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Cake Type [Pieter van Rosmalen]

Dan Haag-based Dutch foundry, est. 2004 by Pieter van Rosmalen, who before that designed fonts for GarageFonts and Typotheque. He studied design and advertising at Sint Lucas in Boxtel (The Netherlands) and type design and typography at the postgratuate course Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (The Netherlands). For the CakeType library he designed CKTP Alterego, CKTP Capibara Classic, CKTP Capone (6-weight grotesque), and CKTP Pixie. Cake Type is involved in custom and commercial typefaces. Emma is a custom family. Dutchman (b. Eindhoven, 1969, living in Den Haag) Pieter van Rosmalen's fonts are mostly of the pixel type and are sold at Garagefonts: Ministeck (2000, pixel font), Dotted Weekend (1999), Get Back (1999), Martian Telex (1999, dotted pixel font), Monster Droppings (1999), Naomi (1999, hand-printed), Nice Weekend (1999), Novella (1998-1999, rounded octagonal face), Porno (1999), Thomas (2000), Rough Weekend (1999), Adore (thin typewriter font), First Street Left, Moved, Passenger (pixel font), Rebel Mono (2000), Shop (arcade game pixel font), Underscore (stitch pixel font), Archive (2000), Ravensburger (2000), Rebel (2000), Adore (2001), FirstStreetLeft (2001), Moved (2001), Passenger (2001), Shop (2001), Underscore (2001), Weekend Web (2002), Archive (2003), Capibara (2003), Melvin (2003), Epos (2003). At Phil's Fonts, Alter Ego, Capone, Capone Poster (stencil), Galaxy and Pixie (+Mono, Narrow, Script), all made in 2005. In 2008, van Rosmalen made Nitti (monospaced; followed in 2009 by Nitti Typewriter), Panno (sans) and Pinup (fat rounded sans). In 2009, they published the non-connected hand-printed Aniek. In 2009, he and Paul van der Laan created Audi Type (via MetaDesign), which replaces the old Univers-based Audi Sans.

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