated ligatures in his Interconnect (2012), and the results are fresh, beautiful and promising. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kansas City, MO-based architect and photographer, who created a 3D typeface in 2011. In 2012, he made Digital Snow (simulating snow with pixels), What The What (experimental 3d face), Wicker and Lateral Lines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Coauthor with Steven Heller in 2000 of "Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful: The Evolution of Hand-Drawn, Humorous, Vernacular, and Experimental Type", Watson-Guptill, New York. Christine Thompson, designer at the New York Times on the Web since the site's inception in 1995, has won multiple awards for her work in interactive media. She lives in New York. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the experimental face Zopf (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fellow Belgian Christophe Vermijlen (Hasselt) created an experimental 3d tyeface called Tilting Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Circus Design
| Brian Kaszonyi is the Finnish designer of CircusRootbeer, Circus Robot and Circus Mouse. Co-designer with Tomi Haaparanta of the FUSE95 experimental font FutuRoman. Codesigner with Peter Kaszonyi of CircusRex (1993). Codesigner with Tomi Haaparanta and Klaus Haapaniemi of the 15-font War family in 1999-2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
MA student in design at IADE in Oeiras, Portugal. He created Match Font (2011), an alphabet composed of match sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Die Gestalten of Arvore (2003, experimental). A'Brasil link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Type designer from Modena, Italy, b. 1969. Designer of these fonts:
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German designer of the experimental (modular) face Sega (2009, 26plus-zeichen). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who designed the experimental face Teste 2 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior at the University of Delaware studying Visual Communications. He/she designed the playful modular typeface Pea Pod (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of an experimental font called Gridsystem (2005), which won an award at FUSE 2005. Their web page will never win an award. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sydney, Australia-based web designer, who created the ultra thin experimental face Machine Man (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Colophon
| David Bennewith runs Colophon in Auckland, New Zealand. He created a few experimental typefaces in 2003-2004: Concorde (a diamond shape pattern font), Mobile Carrion (Courier-style face) and Pukeko. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at Falmouth University in Falmouth, UK. He used lines only to construct, as a bridge, the glyphs of Frequency (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cooee Design
| Graphic designer in Dublin, where he runs Cooee Design. Some of his posters and projects are about experimental typography, such as A to Z (2009) and Cycles. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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British creator of Molecular (2011), an experimental typeface in which glyphs represent parts of organic chemical compounds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Corinne Lavaerts | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Estippo 55. Corinne lives in Hove. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Split One and Split Two (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Corradine Fonts
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Fonts from 2007: Kidwriting (a family which includes Kidwriting Dingbats 1 and 2), Garabata (a fantastic handwriting face), Garabata Dingbats, Hexagona Digital, Quadrat (grunge), Quadrat Old (grunge), Quadrat Dirty (grunge), Quadrat Broken, Quadrat Ugly, Neogot (experimental, 8 styles). Fonts from 2008: Mucura (handwriting), Prissa (handwriting), Salpicon (a script), Cuento Serif (a bouncy handprinted family), Memoria (brush script), Charco, Happy Day (comic book family with Happy Day Dingbats), Espectro (a swinging script with swashes and a Dingbats style), Furia (handwriting), Candelaria (based on house signs in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá), Old Village (1600's style), Old Village Ornaments, Rapidda (a successful simulation of quick handwriting), Hueca (an outline children's script), Antigua (an old swashbuckler family), Colegial (a great-looking hand script), Pincel (a fantastic paint brush family with accompanying splatter dingbats), Trazo (Corradine's handwriting), Arcos (a techno family), Caveman (a primitive stone-look type family), Rumba (two styles; an elegant flowing brush script), Parche (graffiti family), Elegance Monoline (a greeting card script face that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Abuelito (script). Fonts from 2009: Helga (flowing script), Mussica (+Swash, +Antiqued, a delicate Victorian face), Guarapo (handprinted), Toxic (futuristic stencil), Emotion (comic book face), Bloque 3D, Rock and Cola, Betco's Hand, Telefante (comic book family), Nancy's Hand (more comic book hand-printing), Alambre (multiline/paperclip), Sensual (calligraphic hand), Zape (in the style of Tekton), Antrax Tech (grunge), Masato (handwriting), Hu Kou (oriental simulation). Fonts fgrom 2010: Miel (a curly script), Oferta (a signage script), Corradine Handwriting, Alberto (connected hand), Changua (handprinted). Fonts from 2011: Plebeya (2011, connected hand), Mimi's Hand Connected, Legendaria (an extensive connected calligraphic family). Fonts from 2012: Official (a simple monoline sans family), Eterea (a roman all-caps family), Eterea LC (the lower case set). Klingspor link. MyFonts link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in San Francisco, CA, who made the experimental face Sci-Fi (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Experimental typography by Cranbrook Academy of Art students:
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Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Raphigraphy, a dot matrix font based on a proposal by Louis Braille from 1839. Other creations: Just1s (concept font), Just1s Times 4, Moon 3x3 Square (Latin alphabet for partially sighted people after William Moon (1818-1894)), Moon 4x4 Thin, Geascript (squarish), QWERTY, Daumen, Daumen 9, 7seg (LCD font), 5x7int (pixel face). His Albers is a remake of Schablonenschrift by Albers (1920s). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator from Curtea de Arges, Romania. In 2011, he created the experimental typeface Alfabeta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Bologna. Creator of the experimental face Zothik Bold (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cristóbal Muñoz | Cristóbal graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, he created the white-on-black experimental face Ona (inspired by the people of Tierra del Fuego). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cubanica Fonts
| Pablo A. Medina designs all fonts at Cubanica Fonts in New York. He is a Communication Design professor at Parsons the New School for Design and lives in the East Village of New York City. He has also taught at Maryland Institute College of Art. MyFonts page. Cubanica fonts: Medina Gothic (2005, a clean sans family), Diablitos (2011), Calaveras (2011), Sailor Gothic (2003), Imbalance (2002, an experimental sans), North Bergen (1996, a vernacular sans), Cuba (1996, 3d signage face based on a sign for the restaurant La Flor de Cuba on Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey), Vitrina (1996, connected lettering signage face), 1st Avenue, Sombra, 24hrs, Union Square (a bold stitching font), Calaveras (2011, based on a signage style in Buenos Aires called Fileteado), and Marquee. At Plazm, he made First Avenue (Plazm, 2000, based on an old metal neon sign) and Vitrina. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental rounded typefaces Sweetchuck and David. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design)
| Filip Blazek writes about typography. His own fonts include Pozorius, Studnicka Antikva and Duboryt. Alois Studnicka (Prague) seems to have designed PozoriusCESample. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dadakool
| Dadakool (or DK) was founded by Parisian Gregory Flajszer and Padovan Alex Mazzuccato Mezzoccoli in 2005, after they met each other during their studies in Paris. They created the 3d experimental faces DK01 (2005) and DK Stencil (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Daisuke Yajima | Japanese designer. Together with Hiroaki Nagai, he won an award at TDC55 for an experimental typeface called Utsuba Moon Avant Garde (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DaltonMaag.Com
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Other custom faces: Tottenham Hotspur (2006), Teletext Signature (by Basten Greenhill Andrews and Dalton Maag), Skoda (Skoda Sans CE by Dalton Maag is based on Skoda Formata by Bernd Möllenstädt and MetaDesign London), UPC Digital, BT (for British Telecommunications), Coop Switzerland (for Coop Schweiz), eircom, Lambeth Council, Tesco (2002), PPP Healthcare, ThyssenKrup (Dalton Maag sold his soul to these notorious arms dealers; TK Type is the name of the house font), Co Headline (2006), Co Text (2006, now a commercial font), Telewest Broadband, Toyota Text and Display (2008), TUIType, HPSans (for Hewlett-Packard, 1997). His custom Vodafone family (sans) (2005) is based on InterFace. In 2011, Dalton Maag created Nokia Pure for Nokia's identity and cellphones, to replace Erik Spiekermann's Nokia Sans (2002). The Nokia Pure typeface has rounder letters, and is simultaneously more legible and more rhythmic. In 2010, the Dalton Maag team consisted of Bruno Maag and David Marshall as managing and operations directors, and Vincent Connare as production manager. The type designers are Amélie Bonet, Ron Carpenter, Fabio Haag, Lukas Paltram and Malcolm Wooden. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Damián Bonomo | Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Vertical Control (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Damian Kidd (UK) created the optical effect font Nucleus (2011). Each letter is created from 360 seperate spikes that all link to the centre. Printing at different sizes causes distortion so that the type face always seems different. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free face TIFAX (1999): This font was originally generated by the Texas Instruments TIFAX teletext decoder as used in the very first teletext TV sets. The character generator ROM was the 74S262 chip, which was also used for the Research Machines 380Z microcomputer. As Fugitiveglue at FontStruct, he made Allemande (2010), and Havre (2009, gridded), as well as the more experimental Luggage Lifter (2010), Root Canal (2010), Unexamined Zipper (2009) and Gawe (2010). Routeo (2010) is art nouveau, and Ampul (2010) simulates Arabic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He designed La Avería en El Ordenador (2011, OFL), an average of all 725 fonts on his computer. The fontfamily was split into Avería, Avería Sans and Avería Serif. Now, this may seem like a simple thing, but it is not! He took almost a year to complete this task, giving it a lot of thought. In the process, he created Font Path Viewer, a free web app for viewing the font outlines (with control points) of all fonts on one's system. He did the following clever thing: each font contour was split into 500 equal pieces (a serious exercise for Bezier fanatics), numbered from 1 to 500, and all 500 positions were averaged (over the fonts on his system) to obtain Avería. Interpolations between fonts have been attempted before (see Superpolator, or Font Remix), but to have it automated in this way is quite another achievement. More images of Avería: i, ii, iii. Averia Serif Libre (2012) exists in six styles, and there are also the Averia Libre, Averia Sans Libre and Averia Gruesa Libre families. These are available from Google Web Fonts. So, here is my small request for Dan: build an on-line tool, based on the Bezier outline cutting principle you pioneered, for interpolating between two typefaces. The user would submit two fonts, and the interpolation would be shown on the screen after a couple of seconds. I am sure you can do it! Abstract Fonts link. Google Plus link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dandm3
| Dandm3 is the design place of Deirdre Idema (Irish born) and Maarten Idema. Maarten was a student at the KABK in Den Haag from 2003-2004. He designed Pam (2004), a typefaces specifically crafted for street maps, as well as the experimental face Before. Unclear if Maarten is Dutch, Irish or Kiwi. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German graphic designer who has his own studio. He created the (free) experimental font family Drebiek (2008) around the theme of the triangle, the morbidly obese Diet-Fat (2008), Cartoons Abstract (2009), the monoline Cinga (2009), the experimental Boss M (2009), the art deco stencil face Trage Keinen Namen (2008) and the simple handwriting face Berger&Berger Caps (2009). One can also download a font tool called Typometer. At Dafont, he calls himself Dundeee. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentian designer, b. 1986. Creato the experimental slab face Improvisation (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artistic director in Madrid. Creator of the experimental skeletal bone font Palabras Muertas (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer and art director in Daasdorf, Germany, b. 1983. In 2009, he created the geometric experimental face Bauklötze. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Photographer in Chenhassen, MN, who made a pixel typeface in 2012. Personal web site. Trailhead (2012) is a pseudofont made from sticks and ropes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Southampton Solent University, who lives in Portsmouth, UK. He created the experimental typeface Tube (2012) based on parts of the London subway system map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic designer in Los Angeles. Behance link. She got a BFA in Graphic Design from California State University of Long Beach (2012). | |
Brazilian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of Actiontypes (2011), an experimental metallic linkage face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Chicago, IL. Home page. Creator of the Western face in the Italian style, called Umidità 1832 (2009), about which Darren writes: This re-interpretation of an 1832 wood cut by Caslon was created for the Spring 2009 edition of the literary-arts journal Ninth Letter. With Will Miller, he created the structural experimental typeface Skky (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Icelandic graphic designer. In 2008, during a course called Holy Geometry at the Academy of the Arts in Iceland, he created the geometric modular typeface Rotunda. In 2009, he made the sans headline face Vesuvio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and designer. Creator of JPO (2012), a squarish typeface named after the event it was created for, les Journées Portes Ouvertes des Gobelins. He also made Irregular (2012, a paper cutout face), History (2012), an experimental typeface that uses various layers of overlays. Tribu (2012) is hand-drawn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of some experimental fonts (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based graphic designer who created Concept (2012), an extreme contrast headline or poster face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic experimenter in London who made Street View Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dave Wood | Creator of the paperclip alphabet Bulldog Clip (2008), which is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Washington, DC-based graphic designer. He created some experimental custom fonts such as Cuez (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Brady (The Creative Rebellion, London, UK) is an advertising designer. He created the experimental face Nokia (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joppa, MD-based digital imaging specialist, who created the experimental typeface Stenco (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Schleife (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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David Earls explains the do's and don'ts for type on TV, a medium he has worked with for some time. Summarized here, he says:
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Norwegian graphic designer who made the counterless experimental Point Blob Font (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georgian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the Kandinsky or Mondiaan-inspired face Perittography (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2009, he added Hexastruct, Curvy, Genero (fat face), Plagiacotti (Western saloon font, based on Manicotti, 2007, by David Jonathan Ross), Rasterman (+Bold) (gray effect fonts), Krummbein, Cohen, Mister N (handwriting), Monobono (shadow face), Letter Case, Mikado (3d-stroke font), Boulder (ultra-fat), Night Shift (semi-stencil), Tuvalua, Ripper (fat, counterless), Poff, Blackstruct (blackletter), Borders and Borders2 (outlines of countries). Typefaces from 2010: Squeeze, Puncture (dot matrix outlined), Yobbo (condensed, counterless). Typefaces from 2012: Thunderdome. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Soto (DS Designs, Forest Hills, NY, b. 1986) created Box Bend DS (2009, octagonal face) and Square Nic (2009), an experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer who created the fancy geometric face Rocko (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
dayflash
| Christian Lang (b. 1982) is a designer from Graz in Austria. He studied Information Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz. Home page. In 2010, he went commercial at MyFonts as dayflash. His first faces there were Signque (2010, a monoline geometric sans that uses only lines and pieces of circles), Rotundus, Rotundus Rounded (2010) and Pandtos (2010, elliptical). Behance link. Christianlang.at link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Debra Adams | Author of "abcdefg" [a better constraint driven environment for font generation] (1989 Raster Imaging and Digital Typography conference, pp. 54-70), as employee of Xerox PARC. She describes an experimental system that automates the generation of letters in a font from four master characters (o, h, p and v). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DeeAit
| Mathias Doblhammer (DeeAit) is a graphic designer and illustrator from Vienna, His typefaces include Benchmark (2007), Fashion Victim (2009, hairline avant-garde face), Bowler (2008, rounded and ultra-fat), and Lazy Fox (2009, connected octagonal experiment). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Deliberate Design
| Eric Eaton is a graduate from the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA (1997). He is a design director at Wired Digital in San Francisco, since 1996. He has made some experimental fonts (not downloadable): Bricks Are is a 2001 take on Akzident Grotesque, JAT is a 2000 serif face. Deliberately (2001) is a stencil face, Labyrinth (1999) is the ultimate pixel face, 3 by 3. Popva (1993) is based on a version of a logo for the City of New York (Street Cinema). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made DM/LM (2012: ultra black), dm Subfour (2012, experimentally vertically striped typeface), dm New Humanist (2012), dm Blockd (2012), dm Scythe (2012) and the powerhouse slabs dm Banx10 (2012) and dm Banx 11 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free experimental face Abuela Grillo (2009), and of Denis Handwriting (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Cutout (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plovdiv, Bulgaria-based creator of the experminental typeface Demist (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located both in Venezuela and in Barcelona, this web designer created the ultimate minimalist ultra fat boxy font Black Block Box in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Der Graph
| Thomas Helbig (Der Graph) is a prolific experimental font designer, so much so that I created a separate web page for him. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ragehaus is the web presence of Derek and his wife Kim. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based graphic designer, who has worked in London. Behance link. In 2010, he created the Model T Ford Face (2010), a typeface based on bent frames of glasses. The Porsche sunglasses led to Porsche Carrera Rear Ended (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dialekt Design (was: Robert Beck Design)
| Canadian graphic designer and creative director Bob Beck has been living in the Montreal area since 1995. In 1999, he set up Dialekt Design. His typographic oeuvre is extensive:
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Editorial and graphic designer in Lisbon. During a workshop with Rita Dias at Fbaul, she created a font called Tetris (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Spanish language foundry. Sells Chill Out (organic sans), Newine, Predec (experimental serif placement), Corporation (organic italic sans), Galas (outline headline face), Literal (display), Metropolis (octagonal style), Tecno Funk (grunge), Baldosas (3d cubes, stacked), Klee, Overexpose Bi (grunge), Overexpose Tri (grunge), Air Bag (grunge). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tomar, Portugal-based designer of the angular face Aga (2011), Alpha (2011, sci-fi), Espasmo (2011, futuristic and triangular, in 22 weights: Ten Dollar Fonts), Espasmo Hand (2011, a curvy version), Ladoni (2011, an angular version of Bodoni), the futuristic monoline face Omega (2011), and of the very experimental families Xing Xang Xung (2011) and Que (2011). In 2011, he started a commercial foundry. Typefaces from 2012 include Barceloneta (an alchemic typeface at Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sombor, Serbia-based designer who has created an experimental font in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
dmfstudio
| German studio of Robert Perendi, who designed the free experimental fonts andre-bold, andrefist, andrefistshdw, andre-gestaucht-bold, andre-t-light in 2007. Located in Leipzig. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Youngster from Chisinau, Moldova, b. 1988. Creator of the geometric experimental font Circles New (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Art director in Tarifa, Spain. Behance link. Creator of the experimental face Drops (2010), which can be bought at HypeForType. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dominic Gambetta (Dog Designs, Worcester, UK) created a Circle typeface in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish designer of the optical experimentation font Xuczlam (2000) and of Biasel (2000). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental face Doogle (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer in Toronto. In 2009, she created the experimental geometric typeface Kolo (This typeface design was inspired by tin can pull tabs. Thank you chicken of the sea.), the cool Newmar (Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines.), and the curly display face Gallnut (gallnut---a round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree.). Home page. About Newmar, she writes: Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines. In 2012, Dorothy published the fun alchemic family Gelato (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heidelberg, Germany-based creator of the bespoke geometric experimental face Indyanna (2011) and of Daily Work (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Malaysian-born graphic designer (b. 1983), who works out of Shanghai. Behance link. In 2009, he created the experimental grungy typeface Between Skin for issue No.6 of Territory magazine, in collaboration with Chris Wong [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
They say that DTM stands for Dan Tha man. This site is a spoof of more serious business sites and seems to be located in Krommenie, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the Zipper font in 2010. In 2011, they created Oh My Goth (a gothic face) and Alphabeetje (multiline face). In 2012, the paperclip face Ester was published. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
e-a-t | E-a-t (experiment and typography) is a joint Czech and Slovak enterprise that through publications and exhibitions tries to increase the visibility of Czechoslovak type design. Exhibitions in 2004 include Brno and Prague. In 2005, one is planned in Bratislava. Review by Dan Reynolds. Old dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Originally from Mexico City (b. 1983), Edgar seems to be based in Dubai now. He designed the futuristic face Neutronium (2009). He created the experimental faces Kooler o Normal (2009), Naujoks Love (2009) and Edgarpiramide (2009) and the comic book face Jeronimo Cartoon (2009). Alternate URL. Additional link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Sao Paulo-based designer, b. 1985. Creator of the experimental face Jesus Chorou (2010), the art deco typeface Terecodeco (2012) and the poster face Grossa (2010). Home page. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based graphic designer and prolific type designer who runs Graphic Design Firm. Since 2005, he has been teaching typography together with Marcela Romero and Pablo Cosgaya at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. Behance link. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. His typefaces, haphazardly organized:
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Effek-Tive
| Effektive (Greig Anderson) practices graphic design and communication in the UK. Among its many creations are some experimental typefaces such as Circul8 (2009) and Pixel8 (2009). Behance link. Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, Greig graduated with a BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree in 2004 and previously spent 4 years working withinn the Scottish/UK design industry at multi disciplinary agency Curious (Previously CuriousOranj) based in Glasgow. Greig spent the academic year 2008-2009 in Sydney. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eivind Nilsen | His student project at the Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen, Norway, has two experimental fonts, AKA the Bomber and AKA the Artist, both finished in 2006. See here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spanish typographic experiment mag run by José Gil-Nogués Villén (b. 1971, Valencia) out of Oviedo, Asturias. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental fonts E-Keet Paragon Black, E-Keet Morese Flat, E-Keet Beans, and E-Keet Altaica. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO. In 2012, she created Experimental Tape Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Els Bauwelinck | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental pixel font Metric, and the font Metround. She lives in Temse. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Els Leclercq | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental handwriting font Somethingels, an interesting overlap of thick and thin strokes. She also made Elsans. Els lives in Bornem. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nanking, China-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of some experimental typefaces/posters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French art student who created the electric circuit-themed font Saccade (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator at YouWorkForThem in Minneapolis, MN. Her typefaces, made ca. 2008, include Polygons, Speakeasy (handwriting), and Adelaide (script). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Emma Cameron (Ensign Design, New Zealand) modified a didone typeface by adding triangles to stems in her experimental typeface Pleiade (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based designer who studied at the University of Minnesota in 2008. Home page. Creator of Three Sided Square (2008), a caps font based on a triangularization of the outlines of letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian design student at JCU, Townsville, Australi. She created an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emma Richards (London, UK) is a graphic designer who experimented with two sahpes and created an entire alphabet with it in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and art director. She created some experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Engineering Geometry Systems | Creator of Machine Tool Grenadier (1997), an art deco style experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of an experimental faces Jellymorph (2012) and No IS (2011), which use the Perlin random number generator and trigonometric functions to create glyph outlines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Quique Ollervides Uribe. After studying graphic design at the Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City, Quique joined forces with Cha! and founded Hula+Hula, a design studio strongly influenced by uninhibited use of color, humor, odd typography and lots of hand drawn elements. They have worked for MTV Latin America, Cartoon Network, KidRobot, Nike, Frito-Lay, L'Oreal, Televisa and various major record labels. His work has been shown and published in galleries and books from Mexico to Japan, and some of his fonts F76F73 are distributed by T26. In 2006 he co-founded KONG, Mexico's first low-brow art and design store and gallery. He taught typography at the Universidad Intercontinental during the years 1997-2006 and at CENTRO in 2006. Designer at T-26 of Polvora (2007, T-26, a cross between old typewriter, Western, and Spanish inquisition), LED Gothic (2003, T-26) [see also here]. Designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Los fierros and Luchita Payol (2000-2009; +LaRuda, + Tecnica). Picture. He runs the Hula Hula foundry, where he published Khaki (a clean sans face). He also made the fluid Fabio, Gú, the handwritten Ingenua, the hand dingbat face Mutis, Polilla, Suave, Tabique, Taka San, Urbe, the experimental face HH Pólvora (2006), the hookish Acerina and the blocky Bloke, shown at Tiypo. Enrique spoke at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. T-26 link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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From the University of Delaware, Eric Stafford designed a broken experimental typeface and Mushu (a flowing script face), both in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at the Futurex Project of Futurex Phat (2000). Working on Egyptoid and the gorgeous experimental font Ascii. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Timisoara, Romania-based graphic designer. Behance link. He made the high-contrast display face Bloob (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Detroit, MI-based designer of the experimental multilayered typeface Lightyear (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the experimental face Fabianestem (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estranho Tipo (was: Adreson 74)
| Adreson V.V. de Sa (b. Ilha Solteira, SP, Brazil, 1974, aka Adreson74, or: Capa da Cyberjapa) is the Brazilian designer of the free experimental fonts Quadradinho (2004), Aline II (2007, sans), Garrancho (2001, handwriting), Juliana (2002), Julifesta (2002), Bebete (2007, old typewriter), Rita (2007, fuzzy dots; caps only), and Drek (2002). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Blog. He lives in Porto Alegre. In 2007, he went commercial and started Estranho Tipo (also at MyFonts). His first type family there is the condensed tall sans family Aline II (2007). This was followed by Bebete (2007, old typewriter face). Blog (in Portuguese). Future MyFonts font: Possessa (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Mexican design studio in Monterrey. In 2010, they created an experimental futuristic typeface called Polar. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estudio Mariscal
| Estudio Mariscal is a Barcelona-based design studio that experimented a lot with letters in designs. It created Hannover-Modern in 1996-1997 (for the World Exposition in 2000 in Hannover), available at type-o-tones. The resident type designer is Javier Mariscal. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sicilian studio in Catania. Behance link. The purely expermental face Catania (2011) is meant to be readable no matter in which direction the paper is held. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eurekaville
| Funky Lloyd Wright (2002) is an experimental font based on Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas. Interesting quote by FLW on this page: "Television is bubble gum for the mind". Kristian Walker is Art Director at TaigMartin Advertising&Public Relations, and professor of web design at Southwest Michigan College. His home page is called Eurekaville. Other fonts: Nikolas (2002), Rattled Nerves. No downloads (yet). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
EVCCo
| EVCCo is the foundry of Canadian type designer E Victor-C. He created West Warp (2010), Evcial (2000, monoline geometric avant garde sans) and Chapeau (2010, experimental). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Eve Kuypers | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the hookish experimental font Naeve Groovy. Eve lives in Pulle. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Evi Leuridan | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Roller. Evi lives in Gistel. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Evolutionzone
| Norwegian type designer Marius Watz created the very nice pixel fonts Protozoan square (1996; well, this is really a squarish organic face) and Amoeba_FivePX (1996). He is part of the Norwegian group "Function", together with Halvor Bodin and Kim Hiorthøy. With the latter two, he designed F Shinjuku in 1997 in the experimental FUSE series, based on Tokyo graffiti and inspired by the hip-hop culture. In the same series, he did F Where the Dog is Buried (octagonal, with Norwegian style dingbats), also in FUSE 17 in 1997. I-Ching (1997) is a three-font dingbat series consisting of Classic, Batman and Kogu. Psychoboy (1997) is a scratchy script. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eyesaw (was: Fontomas.com, or Signalgrau)
| Dirk Uhlenbrock's (b. Essen, 1964) typographic experiments are called Signalgrau, or Fontomas.com, or Eyesaw. Old URL. Another old URL. Alternate URL. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. The fonts: Buddies (funny dingbat font), Scrabble (1999), Pizzo (pixel font, 2000), Accient (2000), EURASIAOblique, Freak (1998), SpaceAge, Fivejive (2000), Missu (2001), T-Series (a family by Stephen Payne (UK, 2000) for Territory), XXX (1998, sexy silhouettes), Y2k (2000), Basm (family by Miguel Basm Visser, 2000), Corner-bi and Corner-mono (both by Ole Fischer for Fischer Jr Design), Persona, Creatures (dingbats by Dirk Uhlenbrock, 1998), Thaipe, Thaiga, (squaregrid (Jay Marley, 2001), Bath (Heiko Hoos, 2001), Honey (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Pinx (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Tuna Salad (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Evo (2002), EvoThin (2002), Gen3000 (2002), Gen3000Thin (2002), HanneloreOutline (2001), Hannelore (2001), MassBlack (2002), MassOutline (2002), Mass (2002), MassStriped (2002), MassThin (2002), Microbe (2002), PellegriniItalic (2002), Pellegrini (2002), PileOutline (2002), Pile (2002), Rickshaw (2002, Indic letter simulation), Swisz (2002), SwiszThin (2002), TurbonItalic (2002), Turbon (2002), Apollo9, Apollo9Italic, Bite, Blob, BlobThin, Bubble, BubbleWild, Crack, Creatures, Dennis, Dioptrin, Dna, Electrance, Frakt, Launchpad, ORAV, Paul5, Paul6, PlakatOne, PlakatTwo, Push, Rubbermaid, RubbermaidSingle, Ticker, Tubeone, Tubetwo, Tvdinner, TvdinnerFull, Ufo, UfoItalic, Yodle. At Fountain, he designed Robotron and Super and Girl (2003, a Bauhaus experiment). The Fontomas CD published in 2005 (40 dollars for 75 fonts) is reviewed by Yves Peters. On it, we find older fonts as well as newer ones by Dirk himself: Ove, Gen1000 (DNA style), Hannelore, Mass, Micro B, Pellegrini (script), Pile, Swisz, Turbon, Rickshow (Indic simulation). Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Digital artist in Heerlen, The Netherlands, who created Back To Black (2011, experimental face), Hello Type (2011, sans headline face), Just Meet Me Halfway (2009), an experimental font made for two-coloring, and Eclectic (2011, a free octagonal face). At OFL, he makes 01 Base (2010, sans) available. Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer who graduated in 2011 with a DSAA from ESDRA in Lyon. Creator of Potemkin (constructivist face), Fractions (experimental), Sex Type (fun), Frogs, Glossy Bitch (connected paint simulation face), Western Spaghetto and Face Cachée. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabio Lopez | Rio-based designer of the text face Colonia (1999-2004), and of the experimental face Ryad. Graphic designer. Co-founder of the group Fontes Carambola. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fabrika de typos
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Commercial faces: Circus de Terror, Rapariga (curly), Indiana, Hard Core, Iemanjai, Disorder, Joy, Deusdeti, Deux ex Machina, Comunista, Destroyer, Off Set, Pleasures Poesie Noire, Helena, Base, Clean, Casulo, Serial killer. Creations in 2012: Big Pig, Suicidal Tendencies. Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Face 2 Face (or: F2F)
| Polish designer Alexander Branczyk, b. 1959, (Frankfurt, Germany) is the main typographer at F2F (Face 2 Face), which is based in Berlin and Frankfurt. Other participants include Stefan Hausen, Alessio Leonardi, Torsti Maier-Bautor, Thomas Nagel, Haike Dehl and Sybille Schlaich. F2F specializes in what it calls anarchistic typography. Branczyk made F2F CzykagoTrans (1995) and a few other experimental fonts, as well as Bellczyk, CZYKago-Cameo, CZYKago-Quer, OCR-Alexczyk, OCR-Bczyk, SubberlogoMini, TheczykM, MadzineScript, BurnoutChaos, Frontpage, MonakoStoned, Entebbe, OCRFBeta and OCRHeike. Other designers: Thomas Nagel (ScreenScream, Shakkarakk, ElDeeCons, Madame Butterfly, Pixmix, Shpeetz, TyrellCorp), Heike Nehl (LoveGrid, Starter Kid, Lego Stoned, Twins), Alessio Leonardi (PrototipaMultipla, TagliatelleSugo, Mekanik Amente, Metamorfosi, provinciali, AlRetto, F2F TechLand, F2FAlLineato, F2FMekkasoTomanik, F2FSimbolico (1992, dingbats), Poison Flowers (1992)), Stefan Hauser (F2FBoneR, Haakonsen), Sybille Schlaich (Styletti Medium). Face2Face groups the designers of Moniteurs and xplicit ffm. Bitstream link. Alternate URL. In 2003, these designs by Alexander Branczyk appeared in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: F2FBurnoutChaos LT Std, F2FCzykago LT Std Light, F2FCzykago LT Std Semiserif, F2FCzykago LT Std Trans, F2FEntebbe LT Std, F2FFrontpageFour LT Std, F2FMadZine LT Std Dirt, F2FMadZine LT Std Fear, F2FMadZine LT Std Script, F2FMadZine LT Std Wip (1992), F2FMonakoStoned LT Std, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Regular, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Shake, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Bold, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Regular, F2FTechLand LT Std. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Fake I.D.
