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Other faces from 2009-2010 (all at 26plus-zeichen) include Singula, Edelsans (a geometric sans), Sinews (a manly sans which he compares with Klavika and Corpid), JJ Realis (a Swiss sans), Ugl-y (2010), Cojonna (2010; curly--an exercise on ball terminals), Capitalis Nova (2010, dot matrix family), Graphit (2010), Devion (2010, semi-angular serif face), Textrusion (2010, Escher-style trompe l'oeuil), Frgmt (2010, experimental), Samblone (2011, an Asian-look stencil face), TJ Evolette A (2011, with Timo Titzmann---a fashionable geometric grotesque caps family). Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Vinnitsa, Ukraine-based group that designed the experimental techno face Lower Ladle (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design studio in London that created an experimental geometric typeface called Shellington (2012). Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Berkhampstead, UK, who created an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication designer in Mumbai, India. In 2011, he made an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Farnham, UK, who created some experimental counterless typefaces in 2013. Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental typeface Invisible (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in 2013, Abby Bartels (New Ulm, MN) designed an experimental typeface called Tiny Bubbles. [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, AFT100 Farewell dawn, AFT104 Locked-in Glow, AFT105 Vivant, AFT106 Sharp Gloss, AFT107 Madame Guillotine, AFT108 Newbic, AFT109 Ataxie, AFT110 Strenuous MICR, AFT111 Effaceur, AFT113 Zeppelin Legacy, AFT1010 Jabbering, AFTN1, 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. In the Testament series from 2012-2013, we mention Testament 132 New Indication, Testament 131 The New Orgians, Testament 128 Camphre, Testament 126 Neuromoog, Testament 122 Dissecting Geometry, Testament 115 Placenta Numérique, Testament 116 Abnormal Fairy, Testament 109 Madame Guillotine, Testament 85 Axone, Testament 84 Keen, Testament 83 Minimixture, Testament 52 Neuromecha, Testament 51 Liquor, Testament 50 Artlien, Testament 49 Stereo, Testament 48 Bark At The Code, Testament 56 Eroded Eclosion, Testament 55 Lysergic 1a, Testament 54 Inflated, Testament 59 Nimal Nimoy, Testament 60 X-Church, Testament 64 The Orgians, Testament 67 Panthrax, Testament 66 Human Decay, Testament 69 Chalice, Testament 47 Mondrian Drone, Testament 44 Lysergic3a, Testament 42 Lysergic 4a, Testament 27 Arcane, Testament 11 Minimori, Testament 8 Transfix, Testament 7 Lysergic2a, Testament 6 Lysergic 2b [The Lysergic series is about very large (around 200 cases high) grid pixel fonts with a severe inclination to psychedelism], Testament B Formaldehyde, Testament C Neuroticons, Testament Artefact, Testament Back Home, Testament 1 Heterodoxa, and Testament 12 Neo Geo. He also created an Archive series in 2012, which features an ornamental caps typeface called Archive 10, a geometric face called Archive 5, TEST PPain, and a textured typeface called Archive 8. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Ace Productionz
| Asa Childress (Ace Productionz) created the experimental poster face Vision Division (2010). Fontspace link. Fontspace link to Ace Official, or Asa Childress. [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:
View ACME's typefaces. Acme's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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, Weekender (counterless, paper cut-out face). [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] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the University of Creative Arts based in Farnham, in 2012-2013. He created the experimental circular font Modular in 2013. [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] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface CLAP (2012) to represent rhythm, and illustrated it on the Segre Gainsbourg song Des clip crap des bang des vlop et des zip. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based creator of a free prismatic multiline (Latin) vector font in 2012. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adnauseum
| Adnauseum is an experimental design studio in Brooklyn, NY, run by Christian Acker, an American type designer (b. 1979, Norwalk, CT) who graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2002. Christian occasionally guest lectures typography classes at Parsons. He set up Adnauseam in 2002 and Handselecta in 2003. He designed Sailor Gothic (2003), the Spanish-looking font Sailor Jerry (2002), Joker Straight Letter (2006), Mene One NY Throwie (2006), Mesh One AOK (2006), Meskyle Laid Back (2006), Sabe Ghetto Gothic (2006), and 24Hrs (2002, Cubanica). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Adreson Vilson Vita de Sá
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Agnes Jekli
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Budapest-based creator of the experimental geometric face Optypo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York-based designer of the experimental face Blue Notes (2011), which was inspired by the jazz of Billie Holiday. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
agnuaspflibko
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Ahmad Effendy
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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] ⦿ | |
Akihiro Oya
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Akira Hayashi
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Zurich-based creator of an experimental squarish 3d typeface (2013), tentatively called 360 Degrees. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alan Bauchop
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Derby, UK-based designer. He made the straight-edged experimental display typeface Next Level (2013). [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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Alberto Rodríguez
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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). In 2012, Vasiliy Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova codesigned the Christmas dingbat font Gingerbread House, together with a plump display face, Gingerbread. 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] ⦿ | |
Alex C. Beaumont (ACB Graphics) is a student at London College of Communication. He creates experimental designs, and this includes a typeface called Fracture (2013). [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. Cargo collecive link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Metra (2012) is a gorgeous techno display face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caterham, UK-based designer. Creator of the experimental circle-based typeface Circle One (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the experimental geometric face Covenant (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Tomlinson
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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 2007 for Acido Surtido. In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. Noteworthy type treatments of that year include Nixon and the Futurecraft logo. In 2012, he designed Trojan Font (like Trajan). He also did some stunning multiline alphabet for V Magazine. Also noteworthy is a swashy calligraphic logo for Wiz Khalifa and Atlantic Records. Behance link. Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexander Branczyk
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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 (b. 1978, Ostfildern-Ruit) who studied at FH Wiesbaden. Creator of the unbelievable experimental font Wirefox (Die Gestalten, 2006), consisting of diagonal lines only. See it to believe it! He also designed Ambiva, which creates the illusion of type by showing the characters' shade only. Klingspor link. [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] ⦿ | |
Mexican creator of Maming (2012, spindly), the pixelish face Mattta Ahari (2011), Coluca Modern Side (2011, an octagonal semi-stencil face), the sturdy poster face La Camerino (2011), the grungy Indieo (2010), the condensed faces Tipulada (2011) and Condenzel (2011), the experimental face Autobahn (2011), the squarish NRCO (2011) and the experimental Vai Gone (2011). Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan who created a multilayered display face in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [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] ⦿ | |
Alois Studnicka
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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. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
While studying at Washington University in St. Louis in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, this New Yorker designed the experimental typeface Dry Martini (2012)---this typeface consists of thick circles and arcs, and thin sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in New York City. Creator of the geometric experimental typeface Echo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Partner with Dario Hofstetter at Monom in Switzerland. Together, they designed 100 pixel and experimental fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ami Shah (Mumbai) drew various experimental Latin alphabets in 2012. During her studies at IDC, IIT Bombay, she designed IDC Gujarati (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a number of typefaces at FontStruct in 2009: ANSAR (texture effect face), ANSAR DECO (horizontally striped face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amondo Szegi
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During her graphic design studies at the American University of Kuwait, Amoona Saohin designed the triangle-themed geometric typeface Triagulum (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During her graphic design studies in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Amy Littlefair created Paperclip (2013), Colostic (2013: purely geometric shapes), Backtrack (2013) and Croudi (2013, a stitching typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who is experimenting with modular geometric black faces in 2010: Blind, Triangulo, Square, High. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Rosario, Argentina. Creator of the experimental typeface Cowo (2013). [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] ⦿ | |
Brazilian designer of the experimental face Venom (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anderson Maschio
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Kecskemet, Hungary-based designer of experimental typefaces called Pulsepect Types (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based creator of the handmade experimental typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Braccaloni
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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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Andrea Tinnes
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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] ⦿ | |
Andrea Zucca (Livorno, Italy) created the kitchen tile typeface Looz (2012) and the modular circle-based typeface Spikkio (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Portalegre, Portugal-based designer of the geometric typeface No Reason (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Reproducing his bio: I'm a graphic designer graduated from PUC-Rio and co-author of the illustration book "FUNK what beat is this," published in 2009 by Aeroplano. During 2010, I gave lectures on the development process of the book at PUC-Rio and ESDI. I have specialization in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and Business Management at IBMEC-Rio. I have worked at 19 design, O Globo Online and Yahoo! Brazil. I currently live in New York and attend the MFA in Communication Design at Pratt Institute. During the summer of 2012, I was part of the creative team of the Rio2016 Olympic and Paralympic games. His typefaces include Ubique Infotype (2013, with Rob Gonzales). Ubique overlays several typefaces to create a special effect. [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] ⦿ | |
André Nossek
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André Toet
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Andreas Carlsson
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Graphic designer in Berlin. His typefaces include Asgard Grotesk (2012), Evil Neue (2012, sans), Jjang (2012), Ladro (2012), Schicke (2012, geometric sans), Tano (2012), Sherman Mono (2012), Tsukunft (2012, experimental), Arsene (2012), Decodorant (2012), Kirky (2012), Nordfrost (2012), Sedadda (2012), Sloth (2012, an avant garde sans), Svangard (2012), Yueah Mono (2012), and Kamek (2012, a great feather pen rendering of a Venetian renaissance typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Pihlström
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Graphic designer based in Rio de Janeiro. Creator of the experimental face Bossa (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of a geometric experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreu Balius Planelles
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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. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. 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). FontFont link. Linotype link. Behance link. 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 Shevchenko
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Andrij Type
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In 2012, he started Ukrainian Type.
