Rob Leuschke was born in and lives in St. Charles, MO. A former lettering artist at Hallmark Cards (1983-1987), Rob Leuschke now has his own design businesses, Alphabytes and the new TypeSETit. He earned a BFA in graphic design at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He started freelancing in 1987. Rob has created over 250 custom typefaces. In addition, he made tens of calligraphic and other script faces. Ambiance BT is Rob's first typeface. Also, early on, he created the free emoticon font AairChat (1995). He used to run Alphabytes (dead URL). He founded TYPEsetIT in 2004. MyFonts place. In 2008, he took his fonts and site to P22.

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An incomplete list of his creations: AlexBrush, Cherish, Ephesis, Hurricane, Ingrid Darling, Inspiration, Jackie-O, Licorice, Kolker Brush (2004, Western version of Japanese calligraphy), Love, Neanderthaw, Ruge Boogie (2004), Saliere, Send Flowers, Updock, Whisper, TheNautiGal (2006, connected script), Water Brush, Love Light, Passions Conflict, Mea Culpa, Beau Rivage, Good Vibrations, Great Vibes, Lovers Quarrel, GrechenFuemen, Moon Dance, MsMadi, Lavishly Yours, Bonheur Royale (2005), Fuzzy Bubbles, LA Heat (2005), Qwigley ROB (2005), Vujah Day, he added Kings Honor (2006), Kings Quest (2006), Kings Dominion (2006), RUSerius (2007, curly handwriting), QwitcherBychen (2007, calligraphic), Arizonia (2007, calligraphic, based on lettering seen on a truck), Road Rage ROB (2008, grunge), GreyQo (2008, calligraphic), FleurDeLeah (2008, flowery calligraphic), MySoulOne (2008), MooLahLah (2008, cow-spotted letters), SassyFrassROB (2008, calligraphic).

MyFonts sells Alex Brush, Allison, Ambiance BT, ITC Arid, Arizonia, Babylonica (2008, a great connected brushy script), Beau Rivage, Bilbo, Bilbo Swash Caps (2011, Google Web Fonts), Bonheur Royale, Caramel (Crunch, Candy, Nuggets), Carattere, Cherish, ITC Chivalry, Corinthia (calligraphic but with slope errors on some connections such as between "o" and "r"), Ephesis, FleurDeLeah, Fuzzy Bubbles, Good Vibrations (2003), Grapenuts, Great Vibes (2012, Google Web Fonts), GrechenFuemen, GreyQo, Gwendolyn, Holiday Font, Hurricane, Imperial Script, Ingrid Darling, Inspiration, Jackie O, Kings, Kolker Brush, LA Heat, Lavishly Yours, Licorice, Love Light, Lovers Quarrel (since 2012 at Google Web Fonts), Mea Culpa, MooLahLah, Moon Dance, Ms Madi, MySoulOne, Neonderthaw, Oh Ley, Oooh Baby, Passions Conflict, Petemoss, Qwigley, QwitcherBychen, RoadRage, Roelandt BT, RUSerius, Ruthie (2003), Saliere, SassyFrass ROB, Send Flowers, Shalimar, Square Peg, Tapestry, TheNautiGal, Twinkle Star, Updock, VujahDay, Water Brush, and Whisper.

Fonts made in 2009 at P22: Babylonica, RobsPickles, RoadRage, QwitcherBychen, the Caramel family (including Crunch, Candy, Nuggets). In 2009, he also published Italianno ROB.

Typefaces made in 2010: Allura (see Google Web Fonts), Estonia Nouveau (based on calligraphy by Villu Toots), Estonia Regular, Estonia Swash, Island Moments, Neon Derthaw (neon light face).

Typefaces from 2011: Robs Pickles, Waterfall, Monte Carlo (formal script), Genos (anthroposophic; includes Cherokee), Bilbo (free at Google Web Fonts), Playball (free connected signage or baseball script face at Google Web Fonts).

Designs from 2012: Fuggles, Explora (a delicate calligraphic script face).

Typefaces from 2013: Style Script.

Showcase of Rob Leuschke's typefaces at MyFonts. View Rob Leuschke's fonts.

EXTERNAL LINKS
TYPEsetIT
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INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in Missouri ⦿ Brush script typefaces ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Smiley Fonts ⦿ Native-American fonts ⦿ Anthroposophy and type design ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿

Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html