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ABOUT

Tail Spin Studio [Steve Zafarana]

Steve Zafarana (b. 1951, Wakefield, MA) Steve began his professional design career at Compugraphic in 1977 where over the next seven years he assisted in the production of their phototype library. In 1984, he moved to Bitstream and helped in the development of that early digital font library, which included standard and custom fonts. In 1994, Steve and four other designers founded the Galapagos Design Group. In 2001, he returned to Bitstream as the graphic designer for the two subsidiaries, MyFonts.com and Pageflex Inc. His studio is Tail Spin Studio (est. 1999, Norwood, MA). His fonts are available from MyFonts.

Steva Zafarana's type designs include

• At ITC: ITC Fontoon (handprinting), the dingbats ITC Fontoonies, the wonderful dingbat fonts ITC Gargoonies, ITC BackyardBeasties.
• At Galapagos: TangientGD, the condom-shaped letters of Safefont GD, the grungy Big Clyde GD, Spleeny Decaf, and Wakefield GD.
• At Tail Spin Studio: Stuph, a dingbat font, SafeFont (a condom lettering font), Roger (2002, a quirky comic book style font done with Sue Zafarana), Softie (2003, with Sue Zafarana), Alph Dog (2007), and Rostra (2004, with Sue Zafarana).

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Tail Spin Studio
 [Buy fonts]
 [Designer info]
Klingspor Museum page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Erotic fonts ⦿ Comic/cartoon fonts ⦿ Type scene in Massachusetts ⦿ Photo and film type era ⦿