Showcase of Andrij Shevchenko's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Graphic and print designer in Birmingham, UK. He created the experimental face AviationAirplaneEngines (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angus R. Shamal
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Graphic designer. She created the display typeface Penguin (2012) and received a Creative Summit award for the packaging design for Kikkoman, in large part due to the effective use of a fantastic custom typeface. She also created the board game Typopoly in 2012. [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] ⦿ | |
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Kansas City, MO-based creator of the distorted typeface Para (2012), which was designed during her studies at the Kansas City Art Institute. Blogspot link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Creator of Form Font (2012, experimental). [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. 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. Creations in 2012: An art deco example in his Janelle 1945 work. Vorm Type, inspired by the work of Wim Crouwel, is a rounded blocky typeface that is monospaced in the x and y directions. Typefaces from 2013: Canada (alchemic). Home page. Behance link. Ontwerp link. [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 Izorkin
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Anton Koovit was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1981, and studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, ESAG Paris and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he obtained a masters in type design at KABK in Den Haag. Anton set up his own company Khork OÜ in 2006. In 2007 he moved to Berlin, Germany. He is "extraordinary assistant professor" of typography/type design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2012, he and Yassin Baggar set up Fatype, a type foundry in Berlin and Neuchatel, Switzerland. His most well known typeface design is Adam BP (2007, B&P Foundry), a 4-weight sans family. He also designed Aleksei (2010, unreleased serif face), GQ Slab, GQ Baton (b Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar), U8 (2010: a grotesk family based on lettering in the Berlin underground), Arvo (2010: a free slab serif family at Google Font Directory, codesigned with Yassin Baggar). Experimental faces by him include Kork Sausage, Boudo (collage alphabet), Planton, Velo (geometric). Allan (2010) and Arvo are free at the Google Directory. Fontsquirrel link. Behance link for Fatype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Anton Studer
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Hamburg-based designer of Cleptotronik (2012), a 3d visual effects caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Aparat
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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] ⦿ | |
Aquila Quentin (aka Qkila on the fluid) is a French designer. 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). In 2013, he designed Miaou, Basscrw, Fluid LCD, Jam Session, and Fluid Maska (grunge), La Chim de 23:50. Home page. Dafont link. [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). Still in 2011, she made an experimental modular typeface that is modeled after Supertipo Veloz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ariel Di Lisio
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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. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Academic Art College in Moscow, who now works as a designer in Moscow. Creator of the amoebic experimental Cyrillic typeface Clara (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Dirtyfax. Arne lives in Kontich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Balneario de Camboriu, Brazil. He reduced the serifs in Courier New and created Courrier Digital (2012). Spacender (2012) is another experimental typeface. Behance link. [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, dot matrix face with 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] ⦿ | |
Artur Frankowski
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Asa Childress
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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) and the experimental modular typefaces Craft Fonts and Tessellated Fonts. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Arts graduate of the WInchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Asma is a graphic and type designer. Designer of experimntal typefaces such as Genius Loci (2012), Transmission Towers Typeface (2012), Unity Typeface. [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, 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 labyrinthine or op-art face), 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 (textured face), 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 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 Flip, fs Mom, fs Noise, fs Noise II, fs Junk, fs You Are Here, fs Flash (outlined), FS Easy Too (paperclip face), FS Strict, FS Fix, fs in three (octagonal stencil face), fs Single, fs Wakarimasen, fs r-failed (white on black), fs Permutation X, fs Pan Am, fs Institutional, fs Institutional 2, fs Chunky (counterless), fs Grayletter (textured face), fsXply (op-art). Creations in 2013 as thalamic: fs Carbon (a nice chequered face), fs When We Were Young (multiline typeface), fs Shogun Tiny (a lined kitchen tile typeface), fs Optical, fs When We Were Young (multilined), fs Slate, fs Shogun (gridded), fs Iie (+Filled), fs Blocky (dot matrix), fs Thalamic. 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), fs Bang, fs Random (textured face), fs Random Pattern, fs Lead, fs Tungsten. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Atelier Bubentraum
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His typeface Rekja (2011) won an award at TDC 2012. For Neo2 magazine, he designed the (free) experimental paper-fold font The Folded Font (2008). Other typefaces: Frank (2007, a commercial grotesque blackletter sold by Die Gestalten Verlag), Motion (2008, experimental), Hausbau (2008, free, experimental), Minimeter (2008, free ruler-themed font, for Neo2), Archiv (2008-2010), Goodbye (2009). Together with Clovis Valois, he set up Nouvelle Noire in 2012 in Zurich. At Nouvelle Noire, he published Rekja (2011) and Medien (2011). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier Olschinsky
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Designer of several multicolored type experiments. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Attila Horvath
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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] ⦿ | |
During her design studies in Singapore, Audy Irwantoro created an experimental typeface, Traveller (2013), that is based upon the road map of the city country. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freaky Typeface (2013) is a collaborative experimental school project of Aurélien Guerout and Michael Descharles at Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy under the supervision of Eva Kubinyi and Jean Widmer. Aurélien lives in Montreal. Behance link. Linkedin link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of a type experiment based on Frutiger called L'in-vu. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
AVMC Studios (London) created a Water font and a Crystal font in 2013---both are experimental and are based on digital images of water and crystals. It is part of the AVMC Group in London. Other typefaces include Hyperion (2013, oriental simulation), Crius (2013), and Uranus (2013, experimental). [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] ⦿ | |
Indonesian designer in Bandung (b. 1991) who created the Indonesian-themed ornamental faces Seselendangan (2010) and Loveleaves (2010). In 2012, he added Absurd Sans, a typeface with missing pieces. Home page. Another URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bagel & Co
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Dafont link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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. |
I think that if one is going to experiment, then there should be no limits to how far one can go---explore, enjoy and explode. In this spiurit, I presume, Parisian baptiste Datin created his Chromosome Alphabet (2013). [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] ⦿ | |
Graduate from the Bath School of Art and Design. He designed a counterless geometric typeface called Second Half (2012). [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] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental typeface Blackie (2012). [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] ⦿ | |
Bernard Anne (Bordeaux, France) created the experimental circle-based geometric typeface Circa (2012). [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] ⦿ | |
Bianca Di Pietro (Designed by Bianca, Hamilton,Ontario) created the circle-based experimental typeface Infinity (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Billy Bacon
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Designer in Enschede, The Netherlands, who created the experimental typeface Unknown Secret (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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
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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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French graphic designer who has a BA from La Cambre in Brussels, and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, 2012. Her MA project involved the development of seven handwriting typefaces (called Blanche) to be used in email. This was done together with Stina Gromark. She also created an experimental typeface called Typemotif (2012). Unrelated to type design, Blanche is responsible for a fun verbalized text utility called Ohhhhhhhhh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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 (modeled after a 1934 ATF font by Robert Foster called Abstract). 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). Typefaces from 2012: Rockport BF (a gaspipe font inspired by 19th century wood types), Wilmington Script BF (an upright loopy connected script). 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 (2001-2002, Paratype). FontShop link. Klingspor link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Boris Schandert
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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] ⦿ |
The list of fonts, all made between 2006 and 2008: Tulip, Fragments of Eter (2007, upright connected paperclip script), Next Level (display sans), Ironbeauty, Esquizofrenia (grunge), Nü, Yellow Move (a great art deco sans), The King and Queen (2007, grunge medieval calligraphy), Foelia (dot matrix), Ank (2007, grungy sketch face), Nü Creactivo 2008 (spurred Western face), Further, One and Four, Quiñók (2007, experimental), Defekto (2007, gothic), Mondula (more calligraphic grunge). Old Dafont link. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brandon Webster
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Branislav S. Cirkovic
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Brass Fonts
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Custom fonts by Schneider: Girato (Giraffentoast), Fiona (MDR - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk), Sion Script (Sion Brauerei), Supralux (Super RTL). He is working on Veltro Pro (a script) and Breite Kanzlei (blackletter). 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). View Guido Schneider's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Brian Kaszonyi
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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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Illustrator and art director in Recife, Brazil, who created a typeface out of moving light called Typo Photografic (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruno Capezzuoli
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Graphic and web designer in Cambridge, UK. Creator of Atomo (2013, an experimental typeface) and Medieval (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruno Maag
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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, and could be considered prismatic or op-art. 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] ⦿ |
Istanbul-based creator of the cube-shaped counterless typeface Cube (2012) and of the experimental alphabet Comic (2012). Behance link. [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). Typogami is another layered animated font made in 2011. In 2012, Jeroen created Webster, an animated font described as fllows: Webster is an extensive animated typeface with a nerdy look. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and special characters. All together it counts over a 150 glyphs. With 13 customizable features, you can create over a gazillion looks. That's right, over a gazillion! Behance link. MyFonts link. See also here. Klingspor link. [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] ⦿ |
