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[Alexei Vanyashin]

Russian graphic and web design studio in Moscow, run by Alexei Vanyashin, Fedor Balashov and Kate Semenova. Alexei Vanyashin studied typography at Stroganov University under Dmitry Kirsanov from 2002 until 2003. He graduated in graphic design from the Institute of Design in Moscow in 2008. In 2009-2010, he worked on the Florian Diploma project at the Type and Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow under Ilya Ruderman. Florian is a 9-style angular (wedge serif) text family. Florian and Geo Text won First Prize at Granshan 2010 in the Cyrillic text typeface category. Alexei designed the curlified Bodonito Display (2009), Eurotesque, Wire (2009, monoline sans), and ModL (2009). Schmale Antiqua (2010) is a very thin Latin and Cyrillic didone typeface that revives a 19th century typeface widely used for setting book titles. Behance link.

Cofounder in 2011 of Cyreal, a Russian foundry. There, he designed typefaces such as Rationale (2011, with Olexa Volochay and VladimirPavlikov), Vidaloka (2011, a didone done with Olga Karpushina), Alike (2009, with Svetlana Sebyakina), and Adamina (2011, a text typeface for small print: free at OFL). I am not sure if Iceland (2011, Cyreal: free at Google Web Fonts) is also his.

Typefaces made in 2012: Junge (a delicate roman face, free at Google Web Fonts, which was inspired by the calligraphy of Günther Jung), Merge Pro Greek and Cyrillic (codesigned with Kosal Sen, Philatype), Jacques Francois and Jacques Francois Shadow (Cyreal: co-designed with Manvel Shmavonyan, they are revivals of Enschedé No. 811 by J.F. Rosart; free at Google Web Fonts).

Suisse International Condensed Cyrillic won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.

Sumana (2015, free at Google Web Fonts, and published by Cyreal) is a family of Latin and Devanagari fonts for text setting and web usage. The Latin counterpart is derived from Lora by Olga Karpushina, Cyreal. Its vertical and horizontal metrics are adjusted to better match with the Devanagari. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

2nd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication

Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 24-29, 2004, organized and hosted by the University of Macedonia. Speakers include Jacques André, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Michalis Arfaras, Dimitris Arvanitis, Christina Banou, Nicolas Barker, Petr van Blokland, Neville Brody, Petra Cerne Oven, Costis Dallas, Simon Daniels, Milena Dobreva, Mary Dyson, Peter Enneson, Shelley Gruendler, Justin Howes, John Hudson, Lampros Kalampoukas, Peter Karow, Robin Kinross, Kevin Larson, David Lemon, Gerry Leonidas, Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum, Jason Lewis, Stephan Lubell, Piero De Macchi, Alan Marshall, Klimis Mastoridis, George Matthiopoulos, James Mosley, Maria Nicholas, Hrant Papazian, Jean-François Porchez, Manolis Savidis, Triantafyllos Sklavenitis, Andreas Sophocleous, Richard Southall, Erik Spiekermann, Charis Tsevis, Michael Twyman, Vangelio Tzanetatou, Gerard Unger, Karel van der Waarde and Evripides Zantides. Report by Toby Thain. Pictures by Jan Middendorp. Pictures by J.-F. Porchez. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

38 Lineart Studio (or: Grayscale, or: Fontsources)
[Muhammad Ridha Agusni]

Architect and designer in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, b. 1980, who set up Grayscale, then 38 Lineart, and finally Fontsources.

In 2018, he released the hexagonally-patterned color font Space, the nervous monoline display typeface Barcelona, the monoline script Brandy, the tattoo and metal band blackletter font Amstha, Twinkle (hexagonal texture), Premium Quality, Hightide (signage script), Ashley Pages, Bold Grunge (a wood style Western font), Rabbit House, Strongbold (brush style), Onthel (a rhythmic signage script), Cafeine, Seulanga (calligraphic), Sweet Bubble, Downhill, Architecture (technical writing font), Wisethink (rough brush), Emerald, Ghotic, Oakland (signage script), Parthenon (signage script), Strawberry Night (script), the formal calligraphic font Beauty Athena, the inline font Epicentrum, and the signature font Attitude in 2018.

Typefaces from 2019: Ghoust (a marker font done at Cititype), Diamant Handwriting (a signature font), Utrecht (with Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Exhibitionist (a fine rhythmic script), Holimount, Prague Metronome (a thin signature script), Allegroost (a brush typeface), Anisha (script), Kyoto Northern, ChiQuel (a Victorian display typeface that can be layered), Hillstone (a dry brush script), Malique, Ginchiest (a retro signage script), Kid Knowledge, Haghia, Khatija Calligraphy, Bernound, Graffity, Brandy Script (monoline), Downhill, Concept (sketched, blueprint font), Konya (signature script), Blacksmith, Curve Calibration (condensed sans).

Typefaces from 2020: The Pallace (a great natural inky signature script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Chipen (inline, all caps), Jakarta (a flowing inky script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Rhode White (a great signature script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Bailamore (a creamy signage script), Vogie (a sporty / techno sans family of 72 fonts, plus a variable font), Rollingtime (a brush script jointly designed by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Piedmont (a heavy connected handwriting script advertized as a masculine signature font), Whiplash (an all caps dry brush font), Aceh (a 36-style geometric sans), Youthink, Sacred Letter (a vintage weathered script), Serif Sketch (by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Corinthiago, Smart Chameleon (a handcrafted typewriter font by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Hiroshima Gyoshi (a brush font inspired by Japanese calligraphy), Roughmarker (dry marker font), Brotherhood, Blugie (a fat finger font), Rome Ionic (an all caps roman typeface), Black Orchestra (a great horror or black metal font), Black Orchestra (a horror font).

Typefaces from 2021: Magreb (an 8-style renaissance serif typeface), Toxide (calligraphic; Celtic; uncial), Redtone (a 14-style geometric sans), Moula (an 18-style geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Zouk (blackletter), Zagreb (an inky signature script by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah), Alsace (Victorian), Backbone (a black metal blackletter typeface), Roundkey (a 24-style condensed, but not round, sans), Wordwalker (a marker pen font by Muhammad Ridha Agusni and Siti Saribanon Nurjannah for Cititype), Sweet Bubble (a bubblicious font), Souljah (an elegant inky calligraphic script).

Creative Fabrica link. Another Fontbundles link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

440EMU

Creator of the free dot matrix font Teleindicadores 1 (2013). This font covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

4th February
[Sergiy Tkachenko]

Sergiy Tkachenko (b. 1979, Khrystynivka, Cherkasy region, Ukraine) lives in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, and has been a prolific type designer since 2008. Sergiy graduated from Kremenchuk State Polytechnic University in computer systems and networks in 2007. Various other URLs: Microsoft link, Identifont, 4th February, Behance, Klingspor link, Revision Ru, Russian creators, CPLUV Fontspace, Twitter. Kernest link. Sergey Tkachenko's typefaces:

Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Open Font Library link.

View Sergiy Tkachenko's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

A1DownFont

Greek fonts: HellasArial (Pouliadis Associates, 1992), HellasTimes New Roman Greek (Pouliadis Associates, 1992), Avant Greek (Magenta, 1992). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ace of Space Graphics

Free truetype dingbat fonts. Beautiful creations by Sharon such as Critters 1, Critters 2, Thanks 1, Flora 1, Whimsy, Greek1, Orient1, BigTop, Geo2, AOS_Geo1, AOSValentine, Paddy1.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Acolina

Small rune font archive. Has, for example, from Ecological Linguistics, their Maya glyph fonts DaysBF, DaysCodBold, DaysCodBoldItalic, DaysCodItalic, DaysCod, all made in 1994. From the American Philological Association, Jeffrey Rusten's Greek font Athenian (1991). Also, the Maya glyph fonts Abaj, AbajBold, TunBold, Tun, Wuuj, WuujBold, WuujBoldItalic, WuujItalic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Jagosz

Aka Iorveth Aen Seidhe. Katowice, Poland-based designer of Slowglass (2017: a stocky 30-style geometric semi-serif sans family with vast language coverage that includes Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese), the rune simulation font Pertho (2016) and the penis font Semi (2016). He also made several interesting calligraphic pieces.

In 2019, he designed the 62-style sci-fi typeface family Ares (+Ares VF), the condensed Latin / Greek / Cyrillic sans Rywalka, the creamy stencil typeface Aromatron and the leafy Aromatron Ornaments.

Typefaces from 2020: AJ Quadrata (a revival of Textura Qadrata).

Aka Quadratype. Devian Tart link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adam Katyi
[Hungarumlaut (was: Cila Design)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aditya Bayu Perdana

Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of these local language fonts in 2014-2015: Prayara (for Kawi), Godhong (for Javanese), Kamo (for Javanese), Ngrawit, Palataran (for Balinese), Liwet (for Sundanese), Lontara and Lontaraq (for Buginese), Wijaya (for Kawi), Mulawarman (for Pallava), Pustaha (for Batak), Lilitan (for Balinese), Aturra (for Javanese), Wulang (for Javanese; based on the 19th century calligraphic handwriting of Serat Jayalengkara Wulang), Tantular (a humanist sans for Latin, Balinese, Batak, Bugis, and Kawi).

Designer of the multiscript Bodoni typeface Kasira (2015), which covers Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Balinese, and the Javanese fonts Nawatura (2016), Bangil (2016) and Makara (2016).

Typefaces from 2017, designed during his studies at Parahyangan University in Bandung: Nakea (Javanese), Pustaka (Javanese).

Typefaces from 2018: Batangan (Javanese), Kavali (Sundanese), Jogjakartaip (Javenese), Salapa (for Lontara script), Pustaka Bali (Balinese), Nawatura, Istaka, Dioharudin (Cirebonese script).

Typefaces from 2019: Merpat (for Balinese), Kataruman (for Sundanese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Midzic

Fatnobrain was Adrien Midzic's design studio in Paris. Born in 1982, he co-founded Pizza Typefaces with Luc Borho in 2018. Midzic designed these typefaces or type families: Fine (lineal), Blokus (free pixel font, 2009), Cimen (strong sans, designed for Smacl Entraide), Mesquine (lineal), Blitz, Cucha, Stencil Reverse, Huit (2009, a gorgeous didone headline face), Stenha (stencil).

Fonts made in 2010: The ETH family (art deco sans).

Custom typefaces by Midzic: Aquitaine (2013, for Région Aquitaine), Nilka (2013, for his personal identity), No End (2013, a fat didone), Ethon Serif (2013, a perked up serif typeface for Penguin Books), Kasai Est (2011, for the Congo-based Kasai Est Magazine), Festival De Film Documentaire (2011), Nevenka (2011, condensed sans).

In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days. Still in 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the very humanist sans family Saya FY and Saya Semisans FY. Adrien Midzic and Joana Correia co-designed Saya Serif FY (2015).

At the free font cooperative Velvetyne, he published the sans typeface Lack (2014).

In 2015, he made the 3-style sans typeface Suber for an art fair in Paris. The roman transitional typeface Bota Serif (2015), which was inspired by Cochin (designed by Charles Peignot in 1912) is a custom font designed for Hotel des ventes de Poitiers. In 2017, it was finally released for retail.

In 2016, Adrien designed the bold titling typeface Debeo and the modern condensed Latin/Arabic typeface 29LT Adir (with Naji El Mir; at 29 Letters).

In 2017, he published the piano key typeface Mixal, which became a large experiment on variable fonts and is free for everyone.

Typefaces from 2018: Kern, Kern Office (a sans with some Futura features), Forno (sans), VTF Lack (a free single weight monoline geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, published by Velvetyne), Metal (an all caps multi-width variable font originally designed for marché Dauphine), Orelo (a 120-style high-contrast fashion mag font family; +Orelo Hangul, 2020).

Typefaces from 2019: Ultra Solar (experimental), 1871 Mane (a custom sans typeface), Wasa (a tense sans in seven styles), Shrill, Gangster Grotesk (free), Stupid (a hacker / hipster font), Kern (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Shreck Issue (very tall and ultra-condensed), Metal (brutalist), Version ACT (a two-axis variable font), Debeo (a heavy sans), Dozza (a hybrid family named after ITC Mendoza by Jose Mendoza Almeida), XMX (experimental).

Typefaces from 2021: Campingo (a roundish informal typeface inspired by camping and outdoor life), Bota (with Ines Davodeau: first designed for Boissnot&Tailliez, Bota is a modern interpretation of Georges Peignot's Cochin (2012)), Pleasure (hipsterism pushed to the fringe of addiction), Model Standard (ModelStandard Mono, ModelStandard SemiMono, ModelStandard Sans).

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Hellofont link. Velvetyne link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aerowsol

Designer in Athens (Greece) of the metal band typeface Idle Smasher (2010) and the computer typeface Funcrusher Plus (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aggeliki Skandalelli

Aggeliki Skandalelli is an Athens-born art director and graphic designer. After studying graphic design at AKTO Applied Arts School in Athens, she did an internship at Saatchi&Saatchi /Athens and went on to take a position as junior art director at Fortune Advertising. In 2000 she joined DDB /Athens and in 2003 was promoted to art director. During her time at DDB, Aggeliki collected a Grand Effie for the Tellas Telephone Network campaign, two Ermis Gold awards for an Alpha Bank print campaign and a Knorr TV spot, an Ermis Grand for the Thalassitis wine print campaign and an Ermis Silver for the hair salon Nicolas print ads. Since 2006, Aggeliki has been a senior art director at J. Walter Thompson /Athens, working for major accounts, such as Vodafone, Smirnoff, Amstel, Minoan Shipping Lines and Eurobank. She has also been in charge of various freelance assignments, creating logos, print ads and brochures.

Designer at Parachute in Athens, Greece, of the Latin / Greek / Cyrillic signage typeface PF Scandal Pro (2007-2012).

Behance link. Klingspor link. Parachute link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aggelos Bakas

Greek graphic and type designer, b. 1954. He studied typography at London College of Printing. Since 1997 he designs and publishes the magazine Akro. He was a professor at Graphic Design Department of University of Wales College Newport and Creative Director of Basis, an advertising company based in Thessaloniki. He collaborates with Cannibal since 1999, where he designed Darkroom CF (brush face) and Smooth CF Condensed. . Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agios Eugraphos Type Optic Synergy
[Nick Margaritis]

AETOS (Agios Eugraphos Type Optic Synergy) is a Greek type foundry, est. 2015, in Thessaloniki by Nick Margaritis. In 2015, Nick designed the spurred display typeface Kafenia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ahoi

Paul Rädle's great jump page for foreign fonts and phonetic fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aimilios Galipis
[Banned Graphics]

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Aka Acid (or: Cybertronical Design)
[Myrto Orfanoudaki Simic]

UI mobile and web designer in Athens, Greece. Myrto made these free pixel typefaces between 2007 and 2013: Aka-AcidGR-4B, Aka-AcidGR-4B20, Aka-AcidGR-5X5, Aka-AcidGR-ArialPixel, Aka-AcidGR-BoredRe, Aka-AcidGR-Elektr, Aka-AcidGR-Everyday, Aka-AcidGR-Kairee, Aka-AcidGR-Mazew, Aka-AcidGR-Micro, Aka-AcidGR-Necplus, Aka-AcidGR-Neustyle, Aka-AcidGR-Pixel, Aka-AcidGR-Starmap, Aka-AcidGR-Stunt, Aka-AcidGR-SystemTronical, Aka-AcidGR-SystemsAnalysis, Aka-AcidGR-Web, Aka-AcidGR-Zephyrea, Aka-AcidGRAccessN12. The pore-2007 typefaces include Aka-AcidGR-4B, Aka-AcidGR-4B20, Aka-AcidGR-ArialPixel, Aka-AcidGR-Compacta, Aka-AcidGR-Elektr, Aka-AcidGR-Everyday, Aka-AcidGR-Kairee, Aka-AcidGR-Mazew, Aka-AcidGR-Micro, Aka-AcidGR-Mutlu, Aka-AcidGR-Necplus, Aka-AcidGR-Neustyle, Aka-AcidGR-Starmap, Aka-AcidGR-SuperG, Aka-AcidGR-SystemTronical, Aka-AcidGR-SystemsAnalysis, Aka-AcidGR-Web, Aka-AcidGR-Zephyrea, Aka-AcidGRAccessN12.

The following text and script fonts and dingbats were made from 2007 until 2013: AC-Hollow_unicode, Aka-Acid-Animaux, Aka-Acid-Bots, Aka-Acid-Mockups, Aka-AcidGR-AfterDiet, Aka-AcidGR-AlmostGothic, Aka-AcidGR-AngryJoe, Aka-AcidGR-Around, Aka-AcidGR-Atomic, Aka-AcidGR-BadFont, Aka-AcidGR-BadKitty, Aka-AcidGR-BigInJapan, Aka-AcidGR-BriefEncounter, Aka-AcidGR-Calligram, Aka-AcidGR-Chubby, Aka-AcidGR-Collage, Aka-AcidGR-Compacta, Aka-AcidGR-CompactaScript, Aka-AcidGR-Composition, Aka-AcidGR-ContencedScript, Aka-AcidGR-Cord, Aka-AcidGR-Creepy, Aka-AcidGR-Curly, Aka-AcidGR-CurlyEarly, Aka-AcidGR-CuttingEdge, Aka-AcidGR-Cyberella, Aka-AcidGR-DiaryGirl, Aka-AcidGR-Dingme, Aka-AcidGR-Disturbed, Aka-AcidGR-DisturbingCookie, Aka-AcidGR-Dot, Aka-AcidGR-Dotted, Aka-AcidGR-FatCondensed, Aka-AcidGR-FatItalic, Aka-AcidGR-FatMarker, Aka-AcidGR-Fatbamboo, Aka-AcidGR-FifiTheCat, Aka-AcidGR-Fifindrel, Aka-AcidGR-FifisHand, Aka-AcidGR-Freefeel, Aka-AcidGR-FrenchToast, Aka-AcidGR-Fristgrade, Aka-AcidGR-Froglusly, Aka-AcidGR-GhostStory, Aka-AcidGR-Gorgi, Aka-AcidGR-Graduate, Aka-AcidGR-GreekPharmacist, Aka-AcidGR-Grudge, Aka-AcidGR-HappyPuppy, Aka-AcidGR-HiSchool, Aka-AcidGR-Hurry, Aka-AcidGR-ImpressingTeacher, Aka-AcidGR-Inky, Aka-AcidGR-Kiki, Aka-AcidGR-Liberate, Aka-AcidGR-Lightinjapan, Aka-AcidGR-Limbo, Aka-AcidGR-Linky, Aka-AcidGR-LivingSword, Aka-AcidGR-Loving, Aka-AcidGR-Lundi, Aka-AcidGR-Lycee, Aka-AcidGR-MC, Aka-AcidGR-MakingMonsters, Aka-AcidGR-MediumInJapan, Aka-AcidGR-Mutlu, Aka-AcidGR-Pasta, Aka-AcidGR-RealAdult, Aka-AcidGR-RomanScript, Aka-AcidGR-RoundUp, Aka-AcidGR-Safe, Aka-AcidGR-Sagging, Aka-AcidGR-Sausages, Aka-AcidGR-Schoolgirl, Aka-AcidGR-ScrachThis, Aka-AcidGR-ScriptCondenced, Aka-AcidGR-Serif, Aka-AcidGR-Slimthin, Aka-AcidGR-SocialRage, Aka-AcidGR-StretchUp, Aka-AcidGR-StrokingLines, Aka-AcidGR-SuperG, Aka-AcidGR-ThickStick, Aka-AcidGR-ThinBlackboard, Aka-AcidGR-TinyCondenced, Aka-AcidGR-TotallyPlain, Aka-AcidGR-Tremor, Aka-AcidGR-Vectroid, Aka-AcidGR-WideMe, Aka-AcidGR-Wurly, Aka-AcidGR-Xtend, Aka-AcidGR5yearsold, Aka-AcidGRBuzzed, Aka-AcidGRFatCord, Aka-AcidGRFreakedOut, Aka-AcidGROpen, Aka-AcidGRPathetic, Aka-AcidGRSpagetti, Aka-Acid_Knickknack, AkaAcidQuickPad.

Behance link. Cybertronical link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akira Kobayashi
[Neue Frutiger]

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Alan M. Stanier
[Cypriote metafont]

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Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

Great Unicode jump page. Has a page showing all fonts that support the various Unicode ranges. Check, for example, his Shavian Unicode sub-page. Unicode font utilities. Some font downloads, including the Unicode font MPH Damase (2005, Mark Williamson). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Romanos
[Branding with Type]

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Aldus Manutius

Late 15-th century Venetian scholar and printer, b. 1449, Bassiano, d. 1515, Venice. He founded the Aldine Press in 1495. His typefaces were all designed and cut by the brilliant Francesco Griffo, a punchcutter who created the first roman type cut from study of classical Roman capitals. Bembo, Cloister Italic and Poliphilus [aka Aldus Manutius' Roman] can be traced back to him. Example of his Italian Antiqua, 1499.

Kevin Steele explains in 1996: Some sources cite the publication of Cardinal Bembo's De Aetna as 1493 or 1495. And in fact, the design continued to evolve until the 1499 publishing of the spectacular Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Let's not split hairs. Let's celebrate 500 years of Bembo! In the mid fifteenth century printing quickly spread to Italy from Germany, and by the 1470's Venice had became the center of the printing industry, home to over 100 printing companies. Pioneers such as Erhard Ratdolt and Nicolas Jenson had already begun working on adapting the roman alphabet for metal type by the time Aldus Manutius established his press in 1494, with the intention of publishing all the Greek classics. Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) was a printer, entrepreneur, a great ego, and publisher of over 1200 titles. Among the many contributions of Aldus was the popularization of small, portable books. His expensive beautiful books were far from today's paperbacks, mind you. One of the many great talents working for Aldus was Francesco Griffo, a gifted type designer. Griffo created many innovative type designs that are still admired for their beauty and readability. Their collaboration broke up over a copyright dispute, primarily over the ownership of the cursive type typeface that Griffo developed under the direction of Aldus. Although Aldus even had a papal decree to protect this style of alphabet, it was as difficult then as it is now to protect a typeface design. The alphabet was widely copied, and the style is known as italic, after its country of origin.

Digital typefaces derived from his work: 1501 Manutius (2001) by Klaus-Peter Schäffel.

Selection of fonts based on Manutius's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Torres

Genova, Italy-based designer of the bilined art deco typeface Metropolis (2013) that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alekos Politis

Or Alex Politis. During his graphic design studies in Athens, Greece, Alex Politis created the fat octagonal typeface Solid (2014, Latin and Greek). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandar Nikov

Creator of the free constructivist typeface Desonanz (2015) for Latin Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandar Nikov

Graphic and sound designer in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2014, he created the free squarish typeface Desonanz for Latin, Greek, Coptic and Cyrillic. The orginal design of Desonanz dates back to 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandr Savenkov

Novosibirsk, Siberia-based creator of the free pixelized typeface Upheaval Pro (2012), which is a Greek / Cyrillic extension of Upheaval by Brian Kent. In 2013, he created the pixelish typeface Dusty Pro for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. It is an extension of Andreas Nylin's Dusty.

Symvola (2014) is a free typeface containing basic Latin and Greek characters. The design is inspired by the time machine's interface from Space Quest IV and puzzle panels from The Witness.

Omnic Sans (2016) is a free artificial language font that is based on the Omnic script used in the Overwatch by Blizzard Entertainment. In 2016, he also designed the free typeface Starseed Pro.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro (Alex) Segalini

Freelance Italian graphic designer, b. near Piacenza, 1976, who graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Design in 2004 from the Politechnic of Milan with a thesis entitled Ernesto Hemingway: una font tra letteratura e tipografia: a font between literature and typography. In it, he describes his typeface Ernesto Hemingway. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke about that same typeface. Initially, he worked in Rome, with interests extending across linguistics, book design, information design, calligraphy, lettering, visual identities, and designing with multiple languages. In 2005, he took a position as graphic design instructor at the Department of Graphic Design of Bilkent University (Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey). In 2007, he took a position at the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey. In 2010 he co-founded ISType, a lecture and workshop series devoted to encouraging typographic literacy in Turkey. Presently he teaches typography and type design at Texas State University, School of Art & Design. He is the typographer and graphic designer for Contra Mundum Press (CMP), a boutique publisher based in New York and Paris that specializes in world literature and other genres.

He created these typefaces:

  • A like Animals (2003). Also called A di Animali, this is an experimental typeface done together with illustrator Anna Donadelli.
  • 5G (2002). Handwriting.
  • Custom types: Guia Script (2006, for Gelati Carte d'Or Algida), Guia Script Greek (2006), Quintag (2002, handwriting), Forno (2004, hand-printed), Dolce (2005, a swift brush typeface for Barilla), Unione (2005, for a bank), Pacioli (2005, for Accademia Editoriale in Rome), and Phoebus (custom sailing boat vinyl lettering).
  • Limerick was designed in 2006 together with Marek Brzozowski.
  • In 2009, Segalini published Hemingway Pro, a commercial 9-style sans display family, available from Red Rooster. Hemingway Deco Initials is free though. Hemingway was inspired by the prize-winning novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Ernest Miller Hemingway).

At ICTVC 2007, he spoke about 20th century Bodonians. Typophile link. Alessandro's page with hundreds of useful links. Behance link. Klingspor link. Home page. PDF file with samples of his fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Pol

Athens, Greece-based designer (b. 1976) of the display typefaces Alex P1 and Alex P2 (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Bobrov
[Indian Summer Studio]

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Alexander Grazhdan

Athens, Greece-based designer of the Latin / Greek display typeface Edgy Elegance (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Lange

Karlsruhe-based software developer. Creator of the large (and free) Unicode font Quivira (2005). It covers mathematics, chess, astrological symbols, arrows, fists, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Tifinagh, Coptic, emoticons, Vai, and Braille, to name just a few ranges. Alexander graduated in computer science at the Hochschule Mannheim University of Applied Sciences (degree: Diplom-Informatiker (UAS)). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Nedelev
[Typedepot]

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Alexandros Mavrogiannis
[Studio Big Horror]

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Alexandros Papalexis

Alexandros Papalexis studied graphic design and typography at the National Design School (TEI) of Athens. He started designing his own fonts while attempting to improve some older ones for his own projects. For 15 years he has been designing corporate packages for leading Greek companies and CD covers for the music industry, while his work has been featured in design-oriented magazines. His typeface designs at Parachute include PFKids (1999-2006), PFFreescript, PFJunior, PF Playskool (2003). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexandros Pertsinides

Greek designer of Carbonchaos (2011, multilined face), and Perfect (2011, a geometric monoline face). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandros Poursanidis

Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of a rhobic typeface called Art Deco (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandros Skouras

Chicago, IL-based designer of Olympic Game Pictograms (2015) and Greneue (2015, a Greek sans typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandros Traianos

Graphic designer in Thessaloniki, Greece. Creator of the free mini-slab serif typeface Dryades (2017). In 2018, he designed the hand-prnted typeface Acheron. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexei Vanyashin
[110design]

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Alexey Kryukov

Russian developer of these free font families, quite exquisite and complete:

  • Old Standard TT (2006-2010): a high quality didone 2-style family, suitable for classical, biblical and medieval studies as well as for general-purpose typesetting in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script, as well as Latin. Many math symbols are included. Old Standard is part of the Google open font directory of free web fonts, and was adapted for TeX use. He writes: Old Standard is supposed to reproduce the actual printing style of the early 20th century, reviving a specific type of Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned later. It supports typesetting of Old and Middle English, Old Icelandic, Cyrillic (with historical characters, extensions for Old Slavonic and localised forms), Gothic transliterations, critical editions of Classical Greek and Latin, and many more. People have also started using it for mathematical typesetting.
  • Tempora LGC Unicode: Kryukov writes Tempora LGC Unicode was my first attempt to create a multilingual font supporting Latin, Greek (including polytonic characters) and Cyrillic scripts. This family is based on two well-known free typefaces similar to Adobe Times: Nimbus Roman No 9 L by URW (russified by Valek Filippov), and the Omega Serif family, developed by Yannis Charalambous. However, all basic components of the font, and especially its Greek and Cyrillic parts, have suffered serious modifications, so that currently Tempora LGC Unicode represents an independent typeface, quite different from its predecessors. Free download site. Many updates were made to the font package, with copyright notices to Michael Sharpe (2015), Alexey Kryukov (2005), URW++ Design & Development (1999), Valek Filippov (2001), Dmitry 40in (2001), The Omega Project (1996), and the Free Software Foundation (2002, 2003).
  • Theano Classical fonts: Theano Didot (2008) is a classicist face, with both its Roman and Greek parts implemented in Didot style. Theano Modern has Greek letters designed in the Porsonic style. It is based on Figgins Pica No. 3 / Small Pica No. 2, one of the most successful Porsonic Greek typefaces. Theano Old Style is a modernized "Old Style" Greek font with a large number of historic ligatures and alternate forms, modelled after some early 19th century types designed by Figgins' type foundry. It is accompanied by a Latin typeface based on some "Old Style" Roman fonts of the late 19th and early 20th century. Pick up Theano Modern C (2012) at Open Font Library, and Theano Didot at CTAN.
  • CM-LGC (2003): The CM-LGC package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT sources of the Computer Modern font families. The following encodings are supported: T1, T2A (Cyrillic), LGR (Greek) and TS1. This package includes also Unicode virtual fonts for use with Omega/Lambda. CM-LGC is the first Type 1 font package for LaTeX which supports all European scripts (LGC means Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). Alexej Kryukov used Textrace to create CM-LGC.

He contributed to the GNU Freefont project via FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek symbols. He also provided valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.

Kernest link. Fontspace link. Another URL. Google Plus link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexios Zavras
[MgOpen Fonts]

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Alice Savoie
[Alice Savoie, Frenchtype]

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Alice Savoie, Frenchtype
[Alice Savoie]

Alice Savoie is an independent typeface designer and researcher, b. 1984, based in Lyon. She studied graphic design and typography in Paris at Ecole Duperré and Ecole Estienne, and in 2006 graduated from the MA in typeface design from the University of Reading (UK). In 2014 she was awarded a PhD from the University of Reading for the research she carried out in collaboration with the Musée de l'imprimerie in Lyon (France). Her research focuses on the design of typeface in France, the UK and the USA in the postwar period, and for phototypesetting technologies in particular: International cross-currents in typeface design: France, Britain, and the US in the phototypesetting era, 1949-1975. She collaborates with international type foundries such as Monotype, Process Type Foundry, and Tiro Typeworks, and specializes in the design and development of typefaces for editorial and identity purposes. She also designs multi-script type families, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. She intends to sell her typefaces via 205 Corp.

Between 2008 and 2010 Alice joined Monotype as an in-house type designer, working mainly on custom type designs for international clients (The Times, Turner Broadcasting, Ogilvy, etc.). She has also contributed to the design of new typefaces for the Monotype library, such as the Ysobel type family (in collaboration with Robin Nicholas), and Rotis II Sans. Her type family Capucine is distributed by Process Type Foundry. In 2012 she collaborated with John Hudson/Tiro Typeworks over the development of the Brill typeface family for the Dutch publisher Brill. Since September 2013 she teaches typeface design at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and at ESAD Amiens (France). Her type foundry is called French Type.

She holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading (UK). She collaborates with design studios and type foundries on the design of multi-script typeface families. In 2018 she released the typeface family Faune, commissioned by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) in partnership with the Groupe Imprimerie Nationale. Alice teaches and supervises research projects at ANRT Nancy and ENSBA Lyon (FR). She is the principal Post-doctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme-funded project Women in Type under the supervision of Fiona Ross at the University of Reading. Her typefaces:

  • Her graduation typeface at Reading, Capucine Greek (2007) has been awarded as the best text typeface of the Greek alphabet exhibition, taking place during the 3rd international conference on typography and visual communication in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007. Capucine is a very informal, almost hand-printed family covering both Latin and Greek in many styles. In 2010, finally, she published Capucine at Process Type Foundry (Grand Valley, MN), where she was briefly part of Eric Olson's team.
  • The constructivist typeface Pozor (2005).
  • The connected handwriting typeface Jeanine, done in 2006 at the École Estienne in Paris, where she studied from 2004 until 2006.
  • In 2009, she co-designed Ysobel (Monotype; winner of an award at TDC2 2010) with type designers Robin Nicholas, head of type design at Monotype, and Delve Withrington. The sales pitch: According to Nicholas, the idea for the Ysobel typefaces started when he was asked to create a custom, updated version of the classic Century Schoolbook typeface, which was designed to be an extremely readable typeface - one that made its appearance in school textbooks beginning in the early 1900s. Buy it from Monotype.
  • Brill (2012), co-designed with John Hudson for Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, won an award at TDC 2013.
  • The Royal Docks typeface was developed in 2012 for the London-based design studio APFEL (A practice for everyday life) as part of a wider architectural project by the London Development Agency, which proposed a new vision for the Royal Docks in East London. The strong-willed sans display typeface draws inspiration from the kind of industrial lettering frequently found around the Docklands, such as on cranes and containers. The typeface was used for a number of publications in relation to the redevelopment of the Royal Docks, and remains to this day exclusive to APFEL.
  • The Fred Fredburger family was conceived by Monotype as a custom design for the identity of a children's TV channel. Conceived to be fun, friendly and adventurous, Fred Fredburger is a distinctive family of five styles: The Headline versions are conceived to be visually striking and appealing to children, while the Roman, Bold and Condensed weights are a touch quieter in order to be comfortable to read at text sizes. All five weights are also designed to work harmoniously across five different scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew (designed by Alice Savoie) and Arabic (designed by Patrick Giasson).
  • Egra Tiflex was designed in collaboration with London-based Fraser Muggeridge Studio. The starting point for the design came from an unidentified set of old stamping capital letters produced by Tiflex, a French company specialised in industrial signage. A set of lowercase letters was later designed to accompany the caps, which was inspired from Grotesk wood types from the beginning of the twentieth century.
  • In 2014, she worked on the typeface family Bogartes, which is a contemporary tribute to French typographic history, from Garamond, Fournier, and Didot to the idiosyncratic shapes of the 19th century. As a result of its mixed genetic make-up, the typeface family is rather playful. The project was started with the support of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.
  • Romain Vingt (2016) is a modern reinterpretation of a foundry face originally released by the Fonderie Alainguillaume at the beginning of the twentieth century. Alice writes: An elegant and voluptuous design with a resolutely French touch, this digital interpretation departs in places from its original model, just enough to withstand modern taste.
  • In 2016, she designed Faune for Centre National Des Arts Plastiques. It is freely available from Fontsquirrel and at the Microsite. Faune won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.
  • Lucette (2021, Future Fonts). Alice writes: Lucette revisits the heavy top idea, a concept dear to French type designers throughout the last century. The typeface toys with the theory that emphasizing the top part of letterforms increases legibility, taking the concept to an extreme in Lucette Black. Lucette is loosely inspired by a variety of designs such as Gill Sans Double Elefans, Antique Olive, and the unreleased Nordica by Ladislas Mandel. Its name was chosen as a tribute to Lucette Girard, a talented letter-drawer who assisted some renowned designers throughout the second part of the twentieth century, including Adrian Frutiger, Roger Excoffon and Raymond Loewy.

Typecache link. Klingspor link. At ATypI 2014 in Barcelona she spoke about phototypesetting. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Typefaces for telephone directories, a talk in which she and Dorine Sauzet describe Ladislas Mandel's oeuvre. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Behance link. Estienne link. Reading link. Another link for the University of Reading. Fontsquirel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alif Nuryasin
[Alifinart Studio]

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Alifinart Studio
[Alif Nuryasin]

Balikpapan, Indonesia-based designer of the script typefaces Judessant (2020), Samball (2020) and Assessment (2020), the grungy Corona Covid19 (2020), the chalk typeface Struggle Line (2020), the inky script Samudera (2020) and the monoline script typeface Hello I'm Coming (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Guyon Gazebo (a wavy display font), The Rambutan (script), Shakila (script), Salma Alfasans (an almost monolinear geometric sans in 18 styles), Nabana (hand-printed), Barokah (a display serif with sharp edges), Mustica Pro (a geometric sans; 22 styles including a Hairline; +Cyrillic, +Greek), My Olivin (a rounded sans), My Rambutan (script), Judessant (calligraphic), Ananda (calligraphic), Assakita (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Salma Pro (a 54-style sans with Patek Philippe circles instead of round circles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alja Herlah

Slovenian type designer, who co-founded Type Salon together with Krista Likar in Ljubljana in 2020. Alja's typefaces:

  • Praz Slab and Praz Italic (2014). Developed during the 2014 Tipobrda workshop mentored by Domen Fras and Lucija Bratus.
  • Alica (2015). A cursive slab serif heavily inktrapped typeface designed at TipoBrda 2015.
  • Univerza Sans (2020, Type Salon). Univerza is not a take on Frutiger---it is Slovenian for "university". Alja writes: Univerza Sans was developed to mark the hundredth anniversery of University of Ljubljana. The style is influenced by the combination of Slovenian avant-garde with some recognizable forms that are known for Slovenian typography.
  • Palsam Pro (2020, Abjad). This rounded sans typeface covers Latin and Arabic and was co-designed by Ali Almasri and Alja Herlah. Regarding the Arabic part, they write: The main highlight for Palsam was the cursive companion. For the first time, the calligraphic Ijaza style was used as a model for designing the Arabic cursive. The Ijaza is a hyper combination of Naskh and Thuluth, which makes it perfect to be a companion for the upright Naskh.
  • Spektra (2020, Type salon). A black condensed sans by Krista Likar and Alja Herlah that combines five scripts: Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew. It also has a variable type with an italic axis.
  • In 2021, Krista Likar and Alja Herlah published Plecnik, which is named after Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik. Plecnik is defined by classical elements and shapes, classic proportions, humanist stroke endings and low contast. It has a capital A with an overhang. Plecnik Display is quite different as it features flaring in every stroke.
  • In 2021, Alja released Gizela (a dagger-edged all caps typeface), and wrote: Gizela shows her personality with a feminine, sensual, seductive and art deco vibes.
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Alkaios
[Lucius Hartmann]

Free Greek font that covers Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek. It was developed by Lucius Hartmann (Hinwil, Switzerland, 2005) and was modeled in Times-Roman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allan Loder
[New Testament Manuscripts Font Collection]

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Allotype Typographics

Foundry in Ypsilanti, MI. Kadmos, Bosporos (both classical Greek), Czasy, Szwajcarski (Polish), and Demotiki (modern Greek). Nice fonts, 85 US dollars per face. Jeffrey Rusten swears that these are the highest quality fonts for polytonic Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabetum
[Juan-José Marcos García]

Juan-José Marcos García (b. Salamanca, Spain, 1963) is a professor of classics at the University of Plasencia in Spain. He has developed one of the most complete Unicode fonts named ALPHABETUM Unicode for linguistics and classical languages (classical&medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberic, Celtiberic, Gothic, Runic, Modern Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari-based languages, Old&Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, IPA, Ogham, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Old Church Slavonic, Brahmi, Glagolitic, Ogham, ancient Greek Avestan, Kharoshti, Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Old Danish and Old Nordic in general, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Phoenician, Cypriot, Linear B with plans for Glagolitic). This font has over 5000 glyphs, and contains most characters that concern classicists (rare symbols, signs for metrics, epigraphical symbols, "Saxon" typeface for Old English, etcetera). A demo font can be downloaded [see also Lucius Hartmann's place]. His Greek font Grammata (2002) is now called Ellenike.

He also created a package of fonts for Latin paleography (medieval handwriting on parchments): Capitalis Elegans, Capitalis Rustica, Capitalis Monumentalis, Antiqua Cursiva Romana, Nova Cursiva Romana (2014), Uncialis, Semiuncialis, Beneventana Minuscula, Visigothica Minuscula, Luxoviensis Minuscula, Insularis Minuscula, Insularis Majuscula, Carolingia Minuscula, Gothica Textura Quadrata, Gothica Textura Prescissa, Gothica Rotunda, Gothica Bastarda, Gothica Cursiva, Bastarda Anglicana (2014) and Humanistica Antiqua. PDF entitled Fonts For Latin Palaeography (2008-2014), in which Marcos gives an enjoyable historic overview.

Alphabetum is not Marcos's only excursion into type design. In 2011, he created two simulation fonts called Sefarad and Al Andalus which imitate Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy, respectively.

Cyrillic OCS (2012) is a pair of Latin fonts that emulate Old Church Slavonic (old Cyrillic).

In 2013, he created Cuneus, a cuneiform simulation typeface.

Paleographic fonts for Greek (2014) has ten fonts designed by Marcos: Angular Uncial, Biblical Uncial, Coptic Uncial, Papyrus Uncial, Round Uncial, Slavonic Uncial, Sloping Uncial, Minuscule IX, Minuscule XI and Minuscule XV. These fonts are representative of the main styles of Greek handwriting used during the Classical World and Middle Ages on papyrus and parchments. There is also a short manual of Greek Paleography (71 pages) which explains the development of Greek handwriting from the fourth century B.C. to the invention of printing with movable type in the middle of the fifteenth A.D. He wrote a text book entitled History of Greek Typography: From the Invention of Printing to the Digital Age (in Spanish; second edition, 2018). See also here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ALT Foundry
[Andreas Leonidou]

ALT is the type foundry of prolific type designer Andreas Leonidou from Limassol, Cyprus, b. 1986. His main work is commercial, but there is also a substantial collection of free fonts.

He created Foldgami, Apollo 13 (techno, futuristic), Fatgami, Origamia, Paper Roll, Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), Alt Tiwo (2010, fat counterless), Alt Matey (2010, a family that includes a multiline style; the piano key typeface Alt Matey V2 followed in 2012), ALT Lautus (2010, a minimalistic monoline sans family), Japanese Cities Type Experiment (2010), ALT Alternatice (2010), ALT Vxt11 (2010, a high-contrast art deco octagonal face), ALT Aeon (2010, a unicase but multiline family), Alt Re 32 (2010, techno), ALT Mun (2010, a curlified family), ALT Breo (2011, octagonal family), ALT Exline (2011), Jun Script (2011, connected contemporary upright script), ALT Ayame (2011, condensed squarish family ain the piano key style, +Long), Alt UAV31 (2011, an octagonal experiment), Alt Moav (2011, a striking geometric caps face. Images: i, ii, iii), Alt Geko (2011, an art deco caps face), and Archetype (unicase, Bauhaus).

Free fonts at Devian Tart: Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), ALT Hiroshi (2011, ornamental), ALT Deville (2011, spurred).

Typefaces made in 2012: DNR001 (hipster style), ALT Kora (for the identity of Drone), ALT Fat (monospaced squarish caps face), ALT Exodus (sci fi face), Alt Wet (a paint splatter face), Alt Sku (ornamental didone face), Alt Robotechnica (pixel face), Exodus (a blackletter style straight-edged typeface), Juk01 (an ornamental mechanical, or steampunk, typeface), Alt Sake (a thin condensed poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2013: Modu (alchemic, hipster style), Modu Deco, Bely (a severe-looking almost constructivist Latin/Cyrillic typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Ren (a free vintage display typeface family).

Typefaces from 2015: ALT Hazer (a great free shadow sans), ALT Smaq (a family of eight free beveled styles for Latin and Greek).

The free fonts as of 2015: ALTBELY, AltJoli, AltPixelsGoneBad, AltRe32-Duo, AltRe32-Normal, AltRenDuo, AltRenRegular, AltRenRetro, AltRenShadow, AltRetroBlack, AltRetroBold, AltRetroLight, AltRetroRegular, AltRetroThin, Alt-Twitchy, AltVxt11, Altapollo13, AltAeon-Black, AltAeon-Bold, AltAeon-Light, AltAeon-Medium, AltAeon-Thin, AltAeonRegular, AltAxlDeco, AltAxlRegular, AltDEVILE, AltGeko-AltGeko, AltMateyv2-Black, AltRobotechnica, AltSku, AltSkuItalic, AltUAV31, AltWet, Altapollo13-Black, Altapollo13, althazer, altsmaq2.8, altsmaq4.8, altsmaq6.8, altsmaq8.8, altexodus, altfatgami, altfatitalic, altfatregular, altfoldgami.

Typefaces from 2016: Sadistic (a free scratchy font), System Code (free programming font).

Typefaces from 2017: Rekt, Rogue (free).

Typefaces from 2018: Alt Catwalk (a fashion mag typeface family), Frantic, Looper (a compass-and-ruler font), Silent Scream (a free dry brush font). free).

Flickr link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Devian Tart link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link.

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Alter

Mexican designer of the fashion didone typeface Bizzarra (2016), which follows the fat face style, and covers both Latin and Greek. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Altgriechische Zeichensätze
[Lucius Hartmann]

Lucius Hartmann (Hinwil, Switzerland) at the University of Zürich lists the main fonts that are useful to classicists and users of old Greek. Downloadable fonts include Aisa Unicode (by Hildegund Mueller&Stefan Hagel, 1997-1998). Hartmann himself created Sappho (2002) and Alkaios (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amadeus Information Systems
[Phil Chastney]

Amadeus Information Systems Limited / Phil Chastney are the designers of SImPL (1999-2001) and Sixpack Medium (2009), great Courier-like monospace fonts with many diacritics and symbols, filling many of the Unicode pages. The designer is Phil Chastney, who writes One of the design aims of the font was to provide a complete set of all known APL symbols, plus sufficient characters to allow prompts, comments, etc., to be expressed in every European language known to be in current use. Basically, that means the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, plus accented and variant letter forms as required for other European languages using these alphabets.. Incidentally, Armenian and Cyrillic are also covered, and the number of mathematical symbols is staggering. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amar Arif
[KaryAmo Studio]

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Amélie Bonet

French graphic and type designer who graduated from Ecole Estienne in 2005 with a thesis entitled La cancellaresca, L'âge d'or de la calligraphie italienne.. She also studied visual communications at Ecole Duperré in Paris. She has an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Polydom, which covers Latin, Greek and Devanagari. Her other typefaces include Groe (2010), We Folk (2010, caps only), Operetta (a cancellaresca based on Tagliente's lettering), PSA (an iconographic and sans type system for Peugeot and Citroen), and Gustan. She lived in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2010, she joined Dalton Maag in South London as a type designer.

At Dalton Maag, she helped out with Nokia Bengali, which won an award at Granshan 2014.

Roxane (2011, Rosetta Type) covers Latin and Devanagari.

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American Philological Association
[Donald Mastronarde]

Association which published a free Greek Opentype font, KadmosU (2005). New Athena Unicode (2004-2010) is also free: New Athena Unicode is a freeware multilingual font distributed by the American Philological Association. It follows the latest version (5.1) of the Unicode standard and includes characters for English and Western European languages, polytonic Greek, Coptic, Old Italic, and Demotic Egyptian transliteration (and Arabic transliteration), as well as metrical symbols and other characters used by classical scholars. New Athena Unicode is a "smart font" that includes OpenType ligatures allowing the display of composed characters not recognized by Unicode but needed by scholars. I am not sure that I am right, but the Greekkeys pafge makes me believe that Donald Mastronarde (a Professor a UC Berkeley) of the American Philological Association is responsible for the creation and upkeep of New Athena Unicode. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Dittman

Saint Cloud, MN-based designer of a fat 3d poster typeface in 2014, during her studies at St. Cloud State University. It was inspired by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's song "Gold" featuring the chorus to the song. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Novakovic

Graduate of of the Graphic and Media Design program of the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London, who was first based in London, where she worked as a graphic designer, and is now in Thessaloniki, Greece, where she is at Mossom Design while studying at AAS College Thessaloniki. Fontstructor who made the modular art deco typefaces Mercury and Mercury Bold in 2012. In 2013, she created Modular Typeface and Fontastic Typeface (gridded). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasia Dimitriadi
[DimitriAna]

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Anastasios Koutsofavas

Greek designer in Thessaloniki of the Greek polytonic font Tartana (2010) for a Greek monastery.

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Anastasios Nanopoulos

Argos, Greece-based designer of the Comic Sans style Latin and Greek typeface SX Handy (2016) and the monoline script SX Write II (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasios Pappas

Graphic designer, b. 1975, Athens, Greece. Designer of the free clean sans typeface Aneo (2019) for Latin and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andili Rachouti

Designer in Athens, Greece, who created the alchemic Latin/Greek typeface family Bohemian Rhapsody (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Groisman

Costa Rican graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. Her graduation typeface there was Goji, a multi-script reverse-contrast typeface family created to celebrate the benefits of superfoods on websites. The family covers Latin, Greek and Kannada scripts. It includes various weights and styles, such as light, regular, bold, and an italic display. The most distinct feature of Goji is the horizontal stress.

At Type Cooper 2021, she developed Pea Pro and wrote: Pea Pro is display sans serif typeface inspired by the sports nutrition industry. Big ink traps and heavy weight features give it a strong character, ideal for large headings and branding applications. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Kalpakidis
[Inde Graphics]

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Andreas Larsen

Copenhagen-based designer (b. 1986) of Tal (2014), a full set of numerals in many weights for use on small devices. Tal is advertized as free, but there are no download buttons anywhere.

In 2014, he also created the Open Source fonts Gidole Play (later renamed Gidolinya) and Gidole Sans [micropage], which is patterned after DIN 1451 and uses Euler spirals. Dedicated page for Gidole Sans. Github link for Gidole.

In 2015, he published Gidole Regular and the monoline sans programming font families Monoid and Mono 16, which cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Gidole was forked and extended in 2016 at Open Font Library by Cristiano Sobral as Normung.

He modified the free M+ font to design MonoMusic for chords and tabs.

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Andreas Leonidou
[ALT Foundry]

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Andreas Nolda

Lecturer at the Department of German Studies of the University of Szeged, Hungary. Designer of the free Utopia Nova font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (2014-2015), which is a modified version of Andrey V. Panov's Heuristica font family, which in turn is based on the Utopia Type 1 fonts, designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe and licensed to the TeX Users Group (TUG) for free modification and redistribution. Open Font Library link. The changes applied to Heuristica:

  • proportional figures
  • Greek glyphs from the Fourier fonts
  • a stylistic set with longer slashes, matching the parentheses in height and depth
  • kerning for pairs of slashes like in "http://" (a Heuristica issue Panov refused to fix)
  • small-cap substitution table for ligatures without corresponding small-cap glyphs (fixing another Heuristica issue)

Utopia Nova was renamed Lingua Franca a day after it was first posted on Open Font Library. Open Font Library link for Andreas Nolda.

In 2016, we find an extension of Utopia Nova by Stefan Peev called Linguistics Pro on CTAN, where useful TeX support files are added as well. See also Font Squirrel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Stötzner
[SIAS (or: Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner)]

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Andrey V. Panov
[CM Unicode]

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Andrey V. Panov
[Computer Modern Unicode fonts]

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Andrij Shevchenko
[Andrij Type]

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Andrij Type
[Andrij Shevchenko]

Andrij Shevchenko (b. 1973) (aka Andrij Che) is the Berdyansk-based Ukrainian designer of the following typefaces, somne of which can also be had from MyFonts. Behance link.

In 2012, he started Ukrainian Type.

  • Agarsky (2006, a bold casual script face) which used to be called Agara until Berthold complained about the possible confusion with Agora.
  • Zion Train (2007, an experimental sans in 20 styles).
  • Andrij Script. See here.
  • Andrij Hand (a Cyrillic handwriting font, 2002-2006; see discussion).
  • Strudel (2002, informal handprinting).
  • ALS Agrus (2005-2006, a script face, Art Lebedev Studio).
  • Machinegun (2005, octagonal military look).
  • Magela (2003, a Cyrillic sans).
  • Hajdamaka (2004, a bouncy Latin/Cyrillic script).
  • Also check out his lettering (not fonts) in Kozaku (2005, a flowing Cyrillic script), XLibna (2005, another Cyrillic script) and here (2005).
  • The semi-serifed Oksana (2007, 6 styles), Oksana Sans (2007, +Condensed), Oksana Text (2008), Oksana Cyrillic (2007), Oksana Greek (2007), and Oksana Text Swash (2008). This was followed by Oksana Text Narrow (2011), Oksana Sans (+Wide) and Oksana Sans Compressed (2011), which have hairline weights.
  • Osnova Pro (2010): a sans family that covers Cyrillic, Greek and Latin.
  • Ababa (2002, Cyrillic lettering).
  • Turbota (2010) is a rounded Latin / Cyrillic type family that was was developed as part of an identity system for Turbota, a center for disabled children in the Ukraine.
  • Arsenal (2011). A free typeface that won a national Ukrainian type competition called the Mystetsky Arsenal contest.
  • Seaside (2011) is a Peignotian face.
  • Bandera Pro (2011) is a useful workhorse square serif type family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Accompanied by Bandera Text (2014) and Bandera Display (2014).
  • Arsenal (2012) is a workhorse sans family for Latin and Cyrillic. It won the Mystetsky Arsenal contest, and is free.

    Zion Train Pro (2012, +Stencil): Originally ZionTrain was built as a (probably first in Cyrillic!) navigation typeface for the Kharkiv identity project and Kharkiv subway and airport navigation systems. We wanted comprehensible, distinctive letterforms, that can help everybody on the way from Babylon to Zion. The project was used in Kharkiv promotion at homeland and abroad, but was rejected by the new government. As a corporate typeface it was used for a few cultural projects. Now it is equipped with Slavic Cyrillic and Monotonic Greek.

  • Humus (2007-2022). A ten-style humanist / lapidary Latin / Ukrainian Cyrillic / Greek typeface that is characterized by flared terminals.

Additional URL.

MyFonts interview.

Showcase of Andrij Shevchenko's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andriy Konstantynov
[Mint Type (was: PDesign 6.0)]

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Androniki Sioki

Ph.D. student at the University of Reading. Thesis topic: Typography of Greek primers published in the 20th Century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Giovan

Greek designer of the free hand-drawn Greek font Greek Classics (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angela Fragou

Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created the Latin display typeface Thorn (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angela Poghosova

Armenian type designer who won an award at Granshan 2009 for her Armenian typeface Goga. She also created the ASF Angela family for Armenian, Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. This family was awarded Second Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Armenian text types, and Second Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Cyrillic text types. Her name is also spelled Anzhella Poghosova.

In 2021, she designed ASF Diana (a ten-style text and display family for Latin, Cyrillic and Armenian). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Angeliki Georgiadi

Creator of the Greek paperclip font Common Greek (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angelo Haritsis
[EelVex]

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Anna Bai

During her studies in Athens, Greece, Anna bai designed the symbolic typeface Mandala (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Danilova

Type designer who is employed by Artem Gorbunov (Gorbunov Bureau) in Moscow. Her typefaces there:

  • The Greek part of Bureauserif (2015-2016), a text typeface family by Ksenija Belobrova. The Greek part was done by Anna Danilova.
  • Bureausign (2015-2016). Anna Danilova's splendid Latin / Cyrillic wayfinding font family.
  • Envy (2016). A number font by Anna Danilova for Envy Car Rental.
  • Mary Trufel (2016). A hand-printed typeface by Anna Danilova.
  • Olimpiada (2018). By Anna Danilova (and Michael Nozik) for olimpiada.ru. This sans typeface is based on the wayfinding font Bureausign.
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Anna Raven

Type designer in Moscow. At WDC Fonts, she created the Venetian serif typeface Stiana (2013, with Eugen Sudak), based on models by Nicholas Jenson and William Morris. Stiana covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anna Tsuranova
[Letter Muzara]

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Antigone

Designed by Jan van Krimpen, this Greek typeface published by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. See here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antioch
[Ralph Hancock]

For Unicode classical Greek in Word 97 and Word 2000, Antioch gives you Greek, Coptic and Hebrew with programmable keyboards. Win 95 or 98. 50 USD shareware. fee $50. Page by Ralph Hancock. Antioch package by Ralph Hancock and Denis Liegois. Ralph Hancock also designed the Courier-like font Angaros in 1997. The Antioch package contains the Greek unicode font Vusillus Old Face (2002), which was digitized by Ralph Hancock based on English typefaces from the 18th century. Hancock also designed Mediolanum, one of the first Greek typefaces, developed in Northern Italy at the end of the 15th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Hernández Marín
[El Circulo de Oro de Uresh-Nefer]

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Antonis Margaronis

During his studies at TEI in Athens, greece, Antonis Margaronis (b. 1992) created the display typeface Zipper (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonis Tsolomitis
[Kerkis]

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Antonis Tsolomitis
[Laboratory of Digital Typography and Mathematical Software]

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Antonis Tsolomitis
[Sophia Kalaitzidou]

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Anugrah Pasau
[Lafontype (pr: tardiexwas: Pixifield, Elementype, Fontliner Studio)]

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Aoife Mooney

Aoife is an Irish typeface designer and teacher. She has a BA degree in Visual Communications from Dublin Institute of Technology (2005) and an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading in 2010. Alongside her freelance practice, Aoife is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University, where she teaches typography and typeface design. Before moving to Akron, Ohio, Aoife worked as part of Hoefler & Co design team in New York (joining in 2011), developing Idlewild, Surveyor, and other typefaces. Most recently she worked with Frere-Jones Type on Mallory, and did some projects for Google.

She designed Magnimo while at Reading. Aoife writes: from the Latin Magna, meaning great or large, and the Indic Anima, meaning spirit or soul. Magnimo is a big-hearted typeface with many moods and voices. I am quite impressed by this three-style typeface (Regular, Italic, Upright Italic), which, with its lively angular design, seems just right for green party and energy drink magazines. All the extra features expected of a 2010 typeface are there, including a matching and nicely balanced Greek, and coverage of most European diacritics. Additional scans: i, ii, iii.

Old URL.

In 2016, she published the free Google Font family BioRhyme (+Expanded). See also Open Font Library.

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Synoptic Translations. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal, where she entertained the crowd with socially relevant typography and type for dissenting voices. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apostolos D. Tsiovaras
[Cursor Design]

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Apostolos Syropoulos

Xanthi, Greece-based designer of the Greek type1 font family Phaistos (2004, with Stratos Doumanis). He also created the "oinuit" system, a set of Lambda (Omega LaTeX) typesetting tools for the Inuktitut language which comes bundled with the type 1 family Inuit (2002). In 2007, he published the Philokalia package, which includes a free Philokalia OpenType font developed with Ioannis Gamvets. It was specially made to print the Philokalia books. The UM Typewriter font family (2008, for OpenType fonts) is a monospaced font family that was built from glyphs from the CB Greek fonts, the CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts ("LH"), and the standard Computer Modern font family. Epi-Olmec (2008) is an Aztec dingbat font. In support of the Open Font Library, he created the rune font Icelandic (2008: this font includes most "magical" staves that have been used in Iceland. Original drawings from the Museum of Sorcery&Witchcraft). He also made Asana Math (2007), which references Young Ryu (2000) and Claudio Beccari (1997-1999).

In 2016, Pablo Garcia Risueño, Apostolos Syropoulos and Natalia Verges launched the free package SVR Symbols. The glyphs of this font are ideograms that have been designed for use in Physics texts. Some symbols are standard and some are entirely new.

Still in 2016, he designed the calligraphic Greek font Frederika2016 as an attempt to digitize Hermann Zapf's Frederika font. The font is the Greek companion of Virtuosa by the same designer.

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Apostrophic Laboratory
[Fredrick M. Nader]

One of the most dynamic foundries from 2000 until 2003. The "Lab" was run by Apostrophe (Fredrick Nader) and was based in Toronto. The name Apostrophe comes from a Frank Zappa song. It has produced well over 1000 original free fonts, in all formats (type 1, truetype, and opentype, PC and Mac), and nearly all fonts have full character sets. Many have character sets for extended European languages and Cyrillic as well. It was for a few years the only active producer of multiple master fonts. Download site at Typoasis. Original URL, now being reworked. Highlights:

  • Miltown (from the Matrix movie).
  • Fluoxetine (old typewriter).
  • Desyrel (handwriting, Dana Rice).
  • PicaHole-1890Morse font.
  • Ritalin has almost 500 glyphs, and is a family designed for Latin, Greek, Turkish, eastern European, Cyrillic and Baltic.
  • The 3-axis multiple master ImpossibleMM (of Mission Impossible fame).
  • Carbolith Trips (letters from cuneiforms).
  • Diehl Deco (revival of 1940 lettering by Wooster Bard Field; with Marley Diehl).
  • Textan (with Rich Parks or Richard D. Parker; inspired by the Chinese Tangram).
  • Poultrygeist (horror comic font).
  • Hard Talk (an R-rated font by Slovenian Marjan Bozic).
  • Independant (with Phynette; a faithful revival of a 1930s font by Collette and Dufour for Maison Plantin in Belgium---a fantastic Art Deco font family).
  • Metrolox ("Enemy of the State" font, with Karen Clemens; a Unicode font with 567 glyphs for over 20 Latin-based languages and some math symbols).
  • Komikaze, Komikazba, Komikahuna and Komikazoom (comic book fonts: 1280 glyphs for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Baltic, Turkish, East-European, with dingbats and Braille).
  • Republika (a 300-font techno family; read about it here).
  • ChizzlerMM (3-axis multiple master, a reworked version of Graham Meade's Chizzler).
  • Street (a 87-font family by Graham Meade).
  • Amerika (fantastic Armenian-look font series, with support for Greek, Cyrillic/Russian, Baltic, Turkish and Central European).
  • The dingbats Eyecicles and Texticles, both with Graham Meade.
  • Insula (2001, a Celtic/uncial font with Cybapee).
  • Komika (2001, 50 comic book fonts designed with Vigilante). A spoof on Comic Sans, this family includes Komika Hand and Komika Text.
  • Labrit (a great Fraktur font, with Graham Meade).
  • Frigate (a Roman-kana font by Melinda Windsor).
  • Scriptina (an unbelievable calligraphic font by Apostrophe, 2000-2001). In 2010, CheapProFonts published an extension, Scriptina Pro.
  • Freebooter Script (an equally unbelievable calligraphic font by Graham Meade, 2001).
  • Choda (a display font like none you have seen before; Apostrophe and Meade, 2001).
  • Endor (with Meade, a Gothic font; 2001).
The list of designers and their fonts:
  • Apostrophe [dead link]: Day Roman (2002, the first digitization of Fr. Guyot's "Two Line Double Pica Roman", designed in the early 1600s), Bombardier (2002), Propaganda (2002), PropagandaCyrillic (2002), PropagandaGreek (2002), Contra (2003), Ergonome (2002), Ergonomix (2002, techno dingbats), Alfabetix (2002), SoMM (2002, a multiple master font), Templo (2001, a pixelish font), Zoloft, Miltown, Witches Brew, Celexa, Labrat, Effexor, Fluoxetine, Tralfamadore, Halcion, RxMM, Paxil, Valium, Fight This, Ritalin, Xanax, Maskalin, PicaHole, ImposMM, MiltownII, Carbolith, Komikaze, Komikazoom, Komikahuna, Diogenes, Komikazba, MistressScript, Sledge, Mary Jane, Republika, StarBat, Merkin, Erectlorite, Halter, Estrogen, Steinem (based on Dalton Maag's British Steel typeface), Lab Mix, Mary Jane II, Amerika, Masque, Konfuciuz, Mastodon, Broad, Amerika Sans, Scriptina, Karnivore, Cholo, Sedillo and Reprobate (all three based on Mike Sedillo's handwriting, 2001), Templo (screen font family, 2001).
  • Marjan Bozic and Apostrophe: Hard Talk.
  • Karen Clemens and Apostrophe [dead link]: Wellbutrin, Metrolox, Jagz.
  • CybaPee and Apostrophe [dead link]: Cyclin, Lady Ice, Insula.
  • CybaPee [dead link], Graham Meade and Apostrophe: Yellowswamp, Lady Ice revisited.
  • Steve Deffeyes: Loopy.
  • Marley Diehl and Apostrophe: Diehl Deco.
  • Fleisch and Apostrophe: Colwell, Hadley.
  • Steve Graham: Hypnosis.
  • Frank Guillemette and Apostrophe: Ankora.
  • Jeri Ingalls and Apostrophe: Paxil.
  • Neumat Ick and Apostrophe: Icklips, Powderfinger.
  • Keya Kirkpatrick: Extasy
  • Keya Kirkpatrick and Apostrophe: Kimono.
  • Jeff Lan: Healthy Alternative, Haven Code.
  • Su Lucas and Apostrophe: Barbarello.
  • Brigido Maderal and Apostrophe: Lab Bats.
  • Graham Meade: Quastic Kaps (8-weight family, 2003), Quixotte (2002), Mechanihan (2002), Kameleon (2002), Lady Ice Extra (2002), Gizmo (2002), Zillah Modern (2002), Wazoo (2002), JamesEightEleven (2002), Equine (2001), Street Corner (2001), Freebooter Script, Street (31 font sans and slab serif), Bipolar Control, Lane, Street, Street Slab, 2nd Street, Kronika, Thong, Whackadoo Upper, Charrington, Lady Copra, Zebra, Extra Meade Pack, Control Freak, Dekon, Asenine, Heidorn Hill (a Fraktur font), Castorgate, Troglodyte.
  • Graham Meade and Apostrophe: Moondog (2001), Choda, Futurex, Duralith, Epyval, BooterMM, Pamelor, Sabril, Erinal, Karisma, Whackadoo, Bicicles, Drummon, Primary Elector, Youthanasia, Grunja, Prussian Brew, ChizMM, Luciferus, Labtop, Gilgongo, Labrit, Kandide, Brassiere (which became the commercial typeface Ipscus in 2009), Eskargot, Endor, Labag.
  • Graham Meade and Rich Parks: Luteous, Luteous II.
  • Link Olsson and Apostrophe: Librium, Severina, Poultrygeist, Extrano, Komikandy.
  • Rich Parks and Apostrophe: Textan, Glaukous, Textan Round, TexSquareMM, TexRoundMM.
  • Alejandro Paul and Apostrophe: Fontcop, Usenet, Cayetano, Elektora.
  • Evelyne Pichler: Sindrome.
  • Evelyne Pichler and Apostrophe: 1910 Vienna.
  • Phynette and Apostrophe: Independant.
  • Peter Ramsey and Apostrophe: Distro, Futurex Distro (2001).
  • Dana Rice and Apostrophe: Desyrel, Lilly.
  • Wayne Sharpe: Ovulution I and II.
  • Jessica Slater: Wiggles.
  • Jessica Slater and Apostrophe: McKloud.
  • Derek Vogelpohl: Phosphorus, Florence sans, Plasmatica, Covington, Avondale, Phosphorus II.
  • Melinda Windsor: Plastic, Frigate.
  • Robby Woodard: Ashby (2001).
  • WolfBainX and Apostrophe: Tribal, Komika.
  • Yol: Traceroute.
Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Appligraph Ltd

Greek outfit which made AGIerissosE (1993-1995) and AGVienessaC (1997). The latter is a nice Greek script. Designers of these 1995 fonts for Latin and Greek: AG-Aircraft_B-NPln-NormalItalic, AG-AtlanticInlineExt-Normal, AG-BrushesExt-HeavyItalic, AG-Helvet924Pln-Normal, AG-ImpulsExt-BoldItalic, AG-Kinga_E-Bold, AG-Lithos_E-Normal, AG-MonaLR_E-Normal, AG-Vakus_C-Heavy, AG-Vakus_C-HeavyItalic, AG-Vikings_C-Normal, AG-Vikings_P-NormalRev, AG-Vivis_E-Normal, AG-Zeues_E-Normal, AGAdonisPlnBold, AGBauhausBNPlnNormalItalic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arabia Ware Benelux

Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies, active ca. 1999. The fonts covered Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Archaeological Fonts (by Bonneville Electronics)

The was a commercial site located in West Clinton, Utah, that was run by Scott T. Smith from Clinton, Utah. It had Mayan, hieroglyphs, cuneiform, Syriac, Etruscan, old Greek, old Hebrew and archeological fonts as well as Native American dingbats. [Google] [More]  ⦿

archaic
[Peter R. Wilson]

Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000-2005) for many archaic languages: Proto-Semitic (16bc), Phoenician (10bc), Greek (6bc), Greek (4bc), Etruscan (8bc), Futharc (Anglo-Saxon, 6ad), Hieroglyphics (30bc: the hieroglf provides a Metafont version of about 80 Egyptian hieroglyphs from Serge Rosmorduc's comprehensive hieroglyph package, see here for a type 1 version called Archaic-Poor-Mans-Hieroglyphs (2005)), Cypriot (9bc). Peter also developed metafont fonts for bookhands. The Archaic ollection contains fonts to represent Aramaic, Cypriot, Etruscan, Greek of the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Linear A, Linear B, Nabatean old Persian, the Phaistos disc, Phoenician, proto-Semitic, runic, South Arabian Ugaritic and Viking scripts. The bundle also includes a small font for use in phonetic transcription of the archaic writings. The bundle's own directory includes a font installation map file for the whole collection. The authors are Peter R. Wilson, Uwe Zimmermann and Apostolos Syropoulos. See here for the type 1 fonts Archaic-OandS (2005) and Archaic-OandS-Italic (2005). Here we find type 1 versions called Square-Capitals (2005) and Square-Capitals-Bold (2005). He also made the type 1 typefaces Archaic-Etruscan (2005), Archaic-Runic (2005) and Archaic-ProtoSemitic (2005). Further packages of type 1 and metafont fonts: Archaic-Aramaic (2005), South Arabian (2005, for the South Arabian script, in use for about 1000 years from roughly 600 BC; based on a metafont by Alan Stanier), Archaic-Linear-B (2005: a syllabary used in the Bronze Age (15bc) for writing Mycenaean Greek), Archaic-Nabatean (2005: the Nabatean script used in the Middle East between the fourth centuries BC and AD), Archaic-Old-Persian (2005: the Old Persian Cuneiform script in use between about 500 to 350 BC.), Archaic-Ugaritic-Cuneiform (2005: the Ugaritic Cuniform script in use about 1300 BC), Archaic-Cypriot (1999-2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Archäologie Online

Archive with some rune, medieval and Greek fonts. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Archer Hutchinson

New York City-based creator of the dot matrix typefaces Disorient (2010) and Disorient Pixels (2010), both made with FontStruct. FontStruct link, where he publishes as Archer03.

In 2018, he designed the free all caps Greek font Inititiation Ritual. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ardas 2001

Some Greek fonts. Page makes my browser crash. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Area Download

Free Georgian, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Coptic and Gothic Truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Areopag.com

Victor Kalashnikov's Greek, Hebrew and Old Church Slavonic truetype font archive. Contains a few goodies such as the dingbats called FaithOrnaments (Proclaim Communications, 1994) and OldChurchSlavonic (Monotype). In all, about 100 Greek, Old Church Slavonic and Hebrew fonts. Among the Hebrew fonts, we find Moses Judaika, Pecan Sonc, and Gideon Medium. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arev Fonts
[Stephen Schrenk]

Motivated by mathematical applications, the "Arev" set of fonts adds Greek, Cyrillic, Latin-A, and some Latin-B, and Symbol characters (music and math, mainly) to Bitstream's Vera fonts. Stephen Schrenk (whose nom de plume is Tavmjong Bah) created the Arev Sans font. The text accompanying the Arev Sans package is: The package arev provides virtual fonts and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, "open letters," wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. Stephen Hartke converted Arev Sans to Type 1 format, and created the virtual fonts and packages for using Arev Sans in LaTeX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ari Rafaeli
[ARTypes]

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Aria Kaloudi

Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who designed the Latin / Greek decorative typefaces Raisa (2018) and Industria (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arial Unicode MS

Microsoft link for licensing. The font Arial Unicode MS is a full Unicode font, containing all of the approximately 40,000 alphabetical characters, ideographic characters, and symbols defined in the Unicode 2.1 standard. Arial was designed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders in 1982 for Agfa Monotype and was released as TrueType font in 1990. From 1993 to 1999, it was extended as Arial Unicode MS (with its first release as a TrueType font in 1998) by the following members of Monotype Typography's Monotype Type Drawing Office, under contract to Microsoft: Brian Allen, Evert Bloemsma, Jelle Bosma, Joshua Hadley, Wallace Ho, Kamal Mansour, Steve Matteson, and Thomas Rickner.

There is no italic version---only a regular and bold exist. Arial Unicode MS is normally distributed with Microsoft Office, but it is also bundled with Mac OS X v10.5 and later. It may also be purchased separately (as Arial Unicode) from Ascender Corporation (now absorbed by Monotype), who licenses the font from Microsoft.

Regarding the difference with ordinary Arial, we read this technical explanation on Wikipedia: When rendered with the same engine and without making adjustments for the different font metrics, the glyphs that appear in both Arial and Arial Unicode MS appear to be slightly wider, and thus rounder, in Arial Unicode MS. Horizontal text may also appear to have more inter-line spacing in Arial Unicode MS. This is due to larger bounding boxes (Arial Unicode MS needs more room for some of its extended glyphs) and the limitations of renderers, not changes in the glyph shapes. The lack of kerning pairs in Arial Unicode MS may also affect inter-glyph spacing in some renderers (for example the Adobe Flash Player). Arial Unicode MS also includes Hebrew glyphs different from the Hebrew glyphs found in Arial. They are based on the shapes of the Hebrew glyphs in Tahoma, but are adjusted to the weight, proportions and style of Arial. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armtype
[Edik Ghabuzyan]

Head of the Department of Creating and Keeping Armenian fonts of the National Book Chamber in Yerevan, Armenia. Edik Ghabuzyan (b. 1952) has been creating Armenian computer fonts since about 1988---a total of about 300 digital fonts. In 1997, one of his fonts won the Best Font prize in HiArt Armenian Fonts competition. In 2005, his Vernatun and ArmTimesST fonts were awarded the main prizes and the Titghosagir the first prize in Mashtots-1600 Electronic Fonts competition. In 2006, several of his fonts won the main prizes in Armenian Schoolbook Fonts competition. He has designed Armenian letters in Unicode and later Latin, Cyrillic and Greek letters, preserving a uniform style /across the spectrum. Today, Edik Ghabuzyan works at the National Book Chamber of Armenia as the head of the section of Saving and Creating Armenian Fonts. He won several awards at Granshan 2008, and organized both Granshan 2008 and 2009.

He created (free) Armenian extensions of Microsoft's Tahoma, GHEA Tahoma (Regular, Bold), in 1996. His winning entries in Granshan 2009 include Aragast (for Cyrillic), Asparez, Parmani, Notgrir, and Diana.

He also designed Mariam, GHEA Tigran (2008, awarded the Grand price in the Granshan 2008 International Type Design competition), GHEA Koryun (2011), GHEA Gohar (2009), GHEA Aspet (2011), GHEA Lilit (2012, a nice text family), GHEA Narek (2012, a sans family with built-in contrasts), Mijnadaryan (2013), GHEA Arpi (2013), Avandakan (2013), GHEA Dvin (2014), GHEA Tatevik Display (art deco), GHEA Kamar (geometric avant garde sans), GHEA Katil (a plump display typeface related to the modern fat typefaces), GHEA Narek Serif, GHEA Aram.

Free official fonts of the Armenian Government: Grapalat, Mariam. Most of his fonts cover Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian.

A partial list of his typefaces: ASF Angela, ASF Angela Sans, ASF Daniel, ASF Daniel Sans, ASF Daniel Slant, ASF Dar21, ASF George, ASF Goga, ASF Library, AVH Arman, GHEA Anahit, GHEA Aragast, GHEA Araks, GHEA Aram (skeletally related to didone), GHEA Aram Display, GHEA Aram Title, GHEA Ararat, GHEA Aratta, GHEA Architect, GHEA Arpi, GHEA Ashot Erkat, GHEA Aspet, GHEA Ayb (2020: a multilingual sans typeface for Latin, Cyrillic (+Bulgarian Cyrillic, +Ukrainian Cyrillic) and Armenian), GHEA Ayg, GHEA Bekum, GHEA Bever, GHEA Biayna, GHEA Circle, GHEA Davit, GHEA Diana, GHEA Dvin, GHEA Erebuni, GHEA Gohar, GHEA Granshan (an 18-style sans) (2021), GHEA Hayk Davtyan, GHEA Hayk Title, GHEA Helvetica Geo, GHEA Heqiat, GHEA Kamar, GHEA Karpet, GHEA Kars, GHEA Katil, GHEA Khoragir Pro, GHEA Koryun, GHEA Lilit, GHEA Mymekh, GHEA Narek, GHEA Narek Display, GHEA Narek Poster, GHEA Narek Pro, GHEA Narek Serif, GHEA News (2021), GHEA Parisp, GHEA Pastar (2021), GHEA Petur, GHEA Samo (wedge serif) (2021), GHEA Script, GHEA Sepatar, GHEA Shooter (2020), GHEA Tamara (2021), GHEA Tatev, GHEA TatevikArt, GHEA Terti, GHEA Tigran Pro, GHEA Title, GHEA TitleSS, GHEA Urartu, GHEA Vanadzor, GHEA Vem, GHEA Vernagrayin, GHEA Warm (2021), GHEA VoskeDar, GHEA Yerevan, GHEA Yerevan Serif, GHEA Yerkar, GHEA Zartonk (2021: an 11-style display sans for Latin, Cyrillic and Armenian), GHEA Zeytun, HASH Ani, HASH Ani Soft, HASH Anna, HASH Anush, HASH Ashtghik, HASH Ashtghik Serif, HASH Eva, HASH Heqiati, HASH Hripsimeh, HASH Romantic, IT Grinnar, LGSH Liana, MAA Marieta, MAA Sergo.

GHEA Narek Display won an award at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2014.

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Arno Teigseth

Designer in 2008 of WtDoWtlibraryDocMarkup02, WtFoSerifBook, WtGrGrecianBook (Greek), WtHeFrankRihellBook, WtOnOrnament, WtUDiZapfDinItcL. These fonts are seemingly unfinished. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arquivos para baixar

Greek, Hebrew, Ugaritic and Meroitic font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art City
[Daniel Bak]

Artcity is a digital type foundry and lettering studio based in Legionowa, Poland. Artcity specializes in designing fonts for comic books and books for children. The principal, Daniel Bak, is the Warsaw, Poland-based designer of the free monoline signage typeface Sweet Melody (2012). In 2014, Sweet Melody became a commercial typeface. He also designed the comic book typefaces Wormtongue, Fatality, Uzurpator (2014) and Angry Ronin (2014), the hand-printed typeface Danny, the techno typeface Technikolor (2014), the poster typeface Jeffs Garage, the Latin/Cyrillic children's book font family Zira (2014), and the Latin / Cyrillic / Greek children's book typeface Cornelius (2014).

In 2018, he published Baobab.

Typefaces from 2022: Handcraft (a scrapbook script).

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Art Gorbunov (or: Gorbunov Bureau)

Studio in Moscow set up in 2007. Their typefaces:

  • Bureauserif (2015-2016). A text typeface family by Ksenija Belobrova. The Greek part was done by Anna Danilova.
  • Bureausign (2015-2016). Anna Danilova's splendid Latin / Cyrillic wayfinding font family.
  • Envy (2016). A number font by Anna Danilova for Envy Car Rental.
  • Galochki (or: Checkmarks). Done in 2013 by Ksenia Belobrova.
  • Lavish Shoestring (2016). A monoline script by Misha (Michael) Nozik.
  • Mary Trufel (2016). A hand-printed typeface by Anna Danilova.
  • Olimpiada (2018). By Anna Danilova (and Michael Nozik) for olimpiada.ru. This sans typeface is based on the wayfinding font Bureausign.
  • Voltaire (2015, Ksenia Belobrova). A script typeface based on illustrations in one of Voltaire's books from 1734. Voltaire covers Latin and Cyrillic.
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Artegra
[Ceyhun Birinci]

Type designer in Antalya (or Istanbul), Turkey, who studied graphic design at Marmara University. Creator of the rounded organic sans typeface family Primus (2012-2015) and of the basic geometric sans typeface family Genius (2013-2015).

In 2017, he designed the 162-style geometric sans typeface family Artegra Sans, which covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. He added the 54-font family Artegra Slab later in 2017. Near the end of 2017, he designed the squarish Latin typeface Kufica, which is based on the Arabic kufic style.

Typefaces from 2018: Millard (a transitional typeface family), Caldina (a rounded sans family), Suprema (geometric sans in 14 styles; it features horizontal and vertical terminal cuts).

Typefaces from 2020: Dexa Pro (a 72-style workhorse sans), Artegra Soft, Habanera (a semi-geometric sans family with Outline and Rounded subfamilies).

Typefaces from 2021: Dexa Round (an 18-style rounded sans family), Anatolian (a 12-style octagonal slab serif), Procerus (an 18-style ultra-compressed movie credit font family).

Fontspring link. Behance link. . Home page of Ceyhun Birinci. Fontspring link. Fontsquirrel link. Behance link for Artegra Type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Artemis Panousieri

During her MA studies in Athens, Greece, Artemis Panousieri created the free handcrafted Greek typeface Ntari Ntari (2015; with Elisabet Sklabou). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ARTypes
[Ari Rafaeli]

ARTypes is based in Chicago, and is run by Ari Rafaeli. List of their typefaces categorized by revival type:

  • Hermann Eidenbenz: Graphique (1946) now called Graphique AR, a shadow face.
  • Jan van Krimpen (Enschedé) revivals: Romulus Kapitalen (1931), Romulus Open (1936), Curwen Initials (Van Krimpen did these in 1925 for The Curwen Press at Plaistow, London), and Open Kapitalen (1928).
  • Jacques-François Rosart: Rosart811, a decorative initial typeface that is a digital version of the 2-line great primer letters cut by J. F. Rosart for Izaak&Johannes Enschedé in 1759 (Enschedé no. 811).
  • Stephenson Blake revivals: Borders, Parisian Ronde.
  • Rudolf Koch (Klingspor) revivals: Holla, Koch-Antiqua-Kursiv Zierbuchstaben, Maximilian-Antiqua, Neuland 24pt.
  • Bernard Naudin (Deberny&Peignot) revival: Le Champlevé.
  • W. F. Kemper (Ludwig&Mayer) revival: Colonia. P.H. Raedisch: Lutetia Open (2007) is based on the 48-pt Lutetia capitals engraved by P. H. Raedisch under the direction of Jan van Krimpen for Enschedé in 1928.
  • Richard Austin: Fry's Ornamented (2007) is a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796. Stephenson, Blake&Co. acquired the type in 1905, and in 1948 they issued fonts in 30-pt (the size of the original design), 36-, 48- and 60-pt.
  • Max Caflisch (Bauer) revival: Columna.
  • Elisabeth Friedlaender (Bauer) revivals: Elisabeth-Antiqua, Elisabeth-Kursiv (and swash letters). Linotype Friedlaender borders.
  • Herbert Thannhaeuser (Typoart) revival: Erler-Versalien.
  • O. Menhart (Grafotechna) revivals: Manuscript Grazhdanka (cyrillic), Figural, Figural Italic (and swash letters). Also, Grafotechna ornaments (maybe not by Menhart).
  • Hiero Rhode (Johannes Wagner) revival: Hiero-Rhode-Antiqua (2007).
  • F. H. E. Schneidler (Bauer) revival: Legende.
  • Herbert Post revival: Post-Antiqua swash letters.
  • Georg Trump (Weber) revivals: Trump swash letters, Trump-Gravur (called Gravur AR now). The outline caps typeface Forum I-AR is derived from the Forum I type designed by Georg Trump (1948, C. E. Weber). Signum AR-A and Signum AR-B (2011) are based on Trump's Signum (1955, C.E. Weber). Palomba AR (2011) is based on Trump's angular calligraphic typeface Palomba (1954-1955, C.E. Weber). Amati AR (2011) is based on a Georg Trump design from 1953.
  • Hermann Zapf revival: Stempel astrological signs.
  • F.H. Ernst Schneidler: Zentenar Initialen is based on the initials designed by Prof. F. H. E. Schneidler, ca. 1937, for his Zentenar-Fraktur types.
  • Isaac Moore: Old Face Open (Fry's Shaded) is a decorative Baskerville which was probably cut by Isaac Moore for Fry ca. 1788. A revival was issued in eight sizes by Stephenson Blake in 1928.
  • Border units and ornaments: Amsterdam Apollo borders, Gracia dashes, Primula ornaments, Bauer Bernhard Curves, Weiß-Schmuck, Curwen Press Flowers, Klingspor Cocktail-Schmuck, Nebiolo fregi di contorno, Attika borders, English (swelled) rules, Künstler-Linien, an-Schmuck, Primavera-Schmuck.
  • Freie Initialen are derived from initials made for the Stempel Garamond series. The type was issued in 1928 in three sizes (36, 48, and 60 pt); the AR version follows the 60-pt design.
  • Initiales Grecques, based on Firmin Didot's design, ca. 1800.
  • Emil A. Neukomm revivals: Bravo AR (2007; originally 1945).
  • Ernst Bentele revivals: Bentele-Unziale (2007).
  • Joseph Gillé: Initiales ombrées (2007) is based on Gillé's original all caps typeface from 1828.
  • Maria-Ballé-Initials (2007), after an original font from Bauersche Giesserei.
  • Raffia Initials (1952, Henk Krijger): revived by ARTypes in 2008 as Raffia.
  • Ornaments 1 AR (2010): from designs from 18th and 19th century typefounders that were ancestors of the Stephenson Blake foundry.
  • Ornaments 2 AR (2010): Ornaments 2 contains designs for the Fanfare Press by Berthold Wolpe (1939) and for the Kynoch Press by Tirzah Garwood (ca. 1927).
  • Ornaments 3 AR (2010): based on designs by Bernard Naudin for Deberny et Peignot, c. 1924; and ornaments based on designs by Oldrich Menhart, Karel Svolinsky and Jaroslav Slab for the state printing office of Czechoslovakia and Grafotechna.
  • Ornaments 4 AR (2010): based on the Amsterdam Apollo and Gracia ornaments and the Amsterdam Crous-Vidal dashes (designed by Crous-Vidal).
  • Ornaments 5 AR (2010): based on the Amsterdam Primula ornaments designed by Imre Reiner, 1949.
  • Ornaments 6 AR (2010): based on designs for the Curwen Press by Edward Bawden and Percy Smith.
  • Yü Bing-nan revival: Freundschafts-Antiqua AR (2010). Freundschafts-Antiqua (which was also called Chinesische Antiqua) was designed in 1962 by the Chinese calligrapher Yü Bing-nan when he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig in 1960.
  • Sans Serif Inline (2011). Based on the 36-point design of the Amsterdam Nobel Inline capitals (1931).
  • Hildegard Korger revivals: Typoskript AR (2010) is based on a metal type which was produced in 1968 by VEB Typoart, Dresden, from a design of the German calligrapher and lettering artist Hildegard Korger.
  • Hans Kühne revival: Kuehne-Antiqua AR (2010) revives a Basque typeface by Hans Kühne.
  • The Troyer AR ornaments (2010) are based on the first series of ornaments designed for American Type Founders by Johannes Troyer in 1953.
  • The Happy Christmas font (2011) is a snowflake font that is based on designs by Amsterdam and Haas, c. 1950. December Ornaments (2011) contains the 36 Amsterdam designs which were originally issued in 24 and 36 point.
  • Walter Diethelm: Diethelm AR (2011) revives Walter Diethelm's Diethelm Antiqua (1948-1951, Haas).
  • Walter Brudi revivals: Pan AR (2010, based on a 1957 font by Brudi).
  • Hermecito (2013) is a 46-style type system based on an angular serif. It covers Cyrillic, Latin, Greek and several other scripts. Besides being eminently readable, it also has extensive coverage of mathematical and phonetic symbols. Renzo (2013) is along the same lines but with sharpened serifs.
  • Spiral (2014) is a revival of a typeface called Spiral designed by Joseph Blumenthal and cut bu Louis Hoell in 1930. In 1936, Monotype reissued that type as Emerson 320.
  • Custom typefaces include Fabrizio (2016), a classical serif typeface family for Hebrew, Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, with hints of Garamond and Caslon. Ari writes that Fabrizio made its first appearance in Saggi di Letteratura Italiana: Da Dante per Pirandello a Orazio Costa, by Lucilla Bonavita, printed at Pisa in March 2016 by Fabrizio Serra Editore for whom the type was specially designed.
MyFonts link.

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As Symbols

Greek outfit which made Byzantine (2000), a Greek font that can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ascender Corporation

Elk Grove Village, IL-based company established in 2004, which specializes in font development, licensing and IP protection. It rose from the ashes of a major fire at Agfa/Monotype at the end of 2003. Its founders are Steve Matteson (type designer, formerly with Agfa/Monotype), Thomas Rickner (of Microsoft fame, where he hinted many Microsoft families), Ira Mirochnick (founder and President of Monotype Typography Inc in 1989 (where he was until 2000) and a Senior Vice President and director of Agfa Monotype Corporation (2000-2003), a self-proclaimed expert in font licensing issues and IP protection), and Bill Davis (most recently the Vice President of Marketing for Agfa Monotype). Also included in this group are Josh Hadley, Brian Kraimer, Jim Ford (since 2005), and Jeff Finger (as Chief Research Scientist, since 2006). On December 8, 2010, Ascender was acquired by Monotype for 10.2 million dollars.

Their typefaces include Endurance (2004, Steve Matteson, an "industrial strength" Grotesk designed to compete with Helvetica and Arial; it supports Greek, Cyrillic and East European languages).

In April 2005, Ascender announced that it would start selling the Microsoft font collection, which is possibly their most popular collection to date. They also started selling and licensing IBM's Heisei family of Japanese fonts in April 2005: Heisei Kaku Gothic, Heisei Maru Gothic and Heisei Mincho. Ascender's version of the CJK font Heiti is called ASC Heiti. Also in 2005, they started distributing Y&Y's Lucida family.

In October 2005, Ascender announced the development of Convection, a font used for Xbox 360 video games. Their South Asian fonts cover Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, and include Ascender Uni, Ascender UniDuo and Arial Unicode for general use across all Indic languages, and, in particular, the Microsoft fonts Vrinda (Bengali), Mangal (Devanagari), Shruti (Gujarati), Raavi (Gurmukhi), Tunga (Kannada), Kartika (Malayalam), Latha (Tamil) and Gautami (Telugu). Khmer SBBIC (2011) is a Khmer font at Open Font Library.

It does more type trading and licensing than type creation, although Steve Matteson has contributed fairly well to their new typefaces. Their brand value took a hit when they started selling scrapbook, handwriting and wedding fonts under the name FontMarketplace.com.

Recent contributions: Crestwood (2006, a house face, possibly by Steve Matteson) is an updated version of an elegant semi-formal script typeface originally released by the Ludlow Type Foundry in 1937.

In 2009, they started a subpage called GoudyFonts.Com to sell their Goudy revivals.

In 2010, they announced a new collection of OpenType fonts created specifically for use in Microsoft Office 2010: Comic Sans 2010 (including new italic and bold italic fonts), Trebuchet 2010 (including new black&black italic fonts), Impact 2010, Pokerface 2010, Rebekah 2010 and Rebus Script 2010. Ligatures in Comic Sans?

New releases.

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Athenian Font
[Jeffrey Rusten]

"TrueType "Athenian" is part of GreekKeys, the Macintosh/Windows font + keyboard package designed by George B. Walsh and Jeffrey Rusten, and owned by the American Philological Association. The font contains all common ancient Greek (polytonic) accents and symbols; it is to be used on Macintosh and Windows (3.1 or 95) for READING Classical Greek with Perseus (on the Web page or the CD version) and in other publicly available ancient Greek texts." This font is free. Walsh died, but Jeffrey Rusten was at Emory University, Atlanta, and is now at Cornell University. See also here. Alternate site. Mac and PC. Mac version. Another Mac version. IMPORTANT NOTE: The font was withdrawn by Jeffrey Rusten, so PLEASE do not bother him. The present link still has the font, but Rusten asked me to ask you not to use the font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AthenMacGr

AthenMacGr is freeware for MacOS X written by Julian A. Salort from Marseille. On this page, you can download the Mac version of Athenian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Athens School of Fine Arts

From Natasha Raissaki's web page: The Athens School of Fine Arts has reopened its historic printing workshop. The workshop was initially founded by Yiannis Kefallinos the engraver, teacher and founder of the engraving course at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1939, but after his death in 1959 the course and its premises had ceased to operate. In 2004, the printing workshop was refurbished and all its typographic equipment (metal types, typecases, presses etc.) were restored through the copious efforts of Professor Leoni Vidali and her team. This academic year [2005-2006] is open to students as a two-year lab course, during which they will be taught hand type setting and page layout which they will complete with traditional or digital methods. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Athina Konstiantou

Athina Konstiantou (Athens, Greece) took inspiration from the De Stijl movement, and in particular, Piet Mondrian, when she created the typeface Mondrian in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atypical
[George Triantafyllakos]

George Triantafyllakos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. In 2004, he was a PhD student, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Founder, with Manolis Pratsinakis, of Backpacker. He set up the independent foundry Atypical.

His typefaces at Atypical: Atypical (2014), Burger (2014), Cornelius (2014, art deco), Direct (2014, sans), Donmeh (2016), Friday (2014), JoyD (2015, flared and lapidary), Marx in France (2014), Marx in USA (2014, condensed fashion mag style with teardrops), Monotonous (2014, monoline and monospaced), PhD (2014, squarish), Slab (2014), Vs (2017), Walter (2014, art deco, with Hollow and Stencil styles, and a possibility of layering with patterns).

At the open source type foundry Velvetyne, he added the Greek chracters to Lucas Le Bihan's Sporting Grotesque (2016).

Dafont link. Fontsquirrel link. Klingspor link. Kernest link. iFontMaker link. Cannibal Fonts link. Velvetyne Type Foundry link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Auguste Bernard

Author (1811-1868) of Geoffroy Tory, peintre et graveur, premier imprimeur royal, réformateur de l'orthographe et de la typographie sous François Ier (2e édition, entièrement refondue) (1865, E. Tross, Paris). Local download in PDF [13.8MB].

In 1856, Auguste Bernard published Les Estienne --- Les types grecs de François premier, in which he presents 16th century Greek typefaces known as les grecs du roi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Avenir Next World

The original Avenir typeface was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988. Unlike Futura, which has partially colored Avenir, Avenir is not purely geometric---it has vertical strokes that are thicker than the horizontals and a lower case o that is not a perfect circle. And just as most fonts from the 1980s, Avenir has shortened ascenders. These nuances aid in legibility but the small x-height makes it less elegant.

In 2012, Akira Kobayashi worked alongside Adrian Frutiger on Avenir Next. Akira kept expanding Avenir to cover more languages. Avenir Next World family, released by Linotype in 2021, is an expansive family of fonts that offers support for more than 150 languages and scripts. The subfamilies include Avenir Next Hebrew, Avenir Next Thai, Avenir Next Cyrillic, Avenir Next Arabic and Avenir Next Georgian. Avenir Next World contains 10 weights, from UltraLight to Heavy.

Contributors besides Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi: Anuthin Wongsunkakon (Thai), Yanek Iontef (Hebrew), Akaki Razmadze (Georgian), Nadine Chahine (Arabic), Toshi Omagari (Arabic) and Elena Papassissa (Greek, Armenian). See also Avenir Next Paneuropean (2021; 56 styles; by Akira Kobayashi). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Avi Fonts
[Panayotis Katsaloulis]

The Avi Fonts were made for a Greek company located in Athens, called Aviette or Avisoft. This free set of multi-accented Latin/Greek fonts is available since 2004-2005 with Debian Linux: AVI-BonatiPT-Bold, AVI-BonatiPT-BoldItalic, AVI-BonatiPT-Italic, AVI-BonatiPT-Normal, AVI-Jacobs-Bold, AVI-Jacobs-BoldItalic, AVI-Jacobs-Italic, AVI-Jacobs-Normal, AVI-Optima-Bold, AVI-Optima-BoldItalic, AVI-Optima-Italic, AVI-Optima-Normal, AVI-OptimaCollege-Italic, AVI-OptimaCollege, AVI-ParisAifel-Medium, AVI-ParisAifel-MediumItalic. The authors are Atanasio, and Panayotis Katsaloulis. See also here. Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek Extended area in the GNU Freefont project: (U+1F00-U+1FFF). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Babis Touglis
[The Zyme]

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Babylon Lingua

William Ramey's pages on Akkadian, Aramaic, Assyrian, Coptic, Cuneiform, Cyrillic, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Hieroglyphics, Latin, Meroitic, Nahkt, Phoenician, Sumerian, and Ugaritic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Backpacker
[George Triantafyllakos]

George Triantafyllakos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. In 2004, he was a PhD student, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Founder, with Manolis Pratsinakis, of Backpacker, where one can find free Latin and Greek typefaces: BPLatinNumerals, BPbigHead, BPchildLefty, BPchildFatty, BPchubby, BPchubbyFat, BPdots, BPilialena, BPletterSquares, BPletterSquaresWide, BPmolecules, BPmouse, BPmyhand, BPneon [paperclip face], BPpong [light stencil face], BPsquareHand, BPtall, BP PhD Sans, BP PhD Italic, BP PhD Mono, BP Inktrap, BP Script. These include quite a few handwriting typefaces. Commercial handwriting fonts at Cannibal (2001-2005): BPPallas, BPOlga, BPMaria, BPHaroula. In 2007, he added BP display black, BP mono and BP mono italics, and BP script. In 2008, BPreplay was created as a correction of MgOpenModata. Creations in 2009 and 2010: BPOApeloig, BPScript, BP Typewrite, BP Imperial (think Impact), BP Dots (30 monospaced dot fonts).

He set up the independent foundry Atypical.

Designer of TapeBold (2015, iFontMaker).

In 2016, he released the free all caps sans typeface Hellenica for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

In 2017 he participated in the team of designers who won the competition for the design of the new visual identity of the National Library of Greece (George D. Matthiopoulos, Dimitris Papazoglou, George Triantafyllakos and Axel Peemöller).

Fontsquirrel link. Kernest link. iFontMaker link. Cannibal Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Banned Graphics
[Aimilios Galipis]

Thessaloniki-based designer of Romantica (2012), a grungy typeface for Latin and Greek. In 2013, he made Bad Font.

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Barsik

WTLHebraica (1997), WtlHebrew, WtlGreek. Dead link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastarda Type (was: No Name Type Foundry)
[Sebastian Castellanos De La Hoz]

Bogota, Colombia-based outfit, est. 2017 by Jason Guzman, Sebastian Castellanos and Federico Parra. Type designers associated with Bastardatype in 2022 included Oscar Guerrero, Julian Moncada and Fer Cozzi. Sebastian Castellanos graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. His graduation project was Orca (2015). It covers Latin, Greek and Thai: Orca was inspired by alcoholic beverage labels. It is constructed of a blend of sharp serifs and brush out-strokes which create a dynamic combination of angular lines and curves.

The list of type designs:

  • Orca and Orca Display (by Sebastian Castellanos and Jason Guzman). The semi-stencil Orca Display won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018. Orca was inspired by alcoholic beverage labels. It is characterized by sharp serifs, a large x-height, moderate ascenders and descenders, and wide proportions. It covers Latin, Greek and Thai.
  • Magma (Federico Parra). A psychedelic all caps typeface.
  • Central. A handcrafted American gothic custom-designed for Central Cevicheria in Bogota.
  • BT Barbara (2018). A flared typeface done with Fernanda Cozzi.
  • BT Brutman (2020). An angular text typeface inspired by brutalist architecture.
  • BT Orca and BT Orca Display.
  • BT Lamina (2019).
  • BT Salsa (2019).
  • Kiffo Sans (2019), later called BT Kiffo.
  • Stewar Variable (2022). Unknown designer.
  • Gregor (2021, Oscar Guerrero). A hybrid sans serif typeface family with two variants, Upright and Slanted. The design is inspired by some advertising graphic designs used in the United States during the 60's and 70's.
  • Super BT (2022). Unknown designer.

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Bayer Corp

A collection of fonts from Bayer Corp (1995): AlbertusExtraBoldW1, AlbertusMediumW1, AntiqueOliveW1, AntiqueOliveW1Bold, AntiqueOliveW1Italic, AvantGardeBook, AvantGardeBookOblique, AvantGardeDemi, AvantGardeDemiOblique, Bookman, BookmanDemi, BookmanDemiItalic, BookmanItalic, CGOmegaW1, CGOmegaW1Bold, CGOmegaW1BoldItalic, CGOmegaW1Italic, CGTimesW1, CGTimesW1Bold, CGTimesW1BoldItalic, CGTimesW1Italic, CenturySchlbkBold, CenturySchlbkBoldItalic, CenturySchlbkItalic, CenturySchlbkRoman, ClarendonCondensedW1Bold, CoronetW1Italic, GaramondW1Antiqua, GaramondW1Halbfett, GaramondW1Kursiv, GaramondW1KursivHalbfett, Helvetica-Narrow, Helvetica-NarrowBold, Helvetica-NarrowBoldItalic, Helvetica-NarrowItalic, Helvetica, HelveticaBlack, HelveticaBlackOblique, HelveticaBold, HelveticaBoldItalic, HelveticaItalic, HelveticaLight, HelveticaLightOblique, LetterGothicW1, LetterGothicW1Bold, LetterGothicW1Italic, MarigoldW1, PalatinoBold, PalatinoBoldItalic, PalatinoItalic, PalatinoRoman, UniversCondensedW1Bold, UniversCondensedW1BoldItalic, UniversCondensedW1Medium, UniversCondensedW1MediumItalic, UniversW1Bold, UniversW1BoldItalic, UniversW1Medium, UniversW1MediumItalic, ZapfChanceryMediumItalic, ZapfDingbats. See also here. Further fonts are here. Bayer's Courier families for Greek, East-European, Cyrillic, Turkish and Latin. Type 1 collection. All these fonts are in fact part of an old Lexmark printer package. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger

American type designer who graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. Her graduation typeface was Etincelle, which was designed with long ascenders and descenders to better blend with the deep swashes of a specific style of Arabic used for Ajami languages in northern Nigeria and southern Niger. In addition to Arabic, Etincelle currently includes Greek, Cyrillic, and extended Latin characters. Etincelle Arabic Bold is the first attempt at a typeface design based on handwritten manuscripts from Nigeria, in a style of writing called Rubutun Kano by the speakers of the Hausa language.

Becca is affiliated with SIL International, where she was involved in the following projects:

  • Gentium. This famous free typeface supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. Gentium Plus supports a wide range of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters. It was developed between 2003 and 2014 by J. Victor Gaultney (main designer), Annie Olsen, Iska Routamaa, and Becca Hirsbrunner. CTAN download link.
  • In 2011-2012, George Nuss designed the Arabic typeface Fouta for the Guinean community. This was at the basis of the free font Harmattan (2015, Becca Hirsbrunner and Iska Routamaa at SIL International; Google Font link). SIL explains: Harmattan, named after the trade winds that blow during the winter in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa. The font does not cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire. It only supports characters known to be used by languages in West Africa. This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures.) This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may be considered unattractive in more traditional and literate communities.
  • Alkalami (2015-2017, SIL): Alkalami is designed for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger. Alkalami is the local word for the Arabic "qalam", a type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden boards in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger, and what gives the style its distinct appearance. The baseline stroke is very thick and solid. This style of writing African ajami has sometimes been called Sudani Kufi or Rubutun Kano.
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Belleve Invis
[Renzhi Li]

Programmer and font technologist in Hefei, China. He wrote a parametric program that can create fonts. His first adventure is the gorgeous (monoline monospaced) programming font Iosevka (2015), which is completely free: for the source code, see Github. It has 7 weights and 6 styles and is entirely programmed. Belleve says that he was inspired by Pragmata Pro, M+ and PF DIN Mono. Github link to the releases. The font covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and is narrower than many fonts in order to be compatible with CJK characters. A tour de force that deserves an award. The 27-style Iosevka Extended was released in 2020. Jozsika (2015-2017) is a customized version of Iosevka Curly. Github link. Aardvark Sans (2020) by a mystery author is also based on Iosevka.

In 2019, he released the free semi-monospaced font Zapus Sans. It is based on his earlier typeface Iosevka Aile.

Sarasa Gothic (2020) is a CJK programming font based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.

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Ben Bold
[Bold Studio (was: Studio BB)]

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Ben Harris

Designer of the multistyle free monospaced octagonal and pixel font family Bedstead (2017), covering, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, mathematics, and a slew of other things. He explains: Bedstead is an outline font based on the characters produced by the Mullard SAA5050 series of Teletext Character Generators. The SAA5050 is familiar to those of a certain age as the chip that produced the MODE 7 display on the BBC Microcomputer. It generates characters from a 5x9 pixel matrix, smoothing diagonal lines to produce an interlaced 10x18 matrix for each character. Bedstead extends that algorithm to continuity, converting a 5x9 pixel grid into an outline with smooth diagonals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Jones
[Protimient.com]

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Ben Kiel

Graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, who joined House Industries (Wilmington, DE) in 2006 to work as a typeface designer, director, and developer. He also worked with Ken Botnick at emdash. He runs Typefounding, a typeface design and production studio in St. Louis, Missouri. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and the Type@Cooper certificate program at Cooper Union, and has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Delaware. He is a partner at XYZ Type with Jesse Ragan.

He designed Katje and Cimarron (2005, University of Reading, a serif family with support for Latin and Greek). Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon on Python scripts for FontLab and RoboFab. Image.

In 2011, Vincent Pacella, Ben Kiel and Adam Cruz created the fat slab serif face Goliath, based on Film No. 6206 in the PhotoLettering archive. West Barnum Ultra, designed by Dave West and digitized by Ben Kiel&Adam Cruz in 2011, was film no. 5494 in the original Photo-Lettering archive.

At House Industries, he redesigned the iconic Rea Irvin lettering for The New Yorker in September 2013. The typefaces are named New Yorker Irvin and New Yorker Neutraface. In 2012 at House Industries he revived the Photo Lettering Inc font Worthe Numerals, which pushed fat didone to its limits.

Still at House Industries, Christian Schwartz, Mitja Miklavcic and Ben Kiel co-developed Yorklyn Stencil.

Cortado Script (2014) was designed by Jesse Ragan and Ben Kiel. It was inspired by Swedish illustrator's Cecilia Carlstedt's hand-painted lettering. It follows one year after a similar signage script typeface, Carlstedt Script (2013), also co-designed by Jesse Ragan and Ben Kiel---it was a custom signage typeface for Aldo Shoes.

In 2015, Mark van Bronkhorst set up TypoBrand LLC in Berkeley, CA. As part of TypoBrand, he published several typefaces that are modern digital reinterpretations of ATF typefaces. The collection is published by TypoBrand LLC under the names ATF Type or American Type Founders Collection. Ben Kiel co-designed, sometimes with others, classics such as ATF Alternate Gothic (2015), ATF Brush (2015), ATF Egyptian Antique (an expansion of Schraubstadter's Rockwell Antique by Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, and Ben Kiel), ATF Railroad Gothic (2016), ATF Garamond (2015), ATF Headline Gothic (2015), ATF Livermore Script (by Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, and Ben Kiel), ATF Poster Gothic (2015) and ATF Wedding Gothic (2015).

At XYZ Type, Ben Kiel co-designed Cortado Script in 2013 with Jesse Ragan and designed the sans typeface Grep (2017).

In 2019, Ben Kiel participated in the development of ATF Franklin Gothic (Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, and Ben Kiel). A broad and multi-weight interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton's classic from 1905, Franklin Gothic, which only had bolder weights. For the lighter styles, the designers were inspired by Benton's Monotone Gothic.

Girard Sky (2019) is based on Alexander Girard's original typeface for his redesign of Braniff Airways. Working with the original drawings for the photoset typeface found in the Girard archive, the design was revived as part of the Alexander Girard collection. Followed by Girard Slab (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Ballast (Future Fonts: a condensed slab serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Beopho Choi

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Blackout (a blocky sans; for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), HU Garaetteok (a rounded headline sans), HU Mois (a handwriting typeface by Yehyeong Lee and Beopho Choi; Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), HU Kinderland (a fat finger font by SangHyeon Park and Beopho Choi). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bet HaShem Midrash

Designer in New Haven, IN, of these free fonts: EarlyAramaic, Greek-Plain, Jerusalem-Linux (1991-2002, The Zondervan Corporation), NacharQuwah (2005, for Aramaic), PaleoBora-Light. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bianca Berning

Graduate of the MA Typeface Design program at the University of Reading in 2011 who was born in Germany. Her graduation typeface was Clint (2011), a text family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Clint is characterized by multiple personalities, with asymmetric serifs, a daring axis, some timid ball terminals, and other exogenetic details.

Bianca specializes in the technical aspects of type design. As a font engineer with a background in civil engineering, communication and typeface design, she joined the Brixton, UK-based Dalton Maag type foundry in 2011. Until 2018 she headed their Skills & Process team, responsible for training and development, knowledge management, and for the implementation of font development processes. In 2018, she was appointed Creative Director and became responsible for ensuring that Dalton Maag remains at the forefront of type innovation. She directed the design of brand typefaces and complex type systems for international clients such as the Amazon, AT+T, BBC, Bodyform, Goldman Sachs [Goldman Sans], and Jacobs Engineering Group [Jacobs Chronos], and oversaw the design and refinement of wordmarks and font modifications.

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, at ATypI 2017 in Montreal and at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bible Study Tools

BST Greek, BST Hebrew fonts. Free, Mac and PC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bible Works Fonts
[Michael S. Bushell]

Free original fonts, bwgrkl, bwgrkn, bwhebb, for Greek and Hebrew. Postscript and truetype. Other fonts include BWVIET, BWEESS, BWEETI, and BYSYMBOL. Check also Maranatha Church. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bigelow&Holmes
[Charles Bigelow]

Bigelow&Holmes was founded by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Charles Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit) is a type designer and teacher, who runs his own studio, Bigelow&Holmes. Bigelow was a colleague of Donald Knuth at Stanford University when Knuth developed his Computer Modern typeface family for TeX. In mid-2006, Bigelow accepted the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media. Before that, he taught at Stanford University, Rhode Island School of Design, and other institutions. Typefaces designed by Bigelow:

  • The Lucida family (1985). Lucida is used in several scientific publications such as Scientific American. Its origins go back to Computer Modern. I find it more appropriate for screens than paper, but that is just a personal view. The Lucida family contains LucidaConsole (1993), LucidaSansTypewriter (1991), LucidaFax, LucidaCalligraphy, LucidaBright, Lucida Blackletter (1991, a bastarda) and Lucida Handwriting. It has been recently expanded to comply with the Unicode Standard, and includes non-Latin scripts such as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. Charles Bigelow created the font families Lucida Math (with Kris Holmes, 1993), Lucida Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985), Lucida Typewriter Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985) and Lucida Serif (with Kris Holmes, 1993). The paper by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, The design of a Unicode font (Electronic Publishing, 1993, pp.289-305), explains the design issues such as letter heights, readability studies, and typeface designs for readers versus non-readers of the various scripts.
  • Syntax Phonetic.
  • Leviathan (1979).
  • Apple Chicago (1991), Apple Geneva (1991).
  • Microsoft Wingdings (1992).
  • For the Go Project, Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow designed the free typeface families Go Sans and Go Mono in 2016. The font family, called Go (naturally), includes proportional- and fixed-width faces in normal, bold, and italic renderings. The fonts have been tested for technical uses, particularly programming. These fonts are humanist in nature (grotesques being slightly less legible according to recent research) and have an x-height a few percentage points above that of Helvetica or Arial, again to enhance legibility. The name Go refers to the Go Programming Language. CTAN link.
Ascender link. Wikipedia link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Font Squirrel link. Ascender link. Lucida Fonts is a dedicated commercial site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bitstream Cyberbit

From Bitstream's web page: "Bitstream Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT [note: Bitstream's version of Times and Times New Roman]), it includes all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages. Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif" typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages. Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember, this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". --- Well, Bitstream no longer offers the font. It is still out there however. Try here, here, here, or here. Has these unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew Extended (A and B blocks combined), Thai, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Combining Diacritical Marks, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blancoletters
[Juan Luis Blanco]

Juan Luis Blanco is a graphic designer, type designer and calligrapher based in Zumaia in the heart of the Basque country. Since 1993, he works as a freelancer graphic designer. In 2013, he obtained an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. Currently he combines calligraphy classes and graphic design with typographic projects that focus on Basque lettering as well as multi script typefaces involving the Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh alphabets.

For his graduation work in the Masters of Type Design program of the University of Reading, Juan Luis Blanco (Spain) created the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Tifinagh, Arabic typeface family Amaikha (2014). Amaikha is characterized by Latin warmth and roundness.

A list of his typefaces:

  • Akaya Telivigala/Kanadaka. Blanco writes: Akaya is a single weight experimental display typeface in Kannada, Telugu and Latin scripts designed in collaboration with Vaishnavi Murthy (Bangalore, India). Akaya Telivigala and Akaya Kanadaka are made as two separate font files which share a common Latin. Github link. i Google Fonts link for Kanadaka. Google fonts link for Telivigala.
  • Amaikha (2014). His graduation typeface from the University of Reading.
  • Harri (2016, Type-o-Tones). A display font based on the peculiar letter forms used in signs and fascias all over the Basque Country. The letterforms can be traced back to romanesque inscriptions. Harri (stone, in Basque) is an all-caps typeface, and must be ranked as one of the greatest digital typefaces that capture the Basque soul. In 2020, it was republished at Blancoletters. Later in 2020, Harri Text was added. See also Harri text at Type Network.
  • Ingeo (2021). A 9-style geometric sans that oozes confidence and style, and has a senate seat thanks to its pharaonic lower case g.
  • Karela (2017). A humanist slab serif.
  • Qandus (2017), a multiscript typeface co-designed with Kristyan Sarkis and Laura Meseguer. It won a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence in 2017. Qandus covers Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh.
  • Tuqbal Pro (2015-2019, by Andreu Balius and Juan Luis Blanco). Tubqal Pro is a tri-script type family based on its previous Tubqal typeface commissioned by the Khatt Foundation as part of the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib 3.0, the 3rd edition of the multi-script typographic research project of the Khatt Foundation. It includes Latin, Arabic (+Farsi) and Tifinagh (for the Tifinagh based languages: Tamazight (Central Atlas), Kabyle, Tamazight (Standard Moroccan), Tachawit, Tachelhit, Tagdal, Tamahaq, Tahaggart, Tamasheq, Tarifit, Tamajaq, Tawallammat, Tamajeq, Tayart, Tumzabt, Zenaga).

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on A Typographic Maghribi Trialogue. In this talk, he explains, together with Laura Meseguer and Krystian Sarkis, the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib project of the Khatt Foundation, which tries to facilitate a cultural trialogue as well as shed a typographic spotlight on the largely ignored region of the Maghreb in terms of writing and design traditions. The specific goal of the collaboration is the research and development of tri-script font families (for Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh) that can communicate harmoniously. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bob Studio

Bob is an independent design studio based in Athens. They designed the Greek grotesk display typeface Koukaki (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Balatchi
[DePlictis Type (was: ESS Fonts)]

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Bogz Designs

Athens, Greece-based designer of the dry brush typeface Fontastic (2017). Behance link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bold Monday
[Pieter van Rosmalen]

Bold Monday is an independent font foundry established by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen and based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (and before that, The Hague). Pieter van Rosmalen (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) studied advertising and graphic design at Sint Lucas in Boxtel and graduated from the postgraduate Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2002. He runs Bold Monday's Eindhoven office.

In 2018, Bold Monday joined The Type Network.

Pieter van Rosmalen has designed retail as well as custom typefaces for clients worldwide, such as NBC Universal, Audi AG, General Electric and KPN. One of Pieter's designs is used for street signs in South Korea. Pieter's retail typefaces in the Bold Monday catalog include

  • Aniek (2009: a children's script).
  • Bilo (2018: a grotesque).
  • Capibara (2007).
  • Dico (2004-2020). A varied suite of 45 typefaces by ncompassing eight proportional and monospaced sub-families (Sans, sas Soft, Mono, Code One, Code Two, Typefwriter, Slab, Mono Slab). It circles around a sans-serif van Rosmalen started in 2004 for design studio Teldesign, comprehensively updated and expanded upon in 2020. The monospaced script styles are loosely based on Corinthian Script for the IBM Selectric.
  • Nitti (2008: monospaced), Nitti Grotesk (2012-2014), Nitti Mostro (2015, +Stencil, +Disco, a splendid multiline headline typeface), Nitti Typewriter (2009).
  • Panno (2008, a sans), Panno Sign, Panno Text (2008-2010). By Van Rosmalen and van der Laan).
  • Pinup (fat rounded sans, done in 2008). In 2013, he published Pinup Dotted (a textured typeface).
  • Stanley (headline face, done in 2008; includes a stencil).
  • Puffin, Puffin Display (rounded informal sans families) and Puffin Arcade (a large bitmap font family).

Bold Monday also has typefaces by other designers. In 2012, Bold Monday published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly) which is based on designs by Oscar Reutersvärd. Oskar (2002-2013). They write: Oskar, designed by Paul van der Laan, is a typeface inspired by Dutch architectural and advertising lettering from the early 20th century. Particularly the style of lettering that was painted on walls and shopfronts, or executed in metal on buildings. This kind of typography did not exist as metal printing types, but was instead painted manually by sign painters, or drawn by architects. Initially the typeface was designed in 2002 for the lettering of a monumental school in The Hague, designed by architect Jan Duiker in 1929. In 2012, they published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly) which is based on designs by Oscar Reutersvärd.

Further typefaces include Feisar (techno), Flex (sans), Naomi (1999) and Pixel Package.

GE Inspira Sans and Serif (Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen, Bold Monday) won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition.

In 2018, Pieter published the experimental pixel-inspired typeface family Alterego.

Typefaces from 2021: Stanley: Bold and broad-shouldered, Stanley is a poster typeface collection in three styles rooted in the first sans-serif designs of the 19th century---the grotesques. Stanley is available in Normal, Stencil, and Stencil Rough.

Pieter designed custom typefaces for worldwide clients amongst others Agis, Audi, Teldesign, KPN, The government of South Korea (road signing), The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (OV Chipcard), USA Today (Futura Today, 2012, with Paul van der Laan), and NBC Universal. For Holland Festival in 2014, Paul van der Laan designed the stencil typeface HF Stencil (in collaboration with design studio Thonik, Amsterdam, and Diana Ovezea), a design inspired by Glaser Stencil.

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Bold Studio (was: Studio BB)
[Ben Bold]

Lake Konstanz, Germany-based designer of these typefaces:

  • The pixel typeface BB Bitmap (2008, for a rock band).
  • The BB Roller Mono Pro typeface family (2013-2017, +Text, +TextSoft +Headline, +HeadlineSoft).
  • The octagonal typeface system BB Strata (2015-2018). See also BB Strata Pro (2019).
  • BBT Series 2011-2014: Various contributions, including numerals, for clock typography.
  • BB Studio Pro (2013-2017). A sans family, with Greek, Cyrillic, Mono and Stencil substyles. See also BB Studio Round Pro (2013-2017).
  • BB Torsos Pro (2019). Based on the shape and proportion of the human body. Interpolations between styles are mathematically precise and innovative.
  • Noname Pro (2019).
  • BB Manual Mono Pro (2020). At 60 fonts, probably the largest monospaced typeface in the world in 2020. The glyphs are organic, monowidth and simple.
  • BB Anonym Pro (2020). A rounded version of Noname (2019).
  • BB Casual Pro (2020). A 34-style sans.
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Borutta (or: Duce Type)
[Mateusz Machalski]

Borutta (or Duce Type) is the creative studio of über-talented Warsaw-based designer Mateusz Machalski (b. 1989), a graduate of Wydziale Grafiki ASP in 2014, and of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. His oeuvre is simply irresistible, charming and a worthy representative of the Polish poster style---witness Alergia (2016), Magiel Pro (2017) and Madiso (2017).

He is the creator of the blackletter-inspired typeface Raus (2012), which also could pass for a Cyrillic simulation font. It was possibly made with Pawel Wypych. He also made Kebab (2012, a fat caps face), Duce (2012, art deco: withdrawn from MyFonts after Charles Borges complained that it was a rip-off of his own Gloria), Fikus (2012), Woodie (2012, a condensed rough wood type face), Polon (2012), Aurora (2012, a German expressionist poster face), Musli (monoline connected script), HWDP (2012, poster font), Wieczorek Script (2012, hand-printed), Hamlet (2012, a sword and dagger typeface, renamed to Prince), Caryca (2012, Cyrillic simulation, done with Pawel Wypych), Bezerro (2012, poster face), Bitmach (2012, pixel face), Meat Script (2012, a caps only market signage brush script), Krac (2012, a tall poster font), Hermes (2012: Ten Dollar Fonts), Berg (2012, a roughened blackletter face), Buldog (2012), Dudu (2012, tall condensed face).

In 2012, Polish designer Wojciech Freudenreich and Mateusz Machalski combined forces to design the techno typeface SYN, which is based on an earlier De Stijl-genre alphabet by Freudenreich. In 2020, they released the free typeface family SYN Nova, which includes additional styles and a variable font.

Machalski likes old wood types, which inspired him in 2012 to publish a wood type collection of weathered display typefaces: Condom, Hype, Whore, Banger, Buka. Elo (2012) and Duce (2012) are fat weathered wood types.

Typefaces made in 2013: Wood Type Collection 2 (which includes Brie, Kaszti, Mader, Modi, Rena, Roast, Ursus), Zigfrid (headline face), Salute (letterpress style), Benito (a letterpress or geometric wood typeface), Bojo (heavy wood style poster face), Picadilly (heavily inktrapped open counter sans family), GIT (a manly headline sans), Lito (an eroded poster typeface), Haine (vernacular caps), Aneba (an organic sans family, renewed in 2016 as Aneba Neue), Vitali (sans), Korpo Serif (slab serif), Korpo Sans (elliptical family; +Greek, +Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2014: Adagio Slab, Adagio Serif, Adagio Sans (a superfamily not to be confused with the 2006 typeface Adagio Pro by Profonts), Adagio Sans Script, Adagio Serif Script, Adagio Slab Script, Tupperware Pro. Tupper Pro (42 styles) was designed by Mateus Machalski and the RR Donnelley team.

Typefaces from 2015: Tupper Serif (again with RR Donnelley: a custom superfamily for pairing Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew an Greek; for Tupperware), Vitali Neue, Legato Serif, Corpo Serif, Corpo Sans, Zigfrid, Picadilly (a great ink-trapped sans typeface family with an erect g).

Typefaces from 2016: Nocturne (just like Magiel, this free typeface was designed as part of the Warsaw Types project: this wedge serif text typeface is inspired by the lettering on stone tablets commemorating the victims of World War II, and prewar Jewish shop signage), Favela (an experimental, geometric sans, for headline and fashion magazine use), Gangrena (a weathered typeface system co-designed with Ania Wielunska), Migrena Grotesque (earlier named Enigma Grotesque but probably in view of a clash with the name Enigma used by Jeremy Tankard changed to the appropriately named Migrena Grotesque), Alergia Grotesk (a take on the classical geometric grotesque style, in 60 weights, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Alergia Remix (a hipster / hacker / Futura take on Alergia Grotesque).

Typefaces from 2017: Nocturne Serif, Massimo (copperplate semi-serif influenced by New York; originally called Madison, they were frced to change the name to Massimo), Magiel Pro (a geometric display family influenced by Polish banners from the Russian occupatuon era, 1945-1989; it has a charming Black and a hairline, and covers Cyrillic too).

A particularly intriguing project in 2017 was Bona, which set out to revive and extend Andrzej Heidrich's old typeface Bona. Mateusz Machalski contacted him for advice on the revival project. The resulting typeface families were published by and are available from Capitalics. The centerpiece is the warm and wonderful text typeface Bona Nova. It is supplemented by the extreme contrast typeface family Bona Title and the inline typeface family Bona Sforza. Participants in the project also include Leszek Bielski, Ania Wielunska and Michal Jarocinski. Google Fonts link for Bona Nova. Github link for Bona Nova.

Typefaces from 2018: Bilbao (an innovative blend of sans, slab and mono genres in 18 styles), Cukier (a logo font family inspired by the vernacular typography from Zanzibar).

In 2018, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Przemek Hoffer co-designed the six-style antiqua typeface family Brygada 1918, which is based on a font designed by Adam Poltawski in 1918. Free download from the Polish president's site. The digitization was made possible after Janusz Tryzno acquired the fonts from Poltawski's estate. The official presentation of the font took place in the Polish Presidential Palace, in presence of the (right wing, ultra-conservative, nationalist, law and order) President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. Calling it a national typeface, the president assured the designers that he would use Brygada 1918 in his office. It will be used for diplomas and various other official forms. In 2021, with Anna Wielunska added to the list of authors, it was added as a variable font covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Google Fonts. Github link.

Typefaces from 2019: Gaultier (a sans family that is based on the styles of Claude Garamond, Robert Granjon and Eric Gill---a serifless Garamond and Gill Sans hybrid; includes a fine hairline weight), Aioli (a commissioned type system), Promo (a rounded sans family), Sigmund (the main style is inspired by the Polish road signage typeface designed in 1975 by Marek Sigmund: With the increase of weight, Sigmund turns into a geometric display in the spirit of vernacular typography from the signs of Polish streets; followed in 2022 by Sigmund Pro (15 styles)), Podium Sharp (based on Dudu, this 234-style family is a hybrid between different old Polish modular and geometric woodtypes such as Rex, Blok and Bacarat; note that 234=2x9x13, so fonts are numbered in Univers style from 1,1 (ultra-compressed hairline) to 9,13 (ultra expanded heavy)), Harpagan (an experiment in reverse and unusual stresses).

