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The Finnish type scene |
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Aarno Hohti
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abstra.type.design
| Finnish design consortium. About 3 dollars per font. Among the mostly display faces, I like penetrati (by Vesa Kautto), Electra-Normal (by Anna-Elina Aartola), and abstra (by Vesa Kautto). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Industrial designer. Amy's typeface Aalto (2012) is inspired by the well-known Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto. She also made the custom font Articule (2012) for a gallery in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lahti, Finland-based designer. Creator of the free fat counterless face Much Bolder (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
APL
| Aarno Hohti's free metafont for APL. Plus many files for TEX users who want to set APL code nicely. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Finnish designer of the octagonal techno font Nouveau IBM (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish type designer and artist. One of his creations was the first Finnish initial and ornamental character set called Jorma, which was first shown in the Kirjapainotaito-magazine at 1914. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nice free utility and barcode (BarfCode.ttf) created by Hannu Helminen, 1999. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bitmap fonts at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian Kaszonyi
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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] ⦿ |
Cosmonaut Fonts
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The foundry is under reconstruction but its fonts survive at TypOasis. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cufon
| Free software published in 2009 to render text in a font of one's choice. Developed by Simo Kinnunen. From the announcement: Cufon aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:
Cufon consists of a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in JavaScript. In reality the generator is little more than a web-based interface to FontForge. First, the generator builds a custom FontForge script based on user input and then runs it, saving the result as an SVG font. The SVG font is then parsed and SVG paths are converted to VML paths. This is a crucial step in achieving stellar performance in Internet Explorer, as it supports VML natively. The resulting document is then converted into JSON with a mix of functional JavaScript. This has numerous advantages:
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Juha Rautiainen (Freak)'s Finnish archive with well over 700 truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Darkmind (Darkbase) is the Finnish designer of the handwriting face Freeform0001 (2003). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish company selling Cyrillic typefaces and barcode fonts and software. Webmaster Joni-Pekka Kurronen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of esint10, a font with integrals of various sizes and kinds. This font was converted into type 1 by Martti Nikunen in 2005: see here. Nikunen used mftrace on the metafont output. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish architect who drew the squarish lettering for Eero, a type family created in 2003 by Christian Schwartz. Eero is used in the Dulles International Airport, and was commissioned by House Industries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish designer of the handwriting fonts Pwnisher1, Pwnisher2 and Pwnisher3 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emil Karl Bertell
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Emma Laiho studied at the Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki. In 2011, she obtained a Masters in the type and media program of KABK. Her graphic design involves mainly editorial and book design. Her graduation typeface at KABK was Taiga (2011), a text family for books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erik Bertell
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Erik's fonts EB Base Mono (2009, monospaced), EB Futuretro (2002, bilined art deco techno face), EB Neon (2002), EB Boogie Monster (2002, multiline prismatic op art family), EB Vintage Future and EB Humboldt (2002, ultra fat). EB Martin (2010) is, in his own words, a post modern take on several traditional blackletter types. EB Bellissimo Display (2010) is a rounded monoline geometric sans typeface family. EB Jessica (2011) is part typewriter, part cemetery. Typefaces from 2013: Steamer (which he calls a grimy grotesque), EB Vintage Future, EB Martin (blackletter), EB Jessica Condensed Book. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Erik Jarl Bertell
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Esa Anttikoski
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Euroset Oy--Xxpress Oy (or: Vektorointi Lauri Alku)
| Finnish outfit owning the rights to the font Nokia by Lauri Alku, 1990. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fenotype
