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Uusimaa Type Foundry Incorporated

[Steve Bird]

Written by Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://luc.devroye.org
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Experimental fonts developed by Steve (Stephen) Bird (aka Stehvelo), a Brit who has lived over 30 years near Helsinki. Direct download. The fonts:

  • Spyroclassic (2007): geometric text font. Its partner is Spyrogeometric (2007, avant-garde style).
  • Pixel faces: S64.
  • Display faces: Newsiren (2007), Spike (2007), Sfilth (2007), Santiako (2007, ultra-geometric sans), siren4 (2000), Splekta (2012, grotesk).
  • Scanbats: Stampere
  • Unicase: Bayer (2002, aka Sbayer), Chic (2002, aka Sheek).
  • Paperclip faces: Kaapeli (2002), Scable
  • Stencil faces: Sblock
  • Disturbing the *** fonts: Stratford (2007, an angular face designed on the basis the 2012 Olympics logo face by Gareth Hague), Snevil (2007, a sans based on Neville Brody's work for FACE: upper case and lower case letters of the same size).
  • Nice text faces: Smerkan (2007, his best face), Snidane (2007).
  • Rubber stamp fonts: Stamp
  • Experimental: Strzeminski (2007, a decorative futuristic font with two baselines, after a 1932 original by Jan Strzeminski).
  • Other: Schalk (2012, chalky), Splekta (2012, grotesk sans), Pyoro (2002, a geometrical sans), Pyoroblur-Bold (2007), SBHandRegular (2007), Shrbitov (2012, based on letters seen on a memorial in Prague).

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Unicase type design ⦿ The Finnish type scene ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Scanbats ⦿ Avant Garde typefaces ⦿ Paperclip faces ⦿







































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