Typefaces from 2020: Tyskie (a custom sans for Tyskie Magazine), Habibi Display (an ultra-fat display typeface inspired by bold Arabic headline typefaces), Podium Soft, Afronaut (an experimental Africa-themed font). In 2020, the team at Capitalics in Warsaw, namely Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Ania Wielunska, revived Adam Poltawski's Antykwa Poltawskiego (1928-1931) as Poltawski Nowy.

Typefaces from 2021: Alfabet (a 20-style Swiss-inspired sans with narrow connectors, with support for Latin (+Vietnamese), Greek and Cyrillic scripts, including Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian forms), Change Serif (a 10-style Robert Granjon-genre garalde designed as a part of Mateusz Machalski's PhD project, carried out in 2015-2021; the main goal was to create a typeface allowing for the typesetting of complex humanistic texts, containing many historical letterforms; each font contains 4000 glyphs and covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), Engram (a soft geometric sans family in 22 styles; close to his own earlier font, Enigma, 2016).

Typefaces from 2022: Yalla (inspired by Arabic headline type).

Home page. Behance link. Personal Behance link. Behance link for Duce Type. Another link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Borys Kosmynka

Freelance graphic and type designer in Lodz, Poland. He cooperates with the Book Art Museum (which stores the legacy of Polish typography) to revive the spirit of letterpress printing and digitize old type. Speaker at ATypI 2017 in Montreal.

In 2018, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Przemek Hoffer co-designed the six-style antiqua typeface family Brygada 1918, which is based on a font designed by Adam Poltawski in 1918. Free download from the Polish president's site. The digitization was made possible after Janusz Tryzno acquired the fonts from Poltawski's estate. The official presentation of the font took place in the Polish Presidential Palace, in presence of the (right wing, ultra-conservative, nationalist, law and order) President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. Calling it a national typeface, the president assured the designers that he would use Brygada 1918 in his office. It will be used for diplomas and various other official forms. In 2021, with Anna Wielunska added to the list of authors, it was added as a variable font covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Google Fonts. Github link.

Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2019. His graduation typeface, Pactio, is a multi-script typeface family, intended for printing long text passages. It was created with small to medium size printing in mind. The Pactio family consists of six weights each for Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic.

In 2020, the team at Capitalics in Warsaw, namely Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Ania Wielunska, revived Adam Poltawski's Antykwa Poltawskiego (1928-1931) as Poltawski Nowy (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Botio Nikoltchev
[Lettersoup]

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Branding with Type
[Alberto Romanos]

Alberto Romanos is a Zaragoza, Spain-based type designer who is co-located in London. First he founded the type foundry Alberto Romanos. In 2015, that morphed into Branding with Type.

Alberto designed a font for an imaginary language. For his MA degree, he worked on variations of Frutiger (2009). His first commercial typeface is Bw Quinta Pro (2015, a sans family).

In 2015, he created the variable width condensed grotesque and poster typeface Bw Stretch, and the bespoke retro-futuristic elliptical sans typeface Flat Sans for the Spanish digital agency Flat101. During Typeclinic 11th International Type Design Workshop, he created the typeface Stretch Caps (2015).

In 2016, he designed Bw Darius (a sharp-edged high-contrast 4-style typeface family), Bw Surco (humanist sans for Latin and Cyrillic), Bw Modelica (a minimal, robust, reliable and pragmatic geometric sans in 64 styles), Bw Modelica Ultra Condensed, Bw Modelica Condensed, Bw Modelica Expanded, and Bw Mitga (a sans with strong personality and a 16 degree angle that dominates the design).

Typefaces from 2017: Bw Nista (Grotesk, International and Geometric), the Cyrillic / Greek expansion of Modelica, called Modelica LGC, Bw Helder (an 18-style sans typeface developed with Thom Niessink), Bw Gradual (an eccentric ink-trapped hipster sans), Bw Glenn Sans and its Egyptian companion, Bw Glenn Slab.

Typefaces from 2018: Bw Seido Round (a rounded almost-but-not-quite monoline sans in 12 styles that takes elements from DIN 1451; fiollowed in 2019 by Bw Seido Raw), Bw Vivant (a Peignotian typeface co-designed wih Moritz Kleinsorge).

Typefaces from 2019: Bw Beto (a text family in two optical sizes, the larger one being called Bw Beto Grande), Bw Aleta (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Bw Pose (Bw Pose No 3 and Bw Pose No 5, two times twelve fonts: didone typefaces with additional features such as uninterrupted slabs in the No3 family, and occasional wedges in the uppercase).

Behance link. Creative Market link. Home page of Alberto Romanos.

Typefaces from 2022: Bw Fusiona (a workhorse sans family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bretagne Type Foundry
[Lucas Le Bihan]

French graphic and type designer who studied at Ecole Estienne, class of 2016. After graduation, he worked with Raphael Bastide and Large. A frequent contributor to Velvetyne, he set up Bretagne Type Foundry in 2016.

Creator of the vintage typeface Nanook (2015, free at Open Font Library; see also Github). Nanook is based upon lettering of Robert Flahert's documentary, Nanook of The North. He also was involved in the creation of the transitional curveless typeface Avara Two (2013). Originally developed by Raphaël Bastide, it was later adjusted by Wei Huang and Lucas Le Bihan. In 2020, Lucas Le Bihan and Jean-Baptiste Morizot co-designed Karrik (Velvetyne), a vernacular sans.

Typefaces at Bretagne Type Foundry:

  • The free contrast-rich sans typeface Sporting Grotesque (2015, Velvetyne link; Open Font Library link; Greek support by George Triantafyllakos). Updated in 2021.
  • Happy Times At The IKOB (2016), Free at Open Font Library.
  • Self Modern (2018). A thin text typeface.
  • Cucina. A connected script typeface.
  • Résidence (2016).

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Brett T. Johnson
[Simeon out West Foundry]

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Brian Hamilton Kelly

Designer of a metafont family of Greek fonts based on Knuth's Greek characters in the CM fonts. Kelly's fonts come in roman, bold, italic, and typewritter typefaces, but they lack accents and breathing marks, so they are not suitable for use with ancient Greek text. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Jongseong Park

Seoul-based designer who is working on the serif typefaces Naxia (2007, Greek) and Dobong (2006). He created Dobong (2006), which covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bridge Postcard Collector's

Truetype download: CourierNewPSMT (East-European font by Monotype), HellasCour (Greek font by Pouliadis Associates, 1992), VPS-Courier-Hoa (VPS font: Vietnamese), VPS-Courier (VPS font: Vietnamese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brill
[John Hudson]

E.J.Brill is an academic publisher in Leiden, The Netherlands. In 1989, DecoType produced the first ever computer-typeset Persian and English dictionary for them. In 2009, Brill has resumed its 325 year old tradition of Arabo-Dutch typography by adapting Tasmeem for its Arabic texts. In 2008, Brill commissioned John Hudson to make a text face. Hudson's PDF explains how Brill had been working mostly with Baskerville, so the new Brill typeface is also transitional, but narrower, resulting in savings of paper. Greek and Cyrillic are covered by Brill as well.

In 2012, Brill was made available for free download for non-commercial use. While Brill is an original design by John Hudson, the blackletter range of characters was made by Karsten Lücke. Gerry Leonidas and Maxim Zhukov were consulted for Greek and Cyrillic, respectively. The fonts follow Unicode and contain nearly all symbols people in the humanities may ever need. [Google] [More]  ⦿

British Library

Publishers of the free font Reader Sans, which covers Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Slavonic. The copyright says Bitstream. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno La Versa

Graphic designer from Catania, Italy. He created the ultra-geometric typeface Eidos (2013).

In 2015, at Zetafonts, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed CocoBikeR (2015) to celebrate the hipster and bike cultures. Bruno La Versa did the illustrations for that project. CocoBikeR (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) is part of the successful Coco Gothic typeface family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Maag
[Dalton Maag]

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Burim Loshaj
[Loshaj Foundry]

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ByoungHeon Park

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of the monolinear hand-drawn typeface HU Cookie (2020, with Haerin Lee and Rumi Kim), HU Wind Sans (2020: a 15-style sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and ByoungHeon Park), HU Hand Serif (2020: with Yehyeong Lee and Haerin Lee), and HU The Game (2020, with Haerin Lee), a typeface with mini-spurs and odd terminals that is designed for display.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Sangsang (a fat finger font by ByoungHeon Park and Jueun Kim), HU Masking Tape Latin (a masking tape font for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Rumi Kim and ByoungHeon Park), HU Big Round (a techno typeface by Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim).

Typefaces from 2022: HU Makingfilm (a stencil typeface by ByoungHeon Park and Jihoon Park). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Byzantine Fonts to Download Thread

Discussion on Byzantine fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Byzantine Music Fonts
[Ioannis A. Vamvakas]

The Byzantine Music Fonts (2005) were designed by Ioannis A. Vamvakas. Aesthetic help came from Panagiotis Kotopoulis. The metafont contains the Jesus Christ symbol, Greek Capital Letters, and music symbols. Byzantine music is the official ecclesiastical music used by the Greek Orthodox Church. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Byzantines Grammatoseires

Byzantine era Greek fonts: Byzantine (2000, As Symbols), AGIerissosE (1993-1995, Appligraph Ltd), MgDimitriosUCPolItalic (2000. Magenta Ltd), AGVienessaC (1997, Appligraph Ltd). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cafe.no
[Cato Hernes Jensen]

Cafe.no was founded in 2000 by Norwegian designer Cato Hernes Jensen, who holds a BA in Graphic Design from Staffordshire University (UK) and an MA in Sociology from the University of Oslo. He also studied computer engineering in his hometown Horten.

His typefaces include Journeyman (2016: an all caps layered display typeface in the sign painter tradition, which comprises 3d Shadow and Silhouette styles and covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

In 2019, he published Brexit. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cahya Sofyan
[Studio Sun (or: Sun Brand Co)]

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Camille Moisset

Based in Steenvoorde, France. Designer of the free font KM Standard TT (2014, OFL) during a course at ERG in Brussels. This typeface is based on Alexey Kryukov's Old Standard TT (2006-2008). It is a bold didone family for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek with small stencil cuts in the Latin section.

A shop sign for the Fontainas Bar in Brussels inspired her to design the vernacular typeface Fontainas (2015) Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cannibal Fonts
[Panos Haratzopoulos]

Greek commercial foundry specializing in Greek fonts, founded in 1995 by Yiannis Kouroudis (b. 1962) and Panagiotes (Panos) Haratzopoulos (b. 1967). Regulars include Y. Kouroudis, T. Katsoulidis, D. Arvanitis, H. Charalambous and A. Bakas. Some fonts are Greek extensions of the major Western fonts (such as the fonts from Emigre, Berthold Types, FontShop, Commercial Type, Font Bureau, House Industries).

Original fonts include CF2 Allegro, CF2 Ancient Symposium, CF2 Anteus, CF2 Baby, CF2 Bac, CF2 Bar, CF2 Big, CF2 Bizzare, CF2 BlastGothic, CF2 Bloco, CF2 Compacta Greek, CF2 Criton, CF2 Daphne, CF2 Darkroom, CF2 Deconstruction, CF2 Demo, CF2 Derrida, CF2 DiscoVolante, CF2 DogEatDog, CF Dromon (2014-2015: a revival of the Greek traffic signage font that in turn was initially designed and adopted by the Ministry of Public Works in 1974 based on an adaptation of the British model designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in the 1960s), CF2 Eteocles, CF2 Fat, CF2 Garamond Greek, CF2 Holly, CF2 HotMetal, CF2 Initials, CF Klak (designed by Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos, based on Greek movie posters from the 40s, 50s and 60s), CF2 KouroudisGraffiti, CF2 KouroudisSelect, CF2 Leda, CF2 Leftism, CF2 Liar, CF2 Marker, CF2 Matrix, CF2 Milk, CF2 Nervoso, CF2 Newspaper, CF2 Note, CF2 Painter, CF2 Poster, CF Salamis (designed by Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos), CF2 Sans, CF2 Semplice, CF2 Smooth, CF2 Sophia, CF2 Stamp, CF2 Stencil, CF2 Stonepen, CF2 Suprematica, CF2 Twins, CF2 Type, CF2 Undo, CF2 Urania, CF2 Venus, CF2 Vivace, CF2 X-Ray, Rotis Semi, Perpetua Hellenic, Serif Hellenic, Bolt Hellenic, Conduit Hellenic, Franklin Gothic Hellenic, Gill Sans Hellenic, Goudy Hellenic, Kabel Hellenic, Legacy Sans Hellenic, Meta FF Greek, Officina Hellenic, Perpetua Hellenic, Rotis Hellenic and Stone Sans Hellenic.

The designers include Demetres Arbanites (b. 1948), Yiannis Karlopoulos (b. 1967), Takis Katsoulides (designer of the Byzantian typeface Genesis Polytonic), Yiannis Kouroudis (b. 1962), Paris Koutsikos (b. 1967), Aggelos Mitakas (b. 1954), Vladimir Radibratovic (b. 1962, educated in Belgrade), Konstantinos Spaliaras (b. 1971), Blases Foteinos (b. 1968), Ektor Haralamitous (b. 1945), Panagiotes (Panos) Haratzopoulos (b. 1967).

Haratzopoulos and Bilak (Typotheque) made Fedra Serif Greek (2003). Their news page is handy.

New releases in 2005: Autokratorika, DIN Greek, Fedra Sans, Fedra Serif A Greek, Fedra Serif B Greek, Joanna Hellenic, Meta FF Greek, Perpetua Hellenic, Rotis Sans Hellenic, Rotis Serif/SemiSerif Hellenic, Zine FF Sans Display Greek, Zine FF Serif Display Greek.

Panos Haratzopoulos is the main contributor to Cannibal. Designer of Greek versions of FontFont fonts (e.g., Instant Types Greek, Isonorm Greek, and Meta 1 Greek), House Industries (Chalet Greek and Neutraface Condensed Greek in 2010, Neutra in 2007), Garagefonts (Freight Display and Big, in 2007), Typetrust (Kari in 2007), Monotype (Davison American Greek in 2007-2008), Commercial Type (2011, Stag Greek and Stag Sans Greek), Lineto (2011, Gravur Condensed), Font Bureau (Sloop Greek in 2008, Heroun Sans in 2007 [for Men's Health Magazine], Griffith Gothic (in 2005), Berthold Types (in 2005-2006: Block, Bodoni Old Face, Akzidenz-Grotesk, Formata and Imago), Typotheque (in 2003: Fedra Serif Greek, done with Peter Bilak), Emigre (Template Gothic, 2003, Keedy (2003), Cholla (2003), Arbitrary (2003) and Mason (2003)).

Custom fonts include Dimokratia (2010, for the Dimokratia daily), Wunderman Pencil (2011, for Wunderman AE), FF Unit Slab Greek (2009, by Panos for the Metro newspaper), Le Corbusier Greek (2009, based on a Nico Schweizer font, for Homme Magazine), Farnham Greek (by Panos for Eleftheros Typos based on FB Farnham by Christian Schwarz). Panos made three versions of Gotham Greek between 2004 and 2007 for different newspapers, Macedonia, Eleftheros and Domino. Panos and Yiannis Karlopoulos did custom work for Maxim Magazine in 2005, producing Proteus Project (originally a HFJ font) and Griffith Gothic Greek. Irene Vlachou and Panos created Amplitude and Franklin Antiqua Greek for AutoBild in 2007, and Esquire and Crank Greek for Esquire in 2004.

Corporate fonts include a Greek version of Neoritmo (Claudio Piccinini) for the titles of the Benaki Museum's new website, Yamaha Hellas (a Greek version of Yamaha Koolhoven, 2001), Ballisage Greek (2007, Irene Vlachou, for Leroy Merlin), Tartine Script Greek (2005, by panos for Uphill/Nestea), Urania Sato (2007, based on CF Urania), FNAC Greek (2008, based on the FNAC chain font by Olivier Nineuil originally done in 2005).

The font Gill Sans Hellenic (2000) was chosen for the corporate identity of the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. The Greek version was designed by Hector Charalambous and was art directed by Panayiotis Haratzopoulos after permission for hellenization was given by Monotype. The font is available from Greek Digital Types.

In 2013, John Karlopoulos, Vassilis Georgiou, and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the signage typeface CF Majestic (2013).

In 2014, Cannibal published Genesis. In 2015, they added the Greek script font Red Script. In 2016, Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the calligraphic script typeface CF Ariston and the connected script typeface CF Astir. In 2017, Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the Greek brush script typeface CF Splendid (with two substyles, Serano and Special).

In 2021, Haratzopoulos released CF Modern Grotesk at Fonts.Gr. This almost monolinear sans attempts to be neutral in the Helvetica and Univers genre. It include variable fonts.

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Canonical Design
[Dalton Maag]

Design team that is related to Ubuntu. In 2010, they cooperated with the type design team of Dalton Maag to bring us free fonts for Ubuntu (called Ubuntu). Download the fonts: Ubuntu-Bold, Ubuntu-BoldItalic, Ubuntu-Italic, Ubuntu-Regular. Google Directory link for Ubuntu Mono (2010: free) and for Ubuntu Condensed. Announcement pages. The initial package contains Latin A+B Ext, Greek Polytonic and Cyrillic Extended, but lots of extensions are expected over the next few years.

Andrew Fitzsimon of Canonical Ltd created the font used in the logo of Ubuntu called Ubuntu-Title in 2005.

The package description reads: The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts in development during 2010-2011. The development is being funded by Canonical Ltd on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag. Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve. Ralf Herrmann likes the font family but recalls that other typographers find Ubuntu too close to DTL Prokyon.

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Carmelo Lupins

Designer of the free font "Greek Garamond". The page also archives some fonts by others, such as Academiury-ITV, CopticNormal, CopticNormal_II, Cyrillic-Regular, Greek-garamond-1.1, Greek-garamond, Greek, Linear-B, Masis, Ultima-Runes----ALL-CAPS, gothic-1. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CAST

CAST, or Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici (est. 2014, Bolzano, Italy) is a digital type foundry dedicated to the production and marketing of high quality fonts catering to specific needs, especially in the areas of branding and publishing. Their typefaces:

  • Divenire (2014). By Molotro / Luciano Perondi. Divenire is derived from an earlier custom typeface designed for the Partito Democratico (Italian Democratic Party), which uses it for political communications. For the information of non-Italians---this is not Berlusconi's party.
  • Dic Sans (2014, Luciano Perondi). This elliptical sans was inspired by Aldo Novarese's Eurostile. It has its own idiosyncracies, and comes with a gorgeous Dic Sans Extra Bold weight (2014). On the nomenclature---French are allowed to use Sans Dic, and Americans are permitted to typeset in Extra Bold Dic, or its shadow version, Tricky Dic.
  • Brevier (2014). Riccardo Olocco's typeface was designed for setting long texts in small or very small type sizes---the name Breveir refers to 8 point size in ancient times.
  • Gramma (2014, Riccardo Olocco). A compact temporary sans with large x-height eventually published at CAST.
  • Brasilica (2015). By Rafael Dietzsch, based on his graduation typeface in 2012 in the MATD program at the University of Reading. This Latin / Greek typeface family with sufficient diacritical support of most Brazilian indigenous languages. It is a serifed typeface but has matching sans styles. My own first reaction to this typeface was sturdy. Brasilica won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014 and was published by CAST.
  • Macho Modular (2015). By Luciano Perondi. Macho was originally designed in 2010 for MAN (Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro) and is based on the idea of modular widths of the 20th-century typesetting systems, as required by the Olivetti Margherita and the hot-metal Linotype machine.
  • Saffran (2007, by Erasmo Cuifo and Alessio D'Ellena; published in 2015 by CAST). Saffran is a stencil sans with squarish letterforms.
  • Zenon (2014, for Latin, Bengali, Greek and Cyrillic, by Riccardo Olocco). Zenon is Riccardo's graduation typeface in the MATD program at the University of Reading, UK. He writes: is a sum of different styles, from Francesco Griffo to Granjon, from modern typefaces to the first sketches of Times New Roman. Zenon is an apparently Renaissance revival with modernish proportions. A closer look reveals that it is a typographic potpourri. Zenon was published by CAST in 2015.
  • Sole Serif (2016). A text typeface family by Luciano Perondi, who writes: Sole Serif is a newspaper face with features relating to book typography. Inspiration from Francesco Griffo's romans was adapted to resist the rough usage typical of newspaper printing without any loss of quality. Sole Serif is available in an extensive range of cuts including extra bold and ultra thin. With its big x-height, short ascenders and a roundish and wide italic for text and titles, it has all the attributes of a newspaper face. Nonetheless, details like the inclined axis, calligraphic terminations, Renaissance proportions and a refined but slightly mannered design, all evoke the book rather than the daily paper. In 2018, Luciano Perondi and Riccardo Olocco designed the companion typeface Sole Sans. It was originally designed for the leading Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 ore.
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Castle Type
[Jason Castle]

Designs by Jason Castle from San Rafael, CA, who studied psychology at Dominican University of California. He does custom font design and sells commercial typefaces through MyFonts and FontShop. Blog. These include:

  • A: AfrikaBorders, Afrika Motifs, Agency Open (M. F. Benton, 1934, revival Jason Castle), Agency Gothic Inline, Ampersands, Azbuka (2005, a heavy slab serif).
  • B: Brasileiro (2007, an art deco face).
  • Carisma (2007, a clean geometric sans), Carlos (art deco inspired by Elektra), Castle Fleurons, Chinoise (2008, based on hand lettering that is reminiscent of a style of ancient Chinese square-cut ideograms), Cloister Black, Copperplate Script, Cradley (2015, a Caslon titling family with Greek and Cyrillic, named after the birthplace of William Caslon).
  • D: Deko Initials (1993, discontinued in 2007; based on NADA0 drawn in 1972 by Marcia Loeb), Dionisio (2008, didone).
  • E: Eden (Bold, Light; originally designed by Robert H. Middleton in 1934).
  • F: Fat Freddie, Futura CT and Futura CT Inline (2007, based on Futura ND, but discontinued after only a few weeks).
  • G: Goudy Lombardy (Lombardic), GoudyStout, Goudy Text, Goudy Trajan (1994-2010, free; +alternates).
  • H: Handsome (2002, nice finger dingbats, aka fists).
  • J: Jensen Arabique (left field art deco, based on work of Gustav Jensen, 1933).
  • K: Koloss (art deco).
  • L: Latin CT (2008, 6 styles), Latin Wide, Laureat, Lise Informal (2008, hand-printed), Lombardy.
  • M: Maximilian CS (Rudolf Koch, 1917), Metropolis Bold and Shaded (based on the 1932 Stempel cut as designed by W. Schwerdtner), Minotaur (2008, an original monoline design based on an Oscan votive inscription from the second century BC; looks like simulated Greek).
  • N: Norberto (2009, an all-caps Bodoni; +Stencil).
  • O: Ogun (2008, inspired by an Egyptian-style Russian block alphabet and useful for athletic lettering; formerly named Azbuka).
  • P: Plantain (2002, a digital version of Plantin Adweight, a 1913 typeface by F. H. Pierpont), Plantain Stencil (2009), Progreso (2010, a condensed, unicase, serif gothic type design inspired by the hand-lettering on Russian posters from the 1920s).
  • R: Radiant, Radiant Extra Condensed CT (both Radiants are revivals of Roger Middleton's typeface by that name, 1940), Ransahoff (2002, ultra condensed didone), Rudolf (1992, based on Rudolf Koch's German expressionist work such as Neuland).
  • S: Samira (2008, art nouveau style; based on Peter Schnorr's Schnorr Gestreckt, from 1898), Shango (1993, based on Schneidler Initials by F.H.E. Schneidler (1936), and including a digital version of Schneidler Cyrillic (1992); extended in 2007 to Shango Gothic and in 2008 to a 3-d shadow version, Shango Chiseled, and in 2009 to Shango Sans), Sculptura (2005, an all caps typeface based on Diethelm's Sculptura from 1957), Sencia (2008, based on Spanish art deco stock certificate lettering from 1941), Sonrisa (2009, art deco family---Sonrisa Thin is free), Standard CT (a neo-grotesque family), Standard CT Stencil (2012: free).
  • Tambor (Light, Black, Inline, Adornado) (1992) (note: Jason claims that it was remotely based on Rudolf, which in turn was based on calligraphy of Rudolf Koch), Trio (an art deco sansserif), Trooper Roman (discontinued).
  • V: Vincenzo (2008, a slabby didone), Warrior (2009, a 3d font based on Ogun; +Shaded).
  • X: Xavier (art deco family based on Ashley Crawford by Ashley Havinden, 1930, revival by Jason Castle in 1992).
  • Z: Zagora, Zamenhof (2011: an all caps poster face with constructivist ancestry, named after the inventor of Esperanto), Zuboni Stencil (2009, Latin and Cyrillic, constructivist and perhaps even military).

Klingspor link. Behance link.

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Catharsis
[Christian "Cinga" Thalmann]

Catharsis is located in Leiden, The Netherlands. Before that, Christian Thalmann's page Cinga.ch was run out of Switzerland, when he was a student at ETH Zürich. Thalmann is an astrophysicist by training.

Catharsis had free typefaces such as the great Arabic simulation typeface Catharsis Bedouin (2004), CatharsisCircular, CatharsisRequiem (a unicase pair), CatharsisRequiemBold, CatharsisCargo, Cirnaja Bookhand and Cirnaja Calligraphy (made for his artificial language, Obrenje), Catharsis Macchiato (2005), CatharsisEspresso (2005).

At Catharsis, the commercial foundry, he published Octant in 2013: Octant is an original steampunk display typeface drawing inspiration from Victorian-age steel and brass engineering, as well as from blackletter typography. Gryffensee (2013, in styles called Eins, Zwei and Drei) is designed to be the Futura of blackletter, combining the time-honored gravity and relentlessness of the Gothic script with the clean, contemporary freshness of the geometric sans. It also covers Cyrillic.

Backstein (2013), baked brick, took its inspiration from the broken antiqua lettering in Berlin's old subway stations.

Volantene Script (2013) is a (free) uncial display typeface inspired by the penmanship of Lady Talisa Maegyr-Stark as seen on HBO's Game of Thrones. Numina (2013, Glamour and Glory substyles) is an extensive condensed fashion-oriented typeface family related to Skyline and Corvinus.

Maestrale (2013) adds calligraphic and flamboyant extenders to a decorative text typeface for a dramatic effect. Choose between Maestrale Manual (swashy) and Manuale Text.

Blumenkind (2013) is inspired by an instance of metal-strip lettering found on the Bürgermeister Kornmesser Siedlung residential building complex in Berlin from the 1960s.

Brilliance (2013) is a glamorous contemporary display blackletter combining the rich tapestry of Textura with a hint of the airy lightness of Spencerian script. Let's say that it is a light-hearted Textura.

In 2015, he made the free 45-style classic serif typeface family Cormorant, which includes several unicase fonts. This typeface started out in 2014 as Paramond, a light, contrasted, space-taking Garalde with impossibly tiny counters and long extenders. Links to the Google Font directory: Cormorant, Cormorant Garamond, Cormorant Infant, Cormorant SC, Cormorant Unicase, Cormorant+UprightCormorant Upright. See also CTAN.

In 2016, he created the humanist geometric sans typeface family Quinoa for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew.

Typefaces from 2017: Tesserae (kitchen tile style), Traction. Traction was originally conceived and designed by Christian Thalmann. Chiara Mattersdorfer and Miriam Suranyi expanded, completed and produced the font family. This typeface sports signature serifs, soft edges and a fluid, organic design.

In 2018, Christian started work on a blackletter-themed stencil typeface, first called Komik Ohne (the German for Comic Sans) and later named Kuschelfraktur (2019).

Between 2016 and 2019, he developed Eau de Garamond---a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond---, which was later renamed Ysabeau. Github link. In 2020, we find another fork, Isabella Sans.

Overbold (2019) is described by him as follows: Overbold is an unapologetic display typeface inspired by an illustration in Eric Gill's Essay on Typography (p.51), in which he demonstrates how not to make letters. In particular, he shows that increasing the weight of the downstroke in a serif A without structural adjustments yields an absurd, overbold result. I found the letter so charming that I decided to blatantly disregard Gill's wisdom and draw an entire overbold typeface. Here is the result. I'm not sorry.

1001 fonts link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Github link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Catherine

Greek designer of the free font Pumped Up Kicks (2011, hand-printed).

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Cato Hernes Jensen
[Cafe.no]

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cb fonts
[Claudio Beccari]

From 1997 until 1999, Turin-based Claudio Beccari created his cb fonts (metafont) for Greek by adapting Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. The cb-fonts are now the official fonts for the Greek option of the BABEL package. They are very complete and highly recommended. Type 1 versions here. In 2004, he added the CB Coptic family (metafont), which was based on files created in 1995 by Serge Rosmorduc. The type 1 fonts were made by using TeXtrace and pfaedit by Apostolos Syropoulos. The fonts: glic0700, glic0800, glic1000, glic1200, glic1382, glic1659, glic1991, glic2389, glic2866, glic3440, glic4128, glii0700, glii0800, glii1000, glii1200, glii1382, glii1659, glii1991, glii2389, glii2866, glii3440, glii4128, glin0700, glin0800, glin1000, glin1200, glin1382, glin1659, glin1991, glin2389, glin2866, glin3440, glin4128, glio0700, glio0800, glio1000, glio1200, glio1382, glio1659, glio1991, glio2389, glio2866, glio3440, glio4128, gliu0700, gliu0800, gliu1000, gliu1200, gliu1382, gliu1659, gliu1991, gliu2389, gliu2866, gliu3440, gliu4128, gljc0700, gljc0800, gljc1000, gljc1200, gljc1382, gljc1659, gljc1991, gljc2389, gljc2866, gljc3440, gljc4128, gljn0700, gljn0800, gljn1000, gljn1200, gljn1382, gljn1659, gljn1991, gljn2389, gljn2866, gljn3440, gljn4128, gljo0700, gljo0800, gljo1000, gljo1200, gljo1382, gljo1659, gljo1991, gljo2389, gljo2866, gljo3440, gljo4128, glmc0700, glmc0800, glmc1000, glmc1200, glmc1382, glmc1659, glmc1991, glmc2389, glmc2866, glmc3440, glmc4128, glmi0700, glmi0800, glmi1000, glmi1200, glmi1382, glmi1659, glmi1991, glmi2389, glmi2866, glmi3440, glmi4128, glmn0700, glmn0800, glmn1000, glmn1200, glmn1382, glmn1659, glmn1991, glmn2389, glmn2866, glmn3440, glmn4128, glmo0700, glmo0800, glmo1000, glmo1200, glmo1382, glmo1659, glmo1991, glmo2389, glmo2866, glmo3440, glmo4128, glmu0700, glmu0800, glmu1000, glmu1200, glmu1382, glmu1659, glmu1991, glmu2389, glmu2866, glmu3440, glmu4128, gltc0700, gltc0800, gltc1000, gltc1200, gltc1382, gltc1659, gltc1991, gltc2389, gltc2866, gltc3440, gltc4128, gltn0700, gltn0800, gltn1000, gltn1200, gltn1382, gltn1659, gltn1991, gltn2389, gltn2866, gltn3440, gltn4128, glto0700, glto0800, glto1000, glto1200, glto1382, glto1659, glto1991, glto2389, glto2866, glto3440, glto4128, glwc0700, glwc0800, glwc1000, glwc1200, glwc1382, glwc1659, glwc1991, glwc2389, glwc2866, glwc3440, glwc4128, glwi0700, glwi0800, glwi1000, glwi1200, glwi1382, glwi1659, glwi1991, glwi2389, glwi2866, glwi3440, glwi4128, glwn0700, glwn0800, glwn1000, glwn1200, glwn1382, glwn1659, glwn1991, glwn2389, glwn2866, glwn3440, glwn4128, glwo0700, glwo0800, glwo1000, glwo1200, glwo1382, glwo1659, glwo1991, glwo2389, glwo2866, glwo3440, glwo4128, glwu0700, glwu0800, glwu1000, glwu1200, glwu1382, glwu1659, glwu1991, glwu2389, glwu2866, glwu3440, glwu4128, glxc0700, glxc0800, glxc1000, glxc1200, glxc1382, glxc1659, glxc1991, glxc2389, glxc2866, glxc3440, glxc4128, glxi0700, glxi0800, glxi1000, glxi1200, glxi1382, glxi1659, glxi1991, glxi2389, glxi2866, glxi3440, glxi4128, glxn0700, glxn0800, glxn1000, glxn1200, glxn1382, glxn1659, glxn1991, glxn2389, glxn2866, glxn3440, glxn4128, glxo0700, glxo0800, glxo1000, glxo1200, glxo1382, glxo1659, glxo1991, glxo2389, glxo2866, glxo3440, glxo4128, glxu0700, glxu0800, glxu1000, glxu1200, glxu1382, glxu1659, glxu1991, glxu2389, glxu2866, glxu3440, glxu4128, gmmn0500, gmmn0600, gmmn0700, gmmn0800, gmmn0900, gmmn1000, gmmn1095, gmmn1200, gmmn1440, gmmn1728, gmmn2074, gmmn2488, gmmn2986, gmmn3583, gmmo0500, gmmo0600, gmmo0700, gmmo0800, gmmo0900, gmmo1000, gmmo1095, gmmo1200, gmmo1440, gmmo1728, gmmo2074, gmmo2488, gmmo2986, gmmo3583, gmtr0500, gmtr0600, gmtr0700, gmtr0800, gmtr0900, gmtr1000, gmtr1095, gmtr1200, gmtr1440, gmtr1728, gmtr2074, gmtr2488, gmtr2986, gmtr3583, gmxn0500, gmxn0600, gmxn0700, gmxn0800, gmxn0900, gmxn1000, gmxn1095, gmxn1200, gmxn1440, gmxn1728, gmxn2074, gmxn2488, gmxn2986, gmxn3583, gmxo0500, gmxo0600, gmxo0700, gmxo0800, gmxo0900, gmxo1000, gmxo1095, gmxo1200, gmxo1440, gmxo1728, gmxo2074, gmxo2488, gmxo2986, gmxo3583, gomc0500, gomc0600, gomc0700, gomc0800, gomc0900, gomc1000, gomc1095, gomc1200, gomc1440, gomc1728, gomc2074, gomc2488, gomc2986, gomc3583, gomi0500, gomi0600, gomi0700, gomi0800, gomi0900, gomi1000, gomi1095, gomi1200, gomi1440, gomi1728, gomi2074, gomi2488, gomi2986, gomi3583, gomn0500, gomn0600, gomn0700, gomn0800, gomn0900, gomn1000, gomn1095, gomn1200, gomn1440, gomn1728, gomn2074, gomn2488, gomn2986, gomn3583, gomo0500, gomo0600, gomo0700, gomo0800, gomo0900, gomo1000, gomo1095, gomo1200, gomo1440, gomo1728, gomo2074, gomo2488, gomo2986, gomo3583, gomu0500, gomu0600, gomu0700, gomu0800, gomu0900, gomu1000, gomu1095, gomu1200, gomu1440, gomu1728, gomu2074, gomu2488, gomu2986, gomu3583, goxc0500, goxc0600, goxc0700, goxc0800, goxc0900, goxc1000, goxc1095, goxc1200, goxc1440, goxc1728, goxc2074, goxc2488, goxc2986, goxc3583, goxi0500, goxi0600, goxi0700, goxi0800, goxi0900, goxi1000, goxi1095, goxi1200, goxi1440, goxi1728, goxi2074, goxi2488, goxi2986, goxi3583, goxn0500, goxn0600, goxn0700, goxn0800, goxn0900, goxn1000, goxn1095, goxn1200, goxn1440, goxn1728, goxn2074, goxn2488, goxn2986, goxn3583, goxo0500, goxo0600, goxo0700, goxo0800, goxo0900, goxo1000, goxo1095, goxo1200, goxo1440, goxo1728, goxo2074, goxo2488, goxo2986, goxo3583, goxu0500, goxu0600, goxu0700, goxu0800, goxu0900, goxu1000, goxu1095, goxu1200, goxu1440, goxu1728, goxu2074, goxu2488, goxu2986, goxu3583, grbl0500, grbl0600, grbl0700, grbl0800, grbl0900, grbl1000, grbl1095, grbl1200, grbl1440, grbl1728, grbl2074, grbl2488, grbl2986, grbl3583, grmc0500, grmc0600, grmc0700, grmc0800, grmc0900, grmc1000, grmc1095, grmc1200, grmc1440, grmc1728, grmc2074, grmc2488, grmc2986, grmc3583, grmi0500, grmi0600, grmi0700, grmi0800, grmi0900, grmi1000, grmi1095, grmi1200, grmi1440, grmi1728, grmi2074, grmi2488, grmi2986, grmi3583, grml0500, grml0600, grml0700, grml0800, grml0900, grml1000, grml1095, grml1200, grml1440, grml1728, grml2074, grml2488, grml2986, grml3583, grmn0500, grmn0600, grmn0700, grmn0800, grmn0900, grmn1000, grmn1095, grmn1200, grmn1440, grmn1728, grmn2074, grmn2488, grmn2986, grmn3583, grmo0500, grmo0600, grmo0700, grmo0800, grmo0900, grmo1000, grmo1095, grmo1200, grmo1440, grmo1728, grmo2074, grmo2488, grmo2986, grmo3583, grmu0500, grmu0600, grmu0700, grmu0800, grmu0900, grmu1000, grmu1095, grmu1200, grmu1440, grmu1728, grmu2074, grmu2488, grmu2986, grmu3583, grxc0500, grxc0600, grxc0700, grxc0800, grxc0900, grxc1000, grxc1095, grxc1200, grxc1440, grxc1728, grxc2074, grxc2488, grxc2986, grxc3583, grxi0500, grxi0600, grxi0700, grxi0800, grxi0900, grxi1000, grxi1095, grxi1200, grxi1440, grxi1728, grxi2074, grxi2488, grxi2986, grxi3583, grxl0500, grxl0600, grxl0700, grxl0800, grxl0900, grxl1000, grxl1095, grxl1200, grxl1440, grxl1728, grxl2074, grxl2488, grxl2986, grxl3583, grxn0500, grxn0600, grxn0700, grxn0800, grxn0900, grxn1000, grxn1095, grxn1200, grxn1440, grxn1728, grxn2074, grxn2488, grxn2986, grxn3583, grxo0500, grxo0600, grxo0700, grxo0800, grxo0900, grxo1000, grxo1095, grxo1200, grxo1440, grxo1728, grxo2074, grxo2488, grxo2986, grxo3583, grxu0500, grxu0600, grxu0700, grxu0800, grxu0900, grxu1000, grxu1095, grxu1200, grxu1440, grxu1728, grxu2074, grxu2488, grxu2986, grxu3583, gsma0500, gsma0600, gsma0700, gsma0800, gsma0900, gsma1000, gsma1095, gsma1200, gsma1440, gsma1728, gsma2074, gsma2488, gsma2986, gsma3583, gsmc0500, gsmc0600, gsmc0700, gsmc0800, gsmc0900, gsmc1000, gsmc1095, gsmc1200, gsmc1440, gsmc1728, gsmc2074, gsmc2488, gsmc2986, gsmc3583, gsme0500, gsme0600, gsme0700, gsme0800, gsme0900, gsme1000, gsme1095, gsme1200, gsme1440, gsme1728, gsme2074, gsme2488, gsme2986, gsme3583, gsmi0500, gsmi0600, gsmi0700, gsmi0800, gsmi0900, gsmi1000, gsmi1095, gsmi1200, gsmi1440, gsmi1728, gsmi2074, gsmi2488, gsmi2986, gsmi3583, gsmn0500, gsmn0600, gsmn0700, gsmn0800, gsmn0900, gsmn1000, gsmn1095, gsmn1200, gsmn1440, gsmn1728, gsmn2074, gsmn2488, gsmn2986, gsmn3583, gsmo0500, gsmo0600, gsmo0700, gsmo0800, gsmo0900, gsmo1000, gsmo1095, gsmo1200, gsmo1440, gsmo1728, gsmo2074, gsmo2488, gsmo2986, gsmo3583, gsmu0500, gsmu0600, gsmu0700, gsmu0800, gsmu0900, gsmu1000, gsmu1095, gsmu1200, gsmu1440, gsmu1728, gsmu2074, gsmu2488, gsmu2986, gsmu3583, gsxa0500, gsxa0600, gsxa0700, gsxa0800, gsxa0900, gsxa1000, gsxa1095, gsxa1200, gsxa1440, gsxa1728, gsxa2074, gsxa2488, gsxa2986, gsxa3583, gsxc0500, gsxc0600, gsxc0700, gsxc0800, gsxc0900, gsxc1000, gsxc1095, gsxc1200, gsxc1440, gsxc1728, gsxc2074, gsxc2488, gsxc2986, gsxc3583, gsxe0500, gsxe0600, gsxe0700, gsxe0800, gsxe0900, gsxe1000, gsxe1095, gsxe1200, gsxe1440, gsxe1728, gsxe2074, gsxe2488, gsxe2986, gsxe3583, gsxi0500, gsxi0600, gsxi0700, gsxi0800, gsxi0900, gsxi1000, gsxi1095, gsxi1200, gsxi1440, gsxi1728, gsxi2074, gsxi2488, gsxi2986, gsxi3583, gsxn0500, gsxn0600, gsxn0700, gsxn0800, gsxn0900, gsxn1000, gsxn1095, gsxn1200, gsxn1440, gsxn1728, gsxn2074, gsxn2488, gsxn2986, gsxn3583, gsxo0500, gsxo0600, gsxo0700, gsxo0800, gsxo0900, gsxo1000, gsxo1095, gsxo1200, gsxo1440, gsxo1728, gsxo2074, gsxo2488, gsxo2986, gsxo3583, gsxu0500, gsxu0600, gsxu0700, gsxu0800, gsxu0900, gsxu1000, gsxu1095, gsxu1200, gsxu1440, gsxu1728, gsxu2074, gsxu2488, gsxu2986, gsxu3583, gttc0500, gttc0600, gttc0700, gttc0800, gttc0900, gttc1000, gttc1095, gttc1200, gttc1440, gttc1728, gttc2074, gttc2488, gttc2986, gttc3583, gtti0500, gtti0600, gtti0700, gtti0800, gtti0900, gtti1000, gtti1095, gtti1200, gtti1440, gtti1728, gtti2074, gtti2488, gtti2986, gtti3583, gttn0500, gttn0600, gttn0700, gttn0800, gttn0900, gttn1000, gttn1095, gttn1200, gttn1440, gttn1728, gttn2074, gttn2488, gttn2986, gttn3583, gtto0500, gtto0600, gtto0700, gtto0800, gtto0900, gtto1000, gtto1095, gtto1200, gtto1440, gtto1728, gtto2074, gtto2488, gtto2986, gtto3583, gttu0500, gttu0600, gttu0700, gttu0800, gttu0900, gttu1000, gttu1095, gttu1200, gttu1440, gttu1728, gttu2074, gttu2488, gttu2986, gttu3583. 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cb Greek fonts

cb Greek metafont package by Apostolos Syropoulos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cerement

American designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Lucid (monospaced 5x7 LCD font for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and katakana: white on black), Absinthe (pixel face), Faith (condensed, unicase), Neuerburg (blackletter influences: from the logo for "Haus Neuerburg Zigaretten" designed by Prof. O.H.W. Hadank, 1925), Conform (pixel face), Minim (Textura blackletter). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cerulean Stimuli
[Kevin Pease]

Kevin Pease runs Cerulean Stimuli in Collingswood, NJ. He created the typefaces Cerulean (2003) and Cerulean Black (2005). Check also his pixel family Fourmat (2004) and the very original card game-inspired Pokeresque (2006).

In 2016, he designed the unicase display typeface family Cerulea for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. In 2017, he published Walklike, its name referring to the song Walk Like an Egyptian and thus to hieroglyphic influences. He ends 2017 with the balloon font family Glazed.

Typefaces from 2022: Anachrony (a weirdly modular family; ten styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ceyhun Birinci
[Artegra]

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Chair of Medieval English Literature

At the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf: SILDoulosIPA-Regular, SILManuscriptIPA-Regular, SILSophiaIPA-Regular, TimesNewRoman-OldEnglish-KT, TimesNewRoman-OldEnglish-KT-BoldItalic, TimesNewRoman-OldEnglish-KT-Bold, TimesNewRoman-OldEnglish-KT-Italic, TimesNewRoman-OldEnglish-KT. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Changchun Ye

Type designer. Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charilaos Emmanouil Papakostas

Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created CEP (2013), a typeface that combines Brazilian pixacao and American chicano gang graffiti styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charis Tsevis

Charis Tsevis was born in Athens in 1967. He studied Graphic Design and Advertising (Diploma) at the Deutsche Hohere Lehrastalt fur Graphic Design, Athens, Greece, and Visual Design (Master) at the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan, Italy. He is the Vice Head at the Graphic Design department of AKTO College of Art and Design / Middlesex University (in Athens), where he teaches editorial design and typography. He runs Tsevis Visual Design, his own studio in Athens, and collaborates with 'Parachute Type and Image Corporation' designing typefaces. He runs a type blog site. Charis is a regular columnist at RAM, the leading computer publication in Greece. He is also a regular columnist in +Design, an authority design Greek magazine covering aesthetics and design issues. Charis studied Graphic Design at the Deutsche Höhere Lehranstalt für Grafik und Werbung, Athens. He received his Master Degree in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan, Italy. He worked for MBStudio in Milan and later for Apogevmatini, a national historic Greek newspaper. Since 1997 Charis runs his own design firm Tsevis Visual Design.

He has been designing fonts for several years, while experimenting with his students. PF Libera (2001-2006, handwriting) was his first and most successful design. Other typefaces include PFBeatnick, PFAmateur (2002), PFRadikale, PFBerkeley Blue, PFMacsimile. All were published at Parachute. Most of his typefaces cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bigelow
[Bigelow&Holmes]

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CHC Software Archive

Chris Stephens's page with Greek font links, for Mac and PC. Has Son of Wingreek, Old English fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Brand

Born in Utrecht in 1921, Chris Brand lived in Breda, and died in 1998. He studied calligraphy in 1940, and worked in Brussels from 1948-1953. He taught design at various academies until 1986. Known for book cover jackets, Brand created the clean serif typeface Albertina in 1964-1965 (Monotype). This typeface was first used for a retrospecive on Stanley Morison's work exhibited at the Albertina Library in Brussels in 1966. Dean Allen [Textism]: Working designers should have at least one text family to focus on; to test its idiosyncrasies and stretch its limits, to see how it responds to the unpredictable demands of day-to-day work. Albertina is the family with which I do the most tinkering. It's remarkably flexible, offering a full complement of text and titling figures, roman and italic small caps, as well as supplemental Greek and Cyrillic fonts. It has the sort of strength, or presence on the page absent from most digital type, owing to sturdy construction, and it lacks fussiness.

The digital font DTL Albertina saw the light in 1987 at Dutch Type Library.

Brand also created Veerle Uncialis (1991, named after his granddaughter Veerle Simons) but it is unclear whether this font is his or a reworking of a typeface by the Parisian typefounder Fournier. Finally, he made the coptic font Draguet (1968).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chris' British Road Directory
[Nathaniel Porter]

Chris Marshall's web site on British roads and traffic signs. He has a subpage on fonts used on British highways. Based on these specifications, Nathaniel Porter and John Prentice (who added Greek characters, based on Greek road signs) made a set of free fonts that follow the British highway system. These include Transport Medium, Medium Greek and Heavy (the main British highway font), Motorway Permanent (for numbers on signs), Motorway Temporary (for use on temporary signs), Pavement (for painted lettering on the road surface), and VMS (an octagonal font for use in light-up panels). Erik Spiekermann blasts his implementation of Transport: A gentleman called Nathaniel Porter has digitized Transport Heavy, and it is being used by various agencies. The data is even worse than the Swedish Tratex font which must have been done by an amateur on on Ikarus system without corrections. This one here is just a raw scan. Amazingly, it works as a font. Too heavy for signs, but just shows how good font software has become if it can actually make a working font from a scan that looks like a piece of German rye bread. I suspect that this version of Transport Heavy is being used in Italy and Spain. And in Greece as well. They also made Old Road Sign Font after the road sign lettering in the UK in use before 1964. Its origins go back to 1944. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Kokoris

Athens, Greece-based designer and illustrator who studied at Middlesex University in the UK. Creator of the decorative caps typeface Bird watching (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Ouzounis

Athens, Greece-based designer of LC Athenian Sans (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Taklis

Athens-based photographer, b. 1986, aka Kailor. Creator of Kaifo (2007, a hookish display face), and AnglosaxonicRunic (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christ Trek Fonts
[Tim Larson]

Tim Larson (Christ Trek Fonts) is the Minnesota-based creator of the Open Font License fonts Marapfhont (2009, inspired by the logo font of the classic 1990s game Marathon) and Squarish Sans CT (2011, in Bank Gothic style). Both fonts are free and have tons of glyphs that cover many unicode pages, including mathematical symbols, Greek, Coptic and Hebrew. It is quite possible---but I am not sure of that--that this Bank Gothic family member is the only one that has such a coverage.

Tim is working on Brampton.

He writes about Squarish Sans: Squarish Sans is not a direct clone of any Bank Gothic. I have made conscious choices to deviate from existing designs. Yet it is strongly inspired by them, of course, particularly Michael Doret's DeLuxe Gothic, in that Squarish Sans has a true lower case as well as small caps. It should fit the bill should you have need of a Bank Gothic face.

Motivation for Marapfhont came from the Marathon Trilogy game: Remember the Marathon Trilogy by Bungie Games back in the mid-1990s? If you do, you remember it's iconic logo font, Modula Tall. There are no free alternatives to Modula Tall, and the few similar fonts miss important aspects of its character. I wanted to create a typeface inspired by the appearance of Modula Tall in Marathon. The lowercase of Modula Tall didn't fit the Marathon "feel" at all, for me, so I have redesigned the miniscules, to carry the signature look throughout. Thus, Marapfhont is not a clone of Modula Tall, but may nonetheless be used to generate the "MARATHON" title.

In 2013, he finished the pixelish typeface Looks Like Spht. In 2014, Tim Larson published the free Hebrew simulation font Hananiah (2014, OFL), which is based on Ezra SIL. It also includes regular Hebrew. In 2015, he published the German expressionist typeface Abibas [Abibas is a fork/extension of Gamaliel, a blackletter by Rafael Ferran i Peralta].

Typefaces from 2016: Politics As Usual (political dingbats for the United States), Horta (an angular sci-fi typeface). Open Font Library link. Home page. Aka Christ Trekker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian "Cinga" Thalmann
[Catharsis]

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Christian Mengelt

Christian Mengelt (b. 1938, St. Gallen, Switzerland) is a graphic designer, type designer, and teacher. He studied graphic design under Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder at the School of Design, Basel. In 1964, he set up his own graphic design studio together with different partners, and has cooperated with various design and advertising agencies, such as GGK (Gerstner, Gredinger und Kutter) Basel, Switzerland, and Mendell&Oberer Munich, Germany. With Karl Gerstner and Günter Gerhard Lange, he was briefly involved in the Gerstner program at H. Berthold AG. Early type designs include Univers Compugraphic (1972, Compugraphic) and Cyrillic Gothic (1974, Compugraphic), both realized in cooperation with André Gürtler. From 1972 until 2001, he taught graphic and type design at the Basel School of Design, which he headed from 1986-2001. With André Gürtler and Erich Gschwind, he formed Team 77 in Basel and became deeply involved in most aspects of letterform design and application, which led to these type designs:

  • 1976: Media (Bobst Graphic, Autologic).
  • 1977: Avant Garde Gothic Oblique (ITC).
  • 1978: Signa (Bobst Graphic, Autologic).
  • 1974-1980: Haas Unica (Haas Type foundry, Linotype, Autologic). In 2012-2014, Christian revived this digitally as Unica 77 at Lineto, one year before Toshi Omagari published Neue Haas Unica at Linotype.
  • After a long hiatus, with the help of the Linotype staff, he created Sinova in 2011, a versatile humanist sans type family in ten styles, which has broad language support.
  • Mengelt Basel Antiqua (2014, Linotype). A relaxing Venetian text typeface family based on the Basel book typefaces from the 16th century. Linotype, its publisher, writes: The first edition of the anatomy atlas De humani corporis fabrica came out nearly 500 hundred years ago. It was published in 1543 in Basel by Andreas Vesalius. The work was published in multiple volumes and is extraordinary not only for its content and design, but also its typography. It excites philologists and typographers to this day. De humani corporis fabrica was printed in the workshop of Johannes Oporinus, who was considered one of the major printers and publishers in Basel in his time. He used one of the Venetian Antiqua-inspired fonts for the typesetting. This is a genre of fonts which was much loved by the Basel printers. The printer Johann Amerbach brought it to Switzerland from Italy a few centuries earlier. [Note: Is this a misprint?] The American philologist Daniel H. Garrison provided the initiative for Mengelt to explore the Basel Antiqua fonts from the 16th century. He is working on a re-edition of the De humani corporis fabrica and is looking for a fitting print font which has historical references, but the technical characteristics of a modern font. Mengelt takes on the challenge and designs his Mengelt Basel Antiqua font on the basis of the original Basel prints.
  • He received an Honorable Mention in the Latin category for Newline in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

Typedia link. MyFonts link. Linotype link. Behance link. Interview by Linotype. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christine Asimakopoulos

Athens, Greece-based designer of the Hangul emulation typeface Seoul (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christine Lee

Athens, Greece-based designer of the squarish typefaces Zenovia (2018) and Seoul (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christo Bino

Thessaloniki, Greece and Korce, Albania-based designer of the fine free (Latin) display typeface Geometrico (2016). His main thing, though, is the design of sets of icons, such as the large varied sets Slimicons (2016) and Sharpicons (2016). His company is called Dreamstale. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christoph Koeberlin

Active type expert and type designer, who created FF Mark in 2013 together with Hannes von Döhren and the FontFont team. This 10-style font family spanning hairline to black is marketed as Ze new Germanetric sans. The FF Mark Ultra weight, published in 2015, is absolutely stunning. One of the weights of FF Mark is free.

In 2016, he designed Fabrikat, which had creative input of Hannes von Döhren. This simple geometric sans serif family is based on the DIN style used in the 20th century by German engineers: It has a plain and precise appearance, and is a textbook example of a compass-and-ruler typeface. The monospaced almost-typewriter version Fabrikat Mono followed in 2017. In 2020, Fabrikat Normal was released at Hans von Doehren Fonts.

In 2020, he released Pangea and Pangea Text at Fontwerk. He writes: Pangea is a symbol of not only living together but of global cooperation. While Gergo Kokai from Hungary supported him in the design of the upright characters, he brought Tanya George from India on board to work on the italics (work in progress). He consulted with Irene Vlachou from Greece and Ilya Ruderman from Russia to ensure the quality of the Greek and Cyrillic characters. The spacing and the kerning of the font would not have been possible without Igino Marini from Italy and his iKern tool. A broad foreign language extension seems obligatory for this omnicultural approach and in fact, extended Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are already included. Arabic, Hebrew and other languages are to follow. In 2021, he added the free 20-style Pangea Afrikan family with coverage of most of Africa's languages.

In 2016, he set up Sportsfonts, and promptly published the 24,000-glyph 49-font athletic lettering superfamily, Winner.

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Christos Chiotis
[Pixelogical (was: Unicorg)]

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Christos Diafas

Cofounder and Creative Director at Point Zero Advertising (1989-2001) and Creative Director since 2001 at the BBDO Group in Greece. He designed the Greek font Duffy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christos Onoufriou

Athens-based Greek designer (b. 1982) of the stylish Greek/Latin display typeface GR-Superold (2005). Web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christos Petropoulos

Athens-based designer of the free deconstructed typeface Diamond Impact (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christos Tsolerides

Young Greek type designer. At FontStruct, he created BOMBOM-TheBase, BOMBOM-CityLights, BOMBOM-FullMetal, Roundabout, Structura-SC, Structura-Gothic, Structura, Structura-Alt, StreetPost (stencil) and SlabSlab (squashed slab serif), all in 2008. In 2009, he added the film strip font Berliner, and the stencil typeface Street Post. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Church of Greece

The GreekKeys Athena Roman font by Jeffrey Rusten (1997) has Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, and every imaginable accented character. This font was withdrawn by Jeffrey Rusten, but you can still find it here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Classical Greek and Linux

Links and discussion on Greek and Linux. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Classical Greek Fonts
[Matthew Robinson]

Greek resource page by Matthew Robinson. Small Greek font archive: Grecs-duroiWG, Greek, GreekOldFace, Hebrew-Regular, Koptos-Regular, Korinthus, Korinthus, Korinthus-Italic, StandardGreekBold, StandardGreekBoldItalic, StandardGreekItalic, StandardGreek, Ellhnikh, Grammata, Angaros, MilanGreek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Beccari
[cb fonts]

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Claus Eggers Sørensen

Also known by insiders as El Pato Loco Atomico. Danish type designer (b. 1973, Kulby, Vestsjalland, Denmark) who obtained his BDes from The Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and his MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on his type family Markant, which was specifically designed for newspapers and cares about ink traps, wide open bowls, inflection points and other special features. It supports Greek and Cyrillic as well.

He says: I created a new design again taking inspiration from the early sketches of Dwiggins' Experimental No. 223. I was able to use the very open aperture design of the e in this experiment. The a again explored a inflexion points within the counters, and this was too integrated in the design. Finally lightly rounded wedge shaped base serifs were chosen.

In 2011, Claus placed Playfair Display with Google Web Fonts. He explains: Playfair Display is a transitional design. From the time of enlightenment in the late 18th century, the broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens. This influenced typographical letterforms to become increasingly detached from the written ones. Developments in printing technology, ink and paper making, made it possible to print letterforms of high contrast and fine hairlines. This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the printer and typeface designer John Baskerville's designs, the punchcutter William Martin's typeface for the Boydell Shakespeare (sic) edition, and from the Scotch Roman designs that followed thereafter. As the name indicates, Playfair Display is well suited for titling and headlines. It was followed in 2012 by Playfair Display SC. Free download at CTAN and at Open Font Library. Free download of Playfair Display Italic.

In 2014, Claus designed Inknut Antiqua, a free angular text typeface family for low resolution screens, designed to evoke Venetian incunabula and humanist manuscripts, but with the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the kinds of typefaces you find in this artisanal tradition. Google Fonts link for Inknut Antiqua. Open Font Library link. Inknut Antiqua covers Latin and Devanagari.

Claus lives in Amsterdam. Google Font Directory link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of typography for touch-screen devices.

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ClearlyU BDF font

Mark Leisher's creation: "ClearlyU is a set of BDF (bitmap) 12 point, 100 dpi fonts that provides glyphs that can be used for Unicode text. The font contains over 4000 glyphs, including numerous additional glyphs for alternate forms and ligatures. The ClearlyU typeface was originally inspired by Donald Knuth's Computer Modern typeface, but has been slowly evolving into something else." Supported are: Navajo, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek and Coptic, Hebrew, Lao, Thai. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CM Unicode
[Andrey V. Panov]

Free font package from 2009 by Andrey Panov, specially adapted for TeX. CM Unicode (or: Computer Modern Unicode) is an OpenType and Type 1 unicode version of Knuth's Computer Modern font family. The OIpenType fonts include CMUBright-Bold, CMUSerif-BoldItalic, CMUSerif-BoldSlanted, CMUBright-Oblique, CMUBright-Roman, CMUBright-SemiBoldOblique, CMUBright-SemiBold, CMUTypewriter-Light, CMUTypewriter-LightOblique, CMUSerif-Bold, CMUBright-BoldOblique, CMUClassicalSerif-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Italic, CMUConcrete-BoldItalic, CMUConcrete-Bold, CMUConcrete-Roman, CMUConcrete-Italic, CMUSerif-BoldNonextended, CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSansSerif-Oblique, CMUSerif-RomanSlanted, CMUSansSerif-BoldOblique, CMUSansSerif, CMUSansSerif-DemiCondensed, CMUTypewriter-Oblique, CMUSansSerif-Bold, CMUTypewriter-Bold, CMUSerif-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Regular, CMUTypewriter-BoldItalic, CMUSerif-UprightItalic, CMUTypewriterVariable-Italic, CMUTypewriterVariable.

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Coji Morishita
[M+ Fonts]

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Colin Banks

Born in Ruislip, Middlesex, in 1932, Colin Banks has been involved in graphic design, corporate identity and typography since 1958 through the London-based partnership Banks&Miles (1958-1998), with John Miles.

Author of London's handwriting (London Transport Museum, 1994) about the development of Edward Johnston's Underground Railway Block-Letter. CV. He died in March 2002 in Blackheath. Obituary by James Alexander.

Banks&Miles had offices in London, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Bruxelles. Their clients included the British Council (it is unclear if he helped design British Council Sans at Agfa Monotype in 2002: a major controversy erupted in the UK when it was learned that the British Council had paid 50k pounds for British Council Sans), English National Opera, the European Parliament Election campaigns, producing corporate identities for the Post Office, Royal Mail, British Telecom, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Fondation Roi Baudouin, City and Guilds, Commission for Racial Equality, United Nations University, and major publications etc for UNHCR Geneva. He was consultant to London Transport for over thirty years, then Mott Macdonald engineers and Oxford University Press.

The Royal Mail font is called Post Office Double Line, and was designed by Colin Banks in the 1970s.

The British Council Sans family (2002, Agfa Monotype) is now available for free download here. Included is support for Arabic (Boutros British Council Arabic), Khazak, Greek, Cyrillic, and Azerbaijani.

Other typefaces with Colin Banks's name on it include New Johnston (1979, after Edward Johnston's typeface for the London subway) and the sharp-serifed Gill Facia (1996, Monotype: based on letters drawn by Eric Gill in 1903-1907 for use by the stationers, W. H. Smith) [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Computer Modern Unicode fonts
[Andrey V. Panov]

Andrey V. Panov developed the Computer Modern Unicode fonts in 2003-2007 by conversions from metafont sources using textrace and fontforge (former pfaedit). He wanted to create free good quality fonts for use in X applications that support many languages. Currently the fonts contain glyphs from Latin1 (Metafont ec, tc), Cyrillic (la, rx) and Greek (cbgreek) code sets. There are 33 fonts in the family: CMUClassicalSerif-Italic, CMUSansSerif-Bold, CMUSansSerif-BoldOblique, CMUSansSerif-Demi-Condensed, CMUSansSerif-Oblique, CMUSansSerif, CMUSerif-Bold-Nonextended, CMUSerif-Bold-Slanted, CMUSerif-Bold, CMUSerif-BoldItalic, CMUSerif-Italic, CMUSerif-Roman-Slanted, CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSerif-Unslanted-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Bold, CMUTypewriter-BoldItalic, CMUTypewriter-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Oblique, CMUTypewriter-Regular, CMUTypewriterVariable-Italic, CMUTypewriterVariable. The fonts come in type 1, OpenType and SFD, the universal spline format used by FontForge. The CMU Bright subfamily was added some time later in 2007.

Istok Web (2011) was published at the Google Font Directory.

In 2008, he made Heuristica (or Evristika), a serif family that extends Adobe's Utopia (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). Heuristica was improved in 2014 by Andreas Nolda as Utopia Nova. Open Font Library link for Heuristica. Download site for Heuristica.

Free download. Direct download.

Alternate URL. Kernest link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Conceptum S.A.

Download Greek fonts for Windows, Mac and UNIX: Arial Greek, Hellas Times 2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Constantina Klepetsani

During her studies in Athens, Greece, Constantina Klepetsani designed the hipster typeface Geom (2016) and Mondrian Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Constantine Terzopoulos
[Psaltic Fonts]

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Constantinos Chaidalis

Graphic designer in Athens, Greece. Creator of the experimental typeface Mahler (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Constantinos Charitos

Athens, Greece-based designer of Runabic (2015), a typeface for Latin and Greek that combines Nordic rune elements with pixacao graffiti. In 2018, he published the spurred typeface Avacyn. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Context Ltd
[Stefan Peev]

Stefan Peev (Context Ltd, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) released the free Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Selena, the free transitional text typeface Sibila, and the sans typeface Bretan in 2014 via the Open Font Library. Tipotype (2014, free at Open Font Library) is a roman type serif font family inspired by the well known fonts like Free Serif, Tex Gyre Termes and Omega Serif. Besides Latin and Cyrillic, Tipotype also includes the "Bulgarian" letterform model, which has been proposed by a group of Bulgarian designers in the 1960s. In 2015, he published the old Slavonic typeface Supralskija, the text typeface Sibila, and the commercial (and sometimes free) sans typefaces Tervel, Hemus, Repo, Omurtag, Gremi, Plovdiv (the project started as a part of the official programme of Plovdiv---European Capital of Culture 2019), Libra Sans (based on Liberation Sans), Font Night (an art deco project with Krassimir Stavrev for an event in Plvdiv), and Coval.

In 2016, he designed the free Libra Serif Modern (based on Libra Serif), the free text typeface Pliska, the free Veleka (a modification of Charis SIL to cover Bulgarian Cyrillic and Greek), the free font Linguistics Pro (based on Andreas Nolda's Utopia Nova), Maritsa, Perun (a modification of Free Universal (Stephen Wilson, 2009) and SIL Sophia (1994-2008)), Arda (a condensed sans), Libra Sans Modern, HK Grotesk (he added Cyrillics to Pradil's Latin font), and Bogorov (Cyrillic font).

In 2018, he designed the Cyrillic revival typeface Grazhdanskiy Shrift.

In 2020, he released the manicured family Hebert Sans. and the condensed sans typeface Arda (which is in the orbit of Akzidenz Grotesk)

Behance link. Open Font Library link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coptic

Free Greek fonts at Howard Berlin's site included Antonious by Michael Wasim, SPAchmim (by Scholars Press), MENA, CopticGregor (by Dirk Van Damme, Gregor Wurst, 1994), CopticNormal and the Wingreek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini

Born in Firenze in 1969. Cofounder with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti of the Italian design firm in Firenze called Studio Kmzero. He co-designed some typefaces there such as Arsenale White (2009). In 2002, Pancini developed Targa, TargaMS and TargaMSHand (for comic books?), basing his design on the peculiar sans serif monospace typeface with slightly rounded corners and a geometric, condensed skeleton that Italy had been using for its license plates. In 2022, Francesco Canovaro redesigned this font into a versatile multi-weight typeface, Targa Pro, which includes Targa Pro Mono (which keeps the original monospace widths), Targa Pro Roman (with proportional widths), both in five weights plus italics, the handmade version Targa Hand, and Targa Pro Stencil.

The handwriting of Lord Byron led Pancini to develop the brush script typeface Byron (2013, Zetafonts).

MyFonts credits him with the rounded avant garde sans family Antipasto (2007), but elswhere we read that this typeface is made by Matteo di Iorio, so there is some confusion. It was extended in 2017 by Pancini as Antipasto Pro.

In 2014, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro co-designed Amazing Grotesk (+Ultra). He also designed the calm bold geometric rounded sans typeface Cocogoose (2014; replaced by Cocogoose Pro in 2017) and the stylish deco font Offensive Behaviour. Cocogoose Letterpress is free. Cocogoose is part of the Coco Gothic family, a collection of twelve typefaces each inspired by the fashion mood of every decade of last century, named after fashion icon Coco Chanel. Cocogoose is Coco Gothic for the 1940s. See also Coco Gothic Pro (2021).

In 2015, Pancini published the grand family Coco Gothic. This Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface family features a small x-height and sligghtly rounded corners to make the avant garde and geometric sans typefaces in vogue in the 1970s come alive again, ready for 21st century fashion magazines. It comes with substyles that recreate many moods, including art nouveau and arts and crafts (Cocotte), Italian propaganda style and Italian deco (Cocosignum), hipster style (CocoBikeR), or Bauhaus (Cocomat). Coco Gothic was initially developed as a corporate font for Lucca Comics & Games Festival 2013. The rounded geometric sans family Cocomat (by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Deborah Manetti and Francesco Canovaro) was inspired by the style of the twenties and the visions of Italian futurists like Fortunato Depero, Giacomo Balla and Antonio Sant'Elia. Updated in 2019 as Cocomat Pro.

Still in 2015, Cosimo and Zetafonts published the connected creamy baseball script Bulletto, the grungy handvetica Neue, and the calligraphic wedding typeface Hello Script. In 2015, at Zetafonts, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed CocoBikeR (2015) to celebrate the hipster and bike cultures. CocoBikeR (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) is part of the successful Coco Gothic typeface family. In 2017, Pancini designed the 1930s Italian art deco typeface families Cocosignum Maiuscoletto and Cocosignum Corsivo Italico. In 2021, he published the 48-style (+variable) font family Coco Gothic Pro. This is a redrawn and expanded set of fonts: Inspired by a biography of Coco Chanel and trying to capture the quintessential mood of classical fashion elegance, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed Coco Gothic looking for the effect that the first geometric sans typefaces (like Futura, Kabel or the italian eponyms like Semplicita) had when printed on paper. The crisp modernist shapes acquired in printing charme and warmth through a slight rounding of the corners that is translated digitally in the design of Coco Gothic. [...] A distinguishing feature of Coco Gothic Pro is the inclusion of ten alternate historical sets that allow you to use the typeface as a true typographic time machine, selecting period letterforms that range from art deco and nouveau, to modernism and to eighties' minimalism. Equipped with such an array of historical variants, Coco Gothic Pro becomes an encyclopedia of styles from the last century. There is also attention to Darkmode and there is coverage of Cyrillic and Greek.

Typefaces from 2016: Adlery (a curly brush script), Kitten (Fat, Swash, Swash Monoline, Slant, Bold: signage script family), Adlibitum (a blackletter typeface by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro), Morbodoni (a display didone by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro).

In 2016, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, Giulia Ursenna Dorati and Andrea Gaspari co-designed the 1940s vintage brush script typeface Banana Yeti, which is based on an example by Ross George shown in George's Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual. The Zetafonts team extended the original design to six styles and multilingual coverage. The ExtraBold is free. Still in 2016, Pancini designed Calligraphunk, an experimental typeface that mimicks polyrythmic calligraphy, by alternating two sets of lowercase letters to emulate handwriting.

In 2016, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Matteo Chiti, Luca Chiti and Andrea Tartarelli co-designed the retro connected brush script font family Advertising Script, which is based on an example from Ross George's Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual.

Beatrix Antiqua (2016, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). This humanist sans-serif typeface is part of the Beatrix family (Beatrix Nova, etc.) that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model. Its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in Florence's Santa Croce Cathedral. Beatrix keeps a subtle lapidary swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif, similar to Hermann Zapf's treatment in Optima.

Amazing Grotesk (2016) is based on a logo designed by Francesco Canovaro.

Studio Gothic (2017, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli) is an 8-style geometric sans family based on Alessandro Butti's geometric sans classic, Semplicita.

Hello Script and Hello Sans can be used for layering and coloring. The Christmas-themed version is Hello Christmas.

Pancini designed the 64-strong typeface family Body Grotesque and Body Text in 2017-2018, together with Andrea Tartarelli. It was conceived as a contemporary alternative to modernist super-families like Univers or Helvetica.

In 2017, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli co-designed the sans typeface family Kabrio, which gives users four different corner treatment options.

Anaphora (2018). Anaphora is a contemporary serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro (roman), Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini (italic) and Andrea Tartarelli. It features a wedge serif design with nine weights from thin to heavy. Its wide counters and low x-height make it pleasant and readable at text sizes while the uncommon shapes make it strong and recognizable when used in display size. Anaphora covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Canovaro's Arista served as a basis for the 29-style monolinear rounded sans typeface family Aristotelica (2018) by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli. See also Aristotelica Pro (2020).

In 2018, he designed the italics for Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini's Domotika typeface family. Between 2018 and 2021, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli developed the 8-weight humanist sans typeface Domotika for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, further into the 18-style Domotika Pro (2021).

In 2018, he published Radcliffe, with Andrea Tartarelli, a Clarendon revival with Text and Casual subfamilies. Radcliffe (a Clarendon revival by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli), and added the layerable condensed Cocogoose Narrows to the Cocogoose family. Codec (2018) by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli is a geometric sans typeface family in which all terminal cuts are horiontal or vertical. See also Codec Pro (2019).

His Double Bass (2018) is a jazzy 4-style typeface family that pays tribute to Saul Bass's iconic hand lettering for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm film title sequence and other movies, Bass's vibrating, almost brutal cut-out aestethics, and the cartoonish lettering and jazzy graphics of the fifties.

In 2018, he published the sharp wedge serif typeface Blacker to pay homage to the 1970s. In 2019, that was followed by Blacker Pro (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli, who write: Blacker Pro is the revised and extended version of the original wedge serif type family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli in 2017. Blacker was developed as a take on the style that Jeremiah Shoaf has defined as the "evil serif" genre: typefaces with high contrast, oldstyle or modern serif proportions and sharp, blade-like triangular serifs). Still in 2018, he designed the swooping polyrhythmic calligraphic typeface Calligraphunk.

In 2018, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli designed Holden, a very Latin cursive sans typeface with pointed brush aesthetics and fluid rhythmic lines.

In 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli published the monolinear geometric rounded corner amputated "e" sans typeface family Cocogoose Classic, the sans family Aquawax Pro, and the condensed rounded monoline techno sans typeface family Iconic.

In 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini at Zetafonts published a slightly calligraphic Elzevir typeface, Lovelace.

In 2019, the lapidary typeface family Beatrix Antiqua (Francesco Canovaro) was reworked by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini together with Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini into a 50-style type system called Monterchi that includes Text, Serif and Sans subfamilies. Monterchi is a custom font for an identity project for a famous fresco in Monterchi, developed under the art directorship of Riccardo Falcinelli.

Tarif (2019) is a typeface family inspired by the multicultural utopia of convivencia---the peaceful coexistence of Muslims, Christians and Jews in tenth century Andalusia that played an important role in bringing to Europe the classics of Greek philosophy, together with Muslim culture and aesthetics. It is a slab serif typeface with a humanist skeleton and inverted contrast, subtly mixing Latin zest, calligraphic details, extreme inktraps, and postmodern unorthodox reinvention of traditional grotesque letter shapes. The exuberant design, perfect for titling, logo and display use, is complemented by a wide range of seven weights allowing for solid editorial use and great readability in body text. Matching italics have been designed with the help of Maria Chiara Fantini and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, while Rania Azmi has collaborated on the design of the arabic version of Tarif, where the humanist shapes and inverted contrast of the Latin letters find a natural connection with modern arabic letterforms.

Late in 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini released the fun typeface family Hagrid at Zetafonts, which writes: Crypto-typography---the passion for unknown, weird and unusual character shapes---is a disease commonly affecting type designers. Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini has celebrated it in this typeface family, aptly named Hagrid after the half-blood giant with a passion for cryptozoology described by R. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books. Extreme optical corrections, calligraphic counter-spaces, inverted contrast, over-the-top overshoots: all the inventions that abound in vernacular and experimental typography have been lovingly collected in this mongrel sans serif family, carefully balancing quirky solutions and solid grotesque design.

In 2020, Pancini released Stinger (2020, a 42-style reverse contrast family by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini) and Boring Sans (a typeface family designed along two variable axis: weight and weirdness). As part of the free font set Quarantype (2020), Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed Quarantype Embrace, Quarantype Hangout, Quarantype Hopscotch, Quarantype Joyride, Quarantype Sackrace, and Quarantype Uplift (with Maria Chiara Fantini).

In 2020, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Mario De Libero revived Nebiolo's Carioli (1928) as Cairoli Classic and Cairoli Now at Italian Type / Zetafonts. They extended the original weight and width range and developing both a faithful Classic version and a Now variant. The Cairoli Classic family keeps the original low x-height range, very display-oriented, and normalizes the design while emphasizing the original peculiarities like the hook cuts in curved letters, the high-waisted uppercase R and the squared ovals of the letterforms. Cairoli Now is developed with an higher x-height, more suited for text and digital use, and adds to the original design deeper inktraps and round punctuation, while slightly correcting the curves for a more contemporary look. Cairoli Variable has a weight and width axis.

In 2020, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Mariachiara Fantini---with the help of Solenn Bordeau---released Erotique at Zetafonts. Erotique evolved from Lovelace, an earlier Zetafonts typeface. Zetafonts describe this evil serif as follows: it challenges its romantic curves with the glitchy and fluid aestethic of transmodern neo-brutalist typography. Late in 2020, they added Erotique Sans, the sans version of Erotique, also designed by Cosimo Pancini and Maria Chiara Fantini.

Late in 2020, he co-designed the 46-style font family Eastman Grotesque together with Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli. This monolinear sans with a tall x-height comprises an interesting Eastman Grotesque Alternate subfamily with daring and in-your-face glyphs. The typeface evolved from Zetafonts' earlier Bauhaus-inspired typeface Eastman (2020). Later fonts in this family include Eastman Condensed (2021, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli).

In 2020, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero drew the 60-style Cocogoose Pro Narrows family, which features many compressed typefaces as well as grungy letterpress versions.

Sunshine Pro (2020, Zetafonts) was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Solenn Bordeau expanding the original Sunshine design by Francesco Canovaro, part of the Quarantype collection (2020), which in turn was designed as a typeface for good vibes against Covid-19. Sunshine Pro is an experimental Clarendon-style font with variable contrast along the weight axis---contrast is reversed in light weight, minimized in the regular weight and peaks in the bold and heavy weights.

Coco Sharp (2021) is a 62-style sans feast, with two variable fonts with variable x-height, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.

Co-designer of Heading Now (2021), a 160-strong titling font (+2 variable fonts) by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero that provides an enormous range of widths.

Keratine (2021, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero). A German expressionist typeface that exists in a space between these two traditions, mixing the proportions of humanistic typefaces with the strong slabs and fractured handwriting of blackletter calligraphy. Pancini, its main designer, writes that it explores the impossible territory between antiqua and blackletter.

Geppetto (2021) is a frivolous Tuscan font that started out as a revival of a condensed Tuscan wood type family appearing in the 1903 Tubbs Wood Type catalog and which was probably derived from an 1859 typeface by William Hamilton Page. Pancini built a variable font on top of it and calls it a font for fake news.

In 2021, Pancini added Coco Tardis as a variable font with a time travel slider to the Coco Gothic family.

Millard Grotesque (2021) is a true "grot" in the Akzidenz Grotesque sense of the word. This typeface family was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.

Pancini's Descript (2021) is a variable script font with two axes, slant and speed of writing.

Milligram (2021) is a very tightly set grot by Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Costas Mylonas

Constantine Mylonas, of Athens, Greece, was an emeritus professor of engineering, who taught at Brown University from 1953 until 1981. During World War II he served in the Greek army until the Nazi occupation of Greece, then escaped to Egypt and served in the Free Greek Navy in Alexandria. He received his PhD from University College, London, and went to Brown in 1953. He conducted research into the strengths of materials. He was a champion marksman with pistols and represented Greece in the 1947 World Shooting Championship in Stockholm. He was also a member of the 1948 Greek Olympic team.

In 1991-1992, Costas Mylonas and Ron Whitney (of the AMS) co-designed a set of Greek fonts called Euclid, which they describe in their article Complete Greek with Adjunct Fonts (TUGBoat, vol. 13, pp. 39-50, 1992). This Times-Elsevier Greek font family was developed using MetaFont and was never released to the public. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CoType Foundry

CoType is the London-based type foundry of Mark Bloom and Joe Leadbeater, est. 2019. Their typefaces include

  • Aeonik and Aeonik Pro (2018). A 14-weight sans typeface family by Joe Leadbeater and Mark Bloom. Aeonik supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and is accompanied by a variable font. Followed in 2022 by Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono.
  • Altform (2021). A low contrast sans family by Mark Bloom. Designed by mixing geometric and grotesque elements, it has many weights and is accompanied by a two-axis (weight, italic tilt) variable font.
  • Ambit (2019). A sans by Mark Bloom: Ambit is an eccentric and unique sans serif font inspired by early grotesques, but adapted for the 21st century. It is characterized by the misbehaving curly lower case f and r glyphs.
  • Coanda (2019). A techno typeface by Mark Bloom, who writes: Coanda: an ideology of the future, crafted from the past. Coanda honours the ambitious outlook of 20th century designers Wim Crouwel and Mimmo Castellano, and pays respect to the meticulous detail crafted by The Designers Republic.
  • Orbikular (2020). A 5-weight modern typeface by Mark Bloom.
  • RM Neue (2019). A sans by Mark Bloom. The first iteration of RM was released in 2011, followed by RM Pro in 2016. RM Neue is a completely redrawn and redesigned adaptation of RM Pro, previously available in only three weights. Bloom writes: Inspired by utilitarian neo-grotesques, RM Neue aims to be a timeless addition to each designer's font repertoire and has been designed to be clean and legible at all sizes.
  • Betatron (2021). Sci-fi.
  • Scandium (2021). a 14-style sans: Scandium is a contemporary sans with open shapes and a technical vibe inspired by the needs of the automotive industry---openness, performance, and style. With its modestly squared curves, high x-height, and vertical terminals, Scandium marries performance with purpose. It includes many icons and some emojis.
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Craceltype
[Joao Cracel]

Type design studio in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2018 by type designer Joao Cracel. In 2019, Craceltype published the 18-style humanist sans typeface families Jano Sans Pro and Jano Sans Std. In 2020, they added Jano Round.

Typefaces from 2021: Lydia Sans (a 24-style Latin / Greek / Cyrillic geometric sans in the Futura orbit; with two variable fonts).

Amika (2020) is a 22-style low contrast tectonic sans typeface family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Crossswire

Greek font archive. Has Ralph Hancock's Milan in all formats. Also has the Hebrew font Ezra SIL (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cucu

Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created a custom sans (Latin) typeface for his company, Reboot (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cursor Design
[Apostolos D. Tsiovaras]

Cursor Design (Larissa, Greece) is a graphic design and creative studio founded in 2002 by Apostolos D. Tsiovaras. In 2013, Tsiovaras designed the display typeface Mermaid. In 2015, he created the display typeface Peggy Gothic.

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Cuttlefish Fonts
[Jason Pagura]

Cuttlefish Fonts offers free original fonts by Cupertino, CA-based graphic designer Jason Pagura, such as Rutaban (2001), Bernur (1996, sans), Gemelli (handwriting), Gohan (fat finger comic book lettering, updated into ShinGohanSix in 2007), Bolonewt (2003), Antherton Cloister (2003, based on insect antennae. Discussed here) and Rutager (2001). He was working on Palormak (2006, futuristic).

Between 2006 and 2010, he published Agamemnon, a large and warm transitional slab serif typeface with wood type influences that covers Latin, Cherokee, Cyrillic and Greek.

Later typefaces include Cartmeign and Posterony (2007, anthroposophic).

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Cyanotype
[Damian Guerrero]

Damian Guerrero Cortes is the Mexico City-based designer of the 48-style multi-texture layerable pixel-based font families Dance Floor (2019) and 2nd Dance Floor (2020).

Damian's take on Bookman is Bookseller Bk (2020): it has straightened serifs on the ascenders and features some ball terminals to distinguish it from the original Bookman. Damian's italic is totally different though. Damian says that Bookseller is based on a typeface found in a French book published between 1882 and 1893 and cites Didot, Scotch Roman and Clarendon as distant references. Bookseller covers Greek and Cyrillic and shows sturdiness for small print. See also Bookseller Cp (2020: a 12-style Scotch family).

Typefaces from 2021: Sweetener (a sugary script), MultiType Brick, MultiType Rows (34 fonts with horizontal stripes as in retro video games), MultiType Brick (brick-textured), MultiType Glitch, MultiType Gamer (a 24-style retro gaming font family), MultiType Pixel. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cyllogos Mousikofilon Con

Greek/Byzantine music fonts: ED-Fthora, ED-Isson, ED-Psaltica, UB-Byzantine-Italic (Unibrain), UB-Byzantine (Unibrain), bem13. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyn Fonts
[Petros Vasiadis]

Petros Vasiadis is a graduate of Vakalo Art & Design College who works in Athens, Greece. Petros Vasiadis set up CYN Fonts in Athens, ca. 2013, and offers these free (mostly brush) fonts for Latin and Greek: CYN Kypselers (hexagonal), Logikfron (grunge), Me Rider (grunge), Banxed (hexagonal), CYN Ypsoma (hand-printed), CYN Unlimited (brush), CYN Ufos (scratchy), CYN U, CYN Pan Shadow, CYN Pan (hand-printed), CYN Nextshift (hand-printed), CYN Goodinside, CYN Forgiven, CYN Filos (brush), CYN Byron, CYN Autozen (nice brush), CYN Autoside (brush), CYN Autopol (scratchy brush), CYN Autolimit (brush), CYN Autofly (brush), CYN 4Uven. In 2015 Cyn Fonts had these typefaces: Actual, Calimera, CYN Pan, CYN Singing, CYN_4Uven, CYN_autofly, CYN_autoLimit, CYN_autoLimit_it, CYN_AutoPOL, CYN_AutoPOL_it, CYN_autoSide, CYN_autoSide_it, CYN_autozen free font, CYN_Byron, CYN_Byron_it, CYN_FILOS, CYN_FILOS_italic, CYN_Forgiven, CYN_Forgiven_italic, CYN_Goodinside_italic, CYN_Goodinside_shadow, CYN_Nextshift, CYN_Nextshift_i2, CYN_U (2011, free brush face), CYN_UFos, CYN_Unlimited, CYN_Unlimited_it, CYN_Unlimited_U, CYN_Ypsoma, CYN_Ypsoma_Bold, CYN_Ypsoma_Bold_it, Gearus, Logikfront, Merider (:Me Rider:), Pagkrati, RighOn.

He cut the serifs and ends off Times Roman to create the sans typeface RighOn, the extended rounded display sans typeface Pagkrati, and the slab serif typeface Calimera in 2013. Free downloads.

In 2014, he created the free font Gearus, the free handwriting font Singing, and the free thin sans display typeface Actual Free Font (2014, Latin and Greek).

In 2015, he published Cyn Filos (free rough brush font), Covalt, the curly typeface Medelsan, the stencil typeface Quaummerce, the interesting 10-weight Latin / Greek sans family Pinaxi (commercial). Its very open forms and organic feel make this ideal for mobile devices. He also made a proposal for a drachma symbol at the height of the Greek Euro crisis in June 2015. Still in 2015, he designed the grunge fonts Studiomast and Typink, the free handwriting font Cyn Goodinside, the calligraphic nibbed typeface Erasty, the nibbed typeface Achieve, the commercial vintage poster typeface Palko, Delyte, Bortrait, Porta, Maternity, The Loom, the handcrafted Tasy and Innosend, the nibbed typefaces Nicky, Relevancy and Applauds, the amoebic Locker, the octagonal Powergo, the inky script typeface Trip, and the monospaced organic sans typeface Bot (Latin and Greek).

Typefaces from 2016: PVF NeuTymes, PVF Clothing, PVF Over, PVF Newtown, PVF Mazzy, PVF Saved, PVF Seventy, PVF Solon (Greek simulation font), PVF Springs, PVF Climax, PVF Tropo, PVF Riding, PVF Spice, PVF Cash, PVF Chock, PVF Presence, PVF Codesk, PVF Saved, PVF Pop, Stroma, Ally, Hutch (tattoo script), Treesign.

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Cypriote metafont
[Alan M. Stanier]

From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Cypriot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D. Paul Alecsandri
[Every Witch Way]

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Daidala
[Jonathan Coltz]

Jonathan Coltz (University of Minnesota) writes eloquently about typography. He praises Linotype Janson Text, Linotype Sabon and Hoefler's Requiem, and condemns the awful digitization of Dwiggins' Electra by Linotype. Check his November 2, 2002 posting on the state of Greek fonts. His favorite typefaces, with discussion: FF Alega, FF Kievit, Requiem, Scene, FF Avance, FF Scala/FF Seria, Pastonchi (also here), LT/MT Sabon, Aetna. He also wrote opinions on FF Angie, Pastonchi, Ehrhardt, Avenir, Mendoza, FF Celeste, Syntax, Mrs Eaves, FF Meta, FF Eureka, TheMix, Loire, Columbus, Apollo, FF Super Grotesk, ITC Bodoni, and Kepler. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daisuke Suzuki
[VL Gothic]

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Dalton Maag
[Canonical Design]

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Dalton Maag
[Bruno Maag]

Swiss designer Bruno Maag (b. Zürich) founded Dalton Maag in 1991, and set up shop in Brixton, South London. He serves the corporate market with innovative type designs, but also has a retail font line. Ex-Monotype designer Ron Carpenter designs type for the foundry. In the past, type designers Veronika Burian worked for Dalton Maag. A graduate of the Basel School of Design, who worked at Stempel and was invitedd by Rene Kerfante to Join Monotype to start up a custom type department. After that, he set up Dalton Maag with his wife Liz Dalton. He has built the company into a 40-employee enterprise with offices in London, Boston, Brazil (where the main type designer is Fabio Luiz Haag), Vienna and Hong Kong.

The Dalton Maag team designed these commercial fonts:

  • Airbnb Cereal (2018). A sans typeface commissioned by Airbnb. Dalton Maag describes it as playful, open and simple.
  • Aktiv Grotesk (2010). Published as an alternative to Helvetica, a typeface Bruno hates with a passion. It also covers Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In 2020, it became a 3-axis (weight, width, italic) variable font.
  • Aller Typo.
  • Almaq.
  • Blenny (2014). A fat face didone by Spike Spondike.
  • Bligh (2015). A three-weight sans family.
  • Co (2007): a rounded monoline minimalist sans co-designed by Bruno Maag and Ron Carpenter.
  • Cordale: a text family.
  • Dedica (2007): a didone face.
  • Effra and Effra Italic (2007-2009): sans family by Jonas Schudel and Fabio Luiz Haag. Followed in 2013 by Effra Corp.
  • Elevon (2012). By Bruno Maag and Marconi Lima.
  • Fargo (2004): a humanist sans in 6 weights.
  • Foco. A sans family.
  • Grueber (2008): a slab serif.
  • InterFace (2007): an extensive sans family; one weight is free (2001). See also InterFace Corporate (2007).
  • Kings Caslon (2007). By Marc Weymann and Ron Carpenter.
  • Lexia (1999, Ron Carpenter and Dalton Maag): a slab serif family (Dalton Maag mentions the date as 2007). In 2019, Dalton Maag added Lexia Mono.
  • Magpie (2008). A serifed family by Vincent Connare for Dalton Maag.
  • Objektiv.
  • Oscine (2014, by Bruno Maag, Ron Carpenter, Fernando Caro and Rafael Saraiva). A rounded organic sans typeface.
  • Pan (1996). A text family at 1500 US dollars per style.
  • Plume (2004): a display typeface inspired by calligraphy, co-designed with Ron Carpenter.
  • Prometo. An organic stressed sans.
  • Royalty (1999, +Royalty Obese, 2007): a stunning art deco display family.
  • Scope One (2015). A free Google Font. It has a single light weight, whose slab serifs make it useful for headlines.
  • Setimo (2015). By Fernando Caro. A distinguished sans.
  • Soleto (2014, a simple sans by Bruno Mello, Fabio Haag, Fernando Caro, Rafael Saraiva and Ron Carpenter). Soleto won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.
  • Southampton.
  • Sparkasse Serif (2003-2005). A custom typeface.
  • Stroudley (2007): a sturdy large counter condensed sans by Bruno Maag, Ron Carpenter and Veronika Burian.
  • Tephra (2008): a collaboration with Hamish Muir. This is an experimental multi-layered LED-inspired family.
  • Tondo (2007, at Dalton Maag): a rounded information design sans family designed by Veronika Burian for Dalton Maag.
  • Tornac (2013). A casual script.
  • Ubuntu (2010): this is a team effort---a set of four styles of a free font called Ubuntu. This font supports the Indian rupee symbol. Some work for the Ubuntu Font Family was done by Rodrigo Rivas Costa in 2010. Download via Fontspace.
  • Verveine (2009). A casual script by Luce Averous.
  • Viato. A simple sans family co-designed by Bruno Maag and Ron Carpenter in 2007. This tapered terminal sans family includes Viato Corp (2007) and Viato Hebrew (2013).

Fonts sold at Fontworks, and through the Bitstream Type Odyssey CD (2001). At the ATypI in 2001 in Copenhagen, he stunned the audience by announcing that he would never again make fonts for the general public. From now on, he would just do custom fonts out of his office in London. And then he delighted us with the world premiere of two custom font families, one for BMW (BMWType, 2000, a softer version of Helvetica, with a more virile "a"; some fonts are called BMWHelvetica), and one for the BMW Mini in 2001 (called MINIType: this family comprises MINITypeRegular-Bold, MINITypeHeadline-Regular, MINITypeHeadline-Bold, MINITypeRegular-Regular).

Other custom typefaces: Tottenham Hotspur (2006), Teletext Signature (by Basten Greenhill Andrews and Dalton Maag), Skoda (Skoda Sans CE by Dalton Maag is based on Skoda Formata by Bernd Möllenstädt and MetaDesign London), UPC Digital, BT (for British Telecommunications), Coop Switzerland (for Coop Schweiz), eircom, Lambeth Council, Tesco (2002), PPP Healthcare, ThyssenKrup (Dalton Maag sold his soul to these notorious arms dealers; TK Type is the name of the house font), Co Headline (2006), Co Text (2006, now a commercial font), Telewest Broadband, Toyota Text and Display (2008), TUIType, HPSans (for Hewlett-Packard, 1997). His custom Vodafone family (sans) (2005) is based on InterFace. In 2011, Dalton Maag created Nokia Pure for Nokia's identity and cellphones, to replace Erik Spiekermann's Nokia Sans (2002). The Nokia Pure typeface has rounder letters, and is simultaneously more legible and more rhythmic.

In 2010, the Dalton Maag team consisted of Bruno Maag and David Marshall as managing and operations directors, and Vincent Connare as production manager. The type designers are Amélie Bonet, Ron Carpenter, Fabio Haag, Lukas Paltram and Malcolm Wooden.

In 2015, Kindle picked the custom serif font Bookerly by Dalton Maag for their typeface. Still in 2015, Dalton Maag custom designed the sans typeface family Amazon Ember for Amazon for use in its Kindle Oasis. Free download of both Amazon Ember and Bookerly.

Dalton Maag created the custom typeface family Facebook Sans in 2017.

Bressay (2016). Stuart Brown led the design and did the engineering for Bressay (design by Tom Foley, Sebastian Losch, and Spike Spondike, at Dalton Maag, London), which won an award at TDC 2016. Later additions include Bressay Arabic [designers not identified by Adobe] and Bressay Devanagari [designers not mentioned by Adobe].

ATT Aleck is a large custom typeface family designed in 2016.

Netflix Sans (2018): Netflix replaced Gotham to combat spiraling licensing costs and commissioned its own bespoke typeface: Netflix Sans under design lead Noah Nathan. Free download. The family include Netflix Sans Icon (2017). Comments by designers at The Daily Orange.

In 2018, Dalton Maag designed the custom typefaces Itau Display and Itau Text for Itau Unibanco, a large Brazilian bank.

In 2019, Dalton Maag produced a corporate typeface for Air Arabia.

Venn (2019, Bruno Maag). A 5 weight 5 width corporate branding sans typeface, with an option to get Venn Variable.

Typefaces from 2020: Dark Mode VF (a humanist sans designed specifically for digital user interfaces, offering subtle grade adjustments to counteract the effects of setting light type on a dark background, as is common with many dark mode digital reading environments; it has two axis in its variable type format---weight and dark mode), Highgate VF (a variable humanist sans inspired by traditional British stone carving), Goldman Sans (a free clean sans family that includes three variable fonts; Goldman Sachs lets you use it except to criticize the company or any other capitalist pigs).

Interview in 2012 in which he stresses that typefaces should above all be functional.

View the Dalton Maag typeface library. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw and at ATypi 2015 in Sao Paulo, where he gave an electrifying talk on type design for dyslexics (with Alessia Nicotra). Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal and at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp.

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Damian Guerrero
[Cyanotype]

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Dan Carr
[Golgonooza Letter Foundry]

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Dan Rhatigan

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. He briefly was type director at Monotype Imaging, based in the UK, and is scheduled to replace David Lemon as the new Senior manager of the Adobe Type team at the beginning of 2017. In 2021, Dan Rhatigan joined Type Network where he curates Type Network's typeface library and oversees its foundry relationships.

Dan is an expert on Indic scripts, and spoke about that at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik.

His graduation typeface at Reading 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 at 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 typeface Copse font was published at Kernest (free downloads).

Kernest link. Google Web Font Directory carries his free typeface Astloch, a monoline blackletter face.

Another download link. Clear Sans (2013) was designed by Daniel Ratighan at Monotype under the direction of the User Experience team at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. Clear Sans is available in three weights (regular, medium, and bold) with corresponding italics, plus light and thin upright (without italics). Clear Sans has minimized, unambiguous characters and slightly narrow proportions.

Ryman Eco is a free multilined typeface created in 2014 by Dan Rhatigan and Gunnar Vilhjálmsson at Monotype that satisfies its two design goals---beauty and economy (it uses 33% less ink than a normal text font).

Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal.

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Daniel Bak
[Art City]

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Daniel Benjamin Miller

Daniel Benjamin Miller (b. 2000, New York) is an undergraduate student in philosophy at McGill University. His type design work:

  • BMucicFont (2020). Based on the Steinberg Media music fonts for LilyPond music software.
  • Salieri (2020). A revival of Jan Tschichold's Sabon (1964-1967).
  • GFS Heraklit. This started out from Zapf's Heraklit Greek (1954). A digital revival was first done by George Matthiopoulos. Later improvements by Antonis Tsolomitis and in 2020 by Daniel Benjamin Miller.
  • NX Baskerville Bold Italic (2020). An addition to Libre Baskerville (2012, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Pablo Impallari).
  • He added OpenType support and made some minor adjustments to ET Bembo (2002, Dmitry Krasny / Deka Design), releasing the result as XETBook (2019). In 2020, that font family was extended by Michael Sharpe as ETbb.
  • In 2019, he started working on Regis, an original face inspired by the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier and Monotype 178 Barbou.
  • RW Garamond (2019) is a freeware Garamond font in OpenType format. RW stands for Rudolf Wolf, the designer who created Stempel's version of Garamond from the Egenolff-Berner specimen. RW Garamond is a modified version of URW Garamond No. 8. and GaramondX, with changes being made to support OpenType (better vertical metrics, added diacritics, better kerning, more mathematical symbols, Greek for mathematics, character variants). Copyrights: 2000, URW++; 2005, Ralf Stubner; 2009, Gaël Varoquaux; 2012-2017, Michael Sharpe; 2019, Daniel Benjamin Miller.
  • Domitian (2019). Based on URW's Palladio which in turn is based on Hermann Zapf's Palatino. Domitian is a project to develop a full-featured, free and open-source implementation of Palatino design. "Domitian" refers to the builder of the Flavian Palace, which is located on the Palatine Hill. Miller added true small caps and old style figures to URW's Palladio. The metrics have been adjusted to more closely match Adobe Palatino, and hinting has been improved.
  • Garamond Libre (2019). Based on Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts (George Douros, 2017). CTAN link. Miller writes: Garamond Libre is a free and open-source old-style font family. It is a "true Garamond," i.e., it is based on the designs of 16th-century French engraver Claude Garamond. The roman design is Garamond's; the italics are from a design by Robert Granjon. The upright Greek font is after a design by Firmin Didot; the "italic" Greek font is after a design by Alexander Wilson. The font family includes support for Latin, Greek (monotonic and polytonic) and Cyrillic scripts, as well as small capitals, old-style figures, superior and inferior figures, historical ligatures, Byzantine musical symbols, the IPA and swash capitals. Miller added a bold italic.
  • The STEP fonts (2019), free at CTAN and Github, created to be metrically compatible with Adobe's digitization of Linotype Times. STEP is based on the STIX and XITS fonts, and includes support for OpenType mathematical typesetting, usable with LuaTeX, XeTeX and Microsoft Office. It contains an original STEP Greek (2020) in Elzevir style.
  • Courier Ten (2020). This is Courier 10 Pitch BT, made available by Bitstream, offered here in OpenType format as well as Type 1 for use with LaTeX. Package maintained by Daniel Benjamin Miller starting in 2020.
  • MLModern (2021). He explains: MLModern is a text and math font family with (LA)TEX support, based on the design of Donald Knuth's Computer Modern and the Latin Modern project [note: 2003-2009, by B. Jackowski and J. M. Nowacki]. Some find the default vector version of Computer Modern used by default in most TEX distributions to be spindly, sometimes making it hard to read on screen as well as on paper; this is in contrast with the older bitmap versions of Computer Modern. MLModern provides a sturdy rendition of the Computer Modern design. [...] A script by Chuanren Wu was used to blacken the fonts before manual adjustment.

Miller is a supporter of free and open-source fonts, as well as free and open-source software. He uses FontForge for design, and releases all his work under free licenses: I really just want people to be able to use my designs, improve them and share them. First, on a pragmatic level, I know that my work will be imperfect, and I'd like others to be able to use their judgment to make adjustments (which I hope they'll also release under a free license). Second, I think that too much material (and not just fonts) is behind barriers of restricted access and artificial scarcity. This kind of thing---useful tools and information---wants to be free, so let it out for everybody to use.

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Daniel Grumer

Born in 1985, Daniel Grumer studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 2015-2016, he studied type designat in the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag.

At Haaretz, we read: As can be seen in the road signs for Arab communities, to mention just one example, in Israel the Arabic language has been marginalized at the expense of Hebrew. This is further emphasized by the contrast between the square and aggressive Hebrew typefaces of official Israel and the softer and more rounded letters of typical Arabic typefaces, a difference that in fact reflects the balance of powers between the country's Jewish and Arab communities. To achieve visual coordination, equal visibility and presence and peaceful coexistence between these two languages that share a same space while taking a small step for peace, Grumer created Avraham-Ibrahim as his final project as a visual communications major at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2014. Grumer, who learned Arabic in the army, got help (over the Internet) from a Jordanian calligraphy designer of Syrian descent. He found another source of inspiration for his typeface in the Hebrew signs written by Arab merchants that "simply make the Hebrew language dance and liberate it from the geometric pressure," he says.

His graduation typeface at KABK in 2016 is the perfectly balanced tri-lingual (Latin / Arabic / Hebrew) typeface Abraham.

In 2016, he fine-tuned Peter Bilak's November Hebrew: November is a rational, utilitarian typeface inspired by street signage. Unlike most signage types it also handles long texts with ease. It covers Hebrew script, but also Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Latin, and is accompanied by a set of wayfinding symbols. Daniel designed the Condensed and Compressed styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Johnson

Canadian type designer. His typefaces:

  • Aguardiente (2010, heavy sans).
  • Deka (2010, a monospace font designed for very small display sizes).
  • Didact Gothic (2010, a simple and readable sans i in the form most often used in elementary classrooms).
  • He contributed to the GNU Freefont project. In particular, he created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono. And never to be outdone by himself, then he did UCAS Extended and Osmanya. His GNU Freefont ranges:
    • Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F)
    • Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF)
    • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F)
    • UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5)
    • Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F)
    • Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
    • Vai (U+A500-U+A62B)
    • Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF)
    • Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7)
  • Grana Padano (2010).
  • Judson (2010, designed for African literacy).
  • Jura (2009). A sans family with support for Burmese, Cyrillic and Greek; redesigned and improved by Alexei Vanyashin in 2016; a variable font was added in 2019 by Mirko Velimirovic). Johnson explains: Jura is a family of sans-serif fonts in the Eurostile vein. It was originally inspired by some work I was doing for the FreeFont project in designing a Kayah Li range for FreeMono. (Kayah Li is a language used by a minority people group in Burma. Because the Burmese government suppresses the teaching of minority scripts, the Kayah Li script is taught only in schools in refugee camps in Thailand.) I wanted to create a Roman alphabet using the same kinds of strokes and curves as the Kayah Li glyphs, and thus Jura was born. Github link for Jura.
  • Megrim (2010, a monoline drawing table sans).
  • Pacaya (2013, a medium-weight sans).
  • Pfennig (2010, an extensive humanist sans family).
  • Rahel (2009, Hebrew).
  • Sacco-Vanzetti (2009, sans).
  • Stanislav Caps (2013).
  • Travelogue (2008).
  • Triad Postnaya (2010). An old Church Slavonic typeface and its Latin simulation twin. Free at the Open Font Library. Triod Postnaya attempts to mimic the typefaces used to publish Old Church Slavonic service books prior to the 20th century. It also provides a range of Latin letters in the same style.

Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Kernest link. Fontsquirrel link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Lyons
[Lyons Type]

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Daniel Ralph

London-based illustrator and graphic designer. Creator of Fred Fredburger (2011), the Cartoon Network type family, which covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daphne Kontomina

Athens, Greece-based designer of the video game font SP Invader (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darien Valentine
[Fixedsys]

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Darius Samek
[Elster Fonts]

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Darren Rigby
[Darren Rigby]

Refreshing fonts created by Canadian Darren Rigby using High-Logic. The fonts come in truetype format (in 2000): Bayern (fraktur font), Beltane (2002), Brasspounder (2004), Con Jitters (2002, handwriting), Enigmatic, EnigmaticUnicodeRegular, Fitzgerald, GangueOuais (2002), HindsightUnicode (2001, with all European languages, Cyrillic, Armenian, and IPA), HindsightSmallCaps, HindsightRegular, HindsightMonospaceRegular, IntruderAlert, QuicktypeRegular, ThinDime, TorturerUpright, SilverDollar, DontWalkRun, History-Repeating (1999-2000), HistoryHappens, HistoryRepeatingH, HistoryHappens, HistoryRepeatingV, Lemon, Norse-Code (runes), OneEighty, TorturerBound, TorturerCrushed, Daybreaker, Yerevan, Seebreaze, Jareth, Tin Birdhouse, Tin Doghouse, Three-Sixty, Three-Sixty Condensed, Levity (2001, Western font), Gravity, River Avenue, Water Street, Warer Street Detour (unicase), Meridiana, Torquemada, Torquemada Starved, Torquemada Starved Unicode, Radian (2002), All Hooked Up (2002), Brasspounder (2004), Quilljoy (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darren Rigby
[Darren Rigby]

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Dave Rowland
[Eclectotype (was: Schizotype)]

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David Brezina

Czech designer (b. Brno) who graduated with a Masters in Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno in 2005, spent a term at the Denmark's Designskole in Copenhagen in 2004 and graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2007, where he wrote a thesis on his typefaces called Skolar and Surat. Skolar won an award at Paratype K2009. It was designed with scholarly and multilingual publications in mind. See, e.g., Skolar Devanagari. Later David founded Rosetta Type.

From 2004 to 2007, he ran his own design studio DAVI, with projects in graphic, web and interface design. Back in Brno, he worked with Tiro Typeworks (Canada) as an associate designer. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about multi-script typography.

His typefaces include

  • CODAN (2005): a typeface inspired by the city of Copenhagen.
  • Yunnan (2004): oriental simulation face. Discussion on typophile.
  • Skolar and Surat (2008). Skolar was designed for multilingual scientific publications and is a serifed typeface in the Menhart tradition. It was published in 2009 by Type Together, and it is also listed by Rosetta Type. Skolar Basic (2009, Type Together) is the official name of this 6-style text family. Surat is an accompanying Gujarati family. Related to that, he wrote The evolution of the Gujarati typographic script (2007, University of Reading). Rosetta writes: Skolar was originally designed for academic publications: its vast character set caters for 90+ Latin-script languages, and its Greek and Cyrillic extensions together with Latin transliterations add support for another 70+ languages. All scripts are available with small caps, superior and inferior letters, five sets of numerals and alternate character forms (see note about the versions below). A comprehensive set of arrows (easily accessed via OpenType) and bullets round off the character set to meet the needs of even the most complex editorial and academic text settings. The light and extrabold styles (upright and italics) were designed with help from Anna Giedrys and Elena Schneider. Skolar's Cyrillic harmonises well with the Latin in its careful balance of distinctive styling and solid performance. Designed in consultation with Alexandra Korolkova, it supports most Slavic languages as well as many others like Kazakh and Mongolian. Additionally, Skolar includes language-specific forms for Serbian and Bulgarian. The Greek is a modern interpretation of the classic styles found in academic works, and is characterised by lively, fluid forms and varying stress. It includes both monotonic and polytonic Greek, and was designed in consultation with Irene Vlachou and Gerry Leonidas. Complete Skolar family also supports Indic scripts Devanagari (codesigned with Vaibhav Singh) and Gujarati distributed separately. Skolar has received international praise at the 2008 ED Awards, and was also shortlisted as one of the best typefaces that year by I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY. In 2009, the Cyrillic was awarded a Special Diploma at the international type design competition Modern Cyrillic, and won the first prize in Granshan's Cyrillic text type category. In 2015, the 72-font family Skolar Sans (see also, Skolar Sans PE, 2016), codeveloped by David Brezina and Slava Jevcinova at Rosetta Type Foundry, won a silver medal at the European Design awards. Skolar PE was added in 2020.
  • Yrsa and Rasa (2015, open-source type families published by Rosetta with financial support from Google). The fonts support over 92 languages in Latin script and 2 languages in Gujarati script (Gujarati and Kachchi). The design and production are by Anna Giedrys and David Brezina. Yrsa is the name of the Latin-only type family. Rasa is the name of the Gujarati type family. They explain: Both type families are intended for continuous reading on the web (longer articles in online news, magazines, blogs). In Yrsa, a special consideration was given to Central and East European languages and proper shaping of their accents. Rasa supports a wide array of basic and compound syllables used in Gujarati. In terms of glyphs included Rasa is a superset of Yrsa, it includes the complete Latin. What makes Yrsa & Rasa project different is the design approach. It is a deliberate experiment in remixing existing typefaces to produce a new one. The Latin part is based on Merriweather by Eben Sorkin. The Gujarati is based on David Brezina's Skolar Gujarati.
  • Adobe Gujarati (2012).
  • In 2019, at Rosetta Type, together with Slava Jevcinova and William Montrose, he released the variable font Adapter (with three axes, for latin, Greek and Cyrillic).
  • In 2020, he released Handjet (started in 2018, at Rosetta Type), which is built on the principle of a dot matrix printer or handjet printer. Glyphs are made up of collections of individual modules that take 23 elemental shapes. The Handjet family covers Armenian, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin. Github download link.
  • Gridlite (2020, Rosetta Type) is a modular pixel typeface with adjustable foreground and background patterning. It also has a variable type format with three axes, Weight, Background, and Element Shape.

Blog. Myfonts link. Klingspor link. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam on the topic of multilingual type design. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David J. Perry
[Fonts for Scholars]

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DBSV
[Vangelis Dim. Gardikiotis]

DBSV Moulding Ideas is a creative agency and type foundry located in Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. Their first typefaces are the layered monoline sans family Aeolus Pro (2014, in dashed, bilined and trilined versions called Staccato, Rail and Tribe; by Vangelis Dim. Gardikiotis) and the curvy monoline typeface Khamai Pro (2014), which was a dashed line version called Khamai Pro Staccato, a bilined version called Khamai Pro Rail, and a trilined version called Khamai Pro Tribe. All typefaces cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

In 2015, Vangelis Dim. Gardikiotis designed Corset Pro and Artios Pro (a narrow techno family).

In 2016, he designed the informal curvy display typeface Pentathlon Pro. In 2017, he published the Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface family Cyceon Pro, and in 2018 Eris Pro.

Typefaces from 2019: Noema Pro.

Typefaces from 2020: Saeta Pro (a display family in twelve styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Debbie Sinis
[dgs Designs]

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Deckersche Schriftgießerei
[Rudolf Ludwig Decker]

Berlin-based foundry of Rudolf Ludwig Decker. Their fonts include Deckersche Fractur (1844) and an uncial Greek that was used by both Oxford and Cambridge University Press in the late 1800s. That Greek typeface was revived in 2007 by George D. Matthiopoulos as GFS Decker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DejaVu Fonts
[Stepan Roh]

The DejaVu fonts form an open source font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. Free download. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters (see Current status page for more information) while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development. Included are DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-BoldOblique, DejaVuSans-Oblique, DejaVuSans, DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold, DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique, DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique, DejaVuSansCondensed, DejaVuSansMono-Bold, DejaVuSansMono-BoldOb, DejaVuSansMono-Oblique, DejaVuSansMono-Roman, DejaVuSerif-Bold, DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique, DejaVuSerif-Oblique, DejaVuSerif-Roman, DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold, DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldOblique, DejaVuSerifCondensed-Oblique, DejaVuSerifCondensed.

Authors and contributors comprise Adrian Schroeter, Ben Laenen, Dafydd Harries, Danilo Segan (Cyrillic), David Jez, David Lawrence Ramsey, Denis Jacquerye, Dwayne Bailey, James Cloos, James Crippen, Keenan Pepper, Mashrab Kuvatov, Misu Moldovan (Romanian), Ognyan Kulev, Ondrej Koala Vacha, Peter Cernák, Sander Vesik, Stepán Roh (project manager; Polish), Tavmjong Bah, Valentin Stoykov, and Vasek Stodulka. The idea is to eventually cover most of unicode. Currently, this is covered: Latin (+supplement, extended A and part of extended B), IPA, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, N'ko, Tifinagh, Lao, Canadian aboriginal syllabics, Ogham, Arabic, math symbols, arrows, Braille, chess, and many dingbats.

Alternate download site. Wiki page with download information.

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Deniart Systems
[Jan Koehler]

Great fonts for astrology, hieroglyphics, alchemy and the occult, by Toronto's Jan and Denise Koehler, mostly designed between 1993 and 1995. They moved to Litomerice and then Teplice, the Czech Republic, recently. MyFonts sells the fantastic Meso Americano dingbats, Hypnotica, AlchemySymbols (two fonts), BlackMagick, Border Twins (2010), CastlesShields, Curly Jane (2010), Cubista Geometrica (2010: op art), DaggersAlphabet, Dendera (ancient Egyptian Zodiac symbols), Dragons, Eggnog (2010), Fontazia Floradot (2012), Fontazia Papilio (2009), Fontazia Pop62 (2011, dingbats of flowers), Fontazia AquaFlorium (2010, fishtank dingbats), Fontazia Mazzo (2010, vases), Fontazia Stiletto (2011), Fontazia Y3K (2009, aliens), the Hieroglyph family (dingbats, really), Jolly Jester (2010, curly hand), MagiWriting, Meandros (2010, a paperclip design inspired by the Greek Key, or Fret, motif), Phaistos, Pocket Wrench (2010, octagonal), Polka Dot Wrench (2010), PowersofMarduk, Praha Deco (2010, inspired by the Prague art deco movement), the RongoRongo family (Easter Island script), SkeletonAlphabet, Sublimina, Superchunk, WhiteMagick, Yenda (2010, bold and angular).

List of font packages: Aglab, Alchemy Symbols, American Sign Alphabet, Ancient Writings Vol. 1, Ancient Writings Vol. 2, Angelica, The Astrologer Bundle, Astrologer, Aztec Day Signs, Black Magick, Braille Alphabet, Castles&Shields, Celestial Writing, Celtic Astrologer, Certar, Chinese Zodiac, Coptic Alphabet, Daggers Alphabet, Dendera, Dinosauria, Dragons, Egyptian Deities, Enochian Writing, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 1, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 2, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 3, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 4, Futhark, Greco, Hebrew Basic, Hypnotica, Magi Writing, Magick&Mystic, Malachim Writing, Masonic Writing, Maya Day Names, Maya Month Glyphs, Meso Americano, Meso Deko, Morse Code, Old Persian Cuneiform, Passing the River, Phaistos, Pike's Alphabets, Powers of Marduk, Sanskrit Writing, Semaphore Code, Signals&Signs, Skeleton Alphabet, Sublimina, Tengwanda Gothic, Tengwanda Namarie, Theban Alphabet, The Egyptologist, Tolkien Scripts, WhiteMagick, Skeleton Alphabet, Hebrew Basic, Sanskrit Writing. Note: I cannot find an entry for Jan Koehler at MyFonts, where all Deniart fonts are said to have been made by Denise Koehler. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Denis Liegois

Page in French by Denis Liégois on unicode polytonic (classic) Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Roegel
[LaTeX Navigator]

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Denise Koehler

Partner of Jan Koehler in Deniart Systems, which operated from 1993-2009 in Toronto, and then in Litomerice (Czech Republic). Her typefaces include: Skeleton Alphabet, Sanskrit Writing, White Magick Symbols, Theban Alphabet, Tolkien Tengwanda Namarie, Tolkien Tengwanda Gothic, Sublimina, Semaphore, RongoRongo (a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island), Powers Of Marduk, Phaistos Disk Glyphs, Passing The River, Old Persian Cuneiform (1995), Morse Code, Meso Deko, Maya Month Glyphs, Maya Day Names, Masonic Writing, Malachim Writing, Magi Writing, Hypnotica, Egyptian Hieroglyphics Basic, Egyptian Hieroglyphics - The Egyptologist, Hebrew Basic, Greco (Greek face), Futhark, Enochian Writing, Egyptian Hieroglyphics - Deities, Medieval Dragons, Dinosauria, Egyptian Hieroglyphics - Dendera, Daggers Alphabet, Coptic Alphabet, Chinese Zodiac Symbols, Tolkien Certar, Celtic Astrologer Symbols, Celestial Writing, Castles&Shields, Braille Alpha, Black Magick, Aztec Day Signs, Astrologer Symbols, Angelica, American Sign Alphabet, Alchemy Symbols, Tolkien Aglab, Fontazia AquaFlorium (2010, fish tank dingbats), Snow Crystals (2010, followed by Snow Crystals 2 in 2012), Star Crystals (2010, more snow-like structures but having 8 instead of 6 axes of symmetry), Karika Swirls (2010), Karika Hearts (2010), Karika Encore (2011), Fontazia Chateaux (2011), Fontazia Chateaux Deux (2011), Fontazia Insomnia (2011), 21 Emmerson (2011), 4 Point Greek Fret (2011: labyrinthine), 4 Point Florals (2011), 4 Point Deco (2011), Mykonos (2011, labyrinthine), Harmonics (2011, a zig-zag face), Fontazia Motyl (2011, butterfly dings), Holiday Penguins NF (2011, Christmas dingbats), Fontazia Christmas Tree (2011), Eggs Galoe (2012, Easter egg font), Border Glyphs (2012, hieroglyphic), Fontazia Christmas Baubes (2012), Fontazia Christmas Tree 2 (2013), Karika Hypnotica (2014, hypnotic or kaleidoscopic glyphs), Symcaps Vario X1, Symcaps Vario X2, Symcaps Vario X3 (2016, op-art design). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Ludlow
[Sharkshock]

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DePlictis Type (was: ESS Fonts)
[Bogdan Balatchi]

Graphic designer Bogdan Balatchi (DePlictis Type, and before that, ESS Fonts) graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Arts of West University in Timisoara, Romania. Most of his work is inspired by old Slavic calligraphy.

Bogdan created the display sans typeface Facebook Letter Faces (2011) and the medieval lettering typeface Kogaion ESS (2011), which are both free. Klauss (2011) and Pain in the sky (2011) are commercial soft techno typefaces.

In 2012, Bogdan created the groovy typeface Best Party Of The Week-End.

In 2020, he released BlinkHead (a modular typeface), Damasquine (an art deco-ish Greek enulation font), and Architype AD-2014.

In 2021, he published Greuceanu (a decorative archaic typeface), Areon Flux (a modular typeface), Squadzone (an urban techno font) and the medieval font Monasterka (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

DEPOTzNET

Organized font archive. Many subcategories including Party fonts, Holiday fonts, Balloons, Halloween, Christmas, screen fonts, phonetic fonts, African, Balinese, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Croata-glagolitic, Cyrillic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Malayan, Nepali, Nko, runes, Tamil, Vietnamese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Derek Green
[Gawr Juhs]

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Design Under Pressure

Patras, Greece-based designer of the free Latin and Greek comic book typeface Odessa (2018) and the free Latin / Greek display typeface Vavoura (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

dgs Designs
[Debbie Sinis]

Greek designer of DGS Art Deco Greek (2019) and the primitive script typeface Teardrop (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Di Barros
[Roberto Teixeira]

Brazilian designer of the retro display typeface Di Barros (2020), which has an extensive glyph set for Latin, Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diabetes Australia Multilingual Fonts

Archive: -JS-Rapee (Thai), ER-Bukinist-1251 (Ukranian), Simsun (Chinese), NUTANU-Regular (Hindi), Times-New-Roman-Greek, VPS-Times (Vietnamese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Rodas

During his studies at UFRJ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Diego Rodas (Catanduva, Brazil) designed the Greek God figurine typeface Adonis (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Sanz Salas

Peruvian creator (b. 1984, Arequipa, Peru) at FontStruct in 2009 of Sencilla (+Cuadrada, +Morena), a family that covers Latin, Cyrillic, Extended Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Coptic, Arabic, Thai, and Devanagari. At FontStruct in 2008, he made mercury and mercury_bold. At Cocijotype, he created the artsy Incan stone wall-inspired Quincha (2009), which according to this site is the first commercial font made in Peru. It won an award in the experimental category at Tipos Latinos 2010.

Amarilis (2011) is an ornamental caps face, which can be bought here.

Chicha (2012) is a bouncy curvy layered set of typefaces published by Cocijotype. It is based upon Peruvian market signs.

Typefaces from 2018: Papaia (plumpish and curvy, with many dingbats). Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Papaia.

MyFonts link. Logo. Interview in March 2010. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dimitra ITD

Greek versions: arial Greek, Courier New Greek, Times New Roman Greek, all TrueType. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitra Tzanos

Graphic designer in Athens, who was born and raised in Johannesburg. Home page. Creator of the iFontMaker font African Edges (2010, hand-printed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

DimitriAna
[Anastasia Dimitriadi]

Athens, Greece-based designer of the free Latin / Greek handcrafted poster typeface Sunday (2014, Fontfabric) and the commercial poster typeface Silhouette (2014).

In 2015, she and Iordanis Passas created the gorgeous Finos, which was inspired by Greek retro cinema (buy it here and check the free demo). Her second typeface of 2015 is the equally impressive deco script typeface family Magellan (in Deco and Script sub-styles). Marpesia (2015) is a connected calligraphic script typeface. Charming (2015) is a free spurred vintage tattoo typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Adalberta (2015) is a great connected script typeface.

Typefaces from 2016: Sketchbook Script (+Pro), Old Harbour (vintage lettering collection consisting of Blue waves, Blue waves striped, Captain's pipe, Captain's pipe Sans, Sailor's tattoo, Sailor's tattoo Sans, Old Ship, Old Anchor, Old Lighthouse, Seashells, Starfish, Old Harbour dingbats), Juvenile.

Typefaces from 2017: Lady Marmalade (a textured, almost painted, coffee shop lettering font), Footbridge (brush script), Novaturient (Latin / Greek; a wild calligraphic font), Thirsty Heart.

Typefaces from 2018: Hayao's Letters (fantastic drop caps that pay tribute to Hayao Miyazaki and his magical films), Chalky Letters (a multilayered font collection).

Typefaces from 2020: French Armoire (a formal calligraphic typeface), Patmos Sans, Patmos Serif (an old Slavonic emulation typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2021: Folk Zodiac Signs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dimitrios Filippou on Greek TEX

Article by Filippou on Greek in TEX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitrios Giannakoulias

Patras, Greece-based graphic designer and typographer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitrios Kyriazis

Athens, Greece-based designer, who drew the ornamental caps alphabet Entangled (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Anasto

Designer of the wavy Latin / Greek typeface Hyto (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Arvanitis
[Espresso Society Studio]

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Dimitris Bouskos

Athens, Greece-based designer of the free brush typeface Katana's Edge (2016) and the powerful beer brandig font Cannibale (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Chatzelas

Designer in Volos, Greece. He made the interesting multiline geometric typeface Sob (2011), which is built with triangles. Osi (2011) is a rounded geometric sans typeface for Latin and Greek. Chaplain (2011) is a display typeface with a religious look.

Unida (2012) is a high-contrast fashion mag face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Foussekis

Famous Greek illustrator, who studied geology and paleontology and worked as a specialist designer for archeological findings. Among his influences are Edmund Guy and Philip Burke. His designs appear weekly in magazines and often in advertising campaigns. He has designed several typefaces for Parachute such as PF Cosmonut Pro (2002 a retro futuristic typeface), PF Wonderland Pro (2003-2006, a curly/angular typeface with fantastic dingbats, a font for fairy tales), PF Psychedelia (2003), PF MyWay, PF ManicAttack, as well as Da Vinci Script Pro (2001-2006, with Panos Vassiliou, covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Goro

Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who designed the beautiful calligraphic Greek Wild Pirate Font in 2016. This comes close to emulating true handwriting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Kanellopoulos

Born in Athens in 1979, Dimitris Kanellopoulos studied visual communication design at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in the UK. Back in Athens, he co-founded the design group "PoorDesigners" ('06-'09). In 2012, he and Yiorgos Yiacos co-founded the creative studio The Comeback.