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Typefaces made in 2002: Lakmus, Valimo, FUTU, Test1, Foton Torpedo, Cheaptype, Personal Computer, Copycut, Unicode 0024, HKI Metro, HKI NightLife, Digital Kauno, Fenotravels (dingbats), Tivoli, Kosmonaut, 10124, JouluFonttiFenotype, Testi, 1laitos, 1120, 0629 (2002, a kitchen tile font), 0927, 0210, FTdingsprevi, Fenotypedings#lego3, Genotype, NeoPangaia, NeoPangaia 2, Nipponblocks, Pectopah, Personalcomputer, Pouttu, Samarin (2002, athletic lettering), Unicode0024, URALphat, URALthin, URAL, URAL3d (all Latin/Cyrillic fonts with incomplete punctuation though), Automania (multiline), Copycut, Halo, 222_2003, Tantor, Letters, Rikos, Lastu, ThreeTheHardWay, Bukkake, Halo. Emil's brother Erik designed Neon (paperclip face), Mama and Mama Round (paperclip faces). In private email, he calls himself Carl. The foundry evolved from 2theleft. Fonts made in 2003: Military Dingbats, 08 02 03 Fenotype, Projectsfenotype, Rock-it. Fonts made in 2004: Scandinavian Titan white, Scandinavian Titan, Acid Test 2, Acid Test (texture faces), 080203, Letters11, Linja, Projects, Rock it, Simpletype. Commercial typefaces: Sapluuna, Shortcut, Transeuro-Express, Omega-Uros, Fenotype Dings, Military Dingbats, Nippon Noodle. Typefaces made in 2004: Kolari, Kolari Light, FTfaces, Twisted Ontogenesis. Alternate URL. In 2005: RoundAbout, Nihilist Philosophy, Boogie Monster, Chunky Hunk (Western), Diy Typeface (kitchen tile style), Futuretro (stencil-like), 3TheHardWayOverrun, Pedant Dilettante, FT Rosecube, FT Blockbuster, 3TheHardWayRMX, Adios Gringo (Western face), Helsingfurt (3d oil glow face), Cream Soda (liquid), Thashed Paper Bag, Big Medium. In 2006: Rock It Deluxe (grunge), Cassette (dingbats), Kings Garden (Japanese trees as dingbats). MyFonts link, opened in 2009, where one can buy 080203, 3 The Hard Way Overrun, 3 The Hard Way RMX, Adios Gringo, Depth Charge, FT Helsingfurt, FT Roundabout, FT Scandinavian Titan, FT Twisted Ontogenesis, Ice Cream Soda, Kings Garden, Kolari, Nihilist Philosophy, Old Note, Rock It, November Script, and Majestic Mishmash (ransom note caps), Digital Kauno (2002, upright script), 10.12, EB Vintage Future, Fenotype Dingbats, FT Forest, FT Funghis, FT Military Dingbats, FT Weapon of Choice, Motel Xenia, URAL, Valima. Additions in 2010: Linguine (connected script), FT Telegraph (slab serif), FT Brush, FT Industry Machine, FT Giorgio, Killer Elephant (signage), FT Supervisor (retro), FT Dead Mans Diary (scribbly), FT Grandpa Script (grunge calligraphy), FT Stamper (angular lettering), FT Tantor (fat, rounded), FT Bronson (fat display face with mustache dings thrown in), FT Master of Poster (bi-level display face with many ligatures and interlocking letters), FT Hidden Forest (tree dingbats), FT Mammoth (grotesque headline face), Rikos (futuristic), Squarendon Extra Bold (2010, a Clarendon), FT Moonshine Script (a Treefrog style face), Billboard (a handprinted rounded caps family), EB Bellissimo Display (rounded monoline sans), Malamondo (an all caps display face with a large number of interlocking ligatures), Linja (2002 and 2010, a rounded ultra condensed family), Punavuori (2002 and 2010: a monoline sans family), Signor (2010, a rounded all caps family), Mrs. Lolita (connected script), Funghi Mania (mushroom dingbats), Funghi Mania Script, Darlington (very open upright connected script family), Archipelago (+Caps: an upright connected script), Tower (pieces that enable one to modularly construct towers when stacked; created as a school assignment at the University of Industrial Art&Design Helsinki in 2006), Monster (just as Tower but for monsters), Verna (informal face with ball terminals), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna). Typefaces from 2011: Pepita Script (an upright connected script with small lachrymal terminals), Pepito (its nonconnected version), Barber (upright script family), Banzai Bros (a fat caps-only signage face), Mishka (an upright connected script with tear drop terminals). In 2012, he created Salamander Script, Taiga (connected upright script), Mercury Script (a set of upright connected script typefaces), Slim Tony (a bubblegum retro signage face) and Mercury Ornaments. Typefaces from 2013: Barracuda Script (brushy signage face), Bonbon (signage script), Bonbon Ornaments, Scaramouche (a playful connected script). View the Fenotype typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fonticon
| John Joe Mittler (b. Tampere, Finland, 1974) runs Fonticon in Lapua, Finland. He specilaizes in dingbats, and made the Mannequin font series (2006), which has "anatomically correct high-resolution illustrations of women with diverse body weights and shapes, in diverse levels of clothing." Subfonts include Stout, Slim, Cup C, and Pregnant. MyFonts page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Corporate type vendor in Espoo, Finland, acting for Linotype, FontShop, and others. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish upstart foundry, which possibly ceased to exist. About five free Mac truetype fonts: Pisara (outlined handwriting--nice!), Digitaali, Japestyle, Treedee, Nohata. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gerald Giampa
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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] ⦿ | |
