Daniel Rhatigan (Ultrasparky) was born on Staten Island in 1970. He finished the MA Typeface Design program at the University of Reading, UK, in 2007. Before that, he briefly taught type design at the City College of New York. Currently, he is a senior type designer at Monotype Imaging, based in the UK. He is an expert on Indic scripts, and will speak about that at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik.

His first typeface was Gina (2007), a serif about which the reactions are generally good (a Minion with character according to Stephen Coles, and an awful lot of Unger in one gulp according to Joe Clark). Gina covers not only Greek, but most European languages. I especially appreciate its attention to mathematical symbols and typesetting. In 2009, Ian Moore and Dan Rhatigan created Sodachrome, a typeface designed The Colour Grey for Sodabudi, a forthcoming online store for art work inspired by folk art from India. Dan Rhatigan blogged about it here. When the two parts of the typeface are screenprinted in different colours on top of each other, they produce an optical effect. In 2010, his (free) rounded bold serif face Copse font was published at Kernest (free downloads). Kernest link. Google Web Font Directory carries his free face Astloch, a monoline blackletter face.

Klingspor link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Mathematics fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿

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