| From their web page: "Fake I.D. is Joshua Trees and Yvan Martinez. To the disappointment of many, our design studio doesn't make phony documents. But we do make a living providing art direction and design for print and web." Joshua Trees teaches experimental typography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Fake I.D. published Ghetto Nuovo, Ghetto Vecchio and Ghetto Novissimo, which were developed in conjunction with SUGO magazine and the Venice Biennial of Visual Arts: these are free Hebrew and Latin fonts complete with numerals, punctuation, accented characters, signs and symbols. In all, 225 characters. Ghetto's naming convention refers to 16th-century Venice, Italy, home of the world's first legally separate neighborhood for Jews and its three historic areas of settlement. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Family Font Mart
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Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Famished.org
| John Baichtal (Famished.org) is the designer (b. 1971) of the art deco face Cronus (2002), Globe (a pixel font), Addled, Creamed Corn, 121, Boa Hamata, One Twenty One, November 14th, Peanut, Pinnacle (a deformed font), Plateau, Quigley, Skinny, Stogie, the kitchen tile face Abacus (2002), Equanimity Stencil (2002), Ripsaw (a Tuscan display font, 2002), Girder (2002), Equanimity Linked (2002), Faxt (2002, pixel font), Purvey Grecian (2002), Gold (2002, sans serif), Mullet (2002), Eidolon (2002), Sloth, Tourmaline (a great art deco face with many gorgeous ligatures), Transaction, Octuple, Mullet (2002, sans), Hellios (2002, a bitmap stencil font with spikes), Nairoby (2002, experimental), Tray (2002), and Dactylic (2003, octagonal). Some free Mac fonts are supposed to be here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fancy Graphic
| Keita Soejima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Squash, SPORTS WEAR, Portable, Cheese, Mog (2000), Plamoframe, Scooter E, Scooter J, Sportswear Sweat E, Sportswear Sweat J. Many fonts have katakana and romaji versions. Home page. Newest additions: Cartridge E, Edit E, Sponge E, Basic E, Portable E, Squash E. Mac fonts by Keita Soejima and Yo-Yo: two free Roman fonts (French Curve, Marking Marker), one Thai font (Taikana) and an experimental hiragana font (Koike) at this site run by Keita Soejima. Page at DEX Image. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French graphic and type designer in Paris. Between 1997 and 2007, she created these fonts (no downloads or sales though): Simplette (sans), Anthrite (experimental), Futurenner, Machine, Insitu, Annabelle (connected upright script), Régule, Singe, Serafine, Chantilly (VAG Round style), Remix 1, Remix 2, Elico (octagonal, mechanical), Fracture, Poule (dot matrix), Texto (experimental, dot matrix). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fatchair
| Fatchair is Alan Rimmer's company in Chessington, Surrey, UK. MyFonts catalog. He has made corporate type such as Kingston Gill Sans (for Kingston University), and Contact. Other type families: Vasarely Light (2002), Deep Fried (1996), Drug (1998), Illuminati (2000, monospaced, sans serif), Informatic (2002, 20-style sans family), Mizar Grotesk (2002), San Jaime (2002), WSK (2002, a modern family). Free font: Ozone Inline (dot matrix font, 2002). Agfa/Monotype sells Boeotian (2004), DeepFried (2005, 28 members in this multiline typographical experiment), Drug (2004, eroded face), Friday (2004), Illuminati (2004), Informatic (2004, 20-weight sans family), Mizar Grotesk (2004, 10 weights), Procyon (2004), San Jaime (2004), Stranski (2004), Venkmann (2004) and WSK (2004, a 4-weight serif). |
London-based graphic designer who created Nailed (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rio-based Brazilian designer (b. 1977) of the ultra-geometric experimental typefaces Memoria (2000), done for Power Systems Research, and Archimedes (2002), done for DBA Engenharia de Sistemas. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of these experimental typefaces: Block&Middle Line (2011), Regulus Cubiculus (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Berlin who designed an experimental typeface in 2011. In 2012, he created Hülpman (an informal typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FELTRON
| New York-based Nicholas Felton's fonts at FELTRON: the pixel fonts Remove (OpenType), Foss (caps inspired by Icelandic writing), Whip, Amtrix S (pixel type), Megabit, Sibilance, Amtrix 4, Amtrix 5, Amtrix 6. He also made the experimental geometric face Shipflat (2004, T-26), which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Strasbourg, France. Behance link. Together with Anaîs Lecomte-Boinet, he took aerial pictures of the Roseraie garden behind La Maison romane in Épinal, and then developed a geometric display typeface from it, called RoseTyler (2012). That font was then used to decoarte walls of buildings, both indoors and outdors. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Carmelo, Colonia, Uruguay in 1983, and presently based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studies Visual Communication at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design, this graphic designer created the counterless geometric face Circ (2011), and the triangulated experimental face VIGA (2011). Fermin has a Bachelors degree in Industrial Design (2009). At his foundry, also called Fermin Guerrero, one can buy VIGA and MANIFESTA (2012, a De Stijl typeface). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Fernando Forero Foundry
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Talented Brazilian illustrator. Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental face Yezza (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fictilia
| Batel, Curitiba, Brazil-based foundry of Anderson Maschio (b. 1980, Curitiba). Creator of the ultra-fat decorative face Chumbitos (2007, a winner in the experimental type category at Tipos Latinos 2008), available from MyFonts (this was followed by Chumbit02). He also made the experimental type family consisting of Anark Diet Stencil, Anark Fat Stencil, and Anark Natural Stencil (2007). Creator of Magricela (2009, octagonal). He is working on Austera (2007, a basic sans) and Phyta (2007, an experimental face with stretched out connected letters). Check also his gorgeous art work based on Chumbitos. Alternate URL. Scans of their types: I, II, III, IV. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Figure Studio
| Figure Studio is the showcase of designer Jeremy Hally in Quebec. He made some experimental typefaces in 2010. Typojungle link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer and digital artist in Porto, Portugal. He made a nice typographic poster entitled Free Tibet (2010), and designed a number of experimental typefaces in 2010. In 2011, he made Souca (multilined), Ayuthaya (blackletter), Gourmet (art deco), Graphic Monkeys (bilined), a curly face and an ornamental caps face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Filiz Sahin (2012) is an American interactive designer, originally from Istanbul. Her work includes Knit Type (2012, a free stitching font), Stitching Font (2012), Drop Type (2012, a free EPS format ornamental caps face), Spider Type (2012, a modified Helvetica Bold), and a hand-drawn all ornamental caps face (2009). Muscle Type (2012) is a free EPS-format font inspired by bundles of muscles. Sablon (2012) is an organic all-caps type family. Hair Type (2012) consists of strands of hair. Dooooodle Type (2012) are doodled ornamental caps. El Yazi (2012) is a 2d and 3d school script font on EPS format. Cosmo Path (2012) is a free spaceship-inspired EPS vector font. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental face NEZ-1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made the experimental faces Crossings and Clab in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flat-It
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MyFonts link. Fontsquirrel link for their free fonts such as Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Boycott, Gesso, and Pusab. YWFT link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Dafont link. View Ryoichi Tsunekawa's typefaces. Kernest link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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His free fonts at Floodfonts include Floodicons (2003), Hydrophilia (2003. He writes: Hydrophilia family was created in 2003 by Felix Braden as a further development of Moby and comes with two fonts: The gothic typeface (liquid) is a revised version of the pixel font (iced). Hydrophilia liquid got a lot of letterforms with a diagonal axis, which reminded me of the technical fonts used on early liquid crystal displays.), Squid (2002, free), SquidCaps (2002), Ninetwist (2002), Catherine (2002), Moby (2002), Babelfish (2002), Blendfontsexperiment (2001), Incpot (1997), Hammerhead (2001), HammerheadBlack (2001), HammerheadBold (2001), HammerheadMedium (2001), Multikultur (1997, Fraktur font), MultikulturExtraBold (2001), Orchidee (2001), Sadness (2001), Wuestling (1997). Peter Hoffmann designed Alita (2001) and Lacuna (2001). Commercial fonts at Fountain: Grimoire, Sadness. In 2004, he cofounded Timetwist with Pia Kolle, where you can download Rabbits (2004, Kolle), Pirates Stoertebecker (2004, Braden at Floodfonts, a ransom note face), Pirates Drake (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBlackbeard (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBonney (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), Bigfish (2009, a Western billboard face). At Ductype, Braden published Timetwisteight (2005, a pixel face). At URW++, he published the Supernormale family (part techno, part pixel) in 2006. At Volcano, he made the rounded display face Bikini (2010). At Fountain, he published the geometric monoline sans face Capri Pro (2011, related to both Futura and Avant Garde). At FontShop, he published FF Scuba (2012), as an offline companion to Verdana. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontsquirrel link. Personal page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Sopron, Hungary. She made the modular experimental face Pixels (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Flyer's Feeling
| Izumi Najamura is the Japanese designer of these free fonts: FF_FamilyCockpit (2006, blocky), FF_Himekazura-H (2006, blocky hiragana), FF_Himekazura-K (2006, blocky katagana), FF_LogicBox, FF_PetitBiscuit1.9, FF_SingaSong, FF_Suzuki-Al, FF_Suzuki-K. Mostly, these fonts are experimental and incomplete. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A collective of mostly Swiss type designers who showcase their designs. The designers are Aimée Hoving, Franz Hoffman, Jacques Borel, Harry Bloch, Matthias Gehri, Sylvain Aerni, Jacques Dousse, Thomas Eberwein, Juerg Lehni, Fabian Monod, Émilie Renault, Jérôme Rigaud and Pierre Terrier. No downloads yet. The list of fonts: Jawut (2002, Franz Hoffman, Juerg Lehni, Jérôme Rigaud, Pierre Terrier): a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut / Puzzle (Fabian Monod) / Troyd (Sylvain Aerni) / Encoda MM (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Encoda Anfang (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Absinthia (Sylvain Aerni) / Punebot (Sylvain Aerni) / Alchemia (Sylvain Aerni) / Basicrounded (Sylvain Aerni) / Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (Sylvain Aerni): a dirty look font / Crux (Jacques Dousse): a gothic bitmap font / Frankental (Jacques Dousse): a dot matrix font / Multitool (Jacques Dousse): a dingbat font with firemen's tools / Hexagonipus (Jacques Dousse): a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires / TGV (Jérôme Rigaud) / Lafrui (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected lettering font / Plan De Paris (Jérôme Rigaud): lettering from an old plan of Paris / ScriptedPix (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected screen font / Rhizompix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / Pix2x (Jérôme Rigaud): an experimental screen font / Condpix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / handled_Matrix (Jérôme Rigaud): a dirty screen font / Soul&Funk (2002, Jérôme Rigaud) / Russian (2002, Jérôme Rigaud): a cyrillic simulation font / mtrxs (Sylvain Aerni and Jérôme Rigaud): a dot matrix font / wellKrau (Pierre Terrier and Jérôme Rigaud): an irregularly tiled font / Minaco (Thomas Eberwein): a screen font family / Tilt (Thomas Eberwein): a dot matrix font. Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Soup
| This foundry's motto is: Font Soup is an independent type foundry that is primarily targeted at helping students and graduates break into the competitive world of being a type designer. Maze (2009) is a free biline stencil font. Font Soup is run by Phil Kiel, who is finishing the final year of his Graphic Arts Degree at Liverpool School of Art&Design. His typefaces include the Logotype family (2009---techno, with a stencil style thrown in), and the poster fonts Quam, P Warning, P Pong, P Fuzzy and P Maze. Behance link. A second Behance link. In 2009, we find Phil Kiel again at Phil Kiel Fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontan2.com
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FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)
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Fontbistro
| Oszkár Boskovitz's Hungarian foundry. Before Fontbistro, he ran Nepfont Digital Foundry. His fonts sold at Fontbistro include Balek, Blabla, Ecsetirás (2001, a brush face based on a face of Zoltán Nagy, 1967), Konwektor (techno), Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972), Pluto (2006), Shrapnel (organic), Syrup (2005, stencil), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Troppauer (2005, unicase), Tubyfex (2005, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontfabric
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FontGroup
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fontgrube | Young German designers showcase their experimental (Mac) fonts. Included are fonts by Max Fiedler, Matthias Rosenkranz, Markus Volquarts, Jacques Pense, Doris Fürst, Alexander Gialouris, Olaf Claussen, Karsten Steens, Peter Pannes, Anna Gross, Marcel Staudt, Hanno Bennert, Josefin Kaiser, Stefanie Fortmann, Axel Peemöller, Katja Wolf, Anke Klasen, Nicole Simon. Direct downloads. Link died. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontmunkások
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Free fonts made in Japan from 2006-2007: FontopoBREEZE, FontopoELEPOP, FontopoFONTOPO, FontopoHATOPOPPO, FontopoNEUTRAL, FontopoNIKUKYU, FontopoORIENTAL, FontopoSOLID, FontopoSUBWAY, FontopoYANWARI. Mostly typographical experiments with incomplete character sets. Some handwriting fonts. Kana and Latin. Other designs: Synapse (2007), Planet to Planet (2007), Retro Paradise (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
fonts.info
| Ralf Hermann is the designer of Agendia (2002), a free experimental Antiqua-Schrift (see also here), and Logotypia (2003, a face for logotype applications). Moderator of the typografie.info type forum (in German). Author of Index Schrift (2003). In 2004, he set up fonts.info to sell his fonts. Schriftgestaltung.de is a web site he runs with Georg Seifert. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Production in 2012: Scrappy-Looking, Contribute Free Version, Basically Serif, I'm Fashionista. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For Home or Office Use
| "For Home or Office Use" is a strange name for a foundry, but that is exactly what it is. The fonts are made by Achim Reichert (Paris) and Wolfgang Breuer (Berlin). Their commercial Mac type 1 fonts include thhe experimental Try family (2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klingspor,- eo, 161Try-Bitter,- eo, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette), Abnehmen (free), A-Teile, A-Teile Neue, 0031aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0031eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, Almatadema-Eins, -Fier, -Vier, 0031aConvertToPath-Italic, 0031bConvertToPath-Italic, 0062aConvertToPath-Italic, 0062bConvertToPath-Italic, 0125aConvertToPath-Italic, 0125bConvertToPath-Italic, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Birthday-Regular, Birthday-Bold, 0034Paper, 0034Paper-Italic, 0034Paper-Oblique, 0057Paper, 0057Paper-Italic, 0057Paper-Oblique, 0075aPaper, 0075aPaper-Italic, 0075bPaper, 0075cPaper, 0075dPaper-Italic, Free 0034-0075dPaper Font, Paper, 0031aPlotter, 0031bPlotter, 0031aPlotter-Bandzug, 0031bPlotter-Bandzug, 0031aPlotter-Twenty, 0031bPlotter-Twenty, 0062aPlotter, 0062bPlotter, 0062aPlotter-Twenty, 0062bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter, 0125bPlotter, 0125aPlotter-Twenty, 0125bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter-Breitband, 05aPlotter, F.T./Brown, F.T. Bold, la bonne heure, -bold, Lini Eins, Lini Drei - eo, Lini-Vier - eo, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi. The fonts by Breuer in this list include the A-Teile family, the Birthday family, and the Plotter family. There is a free type software program called Abnehmen, as well as a number of experimental stroke-based fonts whose stroke thickness can be adjusted with Adobe InDesign, for example. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Formlos (was: Folio)
| Formlos is an independent design bureau, brand consultancy and type foundry, founded in 1999 and located in Hellmonsoedt/Vienna, Austria. David Hubner (b. 1981, Wels, Austria) is the Austrian designer (based in Hellmonsoedt and Malta) of
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Mexican designer, b. 1986, who lives in Hermosillo. He created the scratchy handwriting face Ank (2006), the paperclip face Fragments of Eter (2007), the grungy Ank (2007), the experimental face Quinok (2007), the gothic font Defeqto (2007), the bouncy headline face Nü Creactivo 2008, and the medieval simulation script called The King and Queen font (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Francisco Anguís | Spanish designer who created the free experimental face Legotype in 2008 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Buenos Aires-based graphic designer who dipped his toes in some modular experimental type projects in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Franco Lancio | Italian designer of the experimental typeface Autovelox (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Franco Monti | Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Quadra. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Belgian graphic designer and software specialist who is assiocated with the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium. He designed various experimental types at these workshops. Speaker at the ATypI meetings in 2004 and 2005 in Prague and Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fridayfonts
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In 2010, new fonts were added. Here is a partial list:
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Fuse: Interactive Magazine, experimental fonts. Also available online, the Wired 2.07 article FUSE. List of fonts. List of FUSE fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gabriele Cecere | Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this experimental typeface, called New International. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brazilian graphic designer in Sao Paulo. She created an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free fonts by the Japanese group called Gaia: Teigay, DaiChalk (handwriting), TimeTrek (blocky MICR font), the handwriting Gaiasian (2001), FudenM, Floydian (scratchy, Treefrog style), the hiragana font REO, the display fonts Daipop, Daiblur, DaiheadB, and the geometric experiment Kackin-01. Virtually no punctuation. Unclear who the designers are: Masako Ibayashi, Daisuke Katayama, Masako Tsuda or Naoki Matsui. Site not updated since 2001. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental Almost Sanskrit (2009), Zodiac Nice (2009, astrological symbols), Xilo in Zodiac (2009), Xilo-Cordel-Literature (2009, dingbats), Cordel Circo Mambembe (2010), Inside Issue (2009), Stretched Signature Flex (2009), Action of the time (2009, grunge), the dingbat face Ugly Cars (2010), the grunge face Capitão Galdino (2008), the grunge face Saltpeter-N-Fungus (2010), Texture Road (2010, more grunge), BSB DF 50 (2010, grunge), Fine Serif (2009), and the nice dingbat face Ochent Silibrina (2008). Fonts made in 2010: Sport 4 Ever (dingbats for Olympic Games), 60sPop (multiline face), DotSpot (dot matrix), IRON H METAL (tattoo, gothic), IngaStoneSigns (stone age glyphs), Ode2PasteUp (handprinted), WideSquare (pixelish), ActionoftheTimeNewUL, BSBDF50, Haus-Sweet-Haus, INSIGHT-ISSUE-NEW, Movie Filmstrip, SquareChalk, Action Of The Time New (grunge), CordelValentine (dingbats), IngaStoneSigns (petroglyphs), SustainableAmazon, VeryDamaged (grunge), ParkTechCG (letters as in wired circuits), kidSWritten, Iron H MetallLight, LaceNice (knitted look), Ode2PasteUp, TextureRoad (grunge). Fonts from 2011: Booklet Cordel (sketched), Cordel Encarnado, Nuclear Accident (texture face), Noncircular (techno), Old Press (grunge), Old Typography (grunge). Fonts made in 2012: Comic Gibi, Own Written, Comica BD (comic book shadow font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Garagefonts (was Del Mar, CA, and is now in Sandy Spring, MD) was created in 1993 as a means to distribute the experimental fonts used in Ray Gun magazine (David Carson). The founders were Betsy Kopshina (Del Mar, CA) and Norbert Schulz. Review by Chris Macgregor. Garage Fonts was recently bought by Ralph Smith (PhilsFonts), who is located in Maryland (hence the move). Their main type family today is Freight by Joshua Darden. MyFonts catalog. Catalog of GarageFonts' best selling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Garcia Fonts&Co
| Experimental foundry, est. 1993 in Barcelona by Andreu Balius who lives in Santa Maria de Martorelles near Barcelona. It existed for a few years and evolved into Typerware. Garcia/Typerware offered about 50 fonts, including some very artsy faces, such as Juan Castillo Script (script of an old man; Typerware), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), (Mi mama) Me soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995. The list as of 2007: Afligidos deudos (1996, grunge face by Adi&arave; Gual), Alexis (1997, handwriting face by Alexis Rom), Alfallufat, (1998, fun display family by Saíz), Alquimia (1995, grunge face by Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (1988-1989, pixel face by Andreu Balius), Braille (1999, by "Txarly Brown", a Braille simulation face), Bubbles (1996, dot matrix face by Franco Bonaventura), BuckShot (1994, total grunge by Malcolm Webb), Bunghole (1996, grungy pixel face by Michael G. Kippenhan), Calypso (1997, Txarly Brown), Cartolina (2000, poster stencil face by Jordi Fosch), Cero (2001, sans face by Miguel M. Velacoracho), Dinamo (1993, Andreu Balius), Dr. Zaius (1997, André Nossek), Euroface 80mph ad 100mph (1996, Peter Bilak: a joke typeface that reads more easily as one speeds up on a highway), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius), Floridax (1997, a stunning stencil face by Txarly Brown), Freddie Frog (1996, Malcolm Webb), Funny (2001, caps for kids, by Jordi Fosch), Futuda (1993, grunge by Balius and Perez Casasin), Game (2002, by Miguel M. Velacoracho), Garage (1997, grune by Fabrice Trovato), Garcia Bitmap (1993, Balius), Garcia Bodoni (1995, an experimental Bodoni by Balius and Perez Casasin), Garcia Snack's (1993-1995, snack bar lettering by Balius and Perez Casasin), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994, Helvetica with cheese holes; by Balius and Perez Casasin), Hispana (1996, by José M. Ribagorda), Hokvo (1994, pixel style face by Perez Casasin), Inercia (1996, a rounded sans by Inigo Jerez), Inmaculatta (1997, grunge by Roberto Saenz Maguregui), Jam Jamie (1996, painted letter simulation face by Malcolm Webb), Janson (1997, grunge by Harald Weber), Juan Castillo Script (1995, by Balius and Perez Casasin, based on the handwriting of an old man in Albacete), Joroña (2001, Kafkaesque caps by Jordi Fosch), Kentucky (1997, grune by André Nossek), Loop Ultra (1996, Franco Bonaventura), Loreakop (1995, irregular hand by Txarly Brown), Martí Hand Script (1998, Saíz), Matilde Script (1993-1994, Balius), MCK mono (2005, pixel face by Milos Radosavljevic), Mi Mama Me Soba Script (1994, grunge script by Balius and Perez Casasin), Network (1996, Alex Gifreu), Ninja type (1995, kana-lookalike by Txarly Brown), Ozó Type (1994, an overprinted type by Balius and Perez Casasin), Pantacas (1998, grunge by Nicolas Gallardo), Panxo Pinxo (1996, David Molins), Parkinson (1994, grunge face by Balius and Perez Casasin), Playtext (1993-1996, Balius), Popular (1997, Sergi Ibañez), Proceso Sans (1996, only crosses, by Pablo Cosgaya), Rocky (1997, grunge by Harald Weber), Route 66 (1997, Francesc Vidal), Sablon (2005, a stencil face by Marcus Schreiter), Simple (2001, experimental typeface by Romulo Fernandez), Skupitajo (1998, graffiti letters by Nicolas Gallardo), SoundFiles (1998, totally off-the-wall experimental face by Reto Brunner), Surface (2001, grunge by Jordi Fosch), Temble (1993, Balius), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats by Balius and Perez Casasin), Trash (1996, grunge face by Matthias Rawald), Vertigo (1996, a Kafkaesque face by Txarly Brown), Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997), Vizente Fuster (1995, handwriting by Balius and Perez Casasin based on scripts seen in the Sant Antoni market), Water Knife (1995, a medieval calligraphic script revival by Laudelino L.Q), Weird (1996, an experimental face by Mladen Balog). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Gary Elsinger (Annecy, France) designed the straight-edge techno face Helva (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and brander in Wollongong, Australia. He created the experimental modular blackletter face Roundtura (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British calligrapher. Designer (with the help of Akira Kobayashi) of the OpenType calligraphic script Hamada (2007, Linotype). This typeface has multiple variants for all letters. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese free font maker. Besides some kana fonts, the following Latin fonts are available: GKZ-0701 (pixel), GKZ-BurnBurn (pixel), GKZ-CLB (pixel), GKZ-Frox (party face), GKZ-GAZI, GKZ-KAKU, GKZ-Oriduru (oriental simulation), GKZ-Speedwrite, GKZ-crossjam, GtsAbstract, GtsArcadia, GtsImprovisation, Gtsfrontline, Gtsgazigazi, Gtslandscape, Gtsprogressive, Gtsshiranami, Gtstransition. Most of these are pixel fonts or experimental. Hiragana faces: GKZ-Okome, GKZ-Shiranami, Katakana faces: GKZ-ORIDURUKANA, GKZ-RAIGEKI, GKZ-Radiohour (pixel), GKZ-Sryder. Obsolete URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Henred, Hungary-based graphic designer, who created some experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gen Mori's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Stereotype is an experimental font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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General Dikki | Creator of the free geometric experimental face Porno Junky (2011, Fonts of Chaos). Bond Is Dead (2011) is a free dot matrix face. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Geometrical type designs
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Manfred is always keenly aware of the geometrical nature of objects and things. Sometimes he is seduced by geometry for the sake of geometry. His Archimedean perversions have led him to a number of superb experimental type designs: AbstractConcretLogo, Abstracta-Bold, AbstractaGrid, AeroGapBricks, AeroSans, AntikWaCom, AntiquaInGrid, AntiquaInGridBalloons, ArcheTypoBricks, ArcheTypoBricksInvers, ArchitectsDreams, ArchitectsDreamsDwa, Architypo, ArchitypoOblique, Architypogra, ArchitypograPsychodeliqu, BlaxxOnGrid, BloxxSerifBold, BorisBlackBloxx (used by Brisbane for its branding), BorisBlackBloxxDirty, ConstrxiaBlackInline, GalleriaGeometricaA, GalleriaGeometricaB, GeometricWanderlust, Graphis, GridPix, GridRiding, KleinBricksNegative, KleinsFirstBricksBold, LeArchitect, Logomatique, LogomatiqueBold, LogomatiqueShadow, NautilusOne, NautilusTwo, NeoPanButtons, NeoPanRings, NeoPanSquares, Qbicle1BRKMK, Qbicle1BRKMKinv, RomanArchitectura, SketchiquaA, SketchiquaB, SketchiquaC, SketchiquaD, TechnoMK, ThreeDeeTwoBeta, ThreeDimRightwards, ThreeDimRightwardsRound, Threedimensional, ThreedimensionalRound, TypoTracesOne, Typotraces-Cinque, Typotraces-Four, Typotraces-Three, Typotraces-Zwo, WorkWithGridsStageC, ZigZagOne, ZigZagThree, Geoplays (2005), GeoEyes01 (2006), BauhausFragments (2005), ZigZagTwo, BlackBats (2007). |
George Vinícios | Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hungarian graphic design student studying and living in the UK. He created the themed face Watch My Shoes (2011, experimental). He also made the fat blocky Quadrata series in 2011, with styles called Child, Hippie, Light, Origin, and Scrib. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designed abc, an experimental Roman-Cyrillic font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German foundry, part of Gestalten Designstudio and Die Gestalten Verlag (dgv) in Berlin, a company self-described as follows In 1990, industrial design students Markus Hollmann-Loges, Andreas Peyerl and Robert Klanten began to curate and organise prototype design shows commissioned by the worlds biggest consumer fair in Frankfurt in between attending their lectures and writing their dissertations. Very much aware of the limitations of their field of study, they soon moved to Berlin, where they quickly met key people involved in the local Techno and cultural scenes. With the advent of desktop publishing, they formed a loosely organized graphic design agency called Die Gestalten and started designing flyers and posters for clients such as the groundbreaking club Tresor and the annual Loveparade. Its typefaces, by designer:
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Type blog with occasional type showings, but the names of the bloggers and designers remain a mystery. Types shown here include experimental faces such as NIP (2009) and the blocky L7 (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student in Liverpool, UK. Creator of Bubbleman Type (2012, experimental). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence, Italy-based graphic and print designer who made the experimental LineType (2009), the fat grotesk face Vince Nkarawi (2011), and the ultra-fat Ovalian (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Intersections of circles, and only that, was used to create the outlines of the experimental but mathematically precise typeface Fleurmetry (2011) that was created by Goh Yam Whee (Singapore) in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gorkem Tilic (Ankara, Turkey) created Tie alphabet and Shadow alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seaford, UK-based logo, identity and brand designer. He created the blocky experimental face Prone in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design studio in Glasgow. They made the arc-of-circle face Green Flame Type (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thirstype designer who designed the geometric experimental font family Punch (1998) with Rick Valicenti. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Columbia College in Chicago. He created a circle-based experimental typeface in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tatiana Evreinova writes in 2005: Grigori Evreinov had created a pseudo-graphic typeface called Styled. The goal was to simplify visual perception of the typeface and to strengthen legibility. The Styled typeface includes 26 pseudo-graphic tokens that are very similar to standard typeface and could be perceived relying on previous user experience. Tatiana got a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 2005. The Styled typeface minimized the number of eye movements in a research experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guadalupe Gonzalez | Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Outset. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of eClonius, a modular experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Marilia, Brazil. He created experimental faces such as a counterless ultra fat face and a geometric display face (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France. He created a geometric typeface in three hours in 2012, and the result is not bad on the eye. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guille Vizzari is the Argentinian designer of the gorgeous experimental pixel-script face Beautiful Pixel (2006). He also created the equally gorgeous connected copperplate script face Ragazza Script (2012, Latinotype). | |
This Argentinian designer from Córdoba designed the experimental sans face Elva Sans (2003), as well as the pixel face Cosquin.web (2003-2004) and the techno face Chocolate Display (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Icelandic designer who co-created the experimental display face Skuggasveinn with Siggi Eggertsson in 2005. He also co-designed Grasrot (2005). Old URL. Graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010, where his thesis typeface was Germain. Germain is a sturdy face that has some calligraphic origins (especially of course for its Arabic weight). The Latin appears to be a manly workhorse. Gunnar lives in Reykjavik. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Birmingham, UK. He used road signs to construct his Motorway Madness alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian graphic designer (b. 1972) who lives in Sao Paulo where he runs Rex Design with Marco Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso. Gustavo also teaches typography at Faculdades Senac de Comunicaçao e Arts and is a member of the board of directors of ADG Brasil (Brazils Graphic Designers Association). In 1997, he founded the graphic and digital design company Rex Design with Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso in Sao Paulo. Brief CV at Tipografia Brasilis. Klingspor link. His fonts:
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Graphic designer in Budapest. Creator of the very experimental Iony Display typeface in 2011, described as spacefunk slab. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seoul-based graphic designer. Behance link. His type designs in 2009 include Glasses (letters using frames of glasses), Plamodel, Layer (experimental) and Piece (experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Happycentro
| Happycentro is a creative studio based in Verona, Italy. Members include Federico Galvani, Giuliano Garonzi, Roberto Solieri, Giulio Grigollo, Andrea Manzati, and Federico Padovani. Behance link. They made various experimental types. Federico Galvani and Sebastiano Boni drew the caps face ProtoType by hand. Giulio Grigollo made the avant garde face Architecta (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Happyloverstown
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Happypets is an experimental lab of graphic designers based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Type experiments only. No fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Galant (a curious bubbly experiment), Gescheit Trashed, Error Warning (pixel face), Eckich, Schokolade (severa, almost squarish), Gescheit, Digital Brazil, Regal. In 2009, he added Doppel, Druckloch, Destruct Embroiders and Galant. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greek graphic designer and art diector in Athens. He created the expiremental 3d font Totem (2009) and the square stencil face Nomass Team Font (2009). Nomass site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer, b. 1980, Frankfurt. He runs a design studio in Frankfurt. Ciseaux Matisse (2010) is a counterless handprinted all-caps face which is based on paper cut-outs. Zebramatic (2010) is a striped caps face. In 2010, he made Sevigny (an experimental face based on threads), Speech Bubbles, and the fun poster face Whimsical Musical. Fonts made in 2011 include Cute Letters (curly, handprinted Valentine's Day pair of faces: Hearted and Heartless), Prince Charming, Princess Charming (doodly Valentine's Day face), Conversation Hearts (alphading face), Capital Love (an alphading face with hearts), and Unchain My Heart (Valentine's Day alphading face). Home page. Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London. He created Minty Modular (2012), King Modular (2012) and Current Cut (2012, arc and circle-themed typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Linotype Shapeshifter (1997, 3d geometric shapes) and Linotype Truckz (1997, letters in the forms of tire threads). His name is spelled as Harry Thorwbory on older Linotype sites. But elsewhere we find Harry Giles-Thornbory and Eliot Giles-Thornbory. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese designer of the experimental face Kyokon (1998), and the techno faces Iyopon (2004-2007) and Iyopon Rounded (2004-2007). Other fonts include range (1996), C-Orange (1996), Alastor (1996), Open Mind (1995) and Frutima (1997, a blend of Frutiger and Optima). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
University student in High Wycombe, UK, who created the experimental typeface Tube (2011) based on parts of the London subway system map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Bethoncourt and Montbéliard, France, who created the free art deco sans face Magna (2012), as well as a free and purely geometric typeface, ORI (2011), specifically for use in the design of logos.. Behance link. Aka Moinzek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1980) who lives in Cannes. Creator of Vincente (a sans designed for Caplo Saint Vincent Clinic in Besançon, France), Diamond (2004, with Lars Harmsen and Boris Kahl, for Volcano Type), Xylopohone (experimental), Magny Cours [or Magnicourt, 2005), Typonautique (2008, with Ninja Himbert, for a watersports domain), Abrupte and Rollmops (experimental). Klingspor link. Link to Studio Roussier in Cannes. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Henrik Fjeldberg | Norwegian designer of the grunge face Identity (2006), shown here. That font mixes Helvetica, Times, Comic Sans and Arial. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of UNI-BH in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Behance link. He creted the experimental symbolic SOE BOAT font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian graphic designer, typographer and type designer, and a professor at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) and at the Institute for Graphic Arts of the Plantin-Genootschap, also in Antwerp. He designed three experimental fonts and many book covers and posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Herr Hemker
| Jörg Hemker is an ex-student at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, where he designed the large FF Zwo sans serif family (2002, with Henning Krause). He worked as type designer and designer at Hesse Designstudios, and was art director at Claus Koch Corporate Communications. He has created a corporate image typeface for Bosch. In 2005, he set up Herr Hemker. He is working on Grotesk, a sans family proposed by Bauersche Giesserei in 1953, and Ikarus, a sans in the renaissance antiqua style. In 2011, he created FF Sero, a humanist sans family. He lives and works in Hamburg, where he is mainly involved in corporate identity and corporate type. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German company in Erkrath, which created two experimental typefaces, Virus (1991) and Pahlwood (1992, destructionist). Run by Christine Hesse (b. 1957, Innsbruck--since 1988 Managing Director/owner of Hesse Design. Since 1993 Lecturer in design management at the Düsseldorf FH) and Klaus Hesse (b. 1954, Elberfeld---since 1988, designer and joint owner of Hesse Design. Chair of communication design in Dortmund and Essen, 1993-1999. Currently chair of applied art at the University for Art and Design in Offenbach/Main). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tokyo-based graphic designer. He created the experimental typefaces HM02 (2011--a free 3d face), Spokeroom (2010, geometric and counterless), and Yellow Cream (2010, fat bubblegum face). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hiekka Graphics