Hanna Hakala is a type and graphic designer from Helsinki, Finland. She has studied graphic design at University of Art and Design Helsinki and type design at the Type and Media masters program at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has an MA in developmental genetics and has worked in Minneapolis and Helsinki as a research scientist. She has been involved with the design of several visual identities, magazines and books. She is particularly interested in information design, multilingual projects and the design of Latin-Cyrillic typefaces. She created DTL Valiance. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Harri Perälä from Finland created this gorgeous connected handwriting font, Tengwar Cursive TrueType Font v0.95. Free. Tengwar font tutorial. See also here. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heikki Morgan Hämäläinen
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Heikki is a Sydney University Master of Multimedia(hons.) graduate and has also studied a Master of Arts degree in filmmaking at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. Currently, Heikki is employed at SeaLink Travel Group in Adelaide as Design Lead. He is the creator of the scratchy handprinted face Else Type (2011, iFontMaker) and of the handprinted face Hessutxt (2011, iFontMaker). [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] ⦿ |
Cargo collective link. Link at Underware. Alternate URL: This is playtime. His typefaces:
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Hurme Design
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Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Inselfonts is Andreas Saari (or Andreas Finn) in Finland. They published the free grunge face Andreus (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free code 128 barcode TrueType font. Check also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Isipola
| Finnish archive. The 7.2MB font file has many .fon files, as well as the Microsoft truetype collection, EstrangeloEdessa (by Paul Nelson and George Kiraz, 2000, Syriac Computing Institute), ITC Franklin Gothic, Gautami (Microsoft, 2001), Latha (Microsoft, 2001), LucidaSansUnicode, MV Boli (Agfa-Monotype, 2001), Mangal (Microsoft, 2001), PalatinoLinotype (1998, a Unicode font), Raavi (Microsoft, 2001), Shruti (Microsoft, 2001), Sshlinedraw (Tero Kivinen / SSH Communications Security Oy, linedrawing characters for VT100 terminal, 1997), Sylfaen (Microsoft, 1999). All of the fonts are basically Unicode for all European languages, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, basic mathematics, and Greek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Coding that supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. See also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. More specifically, other ISO-8859 groups are as follows:
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Designer (Pietarsaari, Finland) of the sans face Lagom Sans (2004), River (2006, a serif with lively slightly random edges), and Huckleberry (2005, Western face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish creator of the fat finger typeface James Jeans (2012) and the textured typeface Dotted Newspaper (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jarno Lukkarila
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Finnish student who graduated in 2007 from the University of Reading, where she designed Ilona, an informal rounded-serif face designed for children's books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helsinki-based designer who made a cute paper type out of crinkled sheets (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish FontStructor who made Coffee (2012), jere347 (2012, squarish) and jere123 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish graphic design student in the UK. Creator of various experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jesse Juup
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JL-types Ky
| Juhani Lehtiranta holds a Ph.D. in linguistics, and lives and works in his place of birth, Nurmijärvi, near Helsinki. He has been busy with special fonts since 1985. In 1990 he established font design company, JL-types Ky. Lehtiranta's special interests are typefaces for European minority languages (e.g., Greek, Baltic, Sami, Cyrillic, Central European) and custom made fonts (e.g., barcode fonts (JLCode128, JLEAN, JLCode39, JLInterleaved2/5)). He created the first fonts for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in 1985 and published an OpenType phonetic font in 2005. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on A wild play with diacriticts, in which he discusses the Finnish language, Sami, and other special aerial languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
John Joe Mittler
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Juha Korhonen (b. 1966, aka Junkohanhero) is a Finnish artist and type designer, who created these free fonts:
Dafont link. Old URL. Additional URL. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Juhani Lehtiranta
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Designer in Helsinki, who created Tutankhamono (2012), a monospaced typeface family. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jukka Aalto, aka "Armadillo" comments from the font design trenches. Here are bits and pieces.