In 2013, Yiorgos Yiacos and Dimitris Kanellopoulos co-designed the custom sans and inline typeface family Free Cinematica for Free Cinema. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Koliadimas

Born in 1978 in Thessaloniki, Greece, Dimitris Koliadimas studied at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens School of Graphic Design & Graphic Arts in Graphic Design Department (1997-2001) and at London College of Communication (2002: Master of the Arts in Typo / graphic studies). Since 2005 he collaborates with Dimitris Papazoglou at Designers United.

At Cannibal Fonts, he published Kamtchatka. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Kolyris
[Sirylok (was: Popdog Fonts, or Fiberia)]

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Dimitris Mitsiopoulos

Dimitris Mitsiopoulos is a Greek type designer. He is a founding member and partner at Altervision typography and visual communication. Altervision was established by Dimitris Mitsiopoulos, Tasos Efremidis, Apostolos Rizos and Klimis Mastoridis in the beginning of 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Papazoglou

Born in 1976 in Athens Papazoglou studied typographic design and visual communication at the Instituto Europeo di Design of Milan. Since 2005 he collaborates with Dimitris Papazoglou at Designers United. He teaches typography and visual communication for postgraduate students at the Private School of Applied and Fine Arts, AKTO.

At Cannibal Fonts, he published Kamtchatka. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Perdikopoulos

Designer in Athens, Greece who made the Latin/Greek compressed sans typeface Condact 57 (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Sakkas

Illustrator and graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who made Rethink Arial (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimosthenis Kaponis

Greek type designer who Hellenized Raph Levien's open source typeface Inconsolata LGC from 2010-2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dino dos Santos
[dstype]

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Diogenes

Peter Heslin is the author of Diogenes, a free GNU license "tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dmitrij Greshnev
[Green Type]

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Dmitry Goloub

Russian type foundry, est. 2014 by Dmitry Goloub, the Moscow-based codesigner with Lucas Perdidaão of the free grid-based art deco typeface Bobber (2012, in ai format) and of Alpine (2014). From 2009 until 2010 and again in 2012, he lived in Firenze, Italy.

Typefaces from 2013 include Bolognese Sans, Moor (multilined art deco family), Bobber Script, and Bread & Milk Sans. Genplan (2013) is a great free layered inline typeface for Latin and Cyrillic that is based on 1930s Soviet poster types. See also TT Genplan Pro (2014).

Cittadino Symbols (2013) is a free rounded city traffic icon font related to a Milan subway project. In 2013, this was replaced, still for the Milan metro maps, by Meneghino Wayfind, a tweetware typeface that was influenced by PT Sans Caption.

In 2015, Goloub created Ardent: Ardent is my Sergey Chekhonin-inspired typeface. Ardent is an attempt to prove that the bizarre Cyrillic letterforms of 20s are still decent for use in modern design, even in Latin script. It is highly ornamental and lapidary. Still in 2015, he designed the sans typeface family Intersans (a multilingual Swiss army knife sans), which supports Extended Latin, Extended Cyrillic (including Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic), Polytonic Greek, Armenian (Asomtavruli, Nuskha-khutzuri, Mkhedruli, Mkhedruli Mrglovani), Georgian and Hebrew. It also includes true italics, small caps, small caps italics and a lot of pictograms.

Typefaces from 2020: Grrr (at Paratype, with Alexandra Korolkova: a techno family characterized by an oversized lower case f).

Dmitry Goloub's home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

DolWork
[Gerben Dollen]

Gerben Dollen is the Groningen, Netherlands-based graphic designer of the commercial font RES (2006). In 2006, he started studying for an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, where he graduated in 2007 with a type project called Actium, a sans face with Latin and Greek letters. MyFonts page for Dolwork, his foundry, where the 12-style family Actium was published in 2010. He currently works at Type Mafia in Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Donald Mastronarde
[American Philological Association]

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Donald P. Goodman III

Donald P. Goodman III is a practicing attorney in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a graduate of the William and Mary School of Law and of Christendom College with a degree in history and a minor in classical languages. He has contributed several TeX packages for setting religious texts such as catechis (for catechisms) and liturg (for Catholic liturgical texts). In that context, he has designed the DRM font package in 2014.

The DRM (Don's Revised Modern) family of fonts are in Metafont format (for use with TeX). It has many optical sizes and comes in roman, italic and small caps styles. In addition, it has many ornaments, and symbols. Although written in Metafont, the author also provides a set of 103 (!!!) Opentype fonts. The opticals include 5pt (pearl), 7pt (minion), 8pt (brevier), 9pt (bourgeois), 10pt (long primer), 12pt (pica), 14pt (english), 16pt (great primer), 20pt (paragon) and 24pt (double pica). The table below gives a fuller optical size naming picture and its relationship with traditional American and British ways of listing type sizes. There are also Greek fonts. At the publication date, September 2014, the author was still working on the kerning---expect an improved package soon. The DRM fonts are wedge-serifed, and incorporate an odd mix of style elements---some terminals are didone, but other elements are more transitional or Caslonesque. Free download of the 6MB package.

Designer of Dozenal (2008), a metafont package for typesetting documents in base twelve. It includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten). It also includes a few other macros, redefines all the standard counters to produce dozenal output, and provides Metafont characters, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions of each, for ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by the Dozenal Society of Great Britain). These characters were designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Donald P. Reiher

Designer of GRK0 and the Hebrew font Hebreka (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Douglas Lyle McCue Jr
[typO969]

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Download Greek and Byzantine Fonts

How to page, with some free TTF in Greek, maintained by Pigi Bitzeni. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Download Greek Fonts

Greek font archive and Greek links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Download Greek Fonts

Greek language page by Hatzikokolakis Kostas and Tsichlis Labros. Has Arial and Courier truetype fonts for Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dr. Shirley J. Rollinson

At Shirley J. Rollinson's site in Portales, New Mexico, an archive with Greek, Coptic, Hebrew and dingbat fonts. A sampling: AWI105 (Amien World International), Alex, Altrussisch, AltrussischBold, AltrussischBoldItalic, AltrussischItalic, American-PresidentsSAMPLE, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, Animals, Animals2, AntoniousJJencom, AntoniousJJencomHollow, AntoniousJJencomThin, AntoniousJJencomWide, AntoniousNormal, AntoniousNormalHollow, AntoniousNormalThin, AntoniousNormalWide, AntoniousOLOverLine, AntoniousOLOverLineHollow, AntoniousOLOverLineThin, AntoniousOLOverLineWide, Athenian, Athletes, BSTGreek, BSTHebrew, Basics, CU_SYMBL, CarrAnimalDingbats, CarrArrowsfilled, CarrArrowsoutline, CarrDingbats2, CarrDings, CelticPatterns, ChayaBold, ChemCycles, ChristianCrosses, ClassifiedDingbats, CommonBulletsNormal, Coptic-Regular, Coptic-Regular, CopticNormal, Dastafarin-Regular, Dingbat-Cats2, DivChem, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, Eggs, FOOD, Fabeldyr-2, Flower-Show, FontForFree, Futura-Thin, Futura-ThinItalic, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, GideonMedium, Grammata, Greek-Regular, Greek-Regular, Greek, GreekOldFace, GreekOldFaceC, HWGreek, Hebpar, Hebrew-Italic, Hebrew-Regular, Inter, Ismini, KirillicaWincyr, Kitchentile, KoineMedium, Koptos-Regular, Korinthus-Italic, Korinthus, Kur2siv-Italic, Lashon-Tov, Lavra-Plain, Linear-B, LudlowDingbats, MENA-1, Martin-Vogel's-Symbols, Medicine, MendelSiddurBold, MendelSiddurMW-Bold, Milan-Greek, MonitorNormal, New-Dingcats, Noam-New-Hebrew, NovaNormal, Novgorod-Plain, Ornaments, Paleo-Hebrew-NormalA, PecanSoncHebrew, Pni2na, Pointers, QuiltersDelight, RK-Meroitic-(Demotic), RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), RK-Meroitic-Transscript, RK-Persian-Cuneiform, RK-Sanskrit, RK-Ugaritic-Transscript, RK-Ugaritic, Rashi, Roman-Catholic, RuthFancy, SILDoulosIPA, SILGalatia, SILGalatiaBold, SILGalatiaExtras, SILGalatiaExtrasBold, SILManuscriptIPA, SILSophiaIPA, SPAchmim, SPDamascus, SPDoric, SPEdessa, SPEzra, SPIonic, SPTiberian, Sgreek-Fixed, Sgreek-Medium, ShalomOldStyle, ShalomOldStyle, ShalomScript, ShalomStick, ShebrewMedium, States, Statuer, Symbol-Accentuated, SymbolMW-Bold, SymbolMW-BoldItalic, SymbolMW-Italic, SymbolMW-Normal, TLHelpCyrillic, TattooNo1, TattooNo2, TimesNewRomanNavajo, TimesNewRomanNavajoBold, TimesNewRomanNavajoBoldItalic, TimesNewRomanNavajoItalic, TorahSofer, TransliterationItalic, Tzipporah, Ugarit, VintageDingbats, WarnSymbols1, WarnSymbols2, WarnSymbols3, WarnSymbols4, WarnSymbols5, YourKeys, ZapfDingbats, button_by_fanta, fantas-second, hebrew, persische-Keilschrift. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dry Heaves Fonts (was: Phil Fonts)
[Phillip Andrade]

Not to be confused with Phil's Fonts, Phil Fonts offers charityware fonts by Phillip Andrade who uses the nicknames Dry Bohnz, neatoguy and spamboy. Most fonts are grungy, and were designed roughly between 1999 and 2003.

The list: BlownDroid, Neatified, HappyLarry, IShotTheSheriff, Alien Marksman, EvilCow, Corporate Suit, BadHairDay, Tiptonian, Philbats. Grouped as Scroll fonts from the dead Sea, we find: Habbakuk Scroll (Hebrew), Manual of Discipline (Hebrew), Parthenon (Greek), Ambrosius, Problem Secretary (old typewriter), DeadCircuit, MoldyPillow, Pastorswrit, RadiatedPancake, StolenLlama, Untitled, WetNapkin, Worn Manuscript (1999, grungy blackletter), DustyWombat, NasalDrip, Alphasnail, CarbonatedFont, RaptorAttack (2001), Warped Greased Monkey, Alphasnail (2001), Beth David (1999, Hebrew), Greased Monkey (2001), Lost City (1999, Hebrew), Missing man out (2001), No Brainer (2001), Raptor Kill (2001), Spazbats (2002, dingbats), Speed of Oatmeal (2001), Troglodyte (2001), Polyphemus (2000), Infestation (2000), Hand Drawn Wasabi (2002, katakana font), I Am A Font Designer (2003, scanbats), Neosight (2003), FirstTemple (2003, an old Phoenician lettering font), ScreamingGuitar (2002, guitar dingbats), DHUgaritic (2003), PeskyPhoenicians (2003).

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dstype
[Dino dos Santos]

Established in 1994, dstype used to offer free fonts but has gone commercial now. It is run by Dino dos Santos (b. 1971, Oporto) from Oporto, Portugal. He graduated in Graphic Design at ESAD, Matosinhos. He received a Masters degree in Multimedia Arts at FBAUP, Porto. MyFonts place. In 2006 he won the Creative Review Type Design Competition in the Revival/Extension Family. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about Portuguese lettering since 1700. Interview in 2007. Klingspor link. Author of A Letra Portuguesa, a book about Portuguese calligraphy. Dino created these typefaces:

  • Access (1997).
  • Acta, Acta Display and Acta Poster (2011, +Poster swashes). A didone fashion mag family. First designed for Chilean newspaper La Tercera in 2010, DSType's Acta family is a clean information design type system. It includes Acta Symbols, an extensive dingbat family. Acta Var (2020) has two axes, weight and optical size.
  • Acto (2012). Acto is a type system designed as the sans serif counterpart of the previous released Acta. Both type families were designed in 2010 for the redesign of the Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
  • Andrade Pro (a modern) and Andrade Script Pro: based on the calligraphy of Andrade de Figueiredo, ca. 1722.
  • Anubis (2003): a unicase face.
  • Aparo (2013). A plumpish elegant high-contrast script face.
  • Apice (2022). A highly structured calligraphic typeface with five optical sizes.
  • Apud and Apud Display (2010): a high-contrast serif family.
  • Aquila (2004).
  • Ardina (2016). Done with Pedro Leal, this text typeface family has three optical sizes.
  • Boldina (2004). A fat informal poster family with 18 weights and styles.
  • Braga (2011, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal). This is a layered font design family. Dino writes: Braga is an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colourful typographic designs.
  • A type system from 2014: Breve News, Breve Display, Breve Slab Title, Breve Sans Title, Breve Title, Breve Slab Text, Breve Sans Text, Breve Text. The Breve system includes modern design elements in the skeleton and ball terminals, transional elements, almost wedge-serifs in the serifed styles. As with most of dos Santos's typefaces, even the sans and slab styles exhibit Latin warmth and exuberance.
  • Capsa (2008): a family that was inspired by, but is not a revival of the Claude Lamesle types Gros Romain Ordinaire and Saint Augustin Gros Oeil.
  • Ception (2001): a futuristic sans family.
  • Cimo (2017). A distinguished condensed sans.
  • Cultura, and its improved version Cultura New (2013), a text book typeface family.
  • Decline (1996).
  • Denso (2019). By Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal: a great condensed variable font with weight, serif and optical size axes.
  • Digno (2022). A fuzzy text typeface family.
  • Dione (2003): a sans; redone in 2009 as Dobra at TypeTrust. See also Dobra Slab (2009).
  • Enorme (2020). Ultra massive and modular 3000-glyph mastodont of a constructivist font, by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos.
  • Esta (2004-2005): extensive (transitional) text and newsprint family.
  • Estilo (2005): a gorgeous and simple art deco-ish geometric headline face. This was accompanied by Estilo Script (2006), Estilo Text (2007, a 6-style rounded sans family), and later, Estilo Pro (2010, +Hairline).
  • Ezzo: a sans family.
  • Factor (1997).
  • Finura (2009): this typeface has hints of University Roman.
  • Firme (2014). A geometric sans for corporate use.
  • Fragma (2003): squarish techno family.
  • Girga (+Italic, +Engraved, +Banner, +Stencil) is a strong black Egyptian family designed in 2012 together with Pedro Leal at DS Type.
  • Glosa (2008): Glosa is a meaty multi-style didone family. Glosa Text and Glosa Headline all followed a bit later in 2008, and Glosa Display in 2009.
  • Hades (2012). A yummy and free blackletter typeface.
  • Hypergrid (2002): octagonal.
  • Ines (2015). A classic 7-style text typeface.
  • Isento and Isento Slab (2017). Both are loosely based on ATF's Times Gothic.
  • Lucius (Sans, Serif) (2022). The Lucius type family began as an attempt to reproduce the Principios Methodicos para as Letras Aldina e Roman---Typo Portuguez, but went went way beyond that in its multi-faceted execution.
  • The Quase family (2017): Quase is a very free interpretation of the types found in the Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon from 1785. We wanted to start with Caslon and then transform it into an editorial typeface, hence the increase of the x-height and the radical reduction of the ascenders and descenders. Subfamilies: Quase Headline (12 styles), Quase Poster, Quase Display, Quase Text.
  • Idem and idem Display (2021).
  • Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal published Jules in the summer of 2015---a fat fashion mag didone 45-style family inspired by several plates from Portuguese calligrapher Antonio Jacintho de Araujo; it comes in Big, Colossal and Epic. They followed up in 2017 with Jules Text.
  • Kartago (2005): based on Roman inscriptions from Cartago.
  • Keiss (2017) and Keiss Text (2021). A Scotch roman with a lot of contrast. Keiss Text comes in twelve styles and features short descenders and ascenders, along with three very distinct optical sizes. It was designed with contemporary newspapers in mind. In 2021, he added Keiss Title, Keiss Condensed, Keiss Big (14 styles) and Keiss Condensed Big.
  • Large (1999) and Large Pro (2006).
  • In 2020, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal designed Larga, which was inspired by the typefaces shown in the specimens of the Fundiçãao Typographica Portuense from 1874. Larga is a wide all caps family and comes with a variable opentype format.
  • Leitura, Leitura Headline, Leitura News, Leitura Sans, Leitura Symbols, Leitura Display (2007): the 31 styles were all made in 2007.
  • Logica (2016). A classical text typeface.
  • Maga (2012). A text family.
  • Methodo (2005): calligraphic penman typefaces.
  • Missiva (2004).
  • Monox and Monox Serif (1998-2000): a monospaced family.
  • Ni Sans, Ni Slab, Ni Serif (2018).
  • Musee (2006): a transitional family with ornaments and borders.
  • Nerva (2004). A subdued Trajan typeface with flaring.
  • Nitida (2017). A 114-font family with five optical sizes.
  • Nyte (2012). A serifed text family.
  • Otite (1995).
  • Outside (1996): grunge.
  • Parco (2021). A compact headline typeface with large x-height.
  • Plexes (2003). See also Plexes Pro (2006).
  • Pluma (2005): a series of three exquisite calligraphic flowing scripts called PlumaPrimeyra, PlumaSegunda and PlumaTerceyra). Inspired by the typographic work of Manuel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722: "Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida a Augusta Magestade do Senhor Dom Jao V, Rey de Portugal".
  • Poesis (1999).
  • Pratico UI and Pratico Slab UI (2022).
  • Prelo (2008): A sans family for magazines, it has styles that include Hairline, Hairline Italic, Extra Light, Extra Light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Semi Bold, Semi Bold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Slab and Prelo Condensed.
  • Priva Pro (2006): a sans family that includes Greek and Cyrillic).
  • Prumo (2011-2012). A 92-font family originally created for the redesign of the Argentinian newspaper La Nacion. Released to the public in 2013, it covers low and high contrasts, and has slab serif styles as well as Scotch Roman styles. So, it is more a type system or type collection than one single typeface: Prumo Banner, Prumo Deck, Prumo Display, Prumo Poster, Prumo Slab, Prumo Text.
  • Quadricula (1998).
  • Quaestor and Quaestor Sans (2004). Roman inscriptional typefaces.
  • Recita (2019). A sturdy oldstyle text typeface family.
  • Resea (2004) and Resea Consensed: Bank Gothic style typefaces.
  • Solido (2012) is a versatile type system with five widths: Solido, Solido Constricted, Solido Condensed, Solido Compressed and Solido Compact. In total there are 35 fonts. In 2020, a variable font was added to Solido. Codesigned with Pedro Leal.
  • Synuosa (1999): an experimental typeface showing only the top half of the characters.
  • Tecla (2018). After Printype, a typeface developed in the early twentieth century for the Oliver Typewriter.
  • Terminal (1996).
  • Titan and Titan Text (2003).
  • User (2012), User Upright (2012), and User Stencil (2012). Monospace type families.
  • Velino (2010): an extensive family including Velino Text, Velino, Velino Condensed, Velino Compressed, Velino Poster, Velino Sans, Velino Sans Condensed, Velino Display (+Compressed Display, +Condensed Display). This didone superfamily is sure to win a ton of awards.
  • Ventura (2007): based on the calligraphy of Portuguese calligrapher Joaquim José Ventura da Silva, ca. 1802, who wrote Regras methodicas para se aprender a escrever os caracteres das letras Ingleza, Portugueza, Aldina, Romana, Gotica-Italica e Gotica-Germanica in 1820. It had a "Portuguese Script". Do not confuse Ventura with Dieter Steffmann's font by the same name made many years earlier. Ventura won an award at TDC2 2008).
  • Viska (2015, by Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal) is designed for small print.
  • Volupia (2005): a connected advertising face.

DS Type also has typefaces by other type designers, such as Pedro Leal. They worked with leading companies, world scale events and well-known design agencies including: Appetite, Banco CTT, Banco Economico, BBDO, CondéNast, CTT Correios de Portugal, Electronic Arts, Errea Communicacion, Erste Bank, ESPN, Expo 2020 Dubai, Fifa World Cup 2018 Russia (the Ducha typeface), Garcia Media, Gatorade, Gruner + Jahr, Hearst, Innovation, King Games, McCann-Erickson, Meredith, Palmer Watson, Pentagram, Sagres, Starbucks, The New York Times (the Nyre typeface), Vox Media and Wolff Olins.

View Dino dos Santos's typefaces. DS Type's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dual Type
[Zrinka Buljubasic]

Originally from Croatia, she studied Visual Communication Design Bachelor and New Media Design Masters at Art Academy of Split, after which she pursued typographic education by attending Type@Cooper Condensed Program in New York and later at TypeMedia Masters of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands. She worked for a decade as a graphic and digital designer. Zrinka runs the type and graphic design studio Dual Type with Gen Ramirez.

Her graduation typeface in the TypeMedia program at KABK was Dalma (2018). Dalma is a carefully manicured roundish display typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

In 2019, Martin Grasser and Zrinka Buljubasic co-designed 188 Sans for And Repeat / Future Fonts. They write: The Regular weight, based loosely on Frank Hinman Pierpont's Monotype Grotesque, calls to mind early 20th century workhorse sans-serifs.

Co-designer of Sunnyside (2021, Martin Grasser and Zrinka Buljubasic), a slab serif rooted in the aesthetic language of 70's California. Dribble link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dylsectic

Dylsectic is located in Athens. It made a charming squarish face, Rufus (2010), as well as the great bubble font Five Petrol Poles (2010). In 2017, he designed the Greek display typeface Biopoleio. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eclectotype (was: Schizotype)
[Dave Rowland]

Type foundry in Sheffield, UK, first called Schizotype, and in 2021 renamed Eclectotype because this is not a foundry that likes to stick to trends or expectations. Its designer, Dave Rowland (b. 1982, Chesterfield) grew up in Sheffield, UK, but was based in Japan, the Philippines, Liverpool, Surat Thani, Thailand, and Koh Samui, Thailand [where he presently lives]. MyFonts Interview.

He created these fonts in 2009: Quesadilla (signage type, Mexican simulation face), Quesadilla Shadow, Schizotype Scrolls, Quiff, Toothpaste, Astroboy (connected script), Decolletage (art deco), Kazumi Sans, Acid Haus, Dr. Black, Dr. Eric, Soyo Gogo, BMX radical (brush), Team, Miami Hopper, and Tubularis (multiline face), Sickle, Klique (futuristic display face), Uncle Eric (a cartoon face), Praline Smooth (connected script in the style of Mistral), Kwaktur, (blackletter typeface based on the logo of Belgium's Kwak beer), Blackball (another blackletter) and Modulogue (a modular display family).

Additions in 2010: Christmas Tuscan (a modular Tuscan), Masonic Lodge, Mook (a retro, unicase, bubble font), Toothpaste 2, Gaden Sans (organic monoline typeface that includes a hairline weight), Sizemore (all caps slab headline face), Quickscript (signage face), New Wave.

Fonts designed in 2011: Brag Pro (like Brag, a Cooper Black alternative), Brag Stencil Pro, Chestnut (curly, hand-printed), Brag (a fat round face in Cooper Black style), Gelato Script (a connected signage face), Brag Stencil (2011), Streetscript (2011, brushy signage face).

In 2011, he created a quaint text family, Vulpa, with quirky foxtail terminals.

Typefaces from 2012: Margot (a rounded slab serif described as a lovechild of American Typewriter and Cooper Black), Range Serif (an angular typeface), Pastiche Brush (a brushy connected script inspired by the titles of the 1959 movie Imitation of Life (Wayne Fitzgerald)), Quayside (a bulbous baseball or signage script).

Typefaces from 2013: Alight Slab (hairline slab), Anultra Slab (a heavy bold slab serif), Ollie (a connected baseball or signage script), Urge Text (an extensive modern text family with ample language support and plenty of mathematical symbols, and large ball terminals).

Typefaces from 2014: Range Sans (a grotesque sans family with the quirky angular cutouts inherited from Range Serif), Samui Script (upright connected script), Streetscript Redux (signage script), Price Didone (created for setting elegant price tags).

Typefaces from 2015: Oldskool Script (a connected signage script; one of many quite different commercial fonts with the same name), Hazel Script (a great flowing calligraphic script designed around the time of the birth of his first child, Hazel; the name may create confusion as there is a famous BB&S metal font with the same name), Mastadoni (a fat didone for headlines and fashion mags), Kake (a great creamy sign-painting font), Bali Script (creamy signage script), Flat Sans.

Typefaces from 2016: Cinema Script (retro movie script), Chill Script (a retro non-brush signage script), Blanket (a soft cursive font, ideal for children's books), Schizotype Grotesk (a very original angry geometric grotesk, with bucketloads of pizzazz), Astrid Grotesk, Asterisk Sans Pro (a versatile humanist sans family for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic), Strelka Ultra (a retro space age typeface), Revla Serif (beatnik style, emulating randomly positioned handlettering).

Typefaces from 2017: Duckie (a bubblegum or creamy signage script), Tusque (a layered decorative Tuscan typeface), Ekamai (a tight non-connected creamy signage script), Quinella (seventies script), Delfino Script (retro signage script), Tchig Mono (a special, almost hipster monospace typeface family), Revla Sans (beatnik style), Revla Sans Text, Eroika Slab (a robust wedge serif family).

Typefaces from 2018: Aziga (descrived by Dave as a high (occasionally reversed) contrast, postmodern, deconstructed-reconstructed, serifless (mostly), fashion didone), Revla Slab (bouncy, beatnik), Galix (subdue futuristic sans family), Gelato Luxe (an update of his earlier Gelato Script), Engria (an angular brush-inspired text typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: Gelato Fresco (a warm flowing script), Amica Pro (a stocky part humanist part geometric workhorse sans), Galix Mono, Backstroke, Gigantic (an exercise in ultra-fatness).

Typefaces from 2020: Gelica (a 14-style retro soft serif family influenced by Cooper Black, Goudy Heavyface and Ludlow Black), Capsule (a reverse-stress high-contrast rounded sans-serif), Sausage (a friendly fat rounded typeface that is is unapologetically bold and bulbous. Influenced by magnetic fridge letters, hot dogs and 70s phototype fonts, it is retro, but not cloyingly so).

Typefaces from 2021: Revla Round (a child-friendly version of Revla Sans), Megumi (a formal hairline fashion mag script), Yink (a bulbous psychedelic experiment).

Klingspor link. Behance link.

Showcase of Schizotype's typefaces at MyFonts. Fontspring link. MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ectaco

In 1999, this company produced a number of fonts that combine Latin with other languages such as Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish and Arabic. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ed Ashby-Hayter

During his studies in Falmouth, UK, Ed Ashby-Hayter created the Latin / Cyrillic / Gree sans typeface EAH Rounded (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edik Ghabuzyan
[Armtype]

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Edward Detyna
[Electronic Font Foundry]

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EelVex
[Angelo Haritsis]

Creator of free Greek versions of the Times, Helvetica and Courier typefaces, downloadable from Github. The glyphs from this source were used to compose Greek glyphs in FreeSans and FreeMono in the GNU Freefont project [range Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)]. EelVex home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Efstratios Moysis
[StratosMFonts]

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Ege Esin
[Esintype]

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Ekke Wolf
[Wannatype (was: Typic)]

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El Cappuccino

From Sun: HelmetCondensedBold, HelmetCondensedBoldItalic, HelmetCondensedItalic, HelmetCondensedNormal (1999). Also, OLBGRK, OLBHEB for Greek and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Circulo de Oro de Uresh-Nefer
[Antonio Hernández Marín]

Defunct hieroglyphics page by Antonio Hernández Marín. It had some downloadable fonts, including Trophos (Greek font by Carlos F. Gilardoni, 1994), Antonious (Greek, by Wisam Michael), Coptic, and TransliterationItalic (Egyptian transliteration font from Utrecht University). Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Yeshuati

OLDGRK (Greek) and OLDHEB (Old Hebrew): free truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eleana Gkogka

Athens, Greece-based designer of Cargo Box Font (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

elections.gr

Basic Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Electra Vasiliadi

Athens, Greece-based designer of the zodiac-inspired typeface Zodiac (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Electronic Font Foundry
[Edward Detyna]

The Electronic Font Foundry (EFF) in Ascot, Berkshire, UK, sold most classical fonts at about 15 dollars per weight, and made custom fonts. Established in 1984, the foundry had 1300 fonts by 2012.

The font designer and owner was Edward Detyna, who died in March 2014. People are reporting to me that the fonts are in limbo, and that Detyna's family is not replying to requests for information.

On July 4, 2002, Apostrophe wrote this: I'm currently having a difficult time trying to predict the past of EFF LondonA, EFF Liz, EFF Eric and EFF Formal, to name a few. I have a feeling that these folks just happen to be twins with entities that are currently across the Atlantic from them, namely Adobe Garamond, Cooper Black, Gill Sans and Copperplate Gothic. A friend of Detyna's writes this: When I met him at least twenty years ago, Edward and his associates had a font design studio based in Ascot, near London. He is a mathematician/statistician turned typographer, and was really on top of type design at the time. There are academic articles published on mathematical subjects on the internet. He's an old man now, but still a very smart guy. When he started, with fonts for Acorn RISC-OS (now defunct, but leading-edge British computer of mid-eighties to -nineties), he had very advanced and sophisticated algorithms for anti-aliasing and hinting, and his hand-hinting is still better than almost any other fonts I have used for screen work. He still sells fonts and adapts to user requirements promptly. I recently asked him to adjust the hinting on a font and he turns it around in a day.

Jason Koxvold wrote to me in 2017: I knew Edward back in 1990 or so, when I was 13, and he mentored me to a great degree. For a while I worked an internship of sorts at EFF, and then one day, my mother came to see what I was up to---he gave her the job of office manager. He was a tremendously helpful and meaningful person to me then as a very young man with a passion for typography.

Closed captioning fonts for TV, made according to the EIA 708-B specifications, include EFF Sans Serif CC, EFF Serif CC, EFF Sans Serif Mono CC, EFF Serif Mono CC, EFF Casual CC, EFF Script CC, EFF Small Caps CC.

EFF also has fonts for Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic.

EFF Primary is a large family of educational fonts.

EFF Utamaru is an oriental simulation font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Papassissa

Italian graduate of ISIA Urbino, Italy (M.Sc. in Communication and Design for Publishing and a Bachelor's in Graphic Design and Visual Communication). Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Her graduation typeface at Reading was the multi-script Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde (2012), created for Latin, Greek and Armenian. My first reaction is that the curviness and roundness of the Latin part is due to the desire to harmonize with the two other scripts. All styles are flared out near the top, which gives the result a comic book feel. In fact, Elena mentions that children's books was one of the main motivations.

Elena Papassissa (Greek) collaborated with Akira Kobayashi and Monotype Studio on the Greek and Armenian parts of Avenir Next World (2021).

She is pursuing a PhD at the University of Reading on the history of Armenian type design under Fiona Ross. At ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, she discusses the current state of Armenian type design. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eleni Beveratou

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Originally from Greece, Eleni's graduation typeface was Intone (2011), which was specially created for Latin and Greek texts.

During TipoBrda 2010, she created the contrast-rich display sans typeface Untitled.

At Fontsmith, she published FS Olivia (2012), an angular text family for Latin Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Elia Tsamantaki

Athens, Greece-based creator of the (Latin and Greek) children's script typefaces Fun (2012) and Dream (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elias Papanikolaou
[EPA Greek Workbench]

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Elis Bello

Athens, Greece-based designer of the labyrinth-based typeface The Maze (2016). He designed The Maze (2016), which was inspired by the movie The Maze Runner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisavet Zioga

Athens, Greece-based designer of the free display font family Lovegood (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elpenor

Archive with Greek polytonic Unicode fonts: Asteria-Bold, Asteria-Bold-Italic, Asteria-Italic, Asteria, Georgia-Greek. The Asteria family is by Semata (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elsa Baussier

Graphic and type designer based in Paris. Her typefaces:

  • Dixit (2020). A text typeface based on a font by Johannes Enschedé. Dixit covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  • Salford Sans (2020). An 8-weight headline sans family developed in collaboration Lewis Guffie (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic) and Dave Williams (Latin and Arabic). Elsa did the symbols,
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Elster Fonts
[Darius Samek]

German designer of:

  • Kontext Dot (2021). A halftone printing font. Still in 2021, this was followed by Kontext H and Kontext V (an experimental font family that plays with optical effects).
  • Billund (2021). A textured marquee font emulating letters made with Lego pieces. Billund covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  • The six-style gaspipe font Magpie (2021), which comes with additional stencil styles.
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Emilios Theofanous

Aka Aemil, b. Cyprus. After studying Mathematics at the University of Athens he obtained an MA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. He worked as an animator and graphic designer, and later studied type design at Esad Type in Amiens, France. He is currently working as a senior type designer at Monotype in London.

FontStructor who made the Latin / Greek stencil typeface ATF Lorem (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilios Theofanous

Graduate of ESAD in Amiens, France, where his graduation typeface was Topos (2018). He writes: Topos is a type family designed for contemporary book and poetry publications. [...] In addition to the standard weights, from Light to Black, Topos comes in four grades, all sharing the same spacing for the Book size. This offers the flexibility of choice of colour, without altering the layout: the calibration will remain the same, while the weight is fine-tuned. Historical references from the Baroque era run throughout this type family with more celebrated features visible in the italics. Greek, including polytonic, is supported as well.

In 2021, he took part in the development of Helvetica Now Variable (Monotype). Helvetica Now Variable was designed by Max Miedinger, Charles Nix, Monotype Studio, Friedrich Althausen, Malou Verlomme, Jan Hendrik Weber and Emilios Theofanous and published by Monotype. Monotype writes: Helvetica Now Variable gives you over a million new Helvetica styles in one state-of-the-art font file (over two-and-a-half million with italics!). Use it as an extension of the Helvetica Now family or make custom-blends from its weights (Hairline to ExtraBlack), optical sizes (four point to infinity), and new Compressed and Condensed widths. It contains 144 static styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emmanuel Margetis

Based in Athens, Greece, Emmanuel Margetis created Gravity (2013), a poster typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Empirica
[Michel Dricot]

The Empirica-Regular truetype font by Michel Dricot, 1995, a clean sans serif with roman and Greek letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EPA Greek Workbench
[Elias Papanikolaou]

Elias Papanikolaou's Amiga fonts for Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Epsilon Alpha competition

Epsilon Alpha (Hellenic Alphabet) is a Greek type design competition with awards in the 500 to 1000 Euro range. The winning entries were at the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication in Thessaloniki in June 2007. The jury consisted of Dan Carr, Keith Tam, George Matthiopoulos, Michail Semoglou and Panagiotis Haratzopoulos. They gave the awards to Alice Savoiie (text type) and Thomas Grace (display type). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erewhon
[Michael Sharpe]

Erewhon (nowhere) is a transitional font based largely on Andrey V. Panov's Heuristica, but with so many changes that Michael Sharpe, its designer at UCSD in San Diego, decided in 2014 to offer it as an enhanced alternative. Heuristica (2008-2012) extended the Utopia font family made available by the TEX Users Group, adding many accented glyphs, Cyrillic glyphs, ligatures, superior and oldstyle fixed-width figures in all styles. Erewhon has 1398 characters and is free at CTAN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eri Papaefstathiou

At Vakalo College, Eri Papaefstathiou (Athens, Greece) designed the (latin) didone display typeface Spinster (2018) and the high contrast Greek display typeface Eclipse (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Pement

Eric Pement's Hebrew font archive: Alex, BSTHebrew, Chaya-Bold, ChemCycles, David-New-Hebrew, DivChem, Dor, ElroNet-Monospace, ElroNet-Proportional, Futura-Thin-Italic, Futura-Thin, Gideon-Medium, HadasahLight, HadasahShamen, Hebpar, Hebrew-Bold-Italic, Hebrew-Bold, Hebrew-Italic, Hebrew-Italic, Hebrew-Regular, Hebrew-Regular, Kur2siv-Italic, Lashon-Tov, Mendel-Siddur-Bold, MendelSiddurMW-Bold, Miriam, Moses-Judaika-Word, Moses-Judaika, Noam-New-Hebrew, Nova-Normal, Paleo-Hebrew-NormalA, Pecan_-Sonc_-Hebrew, Pni2na-Bold, Qumran-Caves, Rashi, Ruth-Fancy, SPDamascus, SPEzra, SPTiberian, Sgreek-Medium, Shalom-Old-Style, Shalom-Script, Shalom-Stick, Shebrew-Medium, Symbol-MW-Bold-Italic, Symbol-MW-Bold, Symbol-MW-Italic, Symbol-MW, Torah-Sofer, Tzipporah, WarnSymbols1, WarnSymbols2, WarnSymbols3, WarnSymbols4, WarnSymbols5, Web-Hebrew-AD, Web-Hebrew-Monospace. He also has a Greek font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Wannin
[Quartet Systems]

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Erik Spiekermann

German type designer and graphic designer par excellence, born in 1947 in Stadthagen. He set up MetaDesign in Berlin in 1979. In 1988 he set up FontShop, home of the FontFont collection. He holds an honorary professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council, and president of the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers). In July 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin. He now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces. He collaborated on the publication of the comprehensive FontBook. Author of Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition) (Adobe Press, Second Edition, 2002, First Edition, 1993). He taught typography at the Art Academy in Bremen, and is guest-lecturer at several schools around the world.

In October 2003, he received the third Gerrit Noordzij Prize, which is given every other year to a designer who has played an important role in the field of type design and typography. It is an initiative of the postgraduate course in Type&Media at the Hague Royal Academy of Art with the Meermanno Museum (The Hague).

His essay on information design.

Biography. Bio at Linotype. Laudatio by John Walters of Eye Magazine. Blog.

Presentation at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Presentation at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. Interviewed in 2006 by Rob Forbes. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin.

He made the following typefaces and type families:

  • Lo-Type (1913, Louis Oppenheim) was digitally adapted by Spiekermann for Berthold in 1979-1980. BERTLib sells it as Adlon Serif ST.
  • PT 55 (1986), the precursor of FF Meta.
  • Berthold Block
  • Berliner Grotesk (1979-1980, Berthold): based on an old Berthold AG typeface from 1923.
  • FF Govan (2001, by Ole Schaefer and Erik Spiekermann).
  • The huge families FF Meta1, FF Meta2, FF Meta3 (2003), FF Meta Condensed (1998) and FFMetaCorrespondence. The FF Meta families (1985) were originally designed for Bundespost, which did not use it--it stayed with Helvetica for a while and now uses Frutiger. Meta comes with CE, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish sets as well. Weights like Meta Light (Thin, Hairline) Greek are available too. Spiekermann is a bit upset that Linotype's Textra (2002, a typeface by Jochen Schuss and Jörg Herz) looks like a cloned of Meta. FF Meta Condensed won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
  • Meta Serif (2007) by Christian Schwartz, Kris Sowersby and Erik Spiekermann. Later extensions by Ralph du Carrois and Botio Nikoltchev.
  • ITC Officina in versions Sans Book (1989-1990) and Serif Book (1989-1990).
  • Boehringer Sans and Antiqua (1996): custom types.
  • Grid, which appeared in FUSE 3.
  • Codesigner with Ole Schaefer (FontShop, 2000) of FF InfoDisplay and FF InfoText in 1997 and of FF InfoOffice in 2000.
  • NokiaSans and NokiaSerif (2002, company identity family). This was in cooperation with Jelle Bosma. Before Nokia Sans and Serif, Nokia used Rotis. Nokia Sans and Serif were replaced by Nokia Pure (Bruno Maag) in 2011.
  • Glasgow Type (1999), for the city of Glasgow, taking inspiration from the Rennie Macintosh types.
  • Heidelberg Gothic (1999).
  • Symantec Sans and Serif (2003): custom types.
  • FF Unit (2003-2004; see also here), another sans family, which won an award at TDC2 2004. This was followed by FF Unit Rounded. And FF Unit Rounded started according to Erik as Gravis, the largest Apple dealer in Germany. FF Unit Slab (2009) is the product of a cooperation between Kris Sowersby, Christian Schwartz, and Erik Spiekermann.
  • ITC Officina Display (2001).
  • FF Meta Thin Light and Hairline (2003) and FF Meta Headline (2005). Developed jointly with Christian Schwartz and Josh Darden.
  • Bosch Sans and Bosch Serif (2004).
  • The SeatMeta family (2003) for Seat.
  • DB Type in six styles (Serif, Sans, Head, Condensed, Compressed, News): designed in 2005 in collaboration with Christian Schwartz for the Deutsche Bahn (train system in Germany). Some typohiles say that it reminds them of Bell Gothic and Vesta.
  • A Volkswagen company family based on a correction of Futura.
  • The DWR House Numbers Series (2006): four fonts with numerals for house numbers: Contemporary House Numbers, Tech House Numbers, Classic House Numbers (based on Bodoni), Industrial House Numbers (stencil). DWR stands for Design Within Reach.
  • Tech (2008, FontStruct), a rounded squarish headline face.
  • Axel (2009): developed jointly with Erik van Blokland and Ralph du Carrois, it is a system font with these features:
    • Similar letters and numbers are clearly distinguishable (l, i, I, 1, 7; 0, O; e, c #).
    • Increased contrast between regular and bold.
    • High legibility on the monitor via Clear Type support.
    • Seems to outperform Courier New, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Georgia, Arial and Calibri, according to their tests (although I would rank Calibri at or above Axel for many criteria).
  • In 2012-2013, Ralph du Carrois and Erik Spiekermann co-designed Fira Sans and Fira Mono for Firefox / Mozilla. This typeface is free for everyone. Google Web Font link. Open Font Library link. It is specially designed for small screens, and seems to do a good job at that. I am not a particular fan of a g with an aerodynamic wing and the bipolar l of Fira Mono, though. Mozilla download page. CTAN link. Google Web Fonts download page. Google web Fonts published Fira Sans Condensed (2012-2016) and Fira Sans Extra Condensed in 2017.
  • In 2013-204, Erik created HWT Artz, a wood type published in digital form by P22, which is based on early 20th century European poster lettering. Named after Dave Artz, a Hamilton Manufacturing retiree and master type trimmer, the proceeds of the sales will go to the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
  • In 2015, Fontfont published FF Real, in 13 weights each for FF Real Text and FF Real Head. This typeface family by Erik Spiekermann and Ralph Olivier du Carrois is influenced by the German grotesques from ca. 1900 by foundries such as Theinhardt and H. Berthold AG.
  • In 2022, Erik Spiekermann, Anja Meiners, and Ralph du Carrois published the neo-grotesque superfamily Case at Fontwerk. It includes Micro and Text subfamilies.

Picture of Eric Spiekermann shot by Chris Lozos at Typo SF in 2012.

FontShop link.

View Erik Spiekermann's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Eros Androulidakis

Athens, Greece-based designer of Liquid Golden (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esintype
[Ege Esin]

Esintype (Turkey) was founded in 2020 by Ali Riza Esin and Ege Esin. In 2020, they co-designed the heavy mechanical industrial all caps slab serif typeface Paverify, which covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Espresso Society Studio
[Dimitris Arvanitis]

Dimitris Arvanitis (b. 1948, Chalkis, Greece) is a painter and graphic designer who has been or is art director EMI-Columbia and Minos and for magazines such as Periodiko, Difono, Tachidromos, Jazz&Tzazz, Kaleidoscopio and Adobe Magazine. He is a member of the Cannibal Fonts company, and founded Espresso Society Studio. He writes in magazines and newspapers, and designs fonts. His creations for Latin and Greek include CF2 Sophia, ConduitTC-Hel, Modula TallGreek and Senator TallGreek (a Greek version of Emigre's Senator).

Cannibal Fonts by him include Bac CF, Bloco CF, Fat CF, Milk CF, Poster CF, Sophia CF, Type Polaroid CF, and Type Ray CF.

MyFonts page. Klingspor link. Old home page. Cannibal Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Essqué Productions
[Stephen M. Knouse]

Stephen Knouse (Essqué Productions) is the Alaskan designer in Wasilla (b. 1976) of several free fonts. These include the display typeface Petal Glyph (2007), Avante Go (2008, avant-garde) and Avante Return (2008, avant-garde). He also created the free comic book fonts Happy Sans (2009, beatnik style) and Happy Serif (2008), Diagano (2012, monoline avant-garde sans), the trekkie typeface Dark Future (2011), and Neon 80s (2010, a rounded sans in the style of VAG Round but more so a faux neon font).

Spyced (2012) evokes Arabian nights, lava lamps, and Indian mystery. In 2014, Stephen designed Geo Grid 9 (a kitchen tile font) and Tall & Lean. In 2016, he added the octagonal trekkie font Commander Edge.

Typefaces from 2021: Power Talks (a bold tuxedoed art deco sans for Latin, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic).

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Devian tart link. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Estampilles
[Nikos Goulandris]

Nikos Goulandris's Mac dingbat font with 94 potter's stamps. He also made AlexandrosP (heads), Cosette, Meduse, Karagiozis (1996, figures taken from pottery), IsminiLight (Greek font), GreekWin, VoreasNormal and BasBayeux (for a discussion, see here). PC truetype versions at Masterstech. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esteriografica (was: Familia Design)
[Rafael Dietzsch]

Rafael Dietzsch ran Familia Design in Brazil, ca. 2007. Presently, he heads Estereografica in Brasilia, Brazil, and is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication, University of Brasilia, and a PhD candidate at the University of Brasilia. Graduate of the University of Brasilia, and of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. His graduation typeface is Brasilica (2012), which is a Latin / Greek typeface family with sufficient diacritical support of most Brazilian indigenous languages. It is a serifed typeface but has matching sans styles. My own first reaction to this typeface was sturdy. Brasilica won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. His thesis in 2012 at Reading was entitled Typefaces for Brazilian indigenous languages. Brasilica was published by the Italian type foundry CAST in 2015.

At ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, he spoke about typefaces for Brazilian indigenous languages. At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, he spoke on wood type in Brazil. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ETC Type
[Mateo Broillet]

Geneva, Switzerland-based graphic and type designer, b. 1990, who studied at ECAL in Lausanne. Designer of the Trajan column-inspired display serif typeface Nero Alto (2019, published by Typeverything).

Mateo also designed the free fonts Seymaz (2020; a variable condensed octagonal sans family inspired by the Grecian wood type style from the 19th century) and Sabir Mono (2018; a monospaced programming font with support for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew developed as a student project). Fontesk link to his free typefaces. Github link for ETC Type, where one can also download some of his typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eudora Greek Tables

Greek script and Greek bitmap fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eudora Greek Tables (Norway)

Greek script and Greek bitmap fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugen Sudak
[WDC Fonts]

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Eugene Alefragi

Greek designer of Guernica (2015), a typeface that consists of pieces of Pablo Picasso's famous painting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugene Bunin

Graphic designer based in Kyrgyzstan. In 2020, Eugene Bunin and Christine Beginskaya released the futuristic partly stencil typeface family Gluon.

In 2020, Eugene released Kellion (a cyberpunk typeface), Hellebore (inspired by the logo and the game Mortal Shel), the dystopian typeface Dredger, the futuristic typeface Akrux, the retro-modern all caps sans typeface Inlow and Esm (a 6-style low contrast Swiss sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2021: Interite (a modern typeface with didone elements), Covenante (a display serif), Tp1972 (futuristic), Cradock (a 10-style almost monospaced sans), Razorback (techno), Metal Morphosis (octagonal), Neuromancer (a glitch font), Monumentum (a squarish monumentalist typeface), Dissidia, Arkham (an all caps tattoo font), Transmetropolitan (a piano key typeface), Aurelac (a sharp-edged display font).

Typefaces from 2022: Np1972 (a futuristic font that looks like a matrix), Robert Moore (a comic book typeface family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

EUROIDEA

Archive with free Greek fonts for the Mac and PC (Hellas Arial and Hellas Times). [Google] [More]  ⦿

European Parliament

1MB worth of Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

European Space Agency

Free custom-designed fonts for the European Space Agency:

  • The original set: ESAProgramme (1995), ESASubtitle (1996), ESATitle (1996). The designers are anonymous. I am hosting these here.
  • NotesESA: the corporate font, used for titles, subheads and some special text. Developed between 2004 and 2008 by Ole Schaefer.
  • Notes Style: A logo font by Ole Schaefer published in 2005.
  • Din Pro Bold and Regular (Albert-Jan Pool for FontShop, 2005) which cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  • The Sans (1994-2006): Four free weights by Lucas DeGroot.
  • Reykjavik One (2001, Stefan Kjartansson) for captions.
  • Verdana and Georgia used as system fonts.
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Euschemon Creative

Kalamata, Greece-based designer of Guernica (2017), a typeface in which each glyph is inspired by a detail of Picasso's Guernica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eva Karapidaki

Eva Karapidaki holds a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from Middlesex University /AKTO. She often writes for +Design magazine and works for Tsevis Visual Design. Her first commercial typeface is PF Hardkore (2007, Parachute). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eva Masoura

Ex-student at the University of Reading who designed Almeida (2003). At TDC2 2006, she won an award for her design of Frutiger Next Greek (2005), shared with Adrian Frutiger. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EversonMono for MacOs

Free Mac fonts in the EversonMono series for CSX, Celtic, Croatian, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Gaelic, Georgian, Greek, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Ogham, Romanian, Sami, and Turkish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Every Witch Way
[D. Paul Alecsandri]

D. Paul Alecsandri designed the runic fonts Futharc (2001), NewSymbolFont (2000) and Samaritan (2001). We also find the rather complete Unicode truetype font Roman-Unicode (2001), which cover all European, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai and Indic languages, and provide kana as well (but not kanji). All parts of unicode covered. See also here.

Samaritan (2001) deals with a pre-Samaritan or pre-Babylonian Hebrew.

Originally designed for linguistics, the free typeface Chrysanthi Unicode (2001) contains all Unicode Latin characters (including Basic Latin, Latin 1 Supplement, Latin Extended A&B, IPA, and Latin Extended Additional) as well as Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and everal others.

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evita Tachataki

Heraklion, Greece-based designer of a great Greek lettering poster for an optician called Markakis (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Explogos
[Steve Gardner]

Suffolk, UK-based creator of many free typefaces. Designer of the free sans typefaces Smiley (2013, a hairline circle-based sans), Larke Sans (2013), Statement (2013), Formation Sans (2013) and Creativ Zoo (2013, +Serif), and the free serif typefaces Formation Serif (2013) and Edmundsbury Serif (2013), and its sans companion Edmundsbury (2013). As Cute As (2013) is a hand-drawn typeface.

Typefaces from 2014: Larke Neue (sans family), Explogos (a free organic sans typeface, and a 778-glyph commercial extension that covers, e.g., Greek and Cyrillic besides all Latin-based European languages), Squarea (squarish), Cirqua (circle-based sans), Chapaza (transitional text typeface, +Italic), Plateia (a sans typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Coughy Machine, Kalypsa (free sans with 2300 glyphs and coverage of Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifying Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek & Coptic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplement, Latin Extended Additional, Greek Extended, General Punctuation, Superscripts & Subscripts, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Mathematical Operators, Coptic), As Cute as Comic, UFont Sans Medium, Bedric's Worth, Pragma Sans, Bold As Cute As, As Cute As Comic.

Typefaces from 2015: Tretton, Baqacents (sic), Reformation Sans.

Typefaces from 2016: Tretton Serif, Qaranta Bold.

Typefaces from 2018: Calamity Wayne (a reverse-contrast slab serif for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, inspired by the wild west French Clarendons and Italians of the late-1800s).

Typefaces from 2022: Caliventa (a flared angular text typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Eye Opium

Athens, Greece-based designer of Ieroglyfia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

EZ Byzantine Music Font Package

Greek/Byzantine music font package brought to you by Father Ephraim from the Greek Orthodox St. Anthony's Monastery in Arizona: EZ-Oxeia, EZ-Fthora, EZ-Psaltica, EZ-Special-I, EZ-Special-II, EZ Omega. These fonts are similar to the fonts from CYLLOGOS MOUSIKOFILON CON.

The Byzantine Drop Caps package includes Agion Oros XHR (1994, by I.M. Grhgorioy), EileenCaps, Genesis, MgAgiaSofiaUC, MgAgionOrosUC, MgByzantineUCPol, MgEkklisiaUC, MgGothicOld, MgKonstantinosUC, MgViking, MrSByzantinePT, Mt, PFGoudyInitials, PFKonstantinople and PFKonstantinopleInitials. The fonts starting with Mg are by Magenta, ca. 1989. The PF fonts refer to Parachute, ca. 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabio Haag Type (was: ByType, and: Foco Design)
[Fabio Luiz Haag]

Fabio Haag Type is Fabio Haag's type foundry in Brazil. Earlier, he ran ByType, the type subdivision of Foco Design, and worke for Dalton Maag's Brazilian division. Fabio Luiz Haag (b. 1981, Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul) is located in Sapiranga, Rio Grande do Sul.

Fabio Haag designed FH After (2006, futuristic display typeface to which After Text and After Headline were added in 2007), FH Foco (2003) (a large x-height sans), this futuristic typeface (2003), and Minas Headline, a custom family made for the government of Minas Gerais. He was working on this display font (2005).

In 2006, Foco became a Dalton Maag Ltd font family, and Fabio Haag became the new Creative Director of the Brazilian wing of Dalton Maag in 2008. MyFonts sells Foco and Foco Corp (2007).

Designer (with Jonas Schudel) of a grotesque sans at Dalton Maag, 2007-2009, called Effra, which was inspired by a 1816 design from the Caslon font foundry. Discussion at Typophile. Followed in 2013 by Effra Corp (Dalton Maag) which also supports Greek and Cyrillic.

In 2007, he created the organic sans typeface IronThree.

Cordale (2008) is a workhorse serif typeface jointly done with Lukas Paltram at Dalton Maag. Cordale Corp, the corporate edition, includes Latin Extended A, Greek and Cyrillic characters sets. Cordale Arabic was published in 2013.

In 2009, Foco Italics was published.

At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about Dalton Maag and about the elements necessary to make it in the type business today.

In 2012, the Dalton Maag Brazil team designed the font for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games The 5448-character connected script font Rio2016 was developed by Dalton Maag Brazil, and involved a team that includes Fabio Haag, Fernando Caro and Gustavo Soares. Beth Lula is the Branding Director of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee. Passages of the press release: Each letter expresses a characteristic of Rio 2016 Games, its people and city. The letters are written with a single continuous linework, with a fast and fluid movement, suggesting the movements of the athletes in action. The variety of curves in the letters has a unique informality, inspired by the joyfulness of the Brazilian people. Fabio Haag: As a Brazilian typophile, designing the Rio 2016 font was a dream job. This is a milestone for the design scene in Brazil---it's a great example of how type designers can collaborate with graphic designers, sharing their expertise to strengthen an identity.

In 2013, Fabio designed Almaq, a pair of sans display typefaces in cuts called Refined and Rough.

Codesigner with Bruno Mello, Fernando Caro, Rafael Saraiva and Ron Carpenter of Soleto (2014, Dalton Maag), a sans typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

Setimo (2015) was co-designed by Fernando Caro, Ken Gitschier, Fabio Haag and Lukas Paltram at Dalton Maag, and won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

In 2016, Fabio Haag published Lembra (a sans that was created specifically for branding, characterized by tapered terminals) at his new type foundry, Fabio Haag Type, set up after he left Dalton Maag after eight years. Fabio Haag Type grew in 2020 to a team of four, now also including Ana Laydner, Henrique Beier and Eduilson Coan. In 2019, a variable font option was added top Lembra.

In 2017, he designed the 28-unit legible humanist sans variable font family Margem (Fabio Haag Type), which includes a yummy Rounded subfamily. Still in 2017, he developed the sans typeface Sua, which as a variable option.

In 2018, he published pictograms for SporTV, a forceful constructivist font for the World Cup 2018 also for SporTV and Furacão (for Atletico Paranaense).

Typefaces from 2019: Suzano Sans (a commissioned rounded branding typeface done for Suzano).

Typefaces from 2020: Margem (a fine 7-style rounded sans family by Henrique Beier, Ana Laydner and Eduilson Coan).

Typefaces from 2021: Seiva (by Henrique Beier, Eduilson Coan and Fabio Haag: a distant relative of Didot, this exotic sans family is partitioned into Text, Display and Poster subfamilies, and welcomes variable font technology), Salva (2021, Fabio Haag Type). A versatile workhorse sans family: Eduilson Coan was the lead designer. He was assisted by the Fabio Haag Type team of Henrique Beier, Ana Laydner and Fabio Haag himself.

View Fabio Haag's typefaces. Fabio Haag Type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fabio Luiz Haag
[Fabio Haag Type (was: ByType, and: Foco Design)]

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Faculty of Classics, Oxford University

Greek font links, and great Greek font jump page. Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fani Dimopoulou

Patras, Greece-based designer of the typewriter typeface Makina (2018) and the Gree emulation typeface Master Yoda (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fani Ikonomopoulou

Graphic designer in Sparta, Greece, b. 1978. In 2015, she created the wavy Latin / Greek typeface Onda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fani Kokolaki

Greek designer (b. 1991) of FK Dino (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fantasy Fonts Archive

Fantasy fonts archive. Includes CRL_1 (Greek), several Startrek fonts (such as STCardassian), KeplerAstro and Hermetic (astrology fonts), rune fonts (such as Enochian and Dethek-Dwarvish-FR), and Tim Gathercole's Tencton. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FauxFoundry
[Laurence Penney]

In June 2019, together with Laurence Penney, Irene Vlachou initiated the experimental project FauxFoundry, a web font service offering fallback fonts, such that multiple scripts can be presented with reasonable fidelity to the web designer's intent, even when the primary font does not support those scripts. Currently working for Greek, thus providing Greek fallback fonts for fonts that do not contain Greek. The system takes measurements from Latin fonts that represent the parametric axes developed by Type Network. In the process, FauxFoundry developed the FauxForger software utility. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ferdie Balderas
[Indieferdie]

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Fermin Guerrero

Born in Carmelo, Colonia, Uruguay in 1983, then based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied Visual Communication at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design, and now back in Montevideo, Uruguay, this graphic designer created the counterless geometric typeface Circ (2011), and the triangulated experimental typeface VIGA (2011). Fermin has a Bachelors degree in Industrial Design (2009). At his foundry, also called Fermin Guerrero, one can buy VIGA and MANIFESTA (2012, a De Stijl typeface).

For his Bachelors thesis at HEAD in Geneva, he created the typeface Genève (2014): In developing Genève I was inspired by the typeface used by French printer/editor/publisher Henri II Estienne in his famous book Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, published in Geneva in 1572. This typeface was brought to Geneva by Henri's father, Robert Estienne, who, before settling in Geneva and working as Calvin's printer, was the printer of France's King, François I. This typeface highly influenced the typographers and printers in Geneva at that time. Henri and Robert Estienne's work in Geneva helped it to become one of the most important cities in Europe for print and typography in the sixteenth century. Genève consists of four styles: Classique (humanist serif), Austère (geometric serif), Spontanée (humanist sans-serif) and Alternative (stencil, display version).

Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2015. His graduation typeface was Exentra which was was conceived for publications promoting forward-thinking through a contemporary and experimental vision of modern culture and trends. It supports Latin, Gurmukhi and Greek. In addition, Fermin added the fat face didone / gothic mixture mixture font Black Display for applications in fashion, and the super-angular and scary Franky as sub-styles of Exentra.

In 2017, he published Thesaurus, the renaming and outgrowth of Genève, at Typotheque. Thesaurus Display Italic followed in 2018. Well-deserved winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a grand prize.

In 2019, he designed Brick Pro (Display, Text) for Colophon, which explains: Brick's foundations lie in the signage of three prominent pubs in London's East End, The Jolly Butchers (Brick Lane---now closed), The Royal Oak (Columbia Road), and The Prince Albert (Acton Street). Referencing their Art Deco traits, with a trace of Art Nouveau heritage, Brick is Fermín Guerrero’s re-interpretation and continuation of the vernaculars elegant gestures, brought into the 21st century. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Haro

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Ampuero and Laredo, Spain-based designer (b. 1971) who set up deFharo. Creator of the monoline sans typeface Depez (2011), Fabada (2011), and the free monoline geometric sans typeface La Chata (2011). La chatte, in French? Maybe not.

In 2011, he made the monoline organic sans typeface Lerótica (free at OFL).

In 2012, he created Nabatea (stone chisel typeface), V de Vacia (a grungy outline face), Sabática (organic), the straight-edged data style typeface Gabardina, the grotesk typeface A Bebedera, the shadow typeface B de Bonita, D Puntillas, and the deconstructed Qebrada.

In 2013, he designed Yacarena Ultra, H.H. Agallas, Nacimiento (a dymo label font), J Airplane Swash (a psychedelic typeface named after Jefferson Airplane), CA Garrutas (grunge), CA Gatintas (grunge), I Am Telefono (the largest phone dingbat and scanbat typeface on earth), Wach Op-Art (kaleidoscopic icons), K.O. Activista, I Am Hueca, X Template (stencil), H.H.Samuel (rounded sans), U2 Metalona (a beautiful white-on-black display face), M F Plexus Italic, J.M. Nexus Grotesque (an "thin inline" fat grotesque), Wachinanga, Tabaquera, Pabellona (grunge), El Pececito (video game font), the poster typeface Hobby of Night (OFL), H2O Shadow (outline version of Fabada), Zabatana Poster (a didone-inspired poster font), Oaxaquena Tall, Yacimiento (wood style wedge serif), and Rabanera.

Typefaces from 2014: Babalusa Cut, A Cuchillada, Sabandija (a plump round display typeface), F2 Tecnocratica, F1 Secuencia Quad (pixel face), La Pejina FFP (bilined), Tabaiba Wild, Gabachita (ultra-condensed rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2015: Tabarra Pro (Swiss style sans family for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), A Sogra Ruth (ultra-condensed art deco), Gaban (an outline version of Tabardo), Tabardo (a heavy blocky font), Wacamoler Caps (a Tuscan typeface inspired opening credits of the Western movie Winchester '73 directed by Anthony Mann in 1950), Ubicada (condensed geometric sans), Rabiosa (neurotic font), Zacatecas (condensed shaded sans), F3 Secuencia Round, La Babaca (a powerful black condensed sans in the style of Impact), Obcecada Sans + Serif (condensed with almost disappearing descenders), Eacologica Round Slab (a nice commercial font with an incomplete set of numerals), Palim Script (curly), Vacaciones (signage face), de La Cruz.

Typefaces from 2016: Yugoslavia (calligraphic), Love Box (stencil), Cienfuegos (connected retro script named after the Cuban her Camilo Cienfuegos), Gaitera Ball (round fat script), The Black Box (a retro banner font), Durum Kebab (shadow sans), Jolgoria In Town (script), Yerbaluisa (signage script), Escobeta One (brush script), Posteratus Rex, Bastardilla (a cursive font), Rotulona Hand, The Juke Box (retro juke box lettering), Angelique Rose (connected monoline script), Promenades, Bucanera (a swashbuckle font), Lucemita, Panama Road (a casual calligraphic font), Deslucida, Disoluta, Sucesion Slab, Tabarra Pro Round, Qebab Pro Shadow, Monserga (white on black), Indulta SemiSerif.

Typefaces from 2017: Partizano Serif (a retro poster font; free demo), Jack Stanislav (a great condensed movie poster font), Fontanero (rounded fat sans), Yonky (fat slab serif), Zigzageo, Libertatus (manual serif fonts based on a Czech poster from 1935), Libertatus Duas (slab serif), Flamante Sans, Flamante Serif, Flamante (Round, SemiSlab, Stencil, Seca, Cairo, Roma), Seisdedos Dead (rough stencil fonts), Neo Latina (stencil), Carta Magna (blackletter), La Sonnambula (signature script), Bola Ocho (an eightball font), Clandestina (textured, layered), Acratica (signage script), Penitencia Inline, Autarquica (outlined vernacular style), Caminata One (shaded signage typeface), Sin Razon (wedge serif), Glotona Black and White (a layered tattoo style font duo), Glotona Dots (the textured versions of Glotona), 6th Aniversario, Tribal Box (squarish sans, with tattoo ornaments and a great environment for borders), Candy Pop (bubblegum font), Sargento Gorila (army stencil font), Libertinas + co (a curly calligraphic script; the free version has no numerals).

Typefaces from 2018: Gudariak (a free color SVG font: Vicente Ballester Marco (Valencia 1887-1980) was a graphic designer and Valencian poster artist affiliated with the CNT (Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo) who created political propaganda posters of clear modernist and post-cubist influence during the Spanish Civil War. The Gudariak typeface is inspired mainly by one of the posters he made for the Government of Euskadi and also in others where the author continues to explore this particular typographic style. ), Farisea Fraktur, Octuple Max (techno), Ordeal Eroded, Panfleta Stencil, Secuela (free), Fragua Pro (condensed sans family), Getho (a geometric semi-sans), Cowboya Tuscan (a curly Tuscan circus font), Txuleta Deco (a striped art deco typeface), Coltan Gea (slab serif), Getho Semi Sans, Cowboys (a Tuscan typeface), Drystick Geo Grotesk, Diezma, Grifa Slab, Coltan Gea (slab serif family), Paloseco (geometric and grotesk), Stoica (a color SVG font), Letrera Caps (a rounded square style layered and color font that pays homage to the sans serif inline genre), Enagol Math (a condensed rounded slab serif based on carefully applied mathematical ratios), Heptal, Velocista, Octagen Condensed, Octagen Black, Sextan Serif, Sextan Cyrillic, Quickat (signage script), Octagen (condensed sand with short descenders), Wolframia Script (flowing handwriting), Pentay Slab, Pentay Sans, Pentay Book, Cuatra, Judera (Flat and Ring: monospaced, unicase and totally sqaurish), Quotus (slab serif), Tripleta Grotesk (a 16-style geometric sans family).

Typefaces from 2019: Pervitina Dex (sci-fi), Megalito Slab, Obesum Caps, Jane Roe (sans), Icons Opentype, Felona (stencil: a variable font), Neo Fobia, Bocartes Fritos (food icons), Red Thinker (a squarish monoline sans), Pena Caldaria (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2020: Anoxic (a squarish monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Humato (a sturdy font for weightlifters), Probeta (a squarish techno sans family in 42 styles), Speeday (a speed emulation sans).

Creative Market link. OFL link. Behance link. Dafont link. Devian tart link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ferran Milan Oliveras

Born in Barcelona in 1979, Ferran Milan studied graphic design at Massana School of Art in the same city, then relocated to the UK to study typeface design. In 2011 he graduated from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading. Ferran worked at Andreu Balius Studio in Barcelona and at Dalton Maag in London before co-founding the Letterjuice type foundry with Pilar Cano.

He created the Latin / Arabic typeface Bubblegum (2011) during his studies there. Bubblegum is soft and rounded, but is remarkably well-suited for small text thanks the careful use of inktraps.

In 2012, he won the Bronze Prize in the Latin category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Baldufa. Baldufa was also crowned at TDC 2013. Award winner at The 2014 Horouf Type Design Competition. Its angular and stocky design makes it ideal for use in catalogs and magazines. In 2021, Ferran Milan and Pilar Cano released Baldufa Greek Ltn (Greek and Latin), Baldufa Greek, Baldufa Cyrillic Ltn, Baldufa Cyrillic and Baldufa Paneuropean.

In 2013, Pilar Cano and Ferran Milan co-designed the text typeface Quars, which was published at Letterjuice. It was influenced by Scotch Roman and classical Dutch typefaces. In addition, it offers a generous glyph set with many ligatures specially crafted for titling and ornaments based on anonymous metal types found in the drawers of an old printing workshop in a coast town near Barcelona.

Pilar Cano and Ferran Milan bundled their efforts once again in 2018 for the Latin / Thai typeface family Arlette (TypeTogether).

Codesigner with Pilar Cano in 2022 of Nawin Arabic, an informal Arabic typeface inspired by handwriting. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Finder

Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

findmyfont

Commercial software for Mac and Windows by Softonium Developments in Greece. Given an image of a font, or just letters of a font, this software locates the font on one's computer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fixedsys
[Darien Valentine]

Free truetype fonts: Tai Le Valentinum (for the Tai Le script used in China, Burma and Laos), Valentine Arabic, the faux pixel font Sounds of Apathy, and the unicode faux pixel font Fixedsys Excelsior 2.0 (2007). The latter covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian, Tamil, Hylian, N'Ko, Ethiopic, blackletter, Dehong Dai, Pahawh Hmong, Thaan, Arabic, Thai, Ogham, runic, and IPA. All fonts made by Darien Valentine in 2004. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flanker (or: Studio di Lena)
[Leonardo Di Lena]

Flanker, or Studio Di Lena, is the foundry of Italian type designer Leonardo Di Lena (b. 1975, Rome). Initially, it offered fresh free designs of classics. In 2012, it went commercial. Their fonts:

  • Bodoni Flnk.
  • CNR lineare: athletic lettering.
  • Didot Flnk.
  • Doppio Senso: inspired by the 1992 traffic signal typeface in Italy, Transport D.
  • Elettra (2013). A transitional typeface with extra long serifs and several didone traits. For display work.
  • Flanker: classical roman face.
  • Flanker Garaldus (2012). Based on a 1956 font by Aldo Novarese.
  • Griffo Flnk: A multistyle family after typefaces like Bembo.
  • Imperator: a classical roman face.
  • Italian Typewriter (2012). A family of monospaced typewriter typefaces based on Italian typewriters of the thirties and forties.
  • Lello: another classical roman face.
  • Magnificat (2011): after Friedrich Peter's ornamental font from 1975. Free download at Dafont.
  • Marantz: fat art deco face, after the logo of the sound system company.
  • Marlboro Flnk: ultra condensed and tall.
  • Poliphili (2017). This is a serious attempt at a revival of the elegant typeface used in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499, publ. Aldus Manutius) that was cut by Francesco da Bologna. That roman font in turn was a revised version of the type used in 1496 for Pietro Bembo's De Aetna.
  • Flanker Ruano (2013). Based on a chancery typeface by Raffaelo Bertieri (1926).
  • Selene (2013). A monoline sans. Followed by Selene Book (2021: a 14-style geometric sans with art deco influences in some styles).
  • Semplicità (2014-2015): a remake of the art deco sans by Butti and Novarese in 1930.
  • Shock to the system: an original in the cyberpunk style.
  • Sony: after the Sony logo letters.
  • Flanker Tanagra (2022). Leonardo writes about this condensed vintage serif: In order to give new imput to the art of typeface design in Italy, Nebiolo Company held, in March 1910, an artistic competition for a new alphabet conception, so the best-ranked design would be transformed into a real new typeface. 42 competitors participated and, although the first prize was not technically awarded, "Ancora" resulted as the best typeface, created by the designer-typographer Natale Varetti of Turin. Nonetheless, the new alphabet was transformed into a full-fledged metal typeface in 1924, renamed "Tanagra" in honor of the Greek city in the center of Boeotia.
  • There's nothing money can't buy: a sans.
  • Titano: an original art deco sans family.
  • Total Eclipse: futuristic.
  • Traiano: Trajan column style.
  • Travertino: a sans workhorse family.

The outfit was known as JFDooM Flanker's Fonts, between 2001 and 2004. The fonts then were slightly different. They included BodoniFlnk, BodoniFlnkCor, BodoniFlnkCorGrass, BodoniFlnkGas, CNRLineare, DidotFlnk, DidotFlnkCorsivo, DidotFlnkCorsivoGrassetto, DidotFlnkGrassetto, Emblema-della-Repubblica-Italiana, Frantisek, GaramondFlnkNormale, GaramondFlnkCorsivo, GaramondFlnkCorsivoGrassetto, GaramondFlnkGrassetto, GriffoFlnkCorsivo, GriffoFlnkCorsivoGrassetto, GriffoFlnkGrassetto, GriffoFlnknormale, Lellocorsivobold, Lellocorsivo, Lello, MarlboroFlnk, Magnificat, There's-nothing-money-can't-buy, Poker, ShocktothesystemCorsivo, ShocktothesystemVuoto, Sony, Bjork-Isobel, Imperator, Traiano, Rdclub. Most fonts have Greek and Cyrillic letters as well.

View Leonardo Di Lena's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Flawless Supplies

Greek design of the Escher-style typeface Impossible Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fleha Type
[Teja Smrekar]

Participant in the TipoRenesansa workshop in Slovenia in 2010, who designed the angular typeface Arkadika (2010). She also made the pixel typeface Piksna (2010). Her first degree in fine arts was from the University of Maribor. She also has a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.

Arkadika was further developed at tipoRenesansa, 2nd international type design workshop in 2011. At tipoRenesansa, 4th international type design workshop (2012), she created the contemporary serif typeface Paradigma.

In 2013, Teja received the 2013 Monotype Studentship at the University of Reading. At Reading, her gradaution typeface was Mirna (2014): Mirna is a text typeface for continuos reading with a playful stencil display style. It is suitable for editorial text settings in lifestyle, fashion and health magazines. Display stencil style is suitable for branding and packaging. The typeface is meant to be read on paper printed with high-quality offset printing technology, as well as on high resolution screens and reading devices. Mirna has Greek, Cyrillic and Khmer family extensions.

In 2019, she set up Fleha Type and promptly published the handcrafted typeface Katka.

In 2020, Fleha Type released the experimental modular script typeface Trico Script by Mitja Miklavcic and the weathered stencil typeface Linoma.

In 2022, Teja Smrekar designed Grato Marker at TypeMates. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fontarkivet

Font archive from Denmark. Includes several original dingbat fonts from Listemageren such as Ancient Greeks and Gabriel's Angels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontbilisi (was: Germán León)
[Germán León]

Fontbilisi was established by German Leon (b. Madrid, Spain) in 2013. For a while, he was located in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2014, he is in Lima, Peru. In 2017, his MyFonts page places his origins in Ukraine. He explains: He was born in Madrid, but crisis and love brought him to Tbilisi, Georgia, from where he is currently designing.

His first typeface is the quaint Latin slab serif Miraflores (2012). In 2013, he published GL Tetuan (a slab serif that covers Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian and Greek) and GL Benicassim (a sans for Latin and Cyrillic). The foundry Germán León was renamed Fontbilisi that same year.

In 2017, Leon published GL Parla (a decorative, even playful, typeface derived from didones). Linkedin link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fontry West
[James L. Stirling]

Fontry West is located in Tulsa, OK. At MyFonts, these Fontry West fonts can be bought: Iron, Toxcons (2008, skulls), WILD1 Firstvision, WILD1 Larra, WILD1 Nobody, WILD1 Ruts, WILD1 Toxia, WILD2 Ghixm, WILD2 Keetoowah (2008). Its type designer is James L. Stirling, who cofounded the Watts, Oklahoma-based design and lettering studio The Fontry in 1992 with Michael Gene Adkins. Born in 1964 in Oklahoma, Stirling co-designed WILD1 Firstvision (1997, techno) and Ironrider and Ironhorse (2008, blackletter typefaces based on wood types) with Adkins. In 2000, he co-designed the fonts Modern Poster and Modern Roman, based on the lettering of Alf R. Becker, a sign painter from 1932 to 1957. These fonts were published by Agfa-Monotype. Later fonts there include Steel Narrow, Steel Moderne, Chicago Modern. At The Fontry in the early 1990s, he made Klash (comic books style), Peppermint and Peppermint Openface (Southwest influences), Marbles&Strings, and Keetowah. He also made some Greek fonts at The Fontry.

In 2009, James Stirling started a serious digitization program of the art deco fonts of Alf R. Becker (based mostly on his Signs of the Times series), and made ARB 70 Modern Poster, ARB 93 Steel Moderne, ARB 44 Chicago Modern, ARB08ExtremeRomanAUG-32CASNormal (2009; the original is from 1932), and ARB 67 Modern Roman.

The grunge typeface JLS OverKill Grunge (2009) is free. JLS Smiles (2010) is a family of typefaces consisting of smilies / emoticons. FHA Modernized Ideal Classic (2011, with Michael Gene Adkins) is based on a demonstraton alphabet from Frank H. Atkinson's Atkinson Sign Painting (1908).

Typefaces from 2012 include FHA Condensed French (with Michael Gene Adkins), JLS Space X1C (LED style), JLS Space X2C, JLS Space Gothic, JLS Data Gothic.

  • In 2013, James cooperated with Michael Gene Adkins on FHA Broken Gothic, a layered chiseled type system based on Frank Atkinson's Broken Poster.

    Typefaces from 2014: FHA Tuscan Roman (2014, Michael Gene Adkins, James L Stirling).

    In 2015, Stirling designed JLS Main Square Frames (corners, rules and frames for vintage ads and monograms).

    Typefaces from 2018: FTY Overkill Condensed.

    Dafont link. FontShop link. Fontspring link.

    View James Stirling's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    • Fonts for Scholars
    [David J. Perry]

    Cardo is a Unicode font under development by David J. Perry from Rye, New York. Covering European languages, as well as Hebrew, Greek/Coptic and Greek Extended, it is free for non-commercial use. He writes: "This font is my version of a typeface cut for the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius and first used to print Pietro Bembo's book De Aetna. This font has been revived in modern times under several names (Bembo, Aetna, Aldine 401). I chose it mainly because it is a classic book face, suitable for scholarship, and also because it is easier to get various diacritics sized and positioned for legibility with this design than with some others. I added a set of Greek characters designed to harmonize well on the page with the Roman letters as well as many other characters useful to classicists and medievalists."

    Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fonts for the New Testament Greek
    [Jonathan Robie]

    Greek font links with a nice discussion by Jonathan Robie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fonts Jos Kunst
    [Jos Kunst]

    Two free fonts by Dutchman Jos Kunst: classical Greek (Mac only), and MathLogic (Mac, PC). Jos Kunst lived from 1936-1996. Bio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fonts.gr (or: Greek Digital Types, or: Ellenike Psephiake Typotheke)

    The largest Greek font vendor today. Fonts.gr is a collective type foundry in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1994 by graphic and type designer Panos Haratzopoulos (Cannibal) and saw contributions by designers Yannis Karlopoulos and Vassilis Georgiou. Its typefaces include the Futura / Avenir-style CF Asty (2017).

    List of type designers. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontsmith
    [Jason Smith]

    Jason Smith is the British corporate typeface designer who founded Fontsmith in 1997, where he retailed his own designs from his office in London. He has created a typographic identity for the Post Office in the UK. Phil Garnham was one of the in-house type designers. In January 2020, Fontsmith was acquired by Monotype.

    Smith's custom typefaces include Casey, Seat, Tractebel, PPP Healthcare, Powergen, Allied Irish Bank, UUnet, Channel 4, and Saudi Aramco, Champions (2009: for the UEAFA Champions League), Colgate Ready (2014: for Colgate, covering Latin, Cyrillic, Eastern European, Devanagari and Thai), More4 (2005, for the Channel 4 Adult Entertainment channel), ITV (2006, for the ITV network), BBC ONE (2006, for the BBC), Post Office Sans (2003), Severstal (2009), and Moto GP (2020: a custom techno / sports font).

    Vernon Adams and Fontsmith got into a quarrel about Vernon's Mako, which was submitted and rejected by Fontsmith, which published its own similar typeface Lurpak a few weeks later.

    Most of Jason Smith's typefaces are now at MyFonts, after Monotype's take-over in 2020:

    • FS Albert (2002). A soft-edged sans family by Jason Smith, Mitja Miklavcic and Phil Garnham. Followed by Emanuela Conidi's FS Albert Arabic. In 2007, Jason Smith designed the custom typeface Xerox Sans (+Condensed) as a modification of his FS Albert, to which Greek and Cyrillic alphabets were added as well.
    • FS Aldrin (2016). A rounded sans by Phil Garnham.
    • FS Alvar (2007, Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). A modernist utilitarian headline font family inspired by the work of Alvar Aalto.
    • FS Benjamin (2018). A flared sans serif by Stuart De Rozario.
    • FS Blake (Emanuela Conidi). A sans with some inherent tension.
    • FS Brabo (2015, Fernando Mello). Named after Brabo in Antwerp, FS Brabo was inspired by the Plantin Moretus museum and the garalde styles (Bembo, Garamond, Plantin). FS Brabo won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.
    • FS Clerkenwell (2004, Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). A slab serif.
    • FS Conrad (2009). A multiline display face by Phil Garnham.
    • FS Dillon. Influenced by the Bauhaus quest for simplicity.
    • FS Elliot (2012). By Nick Job.
    • FS Emeric (2013, Phil Garnham). A large humanist slightly angular sans family. Dedicated web site.
    • FS Hackney. An assertive sans typeface family by Nick Job.
    • FS Industrie (2018). A 70-style techno / mechanical sans family by Fernando Mello and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Ingrid. A humanist sans family by Jason Smith.
    • FS Irwin (2017). An incised typeface inspired by New York, FS Irwin is a sans serif with calligraphic roots.
    • FS Jack (2009, Jason Smith and Fernando Mello). A confident sans family that was awarded at Tipos Latinos 2010.
    • FS Joey (2009, Jason Smith and Fernando Mello). An organic sans typeface family.
    • FS Kim (2018). A joyful display typeface family by Krista Radoeva.
    • FS Kitty (2007, Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). In the Japanese kawaii style.
    • FS Koopman (2018). A sans family designed by Andy Lethbridge and Stuart De Rozario. A hybrid sans workhorse that takes inspiration from Swiss grotesks, American gothics and early British grotesques
    • FS Lola (2006). Originally designed for Wechsler Ross&Portet by Phil Garnham, it is advertised by Fontsmith as a transgender type.
    • Lost + Foundry (2018, Pedro Arilla and Stuart de Rozario). The Lost & Foundry family of seven fonts includes FS Berwick, FS Cattle, FS Century, FS Charity, FS Marlborough, FS Portland and FS St James. The campaign was developed by Fontsmith, M&C Saatchi London and Line Form Colour. The crumbling typefaces of Soho were recovered to be sold online as a collection of display fonts, to fund the House of St Barnabas's work with London's homeless. Fontsmith's designers Stuart de Rozario and Pedro Arilla worked with M&C Saatchi London to develop the fonts.
    • FS Lucas (2016). A geometric sans by Stuart de Rozario.
    • FS Maja. A curvy display typeface.
    • FS Matthew. A sans family.
    • FS Me. Mencap, a British company that works with people with a learning disability, asked Smith to design a font, FS Mencap (also known as FS Me), for the learning disabled---easy to read, yet elegant. Codesigned by Jason Smith, Mitja Miklavcic and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Meridian (by Kristina Jandova). A rhythmic geometric sans family with circular forms.
    • FS Millbank (2015). A wayfinding typeface family by Stuart de Rozario.
    • FS Neruda (2018, by Pedro Arilla). A transitional storytelling text family named after Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
    • FS Olivia (2012). An angular poetic text typeface family by Eleni Beveratou.
    • FS Ostro (2018, Alessia Mazzarella). A modern typeface family in text and display versions. It brings warmth and fresh air to the cold Italian didones. Its more subdued and less contrasted text version was influenced by Scotch romans. There are also genetic elements of Spanish display types.
    • FS Pele (2007). An ultra fat typeface by Jason Smith and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Pimlico (2011, Fernando Mello). A humanist display sans.
    • FS Rigsby (2005). A sans.
    • FS Rome (Mitja Miklavcic and Emanuela Conidi). An all caps Trajan typeface.
    • FS Rufus (2009). A slab serif by Mitja Miklavcic, Jason Smith and Emanuela Conidi. Described by them as benevolent, quirky, peculiar, offbeat, jelly beans and ice cream, a retro eco warrior.
    • FS Sally (Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). FS Sally Pro won an award at Granshan 2016.
    • FS Sammy (Satwinder Sehmi, Jason Smith). A script typeface.
    • FS Shepton (2015). A calligraphic brush script by Andy Lethbridge.
    • FS Siena (2016). A luxurious fashion mag typeface given a new life in 2016 by Krista Radoeva. Jason Smith had started drawing Siena 25 years earlier. It is delicate, oozes style, and shows touches of Peignot in its contrast.
    • FS Silas Sans (2008, Jason Smith, Bela Frank, Fernando Mello and Phil Garnham).
    • FS Silas Slab (2015, Bela Frank).
    • FS Sinclair (2007-2008). A rounded octagonal typeface by Jason Smith and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Sophie (2004). A feminine sans typeface.
    • FS Split Sans and FS Split Serif (2019, Jason Smith and Fernando Mello). Has a variable type option.
    • FS Truman (2012, Jason Smith and Fernando Mello). A sans family.
    • FS Untitled (2016, Jason Smith and Fernando Mello). Developed for screens.
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    Fontworld
    [Israel Seldowitz]

    "Quality-crafted multiple language fonts." Based in New York and run by Mark Seldowitz, they sell Arabic, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Baltic and Central European typefaces. Mark sold the Hebrew fonts made by his brother Israel Seldowitz, who studied in Israel with Henry Friedlaender, the creator of the Hadassah typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontworld (Greek)

    Greek typefaces in packages at about 12 dollars per face. Check out Pithos, in particular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Forme Type
    [Jeremy Johnson]

    London-based graphic and type designer (b. 1975) who studied at The Royal College of Art, The University of Brighton, and was taught at the Royal College of Art by Margaret Calvert, Malcolm Kennard and Alan Kitching. Creator of the sans typeface family Forme One (2014) and the related typefaces Forme Signage (2015, for wayfinding), Forme Furniture (2015, pixelized), Forme Type Block (2015), Forme Type Ornaments and Geometric Patterns (2015), Forme Pixel Type (2015) and Forme Stencil (2015), a layered typeface family that was carefully crafted based on compass and ruler. Jeremy writes: This typeface derived from a three dimensional stencil with two characters, made from wood manually rotated to create letter shapes.

    In 2017, he designed the 3d pixel font Furniture Type.

    In 2018, he created TextFace Type.

    Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2020. His graduation typeface was called Forme Grotesque. It comes with a three-axis variable font (weight, slant, optical size). It explores the richness of the 19th century British Grotesque genre, performs remarkably well both on screen and in print, and shines at very small sizes. It also covers Arabic, Cyrillic and Greek. Forme Grotesque was published by Colophon in 2022. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Forth Net

    A few Greek fonts for PC, Mac, X-Windows and Amiga. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Foundry 5 Limited

    In 2021, Kostas Bartsokas, Mohamad Dakak and Pria Ravichandran set up Foundry 5 Limited in the UK. Their typefaces:

    • Jali Arabic, Jali Greek and Jali Latin (2021) by Mohamad Dakak. Jali is a wayfinding easy-to-read humanist sans typeface family that combines Latin, Arabic and Greek in a hamrmonious fashion. It is rooted in Dakak's graduation typeface at the University of Reading in 2016.
    • Peridot Latin (2022: a 121-strong sans superfamily by Kostas Bartsokas and Pria Ravichandran), Peridot PE (2022: a 121-style sans superfamily by Kostas Bartsokas and Pria Ravichandran designed for branding, display, corporate use, editorial and advertising; it covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).
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    Fountain--A Friendly Type Foundry
    [Peter Bruhn]

    Fountain is a Swedish foundry in Malmö, founded in 1994 by Peter Bruhn (1969-2014). In 2008, its designers include Rui Abreu, Lee Basford, Lars Bergquist, Felix Braden, Lotta Bruhn, Peter Bruhn, Lucas Brusquini, Matthew Chiavelli, Stefan Claudius, Thomas Crolla, Jay David, Stefan Hattenbach, Peter Hoffman, Nina Hons, Sylvia&Daniel Janssen, Randy Jones, Gábor Kóthay, Martin Lexelius, Ricardo Santos, Góran Sóderstróm, Simon Schmidt, and Dirk Uhlenbrock.

    Some offerings over the years: the avant-garde Anarko (nice!), the curly Pizzicato (also nice), Pussy, Udo, Barbera, Gas, the gorgeous bottle dingbats Mini (by Peter Bruhn), Kundera, the free downloads Animals, Doggystyle, Egg, Egg Cameo, Fat Ultra, Kundera, Maceo, Mothafucka, Pavement, Pavement-Kana and Sevenet. All of the aforementioned typefaces have mostly been designed by Peter Bruhn. They also do custom work. Other fonts: Jinchi1, Hebrew, Greek. Recent fonts by Simon Schmidt include CloseCall, CloseGridder, Ogra and Schlager. Martin Fredrikson Core made the fat display typeface Filt (based on Antique Olive, it now has a Greek weight as well), Borgstrand, FTN Sauerkrauto [see also Sauerkrauto Pro (2000)], and Malmo Sans. Matthew A. Chiavelli made Ultura (1996).

    Peter Hoffmann created Alita.

    Lars Bergquist published Paracelus (a modern version of Schwabacher), Baskerville 1757 (2002), Montrachet, Monteverdi, and Waldstein (a Scotch typeface). Steve Payne designed COMA. Felix Braden made Sadness and Grimoire. Lee Basford created Nuephoric.

    Peter Bruhn made the commercial fonts Mayo, Ketchupa, Mustardo and the free fonts Partisan, Jinichi, Lipo-D, Dopil, Deuzhood, Azteak (initial caps) and Anticca. Lotta Bruhn designed Lucifer. Stefan Caludius made Dekoria (2003), a Tuscan titling face.

    Fountain released Stefan Hattenbach's sans family Stalemate in 2004, which was originally an OEM family designed for but not used by a German IT company, Gretel (by Sylvia&Daniel Janssen), Scrixel 8 and 16 (pixel families by Thomas Crolla).

    View Peter Bruhn's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Four Greek and Byzantine fonts

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    François H. Villebrod
    [Typiko]

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    François Rappo

    Swiss designer (b. 1955) located at Lake Geneva. Recipient of the 2012 Jan Tschichold prize. He is Head of the Master in Art Direction at ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne. His typefaces:

    • The gorgeous revival family Didot Elder (published at Optimo, 2004), which is based on work by Pierre Didot from 1819.
    • The stylish typewriter family CEO (2005, Optimo).
    • At B&P Foundry, the serif family LaPolice BP (2007-2008).
    • The Theinhardt family (2009, Optimo), which was named after the (generally accepted) designer of the first sans. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. An update was issed in 2018.
    • At B&P Swiss Typefaces, he published New Fournier (2011) based on the typography of Pierre-Simon Fournier. It comes in 24 styles.
    • Genath (2011, Optimo). Erik Spiekermann twitters: Best Caslon alternative yet. The typeface is based on a baroque type from the Genath foundry in Basel, and is based on a specimen from 1720 that is most likely Johann Wilhelm Haas's first design in Basel.
    • Clarendon Graphic (2015, Optimo). Comprehensive, perfect, all-encompassing, a new standard for Clarendon. It has 26 styles including some stencil cuts.
    • Plain (2014), Apax (2016) and Rand (2019), a trilogy of grotesque typefaces. Rappo writes: As Plain investigated the rational simplicity of modernism and Apax re-evaluated the visual grammar of constructivism, Rand explores the shapes that brought a certain spirit and warmth to the rigidity of modern design---emerging notably from The New York School. While some glyphs like the a inherit the clarity of Swiss rationalism, other glyphs borrow from design icons such as the from the Westinghouse logo by Paul Rand. Rand also features a nice Rand Mono subfamily.
    • Practice (2016). A typeface family for magazines.
    • JJannon (2019). A revival of Jean Jannon's type from 1641. This 16-style family is crisp and sharp-edged.

    Swiss Type Design link. Pointypo piece on him. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Franck Jalleau

    French type designer, calligrapher, and stonecutter, b. 1962. Franck Jalleau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and at the Atelier national de Création typographique (ANCT), where he subsequently worked as an instructor until 1990. A type designer, he works primarily in the publishing field and on French administrative documents (the General Tax Code, passports, identity cards, car registration documents, etc.). Since 1990, for the Imprimerie Nationale, he oversees the adaptation of the typographic holdings for digital typesetting. For this effort, the Imprimerie's Garamond was one of the first typefaces he rehabilitated, along with the grecs du Roi. Currently, Franck Jalleau teaches at Ecole Estienne in Paris.

    Franck designed several typefaces for Agfa, Editions Magnard, city of Brive-la-Galliarde, for the NGO ATD Fourth World Movement, etc. In 1987, he engraved the Movement's message in stone, which was installed first at the Place de Trocadéro in Paris, and then at the United Nations in New York, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Basilica of St. John Lateran and in Reims Cathedral. Franck Jalleau won the Prix des Graphistes in 1988 and has received several international awards, including the Morisawa Award (Japan) in 1987 and 1996. He has taught type design at the École Estienne since 1991, and he offers training courses in character design in art schools both in France (Toulouse, Caen, Amiens) and abroad. His typefaces:

    • As an OEM for the Imprimerie, he designed some fantastic fonts between 1990 and 1998, including Arin (1986; Morisawa award 1987), Garamont (1995), Grandjean (1997), Jalleau (1996), Perrin (1997), Roma (1996), Scripto (Morisawa award 1996), Virgile (1995, Agfa) and Oxalis (1996, Agfa).
    • Francesco (1998) is based on the letters of Francesco Griffo. Perfectly executed, it is a Venetian renaissance revival face---although first designed in 1998, it was published only in 2010 at BAT Foundry, which Franck helped co-found. It also covers Greek and Cyrillic. Interestngly, it features random counter shapes to give that 15th century look. Among Francesco's historical sources is the famous Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed in 1499 by Aldus Manutius. Subsequently, Francesco was republished by Production Type.
    • In 2002, he created Le Brive, commissioned by senator and mayor Bernard Murat of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
    • In 2005, he digitized the Grec du Roi based on original characters and ligatures by Claude Garamond for François 1er, 1544-1550.
    • In 2009, he created Le Maghrébin based on material in the Imprimerie Nationale. The original from 1846 and 1850 was cut by Marcellin Legrand. This version of Arabic is also called western, or African (africain), and features many ligatures.
    • In 2016, he designed the monospace sans typeface family Aubusson. Initially designed as a custom typeface by Franck Jalleau for the Cité internationale de la tapisserie d'Aubusson, the monowidth proportions are linked to pattern and tiles arrangements used in tapestry. The retail version of Aubusson offers four weights with matching italics. It was published by Black Foundry.
    Linkedin link. Fascinating interview (in French). FontShop link. Production Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Frantisek Storm
    [Storm Type Foundry]

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    Franziska Hubmann

    Franziska Hubmann was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied graphic, communication and type design there. She has worked as typographer and type designer ever since. She is associated with Schriftlabor. In 2017, she graduated from the typeface design program at the University of Reading. Her typefaces:

    • The Kurrent style school script font Herlinde (2017).
    • Some revivals based on shop and building signs found in Vienna, such as Kohler Weber, Gemeinde Wien and Thalia Apotheke, all done in 2017.
    • The nicely balanced text typeface family Romanze (Typejockeys), 2015-2017.
    • The provocative angularly disturbed Femme Fatale.
    • Bynx (2017). Her graduation typeface at the University of Reading for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It was crafted for editorial design and won an award at Granshan 2017.
    • Plantago (2014). Viktor Solt-Bittner drew logo sketches for an insurance company. After they rejected the design, he turned the sketches into a font family. Later, in 2018, Plantago was expanded, developed and completed by Schriftlabor's type directors Franziska Hubmann and Lisa Schultz.
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    Fredrick M. Nader
    [Apostrophic Laboratory]

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    Free Font FORA

    About 20 font links, with comments. Greek site. Some free Greek fonts can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Friedemann Dittrich

    Greek and Hebrew fonts: Hebrew (Michael S. Bushell, 1994), OdysseaF (Payne Loving Trust, 1996), SPTiberian (Scholars Press, 1995), SymbolGreekPF (Payne Loving Trust, 1996). Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fulvio Bisca

    Italian illustrator and designer from Torino (b. 1970) who made Antitled, a sans serif family at T-26 (2001, completed in 2004). Ex-graduate of Institute G.B. Bodoni in Torino in 1989.

    In 2010, he made Cutoff Pro (URW++, +Bold), a serif family with serifs cut off in odd ways, and which covers all European scripts, including Cyrillic and Greek. One could say that it is a hyper-organic typeface.

    Typefaces from 2014 include Vertebrata.

    Behance link. Logo. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    FUNDP: Tablinum
    [Paul Pietquin]

    Nikos Goulandris's modern Greek font Ismini was adapted by Paul Pietquin at the Département de Langues et Littératures Classiques des FUNDP (University of Namur, Belgium), which led to the Greek fonts Isminipc and SuperIsmini. Mac and PC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    G. Azzaro

    11MB ziped font file contains the Sun/Corel starter collection of about 300 Bitstream truetype fonts, supplemented by the odd Monotype foreign language font (such as Porson Greek). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    G. Thomas Schroer
    [Numus Moneta Font]

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    Gahee Park

    Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea.

    Typefaces from 2021: HU Big Round (a techno typeface by Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Galaxie Software (or: Biblescript)

    BibleScript was the product that started Galaxie Software (located in Garland, TX) back in 1991. It was one of the most popular Greek and Hebrew font packages for 20 years. The following fonts can be freely downloaded from their site: GU-Greek (2001), GU-Hebrew (2001), Greek (2001), Greek-Uncials (2005), Greektl, Hebrew (2001), Hebrewtl, OLBGRK (2003), OLBHEB (2003), Scholar (1997). "GU" stands for Galaxie Unicode. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Galeb

    Cyrillic, Old Church Slavonic, and Byzantine Greek font archive: UB-Byzantine (1993, by Unibrain SA), SymbolGreekPF (Payne Loving Trust), OdysseaF (Payne Loving Trust), NB-Byzantine (1999, Nikolaos), Miroslavljeva Cirilica (1993, Dino Art Corporation), MgGreekArchaic Plain (1989), Ciril Studenica (1993), C_Sveti_NIKOLA Normal (1993, Predrag Milivojevic, Belgrade), ALBXHRNormal (1994, Im Grhgorioy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Galini Scarlatou

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the creamy didone typeface Shrimp (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Galinos Paparounis
    [Holy (was: Odysseas GP)]

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    Garamond Premier Pro

    Robert Slimbach worked on this family between 1992 and 2004, yet Adobe gives it away for free, bundled in their CS2 (Creative Suite 2) package. It has 32 weights and all names have the prefix GaramondPremPro (BdItalic, ItSubh, Bold, LtDisp, Italic, LtItDisp, Medium, Med, MediumIt, MedCapt, Regular, MedDisp, SbIt, MedIt, Semibold, MedItCapt, Bd, MedItDisp, BdCapt, MedItSubh, BdDisp, MedSubh, BdIt, Smbd, BdItCapt, SmbdCapt, BdItDisp, SmbdDisp, BdItSubh, SmbdIt, BdSubh, SmbdItCapt, Capt, SmbdItDisp, Disp, SmbdItSubh, It, SmbdSubh, ItCapt, Subh, ItDisp), and covers many scripts. The typophiles are particularly impressed with the coverage of Greek, and many like the comprehensive and balanced style. Ulrich Stiehl points out some minor flaws:

    • Several letters, e.g., the "Registered" sign, are too small and are completely illegible in ordinary text sizes such as Adobe Originals 12p.
    • The Medium-Bold (Med) and Semi-Bold (Smbd) styles do not work properly with Microsoft Word due to faulty internal font style naming. [Note: maybe some of this was intentional.]
    • Using all styles or all characters of "Garamond Premier Pro" in a document makes PostScript drivers crash. Adobe admits in the "Release Notes" of this font: "In our testing, we found that a PostScript Level 2 device with 32 MB of RAM could handle only 3 different fonts from the Garamond Premier family on one page."
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    Gary Munch
    [MunchFonts]

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    Gary S. Dykes

    Gary S. Dykes made 21 free public domain truetype fonts for Roman, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac (2002), Coptic, Ugaritic, Sabaean, Aramaic, including a beautiful Greek Minuscule font: Aram44, BLDGrk.ttf (2000), Coptic44 (2000, for all Sahidic and Bohairic typography), DISP_44 (2002), G100XTRA (2002), Greek44 (1997-2002), GARYS (2002, a blackletter font), GoudyHundred (2001, based on Stephen Moye's version of Goudy's Bertham), Goudy_B (2002), Goudy_IT_BD (2002), Goudy_It (2000), Greek44s (2002, has some Byzantine glyphs), HEB44a (2003), HEB44b, HEB44c, HEB44d, MINU44a (2003), MINU44b (2003), My_XTRA (2002), SABAEN44 (2002), Syriac44 (2001, for Estrangelo), Ugar_44 (2001). Some of the fonts are under the label "Fraktur Fonts". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gawr Juhs
    [Derek Green]

    Derek Green (Gawr Juhs, Edinburgh, Scotland) specializes in visual communication and branding. He offers some free fonts. In 2012, he made Embra, Rave87, Portabello (counterless), and Constellation (a dot matrix font).

    In 2013, he made Char, Impression and Gioma (a free Latin / Greek prismatic typeface created for a woman in southern Crete).

    In 2016, he designed the free all caps art deco typeface Decodent.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    gbt.org

    Five Greek TrueType fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Genilson Lima Santos

    Genilson Lima Santos is the Salvador, Brazil-based designer (b. 1985, Bahia) of Stilu (2015, sans), Jenelson (2006), the stroked font Styllo (2007), the brushy Carybe (2011), the all caps sans typeface Linna (2016), the display typeface Victorine (2016), the rounded sans family Baldini (2016), the high-contrast all caps Cellophane (2016), the text typeface Petralina (2016), the rounded Bauhaus-inspired sans typeface family Rosa Maria (2016), the multicolor layerable rounded poster typeface Buba (2016), the free wide unicase sans typeface family Urucungo (2016), and the semi-didone display typeface Salinas (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Hibiscus, Blackye (a delicious black rounded sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Somma (geometric sans), Tryal (formal calligraphic), Love Moon, Urbanpolis (sans).

    Typefaces from 2019: Dynamo (a retro-futuristic typeface), Hellen (a revival of the flared classic Koch Antiqua from 1922).

    Typefaces from 2020: Auster (a serif family), Giovanna and Giovanna Sans (a luxurious roman caps typeface).

    Typefaces from 2021: Yacht (a ligature-themed display serif), Milagre (by Edileno Capistrano Filho and Genilson Santos; a free party font based on text seen on azulejos [tiles] at Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado in Largo do Pelourinho, Salvador, Brazil, with text by writer James Amado, lettering by artist Floriano Teixeira and engraving on the tiles by ceramist Udo Knoff in 1987), Arienne (a frivolous all caps font), Mirabela (a fashion mag serif), Serafina (a decorative serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Kolbo (a pure wedge serif display typeface), Amabella (a sharp-edged serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Duffner

    Austrian designer who is trying hard to give the free software world an excellent qualitatively competitive free Garamond family. At Google Web Fonts, we find his EB Garamond family (2011), which covers Latin and Cyriilic. It is named after Egelnoff and Berner.

    He explains: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the Berner specimen, which, composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office, shows Garamont's roman and Granjon's italic fonts at different sizes. Hence the name of this project: Egenolff-Berner Garamond. Also planned are polytonic Greek, IPA and ornaments.

    In 2017, Octavio Pardo entered the EB Garamond project. The fonts can now be downloaded from Github. For Valentine's Day, a certain Bryn replaced the o and the tittles by hearts, and called the font Better EB Garamond (2017).

    Designer of the free font OMW Ayembedt (2013): Ayembedt is a font aiming to recreate the symbolic typeface called Daedric, found in the Elder Scrolls video game series, most notably in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

    Klingspor link. Open Font Library link. CTAN download of EB Garamond. Google Plus link. Duffner's Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georg John

    German designer at Linotype of Linotype Cutter Schere Com (1997, white on black informal lettering; with Georg Kugler in 2007), Linotype Tagesstempel (1999, with Georg Kugler) and Johnstemp Pro (2008, grunge). In 2014, he made John LED7 (2014), a dot matrix typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. In 2016, he designed the mechanical / octagonal typeface John Tape and the scribbly script font Johnend.

    In 2017, he published John Tapextra (tape or duct tape font).

    Are Georg John and Georg Kugler one and the same?

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Seifert
    [Schriftgestaltung]

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    George B. Walsh
    [GreekKeys]

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    George Bickham

    UK engraver and penman, 1684-1769, who wrote the manual The Universal Penman (published in parts from 1733 to 1741, reprinted in its entirety in 1743). The full title is The Universal Penman Or the Art of Writing Made Useful To the Gentleman and Scholar, as well As the Man of Business . . . Written With the friendly Assistance of several of the most Eminent Masters And Engraved by Geo. Bickham. That book also contains work by Bickham's collaborators, such as Joseph Champion, Wellington Clark, Nathaniel Dove, Gabriel Brooks, and William Leckey. Book cover. Other books by Bickham include Penmanship in its utmost Beauty and Extent (Overton & Hoole, London, 1731).

    A free interpretation of the copperplate script styles of The Universal Penman can be seen in the monumental font Penabico (2010, Intellecta Design). Images: From The Universal Penman, Roundhand Script (ca. 1740), Greek Writing (1743).

    Digital typefaces based on Bickham's scripts include 1739 Bickham (2010) and 1741 Bickham (2013) by Klaus-Peter Schäffel, Bickham Script (1997, Richard Lipton), Bickham Script 3 (2014, Richard Lipton), Penabico (Intellecta Design), and loose interpretations such as Poem Script (Sudtipos). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    George Bourle
    [George Bourletsikas]

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    George Bourletsikas
    [George Bourle]

    Or George Bourle. Thessaloniki, Greece-based lettering artist. Designer of Ellinikon (2019), The Knot (2019: a font duo meant for weddings), Left Hand Kids Font (2019), Boldera (2019: brush style), Coolscript (2019) and Brulee (2019: a monoline script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Chandrinos

    Illustrator in Athens, Greece. His shop is called Rote Grafik. His posters are remarkable and showcase Ben Shahn-style lettering. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George D. Matthiopoulos

    Professor of Type design and Typography at the School of Graphic Arts of the Technical Institute of Athens. He also teaches at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, University of West Attica. He is head of the design team and a type designer at the Greek Font Society. He is the Art Director of Indigo Associates specializing in book design, corporate identity and typographic communication for museum exhibitions. He has written the textbook of the course Type History and Design for the Greek Open University (2002) and he has translated in Greek Viktor Scholderer's Greek Printing Types: 1465-1927 (Typophilia, 1995) and Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style (University of Crete Press, 2001).

    Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton and at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg (where he spoke about Greek book design, 15th-20th centuries). At the GFS, he was involved in these free high quality font families:

    • GFS Artemisia was designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George Matthiopoulos in 2001.
    • GFS Didot (1994, a didone designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George Matthiopoulos; a matching Latin alphabet is based on Hermann Zapfs Palatino). Open Font Library link.
    • GFS Bodoni (1992-1993) is a didone designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized in 2005 by George Matthiopoulos.
    • GFS Olga (1995, a serif designed and digitized by George Matthiopoulos, based on the historical Porson Greek type (1803)).
    • GFS Solomos (2006). He writes: From the middle of the 19th century an italic font with many calligraphic overtones was introduced into Greek printing. Its source is unknown, but it almost certainly was the product of a German or Italian foundry. In the first type specimen printed in Greece by the typecutter K. Miliadis (1850), the font was listed anonymously along others of 11pts and in the Gr. Doumas undated specimen appeared as 11pt Greek inclined. For most of the second half of the century the type was used extensively as an italic for emphasis in words, sentences or exerpts. In 1889, the folio size Type Specimen of Anestis Konstantinidis publishing, printing and type founding establishment also included the type as Greek inclined [9 & 12 pt]. Nevertheless, the excessively calligraphic style of the characters, combined with the steep and uncomfortable obliqueness of the capitals, was out of favour in the 20th century and the type did not survive the conformity of the mechanical type cutting and casting. The font has been digitally revived, as part of our typographic tradition, by George D. Matthiopoulos and is part of GFS type library under the name GFS Solomos, in commemoration of the great Greek poet of the 19th century, Dionisios Solomos.
    • GFS Gazis (2007). These majuscule typefaces were made by George Matthiopoulos in 2006 and 2007: GFSAmbrosia, GFSEustace-Regular, GFSFleischman-Regular, GFSGaraldus, GFSJackson-Regular, GFSNicefore.

      He writes: GFS Ambrosia has the main characteristics of the majuscule forms of the early Christian tradition while GFS Nicefore is a typical byzantine sample of the 5th-7th century period. GFS Jackson is an edition of the font cut, in 1788, by Joseph Jackson on commission by the Cambridge University in preparation of the edition of the Beza codex containing the New Testament from the 5th-6th century. Theodore Beza was the erudite scholar from Geneva who had given the codex as a gift to the University in 1581. GFS Eustace is a typical example of byzantine woodcut initials used in many similar forms in Italy for Greek editions of the Bible, Prayers and other theological literature from the 15th to 19th centuries. GFS Fleischman, on the contrary, is based on a typeface cut by Johann Michael Fleishman, typecutter of the Dutch Enschedé foundry in the baroque style that prevailed in the mid-18th century.

    • GFS Neohellenic (1993-2000, Takis Katsoulidis and George D. Matthiopoulos). They explain: In 1927, Victor Scholderer (British Museum Library curator), on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930s, was also well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for Ksi and Omega. GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic, bold and bold italic) as well as a Latin version. GFSNeohellenicMath was published in 2018: The font GFSNeohellenicMath was commissioned to the Greek Font Society (GFS) by the Graduate Studies program "Studies in Mathematics" of the Department of Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, located on the Samos island, Greece. The design copyright belongs to the main designer of GFS, George Matthiopoulos. The OpenType Math Table embedded in the font was developed by the Mathematics Professor Antonis Tsolomitis. The font is released under the latest OFL license, and it is available from the GFS site at http://www.greekfontsociety-gfs.gr. The font is an almost Sans Serif font and one of its main uses is for presentations, an area where (we believe) a commercial grade sans math font was not available up to now.
    • GFS Philostratos (2008). A rounded Latin / Greek sans after Maurice Eduard Pinder's Griechische Antiqua.
    • GFS Pyrsos (1995). He writes: This typeface first appeared in the late 20s and was used as an alternative italic type to the most commonly used Greek italics at the time, coming from Germany (Leipzig). The name commemorates the edition of the Greek encyclopaedia Pyrsos (1927-1933) from which the types were taken.
    • GFS Goschen (2009): a Greek typeface named for the German publisher Georg Joachim Göschen, who, at the turn of the 19th century, saw to the creation of a new cursive type for use in an edition of the New Testament in Greek. The typeface was cut by Johann Prillwitz, and was influenced by the Greek types of Bodoni.
    • GFS Decker (2007). This is a revival of an uncial Greek that was used by both Oxford and Cambridge University Press in the late 1800s, designed by Deckersche Giesserei in Germany. /UL> [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Douros
    [Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts]

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    George Kalantzopoulos
    [Marathon Data]

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    George Katsigiannis

    Patras, Greece-based designer of the free techno display typeface SpirtO (2019) for Latin and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Lygas

    George Lygas studied Printing and Graphic Arts at the National Design School (TEI) of Athens. His graduation thesis on Greek Typography was the base for PF Scriptor, a revival of a historic Greek typeface. He collaborated with Panos Vassiliou in the design of PF Stamps (2002-2006, a stencil family, also done with Panos Vassiliou). All his typefaces cover Greek and Cyrillic He currently works for Parachute. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    George Nikolaidis

    Graphic designer in Larissa, Greece, b. 1973, specializing in display typefaces. He created the free Nikolaidis Hand in 2015 for Latin and Greek.

    In 2016, he designed the bilined tattoo-style Halfstripe Font, Scrap Font, and the modular typeface GNF Empire.

    In 2018, he designed GNF Title Nation, the condensed all caps font GNF Tallone, and GNF Olympian.

    In 2019, he designed GNF Uneven, the all caps squarish GNF Monotype, the ultra fat poster typeface GNF Boolean and the variable width font GNF Menu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Nimas

    Attica (Eleusis), Greece-based graphic designer and photographer, b. Athens, 1981, who studied at AKTO, Middlesex University, UK. In 2017, he created the rounded monoline organic typeface Gap for Latin and Greek. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Roussos

    During his studies, Thessaloniki, Greece-based George Roussos created the decorative (Latin) caps typeface Infectura (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Ryan

    American designer, b. Rockville Centre, NY, 1950. George Ryan held senior positions at Linotype and Bitstream since 1979, where he has been involved in the production of over 2500 fonts. In 2004, Ryan joined Agfa Monotype, and is now a Monotype typeface designer. Creator of these typefaces:

    • The amazingly beautiful text font Kennedy GD (1995, Galapagos).
    • Other Galapagos fonts: McLemore (2002), Geis (2002), Jorge (2002), Culpepper (2002, an extension and interpretation of Rudolf Koch's Neuland, 1923), the elegant formal script font Tiamaria (2002, connected script), the fat art nouveau font Robusto (2002, based on letters found in a book about Oswald Cooper), Prop Ten (2002).
    • The hand-printed comic book style typeface ITC Kristen (1995).
    • The legible Nikki New Roman GD (1996).
    • The handwriting font MohawcsNote GD.
    • The Bitstream font Oz Handicraft BT (1991). This was created by George Ryan in 1990 from a showing of Oswald Cooper's hand lettering found in The Book of Oz Cooper, published in 1949 by the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago). A refresh was done in 2016.
    • Migrate GD (now ITC Migrate).
    • ITC Eborg.
    • The fine dingbat font Web-O-Mints GD.
    • The clean sans serif Wyle GD.
    • Established in 2003 by George Ryan in Arlington, MA, Bilt Fonts (Aruban Font Foundry) sells revivals and original designs through MyFonts. Typefaces include Pietin, Geo Sans, Netto, Rescue, Jingle, Geo Tablet, Lottsa Lotta, Big Stuff, Rainman, Depth Charge, Sansand, Bulla Bulla, Kappa Nappa, Kappa Sappa, Sarabella (2004, calligraphic), Marcus Texus (fun informal), Marcus Displaeus, and Spio Beo.
    • Semaphore (Bitstream, with Dave Robbins).
    • In 2007, at Monotype, he made Givens Antiqua, named after Robert Givens, the co-founder and first president of Monotype Imaging---it is a soft and elegant serif family in 16 styles.
    • In 2012, he published the comic book felt tip marker typeface Koorkin (Monotype).
    • In 2013, he worked on an Ethiopic typeface at Monotype.
    • In 2015, Monotype set out to remaster, expand and revitalize Eric Gill's body of work, with more weights, more characters and more languages to meet a wide range of design requirements. As part of that effort, George Ryan extended the popular Gill Sans from 18 to 43 fonts in his Gill Sans Nova (2015). Several new display fonts are available, including a suite of six inline weights, shadowed outline fonts that were never digitized and Gill Sans Nova Deco that was previously withdrawn from the Monotype library. Greek and Cyrillic coverage.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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    George Strouzas
    [KEIK Design Bureau]

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    George Strouzas

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece. Creator of the multilined display face RBTP (2010). Its design was based on strict ruler and compass guidelines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Thomas

    There are several type designers called George Thomas. This George Thomas is based in Athens, Greece, and designed the octagonal typeface Wolftooth (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Toumbalis

    Giorgos Toumbalis studied Image processing and DTP at DOME Design School in Athens. He is considered an expert on graphic design issues and he is a regular columnist in +Design, the Greek magazine on aesthetics and design issues. He started his first business in 1996 and some of his major clients include Sony Music, BMG, Warner Music, Capital Radio 96.5, Planet Works, Filmnet, Flash.gr. Some of his font designs, released by Parachute, include PF Mechanica B (2002-2006: a tiled typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) and PF Overload. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Triantafyllakos
    [Atypical]

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    George Triantafyllakos
    [Backpacker]

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    George Valmas

    George Valmas is from Thessaloniki, Greece. He made the hand-printed Freehand (2010), which is not free. In 2013, he designed Atena (a Greek simulation face) and Freedo Tall (Ten Dollar Fonts).

    Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Vassos

    Arta, Greece-based creator of the chemical formula font Chemigram (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Veloudis

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the school project font Circuit (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Williams

    George Williams's site (now defunct) site was a discovery! George Williams (b. 1959) wrote spline-generating code and then went on to produce several fonts with his software between 1987 and 1998:

    • Art nouveau style: Carmen, Ambrosia (1989), Fantaisie Artistique, Baldur, Monopol, Parisian, Peignot, Bocklin, Edda.
    • Lombardic: Lombardic.
    • Victorian: Caprice, Ringlet.
    • Uncial: Uncial Animals, Roman Uncial Modern.
    • Ornamental caps: Versal, Decorative, Square Caps, Extravagant Capitals, Floral Caps, Morris, Andrade.
    • Display typefaces: Crystal, Flash, Cupola, Santa Barbara Streets (2013-2014; after the street signs in Santa Barbara, CA).
    • Blackletter: Rotunda (1998), Bastarda, Textura Modern, Fractur (a remake of Wittenbach).
    • Art deco: Piccadilly, Mirage (1999, prismatic).
    • Calligraphic: Humanistic.
    • Text: Caslon.
    • Slab: Monospace.
    • Sans: Caliban.
    • Bamboo Gothic (2007).
    • TIS620-2529 (a Thai font).

    George Williams writes: I have been slowly working to provide free unicode postscript fonts for the three major groupings of styles used by European (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic anyway) type designs: serif, sans-serif and typewriter (or Times, Helvetica and Courier). Monospace is my approximation to Courier. Close examination will reveal that it is a bad copy of courier. Caslon Roman (1992-2001) is a serif font (designed by William Caslon in 1734), it's not a bad copy of Times, it's a bad copy of something else. Caliban is a bad copy of Helvetica. If Microsoft can call their version of Helvetica Arial, then Caliban seems appropriate for mine. Yet another URL.

    George Williams is best known as the inventor and creator of FontForge, the biggest and best free font editor today. It made him the darling of the Open Software community. Interview with OSP.

    Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georgia Kaltapanidou

    Designer from Thessaloniki, Greece. Creator of a mimimalist monoline sans typeface called Unfont (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georgina Aliazi

    During her studies in Athens, Greece, Georgina Aliazi designed the experimental typeface Line And Dot (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gerard Unger

    Dutch type designer, born in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 1942, d. 2018. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Reading, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From 1974 on, he designed type, starting his career at Hell in Kiel in 1986. Until the end of his career, he taught at Reading and Rietveld. Unger designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logo's, corporate identities, annual reports and many other objects. But he was best known for his typefaces:

    • Markeur (1972), not available as digital type. Unger's first typeface, designed for Enschedé's Pantotype system.
    • M.O.L. (1974), not available as digital type. M.O.L. is the type used in the Amsterdam subway.
    • Demos (1975-1976, Linotype). Unger said once that this was his first face, and that he made it at Hell in Kiel in 1974 (but I am confused then as to the date of Markeur then).
    • Demos (new version 2001), available from Visualogik. In 2015, Gerard published Demos Next (done together with Monotype's Linda Hintz and dan Reynolds) at Linotype.
    • Praxis (1976, Linotype). Revived in 2017 as Praxis Next, also at Linotype. Linotype writes that the design is by Gerard Unger, Linda Hintz and the Monotype Design Studio.
    • Hollander (1983, Linotype).
    • Flora (1984). There is also ITC Flora (1980-1984). Named after Unger's daughter, this is an upright sans italic.
    • Swift (1985). This sturdy transitional typeface is his most popular design. It is used by many Dutch and Scandinavian newspapers, and got Unger the Gravisie-prijs in 1988. In 2009, Linotype published Neue Swift (a 1995 design by Unger), i.e., Swift with old style figures thrown in. See also Swift 2.0 (1995).
    • Amerigo (1986), available from Bitstream. This was originally designed for 300dpi laserprinters. It is a tapered almost lapidary typeface family. In the Bitstream collection, Amerigo is called Flareserif 831.
    • Oranda (1987), available from Bitstream. This is a slab serif originally drawn for the European hardware manufacturer Océ in 1968.
    • Cyrano (1989).
    • Argo (1991), available from Dutch Type Library.
    • Delftse Poort (1991), a stencil typeface not available as digital type.
    • Decoder (1992), available from Font Shop. This was a font from the FUSE 2 collection.
    • Gulliver (1993). This typeface was used by USA Today and the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Can be bought from URW++ from 2009 onwards.
    • OCW Swift (1995-1997, for Ministerie van OC en W, Zoetermeer - NL, by Visualogik Technology&Design).
    • ANWB fonts (1997), available from Visualogik.
    • Capitolium (1998). Capitolium was designed in 1998 at the request of the Agenzia romana per la preparatione del Giubileo for the Jubilee of the Roman Catholic Church in 2000. It was not used though for the millennium celebrations. In 2002, Capitolium was picked as the serif font for the material of ATypI in Rome. It was accompanied in that advertising by Unger's sans serif font Vesta (2001), loosely based on the lettering at the Vesta temple in Tivoli. He developed Capitolium futher to make Capitolium News and Capitolium News 2 (2011, Type Together), so that the adapted glyphs would be more legible (large x-height) and fit better on a page (more glyphs per line). The modern typeface Capitolium News 2 was published by Type Together in 2011.
    • Paradox (1999), available from Dutch Type Library. This is a Didone font done in 1999, for which he won a Bukvaraz award in 2002.
    • Coranto (2000). In 2011, Coranto2 was published at TypeTogether: Coranto 2 is originally based on Unger's typeface Paradox, and arose from a desire to transfer the elegance and refinement of that type to newsprint.
    • Vesta (2001). The sans serif Vesta (designed as a possible candidate sans serif for the Rome 2000 project) won an award at Bukvaraz 2001. It is available now as Big Vesta (2003).
    • Linotype Library is the licenser of the German government's new corporate design typefaces Neue Demos (Antiqua, 2004) and Neue Praxis (sans-serif, 2004) by Unger. The typefaces are to be used for all official correspondence, brochures and advertisements.
    • Allianz (2005) is a corporate type system with sans and serif typefaces developed with the firm of Claus Koch of Düsseldorf. The typefaces were designed in collaboration with Veronika Burian, London, and were produced as fonts by Visualogik, 's-Hertogenbosch.
    • Alverata (2013). A lapidary flared typeface with a huge x-height influenced by roman ("romanesque") lettering from the XIth and XIIth centuries. Alverata consists of three different fonts: Alverata, Alverata Irregular and Alverata Informal. For the development of the Greek letterforms, Unger collaborated with Gerry Leonidas (University of Reading) and Irene Vlachou (Athens). He cooperated with Tom Grace for the Cyrillic letterforms. Alverata was published by Type Together in 2014 and 2015. It appears to have Vesta's skeleton and dimensions. Alverata won the type design prize at Tokyo Type Directors Club 2016. PDF file.
    • Sanserata (2016, Type Together). The blurb: Sanserata is an articulated sans that mirrors Alverata's creativity and concept. Its bright and unflappable nature make it perfect for positive and casual brands, and its accentuated terminals improve legibility in text, especially on screens where light emission tends to round off the endings of glyphs.

    Gerard Unger lived in Chicago and Bussum, The Netherlands. Besides the awards mentioned in the list above, he received global prizes for his typography, such as the H.N. Werkman Prize (1984), the Maurits Enschedé-Prize (1991), the 2009 SOTA Typography Award and the TDC Medal (2017).

    Author of Terwijl Je Leest (Amsterdam, 1997) and Theory of Type Design (2018).

    Books about Gerard Unger include Gerard Unger Life in Letters (2021, by Christopher Burke, De Buitenkant).

    Interview by John L. Walters. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about type for dailies, and also on Neue Demos and Neue Praxis. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about letterforms in inscriptions from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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    Gerben Dollen
    [DolWork]

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    Gerber Fonts

    Manchester, CT-based company that sells a font package, as well as a number of fonts for Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Thai. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Germán León
    [Fontbilisi (was: Germán León)]

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    German Donaldist Society (D.O.N.A.L.D.)
    [Thomas Pryds Lauritsen]

    The free Carl Barks Script (1998), an all caps bold comic book font that covers Greek as well, was originally made by the German Donaldist Society. In 1998, it was extended by Thomas Pryds Lauritsen of the Danish Donaldist Society. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gerry Leonidas

    Gerry Leonidas is a Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Type Design in the Department of Typography&Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, England. He is a practicing designer of Greek and Latin typefaces, and a regular consultant on typography and type design. From 2017 until 2020, he was president of ATypI.

    Brief CV. Site with the list of his graduates. Speaker at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik and at Typecon 2012 in Milwaukee.

    Speaker at ATypI 2012 Hong Kong: Digging into the ATypI Archive. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw.