Creator in Brisbane, Australia, of Chromatic Typeface (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cameron Sweeney
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Designer in Milan. Behance link. Creator of the Stapler Font (2012, experimental). [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] ⦿ |
Carl Cooper
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Dutch designer who lives in Alphen aan den Rijn. She experimented in type design and produced typefaces like Leestekens (2012: glyphs constructed on the basis of punctuation only) and Warburg (2012). Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Carlos Matteoli
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Art director in Toronto who made the experimental face Alienese (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer at Sesame Workshop in New York City, who created Brandless Typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From 2009-2012, Carolina Dahl studied at HDK, the School of Design and Crafts, Göteborg, Sweden. She experimented in 2013 with monoline typefaces. One Unit Typeface (2013) is based on sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Design student in London. Designer of the experimental typeface Triangle (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seattle-based creator of the experimental typeface Retro Loops (2013). [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. Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Senior designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, who created Triangular (2013), an experimental 3d typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles S. Wilkin
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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). | |
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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Leeds, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Dead Space (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Sydney-based designer of the custom typeface Euclid (2012), which is inspired by Oliver Byrne's The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid. Aka Lumiko. 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] ⦿ | |
Christian Acker
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Christian Küsters
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Christian Lang
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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] ⦿ | |
Christophe Martin
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Fellow Belgian Christophe Vermijlen (Hasselt) created an experimental 3d tyeface called Tilting Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christopher Mooij
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Graphic designer in Baltimore, who created a multicolored geometric experimental alphabet in 2013 called CMY Alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Circus Design
| Finnish art director Brian Kaszonyi is the designer of CircusRootbeer, Circus Robot and Circus Mouse (1992). Co-designer with Tomi Haaparanta of the FUSE95 experimental font FutuRoman. Codesigner with Peter Kaszonyi of CircusRex (1993). All these fonts are still available from FontHaus. Codesigner with Tomi Haaparanta and Klaus Haapaniemi of the 15-font War family in 1999-2000. Helvetica Neue Serif is a custom version of Helvetica Neue that was designed for Finnish pulp and packaging giant Stora Enso. In 2013, in cooperation with Tomi Haapranta, he created a decomposed monoline layered text face, Tee Franklin. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
MA student in design at IADE in Oeiras, Portugal. He created Match Font (2011), an alphabet composed of match sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claire Daisey (Muncie, IN) created the experimental typeface Sharp Edge (2013) that plays with negative spaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Die Gestalten of Arvore (2003, experimental). A'Brasil link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dafont link. Yet another URL. Abfonts carries many of his fonts. Fontspace link. His typefaces:
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Claudia Sanchez (Santiago de Cali, Colombia) designed the Latin display face oddly named Cirilica (2012) and the experimental alphabet HiTu (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Modena, Italy, b. 1969. Designer of these fonts:
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Claudio Pousada
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Claudio Reston
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German designer of the experimental (modular) face Sega (2009, 26plus-zeichen). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer (b. 1962) who lives in Brussels where she taught (teaches?) at the École supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre and at the École supérieure de l'image. Her fonts were published by 2Rebels in Montreal, and by FontHaus in the USA. Her fonts are experimental and geometric in nature. Some creations: Billes (1995), Boulbar (1995), Boules (1996), BubbleBath (1996), Craaac (1996) Caaarc (1996), Design, Douff, Graphic, Handex (1995; an alphading based on fists), Inbetween (1996), Lines (1994), Lolo (1992, funny figurines), Minimex (1996), Modern (1996), Perles (1995), StencilFull (1997), StencilFullBraille (1997). She is most famous for her avant-garde geometric fonts Alpha Bloc (1994) and Alpha Geometrique (1994) published by Font Bureau. Alpha Geometrique Compact, for example, is a Bauhaus style stencil face. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Clotilde Olyff's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [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] ⦿ | |
Aka Adamas Regular. Coco Anouk designed the free fonts Paranoid (2012, experimental triangular typeface) and Pasion (2012, balloonish typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free experimental typeface UHU (2012). [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] ⦿ | |
Derby, UK-based graphic designer who created experimental typefaces called Bipolar (2012) and OCD (2012). [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] ⦿ | |
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: Tecna (a techno family codesigned with Sergio Ramirez), Neuron (a fantastic 16-style rounded elliptical sans family created together with Sergio Ramirez), Bucanera Soft (blackletter), Bucanera Antiqued (grungy blackletter), Official (a simple monoline sans family), Almibar (a connected calligraphic Spencerian script), Eterea (a roman all-caps family), Eterea LC (the lower case set), Canciller (an italic roman, done with Sergio Ramirez), Quarzo (2012, a formal copperplate script done with Sergio Ramirez). 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] ⦿ | |
American creator of the display face Energetic Audacity (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Craig Stainton
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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 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. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Curious Flux
| Francisco Castro Miranda (aka Curious Flux) created DeLorimier, an experimental display font created in 2009 when he spent a summer in Montreal. [Google] [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] ⦿ |
Japanese designer. Together with Hiroaki Nagai, he won an award at TDC55 for an experimental typeface called Utsuba Moon Avant Garde (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dalton Maag
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Bruno Maag designed these commercial fonts:
Fonts sold at Fontworks, and through the Bitstream Type Odyssey CD (2001). At the ATypI in 2001 in Copenhagen, he stunned the audience by announcing that he would never again make fonts for the general public. From now on, he would just do custom fonts out of his office in London. And then he delighted us with the world premiere of two custom font families, one for BMW (BMWType, 2000, a softer version of Helvetica, with a more virile "a"; some fonts are called BMWHelvetica), and one for the BMW Mini in 2001 (called MINIType: this family comprises MINITypeRegular-Bold, MINITypeHeadline-Regular, MINITypeHeadline-Bold, MINITypeRegular-Regular). 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. Interview in 2012 in which he stresses that typefaces should above all be functional. View the Dalton Maag typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
Dan Heron (Manchester, UK) explains his experimental typeface Kittinger (2013): Inspired by Colonel Joseph Kittinger and his record-breaking skydive from 31,300m in 1960. The letter forms are based on the outlines of buildings seen from above, referencing the view Kittinger had as he fell to earth. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan Hoopert (UK) created the Wire typeface in 2012, a 3d type project. While not a digital font, it is nevertheless a feat to be able to fit wires in three dimensional space to make these letters. What we need now is digital font technology to follow up on his idea so that we can rotate and turn 3d letters at will. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan Reynolds
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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] ⦿ | |
Designer in Haifa, Israel, who created an experimental font based on mouth movemens in 2013, called Phonetica. Behance 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] ⦿ | |
Union City, NJ-based creator of the multilined caps typeface Nu Alpha (2012) and the experimental multiline face November (2012). He moved to Orlando, FL, to study at Full Sail University. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History, University of Utah, in Salt lake City. 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. Perforane is a heavy mechanical/octagonal unicase typeface, while Guasco (2012) is a curly high-contrast face. Perforance became the basis of a large family of fonts, like PERF Blur (textured face), PERF Glow, PERF Solid, PERF Solid 3D, PERF Knockout 3D, PERF Punch1 3D, PERF Punch3 3D, PERF Punch1, PERF Punch2, Cuevita (2012). Typefaces from 2013: Apocalipsis, Boot Liquor (a western face), Galactica Alphabetz, Clownstruct, Ball Chain (texture face; +Light). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Birmingham, UK, in 2012, Daniel Harper created a modular typeface just by using two shapes, an arc and a straight line segment. [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 and Five Day Font (hand-printed: overlay of his handwriting over five consecutive days) in 2012. Personal web site. Trailhead (2012) is a pseudofont made from sticks and ropes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Reuber (Cologne, Germany) used Impact to design the ornamental caps font Goldsun (2012). His experimental water-inspired typeface H2O (2012) is simply spectacular. [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] ⦿ | |
While studying in San Roque, Brazil, Daniele Coimbra designed the experimental geometric typeface La Luna (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in London of the experimental typeface PP Type (2013). [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] ⦿ | |
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Dario Hofstetter
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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] ⦿ | |
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 Bennewith
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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] ⦿ | |
David Delahunty
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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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During his studies at the University of Southampton, David Graham created the experimental squarish typeface Step (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Hubner
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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] ⦿ | |
Australian who made several typefaces between 2009 and 2012, some of which are freely downloadable in EPS format. He created the alchemic typeface Framework in 2012. Shortcut (2012) is a minimalist experimental typeface. [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 Rust
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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] ⦿ | |
Student of Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, who was born in Trento, Italy. He is heavily into sup-fitting geometric experimental typefaces that flirt with the optical limits. One example is his NMTCS typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Davin Perry
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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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ |
Typefaces from 2013: dm Yes, dm Legimono. Behance link. Dafont link. [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] ⦿ |