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Jukka Korpela
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Finland-born and Londrina, Brazil-based designer of Oliveira's Neon (2013), a FontStruct typeface that was inspired by neon signs from the 1920s. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2009, she published FF Mister K Dingbats. FF Mister K Informal (2011) won an award at TDC 2012. In 2012, Julia published the beautiful handwriting font ALS SyysScript at Art Lebedev Studio. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Juraj Sukop
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Visual information designer, consultant and teacher who lives and works at Tampere, Finland. He has an MA in media from Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences. He specializes in designing complex visual systems, like newspapers, magazines and web sites. He made the avant garde geometric sans face Alvar (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free comic book face Nibby (2010, Open Font Library). Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From the University of Tampere, Finland, Jürgen F. Schopp's list of books on typography. He also has a nice page on type classification. For "broken" typefaces (gebrochene Schriften), Schopp proposes this:
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Finnish designer of the futuristic face Utopy (T-26, 2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Turku, Finland, in 1955. Lecturer at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki since 1996. He has mainly focused on teaching lettering and basics of typography at both the BA and MA levels. He also arranged the first digital font design courses in UIAH in 1994-1995. He has a small studio on Harakka Island just off the Helsinki coastline. He was the main organizer of ATypI 2005 in Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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From the University of Tampere, Finland, Jürgen F. Schopp's list of type classifiactions. In German. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish designer with Tomi Haaparanta and Brian Kaszonyi of the 15-font War family in 1999-2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish Flash font site. Has the "Koneisto" typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristoffer Lindqvist
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Kunihiko Okano
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Lanston Type Co
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The fonts: Albertan No. 977, Albertan Bold No. 978, Albertan Title No. 980,&Inline No. 979, Bodoni No. 175, Bodoni Bold No. 2175, Bodoni 26 (a Lanston unicase based on an interpretation by Sol Hess), No. 175, Caslon Old Style No. 337, Caslon Bold No's 637,&537, Deepdene No. 315, Figures Square No. 132, Flash No. 373, Fleurons C, Fleurons Granjon Folio, Fleurons Folio One, Forum No. 274, Francis No. 982, Garamont No. 248, Globe Gothic No's 240,&239,&230, Goudy Initials No. 296, Goudy Old Style No. 394, Goudy Thirty No. 392, Goudy Village (#2) No. 410, Hadriano Stone-Cut No. 409, Hadriano Title No. 309, Jacobean Initials, Jefferson Gothic No. 227, Jenson Old Style No. 508, Kaatskill No. 976, Kaufmann (Lanston Swing Bold) No. 217, Kennerley Old Style No. 268, Metropolitan No. 369, Obelisk No. 2577, Pabst Old Style No. 45, Pabst Old Style Open, Spire No. 377, 20th Century No. 605, Vine Leaves C, Vine Leaves Folio One, Vine Leaves Folio Two, Water Garden Ornaments. P22 writes this about Lanston: In the late 1800s, Tolbert Lanston licensed his technology to an English sister company and became a major international force. Lanston grew rapidly with America's pre-eminent type designer, Frederic Goudy, holding the position of art director from 1920-1947. The Philadelphia-based Lanston Monotype eventually parted ways with its English counterpart. English Monotype became simply known as Monotype from that time forth. Lanston was acquired by American Type Founders in 1969. After a series of other owners, the company found its way to master printer Gerald Giampa, who moved it to Prince Edward Island in 1988. During its time of transition, Lanston continued supplying the American market for monotype casters until January 21, 2000, when the hot-metal component of Lanston was tragically destroyed by a tidal wave. Giampa was one of the earliest developers of PostScript fonts. After the loss, he focused on digitization to an even greater extent. Under his stewardship, Lanston's classic faces were digitized in a style that was true to the sources, which are the brass and lead patterns from which the metal type was made. The past few years have seen Giampa and Lanston travel from Canada to Finland, and back again. Now, Lanston has completed another journey back to the United States to come under the care of a new steward: P22. Giampa is answering the call of the sea. He has traded his type founder's hat for that of a ship's captain to sail the northern Pacific coast. During his shore leaves, Giampa will act as typographic consultant to Lanston-P22. The P22 Lanston collection (2005-2006) includes this:
Fonts can be purchased from MyFonts where all fonts have the prefix LTC. Obituary of Giampa and links to obituaries. Catalog of the Lanston typeface library. View the typefaces designed by Lanston. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Finnish hieroglyphologist who lives in Helsinki. Creator of A Stressed Sans (2006), a sans display face not unlike Peignot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lauri Alku
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Lauri Paatero
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Finnish graphic and identity designer. Creator of the (free) handwriting font My Hand Fights (2005). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Helsinki-based art director and graphic designer. He created a few typefaces, probably on commission. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ludwig Type
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View Ludwig Übele's typefaces. A list of Ludwig Übele's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ludwig Übele