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    Ghostscript fonts

    Yet another ghostscript font archive, with the following URW++ truetype fonts made in 2000: A028-Ext, A028-Med (lapidary), A030-Bol, A030-BolIta, A030-Ita, A030-Reg, AntiqueOlive-Bol, AntiqueOlive-Ita, AntiqueOlive-Reg, ClarendonURW-BolCon, Coronet, Dingbats, GaramondNo8-Ita, GaramondNo8-Med, GaramondNo8-MedIta, GaramondNo8-Reg, LetterGothic-Bol, LetterGothic-BolIta, LetterGothic-Ita, LetterGothic-Reg, Mauritius-Reg, NimbusMon-Reg, NimbusMon-Reg, NimbusMono-Bol, NimbusMono-BolIta, NimbusMono-Ita, NimbusMono-Reg, NimbusRomanNo4-Bol, NimbusRomanNo4-BolIta, NimbusRomanNo4-Lig, NimbusRomanNo4-LigIta, NimbusRomanNo9-Ita, NimbusRomanNo9-Med, NimbusRomanNo9-MedIta, NimbusRomanNo9-Reg, StandardSymL, U001-Bol, U001-BolIta, U001-Ita, U001-Reg, U001Con-Bol, U001Con-BolIta, U001Con-Ita, U001Con-Reg, URWClassico-Bol, URWClassico-BolIta, URWClassico-Ita, URWClassico-Reg. All these fonts come with complete East-European accent sets, as well as Greek symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giannis Arkoudos

    Athens, Greece-based designer (b. 1973) of Greek Bear Tiny E (2006, pixel). Blog (in Greek). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giorgos Soulios

    Larissa, Greece-based designer (b. 1998) of the squarish typeface Soulios Design (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Giovanni Landi

    Pistoia, Italy-based designer (aka Il Papyrus) of the Celtic knot font Celtic101 (2002) and the Greek font families Atene (1995) and Naxos (1995). GBL edizioni is his company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Glyn

    Glyn is the Greek creator of the hand-printed typefaces Bezier Dome (2012, iFontMaker), Bezier Glyn Art Sketchy (2012), Bezier Glyn Sketchy Bold, Bezier Dots n Snakes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GNU Freefont (or: Free UCS Outline Fonts)
    [Steve White]

    The GNU Freefont is continuously being updated to become a large useful Unicode monster. GNU FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatability with all modern operating systems. There are serif, Sans and Mono subfamilies. Also called the "Free UCS Outline Fonts", this project is part of the larger Free Software Foundation. The original head honcho was Primoz Peterlin, the coordinator at the Institute of Biophysics of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2008, Steve White (aka Stevan White) took over.

  • URW++ Design&Development GmbH. URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the Ghostscript project.
    • Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A)
    • Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF)
    • Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
    • Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF)
    • Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF)
    • Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
    • Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF)
  • Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice. Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting system, which is an extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families.
    • Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
    • IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
    • Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
    • Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
    • Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
    • Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF)
    • Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF)
    • Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
    • Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
  • Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute. In 1994, The Wellcome Library The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England, commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them. We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU FreeFont under its GNU license: Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF).
  • Young U. Ryu at the University of Texas at Dallas is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts for Times based on the rule thickness of Times =,, +, /, <, etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts." Ranges: Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF), Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF).
  • Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts, Ranges: Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F), Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF).
  • Wadalab Kanji Comittee. Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms: Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files were written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into Metafont and PostScript Type 1 were also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo: Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F), Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF). Note that some time around 2009, the hiragana and katakana ranges were deleted.
  • Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek type 1 fonts. The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in FreeSans and FreeMono. Greek (U+0370-U+03FF).
  • Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich. In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and slanted shape. Range: Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F).
  • Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. Range: Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF).
  • Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Range: Armenian (U+0530-U+058F).
  • Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project. Range: Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF).
  • Sushant Kumar Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya: Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F). But Freefont has dropped Oriya because of the absence of font features neccessary for display of text in Oriya.
  • Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha for these ranges:
    • Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
    • Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
    • Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
    • Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
  • Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font family: Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F). It was originally included in GNU Freefont, but supoort for Telugu was later dropped altogether from the GNU Freefont project.
  • Frans Velthuis and Anshuman Pandey. In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from Washington University in Seattle, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found on CTAN. This font was converted the font to Type 1 format using Peter Szabo's TeXtrace and removed some redundant control points with PfaEdit. Range: Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F).
  • Hardip Singh Pannu. In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font, available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Range: Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F).
  • Jeroen Hellingman (The Netherlands) created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this notice on them." Metafonts can be found here and here. Ranges: Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F), Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F). Oriya was subsequently dropped from the Freefont project.
  • Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center, Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN and cover Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF).
  • Berhanu Beyene, Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek, Olaf Kummer, and Jochen Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic metafonts. They also maintain the home page on the Ethiopic font project. Someone converted the fonts to Type 1 format using TeXtrace, and removed some redundant control points with PfaEdit. Range: Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F).
  • Maxim Iorsh. In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono L families, respectively. Range: Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF).
  • Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely (uniform scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed a free Syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed from the free Carlo Ator font. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g., the box drawing section, sets of subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers. Ranges: Syriac (U+0700-U+074A), Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F), Braille (U+2800-U+28FF).
  • Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek Extended area: (U+1F00-U+1FFF).
  • M.S. Sridhar. M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi) under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site. Their original contributions to Freefont were
    • Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
    • Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
    • Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
    • Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
    • Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
    • Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
    • Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
    • Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF)
    • Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
    Oriya, Kannada and Telugu were dropped from the GNU Freefont project.
  • DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt. Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site metta.lk are released under GNU GPL. These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font. Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya. Range: Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF).
  • Daniel Shurovich Chirkov. Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X. range: Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF).
  • Abbas Izad. Responsible for Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF), Arabic Presentation Forms-A, (U+FB50-U+FDFF), Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF).
  • Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) and IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) ranges.
  • K.H. Hussain and R. Chitrajan. Rachana in Malayalam means to write, to create. Rachana Akshara Vedi, a team of socially committed information technology professionals and philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder, fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the glyphs in the OpenType table. In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04. Range: Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F).
  • Solaiman Karim filled in Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF). Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and released them under GNU GPL.
  • Sonali Sonania and Monika Shah covered Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) and Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF). Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101, Mahalakshmi Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore 560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai, lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by TDIL, Govt. of India.
  • Pravin Satpute, Bageshri Salvi, Rahul Bhalerao and Sandeep Shedmake added these Indic language cranges:
    • Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
    • Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
    • Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
    • Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
    • Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
    In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can download the font files separately. Note that Oriya was dropped from the Freefont project.
  • Kulbir Singh Thind added Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F). Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts, AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU license from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center.
  • Gia Shervashidze added Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF). Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial Georgian, Courier New Georgian.
  • Daniel Johnson. Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono! And never to be outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya.... What next?
    • Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F)
    • Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF)
    • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F)
    • UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5)
    • Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F)
    • Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
    • Vai (U+A500-U+A62B)
    • Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF)
    • Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7)
  • George Douros, the creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols. Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images of ancient sources.
    • Aegean: Phoenecian (U+10900-U+1091F).
    • Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F)
    • Musical: Byzantine (U+1D000-U+1D0FF)&Western (U+1D100-U+1D1DF)
    • Unicode: many miscellaneous symbols, miscellaneous technical, supplemental symbols, and mathematical alphanumeric symbols (U+1D400-U+1D7FF), Mah Jong (U+1F000-U+1F02B), and the outline of the domino (U+1F030-U+1F093).
  • Steve White filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working, left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks: Glagolitic (U+2C00-U+2C5F), Coptic (U+2C80-U+2CFF).
  • Pavel Skrylev is responsible for Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF) as well as many of the additions to Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F).
  • Mark Williamson made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which these ranges were taken:
    • Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F)
    • Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
    • Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F)
    • Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F)
    • Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF)
  • Primoz Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g., Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono family), and created the following UCS blocks:
    • Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
    • IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
    • Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
    • Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
    • Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
    • Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF)
  • Jacob Poon submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions.
  • Alexey Kryukov made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.
  • The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous' Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG. These glyphs were for a while included in FreeFont: Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF).

    Fontspace link. Crosswire link for Free Monospaced, Free Serif and Free Sans. Download link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    • gnu.org

    Chinese truetype fonts. And 20 MB worth of international bitmap fonts. The fonts at the latter link contain PCF and BDF sources, and some truetype and type 1 fonts. Among the bitmap (BDF) fonts: ISO8859 series 1 through 9 (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic), KOI8 (Cyrillic), Indic, Lao, Tibetan, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ethiopic, Arabic, IPA, Hebrew. Truetype: Latin-X fonts, Vietnamese (VISCII roman). Type 1: Latin-X fonts, Vietnamese (VISCII roman), Thai (TIS620), Thai National Font. The readme goes: "We greatly appreciate the contribution of Yannis Haralambous and Tereza Tranaka. They made free TrueType and Type1 fonts for Latin-X series, Thai, and Vietnamese. They will eventually make fonts for more character sets." The fonts are called OmegaSerif, and were made in 1999. Also included is the Thai National font Nf3, made by Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich in 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    goGREECE.com

    Download Greek truetype fonts: Arial, Times New Roman, Avant Greek (PC). Plus AthenMacGr and other Mac fonts. And a bunch of Amiga Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Golgonooza Letter Foundry
    [Dan Carr]

    Dan Carr (b. Cranston, RI, 1951-2012) was an American poet, type designer, typographer, printer, teacher, punchcutter, environmentalist, human rights activist and New Hampshire State Representative (2008-2010). Carr received his BA at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In Boston, in 1979 he and his partner Julia Ferrari, started the Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, a hot metal Monotype graphic design and composition house, which they moved to Ashuelot, NH, in 1982. Together they created Trois Fontaines Press in 1997, a limited edition fine press. Carr taught typography, and the history of typography at Keene State University in Keene, NH. He died after a struggle with cancer.

    At Golgonooza they produced high-quality letterpress books for a wide variety of clients. Dan Carr is the designer of the great-looking text fonts Lyons and Cheneau, 1990-1994, as well as Regulus (a metal font created in 1998 that earned him the title of Master Typographic Punchcutter of France in 1999), Philosophie, Genesis Numerals, and Beckett Bodoni, at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry. He won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Parmenides (a metal type for archaic Greek). His digital typeface "Cheneau" was chosen for a judges' choice award by the Type Directors Club in 2000. Both Dan Carr's Parmenides Greek and Christopher Stinehour's Diogenes Greek were commissioned by the printer Peter Koch for The Fragments of Parmenides.

    Alternate URL. Klingspor link. Caxton Club link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Google Font Directory: Greek

    Greek fonts available for download at the Google Font Directory. As of May 2011, these included Jura, Caudex, Play, Didact Gothic, Nova, Open Sans, Ubuntu, Anonymous Pro, GFS Didot and GFS Neohellenic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gor Jihanian

    Type and graphic designer from Armenia who graduated first from the University of Colorado in Boulder (2012) and later from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. His graduation typeface is Byron, a text typeface family for Latin, Greek and Armenian. Interview at Future Fonts.

    In 2020, he released Spindle, a symbiotic script typeface for Latin and Armenian, and explains: After the MATD program, I spent late nights digging through medieval Armenian manuscripts. Though not a strict revival, Spindle began as a study of three styles. The basis stems from the Notrgir style, a notary script invented for speed and efficiency, but not always legibility. In contrast, the earlier Bolorgir style is built up from a steady rhythm of vertical strokes and counters. While the later Slagir style is a chaos of cursive flourishes. I began trying to replicate the strokes, and as I transferred the letters into digital, I noticed characteristics from each style synthesizing into surprising and fluid shapes that would later become Spindle. The project was shelved for months until one day David Jonathan Ross asked to see my work. I showed those rough yet-unnamed letters of Spindle, and to my surprise he liked them and was curious if there were plans of adding Latin...there was not. With a little encouragement and constructive feedback, I dusted off the files and began drafting the Latin. The addition was more of a revision, a swinging pendulum constantly going between the two scripts.

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    Grab The Eye

    Design studio in Athens, Greece. Creator of the hipster typeface Gravitar (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gradient (was: Mindburger Studio)
    [Milos Mitrovic]

    Milos Mitrovic's foundry in Bergen, Norway, is called Gradient. Before that, he set up Mindburger Studio in 2015 in Nis, Serbia, before relocating to Norway.

    His early typefaces included the 1920s style sans family Bambino (2014), which was influenced by Futura. In 2015, he published Bambino New.

    Typefaces from 2016: Bergen Sans (a modern geometric sans advertized in this manner: [...]clean and stylized Scandinavian geometry, partnered with explosive post Bauhaus type aesthetics[...]), Noir (based on early 20th century geometric sans models; in 12 styles, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2017: Bergen Mono, Bergen Text (a great geometric sans family).

    Typefaces from 2019: Radial (a variable sans), Linear Sans.

    Typefaces from 2020: Poly Sans (+Mono).

    Village link.

    Typefaces from 2021: Okay Serif (a decorative didone for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Graeca

    Gorgeous Greek font Graeca (TrueType) by P.B. Payne. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grammata
    [Juan-José Marcos]

    Juan José Marcos, a professor of classics at the University of Plasencia in Spain, developed a free ornamental and florid Greek font in June 2002 with the WinGreek encoding system. It has 233 glyphs and 710 kerning pairs. It was renamed Ellenike. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Granshan 2010

    The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographic Society Munich (tgm --- Typographische Gesellschaft München) organized Granshan 2010, The 3rd International Eastern Type Design Competition, which was created especially for Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek fonts. Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan were the big bosses. The jury consisted of Gerry Leonidas, Oliver Linke, Hrant Papazian, Carolyn Puzzovio and Manvel Shmavonyan. The outcome:

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    Granshan 2011

    The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographic Society Munich (tgm --- Typographische Gesellschaft München) organized Granshan 2011, The Fourth International Type Design Competition for Non-Latin Typefaces, which was created especially for Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek fonts. Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan are the big bosses. The jury consisted of the two big bosses, plus Veronika Burian, Thomas Phinney, Manvel Shmavonyan, Panos Vassiliou and Emil Yakupov. They were aided for Armenian text typefaces by Fred Afrikyan, Gagik Martirosyan, and Aram Megrabyan. For Cyrillic, the help came from Gayane Baghdasaryan, Dmitry Kirsanov, and Vladimir Yefimov. Finally, the Greek rescue subcommittee consisted of Konstantine Giotas, Klimis Mastoridis, and Kostas Aggeletakis.

    The grand prize (1000 Euors) was won by Alexandra Korolkova for Belladonna. The other results are as follows:

    • Armenian text typefaces category
      • 1st prize - not awarded
      • 2nd prize - Aregak: Hrachuhi Grigoryan, Armenia
      • 3rd prize - Emrys: Ben Jones, UK
    • Cyrillic text typefaces category
      • 1st prize - William: Maria Doreuli, Russia
      • 2nd prize - Permian: Ilya Ruderman, Russia
      • 3rd prize - Circe: Alexandra Korolkova, Russia
    • Greek text typefaces category
      • 1st prize - Emrys: Ben Jones, UK
      • 2nd prize - Artigo: Joana Maria Correia da Silva, Portugal
      • 3rd prize - Foxhill: Hanna Donker, UK
    • Display category
      • 1st prize - Belladonna: Alexandra Korolkova, Russia
      • 2nd prize - Fry: Oleg Macujev, Russia
      • 3rd prize - Meteor Script: Ilya Ruderman, Russia
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    Granshan 2012

    The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographic Society Munich (tgm --- Typographische Gesellschaft München) are organizing Granshan 2012, The Fifth International Type Design Competition for Non-Latin Typefaces, which was created especially for Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Indic (i.e., Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil only) and Arabic fonts. Exceptionally, this year, Latin fonts designed in the last ten years can also be nominated.

    Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan are the big bosses. The jury consists of Timothy Donaldson, Otmar Hoefer, Ahmed Mansour, Fiona Ross, Manvel Shmavonyan, Panos Vassiliou, and Vladimir Yefimov. There are five expert panels:

    • Armenian text typefaces category: Ara Baghdasaryan, Gagik Martirosyan, Aram Megrabyan.
    • Arabic text typefaces category: Mamoun Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan, Nehad Nadam.
    • Cyrillic text typefaces category: Gayane Baghdasaryan, Dmitry Kirsanov, Tagir Safayev.
    • Greek text typefaces category: Konstantine Giotas, Klimis Mastoridis, Kostas Aggeletakis.
    • Indic text typefaces category: Ravi Pooviah, Mahendra Patel, Graham Shaw.

    Impossible to find the list of winners. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Graphic Quest

    Designer in 2020 of Rapido (handcrafted, for Latin and greek), Retrostripe (textured), and Audio Waves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GRCONV

    From the University of the Aegean, Diomidis Spinellis's Greek/Coptic site with his free tool Grconv: "Grconv converts between a large number of character sets, transcription, and transliteration methods that are used to represent Greek text. In addition, it supports a number of encodings used to represent those character sets in different environments. Grconv reads the file(s) specified in its command line printing the converted results on its standard output, or runs as a filter, reading text from its standard input printing the converted result on its standard output; the redirection operator can be used to write to files." [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek and Hebrew Fonts for Microsoft Windows

    Glenn Wooden and Harry Hahne explain about Greek and Hebrew under MS Windows. Their recommendation in 2000: Both WinGreek and Silver Fonts are good choices for Greek, but Silver Fonts offers higher quality output and greater ease of editing. These two sets also provide economical Hebrew fonts, although editing is easier with Silver Fonts. BibleScript provides a more polished Hebrew text with cantillations, easy Roman transliteration of Hebrew and Greek, and a wide range of Hebrew typefaces. The public domain fonts from Scholars Press are a good choice for displaying biblical and classical texts which use the TLG and Michigan-Claremont text encoding schemes or for those on a limited budget. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek at Linguist's Software

    Link shows modern Greek. Check also pages for classical and biblical Greek. Linguist's Software is run by Philip Barton Payne. Their main web contact is Gene Sorensen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek (Babel)

    Greek fonts in one zip file. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek Font Archive: unicode Fonts

    Peter Gainsford's table of Greek unicode fonts, with links, licensing info, and personal remarks and comparisons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek Font Society

    The Greek Font Society was founded in 1992 by the late Michael S. Macrakis (1924-2001) as a Non-Profit Organization with the expressed aim of contributing to the research of Greek typography. The Society was founded initially by the Kostopoulos Foundation, with further support provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Leventis Foundation, Regis College-USA, the Maliotis Foundation and the Girondelis Foundation. From 2004 until 2006, the Board of Directors consists of M.V. Sakellariou (President). L. Macrakis (Vice-President), D.G. Portolos (Secretary), L.G. Savidis (Treasurer), G.E. Agouridis, A.G. Drimiotis, and A. Giakoumakis. GFSs type design programme began through the collaboration of painter-engraver Takis Katsoulidis with type designer George D. Matthiopoulos. Since then, GFS has designed a growing list of Greek polytonic (fully-accented) fonts which include various historical revivals and new designs with respect to typographic tradition. In addition, GFS was commissioned to design fonts for the Athens Academy, The Athens Archeological Society, the Institute of Speech amongst others. Furthermore, GFS organised an International Conference, Greek Letters: from Tablets to Pixels at the Institute Français dAthènes in 1995, and has been active in the publication of works on Typography. For this aim GFS edited and designed the proceedings of the Conference: Michael S. Macrakis (edit), Greek Letters: from Tablets to Pixels, Oak Knoll Press, Newcastle-Delaware, 1996. The artistic collaborators include George D. Matthiopoulos, Michail Semoglou and Natasha Raissaki. Finally, they are making some high quality free fonts, such as:

    • GFS Didot (1994, a didone designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George Matthiopoulos; a matching Latin alphabet is based on Hermann Zapf's Palatino). Open Font Library link.
    • GFS Bodoni (1992-1993): a didone designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George Matthiopoulos. See also GFS Bodoni Classic (Greek only).
    • GFS Olga (1995, a serif designed and digitized by George Matthiopoulos, based on the historical Porson Greek type (1803)).
    • GFS Callierges Greek, based on the types of Zacharias Callierges (15th century), digitized by George Matthiopoulos.
    • GFS Porson Greek, digitized by George Matthiopoulos in 1995. This is based on the types of Richard Porson of the 18th century.
    • GFS Artemisia (2001), by painter-engraver Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George D. Matthiopoulos. Open Font Library link.
    • GFS Complutensian Greek, digitized by George Matthiopoulos and Antonis Tsolomitis. This was based on the types of Arnaldo Guillen de Brocar (16th century). Now called GFS Complutum (2007).
    • GFS Neohellenic (1993-2000, Takis Katsoulidis and George D. Matthiopoulos). They explain: In 1927, Victor Scholderer (British Museum Library curator), on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930s, was also well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for Ksi and Omega. GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic, bold and bold italic) as well as a Latin version. A further extension, GFSNeohellenicMath, was published in 2018: The font GFSNeohellenicMath was commissioned to the Greek Font Society (GFS) by the Graduate Studies program "Studies in Mathematics" of the Department of Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, located on the Samos island, Greece. The design copyright belongs to the main designer of GFS, George Matthiopoulos. The OpenType Math Table embedded in the font was developed by the Mathematics Professor Antonis Tsolomitis. The font is released under the latest OFL license, and it is available from the GFS site at http://www.greekfontsociety-gfs.gr. The font is an almost Sans Serif font and one of its main uses is for presentations, an area where (we believe) a commercial grade sans math font was not available up to now.
    • GFS Elpis (2006, Natasha Raissaki), an original design which tries very hard to match the Greek and Latin parts of its alphabet.
    • GFSSolomos (2006) by George D. Matthiopoulos.
    • GFS Theokritos, a redesign by George D. Matthiopoulos of a font created by Yannis Kefallinos (1894-1958) in the 1950s. Free at Open Font Library.
    • GFS Baskerville (2007) by Antonis Tsolomitis.
    • GFS Gazis (2007, George Matthiopoulos), about which they write: During the whole of the 18th century the old tradition of using Greek types designed to conform to the Byzantine cursive hand with many ligatures and abbreviations - as it was originated by Aldus Manutius in Venice and consolidated by Claude Garamont (Grecs du Roy) - was still much in practice, although clearly on the wane. GFS Gazis is a typical German example of this practice as it appeared at the end of that era in the 1790s. Its name pays tribute to Anthimos Gazis (1758-1828), one of the most prolific Greek thinkers of the period, who was responsible for writing, translating and editing numerous books, including the editorship of the important Greek periodical (Litterary Hermes) in Wien.
    • These majuscule typefaces were made by George Matthiopoulos in 2006 and 2007: GFS Ambrosia, GFS Eustace, GFS Fleischman-Regular, GFS Garaldus, GFS Jackson-Regular, GFS Nicefore. He writes: GFS Ambrosia has the main characteristics of the majuscule forms of the early Christian tradition while GFS Nicefore is a typical byzantine sample of the 5th-7th century period. GFS Jackson is an edition of the font cut, in 1788, by Joseph Jackson on commission by the Cambridge University in preparation of the edition of the Beza codex containing the New Testament from the 5th-6th century. Theodore Beza was the erudite scholar from Geneva who had given the codex as a gift to the University in 1581. GFS Eustace is a typical example of byzantine woodcut initials used in many similar forms in Italy for Greek editions of the Bible, Prayers and other theological literature from the 15th to 19th centuries. GFS Fleischman, on the contrary, is based on a typeface cut by Johann Michael Fleishman, typecutter of the Dutch Enschedé foundry in the baroque style that prevailed in the mid-18th century.
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    Greek Fonts

    Archive with free Greek TrueType fonts for Mac and PC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek Fonts Gateway
    [Michael Palmer]

    Greek font links by Michael Palmer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek Grammar on the Web

    Fantastic Greek font page by Professor Marc Huys from the University of Leuven, Belgium. This page had (has?) Supergreek (copyright Payne Loving Trust) and many other Greek fonts, and an extensive discussion on Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek (Haralambous)

    Yannis Haralambous's Greek metafont package. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek House of Fonts
    [Sebastian Riessen]

    Sebastian Riessen is the San Diego-based creator of the rounded fat typeface Greek House Fat (2006-2009, caps only). Dafont link. Free fonts: Greek House Basic, Krakt and Symbolized. Pay fonts: Greek Curlz, Greek Collegiate, Greek Ole English, Greek Script, Greekhouse 70s, Greek Applique, Applique Outlined, Greek Ancient, Greekhouse Heavy, Greek Junior High, Collegiate Outline, Wicked Olde English, English Skript, Greek HouseSymbolized (2012), Greek Fathouse, Greek Marker Bold, Greek Freight Tag, Greekhouse Scribbled, Greekhouse Studz, Greekhouse Stitched.

    Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek Market--Greek Fonts

    Monotype Arial and TimesNewRoman families. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek (Silvio Levy)
    [Silvio Levy]

    Silvio Levy's Greek metafont package based on Computer Modern. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek Uncial fonts

    Greek uncial metafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Greek unicode

    Greek UNICODE compliant (8859-7) Helvetica and Courier fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GreekBoston.com

    Greek fonts for Mac and PC, such as the Arial, TimesNewRoman and Avant families. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GreekKeys
    [George B. Walsh]

    Greek font information from the American Philological Association. It used to carry the unicode font Athena Roman. GreekKeys for Macintosh is a product providing easy keyboard input and specialized fonts for scholars of ancient (polytonic) Greek. First produced in 1984, GreekKeys has long provided a widely-used custom encoding for polytonic Greek, but now also supports and advocates Unicode as the proper standard for polytonic Greek in the future. GreekKeys is owned and distributed by the American Philological Association, a non-profit professional organization of North American classical scholars. GreekKeys is currently maintained and revised by Donald Mastronarde, Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. The original GreekKeys for Macintosh dates back to 1984, and was designed and distributed by George Walsh of the Department of Classics of the University of Chicago. He died in 1989, and the next year his wife, Susan M. Kastendiek (the eponym for the original name "SMK") donated the program to the American Philological Association. Since then it has been largely the responsibility of Jeffrey Rusten to update and answer questions about GreekKeys. The site was at Cornell University, but at some point it moved to Berkeley. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    greektex

    greektex by Yiannis N. Moschovakis (Dept of Mathematics, UCLA) and George Spiliotis is also based on Silvio Levy's Greek metafonts and Donald Knuth's Computer Modern. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GreeKTeX Ver 3.1

    K. J. Dryllerakis's GreeKTeX package including several Greek metafonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    greektype.com

    Gerry Leonidas' Greek type services. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Green Type
    [Dmitrij Greshnev]

    Green Type is the foundry of creative Russian type designer Dmitrij Greshnev (b. 1975, Lengingrad). Still based in Leningrad, Dmitrij received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Multicross (2003-2004), which can be bought at ParaType. He will win many more awards.

    His typefaces include Stopwatch (2010, LED face), Sokol (Old Slavonic Latin simulation face), Slavica (2010), Reliant (2010, with Iza W at Intellecta Design), Reliant Beveled (2012, free), Logistica (2010, army stencil), Danger (2010, another army stencil), Dusk Thin (2010), and Multicross (2003-2004, stitching font).

    Typefaces from 2011: Zoo300 (techno sans; +Shadow, +yrillic). Behance link.

    In 2012, he created Patriciana (a Peignotian typeface for Latin and Cyrillic) and Directo.

    Typefaces from 2013: Finch, Hypermarket (dirty typewriter).

    Typefaces from 2014-2015: Trali-Vali (a children's book or party font family), Moveo Sans (with Condensed and Extended subfamilies, 80 fonts in all covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Artica Pro (a flared all-caps typeface family for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic that is based on classical roman (Trajan) letterforms) and Artica Rough Pro (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Festa (a brush typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2017: Festa Classica (a happy all caps hand0crafted typeface family), Normative Pro (a neutral techno sans with glyphs tending towards the rectangular), Normative Lt.

    Typefaces from 2018: Streetline.

    Typefaces from 2019: Hubba (a modular squarish typeface family; has a variable font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Danger Neue (a military stencil).

    Typefaces from 2021: Fason (a flared fashion mag typeface family).

    Typefaces from 2022: Esquina Rounded (an octagonal typeface), Esquina College (an octagonal varsity typeface), Esquina Outline, Esquina Stencil (12 styles).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. Hellofont link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link.

    View Dmitry Greshnev's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Grenet - free Greek font
    [Sven-Olav Paavel]

    Free Greek truetype font designed by Sven-Olav Paavel, 1999. Tons of modern Greek accented characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Griechische Schrift

    Nice page (in German) about the use and installation of Greek fonts for PC, Mac and UNIX. Focus on Greek Unicode compliant fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Griegoweb

    Greek font links, maintained by Maria enriquez and Alvaro F. Ortola. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Griekse Lettertypes

    Bart van Beek from the KU Leuven provides a thorough list of links for Greek fonts. In Flemish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grinder Collective
    [Nick Kandy]

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the origami typeface Fader (2017), the free multilined experimental typeface Simulation (2018) and the 3d typeface Stairway (2018).

    In 2019, they published the free Latin / Greek stencil typeface GRT Revolution.

    Typefaces from 2020: GRT Sugar (a custom handcrafted typeface for Melisourgeion). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grixel
    [Nikos Giannakopoulos]

    Greek pixel fonts by Nikos Giannakopoulos. Free creations include Grixel Acme 9 Regular (2006), which also covers Latin. Dafont link. Other pixel typefaces, all made in 2006: GrixelAcme5CompCapsO, GrixelAcme5CompCapsOXtnd, GrixelAcme5Wide, GrixelAcme5WideBold, GrixelAcme5WideBoldXtnd, GrixelAcme5WideXtnd, GrixelAcme7Wide, GrixelAcme7WideBold, GrixelAcme7WideBoldXtnd, GrixelAcme7WideXtnd, GrixelAcme9Regular, GrixelAcme9RegularBold, GrixelAcme9RegularBoldXtnd, GrixelAcme9RegularXtnd, GrixelKyrou5Wide, GrixelKyrou5WideBold, GrixelKyrou5WideBoldXtnd, GrixelKyrou5WideXtnd, GrixelKyrou7Wide, GrixelKyrou7WideBold, GrixelKyrou7WideBoldXtnd, GrixelKyrou7WideXtnd, GrixelKyrou9Regular, GrixelKyrou9RegularBold, GrixelKyrou9RegularBoldXtnd, GrixelKyrou9RegularXtnd. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grover Foundry
    [Thomas Grover]

    London-based foundry of James and Thomas Grover, active in the late 17th century. Quoting Stanley Morison (Fleuron, vol. 6): "In succession to the so-called Polyglot founders who worked under privilege during the period 1637-1667, the Grovers began business about 1674. The possessed types which came from Day, Wynkyn de Worde and others, also a fine Greek uncial, a number of scripts and the curious letter called "Double Pica Union Pearl", or simply "Union Pearl". This elegant decorative script face, which is the first known English decorated letter (ca. 1690), later became a Stephenson Blake typeface. Designers of a Greek typeface in 1694 (some say 1894), based upon the Greek of the Complutensian Polyglot of 1514. According to "Fleuron", vol. 6, p. 231, this typeface was surpassed by Victor Scholderer's "New Hellenic" (1928). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    GR-Soft

    GR-Soft's GR_Soft_TimesPol truetype font with lots and lots of accented and double-accented characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guy Buhry

    French creator of the great heavy comic book typeface Grobold (2006). Later, he added Cyrillic and Greek versions called Groboldov and Groboldopoulos, respectively. Guy Buhry is currently working on Guy Script. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Haerin Lee
    [Heummdesign]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hagiography database

    GreekOldFace by Ralph Hancock (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hanna Donker

    Dutch freelance graphic designer who works as font designer at Dalton Maag in London since 2012. Behance link. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Her graduation typeface, Foxhill (2011), was designed for small sizes. It has Greek and Latin styles and has the angularity necessary for agate typefaces. Foxhill won Third Prize in the Greek text typeface category at Granshan 2011. She wrote a dissertation about Dutch typeface designer Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos.

    Dalton Maag, Tom Foley, Mary Faber, Stuart Brown and Hanna Donker won a Granshan 2014 award for Intel Clear Cyrillic. Dalton Maag's Hanna Donker and Spike Spondike won an award at Granshan 2016 for Intel Clear Thai.

    Typecache link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hans J. Simon Verlag

    Commercial font vendor offering fonts such as Kyrillisch Romance, Polnisch Alpina, Lautschrift Metrik, Altgriechisch, Neugriechisch, Hebraisch, Turkisch Courier, Tschechisch/Slowakisch Romance, Kroatisch Romance, Mergensymbole. Between 90 and 390DM per font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hara Mesdaniti

    Graphic designer in Athens. In 2013, she designed Sponge Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Haralambous: Greek typeface classification

    Yannis Haralambous, in From Unicode to Typography, a Case Study the Greek Script writes: Until the arrival of computer DTP, most printed books were typeset in one, or more, of the following typefaces: Apla (which Monotype calls Greek 90, 91, 92), Times, Porson, New Hellenic, Greek Sans 486. [These are all by Monotype.] When the phototypesetting machines were replaced by computers, the situation changed rapidly: the Times fonts were taken over by the computer, bad quality imitations of the original Monotype Greek 90 were used for the Apla style, new fonts were designed and used: Linotype released Greek Baskerville and New Century Schoolbook, Greek companies (like Magenta) have adapted many of the Latin typefaces to the Greek script.

    He classifies Greek text typefaces into five categories:

    • Apla (Didot). This has been the most common style of Greek typefaces. Its ancestors are 19th century Didot typefaces. Apla means plain, simple in Greek, and this is what this typeface has been: the most common typeface for ordinary text. Many companies have released versions in this style: Monotype Greek 90 (upright), Greek 91 (italic), Greek 92 (bold), Linotype Greek No. 2, Magenta Memories. Haralambous considers the Monotype ones to be, by far the best choice, in fact the most beautiful Greek types he has ever seen.
    • The Times family (called Elsevier in Greece). This is a style used since 1878 as an alternative to Apla. Compared to the latter, it is more modern and pragmatical. This is why it often has been chosen for technical books, or books by authors who wanted to avoid a conservative image. Many companies have released Greek Times fonts, unfortunately not all of good quality, according to Haralambous. He opines that the best seems to be the original Monotype Greek Times, which has afterwards been cloned to produce the homonymous, lower quality, standard Microsoft Windows 95/NT font.
    • Scholarly fonts:
      • Porson: Haralambous: The Porson typeface is used in most Anglosaxon scholarly Greek editions, including the Oxford Classical Texts. This font has also been used in Greece, as a replacement for Greek 91, or as a companion font to New Hellenic. The German-Greek Langesheidt dictionary also uses Porson only for the Greek text. Only two Porson versions are known to the author: the one by Monotype (again, by far the best) and a recent one, by the Greek Font Society.
      • Greek Sans 486, a bold font. It has been used for the entries of the Oxford Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. A font with strong resemblance to it is used by the Association Guillaume Budé, Le Cerf editions and the Bailly dictionary.
      • New Hellenic, or Attika in Greek.
    • Adaptations of Latin typefaces. Monotype did Gill Sans and Helvetica. Linotype adapted New Baskerville, New Caledonia, New Century Schoolbook, Op- tima, Souvenir, and others. The Greek company Magenta adapted a wide range of Latin typefaces, including Univers, Garamond and Bodoni. Microsoft sought the Hellenization of Palatino. The Greek Font Society (GFS) created many nice typefaces such as GFS Bodoni.
    • Original creations of the last few years. Individual contributions include Takis Katsoulidis (who published aesthetic Greek typefaces such as Katsoulidis ans Apollonia).
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    Haralampos Andreanidis

    Greek graphic designer. He created a number of minimalist/pizelish/squarish Latin/Greek fonts in 2009 under the name City Fonts. His Totem Font (2009) is experimental. Nomass Team Font (2009) is a squarish stencil. His typographic posters.

    Alternate URL. Another URL. Behance link. Devian tart link. Nomass site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harald Tomesch

    Designer of the Greek truetype font Dr Greek (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Haratzopoulos Panayiotis

    Greek designer of CF Panoptik (2018): CF Panoptik is an evolution of the popular Futura, somewhat less geometric, yet equally clean and quite proportionate. Originally designed as a corporate font for the Pancreta Bank and later enriched with more weights released to the market. Supports Western and Extended Latin character sets as well as Greek monotonic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Haris Bekrakis

    During his studies in Athens, Greece, Haris Bekrakis created the hexagonal alchemic typeface Inguz (2013) for Latin and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harris Darmawan

    Jakarta-based designer, b. 1990. He created the spike-serifed typeface family Symmetre (2012) for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harrisson
    [Open Source Publishing (or: OSP)]

    [More]  ⦿

    Hector Charalambous

    The font Gill Sans Hellenic (2000) was chosen for the corporate identity of the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. The Greek version was designed by Hector Charalambous and was art directed by Panayiotis Haratzopoulos (Cannibal Fonts) after permission for hellenization was given by Monotype. The font is available from Greek Digital Types. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hector Haralambous

    Greek type and graphic designer, b. 1945, Nicosia (Cyprus), who studied at Doxiadis School of Art. He is active in type design since the mid-eighties and has designed fonts for various companies, among them Linotype. He teaches at Vakalo school of Art and Design, and is one of the three Course Leaders at the Graphic Design department. He collaborates with Cannibal Fonts since 1997.

    At Cannibal, he published Blast Gothic CF, Derrida CF Book, Garamond CF, and Hot Metal CF. Co-designer at Linotype of a version of the Sabon family (1986). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hein Boekhout
    [OTC (Odyssey Type Company)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Helen Gabara

    Helen Gabara lived and worked in Toronto. She studied Communication Arts but earlier on, she developed an interest in typography and customized calligraphy projects. PF Rafskript and PF Signskript (2007, Parachute) are two of her typefaces. She no longer works for Parachute. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helena Lekka

    Ph.D. student at the University of Reading. Thesis topic: Linotype's early Greek phototypes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hellas Arial

    The Hellas Arial family (free) by Pouliadis and Associates (1992). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hellenic Resources Network

    Information and free material (fonts, software) for use with Greek character sets. Contains fonts for use with UNIX. Starting place for Greek typography on various platforms, including Mac, Windows and UNIX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages

    Page on Greek fonts kept by James K. Tauber. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hello OSX

    Well-organized Greek font archive but impractical downloads. It contains these families: DejaVu, GFS, Gentium, Linux Libertine, MgOpen, Thryomanes, VAG, AVI. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Henry Warwick

    New Jersey native who lives in San Francisco. He states: "Over the years I've had the good fortune to be very involved with photolettering and type design. In the 1980's I set headlines, letter by letter by letter, on a VGC Typositor at Phil's Photolettering in Washington DC. The desktop computer quickly destroyed that entire industry, and that is how I became involved with computer graphics. In the early 1990s, I designed type for FontBank, and consulted for several other type companies, including Microsoft and Galoob Toys. It's nearly impossible to make a living in type design these days, as the industry was basically done in by a combination of legal precedents and rampant piracy. Having worked on "conventional" / Wester / Roman fonts for so long, I've acquired a preference for unusual or obscure fonts or alphabets. I am always available for type design work or consulting." His designs (not downloadable) include Coptic Chelt, Fruthrak Sans, Ojibway Futurae, Cyrillic-Helv-Flash-8pt, KTR-katakana10, Celestia, Daggers, Enochian Times and Nugsoth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Heracles Papatheodorou

    Designer of the free handcrafted Latin / Greek typeface Graphe Alpha (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Herman Miller

    Herman Miller made several typefaces for Kolagian languages (runes): Kisuna, MizarianUni, OlaeUni, ZireenUni, CispaNormal, OlaetyanNormal, Thryomanes, Zirinka (font used for Zireen languages including Zírí:nká and Zharranh), Lhoerr (font used for Jarrda and Jaghri), Pintek (Braille-type font), Velika, Minza, Lindiga, Teamouse VS, Tirelat (2001), Ludireo, Tilya, Czirehlat.

    TIPANormal, ThrIPANormal and ThrSAMPANormal are fonts designed for phonetics. Livagian (2003) has a reasonable character set. TeamouseLX, TeamouseVS, TeamouseVS (all 2001) are Miller's versions of Times Roman.

    He also made the unicode font Thryomanes (fully accented Times, with Greek, Latin, Celtic/uncial and Cyrillic).

    FTP source. Direct link. Older alternate URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hermann Zapf

    Prolific master calligrapher and type designer, born in Nuremberg in 1918. Most of his life, he lived in Darmstadt, where he died in 2015. He is best known for Palatino, Optima, Melior, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino, and ITC Zapf Chancery. He created alphabets for metal types, photocomposition and digital systems.

    He studied typography from 1938 until 1941 in Paul Koch's workshop in Frankfurt. From 1946 until 1956, he was type director at D. Stempel AG type foundry, Frankfurt. In 1951 he married Gudrun von Hesse. From 1956 until 1973, he was consultant for Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn and Frankfurt. From 1977 until 1987, he was vice president of Design Processing, Inc., New York (which he founded with his friends Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin), and professor of Typographic Computer Programs, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Students at RIT included Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow, who together created the Lucida type family. Other prominent students include calligrapher/font designer Julian Waters and book designer Jerry Kelly. From 1987 until 1991, he was chairman of Zapf, Burns&Company, New York. He retired in Darmstadt, Germany, but consulted on many font projects until a few years before his death. In the 1990s, Zapf developed the hz program for kerning and typesetting. It was acquired by Adobe who used ideas from it in InDesign.

    Awards:

    • 1969 Frederic W. Goudy Award, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
    • 1973 Gutenberg Prize, City of Mainz.
    • 1975 Gold Medal, Museo Bodoniano, Parma.
    • 1985 Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of Arts, London.
    • 1987 Robert Hunter Middleton Award, Chicago.
    • 1994 Euro Design Award, Oostende.
    • 1996 Wadim Lazursky Award, Academy of Graphic Arts, Moscow.
    • 1999 Type Directors Club award for Zapfino (1998), New York.
    • 2010 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse.

    Some publications by Hermann Zapf:

  • Feder und Stichel (1949, Trajanus Presse, Frankfurt)
  • About Alphabets (1960)
  • Manuale Typographicum (1954 and 1968). Only 1000 copies were printed of the original.
  • Typographic Variations (1964), or Typografische Variationen (1963, Stempel), of which only 500 copies were printed.
  • Orbis Typographicus (1980)
  • Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy (Chicago, 1987)
  • ABC-XYZapf (London, 1989)
  • Poetry through Typography (New York, 1993)
  • August Rosenberger (Rochester, NY, 1996).
  • Alphabet Stories (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, 2008). Review by Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater.
  • My collaboration with Don Knuth and my font design work [just an article], TUGboat 22:1/2 (2001), 26-30. Local download.

    List of his typefaces:

    • Alahram Arabisch.
    • Arno (Hallmark).
    • Aldus Buchschrift (Linotype, 1954): Italic, Roman. Digital version by Adobe.
    • Alkor Notebook.
    • Attika Greek.
    • Artemis Greek.
    • Aurelia (1985, Hell).
    • AT&T Garamond.
    • Book (ITC New York). Samples: Book Demi, Book Demi Italic, Book Heavy, Book Heavy Italic, Book Medium Italic. The Zapf Book, Chancery and International fonts are under the name Zabriskie on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002.
    • Brush Borders.
    • Comenius Antiqua (1976, Berthold; see C792 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002).
    • Crown Roman and Crown Italic (Hallmark).
    • Chancery (officially called ITC Zapf Chancery): Bold, Demi, Italic, Light, Liht Italic, Mediu Italic, Roman.
    • Civilité (Duensing). Mac McGrew on the Zapf Civilité: Zapf Civilite is perhaps the latest typeface to be cut as metal type, having been announced in January 1985, although the designer, Hermann Zapf, had made sketches for such a typeface as early as 1940, with further sketches in 1971. But matrices were not cut until 1983 and 1984. The cutting was done by Paul Hayden Duensing in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The first Civilité typeface was cut by Robert Granjon in 1557, based on a popular French handwriting style of the time. Other interpretations have been made from time to time, notably the Civilité (q.v.) designed by Morris Benton in 1922 for ATF. The new Zapf design has the same general character but with a more informal and contemporary feeling. A smooth flow between weights of strokes replaces the stark contrast of thick-and-thin in older interpretations. There are several ligatures, and alternate versions of a number of characters, including several terminals. Only the 24-point Didot size is cut or planned.
    • Charlemagne (Hallmark).
    • Digiset Vario (1982, Hell): a signage face.
    • Edison (Hell), Edison Cyrillic. Scans: Bold Condensed, Book, Semibold Italic, Semibold, Book Italic.
    • Euler (American Mathematical Society). Zapf was also consultant for Don Knuth on his Computer Modern fonts. In 1983, Zapf, Knuth and graduate students in Knuth's and Charles Bigelow's Digital Typography program at Stanford University including students Dan Mills, Carol Twombly, David Siegel, and Knuth's computer science Ph.D. students Scott Kim and John Hobby, completed the calligraphic typeface family AMS Euler for the American Mathematical Society (+Fraktur, Math Symbols, +script). Taco Hoekwater, Hans Hagen, and Khaled Hosny set out to create an OpenType MATH-enabled font Neo-Euler (2009-2010), by combining the existing Euler math fonts with new glyphs from Hermann Zapf (designed in the period 2005-2008). The result is here. The Euler digital font production was eventually finished by Siegel as his M.S. thesis project in 1985.
    • Firenze (Hallmark).
    • Festliche Ziffern (transl: party numbers).
    • Frederika Greek.
    • Gilgengart Fraktur (1938, D. Stempel). Some put the dates as 1940-1949. It was released by Stempel in 1952. Revivals include RMU Gilgengart (2020, Ralph M. Unger), and Gilgengart by Gerhard Henzel.
    • Heraklit Greek (1954). A digital revival was first done by George Matthiopoulos, GFS Heraklit. Later improvements followed by Antonis Tsolomitis and finally in 2020 by Daniel Benjamin Miller.
    • Hunt Roman (1961-1962, Pittsburgh). A display typeface exclusively designed for the Hunt Botanical Library (Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation since 1971), situated on campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, to accompany their text typeface Spectrum. Review by Ferdinand Ulrich.
    • International (ITC, 1977). Samples: Demi, Demi Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic, Light, Light Italic, Medium, Medium Italic.
    • Janson (Linotype).
    • Jeannette Script (Hallmark).
    • Kompakt (1954, D. Stempel).
    • Kalenderzeichen (transl: calendar symbols).
    • Kuenstler Linien (transl: artistic lines).
    • Linotype Mergenthaler.
    • Melior (1952, D. Stempel; see Melmac on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002). Samples: Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Roman.
    • Michelangelo (1950, D. Stempel, a roman caps face; a digital version exists at Berthold and at The Font Company).
    • Marconi (1975-1976, Hell; now also available at Elsner&Flake and Linotype; according to Gerard Unger, this was the first digital type ever designed---the original 1973 design was intended for Hell's Digiset system; Marconi is a highly readable text face).
    • Medici Script (1971).
    • Musica (Musiknoten, transl: music symbols; C.E. Roder, Leipzig).
    • Magnus Sans-serif (Linotype, 1960).
    • Missouri (Hallmark).
    • Novalis.
    • Noris Script (1976; a digital version exists at Linotype).
    • Optima (1955-1958, D. Stempel--Optima was originally called Neu Antiqua), Optima Greek, Optima Nova (2002, with Akira Kobayashi at Linotype, a new version of Optima that includes 40 weights, half of them italic). Samples: Poster by Latice Washington, Optima, Demibold Italic, Black, Bold, Bold Italic, Demibold, Extra Black, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Regular, Italic. Digital clones: Zapf Humanist 601 by Bitstream, O801 Flare on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002), Opus by Softmaker, Columbia Serial by Softmaker, Mg Open Cosmetica, Ottawa by Corel, October by Scangraphic, CG Omega by Agfa compugraphic, Chelmsford by URW, Classico by URW and Optus by URW.
    • Orion (1974).
    • Palatino (1948, D. Stempel; the original font can still be found as Palazzo on Softmaker's XXL CD, 2002), Palatino Nova (2005, Linotype), Palatino Sans (2006, Linotype, with Akira Kobayashi), Palatino Greek, Palatino Cyrillic. Palatino was designed in conjunction with August Rosenberger, In 2013, Linotype released Palatino eText which has a larger x-height and wider spacing. Palatino samples: black, black italic, bold, bold italic, italic, medium, roman, light, light italic. Poster by M. Tuna Kahya (2012). Poster by Elena Shkarupa. Poster by Wayne YMH (2012). Zapf was particularly upset about the Palatino clone, Monotype Book Antiqua. Consequently, in 1993, Zapf resigned from ATypI over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members.
    • Phidias Greek.
    • Primavera Schmuck.
    • Pan Nigerian.
    • Quartz (Zerox Corporation Rochester, NY).
    • Renaissance Antiqua (1985, Scangraphic). Samples: Regular, Bold, Book, Light Italic, Swashed Book Italic, Swash Italic.
    • Saphir (1953, D. Stempel, see now at Linotype).
    • Sistina (1951, D. Stempel).
    • Scriptura, Stratford (Hallmark).
    • Sequoya (for the Cherokee Indians), ca. 1970. This was cut by Walter Hamady and is a Walbaum derivative.
    • Linotype Trajanus Cyrillic (1957).
    • Textura (Hallmark).
    • URW Grotesk (1985, 59 styles), URW Antiqua, URW Palladio (1990).
    • Hallmark Uncial (Hallmark).
    • Virtuosa Script (1952, D. Stempel). Zapf's first script face. Revived in 2009 as Virtuosa Classic in cooperation with Akira Kobayashi.
    • Venture Script (Linotype, 1966; FontShop says 1969).
    • Winchester (Hallmark).
    • World Book Modern.
    • ITC Zapf Dingbats [see this poster by Jessica Rauch], Zapf Essentials (2002, 372 characters in six fonts: Communication, Arrows (One and Two), Markers, Ornaments, Office, based on drawings of Zapf in 1977 for Zapf Dingbats).
    • Zapfino (Linotype, 1998, winner of the 1999 Type Directors Club award), released on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This is a set of digital calligraphic fonts. Zapfino Four, Zapfino Three, Zapfino Two, Zapfino One, ligatures, Zapfino Ornaments (with plenty of fists). Poster by Nayla Masood (2013).

    Books and references about him include:

    Pictures of Hermann Zapf: with Lefty, with Rick Cusick, in 2003, with Frank Jonen, with Jill Bell, with Linnea Lundquist and Marsha Brady, with Rick Cusick, with Rick Cusick, with Stauffacher, a toast, with Werner Schneider and Henk Gianotten, with Chris Steinhour, at his 60th birthday party. Pictures of his 80th birthday party at Linotype [dead link].

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    • Heummdesign
    [Haerin Lee]

    Heummdesign is a Seoul, South Korea-based type foundry (according to Dafont) or a North Korean type design cooperative (according to MyFonts), started in 2009. By 2020, they produced well over a hundred typefaces for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hangul. Haerin Lee appears to be the main person but that remains unclear.

    Haerin Lee designed HU Cookie (2020, with Rumi Kim and ByoungHeon Park), HU Bubble (2020, with SangHyeon Park), HU Hand Serif (2020: with Yehyeong Lee and ByoungHeon Park), HU Wind Sans (2020: a 15-style sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and ByoungHeon Park) and HU The Game (2020, with ByoungHeon Park), a typeface with mini-spurs and odd terminals that is designed for display.

    Typefaces from 2021: HU Battery (a sci-fi typeface by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and Yehyeong Lee), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Green Tea (with Yehyeong Lee), HU Ketchup (with Yehyeong Lee: an informal supermarket typeface for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hildegund Mueller

    Codesigner with Stefan Hagel in 1997-1998 of Aisa Unicode. Aisa Unicode is a proprietary font that does not contain a Latin alphabet. It is ncluded in the shareware utility MultiKey 4.0 (for Microsoft Word in Microsoft Windows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hillel Glueck
    [Tamar Fonts]

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    Hilti

    A corporate URW studio sans family published in 2009. The 6-font family sells for over 5000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    hobz

    Three Greek truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Holy (was: Odysseas GP)
    [Galinos Paparounis]

    Holy (was: Odysseas GP) is Galinos Paparounis, a graphic designer from Athens. In 2012, he used Futura as a basis for developing the stunning Latin / Greek display typeface Futuracha. In 2017, he followed up with Futuracha Pro, and in 2019 with Decoracha.

    Behance link. Tumblr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hotam
    [Hotam Mahmadiev]

    Dushanbe, Tajikistan-based designer of the circle-based monoline rounded sans typeface family Metricor (2019) for all Latin languages, Cyrillic, and Greek. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hotam Mahmadiev
    [Hotam]

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    Hugo Chargois

    French designer of Gohufont (2010): Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols. Free, in BDF and PCF formats. Github link by Guilherme Maeda, who created truetype versions of Chargois's fonts in 2015. The pixel fonts cover Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Braille and mathematical symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hungarumlaut (was: Cila Design)
    [Adam Katyi]

    Adam Katyi, who hails from Sopron, Hungary, has three degrees. He has a BA from the University of West Hungary at Institute of Applied Arts, Sopron in 2010, and an MA from Moholy-Nagy Art and Design University, Budapest in 2012. In 2013, he graduated from the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag. In 2014 Adam founded his own type foundry, Hungarumlaut. Between 2015 and 2016 he worked for Miles Newlyn at Newlyn Ltd, as a part time font engineer and type designer. Since 2014, he teaches at the Moholy-Nagy Art and Design University. He is currently located in Graz, Austria. His typefaces:

    • In 2009, he created 9Pixel.
    • In 2010, he designed a typeface called Ringua, and the great Totfalusi Sans Serif, his BA final project at Sopron's Institute of Applied Art.
    • In 2012: Ursin (techno, octagonal), Ursin Rounded.
    • His KABK graduation typeface is a large sans typeface family, Westeinde, which has caption, text and display subfamilies, and weights going from hairline to black. The geometric family shows influences from Bauhaus and constructivism. In addition to being drop-dead gorgeous, this family has optical sizes as well.
    • In 2013, Adam Katyi created Gewaard, an interpretation of Halfvette Aldine, shown in the Lettergieterij Amsterdam specimen of ca. 1906. This didone with bracketed serifs was a revival project at KABK under the guidance of Paul van der Laan.
    • Also in 2013, he published Infinity Space Icons.
    • Nubu (2014). A thin fashion mag sans custom made for the fashion design group NUBU.
    • Telkmo: A Custom font by Adam Katy and Miles Newlyn for Telkom South-Africa.
    • In 2015, he designed the monospaced typeface Menoe Grotesque for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, which was inspired by an old Continental typewriter. Menoe can be used as a programming font.
    • Ost (2016). A custom typeface for Ost Konzept, is a clothing brand established in 2016 in Hungary by Aron Sasvari and Oliver Lantos, and named after the German word for East, as a symbol of the formerly isolated Eastern-European reality, the results a disorted viewpoint of fashion.
    • Magen. Magen is a one-style, headline typeface with translation contrast, based on sketches with a broad-edged pen. A custom design for The Revere, a bi-weekly, student-run, foreign affairs periodical.
    • For the Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Design Grant (named after Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy), he created the ink-trapped custom typeface Mohol in 2017.
    • Kleine Titel is a custom typeface for the Styrian Kleine Zeitung daily newspaper.
    • Laslo (2018) is a sans typeface with variable widths. It was inspired by the letter a of a Bauhaus Tapetenmusterbuch from 1934.
    • Amen Display (2018). This didone grew out of Gewaard: I made the first sketches and digital files at my Type and Media studies as a revival project under the name Gewaard. Project leader: Paul van der Laan. The Medium weight is an interpretation of Halfvette Aldine, shown in the Lettergieterij Amsterdam specimen of c.1906. I have found the original typeface in an old prayer-book, from Butzon and Bercker, Kevelaer, 1904. The type was set in large size, in 24 pt. Since 2013 I have redrawn the letters several times, but I've found its clear voice only five years after the first sketches. In 2018 I redesigned all the characters with more geometric details and a comletely new italic style.
    • Supergravity (2018-2020).

    Behance link for Cila Design. Cila Design. Behance link for Hungarumlaut. Type Today link. Yet another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hyphen A Typographic Forum

    This type and design mag in English and Greek is edited by Altervision (Klimis Mastoridis, Tasos Efremidis, Dimitris Mitsiopoulos, Apostolos Rizos) in Thessaloniki. It is published by Typophilia, Thessaloniki. Mastoridis is chairman of AterVision. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    I & O Media (or: Iset and Osiri, or: Imagine and Ordain)
    [T. Christopher White]

    American designer of these fonts:

    • Gowa (2020). A free sci-fi typeface.
    • The FontStruct fonts Hjet (2018) and Khnum (2018).
    • The free font Tehuti (2015, Open Font Library), which was originally planned as a font family related to Dwiggins's Electra, but took on a life of its own. Each of Tehuti's styles (Book and Italic) had 4078 characters, including Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Tehuti, itself discontinued, evolved into the free font Dehuti in 2016-2017, and into the commercial Dehjuti in 2019, and Dihjauti in 2020.
    • Ptah (2015, Open Font Library). A display typeface updated in 2016 and 2017.
    • Seshat (2016, Open Font Library: an artificial language font). Seshat was discontinued and replaced by Zeshit Sans (2016). The designer explains: Zeshit Sans is a font of the Galactic tongue, which is called Irden Las, or Esteemed Tongue. It is the language of the felines (lions), the dolphins, and the whales, who are mankind's uplifters. It was transliterated, through meditation, by Northern Amerindians from numerous crashed spacecraft.

    Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    I Shot The Serif
    [Matthew Welch]

    Original free fonts by American designer Matthew Welch: APLPLUS-Regular, AncientGeekRegular, BlackKnightRegular, CheatinRegular (experimental), College (athletic lettering), CollegeBold, CollegeCondensed, CollegeSemiCondensed, ElectricPickle, ElectricPickleBold, Far East (oriental simulation), Farewell, FatFingerRegular, Free3of9 and Free3of9Extended (1997, see also here and here), FuddRegular (1998, Cyrillic simulation), GoLong, Hit The Road, LEDRealRegular, LocustRegular (dingbats), NeverRegular, NewJobRegular, RushinRegular (1998, Cyrillic simulation font), SecretCode, Tiny (pixel face), TRTL, FrakturModern, KingsGambit, Mattbats, OneFortySevenRegular, WhiteRabbit, OddDog, Geek (Greek).

    In 2012, he added the constructivist typeface Propaganda, as well as Tinier (a pixel font), Stadium and Libby (an all-caps sans family).

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ibycus
    [Pierre MacKay]

    Pierre A. MacKay (Dept of Classics, University of Washington) has a Greek Latex package, which has metafonts that extend the Greek metafonts by Silvio Levy. It features the necessary breathing marks and accents for use with ancient Greek text. It also includes the digamma character and the numerals qoppa and sampi (the numerals appear in lowercase type only). Ibycus4 is a Greek typeface, based on Silvio Levy's realization of a classic Didot cut of Greek type from around 1800. Since 2004, this package includes type 1 fonts as well. The project is supported by Walter Schmidt and Harald Harders (who did some metafont to type 1 conversions). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ICTVC: International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication
    [Klimis Mastoridis]

    A series of conferences held biannually since 2002. The motor behind these meetings is Dr. Klimis Mastoridis, Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. The last (sixth) conference took place in June 2016 in Thessaloniki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    IFAO

    At the IFAO (Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale in Cairo, Egypt), one can find the free fonts IFAO Grec (2002) and IFAO N Copte (2008, by Jonathan Perez). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    iframe

    Greek type foundry. In 2021, they published the (Latin and Greek) display typefaces Bosch and Nineties. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Dimitrijevic

    Designer at Fonts For Flash in 2002 of RaxelGreek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Freiberger

    Type and graphic designer in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In his first big commercial typeface project, he published the multilingual text typeface Sapiens (2014), and writes: Contemporary serif typeface with support to Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Phonetic scripts. Includes full sets of small caps and petite caps, combining diacritics, superiors, inferiors, superscript, subscript, arrows, bullets, Math operators, and a wide number of additional symbols. Punctuation and figures are variable accordingly to the set in use. The font brings several language alternate glyphs respecting cultural variations, as long as design alternates to let the user choose optimal typesetting.

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    Ilektra Mandragou

    Ilektra holds a Bachelors in graphic arts from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece and a Masters in industrial design engineering from Aalborg university, Denmark. She works in Astoria, NY.

    Creator of an unnamed script family in 2012.

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    Ilias

    Medium sized truetype archive. They have the Microsoft collection, as well as some Monotype fonts. All have Greek and Latin characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilias Koukoumatsas

    Graphic designer in Thessaloniki, Greece, who created the hipster Latin typeface Sparrow and the hipster typeface Void in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Inde Graphics
    [Andreas Kalpakidis]

    Andreas Kalpakidis (Inde Graphics, Athens) is a Greek graphic designer, b. 1988. In 2007, he created the free 7-weight organic sans family called Advent Pro [free at Google Web Fonts; poster by Agos Nakada], and the informal hand-printed Indeal (2007). Textilo (2009, FountainFontFoundry) is going to be a large monoline sans family. Viki (2009, FountainFontFoundry) is a beautiful geometric outline face, ideal for logos.

    In 2012, he designed the free sans typeface Corporata.

    Behance link. Google Plus link. Another Devian Tart link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Indian Summer Studio
    [Alexander Bobrov]

    Alexander Bobrov (Indian Summer Studio, or simply Indians, Moscow) designed the vintage didone typeface family Dodo (Latin and Cyrillic) from 2008-2012. This beautiful typeface is in a style similar to Nick Shinn's scotch Modern and Alexey Kryukov'sOld Standard but was developed independently based on old books from 1930s (printed with 1860s to 1910s metal type). His web site shows lots of calligraphic work, but also a few typefaces such as Oriental Font (2015), Photon Display (2014) and Trafareta (2015, stencil).

    Typefaces from 2016: Historical Stencil Font USSR 1980 (2016), Geometric Sans Serif, Tanuki, Curly Cyrillic Sans, Historical Geometrical Art Nouveau Study, Indian Stylized Cyrillic, Historical USSR (constructivist), IBM Selectric Typewriter, 1966 Olympia SF DeLuxe Cursive (typewriter font), Moscow Metro, Cynzel (cyrillization).

    Typefaces from 2019: Funny Toons (a rounded cartoon family by Ekke Wolf and Alexander Bobrov), Selectric Century (a Scotch Modern / Schoolbook typeface modeled after the famous IBM Selectric golfball font), Aldo New Roman (a modern version of the typeface cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius around 1490AD).

    Typefaces from 2020: Air Force 30 Stencil (the official US military fonts/lettering used in U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, based on their technical specifications), Oriental Kaishu (all caps, oriental simulation), Selectric Melt, Air Force (the official US military fonts/lettering used by US Air Force, US Army, US Navy and US Marine Corps, designed based on the Military Standards and Technical Manual; covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), Stone Age (a neolithic font), Selectric Pyramid (a typefwriter font based on Rudolf Wolf's Memphis from 1929), Selectric (a 1315-glyph (!) revival of IBM's famous golfball typeface, Selectric), Dymond (a dymo label font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Science Fiction (rounded, squarish), USSR (a squarish Russian cold war propaganda font; Latin and Cyrillic), Age (squarish and rounded; for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Indieferdie
    [Ferdie Balderas]

    Mexico City-based designer of the multilingual Le Hand hand-printed typeface, the sans display typeface Axima (2013, tweetware), the hand-printed typeface Engine, the hand-printed tweetware font L'Engineer, and the cartoonish futuristic font Neo Genesis in 2013.

    Typefaces from 2014: Silici (a tweetware marker pen font for Latn, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Behance link. Fontspring link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ingo Zimmermann
    [Ingofonts]

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    Ingofonts
    [Ingo Zimmermann]

    Ingofonts is a foundry in Augsburg started by Ingo Zimmermann (b. 1967) in 1994. It offers Fraktur fonts, handwriting fonts, sans serif fonts, Antiqua fonts and some pixel fonts. Full fonts go for 50 USD a piece and up. Some fonts are free. Many fonts are adaptations or revivals of historically important fonts. Ingo also practices calligraphy, and in particular, calligraphy for wine labels. The list:

    • Absolut Pro (2008) is a classy sans family that comes in Regular, Licht, Thin and Schmuck.
    • Amhara (2009): An experimental font inspired by the Ethiopic writing system.
    • Analogue (2010).
    • Anatole France (1997-2021). An art deco font in the style of Plakat Schrift by the munich-based printer Georg D. W. Callwey.
    • August Sans (2013).
    • Auxerre. A wedge-serifed text typeface. Ingo writes: Auxerre is a precursor of Etienne, which later became popular as an advertising script of the 19th century.
    • Banknote 1948 (2010).
    • Behrens Schrift (2008) is based on Behrens' famous 1902 Jugendstil typeface for Rudhard'sche Giesserei. Behrensschrift iF Plus (+Schmuck) followed in 2021.
    • Biró Script is a handwriting font (2007-2012, +Biro Script Plus, 2020) named after the inventor of the ballpoint pen, Laszlo Joszef Biro, 1899-1985.
    • Boule Plus (2020). A fat round circle-based bubblegum font family in Gras, Contour and Brilliant styles.
    • CharpentierBaroqueIF, CharpentierClassicItaliqueIF, CharpentierClassicistiqueIF, Charpentier Renaissance Pro (1996 and Pro version from 2020; modeled on Roman Capitalis). Charpentier Classicistique Pro (2020; earlier called Classicist) is an absolutely charming didone display typeface family with an award quality Black. In 2014, he added Charpentier Sans Pro for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic with the Pro version following in 2020.
    • Chiq Pro. After Apple's Chicago.
    • Conté Script (2014). A phenomenal effort towards the creation of a typeface that emulates real handwriting. It even has three-letter ligatures to achieve the desired reality. Based on Ingo's own hand, it also achieves a crayon effect. See also Conte Script Plus (2020).
    • Countries of Europe (2008). Outlines of countries. Free download.
    • DeBorstel Brush Pro (2009): brush face.
    • De Display (2010). A gridded type system.
    • De Fonte (1995): a grungy blurred overexposed Helvetica. See also De Fonte Plus (2020).
    • Déformé: a grungy Clarendon.
    • Deko-Blakk, Deko-Yello (art deco typefaces from 2007).
    • DeKunst (1995, deconstructivist). DeKunst Initialen (2007) is Bauhaus-inspired.
    • DePixel (1999: based on Apple's Geneva and Chicago; and Illegible DePixel).
    • Deutsche Schrift Callwey (1998). A free Sütterlin script that is based on a script sample from around 1920/30 by Karl Schäffer. DeutscheSchriftCallwey (1998): a free handwriting typeface in the style of the 1800s that was later taught in German schools under the generic name of "Sütterlin type".
    • Rudolf Diesel Rudolf (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor, Rudolf Kristian Karl Diesel (1858-1913).
    • Die Überschrift (1998): headline sans.
    • EconoSans Pro (2020). A 28-style sans that is meant to save space by squishing the letters together.
    • Faber Eins, Faber Zwei (1996, legible sans family), Faber Drei, Faber Gotic (2002, +Text, +Gothic, +Gotic Capitals; a Textura based on Gutenberg's blackletter from 1450), Faber Fraktur (1994), Faber Sans Pro (2011). This comes with a great all caps Deko style.
    • Façacde Pro (2007). An art nouveau brush typeface found in a 1900 booklet by Karl Otto Maier (a publisher in Ravensburg) entitled Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete. Cyrillic version.
    • Fixogum (1998, scratchy handwriting).
    • Fundstueck (2021). A simplified squarish typeface.
    • Graz2006 (1994, a sans family for the 2006 OlumTypographerpic Games in Graz; later renamed by Linotype to Olympia).
    • Guhly (2011). An organic family.
    • Gutenberg (1995, a textura).
    • Handschrift (2007). Expressionist and rough.
    • Hedwig Pro (2021). A tall condensed sans; 12 styles.
    • Hero (angular handwriting).
    • Josef (2000), Josefov (2003, slab serif for Josef), JosefPro (2006, a free sans family), Josefa Rounded Pro (2020: a rounded sans family).
    • Klex Plus (1997): a calligraphic or watercolor brush font.
    • Koch Schrift (1998-2021). A Schwabacher used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and first developed by Rudolf Koch in 1909, first known as Neudeutsch and later as Koch Schrift. An earlier version of Zimmermann's Koch Schrift was called Schwabacher Deutsche Reichsbahn.
    • Lech Sans (2020). A humanist sans family.
    • LeDrôle Lettering Pro (2020).
    • LettreCivilitdeGranjon (1997, a reworking of S. Moye's font by that name).
    • Maier's No. 8 (2002) and Maier's Neue No. 8 based on forms found in work of Karl O. Maier from before 1914, which already has the geometrical simplicity characteristic of the Weimar period. Maiers No. 21 (2006) and Maiers Nr 21 Pro (2021) are based on a script found in the magazine Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker: Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete (Karl O. Maier, Otto Maier Publishing House, Ravensburg, ca. 1910)---a hand-crafted font for technicians. Finally, Maiers Nr. 42 Pro (2020) is a brush-painted art nouveau typeface based a pamphlet of script samples from around 1900 that was issued by Otto Maier's publishing house in Ravensburg, Germany.
    • Marleen Script (2011, with over 400 ligatures).
    • Menschenalphabet (1997), based on Peter Flötner's alphabet from 1534.
    • Novello Pro (2009): The serifed counterpart of his Absolut Pro family.
    • OlympiaBuchIF, OlympiaFettIF, OlympiaHalbfettIF, OlympiaLeichtIF, OlympiaSemiSansBuchIF
    • Palmona Plus (2008). A German expressionist blackletter after Karl Schaeffer (1939). Palmona Plus was published in 2020.
    • Saeculum (1996, cursive connected handwriting).
    • Rudolf Diesel (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor.
    • Toby Font (2006(. A 3d doodle font for children.
    • Wendelin Pro (1996). A grotesque family. The Pro was released in 2020.
    • Whole Europe (2008, outlines of countries), now called Countries Of Europe. Pick it up, togeter with many suppoirt files for TeX by Herbert Voss, at CTAN.
    Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik

    Archive with some fonts for ancient Greek and other ancient languages, located at the Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck: Grecs-duroiWG, GreekOldFaceC, GreekOldFace, Greek, TITUSIndoiranischBold, TITUSIndoiranischBold, TITUSIndoiranischItalic, TITUSIndoiranischNormal, Korinthus, Korinthus, Korinthus-Italic, persische-Keilschrift, SILGalatiaBold, SILGalatia, StandardGreekBold, StandardGreekBoldItalic, StandardGreekItalic, StandardGreek, TekniaGreek, WP-GreekCentury, Aisa-Plain, Aisa-Bold, Aisa-Italic, Athenian, BaTimesAkkadBold, BaTimesAkkadBoldItalic, BaTimesAkkadItalic, BaTimesAkkad, Angaros, MilanGreek, Sgreek-Medium. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Intelligent Design (was: Intelligent Foundry)
    [Kostas Bartsokas]

    Kostas Barstokas is a designer and illustrator in Thessaloniki, Greece, and in Leeds, UK. He set up Intelligent Foundry and later Intelligent Design in Leeds. He graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. He worked as a senior typeface designer at URW in Hamburg and offered consultation in Greek script design for other foundries too. In 2021, Kostas Bartsokas, Mohamad Dakak and Pria Ravichandran set up Foundry 5 Limited.

    In 2011, he used FontStruct to make the counterless typeface UglyKost.

    In 2012, he created Kafalan Serif, a square-serifed typeface, and the accompanying Kafalan Sans, which are both available from Ten Dollar Fonts.

    Typefaces from 2013: Zona Black (a Latin-Greek geometric sans-serif black display typeface that was inspired by posters from the late 1920s), Zona Black Slab.

    In 2014, still in the same style, we find Zona Pro in weights from Hairline to Black. Ridewell (2014) is a wood type inspired 1800-glyph typeface with many opentype features including foremost interlocking pairs of characters. It comes with Ridewell Print, which emulates the degradation of letterpress.

    In 2015, he designed the geometric sans typeface family Averta and Averta Standard. Averta CY won an award at Granshan 2017 in the Cyrillic category.

    He writes about his University of Reading graduation typeface, Eqil (2016): Eqil is a multiscript type family for extensive texts. It is conceived as a typographic system wise enough to respond to complex publishing challenges. It consists of a range of styles and its quiet personality transforms and gets louder as the intended sizes increase. Eqil identifies as an elegant contemporary take on transitional types. It does not intend to be a showstopper, instead it aspires to be the lever that silently elevates the content. The combination of straights and curves creates a dynamic yet fluid character and the relatively low contrast gives it a slightly dark and warm texture on the page. The four scripts, Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Greek, were designed to work harmoniously together without compromising each scripts historical and individual characteristics. Eqil won an award at Granshan 2016 in the Latin / Cyrillic category.

    His super-fat free typeface Oi (2017) is described as a Clarendonesque on steroids. Commercial version of Oi!. Oi won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. In 2021, it became a free Google font. Github link.

    His big project in 2019 is the free 4-axis (weight, slant, flair, volume) variable font Commissioner. Google Fonts link. He writes: Commissioner is a low-contrast humanist sans-serif with almost classical proportions, conceived as a variable family. The family consists of three voices. The default style is a grotesque with straight stems. As the flair axis grows the straight grotesque terminals develop a swelling and become almost glyphic serifs and the joints become more idiosyncratic. The volume axis transforms the glyphic serifs to wedge-like ones. It supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. For an extension, see Heraclito (2020).

    Co-designer of Peridot Latin (2022: a 121-strong sans superfamily by Kostas Bartsokas and Pria Ravichandran) and Peridot PE (2022: a 121-style sans superfamily by Kostas Bartsokas and Pria Ravichandran designed for branding, display, corporate use, editorial and advertising; it covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Buy at Ten Dollar Fonts, Hellofont, Creative Market, or MyFonts.

    Behance link. The Designers Foundry link. Github link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    InTheBeginning.org

    Greek fonts and font links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Into the Type
    [Slavka Jevcinova]

    Or Slava Jevcinova. Designer from Bardejov, Slovakia, now located in Nice, France, whose first degree was an MA from J.E. Purkyne University in Czechia. She interned at Mota Italic in Berlin, and then started working for Fontwerk, a company specicializing in TrueType hinting. Since 2013 she is a freelancer and she regularly collaborates with the Rosetta Type foundry.

    Graduate of the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag in 2014, where she created Kin, an unconventional serif type family which explores distinctive styles while maintaining consistency. It has phonetic support and a drop-dead gorgeous black.

    In 2015, the 72-font family Skolar Sans (see also, Skolar Sans PE, 2016), codeveloped by David Brezina and Slava Jevcinova at Rosetta Type Foundry, won a silver medal at the European Design awards.

    In 2017, Slavka Jevcinova published Avory Latin at Rosetta Type Foundry. Calling it retro-chic, she writes about this sturdy Latin / Greek / Cyrillic sans typeface family: Avory is a gently condensed sans that challenges convention. Tall, with broad shoulders, easily spotted from afar. Inspired by the lettering work of Czech designer Jaroslav Benda.

    In 2019, she released the fashionable sans typeface Clarette at Future Fonts. Clarette pays special attention to Vietnamese.

    In 2019, at Rosetta Type, together with William Montrose and David Brezina, she released the variable font Adapter (with three axes, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2020: Wilmer (a multilayered three-dimensional ornamental Tuscan type family), Polaire (a monoline cursive stencil). Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ioana Archontaki

    Aka Ioana J. Alfa. Athens, Greece-based codesigner with Claire Susie Jane and Iordanis Passas of the free brush typeface Abys (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ioanna Zan

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the display typeface Emmental (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ioannis A. Vamvakas
    [Byzantine Music Fonts]

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    Ioannis Fetanis

    Athens, Greece-based creative director and founder of Fetanis, b. 1983. He studied Graphic Design at AKTO (Athenian Artistic and Technological Group), and he graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He completed his studies in 2007 obtaining a Master of Arts in Design (Social Design & Visual Communication of N.G.O.) from Middlesex University, London.

    In 2012, he created the layered typeface Yama by superimposing geometric structures.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ioannis Gamvets

    In 2007, Ioannis Gamvets and Apostolos Syropoulos published the free Greek Philokalia package, which includes a free Philokalia OpenType font specially set up for use with TeX. It was specially made to print the Philokalia books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ioannis Panagiotopoulos
    [IPL Type Foundry]

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    Iordanis Passas
    [IP Art]

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    IP Art
    [Iordanis Passas]

    Iordanis Passas (IP Art) is a designer in Athens, b. 1986, who was briefly located in London. He published some free typefaces including the grungy typeface Edirne (2015: free), the grungy Baston (2015: free for any use except police commercials), Athens (with Stergios Tsiamis), Peracto (2015, thin sans), Bomb Type (2015, sans), Koulouri (2014), Outer Space (2014, download), dPopper (2014), Born to be Condensed (2013), Serious Man (2013, a 3d typeface), IP Arial (2012, an experimental overlay typeface), Brush of Anarchy (2012, graffiti face), Cubes (2013), Mia (2014, free), Adamo (2014), The Kids Marker (2014), Gagalin (2014, a free brushy comic book font for Latin and Greek).

    In 2015, Iordanis Passas and Anastasia Dimitriadi created the gorgeous Finos, which was inspired by Greek retro cinema (buy it here and check the free demo).

    Typefaces from 2016: Repens (a free poster font), Sanek (a free handcrafted titling font; cyrillization in 2019 by Denis Kukushkin), April Ten.

    Typefaces from 2017: David Carson (a free grunge ransom font to pay homage to David Carson), Figno (free rounded sans).

    Typefaces from 2018: Meganek (free), Lulu Monospace (a free squarish font; with Stelios Ypsilantis), Depravo Stencil (which is advertized as free to anyone except police; covers Latin and Greek).

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. Blogspot link. Behance link. Download many of his fonts at Free Typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    IPL Type Foundry
    [Ioannis Panagiotopoulos]

    Greek designer of the neo-glam display serif typeface Anothernow (2022). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Irene Vlachou
    [Polytonic Greek tutorial]

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    Irene Vlachou
    [Irene Vlachou Type]

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    Irene Vlachou Type
    [Irene Vlachou]

    Or Eirini Vlachou, b. 1981, who works between Athens and Bristol, UK. Graduate of of Vakalo School of Art & Design in Athens and the University of Reading, where she earned the nickname Miss Fontlab before graduating there with a Masters in 2004. Type designer who used to be at POPtype in Athens. From 2013 to 2019 she was senior designer and variable font expert at Type-Together. From January 2020 she is back to full time freelancing Greek and variable fonts. In June 2019, together with Laurence Penney, she initiated the experimental project FauxFoundry, a webfont service offering fallback fonts, such that multiple scripts can be presented with reasonable fidelity to the web designer's intent, even when the primary font does not support those scripts. Currently working for Greek, thus providing Greek fallback fonts for fonts that do not contain Greek. The system takes measurements from Latin fonts that correspond with the set of parametric axes developed by Type Network. Her typefaces:

    • Prisma (2004). A typeface that covers both Latin and Greek.
    • Colvert Greek (2012, Typographies.fr). Colvert is a joint effort of Irene Vlachou, Jonathan Fabreguettes (Perez), Kristyan Sarkis and Natalia Chuvatin.
    • At Cannibal Fonts, she created the corporate typeface Ballisage Greek (2007), a Hellenization of Ballisage. With Panos Haratzopoulos of Cannibal, she also made the corporate typefaces Esquire Greek and Crank Greek (2004, for Esquire), and Amplitude and Franklin Antiqua Greek (2007, for Autobild).
    • Designer of Parmigiano Greek (2012-2014), as part of the larger Parmigiano Typographic System of Riccardo Olocco and Jonathan Pierini.
    • In 2017, in collaboration with Laurenz Brunner, she worked on the Greek counterpart of the Documentata exhibition identity font, Bradford Greek.
    • Since 2017 she has been participating in the Google Summer of Code on behalf of the Greek Open Source Community, as a mentor on the Greek expansion of the libre fonts Arima Madurai, Cantarell and Eczar.
    • In 2018, she published Stratos Greek at Production Type to complement Yoann Minet's Stratos from 2016.
    • In 2018 together with Emilios Theofanous and Frank Grießhammer she reworked the Greek set of Source Serif Pro.
    • At Type-Together she has engineered three variable fonts: Protipo Variable, Portada Variable and Bree Variable. Her other type projects at Type Together include Adelle Mono, Adelle Greek, Adelle Sans Greek, Alverata Greek, Athelas Greek, and Literata Greek.
    • In early 2019, her Unica77 Greek was released by Lineto, a design in progress for almost two years in collaboration with Christian Mengelt from Team'77, Unica's original designers.

    Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of Parametric Fallback Fonts for the Web. Klingspor link. Cannibal Fonts link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Isagogik

    The fonts.zip file contains Greek-Regular, TimesNewRomanPSMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, BookAntiquaCyr, BookAntiquaCyrBold, BookAntiquaCyrBoldInclined, BookAntiquaCyrInclined, CarletonNormal, Futuris, GoudyHundred, ShalomOldStyle, all in truetype. And also these Cyrillic type 1 fonts from ParaGraph: PetersburgC, GaramondC, GaramondBookC, GaramondBookNarrowC, GaramondNarrowC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Isay Solomonovich Slutsker

    Russian type designer (b. Orel, Russia, 1924, d. 2002). He lost both legs in World War II, but persevered and graduated in 1949 from the Moscow Printing Institute. He started working at the Type Design Department of VNIIPoligraphmash (National Printing Research Institute). From 1991 he worked for ParaType, Moscow. Isay Slutsker worked for major Soviet publishers, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura and Prosveshcheniye, designing and illustrating general fiction literature and textbooks. Slutsker designed many typefaces for a number of scripts and writing systems. Among his Cyrillic and Latin designs are Baltica (1951-2, a spin-off of Candida-Antiqua by Jakob Erbar; in co-operation with Vera Chiminova; Paratype did a revival in 1998); Bruskovaya Gazetnaya ('Slab-serif newstype', 1949; in co-operation with Alexandra Korobkova); Mysl (1986, a makeover of the typeface originally created by Vera Chiminova in 1966); PT Caslon (1962 and 1992, a version of the ATF Caslon; assisted by Tatiana Lyskova and Manvel Shmavonyan; also called Caslon 540); ITC Franklin Gothic Cyrillic (1993; assisted by Tatiana Lyskova); PT BT Humanist 531 Cyrillic (1988, based on the Bitstream version of Syntax, by Hans Eduard Meier; assisted by Manvel Shmavonyan); PT BT Geometric Slabserif 712 (1999, based on the Bitstream version of Monotype Rockwell; assisted by Manvel Shmavonyan); MyslNarrowC (1992-1996, at Intermicro, together with Svetlana Ermolaeva and Emma Zfcharova). Slutsker's Greek typefaces are Obyknovennaya Novaya ('New Standard', 1950s); Rublenaya Slutskera ('Slutsker Sans'; 1960s); Chronos (1980s). Isay Slutsker created several typefaces for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada. He designed two Amharic and one Hangul typeface, Inmin. Slutsker's Humanist 531 Cyrillic was among the winners of Kyrillitsa'99 and won an award at Bukvaraz 2001.

    Russian bio. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

    View some of Isay Slutsker's digital typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Israel Seldowitz
    [Fontworld]

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    ISTVC

    From the ISTVC site, a list of their aims: To publish journals, books and electronic documents as well as to establish a library-archive of conventional and electronic artefacts related to typography and visual communication. To develop and participate in research programmes in the fields of theory, history and practice of typography and visual communication education in collaboration with Cypriot and foreign scientists as well as to build long term and meaningful relationships among similar research bodies based in Cyprus and abroad. To provide high quality services to all interested parties at national and international levels. These may include courses, seminars, workshops and field trips directed to educators and professionals as well as specialised professional training and educational validation in the fields of typography and visual communication. To organise and promote scientific and cultural events, lectures, national and international conferences and exhibitions, and to establish awards and scholarships. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ITP Berkeley

    A 2MB file Fonts.zip has a full Unicode font FGGYM_0 (with Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Chinese), and the font Transistor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Kyosev

    Ivan Kyosev (b. 1933, Burgas, Bulgaria, d. 1994) was known for his illustrations, book designs and, to lesser extent, his typefaces. In 1957 he graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia under the mentorship of illustrator Iliya Beshkov. In 1993 he designed an angular typeface which was digitally revived in 2020 by Ani Dimitrova as Thalweg (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek). Dimitrova added Thalweg Poetica (32 styles and a variable font) in 2022. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ivana Bacanek
    [VIDI Visual Design Studio]

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    J. Victor Gaultney

    Type designer (b. Minneapolis, MN, 1962) at SIL International, UK since 1991, and an ex-M.A. student in type design at the University of Reading. He has worked on non-Latin typefaces, as well as his own extended Latin design, Gentium (2002). [Download from places such as OFL and FreeBSD]. Gentium Plus supports a wide range of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters. It was developed between 2003 and 2014 by J. Victor Gaultney (main designer), Annie Olsen, Iska Routamaa, an Becca Hirsbrunner.

    Papers by him include Multitudinous Alphabets: The design of extended Latin typefaces (2001), The influence of pen-based letterforms on Devanagari typefaces (2001), Balancing Typeface Legibility and Economy, Gentium---A Typeface for The Nations, Problems of Diacritic Design, and "Problems of diacritic design for Latin script text typefaces" (2002). The last one is a must-read.

    Projects in which he is the main or only designer include SIL Dai Banna Fonts, SIL Tai Dam Fonts, SIL Greek Font System, SIL IPA Fonts, and SIL Encore Fonts. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the technical problems with East European type. In 2008, he published Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic, each in four weights, but essentially limited to Latin, and added them to the Google Font Directory link.

    At ATypI 2010 in Dublin, he spoke about sculptural letterer Arnold Flaten (1900-1976). Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Open and collaborative font design in a web fonts world. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal.

    Kernest link. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jack Kilmon
    [Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic Fonts]

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    Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic Fonts
    [Jack Kilmon]

    Houston's Jack Kilmon designed many archaic and epigraphic TrueType fonts. Free for academics. His site also has an archive of some fonts by Reinhold Kainhofer (RK Ancient Fonts), and some Coptic, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic and Greek fonts. A list of his creations: Early Phoenician (8th century BC), Moabite/Mesha Stele Epigraphic, Lachish Ostraca Cursive Palaeohebrew, Elephantine Papyrus Cursive, Jack's Early Aramaic (10th c. BCE), Nabataean Aramaic, Jack's Samaritan, Jack's Siloam Inscription, Jack's Dead Sea Scroll Scribal (or DSS Scribal) (based on Great Isaiah Scroll), Jack's Habakkuk Scribal (based on Pesher Habakkuk), Jack's Meissner Papyrus Cursive, Dead Sea Scroll Scribal, Latin Epigraphic, Roman Rustica (Capitalis Rustica), Latin bookhand from 1st to 6th century, C. Sinaiticus Uncial Greek, Early Greek Epigraphic, Greek Minuscule with Ligatures, Carolingian Minuscule, Insular Minuscule, early Gothic, Gothic Textura Quadrata, C. Sinaiticus Uncial Greek, Early Greek Epigraphic, Greek Minuscule with Ligatures, Jack's Etruscan. Essay on the history of writing. And an archive of Greek, Coptic, Hebrew and hieroglyphic fonts.

    Dafont link. Marc Smith is not kind in his critique of Kilmon, who he calls an amateur (page 65). He deplores (page 69) that most letters, o, b, p and y included, have the same height in Kilmon's work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jakob Runge
    [Typemefonts (was: 26plus zeichen)]

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    James K. Tauber
    [Melanos]

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    James Kass

    Ripon, CA-based designer of Code2000, Code2001 and Code2002, free Unicode fonts. The shareware font Code2000 has 36000 glyphs, including Japanese and all European languages. He has free downloadable Unicode charts, info on Unicode in Netscape/HTML, the freeware Ol Cemet' (or JKSantal) font. His free Code2001 includes Old Persian Cuneiform, Deseret, Tengwar, Cirth, Old Italic, Gothic, Aegean Numbers, Cypriot Syllabary, Pollard Script, and Ugaritic. James Kass is located in Lake Isabella, CA. Discussion by the typophiles (with complaints about the wide spacing, the letters g, 2, J, and other typographic matters). The font is the default at the JSTOR site.

    Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    James L. Stirling
    [Fontry West]

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    James Naughton

    James Naughton on Unicode Classical Greek. The page contains downloads of Vusillus Old Face and Antioch. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jan Janecek

    Czech designer of Skvär (2013), an angular serifed typeface developed during Typeclinic 6 and Typeclinic 7 in 2013. In 2014, he continued the development of Skvaer. At Typeclinic 2015, Skvaer was perfected. During Typeclinic 11th International Type Design Workshop, he created the Latin / Cyrillic / Greek typeface Queen (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jan Koehler
    [Deniart Systems]

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    Jan Thor
    [jGaramond]

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    Jane Greckova
    [Jane's Den]

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    Jane's Den
    [Jane Greckova]

    Ukrainian designer of Latin / Cyrillic typefaces: Loris serif (2018), Macaw (2018), Orbita (2018: circle-themed unicase sans), I Love Puppies (2018), Saola Sans (2018: with identical lower case a and o), Impala (2018: sans), Bonobo (2018: sans), Pronghorn (2018: a squarish sans), Pronghorn Hollow (2018), Agouti (2018: all caps sans), Narwhal (2018: a sans typeface), Argalis (2018: a Latin / Greek fashion mag font), and Grison (2018: a decorative sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janos Csoma

    Hungarian FontStructor who made typefaces like ACDC (2011, a blackletter / tattoo typeface based on the AC DC logo), Code (2011, the pixel font used in Command Prompt), Bonzarificx (2011), Spore (2011), Greek (2011, ornamental Greek face), Olde Time Ornamental (2011), FontStruct (2011), Circuitboard (2011), Logo MT Condensed (2011), and Bonzarific (2011).

    In 2012, he added Code (grid-based), Moderniste, and IBM Logo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Janus Lascaris

    Rolf Noyer has this to say about Janus Lascaris, a famous Greek scholar who died in 1535: Having fled Greece as a child after the fall of Constantinople, Lascaris lived in Venice and Padua, and later was invited to Florence by Lorenzo de Medici. There, unhampered by the monopoly on the printing of Greek that Aldus Manutius had obtained in Venice, Lascaris and his colleague Lorenzo di Alopa published the first editions of many important works of classical Greek literature, including the Greek Anthology, Callimachus, four plays of Euripides, and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. In an unusual departure from custom, Lascaris chose to print the Argonautica entirely in accented Greek capitals, with the accompanying commentary (scholia) surrounding the text in Greek minuscule. Rolf Noyer made a font called Lascaris (2010), which is a digital rendition of Janus Lascaris' type of 1494-1496. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jany Belluz

    French creator of the Latin / Greek programming font Comic Sans Neue Mono (2013, free at OFL). Predictably, within one week, Jany was forced to rename that typeface Cosmic Sans Neue Mono, and then a third time to Fantasque Sans Mono (2014). Github link. Jany explains: Inspirational sources include Inconsolata and Monaco. I have also been using Consolas a lot in my programming life, so it may have some points in common. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jason Castle
    [Castle Type]

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    Jason Pagura
    [Cuttlefish Fonts]

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    Jason Smith
    [Fontsmith]

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    Jawaher Alali

    Type designer from Muharraq, Bahrain who graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. Her graduation typeface is jayaan, a multiscript typeface for magazines and cultural publications that covers Latin, Arabic, and Greek. She explains: Layaan Arabic includes a regular and bold naskh, plus a ruqaah secondary style. The ruqaah was designed as a modern interpretation of the traditional style, and it can be used both as a display style and emphasis style in text. To work well with the naskh, the ruqaah incorporates connections for a horizontal baseline. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jean McGuire
    [Wintertree Software]

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    Jean-Pierre Olivier
    [Linear A Texts]

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    Jeff Kellem
    [Slanted Hall]

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    Jeffrey Rusten
    [Athenian Font]

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    Jeongmin Kwon

    Korean designer of Ficta (2014), a humanist Latin, Greek and Hangul text typeface developed during Jeongmin's studies towards a Masters Degree in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jeremy Johnson
    [Forme Type]

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    Jeremy Tankard
    [Jeremy Tankard Typography]

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    Jeremy Tankard Typography
    [Jeremy Tankard]

    Jeremy Tankard established Jeremy Tankard Typography in 1997, after corporate design work at Addison Design Consultants and Wolff Olins. This Londoner made some extraordinary and daring font families. In many of his typefaces, Jeremy mixes upper and lower case letters for more impact. A list of his typefaces:

    • FF Disturbance (1993, a unicase based on Sabon).
    • Alchemy (1998). Mystical. To be used with Enya's music in the background.
    • Blue Island (1999, Adobe).
    • The Shire Types (1998, consisting of Shire-Cheshire, Shire-Derbyshire, Shire-Shropshire, Shire-Staffordshire, Shire-Warwickshire, and Shire-Worcestershire). Shire Pro followed in 2011 and Shire Arabic in 2012. Shire is based on idiosyncratic vernacular lettering seen across Britain.
    • Enigma (1999-2015). A great text typeface family with influences going back o Hendrik van den Keere.
    • Shaker (2000) A sans serif with some flaring.
    • Harmony Greek, a typeface that netted him a Bukvaraz 2001 award alongside the Shire Types and Shaker.
    • Aspect (2002). A typeface with many ligatures and swashes.
    • Bliss (Agfa Creative Alliance). Bliss Pro (2006), a sans family, covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic ina harmonious fashion.
    • Corbel (2004). A sans family made for Microsoft's ClearType project, for which he received a TypeArt 05 award.
    • Custom designs: Epsilon (a very bold face, supposedly designed for the Düsseldorf branch of Frogdesign) and Harmony (for Telstra in Australia).
    • Kingfisher (2005). A transitional petit-Bodonesque serif family.
    • Arjowiggins (2006). Tankard cooperated with Arjowiggins and design agency Blast on AW Inuit that was commissioned by ArjoWiggins for the launch of the Inuit paper: it is a unicase Latin font inspired by Inuit letterforms. See also at MyFonts. The typophiles are unjustly upset at this sort of typeface though.
    • Trilogy (2009). This extensive typeface family consists of Trilogy Sans Compressed, Trilogy Sans Condensed, Trilogy Sans Normal, Trilogy Sans Wide, Trilogy Sans Expanded, Trilogy Egyptian Normal, Trilogy Egyptian Wide, Trilogy Egyptian Expanded, and Trilogy Fatface.
    • Fenland (2012). A 14-style ink-trapped sans.
    • Redisturbed. A classical unicase typeface.
    • Capline (2014). A bilined all-caps typeface family for titling work. It won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Queezoid (2015).
    • Pembroke (2014). A British geometric typeface family with many weights ranging from Hair to Ultra.
    • De Worde (2017). An italic typeface family in seven weights to celebrate the 60th anniversary of e Wynkyn de Worde Society.
    • Wayfarer (2017). He writes: The typeface was originally commissioned for use with a new wayfinding system for the city of Sheffield in the UK. As Sheffield was the home to the type foundry, Stephenson. Blake & Co. it had been thought that their type, Granby Condensed would be suitable. The Granby family of types was developed during the 1930s as Stephenson, Blake's contribution to the general cashing in of other foundries on the popularity of Monotype's Gill Sans and the geometric sans serifs being introduced by the continental type foundries.
    • Hawkland and Hawkland Fine (2018). A text typefaceC with didone and transitional elements.
    • Brucker (2019). An 8-style angular expressionist typeface family.

    Fontfont write-up. Alternate URL. Interview by Planète Typographie. Interview by Brendan Staunton. I Love Typography link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    jGaramond
    [Jan Thor]

    Jan Thor developed Unicode versions of Garamond in 2001. His family, called jGaramond, covers Basic Latins, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended - A, Latin Extended - B, Latin Extended Additional, Mathematical Operators, Letterlike Symbols, Currency Symbols, Arrows, Number Forms, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, Greek Extended. Bold, Italic and Regular weights only. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jim Rimmer

    Jim Rimmer (b. Vancouver, 1934, d. 2010) was one of the great contemporary type designers whose creations had a lot of flair, individuality, and charm. Based in New Westminster (near Vancouver, BC), Jim Rimmer was also an illustrator. Obituary in the Globe and Mail, dated April 27, 2010.

    He designed Albertan (Albertan No.977, Albertan No.978 Bold) and Cloister (2000; a roman type family originally done by Morris Fuller Benton) in the Lanston collection. He also designed typefaces like Juliana Oldstyle (1984), Nephi Mediaeval (1986), Kaatskill (1988; a 1929 typeface by Goudy, revived and optimized for Lanston in type one format; the Kaatskill Italic was done by Rimmer based on Goudy's Deepdene), RTF Isabelle (Roman and Italic; 2006. A pair of delicate serif typefaces based on typefaces by Elizabeth Friedlander) and Fellowship (1986).

    ATypI link. Jim began work as a letterpress compositor in 1950. He entered the field of graphic design in 1963, working as a designer lettering artist and illustrator, and freelanced in this capacity from 1972 to 1999 in the same capacity. In 1960, he began collecting letterpress printing and typefounding equipment, and operated a private press and foundry (Pie Tree Press&Type Foundry). FontShop link.

    His metal typefaces at Pie Tree Press include:

    • Juliana Oldstyle (1981; McGrew says 1984): It represents my first attempt at cutting a metal type. I drew my letters completely freehand, hoping to capture a punchcut look. My artwork was then reduced and made into a dry transfer sheet, which I rubbed onto type-high typemetal blanks. I then cut the letters and electroformed copper matrices.
    • Nephi Mediaeval (1983, for private use; McGrew gives the date 1986): It was inspired by the Subiaco type of the Ashendene Press and by its inspiration, the type of Sweynheym and Pannartz. My design breaks away from those types slightly in form and is softer in general feeling. In time I will cut other sizes.
    • Fellowship (1984; McGrew says 1986). Designed and cut by Jim Rimmer, and cast by him for private use: The design is the result of the feeling of joviality and 'fellowship' I experienced at the meeting (American Typecasting Fellowship in Washington, D.C.). The design was not so much drawn as it was written. The letters were written quickly in a calligraphic manner with an edged pencil and then enlarged and inked to make a dry transfer sheet. As in my two previous designs (see Juliana Oldstyle and Nephi Mediaeval), Fellowship was cut not in steel, but in type metal, and then electroplated to make castable matrices.
    • Albertan 16pt, 1985
    • Garamont [not entirely sure that this was done in metal]
    • Cartier Roman 14pt, 2004
    • Cree Syllabic 14pt, 2006
    • Duensing Titling 12, 14, 18, 24, 36, 48&60pt, 2004-07. Duensing in use.
    • Hannibal Oldstyle 18pt, 2003
    • Quill 14pt, 2006
    • Stern 16pt, 2008. This was his last completed typeface.

    In 1970, Jim made his first film type, Totemic. This sturdy text type was revived in 2015 by Canada Type as Totemic, and contains as an extra a et of stackable totems.

    Jim has designed and produced a collection of digital types, and over the past 20 years has designed and cut six metal types. He recently completed a Monotype Large Comp type named Hannibal Oldstyle, is currently cutting 14 point matrices for Cartier Roman, and is making drawings for the cutting of a 14 point Western and Eastern Cree. Samples and discussion of his Cree typeface.

    Jim in action in 2003. According to Gerald Giampa from Lanston, Jim is the most talented type designer alive in 2003. About his typefaces, I quote McGrew: Fellowship was designed and cut by Jim Rimmer in Vancouver in 1986, and cast by him for private use. He says, "The design is the result of the feeling of joviality and 'fellowship' I experienced at the meeting (American Typecasting Fellowship in Washington, D.C.). The design was not so much drawn as it was written. The letters were written quickly in a calligraphic manner with an edged pencil and then enlarged and inked to make a dry transfer sheet. As in my two previous designs (see Juliana Oldstyle and Nephi Mediaeval), Fellowship was cut not in steel, but in type metal, and then electroplated to make castable matrices." Juliana Oldstyle was designed and cut in 1984, as a private type. He says, "It represents my first attempt at cutting a metal type. I drew my letters completely freehand, hoping to capture a punchcut look. My artwork was then reduced and made into a dry transfer sheet, which I rubbed onto type-high typemetal blanks. I then cut the letters and electroformed copper matrices." Nephi Mediaeval was designed and cut in 1986, for private use. He says it "was inspired by the Subiaco type of the Ashendene Press and by its inspiration, the type of Sweynheym and Pannartz. My design breaks away from those types slightly in form and is softer in general feeling. In time I will cut other sizes."

    In 2012, Rimmer Type Foundry was acquired by Canada Type. The press release: Canada Type, a font development studio based in Toronto, has acquired the Rimmer Type Foundry (RTF) from P22 Type Foundry, Inc. The RTF library contains the complete body of work of Canadian design icon Jim Rimmer (1934-2010), who was an enormous influence on Canadian type design and private press printing, and the subject of Richard Kegler's documentary, Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century. The RTF library contains many popular font families, such as Albertan, Amethyst, Credo, Dokument and Stern, as well as quite a few analog designs that were never produced in digital. Now that Rimmer's work has been repatriated, it will be remastered and expanded by Canada Type, then re-released to the public, starting in the fall of 2012. Jim's analog work will also be produced digitally and available to the public alongside his remastered and expanded work. Once Jim's designs are re-released, part of their sales will be donated to fund the Canada Type Scholarship, an award given annually to design students in Canada. This will be done in coordination with the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), the national professional association that awarded Jim Rimmer with the prestigious GDC Fellowship in 2007.

    Jim Rimmer digitized Elizabeth (+Italic). From 2006 until 2012, the Rimmer Type Foundry collection was offered by P22. It included:

    • RTF Albertan: A great text family developed between 1982 and 2005. In 2013, it as remastered by Canada Type and reissued as Albertan Pro, calling it a first post-Baskerville-post-Joanna typeface.
    • RTF Alexander Quill: An artsy fartsy (in the good sense) and slightly 1920s Czech type family.
    • RTF Amethyst: A tall ascender serif family.
    • RTF Cadmus: A stone slab or Greek simulation face. P22 writes: Rimmer's re-working of a design done by Robert Foster, a hand lettering artist. Foster's type, named Pericles, is a style that he used for a time in lettering magazines and advertising headings. The design is based closely on early inscriptional Greek, but is less formal than the sans types of Foster's time. Cadmus keeps the proportions of Pericles but is overall less quirky than the Foster design. This was further expanded by Canada Type as Cadmus Pro (2016).
    • RTF Cotillion (1999): A tall ascendered Koch inspired sans family. Looks quite like Bernhard Modern.
    • RTF Credo: A six-weight sans family.
    • RTF Dokument: An extensive sans family: Dokument was my attempt to make a Sans Grotesque in the general weight of News Gothic (for the Dokument regular) but took nothing from News Gothic. I used some of the basic forms of my Credo series, but made many on-screen changes and broke away entirely from Credo on the range of weights. My plan was to make a typeface that will fill the requirements of financial document setting; things like annual reports and other such pieces of design. It is my hope that the large family of weights and variants will suit Dokument to this kind of work. This family was created in 2005 and published in 2006. A reworking by Patrick Griffin at Canada Type eventually led to Dokument Pro (2014).
    • RTF Elizabeth: An elegant tall ascender typeface about which Rimmer writes: Elizabeth Roman and its companion Italic were designed as a pair by Elizabeth Friedlander, and cut and cast for decades by the historic Bauer foundry of Germany.
    • RTF Fellowship: A standard script.
    • RTF Lancelot Titling: A roman titling typeface with Koch-like influences.
    • RTF Lapis: A calligraphic serif, inspired by Rudolf Koch.
    • RTF Posh Initials: A formal script.
    • RTF Poster Paint: A fat irregular poster font inspired by Goudy Stout.
    • RTF Zigarre Script: A bouncy brush script with rough outlines.
    • RTF Canadian Syllabics (2007): This font was developed as a metal typeface by Jim Rimmer for a special project and is now available in digital form. Containing over 700 glyphs in OpenType format, this font covers most Canadian Aboriginal Languages. RTF Canadian Syllabics is a more calligraphic version of the syllabary developed by Reverend James Evans for the languages of the native tribes of the Canadian provinces in the early 1800s. Jim Rimmer originally designed the characters for the Eastern and Western dialect Cree to be cut as a metal font. The digital version then grew to include all the characters of the Canadian Syllabics Unicode block.
    • Nephi Mediaeval (2007), a type heavily reflective of the semi roman of Sweynheim and Pannartz (in Jim's words).
    • Stern (2008, RTF) was simultaneously released both digitally and in metal. Named after the late printer Christopher Stern (WA), it is an upright italic intended for poetry. Colin Kahn (P22) has expanded the Pro digital version (originally designed by Jim Rimmer) for a variety of options. The set features Stern Aldine (Small x-height Caps with standard lower case), Regular, Tall Caps (with standard lc)&Small Caps with x-height caps in place of lc). Youtube. David Earls writes: I've heard people say that letterpress gives warmth, but I prefer to think of it as giving humanity. That the types interaction on a page is so dependent on the punch cutter, the caster, the compositor, the printer, the humidity, the papermaker and inkmaker gives it a humanity, not a warmth, and decries the demise of letterpress. In 2013, Canada Type remastered Stern as Stern Pro---this typeface now covers Greek, and is loaded with Opentype features.
    • RTF Loxley (2010): The style of Loxley is based on early Roman typefaces, such as the "Subiaco" type of the late 1400s that was also inspirational to Frederick Goudy for his "Franciscan", "Aries" and "Goudy Thirty" type typefaces. Loxley displays some of Jim's particular left handed calligraphy and is in a similar style to his "Fellowship" and "Alexander Quill" typefaces, both of which were made in metal and digital formats. In 2013, Canada Type published a remastered and expanded version simply called Loxley.

    FontShop link.

    Jim Rimmer passed away early on January 8, 2010. His friend Richard Kegler (P22) wrote this obituary the next day: Jim was a multi-talented type designer, graphic artist, bookbinder, printer, letterer, technician and a most generous teacher. He was never glory-seeking and turned down most speaking engagements offered to him, not out of vanity or indifference, but rather thinking that he was not worthy of being given a spotlight. Jim offered free typecasting instruction to anyone who asked and came to visit him in his studio in New Westminster BC. He took as much time as needed and was generous to a fault. Anyone who took him up on this open invitation can attest to the intense and elegant chaos of his studio and work habits. I was fortunate enough to know Jim but for only a few years. What started as a business arrangement grew into a mutual respect and ongoing correspondence that I can only describe as life changing for me. His kindness and generosity were exceptional and his diplomacy even when given the opportunity to speak ill of anyone else was measured and kind. Jim's dedication to the craft of type design and related arts was beyond most if not all contemporaries. After his "retirement" from his professional life as a graphic artist and illustrator, he tirelessly worked on type designs for book projects where all aspects of his skills were applied. His book "Leaves from the Pie Tree" (I encouraged him to change the title from his original plan to call it "Droppings from the Pie Tree"...a truly self-effacing Jim Rimmerism) is the best single tome that summarizes his life and work. He designed the book¹s typeface in Ikarus (as he had with the 200+ other type design he created), cut the matrices and cast the type, wrote the text using an autobiographical introduction and continued to explain the process he used to cut pantographic matrices for his metal typefaces. The multi-colored lino cut illustrations, book design, individual tipped in sheets and attention to press work and binding would be impressive for one specialist to complete on each component. The fact that Jim did all of this himself is awe inspiring. A trade edition of this book has been printed by Gaspereau press but does not hint at the grandeur of the beautiful book that is Pie Tree. Jim's follow up of his edition of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (set in his Hannibal Oldstyle font designed for and fitted onto on a monotype composition caster) was recently completed and is equally if not more imposing as a fine press book, but with a sympathetic humor and humanity that would knock the stuffing of any other fine press attempt at the same material. Almost two years ago I visited Jim for a week and filmed footage for a documentary on his cutting of the Stern typeface. For various reasons the finishing of the film has been delayed. I truly regret that Jim could not see the finished version. With the film and his Pie Tree book, Jim generously conveys information on making metal type that has otherwise been largely lost and previously limited to a now defunct protective guild system. It was his wish that the information and craft be kept alive. Jim's last email to me was in classic Jim form hinting at his tireless dedication to his work: details of a new type family for a new book. He was one of the great ones. He will be missed.

    Sumner Stone: Jim's insights into Goudy's typefaces in particular, and his devotion to doing everything in his own shop made me think he was perhaps Fred's reincarnation, but it took me awhile to realize this due to the self-deprecating personality you so accurately describe. His passing is truly a great loss to our craft.

    Rod McDonald: I would like to relate a telephone conversation I had with Jim last month because I believe it shows his incredible spirit, and wonderful sense of humor. My wife and I visited Jim in November and were delighted to hear that his doctors had pronounced him cancer free. He looked good, just a little tired, but that was to be expected after his recent radiation treatment. Of course he was also anxious to get back to work. Less than two weeks later I received an email from him informing me that they had discovered that the cancer had spread to his lungs and, not only was it inoperable, he now only had six months to live. This sudden turn of affairs was devastating for me and I called him, hoping I think, to hear that it wasn't as bad as it sounded. He said it was bad and apparently nothing could be done. However he felt he would outlive the six months and in fact we even talked of getting together in the fall. The conversation then turned to his latest type family and when I gently asked him how long he thought it it would take to complete he simply said "I've got lots of time, after all I'm only going to be dying during the last fifteen minutes". I knew Jim for thirty-five years and will miss him more than his work, and that's saying a great deal.

    In 2012, Canada Type, which had purchased Rimmer's designs started publishing some of Jim's lesser known designs. These include Cotillion Pro (2012, a very graceful typeface with high ascenders), Fellowship (2013, calligraphic), Poster Paint (2012, a take on Goudy Stout), Zigarre Script and Zigarre Rough (2012, brush scripts that were actually drawn with a marker), and Alexander Quill (2012, a calligraphic monastic typeface).

    In 2013, Canada Type remastered several of Rimmer's typefaces, including in particular Isabelle Pro: Isabelle is the closest thing to a metal type revival Jim Rimmer ever did. The original metal typeface was designed and cut in late 1930s Germany, but its propspects were cut short by the arrival of the war. This was one of Jim's favourite typefaces, most likely because of the refined art deco elements that reminded him of his youthful enthusiasm about everything press-related, and the face's intricately thought balance between calligraphy and typography. Not to mention one of the most beautiful italics ever made. Lancelot Pro (2013) is a calligraphic all caps typeface based on Rimmer's digital original from 1999.

    Pictures: Jim Rimmer casts 48pt ATypI keepsake (by John Hudson), Remembering Jim Rimmer (Facebook group), In his studio, a picture taken by the Globe and Mail. Another pic. Making Faces (trailer) (movie by Richard Kegler).

    Klingspor link. ContentDM collection. Jim Rimmer at the Fine Press Book Association. Rimmer Type Foundry link.

    View all typefaces by Jim Rimmer. An alphabetical listing of Jim Rimmer's typefaces. Catalog of Jim Rimmer's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jim Tsipoutas

    Volos, Greece-based graphic designer. Creator of the vector format font Air (2014). Behance link. Creative Market link, where one can buy his work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jimmy Adair
    [Scholars Press]

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    JL-types Ky
    [Juhani Lehtiranta]

    Juhani Lehtiranta holds a Ph.D. in linguistics, and lives and works in his place of birth, Nurmijärvi, near Helsinki. He has been busy with special fonts since 1985. In 1990 he established font design company, JL-types Ky. Lehtiranta's special interests are typefaces for European minority languages (e.g., Greek, Baltic, Sami, Cyrillic, Central European) and custom made fonts (e.g., barcode fonts (JLCode128, JLEAN, JLCode39, JLInterleaved2/5)). He created the first fonts for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in 1985 and published an OpenType phonetic font in 2005. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on A wild play with diacriticts, in which he discusses the Finnish language, Sami, and other special aerial languages. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joana Maria Correia da Silva
    [Nova Type Foundry]

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    Joana Ranito

    Creator of the rounded script typeface Hazelnut (2013), the display typeface Quadra (2013) and the text typeface Amora (2013) during her studies at ESAD Matosinhos, Portugal. Joana lives in Porto.

    Graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. Her graduation typeface there was Curiosa, an angular Latin, Greek, Bengali and Sylheti typeface family that she describes in this manner: Curiosa is a confident typeface family, for cross-media periodical publications. Its range of weights and styles assume a wide variety of personalities: from lively Italics to laid-back Sans Serifs, from delicate light weights to strong-willed Ultra Bolds. Curiosa provides the necessary flexibility for environments with complex hierarchies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joao Cracel
    [Craceltype]

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    Joe Leadbeater

    Londoner who studied in Leeds, UK. Designer of the text typeface Madison (2014) and the vintage typeface Clothworker (2015).

    In 2018, Joe Leadbeater and Mark Bloom co-designed the 14-weight sans typeface family Aeonik, which supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and is accompanied by a variable font. Followed in 2022 by Aeonik Mono.

    At some point before 2019, Joe Leadbeater and Mark Bloom founded CoType Foundry.

    In 2021, he became part of Socio Type in London. At Socio Type, he designed these typefaces:

    • Gestura (2021). A serif with three optical sizes, Text, Headline and Display.
    • Rework (2021). A sans with four optical sizes, Micro, Text, Headline and Display.
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    Jogi Weichware

    Berlin and Frankfurt-based company which published these fonts for ancient Middle Eastern scripts between 1990 and 2001: TitusAncientNeareastNormal, TitusArabic-Farsi, TitusArmenianNormal, TitusAsomtavruliMrglovani, TitusAsomtavruliMrglovani, TitusAsomtavruliNuskhuri, TitusBaltic, TitusBibleGothic, TitusBuzuku, TitusChristianEastNormal, TitusCyrillicNormal, TitusECLINGMxedruli-Normal, TitusECLINGTranscription-Bold, TitusECLINGTranscription-Italic, TitusECLINGTranscription, TitusEastEuropeanNormal, TitusGreekNormal, TitusGreekReverseNormal, TitusHebrew-Normal, TitusHebrewNormal, TitusIndoIranianNormal, TitusIndologyNormal, TitusKroatianGlagolicaNormal, TitusManichean, TitusMiddleIranian-Normal, TitusMxedruliNormal, TitusNearEastNormal, TitusNuskhaKhutsuri, TitusOghamNormal, TitusOldGeorgian, TitusOldPersianNormal, TitusOldPersianNormal, TitusOscanInscriptionsNormal, TitusRoundGlagolicaNormal, TitusRunicNormal, TitusSlavonicNormal, TitusSogdianIntNormal, TitusSyriacEstrangelo, TitusSyriacNestorian, TitusSyriacNestorianNormal, TitusSyriacSerto, TitusSyriacSertoNormal, TitusTaanaNormal, TitusUmbrianInscriptionsNormal, TitusWesternNormal. Downloadable here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johann Karl Ludwig Prillwitz

    German type designer and typefounder (b. Braunschweig, 1759, d. 1810, Jena). His foundry was located in Jena. In 1790, he published a 14-style antiqua and kursiv with weights from Nonpareille up to Grobe Sabon called Proben neuerr Didotscher Lettern. In 1798, he published a specimen book entitled Didotschen 1797 Lettern that showed 33 Fraktur typefaces, 8 Schwabachers, 9 Greek typefaces, and 36 styles/weights of a didone family. His son Johann Heinrich Christian (b. 1789), also a typefounder, died a month before his father in 1810.

    A refererence text is Die erste Probe Didotscher Lettern aus der Schriftgiesserei J. C. L. Prillwitz zu Jena (Ernst Crous, 1926, Berlin).

    Digital revivals: GFS Goschen (2009, George D. Matthiopoulos: a Greek typeface named for the German publisher Georg Joachim Göschen, who, at the turn of the 19th century, saw to the creation of a new cursive type for use in an edition of the New Testament in Greek. The typeface was cut by Johann Prillwitz, and was influenced by the Greek types of Bodoni), Ingo Preuss (who says that Prillwitz's didone is from 1790, well before the first Walbaum) made a digital didone typeface called Prillwitz in 2005. This family is separately optimized for display, news print and books in styles called Prillwitz Display, Display NP and Prillwitz Book. Prillwitz Pro (Ingo Preuss) was published in 2015. Albert Kapr and Werner Schulze had earlier created Prillwitz Antiqua, Kursiv and halbfett at Typoart in 1970 and 1987. There is also a typeface family Prillwitz EF (2009, Elsner & Flake).

    A reference text is Die erste Probe Didotscher Lettern aus der Schriftgiesserei J. C. L. Prillwitz zu Jena (Ernst Crous, 1926, Berlin). See also Die Jenaer Schriftgiesser seit dem Jahr 1557 (H. Koch, 1956, Mainz).

    Ingo Preuss explains the importance of Prillwitz in typography: Johann Carl Ludwig Prillwitz, the German punch cutter and type founder, cut the first classic Didot letters even earlier than Walbaum. The earliest proof of so-called Prillwitz letters is dated 12 April 1790. Inspired by the big discoveries of archaeology and through the translations of classical authors, the bourgeoisie was enthused about the Greek and Roman ideal of aesthetics. The enthusiasm for the Greek and Roman experienced a revival and was also shared by Goethe and contemporaries. [...] All German Classics of that time kept coming back to the Greek topics, thinking of Schiller and Wieland. The works of Wieland were published in Leipzig by Göschen. Göschen used typefaces which had been produced by until then unknown punch cutter. This punch cutter from Jena created with these typefaces master works of classicist German typography. They can stand without any exaggeration on the same level as that of Didot and Bodoni. This unknown gentleman was known as Johann Carl Ludwig Prillwitz. Prillwitz published his typefaces on 12th April 1790 for the first time. This date is significant because this happened ten years before Walbaum. Prillwitz was an owner of a very successful foundry. When the last of his 7 children died shortly before reaching adulthood his hope of his works was destroyed, Prillwitz lost his will to live. He died six months later. His wife followed him shortly after.

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    Johannes Giesecke

    One truetype font here (bottom of page, click on Schriftart, the German word for font): Joe. This font has Latin, East-European, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic characters, and sure looks like a renamed Monotype Times to me. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John Barounis

    Creator (b. 1984, Greece) of the hand-drawn typeface Ancient Hellenic (2013).

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    John Bowman

    Graduate of the University of Reading. His PhD thesis at the University of Reading in 1998 was entitled Greek printing types in Britain from the late 18th to the early 20th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John Dale Obedoza

    La Piñas, Philippines-based designer of these free typefaces in 2016: Dale (script), The Greek Font. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John H. Bowman

    Programme Director for Library and Information Studies at University College, London. At the meeting in Thessaloniki in June 2002, he spoke about The fine printing of Greek in Britain and its types. Author of Greek printing types in Britain, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century (Thessaloniki : Typophilia, 1998). That book is based on the author's thesis completed in 1988 for the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, England. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John Hudson
    [Brill]

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    John Hudson
    [Society of Biblical Literature]

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    John Hudson
    [Tiro TypeWorks]

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    John M. Fiscella
    [Production First Software]

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    John Mawby

    John Mawby is a lettercutter with a passion for the craft of carving letters in stone. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2020. His graduation typeface there was the angular, almost chiseled, text typeface family Bibliophile (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    John Saranto

    Designer in Athens, Greece, who created the 3d outlined typeface Font2012 (2013) and AMeccano (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonas Hecksher

    Jonas Hecksher holds a degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The School of Design and Ecole supérieure d'arts graphiques et d'architecture in Paris, where he specialized in graphic design and typography design. Heckscher is Partner and Creative Director at design agency e-Types which he co-founded in 1997 and co-founder of type foundry and type design brand Playtype. He is a 5-time recipient of the Danish Design Award, a winner of two gold Creative Circle awards, a silver award winner at the Britsh D&AD, a winner in 2014 of the Knud V. Engelhardt Memorial Award, and the recipient of a certificate of excellence in type design from Type Directors Club N.Y. Playtype is currently based in Vesterbro, Denmark.

    He designed fonts such as Movie (2001, a very black condensed movie generics sans), iD:00 (2001, a large sans and serif family), Fletch Text (1998, a sans), DeLuca (Bodoni-like, 2001), NinetySix K (2001, a serif), Underton (1998), Point Sans (1999), Point Serif (1999), Cendia (1997), DenmarkSerif (1998), Mega (1999), Olic (1999), Arch Sans (2003), Arch Serif (2003), Arch Stencil (2003), Arch Pattern (2003).

    In the 2011 Playtype on-line catalog, it seems that several of his early designs have been renamed, and many others have been added. So here is the on-line list of his fonts there as of February 2011: AbidaleBook, AcademySans, AcademySerif, BingoSans, BingoSerif, DeArchie (didone), DeArchieDisplay, FletchText, FruOlsen (1998: a condensed display serif inspired by the old streets signs of Copenhagen, featuring tall x-heights, shaped drops and curved numbers), Geometric, Hall, HomeDisplay, Hazelwood, HermesBaby (old typewriter), Hill (2005: grotesque), HomeText, ID00 Sans (large family), ID00 Serif, ItalianPlate, JPSpecial Sans, JPSpecial Serif, JazzHouse (2007: a neo-grotesque), Mari (2006: a monolinear modern sans serif with a sense of nordic simplicity), MoviePlaytype, New Press, Noir Text, Nord Dingbats (circled letters), Norwegian, Play (2011, a minimalistic sans serif typeface, free at Google Fonts; CTAN TeX support), PrimoSerif (2000), Republic, SymphonyDisplay, TheWave, Trood, VentiQuattro (didone), Vertigo, Willumsen, ZettaSans.

    Later in 2011, he published the modern sans family Metro.

    In 2010, Hecksher created the 21-weight custom typeface family Berlingske for the newspaper by that name. It was extended over the years to a whopping 227 weights / 2100 glyphs-per-font in 2014, the year in which it was released as a regular retail font at Playtype, with Sans, Serif and Slab versions.

    Typefaces from 2013 include the large sans typeface family Nationale (Playtype) done for the National Museum of Denmark. See here.

    In 2014, an earlier typeface by e-types, Italian Plate, was releases in two monoline sans subfamilies, Italian Plate No. 1 and No. 2, and two serif versions, No. 3 and No. 4. In 2015, he published the extensive sans typeface family DuNord at Playtype.

    Typefaces from 2016: Hafnia Sans, La Fontaine.

    Typefaces from 2018: The Wave (sans).

    Typefaces from 2019: Melanzine (sans).

    Typefaces from 2020: Royal Theatre Serif (a didone), Royal Theatre Sans. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jonas Schudel

    Designer (with Fabio Luiz Haag) of a grotesque sans at Dalton Maag, 2007-2009, called Effra, which was inspired by a 1816 design from the Caslon font foundry. Discussion at Typophile. Followed in 2013 by Effra Corp (Dalton Maag) which supports Greek and Cyrillic as well. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Jonathan Coltz
    [Daidala]

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    Jonathan Perez
    [Typographies.fr]

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    Jonathan Robie
    [Fonts for the New Testament Greek]

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    Jordan Bell

    Graduate of the Masters of Type Design program of the University of Reading, UK. Jordan Bell (Waco, TX) writes about his graduation typeface Odelay (2014): Odelay is a contemporary interpretation of the transitional American Scotch Roman, or Century types, that were designed in the U.S.A. near the end of the 19th century by DeVinne and the Bentons. Inspired by these designs and hand-painted sign lettering, Odelay has a warm, friendly aesthetic that invites the designer to put it to use on a variety of different jobs. With very delicate thin weights, ultra-heavy fat weights, and everything in-between, Odelay is readily available for complex typography at any size. Odelay covers Latin, Greek, Arabic and Cyrillic, with emphasis on the Latin. Jordan's description requires a correction, however--Theodore DeVinne did not design any typefaces---some were named after him, but that is a different story. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jordan Seth

    American designer of the bold techno typeface Hunger Games (2011) and of the fat finger typeface Sorority Lane (2011)---this includes the necessary Greek capitals, in a desperate attempt to convince many sorority girls of his cause.

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    Jos Kunst
    [Fonts Jos Kunst]

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    Jose Carratala

    Jose Ignacio Alvarez Carratala is an art director in London, UK. Originally from Murcia, Spain, he completed the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2020. His graduation typeface, Josephus, was designed for packaging and comes in Latin and Greek, and sans and serif versions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Champion

    Joseph Champion (b. Chatham, 1709, d. 1765) was a British calligrapher and penman. Champion contributed many plates to Bickham's Universal Penman. His most important work, The Parallel or Comparative Penmanship Exemplified, was published in 1750. It consists of reproductions of the work of foreign masters like Materot, Barbedor, Van den Velde, Perlingh and Maria Strick, with corresponding plates by Champion. Following these plates come some alphabets by Champion. His last published work was The Penman's Employment (1762).