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Designer of the experimental face Abstract Abomination (2005). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental typeface Hello Old Boy (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStruct artist who made the experimental fonts Missie, Manie and Right Tryangle in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hiroaki Nagai | Japanese designer. Nagai and Daisuke Yajima won an award at TDC55 for an experimental typeface called Utsuba Moon Avant Garde (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
HiType (was: DMTR.ORG)
| Dimitre Lima is a Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. 1979) who created a few faces in his Fluid Typeface Project in 2005. In 2005, Dimitre Lima set up DMTR.ORG and started selling his fonts at MyFonts. These include O AFerrugem (unicase, techno), Opus (2005, a computer-look modular sans), Gatu (2005, futuristic semicircle face), Clave de Fá (2006, experimental), O Geena (2007, straight-lined outlines), Arame (2006, an octagonal family including a stencil version), Velocipede (2009) and O Decomputer (techno sans). In 2010, he started HiType [initial catalog]. Typefaces from 2012 include Geena Mono (a techno or programming monospaced font). |
Stuttgart-based designer created Chidoni, a marriage of Chicago and Bodoni, for the collection of experimental fonts at FUSE95. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Organ (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Holland Fonts
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His early typefaces: ExtendedMaxMixOne (1991), Rosetta, Jacque (1991, FontFont), Fudoni (1991), the experimental font Linear Konstruct (FUSE 2). He wrote a coffeetable book on typography in the streets of Paris, but no book store in Paris seems to have it, and I have looked! He is editor of Tribe. In 2002, he started Holland Fonts. His fonts there: Bebedot Blonde (2002), Bebedot Black, Bfrika (2002, an interesting African lettering font), Cattlebrand (2002), Chip 96 (2002), Chip 02 (2002), Circuit Closed (2002), Circuit Open, Interlace Single (2002), Interlace Double, Mundenge Rock (2002), Nevermind (2003, a cut-out style reminiscent of Saul Bass's movie titling types), Pacific Sans (2003), Pacific Serif (2003), Pacific Standard L, Pacific Standard B, Pacific Classic L (2002, artsy, stylish), Pacific Classic B, Quickstep Regular (2002, an angular font), Quickstep Bold, Quickstep Sans R, Quickstep Sans B, Submarine (2003, an octagonal font family), Traveller Regular (2002), Traveller Bold, Tribe Mono (2003, a tech font), Zwartvet (2002, a Van Doesburg/ De Stijl type font). Four free ransom note fonts made in 2003: Dutch Doubles, Frisco Remix, We Love Your Font, MaxMix One. At Union Fonts, he (re-)published Bebedot, BFRIKA, Cattlebrand, Chip01, Chip02, Pacific, Quickstep, Submarine and Traveller in 2003, and Mata Hari (Indic simulation face in weights called Exotique, Hollandaise and Parisienne) and Xbats (2004, Christmas dingbats) in 2004. Speaker at ATypI 2004 in Prague. FontShop link. Klingspor link. His bestselling fonts at MyFonts. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Honey and Death
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UK-based type designer from Campia Turzii near Cluj, Romania. At his foundry, he published the minimalist geometric experimental face Creion (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
House of Burvo
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View Hubert Jocham's typefaces. Another view. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Lisbon. He made experimental faces such as Gefaltet (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hula Hula
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I Shot The Serif
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Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Sguidford and/or Cranleigh, UK-based creator of the cryptic typeface Kruptos (2012). Shapabet (2012) is an alphabet composed entirely of simple geometric shapes. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Great Japanese design magazine, possibly the best design mag out there today, often featuring articles on typography. It published Typography Today, a book edited by Helmut Schmid that introduces selections from 88 designers. It traces the course of modern typography from Lissitzky, Tschichold, Zwart, Emil Ruder, Karl Gerstner, Herb Lubalin, to Wolfgang Weingart, Wim Crouwel and Kohei Sugiura. The new edition includes art by Neville Brody, April Greiman and Ahn Sang-Soo. See also IDEA NO. 305: Type Design Today (2004), which has articles by
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Creator of MadPacman Font (2008) and Shadow Construct (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
iGraphicz-Fonts
| Free and commercial fonts by Ilse Siengalewicz from Kitzbühel, Austria: 2daysinVienna, Arco, BabyBird4, Bucco, CoPunto3b, H.Fielding, Incognito, Kappa, SnowFont, The-Crash, Tosay, ArtofNoise, aSena [a beautiful free handwriting font, 2001], AskYourself, Carneval, Crollo, CrossOver, Dicko, Draht, Fly2, Font03, Fractal [free!], FullMoon, Gap, GenFood, Giovedi [free!], GoodMorning, Font, Justgetit [free!], KnowHim, Laxx, LittleFont, Lonesome, Lo!, Nobodyneeds, Oftwundereichmich, Outofcontrol, PaperCut, Patago, PinkMarker, Points, RugDug, ShortDay, SnowFont [free!], SoFar, Stopit!, ThreeLines, TwoBoxes, Xmas special, Y2K. 5 or 10 USD per font. Some absolutely magnificent faces here, such as FullMoon, StopIt, and ArtOfNoise, all mostly based on experimental handwriting. Warning: tons of pop-ups and jack-in-the-boxes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator and designer from Niort, France. Behance link. Another Behance link. Creator of the experimental faces Pen (2011) and Conceptualisation (2008), and of David's Font (2011). Zfont (2011) is an experimental excess done in a moment of mental weakness. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1985 in South Korea, In Cheol Hwang is a product and industrial designer in Busan, South Korea. Creator of Pop-Up (2010), an experimental face. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of the half-image caps face Boy Alphabet (2010) for Vman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tartu, Estonia-based designer of the experimental face Submarine (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the experimental typefaces Funke and Runic in 2010. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Inquietto
| Oscar Marchal (Inquietto; b. 1977) is an art director and creative director in Barcelona, who specializes in motion graphics, animation, 3D graphics, illustration, graphic design, cinema, TV graphics and multimedia applications. He has made some experimental typefaces: Pena (2009), Buga (2009), Sticky (2008), Rec (2008). Extravaganzza (2008) is a free sans face that can be found here. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer and typographer in Bucharest, Romania. Her typefaces include Deco Interrupted (2009, stencil) and Overlaping 80s (2009) (sic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ipsum Planet
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Graphic design student at ArtEZ school in Arnhem, Netherlands, who is originally from Moscow. She created the italic face Arnhemse jochies (2010) and the experimental typeface Breadclip (2012). Behance link. Old Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor, aka Aerolynx, who made the experimental face Spongeia (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Guadalajara, Mexico. Textures inspired him to create the geometric textured typeface FN Tekture (2010), FN RE EVO (2011), and the spurred military typeface Nacion Gothic (2012). Monotypo (2012) is a hairline fashion mag sans typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Pau, France. He made Grafeo (2011, experimental) and Caseo (2011, also experimental). Behance link. Other creations include Rodeo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
JAB Font Foundry
| JAB is Joseph Anthony Bartolo's foundry, located in Tarxien, Malta. MyFonts sells the hieroglyph-inspired ransom note font Hieroglyphs Nefertiti Akhenaten (2006) as well as Hebrewish (2007), a faux Hebrew face. Megre (2010) is an exercise in unusual placements of serifs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer and illustrator who graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2009, and who still lives in Cambridge, UK. He created several experimental typefaces in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type professor (b. 1938) who designed some experimental fonts such as Delorme (1989). Jacques André has been working in the field of structured documents and digital typography since 1980. He was the leader of the European Didot Project concerned with the digitization of types. He is Research Director at INRIA (the French National Institute on Computer Science) in Rennes, and his work covers the digitization of ancient books and the encoding of their fonts and glyphes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer of the experimental alphabet Deception (2012). He also made the bespoke heavy slab face Unique (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jakob Jugovic | Slovenian designer of the experimental face Aanima and the graffiti face Mazaccio during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2007. Participant in the TipoRenesansa workshop in Slovenia in 2010, who designed Crepaldi (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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James Molgaard is a print designer in Hayward, CA. Behance link. He had the idea in 2011 to create glyphs out of bi-colored circles for testing color-blindness. His font is called Color Blind Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at South Essex College who lives in Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer from Melbourne, Australia. Behance link. Creator of the geometric sans face Positano (2011). Corporate work includes the art deco face Butcher Florist done for Melbourne band Butcher Florist. Deer Sue is an experimental face with a prehistoric man theme. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and graphic designer in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He created Barcelona Octagon (2010), a name that everyone who has visited Barcelona will understand. In 2011, he added the experimental faces Interlaced and Eixample. Airship 27 (2011, Lost Type) is a tall condensed industrial sans face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The computer mouse served as the catalyst for the funky Mousetrap alphabet (2006-2007). Not a font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buffalo, NY-based digital artist. Creator of the modular experimental AI Typeface (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian creator of the alchemic alphabet face Deer Sue (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Prior from Toronto drew Beggars Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Den Haag-based designer of the very experimental geometric face Tangram (2011), The Monks Are Allright (2012), and Scripto (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Kiesswetter | German designer who created the experimental display face Liquid Lines (2008) for Neo2 magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jan Sicko | Slovak designer of Vlna (2004), an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Director of Obx Labs and professor of design at Concordia University, Montreal, since 2002. With Bruno Nadeau, he developed creative type software called Mr. Softie. His bio at Concordia: Jason Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts program at Concordia University. His research explores the semantics of interaction, and his creative practice revolves around experiments with dynamic, interactive and performative text. He teaches Interactive Media and Advanced Topics in Computational Media. Before entering academia he spent ten years leading projects in places such as Interval Research and the Institute for Research on Learning. He studied philosophy and computer science at Stanford University, and then art and design at the Royal College of Art, London, where he received an MPhil. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at T-26 of the experimental Janus family in 1998. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Not to be confounded with Jasonm Ramirez (Pennyzine, Brooklyn, New York). Jason R. Ramirez (who also happens to be in Brooklyn, NY, where he does book covers and book design atr St. Martin's Press) did an experimental alphabet (2009) made on the basis of photocopies of a single string, and another one based upon cracks in stones called Urban Decay (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer at Fontnest (which he cofounded in 2002 with Pierre Schmidt&Fritz Menzer while studying at ECAL) who designed these fonts at Font Nest: Wellkrau (pixel face, with Peirre terrier and Aimée Hoving), TGV, Lafrui (a connected lettering font), Plan De Paris (lettering from an old plan of Paris), ScriptedPix (a connected screen font), Rhizompix (a screen font), Pix2x (an experimental screen font), CPC (screen font), Condpix (a screen font), Angula (angular face), Thin Flower, P-Text (sans; with Pierre Terrier), Handled_Matrix (a dirty screen font), Soul&Funk (2002), Russian (2002, a cyrillic simulation font), After The Rain, mtrxs (with Sylvain Aerni: a dot matrix font), Helveliga (with Fabian Monod and Sylvain Aerni), Jawut OT (with Pierre Terrier, Franz Hoffmann, and Juerg Lehni), Circulaheute, Courrierbitmap. He is a digital editor and designer. With Pierre Schmidt and Fritz Menzer he created Electronest (a company). In 2008, he created the experimental type family Futura Domus. Alternate URL. Currently, Rigaud is a London-based artist, designer, digital editor and technologist producing both design and art work for companies, collectors, and institutions. He has a continuing interest in going beyond the traditional boundaries of the art, business, science and technology fields through hybrid collaborations. His type design blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bordeaux-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental geometric face No Name Typography (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based type designer, originally from Mauritius. He created Kub AF (2002, an experimental 3d face) at ACME. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Michel Verbeeck (Konstruktiv, Mol, Belgium) made the experimental font Konstruktiv (2010) which he says can be downloaded here (but I could not find it). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pasadena, CA-based designer of NchoV (2010), a typeface inspired by schools of anchovis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian designer of Square Alphabet (2011, geometric, experimental), and the dot matrix face Digt R (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeff Jarvis (Brooklyn, NY) makes custom typefaces (such as Elizabet Dee (2012)) as well as experimental ones. In 2012, he created the Western face Ye Olde Geometric. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Serbian student at Belgrade's Faculty of Applied Arts. Designer of the experimental sans face Relogio (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jelle van Garderen (Bilzen, Belgium) created Jelle (2012, experimental typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic design student at The Art Institute of Indianapolis, 2011. Creator of the experimental face Rocco (2011)--think Rockwell marries Didot. He also made the tattoo / blackletter face Feral Wolf (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Sydney, Australia, who dabbled in a few experimental typefaces, such as Ears (2012) and Coathanger (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and graphic designer in Golden, CO. Creator of the all caps titling sans face called Bass Face (2011) and of the experimental pair of faces Do It Soft and Do It Hard (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jessica Ongko (Atlanta, GA) is a Creative Circus student. She created A Type of Wire (2012), which was inspired by the wire legs of a breakfast in bed table from IKEA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and art director in Australia. Creator of the fat counterless face Blokk Funk (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer in Seoul. Creator of Cigarette Font (2012, experimental) and Metro Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Such Mich (2004). He also made the beautiful dingbat face Kristallin (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Icelandic graphic designer, b. Reykjavik. He created the fat finger face Skar (2006) and designed many music album covers. About his experimental face Morthens (2007), he writes: Morthens is a strict script display typreface. The brief was to find a type face and design another typeface based on that. I decided to use a script typeface called Vitrina by Pablo Medina. I used it because I liked the method he uses creating his typefaces. He takes picture of his urban surroundings and bases his typefaces on them. I created a typeface based on the most prominent thing in my urban surrounding at the moment which is construcion sites. It has three weights called Ásbjörn, Þorlákur and Haukur. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joana Teles Rodrigues Pais is originally from Portugal, but lives in Milan. In 2009, she obtained a masters degree from the Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD in Milan. She made an experimental typeface called Small Urban Disasters (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at T-26 of Numb (2009, a 12-style octagonal family), Mink (2006, bold and regular), an experimental sans face, followed by Mink Complete (2007) and Mink 3D (2007). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Albufeira, Portugal-based graphic designer who made the experimental face Poliphilo (2011). He also created an interesting drawing of Erik Spiekermann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan codesigned Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe Scerri Design
| Joe A. Scerri is a British born Maltese-Australian graphic designer based in Zürich Switzerland. Since graduating with a diploma from Central Metrolpolitan College of Visual Art in Perth Western Australia in 1990, he has worked in publishing, multimedia, advertising and design, both in Sydney and in Basel. For the Spanish magazine Neo2, Joe Scerri created the free experimental dotted line face Kassette (2006). In 2005, he made the experimental face Faena (no download). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cartoonist and graphic designer in York, PA. He created the experimental face Jet Fuel (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based codesigner with Robin Frank at T-26 of dingbats and letters derived from a motorcycle: Mototype (2008, 4 styles). The free Network Font (2011) is a monospaced, yet experimental concoction. | |
Johanna Balusikova (b. 1974, Slovakia), now Johanna Bilak, studied typography at Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris and at the Bratislava Art Academy in her native Slovakia, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. She now works as a freelance graphic designer in The Hague, where she has lived since 1999. She designed Jigsaw (2000) at Typotheque: this was originally intended as a Multiple Master font that varies from roman to stencil. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about "Experiment and typography". Alternate URL. Co-editor with Alan Zaruba of We Want You To Love Type (2004, e-a-t). Since 2003 she is a partner in Peter Bilak's Typotheque. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Johanny Franchi | Designer of the experimental face PD Boquerón (2006, Prodiseño). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Artist in Salt Lake City. FontStructor who specializes in geometric pattern alphabets such as Cloaked Humanity (2010) and the blackletter version of it, Fraktured Humanity (2010, based on drawings from Albrecht Durer's De Symmetria). Other faces from 2010: Super Elevated, Shock, Elevated Humanity. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John Spencer | Provo, UT-based designer of the experimental uncial font Pseudo Sachsen (2003) and of the handwriting font Hand Me Down (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the experimental typefaces JKLNo#1 through JLNo#7. JLNo#6 is a pixel face. In 2011, he made the mechanical industrial face Slabber. In 2012, Locke added the art deco face Broadway Love (and Broadway Love 2), Rubicone (a stenciled Egyptian), Industry Stencil, Thakur, TipTap Decor, Karma, and Sketch6. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic design student at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Creator of Metria (2012, an experimental prismatic typeface), Rainbow (2012, another prismatic typeface), and Erinnerung (2012, a solemn blackletter typeface). I especially appreciate the anti-coke poster in his portfolio, which reads: For nine years the 450 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City fought a battle for their jobs, their trade union and their lives. Three times they occupied the plant---on the last occasion for 13 months. Three General Secretaries of their union were murdered and five other workers killed. To celebrate the Olympics in London in 2012, he created a typeface based on the Olympic rings, using a circular grid system. The typeface is called Olympia (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jonathan Lavoie | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Smashed at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Amsterdam-based designer. His first font is the experimental fingernail-shaped Malenky Bit (2003). He also made Moloko (2003), FontfjeCaps (2004) and Ready Made (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amstelveen, Netherlands-based type designer who made an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town-based graphic designer and illustrator, who made some experimental typefaces. Flickr page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jorge Iván Moreno Majul | Mexican type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his screen face Wixarika. At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won an award for the experimental typeface Antorcha. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jorik Hengstmengel | Dutch student at KABK, Den Haag, who is working on a tiny pixel font, Daffodil (2006) and of the experimental face Quikzilver (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer, who graduated in 2002 from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His experimental and cellular face Code Secure won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based graphic designer. He created Handschrift (2011) by using nothing but his hands and a photocopy machine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
José Fabio | Brazilian codesigner with Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
José Tonacca | José graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, he created the display face Chichen Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Owensville and/or Vincennes, IN-based art student (b. 1985) and designer of the Courier-like Shavian font Shaw Mono (2004), ChordBoxes (2010, to create chord diagrams), Bee Skep (2004, for Deseret), Box Puzzle Font (2010), Litterae Ignotae (2010: A Lingua Ignota (Latin for unknown language) was described by the 12th century abbess of Rupertsberg, Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes. To write it, she used an alphabet of 23 letters, the litterae ignotae), Seftos Nandor (2004, for an artificial language called Lower Geldorian), Sëftos Parathenia (2005, also in the Seftos script), this decorative serif (2006, experimental), Alberne Handlung (2007, a narrow all-caps Latin and Cyrillic face), Swartsbok (2007, a nice gothic font), Lumaro (2007, in the style of Times-Roman), Duck Hunt (2004, fat display face, based on the lettering of the title of the game), Anquietas (2004, "the Ancient alphabet from Stargate"), Gothic Book (2005), and Dadh Ath (2004, containing the Ath characters used to write Baronh created by Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Sekai no Monshou). Spicer now lives in Terre Haute, IN. Another web page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Reykjavik, Iceland-based graphic designer. He created the geometric paper-cut like face Building (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Juan Carlos Grafico
| Spanish design/typography site. Juan Carlos Pacheco made the experimental font Polilla (a cross between Flexure and Goudy) in 1997/1998. Spanish type scene. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Juan José Marnetti (Argentina) is a graphic design student at the National University of Cuyo. He created the purely geometric experimental typeface called La Redó (2011). Jai (2011) is a gridded face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental face Mesa Analog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Santiago, Chile. He created the experimental face Selknam (2009). His inspiration was the Selk'nam or Onas, an indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego (now extinct) and their initiatory rites for adolescents. The typeface was designed using FontStruct. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer from Bogota, Colombia. He uses textures in his posters. The texture of clothing inspired him to create an experimental alphabet in 2010. Alternate URL. Here and here are other experimental alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental face Vision (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian of a very experimental minimal face called Modular (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Julien Priez (b. 1986, Montreuil, France) studied typography and type design at Estienne in Paris (2006, 2008). In 2010, he worked at Atelier Pierre di Sciullo in Montreuil. His typefaces: Le Normandie (piano key face), Le Montreuil (an experimental family done in 2010 at Estienne with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray et Franck Jalleau), Le Briqueterie (2010, with Pierre di Sciullo's studio: a modular pixelish family), Le Baaf (2010, with Margaret Gray---an experimental titling face), Le Composite (2010, an imaginary letter font made with under the guidane of Michel Derre and Franck Jalleau), Le Jimmy (2009, a face done to invoke the 1930 mafia; a beautiful idea executed with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray and Franck Jalleau). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic design student who made the geometric experimental face Tangram (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian designer of the purely geometric alphabet Combine (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Just My Type
| Free experimental Adobe Illustrator alphabets by Jakob Nylund, who is based in Sweden. In 2012, J. Randall harris extablished Just My Type as a commercial foundry in Tucson, AZ. However, Jakob Nylund's Just My Type has been around since at lkeast 2008. The best typeface created by Nylund is Soraya (2008), an art deco multilined beauty waiting to be fontified. Others include Layer Cake (2008), Tash (2008, a "moustache" font), Pyramid (2008), Twist (2008, very bold), AnalogueVsDigital (2008, pixelish), Leaf Type (2009), Align (2010), Fat Face (2009), and Sausage (2009, stylish and round). Additional URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch experimental nutty (in the good sense!) and prolific type designer (b. Haarlem, 1966) who created famous fonts such as Beowolf, Brokenscript, BeoSans, Trixie, Flixel (FUSE 2), and Schulbuch. He is also a font software expert who has initiated many ideas in the areas of type software. Check Phaistos at the Font Bureau. Designer or co-designer at LettError of LettErrorRobot-Chrome (2001), FFTrixie (X-files original), FFAdvert, FF Schulschrift (1991; in versions A, B and C following the German school script recommendations), FFStampGothic (1992), FFKarton (1992), FFDynamoe (1992), FFHands, FFBrokenscript, Federal, and the random font Beowolf. At FUSE 11, he designed What You See/What You Get (with Erik van Blokland). Myfonts write-up. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Photographer and typographer in Poznan, Poland. She created the experimental face Heelless (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based design studio, which made the 3d paperclip font Inbetween (2009, Die Gestalten). Jutojo was founded in 1998 by Julie Gayard, Toby Cornish and Johannes Braun. They are affiliated with Die Gestalten. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Experimental geometric fonts in the zip file: has Neuva Min, Circles, Clockwise and SwissCheese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florida-based graphic designer who made the neon light font Electric Ship (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kaen Graphics
| Kaen Graphics is a French studio based in Lille. They created the experimental typeface Paintedfonts (2012). Behance link. |
Designer of the terminal ball-inspired rounded sans face Bernard (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese foundry with experimental kana fonts: ahiru-tate, ahiru-yoko, ajichi, katakamuna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
kametype
| Joachim Müller-Lancé is a German designer (born 1961), who was trained in Basel and now lives in San Francisco. Linotype link. FontShop link. Timeline of his achievements:
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Fontstructor who made Perpendicularity (2011), Ice2000 (2011), Just Lines (2011), Laundry Machine (2011, experimental), Washing Machine (2011), the 3d face Sebrantic (2011) and the experimental pixelish faces hite on Black (2011) and White on White (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sao Paulo-based graphic designer. Behance link. She created the oddly serifed face Falta Alguma Coisa (2010). That face and the experimental face Somos Fortes (2011) can be freely downloaded at Unique Types. With Eduardo Batiston, she made the semi-stencil face Horizontes (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kari Elizabeth Stevenson | Designer (b. 1980) of the experimental stencil font RAMI (2003). Kari Elizabeth Stevenson is based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Rio de Janeiro. Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental face Pequeninos (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Experimental typeface designer. His creations include Oh, Marq, Otik, and LM. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and (hilarious) illustrator in Riemst, Belgium. She made Triangle Font (2011), Gradient Font (2011) and Circle Font (2011). Later in 2011, she made an untitled multiline display face. Typefaces from 2012: Hurumufu (paperclip face). | |
American designer who made the experimental line arrangement face Cube (2011) and the poster face Goo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of these experimental geometric typefaces in 2010: Tasemnice, Semetrika, Metrika, Kaleidoscope. Katerina lives in Zlin, Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the triangle-based experimental typeface Trigonom (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the experimental font Omni, and of SantoDomingo (DeChile, DeDulce, DeManteca, Patzcuaro). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the experimental fonts Asassin, Atomic&Uranium at Shift Factory. Tanasex may be bought at Font Pavilion. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kelly Kwan (Singapore) used hair as an inspiration for her Ubermessy font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letterer and type director at House Industries. He also teaches experimental typography at the Maryland Institute's College of Art. His interests include the inter-disciplinary relationship between hand-lettering and type design. His typefaces include Maddhouse (1994), Heads of the Household, Fink Bold (1996), Fink Brush (1996), Fink Casual (1996), Fink Condensed (1996), Fink Gothic (1996), Fink Heavy (1996), Fink Roman (1996), Fink Sans (1996). The Rat Fink series was made with Ed Roth. Part of the proceeds from each sale go to the estate of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about "Imre Reiner: the alphabet as art". Ken Barber and Tal Leming combined forces in 2008 on the signage script family Studio Lettering Swing (House). He digitized Ed Gothic and Ed Script, both originally designed by Ed Benguiat. These fonts won awards at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Smidgen (2011), Studio Lettering Slant (2008) and Blaktur (2007) won awards at Letter2 in 2011. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Lettering, typography or somewhere in between. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, his talk (shared with Tal Leming) was entitled Pac-Man fever, quantum mechanics and the design of digital type. Typographic picture by TDC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer with Agfa Monotype, who made the scary handwriting font GitschHand (2001). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Norwegian designer at Function (Halvor Bodin's experimental design guerilla group) of Shinjuku, a semi-dingbat font published by FontShop in FUSE17. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Kim Matthé | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font mbrace (letters made from pieces of braces), and Dr. Style. Kim lives in Rijkevorsel. The Typolis is a virtual project of his while he was a student. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Russian experimental typography and calligraphy site. Hard to decipher what is going on. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Konst.ru
| Moscow-based Russian foundry of Konstantin Boldovskiy (b, 1966, Pereyaslavka, Russia). He graduated in 1988 as an architect from the Khabarovsk Polytechnic Institute. MyFonts link. Creator of Hexadot, Hexadot Thin and Hexadot Light (2011, a textured family), BK Monolith (2010), InSign Hand (2010, an octagonal face with a sketched style), BK Bird (2010), and Alya Hand (2010, a curly face based on the handwriting of Alya Boldovskaya). Type Tile (2010) is an experimental family. Hexial Pixel 2 (2010) is a dot matrix face. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Moscovite illustrator and mltimedia artist. His typefaces are mostly experimental and/or geometric: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese designer of a number of experimental typefaces in 2012, such as Techno, Trippy, and Icy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greek graphic designer who has created some experimental typefaces such as Krok (2009, octagonal), MDMX (2009, kitchen tile), AFEX Box Type (2009; see also , , , , and ). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristi, or Sandy87, is a Houston-based designer, b. 1987, who created the experimental techno font Get Ed Progress City (2007, based on "Get Ed", Red Rover Studios and Disney. 2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish creator of the experimental almost cubist face Alfabet Picassa (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ukrainian designer who made some experimental fonts in 2011, such as a bra font and a pipe font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
K-Type
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Commercial faces:
His free fonts are here:
Custom / corporate typefaces: With Liverpool-based art director Liz Harry, Bates created a personalized font, loosely based on Coco Sumner's handwritten capitals, for the band I Blame Coco. Medium and Semibold weights of Gill New Antique were commissioned by LPK Design Agency. Stepping Hill Hospital and Bates created Dials, a pictorial font to help hospital managers input data about improvements. A custom font was designed for Bolton Strategic Economic Partnership. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of Glace Accidental Typeface (2012). Kulagina is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She describes the process of creating Glace: This typeface was created by transforming Baskerville type into something new. Each letter was drawn on a paper by ink and then pressed with a CD cover. The received print has been scanned and retouched. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kurt Cornelis | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the curly (octopussy?) experimental font Octopus. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Graphic design student at UW Stout (b. 1985) who worked with Luis Fitch. At Chank's place, he designed the Tuscan wood type Dickens McQueen (2006). Now based in Hudson, WI, he created the experimental face Algo Right (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Information designer from Pretoria, South Africa, b. 1988, and student at the University of Pretoria. He created the experimental face Munch (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
La Mère Noelle
| Noelle Papay (La Mère Noelle) created the experimental pixel face Caracterielle (2010). She is a freelance designer in Prague. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brazilian typographic and art direction studio in Americana. Behance link, where it runs under the name Foncati. Creators of some experimental geometric alphabets in 2009. At this sub-site called Psicotipos, one can download free fonts such as Pasion and Fagulha (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born and educated in Los Angeles, Lara moved to Europe to study at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. At typeoff.de, she created the experimental typeface Argos (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and designer in Budapest. He used staples as asource of inspiration for Staple (2008). He also made the geometric experimental face Duna (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Brixham, UK, aka Laura Pakora Design. For a University of Plymouth project, she was asked to design letterforms based on Gino Severini's work. She looked into Futurism, Cubism and Pointillism, and created the experimental face Eclectic (2010) by cutting up Helvetica Bold into angular pieces. Petallic (2010) is an experimental face based on the architecture and design of the Guggenheim, Bilbao. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in New York City. Behance link. Creator of Laced (2010), an experimental face. She also made the logotype Women Between Peace And War (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian print designer who is working on some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young French graphic designer who graduated in 2006 from Ecole Estienne. She lives temporarily in Vancouver. Typefaces by her include Personal (handwriting) and Funambule (experimental). Her thesis at Estienne was entitled Baskerville: rupture ou continuité? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lavernia&Asociados
| Lavernia&Asociados is a design outfit in Valencia, Spain. Designers of some experimental type. An example: Lorem y Letras by Nacho Lavernia and Sebastian Alós (1996). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Digital and graphic designer in Kent, UK. Designer of Schild Binär (2010), an experimental typeface based on binary expansions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Le Moustache is based in Palma de Mallorca. They created the ultra-black experimental face Payopony (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young French designer who created the minimalist experimental face Pepper (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free experimental modular fat face United (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Leandro Nogueira | Brazilian type designer based in Sao Paulo, who designed Nabirinto, an experimental typeface which inspired Nick Curtis in 2007 to design Menadro NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Manchester, UK-based designer of Pyratrons (2011), an experimental typeface constructed on the basis of triangles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Malaysian student at UWE in Bristol, UK. FontStructor known as Skipper Lee, who made Control Points 001 (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leftloft
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Kiev-based designer of various splendid eye-catching geometric experimental typefaces in 2009. She also created Oksana (2009, a flowery face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Letterbeeld