He made the copperplate-look typeface Thick Block (2012) for the upstart Brooklyn restaurant The Brooklyn Sandwich Society. Still in 2012, he combined the copperplate and Western signage styles in his Applewine typeface. Ragehaus is the web presence of Derek and his wife Kim. Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Santa Monica, CA-based designer of some experimental typefaces. [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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Diego Negrete Olmedo
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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] ⦿ | |
Dimitre Lima
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Typefaces from 2012 include Barceloneta (an alchemic typeface at Ten Dollar Fonts) and Magna (a gorgeous fat didone typeface). Cargocollective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dirk Uhlenbrock
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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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Domen Fras
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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 in Gdansk who made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the optical experimentation font Xuczlam (2000) and of Biasel (2000). Fontspace link. Fontsnthings link. Old home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Don Zinzell
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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] ⦿ | |
Doug Limin (Toronto) created the purely geometric typeface Subliminal Design (2013). [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. In 2013, they created a 3d alphabet called Inside Job. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
E. Victor-C
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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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Parisian designer of the circle-based monoline sans Typo Exp (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
London-based designer of XYZ (2012), an experimental modular typeface. [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. Fontspace link. Google Plus link. Interview by MyFonts. His typefaces, haphazardly organized:
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Eelee Design
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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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
In 2012, she published the Picassonian geometric experimental typeface MeM, done together with Jakob Runge, at 26plus. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Salt Lake City, UT. At the University of Utah, she created an unnamed grid-based typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO. In 2012, she created Experimental Tape Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Multidisciplinary designer, b. Melbourne, Australia, 1984. Currently working at R/GA, New York. Creator of the experimental dot-to-dot typeface Freckles (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental pixel font Metric, and the font Metround. She lives in Temse. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Art director living in Williamsburg, VA, who studied at the Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Creator of the experimental typeface Incognita (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nanking, China-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of some experimental typefaces/posters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Emil Juul created the monoline display typeface Acacia (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French art student who created the electric circuit-themed font Saccade (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buffalo, NY-based designer, who created the experimental typeface Lines (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator at YouWorkForThem in Minneapolis, MN. Her typefaces, made ca. 2008, include Polygons, Speakeasy (handwriting), and Adelaide (script). Klingspor link. [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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Enci Bognar (Budapest) is working on a hexagonal typeface called To Bee Cafe (sic) (2013). Steam Font (2013) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Machine Tool Grenadier (1997), an art deco style experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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] ⦿ | |
Enrique Ollervides Uribe
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A free vector format typeface designed in 2013 by Caprice Yu and Steve Peck in the fight for equal marriage rights. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Eaton
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Eric Ellis
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Eric Schmitt
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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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Erik van Blokland
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Designer in 2012 of the experimental typefaces Dots, Geo, Hair and Shapes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, who works in New York City. Creator of Experimental Typeface 01 and 02 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
EunJee Kim, also known as Joy, has graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in graphic design, in 2012. She is actively working on her personal projects, and as a freelance graphic designer in New York. She did an experimental shaky version of Futura in 2013. [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] ⦿ |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the hookish experimental font Naeve Groovy. Eve lives in Pulle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
Creator of the experimental geometric typeface Exoziti (2012, FontStruct). [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] ⦿ |
F25 Digital Typeface Design
| Volker Busse (F25 Digital Typeface Design) is a 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). Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [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] ⦿ | |
Fabian Pfeifhofer
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Fabian Widmer
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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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
Face Type
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Facetype's typeface library. See also here. View Marcus Sterz's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
French designer of a very creative rhombic multicolor layered font system called Circus. The picture below is taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based graphic designer who created Nailed (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Federico Galvani
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Castelar, Argentina-based graphic designer who created some pictograms and the experimental typeface Mai (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Felipe Giglio "Feijao" (Sao Paulo, Brazil) created a few unnmaed experimental typefaces in 2013. [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] ⦿ | |
Montevideo-based designer who created 53 PNAV in 2012, the fattest font ever, together with Nicolas Branca. This typeface was chosen for the Type and identity of 53 Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales de Uruguay (Uruguayan national arts awards). | |
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] ⦿ | |
Felix Braden
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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
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Fernando Forero Foundry
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Designer of Ishia Antiqua (2013, a cursive hand), Urbania (2013, a dusty face), Ilex (2012, hand-printed), Baltan (2012, a calligraphic script), Old Stamps (2011, scanbats), Boys and Girls (2011, dingbats), Aliovha (2011, a monoline elliptical sans), Old Nyleshina (2010, roughened calligraphy), Vexa (2010, grunge), Ornamentus (2010, an interesting modular ornamental face), Melonella (2010, a medieval script), Cioran (2010, aged letters), Ornalia (2010), Selbst (2010, handprinted caps), Nugg (2010, grungy), Feeda (2010, a curly face0, Intuitiva (2010, grungy), Czarnulka (2010, script), Khamus (an earthy calligraphic face) and Últimos Ritos (a hybridization between the forms of the Cyrillic and Roman characters), two typefaces that won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. He also made the grungy Refaxed (2008) and Efficient Fax Font (2010), and the experimental Aleah (2010) and Ovhol (2010). Devian tart link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Klingspor link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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. Typefaces from 2012: Colambo (an early 20th century grotesk), Honkers (rounded sans). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Filiz Sahin is an American interactive designer, originally from Istanbul. Her work includes Geogram (2012, an octagonal typeface), Wave Me In (2012, a free wavy EPS-format font), Knit Type (2012, a free stitching font), Stitching Font (2012), Ant Type (2012, another stitching font), 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. Che's Bone (2012) is a bone-themed typeface. Mood Type (2012, free) is a beautiful EPS-format font that takes inspiration from modern Swedish furniture. Doodleista (2012) is a condensed poster face. Dafont link. Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finn Sködt
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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. Bagel & Co. 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 Polaris (2011), 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, a Bauhaus style corporate and headline font for the Cologne based design bureau Glashaus), 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 (2001). 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). The Orchidee project started in 1999 led to a fantastic free font. Felix: Orchidee was created as a part of the business stationary of the restaurant Orchidee located in the luxory hotel Quellenhof in Aachen, Germany. After the founding of the restaurant the hotel manager realized that there earlier was a bordello in the city with the same name, so he wanted to change the name. At the time when our agency had to presentate the logotype the name was not appointed so I created the font. The restaurant was specialized on crosscultural european-asian cuisine. Because of that I wanted to mix up some elements of traditional asian typography with european typography. The letters are designed in freehand by the repetition of just a few basic elements. To create the rough outline I used xerox-copier because I wanted to have some chaotic elements to give the font a handmade touch. Other free fonts: Coraline (2012), Sonar Script (2013), Rollmops (2013). 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. Another Behance link. Fountain Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Sopron, Hungary. She made the modular experimental face Pixels (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florian Bambhout
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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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FONTana Typestudio
| FONTana is a font design studio in Szeged, Hungary, started in 1999. Free and commercial typefaces (39USD/piece) by Gabor Kóthay (La Danse, Luxury, Sehrgut (Fraktur), Faximile (1999), L&R (1999), Monsoon (1999)), and Amondó Szegi (Telegdi family, which is based on the worn typefaces used by Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi at the Vienna Jesuit press in the 16th Century; Velorex (1999)). Very beautiful web page, and fantastic fonts in all respects! Free faces: Zodiac (2000), Cards (Gyula Zsigri, 2001), Maldoror, Domino (Gabor Kóthay), Count, Csenge (a Hungarian rune font by Csaba Dávid), Qwerty (Gabor Kóthay, 2000), Y2K (Gabor Kóthay, 2000). Early commercial fonts: Woodini (caps), Sleeping Beauty (caps), Zimbalo (1999, Amondó Szegi), Pacalsone (1999, Amondó Szegi), Paradox (1999, Amondó Szegi), Construct (2001, Amondó Szegi), Binario (2000, Amondó Szegi), Bikewrench (2001, Amondó Szegi), Cabin (2001, Gábor Kóthay). At T-26, in 2001, Amondó Szegi published the commercial faces MuseFace (art nouveau), Glosso (2003), Xodus-History (2001), Kozma-Ornaments, Xodus-Forgotten (2001), Xodus-Regular (2001), Xodus-Italic (2001), all showing old Slavonic influences in Latin letters. In 2000, he made Alian Ornaments (floral ornaments) for T-26. At T-26, Gábor Kóthay published Adagietto (2000), Minerva (2000), Archetype (2000). At PsyOps, Gábor Kóthay published the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), and Plexo (2001). Amondó Szegi's faces at T-26: Nexodus (2008, medieval style), Zenthes (2008), Alien Ornaments, Glosso, Iskola (a medieval face done with Silas Dilworth), Kozma (great ornaments), Melico, Melico Ornaments (2004, another great set), Xodus. At P22, Szegi designed the curly face Mantra (2005). Amondó Szegi's Telegdi family is since 2001 available from P22. At The Type Trust, he created the playful Gepetto (2006). Among their custom corporate identity jobs, the Losonczi Hair Salon work (2012) is quite outstanding. Dubstep (2012) is an experimental trinagulat grid-based typeface. In 2013, Glosso Novum (2013, Fontana Type Foundry), a remastering of Glosso (2003), was published. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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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Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontGroup
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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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Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontopo
| Free fonts made in Japan from 2006-2007 by Yoshihisa Nakai: 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), Fontopo Sunny Day. Old URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Production in 2012: Making Lettering Tall, Universal College (grungy athletic letters), Marmellata Jam (connected script), Marmellata Jar 01 and 02 (connected fat signage scripts), Henry Rodeo Circus (Western face), Scrappy-Looking, Contribute Free Version (connected fountain pen script), Basically Serif, I'm Fashionista, Sign Handwriting, Chalk Hand Lettering, Chalk Hand Lettering Shaded, Voluptate (retro connected script), Retroactive (a great connected script face). Around June 2012, something happened---possibly a complaint from the FontLab software people---, and the name changed from Fonts Lab to Fontscafe. In the same year, a commercial foundry was started via MyFonts. Typefaces from 2013: Egregio Script (retro script), Hand Shop Typography A20 (an 8-style poster font set that includes shadow and inline faces), Hand Shop Typography C30, and many more in the Hand Shop Typography pack, including the frame font Hand Shop Elements. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstractfonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
fonts.info
| Ralf Hermann (Jena, Germany) 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] [MyFonts] [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 originally located in Hellmonsoedt/Vienna, Austria. It seems to be in Berlin right now. David Hubner (b. 1981, Wels, Austria) is the Austrian designer (based in Hellmonsoedt and Malta) of
Lukas Kerecz created Monocrane (2013) while studying in Berlin. Link to his studio Dav Marken Design. Alternate URL (2003), where you can find his custom typography. Still another URL, called Folio (2003), where you can find his custom typography. Another URL, where Ventisei can be downloaded. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of experimental typefaces in 2012: Rorschach (symmetric ink blots), SAL, Circular, ST. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer who created the free experimental face Legotype in 2008 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Francisco Castro Miranda
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Buenos Aires-based graphic designer who dipped his toes in some modular experimental type projects in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the experimental typeface Autovelox (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Quadra. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Adebiaye
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Frank Baranowski
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Stuttgart-based designer. Student at the Rhode Island School of Design (2011-2013) in the MFA program. Her extensive portfolio includes the typeface Alfred (2012, a headline face inspired by the magazine Bomb), Insect Font (2007, experimental) and Never Sleep (2009, an angular 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. 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:
In 2013, Glissmann moved to Parsons in New York City, where he continued the tradition of posting the student work. However, there are no more downloads, and links are not clickable. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Frosti Gnarr Studio is a creative and graphic design studio in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland. Its art director is Frosti Gnarr, who has an MA from HKU in The Netherlands. He designed a few experimental and other typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fuse: Interactive Magazine, experimental fonts. Also available online, the Wired 2.07 article FUSE. List of fonts. List of FUSE fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gábor Kóthay
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During his studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Gabriel Gonzalez designed Characterize (2013, an experimental typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gabriel Martinez Meave
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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: New Press (condensed sans family, +Eroded), Sketch Wall, Comic Gibi, Own Written, Comica BD (comic book shadow font), Cartoon Relief (a 3d cartoon typeface), Riscada Doodle (scratchy hand), Sketch Nice, Needlework Good (a stitching font), Biscuit Made, Just Skinny, Crazy Style, After Cheret (hand-drawn 3d shadowed outline face), Spots in the mirror, TNT Xplosion, Escrita Toska (curly script), Cordel Movies (moviemaking dingbats), Fine N Tall, Cordel Groteska, From Street Art (free graffiti font), Sketch College (sketched athletic shirt font), Thin Press (grungy vernacular type), Sketch Serif, Relief BD, Maxxi Serif (very heavily slabbed serif face), Semi Cursive Gut, Sketch Coursive (sketch face), Salt Pet Non Eroded, Advanced Architecture, Very Fine Serif (a monoline Egyptian), Sketch Nothing, Freehand Nothing, Shark Attack (curly), Do Doodle, Maybe Pollock (dust texture face), Xilo Prosa (grunge), Thin Design, Amazon Palafita (hand-drawn 3d outline face), Snow Times, Snow Traces, USSR Army (rough army stencil with a Russian feel), Needlework US (stitch font), Old Scribe (Greek lapidary face), Nickel Bumpy, Soviet Style (stencil face), Top Modern (heavy slab serif), Lettering Set New, Carton East, Not Tuned TV (sketch font), Scar Bleed (scary font), Maxxi Dots (texture face, +Shadows), Dots Land Gotika (grungy blackletter), Stefanie Dots (textured letters), Karamuruh (textured caps), Broken Type (grunge: a glaz krak font), Touppeka (a Kafkaesque, tribal or painter's font), Old Dreams (grungy), Bad King (sketched typeface), False 3D (hand-printed 3d outline typeface), True2D, I Wrote All, Resistance Until The End. Typefaces from 2013: Triatlhon In (sic: a Greek simulation face), Go 2 Old Western (grungy wood type), Old Serif Gut, Press Style (letterpress style typeface), Dust Serif, Thing Press. [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 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 of an old man, Typerware), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995. The list of typefaces 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 web designer in Falkirk, Scotland, who made the great ultra-fat experimental face Flabby (2010) and the experimental geometric typeface Geograde (2013). Behance link. [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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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). |
Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gerald Puig
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Gerardo Pinzon
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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] ⦿ | |
Gerrit van Aaken
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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:
Free fonts include Regular Cargo Bold by Nik Thoenen, RussianBread, DrEye and Doener Kebap Strong by Lund Sundson, as well as HardCase-Striped by Dimitri Lavrow. New releases. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Gijs Sluijters and Joris Tol are Gijs & Joris, a creative team at DDB / Tribal DDB Amsterdam. They teamed up at the Willem de Kooning Arts Academy in Rotterdam while studying advertising. They designed the experimental typeface MTA (2012) that is made by cutting forms out of the MTA New York City's Transit map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gilberto Moya Perona
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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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, b. 1989, Italy. For a school project at Escuela de Arte in Madrid, he created a font called Dynamich. This is pure experimentation, based on Malevich's paintings. [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] ⦿ | |
Portuguese designer who created the Tuscan typeface Homem Morto (2012), which is named after the cult film. He also created an experimental graphical alphabet called Alfabunhas (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gorkem Tilic (Ankara, Turkey) created Tie alphabet and Shadow alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bangkok-based and American-born designer of the free experimental architectural grid fonts Remarkable (2012) and Remark (2012). In 2013, she made the ultra-condensed ID typeface. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seaford, UK-based logo, identity and brand designer. He created the blocky experimental face Prone in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grant Sparks
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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] ⦿ | |
Gregory Flajszer
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Greig Anderson
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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] ⦿ | |
Ground Control (was: Penny Font Foundry, or: Pennyzine)
| As part of the (ex-) Chank Army, Jason Ramirez (b. 1978, Wisconsin) offers free and commercial fonts. He started out as Pennyzine or Penny Fonts, or Penny Font Foundry, with free fonts that were typically made with the Data Becker software program. Later, his fonts became commercial, and the new site changed its name to Ground Control. 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, grungy blackletter), Elliot Swonger (2002), Elliots Bad Day (grunge), Don Giovonni (2006, grungy typewriter), 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). Commercial fonts: Sparkle House (2011), Chompsky Fancy (2011), Redneck Superstar (2002, Chank's). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Another link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. Alternate URL. Direct downloads. Alternate direct download path. Ground Control web site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Outset. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of eClonius, a modular experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guido Schneider
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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] ⦿ | |
Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot
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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] ⦿ | |
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). His graduation work in 2012 at FADU-UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is the Trajan / roman caps typeface Esmeralda. In 2013, he published the lapidary flared serif face Esmeralda Pro at Sudtipos. Old URL. Facebook page. Behance link (joint page with Yani Arabena). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual artist and illustrator in Ankara, Turkey, who created the experimental typeface Planet (2013). Additional URL. [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] ⦿ | |
Gustavo Garcia
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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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Parisian designer. Behance link. Creator of various typefaces such as Neeo (2012, avant-garde), E-Pure (2012, geometric), Pixa (2012, hexagonal), Recompose (2012), TypEra (2012), and an unnamed alchemic typeface (2012). In 2013, Hadrian published the experimental typeface Beyond Font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Budapest. Creator of the very experimental Iony Display typeface in 2011, described as spacefunk slab. Iony inspired a digital font by Antonio Morata called Zychotropic eYeFS (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hamish Muir
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Designer of experimental Latin typefaces (such as Ice Cube, 2012) and Chinese types (such as Nordic Alive, 2012: based on the minimal modernism of Scandinavian design). [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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A follower of Calugi writes: Jonathan is a young illustrator hailing from Pistoia, Italy. It's nearly impossible to not recognize his signature style: what at first appears to be a child-like doodling, a closer look will reveal a world of intricate, carefully crafted patterns and eccentric geometric forms. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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. He created 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. Devian tart link. [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). In 2012, he created the calligraphic connected script typeface Conspired Lovers and the seven-font set Light Hearted (which was inspired by a recording of Jean Baudrillard entitled Die Macht der Verführung (2006). Home page. Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London. He created Aztec (2012, an outline face with a stone cut look), 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] ⦿ | |
