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Portland Type Co [Pete McCracken]

Type foundry in Portland, OR, established in 2010 by Pete McCracken, who headed Plazm before that. McCracken acquired all of the Plazmfonts assets of the type design portion of the company in 2006. The (mostly custom) typefaces:

  • Spore (2008). Developed together with Veronika Burian for the hit game Spore by Electronic Arts Video Games.
  • Portland Ore (2012). The Portland Suite is a collection of typefaces related to Portand. These include Portland Ore, Portland OR, Portlandneer, Belmont, Old Town, NOPO, Hawthorne, PDX, and Portlander. Of these, Portlander was used in the Harry Potter movie Deathly hallows.
  • Target Five Percent: a pair of custom typefaces designed for Target in collaboration with Brad Trost, Wieden+Kennedy.
  • Starbucks: a type family for the coffee company.
  • Dodge: Custom typeface for Dodge.
  • Dr. Martens: a hand-printed custom type design.
  • Adidas Adihaus: custom typeface done for Adidas.
  • Bushmill: A custom typeface for an Irish Whiskey brand.
  • McMenamin's Poor Farm (2012). A custom Victorian typeface.
  • Victory Neue: a custom font family done for Nike. It grew out of a Plazm font family called Victory.
  • Custom typefaces for REI (2014), Columbia Sportswear (2015) and New Seasons Market (2017).

Gallery of Pete's design and custom type work. Personal web site.

Pete lectures at Pacific Northwest College of Art (or PNCA). His articles at PNCA include an interview with Jonathan Barnbrook and a discussion of web fonts.

Speaker at TypeCon 2013 on How to Become a Rich and Famous Type Designer. Bloggers are praising his presentation.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Portland Type Co
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Klingspor Museum page
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INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in Oregon ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿








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