| A discussion on the typography of numbers on shirts, by Dutchman Sander Neijnens, a Tilburg-based Dutch graphic designer (b. Valkenswaard, 1957) who drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. Specializing in numbers on athletic shirts, and displeased with the sameness of the letters in classical faces like ITC Machine or Superstars, he proposes serifed numbers, which were used by the soccer team Willem II from Tilburg in 2002-2003. A new athletic number design, King III, is in the works. He created Hia (a stencil face for use on doors and fences), Streep (horizontally striped letters for fences), and Klinker (based on street tile patterns). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
LettError
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Their typefaces:
Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Letterwerk
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His (free) fonts: Mister Pix&Junior (2004, pixel font), BlackPearl (2005, not finished), Jungle (2005, experimental) and Kreuzfahrt (2005, religious dingbats). His Nomad (2006, a sans family) and Carrosserie (2009, a display sans influenced by the 1930s; in 2011, new styles were added) are not free. Carrosserie showcased. MyFonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
2009 creations: Haemophobe (pixel), Star Wreck, Mouthcaster (a bilined face based on the lettering on the front of the 1978 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook), Pasta (white on black), Medical Station Alpha (techno), Disco Stud (Chrome, Solid, Chrome Oblique, Solid Oblique), Affix, Infix (experimental and minimalist), Pinball Blizzard, Tears in Rain (a simplistic textura), Five Minute Hair Colour (slab serif), Seg Sixteen (LED face), Trajedy (pixel), Nobody 8 Italic (pixel), Home Sweet Home (a cross-stitch font), Wotan, Tiki Deaky, Writetyper, Chromatose (shadow family), Chocobot (an octagonal family containing Dark, Stacked (multilined), Milk, White), Big Fat (Shaded, Vibrate, Solid). 2010 creations: Fungal Sharp, Fungal Rounded (described by himself as a unicase stovepipe sans), Elliptical Lasso (Western ornamental caps), Astral Projection (a dot matrix face that updates Astra, a Letraset font designed by François Robert and Natacha Falda in 1973), Brick-block tops (3d effect), Knots, Spacerock (an extensive arc-based geometric family), Telephone (counterless), Pixular, StarWreck the Next Generation, Hockey Club, Brick-Block Tops, Bubblemania, Ziabelle Remix (outline, 3d, shaded), Hextone, Falcone (robotic face), but I didn't Trap the Deputy (Egyptian), Dinosaur Gothic. Fonts from 2011: Apé'ritif (bilined), Csillagok (a futuristic face based on a hungarian Star Wars poster), Valhalla (faux runic), Birodalom, Haboruja, Piezo, Felix (black art deco face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Liam Hine was born in Wegberg, Germany, in 1989. He lives in Leeds, where he is a graphic designer. He created the experimental faces Belt Up Lad (2011), Blame Tools (2011), Takes The Biscuit (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British graphic designer who created the hairline face Airline (2011), which takes its forms from the exterior design of planes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscovite who designed the experimental geometric Latin face Zepta (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Breda, The Netherlands---she could practically be Belgian! In 2009 and 2010, Linda created some experimental typefaces. She also made the modular font Propedeuse (2009). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Experimental FontStructor who made LKine Between Nine (2009, spiky gothic face), Letterscape Edge Graphical ML (2009, multiline face), and Limigatope (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Linotype First Intnl Design Contest | This Linotype competition in 1999 had four categories: text, headline, experimental and symbol. Winning designs were presented at the TypoMedia 2000 conference. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Large type German foundry Linotype controlling over 4000 fonts. The company was located in Bad Homburg since 1998. It was acquired by Monotype Imaging in 2006, after more than a decade under the helm of Bruno Steinert. Linotype wrote about itself in 2008: Linotype GmbH, based in Bad Homburg, Germany and a wholly owned subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Inc., looks back onto a history of more than 120 years. Building on its strong heritage, Linotype develops state-of-the-art font technology and offers more than 9,000 original typefaces, covering the whole typographic spectrum from antique to modern, from east to west, and from classical to experimental. All typefaces (in PostScript(tm) and TrueType(tm) format as well as more than 7,000 fonts in OpenType(tm)) are now also available for instant download at www.linotype.com. In addition to supplying digital fonts, Linotype also offers comprehensive and individual consultation and support services for font applications in worldwide (corporate) communication. It publishes frivolous/experimental font collections under the name Taketype (1 through 4 now), and regularly publishes reworked classic and original text type families such as Compatil, Vialog, Satero, Linotype Sabon, Linotype Frutiger, Linotype Optima, and Linotype Univers. Its designers. A time line:
Catalog of the typefaces in Linotype's library [large web page]. View Linotype's library of typefaces in alphabetical order. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Linotype Second Intnl Design Contest | Winners of this year 2000 contest: Gary Munch (*)(GM Agora), Lucy Davies (Dot), Gabriele Laubinger (Sangue), Lutz Baar (Pisa), Stefan Pott (Konflikt), Renée Ramsey-Passmore (Renée display), Rachel Godfrey (*)(Clascon), Victor Luis Garcia (Zootype), Themina Rafique (Araby Rafique), Christian Vornehm (Seven Regular), Marcus Mc Callion (Marcusan), Andreja Brlec (Experimental Font), Georg Popp (*)(Sindbad), Peter Kin-Fan Lo (Ancient Chinese), Weselin Stojanow Rako (Tapestry Circle). The (*) indicates a first prize in its category. The others are second or third prizes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lisa Holland (Lisa Holland Design, UK) is a graphic design graduate from the University of Wales Newport. Behance link. She made a great typographic illustration series called Iconic Women (2011). Creator of the experimental typefaces Wred (2011), Edscribel (2011) and Contortionist (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Odysea (2008), an experiment with ball terminals. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Germany, Lissy Bonness moved to the UK in 2007 to study design. at the University of Northampton, where she graduated in 2012. Behance link. She used sound signal time plots in her experimental typeface Sonic Typography II (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris. Behance link. Creator of the experimental face Accent (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at UW-Milwaukee, who made the display face Primitive Type (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Look at me Design
| Graphic design with a strong type component. Sara Haraigue from Paris created Cactus (2008), Geometric (2008) and Pik (2008), an ultra-fat blackened typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructions from 2011: FS Fluze, FS Hommage a Frodo (3d face), FS Pixel Portrait (ultra-fat), FS Rinali (wavy), FS Gritta (a great stacked 3d face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Californian designer who made a bird feather font called Bye Bye Birdy (2010). Loretta May Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Loretta Staples experiments with wire-frame and 3-d fonts. Interesting! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Creative arts in London, where he designed the experimental (gridded, yet rounded) typeface Handle Break Bar 64 (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian graphic designer (b. 1955) whose typefaces may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. His creations include Almost Twelve, a jagged font at any point size. He teaches at the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium, and at the Plantin Genootschap. At ATypI 2004 in Prague and the ATypI 2005 meeting in Helsinki, he spoke about experimental typeface design workshops. He organized several in Finland (Lahti98, Lahti99, Lahti00, Lahti02, Lahti03, Lahti04), Belgium (ETS00, Outlaws, rawhide, Re:) and Ireland (Dublin), accled . Tens of experimental typefaces resulted from these workshops. A sampling:
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Graphic and editorial designer in Madrid. She constructed a bicephalous experimental typeface in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Besançon, France, in 1983, Ludivine graduated from Ecole Estienne in Paris in 2006 and now lives and works in Brussels as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator for the Speculoos agency. Font creations include the handwritten Alphajet (2005) and the Ethiopian/Latin/Turkish/Hebrew mixed experimental font Kassidy. In 2008, she made NotCourier Sans (Open Font Library, a free typewriter family based on Nimbus Mono; Cyrillic glyphs added by Valek Filippov). Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ecuadorian type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental face Chacana. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Parsons in New York City in 2011. He created soe experimental alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luisa Somaschini | Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spanish graphic and type designer who made the experimental face Vinagre (2008) and of the alchemic face Dolor Lacus (2011). He is based in Madrid. | |
Polish graphic designer, b. 1981. Creator of the experimental face Typo Prooba (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer of the experimental poster faces Luke (2008, FontStruct) and Sophea Greek (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Autodidact who currently works with Neville Brody's Research Studios. British designer (b. 1983) of the sans face Book First. In 2006, he created Times Modern, designed for The Times. It was first used on November 20, 2006. Reaction from the typophiles. Sans papier (2007, Umbrella Type, Veer) is a halftone and paper-inspired experimental concoction. Oscilloscope (2007) is a typeface in which the oultlines seem to be electrified---he calls it Filtered licks of electric, programmatic arcs. Crafted code, coded nodes, amphatic wave forming calm storming sparks. Oscilloscope is three juicy bolts of blue-volted love. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luke Siebenmorgen | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Cape (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of the modular face JHOBO (2010). LuRo lives in Puebla, Mexico. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and typographer. Experimental typefaces include a modular type (2009), and a matchstick alphabet (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based graphic designer and illustrator who did some experimental type design work in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and photographer from Miskolc, Hungary, who is heavily into type experimentation, proposing, e.g., a modular type to make letters as high as desired by inserting vertical pieces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Macaroon | UK-based designer of the experimental face Board Poster (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sells Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Newburgh, NY. She created the experimental geometric typefaces Jazz and Caps in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MADType (mattdesmond.com)
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Free types as of 2010: Marble Roman, Environ regular, Dorkbutt, Europa, Exsect, Inthacity, Liquidy Bulbous, Lustria (2012, Google Web Fonts), Stomper. Commissioned types: 77kids (2007, for the children's brand; the sketched faces were done with Justin Thomas Kay), AE Aerie (2005-206, American eagle Outfitters), AE Newburgh (2005-206, American eagle Outfitters), AE Summer Fonts (2007, all for American Eagle Outfitters), EEL Futura (2006, for Enjoying Everyday Life), Nike World Cup (2006), Virgin America (2006). Orphaned types that disappeared or were planned but never executed: BrotherMan, Caprice, Convolve, HipstersDelight, Lugubrious, ModestaSmallCaps, Serifity, Skitzoid, Sliver, ThrowupSolid, Auresh (1998, futuristic; Test Pilot Collective), Kcap6 (1998, with Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Epiphany (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Testacon (with Kral and Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Civicstylecom (1999; Test Pilot Collective), Lutix (1998; Test Pilot Collective), Xerian (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Swoon, Furtive (2004, a sans), the display face Flathead (2004), the blackletter face Bahn (2004), Mesotone BT (2006, Bitstream, a monoline sans), Practical (a monoline connec script, planned in 2007 but not published), Poliphili (planned in 2007, as a revival of an Aldus/Griffo font), Wutupdo (1996, Garage Fonts), GFDesmond (Garage Fonts), Drone. |
Polish graphic designer in Opole, b. 1988. Creator of Alfabet dla mechanika (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design director who dabbled a bit in font design. In FUSE 12, he published the grunge font Instrument. In FUSE 1, he published the experimental font Stealth. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Valladolid, Spain, who created the experimental typeface Darkie (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marcel Pereira Ursini | Designer of the experimental face Cubius Concretius (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sao Paulo-based designer of the ultra fat face Hong Kong (2010) and of this experimental face (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lorena, Brazil-based creator of the experimental face Hyperlink (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Tukan 01 and 02 (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based designer of Lugthart (2004, an experimental octagonal face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1977, this Brazilian graphic and web designer in Florianopolis created an experimental geometric typeface, Duotonic (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Californian designer of Byte (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish graphic, type and logo designer, and photographer, born and raised in Skelleftea in Northern Sweden, but now located in Vancouver. His typefaces include SD Stencil, Bolsrf (ultra fat), Street Typeface (squarish), Swedisc (avant garde sans), Crispy (hairline octagonal), SubStreet (sturdy sans headline face), Miru (experimental), Subscript (upright connected script), and Bulky (ultra fat). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scottish graphic designer who is based in Edinburgh. Creator of Symmetrical Typeface (2012), a hairline gemetric sans that has the feature that each glyph is the same if flipped horizontally. He also made the hairline octagonal typeface Mono (2012), a monowidth, monospaced font in which each glyph of the same width and height. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He created RaketenFont (2008, a pixel face) at FontStruct. His other fonts have a construction element, such as those posted on Behance: Pelican Uppercase (3d), Action Types (2010), the LED number face Braun Numbers (2010, based on Braun's famous ET 33 calculator) and the starred dot matrix face Raketentim (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and type designer (b. 1936, South Africa) and teacher, who after studies at the Chelsea College of Art became the partner of Jock Kinneir in 1964 in Kinneir, Calvert Associates. There, she designed type for signals, highways, the British Rail, airports, hospitals, the army, and the subway. Designer in FUSE 9 of the experimental font A26 (1994). She also made TransportD with Jock Kinneir in 1963, a URW++ font. Monotype Calvert (1980) is a retail Egyptian typeface that was originally used in Newcastle's Tyne & Wear Metro. Ashley Ng (San Francisco) did a great set of advertising posters for MT Calvert in 2012. She taught at the Royal College of Art in London from 1966, and headed its graphics unit from 1967-1981. She was awarded an honorary degree by the University of the Arts London in 2004. In 2009, Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel designed New Rail Alphabet, a revival of the 1964 British Rail alphabet of Margaret Calvert and Kinneir Calvert Associates. Wikipedia entry. Linoype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Toronto. Behance link. She created the experimental texture alphabet called Mesh in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estonian graphic designer. Creator of several experimental modular typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Barcelona who created the circle-based display face Baco (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Oslo, b. 1987. Creator of the avant garde sans family Universe (2009). Underfundig is her studio in Norway. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Monterrey, Mexico. With Jeroen Krielaars, he created the modular experimental family Binary 2.0 (2011, Calango). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Maria Laura Fernandez | Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Andrea Grossy, Andrea Montedonico, Ruth Slomovitz). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mexican designer (b. 1989) of Se Cortó (2011, experimental display face), El rastro del pintalabios (2011, handorinted) and Cuadro Cuadro Cuadro (2011, texture face). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
María Santini | Buenos Aires-based designer of the gorgeous experimental typeface Minotax. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
María Victoria Lamas | Designer of the experimental font Sinestesia (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2010, she made the textile texture face Bamba. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marieke Deckers | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the squarish experimental font Construct. Marieke lives in Meerhout. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mare Rajcic is an art director and graphic designer located in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2011, she created some logotypes, as well as a paper-fold typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian freelance graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the deadly sins typefaces such as Gourmandise (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo, Norway. In 2011, he made the experimental histogram-based face Grafont. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German graphic design student in Konstanz. Just using triangles, he made the experimental face Dreieckstypo (2010, also called Peking Type over at Behance). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Edmonton, Alberta-based designer of Alphageometry (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Co-founder in 2008 of Avoid Red Arrows in Karlsruhe, Germany. Designer of the matchstick face Zuendli (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). Quitt (2008) is an architectural blackboard face. Markos Hand (2008) is his own handwriting. Fital (2008) is experimental. Empties (2008) is a dotted line face. Dirn (2009) is a fat bouncy face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface r-line (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, b. 1987. Behance link. For a project for the art academy in Rotterdam, he made the experimental face Blik Font (2010), which is based on crushed cans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Martin Bajanik | Slovak designer of the experimental face Benka (2001) and of the pictogram face Via Dolorosa (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Martin L'Allier is a graphic design specialist in Montreal. His list of type and design links is very useful. Quebec-based designer of the experimental pixelized blackletter faces Ostrogoth and Wisigoth at UQAM (2003). A graphic design student at the University of Quebec in Montreal, his first typefaces can be bought at MyFonts. These include the monospaced and blocky Kg Stuttgart 1930 (2004) where Kg stands for Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart: it is based on a printed sample of a typeface designed in 1930 at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts, and shown in ABZ, more alphabets and other signs (J. Rothenstein and M. Goodings). Home page. In 2005, he created the FF Karo family (blackletter pixelized, FontShop). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
MartinPlusFonts
| MartinPlusFonts is the Berlin-based foundry of Martin Wenzel, a German type designer (b. Berlin, 1969). Graduate of KABK Den Haag in 1998. For some time, he worked at Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens. Martin now runs MartinPlus, first in The Hague, The Netherlands, and relocated to Berlin. His oeuvre:
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Adobe writes: Masahiko Kozuka began making type in 1952. At that time, he had started working at the Mainichi newspaper, one of the leading nationwide daily newspapers in Japan, where he made hot metal text and headline typefaces. [...] In the 1970s, in the transition from hot metal to digital type, he redesigned many fonts of Mainichi's newspaper faces. From 1984, as type design director for Morisawa&Company, he supervised many type development projects such as the popular ShinGo typeface family. [...] From 1992 to 2001, he supervised the Adobe Originals Japanese typeface development, and designed the Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic typeface families. Download these OpenType fonts for free: KozGoPro-Medium, KozMinProVI-Regular, developed from 1997-2004. In 2009, Kozuka Gothic Pro contained 15,713 glyphs. Typedia link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Stoke, UK-based graphic designer. Behance link. Magnum Opus (2011) is an experimental typeface inspired by alchemy and black magic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Stockholm who was dabbling in experimental typography in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer. He created the masculine face Venderburg (2011), the techno face Weekend Warrior (2011), Irisan Slice (2011, experimental), and Headplane (techno). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lanus, Argentina-based designer of Gayacos Primaria Bastarda (2002), Tapi (2006, monoline octagonal), Negada (2006, handwriting), Cementeria (2006), Chingolo Pro (2006), Letrograda (2006, bad typewriter), Bloqueada (2006), Alsina (2006), Reienhardt (2006, scratchy handwriting), Cholo Sperry Rand R20 (2006, old typewriter), Daft (2006, handwriting), Kill All Fonts (2006, experimental stencil), Venerada (2002, shadow face), Thapkie MG (2002, pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Warsaw, Poland-based graphic and type designer. Designer of the circle-based experimental face Gluszcenko (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator (b. Southampton, UK, 1993) who studied graphic design at University College Falmouth. He created the dingbat face Social Networking Icons (2011) and the counterless geometric face Grobsidian (2011). Other typefaces: Echo Gothic (like Avant Garde), Hanson, Interlocked, Pixter (dot matrix face), Scrawlster (handprinted), Tubular Type, Unnamed. He set up the Matt Grey typefoundry in 2011 in Southampton. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Catalog of his typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and digital artist in Montreal. Behance link. His typefaces include DNA (2010, experimental), and Code (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Preston, UK-based typographer and print designer. Creator of the tubular face Weaver (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student in illustration at the University of Westminster, UK. He created a condom alphabet (2011), which possibly was scanned in as a scanbat font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Freiburg, Germany, who is working on the display face Benderline Medium (2004) and the experimental face Flotto (2004). Handwriting and display faces he is working on. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Paris. Behance link. She created the experimental typeface Explode (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman designer of the striped optical illusion font Kwerk (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer who made an exquisite "generative" skeletal alphabet, VX (2010). Cercles (2011), Nebula (2011) and Tangle (2011) are further experimental faces with mind-boggling details. I reproduce his "About" blurb because it is wonderful in its modesty---rare indeed, today: I didn't discover America. I am not an artist with a world-famous name. I don't solve political problems and what I write, never gets published. I have never supervised meetings. I have plans for my future, as a spiteful mouse from a famous cartoon. I don't smoke weed and I don't do coke. I can be someone or be no one at all. I do not have five figure number of friends, but there are some that are real and close to me. I'm not self-obsessed and probably never will be. And you shouldn't even to try to understand me... I'm only a design lover. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer of the experiental circular geometric face Sunrise (2010). Home page. Aka galundor and Maximo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based designer who made some fonts, which include Ressasser (2007, experimental), Typo Training (2007, many handprinted or hand-drawn types), Bolt (2007, a pixel font family), Culbuto (a pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maximilian Huber (Cellar Door, Vienna, Austria) created an experimental sketched geometric alphabet called Cellar Sans (2011; images: i, ii) and a fashion mag face called Enie (2011, free). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Dublin who graduated from the Limerick School of Art & Design. The moon on a clear night inspired her to create the experimental typeface Me and the moon (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian art director who created an experimental typeface using only two shapes (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aussie graphic designer from Melbourne who made the experimental fonts Tetris Quadrate (2007), Organic Space (2007) and 90 Flinders Street (2007). In 2008, she created the handprinted type family Free Will and the futuristic techno family Road Trip. Also in 2008, her condensed poster family New Moon and the Railway Point family saw the light. She also does custom type. MyFonts link. She has a Bachelors in visual communication from Monash (2000) and a diploma of arts from RMIT (1997). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Melissa Trigueiro | Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mesh Design is a graphic and web design outfit in Burton upon Trent, UK. It created a polygonal experimental face, simply called Mesh (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Copenhagen, this Danish designer created some experimental typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael J. Romanowski | Designer in 1996 of I Ching Futo and I Ching Maru, two experimental fonts with letters hidden behind blinds. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in the UK, who created a triangular modular typeface in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Leiria, Portugal. Student at ESAD.CR. Behance link. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2011, perhaps called Experience. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Michele Cricco (Todi, Italy) is a graphic designer who runs Crimic Design Studio in Todi, Umbria, Italy. He designed Weltam (2003, an experimental alphabet that makes frequent use of rotated letters; his thesis project at ISIA di Urbino in 2002) and Eidos (2004, another experimental font on the same theme). The studio does identity design for companies. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Flagler College in Tallahassee, FL. Creator of the great experimental octagonal face Mobio (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student in Rochester, NY. She designed a typeface based on outline crossovers in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mickel Design
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Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Miguel Ángel Padriñán Alba |
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Brazilian type designer from Recife who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include the great experimental font Arqueo, Bolha, Xilot and Snake. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Miladinov Design
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Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of an alphabet with photographic light painting. Behance link. Miranda is a graphic designer in Albany, NY. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For Neo2 magazine, she designed the (free) experimental alphabet (not a font) Molecular (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of Molecular, Detector (2000, electrical circuit-themed letters) and Tsunami (2002) at T26. [Question: How does this name clash with the 1998 Monotype font TsunamiMT? Time for the legal parasites at Agfa to sue T26, perhaps?] He also made the experimental font Weird (1996, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Cairo, Egypt-based designer of the experimental Arabic font Tasleem (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Moksford
| MoKsford Fraktur was roughly based on a bitmap font that came with the early Macs. Manfred made versions like Moksford BetaTest and Moksford Stencil. Other experimental faces of that era include Unciale Experimental, Jahn Caps Round (named after Klein's friend Joachim Jahn, who studied type with him in the fifties under G. G. Lange). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Los Angeles. Monica made Spoked (2011, a custom face for a bicycle group) and Weird (2011, experimental). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the fifties diner family Frigidaire (2004, URW, designed with Peter Guckes) and of the handrwritten face Pirates&Robbers (2004, URW). Also with Peter Guckes, she created the experimental face Kettapila (2006, URW), the squarish and fashionable family FontForum Phet (2008, URW++) and the curvy Curly Lady (2006, URW). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Monom
| Swiss outfit involved in type design. Run by graphic students at the HGKL, Amadeus Waltenspühl and Dario Hofstetter. They made 100 free truetype/opentype fonts: 001_monograf, 002_drei, 003_itchi, 004_tschiipoint, 005_dock, 006_molekular, 007_dart, 008_retne, 009_deuxtrois, 010_spacetab, 011_profil, 012_fumer, 013_sarger, 014_palcode, 015_chemic, 016_password, 017_river, 018_quader, 019_drugs, 020_cageone, 021_kravall, 022_tabs, 023_secret, 024_mops, 025_gitter, 026_a.dur, 027_fugu, 028_setball, 029_mars, 030_meteor, 031_code, 032_norm, 033_moses, 034_nonono, 035_raserblade, 036_rufio, 037_sugus, 038_xenix, 039_trace, 040_pepper, 041_collaps, 042_groove, 043_trickshot, 044_machine, 045_balk, 045_wood, 046_holeinone, 047_RZ, 048_blocktab, 049_raffel, 050_plaid, 051_bensen, 052_sargo, 053_window, 054_shavetab, 055_ruine, 056_dotsperinch, 057_amenon, 058_ment, 059_darttwo, 060_pointless, 061_skyline, 062_fett, 063_core, 064_enter, 065_arche, 066_screendesign, 067_chemicout, 068_b.dur, 069_korn, 070_salzstreuer, 071_archrune, 072_minim, 073_elloco, 074_opera, 075_fatcap, 076_flash, 077_manson, 078_upper, 079_render, 080_etage, 081_invader, 082_sagur, 083_korsett, 084_nagasaki, 085_mugge, 086_read, 087_macro, 088_amenam, 089_roomate, 090_worms, 091_wirbel, 092_please, 093_keyboard, 094_actop, 095_pina, 096_m.1280, 097_c.dur, 098_bens, 099_insider, 100_cagetwo. These are mostly pixel fonts, or basic shapes for ornaments. None of them are complete, but that is not the point---they are experimental. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mostar Design
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Parisian-Chinesegraphic designer who created Comma (2012, a geometric typeface), FoldFont (2011), Croxxtypo (2011, octagonal), and CrossTypo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Indonesian designer (b. 1992) of Trifont (2011), a purely geometric counterless experiment. Dafont link. Muhammed lives in Bandung. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MuirMcNeil Design Systems
| MuirMcNeil Design Systems is a project-based collaborative between Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil. Our activities are focussed on exploring parametric design systems to generate appropriate solutions to visual communication problems. Hamish Muir is a founding principal of 8vo (1985-2001) and co-editor of Octavo (1986-1992). He currently combines work as an independent graphic design consultant specialising in editorial, information and systems design with teaching part-time at the London College of Communication. Paul McNeil is a London-based independent graphic design consultant specialising in type, information and systems design. He is a Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Graphic Design at the London College of Communication and lead developer, MA Contemporary Typographic Media. They have several parametric and modular software syystems for typography and type design. These include 20-20 (done in 1974: a modular design idea in the spirit of FontStructor, but without any active software), Interact (done in 1994---grid-based parametric screen fonts), Three Six (an experimental optical / geometric type system consisting of six typefaces in eight weights. It explores the possibilities of using systematic principles to generate geometric typeforms which are distinctive at large point sizes but which can also be read at smaller sizes in bodies of extended text), Four Two (an extension of Three Six). The Three Six project led to a number of multiparametric dot fonts. Muir helped Dalton Maag with the development of Tephra (2008), an experimental multi-layered LED-inspired family. Typetoken link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Johannesburg-based designer of the experimental M Font (2011), in which all letters are made by deconstructing the letter M. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian photographer and graphic designer who created the experimental squarish face Plane (2010). Flickr page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ibiza-based Spanish graphic designer who made the square experimental face Arena (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
[T-26] designer of the experimental face Seven (1999). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the free 3d experimental block font Namafont (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual communication student in Berlin. She created the missing-piece face Economy (2011) as an experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Natalia Mirapleix | Spanish designer who created the free experimental face Orquidea in 2004 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in 1971 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated on Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she now works as an assistant. Simultaneously, she is doing a masters degree at ALU, Ljubljana, Slovenija, specializing in Visual Communications Design. Winner of an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition with her experimental security-oriented typeface "Monitoring". Digital reviver of the nice angular glagolitic font family Vrbnik Missal style (angular glagolitic, 1456) consisting of GLAG_1 (1995) and NIKI_l (1995). These fonts can be found here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer in Belgrade and Brussels. She created some counterless experimental typefaces in 2009 such as FullMetalTypo. The experimental (2d and 3d) face CF followed in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cheney, WA-based designer of these typefaces: Arthuriel (medieval), Berkyspex (techno), BeviaGrowth (experimental), Brenin (unicase uncial), Brickfun (pixel), Bywater (uncial), Cheetah (fat display), Cipher (octagonal), Crown (uncial), Delivar, Drive, Drumsage, Efficient, Fanghorne (uncial), Figbead, Gaelothic (celtic), Galiden, Handshake (lego style), Havinoth (uncial), Humolion (experimental), Knowledge (indic simulation), Lancaster (indic simulation), Neoxidan, Nightime (uncial), Ockiahex (hexagonal), Paradox, Parfiche, Piecemeal, Pickel (pixel), Providian (uncial), Realight (fun experimental), Reliner (indic simulation), Rhubarb, Ribbon, Rimvet, Runestick (runes), Sageight, Skipfrog, Subrail, Toystack (pixel), Umbrella (clean geometric face), Valifas (uncial), Webgura, Westmarch. I assume that most faces were done in 2004-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in London. She created an experimental modular triangular typeface in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian designer (b. 1985) of the elegant and slightly spooky experimental face Dilana Experimentype (2008). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Mesevo (fuzzy look), Nebo, Proba (pixel face), Koschey (experimental), Sport2 and Sport3 (blocky), Mesevo2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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In 2011, Ariel published the futurismo face Saturna at Sudtipos [and I do not understand HypeForType's claim that it is an exclusve HypeForType font]. Their offices are in Buenos Aires and Caracas. Typefaces from 2012 include Uma (with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos: a gorgeous two-weight monoline sans family). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator, art director and experimental type designer in Belgrade, Serbia. Blog. Creator of Zone Type Bold (2011, grotesque). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free experimental typefaces usually associated with the Neo2 blog and magazine. In Spanish. Neo2 (the magazine) started in 1994. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nepfont Digital Foundry
| Oszkár Boskovitz ran Nepfont Digital Foundry, and at some point, ca. 2009, changed its name to Fontbistro, where one can now buy his fonts. He is a Hungarian type designer who digitized the award-winning typeface family Pannon (2001) made by Edit Zigány in 1972. He is working on a book that will summarize Hungarian type in the 1970s and 1980s. His repertoire:
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Typographer and graphic designer in Toronto. He created the cooking utensil alphading face Shai (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Neubau Laden (or: NB Typography)