In 2012, scientist at Harvard University's Wyss Institute programmed DNA to interlock in such a way that certain shapes are made on a nanoscale. Their research, which was published in Nature, features a molecular picture with 107 designs, including emoticons, Chinese characters, numbers and letters from the Latin alphabet. The canvas is a rectangle measuring 64 nanometers by 103 nanometers, with 310 pixels. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based graphic designer who created the avant garde experimental typeface AMFE (2013), and of Scanogram (2013). Behance link. [Google] [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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Parisian creator of the experimental and artsy typeface Pierre Mallois (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
HelloMe
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Designer in Bethoncourt, France who studied engineering at the institute of technology of Montbéliard. He 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. In 2012, the condensed high-contrast fashion mag headline face Coco, also free, was published in eight styles. The 47 typeface (2012) pays homage to vintage lettering from 1947. In 2013, Rolandez published the free contrasted fashion mag 12-style font family Valkyrie. 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] ⦿ | |
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. Klingspor link. FontShop link. showcase-joerghemker/">View Jörg Hemker's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [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] ⦿ | |
Hi
| Hi is the foundry of Swiss type designer Megi Zumstein, b. 1973, together with Claudio Barandun. Megi is the creator of Albis (2005, squarish, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), Dorfbeiz (2009, HI), Idol Stencil (2004, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), V&A-Outline (2003, Graphic Thought Facility). All her typefaces are in the orbit of DIN and VAG Rounded. House faces include New Elante (2007), Roxy (2008), and Countdown (2008, experimental). [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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Fonts made in 2010: Sketchetica (sketched Helvetica), Sketchetik (renamed Sketchetica?). In 2013, he published Savu (hand-lettered) and Sini Bold and Sini Ornaments (poster faces). Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
High Bold, an information design company in Paris, created several interesting modular typefaces. They married Neo Sans Ultra and Baskerville Italic in its Caractère Hybride (2012). Circle (2012) is a modular typeface based solely on circles. Eight Font (2012) is another magnificent modularly designed typeface family. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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). |
Holger Jacobs
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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] ⦿ |
Student at Atrium University. Cardiff, UK-based designer the experimental typeface Lines And Space (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies at Atrium University in Cardiff, Wales, Hollie Edwards designed the ornamental caps face The Captain Is A Storyteller (2012). She also created an unnamed experimental typeface in 2012. Her company is called Hollie Amelia Design. [Google] [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 Matthew Burvill's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
View Hubert Jocham's typefaces. Another view. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of a multicolor geometric layered font system called Responsive Type Alphabet. Bicolor is a bicolored rounded typeface. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Lisbon. He made experimental faces such as Gefaltet (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hula Hula
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Columbus, NJ-based creator of the squarish typeface Operator (2012). He also created Hangul Neue (2012, experimental Hangul font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I Shot The Serif
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In 2012, he added the constructivist typeface Propaganda, as well as Tinier (a pixel font), Stadium and Libby (an all-caps sans family). 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] ⦿ | |
Ian Party
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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] ⦿ |
Ilse Siengalewicz
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Located in Moscow, Ilya Aesthetics designed an unnamed experimental Cyrillic alphabet in 2013 ina project called Code Red. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and designer from Niort, France. Creator of the experimental faces Lift (2008, geometric), Pen (2011) and Conceptualisation (2008), and of David's Font (2011). Zfont (2011) is an experimental excess done in a moment of mental weakness. In 2013, Ilya designer Ioj Illustration Type (2013, Latin / Cyrillic). Old URL. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011, he published Francobelge (comic book face), Freepress (grunge), Gamix (Western titling face), Inmyroom (dingbats), Majestrick (calligraphic), Onomatopaf (comic book dings), Outerzone, OuterzoneB, Starz (dingbats), Stenstreet (grunge), Tram, Tramix (texture face), TrashToys02, War-Lettersn, Mixagex, Massive Dynamite (grunge), Not Well (grunge), Actu, Blck, Gling (texture face), HeRioz (silhouettes), Brightoon (cartoonish brush face), Muzo (ink spill face), Sharpy, Space Shop (dingbats), Pulp Dance (handprinted), Essef (art deco), Retro Sign (grunge), Labo (grunge), Exhausted, Komikoz, Puzzled, Toonimals (dings), Penstriped (sketch face), Cashier (grungy), Dan Hand, Hardwell (grungy caps), Colleged (athletic lettering), Goodjean (jeans texture face), Seaside Things (dingbats), Real Tek (techno), Zou (3d handprinted caps), Painter, Border Line (grunge), Handout (grunge), Tract (grunge), Pulpatone (grunge), Logos I Love, Pal Antic (chancery hand), Twent (fat rounded display face), DoodFlow (dingbats), Afro Add (texture face), Crump (grunge), Big White, Dark Room (grunge), Manifesto (grunge), Tacketil (a FontStruct font), Otto Land (sketch face), Over (outline face), Under (brush dings), Baskertown (grunge), Nursery Tale, Panic (texture face), BlackNDot (ink spill face), Beyond (striped display face), Advert, Car Crash (grunge), Heartz, Starsteel, Smart Faces, Blackflag (a brushed blackletter), Dock 51 (grungy stencil), Lead (3d face). In November 2011, he created a number of texture faces: Hotöcop, Pal Mod, Speedy (sketch face), Thirties Gold, Sunset GP. Further 2011 faces: Poptivi, Shadow Mole, Super Modern Black. Faces from 2012: Remanence, Winter Days (dingbats), Nowharehouse (grunge), Snuff (grunge), Cup of Tea (3d shadow face), Talk of the wall. Typefaces from 2012: Egirlz (dingbats), Art Post (white on black poster lettering), Volutes (copperplate calligraphic script), From me 2 you (curly script), PS I Love You, Kolossal (caps only), Kraash, Alexandre (3d engraved headline face), Monstres de poche (dingbats), Alternate (grunge), Warning, Dreams (brush face), Headline Crack, Bump Pad (textured typeface), Carton (grungy white-on-black stencil face), Maybe maybe Not, Frames n Riboons (sic), Blackboard (sketched face), Logotronik (a 3d techno face), Big Bad Dogs (dingbats), Libre Expression (engraved copperplate typeface), Mecagothix (textured blackletter face), Destroy, Destroy Helpers, Buy More, Things we said (curly face), Lost Saloon (Tuscan), Salon de Coiffure (beveled), Brighton Pier (grunge), Motel Vacancy (grunge), Bates Shower (dripping blood typeface), Venus Furs (texture typeface), Showmen, True Men Tattoos (dingbats), Quicker (sketch font), Romanum Est (grungy Trajan face), Also (scratchy letters), Lazy Day (3d font), Pusher, Hard Dumb, The Idiot, Overflowing (grunge), Fast Foont (sketched), Melange (grunge), Jumbo Parade (circus font), Happy Monsters, Zozox (experimental), Magic Sound (packaging typeface), Arena Mascaras (dingbats), Top View (3d face), Flagadoum, Last King Quest, Rhythm n Blacks (textured face), Troll Sketched, Superpoz (a 3d painted typeface of exceptional beauty), HalloCuties (Halloween font), Gothik Steel (circus font), Silvestre Relief (3d titling face), Just Like That (comic book face), Numero 10 (athletic lettering), Tet de Mor (skulls), Facelook, Xmas Dad, Instant Marker, Ragtimer, Punk Dots (textured face), Onomato Vlam (comic book balloons), 8th Cargo (textured mechanical octagonal face), Zu Kabarett (creepy curly German expressionist face), Unusual Day One, Happy New One (party font), Xmas Doods, Xmas Doods 2, Higher, Usual Day One, Team 401 (athletic lettering), Doonga (comic strip letters), Killer's Move. Typefaces from 2013: Them (fat brush), Ghost Code, Tiny Heroes (figurines), Over There (sci-fi), Higher than High, Abandon (sketched face), Broken Hearts, True Stories, A wolf at the door (wood style poster face), Elo Hand, Bots n Droids (dingbats), Toonimals 2 (dingbats), Halftoned Backup (textured face), Novlang (textured poster face), Come With Us, Ptits Pirates (pirate figurines), Board Dudes (skateboard dingbats), Big Bro's Watch (grungy), Doonga Slash (comic book face), Round About, Signz, Lethal League (grungy athletic lettering), Dark Times, Dandy Hat Trick, tardots (textured typeface), Dinoz (dinosaur dingbats), Big Surprise (fat script), Comix Loud, Arlequin, Fanzine Title, Scotch Taped, Phoenix (dingbats), Rock's Death (grunge), Tuamotu (textured), Trees Friends (dingbats), King Arthur Legend (blackletter), Fairy Strange, Flame On, Mystery, Money Go Round (ransom note font), Seven of One, Captain's Talk, Peaches en Regalia (sketch font), Wrong Board (textured typeface), Subito (cmic book face), Extra Sales (signage face), Gimme Dancer (grunge stencil). Dafont link. [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] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student (BA) at Skolen for Visuel Kommunikation in Haderslev, Denmark. Creator of the electrical experimental typeface Iskry (2012). Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Athens, Greece-based creative director and founder of iFetanis, b. 1983. He studied Graphic Design at AKTO (Athenian Artistic and Technological Group), and he graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He completed his studies in 2007 obtaining a Master of Arts in Design (Social Design & Visual Communication of N.G.O.) from Middlesex University, London. In 2012, he created the layered typeface Yama by superimposing geometric structures. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Iordanis Passas
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IP Art
| Iordanis Passas (IP Art) is a designer in Athens, b. 1986, who published some free typefaces. These include IP Arial (2012, an experimental overlay typeface), Brush of Anarchy (2012, graffiti face). Dafont link. Fontspace link. [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] ⦿ | |
Ivan Favalezza (Verona, Italy) designed the experimental geometric typeface Snowflakes Display (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivan Hristov
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Designer in Pau, France. He made Grafeo (2011, experimental) and Caseo (2011, also experimental). Behance link. Other creations include Rodeo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivana Concilio (Salerno, Italy) created the experimental CMD font (2012). What, how, why? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Izumi Najamura
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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] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made these typefaces in 2012: Coffee, Arnold, Puncher, Fontstrome Centred, Flora New (kitchen tile face), JM Squers, JM Aleksandra, JM Dominik, JM Daniels (dot matrix face), JM Beata (experimental). [Google] [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] ⦿ | |
Jack Usine
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Graphic designer in Chicago, who created Sticks of Gum (2012, squarish typeface) and Kringla (2012, experimental typeface based on the shapes of he Nowegian treat called Kringla). [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] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Kiel, WI, Jake Thielmann designed the arc-based experimental typeface Eclipse (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Jakob Nylund
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Jakob Runge
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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] ⦿ | |
Den Haag-based creator of the Milks display family (2012), of Miks (2013, a mixture of Rockwell and VAG Round), and of the subway-inspired Metron (2012). Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