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Finnish designer of the handwriting font Luxorian Adv (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish graphic designer, b. 1965, who focuses on book design and typography. His one-man studio, started in 1987, is located near the sea in south-eastern Helsinki. Itkonen has an MA in art history and communications from the Helsinki University (1991). Before that, he had graduated from the school of the Finnish graphic designers association (Mainosgraafikkojen koulu) in 1986. Itkonen is the author of Typografian käsikirja, a Finnish handbook on typography (2003), and has written extensively on typography. Since the early 90s, his book designs have won several honourable mentions in the Finnish contest for the most beautiful books of the year. Itkonen also teaches part-time on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer, b. 1965. Currently, he teaches typography at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, but maintains a home in Wuppertal, Germany. His typefaces:
http://www.dafont.com/markus-schroppel.d1142">Dafont link. Old download link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helsinki-based creator of a constructivist typeface that is based on a font of Manfred Klein. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish creator of Scrrrabbble (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lahti, Finland-based graphic designer who studied package&graphic design at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 2010. Creator of the fat finger face MKHarakanvarpaat (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ringa (2011) is a fun extra bold slab serif face. Alina (2012) is a connected fifties-style signage typeface. Saline (2012) is an angular brush script typeface. Typefaces from 2013: Riona Sans. | |
Helsinki-based graphic designer. Designer of this restaurant logo face (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Minority languages of Russia on the Net
| Esa Anttikoski's page with minority Russian language links. Has fonts for Altai/Mari, Kazakh, Tatar, Chechen, Chuvash (TimesEC), Udmurt, Ossetian, Karelian, Yakut. His font Abur (2000). Subpage on Russian minority language fonts. In particular, free fonts offered include
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Morganismi
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In 2010, he founded Morganismi (in Finland's Sysmä), and created the children's hand Morganshand, the petroglyph font Rock Painting, the retro futuristic face 2010 Outta Space (2010), and the insult-inspired dingbat face 1HarshLanguage. Morganismi (2010) is a primitive human alphabet. Kauhaatos (2010) is a scary gothic face. Fraught (+Icons, which includes some fists) (2010) is a rough handprinted stencil face. Curser (2010) is an old typewriter face. Morgothick (2011) is described as follows: Morgothick is an ugly not-so-decorative blackletter font, hand-drawn like straight from the dark Middle Ages of drunk monks and dim chambers. Riipale (2012) is a font family with two sets of hand-drawn characters. Typefaces from 2013: Seriffi Morgan (an antiqued roman typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Finnish designer of "Makinen Was Here" (2000, Lahti Institute of Design), a great font, but an even greater presentation. He is a multimedia designer who works in Helsinki for Evia Helsinki Oy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OCR-A: Tor Lillqvist
| OCR-A was coded in METAFONT84 by Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK (Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Oleg Martos (Finland) created the Cyrillic fonts 1979, Braeside, Crackman, Paul Boxes, as well as Cyrillic versions of YellowSubmarine, SirClive and Abduction. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Miettinen (from Vantaa, Finland, a graduate of the University of Helsinki) extended and completed the gorgeous ITC Mendoza Roam series in 2006. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Ossi Gustafsson
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Pol Solsona (Sabadell, Catalunya, and Helsinki, Finland) created the experimental typeface Fuck Stereotypes (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Prashant Coakley's graduation project in Helsinki was Badomtilia (2013), a script font for an endangered Indian language. It has a latin component as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Professor Riitta Brusila is teaching and researching visual communication and graphic design at University of Lapland. She is a partner of a design company. Dr. Brusila has studied at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki (1987 M.A., visual communication) and at the University of Tampere (1997, Doctor of social sciences, communication research and visual journalism). She has published articles and books about typography. She has also translated some of Jan Tschichold's texts into Finnish. Brusila is chairman of the board of Grafia (Finnish Graphic Designer's Association) since 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ritva Leinonen is a Finnish artist and teacher. She works as a painter and graphic designer and has an interest in calligraphy. She is a member of The Association of painters in Finland, and has had exhibitions in Finland since 1964 and abroad since 1972. Ritva has been a lecturer in visual communication and typography at Lahti Institute of Design since 1971 and a teacher at UIAH, Helsinki from 1979-1982. She has organized typographic symposiums in Finland since 1995. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ritzy Spacedweller
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Codesigner, with Markus Schröppel of LL Pikseli (2009), a dot matrix face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
rzy-- SD Fonts
| From Espoo, Finland, Ritzy Spacedweller's free fonts: Digeria-Normal, DJ-Gross, Donnie, Speedlearn-Normal, 02760, 3X3, 80's-Cyberpunk-Revival, AlSabro, Almanacques, Aranea, Bored-Schoolboy, Brainless-Thoughts, Clauderosa, Confusion, Coptica, Crying-Star, Daville, Dempsey-Modern-Uncial, Denial (this Exocet-related family from 2000 is also here), Empiric, End-of-Path, Fasttracker-II, Finnish-Rock-Paintings, Fire-Of-Ysgard, Ghis-Ghis, Glue-Klinging-Klan, Gothic-Bozo, Handshake, Helena-Script, Hic-Habitat-Minotaurus, Izolation, Loving-Babes, Ludovicos, Metropoliz, Paganspace, Painfull-Misery, Paolo, Paternoster-AH, Professor-Mad, Progressiva, Reubalach, Rumble-Dumble, Sailor-'87, Scrawl, Scrypticali (2001), Seabreed, Silent-Hill-of-Cheryl, Slouch..., Swelled-Computer, Tagster, Times-UnXpected, Xenith, XenoArial, Dwarven-Stonecraft. Most fonts have only caps. Many have an "ancient" flavor. Alternate URL. Could his real name be Kauko Mieli? Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
