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Travis Kochel

Travis Kochel is an American type designer, b. 1983, Charlottesville, VA. He is now based in Portland, OR, and is an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He set up TK Type, which was listed by MyFonts as being headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. He founded Scribble Tone with Lizy Gershenzon and helped launch Future Fonts in 2018, and later Vectro Type.

In 2010, Travis published the contemporary curvy sans family Otari.

Chartwell (2011) exploits OpenType features to make fonts that create pie charts, bar charts and histograms. It was published commercially by FontShop in 2012 as FF Chartwell. He explains the tricks. Typophile discussion. Download link. FF Chartwell won an award at TDC 2013.

At Vectro Type he released these typefaces:

  • Analog (2013). A new take on wide industrial sans serifs.
  • Kablammo (2022).
  • Vctr Mono (2021). This monospaced type design is warm, slightly goofy, and tactile. Inspired by text found on the lenses and bodies of manual cameras, specifically Leicas and Nikons. Originally named ISO and designed for our project exif.co.
  • Wildberry (2021, Travis Kochel). Based on the brushy lettering found on U.S. National Wilderness signage.

Interview in 2016 by David Sudweeks.

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