| Stefan Gandl was the designer at Designer Shock in Berlin of the pixel fonts DS1D, DS2D, DS3D, DSClone, DSClone3D, DSCutout, DSImitate, DSMufdi, DSMufdi3DL, DSMufdi3DR, DSNSW45, DSNSW55, DSNSW65, DSNSW75, DSNSW85, DSNSW95, DSP9RMX (with Markus Angermeier), DSP9RMX3D, DSSQR35, DSSQR45, DSSQR55, DSSQR553DL, DSSQR553DR, DSSQR65, DSSQR75, DSSQR85, DSTicket35, DSTicket45, DSTicket55, DSTicket65, DSTicket75, DSTicket85, DSTicket95, DSVDOTXT1, DSVDOTXT2, DSVDOTXTError. At the end of 2001, he established Neubau Berlin or NB Typography. He created DS Yakuti (experimental) and DS Lane (2001, trilined) at Die Gestalten. Fonts at Neubau include NB55RMS, NB55RBX, NB55RLS, NB55MS, NB55BX, NB55SET, NBFETT, NBFORM, NBRUND, NBTRANSFER, NBUNIVERS, and NBBLOCK, which are all mostly futuristoc-looking designs. In 2008, they added the beautiful 6-weight (35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85) NBGrotesk family, also by Stefan Gandl. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Short bio of this star type designer and hyperactive contributor to all aspects of graphic design and typography. Check out another biography at FontNet. Born in 1957 in London, his fonts include FF Autotrace (1994, a sans family progressively distorted by Fontographer's autotrace feature), F Cyber Static (1997, letters based on layered sequences of halftone dots), Arcadia (1990), Industria (1990), Insignia (1990), Blur (1991), FF Pop (1991, a rectagular font originally made for a German music TV program), FF Dirty (1994), Gothic (1991), Harlem (1991). Did the following FUSE fonts: in FUSE 1, he started with the experimental font State; in FUSE 5, he published Virtual; at FUSE 6, he published Code; at FUSE 7, he drew Crash (Regular and Cameo); in FUSE 8, he showed us Religion (Order, Obidience, Loss of Faith); at FUSE 9, he did F-AutoSuggestion (1994); in FUSE 11, he published Peep, a font only showing parts of letters; in FUSE 13, Ritual, in FUSE 14, CyberStatic, in FUSE 15, F-City Avenue (1997), in FUSE 16, GeneticsSecond Generation, in FUSE 17, Echo Downloaded, Page Three, in FUSE 18, Lies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American designer (b. 1985) of the squarish experimental face Square Limit MCE (2004) and the scribbly handwriting face Visual Purple (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mrio (NiceToMeetYou) is into experimental type. His work includes Stitched to Death (2007) and the experimental stencil face Neue.Bold (2007). No sales or downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface MoSys01 (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative director and founder of BOZ Design in London. He blended two fonts to make the experimental typeface Arrow (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer of the experimental face Pea Brain (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nick experiments widely with type. Noteworthy is his Albers Moiré, which is part of a project for creating complex type designs with a limited and easily interchangeable set of parts. The structure of Albers Moiré is based on the Bauhaus stencil type designs by Joseph Albers, and uses radiating lines to achieve the moiré effect when layered. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nick Wagner (Nick Wagner Design, Denvcer, CO) created the experimental typeface Cake Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer located in Paris who created the experimental rubber band typeface Elasticum (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beaverton, OR-based student. Creator of the experimental serif face Taurine (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boston-based photographer and typographer who is studying at Ringling College of Art and Design. The letter Y inspired her to create the experimental family Weye (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mumbai-based type and graphic designer. Creator of Mrs Chatterjee (2009, experimental) and Industrialization (2009, modular). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Athens, Greece-based designer of Ancor Pro (2010), a face in which some Bezier sections were removed in DIN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Niko Geens | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Grid. Niko lives in Sint-Katelijne-Waver. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born 1982 in Karlsruhe. At Volcano Type, he designed part of Mr. J. Smith, the experimental font that won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish designer of "Makinen Was Here" (2000, Lahti Institute of Design), a great font, but an even greater presentation. He is a multimedia designer who works in Helsinki for Evia Helsinki Oy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Tucson, AZ, who made Deceptacon (2012), an optical experimental typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free experimental fonts: Struktif, Praktik, In-sect, Mono-Fu, GRUPPO, CREW, CityLight, BadgeLove, Bas_Sub, Household. Mac and PC. Most fonts have missing glyphs and are thus useless. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
With a bachelors in graphic design from the University of Hawaii, Noa has set up shop in Honolulu. Behance link. Creator of the experimental Joy Stain font in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Noem9 Studio
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NoFont
| Nofont is an absolutely wonderful Swedish type experiment page with many pixel fonts. The free fonts by Solna, Sweden-based Andreas Carlsson include Artek-BloxFilledTwiggy (1998, pixel font), Artek-BloxFilled, Artek-BloxTwiggy, Artek-Blox, Artek-OutlineTwiggy, Artek-Outline, Artek-Regular, Artek-Twiggy, ChemicalBreakfast-Normal, ChemicalBreakfast-Outline (1999), CWebLarge (2000, pixel font), CWebSmall, Ihateyou (2000), MWeb (pixel font), Positions-AttheMovies (abstract forms). Commercial fonts: DIN Cafe, Megafat (pixel font), NoInitials (caps). Experimental/futuristic fonts: Distribution, Intershitty, Sentenced, Tube, Klum, Click Megafat. Dingbats: I Hate You, Positions. It seems the fonts are no longer available for distribution. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 2009, Nora Ermejo used FontStruct to design a number of experimental faces, such as IBM's Font (horizontal logo stripes), Norattere, and Nor Line. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from the Cooper Union who created the abstract experimental commissioned face Open Lo in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nú-Dës
| Nu-des is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio that is involved in visual identity. They are experimenting with type. Its main designer, Billy Bacon, created the scribbly font Pasmado (1996) and Marola (1996). In 1997, he created the foundry Subvertaipe. In 2006, he made the blood-drip grunge face Caracura (2006). Professor at PUC-Rio and at Kabum! Escola de Artes e Tecnologia. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Number Nine (or: N9)
| N9 is a French experimental type foundry run by Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot. Chifflot's fonts from 1995-1996 made under the label "N9" or "Number Nine" include AnigGwar, AnigGwarFluffy, AnigGwarLight, BinaryTrash, CodeElizabeth, Drill, DrillBold, DrillDark, DrillDemiBold, DrillExtraBold, DrillExtraLight, DrillFluffy, DrillLight, DrillUltraLight, EdgeHorizontal, Layer, Rise, Rough, RoughBold, RoughDark, RufusOne, RufusOneDark, RufusTwo, Woof, WoofBlack, WoofBold, WoofDemiBold, WoofExtraBold, WoofExtraLight, WoofLight, WoofThin, WoofUltraLight. At some point, he started N9 or Number Nine and went partially commercial. He also made Baseline 303 (1999, commercial), Phuturized (1997, grunge), Computer Waltz (1997), Dodecadarian Remixes (2005), Dodecadarian EP (2005), Dummy XO (2004, free), Dummy (2004, free), Big Bang (1997), Colony-Bold (2000), Colony (2000), Hard Bleep (1997), Bleep (1997), Daedalus (2003), Rough Scholar (1996), Ultrawerk EP (1996), Woof Trash (1996), Rorschach (1996), Gotlib (1996), Burn (1995), Abwher Futura, Abwher Politika, RaveOne (1992), Zim Boom (1991), Dead Bodies Ecstasy (1991), Chaos (1989). His work contains mostly grunge and fonts with a computer theme. Other contributors to N9 include Clarisse Grossier, the designer of the dingbat face Tu Parles. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographic experimenter from Tbilisi, Georgia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Obostudio is a Florence-based design studio specialised in brand development. They created OBO Font in 2012 and write: "Typefaces are like clothes. They either make us look good or bad. They also indicate what kind of character we want to portray." OBO Font is a new typeface inspired by the wind. OBO Typeface should be used for logo design, monograms and other creative fields feeling moved by the wind. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oded Ezer Design Studio
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Another designer at the studio is Michel Sahar. Ezer graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art&Design, Jerusalem, with a Bachelor degree in Visual Communication Design (1998). He teaches typography and graphic design in several academies in Israel and other countries, among them the Bezalel Academy for Art&Design, Jerusalem, the Shenkar College of Engineering near Tel Aviv, the Wizo College of Design, Haifa, and the Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Design Department, in Istanbul, Turkey. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity. About his award-winning posters. The Oded Ezer Typosperma Project. Ezer's Flickr page. His experimental Hebrew typography is discussed by Uleshka in Ping Mag. It deals with a 3-d lettering experiment called Plastica, and describes many other ingenious projects. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Winner at D&AD 2011 with his typeface Rutz (2011, aka Vesper Hebrew). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Official Classic
| Hungarian outfit which states: Official Classics Ltd spawned from the minds of two young enthusiastic graphic designers Mark Zador and Attila Horvath. We both are unlimited lovers of typography and geometry, forms and colours, computers and game consoles, graffiti and stickers, magazines and blogs. Typefaces created by them are mostly techno or minimalist: Eniac Pro (2010, horizontally striped), Solaria (2006), Kalgan (2004, kitchen tile face), Olivaw (2004, a face with a retro/futuristic 60s sci-fi feeling), Terminus (2004), Gaia (2006), Gladia (2006, horizontal slabs), Baley (2004, piano key face), and Aurora (2004). Behance link. YWFT link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Okaycat
| Takamatsu, Japan-based design division of The LOLO, a content creation company, which was established in 2006. Luke William Turvey (b. London, Ontario, 1978) who lives in Japan started out with street murals but is doing digital work now. His fonts include Giacinta Ornate (2008, a lovely bastarda), Parabrite (2008, techno), Stefani EHYO Sans Rounded (2008, a clean geometric sans), Antikka (2008, art deco), Calisso (2008, experimental), LOLO Dingcats (2008), Clementine (2008: artsy serif), Okaytext (2008, a fashionable geometric sans in the style of Bernhard Fashion), Okay Cursive (2008, an upright connected script), Okay Crayon (2008), Okay Paint (2008), Japanese Brush Master (2008), Tag Banger (2008, graffiti font), Bapalopa (2008, more graffiti), Hive Mind (2008, nuts and bolts look), Trees of Africa (2008, dings), 3D Fantablock Beveled (2008), Shababa (2008, shadow font), LOLO Animals (2008), LOLO City (2008, inner city dingbat face), LOLO Cursive (2008, curly handwriting), Japoneh (2008, a great oriental-look drippy paintbrush font), Arco Crayon (2009, blackboard writing), 3D Blocky (2009, with Natsuko Hayashida), Carbon Neutral (2009), Hand Writing OC (2009), Okay Cotton (2009), Hand Cursive (2008), Stitch Cursive (2008), Antique Dubplate (2009), Porto (2009, rough calligraphic), Brush Writing OC (2009), Nouveau Rock (2009, engraved), Shababa (2009), 3D Techno (2009), Stefani EHYO (2009, 4-style geocratic sans), Uncertainty (2010, grunge). Japanese calligraphy poster. With Natsuko Hayashida, he did Rustic Stamp (2009, grungy). CASU Aerospatiale (2010) is an etched 3d font family. Geodot (2010) is a dot matrix face. Zampichi (2010) is a video game font family. Country Charm (2010, Natsuko Hayashida) is a dingbat face. The Inlines No Inlines (2010, Natsuko Hayashida) is a black rounded minimalist sans. CC Angular (2010, Turvey) is an octagonal face that comes with an outlined and shadowed style. Pentastic (2010) is handprinted. Candy Cursive (2010) is a monoline connected script. Okay-A (2011) lets one make 3D letters that look to be fastened down with screws. Teselka (2011) is a 3d outlined shadow face. Joopica (2011) is a casual face created together with Natsulo Hayashida. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ukrainian designer and illustrator who drew a Russian alphabet in 2011 out of tree leaves. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian graphic designer. With Jovanny Lemonad, he created the octagonal family Bender (2009). In 2009, he made the diagonally shaded face Absu. In 2010, he made the free handprinted font Five Minutes, the octagonal face Red Apple, the corporate family Articul (organic), Toothy (Helvetica with horns), and the free dot matrix face Dited. MyFonts link. Behance link. Cargocollective link (with downloads). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Ukrainian desifgner of the scanbat typeface Break Dance (2012). She also made the 3d experimental Cyrillic typeface Cube (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Wellington, NZ-based created of the experimental quarish typeface Exposed Panes (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Onetreeink
| Marco Calamato (Onetreeink, CA) designed the geometric condensed face Gravity (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at Flagler College in Saint Augustine Beach, FL. He made the experimental face Molecule (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Optical Illusion Type
| Graphic design and experimental typography by South African designer Leslie Willmers. Some classy fonts include Anathema (a GRAND font! Brush with a Japanese feel), Interzone, Saville (aristocratic caps), Anarchy, InsomniaBold, ComicScript, Optics and Teeth. Teachers's Pet comes with thin horizontal orthographic lines. What happened to this place? [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Optimo
| Optimo is a Lausanne-based foundry established in 1997 by Stéphane Delgado, Gilles Gavillet and David Rust: Aerial, Chip, Flexo MM (1998, David Rust), Circuit (2002, David Rust; on the CD in Nathan Gale's type 1 book), Didot Elder (2004, a true revival of a family by Pierre Didot, 1819; it has devil-tailed S's and is similar in many places to Porchez's Ambroise. It was designed by François Rappo), Kornkuh, Nova MM, Steiner, Autologic, Detroit MM (1997), Kabin, Normal, 2000, Optimal (a kitchen tile font), Politics (squarish face by Gilles Gavillet), Montana (stencil by Gilles Gavillet), CEO (typewriter style by Rappo), Veglia, Zero. Most fonts are futuristic or experimental, with a few sans serif fonts thrown in at well. Interesting web page, which in 2003 stopped being accessible to many browsers (UNIX people can never get in, for example). In 2003, David Rust and Gilles Gavillet co-designed Cargo (stencil), Hermes (typewriter type), Index and Politics. In 2006, Philipp Herrmann created the slab serif face Piek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
orangebleu (was Terra Nova, or 808 State)
| French site proclaiming itself "lieu d'experimentation typographique". Click on "cuisines" and then on the yellow bullets (one per font). Christophe Martin's fonts are for PC and Mac: finished fonts include After 45', Coperniq, BoxRegular, Codex and Lexomil. This site has become an impossible maze. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Caracas-based designer who made the ornamental caps face Dragonly Vitreaux SF (2010), as well as other experimental caps faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers in London. For the Spanish magazine Neo2, they created the experimental Laser Font (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Porto, Portugal-based designer of Couteau Suisse (2012), an alphabet based on the Swiss army knife. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Barcelona. Behance link. He made the object-inspired experimental typeface ObjecType (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Founding creative director of Differ Design in Stockholm. His typefaces include Labyrinyth (pixel style), Lateral (vertically striped face), Pop-Up, Fine Line, and Basic Shapes (a geometric experiment). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
P.J. Bell (MIXFIT) lives in Los Angeles. A digital artist, he made the counterless experimental face No Retnuoc in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based graphic designer and typographer, aka Alfieri. Flickr link. Behance link. He designed Playful (2010), a geometric font that was inspired by 3d toys for children. Odyssea 652 (2010) and Odyssea 632 (2011-2012, Thinkdust) are also geometric in nature. This poster showcases his lettering. With Mariano Farias, he formed Plenty. At HypeForType, Plenty published the arts and crafts face Odyssea (2011). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. 1980) of the experimental face Speci.ALE (2009) and the geometric paper cut face Diamond D (2009). She is related to the Ludiko site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pambo
| Pambo is a Mexican design collective in Tijuana to which Diego Negrete belongs. He has designed some fonts such as Pasele (2008), a fat bubblegum typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category. It is sold by T26. His script face Picacho won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. Guillermo Sariñana created Unidad (upright heavy script). The typeface 604 (experimental, art deco) (free download) rounds out the offering. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. FADU-UBA link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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German designer of the experimental face Nails and Strings (2010, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paolo Palma | Italian designer (b. Fermignano, 1973) of the experimental font Elise (2000). He lives in Fermignano. At the School of Graphic Design in Urbino, he wrote a thesis on Wim Crouwel. As a result, his fonts are expertimental and geometric: Zen (2002, looks like lego blocks), Eroi (2001, artistic stencil font), Rainbow Type (2001, dot matrix font), CuboType (2001), Paradise (2001, fonts nailed to the wall), Ale (2000, only circles and lines, a cross between a kitchen tile and a Codex font). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Papanapa
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Parsons The New School for design (was: Parsons School of Design) | Design school in New York. Experimental typography course by Charles Nix. Experimental Typography: Spring 2002. Experimental Typography: Fall 2001. Book Design: A History in Latin. Current type design professors include James Montalbano. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Setubal-based Portuguese designer (b. 1973) who made Cethubala (1997), a funky Linotype face. She is involved in web and graphic design and illustration. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Patricia Nadeau | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Trisch at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Patrick Berthiaume | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Hamlet at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Patrick Branigan (Albany, NY) received my BFA in Communication Design from the University at Buffalo in 2010. Behance link. In 2010, he made the experimental geometric typefaces Mouse, Refresh, and EDM. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based designer of the free experimental multiline typeface Fusion (2012, Adobe Illustrator format), and of the connected script signage typeface Dolorosa (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at ZIVA, a typography and graphic design school in Harare, Zimbabwe, led by Saki Mafundikwa. In 2001, he designed the experimental alphabet Amandungu. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kiwi designer, b. 1989. Behance link. As a student at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, he created Heartbreaker (2011), Beat (2011, experimental face) and Nostalgia (2011, an elliptical face based on the shapes of 1950's American cars). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paula Robalinha | Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and George Vinícios of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental face Iguais (2011). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Essen, Germany. In 2007, she created an experimental alphabet (not a font) in which every letter exists of six identically positioned nails and a black thread. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the 3d display face Aurec and the geometric outline face Hinge (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peng Hoe Low | Savannah, GA-based student who proposed Holocaust (2006), an experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Penny Font Foundry (or: Pennyzine)
| As part of the Chank Army, Jason Ramirez (Penny Fonts, Brooklyn, NY) offers mainly grunge fonts, many of which were made with the Data Becker software program. The list of their free fonts, which are mostly in the grunge style that was in vogue ca. 2000: Locals Only (2011), Cocaine Nosejob (2008), Made (2004, grunge blackletter), Strip Club Motion Sickness (2003), One Fell Swoop (2003, scratchy calligraphic), Fear of a Punk Planet (2005), Futon Revolutionist (2002), Bill Hicks (2002), Elliot Swonger (2002), Elliots Bad Day (grunge), Don Giovonni (2006), Don Giovonni Makin Enemies (2006), Gumuski (2002), DUMMY (1999), Acid Reflux Baby (2002), Avenge Me (2004, multiline, octagonal), Times-New-Omen (1999), punk rock rummage sale (2001), Thatluvinfeelin1 (2001, a sexual positions font), cut-n-paste (1999), Maydogg (1999-2002, handwriting), My-wife-sucks (1999), Stamped-out (1999), Stank (1999), StankII (1999), uncle-tom (1999), uno (1999), Coopdeville (2002), Dirtysocks, FourMoreYears (2003), Punkrockrummagesale (2001), Theregoestheneighborhood (2003), Thiskettle (2002, handwriting), Mr. Rogers (2003), Regime Change (2004), Hotel Coral Essex (2006, grunge), Limp Noodle (2006). Alternate URL. Direct downloads. Alternate direct download path. Commercial fonts: Redneck Superstar (2002, Chank's). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Another link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designer of the fifties diner family Frigidaire (2004, URW, designed with Monika Fischer), the experimental face Kettapila (2006, URW, with Monika Fischer), the squarish and fashionable family FontForum Phet (2008, URW++, with Monika Fischer) and the curvy Curly Lady (2006, URW, with Monika Fischer). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German artist. Designer at Linotype of the experimental 3-weight family Sinah Sans LT (1994, an Indic simulation font) and the oriental simulation font family Linotype Chineze (2002, part of TakeType 4). In 2003, he created Picture Yourself with Karin Huschka, also at Linotype and reaped an award for it at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. The illustrations in Picture Yourself was based on ideas of the architect Oscar Niemeier. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech designer (b. 1967) of the experimental face Prkno (1992-1993, wooden plank-shaped letters). He works at Studio Machek & Babak, founded by them in 1967. Interview (in Czech). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the experimental font Kwarthel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based creator of the super-experimental geometric faces Artificer (2011) and Flatland (2011). Home page. Petros is also a talented typographic illustrator---see, e.g., his Blue Heron (2011). An example of his typography for information design: Table Tennis for the 2012 Olympics. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese creator of an experimental / outer space face in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Phat Phonts
| Phat Phonts is an Aussie foundry run by Wayne Thompson. Their fonts:
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Graphic designer (born in 1958 in Kendal, Westmorland) who graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987. He works as a freelance graphic designer, is Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art&Design (now a university) in London (since 1991), runs Phil Baines Studio, maintains Public Lettering (about type found in cities), and is Typographic Advisor to the Central Lettering Record CD-Rom project. He designed FUSE Classic 1, Can You (1989), Ushaw (FUSE 8, FontShop, 1993), Toulon (1994), Horncastle (1994), VereDignum LT Std in Alternate, Decorative and Regular weights (2003, Linotype Taketype 5 collection) and Can You Read Me (FUSE 1, 1991). His pages on public lettering in London. His books include Signs, lettering in the environment (with Catherine Dixon, 2003) and Type&Typography (2002, with Andrew Haslam). At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke on From the Motor Car Act to motorways. He has also a good reputation for taking people on typographic city tours, as he did in 2006 at ATypI in Lisbon, and at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Linotype link. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin in which he explained how he and Catherine Dixon produced the lettering for the Pozza Palace in Dubrovnik on commission for the Serbian Orthodox Church. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
British creator of the experimental Kreased and gridded Kreased Remix (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Philipp Luidl | Author of Die Schwabacher (2004), and Ornaments. Philipp Luidl and Günter Gerhard Lange coauthored Paul Renner (1978, Typografische Gesellschaft München). Philipp Luidl and Helmut Huber wrote Typographical ornaments (Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press; New York, N.Y.: Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1985), a 368-page in-depth treatise on the subject. Cover page and selected images such as this end piece with tendril decorations, 17th century, this cast unit piece assembled from various elements, these great ornamented caps, and this vignette from the Academicism period. They divide type ornaments up by historical periods:
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Hamburg, Germany-based graphic designer. Creator of Polygon Type (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (b. Paris, 1962) who designed the experimental fonts Carré, Octobre and Aleph in 1994. [The digital versions of these fonts are due to Franck Montfermé.] First prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club in 1995, and a Judges' Special Prize at the same competition in 1999. Poster exhibition. Bio. Since 1992, he has been teaching typography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs. Alternate URL. Photograph. Winner in 2009 of the typographic design award of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. Flickr page, where one can find more experimental types, like AbstractMin (2010), AbstractStruct (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and experimental type design studio in Berlin, with an interesting web site. Typefaces: Picnic Only (2004-2008), Industry Talk (2004-2008, dingbats), Alu II (2006, a simple filled-in-counters type), Barcode (2003), ECG (2003), Bricks (2003), TEU (2003), Antibody (2006), T.I.N.A. (2006, Arabic simulation face by Frauke Boggasch and Dominik Sittig), S-TAG-S (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type designer born in Turin in 1937. Designer at Nebiolo from 1956-1959. Freelancer and writer since then. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about Novarese, and about his new font family, Nomina, developed for the Italian telephone directories (SEAT). He also designed the beautiful typeface families Pancarrè (2008) and Graphicus (2003, for the Graphicus magazine), the Renaissance italic type Paloma (1993), an experimental Bodoni family (1989), Pitto (1997) and the neoclassic family Alexandra (1991). The last four typefaces were never commercialized. He is working on a Carolingian lettering face, Pennino (since 1997), Exemplar (the last unfinished alphabet of Aldo Novarese, to be completed by DeMacchi on request of the Novarese family), and a destructivist humanistic face, Tremolino (since 1996). He also type-branded the trucking company Iveco. De Macchi's company, De Macchi Progetti Grafici, is located in Torino. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of La Police Coupable, a font that when cut horizontally is such that top halves and bottom halves can be matched almost at will to make new letters. It created controversyt, because "police" (font) also means the police force. So, the font is called "The police is guilty". As a result, the INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, the French IP institute) refused the publication and registration of the trademark La Police Coupable. About the same time, Sarkozy accepted 170,000 Euros in cash in a brown envelope from a rich woman, and the corrupt French circus continues---the good are bad and the bad get rich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer in Montpellier who made several experimental fonts in 2010, such as Architekt, Progress and Delicious as Hell. In 2011, he added Forest (ultra-black poster face) and Sunrise. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PinkLab
| PinkLab is a Hong Kong-based creative studio, founded by Pinky Leung (b. Hong Kong), who has a BA in graphic design from Middlesex University, UK. In 2011, he designed the experimental face Plastic Bag. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pisto Casero
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Gilberto works at DO2 Magazine. Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at Middlesex University in London. Creator of the experimental geometric face Polik (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at middlesex University in London. Creator of the geometric experimental face Pollik (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pollo Graphic Design
| Graphic design student from Queretaro, Mexico, who operates as Pollo Graphic Design. His typeface Portatil (2010) is a monoline geometric minimalist sans with a few curls on selected letters. Creator of the excellent experimental display faces Summer (2011) and Liquit (2010). Dafont link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Indian Fontstructor who made these faces in 2011: Picadilly Circus (dot matrix), Rise of the Cellphone (cellphone dings), Depot (dot matrix), Depot Devanagari, Type in Transit I (dot matrix), Electricals Ltd, Giovanni Ostaus, Nip And Tuck, Delhi Metro Sans II (dot matrix face), and Delhi Metro Serif. Pooja added many dot matrix style stitching fonts in 2011: Sajou I, II and III, Lettering For Stitchers I through X. These are digitizations of embroidery patterns from Elsie Svennas' book A Handbook of Lettering for Stitchers. Chaukor (2009) is an experimental Devanagari face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Porky Design
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Post Typography
| Originally conceived in 2001 as an avant-garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography specializes in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. In 2007, Strals and Willen incorporated Post Typography as a full time design studio. Their type and lettering subpage describes some custom typographic work. Noteworthy are Conjoined Font (2006), Negative Font (2006) and Pattern Font (2003, octagonal). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Praegnanz.de
| Gerrit van Aaken's essays on and dissections of some free fonts. In German. Gerrit also designed the free experimental face Gerrystyle (2005, 26plus-zeichen), by extreme manipulation and alteration of Aldo Novarese's Eurostile Bold (1962). At iFontMaker, Gerrit made the handprinted Gerry Sans (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Présence Typo
| Friendly French Agfa Creative Alliance designer (b. 1961) who lives in Baratier. He was an ex-student of José Mendoza at the Imprimerie Nationale à Paris. He started Présence Typo in 2000. Great web pages, great designer, fantastic fonts. Bio. He published numerous typefaces in various places:
View the typefaces designed by Thierry Puyfoulhoux. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typographer and graphic designer from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He designed some nifty typographic posters. He created JPMst (2009), an experimental organic sans family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Protofonts (and Loosy Design)
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Prototype Experimental Foundry
| Commercial foundry, est. 1994 in Brooklyn by Charles Wilkin (b. Buffalo, NY). Designers selling their fonts through them include
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Psy--Ops Type Foundry
| Psy/Ops is Rodrigo Cavazos's foundry which initially consisted of artists and designers from the San Francisco Bay Area mainly interested in experimental typ[e, type on the fringe. Their early work included Ruzena Antikva (1998) and the gorgeous RetabloAntiguo (1994). Other Rodrigo Cavazos creations: Faceplate Sans (free demo; see also at T-26), Adaptive Mono, Trillium (1995, T-26), Eidetic (EideticNeo at Emigre, 2000; the unicase version is called Eidetic Neo Omni), Eidetic Modern (1998, the sans version of Eidetic Neo), VM74 (1996), Spanner, Slag, Alembic (1995, T-26), CrucibleBurnin, DefaultGothic, DevilleThruster, Faceplate, Gnomad (1997, T-26), Oculus (1996, T-26, an organic face), Peregrine and Peregrine Titling (1996, Monotype), Phalanx (1996, chunky; Monotype), Philomela, Caligrafia de Bula and Caligrafia de Bula Regio (decorated initials), Transaxle Script (1994, a fifties font), Faceplate Sans, and Skiffledog. Other designers include Tomi Haaparanta, Gábor Kóthay, Lars Bergquist, Julien Janiszewski, Stefan Kjartansson, Stefan Hattenbach, Robert Beck, Todd Masui, Evan Sornstein, Michel Valois, and Steve Mehallo. Cavazos' Alembic, Gnomad, Skiffledog, Stigmata and other fonts are also available from T-26. Is also called Roderigo Zscori-Cavaz. Under this name, his families Crucible, Phalanx and Retablo may be viewed here. Creator of the free pixel faces CR21 (2009) and CR21 Modern (2009), downloadable from Dafont. Involved in 21 Lab, a design studio which started at the design school in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2010, he did custom work via T-26. For example, three prominent lettering styles from the famous Jack Daniel's Black Label (ca. 1904) were developed into complete fonts. Jasper is based on the familiar logo lettering (and bearing Jack Daniel's given first name). Lynchburg Script (2010) is based on the Tennessee lettering in the label. Finally, the solid mechanical typeface Motlow is named for Lem Motlow, the nephew of Jack Daniel who managed and later inherited the Distillery. View Rodrigo Cavazos's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Student at the China Academy of Art in Shanghai. He created some experimental Latin alphabets in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer. Dafont link. Creator of the human face dingbat font Fluid Death Qkila (2011), of Vandal on The Fluid (2011, shadow display face), of Broken Fluid (2011), Fluid Christmas (2011), Fluid Spiral (2011), Rock n Fluid (2011) and of the counterless geometric face Cube Kila (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographical experiments and type reconstruction. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made the experimental typeface Building (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Qui Résiste
| Pierre di Sciullo (b. 1962) is the award-winning Parisian designer of FF Flèches and Minimum. At FUSE17 (1997), he published SpellMe. Creative Alliance designer of Gararond. In 2000, he started QuiRésiste. Bio at FontFont. In FUSE 5, he created the experimental font ScratchedOut. There is also a free pixel family called Aligourane for the Tuaregs (in their national writing system, Tifinagh). Commercial pixel families: Zèbre, Minimum serifs, 3 par 3, and Minus. He also made a medieval-futuristic font Nicolas2000 (nice!), several experimental fonts such as Quantange, Syntetic, Basnoda, Miroir, Epelle-moi, Amanar (2009, runic), Kouije, Sintetik, Quantane, Paresseux, Sonia, and Spell me, as well as more traditional fonts such as Gararond, Gararond Lié, Gararaide, Garadico, Durmou, and destructionist fonts such as Découpé and Paris-Gretz. At Buildingletters, one can buy his Aligourane (1995) in these weights: Contour, Noir, Orner, Leger and Etroit, as well as Amanar (2003) in these weights: Condense, Decor, Demigras, Noir. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic artist in Firenze (and soon London). She made Blackout (2010, a geometric face), and Pac (2010, a circular face, inspired by Pacman). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based graphic designer and digital artist. Creator of the experimental face Rectangulum (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student in Pune, India. She made some experimental and ornamental Latin typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces from 2012: Mr. Ken (very fat face), Squadlest (squarish), Neonize (dot matrix face), Simplicity (kitchen tile face), Sound System (squarish), High Volume, Bajaj Sans (gaspipe sans), Bulat (fat counterless typeface), Elektro (blocky, counterless), Elektro Forest, The Slabbers (Egyptian). Aka cablecomputer. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Phoenix, AZ-based art director. Behance link. For a group he formed in Arizina called The Dead, he made a minimalist alphabet for its identity in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior visual communications designer at TEAGUE in Seattle, WA. He created some experimental typefaces called Propagation (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raquel Hipólito (Lisbon) created an experimental display type called Write Design in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Slovakian designer of Revidendum (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editor for the Information Technology department at the University of Texas at el Paso. He designed Fontovar (2003), an experimental geometric hairline face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ray Oranges (b. 1983, Firenze, Italy) pushed modular constructions to the limit in his experimental typeface A Quarter Of Cake (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rebellion Acceptance Overdrive: Type Design at CalArts 1988-2001 | Experimental and contemporary type exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA), October 14-20, 2001. Hrant Papazian's harsh criticism of this exhibition and of the CalArts type program: "Nike typography. It appears that for almost 15 years now students of the type design program at CalArts have been taught to `just do it.' During the third week of October, CalArts staged a revealing (albeit severely under-promoted) retrospective of student work, dubbed `Rebellion Acceptance Overdrive.' Experimentation and discovery are at the heart of education, but this `oeuvre' had entirely too much deconstruction and not at all enough purpose. What is a type design program that doesn't teach you how to produce fonts others would like to use? Summer camp. Jens Gehlhaar was the one exception I noted, in terms of a student who took the CalArts philosophy seriously but refused to stop thinking, producing relevant experiments like the CIA Compendium, as well as tasteful, usable fonts such as Alfa Sans and Precrime. Then there was Lee Schulz with his dedicated craftsmanship and astonishing inspirational range: the hyper-decorative Antoinette; the gloriously organic Salome; the surprising low-res Batterie; the reserved Minister. But the bulk of the designs suffer from a clear lack of guidance, in the details as well as the roots. In the end, students who had both talent and intellect produced promising work from day one; the others were still producing crap upon graduation. What was the faculty teaching the students, exactly? Rebellion without a cause is just hooliganism. And now that the revolution has fizzled out, what will they teach, and who will want to learn it? The CalArts type design program has been about `grunge' typography. Although it's no longer fashionable to celebrate that, it remains relevant to discuss it, if only because it existed. This exhibit sparked - and could have helped answer - some interesting questions. What was destroyed/created when Ed Fella's entirely non-digital work was transmogrified into 99.44% pure bézier? What are the formal effects of our digital tools on the results? Why was Cholla converted from a botanical design to a mechanical one on its way to the commercial world? And the biggest question: how was this all worth it, to the students?". Read Lee Schulz's passionate reply. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rem Koolhaas | This architect provided inspiration for the geometric experimental face Koolhaasian (2009). Koolhand (2009) is a free experimental typeface designed by Chris Papasadero inspired by some of the architecture of Rem Koolhaas. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Creator of some experimental typefaces, that can be viewed at Behance. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Remote Inc (or: StayPretty)
