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Fontkitchen Type Foundry [Nico Hensel]

Fontkitchen Type Foundry is a German commercial type foundry (est. 2002, located in Heidenheim) with four designers: Daniel Amann, Timo Brauchle, Marc Engenhart and Nico Hensel. Some fonts are free. More than half of their production is in the pixel/flashfont category. Their designs:

  • By Ekkehard Beck: Damgram (2004, dingbats), Urban Dedication (2004, dingbats), Designers Skulls (2005, skull dingbats).
  • By Timo Brauchle and Nico Hensel: Hotplate (2002, Linotype's Taketype 5 collection, a ransom font), The Dig.
  • By Nico Hensel: Red Cheese (2003, a grunge face), Meateater (2002), Psychoclown (2003), Rounded (2003), Vegas (2003, a dot matrix font), Big Mike (2003, futuristic), Noland (2002, pixel face), Hockney (2003, pixel face), Lina (2003, pixel face), F9 (2003, flashfont), Grid (2003, flash font), 2/3 (2003, flash font), Julima (2003, a condensed flash font), FTF Unicum (2004, free), Eiko (2004), Hensi (2003, flash font), Meo (2003, flash font), Creamy (2003, flash font), Emily (2003, flash font), 16Point (2003, flash font), MM (2003, flash font), Snake (2003, flash font), Ego (2003, flash font), BMF (2003, flash font), Inverse (2003, flash font), Annenski (2003, flash font), Freshments (2003, border dingbats for flash), ma (2003, for flash), Wallpaper (2003, border dingbat font), Velasco (2004, a techno face), Esmeralda (2004), Lilly (2004).
  • By Marc Engenhart: Inimal (2004, insect dingbats), Die Licht (2003, a dot matrix font).
  • By Timo Brauchle: Hot Plate, Dig, Acrobuzz (2002, dingbats), Lucha Libre (2003, dingbat font).
  • By Daniel Amann: Cosicon (2003, dingbats), Obivan (2004).
More about Nico Hensel (b. 1987): He studied information design in Ravensburg. In 2003, he founded Lichtpunkt with Marc Engenhart as well as Fontkitchen. In 2004, he set up the pixel foundry Ductype, where one can find these creations (partially duplicated from those at Fontkitchen): Bmf, 16Point, 2-3, Freshments, Annenski, Creamy, Ego, Emily, F9, Grid, Hensi, Inverse, Julima, Knopf, Lyvox, Meo, MM, Strike, Tool, Western Trade (2005), Dejavu (2005), Lasse (2005), Modus (2005). FontShop link.

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