    The first known attempt to digitally implement Champion's alphabets, was in 1989 by French type designer François Boltana, who in Ligatures&calligraphie assistée par ordinateur (1995) proposed three copperplate calligraphic alphabets based on Champion. These did not result in a commercial font however. PF Champion Script Pro (Panos Vassiliou, 2004-2008; a winner at Paratype K2009) on the other hand has 4280 glyphs in each of its two styles, and it supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

    One of Champion's alphabets, dated 1733-1741. Samples of his penmanship from The Universal Penman (1730): i, ii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joseph Staleknight

    Fairfax, VA-based creator (b. 1990) of the informally hand-printed font Rushil (2008). Alternate URL. Other fonts or font projects, dated 2008: Argaila (runes), Argaila Runic Expert XK, Argaila Titling, Argaila Standard, Argaila Astro Expert, Argaila Rune Expert, Argaila Greek, ANSI/Int'l., Danaii, Argaila (hand-printed). Schmiedehammer (bilined) followed in 2009. In 2010, he made Driehoek, a triangularly serifed font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Joshua Olsthoorn

    Joshua Olsthoorn (Athens, Greece) designed Merz Grotesk in 2013 after a Merz Magazine model from 1924 published by Kurt Schwitters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jost Gippert
    [TITUS Unicode Greek]

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    Journal of Biblical Studies

    Alternate URL. Archive: Altrussisch, Altrussisch-Bold, Altrussisch-BoldItalic, Altrussisch-Italic, Web-Hebrew-AD, BSTGreek, BSTHebrew, Coptic-Normal, Web-Hebrew-Monospace, Cyrillic, Cyrillic-Bold-Italic, Cyrillic-Bold, Cyrillic-Normal-Italic, DSS-Scribal-Normal, Elephantine-Aramaic, Etruscan-Epigraphic-Normal, Netextmo, Netextpro, Greek, Hebrew, IluInternet, Koine-Medium, l562-Minuscule-Normal, Lachish-Bold, Latin-Uncial-Normal, Linear-B, Nippur-Sans-Regular, Macedonian-Ancient, Meroitic---Demotic, Meroitic---Hieroglyphics, Nabataean-Aramaic, Nahkt, Paleo-Hebrew-NormalA, Phoinike, Qumran, RD-Akkadian1, RK-Ugaritic-Transscript, Rashi, SPAchmim, SPAtlantis, SPDamascus, SPEdessa, SPEzra, SPIonic, SPTiberian, Schwaben-Alt-Bold, Sinaiticus-Greek-Uncial, Sorawin-Plain, Ugarit. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jovica Veljovic

    Great calligrapher and type designer, born in Suvi Do, Yugoslavia, in 1954. He obtained his master's degree in calligraphy and lettering at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. In 1985, he received the Charles Peignot Award from the Typographique Internationale for excellence in calligraphy and type design. He taught typography at Belgrade University of Arts until 1992. Since 1992, he is based in hamburg, Germany, where he teaches type design and calligraphy at the Fachhochschule Hamburg. His typefaces:

    • Ex Ponto (1994-1995) is his first masterpiece. This rhythmic script typeface is based on Veljovic's handwriting.
    • He designed the very readable text typefaces ITC Veljovic (1984) and ITC Esprit (1985; followed in 2010 by ITC New Esprit), as well as the Times-like ITC Gamma (1986). In 2015, ITC followed up with ITC New Veljovic Pro.
    • Silentium (2000, at Adobe). This is based on 10th century Carolingian scripts.
    • Sava Pro (2003). These are roman-style caps and small caps, with ornaments, Greek and Cyrillic. Named after a popular man, the archbishop of Serbia, who lived around 1300, and partially named after the main river in former Yugoslavia. Winner of an award at TDC2 2004.
    • Libelle (2009, at Linotype). A joyful calligraphic script.
    • Agmena (2012, at Linotype). A gorgeous antiqua that won an award at TDC 2013.
    • Veljovic Script (2009, Linotype). A handwriting typeface for Latin and Cyrillic.

      The German weekly news journal Die Zeit commissioned him to prepare an extended digitized version of Tiemann's Antiqua in 1999. He also designed two typefaces, an Antique and a Grotesque together with several variants, for the leading Serbian daily Politika in 2006.

    • Morandi (2018). A 48-style humanist sans typeface family published by Monotype.

    At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Linotype link. FontShop link.

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    Juan Bruce

    During his MATD studies at the University of Reading in 2015, Juan Bruce (Chile) designed Noort, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018. The original inspiration for Noort came from cartographic maps of the 17th century. Juan has been massaging his typeface for editorial use, with a range of optical sizes to provide optimal performance for small text. It is characterized by a large x-height, long serifs, special terminals and a rough-style italic. It supports Latin, Greek and Bengali scripts. Noort (including Noort Bengali) was published in 2017 by Type Together which writes that it is an information architect's dream. Noort won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.

    In 2016, Google Fonts published the free Latin / Bengali signage font Galada (2015). It is based on Pablo Impallari's Lobster (for Latin). The Bengali was developed as a studio collaboration by Jeremie Hornus, Yoann Minet, and Juan Bruce at Black Foundry in France. Github link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Juan Luis Blanco
    [Blancoletters]

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    Juan-José Marcos
    [Grammata]

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    Juan-José Marcos García
    [Alphabetum]

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    Jueun Kim

    Type designer based in North Korea (according to MyFonts). Typefaces from 2021: HU Hikiki (a hand-crafted typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), HU Sangsang (a fat finger font by ByoungHeon Park and Jueun Kim).

    Typefaces from 2022: HU Geulwoll (an informal hand-crafted typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Juhani Lehtiranta
    [JL-types Ky]

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    Jujumisur
    [Jujumisur's Ficus]

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    Jujumisur's Ficus
    [Jujumisur]

    Ukrainian designer of:

    • The medieval blackletter-inspired typeface Prussak BC (2020). It covers Latin, Cyrillic, Old Church Slavonic (both Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts), Proto Slavic and Ancient Greek.
    • Stola (2020). A script typeface.
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    Jules Hénaffe

    In 1675, Colbert invites the Acadé'mie des Sciences to make a grand study of all machines used in the arts. In 1696, l'abbé Jaugeon obliges with a study entitled "Etude des Arts de construire les caractères, de graver les poinçons de lettres, d'imprimer les lettres". From 1692 on, Jaugeon created a mathematical/geometric theory of letters, all inscribed in a 48 by 48 grid (for upper case) or a 16 by 48 grid (lower case). This gridding was to lead to the type style associated with Louis XIV, the Grandjean. Fast forward 200 years to Arthur Christian, director of the Imprimerie Nationale from 1895 until 1906, who wanted to prove that Jaugeon's ideas were also esthetically justified by asking Hénaffe (official punchcutter of the Imprimerie, b. Paris 1857, d. Paris 1921) to precisely reproduce Jaugeon's designs (which he did in 1904). The resulting typeface is called Jaugeon or Hénaffe. This page describes more of his work for the Imprimerie Nationale, such as a Telugu set of punches (1901), a Coptic set (called "memphitique"), a Palmyrian set (1899), a Thai set (1903), and a "gothique Christian" type (1902). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Sysmäläinen
    [Juliasys]

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    Julian Moncada Tobar

    Colombian type designer based in Bogota. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. He also studied at ANRT in Nancy, France. In 2018 and 2019, for the past year he worked on the restoration of wood type at the Imprenta Patriotica, a government-funded printing museum in Colombia.

    He writes about his lively graduation typeface Lemona (2011), which covers Latin and Greek: Lemona, an army of absurdities and monstrosities, is a subjective interpretation and exploration of the proportions and conventions of classic typography. Giving each character a secret potion containing ingredients of the freaky and deformed, the classic, and the contemporary, the serious, and the sweet. Lemona is a kind monster coming to stage stories in a rather strange, but always friendly and lively manner.

    I cannot put my finger on it, but this is a bright and shiny baby, sure to be a soulful award winner in the next couple of years.

    Julian Moncada, Jonathan Abbott and Jonathan Barnbrook jointly designed Doctrine Sans and Doctrine Stencil in 2013 at Virus.

    Together with Jonathan Barnbrook and Ryuhei Nakadai, he designed Resolution and Resolution Blackletter (2015): A family of display typefaces that were developed as part of a creative response to the political situation in Northern Ireland.

    Codesigner with Jonathan Barnbrook of Sora (2019; free at Google Fonts and Github), Bourgeois Rounded (2019) and Bourgeois Slab (2019).

    Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Juliasys
    [Julia Sysmäläinen]

    Julia Sysmäläinen Carelian (Juliasys) is a Finnish type designer, who studied at Pekka Halosen Akatemia in Tuusula. She runs her own type foundry, Juliasys. Julia presently lives in Berlin, where she works for Edenspiekermann Berlin.

    Julia created these typefaces:

    • FF Mister K Pro (2008, FontFont). A winner at Paratype K2009, where it says that the typeface was co-designed by Jürgen Sanides from Germany. This is a digital rendering extraordinaire of Franz Kafka's handwriting. Ivo Grabowitsch writes: This meant not only creating hundreds of ligatures - each of them consisting of two, three or even four single characters - but also integrating numerous alternate characters to avoid successions of repeating shapes, in order to lend FF Mister K Pro a more authentic script feel. Furthermore handy OpenType functions were added, for example for stylistic alternatives including hatched text as well as underlining and crossing out. Eventually three completely different single fonts were developed. Besides the normal cut there's also Crossout, which allows for setting extensively crossed out text and Onstage, which clearly looks more extravagant and wriggly. All foreign languages and features included the standard cut alone contains more than 1,500 glyphs. In 2009, she published FF Mister K Dingbats. FF Mister K Informal (2011) won an award at TDC 2012. FF Mister K Splendid followed in 2014 and Mister K Crossout and Mister K Onstage in 2015.
    • In 2012, Julia published the beautiful handwriting font ALS SyysScript at Art Lebedev Studio.
    • As Juliasys, Julia Sysmäläinen published the semi-serif Latin / Cyrillic / Greek typeface family Mir (2013) and the handwriting font Emily in White (2014, based on the writing style of American lyricist Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)).
    • ALS Finlandia Script (2015, for Art Lebedev Studio).
    • ALS Pobeda (2015). A MIG29-themed dot matrix typeface inspired by the Moscow Victory Day Parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
    • Sentres Icons (2015). Designed for Sentres, a tourist portal for South Tyrol. In 2016, she designed the Visit Berlin Icons.
    • Josef K Paneuropean, and Josef K Patterns (2015, ornaments based on Kafka's letterforms).
    • ALS Scripticus (2013). A blackboard script.
    • Colorado (2016). A ribbon type family with several kinds of zebra stripes. Codesigned by Julia Sysmäläinen and Jürgen Sanides, published by Juliasys.
    • Optimisti (2016). A smooth thick script typeface.
    • Little House Script (2017). A typeface simulating Laura Ingalls Wilder's handwriting.
    • MIR Next (2021). A 20-style humanist---semi---slab-serif for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, with enough bells and whistles to make it useful for Vietnamese and scientific texts.

    Klingspor link. FontShop link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Art Lebedev link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Julie Janet Chauffier

    Sociologist and typeface designer. Born in France, Julie is based in London. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Her graduation typeface is Angata (2012), an angular semi-serif typeface family for Latin and Greek.

    Speaker at ATypI 2012 Hong Kong: Towards typographic diversity.

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    Julien Gionis
    [KRFX Kazekami]

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    Jürgen Weltin
    [Typematters.de]

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    K. J. Dryllerakis
    [KD Greek fonts]

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    Kadmos, Bosporos, and Attika Fonts

    KadmosU is an expansion and reencoding of the former Alloptype Typographic font Kadmos and is free. BosporosU is an expansion and reencoding of the former Alloptype Typographic font Bosporos. It too is free. AttikaU is an expansion and reencoding of the GreekKeys font Attika. It is also free. All are copyright of the American Philological Association. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kaja Slojewska
    [Nomad Fonts]

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    Kalos

    This huge free Greek software package contains a Greek truetype font, Kalos. By Mariana Esplugas or Gonzalo Diaz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kanella Arapoglou

    Greek graphic designer. She studied Graphic Design at TEI, in Athens, and later received an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins, in London. During her stay in London, Kanella worked as an Art Director for some design agencies.

    She designed PF Haus Square Pro for Parachute in 2001-2006. This squarish family has Greek and Cyrillic versions as well. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kapatija

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    Karandash
    [Vassil Nikolaev Kateliev]

    Karandash is a type and graphic foundry in Varna, Bulgaria, established in 2010 by designer Vassil Kateliev (b. 1980, Varna). The Fontmaker series is a collaborative project with Jordan Jelev, a well known Bulgarian calligrapher and cult wine label designer. The type designs are done on paper, using traditional calligraphic and artistic methods and then digitally recreated.

    Typefaces: Myriad Pro Bulgarian and Cyrillic (2011), Rotis Semi Serif Bulgarian Cut (2011), and FM Clog (2011, with Jordan Jelev, done at The Fontmaker: has Openface, Shadowed and Engraved styles). Callista is a fat cursive typeface that was inspired by the work of François Boltana in the early 1970s and of Milka Peykova in late 1970s.

    Gaytan (which means braid in Bulgarian) is a sans and serif family created in 2012. It was inspired by Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic, Bulgarian Ustav and the Russian Vyaz stiles, as well as the avant-garde works of Bulgarian typedesigners in late 1970s. But the result is definitely Victorian. He closes 2012 with Estimo, an organic typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic that has no diagonal strokes.

    FM Bolyar (2012) is a copperplate typeface jointly designed by Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev at The Fontmaker. See also the spurred version FM Bolyar Ornate Pro ansd the weathered family FM Bolyar Typecarft. In 2019, after a full year of development, they published the 63-style all caps sans family FM Bolyar Sans Pro.

    In 2013, Vassil Kateliev and Jordan Jelev codesigmned the lively script typeface FM Ephire, which comes with a useful caps companion, FM Ephire Frames.

    In 2014, Kateliev designed a Valentine-inspired set of calligraphic ornaments, LoveHearts, Love Christmas (Christmas ornaments, done with Stella Ivanova Katelieva), and the humanist slab serif typeface Basil (the Regular weight is free). Basil won an award at Granshan 2014.

    Typefaces from 2015: Sybilla (humanist slab serif, extended to Sybilla Pro in 2016, and the 294-style Sybilla Multiverse in 2017). Sybilla Shade Pro is free.

    Typefaces from 2017: Versatile Bold (a Latin / Greek / Cyrillic font family for layering with plenty of hatched, shadow, rust and 3d options; by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev).

    In 2018, he designed Kometa together with Kiril Zlatkov. The 21-style Kometa (Latin and Cyrillic) is a modern sans serif font family with a geometric skeleton and a humanist soul. It has a unicase option and many alternates.

    Typefaces from 2019: Achates (a humanist sans workhorse), Future Tense (a sci-fi typeface by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev).

    MyFonts link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Karl Grech

    During his studies, San Giljan, Malta-based Karl Grech designed the Greek font Greech (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karlgeorg Hoefer

    German scribe, type designer and unbelievable calligrapher, b. 1914 in Schlesisch-Drehnow, d. 2000 in Offenbach. Following schooling in Schlesien and Hamburg, he served a four-year typesetting apprenticeship from 1930-1934 in Hamburg and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Offenbach am Main. From 1939 until 1945 he was in active military service and became a prisoner of the Russians. After that ordeal, he became a calligraphy teacher at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, and developed a universal pen with novel writing and drawing techniques for the company Brause. It is at that point that Hoefer started designing types as well. From 1970 to 1979, Hoefer was a lecturer and later professor at the HfG (School of Design) in Offenbach. From 1981 to 1988, Hoefer ran summer calligraphy workshops in the USA (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities). In 1982, Karlgeorg Hoefer founded a calligraphy workshop in Offenbach for everyone, with evening courses and summer school, and in 1987, the registered association "Calligraphy Workshop Klingspor, Offenbach, Supporters of International Calligraphy." From 1987 to 1995, he was the chairman of the association while teaching continuing courses and summer school classes with leading foreign calligraphers. Hoefer has written two books about calligraphy: "Das alles mit einer Feder" (Brause, 1953) and "Kalligraphie, gestaltete Handschrift" (Econ, 1986). Numerous articles about Hoefer's work have appeared in calligraphy journals in Holland, France, the USA, and Japan. In 1989, the book "Schriftkunst/Letterart Karlgeorg Hoefer" was published as part of Calligraphy-Editions Herbert Maring (Die Kalligraphie Edition, Hardheim, Germany, 1989). For his activities as a calligrapher, Hoefer received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1993. His typefaces:

    • At Klingspor: Salto (1952), Saltino (1953), Saltarello (1954), Monsun (1954). Salto is a famous and often-copied brush script.
    • At D. Stempel: Prima (1957), Zebra (1963-1965, D. Stempel, a script that plays on the simulation of grey and the use of two colors; revived by Colin Kahn in 2007 as P22 Zebra).
    • At Ludwig&Mayer: Permanent (1962-1969, a large Grotesk family developed over many years---this was revived by Daylight in 2010 as Permanent Massiv; URW sells Permanent Headline URW D without even a word about the original designer; Softmaker has Plakette Serial and P700 sans; Castcraft has OPTI Permanent and OPTI Pinacle; Marcus Sterz published Letterpress Headline in 2009), Stereo (1963, an outline poster headline script developed between 1957 and 1968; digitally revived in 1993 as Stereo (Tobias Frere-Jones, Font Bureau)), Elegance (1964, a handwriting script, which was the basis for Sincerely (2005, Canada Type)), Big Band (1974, a fat poster script revived in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Baby Cakes NF (2007)), Big Band Terrazzo (1974, a glaz krak face), Headline (1964, a poster typeface that emanated from Permanent).
    • Programm-Grotesk (1970): Hoefer's first digital typeface, commissioned by JT Hellas for the Greek telephone books It was first used in the digital machine Digiset of Dr. Ing. Hell in Kiel.
    • From 1978 until 1980, Karlgeorg got involved in the development of a German license plate font that could withstand forgery by black marker pens. The typeface, FE Mittelschrift/Engschrift, had also input from other sources.
    • Lateinischen Ausgangsschrift (1974): a school script for the Linotype phototypesetter. This led later to VA Schrift (Berthold and Linotype).
    • At Linotype: Omnia (1990, a unicase typeface with a Celtic uncial feel), San Marco (1990, round gothic / Rundgotisch), Notre Dame (1991-1993, a full blackletter face), Dominatrix (1994), Sho (1992, an Asian brush script), Beneta (1992, a French bastarda inspired by the Littera beneventana, the script of the Benedictine scribes from the 10th to the 12th century).

    Linotype page. FontShop link.

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    Karsten Lücke
    [KLTF (Karsten Lücke Type Faces)]

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    KaryAmo Studio
    [Amar Arif]

    Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1996) who founde KaryAmo Studio in 2020. iHis typefaces include the monoline script typeface Tyllapia (2020) and the six-style monolinear architectural lettering font Archee (2021, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Karydis-Karodsis

    Athens-based foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Wiliwinska

    London, UK-based designer of the free Latin / Greek / Cyrillic display typeface Pitch Display (2015). Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katerina Alivizatou

    Graphic designer, illustrator and moving image designer in London, UK. Creator of an decorative Latin / Greek caps typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katerina Kinna

    Athens, Greece-based interior architect and graphic designer who created the geometric typefaces Linea (2016) and Kapa (2016, based on triangles), and conceived the Kandinsky Calendar (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kathleen Rothschild

    New York City-based designer of the all-caps font Godly (2014) on the theme Greek Mythological Gods from Alpha to Omega. While studying at Parsons in 2014, she also created Etiquette Icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kazuo Kanai
    [Ren Font]

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    KD Greek fonts
    [K. J. Dryllerakis]

    The KD Greek metafont family was developed by Sylvio Levi and Yiannis Haralambous and adapted later by K. J. Dryllerakis (Imperial College London). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KEIK Design Bureau
    [George Strouzas]

    KEIK Design Bureau was founded during the summer of 2010 by three designers. George Strouzas (Athens, Greece) designed RBTP (2010, an inline typeface), and FTRT (2012, an octagonal monoline monospaced typeface family for Latin and Greek).

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    Kenny Publications

    Fonts for reading some religious works. Included are the truetype fonts AraTransRoman (1994, Link Software, Dortmund, Germany), AraTransRomanItalic, bwgrki (1994, Michael S. Bushell, Greek), bwgrkl, bwgrkn, bwhebb (Hebrew), bwhebl (Hebrew), AbdallaUbaAdamu-regular (1996, The Consortium). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kerkis
    [Antonis Tsolomitis]

    Mathematics and Greek font family developed between 2002 and 2019 by Antonis Tsolomitis from the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Aegean. It includes metafont, type 1 and opentype. Each of the fonts in the Kerkis family---an extension of the Bookman Oldstyle family---covers Latin and Greek. See also here. CTAN download link.

    The Kerkis font family (Antonis Tsolimitis, TUGbaot, vol. 23, pp. 296-301, 2002) describes the genesis of Kerkis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kevin Pease
    [Cerulean Stimuli]

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    Khaled Hosny
    [Libertinus]

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    Khaled Hosny
    [XITS]

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    Khaled Hosny
    [Khaled Hosny]

    Khaled Hosny is a physician in Egypt. He loves Arabic and its type, and is interested in every aspect of letter forms and typography. A hobbyist translator, programmer and font developer, he supports software freedom and is actively participating in the free software community. Sourceforge link.

    Designer of Punk Nova (2010), a free OpenType implementation of Don Knuth's Punk font, based on modified Metapost sources by Taco Hoekwater and Hans Hagan, dating from 2008. Hosny writes: Punk is a dynamic font, every time a glyph is requested Matafont draws a unique instance of it. On the other hand, OpenType is static, glyph outlines are drawn once and stored in the font and the renderer can not alter those outlines. To emulate the dynamic nature of Punk, we generate several alternate shapes of each glyph and store them in the font. Alternate shapes are mapped to the base character using OpenType [Randomize] feature (rand), which tells the renderer to select glyphs randomly from the list of alternate shapes. Pick up the free Punk Nova from CTAN or Open Font Library.

    XITS (2011) is a Times-like typeface for mathematical and scientific publishing, based on STIX fonts. The main mission of XITS is to provide a version of STIX fonts enriched with the OpenType MATH extension, making it suitable for high quality mathematic typesetting with OpenType MATH capable layout systems, like MS Office 2007 and the new TeX engines XeTeX and LuaTeX. This free OFL package was developed by Khaled Hosny. Inside the fonts, we read Copyright (c) 2001-2010 by the STI Pub Companies, consisting of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, Elsevier, Inc., and The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1998-2003 by MicroPress, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1990 by Elsevier, Inc.

    Euler OTF (2010) are OpenType Math fonts based on Hermann Zapf's Euler and implemented by Taco Hoekwater, Hans Hagen, and Khaled Hosny. Named Neo-Euler (2009-2010), it covers Latin, Greek and has a full blackletter set of glyphs. Copyright Hosny and the American Mathematical Society. Open Font Library link.

    In 2010-2011, Hosny developed the free Amiri font (OFL; dedicated web page): Amiri font is an open font revival of the Arabic Naskh typeface designed and first used by Bulaq Press in Cairo (also known as Amiria Press) in the early part of the twentieth century. Amiri's uniqueness comes from its superb balance between the beauty of Naskh calligraphy and the requirements of elegant typography. Amiri is most suitable for running text and book printing. See also CTAN, Google Web Fonts, and at OFL. Dedicated web page.

    In 2015, he created the free calligraphic Arabic typeface (in Ruqaa style) Aref Ruqaa. The Latin part is based on AMS Euler. Google Fonts link.

    Home page of Khaled Hosny.

    In 2015, Khaled Hosny and Santiago Orozco cooperated on the Latin / Arabic typeface Reem Kufi. Github link. Khaled, who designed the Arabic part, explains: Reem Kufi is a Fatimid-style decorative Kufic typeface, as seen in the historical mosques of Cairo. It is largely based on the Kufic designs of the late master of Arabic calligraphy, Mohammed Abdul Qadir, who revived this art in the 20th century and formalized its rules.

    In 2016, Khaled Hosny designed Mada (Google Fonts), a modernist, unmodulated Arabic typeface inspired by road signage seen around Cairo, Egypt. The Latin component is a slightly modified version of Source Sans Pro, led by Paul Hunt at Adobe Type.

    Khaled Hosny contributed to and maintained the free Libertinus font package between 2012 and 2020.

    In 2021, Hosny released Qahiri at Google Fonts and Github. Qahiri is a Kufic ypeface based on the modernized and regularized old manuscript Kufic calligraphy style of the late master of Arabic calligraphy, Mohammad Abdul Qadir.

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    Khaled Hosny
    [Khaled Hosny]

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    Kilotype
    [Sebastian Losch]

    German type designer, who created the informal bouncy sans typeface Jolly in 2011.

    In 2013, Sebastian graduated from the MATD program of the University of Reading. His graduation typeface was Teras, which he describes as follows: Teras (Greek for monster) is a kindheartedly vicious creature. It has a strong affinity for an entire range of typographic encounters, is highly articulate, slightly deformed, fierce and roughly eight feet tall. Due to its Arabic, Greek, Latin and Tamil background, every syllable it utters is a mongrel mouthful of a variety of cultural influences. It is also an exploration into the alternative type family, which in the upright mutates from a serif light weight into a sans serif black and the reversed procedure in the italics. The symbiosis of the four scripts is achieved principally by making the Latin flared, lapidary, open to conversation with its curvier peers.

    Bressay (Dalton Maag), a Scotch roman co-designed in 2015 by Tom Foley, Sebastian Losch, and Spike Spondike (design lead by Stuart Brown), won an award at TDC 2016.

    Aktiv Grotesk, a Dalton Maag typeface, was extended to cover Indic languages by Sebastian Losch and Kalapi Gajjar-Bordawekar. It won an award at Granshan 2016.

    In 2017, Francesca Bolognini and Sebastian Losch co-designed the ribbon calligraphy font Volina at Dalton Maag. Tom Foley and Sebastian Losch published the rounded slab serif typeface family Gelo at Dalton Maag in November 2017.

    He set up his own foundry, Kilotype, in 2018. His fonts there include Frequenz (2018), Oldschool Grotesk (2019, by William Montrose), Queens (2019: a display type sysyem with several widths), and Sequenz (2018). In 2020, he added Queens Air (+Condensed, +Compressed). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kimmy Design
    [Kimmy Kirkwood]

    Kimmy Kirkwood (b. 1988, Seattle, WA) (Kimmy Design) studied at Chapman University, and lives in Santa Monica, Orange County. He graduated in 2018 from the University of Reading's MATD program.

    Kimmy created a gracious curly calligraphic script face, Madeleine (2010), which is based on a logo she designed for Hotel Le Sirenuse.

    At Dafont, one can download Kuppel (a hairline display sans) and Hammer Head, both done in 2010 as well.

    Phase two of Kimmy's career started late in 2010 as Kimmy Design, where one now has to pay for Madeleine (2010) and Katelyn (2011). Addison (2011) is a wood type Western circus poster font in two styles, West and Circus.

    In 2012, Kimmy created the counterless art deco typeface Chelsnuts, the worn wood type typeface Cpl Kirkwood, Elizabeth Script, and Paper Cutout Pro.

    In 2013, Kimmy published Lunchbox Slab, the grungy Appareo, the condensed minimalist sans family Maxwell Sans, its companion Maxwell Slab, the scriptish typeface Lunch Box, and the bold headline family Station (inspired by old train station typography).

    Typefaces from 2014: Catalina (hand-drawn typeface family with sub-styles called Anacapa, Avalon, Clemente Script, Typewriter and Extras, ideal for hand-drawn menus, table cards, chalkboards, and wall quotes), Amorie (a skinny hand-drawn family, with styles called Modella, Nova, SC and Extras).

    Typefaces from 2015: Avaline Script, Baker Street (vintage hand-drawn typeface family), Burford (a 16-style vintage layered family), Burford Rustic (layered font family).

    Typefaces from 2016: Bourton (a layered font for vintage yacht club or whiskey bar logos; it is the sans version of Burford; sufamilies include Drop, Lines and Outlines), Rainier (handcrafted).

    Typefaces from 2017: Evanston Alehouse (octagonal, beer bottle style, slightly copperplate), Bourton Hand.

    Typefaces from 2018: Clifton (his MATD graduation typeface): Clifton is a modern type family with many weights and contrast styles. It supports Latin scripts as well as Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic. Originally intended as a book typeface, it was designed so that all the weights and styles would work together as a cohesive family.

    Typefaces from 2019: Refinery (an 85-style octagonal family based in early 20th century signage), Evanston Tavern (Evanston Tavern is a square typeface and the sans-serif version to Evanston Alehouse. Inspired by the years that prefaced the ratification of the American Prohibition, this typeface mimics the signage commonly seen outside of saloons, taverns and alehouses during that time.), Winslow Book (a playful modern Scotch).

    Typefaces from 2020: Roadhouse (a layering typeface family that is part of the greater Evanston type collection, which is inspired by American typefaces commonly used at the turn of the century leading up to prohibition), Winslow Title (a decorative didone family), Winslow Title Script (monoline), Hawkes (Sans, Script, Variable Width Sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Madley (a 12-style soft slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Bourton Text (an elliptical sans in 42 styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kimmy Kirkwood
    [Kimmy Design]

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    Klaus-Peter Schaeffel
    [KPS Fonts]

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    Klimis Mastoridis

    Director of the University of Macedonia Press and Chairman of AlterVision, Typography and Visual Communication Ltd. Professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Author of various books, including "Casting the Greek newspaper" (Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, Thessaloniki, 1999), and editor of "Hyphen, a typographic forum". The Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Typography&Visual Communication were published in 2004 by University of Macedonia Press. Articles in English by John Bowman, Justin Howes, Yannis Haralambous, Ole Lund, Petra Cerne Oven, Milena Dobreva, Manolis Savidis, James Mosley, Barry Roseman, Peter Karow, Maria Nicholas, Stephan Fuessel, Mary Dyson, Victor Koen, Michael Twyman, Phil Baines, Andrew Boag, Paul Stiff, Karel van der Waarde, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Petr van Blokland, Garrett Boge, Evripides Zantides, Alan Marshall, Christopher Burke, Jean-François Porchez, Simon Daniels, David Lemon, Hrant Papazian, Sadik Karamustafa and others, and edited by Klimis Mastoridis. The loneliness of Greek typography: Myth or reality? is the title of his talk at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. Founder of the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) that is often held in Thessaloniki, Greece. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Klimis Mastoridis
    [ICTVC: International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication]

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    Klinge Art
    [Michael Klinge]

    Artist in Piraeus, Greece, b. 1999, who designed the free spooky typeface Klinge Death Brush (2015) and the connect-the-dots typeface Technolines (2015). In 2019, he added Ink Noise. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KLTF (Karsten Lücke Type Faces)
    [Karsten Lücke]

    KLTF stands for Karsten Lücke Type Faces. It was established in 2005 in Datteln, Germany. Karsten is the talented German designer of the medieval text family Litteratra, which won an award at the TDC2 2001 competition (Type Directors Club). Karsten is from Datteln and studied communications design in Essen, finishing there in 2002. He worked at Steidl Publishers in Goettingen from 2004 to 2005. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village.

    Other designs by Karsten include KLTF Tiptoe (2005, a bold and black headline family), and KLTF Grotext (2007, an elliptical family in 7 styles).

    Co-designer with John Hudson, Alice Savoie and Paul Hanslow of Brill (2011), Brill Greek (2021), Brill Cyrillic (2021) and Brill Latin (2021). This classic text typeface family was a winner at the TDC 2013 competition. Client: Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    Great OpenType link and discussion page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Koine font

    Free Greek Italic truetype font called Koine at Leadership U site. Created by CARE Typography for The Zondervan Corporation, 1992. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstadinos Giannakoudis

    Greek designer of the Latin display typeface Edge (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantina Louka
    [Nantia]

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    Konstantinos Spaliaras

    Greek graphic designer, b. Athens, 1971, who studied graphic design at A.T.E.S. He has his own creative studio in Athens, wand works with major advertising and publishing companies. He joined Cannibal Fonts in 1999. His typefaces at Cannibal include Bizzare CF, Deconstruction CF, Disco VVolante CF, Liar CF, Sinclair CF Signature and Stromberg CF. . Cannibal Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Korinthus web page

    Korinthus Normal&Italic, designed after the late 18th - early 19th century Leipzig editions by Goeschen, WinGreek and Son of WinGreek compatible, Windows TrueType. Affiliated to Skylla - interesting German magazine on language (the site of the Euro Collection). TYPE 1 version available via email from the author. Contact Mindaugas Strockis in Lithuania. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kosal Sen
    [Philatype]

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    Kostas Bartsokas
    [Intelligent Design (was: Intelligent Foundry)]

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    Kostas Hatzopoulos

    Athens-based designer of the wonderful free art deco typeface Metropolis (2015), which was inspired by the iconic movie from 1927. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kostas Kaparos

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Ron Finley (2013) for the identity for the activist and gardener Ron Finley (the gangsta gardener) based in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KPS Fonts
    [Klaus-Peter Schaeffel]

    Swiss calligrapher in Basel who made and sells various medieval and historically important script fonts. Dedicated page. These included the paleographic (PAL) series and the KPS series. He lives in Ühlingen--Birkendorf, Germany. His fonts are uniformly of high quality and are usefl for illustrating historical alphabets.

    His early commercial collection: KPS Anglaise (calligraphic script), KPS Antiqua (+Kapitälchen), KPS Capitalis (classic Trajan caps), KPS Cicero, KPS Epona (calligraphic), KPS Fein (hand-printed), KPS Hand (calligraphic), KPS Horaz (calligraphic), KPS Iris (calligraphic), KPS Petit (calligraphic), KPS Plinius, KPS Spitzfelder, KPS Vitruv (calligraphy), PAL Bastarda, PAL Cancellaresca, PAL Carolina, PAL Gotisch, PAL Humanistica, PAL Lombarden, PAL Quadrata, PAL Rotunda, PAL Rustica, PAL Textura, PAL Uncialis, PAL Uncialis Roemisch, Weissranken Initialen, Ranken Initialen (Celtic capitals).

    Since September 2013, all of his fonts are free. They were renamed and have conveniently the date of original creation in the font name. The fonts dated in the 1990s and 2000s are new typefaces or creative revivals by Klaus-Peter. The list of revivals: 0100DeBellisMacedonicis [Pre-uncial letters from the fragment "de bellis macedonicis", ca. 1st century], 0300Petros [Greek hand from the oldest surviving copies of St. Peter's epistles, dated 3th / 4th century], 0362Vitalis [Roman Minuscule Cursive from the so called Vitalis letter, written before 362 on papyrus (Strasburg)], 0480VergiliusRomanus [Capitalis Rustica from the Vergilius Romanus written in Rome, ca. 480], 0500VergiliusSangallensis [Capitalis Quadrata from the Vergil fragments in Stiftsbibliothek St.Gallen], 0512Dioskurides [Greek Uncials from the Vienna Dioskurides (about 512)], 0746Beda [from Beda Venerabilis: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Northumbria, dated 746], 0800Kells [Half Uncials from the Book of Kells], 0800Remedius [So called "Lombardic-Raetic Minuscule" from Codex 348 of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen], 0800 Theophanes [Greek Hand after a 9th century Theophanes manuscript], 0850CarolinaTours [Carolingian Minuscule], 0850Carolinaundulata [Carolingian Minuscule from the Scriptorium of Tours], 0864Folchart [St. Gall Carolingian from the Folachart Psalter], 1012Otto [Late Carolingian Minuscule from the Perikopes of Heinrich II, written at the Reichenau, donated to the dome of Bamberg in 1012], 1258FridericusII [Gothic Rotunda from the falcon book of Emperor Friedrich II, Southern Italy 1258-1266], 1400Wenzel [Bohemian Textura from Vienna], 1450Sebastos [Humanistic Greek hand from Homer, Ilias, Vatican Library], 1455GutenbergB42 [Gothic Textura types from the 42 line Gutenberg Bible], 1458GutenbergB36 [Gothic Textura types from the 36 line Gutenberg Bible], 1470Jenson [an antiqua by Nicolas Jenson], 1475HumanisticaCursiva [Humanistic Cursive of the kind Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua wrote, after Cod. Pal. Lat. 1508], 1480Humanistica [Humanistic Book Hand from Valerius Maximus: Facta et dicta memorabilia, ca. 1480-1485. The calligraphy is attributed to Antonio Sinibaldi from Florence and the titling capitals to Bartolomeo Sanvito from Padua], 1483Koberger [Incunabula type from the Koberger Bible, printed in Nuremberg in 1483], 1485Grueninger [Incunabula type from the Grueninger Bible, printed in Strasburg in 148], 1493SchedelRotunda [Incunabula type from the Latin edition of Hartmann Schedel's World Chronicles, printed by Koberger at Nuremberg in 1493], 1501Manutius [First printed Italic Antiqua by Aldus Manutius (Venice 1501)], 1513Gebetbuch [Fraktur from Emperor Maximilian's Prayer Book, printed in Augsburg in 1513], 1517Gilgengart [Fraktur type from Emperor Maximilian's 1517 private print "Gilgengart"], 1517Teuerdank [Fraktur type from Emperor Maximilian's "Teuerdank", printed at Augsburg in 1517], 1519NeudoerfferFraktur [Fraktur alphabet from a woodblock model in Johann Neudoerffer the Elder's Calligraphy book "Fundament", Nuremberg 1519], 1739Bickham [Copperplate or running hand after models from "The Universal Penman" by George Bickham, printed in London 1743], 1741Bickham [Bickham's round hand from Universal Penman], 1782Thurneysen [Baroque Antiqua Type of J. Jacques Thourneysen fils, Basel 1782].

    Original versions by Schaeffel, with date of design in the font name: 1999Anglaise1, 1999Anglaise2, 1999Cancellaresca, 1999Carolina (Carolingian minuscule), 1999Livius, 1999LiviusBold, 1999LiviusItalic, 1999LiviusSmC, 1999LiviusTitel, 1999Ovidius, 1999Stylus, 1999Textualis, 2000Bastarda, 2000Cicero, 2000Humanistica, 2000Plinius, 2000PliniusItalic, 2000Seneca-Italic, 2000Seneca, 2000TextualisFormata, 2000Uncialis, 2001RotundaFormata, 2002Cato, 2002Horatius, 2002Vitruvius, 2003Epona, 2003Lombarden, 2004CapitalisQuadrata, 2004CapitalisRustica, 2004Iris, 2004UncialisQuadrata, 2004UncialisRomana, 2008-Noeuds-1 [for making Celtic knots], 2008-Noeuds-2, 2008-Noeuds-3, 2009Xenophon, 2010Filigrane, 2010Gouttes, 2010Labyrinthe [squarish], 2010Pointu [a calligraphic blackletter], 2010Vergilius [a great calligraphic face].

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    Kreative Korporation (was: Relay Fonts, or: Kreative Software)
    [Rebecca Bettencourt]

    Relay Fonts (Rebecca Bettencourt, aka Beckie RGB, and also known as Kreative Korporation and Kreative Software) offers a number of free fonts.

    • Their main list of fonts, 2003-2010: Alisha, CosmicSpamMS, DotCom, Eighteen, Felicia, FluorineLite, FluorineLiteMikiana, Glass, GlathenGirl, Infinity, Kaileen, Kawakimi, LongIsland, LongIslandIcedTea, Madgecrack, MikaPro, Miranda25, Miranda27, OpenDocRocks (hairline sans), SixthKristenSquirt, Sorority, Tenbitesch, ThiMegaTampon.
    • Designers in 2008 of the large free typeface Constructium seen at the Open Font Library.

      They write: Constructium is a free font for supporting constructed scripts, as encoded in the Unofficial ConScript Unicode Registry. It is based on SIL Gentium and thus released under the SIL Open Font License. Constructium is ideal for mixed Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, IPA, and conlang text, thus well suited for conlangers' web sites. In addition to most Latin and Greek, basic Cyrillic, and IPA extensions, Constructium supports the following conscripts: Tengwar, Cirth, Amman-Nar, Olaetyan, Seussian Latin Extensions, Sylabica (isolated forms only, no syllables), Unifon, Solresol, Glaitha-A, Glaitha-B, Deini, Kamakawi (encoded at U+F000), and Klingon.

    • They made the pixel fonts Chixa, Epilepsy Sans (2011), Fairfax (+Bold, +Italic, +Serif), FluorineMicro, Goethe (+Bold), Hippauf, KKFixed4x5, KKFixed4x7, KKPx4, Magdalena (+Bold), McMillen (+Bold), Mischke (+Bold), Monterey (+Bold), SeaChelUnicode, SixteenSegments, dwtMicro, dwtMicroMask.
    • Fontstructor who made SF Subway (2011), a kitchen tile typeface based on tiled lettering seen in the San Francisco MUNI system, Underclocked (2012), Great Rounded Matrix (2012, a dot matrix face), Fonteriana (2014), Thin Martin (2014).
    • Discontinued fonts: Berkelium Bitmap, Endcurled, Lauren, Sunflower's Illegible Writing, Berkelium Type, Fluorine, Mikkav, Unmodified Fax, C Colon Backslash, Hydrogenfluoride, Modern Grease, Copyright Renewed, Infinite, Signatures.
    • Conlang fonts: Constructium, Nuvenon (Tehano Venon for Ayeri).
    • The Urban Renewal series revives the old Apple typefaces with new names: Liverpool (aka London), Sanfrisco (aka San Francisco), Los Altos (aka Los Angeles), Torrance (aka Toronto), Athene (aka Athens), Parc Place (aka Cream, aka Palo Alto), Valencia (aka Venice).
    • Faithful recreations in 2011 of pixel fonts of old computers, notably Apple II [BerkeliumIIDHR, BerkeliumIIHGR, PRNumber3, PrintChar21, Shaston320, Shaston640, ShastonHi320, ShastonHi640], Commodore 64 [Berkelium1541, Berkelium64, Giana, PetMe, PetMe128, PetMe1282Y, PetMe2X, PetMe2Y, PetMe64, PetMe642Y], Apple Lisa [EmptyFolders2X3Y, EmptyFoldersRaw, Engelbart2X3Y, EngelbartRaw, LisaCalcPaper2X3Y, LisaCalcPaperRaw, LisaGraphPaper2X3Y, LisaGraphPaperRaw, LisaGuidePaper2X3Y, LisaGuidePaperRaw, LisaProjectPaper2X3Y, LisaProjectPaperRaw, LisaSketchPaper2X3Y, LisaSketchPaperRaw, LisaTerminalPaper2X3Y, LisaTerminalPaperRaw, LisaTerminalPaperSmall2X3Y, LisaTerminalPaperSmallRaw, PriamWhamos2X3Y, PriamWhamosRaw, SomeAcronym2X3Y, SomeAcronymRaw, StartupFrom2X3Y, StartupFromRaw, Twiggy2X3Y, TwiggyRaw], and others [Antiquarius, CandyAntics, ColleenAntics, DosStartDefaultFont, ItalianPlumber, Speccy].
    • Custom fonts: Jewel Hill, Miss Diode n Friends, This is Beckie's Font.
    • Under the alias of Jon Relay, Rebecca made mostly handwriting fonts: Eighteen, Nineteen, Felicia (2002), Ditch The Logical, Endcurled, Alisha (2003), AdministratorPassword, BerkeliumBitmap, BerkeliumType, CopyrightRenewed, Cosmic Spam, DotCom, DWT, Eighteen, Fluorine (+Lite), Fonteri, Glass (3d face), Glathen Girl (2004), Hydrogenfluoride, Infinity, Jewel Hill, Kaileen (2004), Kawakimi, Make Lots of Graphs, Jon'sNewRoman, Jon'sSupercondensed, Kelly, Lauren, Matal, Miranda 27, Mikkav, Modern Grease (Greek simulation), OpenDocRocks, Plastic, ReturnofRelayScript, SCSIPort, Sexy Sara (2002), Sixth Kristen Squirt, Sorority, Teen Dreem Magazeen, Tenbitesch, UnmodifiedFax, Jewel Hill (2002, based on artwork by Amy Taramasso).
    • Typefaces from 2012: Hippauf (pixel face), Fairfax (pixel family), Thi Mega Tampon, Tenbitesch (curly face), Sorority, Miranda 25, Mika Pro, Madgecrack, Long Island, Long Island Ice Tea.
    • Typefaces from 2013: Constructium (a text typeface adapted from J. Victor Gaultney's Gentium (2003)).
    • Typefaces from 2017-2019: Kreative Square (a wide monospaced sans), Fairfax HD.

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KRFX Kazekami
    [Julien Gionis]

    Greek graphic designer who has created some experimental typefaces such as Krok (2009, octagonal), MDMX (2009, kitchen tile), AFEX Box Type (2009; see also here, here, here, here, and here).

    In 2014, Julien Gionis at KRFX designed the hyper-modular robotics typeface MDMX.

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    Kris Alans

    Designer of the remarkable free display typeface Alanesiana (2017)C: Alanesiana is a font created in accordance with the idea to read the text in a slightly insecure form, and supports exactly 5650 characters. Each character has its own character, looks different from the rest, but all are made in a similar style and have a similar thickness, so the text still looks consistent, making it perfect for longer texts as opposed to many other decorative fonts that tire the reader. What is important Alanesiana supports not only Latin alphabet but also Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian and phonetic and mathematical symbols as well as some emoticons and other symbols, alphabets such as Coptic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Krista Likar

    During her studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia-based Krista Likar created the exaggerated serif typeface Serifnik (2015) and the gorgeous sans display typeface Kros (2015).

    In 2016, she designed the slab serif typeface Josephine.

    In 2020, she released Sopran through Type Salon, an independent type design studio based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, founded by Alja Herlah and Krista Likar. Sopran is an attractive didone display style in which the traditional ball terminals have been replaced by vertical hairline serifs.

    Co-designer with Alja Herlah of Spektra (2020, Type salon), a black condensed sans that combines five scripts: Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew. It also has a variable typeface with an italic axis.

    In 2021, Krista Likar and Alja Herlah published Plecnik, which is named after Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik. Plecnik is defined by classical elements and shapes, classic proportions, humanist stroke endings and low contast. It has a capital A with an overhang. Plecnik Display is quite different as it features flaring in every stroke. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Krysztof Chuc
    [Visual Works]

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    ktf

    Archive with free truetype fonts for Coptic, Hebrew, and Greek. Includes the Scholars Press fonts, Torah Sofer, wgreek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    kvant

    Monotype's TimesNewRoman family in truetype. Each font has all accents for all European languages, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kyriakos Filippis

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece. In 2015, he created the modular grid-based Latin/Greek typeface family Agathi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laboratory of Digital Typography and Mathematical Software
    [Antonis Tsolomitis]

    The Department of Mathematics of the University of the Aegean (Samos, Greece) has established a laboratory on Digital Typography and Mathematical Software in 2006. It supports the Greek language with respect to the TeX typesetting system and its derivatives. Antonis Tsolomitis (who lives in Karlovassi, Samos, and is a professor of Mathematics at that university) writes: After the support for Greek was added by A. Syropoulos and the first complete Greek Metafont font was presented by Claudio Beccari there was an obvious need, to be able to use a scalable Greek font with LaTeX. With this in mind, we developed the first Greek fontfamily in Type1 format with complete LaTeX support, called "Kerkis". Their Greek font Epigrafica (2006) is a modification of MgOpen-Cosmetica, which in turn was based on Optima. Tsolomitis is the author of the math font family Kerkis, and of GFS Complutum (2007, with George D. Matthiopoulos), which is based on a minuscule-only font cut in the 16th century (see also here).

    About GFS Complutum, they write: The ancient Greek alphabet evolved during the millenium of the Byzantine era from majuscule to minuscule form and gradually incorporated a wide array of ligatures, flourishes and other decorative nuances which defined its extravagant cursive character. Until the late 15th century, typographers who had to deal with Greek text avoided emulating this complicated hand; instead they would use only the twenty four letters of the alphabet separately, often without accents and other diacritics. A celebrated example is the type cut and cast for the typesetting of the New Testament in the so-called Complutensian Polyglot Bible (1512), edited by the Greek scholar, Demetrios Doukas. The type was cut by Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar and the whole edition was a commision by cardinal Francisco Ximénez, in the University of Alcalá (Complutum), Spain. It is one of the best and most representative models of this early tradition in Greek typography which was revived in the early 20th century by the eminent bibliographer of the British Library, Richard Proctor. A font named Otter Greek was cut in 1903 and a book was printed using the new type. The original type had no capitals so Proctor added his own, which were rather large and ill-fitted. The early death of Proctor, the big size of the font and the different aesthetic notions of the time were the reasons that Otter Greek was destined to oblivion, as a curiosity. Greek Font Society incorporated Brocar's famous and distinctive type in the commemorative edition of Pindar's Odes for the Athens Olympics (2004) and the type with a new set of capitals, revived digitaly by George D. Matthiopoulos, is now available for general use. He also made GFS Solomos (2007) and GFS Baskerville (2007; note that several sites state that GFS Baskerville Classic is due to Sophia Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos).

    In 2010, Tsolomitis published txfontsb, in which he added true small caps and Greek to the txfonts package. These fonts form a family called FreeSerifB, in type 1, that covers Latin, Greek, many Indic languages, Armenian, chess symbols, astrology, music, domino, and tens of other ranges of symbols.

    GFSNeohellenicMath was published in 2018: The font GFSNeohellenicMath was commissioned to the Greek Font Society (GFS) by the Graduate Studies program "Studies in Mathematics" of the Department of Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, located on the Samos island, Greece. The design copyright belongs to the main designer of GFS, George Matthiopoulos. The OpenType Math Table embedded in the font was developed by the Mathematics Professor Antonis Tsolomitis. The font is released under the latest OFL license, and it is available from the GFS site at http://www.greekfontsociety-gfs.gr. The font is an almost Sans Serif font and one of its main uses is for presentations, an area where (we believe) a commercial grade sans math font was not available up to now.

    In 2019, Tsolomitis released the free New Computer Modern package. An outgrowth of Knuth's Computer Modern, the fonts cover Latin and accented Latin letters and combinations, Greek (monotonic and polytonic), Hebrew, Cherokee and Cyrillic, and basically any possible math glyph. He writes in 2020: As far as the NewCMMath font is concerned, this is a derivative of lm-math with a huge amount of improvements and new glyphs. Currently the font should at least match STIX fonts in glyph coverage. [...] Finally, a long awaited feature, a Book weight for ComputerModern is added (math included). It produces slightly heavier output suitable for book production with high resolution printing. Further changes were added in 2021. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lafontype (pr: tardiexwas: Pixifield, Elementype, Fontliner Studio)
    [Anugrah Pasau]

    Makassar, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1995) of Botdoh Script (2016), Hallelujah (2016, brush script), Zephan (2016, calligraphic font), Antebras (2016, a brush script with over 1000 glyphs and ligatures) and Fundamental Script (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Kindentosca (handwriting), Welinedion (brush script), Bethadyn, Bawakaraeng, Bidaq, Bidaq Brush, BisQuid (signage script), Nestle (retro script), Quixo (a didone not to be confused with Griesshammer's 2010 typeface FF Quixo), Hallelujah, Demotia, Look.

    Typefaces from 2018: Antebas (script), Aksara (a sans type).

    Typefaces from 2019: Mithella (rounded sans), Antebas (a sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Belista (font duo), Herbit (a handcrafted sans family), Cabrion (a sans family), Malino (a low contrast humanist sans family with very open counters).

    Typefaces from 2020: Scaffold (a condensed grotesk), Aretha (a 14-style sans), Celliad (a monoline script), Saltines, Hindia (a rounded heavy script), Pelita (a humanist sans family).

    Typefaces from 2021: Protofo (a 16-style geometric sans), Cedora (a 14-style sans).

    Creative Market link. Dafont link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. Creative Market link for Pixifield. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Laïc
    [Maciej Polczynski]

    Laic is the type foundry founded in 2018 by Warsaw, Poland-based type designer Maciej Polczynski. His typefaces:

    • As part of his Bachelor's project at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies in 2016, Maciej Polczynski (Warsaw, Poland) designed the sans typeface Ayka.
    • In 2016, as part of Warsaw Types, he designed the vintage technical typeface Cyrulik and writes: Cyrulik is inspired by technical stencil lettering found on electrical and mechanical devices in Warsaw, and a prewar headline display font---Cyklop---used in a newspaper called Cyrulik Warszawski. The font design combines a strong and sturdy form with delicate and modern details, reflecting the contemporary character of Warsaw. Cyrulik comies in Rounded, Sharp and Stencil styles and is free.
    • In 2017, at The Designers Foundry, he published the display typeface Solenizant, which covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Obibok (2018): Obibok (2018). Obibok is a Polish word describing a lazy person. It is a modern sans serif typeface family consisting of five styles (Light, Regular, Bold, Black and Inversed). This fine geometric typeface was extended and modified in 2020 as Obibok Sans.
    • Maruder (The Designers Foundry). A reverse contrast typeface, 2018-2019.
    • Prostak. A plain geometric sans.
    • Ozzy.
    • Nieuk. An experimental modular typeface.
    • Krayewski: Krayewski is a display typeface based on sketch lettering of Andre de Krayewski from his book cover "Moje Okladki" (2014). Andrzej Krajewski (b. Poland) was an outstanding illustrator and designer who developed his own style mixing art-deco and pop art, and was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the supervision of Wojciech Fangor and Henryk Tomaszewski. Krayewski is unicased. It consists of Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. It was released at Laic in 2019.
    • Retor (2018-2019). A 6-style text typeface family.
    • Rygor (2018). An art nouveau typeface based on lettering by illustrator and publisher Ignacy Chodorowicz.
    • Wiwat (2019). A contemporary sans inspired by deco. In six weights.
    • Nielot (2019). Nielot (Polish for flightless) is a plain, geometrical typeface. It was inspired by posters created by designers representing Russian Constructivism.
    • Figura (2019). A nearly monolinear contemporary interpretation of a grotesque typeface.
    • Eksces (2019). A squarish display family.
    • Ozzy (2019, Laic). Described as calligraphic funk, this typeface by Brody Neuenschwander and Maciej Polczynski cannot be properly classified. Several versions were released between 2029 and 2022, numbered Ozzy I through Ozyy VIII.
    • Figiel (2020). A stylish wide monoline sans typeface family inspired by art deco streamline architecture.
    • Elektyk (2020, +Stencil). A quirky exaggerated display typeface.
    • Hybrida (2020). The slab version of Eklektyk, daring, in-your-face, and dystopian.
    • Pion or Pionek (2020). A condensed all caps headline sans.
    • Monter (2021). An octagonal typeface that refers to mechanical items such as nuts and bolts.
    • Iskry (2022). A sparling display serif.
    • Fason (2022). A hipsterish condensed sans family.
    • Awaria (2022). Emulating old pixel fonts.
    • Blef (2022). A triagular cutout typeface family.
    • Kommune Stencil (2022) and Kommune Display (2022).
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    L'Alpha et l'Oméga

    J.-C. Loubet del Bayle tells the history of the Greek alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Language Fonts for Mac

    ChicagoVD, GenevaVD, VDTimes, GenevaKirillika, KirillikaVD, FGenEllinika, Timellinik, Latinus, Haykakan. For East-European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian. Free. Link down. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laridian

    Designers of the free Greek font Theophilos Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lascaris
    [Rolf Noyer]

    Lascaris is the foundry of Rolf Noyer in Philadelphia. The first typeface by Noyer is Lascaris (2010): Lascaris is a digital rendition of Janus Lascaris' type of 1494-1496, one of the earliest extant non-Aldine polytonic Greeks. The accompanying Roman, quirky and rich in color, was modeled on humanist types of late 15th century Florentine incunabula.

    In 2021, he published Textus Receptus, a historical revival based on the Roman and Greek types used by Johann Bebel (and later also Michael Isengrin) in Basel in the 1520s. Noyer writes: The Roman is a low-contrast medium-to-heavy Venetian reminiscent of Jenson or Golden Type. The unusual polytonic Greek, not previously digitized, is lighter in weight and supplied with all the ligatures and variants of the original. Yet when used without historial forms the Greek has a surprisingly contemporary feel: it is quirky and playful as a display face, but still easily legible in running text. Bebel's Greek extended and refined the one used for the first printed Greek New Testament, Desiderius Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum Omne, published in Basel in 1516 by Johann Froben. The name of the font was chosen in honor of this edition, which was so influential that it was later called the Textus Receptus, serving as the basis for Luther's German Bible in 1522 and much subsequent scholarship for over 300 years. Following 16th century practice, Textus Receptus contains 130 ligatures and stylistic alternates for Greek, accessible either with OpenType features or with five stylistic sets. The Greek capitals, often printed bare in early editions, have been equipped with accents and breathings for proper polytonic or monotonic typesetting. The Roman includes both standard and historical ligatures along with the abbreviations and diacritics typically employed in early printed Latin. For expanded language coverage it has the entire unicode Latin Extended range and part of Latin Extended-B. The capital A is surmounted by a horizontal stroke, as in some 16th century Italian designs, and the hyphen and question mark have both modern and historical form variants. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    LaserGreek

    100USD font pack for Greek by Linguist Software. Now also LaserGreekII. The pack is very nice and has about ten fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    LaTeX Navigator
    [Denis Roegel]

    General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:

    • METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
    • The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
    • How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
    • Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
    • Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
    • Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
    • List of all available Metafont fonts
    • Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
    • MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
    • METAFONT source
    • Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
    • PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
    • fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
    • bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)
    • Essay on math symbols by Paul Taylor
    • drgen genealogical symbol font by Denis Roegel, 1996
    • Chess fonts
    • The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels)
    • Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol
    • Lots of stuff on virtual fonts
    • P. Damian Cugley's Malvern (Greek) font
    • Yannis Haralambous's Omega project
    • DC and EC fonts by Joerg Knappen
    • Technical notes on Postscript fonts, and Postscript fonts in TEX
    • Computer Modern type 1 fonts
    • Articles on computer typography by Sebastian Rahtz, Aarno Hohti&Okko Kanerva, Richard J. Kinch, Basil K. Malyshev, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Karl Berry, Victor Eijkhout, Vincent Zoonekynd, Tom Scavo, David Wright, Erik-Jan Vens, and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
    • Articles on mathematical symbol fonts
    • Links to essential pages for Cyrillic, Japanese, Berber, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Indic, Syriac, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic, Tibetan, Mongolian, African fc
    At FontStruct, he created Sixer (a pixel face) and Smallish (bold unicase). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laurence Penney
    [FauxFoundry]

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    Laurent Bourcellier

    A resident of Aulnay-sous-Bois, he specializes in scientific typefaces. Laurent lives in Scherwiller, France. He is a freelance graphic and type designer who is working at Porchez's foundry in Sèvres. Graduate of Ecole Estienne in 2006, where his thesis was entitled Gothiques et XXe siècle. Création, propagande, détournement. In 2008, he cofounded Typographies.fr with Jonathan Perez in Paris. His typefaces:

    • The Latin italic typeface Joos (2009). Joos won an award at TDC2 2010. It was inspired by an italic created in 1536 by Joos Lambrecht, from Gent, Belgium, who was one of the great printers and punchcutters of the 16th century.
    • Unicopte (for Coptic, 2008). He co-designed Copte Scripte in 2008 with Jonathan Perez. Copte Scripte won an award at TDC2 2009. His thesis at Estienne was about the development of Unicopte.
    • Luciole (2019). he explains about this free monolinear sans family: A typeface for visual impairment. Word massing, spacing, the structure of the letters: the concept for Luciole adheres to a dozen specific design criteria to provide the best possible reading experience for the visually impaired. Particular care has been taken in drawing the figures, mathematical signs, and punctuation. Each style of Luciole contains over seven hundred characters and supports almost all European languages. The character set also includes many Greek and mathematical symbols for scientific notation. Luciole aims to facilitate both optimal readability for visually impaired students and efficient deployment by publishing professionals. For the development, he had help from DIPHE laboratory at the Université Lumière Lyon 2.
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    Laurie Field

    In 2001, Laurie Field developed a Greek metafont, LFB as a companion for Computer Modern. SShe says: This is a Greek font I wrote in METAFONT several years ago after being inspired by the Bodoni typefaces I had seen in the old books in my school library. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Laval Chabon

    Québec City-based creator (b. 1952) of the octagonal font Vegesignes (2009, FontStruct). This font also appeared in 2010 at Open Font Library. It consists of almost 7,615 glyphs.As of 2014, 188 languages care covered, inclufing Afrikaans, Arabic, Archaic Greek Letters, Armenian, Baltic, Basic Cyrillic, Basic Greek, Basic Latin, Bengali, Catalan, Central European, Cherokee, Devanagari, Dutch, Euro, Farsi, Georgian, Gujarati, Hanunó'o, Hebrew, Igbo Onwu, IPA, Kannada, Kazakh, Lao, Malayalam, Myanmar, New Tai Lue, N'Ko, Ogham, Oriya, Pashto, Pinyin, Polytonic Greek, Romanian, Runic, Sindhi, Syriac, Tai Le, Tai Tham (Lanna), Telugu, Thaana, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Uighur, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Urdu, Vietnamese, Western European.

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. Aka Leaurend-Lavie-Hyppere (Laval) Chabon and as Joseph Rosaire Laval Frandey Leaurend Lavie Hyper Chabom. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    LCT (or: Atelier La Casse)
    [Quentin J. Stavinsky]

    LCT stands for La Casse Typographique, a graphic and type design studio in Nantes, France, started in 2013. One of its partners, Quentin J. Stavinsky, created the didone caps typeface LCT Palissade (a titling didone with bracketed serifs). Other typeface by La Casse include LCT Baladur (a legible text typeface), LCT Pims (signage script).

    In 2015, he published LCT Sbire (a stylish take on the humanist / renaissance tradition, with ample flaring of the strokes).

    Typefaces from 2016: LCT Ragnarok PE (a copperplate display typeface for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2018: LCT Picon. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    least1234

    FontStructor who made the squarish typeface Leafy (2011). With over 1600 glyphs, it covers Basic Latin, More Latin, Extended Latin B, Extended Latin A, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Katakana, Hangul, Georgian, Bopomofo, Even More Latin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lefteris Protopapas

    Lefteris studied graphic design at AKTO Art&Design College in Athens. At school, he created the Latin and Greek paper cut typeface Miyu (2011), which was inspired by the old Chinese game of Tangram. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leif Wikaeren Nilsen

    Greek and Hebrew truetype fonts: Hebreka by Donald P. Reiher, 1994; and "Greek", by Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain, 1993. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leo Colalillo

    Milan, Italy-based type designer who graduated from IED in 2007 and attended the Master of Type Design program at Politecnico di Milano. He has been working in the world of visual communication since then for clients such as Chianti Classico, Moretti, Amnesty International and UAAR. In 2019, he started teaching at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Rome.

    His early typefaces include the hand-printed Peake, Grill Trump (2012: a typeface derived from Gill Sans together with Valentina Aufiero, Francesca Sperti, Natale Ventre and Alejandra Sepulveda at Politecnico di Milano), BetaQin, and the heavy angular display typeface Grosser (2013), which was earlier called Größe (2012). This octagonal typeface covers Greek and is loaded with opentype features.

    In 2018, he designed the ultra-condensed blackletter typeface Guglia.

    In 2020, he released the all caps anthroposophic / lapidary typeface Caudine. It was inspired by the Oscan alphabet used by the Samnites, an pre-roman Italic culture from south-central Italy. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Leo Philp

    MyFonts lists him as Leo Philip, but it should be Leo Philp, without an i. Scottish student-designer at the University of Reading of Makar (2014), a Latin / Gurmukhi / Cyrillic / Greek typeface family whose angular forms confirm Philp's description of Makar---an opinionated typeface for opinionated texts.

    In 2020, he released the (variable) text typeface Fulmar at CAST, and wrote: Named after a practical seabird, Fulmar is a modern Scotch intended for extended reading. More European than American, it draws on a range of influences from around the North Sea, from Fife's Alexander Wilson to 17th-century French experiments in modulation and 18th-century Belgian flash, and combines them with contemporary structure and proportions.. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Leonardo Di Lena
    [Flanker (or: Studio di Lena)]

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    Lerfu
    [Mark E. Shoulson]

    Lerfu is Mark E. Shoulson's foundry located in Highland Park, NJ. Creator of a variety of fonts:

    • The Visible Speech Fonts in metafont and truetype cover a phonetic alphabet invented by Alexander Melville Bell (his son was Alexander Graham Bell). Bell was a teacher of the deaf (as was the younger Bell), and this alphabet was intended as an aid to teaching the deaf how to pronounce words. An example is VS MetaPlain PUA.
    • Marin, MarinCaps, MarinCapsItalic, MarinItalic: four free extensive phonetic truetype fonts made in 2004. They also cover Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew.
    • Okuda: A metafont for "Okuda" orthography of pIqaD (Klingon language). This font was later modified by Olaf Kummer.
    • Gill Hebrew (2004, based on Gill Sans) and Shen (2004), both sold via Shoulson's foundry at MyFonts, called Lerfu.
    • Itonai (2005), a Hebrew version of Times New Roman, also sold via Lerfu.
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    Letter Muzara
    [Anna Tsuranova]

    Russian designer of Qisharon (2019: a stylish sans for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic), Omorphia (2019: influenced by the squarish Hebrew Sephardic style; covering Latin, Greek and Curillic) and Cursivica (2019) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces from 2020: Ribuah Sans (a sans serif font with high contrast, inspired by Bodoni and brutalism). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Letterjuice
    [Pilar Cano]

    Letterjuice is the British type foundry of Pilar Cano, who graduated from the University of Reading, 2006, but started out life in Barcelona. After graduation, still in 2006, she co-founded Mídori, a graphic design studio specialised in editorial design. Letterjuice is based in Brighton, UK.

    Coauthor, with Marta Serrats, of Typosphere (2007, Harper Collins). Creator of these typefaces:

    • Edita (2006), an informal sans family that also covers kana for Japanese. This typeface was finally published in 2009 at Type Together. It was followed in 2011 by additional weights in Edita Book.
    • Techarí (2006, +Extra) comes from a commission in which the brief consisted of the creation of a typeface family to be used for the design of the third disc of the band called Ojos de Brujo based in Barcelona. This disc was called Techarí, which means free in Caló, the language of the Spanish gypsies---it also has a stencil version.
    • In 2010, she is working on an elliptical sans that covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
    • Techarí (2010) is an extremely elegant custom family.

      Xuppis (2012) is a commissioned logotype for a candy shop in El Masnou, Barcelona.

      Together with Lluis Sinol, she designed the custom sans typeface SEAT (2013) for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

    • Quars (2013). This angular typeface family, co-designed with Ferran Milan, grabs elements from Scotch Roman and old Dutch typefaces.
    • Sapmi (2013). A custom typeface for the Sami children.
    • Baldufa (2014, Ferran Milan Olivares): an award-winning flared, calligraphic and subtly rounded serif typeface family for Latin and Arabic. In 2021, Ferran Milan and Pilar Cano released Baldufa Greek Ltn (Greek and Latin), Baldufa Greek, Baldufa Cyrillic Ltn, Baldufa Cyrillic and Baldufa Paneuropean.
    • Aanaar (2014) was originally designed for children's textbooks.
    • Seat Sans is a corporate typeface co-designed with Minsk Disseny in 2014.
    • Catalana Serif won an award at Granshan 2014 in the Greek typeface category.

      Pilar Cano, Spike Spondike and the Dalton Maag team won an award at Granshan 2014 in the Thai typeface category for HP Simplified.

    • In 2017, Jordi Embodas's Trola family was updated, improved and expanded to Cyrillic. The Cyrillic version was designed by Letterjuice (Pilar Cano & Ferran Millan) under the supervision of Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky.
    • Bespoke typefaces include Saffron Display (2017), Screwfix (2017) and Catalana (2016).
    • Pilar Cano and Ferran Milan bundled their efforts once again in 2018 for the Latin / Thai typeface family Arlette (TypeTogether).
    • In 2020, she published Portada Thai at TypeTogether to complete the text typeface Portada (2016) by José Scaglione and Veronika Burian.
    • Nawin Arabic (2022). An informal Arabic typeface inspired by handwriting by Pilar Cano and Ferran Milan.

    Interview by Unostiposduros. Cargo Collective link. MyFonts link. Behance link. Wiki page. Klingspor link. Behance link for Letterjuice. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lettersoup
    [Botio Nikoltchev]

    Also written Botjo Nikoltchev, b. 1978, Sofia, Bulgaria. Botio studied graphic and type design in Potsdam. He is living and working as a freelance designer in Berlin. He studied communication design at the University of Applied Science Potsdam and took type design classes with Luc(as) de Groot. After his studies Botio worked with Ole Schäfer (Primetype) on the Cyrillic characters of PTL Manual, PTL Manual Mono and PTL Notes. Since 2010 he has been collaborating with Ralph du Carrois and Erik Spiekermann as type designer and art director at Carrois Type Design, focusing on Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic language extensions and CI projects. In 2014, he set up the commercial type foundry Lettersoup.

    Creator of the free font Ropa Sans (2012, Google Web Fonts, +Arabic, +Ropa Soft, 2014). The typeface is in DIN's circle of friends.

    Sofadi One is a scriptish font that is free at Google Web Fonts.

    Share Tech Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a monospaced sans face. Share Tech (2012, Google Web Fonts) is its proportional version. Both are derived from Share (2012, Google Web Fonts). He helped with the Greek and Cyrillic portions of FF Meta Serif.

    Corporate fonts by Botio include MMH Netrange Cyrillic + Greek + Arabic, Cisco, Meta Science and Exploratorium Sans. He designed the icons for Museo de Art de Ponce.

    In 2014, Botio designed the humanist sans typeface family PTL Manohara (Primetype) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2016, a team of designers at Lettersoup that includes Ani Petrova, Botio Nikoltchev, Adam Twardoch and Andreas Eigendorf designed an 8-style Latin / Greek / Cyrillic stencil typeface, Milka, which is based on an original stencil alphabet from 1979 by Bulgarian artist Milka Peikova. Later in 2016, he published the nearly geometric sans family Quasimoda, which covers a full range of weights, from Hairline to Heavy.

    Typefaces from 2017: Attractive (a free sans, done with Ani Petrova), Ropa Mix Pro.

    Typefaces from 2019: Rouse Sans (by Botio Nikoltchev and Ani Petrova: based on Sofia Sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Apparat (an 88-style geometric sans family that was given a humanistic treatment).

    FontShop link. I Love Typography link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lewis McGuffie

    British graphic designer and sign painter who was at some point in Tallinn, Estonia. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2019.

    Old German Baltic maps gave him the inspiration for the signage family Livo Display (2014). Other typefaces, all done in 2015: Imperija Roman (2015, an impressive Trajan typeface for posters and editorial use; Lewis explains: The original letters were drawn from a memorial engraving in Ljubljana, Slovenia), Trout Beer (display type), Andra Roman (a humanist sans based on a letter sample dated around 1920 found in the Estonian History Museum), Cream (an Italian western type based on an original wood type), Gauss (a pointy stencil type), Heath Egyptian (based on Caslon's Two-Line Egyptian: a custom type for London-based craftsman Daniel Heath), Poison, Titanik Tuleva, Hebden (a grotesque and incised pair inspired by the original signs at Hebden Bridge train station in Yorkshire).

    Typefaces from 2016: Fleischer Display, Bobik (a sans / slab / wedge serif triplet of fonts initially developed based on basic principles described in Jean Alessandrini's Codex 80), Cindie Mono (four monospaced fonts of widely varying widths), Cenotaph Titling (a free engraved titling typeface influenced by Eric Gill's inscriptions).

    Typefaces from 2017: Osselian Demi (lapidary), Borough Grotesk (free; updated to Pro in 2018), Tusker Grotesk (a headline grotesk in the tradition of Haettenschweiler, Impact and Helvetica Inserat; influences include Inland Type's Title Gothic No.8 and Stephenson Blake Elongated Sans No.1), Gardner Sans.

    Typefaces from 2018: Chicken Shop Gothic (a condensed grotesk published by Typeverything: partly inspired by Benguiat's 1968 sample book Psychedelitype and part-nod to the stretched tacky stick-on-vinyl lettering on the windows of late-night takeaways, Chicken Shop is a variable font with a super-size height axis), Zierde Grotesk (a take on early advertising, small-copy grotesks of the late 19th/early 20th century, and is largely inspired by Miller & Richard's own range of grotesques. The ornaments were inspired by J.G Schelter & Giesecke's 1913 type specimen book Die Zierde). Sortie Super (Italian stress Western font). During his studies at Ecole Estienne (Paris), Manuel de Lignières (Montpellier, France) published Waba (2018) with Lewis McGuffie. Inspired by woodblock types and art nouveau, Waba is a bit of love letter to Estonia, the Baltics and the visual history of Eastern Europe. The free variable font Waba Border (2018) was added by Lewis McGuffie. Find Waba at Typeverything.

    Typefaces from 2019: Cham (heavy, octagonal, based on fascia lettering from 1875 in Liverpool; released by Typeverything), Chicken Shop Gothic (a condensed poster sans, with a variable type option), Columba (a variable font done for his graduation at MATDi with Latin, Greek, Cyrillic & Hebrew coverage and optical size and weight axes; Grand Prize winner at Granshan 2019).

    Typefaces from 2020: Salford Sans (an 8-weight headline sans family; a collaboration between Lewis McGuffie (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic), Dave Williams of Manchester Type (Latin, Arabic) and Elsa Baussier (symbols)), Jooks Script (in the style of Kurrent and Sütterlin; reviving Walter Höhnisch's Werbeschrift), Auroc (a flared incised petite-serif), Cindie 2 (an extension of Cindie Mono, this family has 26 monospaced widths).

    Typefaces from 2021: Tekst (a Latin / Greek / Cyrillic font family based on Literaturnaya---a book type popular in the Soviet Union; it comprises ekst A (Analog for print), Tekst D (Digital for screen) and Tekst M (M for Mono)).

    Typefaces from 2022: Mushy (a soft-edged joining script display type with four substyles, Cheese, Butter, Yoghurt and Cream), Rulik (unicase, uncial), Narwa (a wonderful all caps poster typeface).

    Future Fonts link. Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Libertine Open Fonts Project
    [Philipp H. Poll]

    Now, here is a project with a name I like! This project by Philipp H. Poll has been started in order to create fonts that can be released under the GNU Public License. As of early 2005, we have the following Times New Roman lookalikes: LLibertineCaps, LinLibertine, LinLibertine-Italic, LinLibertineBd. Libertine Grotesque is next on the list of things to do. The fonts came in truetype and fontforge (SFD) text formats, but have now been extended to include opentype and type 1 as well. Linux Libertine covers a big range of Unicode, including all characters in MES-1 (Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Frensh, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Maltese, Manx Gaelic, Moldavian (with restrictions), Northern Sámi, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian (with restrictions), Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh (with restrictions)), IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, math symbols, and a host of other symbol and language sets. TeX archive. The typophiles are not impressed. Charles Ellertson writes: The bowl of the "a" doesn't fit other letters, the top and terminal of the "f" doesn't know where it is going, the descender of the "y" doesn't balance quite right, and the serif on the upper arm of the "z" (which probably reminded the original poster of Caslon) seems out of place. I get the impression, again from the small sample, that the font doesn't quite know whether it is supposed to be slightly condensed or slightly expanded.

    In 2007, the following weights are available: Normal, Kursiv, Fett, Fett Kursiv, Kapitaelchen, Unterstrichen, Grotesk. As a measure of the success of the font, we find that is now used on the logo of Wikipedia.

    As a companion font, they offer Linux Biolinum (2010): The Biolinum is an organic sans-serif and could be also described as organogrotesque (non-linear sans serif). It is still in a beta stage. Biolinum is meant for emphasizing titles but could be used also for short passages of text. For longer texts a serif font such as the Libertine should be used in favour of readability The Biolinum has the same vertical metrics and visual weight as the Libertine, so that it fits perfectly to the Libertine and can be also used for emphasizing within the body text. In 2017, Biolilbert was born out of Biolinum. Biolilbert's name is a portmanteau from Biolinum and Hilbert.

    In 2012, Bob Tennent created type 1 versions of Biolinum and Libertine.

    In 2016, LibertineGC was published by Michael Sharpe at CTAN, adding LaTeX support files for Greek (essentially complete LGR, supporting monotonic, polytonic and ancient features) and Cyrillic.

    Another effort at corrections was undertaken by Khaled Hosny in 2016 in his Libertinus family. The Libertinus font family is a fork of Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum with many bug fixes and improvements. Also included are Libertinus Math, Libertinus Serif (from Lunux Libertine), Libertinus Sans (forked from Linux Biolinum) and Libertinus Mono (from Linux Libertine Mono). Github link. CTAN link for Libertinus, maintained by Herbert Voss.

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. CTAN link for Libertineotf. CTAN link for Libertine download. Klingspor link. Klingspor link. CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Libertinus
    [Khaled Hosny]

    The extensive open source font family Libertinus is a fork of the Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum fonts that started as an OpenType math companion of the Libertine font family, but has grown as a full fork to address some of the bugs in the fonts. The family consists of:

    • Libertinus Serif: forked from Linux Libertine.
    • Libertinus Sans (lapidary): forked from Linux Biolinum.
    • Libertinus Mono: forked from Linux Libertine Mono.
    • Libertinus Math: an OpenType math font for use in OpenType math-capable applications like LuaTeX, XeTeX or MS Word 2007+. See also the slightly modified Libertinus T1 Math (2017) by Michael Sharpe.
    • Libertinus Keyboard.
    Portions of the fonts are copyright of Khaled Hosny (2012-2016), while the Linux Libertine material is originally due to Philipp H. Poll (2003-2012). All fonts have over 2000 characters, and cover all European languages, including Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic. In addition, there is an excellent coverage of symbols in addition, of course, to the plentiful mathematical symbols.

    Khaled Hosny was the primary contributor and maintainer from 2012 until 2020, and passed the poupon in 2020 to Caleb Maclennan. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lida Alexandri

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece. Creator of the display typefaces Muchic (2019) and Straight Broken Line (2018, a project at Vakalo Art & Design College). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lilith Laborey

    French designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her Latin/Greek typeface Capoeira, a type family intended for bilingual publications such as brochures, leaflets and magazines, and that includes Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. She lives in Paris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Linear A Texts
    [Jean-Pierre Olivier]

    John Younger's page on phonetic transcriptions of Cretan hieroglyphs. There are some specialized fonts here (Mac only), all courtesy of Jean-Pierre Olivier: Phaistos, Mobile (Cretan hieroglyphic for clay texts), Malia-thick (Cretan hieroglyphic for sealstones), Knossos (Linear A), Mycenae (Linear B) and Linear B ideograms. For Windows, David Willem Borgdorff has designed a Linear A font: "LA.ttf.hqx". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Linus Romer

    Swiss creator (aka Fuex) of the free calligraphic font Miama (2009, Open Font Library), based upon the handwriting of his (then, girlfriend) wife. Romer is interested in Latex and mathematical typesetting and designed Miama in the spirit of Zapfino and Scriptina. An updated version, Miama Nueva (for Latin and Cyrillic), was developed in 2014, and published by Open Font Lirary. CTAN link.

    In 2014-2017, he released the free Metafont (and also, Opentype and truetype) typeface, Fetamont. This 436-font parametric typeface extends Knuth's roundish elliptical logo font for Metafont. It includes a true "randomize" feature. Additional CTAN link.

    In 2017, he developed the free slab serif Funtauna, again basing his glyphs on Metafont.

    In 2018, he developed the text typeface Elemaints for Latin and Greek in Metafont.

    Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lire le grec dans le texte

    Explanations and links, in French, about Greek fonts and Greek word processing. Some Greek font downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Dröes

    Illustrator, graphic designer and type designer from Amsterdam who graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. Her graduation typeface is Marjolein, about which she writes: The multi-script type family Marjolein is designed for magazines orientated towards culture, travel and environmental issues. It covers Latin, Greek and Thai scripts and has styles for both text and display settings. Marjolein, scientific name Origanum majorana, is a common species of Origanum, a genus of the mint family. The name Marjolein is indigenous to Cyprus and southern Turkey, and was known to the Greeks and Romans as a symbol of happiness.. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Fischbach

    Lisa Fischbach (Kiel, Germany) studied at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. She graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2014. Her graduation typeface there was called Kaius. Kaius has a complex typographic structure. Designed for small print, it features a large x-height. Kaius covers Latin, Gujarati, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA. In 2020, she released Kaius Pro in 16 styles at TypeMates.

    In 2016, Jakob Runge and Lisa Fischbach co-designed the bespoke sans typeface family SAM Text and SAM Headline at TypeMates for the food company S:A:M.

    In 2017, she joined Jakob Runge once again for Cera Round Pro, an absolutely wonderful geometric rounded sans typeface family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Jakob Runge, with the help of Lisa Fischbach, designed Harrison Serif Pro (a slab serif) in 2017 at Typemates. Harrison serif won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.

    In 2019, Jakob Runge, Nils Thomsen and Lisa Fischbach released Halvar and wrote: Halvar, a German engineered type system that extends to extremes. With bulky proportions and constructed forms, Halvar is a pragmatic grotesk with the raw charm of an engineer. A type system ready to explore, Halvar has 81 styles, wide to condensed, hairline to black, roman to oblique and then to superslanted, structured into three subfamilies: the wide Breitschrift, regular Mittelschrift and condensed Engschrift. Halvar Stencil, which was released simultaneously, is a German engineering stencil font family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Schultz

    Vienna-based graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Her graduation typeface is the Cyrillic / Latin / Greek typeface Martha (2011-2012), which is intended for popular science magazines and books. After graduation, she joind the Viennese type foundry Schriftlabor, where she is type director.

    In 2017, Viktor Solt-Bittner designed the industrial sans typeface family Attorney as a custom font for a law firm. It has unconventional---even threatening--- serifs and some hard corners. The typeface was produced by Schriftlabor's type director, Lisa Schultz, and will be enjoyed by hordes of heartless lawyers.

    Plantago. Viktor Solt-Bittner drew logo sketches for an insurance company in 2014. After they rejected the design, he turned the sketches into a font family. Later, in 2018, Plantago was expanded, developed and completed by Schriftlabor's type directors Franziska Hubmann and Lisa Schultz.

    June (2019) by Lisa Schultz and Ross Hammond at Schriftlabor is a 16-style low contrast sans family with humongous counters and a small x-height. Two variable fonts are offered as well. June Pro is a 20-style extension and update in 2021.

    In 2021, Tamar Pilz and Lisa Schultz co-published Grimmig (a 10 style angular and gloomy typeface family by Lisa Schultz and Tamara Pilz) at Schriftlabor.

    Cargocollective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Literata

    Literata is a typeface designed in 2014 and 2015 by Type Together for use in Google Play Books on many different kinds of devices. As of 2015, it replaces Droid Serif (2006-2007, Steve Matteson). The project was headed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione. The final Literata family featured two weights and matching italics including more than 1100 characters per font with Pan-European language support. It coversedPolytonic Greek (designed by Irene Vlachou, advised by Gerry Leonidas) and Cyrillic (designed by Vera Evstafieva, advised by Kiril Zlatkov).

    In 2020, Literata 3, entirely free and a totally new re-design, was released. This 48-style family comes with a variable style. The designers in 2020 were Veronika Burian (Latin), José Scaglione (Latin), Vera Evstafieva (Cyrillic), Elena Novoselova (Cyrillic) and Irene Vlachou (Greek).

    Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lola Herst

    Based in the Dutch Antilles. Designer of the shaky hand-drawn typefaces Six Minutes (2020), Six Minutes Narrow (2020), and Five Minutes (2020, at Rawblind Basetype) for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Looseleaf Fonts
    [Nathanael Bonnell]

    Nathanael Bonnell studied in Cincinnati, OH, and set up the Looseleaf Fonts commercial foundry in 2012 in Wyoming, OH. Before that, he created Cyril, a Cyrillic typeface. Creator of the retro minimalist geometric beauty Yoshiko (2006)---disregard the typophiles' comments, because this one is going to live a glorious life. His third project, Salamander (2006), a classic roman with a luscious italic to boot, is another winner. However, probably because of pressure from Linotype, which owns the name Linotype Salamander, the latter font was renamed Newt. In 2009, Newt Serif was published by Cabinet Type / Veer. Free download of Newt Serif at Github.

    In 2010 he published the angular flared Solveig family. Solveig Text and Solveig Display followed in 2013.

    The Looseleaf Foundry published the serifed typeface Walleye (2013), which covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.

    Klingspor link. Blogspot link. Github link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Loshaj Foundry
    [Burim Loshaj]

    Burim Loshaj's Albanian type foundry, Loshaj Foundry, was established in 2013. It later moved to Erie, PA.

    His first typeface is the condensed octagonal Pillar (2013). In 2014, he designed the sci-fi typeface Interstellar (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) and the squarish typeface Cinderblock.

    The shadow typeface South Central (2016) is inspired by the garffiti of some gangs in Los Angeles.

    Typefaces from 2019: Cubit.

    Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Louisa-Helen Fröhlich

    German graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2013. Her graduation typeface was the readable muscular typeface Klabauter. Klabauter covers Latin and Greek and has a strong personality. The Latin half has converged to the Greek half and vice versa through osmosis. Klabauter Display is plainly daring. According to Louisa-Helen, the typeface family was created for use in magazines.

    She also holds a diploma in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany, and is currently based in nearby Wiesbaden where she works as a type and graphic designer.

    Creator of the vivid italic-only display typeface family Lisbeth (2017, TypeTogether). Type Together link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Luca Bresolin

    Graphemica is the work of Luca Bresolin, an Italian graphic designer currently based in London and Zagreb. He created typefaces such as Mio Display (2016) and OCR-A Extended (2016, which covers English, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hindi). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lucas de Groot
    [LucasFonts (and: FontFabrik)]

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    Lucas Le Bihan
    [Bretagne Type Foundry]

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    LucasFonts (and: FontFabrik)
    [Lucas de Groot]

    Luc(as) de Groot (b. 1962, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag and worked from 1989-1993 as a freelancer at the design bureau Premsela Voonk. From 1993 until 1997, he was with Meta Design in Berlin as typographic director in charge of many corporate design projects. In 1997, he set up FontFabrik and in 2000 LucasFonts in Berlin. He creates retail and custom fonts, and made his reputation with his humongous font family Thesis. Originally, he published most of his retail fonts with FontFont, but his "FF" fonts were withdrawn from FontFont in 1999, and renamed with LF instead of FF, where LF stands for LucasFonts. His most popular typefaces include Thesis (the superfamily that includes TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix and The Antiqua), Calibri (a default font at Microsoft), Sun, Taz and Corpid. He is also well-nown for his Anisotropic Topology-Dependent Interpolation theory which roughly states that a 50% interpolation is not the optical middle between two weights. He teaches type design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. His typefaces:

    • Agrofont (1997, for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries) and Agro Sans, developed in collaboration with the Dutch design bureau Studio Dumbar.
    • BellSouth Basis, Serif and Bold, developed with Dutchman Roger van den Bergh.
    • BolletjeWol (1997, Fontshop).
    • Calibri. Done for Microsoft, Calibri is the default typeface in MS Word. Calibri received a TypeArt 05 award and won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. For a yet-to-be-revealed reason, Google decided to support a metric-compatible free clone of Calibri for its Chrome OS system, Lukasz Dziedzic's Carlito (2014). Calibri became the standard font for all Microsoft 365 apps, but will be replaced some time in 2021 by one of five candidates, Bierstadt (by Steve Matteson), Grandview (by Aaron Bell), Seaford (by Tobias Frere-Jones, Nina Stössinger, and Fred Shallcrass), Skeena (by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow) or Tenorite (by Erin McLaughlin and Wei Huang).
    • Consolas. Done for Microsoft, this typeface was intended as a successor for Courier.
    • Corpid III (2002-2007). A sans family with support for Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish.
    • Floris (a ball terminal text typeface in 18 styles, Floris was developed on a four-dimensional grid of several axes or parameters: weight, width, x-height and ascender/descender height).
    • Fohla Serif (2001). Designed for a Brazilian newspaper in Sao Paulo. This collection includes a multiple master font, FohlaMM.
    • FF Jesus Loves You all, now LF Jesus Loves You all.
    • Koning (2017), co-designed by Luc(as) de Groot, Martina Flor, Jan Fromm, Phillipp Neumeyer and Daria Petrova. Koning won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. The first retail release of this flared typeface family came in 2019: Koning Display (a 20 style sans with Peignotian traits and occasionally, flared terminals).
    • LucPicto (dingbats for private use at FontFabrik). Not available to the world.
    • LeMonde (2002, new headline family). An OEM family made for LeMonde in 2001 includes Lucas-Bold, Lucas-BoldItalic, Lucas-ExtraLight, Lucas-ExtraLightItalic, Lucas-Italic, Lucas-Light, Lucas-LightItalic, Lucas-SemiBold, Lucas-SemiBoldItalic, Lucas.
    • MetaPlus (1993, with Erik Spiekermann).
    • MoveMeMM (erotic multiple master font)
    • FF Nebulae, now LF Nebulae.
    • LF Punten: Punten Straight, Punten Extremo and Punten Rondom.
    • Spiegel and Spiegel Sans, originally designed for Der Spiegel. The retail versions are called Spiegel Sans (a 32 style American gothic family) and LF Spiegel Serif.
    • Sun (1997, for Sun Microsystems) later became a retail font, also called Sun, a 28-style humanist compact sans typeface in the genre of industrial era American newspaper headlines.
    • LF Taz (sans family, 2002), Taz III (2003, including a hairline weight) and Taz Text (for "taz", the magazine), sans typefaces designed for use in newspapers. Are these the same fonts as Tazzer and Tazzer Text? Taz has grown as follows: TazText, Taz Condensed (2010), Taz Text Small Caps (2011), Taz Wide (2013-2014), Taz Textended (2013-2014). By 2021, the Taz family contained 128 styles.
    • Thesis (1994-1999) originally known as FF Thesis. This consists of many subfamilies all starting with the prefix The. MyFonts links for the Thesis family: TheAntiqua, TheMix, TheSans, TheSerif. Thesis includes
      • LF TheAntiqua (a 14-style medium contrast oldstyle typeface), LF TheAntiquaSun, Qua Text (a newstext version of TheAntiqua developed in close collaboration with the Berlin newspaper Die Tages­zeitun taz), TheAntiquaB (1997; 1999 Type Directors Club award), TheAntiquaE, TheAntiquaSun. TheAntiqua received a TypeArt 05 award.
      • LF TheMix (69 styles: semi-serif), TheMix Mono (48 styles; a monospaced version of TheMix), The Mix Classic, The Mix Basic, The Mix Office. TheMix is part of the Thesis superfamily. It originated as an alphabet for the logotypes of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management drawn by Luc(as) while working at BRS Premsela Vonk in Amsterdam. The alphabet later became the starting point of the entire Thesis system.
      • Thesis Mono.
      • LF TheSans, The Sans Classic, The Sans Basic, The Sans Office, The Sans Condensed, The Sans Mono (48 styles), The Sans Mono Dc, The Sans Mono 11pitch, The Sans Mono Cd Office, The Sans Typewriter (a monospaced and grungy version of TheSans). First published in 1994 as a descendant of Franklin Gothic, The Sans is a modern classic.
      • LF TheSerif (52 styles), The Serif Classic, The Serif Basic, The Serif Office. TheSerif is part of the Thesis superfamily. The Serif's ancestors include Linotype Rotation.
      • The Stencil (2021).
      • SPD 2002 TheSans. An OEM for the SPD party.
      • Grundfos TheSans (2007).Another commissioned font.
    • Transit and Transit Pict (both at FontShop).
    • Volkswagen Headline and Volkswagen Copy (1996), extensions of Futura. Note: the other Volkswagen house font is VW Utopia, a descendant of Utopia.

    DeGroot designed custom fonts for newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro, Der Spiegel, taz.die tageszeitung, Freitag and Jungle World. In addition, he created corporate type for international companies such as Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Volkswagen and Miele.

    Speaker at many international conferences. At ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo, he spoke about his Folha Sao Paulo newspaper typeface.

    In 2021, LucasFonts joined Type Network.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. I Love Typography link. View the typeface library at Lucasfonts. View Lucas de Groot's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Luce Avérous

    Ex-student at Scriptorium de Toulouse (2001) who published some of her fonts at Typotek. She made the free handwriting font Trashhand (2001), Lucette-Normal (2001), Perle-Normal (2000), and Printemps-Normal (2001).

    In 2002, she founded a signage agency, Tous les anges. Trashhand became Naturehand in 2008 when it became the house font of The Body Shop. The Greek and Cyrillic extensions will be done jointly by Luce Avérous and Dalton Maag.

    Over at Dalton Maag, she designed the technical handwriting typefaces Verveine (2009) and Verveine Corp (2009), which covers Greek as well. I believe that Verveine and Trashhand are identical.

    Behance link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lucius Hartmann
    [Alkaios]

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    Lucius Hartmann
    [Altgriechische Zeichensätze]

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    Luisa Baeta

    Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Luisa is from Portugal and Brazil and lives in Rio de Janeiro. Her graduation typeface was the multifaceted family Arlecchino (2011), which contains a signage script, a slab serif, and an ordinary script. Both Latin and Greek are covered.

    Monuments and Museums (2012) was commissioned by the Greek design studio Bric-a-Brac for a visual identity for Greece's museums and monuments. Bligh is a 3-weight sans-serif type family designed from scratch during her time working at Dalton Maag, published in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lukas Paltram

    Lukas studied graphic design and typography at New Design University in St P&oum;lten. Designer from Vienna, Austria, who joined Dalton Maag in 2009 where he presently serves as Creative Director in the London office. There he revived a typeface based on photographs of inscriptions in castle Hoch Osterwitz, which was designed by Austrian architect Paul Grueber in the early 1900s. Along with the architecture, Grueber also created the letterforms. Dalton Maag: Lukas initially struggled to harmonize the initial letterforms into a functioning typeface. The main challenge was to create a matching lowercase and other glyphs since the original was a caps-only design. Together with the team at Dalton Maag, Lukas eventually developed a two-weight font family for display purposes. Grueber subpage. Grueber (2009) is available from MyFonts.

    Cordale (2008) is a workhorse serif typeface jointly done with Fabio Luiz Haag at Dalton Maag. Cordale Corp, the corporate edition, includes Latin Extended A, Greek and Cyrillic characters sets.

    Setimo (2015) was co-designed by Fernando Caro, Ken Gitschier, Fabio Haag and Lukas Paltram at Dalton Maag, and won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lynn Di

    Graphic design student in Athens, Greece. Creator of two typefaces: Origami (2012), Fatty (2012, a thin monoline sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lyons Type
    [Daniel Lyons]

    American type designer, b. 2000, who created the multi-style basic sans typeface family LT Reponse, the calligraphic blackletter typeface Blacklet, and the sans typeface family Avancement 2020 in 2020. The latter typeface supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces from 2021: Shortcake, Queen, Fillet, Carpet, Vehicle, Drink, Leap, Coffee, Broadway, Classics, Victoire, Museum, Wave, Notable, Energy, Woodchuck, Asus+Companions (an 8-style geometric sans), Skyscraper, Colored Pencil, Sunrise, Remark, Indoor, Candidate, Journal, Amber, Expo, LT Marathon (a humanist and modulated sans family), LT Emphasis (modeled after Eurostile), LT Bulletin (sans), LT Feelgood (script), LT Crafted (a cartoon font), LT Internet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    M+ Fonts
    [Coji Morishita]

    Free font producer in Japan that started out as a bitmap font specilaist. The M+ Fonts Project is jointly run by Coji Morishita, Hiroki Kanou, Imazu Kazuyuki and Taro Muraoka.

    All fonts are totally free: Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute them, with or without modification, either commercially or noncommercially. . Download page. Free monospaced and variable width outline fonts containing kana, kanji (97% coverage of jinmeiyo), Chinese (81% coverage of traditional Chinese), Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin (sans), all made between 2006 and 2016 and still being developed: mplus-1p-black, mplus-1p-bold, mplus-1p-heavy, mplus-1p-light, mplus-1p-medium, mplus-1p-regular, mplus-1p-thin, mplus-2p-black, mplus-2p-bold, mplus-2p-heavy, mplus-2p-light, mplus-2p-medium, mplus-2p-regular, mplus-2p-thin.

    In 2018, they published MPlusRounded1c at Google Fonts. Additions in 2021: M Plus Code Latin, M Plus 1 Code. Mplus 1 Code is a sans serif programming font with seven weights from Thin to Bold, supporting 5,700+ kanjis for Japanese with GF Latin Plus. iM Plus Code Latin is a multi-weight programming font for Latin only. Both have variable fonts as well.

    Open Font Library link. Local download of the M+ family. Google Fonts link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MacCampus
    [Sebastian Kempgen]

    Europe's largest independent foreign language font developer for the Macintosh, which is directed by Sebastian Kempgen from Germany. Fonts include: Western Languages (CoreFont series), Eastern Europe (CE-Font series), Cyrillic (Professional series: RomanCyrillic Pro, Ladoga Pro etc. (text fonts); DEsign fonts: Faktor, Inessa Cyr etc. (headline, handwriting); Olliffe Fonts: Batumi, Schechtel, Russian Open (display type; example: Mashinka); Scientific Cyrillic (includes old orthography, accents, old characters); Old Church Slavonic (Cyrillic and Glagolitic, Square and Round); Non-Slavic Cyrillic: Roman CyrTurk, Ladoga CyrTurk), Greek (Modern Greek and Classical Greek (Agora and Parmenides)), Icelandic&Faeroese (PolarFont series), Irish&Welsh (Gaelic, Celtic in the CeltoFont series), Romanian (DacoFont series), Turkish (TurkoFont series), BalkanFont series (Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Maltese), Basque (BaskoFont series), Saami (SamoFont series), Georgian, Armenian, Coptic (such as the Pachomius font), Cuneiform, Sabean, SinoFont series for Vietnamese plus more or Chinese (Pinyin) transliteration, phonetic Fonts (Trubetzkoy&Phonetica), Transliteration Fonts. Some of its fonts (like Campus Ten/Twelve and Magister Book) are now sold through Agfa/Monotype.

    Names of some fonts: Breitkopf Fraktur, Campus Sans, CampusRoman Pro, CampusSans Block, Dareios, Faktor, Glagol Pro, Inessa, Konkret, Kronstadt, Marib, Method, Moskva Pro, Parmenides, Retrograd, Tafelkreide, Tatlin, Trubetzkoy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maciej Polczynski
    [Laïc]

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    Magdalini Stefanatou

    Greek-German designer in Athens who created the condensed blackletter typeface Dürer in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Magenta

    Free Greek fonts in the Polytonistis software pack. Windows. Alternate URL for MgAntique, MgAvantG, MgBodoni, MgFuture, MgOldTimes. There are also sets of unicode fonts for Greek (single accent and multiaccent/polytonic), Latin, Turkish, and West and East European languages. This site carries these free Magenta Latin/Greek fonts, made in 2004: MgOpenCanonica-Bold, MgOpenCanonica-BoldItalic, MgOpenCanonica-Italic, MgOpenCanonica, MgOpenCosmetica-Bold, MgOpenCosmetica-BoldOblique, MgOpenCosmetica-Oblique, MgOpenCosmetica, MgOpenModata-Bold, MgOpenModata-BoldOblique, MgOpenModata-Oblique, MgOpenModata, MgOpenModerna-Bold, MgOpenModerna-BoldOblique, MgOpenModerna-Oblique, MgOpenModerna. The latter fonts were implemented/digitized by Alexias Zavras and Konstantinos Margarites. They can be modified and used for further development, in the style of the Bitstream Vera fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Magical journey to Greece

    On reading Greek in web browsers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Magna

    A designer in Athens, Greece created the experimental typeface Magna in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Malvern
    [P. Damian Cugley]

    A sans-serif (meta)font by P. Damian Cugley at Oxford, 1991-1994. This family contains a sans-serif Greek alphabet, using conventions based on Levy's original Greek fonts and Dryllerakis' GreekTeX. Type 1 and truetype versions at uncifonts. In 2002, Tobias Benjamin Köhler created truetype fonts for Malvern. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MAN

    In their Global Type collection, URW++ has MAN (2012), a private corporate typeface family for the MAN company. There is a limited retail version for the volume at 7,500 Euros. It covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manchson

    Greek designer of the pixel font Basis 33 (2019), which contains Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew glyphs. It is designed by Manchson based on the Latin-only Proggy Clean font by Tristan Grimmer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marath Salychow

    Marath Salychow (b. 1980) is the Moscow-based designer of the free typefaces Alhueia (2001, for Greek) and Akademie Alte (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic; based on a Berthold original from 1910).

    In 2017, he designed the free typeface Literaturnaya, which is modeled after Anatoly Schtschukin's Literaturnaya (1936). He also made the free didone typeface Chekhovskoy that year, after the Elizavetinskaya typeface (1904, Lehmann foundry, Saint Petersburg).

    Typefaces from 2018: Elisabethische (after Jelisawethinskaja, 1904, Lehmann Foundry), MGA (a great Latin / Cyrillic Garamond), Akademitscheskaya (a revival of the Akademitscheskaya Berthold Garnitur from 1910).

    Typefaces from 2019: Kornilow. A free didone-Baskerville hybrid for Latin and Cyrillic, named after White Army general Lawr Georgijewitsch Kornilow.

    Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marathon Data
    [George Kalantzopoulos]

    HellasAllaBold, HellasAllaPlain, HellasArcCondensedBold, HellasArcCondensedPlain, HellasArcPlain, HellasArialBold, HellasArialCondensedBold, HellasArialCondensedPlain, HellasArialPlain, HellasCour-Regular, HellasTimesBold, HellasTimesCondensedBold, HellasTimesCondensedPlain, HellasTimesPlain. All fonts designed by George Kalantzopoulos (1992, at Pouliadis Associates). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Afroditi Patsi Jackson

    Maria Afroditi Patsi Jackson (Athens, Greece) designed the free grungy Greek caps typeface AF Greka Cap (2016), the free handcrafted Greek typeface AF Patsi Marathon (2016), and the free typeface AF Creta Fat (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Afroditi Patsi Jackson

    Miami, FL and Athens, Greece-based designer of these free Greek fonts: AF Kypseli Caps, AF Patisia Caps, AF Aphrodite Caps (2018), AF Futurismo GR Caps (2018), AF Greka Fat (2016), AF Patsi Marathon (2016), AF Patsi Cap (2016), AF Creta Fat (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Georgiou

    Architect and designer in Thessaloniki, Greece. Creator of Techand (2015), an uppercase avant-garde Greek typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Ramos Silva
    [Marsi Desino]

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    Marianna Angouridaki

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the rune-inspired Latin / Greek typeface Witchcraft (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marianna Pefani

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the monoline Latin / Greek display typeface Maridern (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marion Delsuc

    Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011 who lives in France. Creator of the garalde face Cassiope (2011), his graduation typeface. Delsuc writes: Cassiope is a small and delicate bookface. It is mainly intended to set the dialogues of plays. Thus, a key element of Cassiope's feel comes in the rather small size of the letterforms, so as to get some delicacy when set in 10-11 point. Yet the counters remain open and the serifs quite robust to ensure legibility in small sizes. There are Latin and Greek styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marios Balaskas

    Freelance graphic designer in Athens, Greece, b. 1991, who created the rounded sans typeface Kiklo (2015, Latin and Greek) and the pixel typeface Pixi (2015) during his studies in Middlesex University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marios Zachariadis

    Greek designer of the dingbat typefaces Pictogramz (2009, travel and hotel dingbats), Flamezbymarioz (2006) and Tribalz (2004) available at Dafont. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marius Mitran

    Bucharest, Romania-based type designer who created the beautiful Bauhaus / geometric monoline sans family Geometron Pro Angular (2010), which has weights ranging from hairline to black. Geometron Pro Radial (2010; +Greek) is a more rounded family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mark Bloom
    [Mash Creative]

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    Mark E. Shoulson
    [Lerfu]

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    Mark Goodacre
    [The Greek New Testament Gateway: Fonts]

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    Mark Jamra
    [Type Culture]

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    Mark Williamson

    Designer of a public domain Unicode font in 2005 called MPH 2B Damase. It can be found here. Created by Mark Williamson, it covers Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese. See also here. The font is used by the popular Debian Linux software. Mark Williamson also designed a free fonts for Osmanya, Ugaritic and Shavian called Andagii (2003). His Penuturesu covers Linear B.

    Mark contributed to the GNU Freefont project, which used these ranges:

    • Hanunó?o (U+1720-U+173F)
    • Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
    • Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F)
    • Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F)
    • Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF)

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Markela Bgiala

    Markela Bgiala, an interior designer in Berlin, created the ornamental typeface Twirkle (2012) and the thin poster headline typeface Hair Line (2012, Latin and Greek).

    In 2013, Markela designed the display sans family Mismark, which comes with a hairline weight.

    In 2014, she created Copy Paste Futura, which can be bought here.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marsi Desino
    [Maria Ramos Silva]

    Spanish designer Maria Ramos Silva (Marsi Desino, Santiago de Compostela) was born in Santa Comba (A Coruña) in 1982. She created Fifont (2010) and Caracol (2010, a wedge-serifed hand-printed face).

    Designer of Calada (2013), a workhorse sans serif typeface developed during Typeclinic 6 and Typeclinic 7 in 2013.

    In 2015, she graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading. Her graduation typeface, Sastre, is curved, angular, stressed, ink-trapped, and angry. It covers Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and can be used for stitching patterns.

    In 2016, she finished the fantastic slab serif typeface Knile at Atipo. Two of the sixteen weights are free.

    In 2018, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos set up NM Type. Together, they designed the custom typeface Meister for Jägermeister. Still in 2018, Maria Ramos and Jordi Embodas co-designed Nomada Didone.

    In 2019, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos co-designed Movement, a free experimental variable font inspired by dance movements. In 2021, they created Trisco, a custom font for Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.

    Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of typewriter type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Martin Schuster
    [Schriftarten für den theologischen Gebrauch]

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    Mary Petropoulou

    Graphic design student in Nafplion, Greece, who created Film Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mash Creative
    [Mark Bloom]

    Mash Creative is the East London / Exxex-based design studio of Mark Bloom, who graduated from Middlesex University in 1998. Its first typeface is the basic sans RM Regular (2011). RM Regular was updated in 2016 to RM Pro (which can be bought at The Designers Foundry).

    At some point before 2019, Joe Leadbeater and Mark Bloom founded CoType Foundry. Bloom released these typefaces at CoType:

    • Aeonik and Aeonik Pro (2018). A 14-weight sans typeface family by Joe Leadbeater and Mark Bloom. Aeonik supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and is accompanied by a variable font. Followed in 2022 by Aeonik Mono.
    • Altform (2021). A low contrast sans family by Mark Bloom. Designed by mixing geometric and grotesque elements, it has many weights and is accompanied by a two-axis (weight, italic tilt) variable font.
    • Ambit (2019). A sans by Mark Bloom: Ambit is an eccentric and unique sans serif font inspired by early grotesques, but adapted for the 21st century. It is characterized by the misbehaving curly lower case f and r glyphs.
    • Coanda (2019). A techno typeface by Mark Bloom, who writes: Coanda: an ideology of the future, crafted from the past. Coanda honours the ambitious outlook of 20th century designers Wim Crouwel and Mimmo Castellano, and pays respect to the meticulous detail crafted by The Designers Republic.
    • Orbikular (2020). A 5-weight modern typeface by Mark Bloom.
    • RM Neue (2019). A sans by Mark Bloom. The first iteration of RM was released in 2011, followed by RM Pro in 2016. RM Neue is a completely redrawn and redesigned adaptation of RM Pro, previously available in only three weights. Bloom writes: Inspired by utilitarian neo-grotesques, RM Neue aims to be a timeless addition to each designer's font repertoire and has been designed to be clean and legible at all sizes.
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    Mateo Broillet
    [ETC Type]

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    Mateus Boga

    Portuguese designer (b. 1998) of the blackletter font Soaring Pinnacles (2019), and the free display typefaces Evidence (2016) and Caligo (2015). In 2019, he published the squarish typeface Magnetar, the pixel typeface New Gen, which supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mateusz Machalski
    [Borutta (or: Duce Type)]

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    Matthew Robinson
    [Classical Greek Fonts]

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    Matthew Stephen Stuckwisch

    Spanish Lecturer and Language Lab Director at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN. During his studies in Auburn, AL, Matthew Stephen Stuckwisch (b. 1985) who was working on an extension of the Berling family of fonts for other scripts, including Homeric Greek (polytonic), Golden Age Spanish, Old Church Slavonic, Anglo-Saxon, Vietnamese, and Armenian. See here. He also made the wonderful high-ascendered lively serif family Coruna (2007) and the accompanying Coruna Fraktur (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matthew Welch
    [I Shot The Serif]

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    Matthias Pauwels

    Swiss type designer. He created the serifed text typeface Florin (2012).

    In 2016, he graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading. His graduation typeface is Amikal, a multi-script (Latin / Greek / Sinhala) typeface with an amicable atmosphere inspired by primary italics from the Renaissance. Drawing on this rich heritage, the typeface comes with a modern look satisfying your sense of current typeface design. Reading a text set in Amikal is like listening to a story told to you with a warm and agree­able voice while sharing a comfortable chair with a purring cat on your lap in front of the fire place. Amikal won an award at Granshan 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maurice Eduard Pinder

    Designer of Griechische Antiqua in the 19th century. In 2008, a digitized version was created by George D. Matthiopoulos, GFS Philostratos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mediolanum

    One of the first Greek typefaces from the Renaissance period in Northern Italy just before 1500. Ralph Hancock made a digital version of this. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melanie Duarte

    American type designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2008. Her graduation typeface is the Latin/Greek serif typeface Theodore. The informal typeface was designed for children's books in the 9-12 year age group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melanie Malzahn

    Professor at IDG Wien (Indogermanistik Wien) of the Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien. She designed Aal, Aal-Bold, Aal-BoldKursiv, Aal-Kursiv, AalTimes, AalTimesNewRoman-Kursiv, Aatoch, AatochFett, Aatoch-BoldKursiv, AatochKursiv, Aaron, Aaron-Bold, Aaron-BoldKursiv, AaronKursiv, AaronPunkt, AaronPunkt-Kursiv, Agriech (based on a typeface of Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain, 1993), Agriech-Kursiv, Amairgin, Amairgin-Bold, Amairgin-BoldKursiv, Amairgin-Kursiv, AmairginTimes, AmairginTimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, Aspgriech, Aspgriech-Kursiv, and Keltiberisch (2001, a runes font). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melanos
    [James K. Tauber]

    A simple mono-width sans serif font family for Greek developed by James K. Tauber. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melina Touros

    Graphic and web designer in Athens, Greece, where she is at Paprika Design. She made the squarish typeface Symbiology (2010) and the hanprinted Lettair (2010). Octopus logo (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mellel

    Fonts for many languages, including Greek and Arabic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou
    [Menis Art]

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    Memexikon

    American designer who created the pictograph font PROTObyte (2004), which contains dingbats from Linear B, Indus Valley Script, Snake River, Cretan, Elamite, Iberian and Coptic. He also made Glitch Millennium Serif (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Meni Chatzipanagiotou

    Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of the all caps typefaces Caps (2015), Flora Stamp (2015), Carnation Alphabet (2014), and Hand Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Menis Art
    [Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou]

    Illustrator and graphic designer based in Thessaloniki, Greece, specializing in decorative initial caps. Examples:

    • Animal Alphabet (2016) is a collaboration project between Meni Chatzipanagiotou and Tympan Ink, a letterpress studio based in Melbourne, Australia. The concept of the project was to create a series of 27 letters featuring animals in their natural environment. The textured typeface is heavily floriated. Etsy link.
    • Caps type (2014).
    • Carnation Alphabet (2014).
    • Floral Stamp Alphabet (2015).
    • Numbers (2016).
    • Trick Or Treat (2016).
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    Merck

    A corporate URW typeface family published in 2009. The 17-font family sells for nearly 10,000 Euros. There are sans, serif, semi-sans and semi-serif subfamilies. This family started out as a design for the Merck company. URW writes: URW++ is authorized by Merck KGaA to deliver the Merck corporate typeface family for a license fee to external users, i.e. Merck KGaA suppliers such as ad agencies, signmakers and the like. The Merck corporate typefaces are available in four different volumes with correspondingly multi lingual character encoding. All Merck Global Fonts contain approximately over 45,000 glyphs including the complete CJK glyph set (China, Japan and Korea). Besides all Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs as well as the complete CJK glyph set also cover Japanese Katakana and Hiragana plus Korean Hangual syllables. Furthermore they are supporting Thai and Arabic (including Farsi and Urdu) plus Hebrew and Vietnamese as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MetaType

    From its developer, Serge Vakulenko: "Metatype is a set of utilities and scripts for creating TrueType fonts using Metafont language. It also includes two font families, named TeX and TeX Math, based on the D. Knuth's Computer Modern fonts, but extended with Greek, Cyrillic and other characters. Metatype and TeX fonts can be used under the GPL license." The TeX family consists of TeXBold, TeXBoldItalic, TeXItalic, TeXMono, TeXMonoItalic, TeXMath, TeXMathBold, TeXMathBoldItalic, TeXMathItalic, TeXNarrow, TeX, TeXSans, TeXSansBold, TeXSansBoldItalic, TeXSansItalic, TeXWide. It comes in TTF and BDF formats. Free software in pre-alpha development, for Windows and X11/UNIX/Linux. The code is in C and Python. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MgOpen Fonts
    [Alexios Zavras]

    Free font collection for Greek and Latin. The typefaces contained in the MgOpen collection have been commercially available in the past by Magenta Ltd. They have been selected from the company's extensive font portfolio and were released as free software in 2004. Alexios Zavras made the first round of corrections and additions, and transformed the fonts in modern encodings and file formats. Konstantinos Margaritis has subsequently undertaken the task of adopting the fonts for their inclusion in Debian GNU/Linux. Included are MgOpenCanonica-Bold, MgOpenCanonica-BoldItalic, MgOpenCanonica-Italic, MgOpenCanonica, MgOpenCosmetica-Bold, MgOpenCosmetica-BoldOblique, MgOpenCosmetica-Oblique, MgOpenCosmetica, MgOpenModata-Bold, MgOpenModata-BoldOblique, MgOpenModata-Oblique, MgOpenModata, MgOpenModerna-Bold, MgOpenModerna-BoldOblique, MgOpenModerna-Oblique, MgOpenModerna. All fonts follow the monotoniko system, while the Canonica family also contain all the glyphs necessary for viewing Greek texts written in the polytoniko system. All fonts are Unicode compliant and in truetype format. The MgOpenCanonica series is also here. Additional URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Gene Adkins
    [The Fontry]

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    Michael Klinge
    [Klinge Art]

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    Michael Lee Finney

    Maintainer of the Logix font (2001-2021). It is a free mathematical symbol font based on STIX2. Finney writes: This is an OpenType font where all of the symbols (more than 4,000) other than the ASCII codepage are in the private use area. Other than many miscellaneous symbols, there are a large number of arrows, geometrical symbols, Knot drawing symbols, 64 stretchy delimiters plus a stretchy binding bar, of which 56 are fully stretchable. The remaining 8 are stretchy up to 5 times the original size. Some of the delimiters are present in Unicode, but their design in STIX2 does not work as well for logic. In particular, STIX2 delimiters tend to not extend as far below the baseline and above the baseline as would be desirable. Also, some STIX2 delimiters take more horizontal space than is necessary. There are twenty scripts, each of which (except for the two Greek scripts) have matching numeric, lower case and upper case glyphs. All symbols in this font are designed to be compatible with the STIX2 mathematical font by AMS. Some of these scripts overlap the Unicode math scripts, but are not intended to be replacements for those. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Neuhold

    Austrian designer of Palm fonts: for Greek: Helbetike, HelbetikeNarrow, Britannike and BritannikeBold. For Hebrew, his Palm fints include EnGedi and BeerSchebar. Finally, he created Makarios (Coptic), and Narrow (a slightly modified version of Narrowfont by Michael Nordström (micke@sslug.dk) and Robert O'Connor (rob@medicalmnemonics.com)). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Palmer
    [Greek Fonts Gateway]

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    Michael Parson
    [Typogama]

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    Michael S. Bushell
    [Bible Works Fonts]

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    Michael S. Macrakis

    Editor of the book Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels (Oak Knoll Press). This book contains essays by notable scholars and type designer such as Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker and Nicolaos Panayotakis. Macrakis was born in 1924 and died in 2001. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Sharpe
    [Nimbus 15]

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    Michael Sharpe
    [Erewhon]

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    Michael Sharpe
    [ScholaX]

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    Michael Spivak

    Designer of the MathTime fonts, which used to be available from Y&Y. Read about them in his article The MathTimeProfessional Fonts Or, How I Wasted the Last Twenty Years of my Life (PracTeX Journal, 2006, vol. 1). For a discussion of the Greek symbols in MathTimes, we refer to Greek type expert Yannis Haralambous in 1999: Unfortunately it does not fit very well with text typeset in Monotype Greek Times: the ratio between thin (horizontal) and thick strokes for letters "pi" and "Sigma" is 0.62 and 0.52 for MathTimes, and only 0.4 for Monotype Greek Times. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Wallner
    [The Type Fetish]

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    Michail Semoglou
    [Type Initiative]

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    Michail Semoglou

    Thessaloniki-based ex-student at the University of Reading who designed Vergikios (2002), a Greek typeface with hellenized Latin letters as well. He co-founded Type Initiative with Canadian Keith Chi-hang Tam and joined the type coop Village in 2005. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michel Dricot
    [Empirica]

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    Michele Patanè

    Graduate of Politecnico di Milano with a study on type and legibility, and of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Michele's graduation typeface at Reading was Overlook (2012), a typeface made for cinema magazines. It is built around a serif family, but also includes several neogrotesque sans weights, a Greek and a Devanagari (for Bollywood, I presume).

    From 2012 until 2019, he worked for Dalton Maag.

    Professor of type design at Poli Design in Milan (between 2007 and 2011) and in the Typeface Design master programs at the University of Reading, UK, and at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    With Riccardo Olocco, Michele co-designed the caps typefaces Cordial Bloom (2009) and Cordial Cherry (2009).

    In 2018, he published Malden Sans at Monotype and wrote: Malden Sans is a mischievous humanist sans serif with charming details that gives designers a solid typographic voice. It was originally designed as part of a type system for cinema magazines, and embodies the devil-may care attitude of the silver screen.

    Cinetype (London, UK) is Michele's own type foundry. In 2020, Michele released the utilitarian perky-eared sans family Fabbrica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Miguel Bernardino

    Lisbon, Portugal-based designer of the roman capitalis cmpass-and-ruler font Manoel Display (2016), which covers Latin and Greek. Manoel is named after Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo (1670-1735), a royal penman and calligrapher who wrote Nova escola para aprender a ler, escrever, e contar (Lisboa Ocidental, 1722). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mihai Sorin

    Punchform is an independent Romanian type foundry established in 2019 by graphic and type designers Mihai Sorin and Mirela Nina (although, mysteriously, Nina's name was dropped from all Punchform blurbs in 2021). It is located in Bucharest. In 2020, they co-designed the modern blackletter typeface Mavros.

    In 2020, Mihai Sorin released Evander (an 18-style humanist sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    In 2021, Mihai Sorin designed Sublima (a 20-style neo-grotesk), and Turis (an 18-style humanist sans), Silurum (an 18-style humanist sans) and Ouhta (a 26-style neo-grotesque typeface from Hairline to Black).

    Typefaces from 2022: Primeform Pro (an 18-style geometric sans with 19 stylistic sets to create a versatile family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mihail JP

    Creator at Open Font Library (OFL) of the free blackletter typeface Deutsche Altdruckschrift (2009) and the large free Textura family Textura Libera (2014). This font is based on Unicode Symbols, which in turn is due to George Doulos under a free software license.

    In 2015, he published Inconsolata LGC, a Cyrillization and Hellenization of Raph Levien's programming font, Inconsolata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mike Karolos
    [Smirap Designs]

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    Milka Peikova

    Milka Peikova (b. 1919, Pavel, Bulgaria, d. 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a famous Bulgarian artist. She created paintings, posters, book covers, portraits of famous Bulgarians, textile designs and alphabets, both individually and together with her husband Georgi Kovachev-Grishata (1920-2012). She is a graduate of the Bulgarian National Art Academy, class of 1948. She founded Cosmos magazine and designed for the Women Today and Problems of Art magazines.

    In 1979, she designed an alphabet that was extended to an 8-style Latin / Greek / Cyrillic stencil typeface---Milka (2016)---by a team of designers at Lettersoup that includes Ani Petrova, Botio Nikoltchev, Adam Twardoch and Andreas Eigendorf. The basic Milka font is a clean stencil design, while the Aged, Baked, Brittle, Crunchy, Dry and Soft styles are inspired by stencil and letterpress techniques and expand the usefulness by adding various degrees of warmth or roughness.

    Milka Peikova also designed the first Bulgarian typeface for phototypesetting called Grilimil with her husband Georgi Kovachev-Grishata. She is the recipient of the first prize for a typeface at the Bulgarian National Book Exhibition and Illustration [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Milos Mitrovic
    [Gradient (was: Mindburger Studio)]

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    Mindaugas Strockis

    Vilnius-born typeface designer (b. 1969) of the FF Elementa family (Courier-like) at FontFont. Also made the Greek font Korinthus and Grecs du Roi WG (2001), a wonderful fully accented Greek font named after Claude Garamond's 16th century cut for the French royal printers. For Linguist's Software, he has made several Greek fonts. In 2002, he designed Elementa Rough (an old typewriter font), FF Elementa Greek and FF Elementa Cyrillic. His Grecs du roi WG (2001) is here. Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mint Type (was: PDesign 6.0)
    [Andriy Konstantynov]

    Ukrainian Andrey Konstantinov (b. 1981, Moscow, lives in Kiev) graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine in 2002. He lived for some time in Tallinn, Estonia. He ran PDesign 6.0, and later established the commercial foundry Mint Type.

    His typefaces generally cover Latin and Cyrillic: Tecco (techno), Radix, Aera Sans, Aera Serif, Careless Hand Script (2005), Guarda Sans (2012), Vitra Sans (2005), Terra Sans (2005), Terra Semi Slab (2005), Terra Slab (2005), Radix (2004), Cyntho Pro (2012, a geometric sans), Cytia Pro (2012, a geometric sans with built-in contrast), Cytia Slab Pro (2013), Lytiga Pro (2012, a 48-font techy sans family, starting with hairline weights).

    Typefaces from 2013: Pancetta Pro (elliptical sans), Pancetta Serif Pro, Clinica Pro (a clean non-geometric sans), Cyntho Slab Pro, Cytia Slab Pro, Espuma Pro (a soft humanist sans family with lots of curviness), Ristretto Pro (a narrow display sans), Ristretto Slab Pro.

    During the riots and revolution in Ukraine in 2014, Andrey designed Anglecia Pro, a text typeface in Text, Display and Title subfamilies. Just before the 2014 elections in Ukraine, he designed the geometric partially humanist sans typeface Proba Pro, which has wide spacing and small x-height---the regular and italic styles are free.

    Synerga Pro (2014) is a humanist slab serif with rounded terminals.

    In 2015, he published the newspaper typeface Diaria Pro, which started out during a course at EINA in Barcelona. Diaria Sans Pro and Quiza Pro (a geometric display sans) were published in 2016.

    In 2016, Oleh Lishchuk and Andriy Konstantynov co-designed the rounded scientific or technical paper font Midpoint Pro.

    Typefaces from 2017: Skema Pro (a 84-style serif text family with Livro, Text, Omni, News, Title and Display subfamilies), Excentra Pro (a sans family with stroke variation and inclined axis), Opinion Pro (by Oleh Lishchuk), Orchidea Pro.

    Typefaces from 2019: Ponzu (a stencil-style display sans), Greenwich (a modern-looking humanized sans-serif typeface with open aperture inspired by Gill and Johnson; +Cyrillic), Closer Text (a sans with overclosed apertures), Cyntho Next Slab, Cyntho Next (advertized as Swiss and Dutch).

    Typefaces from 2020: Ki (a monospaced display typeface inspired by older VCR / camcorder OSD (on-screen display) fonts), Fiorina (a 72-style didone family in four optical sizes).

    Typefaces from 2021: Accia Forte (a 16-style serif with large x-height), Accia Variable, Accia Moderato (a 16-style serif with large x-height), Accia Piano (a 16-style serif with large x-height), Accia Sans (a 16-style humanist sans), Accia Flare (also in 16 styles), Extatica (a 16-style eclectic (or: hipster) sans), Inerta (an 18-style geometric/neo-grotesk hybrid for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Klingspor link.