MacCampus writes: The Saames are a small people living in Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. They have their own language called Saami (Samisk, Saamisch), sometimes also called Lappe (Lappisch). The language (or rather its three different dialects) uses some characters not present in any other European language. For Saami, MacCampus has created the SamoFont series of fonts. Currently available are Nimbus Roman SA (SamoFont 01) and Nimbus Sans SA (SamoFont 02). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish graphic designer in Helsinki. Behance link. Creator of Cthulhentai (2010), an elaborate all-caps face with tattoo and jewelry influences. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Saku Heinänen
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Graphic designer in Helsinki, b. 1981. He created the experimental typeface KSM BDN (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zigan Trad Okudeska is a Klingon language font, copyright ZLI Sami Laitala (1996). Created by Sami Laitala from Finland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish expert on font rendering, having been lead engineer for the TrueType rasterizer while at Apple (and inventor of truetype), from 1987 to 1989. He set up his own company, Type Solutions, to market font development software (TypeMan, StingRay, Incubator), a Java development system, software for the Apple Newton and, later, a new rasterizer, T2K. This relied much less on hints in the font, yet produced results comparable with good TrueType fonts. In 1995-1996, Type Solutions (and Tax and Accounting Software Corporation, whatever that is) made the Helvetica-lookalike fonts TxFntB10, TxFntB12, TxFntB14, TxFntB8, TxFntB6, TxFntN6, TxFntN8. In 1998, Bitstream acquired Type Solutions and T2K is now fully integrated into Bitstream's font rasterizer, now called Font Fusion. An interview. From August, 1989 to November 1998, he was a founder and President of Type Solutions, Inc., where he developed the font renderer T2K. Sampo Kaasila joined Bitstream in November 1998 upon the acquisition of his company, Type Solutions, Inc. As Vice President, Research and Development at Bitstream, he is the main developer of ThunderHawk, a web browser for wireless devices. That software has a font family developed by Bitstream called Kaasila (2001). He stayed with Bitstream until its demise in 2012. In 2012, he joined Monotype as its Research and Development Director. Linkedin link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
BA student at University of Ljubljana: Academy of Fine arts and Design, Department of Visual Communication Design, 2010-2013. In 2012, she is an exchange student at Aalto University: School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki. Creator of the experimental typeface Hemifission (2012) and of Kutsu (2012). | |
Finnish creator of the grungy Angsterdamn (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shotype
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At KABK, he created Quintet (2011), which consists of a script, a serif and an italic. He writes: The Script typeface is based on the double-pencil technique and looks double-stroke but consists of a single stroke. The Script variations have completely same letter widths and kerning values to be used as a layer font. The Serif style works for a subhead or body text. Quintet is suitable for packaging design for wines, sweets and cosmetics. The typophiles are applauding Quintet. Hrant papazian says that it is the best typeface to ever come out of KABK. Discussion on Typographica: The layered approach of Quintet gives the designer a toolbox that allows exploration of different shades within the same underlying model. Different weights are implemented in an unconventional way: instead of varying the main strokes, Quintet varies the weight of the outline. And this contour itself is maybe the most remarkable feature of the font: it is in fact broadnib-based double stroke drawn as a single, connected line. This technique itself has been practised by calligraphers for centuries, albeit in ornaments and illustrations, not the letterforms themselves. This way, Quintet gives us the pleasure to enjoy it not only once at first sight but again as we discover its clever loops and connections.. The typeface was published in 2012 by Photo-Lettering. Later he established Shotype. Besides Quintet Script and Quintet Serif, he created AXIS Latin Condensed, AXIS Latin Compressed, Hiragino UD Mincho, Hiragino UD KakuGo, Hiragino UD MaruGo, Shotype Serif, Shotype Slab, AXIS Mincho. In 2012, he won the Gold Prize in the Kanji category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Waran. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Simo Kinnunen
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Tampere, Finland-based designer, b. 1978. Home page. Creator of the irregular handwriting faces Stane Round, Stane Fast and Stane One (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Steve Bird
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Suomen Kalligrafia Yhdistys is the Finnish calligraphic society. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Massive, two-volume atlas of Finnish typography edited by Anna Perälä, published at Helsinki: Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto, 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Suomi Type Foundry
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View Tomi Haaparanta's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Finnish student-artist, b. 1989. She created the ABC typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Researcher in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Tampere (Finland) with a Computer Science background, who received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Tampere in December 2005. Creator of the experimental typeface Styled (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer at Typolar in Helsinki, together with Jarno Lukkarila and Saku Heinänen. Teemu is a graphic designer in Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Finnish creator in Helsinki of Kaiser (2011, a sans designed for print and screen), developed at the tipoRenesansa 3rd international type design workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Creator of the round signage face Winnie the Hoop (2012, inspired by Winnie the pooh). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Tero Kivinen
