Timothy Donaldson

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Timothy Donaldson British calligrapher, signwriter, lettering artist, and type designer. He teaches typography at Stafford College and is a Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln. His typefaces: At ITC: ITC Cyberkugel, ITC Digital Woodcuts, ITC Farmhaus Normal, ITC Farmhaus Not So Normal, Flight (1995), Pneuma, Scruff, Spooky, Telegram, Trackpad, ITC Humana Serif, ITC Humana Script Light, Medium, and Bold, John Handy, Klee, ITC Talking Drum (1990s, interpreted in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Monkey Business), ITC Musclehead, ITC Riptide, Ruach, Ulysses, ITC Airstream, ITC Angryhog, Etruscan, Green, ITC Jellybaby, Neo Neo, Orange (1995, a liquid font). At Letraset: Pink (Peter Hanley's review of Pink), Uffington, TwangLetPlain (scribbly). At FontFont: Fancy Writing (or: FF Fancy, 1996). At Adobe: Immi 505, Postino, Banshee, Coriander. At the Indian Type Foundry: Rozha One (2014, free Google web font). This is a heavy didone typeface with large x-height, high contrast, and a harmonious balance between its Devanagari (designed by Tim Donaldson and Jyotish Sonowal) and Latin (designed by Shiva Nallaperumal). Github link. Other fonts: Cult. He runs Kingink. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about The world's even bigger Hamburgefonts. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about the resurrection of the pencil. He states in the abstract: During research for my recently published book, "Shapes for sounds", I investigated the Glagolitic alphabet created by the brothers Cyril and Methodius. This alphabet was the mother of Cyrillic. I learned to write the letters, an activity that took on a life of its own and led to a body of interpretation bordering on the obsessive. My talk will focus on the history, development, and subsequent abandonment of the Glagolitic alphabet and will show the new drawings, sculptures, scripts and typefaces I have produced as a result of this investigation. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. In 2012, he won the Akashi award in the Latin category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Jara (a fat signage script). Klingspor link. Linotype link. View Timothy Donaldson's typefaces.	EXTERNAL LINKS Timothy Donaldson [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Old Italic Fonts ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