James George Dunn
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Creative designer in Rochester, UK, who created the experimental Cycle Typeface (2012), in which all glyphs are made up of parts of a bicycle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Martin is from Cincinnati but works as a designer in Atlanta. The computer mouse served as the catalyst for the funky Mousetrap alphabet (2006-2007). Not a font. In 2012, he created the free octagonal font Aluap Sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buffalo, NY-based digital artist. Creator of the modular experimental AI Typeface (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Montalbano
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Australian creator of the alchemic alphabet face Deer Sue (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Prior from Toronto drew Beggars Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Glasgow, Jamie Shirra created the outlined square-shaped typeface Block Dot (2013). [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] ⦿ | |
German designer who created the experimental display face Liquid Lines (2008) for Neo2 magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Slovak designer of Vlna (2004), an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During his studies in Ruzomberok, Slovakia, Janci Gejdos created the experimental typeface Initial (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the DNA-inspired experimental typeface Typosomes (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jared Eberhardt
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Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. Using Glypha 55 Light as a skeleton, she created the Sequence typeface (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Los Angeles-based designer of the boomerang-themed typeface xFont (2013), of the hexagonal typeface Buzz (2013), and of the experimental typeface Halvesvetica (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at T-26 of the experimental Janus family in 1998. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Not to be confounded with Jason Ramirez (Pennyzine, Brooklyn, New York). Jason R. Ramirez (who also happens to be in Brooklyn, NY, where he does book covers and book design at 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] ⦿ | |
Jason Ramirez
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Javier Mariscal
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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] ⦿ | |
Designer in Slemmestad, Norway, who graduated from a school in Oslo in 2012. She created an experimental caps typeface in 2012. [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, Strypeface (a beautiful multiline display typeface) and the rounded stencil face Alphabits. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose Black Square Typeface (2012) is a nihilist experiment, in which each letter is a black square, as in Kazimir Malevich's Black Square painting. Beam (2012) is another typeface experiment. [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] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Salford University in Manchester, UK, Jemma davidge created Bones (2012) and Fringe Cringe (2013), two experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jens Weigel
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Jeremy Hally
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Jeremy Mickel
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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] ⦿ | |
Jeroen Krielaars
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Finnish graphic design student in the UK. Creator of various experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Los Angeles, who created Direction Slab (2012), and Utility Mono (2012, squarish, monospaced and monoline). Substitution Code (2012) is an experimental typeface. [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 fat geometric display 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] ⦿ | |
Jessy Naudin (b. 1995) is the Bourges, France-based designer of the counterless geometric typeface Devlose (2012) and of the hairline drafting typeface Go To The Sky (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer in Seoul. Creator of Cigarette Font (2012, experimental) and Metro Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joachim Müller-Lancé
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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] ⦿ | |
Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira
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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] ⦿ | |
Joancarles P. Casasín
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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] ⦿ | |
Joaquim Massana
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Albufeira, Portugal-based graphic designer who made the experimental faces Ivo (2012) and Poliphilo (2011). He also created an interesting drawing of Erik Spiekermann in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created Untitled (2012) and Random (2012), experimental typefaces. Her second font is called Font Twee (2012). She also created a Victorian typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan codesigned Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe Scerri
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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. | |
Joel Santos
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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] ⦿ | |
Designer of the experimental face PD Boquerón (2006, Prodiseño). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John Baichtal
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John Bomparte
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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] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, John Slattery created some pixelish typefaces based on Islamic tile patterns, as well as some exoerimental typefaces called Two in One. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Provo, UT-based designer of the experimental uncial font Pseudo Sachsen (2003) and of the handwriting font Hand Me Down (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Locke added the art deco face Broadway Love (and Broadway Love 2), Moscow Berlin (2012, a constructivist or Cyrillic simulation typeface), Rubicone (a stenciled Egyptian), Industry Stencil, Thakur, TipTap Decor, Karma, and Sketch6. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the barcode simulation typeface InMono (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jonathan Barnbrook
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Jonathan Calugi
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Graphic design student at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, in 2012. He currently lives in Chesterfield, 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). In 2013, he created Core (an inline simple sans), and Pixel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Mexican type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his screen face Wixarika. At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won an award for the layering typeface Antorcha. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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] ⦿ | |
José Antonio Garrido Izquierdo
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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] ⦿ | |
Brazilian codesigner with Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Joseph Anthony Bartolo
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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] ⦿ | |
Salford Type Foundry link. Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joshua Trees
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Reykjavik, Iceland-based graphic designer. He created the geometric paper-cut like face Building (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jörg Hemker
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Design student in Hong Kong in 2009. Creator of the hyper-experimental typeface Neurons (2009, Friday Fonts). [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 Carlos Pacheco
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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. Selknam Unicase followed in 2013. Home page. Dafont link. < Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
During her visual communication studies in Cali, Colombia, Julia Martinez Medina created the hybrid font Kriva (2012), based on a cross of American Typewiter and Gotham. She also made the tape-themed typeface Emburuje (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal, Juliana Moreira (Villa Nova de Gaia) designed a vernacular experimental typeface (2013) called Esta um frio de rachar. Also, check out the lettering in the poster entitled Fotografia (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of the Arts in London. She created Frankfurt Chopped (0212, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian of a very experimental minimal face called Modular (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Tours, France, who created the multiline typeface simply called Grid (2012). In 2013, he added the experimental stick font Antica. [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] ⦿ | |
Julien Wacky (Lyon, France) designed the experimental typeface Helgarabo (2013), which was created by fusing Helvetica, garamond and Bodoni. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic design student who made the geometric experimental face Tangram (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seoul-based creator of the experimental Latin typeface Tridna (2008). Behance link. [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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Angers, France-based designer of a typeface based on lightpainting, called Laserotype (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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). Trustin (2012) is a display face created for Advertising Brands Magazine. |
Student at UWE in Bristol. During his studies at UWE, he used FontStruct to create these typefaces: Negative Shadow (2012, experimental), Drop Shadow (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the terminal ball-inspired rounded sans face Bernard (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Savannah, GA, Kaitlyn Richards designed the loopy script face Milieu (2012) and the experimental layered art deco face Deco (2012). [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 St. Wendel, Saar, 1961), who was trained in Basel and at the Cooper Union in New York. He had his own studio in Barcelona, where he taught information design at Elisava School. He was lead information designer for Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco for 3 years. Currently, he lives in Umkirch near Freiburg, Germany. Timeline of his achievements:
View Joachim Müller-Lanceé's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Over 600 million people in the world are dyslexic. Kanny Yeung (New York City) started a typography project in 2012 to address two types of Dyslexia. Kanny introduced an alphabet that has very different glyphs, and is remotely related to Latin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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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Freelancer in London, who created several experimental typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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). In 2013, she made the monoline rounded geometric typeface Ziuxoa. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the octagonal experimental typeface Crossword (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the triangle-based experimental typeface Trigonom (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Darmstadt, Germany. Creator of the dotted display face Sao Paulo (2012) that experiments with ballooning effects. She is working on a serifed typeface in 2012. Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of California, 2012. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2012. Keal also made Skate Plaza (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Keita Soejima
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Keith Bates
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Kelly Kwan (Singapore) used hair as an inspiration for her Ubermessy font (2012). She used a dish shape to make the Dish typeface family (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toronto who created the experimental typefaces Vertex and Orbit (2013). She also designed the brush face Quillbee (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kelly Shami (New York City) is studying at The School of Visual Arts for a BFA in Graphic Design. She created the ball terminal experimental typeface Revolver (2012) and the flourished curly typeface Baby Jane (2012) during her studies at SVA. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kelvin Soh