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Jörg Knappen's page on the European Computer Modern fonts. "The following languages are supported by the Cork encoding: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish (modern orthography), Italian, Letzeburgish, Lusatian (Sorbian), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaetian (Rumantsch), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helsinki-based designer of a half Western half-faux hebrew face that one can see here (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tomi Haaparanta
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Graphic designer in Helsinki, who designed the display typeface Aalto (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toni Hurme
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Tor Lillqvist
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Tsampa.org
| Tibetan software and fonts by Kristoffer Lindqvist. He created the free Tsampa Keyboard Font (2003) and is working on the Tsampa Classic typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Finland since 1988, who obtained a Masters in Philosophy in 2001 from the Art History department at the University of Helsinki. Since 1997 she is a graphic designer at the book publisher Tammi. At the ATypI 2005 meeting in Helsinki she spoke on the history of Finnish type, focusing on the art nouveau era and the early 20th century. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tutorial on character codes
| Jukka Korpela's great tutorial on character codes. Latin1 subpage. Jukka Korpela wrote Unicode Explained (O'Reilly). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Finnish designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Solly. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type1OS2
| Free utility to extract font information from type 1 fonts, written by Lauri Paatero. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typism
| Typism is Juraj Sukop's web-based font editor published in 2009: It is a public site where anyone can create a font for others to use and to study, to modify and to copy. You write the description of a typeface, design the outlines of a glyph, track the development history and publish any revision in human-readable format to store locally. All it takes to run it is a browser supporting a few open standards. [...] I believe it is of uttermost importance that everyone has the unrestricted access to the tools one needs to create freely. Therefore everyone can come here and may do good and that is why typism uses SVG. All the code and fonts are released under MIT License and Open Font License, respectively. [...] In other words, typism borrows heavily from Blender, Firefox, Wikipedia and The Pirate Bay. Juraj was an exchange student at UIAH in Helsinki, and got support for this project from the Slovak government. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typografi
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FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typolar (was: Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry, or: Format Design)
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His type families, most of which start with an extreme hairline weight.
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Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling designed Dolly (2001), a 4-font book typeface with flourishes, brushy, sturdy, Dutch. They created Sofa, a precursor of Sauna (2002), which won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. In 2002, they made Stool for a Finnish printing house, Salpausselän Kirjapaino Ltd. Ulrika is a custom display typeface designed for Proidea Oy (a Finnish film and video production company). Unibody 8 and 10 (2003) is a free OpenType pixel font optimized for FlashMX. In 2004, they created Auto, about which they write: "Auto is a sans serif typeface which has three different models of italics, each with its own flavour. The font family consists of 3 x 24 fonts. With its three italics, Auto creates a new typographic palette, allowing the user to drive through unknown typographic and linguistic possibilities. Auto is fully loaded with both full Western and Eastern European character sets." Auto won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Additional material on the web page: a wonderful intro to type basics, and an intro to OpenType. In 2004, they published the comic book / signage family Bello, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. In 2005, Underware joined the type coop Village. In 2006, they published Fakir, a blackletter family with Hindi inspirations. Fakir won an award at TDC2 2007. Interview in 2008. In 2009, they published the connected script brush face Liza (+Text, Display, Caps, Ornaments), which has several versions for each letter. Custom types: Mr. Porter (script with a dozen alternatives for each glyph to better simulate real handwriting; it was awarded at TDC 2012 and at Tokyo TDC 2012), Stool (Headline, Thin, Grand), Sauna Mono (for the Danish Jyske Bank), Fated (fat), Ulrika (rounded and informal, slightly plump: for Proidea Ltd, a Finnish video production company), Suunto (for sports watches, i.e., Suunto's Cobra2, Vyper2 and Elementum). View Underware's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Description of character sets.
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Uusimaa Type Foundry Incorporated
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Van Saarland
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Vesa Kautto
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The Finnish Law Institute logo (2011) is cleverly designed by Vesa Rantanen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Finnish graphic designer and illustrator, who is finishing a BA in Graphic and Media Design, at London College of Communication in 2013. Creator of a collaborative typeface (with Sam Brogan) in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer born in Kotka, Finland in 1979. He made a Bauhaus-style font in 2002. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free fonts Helvetica-EX, Times-EX (1992), with character extensions for Finnish (the Muunnettu Times). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yautja