    View Mint Type's typefaces. Hellofont link. Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    miqraot.com

    At this Korean site, derived truetype fonts for many languages: BwCyrl, BwEeSs, BwEeTi, Bwgrkl, Bwhebb, BwSymbol, Bwviet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Miranda Roth

    Miranda Roth graduated from Daemen College (Buffalo, NY) and joined P22 as an in-house type and graphic designer. Creator of these typefaces:

    • HWT Antique Tuscan No.9 (2012, Hamilton Wood Type). The HWT explanation: A very condensed 19th century Tuscan style wood type design with a full character set with ligatures. This design was first shown by Wm H Page Co in 1859.
    • Roman Extended Light (2012). A revival of No. 251 in the 1872 wood type catalog of Page Manufacturing Company.
    • HWT Catchwords (2013).
    • HWT Republic Gothic (2013, with Richard Kegler).
    • LTC Athena (2013). A condensed art deco typeface. Based on drawings from the 1950s in the Baltotype material (and in particular, a 1955 font by George Battee called Athena). Baltotype was acquired ca. 1993 by Rich Hopkins, a printing historian.
    • LTC Archive Ornaments (2014, with Richard Kegler).
    • P22 Saarinen (2014). A set of eight architectural styles based on the lettering of Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen.
    • LTC Goudy Initials (2005). Based on the original proofs of large sizes of Cloister Initials by Frederic Goudy.
    • P22 Dearest Pro (by Christina Torre and Miranda Roth). Dearest is a distinct flowing script based on handwritten characters found in a 19th Century German book chronicling a history of the Middle Ages. Originally released in 2001 as a set containing two styles, Script and Swash, Dearest was expanded in 2014 as a pro font with several hundred new characters including support for Central European, Cyrillic and Greek languages.

    P22 link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mitja Miklavčič

    Slovenian designer who lives in Postojna. His typefaces:

    • He created Gf H2O Sans in 2005 font at Gigofonts. This is a humanist sans done with Matevz Medja.
    • Tisa is a slab-serif inspired text family that won an award at TDC2 2007. It has useful features such as ink traps and uiformized math symbol and number widths across all styles in the family. In fact, the Latin/Cyrillic type family Tisa was his project at the University of Reading, where he graduated in 2006. He wrote a nice essay on the history of Clarendon (2006). In 2008, he published Tisa as FF Tisa at FontFont. Tisa won a TDC award. In 2012, he added the superfamily FF Tisa Sans (FontFont).
    • Mitja worked full-time at Fontsmith and now continues to collaborate with the team on some type design projects. His Fontsmith cooperation led to these typefaces:
      • FS Rufus (2009). A slab serif by Mitja Miklavcic, Jason Smith and Emanuela Conidi. Described by them as benevolent, quirky, peculiar, offbeat, jelly beans and ice cream, a retro eco warrior.
      • FS Me (2009). A sans family designed for readers with a learning disability. It was co-designed by Mitja Miklavcic, Jason Smith, Emanuela Conidi, Fernando Mello and Phil Garnham. FS Me was researched and developed in conjunction with---and endorsed by---Mencap, the UK's leading charity and voice for those with learning disability. Mencap receives a donation for each font licence purchased.
      • FS Albert (2002). A soft-edged sans family by Jason Smith, Mitja Miklavcic and Phil Garnham. FS Albert supports 60 languages, including Greek, Cyrillic and Latin.
      • FS Rome (Mitja Miklavcic and Emanuela Conidi). An all caps Trajan typeface.
    • At House Industries, Jess Collins and Mitja Miklavic revived Ed Benguiat's great fat face didone typeface (Benguiat) Montage in 2018. In 2014, House Industries, Christian Schwartz, Mitja Miklavcic and Ben Kiel co-designed Velo Serif Text and Velo Serif Display. In 2017, he revived Dave west's 1960s classic at PhotoLettering Inc, Banjo, as Plinc Banjo. Still at House Industries, Christian Schwartz, Mitja Miklavcic and Ben Kiel co-developed Yorklyn Stencil.
    • In 2020, he published the experimental modular typeface Trico Script at Fleha Type.
    • Davison Spencerian (at House Industries, by Mitja Miklavcic, Ben Barber and Ken Kiel). A digital revival of Dave Davison's 1946 Spenerian script Davison Spencerian.
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    Mohamad Dakak

    Type designer from Syria who graduated from Damascus University and completed the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. He is currently located in Cambridge, UK. His graduation typeface at Reading was Jali, about which he writes: Jali is a typeface designed for wayfinding signage. High legibility from distance is the main feature of the design. Jali combines Arabic and Latin in harmony while keeping a natural treatment for both scripts and avoiding forcing any to follow the other. Jali offers two secondary styles for different functions. Jali Display is a highly characterful style to add a distinguished identity in various contexts. Jali text comes to support setting running text for continuous reading. Jali won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.

    In 2021, Kostas Bartsokas, Mohamad Dakak and Pria Ravichandran set up Foundry 5 Limited. At Foundry 5, Dakak released Jali Arabic, Jali Greek and Jali Latin in 2021. I Love Typography link for Foundry 5. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Moisture

    Japanese creator of the child handwriting font simply called ChildFont (2008). It covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, hiragana, katakana, and the simple kanjis that a child would know. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Molly Suber Thorpe

    Calligrapher and lettering artist from Los Angeles who graduated from The American University of Paris and UCLA's Design Communication Arts program (class of 2009). Today, Molly lives in Athens, Greece. She wrote these books:

    • Modern Calligraphy: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started in Script Calligraphy (St. Martin's Press, 2013).
    • The Calligrapher's Business Handbook (2017).
    • Mastering Modern Calligraphy (St. Martin's Griffin, 2019).

    In 2019, she designed the monoline script font Cantaloupe. In 2020, she released the handcrafted Outside Voice, the monoline script Honeydew, the monolinear all caps ligature-rich art deco typeface Lempicka for Latin and Greek, and the Tuscan typeface Wiley.

    In 2021, she designed Very Matcha (a retro serif) and Charlot (a vintage all caps typeface).

    Releases from 2022: Magritte (a surrealist serif; dreamy and slightly psychedelic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Monario

    Four free truetype fonts: Hebrew (by Andrew M. Fountain&Peter J. Gentry, 1993), NewGreek (by Va in Monario, 1996), GreekMathSymbols, Czar-Normal (Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monospace

    Free Courier-like set of type 1 typefaces by George Williams that cover Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. Unicode and ISO-8859 versions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monotype: Greek

    Greek fonts by Monotype: in the monotonic series, Albany, Andalé, Andalé Mono, Andalé Sans, Arial, Arial Narrow, Arial Rounded, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Monotype Corsiva, Courier, Cumberland, Gill Sans, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Letter Gothic, Monotype News Gothic, Nimrod, Parma (=Bodoni), Perpetua Titling, Rockwell, Thorndale, Thorndale Mono, Times New Roman. In the polytonic category: Andalé Mono, Monotype Greek 90, 91, 92 and 472, Greek Sans Serif 386, New Hellenic, Porson Greek and Times New Roman Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monotype Greek 90

    Monotype Greek Series 90 was the best seller of all Monotype Greeks. According to J.F. Coakley, the 11-point size sold 950 sets of matrices. That figure testifies to its popularity in Greece; but in academic use in England it is rarely seen in comparison to series 106 Porson and series 192 New Hellenic. Neither Cambridge University Press nor Oxford showed it in their specimens, although Cambridge substituted the upright caps of this series for the inclined ones of Porson. Some further details about Monotype Greeks, especially New Hellenic, and a specimen of some other Greek types not often seen, may be found in my book The Greek types of the Jericho Press (2014).

    The font is in all likelihood based on a 1805 design by Firmin Didot. Michal Boyer explains: That design was revived in 2006 by George D. Matthiopoulos for a project of the Department of Literature in the School of Philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki and is available as GFS Didot Classic. The Greek Font Society also distributes a more modern design by Takis Katsoulidis, digitired by George Matthiopoulos, GFS Didot (that comes with TeX Live and MacTeX).

    There are also Monotype Greek 91 and 92 series. Other Monotype Greek series include Monotype Greek Times (also called Elsevier), Monotype Porson, Monotype New Hellenic and Monotype Greek Sans 486.

    Yannis Haralambous, in From Unicode to Typography, a Case Study the Greek Script writes: Until the arrival of computer DTP, most printed books were typeset in one, or more, of the following typefaces: Apla (which Monotype calls Greek 90, 91, 92), Times, Porson, New Hellenic, Greek Sans 486. [These are all by Monotype.] When the phototypesetting machines were replaced by computers, the situation changed rapidly: the Times fonts were taken over by the computer, bad quality imitations of the original Monotype Greek 90 were used for the Apla style, new fonts were designed and used: Linotype released Greek Baskerville and New Century Schoolbook, Greek companies (like Magenta) have adapted many of the Latin typefaces to the Greek script. He classifies Greek text typefaces into five categories

    • Apla (Didot). This has been the most common style of Greek typefaces. Its ancestors are 19th century Didot typefaces. Apla means plain, simple in Greek, and this is what this typeface has been: the most common typeface for ordinary text. Many companies have released versions in this style: Monotype Greek 90 (upright), Greek 91 (italic), Greek 92 (bold), Linotype Greek No. 2, Magenta Memories. Haralambous considers the Monotype ones to be, by far the best choice, in fact the most beautiful Greek types he has ever seen.
    • The Times family (called Elsevier in Greece). This is a style used since 1878 as an alternative to Apla. Compared to the latter, it is more modern and pragmatical. This is why it often has been chosen for technical books, or books by authors who wanted to avoid a conservative image. Many companies have released Greek Times fonts, unfortunately not all of good quality, according to Haralambous. He opines that the best seems to be the original Monotype Greek Times, which has afterwards been cloned to produce the homonymous, lower quality, standard Microsoft Windows 95/NT font.
    • Scholarly fonts:
      • Porson: Haralambous: The Porson typeface is used in most Anglosaxon scholarly Greek editions, including the Oxford Classical Texts. This font has also been used in Greece, as a replacement for Greek 91, or as a companion font to New Hellenic. The German-Greek Langesheidt dictionary also uses Porson only for the Greek text. Only two Porson versions are known to the author: the one by Monotype (again, by far the best) and a recent one, by the Greek Font Society.
      • Greek Sans 486, a bold font. It has been used for the entries of the Oxford Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. A font with strong resemblance to it is used by the Association Guillaume Budé, Le Cerf editions and the Bailly dictionary.
      • New Hellenic, or Attika in Greek.
    • Adaptations of Latin typefaces. Monotype did Gill Sans and Helvetica. Linotype adapted New Baskerville, New Caledonia, New Century Schoolbook, Optima, Souvenir, and others. The Greek company Magenta adapted a wide range of Latin typefaces, including Univers, Garamond and Bodoni. Microsoft sought the Hellenization of Palatino. The Greek Font Society (GFS) created many nice typefaces such as GFS Bodoni.
    • Original creations of the last few years. Individual contributions include Takis Katsoulidis (who published aesthetic Greek typefaces such as Katsoulidis and Apollonia).
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    Montse Soler

    Barcelona-based designer of the reversed stress Western font Heels (2018) and the Greek display typeface Omorfia (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    morrolan

    Jeffrey Rusten's Athena Roman font (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moshovos

    Information on installing Greek fonts on X, PC, Mac. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mr. Karakas

    Athens-based designer of an unnamed hand-drawn font and the ornamental caps typefaces Burjee, Frame and KFont in 2013. Fenrir (2013) is a geometric typeface inspired by graffiti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Muhammad Ridha Agusni
    [38 Lineart Studio (or: Grayscale, or: Fontsources)]

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    Muna Abdel Hadi

    Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2019. His graduation typeface there was Biblio, a text face designed to typeset books of classic literature in Latin, Greek and Arabic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MunchFonts
    [Gary Munch]

    Gary Munch (born 1953) is the Stamford, CT-based principal of MunchFonts. He teaches at Norwalk Community College and at the University of Bridgeport Shintaro Akatsu School of Design.. His typefaces:

    • GMAhuramazda (runes).
    • Calligraphic.
    • Candara (2005), a flared typeface done for Microsoft's ClearType project. Candara received a TypeArt 05 award.
    • GMChanceryModern.
    • Munch produced three new Cherokee fonts in 2011 in response to a request by Joseph Erb, of language technology and education services at the Cherokee Nation: Chancery Modern ProCherokee (a sleek sans serif semi-cursive font), Neogrotesk Cherokee (a multipurpose workhorse design), and Munch Chancery Cherokee (a calligraphic font that resembles handwriting). The Cherokee Nation is using Munch Chancery at its Cherokee Immersion School.
    • GMClavier.
    • GMDuomo.
    • Linotype Ergo.
    • The 8-weight didone font family GMFidelio is my favorite.
    • Finerliner (linked handwriting).
    • GMGlobe.
    • GMHieroglyphic.
    • GMHyperspace.
    • GMLondinium (1993, a blackletter face), and GM Londinium Versals (a Lombardic face).
    • GMMage.
    • GMMedallion. An architectural writing font made in 1997.
    • GMMeter.
    • GMMunchfonts.
    • GMMunchies.
    • GMNanogram.
    • GMPepRally.
    • GMPrentice.
    • Linotype Really (1997). An almost-didone family with Cyrillic and Greek extensions for which he received an award at the TDC2 2001 competition, and obtained third prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library. It was updated to Really No2 in 1999.
    • GM SPQR. A Trajan type family.
    • UrbanScrawlButtah, UrbanScrawlChill, UrbanScrawlDown, UrbanScrawlFly.
    • GM Wodensday.

    Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. Old home page.

    Showcase of Gary Munch's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    mwfon103

    All links for mwfon103, a 600K font file with Greek and Hebrew fonts. Free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Myrto Orfanoudaki Simic
    [Aka Acid (or: Cybertronical Design)]

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    Myrto Papadaki

    During his studies at Vakalo College of Art & Design in Athens, Greece, Myrto Papadaki created a textura-style blackletter typeface called Ladrian (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Najla M. Badran

    Najla Badran is an independent typeface designer, researcher and instructor based in Egypt. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from the German University in Cairo, an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, class of 2015. She is currently pursuing her PhD on Diacritics in the Arabic script and typography at the University of Reading. Najla has been teaching type design and typography since 2015 and holds Arabic lettering and typography workshops. She is interested in Arabic revival typefaces and inspiring modern Arabic typefaces from calligraphy.

    Her typefaces include:

    • Razeen (2015). Razeen is her graduation project at Reading. It covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Latin scripts, with the aim of providing balance across all four scripts.
    • The Arabic typeface Mesh Phont (2017).

    Type Together link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nantia
    [Konstantina Louka]

    Konstantina (Nado) Louka is a Ioannina, Greece and Luxembourg, Luxemburg-based illustrator. Designer of the vintage handcrafted Latin / Greek typefaces Luka (2015), Nadira (2015), Antio (an all caps hand-printed typeface) (2015), Nado (2015, brush font), and Nadirii Pro (2015), and the handcrafted typeface Evey (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Avae, Zanza, Miron, Nerres, Umy, Kold, Pagkaki (a stone-cut typeface), Muri (a fat finger font), Gluten Frei Script, Prokopis (tweetware, handcrafted), Kold, Oxya (a scratchy typeface), Melidia (a Latin / Greek brush script), True Mama (tattoo font).

    Typefaces from 2017: Petit Nuage (a signature script), One Little Font (children's script), Supergal (casual brush), Roodo (dry brush), Lil Baby (Latin and Greek calligraphy), Takhie (brush), Fontryl (a monoline script), Chubby Font, Tavernaki, Blanc Seing (a signature font), Marilia Pro (connected script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Nadoco, NF Nerres, NF Ananias, Lolotte (script), Noix (dry brush), NF Lukara.

    Typefaces from 2020: Beiko, Le petit cochon, Cacographie, Aiolos, La Lou, Akakios, Dead Inside (a children's hand-printed font), Nadah, AMA, Stamnaki, Taio, Stamnaki, Farfelue, Nadira Pro, Okeanos, Petit Nuage v2.0.

    Typefaces from 2021: Talonica (a monolinear signature script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nata Is At

    Greek designer of Big Taste (2009, FontStruct) and Greekpixi (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Qadreh

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the Latin / Greek text typeface Anthos (2016). Graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. Her graduation typeface there, Castalia, covers Arabic, Latin and Greek: Castalia is a typeface family primarily intended for typesetting theatre plays. It is designed to handle documents with multiple levels of hierarchy, across three scripts. Latin, Greek and Arabic are designed with respect to the tradition of each script, whilst co-existing harmoniously. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalie Rauch

    From 2009 until 2013, Natalie Rauch studied towards a Bachelors in Communications Design at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany. In 2014, she obtained a Masters in Type Design at the University of Reading, UK. During an internship at Carrois Type Design in 2012, she created the experimental sharp-edged typeface Kink. For her Bachelors in 2013, she created the modern fashion mag typeface Anouk.

    For her Masters at Reading, she developed the angular typeface family Raikka (2014). Raikka is a forceful unconventional multiscript typeface family that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. It is characterized by a calligraphic almost fuzzy italic that is in sharp contrast to the more severe regular weight. It was published in 2016 at bBox Type, where she also published Lonne (2017).

    In 2019, she designed the fat high-waisted art deco typeface Oggle at Future Fonts. Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natasha Raissaki

    Ex-type design student at Reading who created Elpis (2004), a typeface designed for newspaper insert. She states that the typeface, which includes Greek, was inspired by Jan Van Krimpen, Gerard Unger and Georg Trump. Free download at the Greek Font Society.

    Old (defunct) URL, where she had subpages on Greek type and Greek type news.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nathan Willis

    Type consultant and researcher based in West Texas. Graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. His graduation typeface there, Sark, covers Bengali, Cyrillic, Latin and Greek: Sark's serif styles are arrayed for constructing multi-script text documents, while its sans-serif styles are attuned to the needs of contemporary display technologies. [...] Sark Bengali offers two styles: an upright style designed for setting body text and an auxiliary style with a calligraphic feel that can employed for emphasis. It supports contextually sensitive matras and kars, initial and final forms. Currently, he lives in London and is a PhD student at the University of Reading under Fiona Ross and Matthew Lickiss. At Reading, he explores algorithms for spacing, kerning, and letter fitting across typographic styles and writing systems.

    Designer of the free font News Cycle (2011, OFL), a sans typeface that can be downloaded at Google Font Directory. News Cycle is a realist sans-serif font family based on specimens of the 1908 News Gothic typeface from ATF. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, but, incredibly, the fonts have no number 6.

    Della Respira (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a revival of the Della Robbia typeface by American Type Founders (ATF). The source files are here.

    Open Font Library link. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nathan Zimet
    [NCT]

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    Nathanael Bonnell
    [Looseleaf Fonts]

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    Nathanael Dorange
    [Par Défaut]

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    Nathaniel Porter
    [Chris' British Road Directory]

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    Nationale Software Wijzer Download Games

    Free truetype font Wiener, designed to give a "Windows 95 Desktop 'Look&Feel'". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    NCT
    [Nathan Zimet]

    American designer of the roman typeface Alive Serif (2016) for Latin and Greek. In 2017, he published NCT Granite for Latin and Cyrillic and writes: NCT Granite brings the shapes of Renaissance type into the modern world with a robust and functional typeface designed to work on both screen and print. Its italic is about as wide as the roman, making it very easy to read in long text.

    In 2018, he published NCT Torin, a relaxing sans serif typeface family that also covers Vietnamese, Greek, and Russian. It has one of the thinnest hairlines in the industry. Still in 2018, he finished the text typeface family NCT Larkspur.

    Typedrawers link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Neobyzantine

    This site has the following polytonic Greek and Slavonic fonts: Miroslavljeva_Cirilica, CirilStudenica, MgGreekArchaic-Plain (actually a Greek simulation face, 1983), OdysseaF, SymbolGreekPF, UB-Byzantine-Italic, UB-Byzantine-Normal (Unibrain, 1993), ALBXHRNormal (Im Grhgorioy, 1994), NB-Byzantine-NB, CSvetiNIKOLANormal (Predrag Milivojevic, Belgrade, 1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nestoras Kechagias

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created the handcrafted Latin / Greek comic book typeface Inva Sporos in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Netian.com

    The LucidaSans at this site is a Unicode font covering all European languages, plus dingbats, Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Neue Deutsche (was: Der Graph)
    [Wolf Böse]

    Wolf Böse (Der Graph, NeueDeutsche, est. 2010, Berlin) is the alias of prolific German experimental font designer Thomas Helbig. His typefaces date from ca. 2009. In 2021, he opened a shop on MyFonts as NeueDeutsche. His typefaces there, published in 2021, include ND Dildo (an 8-style sex-positive rounded sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), ND Gestalt (experimental and circle-based), ND Kronenberg (experimental and circle-based), ND Alias (a modular font that uses basic geometric elements) and ND Gambit (an experimental font with glyphs composed of arcs, circles and line segments). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Neue Frutiger
    [Akira Kobayashi]

    Neue Frutiger was developed by Akira Kobayashi and the Monotype (ex-Linotype) Design Team, in 2018. An outgrowth of Adrian Frutiger's successful Frutiger font, this wayfinding family was split by Monotype into several packages:

    In 2019, the Linotype team developed and released the single variable font Neue Frutiger Variable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Neue Helvetica World

    The Linotype Design team released Neue Helvetica World in 2017. It covers the pan-European area (extended Latin alphabet, Cyrillic and Greek) as well as Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Thai and Vietnamese. Each font has about 1700 glyphs. Back in 1983, D. Stempel AG redesigned Miedinger's Helvetica typeface and created a digital version. Neue Helvetica World has six additional styles including Arabic, Georgian and a specially-designed Hebrew version. For pairing with languages further afield, Monotype / Linotype recommend these typefaces: Saral Devanagari (for devanagari), Tazugane Gothic or Yu Gothic (for Japanese), YD Gothic 100 or YD Gothic 700 (for Korean), M Ying Hei PRC or M Hei PRC (for Simplified Chinese), M Ying Hei HK or M Hei HK (for traditional Chinese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    New Breed Software

    Free truetype fonts for Greek (Thryomanes by Herman Miller, 2002), Chinese (AR PL SungtiL GB by Arphic Design, 1999), Japanese (Kochi Gothic by Wadalab), Tamil (TSCu_Comic by Thukaram Gopalrao, 1999), Hebrew (Nachlieli Light by Maxim Iorsh, 2002) and Korean (Baekmuk Gulim by Hwan Design, 2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    New Testament Manuscripts Font Collection
    [Allan Loder]

    Commercial package by Linguist's Software that includes fonts for the following codices or papyri of the New Testament or distinctive character forms of inscriptions from that period: Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Bezae, Codex Bezae Latin, Codex Washingtonianus, P46, P66, P.Oxy.4401, P39, Konya inscriptions. A blurb from the site: Linguist's Software gratefully acknowledges the original character design work by Allan Loder. All the fonts have been revised by the Payne Loving Trust. Copyright 2003 Allan Loder and the Payne Loving Trust. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Newtgreek

    P. Arthur and M. Kaprelian developed the free Greek font package NewtGreek 1.0 (2003, for the Newton). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    NFLEKTO

    Athens, Greece-based designer of a dripping blood font called Defaru (2009). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Job

    Macclesfield, UK-based type designer who has a degree in graphic design from Nottingham Trent University. David Brezina introduces Nick as follows: Nick Job saw my baby steps as a type designer on the Typophile forum and kindly offered advice and new sources of inspiration. That's how I learned about his enthusiasm for British Rail and modernist design in general. He is a sans-serif specialist by heart, exploring mechanical influences (FS Hackney) as well as Englishness in design (FS Elliot).

    His typefaces:

    • Energy (2007). A sans family.
    • The extensive sans family Camphor (2010, Monotype).
    • FS Elliot (2012, Fontsmith).
    • The custom font FS Webb Ellis Cup, which was done for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
    • The assertive sans typeface family FS Hackney (2020, Fontsmith).
    • Adelphi (2019, Rosetta Type Foundry). Adelphi is an extensive Bauhaus-inspired geometric typeface family (with variable styles) that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. One of the variable axes explores terminal angles.
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    Nick Kandy
    [Grinder Collective]

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    Nick Margaritis
    [Agios Eugraphos Type Optic Synergy]

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    Nick Nicholas

    Nick Nicholas (University of Melbourne) discusses script mixing. For example, the Wakhi from Central Asia use a mixed script of Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek letters. Among many examples, he points out that certain Greek dialects use a Latin letters to represent sounds not present in standard Greek. He also has a page on Greek Unicode issues. That page includes everything you want to know about Greek accents and Greek coding. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Novell
    [Nikos Chouliaras]

    Nikos Chouliaras (Nick Novell, Larissa, Greece) designed the weathered sans typeface Go Crazy (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Shinn
    [Shinn Type]

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    Nicolas Koultoukis

    Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of Explorer Font (2016). Behance link. He works under the alias Konik. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nicole Dotin

    American designer (b. 1974) who earned a degree in photography from the University of Minnesota, in graphic design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MFA) and in type design from the University of Reading (MA, 2007), where she created Elena, a Latin and Greek serif type family.

    Nicole joined Process Type Foundry, where she published Elena in 2011 and the heavy brush (signage) typeface Pique in 2014-2015. She added Light and Medium weights to Elena in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nicolien van der Keur
    [VanderKeur]

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    Nikiforos Kollaros

    Athens, Greece-based designer of Ancor Pro (2010), a typeface in which some Bezier sections were removed in DIN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolaos Moskofidis

    Aka The Mosquito, Nikolaos Moskofidis (from Athens, Greece) created the display family (with fat counterless and outline styles) called The Mosquito Font (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikos Chouliaras
    [Nick Novell]

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    Nikos Georgopoulos

    Creator of Koumpa (2010, a Greek headline face) during TipoBrda 2010, a type design workshop held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikos Giannakopoulos
    [Grixel]

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    Nikos Giuris

    Nikos Giuris (Thessaloniki, Greece) designed the arc-and-circle-themed typeface Vanvitelli in 2017 for the visual identity of the Universita Vanvitelli. The concept is based on architectural elements chosen by Luigi Vanvitelli's work, mainly in the arches of the palaces he built in Campania, Italy.

    In 2018, with the help of George Triantafyllakos, he created the free modular typeface Papamarkou, which is inspired by the architecture of Papamarkou Street, located in the heart of Thessaloniki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikos Goulandris
    [Estampilles]

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    Nimbus

    In their Global Type collection, URW++ has its Helvetica clone, Nimbus Sans (2005, 5 fonts, 2000 Euros) and Nimbus Roman (2005, 2 fonts, 2000 Euros). The former is based on Helvetica, the latter on Times New Roman. Meant as workhorses, these fonts cover Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. Of course, Nimbus Sans can be had for free at Open Font Library.

    The first versions of Nimbus Sans were digitized in the 1980s for the URW Signus sign-making system. The highest precision of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) were required because the fonts were to be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. During this period three size ranges were created for text (T), display (D) and poster (P). In addition, URW produced the L-version that was compatible with Adobe's PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was also the product name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of outline fonts. Also in the 1980s, a new improved and expanded version of the Nimbus Sans, Nimbus Sans Novus, was developed with URW's Ikarus system. Nimbus Sans Novus was modified for Nimbus Sans Round in 2015. Nimbus Sans Devanagari was redesigned in 2016. Nimbus Roman Japanese was refurbished in 2014 by URW.

    Two releases in 2021: Nimbus Roman No. 9 L, Nimbus Sans L. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nimbus 15
    [Michael Sharpe]

    Nimbus 15 (2015-2016) is a free font package developed and maintained by UCSD's Michael Sharpe. The package is intended to provide a set of basic Latin (OT1, T1 and TS1), Greek and Cyrillic based on the Nimbus Core 2015 released by Artifex in October 2015. That core contains the URW++ clones of Courier, Helvetica and Times. The individual fonts in this package, with prefixes zco (Courier, 3 weights), zhv (Helvetica, 2 weights) and ztm (Times, 2 weights), are provided in both otf and pfb format. The font named zcoN-Regular is a narrow version of zco-Regular, and is much better suited to rendering code than the latter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nipadetski Inc

    Designers in 2013 of the Sincere VGA font for Latin and Greek. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noel Pretorius

    Swedish graphic and type designer whose company is called Made By Noel. He graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. His graduation project was Frances (2015). This flexible type system includes roman, script and sans styles, and covers Latin, Arabic, Greek and Cyrillic. He also made the custom children's script font Friends (2016), a set of numerals for Rolleiflex (2016), and a slightly modified Futura for a custom project called Folkoperan (2016).

    In 2016, Noel joined TypeTogether as a type designer.

    In 2018, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos set up NM Type. Together, they designed the custom typeface Meister for Jägermeister.

    In 2019, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos co-designed Movement, a free experimental variable font inspired by dance movements. In 2021, they created Trisco, a custom font for Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nomad Fonts
    [Kaja Slojewska]

    During her graphic design studies at PJWSTK in Warsaw, Poland, Kaja Slojewska created Bubble Alphabet (2014) and Tilton (2014, a headline all caps sans typeface).

    Graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. Her graduation typeface there was the Latin / Greek / Cyrillic text typeface Alkes (2017). She is presently located in Vancouver, Canada, where she runs Nomad Fonts, which specializes in non-Latin script extensions.

    In 2020, she published the free reverse contrast / Western font Larrikin, VanSans (a 17-style minimalist humanist sans), Nuber Next (published at The Northern Block; Slojewska's role was to expand Jonathan Hill's Nuber from 2013), Strajk (for demonstration signs), and Capilano (a humanist sans family with a organic voice, inspired by nature and the native wilderness of Canada's parks and forests).

    In 2020, her graduation typeface was published in 14 styles by Fontfabric as Alkes. She received help from Plamen Motev and Nikolay Petroussenko. Designed to harmonize between Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, it features a generous x-height, wide letter spacing, large open counters and angled stress contrast so that the typeface is quite readable and friendly.

    She assisted Tiro Typeworks' John Hudson's and Paul Hanslow with the development of the text typeface Castoro (2020). Hudson writes: Castoro is a libre font family released under the SIL Open Font License. Castoro is a specific instance of an adaptive design developed for Tiro Typeworks' internal use as a base from which to generate tailored Latin companions for some of our non-European script types. The instance that has been expanded to create the Castoro fonts was initially made for the Indic fonts that we produced for Harvard University Press. In the Castoro version, we have retained the extensive diacritic set for transliteration of South Asian languages, and added additional characters for an increased number of European languages. The parent design here presented as the Castoro instance began as a synthesis of aspects of assorted Dutch types from the 16th through 18th Centuries. Castoro roman was designed by John Hudson, and the italic with his Tiro colleague Paul Hanslow, assisted by Kaja Slojewska. It is named Castoro after the busy beaver, a real workhorse in the Canadian forests.

    Typefaces from 2021: Rupert (a 16-style geometric sans).

    Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    North Park

    Greek and Hebrew font archive run by Eric Pement. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Northwest semitic links

    Great links page maintained by Reinhard G. Lehmann (Lecturer for Classical Hebrew and Old Aramaic, Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) with links related to Hebrew, old Aramaic, Greek, Coptic, old Syrian, Ugaritic and Phoenician. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    nosepol

    Hebrew-Regular, NewGreek, GreekMathSymbolsNormal, CzarNormal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Noto

    A large free font family released under the Apache license at Google Web Fonts, and developed by Monotype's Steve Matteson and a team of type designers. Designed between 2012 and 2016, this typeface covers over 800 languages and 100 writing scripts. URL with details. Noto stands for no tofu, i.e., no white boxes that represent unknown characters. The fonts are property of Monotype, with the exception of Noto Khmer and Noto Lao, which belong to Danh Hong.

    Noto Sans and Noto Serif cover Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Asturian, Avaric, Aymara, Azerbaijani-AZERBAIJAN, Bashkir, Bambara, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bislama, Bini, Breton, Bosnian, Buriat, Catalan, Chechen, Chamorro, Mari (Russia), Corsican, Czech, Church Slavic, Chuvash, Welsh, Danish, German, Modern Greek (1453-), English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Fijian, Faroese, French, Fulah, Friulian, Western Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Manx, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hiri Motu, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association), Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiaq, Ido, Icelandic, Italian, Kara-Kalpak, Kikuyu, Kazakh, Kalaallisut, Kurdish-ARMENIA, Kumyk, Komi, Cornish, Kirghiz, Latin, Luxembourgish, Lezghian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Maori, Macedonian, mo, Maltese, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Low German, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian, South Ndebele, Pedi, Nyanja, Occitan (post 1500), Oromo, Ossetian, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Romanian, Russian, Yakut, Scots, Northern Sami, Selkup, sh, Shuswap, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Southern Sami, Lule Sami, Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Swati, Southern Sotho, Swedish, Swahili (macrolanguage), Tajik, Turkmen, Tagalog, Tswana, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Tuvinian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, wen, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yoruba, Zulu, Akan, Aragonese, ber-dz, Crimean Tatar, Kashubian, Ewe, Fanti, Filipino, Upper Sorbian, Haitian, Herero, Javanese, Kabyle, Kuanyama, Kanuri, Kurdish-TURKEY, Kwambi, Ganda, Limburgan, Mongolian-MONGOLIA, Malay (macrolanguage), Nauru, Ndonga, Navajo, pap-an, Papiamento-ARUBA, Quechua, Rundi, Kinyarwanda, Sardinian, Sango, Shona, Sundanese, Tahitian, Zhuang.

    Non-Latin scrips include Noto Armenian, Noto Georgian, Noto Carian, Noto Greek, Noto Devanagari, Noto Ethiopic, Noto Glagolitic, Noto Hebrew, Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic, Noto Sans Lisu, Noto Sans Lycian, Noto Sans Lydian, Noto Sans Old South Arabian, Noto Sans Osmanya, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Shavian, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Serif Thai, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sana Telugu, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Orya (for Odia), Noto Sans Bengali.

    Other typefaces in the package include Arima, , and Tinos.

    At CTAN, one can find Noto with full TeX support.

    At Open Font Library, one can download Noto Nastaliq Urdu (2014), which covers Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and Urdu.

    The fonts, as of October 2016: Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Noto Color Emoji, Noto Emoji, Noto Kufi Arabic, Noto Mono, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Noto Sans Armenian, Noto Sans Avestan, Noto Sans Balinese, Noto Sans Bamum, Noto Sans Batak, Noto Sans Bengali, Noto Sans Brahmi, Noto Sans Buginese, Noto Sans Buhid, Noto Sans CJK JP, Noto Sans CJK KR, Noto Sans CJK SC, Noto Sans CJK TC, Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal, Noto Sans Carian, Noto Sans Cham, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Coptic, Noto Sans Cuneiform, Noto Sans Cypriot, Noto Sans Deseret, Noto Sans Devanagari, Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Noto Sans Ethiopic, Noto Sans Georgian, Noto Sans Glagolitic, Noto Sans Gothic, Noto Sans Gujarati, Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Noto Sans Hanunoo, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans HK, Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic, Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi, Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian, Noto Sans Javanese, Noto Sans Kaithi, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sans Kayah Li, Noto Sans Kharoshthi, Noto Sans Khmer, Noto Sans Lao, Noto Sans Lepcha, Noto Sans Limbu, Noto Sans Linear B, Noto Sans Lisu, Noto Sans Lycian, Noto Sans Lydian, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Mandaic, Noto Sans Meetei Mayek, Noto Sans Mongolian, Noto Sans Myanmar, Noto Sans NKo, Noto Sans New Tai Lue, Noto Sans Ogham, Noto Sans Ol Chiki, Noto Sans Old Italic, Noto Sans Old Persian, Noto Sans Old South Arabian, Noto Sans Old Turkic, Noto Sans Oriya, Noto Sans Osmanya, Noto Sans Phags Pa, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Rejang, Noto Sans Runic, Noto Sans Samaritan, Noto Sans Saurashtra, Noto Sans Shavian, Noto Sans Sinhala, Noto Sans Sundanese, Noto Sans Syloti Nagri, Noto Sans Symbols, Noto Sans Syriac Eastern, Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela, Noto Sans Syriac Western, Noto Sans Tagalog, Noto Sans Tagbanwa, Noto Sans Tai Le, Noto Sans Tai Tham, Noto Sans Tai Viet, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Telugu, Noto Sans Thaana, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Tibetan, Noto Sans Tifinagh, Noto Sans Ugaritic, Noto Sans Vai, Noto Sans Yi, Noto Serif Armenian, Noto Serif Bengali, Noto Serif Devanagari, Noto Serif Georgian, Noto Serif Gujarati, Noto Serif Kannada, Noto Serif Khmer, Noto Serif Lao, Noto Serif Malayalam, Noto Serif Tamil, Noto Serif Telugu, Noto Serif Thai. Late additions include Noto Sans and Serif for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, developed at Adobe.

    In 2015, Adam Twardoch placed the Noto fonts on Github under the name Toto Fonts. A question of licenses. Toto Han fonts, 123MB worth of them. P>In 2018, Monotype published a fork of Noto Sans Display, called Avrile Sans (free at Open Font Library). See also Avrile Sans Condensed (2015) and Avrile Serif (2018).

    Github repositories. Open Font Library link. CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nova Type Foundry
    [Joana Maria Correia da Silva]

    Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, who was born in Porto, Portugal. Joana worked as an architect and graphic designer in Portugal. She currently lives in the UK and/or Porto, Portugal. Since 2011, she teaches type design at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design).

    In 2010, under the supervision of Dino dos Santos at ESAD, Joana designed an unnamed bastarda / chancery typeface that is based on originals by Francisco Lucas.

    Creator of the script typeface Violet (2011).

    Artigo (2011) is an angular type family for Latin, Hindi and Greek that was created during her studies at Reading. Artigo won Second Prize for Greek typefaces at Granshan 2011. It also won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. In 2017, Ndiscovered published Artigo Global and Artigo Pro. Artigo Display followed in 2018. In 2020, Nova Type Foundry republished Artigo, Artigo Display.

    In 2012, she published the didone text typeface Cantata One at Google Web Fonts. Quando (Google Web Fonts) is a serifed text typeface inspired by brushy handwritten letters seen on an Italian poster from the second world war.

    In 2013, at MSTF Partners, a Portuguese consultancy, she created Writers Font (2013). This is a script typeface by Joana Correia that combines the handwriting of famous Portuguese authors. For example the A is by José Luis Peixoto, the B by José Saramago and the C by António Lobo Antunes. Link with the story.

    Still in 2013, she showed an unnamed unicase sans typeface and participated in the Canberra typeface competition.

    In 2014, she made the round connected script typeface Jasmina FY (Fontyou), the Google Web Font Karma (for Latin and Devanagari: Karma is an Open Source multi-script typeface supporting both the Devanagari and the Latin script. It was published by the Indian Type Foundry; see also Open Font Library), and Canberra FY (at Fontyou: a short-serifed typeface family).

    In 2015, Adrien Midzic and Joana Correia co-designed Saya Serif FY. Still in 2015, she published the humanist sans typeface family Vyoma at Indian Type Foundry. Amulya (2015-2021) is another humanist sans, now in 8 styles with two variable fonts, published by Correia at Indian Type Foundry's Fontshare.

    In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the Latin / Tamil typeface Arima Madurai (free at Google Fonts). Their Arima Koshi (2016) covers Tamil, Malayalam and Latin.

    In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the connected typeface Tidy Script at Indian Type Foundry.

    In 2017, Joana published Laca Pro: Laca is a semi-sans serif inspired by retro Portuguese packaging of soaps. Laca is the Portuguese word for hairspray. Free download. Laca Text (2018) is a sans serif version of Laca. For Nova Type versions, see Laca (2019) and Laca Pro (2020). The latter versions cover Greek and Cyrillic as well.

    In 2018, Joana published the soft script typeface Lemongrass: It was inspired by brush lettering and the sea and the strong winds that exist in Porto.

    At Future Fonts, she released the didone typeface Alga (2019), in which ball terminals are replaced by genuflections.

    She was the principal designer of the sans family Varta (2019, Sorkin Type), which is available from Google Fonts and Github. Assistance of Viktoriya Grabowska and Eben Sorkin.

    Typefaces from 2020: Loretta (with Abel Martins; see also Future Fonts; Loretta is a low contrast text typeface that comes in 12 styles), Loretta (Future Fonts: a low contrast text typeface in 12 styles; by Joana Correia and Abel Martins).

    Interview in 2021. Behance link. Another Behance link. Old home page. Joana Correia link at Behance. Future Fonts link. Type Department link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    NSM Worldwide (or: Greek House of Fonts)
    [Phelan Riessen]

    San Diego-based designer (b. 1971) of the free fonts Halloween Too (2015: dripping blood font), Joe Caps Underwood (2015: an old typewriter font), Bad Pad Distressed (2013) and Social Icons (2013), and of the ransom note fonts Distressed Ransom Note (2013), Scary Halloween (a blood drip font) and Yet Another Ransom Note (2013).

    In 2016, he designed the dot matrix typeface Ugly Sweater and Ugly Sweater Font Icons.

    Typefaces from 2017: Kurlz, Collegiate Greek, Greek House Varsity (Greek athletic lettering), Greek House Brotherhood (varsity font), Joe Underwood (distressed typewriter).

    Typefaces from 2018: Hallowed Eve (dripping blood font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Numismatica Font Project

    Edward "Chris" D. Hopkins is working on a free archaic and classical Greek numismatic font set. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Numus Moneta Font
    [G. Thomas Schroer]

    G. Thomas Schroer developed the Numus Moneta Font, a free truetype font for documenting Roman coins. In addition to Greek and Latin characters, it contains over 70 special control marks used only on Roman Imperial Coinage. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Odyssey--Ellenikes GrAFES

    Greek fonts for Windows, plus installation instructions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Macujev
    [Omtype]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Stepanov

    Aka Youhhou. Tbilisi, Georgia and now, Moscow-based Russian designer of Splinter (2016), Jazzy B (2015, a beatnik font), Maika (2015, great brush script for Latin and Cyrillic), Sciences Icons (2015), Shields Icons (2015), Marks (2015: icons), New Marker (2015), Barrier Display Font (2014, a hipster Latin typeface), Simple Stamp (2014, a free poster font), IT Business Icons (2015) and Oriental Icons (2014).

    Typefaces from 2017: Jeeks (a funky comic book typeface in all caps), Mick (2017, hand-drawn typeface inspired by 1980s graffiti), Fedot (a polyustav emulation font).

    Typefaces from 2018: Bubbaloon (bubblgum font), Blockbox, Badwulf (a hand-lettered display typeface), Sandy, Pirate Station, NewMarker, Level Up (pixelish), Helgis Black (an expressive display typeface inspired by album covers of progressive and psychedelic rock bands of the 70s). Creative Market link. ?u=mostrecent">Another Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleh Lishchuk
    [Pepper Type]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Belousova

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the squarish typeface Parallel Thoughts (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Mishyna

    Talented Thessaloniki, Greece-based illustrator and digital artist. Creator of the frilly and stunning Plump (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Omega Type Foundry
    [Toshi Omagari]

    Toshi Omagari is a Japanese type designer who grew up in Fukuoka and studied typography and type design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. After graduating in 2008, Toshi taught graphic design in Fukuoka. He joined the University of Reading in the summer of 2010 and graduated in 2011. He is a type designer at Monotype.

    His graduation typeface Marco (<2011), which is named after Marco Polo, covers Latin, Mongolian, Greek, and Cyrillic, and has sans and serif versions. Inspiration for Marco goes back to Italian humanist typography such as those of Nicholas Jenson or Aldus Manutius, and general influences from calligraphy. Marco is a true superfamily, with wide utility and superb legibility---not surprisingly, it won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. The text styles were professionally produced in 2015 by Type Together in 2015---each style has over 1900 glyphs.

    His chancery hand typeface Tangerine (2010) is part of the Google font directory (for free web fonts).

    Typefaces from 2013: Metro Nova (Linotype: a sans family with a strangely circumcised lower case f). Metro Nova won an award at TDC 2014.

    Typefaces from 2014: Neue Haas Unica and Neue Haas Unica Pan European. A digital update of the Helvetica alternative Haas Unica, which was originally released in 1980 by the Haas Type Foundry for phototypesetting.

    In 2015, he made Cowhand (Monotype: a Western typeface). All words typed in Cowhand are of equal width, whether they contain one character or twenty (the maximum the font allows).

    For Monotype, he made the custom typeface Quentin Blake (2016) that emulates the irregular handwriting of Sir Quentin Blake, acclaimed illustrator of Roald Dahl's novels.

    In 2017, Toshi Omagari designed the Wolpe Collection for Monotype, all based on Berthold Wolpe's distinctive typefaces: Wolpe Pegasus, Wolpe Tempest, Wolpe Fanfare, Sachsenwald (blackletter: a revival of Berthold Wolpe's Sachsenwald from 1936), Albertus Nova.

    In 2018, Linda Hintz and Toshi Omagari published the large geometric sans typeface family Neue Plak that revives and extends Paul Renner's Plak (1928).

    Nadine Chahine and Toshi Omagari collaborated with Akira Kobayashi and Monotype Studio on Avenir Next Arabic (2021).

    At his own foundry, Omega Type, he released these typefaces in 2021: Klaket (a bold and monolinear Arabic display typeface that was inspired by classic Egyptian film posters in a free form Ruqah style), Platia (a modern revival of the 19th century font Hellenic Wide).

    At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he spoke about Mongolian scripts. At ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo, he revealed his research on the Siddham (post-Brahmian). Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on BubbleKern (a new kerning algorithm). Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal on Sini: Arabic calligraphic styles from the Far East.

    Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. I Love Typography link. Google Plus link. Interview by MyFonts in 2022. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Omtype
    [Oleg Macujev]

    Omtype is Oleg Macujev's Russian foundry and studio (est. 2008) located in Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovskaja region of Siberia, or more lately in Telbes, Russia. Graphic and type designer, calligrapher and typographer Oleg Macujev was born in Novokuznetsk in 1984. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (design of mass media specialization). In 2004-2007 he studied at the Alexander Tarbeev Type Design Workshop of Moscow State University of Printing. From 2004 to 2009 Oleg worked as a graphic designer in different Moscow design studios and publishing houses. In 2007-2008 he also lectured on type and calligraphy at the National Institute of Modern Design. He received the second prize for excellence in type and graphic design in a student competition organized by ParaType for his Epiphany typeface (2008). He has obtained the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the Modern Cyrillic 2009 competition for the Epiphany and Fry typefaces. Since 2009 he has been living in Novokuznetsk and working as a freelance graphic designer. Samples of his calligraphy. Alternate URL. Behance link. His name is also written Oleg Matsuev. Klingspor link. His great collection of typefaces:

    • Default (2010). A condensed monospaced sans for Latin and Cyrillic.
    • Epiphany (2008). A monoline script based on Old Russian skoropis (cursive writing) of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Award winner at Paratype K2009).
    • Fry (2008). A comic book style typeface that won an award at Paratype K2009 under the name Fray, and a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the Fry ProModern Cyrillic 2009 competition. Fry also received Second Prize in the display typeface category at Granshan 2011. Fry Pro (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic) was released in 2013. Oleg writes about this round sans: Fry was developed in 2008 specially for the Sky-Fish company (fish and seafood dealer). This type is designed for small texts and has a friendly and a fairytale historic flavor. Fry takes the openness and dynamism of humanist sans serif, the simple and softness of lubok's letters (primitive style) and the fluidity of shallow marine fry.
    • Lansere. An art-deco typeface inspired by lettering of Russian graphic artist, painter and sculptor Evgeniy Lansere (1875-1946), whose name is also spelled Eugene Lanseray.
    • Mamontov (2007-2008). A wood type with large incisions for ink traps. It has 25 weights and is based on Clarendon, except that the serifs are asymmetric (missing on one side). Mamontov won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Pich (2014). Hand-drawn, almost a comic book typeface.
    • Ryba Kit (Fish-whale). Designed for large headlines and display typography, and based on halfustav handwriting.
    • Siberian (2013). A geometric unicase sans serif inspired by Russian avant-garde typography and old Siberian runic scripts (Orkhon-Yenisey script): The idea was to create a typeface so simple, cold and beautiful as the snow in Siberia. This typeface with its numerous stylistic sets could be used for Cyrillic simulation. Siberian won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Slovolitnaya (2008). A pixel typeface based on the old forms of Cyrillic and works of the Russian style artists like Mihail Vrubel and Ivan Bilibin, who revived these forms in their design in the beginning of the 20th century.

    Typeface catalog. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Online bible resources

    Some Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Coptic font links. Has BSTGreek, BSTHebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Open Printing Project

    Free fonts by the Information-technology Promotion Agency at this Japanese site: IPAGothic, IPAMincho, IPAPGothic, IPAPMincho, IPAUIGothic. These 2003 fonts all cover kanji, hiragana, katakana, as well as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and are Unicode compliant. A nice alternative for the proprietary MS Mincho and MS Gothic. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Open Source Publishing (or: OSP)
    [Harrisson]

    Free software project based in Belgium and run by four people (and I quote from their web page):

    • Harrisson: Graphic designer and typographer, based in Liege and Brussels. Started to use as much Open Source software as possible on his Macintosh, as part of a research project The Tomorrow Book at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
    • Pierre Huyghebaert: Exploring for eighteen years several practices around graphic design, he currently drives his own studio Speculoos. Interested to use free sofware to re-learn to work in others way and collaboratively on cartography, type design, web interface, schematic illustration, teaching and book design.
    • Nicolas Malevé: Systems- and software developer from Brussels with a long interest in the politics and practice of software. Uses Linux since 1998 and makes publishing- and distribution systems for collaborative work.
    • Femke Snelting: Graphic designer and artist based in Brussels. Most of her current work is for the web. Recently switched to Linux after using Apple Macintosh for more than ten years.
    Alternate URL. They also describe interesting autotrace software included in Inkscape and UNIX batch tools for good autotracing of images. Designers of free fonts:
    • Alfphabet (2009). Based on the Belgian road signage system in use from 1945 until 1975. It came from Minneapolis to Brussels with 3M.
    • Broodthaers.
    • Cimatics (2009). Totally experimental. This font was designed in July 2009, for the graphic identity of Cimatics A\V Platform. It gathers glyphs from FreeSerif, FreeSerifItalic, DejaVuSans, DejaVuSerif, the OSP_frog mascot, the Cimatics two piece heart, a baronchon_palm_tree from Open Clip Art Library and private use dingbats drawn for Cimatics (Cimatics_scare_eye, white_pentagon).
    • Crickx. A digital reinterpretation of a set of adhesive letters.
    • Distilled Spirit and Whisky Jazz. In September 2009, Harrisson and Jean Baptiste Parre from LPDME remixed URW Gothic (Avant Garde) and published the free fonts Distilled Spirit and Whisky Jazz.
    • DLF. DLF stands for Dingbats Liberation Fest.
    • Libertinage. In August 2008, Harrisson designed 26 variations on Philipp H. Poll's 2006 font Libertine, and called the new family Libertinage. It covers Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.
    • Limousine. This font was made for a poster to support nine people accused of "criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity". They were arrested the 11th of November 2008, in France. They and others are the victims of a witch-hunt where the word "terrorism" was applied to any idea or practice which challenges the status quo. An international movement is emerging in their support. For the poster, we re-mixed an open font, the Free Sans from Free UCS Outline Fonts. Open Font Library link.
    • Logisoso. Logisoso is a reinterpretation of the Delhaize logo lettering.
    • NotCourierSans. NotCourierSans is a reinterpretation of Nimbus Mono and was designed in Wroclaw at the occasion of Linux Graphics Meeting (LGM 2008). We took Nimbus as the base of the design. We proceeded to remove the serifs with raw cuts. We did not soften the edges. We are not here to be polite.
    • OSP-DIN (2009). The first cut of OSP-DIN was drawn for the festival Cinema du réel.
    • Polsku Regula (2010). Polsku Regula is inspired by polish signage, street signs and shop windows lettering.
    • Reglo (2011) was used for the new identity of Radio Panik.
    • Sans Guilt (2011). The three Sans Guilt fonts have been produced during "Read The Fucking Manual", an OSP workshop at Deparment 21 (Royal College of Art), using Gimp, Fonzie and Fontforge. They are different versions of Gill Sans based on three different sources. Sans Guilt MB: based on a rasterized pdf made with the Monotype Gill Sans delivered with Mac OSX. Sans Guilt DB: Based on early sketches by Eric Gill Sans Guilt LB: Based on lead type from Royal College of Arts letterpress workshop. Open Font Library link.
    • Univers Else (2010-2012). A geometric sans, about which they write: Univers Else is an experiment, a first attempt to escape the post ’80 era of geometrical purity that is so typical of Postscript vector based font drawing. The shapes of Univers Else were obtained from scanning printed textpages that were optically composed by cheap phototypesetting machines in the sixties and seventies. Some of Univers Else beautiful features are: round angles, floating baselines, erratic kerning. More precisely in this case, George Maciunas of the Fluxus group used an IBM composer (probably a Selectric typewriter) for most of his own work, and as a former designer, for all Fluxus work. In the 1988 book Fluxus Codex, kindly given to Pierre Huyghebaert by Sylvie Eyberg, the body text is typeset in a charmingly rounded and dancing Univers that seems to smile playfully at its dry swiss creator. Different scans were assembled by Grégoire Vigneron following different grids. These huge bitmaps were processed with appropriate potrace settings by the Fonzie software* through a .ufo font format as a working format, and an OpenType as output. Some testing and fine-tuning was done by Pierre Marchand, Delphine Platteeuw and Pierre Huyghebaert in FontForge and the font was ready, in a finished state enough to typeset the book. The oblique versions was simply slanted on the fly.
    • VJ12 (2009).
    • W Droge. In 2008, they ran a workshop in Wroclaw, Poland, to design a font in a day with the free tools Inkscape, Gimp and FontForge---called W Droge. It was based on Polish traffic signs. Cooperation with Dave Crossland, Alexandre Prokoudine and Nicolas Spalinger. The designers were Malwina Pukaluk, Marcin Wajda, Anna Bartoszek, Kacper Lenczuk, and Ludivine Loiseau.
    • Le Patin Helvète (2011) is a slab typeface derived from Nimbus L. It covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew: Patin Helvete is a attempt to turn the slick propergol purity of the modernist lines back to the coal dirt of the iron horse by going backward in time and space through little pieces of rail. Designed by Harrisson, Ludi Loiseau and Sebastien Sanfilippo.
    • Mill (2012) is an architectural style typeface that has been created for engraving building instructions into the wood of a bench.
    • Sans Guilt Wafer (2012) is described by OSP as follows: Gill Sans eats a Gaufrette.
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    Orestes Chouchoulas

    London, UK-based designer of the trilined Latin / Greek typeface Grisea Triplex (2018). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oscar Yáñez

    Oscar Yáñez (b. Mexico City) has a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Communication Design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and a Master's degree in Typographic Design from the Centro de Estudios Gestalt. He studied Project Management in the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a Masters degree in Type Design at Centro de Estudios Gestalt. He was involved and leading designs and redesigns in more than fifty magazines, newspapers and websites like Time Inc Expansion, Editorial Televisa, Reforma, El Universal and Khaleej Times newspapers. Nowadays he is Group Design Director for Harper's Bazaar Arabia and is based in Dubai.

    Designer of Fabrica Texto (Italica, Versalita, Bold, 2008) and Lucrecia Texto (Itálica, Versalita, Bold), both winners in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. Grand prize winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his titling type family Carlota. Other typefaces by him include Aion, Moneda, and Condesa.

    Viga (2011, free at Google Web Fonts) is a heavy angry macho sans.

    In 2012, he created Amate, a type that was designed for a newspaper in Cuernavaca. Calavera (2012, Cocijotype) is an ornamental display typeface that is based on the Mexican Tuscan letter style and on the work by Mexican engraver Manuel Manilla. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. Dorotea (2012) is a Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface family created for text in books and periodicals. The name is in honor to Dorothy Abbe, typographer, puppeter and close friend of William Addison Dwiggins.

    At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke eloquently about Boudewijn Ietswaart and the development of the Balduino typeface (by the Círculo de Tipógrafos).

    In 2014, he created the curly ronde script typeface Bistro for Gastronomie Magazine.

    He lives in Mexico City and is Design Editor at GEE. Founding member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico.

    In 2010, Cristobal Henestrosa strated work on Charter, which is based on an experimental typeface named Charter, designed yet never fully finished by William Addison Dwiggins. It is an upright italic, unconnected script typeface, whose main features are a pronounced contrast, condensed forms and exaggerated ascenders. While Dwiggins worked on this project from 1937 to 1955, he only completed the lowercase and a few other characters. However, it was used to set a specimen in 1942 and a short novel in 1946. The sources that Cristobal used for Royal Charter (and later, Mon Nicolette) were the original sketches by WAD as well as printing trails kept at the Boston Public Library, and a copy of the 1946 edition of The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolette. This gorgeous typeface can be used successfully in headlines, subheads and short passages of text from 12 points onwards. It was published in 2020 as Mon Nicolette at Sudtipos, where the help of Oscar Yanez was acknowledged. Mon Nicolette also comes in a variable format with weight and optical size axes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Osman Nuri Alkan
    [Runic World Tamgaci]

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    OTC (Odyssey Type Company)
    [Hein Boekhout]

    OTC (Odyssey Type Company) was founded in 2020 by Dutch type designer Hein Boekhout and is based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Hein studied informatics at The Hague University and media technology at Leiden University, and has worked as a graphic designer and web developer before becoming a type designer. In 2020, he released the squarish typeface OTC Underground which covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. He writes: OTC Underground is a geometric condensed display font, presenting a compressed letterform structure with an even stroke contrast. The font is inspired by Gustav F. Schroeder's Othello from 1886 and the lettering on the 1967 album cover from The Velvet Underground & Nico. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    P. Damian Cugley
    [Malvern]

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    Palatino Unicode Greek

    Cornell's Jeffrey Rusten discusses the commercial unicode polytonic Greek font Palatino Unicode Greek, developed by Michael Duggan (Roman), Geraldine Wade (Italic), Sue Lightfoot (Bold), Ian Patterson (Bold Italic). It is based on the work of Hermann Zapf, who designed Palatino for Linotype in the 50s. Palatino Unicode Greek is included in Windows 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paleofonts V. 2
    [Vasil Gligorov]

    Vasil Gligorov from Skopje, Macedonia, has a 16MB file with almost 300 truetype fonts that represent 30 ancient scripts: Luwian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Runic, Syriac, Glagolitic, OCS Cyrillic, Persian Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Demotic, Linear A (Complex signs), Linear B, Proto-Greek, Ancient and Medieval Greek, Ancient and Medieval Latin, Gothic, Etruscan, Oscan, Phoenician, Galilean, Celto-Iberian, Coptic, Meroitic, Cypriot, Vina, Ancient Hebrew, Samaritan, Sanskrit, Ugaritic, Manichean, Ogham, Umbrian, Asomtavruli Mrglovani, Siloam type-Inscription. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Palina Pliashchanka

    Photographer and graphic designer from Thessaloniki, Greece, who made the structured display typeface Anilop in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Panagiotis Chatzigeorgiou

    As a young designer in Athens, Greece, Panagiotis Chatzigeorgiou created Metropolis 1920 Greek (2013), a Greek version of Josip Kelava's art deco style Metropolis font. Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Panayotis Katsaloulis
    [Avi Fonts]

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    Panos Athanasiadis

    Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of Quake Display (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Panos Haratzopoulos
    [Cannibal Fonts]

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    Panos Nikolakakis

    Graphic designer who runs Fishtank Design in Athens, Greece. He created the Latin / Greek monospaced sans typeface family FT Mono in 2012.

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    Panos Vassiliou
    [Parachute]

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    Panos Voulgaris

    Panos Voulgaris (b. 1983) is an architectural student in Venice, Italy. He lists his place of residence as Thessaloniki, Greece. Creator at FontStruct (under the alias Rotweiler83) of the modular techno typeface Raptor Sans (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    papimi.gr

    Three Greek truetype font families: Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Par Défaut
    [Nathanael Dorange]

    French designer of these typefaces:

    • New Odyssey (2020). An 14-style informal sans.
    • Basique Black (2020). A heavy geometric sans typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Basique Pro (2020). A 5-style geometric sans typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Block S (2021). A squarish blocky family in 98 styles.
    • Stallman (2021). A squarish font family with 100 styles, +a variable font. Stallman Round (98 styles) followed layter in 2021. It is unknown whether these typefaces are named after the Free Software guru Richard Stallman.
    • Decart (2021). A retro display font.
    • Rouge Gorge (2021). A warm and fuzzy serif family in 42 styles, with two variable fonts.
    • Rollman (2021). A squarish typeface family.
    • Lonie (2021). An 11-style monolinear rounded for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It includes a variable font. Followed by Lonie Soft (2021).
    • Codeworld Mono (2021). An 11-style geometric monolinear sans family.
    • Maincode Mono (2022). In seven weights, seven widths, +oblique, and a variable font. Followed by Maincode (2022), which also has 98 styles.
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    Parachute
    [Panos Vassiliou]

    London, UK, and Athens and Kifissia, Greece-based type foundry started in 2001 by Panos Vassiliou. It specializes in fine multilingual (usually Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) typeface families. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Canada with a major in Applied Science and Engineering. Following his University of Toronto graduation, he studied Graphic Communications at Ryerson University. Panos Vassiliou has conducted numerous seminars for Canadian companies such as Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank and Sony Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto/Canada, where he studied Applied Science and Engineering. He has been Creative Director for the Canadian design firm AdHaus, former Publisher of the monthly magazine DNA (Greece) and Secretary-General for the Hellenic Canadian Congress (Ontario, Canada). He has been designing typefaces since 1993, including commercial fonts as well as commissions from Vodafone, Nestlé, Ikea and National Geographic. He started Parachute in 2001 setting the base for a typeface library that reflected the works of some of the best contemporary Greek designers, as well as creatives around the world obsessed with type. Apart from its commercial line of typefaces, Parachute offers bespoke branding services for corporate typefaces and lettering. Customers include Bank of America, the European Commission, UEFA, Samsung, IKEA, Interbrand, National Geographic, Financial Times, National Bank of Greece, Alpha Bank and many others.

    Myfonts link. Behance link.

    Other type designers at Parachute include Kanella Arapoglou, Alexandros Papalexis, Dimitris Foussekis, Aggeliki Skandalelli, Helen Gabara, Babis Touglis, Vangelis Karageorgos, George Toumbalis, Eva Karapidaki, Charis Tsevis, Pavlos Levendellis, Panos Vassiliou, and George Lygas.

    At Granshan 2010, Vassiliou won Second Prize in the Greek text typeface category for PF Encore Sans POro, and First and Second Prizes in the display typeface category for PF Regal Pro and PF Champion Script Pro, respectively. Typefaces:

    • Adamant
    • PFAgora Pro: Agora Sans, AgoraSerif, AgoraSlab.
    • Amateur
    • PF Archive Pro (2004). He received a design award for his typeface Archive at the E AWARDS 2004. It has special typographic features and multilingual support for all European languages including Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Armonia
    • Astrobats
    • Bague Universal and Bague Sans (2014). A geometric grotesk that dares to be different. Accompanied by Bague Slab Pro (2014), PF Bague Inline Pro (2014), and PF Bague Round Pro (2014).
    • Baseline
    • Beatnick
    • Beau Sans (2011). Inspired by Bernhard Gothic.
    • A custom didone font for Greece's Benaki Museum (2020-2021).
    • PF Benchmark Pro (2014).
    • Bodoni Script (2009).
    • PF Brummell (2016). A sans characterized by sharp angled terminals and a diamond dot on the i.
    • Bulletin Sans (2000-2005)
    • Centro (Centro Sans, Centro Serif, Centro Slab) a typeface originally developed for the redesign of the Financial Times Deutschland. PF Centro Pro family (Sans, Serif, Slab, a trillion styles) won an European Design Award in May 2008 in Stockholm and at Paratype K2009. It was completed by PF Centro Serif Compressed, PF Centro Sans Condensed and PF Centro Sans Compressed in 2015. In 2016, he published PF Centro Slab Press.
    • PFChampion Script Pro (2004-2008). A much lauded connected calligraphic script that is based on a calligraphic script by Joseph Champion, 1709-1765. Winner at Paratype K2009 and Granshan 2010. Images: i, ii iii, iv, v. The 4245-glyph family comprises Cyrillic, Latin and Greek subfamilies.
    • Cosmonut (sic) (2002). A retro futuristoc typeface made by Dimitris Foussekis.
    • PF Das Grotesk Pro (2014). Panos writes: Das Grotesk was inspired by earlier nineteenth-century grotesques, but it is much more related to American gothic designs such as those by M.F. Benton.
    • DaVinciScript (2001-2006). A Treefrog-style script typeface by Vassiliou and Dimitris Foussekis.
    • PF Dekka (2014). This solid elliptical sans family was influenced by Monaco's outline version called MPW. It includes PF Dekka Mono.
    • PF DIN (2010): PF DIN Display (2002-2005), PF DIN Mono, PF DIN Serif (2016; this great serif version of DIN---a first---contains a wealth of goodies: just look at the great weather icons; it won an award at Granshan 2016), PF DIN Stencil Pro (2010), PF DIN Stencil, PF DIN Stencil B (2016), PF DIN Text Pro, PF DIN Text Condensed, PF DIN Text Compressed, PF DIN Text Arabic, and PF DIN Text Universal. With Latin, Cyrillic and Greek coverage, each font has about 1300 glyphs. The designs go back to the lettering of the Prussian railways around 1900. In 2013, PF Din Text Pro was published. In 2021, the three-axis (weight, width, italic) variable type system PF DIN Max saw the light.
    • Eco Park. A 3d outline face.
    • PF Encore Sans (2009). A rich and versatile sans family supporting Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.
    • PF Fuel Pro
    • PF Fusion Sans (1996-2006)
    • PF Garamond Classic.
    • PF Goudy Intials and PF Goudy Ornaments. A winner at Paratype K2009.
    • PF Grand Gothik (2019). A large grotesque typeface family with three subfamilies and a variable font option. He writes: Grand Gothik is a postmodern, multiscript, multifaceted and variable type system which shines at its heavier extended versions with its hip, expressive, almost brutal energy. Grand Gothik's design space includes 3 axes for weight, width and one for italics. It is available as a variable font or as five separate opentype families---compressed, condensed, normal, wide and extended. Each family comes with 9 weights spanning from Extra Thin to Black plus italics.
    • PF Handbook (2005-2007, sans family)
    • HausSquare
    • HellenicaSerif. Chiseled look, Greek simulation face.
    • PF Highway Sans (2001-2015). Highway Sans Pro is based on the standard typefaces used for highway signs and other byways open to public travel in the United States. These standards were established by the US Federal Highway Administration in 1966 following several studies which were conducted at the California Department of Transportation in the 1940s. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • House Square. A Bank Gothic lookalike.
    • PF Isotext (2005). Meant for technical documentation, it is modeled after Isonorm.
    • Kids, KidsStuff
    • Libera
    • Lindemann and PF Lindemann Sans (2012).
    • PF Marlet (2019). A sharp-edged humanist sans family fit for fashion mags: Marlet Titling, Marlet Finesse, Marlet Swash, Marlet Display, Marlet Text. PF Marlet, collected three awards one after the other, a year after appearing on Luc's best-of-2019 list. First, the coveted TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2020 (at 23RDC), followed by another one from European Design Awards, a third distinction from Tokyo TDC and a fourth crown, Red Dot Award 2020, all in 2020.
    • Mechanica A and B, 2002-2006. Octagonal families.
    • PF Mellon (2019). A modernist variable grotesque influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century condensed sans serif typefaces such as Stephenson Blake's Grotesque No.77 and ATF's Alternate Gothic.
    • PF Monumenta (2002-2006). A majestic lapidary roman family.
    • Muse
    • Online (One, Two and Three). Pixelish family.
    • PF Ornamental Treasures (2008). Byzantine ornaments and borders.
    • PF Pixelscript
    • Playskool
    • Psychedelia (2003, Dimitris Foussekis). A psychedelic typeface.
    • Regal Pro and Regal Finesse Pro: Award-winning high fashion display didone families, 2010-2012, originally designed for the Grazia magazine. Awards include Red Dot Awrd 2012, Communication Arts Annual Competition 2012, Creative Review Type Annual 2011, European Design awards 2011, EBGE awards 2011, Granshan Awards 2010. See also PF Regal Swash and PF Regal Stencil.
    • PF Reminder Pro (2003). A hand-printed typeface.
    • Scandal
    • PF Spekk (2020). A simple versatile geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • PF Square Sans Pro, PF Square Sans Condensed Pro (2013).
    • PF Stamps (2002-2006). A grungy stencil typeface by Panos Vassiliou and George Lygas.
    • PF Synch Pro (2006). An industrial strength slab-serif typeface.
    • PF UEFA Super Cup (2013).
    • PF Uniform
    • PF Venue (2017). Semi art deco, and free-spirited, a great poster typeface family.
    • VideoText
    • PF Wonderbats (2003). Funky and strange animals.
    • Wonderland (2006). By Dimitris Foussekis.

    Their type blog is called Upscale typography.

    Catalog. View all typefaces designed by Parachute.

    Klingspor link. MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paradigm Software Development

    Paradigm Software Development (Portland, OR) offers their own Greek TrueType font used in GreekFlash Pro. Free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Parash2001

    The Parachute Greek font collection will open its doors soon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ParaType

    The main digital type foundry in Russia. ParaType was established as a font department of ParaGraph International in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. At that time in the Soviet Union, all typeface development was concentrated in a state research institute, Polygraphmash. It had the most complete collection of Cyrillic typefaces, which included revivals of Cyrillic typefaces developed by the Berthold and Lehmann type foundries established at the end of 19th century in St. Petersburg, and artwork from Vadim Lazurski, Galina Bannikova, Nikolay Kudryashov and other masters of type and graphic design of Soviet time. ParaType became the first privately-owned type foundry in many years. A license agreement with Polygraphmash allows ParaType to manufacture and distribute their typefaces. Most of Polygraphmash staff designers soon moved to ParaType. In the beginning of 1998, ParaType was separated from the parent company and inherited typefaces and font software from ParaGraph. The company was directed by Emil Yakupov until February 2014. After Yakupov's death, Irina Petrova took over the reins.

    Products include FastFont, a simple TrueType builder, ParaNoise, a builder for PostScript fonts with random contours, FontLab, a universal font editor and ScanFont, a font editor with scanning module. Random, customized fonts. Multilingual fonts including, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Georgian and Hebrew fonts for Macintosh and Windows.

    Catalog. Designers. Alternate URL.

    Famous typefaces by Paratype include Academy, Pragmatica, Newton, Courier, Futura, Petersburg, Jakob, Kuenstler 480, ITC Studio Script, ITC Zapf Chancery, Amore CTT (2004, Fridman), Karolla, Inform, Hafiz (Arabic), Kolheti (Georgian), Benzion (Hebrew).

    The PT Sans (Open Font Library link), PT Serif and PT Mono families (2009-2012) are free. PT stands for Public Type. Another download site. PT Sans, for example, consists of PTSans-Bold, PTSans-BoldItalic, PTSans-Caption, PTSans-CaptionBold, PTSans-Italic, PTSans-Narrow, PTSans-NarrowBold, PTSans-Regular.

    Other free ParaType fonts include Courier Cyrillic, Pushkin (2005, handwriting font), and a complete font set for Cyrillic.

    Type designers include Vladimir Yefimov, Tagir Safayev, Lyubov Kuznetsova, Manvel Schmavonyan and Alexander Tarbeev. They give this description of the 370+ library: The Russian constructivist and avant garde movements of the early 20th century inspired many ParaType typefaces, including Rodchenko, Quadrat Grotesk, Ariergard, Unovis, Tauern, Dublon and Stroganov. The ParaType library also includes many excellent book and newspaper typefaces such as Octava, Lazurski, Bannikova, Neva or Petersburg. On the other hand, if you need a pretty typeface to knock your clients dead, meet the ParaType girls: Tatiana, Betina, Hortensia, Irina, Liana, Nataliscript, Nina, Olga and Vesna (also check Zhikharev who is not a girl but still very pretty). ParaType also excels in adding Cyrillic characters to existing Latin typefaces -- if your company is ever going to do business with Eastern Europe, you should make them part of your corporate identity! ParaType created CE and Cyrillic versions of popular typefaces licensed from other foundries, including Bell Gothic, Caslon, English 157, Futura, Original Garamond, Gothic 725, Humanist 531, Kis, Raleigh, and Zapf Elliptical 711.

    Finally, ParaType offers a handwriting font service out of its office in Saratoga, CA: 120 dollars a shot.

    View the ParaType typeface library. Another view of the ParaType typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paris Koutsikos

    Paris Koutsikos (b. 1968) is co-founder and Art Director of OXY publications. He is now experimenting with street art and other levels of art. He also designs typefaces with Cannibal Fonts since 2001. These include Acid Ass, Acid Caou, Acid Hili, Acid Punch, Acid Square, and Acid Vegas.

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    Parmigiano Typographic System

    Italian type designers Riccardo Olocco and Jonathan Pierini reinterpreted Bodoni's work in 2014. Their Parmigiano Typographic System, which is named after Parma, the city where Giambattista Bodoni (d. 1813) established his printing house, attempts to revive, interpret and boldly extend Bodoni's work. There is not a single official original Bodoni---Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico contains many slightly different examples---, and so, the first challenge was to create coherent relationships between various optical sizes (Piccolo, Caption, Text, Headline) and weights. Besides the Parmigiano Serif family, Olocco and Pierini also developed the creative extension Parmigiano Sans. There are also Stencil, Typewriter, Egyptian styles, to name a few. Finally, the language extensions include Parmigiano Arabic (by Rana Abou Rjeily), Parmigiano Cyrillic (by Irina Smirnova) and Parmigiano Greek (by Irene Vlachou). The Parmigiano Typographic System was published in 2014 by Typotheque, but was developed a few years before that. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pathloss4.0

    Truetype fonts WP-GreekCentury, WP-MathA, WP-MathB. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patrick Fury

    American creator of the artificial language typeface Efymaks ban Rystvak (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Patrick Giasson

    Patrick Giasson runs Behaviour Design in Montreal. He studied type design at Reading in 2004, and worked for some time at Wolff Olins and Agfa Monotype UK. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on The typographic inception of the Cherokee syllabary. He states: [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paul Hanslow

    Australian graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. His graduation typeface there was the Latin / Syriac / Greek typeface Antipode, which is a low contrast serif meant for biblical texts, dictionaries and academic publications. Before Reading, he obtained a BA(Hons) in Visual Communication from Monash University, Australia. Born in Australia, he currently lives in Vancouver, Canada.

    In 2018, Paul Hanslow, Ross Mills and John Hudson co-designed the free STIX Two family, which is based on Times Roman.

    After joining John Hudson's Tiro Typeworks, which is based in Vancouver, Paul Hanslow aided in the development of the text typeface Castoro (2020). Hudson writes: Castoro is a libre font family released under the SIL Open Font License. Castoro is a specific instance of an adaptive design developed for Tiro Typeworks' internal use as a base from which to generate tailored Latin companions for some of our non-European script types. The instance that has been expanded to create the Castoro fonts was initially made for the Indic fonts that we produced for Harvard University Press. In the Castoro version, we have retained the extensive diacritic set for transliteration of South Asian languages, and added additional characters for an increased number of European languages. The parent design here presented as the Castoro instance began as a synthesis of aspects of assorted Dutch types from the 16th through 18th Centuries. Castoro roman was designed by John Hudson, and the italic with his Tiro colleague Paul Hanslow, assisted by Kaja Slojewska. It is named Castoro after the busy beaver, a real workhorse in the Canadian forests. Google Fonts link.

    Skeena (2021) is a humanist sans typeface by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow that was developed for Microsoft for use as one of the default fonts in Office apps and Microsoft 365 products.

    In 2021, Ross Mills, Anna Giedrys and Paul Hanslow co-designed the 14-style sans family Laconia at Tiro Typeworks.

    Co-designer with John Hudson, Alice Savoie and Karsten Luecke of Brill (2011), Brill Greek (2021), Brill Cyrillic (2021) and Brill Latin (2021). This classic text typeface family was a winner at the TDC 2013 competition. Client: Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paul James Miller
    [PJM Homebrew Fonts]

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    Paul Pietquin
    [FUNDP: Tablinum]

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    Paula Nazal Selaive

    Santiago de Chile-based creator of Selaive (2011, Latinotype), a geometric monoline sans with an extreme hairline weight, a bold, and several curly alternates. She also made the curly swashy script typeface Dulce (2011; Dulce Pro appeared in 2013 at Latinotype). Dulce has slight teardrop terminals.

    In 2012, she and Daniel Hernandez created the Bosque family at Latinotype, which comes with six variants, Normal, Wood, Shadow, Wood Shadow, Dingbats and Shadow One. Julieta is a curly swashy thin monoline typeface family. Romeo (Latinotype) is a swashy curly condensed unicase typeface.

    In 2013, with Daniel Hernandez, she designed the layered type system Trend, also at Latinotype. See also Trend Rough (2014).

    In 2014, together with Daniel Hernandez, she created the upright good-spirited coffee shop script Showcase. It is morally supported by a set of Ornaments and a few Sans and Slab styles.

    Revista (2015, Paula Nazal Selaive, Marcelo Quiroz and Daniel Hernandez, at Latinotype) is a typographic system that brings together all the features to undertake any fashion magazine-oriented project. It has Revista Script (connected style), Revista Stencil, Revista Dingbats, Revista Inline and the didone Revista all caps set of typefaces. Revista won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

    In 2016, she designed the delicate display didone typeface family Camila (Latinotype), for which she was influenced by Coco Chanel.

    In 2017, Paula Nazal and Daniel Hernandez co-designed Trenda, a geometric sans family based on the uppercase of Trend. The rounded edge version of Trenda is Boston [corrections and review by Alfonso Garcia and Rodrigo Fuenzalida].

    In 2018, Paula Nazal and Daniel Hernandez co-designed the monoline connected script font Save The Date.

    Facundo (2020, Paula Nazal Selaive and Daniel Hernandez, at Latinotype) is a 14-style geometric sans family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pavlos Levendellis

    Pavlos Levendellis studied graphic design and typography at the National Design School (TEI) of Athens. After working for several advertising agencies, he started his own design studio Paulus Design. His area of specialization is branding as well as packaging. His first commercial typeface PF Hybrid (2007) will be published at Parachute. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pedro Arilla

    Spanish type foundry, est. 2016 by Pedro Arilla (b. 1984, Ejea de los Caballeros), who runs Don Serifa, a beautiful and informative Spanish type blog, and is based in Zaragoza, Spain. Pedro studied graphic design at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón. In 2018, he joined Fontsmith as type designer.

    His typefaces include the free didone typeface Valentina (2012).

    In 2016, he published the humanist sans typeface family Mestre, which, in his own words, is a German & Dutch-inspired geometric sans-serif.

    In 2017, Pedro graduated from the University of Reading with the multi-script typeface pair Rock (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) and Roll (for Latin, Arabic and Japanese).

    In 2018, Fontsmith published the mammoth sans family FS Industrie.

    Still in 2018, Arilla released FS Neruda at Fontsmith. This transitional storytelling text family is named after Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

    The Lost & Foundry family of fonts was designed in 2018 by Fontsmith's designers Stuart de Rozario and Pedro Arilla together with M&C Saatchi London: FS Berwick FS Cattle, FS Century, FS Charity, FS Marlborough, FS Portland, FS St James. The campaign was developed by Fontsmith, M&C Saatchi London and Line Form Colour. The crumbling typefaces of Soho were recovered to be sold online as a collection of display fonts, to fund the House of St Barnabas's work with London's homeless.

    In 2020, Monotype released Bunbury, FS Rosa (a soft serif family influenced by Cooper Black and Windsor), FS Renaissance, a stencil serif typeface by Pedro Arilla and Craig Black.

    Behance link. Home page for Pedro Arilla. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pely F

    Greek designer of the free open source triangulated typeface Kirchner (2020). It is named after the German painter and printmaker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), who was one of the founders of the artistic collective Die Brücke, which revived woodcuts prints as an effort to link the past with the future. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pepper Type
    [Oleh Lishchuk]

    Odessa, Ukraine-baded designer of the Peignotian sans typeface Alethia Pro (2016, Mint Type) for Latin and Cyrillic. In 2016, Oleh Lishchuk and Andriy Konstantynov co-designed the rounded scientific or technical paper font Midpoint Pro. In 2017, they published the 64-style geometric grotesque sans-serif typeface family Opinion Pro, which is characterized by its extra-large x-height. Deposit Pro (2017) is a wide slab-serif family with low x-height.

    In 2018, Oleh published Rolleston (a rigid 42-style serif font family with peculiar spiky serifs), the music poster Latin / Cyrillic typeface family Stereonic (Mint Type) that features multiline, stencil, inline, contour, overline and underline styles.

    He published the programming font Vin Mono Pro in 2018 at Mint Type. Vin Mono Pro is a squarish monospaced font family with extra-large x-height and rounded corners. Related typefaces include Vin Sans Pro, Vin Slab Pro

    Typefaces from 2019: Ditch (octagonal), Spaceland (a minimalist sans), Alethia Next, Mazzard (a 54-style geometric grotesque with three different x-heights), Mazzard Soft.

    Typefaces from 2020: Daikon, Monospaceland (a 21-style monospaced monolinear organic sans), Mantonico (a small x-height transitional text family), Ruberoid (described as a squarish geometric sans-serif family reminiscent of Italian designs of 1950s and 1960s, but featuring considerably rounder shapes to give it a more contemporary feel), Geraldton (a geometric sans family), Shtozer (a chamfered typeface family).

    Typefaces from 2021: Zerno (an 18-style flared lapidary typeface family), Golca (a 16-style geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Steclo (an 18-style tall condensed minimalist sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Bilak
    [Typotheque]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Bruhn
    [Fountain--A Friendly Type Foundry]

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    Peter R. Wilson
    [archaic]

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    Peter Specht

    Designer who created the pixel grid typeface z001-rom (2008), Katerina (2010, almost LED face), Kinryu (2010), Kinryu No. 14 (2009), z001-rom_v10.4, Normal (2009, pixel face), Elektrogothic (2008, futuristic), Laurier Test (2009, serifed), Laurier No. 7 (2009, an extensive Unicode typeface that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, most Indic languages, Thai, Hebrew, Lao, Tibetan, runic, Khmer, and mathematical, chess and other symbols), Kinryu No. 8 Regular (2009, an extension of Laurier towards Japanese), Clucky Duck (2008, rounded), and the double-scratch handwriting typeface Wild Freak (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Petros Vasiadis
    [Cyn Fonts]

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    Petros Voulgaris

    Part of the design collective Indyvisuals. Based in Athens. Behance link. Involved with his buddies in designing typefaces such as Tall Handwritten (2011) and Sprayed Stencil (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    phantis.com

    Arial, Times New Roman and Avant Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Phelan Riessen
    [NSM Worldwide (or: Greek House of Fonts)]

    [More]  ⦿

    Phil Chastney
    [Amadeus Information Systems]

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    Philatype
    [Kosal Sen]

    Kosal Sen (b. 1982, Philadelphia) is a graphic and identity designer, aka Koleslaw. He used to live in Philadelphia, but is now in Anaheim, CA.

    • His early typefaces, some of which were free, include the graffiti typeface Drupal (2005), Unnamed Sans (2009), "Kosal Says Hy" (sic, 2003), Olney (2010, a basic square sans), Gravity Sans (2010, slab serif; +GravityNova, GravitySupernova), Merge (2011, a plumpish round monoline sans family), Philly Sans (2008, comic book style face) and the comic book typeface Arfmoochikncheez (2006).
    • In 2009, he founded Philatype. At Philatype [Twitter link], he created Olney (2010; inspired by the Bank Gothic style; Olney Light is free), Ryno Slab (2009, macho), Markup (2007, a fresh hand-printed comic book style face), Gravity (2010, slab serif), Tryst (2013, transitional: free download), Lovato (2014, a 5-style wedge serif family with a free Lovato Light style), and Merge (2011, free). Merge Pro Greek and Cyrillic (2012) are co-designed with Elexei Vanyashin.
    • Creator of this heavy slab face (2006) in true Western wood type style.
    • Regalia (2014) is a heavy angular typeface.
    • Sen is a free 3-style geohumanist sans.
    • Toddle (2015): a sans modeled after Google's logo.
    • In 2016, he started work on Grotesque MetaUltra.
    • Regalia (2018). Inspired by Emigre's typeface Brothers.
    • Tylerwolf (2018). An architectural marker font.
    • In 2021, he released the octagonal typeface Brothers Circus.
    • Lansen (2021).
    • Bourse (2021). An all-caps wedge serif typeface based on the letters adorning the entrance of the historic Philadelphia Bourse building. Has a chiseled version as well. .

    Kosal was embroiled in a minor controversy. He claimed that Wilton's commercial font Shallow (2005) was based on Kosal Says Hi. Wilton subsequently removed it from its site.

    Also called Typophilesal Ko, and Koleslaw. 1001 Fonts link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspring link. Alternate URL. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Philip Barton Payne

    President of The Payne Loving Trust, which owns Linguist's Software (Edmonds, WA). A selection of the fonts of "Payne Loving Trust" that are floating around in cyberspace includes AradLevelVI, CityBlueprint, CountryBlueprint, EuroRoman, EuroRomanOblique, Graeca, PanRoman, Romantic, RomanticBold, RomanticItalic, SansSerif, SansSerifBold, SansSerifBoldOblique, SansSerifOblique, SuperFrench, Supergreek, TbilisiCaps, TbilisiText, TbilisiText13215, Technic, TechnicBold, TechnicLite. Apparently, Linguist's Software calls upon a battery of nameless typographers for font design. They also sell LaserIPA fonts (IPARoman, IPAKiel, IPAKielSeven and IPAExtras). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Philip Garnham

    London-based Phil Garnham joined Fontsmith in June 2003 as designer to assist in the development and production of new alphabets for the Fontsmith font library. He is a 2002 graduate of Middlesex University. Many of his fonts are co-designed with Jason Smith. His typefaces:

    • FS Albert (2009). Codesigned by Mitja Miklavcic, Jason Smith and Phil Garnham, FS Albert supports Greek, Cyrillic, and Latin, covering 60 languages.
    • FS Aldrin (2016). A rounded sans.
    • FS Alvar (2007, Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). A modernist utilitarian octagonal headline font family inspired by the work of Alvar Aalto. Almost a stencil font.
    • Bjorn (2021, Monotype). A soft sans family in four styles.
    • FS Clerkenwell (2004). A slab serif typeface by Jason Smith and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Conrad (2009). A multiline display face.
    • FS Emeric (2013). A large humanist slightly angular sans family. Dedicated web site.
    • FS Industrie (2018). A 70-style techno / mechanical sans family by Fernando Mello and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Kitty (2007, Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). In the Japanese kawaii style.
    • FS Lola (2006). Originally designed for Wechsler Ross&Portet by Phil Garnham, it is advertised by Fontsmith as a transgender type.
    • FS Me (2009). A sans family designed for readers with a learning disability. It was co-designed by Mitja Miklavcic, Jason Smith, Emanuela Conidi, Fernando Mello and Phil Garnham. FS Me was researched and developed in conjunction with---and endorsed by---Mencap, the UK's leading charity and voice for those with learning disability. Mencap receives a donation for each font licence purchased.
    • FS Pele (2007). An ultra fat typeface by Jason Smith and Phil Garnham.
    • FS Sally (Jason Smith and Phil Garnham). FS Sally Pro won an award at Granshan 2016.
    • FS Silas Sans (2008, Jason Smith, Bela Frank, Fernando Mello and Phil Garnham).
    • FS Sinclair (2008). A rounded octagonal typeface by Jason Smith and Phil Garnham.

    He made a custom face for the Northern Ireland Tourist Board in 2010. View Phil Garnham's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Philip Jones

    Creator in 1999 of the following fonts for use in religious texts: pjheg, pjspgrk (Greek), pjspheb (Hebrew). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Philip Tagg

    Philip Tagg from the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal has these fonts on his page: Athenian, Cyrillic, CyrillicBold-Italic, CyrillicBold, CyrillicNormal-Italic, MSReference1, MSReference2, SILDoulosIPA, SILManuscriptIPA, SILSophiaIPA, Translit98, Translit98Bold, Translit98BoldItalic, Translit98Italic, Treefrog, Webdings, GeographicSymbols-Normal, Keypunch-Normal, Keystroke-Normal, Kids-Normal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Philipp Caroline Neumeyer
    [Rüdiger]

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    Philipp H. Poll
    [Libertine Open Fonts Project]

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    Philippe Cochy

    French (Corsican) designer of the semi-calligraphic script typeface Pecita (2009) and of OTFPOC (2012). Home page, which is entirely set in this script, yet is text-searchable and used as a regular font---great example to follow. Pecita also covers Greek, Turkish, Cyrillic, Vietnamese and IPA.

    In 2014, they published the rounded connected script typeface Aghja at OFL.

    Fontsquirrel link. Open Font Library link. Kernest link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Newer OFL link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Phillip Andrade
    [Dry Heaves Fonts (was: Phil Fonts)]

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    Pierre Cot

    French typefounder of the early 18th century. Pierre Cot Type Specimen of 1707 was written by Douglas C. McMurtrie in 1924 (Chicago: Robert O. Ballou). It shows a facsimile of the original 8-leaf booklet of Hebrew and Greek type specimen of Pierre Cot, with a 3-page preface by McMurtrie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pierre MacKay
    [Ibycus]

    [More]  ⦿

    Pieter van Rosmalen
    [Bold Monday]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pilar Cano
    [Letterjuice]

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    Piotr Grochowski
    [Type Design]

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    Pixelogical (was: Unicorg)
    [Christos Chiotis]

    Korydallos and Athens, Greece-based designer who ran Unicorg and later Pixelogical. He created the free Latin handwriting font Unicorg Hand in 2014. His commercial typefaces include LK Cassandra (2016), LK Boreas (2016), LK Andromeda (2016), Zinon (2015, Latin and Greek), Zoe Handwritten (2015, Latin and Greek), Medina Brush (2015: brush face), Chapman Handwritten (2015, handcrafted, Latin and Greek), Hand Grunge Outline (2014), Hipsta (2014), Unicorg Comedy (2014, a comic book family in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Domenico Serif (2014), Strog Sans (2014), Olive (2014, thin hand-drawn script), Vindence (2014), and Agape (2014, a neo-grotesque sans advertised as an alternative for Helvetica).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    PJM Homebrew Fonts
    [Paul James Miller]

    Sheffield, UK-based electronics engineer who works on CAD systems both mechanical and electrobic. An ardent supporter of the open source paradigm, he works for the NHS. Designer of these free fonts:

    • Balgruf (2020). A decorative typeface, inspired by the Skyrim game.
    • Daniel Jaques (2019). He writes: This is a free decorative display font for signage and advertising.
    • Cadman (2017-2018). An informal sans typeface designed for people with dyslexia that started out from SIL's Andika but was altered to include all the tips for legibility from the book Reading Letters by Sofie Beier. An outgrowth of Cadman is Bainsley.
    • Kelvinch (2013-2016). Miller's first font. A free modified version of Gentium Book Basic. The Greek alphabet was ripped from Gentium Plus and then heavily modified. See also Kelvinch Italic.
    • Munson (2017). A semi-Clarendon in four styles. He writes: There was a typeface by a company called Stephenson Blake Co. in Sheffield. This typeface was made around 1815 and was called Consort. It was a bracketed slab serif face with ball terminals where appropriate. I have obtained scanned documents and typeface samples from that era which depict the Consort typeface and I have attempted to re-create the look and style of that typeface in a modern font. I have photographs of an incomplete set of the Consort typeface, I have filled in the gaps and some of the characters in the Consort typeface were not to my liking so I have designed Munson according to my own aesthetic preferences and with a great deal of artistic license. There is also much of Clarendon in Munson. The Clarendon typeface was first made by Robert Besley in London in 1845 and is particularly well known. Munson is an amalgamation of all these influences, a sort of hybrid between the Consort and Clarendon with some of my own influence thrown in for good measure.
    • Typey McTypeface (2015). An adaptation of Dieter Steffmann's Chelsea (1995). He writes: A good font for Arctic sailors.
    • Bainsley (2020-2021). A sans leaning towards a serif, with supoort for Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian. It is free but the download button at Localfonts does not work.
    • Wigner's Friend (2021). A single style slab serif.

    Fontsquirrel link. Devian Tart link. Localfonts link. Wordpress link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Plectron Logos

    Mesolongi, Greece-based designer of the kitchen tile typeface Square Break (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polytonic (ancient) Greek in Mac OS X

    Page by Sam Tucker on polytonic (ancient) Greek in Mac OS X. We learn that for this, Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) is the only version that has effortless support for this. It comes with these polytonic Greek unicode fonts: Linotype Palatino, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Grande, and Times. He highly recommends Gentium and Gentium Alt though. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polytonic Greek tutorial
    [Irene Vlachou]

    Irene Vlachou's tutorial from 2020 explains how to add polytonic Greek characters to an existing Monotonic Greek typeface. In terms of the Google Fonts Glyph Sets/Greek/defined in 2017, she explain how to extend a Greek core set into a Greek plus set. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pomoerium

    Fonts by Pomoerium: AncientGreekNormal (truetype), TimesPhoneticNormal (truetype), a font with extra characters for Times, such as Hebrew glyphs and accented Latin letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pretty Poly Project

    An initiative of MacLand magazine and Loizos Pavlidis started in 2005 and supported by System Graph Technologies, to develop a free application (to be distributed via MacLand magazine in Greece) for converting non Unicode Greek polytonic texts to Unicode. This will cover both Mac OSX and Windows. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ProcopiouNet

    Files with fonts for archaic Greek. In addition, Byzantine music fonts: ED-Fthora, ED-Isson, ED-Psaltica. Font files: LucidaCalligraphy-Italic, MgGreekArchaic-Plain, SymbolGreekPF and OdysseaF (by Payne Loving Trust), UB-Byzantine-Italic and UB-Byzantine-Normal (by Unibrain), ALBXHRNormal (by I.M. Grhgorioy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Production First Software
    [John M. Fiscella]

    Production First Software offers edriginal, revival and historic designs and specializing in non-latin scripts including Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Thai, mathematical symbols and pi characters. It is run by John M. Fiscella in San Francisco since 1990, with most typefaces created immediately after that. John M. Fiscella designed the fonts for symbols and many of the alphabetic scripts for the unicode charts and all typefaces complky with unicode standards.

    List of typefaces: BernalPF, Blck2LineGothicPF Logo, Blck3LineGothicPF Logo, Blck4LineGothicPF Logo, CourPF, CourPF Bold, CourPF BoldOblique, CourPF Oblique, EdwardianMansePFTitling, EriePF, EuroPF-Bold, EuroPF-BoldOblique, FiftiesPopPF, GrandVictorianPFTitling, HlvPF Bold, HlvPF BoldOblique, HlvPF Medium, HlvPF Oblique, ItalianatePF, ItalianateMulticolor1PF, ItalianateMulticolor2PF, ItalianateMulticolor3PF, ItalianateSansPF, LafayettePF, LosPFBold, MisionPFAntique, MisionPFBold, MisionPFBook, MisionPFBookMetal, MisionPFLight, MisionPFTitling, PalouPFTitling, PiazzaPFScript, RadioPF, RadioCityPF, SymbolPF Bold, SymbolPF BoldItalic, SymbolPF Italic, TexMexPF, TmsPF Bold, TmsPF BoldItalic, TmsPF Cursive, TmsPF Italic, TmsPF Rom +, TmsMathPF Cursive, TmsHebWidePF Rom, UnvPF Bold, UnvPF BoldOblique, UnvPF Oblique, UnvPF Medium, UviewPF Bold, UviewPF BoldOblique, UviewPF Oblique, UviewPF Medium, ZenonPFTitling. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Prokopios Tzoulis
    [Tzoulis Graphic Design (or: TZ-Design)]

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    Protimient.com
    [Ben Jones]

    Ben Jones (b. 1980, Buckinhamshire, UK) was a student of typography and graphic communication in Reading (2000-2004). He got his Masters in Typeface Design from the University of Reading in 2011. MyFonts link for Protimient.

    His typefaces:

    • Billingsley (2005, Protimient: a script based mainly on a writing specimen of the penman Martin Billingsley, originally published in 1618).
    • Buxus (2005, T26: a shaded display family).
    • Cale (2004).
    • Caligne (2004), Caligne Sans (2004).
    • Clarence (2007) is a sturdy 2-style serif family.
    • Eksja (2009) is a humanist slab serif family which to me feels a lot like a sans family---the slabs added as an afterthought.
    • Emrys (2011) is his graduation typeface at Reading: Emrys is a modulated sans typeface for scripts including Latin, Greek, Armenian, Arabic and Cyrillic. Emrys won Third Prize at Granshan 2011. Emrys morphed into Amrys, which was published in 2019 by Monotype.
    • Gilibert (2005, T-26, a decorative didone face).
    • Greenwood (2006, Protimient: a monospaced, cursive typewriter script, based on a typewritten letter from a Mr J. G. Greenwood Esq. to a branch of the National Westminster bank in Oxfordshire, Great Britain, dated 6th June 1904).
    • Joanna Nova (2015, Monotype). A great 18-font update of Gill's original slab serif, Joanna. There is coverage now of Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Lightbox (2004, Protimient). A legible monoline sans family. See also the different later design Lightbox 21 (2021: an 18-style rather pure geometric sans family that runs the range from hairline to very black).
    • ModernModern (2004, Protimient: a squarish didone).
    • Nosta (2006, a nice modern text family).
    • NotanuthaSerif1 (2005, text face; see also here).
    • Pasquinade (2005, blackletter).
    • Stobart (2006) is a script font based on the characters written in a letter by Henry Stobart, dated 1899. It is an Opentype handwriting typeface with 1200 glyphs with heavy character substitution.
    • Travis (2005, Protimient: a legible sans family).

    View Ben Jones's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Protogenea

    Greek truetype font archive. Includes the Hellas font series designed in 1992 by George Kalantzopoulos for Pouliadis Associates. Includes the dingbat font HellasSymbolsSymbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Przemyslaw Hoffer

    Przemec Hoffer is the Lodz, Poland-based creator of the hairline titling sans typeface Basicl (2012) and of Basic Title Font (2012, hairline caps).

    In 2013, he designed Madame Klara, Madame Deloblat and Madame Mary, a trio of thin slab serif typefaces for glamour magazines.

    In 2014, he made the octagonal typeface Mechanik. In 2016, he started work on Laktoza.

    In 2018, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Przemek Hoffer co-designed the six-style antiqua typeface family Brygada 1918, which is based on a font designed by Adam Poltawski in 1918. Free download from the Polish president's site. The digitization was made possible after Janusz Tryzno acquired the fonts from Poltawski's estate. The official presentation of the font took place in the Polish Presidential Palace, in presence of the (right wing, ultra-conservative, nationalist, law and order) President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. Calling it a national typeface, the president assured the designers that he would use Brygada 1918 in his office. It will be used for diplomas and various other official forms. In 2021, with Anna Wielunska added to the list of authors, it was added as a variable font covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Google Fonts. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Psaltic Fonts
    [Constantine Terzopoulos]

    PostScript and TrueType Byzantine Notation computer fonts such as the Ephesios family (promised for the Fall of 2000). The fonts are for Greek Orthodox texts. Designer: Constantine Terzopoulos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Psychonomicon Library

    Archive with fonts for Hebrew, Greek, alchemy, Persian, Sanskrit, Coptic and runes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Quartet Systems
    [Eric Wannin]

    Eric Wannin's French commercial foundry with PC and Mac fonts for all European languages, most Indic languages, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Amharic, Inuit, Slavonic, Greek, Tibetan, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Cri. Hieroglyphic fonts too. Free font family: EuroQuartet. These fonts have one glyph only, the Euro symbol. It has some bar code fonts too.

    Multilingual fonts. They cover Braille, East European languages, Turkish, Baltic, Cyrillic, Icelandic and Greek. According to the Google] [More]  ⦿

    Quentin J. Stavinsky
    [LCT (or: Atelier La Casse)]

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    R255

    R255 (Thessaloniki, Greece) created the sci-fi typefaces Space Is The Place (2015) and Stakes is High (2015, Latin), the handcrafted custom typeface Sporoi Spori in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rachel Reveley

    Designer at FontStruct of Base2 (2008, a Bauhaus like font), The First Revelation (2008) and Greco Key Stone (2008, labyrinthine, inspired by Greek key stone patterns). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Radek Lukasiewicz

    Radek Lukasiewicz studied printmaking at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. He worked as a graphic designer and type designer in London. In 2019 he moved to Reading to study for an MA in Typeface Design, and graduated there in 2020. His graduation typeface was Squeak and Roger. He writes: Roger is a text family that eludes the catego­risatioon of serif or sans. It is taking characteristics from both models to achieve optimal reading. The letter shapes have been developed with consideration for all scripts supported: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic. Squeak is a sans serif typeface, tailored for captions, side notes, and short paragraphs that sets aptly in small sizes. After Reading, he started working for CAST and Three Dots Type.

    Other typefaces:

    • The text typeface family Calisia (2014, at T-26).
    • Chorda (Gestalten).
    • four typeface families at FontFont, published in 2020: FF Kaytek Rounded, FF Kaytek Headline, FF Kaytek Slab, FF Kaytek Sans.
    • Szymborska (2014). In 2014, he won the Type Szymborska competition in Poland with a typeface specifically designed for the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska.
    • Radius (2021, at Three Dots Type). A polygonal (and variable) typeface family.
    • Mora (2019). A sans and serif supertype family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Jantar Flow (2019-2021, CAST) and Jantar Sharp (2019-2021, CAST). Jantar Flow is a humanist sans typeface tailored for continuous reading for both printing and screen. With its large x-height and low contrast it also performs very well in captions, side notes, and short paragraphs set in small sizes. Jantar Sharp is a lapidary text family with flared terminals that eludes the categories of serif or sans.
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Rafael Dietzsch
    [Esteriografica (was: Familia Design)]

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    Rainer Will
    [Will Software]

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    Ralf Vollmann

    Ralf Vollmann's page at the University of Graz is now defunct. It featured the Tibetan fonts: Esama, Esamb, Esamc, the Greek font "Greek", the Hebrew font "Hebrew", and the phonetic fonts IPARoman2, IPARoman1, SILDoulosIPA, SILDoulosIPA93Bold, SILDoulosIPA93BoldItalic, SILDoulosIPA93Italic, SILDoulosIPA93Regular, SILManuscriptIPA93Bold, SILManuscriptIPA93BoldItalic, SILManuscriptIPA93Italic, SILManuscriptIPA93Regular, SILSophiaIPA93Bold, SILSophiaIPA93BoldItalic, SILSophiaIPA93Italic, SILSophiaIPA93Regular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ralph Hancock
    [Antioch]

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    Raphael Lazaros

    Greek creator of Comic City (2008), a hand-printed typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Raphael Polixronis

    Ahens, Greece-based designer of the paperclip font Sign (2017), which covers Latin and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rasmus Andersson

    Swedish software expert who lives in San Francisco and who has worked for Dropbox, Facebook, Spotify, Lear Corporation and Spray. His own company is called Notion. His typefaces:

    • The Open Source screen typeface family Interface (2017), which builds on Christian Robertson's Roboto. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It seems that this family was renamed Inter UI in 2019. Inter is now downloadable at Google Fonts. Github link, where one can find a variable font version. CTAN link.
    • Manix Sans (2019). A minor update of Inter UI.
    • Linik Sans (2019), a further update of Inter and Manix Sans.

    Open Font Library link. Github link. Linkedin link. Aka rsms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ray Larabie
    [Typodermic]

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    Raymond Bobar

    Raymond Bobar holds a BA degree from the University of Arts in Bucharest (Romania) and an MA degree in type design from the University of Reading, UK (2014). His graduation typeface at the University of Reading was the casual handcrafted display typeface Ivera (2014), which covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Georgian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rebecca Bettencourt
    [Kreative Korporation (was: Relay Fonts, or: Kreative Software)]

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    Rectorat de Toulouse

    The font "Greek" by Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain, 1993. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Redwood

    From Autodesk: GothicG, GothicI, GreekC, GreekS (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Reinhold Kainhofer
    [RK Ancient Fonts]

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    Ren Font
    [Kazuo Kanai]

    Ren Font is a Japanese type foundry, est. 2001 by Kazuo Kanai, who won the first Morisawa type design competition back in 1983. In 2002, he also started Font Kai.

    At Morisaw, he published Solution Min-Sora, Solution Min-Moon, Musashino and Moaria.

    At Dai Nippon Pr iting, he designed Shuetai.

    His Type Bank fonts include TB Regular Script, Hon Mincho no Shingana, Fine Mincho and Floren. At Font Kai, his fonts include Gothis, Luna, Pickles and Sunikku. In 2021, he released the casual typeface WaonPro, which covers Japanese (including kanji) and Latin. The award-winning Waon was originally designed in 2005 and took two years to complete. Kanai writes: Each of the characters (kanji, hiragana, katakana, Latin letters, symbols, punctuation, application letters, and numbers) is designed to have musical characteristics, and the characteristics of each are harmonized perfectly. Waon means harmony.

    In 2021, he designed the casual Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface Amabile. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Renzhi Li
    [Belleve Invis]

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    Riccardo De Franceschi

    Italian graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010, who lives and works in Piedmont and Lombardy in Northern Italy, and publishes typefaces at Sorkin Type. His typefaces:

    • His graduation project included the design of Ginnasio: The Ginnasio family is designed to set bilingual vocabularies, namely polytonic Greek English and Latin English. These dictionaries are used in secondary schools to translate texts from classical Greece and Rome into the student's own language. A Thai font is added, intended to set bilingual vocabularies as well. Ginnasio won First Prize at Granshan 2010 for Greek types.
    • Gravitas One (2011, Sorkin Type, and Google Font Directory). He writes: Gravitas One is modeled on the "UK fat face" which is a kind of very heavy advertising type created during the industrial revolution in England. The letter forms are characterized by an attention getting and strong contrast between the very heavy vertical shapes and the thin horizontal ones. The contrast of the design means that it will be most useful when set from medium to large sizes.
    • Still at Sorkin Type, he created the wedge-serif black typeface Goblin One (2011): Goblin One was inspired by a hand painted sign above a pub in the town of Reading (UK). Goblin One is a somewhat wide medium contrast design with a large x-height.
    • Asset One (2011, Sorkin Type) was inspired by the engraved letters found on United States dollar bills.
    • Contrail One (2011, Sorkin Type; free at Google Font Directory), it is based on handmade sans letters seen on UK posters.
    • Wellfleet (2012, Google Web Fonts and Sorkin Type) is a versatile low-contrast slab serif text typeface with a a bouncy and upbeat feeling. It was inspired by German poster lettering.
    • Emblema One (2012, Google Web Fonts). An oblique fat trendy stencil typeface for posters.
    • Sonsie One (2012, Google Web Fonts). Sonsie One is a large x-height signage face.
    • Vampiro One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a near-monoline fat angular script typeface .
    • Valnera (2010-2019, CAST). iValnera is a low-contrast humanist serif typeface of a distinctly angular design. Its headline style is called Valnera Monster, and there is also a Random style with randomly rotated glyphs. Riccardo writes: Valnera evokes the calligraphic appeal of Oldrich Menhart's typefaces. It also expresses in a very contemporary way that kind of 1970s photocomposition feeling typical of two iconic faces, Cartier (1967) and ITC Mendoza (1991).
    • Monte Stella (2020, at Dalton Maag): a celebration of Milan's informal aesthetics and accidental design of the 1950s to 1970s. Has a variable font option.

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    Riccardo Lorusso

    MATD University of Reading graduate, class of 2013. He created the excellent typeface Agosto for his graduation thesis. Agosto covers Latin, Korean and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Riccardo Olocco

    Prior to a four-year stint as a lecturer in typography at the faculty of design and Art of the free University of Bolzano (2009-2013), Italian type designer Riccardo Olocco freelanced as a graphic designer in Milan and elsewhere in Italy. He graduated in 2014 from the MATD program at the University of Reading, UK. In 2019, he obtained his Ph.D. at Reading's Faculty of Typography and Graphic Design. In his thesis, A new method of analysing printed type: the case of 15th-century Venetian romans, he focuses on 15th-century Venetian roman types, combining the use of bibliographical knowledge and analysis of letterforms.

    Riccardo writes on type design and type history. Besides his ongoing investigation into Francesco Griffo's roman types, his research with James Clough on Bodoni's types will be published by Codex. He is also a member of the Nebiolo History Project.

    Designer, with Michele Patanè, of the commercial caps typefaces Cordial Bloom (2009) and Cordial Cherry (2009).

    Together with Jonathan Pierini, Olocco reinterpreted Bodoni's work in 2014. Their Parmigiano Typographic System, which is named after Parma, the city where Giambattista Bodoni (d. 1813) established his printing house, attempts to revive, interpret and boldly extend Bodoni's work. There is not a single official original Bodoni---Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico contains many slightly different examples---, and so, the first challenge was to create coherent relationships between various optical sizes (Piccolo, Caption, Text, Headline) and weights. Besides the Parmigiano Serif family, Olocco and Pierini also developed the creative extension Parmigiano Sans. There are also Stencil, Typewriter, Egyptian styles, to name a few. The Parmigiano Typographic System was published in 2014 by Typotheque, but was developed a few years before that.

    In 2014, he was a founding partner in the new CAST type foundry in Bolzano. His typefaces at CAST include

    • Brevier (2014). This typeface was designed for setting long texts in small or very small type sizes---the name Breveir refers to 8 point size in ancient times.
    • Gramma (2014). A compact temporary sans with large x-height.
    • Zenon (2014, for Latin, Bengali, Greek and Cyrillic) and the sans version, Zenans. His graduation typeface in the MATD program at the University of Reading, UK. He writes: is a sum of different styles, from Francesco Griffo to Granjon, from modern typefaces to the first sketches of Times New Roman. Zenon is an apparently Renaissance revival with modernish proportions. A closer look reveals that it is a typographic potpourri. Zenon was published by CAST in 2015.
    • Arzachel (2017, CAST). A flared terminal humanistic sans.
    • In 2018, Luciano Perondi and Riccardo Olocco designed the newspaper and information design typeface Sole Sans. It was originally designed for the leading Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 ore.
    • In 2021, Miles Newlyn, Riccardo Olocco and Krista Radoeva co-designed New Spirit, a 10-style typeface that revives the comfort food font Windsor.

    Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Nicolas Jenson's roman type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Richard G. Spaulding
    [The Greek Font Foundry]

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    Richard Goulet

    Free Greek fonts by CNRS researcher Richard Goulet: sign in as Polices and with password Kadmos. You can download Eleusis, Callimachus (2005, Unicode) and Posidippus (2007, for papyrists). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Richard Porson

    Creator in the 18th century of Greek types (d. 1807), which led to many digitizations known as Porson Greek. See, for example, GFS Porson Greek, digitized by George Matthiopoulos for the Greek Font Society, which writes: In England, during the 1790's, Cambridge University Press decided to procure a new set of Greek types. The university's great scholar of Classics, Richard Porson was asked to produce a typeface based on his handsome handwriting and Richard Austin was commissioned to cut the types. The type was completed in 1808, after the untimely death of Porson the previous year. Its success was immediate and since then the classical editions in Great Britain and the U.S.A. use it, almost invariably. In 1913, Monotype released the typeface with some corrections, notably replacing the upright capitals suggested by Porson with inclined ones. In Greece the typeface was used under the name Pelasgika type.

    James Mosley wrote about Porson in Porson's Greek types, Penrose Annual, vol. 54 (1960), pp. 36-40. He concludes on his blog in 2014 that Porson Greek is not an exciting design, nor is it an independent one. It treats Greek as a secondary type, like italic. Another reference is John Bowman's PhD thesis at the University of Reading in 1998 entitled Greek printing types in Britain from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

    Digital versions of Porson Greek:

    • GFS Porson (1995, Greek Font Society) is based on the Monotype version, though using upright capitals, as in the original.

      The free GFS Porson was digitized in 1995 by George D. Matthiopoulos for the Greek Font Society. It is based on the Monotype version from 1913.

    • GFS Olga (1995) is a serif typeface designed and digitized by George Matthiopoulos, that is also based on the historical Porson Greek type.
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    Richard T. Austin

    London-based punchcutter (1768-1830) who had his own foundry, The Imperial Letter Foundry, in London. Before that, he had worked at John Bell's British Letter Foundry from 1788-1798 (when the foundry closed) as a punchcutter, and at William Miller's foundry in Edinburgh. His typefaces:

    • Tooled Roman (1788).
    • Bell (1788, British Letter Foundry). Originally cut for John Bell by Richard Austin in 1788. Monotype made a metal version in 1931. Available at Monotype in digital form as BellMT (see Monotype Bell 341). It is also available as B694 Roman and Baltimore on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002). Mac McGrew: Bell as cut by Lanston Monotype in 1940 is a copy of the typeface of the same name cut in 1930 by English Monotype at the instigation of Stanley Morison, and was originally cut by Richard Austin for the English printer John Bell in 1788. Lanston describes it as a delicate and refined rendering of Scotch Roman, but without the unduly heavy capitals and some other objectionable characteristics of that face. English Monotype says the letters are open and inclined to roundness; they possess a certain crispness reflecting a French copperplate engraved inspiration. The typeface has been referred to as the first English modern face, with its sharply contrasted shading, vertical stress, and the earliest consistently horizontal top serifs on the lowercase. Bruce Rogers found an unidentified typeface at Riverside Press in 1900; he called it Brimmer and used it to good effect in book work. The same typeface was called Mountjoye by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. It was later identified as Bell, and this may have led to its resurrection by English Monotype.

      The French explain Bell as a British typeface halfway between transitionals (such as Baskerville) and modern typefaces (such as Bodoni or Didot, the "didones").

    • Fry's Ornamented (1796, British Letter Foundry). Also known as Ornamented No. 2 cut by Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry. Stephenson, Blake&Co. acquired the type in 1905, and in 1948 they issued fonts in 30-pt (the size of the original design), 36-, 48- and 60-pt sizes. A digital version by ARTypes in 2007 is also called Fry's Ornamented (2007). David Rakowski made a digital version called Beffle in 1991.
    • Austin's Pica No. 1 (1819). One of the first modern typefaces in Britain.
    • Porson (1806, Caslon Foundry). This Greek typeface is based on the handwriting of the English classicist Richard Porson's transcription of the Medea. Richard Austin was commissioned by the Cambridge University Press to cut it, from 1806 onwards. It was cast by Caslon foundry, but it never appeared in their specimens. It was completed and used only after Porson's death in 1808, in the editions of plays of Euripides produced by Cambridge scholars. Bringhurst notes that after its first appearance, it was soon copied by other founders, and was released by Monotype with some corrections in 1912. By the end of the 19th century, together with New Hellenic (by Victor Scholderer), it had become the main Greek type used in Britain.
    • Scotch Roman (1813, William Miller / Miller&Richardson). This didone typeface was revived in 1907 by Monotype Corporation. It is considered as the first British modern typeface. Also known as Georgian or Brimmer [when Bruce Rogers found the typeface at the Riverside Press in 1900, he used it for books under the name Brimmer]. D.B. Updike used another font of this type at his Merrymount Press where it was called Mountjoye. Scotch Roman#2 (1920) is a revival by Linotype.
    • Antique (ca. 1827). This was revived in 2007 by HiH as Austin Antique.

    One of the most remarkable digital revivals and extensions of his work is also called Austin. Originally designed by Paul Barnes as headline type for the British magazine of fashion Harper's & Queen, of Hearst Magazines UK, Austin is a loose revival of the typefaces cut by Richard Austin in the late 18th century. Referencing Austin's original creation, Paul Barnes turned up the contrast, tightened the spacing and came up with a fresh, new, bold and beautiful look for the constantly changing world of fashion. Barnes himself describes the face as "a British Modern with the styling and sheen of New York in the 1970s." The Cyrillic version was designed in 2009 and 2016 by Ilya Ruderman (CTSM Fonts).

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. Wikipedia link.

    View Richard T. Austin's typefaces. Alexa Stephenson's detailed image of Bell. View Richard Austin's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    RK Ancient Fonts
    [Reinhold Kainhofer]

    Free fonts for Sanskrit, Old Greek, Ugaritic, Meroitic, Oldpersian Cuneiform by Reinhold Kainhofer: RK-Meroitic-(Demotic), RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), RK-Meroitic-Transscript, RK-Persian-Cuneiform, RK-Sanskrit, RK-Ugaritic-Transscript, RK-Ugaritic. Kainhofer is based at Karl Franz University in Graz, Austria. Direct download.

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    Rob McKaughan

    American type designer who graduated from the University of Reading in 2011. His graduation typeface, Chepman, is a news typeface for both print and screen. Ingeniously, all of Chepman's weights share the same character width. Both Latin and Greek are covered.

    Currently, he is working at a small Redmond-based software company focused on improving the digital reading experience. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam on the topic of abstract recipes and design patterns in typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Proctor

    Designer of Otter (1903), a Greek typeface based upon the Greek of the Complutensian Polyglot of 1514. According to "Fleuron", vol. 6, p. 231, this typeface was surpassed by Victor Scholderer's "New Hellenic" (1928). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robert Slimbach

    After a start at Autologic in Newbury Park in 1983, this prolific American master craftsman (b. Evanston, IL, 1956) helped pioneer digital type design at Adobe (which he joined in 1987) and created

    • ITC Slimbach (1987).
    • ITC Giovanni Book (1988).
    • Adobe Garamond (1989-1991).
    • Adobe Jenson (1996) and Adobe Jenson Pro. Combining Nicolas Jenson's roman designs with Ludovico degli Arrighi's italics.
    • Utopia (1989-1991) [Utopia Opticals was released in 2002].
    • Minion (1990-1991): Minion was first released in 1990, and became later the first Adobe Opentype font. It has support for Greek and Cyrillic, including polytonic Greek. Minion Cyrillic is from 1992. By 2021, this text typeface featured 32 styles, and was published as Minion3.
    • Myriad (1992, with Carol Twombly). Myriad Arabic and Myriad Hebrew were first published in 2011.
    • Poetica (1992). In 2010, Paulo Heitlinger compared Poetica, in its smooth perfection, with P22 Operina, which is closer to the original chancery models of the 20th century, and he thinks Poetica lacks the vigor and dynamism of the originals (and P22 Operina does not).
    • Sanvito (1993).
    • Caflisch Script (1993, not my favorite script).
    • Cronos (1996). Image by Jamie Groenestein). modeled after Kuester's Today Sans. Image of Cronos Pro Display.
    • Kepler (1996).
    • Warnock Pro (2000), which won an award at the Type Directors Club (TDC2) 2001 competition.
    • Brioso (2002). A calligraphic/renaissance family comprised of over 40,000 glyphs. Images of Brioso: A poster by Kristina Reinholds, a poster by Nick di Stefano.
    • Garamond Premier Pro (2005), based on originals found in the Plantin Museum in Antwerp. Weights include GaramondPremPro-BdItalic, GaramondPremPro-Bold GaramondPremPro-Italic, GaramondPremPro-Medium, GaramondPremPro-MediumIt, GaramondPremPro-Regular, GaramondPremPro-SbIt, GaramondPremPro-Semibold. Greek, Latin and Cyrillic are covered.
    • Arno Pro (2007: typophile discussion) is in the style of Adobe Jenson Pro. Review by Typographica Thomas Phinney: Arno is what you might call a modernized Venetian oldstyle. I think of it as having the same relationship to Adobe Jenson that Minion has to Garamond Premier.
    • Adobe Clean (2009). David Lemon: After more than 25 years in the type development business, Adobe decided to have its own corporate typeface family. The Creative Suite uses were early versions of a family designed by Robert Slimbach. Now that it has been officially adopted at Adobe, I can tell you about our latest design, called Adobe Clean. There is no plan to make it available for licensing, but you will be seeing more of it in Adobe materials and products as time goes on. Our initial question was "Why not just keep using Myriad Pro and Minion Pro?" These typefaces were designed to be timeless, and they are among our most popular families. But that second part points to the catch in this situation: Myriad, in particular, is used to represent many other companies, including businesses close to Adobe's (such as Apple and Verizon). Adobe wanted a fresh look that could remain unique. While some typeface designers do much of their work for corporate clients, this area was new to us. Robert&I met with the leaders of Adobe's Experience Design and Brand teams to develop a design brief. They wanted a 21st-century feel combined with an earnest readability. As the project grew, Christopher Slye led regular follow-up meetings with the client teams to keep them up to date and tease more input out of them. Robert's accustomed to aiming his work at the more general case, so it was an interesting challenge to have a very specific set of design goals. What he produced is as classic as all his other designs, but with an uncharacteristic blend of contemporary touches for on-screen rendering and a more progressive feel.
    • Adobe Text (2010), a transitional family included in the standard font set for Adobe Creative Suite 5. Adobe Text won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Adobe Hand (2012). Adobe Hand also won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Trajan Pro 3 (2011, with Carol Twombly) and Trajan Sans (1989). The Trajan Sans family comprises six weights, ranging from Extra Light to Black (matching the weight range in Trajan Pro 3), with language coverage for Pan-European Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. Maxim Zhukov advised on the design of the Cyrillic portion of the family, and Gerry Leonidas advised on the Greek, while Frank Grießhammer provided technical production support. Trajan Sans won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Ryoko Nishizuka designed Ten Mincho (2017), a Japanese typeface in the Adobe Originals collection. Ten Mincho also features a full set of Latin glyphs, collectively known as Ten Oldstyle and designed by Robert Slimbach.
    • Pelago (2017). A semi-formal sans family that won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.
    • Acumin. A 90-style neo-grotesque typeface family.

    For Warnock Pro, he got an award at the Type Directors Club (TDC2) 2001 competition. In 1991, he received the Prix Charles Peignot for excellence in type design. Minion Pro Greek, Minion Pro Cyrillic&Greek and Brioso Pro won awards at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. At TDC2 2006, he won an award for Garamond Premier Pro. Arno Pro won an award at the TDC2 2007 competition. In 2018, he received the Frederic W. Goudy Award for Typographic Excellence at Rochester Institute of Technology. Bio at Linotype. Minion Pro now ships with Acrobat Reader and covers all European languages, including Greek and Cyrillic.

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    Roberto Alessi

    TeX and type softawre expert. Together with Bob Tennent and Nikola Lecic , he maintains Old Standard, a Unicode font for classical and medieval studies. Old Standard was orignally designed by Alexey Kryukov, and now exists in both Opentype and type 1 formats. Old Standard reproduces a specific type of Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned later. It is especially useful for academic texts that combine Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roberto Teixeira
    [Di Barros]

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    Rodney J. Decker

    Galilee is a Greek sans serif font by Rodney J. Decker (professor at Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, PA). He writes: "My goal is a screen-optimized font for use in a web browser. The optimized (i.e., manually hinted, including delta hinting) is nearly finished, and then I will convert it to a full Unicode font, hopefully within the next year. There is also a related page with Unicode info regarding polytonic Greek here". He created Galilee Unicode Gk font (2003-2004), a sans serif font that is designed to complement Trebuchet. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rogier C. Van Dalen

    This Dutchman at the University of Leiden wrote open source code for the following tools:

    • TrueTypeViewer enables you to view TrueType fonts, and, specifically, to debug the "instructions" embedded in the font. It has a "Features" button that will allows you to apply OpenType features to the string;
    • TTIComp compiles a .TTI file (with "T"rue"T"ype "I"nstructions in a format not unlike C code) and a TrueType font into an instructed TrueType font;
    • OTComp takes a feature file in a format not unlike Adobe's and produces an OpenType font with advanced layout tables. In other words, it is a text to OT filter.
    • OTLegacy takes an OpenType font and adds Unicode precomposed characters to it by applying the OpenType features.
    With these tools, he made two OpenType fonts in 2002, Legendum (like Verdana), and Garogier (like Garamond), covering Latin and polytonic Greek.

    Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rolf Noyer
    [Lascaris]

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    Romaiika Polytonika

    Romaiika Polytonika truetype font: lots of accented and double-accented characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Type
    [Roman Wilhelm]

    Born in 1976 in Germany, Roman Wilhelm graduated in 2004 with a diploma related to a German-Chinese book project. He studied visual communication at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale) in Germany and type design at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Fred Smeijers. He briefly taught type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Besides working for Berlin-Beijing-based studio INSIDE A Communications, he is a member of the Multilingual Typography Research Group at the Geneva University of Art and Design. A fluent Chinese speaker, his work focuses on cross-cultural mediation, Chinese-Western bilingual typography and typeface design issues. A frequent visitor of Asia, he has taught at various academies such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, as well as the Seoul National University College of Fine Art. He is working towards a PhD at the Braunschweig University of Art.

    Roman is primarily a web, book and magazine designer, but in 2009, he did create Sung New Roman, a typeface for Latin-Chinese typography, for which he received the award Ars Lipsiensis in 2009.

    In 2013, he designed a wonderful hand-drawn Chinese typeface, Laowai Song. It has over 28,000 Chinese ideographs, supported by a perfectly matched hand-drawn roman.

    At 3type, he published Hong Kong Street Face (2015), a Hanzi font that reflects the character of Hong Kong.

    His typeface Koex Text (2016) aims to meet the requirements of style-switching typography, i.e., the use of a different style for imported words or special context material [examples of this include katakana in Japanese, or roman letters in blackletter text in 16th century Prussia for words of Latin origin].

    Designer of the octagonal / techno typeface family 946 Latin (2019), Pivnaya-Cyrillic Greek, Pivnaya-Arabic, Pivnaya-Hebrew and Pivnaya-Latin. Pivnaya, a geometric display typeface inspired by Bauhaus and featuring many triangles.