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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: winner of an award at TDC 2012). 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. Ken Barber Interview” by T. Wilkins, Ken Barber Interview by T. Wilkins. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer with Agfa Monotype, who made the scary handwriting font GitschHand (2001). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kenji Wai Chang was raised In Macau. In 2006, Kenji moved to the United States to study graphic design at San Jose State University. Her Mirage typeface (2012) is based on Salvador Dali's paintings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of the experimental electronic circuit font Motherboard (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Long Beach, CA, who created an experimental typeface called Replay (2013) based on the shapes of ribbons and wheels of cassette tapes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
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Meave.org deals with illustrations and other occult arts. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Interview. Some of his early faces were published at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. His typefaces:
Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Moscovite who designed Indy Typeface (2012), a typeface in which the outlines follow one of several segments in an arrangement of lines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klaus Nielsen
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Russian experimental typography and calligraphy site. Hard to decipher what is going on. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based designer of some experimental typefaces in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kolektiv Studio
| Kolektiv studio is a Prague based, multi-disciplinary design studio founded by Lukas Kijonka and Michal Krul. They designed the monospaced sans typeface Mono Dinner Pro (2013) and the experimental typefaces Meetfactory (2012) and Width(2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Design studio. Designer of several multicolored type experiments, such as one called Morse Alphabet (2006, stencil letters). The picture below is taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Konstantin Boldovskiy
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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] ⦿ | |
Krista Langehennig (Austin, TX) created the experimental typeface Geo during her studies in 2012. [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] ⦿ | |
Kristian Walker
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While studying at Kingston University, Kristie Ballard designed the grungy experimental typeface Lost Language (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Boston, who made a typographic poster called Gunsling Birds (2012) to promote Gunsling Birds, a future-noir rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. [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. |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
Graphic Designer, TV Editor and photographer based in London. A graduate of London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) in 2007, he has designed the experimental typeface Altstadt (2012), which was was inspired by a grid pattern initiated from the window facade of a 13th century half-timber town hall known as Das Alte Rathaus in Hattingen (Germany). [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] ⦿ | |
Lars Harmsen
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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 design student at the Manchester School of Art. She created the experimental typeface TXT (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Bath Spa University, UK. She created Aztec Type (2012, experimental). [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] ⦿ |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of Concept Font (2012). [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
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Manchester, UK-based designer of Pyratrons (2011), an experimental typeface constructed on the basis of triangles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lee Mullen
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Design student in Hong Kong in 2009. Creator of the modular typeface Vibrate (2009, Friday Fonts). [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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Graphic designer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, who graduated from National Academy of Arts and Architecture of Ukraine, faculty of graphic design and fine arts. She created a few experimental Cyrillic typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kiev-based designer of various splendid eye-catching geometric experimental typefaces in 2009. She also created Oksana (2009, a flowery face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, she created an unnamed black didone display typeface. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leonardo Buggy
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Leslie Willmers
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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. His main work in 2012 is the six-layer stacking display family Modular Roman and Slab. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During his design studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, Lewis Allen designed Ernesto (2013), an experimental typeface dedicated to Che Guevara. [Google] [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] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Liliana Diaz designed the typeface Pugh (2013), a mixture of Gotham Bold and Leitura. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Yerevan, Armenia, who created an experimenal typeface in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lina Grin (or: Lina Grigorenko) is from Moscow, Russia, where she studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design. At that school, she designed the dada paper cutout typeface People Were Here (2011). She continued her studies at the University of the Arts London / London College of Communication, where she created the experimental circle-based typeface Sigma (2012). She also created the experimental geometric Latin face Zepta (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based designer of experimental typographical pieces in 2012. [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] ⦿ | |
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:
MyFonts link for Linotype Design Studio. Catalog of the typefaces in Linotype's library [large web page]. View Linotype's library of typefaces in alphabetical order. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rosario, Argentina, who made the experimental all-caps typeface The X-Ray Font (2012). [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. At Pixilate, he published the hand-printed typeface Lu Px with Kemie Guiada in 2004. It is based on an architect's hand. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Parsons in New York City in 2011. He created some experimental alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. | |
Lukas Kijonka
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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] ⦿ | |
Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Cape (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Luke Tierney (London, UK) created a typeface based on photographs of smoke. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luke William Turvey
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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] ⦿ | |
Maarten Idema
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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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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 
Graphic designer in Chihuahua, Mexico. He created the experimental typefaces 
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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. 
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Amy Kilner (Sheffield, UK) was inspired by 
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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 
Born in Barcelona in 1962, 
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. 
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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 
Moscow-based designer of the artsy typeface 
Aparat is Domen Fras's commercial foundry in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His largely experimental work: 
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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 
Atelier Bubentraum is Anton Studer, a designer located in Zürich. 
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 
Mexican graphic designer, b. 1986, who lives in Hermosillo. He created a number of typefaces, some of which are free. Also known as Fractal Eye. 
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. 
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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 set up shop in Brixton, South London. He serves the corporate market with innovative type designs, but also has a retail font line. Ex-Monotype designer Ron Carpenter designs type for the foundry. In the past, type designers Veronika Burian and fabio Luiz Haag have worked for Dalton Maag. A graduate of the Basel School of Design, who worked at Stempel and was invitedd by Rene Kerfante to Join Monotype to start up a custom type department. After that, he set up Dalton Maag with his wife Liz Dalton. He has built the company into a 40-employee enterprise with offices in London, Boston, Brazil, Vienna and Hong Kong. 
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. 
Prague-based designer of 
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). 
FontStructor in Oakland, CA, who made 
Typographer and graphic designer from Geneva. He created 
Brooklyn, NY-based graphic designer, who also claims Norfolk, VA, as his home. He deconstructed a hairdryer---its pieces made up the glyphs of 
Graphic designer in Istanbul, who created these typefaces: 
Tomar, Portugal-based designer of the angular face 
Parisian visual communication student who created 
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 
Designer in Newcastle, UK. Creator of the beautiful mechanical / octagonal typeface 
Visual communications designer in Germany. At 
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 
Budapest-based designer of the experimental number font 
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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 
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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, 
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Argentinian artist / painter / illustrator, b. 1966. Creator of the experimental typefaces Borges (2005), 
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Fernando Forero (b. 1978, Tunja) ran EisartGraphic.com together with Weronika Kwiatkowska, and moved from Bogota to Kalisz, Wielkopolska, Poland, where he 
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. 
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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 
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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 
HelloMe is Till Wiedeck's Berlin-based studio. They created the following typefaces in 2011: HM Extra (the visual identity for HipHop musician Exzem is based around the custom alchemic typeface HM Extra), 
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 American designer 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, 
Frenchman (b. 1957) who started making fonts in 2010, after a career in illustration, comics, and video games. In 2010, he created the free fonts BabyJo (pixel face), Bayday, Chrom (beveled face), LaPresse (grunge), 
Design group associated with 
London-based creator of 
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Prague-based designer who made his 
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Designer at Linotype of 
Graphic designer in Garden Grove, CA. 
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 
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Midlands, UK-based graphic design student. 
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 
Jonas Helgeneset (Oslo, Norway) created the curvy decoratie headline face 
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Aka Jonathan Looman. Dutch type and graphic designer. 
Toledo, Spain-based graphic designer. He used the positions of the stars to create connect-the-points letters in his 
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Graphic designer who studied at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. His 
Born in 1982, this Danish designer dabbled in 
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Kuala Lumpur-based animation designer. He created 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 
Parisian 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 