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Typefaces from 2011: Teotihuacan (inspired by a Mexican poster), Micra (a monospaced OCR-A font), Fast Driving, Rendez-Vous (a condensed serif font inspired by the cover of "The Essential Jean Michel Jarre"), Carat Condensed, Carat, Wolfen (a copperplate style condensed face), Futuroid (sci-fi), Instrumenta (after Neville Brody's Industria), Modern Vision (based on the opening credits from The Terminator and The Running Man), Future Earth (futuristic: based on a typeface used in The Terminator logo which is also the base for the font "Earth"), Phatprogy (+Extra Phat). Typefaces from 2012: Modus Operandi, Ikonomi (squarish sans), Genera, Hexathrone, Liquid Crystal Serif, Wulthraesk (constructivist), Electionale, Major (a high contrast didone), Commandant (2012, like Futura Stencil), Comfutur (a beautiful stencil face with a bit of Futura Black), Qode (a retro-futuristic LED style typeface), Graphyto (a heavy slab face), Heavy Royale, Thiage (Thai simuation face), Bravis, Cirquetry, Solidis, Velocifero (bilined), Heavy Royale, Jet Set Groove, Reactor A1 (futuristic stencil), Polymoda (an abstract font), Lino II, Sequencer (+Condensed), Hertzace (square retro-futurist), Cifira (art deco), Saturation (monoline sans), Katana (+Bold, +Condensed), Countura (abstract and minimalist), Stripelane (horizontally striped), Vortexa (in the style of Data 70), In Nomine Matrix, Afterburner, Afterburner Phase II, High Rise (Western typeface), Sulaco, Polaroid, Tech Noir (a dot matrix typeface based on the nightclub sign from The Terminator), Slabbers II, Windician (art deco), Cryptocube, DMC 12, Ken Jp (oriental simulation typeface), PxlSQ, Scorpione, Monotronic, Advancer (dot matrix face), Avico, Discolyde, Film Sequence, Modern Vision (based on an unknown typeface which was used in the opening credits of The Terminator, The Running Man, Class of 1999, and also used on Robert A. Heinlein's book covers (there's a font called Heinlein which is similar)), Cromagnon, Gace, Midora Sans, Squarium (constructivist), Cheque Matte (octagonal), Plusminus, Advancer Lite, Magnetofunk (retro-futuristic), Integrafia (piano key stencil face), Network9, Cechida, Rendez-Vous (condensed square slab face), Rendez-Vous II, Equantum, Karelian Stencil, Cryptocube, Neolexia, Ambiente, Stencilae (stencil), Linearis (horizontally striped), Contrafacia A and B (horizontally striped faces), Stereovision, Hypetron (based on the TRON logo), Degré (hexagonal), Typorabilis, Wunderkind (kitchen tile face), Kiova Captura, Biomehanika. Typefaces from 2013: Submachine (based on Stanley Davis's Amelia), Telecharger, Genera Deux (a computer font), Genexe, Network 9 (connect-the-dots), Square Earth, Future Earth (trekkie font), Supernature, Siberiada (a great Russian simulation face with a medieval touch), Defigma (bilined), Carat, Back to the future (based on the movie logo; called Rewinder on FontStruct), Vibrion (techno face), Connector Module, Wunderkind (a tiled typeface), Yaguar, Pacific Serif (slab serif), Aerogenes (wide techno font), Windician, Commandant (a wide art deco stencil face). Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Helsinki-based creator of the 3d blocky typeface Isometric Grid (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Type designs by Jesse Juup (Cosmonaut Fonts) from Turku, Finland, include 
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Erik graduated from Lahti Institute of Design. His fonts include Neon, Mama and Mama Round. Born in Helsinki in 1980, Erik is a type designer for 
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Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1975. From 1994-1999 he studied graphic design at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. In 2000 he became a postgraduate student at the KABK where he wrote a Masters thesis entitled "Type&Media". He joined Underware in the same year. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on On the edge of legibility, which in fact is a talk about blackletter. Affiliated since 2002 with Underware. He lives in Finland. Also doing business as 
Toni Hurme (Hurme Design, Helsinki) started publishing fonts in 2013. his first series, numbered 1 through 4, is 
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Finnish type designer of 
Kea Bertell studied Spatial and Furniture Design at University of Art&Industrial design Helsinki. After being injured she started working as an illustrator with her husband Emil Bertell at Fenotype in Turku, Finland. Her first typeface, done in 2010, is the brushy Biscuits and Gravy. [
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The Lanston Type Co was based in PEI, Canada, moved in 2002 to Vancouver, and moved later that year to Espoo, Finland. In 2004, 
Graphic designer and illustrator who completed a Masters in type design at 
Ludwig Übele is a Berlin-based 
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Finnish foundry, est. 2011. Mika created the signage faces 
Finnish designer and illustrator who made the display face 
Morgan (whose real name is 
Aha, what a wonderful chiseled angular semi-handwriting font, 
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Finnish designer (b. Kerava, 1975) of 
Kunihiko Okano graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1995. After working as a packaging designer for about a decade, he started his design office Shotype Design in 2008 and has been providing Latin parts to Japanese type foundries. In 2011, he graduated from 
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Typografi is the type design company of Saku Heinänen, who is also the principal of Alku Design Ltd in Helsinki. Saku has been teaching at the Graphic Design Faculty of Aalto University in Helsinki, on topics such as typography, type design and publication design. His typefaces: 
Underware is a (typo)graphic design-studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are published for retail sale or are specially tailor-made. The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki. Since 2002 Hugo Cavalheiro d'Alte is also part of the studio. They are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam. 
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Design student in Helsinki. He created some logo typefaces in 2011: 
This is one of the most talented FontStructors. On 