    In 2017, Roman Wilhelm and 3type, a Shanghai-based type foundry, released a six-style extension called Freundschafts Antiqua Neue, a revival and extension of the famous Freundschafts-Antiqua made between 1959 and 1962 by Yu Bingnan during his studies and research under Albert Kapr in Leipzig. 3type has also fashioned a sans-serif member of the Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue family.

    Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong on multicultural typography. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Code Switching, Multi-Style, Diglossia. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of multilingual typography in Belgium. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Wilhelm
    [Roman Type]

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    Ron Whitney

    Managing director of TUG (for the TeX community) and active in the use of TeX by the AMS (American Mathematical Society). In 1991-1992, Costas Mylonas and Ron Whitney co-designed a set of Greek fonts called Euclid, which they describe in their article Complete Greek with Adjunct Fonts (TUGBoat, vol. 13, pp. 39-50, 1992). This Times-Elsevier Greek font family was developed using MetaFont and was never released to the public. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rosetta Type Foundry

    Rosetta is an independent foundry, set up in 2011 by David Brezina, José Scaglione and Veronika Burian, with a strong focus on multi-script typography. It is headquartered in Brno, Czechia. Other designers include Anna Giedrys, Amélie Bonet and Titus Nemeth. They specialize in multilingual typefaces.

    Fonts at the time of the start-up include Aisha (Titus Nemeth: Arabic, Latin), Maiola (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin), Nassim (Arabic, Latin), Roxane (Devanagari, Latin), and Skolar (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, Gujarati, Sanskrit).

    In 2011, they published Neacademia (by Sergei Egorov). Neacademia is a Latin and Cyrillic type family inspired by the types cut by 15th century Italian punch-cutter Francesco Griffo da Bologna for the famous Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Pius Manutius. The family is designed for lengthy texts.

    In 2012, Arek (Latin/Armenian) by Khajag Apelian was published by Rosetta Type Foundry.

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    Ross Mills
    [STIX Fonts]

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    Rote-Grafik

    Codesigner with Masterview of Sprayed Stencil Face (2011). Rote-Grafik is located in Athens, Greece. He cooperates with several others, including Peter Voulgaris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rouli Diamond

    Athens, Greece and Barcelona-based graphic designer. He created the piano key stencil typeface MAP Stencil (2010, Latin and Greek), the prismatic typeface 3D (2012), and the alchemic typeface Stigma (2012).

    In 2013, Rouli designed the tall thin typeface Sentient Adult.

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    RR Donnelley

    Design studio. In 2015, Mateusz Machalski and RR Donnelley joined forces to produce the 42-style corporate superfamily Tupper Pro and Tupper Serif for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rudolf Ludwig Decker
    [Deckersche Schriftgießerei]

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    Rumi Kim

    Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of the monolinear hand-drawn typeface HU Cookie (2020, with Haerin Lee and ByoungHeon Park). HU Cookie covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.

    Typefaces from 2021: HU Dear Molly (an informal monolinear typeface), HU Big Round (a techno typeface by Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim).

    Typefaces from 2021: HU Flat White (a tuxedoed sans by Rumi Kim and Jihye Lee), HU Mymyoh (a 6-style techno sans), HU Masking Tape Latin (a masking tape font for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Rumi Kim and ByoungHeon Park), HU Life Style (a six-style display sans by Rumi Kim, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee), HU Basic Round (a simple sans by Rumi Kim and Yehyeong Lee). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Rune Bjørnerås

    Norwegian designer of the free monolinear monospaced typeface Victor Mono (2019). It comes in seven weights and Roman, Italic and Oblique styles, and covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Runic World Tamgaci
    [Osman Nuri Alkan]

    Gumushane, Turkey, and Gothenburg, Sweden-based designer of fonts developed based on old European runic inscriptions, old Asian runic inscriptions, old Hungarian runic inscriptions, runic inscriptions found in Africa, and italic inscriptions such as Etruscan and Iberian. Typefaces from 2022: Ongunkan All Runic Unicode A (a major font that covers Latin, Old Hungarian, Old Turkic, Old Italic, runic, Tifinagh, Lycian, Lydian, Carian, Phoenician, Cypriot, Ogham, Old South Arabian, Old North Arabian, Old Persian, and Ugaritic), Ongunkan Phrygian, Ongunkan Armanen Runes (a series of 18 runes, closely based on the historical Younger Futhark, introduced by Austrian mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in his Das Geheimnis der Runen, published as a periodical article in 1906, and as a standalone publication in 1908), Ongunkan Danish Futhark (he explains: Prior to 500 AD the 24-rune Elder Futhark was used in Denmark. From 500 AD to 800 AD there were many transitional futharks, reflecting a change from the 24-rune Futhark to the 16-rune Futharks. By the end of this period, the 24-rune Futhark went completely out of use and the 16-rune Futharks had prevailed.), Ongunkan Gothenburg Futhark Swe (based on the 26-letter Bohuslän runes, which are used in the west coast area), Ongunkan Latin Space, Ongunkan Latin Techno, Ongunkan Norwegian Futhark (he explains: The oldest runes discovered in Norway date from 400 AD. They were based upon the 24-rune Elder Futhark of Germanic origin. Two of the runes in the Elder Futhark, Pertra and Eoh, have never been found in any Norwegian rune text. From 550 AD to 700 AD there was a transition period between the older 24-rune Futhark and the newer 16-rune Futharks. By the end of this period, the 24-rune Futhark went completely out of use and the 16-rune Futharks had prevailed. About 900 AD, the Shorttwiggs-runes were introduced from Sweden. Shortly thereafter, from 1000 AD, Futharks with more than 16 runes became more prevalent, as these were more consistent with the Latin alphabet. These types of runes were used in Norway up to 1800 AD), Ongunkan Anglo Saxon Spirit, Ongunkan Younger Futhark One, Ongunkan Younger Futhark (he explains: The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters, in use from about the 9th century, after a transitional period during the 7th and 8th centuries. The reduction, somewhat paradoxically, happened at the same time as phonetic changes that led to a greater number of different phonemes in the spoken language, when Proto-Norse evolved into Old Norse. Also, the writing custom avoided carving the same rune consecutively for the same sound, so the spoken distinction between long and short vowels was lost in writing. Thus, the language included distinct sounds and minimal pairs that were written the same. The Younger Futhark is divided into long-branch (Danish) and short-twig (Swedish and Norwegian) runes; in the 10th century, it was further expanded by the "Hälsinge Runes" or staveless runes. The lifetime of the Younger Futhark corresponds roughly to the Viking Age. Their use declined after the Christianization of Scandinavia; most writing in Scandinavia from the 12th century was in the Latin alphabet, but the runic scripts survived in marginal use in the form of the medieval runes (in use ca. 1100-1500) and the Latinised Dalecarlian runes (ca. 1500-1910)), Ongunkan Fantastic Latin, Ongunkan Modern Latin, Ongunkan Sweden Futhark, Ongunkan Sweden Dalecarlian Run (a late version of the runic script that was in use in the Swedish province of Dalarna until the 20th century), Ongunkan Sweden Dalecarlian Run, Ongunkan Old Turkic Yenisei (based on the Yenisei inscriptions, which consist of a total of 158 Turkish inscriptions, kurgans (graves) and rock stones that have been found along the Yenisei river, which passes through the Khakasya, Tuva and Altai autonomous republics in Russia. The inscriptions were written with Turkish stamps, also known as the Orkhon Alphabet), Ongunkan Old Turkic Arrival (based on an alien language in the science fiction movie called Arrival), Ongunkan Old Turkic Predator (old Turksih runic; based on alien script from the Fantastic Predator movie), Ongunkan Runic Predator (runic; based on alien script from the Fantastic Predator movie), Ongunkan Runic, Ongunkan Greek Script, Ongunkan Karamanli Turkic Scrip (based on the Greek alphabet used by the Karamanli Turks (who are Orthodox Christians) and adapted to Turkish), Ongunkan Kensington Runestone (a rune-covered slab of brownstone that was claimed to have been discovered in central Minnesota in the United States in 1898; probably a hoax perpetrated by its discoverer, Olof Öhman), Ongunkan Old Hungarian Runic (used in parts of Transylvania until the 1850s; banned by Istvan, the first Christian king of the Hungarians (Szekel)), Ongunkan Rosetta Stone (ancient Greek as seen on Egypt's rosetta stone), Ongunkan Tifinagh Berber. 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    Russell Cottrell

    Russell Cottrell made the Unicode Greek font Aristarcoj (2002). He also has a Unicode Greek link archive that points to Cardo (David J. Perry), GentiumAlt (Victor Gaultney), Palatino Linotype, Asia Unicode, TITUS Cyberbit, Athena, Arev Sans (Tavmjong Bah), Attika U, Kadmos U and Bosporus U (by the American Philological Association), DejaVu Serif, Dioxipe, CMU Serif, Caslon (George Williams) and Porson (Richard G. Spaulding). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rüdiger
    [Philipp Caroline Neumeyer]

    Philipp Neumeyer is a ballet dancer and type designer who studied communication design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel (MAFAD), Germany, class of 2014. In the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag, Phillipp Victoria (or Beatrix, or Caroline, or Bartholomaeus) Neumeyer designed the typeface Elma and Frederick (2015), about which he writes: Elma has a robust construction with chunky-esque serifs, subtle rough and slightly quirky details but resonates in a yet serious appearance that combines traditional elements with modern functionality.. After graduating from the KABK in 2015, he moved to Berlin and then to Copenhagen, where he worked for Playtype.

    As Rüdiger at Future Fonts, he designed the typefaces Arnold (2018: a monospaced sans for Latin and Cyrillic) and Rainer (2018: a compressed sans). In 2019, he released the condensed sans typeface Theodor for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

    In 2021, he published Norbert at Typemates. Norbert is an extensive grotesque with support for Latin and Cyrillic. Subfamilies include Norbert Schmal and Norbert Breit. Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022.

    In 2022, Philipp Neumeyer released Juneau, a friendly geometric workhorse sans for Latin and Cyrillic, at TypeMates.

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    Ryota Doi

    Ryota Doi received his BA in design from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013. In 2014, he graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading. Upon earning his master's degree in 2014, he returned to Japan and began working as a type designer at Monotype Japan.

    Ryota's graduation typeface was Raylaw, which was specifically created for multilingula travel magazines. Raylaw has five Latin weights, and covers Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese (kanji, hiragana and katakana) as well. As a map font, it is particularly well executed, combining original elegance with legibility at small sizes.

    He was a member of the type design team at Monotype that created the Tazugane Gothic typeface in 2017. Designed by Akira Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yamada and Ryota Doi of the Monotype Studio, the Tazugane Gothic typeface offers ten weights and was developed to complement Neue Frutiger. It is the first original Japanese typeface in Monotype's history.

    Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of A Paradigm Shift: How Y. Nakamura's Na-ru and Go-na Influenced the Japanese Type Design Industry in the 1970s. Variable fionts published in 2022: Shorai Sans (a 10-style Latin / Japanese sans by Akira Kobayashi, Monotype Studio and Ryota Doi, designed as a companion typeface to Avenir Next), Shorai Sans Variable, Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sacha Rein

    Ettelbruck, Luxemburg-based designer of Aldo (2005; updated to Aldo Pro in 2015) and Spastika (2006, octagonal) at the Trypo foundry in Brussels, which he set up with Gilles Pegel in 2005. Both graduated in 2005 from the ERG (Ecole de Recherche Graphique Brussels) and were born in Luxembourg. In 2006, he created the dot matrix-style typeface Calix (free), which is inspired by Arabic culture and pixel grids. It was intended for a cybercafe named prog, located at La Maison du Citoyen, Schaerbeek, Brussels.

    In 2015, Sacha Rein set up his own commercial type foundry.

    In 2018, he published Arlonne Sans Pro (a humanist sans) and Arlonne Serif. Arlonne covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic and can also be purchased at Context Ltd. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Salih Kizilkaya

    Ankara, Turkey-based designer. In 2019, he created these typefaces: the squarish SK Kape, the semi slab serif SK Karl, the sans typeface SK Rotun, the angular typeface SK Pila.

    Typefaces from 2020: SK One Block (a squarish typeface inspired by Arabic Kufic), SK 1980 Unicase (squarish, in seven styles), SK Reykjavik (16 slab and 16 geometric sans styles), SK Aristo (a 10-style monolinear sans with a flagging left wing in the lower case t), SK Falcon (a 24-style geometric semi-serif), SK Akropol, SK Payidar (a 16-style geometric sans for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), SK Kalender (a monolinear display typeface), SK Bade (a mini-serif), SK Asya (a demi-serif typeface with flared, almost lapidary, terminals).

    Typefaces from 2021: SK Goldilocks (a 14-style grotesque), SK Merih (a 12-style nearly monolinear simple sans), SK Selanik (a 40-style monolinear almost humanist sans; for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), SK Clarke (a 20-style display sans), SK Moreau (a 12-style geometric sans), SK Greenland (a 14-style humanist sans that has totally succumbed to hipsterism, especially in its coathanger f), SK Seren (a flared incised typeface family), SK Monaco (a 16-style humanist sans), SK Yok Deve (hand-printed), SK Barbicane (a monolinear organic sans), SK Boncuk (an eight-style industrial sans), SK Ilke Mono (a 22-style monospaced geometric sans, useful as a programming font), SK Zweig (a quirky 52-style serif family inspired by Stefan Zweig's work), SK Anatolia (a display font inspired by Anatolian culture), SK Gothenburg (a 48-style grotesk), SK Curiosity (a 40-style geometric sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sandra Romano Martin
    [Semata]

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    Sandra Winter

    Sandra Winter is a German font designer and graphic artist based in Frankfurt am Main. After training in advertising, she studied Communication Design in Darmstadt, and type design at the University of Reading (where she graduated with an MA in 2006). She works now at Linotype, Germany, and as a freelance designer.

    Creator of Filia Latin, Filia Greek and Filia Italic (2006) as part of her thesis project. Typedia link.

    In 2009, while at Linotype with Akira Kobayashi, she worked on DIN Next, a typeface family inspired by the classic industrial German engineering designs, DIN 1451 Engschrift and Mittelschrift. It was published at Linotype as DIN Next Pro.

    In 2012, Sandra Winter and Akira Kobayashi published Avenir Next Rounded.

    In 2014, Akira Kobayashi, Sandra Winter and Tom Grace joined forces to publish DIN Next Slab at Linotype.

    In 2016, Akira Kobayashi and Sandra Winter co-designed Applied Sans (32 styles) at Monotype. It is in the tradition of vintage sans typeface such as Venus and Ideal Grotesk, and competes with Rod McDonald's splendid Classic Groyesque. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    SangHyeon Park

    Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of HU Bubble (2020, with Haerin Lee) and HU Wind Sans (2020: a 15-style sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and ByoungHeon Park).

    Typefaces from 2021: HU Kinderland (a fat finger font by SangHyeon Park and Beopho Choi), HU Battery (a sci-fi typeface by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and Yehyeong Lee), HU Crayon Doodles (by SangHyeon Park, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Santhi Thomaidi

    Graphic designer from Athens who created Moralis (2011), a beautiful poster typeface about which he writes: Yiannis Moralis was one of the most important Greek visual artists and part of the so-called "Generation of the 30's. As we notice in the way he portrays his subjects, he was an artist who was mostly interested in his own inner relationship with his art and less in the artistic styles of other periods or solutions offered by his contemporary Western European art. By today's standards it is an outmoded spirit, but for this reason, perhaps wistful to the contemporary viewer. This typeface is a tribute to this great artist Keeping the shapes and lines of his artworks, I designed these letters inspired from the geometrical forms and his primitive way of design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah Allison Bullock

    Jackson, MS-based student-designer of a textured Greek alphabet in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarasiti-Victoria

    Athens-based foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Satsuyako

    Japanese designer of the free Google Font Yomogi (2021). Yomogi is extra thin hand writing font that is easy to read and makes a strong impression. It includes Google Latin Plus, hiragana, katakana, JIS level 1 and 2 kanji glyphs. Github link.

    Between 2012 and 2019, Satsuyako developed the hiragana / katakana / Latin bubblegum font Cherrybomb. In 2020, he released the free old style Latin / Cyrillic / Greek / Japanese text typeface Hina Mincho.

    Github link for Satsuyako. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Schola Classic Tutorials

    Archive with 3 Greek truetype fonts, among which Greek Parse by Galaxie Software, Garland TX, and Sgreek-Fixed by Silver Mountain Software. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scholars Press
    [Jimmy Adair]

    The Scholars Press Fonts are public domain fonts that are designed to work on both Windows computers and Macs. Fonts for Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Semitic-language transliteration. (Mac and Windows): SPEzra (fixed width Hebrew/Aramaic, 1998) and SPTiberian (Hebrew/Aramaic), SPIonic (Greek, see also here), SPEdessa (Syriac), SPDoric (1999, uncial Greek), SPAchmim (Coptic), SPDamascus (Hebrew, 1998), SPCaesarea (dingbats, 1998), and SPAtlantis (transliteration). All fonts by Jimmy Adair. He states: "Patrick Durusau, formerly my colleague in crime at Scholars Press and now with the Society of Biblical Literature, was instrumental in the design and disseminatation of the SP fonts." FTP access. Truetype archive. See also here. fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ScholaX
    [Michael Sharpe]

    ScholaX is made up of text fonts based on TeXGyreSchola (originally created by B. Jackowski and J.M. Nowacki in 2006-2008), extended to include a full set of superior letters and figures and a set of inferior figures. Math support is available via newtxmath using one of two options: option "nc" (for New Century [Schoolbook]) uses the newtx Greek alphabets, while option "ncf" uses Greek math alphabets derived from those in the Fourier package. The additions to TeXGyreSchola, named TeXGyreScholaX, and the revisions/additions to the Fourier Greek alphabets are copyright 2019 by Michael Sharpe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Schriftarten für den theologischen Gebrauch
    [Martin Schuster]

    Two fonts by Martin Schuster (40DM a piece) for use in old theological texts. Fully accented, in truetype: MTS Hebrew BHS, MTS NT Graece. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Schriftgestaltung
    [Georg Seifert]

    Georg Seifert (Schriftgestaltung) is a Bitterfeld-Wolfen and/or Jena, Germany-based designer, born in Halle in 1978. He was a student at the Bauhaus University Weimar and runs Schriftgestaltung.de. He is best known for the free font editor Glyphs, released in 2011. Seifert lives and works in Berlin. His typefaces include

    • Olive Green Mono (2008). A monospaced typeface designed for his own use in email and programming code. Covers Greek and Cyrillic. Published by Schriftgestaltung.
    • Rosa Stencil (2008). A calligraphic stencil typeface. Published by Schriftgestaltung.
    • Azuro (2011). A 4-style screen family developed by Georg Seifert and fine-tuned by Jens Kutilek.
    • Graublau Sans (2005), GrauBlau Sans Kursiv. Has a Cyrillic style. The design of Graublau Sans Pro (20 styles with over 1000 glyphs each) took Georg Seifert over 5 years. Graublau Sans Web is free. Retail versions at MyFonts: Graublau Sans Pro (2008, FDI), Graublau Slab Pro (2012, FDI).
    • Pen (2006). A handwriting font.

    At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he introduced his (free) font editor Glyphs to the world. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw.

    Klingspor link. Behance link. Older German URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Schueler

    Original rune fonts by "Schueler", and some other ones: AlphGeniiFzpg100 (runes by Fuzzypeg), Alphabet-of-the-Magi, Angelic-Regular (Digital Type Foundry, 1992), AntoniousNormalThin (Greek), AntoniousOLOverLineThin, Astro (astrological symbols, Laser Printing Solutions&Cosmorama Enterprises, 1991-1992), DEEnoch (1997), Daggers (Digital Type Foundry, 1992), Enochian-Regular (Digital Type Foundry, 1991), Gary (astrological symbols), KoineMedium (Greek), Malachim (by Fuzzypeg), Schuelers-Enochian, Shalom (1993, Hebrew), ThebGL (Greekish runes by Richard Mitchell, the Underground Grammarian, 1994), Theban. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Séamas Ó Brógáin
    [Seirbhísí Leabhar]

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    Sean Redmond

    Greek Font to Unicode Converter. Find also Athena Roman, a Unicode-compliant font by Cornell's Jeffrey Rusten (for the American Philological Association). Alternate URL for that font. This font was withdrawn by Rusten, but this site still carries it. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sebastian Castellanos De La Hoz
    [Bastarda Type (was: No Name Type Foundry)]

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    Sebastian Kempgen
    [MacCampus]

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    Sebastian Losch
    [Kilotype]

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    Sebastian Riessen
    [Greek House of Fonts]

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    Seirbhísí Leabhar
    [Séamas Ó Brógáin]

    Séamas Ó Brógáin (Seirbhísí Leabhar) is an Irish type specialist based in Dublin. He has a page on type measurements, with a proposal for reform. His typefaces are all free:

    • Clara (2015). A text typeface created specially for printing A Dictionary of Editing (2015). The family includes italic, bold, bold italic, and small capitals, while the character set includes Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and mathematical ranges, scribal abbreviations, and other specialist characters. CTAN link, with TeX support, maintaned by Daniel Benjamin Miller.
    • Florea (2013). Floriated type borders based on a sixteenth century model.
    • The traditional minuscule (angular) Celtic font Gadelica (2007). Based on the first authentic examples from the seventeenth century.
    • Germanica (2010-2012). A textura quadrata typeface based on a model by Fust and Schöffer (ca. 1457).
    • Valida (2012). A font for creating ISBN barcodes.

    Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Selina Bernet

    Type designer in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. Graduate of HBK in Bern, and the Typemedia program at KABK, class of 2016. Her KABK thesis typeface, Junior, is lapidary and flared.

    Yassin Baggar (Fatype) designed the high-contrast Peignotian sans family Beausite Fit and Beausite Grand in 2014 at Fatype. It comes with subfamilies called Grotesk, Grand and Slick, and has fashion mag appeal. Beausite Classic is a more standard sans. Between 2014 and 2018, with the help of Anton Koovit and Selina Bernet, it grew to 56 styles.

    She also did Nana Mouskourim Greek (2016), a Greek addition to the lapidary typeface Albertus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Selwyn Image

    Designer of a Greek typeface in 1894, based upon the Greek of the Complutensian Polyglot of 1514. According to "Fleuron", vol. 6, p. 231, this typeface was surpassed by Victor Scholderer's "New Hellenic" (1928). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Semata
    [Sandra Romano Martin]

    Professor in the Departamento de Filologia Clasica of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Semata was her outlet for publishing her typefaces, which were all developed for classic studies, and cover Greek and Latin:

      The transitional Times-style polytonic Greek typeface Asteria (2004).
    • Dioxipe (2004). In the Apla (didone) style of Monotype 90. The upper case is identical to Paratype's New Standard, which was used in the previous century to publish the works of Lenin.
    • Adite (2003). Inspired by Souvenir.
    • Korinthia (2004). A Latin and Greek Sabon!
    • Hipermestra (2003).
    • Oxoniensis (2003). Inspired by Baskerville.

    Her web site and free fonts disappeared. Web archive link. At one point, one could download the fonts here. Semata no longer publishes fonts. Old link for Semata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Seminar on typography and optical communication

    From February 16, 2006 until March 23, 2006, the University of Thessaloniki organizes a 50-hour seminar on typography and optical communication, which will cover Greek typography from the 15th to 20th century, typography on the web, European typography, modern tools in typographic typesetting, typeface design. It will also cover graphic design, typography and optical communication. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Senso Type & Graphic

    Outfit in Cornella, Spain. Creator of Funkiee (2015), Helio Slab Serif (2015, a text typeface for science books), Helio Greek (2015), and Trueca (2015, a humanist typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sentouka Rodanthi

    Creative Director & Partner of Red Design Consultants. Designer of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games emblem. In 2012, she published Red Script Pro at Cannibal Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serbian Orthodox Church

    Links for Greek, Georgian and Greek polytonic fonts. They offer 60 Latinica fonts (Direct access) and 60 Cirilica fonts by Dino Art Corporation (1993) (Direct access). The font names: Cirilica60, Cirilica80, AmerigoYU, AmericanTypewriterBoldYU, AmericanTypewriterYU, AmericanUncialCirilica, ArabiaCirilica, AardvarkCirilicaBold, AardvarkCirilica, ArialCirilicaBold, ArialCirilicaItalic, Arial-Cirilica, ArialCirilicaBoldItalic, AristonCirilicaBoldItalic, AtletaCirilica, AvantGardeBoldYU, AvantGardeYU, AvantGardeBoldYU, AvantGardeLightYU, BahamasYU, BahamasCirilica, BahamasBoldYU, BahamasHeavyYU, BahamasLightYU, BangkokYU, BangkokBoldYU, BangkokCirilicaBold, BangkokCirilica, BarnumYU, BedrockCirilica, BekerCirilicaBold, BlippoBoldYU, BodnoffYU, BodoniYU, BodoniBoldYU, BodoniBoldItalicYU, BodoniItalicYU, BodoniCirilicaBold, BodoniCirilicaItalic, BodoniCirilica, BodoniRomanCirilica, BodoniCirilicaBoldItalic, BookCirilicaBold, BookCirilicaItalic, BookmanYU, BookmanBoldYU, BookmanBoldItalicYU, BookmanItalicYU, BookCirilica, BookCirilicaBoldItalic, BremenCirilica, BroadwayBoldYU, BroadwayCirilica, BrooklynBoldYU, BrooklynBoldItalicYU, BrooklynItalicYU, BrooklynYU, BrunswikBoldYU, BrunswikBoldItalicYU, BrunswikItalicYU, BrunswikYU, BrushScriptCirilica, CalligraphYU, CalligraphBoldYU, CalligraphBoldItalicYU, CalligraphItalicYU, CaligraphCirilica, CasablancaBoldYU, CasablancaBoldItalicYU, CasablancaItalicYU, CasablancaYU, CasperOpenFaceYU, CenturionOldBoldYU, CenturionOldYU, CenturionOldItalicYU, CenturyCirilicaItalic, CenturyCirilica, CharterYU, CharterBoldYU, CharterBoldItalicYU, CharterItalicYU, CheltenhamYU, CheltenhamBoldYU, CheltenhamBoldItalicYU, CheltenhamItalicYU, ChinaYU, ClarendonYU, ClarendonBoldYU, CloisterYU, CzarCirilicaBold, CzarCirilicaItalic, CzarCirilica, CzarCirilicaBoldItalic, GoliatCirilicaBold, Goliat-Cirilica, HelveticaCirilicaBold, HelveticaCirilicaItalic, HelveticaCirilica, HelveticaCirilicaBoldItalic, HippoCirilicaBold, Hippo-CirilicaOutline, Madrone-Cirilica, MemorandumCirilica, Miroslavljeva-Cirilica, MurmanskCirilica, OdessaScriptCirilica, RenfrewCirilica, SouthernCirilicaItalic, Southern-Cirilica, TimesCirilicaBold, TimesCirilicaItalic, Times-Cirilica, TimesRomanCirilicaItalic, TimesRomanCirilica, TimesRomanCirilicaBoldItalic, TimesCirilicaBoldItalic, UnicornCirilica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Egorov

    Born in Moscow in 1963. A graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1985, he became a TeX specialist. Since 2003, he creates his own typefaces. Gaithersburg, MD-based designer of a Cyrillic Venetian typeface (2004) called Bucentoro. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for Bucentero and SPQR Caps. He is working on Bucentoro Greek (2006). In Bucentoro's low-contrast design, we can find influences of Nicholas Jenson, Francisco Griffo and Vadim Lazursky. Currently, Sergei Egorov lives in the Washington, DC, area.

    His Neacademia (2009, +Kursiv) won an award at Paratype K2009. It was published in 2011 at Rosetta Type: Neacademia is a Latin and Cyrillic type family inspired by the types cut by 15th century Italian punch-cutter Francesco Griffo da Bologna for the famous Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Pius Manutius. The family is designed for lengthy texts. Neacademia Subhead (Rosetta) followed in 2015. This typeface family has all the renaissance character and typographic finesse that was promised---it is absolutely stunning. In 2016, he added Neacademia Small text.

    Klingspor link. MyFonts link to his own foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sergio Trujillo

    Professor at he University of Monterrey (UDEM) in Mexico. Sergio has a bachelor's degree in Information Design from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, a Masters degree in Graphic Branding and Identity from the London College of Communication, and a Masters degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading (MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2015). His graduation typeface at Reading was Satira (for Latin and Greek): Satira is a multi-script type family conceived for editorial purposes (satirical journalism). Its big x-height, small ascenders and descenders, and slightly narrow proportions make it a well-suited choice for magazines, newspapers or any kind of space-saving typesetting situations. Satira covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Tai-Ahom, a script used in the Indian Assam region. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal and at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (on the topic of heavy metal type). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergios Hatzinikolas

    Athens-based graphic designer. In 2007, he created the Greek sans typeface Estia about which he writes: This is the digitised and redesigned version of the historical Greek newspaper Estia. The original typeface was only available in printed form and was taken from newspaper sheets kept in archive. The newspapers printing method at that time was linotype. I scanned the letters one by one, retouched them by hand firstly, then digitised them using ScanFont and at last edit them with FontLab. This was done for my MA project in the Masters department of Vakalo School of Art and Design, Athens, Greece. My professor during this project was Hector Haralambous. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergiy Tkachenko
    [4th February]

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    Severin Meyer

    Swiss creator of the free squarish techno (futuristic) typeface Xolonium (2011, Open Font Library), which covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. The typeface was updated in 2016. In 2019, he published another squarish techno family, Oxanium. Google Fonts link. Github link.

    Fontspace link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sevi Spanou

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created the experimental Latin typeface Textile (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SGreek fixed

    SGreek Fixed truetype font by Silver Mountain Software. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shareware Greek Fonts for the PC

    Matthew Robinson's shareware Greek font archive. Useful links. Has Wingreek, Kalos, Korinthus, Milan, and Greek Old Face Anglophone (Son of Wingreek). Among Greek Unicode fonts, it lists: Vusillus, Athena, Silver Humana, Aisa Greek, MG Old Times UC, Cardo, Caslon, Monospace, Posron, Titus Cyberbit Basic, Code 2000, and Alphabetum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sharkshock
    [Dennis Ludlow]

    Dennis Ludlow (Sharkshock Productions, Raleigh, NC) started making mostly free fonts in 1999. On August 28, 2001, Dennis announced that he would stop producing fonts, forever. To prove himself wrong, he became more prolific trhan ever, and ultimately started designing retail fonts as well.

    His early typefaces include Hot Pizza (2001), Hawaiian Punk, Royal Acidbath, Little Caesar, Subway, Holiday India, Mobsters, Dallas Cowboys (Western look, 2004), Dark Crystal, Queen of Camelot (2015), Green Eggs and Spam (2015), Ludlow Strong Ale (2015, German beer label font), Space Angel (2014), Electrox, Cowboys, Dolphins, Viking Stencil, Lexust (2002), Padaloma (2002), Fujita Ray (2002), Willy Wonka, Hursheys, Grinched (a Halloween or beatnik font), Honda, Busch Gardenz, Holiday India (2000), Simpsons, Blockbusted, IHOP, Chicken Fool A, Playtoy (2000: like the masthead of Playboy), Cowboys (2001), Dreamscar (2001, has a Cyrillic version), Mr. Goodbaur, Dr. Peppers, Oreos, Air Millhouse, Fruitopia, Raiders, TGI Friday, Jolly-Raunchy, Mouser, Pirate-Keg, Fujita Ray (2015), Modeccio (2015, art deco), Wendyville (2015, Western), Vonique 64 (2015, avant-garde style), Your Royal Majesty (2015, a unique blackletter-inspired vampire script), Hackney Block (2015), Thunder Lord (2015, an outlined variant of Raiderfont), Republica Minor (2015), News of the World (2015: a news headline font), TH3 Machine (2015), Funkrocker (2015, inky, grungy), Tiki Tropic (2015: a tiki font), TypoGraphica (2015, a strong geometric sans), Vonique 92 (2015, circle-based fashion sans), Reisenberg (2015, a black titling sans; v2.0 dates from 2018). There is also a medium-sized categorized archive, with subsections such as cartoon fonts and movie fonts.

    Typefaces from 2016: Twiddlestix, Konigsberg (rounded sans), Wicked Mouse (looney tunes typeface), Heathergreen (a tall condensed sans), Wonderbar (psychedelic), College Block (athletic lettering), Death Star, Ring of Kerry (uncial style), Blockletter (octagonal), Café Françoise, Cronus (round monoline sans), Suissnord (a wide sans display typeface), Grinched 2.0 (an update of Grinched), Red Seven (futuristic), Enchanted Land (derived from the blackletter genre), Freakshow (ornamental ransom note font), Deutschlander (a condensed sans for movie credits and similar applications).

    Typefaces from 2017: Lemonade Stand, Dark & Black, Hennigar (a heavy compact sans in the spirit of Impact), Durango Western, Banbury (a heavy display didone), United Kingdom (techno), Goldoni, Kingsmen.

    Typefaces from 2018: Bloomsburg (a 6-style organic sans; +Cyrillic), Stupid Meeting (an all caps display typeface), Medusa Gothic, Carson (tall grotesque), Collegeblock 2 (an octagonal varsity font), Medusa Gothic, Royal Crescent (sans), Praetoria, Papaya Sunrise, Helmswald Post (blackletter).

    Typefaces from 2019: Deutschlander 2.0 (an organic monoline sans, with coverage of Cyrillic and Greek), Zanzabar (a genie lamp or Arabic emulation typeface), Vonique 43 (an organic fashion mag sans), Delacorso Outlines (tall decorative caps), Kwixter Sketch (for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2020: Stupid Meeting (an all caps sans with a comic book feel, appropriately named to describe most COVID era Zoom work sessions), Toyster (a plumpish typeface), Wonderbar 2 (psychedelic, all caps), Boldstrom (a tightly spaced heavy industrial sans), Reisenberg, Snicker Snack, Crosshatcher (a sketched font), Czesko (a skyline font), Storybook Ending (a mix of uncial and Tuscan), Toyster (a bubblegum font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Kamryn (a display serif), Mouser (an organic geometric sans in six styles), Dottingham (a Victorian typeface), Tempestua (a sharp bold display sans), Lemonade Stand, Brontoburger (a vernacular typeface).

    Typefaces from 2022: Jumbalo (a bubblegum font).

    Abstract Fonts link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Shinn Type
    [Nick Shinn]

    Nick Shinn (b. London, 1952) is an art director and type designer. He teaches at York University in Toronto, and is a founding member of the Type Club of Toronto. He writes regularly for Graphic Exchange magazine, and has contributed to Applied Arts, Marketing, Design, and Druk. He founded Shinn Type in 1999, and made fifteen type families. Interview by Jan Middendorp, in which he describes himself as a contrarian. Pic by Isaias Loaiza. Pic by Chris Lozos at Typo SF in San Francisco in 2012. Custom typefaces have been produced for newspapers such as The Birmingham News (Alabama), The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Express (London), The Daily Mail (London), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), The Montreal Gazette, and The St. Petersburg Times (Florida). Custom fonts, with exclusive rights, have been created for corporations such as Thomson Nelson, Enbridge, Rogers Communications Inc., and Martha Stewart Living. Nick organizes type evenings in Toronto all year long.

    Shinn Type fonts at MyFonts. Behance link.

    He is the designer of Fontesque (a wild family of curly glyphs), the monospaced font Monkey Mono, Artefact (1999), Beaufort (a sharply serifed family done in 1999; in 2008, he published a 10-style extension called Beaufort Pro), Bodoni Egyptian (1999), Alphaville (2000, techno typeface with straight mono-width strokes), Brown, Brown Gothic, Duffy Script (2008, in 4 styles: an interpretation of the lettering of contemporary illustrator Amanda Duffy, aka Losergirl), Handsome (1999, cursive handwriting family, since 2005 available in OpenType), Merlin, Oneleigh (1999, masterful!!), Paradigm (1995, updated in 2008, inspired by 15th century letterforms), Shinn, Walburn (1996) [note: Walburn and Brown were originally commissioned for the 2000 redesign of the Globe and Mail. Walburn is an adaptation of a didone typeface by Erich Walbaum, c.1800], Worldwide (1999).

    In 2001, he designed the Richler font in honour of the memory of Mordecai Richler. The Richler font was only available to the Giller Prize, Random House and the Richler family until its public release in May 2013 at MyFonts, where Richler (+Cyrillic, +Greek) is advertised as a 21st century antiqua book face.

    In 2002, he published Goodchild (a Jenson revival; see also Goodchild Pro (2017). Goodchild is a Venetian with clean (not antiqued!) outlines and a larger-than-Jensonian x-height. It comes in 4 styles and is targeted at sophisticated academic typography) and the liquid lettering family Morphica, exclusively at Veer.

    In 2003, he released the absolutely gorgeous "modern" sans Eunoia (which has a unicase weight), and the quirky sans family Preface (2003; Preface Thin is a hairline weight; Preface Light is free at FontShop). In 2003, he also published the mmonowidth unicase family Panoptica (2003), which includes styles called Regular, Sans, Egyptian, Doesburg and Octagonal, to name a few.

    In 2004, he released Nicholas, a Jensonian serif family, which is the headline version of Goodchild.

    Additions in 2006 include Softmachine (VAG Rounded/comic book style family). Sexy type from Toronto is an article by Erin Kobayashi about Shinn's work published in the Toronto Star on April 15, 2007. Nick Shinn designed the type for the redesign of The Globe and Mail in April 2007: Globe and Mail Text [look at the f], Globe and Mail Sans (or GM Sans), Globe and Mail News (or GM News).

    In 2008, these typefaces went retail. One typeface is called Pratt, named after David Pratt, the design director at The Globe and Mail who commissioned the typeface for his redesign of the paper. The companion typeface will be called Pratt Sans.

    Additions in 2008: Figgins Sans (4 styles), Scotch Modern (a 5 style didone family that revives the typeface used in New York State Cabinet of Natural History), Scotch Micro. Paul Shaw writes: Scotch Roman, beloved by D.B. Updike and W.A. Dwiggins, was a standard in the typographic repertoire of pre-World War II printers but fell out of favor after the war, supplanted by Bodoni. Nick Shinn of Shinntype has made a bid to resurrect this oft-maligned typeface with Scotch Modern. Scotch Modern is not a revival of the familiar Scotch Roman of Linotype and Monotype, but of a more modern design attributed to George Bruce, the great 19th-century New York punchcutter. Shinn used a sample of the typeface from the New York State Cabinet of Natural History's 23rd Annual Report for the Year 1869 (printed in 1873) as a model. He drew it by eye, aided by a sharp loupe: no photographic enlargements, no scans, no tracing. The ends of the strokes are slightly rounded, to capture the effect of metal type being impressed into soft paper. Shinn contends that the 19th-century Scotch types were "eminently readable" and a factor in the rise of modern literacy. His rendition, an OpenType font, aims for readability in all situations with display, regular, and microtype versions. The display roman includes a unicase font-a nod to Bradbury Thompson's Alphabet 26 experiment-and the italic has elegant swash caps. Scotch Roman has never been a typeface for those seeking eternal beauty or anyone desperate for typographic kicks. Dwiggins gave it a 10 for legibility (where 10 was "reasonable human perfection") but only 4 for grace and 0 for novelty. Shinn's Scotch Modern, with its many OpenType extras, scores well on all three counts. It's a typeface for those who prefer a mature single malt: simple at first, but more complex as it is savored. Photograph. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, his talk was entitled Scotch Modern. Several catalogs have been published by Shinntype. Particularly noteworthy is The Modern Suite (2008, Nick Shinn, Coach House Press, Toronto), which showcases Figgins Sans and Scotch Modern. Sample of some Scotch Modern dingbats.

    Production in 2010: Sensibility (a humanist sans superfamily), Sense (a modernist sans superfamily), Bodoni Egyptian Pro (a monoline slab Bodoni experiment---the Pro version of a 1999 family by him).

    In 2011, he created Checker, an all caps 3d black and white-tiled typeface, and Parity (a roman unicase pair).

    Naiad (2013) is a didone, or neoclassical, typeface with Victorian curlicues thrown in to create a Victorian look.

    Pratt Nova (2014) is a 17-style large x-height typeface family that attempts to achieve visual and semantic opulence, equipping the typographer with a comprehensive array of harmonized fonts, all rigorously drawn, superbly fitted iterations of a single, profoundly original design. Neology (2014) is a 15-style sans family subdivieded into Deco, Grotesque and plain sans subfamilies.

    Brown Pro (2016) is a classic grotesque, distinguished by its semi-condensed proportions and slight flaring of the edges and some ink traps.

    Figgins Standard (2016) is a take on the low-contrast original sans typefaces designed in the 1830s in industrial London.

    Gambado (2016). This is a collection of shaken typefaces with bouncing letters. Particular fonts include Gambado Sans and Gambado Scotch.

    Dair (2017) is a revival of Canada's first home-grown typeface, Cartier, which was completed by Carl Dair in 1967 and named after 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who mapped the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1530s. Dair 67 and Dair 67 Italic are facsimiles of the original fonts. Dair and Dair Italic are fully-featured 21st century fonts.

    In 2018, Nick Shinn published Phiz, a diverse suite of 27 decorative fonts based on Figgins Sans Extra Bold.

    Designer of Boxley (2016), a superelliptical sans typeface family.

    At the end of 2020, he published the 14-style condensed rounded sans typeface family Aptly. o

    Typefaces from 2021: Buslingthorpe (a tall-necked typeface in which the x-height is only 29% of the ascender height, beating classic tall fonts such as Rudolf Koch's Koch Antiqua, and Lucian Bernhard's Lucian and Bernhard Modern).

    Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal.

    MyFonts interview. I Love Typography link. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

    View Nick Shinn's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Shriftovik Foundry
    [Tikhon Reztcov]

    At ATFI (Moscow) and later Shriftovik Foundry (also in Moscow), Tikhon Reztcov designed the free blocky typeface Markh (2018), SK Pencil (2018), Futark (2018), the free contructivist Latin / Cyrillic typeface ReSquare (2018), the free monoline display sans typeface ForestSmooth (2018) and the free scratchy font Ustroke (2018) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces from 2019: SK Irrationalist (originally, a free constructivist typeface), SK Primo, SK Eliz (a free pixel font.

    Typefaces from 2020: SK Concretica (a caps only monumentalist or hipster typeface for Latin, Greek, Cyrilllic, Hebrew, katakana and hiragana), SK Brushwood (co-designed with Alexandra Valuikina), SK Cuber, SK Moralist (a fat finger font), SK Cynic (a pixel emulation font).

    Typefaces from 2021: SK Shriftovik (constructivist; Latin and Cyrillic), SK Phlegmatica (a square-shaped letter font), SK Glypher (almost a tape font). Behance link for Shriftovik Foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    SIAS (or: Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner)
    [Andreas Stötzner]

    Andreas Stötzner (b. 1965, Leipzig) is a type designer who lives in Pegau, Saxony. Graduate from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and the Royal College of Art in London (1994). Since then, free-lance. Started making typefaces in 1997. He edits the sign and symbol magazine Signa. He spoke at Typo Berlin 2004 and at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki where his talk was entitled On the edges of the alphabet. Coauthor with Tilo Richter of Signographie : Entwurf einer Lehre des graphischen Zeichens. He set up SIAS in 2006-2007 and started selling fonts through MyFonts.

    He created Andron Scriptor (2004, free), with original ideas for Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. The Andron project intends to extend this Venetian text typeface in many directions: right now, it covers Latin, Greek, Coptic, Gothic, runes, Cyrillic, Etruscan and Irish scripts, musical symbols, astronomical and meteorological symbols, and many dingbats. The Andron MC Corpus series (2012) contains Uncial, Mediaeval and Capital styles. He also created Andron 1 Monetary (2014), Andron 1 Alchemical and Andron 2 ABC (2014, for children's literature).

    On or before 2006, he created a few typefaces for Elsner & Flake. These include EF Beautilities, EF Ornamental Rules, EF Squares, EF Topographicals, EF Typoflorals, EF Typographicals, EF Typomix, EF Typosigns, EF Typospecs, EF Typostuff.

    Fonts from 2007-2010: Gramma (2007, three dingbats with basic geometric forms), Andron Corpus Publix (2007, dingbats including one called Transport), SIAS Freefont (2007, more dingbats), SIAS Lineaturen (2007, geometric dingbats) SIAS Symbols (2009), Andron Freefont (2009, text font), Andron 1 Latin Corpus (2009), Andron 1 Greek Corpus (2009), Andron Kyrillisch (2009, consisting of Andron 1 CYR, Andron 2 CYR and Andron 2 SRB where SRB stands for Serbian), Andron 2 English Corpus (2010, blackletter-inspired alphabet), Andron 2 Deutsch Corpus (2010), Andron Ornamente (2012), Reinstaedt (2009, blackletter family), Crisis (2009, economic sans).

    Lapidaria (2010) is an elegant art deco sans family that includes an uncial style and covers Greek. Hibernica (2010) is a Celtic variant of Lapidaria. Symbojet Bold (2010) is a combination of a Latin and Greek sans typeface with 400 pictograms.

    Rosenbaum (2012) is a festive blackletter face, obtained by mixing in didone elements.

    In 2013, he published Arthur Cabinet, a six-style inline art deco caps collection of typefaces, with accompanying Arthur Ornaments and Arthur Sans. Meanwhile, Andron Mega grew to 14,700 unicode glyphs in 2013.

    Typefaces from 2014: Behrens Ornaments (art nouveau ornaments based on Behrens Schuck by Peter Behrens, 1914), Fehlian (an open capitals typeface family with Plain, Gravur and Precious styles), Happy Maggie (a hand-drawn script based on Maggie's sketches when she was 13 years old), Abendschroth (for lullabies, girl's literature, murder poems, short stories and Christmas gift books), Abendschroth Scriptive, Albyona English No. 1 (as Andreas writes, suitable for children's books, fantasy literature, crime novels, natural food packaging and poison labeling, for infancy memories, vanitas kitsch items, dungeon museum bar menu cards, introductions to herbalism and witchcraft manuals), Lindau (a Venetian Jensonian typeface with considerable flaring in the ascenders), Grund (based on the 1924 art deco signage in Leipzig's Untergrundmesshalle Markt whose architect was Otto Droge), Leipziger Ornamente (based on variopus buildings in Gohlis, Leipzig, dating from the 1920s-1950s), Kaukasia Albanisch (ancient writing system of the Caucasus region, allegedly created by Mesrop Mashtots who also invented the Armenian alphabet in 405).

    Commissioned fonts include Runes (commission by Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), Lapidaria Menotec, Old Albanian, Dania (a special notation for Danish dialectology. Font extension of Latin Modern Italic (Open source), commissioned by the Arnamagnanean Institute, Copenhagen Universit).

    Typefaces from 2015: Andron 2 EIR Corpus (uncial, Gaeli), Artemis Sans (Greek version of Arthur Sans), Ardagh (a Gaelic / Irish version of Arthur Sans). Don Sans (a sturdy sans).

    Typefaces from 2016: Popelka (an uncial fairy tale font modeled after the opening sequence of the 1973 movie Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel).

    MyFonts. Behance link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link.

    Showcase of Andreas Stötzner's typefaces at MyFonts. View the SIAS typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    SIL Apparatus Fonts

    Four free fonts that provide most of the symbols needed to reproduce the textual apparatus found in major editions of Greek&Hebrew biblical texts. Based on SIL Charis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SIL Greek Font System

    Six free fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, divided into SIL Greek Trans, SIL Galatia and SIL Galatia Extras. "The SIL Greek Font System is designed to be an integrated system for entering, displaying and printing Biblical Greek texts. Also included are fonts for transliteration and conversion routines for going from one encoding to another." Free, all formats. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silver Mountain Software

    Shareware Windows utility for typesetting Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Coptic, with fonts included. The Greek font 5truetype) is called Sgreek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvio Levy
    [Greek (Silvio Levy)]

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    Simeon out West Foundry
    [Brett T. Johnson]

    Brett T. Johnson (b. Loveland, CO, 1972) runs Simeon out West Foundry in Englewood, CO. He sells fonts based on ideas from Byzantine, Ge'ez and old slavonic scripts, and Eastern Orthodox manuscripts. Brett Johnson was born in Loveland, CO, in 1972. The creations: Typewriter Olympia SM8 (2016, based on old Olympia SM and SF typewriters fromthe 50s and 60s), Radonezh (2016, old Slavonic simulation font family), Simeon's Handwritten Blackletter (2008), Pseudo-Hellenic (2008, a Greek and Latin didone pair), Tiblisi (2008, a Georgian simulation face), Pentopolis (2008, based on an ancient Coptic script), Svati Sava (2008, a Serb-look font), Muscovite Manuscript (2005), Pravoslavnie (2005), Alexandria (2005), Alaskaya (2006), Svati Nikolai (2005), Thebes (2005), Suzdal (2005), Kniga Molitva (2005), Vladimir (2005), Scetis (2005), Adis Ababa (2008). Colonial Press (+Italic) (2008) is based on work by William Caslon I (1692-1766). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Simtel.Net Windows 95 Collection

    Download some fonts and font utilities. Includes akFontViewer 3.0 (Windows font viewer), amviewer (Arjan Mels' Font Viewer), Crossfont 1.4, Font Namer v2.3, Win32 Font Lister, Fontab 1.8 (font viewer), FontC, FontChart 2.1, FontCP 1.0 (sorts truetype fonts by kind), FontFinder32 v5.30, Font Impressions 2.0 (font manager), Fontlook 3.5, Fontmagic 1.0 (previewing, installing), Fontpeeper 3.2, Fontrax 2000, Hellod (font decoration tool for web pages), JobSpecific32 v2.01 (Postscript font assigner), MyFonts v3.5, ADing ParkFont v1.00 (font resources manager), Phontz (font viewer), Symsel2 (select symbols from truetype fonts), ttr_1000 (truetype font renamer), Visi Font Gold v1.1 (font viewer). Also has a Burnmese font, a Coptic font (Mena), and fifteen fonts from GraphxEdge. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sirylok (was: Popdog Fonts, or Fiberia)
    [Dimitris Kolyris]

    About 30 free original truetype fonts by Athens, Greece-based Dimitris Kolyris (b. 1973), half of which are grungy in style: Hip Priest (2016), Raw Macro (2016, architectural or blueprint style), Glasnost (2010), Victor Vector, Slang King (2003), Datatrash, DataTrash2, Ziperhead, CRAMPED, CRAMPS, CrackedJohnnie, DISCOBOX, DISCONNECTHOST, EVOL, POP1280, RANXEROX, Roundermultistyled, TomViolenceAUTOSPACED, UGLYLOVER, Vandaloop (hacker font), ZWISDOM, Bonviver, Corazon, HappyDaze, Recover, Tom Violence, Viper Nora, Benny Blanco, DEADLINE, HEATWAVE.

    In 2016, he strtaed a commercial foundry, Sirlok. His fonts there include Data Trash Retro Futuristic (2016: constructivist style).

    Homepage invalid. Dafont link. And another URL. Old Popdog Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slanted Hall
    [Jeff Kellem]

    Slanted Hall features the type designs of Jeff Kellem, who is located in the Silicon Valley Bay Area, California. In 2012, after a 20+ year hiatus, Jeff Kellem returned to type design. The first typeface release of 2013, 1403 Vintage Mono Pro, includes Latin (including Vietnamese), Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew. An updated version was released in early 2016. He writes: 1403 Vintage Mono was inspired by the 1960s era IBM 1403 mainframe line printer and the 52 glyphs on the A and H print chains. It is an all uppercase, monospace (fixed width) font and has been expanded way beyond what the original printer supported. He is working on 1403 Hebrew Sans.

    In the 1980s, Jeff focused on music notation fonts while working on music notation software research and is also designing new typefaces for scoring, with planned releases in 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slavka Jevcinova
    [Into the Type]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    SMF Baskerville
    [Yannis Haralambous]

    Yannis Haralambous designed SMF Baskerville (1999), a math font for the Société mathématique de France. His article on the subject is Une police mathématique pour la Société Mathématique de France: le SMF Baskerville, Cahiers GUTenberg, vol. 32, 1999, pp. 5-19. Yannis writes: SMF Baskerville is an attempt to make Greek letters matching Latin italic Baskerville ones. Many letters have been inspired by the design of the Porson Greek typeface. The variant pi is drawn as the author learned it in primary school: with a big curly stroke, instead of the horizontal bar found in other typefaces. The capital letters have been inspired by Adobe Mathematical Pi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Smirap Designs
    [Mike Karolos]

    Mike Karolos (b. Manchester, UK) works in Athens, Greece, where he operates as Smirap Designs. He has display typefaces called Graffiti Font (2014) and Graffiti Font 2 (2015), both free. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Society of Biblical Literature
    [John Hudson]

    Tiro (John Hudson) is publishing Unicode-compliant typefaces called SBL Hebrew (2003), SBL Greek (2003) and SBL Latin (2003, not sure of the last name though). For now, these typefaces are commercial, but SBL (the Society for Biblical Literature) states: "SBL and the font foundation will lobby Microsoft to distribute the font with its future releases of Windows." Early 2004, the Hebrew face went public (free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Karioti

    Sofia Karioti works in Athens, Greece, where she designed an illustrated Greek alphabet called Screws and Nuts, which is made up of nuts and bolts during a study project in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Pliakopanou

    Athens-based creator of Makaronia (2012), an ornamental pasta-themed Greek caps typeface that is based on Linotype Palatino. In 2016, she showcased the decorative caps typeface Macaroni. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Valvi

    Graphic designer in Athens (Greece) who made some nice posters in 2011 about an imaginary 2018 FIFA World Cup in Tanzania---great lettering too. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Software for Classicists

    Don Fowler's links to software and fonts of use to classicists. Many classical Greek font links. Don Fowler died at the end of 1999, and Anne Bowtell maintained the site for a while. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Software Ignegneria

    Italian site which offers a free Courier face: CourNewIngeSoft. This has Greek, Arabic, Cyrillic and East-European blocks of glyphs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Soixantedeux

    New York-based designer. He made a TrueType version of the old Apple bitmap font Venice in 2006 and placed it at Dafont as Venice Classic. Another Apple bitmap font, Athens, was revived in 2007 as Athens Classic. He also remade Fixedsys 62 (2007), an old Windows systems font, complete with Greek and Cyrillic characters.

    Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Soledad Degl'Innocenti

    Graphic designer in Buenos Aires who created the lovely Chambéry typeface in 2012. In 2013, she published the Latin / Greek / Cyrillic text typeface Archigram, which was designed for architecture manuals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Son of WinGreek v2.2

    Son of WinGreek, is suitable for all versions of Word from 2 to 97, and Windows from 3.1 to 98. It comes with its own keyboard. Shareware, reg. fee $20. Alternate URL. Shareware by Neil Beshoori and Ralph Hancock. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Apostolopoulou

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created Tutfont, Circlefont and the experimental sans typeface Geometric in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Drogoudi

    Greek graphic designer who made the experimental typeface Slide (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Kalaitzidou
    [Antonis Tsolomitis]

    Greek type designer who co-digitized GFS Baskerville with George D. Matthiopoulos in 2007. The Greek Font Society explains: John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involed in typography late in his career but his contribution was significant. He was a successful entrepreneur and possesed an inquiring mind which he applied to produce many aesthetic and technical innovations in printing. He invented a new ink formula, a new type of smooth paper and made various improvements in the printing press. He was also involved in type design which resulted in a Latin typeface which was used for the edition of Virgil, in 1757. The quality of the type was admired throughout of Europe and America and was revived with great success in the early 20th century. Baskerville was also involved in the design of a Greek typeface which he used in an edition of the New Testament for Oxford University, in 1763. He adopted the practice of avoiding the excessive number of ligatures which Alexander Wilson had started a few years earlier but his Greek types were rather narrow in proportion and did not win the sympathy of the philologists and other scholars of his time. They did influence, however, the Greek types of Giambattista Bodoni and through him Didot's Greek in Paris. The typeface has been digitally revived as GFS Baskerville Classic by Sophia Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos and is now available as part of GFS' type library. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Mili

    Athens-based designer. She created Don Quixote by Picasso out of typographic elements in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophy Vini

    Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of the glitch art typeface Nepenthes (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sotiris Sioutzioukis

    Designer in Aiani, Greece, who created an experimental display typeface and a dot matrix typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Source Han Sans

    In July 2014, Adobe and Google jointly announced the publication of the free Asian typeface family Source Han Sans for Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The fonts and original code are downloadable from SourceForge and GitHub. Blog page at Typekit. Blog post at Google. The other name for the family, Noto Sans CJK, is used by Google.The open source license even permits modification of the glyphs.

    The 42 fonts are designed for small devices, and thus, the glyphs are monolinear and simple. Each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of characters supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family contains just under half a million total glyphs. Adobe sought expertise from foundries such as Iwata Corp to expand the Japanese glyph selection, Sandoll Communication, designer of Korean Hangul and Changzhou SinoType, Adobe's longtime collaborator in China.

    On the Google side of the project, where the fonts are added to the Noto Sans and Noto Serif (which covers all major languages of the world and many others, including European, African, Middle Eastern, Indic, South and Southeast Asian, Central Asian, American, and East Asian languages, and, since the joint release with Adobe in 2014, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and minority languages related to them), users can download all Noto fonts freely in a 43 MB file.

    References: Ken Lunde (Adobe) on the design and development of Pan-CJK fonts (2010). Inside the fonts, we find these credits: Ken Lunde (project architect, glyph set definition & overall production), Masataka Hattori (production & ideograph elements), Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang & Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables).

    At ATypI 2014 in Barcelona, the project was explained by product managers Stuart Gill of Google and Caleb Belohlavek of Adobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Source Han Serif

    Source Han Serif is the serif-style typeface family companion to Source Han Sans. This free superfamily covers Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The designers of Source Han Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Source Han serif Japanese and Korean are Frank Griesshammer, Ryoko Nishizuka, Soohyun Park, Wenlong Zhang and Yejin We. The Chinese glyphs, both simplified and traditional, were designed by partner type foundry Changzhou SinoType. The Korean glyphs were designed by partner type foundry Sandoll Communications.

    Source han Serif won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sources chrétiennes

    Greek and Syriac jump page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Southern Software Inc. (SSi)

    In the late 1990s, SSi used to sell foreign fonts for Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts themselves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SPTiberian, SPIonic

    Place to download SPIonic and SPTiberian. Alternate URL. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Spyros Athanassopoulos

    Athens, Greece-based designer of a purely geometric alphabet or typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    start.gr

    Free Greek truetype font families: Arial, Times New Roman, Courier. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stavros A. Georgakopoulos

    London-based codesigner, with a few others, of the nice brush script typeface Crap Script (2012), which is all but. Other typefaces from 2012 include Micra Sans, Arigant, Tall Handwritten and Hand Lettering (a fat signage script).

    He also made several specimen booklets and specimen catalogs for Parachute.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Hagel

    Multikey, Greek and other language software. Codesigner with Hildegund Mueller in 1997-1998 of Aisa Unicode. Stefan is with the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Aisa Unicode is a proprietary font that does not contain a Latin alphabet. It is ncluded in the shareware utility MultiKey 4.0 (for Microsoft Word in Microsoft Windows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Peev
    [Context Ltd]

    [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Stoychev

    Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of these typefaces:

    • The constructivist typeface Block (2019), which is based on the drab apartment complex architecture from the old USSR era.
    • Autoprom (2019) and Autoprom Pro (2020: 24 styles). Based on the boxy shapes of old Soviet and east block cars.
    • Skaklia (2020). A modernist display sans.
    • The notched display typeface Plam (2020: by Stefan Stoychev and Plamen Atanasov) for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Lyu Lin (a 24-style geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic including the Bulgarian and Serbian versions of Cyrillic) (2022).
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Stefania Vlastari

    Athens, Greece-based designer of Pinball Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefanos Noutsias

    Type designer at Cannibal Fonts in Greece. His Latin / Greek typefaces include Sarah, Abramelin and Natalie. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stelios Ypsilantis

    Graphic designer in Edinburgh, Scotland, who studied at Duncan of Jordanstone Art & Design College in Dundee, Scotland. Co-creator, with Iordanis Passas, of the free squarish typeface Lulu Monospace (2018) for Latin and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stella Daidou

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, whose lettering for a sushi restaurant logo is worthy of consideration. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    STEP fonts

    The Greek and Hebrew fonts SPAtlantis, SPIonic, SPTiberian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stepan Roh
    [DejaVu Fonts]

    [More]  ⦿

    Stephen M. Knouse
    [Essqué Productions]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Stephen Schrenk
    [Arev Fonts]

    [More]  ⦿

    Stergios Tsiamis

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Athens, Greece. In 2015, Iordanis Passas and Stergios Tsiamis co-designed the free rounded handcrafted typeface Athens designed in an atmosphere of protests in the middle of the Greek financial crisis.

    In 2017, Iordanis Passas and Stergios Tsiamis co-designed the free marker pen typeface Manoyri. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steve Bailgamis

    Greek designer of the techno typefaces Project and Project Goodies (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steve Gardner
    [Explogos]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Steve Massie

    Designer of the free font K1FS (2015), which is an assembly of the Arabic glyphs from KacstOne V5.0, and the Latin / Cyrillic / Hebrew / Greek glyphs from GNU FreeSans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steve White
    [GNU Freefont (or: Free UCS Outline Fonts)]

    [More]  ⦿

    STIX Fonts
    [Ross Mills]

    Non-profit free font project, which started in 2001. The (free) fonts were released in May 2010. The designer is Ross Mills, Tiro Typeworks Ltd, with portions copyright of MicroPress Inc., and with final additions and corrections provided by Coen Hoffman, Elsevier (retired). From the web page: The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists, students, and the general public.

    The project is supported by six publishers, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

    The fonts are unicode-compatible. They are designed to be useful for mathematical documents in XML pages on all browsers. They say that they have awarded the font development contract to a respected font development company. Press release. Chairman: T.C. Ingoldsby, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY. AMS page on STIX. CTAN page on Stix.

    In 2016, STIX Two, a major update, became available at CTAN. The letterspacing and kerning of the text fonts have been significantly improved. True small capital variants (Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek), accessible via the OpenType font feature smcp, have been added for all text fonts. Text (lowercase or oldstyle) numerals, available via the font features pnum and onum, have been added, in addition to natural-spacing figures. Alphabetic superscripts and numeric sub- and superscripts, accessible via the subs and sups font features, have been added. Fractions are available via the frac feature, as well as numerators (numr) and denominators (dnom). The STIX Two fonts consist of one Math font, two variable text fonts (STIXTwoTextVF-Roman and STIXTwoTextVF-Italic), and eight static text fonts (Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, SemiBold, SemiBold Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic) derived from the variable fonts.

    Truetype versions of the family (2007) by Oleguer Huguet Ibars: STIXGeneral-Bold, STIXGeneral-BoldItalic, STIXGeneral-Italic, STIXGeneral, STIXIntegralsDisplay-Bold, STIXIntegralsDisplay, STIXIntegralsSmall-Bold, STIXIntegralsSmall, STIXIntegralsUp-Bold, STIXIntegralsUp, STIXIntegralsUpDisplay-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpDisplay, STIXIntegralsUpSmall-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpSmall, STIXNonUnicode-Bold, STIXNonUnicode-BoldItalic, STIXNonUnicode-Italic, STIXNonUnicode, STIXSize1Symbols-Bold, STIXSize1Symbols, STIXSize2Symbols-Bold, STIXSize2Symbols, STIXSize3Symbols-Bold, STIXSize3Symbols, STIXSize4Symbols-Bold, STIXSize4Symbols, STIXSize5Symbols, STIXVariants-Bold, STIXVariants.

    OpenType versions at the official site: STIXGeneral-Regular, STIXGeneral-Bold, STIXGeneral-BoldItalic, STIXGeneral-Italic, STIXIntegralsD-Bold, STIXIntegralsD-Regular, STIXIntegralsSm-Bold, STIXIntegralsSm-Regular, STIXIntegralsUp-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpD-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpD-Regular, STIXIntegralsUp-Regular, STIXIntegralsUpSm-Bold, STIXIntegralsUpSm-Regular, STIXNonUnicode-Regular, STIXNonUnicode-Bold, STIXNonUnicode-BoldItalic, STIXNonUnicode-Italic, STIXSizeFiveSym-Regular, STIXSizeFourSym-Bold, STIXSizeFourSym-Regular, STIXSizeOneSym-Bold, STIXSizeOneSym-Regular, STIXSizeThreeSym-Bold, STIXSizeThreeSym-Regular, STIXSizeTwoSym-Bold, STIXSizeTwoSym-Regular, STIXVariants-Regular, STIXVariants-Bold. Not all unicode ranges are covered, but math symbols, Greek and Cyrillic are. There are also monospace, blackletter, calligraphic scipt, informal script, and sans styles. But small caps are still missing. The general look is that of a Times font. The fact that any publisher can use these fonts free of charge (after signing a license though) is positive. The main negative is that the style chosen is slightly boring, but that is not unexpected for scientific publications.

    In 2018, Paul Hanslow, Ross Mills and John Hudson co-designed the free STIX Two family, which is based on Times Roman.

    At this CTAN site, one can download the entire STIX collection. Designer URL: MicroPress Inc. STIX Two (type 1) at the CTAN site. STIX Two (OpenType) at the CTAN site.

    Also worth pointing out is the free 163-font collection Schticks (2017) by Adam Twardoch, which is based on STIX Two.

    Google Fonts link for STIX Two Math. Github link for the STIX fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Storm Type Foundry
    [Frantisek Storm]

    Storm Type is a major Czech foundry that offers the inspiring work of Frantisek Storm (b. 1966, Prague). Most typefaces are made by Storm himself. The typefaces:

    • Aaahoj: a ransom note font.
    • Abald (2005): Abald adds to the number of "bad-taste" alphabets as seen on faded commercial inscriptions painted on neglected old houses.
    • Academica: Josef Týfa first published Academia in 1967-68. It was the winning design in a competition for scientific typefaces, announced by Grafotechna. It was cut and cast in metal in 1968 in 8 and 10 point sizes in plain, italic and semi-bold designs. In 2003 Josef Týfa and Frantisek Storm began to work on its digital version. The new name Academica distinguishes the digital execution (and modifications) from the original Academia. In 2021, Frantisek Storm added Academica Sans.
    • Aichel: originally designed for use in architecture (in this particular case for a UNESCO memorial plaque for a church built by Jan Santini-Aichel on Zelenà Hora). It has a stone-chiseled look.
    • Alcoholica
    • Alebrije (2015). A 42-cut exaggerated cocaine-driven typeface family with instantly recognizable v and w that have slabs on their baselines.
    • Amor Sans and Amor Serif (2005).
    • Amphibia (2016). A lapidary typeface family.
    • Andulka (2004): 24 weights for use in books, mags and newspapers. Extended in 2011 to Andulka Sans.
    • Antique Ancienne, Moderne&Regent (2000): Baroque typefaces.
    • Anselm Sans and Serif (2007): 20 styles about which Storm writes The ancestry of Anselm goes back to Jannon, a slightly modified Old Style Roman. I drew Serapion back in 1997, so its spirit is youthful, a bit frisky, and it is charmed by romantic, playful details. Anselm succeeds it after ten years of evolution, it is a sober, reliable laborer, immune to all eccentricities. It won an award for superfamily at TDC2 2008. It covers Greek as well.
    • Areplos (2005): Based on Jan Solpera's 1982 typeface with serifs on top and serifless at the bottom.
    • Bahnhof: poster typeface from the 1930s.
    • Baskerville Original Pro (2010) comprising Baskerville 10 Pro, Baskerville 10 Cyr, JBaskerville, and JBaskerville Text. This is an important and thoroughly studied execution starting from photographs of prints from Baskerville's printing office, ca. 1760.
    • Beletrio and Beletria (2018). Beletria (26 styles) is intended as a modern book type. Beletrio is a peaceful accompanying sans.
    • Bhang (2011) is a flat brush signage family of exceptional balance.
    • Biblon (2000; note: ITC Biblon is a watered down version of Biblon, so please go for the original, not the ITC version). Biblon Pro (2006) is even better; 6 weights.
    • Briefmarken (2008): letters that look dented like postage stamps.
    • The 64-style Carot type system (2020), which consists of Carot Sans, Carot Display, Carot Slab and Carot Text.
    • Clara Sans and Clara Serif (2014). Based on sketches by Rotislav Vanek, and published at Signature Type Foundry.
    • Clichee
    • Cobra (2001)
    • Comenia Script (Radana Lencov&acaute;), an upright script with a handwritten look for teaching writing.
    • Comenia Text (2006): a serif family for school books. Also called Comenia Pro Serif.
    • Compur (2000).
    • Coroner (2018). A blackletter first sketched in 1988.
    • Defender (2008): a heavy slab family.
    • Digita (2004)
    • Dracula (2017). A great blackletter family.
    • Dynamo Grotesk (1995): Storm's 60-weight sans family going back to the early sans traditions. In 2009, this was updated to Dyna Grotesk Pro.
    • Enamelplate (2011).
    • Etelka (2005, 42 styles): a corporate identity sans family, which became commercial in 2006. Four Etelka Monospace styles were added in 2008. Etelka Sans and Etelka Slab were released in 2019.
    • Evil
    • Excelsior Script (1995-1996), perhaps renamed Excelsor Script around 2000.
    • Farao (a great Egyptienne font in 3 weights)
    • Friedhof (2011). A family based on tombstone lettering from ca. 1900. It contains handtooled and shaded (Geist + Deko) variations.
    • Gallus Konzept (2007, in many weights):
    • Carolingian-Roman-Gaelic-Uncial script, or an exploration into how the Latin alphabet could look were the evolution of the Carolingian Minuscule to stop in the 8th century AD in Sankt Gallen.
    • Genre: a modern face.
    • Fenix 21 through 23 (2010): An elliptical sans family that includes a hairline (21).
    • Header (2009): a magazine headline family.
    • Hercules (2001). A didone family originally influenced by Monotype's fat face Falstaff (1935).
    • Hexenrunen (2006, + Reverb): a runic simulation face.
    • Ideal Gothic
    • Inicia (2018). A sans originally drawn in the 1980s.
    • Jannon (this is a formidable Garalde family). Jannon Pro appeared on MyFonts in 2010.
    • Jannon Sans (2011).
    • Jannon Text Moderne (2001): thicker hairlines and smaller x-height than Jannon Text, thus more generally useful
    • Jasan (2017). A 36-strong sans family with lots of wide styles.
    • JohnBaskerville (2000)
    • JohnSans (2001, a 72-weight sans version of Baskerville)
    • Josef Sans (2013, with Jan Solpera). A humanist sans family related to Josef Tyfa's Tyfa Roman (Tyfa Antikva).
    • Juvenis (2003)
    • Kompressor: techno typeface
    • Lexicon Gothic: newspaper and magazine type family, created in 2000. Renamed Lexon Gothic.
    • Libcziowes: based on the oldest lettering found in Bohemia, on a gravestone in Libceves dating from 1591
    • LidoSTF (2001, free): a redrawn Times with lots of individuality, yet still a newspaper typeface
    • Lokal Script (2009): a large hand-printed letter family.
    • ITC Malstock (1996-1997), a condensed film poster face.
    • Mediaeval
    • Metron (2004, a digital version by F. Storm and Marek Pistora after a huge sans design from 1973 by Jiri Rathousky, which was commissioned by the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague in 1970 to be used in the information system of the Prague Metro. In 1986, the metro started using Helvetica): this typeface is eminently readable!
    • Modell: techno
    • Monarchia [The Monarchia family, consisting of three designs, is a transcription of "Frühling" of the German type designer Rudolf Koch, enriched by a bold and text design]
    • Moyenage (2008): a 25-style blackletter family for Latin and Cyrillic, almost an experiment in blackletter design and flexibility. Winning entry at Paratype K2009.
    • Mramor (1988-2013). A roman caps typeface with lower case added. Storm: The text designs are discontinued since they were replaced by the related Amor Serif family (along with its -sans version). Even so, ten display styles are left.
    • Negro
    • Ohrada: condensed upper case
    • Ornaments 1+2
    • Ozdoby 1+2 (great dingbats): The set includes heraldic figures, leaves, decorative endings, various skull forms, weather signs, borders and many more.
    • Patzcuaro
    • Pentagramme
    • Pentagraf: a slab serif
    • Pepone and Pepone Stencil. Designed for setting belles-lettres, this serifed family defies classification.
    • Pivo (2006), a connected diner script inspired by Bohemian beer labels.
    • Plagwitz (2000, blackletter). Plagwitz poster by Lissa Simon (2012).
    • Politic (2004): a clunky fat octagonal family made for billboards, flyers, posters, teabags, and matches for the green Party in the 2004 Czech elections. Caps only.
    • Preissig Antikva + Ornaments: a 1998 digitization and interpretation of Preisig's polygonal type from 1925. The Pro version is from 2012.
    • Preissig 1918: a typeface by Vojtech Preissig cut in linoleum
    • Preissig Ozdoby
    • Regent Pro (2015): a rustic Baroque typeface that oozes energy out of its semi-transitional semi-didone orifices.
    • Quercus Whiteline, Quercus 10, Quercus Serif, and Quercus Sans (2015). Four large families, created for informational and magazine design, corporate identity and branding. The sans has a Gill flavor.
    • Regula Text and Regula Old Face. Regula is named after the secular monastic order Regula Pragensis. Initially, the digitized font (regular old Face, which is now free) had jagged edges and a rather narrow range of applications until the summer of 2009, when Storm added text cuts. Regula was a baroque alphabet faithfully taken over from a historical model including its inaccuracies and uneven letter edges.
    • Rondka (2001)
    • Sebastian (2003, a sans with a funky italic), about which he writes: Sans-serif typefaces compensate for their basic handicap---an absence of serifs---with a softening modulation typical of roman typefaces. Grotesques often inherit a hypertrophy of the x-height, which is very efficient, but not very beautiful. They are like dogs with fat bodies and short legs. More# Why do we love old Garamonds? Beside beautifully modeled details, they possess aspect-ratios of parts within characters that timelessly and beauteously parallel the anatomy of the human body. Proportions of thighs, arms or legs have their universal rules, but cannot be measured by pixels and millimeters. These sometimes produce almost unnoticeable inner tensions, perceptible only very slowly, after a period of living with the type. Serifed typefaces are open to many possibilities in this regard; when a character is mounted on its edges with serifs, what is happening in between is more freely up to the designer. In the case of grotesques, everything is visible; the shape of the letter must exist in absolute nakedness and total simplicity, and must somehow also be spirited and original.
    • Serapion (a Renaissance-Baroque Roman typeface with more contrast than Jannon)
    • SerapionII (2002-2003): early Baroque
    • Solpera (digitization of a type of Jan Solpera, 2000)
    • SplendidOrnamenty (1998, a formal script font)
    • Splendid Quartett: an Antiqua, a sans, a bold and a script. Stor writes: The script was freely transcribed from the pattern-book of the New York Type Foundry from 1882, paying regard to numerous other sources of that period.
    • St Croce (2014). Based on worn-out lettering on tombstones in the St. Croce Basilica in Florence, this is a flared lightly stenciled typeface family.
    • Technomat (2006): this typeface takes inspiration from matrix or thermal dot printers.
    • Tenebra: a combination of the Baroque inscriptional majuscule with decorative calligraphic elements and alchemistic symbols
    • Teuton (2001): a severe sans family inspired by an inscription on one German tomb in the Sudetenland
    • Traktoretka
    • Trivia Sans (2012), Trivia Serif (2012, a didone), Trivia Serif 10 (2012), Trivia Grotesk (2012, 48 cuts), Trivia Gothic (2013), Trivia Slab (2012), and Trivia Humanist (2013, a strong wedge serif family: I wanted a clear and majestic typeface for book jackets, LP cover designs, posters, exhibition catalogues and shorter texts).
    • Tusar (2004): a digitization of a type family by Slavoboj Tusar from 1926
    • Tyfa ITC + Tyfa Text: Designed by Josef Týfa in 1959, digitized by F. Storm in 1996.
    • Vida Pro (2005), a big sans family designed for TV screens. Vida Stencil Demo is free.
    • Walbaum Text (2002). Walbaum 10 Pro (2010) and Walbaum 120 Pro (2010) are extensive (and gorgeous!) didone families, the latter obtained from the former by optical thinning. Storm quips: I only hope that mister Justus Erich won't pull me by the ear when we'll meet on the other side. Advertised as a poster sans family, he offers Walbaum Grotesk Pro (2011).
    • Wittingau (2016). A wonderful decorative blackletter typeface family, with a great set of Wittingau Symbols.
    • Zeppelin (2000): a display grotesk
    This foundry cooperates in its revivals with experienced Czech designers Ottokar Karlas, Jan Solpera and Josef Týfa.

    Alternate URL. Myfonts write-up.

    At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about his own Czech typefaces, on his Czech Typeface Project, and on the life of Josef Týfa.

    Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Stratos Doumanis

    Designer of the Greek type1 font family Phaistos (2004, with Apostolos Syropoulos). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stratos Politis

    Designer of the free Latin / Greek handwriting font Stratos Handwritten (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    StratosMFonts
    [Efstratios Moysis]

    StratosMFonts is a foundry set up in 2020 during the quarantine period in Athens by Efstratios Moysis. In 2022, he released the 24-style tall informal sans family Fantasma Lanky for Latin and Greek. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Big Horror
    [Alexandros Mavrogiannis]

    Art director, illustrator and designer based in Athens, Greece who set up Big Horror Studio in 2010. Before that, he was assistant art director at Esquire magazine. He made some fun type plays in 2009.

    His typefaces:

    • The custom typeface Telegraph (2012). Done for a music band. He runs Studio Big Horror in Athens, Greece, est. 2010.
    • The alchemic typeface KAE (2012).

    Cargocollective link. Behance link for Big Horror Athens. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Domahoka

    Studio Domahoka in New York City published the elegant thinly serifed Latin / Cyrillic / Greek caps typeface Uchronia in 2013. It explains: Uchronia is a classic serif titling typeface ideal for setting at large sizes; slightly condensed, light, with a very fine weight on its thinnest strokes. Uchronia is based on the hand lettered titles from a series of 1950s artist folios. The word "Uchronia" was coined by French author Charles Renouvier in 1876. A Uchronia is a sort of nostalgic utopia of yesteryear that often exists more in memory than in fact. The simple and graceful forms of Uchronia reference such an idyllic time.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Moccoro

    Architecturally oriented FontStructor who made the Latin / Greek squarish typefaces Oh Suzie Q, Oh Mikron, Oh Mega, and Oh My Font in 2011. Home page. Catalog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Sun (or: Sun Brand Co)
    [Cahya Sofyan]

    During her studies in Bandung, Indonesia, Bali-based Cahya Sogyan (b. 1994) created the free rounded sans typeface Synthesia (2014), the free sans typeface New Dawn (2015), and the free techno / futuristic typeface Cosmonaut (2015), with accompanying drop caps.

    In 2016, she co-founded Spencer and Sons with Gilang Purnama Jaya. In 2017, she started Studio Sun in Denpasar, Bali.

    In 2016, Cahyan published June of Fortune, the free hipster typeface family Soda Popp and writes: The new typeface called Soda Popp is inspired by pop-culture, vaporwave music, and seapunk that emerged in the early 2010s among Internet communities. It is characterized by a nostalgic fascination with retro cultural aesthetics, typically of the 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s.

    Typefaces from 2017 at Spencer and Sons: S&S Nickson (a copperplate display font including eight font styles and seven dingbat fonts).

    In 2018, she published the retro auto racing font Intensa, the extended sans typeface Matrice, and the free flared poster typeface Florent.

    Typefaces from 2019: Alathena (a decorative Victorian and Arts & Crafts typeface family), Rustob Club (a variable font), Tropiline, Matahari Sans (a large family that includes Matahari Sans Mono).

    Typefaces from 2020: Rachee (a 6-style renaissance text font), Klose Slab (an ultra-fat variable font), Gulfs Display (a 6-width ultra bold cartoon font family), Gliker (an extraordinary comic book font family; a new take on the Hobo typeface), Radiate Sans (40 styles), Balgin (a large display family that celebrates the 1990s), Brice Pop (a sixties display style; with Syarif Hafidh).

    Typefaces from 2021: Bethari (a 6-style art deco typeface, including a blackboard bold outline style).

    Typefaces from 2022: Fragmatika (a 9-style a geometric sans serif typeface with support for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew and Thai). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Suitcase Type Foundry
    [Tomás Brousil]

    Suitcase Type is a Czech foundry, est. 2003 by Tomas Brousil (b. 1975), who lives in Prague. He graduated from the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (Type Design and Typography, MgA. 2009) where his graduation project was the 96-family Tabac typeface system, published in 2010. He teaches in the Type Design and Typography department of the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design.

    The Tabac family started with Tabac Sans in 2010. It was augmented in 2012 with Tabac Slab and Tabac Mono, which have a full range of weights from Hairline to Black. Tabac Glam, a fashionable Peignotian high contrast sans, was added in 2016, and Tabac Micro in 2018. In 2019, he published Tabac Big Glam, Tabac Big Sans, Tabac Big Slab and Tabac Big.

    Other typefaces from 2008-2010 include Monopol (a six-weight condensed sans that includes a hairline weight), Idealista (2010, organic, a mix of styles), Nudista (2009, a multistyle take on DIN with a superb fashion mag hairline, Nudista Thin), Kulturista (2009, a part slab part serif extension of Nudista), Comenia Sans (2008, a 12-style complementary family to Storm's Comenia Serif for school textbooks), Metalista (2008, unicase octagonal metallic face).

    2007 was a successful year. Brousil created Bistro Script (2007, fifties diner style script), Corpulent (2007), and Gloriola (2007, a sans in 14 styles, including a hairline. The last typeface family won an award at TDC2 2008 and at Typographica's Best of 2007. Stephen Coles likes its position between the cool sterility of de Groot's monolinears and the warmth of Latin designers: With a broad range of weights, a complete Western character set, and a sack of ligatures and alternates, Gloriola has the depth required for complex identity systems and publication design. This shrewd response to the fashions of today is going to be useful for many years to come.). The year 2007 also saw Purista (a 10-style cousin of Eurostile), which includes hairline weights. Ellen Lupton says this about Purista: I've been feeling hungry for a stylish, edgy sans who enjoys evenings out on the town and long mornings of crisp conversation. In other words, I've been craving a font who likes to party but who can also help out with the dishes.

    Production in 2005-2006: Teimer's Antiqua (2006: a didone family based onn unpublished 1967 design by Pavel Teimer), Rokoko (2006, an octagonal custom typeface for the Rokoko Theatre in Prague), Sandwich (2006, a lively display caps set), Vafle (2006: based on an original concept by Marek Pistora from 1997, with minor adaptations and 11 new weights), Dederon Sans and Serif (2005, the sans version being inspired by TypoArt's Liberta; see also here for a comparison with Underware's Dolly), Dederon Serif.

    Typefaces from 2004 or earlier include Fishmonger (2004, a sans family), RePublic (a 2004 revival, done with Radek Sidun, of Public by Stanislav Marso, 1955. Note that Public was used to set the text of a Czechoslovak Communist party newspaper, Rudé Právo), Botanika (2005, a sans family including many typewriter styles and several mono weights), Atrament (2003, a narrowed grotesque inspired by the lettering used on the title of the almanac "Devetsil - Revolucni slovnik" (1922) edited by Karel Teige, in 30 styles!), Magion (2004, a simple geometric font), Fishmonger (2004, a broad 50-weight futuristic family), Katarine (2004, a warm sans family with appropriate dingbats added in), and Orgovan (2004-2005, a punk/brush family).

    Typefaces from 2013 include the roundish sans family Ladislav: The Ladislav font revitalises Sutnar's legacy, while not explicitly copying any of his original fonts. It however keeps true to their technicist character and initial principles of character creation - a simple modular system of combined geometrical segments. This approach affects all round shapes of capital and lowercase letters, as well as the shapes of the majority of numbers. The g consists of two disjoint circles.

    Typefaces from 2014: Urban Grotesk (a very airy, open grotesque typeface with large x-height and uniform grayness).

    Typefaces from 2015: Pacifista (stencil).

    Typefaces from 2016: BC Novatica (by Tomas Brousil and Marek Pistora (Briefcase Type): Novatica was created based on a commission from the Czech commercial television station Nova in 2007. Marek Pistora worked with Tomas Brousil to create an alternative to a readable, simply designed sans. They naturally called the typeface Novatica. In 2014 TV Nova decided to abandon Novatica for good, and in so doing it released the exclusive licence it had been using. Novatica thus became a new typeface offered by Briefcase Type Foundry.

    Typefaces from 2017: Jaroslav (monolinear sans, named after Jaroslav Benda, followed in 2020 by Benda), Pepi and Rudi (a sans and slab pair based on basic shapes such as circles, rectangles and triangles).

    Typefaces from 2020: Atyp BL (+variable), Atyp (+variable). A 25-style sans family remotely influenced by Bauhaus.

    Typefaces from 2021: Crabath (a 72-style transitional typeface family based on the 1761 specimen book of Czech typefounder Vaclav Jan Krabat; this family covers several optical ranges, from Subhead to Display to Text, and features wonderful initial caps).

    Typefaces from 2022: Atyp Kido (a 6-weight and variable rounded sans family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Brousil made many corporate or identity fonts. Examples include Brzda (a custom font for Czech artist Pavel Brazda), Budovatel (a custom font for the Bohemian National Hall in New York), and Union (custom webfonts for the Czech graphic design union).

    MyFonts page. Behance link. Klingspor link. MyFonts interview.

    View Tomas Brousil's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Summer Institute of Linguistics (also: Fonts in Cyberspace)

    Sources of language fonts on the internet (about 400 font sources). Fantastic site with pointers to a vast pool of foreign language fonts and links. A must for non-roman language users. Some fonts are here. Examples:

    • Ezra SIL (2003): for Hebrew and Latin.
    • SIL Galatia (1997) and SIL Greek Trans (1997): for Greek.
    • SIL Apparatus (1998): a strange mix of glyphs.
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    Sun-Ext

    Sun-ExtA and Sun-ExtB are two full free Unicode fonts, covering everything under the sun. Inside, we find information that these fonts were made by Beijing ZhongYi Electronics Co. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Superior Type
    [Vojtech Riha]

    Type foundry in Prague, Czechia, est. 2014 by Vojtech Riha (b. 1989), who studied at the Technical School of Ceramics in Karlovy Vary, and at the Studio of Typography of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

    His typefaces:

    • Vegan (2014): a modern, structured sans featuring delicate, humanist elements. Vegan was inspired by Stanislav Marso's distinctive shadow font Vega (1956, Grafotechna). This workhorse family has six styles and six matching italics.
    • Kunda Book (2015). This text won a bronze medal at the European Design awards.
    • The sans typeface family Hrot (2016). He writes: Grown organically from the soft aesthetics of Swiss and German airline posters, Hrot is a versatile sans-serif family with eighteen distinctive cuts. Works perfectly in elegant headlines and gives perfect impact to any logotype.
    • At Briefcase Type, he published BC Dres (partly octagonal), Kakao (hand-drawn: when drawing Kakao, he frequently referenced Bohumil Lanz and Zdenek Nemecek's book Typeface in Advertising (published by Merkur Publishing House, Prague, 1974)), BC Pramen Sans and Slab, BC Motel Sans and Slab and BC Steiner in 2014. Dres reappeared in 2019 at Superior Type.
    • In 2018, Vojtech Riha and Matyas Machat co-designed Slavia and Slavia Press + Repress. The former is a socially awkward 1910-era grotesque, and the latter two typefaces are letterpress style cousins.
    • In 2020, Riha released the geometric sans typeface family Raptor.
    • Lenora (2021). A fashion mag didone that flirts with the fatface in its heavier weights. Covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. John Boardley opines: A kind of RuPaul meets Bodoni in this self-assured, sassy and supremely sumptuous new family.
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    supernet.gr

    Free Greek truetype versions of the Arial and Times families. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sven-Olav Paavel
    [Grenet - free Greek font]

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    T. Christopher White
    [I & O Media (or: Iset and Osiri, or: Imagine and Ordain)]

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    Ta Meta Ta Phonetika

    Links for and comparisons of polytonic Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tagir Safayev

    Tagir Safayev is a Russian type and graphic designer. He created more than one hundred fonts, among which ITC Stenberg (1997, Cyrillic simulation face), which was originally called Rodchenko (a stencil font). Tagir Safayev is also active in book design and advertising. From 1991 until 2003 he worked as a type developer for ParaType. In 1995 he received the Rodchenko Award of the Society of Designers of Russia for Rodchenko typeface [look for Rodchenko here (italic version) and here, or for the ParaType family (1996-2002)]. He is a member of the Moscow Artists Union and of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), and a co-founder of the Type Designers Association, Moscow. He won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Serp'n'Molot (2001, meaning hammer and sickle; forms inspired by lettering of Sergey Chekhonin (1878-1936)). Professor of the National Design Institute of the Designers Union of Russia. Teacher at the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design in Moscow. Currently staff designer at ParaType in Moscow. Faces: Bloc (designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev for advertising and display typography; based on Block of H. Berthold, 1908 by Heinz Hoffmann), Black Grotesk (1997, based on Gasetny Chorny ("Newspaper Black"), of the O.I. Lehmann foundry, St.Petersburg, 1874, and Kompakte Grotesk (Haas)), PT Courier (1990, ParaGraph), PT Courier Monotonic Greek (1990), PT Courier Polytonic Greek (1990), PT DIN Condensed (1997), Birch (1995, handwriting, ParaGraph), PT FreeSet (1991-2000, based on the Frutiger typeface family), LEF Grotesque (1999), PT Epsilon (1995, handprinting), Etienne (Kremlin Pro (2010, Paratype), PT Hermes (1993; Based on Placard MT Condensed typeface (Hermes Grotesk by Wilhelm Woellmer, 1911) of the Lange type foundry (St.-Petersburg), an adaptation of Hermes Grotesk, of the Woellmer type foundry (Berlin, 1911). This sans serif with its old-fashion stability looks well in advertising and display typography), Bitstream Humanist Cyrillic 521 (1999), PT Plain Script (1995, comic book lettering), PT Irina (1995, caps-only comic book face), ITC Kabel Cyrillic (1993, after the Original Kabel, 1976, Vic Caruso), Frutiger (1992, after the 1976 original), Meta+ Cyrillic (2000), Mirra (1999), ITC New Baskerville Cyrillic (1993, ParaGraph), ITC Banco (2000: the Cyrillic version of the font by Phill Grimshaw, 1997, which in turn was based on Roger Excoffon's Banco at Fonderie Olive in 1952), Bank Gothic (1997: a Cyrillic version of the 1930-1933 original by Morris Fuller Benton at ATF), ITC Officina Sans Cyrillic (1995), PT Proun (1993, a Cyrillic version of Choose One/Ten), PT Rodchenko (1996), ITC Stenberg (1997), ITC Stenberg Inline (1997), Swift Cyrillic (2002), PT Yanus (1999, originally created as a corporate identity for Aeroflot), PT Unovis (2001, inspired by the Russian avant garde of the 1920s), this unfinished Cyrillic version of Trajan (1994-1996), and Serp n'Molot (2001). At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about the various Cyrillic adaptations of Cheltenham done in the last century, prior to his own Cyrillic extension for NYTimes Cheltenham, done in 2008.

    View Tagir Safayev's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Takis Katsoulidis

    Greek painter/engraver/type designer born in Messini. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was director of the school ATO (Doxiadis school of Art), professor and head of the Graphic Design department at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens. He has also worked as a consultant for many publications while he is well known as a stamp designer. Takis is a well-known engraver, with a large number of personal exhibitions, participations and distinctions in various Biennale and international exhibitions. In 2003, his hometown Messini honoured him by establishing the Engraving Museum Takis Katsoulidis at the old City Hall. He is the author of the book The Design of Letter", and is collaborating with Cannibal since 2001.

    Takis designed a didone called GFS Didot in 1994. This was digitized in 2005 by George Matthiopoulos and is now available as a nice free set of OpenType fonts through the Greek Font Society Open Font Library. This Greek family has a matching Latin alphabet based on Palatino. The fonts can be used for both Latin and Greek, so here is a great free family. The GFS writes about GFS Didot: Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing programme of Adamantios Korai, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enlightment. The typeface eventually arrived in Greece, with the field press which came with Didots grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, during the Greek Revolution in 1821. Since then the typeface has enjoyed an unrivaled success as the type of choice for almost every kind of publication until the last decades of the 20th century. GFS Bodoni (1992-1993) is a didone designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized in 2005 by George Matthiopoulos. GFS Artemisia was designed by Takis Katsoulidis and digitized by George Matthiopoulos in 2001.

    GFS Neohellenic (1993-2000, Takis Katsoulidis and George D. Matthiopoulos). They explain: In 1927, Victor Scholderer (British Museum Library curator), on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930s, was also well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for Ksi and Omega. GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic, bold and bold italic) as well as a Latin version..

    Creator of the Greek typeface Apollonia and of the Byzantian typeface Genesis Polytonic. He publishes some of his creations at Cannibal Fonts: Apollonia, Autokratika, Genesis Katsoulidis, Metamoderna.

    In 2017, he designed the monolinear curvaceous serif typeface Messiniaka. Dimitris Bovolos contributed to the digital design, with the final editing of Vasilis Georgiou and Panos Haratzopoulos.

    Chrysanthos Christou (Member of the Academy of Athens and Professor of the History of Modern Art) and Manos Stefanides (curator of the National Gallery of Greece) wrote a book on Katsoulides' work. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tamar Fonts
    [Hillel Glueck]

    Type designer from Israel. In 2021, he created Phone Pro and Phone Pro Hebrew and wrote: Designed with the intention of harmonizing between four scripts---Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew. The Phone typeface is in a way evoking the feeling of some Gaelic font and of the [Egyptian] Papyrus font (by Chris Costello, though, not being based on neither of those), having an exotic and an exquisite look, under the category of Soft Fonts and Friendly Faces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tamara Pilz

    Austrian designer of Hildegard (2014-2015). See also Typeclinic 11th International Type Design Workshop for more work on Hildegard.

    At Typeclinic 12th International Type Design Workshop in 2016, she designed the angry angular typeface Grimmig.

    In 2018, she graduated from the University of Reading's MATD program. Her graduation typeface, Kombucha, is a flexible type system with distinctive horizontal stress, designed to perform well for setting easy breezy online content. It covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong.

    In 2021, Tamar Pilz and Lisa Schultz co-published Grimmig (a 10 style angular and gloomy typeface family by Lisa Schultz and Tamara Pilz) at Schriftlabor. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tambov State Technical University

    Russian Orthodox font archive with plenty of fonts used by that church. A non-exhaustive list of mostly Cyrillic fonts:

    • From DoubleAlex Team: Blagovest.
    • From SoftUnion: Half-Ustav and Evangelie, both by A. Shishkin and Nikita Vsesvetskii, 1994.
    • From TypeMarket: Ustav, Fita_Poluustav (1995), Fita_Vjaz (1995), Fita_church (1994), all by Serge Shanovich.
    • From Intersignal: SlavonicGothic, Slavonic-Plain, SlavonicCond-Plain, all made in 1991.
    • By Andrei Izotov (Moscow State University): Church AI (1995), Church plus (1995).
    • From VNLabs: CyrillicOld (1992).
    • From DS Studio: DSCyrillic (1999), DSRussia Demo (by Nikolay Dubina, 1999), DS Sholom (by Nikolay Dubina, 1999), DS UstavHand (by Nikolay Dubina, 1999).
    • From Atech: Decor-Bold (1991).
    • From Payne Loving Trust: Graeca (1993), a Greek font.
    • From Galaxie Software, Garland TX: Greek Parse (1992).
    • From Calmius Software: Irmologion (by Vladislav V. Dorosh, 1996).
    • From ParaGraph: Izhitsa (Dmitry Komissarov, 1992).
    • By Peter R. Rudneff: Myfont1 (1995), a Cyrillic font.
    • By Vladimir Romanov: Nestor (1999).
    • By Yuri A. Lyamin: SkazkaForSerge, a Cyrillic version of Arnold Boecklin.
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    Tania Zacharaki-Karamanou

    Graphic and print designer in Athens, aka Tania Z.K. She studied Architecture at the Polytechnic School of the University of Thessaly. In 2014, Tania created the Greek pixel typeface Square Space. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanya George

    Type designer from India who graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. Her graduation typeface is Kolaba, a multi-script typeface for Latin, Devnagari and Greek. The type family began as a solution for editorials with different language editions. Kolaba is heavily influenced by handwriting and calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tasos Eclipse

    Greek designer (b. 2003) of the scribbly typeface Out West (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tasos Kapa

    Tasos Kapa is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He designed the elegant Greet text typeface Tatarna Greek Polytonic (2015), which was commissioned by the Tatarni Monastery in Karpenisi Greece in order to honour the manuscripts of Saint Savvas. The typeface has been used in order to print a book based on the graphic character of the famous monk Saint Savvas. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tassos Hatzipanagos

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece. Creator of the Bodoni / Clarendon-inspired Phadom's Old Groove (2016), a Latin / Greek typeface that can be bought at Revolge. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Technologies 'N Typography

    Outfit in Merrymac, MA that offers free commercial fonts to its clients. TNT helps with the typesetting of books and offers to make custom fonts.

    For example, their ZephText fonts were commissioned in 1994 by the Harvard University Press for use in the HUP's printing of Greek and Latin books in the Loeb Classical Library Series. The fonts have never been publicly released or sold. But it is in the manufacturer's index of font samples (http://www.tekntype.com/tntfonts/). They support Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Coptic, runes and many miscellaneous symbols. The Greek font is based on Porson's design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teja Smrekar
    [Fleha Type]

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    Teknia Software
    [William Mounce]

    Free Greek font TekniaGreek (2001). Mac and PC. Also, William Mounce's Greek font Mounce (Mac). Mounce says that his font is based on a font by Zondervan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teknike
    [Thoma Kikis]

    Thoma Kikis is a New York City-based graphic designer, photographer, filmmaker and entrepreneur.

    Typefaces from 2016: Ithaka (script).

    Publisher of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Anamorphic, Evangelos, Passagem, Privé, Qipao (momospaced felt marker pen font). Teknike also created Nautis (sans), Cycladic (sans), Vantagram (blackletter), Uny (slab serif perhaps for athletic lettering), Fugues (star-studded textured style inspired by organic geometry as apparent in the work of Antoni Gaudi; started in 2015), Jadeite (sans) and Designator (a squarish modular monospace font).

    Typefaces from 2019: Omoshiroi (a handcrafted monospace typeface), Cote (a hand-lettered monospace font), Penzance (a monospaced handcrafted typeface), Monadic (a monospaced textured typeface), Chartreux (a geometric monospaced display sans typeface), Originator (a squarish monospaced font family), Quantour, Prive (a display handwriting font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Receptor (a monospaced squarish typeface), Departe (a dot matrix font), Eleusis (monospace, all caps), UNY (slab serif). All his fonts cover Latin and Greek. Some cover Cyrillic and Hebrew too.

    Typefaces from 2021: Ermou (a Greek emulation typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tero Kivinen

    Finnish designer of the bitmap font Sshlinedraw (Tero Kivinen and SSH Communications Security Oy, linedrawing characters for VT100 terminal, 1997). He also discussed the Microsoft truetype collection, EstrangeloEdessa (by Paul Nelson and George Kiraz, 2000, Syriac Computing Institute), ITC Franklin Gothic, Gautami (Microsoft, 2001), Latha (Microsoft, 2001), LucidaSansUnicode, MV Boli (Agfa-Monotype, 2001), Mangal (Microsoft, 2001), PalatinoLinotype (1998, a Unicode font), Raavi (Microsoft, 2001), Shruti (Microsoft, 2001), Sylfaen (Microsoft, 1999). All of these fonts are basically Unicode for all European languages, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, basic mathematics, and Greek. But the site disappeared. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Terrance Weinzierl

    Grand Rapids, MI-based graphic designer trained in Chicago. Terrance worked as a graphic designer for the university book store while earning a bachelor of fine arts degree with an emphasis in graphic design from Grand Valley State University in 2008. After graduation, he joined Ascender Corporation where he worked closely with Steve Matteson. After Ascender folded, he became an in-house type designer at Monotype where most of his time is dedicated to custom fonts.

    His early typefaces include TW Geo Slab (2007), Dux (2007, ornamental Victorian type), Wingman (2006, handwriting) and Weinzierl Slab (2006, see also here). He joined Ascender and created there the stencil blackletter typeface Stenblak (2010), informal script typeface Rebus Script (2009, with Steve Matteson) and Romany (2009), a non-connecting script which was originally designed by A.R. Bosco and released by American Type Founders in 1934.

    In 2012, he created Feldman Engraver and JMC Engraver.

    Fonts from 2015: Kairos (Monotype: an octagonal typeface based on 19th century Grecian wood type). In 2015, Monotype set out to remaster, expand and revitalize Eric Gill's body of work, with more weights, more characters and more languages to meet a wide range of design requirements. As part of that project, Terrance Weinzierl designed Joanna Sans Nova (2015: sixteen fonts, loosely based on Gill's slab serif, Joanna, so technically, this is not a Gill revival, but a Gill extension. A well-balanced family with a medium-to-large x-height. But the italic g is disturbing).

    Fonts from 2016: Terry Junior Basic (free), Kairos Sans (which accompanies his 2015 typeface Kairos; both cover Latin and Greek). The octagonal typeface Kairos Sans became Monotype's first variable font---it is free at GitHub. Also in 2016, he added some Greek, Cyrillic, weights and widths to Kobayashi's Eurostile Next, for a grand total of 50 styles in this popular Linotype font family.

    Pizza Press (2013) won an award at TDC 2014.

    In 2017, Jeong-Sook Lee, John Pompa, Terrance Weinzierl and the Monotype team won a Red Dot award for the 72-style typeface family 72 designed for SAP Fiori.

    Fonts from 2018: Terry Junior (Monotype; a brush script perhaps with uses for children's books).

    Typefaces from 2019: Monarda (Monotype), Terrance Weinzierl's take on the loud and splashy brush scripts of the 1950s.

    Typefaces from 2020: Futura Now (a 107-style family by Steve Matteson, Terrance Weinzierl, Monotype Studio and Juan Villanueva, that includes variable fonts as well as subfamilies called Text, Display, Headline, Inline, Outline, Shadow and Script).

    Typefaces from 2021: Tellumo (a 12-style humanist geometric sans with a tidy look and large x-height) and Tellumo Variable.

    Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Terzakis

    HellasArial (1992, Pouliadis Associates Corporation), HellasTimes (1992, Pouliadis Associates Corporation), Avant Greek (1992, Magenta Ltd). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TeX Gyre Project

    The TeX Gyre Project was started in 2006 as the brainchild of Hans Hagen (NTG). It is described in The New Font Project (Hans Hagen (NTG), Jerzy Ludwichowski (GUST) and Volker RW Schaa (DANTE e.V.), presented at BachoTeX2, 2006). From the project, which is being implemented by GUST's e-foundry guys, Boguslaw Jacko Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki aka Ulan: All of the Ghostscript font families will eventually become gyrefied as the result of the project. Gyrefication, also called LM-ization, was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts. The Gyre fonts each have 1200 glyphs that cover basically all European scripts (including Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), and have Vietnamese characters added by Han The Thanh, and Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov. Available in Type 1 and OpenType, they come under a very liberal license (free, modifiable, unlimited use, and a request to rename altered fonts). The TeX Gyre fonts are

    • Adventor: family of four sansserif fonts, based on the URW Gothic L family, which in turn is based on ITC Avant Garde Gothic, designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1970. Open Font Library link.
    • Bonum (2006), based on the URW Bookman L family: TeXGyreBonum-Bold, TeXGyreBonum-BoldItalic, TeXGyreBonum-Italic, TeXGyreBonum-Regular.
    • Cursor: based on URW Nimbus Mono L, which itself mimics Bud Kettler's Courier.
    • Heros (2007): based on the URW Nimbus Sans L family, but heavily extended---eight typefaces of 1200 glyphs each. With the release of Heros, their QuasiSwiss fonts becomes obsolete. This is, in fact, the Gyre version of Miedinger's Helvetica. .
    • Pagella (2006), based on the URW Palladio L family (and thus, indirectly, Zapf's Palatino): TeXGyrePagella-Bold, TeXGyrePagella-BoldItalic, TeXGyrePagella-Italic, TeXGyrePagella-Regular. In 2013, we find Tex Gyre Pagella Math in opentype format, by Boguslaw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski. Greek symbols were taken from the Math Pazo font by Diego Puga. The calligraphic alphabet was taken from the Odstemplik font. The Fraktur is based on Euler. The sans part is DejaVu Sans, and the monospaced alphabet is taken from Latin Modern Mono Light Condensed.
    • Termes (2006), based on the Nimbus Roman No9 L family (and thus, by transitivity, Stanley Morison's Times-Roman): TeXGyreTermes-Bold, TeXGyreTermes-BoldItalic, TeXGyreTermes-Italic, TeXGyreTermes-Regular. In 2013, we find Tex Gyre Termes Math in opentype format, by Boguslaw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski. The Fraktur part is based on Peter Wiegel's Leipziger Fraktur. The sans serif part uses TeX Gyre Heros. The monospaced part is based on TeX Gyre Cursor. In 2017, the Open Font Library published a slightly updated and darker TG Roman.
    • Schola (2006, based on the URW Century Schoolbook L family, designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919: TeXGyreSchola-Bold, TeXGyreSchola-BoldItalic, TeXGyreSchola-Italic, TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
    • Chorus (2007): derived from handwritten letterforms of the Italian Renaissance as used by Hermann Zapf in ITC Zapf Chancery (1979). TeX Gyre Chorus is based on the URW Chancery L Medium Italic font, but heavily extended. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively.
    Articles: The New Font Project (BachoTeX 2006 article by Hans Hagen (NTG), Jerzy Ludwichowski (GUST) and Volker RW Schaa (DANTE e.V.), TeX Gyre Project (2006) by Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Jerzy Ludwichowski, and TeX Gyre Project II (2007) by the same three authors.

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    Thalassinos Anastasiou

    Athens-based designer of the circle-themed Latin/Greek typeface Cyberia (2012) and the (free) alchemic typeface The Quantum (2013). In 2016, he designed the Latin / Greek titling typeface Rode Sans, which was influenced by Gotham, Hurme and Neutraface.

    A second Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thanos Poulakidas

    Developer of Geom (2022), a free 7-weight contemporary geometric sans serif typeface intended for display purposes. It covers Latin and Greek, and includes a variable font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tharkun Smith

    Tharkun Smith (Dead Wizard) is the American designer of Theos (2008-2011, Greek face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thatcher Ulrich

    New York-based programmer who created the free sans family Tuffy (2005). It has a large character set that covers Greek, Cyrillic, and Indic, and has the new rupee symbol. In 2010, Barta Karoly updated the Tuffy package and placed it here.

    Thatcher writes: Karoly Barta did a ton of work creating Greek, Cyrillic and accented characters for Tuffy, which he has generously contributed back to the public domain Tuffy. Also, Michael Everson created a Tuffy-derived font, Rupakara, which adds the new Indian Rupee Sign, plus many other currency symbols, and a full set of letters commonly used to transliterate Indian languages. Rupakara is under the SIL Open Font License, but Michael also agreed to let me merge his new characters into the public domain Tuffy.

    Kernest link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Eighth International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC 2022)

    Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, 5-9 July 2022, organized by Klimis Mastoridis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) with the help of Gerry Leonidas aand Karel van der Waarde. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Examined Life

    At this on-line journal, you can find the GraecaII Greek font family (owned by Payne Loving Trust). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Fifth International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC 2013)

    Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, 6-8 June 2013, organized by Klimis Mastoridis at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Coorganizers include Gerry Leonidas and Anna Kiriakidou. Web links: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25247013@N03/sets/72157634122434873/, http://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/type-in-multiple-directions, http://www.haniotika-nea.gr/123235-Διεθνές%20συνέδριο%20“ενάντια%20στη%20λήθη”%20.html, http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/typography-at-reading/2013/06/12/reading-at-ictvc-5-nicosia-2/, http://www.parathyro.com/?p=21834, http://www.parathyro.com/?p=21445, http://fineartcourseuhcy.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/against-lethe-ictvc-exhibition-at-politis-newspaper-department-of-design-and-multimedia-university-of-nicosia/, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ictvc-International-Conference-on-Typography-Visual-Communication/310862722345918?ref=hl#. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Fontry
    [Michael Gene Adkins]

    The Fontry is a Watts, OK, based outfit, est. 1992 by Michael Gene Adkins (b. 1965, OK) and James L. Stirling (b. 1964, OK): Digital type for computer-aided signmaking, with fonts designed for signmakers by signmakers.

    Since 2009, they have been producing various digitizations of alphabets designed by Alf R. Becker in the 1930s and 1940s. Gene Adkins designed ARB-187 Moderne Caps AUG-47 (2013, didone), ARB 85 Modern Poster JAN-39 (2011, after Modern Poster Script, 1939), ARB-70 (1995), ARB-67 (1998), ARB-66 Neon (2010, +Block, +Line), ARB-44 (1995), ARB-96 Jitter Display DEC-39 (1999), SCRIPT1 ARB-85 Poster Script Normal (2000), ARB-66 Neonline Block, ARB114 Hillbilly Roman JUN-41 Normal (1999), ARB-187 Moderne Caps AUG-47 CAS family (2009, a beautiful didone display face), the ARB 08 Extreme Roman AUG-32 CAS family (2009), ARB-218 Big Blunt (2010), ARB-218 Neon Blunt.

    Another product is the Wild Bunch Pak #3: Danthr Skal, Kastaka, Gas Bumps, Skrawl 613, Sharrpe Gothik, Levo Fraz, Kommerce, Stellar Spice, Infected Hurt.

    Wild Bunch Pak #2 (50 USD) has Marbles&Strings, Keetoowah, Peppermint, Ghixm (2008: a retrospective of the horror comics and movie posters of the 1960s and the 1970s), Klash, all outline fonts. In Wild Bunch Pak #1, look for Toxia. Race Pak #1 contains 5 chiseled fonts, including ARB67, Brannt Chiseled, Excursions, JLS Ultra, and Race Checkers. 50 USD. There are also Greek Pak #1 (12 Greek fonts for 25 USD, including GRK Orbit, GRK Universe City, GRK Albert, and GREK Bodnaut) and Signfaces Narrow Pak #1. At Garagefonts, Wild Larra, Wild Ruts, Wild Toxia, Wild Nobody families (1999), Jackport (2014, athletic lettering and Western typeface family).

    Adkins also designed the commercial font First Vision at GarageFonts in 1998. Review at &Type. List of the fonts on his CD.

    MyFonts sells FTY Garishing Worse (2011---there is a free version at Dafont), SCRIPT1 Team (2010), SCRIPT1 Toon (2010), SCRIPT1 Voodoo Script (1999-2009, signage script), What Sound Pounds (2009), WILD3InfectedHurtNormal (2010), WILD1 Firstvision (1997), WILD1 Larra (1997, grunge), WILD1 Nobod (1997, grunge), WILD1 Ruts (1997), WILD1 Toxia (1997) and the blackletter typefaces Ironhorse and Ironrider (2007), revivals of classic wood type typefaces. FontShop link.

    Some fonts are inspired by sign painter Frank H. Atkinson. These include the Broken Poster series done in 2010, FHA Modernized Ideal Classic (2011), and FHA Nicholson French (1999-2014: art nouveau).

    In 2008, The Fontry published the Greek Font Set, Copper Penny DTP (after Copperplate Gothic, but with lower case included), Droeming (an eerie family) and Earth A.D. (more eerie stuff, metallic, and with sharp serifs). It then generated a break-away subfoundry that carries fonts solely designed by James Stirling, Fontry West. Fontry West is located in Tulsa, OK. At MyFonts, these Fontry West fonts can be bought: Iron, WILD1 Firstvision, WILD1 Larra, WILD1 Nobody, WILD1 Ruts, WILD1 Toxia, WILD2 Ghixm, Greek Font Sets 1 and 2 (not Greek, only Geek-ish, made for fraternity use), and a large Comic Fanboy set which includes glyphs painted with stars and stripes (CFB1 American Patriot, CFB1 Captain Narrow, CFB1 Shielded Avenger, all made by Adkins). The CFB1AmericanPatriot family (2009), and the SCRIPT1 Rager Hevvy family (2009) are free here. JLS Overkill (2009, Bloque, Stencil, Grunge, Champion [athletic lettering], Hammer) is a sturdy family covering everything from SUV-strength stencils to grunge stencils and macho slab serif headline typefaces. After Disaster (2008), FHA Eccentric French Normal (2008, wood type after an alphabet created by Frank H. Atkinson in 1908), WHATSOUNDPOUNDS?Normal (2009) are free at Dafont. Sinder (2010) is a grunge face. FTY Konkrete (2010) is constructivist, and has a beveled weight. FTY Strategycide (2010-2018) is a similar severe headline sans family. Sinder (2010) and Demon Sker (2011) are free grunge typefaces. American Purpose (2011) is a grotesk family. American Purpose Casual and American Purpose Stripe (2011) are follow-ups. Garishing Worse (2011) is a casual bold face. Sharpe Gothik (2011) is hand-drawn. American Captain (2011, a manly retro squarish propaganda headline face; see also American Captain Patrius 02 FRE). Deathe Maach (2012) is a sturdy 6-style display family. Avengeance (2012) is a techno typeface. FHA Condensed French (2012, by Michael Gene Adkins and James L. Stirling) and FHA Nicholson French (1999-2014, art nouveau) are based on Frank H. Atkinson's examples.

    Typefaces from 2013: FHA Broken Gothic (a layered chiseled family done with James Stirling, based on Broken Poster by Frank H. Atkinson), FTY SKRADJHUWN (a flared family), Iron Man of War (with layering effects, +001Rivet), Iron Man of War 2 NCV, RACE1 Brannt (prismatic, beveled, art deco), FTY Skorzhen (mini-spurred), FTY Speedy Casual, FTY Skradjhuwn NCV (comic book family).

    Typefaces from 2014: FHA Tuscan Roman (2014, Michael Gene Adkins, James L Stirling), FTY Varoge Saro Noest.

    Typefaces from 2015: FHA Sign DeVinne (after a popular sign painting design by Frank H. Atkinson named after DeVinne).

    Typefaces from 2016: FTY Delirium (+Neon), Delirium NCV.

    Typefaces from 2017: FTY Galactic VanGuardian.

    Typefaces from 2021: Fty Old Sport (a slab serif athletic lettering font family, one of the best in this genre).

    Typefaces made by Fontry West. Typefaces by Mike Adkins.

    Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    The Fourth International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC 2010)

    Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, 17-19 June 2010, organized by Klimis Mastoridis at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. The announcement: On 17, 18&19 June 2010 the Department of Design&Multimedia at the University of Nicosia will be hosting the 4th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) with the general theme "Lending Grace to Language". [...] ICTVC is organized in collaboration with the Mass Media and Communication Institute (IMME), Cyprus, and AlterVision, Greece, and is supported by the Department of Typography&Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK), the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), the Greek Graphic Designers Association (EGE) and the Thessaloniki Design Museum.

    Web links for the first four ICTVC conferences: , http://www.flickr.com/groups/ictvc2010/, http://www.facebook.com/pages/4th-ICTVC/190465083336, http://www.flickr.com/groups/ictvc2007/pool/, http://www.23hq.com/tag/ictvc, http://www.helveticafilm.com/newblog/2007/06/23/macedonian-madness/, http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_1_08/07/2007_233273, http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_1_21/06/2007_231459, http://www.leonidas.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/texts:interviews:epsilon, http://www.slanted.de/eintrag/verbal-graphic, http://biographix.blogspot.com/2007/07/3-workshops-2.html, http://backpacker.gr/files/typography.pdf, http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w112/mafaldaQ/ICTVC/, http://tsevis.blogspot.com/2007/06/3rd-ictvc-mozaix-synthetix.html, http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=23502418, http://www.vcdc.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16988, http://raissaki.gr/pages/3rdictvc.html?which=results⟨=english, http://www.typophile.com/node/31532, http://www.youshouldliketypetoo.com/about/the-year-at-reading/, http://typestack.com/uncategorized/first-cyprus-type-conference/, http://www.books.gr/ViewShopProduct.aspx?Id=3609891, http://tobaccorri.blogspot.com/2007/06/3.html, Ο ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ  |  ΜΑΪΟΣ 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Greek Font Foundry
    [Richard G. Spaulding]

    Richard Spaulding's foundry used to have Georgia Greek Greek (unicode) truetype font (2000). He also made Porson, a Greek typeface used in the Oxford Classical Texts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Greek New Testament Gateway: Fonts
    [Mark Goodacre]

    Greek, Coptic, Aramaic and Hebrew font links maintained by Dr. Mark Goodacre. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    THE GREEK PACK CP-1253 for Windows

    Match Software's (Michel Bujardet's) 30USD pack of a Unicode-compliant modern Greek font, as well as an ancient Greek font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The PAP Type foundry
    [Theod. Paraskevopoulos]

    Major Greek type foundry, est. 1956, which reached its peak in the mid 1960s. Part of its 1964 type specimen catalog was republished in Hyphen (vol. 4(1)), 2003. They made 176 different Latin alphabets and even more Greek character sets. It was located in Athens and run by Theod. Paraskevopoulos. There are nice selections of Greek stone-cut style typefaces, script typefaces (Kerkyraika, Olympiaka), modern type (Neukro 1960, Perfekt), Egyptian typefaces, sans typefaces (Korinthiaka, Nettas, Iphigeneias), brush typefaces (Arcadia III), text typefaces (Pelasgika, Elzevir), fun display type (Byzantina, Aiolika Stena, Astoria, Orpheus, Greco 1100B), Western type (Epidaurou), caps display type (Nikes, Olumpic Leuka, Ioulias, Rodiaka, Bersaliana Stena), unicase (Athenaika) and typewriter type (Makedonika Leuka). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Seventh International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC 2019)

    Conference in Patras, Greece, 17-21 June 2019, organized by Klimis Mastoridis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) with the help of Gerry Leonidas aand Karel van der Waarde. Speakers: Katerina Antonaki, Jo De Baerdemaeker, Wibo Bakker, Kostas Bartsokas, Vassiliki Belessi, Evangelia Biza, Maria Bohannon, Walter Bohatsch, David Brezina, Neville Brody, Minghao Cao, Mary Dyson, Ourania Efstathiadou, Marina Emmanouil, Artur Frankowski, Lasse Fister, Chrysoula Gatsou, Vasilios Georgakilas, Elissavet Georgiadou, Nikos Georgopoulos, Dimitrios Giannakoulias, Stamatia Gogou, Emilio Grazzi, Vangelis Hatzitheodorou, Akiem Helmling, Katherine Hepworth, Belal Herbawi, David Hunter, Stelios Irakleous, Eleni Kalaitzi, Evangelos Kassavetis, Zoi Katsigianni, Richard Kegler, Ananya Khaitan, Sahar Khajeh, Panos Konstantopoulos, Apostolos Koutsioukis, Brian Sze Hang Kwok, Gerry Leonidas, Ourania Makrygianni, Eleni Martini, Klimis Mastoridis, George Matthiopoulos, Louise McWhinnie, Anna Meli, Dimitra Mentesidou, Tonya Meyrick, Ainta Michailidou, Ian Mitchell, Judith Moldenhauer, Julian Moncada, Eleni Mouri, Klementina Možina, Yara Khoury Nammour, Joshua Olsthoorn, Petra Cerne Oven, Ozlem Ozkal Eteoklis Papanastasiou, Magdalena Papanikolopoulou, Dimitris Papazoglou, Gabriel Patrocinio, Sue Perks, Laurence Penney, Joerg Petri, Pavel Pisklakov, Anja Podlesek, Sheila Pontis, Barbara Predan, Jeff Pulaski, Rachapoom Punsongserm, Irma Puskarevic, Nace Pusnik, Efrosyni Roupa, Shalini Sahoo, Kristyan Sarkis, Ewa Satalecka, Michail Semoglou, Niki Sioki, Sofia Strati, Iordanis Stylidis, Gary Kin Yat Tang, Theodosia Thanopoulou, Stamatina Theochari, Emilios Theofanous, George Triantafyllakos, Giannis Tsakonas, Evanthia Tselika, Kostas Vlachakis, Georgios Vlachopoulos, Giorgos Vlachos, Irene Vlachou, Karel Van Der Waarde, Liuchuan Wang, Wen-Chia Wang, Artemis Yagou, Onur Yazicigil, Kok Cheow Yeoh, Alexios Zavras, Stelios Zygouris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Shalom fonts for Windows Collection

    Free fonts here include Torah Sofer, the Shalom family, and wgreek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Sixth International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC 2016)

    Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, 5-9 July 2016, organized by Klimis Mastoridis with the help of Gerry Leonidas, Karel van der Waarde and Anna Kiriakidou. Institute for the Study of Typography & Visual Communication, in collaboration with the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Graphic Communication programme of the Department of Design & Multimedia, the University of Nicosia, will run the 6th International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication (ICTVC). Facebook page. Dedicated page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Third International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication

    Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, 20-23 June 2007, organized by the University of Macedonia Press (UOM) and AlterVision. The ICTVC's theme is From Verbal To Graphic. Speakers include Michalis Arfaras, Nicolas Barker, Neville Brody, Petr van Blokland, Aggelos Bakas, Audrey Bennet, Joseph Coates, Anthony Cahalan, Dan Carr, Julia Ferrari, Mary Dyson, Simon Daniels, Costis Dallas, Stergios Delialis, Marina Emmanouil, Victor Gaultney, Iva Georgieva, Maria da Gandra, Lars Harmsen, Vangelis Hatzitheodorou, Peter Karow, Nikos Koutsmanis, Alexandros Kouris, Richard Kegler, Christiana Lafazani, John Langdon, Gerry Leonidas, Alan Marshall, Piero de Macchi, Eva Massoura, Dimitris Mitsiopoulos, Klimis Mastoridis, Arafat Al-Naim, Maria Nicholas, Annette O'Sullivan, Manolis Savidis, Erik Spiekermann, Paul Stiff, José Scaglione, Michael Semoglou, Charis Tsevis, Vangelio Tzanetatou, Adam Twardoch, Eirini Vlachou, Jana Vujic, Karel van der Waarde, Ruth Westervelt, Artemis Yagou, Alexios Zavras, Ivana Ziljak. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Type Fetish
    [Michael Wallner]

    Born in Minneapolis, MN, in 1967, Michael J. Wallner (now in St. Paul, MN) graduated from the College of Visual Arts. In 2001, he set up The Type Fetish.

    His typefaces include Pushki Pro (2011, a slabby poster typeface based on some hand lettering found on a Russian poster), Lard Pro (2011, very fat and high-contrast typeface; +Greek, +Cyrillic), Brogue (2009), Casualties Pro (2009, grunge), Kari Sans (alyered typeface family), Fabricate (2007, fururistic), Idiot Boy (2010, grunge), Numbskul (2007, grunge), Parcel (2007, grunge), Reverend Jim (2007, handwriting; with Jim Laitinen), Recreant (1998, grunge), Used (2002, grunge), Calligraphy-Unicase (2007), Commuter (2008, gridded letters), Fabricate-Inline, Fabricate-Regular, Fabricate-Thin (2009, techno family), Grimm (2008, a German expressionist blackletter), Fucsimile (2009---no idea what this is), S4QUFX (2009, dot matrix face), Amrep 026, Borough Pro (2010, random width squarish sans set), Broken Vows, Casualties, Cheapo, Cubage, Dimentia, Discharge (grunge), DIY-One (2002), DIY-Two (2002), Dimerit, Filth, Fucsimile (degraded fax or old typewriter), Insurgent (2009, grunge), Kaaos (2005, eroded stencil), Maim, Nascent, Quadrate, Refuse (2009, grunge), Sabotage, Squarish, Straphanger (2009, dot matrix face), The Crew (stencil font), Universally Corrupt, Whore, Xiphoid and Zen Arcade.

    Michael did not publish any fonts between 2011 and 2018. In 2018, he returned with a mammoth 50-font layerable typeface family, Apnea, which are based on old painted signs.

    MyFonts.Com is selling the fonts. The free font Sabotage (2002) can be downloaded here.

    Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    The Zyme
    [Babis Touglis]

    Babis Touglis (Athens, Greece) studied graphic design at the National Design School (TEI) /Athens and graduated in 1995. Before opening his own studio, he worked for the national newspaper BHMA and the advertising agency Karamella. In 2007 he founded the Odd Company studio with three other designers. He has collected several national and international awards including 7 EVGE Awards and 2 Ermis Awards. He participated with his works in several art exhibitions for Amnesty International and the ED Awards. Babis specializes in web design which is one of the reasons he designed several pixel fonts. In 2000, he founded The Zyme.