| Staypretty is a type collection that is part of the Toronto-based commercial type collective called Remote Inc, est. 2003 by Mark Herd. MyFonts link. With one exception, the faces are designed by Mark Herd (b. 1972, Toronto), include Tanya (far out experimental), Wellesley (a bouncy display face), Taraville (handprinting), Jean (rectangular lettering), StayPretty and Don Mills. The fonts can be bought at MyFonts. See also SP Isis (minimalist font), SP Jean (a Bank Gothic exaggeration), SP Reka (more minimalism) and SP Tanya (experimental). Tara Rose Guild made the dingbat font family SP Taraville (2002). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Made Selfish (Nombrilisme) for FUSE95, a very very experimental font, full of surprises. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type designer. Jan Middendorp wrote A.R.K. Ten Years of Type Related Projects 1994-2004 (2004), summarizing Knip's work at Atelier René Knip, mostly experiments in type design. Knip (b. 1963) is a graduate from the St. Joost Academy in Breda. Since the 1990s, Knip has operated a design studio in Amsterdam, Atelier René Knip. Recently, Knip and his brother Edgar formed a new company, Gebroeders Knip, which produces furniture and accessories in which letterforms are integral parts of the objects design. One of his experiments, a unicase typeface with an Arab feel, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Turban Hey NF (2008). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Rens de Groot (Revolving, Amsterdam) made the geometric multiline face Lineatype (2011). It is based on a 32 x 24 grid. This grid is divided into 12 blocks. Each 8 blocks wide by 8 blocks high. The use of 9 lines per stoke is due to this grid. Free download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Research Studios (was: Research Arts UK)
| Neville Brody (b. 1957, North London) is a famous graphic designer who has influenced the practice of design in the 1990s. Iconic posters by him include the Tyson vs Tubs Tokyo poster from 1988. Other people working on Brody's site include Mike Williams and Simon Staines. Home of all FUSE fonts. Direct access. FontShop link. FontFont link. In 1993, Neville Brody published the poster font family FF World (FontFont), which used his lettering from his Tyson versus Tubbs Tokyo match poster (1988). This became a free web font in 2010 over at FontFont under the name FF World Wide Web. In 2006, Neville Brody published Times Modern, designed for The Times. The press release states: The new typeface, called "Times Modern", encapsulates the paper's heritage while adapting to the demands of the new compact format. Like The Times' previous typeface, Times Classic, Times Modern has been designed as a bespoke type family. The Times is the only newspaper to create and use bespoke fonts, all other UK newspapers purchase ready-to-use fonts. The project has been led by Ben Preston, Deputy Editor of The Times, in partnership with Neville Brody, formerly art director of The Face, and lead designer on Actuel, City Limits and Arena magazines. Brody also worked on the redesign of Times2 in 2005. Collaborating with Neville is lead designer Jon Hill supported by Research Studios' Luke Prowse. Jon has worked on many large editorial projects, including the design of supplements for The Guardian, the redesign of Swiss newspaper Le Temps and UK business-to-business magazine Media Week. Twenty-three year old Prowse has created the new Times Modern headline font for the newspaper. That press release has been blasted by the typophiles for being plainly wrong ("The Times is the only newspaper to create and use bespoke fonts, all other UK newspapers purchase ready-to-use fonts." What, and how about The Guardian, for example?) and disrespectful of its designers (you really have to dig through it to learn that Luke Prowse actually did the type work). And controversy keeps following Neville Brody: in 2009, New Deal, a constructivist typeface, was made for the Micheal Mann film "Public Enemies", starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. The bloggers comment that the type is "rubbish" (sic), and that others such as Chank beat him to this type style. In 2012, Research Studios published Vetena (HypeForType). |
Graphic design student at SUNY Purchase, NY. Creator of a dot matrix exerimental face in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ricardo | Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Richard Bradbury (UK) is a graphic design student. In 2011, he designed a modular typeface by intersecting circles---it is called Kaleidoscopic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and brander in Birmingham, UK. He created the typeface Runways (2009), which is based an aerial views of airports. Blog. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Very inventive graphic desiner in San Francisco. He has created great typographic posters such as Gecko (2009), as well as a pixelish experimental typeface called Pheobo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
RichyType
| Eric Schmitt's foundry established in 2006 in Frankfurt am Main. Some of his fonts are free and all have at least free demos. The list, as of early 2007: RT Cornelia (organic sans), RT Elsa, RT Francesca (a roman type in the style of Francesco Griffo's lettering), RT Francesca-bold, RT Francesca-italic, RT Gerda, RT Gerda-bold, RT Gerda-italic, RT Gerda-light, RT Gerda-light-italic, RT Klara Sans-bold, RT Klara Sans-italic, RT Klara Sans, RT Klara-Semibold, RT Klara-Tooled, RT Klara-italic, RT Klara-regular, RT Klebelettera (grunge), RT Le Papa (a Bodoni-inspired script), RT Paula (Futura-inspired), RT Questa, RT Questa-hoppel, RT Questa-italic, RT RichySans-bold, RT RichySans-kursiv, RT RichySans-light, RT RichySans, RT Tankstella (an experimental stencil). RT Magellan (2007) is a free medieval map font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
British graphic designer who studied graphic design at Worcester University. In 2011, he created the Rubix Cube Typeface, Suave (2011, an avant garde family with art deco elements). Behance link, Marble Display Font (2011, a geometric experiment). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bandung, Indonesia-based graphic designer. He created the experimental decorative face Gardenia (2011). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Houston Heights, TX. He used coat hangers to make the wiry typeface Desperation (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ripe Type
| Australian outfit that offers some free fonts and some commercial fonts, all made by Cameron Sweeney (b. Hobart, Australia, 1983). After graduating in 2004, Cameron began his career working for a number of leading I.T. companies in Hobart and Melbourne as a senior graphic designer. In 2009, Cameron he decided to take the freelance plunge and founded Ripe Type. The font list:
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Lebanese designer of the experimental face Mesomorph (2008). She explains: Mesomorph is digitally created and modified using a variety of repeated geometric forms that often echo the forms of arabesque or meso-american culture, such as Maya and Aztec. Initially derived from Islamic architechtural shapes these forms, taken together, embody a never-ending pattern. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wigan, UK-based designer of the experimental face Domino (2011). He is studying design at Runshaw College. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leeds, UK-based designer of the experimental typefaces Side View and Ellipsis (circle-based typeface) in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Montreal who created the circle-and-arc face Trois Ponts (2011) and the experimental alphabet Paralysis (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Treviso, Italy-based creator (b. 1975) of the original experimental face Aierbazzi (2008), in which letters are placed on top of each other to make combinations. He also made the free dingbat face Bagarozz (2010). Home page. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. Kernest link. YWFT link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from the Graphic Design program at Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) in 2010, who currently lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Home page. Creator of the experimental face Banca (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian type designer from Recife (b. 1976) who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Chango (grungy brush hand), Estuque (scratchy hand), Quadrinaits and Rano Light (very experimental). He runs Studio Setemeia. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed Carmen (serif family, see also here), TCLescuelerascript (1997, semi-calligraphic), TCLIndoSansItalic, TCLIndoSansLight, TCLtetra (2000). Was professor of Design and Typography at DUOC de Viña del Mar, Chile. Currently lecturer in the School of Design at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Other faces he created include CuzCuz (2004, an experimental Pre-Colombian face), Gemini, Obra (2002), Digna Sans (2002, see also here), New Maru (10px font, 2002; see also here) and TCL NumaX (1998). At Union Fonts, he designed the Digna family (2003) in Thin, Regular, Heavy and Bold weights. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
View Excoffon's typefaces. View Roger Excoffon's type designs and all digital revivals. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer of these typefaces: NET-regular (2002, connected dots, almost stitched), RANDOM (2003, a dot matrix font commissioned by the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam), SCORE (2003, pixel face), Antwerp (2003, letters are like in the train stations in Belgium), Drup and Drup Cursief (2006, experimental multi-line face). Based in Rotterdam, where he teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academie. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brasilia, Brazil-based graphic and poster designer. He works a lot of type into his projects. Designer of the flowery experimental font Goteira (2006), which I think would be just right to headline a novel on Roman orgies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian art director and graphic designer. Creator of the experimental face Numberz (2009), in which all the capitals are made up of pieces of numbers. Other experimental fonts: Seven (only the 7 is used to make up letters), Binary (only 1 and 0 are used), and Suffer (letters made by removing chunks). Creator of CrisisFont (2010), a display face created to remmember the Greek finincial crisis of 2010. Its letters are quite geometric and seem lost in confusion. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jerusalem-based typographer and graphic designer who created the experimental minimal FontTape (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ron Sellers Design
| Two experimental fonts by Ron Sellers: Oneline (one stroke fonts), and Leonardo Medium. No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Turin-based typographer and illustrator. The Corporation font (2011) is a geometric experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This New Yorker created an alphabet with flapjacks, and then digitized his Pancake Type (2010). I think that this had already been done many years earlier by Jason Lewis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Roxana Zegan | Quebec-based designer of the experimental faces Kiev Winter and Kiev Summer at UQAM (2003, with Sofia Madafi). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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French graphic designer, b. 1985, who lives in Lyon. He created the experimental face Urban (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Rückel designed FF Nuvo (2008), a rounded sans family for magazine design. It was followed by FF Nuvo Mono Pro (2011). Located in Berlin, Rückel is a freelance designer who has studied under Lucas de Groot at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam. His FF Alega is a hookish sans&slab family. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator in Birmingham, UK. Creator of an experimental counterless typeface in 2009. In 2010, he did similar faces called Shape Font V1 and Shape Font V2. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Plas01, Plas02 and Plas03, a set of Indic simulation faces, in 2010. Cubi01 (2010) is a 3d shadow pixel face. He also experimented in Beta01 (2010, ultra fat), and Angular (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kiev-based Ukrainian graphic and web designer. He made the experimental halfline arrangement font Rusley (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in the FUSE 9 collection of Metal, an experimental pixel-ish font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ruth Slomovitz | Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Andrea Grossy, Andrea Montedonico, Maria Laura Fernandez). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
rwpstudio
| Robert Petrick (RWP Studio, New York) used to sell 20 fonts for 750 bucks. His creations include Boink (Letraset, 1994), Tusk, Tutti Frutti, Blowfish, Facade Caps, Angelica and a few others. View his oeuvre here. Through FontHaus, get Blowfish, Gargoyle, Rhino, Streets, and Tusk. MyFonts sells Mirror (2011, +Mirror Two, 2012), Boink, Africana (2011, fat family), Pepino (2012, loosely based on the classic font Hobo), and Blowfish. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Student of Jennifer Kennard at Seattle Central Community College. Gun-toting Sarah Palin inspired him to make the target practice experimental face Going Rogue (2010). The site has a production video to boot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Christchurch, NZ-based graphic designer. He made the modular counterless Six (2009), the experimental Ngaio (2009), Shands (2009, inspired by subway maps), and Thin (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rochdale, UK, who is studying at Salford University. Creator of the experimental typeface AZ Freaky font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Helsinki, b. 1981. He created the experimental typeface KSM BDN (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free experimental face Impoertância (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bogota, Colombia-based designer of Noise Type (2012), an experimental typeface with oscillator noise superimposed on the outlines of the glyphs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SantoTipo
| Argentinian outfit originally headed by Claudio Pousada and Mauro Oliver [who has since left]. Fonts include Pollochorizo (Paola Ciotti), Los fierros (Quique Ollervides Uribe), Luchita Payol (Quique Ollervides Uribe), América (El Sebra), Sapucai Picada (Paco Aguayo), Zamora Exquisita (Oscar Reyes), Rogamos (Ramiro Ozer Ami), HebraCaps (El Sebra), Mofles (Paco Aguayo), Tequila Heights (Oscar Borrego). English version. Dafont link. SantoTipo's experiment is open to anyone and runs in two phases: the first one requires a surveyor/photographer who discovers a design; the second involves the creation of a typeface or typographic object from the discovery. If you want ideas for fonts, just look at these pictures! CV at Sudtipos, where he is one of about five designers. His first creations there include Titanes (comic book face) and the Icons-of-Icons dingbat series (SL Cortazar, SL Borges, SL Evita, SL Fangio, SL Gardel), which were done at SinergiaLab, which Claudio founded earlier (note that the artists seem to be different though, and he merely assumed, I think, the artistic direction). He has worked mainly in design for television, and was Director de Arte at "Multimedios América" in Buenos Aires for about ten years. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made the experimental face Uncontrollable Urge (2011) and the pixel face Rock As Well (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Founder and creative director of iKhan Design in Silver Spring, MD. Behance link. She created the experimental face Bobby Pinned (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Satya is co-founder of the The Indian Type Foundry (ITF) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in 2009. ITF is India's first digital type foundry providing Unicode compliant fonts. He studied at the National Institute of Design (NID) in India and interned with Linotype in Germany. He has also worked at Dalton Maag and L2M3 . He now works full time at ITF, creating original fonts in all the major Indian scripts along with their Latin companions. Satya studied graphic design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, where he specialized in motion picture graphics. His type work includes this experimental display face (2006), this minimalist face (2007), this experimental sans (2007), Rail India (2007, an Indic simulation face) and this Devanagari (Hindi) typeface (2007). With Peter Bilak, he created Fedra Hindi (2010, ITF). In 2010, he received the SOTA Catalyst Award and published the Kohinoor family for Latin, Devanagari and Tamil. In 2012, he designed the type family Engrez Sans. With Jyotish Sonowal, he designed the beautiful sem-calligraphic Tulika Bengali. It includes support for the Assamese, Bengali, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Garo, Kokborok, Meitei, and Mundari languages. . Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scooter Graphics (Fonts by Marty Pfeiffer)
| Public domain fonts designed by Marty Pfeiffer (Vancouver). Some gorgeous fonts such as the experimental font Simga or Moris Script. The full list includes Epsy Serif, Epps Evans, Nu Sans, Epsy Sans-Tight, Midnight, Pfeiffer Tall, Jubal Sans, Virtue (based on Apple's Chicago and Charcoal fonts), Especial Kay, Marty Bold, Moris Script, Nu Casual, Calypso Boy (after Excoffon's Calypso, 1958), Electrode, Freak, Ground Slither, Scooter Boy, Simga, Nu Sans Monospaced, lower, Nu Serif. Also commercial fonts such as the cash-register lookalike font Receipt 1.0. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Auckland, NZ-based designer who made experimental typefaces such as Area (2011, futuristic) and Peace by Piece (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Screentypo.org
| Screentypo.org discusses experimental fonts and screen typography (in German). It is run by Jens Weigel, who is the designer of StandUp (2002, a sans), and the beautiful Insekt (2003, with influences from Bernhard Roman) and InsektBiene (2004, roman titling face). Standup and Insekt are now available at URW (2004). He also designed a bitmap font with large x-height, showcased here, as well as the italic bitmap font Arty. Currently, he is working on a humanistic italic of Aldus Manutius (2003), based on a scan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer at Frank Adebiaye's Velvetyne Type Foundry in France, which is committed to the Open Source movement---all fonts are free. In 2011, he created the experimental faces Semicir, Hangul and Rotunda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer who happens to have the same name as the 17th century French typographer. He created the modular counterless faces Module and Module 4-4(2011) and the squarish humanist sans family Humanex (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the trends in type design schools, started ca. 2010, was to make typefaces using genetic material from two existing ones. The results are called "offspring". One example of this is Sean Maher's art deco face Midtowne (2011), which combines ITC Kabel and Manhattan ITC. Akt (2011) is an extreme-contrast expermintal typeface. Sean is a student at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver, CO. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bristol, UK-based designer of the oddly concocted face Grocian (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Buenos Aires (b. 1985, Buenos Aires). In 2009, he experimented with mechanical letters in Mech Type. In 2011, he made the nearly-blackletter face Güten Tag, and the rounded sans face Seattle. At Tipos Latinos 2012, Sebastián Gagin won an award in the display type category for Kiwi Extendida. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Berlin, who created experimental typefaces such as 45 Degrees Font (2012), Piefex (2008, pixel face), Stronghold (2008), Biefstreet (2009) and Black Holes Ghost (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the School of Visual Arts who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He created an experimental font in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seite4
| Berlin-based design company, est. 2003, run by Ralph du Carrois and Jenny Horn. Their fonts:
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SelfBuild Type Foundry
| SelfBuild Type Foundry has commercial fonts by Craig Stainton (York, UK, b. 1974). The fonts may be bought through DsgnHaus. These include SB Expo (bitmap face), SB Grip (bitmap face), SB Degenerate, SB Modem, SB Tokyo, SB Vibe, SB Message (pixel fonts, 2001), SB Liquid, SB Byte, SB Websnap (pixel font). Downloadable demos without punctuation or numerals. Free font: SB Censor (2001). Experimental dot matrix font: go here. At FontHaus, he made Censor-Cameo. Experimental graffiti font: Graff (2005; see also here). Creator of Mighty Robot Lettering (2011). Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Talented photographer and art director in Sofia, Bulgaria. He created the experimental typeface Roll (2009), and Poker (2010). No downloads or sales. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer in Sevilla. Creator of SRGMarker (2009), Srg189 (2009, paper cut face), Linea (2008, geometric experiment), Interline (2009), Point (2009, dot matrix) and SQZR (2008, dripping blood font). His place is called srgworks. Dafont link. Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish designer who studied in Sydney, Australia. At Behance, he made the experimental geometric face XYZ (2009), which must have been designed based on a mathematical program. He did the identity for an Uppsala-based group and designed the hip face Värmland's State of Mind (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum are visual artists and musicians who started collaborating in 2002 under the nom de guerre Seripop. Based in Montreal, Seripop has earned international attention for its stylistically distinct, silkscreened street posters. In 2005, Lum and Desranleau began experimenting with sculptural print installations which merge notions of city politics and visual perception. Creators of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Examples of sexy, bold and experimental typography published by Smashing Magazine in a May 2008 issue. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in North Carolina. Home page. Using Rorschach inkblot tests, he created the non-alphabetic experimental font Tool Malfunction (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Shellmoonsite
| Man Chung Lee's site. Born in Hong Kong in 1976, he studied multimedia in Vancouver in 1999. Presently, he is the Creative Art Director of CREAM, Hong Kong's culture and art magazine. He created some free fonts such as the experimental AreaLINEe (2001) and AreaOUTLINEe (2001). URL for his free fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Duluth, GA-based designer of the experimental typeface Type Dye (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sigurður Oddsson or Siggi Odds or Siggi Oddsson, was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1985, but spent a large part of his childhood in Vancouver, Canada. He graduated from college (in science) in 2005 and graduated with a B.A. degree in graphic design from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland in the spring of 2008. He is an illustrator and graphic designer. Typefaces created by him include Sniðagrind (2007, an experimental face inspired by Gateway, by designer Stephan Müller), Kögra (2006, a face based on fractals made at The Iceland Academy of the Arts), and Aryan Monkey (2007, a curly font done with Svein Daviðsson). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the WSoC in Oslo. In 2011, she created the geometric experimental face Wratex, and the high-contrast piano key face Connect (2011). In 2012, she added the redfined connected semi-script face Continuum. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Londoner who designed the experimental multiline face Rolet (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Simon Graham | Designer who made Genome (2001) at Fontmonster (a site that expired). Born in Scotland in 1973, he studied in Glasgow and Edinburgh focusing on type design and experimental typography. After graduating with a degree in Visual Communication he briefly taught font design and development at Edinburgh College of Art. Now working as a freelancer out of Denmark, his clients include Deaconn Clothing, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Icon and Sony. He designed Don't Listen (2005), an anti-Bush anti-war font which won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition. Aka A-Bombe. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator (b. 1989, UK) of Prime (2012, an experimental hexagonal typeface) and Blocked Out (2012). Inkie Block (2012) is another geometric experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican design studio in Monterrey. Behance link. Creator of Libertina (2012, experimental typeface), Hubbletype (2012, a sci-fi family), and Singularity (2012, a hyper-condensed thin typeface). [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] ⦿ |
Slang Graphic Design
| Berlin-based graphic design company. In 2003, Nathanael Hemon (b. 1973, France) designed the free experimental font Brother. Hemon moved first to the US in 1983, and thewn to Berlin in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Creator of a circular arc experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. She also created the experimental typeface Former (2012). The Plant (2012) is a modular geometric font experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Bardejov, Slovakia. She created the experimental faces Puzzle (2009) and Universal Serial Bus (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SMeltery Fonts
| SMeltery is the French foundry of Jack Usine. Free fonts: Megalopolis Extra (2008), Vidange (2008-2009, a sans at PsyOps; in 2010, a commercial version appeared), Geronto Bis (2008), Telerysm Mono 2 (2008), Bankrutt (2008), Trottoir (2007, inspired by the writing on the sewer covers of Pont-à-Mousson), Stigmate (2007), Sans Merci (2006), Jules Vernacular (2006, upright script), Alusine (2005), Geronto (2005, wow!), Justice (2004, octagonal), Megalopolis (2004), Mon Nom (2004, mono), Oh My God (2004, experimental), Telerysm (2004), Telerysm Mono 2, Heretica (2004, gothic), Consume More (2004), Est-ce que (2004), Bankrutt (2004, blackletter stencil), Audimat (2003), Audimat Mono (2005), Patronne (2003, octagonal), Enfer (2003), Redevance (2003, fifties diner font), Outil (2003), Work (2003), Watch TV (2003, stencil), Kebab (2003), Consume (2003, dingbats), Gazole (2003), Icone (2003), Ax&Swar (2003, artsy), TwentyOne (2003), Phylloxera (2002), Jack Usine (2002, great techno face), Charles (2002), Fat (2002). No longer supplied: Laplakett, Bogota, Lamemoire, Lafacture, Hustla, Goody, UseIn, CPUX, Daplakijtt, Zero. Commercial fonts: Vidange (2008, PsyOps), Rouge Sans (2007), Sans Merci (2006), Vernissage (2006, stencil), Manifest Destiny (T26, 2006). In 2006, Usine and Fanny Garcia published Soupirs A through E, nifty ornaments based on the soupiraux found in Bordeaux). Experiments: Toypography (2004), TypoClock (2003). Alternate URL. MyFonts page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
SMOG (or: Santiago Motion Graphics)
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Felipe Cáceres helped out with the final production of these typefaces designed by Moisés Arancibia: Alpaca (a slab face), Mafia (an experimental face), Mokeka (a display face), Matas (a display face), Central (a display face), Chacon (a black rounded face), and Bikini (a squarish face). In addition, Moisés Arancibia created Menu (not at SMOG) and Hola Mundo (alien dingbats, some of which were designed by Sebastian Platz and Sebastian Pagueguy). |
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SO Design
| SO Design is a Dutch studio run by André Toet (b. 1950, Den Haag). He was educated at the KABK under Gerrit Noordzij from 1974-1976, and at the Central School of Art and Design in London under Nicolete Gray from 1976-1977. From 1979-1980, he worked as a designer at Total Design with Juriaan Schrofer and Wim Crouwel. Creator of Artu (2012, monospaced display face), Battersea (multiline face), Billiard (2012), Bloggy (experimental), AT Move Bloggy (2010), Decoupe (experimental), AT Move Decoupé (2012: a modular font based on a French game from 1906), Holborn, Mezzo (mimimalist), AT Move Pipi (2012, a playful textured caps face), AT Move Mezzo, AT Move Powerplay (1976, and redone in 2011: multilined), Musica, Nath, Pipi, Powerplay, Tremelo, Wiggle. Creations from 2012: AT Move Tremelo (based on the logotype Microtel), Artu. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Sofia Madafi | Quebec-based designer of the experimental faces Kiev Winter and Kiev Summer at UQAM (2003, with Roxana Zegan). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Portuguese graphic designer who created the expermental typeface Tube Font (2012), based on a map of the subway of London. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Parsons in New York. Creator of Dynamic (2009, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greek graphic designer who made the experimental face Slide (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sophteck's Jungle and Typography
| Alan Bauchop (Sophtecks, Wellington, New Zealand) made these typefaces in 1998: Trix, ScreenyJubs, Earth People, Brickle, Cain, Chunk, Miniskip, Miniskap, Miniskup (techno), and the experimental Silo. Some pixel fonts. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the experimental grid face Espinas (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in North Carolina. Behance link. He created two experimental fonts, Fanetik (2011) and Unfolded (2011, 3d). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and type designer from Reykjavik, who created two experimental typefaces in 2008 with Jared Eberhardt: Syrillic, and Worn. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator from Swindon, UK. He/she/they created these experimental typefaces in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Lausanne. He created the experimental face Sulu (2009) while taking a course with Clotilde Olyff. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stefan Schuster (Schuster Design, Berlin) is a senior art director, designer and photographer. Behance link. As Violent Elegance, he made two experimental free fonts (obtainable per email request). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and visual artist, b. 1990. He lives in Oslo. His typefaces, all made in 2009, include Tiny Little Miss Squirrel (hairline, curly), Big Fat Ugly Cow (fat fad face), Mr. Hedgehog (geometric experiment) and Just Comic (child's hand). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Experimental type design at the University of Wuppertal under Professor Heribert Birnbach and Dipl.-Des. Hartmut Schaarschmidt. Type experiments by these people, all dated ca. 2004:
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Graphic designer in Les Mureaux, France. Creator of the experimental constructivist typeface Latinoruskov (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stephen Lowe (Luton, UK) is a graphic design at De Montfort University. He created the geometric face Gridded (2011) and the organic modular face Rounded Off (2011). Pentography (2011) is a lines-only face with all vertices on the intersections of the complete graph formed by a pentagon. Folded (2011) and Sharp Folds (2011) are based on folded paper. Gridded (2011) is more experimental. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stereoplastika
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Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. He made the custom logortype Chimaera (2010) for a mediaeval-style cafe. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Prolific author, art director of the New York Times Book Review and founder and coChair of the School of Visual Arts, New York MFA/Design Program. He is the former editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and author or editor of over 80 books on popular culture, graphic design history, and political art. He has written over 80 books on popular culture, graphic design history, and political art. MyFonts page on him. Editor of The Education of a Typographer (2004, Allsworth Press). Some of his books closest to type design and typography:
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Denton, TX-based designer of Type Babies (2011), a project in which the genetic features of two typefaces are mixed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Indianapolis, Steven Williams's first font is a very geometric modular experimental face called Willstack (2011). His second font is Cubi V (2011), which was inspired by sculptor David Smith. His third face is an unnamed round squarish font (2011). He teaches at the Art Institute of Indianapolis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stijn Druyts | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Television. Stijn lives in Minderhout. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator from Westgate on Sea (UK) of Gypt (2010), an experimental font that as inspired by hieroglyphs. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Subtype (was: Typisc or Suprb)
| Swedish commercial foundry, est. 2006, earlier called Suprb or Typisc. Commercial fonts: NTMY (2009, ultra-black), Alasca (2008), Quick16 (2008: pure geometry), ASCA (2008, "the cousin of OCR"), Myld (2008, avant garde ideas), Wyld (2010, hairline version of Myld), DIRR (2007, an unreadable extra black concoction), ASCA and ASCA-D (2007, rounded octagonal), LIW (techno, in bold and regular versions), Wyld (2007, Avant Garde to the extreme), Quick16 (2008, experimental), Alkasca (2008), Building (2006), Asphalt (2007, avant garde). Free fonts: Quart (2008, kitchen tile style), SWEM (2007, experimental), Cloud (2006, hairline font with connected letters, by Andreas Pihlström). Alternate URL. YWFT link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Sugargliderz
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Free fonts: Frail (2011, a 6-style grungified didone family), Cuneiform, Fragment Core, Proto Uncertain (handwriting), Shears, Unnamed. Commercial fonts: Uncertain Felttip (2008), the Palindrome family (2006, experimental), Pinch (2007, handprinted), ScratchWithTheCoin (2007, grunge), Bagworm (2007, four styles, influenced by Tekton), Decay (2008, grunge), Beg Before (2008, grungew), Beg After (2008, grunge), Phoebus Palast (2008), Kropotkin (2008, 24 styles of a sturdy early 20th century grotesk), Rebuild-Square (2009, totally square family), Ponytail (2009, rounded), Violadabraccio (2009, serif), Long Haul Trucker (2009, alphading/logo font), Michel (2009, didone). |
Sulki and Min
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Sun Jung is a graphic designer originally from South Korea. She graduated BA in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag, in 2006. Before her second stint at KABK, resulting in a Masters degree in type design, she worked in the fields of advertising and graphic design. Creator of Superhero (2011) and a few other experimental faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer who experiments with type design. He used the triangular grid to make Polyface (2009). He also made the modular face Untitled (2008). He is currently pursuing a degree in New Media Design at the National Institute of Design in India. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Suomi Type Foundry
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View Tomi Haaparanta's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Brazilian designer of the purely geometric experimental face Roulé Sans (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Portuguese designer (b. 1979), who obtained her Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2004) and still lives in Den Haag. She created the experimental sans face Vertigo (2004). See here for her work there. With her husband Kai Bernau, she set up Atelier Carvalho Bernau in Den Haag, where one cam look at their commercial type families Neutraface Slab, Lyon Text, Lyon Display, and Neutral. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sveinn Þorri Daviðsson was born and raised in Akureyri on the north-east side of Iceland. He moved to Reykjavik in 2005 to study graphic design at the Iceland Academy of the Arts (B.A. degree in 2008). After his graduation, he moved to Berlin, where he shares a studio space with his friend Siggi Eggertsson. Icelandic designer of Times New Rope (2008, based on Times Roman). Grindavik (monospace face) is inspired by Wim Crouwel's type design, Futhark runes and older cumae forms. Tekkno is an isometric modular and angry face. Other typefaces: Russibani (super-organic; done with Siggi Eggertsson), Reinhardt (with Siggi Eggertsson: based on old German woodcut posters), Bad Times (handprinted Times Roman), Ultima Thule (grotesk headline; done with Siggi Eggertsson), Api (curly), Paper (paper cut face), Ryksug (experimental). YWFT link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in the FUSE 10 collection of the experimental font Atomic Circle. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
T4 Typography AB (was: Sinnebild, Olsson's Fonts, Torbjörns Typer, T-Type)
| T4 Typography after (which still exists). Its sister company, A4, designs newspapers. Libretto, a text font with old style figures, is absolutely gorgeous! Ludovico is also brilliant as a text face, while Ornaments Ink and Pen is an elegantly original dingbats font with ink spots. Other fonts include Interrupt Display (a Morris Fuller Benton revival, done in 2001), Fin Tertia Kursiv (2001, a great modern font, digitized from matrices found in the Norstedt collection, dating back to about 1750), More, Lights (dot fonts), GenderFeminine (1997), GenderMasculine (1997), Fournier Initialer, KumlienMM (1993), Kumlien-Initialer (1994), Mecanic (1992), MixtureMM (1994), RendezvousMM (1993), Ornaments, Ornaments Ink and Pen, Rössjor. Olsson is one of today's grand masters. And now, multiple master fonts Vadau and DejaVue! Lights One, Two, Three, Sarajevo, Cirkelnummer. And a splendid revival of Doves Type created in 1900 by Emery Walker and used by Thomas J. Cobden-Sanderson at their Doves Press (1900-1916). It is called DovesType (1996, OpenType versions now also available). The PDF file on that site has Troycer (1996), also by Olsson. By clicking on "Info", you get free Borders and Ornaments fonts. Alternate URL. MyFonts sells the T4 fonts Motor Mouth (2006, by Martin Fredrikson), Batory (techno) and Batoswash (both monoline sans designs by Bo Berndal, 2006), Mixtra Roma (forced serif), Havel (super-condensed constipated slab serif), Mixtra Sansserif, and Mixtra Slabserif. Mixtra is a versatile and complete type family designed by Bo Berndal in 2006. Olsson's Havel (2006) is an updated interpretation of a Czech type design from the 1930s, different from condensed types of the same era, such as Spire (Sol Hess, 1937), Onyx (Gerry Powell for ATF, 1937) or Quirinus Bold (Alessandro Butti, 1939). In 2007, Olsson added these fonts: One Night Stand (experimental), Interrupt Display Pro (in the style of Impact), Eknaton (a powerful Egyptian family), Museum Tertia Cursive (inspired by a beautiful set of 126 matrices in the Swedish Norstedts type collection. These types were probably manufactured in Germany before 1750. The matrices are part of a set imported to Sweden by J.P. Lindh from Breitkopf and Härtel 1818), Museum Ornaments, Museum Borders, and Museum Fournier (inspired by a set of Rococo capitals designed by Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune ca. 1760. The matrices are part of a set imported to Sweden by J.P. Lindh in 1818 from Breitkopf&Härtel in Leipzig, Germany. They are now in the Nordiska Museum in Stockholm). Tyma Garamont (2007, five wonderful styles) was inspired by the Berner-Egenolff type sample from the 1560s. The Italic was inspired by a sample from Robert Granjon, also from the 1560s. The name TYMA is short for AB Typmatriser, a Swedish company founded in 1948, because the Second World War stopped all import of matrices for Linotype and Intertype typesetting machines. The templates for Garamont Roman were initiated by Henry Alm 1948. Bo Berndal was hired the following year, and continued the work by drawing and cutting templates for the rest of Garamont Roman, as well as for the remaining Garamont family. Bo Berndal stayed at TYMA until it went bankrupt in 1952. At that time Bo Berndal had already kick-started his career as type designer by drawing the typeface Reporter for one of the big daily newspapers, Aftonbladet, a version of Cheltenham for another daily, Dagens Nyheter, and copied several old typefaces for other customers. Librarian Sten G. Lindberg at The Royal Library of Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, procured copies of original type samples. Bo Berndal completed TYMA Garamont in 2007. View the typefaces designed by T4. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tabo (Gustavo) Garcia (alternate URL) is based in New York. He designed these fonts:
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Bangkok-based graphic designer. He created the fat geometric faces Herzog (2008, with Travis Stearns) and Ally (2009) and the retro slab serif Lollop (2009). You Work For Them link. With Michael Cina and Michael Paul Young, he created YWFT Agostina Aleternate (2011). With Travis Stearns, he did the children's face Garnier (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Cape Town, South Africa. She made the pencil scrap alphabet Fuse (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer Tanja Oppel combined blackletter and grotesk to get Fratesk (2012). In an interesting experiment, Tanja averaged 13 versions of Garamond: Adobe Garamond Oldstyle Figures, Garamond Classico, Garamond, ITC Garamond, Stempel Garamond, Adobe Garamond LT, Stempel Garamond Oldstyle Figures, ITC Garamond LT, Garamond 3, Garamond Premier Pro, Simoncini Garamond LT, Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond Three LT. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free truetype fonts that represent ordinary kana and ancient and experimental kana. About fifteen fonts in all. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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TarmSaft font factory
| Futuristic, experimental, grungy stuff not found elsewhere, by agnuaspflibko in Sweden. Check Pormask Ytterhud. Tarmsaft is no more, though. Some of its fonts may still be found on archives, so here is a list of font names: Äggstock, ArsleGothic, ArsleGothic, Bajoran-Ancient-STsemicanonbased, Bajsmaskintjocksprutande, Bajsmaskin, Bajsmaskintjocksprutande, Bajsporr, BantarbjrnHeavy, BilligHora, Bonushora, Brottardolme, Brunkål, Brunst, BrunstCaps, Brunöga, FetmaHeavy, Fisring, Fisring, Fittsvamp, Flottig, FlytningarSvulstiga, Flytningarsprutande, Flytningar, Flytningar, FlytningarSvulstiga, Flytningarsprutande, GallaBlack, GallaBold, Galla, GallaBlack, GallaBold, GallaBold, Untitled, Gathora, Gubbrra, Gubbrra, Helvetet, InavelFrtvinad, InavelFrtvinad, InavelKromosomkalas, InavelKusin, InavelMutant, InavelStorebror, InavelTetkaCyr, InavelTjockaSlkten, InavelTjockaSlkten, KEWKEN, Kattakodd, Kisskorv, Knarkarsvin, Knulla, Lantfnask, Lderbg, LillSnase, Lingonvecka, Manslem, Multihora, Muttprutt, Ollon, Onani, Pormask2039, PormaskRemix, Pormask-Ytterhud, Pormask, PormaskInnebrännare, PormaskInnebrännare, PormaskKlämd, PormaskKlämd, PormaskRemix, Porrblaska, Psttning, Pungen, Psttning, Reningsverk, Rttpick, Rugguggla, Rumpnisse, Runkspad, RuttenSpya, Rvkrm, Rvple, RvpleTjock, Rännskita, Rttpick, Rvkrm, Skäggbiff, Skinnbanjo, Skäggbiff, Snderfistad, SneflabbNormal, Snetripp, Snuskpk, SpinkigJvel, SpinkigJvel, Spräckaren, Spritad, Sprutfest, Spräckaren, Spyhink, Stjrt, Stjrt, Stngkorv, Stngkorv, Snderfistad, TarmSystem, Taskekseminflamerat, Taskeksem, Taskekseminflamerat, Tidelag, Tidelagskoprofag, Tjackluder, Tjockebo, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, Untitled, Untitted, Våldtäkt, Våldtäkt, Våldtäkt, Aptango, Åderpåk, Nobrain, Tjockebo, Äggstock, ÄggstockGravid, Åderpåk. The full archive has been restored by CybaPee at TypeOasis. Italian tarmsaft site. typeOasis archive. URL at DaFont. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brazilian designer from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, who is working on this modular experimental face (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pixel fonts, sometimes quite experimental: bit-01:cube-16-remix, bit-02:longbow, bit-03:urbanfluxer, ltr-02:morbid-vision, ltr-04:wireflame, ltr-05-dragonic, ltr-06:artcore, ltr-07:quiolax-demo, ltr-ex:moonlight, ltr-09:30/60. Located in Tokyo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Otto Maurer (Tattoofont) created Ipoint (2008, a 15 style fun-filled Bauhaus-inspired family), Black and Beauty (2007, blackletter family), Big Rain (2007), Blood (2007, dripping blood tytpe), Preussen (2007, a 4-style blackletter family), Otto Bismarck Italic (2007), an italic blackletter face, and its parent, Otto Bismarck (2007). Designer of the free curly font Corps Script (2006) and Corps Script Shadow (2006). Creator with Sabrina of the free handwriting fonts Sabsis Handwriting Version 3 (2007) and Sabsis Handwriting (2007). Home page. Dafont link. Yet another URL. In 2007, he went partially commercial and set up shop at MyFonts. His fonts there include the artsy Sailors Tattoo family (2007), SailorsTattoo-waves (2007), Sailors Tattoo Pro Xmas (2007), Sick Skull (2007, scary), Tribal Maori (2007), MauBo Flatline (2007, experimental), Tribal Dingbats (2007), Tribaltypo (2007: quite interesting), MauBo (2007, mechanical look), Hotrod (2007), Blood (2007, scary), MauBo Flatline (2007, white on black) and Corpse Fairy (2007), Mrs. Sabo (2007, calligraphic and grunge hand), Tribal King (2007), Pierced (2007), Big Rain (2007), Detective Maurice (2007), Cutdown Maurice (2007), Digital Maurice (2007), Good Old Fifties (2007, 11 styles), Tribal Dingbats II (2008, a tattoo font), Tribal tattoos III (2010), Hot Flames (2008), Drago (2008, a blackletter and alphading family), Party Night (2009), Tattoo Girl (2008). Typefaces from 2009: Yuma (2009, Western saloon font), Freiheit (2009, blackletter), Lycaner (2009, blackletter), Sud France (2009, script), Psychbilly (2009, fat brush), Love Mom (2009), Vampire (2009), Animal Zoo (2009), Turtle (2009), Grunge (2009, cracked marble family), Crate (2009). Typefaces from 2010: Big Mom (2010, a family that includes a blackboard bold style), Haike (2010). Typefaces from 2011: Tinka Babe (2011), Poisoni Pro (2011, tall art nouveau style brush face, with Shadow and College sub-styles), Lanzelott (2011, a very elegant retro display family), Stencilla (2011, a heavy stencil face), Guilin (2007, brushy), Darkwood (2011), Rock n Roll Typo (2011), Loreen (2011). In 2012, he made the pointy Psychomonster typeface. Showcase of Otto Maurer's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
German designer who created the free hairline octagonal face Pomegranate in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. She also has many nice typographic posters in her gallery. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Teal Triggs | Teal Triggs is director of postgraduate studies, faculty of art, design and music, Kingston University, London. She has written on graphic design, typography, and feminism. Her books include Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation, and The Typographic Experiment: Radical Innovation in Contemporary Type Design (Thames&Hudson, 2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Lugo, Spain. He created the multiline piano key face Typofunk (2011) and the experimental circular arc-themed face Chained (2011). Creator of the experimental typeface OVNY (2011), which has not a single crved section, and looks extraterrestrial to me. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental caps typeface NSWE (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Terminal Design
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Art student in California. Creator of the experimental face Betamaze (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tetsuo Igarashi's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Check out EMPTY and Parallel, experimental fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of Ultras Liberi (2008), an experimental display face. Alternate URL. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Private Press and Typefoundry
| Paul Hayden Duensing (1928-2006) was a typographer who ran The Private Press and Typefoundry, in Vicksburg, MI. Designer of Sans Descender, Chancery Italic (1966), Rustica Sixteenth Century Roman, Quadrata II, Janson Open (experimental), Van Krimpen Open Capitals (numerals only; designed by Will Reuter and cut by Duensing), Octavian Caps, Unciala, and Dartmouth (designed by Will Carter, cut by Duensing). In 1990, he published a gorgeously hand-set booklet entitled "Deutsche Druckschriften", in which he says: "The present portfolio attempts no campaign for Fraktur; rather ir makes only a quiet appeal for consideration of a great, if neglected, calligraphic typeface." The blackletter types shown there are, I presume, made by him: Heinzemann No99M, Heinzemann No100M, Dürer No.256, Wallau, Jessen, Kasseler No. 40 Teutonic Text, Theuerdank No. 392, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Schrift, Blücher No. 387 and Koch Initials. He was a generous man, who in the last year of his life donated his typefounding machines, matrices and effects to young people. He died on November 9, 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Essen, Germany-based designer of the experimental neon light alphabet Generativ Jazz (2011). Not a font, I think. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Wilderness
| Kevin Soh runs The Wilderness in Auckland, New Zealand. He created a few experimental typefaces for his graphic design projects. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TheyGraphics is a multidisciplinary graphic design studio. Working in advertising, retail, fashion, company profiles, broadcast, illustration, type design and music. Their offices are in Stockholm, Sweden and Prague, Czech Republic. The designers: Fredrik Forsberg (Stockholm), Jiri Adamik-Novak (Stockholm), Zdenek Patak (Prague). The fonts: Leda (experimental), Motion (hairline octagonal), Prank (Amelia-inspired), Logarex and Garamond Preissig. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thiago Camargo | Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free faces Continue Caminhando (2011, sign language face), Mobilidade Social (2011), Nova Tipo (2011, experimental) and Escada X (2011, a caps face inspired by wayfinding signs). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Paris. His typefaces include Shapeflow (experimental, 2009), Narra (2009, all caps, free), and Falcon (2009, shadow headline face, free). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Amsterdam who made an alphabet for stirring coffee, called CoffeeFont (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Emotional Code (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in London, UK. She dabbles in experimental type design, and created these alphabets (probably not actual fonts) in 2010: Circuit, Marbling, Slice. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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). | |
Born in Dortmund in 1978. Since 2000, he studies in Offenbach at the Hochschule für Gestaltung. He assisted Akira Kobayashi with some projects. At Typeoff.de, he created the experimental face India Gothic (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tim Fishlock made an alphabet by using pieces of the London Underground Map. He also made an alphabet based on seats, and another one based on geometric shapes. Typetoken link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tim Rolands Digital Design (was: TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance)
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Tim's creations include Orlando (free), Anvil (also available in OpenType), Valor (2006, an experimental modern face that combines geometry and mediaeval Lombardic ideas), Miranda (an Aldine, roman caps family: Pro version appeared in 2012), Aegis, Prospero (1997, inspired by the early Romans of Nicolas Jenson; see Prospero Pro (1997-2008)), Illiad, Kimberly, Timotheus, Envoy (2001, garalde family), Odyssey (2001, classical Roman caps), Alexander. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tiny Factory
| Latin experimental fonts made by Yosiro (b. 1974): BigupBold, Bigup, DotsHard, DotsSoft, Eltic, FunamoriKatakana, Gentle, Hearts, Shout, Berion, ChilliBold, Chilli, ChiwawaHard, DeliaBlack, Delia, Marjo, RoughBold. Designer of dotsJ, adgeles, readles, sold at Font Pavilion. At Digitalogue, he made the screen pixel fonts Vibes10, Echo8, Riddim7. At Shoeisha, he designed BDMango (Reg and katakana), Qual, Punch and Ancefan (Reg and katakana). On Dex's Fontrom#2, he has Jerk, King, and Massive. At Fontmania, he has Babylon. Several dot fonts and pixel fonts. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tipocondriac
| Experimental Catalan font foundry offering these Mac and PC fonts by Gerald Puig: Manifesto, Obsolet, Serifos Gor, Serifos Zzzzzzzz, Bustop. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Tipopotamo Fontes
| Tipopotamo Fontes is a Brazilian foundry (also called Elesbao e Haroldinho) offering 27 free fonts. Designers: Claudio Reston, José Bessa, Fabio Eis. Fonts: AlmanaqueItalic, AlmanaqueNormal, AlmanaqueOutlineItalic, AlmanaqueOutline, AMassaFalida1, AMassaFalida2, AngularMedium, BacanaMesmoMedium, BacanaMedium, BlendadaNormal, BrailleSerif, BrasilisBold, Buchada (handwriting), Cadela (handwriting), CassulaDingbats (little men), CassulaTypeface (handwriting), Cistema (pixel font), EmboliaLunar (curly letters), LatrinaBlack, MobralMedium, NervosaNormal (handwriting), OdaraSemiBold (geometric experimental), SambambersBold, Supersonica, Surraundi (squarish letters), TechnocrataItalic, TechnocrataNormal. All fonts made in 1999-2001. Located in Rio. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tipos do aCaso
| In 1998 a group of friends decided to study typography and produce digital types in Pernambuco, Brazil. Two years later they organize an exhibition of their work and established Tipos do aCASO as the first Brazilian Northeast digital type foundry. In the following years they sold and distributed their own types from catalogs, small objects and merchandising stuff. The group gained national prominence participating and being rewarded in competitive design exhibitions like Tipografia Brasilis, Pernambuco Design Conference, Biennial of Design by ADG-Brasil and Biennial Tipos Latinos. Soon the invitations to give lectures and workshops around the country started. The collective turns into a business and developes important dingbat projects for the Pernambuco's Government such as Manguebats and Armoribats. Today, Tipos do aCASO returned to its origins and works as a collective again. Managed by its founder, Buggy (author of the only Brazilian type design book written in Portuguese) the type foundry undertakes researches and promotes educational activities focusing on letterpress, typography and typeface design. Some designers:
Leonardo Buggy was born in Brazil in 1976. In 1998, two years before he graduated in design from UFPE, Buggy founded the first digital type foundry in northeastern of his country, Tipos do aCASO. Later, he worked as a graphic designer and art director collaborating and providing services to companies like Ford, Unilever, WalMart and Nannai Beach Resort. Between 2003 and 2006 he was cultural director of the Professional Association of Designers from Pernmabuco, APD-PE, and manager of Visual Arts and Design Centers of Recife City. At the same time he became CEO at Fundicio Design & Technology, member of Pernambuco's IT cluster. Still in 2006 he took a master's degree in Design also at UFPE. One year later, he wrote `O MECOTipo', the first book published in Brazilian Portuguese about type design. In January 2008 he founded the Course of Technology in Graphic Design at Barros Melo College in Olinda City. He coordinated this first graphic design course offered in Pernambuco by a private institution until 2009, when he joined the staff of UFPE professors. He also organized and participated actively in conferences, exhibitions and competitions in Brazil and abroad, having been awarded on the 7th and 9th Biennial of Graphic design from ADG-Brasil, the 2004 and 2008 Biennial Tipos Latinos and the 2nd and 3rd Pernambuco Design. Currently, he works on post graduate programs in graphic design around his country and teaches typeface design, history of typography and printing techniques at the Design Center of CAA, UFPE. His most important fonts are Cordel, Disquete, Bitmap, Oxe, Regua, AvantBuggy, Lia and Fatwood. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tipos Reunidos (or: Petit Comite)
| Barcelona-based type and graphic and visual identity designers who published these fonts in 2006 at T-26: Brotxa (2007, fat handprinted face), Canvas (a stencil experiment), Mequetrefe (2007, T-26, an informal 3-d block letter family), Cuca (an informal printed script family), LaFuente (playful script and dingbats for sales signs). Other fonts: Dotdotis, Diario tuc-tuc (2005), Diamant. Petit Comite, the other name for Tipos Reunidos, was established by Quim Massana (the type designer) and Yolanda Martín. Tatiana Vallejo is a Mexican designer who also contributes. The Don family (T-26, 2007) is a fat didone display font with stylistic changes--it includes Don Paco Bold, Don Pancho Bold, Don Pascual Bold and Don Pepito Bold, and Cobalt (2002, T-26) is a 3-weight stencil family. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Titipun Tubthong is a designer in Bangkok. He created the experimental thai face Camera (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TNOP
| TNOP is Tnop Wangsillapakun's outfit, est. 2005. Tnop is the Bangkok-born Chicago-based [T-26] designer of Bpositive (screen font), OneAM (1999, dot matrix font), Fliptura, Dodo (fantastic experimental display font!!), Square 45 (with technical assistance of Carlos Segura, Ben Husmann and Ana Reinert), and ItsOverCaptain (2000, game playing font). CV. Tnop has worked with a wide range of clients such as Corbis Images, Nike, Coca-Cola, IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), fashion designer Maria Pinto, Mitea (a small tea shop in Chicago), and Alongkorn (a high-level bespoke suit shop in Bangkok). He teaches design at Rangsit University in Pratumthani, Thailand. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French designer and design studio in Paris. He created SimpleKoelnBonnSymbols (2004), a rounded typeface and appropriate dingbat set for the Koeln Bonn Airport, which was done as part of the design effort of the design studio Intégral Ruedi Baur et Associés. Toan Vu-Huu teaches at ESAD in Amiens. Scan of some experimental fonts made by his students in 2008 at ESAD: My students just finished their second project for this year. The aim was to choose an object from their daily life and create a font out of it. From top to bottom we have Maël Fournier Comte (American Apparel Slip), Auré-Line Lecoq (Tooth Paste), Jérémie Garric (Allium), Céline Bouchez (Chewing Gum), Arnaud Dupond (Nails), Matthieu Laroussinie (T-Shirt). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Norwich University College of the Arts in the UK. Behance link. Creator of the modular typeface On The Rocks (2012), which is based on circles and arcs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Californian designer who created the experimental Bigheaded Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sydney-based graphic design company which first started in Rotterdam in 2001 but relocated to Australia in 2006. They have a "confused type project", an architectural typeface, and various experimental typefaces done for some specific projects. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The awards included the 2001 Judges' Special Prize for Yuji Koiso's wonderfully experimental kanji font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Belgian graphic designer and software specialist who is assiocated with the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium. He designed various experimental types at these workshops. On his web site, you can find the (free) Panda truetype font made by his associate, Tom Van Iersel. He also made Pixie, a handwriting OpenType face (2004) that looks different each time. Speaker at the ATypI meetings in 2004 and 2005 in Prague and Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Creator of experimental faces such as Glam (2011, piano key face), Lucifers (2011, glyphs made with matches), and Elementen (experimental, modular). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tomás García Ferrari's FUSELAB Font Dr.Mr.
| Experimental font (absolutely fantastic in my view) by Buenos Aires-based Ferrari. Made for FUSE95. Another great Broadway-style font is Gordita. In ExVetica, he played around with Helvetica-Bold and transformed it. He teaches type design at FADU, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the experimental font Newcracks. Real name of designer unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young Slovenian graphic designer (b. 1978, Kranju) who made the typefaces Geotip (1998, geometric experiment), Grotesca (1998), Russia (1999, Cyrillic simulation font), Stisca (1999), Walbotomy (2000, Walbaum letters rotated to make other letters), Circularum (2000), Quadra (2000, a squarish font), QuadraII, Mikona (2000) and J477 (2000, underbelt and uppercut, left and right versions of minimalist ideas). He is designing the corporate identity of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Designer of the sans face Finting (2006). Cofounder of the TipoBrda type design conferences, held annually since 2006 in Slovenia. Creator of the futuristic experimental face Laufr during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2008. In 2011, he designed the didone family Rastignac (+Italic). He finished his master's degree in 2007 at the Department for Design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In 2010 he became Assistant Professor at Academy of fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In the same yar, he created Spacioneza. Lolita Band poster (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStruct artist who made the experimental font SumB2B3 ion 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tovaley Gestaltung
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Transkrypt
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In 2010, he started Fontschmiede with Michel M, where further fonts, commercial and free, can be found: Mrs Beasley, Sputnik, Superia, Tambourine, Destroya, Alphabutts and Elemenz are free. In 2011, he published New Telegraph Arrows at Fontschmiede. MyFonts site. Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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UK-based graphic designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006. Once in a while, an experimental font makes me straighten my back. After seeing Troy Hyde's Channeled Light Font (2010), I got to think again about the inherent beauty of natural things, and how the laws of physics create almost perfect curves. Curves we can't get by tweaking Bezier points in a font editor. Here is what Try Hyde says about the process: This font is created inspired by the shapes found at the cross section of a rolled cylinder of corrugated paper. The scanner is a key part of the process: There is high definition at the point at which the paper touches the scanners surface. Light is also channelled though the tunnel of paper, thus becomes as integral a part of the font's shape as the paper itself. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design company. They made the Hebrew faces PostTI (2009; the Latin version is PostEnglishTI), Tsadock-Nue (2008), Tsadock-Japan (2008), Tsadock-Yad (2008), Tsadock-Lord (2008), and the Latin brush face Roughbrush TI (2009), Coffee TI (2009, experimental) and the Latin face FreehandTI (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tyler Lang | Sarasota, FL-based student. Designer of this experimental hairline face (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Lobo created the experimental geometric face Monkey (2011), the geometric art deco family Jono (2011), the blackboard bold face YDXS (2011), and the logotype Sanjo (2011). Molesk (2011, a free slabby display face) is free. In 2011, he published the extensive fashion mag family Akila, which comes in two subfamilies, Akila Bouma, and Akila Didone, both adorned with refined outlines and high contrast. Images of Akila: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi. Typefaces from 2012 include Codhigo, Borba (a beautiful inline headline face), Wannabe, Desk (3d shadow face), Smart, Kleiner, Tabbaco and Fabrica. Personal page. Behance link for Pedro Lobo. Behance link for Type factory. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type Generator
| Type Generator is a very interesting software project by Dutchman Sibe Kokke. It generates fonts based upon a set of parameters such as contrast, x-height, point positioning and curves, a bit in the style of metafont, and was developed with the help of tools like Drawbot and Robofab. Sibe Kokke is also the designer of experimental typefaces such as The King (pixel family), Mullerpier (grunge), Glue Print (grunge) and Arab (Arab type simulation in Latin handwriting). Sibe obtained a Masters in type design at KABK. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Experiments in computational typography at MIT's Media Lab by John Maeda and his group, including Peter Cho. John Maeda's award-winning poster at the 1997 Tokyo Type Directors Club competition. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Typeforge
| Deactivated on November 26, 2009. Pedro Amado (Portugal) ran Typeforge, a collaborative open source type design project named after Fontforge, the free editor that is the editor of choice here. This project grew out of Livetype. Amado is working on Typeforge Gothic (2006), a full U&lc Grotesque Sans 1 Axis Multiple Master based on 1898 Berthold's Azkidenz Grotesk and 1905 ATF's Franklin Gothic typefaces. Paulo Silva is working on a face called NewBodonesque. An experimental font, PS2 (by "JLM", 2006) is also being developed. Great ex-page of links on typography. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TypeOff
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Typefaces created by the collective include Argos, AT Stencil, Disco 3000, Ignaz Text, Ignaz Titling, India Gothic, Janus, Jeans, Pater Noster, Proportia, Sweet Pea, Teppic, Used to Love Her. The designers include the founder Dan Reynolds, and his collaborators David Borchers, Lara Glück, Till Hopstock, and Lukas Schneider. Dan's own typefaces at TypeOff include Ignaz Text (2004, originally called Ignaz Textura, and based on letters he found on a sepulchral memorial outside of St. Ignaz church in Mainz (Germany)), Ignaz Lombard Caps (2004), Ignaz Titling (2004), Janus (2004, a pixel face), Pater Noster (2004-2009, an uncial), Proportia (2004, a geometric sans), Sweet Pea (2004, an octagonal face), and Used to Love Her (2004, experimental). He is working on a Lombard Capitals face (2004), Teutonia Serif (2005, based on Teutonia, a geometric display face that was cut in Offenbach by the Roos & Junge type foundry in 1902; this squarish family is released under the name Mountain at Volcano Type in 2006) and Farewell Street (2004, sans family). Working on this condensed didone (2007). In 2007, he worked with Kobayashi at Linotype to produce a revival and extension of a 1930 sans family of Morris Fuller Benton, and named it Morris Sans (Small Caps), which could be viewed as an organic version of Bank Gothic. Morris Sans was published in 2008 by Linotype. In 2008, he designed the serif family Martel in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MA in typeface design at the University of Reading---it covers Latin and Devanagari. He is working on a Condensed Serif. Malabar (2008) won an award at TDC2 2009. Malabar also won the German Design Prize in Gold 2010. Codesigner with Matthew Carter in 2010 of Carter Sans (ITC), a flared typeface. Type events of 2008 reviewed by Dan. Volcano Type link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin and at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontShop's Petra Weitz wrote this to ATypI: "A short aside by Erich Alb a few days ago mentioned the fact that FontShop sells a font which Adrian Frutiger considers to be a bad rip-off of one of his typefaces. In the FontBook we have credited the original designer, too. Based on the information supplied by the foundry, Type-ø-Tones of Barcelona, we had no reason to suspect any foul play involved. Here's the copy from Type-ø-Tone's catalogue: Tschicholina and Jeune Adrian are homages to two experimental projects carried out by two of the greatest typographers of all times. Tschicholina was inspired by a project by Jan Tschichold dating from around 1929. It is a *universal* font without distinction between upper and lower cases, and which has always been considered to have very little future; Jeune Adrian is another experiment with the same characteristics, made by the master Adrian Frutiger (everybody stand up!).... For FontShop's own FontFonts, we do make sure that new designs don't conflict with anybody's previous rights, but when it comes to the foundries who license us their fonts for distribution, we have to rely on their information. There have been cases where we thought a "new" font looked like something we'd seen before, and then we went back to the supplier to get the story. In this case, however, we took Type-ø-Tone's word and we are convinced that they naively did not see any harm in it. We will contact Joan Barjau and advise him to contact Adrian Frutiger." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator at FontStruct in 2008 of the Balder family (heavy rounded), Rooftiler (experimental), Staccato Swash Caps (experimental), Peghole (+Wide), Carpetknife, Atomic Scissors, Safehouse (stencil), Kraakhaas (dirty stencil), Tyrone, BOP Closer (kitchen tile), BOP Carré (kitchen tile). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joint web page of the Spanish foundries Typerware (by Juan Carlos Pacheco) and Garcia Fonts (by Andreu Balius). In 1993, Andreu Balius and Joan Carles P. Casasín founded Typerware in Barcelona. Garcia is an experimental type project from the early nineties. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TypExpo
| TypExpo is Sander De Voogt's type site in The Netherlands. He designed Berkel, Ekster, Ekster Techno, Hangover and Rotterdam in 2004. All faces are in the experimental category. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TypoFlat
| TypoFlat is a personal and experimental project of interactive designer Branislav S. Cirkovic in Southern California. He created several free vector (EPS) faces such as Drea, Dron, Monk and Superstar (free here), all experimental and/or futuristic. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typografix
| Typografix is run by Belgian (?) Michel Welfringer, a graduate from La Cambre in Brussels. He designed Robotnik at Typograsfree. His own page showcases experimental typography. He also designed Normale (2005, with Nicolas Hoffmann) as a logo and titling font for the magazine BAM. With Nicolas Hoffmann, he set up AP Fonts in 2006. At AP Fonts, with Hoffmann, he designed Normale (2006) and Edibulle (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Flash-based typographic experiments created by Gicheol Lee, featuring fonts by Minimal and Emigre. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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). |
Creator of Brace (2009), a type based on curly braces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Launched in 2009, Unique Types is a special collection of fonts inspired by children suffering from physical disabilities. Each font is created under the Creative Common license and is free of rights and limitations on use. Free fonts include Ubiratan (2009, Gustavo Terra: bike dingbats), Nosewritten (2009, Welab), Iguais (2011, Paulo Bruno), Pequeninos (2011, Karina Duarte), Efeito Borboleta (2011, Yuri Chagas Lobo), Upixel (2011, Fata Comunicação), Pe da Letra (2011, Diego Araujo), Eric Oliveira (2011, Rodrigo Franz), Times To Go (2011, Danilo Siqueira), Importancia (2011, Samuel Ferreira), United (2011, Leandro Fortuna), Touching Letters (2011, Rafael Takeo), Com a outra (2011, Rodolfo Sarno), Somos Fortes (2011, Karen Sampaio), FaltaAlgumaCoisa? (2011, Karen Sampaio), Horizontes (2011, Karen Sampaio and Eduardo Batiston), Juntas (2011, Paulo Medeiros Carvalho (Feijão), NoAccess (2011, Felipe Bellintani), Connect (2011, Bruno Magalhaes), I Help AACD (2011, Felipe Vidal), Continue Caminhando (2011, Thiago Camargo), Escada X (2011, Thiago Camargo), Mobiludade Social (2011, Thiago Camargo), Nova Tipo (2011, Thiago Camargo), Yezza Font (2011, Fernando Volken Togni), Difference (2011, Giancarlo Meneghini), Perfect Font (2011, Johlen Teixeira). AACD stands for Associação de Assistência à Criança Deficiente. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Malaysian creator (b. 1989) of the experimental faces Reindeer (2011) and Ohm (2011). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental font Elharian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Uusimaa Type Foundry Incorporated
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Graphic designer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Creator of the experimental Mutation Typography alphabet in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic artist in London who mixed Kino and Harrington in a cloning experiment (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Valeria García Yannoni | Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Yannon (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface hEAR (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vanessa Zuniga (Amuki) is a graphic designer in Loja, Ecuador. She created the experimental face Pacha (2010), which is based on old Indian patterns. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2010, he made the ornamental all caps Cyrillic face Orthodox. In 2011, he created the ornamental caps face Floralis (which was finished by Svetoslav Simov) and the experimental face Negativ. Individual letters of Floralis: B, H, Q, Z. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Athens, Greece. Behance link. He created the ultra-experimental face Athina in 2010. Triori (2010) has a grid-based design. Vasarely (2010) is based on the principle that horizontal lines through glyphs cause a flip from black to white and vice versa. In 2011, he designed Linus (squarish). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Madrid-based Spanish graphic and type designer who made the experimental faces Pochismo (2012), Tanga-Tanga (2012), Maria Antonia (a free alchemic font made for Neo2 Mag #107), Viruta (2008, woozy letters), Papela (2009, an origami font), and Vinagre (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian Masters student in graphics technologies and engineering in Zagreb. He created the modular display face Fade (2010) which makes creative use of ball terminals. Quarity (2011) is an experimental labyrinthine face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Velvetyne Type Foundry (or: VTF)
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Creator of some free (often experimental) fonts in 2010-2011. Cooperators include Sylvain Henri, Jérémy Landes-Nones, and S&eacue;bastien Hayez. Frank's typefaces:
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Veronique Verbraeken | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the wonderful experimental font Nix. She lives in Lint. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
viagrafik Gestaltungsbüro (was: Meanworks)
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At Garcia Fonts, he created the grunge faces Kentucky (1997) and Dr. Zaius (1997). His design bureau in Mainz, Germany, is involved in graphics, illustration and typography. For a while available in Mac and PC formats at the HI-TYPE site. In 2004, he made the experimental face Slave for Neo2 magazine. FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bucharest-based partner in Dos Cabrones, with Andrei Ograda. Vian Peanu designed Daedal, Bastard, Minette, Magnus (rounded piano key face), Lacuna (hairline stencil), Fat Lady (2010), Cylon, Dgtl, Kalypso, Sting, Passio, Maha, Qanat, It's Friday, Violently Violent (2011, art deco/piano key family), Asymptote (2011, thin display face). In 2012, Vian Peanu and Andrei Ograda codesigned Venin (a beautiful high-contrast thorned fashion mag family with art deco aspirations). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Lamónaca moved to Montevideo in 1985 and has a degree in graphic design from the University ORT Uruguay. Since 2000, he teaches in the Faculty of Communication and Design at this university. Since 2005 he is also teaching Typography II. He is a partner of the design studio Taller de Comunicación. Economica is said to be the fitst digital typeface made in Uruguay. He is Director of Tipografia-Montevideo, Uruguay's first site dedicated entirely to typography. In 2011, he started his own blog, type portal and foundry, called Fábrica de tipos. Bio. Google Plus link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki he spoke about Ukrainian fonts. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, his talk is entitled Old Slavic alphabets and new fonts. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke (well, was supposed to speak) on Old Roman Styles and Cyrillic. In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 face Ladoga (+Text, +Display, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009. MyFonts page. Victor's friends: a Ukrainian/Russian news blog. FontShop link. Author of Non-Latin Fonts Cyrillic and Other (2004, Düsseldorf). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator from Clichy, France. Behance link. He created Alphabook (2010), an experimental face inspired by the folding of books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Palermo, Sicily-based designer of Gravity, a compass-and-ruler font that is going to be used as official font by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo. He created the free experimental type family Mun (2012). Behance link. Graphicbox link. [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 Svandinavian languages as well as German. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Russian designer of the hyper-experimental face Vision Division (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental geometric modular face Ramasuri (2011, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Branding and graphic designer in Moscow, who has made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Portuguese designer of the experimental geometric face Agaro (2011), the neon tube face Bulb (2011), Punku (2011), and the high-contrast fashion mag caps face Esquise (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based web and graphic designer who made ElektroKlash (2009, experimental), 2KX (2010), Cosmo Bar (2011) and Hang On Type (2009, fat and counterless). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Koncar is a visual artist and designer born in 1979 in Bjelovar, Croatia. He lives in Zagreb where he works as art director, information architect and designer at the multidisciplinary design studio Revolucija, which he co-founded in 2004. He is into experimental typography, by which he means that he creates alphabets (not fonts) out of objects. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Volcano Type (MAGMA)
| Magma Brand Design in Karlsruhe, Germany evolved in 2004 into Volcano Type. Magma is headed by Lars Harmsen (b. Hannover, 1964) and Ulrich Weiss. Lars Harmsen spent the first four years of his life in Chicago. He then moved to Geneva with his parents for eight years, and then moved to Karlsruhe. He completed his schooling at the French section at the European School. He first studied history and Germanics in Freiburg before beginning to study design at Basel, Boston, Saarbrücken and Pforzheim. He got his degree in graphic design, and in 1996 he founded MAGMA [Büro für Gestaltung] together with Ulrich Weiß. He is the co-founder of STARSHOT GmbH, a design company for sports products, now based in Munich. MAGMA created Type Foundry Volcano-Type.de and the internet forum Slanted.de. In the meantime, Slanted.de has become the most active German typography forum. Volcano Type offers commercial and some free typefaces: DigiBo (Boris Kahl), Objects (free ransom face by the house), MonoPoint and DoublePoint (monospace dot matrix families by the house), Amiga Normal and Rounded (pixel faces by Boris Kahl), Screeny, Pixel and C64 Style (pixel faces by Boris Kahl), Fette Pixel (pixel face by Florian Gärtner), Teckbo (digital face by Boris Kahl, who writes: Retro-Avant-Garde for Club-Flyer-Honks and Plastic-Pussy-Chicks), Psycho (grunge by Boris Kahl), Wald Ast (tree branch look by Sandra Augstein), Wald Blatt (tree leaf look by Tanja Rastätter), Rollerblind (a pair of dot matrix faces by Boris Kahl), Chaucer (uncial by Boris Kahl), Glossy (dot matrix face by Sandra Hofacker), Brüll (a funny frog dingbat face by Andre Rösler), Pax (a free peace symbol face by Heidrun Weißschädel and Alexander Kassel), Mud (free face by Boris Kahl). And these display faces by Florian Gärtner: Republic, Tacora. And finally the Fone 1 through 3 grunge faces by Florian Gärtner. The typefaces of Lars Harmsen (or codesigned by him) at Volcano:
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Graphic designer at Grafikkontor in Berlin. Designer of the old typewriter simulation fonts F25 Executive (2008), F25 BlackletterTypewriter (2006), Typewriter Condensed (2007), Telegraphem (2004), Cella (2007) and Daisy Wheel (2007). He also made Am Sans (2005), which he derived from a 1960s sample of Intertype Vogue (itself a geometric and clean-lined sans, ca. 1930), and F25 Bank Printer (a MICR family, 2005). At FontStruct, he made F25 Borderfont (2009, a multiline family including styles called Alita and Kapata), F25 Fontstruction 157 (2009, experimental), and Hidden Text 01 (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Volume2a
| Simon Bent from Melbourne (Volume2a) designed these typefaces in 2007-2008: Epsilon, Annual (modular, architectural), Tangerine, Deccade (experimental), Hoax [more scans: i, ii, iii, iv], Babylon (another modular experiment). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Stripes (an interesting and delicate dot matrix face), Firstone and FirstCut (both experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
We Are Not You
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Pogo is a Buenos Aires-based design and art boutique established in 2008 by Ardi and Pampa. Creators of Know Type (2009, experimental), Zombienation (2009, graffiti), Primavera (2009, geometric experiment), Know Type (2010, geometric), Bufallo Type (2010), and Departure Type (2009, runic), Moonwalker (2010). Soko is an independent online magazine entirely designed and illustrated by POGO. Scumbag (2011) is a Victorian wedge serif face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Webster&Wallace Creative Agency
| The creative alliance of Brandon Webster and Wallace in Colorado is into identity design, photography, website design, print and packaging since 2004. Brandon Webster made the cool uber-experimental geometric face Mila in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Wete Cacahuete
| Wete, or Wete Cacahuete, or Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira, is the Barcelona-based graphic designer, b. 1984, who created the useless monstrosity called Combo (2009). He also made the handprinted Deibi (2009, free), the text face Alba Serif (2010), and the fantastic geometric/mathematical caps face Roka 1984 (2010). TP Duro (2011) is a blackletter face. Favela (2011) is a free tattoo face. He designed an experimental / futuristic set of numbers for a Yorokobu magazine section called Numerografia (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Savannah, GA-based designer of Tubby (2012), a typeface in which each letter was inspired by a carved bar of ivory soap. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
widmest.org
| Eric Ellis (widmest.org) is a graphic designer. He has some nice type posters (especially one called Reinvent The Alphabet that shows an experimental alphabet made up of arcs, rectangles and triangles), as well as a few fonts, including Arms (the endings of the strokes are hands). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chicago, IL-based graphic designer. He is working on a Bulmer/Bell/Caledonia-style typeface, which is discussed here in 2006. With Darren McPherson, he created the structural experimental typeface Skky (2011). Other type projects: Traverse (sans), Loquacia (headline face), Duco (3d origami-like creation), Klink (fat, geometric, and counterless). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer in London. Using Taylormade Type, he created his own interactive squarish alphabet called Vulnerable Type (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matt Desmond created Dwiggins Deco in 2009 and writes: This typeface was originally designed in 1930 by W.A. Dwiggins as the cover for the book "American Alphabets" by Paul Hollister. Only the 26 letters of the alphabet were included on the cover, so the rest of the numbers, punctuation, symbols, and accented characters have been crafted in a matching [art deco] style. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View digital typoefaces based on the work of Dwiggins. %N 60269 [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Leicester, UK. He created two experimental typefaces in 2012 that are rooted in the basic geometric forms used in Bauhaus posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French-Italian graphic designer who made an experimental star-studdedc face in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Chinese graphic designer who created several experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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From 2010: Helenfont (2010), Dennis Vallera (2010), Kasumichan, Karitza, Mozzie, Wings, Sharon, Noakatz, dearladysandra, arachnidlove, Alexandra, Monica (2010), Natalie, Wayner 8088, Anime Queen (2010, pixelized), Nano (2010, pixel face), Glover (2010, circular face), Frozen Pandaman (geometric), Joenine (circular), Fun Record (geometric), Gembira (circular), Gabrielle, Solgas (circular), lifeforfun (2010), znowwhite (2010), Snowmask (2010), Nine (2010), Znowwhite (2010), Cecile (2010, experiment with triangles), Coreldraw (2010, geometric, monoline), DennisVallera (2010, inspired by the vector art of Canadian Dennis Vallera), Helenfont (2010). Designs from 2011: Michelle (circle-based), Emmilia (circle-based), Raynaliz, Polysoup, Seba, Selfregion (concentric glyphs), Wings of the dragons (octagonal), Spider, The Training Artist, Chewed Kandi, Sandra, Saintfighteraqua (geometric), Alexey (circle-based), Kristina (circle-based), Graphic Dream, Crystalcore (techno), Dominique (fat rounded), Formalart, Henderson (circle-based), Intanputripratiwi (circle-based), Kioshima (geometric), Gitchgitch (geometric), Justta, Dismecha, Self Region (labyrinthine), Alberto (monoline geometric), Abstrasctik (rounded and experimental), Nicole, Robotoc, Laggastic, Masterpanda, Mohr, Maruciel, Gabrielle, Carlos (a circle-based face), Life For Fun (geometric monoline sans), Lois Cesarano (hexagonal), Heather Thomas (circles and lines), Picaee (modular and leafy), Owaikeo (a circle and arc face), Celeste, The World, Future, Lanitta, Earthearth, Basic, Beautiful, Internationalist (monoline rounded sans caps face), Midnight Show, Plastic, Victory, Perfect, Superpower, Katarzyna, Invasion, Block, Wonderfull, Sweetest, Direction, Funrecord, Eternal Flame, Coreldarw, James Glover (circle-based), Superstar, Inside, Parallel, Million, Ocean, Never Ending Maze, Silverbend, Dragon Fly, Whatever You Want, Swinging Swan, Funatic, Soulmate, Superhero, Zetland, Letting The Cable Sleep, Weknow World, Universalisme, Ocean, Smiley Turtle, Family&Friend, Flower in the window, You&Me&Everyone Else, Astonishing, Grass Hopper, Merpati Putih, Extra Hot, Trees of Happiness, Blowing Bubble, Brain Storm, Good Morning, Flower Lover, Honestly, Jaguar, Modern Aristocrat, Pure and Simple Everytime, Ride the lightning, Proffesional (sic), Flight Stewardess, Antique Retro, Natural Technologies, Nurmaya, Conversation, Earth Heart. Designs from 2012: Sweater (texture face), Fish Bone, Delicious Ketchup. The Dark Knight, String and Wire, Little Ant, Xtrapower, Standard International, Nice dream come true, Bavaria, Queen of the modern age, Science Fiction, Greatest View, Queen of the Modern Age, Made in earth, Arabian Knight, Emperor of Japan, Bill Gates Windows, Maximum Kilometer, Mineral Oil Resources, Motorcycle (curly caps), Eskimo and Polar Bear, Gladiator Sport, Aero Dynamic, Optical Fiber, High Logic, Generation (a nice all-caps shadow face), My Heart, Play Ground (multiline face), Cartoon Character, Windows in Japan, Quantum Leap (dymo label face), Computer Love, Electric City, and Copper, Valentine In Love, Weknow Windows, Punk, Graphic Design, Billy Jean Style, LMAO (rounded bold sans face), Take and Give, Indonesia Tanah Air, Swimmer Browser, Diamonds are forever (hexagonal and rounded), Tortoise, My Dear, Get Ready, Export Import, Miracle, Digital Ninja, Funtastic Million Moment, Funny and Cute, Samurai in UK, Bookmark, Once Upon A Time, Bird Feather, Respect, Aruna Aira Jasmine, Extra Cheese, Beauty and the beast, Kung Fu Master (oriental simulation typeface), Game Player (art deco), Modern Building, Trade and Mark, Grovy (sic) Kind of Life, King of Font and Typography, ABC (comic book face), Metro City (extended monoline typeface), The Art, Sprout and the bean, Scooter experiment, Sundown Sunrise (a rounded monoline sans), Art Heart, WindowsObject, Authentic Love, Dolphin Ocean Wave, British Pop Music, Master (sci-fi), Sneak Peeks, Like This, Crumble, Zebra Cross, Star Constellation, Water and Gasoline, Autumn, Aviator, So Cute, Crow Chief (bow and arrow font), Beard Rider, Skateboard, Panel, Swallow Sky Night, Hotel Motel (fat finger face), Techno Various, Zooming Track, Robo Cop, Dance Fever, West Java, Ivory Culture, Push The Button (art deco), Highway Patrol (blocked black typeface), Sausage, Little Atom, Mick Jagged, Life Is Final (copperplate), Total Hammer, Cybertooth, Modern Craft, Riding The World, Boarder (counterless), Essential Arrangement, Sensation, Helmet, Smile, Little Think Big Impact, Airplane, Young and Free, The Futurist. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typography teacher (b. 1941) at the Basel School of Design/Switzerland since 1968. Interview. Brief CV. Author of Wolfgang Weingart: Typography (2000), a text called arrogant by Stuart Bailey. I bought the book, and must say that the ratio of message to volume is rather small. Adam Rotmil comments on his exceptional teaching capabilitis just before Weingart's retirement from HGK Basel in 2004. A famous Weingart quote, cited in Revival of the Fittest, Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces (Philip B. Meggs&Roy McKelvey): Four typefaces are enough to address every typographic problem. Every digitization of an old typeface is, for me, a fake. Another quotation: Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Xaotik
| Russian graphic designer (b. 1983) who lives in Cheboksary. He created the futuristic face UniTek (2005), Simplistic Font (2008, futuristic sans), the experimental Concept Remixed (2009), the organic condensed face Unnipolis (2008), and the organic techno font Reactor (2007; see also Reaktor (2008)). Font2u link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Splatpunk (simulating billboard lights) and Inphonicto (experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free font Magic Circle Guruguru, an experimental all caps font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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This Spanish graphic designer created the experimental SquaredTimes font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beijing, China-based designer (b. 1987) of the experimental Latin typeface Yarn (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London. He made Fat Font (2011) based on paper folding.Chairs inspired him to make an experimental type family in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
YOFonts
| YOFonts offers beautiful fonts like Trafica and Engraver Sans by Yasuhiro Yamaoka. Most are commercial. Some can be downloaded as freeware or shareware. Fontsquirrel link [where one can download Eau (+Douce Sans, +Naturelle Sans, 2003), EPF (1999-2006), Grov (2000-2002), Midiet (1990-2009, sans and serif), Nord (1992-2000, elliptical), and Telegrama (1992, pixelish)]. Freeware fonts (Mac/PC): Crematec Bold, Glyphian (runic), Grov Alphabet Regular / Italic / Condensed (1999), Grov Katakana, Grov Hiragana, Laitty (1993-1997, upright connected script), Lapidit (1994-2002, experimental), Liq (1995, LCD face), IgnorantModern (1993), Initia (geometric, circular), OneZero Alphabet, OneZero Katakana (pixel face), Ovals (border font), Quads (borderfont), SmooHG, SmooKK, Opuscula (2008-2011), Practica, Ovals Regular (Border font), Quads Regular (Border font). Font of the month (free): Philo AB, Philo KK, Philo HG. Other fonts: Angrite-Regular (1998), ArchaeoDeco (2001, art deco), Botaniq (organic, 2001-2002), Circles, CremSBold (1995-1997), CremacBea, CremacBeaBold, Crematec (techno), Cybertalk (2000), DippleKKS (1998, organic, molecular), Elementa (1990-1998, a techno family in Sans, Serif and Script styles), Engraver Sans (1995, Greek simulation family), Fact (1995-2005, information design family), Fol (1995, octagonal family), LiqMono, LiqMonoOblique, LiqRegular, LiqRegularOblique, ModCircle (1995), ModQuad (1996), Moderno (1997-2002, sans), Philo (1995-1996), Pica (1993-2005), Pixe (1992-1998), Practica (1991-2002, +Practica MsF), Nord-Bold (1998), OneZero-ABOneZero (1998), OneZero-ABZeroOne (1998), OneZero-ABZeroZero (1998), OneZero-KKOneOne (1998), OneZero-KKOneZero (1998), OneZero-KKZeroOne (1998), OneZero-KKZeroZero (1998), Serian (1997-2005, a German Schreibschrift), Trafica (1999-2002). In Font Pavilion 12: Smoo (1997-1998, Latin, katakana, hiragana). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Yoichi Arisaka (Arisaka Design, Tokyo, est. 2003) created the experimental face FONTA (2011), which just consists of dots and rectangles. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Youngha Park (Karim Rashid Inc, New York) created the experimental Quarterhaus typeface in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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YouWorkForThem (was: Cinahaus, or TrueIsTrue)
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Cina's fonts include the pixel fonts Caliper (1998), 6x7oct (1998) and BlackGold; the handwriting font Cinahand; Blessed (1999, techno), Cam (1998), CommunityService, Crossover (1998, dot matrix with stars instead of dots), Composite (1998, octagonal), Formation (1999, a big octagonal family), Jute, Maetl (1999, octagonal, angular family), Novum, Pakt, Reversion (1997, squarish), Selector, Selek (1998, pixelish), Service (2001-2002, an octagonal family), Trisect (1999, three-lined family, now also available at Veer), Unisect (1999, organic monoline sans), Ultramagnetic (1998), Ultramagnetic2 (1999), Unfinished. Bastard (1998), Kcap6 (with Matt Desmond), Cheese (1998), Novum (2002), Overcross (2002, unfocused letters), Stem (1998), Testacon (with Kral and Desmond, 1999). Alternate URL. Interview. Other typefaces: Praun (2002, pixel faces), OneCross (2002, pixelish stitching family), Estenceler (2004, a great stencil family), Graphium (2004, octagonal Western style family), Expos (2004, graffiti or poster face), Vox (2007, monoline sans), Militia Sans (2007, like a Russian constructivist stencil), Jupiter (roman), Militia (2007, heavier stencil), Merc (2007, grunge), Guild (2007), Clarendon Text (2007, a complete revival), Jezebel (2007, script), Ambassador Script (2007, a digital revival of Novarese's typeface by that name), Enam (2002, influenced by Crouwel), Enigmatic Hand (2007), Dusty (2007, a Tuscan-eared Western font), Poplock (2007, experimental), Pakt (2007, geometric sans), Sudsy (2007), Black Sabbath (2008, ultra black slab serif, by Stefan Kjartansson), Agostina (2008), Bitwood (2009, pixelish western face), Mullino (2009), Trithart (2008, grunge by Emma Trithart), Tapscott (2008, in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Habano (2008, script), Amorinda (signage script), Retron (2008, connected script), MD01 (medical-themed dingbats), Adelaide (script), Centennial Script (calligraphic), Alexia (calligraphic), Ultramagnetic (experimental), Nash (1997, grunge), Amber (kitchen tile), Fab (3d), 6x7 Oct (1998, pixels and dots), Wool (2009, stencil), Matter (2009, a wide bold grotesque), Merriam (2009, slab serif). Blog. His lovely g poster (2010). House fonts at YWFT by unknown designers: Dogma (22012, alchemic), Attic (sppoky poster face, in EPS format), Riblah (2003, dot matrix), YWFT Fraktur (tattoo face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
yrmk (was: Youremin)
| Portuguese foundry located in Lobão, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Designers of Simples (2008, hairline architectural sans), Rounded Teen (2008, a very round and fat version of VAG Rounded), Rosley (2008, a decorative modern face) and Hausi (2008, experimental). It is run by Joel Santos (b. 1988, Porto, Portugal). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Japanese designer, born in Tokyo in 1966. Graduated from the Graphic Design Section of the Design Department of the Tama Art University in 1990. Currently working at Nippon Design Center Co., Ltd. He was awarded the 2001 Judges' Special Prize at the annual Tokyo Type Designers Club competition for a nice experimental font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Japan. Designer who studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York City. Creator of this experimental typeface. Behance link. In 2010, she created New International. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yumi Tohyama | Designer of this experimental set of icons in Letter Arts Review, vol. 18, No. 1, 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free experimental dotted face Efeito Borboleta (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer at Paratype of Alien Alphabet (2007), quite experimental. ParaType sells this dingbat face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Yves Faes-Dupont | Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Wireframe, the happy font Zirco, and the pixelish font Square. Yves lives in Antwerpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chicago-based graphic designer. He created the organic experimental face Moxie (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in the UK, this outfit created the experimental face Plinth (2011) and the octagonal techno face Ramscoop (2011). They also made some modular typefaces in 2011---one is called Flux. Cartalog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
zetuei fonts
| Japanese site. About 80 free and commercial fonts. Hiragana fonts that are very geometric. Among the free fonts, geometric experimentations such as metalflame and exMastang. The highly experimental hiragana/kanji font Shinoba (by Shinobi Iroha) is also free. Free fonts list (truetype, or Mac type 1): CHOUJYOU, GROSSFADERSCH01, GROSSFADERSCH02, HRKtKAI, Iiyodomu, KeikokuKoin, MEcanicules, MECCHAGO, MECHGOtHIC, Morseirclecode, ZetueiMinchoHIR, ZeueiMinchoSample, SHINOBIIROHAMincho (by Shinobi Iroha), SKYSCRAPER, ZebugRadesbit6, ZETUEcriptOblique, Z_HANGMASTA, ANALOGROOVE, Damaraa, Damarahum, Z_DebugRators, Z_exMastang, Z_metalflame, ZSHINOBIIROHA, Z_TANG6133NUM, Z_TT, ZtUBBAnomal, ZtUBBAZOUMOtSU. Most of these fonts have some kanji/kana connection, and are pixel or techno in nature. At FRONTLINE 01, they published Emiwarery Oblique (2002). In 2006, Yoshiaki Kano won an award from the TDC Tokyo for his oeuvre. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Indonesian multimedia artist, b. 1980. He created the circle-based experimental geometric face MDRS-FD01 (2009). Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Zinzell Design
| New Yorker Don Zinzell designed Devilish, Zero, Amp, Gamma Ray, Five Regular and Typo, all experimental faces. Zinzell Design has been described in Margaret Richardson's book 3Type Graphics". Fonts sold at 79 USD a shot: Amp, Contained (dot matrix font), Container (dot matrix font), Devilish, Five (a great futuristic font), Gamma Ray, Impacto, Intnl Runway (pixel), Metra (fonts designed like furniture), Starlet, Vixa and Zero. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer and art director in Barcelona. Behance link. Creator of the ornamental slab face Suede (2011), the multiline ornamental titling face Nando (2011) and the circle-themed geometric face Cercles (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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French foundry on the margins of type society, obsessed with psychotherapeutic experiments, hyper-experimental, and indeed mental, typefaces. This outfit goes under various names. At 
Graphic designer in Gdansk, Poland, who made an 
Graduate of Moscow University of Printing Arts in 2006 where she studied under Alexander Tarbeev. She teaches type design and typography there. In 2007, her book for Russian students on typography was published (English title: Alive Typography). She received many awards for her work and is a frequent speaker at type design conferences. 
Freelance Italian graphic designer in Rome (b. near Piacenza, 1976) who graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Design in 2004 from 
Illustrator and graphic designer in Portsmouth, UK, b. 1992. Designer in 2010 of the experimental fonts 
Barcelona-based grandson of Joan Trochut of Super-Veloz fame. Fantastic graphic designer in his own right. He is the codesigner with Andreu Balius of 
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
Russian 
Graphic designer and typographer in Ferndale, MI. She did some 
Graphic designer from Bucharest (and now Burriana, Spain) who made these faces in 2011: 
Bucharest, Romania-based super-artist, award-winning photographer, art director, illustrator and rising star. He showcases extraordinary colored geometric experimental faces made in 2007 such as 
Andrew Byrom was born in Liverpool, England in 1971. After Graduating from the University of East London in 1996 he opened his own design studio and worked for various clients including Penguin Books, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, The Industrial Design Centre, Time Out Online and The Guardian Newspaper. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at The University of Luton and Central Saint. Martins. Byrom moved to the USA in 2000 to teach at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. He created the experimental typeface 
Designer in Milwaukee, WI. 
Mexican designer of the handprinted Bolita, the kids faces Nino and Bíblica, the unicase Bauhaus, the round face Aqua, the grunge faces Gap and Heart, the handwriting faces 
Designer located in Zürich, who works at Atelier Bubentraum there. For 
Aparat is Domen Fras's commercial foundry in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His largely experimental work: 
ARS Type is an Amsterdam-based foundry with some commercial fonts by Angus R. Shamal. Shamal had earlier published fonts with T-26 and Plazm. Fonts can be bought via 
St. Petersburg-based Russian designer of 
Ata Syed (Karachi, Pakistan) has a dual identity at FontStruct, where he is one of the most prolific contributors. He is known there as 
Vienna, Austria-based design studio, est. 2002 by Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss. They published the type family Ato (2012), which has 
Japanese foundry that offers these 
French designer of these free faces that can be downloaded at 
Graphic designer in New York City. Artist who sells via 
Bomparte's Fonts is 
Design studio in Buenos Aires. 
BP stands for Buechi et Party. Ian Party is a Lausanne-based type designer (b. Lausanne, 1977) who studied first at ECAL in Lausanne and then at the KABK in The Hague. In 2004, he cofounded 
Cologne-based group of type designers, founded in 1996: Guido Schneider, Hartmut Schaarschmidt, Martin Bauermeister, René Tillmann, Rolf Zaremba. There are many original free fonts here: Amnesia (René Tillmann; now also sold by URW), Anorexia (G. Schneider, 1996), Battery, Battery Seriph, Battery Leak (Tuschemann, 1996), 
Graphic designer in Hanover, Germany, who studied at FHH in Hanover. 
Cassey Baker (Philadelphia) went on an experimental tour, and created a beautiful multilined multihued geometric typeface called 
Located in New York, Chris holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an undergraduate degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley. Creator of 
Graphic designer and illustrator in Chesterfield, UK. He created the experimental typeface 
Quebec-based typographer and type designer (aka Diogene) who specializes mainly in revivals of obscure or old typefaces. 
Graduate from Cal Arts (1996), who runs 
Manuel Corradine was born in Bogotá in 1973. He graduated from the School of Graphic Design of the National University of Colombia in 1996, and became a graphic designer. He started by custom-designing fonts and by making typefaces for his own company, Casa Papelera El Cedro (The Cedar Papermaking House), for printing invitation cards. With other designers like Carlos Fabián Camargo, John Vargas and César Puertas he formed Tipográfico in 2007 to strengthen the type discipline in Colombia. 
UK-based designer in 2008-2009 of the free fonts ABC (using arcs of circles), 
Swiss designer Bruno Maag (b. Zürich) founded Dalton Maag in 1991 and designed these 
Dan Sayers (aka iotic) is an app developer and software engineer, who studied mathematics at Oxford from 1994-1998, and evoluionary systems at Sussex from 2008-2010. 
David Delahunty is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that code/programming can add a fresh element to design. He used a program to create experimental glyphs in an imaginary alphabet, 
David Neustadt ("saberrider") is the designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the experimental fonts Eye Pain, Colorblind, Big Blue (like IBM's stripes), Cord, Fontsract (a nice stencil face, based on piano keys), Dice (great; based on an idea of Daniel Pelavin, 1996), Blux (liquid crystal), Blockiger (octagonal), athletica (athletic lettering), divided (two lines, octagonal), edgewalker (heavy slab serif), geomatrix (filled-in letters), olympica. Other creations include Picto People (2008, a great people figure dingbat font), Carmack (2008, octagonal), Pluto (2008, white on black), Pluto Lowercase, Arena Berlin (2008), Katja (2008), Average (2008), Unbalanced (2008), Solido (2008, based on Ata Syed's FS Minimal), Noise (2008, grungy school letters), and Diagonalis (2008, diagonally striped letters). 
Typographer and graphic designer from Geneva. He created 
Brooklyn, NY-based graphic designer. He deconstructed a hairdryer---its pieces made up the glyphs of 
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Waffle, Nice Shot (target alphading face), 
A resident of Peterborough, UK, graphic designer Dominic Le-Hair created 
Puebla-based Mexican designer of the liquid face Cell Zero, El Chalán, Morphosys, the experimental face Euphoria and the system font face A6, mentioned 
Mexican graphic designer whose posters and covers can be found 
Polish graphic designer who created the octagonal experimental font 
Emily Moore (Rochester, NY) created an experimental shadow caps face called 
Italian designer (b. Prato, near Florence, 1959) of 
This is a gallery and a discussion of the fonts created by the students at ENSAD since 1997. A partial list: 
Graphic designer from Dublin. He made the experimental 
Erik Marinovich runs Friends of Type. He is the creator of some 
Fabrika de typos is a Brazilian fondry run by Marcio Hirosse (b. 1969) in Sao Paulo. He made 
Austrian foundry located in Vienna, est. in 2008 by 
Free fonts by Akihiro Oya in truetype format for Mac and PC: Nishichiba, NerimaNumber, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Italic, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Regular, Canarendon-Broken, Chubu-08-Normal, G.B.BOOT, GENERAL, 
Argentinian artist / painter / illustrator, b. 1966. Creator of the experimental typefaces Borges (2005), 
Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers these free and commercial Latin fonts made by 
Floodfonts has freeware fonts by 
French art director, graphic and type designer, and illustrator who lives in Rambouillet. His typefaces include the refined multilined bling face 
Interesting geometric and experimental typefaces by 
FontArte (est. 2004; ex: Magdart Fonts) is 
Creator of the Neotechnic series of (free) fonts: Accudigit Regular, Accudigit Body, Parma, Intermatrix (1998), Matricies, Hako, Basic. The designer, Michael Hernan made these fonts between 1995-1998, and writes: About Neotechnic Series: This series of Fonts reflect the information industry at the end of the 20th century and its obsession with classification. Each typeface captures a different aspect of our recent info-culture. He obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2008. At Reading, he designed 
Gábor Kóthay (Fontmunkások) is a Hungarian type designer (b. 1962) who lives in Szeged. 
Born in 1984, Tracer graduated from the National College of Arts and Design Olivier de Serres in Paris. He is now based in London, where he is a freelance graphic and type designer. His typefaces include 
Free font site, est. 2009. The fonts being displayed and introduced were developed by students in seminars and workshops offered by 
Cartoonist from Recife, Brazil, b. 1966, whose sense of humor and artsistic prowess shine in his dingbat fonts. 
Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these faces: 
Very talented Pistoia, Italy-based designer (b. 1982). 
Graphic designer, illustrator and photographer in Valencia, Spain, who created a thin monoline face called 
Honey and Death offers free fonts designed by Mitsutoshi Nobusawa: The list: BlackoronAlp (2003), BlackoronKat, BlindfaithB (2003, experimental), BlindfaithBO, BlindfaithL, BlindfaithLO, BlindfaithO, BlindfaithR, BlindfaithRB, BlindfaithRBO, BlindfaithRL, BlindfaithRLO, BlindfaithRO, BlindfaithRR, 
UK-based foundry of 
German über-type designer (b. 1965, Memmingen) who studied graphic design in Augsburg (Germany) and Preston (England). His degree project dealt with the history of the italic type of the renaissance and the relationship between roman and italic. In 1998 he moved to London to work for Henrion, Ludlow and Schmidt in corporate branding. He worked at one point for Frank Magazine in London. Today 
Mexican foundry run by Enrique "Quique" Ollervides from Mexico City. Faces include 
Original free fonts by Matthew Welch: APLPLUS-Regular, AncientGeekRegular, BlackKnightRegular, CheatinRegular (experimental), 
Free Mac/PC fonts at this Japanese site, including several brush faces, some dingbats of samurai fighters, and several experimental and techno faces: 26Floor, Ange-Italic, Ange-Regular, Ange-Symbol, Anneau, Asie, Ballon-Alphabet, Ballon-HKF, Ballon-KKF, Canne, Canon, Dactylo, 
Design group associated with 
London-based creator of 
Prague-based designer who made his 
Designer at Linotype of 
Graphic and brand designer. Creator of the techno face 
Dutch graphic designer in Amsterdam who has many typographic projects and occasionally creates a typeface. His typefaces are experimental and functional. One, called Puzzle, leaves it up to the user to position the sliding letters---quite an ingenious idea. Get Busy (2006) is artsy and futuristic. Escape (2006) is pixelish grunge. Union (2006), Get1 (2006, modular, computerized), 
Graphic designer at the Art Institute International of Minnesota. Creator of the experimental faces Custom Typeface #1 (2011) and 
Midlands, UK-based graphic design student. 
Jonas Helgeneset (Oslo, Norway) created the curvy decoratie headline face 
Aka Jonathan Looman. Dutch type and graphic designer. 
Born in 1982, this Danish designer dabbled in 
Kuala Lumpur-based animation designer. He ceated the experimental typeface 
Canadian designer of the experimental face 
Creator at FontStruct in 2008 of Boxer (a 3d face), Voop1 and Voop2 (3d, shaded), VoopedUp, VoopFilled, VoopClean, VoopedUpLight, and Shadowexp. [
Designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo. He created 
Leftloft is a visual communications studio in Milan, founded in 1997 by graphic designer Andrea Braccaloni (b. Bologna, 1973), Francesco Cavalli, Bruno Genovese and David Pasquali. The studio is mainly engaged in corporate identity, and now also has an office in New York. Andrea Braccaloni teaches visual communication at the III Faculty of Architecture/Design at the Politecnico di Milano. At 
Danish designer (b. 1989) of the grunge ink spill face 
LettError is a foundry in Den Haag, founded by the interesting duo, Just Van Rossum (b. 1966) and Erik van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1967). Most of their fonts can be found in the FontFont library. 
Calgary-based designer of 
Lorenz Fidel Huchthausen (aka Tylo at 
Luke Bennis is an Australian designer living in Newcastle, NSW. Currently working as a Graphic Designer in the Marketing department for McDonald Jones Homes&also working as a freelance designer. Designer of an 
Dessau, Germany-based designer. Since 2009 he works for Erik Spiekermann. 
Designer of the 
Designer in Oradea, Romania, who made 
Singapore-based creator of the 
German freelance artist and designer, associated with 
Graduate of ENAP-UNAM in Mexico City. Creator of these typefaces: 
Migual Cabrera (b. 1982, Costa Rica) studied Fine Arts and became an editorial illustrator in San Jose, Costa Rica. Known as 
Currently living in Montreal, Slobodan Miladinov is the Serbian-born designer of the calligraphic 
Graphic design and fashion outfit in Verona, Italy. 
Graphic and type design studio founded in Cubjac, France by 
Turkish illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Istanbul. He created the compass and ruler custom face 
Negro is a design site where some commercial fonts can be found, all designed by 
Nick Shea is a designer based in East London. 
Italian studio based in Naples. It created 
Noem9 Studio is an online studio created by Jose A. Garrido, a graphic designer who was born in Spain and who lives in Zaragoza. 
Givatayim, Israel-based Hebrew type design studio in London established in 2000 by one of the main Hebrew type designers of today, Oded Ezer (b. Tel Aviv, 1972). Ezer designed the award-winning font Mayai (Hebrew script: awards at 
Talented Ukrainian designer. She has interesting 
Pangramas is Pedro Sanoja in Barcelona. His typefaces include 
Papanapa is a Sao Paulo-based multidisciplinary design studio founded by Gustavo Garcia. Designer of these typefaces: 
British graphic and type designer. His (commercial) fonts include LDN Digital (2008, a dot matrix face), Cono Blok (2008, a beautiful fat condensed display face), and D1 (heavy octagonal face). [
Editorial and graphic designer in Adelaide. He is 
French graphic designer who lives in Perugia, Italy. I would call him an experimental typographer. He likes experimenting, for example, with modular typeforms, as is apparent from his typefaces called 
Fine Arts student at UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha) in Spain, who works as a graphic designer in Cuenca. 
Porky Design is Rob Miszkowski (Swindon, UK). He created 
Fabian Pfeifhofer is an Italian/Tirolian designer, b. 1984. Creator of Ugloosy (2007, grunge), Loosydings Extended (2008), 
Q-BO is the foundry of 
Raihan Nizar (b. 1977) is the Indonesian 
Parisian graphic designer and motion type artist. 
[T-26] designer of 
Morelia, Mexico-based designer. 
Artist, calligrapher and type designer born in Portsmouth, England, in 1947. 
Graphic and type designer in Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1981, who moved to Buenos Aires. While mainly a type designer, he also practices 
Born in Marseille in 1910, Roger Excoffon died in Paris in 1983. Co-founder of the Urbi et Orbi advertising agency in Paris, he was a graphic artist and type designer. 
Graphic designer in St. Petersburg, Russia. He made the counterless geometric fat face 
Graphic designer located in New York City. 
rQuadrat is a German design agency run by Siegfried Rückel (Fontcredit) and Georg(ij) Rijinachvili. One of the faces shown and developed by them includes the experimental Gija (2004). 
Turin-based Italian designer of Modena (2009, a modular experimental face) and 
Indian illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Ahmadabad. He used lamps and wires to create the 
Graphic designer in Collingwood, CO. She created a 
SMOG (Santiago Motion Graphics) is a design studio in Santiago (Chile) founded in 2007 by Moisés Arancibia and Pablo González. Typefaces by tyhe studio include the display faces Alpaca, Hola Mundo, Mokeka, Mafia, Matas, Central, Chacon and Bikini. 
Karachi, Pakistan-based FontStructor who made the gridded experimental mosquito net face 
Spanish graphic design, poster design and illustration outfit of Alberto Rodríguez in Toledo. Some free artsy fonts on this site include 
Typographer and graphic designer in Ahmedabad, India. He created the blocky 
Bristol, UK-based creator of a number of modular experimental typefaces in 2012. These include 
This type team consists of Sulki Choi and Min Choi, graphic designers in Seoul, Korea, who first met in 2001 while studying for an MFA at Yale. Sulki is teaching at Kaywon School of Art&Design, and Min at the University of Seoul. Their typefaces include identities (
Graphic and type designer in Birmingham, UK. Creator of the ultra-black experimental face 
Designer in Bangkok, who runs Tabby Design. He made the experimental geometric face 
Tattoo artist and graphic designer from Dinslaken (Duisburg), Germany, b. 1968, Duisburg. 
London-based designer who is originally from Italy. 
Terminal Design is the company of 
Los Angeles-based creator of the experimental typeface 
British graphic designer (b. 1989) who lives in Leisester. Designer of Tampy (2009, handprinted), Sketchy (2009), Plasticine (2009, handprinted), 
Budapest-based creator (aka Frodo 7) in 2009 at FontStruct of FontMoot 01 (pixel face), Brego, 
Ramiz Guseynov was born in Russia and educated as an architect and graphic designer. After moving to the USA in 1991, where he worked as a graphic designer, Ramiz Guseynov became a part-time type designer who published his work at 
Moritz Esser (Tovaley Gestaltung, Freiburg, Germany) designed the humanistic slab serif face 
Travis Stearns (was: 
Type Factory is Pedro Lobo, a Guimaraes, Portugal-based illustrator and designer. 
Typeoff is an Offenbach-based German type collective, est. 2004 by Daniel John Andrew Reynolds (b. 1979, USA), who blogs happily and frequently. Dan grew up in various cities in the USA, received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2002, and moved to Offenbach, Germany, in 2003 to study typography with Professor Fritz Friedl. Dan was an intern at Linotype, and is still affiliated with Linotype. In 2004, he founded Typeoff.de. In 2007 he moved to the University of Reading for graduate studies. 
Marcus McCallion (Undt Typefaces) is a one-man British commercial foundry located in Brighton (and now, London) and affiliated with 
Experimental fonts developed by 
French graphic designer who spent 2007-2009 at Ensaama Olivier de Serres in Paris. He does experimental type. His creations include Fake, 
Velvetyne Type Foundry (or 
André Nossek designed the fine screen (pixel) fonts Erebus (2000), Hunter (2000), Organ (2000), Dictator (2000), Hacker (2000), Ivorg (2000), Robotron (2000), Limbex (2001, in the Fontomas collection), 
Art director from Madrid. Creator of the experimental patterns 
This Montevideo-based designer (b. 1967, Mexico City) created the experimental faces 
Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduated from the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982, and became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts. His work: 
Graphic designer and illustrator in Vilnius, Lithuania. Creator of 
Los Angeles-based group interested in art direction, typography, print design, branding and graphic design. They designed these typefaces: 
Martinsville, Ohio-born illustrator, calligrapher, typographer, book designer, author, type designer and puppeteer, 1880-1956 (Hingham, MA). 
Designer (aka Funk King, b. Fort Knox, KY) who lives in Orlando, FL. He used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 500 decorative fonts, and became one of the world's top experts on FontStruct, FontShop's on-line font editor. 
Graphic designer from and in Singapore. Her first fonts appeared in 2009: Hybrid (experimental), Prahaha (monoline sans), 
Indonesian designer, b. 1979, from Bogor, Jakarta. 
A video game afficionado, who made some fonts with 
Based in Dublin, Ireland, Sarhan is a student at The National College of Art&Design, Ireland. He created just one typeface, a sans face made up of line segments and arcs of circles, called 
Michael Cina (Minneapolis) is the cofounder of WeWorkForThem and 
Located in Kiev, Ukraine, Yurko designed some 
Zim&Zou is a French graphic design studio based in Nancy, France. The team is composed of graphic designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann. 