    In 2006-2007, he published PF Uniform Pro (Parachute), a monospace pixel font that covers Cyrillic, Latin and Greek. Other typefaces developed for Parachute include ZF Ydor (2017, originally designed for the Christodoulou family's website), PF Pixel Script, PF Basic and PF Alfa Pix. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Theo Kontaxis
    [Theokon Design]

    [More]  ⦿

    Theod. Paraskevopoulos
    [The PAP Type foundry]

    [More]  ⦿

    Theokon Design
    [Theo Kontaxis]

    Theo Kontaxis (Theokon Design) is an artist and architect in Athens, Greece, who created the experimental circle-based logotype Phont (2013, also called Olaphi). In 2014, he created the free multilined vector format Latin typeface family The Single Type. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

    List of all Unicode fonts that support polytonic Greek. Greek font software. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thessaloniki: Seminar on typesetting and page layout

    The University of Macedonia Press is organising a one day seminar on type setting and page layout. The conference will be focusing on text setting for publishing purposes, covering TeX, special symbols as well as Greek typefaces. It took place on Wednesday, 23 November 2005 at the conference room at the University of Macedonia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thoma Kikis
    [Teknike]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Grover
    [Grover Foundry]

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    Thomas Phinney

    Font technology expert who runs his own type tech blog. Thomas Phinney (Portland, OR) has MS in printing from the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He is freelance type consultant, font detective and type designer.

    Thomas Phinney was in Adobe's type group from 1997 until December 2008, mostly as Product Manager for Fonts&Global Typography, based in Seattle. At Adobe, he was involved in the technical, design, historical and business aspects of type, and worked closely with other font developers and customers. In 2008, he joined Extensis, where he was senior product manager for font solutions. In 2014, he joined the FontLab team, where he became Vice President and then CEO. In 2019, he left FontLab to become a full-time font detective.

    Phinney created Geode (2004, Adobe) and Hypatia Sans (2005-2007, Adobe, an elegant geometric sans family, complete with coverage of East European languages, Greek and Cyrillic). Hypatia Sans Pro (2009) is a more complete family that was finished with the help of Paul Hunt.

    In 2012, he started work on Cristoforo, a revival of Hermann Ihlenburg's Victorian typeface Columbus (1890, ATF) and its accompanying American Italic, also by Ihlenburg. Kickstarter project. Phinney notes that it is known as the typeface of Call of Cthulhu, the H.P. Lovecraft roleplaying game, and as the original logo for Cracker Jack. In 2013, Cristoforo Italic, a cooperation with Andrea Leksen, was shown at Leksen Design.

    In 2019, he worked on Science Gothic, a revival and mega-extension of Bank Gothic. He writes: Science Gothic is a variable font, designed for Google Fonts. Thomas Phinney based the regular master on Morris Fuller Benton's Bank Gothic (1930-1934), created for American Type Founders. Science Gothic builds on and extends Benton's design by adding a lowercase, dramatic variation in weight and width, and a contrast (YOPQ) axis, somewhat reminiscent of Benton's Broadway (1927) and other period designs such as R. Hunter Middleton's Radiant (circa 1938-1940) for Ludlow. The design was created by a team of designers: Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev and Brandon Buerkle, with a little help from Igor Freiberger early on. See also Merom Sans (2019-2020) at OFL.

    At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the demise of multiple masters, and the future of OpenType and type 1. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he announced the phasing out of type 1 at Adobe. He has spoken at nearly all of the TypeTech parts of the annual ATypI meetings, and has been on the ATypI board since 2006. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about web fonts and on OpenType. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. His talk at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik was entitled TSI: Type Scene Investigations. The title of his talk at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam was Free Fonts: Threat, or Menace? Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Pryds Lauritsen
    [German Donaldist Society (D.O.N.A.L.D.)]

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    Thomas T. Pedersen
    [Transliteration of Non-Roman Alphabets]

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    Ti92Pluspc

    The Ti92Pluspc font family by Texas Instruments (1998): a typewriter/monospace font with Latin and Greek glyphs. The font is very similar to Menlo. The copyright is with Monotype, 1991-1999. The Unicode problems were fixed by Steve Sterpe (San Jose, CA). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tikhon Reztcov
    [Shriftovik Foundry]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Larson
    [Christ Trek Fonts]

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    Tiro TypeWorks
    [John Hudson]

    John Hudson and Wm. Ross Mills, the co-founders of Tiro Typeworks in 1994, design wonderful top-of-the-line fonts in Vancouver. Their commercial typefaces can be bought from I Love Typography since 2020. From the Tiro web page: Tiro Typeworks is an independent digital type foundry developing&marketing high quality typeface families for PC and Mac platforms. Our commitment is to continuing the independent tradition of typography, as it has existed for more than five hundred years, free from the influence of fashion and novelty. Tiro is increasingly involved in font technologies, and are avid advertisers for OpenType and work often with Microsoft and Linotype on projects. John has created or collaborated on typefaces for Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Javanese, Kannada, Latin, Odia, Sinhalese, Soyombo, Telugu, Thai, and other writing systems. He is an expert contributor to Unicode, and a member of the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. Interview in 2008 by Hiba Studio. Tiro's typefaces:

    • Academia (1997, by Mills).
    • The titling and display typeface Aeneas based on classical Roman capitals. This incomplete typeface was created by John Hudson based on glyphs drawn by an Austrian designer.
    • 1530 Garamond (one of the most beautiful and faithful revivals of Claude's creations), by Mills.
    • Manticore (John Hudson's own absolutely magnificent brainchild).
    • Plantagenet (by Mills).
    • Sylfaen was designed for Microsoft in 1998 by John Hudson and Wm. Ross Mills of Tiro Typeworks, and Geraldine Wade of Monotype Typography. Sylfaen is a Welsh word meaning "foundation"; an apt name since the font stemmed from research into the typographic requirements of many different scripts and languages. Sylfaen supports the WGL4.0 character set, for Pan-European language coverage. In addition to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letterforms, the font contains the characters necessary for support of the Armenian and Georgian languages. [Download site, see also here].
    • Hudson also does corporate identity work, such as HeidelbergGothicOsF (done for Heidelberger based on NewsGothic). Other clients included Microsoft, IBM and Apple.
    • In 2001, Mills developed Pigiarniq (Download site), a multiscript typeface for native American languages. This project was commissioned by the government of Nunavut, a new Canadian territory. Note: please visit the page on James Evans' type cutting methods: it was this missionary who developed the Cree writing system which was later adapted for use with Inuktitut.
    • Winner with Mamoun Sakkal and Paul Nelson at the TDC2 2003 competition for Arabictype.
    • In 2003, he is publishing unicode-compliant fonts called SBL Greek, SBL Hebrew and SBL Latin, at the Society for Biblical Literature.
    • In 2004, winner of an award at TDC2 2004 with Nyala, an Ethiopic text face, which has a nice Latin component as well.
    • Hudson and Mills have, to date, designed and built fonts for the Arabic, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Inuktitut (Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics), extended Latin, and Ogham scripts. These include, for example, Adobe Hebrew (2000-2008).
    • Constantia (2004, a beautiful OpenType family made for Microsoft's ClearType project).
    • Helvetica Linotype (2004), for which he received a TypeArt '05 award for the Cyrillic component.
    • Vodafone Hindi (2007, with Tim Holloway and Fiona Ross) won an award at TDC2 2008.
    • Gabriola (2008) is a script font by Hudson done for Microsoft---it is included in some Windows packages---see, e.g., here. It has many swashes and special ligatures, but it is not connected.
    • Athena Ruby (2012), a winner at the TDC 2013 competition. Client: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington DC.
    • Brill (2011, John Hudson, Alice Savoie, Paul Hanslow and Karsten Luecke) and Brill Greek (2021), Brill Cyrillic (2021) and Brill Latin (2021), all by the same foursome. This classic text typeface family was a winner at the TDC 2013 competition. Client: Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
    • Slabo 27px and Slabo 13px (2013) are free Google Web Fonts. Optimized to be used at 27px and 13px, respectively, these fonts were created for use in online advertising.
    • Codesigner with Eben Sorkin, Joshua Darden, Maxim Zhukov, and Viktoriya Grabowska, of Omnes Cyrillic.
    • In 2018, Paul Hanslow, Ross Mills and John Hudson co-designed the free STIX Two family, which is based on Times Roman.
    • Castoro (2020). Hudson writes: Castoro is a libre font family released under the SIL Open Font License. Castoro is a specific instance of an adaptive design developed for Tiro Typeworks' internal use as a base from which to generate tailored Latin companions for some of our non-European script types. The instance that has been expanded to create the Castoro fonts was initially made for the Indic fonts that we produced for Harvard University Press. In the Castoro version, we have retained the extensive diacritic set for transliteration of South Asian languages, and added additional characters for an increased number of European languages. The parent design here presented as the Castoro instance began as a synthesis of aspects of assorted Dutch types from the 16th through 18th Centuries. Castoro roman was designed by John Hudson, and the italic with his Tiro colleague Paul Hanslow, assisted by Kaja Slojewska. It is named Castoro after the busy beaver, a real workhorse in the Canadian forests. Google Fonts link. Followed in December 2020 by John Hudson's roman capitalis monumentalis typeface Castoro Titling.
    • Clairvo (2021): Clairvo is a proof-of-concept font that uses OpenType Layout to implement the number system developed by Cistercian monks in the 13th Century. The number system records each number from 1 to 9999 as a unique sign based on encoding units, tens, hundreds, and thousands in quadrants: top-right, top-left, bottom-right, and bottom-left respectively. The Clairvo font uses OpenType glyph substitution to handle mirroring of the shapes in each quadrant, but relies mostly on contextual GPOS anchors to shift the glyphs around the quadrants. This means that all 9999 numbers can be represented my a minimal number of glyphs.
    • Skeena (2021). A humanist sans typeface by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow developed for Microsoft for use as one of the default fonts in Office apps and Microsoft 365 products.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TITUS Instrumenta

    Free TrueType fonts of old Christian times, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Christian Oriental, East European, and ancient languages. The TITUS project is run by Jost Gippert in Frankfurt. They intend to develop a special unicode font. TITUS Ogham is an Ogham font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TITUS Unicode Greek
    [Jost Gippert]

    Jost Gippert (University of Frankfurt) discusses UNICODE for Greek. Also available is his TITUS Cyberbit Unicode compliant font that includes all languages except Korean, Japanese and Chinese. TITUS Cyberbit Basic, version 4.0 has 9866 characters from a large number of Unicode code charts; the extended version (TITUS Cyberbit Unicode, not available for download), version 4.0, has 36161 Unicode characters. TITUS Cyberbit is based on Bitstream's Cyberbit. He also made a True Type font with indo-iranic diacritics (see here). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tobias Benjamin Köhler
    [www.uncia.de (was: uncifonts)]

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    Tofutype
    [Tzu-yuan "Erik" Yin]

    Erik Yin (b. 1988) lives in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Creator of the gridded rhombic typeface Prism (2013) and the sans headline typeface ERKN (2013). ERKN covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian and Georgian. In 2014, he created the Latin typeface Coward. In 2015, he created the free thin sans typeface Jonah.

    In 2018, he addded the calligraphic oriental emulation font Goalthink and the modular typeface CubeFarm Latin (to accompany his Chinese font CubeFarm).

    Typefaces from 2019: Typori (a rounded sans).

    Dafont link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomás Brousil
    [Suitcase Type Foundry]

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    Tomas Kindahl

    Aka Rursus, this Swedish viking calls himself a nerd and a cyber vagabond---exactly my kind of guy! Designer of the slab typewriter font for Latin and Cyrillic called Rursus Compact Mono (2007-2010), an Open Font Library font that covers everything under the sun: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplement, Armenian, Arabic, Runic, Phonetic Extensions, Phonetic Extensions Supplement, Latin Extended Additional, Greek Extended, General Punctuation, Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Optical Character Recognition, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Latin Extended-C, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Gothic, Phoenician. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tony Evreniadis
    [Visualize United]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Toshi Omagari
    [Omega Type Foundry]

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    Transliteration of Non-Roman Alphabets
    [Thomas T. Pedersen]

    From Copenhagen and Estonia, Thomas T. Pedersen's page on non-Roman alphabets. He specializes in all kinds of Cyrillic alphabets, such as Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altay, Arabic, Armenian, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian (Belorussian), Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa (Dargin), Dungan, Erzya Mordvin (Mordva), Eskimo - Yupik, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Georgian, Greek, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kirghiz, Komi (Komi Zyryan), Komi-Permyak, Koryak, Kumyk, Lakh, Lezgian (Lezgin), Macedonian, Mansi, Mari: Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Moksha Mordvin (Mordva), Moldovan (Moldavian), Nanai, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay (Noghay), Ossetian (Ossetic), Ottoman Turkish, Russian, Rusyn (Lemko&Vojvodinian), Selkup, Serbian, Tabasaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Yakut, Yiddish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Trevor Bullock

    Developer of these Byzantine music score fonts made for use with the Kassia software:

    • KA-Arvanitis (2020): A Byzantine Notation neume font, modeled after the font used by Ioannis Arvanitis in his Akathist book (1997, Athens).
    • KA-New-Stathis (2018-2020): A Byzantine Notation neume font. KA New Stathis is a typeface imitating the style of scores written by Professor Grigorios Stathis from the University of Athens. While KA Old Stathis tries to closely mimic Grigorios' font, KA New Stathis elongates some neumes to better suite long English syllables that might be placed below them.
    • KA-Almouzios (2020): A Byzantine Notation neume font that is similar to the Chourmouzios font.
    • KA-EZ (2018): A Byzantine Notation neume font, modeled after the font developed by St. Anthony Monastery, imitating the style of St. Anthony's EZ Psaltica.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tsiplakos Grigoris

    Illustrator in Athens, Greece, who drew Bondage Alphabet in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tural Alisoy
    [Tural Aliyev]

    Baku, Azerbaijan-based designer (b. 1988) of these typefaces:

    • In 2017: The Latin / Cyrillic sans typefaces Lokbatan, Khojasan and Balakhani.
    • In 2018: Father Script.
    • In 2019: Film Fiction Sans, La Route (a wide fashion mag typeface), Modern Times (for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and many other langauges) and the semi-blackletter typeface Neo Paralletter.
    • In 2020: Typefire (an 8-style display serif family), Tatype (a ten-style grotesk), Tappatarap (a display sans with flared stems; for Latin and Cyrillic), Film Fiction Semi Expanded.
    • In 2021: TA Moderustic (a 6-style part geometric part grotesque typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), TA Father 60 (handwriting).
    • In 2022: TA Bankslab Art Nouveau (a slab serif for Latin and Cyrillic), TA Bankslab Shadow, TA Bankslab (a 10-style slab serif based upon the signs on the art nouveau building of the Northern Bank of St. Petersburg's Baku branch, built in 1903-1905; for Latin and Cyrillic).
    • TA Charged (2022). A display serif with wiggles, notches, the works.

    Facebook link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tural Aliyev
    [Tural Alisoy]

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    Twelve Times two
    [Yiorgos Yiacos]

    Graphic designer in Athens whose studio is Twelve Times Two. Yiorgos studied visual communication at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in the UK. He co-founded the PoorDesigners creative studio in Athens.

    Creator of the round psychedelic and trendy Rubber B for Latin and Greek (2009).

    In 2013, Yiorgos Yiacos and Dimitris Kanellopoulos co-designed the custom sans and inline typeface family Free Cinematica for Free Cinema.

    In 2017, he designed the blackboard bold typeface family Comeback. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tyfont

    Athens (Greece)-based designer of the pixel typeface for Latin and Greek named Grixel Acme 9 (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Culture
    [Mark Jamra]

    Advertised as Mark Jamra's Portland, ME-based digital type foundry and an academic resource. There is an extremely useful research directory, a great jump point for learning about type and its history. The site also has useful articles such as Jamra's article on optical image support and his article on form and proportion in a typeface. Mark Jamra (b. 1956) lives in Portland, Maine, where he designs type and teaches letterform and graphic design at the Maine College of Art. He did postgraduate work at the Basel School of Design, Switzerland, 1980-83, then worked for URW in Hamburg (where he lived for 12 years), and set up Jamra Design there. He left Germany in 1995. Fonts by Jamra:

    View Mark Jamra's typefaces. Brief bio. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of a multi-script type system for Africa. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Type Design
    [Piotr Grochowski]

    Type Design is the web home of Polish designer Piotr Grochowski, aka Groszak. His typefaces:

    • At FontStruct, where he is no longer active, he made several LED typefaces in 2013: Digital Display, Real 7 seg, 7 Seggggg, 7 Seg Hardness, 16 Segment, Calcula Improved, Verdana and Arial (sic). He also made tens of pixel typefaces such as 12 seg, 4x4 Pixel, 5x5 Pixel, 3x4 Pixel, and Helvetica (sic).
    • The decorative font Apostle Fix (2013).
    • DMCA Sans Serif (2020). Monospaced, similar to and metric-compatible with Microsoft Consolas. Its 3309 glyphs include Latin, mathematics, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian, Thai and Arabic.
    • Custom Font ttf (2020). Custom Font is a set of two bitmap font designs (6-12 and 8-16). Version 3.0 contains 2823 characters.
    • Riglos Mono (2020: a monospaced font based on Riglos), TD bitmaps (2020), Kikos (2020: a pixel font), Fifaks (2008-2020: a 20,000+ glyph bitmap font set based on Fairfax).

    In addition, Piotr developed a font renderer called TD Renderer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type for Scholars

    David J. Perry (Rye High School, Rye, New York) provides links to the main fonts for Latin and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Initiative
    [Michail Semoglou]

    Type Initiative is a typefounding and design collective based in Canada and Greece. It was co-founded by type designers Michail Semoglou and Keith Chi-hang Tam, who are both graduates of the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK, in 2005. In 2005, they joined the type coop Village, where you can buy their typeface Arrival (2005). Michail Semoglou, who is based in Thessaaloniki, was commissioned in 2005 by The Secretariat of Research and Development (EDET), at the Greek Ministry of Industry, to design a serif and a sans for the Greek Open Source Community to be used by all the Greek public administration. Michail Semoglou works as a calligrapher and type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typedepot
    [Alexander Nedelev]

    Typedepot is a small type foundry currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria, founded by Alexander Nedelev (a graphic designer from Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1984 (Dimitrovgrad)) and Veronika Slavova in 2009.

    Nedelev created the display typefaces Glide (2009, done with Veronika Slavova), Glide Sketch (outline version), and Slide (2009, ultra-condensed). With Veronika Slavova, he designed the multiline (prismatic) family Pista (2010) and the organic Oxo family (2010), which includes a stencil, Corki (2011, a condensed slab serif), and Oxo College Barrister Sans (2010) covers Latin, Greek, Eastern European languages, Cyrillic, Turkish and Baltic. Parallel (2010) is an ultra-condensed typeface for anorexics. Piron (2010, by Nedelev and Slavova) and Matilde (2010, by Nedelev and Slavova) are free. Banda (2011) is a 16-style semi-serif type family characterized by a tall x-height and rounded semi-serifs [one free weight]. Centrale Sans (2011, Slavova and Nedelev) is a modern sans family. Centrale Sans Condensed followed in 2012, and Centrale Sans Rounded in 2013. See also Centrale Sans Condensed Pro, Centrale Sans Inline, Centrale Sans Pro, all updated in 2016.

    Typefaces from 2017: Moreno (a large informal semi-serif typeface family with Rust and Rough subfamilies), Cormac (humanist sans).

    Typefaces from 2018: Lexis and Lexis Alt (a 36-strong humanist and geometric sans pair of typeface families).

    Typefaces from 2019: Corsa Grotesk (inspired by Avenir; includes great hairline weights).

    Typefaces from 2019: Plovdiv (a free font based on the handwriting of Plovdiv's citizens; most weights are by Alexander Nedelev; some were co-designed with Pavel Pavlov of Punkt; the Pictograms were designed by Georgi Vasilev together with Nedelev and Pavlov).

    Typefaces from 2021: Banda Nova (a 14-style rounded sans with large x-height and a supermarket vibe).

    Typefaces from 2022: Lens Grotesk (a neutral Swiss sans with low contrast covering Latin and Cyrillic; 16 styles and one variable font).

    Behance link. MyFonts link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typematters.de
    [Jürgen Weltin]

    The German type designer Jürgen Weltin was born in 1969 in Konstanz, and lives in Pullach, Bavaria. He designed Balega (2003, Linotype: a stencil typeface based on Resolut (1937, H. Brünnel, Nebiolo)), Linotype Finnegan (1997, his first typeface designed as a student in Würzburg under Reinhard Haus), Agilita (2006, Linotype, a humanist sans family including Agilita Hairline), Yellow (award-winning exclusive font family in 1999 for the yellow pages at British Telecommunications), and Mantika Informal (2010, an organic sans family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; Linotype). Mantika Book, the serifed text version, was published by Monotype in 2014. Mantika News followed in 2016.

    Since 1997, he worked with Freda Sack and David Quay at The Foundry in London. Then he worked at Stankowski + Duschek in Stuttgart. Currently, he runs Typematters.de.

    Yellow is an exclusive yellow pages typeface for British Telecom. it received awards from D&AD in 1999 and Bukvaraz in 2001.

    In 2015, he made the heavy extended titling typeface Assai.

    His typeface Julius Roman won an award at ProtoType in 2016.

    Mantika Sans won Third Prize at Granshan 2010 in the Greek text typeface category.

    FontShop link. I Love Typography link. Klingspor link. CV at Linotype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typemefonts (was: 26plus zeichen)
    [Jakob Runge]

    Jakob Runge (M&uum;nchen, Germany) graduated from Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt and Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. In 2014, Jakob Runge set up Typemefonts in München, Germany, to market his own typefaces. Before that, he was involved in 26plus, or 26+, a foundry located in Kiel, Germany: It is a platform to present and encourage student-created fonts. In 2015, he started TypeMates with Nils Thomsen. Currently he works in Munich as an independent type and brand designer and typographic consultant. Apart from his work for design agencies, he teaches typography and type design at university of applied sciences in Münster since 2011.

    His early typefaces include the free condensed octagonal typeface Fracmetrica (2009). Other typefaces of Runge's designed in 2009 and 2010---all at 26plus-zeichen---include Singula, Edelsans (a geometric sans), Sinews (a manly sans which he compares with Klavika and Corpid), JJ Realis (a Swiss sans), Ugl-y (2010), Cojonna (2010; curly--an exercise on ball terminals), Capitalis Nova (2010, dot matrix family), Graphit (2010), Devion (2010, semi-angular serif face), Textrusion (2010, Escher-style trompe l'oeuil), Frgmt (2010, experimental), Samblone (2011, an Asian-look stencil face), TJ Evolette A (2011, with Timo Titzmann---a fashionable geometric grotesque caps family).

    In 2014, Jakob Runge set up Typemefonts in München, Germany, to market his own typefaces, starting with the slab serif typeface Muriza (dedicated site), FF Franziska (2014: an offshoot of his graduation typeface), Mem (experimental geometric face), and the geometric sans FF Cera. Runge began work on FF Franziska in 2012 as part of a Masters thesis at Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel under the guidance of Albert-Jan Pool and André Heers. Hamburg-based information designers Christian Hruschka and Stefan Semrau used FF Franziska for the new Bündner Tagblatt. The modern, fresh layout won the European Newspaper Award 2013 in the category of Typography. Dedicated web site.

    In 2015, he created Cera PRO, Cera Stencil, Cera CY, Cera Stencil CY, Cera GR, Cera Stencil GR, Cera, and Cera Stencil Std (an extensive sans and stencil family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). In 2016, he added Cera Brush (in cooperation with Max Kostopoulos). In 2017, Jakob Runge teamed up with Lisa Fischbach for Cera Round Pro, an absolutely wonderful geometric rounded sans typeface family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. In 2018, Jakob added Cera Condensed + Compact Pro.

    Jakob Runge, with the help of Lisa Fischbach, designed Harrison Serif Pro (a slab serif) in 2017 at Typemates.

    In 2016, Jakob Runge and Lisa Fischbach co-designed the bespoke sans typeface family SAM Text and SAM Headline at TypeMates for the food company S:A:M. Jakob Runge finished Urby and Urby Soft.

    In 2018, Runge published the techno/industrial sans typeface family Sinews Sans Pro at TypeMates.

    In 2019, Jakob Runge, Nils Thomsen and Lisa Fischbach released Halvar and wrote: Halvar, a German engineered type system that extends to extremes. With bulky proportions and constructed forms, Halvar is a pragmatic grotesk with the raw charm of an engineer. A type system ready to explore, Halvar has 81 styles, wide to condensed, hairline to black, roman to oblique and then to superslanted, structured into three subfamilies: the wide Breitschrift, regular Mittelschrift and condensed Engschrift. Halvar Stencil, which was released simultaneously, is a German engineering stencil font family.

    In 2021, Mona Franz and Jakob Runge published the sans families Gratimo Grotesk, Gratimo Classic, Grato Grotesk and Grato Classic at Typemates. Consulting on Cyrillic by Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky. They write: Grato and Gratimo are a system of typefaces joined by geometry but differing in genre and function. Grato's geometric core is shared by two designs with different terminals and different uppercase proportions to make a Grotesk and a Classic. And, for greater function and economy, both were redrawn for text and interface: Gratimo Grotesk and Gratimo Classic. [...] Grato is a family of two typefaces, modernist Grotesk and the humanist voice of the Geometric Suite Classic. A timeless typeface, it combines a pure, present voice with idiosyncrasy and luxury. Ignoring most calligraphic conventions, Grato is shaped by pure forms, low stroke modulation and square dots that contrast with almost perfect circles. Grato Classic pursues the classical proportions of early British geometric typefaces, while Grotesk inherits the industrial logic of early German ones. The result is a family of quirks and clarity, a substantial family for identity and editorial work. Grato includes a spectrum of nine weights, from fine hairlines to super heavy blacks.

    Runge's corporate custom typefaces include Lenbach Grotesk (2014).

    Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link for Runge. (old) link to 26pus zeichen. Jakob Runge's home page. Behance link for Typemefonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typical Organization

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the basic monoline sans typeface TP Monosalt (2017), which covers both Latin and Greek. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typiko
    [François H. Villebrod]

    New commercial foundry with a few fonts by François H. Villebrod, such as the sans serif Global Era, Titan and Odyssea Oval. Villbrod also designed the Greek and Cyrillic versions of Matthew Carter's small screen font family Nina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    typO969
    [Douglas Lyle McCue Jr]

    Douglas Lyle McCue Jr (typO969) created some free and some commercial fonts: Coptic Sahidic, Douglas Hand, Engletan, Systema Encéphale, VAST Nude, Edgar A Poe Hand, Hebrish, James Douglas Morrison Hand (2004), Sterces, Wulfila S-type. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typodermic
    [Ray Larabie]

    Ray Larabie (b. 1970, Ottawa, Canada) ran Typodermic in Mississauga, ON, which opened in the Fall of 2001. In 2006, it moved to Vancouver, BC, and in 2009 it moved on to Nagoya, Japan. Dafont page. Ray Larabie has been making fonts since 1996, but those early fonts were freeware. His pre 2001 fonts are grouped under the label Larabie Fonts. In 2001, he set up Typodermic. Latest additions.

    The Typodermic fonts:

    • 2022: Biphoton (a monospaced sans with the same proporions as Letter Gothic 12), Valve (an industrial muffler shop font), Deception (a sub-pixel typeface with ten captivating effects---Deception Array (wide blocks), Deception Bars (text viewed through lenticular glass), Deception Blocks (as in heavy JPEG degradation), Deception Diamonds, Deception Lines (for a grayscale effect), Deception Particles, Deception Plusses, Deception Process (simulates grayscale LCD text or a thermal printer on the fritz), Deception Scanline (television picture tube text rendering), Deception System (1-bit dithering gone haywire)), Monofonto (a monospaced sans), Encercle Draft (permitting users to create numbers in borders), Encercle Sans, Heavy Heap (a groovy psychedelic typeface with a scorching look, reminiscent of 1960s hot-rod culture and die-cast toy vehicles), Ggx89 (a 48-style tightly spaced Swiss style sans family).
    • 2021: Quadrillion (a 12-style rounded monoline sci-fi family), Mochon (a wall writing or chalk font based on the lettering of Donald Mochon, dean of the RPI School of Architecture until 1966; the Mochon samples were provided by an ex-student of Mochon, Karl A. Petersen), Steelfish Hammer (a subtly rustic version of Larabie's most popular typeface, Steelfish), Wavetable (sci-fi), Xyzai (an LED emulation font, described by Ray Larabie as a hardcore, Y2K-style techno typeface), Geoparody (a 12-style squarish typeface inspired by a late 1960s font called Anonymous), Typewriter Spool (122 fonts, modeled after the Underwood No. 5 typewriter font).
    • 2020: Gravtrac (a 56-style condensed to crushed slab serif family inspired by mid-twentieth century classics like Univers 59 Ultra-Condensed, Helvetica Inserat and Compacta; +Greek, +Cyrillic), Vinque Antique (a rustic handcrafted blackletter in eight styles).
    • 2019: Dealerplate (17 license plate styles for various states and provinces in the USA and Canada, current as of 2019; included are California, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Missouri, Washington, North Carolina, Virginia, Quebec, and Ontario), Kenyan Coffee Stencil, Good Timing, Steelfish Rounded, Bitcrusher (a consumer electronics / techno font), Galderglynn 1884 (a nineteenth-century style sans-serif typeface that exp[ands his Galderglynn Esquire).
    • 2018: Cybermontage, Crack Man (a pac man font), Propaniac (a 1980s-style postmodern typeface inspired by a Pointer Sisters record sleeve which was designed by Shoot That Tiger Creative Services), Zelega Zenega, Spectrashell.
    • 2017: Minicomputer (MICR style), Squirty, PCTL9600, PCTL4800 (retro techno), Ultraproxi (semi-monospaced and influenced by the high speed computer printers from the 1950s to 1970s), Toxigenesis (techno sans), Venus Rising, Vanchrome (a compact sans-serif headliner with chromatic layers), Krait (a layered geometric typeface designed for architectural display), Xylito (a layered font for chromatic or 3d effects).
    • 2016: Refuel (octagonal, based on military aircraft markings), Expressway Soft (a sans-serif font family inspired by the U.S. Department of Transportation's FHWA Series of Standard Alphabets, also known as Highway Gothic), Conthrax (squarish, techno), Cornpile (cartoonish), Electric, Evensong (art deco), Fledgling (a very tall typeface), Gymkhana (sans), Remissis (sans), Sunday Evening (a reverse contrast typeface), Meloche (Meloche is a unique grotesque sans-serif typeface influenced by hand-painted French signs of the late nineteenth century. It's available in 7 weights and obliques).
    • 2015: Canada 150 (a custom font for the Canadian government; see here, here, this coverage regarding the Inuktitut part of the font, and this reaction by the curmudgeons in Toronto who complain that Ray did this work for free), Autoradiographic (sans family), Built Titling (for compact headlines), Chickweed Titling (cartoon titling font), Cardigan Titling (flared headline face), Bench Grinder Titling, Kleptocracy Titling, Palamecia Titling (rounded black comic book typeface), Quasix Titling, Galderglynn Titling (all caps sans family from hairline to black), Mixolydian Titling, Stormfaze (a sci-fi font started in 1996 and finished in 2015), NK57 Monospace (a 60-style programmer typeface), Gargle, Athabasca (a sans family designed for the rugged Canadian oil patch).
    • 2014: Mesmerize (a large free sans family), Kingsbridge (a large slab serif family with sharp points on the A, M, N, V and W), Manbow (a layered geometric art deco display font which includes solid, clear, stripe, polka-dot and screen patterns), Breamcatcher (an all caps art deco font inspired by the piano sheet music for With Every Breath I Take which was featured in the Bing Crosby/Kitty Carlisle musical comedy film, Here is my Heart), Kilsonburg (Dutch deco based on an old Vogue magazine cover), Uchiyama (poster typeface), Goldsaber (art deco design), Vexler Slip (unicase), Rakesly, Dacquoise, Pretender, Rimouski (a rounded geometric font family), Nulshock (techno), Recharge (techno/industrial font), Interrogator Stencil, Strange Alphabets (arts and cratfs font), Angerpoise Lampshade (free).
    • 2013: Numbers With Rings, Shookup (funky cartoon font), Pastrami on Rye (cutout comic book style), Chickweed, Built (a condensed headline sans), Fluctuation (a softly rounded elliptical sans family), Astrochemistry (sci-fi, techno with rounded edges), Snasm (sci-fi).
    • 2012: Engebrechtre (2000-2012), Die Nasty (1999-2012: free), Strasua (1999-2012), Planet Benson (1997-2012), Husky Stash (1998-2012), Barbatrick (1999-2012: a speed emulation font), Zero Hour (1997-2012), Urkelian (1998-2012: very condensed), Zolasixx (inspired by the video game Zaxxon), Ampacity (neon font), Chromakey (a space deco headline font inspired by box art classic video games including Matrix Marauders and Magical Chase), Disassembler (1980s style bitmap font), Zerbydoo (a dot matrix family), Superego (a geometric-techno font inspired by the cabinet graphics for the 1981 Stargate arcade game), Rukyltronic (a set of dot matrix typefaces), Nerdropol (pixel family), Gulkave (rounded pixel font), Cyclopentane, Palamecia (a fat finger poster face), Gameness (a 1990 retro industrial deco font), Camulogen (headline face), Color Basic (a pixel typeface inspired the by TRS-80 Color Computer), Triac Seventy One (a funky face), Acroyear (retro all-caps headline font), Troll Bait, Strenuous (unicase), Permanence (a retro=futuristic font based on Alvin Toffler's cover of Future Shok, 1970), Clockpunk (octagonal and quaint), Battlemaze (trekkie face), Mixolydian (industrial sans).
    • 2011: Ugocranis (a brutalist typeface), Clipwave, Wheaton (MICR-inspired), Mango Scribble, TRS Million (dot matrix face), Ugogranis (constructivist), Gomoku (paper cut face), From The Internet.
    • 2010: Cranberry Gin (2010, octagonal), Restore (all caps, geometric sans), From The Stars (an elliptical techno family done with Chikako Larabie), Thrusters (space age face), Dream Orphanage, Dream Orphans (2000-2012), Kengwin (rounded slab serif), Gleaming The Cube (Greek simulation face), Vectipede (a slab serif family), Great Escape (an elliptical sans family), Subrocs (connected script), Hackensack (with Chikako Larabie), Polarband (bilined stackable headline face), Naked Power, Special Forces (a great macho slab serif headline face---watch for awards to roll in), Warugaki (handpainted), Warmer, Honfleur (art deco; with Chikako Larabi), Voivode (a headline typeface done with Chikako Larabie), Hachimitsu (Asian look face, done with Chikako Larabie), Kadeworth (rounded retro look sans, done with Chikako Larabie), Gnuolane Jump (2010, with Chikako Larabie), Markerfield (brush), Board of Directors (Bank Gothic style family, done with Chikako Larabie), GGX88 (a Swiss sans family), Body Goat, Reversal, Gord (techno), Computechnodigitronic (LED, LCD geek-look font), Bench Grinder, Inklea (a bubbly face), Skygirls (retro brush script), Gloss (a paint brush typeface based on Champion, 1957, G.G. Lange), Galderglynn Esquire.
    • 2009: Maqui (an industrial headline sans family), Zingende (art deco family: caps only), Misadventures, Gaz (large retro sans family), Acrylic Brush, Enamel Brush (a digitization of Catalina, 1955, Emil J. Klumpp), DDT (neutral sans), Thump (fat, casual), Desperate Glamour, Pricedown (an update of his free 1990s font, patterned after the lettering on The Price Is Right show), Mitigate (monoline and slabbed; has some typewriter styles), Catwing, Walken (slab serif stencil), Silicone (soft rounded sans family), Movatif (sans), Gunplay (a stencil family inspired by the poster for the 1972 Steve McQueen/Ali MacGraw film The Getaway), Fragile Bombers (octagonal), Forgotten Futurist (techno sans, 19 styles), Bullpen (slab serif), Coolvetica (35 styles), Duality, Good Times, Strenuous, Shlop (paint-drip style), Dirty Baker's Dozen (stencil), Junequil (VAG Rounded style), Owned (graffiti), Domyouji, Threefourtysixbvarrel (stencil), Enacti, Uniwars (futuristic, 16 styles).
    • 2008: Madawaska (a rugged slab serif), Ebenezer (grunge), Gnuolane Stencil, Raincoat, Report School (avant garde sans), Jesaya, Carouselambra (art nouveau), Debusen (rounded), Barge (military font), Renju (2008, potato or rubber stamp print face), Otoboke (handlettered), Hit (informal hand), R6 D8 (futuristic sans family), Rexlia (an octagonal machinistic family), Hybrea (a display sans with TV screen rounding), Sweater School, Tussilago (2008, a neutral sans family), Presicav (extended sans), Hover Unit, Addlethorpe (grunge), Scheme (rounded sans), Usurp (bouncy poster lettering), Negotiate (technical sans family), Divulge, Sewn, Gnoulane (condensed sans), Moja, Teeshirt (old typewriter face), Pound (art deco marries grunge), Graveblade (heavy metal font), Synthemesc (psychedelic anti-Starbucks font), Chysotile (white on black grunge), Cardigan (sans), Gurkner (balloon style), Reagan (grunge).
    • 2007: Tight (a copy of Dean Morris's 1976 Letraset chrome font Quicksilver), Headlight, Meloche (a 3-style grotesk), Octin Spraypaint (grunge stencil), Octin Vintage (grunge), Bouffant (script), Octin Prison (stencil), Octin Sports (octagonal), Octin College (octagonal, for sports jerseys), Octin Stencil (free octagonal font family), Burnaby Stencil (stencil), Superclarendon, Conceal, Ohitashi, Stud (grunge), Bristles (grunge), Skirt, Cotton (grunge), Kelvingrove (a bit of copperplate gothic, rounded and shaved), Augustine, Containment, Snowa, Veriox, Scrubby, Transmute, Sheaff, Injekuta (techno), Rinse (grunge), Polyflec, Domyouji (square sans), Winthorpe (old style), Cutiful (script), Flyswim (grunge), Dirtstorm (spray-painted stencil), Shnixgun (grunge), Neuzon (grunge), Oxeran (old typewriter), PRINTF (grunge all caps monospaced), Akazan (sans), Nyxali (a metal tag face), Nesobrite (25 styles of Bank Gothic lookalikes), Meloriac (a heavy headline sans inspired by Futura), Walnut (graffiti face), Gnuolane (a narrow superelliptical sans), Edifact (a damaged computer font), Darkheart, Stampoo (squarish), Raymond (rough script), Hayate (oriental look), Telephoto. The entire Octin series is free at DaFont.
    • 2006: Octynaz (grunge), Paltime (ornamented), Jolie Ecriture Desard (children's hand), Mango (comic book face), Desard (child's hand), Bulltoad, Lerku (eroded serif), Charbroiled (also eroded), Ceroxa (eroded stencil), Nagomi (a chiseled-look Asian font based on calligraphy of Chikako Suzuki from Nagoya), Whiterock, Yellande, Chilopod (a futuristic typeface inspired by the logo from the 1980s videogame, Atari Centipede), Order, Goldburg (based on a typeface by George Bowditch, 1957), Laserjerks (2006, brutalist), Milibus (futuristic), Bonobo (serifed), Ohitashi, Sarasori (TV-tube shaped typeface in the style of Oban), Structia (an octagonal family), Betaphid (octagonal), Gendouki (futuristic stencil), Slugger (athletic lettering), Marianas (a gorgeous art deco face), Lineavec (octagonal), Corzinair (serif family), Buxotic (a great caps face), Cinecav X (for closed caption TV and DVD), Salsbury (comic book face), Lonsdale (loosely based on a font called Parkway Script, which was designed by Emil Hirt in 1964), Alepholon (futuristic), Kwokwi, Mikadan (a tribute to Stephenson Blake's Verona from 1948, which was in turn based on William Dana Orcutt's Humanistic from 1904), Marion (2012: a beautiful transitional family adopted as a standard Mac OS X font), Quasix (hookish), Skraype (grunge stencil), Bleeker (casual lettering), Linefeed (monospaced line printer font), Draculon (a casual typeface inspired by the letterforms of William Orcutt's humanist font from 1904 which was in turn based on an Italian manuscript from 1485), Mahavishnu (a mix between 1970s psychedelics and art nouveau), Doradani (a corporate identity sans family), Korotaki (futuristic).
    • 2005: Beat My Guest, Kadonk (a Halloween face), Report (a VAG-Rounded style face), Croteau (a poster face), Heroid (ook face), Barrista (informal script), Wyvern (sans serif), Wubble (like puddles of water), Caryn (casual script), Folder (a rigid sans family), Venacti (a futuristic family), Xenara (a keyboard lettering family), Emory (a destructionist sans family), Ligurino (neat sans&serif family), Biondi (update of Copperplate Gothic; followed in 2010 by Biondi Sans; these copperplate style typefaces are in the style of AT Sackers), Byington (Trajan column lettering), Sayso Chic, Expressway (28 weights, a highway signage family), Algol (pixel type), Meposa (fat display face), Tandelle (condensed), Vigo, Maychurch, Mecheria, Vactic (dot matrix), Zosma, Topstitch, Windpower, Llandru, Soap (a creative extension of Cooper Black, with dingbats), Kleptocracy (1999-2005), Owned, Rimouski (sans), Burnstown Dam (2005, a wooden plank font), Sinzano (sans with opentype ligatures galore; compare, e.g., House Ed Interlock), Zamora.
    • 2004: Affluent, Threefortysixbarrel (stencil face), Tank, Telidon (dot matrix face), Funboy, Neuropol X, Neuropol Nova, Mufferaw (comic book face), Larabiefont, Zekton (techno), Strenuous 3D, Silentina (advertised as "a silent movie font"), Amienne (brush script), Fenwick Outline (free), Betsy Flanagan (1998, a keyboard face), Boopee (children's handwriting), Pirulen (in the general Bank Gothic style), Zalderdash.
    • 2003: Zupiter, Blue Highway.
    • Before 2002: the dot matrix family Telidon, Telidon Ink, Butter Belly, Almonte (1999), the architectural font Jillican (octagonal), Snowgoose, Bomr, Pakenham, Neuropol, Nasalization, Fenwick, Kleptocracy DLX, Sui Generis, Dirty Bakers Dozen (faded stencil), Minya Nouvelle, Asterisp, Chinese Rocks, Jillsville (great artsy Courier), Ulian, Wevli (including Wevli Dingbats), Sappy Mugs (funny mugshots), Sofachrome (1999, inspired by Pontiac car emblems), Eden Mills (1999).

    MyFonts interview. Fontspace link. Fontspring link. Catalog of the typefaces in the Larabie Fonts collection. Klingspor link.

    Catalog of the Typodermic library in decreasing order of popularity. Extensive (large page warning) Typodermic catalog. Font Squirrel link. Creative Fabrica link. Fontsquirrel link. Fontdaily link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typogama
    [Michael Parson]

    Typogama is the personal foundry of Swiss designer Michael Parson (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 1979), who published these fonts in 2003 as part of Linotype's Taketype 5 collection: Anlinear LT Std Bold, Anlinear LT Std Light, Anlinear LT Std Regular, Arabdream LT Std (Arabic simulation face), ClassicusTitulus LT Std, Hexatype LT Std Bold, Morocco LT Std, Jan LT Std, Ned LT Std, Pargrid LT Std Cross, Pargrid LT Std Regular, Pargrid LT Std Trash, Piercing LT Std Bold, Piercing LT Std Code, Piercing LT Std Regular, Raclette LT Std.

    Most of Parson's fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2004, he made Clans (T-26, blackletter) and Boulas (T-26).

    In 2006, he released these at T-26: Boutan (Indic simulation face), Heraldry (dingbats), Palm Icons (dingbats for golf), Wingbat (aircraft dingbats).

    In 2007, still at T-26: Heraldry, Thunderbolt 73 through 76 (from techno stencil to techno sans).

    In 2008, at T26: Ealing (geometric sans family, with a hairline), Bauhau (6 weights), Jane (a rounded sans in 12 weights), Quean, Halja (a modular sharp-edged blackletter with illuminated capitals), Faddish (a high-contrast vogue family), Big Boy (11 styles, a slab family from grunge to regular, accompanied by BigSigns, a hand sign font).

    Fonts from 2010: Tinsel (condensed), Rusty (Latin / Cyrillic constructivist typeface inspired by snowboarding), Vindaloo (+Outline, T26), Kimbo (octagonal slabby family), Cyrus (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Calvin (a monoline sans family, +Hairline), Checkpoint (rounded display sans that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014), Fuera (2011: a bilined typeface, T26).

    In 2013, he published Selecta (an organic rounded sans, T26), Thunderbolt (an octagonal army style typeface family with a military stencil, T-26), Xcetera (2011), Ignorance (an American 19th century style penmanship font), Psalta (an octagonal blackletter typeface), Nadsat (a geometric display sans with some interlocking letters), Cobono (organic sans), Prox (sans face), Zurika (a wonderful crazy script face), Faddish (T26: a fashion mag typeface), Heraldry (T26), Cedi (YWFT: a hand-printed typeface family with huge multi-character ligature set to simulate real handwriting), Tcho (T26: a soft rounded sans family that covers Latin, Thai, Arabic, Greek and other scripts), Dejecta (a striking scratched titling face, T26), Nedo (2011, a bold prismatic display typeface inspired by the work of Nedo Mion Ferrario in Venezuela), Quam (2012, an elliptical sans family), Pictypo (2012, a useful icon typeface).

    In 2014, he updated the interlocking poster display typeface Tinsel (T26---original from 2010) and published the fantastic cartoon / comic book typeface family Bangbang. Siggy (2014) is a funky typeface. Lale (2014), which won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition, uses the opentype features to set up a font system for flowers. Jane (2014) is a rounded sans typeface family. Vulgat (2014) is a vibrant display typeface based on uncial letterforms. Elsuave is a free rounded piano key typeface.

    Typefaces from 2015: Chickenz, Framez, Jackazz, Raubam (free), Martinaz (signage script).

    Typefaces from 2016: Auro (rounded sans), Dejecta (rough and ragged), Apollonius (a swashy didone), Rosengarten (vintage type influenced by Lucian Barnhard), Deleplace (influenced by didones), Furius (Tuscan style).

    Typefaces from 2017: Kurstiva (an informal sans family), Banja (a plump signage script), Bignoy (Wild West, modernized), Kimbo (octagonal), Mensrea (organic sans with beveled, inline, and various layered and graffiti styles), Nibbles (a food truck-inspired dingbat typeface), Huggy (an art nouveau typeface influenced by the work of Heinrich Heinz).

    Typefaces from 2018: Brinnan (a wide sans), Zoltana (a floriated, abll terminal-laden fancy titling typeface), Genesa, Kufin (a free Kufic emulation typeface), Madden (an angry dry brush poster typeface).

    Typefaces from 2019: Ahsing (oriental look font), Convexion (a creamy display typeface), Vidocq (based on 19th century woodcut styles).

    Typefaces from 2020: Fiducia (inspired by the first Swiss banknotes), Gorgonzo (a creamy bold typeface designed for attention grabbing headlines), Thrifty (a clean minimalist sans family).

    Typefaces from 2021: Oildale (an oily and creamy display typeface), Conica (a fine extra bold condensed poster typeface).

    Typefaces from 2022: Xotor (a double-inline or prismatic font with octagonal outlines).

    Behance link. Klingspor link. Hellofont link. MyFonts link.

    View Michael Parson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typographie grecque

    Dead link. Jacques André writes about the history and practice of Greek typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typographies.fr
    [Jonathan Perez]

    French foundry, est. 2008, by Jonathan Perez and Laurent Bourcellier. Graduates from the Ecole Estienne in Paris, they have made the following fonts:

    • Chapitre (2013): It is based on the principle of the endless knot, a symbol used particularly in Hinduism and Buddhism. As its name implies, an endless knot has no beginning and no end. It also echoes many works in the history of writing which you must be familiar with, like Irish and Anglo-Saxon illuminations of the Middle Ages or Flemish calligraphy of the 17th century. Chapitre won an award at TDC 2014.
    • Colvert (2012): A family comprosed of four families, Colvert Arabic (by Kristyan Sarkis), Colvert Cyrillic (by Natalia Chuvatin), Colvert Greek (by Irene Vlachou) and Colvert Latin (by Jonathan Perez).
    • The free font Ifao N Copte, a Unicode-compatible font with 809 glyphs for Coptic. By Perez.
    • Unicopte (by Bourcellier) and Copte Scripte (2008, by Bourcellier and Perez; it won an award at TDC2 2009). Discussion.
    • A hieroglyphic font. By Perez.
    • Joos (2009) took its inspiration from an italic, ca. 1530, by Joos Lambrecht, from Gent, Belgium, who was one of the great printers and punchcutters of the 16th century.
    • Extensions of Syntax and ITC Slimbach for Vietnamese (with the help of Pauline Nuñez, Valentine Proust and Mathieu Réguer) for the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet.
    Jonathan Perez is a graphic and type designer. He graduated in 2007 from Ecole Estienne in Paris with a provocatively-titled thesis, Giambattista Bodoni, génie ou assassin?. In 2009, Jonathan set up his own site, JonathanPerez.cm, where he plans to publish some Latin typefaces. Fontspace has some free fonts by Perez, such as Ifao n Copte.

    I Love Typography link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typotheque
    [Peter Bilak]

    Typotheque is an initiative of Peter Bilak and ui42 out of Bratislava (Slovakia), and later, The Netherlands: Typotheque is an Internet-based independent type foundry. It offers quality fonts for PC and Macintosh platforms in standard European character set and in CE (central european) character set. All fonts have full (european) character sets, are thoroughly tested and manually kerned.

    Typotheque also offers its own type utilities: AccentKernMaker and FontAgent. In 2000, with Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak co-founded art and design journal Dot Dot Dot. Along with Andrej Kratky he co-founded Fontstand.com, a font rental platform. Peter is teaching at the Type & Media postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague.

    Free fonts: Remix Typotheque and RaumSüd.

    Commercial fonts: Fedra Sans (2001, 30 weights), Holy Cow (2000), Champollion (2000), Eureka (2000), Eureka Phonetik (2000), Eureka Arrows (2000), Eureka Glyphs (2000), Jigsaw (Light and Stencil, 2000, by Johanna Balusikova), Fedra Mono (2002), Fedra Bitmaps (2002), Fedra Serif (2003, 48 weights, with a characteristic shy female A, toes pointing inwards), Fedra Serif Display (2006) and Fedra Arabic (2006) .

    Greta (2006-2007, Greta Text and Greta Display) is a newspaper type family designed initially for the main Slovak newspaper, SME. Greta Text won an award at TDC2 2007. It is also being used by the Sunday Times (along with Sunday Times Modern by Emtype and Flama by M. Feliciano). Greta Symbol (2012) is a 10-style 1200-glyphs-per-style superfamily of symbols commonly used in newspapers, magazines and online publications. Finally, Greta Mono (by Peter Bilak and Nikola Djurek) saw the light in 2015. Codesigner with Daniel Berkovitz of Greta Sans Hebrew (2015), which won an award at TDC 2016 and was released in 2017. Greta Sans supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai and Hangul. Greta Sans was designed by Peter Bilak, produced together with Nikola Djurek. Irina Smirnova designed the Cyrillic version. The Latin part has been published in 2012, the Cyrillic and Greek in 2015. In 2015, Greta Sans was recognised by the Tokyo TDC. The Arabic version was designed by Kristyan Sarkis and published in 2015. Greta Sans Devanagari was published in 2017, designed by Hitesh Malaviya at ITF under the supervision of Satya Rajpurohit. The Thai version was designed by Smich Smanloh from Cadson Demak, and published in 2019. This Hangul version was designed by Sandoll designers Yejin We and Jinhee Kim, and directed by Chorong Kim.

    In 2005, Collins Fedra Sans and Serif were published for use in the Collins dictionaries. A slightly modified version of Fedra Sans is used by the Czech Railways.

    In 2008, Peter Bilak, Eike Dingler, Ondrej Jób, and Ashfaq Niazi created the 21-style family History at Typotheque: Based on a skeleton of Roman inscriptional capitals, History includes 21 layers inspired by the evolution of typography. These 21 independent typefaces share widths and other metric information so that they can be recombined. Thus History has the potential to generate thousands of different unique styles. History 1, e.g., is a hairline sans; History 2 is Peignotian; History 14 is a multiline face; History 15 is a stapler face, and so forth.

    In 2009, Bilak published the extensive Irma (Sans, Slab) family, which includes a hairline. Typotheque's other designer is Johanna Balusikova.

    Collection of over 90 articles on type design by by Stuart Bailey, Michael Bierut, Peter Bilak, Andrew Blauvelt, Erik van Blokland, Max Bruinsma, David Casacuberta, Andy Crewdson, Paul Elliman, Peter Hall, Jessica Helfand, Steven Heller, Roxane Jubert, Emily King, Robin Kinross, Rosa Llop, Ellen Lupton, Martin Majoor, Rick Poynor, Michael Rock, Stefan Sagmeister, and Dmitri Siegel.

    In 2011, he created Julien, a playful geometric display typeface loosely inspired by the early 20th century avant-garde. It is based on elementary shapes and includes multiple variants of each letter. It feels like a mix of Futura, Bauhaus, and geometric modular design.

    Julien (2012) is a playful geometric display typeface loosely inspired by the early 20th century avant-garde.

    Karloff (2012, Typotheque: Positive, Negative, Neutral) is a didone family explained this way: Karloff explores the idea how two extremes could be combined into a coherent whole. Karloff connects the high contrast Modern type of Bodoni and Didot with the monstrous Italians. The difference between the attractive and repulsive forms lies in a single design parameter, the contrast between the thick and the thin. Neutral, the offspring, looks like a slab face. They were made by Peter Bilak, Nikola Djurek and Peter van Rosmalen.

    Lumin (2013) is a family that includes slab-serif, sans serif, condensed and display typefaces, and no attept is made to make them uniform in style.

    Lava (2013) is a magazine typeface originally designed for Works That Work magazine. It was extended to a multilingual workhose typeface family. It as extended in 2021 to Lava 2.0, at which time they added a variable version of Lava that does this size-specific tracking optimization automatically---Typotheque calls it optical spacing. By 2021, Lava covered Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Telugu and Kannada. Typotheque collaborated with type designers Parimal Parmar, who drew the Devanagari; and Ramakrishna Saiteja, who drew Kannada and Telugu companions for Lava Latin, designed by Peter Bilak.

    For Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, Typotheuqe designed the custom sans typeface Confluence (2014).

    For Buccellati Jewellery and Watches in Milan, Typotheque made the classy sans typeface Buccellati in 2013.

    In 2016, Peter Bilak, Nikola Djurek and Hrvoje Zivcic published the Uni Grotesk typeface family at Typotheque. It is based on Grafotechna's 1951 typeface Universal Grotesk, which in turn is based on 1934 design by Vladimir Balthasar. Noteworthy also is the prismatic style Uni Grotesk Display.

    In 2016, Peter Bilak designed the wayfinding sans typeface family November for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. Its rounded version is October. November, co-designed by Peter Bilak, Irina Smirnova and Kristyan Sarkis, won two awards at Granshan 2017. November Stencil was published in 2018.

    The Q Project was conceived in 2016 by Peter Bilak, and published in June 2020. Nikola Djurek produced the Q Shape 01, loosely based on the Edward Catich's basic brush strokes from his book The Origin of the Serif: Brush Writing and Roman Letters. Bilak explains: The Q Project is a game-like [modular] type system that enables users to create a nearly infinite number of variations. Inspired by toys like Lego or Meccano, Q invites you to explore its vast creative space and discover not only new solutions, but also new problems. Q consists of ix uppercase Base fonts and 35 attachments that can be added as individual layers (Q Base and Serifs). It also comes with a variable font with a motion axis (Q Mechanic), as well as three levels of basic shapes that can be combined into new forms (Q Shapes).

    In 2021-2022, Typotheque custom-designed the humanist sans typeface NRK Sans for the Norwegian broadcaster, NRK.

    History won an award at ProtoType in 2016.

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    Tzoulis Graphic Design (or: TZ-Design)
    [Prokopios Tzoulis]

    Advertised as distorted space-age type. TZ Design is Prokopios Tzoulis' Athens-based design studio. His fonts cover Greek and Latin. TZ-Cubistic1 (2004) and TZ Perfecta III Bold (2004) is futuristic. Display types, all made in 2004, include TZCALLI, Tzmystery and TZnewmode Bold. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tzu-yuan "Erik" Yin
    [Tofutype]

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    Ueli Kaufmann

    Swiss graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2015. His graduation typeface, Froben Antiqua, covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek: Froben Antiqua is a versatile serif typeface family intended for characterful communication, editorial and book design. Details and proportions, which bring character to both small and large sizes, are inspired by the works of famous Basle Renaissance printers Johann and Hieronymus Froben. Froben Antiqua won an award at TDC 2016. Ueli Kaufmann is based in Zürich. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ulrich Harsch

    Specialist of the classics at Fachhochschule Augsburg, Germany, who created the Greek font Apaxnion (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Umbreon 126

    Tamagotchi, or Umbreon 126, made several fonts with the aid of FontStruct in 2012 and 2013. These include pixel typefaces (FS Rebellion, FS Rept, FS Comic Mono, FS Flower Shop, FS 126 Serif), but also truly large workhorse typefaces. For example, FS 126 Sans (a pixel sans face) has 4871 characters and covers Nko, Lisu, Armenian, Tai Le, Ogham, Thaana, Georgian, Coptic, Kayah Li, Tifinagh, Samaritan, and Lao. The 3114 glyph pixel typeface FS Semioriginal covers Hiragana, Katakana, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Bopomofo, Georgian, Greek, and Cyrillic. The 2000+ glyph pixel typeface FS Unoriginal covers Hiragana, Katakana, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Bopomofo and Tifinagh. Other typefaces include FS Fat Piano, FS Typ Stencil (piano key face), FS Frakletter (blackletter) and FS Stupid Me (white on black typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Under Pressure

    Graphic designer in Patras, Greece. In 2018, he designed the free Latin/Greek poster typefaces Plebis, Odessa and Vavoura.

    Typefaces from 2019; Agnosco (free; for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    UNESCO Kazakhstan

    Type 1 and truetype fonts for Armenian by Ruben Tarumian: ArialArmenGarBold, ArialArmenGarItalic, ArialArmenGar, ArmoldGar, ArTarGrqiNorGarBold, ArTarGrqiNorGarItalic, ArTarGrqiNorGar, ArTarumianMatenagirGarBold, ArTarumianMatenagirGarItalic, ArTarumianMatenagirGar, ArTarumianTimesGarBold, ArTarumianTimesGarItalic, ArTarumianTimesGar. And the Cyrillic fonts by Garkavets (2000): BookmanUrumBold, BookmanUrumItalic, BookmanUrum. Plus QypchakDiacriticBoldItalic (has characters and ligatures, used in "Codex Cumanicus" and Qypchaq written monuments XIII-XIV centuries, also made by Garkavets, 2000), QypchakDiacriticBold, QypchakDiacriticItalic, QypchakDiacritic. From ParaGraph, the Cyrillic fonts SchoolBookAC-Regular, SchoolBookAC-Italic, SchoolBookAC-Bold, SchoolBookAC-BoldItalic. From Garkavets, the Cyrillic fonts TimesUrumNewBold, TimesUrumNewBold-Italic, TimesUrumNewItalic, TimesUrumNewNormal. By Ralph Hancock, the Greek font VusillusOldFaceItalic. And finally, from Adobe, the Turkish fonts TmsRoman, TmsRomanBold, TmsRomanBoldItalic, TmsRomanItalic. Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts
    [George Douros]

    This is a fantastic source of free high-quality fonts for scripts of the greater Aegean vicinity, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Meroitic, Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, Musical Symbols and all Symbol Blocks in the Unicode Standard. George Douros is their Greek font designer. His free fonts come with this exemplary footnote: In lieu of a licence: Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and redistributed. Many of his fonts contributed to important section in the GNU Freefont project. Here is the list:

    • Abidos (2018). An attempt to catalogue about 8000 Egyptian hieroglyps. His Nilus font (2018) catalogues the Gardiner hieroglyphs.
    • Aegean (2007-2012). Covers Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation. Other things in it: Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Ancient Greek Alphabets, Phrygian, Old Italic Alphabets (Cumaean, Archaic Etruscan, Neo Etruscan, Ancient Latin, Lugano, Faliscan, Marsiliana, Messapic, Middle Adriatic South Picene, North Picene, Oscan, Umbrian), the Arkalochori Axe and Anatolian Hieroglyphs.
    • Aegyptus (2007-2020) and Gardiner. Over 7000 hieroglyphs. In addition, we have Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Egyptian Transliteration characters, some punctuation and other symbols.
    • Akkadian (2007). Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Ugaritic, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.
    • Alexander (2007, text typeface built around the Greek letters originally designed by Alexander Wilson in 1744; compare with Wilson Greek (1996, Matthew Carter) and Junicode (2006, Peter S. Baker)). The Latin and Cyrillic parts are based on Garamond.
    • Alfios. Lowercase upright Greek were designed in 1805 by Firmin Didot (1764-1836) and cut by Walfard and Vibert. The typeface, together with a complete printing house, was donated in 1821 to the new Greek state by Didot's son, Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876). Lowercase italic Greek were designed in 1802 by Richard Porson (1757-1808) and cut by Richard Austin. They were first used by Cambridge University Press in 1810. Capitals, Latin and Cyrillic, as well as the complete bold weights, have been designed in an attempt to create a well-balanced font. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and some Open Type features (Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures); it is available in regular, italic, bold and bold italic.
    • Anaktoria. Douros: Grecs du roi was designed by Claude Garamond (1480-1561) between 1541 and 1544, commissioned by king Francis I of France, for the exclusive use by the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris. Greek in Akaktoria is based on a modern version of Grecs du roi prepared by Mindaugas Strockis in 2001. Lowercase Latin stems from the titles in the 1623 First Folio Edition of Shakespeare. Scott Mann & Peter Guither prepared a modern version for The Illinois Shakespeare Festival in 1995. Cyrillic has been designed to match the above Greek and Latin.
    • Analecta (2007, Byzantine style). An ecclesiastic scripts font, in Byzantine uncial style, covering Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Coptic, typographica varia, Specials, Gothic and Deseret.
    • Anatolian
    • Aroania: In 1927, Victor Julius Scholderer (1880-1971), on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. Aroania is a modern recast of Victor Scholderer's New Hellenic font, on the basis of Verdana.
    • Asea (2020, Latin-Greek-Cyrillic). A modern font based on Firmin Didot's Greek type.
    • Assyrian.
    • Atavyros. Douros writes: Robert Granjon (1513-1589) produced his Parangonne Greque typeface (garmond size) at the instigation of Christophe Plantin as a counterpart to Garamond's Grec du roi, in Antwerp Holland, between 1560--1565. It was used in Plantin's multilingual Bible of 1572. Versions of Granjon's type were used for the 1692 edition of Diogenes Laertius and for the Greek-Dutch edition of the New Testament in 1698, both published by Henric Wetstenium in Amsterdam. A digital revival was prepared by Ralph P. Hancock for his Vusillus font in 1999. Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Goudy typeface.
    • Avdira. Douros: Upright is based on the lowercase Greek letters in the typeface used by Demetrios Damilas for the edition of Isocrates, published in Milan in 1493. A digital revival was prepared by Ralph P. Hancock for his Milan (Mediolanum) font in 2000. Italic Greek were designed in 1802 by Richard Porson (1757-1808) and cut by Richard Austin. They were first used by Cambridge University Press in 1810.
    • Maya. Maya covers the glyphs in J. Eric S. Thompson's A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (1962, University of Oklahoma Press).
    • MusicalSymbols (2007) or Musica (2013). Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Byzantine Musical Symbols, (Western) Musical Symbols, Archaic Greek Musical Notation. There is also the Greek musical notation font EE Music (2018) for Hellenic ecclesiastic music.
    • UnicodeSymbols (2007, in the Computer Modern style) and UniDings (2013). It has every imaginable symbol: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, IPA Extensions, Greek, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplementary, General Punctuation, Superscripts and Subscripts, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures, Optical Character Recognition, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Supplemental Arrows-A, Supplemental Arrows-B, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B, Supplemental Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Yijing Hexagram Symbols, Vertical Forms, Combining Half Marks, CJK Compatibility Forms, Specials, Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, Counting Rod Numerals, Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, Mahjong Tile Symbols, Domino Tile Symbols.
    • Symbola (2013) is an unbelievably rich font. It contains Basic Latin, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplement, General Punctuation, Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures, Optical Character Recognition, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Supplemental Arrows-A, Braille Patterns, Supplemental Arrows-B, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B, Supplemental Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, Supplemental Punctuation, Yijing Hexagram Symbols, Combining Half Marks, Specials, Byzantine Musical Symbols, Musical Symbols, Ancient Greek Musical Notation, Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, Counting Rod Numerals, Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, Mahjong Tiles, Domino Tiles, Playing Cards, Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs, Emoticons, Ornamental Dingbats, Transport And Map Symbols, Alchemical Symbols, Geometric Shapes Extended, Supplemental Arrows, and Symbols of occasional mathematical interest. It is one of a hanful fonts that dares to have a glyph that shows the middle finger. Github link for free download. see also Symbola Goomoji (2013).
    • Unidings. Various glyphs and icons.

    Since George permits redistribution, I am offering his work for download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Unicode Greek

    Cornell University's Jeffrey Rusten's discussion of UNICODE for Greek. A list of links for Unicode ancient Greek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Unicode ISO 8859

    Description of character sets.

    • 8859-1 Europe, Latin America (Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.)
    • 8859-2 Eastern Europe
    • 8859-3 SE Europe
    • 8859-4 Scandinavia (mostly covered by 8859-1 also)
    • 8859-5 Cyrillic
    • 8859-6 Arabic
    • 8859-7 Greek
    • 8859-8 Hebrew
    • 8859-9 Latin5, same as 8859-1 except for Turkish instead of Icelandic
    • 8859-10 Latin6, for Eskimo/Scandinavian languages
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    Unicode Polytonic Greek for the Web

    Patrick Rourke explains the use of Unicode Polytonic (ancient) Greek fonts on various platforms. A comparison of existing polytonic fonts is included that deals with Arial Unicode MS, Aisa Unicode, Athena, Code2000, Vusillus Old Face, Titus Cyberbit, Cardo, Palatino Linotype, Georgia Greek Unicode, and Lucida Sans Unicode. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Unine.ch

    Greek font archive: GentiumAlt-Italic, GentiumAlt, Gentium-Italic, Gentium, TITUSCyberbitBasic, GaramondClassical, GalatiaSIL-Bold, GalatiaSIL, GaramondClassical, GaramondClassical-Bold, GaramondClassical-Italic, GRTimesNewRoman, GRTimesNewRoman-Bold, GRTimesNewRoman-BoldItalic, GRTimesNewRoman-Italic. Most of these fonts also have full Latin and Cyrillic letters. Opentype: KadmosU (2005, American Philological Association). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    unipd.it

    The HellasArial Greek truetype family, by Pouliadis Associates Corp, 1992. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    United Hellas

    Four Greek truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    URW Braille

    This item is worth reporting. URW++, one of the workhorses of the German type industry, is asking 950 Euros for URW Braille, an in-house font made in 2013. It covers Braille for European languages, including Greek and Cyrillic. I think that I see a business opportunity here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    URW++ Core 35 Fonts

    In 1999-2000, URW++ Design and Development GmbH released the Type 1 implementations of the Core 35 fonts under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License (AFPL). In 2016, URW++ released a major Version 2.0 upgrade to the Core 35 fonts. This version is an extensive reworking of the original Core 35 fonts, with improved font outlines, and greatly extended character sets, including Cyrillic and (monotonic) Greek. Also, some font names have been changed. Version 2.0 is released in Type 1, OpenType-CFF and OpenType-TTF formats. The fonts:

    • C059 (=Century Schoolbook)
    • D050000L (=Zapf Dingbats)
    • Nimbus Mono (=Courier New)
    • Nimbus Roman (=Times New Roman)
    • Nimbus Sans (=Helvetica), Nimbus Sans Narrow
    • P052 (=Palatino, formerly Palladio at URW)
    • URW Bookman
    • URW Gothic (=Avant Garde)
    • Z003 (=Zapf Calligraphic)
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    URW Nimbus Sans Global

    Between 2005 and 2020, URW developed first URW Nimbus Sans---their take on max Miedinger's Helvetica---and later URW Nimbus Sans Global that covers all major scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic (+Pashtu, +Urdu), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Armenian. Each of the seven styles has 65,000 glyphs and costs 2320 Euros (about 2500 dollars) per style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    URW Type Foundrty (was: urw++)

    URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century, freelance type designer Ralph M. Unger contributed most frequently to the URW library. OpenType collection guide (in PDF).

    Selected releases: URW Egyptienne, URW Grotesk (1985, Hermann Zapf), Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Saa Series (an industrial sans: the official typeface for Australian road signage), Nimbus Sans (1987, a Helvetica clone), Nimbus Sans Novus, Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House typefaces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Gardena Sans (2015, for Gardena), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa).

    MyFonts lists their bestsellers. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. Another catalog of URW's typefaces.

    Eight-minute corporate movie produced in the summer of 2014. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    VAG Rounded

    A typeface family developed for Volkswagen in 1979. It became an Adobe family, produced in 1989 and updated in 1995. The original designers were David Bristow, Gerry Barney, Ian Hay, Kit Cooper, and Terence Griffin. The latest revival is VAG Rounded Next (2018, Monotype). Developed under the direction of Steve Matteson, it has new weights and adds support for Greek and Cyrillic.

    View digital implementations of VAG. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VAGDesign Greek Opentype fonts
    [Vangelis Makridakis]

    A free set of Greek/Latin fonts by Vangelis Makridakis who runs VAG Design. They are published under the GNU License. The fonts, all made in 2006: ArmyCaps (stencil), Dotted (pixel font), VAG HandWritten, HurryPen, Typewriter (old typewriter). Alternate URL. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Val Kalinic
    [VP Type (or: VP Pixel Fonts)]

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    VanderKeur
    [Nicolien van der Keur]

    Graduate from the Art School HKU in Utrecht, The Netherlands, who founded her own studio in 1999. Born in Utrecht, she graduated in 2007 from the University of Reading, with a project entitled Sirba, a Latin and Greek type family designed for dictionaries and small print documents. This typeface was published by Typetogether in 2010. They write: Sturdy and functional in the Dutch tradition---dark, warm and legible. ... Dark? ...

    In 2020, she released Typist Code (a 12-style monospaced font family for programmers) and Typist Slab (a monospaced typewriter family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vangelis Dim. Gardikiotis
    [DBSV]

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    Vangelis Karageorgos

    Xanthi, Greece-based designer Vangelis Karageorgos grew up between Grevena and Larisa, in northern Greece. In 2003 he completed his studies on Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic of Democritus University of Thrace and is currently (2007) carrying out a PhD on atmospheric chemistry and physics in Xanthi, Greece. At Parachute, he created PFMuse and PFArmonia (2007), his first commercial typefaces. PF Muse was withdrawn in 2008 as a reaction to comments by the typophiles (being too close to its genetic parent, Delicious, by Jos Buivenga). He also created Morpheus Hellenic (2006; see also here), a Greek version of Eric Oehler's famous Morpheus font from 1996. He is also working on a Greek version of the DejaVu fonts (2006). Comments on typophile. He works at the University of Thrace, Greece. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vangelis Makridakis
    [VAGDesign Greek Opentype fonts]

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    Vasgrav
    [Vasilis Gravaritis]

    Vasgrav is Vasilis Gravaritis, a graphic and type designer in Athens, Greece. He created the ultra-experimental typeface Athina in 2010. Triori (2010) has a grid-based design. Vasarely (2010) is based on the principle that horizontal lines through glyphs cause a flip from black to white and vice versa. This op-art typeface is named after Hungarian artist victor vasarely. In 2011, he designed Linus (squarish).

    In 2013, he published the condensed arc-based monoline sans typeface Capsula.

    Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasil Gligorov
    [Paleofonts V. 2]

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    Vasil Gligorov

    History student in Skopje (b. 1977) who compiled a collection of freeware Glagolitic and OCS (Old Church Slavonic) Cyrillic truetype fonts. As he puts it, this collection is suitable for publishing students and scholars of linguistics in general and for Slavicist and other interested in the paleographical characteristic of these two ancient scripts used by Slavs, as well as their medieval literature: Chronicals, Gospels and their segments, as well as prayer books, hymns, sermons and epigraphic inscriptions. Most of these are by Vladislav Dorosh (Calmius Software): Evangelie-Ucs, Feofan-Ucs, Indycton-ieUcs, IndyctonUcs, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs, Irmologion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Ucs, Irmologion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-ieUcs, Irmologion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-kUcs, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Drop-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Ucs, Pochaevsk-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-kUcs, Psaltyr-Ucs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-Ucs, Psaltyr-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-ieUcs, Psaltyr-kUcs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-kUcs, Slavjanic-Ucs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-Ucs, Slavjanic-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-ieUcs, Slavjanic-kUcs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-kUcs, StaroUspenskaya-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, StaroUspenskaya-Caps-Ucs, StaroUspenskaya-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, StaroUspenskaya-Caps-ieUcs, StaroUspenskaya-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, StaroUspenskaya-Caps-kUcs, StaroUspenskaya-Ucs-SpacedOut, StaroUspenskaya-Ucs, StaroUspenskaya-ieUcs-SpacedOut, StaroUspenskaya-ieUcs, StaroUspenskaya-kUcs-SpacedOut, StaroUspenskaya-kUcs, Triodion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-Ucs, Triodion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-ieUcs, Triodion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-kUcs, Triodion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Ucs, Triodion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-ieUcs, Triodion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-kUcs, VertogradUcs, Zlatoust-Ucs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-Ucs, Zlatoust-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-ieUcs, Zlatoust-kUcs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-kUcs. Other fonts: Dilyana, Evangelje-Plain, GlagoljicaOBLStaroHrvatskoPismo, GlagoljicaUGLStaroHrvatskoPismo, KirillicaWincyr, Lavra-Plain, Lazov, LazovBold, MPH2BDamase, Novgorod-Plain, OldChurchSlavonicCyr, OldChurchSlavonicGla, Orthodox.tt-eRoos-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-eRoos, SBibSlav. Also, publisher of Arben Golja 2 (2007, see also here), a compilation of 1000 freeware Serbian decorative Cyrillic fonts. Macedonia (2007) is a collection of freeware Greek historical fonts, including Linear B. Includes the exact paleographical forms of characters used in Mycenae and classical Ancient Greece. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasileios Synanidis
    [We Love Rain]

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    Vasiliki Zotou

    Athens, Greece-based designer of Numters Letbers (2016). Behanve link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasilis Grammaticos
    [Ypatia]

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    Vasilis Gravaritis
    [Vasgrav]

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    Vasilis Kanaris

    Thessaloniki and/or Athens, Greece-based designer (b. 1995) of the free Greek / Latin handwriting fonts Salonikia VKF (2020) and Athena (2020, influenced by the golden age of Greek cinema from 1950 until 1980). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasilis Manousardis

    Graphic designer in Thessaloniki, who created Blocks (2013, Latin face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasilis Pallas

    Graduate of AKTO College of Athens (2013). Vasilis Pallas is a graphic and web designer in Athens, Greece. He created the all caps multi-style art deco typeface Velvetique (2013), which has several inline versions and comes in Latin and Greek. It is tweetware.

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    Vasilis Sinanidis

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who made thedepressing Latin typeface Dark Grime (2013), the Greek brush typeface Fovos Polis (2013) and the graffiti paint drip typeface Squeeze Me (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasilis Skandalos

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the free Latin / Greek font Retro Sans (2014), and the free sans display face family Wask (2015). In 2016, he designed the letterpress stamp typeface Stamps. Hellofont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasilis Tanos

    Vasilis Tanos (b. 1984) grew up in Schongau, Germany, and studied at the Technological Institute of Athens (2011). He created the corporate typeface Skroutz (Latin and Greek) in 2012 for Skroutz SA.

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    Vassil Nikolaev Kateliev
    [Karandash]

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    Vassilis Georgiou

    Greek graphic designer, b. 1974, Athens. Vassilis studied graphic design at TEI of Athens. Since 1997 he has worked for various publishers and advertising agencies. Since 2009, he is designing books. He has drawn comics for various print and on-line publications.

    Vassilis collaborates with Cannibal Fontssince 2012. In 2013, John Karlopoulos, Vassilis Georgiou, and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the Latin / Greek signage typeface CF Majestic (2013, Cannibal). Other typefaces at Cannibal include Klak CF (designed by Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos, based on Greek movie posters from the 40s, 50s and 60s), Reklama CF (retro signage script), and CF Salamis (designed by Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos). In 2016, Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the calligraphic script typeface CF Ariston and the connected script typeface CF Astir. In 2017, Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the Greek brush script typeface CF Splendid (with two substyles, Serano and Special). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Burian

    Born in Prague in 1973. She grew up in Munich, where she studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Sciences. She worked as product and graphic designer in Vienna, Austria and Milan, Italy. She graduated with an MA degree in type design from the University of Reading. She joined Dalton Maag in London in the autumn of 2003. In Milan, she was at Die kleine Fonderie, a studio headed by Andrea Braccaloni as part of LeftLoft. In 2005, she and José Scaglione founded Type Together.

    Her typeface Maiola (2003), spiced up by the prototypical Czech angular design elements, received the Type Directors Club award in 2004 (Certificate of Excellence in Type Design) (see here) and was the "Judge's Choice". FF Maiola, released in 2005, includes Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters and ligatures. For Maiola Cyrillic (2004), she received some help from Maxim Zhukov. In 2010, the Maiola family was published at Type Together. Other designs include Ronnia Sans and Gitter. She created LL Mila (2002, Leftloft: a condensed sans with a trademark "g"), which was part of the exhibition "Contemporary Type Design in Italy" during AtypI in Rome (2002). In 2005, she collaborated with Gerard Unger on the 12-weight corporate family Allianz. With José Scaglione she created the text typeface TT Carmina (2006), which can be had via MyFonts as Karmina (2007). Also with Scaglione, she did the humanist sans family Ronnia (2007, Type Together). In 2007, her slab serif family Crete was published at Cabinet Type. She won an award at Granshan 2008.

    In 2015, Veronika Burian and José Scaglione finally published the 18-style editorial sans typeface family Ebony. It is unrelated to the 1890 Marder & Luse font Ebony.

    In 2016, Veronika Burian and José Scaglione co-designed Portada, a sturdy serif typeface family for use on screen and small devices. It comes with an extensive free set of icons. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Portada.

    At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about Oldrich Menhart (see also this PDF file).

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Victor Scholderer

    Designer (1880-1971) of "New Hellenic" (1927-1928), a very elegant Greek typeface with original capitals, and a lower case that is based upon a 15th century Venetian typeface ascribed to Giovanni Rosso (Rubeus). He published Greek Printing Types 1465/1927 (Mastoridis Publications, Typophilia, 1995). Scholderer was curator in the British Museum Library. In 1927, Scholderer, on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson Greek well over a century before. The Greek Font Society digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic, bold and bold italic) as well as a Latin version. That type family is called GFS Neohellenic (1993-2000, George Matthiopoulos and Takis Katsoulidis). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VIDI Visual Design Studio
    [Ivana Bacanek]

    Croatian designer of Pepper Sans (2020), a 5-style rounded low contrast neo-grotesk typeface family with large x-height. Pepper Sans covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Kharyk

    Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduate of the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982. Viktor became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. In 2012, he cofounded Apostrof with Konstantin Golovchenko. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts, and is particularly interested in revivals of ancient, forgotten, or historically important typefaces and writing systems. His work:

    • At Elsner and Flake, he published EF Bilibin (2004, uncial), EF Abetka (2004), EF Gandalf (2004, uncial), Bilbo (2004-2008, an uncial family), Kiev EF (2002), Lanzug EF (2002, letters as zippers), Rose Deco EF (2001), EF Elf (2002, imitating Tolkien's writing), EF Deco Uni (2001-2004), EF Deco Akt Light (2001-2004), EF Fairy Tale (2003-2008, caps face), EF Varbure (2004, an experimental family), Rose Garden EF (2001, initial caps ornamented with roses; the text is uncial), and Viktors Raven EF (a spectacular caps font with letters made out of a raven).
    • At MasterFont: Abetka MF (1999, with Alexeev), Kiev MF (1976-2003), and Netta MF (1999, text family). These fonts have Latin and Hebrew components.
    • At Paratype, he published Uni Opt (2007, Op Art letters based on free brush technique similar to experimental lettering of the early decades of the 20th century; for instance to Graficheskaya Azbuka (Graphic ABC) by Peter Miturich and works by Victor Vasareli), Joker (1978, a subtractive font---since 2000, also in Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic), Blooming Meadow (2007, flowery ornaments), Bogdan Rejestrowy and Bogdan Siczowy (2006, based on Ukrainian Skoropis (fast handwriting) of the 16th and 17th centuries, and named after Ukrainian Getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The character set contains Cyrillic, Old Slavonic, Glagolitic, Latin and Greek alphabets), Lidia (2006, a lined engraving typeface based on a 1967 font by Iraida Chepil for Polygraphmash).
    • At 2D Typo: Florentin 2D (2011, angular family), New Hotinok 2D (2010, with Henadij Zarechnijuk).
    • Other work: Simeon 2D (2011, 2D Typo), some fonts at Face Typesetting (1970s), Getto (1970s), White Raven (2002), Handwritten Poluustav Ioan Cyrillic (1999-2001), Letopis (1983), New Zelek (1980s), UniAkt (2001, based on Unifont, an erotic caps face, done with Natalia Makievska).
    • Free fonts at Google Web Fonts, published via Cyreal: Iceberg (2012, octagonal).
    • Cyrillizations by Viktor Kharyk: Data 70 (1976; original from 1970 by R. Newman), ITC American Typewriter, Bullion Shadow (1984; of the shadow font Bullion Shadow (1978; original from 1970 by Face Photosetting), Calypso (1984; of Excoffon's 1958 original), Lazybones (1980s; of a 1972 Letraset font with the same name), Glagolitic (1983, Elvira Slysh, digitized in 2003), Augustea (1947, Allessandro Butti), Stencil (after a 1938 typeface by R.H. Middleton called Stencil), Columna (1980s; after Max Caflisch's original from 1955), Sistina (1951, Hermann Zapf), Weiss Kapitale (1935, Emil Rudolf Weiss), Vivaldi (1965, Friedrich Peter), ITC Tiffany (1974, Ed Benguiat, digitized in 1995), ITC Bookman Herb Lubalin (1974, digitized in 1980s), Berthold Cyrillic Helvetica Cyrillic (1980), Churchward Galaxy (1970s, J. Churchward, digitized in 1980s), Olive Bold Condensed (1980s, original of Roger Excoffon in 1962-1966), Motter Ombra (1980, original by O. Motter in 1975), Sinaloa (1981, original by Odermatt and Tissi in 1972), Serif Gothic (1990, original by Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna in 1974), Dynamo (1980s, original of K. Sommer in 1930), EF Gimli and EF Gloin (2004-2010, mediaeval typefaces done at Elsner&Flake together with Marina Belotserkovskaja).
    • Other typefaces: Lili (multilined), Rutenia (by Henadij Zarechjuk and Viktor Kharyk).

    At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue Op Art display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 typeface Ladoga (+Text, +Display, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009.

    In 2016, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk designed Dnipro for Apostrof. The Cyrillic version of this font follows Ukrainian decorative traditions, initiated by Georgy Narbut and Mark Kirnarsky in the 1920s and continued until the 1980s. The Latin part has an uncial character.

    Typefaces made in 2018: Algor, Zluka (with Henadij Zarechnjuk; named after The Act Zluka, or Ukraine's Unification Act of 1919), XX Sans, Yurch (developed by Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk by samples of calligraphic lettering by Ukrainian book designer Volodymyr Yurchyshyn), heb? [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vilma Lappalainen

    Helsinki, Finland-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic / Greek text typeface family Hedvig (2016) as part of her MA Thesis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincenzo Vuono

    Cupertino, CA (was: Palermo, Sicily)-based designer of Gravity, a compass-and-ruler font that is going to be used as an official font by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo. He created the free experimental type family Mun (2012).

    He graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. His graduation project was Ruota (2015). Ruota is a superfamily is designed for the digital era, and intends to harmonize Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai and Arabic.

    Behance link. Graphicbox link. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Visual Works
    [Krysztof Chuc]

    Polish designer of Neue Alte Grotesk (2019, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), which was inspired by classical Swiss sans styles and some 19th century German grotesks. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Visualize United
    [Tony Evreniadis]

    Graphic designer and art director in Grevena, Greece, was was at GreekTV.com in San Francisco, and studied at the University of Michigan, class of 2017. His typefaces include Flow (2016, a rounded Latin / Greek sans typeface for use in titles and logos), Funky Handwriting Font (2016), Nipson (2013) and Helexpo (2013, trade fair icons and logos). At MyFonts in 2023, he published the display typefaces VU Rock n Roll, Soul and VU Milwaukee. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vivi Manthou

    Thessaloniki, Greece-based designer of Stijl De K (2016), a typeface influenced by Kandinsky. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VL Gothic
    [Daisuke Suzuki]

    The free sans typefaces VL Gothic (2006) and VL PGothic (2006) can be found here. They cover Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese. These fonts originated from Wada Laboratory, University of Tokyo (1990-2003). Then they were manged in 2003-2004 by /efont/. In 2005-2007, M+ Font Project continued. From 2006 until 2007, the copyright rests with Project Vine and Daisuke Suzuki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Radibradovic

    Half Serb, half Croatian Vladimir Radibratovic studied architecture before falling in love with the visual arts as a student of painting and illustration at the Academy of Applied arts in Belgrade of two prominent calligraphers, Stjepan Fileki and Alexandar Dodig. He moved to Athens, Greece, to work as a calligrapher.

    At Parachute, in 2021, he released three calligraphic typefaces for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, PF Rafskript (original design between 2000 and 2003), PF Signskript (for packaging and sign painting; originally done between 2000 and 2003) and PF Mediterra (unconnected; first designed between 2000 and 2003). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Radibradovich

    Calligrapher and type designer who published three script typefaces at Parachute Fonts in 2020. The Parachute team added full support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic: SignSkript, Mediterra, Rafskript. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Radibratovic

    Type designer at Cannibal Fonts since 1999, where he made the hand-printed Latin / Greek fonts Semplice Pro CF, Nervoso CF (a Treefrog-style script), Vivace CF, and Allegro CF. Vladimir was born in Novisad, Yugoslavia, in 1962, studied in Belgrade, and has been living in Greece since 1991. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlasis Androutsos

    Athens, Greece-based designer of the Latin / Greek art deco typeface DAP (2014) and the Latin-Greek paperclip font Nevolution (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlassis Fotinos

    Born in 1968 in Athens, Greece, Vlassis Fotinos studied graphic design at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. Creative Art Director at Apivita cosmetics. He is a member of Cannibal Fonts since 1997. His fonts there include Marker CF, Note CF and Painter CF. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vojtech Riha
    [Superior Type]

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    VP Pixel

    A versatile commercial typeface family created in 2017 by Croatian type designer Val Kalinic (VP Type) that emulates various pixel styles. It contains VP Pixel CRT, VP Pixel Dot, VP Pixel DotSparse, VP Pixel Hi Res, VP Pixel Simplified, VP Pixel Smooth, VP Pixel Smooth Outline, and VP Pixel Standard. Each font has about 700 glyphs and covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VP Type (or: VP Pixel Fonts)
    [Val Kalinic]

    Type designer in Zagreb, Croatia, b. 1996, Zagreb, who is studying architecture and urban planning. Creator of the avant garde caps typeface Mauve (2012) and the pixel-based typeface family VP Pixel (2017; for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). See also VP Pixel Pro (2019).

    In 2020, Val released Medieval Pixel VP, Technical Rounded VP, the 10-style squarish techno font family Technical Standard VP and Technical Stencil VP. Twitter link. Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wannatype (was: Typic)
    [Ekke Wolf]

    Austrian type designer (b. 1972) who published with URW, but started his own type Vienna-basedfoundry, Ekke Wolf, which became Typic some time later, and most recently, Wannatype.

    Creator of Atlantic Sans and Atlantic Serif, both legible informal families, done in 2003 at URW++. There is also the grunge typeface Atlantic Sea Washed.

    Ekke designed the informal hand-drawn sans typeface Barack in 2012 at URW, to pay homage to Barack Obama. In 2017, after Trump's election, Ekke's nostalgia for better times and a decent past president shone through in Barack Pro.

    In 2013, Wolf designed Liebelei Pro Italic, and wrote: The typeface Liebelei has its roots back in 1932, when Vienna-based painter Rudolf Vogl created the poster for a movie called Liebelei after the popular play by Arthur Schnitzler. Only the title letters existed of that typeface. I loved the letters from first sight and proceeded by adventurously interpreting the missing characters.

    In 2015, he continued his nostalgic tour of Vienna with Calafati Pro (a connected cursive font named after magician Basilio Calafati (1800-1878) who worked in the Wiener Prater), Runde Wien (a rounded sans typeface family, including unicase styles), and Wien Pro (a vintage sans family withy Oblique, Superoblique and Unicase subfamilies).

    Typefaces from 2017 include Ermis Pro.

    Typefaces from 2019: Funny Toons (a rounded cartoon family by Ekke Wolf and Alexander Bobrov), ZAP (an all-caps monospaced and (almost) monolined typeface family).

    Typefaces from 2021: Convey (by Gabriele Lenz).

    Typefaces from 2022: Franzi (a 20-style neutral sans with large x-height that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and phonetic IPA).

    Klingspor link. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    WDC Fonts
    [Eugen Sudak]

    Type foundry based in Kheminitsky, Ukraine, and run by Eugen Sudak, a Ukrainian type designer. At WDC Fonts, Uegen created the Venetian serif typeface Stiana (2013, with Anna Raven), based on models by Nicholas Jenson and William Morris. Stiana covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    We Love Rain
    [Vasileios Synanidis]

    Berlin-based art director (at Rain Studios, or We Love Rain, his own studio) who created the scary brush font Phobos (2013) for Latin and Greek. In 2014, he published the equally frightening Dark Grime. Pharaos (2014) is an alchemic enigmatic typeface. Zen (2014) is entirely experimental. Pentel (2014) is a delicious fat brush family, while Rough (2014) is a rougher fat brush typeface.

    Behance link for We Love Rain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Weidmüller

    A corporate URW studio sans family published in 2012. The six-font family sells for over 4000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wenceslaus Joannes Crabat

    Typefounder Vaclav Jan Krabat (1719-1805) set up his shop in the center of Prague in 1751. His first specimen book was Specimen characterum latinorum existentium in Pragensi typorum fusura (1761). This work showcases 41 Latin typefaces in roman and italic styles, 33 Fraktur and Schwabacher typefaces, and 21 Greek and Hebrew typefaces, as well as ornaments, headers, border elements, and decorative lines. Other specimen books follwowed between 1767 and 1772, and a script type was created in 1775. The foundry started declining in 1782. Crabat died in Prague in 1805. Local download of Krabat's 1761 specimen book.

    Tomas Brousil's 72-style family Crabath (2021), which contains subfamilies for Text, Display, Subhead and Intials, is based on samples seen in Crabat's 1761 text. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wilhelm Eckert

    Wilhelm Eckert's Masters thesis typeface Weitalic (2014) at the HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst in Hildesheim, Germany, is advertized as a humanist grotesk for corporate use. It has quirky angles and shapes that render classification of this sans family difficult. Weitalic comes in four styles and covers all European languages, including Cyrillic and Greek.

    In 2015, Eckert set up the Willem Eckert type foundry.

    Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Will Software
    [Rainer Will]

    Rainer Will Softwareentwicklung (Schöffengrund, Germany) developed many school and cursive writing fonts, ca. 1996-2005. They sell their fonts in 10 to 30-font packages, such as handwriting, Altdeutsche schrift, Barcodes, Schulschriften (school fonts). There are also East-European, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and IPA fonts. Here, we have demos for various programs, and if you download and unzip them, you will discover these alphading fonts: FT-BruchTon, FT-HochztsGlocken, KD-Kaesweich, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Kegelweich, KD-Pilz, KD-Singvogel, and these dingbat fonts: NW-BioBlatt (leaves, 1998), Pikto5 (1997). The caps font IN-Barock is here. Will Software made hundreds of fonts, including the handwriting fonts Jeff and HW Stone (1998), KL-Antiqua2, Old-London, Fraktur. A fuller list, by type:

    • Alte Schriften (blackletter): Black-For, Chevalin, Civotype, Fleisman, Fraktur, German-Script, Germen-Type, Ghiollier, Goethe, Gotik, Gudenberg, Heinrich-Kanzlei, IN-Barock, IN-Barock2, IN-Barock3, IN-Florentine, IN-Fraktur2, IN-Fraktur3, IN-Geometric, IN-Gothic, IN-Gothic1880, IN-Innsbruck, IN-Jugendstil, IN-Jugendstil1920, IN-Jugendstil3, IN-LaRose, IN-OldGothic, IN-Schwabach, IN-Silhouette, IN-Uncial1475, IN-Walbot1, IN-Woodcut, IN-Woodcut2, KL-Antiqua1, KL-Antiqua2, KL-CapitalisQuadrata, KL-Fraktur1, KL-Gotic1, KL-Gotic2, KL-HKursive1, KL-HKursive2, KL-HKursive3, KL-Karolin1, KL-MKursive1, KL-MKursive2, KL-Rotunda1, KL-Rotunda2, KL-Unziale1, KL-Unziale2, Limpach, Luthan, MA-BastardAnglicana, MA-Bastarda1, MA-Bastarda3, MA-Current, MA-FereTextura, MA-GKursiv1, MA-GKursiv2, MA-Gotbuch, MA-Gotic, MA-InsularMinuscule, MA-Kurrent1814, MA-KurrentBarock, MA-Minuskel1, MA-Minuskel2, MA-Schreibschrift1900, MA-Schreibschrift1900Bold, MA-Urkunde, Meriage, Offenbacher, Old-Germen, Old-London, Petjes, Ried, Romand-Genealogie, Schlei, Schwaben, Suetterlin-2, Theudan, Verdn17, Verdn2, Walbot, Zentar-Bold, Zentar.
    • Alte Schriften 2 (more blackletter fonts): AD-AlbrechtDuerer, AD-AltSchwaben, AD-Ballo, AD-Barock1720, AD-Blackpool, AD-British, AD-Burgundy, AD-CalligraphicAntiqua, AD-CalligraphicFraktur, AD-CalligraphicTextura, AD-Celtic, AD-CelticCollege, AD-Coburg1, AD-Coburg2, AD-Diagoth, AD-Dublin900, AD-Fraktur2, AD-GothQuad, AD-Gothisch, AD-Gotisch2, AD-Gotisch3, AD-GottfriedLeibniz, AD-Handschrift1, AD-Handschrift2, AD-Handschrift3, AD-Handschrift4, AD-Handschrift5, AD-Handschrift6, AD-Hans, AD-Herefordshire, AD-Hohenstein, AD-Huddersfield, AD-Italia1650, AD-Kaiser, AD-Odin, AD-Offenbach, AD-OldEire, AD-Patron, AD-Ponti, AD-Renaissance, AD-Sachsen, AD-Stebark, AD-Thingvellir, AD-Toulouse, AD-Turin, AD-University, AD-Wallgau, AD-Zierfraktur, Col-Barock, Col-Barock3, Col-Celtic, Col-Florentine, Col-Fraktur3, Col-Geometric, Col-Gothic, Col-Gothic1880, Col-Jugendstil, Col-Jugendstil1920, Col-Jugendstil3, Col-LaRose, Col-OldGothic, Col-Uncial1475, Col-Woodcut, Col-Woodcut2, Suetterlin-2, Suetterlin-4, Suetterlin.
    • Familienschriften (fonts for kids, alphadings, dingbats): ArGlas3, ArSchatten7, Calos-Glas1, EffOutline, FT-Amor, FT-BruchGlas, FT-BruchTon, FT-GluecksKaefer, FT-GluecksKlee, FT-GluecksSchwein, FT-HerzanHerz, FT-Herzhardt, FT-Herzkranz, FT-Herzweich, FT-HochztsGlocken, FT-HochztsHerz, FT-Karneval, FT-Klecks, FT-Osterhase, FT-Sektknall, FT-Trommler, FT-WeihnachtsBaum, FT-WeihnachtsMann, Fingprnt-1, HB-Brfmarkclassic, HB-Brfmarkhardt, HB-Dart, HB-Fackel, HB-Fechten, HB-Filmklappe, HB-FrzBlattHardt, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Lorbeerkranz, HB-Palette, JD-Halali, JD-Kerbe, JD-Pille, JD-Popblut, JD-Pseudokinese, JD-Pseudonippon, JD-Pseudoruski, JD-Schachhardt, JD-Timur, JD-Wurm, KD-Blumehardt, KD-Esel, KD-Franja, KD-Handschrift, KD-Kaeshardt, KD-Kaesmaus, KD-Katze, KD-LKW, KD-Lamm, KD-Nacht, KD-Obstigel, KD-Schneemann, KD-Zwerg, Revont-Kraeusel1, Teje.
    • Festtagsschriften (holiday-themed fonts): FT-Amor, FT-Babyputte, FT-Babystorch, FT-Bethand, FT-Betkind, FT-BruchGlas, FT-BruchTon, FT-Clownslachen, FT-Cupido, FT-Eihardt, FT-Eikranz, FT-Eiweich, FT-Familienbande, FT-Getreide, FT-GluecksKaefer, FT-GluecksKlee, FT-GluecksSchwein, FT-HerzanHerz, FT-Herzbruch, FT-Herzhardt, FT-Herzkranz, FT-Herzweich, FT-HochztsGlocken, FT-HochztsHardt, FT-HochztsHerz, FT-HochztsJubilaeum, FT-HochztsKranz, FT-HochztsPaar, FT-Hufeisen, FT-Kalenderblatt, FT-Kanzel, FT-Karneval, FT-Kerze, FT-Klecks, FT-Kreuzlamm, FT-Menora, FT-Osterhase, FT-Schule, FT-Sektknall, FT-Spiegelfrau, FT-Spiegelmann, FT-Spukhaus, FT-Torte, FT-Trauerzweig, FT-Trommler, FT-Trompeter, FT-WeihnachtsBaum, FT-WeihnachtsMann, FT-ZuckrtuetHardt, FT-ZuckrtuetWeich, FTH-Fische, FTH-Jungfrau, FTH-Krebs, FTH-Loewe, FTH-Schuetze, FTH-Skorpion, FTH-Steinbock, FTH-Stier, FTH-Waage, FTH-Wassermann, FTH-Widder, FTH-Zwillinge, HB-Fackel, HB-Lorbeerkranz, HW-Handpic, KD-Blumebundt, KD-Lamm, KD-Nacht, KD-Schneemann, SP-Blume, SP-DRHH2, SP-DRHH3, SP-Face, WinterNacht.
    • Geheimschriften (codes or secret fonts): SP-DRBYQuadrat, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SR-Abstrakt1, SR-Abstrakt2, SR-Abstrakt3, SR-Abstrakt4, SR-Abstrakt5, SR-Abstrakt6, SR-Astro, SR-Blatt, SR-Braille, SR-Chaos, SR-ChaosBold, SR-ChaosItalic, SR-Finger, SR-Geheim0, SR-Gesicht, SR-Labyrinth, SR-LabyrinthBold, SR-Marine, SR-Morse, SR-Puzzle, SR-Radierer, SR-Rune, SR-Schatten, SR-Schiffe, SR-Schloss, SR-Schmetterling, SR-Skyline, SR-Strichmann, SR-Tiere, SR-Wabe, SR-WabeBold, SR-Wappen.
    • Handschriften: A1, A2, A3, Agnieszka, F1, F10, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F9, Ghiollier, Goethe, HW-Agilo, HW-Andrew, HW-Brouet, HW-Burg, HW-Clay, HW-Emmi, HW-Feliks, HW-Foster, HW-Guga, HW-Handpic, HW-Harico, HW-Hilly, HW-Jeff, HW-Jesco1, HW-Jesco3, HW-Jesco7, HW-Josh, HW-Marbo, HW-Pablo, HW-Phil, HW-PizPaz, HW-Renate, HW-Sarx, HW-Schneid, HW-Stone, HW-Tolomeo, HW-Tommi, HW-Turandot, HW-Veneto, HW-Vincent, HW-Vogel, HW-Volker, Handwrites-CTrac, KD-Handschrift, KG-Hand, Limpach, Offenbacher, Ried, Rw2, Schlei, Teje, Uggy, Verdn17, Verdn2.
    • Handschriften 2: HW-Alec, HW-Allan, HW-Armand, HW-Bjarne, HW-Brian, HW-Carlo, HW-Cathy, HW-Claude, HW-Danielle, HW-Dario, HW-Eleanor, HW-Enrico, HW-Estelle, HW-Fabio, HW-Federico, HW-Giorgio, HW-Giovanna, HW-Giuliano, HW-Hakon, HW-Harald, HW-Jacques, HW-Jaro, HW-Jelena, HW-Juri, HW-Justine, HW-Kuno, HW-Larissa, HW-Laslo, HW-Lennart, HW-Lizzy, HW-Luitpold, HW-Manolo, HW-Marcello, HW-Murielle, HW-Nadine, HW-Paolo, HW-Pascal, HW-Pietro, HW-Roxana, HW-Thery, HW-Valerian, HW-Vittorio, HW-Wally, HW-Wilma.
    • Schulschriften (lined fonts, didactic fonts): DR-HH, DR-HH1, DR-HH1Bold, DR-HH2, DR-HH2Bold, DR-HH3, DR-HH3Bold, DR-HH4, DR-HH4Bold, DR-HHBold, DR-HHEl, DR-HHEl1, DR-HHEl1Bold, DR-HHEl2, DR-HHEl2Bold, DR-HHEl2Italic, DR-HHEl3, DR-HHEl3Bold, DR-HHEl3Italic, DR-HHEl4, DR-HHEl4Bold, DR-HHEl4Italic, DR-HHElBold, DR-HHElItalic, DR-HHOL, LA-El, LA-El1, LA-El1Bold, LA-El2, LA-El2Bold, LA-El3, LA-El3Bold, LA-El4, LA-El4Bold, LA-ElBold, LA-ElOL, MA-Schreibschrift1900, Offenbacher, SAS-1, SAS-2, SAS-2Bold, SAS-3, SAS-3Bold, SAS-4, SAS-4Bold, SAS-Bold, SAS-OL, SAS, SP-AnlEssen, SP-AnlHaus, SP-AnlTiere, SP-Anlaut1, SP-Anlaut2, SP-Anlaut8, SP-Anlaut9, SP-Bear, SP-Blume, SP-DRHH1, SP-DRHH2, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHHKubik, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SP-Dino, SP-Face, SP-VAKubik, SP-VAQuadrat, SPAnlMensch, Suetterlin-2, Suetterlin-4, Suetterlin, VA-Ansi, VA-Pe, VA-Pe1, VA-Pe1Bold, VA-Pe2, VA-Pe2Bold, VA-Pe3, VA-Pe3Bold, VA-Pe4, VA-Pe4Bold, VA-PeA, VA-PeABold, VA-PeBold, VA-PeOL.
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    William Caslon III

    British typefounder in London, 1754-1833. Son of William Caslon II, grandson of William Caslon I. He co-owned the Chiswell Street family firm from the death of his father in 1778 until 1792, when he sold his share in the foundry to his mother and his sister-in-law, the widow of his brother Henry. In the same year he purchased the Salisbury Square foundry of Joseph Jackson (apprentice to his grandfather and rival to his father), who had recently died, and called the foundry Caslon&Son. In 1807, this business was passed on to his son William Caslon IV who in turn sold up in 1819 to Blake, Garnett&Co. (later Stephenson Blake). Author of A specimen of printing types (1785, Galabin and Baker, London) and A specimen of cast ornaments (1795, C. Whittingham, London).

    Images from A specimen of printing types (1785): a crown, Double Pica Greek, English Arabic, English Italic, Five Line Pica Ships, Long Primer Roman No 1, Pica Black No. 2, Pica Coptic, Pica Ethiopic, Two Line Double Pica, Two Line Great Primer, Two Line Long Primer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    William Mounce
    [Teknia Software]

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    WinGreek

    The WinGreek home page with all the WinGreek fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wintertree Software
    [Jean McGuire]

    Programmer and gamer based in Aiken, SC. Designer of the commercial font package Arcane Alphabets and the free font Instahex. These typefaces go back to ca. 1997, but updates have been made until 2019. . Purchase fonts here:

    • Albrecht. An ornate blackletter based on work by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
    • Babington. The cipher famously used by Mary, Queen of Scots, when she was imprisoned by and plotting to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, which cost her her life.
    • Blaise. A collection of three cipher fonts, Blaise, Blaise Round, and Blaise Block.
    • Celestia.
    • Coelbren. Named after Coelbren y Beirdd, the purported bards' alphabet of Wales.
    • Cowboy. A cipher font based on authentic cattle brands from the Old West.
    • Crowley, a font based on Aleister Crowley's Alphabet of Daggers.
    • DarkCity, a font for making city skylines.
    • EasyHex ad InstaHex (a free font from 1997). Eighty-six hex paper fonts for gamers.
    • Enochian.
    • Etruscan.
    • Gold Bug. Based on the cipher used by Edgar Allan Poe in his classic story "The Gold-Bug."
    • Grimoire. This package consists of three fonts, two of which date to the Renaissance era and the third of which was created in a similar style specifically for gaming use. Theban is sometimes called "the alphabet of the witches" and is still in use today to keep writing safe from prying eyes. Magi is derived from the Writing of the Mages, another Renaissance-era alphabet, this one based on Hebrew, with a unique look. Magehand was designed specifically for gaming use, based on Theban and other real-world secret and magical alphabets. It has the general look and feel of the two real ones without actually being them.
    • Hieroglyphic Borders.
    • Hieroglyphica. Egyptian hieroglyphs.
    • Illuminati. A cipher font based on a secret alphabet supposedly used by the Illuminati.
    • Lycian. The Lycians were ancient residents of Anatolia, and they wrote with an alphabet which had much in common with Greek, but also differed in many ways, as their language had many different sounds.
    • Nug-Soth. A cipher font.
    • Ogham. Ogham is an ancient Irish writing system.
    • Oukoine: Many ancient alphabets are derived from Phoenician by way of ancient Greek. They are not, however, all from the same version of ancient Greek. Just as the language (Koine) had local dialects, the alphabet did too. Different letters were used in Athens, Crete, and other Greek city-states. Eventually the Ionian version became the common alphabet for the Greek world, from which the modern Greek k alphabet developed. Our own, however, came from the Euboean variant, which was used by the Etruscans and then, as with so much Etruscan culture and technology, the Romans. This explains, for example, the reason both the "C" and the "G" of the Roman alphabet look so little like the gamma of the Greek alphabet: it's not derived from that Greek alphabet.
    • Pigpen Pigpen, Pigpen Square, and Royal Arch. Cipher fonts.
    • PolyDice. For polyhedral dice (dFour, dSix, dEight, dTen, dTwelve, dTwenty).
    • Rune Borders.
    • Runes. Runes contains both authentic runes, derived from the Elder Futhark, and rune-style characters for the modern alphabet.
    • Sabaean.
    • Ugaritic. Ugaritic cuneiform.
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    Wm. Ross Mills

    Designer (b. Vancouver, 1970) of high-quality typefaces at Tiro Typeworks in Vancouver, which he co-founded with John Hudson. He created Plantagenet (1995, a great transitional type family: the OpenType extension of 2004 is called Plantagenet Novus), 1530 Garamond (1994), and Academia (1995), three full font families. Academia2 (Mills, 2006-2007) is a complete redesign of the 1996 sans family.

    In 2000, Tiro was commissioned by the government of the new Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut to design a set of Inuktitut and Latin script fonts. That font family is called Pigiarniq (Mills; see also here). He is working on Maxwell (also since 2005), a text typeface designed for the typesetting of mathematical and scientific texts.

    With Marian Bantjes, he created the ornamental font Restraint (2007), which won an award at TDC2 2008.

    The book family Huronia was designed from 2005-2010. The Pro version, which is currently in development, expands upon the standard character/glyph set, with targeted language and script support for languages of the Americas, including Canadian Syllabics, Cherokee, Latin and Latin derivatives for Americanist orthographies, IPA and support for arbitrary accent positioning. Polytonic Greek will also be included in the Pro version. It was published by Rosetta Type in 2013. There are small differences in language coverage between the original font from 2010 and the Rosetta version of 2013, but they promise that these will be evened out. PDF file of the 2010 original.

    In 2018, Paul Hanslow, Ross Mills and John Hudson co-designed the free STIX Two family, which is based on Times Roman.

    In 2021, Ross Mills, Anna Giedrys and Paul Hanslow co-designed the 14-style sans family Laconia at Tiro Typeworks.

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    Wojciech Kalinowski

    Wojciech Kalinowski was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1969. Since 1990, he has designed and carved inscriptions and reliefs in stone, commemorative plaques, and gravestones. He also deals with computer graphics, digital typeface and logo design, and wallpapers. His typefaces are free and are available from the Open Font Library (or OFL).

    He created New Shape (2012, organic sans), Medieval Sharp (2011, blackletter), which originated 15 years earlier from a stone inscription alphabet. Consola Mono (2011, OFL) is a monoline monospaced sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Classica (2011) is a classical roman family. SquareAntiqua (2011, OFL) is a wavy informal face. Cursive Sans and Cursive Serif (ca. 1997, OFL) and Modern Antiqua (1997, OFL) are also based on stone inscriptions. Klaudia and Berenika (2011) is a Celtic style family. Roundstyle (2011) is a sans display family. Modern Antiqua (2011) has a strange name for a font that is neither modern (i.e., didone) nor Antiqua---it is an organic, or liquid, typeface with the gothic flavor of Jonathan Barnbrook's types.

    Kalinowski started the NovaCut typeface ca. 1986. Around that time, he developed Gothica, which served as a model for Nova Cut. Gothica was released in 2020.

    The uncial typeface family Celtica was released in 2020 and can be downloaded at Open Font Library.

    He created the free monospaced "programming" fonts NovaCut, NovaFlat, NovaOval, NovaRound, NovaSlim, NovaSquare, and NovaMono (2011, OFL): NovaMono is the monospace font especially created for programming, text editors and for terminal-use. NovaMono contains a large number of symbols, operators and other miscellaneous signs. NovaMono is a missing part of NovaFont Family. Nova Font is the family of six fonts. There are: NovaCut, NovaFlat, NovaOval, NovaRound, NovaSlim and NovaSquare. Now, the seventh part of the family - NovaMono. The following Unicode ranges are supported:

    • Controls and Basic Latin - 0000-007F (all)
    • Latin 1 - 0080-00FF (all)
    • Latin A - 0100-017F (all)
    • Latin B - 0192, 01C4-01CC, 01E4, 01E5, 01F1-01F3, 01FA-021B, 0237
    • Spacing Modifier Letters - 02C6, 02C7, 02C8, 02D8-02DD, 0308
    • Greek and Coptic - 0370-03FF (all)
    • Latin Extended Additional - 1E0C-1E0F, 1E24, 1E25, 1E36, 1E37, 1E80-1E89, 1E9E, 1EF2-1EF5, 1EF8, 1EF9
    • General Punctuation - 2000-206F (all)
    • Superscripts and Subscripts - 2070-209F (all)
    • Currency Symbols - 20A0-20CF (all)
    • Letterlike Symbols - 2100-214F (all)
    • Number Forms - 2150-218F (all)
    • Arrows - 2190-21FF (all)
    • Mathematical Operators - 2200-22FF (all)
    • Miscellaneous Technical - 2302, 2308-230B, 2310, 2319, 231C-2323, 2329, 232A, 2335, 239B-23AE, 23B0-23B7
    • Geometric Shapes - 25A0, 25A1, 25A3, 25AA-25CC, 25CF-25D7, 25E0-25FF
    • Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows - 2B12-2B1C, 2B1F-2B28, 2B2C-2B2F, 2B53, 2B54

    In 2020, he published Simply Sans.

    Klingspor link. Open Font Library link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wolf Böse
    [Neue Deutsche (was: Der Graph)]

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    WorldScript Macintosh Support

    WorldScript: language utilities for the Mac (free downloads). Includes Turkish, Cherokee, Uralic Cyrillic, Georgian, Icelandic, Maltese, Vietnamese, Celtic, Intuktitut, Greek and Coptic support. Page maintained by Michael Everson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Würth

    A corporate geometric URW studio sans family published in 2012. The three-font family sells for over 5000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. URW++ is authorized by the Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG to deliver the new corporate fonts to external service providers of Würth on the basis of royalty payment. Würth covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    www.uncia.de (was: uncifonts)
    [Tobias Benjamin Köhler]

    Tobias Benjamin Köhler at the Technical University of Dresden created these typefaces:

    • The (free) Eurofurence family, which combines Kabel and Malvern (a metafont by P. Damian Cugley, 1991-1994, for which Koehler made a truetype version in 2000). The page offered Malvern as well, but all the fonts seem to have gone now.
    • The monospace screen-lookalike font Monofur (2000) (with Greek and Cyrillic thrown in as well). Julio Biason offers Monofur Powerline at Github.
    • The avant-garde sans serif Unifur.
    • The Pagebox symbols font (2000).
    • BahnhofsFutura (2002). A modification of Paul Renner's Futura as used in West-German railway stations from 1950-1980: Deutsche Bundesbahn.
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    Xanthippe

    A free Greek font from the 1990s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    xfonts

    Go to xfonts at this Debian site, and get fonts and font software for use under X Windows, including fonts for Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Korean, and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    XITS
    [Khaled Hosny]

    XITS (2011) is a free Times-like typeface for mathematical and scientific publishing, based on STIX fonts. The main mission of XITS is to provide a version of STIX fonts enriched with the OpenType MATH extension, making it suitable for high quality mathematic typesetting with OpenType MATH capable layout systems, like MS Office 2007 and the new TeX engines XeTeX and LuaTeX. This free OFL package was developed by Khaled Hosny. Inside the fonts, we read Copyright (c) 2001-2010 by the STI Pub Companies, consisting of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, Elsevier, Inc., and The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1998-2003 by MicroPress, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1990 by Elsevier, Inc. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Inside the fonts, we read Copyright (c) 2001-2010 by the STI Pub Companies, consisting of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, Elsevier, Inc., and The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1998-2003 by MicroPress, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1990 by Elsevier, Inc.

    Coen Hoffman and Khaled Hosny have also worked on XITS. In 2019, Daniel Benjamin Miller added DBM XITS which is XITS with its OS/2 properties modified to match Adobe Times. CTAN link. Free download. Open Font Library link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yanghee Ryu

    Korean graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. His graduation typeface there was Willow, a type family for multi-lingual typesetting in Latin, Korean, and Greek. It is inspired by Korean traditional woodblock printing. It combines the elegance and organic shape of the brush with the sharpness of wood carving.

    In 2021, he published these typefaces at Google Fonts: Gowun Batang (text serif), Gowun Dodum (humanist sans), and developed Dongle (a rounded squarish Hangul font) on his Github site. Gowun Batang and Gowun Dodum were designed in 2010 and 2016, but the full set of 11,172 Hangeul syllables was not completed until 2021 in the Google Fonts/Github release.

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    Yannis Aggelakos

    Tripoli, Greece-based designer of the free angular vampire font Vampyri (2015, FontStruct). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yannis Haralambous
    [SMF Baskerville]

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    Yannis Haralambous

    Metafont/TEX font and font software developer, specializing in non-Latin fonts and their integration in TEX. Ran Atelier Fluxus Virus in Lille, France. Codeveloper of the Omega typesetting system which includes the Omega Font Family (type 1). Since 2001, professor of Computer Science at the École Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne in Brest. He is the author of the 1000+-page text Fontes et codages (O'Reilly, 2004), which was translated by P. Scott Horne with the English title Fonts & encodings. From Unicode to Advanced Typography and Everything in Between (2007, O'Reilly). See also here. Also author of Keeping Greek Typography Alive, an article presented at the 1st International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication held in Thessaloniki in June 2002.

    Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting system, which is an extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families.

    Author of From Unicode to Typography, a Case Study the Greek Script, an informatice article written in 1999.

    Active participant in the GNU Freefont project. With John Plaice, he contributed to these Unicode ranges:

    • Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
    • IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
    • Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
    • Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
    • Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
    • Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF)
    • Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF)
    • Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
    • Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
    He also added glyphs for Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF). In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and slanted shape. Range: Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F). These too are in the GNU Freefont family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yehyeong Lee

    Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of HU Hand Serif (2020: with Haerin Lee and ByoungHeon Park), HU Green Tea (2021, with Haerin Lee), HU Crayon Doodles (2021, by SangHyeon Park, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee), HU Basic Round (2021, a simple sans by Rumi Kim and Yehyeong Lee), HU Life Style (2021, a six-style display sans by Rumi Kim, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee), HU Battery (2021: a sci-fi typeface by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and Yehyeong Lee), and HU Ketchup (2021, with Haerin Lee: an informal supermarket typeface for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), HU Mois (a handwriting typeface by Yehyeong Lee and Beopho Choi; Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yiannis Karlopoulos

    Or John Karlopoulos, b. 1967, Thessaloniki. He studied graphic design in Athens and type design at Ecole Estienne in Paris.

    At Cannibal, he designed CF Block (1997), Bodoni Greek CF, CF Charlemagne (1996), Delta Carlo (2000, for Delta D Magazine), FF DIN (2002), Franklin Gothic ITC Hell (1999), CF Kaveros (1997), Klak CF (designed by Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos, based on Greek movie posters from the 40s, 50s and 60s), CF Leftism (1996), CF Matrix Dot (1999), CF Salamis (designed by Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos), CF Serpentine (1998), CF Suprematica (1998), and CF XRay (1995).

    In 2013, John Karlopoulos, Vassilis Georgiou, and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the Latin / Greek signage typeface CF Majestic (2013, Cannibal).

    In 2016, Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the calligraphic script typeface CF Ariston and the connected script typeface CF Astir. In 2017, Vassilis Georgiou, Yiannis Karlopoulos and Panos Haratzopoulos co-designed the Greek brush script typeface CF Splendid (with two substyles, Serano and Special). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yiannis Kefallinos

    Engraver, teacher and founder of the engraving course at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1939, 1894-1958. His Theokritos font family from 1957 was digitized by the Greek Font Society in 2005-2006 (in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts, Athens) as GFS Theokritos, the redesign having been done by George D. Matthiopoulos. Free at Open Font Library.

    Quoting the Greek Font Society: Yannis Kefallinos (1894-1958) was one of the most innovative engravers of his generation and the first who researched methodicaly the aesthetics of book and typographic design in Greece. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Athens and established the first book design workshop from which many practising artists of the 60's and 70's had graduated. In the late 50's Kefallinos designed and published an exquisite book with engraved illustrations of the ancient white funerary pottery in Attica in collaboration with Varlamos, Montesanto, Damianakis. For the text of Kefallinos' (1956) the artist used a typeface which he himself had designed a few years before for an unrealised edition of Theocritos' Idyls. Its complex and heavily decorative design does point to aesthetic codes which preoccupied his artistic expression and, although impractical for contemporary text setting, it remains an original display face, or it can be used as initials. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yiannis Kouroudis

    Greek designer (b. 1962, Soufli) of Greek versions of FontFont fonts, such as FF Providence Greek (2000) and FF Providence Office Greek (2001).

    In 1995, he cofounded Cannibal Fonts with Panagiotes (Panos) Haratzopoulos. At Cannibal, in 1995, he created CF Meneloas (children's font), CF Kouroudis Select (display face), CF Kouroudis Graffiti, CF Stamp, CF Urania, CF Venus (a wide caps face), CF Eteocles (1996), CF Criton and CF Compacta (a Greek version of Compact). Delta Kouroudis is a custom font done in 2000 for Delta Magazine.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yiannis N. Moschovakis on Greek TEX

    Article on a package by UCLA's Moschovakis for mixed English/Greek text in TEX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yiorgos Bodrelis

    Corfu, Greece-based designer of a (Latin) ribbon font in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yiorgos Yiacos
    [Twelve Times two]

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    Ypatia
    [Vasilis Grammaticos]

    Nikos Goulandris's Greek scientific font for use with TeX, based on his Ismini-Clio family of fonts. Developed in 1999 in Paris with Vasilis Grammaticos. Initial font was for the Mac only. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yui Yoshitomi

    Japanese graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. His graduation typeface there was Cerasus, a multi-script typeface family for editorial use in fashion, arts and culture publications that covers Latin, Greek and Kannada: Its flexible system with different styles and scripts gives a variety for typography and helps designers to produce harmonised typographic design in publications. Cerusus consists of a range of styles for text, subhead and display use. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Tigina

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek typeface family Flauto (2012). She explains: Flauto is a venetian serif typefamily with 56 typefaces for text and display setting. It is the second part of my diploma project in the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, the director of the project is Aleksandr Tarbeev. I have designed typefaces with optical compensations for the different sizes: there are 8 typefaces (Light, Light Italic, Book, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black) for 7 ranges (6-7, 8-9, 10-13, 14-20, 21-35, 36-71, 72 pt). Flauto won an award at New Cyrillic 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuriy and Tatyana Krivoguz

    Creators of the free Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface Gostrus Type A (2015), which was created for use in technical documentation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yves Gouraud

    Yves Gouraud from Montpellier has designed several good free fonts for Greek in 2004: Tadzoatrekei, Tagma, Takeros (in the spirit of Comic Sans), Talaurinos (Arial-like) and Talaurinos étroit. There are no Latin sections in the fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Y&Y

    Past foundry of Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes, and Berthold Horn, which ceased operations near the start of the 21st century. They had the following font sets: Galilei, XY_Pic fonts (Nine ATM compatible fonts in Adobe Type 1 format for use with Ross Moore and Kristoffer Rose's XY Pic drawing package for TeX), Y&Y American Mathematical Society (AMS) fonts (Computer Modern, Euler), Y&Y European Modern (EM) fonts, Y&Y Lucida fonts (1996), LucidaBrightAstro, Lucida Bright Expert, LucidaConsole, Lucida Fixed Narrow, Lucida Greek, Lucida Latin, Lucida Sans Cyrillic and Latin 2, Lucida Sans Hebrew, Lucida Sans Linedraw, Lucida Sans School, Lucida Sans Unicode, Y&Y MathTime 1.1 fonts, Y&Y MathTime Plus fonts, Y&Y TeX Pi fonts, Alan Jeffrey Geometric Sans Serif Blackboard Bold, Ralph A. Smith Formal Script typeface (based on R. Hunter Middeleton), Jeremy Gibbons and Alan Jeffrey St. Mary's Road Symbolic Logic, Roland Waldi extension of LASY symbol --- version 2.0, APL (free), Crufty (free old typewriter font), Finger (free finger dingbats), MarVoSym (free).

    The Lucida collection (Lucida Blackletter, Lucida Bright, Lucida Bright Math, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Casual, Lucida Console, Lucida Fax (1985), Lucida Handwriting, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Lucida Typewriter, and Lucida Unicode) is being distributed by Ascender Corporation from 2005 onwards. There is also a dedicated commercial site, Lucida Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zacharias Callierges

    Creator in the 15th century of Greek types, which led to several digitizations such as, for example, GFS Callierges Greek, digitized by George Matthiopoulos for the Greek Font Society. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zawgyi.net&Alpha Mandalay

    Makers of Zawgyi One (2005), a modification of Tahoma to cover Burmese / Latin / Greek / Cyrillic / Vietnamese / Thai. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zenab Bastawala

    Type designer from Bangalore, India who graduated from the MATD program in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2016. Her graduation typeface is Rangeen, a multi-script palette of three scripts---Latin, Greek, and Gujarati---about which she writes: A personal and direct relationship with shapes and colours. These are letters, which are especially meant for fun, happy, and fearless thinkers. And there are letters you would only use to write colourful words. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zhang Miao

    Type designer. Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zhivko Stankulov

    Or Jivko Stankulov. Type designer associated with Context Ltd. Creator of the script font Bordy (2002), ModenA (2002) and Liveon (2002) at Fonteam International. Between 1994 and 2020, he developed the 8-style humanist sans typeface Unitype (at Context Ltd). The cursive typeface Nexus Script (1993-2020, Context Ltd) was inspired by the by cancelleresca corsiva style. In the period 2020, he released the transitional Latin / Cyrillic typeface family Sentry Condensed, which completes the SentryCyr, his earlier Cyrillic-only typeface from 1991. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zofos

    Greek designer of the grunge graffiti-inspired typeface Urban Decay (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zoren Tomahok

    Athens, Greece-based creator of the collage typeface Dark Grime (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zrinka Buljubasic
    [Dual Type]

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